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As other nations did the same, Ireland was shut out from the New World and a considerable part of the Old in Asia and Africa.

15 Ch. II., ch. 15.

Ch. 39.

10th and 11th Wm. III., ch. 10.

15 Ch. II., ch. 7. 18 Ch. II., ch. 2. 20 Ch. II., ch. 7. 22nd & 23rd Ch. II., ch. 2.

Petty's "Political Survey of Ireland," p. 70, and ib. "Report from the Council of Trade," pages 117, 118. Sir W. Temple, vol. iii, pp. 22, 23, that England was evidently a loser by the prohibition of cattle.

Dr. Smith's "Memoirs of Wool," vol. ii, p. 337, that the English have since sufficiently felt the mischiefs of this proceeding.

3 and 4 Anne, ch. 8.

4 Inst., 349. Matth. Paris, anno. 1172, pp. 121, 220. Vit. H. 2. Pryn, against the 4 Inst., c. 76, pp. 250, 252. Sir John Davis's Hist., p. 71. Lord Lyttleton's Hist. of, H. 2. vol. iii., pp. 89, 90. 7 Co., 22, 23. 4th Black, 429.

Cooke's 4th Inst., 351.

Anderson on Commerce, vol. i., p. 174.

3rd Edward IV., ch. 4.

The part of this law which mentions that it shall be determinable, at the King's pleasure, has the prohibition for its object, and does not lessen the force of the argument in favour of Ireland.

4th Edward IV., ch. 1.

Anderson on Commerce, vol. i., p. 285.

Ib., p. 319.

3rd James, ch. 6.

12th Ch. II., ch.

12th Ch. II., ch. 18.

13th and 14th Ch. II., ch. 11.

Ib., ch. 18.

12th Ch. II., ch. 27.

Ir. Act, 13th H. VIII, ch. 2.

28th H. VIII., ch. 17.

Ch. 10.

The necessity of encouraging the people of Ireland to manufacture their own wool appears by divers statutes to have been the sense of the legislature of both kingdoms for some centuries.

Ir. Act of 17 and 18 Ch. II., ch. 15.

Carte, vol. ii., p. 344.