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he says, "All the world know me to be a very zealous and firm Protestant." (Rawdon Papers, p. 299). In a pamphlet called A Short View of the Methods made use of in Ireland for subverting the Protestant Religion, he is even said to have been deprived of his command on account of his religion.
4 "Most of the English, that were active, of the Privy Council, were turned out, but as yet no Irish Papists put in." Secret Consults. This step seems to have been resolved on even before the death of Charles II. See Ormond's letter to Rochester, January 3, 1685.
5 The address is given in full in King, App. 3, and in Spicilegium Ossoriense, II., 270.
6 Clarendon to Rochester, January 10, 1656.
7 At the beginning of his reign James told Clarendon "that, though he would have the Irish see that they had a king of their own religion, and that they should enjoy all the freedom thereof, yet he would have them see, too, that he looked upon them as a conquered people." Clarendon to Rochester, October 12, 1686. See also James's letter to Clarendon, April 6, 1686.
8 Macaulay and Mackintosh, on the authority of a MS. History by Thomas Sheridan.
9 "A man of birth, indeed, but no lawyer, and so will do no harm upon the account of his learning."' Clarendon to Rochester, April 20, 1686. Archbishop King (IIT., 3, *5) gives Nugent a very bad character, accusing him not only of incompetience, but of corruption, but, says Lesley, "I have heard others say, who are no admirers of that Judge, that they are confident this is a rank slander and calumny, and that! no such thing can be proved against him." (Answer, p. 130.) In truth, King's testimony, never very trustworthy,
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