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Show I 5-3 ] , [ 52 ] our excellent confiitution of State, had ever, before that time, prefumed to ad- vance any Doétrine, which might tend . obligedto {catch and examine the grounds upon-which thefe great and learned men to deprive our Irith Brethren of their natural freedom, and of the inefiimable be- have founded their opinions, that if they fllould have Truth on their tide, they might have the credit of it ;~ but if not, nefits of that happy legal confiitution, which Britith Subjeéts in general are commonly fuppofed to inherit by BIRTHRIGHT! that the ‘Trm/J of this important quef- tion; when plainly and impartially flared, might prevent for the future any fuch undue pretentious on the one hand, and j‘ealoufies on the other, as have too fre- But I have fince had the mortification IIIOUHIINII ~. 4'. VA<IJ to find, that {uch great Authorities as Lord Coke, Judge Jenkins, Lord Chief quently occafioned mifunderf'candings and controverfies between the Subjeéts of the two Kingdoms. Juflice Vaughan? Judge Blackfione, the Honourable Mr. Juflic‘e' Barrington, C‘fc. might be quoted in favour of a contrary Doétrine ! And as I have mentioned the Union between Great-Britain and Ireland in the Firfl Part of this Declaration, €9'c as an Example of "the true conflitution- Lord Hufley, Chief Juftice in the Reign of King Henry VII. feems to have been the Firft who ventured publicly to afl'ert, that " Statutes made in England " {hall bind the Subjeét of Ireland (1) And " a1 mode of conneéting Britifh Domi" nions that are othergiérfe feparat'ed by ff nature," I thoughtfmyfelf therefore, figtmobltged (l) " Hufley, Chiefjuitice, dit'oit quelcs Statuts fairs " " " ‘-‘ en Angleterre liera ceux de Ireland, que ne fuit moult dedit des autres Jultices, nient obltant que aucun dc aux farm! m rommn'a ofim'cm le derrein term en [en abfence." Year, Book, tHen. VII. p. 3. |