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Care be taken in time, it may be preferved, has induced me to Tranilate and fend Abroad this fmall Treatife. And if it either opens the Eyes, or confirms the Honourable Refolutions of any of my Worthy Countrymen, T have gained a Glorious End; and done that in my Study, which I would have promoted any other way, if I had been called to it. I hope to dye with the Comfort of Believing, that Old England will continue to be a free Country, and know its self to be fuch; that my Friends, Relations, and Children, with their Posterity, will inherit their fhare of this ineftimable Bleffing, and that I have contributed my part to it.

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I have often wish'd, in regard to my Author, that he had omitted his Nineteenth Chapter, wherein he discovers a great Averfion to Female-Governments; having nothing to say in Excuse of him, but that being a Lawyer and a Frenchman, he was Vindicating the Conftitution of his Country: Certain it is (how lite tle favourable foever fuch Governments have proved to France) other Nations have never flourifh'd more, in good Laws, Wealth and Conquefts, than under the Administration of Women: There are not brighter Characters in Antiquity, than of Semiramis, Thaleftris, Thomiris, Zenobia, and many Others. I am fure our Ifland in parti

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particular has never been able to boaft of fo much Felicity as under the Dominion of Queens; never been more enriched by Commerce, improved by juft Laws, adorned with more excellent Examples of Virtue, or more free from all thofe Struggles between Prerogative and Liberty, which have ftained the Characters of our Otherwise most Glorious Kings. But Providence by yet more extraordinary Dispensations, has endeared them to us, by chufing them to be its Inftruments of pulling down or bridling the proudeft Empires, which threatned Univerfal Ruin. Our Ancestors under Boadicia made that noble Effort for Liberty, which fhook the

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Old Roman Dominion amongst us. Queen Elizabeth freed us from the double Tyranny of New Rome and Spain: And the Deftruction of the prefent Grand Oppreffor of Eu rope, feems referved by Heaven to Reward the Piety and Virtue of our Excellent Queen."

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CHAP. I.

HE State of Gaul before it was

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Probable Conjectures concerning the An-
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