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Show 1'! HQ]! "(043' [72] [ '73 ] cient privilege of the [riffs Commons looked and forgot by Lord Coke; and has either been unknown, or elfe over- indeed it is not probable that the Irifh Parliament was ever fummoned to Eng- land regularly, or as a matter of courfi, to meet the Englifh Parliament, but only ' looked u quiring them to ifi‘ue writs, under the great Seal of " Ireland, to the feveral Counties, Cities, and Bo- " roughs, for fatisfying the expenees of the men of " that land, who 1311 came over to fcrve in Parliament " in England. And, in another roll, the goth of Edw. on extraordinary occalions, wherein the Subjeéts of Ireland were particularly con- " III. Membr. 19. on complaint to the King by john N u " " r»' Draper, who was chofen Burgefs of Cork by writ, and ferved in the Parliament of England, and yet was denied his expences by {ome of the Citizens, care was taken to reimburfe him. cerned, and could not, we may pre- fume, be "fluvial/y 771mm!" and bound, H If, from thefe laft mentioned records, it be con" eluded that the Parliament of England may bind (that is confil'tently with natural cguz'zfy and their own ju/l rights) without their exprefs afTent: for it is apparent that re- " Ireland; it muIt alfo beiallowed, that the people of gular Parliaments were held in Ireland, " Ireland ought to have their Reprefentatives in the 6‘ Parliament of England. And this, I believe, we " {hould be willing enough to embrace; but this is an both BEFORE, finer, and even during the Reigns of tho/e very Princes who ifl'ued " happinefs we can hardly hope for. writs to " This fending of Reprcfentatives out of Irela nd to u the Parliamentin England, on fome occafions was H found in procefs of time to be very troublefom e and "inconvenient; and this we may prefume was the " reafon that, afterwards, when times were more " fettled, we fell again into our old track and re u" lar courfe of Parliaments in our own connt rv - End H hereupon the laws afore-noted, pace 6+, were en" aé‘ted, ellablilhing, that 710 lJ-w marital}; 1/15 Parliament " q/‘Englaml flax/:1 l/e (y'forre in Ireland .h'll it was al" [a-lt'fd nizdfxrdlfl‘m' in Parliament liver-:3" {ummon them to England; which latter, therefore, can only be attributed to fome extraordinary or peculiar circumf'tances, (out of common courfe) which rendered it necelTary. In addition to the clear Precedents be» fore cited, it may not perhaps be impro- per to take notice of a circumfiance L quoted |