Master of the Rolls Dennis Fitzgerald his Deputy Masters Dr. Alexius Stafford Popish Dean of Christ-church 2d May. Ignatius Berford Esq Dr. of the Laws 6th May. Dr. Matthew Kennedy 10 May. Dr. Michael Plunket a Romish-Priest 23 July Thomas Arthur Soldier Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper This is in Trust for Robert Arthur's Wife Niece to Lord Tyrconnel 1st Aug. William Dorrington Register James Nagle Cursitor and Ingrosser of all Original Writs Henry Temple Esq and Owen Coyle who was Indicted and Outlawed of Forgery Examinators Six Clerks John Newel John Maynard .... Power Thady Meagher John Herny and Geoghegan Baskervile Polewheel Pursuivant KINGS BENCH Thomas Lord Nugent Baron of Riverston L. Chief Justice 2d Justice Vacant not being worth Fees of passing Patent Sir Brian O Neil Baronet Third Justic. 6th July 1689. Randal Mac Donnel Esq Clerk of the Crown and Prothonorary Francis Nugent Deputy Prothonotary Brian Kerny Deputy Clerk of the Crown COMMON PLEAS John Keating Esq Lord Chief Justice 2. Justice Dennis Daly Esq 3. Justice Peter Martin Esq 23 Jan. 1689. Edmond Fitzgerald Esq Chief and only Prothonotary Richard Fenner his Deputy 16 Jan. 1689. Robert Barnwel Esq Custos Brevium and Chirographer James Nagle Clerk of the Outlawries EXCHEQUER Buno Talbot Esq Chancellor Treasurer Vacant Sir Stephen Rice Lord Chief Baron Sir John Barnwel Knight Second Baron Sir Henry Lynch Baronet Puny Baron 1st Aug. 1689. Oliver Grace Esq Chief Remembrancer Second Remembrancer not disposed of formerly an Office of great Perquisites but now not worth Fees of passing Patent 8 Aug. Walter Lord Dungan Clerk of the Common Pleas. Murtagh Griffin his Deputy Philip Dwyer his Sub-Deputy 6 Jul. 89. Richard Talbot of Malahide Esq Auditor General 23 Jul. 89. Chr. Malone Sergeant Dillon's Clerk Surveyor General This in Trust for Lady Tyrconnel and her Daughter married to Col Dillon 3 Oct. 1689. James Nagle Clerk of the Estreats and Summonister 24 October Richard Morgan Pursuivant 28 Nov. 89. Francis Stafford Esq Clerk of the Pipe 20 Dec. 89. Charles White Esq Clerk of the First Fruits and 20th Parts Marcus Baggot First Sergeant at Arms. 7 Jan. 1689. Thomas Haughton Second Sergeant at Arms. 16th Jan. Brian Mac Dermot Esq Clerk of the Pels and Tallies and Clerk of the Treasury 13 Feb. 89. Patrick Kennedy Gent. Comptroller of the Pipe 18 Feb. 89. Thady Meagher Clerk of the Errors This is on the Statute for Writs of Error from the King's-Bench to the Exchequer Chamber 27 February John Barry Gent. Chief Chamberlain Simon Carrick Second Chamberlain 6 March Oliver Grace Esq Transcriptor and Forein Opposer Lords Commissioners of the Treasury 9th July 89. Duke Tyrconnel Henry Lord Dover Lord Riverston Chief Justice Sir Stephen Rice Lord Chief Baron Buno Talbot Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Adam Colclough Secretary 27 August Hugh Reilly Esq Clerk of the Privy Council Commissioners of the Mint in Dublin 26 Aug. 1689. John Trinder William Talbot Thomas Goddars Esq William Bromfield Francis Rice Edward Fox and Walter Plunket Gent. 31 Jan. 1689. Grant to Alderman James Malone and Rich. Malone of the Office of Printer General Commissioners of the Revenue Sir Patrick Trant Sir William Ellis John Trinder Richard Collins Fr. Plowden Esq Sir Theobald Butler Charles Playdel Secretary Receivers General Sir Henry Bond Lewis Doe Esq Nicholas Fitzgerald Solicitor Robert Longfield Clerk of the Quit-Rents and of Forfeited Estates c. N o 11. 