pitality. Your Majefty will find the Establishment of the Royal Houfhold, represented in this Trea tife, only another Scheme for carrying on the fame Purpose which You have ever promoted elsewhere: And here are formed standing Rules and Directions for fupporting thofe Ends, which in your other Dominions You maintain'd by your immediate Will and Plea*fure. The more your Majefty looks into the Cuftoms and Laws of Great-Britain, the more will your Majesty be pleas'd with the Mode of your Power; for 'tis wholly turned to carry on and maintain what has been always your Purfuit: And the Juftice with which your Majesty has exerted your Will, where your Power has been abfolute, gives us the best Affurance, that our Laws can not contradict, but always favour the Inclination of our King. That Your Subjects may make it their conftant Endeavour to deferve fo Great a Bleffing as the cceffion of your moft Excellent Majesty to this Throne, is the conftant. Prayer of, May pleafe Tour Majefty, Your Majefty's moft Dutiful, Moft Obedient Subject And Servant, John Chamberlayne. THE HAP. I. Of the Name, Climate, Dimen- fions, and Divij. of England, Page L Chap. IV. Of the Air, Soil, and Commodities, 25 ВООК II. Chap. I. Of the Government of England in general, 37 Chap. II. Of the King of England, and therein of his Name, Title, Perfon, Office, Supremacy and Sovereign- ty, Power and Prerogative, Dominions, Strength, Pa- Chap. III. Of Succeffion to the Crown of England, and of the King's Minority, Incapacity, and Abfence, 49 Chap. V. Of the Queen of England, when She is Con- fort only, not Regent, Chap. VI. Of the Sons and Dahters of England, 56 Chap. VII. Of the feveral Acts of Succeffion, by which the moft Serene House of Hanover is call'd to the Suc- Chap. X. Of the Civil Government of England; and firft, of the great Officers of the Crown, Chap. XI. Of the Privy-Council, Chap. XII. Of the Parliament of England, and there- in of the Perfon fummoning, the Manner of the Sum- mons, the Perfons fummoned, their Privileges, the Place and Manner of Sitting, the Paffing of Bills in Chap. XIII. Of particular Governments, and firft of the Ecclefiaftical, Civil and Military Government of the Chap. XIV. Of the Civil Government of England in &c. 136 Chap. IV. Of the Commons of England, and therein of Chap. VII. Of Humours, Manners, Diet, Attires, Re- Chap. IX. Of Societies inftituted in England, for the Ad- tary, Chap. XII. Of the rest of his Majefty's Dominions, 307 A Description of SCOTLAND in general, |