may not the entire Kingdom of England be farther Cantoniz'd, and infinitely for the advantage of Parties?
As for the Practice; The Peers of Ireland assembled in Parliament, may depute so many of their number, as make the 1⁄8[1] part of the Peers of England, to be call'd by Writ into the Lords-House of England: And the Commons in Ireland assembled in like manner, may depute the like proportion of other Members to sit with the Commons of England, the King and that House admitting of them.
But if the Parliament of England be already the Legislative Power of Ireland, why may they not call a competent Number out of Ireland, as aforesaid, or in some other more convenient manner?
All these Shifts and Expedients are necessary but for the first time, until the matter be agreed upon by both Nations, in some one Parliament.
'Tis suppos'd that the Wealth of Ireland is about the 1⁄8 or 1⁄10 of that of England; and the King's Revenue in both Kingdoms seems about that proportion. |36|
[CHAPTER VI.]
Of the Government of Ireland.
THE Government of Ireland is by the King, 21 Bishops (whereof four are Arch-Bishops) and the Temporal Peers[2]; whereof some part,by reason of the late Rebellion, do not sit in Parliament.
By about 3000 Freeholders, and the Members of about 100 Corporations, the University at Dublin reckoned for one, represented in the House of Commons, by about 270 Knights, Citizens and Burgesses.
The Parliament so constituted, have a Negative upon any Law that the Lord Lieutenant and Councel shall offer to the King, and which the King and his Councel in England shall under the Great Seal remit to the said Parliament.
