hut the English act was soon found to be
defective and the defect was supplied by a more stringent act, 5
Eliz. chap. I No such supplementary law was made in Ireland. That
the construction mentioned in the text was put on the Irish Act of
Supremacy, we are told by Archbishop King: State of Ireland, chap. ii.
sec. 9. He calls this construction Jesuitical but I cannot see it in
that light.]

[Footnote 150: Political Anatomy of Ireland.]

[Footnote 151: Political Anatomy of Ireland, 1672; Irish Hudibras, 1689;
John Dunton's Account of Ireland, 1699.]

[Footnote 152: Clarendon to Rochester, May 4. 1686.]

[Footnote 153: Bishop Malony's Letter to Bishop Tyrrel, March 5. 1689.]

[Footnote 154: Statute 10 & 11 Charles I. chap. 16; King's State of the
Protestants of Ireland, chap. ii. sec. 8.]

[Footnote 155: King, chap. ii. sec. 8. Miss Edgeworth's King Corny
belongs to a later and much more civilised generation; but whoever
has studied that admirable portrait can form some notion of what King
Corny's great grandfather must have been.]

[Footnote 156: King, chap. iii. sec. 2.]

[Footnote 157: Sheridan MS.; Preface to the first volume of the Hibernia
Anglicana, 1690; Secret Consults of the Romish Party in Ireland, 1689.]

[Footnote 158: "There was a free liberty of conscience by connivance,
though not by the law."--King, chap. iii. sec. i.]

[Footnote 159: In a letter to James found among Bishop Tyrrel's papers,
and dated Aug. 14. 1686, are some remarkable expressions. "There are
few or none Protestants in that country but such as are joined with
the Whigs against the common enemy." And again: "Those that passed for
Tories here" (that is in England) "publicly espouse the Whig quarrel on
the other side the water." Swift said the same thing to King William a
few years later "I remember when I was last in England, I told the
King that the highest Tories we had with us would make tolerable Whigs
there."--Letters concerning the Sacramental Test.]

[Footnote 160: The wealth and negligence of the established clergy of
Ireland are mentioned in the strongest terms by the Lord Lieutenant
Clarendon, a most unexceptionable witness.]

[Footnote 161: Clarendon reminds the King of this in a letter dated
March 14. "It certainly is," Clarendon adds, "a most true notion."]

[Footnote 162: Clarendon strongly recommended this course, and was of
opinion that the Irish Parliament would do its part. See his letter to
Ormond, Aug. 28.