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The grant was made at a Proprietor's meeting, holden on the 28th of March, 1722, and contained in it 1500 acres, described
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PROPRIETORS, HOUSE LOTS, &c.
and bounded, as appears of record, as follows, beginning at the Northern most end of the township of said Shrewsbury, at a heap of stones laid by the edge of the river, thence running by marks 34° West, 30" South, to a heap of stones on Worcester town line, from thence turning and running upon North and by West line upon Worcester line, to a white oak tree marked, which is the bound corner to [of ] Worcester, to [of ] Rutland, and to [of ] Shrewsbury ; from thence running upon North point, 56° East, by a line of marked trees to Nashua river, to an ash tree, 380 rods; thence, turning and running Southerly, and bounding on said river, to the heap of stones first mentioned.
The undivided lands were disposed of at subsequent periods by the Proprietors, and called second, third, fourth, and fifth division lands, with the exception of some small parcels taken up by in- dividuals, and afterwards confirmed to them.
Lands were laid out at divers times, to sundry persons, in right of the several House Lots, &c. I extract the following, relating thereto, omitting, in most instances, for want of room, the quan- tity, description, and bounds of the land.
LANDS LAID OUT, &c. &c.
1721. " To William Taylor, 5 acres, 24 rods of land in Shrews- bury, on the Pine Plain, Westerly of the farm, called Haines, and begins Southerly of and adjoining the County road. This was granted to William Taylor for satisfaction for 15 acres of land which the said Taylor has alienated to the Proprietors of Shrewsbury, for to build a meeting house upon."
1723. To Solomon Johnson, in right of 34th House Lot.
1724. To Dea. Caleb Rice, " 41st 66
1725. Granted to Thomas Hall, seven acres of land lying North- Westerly from his house, for money due him for sweep- ing the meeting house in Shrewsbury, for a year and a
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half last past, being the sum of one pound eight shillings.
[It is said his house was where the late Henry Snow, Esq. lived.]
1723. To. Elnathan Allen, in right of 9th House Lot.
There was a saw mill below the 40th House Lot, then in the possession of widow Sarah Taylor. Isaac Temple and Eleazer Taylor claimed each of them a piece of land laid out between the House Lot and the Mill. The Pro- prietors adjudged it to Isaac Temple.
Joseph Bigelow on petition had the road by his house altered, so to go outside of his fence.
The clay ground, laid out for the use of the Proprie- tors, was a little Southerly of the saw mill, at the North part of the town.
1729. Eleazer Rice's saw mill meadow was about being divided. Also, common land, on Smith hill.
Law suit about Malden farm, so called.
1730. To John Sherman, in right of 10th House Lot, 3 acres South of his own land.
To Reuben Maynard, in right of 4th Lot, land by Croutch's.
66 To John Fay, Jr., in right of 2d Lot, land by William Nurse.
To Asa Bouker, in right of 28th Lot.
To Gershom Brigham, in right of 26th Lot.
To Ephraim Pratt, in right of 44th Lot ..
1732. To Peter Smith, in right of 21st Lot.
To John Crosby, in right of 44th Lot.
1736. To Cyprian Keyes, in right of 14th and 6th Lots.
To Zebadiah Johnson, in right of 36th Lot.
Thomas Hapgood and Solo. Johnson both pitch on one platt, at Goose pond.
Voted, May 24th, 25 shillings tax on each House Lot, to defray Court charges, in defending the Proprietors against Malden men.
Voted, 35 shillings to Isaac Temple, 25 do. to John Bush, for services done in attending the Inferior Court, about Malden farm.
1737. To Eli Keyes, in right of 41th House Lot.
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1743. To Daniel Garfield, in right of 10th House Lot.
1744. To Aaron Newton, in right of 17th House Lot. To Jolin Bouker, in right of 32d House Lot.
1744. To Cyprian Keyes, in right of 45th House Lot.
1745. To Ephraim Smith, in right of 19th House Lot.
1747. To Elijah Rice, in right of 14th House Lot.
To Dea. Samuel Miles, in right of 7th Lot. He was of Concord, 1746.
