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  IRELAND UNDER THE STUARTS

  VOL. III.




_By the same Author_


IRELAND UNDER THE TUDORS

3 vols. 8vo.

Vols. I. and II.--From the First Invasion of the Northmen to the year
1578.

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IRELAND UNDER THE STUARTS AND DURING THE INTERREGNUM

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Vols. I. and II.--1603-1660. With 2 Maps.

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  IRELAND
  UNDER THE STUARTS

  AND

  DURING THE INTERREGNUM

  BY

  RICHARD BAGWELL, M.A.

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

  VOL. III. 1660-1690

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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