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was) “altered;” so that their crime was exactly parallel to the (equally criminal) resolution of all the Judges in England,” in the cafe of Orurke the Irishman, beforementioned, (which was, in like manner, founded on an express Act; of Parliament, viz, 33 Hen. VIII, c, 23.) and parallel also to the crime (for it must be so esteemed) of “all the Judges of England,” when they “resolved," in Sir John Perrot’s Case, that, “for a Treason done in IRELAND, the offender may he tried by the Statute 35 Hen. VIII. in ENGLAND, because the words of the Statute be, All Treasons, committed out of the Realm of England,” — and Ireland is out of the Realm of England,” &c. 3d Inst. p. 1 1. But the Judges, in both these cafes, were quite as inexcusable as the two time-servers, Dudley and Empson; for, if the real Intention of the Legislature, by the said Acts of 33 and 35 Hen. VIII. had been so general as to include all places whatever, “out of the Realm of England,”