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Show "I.II'll/llIIII! [102] 'tion are alto obliged to Serjeant Mayart l 10‘3 .l for fome other Proofs in their favour, which be intended agony} {loo/72 : for, amongft his Precedents of giving Law, he informs us, in p.219. "that, in the " Reign of King Henry II. the common " that refpeét, it may be well‘faid, that, Stafuit é't prcecopit Leger ; he appointed and (flail/flood the Laws; as alfobeeaufe" he put them in writing, and left them" in his Court of Exchequer for their " Law and lawful Cufloms of England " better direétions :" but he happily in- " were received, planted, and el'rablith- forms us at the fame time, (which fpoils- " ed, in this his iVIajefiy's Kingdom of has favoured us, in page 220, with an- his own application of the Precedent,) that all this was done ‘"' (If rim inflame" (fays he) " (ft/Jo Iriflr, (as the Record " faith,) or ofthe Englifh who account", other notable Example of binding the " cd themfelves Irifh," €936. Jri/b by Englifla Laws: this, it feems, fore, as thefe Englifh Laws and Cuf'toms was in the Reign of King John, " of are clearly acknowledged by himfelf to " whom," (fays he triumphantly,) " in " that have been introduced " at the irflam'e of " t/Jo Iri/b," it muf't manifef‘ly appear, that this antient example excludes the Doctrine which he meant to fupport by it, in oppofition to Sir Richard Bolton; " Ireland ;" a Point which every Irifh Patriot is zealous to maintain! And he .Ijolreflions : and again, when they foun d no Proteétion from the Englifh Laws, nor other exertion thereof than that offinirzg and punt/lying them for fuch " Dgfléierim " Ur. whichwere mere Re-mtricr, it was qua/l 71:1!ur 'a/ for them to 1mbibe prejudices againlt the Engliih Laws and to fly to their Bogs, {9'0 Thus the Eng/[fly Opp-y: flow were apparently the caufe why fame of the Irifh were averfe to the Eng/i 2 Laws; whic h I have ex refred more at large in a Note on p. 108. P Andtherew and therefore, if all thele points are duly confidered, I think we may very fairly retort his own words (Which he exulting- 1y applied to Sir Richard Bolton) upon himfell! |