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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
t lies in my power to discourage the woollen manufactures of Ireland, said William of Orange. Speech to the Commons, 2 July, 1698. The exportation of Irish woollens to the colonies and to foreign countries was prohibited; 10 and 11, William III. c. x. and the statute of 1732. and restrictive laws so interfered with the manufacture that it seemed probable, Irishmen would not be able to wear a coat of their own fabric. Edmund Burke to ******, &c. ***** & Co. Bristol. Westminster, 2 May, 1778. In the course of years the English colonists themselves began to be domiciliated in Ireland; Edmund Burke. and with the feeling that the country in which they dwelt was their home, there grew up discontent that it continued to be treated as a conquered country. Proceeding by insensible degrees, they at length maintained openly the legislative equality of the two kingdoms. In 1692, the Irish House of Commons claimed the sole and undoubted right to prepare and resolve the means of