An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland: From the 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

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The cruelty of the English army in Munster
38
A dreadful famine in Ireland
41
The greater and better part of the Irish in this war fought for the queen against their countrymen The hard terms on which they were received to mer...
43
Tirone sues for pardon and obtains it
46
BOOK II
49
A general act of oblivion
55
Some observation on the statutes of supremacy and unifor mity
58
Sir Arthur Chichesters government
63
The conspiracy and flight of the earls
68
Puritan bishops in Ireland
74
Warm contests in the Irish house of commons
75
The king thanks the Irish for their supply but order the penal laws to be put in force against them
84
Some account of the ecclesiastical courts at that juncture in Ireland
88
The patience and submission of the natives
89
The state of the Irish under Charles I 04
92
A free gift raised for the king chiefly by the natives
96
The free gift or contribution continued for the service of the government
99
Lord Wentworth continues the contribution
101
Lord deputy Wentworth arrives in Ireland
103
Lord Wentworths manner of modelling the Irish parlia ment
105
Some transactions of this parliament
109
The legality of several elections questioned but the mo tion overruied
112
The remonstrance of the Irish commons to the deputy concerning the promised graces
115
The commons require an answer to their remonstrance
117
A convocation of the clergy of Ireland
119
BOOK IV
125
The earl of Ormond surrenders his country to the king
126
The deputy holds his court of inquisition
128
The deputys severity towards the jury of the county of Galway
130
Further distress of the people of Connaught
132
The court of wards and high commission in Ireland
135
Some invidious reflections on the foregoing passage consi dered
138
The Irish commons encomium on the earl of Staffords administration considered
141
Complaints of grievances
143
The remonstrance of grievances vindicated
145
The immediate cause of the insurrection in 1641
147
The catholic clergy of Ireland unjustly accused of stirring up the Irish to this insurrection
149
The same subject continued
151
Some misrepresentations concerning the beginning of the insurrection considered
153
BOOK V
154
The main design of the insurgents not general or premedi tated
159
The first causes of the insurrection of 1641 in Ulster
161
The masssacre in IslandMagee
165
The original depositions now in the possession of the uni versity of Dublin considered
174
The original examinations further considered
177
Concerning the number of murders
178
The humanity of the chiefs of the insurgents
181
The conduct of the catholic clergy during the insurrection
189
The first cause of the insurrections increasing
192
The same subject continued
194
Further misconduct of the lords justices
197
The nobility and gentry of the pale banished from Dublin
200
The justices invite the lords of the pale to a conference
201
The gentlemen of the pale assemble at Swords
204
The lords justices violate the public faith
205
The order for a general pardon limited by the justices
207
Lords justices orders concerning Roman catholic priests
211
The cause of the insurrection in Munster
213
The cause of the insurrection in Connaught
217
Further severities of the lords justices
220
The gentlemen of the pale petition the king and parlia ment
222
Barbarous orders of the lords justices and council to the earl of Ormond
225
XXIII Orders of the English parliament relative to Ireland
227
BOOK VI
229
The king consents to hear the grievances of the insur gents
233
Another contrivance of the justices to hinder the cessation
235
Sir William Parsons displaced from the government
239
His majestys commissioners meet those of the confederate catholics to treat of the cessation
241
The cessation at last concluded
243
The advantages of the cessation to his majestys army
246
The cessation violated by his majestys forces in Ulster
248
The covenant brought into Ireland further breaches of the cessation by the Scotch and English forces
250
The revolt of lord Inchiquin
253
Owen ONial and the Nuncio reject the peace
300
The Nuncio ONial and Preston advance towards Dublin
313
Ormond consents to the engagement
320
Ormond delivers up the kings authority to the English
326
The Marquis of Ormond returns to Ireland
341
His excellency treats of a peace with the confederate
343
tholics
344
The peace of 1648 concluded and proclaimed
345
The happy effects of this peace Ormonds defeat at Rath mines Cromwells arrival in Ireland
347
Cromwells policy to reduce Ireland
350
Owen ONial submits to the peace Inchiquins forces revolt to the rebels
353
The marquis of Ormond desires leave to quit the kingdom
358
The king is invited to Scotland
360
The king secretly regrets this measure
363
Proceedings of the bishops at Jamestown
364
Ormond approved and advised the kings agreement with the Scots
366
The real cause of the clergys proceedings at Jamestown
368
The clergys proceedings at Jamestown disapproved of by the generality of the Irish catholics
370
The presbytery of Bangors proceedings on the peace
373
The total defection of the protestant forces
376
Treaty with the duke of Lorrain
377
The treaty with the duke of Lorrain considered
380
BOOK IX
386
The transplantation of the Irish into Connaught
388
High courts of justice in Ireland
391
Henry Cromwells administration in Ireland
398
Contrivances of sir Charles Coote and lord Broghill
401
Commissioners sent from Ireland their characters and de sign
403
The Irish catholics excluded out of the general act of obli vion
404
False reports of a conspiracy against the Irish considered The effects of these reports
410
The parties principally suspected of this conspiracy volun tarily appear before the lords justices in order to detect the forgery
412
Loalty of the catholic nobility and gentry of Ireland at this juncture
413
CHAP PAGE
416
The affairs of Ireland brought before the English council
426
An enlargement of time for hearing all the claimants
439
A dangerous conspiracy of the puritans
446
The duke of Ormond befriends the Irish
453
BOOK X
459
The behaviour of the Irish priests and new recruits under
469
A conspiracy of the protestants of Dublin against the
478
XII King James countermands De Rosens order
487
CHAP PAGE XIV King Williams treatment of the episcopal clergy in Scotland compared with King Jamess behaviour towards the protestant clergy i...
494
The true cause of the decline of the protestant religion in Ireland in the reign of King James II
496
The perplexity of the established clergy of Ireland after the coronation of King William
498
The established clergy of Ireland laboured under a particu lar difficulty on this occasion
500
The good faith of King Williams and King Jamess officers compared
501
A short sketch of the cruelties inflicted on the Irish prisoners in this war and also on those even under protection
506
Surrender of Limerick with the articles of capitulation
509
STATE OF THE CATHOLICS OF IRELAND I Infringement of the articles of Limerick
526
Severe laws made against catholics
528
The catholics of Limerick cruelly treated
531
Penal laws to prevent the further growth of popery
533
The same subject continued
536
Persecution of the catholics in the reign of Q Anne
541
Penal laws of discovery and gavelkind enacted
544
Reasons assigned for making those laws
546
Persecution in the reign of King George I
548
The catholics address his majesty King George II
551
Penal laws enforced in the reign of King George II
552
The conduct of the catholics of Ireland in the time of the rebellion in Scotland 1745
556
A bill for nuturalizing the Jews passes the house of commons
558
The catholics address the lord lieutenant
560
Tumults in Munster considered
568
Reflections on the foregoing subject
575
Some prospect of mitigating the rigour of the popery laws
579
APPENDIX No I A brief declaration of the government of Irelandby captain Thomas Lee 1594
587
Remonstrance of divers Lords of the pale to the king con cerning the Irish parliament in 1613
609
NO PACE
611
Extract of a collection of some of the massacres and murders
623
Extract of the acts of the general congregation of the
632
The heads of the causes which moved the northern Irish
640
Extract of Dr Gorgehis letter to colonel Hamilton
646
The coronation oath of James II
660

