London, Quo Warranto Judgment Reversed Act 1689 is an Act of the Parliament of England (statute number 2 W. & M. c. 8.), the long title of which is "An Act for Reversing the Judgment in a Quo Warranto against the City of London and for Restoreing the City of London to its antient Rights and Privileges". This Act restored various privileges of the officers, companies and corporations of the City of London seized under a writ of quo warranto during the reigns of Charles II and James II.
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“It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.”
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“All’s pathos now. The body that was gross,
Rank, ravenous, disgusting in the act or in repose,
All fever, filth and sweat, its bestial strength
And bestial decay, by pain and labour grows at length
Fragile and luminous.”
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