To Daniel Howe, in right of 13th House Lot.
1748. To the heirs of Simeon Stone, in right of 39th House Lot. John Crawford, saying he is an inhabitant of the town, and living near Rocky pond, petitions to have the boggy land, at the Southerly end of the pond, granted to him ; whereupon the Proprietors grant him, his heirs, &c., all the bogs and quagglings round the pond, called Rocky pond, in the 2d precinct, which have not been laid out to any other person, with all the bottom they can gain by draining said pond without damnifying owners of the lands joining to said pond.
1748. Moses Hastings asks for half an acre of land where his barn stands, (afterwards Rev. Dr. Sumners, and stood South side the County road.)
1749. Daniel Howe, chosen to manage in the law against Malden.
1750. To Timothy Whitney, in right of 20th House Lot.
1754. To Elijalı Rice, in right of 44th House Lot.
1763. To Bezaleet Maynard, in right of 25th House Lot.
1764. To Josiah Rice, in right of 41st House Lot.
1765. To Dea. Cyprian Keyes, in right of 45th House Lot.
To Dea. Jona. Keyes, in right of 45th House Lot.
To Eli Keyes, Jr., in right of 17th and 42d do.
To Elisha Newton, in right of 17th House Lot, next his own land.
1766. To David Taylor, in right of 9th House Lot.
66 Dea. Jona. Livermore assisted, as Surveyor, in looking up the bounds of the meeting house lands.
1763. To Jonathan Green, in right of 20th House Lot.
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1765. Oct. 25. Jonas Holland writes from Petersham to the Proprietors, saying he had land laid out to him in right of the 32d Lot, years ago ; that the right belonged to
1765. Eleazer Taylor, of which he was to have had a deed, but before he got it, Taylor died, and as he had not paid any thing for the right or land laid out, it remained the property of Taylor's heirs.
1759. To Jona. Green, in right of 20th House Lot.
66 To John Hastings, in right of 14th House Lot.
1770. David Child disclaims on 10th and 15th Lots.
1772. Reuben Maynard, in right of 4th Lot.
1789. Capt. Jos. Bigelow, Moderator, and many years follow- ing-the last time, 1801.
1792. To Jonathan Child, in right of 3d Lot.
1795. To Oliver Glazeir, in right of 17th Lot.
66 To Daniel and Moses Nurse, in right of 3d Lot, and to same, 1798, 3d Lot.
1796. Voted, To procure a new book, that the old one may be drafted.
1797. Voted, 44 dollars, for to defray the charges of the new book and drafting.
But little business seems to have been transacted at the Pro- prietors' meetings, for many years prior to 1797. They held their last meeting on the 27th of May, 1811. Agreeably to an early vote, that, when they should cease to hold meetings, their book of records should be deposited with the Town Clerk, the original book has been recently obtained and deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Town of Shrewsbury. The copy, if there is one, is in other hands.
John Keyes, Sen., who had for a long series of years (I be- lieve from the beginning) been Proprietors' Clerk, ceased to be such, after the 17th May, 1749, probably, by death, of which there is no mention on the town records.
Cyprian Keyes was chosen Clerk, 17th May, 1749, and died in 1753. Artemas Ward chosen, 1753. Job Cushing, in 1779, and thanks voted to Artemas Ward, for services as Clerk. Col.
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Cushing died in 1803, and Col. Jotham Bush, of Boylston, suc- ceeded him in that office. He was the last Clerk, and the Rev. Dr. Sumner the last Moderator.
To many, the foregoing details may not be interesting, but not so to all. They call to mind the names of the founders of the town, of whom, and of many incidents of that period, our fathers have so often told us.
They exhibit particulars (few and brief, to be sure, and neces- sarily so here) of their public transactions, at different periods, for nearly one hundred years. It is on these that the town was built, and it is on them the foundation of its history in all coming time must rest.
We see what is around us, and naturally desire to see both ends of what we look at. Thus should we mentally look upon a village or a town. Each of them had a beginning, and that be- ginning is one of the ends, the other end is with us, day by day, while we live.
