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Show pendence of Ireland, feemed the molt plaufible, And yet even thefe amounted to nothing, when Parliament of their own. T111251: Arguments have a fpecious Appearance at firfi Sight. But let us-examine their engaged on his Part, to grant to his nev Sub- ‘ g :1 mat-ulmm'a? "uranium! ieé‘ts theB‘ene. t of being!Zoverned by the fame Laws with his Eng/W; Subje-fts, and of enjoying a diitinet Parliament of their own. ‘ zdly 1 {IA r afew Years after this origin‘ai Contmél, h1 do a Transfer or Donation'oi'his 116.Vl\ acqui:ed I ingdom to his youngeit Son 10:11:, then a Ioutli about 1,: Years of Age: that this Grant was made at Oxford, during the fitting of a Parliament, without their being concerned in it as Parties thereto: Nay, that in Confequenee or this Donation, the new 17'4"; 1‘ mg made divers Grants and Charters to his iiege Subjects of [ftp/121261,. Contents : AND 111', as to the pretended Stipulation, or original Contract between the Conqueror and the Conqttered : r~--»Nothing can be gathered Ihould be confidered as one People ;--and that the [71/]; Ihould have a Parliament of their own for the better Management of their own local, or provincial Concerns :-»-A Power which is granted in Reality, tho' not by the exprefs Name of a Parliament, to almofi: every great Corporation within the King's Dominions : EDWARDS, certain Lords, Knights, and Bur» s'geflEs were tent over from [re/and to reprefent that Kingdom in the Eire/7' 1 Parliament. That is, a Power to make Laws for the better ilill 1non Record, whetein it appears to haVC regulating their own A‘Iairs, and for lev1ing Taxes foi pa1ticular Ufes -,---but fiill fubordinate, ltillfubj e61 to the Controul of the Iupreme Legiflature of the whole Empire. C been the Opnion of tome of the 13"ng ,IUdglfs' t 37 , from what the Hifiorians have faid about it (for if there ever was any Infirument of this Kind, it is now 1011) ~~I fay, nOthing can be gathered from it more than this, that the King promiied to treat his new Subjects with great Lenity and Indulgence; that he would govern them by the fame Laws by which his Eng/if}: Subjects were governed; that both Nations 3dly. THAT during the Reign of the three 4il‘1l‘y'. 1 11-11 there are judicial Pleadings ‘11:?! ' Inhabitants of Ireland, becaufe they have a SECONDLY, I v "LT-9151 (another Dilciple of Mr. Loc1;'s) for the Inde. V "I that the Engliflz Laws are not obligatory on the ‘ m LJLA‘ ' artfully urged by the famous Mr. MOLINEU); examined to the Bottom. Mr5 MOL rmzux's lirll Pretence was, that after the Conquefl‘ of [reand by IIENRY II.- and after the perceable Cefiion of it to him by twenty petty Piince'- of IIc Co'‘mtry; the Conqueror ‘ .)' 17 "V PLEAS AND ARGUMENTS PLEAS AND ARGUMENTS. V'gvng g"?.vw ib |
