Manuscript Document, Plea to George II to approve the enactment of a Bill in "the realm of Ireland".

`One page, 34 x 49cm, vellum, fold marks, grubby, top right corner missing with small loss of text, some text faint, small closed tear on fold, missing seal. Text as follows: "We, Lionel, duke of Dorset, lieutenant general of the most excellent prince and lord, George the second, king of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith etc. and general governor in the said realm of Ireland, and the Council of the said lord king of the same realm of Ireland aforesaid, do humbly certify and transmit to the most excellent lord king in chancery of the realm of Great Britain a certain bill annexed to these presents, containing the tenor of a certain act which has started to be brought forward and enacted in the present parliament, which act, moreover, we consider fitting and necessary to be enacted in this realm of Ireland by the authority of parliament, humbly beseeching that the lord king may deign to affirm and allow the bill annexed to these presents, and to declare his wish that it be enacted in the same parliament and returned under the great seal of Great Britain. Witness: us, the aforesaid lieutenant of the said lord king, at Dublin, the second day of January, in the fifth year of the reign of our said lord king George the second, and in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven-hundred and thirty-one.Dorset [Lionel Sackville, 1st duke of Dorset and lord lieutenant of Ireland]Hu. Armach. [Hubert Boulter, archbishop of Armagh]Wyndham C [Thomas Wyndham, 1st Baron Wyndham PC Irish lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1726 to 1739].Wyndham C [Thomas Wyndham, 1st Baron Wyndham PC Irish lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1726 to 1739].John Dublin [John Hoadly, Archbishop of Dublin]John [Castellien?] [?]Edward Tuam [Edward Synge, Archbishop of Tuam]Cavan [Richard Lambart, 4th Earl of Cavan]Ralph Meath [Ralph Lambert, Bishop of Meath]John Clogher [John Stearne, Bishop of Clogher].Southwell [Edward Southwell, Principal Secretary of State (Ireland)] John Rogerson [Solicitor-General Attorney-General for Ireland and Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland.]James Reynolds [Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (Ireland)]Thomas Marlay [sometime Lord Chief Justice, grandfather of the statesman Henry Grattan] Thomas Taylor [MP]Owen Wynne [Colonel Owen Wynne (c. 1686-1755),landowner]W Cary" Bills in Irish Parliament 1731: c. 4 Security of Trade Act 1731 c. 9 Land improvement c. 11 Inland Navigation Act 1731Given that the Plea is dated 2 January, the first of these seems most likely.