James II
of Lords consisted of 7 earls, 9 viscounts, 4 bishops, and 16 barons.
Lists of both Houses will also be found in King, Appendix 20. In a tract called A True Account of the Present State of Ireland, by a person who with great difficulty left Dublin, there is a catalogue of the nobility of Ireland for 1689, those who sat in this Parliament being marked with an asterisk. Both King and this writer represent many peers as having taken their seats whose names do not appear in the List above quoted.
75 ""Those wanting are for Londonderry, Enniskilling, and such places as were in the Protestants' hands." List of the Lords, etc. King (III., 12, *14) appears to have exaggerated the number of the unrepresented boroughs. For a careful examination of his statements see Davis, Patriot Parliament, chapter 3.
76 King, III., 12, 14. According to the True Account the House of Commons contained "only two Protestants, Sir John Mead and Mr. Coghlan; two others that have passed in former days, but now are looked upon to be of the Popish interest." The Journal says there were five Protestants.
77 Journal of the Proceedings of the Parliament in Ireland.
78 Both James's speech and the address of the Houses are in Lesley's Answer to King, Appendix I.
79 The titles of these Acts are appended to the List of the Lords, etc., already quoted. The full text of many of them is printed with a List of such of the Names of the Nobility, Gentry and Commonalty, who are all by an Act of a pretended Parliament attainted of high treason.
80 See King, Appendix 24.
81 King, III., 12, *15.
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