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Show 20 PLEAS AND ARGUMENTS. PLEAS AND ARGUMENTS. that Capacity. Hence therefore the Circumfiance of his granting Charters -,---which indeed all Lord Lieutenants have a Power to do, and own Courts of Judicature in Favour of the Ir:- which every great Baron in England did former~ ly: Which likewife JOHN himfelf did to the formal Decifion of this Nature ; but only fome Doubts Prarted on particular Occalions, and re- City of Briflol, as Earl of Momma-"But fpeéting particular Circumfiances. furely the City of Brzflol was never yet thought to be exempt from parliamentary Authority and Jurifdic'l‘ion. . 3dly. As to the Circuml'tance of Lords and pofing even that there had been fuch Deeifions, Commons being fent over from Ireland, to {it ?) g Mlfllllfllllfii" 21 LASTLY, in regard to fome Pleadings in our dependence of Ireland -,---there never was any an Eng/j z Parliament would Nay, {uphardly have thought, that their fupreme Authority and Ju- rifdiétion were to be limited, or circumfcribed in any Refpeét by the Decilion of the Courts and vote in the Erzglr'f/z Parliament :---This might be urged as a very good Argument a- below. , THEREFORE, to return to the main Point :--The Fact, the indifputable Faét, is, that ever gainl‘t the Independence of the Iri/lz Parliament; becaule it is an irrefragable Proof, that an in- fince the Iri/lz have enjoyed the Privilege of dependent Parliament did not then exil't in Irr/rzrzrl;---and it might alto ferve to evince the Expediency of an Union with that Kingdom, now at a Time when the Roads are l0 much better, and the l'allages by Sea fo much caller, fafer, and more regular than in former Times: But it can prove notning elfe with any Proba- bility, 0r Shew of Keaton. For the Faét is, that whether there were Deputies lEntOVC'rfrOm being regarded,---not as Aliens and Foreigners (fuch as Scan/2mm formerly, Data/1mm of later Years, and Hanaveriam at prefent)---but as na- tural-born Englé/lz Subjeéts,---the Engli/lz Laws and Courts of Judicature have neceflarily been paramount over the Irzfl . The Decrees of the King's-Bench in Ireland are fubjefi to the Revifion of the King's-Bench in England :---And as to the Upper Houfe of Parliament in Ireland, Ire/gm! t0 I‘eprefent the 177sz Nation _ or not, the Lords have no Judicature at all; but all Appeals, and all Caufes proper to be tried be- the Eiglf/fi'z Parliament made Laws to bind that fore a Houfe of Lords, muI't be tried in Eng- Kingdom both before they came,--~at the Time of their comingr-mand aft 'r they ceafed to come; lzmd. Nay, the very King of Ireland is no other, than that Prince, whom the Eng/2]]; Na- that l5, for thc Space of upwards of Six Hundred tion {hall firlt appoint to rule over them. This Years. LAST", was |