restored property to the amount of 74,733 acres, worth L20,066 per
annum, or L260,863 in all, which would leave as absolutely forfeited
property 752,953 acres, worth L135,793 a year, and L1,699,343 in all;
and even were we to deduct in proportion, which we ought not, as those
pardoned were chiefly the very wealthy few, there would remain over
2,400 persons attained by office, after deducting all who carved out
their acquittal with shot and sword, and all whom the tenderness or
wisdom of the king pardoned.

The commissioners state that L300,000 worth of chattels were seized,
not included in the above estimate; nor were 297 houses in Dublin, 26
in Cork, 226 elsewhere, mills, chief rents, L60,000 worth of woods,
etc., in it.

Most of these properties had been given away freely by William. Amongst
his grants they specify all King James's estates, over 95,000 acres,
worth L25,995 a year, to Mrs. Elizabeth Villiers, Countess of Orkney.
She was William's favourite mistress. James, to his honour be it
spoken, had thrown these estates into the general fund for reprisal of
the injured Irish.

Here, then, is certainly not a justification of the Parliament of 1689,
in passing the Attainder Act, but evidence from the journals of the
English Parliament and the reports of their commissioners, that they
tried to do worse than the Irish Parliament (under far greater excuses)
are accused of having done, and that the actual amount of punishment
_inflicted_ by the Williamite courts in Ireland far exceeded what the
Irish Parliament of 1689 had _conditionally threatened_.

The next Acts as a class are c. 9, repealing ministers' money act; c.
12, granting perfect liberty of conscience to men of all creeds; c. 13,
directing Roman Catholics to pay their tithes to their own priests; c.
14, on Ulster poundage; c. 15, appointing those tithes to the _parish_
priests, and recognising as a Roman Catholic prelate no one but him
whom the king under privy signet and sign manual should signify and
recognize as such. All these acts went to create religious equality,
certainly not the voluntary system; neither party approved of it then;
but to make the Protestant support his own minister, and the Roman
Catholic his own, without violation of conscience, or a shadow of
supremacy. The low salaries (L100 to L200 a year) of the Roman Catholic
prelates, and their exclusion from Parliament, were in the same
moderate spirit.

Again, this Parliament introduce