INTO

THE ANCIENT CORPORATE SYSTEM

OF

Ireland,

AND

SUGGESTIONS FOR ITS IMMEDIATE RESTORATION

AND GENERAL EXTENSION.

WITH

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING NUMEROUS ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.

BY TETER GALE, ESQ. M.A.

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LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET;
AND J. YATES, GRAFTON-STREET, DUBLIN.

DEDICATION.

TO THE

RIGHT HON. E. G. STANLEY,

LATE ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARIES

OF STATE, ETC. ETC. ETC.

SIR,

THE following sheets relate to the Municipal Privileges from which the Irish Nation, after some centuries of enjoyment, were, contrary to positive law, excluded in the seventeenth century; and from which the same people, after two hundred years of persecution and unmerited sufferings, are still, contrary to positive law, excluded, in point of fact, in this the nineteenth century.

By that Nation your talents are known and allowed; but while they admit your great ability in the Senate, they universally consider that amongst modern statesmen you stand the most