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Show [108] [109] legged, and fi‘t‘t'lv accepted by their ore/z mprafi try-Ext: mm" alflre. (2 9) But let us fuppofe that, in fome fuch h not (29) Sir Edward Coke himfelf hears ample teftimony to this. --- " Our lindent mail know," (lays lacy) " that King John, in the 12th year of his reign, " went into Ireland, and there, by the advice of " " " ‘ grave and learned men in the Lawes, whom he car- ried with him, BY PARLIAMENT, Dr. COMMUNI osmium DE HYBERNIA CONSENSU, ordained and ellablilhed, that Ireland {hould be governed by 1/2: ‘ Law: cszzglmzd, which, of many of the [Hy/1471621," (for the {0111mm (art/é»: before mentioned mull mean that ofthe .E/tgllfl? fettlers) " according to their awn n'tfire, " quarjgylzlly atrrpz‘gd and oéeym', and of many the " fame was foon after abfolutely refufed, preferring " their Bra/2m Law before the jui't and honourable " Lawes ofEngland." 11': Inlt. p. 141. declaratory Act, they had reafon to think the their p/fiflom, and, by confequence, the conquelt became impoflible, without the utterextz'rpatiwqf all Ilse [rt/b; which thcfe Englilh Lordes were not able to doe, nor perhaps willing, if they had been able." This he afterwards explains, {hewing that falfe notions of private intercl'c, among the Eng/1y); Lords, prevented both the ccnquefi, and the introduc- tion of the Englifh Law: They " hoped to become ‘ Lords of theft: lands which were poll'efl‘cd by the " Irilh, whereunto they prflflmle'a] title l/y tlm'r large " Grmttr," &c. (p. 144,) and that therefore " they per" funded the King of England (p. 14;) that it was unfit to mmmmimte 1125 Lancet of England unto them ; that it was the belt policie to hold: them as aliens But this fubfequent refufal, and prefe rence given to the Brclmz Law, mul't not be charg ed to the native [rt/Z; in general; for Sir John Davis, in his " Dif" coverie of the true caufes why Ireland was never en- rwtzrrt. Hereby they obtained" (fays he) " another royal Prerogative and power; which was, to " tirely fubdued," is}. demonfiratcs that the Erm[5/5 Sen/er: were principally to be blam ed for this. his Ihews, (p. 135,) that " the {cope s of land, which " were graunted to the firlt adve nt urers, were toa large, of the kingdom: which gave them an abfolute command over the bodies, lands, and goods," (even) cfthe Eng/if}; Sttbjeétes heere ;" meaning in Ire- ‘( and the Llétrtir: and Rg'nllz'et, which thcv obtained " therein, worn? to: grmt for fitdjt‘fis." --- And, ill and enemies, and to profecnte them will; arontz'nual make W'zzt‘re and Peace at tlJtir pleafltre, in every part land, where he wrote. And he adds, in the fame {hit 5‘ there was no poffibility left 0f/etifiI/ g 1/2: flat/1w; in page, " And befides" (fays he) " the [rt/I: inhabit",ing the lands fully conquered and reduced, being " in condition offlatvet and villaines, did rem/er agrmtzr " profit am! re'uc‘mterzu, than if they had been made the " Kiizg': free fibjn‘lr. They alfo feared" (as he dc: clarcs in the preceding page) " that, it the Irilh were ‘ ‘ their " received. p. 144, " that thcfe Gran/tr of whole provinces and " petty kingdoms, thofe few Englifli Lordes pre‘ tended to be proprietors of all the land, f0 |