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Show val-Innumrmr/uwi " _ [ 136 l The {econd precedent of this nature; which he has produced for the fame pur- ' ‘ ._.:. "QM _4-__,_.._-~,--- ~~3k.__--_. _.. V, _ I, ,- .. i 137 l with their unlawful counfels ; but it by no means " fhews" that fuch an arhic "trary proceeding was really Law at that pofe, f'till helps to confirm my obferva- time, any more than it is at prefent! for tion on the other fide of the queflion : for this precedent is nothinglefs than the the very fame volume of Rymer's Foedera, Order of " King Charles the Firf'c, in the above-mentioned precedent, contains " the 3d year of his reign, to the Trea‘ furers and Chancellors of the Exche-v " quer, both of England and Ireland, alfo other precedents of the like authority, " which equally flaw t/mr it was " tlyen imagined [be King can/drape" EVEN " by which they are directed to increafe ENGLANi) :ITSELF " [y bi: Prerogativtg " the duties upon Irifh exports; which "‘ wit/gout the intervention 9/" Parliament." --- See " A Declaration of his Majef" ty's Cleere intention in requiring the " ayde of his loving {objects in that way " if Loane (36) (when is now intended " flgews" (fays he) " that it was then " imagined, the King could tax Ireland " by his Prerogative, without the inter" vention of Parliament." -- Now, the precedent " Jews" indeed (as Mr. Bar- rington juf'rly remarks) " that it we: " tben imagined," See. that is, it flew: that this falfe doctrine " was tlaen ima- " gined" by the King and thofe wretched Courtiers, who, either through ignorance, or wickednefs, or both, betrayed him with (viz. tome xviii.) that contains " 17} bis Higlwmji." Tome xviii. p. 764. T Nay, (36.) The compulfi've means, ufed on this occafion, to extort money from the people, fufliciently demonflrate that " Ilse way If Loane, rw/Jit/J" (was then) " intended 5} lift nglmefy," amounted to an exaflion df the molt notorious nature! Many people were imvprifoned, and many others preffed into the land and fee fervice, for refuling to contribute. Sec Rufhwoxth's Collcflion, |