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 great and learned controversies between Molyneux and others, with regard to an English Act of Parliament binding in Ireland; and Molyneux," (says he,) "who contends it should not, hath argued strongly from an English Statute’s not being supposed to extend to Ireland before Poyning’s Act in the reign of Henry the Seventh,” &c. — And a very strong argument it is! which, I hope, hath already been shewn. But the Hon. Mr. Barrington proceeds to cite, from the Parliament-Rolls of the 21st of Edw. I. a memorandum of a very unwarrantable exertion of Royal-Prerogative by that monarch, viz. his fending a copy of the Ordinance (35) (for I cannot properly call it