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NUMBER. XVII.

[From the History of the Coronation of King James II. and Queen Mary; published by royal authority in 1687, p. 88.]

The Coronation Qath of James II.

[See Review, p. 493.]

SERMON being ended, the king uncovered his head, and the archbishop arose, and repaired to his majesty, and asked him:

Sir, Are you willing to take the oath usually taken by your predecessors? And the king answered. I am willing

Then the bishop ministered these questions; to which the king (having a book in his hand) answered severally as followeth.

ARCHB. Sir, will you grant and keep, and by your oath confirm to the people of England, the laws and customs to them granted by the kings of England, your lawful and religious predecessors; and namely, the laws, customs, and franchises granted to the clergy by the glorious king St. Edward, your predecessor, according to the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel established in this kingdom, and agreeing to the prerogative of the kings thereof, and the antient customs of this realm ? KING. I grant and promise to keep them.

ARCHB. Sir, will you keep peace and godly agreement intirely, according to your power, to the holy church, the clergy and the people? KING. I will keep it.

ARCHE. Sir, will you to your power cause law, justice and discretion, in mercy and truth, to be executed in all your judgments?

KING. I will.

ARCHB. Sir, will you grant to hold and keep the rightful customs which the commonalty of this your kingdom have, and will you defend and uphold them to the honour of God, so much as in you lieth?

KING. I grant and promise so to do:

Then the petition or request of the bishops to the king, was read by the bishop of Glocester, with a clear voice, in the name of the rest standing by.

Our lord and king, we beseech you to pardon us, and to grant and preserve unto us, and the churches committed to our charge, all canonical privileges, and due law and justice, and that you will protect and defend us, as every good king in his kingdom cught to be protector and defender of the bishops and churches under their government.

The king answered:

With a willing and devout heart, I promise and grant you my pardon; and I will preserve and maintain to you, and the churches committed to your charge, and all canonical privileges, and due law and justice. And that I will be your protector and defender to my power, by the assistance of God, as every good king in his kingdom ought in right to protect and defend the bishops and churches under their government.

Then the king arose from his chair, and being attended by the lord great chamberlain, and supported by the two bishops, and the sword of state carried before him, he went to the altar, and laying his hand upon the Evangelists, took the oath following:

The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help me God, and the contents of this book.

And then kissed the book,

INDEX.

A

ACTS of cruelty of the chief gover-
nors of Ireland during the reign of
Q. Elizabeth, 9-41. Acts made
to banish popish archbishops and
bishops, &c. 528, note. To restrain
foreign education, 529. Excluding
papists from having votes for elect-
ing members of parliament, ib.
To prevent the further growth of
popery, 533. Of discovery and
gavel-kind, 544.

Adventurers, British, and their suc-
cessors, treat the Irish as a conquer-
ed people, 1, 2, note.
Anne, queen, acts made in the reign
of, to prevent the further growth
of popery, 533-538. Catholics
persecuted in her reign, 541. Pe-
nal laws of discovery and gavel-
kind enacted, 544.

Antrim, earl of, basely treated by

General Monroe, 252. Sends an
army into Scotland to aid the king,
258. Created marquis, ib.
Ashton, captain, trial and execution
of, 464.

Aylmer, sir Andrew, together with
Gerald and George Aylmer, Esqrs.
and many other gentlemen of the
pale, after submitting to the lords
justices are committed to the castle,
and some of them tortured, 221.

B.

BAGNAL, sir Henry, shares of
Mac-Mahon's country, 15. Char-
ges O'Nial with treason, 19, note,
ib. Slain in battle, 21.

Walter, colonel, makes a
speech to the general assembly at
Kilkenny, 311. Put to death by
the Cromwelians, ib. note.
Bangor, the presbytery of, draw up
a declaration, containing virulent
reflections on the marquis of Or-
mond, 373.

