ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a brief description of the composition and status of the Irish Parliament during the eighteenth century. That Parliament was a bicameral assembly. The Upper House in 1800 contained twenty-two Lords Spiritual and two hundred and seven Lords Temporal; the Commons numbered three hundred, of whom sixty-four sat for the thirty-two counties, two hundred and thirty-four for the one hundred and seventeen boroughs, and two for Trinity College. The succession to the Crown of the United Kingdom was to be in the same manner as the succession to the Crown of the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland had stood settled before the Union. All laws in force in Britain and Ireland at the time of the Union were to remain in force, and all courts civil and ecclesiastical were to continue, though the Parliament of the United Kingdom was to have power to make such changes as seemed expedient.