2d June 1690. An Account of the General and Field Officers of King James's Army out of the Muster Rolls DUKE of Tyrconnel Captain-General Lieutenants-General Duke of Berwick Richard Hamilton Count Lozune General of the French Monsieur Leary alias Geraldine Lieut. General Dom. Sheldon Lieut. General of the Horse Major-Generals Patrick Sarsfield Monsieur Boisteau Antho. Hamilton Wahup Brigadeers Tho. Maxwell John Hamilton Will. Dorrington Solomon Slater Muster-master-General Robert Fitz-Gerald Comptroller of the Musters Sir Rich. Nagle Secretary at War Receivers General Sir Henry Bond Louis Doe Sir Michael Creagh Pay-master-General Felix O Neile Advocate-General Dr. Archbold Physician to the State Patrick Archbold Chirurgeon-General HORSE Duke of Tyrconnel Collonel Dom. Sheldon Lieut. Coll. Fra. Meara Major Lord Galmoy Coll. Laur. Dempsy 1st Lieu. Coll. Char. Carrole 2d Lieu. Coll. Robert Arthur Major Patrick Sarsfield Coll. Lord Kinsale Lieut. Coll. Roger Magilligan Major Hugh Sutherland Coll. Edm. Pendergast 1st L. Coll. Talbot Lassells 2d L. Coll. Will. Cox Major Lord Abercorne Coll. Lieu. Coll. Major Henry Luttrell Coll. Sir James Moclare Lieu. Coll. Major John Parker Coll. Tho. Gifford Lieu. Coll. John Metham Major Nicholas Pursel Coll. Lieu. Coll. Major DRAGOONS Lord Dimgan Coll. Lieut. Coll. Major Sir Neile O Neile Coll. Lieut. Coll. Major Lord Clare Coll. John Mac Nemara 1st L. Coll. James Philips 2d L. Coll. Francis Browne Major Symon Luttrell Coll Lieut. Coll. Edmund Moclare Major Robert Clifford Coll. Alex. Mackenzie Lieut. Coll. Major Fran. Carroll Coll. Tarens Carroll 1st L. Coll. Fran. Boismoroll 2d L. Coll. Major Tho. Maxwell Coll. Daniel Magennis Lieu. Coll. Callaghane Major FOOT Will. Dorrington Collonel of the Guards Will. Mansel Barker Lieu. Coll. Tho. Arthur Major John Hamilton Coll. James Nugent Lieu. Coll. Majors John Talbot 1st James Gibbons 2d Lord Fitz-James Coll. Edw. Nugent 1st Lieu. Coll. Porter 2d Lieu. Coll. Dodsby Major Earl of Clancarty Coll. John Skelton Lieu. Coll. Philip Rycaut Major Earl of Clanrickard Coll. Edmund Madden Lieu. Coll. Major Earl of Antrim Coll. Mark Talbot Lieu. Coll. James Woogan Major Earl of Tyrone Coll. Tho. Nugent Lieu. Coll. Richard Nagle Major Richard Nugent Coll. Lieu. Coll. Major Lord Gormanstowne Coll. Richard Eustace Lieu. Coll. Major Henry Dillon Coll. Walter Bourk Lieu. Coll. John Morgan Major Lord Galway Coll. John Power Lieu. Coll. Major Lord Bellew Coll. Nich. Fitz-gerald 1st L. Coll. Le Sir Doge 2d L. Coll. John Dowdale Major Lord Kinmare Coll. Lieu. Coll. Major Lord Slane Coll. Maurice Connell Lieu. Coll. Major Cormuck O Neile Coll. Lieu. Coll. Major Charles Cavenagh Coll. James Lacy Lieu. Coll. Gros. Pordevarande Major Tho. Butler Coll. D' Busby Lieut. Coll. Major Lord Kilmallock Coll. John Power Lieu. Coll. John Chapell Major Sir Maur. Eustace Coll. John Woogan Lieu. Coll. Major Sir John Fitz-gerald Coll. Lieu. Coll. Major Lord Lowth Coll. Lieu. Coll. Major Earl of Westmeath Coll. Mich. Delahoyde Lieu. Coll. Gowen Talbot Major Major-General Boisteau Coll. Monsieur Beaupre Lieu. Coll. Hurly Major Lord Bofine Coll. Will. Connock Lieu. Coll. John Bodkin Major Oliver O Gara Coll. Tady Connor Lieu. Coll. Major John Grace Coll. Robert Grace Lieu. Coll. Cha. Moore Major Edward Butler Coll. John Innis Lieu. Coll. Garret Geoghegan Major Art Mac Mahon Coll. Philip Reyley Lieu. Coll. Hâ—gh Magennis Major Charles Moore Coll. Ulick Bourk Lieu. Coll. ....... Major Dudley Bagnall Coll. James Power Lieu. Coll. .... Corbet Major Gordon O Neile Coll. Conn O Neile Lieu. Coll. Henry O Neile Major Nicholas Brown Coll. George Traps Lieu. Coll. Dermot Mac Auliffe
Fran. ô Cahan Donegal Conel ô Donnel Manus ô Donnel  Tyrlagh Oge ô Boyle  Daniel ô Donnel Downe Lord Iveagh Shilling Magennis  Arthur Magennis Antrim Earl of Antrim Shane ô Neil Sheriff  Col. Thady ô Hara Fermanagh Lord of Eniskillen Cuconaght Mac Gwyre A List of the Principal Officers employed in the Revenue 24 Jun. 1690. Dublin Port Chief Commissioners and Officers established by Patent Commissioners of the Revenue SIR Patrick Trant Knight Francis Plowden Esquires John Trinder Esquires Prot. Richard Collins Esquires Prot. Sir William Ellis Knight Charles Playdel Secretary Nicholas Fitz-Gerald Solicitor Prot. James Bonnel Accomptant General Collectors and Officers appointed by the Commissioners Viz. Doctor