[213] The Act of Attainder is printed from a copy certified by a clerk in the Rolls Office in King's appendix, published anonymously late in 1691. A _List of the Names_ had already appeared in a pamphlet licensed March 26, 1690. The discrepancies are just such as Paley would have considered proofs of genuineness. For instance, King's Lieutenant John Newton of Drogheda is St. John Newton in the earlier list, while Katherine, Viscountess Ranelagh, and Anne, Viscountess Dungannon, first appeared as Katherine Vir, Countess of Ranelagh, and Anne Vir, Countess of Donegal. No doubt King's list is the more trustworthy of the two. In the _Transactions of the late King James_, licensed July 7, 1690, p. 33, it is noted that some names in the list already published, pp. 30-31, were wrongly added, and this is confirmed by comparing the two pamphlets with King. He believed, and gives good reasons for believing, that the Act was kept hidden away, so that no one could take any advantage under it. See also _An Apology for the Protestants of Ireland_, dated May 27, 1689, and a _Character of the Protestants of Ireland_, licensed November 13, 1689. [214] Chief Justice Keating, who tried hard to keep terms with James, and who even excused Tyrconnel, said he was 'confident and assured that the Government of England will and must at length take place here against all opposition whatsoever,' letter to Sir John Temple, December 29, 1688, in King's appendix no. 14. _London Gazette_. Luttrell's _Diary_, June 2: Keating committed suicide in 1691, Cal. of State Papers, _Domestic_, October 20, 1691, p. 548; James Reilly's letter from Poitiers, January 3, 1692, in _Spicilegium Ossoriense_, ii. 309. In troubled times a man who tries to be impartial is likely to find himself without friends. He had been indicted for high treason and his place given to another, see the article on him in _Dict. of National Biography_ and Luttrell, ii. 139. The treason consisted in taking a commission from King James after February 17, 1688-9. [215] King says (iii. 13) that Coghlan consulted Vice-Provost Acton, and he may have been guided by Dopping, who was still Vice-Chancellor. [216] Lestie's Answer to King, p. 124. Irish Statutes, 14 & 15 Car. II. cap. 23. _A Sermon preached to the Protestants of Ireland_, &c., London, 1689, dedicated to Pilkington and published at his request. 'He spoiled his business in Ireland by his over great indulgence towards them. He was infatuated with this rotten principle--provoke not your Protestant subjects,' _Light to the Blind_. _A Short View of the Methods_, &c., by a clergyman lately escaped from thence, licensed October 17, 1689. The writer fled from Vesey's province of Tuam, and the tract is dedicated to Burnet.