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FOREIGNER

Volume 7 · 66 words · 1797 Edition

the natural-born subject to some foreign prince.

Foreigners, though made denizens, or naturalized, are disabled to bear any office in 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.