Note 78 — ANECDOTES OF IRISH JUDGES.
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The interest of money in England was only five per cent; in Ireland, six. Moneyed Englishmen, therefore, lent out large sums on Irish mortgages. Lord Mansfield had vested much money in this way; and as Irish mortgages, from the confused state of Irish entails at that time, were generally considered rather ticklish securities, the Irish judges were sent over from England to take care of that matter, and were removable at pleasure, for the same reason.