"These people are depressed beyond all conception, and what may appear astonishing, they bear their degradation without murmuring or complaint."1130

"The inhabitants are poor, and their cabins are wretched huts, with a wattled door lined with a straw mat in the inside.”1131

66

They have scarcely any clothing but rags, and in general wear neither shoes nor stockings.' 991132

"The poor throughout Connaught live in a state of great wretchedness; oatmeal is a luxury which they seldom taste.1133

6

"Meat is no part of the food of these people. Whatever animals they rear and fatten, they sell,' according to their own expressions, 'to the northerns." "1134

"The country round the Arigna iron works, is inhabited by a people, who, according to every appearance, are in a most wretched condition. They are badly clothed, and reside in dirty mud cabins, continually filled with smoke."1133

"The lower orders are in general very poor. Their usual food is potatoes and milk."1136

"Their food is the same as this class of persons in most other parts of Ireland, make use of: viz. potatoes, and occasionally fish; they are seldom so circumstanced, as to be able to obtain a constant and sufficient supply of milk."1137

"Potatoes and milk form the general food, to which is often added, fish procured from the Shannon and the lake."1138

"The general food of the inhabitants is potatoes, meal, and milk; some of the wealthier farmers occasionally eat animal food."1189

"Their food is potatoes, with milk or fish. The rich farmers eat pork sometimes,"1140

"Their dwellings are usually very indifferent and dirty, and even devoid of necessaries. Many sleep on the damp floor. Their clothing for day or night is often very scanty."1141

"The general food of the peasantry is potatoes. During the lent season, and a little before and after, salted herrings make an addition to their daily food. Flesh meat is seldom used in their cottages, except on remarkable occasions, as at Christmas and Easter, and even then, the only kind used is pork or bacon." "1148

"The greater part of the inhabitants of this rich and populous district live upon potatoes and milk.”1

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I could go on with the harrowing detail to fill a volume-but I trust I have given enough to prove the abject state to which the lower orders of society are reduced in one of the most highly-gifted portions of the globe, owing to the blighting policy under which they groaned for centuries.

INDEX.

Act of attainder against one hundred
and two persons, 88.

Act of indemnity, deceptious, 194.
Acts of attainder, iniquity of, 88.
Ambassadors' houses watched to pre-
vent Roman Catholics from hearing
mass, 29.
Analogy between the conduct of the
Long parliament and the leaders of
the French Revolution, 281.
Analysis of the sham conspiracy in
1641, 318, 325.
Anniversary sermons in Ireland, per-
nicious tendency of, 22.
Antrim, earl, perfidiously taken pri-
soner, 344.

Antrim's estate bestowed on sir John
Clotworthy for a mere trifle, 450.
Archbishop of Dublin, a mitred ruf-
fian, 40.

Barlow, Mary, testimony of, 404.
Barnewall, sir Christopher, put to the
rack, 347.

Barrymore, earl of, oruel execution by,
429.

Baskerville, E. deposition of, 408.
Beal's sham plot for the destruction
of 108 members of parliament, 286.
Bedlow, William, character of, 295.
Bedlow, flagrant perjury of, 299.
Betagh, Francis, case of, 451.
Birne, John, deposition of, 402.
Boroughs, fraudulent erection of, 228,
229.

Bourke, Richard, deposition of, 399.
Bribery of Judges by Charles I. and
Wentworth, 242.

Bribery and corruption, 447.
Burglary, sacrilegious, at a Catholic
chapel, 34.

Butler, dame, deposition of, 399.
Byrne, Pheagh Mac Hugh, depreda-
tion on, 207.

Camden, absurd accusation by, 103.
Cannibalism in Ireland, 127, 8.
Carew, sir George, forgery of, 139.
Carew, sir George, hires a murderer
to assassinate Fitzthomas, 138.
Carleton's, bishop, narrative of the dis-
covery of the sham plot of Tyrone
and Tyrconnel, 176.
Carmick, John, deposition of, 403.
Carte, partiality and injustice of, 190.

Carte, gross obliquity of, 233, 249.
Carte, inconsistency and errors of, 39,
48.

Cashel, cathedral of, massacre in, 428.
Catelin chosen member for Dublin,
234.

Catholic archbishops, bishops, &c. lia-
ble to be hanged, 461.

Catholic chapels seized, and one razed
to the ground, 42.

Catholics charged with fabricating the
solemn league and covenant, 291.
Catholics, confederate, orders given
by, 368.

Catholics excluded from parish ves-
tries, 482.

Catholics of Ireland, plan for the ex-
termination of the, 329, 30, 31.
Catholics forbidden to purchase any
of the forfeited estates, 466.
Catholics not allowed to possess horses

above five pounds value, 463.
Catholics not allowed to lend money
on mortgage, 464.

Catholics, numerous existing disqua

lifications of, 477, 8, 9.