If we reflect upon the circumstances of beginning a new set- tlement, the hardships and privations of its founders, we shall better appreciate the fruits of their labor, while we enjoy them, and feel a stronger inducement to increase their number and value, and pass them on to generations yet to come.
HISTORICAL EXTRACTS
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MISCELLANEOUS MEMORANDA.
THE Township was incorporated by the name of Shrewsbury, with all the powers, privileges and immunities of other towns, on the 15th of December, 1727; ten years after it was granted as a township.
The inhabitants, in their petition for incorporation, did not ask for a name, and on what account, and under what circumstances, it took its name, does not appear of record. Probably it was so called by the Proprietors, soon after the grant, from a town of that name in England, whence some of their ancestors came, when they left their native land.
In their petition to the General Court for corporate powers and privileges, they call themselves "inhabitants of Shrewsbury ;" as such they were recognized by the General Court, and their petition granted. Clippings and parings from the original town, have been made at sundry times.
In 1741, Ebenezer Cutler, Obadialı Newton, Noah Brooks, and David Reed, were set off, with their farms, and annexed to Grafton. In 1768, William Whitney, Zachariah Eager, Jona- than Foster, Zachariah Harvey, Edward Newton, Samuel New- ton, Ezekiel Newton, and Daniel Wheelock, with others, and all the lands in the North part of the town, lying on the North side of Quinepoxit river, and between the towns of Lancaster and Holden, were set off' from this town, and annexed to Lancaster ;
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that tract was then known by the name of " the Leg," and has since become a part of Sterling.
In 1762, William Nurse, and others, * living in the South East corner of the town, known as " the Shoe," and " Nurse's corner," were set off, with their estates, and annexed to Westboro'. Where the foot was, does not now appear, nor how the shoe came to be so far from the leg.
In 1786, the North part of the town, then the Second Parish, or Precinct, was set off, and incorporated, by the name of Boylston.
In 1793, Elijah Whitney, and his farm, were set off and an- nexed to Westboro'; and in 1826, Tarrant Merriam, with his farm, was set off to Grafion.
Daniel Wheelock, of this town, of whose family, if he had any, there is no account of birth or death, nor of his own, on the town record, appears to have died previous to 1759, as in that year Ebenezer Keyes was acting as his administrator.
Land near the school house, in the " Leg," was, prior to 1760, devoted to a burying place. Daniel Bixby, Ephraim Boyenton, and Jonathan Foster lived in that neighborhood.
In 1760 a road was laid out from the county road by Ephraim Wheeler's house to George Bush's house, through land of widow Sarah Eager, and widow Sarah Maynard. Sarah Eager was the widow of Capt. Benjamin Eager, who lived and died, where Mr. Joseph Nurse now lives, and whose remains, it is said, were removed from the house through a window, taken out for that purpose. So great was his corpulency, his coffin could not be passed through the door-way. He died June 21, 1759, aged 44. Sarah Maynard was the widow of Samuel, who was the father of the late Daniel Maynard. He died May 28, 1755, aged 28.
Highway Surveyors, 1760 .- " Isaac Miller above the pond," (North of the road leading to Worcester, and above the pond, might be seen, a few years since, the vestiges of his cellar,) "Simon Maynard, Nathaniel Ball, for Nurse's corner, Eleazer
* Eleazer Pratt, widow Sarah Smith, Daniel Nurse, and the heirs of Reuben May- nard, deceased. Also, the land of Benjamin Fay and Moses Nurse, (of Westboro',) lying in the Shoe in Shrewsbury.
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Rice, John Drury, Edward Newton, Aaron Newton, Samuel Holland, and Daniel Whitney." . Eleazer Rice, to repair the road leading from Samuel Whitney's, by Capt. Mixer's and Enos Goodale's, to Samuel Bigelow's ; and the road from said Bige- low's to Grafton line, and the road leading from his own house to Mr. Potter's.
