POYNINGS'S LAW

POYNINGS'S LAW
   an Act of Parliament held at Drogheda in 1495 in the reign of Henry VII., declaring that all statutes hitherto passed in England should be also in force in Ireland, so called from Sir Edward Poynings, the lieutenant of Ireland at the time.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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