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IRELAND UNDER THE STUARTS

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IRELAND
UNDER THE STUARTS

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DURING THE INTERREGNUM

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RICHARD BAGWELL, M.A.

HON. LITT.D. (DUBLIN), AUTHOR OF 'IRELAND UNDER THE TUDORS'

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CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME

CHAPTER XL

THE RESTORATION GOVERNMENT, 1660

PAGE

The Irish Convention 1

Charles II. proclaimed 3

Coote and Broghill 4

The Church re-established 8

CHAPTER XLI

DECLARATION AND ACT OF SETTLEMENT, 1660-1662

Position of Irish Recusants 11

The Declaration 13

Various classes of claimants 14

First Commission of Claims 16

The Irish Parliament, May 1661 18

The Declaration debated 19

Conditions of Settlement 20

Insufficiency of land 22

Ormonde Lord Lieutenant 24

He arrives in Ireland 27

The Clanmalier Estate--Portarlington 28

CHAPTER XLII

COURT OF CLAIMS AND ACT OF EXPLANATION, 1662-1665

The second Court of Claims 30

Innocents and Nocents 31

General dissatisfaction 32

Discontented soldiers 34

Plot to seize Dublin Castle--Blood 35

Lord Antrim's case 39

'Murder will out' 42

Bill of Explanation 43

Violent debates 49

The Bill passes 50

CHAPTER XLIII

ORMONDE AND THE IRISH HIERARCHY

Ormonde's royalism 51

Peter Walsh, Orrery, and Bellings 51

Walsh and the loyal remonstrance 55

Opposition of Primate O'Reilly 56

Incompatibility of royal and papal claims 58

The Congregation meets, June 1666 61

The Remonstrance rejected 62

Why the Congregation failed 64

CHAPTER XLIV

GOVERNMENT OF ORMONDE, 1665-1668

Irish Parliament dissolved 67

Mutiny at Carrickfergus 68

Partial exclusion of Irish cattle 69

The Canary Company 70

Disputes on the cattle question 72

Irish cattle excluded and voted a public nuisance 74

Evil effects of exclusion policy 77

Ireland retaliates on Scotland 79

The first Dutch war--coast defence 81

Fall of Clarendon 84

Ormonde and Orrery 86

Recall of Ormonde 87

CHAPTER XLV

ROBARTES AND BERKELEY, 1669-1672

Lord Robartes made Lord Lieutenant 89

The Tories 90

Ossory and Robartes 92

Character of Robartes 94

Attempt to impeach Orrery 96

Lord Berkeley and his Secretary 99

Recusants indulged--Oliver Plunket 100

Blood tries to kidnap Ormonde 102

Attacks on the Act of Settlement 102

Lady Clanbrassil 104

The dispensing power 105

Riots in Dublin--Bloody Bridge 106

CHAPTER XLVI

GOVERNMENT OF ESSEX, 1672-1677

Essex reaches Ireland 108

Dublin agitators 110

Essex protects Phoenix Park 111

Provincial presidencies suppressed 112

Intolerance of the English Parliament 113

Charles II. submits 114

Agreement of Essex and Ormonde 116

Financial abuses--Ranelagh 119

Ormonde restored to favour 121

And to the Lord Lieutenancy 123

CHAPTER XLVII

GOVERNMENT OF ORMONDE, 1677-1685

Revenue troubles 125

Scramble for land 126

Oates's plot 127

Ormonde and Orrery 129

Intrigues of Shaftesbury 130

Spies and false witnesses 133

Trial and execution of Oliver Plunket 134

Ormonde's opinion of the witnesses 139

Castlehaven's Memoirs 140

Ormonde and Anglesey 141

Tories--O'Hanlon and Power 143

Attack on the Settlement 144

Court of Grace 145

Death of Charles II. 147