The Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, Viscount Pery of Limerick, at the Opening Fall Session on Tuesday, October 8, in 1771, queried the House if “an American gentleman of distinguished Character and Merit” who wished to be present for the debates might be admitted. He pointed out that there was “a Rule of the House for admitting members of the English Parliaments,” and he supposed that the House would consider the American Assemblies as English Parliaments, but as this was the first instance he would ask for their directions.
“The whole House gave a loud, unanimous Aye.”
Above quotations taken from J. Bennett Nolan’s Benjamin Franklin in Ireland and Scotland, p. 157
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