CONTENTS OF THE

APPENDIX.-PART II. (TO BOOK VI., CH. IX., in the present volume.)

Subject.

Second Brief of the same Pope, confirmatory of

the preceding

1300

Account of some of the ancient Famines of Ireland 1296

Judgment of the Universities of Sulamanca and

Valladolid on H. O'Neill's rebellion, pronouncing

it highly meritorious to aid him, but mortal sin to
fight on the side of the Queen, &c.
Copy of a Bull containing an "Exhortation and
Remission for the Catholics of Ireland"

Copy of the Oath of Allegiance of King James I. 1310

Brief of Pope Paul V. condemning the Oath of

Allegiance

1306

1313

1318

&c.

A Commission from P. Lombard to D. Rothe,

appointing him to be titular primate's Vicar-

General for Ireland

Of the Deposing Power, claimed by the Popes

of Rome, and its results in England, the Pro-

testation of Allegiance, &c.

Statements and sentiments of Bishop Berrington

on the Deposing Power

..

1321

1324

1330

.. 1333

Dr. O'Conors Historical Narrative of the case

of Eleven Priests punished for maintaining the

Deposing Power, and refusing the Oath of

Allegiance

Specimen of a Covenanter's views on the right of
deposing heretic princes

Notice of one of the early congregations of the

modern Roman connection in Ireland, and of the

Sermon preached thereto by T. M'Crodden,

Franciscan friar

..

866, Some particulars relating to the state and circum-

stances of the newly formed Romish Commu-

nion in Ireland, circ. A.D 1613, with notices of its

first bishops, and of the Vicars-General,' &c.,

employed in its service

1340

1342

1345

1350

1363

Enumeration of the First Founders, and early
members, for a century, of the titular episcopate
in Ireland

"to the faithful" in Ire

1366

70

A.D. 1623

71

A.D. 1626

859

72

A.D. 1666

897

Brief of Pope Paul V.
land, circ. A.D. 1614,
Letter of Pope Urban VIII., constituting the
Mission in Ireland a Romish Title for holy orders 1392
Extracts from the Bull of Pope Urban VIII.,
against the of Oath of King James I. ..
Account of the Popes' pretended Deposing, Power,
from Father P. Walsh

1388

1395

1397

73

A.D. 1666

Copy of the Loyal Irish Remonstrance

1404

74

A.D. 1666

Note on the expression, Church of England, as ap-
plied to the Church in Ireland
Notice, with illustrative extracts, of Mr. T. Moore's
History of Ireland

1414

1420

Some alleged evidences of the barbarity of the an-
cient Irish, considered

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1439

CHURCH HISTORY OF IRELAND.

BOOK VI.
[CONTINUED.]

IRELAND IN THE TROUBLOUS TIMES OF THE
BRITISH REFORMATION.

CHAP. IX.

REIGN OF JAMES I.-ROMISH AGENCY SUCCEEDS IN ESTABLISHING
A PERMANENT SCHISM IN THE COUNTRY.

in Ireland

James I.

It remains for us to give the reader some ac- A. D. 1603. count of the state of religious affairs in Ireland State of relifor the first eleven or twelve years of the reign gious affairs of King James I., a period in which the adhe- under King rents of the Church of Rome in this island succeeded in establishing among themselves a new religious organization, under somewhat of a regular ecclesiastical form, accompanied by a kind of political confederation of the members of their party, which, although less perfect and less permanent in its construction than the religious part of their system, has however subsisted in one form or another even to our own day.

A. D. 1603.

Feelings of the Irish people towards his Majesty.

The accession of the first monarch of the Stuart family to the throne of England was accompanied with important advantages, which to all appearance promised well for the peace and prosperity of Ireland. For the people of this country, who had regarded former English princes as but usurpers of royalty in their land, were prepared to embrace King James with a kind of enthusiastic feeling, as a rightful claimant of kingly power-as one in whom the succession of the throne was restored once more to a line of lawful monarchs, he being, as they supposed, of their own race,* and having the blood of their ancient kings flowing in his veins, for which very reason their ancestors had, in a former age, crowned Edward Bruce at Dundalk

• King James himself took pleasure in asserting this claim. "In a speech which he delivered in council at Whitehall on the 29th of April, 1613, he says, "There is a double cause why I should be careful of the welfare of that people (the Irish,) first as King of England, by reason of the long possession the crown of England hath had of that land, and also as King of Scotland, for the ancient kings of Scotland are descended of the kings of Ireland,'" &c. . . Stuart's Armagh, Appr. ii. p. 581.

From a pedigree given in the same page of Mr. Stuart's work, the following is extracted:-" The present royal family of England may be traced through James I. to Kineth or Keneth Mac Alpine," &c. Kineth II. began to reign A.D. 843;... was ancestor, it seems, of the Bruces-Robert de Bruce, Earl of Carrick and Lord of Annandale; Robert Bruce I. in 1306; Margery Bruce, Robert's daughter; Robert Stuart II., Margery's son, in 1370; Robert Stuart III., 1390; James Stuart I., 1423; James Stuart II., 1437; James Stuart III., 1460; James Stuart IV., 1489; James Stuart V., 1514; Mary Stuart, 1544; James Stuart VI. of Scotland and I. of England, 1567-from whom are descended George I., II., III., IV., &c.