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Magna Charta, opposed to assumed privilege: being a complete view of the late interesting disputes between the House of Commons and the magistrates of London; containing an account of the whole transactions from the first arresting of the printers, to the enlargement of th two illustrious patriots from the Tower, May 8, 1771. With a collection of the genuine speeches made in Parliament, and the Arguments of the Council on the Habeas Corpus in the Courts of Exchequer and Common-Pleas. Also all the authentic addresses of the several wards, corporations, Grand Juries, &c. and the Answers of the Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Wilkes, and Mr. Alderman Oliver; With several Original Papers never before published. The whole being designed to perpetuate an Aera, that will signally distinguish the Spirit and Independancy of the Citizens, on the one part, and the Oppressive and Arbitrary Proceedings of a Corrupt House of Commons on the other.