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Clarendon to Rochester, November 2, 1686. "The Roman Catholic Privy Councillors Jin England], most of them do oppose Lord Tyrconnell's coming hither Lord Lieutenant and the Queen joins with them." November 17. In the Secret Consults, the rage and terror of the Englishry on hearing of Tyrconnell's appointment are described in. language which is meant to be pathetic, but which borders closely on the ludicrous.
31 e.g., A full and impartial account of all. the Secret Consults, negociations and intrigues of the Romish party in Ireland: A Short View of the methods made use of in Ireland for the subversion and destruction of the Protestant religion and interest by a clergyman lately escaped from thence, 1689 [republished in the following year with the title, A True Narrative of the murders, cruelties, and oppressions perpetrated on the Protestants in Ireland|: An Apology for the Protestants of Ireland: A Second Apology for the Protestants of Ireland, by the author of the first: Mephibosheth and Ziba: Ireland's Lamentation, by an English Protestant: The Popish Champion, or a compleat history of the life and military action's of Richard, Earl of Tyrconnell. Macaulay, whose description of Ireland at the time of the Revolution is almost entirely drawn from these sources, appears to me to have made very inadequate allowance for the passions of the pamphleteers. Dr. Wright, in a work written in the main from the ascendancy standpoint, justly observes that these writers "were ready to receive any story which threw discredit on their enemies, without enquiring too scrupulously into its truth." (History of Ireland, II., 175.)
32 The State of the Protestants in Ireland under the late King James's government; in which their carriage towards him is justified, and
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