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Show [ 2:2 ] " ofEngland," though they are printed in the Statute-Books. (74) Amongfl: [ 213 i‘ Amongf'r the modem writers, who have likewife unfortunately adopted the fame CHOU COUS " the time of Henry the Seventh, all precedent Eng" lilh Statutes are made to bind in Ireland." lb. p.141. noltri," 55:. That is, if he Neverthelefs I mull beg leave to obferve, that this " mentum Concilii is neither an Englifl) nor an Iii/72 Statute, but a mere meant the Laws contained in the Ordinance of that King's 31ft year, wiz. " Ordinatio theta pro Statu Liner-Parent of the King, 5} tbs flfim‘ 9"}th Coumil (though it might be dated, perhaps, during the fit‘ tings ofa Parliament at Nottingham) : - " Edward, " par la grace de Dieu, Roy Dengliterre, Seignor " Terra: Hibernia ;" bccnufe this Ordinance is no more intitled to the name ofa anv, or 175? afPar/z'ammt, than the two former; for, long before this period, (( verront ou oiront, falutes. Saches que a le men- the neceifity of exprefling we (glint ofI/Je Con/mow, in order to render an Act valid, was well underficod. as ‘K dement dc gulement de noflre terre Dirlande, a pluis grand peax et tranquill. dc noflre people en cel the Hon. Mr. Barrington remarks, on the 14th of Ed, I". " 7h Statute; emu begin [0 {If/war" (lhys he) terre a Notin. as oé‘taves del St. Martin, Ur. par " in a raw, and more rag: ‘ Dirland, fi5'r. -- a toutes ceux, que ceux Letters K ‘ afint l/t mylre Calm/ell illougues," &c. This.is not the (tile of an Act of Parliament; neither is the Affent of the [cl/1211071 Coumil, or general Countil exprelred, but only " £3; #2: Alan! of OUR COUNCIL," that is, 1/}! ng'tiCcmrrz'l, which is always underflood to fignify the Privy-Council, and not the unflairal Council. BeIides, the King exprclsly calls this Ordinance, u OUR. 9‘ LETTERS-PATENT," and witnefléd it as fuch, in " améle, rfcrm; sac. may]! 1/5: Pra- LN EVERY INSTAI‘LCE, run/m exprej; men- "'n'zm, af/be Concunktxee 011 THE Commons," 1:. 218; whereas this Ordinance has no iuch mention oftheir " CONCURRtNCl-J," but only the fljim if ~- the Council, that is, the AG‘entof thejt'ing's Council Sac. " .a'uxlmm, ordiuwrda mflri (on/flii ajéiyit " d'e 1: whereas the Allent of the great Cumm'l of the Nation remarked cxprcffed in very difFerent terms, as I. have the ulufil form. 112:. " En zefinazgnanre de quel chofe ‘23 in the former notes, as alib- in the notes on pages " nous avons fait faire CES'I‘hS NOUS LETTERS. and 119. " OVERTES. " Ive‘mére, Dam: a A'oynglmm l: 24 four a': N- [rm 4'? mflre friggi: dlx fipx'l/rm." Secunda Pars Veterum Statutorum, printed ann. I 55;, p.68 8:69. (74) This feems alto [0 be the cafe with the 3d voucher which he has produced for his allertion, eviz». ‘,‘ Laqwfor IRELAND, made by E. 3, per advila- But if this learned judge meant any other Laws " fir IRELAND, marl: lg; [SJ-team Illa" than this Or- dinance of his 311i year, (for he refers us, In the mar. the gin, to the Parliament-Rolls or his 5th year,) yet fame cannot afford the leafl proof or precedent ‘ror becafife I finding Ireland in England without Agent, have already cited ample teliimony that the Parliament Of " mentum |