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           of Antangil.       Book two.           25

gives them a yearly wage of two thousand escus with a magnificent lodging near the Royal Palace. Besides that, they still have some honorable gifts both from the neighboring Princes & Republics and from the liberality of the Provinces, which they bring every year to Sangil in recognition of the merits & good services that they render to the State, which are distributed equally to all, in such a way that they can live most honorably & comfortably according to the honor & dignity in which they have been placed.

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Of the King, of his power & of the degree to which the public gives for his maintenance.
CHAP. V.
      The greatest difficulty that was encountered in this new creation of office was to know whether the King should be elected, & what authority should be given unto him.
      Some absolutely did not want it at all; saying that if it is thus that men who are under the power of the laws for the





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