Note 585 — Chapter XVIII · ON THE CONSTITUTION OF IRELAND (continued 2)
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5 G. I. c. 5; Plowden, 244. The Irish House of Lords had, however, entertained writs of error as early as 1644, and appeals in equity from 1661. Mountmorres, i. 339. The English peers might have remembered that their own precedents were not much older.