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The Government and the Church of Ireland under William III and Anne

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2017

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The difficulties and problems which the revolution of 1688 presented to people of tender conscience were, in England, smoothed over and covered by circumstances. The king’s flight left the tories free to frame, at least for their own consumption, a theory which secured to them the benefits of revolution without the sin of rebellion. The anglican church itself, than which no institution had more openly maintained the doctrine of non-resistance, found that the accomplished fact could be accepted with a face-saving show of consistency; even the moral and intellectual eminence of the non-jurors failed to secure more than a handful of followers for their schism.

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Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 1941

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Page 280 note 1 The state letters of Henry earl of Clarendon, lord lieutenant of Ireland during the reign of James the second (ed. of 1765), i. 351-6.

Page 280 note 2 Ibid., i. 136, 241 ff., 395-6.

Page 281 note 1 The state letters of Henry earl of Clarendon, etc. ii. 324.

Page 281 note 2 [J. Kirkpatrick,] An historical essay upon the loyalty of presbyterians in Great Britain and Ireland from the reformation to this present year 1713, pp. 404 ff.

Page 281 note 3 Cal. S.P. Dom., 1690-1, p. 481.

Page 282 note 1 Cal. S.P. Dom.9 1690-1, pp. 155, 158-9.

Page 282 note 2 Ibid., 1691-2, p. 44. Hist. MSS. Comm., Downshire MSS., i, pt. II, pp. 710-11.

Page 282 note 3 Autobiography of Sir Richard Cox, ed. R. Caulfield (i860), p. 15.

Page 283 note 1 R. Mant, History of the church of Ireland, ii. 293. The punctuation and spelling of passages quoted in this paper have been modernised.

Page 283 note 2 Ibid., ii. 94.

Page 283 note 3 Bp. Foy to Bp. King, 30 July 1691 (TCD). Most of the letters to and from Bishop King used in this paper are taken from the originals in TCD. These are not bound in volumes but are arranged in boxes according to date. Letters quoted from Bishop King's transcript-books are followed by a press-mark.

Page 283 note 4 Bp. Foy to Bp. King, 10 Nov. 1691 (TCD).

Page 283 note 5 Bolton to Bp. King, 5 Mar. 1699[-1700], 12 Mar. 1699[-1700]; Bp. King to Bolton, 12 Apr. 1700 (TCD).

Page 284 note 1 Bp. Foy to Bp. King, 26 Mar. 1692 (TCD).

Page 284 note 2 Bp. King to Annesley, 3 June 1712 (TCD, MS.N.3.4, pt. 1, p. 29).

Page 284 note 3 Bp. Foy to Bp. King, 14 Oct. 1691 (TCD).

Page 284 note 4 Bp. King to Dr. Samuel Foley, 21 Mar. 1692O3] (TCD).

Page 284 note 5 Bp. Foy to Bp. King, Aug. 1691, 19 May 1693, 8 Sept. 1693 (TCD).

Page 284 note 6 Abp. Boyle to Bp. King, 30 June 1691 (TCD).

Page 285 note 1 Abp. Boyle to Bp. King, 6 Oct. 1691 (TCD).

Page 285 note 2 Bp. Foy to Bp. King, 10 Nov. 1691 (TCD).

Page 285 note 3 Same to same, 5 Jan. 1691 [-2] (TCD). Bp.-King to Sir Robert Southwell, 29 Apr. 1697 (TCD, MS. N.3.1, p. 65).

Page 285 note 4 Same to same, 22 Sept. 1691; Sir Robert Southwell to Bp. King, 15 & 17 Dec. 1691 (TCD). King to bishop of Sarum, 5 Oct. 1696 (Mant, op. cit., ii. 66-7).

Page 286 note 1 Bp. King to Dr. Samuel Foley, 7 Sept. 1691 (TCD).

Page 286 note 2 Abp. Boyle to Bp. King, 12 Jan. I 6 9 I [ - 2 ] (TCD).