James Fitz Gerald Collector Prot. Nathaniel Evans Clerk to the Commissioners Prot. William Alcock Examiner of the Port-Accounts and Warrants and Casheer Prot. Sinolphus Bellasis Clerk of the Coast. Prot. John Kent Land Surveyor and Comptroller of the Store Prot. Edward Prescott Land-Surveyor Land-Waiters Prot. John Robinson Prot. Dennis Boyle Prot. Francis Isaackson Henry Fitz Gerald. Prot. Bartholomew Wybrantz Store Keeper Robert Longfield Chief Clerk of the Quit and Crown-Rents Surveyors of Ringsend William Briscoe Phelim Dempsy Francis Creagh Surveyor at Dunlary Dublin Excise Viz. Prot. Francis Babe Collector Prot. Bernard Waight Surveyor General of Excise _____ Carol Examiner of Excise Accounts Surveyors of Excise Prot. Benjamin Powning Examiner of Diaries Prot. Henry Davis Prot. Jacob Walton Philip Clayton Ports and Districts Athlone Christopher Nicholson Collector Peter Duffe Survveyor Baltimore Dominick Nagle Collector Clonmel Terence Magrath Collector Edward Morris Surveyor Cork Port Sir James Cotter Collector Edward Trant Surveyor Florence Mac Carty Surveyor at Cove Cork Excise Francis Garvan Collector James Griffith Surveyor Dingle Ambrose Moore Collector Drogheda Bernard Byrne Collector Walter Babe Surveyor of Excise Morris Morierty Survey at New-key Dungarvan Thomas Mead Collector Ennis John Mac Nemara Collector James Dalton Surveyor Foxford Valentine Kirwan Collector Nicholas Toppin Prot. Surveyor Galway Port Arthur Nagle Collector Galway Excise James Brown Fitz Jeffrey Collector Kilkenny Caesar Colclough Collector Samuel Pigeon Prot Surveyor Kinsale Dominick Rice Collector Dominick Murrogh Surveyor Limerick John Rice Collector Nicholas Skiddy Surveyor Loughrea Stephen Dean Collector Maryburrow Garret Trant Collector William Bourne Surveyor Moyallow John Longfield Collector Richard Aylward Surveyor Naas Edmond Fitzgerald Collector Robert Dowdal Surveyor Rosse James Butler Collector Mark Whitty Surveyor of Excise Sligoe Owen Dermot Collector Trim Richard Barnwal Collector Hugh Mac Donogh Surveyors Richard Barton Waterford Councellor Butler Collector James Heas Surveyor Wexford Anthony Talbot Collector Wicklow Barnaby Hacket Collector Youghal Patrick Fitzgerald Collector David Fitzgerald Surveyor A List of the Names of the New Burgesses of Strabane and Londonderry Viz. STRABANE Commonly call'd Soveraign JOhn ô Neile Shane Mac Con Backagh ô Neile Burgesses Gordon ô Neile Son of Sir Phelim ô Neile the Great Rebel who was Hang'd Drawn and Quarter'd He burnt Strabane in 1641. John ô Neile Shane Mac Neile Rammar Ô Neile William Roe Hamilton Constantine ô Neile James Cunningham Robert Adams Cloud Hamilton Brian ô Neil Mac Brian Mac Cormuc Mac Rory Grana ô Neil John Browne Robert Gamble Patrick Bellew James Mac Gee Art ô Neile Art Mac ô Neile Ramar ô Neile John Donnelly Shane fadda ô Donnelly James Mac Enally John Mac Rory Shane groom Mac Philip Mac Rory Burnt in the Hand Terence Donnelly Turlogh ô Donnelly Henry ô Neile Henry Mac Phelmy Duff Mac Art Mac Rory ô Neile His Father hang'd Roger Mac Cony Rory Mac Brian Mac Con modura Mac Conway His Father hang'd Dominick Mac Hugh Dominick Mac Rory Ballagh Mac Hugh Charles ô Cahan Cormuck Mac Manus Keiogh ô Cahan Charles ô Conway Cormuck Mac Owen oge Mac Owen Modera Mac Conway LONDONDERRY COrmuck ô Neile Mayor Sheriffs Horace Kennedy and Edward Brooks Aldermen Cohanagh Mac Gwire Gordon ô Neile Constantine ô Neile Constance ô Neile Manus ô Donnel Peter Manby Peter Dobbin Antho. Dobbin John Campsie Daniel ô Dogherty William Hamilton Roger ô Cahan Daniel ô Donnel Nicho. â—urside Alexander Lacky Constance ô Dogherty Daniel ô Sheile Roger ô Dogherty Brian ô Neile and John Buchanan Daniel ô Sheile Chamberlain Burgesses Francis ô Cahan Robert Butler Cornelius Callaghan Thomas Moncriefe Hugh ô Hogan John Mackenny John Campsie Henry Campsie James Lenox John ô Hogan William Stanly James Connor Hugh Eady John Donnogh Alexander Gourdon John