Ireland in jealousy and discontent, which the later of Swift were devoted to inflame. It was impossible that the kingdom should become, as it did under George II, more flourishing through its great natural fertility, its extensive manufacture of linen, and its facilities for commerce, though much restricted, the domestic alarm from the papists also being allayed by their utter prostration, without writhing under the indignity of its subordination ; or that a house of commons, constructed so much on the model of the English, could hear patiently of liberties and privileges it did not enjoy. These aspirations for equality first, perhaps, broke out into audible complaints in the year 1753. The country was in so thriving a state, that there was a surplus revenue after payment of all charges. The house of commons determined to apply this to the liquidation of a debt. The government, though not unwilling to admit of such an application, maintained that the whole revenue belonged to the king, and could not be disposed of without his previous consent. In England, where the grants of parliament are appropriated according to estimates, such a question could hardly arise; nor would there, I presume, be the slightest doubt as to the control of the house of commons over a surplus income. But in Ireland, the practice of appropriation seems never to have prevailed, at least so strictly'; and the constitutional right might perhaps not unreasonably be disputed. After long and violent discussions, wherein the speaker of the commons and other eminent men bore a leading part on the popular side, the crown was so far victorious as to procure some motions to be carried, which seemed
depend for doing the public business here. " I. 238. This of course disgusted the Irish church.
to imply its authority; but the house took care, by more special applications of the revenue, to prevent the recurrence of an undisposed surplus'. From this æra the great parliamentary history of Ireland begins, and is terminated after half a century by the union; a period fruitful of splendid eloquence, and of ardent, though not always uncompromising patriotism, but which, of course, is beyond the limits prescribed to these pages.
'Plowden, 306 et post. Hardy's Life of lord Charlemont.
ABBEY LANDS, appropriation
of them considered, i. 98,
99, 102, 106, note; law-
fulness of seizing, 99; dis-
tribution of, 105; retained
by the parliament under
Mary, ib.; increase the
power of the nobility, etc.
ib. 106; charity of the early
possessors of, 108; con-
firmed by the pope to their
new possessors, 141.
Abbots, surrenders of, to
Henry VIII probably un-
lawful, i. 97; seats of in
parliament, and their ma-
jority over the temporal
peers, 98, and note,
ib.
Abbot, George, archbishop of
Canterbury, sequestered, ii.
62, and note; his Calvinistic
zeal, 138; popish tracts
in his library, 255, note.
Abolition of military tenures,
iii, 13.
Act of Indemnity, iii. 3; ex-
clusion of the regicides from
the, 4; commons vote to
exclude seven, yet add se-
veral more, ib. and note 1.
Act of Uniformity, iii. 47, and
note 1, ib.; clauses against
the presbyterians, ib,; no
person to hold any prefer-
ment in England without
episcopal ordination, 49,
and note 1, 50; every mi-
nister compelled to give his
assent to the book of Com-
mon Prayer on pain of being
deprived of his benefice,
50, and note 2, ib. ; school-
masters obliged to subscribe
to, ib.
Act for suppressing conven-
ticles renewed, iii. 115; op-
posed by bishop Wilkins,
ib.; supported by Sheldon
and others, ib.
Act of Supremacy, particulars
of the, iii. 121.
Act of Security, persons eli-
gible to parliament by the,
iii. 478, and note, ib.
Act of 1700 against the growth
of popery, iii. 459, and
note 1, ib.; severity of its
penalties, ib.; not carried
into effect, ib.
Act of Settlement, iii. 461;
limitations of the preroga-
tive contained in it, 465,
and note 1, 466; remark-
able cause of the fourth re-
medial article, 467; its pre-
caution against the influ-
ence of foreigners, 472, and
note 1; importance of its
sixth article, ib.
Act of Toleration a scanty
measure of religious liberty,
iii. 452.
Act for preventing the growth
of schism, iv. 67.
Act against wrongous impri-
sonment in Scotland,
176.
Act of security in Scotland,
1704, iv. 79; its particu-
lars, 80.
Acts harsh against the native
Irish in settlement of colo-
nies, iv. 237.
Act for settlement of Ireland,
iv. 255; its insufficiency,
258.
Act of explanation, 258; re-
marks on it, 259.
