PROCEEDINGS of the LORDS and COMMONS,
during the Administration of the Earl of STRAFFORD,
and of the First Duke of ORMOND:

WITH

A NARRATIVE of HIS GRACE's LIFE, collected from
the Papers of Sir ROBERT SOUTHWELL, Knt., Secretary of
State in Ireland, and Prefident of the Royal Society.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE

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SECTION I. Introduction.-Account of the Expedi-

tions of Earl Strongbow, and of Henry the Second,

into Ireland; from Giraldus Cambrenfis.

SECTION II. Of the Seffions of Parliament in Ireland,

from the ninth Year of Edward the Second, till

the Reign of Elizabeth-History of Poyning's Law.

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SECTION III. Of the Seffions of Parliament in the

Reign of Elizabeth,—of the Orders of the English

Parliament, which were tranfcribed and adopted

in the eleventh Seffion of her Reign, in Ireland.

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SECTION IV. Of the Seffions in 1613, 1614, and

1615.

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The

The PROCEEDINGS of the IRISH PARLIAMENT,

from 1634 to 1666, during the Life and Adminiftration

of JAMES BUTLER the first Duke of ORMOND. To

which is prefixed, a Narrative of his Grace's Life;

collected from Materials communicated by his Grace to

bis Secretary, Sir ROBERT SOUTHWELL, Knt., Mi-

nifter Plenipotentiary to the Court of Portugal in 1667,5

Secretary of State in Ireland, and Prefident of the

Royal Society. Compiled from the Original Manu-

feript in the Cafle of Kilkenny.

- CHAP. I.

The Life of James Butler, the first Duke of Ormond.

Page 189

CHA P. II.

Of the Proceedings of the House of Lords, from the

Seffion of 1634 to 1666.

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Page 51. line 11. for elders read idlers.

368, ult, note, for or act read to act.

PREF A CE.

THE fecurity of literary property; that

encouragement, which the wisdom of the English legislature has extended to learning, by infuring to authors the fole and exclufive difpofal of that in which affuredly mankind have the most decided right, namely, in the production of their own understandings; is the principal cause of the exertions of the learned, and of the many laborious compilations in Eng

land.

Literary property has not been hitherto fecured by any law of the Irish legiflature; hence the penury of authors may be accounted for, and ftill more the infrequency of laborious works. A law of this description has long been expected, and ardently

a