THE ENGLISH IN IRELAND

IN THE

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

BY

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, M. A.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

1872.

599 £59-B

All rights reserved.

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WIEN

CONTENTS.

BOOK I

CHAPTER I.

PRELIMINARY.

SECTION

I. Conditions of national independence

II. Relations of England with Scotland, Wales, and Ire-

III. The Norman Conquest of Ireland

IV. Norman degeneracy and its causes

Peculiarities of the Irish character

Effects of the Civil Wars in England

Ireland at the accession of Henry the Seventh

Poynings' Act.

Early policy of Henry the Eighth

general submission

VI. Reigns of Edward and Mary

V. Rebellion of Lord Thomas Fitzgerald, followed by

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VII. Accession of Elizabeth

Necessary hostility of the Catholics

Causes for extending the Act of Uniformity to Ire-

land

I. Expectations on the accession of James the First

Disappointment and renewed revolt.

The Ulster Settlement

Commencement of prosperity

Complaints and sufferings of the native Irish gentry

II. Toleration of the Catholics

Division of the Protestant interest

Persecution of the Presbyterians

Viceroyalty of the Earl of Strafford

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Intended Settlement in Connaught

An Irish army

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leaders

III. Irish resentment against the Settlements

Disagreements among the Irish Catholics

Negotiations of Charles the First with the Irish

Symptoms of approaching insurrection

The Irish Parliament in the summer of 1641

Intention of the Catholics to take possession of the

Government

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I. The Restoration and the expectations of the Irish

A deputation sent to Charles the Second .

Half measures.

The Irish Parliament restored.

Final results of the Rebellion

II. The re-establishment of the Anglo-Irish Church
Persecution of the Nonconformists .

The Established Church unsuited to Ireland
Lord Clarendon's opinion of the condition of it
III. Suspension of the Penal Laws

Increase of wealth

English jealousy and commercial restrictions

IV. Catholic revival

Disarming of the Protestants.

Viceroyalty of the Earl of Clarendon

The Earl of Tyrconnell.

Attacks on the Act of Settlement

Clarendon recalled .

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V. Approach of a fresh struggle

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