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Parliament being summoned to England in both the Reigns which he has mentioned, these Statutes cited by him can afford no testimony of what he supposes, because the Irish might probably have been represented in those very Parliaments; for which opinion (I have already shewn) there some evidence, and I am hot apprehensive that any evidence at all can be produced to the contrary.

The fame reply holds good also, against the most material examples cited in Serjeant Mayart’s answer to Sir Richard Bolton's Declaration (19), setting