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excellent Statute; because the two Acts of Parliament, of the 33 and 35 H, 8. on which they grounded their opinion, cannot have any legal force, (notwithstanding the literal meaning of the general expressions therein,) when applied to offences committed in any country, province, or colony, whatsoever, that is subject to the imperial crown of Great-Britain: so that even if Ireland had been “especially named” therein, the said Acts would have been so far from binding that kingdom, (according to the effect supposed by Lord Coke, Judge Vaughan, Judge Blackstone, and others,) that the very naming Ireland, for such purposes as were intended by the said Acts, would have rendered them absolutely “null and void,” and to be “holden for none,” because they would, in that case, have been directly