[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?
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.
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,
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.
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
Boys, John, dean of Canterbury, changes the Lord's Prayer, 51,
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.
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,
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,
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.
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,
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
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,
Eustace, sir Maurice, in a letter to
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.
FAMINE in Ireland, occasioned by the English destroying the coru, 41. Horrible effects of it, 42.
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