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Show PLEAS AND ARGUMENTS. 18 19 three feveral Times. Nay, he caufed his eldef't Son, and then Heir apparent, Prince HENRY ating his youngefi: Son, when only twelve Years of Age, King of Ireland, it is obfervable, that to be crowned twice King of England, during his thofe Gothic Times, when the refined Pleafures llllmuflflWlflflmii? l".|||'l'lllllll'lt‘ ,§ d in :v: of Society were ill-underflood, the Princes, and the great Men were at a Lofs for fuitable Diverfions for the Entertainment of their Guefis at the three great Feltivals of C/zrzflnzas, Ea/ler, and W/zz‘l/antz‘de. Sometimes they had Recourfc to Tilts and Tournaments; at other Times to o) I I) ‘2‘I I ). : .le ‘ ., A) D gaudy Proeeflions, fome of them folemn and religious, and others very ludicrous. But what feemed to be the mofl: pleafing Of all both in England and in France, becaufe the mall pompous, and in which likewife all the great Families of both Kingdoms bore principal Parts or Charaéters, were CORONATIONS. Thefe Ireland into the Hands of this raw unexperienced Youth ;-orindeed that he conf‘tituted any other Perfons to be Truftees or Guardians for him, 'till he fhould come of Age. Nay,‘ the contrary is f0 very apparent, that we know from Hiltory,---not only that King RICHARD, Succefibr to King HENRY, paid no Manner of Regard to this imaginary Donation,m- but alfo that HENRY himfelf nick-named this very titular King of Ireland, JOHN LACKLAND : An Appellation, which could not have been given him with any Propriety, had he created him abfo- lutely and truly the Sovereign of a great-Terri- tory, and made him independent of himfelf. All therefore that can poffibly be inferred from fuch a Ceremony, amounts to Ito-more than therefore were frequently repeated by every Monarch at their great Fellivals, and at the this : That JOHN was thereby conf'tituted Vice- Meetings of their Parliaments. And HENRY himfelf, Who afi'eéled fuch Raree-Shews as little as any one, was crowned according to RAPIN, When he went to refide there, he was to act in three ROy, or Lord Lieutenant of Ireland -, and that, A C 2 that a, A r. V‘ a .a'V-z' rity :--Much lefs can it be fuppofed, that when he entertained his Court and Parliament at Ox- ford with the merry Coronation of a mere Boy, he religned the newly-conquered Kingdom of a ..iuiu luau .A But was far, very far from imagining, that he had dethroned himfelf by that Means, or even leITened his own Autho- 'V"‘ ceflbrs for fome hundreds of Years appropriated to themfelvcs any higher Title than that of Lords 0f Ireland. It is therefore fomewhat fingular, that the very firfi Lord of Ireland fhould afl'ume a Power of creating a Title fuperiot to his own. And the belt Way of accounting for {0 whimlical a Conduct feems to be this :---ln own Life-Time. -_V neither HENRY himfelf, nor any of his Suc- {(Vm ‘ PLEAS AND ARGUMENTS. SECONDLY, as to the Fact of the King's cre. |