In Case any Proviso should be offered to the Bill of naturalisation, to oblige the Persons mentioned in the Bill constantly to reside in England, it is hoped the same will be rejected for the Reasons following.  
I. NEVER any such Clause was in any Bill of naturalisation before; and new unusual Clauses, in Acts of Parliament, are dangerous.  
II. There is no occasion for any such Clause; no Instance can be given of any naturalised Person of any Estate considerable that lived abroad, and spent his Rents there; or if there should be an Instance or two, that's not enough for this general Restraint.  
III. Such a Clause will hinder Strangers from being naturalised, which would be a Mischief to the Nation; for these being Men of Fortunes, 'tis good for the public to have them come among us.  
IV. The Farmer of the Scavidge of the City in the Custom-House of London, hath, on other Occasions of naturalisation, done his Endeavour to have a Clause to save the said Scavidge to him; but has always been discountenanced in Parliament.  
V. That this Clause incapacitates them to do his Majesty Service abroad, which they are capable to do.  
VI. That 'tis said, If they shall live abroad with their Family, they shall forfeit their privileges: Now what shall be counted their Families is not explained, and they left in the dark as to these Forfeitures.  
VII. When they are naturalised, they are English Subjects to all Intents and Purposes; and this Clause takes away Liberty and Property from them, which is an ill President as to the rest.  
VIII. If this Proviso be inserted in the said Act, those name in it would be troubled every Day abroad by Governors of the Plantations, and Collectors of the Custom-House there, as likewise by the Consuls in Foreign Places, on pretence, That those name in the said Act are absent from England, and therefore these Ships or Effects are Forfeited by the said Clause as absent from England, which may be restored on Proof to the contrary: But this would be the utter Ruin of the Ships and Effects seized on, and no Satisfaction for them.   

Maesacker, and Others, in the Bill of naturalisation.