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Show "(ill/III!!!" 1 [lOOJ [ he adds them triumphantly to his Collee~ tion of Precedents for binding Ireland ror ] Charter of Lz'éerz‘ier, freely given and Conqueror: tbemjé/ver enjoyed by it: for even Serjeant Mayart himfelf proves (in p. 67.) that the Englifh Laws " were " given at fir/Z" -- " tam ANGLIS gladly accepted, could afford any Evi-~ " (LUAM HIBERNrcrs, as well to ENG- dcnce (zgrzf/fl Liberty / For this undil- " LISH AS IRISH"(27). by Statutes made in Eng/(72:55; as if (2 tinguilhiug man did not confidcr that the The Irifh Nation King, by this Charter of Liberties, dim/r Linen/2min: himfelflrather than his Peo~ pie) in all the molt dangerous points of Prerogative, wherein the Rulers of other Countries are left too much unlimited; and therefore that the Subjects of Ire/am! might accept the fame (which they molt willingly did) Without the lead Deroga- tlon from their juft and natural Rights. And, as this Charter was gra nted to the " ng'r Sufijcfir 2‘72 Ire/and" with- out drfiinélion, it affords the mol t ample proof that even the conquered Irz'fla were entitled to all the Immunitie s, Proteéhon, and Benefits, which the Eng /2' a Conguc'rors (27) Serjeant Mayart alfo informs us, " That the ‘ whole Realm of Ireland was antiently reduced into " Counties, and that the Englifh Laws had paffage " throughout the fame, as appears" (fays he) " by ‘ feveral Pipe-Rolls of the Time of Hen. 3. in the ‘ Exchequer of Ireland, where there are accounts" (lays he) " made for fines, paid by the mere Irifly, for D'y"fiiflm, and many other kinds of Trefpafles, com" mitted by them in thofe places, which the Author " calls Iri/b Territories; though fome of the Irifh, " with their pollerity after them, being always awn/é " to the Englilh Laws, could not digelt them, but hid " themfelves in the bogs, mountains, {9'5" But this averfion of " fimeof r/Jc Iri/b" to the Englifh Laws is eafily accounted for, finee it appears very clearly, from Sir John Davies's Book, that the Irilhry had much more experience and woful knowledge of Engliflz Ofprrfli‘m than of the Eng/1]]; Larwr; for, when any of them were driven frOm their Lands and PoiTeflions through the avarice, and by the unlawful power, of the great Englilh Lords, who found their interett in treating them as enemies, it was very natural for them to at- tempt to dflizc, and recover their former Rights and Polleflions : |