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§. 4. by Edward I. It’s contitution was new-modelled, and put upon an Englih footing by a charter of king James I: and all it’s liberties, franchies, and cutoms, were confirmed in parliament by the tatutes 22 Edw. IV. c. 8. and 2 Jac. I. c. 28. Though therefore it hath ome local peculiarities, derived from the antient laws of Scotland, yet it is clearly part of the realm of England, being repreented by burgees in the houe of commons, and bound by all acts of the Britih parliament, whether pecially named or otherwie. And therefore it was (perhaps uperfluouly) declared by tatute 20 Geo. II. c. 42. that, where England only is mentioned in any act of parliament, the ame notwithtanding hath and hall be deemed to comprehend the dominion of Wales and town of Berwick upon Tweed. And, though certain of the king’s writs or procees of the courts of Wetminter do not uually run into Berwick, any more than the principality of Wales, yet it hath been olemnly adjudged that all prerogative writs (as thoe of mandamus, prohibition, habeas corpus, certiorari, &c,) may iue to Berwick as well as to every other of the dominions of the crown of England, and that indictments and other local matters ariing in the town of Berwick may be tried by a jury of the county of Northumberland.

to Ireland, that is till a ditinct kingdom; though a dependent, ubordinate kingdom. It was only entitled the dominion or lordhip of Ireland, and the king’s tile was no other than , lord of Ireland, till the thirty third year of king Henry the eighth; when he aumed the title of king, which is recognized by act of parliament 35 Hen. VIII. c. 3. But, as Scotland and England are now one and the ame kingdom, and yet differ in their municipal laws; o England and Ireland are, on the other hand, ditinct kingdoms, and yet in general agree in their laws. The inhabitants of Ireland are, for the mot part, decended from the Englih, who planted it as a kind of Rh