At the moment I am about to seal my packet, I learn for certain, that Lord Chatham on the 7th of April in the House of Lords pleaded with so much warmth for not giving up the dependence of America, nor giving away the Americans, because he considered them a hereditament of the Prince of Wales, the Bishop of Osnaburgh, and the whole royal line of Brunswick, that he fainted away, but was soon recovered by the aid of two physicians.
"The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX"
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In legal language, it was an incorporeal hereditament.
"The Theory of Social Revolutions"
Brooks Adams