Barnwell of Kilbrew, put to the rack

by order of the lords justices, 221,
Bedel, bishop, draws a remonstrance
of grievances, 163. How treated
when a prisoner with the insur-
gents, 191. His death and burial, ib.
Bedford, duke of, lord lieutenant of
Ireland, is addresed by the catho-
lics, 559. Approves of their con-
duct, ib. note.

Bingham, sir Richard, president of

Connaught, severely governs that
province, 13, note.

Borlase, Dr his History of the Irish
Rebellion, a character of, 175, note,
Sir John, enmity of, to the

Irish, 137.

Boys, John, dean of Canterbury,
changes the Lord's Prayer, 51,

note.

Broghill, lord, cruelty of, on the
surrender of the castle of Ardmore,
187, note: His treatment of the
bishop of Ross, 355, note. His .
proposal at the council of war, 387.
Agreed to, 388. Made president
of Munster, 401. Contrivances of
ib. Appointed one of the com-
missioners sent to the king, 403.
His management of affairs, 404.
Created earl of Orrery, 406.
Made one of the lords justices, ib.
Abuses the king's confidence, 424.
Uses sinister means for his own
private advantage, 426. 113
Burnet, bishop, describes the ecclesi-
astical courts in Ireland, 88. His
further account of them, 93.
Butler, James, second duke of Or-
mond, lord lieutenant of Ireland,
receives the first bill, from the
commons, to prevent the further
growth of popery, 533. His conduct
on that occasion, 534. Is voted
guilty of high treason, ib. A sin-
gular circumstance in his fortune,
ib.

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Carew, sir John, apologizes for the
Irish, 36. His account of a pro-
phecy, 38.

Castlehaven, earl of, offers his services

to suppress the northern insur
gents, 196. His advice on that
occasion lighted, 197. Observes
the conduct of sir Charles Coote,
212. Imprisoned and escaped by
stratagem, 229. His remonstrance
to king Charles II. 635.
Charles I. permits a severe persecu-
tion against catholics, 96. Agrees
to put the statute of the 2d of
Elizabeth in force against them,
99. Writes to Wentworth, 113.
Not pleased with the Irish com-
mons, 140. Brought to a right
way of thinking, ib. Writes to
the Irish council, ib. His orders
to the lords justices, 145. His or-
ders not duly executed, 147. Ad-
dressed by the catholic nobility,
prelates and gentry, 229. Resolves
to issue a commission to em-
power certain persons to treat with
the catholics, 233. Directs the
commission to the marquis of Or-
mond, &c. ib. Orders Ormond
to treat with his subjects in Ire-
land, then in arms, for a cessation,
239. Commands him again to
treat with them, 241. Presses the
lords justices to conclude this ces-
sation, 246. His commands at
length obeyed in that respect, ib.
Sends a commission to Ormond to
conclude a peace with the confe-
derates, 263. Emphatically ex-
presses himself in a letter to Or-
mond, 266. Commands Ormond
to conclude a peace with the con-
federates, ib. Urges the same in
another letter to Ormond, 267.
Absolutely commands him, 270.
Finding Ormond would not con-
elude a peace, sends Glamorgan
with a commission for that pur-
pose, 274. Prevailed on to dis-
Arow Glamorgan's commission,

285. Part of two of his letters
to Glamorgan 281-282. Ac
quaints Ormond and Digby of his
unhappy situation, 287. Kept
under the closest and most irksome
restraint by the Scottish army,
298. Compelled to sign an order
to the marquis of Ormond against
making peace with the confede-
rates, 294. How treated by the
Scots, 302.

Charles II. proclaimed king in Scot
land, 361. Arrives in Scotland,
362. Signs the covenant, ib.
Publishes a declaration in its favor,
ib.

The means taken to bring
him to that measure, ib. His in-
sincerity, 369. Proclaimed in
Ireland, 402. Issues a proclama-
tion against the irish, 405. Ac-
knowledges his cbligations to the
Irish in bis speech to both houses
of parliament, 421. Appoints
commissioners for the settlement
of Irish affairs, 432. Commits
drawing up the bill for holding
the courts of claims to the direc-
tion of the duke of Ormond, 438.
His remarkable words concerning
his obligation of performing on
his part the articles of the peace,
442. Declares an English interest
ought to be established in Ireland,

443.

