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James II they, like the former class, were condemned to suffer the penalties of high treason.

A third list, comprising, according to one account, five hundred and twenty-eight names, consisted of persons who had left Ireland before the commencement of the Revolution. They, like the two classes already mentioned, had disregarded the proclamation which James had issued a few days after his arrival in the kingdom, summoning his Irish subjects to come to his assistance; and this neglect might fairly be considered as casting at least a doubt upon their loyalty. They were allowed until the 1st of October—unless the King should return to England before that date—to make their submission to the government, and answer any charges which might be brought against them. Should they fail to do so they also were to be adjudged guilty of treason.

The combined lists contained the names of two archbishops and seven bishops, of one duke, sixty-two other temporal peers and one peeress, of eighty-four knights and baronets, eighty-three clergymen, and about two thousand esquires and gentlemen. In all cases the King's pardon granted on or before the 1st of November, 1689, was to be valid; after that date such pardon would be null and void. 179