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 c. 13. — 32 H. VIII c. 4. — 35 H. VIII. — and 2 and 5 Ed. VI. c. II. And it was maintained, by Wray, Dyer, and Gerrarde, the Attorney-General, that HE COULD NOT; for he cannot have his trial here BY his Peers, nor by any Jury of 12, because that he is not a Subject of England, but of Ireland, and therefore his Trial shall be there," &c.

These worthy Lawyers were not afraid, it seems", to maintain the weight of a LEGAL and FUNDAMENTAL REASON against the combined force of FOUR EXPRESS ACTS OF PARLIAMENT! And such a reason, though it had been advanced only by a single judge, or even by a private person, is