ng the war should surely have been considered.

The third attaint is of persons absent before (some time probably
before) 5th November, 1688, unless they return before the 1st October,
that is, within about fourteen weeks.

Moreover, a certain number of the persons named in this conditional
attaint are excepted from it specially, by a following clause, unless
the king should go to England (their usual residence) before 1st
October, 1689, and that after his arrival they should neglect to
signify their loyalty to the satisfaction of his Majesty.

Yet Harris and "The List" licensed 26th March, 1690, have the audacity
to _add_ these English residents and make another list of attainted
persons, _instead of deducting_ them from the list under clause 3.

With similar want of faith, both these writers make out a fifth list of
attaints of the persons explicitly not attainted, but whose _rents_ are
forfeited by sec. 8, so long as they continue absentees. Thus, two out
of the five lists, by adding which Harris makes up his 2,461 attaints,
are not lists of attainders at all, and one of them should be rather
deducted from one of the three lists of real attaints. Harris has under
this exception for English residents 547 names (though printed 647 in
totting), and were we to deduct these and the fifth list of 85 persons,
his number of attaints would fall to 1,829; though he himself confesses
that there must be some small drawback for persons attainted twice
under different descriptions; and though his own totting, without
removing either the fourth or fifth list, is only 2,461, yet in his
text he says, "about 2,600" were attainted.

Yet Harris and "The List" pamphlet, which give the names in schedules,
were more likely to misplace the lists than King, and he certainly did
so in reference to the fourth list.

Names.
King's first list, like the rest, contains 1,280
His second 455
And his third 197
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1,932
And deducting the names in list 4 59
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King's list falls to 1,873

Yet even in this many are attainted twice over.

Harris's second list and "The List's" third list, each of