Page 286 note 3 Bp. Foy to Bp. King, 22 Sept. 1691, 8 Sept. 1693; Bp. King to Foley, 10 Mar. i692[-3]; Foley to Bp. King, 10 Oct. 1693; Bp. Tennison (of Clogher) to Bp. King, 5 Oct. 1694 (TCD ; Mant, op. cit., ii. 66-7.).

Page 286 note 4 Same to same, 10 Oct. 1693 (TCD).

Page 286 note 5 Same to same, 10 Oct. 1693 (TCD).

Page 287 note 1 J. S. Reid, History of the presbyterian church in Ireland, ed. W. D. Killen (1867), ii. 472 ff. There is a transcript of Walkington's petition to the lords justices in PRONI, T.525.

Page 287 note 2 Bp. Foy to Bp. King, 10 Nov. 1697 (TCD).

Page 287 note 3 George Toilet to same, 3 June 1696 (TCD).

Page 287 note 4 Bp. Foy to same, 1 Sept. 1697 (TCD).

Page 287 note 5 Bp. Foy to Bp. King, 14 Oct. & 10 Nov. 1691 (TCD).

Page 287 note 6 Bp. King to Dr. Dudley [?], 4 Jan. 1691 [-2], (TCD).

Page 288 note 1 Bp. King to Robert King, 6 May & 26 July 1692 (TCD).

Page 288 note 2 Bp. Foy to Bp. King, 8 Sept. 1693 (TCD).

Page 288 note 3 Same to same, 26 Mar. 1692, 11 Mar. 1692[∼3], 8 Sept. 1693, 10 Oct. 1693 (TCD).

Page 288 note 4 George Tollet to Bp. King, 18 Nov. 1690 (TCD). CaL S.P. Dom.t 1690-1, pp. 155, 158-9.

Page 288 note 5 Bp. King to Foley, 13 Sept. 1692 (TCD).

Page 288 note 6 George Tollet to Bp. King, 13 Oct. 1692 (TCD).

Page 289 note 1 Sir Robert Southwell to Bp. King, 15 May 1694 (TCD).

Page 289 note 2 Clarendon to Hackett, 25 May 1686 (State letters of Henry earl of Clarendon (ed. of 1765), i. 211).

Page 289 note 3 Bishops Dopping and King to Capel, 24 March 1693 [-4] (Cal. S.P. Dom.t 1694-5, p. 69).

Page 289 note 4 Bp.King to Bp. Foley, 14 Mar. 1693 [-4] (TCD).

Page 290 note 1 Bp. King to Bishop Walkington, 1 5 Apr. 1698 (TCD, MS.N.3.1, p. 213).

Page 290 note 2 Southwell to Bp. King, 1 Apr. 1699 (TCD).

Page 290 note 3 Bp. Foy to Bp. King, 29 Sept. 1691 (TCD).

Page 290 note 4 Bp. King to Bp. Foy, 28 Sept. 1697 (Mant, op. cit., ii. 94-5).

Page 290 note 5 Bp. King to James Bonnel, 1 Dec. 1693 (TCD).

Page 290 note 6 Bp. Foy to Bp. King, 20 Sept. 1694 (TCD). Bp. Tennison to Bp. King, 5 Oct. 1694 (TCD).

Page 291 note 1 Bp. King to Lord Massereene, 6 Feb. 1693[-4] (TCD).

Page 291 note 2 Bp. King to Bonnel, 4 Jan. 1694[-5] (TCD).

Page 291 note 3 B[onnel] to Bp. King, 8 Jan. 1694[-5] (TCD).

Page 292 note 1 Bp. King to Bonnel, — Apr. 1695 (TCD).

Page 292 note 2 Same to same, 10 July 1695 (TCD).

Page 292 note 3 Bp. Ashe to Bp. King, 28 Oct. 1699, 12 Jan. 1699[-1700], 24 Jan. 1699[-1700], 1 June 1701 (TCD).

Page 292 note 4 Methuen to Shrewsbury, 27 Nov. 1697 (Hist. MSS. Comm., Buccleuch and Queensbury MSS., ii, pt. II, p. 584).

Page 292 note 5 Sinnot to Bp. King, 2 Apr. 1700 (TCD).

