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 and forgotten by Lord Coke; and indeed it is not probable that the Irish Parliament was ever summoned to England regularity or as a matter of course, to meet the English Parliament, but only on extraordinary occasions, wherein the Subjects of Ireland were particularly concerned, and could not, we may presume, be “specially named” and bound (that is, consistently with natural equity and there own just rights) without their express assent: for it is apparent that regular Parliaments were held in Ireland both BEFORE, since, and even during, the Reigns of those very Princes who issued Writs to summon them to England; which latter, therefore, can only be attributed to some extraordinary or peculiar circumstances, (out of common course,) which render it necessary.

In addition to the clear Precedents before cited, it may not perhaps be improper to take notice of a circumstance