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Notes $undefined$ An Act declaring that the Parliament of England cannot bind Ireland: [and] against Writs of Error and Appeals.

$undefined$ King, III., 18, *12. But King himself admits in another passage that the Act was not a dead letter, and makes the toleration granted to Protestant dissenters a charge against the government whom he accuses of "encouraging the most obstinate and perverse secretaries." III., 17, *4, King's own ideas about religious liberty are shown by a curious letter written by him to Archbishop Wake in 1719. "To be allowed to profess what religion. one pleases is a fair step, in my opinion, to bring people to confess none." Mant, II., 340.

$undefined$ An Act concerning Tythes and other Ecclestastical Duties. An Act concerning Appropriate Tythes.

$undefined$ An Act regulating Tythes in the province of Ulster. King, III. 16, *8,

$undefined$ An Act for repealing a statute entituled An Act for provision of Mmisters in Cities and Corporate Towns.

$undefined$ Macariae Excidium, p. 36; Light to the Blind, p. 69,

$undefined$ Hallam, chapters X. and XI, In 1644 the ejected clergy were allowed pensions amounting to one-fifth of the value of their former livings. But a provision so small can scarcely be considered as a compensation for vested interests. In 1662 and 1689 no provision was made. Lesley maintains with much plausiblity that the Protestant episcopal clergy in Ireland were far better treated by the Catholic supporters of James than were their brethren in Scotland by the Presbyterian supporters of William.

$undefined$ An Act for Repealing the Acts of Settlement and Explanation. This Act and the Act of Attainder De Burgo, Bishop of Ossory, has very justly described as "Decreta de quibus, etsi aequissimis, dum murumarent Acatholici aptissime potuerunt Orthodoxi deponere Neque alienam terram sumpsimus neque aliena detinemus, sed haereditatem patrum nostrorum quae injuste ab inimicis nostris aliquo tempore possessa est. Nos vero, tempus habentes, vindicamus haereditatem patrum nostrorum." Hibernia Dominicana, cap. vii. 197