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Notes $undefined$ Ireland's Lamentation.

$undefined$ Collection of proclamations by Tyrconnell in the British Museum: Short View; Ireland's Lamentation.

$undefined$ In England the independence of the judges was secured by the Act of Settlement. In 1692 William "gave an unfortunate instance of his very injudicious tenacity of bad prerogatives in refusing his assent to a bill that had passed both Houses for establishing the independence of the judges by law and confirming their salaries." Hallam, chap. 15.

$undefined$ Macaulay, chap. 6. See supra, Charles II, note 58.

$undefined$ 14 and 15 Charles II., cap 2; Memorandum sent by the Earl of Essex to Lord Ranelagh in 1675. [Letters, p. 149.] Secret Consults.

$undefined$ See Hallam, Constitutional History, chap. 12, where the legality of these decisions is very fully discussed.

$undefined$ King, III., 5, *6. Secret Consults,

$undefined$ A full and true account of the Landing of the late King James at Kinsale: Avaux to Louis, March 12, 1689.

$undefined$ Avaux to Louis, April 3, 1689; Proclamation for calling a Parliament in Ireland.

$undefined$ The Irish episcopate consisted of four archbishops and eighteen bishops; but at this time four sees were vacant. King, III., 15, *5: Short View.

$undefined$ ''A list of the Lords, Spiritual and Temporal, who sat in the pretended Parliament. Also a list of the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of the House of Common's. With a catalogue of the titles of all Acts passed in the said pretended session''. According to this pamphlet the House of Lords consisted of 7 earls, 9 viscounts, 4 bishops, and 16 barons.

Lists of both Houses will also be found in King, Appendix 20. In a tract called A True Account of the Present State of Ireland, by a person who with great difficulty left Dublin, there is a catalogue of the nobility of Ireland for 1689, those who sat in this Parliament being marked with an asterisk. Both King and this writer represent many peers as having taken their seats whose names do not appear in the List above quoted. 195