Charles II
March 20th, 1649, declaring his determination "to confirm and ratify fully and entirely all the articles of the treaty with our Roman Catholic subjects of the kingdom of Ireland." Carte Papers, xxiv. 107, quoted by Gilbert, VII., vii. See also his letter of March 9th, Ibid.
6 "Had his advice been pursued, it was thought few of the Irish would have got their estates." Secret Consults.
7 14 & 15 Charles II., c. 2. This declaration, which is prodigiously long, is given in full in the Irish Statutes, and, in an abridged form, by Carte, II., 216, etc.
8 17 & 18 Charles I., c. 33.
9 Carte, II., 220.
10 "While the corporations are purely English I do not much fear what the country can do: but that these shall still be prosecuted chastely in the Protestants I think absolutely necessary for many reasons. Two I shall only mention: the first is that they dare not rebel if all the towns be against them; or, if they should rebel and have none of these, they will soon feel the punishment of their sin. The second is that, while the corporations are Protestant, the House of Commons will still be such." Orrery to Ormond, 26th February, 1662.
11 "A clause was inserted in the Act that no Irish Papist, in what manner soever he justified his innocency, should enjoy any house within a corporation. This the Irish vehemently exclaimed against." Secret Consults.
12 Carte, II., 240.
13 Carte, II., 242.
14 Continuation of the Life of Clarendon, § 123.
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