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Excerpt from A Letter on the Expediency of a Reform in Parliament: Addressed to the Right Hon. Lord Erskine In order to render this history of our ancient Parliaments more complete, I must observe, that the first Parliament holden in Ireland, after its subjection to the Crown of England, Was that at Kilkenny, an. 3 Edward II. The Acts whereof are all printed in the Statutes of Ireland, collected by Mr. Richard Bolton, printed at Dublin anno 1621. Being the most ancient he could find in the Records thereof, under the custody Of the Master of the Rolls therel - My Lord Coke says, that the two Houses of Parliament formerly sat under the same roof, and transacted business together: but Ihave already refuted my Lord Coke's account of the antiquity of Parliament; and it is equally certain that the House of Commons never sat and debated with the Lords in one House: for there was no House of Commons to Sit With them, till the latter end of the reign of King Henry III.; and Mr. Prynne has cited various bills and writs of summons to shew, that they never sat together at that time. And all that is war ranted by the rolls referred to by my Lord Coke is, that the Com mons came to the Lords' House, when the causes of summoning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.