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Notes the absolute necessity of their endeavouring to be freed from his government and of submitting to their present Majesties is demonstrated. $undefined$ Harris's Bishops of Ireland, article King.

$undefined$ Lesley's Answer to King, p. 113.

$undefined$ Ibid., p. 106, Harris,

$undefined$ Letter to Sir Robert Southwell, quoted by Harris.

$undefined$ Compare (e.g.) King's account of the trial of Ashton (III., 2, *4), and of the Catholic sheriffs (III., 4, *4), with the statements on the same subjects in Clarendon's letters quoted above.

$undefined$ Lesley's Answer, p. 73.

$undefined$ Johnson, who had a very low opinion of the non-jurors as a body, called Lesley "a reasoner, and a reasoner not to be reasoned against." Boswell, VIII., 287. [Edition of 1882,]

$undefined$ Harris's Writers of Ireland, article Lesley.

$undefined$ Porter had lately "begun to startle at the commands from England," and "publicly declared that he came not over to serve a turn, nor would act anything against his conscience." Secret Consults.

$undefined$ It is impossible for me in the space at my disposal to enter into a minute examination of the evidence in this very complicated case. The reader should compare A True Narrative of the proceedings in the several suits in law that have been between Lord Gerard of Brandon and Alexander Fitton, Esq.—by far the best and fullest account: A True Account of the unreasonableness of Mr. Fitton's pretences against the Earl of Macclesfield: A Reply to a Paper entitled a True Account, etc.: Ormerod's History of Cheshire: O'Flanagan's Lives of the Chancellors of Ireland.

$undefined$ King, III., 3: Secret Consults. 191