John Drury to repair the road from his own house to the old Meeting House, and the road from the 2d Parish by Capt. Whee- lock's to said Meeting House, and all the roads East of the road leading from the 2d Parish, and North of the county road in the First Parish.
Aaron Newton was to repair roads by Nathaniel Davenport's, Daniel Child's, Lt. Bigelow's and Amariah Bigelow's.
Samuel Holland to repair roads by Jotham Bush's, Jonathan Cutting's and Jonas Ward's."
Daniel Whitney's District was in the 2d Parish, towards Lancaster.
I have extracted the above relating to the highway surveyors for two reasons : first, it shows in what part of the town some of them and other inhabitants then lived ; and secondly, because the record shows, that all those, named as highway surveyors, were living in 1760 - yet the death of no one of them is to be found on the town record. Extraordinary, as this may seem, it is but a specimen of the neglect, that prevailed more or less from the first settlement of the town to a late period, to cause deaths to be entered on the town record.
In 1828 my attention was drawn to the fact, that, in the early records, the deaths of several people were to be found intermixed with the record of town proceedings, and no where else ; and that the record itself was very deficient, as regarded deaths, many of which were within my recollection ; I went to the Burying place and, with the record by me, examined every monument there erected to the memory of the dead on which there was an inscription, and took an account of all not on record ; but many of the dead having no monuments then erected, and, knowing of some, of whom I could find no account there, I was induced to make inquiry in several families on that subject, whereby I ob-
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tained an account of the deaths and ages of many others, and having first copied them all, including those on record, entered them in alphabetical order in a book provided for that purpose, together with all the publishments, marriages and births, that were pre- viously on record, some of them scattered through many books, and the record so mutilated that some of the names could not be made out - while some others were ascertained with much diffi- culty. The whole number of deaths thus added to the record was 188, that occurred previous to 1821 - the whole number previously on record was only 475, and of these 8 are recorded as having taken place before the incorporation of the town in 1727 ; leaving 467 as having occurred in the 93 succeeding years, averaging but 5 per year- which in all probability, was double that number during that period - nor was the duty of having births entered upon the town record better regarded.
How many have come into the world, raised up families, and performed the part allotted them, and then departed without there being a record made of their having gone, or even come ! less than that is not done for the beasts of the field, so far as it regards the time of their coming and going- instances have occurred, where more has been done for them in this respect, than for the family of the owner, as has appeared by the interleaved almanacks of some, who have kept a record of the one, while the records of the town furnish no evidence of the other.
So prevalent has become the neglect of procuring births and deaths to be recorded, that it seems to have given birth to another. Many Clergymen have neglected for years, and still neglect to make a return of the marriages they have solemnized ! thus strik- ing at the foundation of society and exposing innocent persons to severe punishment - the record is evidence of the marriage - but the clergyman, solemnizing the marriage, makes no return, though by law, required to do it - he is dismissed, and perhaps removes no one knows where ; taking with him his records, if he keeps any, or dies, and then they pass into other hands and are lost.
Some one, to gratify a malevolent disposition complains to the public authorities, that A. B. and C. D. are living as man and wife, without having been married - the accused are arrested,
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no evidence of marriage can be found, for the officiating clergy- man is sometimes the only witness - what are they to do ? what can they do? if nothing worse, they must at least endure suffer- ing and shame for his neglect ; what might be the consequences to their children, needs not be stated here - this is not altogether an imaginary case - perhaps some magistrates have been equally culpable of neglect in this particular.
If heavy penalties are necessary to enforce obedience in the discharge of a public duty, let them be applied, and the commu- nity will say, Amen.
1761, Bezalael Eager and Jacob Rice, Selectmen of West- borough, and Cyprian Keyes and Daniel Hastings, Selectmen of Shrewsbury, renewed town bounds.
Capt. Nathaniel Allen was refunded in 1761 what he paid for his Poll Tax in 1757.
Also in 1761, the town refunded what the following persons were taxed too much for their money at interest, in 1758 and 9.
Taxed in 1758.| Refunded.
Taxed in 1759.
Refunded.
£.
s. d.
£. s. d.
