_Burnet._ There were good authorities brought, by which it appeared, that when a person did a thing upon which his leaving any office ought to follow, he was said to abdicate.

But this was a critical dispute: And it scarce became the greatness of that assembly, or the importance of the matter .-- _Swift._ It was a very material point.
P.815.

_Burnet._ It was urged, that, by the law, the king did never die; but that with the last breath of the dying king the regal authority went to the next heir .-- _Swift._ This is certainly true.
P.816.

_Burnet._ An heir was one that came in the room of a person that was dead: it being a maxim that no man can be the heir of a living man--_Swift._ This is sophistry.
_Ibid.

Burnet._ It was proposed, that the birth of the pretended prince might be examined into....