alousies
which existed between the two nations, seems to claim a place here.

"Whereas it was ordained in the times of the progenitors (p. 234)
of our Lord the King, by statute made in the land of Ireland,
that no one of the Irish nation be elected archbishop, bishop,
abbot, prior, nor in any manner be received or accepted to any
dignity or benefice within the said land; and whereas many such
Irish, by the power of certain letters of licence to them made by
the Lieutenants of the King there to accept and receive such
dignities and benefices, are promoted and advanced to
archbishoprics and bishoprics within the said land, who also have
made their collations to Irish clerks of dignities and benefices
there, contrary to the form and effect of the said statute; and
consequently, since they are peers of parliament in that land,
they bring with them to the parliaments and councils held in that
land servants by whom the secrets of the English in that land
have been and are from day to day discovered to the Irish people
who are rebels against the King, to the great peril and mischief
of the King's loyal subjects in that land: our said Lord the
King, willing to provide remedy for his faithful subjects, with
the consent of the Lords, and at the request of the Commons,
wills and grants that the said statute shall be in full force,
and be well and duly guarded, and fully executed, on pain of his
grievous indignation."

The statute then provides, that if any bishops act against this law,
their temporalities shall be seized for the King till they have given
satisfaction; that the Lieutenants shall be prohibited from granting
such licences to Irishmen; and that all such licences, if made, shall
be null and void.

Perhaps, however, the words of the petition to the Commons, on which
this enactment was founded, are still more striking and convincing on
the subject.

"To the honourable and wise Sires, the Commons of this (p. 235)
present Parliament, the poor loyal liegemen of our Sovereign Lord
the King in Ireland. Whereas the said land is divided between two
nations, that is to say, the said petitioners, English and of the
English nation, and the Irish nation, those enemies to our Lord
the King, who by crafty designs secretly, and by open destruction
making war, are continually