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Mr. Baron Lovell's Charge to the Grand Jury for the County of Devon, The 5th of April, 1710. At the Castle of Exon. London, Printed for A. Baldwin in Warwick-Lane 1710

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Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint us Judges for this Circuit, to put the Laws of this Nation in Execution, and being ready to proceed thereon, I cannot omit laying before you the Excellency of our Laws, compared with those Abroad. Laws, which do not authorize, but check and oppose Sword, Fire, Persecution, Oppression, and Inquisition. They preserve every Man's Liberty and Property, and are made for the Support of the good Government, as establish'd and settled by them. Her Majesty knowing that the best Foundation is in Religion, builds on that Rock, and I can assure you, [4] has taken an unalterable Resolution, to prefer none to any Dignities in Church or State (which are in her Donation) but such as are Men of conspicuous Virtue, Piety, Morality, and Temper.

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Camden Fourth Series , Volume 43: Charges to the Grandjury 1689–1803 , July 1992 , pp. 77 - 79
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1992

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page 77 note 1 Sir Salathiel Lovell, 1619–1713. Called to the bar at Gray's Inn, 1656; June 1688, Serjeantat-Law, 1692 Recorder of London. 1695, King's Serjeant-at-Law, 1696, a judge on the Welsh circuit, 1708 appointed a baron of the Exchequer.

page 77 note 2 Not identified.

page 78 note 1 The bishop of Exeter would be Dr Offspring Blackall, rector of St. Mary Aldermanry, London, translated to the see of Exeter in order to keep the balance between Whig and Tory bishops in the days of a minor crisis in the Church.

page 78 note 2 The preacher quoted here was the famous Dr. Sacheverell who preached a sermon On the Perils of False Brethren, before the Lord Mayor of London, 5 Nov. 1709, the anniversary both of Guy Fawkes' plot, and of William's landing in England. He was impeached and tried early in 1710 (27 Feb.-23 March).

page 79 note 1 The Act of Settlement had settled the succession to the throne, in case William did not marry again and Princess Anne died without posterity. Her last surviving child, the Duke of Gloucester, died 30 July 1700.

page 79 note 2 The efforts of the Tory government (Harley, Bolingbroke) to procure peace with France.