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the absolute necessity of their endeavouring to be freed from his government and of submitting to their present Majesties is demonstrated.
33 Harris's Bishops of Ireland, article King.
34 Lesley's Answer to King, p. 113.
35 Ibid., p. 106, Harris,
36 Letter to Sir Robert Southwell, quoted by Harris.
37 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.
38 Lesley's Answer, p. 73.
39 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,]
40 Harris's Writers of Ireland, article Lesley.
41 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.
42 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.
43 King, III., 3: Secret Consults.
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