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of Prince Charles with great pomp to Portugal were all the mighty exploits performed by the fleet in the last four years of the War-- In the Year --1704--the Queen sent a message to the House of commons to signifying her purpose to apply that branch of the revenue which was raised out of the first fruits and tenths paid by the Clergy to the increase of all the small benifices in the nation, this generous proposal was opposed by the tories, but notwithstanding that a Bill was brought in enabling her Majesty to alienate that branch of the revenue which arose from first fruits and tenths, and to create a corporation by Charter to apply it to the use of the intended augmentation--And since that time to the present day it has gone by the Name of Queen Anne's Bounty-- In --1707--the Union of England and Scotland took place when it was settled that Scotland should be represented in the parliament of Great Britain by sixteen Peers and forty-five commons and that all the peers of Scotland & the successors to their honors and dignities, should
