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FOREIGNER

Volume 2 · 68 words · 1771 Edition

the natural born subject to some foreign prince.

Foreigners, tho' made denizens, or naturalized, are disabled to bear any office in the government, to be of the privy-council, or members of parliament, &c. This is by the acts of the settlement of the crown. Such persons as are not freemen of a city, or corporation, are also called foreigners, to distinguish them from the members of the same.