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MOLYNEUX, WILLIAM. The Case of Ireland's Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated. [16], 174, [2] pages, including final blank. 8vo, 165x100 mm, contemporary calf gilt with crowned monogram P on rear cover, worn, front cover lacking, replaced with loose contemporary calf cover from another binding; pagination on most pages cropped, scattered spotting and marginal foxing, title soiled, with a few stains, and pasted paper remnant on verso. Dublin: Joseph Ray, 1698
first edition. "Molyneux maintained that Ireland's 12th-century Gaelic rulers had not been conquered but had submitted voluntarily to English rule, that conquest did not confer unlimited rights, that the majority of the current inhabitants of Ireland (Catholic as well as Protestant) were descendants of settlers rather than of the aboriginal Irish population, and that all persons had in any case a natural right to live only under laws to which they had given their consent"--OCIH, page 76.
