The Interest of the Three Kingdom's, With Respect to the Business of the Black Box, and All the Other Pretentions of His Grace the Duke of Monmouth, Discuss'd and Asserted

Excerpt from The Interest of the Three Kingdom's, With Respect to the Business of the Black Box, and All the Other Pretentions of His Grace the Duke of Monmouth, Discuss'd and Asserted: In a Letter to a Friend A'ihen: Lacedamon Corinth, Thehe: &c. Great C? Ties of that Name, which, having fubdu'd the adjacent; Territories, denominated. The Dominion; wherein only thofe of the Freedom Citizen: and Denizens) had Vote or Power5 the Nohle: and' Gentlemen bein purely Tn; hatary to the Chief City unlefs they tran planted thema felves, renounc'd their C ities, and f0, by degrees, advanc'd' into the Honoar of a Bargefs as we now do'exercife our funtor nine. And little different are at this day the cc lebrated Commonwealth: of Venice, the united the. S'roz es5 not to inllance in thofe Petty States of Ge nova, Raga/1, Geneva, &c. All of them'mo ly deno hated from thoie Principal Cities, which give Law to the adjacent Provinces. Thole indeed of the Hollander: and. Livimers, tho' they derive not, fo direaly, their Title from. One City, yer are they in t ance of the fame Com po ire being only an united Body of Corporated Cities, combin'd in One, for Martial Defence againli Invaders, but of an eqnal Power to impofo upon the Neighbouring Territories, fiituate under the aw of each refpee'tive Ci; ir, or vn-garrifon. It falls not Within my Memory, that there ever was, or ar-this Day is, a free-ejiate in the whole W'orldahat's manag'd by the Gentry Inhabiting at large, or by any People not combin'd within thefarif die - lion of their Walls except the Gri]ons; who are a fcatter'd People of a mean Qnality, having long time dif Own'd their Gentry; and are Without pva/led Town: or Garrtfon5whofe Confufions make them eafie for Conquel't, were their Country worthit, and not fecur'd by the u: nited Canton: . About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."