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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R. Conolly, 1810 - Catholic emancipation - 660 pages

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Contents

Sir Arthur Chichesters government
63
Warm contests in the Irish house of commons
75
The king thanks the Irish for their supply but order
84
BOOK III
92
Lord Wentworths manner of modelling the Irish parlia
105
The legality of several elections questioned but the
112
A convocation of the clergy of Ireland
119
BOOK IV
125
dered
138
The immediate cause of the insurrection in 1641
145
The same subject continued
151
The main design of the insurgents not gencral or premedi
159
The original depositions now in the possession of the uni
174
The conduct of the catholic clergy during the insurrection
189
ment
222
BOOK VI
229
Another contrivance of the justices to hinder the cessation
235
His majestys commissioners meet those of the confederate
241
The cessation violated by his majestys forces in Ulster
248
The confederates send supplies to the king
255
The king sends Ormond a commission to conclude a peace
263
Peace concluded with the marquis of Ormond
283
Lord Clanrickard expostulates with the marquis of Ormond
290
Lord Digby arrives in Dublin and causes the peace with
296
The bad effects of the clergys proceedings
303
A new general assembly and council
309
The sentiments of the catholic clergy of Dublin on this
315
Ormond resumes his treaty with the English parliament
324
The marquis of Ormond ordered to leave the castle
330
Ormond prepares to leave the kingdom Is pressed
338
The Marquis of Ormond returns to Ireland
341
The happy effects of this peace Ormonds defeat at Rath
347
Owen ONial submits to the peace Inchiquins forces
353
The king is invited to Scotland
360
Ormond approved and advised the kings agreement with
366
The presbytery of Bangors proceedings on the peace
373
The treaty with the duke of Lorrain considered
380
BOOK IX
386
Henry Cromwells administration in Ireland
398
The Irish catholics excluded out of the general act of obli
404
XII Loalty of the catholic nobility and gentry of Ireland
413
CHAP PAGE XIII The Irish clergys remonstrance of loyalty
416
The duke of Ormonds design in permitting this meeting of the Irish clergy
419
The king confesses his obligation to make good the peace of the year 1648
421
Ormonds reasons for his opposition to the Irish considered
422
The earl of Orrery abuses the kings confidence with re spect to the settlement of Ireland
424
The affairs of Ireland brought before the English council
426
The sufferings of the Irish set forth by their agents before the king and council
428
A court of claims appointed in Ireland
432
The conditions of the innocency and nocency of the claim ants
435
The time limited for holding these courts found too short and not suffered to be enlarged
436
The same subject continued in general
461
Particular facts related in Archbishop Kings book proved false concerning popish judges and juries
462
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463
The execution of captain Ashton
464
The affair of the quowarrantos against the corporations not truly stated by Dr King
465
55
466
The behaviour of the Irish priests and new recruits under King James impartially considered
469
The conduct of the Irish and English army compared
471
Irish rapparees
474
74
478
The disarming of the protestants further considered
482
General De Rosens cruelty before Derry considered
483
King James countermands De Rosens order
487
XIIL The protestants of Ireland were not deprived of their churches by King James as Dr King sets forth
491
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
559
The catholics of Ireland pressed by penal laws form an humble remonstrance to be presented to his majesty
560
Tumults in Munster considered
568
The same subject continued
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
Extract of a collection of some of the massacres and murders
623
84
631
The heads of the causes which moved the northern Irish
632
To the kingThe humble Remonstrance of the Roman
642
Extract of Dr Gorgehis letter to colonel Hamilton
649
The coronation oath of James II
660
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330
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