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should not be bound in the latter by any other laws than those to which their own Parliament had assented, viz. “Quia non hie habent Milites Parliamenti:" which Doctrine was agreeable also to what had long before been declared by that celebrated constitutional Lawyer, the great Judge Fortescue, on Pilkinton's (7) case, in the 19th of Hen. VI. which was readily admitted at the same time by Judge Portington, and (for any thing that appears to the contrary) agreeable also to the opinion of all the other Judges that were then present; for, Sir Richard Bolton remarks, that this was not “denied by Markham, Yelverton,