Page 292 note 6 Bp. King to Bp. Foy, 5 Oct. 1697 (Mant, op. cit., ii. 95).

Page 293 note 1 Bp. King to Southwell, 21 Dec. 1697 (TCD, MS.N.3.1, p. 149).

Page 293 note 2 Sir Robert Southwell to Bp. King, 26 Apr. 1699 (TCD).

Page 293 note 3 Lords’ Journ. Ire. (1779), i. 750.

Page 293 note 4 Bp. King to Bp. Stillingfleet of Worcester, 3 Feb. 1699 (Mant, op. cit., ii. 100).

Page 293 note 5 Bolton to Bp. King, 2 Dec. 1701 (TCD).

Page 293 note 6 Bp. Ashe to to Bp. King, 30 Aug. 1700 (TCD). Bp. King to Abp. Marsh 20 July 1701; to Bp. Ashe, 25 July 1701 (Mant, op. cit., ii. 105).

Page 294 note 1 Bp. King to Bp. Ashe, 24 Mar. 1701 [-2]; to Sir Robert Southwell, 28 Mar. 1702 (Mant, op. cit., ii. 124-7).

Page 294 note 2 Nottingham to Ormond, 18 May 1703 (Cat. S.P. Dom., 1702-3, p. 722).

Page 294 note 3 A summary of the bishops’ petition and of the circumstances connected with it is given in Cal. S.P. Dom., 1703-4, pp. 8-10. A copy of the petition, with the signatures is in TCD (MS. 1.6.16), and is printed in Mant, op. cit., ii, p. x.

Page 295 note 1 Cal. S.P. Dom., 1703-4, pp. 37-8.

Page 295 note 2 Ibid., pp. 61-2, 70.

Page 295 note 3 Ibid., pp. 86-7.

Page 295 note 4 Ibid., p. 95.

Page 295 note 5 Ibid., p. 112.

Page 295 note 6 Ibid., p. 121.

Page 296 note 1 Reeves's notes on convocation, in TCD, MS. 1062, p. 84.

Page 296 note 2 Ibid.

Page 296 note 3 Cat. S.P. Dom., 1703-4, p. 155.

Page 296 note 4 Ibid., p. 176.

Page 296 note 5 Ibid., p. 190.

Page 296 note 6 Ibid., p. 204.

Page 296 note 7 Ibid., p. 494.

Page 297 note 1 Bp. King to George Toilet, 22 Sept. 1696 (Mant, op. cit., ii. 65).

Page 297 note 2 Same to Bp. Jenkins, 17 Feb. 1710 [ -11] (TCD, MS.N.3.11, p. 316).

Page 297 note 3 Cal. S.P. Dom., 1703-4, pp. 229-30.

Page 298 note 1 Cal. S.P. Dom., pp. 544, 557.

Page 298 note 2 Abp. King to Edward Southwell, 11 Sept. 1709 (TCD, MS.N.3.11, pp. 101-104).

Page 298 note 3 Same to Bp. Jenkins, 20 Feb. 1712 [-13] (TCD, MS.N.3.4, pt. 1, p. 119).

Page 299 note 1 Same to Bp. Hartstonge of Ossory, 27 Nov. 1712; to Edward Southwell, 18 Dec. 1712; to Annesley, 3 July 1714 (TCD, MS.N.3.4, pt. 1, pp. 75, 325, 311).

Page 299 note 2 Same to Edward Southwell, 6 Nov. 1712 (ibid., p. 60).

Page 299 note 3 2 Anne c. 6 (Ir. Stat., (ed. of 1786), iv. 23).

Page 299 note 4 G. Burnet, History of his own times (ed. 1753), iv. 28-9.

Page 300 note 1 Swift to Abp. King, 28 Aug. 1708 (Swift's correspondence, ed. Ball, i. 105).

Page 300 note 2 Crossle papers (PRONI, T.780, pp. 52-3).

Page 300 note 3 Ibid., p. 1.

Page 300 note 4 Hist. MSS. Comm., Portland MSS., v. 339-40.

Page 302 note 1 Lecky, Ire. (1906), i. 196 ff.