Poyningsn.

1613 in E. Coke 4th Pt. Inst. Laws of Eng. (1644) lxxvi. 351 An Act made in the tenth year of H.7. called Poynings Act.

1680 E. Borlase Hist. Execrable Irish Rebellion 129 All Acts of Parliament against Popery and Papists, together with Poynings Act to be repealed, and the Irish Parliament to be made Independent.

1770 R. Power Compar. State Two Rejected Money Bills 22 To evince the force of Poynings act, the following circumstance demands the reader's attention.

1896 Dict. National Biogr. at Porter, Sir Charles Porter spoke again, at Sidney's request, against the claim of the Irish House of Commons to originate money-bills, contrary to Poynings's act and to the practice of two centuries.

1930 R. Coupland Amer. Revol. & Brit. Empire ii. 58 Text-books have made the name of Poynings' Act more familiar than its contents.

1999 A. Clarke Prelude to Restoration in Irel. iii. 90 The commissioners forwarded the draft of a statute, roughly modelled on a clause in Poynings' Act, providing for all public acts of the English parliament enacted since 1495 to be ‘deemed and judged good and effectuall and accepted used and executed in Ireland’.

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 138 But Poynings (the better to make compensation of the Meagernesse of his Seruice in the Warres, by Acts of Peace) called a Parliament; where was made that memorable Act, which at this day is called Poynings Law, whereby all the Statutes of England were made to bee of force in Ireland.

1662 R. Boyle Answer of Person of Quality 51 They treated with his Majesty concerning the affairs of this Kingdom, assuming the Legislative authority of it, by repealing the Statute made the 10. of Henry the VII. (commonly called Poynings Law) and the explanatory Law thereof, in 3. and 4. of Philip and Mary.

1698 W. Molyneux Case of Ireland's being bound by Acts of Parl. in Eng. 110 We well knew our own Constitution under Poynings Law, That no Act could Pass in the Parliament of Ireland till approved of by the King and Privy Council of England.

1758 J. M. Mason (title) Remarks upon Poyning's law.

1797 Encycl. Brit. IX. 327/2 During his administration was enacted the law known by the name of Poyning's Law.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xviii. 719 This produced the famous statute of Drogheda in 1495, known by the name of Poyning's law.

1883 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. Eighteenth Cent. IV. xvi. 357 The dependence of the Irish Parliament rested chiefly on the well-known Act of Henry VII., called Poynings' Law, which was enacted by a Parliament summoned at Drogheda..for the purpose of restraining the Yorkist tendencies of the Anglo-Irish colonists.

1938 D. L. Keir Const. Hist. Mod. Brit. vii. 434 By Poyning's Law, in 1495, the Irish Parliament itself made applicable to Ireland all statutes lately made in England, and acknowledged the right of the King to be informed of the causes for its summons and to approve, in his Council, all bills to be introduced when it met.

1973 B. Bradshaw in B. Farrell Irish Parliamentary Tradition v. 69 Essentially Poynings' Law provided that a parliament could not be validly held in Ireland without the consent of the king..both to the convening of parliament and to the projected legislation.

2005 Oxf. Dict. National Biogr. (Electronic ed.) at Forbes, John He urged Irish MPs to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the humiliation of the crown's forces at Yorktown to secure the amendment of Poynings' law.