THE SEVERAL PLEAS OF THE COLONIES,

In Support of their Right to all the Liberties
and Privileges of BRITISH Subjects, and to
Exemption from the Legislative Authority of
Parliament,

STATED AND CONSIDERED;

AND

The Nature of their Connection with, and
Dependence on, GREAT BRITAIN,

Printed for J. ALMON, oppofite Burlington-Houfe, in
Piccadilly. MDCCLXIX,

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fuppofed disorders of state, are taken for

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