[213] The Act of Attainder is printed from a copy certified by a clerk in the Rolls Office in King’s appendix, published anonymously late in 1691. A List of the Names had already appeared in a pamphlet licensed March 26, 1690. The discrepancies are just such as Paley would have considered proofs of genuineness. For instance, King’s Lieutenant John Newton of Drogheda is St. John Newton in the earlier list, while Katherine, Viscountess Ranelagh, and Anne, Viscountess Dungannon, first appeared as Katherine Vir, Countess of Ranelagh, and Anne Vir, Countess of Donegal. No doubt King’s list is the more trustworthy of the two. In the Transactions of the late King James, licensed July 7, 1690, p. 33, it is noted that some names in the list already published, pp. 30-31, were wrongly added, and this is confirmed by comparing the two pamphlets with King. He believed, and gives good reasons for believing, that the Act was kept hidden away, so that no one could take any advantage under it. See also An Apology for the Protestants of Ireland, dated May 27, 1689, and a Character of the Protestants of Ireland, licensed November 13, 1689.
[214] Chief Justice Keating, who tried hard to keep terms with James, and who even excused Tyrconnel, said he was ‘confident and assured that the Government of England will and must at length take place here against all opposition whatsoever,’ letter to Sir John Temple, December 29, 1688, in King’s appendix no. 14. London Gazette. Luttrell’s Diary, June 2: Keating committed suicide in 1691, Cal. of State Papers, Domestic, October 20, 1691, p. 548; James Reilly’s letter from Poitiers, January 3, 1692, in Spicilegium Ossoriense, ii. 309. In troubled times a man who tries to be impartial is likely to find himself without friends. He had been indicted for high treason and his place given to another, see the article on him in Dict. of National Biography and Luttrell, ii. 139. The treason consisted in taking a commission from King James after February 17, 1688-9.
[215] King says (iii. 13) that Coghlan consulted Vice-Provost Acton, and he may have been guided by Dopping, who was still Vice-Chancellor.
[216] Lestie’s Answer to King, p. 124. Irish Statutes, 14 & 15 Car. II. cap. 23. A Sermon preached to the Protestants of Ireland, &c., London, 1689, dedicated to Pilkington and published at his request. ‘He spoiled his business in Ireland by his over great indulgence towards them. He was infatuated with this rotten principle—provoke not your Protestant subjects,’ Light to the Blind. A Short View of the Methods, &c., by a clergyman lately escaped from thence, licensed October 17, 1689. The writer fled from Vesey’s province of Tuam, and the tract is dedicated to Burnet.
[217] King knew that great reforms were desirable in the Established Church, and he did what he could. But he saw clearly that the great exodus to England would cause fatal jealousies between those who stuck to their duty and those who ran away, Bonnell to Strype, August 5, 1690.
[218] Act 29 for the advancement of trade. Act 21 for excluding English coal. Proclamations of November 24, 1689, against wrecking empty houses, and of November 29 for encouraging the conveyance of coal from Kilkenny. On November 14/24 Avaux writes to Louis XIV., ‘Ce qu’on avait de bois et de charbon pour un écu en coûte quatre, et il faut envoyer bien loin à la campagne pour en pouvoir trouver.’
[219] Journal and a Letter from Dublin, licensed July 6, 1689. True Account of the State of Ireland, 1689. Act 24. List of the Names, &c., licensed March 26, 1689, p. 41. Copies of the orders, &c., in King’s appendix no. 24. Avaux to Louis XIV., February 1/11, 1690. In a report to James dated June 4/14, 1689, Avaux had written: ‘Votre Majesté sait que les sheriffs et les particuliers qu’on employe à la recherche de ces biens sont les premiers à souffrir qu’on les detourne moyennant quelques presens qu’on les fait.’
[220] Acts 19 and 27. Avaux to Louvois, April 6/16, 1689, and the answer, June 13. Writing to Louis on June 30/July 10, Avaux says James ‘a un cœur trop anglais pour se determiner à rien qui puisse chagriner les Anglais, c’est-ce qui arreste l’affaire des laines.’
[221] Light to the Blind, p. 70. ‘By the sitting of this Parliament,’ says John Stevens, p. 70, ‘the army was much damaged and weakened, the King lost the assistance of many of his friends, and gained a vast number of irreconcilable enemies.’ King James, says Colonel O’Kelly, ‘convoked the states of the kingdom, and as if in time of peace and leisure spent in unnecessary consultations the whole summer season, which might be better employed to go on more rigorously with the siege of Londonderry,’ Macariæ Excidium, p. 33. King says it was ‘manifestly against his interest to call a Parliament,’ chap. iii. sec. 12, 5. Besides anything given to Tyrconnel by his private Act, there appear to have been other grants. According to the Sheridan MS., James regretted at St. Germains that he had been tricked into giving him 50,000l. a year while only intending 12,000l. The extreme Irish party, of which Bishop O’Molony was the soul, condemned this Parliament for not repealing Poynings’ Act, Macpherson, i. 339.