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How much later than the Reign of Edw. III. this practice was continued, of occasionally summoning the Irish Parliament into England, does not appear; though we may be certain that it did not continue so late as the Reign of Hen. VI. because the great Fortescue and the other Judges, his contemporaries, could net have declared (as has already been shewn) that “a tenth or fifteenth, granted here, should not bind those of Ireland," if the practice of sending Representatives from thence had continued to that time: nevertheless, the proofs already produced are amply sufficient to confute the observation of Judge Jenkins in his 4th Century, p. 164, viz, that “the Statutes of England, which expressly name Ireland, bind them and their Lands and Goods. As the Statute of York," (says he,) “made 12th E. II. and the 13th E. I. de Mercatoribus, and others:" For, as I have produced sufficient examples of the Irish