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it may be well said, that “Statuit et praecepit Leges; he appointed and established the Laws; as also because he put them in writing, and left them in his Court of Exchequer for their better directions:" but he happily informs us at the same time, (which spoils his own application of the Precedent,) that all this was done “at the instance” (says he) “of the Irish, (as the Record saith,) or of the English who accounted themselves Irish," &c. And therefore, as these English Laws and Customs are clearly acknowledged by himself to have been introduced at the instance of “the Irish,“ it must manifestly appear, that this antient example excludes the Doctrine which he meant to support by it, in opposition to Sir Richard Bolton; and therefore, if all these points are duly considered, I think we may very fairly retort his own words (which he exultingly applied to Sir Richard Bolton) upon himself!