IRELAND UNDER THE STUARTS VOL. III. _By the same Author_ IRELAND UNDER THE TUDORS 3 vols. 8vo. Vols. I. and II.--From the First Invasion of the Northmen to the year 1578. (Out of Print.) Vol. III.--1578-1603. 18_s._ IRELAND UNDER THE STUARTS AND DURING THE INTERREGNUM 3 vols. 8vo. Vols. I. and II.--1603-1660. With 2 Maps. 28_s._ net. LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO. London, New York, Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras IRELAND UNDER THE STUARTS AND DURING THE INTERREGNUM BY RICHARD BAGWELL, M.A. HON. LITT.D. (DUBLIN), AUTHOR OF 'IRELAND UNDER THE TUDORS' VOL. III. 1660-1690 _WITH MAP_ LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON FOURTH AVENUE & 30th STREET, NEW YORK BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS 1916 All rights reserved CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME CHAPTER XL THE RESTORATION GOVERNMENT, 1660 PAGE The Irish Convention 1 Charles II. proclaimed 3 Coote and Broghill 4 The Church re-established 8 CHAPTER XLI DECLARATION AND ACT OF SETTLEMENT, 1660-1662 Position of Irish Recusants 11 The Declaration 13 Various classes of claimants 14 First Commission of Claims 16 The Irish Parliament, May 1661 18 The Declaration debated 19 Conditions of Settlement 20 Insufficiency of land 22 Ormonde Lord Lieutenant 24 He arrives in Ireland 27 The Clanmalier Estate--Portarlington 28 CHAPTER XLII COURT OF CLAIMS AND ACT OF EXPLANATION, 1662-1665 The second Court of Claims 30 Innocents and Nocents 31 General dissatisfaction 32 Discontented soldiers 34 Plot to seize Dublin Castle--Blood 35 Lord Antrim's case 39 'Murder will out' 42 Bill of Explanation 43 Violent debates 49 The Bill passes 50 CHAPTER XLIII ORMONDE AND THE IRISH HIERARCHY Ormonde's royalism 51 Peter Walsh, Orrery, and Bellings 51 Walsh and the loyal remonstrance 55 Opposition of Primate O'Reilly 56