Crookshanks Phel Mac Shaghlin John ô Linshane Art ô Hogan Charles ô Sheile Johnlius ô Mullan John Sheridan James Sheridan Constance ô Rorke Dom. Boy Mac Loghlin John Nugent William ô Boy John ô Boy William ô Sullivan Dionysius Mac Loghlin Manus ô Cahan Hugh Mac Loghlin Hugh More ô Dogherty Ulick ô Hogurty Henry Ash Tho. Broome Pet. Mac Peake Hen. Dogherty Robert Shenan Cornelius Magreth Art ô Hogan N o. 9. Privy Councellers appointed by Letters from King James Dated the 28th of February 1684 and such as are Sworn since by particular Letters for the Time being LOrd Primate Lord Chancellor Lord Archbishop Dublin Lord High Treasurer Secretary of State Chancellor of the Exchequer Master of the Ordnance Lord Chief Justice of the King 's Bench. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer Lieut. General of the Army Colonel of the Regiment of Guards James Duke of Ormond not sworn Henry Earl of Thomond Cary Earl of Roscomon ... Earl of Ardglass Henry Earl of Drogheda Hugh Earl of Mount-Alexander Richard Earl of Ranelagh not sworn Francis Earl of Longford Maurice Viscount Fitzharding Murrogh Viscount Blesinton Robert Fitzgerald Esq not sworn Sir Charles Fielding not sworn Sir Richard Reynel not sworn Sir Thomas Newcomen Sir Robert Hamilton Esquires not sworn Adam Loftus Lemuel Kingdon Sworn afterwards by particular Letters Sir Paul Rycaut Thomas Heitley Esq Earl of Tyrconnel Earl of Lymerick Lord Viscount Ikerin Lord Viscount Galmoy Esquires Thomas Nugent Dennis Daly Stephen Rice Rich. Hamilton Sir William Wentworth Earl of Ballymore Nicholas Purcel Esq Earl of Clanrickard Earl of Antrim Justin Mac Carty Esq Lord Viscount Gormanst own Lord Viscount Rosse Earl of Tyrone Lord Viscount Netterville Lord Lowth Sir William Talbot Esquires Anth. Hamilton Thomas Sheridan Symon Luttrel Fitzgerald Villers Esq Colonel Garret Moore Lord Bellew Charles White Esq Col. Cormusk ô Neil Francis Plowden Esq Privy Consellors Sworn before King James after his coming to Ireland DUke of Powis Duke of Berwick Earl of Abercorne Lord Thomas Howard Earl of Melfort Lord Chief Justice Herbert Lord Dover Colonel William P Colonel Dorrington Marquis D'Albeville Lord Kilmallock Colonel Sarsfield Lord Merryon Earl of Carlingford Earl of Clanrickard Lord Kenmare Lord Clare N o 10 The Civil List of Officers and the Times of their Entring on their Offices CHANCERY SIR Alexander Fitton Knight Created Lord Fitton and Baron of Gosworth in the County of Lymrick Lord High Chancellor of Ireland 23 April 1689. Sir William Talbot Baronet made
malitiosus pernitiosus nequissimus machinansque â—…ns pacem commune tranquilit ' hujus Regni Hibernioe perturbare discord ' inter Dominum Regem subditos suos incitare movere dict' Dom ' Regem gubernationem suam in odium contempt ' vilipendentiam inducer ' in Insurrectionem Rebellionem in hoc Regno Hibernioe suscitar ' mover ' inferr ' vicessimo die Januar ' Anno Regni Domini nostri Jacobi secundi Deâ— gra ' Angl ' Scot ' Franc ' Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensor ' c. quinto apud Castrum de Dublin ' in Com' Dublin ' proedict ' seditiosam malitiosam illicit ' scripsit ' vel scribi fecit quandam seditiosam malitiosam Epistolam sive Chartam cujus quidem seditiosam malitiosam Epistoloe tenor sequitur in hoec verba scilicet Eniskillin the 10th of January 1689. Cosin Spike YOurs I'receiv'd January the 1 st it being the greatest satisfaction I could expect to hear of your good Health and Welfare and the rest of your good Family getting the convenience of the honest Bearer makes me acknowledge your often kindnesses to me Yesterday we received Letters from Londonderry they all agree with our Proposals as in carrying on our Design in Dublin The day appointed is the 4th of February at Supper-time in the Castle and for some of our men intended for that purpose to go in a little before as many as can well not being suspected others to stay in the Street and Houses