Note 213 — Chapter LI · THE PARLIAMENT OF 1689

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.