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Mercurius politicus, Number 24, 14th-21st November 1650 E.616[10]

Numb. 24.
Mercurius Politicus.
Comprising the Summe of all Intelligence,
with the Affairs, and Designs
now on foot, in the three Nations
of England, Ireland, and Scotland.
In defence of the Common-wealth, and
for Information of the People.
------It à vertere Seria Ludo. {Hor. de
Ar. Poet.
From Thursday, Novemb. 14. to Thursday, Novemb. 21. 1650.
THOUGH the present Powers lay claim to the
Government, no otherwise than in the Peoples
Right; yet if They had no other Plea for
Possession than the Power of the Sword, it
were every jot as good a Title as any of our
Kings had since the Conquest, as may be seene
in all our Chronicles.
For, after the Conquerour, his sonnes, the 2. succeeding
Kings, William Rufus and Henry the first, made good their
Succession against Robert their elder Brother, by the Sword, as
also, did King Stephen a Stranger next against Maud the Empresse,
the right Heir of that Henry.
Next to Stephen succeeded Henry the second, the Sonne of
Maud, who, as Heir of his Predecessors way of Usurpation,
Quarter'd the Arms of England with the Lord Ship of Ireland,
by the Sword, as his Successor Edward the first, by the same
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