Chichester, sir Arthur, lord deputy,
calls the Roman catholic aldermen
of the city of Dublin before the
council, 63. His treatment of
them, 64. Receives a letter from
the king approving of his conduct,
66. Favours the puritans 74.
Declares the Star-chamber a pro-
per court to punish jurors, 84.
His rigorous enquiry into defective
titles, 95. ib. note.

Chichester, colonel, makes prisoners
of the Irish, who came to him for
protection, 170.

Clanrickard, earl of, gives an account
of the insurgent, 171. Writes to
the earl of Essex, 182, not. Shews
the impediments to the peace in
his letter to Ormond, 185, note.
Mentions the cause of the insur-
rection in a letter to the duke of
Richmond, 197, note. In another
letter, 217. Complains of Or-
mond's army, ib. In a letter to

Ormond complains of the proceed-
ings of the lords justices, 218.
Expostulates with a just and spirited
resentment in a letter to the earl of
Essex, 227. Transmits the request
of the gentlemen of Connaught to
the government, 231. Obliged to
apologize for it, ib. Commissioned
with others to meet the confede-
fate catholics, 234. Acquaints the
king in a letter of the opposition
of the lords justices, 285. Meets
the confederates at Trim, 236.
Receives their remonstrance, ib.
Joins in a memorial addressed to
his majesty, 262. Reasons with
Ormond on the treaty of peace,
266. Writes to Ormond on his
refusal to join the confederates
290. Shews cause that sir Charles
Coote should be proclaimed a rebel
and a traitor, 292. Is prevailed
on to accept the government in
the absence of Ormond, 372.
Transmits to Ormond an account
of affairs in Ireland, 378. Leaves
Ireland, 386.

Clarendon, Earl of, is exceedingly
partial in his account of the state
of the catholics before the insur-
rection, 184, note. His account
of popish judges and juries, 462.
Of captain Ashton's trial, 464.
Clotworthy, sir John, declares in a
speech in the house of commons
of England, that the conversion
of papists in Ireland was only to
be effected by the bible in one
hand and the sword in the other,
148.

Cole, sir William, receives private
intelligence of the insurrection,
153, note. His singular services
against the insurgents, 182, note.
Informs the lords justices, 198, note.
Services done by his regiment, 226,

note.

Coote, (old) sir Charles, cruelly puts
to death several innocent persons
in the town of Wicklow, 202.
Makes a proposal at the council-
board for executing a general mas-
sacre on all the catholics in Ireland,
ib. & 203. Made governor of
Dublin, 204. Burns Clontarff,
207. Executes martial law indis-
criminately, 212, note. Made
provost-master general, ib. Cau-

ses Higgins a priest to be put to
death, ib. His character, ib. His
wanton cruelties, 226. Killed at
Trim (says Borlase) pursuing the
rebels, note, 202.

Coote, (young) sir Charles, commits
hostilities on the confederates in
Connaught, 260. Frequently as-
saults lord Clanrickard, 291.
Makes false promises to Owen
O'Nial, 353. Is made president
of Connaught, 401. Sends an ex-
press to the king, 402. Finds as-
sistance to seize the castle of Dub-
lin, ib. Sends commissioners to his
majesty, 403. Created earl of
Montrath, and made one of the
lords justices, 406.

Cromwell, Oliver, arrives at Dublin,
347. Takes Drogheda by storm,
ib. Orders that no quarter be
given, ib. His breach of faith,
and barbarity, ib. Repeats the
same at Wexford, 350. Publishes
a proclamation, 351. Transports
forty thousand Irish, $86. Trans-
plants the Irish into Connaught,
389. Establishes high courts of
justice, called Cromwell's slaughter-
houses, 391.

