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Show i 2:4 l [ 215 ] erroneous opinion of Lord Coke, the eminent, and therefore demands the molt learned judge Blackfione is: the moft careful examination. In eminent, Offre'fand in thofe days was frequently fumm oned to Iz‘ng/a/zd, fometimes to confer with the Eng/{fl} Parliament, and fometimes to meet the King and his Coun- cil in dittiné‘t Seflions of the 117]}; Legillature. See pages 66 to 80. His fourth voucher adds no more confirmatio n to his afi'ertion than the three former ; for thoug h it is really an A2? If Par/iammt, yet it cannot be produced as a precedent for finding the Iri/Z; Subjef ts "boil/£10112" Meir Con/mt, becaufe it is made expreisly for the purWIIIIIIIIIIIII- I "ll! |l|Il|l l-t "Amok. It- pofe of inferring an Aét of the Irij/J Par/ir mrnt, " E]; " tatutefm't en [a terre d']rt/nnd;" and therefore, as pOplfh party : f0 that even the Parliament of Sta/[and (as well as the Parliament of England) thought it right to take the affairs of Inland under their confi- deration at that unfortunate jtinéture; and fent two Commiflioners, properly infiruéted by the States of that kingdom, to treat with the Eng/i/b Parliament about the means of fupprefling the Iri/b Rebellion. Sir john Temple's Hillary of the Irith Rebellion, p. 156 to 158. But notwithltanding that fome Aé‘ts might have been made in the nth of Charles I. withoutthe Affent of the Irifl; Parliament, yet they afford no evi~ the quefiion relates only to the carrying the faid Law dence in favour of that opinion for which they are into execution, cited by the learned Judge; for Mr. Molyneux has proved that, by the repeal of thofe very Aets oft7 Cha. I. that they afford an argument even on the miter/Me of f176' gar/lion, viz. " that t/Jt Parliament q)" " IRELAND ‘maj repeal an AC? made in ENGLAND z'n which is properly the office of the King and his Courts, it is certainly indiff erent whether he is advifed therein by his Priory-Counc il or by his Conwmn-Ccmui/ of Eng/and, efpecially as the latter, in the cafe before us, were fo far from advifing the King to invade or alter the Iri/ly Law, that they confirm it in the flro‘igeit terms -- " gne [a (11'! Eflamte " efloijé EN SA ENTlER FORC E, [I give Aim [1 " duenztrrt foitgm‘a'e'z [I PLEINEMENT EXEC UTE, 8'6. "'rth refpeét to his 5th voucher, referring us to " the late .4621 made in 17 Car. 1," &c. it would be very unfair to draw from thence any conclufions unfavourable to the Privilegu of the Ir/ 2 Parli ament, becaufe that was the fatal year of the popifh malfaere in 1r:land, when the l'rotettant Subjects of that kingdom were almofl univerfally oppretfed, and‘ all Lawk and Regularity overturned by the open Rebel lion of the popilh " re/nlio'n {01176 zzflhirr of IRELAND," p. 75. And again, with refpeét to the 6th and tall voucher, under that head, (viz. the refolution of the Judges in the Exchequer-Chamber, in the cafe of the Mer_ chants of Waterford,) it by no means relates to the quefiion in difpute ; for that concerns only the expo ration and importation of goods, and the Inf/l; do not pretend to eonteft the Right of Great-Britain to the Dominion of the Star; nor do they deny the Power of the Britilh Parliament to regulate Commerce, as I have before remarked. Now, as it appears that not we of thefe Precedent; is {UfllClCnt for the purpofe propofed, |