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 did not esteem it equitable to debate “upon the State of the said Land,”— (“super statu terrae praedictae,”) with out some legislative representation thereof: But, besides this “one example for all,” Sir Edward Coke has given us also, in the same page, a memorandum, from the Parliament-Rolls of the 35th of Edw. III. (13) of Writs being issued even to Peeresses, who, in their own right held lands in Ireland, and of these no less than nine, to summon them to send Representatives, or proper persons, to confer with the Parliament; “ad mittendum fide dignos ad colloquium.”