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IRISH PARLIAMENT.
The Statutes of Ireland, beginning the third yere of K. Edward the
Second and continuing untill the end of the Parliament begunne in
the eleventh yeare of .... King James. and ended in the thirteenth
yeare of his raigne - Dublin: Printed by the Societie of Stationers,
1621. Folio. pp. [xxix], 445, [1]. A very good copy in old calf. See
illustration on previous page.
This, the most comprehensive publication of the early acts of the
Irish Parliament, was dedicated by the editor and subsequent lord
chancellor, Sir Richard Bolton, to Sir Oliver Saint-John, lord dep-
uty general of Ireland. What follows is a complete listing, chrono-
logically arranged, of all the Acts of Parliament which the author
had located in surviving Parliamentary Rolls. His method was “to
extract out of them all such statute-laws as were generall, or con-
cerned the general good of the common-wealth”. He observed
that some of the Statutes, while not specifically repealed, had
fallen into desuetude, singling out for special mention those that
differentiated the appearance and garb of the English and the
native Irish, but justified his reprinting them for their historical
value. Subsequent generations have gratefully applauded this edi-
torial decision. Sweeney 2516 with summaries of the Acts in this
volume carried in supplementary entries A1 to A206.
€1,000 - €1,500
171
IRISH PARLIAMENT.
Anno Regni Caroli .... decimo et undecimo. At the Parliament
begun and holden at Dublin, the fourteenth day of July, in the
tenth yeere of the Raigne of our most gracious Soveraigne Lord,
Charles - Dublin: Imprinted by the Society of Stationers, 1636.
Folio. pp. [xiii], 101. A very good copy in old calf rebacked. Early
signature of Wm. Conyngham on titlepage. STC 14137. ESTC
S477968 (1 copy only).
Provenance: The William, Marquis Conyngham copy, exhibited in
the National Gallery of Ireland in 1997, at an exhibition: “Five hun-
dred years of the art of the book in Ireland - 1500 to the present”,
Catalogue 9. Sweeney 2517 quoting the Dublin 1st edition. With
summaries of the Acts in this volume carried in supplementary
entries A207 to A277. Exceedingly rare.
€1,000 - €1,500
Lot 170
Lot 171