£. s. d.
£. s. d.
Capt. Nathaniel Allen,
3
13
4
0 14 8
4
8
0
0 18 4
Samuel Bigelow, Jr.,
0
1
6
0
0 3
0
1
11
0 0 5
Jabez Dodge,
1
16
8
0
7 4
2
4
0
0
9
2
Moses Garfield,
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
9
0
0
6
Joseph Knowlton, Jr.,
0
2
8
0
0
6
0
3
4
0
0
8
Abraham Knowlton,
0
7
1
0
1
4
0
10
2
8 9 10
0 0
1
9
Jotham Howe,
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
5
2
0 1
0
John Keyes, Esq.,
0
18
5
0
3
8
1
2
0
0
4
7
Daniel Rand,
0
16
11
0
3
4
1 0
5
6
0 0 0
6
2
Paul Wheelock,
0
0
0
0
0 4
0 0 2
0 0
11
10
0
2
6
Abial Stone,
0
4
8
0
0
0
11
0
0
2
3
Jotham Bush,
0
0
0
0 0
0
0
0
9
9
6
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
11
10
0
2
6
Jonathan Wheelock,
0
4
0
2
8
0
0
0
0
0 0
0
Joel Whittemore,
0
17
7
0
3
0
0
0
10 0
1
1
William Taylor,
1
9
5
0
5 10
1 0
17 0
7 0
0
0
0
Ezra Beaman,
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
0
0
4
7 0 1
Cyprian Keyes, Jr. Micah Hathan,
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
5
Edward Raymond,
0
0
0 5
0 0 0
0
0
0 0
0
0
0 0
3 0 0
Lemuel Kendrick,
1
7
0
0
Aaron Newton,
0
10
11
0
2 1
1
2
0
0 4
7
Sarah Goodale,
0
0
0
0
5
6
0 0
8
3
4
0
4 10
Isaac Stone,
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
4
0
1
9
William Brewer, Jr.,
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
Thomas Baker,
1
7
6
11 7 7
14
8
0
0
0 2
3 2
Jotham Flagg,
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To the Selectmen,
I took into my house, Oct. 1, 1761, Sally Howe, 16 years of age - last from Princeton - her mother is dead - I think her father will take good care of her -she is lame, and cannot walk without crutches - what her portion of dower will be, I am unable to determine at present.
CYPRIAN KEYES.
He must have been a wizzard, if he could, inasmuch as she had never been married.
1762, laid out a road by land in possession of Silas Witherbee, on the North line of the 45th House Lot, now in possession of Joshua Townsend, and runs by the Rev. Mr. Morse's and John Keyes' land.
1764. John Crawford, Antipass Bowker, Asa Harris, Phillip Munroe, Joseph Bigelow, Stephen Hastings, Levi Goodenow, Charles Bigelow, William Crawford, Jonathan Wheelock and Elijah Rice petition to draw the money they pay for a school, to provide one for themselves. They lived in and near " the Leg."
1766. This year the 2d Meeting House in the First Parish was built, and at a town meeting to make preparations for raising it,
" Voted, To send to Boston for a barrel of rum !"
1774. At a town meeting in September,
Voted, To purchase an iron field piece and ammunition for the same at the expense, and for the use of the town - it was speedily procured, and if never used against an enemy, it served by its thunders to rouse the people and rally them for the coming conflict.
That being over and ended, it was brought out occasionally to announce festivities and give a zest to public rejoicings.
At length, on a public occasion, it was required to speak the enthusiasm of the bystanders in a more audible voice than it was wont to do. To produce so gratifying a result, it was generously crammed with powder, and wadded with green grass, most thor- oughly rammed in, until it could take no more ; and thus, with an overloaded stomach, required to speak. It manifested no dispo-
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position to disappoint its audience, already impatient for bellowing oratory, but rather to gratify them again, as it oft had done of old, for the honor conferred by being made their speaker - it ac- cordingly made an effort and went off. ... at the other end !
I have met with an epitaph, said to have been written on the occasion, of which the following is a copy.