Catholics obliged to contribute double
to the support of the militia, 466.
Catholics precluded from education,
469.

Catholic priests, cruel regulations re-
specting, 461.

Catholic priests liable to be transport-
ed, if officiating out of their proper
parishes, 462.

Catholic priests liable to be hanged
for marrying a Protestant and Ca-
tholic, or two Protestants, 462,
477.

Catholic priests liable to imprisonment
for not revealing secrets of the con-
fessional, 477.
Catholics prohibited from burying
their dead in' the grave yards of
suppressed convents, 465.
Catholics prohibited from serving on
juries in cases under the popery
laws, 465.

Catholics prohibited from acting as
guardians, 466.

Catholics prohibited from acting as
magistrates, 467.

Catholics robbed of their arms, 468.

Irish deputies, arbitrary power of the, | Limerick, siege of, 453.
73.

Irish, execrable treatment of the, 443,
4, 5.

Irish, from 5 to 8000, debarred of all
opportunity of proving their inno.
cence, 446, 7.

Irish history, difficulty of writing, 24-6.
Irish legislation, horrible, sketch of,
63-7.

Irishman, murder of, punishable only
by fine, 63.

Irish ordered to return to Connaught,
448.

Irish, outrageous tyranny exercised
upon the, 281.

Irish parliament, horrible injustice of,
450.

Irish rivers and harbours, superior to
those of England, 490.

Irish supplicate for the benefit of the
English law, 71.

Irish, horrible destruction of the, 70.
Irish wars, cost of, to queen Elizabeth,

71.

Ireton, barbarous order of, 427.
Italians and Spaniards, seven hundred
perfidiously slaughtered at Smer-
wick, by order of lord Gray, 122.
James I. courts the friendship of the
Catholic princes, 43.

James 1. flagrant injusice of, 232.
James 1. pedantic and ridiculous
speech of, 231.
James 1. perfidy of, 44.

James I. predatory system of, 174, 189
James I. rapacity and depredation of,

190.

James II. abdication of, did not extend
to Ireland, 452.

James of Hacketstown, deposition of,
400.

Jones, Jane, deposition of, 399.
Judges, bribery of, by Charles I. and
Wentworth, 242.

Juries, corruption of, 243.

Juries, perjured, proceedings of, 480
Kelly, Dennis, deposition of, 400.
Lauderdale and archbishop Sharpe,
persecutions by, 152.
League and covenant for extirpation of
popery, prelacy and superstition, 27.
Leitrim and Longford, James I.'s ra-
pine in, 189.

Leland, Dr. inconsistency and errors
of, 38, 39, 52.

Leland, gross misrepresentation, and
partiality of, 182, 190.
Leland, miserable folly of, 409.
Letters dropped in the streets, 307.
Letters forged, to terrify the Protest-
ants, 306.

Limerick, surrender and conditions of,
453.

Loftus, Adam, lord Ely, hard case of,
265, 266.

Lords justices, nefarious views of the,
335.

Lords justices, wicked proceedings of
the, 346, 7, 8, 9, 350, 1, 2, 361, 365.
Lords of the pale, banished from Dub-
lin, 347, 8.

Louis XIV. detested for the desolation
of the Palatinate, 117.

Lucas, William, deposition of, 402.
Ludlow, general, barbarity of, 422.
Mac Mahon, cruel murder of, 136.
Mac Mahon, Hugh, put to the rack,
346.

Macauley, Mrs. monstrous ́exaggera-
tions of, 385.

Magee, slaughter at the island of, 433.
Manures abundant in Ireland, 487.
Man's belly ripped out without bleed-
ing, 391.

Marriages of Protestants celebrated by
a Catholic priest declared null and
void, 46.

Martial law in force in Ireland in time
of peace, 74, 76.
Massacre of 1641, fabulous account of
the, 56.

Massacre of the Irish, 141. 413.
Massacre of 1641, pretended, state-
ments of the, 375. 377.

Massacre pretended, investigation of
the, 378, 9.

Maxwell, dean Robert, deposition of,
393, 4, 5.

Maxwell, dean Robert, a perjurer,
393. 396.

Men, women, and children put to the
sword, 421.

Millions of acres, ten, plan for the
confiscation of, 333.

Milton, gross exaggeration of, 23.
Milton's works, extract from, 23.
Mines and minerals of Ireland, list of,
491.

Misery of the Irish after the Munster
war, 127.
Money, change in the value of, 155.
Montgomery, John, deposition of, 402.
Montross, barbarous exploits of, 431.
Moor, Francis, plot of, 287.
Mountjoy, lord, a mail robber, 133.
Mountnorris, lord, hard case of, 259,
260, 261. 263.

Mountnorris, lady, affecting letter of,
264

Munchausen stories, 404, 5, 6, 7.
Munster, commencement of the insur
rection in, 336.