thereabout till the Word is given GOD be with Us Then all to Force in Killing the Guards after giving the Tinker and the rest of his Function their last Supper Mr. Drury he is intended to Fire the Suburbs with others of his assistance as might be thought fit it being a means to force the Souldiers out of the City We question not but our People is in number enough to do the Work as well in the City as Castle One night does all We have here in these parts 14000 Horse and Foot in readiness to be with you in Dublin in five or six dayes at farthest I hope God will inspire into our peoples hearts to persevere with Undaunted Hearts to pull down that Yoke of Popery which we are likely to lie under unless by God prevented We are in the Truth and I hope God is with Us although our Expectations being Failed hereto we might think it rather Punishment for our Sins than in any wise hindrance of our Victory Last Week we had an Account from Derry that there Landed two Ships laden with Ammunition and Provision and to the number of Fifty-Six Volunteers the most of them now being here with Us They giving us an Account of our English Resolution That they will every man Die rather than be yeilding to Popery likewise that great Preparations are made for our English to come over this Spring to the value of Two and Twenty Thousand Souldiers and Inhabitants to settle the Country Cosin I desire you 'l direct the Bearer to Mr. Pains with a Letter he has for him And likewise I desire you to go to my Cosin and give my kind Love to him the rest of his good Family I suppose the Pacquet of Letters as touching this Matter wholly is directed to Mr. Smith which meeting with him will give you the full at large My kind Love to my Cosin George and your Wife This being all at present Your loving Cosin to command during Life These For Mr. Will. Spike Living at Colledg-Green in the old Parliament-house Dublin Mary Smith Et ulterius Jurator ' proedict ' super Sacrament ' suum proedict ' dicunt proesent ' quod idem Dionisius Connor sciens eandem Epistolam sive Chartam fore falsam malitiosam seditiosam postea scilicet eodem vicessimo die Januarii Anno Regni dict' Domini Regis quint ' supradict ' apud Castrum Dublin ' in Com' Dublin ' proedict ' seditiosam malitiosam Epistolam sive Chartam proedict ' publicavit publicari fecit contra debit ' ligeantiam suam in malum exemplum aliorum in tali casu delinquentium contra pacem dicti Domini Regis nunc coronam dignitatem suam c. Copia vera Examnat per F. Nugent No. 36. Capt. Browns Acknowledgment That he Perjured himself Whereas I John Brown Gent. Did on or about the last day of December last come before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Riverstown L d Ch. Justice of all Ireland and did in an Examination taken before him upon Oath accuse Edward Brock of the City of Dublin for speaking and uttering several Seditious Words reflecting on His Majesty and the Government Now I the said John Brown do hereby Acknowledg and Declare That I did very much Wrong and Abuse the said Edward Brock in the said matter he never having uttered or spoke any such or the like Words wherewith I accused him before the said Lord Chief Justice As Witness my Hand this Third day of February 1689. Witness present The Words upon Oath being first Interlined John Brown Fra. Rica Ja. Somervill No. 29. Advertisement as it was published by Mr. Yalden in his Weekly Abhorrence concerning Dr. King and Dr. Foy THERE was lately published by John Yalden Esq the substance of Fifteen Sermons Entituled An Abhorrence from the Bishop of Ely c. of the proceedings of the Prince of Orange and the Lords c. that Invited Him But some Protestants believing the said Book to be a Popish contrivance and that such Doctrines as were therein were never Preached by the Divines there named Upon which a Gentleman of Quality to satisfie these Doubts applyed himself to two Reverend Divines of this City viz. Dr. King and