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Show 6 ACTS RELATING Part I. Sea. 1. TO THE Commas. 7. tution as the Englifh fubjeéts enjoyed in At the fame time Henry, of his own authority, made other grantsz-of the England, were fucceflively granted to the kingdom of Cork, as it was called, to principal of the Irifh lords, as they fubs Milo dc Cogan and Robert Fitz-Stephens; of the kingdom of Limerick to Herebert ment t/Iere in Ireland of the fame confli- mitted to the king. Some time afterward we fee Hen- Fitz-Herebert; and {o of other difiriéts to ry, of his own mere motion, and power, others, to hold of #73 king, and 0f/zzlrf072 yo/m. granting the lordfhip of Ireland to his fon John. It was done (fays the hif'torian *) in " confilio generali°' corarn epifeopis 3 In the year 1210, John, now king of England, arrives in Ireland. He efi'a- aéted as advifers and counfellors, much blifhes courts ofjudicature in Dublin. He divides his acquifitions ,into different counties; appoints to each its fheriiis and lefs as co-legiflators; they were purely officers: and, aflifted by lawyers of both and firnply wz'z‘mjfléx to the aét. Their kingdoms, caufes a regular code and char- prefence was required, not to add (mt/2w ter of laws, upon the model of thofe in rity, but mere publicity to the grant; In England, to be drawn up, and eftablifh- confequence of this grant, John ever after- ed for the common benefit of the land. wards, during the lives of his father and brother, and before his acceflion t0 the This charter was confirmed by the .é/ng': " et principibus terrm." But it does not appear, according to Dr. Leland, that they throne of England, ufed the title of lord of Ireland. feal, was depofited in the Exchequer of Dublin, for the direé'tion of the judges, and the information of all his fubjcéts. All this, it feems, was done by his own * See Leland's Hillary of Ireland, vol. i. p. pg, et feq. At B 4. autho~ |