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Show 8 item RELATING Part I. Sect. I. TO THE COLONIES. 9 authority; without afking the advice, or tended the benefit of the Englifli laws to confent of his ,arliament 3"". Henry the third had no fooner renew- ed and confirmed the Great Charter-,granted by John his father to his Englifh iixbjeéts, than he tranfmitted a duplicate ofit to Ireland for the benefit of his Irifh fubjeéts, " with thofe alterations only (fays D21 " Lelandi‘) which the local neceflities of other fettlements within the king's land, or as the patent exprefles it,. "‘ belonving 5" to the community oflreland." It does not appear that any confent of 6" Ireland required." This too was done by the authority ofthe king (1/0729. By his own authority Henry extended fome of the provifions i, the Englifh parliament was taken for the palling of this patent; but there is extant an infiruétiori to the g_0vernor, directing him to take the confent " of the " people of Mat [and (the part of Ire" land within the Engliih pale) or at leaft " of the prelates and nobles." Lafily, by an ordinance of Edward III. if not all, contained in the flatute '(or as it fliould be called the ordinance§) of Mere an Irifh parliament was infiituted, and ton, to his land of Ireland. ," ." ," " I i i Edward the firfi, by his own authority, after conference and deliberation, not with his parliament, but with his council", ex* See Leland's Hiflory, vol. i. an's Reports, Craw v. Ramfay. Alfo Vaugh~ V " regulated according to the inflitution of the parliament of England 51"." " By this parliament (fays the royal ordinance) we will that our affairs. and thofe of our land, be, agreeably to juflice, " law, cuf'tom and reafon, faithfully treat" ed, debated, difcufl‘ed, and finally deter- +IVoLi.p.2om ?" fill-7260].", 1 1b. p. 236. § See'Barrington on this fiatute, ii See Leland, vol. i. p. 24.4.. 9* See Coke, Inf'c. IV.---Leland, vol. i. p. 313. ' ' tended This |