Notes
97 14 and 15 Charles II., c. 2, The first Earl of Clarendon, who was to a great extent responsible for the Act of Settlement, admits that this clause in several instances worked gross injustice. (Continuation.)
98 King, Appendix 23.
99 List of the Nobility, Gentry and Commonalty attainted of high treason. An Act for the Attainder of divers Rebels and for preserving the interest of Loyal Subjects: King, Appendix I. Account of the Transactions of the late King James in Ireland.
100 Scobell's Acts of the Long Parliament, Act for the settling of Ireland. Gardiner (History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, III., 299) estimates the persons condemned to death by this Act at more than 100,000, and says: "No such deed of cruelty was ever contemplated in cold blood by any State with pretence to civilisation."
101 Lesley, Answer to King.
102 King, III., 13, *6.
103 Ibid., III., 13, *7.
104 The writer of this notice, who professed to have derived his information from two gentlemen who left Dublin on June 29th and reached Chester on July 1st, makes special mention of the toleration Act, the Act declaring the legislative independence of Ireland, the Acts relating to ecclesiastical property, the repeal of the Act of Settlement, and the Act of Attainder.
105 17 and 18 Charles I., c. 33.
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