_Q._ XV. ‘Can Hermaphrodites succeed in Copyholds? _Ans._ In the Affirmative, if more Male than Female. Others: though that Sex does not predominate by the Appearance of the Pudenda, yet if they seem, in other Works of Manhood, as Agility of Body, to be equal to Men, they may succeed in such Inheritance; for that they who resemble perfect Persons ought not to be accounted altogether imperfect, because that Imperfection is concealed, but Perfection is evident and manifest, therefore to be chosen. Others: that the Laws granting Feudes to the descending Males, do not include Hermaphrodites. Another: If, from Custom, Women cannot succeed in a Feude or Copyhold, so an Hermaphrodite cannot; which is to be understood of those only in whom the female Sex is most apparent; where such Hermaphrodites, who are more Female, are compared to Females, and those more masculine to Men, therefore the Law is to be determined accordingly. _Q._ XVI. ‘How should an Hermaphrodite serve in any Office? _Ans._ In whatsoever Manner they best can themselves, and not by a Substitute, _&c._’ _Q._ XVII. ‘Can Hermaphrodites chuse, on their Parts, any one of their Brothers to succeed them? _Ans._ They may gratis, but not for Gratification, _&c._ ‘Whosoever would know more of the Laws concerning Hermaphrodites, may consult the Doctors and Expounders of the Law; these being sufficient concerning them.’ We have not even in our own Kingdom been free from the same prejudiced Care, in providing Laws against them; for as we had borrowed many from other Nations, and added them to our own, so we find one among them concerning Hermaphrodites, mentioned by _Coke_[21] in his Commentary upon _Littleton_, where he speaks of them thus[22]: ‘Every Heir is either a Male, or Female, or an Hermaphrodite, that is, both Male and Female. And an Hermaphrodite, which is also called an Androgynus, shall be Heir, either as Male or Female, according to that Kind of the Sex which doth prevail, and accordingly ought to be baptized.’ Would not any one imagine that these supposed Androgyni, instead of being of the same Nature with us, (however morbid or deformed their Parts of Generation might be) were rather another Race of Animals _sui generis_, than what they really are? when a String of Laws, compiled with so much Accuracy, and in such a formal Manner, concerning them, has been exhibited and increased in all Ages; and is it not Matter of great surprize, to think that none had ever undertaken to convince the World of the Superstition and Vanity of such Laws? since those that were already in force, in all Nations, were as sufficient to bind a morbid Subject in all Cases, as a sound one; which alone is the Question here.