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RITAIN, confifting of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland, is the largest Ifland in the World, encompaffed by the Ocean, the German and French Seas: The largest and Southern Part of it is England, fo named from the Angli, who quitting the little Territory yet called Angel in the Kingdom of Denmark, took Poffeffion here. It is governed by its own King, who owns no Superior but God. It is divided into 39 Counties, to which 13 in Wales were added by Henry VIII. the firft who diftributed that Principality into Counties; over each of thefe in Times of Danger a Lord Lieutenant, nominated by the King, prefides with an unlimited Power: Every Year fome Gentleman, an Inhabitant of the Place, is appointed Sheriff, his Office is to collect the public Monies, to raise Fines, or to make Seizures, and account for it to the Treafury, to attend upon the Judges, and put their Sentence in Execution, torempannel the Jury, who fit upon Facts, and return their Verdict to the Judges, (who

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in England are only fuch of the Law, and not of the Fact) to convey the condemned to Execution, and to determine in leffer Causes; for the greater are tried by the Judges, formerly called travelling Judges, now Judges of Aflize; thefe go their Circuits through the Counties twice every Year to hear Causes, and pronounce Sentence upon Prifoners.

As to Ecclefiaftical Jurifdiction, after the Popes had affigned a Church and a Parish to every Prieft, Honorius Archbishop of Canterbury, about the Year 636, began to divide England in the fame Manner into Parifhes: As it has two Provinces, fo it has two Archbishops, the one of Canterbury, Primate and Metropolitan of all England, the other of York; fubject to thefe are 25 Bishops, viz. 22 to Canterbury, the remaining three to York. grà el t

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