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 farther he adds, "But if it should happen" (says he) “that the Parliament of England should make an exposition of a Law in force in Ireland, and the Parliament there should make another, and that it may be different or contrary to that of England, certainly" (says he) “Ireland must be bound, by the Author's own Rule," (meaning Sir Richard Bolton,) "by the declaratory Statute of the Parliament of England.”

But Sir Richard Bolton's Rule includes no such Doctrine. For there is nothing unreasonable in supposing that the Irish subjects, without prejudice to their natural Rights and the Privileges of their own Parliament, might receive the declaratory Statute of the Parliament of England" as the best Exposition of the Common-Law, which they before ac-