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Pàgina 514 - The Roman catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland, or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles II...
Pàgina xv - ... and images; nay even their transubstantiation. But while they acknowledge a foreign power, superior to the sovereignty of the kingdom, they cannot complain if the laws of that kingdom will not treat them upon the footing of good subjects.
Pàgina 515 - ... provided also, that no person whatsoever shall have or enjoy the benefit of this article, that shall neglect or refuse to take the oath of allegiance,* made by act of parliament in England, in the first year of the reign of their present majesties, when thereunto required.
Pàgina 517 - ... creditors, at the instance of the Lord Lucan, and the rest 'of the persons aforesaid, it is agreed, that the said Lords Justices, and the said Baron De Ginckle, shall intercede with the King and parliament, to have the estates secured to Roman Catholics, by articles and capitulation in this kingdom, charged with, and equally liable to the payment of so much of the said debts, as the said Lord Lucan, upon stating accounts with the said John Brown, shall certify under his hand, that the effects...
Pàgina 517 - Tyrconnel and Lord Lucan, took away the effects the said John Brown had to answer the said debts, and promised to clear the said John Brown of the said debts, which effects were...
Pàgina 518 - And all such as are under their protection in the said counties," hereby for us, our heirs and successors, ordaining and declaring, that all and every person and persons therein concerned, shall and may have, receive, and enjoy the benefit thereof, in such and the same manner, as if the said words had been inserted in their proper place, in the said second article ; any omission, defect, or mistake in the said second article, in any wise notwithstanding.
Pàgina 529 - Whilst this restraint of foreign and domestic education was part of an horrible and impious system of servitude, the members were well fitted to the body. To render men patient under a deprivation of all the rights of human nature, everything which could give them a knowledge or feeling of those rights was rationally forbidden. To render humanity fit to be insulted, it was fit that it should be degraded.
Pàgina 42 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.
Pàgina 518 - ... or one of them, did promise that the said clause should be made good, it being within the intention of the capitulation, and inserted in the foul draft thereof.
Pàgina 25 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...

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