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LBr. 345 · Gwynne, fol. 40r

Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.94.

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The machine reads it as

  1. Jam borry for those johossuffer
  2. themselves to be imposed unson but they
  3. loho have Wdickes Designes, may one day
  4. repent ofthem. And uill be bold
  5. tojay thatthey must exther plunge the Nation
  6. in to tha greatest confudon, to makie it unable
  7. to punisa, or that they vill se ansvereable
  8. Det letus inthe mean time examine
  9. these pretences, hou absurd soever
  10. If ve will Keep the next Drotestant
  11. eir at a distance, it must be alloved
  12. to be grounded uppon tuoo suppositions:
  13. i
  14. First that the Queen is against che
  15. Electresses cominus over
  16. and 2 dly, thatHer beinue in England, durinue
  17. thezueenes lise, is a thinus ill in ils its selse
  18. it in itselfa.
  19. These truo propositions are Wicked and
  20. criminall in themseves
  21. queen
  22. For to say that thein Woulo take
  23. alvaque from the pres. Presumtive Heir the
  24. Right to cominus into England, is to casta
  25. great reflection upon Her Majesty, aud to
  26. create a misunderstandinque betuoeentter Majestys
  27. aud the person inthe vorld The ougnt tobethe
  28. mest united ith
  29. But to maintaine that the Electresses
  30. beinus in Englandis ill in itsel itself, one
  31. must declarenemself to be of a most ridiculous
  32. or of a most malicious opinion
  33. For eitsier it must be a generall rule that
  34. the successor must be allvayes Kept out of
  35. the Ringdom, or it
  36. or it must be supposed that people have
  37. a just reason to entertain some strange notion
  38. in prejudice of the Electress.
  39. But the generall Bule is absolutelus,
  40. not to he maintained
  41. There is neither Lau, nor exemple
  42. tojustifie it

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LBr. 345 · Gwynne, fol. 40r. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 303). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/DE-611-HS-973562:0083?run=303