REIGN of QUEEN ELIZABETH, to the SETTLEMENT
under KING WILLIAM.

WITH THE

STATE OF THE IRISH CATHOLICS,

FROM THAT SETTLEMENT TO THE

RELAXATION OF THE POPERY LAWS,
IN THE YEAR 1778.

Extracted from PARLIAMENTARY RECORDS, STATE ACTS,
and other Authentic Materials.

BY JOHN CURRY, M.D.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

DUBLIN:

Printed for LUKE WHITE, No. 86, Dame-ftreet.

M,DCC, LXXXVI.

I. THE Marquis of Ormond returns to Ireland.

II. His excellency treats of a peace with the confederate

catholics.

III. The peace of 1648 concluded and proclaimed.

IV. The happy effects of this peace. Ormond's defeat at

Rathmines. Cromwell's arrival in Ireland.

V. Cromwell's policy to reduce Ireland.

VI. Owen O'Nial fubmits to the peace. Inchiquin's forces

revolt to the rebels.

VII. The Marquis of Ormond defires leave to quit the

kingdom.

VIII. The king is invited to Scotland.

IX. The king fecretly regrets this measure.

X. Proceedings of the bishops at James-town.

XI. Ormond approved and advised the king's agreement

with the Scots.

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XII. The real caufe of the clergy's proceedings at James-town. 33

XIII. The clergy's proceedings at James-town disapproved of

by the generality of the Irish catholics.

XIV. The prefbytery of Bangor's proceedings on the peace.

XV. The total defection of the proteftant forces.

XVI. Treaty with the Duke of Lorrain.

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XVII. The treaty with the Duke of Lorrain confidered.

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I. The Marquis of Clanrickard leaves Ireland, now

entirely fubject to the English rebels.

II. The transplantation of the Irish into Connaught.

III. High courts of justice in Ireland.

IV. Henry Cromwell's adminiftration in Ireland.

V. Contrivances of Sir Charles Coote and Lord Broghill.

VI. Commiffioners fent from Ireland; their characters

and defigns.

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VII. The Irif catholics excluded out of the general act

of oblivion.

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VIII. A proclamation published against the Irish.

IX. The Irish parliament.

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X. Falfe reports of a confpiracy among the Irish confi-

dered. The effects of these reports.

XI. The parties principally fufpected of this confpiracy,

voluntarily appear before the lords juftices, in

order to detect the forgery.

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XII. Loyalty of the catholic nobility and gentry of Ire-

land at this juncture.

XIII. The Irish clergy's remonftrance of loyalty.

XIV. The Duke of Ormond's defign in permitting this

meeting of the Irish clergy.

XV. The king confeffes his obligation to make good the

peace of the year 1648.

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XVI. Ormond's reafons for his oppofition to the Irish con-

fidered.

XVII. The Earl of Orrery abufes the king's confidence,

with refpect to the fettlement of Ireland.

XVIII. The affairs of Ireland brought before the English

council.

XIX. The fufferings of the Irish fet forth by their agents

before the king and council.

XX. A court of claims appointed in Ireland.

XXI. The conditions of the innocency and nocency of the

claimants.

XXII. The time limited for holding thefe courts, found too

fhort, and not fuffered to be enlarged.

XXIII. An enlargement of time for hearing all the clai

maints, by whom hindered.

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XXIV. Some reflections on the foregoing acts.

XXV. A dangerous confpiracy of the puritans.

XXVI. The Duke of Ormond apologizes for the favour he

had fhewn to the Cromwellian party in Ireland.

XXVII. The probable motives of the Duke of Ormond's

past and prefent conduct, with respect to the Irish.

XXVIII. The Duke of Ormond befriends the Irish.

I. Archbishop King's ftate of the proteftants of Ireland

under King James II. confidered.

II. The fame fubject continued in general.

III. Particular facts related in Archbishop King's book

proved falfe, concerning popish judges and juries.

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IV. The execution of Captain Afbton.

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V. The affair of the quo-warrantos against the corpora-

tions not truly flated by Dr. King.

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VI. The behaviour of the Irish priests, and new recruits

under King James, impartially confidered.

VII. The conduct of the Irish and English army compared.

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VIII. Irish rapparees.

IX. A confpiracy of the proteftants of Dublin against the

the government.

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X. The difarming of the proteftants further confidered.

XI. General De Rofen's cruelty before Derry confidered.

XII. King James countermands De Rofen's order.

XIII. The proteftants of Ireland were not deprived of their

churches by King James, as Dr. King fets forth.

XIV. King William's treatment of the epifcopal clergy in

Scotland, compared with King James's behaviour

towards the proteftant clergy in Ireland.

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XV. The true caufe of the decline of the protestant

religion in Ireland in the reign of King James II. 186

XVI. The perplexity of the established clergy of Ireland

after the coronation of King William.

XVII. The established clergy of Ireland laboured under a

particular difficulty on this occafion.

XVIII. The good faith of King William's and King James's

officers compared.

XIX. A bort Sketch of the cruelties inflicted on the Irish

prifoners in this war; and alfo on those even

under protection.

XX. Surrender of Limerick, with the articles of capitu-

lation.

STATE OF THE CATHOLICS OF IRELAND.

I. Infringement of the articles of Limerick.

II. Severe laws made against catholics.

III. The catholics of Limerick cruelly treated.

IV. Penal laws to prevent the further growth of popery.

V. The fame fubject continued.

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VI. Perfecution of the catholics in the reign of Q. Anne.

VII. Penal laws of difcovery and gavel-kind enacted.

VIII. Reafons affigned for making those laws.

IX. Perfecutions in the reign of King George I.

X. The catholics addrefs his majesty King George II.

XI. Penal laws enforced in the reign of King George II. 257

XII. The conduct of the catholics of Ireland in the time of

the rebellion in Scotland, 1745.

XIII. A bill for naturalizing the Jews paffes the house of

XIV. The catholics address the lord lieutenant.

XV. The catholics of Ireland, preffed by penal laws, form

an humble remonftrance to be prefented to his majesty.

XVI. Tumults in Munfter confidered.

XVII. The fame subject continued.