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rity of the English Parliament, which Serjeant Mayart allows: "Neither is it to be imagined" (says he in p. 199) “that the Kings and Parliaments in England will ever avoid any Laws made in Ireland without a good and just cause, since they have not done any such things for about four hundred years, which is time enough to have experience of their honour and justice," &c.
And he afterwards uses this plea concerning the Honour and Justice of the English Parliament, as an inducement for the Irish to be bound by it; "and seeing" (says he in p. 191) “that, for above 400 years, they have never done hurt to Ireland, &c. therefore we may well