REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, to the SETTLEMENT WITH THE STATE OF THE IRISH CATHOLICS, FROM THAT SETTLEMENT TO THE RELAXATION OF THE POPERY LAWS, Extracted from PARLIAMENTARY RECORDS, STATE ACTS, BY JOHN CURRY, M. D. IN TWO VOLUME S. VOL. I. D U B L I N: Printed for LUKE WHITE, No. 86, Dame-street. M,DCC, LXXXV UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS A N ACCOUNT O F THE AUTHOR OF THE FOLLOWING WORK. MEMORIALS of enlightened men, who have devoted their labours to the fervice of their fellow. citizens fhould be made public, for the fake of the examples they exhibited, as well as the leffons they left behind them. Unhappily, this juftice, due to ourselves and to posterity, is too often omitted. In fome countries, public benefactors have been treated with public ingratitude: Works which expofed the abuses of legislation, and prescribed a remedy, have generally paffed away unnoticed, or met the reproachful alternative of perfecution and penalties. History is full of fuch examples. It however affords a comfortable reflection, that the obftinacy of political error has been in a great degree fubdued, and the refiftance to useful information appears much abated. Here the philofopher comes in aid of the legislator, and happily the union of both, has of late procured folid advantages to this nation, and more, 'tis hoped, are in contemplation. This change in the public mind could not |