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Show ‘1. ACTS RELATING Part I. Seét. I. To THE COLONIES. It This ordinance completely eftabliihed' that form of government in Ireland, they remonftrated againfi fupporting this which had been promifed to the fin": fet- tlers. And from the time of the firf‘t pro- a f'triél: enquiry into the deficiencies of the royal revenues in that realm ; but they did not venture either to call the fuppofed delinquents to account, or to fupply the defi- cieneres by afi'efling any levy, by their own authority, on the fubjeé'ts of Ireland. mife, during all the fucceflive gradations to this its complete eltablilhmcnt, the king aéted alone, by his own authority, without any participation with, or oppofition‘ from the Englifh parliament. Nor is there any marks to fhew that the Englilh parliament confidered any of thefe different grants of their fueeellive kings, otherwife than as legal. Nor was any objection made to this laft ordinance; or to the power thereby conveyed to this new ere€ted parliament. Yet a trying, occafion foon prefented itfelf. The Englith had often and liberally contributed to fupport the king in his purfuits in Ireland. They at laft grew uneafy under this burthen. But how did they conduct themfelvcs? hurthen ; they follieited the king * to make Edward on his part did not apply to his Englifh parliament to compel his Irilh fubjeé‘cs to contribute their quota to the fupport of their own government. He {ummoned an Irifl.) parliament to meet him in England-The fummons was 0beyed, but not without reluctance; but not without a faving of their rights; but not Without declaring this to be an 216: of favour, the voluntary diet} of their reverence to the king. Thefe are the feveral aéts exereifed by the kings ofEngland alone, over the Irifh Under the prell'ure of this uneafinefs what meafures did the Englilh parliament pur- fue? They cxprellbd their unealiueis; nation, from the fettlement of the firl‘t co- lony to the full eflablifhment of the Irifh 3" A. D. 1376. they par- |
