power, though never elected, or very unduly through
favour, power, or corruption of Officers, shall sit and
vote as Members, whilst those who were duly chosen
and entrusted by the people, shall be secluded and left
without relief.4 Because Scotland and Ireland,See my Ar∣gument of the case of the Lord Ma∣guire. though united to
England, alwaies were, and yet are distinct Realms and
Republicks, never incorporated into England, or its Par∣liament,
as natural proper Members thereof: they all
having by their own Fundamental Laws, Statutes, Cu∣stomes,
Rights, Priviledges, their peculiar proper Par∣liaments,
Peers, Knights, Citizens, Burgesses, Courts,
Iudicatures, Councils, and Iudges distinct, divi∣ded
from, and not intercommoning with one another.
The Peers, Lords, Knights, Citizens, Burgesses of Eng∣land
having no place, voice, nor right of Session in the
Parliaments of Scotland or Ireland, though in many
things subordinate to the Parliaments of England, and
subject to Acts of Parliament made in them, and the
Lords, Peers, Citizens, Burgesses of the Parliaments of
Scotland, and Ireland, being no Lords, Peers, Knights,
Citizens or Burgesses at all in England or its Parliaments,
being distinct from theirs, and summoned unto their
own Parliament onely, as I shall hereafter manifest in
its due place. This is evident not onely by the distinct
printed Laws and Statutes of England, Scotland, and Ire∣land,
and those Historians, who have written of them
(especially Holinshed, Bucana, and Mr. Cambden) but
likewise by Mr. Seldens Titles of Honour, p. 2. c. 5, 6, 7,
Cooks 4 Institutes, ch. 1. 75, 76. Cooks 7 Reports, Cal∣vins
case. The Statute of 1 Iacobi, ch. 1, 2, 3. Iacobi, c.
3, 4. Iacobi, ch. 1. 7. Iacobi, ch. 1. which fully confirm
and establish the distinct Parliaments, Rights, Laws, Li∣berties,
Customes, Iurisdictions, Iudicatures of the Realm
of England, and Scotland.5. Because the calling and admission of Scotish
Knights, Citizens, Burgesses, or Peers unto the Parlia∣ments
of England, and giving them a voice and Legisla∣tive
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