David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Wood’s copper and coins. The Committee in their Report, dated from the Council Chamber at Whitehall, the 24th day of July 1724, remarked upon the very extraordinary circumstance, “that in a matter that had raised so great and universal a clamour in Ireland, no one person could be prevailed upon to come over from Ireland in support of the united sense of both Houses of Parliament of Ireland ”

“ This requirement was addressed to the Lord Lieutenant three times; but although the witnesses’ expenses were to be paid, the Irish authorities declined to send over any persons, papers, or materials whatsoever to support the charges made against His Majesty’s patent and the patentee. The King therefore referred the Irish Addresses to a Committee of the British Privy Council, whom he empowered to make an independent investigation as to Mr. ”