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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2009
Being desired by the Grand-Jury, several of the Justices of the Peace and Gentlemen of the County of Essex, to print the Charge I delivered at the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace, held at Chelmsford the 10th of July 1705, I rather chose to expose my self to the Censure of some People than refuse their Request, and have accordingly printed the same, and set my Name to it; which is as follows.
page 61 note 1 This, in opposition to the previous monarch, William III, of Orange, of Dutch origin.
page 62 note 1 The last four reigns: those of Charles I, Charles II, James II, William III.
page 62 note 2 The uniting of Great Britain: it was effective for the first time when James VI of Scotland came to the throne of England; but in 1705 the Union was on the way.
page 62 note 3 Murther: that of Charles I.
page 62 note 4 Lazie: Charles II.
page 63 note 1 The land tax levied to finance the war of Spanish Succession.
page 64 note 1 The problem of occasional conformity (the communion according to the rites of the Church of England), which so much irritated the members of the High Church fraction of the Church; again, the last five lines of p. 5, on the subject.