or not naming Ireland, in our English Acts, cannot in the least affect the argument of the former Judges; for, if it holds good to secure the Irish subjects from being bound, when not “especially named,” (which is allowed even by Sir Edward Coke himself,) it certainly is equally effectual when they are named; or rather, (I ought to say,) the Reason is much more forcible in the latter case, which apparently enhances the propriety and importance of it; because, when the business relating to Ireland is debated, it is manifest that the Irish subjects stand most in need of a due representation, which cannot therefore be denied them at such a time, without the most flagrant violation of justice and natural Equity!
But, left any of my Readers should still retain any doubt concerning the groundless Doctrine, broached by Sir Edward Coke, that English
