# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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" in all Times, and in all Nations that ever
" ſaw the Light of Liberty, or lived under
" the Empire of Laws. It has been the
" Rule of Princes, who ſeem to have had
" no other Rule either of public or private
" Morality. Tiberius obſerved it. Domi-
" tian obſerved it. When he built a For-
" treſs in a Colony, and ſurrounded it with
" an Intrenchment for the Defence of the
" Colony, he ordered the Price of the Lands,
" which he encloſed, to be paid to the Own-
" ers. Atque in Juſtitiæ Fama omnium
" Fidem ſibi aſtrinxit.

To ſtate an Inſtance of a Tyrant from our
own Hiſtory. By parliamentary Charter,
11th Edward the Third, the Prince of Wales
was created Duke of Cornwall, and all the
Poſſeſſions given him at that Time were inſe-
parably, and for ever annexed to the Dutches
of Cornwall. Henry the Eighth had a great
Deſire for one of theſe Poſſeſſions ; the Manor
of Wallingford lay near one of his Hunting
Palaces, et fuit per quam, Commodum,
Amænum, et Decens pro Rege. An Act
was paſſed to diſannex it from the Duchy of
Cornwall ; but the ſame Act declared, that
the Prince of Wales and his Succeſſors ſhould
annex