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 certainly of much more weight than the opinion of “all the Judges in England,” when given contrary to reason, or against the tenor of any fundamental Law.

I never heard that this Reason, assigned by the Judges Wray and Dyer and the Attorney-General, against the force of the said four Acts of Parliament, has ever been questioned or disallowed as insuffcient in the case of an Irish Peer; and therefore a similar reason is certainly as effectual in the cafe of any private Irish Subject, whose crime is parallel; because true justice is equal in all her ways, and has no respect to persons. (59) For the same Law, which entitles the Nobleman to a Trial by his Peers, (60) secures also, to