-, Henry, son to Oliver, is
placed in the government of Ire-
land, 398. Makes a favourable
representation of the Irish, ib.
His character, 399. Is invested
with full power and authority in
Ireland, 401.

Cork, (old) earl of, his account, in

a letter to the speaker of the Eng-
lish house of commons of his suc-
cess in indicing eleven hundred
persons, among whom were many
noblemen, 214. This proceeding
he calls, the work of works, ib.
Crosby, sir Pierce, is sequestered from
the privy council, 127.

D

DAVIS, sir John, (attorney gene-
ral of Ireland), his character of
the irish, 2, note. Expresses their
sufferings emphatically, 48.
Delvin, lord Baron of, refuses to
sign the proclamation against the
earl of Desmond, 24. Goes with
other noblemen with their com
plaints to the king, 79.

Derry, its gates shut against king
James, 483. Besieged by De Ro-
sen, ib. The means taken to re-
duce it to surrender, ib. Had no
effect but firing on their friends
from its walls, 484. note. Gar-
rison of, not behindhand in cru-
elty with De Rosen, 491.
De Rosen, Mareschal, besieges Derry,
483. His expedient to reduce it
under obedience to king James,
ib. Represents to his majesty the
ill consequences of his clemency,
ib. note. His order, 488. His
motives, ib. note. Attempts to
justify his conduct in a letter to
the king, 490.

Desmond, earl of, proclaimed, with-
out committing any overt act of
treason, 23. His letter to the earl
of Ormond, 25. His death, 26.
Digby, lord, in concert with Ormond,
summons the earl of Glamorgan
before the council, 277. Accuses
him of forging his commission,
ib. Writes to Ormond from Kil-
kenny, 286, note. His good opì-
nion of the confederates, 289.
Receives a letter from Ormond
acknowledging his treating with
the parliament commissioners, 292,
note. Writes to Ormond con-
cerning the king's situation, 294,
Arrives in Dublin, 296.
declaration to perfect a peace
with the confederates, 298. His
character, ib. note. Enters into
a private engagement with gene.
ral Preston, 318, Writes to Or-
mond, ib. Receives an answer,
and writes again to him, 319. He,
in concert with Ormond, enters
into a new treaty with the confe-
derates, 323. His spirited attempt
to prevent Ormond from giving
up the regalia to the parliament
commissioners, 332. Receives a
letter from Ormond, acquainting
him that peace was concluded,

345.

His

Dillon, of Costelloe, lord, urges
against the prorogation of parlia-
ment, 195. His advice to the
lords justices slighted, 197.
Dopping, bishop of Meath, preaches
against keeping faith with the
Irish catholics, 512.
Dewnham, Bishop of Derry, delivers

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ECCLIN, bishop of Down, his me-
thod of ordaining, 74.

Elizabeth, queen, slavery of the Irish
in the reign of, 3. Her instructi-
ons to sir John Perrot, 18, note.
Displeased that her commands
respecting Tyrone were not exe-
cuted, 21. Disposes of Desmond's
estate, 28. Restores his son (James)
to honor, 29. Her remarks on
the destruction made in Ireland,
32. Orders the deputy to pardon
all the inhabitants of Munster, ib.
Her order not strictly observed, 33.
Esser, Walter Devereux, earl of, in
vites Bryan O'Nial of Claneboy
and his family to an entertainment,
8. the cruel manner he treated
them, 9.

Everard, sir John, is chosen speaker
of the house of commons by one
party, 78. Dragged out of the
chair by the other party, 79,
Makes a motion in the house of
commons for redress of grievances,

84.

Eustace, sir Maurice, in a letter to

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the marquis of Ormond, gives an
account of the horrid advice of sir
William Parsons and of sir Adam
Loftus, 331. Made lord chan-
cellor and one of the lords justices
of Ireland, 406. His conduct on
the report of a conspiracy, 412.

F

FAMINE in Ireland, occasioned by
the English destroying the coru,
41. Horrible effects of it, 42.

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