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Show [‘ 76 ] I 77 J out danger, I- apprehend, be allowed Statutes made at Lincoln and at we in all the powers of an gflfianl Legiflaz‘ure the 9th of Edw. I. by the exprcfs aflnt to aind Ireland, provided the refpeé'tive aftlve Iri/la Parliament in all its branches branches of Irilh Reprefentation be pre- q‘Legi/lalure, (viz. per nos de aflenfu i‘re- ferved entire and dil'tinét; for the En- latorum, Comitorum et Communitates gli/l) Privy Council could have no legal2 voice in {uch a cafe, except that of advifing the alien: or difTent of the Sove- Regni no/lri Hiaerniaa) without the leafi: mention of tlae Englifl) Parliament. reign; and yet, whenever it was meet}- fary to call a iii/line? Irifh Parliament in England, it is not improbable, but that: they might be fummoned to meet the King in bi: Privy Council by way of diftinguifhing their feparate Aflémbl y from thejoint-meeting of the Englifh and Irifh Parliaments before-mentioned. And that" fuch di/liné? Iri/la Parliamen t: have fometimes been held in Eng land appears by a record cited by Mr. Mollyneux(17), wherein mention is made of Statutes ‘ (l7) " There have been other Statutes or Ordinane ‘ ces, _made in Englan d for Ireland which ma v "/0124be be of force here, becaufe, they wereymade m: 1‘ .l H and Thus it appears probable, that the Irifh have been repreflnted in England, as well " and aflénted to 5} our own Reprr/Entatiruer. Tints " we find in the White Book of the Exchequer in " Dublin, in the 9th Year ofEdward the Firlt, a writ 5‘ {cm to his Chancellor of Ireland, wherein he men" tions Qyfldam Statuta per no: (It Afiiflr Przlaramm " Camitum Baranum E5 Commzrnizater R3712. noflri Hilar" niaz, nuper afud Lima/n {5 airman; alza Stain/a pix/i" madam apud Eéaram fafl‘a. Thefe we. may fuppofe " were either Statutes made at the requelt ofthc States " of Ireland, to explain to them the common Law of " England}; or if they were introdgétive of new laws, " yet they might well be of force in Ireland, being " enaéted by the radiant of our own Reprefcntatrves; " the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons " " " " " of Ireland; as the words afore-mentioned do fhew : and, indeed, thefe are inflancea lb far from making againlt our claim, that I think nothing can be more plainly for us; for it manifeltly fliews, that the King and Parliament of England would not enact " laws, to bind Ireland, Without the concurrence of the " Reprefcntatives of [his Kingdomfl' |