The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . rticles recorded standAgainst this peerless peer ;Search Init the archives of the land,Youll find them written there. The story of Gaffney is then related. Coningsbys peculations are described thus : Vast quantities of stores did heEmbezzle and purloin ;Of the Kings stores he kept a key,Converting them to coin. The forfeited estates also,Both real and with the stores together Cerberus swallowd all. The last charge is the fiivour shown the Roman Catholics : Nero, without the least disguise,The Papists at all
The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . rticles recorded standAgainst this peerless peer ;Search Init the archives of the land,Youll find them written there. The story of Gaffney is then related. Coningsbys peculations are described thus : Vast quantities of stores did heEmbezzle and purloin ;Of the Kings stores he kept a key,Converting them to coin. The forfeited estates also,Both real and with the stores together Cerberus swallowd all. The last charge is the fiivour shown the Roman Catholics : Nero, without the least disguise,The Papists at all timesStill favourd, and their robberiesLookd on as trivial crimes. The Protestants whom they did robDuring his government,Were forced with patience, like good Job,To rest themselves content. For he did basely them refuseAll legal remedy ;The Romans still he well did use,Still screend their roguery. 1693 WILLIAM AND MARY 2311 hard on tlie feeble remains of the native aristocracy. He thereforespeedily became an object of suspicion and aversion to the Anglosaxon. nit- i An la ..^ iKv, ^nu\i?ttKNLit* lllMHim JOHN, LORD CONINGSBV, AND HIS DAUGHTERS From an engraving by G. Vertue settlers. His first act was to send out the writs for a general election. TheRoman Catholics had been excluded from every municipal corporation : 2312 lllMORY OF ENGLAND chap, xix but no law had yet deprived thcni of tlic county franchise. It is pro-bable however that not a sini^lc Roman Catholic freciioldcr venturedto approach the Tlic nicnihcrs chosen were, with scarcely anexception, men animated b_\- the si)irit of hjiniskillen and )-,a spirit eminently heroic in times of distress and peril, but too often crueland imperious in the season of prosperitx- and power. They detestedthe civil treat) of Limerick, and were indiL,mant when they learned thatthe Lord Lieutenant fully expected from them a parliamentary ratifica-tion of that odious contract, a contr
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