Acts replacing the crown in
its prerogatives, iii. 34 (see
Bills and Statutes).
Adamson, archbishop of St.
Andrews, obliged to retract
before the general assembly
of the church of Scotland,
iv, 152.
Addresses, numerous servile,
from all parties to James II,
iii. 320, and note 2, ib.
Administration of Ireland,
whom vested, iv. 203.
Adultery,canon laws concern-
ing, i. 137, 138, note 1,
136.
Agitators established in every
regiment, ii. 350.
Alienation, ancient English
laws on, i. 15, 16.
Allegiance, extent and power
of, i. 420, note 1, 418.
Allegiance, oath of, admini-
stered to papists under
James I, ii. 46, 47.
his treacherous
purposes against Elizabeth,
i. 194, and note 1.
Almanza, battle of, iv. 34.
Altars removed in churches,
i. 122.
Alva, duke of, his designed
invasion of England, i. 180,
181.
Ambassadors, exempt from
criminal process, i. 217; ex-
tent of their privilege ex-
amined, ib. note 1.
Andrews, Dr. Launcelot, bi-
shop of Winchester, his sen-
timents on transubstantia-
tion, ii. 148, note 1; sin-
gular phrase in his epitaph,
149, note 1; doctrines of,
150, note 2.
Anjou, duke of, his proposed
marriage with queen Eliza-
beth, i. 169, note, 184,191,
313, 314, and note.
Anecdote of king Charles the
First's letters to his queen,
ii. 325, note 1.
Anecdotes, two, relating to
king Charles I and Crom-
well, ii. 356, note 1.
Anglesea, lord privy seal, state-
ment of, in the case of lord
Danby, iii. 149, note 1.
Aix-la-Chapelle, peace of, iii. Anglican church, ejected mem-
bers of, their claims, iii. 21.
Anne, princess of Denmark,
her repentant letter to James
II, iii. 385, note 2; a nar-
row-minded, foolish woman,
ib.; her dark intrigues with
the court of St. Germain,
385.
Anne, queen of Great Britain,
her incapacity for govern-
ment, iv. 15; her confidence
in Godolphin and Marlbo-
rough, ib.; revolutions in
her ministry, 16; alarmed
at the expedition of the pre-
tender, 31; her secret in-
tentions with respect to the
pretender never divulged,
37, and note 1; her death,
42, and note 1.
Appeals in civil suits in Scot-
land lay from the baron's
court to that of sheriff or
lord of regality, and ulti-
mately to the parliament,
iv. 146.
Aristocracy, English, in Ire-
land, their analogy to that
of France, iv. 198.
Aristocracy of Scotland, sys-
tem of repressing the, iv.
142; causes for it, 143.
Aristocracy of Scotland, in-
fluence of the, in the reign
of James IV, iv. 143.
Argyle, earl of, refuses to sub-
scribe the test, iv. 168:
convicted of treason upon
the statute of leasing-ma-
king, and escapes, ib.; is
executed after his rebellion
upon this old sentence, 169.
Arlington, Henry Bennet, earl
of, one of the cabal, iii. 96;
obliged to change his po-
licy, 125.
Arminian controversy, view
of the, ii. 37-43, and notes.
Arms, provided by freehold-
ers, etc. for defence of the
nation, ii. 245, 246, note 2,
247.
Armstrong, sir Thomas, given
up by the States, and exe-
cuted without trial, iii. 213.
Army, conspiracy for bringing
in, to overawe the parlia-
ment, ii. 216, 217, and
Army of Scotland enters Eng-
land, ii. 293.
Army, parliamentary, new-
modelled, ii. 311; advances
towards London, ii. 348.
Army, proposal of the, to king
Charles I at Hampton-court,
ii. 352; rejected by him,
355; innovating spirit in,
368; publishes a declaration
for the settlement of the na-
tion, 371; principal offi-
cers of,, determine to bring
the king to justice, 372, and
note 2, ib.
Army disbanded, ii. 16; origin
of the present, ib.
Army, great, suddenly raised
by Charles II, iii. 132, and
note 1, I 133.
Army, intention of James II
to place the, under the
command of catholic offi-
cers, iii. 294.
Army, standing, Charles the
Second's necessity for, iii.
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