APPENDIX.

No. I.

The Catholic Clergy's Remonstrance of Loyalty.

WE, your Majesty's subjects, the Roman Catholic Clergy of the kingdom of Ireland together assembled, do hereby declare and solemnly protest, before God and his holy angels, that we own and acknowledge your Majesty to be our true and lawful King, supreme Lord, and undoubted Sovereign, as well of this realm of Ireland as of all other your Majesty's dominions; consequently we confess ourselves bound in conscience to be obedient to your Majesty in all civil and temporal affairs, as any subject ought to be to his prince, and as the laws of God and nature require at our hands. Therefore we promise that we will inviolably bear true allegiance to your Majesty, your lawful heirs and successors; and that no power on earth shall be able to withdraw us from our duty herein and that we will, even to the loss of our blood, if occasion requires, assert

your Majesty's rights against any that shall invade the same, or attempt to deprive yourself, or your lawful heirs and successors, of any part thereof. And to the end this our sincere protestation may more clearly appear, we further declare, that it is not our doctrine, that subjects may be discharged, absolved, or freed from the obligation of performing their duty of true obedience and allegiance to their prince: much less may we allow of, or pass as tolerable, any doctrine that perniciously, or against the word of God, maintains, that any private subject may lawfully kill or murder the anointed of God, his prince. Wherefore, pursuant to the deep apprehension we have of the abomination and sad consequences of its practice, we do engage ourselves to discover to your Majesty, or some of your ministers, any attempt of that kind, rebellion or conspiracy, against your Majesty's person, crown, or royal authority, that comes to our knowledge, whereby such horrid evil may be prevented. Finally, as we hold the premises to be agreeable to good conscience, so we religiously swear the due observance thereof to our utmost; and we will preach and teach the same to our respective flocks. In witness whereof we do hereunto subscribe the day of June, 1666.

No. II.

Oath of Allegiance, to be administered to the Roman Catholics by the Ninth Article of the Capitulation of Limerick, and no other.

I, A B, do solemnly promise and swear, that I will

be faithful and bear true allegiance to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary.

So help me God.

No. III.

Oaths imposed by the English Statutes 3rd and 4th of William and Mary, c. ii., in violation of the Ninth Article of Limerick.

DECLARATION AGAINST TRANSUBSTANTIATION.

I, A B, do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God profess, testify, and declare, that I do believe that in the sacrament of the Lord's supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, at and after the consecration thereof, by any person whatsoever; and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any other saint, and the sacrifice of the mass, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous. And I do solemnly in the presence of God profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever; and without any dispensation already granted me for the purpose by the Pope, or any other authority or person whatsoever; or without any hope of any such dispensation from any person or authority whatsoever; or without thinking that I am,

or can be, acquitted before God or man, or absolved of this declaration, or any part thereof, although the Pope, or any other person or persons, or power whatsoever, should dispense with, or annul the same, or declare that it was null and void from the beginning.

Oath of Abjuration.

I, A B, do swear, that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure, as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that princes excommunicated or deposed by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any person whatsoever. And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm.

No. IV.

So help me God.

Protest against the Act to confirm the Articles of Limerick.

RESOLVED on the question, that the engrossed Bill sent up by the Commons, entitled "An Act for the Confirmation of Articles made at the Surrender of the City of Limerick," do pass into a law.

Ordered on motion, that such lords as please may enter their protest to the last foregoing vote, with their

reasons.

We, the Lords spiritual and temporal, whose names