" Alas ! poor Gun ! That all for fun, We bid thee speak,
When loaded to the muzzle. Obedient, but weak, Thou did'st thy best, And for the rest, Left us without a puzzle !"
Meaning, we suppose, that they were at no loss to account for what had happened.
1774, at the town meeting last above mentioned, .
" Voted, To have two companies of militia, or training soldiers in the South Parish - accordingly the inhabitants present, having divided into two parts, chose the following persons as officers to each company.
First company, Mr. Job Cushing, Captain, Nathan Howe and Jasper Stone, Lieutenants, Isaac Drury, Ensign - for the second company were chosen Mr. Asa Brigham, Captain, Isaac Harring- ton and Nathaniel Munroe, Lieutenants, and Samuel Noyes, En- sign. The 2d Parish had previously chosen their officers - viz. Ezra Beaman, Captain, Ephraim Beaman and Jonathan Fassett, Lieutenants, and Solomon Bigelow, Ensign."
This was the commencement of there being two companies of militia in the territory now comprising the town. There con- tinued to be two companies for about 50 years, when the South company was disbanded for the reason, that a Rifle company, or- ganized in the town, had by enlistments so diminished the stand- ing companies as to make it expedient, there should be but one.
The officers of the two companies were chosen by the people in conformity to a recommendation of the Provincial Congress - previously all military officers were appointed and commissioned by the Governor, and their commissions revoked at his pleasure.
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But the day of Freedom had began to dawn. The people took the appointing power into their own hands. The Provincial Con- gress recommended the formation of companies, and the division of extensive Regiments, whose officers were to be chosen by company officers, as has ever since been the practice regulated by law.
1774, Dec. 27, " Voted unanimously to adopt the association (relative to non-importation and non-consumption of British goods) recommended by the Continental Congress, and the recommenda- tions of the Provincial Congress of the 5th of Dec., 1774; and in order to see the same carried into vigorous execution, the fol- lowing persons are chosen a Committee of inspection : viz. Phin- eas Heywood, Job Cushing, Isaac Temple, Ross Wyman, Cyp- rian Keyes, Ezra Beaman, Daniel Hemenway, Asa Brigham, Isaac Harrington, Amariah Bigelow, Samuel Crosby, Thomas Symms, John Hastings, David Taylor, and Jonas Stone - five to make a quorum."
" Voted, That the Collectors of taxes be prohibited from pay- ing the outstanding monies in their hands to Harrison Gray, Esq., Treasurer, but that they pay the same to Henry Gardner, Esq. of Stow - then,
" Voted, To indemnify the Collectors for so doing."
Voted, To indemnify the assessors of this town for not asses- sing the Province tax, and for neglecting to return a certificate thereof to Harrison Gray, as by law required."
Granted to the Hon. Artemas Ward £11 10 0, to pay him for his services in attending the Provincial Congress at Concord and Cambridge in 1774.
At a town meeting May 23, 1775, Phineas Heywood was chosen a Delegate to the Provincial Congress, to be holden at Watertown Meeting House the 31st inst. He was excused at his own request, and Daniel Hemenway chosen in his stead.
Voted, That each Parish raise as many men as they can, to hold theinselves in readiness to reinforce our army near Boston, if needed, with such officers as the companies shall think proper.
Voted, That Phineas Heywood, Isaac Temple, Edward Flint, Ross Wyman, and Isaac Harrington, be a committee to examine
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the Rev. Ebenezer Morse, William Crawford, Jotham Bush, Benjamin Fiske, and Timothy Ross, as being suspected of Toryism. Adjourned one week. Then met, and the said Com- mittee brought in the following report, viz :
To us, the subscribers, by the best inquiries and the testi- mony of what we have had, its appears, that the Rev. Ebenezer Morse has in sundry instances, appeared not to be so friendly to the common cause, as we could wish ; but rather, in some instan- ces, unfriendly. That William Crawford appears to be wholly unfriendly to the present opposition of the people to Parliamen- tary power, and inclines rather to take up arms in defence of the King and Parliament than of the people.
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