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* to the Brehon lawe, or March lawe, he should be adjudged 
“a traytor.”*—“ Againe it was made penall to the English to per- 
“mit the Irish to ereaght or graze upon their lands, to present 
“ them to Ecclesiastical benefices, to receive them into any mo- 
*¢ nasteries or religious houses, to entertaine any of their minstrels, 
** rimers, or news-tellers,”+ 
The statute against intermarrying with the Irish was again 
enacted so late as the 28th year of the reign of Henry VIII, 
“ Whereby it is manifest,” says Sir John Davis, “ that such as had 
** the government of Ireland under the crown of England, did in- 
“tend to make a perpetuall separation and enmity between the 
“ English and the Irish, pretending (no doubt) that the English 
“ should, in the end, root out the Irish; which the English not be- 
ing able to do, did cause a perpetuall warre between the nations, 
« which continued four hundered and odde years, and would have 
“ lasted to the world’s end, if in the end of Queen Elizabeth’s 
“ reigne the Irishry had not beene broken and conquered by the 
sword ; and since the beginning of his majesties raigne, had 
“ not been protected and governed by the lawe.”t 
We have seen before, that the ancient Irish laws were not altered 
by the invasion of the Danes and Norwegians, and the temporary 
settlements they obtained in this country, in consequence of that in- 
vasion ; and that, excepting some trifling changes that might have 
taken place by the introduction of the Christian religion, the Irish 
laws must have been, at the time of the English invasion, in 1169, 
the same as they were when they were first instituted. We may 
now conclude, from the brief historical sketch here given of the 
first establishment of the English in this country, and from the pains 
oY 
* Discovery, &c. London 1747, page 212. + Ibid. p. 213. t Ibid. p. 214. 