Dr. Foy who both certified under their hands that the Doctrines contained in the said Book were honest and true Christian Divinity and obliging to all Christians to put immediately in practice upon the peril of their Salvation Which Certificate satisfied several Protestants here and confirmed them in an unchangeable Loyalty March 8th 1689. Reverend Sir I Intended to have waited on you this Afternoon but found my self so Indisposed that I durst not venture abroad I have been made sensible That the Publisher of the Weekly Abhorrence has made use of your Name and Mine And Affirms That WE have Certified under our Hands That the Doctrines contained in a Book published by one John Yalden Esq containing a Collection of the Substance of Fifteen Sermons were honest and true Christian Divinity and Obliging to all Christians to put immediately in Practice upon the Peril of their Salvation And he intimates that this Certificate has been shewn to several Protestants here Sir For my own part I do profess that I never Read the aforesaid Book nor did any Gentleman of Quality as he affirms ever apply himself to me to satisfie him in any doubts concerning it that I remember I am sure never any
served Sir John Topham and Sir John Coghill for their Masterships of the Chancery And the Inferior Bodies of Cities learned this Trick from them and by it outed their Protestant Recorders even before their new Charters Some Officers that claimed a Title to their Offices by Law were not allowed a Legal Tryal but the Chancellor called them before him and on a private Hearing turned them out Thus he served Mr. Charles Baldwin one of the Examinators of the Chancery 2. But to proceed by Retail seemed tedious and therefore to make short Work and rid their Hands of Protestant Civil Officers at once as they had done of the Military They made an Act in their pretended Parliament to void all Patents for Offices during Life or Good Behaviour though granted by King James himself and though the Protestants had laid out their Fortunes to purchase them by King James's own Consent and Permission as many had done Now let the World judg what a step the disposal of these Offices was to the Destruction of Protestants when some of them were of such Consequence that an unfaithful Officer in them might undo many by destroying their Evidences for their Estates in what condition must Protestants be when the Records by which they held their Estates were put into the Hands of those who were their Adversaries in the claim and had nothing to bar them but these Records of which they were now made Keepers who had often before shocked the Protestant Titles by setting up counterfeit Deeds nay and corrupting the Records themselves even whilst Protestants had the keeping of them of which the Records in the Common Pleas Office are yet an unanswerable Evidence counterfeit Judgments being entred there to the sum of some one thousand pound by the Treachery of corrupting Papists I have for the satisfaction of the Reader set down in the Appendix the Names of the most considerable Officers belonging to the Courts that the Change may be more visible 3. The next sort of Officers were such as were concerned in the Revenue these were many of them during Pleasure The Revenue had for five or six years last past been managed by Commissioners to very great advantage They had gotten under them a set of very sharp and severe Officers many of which having been formerly concerned in Trade themselves knew all the Arts of cheating the King in his Duties and were able to discover them and he who was most acute and made greatest Advantage for the King was sure to keep his Place and to be advanced It was hard to find a set of Commissioners and Officers that could serve the King in his Revenue at the Rate these Persons did and therefore they were forced to be slow in changing them yet they did it by degrees and with such Circumstances as plainly discovered that