were habitual residents in England. The bill passed the
second reading, and was committeed, June 22nd, with an instruction to
the committee, "That they insert into the bill such other of the
persons as were this day _named in the house_, as they shall find
cause."

Again, on the 24th--"_Ordered_, that it be an instruction to the
committee, to whom the bill for attainting certain persons is referred,
that they prepare and bring in a clause for the _immediate_ seizing the
estates of such persons who are _or_ shall be proved to be in arms with
the late King James in Ireland, or in his service in France." On the
29th is another instruction to "prepare and bring in a clause that the
estates of the persons who are now in rebellion (!) in Ireland be
applied to the relief of the Irish Protestants fled into this realm;
and also to declare all the proceedings of the pretended parliament and
courts of justice, now held in Ireland, to be null and void;" the
committee "to sit _de die in diem_, till the bill be finished."

Up to this time they could not have known that any attainder act had
been brought in in Ireland. On the 9th July, Sergeant Trenchard
reported, "That the committee had _proof_" (we shall presently see of
what kind) "of _several other_ persons being in Ireland in arms with
King James, and therefore had agreed their names should be inserted in
the bill." "Ordered, that the bill, so amended, be engrossed." On the
11th July the bill passed, inserting _August_, 1689, instead of August
next, and inserting some Christian names.

The bill reached the Lords.

Upon the 24th July a message was sent to the Lords urging the despatch
of the bill. On the 2nd August, at a conference, the Lords required to
know _on what evidence_ the names were introduced as being in Ireland,
"for, upon their best inquiry, they say they cannot learn some of them
have been there--they instanced the Lord Hunsden." On the 3rd of
August, Mr. Sergeant Trenchard acquaints the house that the names of
those who gave evidence at the bar of the house touching the persons
who are named in the bill of attainder, being in Ireland, were Bazill
Purefoy and William Dalton; and those at the committee, to whom the
bill was referred, were William Watts and Math. Gun; four persons, two
and two giving the whole evidence for the attainder of those who stood
by King James in Ireland! This report was handed to the Lords on the
5th August.

On the 20th August the Lor