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 viz, "Whereupon it must needs also follow, that the Author s Discourse FALLS ALL IN PIECES, and is nothing to the purpose that he would have it.”

Serjeant Mayart has also taken a great deal of needless pains to prove "Ireland to be annexed to the Crown of England,” and that "the King and Parliament of England have Power over Ireland," and he cites several Acts of Parliament, and other Authorities, in pages 64 and 65 of his Answer, in the Hibernica, which clearly prove, indeed, the former part of the Assertion, (that Ireland is annexed to the Crown of England;) a point which the Irish themselves are To far from denying, that they are rather desirous to maintain it. (28). But none of his Authorities afford the least shadow