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Show [112] [ I I3 ] be binding in Ireland, and not the Englifl: for there is no example of an Iri/Zv Aft of Statute, Parliament being fet afide by the AuthoQ rity as Serjeant Mayart fuppofes; for to a benevolent man; I mean the " Vz'fltatiom ofj'gf. " tire, (whereby [be ju/I and HONOURABLE LAW or " ENGLAND was imparted and communicated to ail " Ila: Iri/bry-." (P. 265.) And he informs us, in the fame page, that " [be rommanpmple were taught, by ‘ the Jul'tices of Aflife, that we} were FREE Sun- " chrs to tips King: ofEng/and, and not Slaves and ‘ Vaffals to their pretended Lords : That the Cut‘ tings, Co/IJez-z'cr, Seflugr, and other extortions of " under which they lived before, and theju/I gowe-n. " men! and protet‘tion which we promifed unto them " for the time to come." Thus the common people oft/22 Infiry were at length reltorcd to that equality, in the eye of the law, to which they were juflly entitled (though {harnefully deprived ot'it) from the etched time that the Englilh begun to be known in that kingdom, even from the firlt etlablilhment of the Englifh Conquerors ; for bi: john Danica lhews, from it'lz-ttthcw Paris's Hitler}, ‘ their Lords, were UNLAWFUL, and that they fhould " not any more fubmit themfelves thereunto, fince " they were now under the proteé‘tion of {o jufi and " mighty a Prince, as both would and could protect " them from al' wrongs 2nd oppreflions. They gave" (fays he) " A WILLING EAR unto thcfe lefl'ons; and " thereupon the greatnefl'e and power of thofe Irilh " Lords over the people fodainly fell and vanilhed, " when their oppreflions and extortions were taken I: away, which did maintain their greatnefs," 63?. In p. 262, he informs us, that Sir Edmund Pelham and himfelf were " 1/15/23]? j‘uflicer if 13%;]? z/mt e-vcr " fat in fag/c? (aunlrir; ," ((peaking particularly of Tyrone and Tirconnel] ;) " and in that circuit" (fays he) " we vifited all the {hires of that province: be" {ides which, vifitation, though it were fomewhat " dillultt‘ull to the Irilh Lords, rum; [west and 7710/1 " true/come to the common pezple; who, albeit they were :: rude-and barbarous, yet did they glut/{:1} «tyre/18W] rim a'gfsrmra betweene the dreamy and opprelllofl ‘ under that " King Henry 11. étfsre [a]: rr‘lnrn out of [.m" land, held a Counlell, or Parliament, at Léx/Tlrl'rt, " where the Laws of England were, Z_, till, (willingly " rcmfiwd; ubi leges Anglia: AB OMNIEUS flair gm" lanlt'r rat/214', et jumtoria tanticnc pr;:'lllt£t confir- " mam :" p. too. And he inlbrmn us, in the next page, that " Ring llenric the Third did gram: and " tt‘anfmlt the I'M": J/l‘tzr'frr of [wish-went; to 51': flag/(4211 {r' " Ire/mid, as himlelt' zunl lilo Firther had grnuntel to " 1/1: SJ/y'rc‘fr qf Eng/1:51. :zs appertreth" (lays he) " by arwrhtr Rectum! in the "Lower, I Ill {1. ill. " Pa: tn. 13." Anl he cites allb a writ of}: :2 [zih year ofthe tame King, comzn'tnding the Lord J'ullire ol‘ lrclmd to cm‘c 1.1,; {fl-arm- g‘KMé; .7037" to be rcvd and centirmetl by l';;rii:1ment; and Sign"), that " the " thine King, by Letter-J Parse: unaltr the Great-Seal " of England, (fr-'4' text-[Tram i't .I‘.';Jt2.',ll"" aunt of the Eng-" {[3 lzt-w; made by hing John," and that all "Hits 05:.» tit/«.2732: Lazy lltould have C. elf: there at: in int};. v imitl |