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Excerpt from The Naval and Military History of the Wars of England, Vol. 7: From the Roman Invasion to the Termination of the Late War, Including the Wars of Scotland and Ireland This variety of governments created different de grees of dependence on the crown. In the royal go vernment, to render a law valid, it was confiituttonally required that it {hould be ratified by the king; but the charterzgovernments were empowered to enact laws, and no ratification by the king was neceitary. It was only required that fuch laws lould not be con trary to the laws of England. The charter of Con neélicu't was exprefs to this purpofe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.