We may have been operating on an erroneous assumption here.
I decided to go straight to Blackstone himself.
The first and most obvious division of the people is into aliens and natural-born subjects.1 Natural-born subjects are such as are born within the dominions of the crown of England; that is, within the ligeance, or, as it is generally called, the allegiance, of the king; and aliens, such as are born out of it. Allegiance is the tie, or ligamen, which binds the subject to the king, in return for that protection which the king affords the subject.
He narrows it down to 3 types;
These are the principal distinctions between aliens, denizens, and natives: distinctions, which it hath been frequently endeavoured since the commencement of this century to lay almost totally aside, by one general naturalization-act for all foreign protestants.
Blackstone's Commentaries, Chapter X
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The words 'notwithstanding' and 'to inherit' both only appear once, and both in footnotes.
I don't know where the Ark court got it, but I don't think it was from Blackstone.
I wasn't thinking that the Ark court used the words. I got them from the name of the British law: "An Act to enable His Majesties naturall borne Subjects to inherite the Estate of their Ancestors either lineall or collaterall notwithstanding their Father or Mother were Aliens."