Constable John Williams stood outside the door of the printer's house, waiting for a small detachment of his men to arrive. They were to arrest the man for corrupting the corrigendum of the new property rights bill from the Commons. He had taken the opportunity, among all the corrections, to add a provision that barred foreigners from purchasing new lands within the Commonwealth. Likely the King, who was a well-known xenophobe, was behind the printer's audacious act. The King would no doubt pardon the printer as soon as John had arrested the man. And so John found himself caught yet again between the political machinations of Commons and King.
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