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quoted by the Honourable Mr. Justice Barrington, from Petyt, MSS. Vol. XXVII. p. 294. for though it is not a Precedent exactly to the point in question, (i, e, the sending Representatives from Ireland to the English Parliament,) yet it tends to corroborate the same equitable Doctrine concerning the necessity of Representation in general, which ought to be the basis of all determinations either in the Privy-Council, (to which the example particularly relates,) or elsewhere. "There is a writ" (says he) “of Edward III. in the 50th Year of his Reign, to oblige the Inhabitants of Cork to pay the expences of John Droup, who is stated to have been chosen by the Community to attend the Kings Privy Council in England (16)." The Business of his attendance, however, does not appear; but, on whatever account he might attend the Privy-Council, he was probably the same person that is mentioned