they were resolved as soon as was possible to employ Roman Catholicks only To do them Justice they generally owned it and when any of them had a Friend to prefer to an Office in the Revenue his Argument to remove the Protestant Possessor usually was This Man must be removed and why not now As the Popish Bishop of Elphin wrote to Sir Patrick Trant from Gallway in order to remove a Protestant Gauger employed there In most places they turned out the Protestant Collectors and Officers and put in their Popish Friends though much to the Kings Loss as it often proved and as they themselves knew it would be and did not scruple to own it Their new Collectors either being so ignorant as not to make the best of their Places or so very Corrupt that they run away with the Mony when Collected as it happened at Clonmell or so abused their Trust that they were obliged to change no less than five or six at a time King James himself declaring publickly that they deserved to be hanged That there remained any Protestants employed in the Revenue was plainly from their not having time enough to train up others in their room and not from their intentions to continue Protestants in it to whom they envied even the hated Office of being Publicans 4. The third sort of Officers in the Kingdom are such as have Trust or Honour annexed to them but little Profit of this sort I reckon Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace It was no easie matter to find Roman Catholicks to put into these Offices and it was a most provoking sight to Protestants to see with what kind of Men they supplyed them they were forced to rake into the very Scum and Sink of the People to find a few to set on the Bench as I shewed before Men without Freehold without Sense and without Honesty were made Sherifs and yet they were forced to continue most of them two years not being able to find in some Counties any Roman Catholick that could pretend to be capable of such an Employment Thus in the County of Tyrone Turlogh ô Donelly served two years as Sheriff who had not one foot of Freehold and for his Honesty you may guess at it by this Story which is notoriously true His Son had stolen some Bullocks from his Neighbour Mr. Hamilton of Callidon and brought them to his Father the Sheriffs House some of them were killed and eaten in the House The Owner pursued and found the remainder which were restored and to Compound the Matter a Bond of sixteen pound was entred into by the Sheriff for such as were eaten and if I remember right a Warrant of Attorney for Judgment When he came to Dublin to pass his Accompts as Sheriff he was sued for the Mony but to avoid the Suit he listed himself a Foot Soldier in the Lord Maguires Company and pretended he was Enlisted in the Company two or three days before the Arrest which my Lord likewise vouched though really he was not Enlisted till after the Arrest or Execution Upon which the Attorney that took out the Action or Execution I do not remember which and the Person to whom he owed Mony were brought into great trouble and forced to abscond for violating the Privilege of the Army and obliged for Peace sake to depart from their Claim We had many such Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace and to demonstrate that they designed to out Protestants of all Power there was not one Protestant Sheriff in all Ireland for the year 1687 as may be seen in the Catalogue which I I have given of their Names in the Appendix except Charles Hamilton of Cavan who was put in by mistake as was supposed insteed of John Hamilton of Killeneur who is a Roman Catholick Nay it was designed that not one Protestant should sit on the Bench as Justice of Peace and the Design in a great measure effected not indeed by revoking their Commissions but by making it impossible for them to Act. It was now almost a necessary qualification to preserve a Man in his Place to change or dissemble his Religion and some