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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2017
The first act of the Irish parliamentary session of 1697 provided for the banishment of all catholic clergy exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction and also of all regular clergy. It was the first act since the treaty of Limerick that directly affected the practice of the catholic religion in Ireland, and it was something of a paradox that it should have coincided with the making of peace between William III and Louis XIV. In its early stages the bill seems to have been confined to the regular clergy, and there is some obscurity about its extension to bishops and other clerical dignitaries.
1 Cal. S.P. dom., 1691-2, p. 56.
2 Ibid., pp 68-9.
3 Cal. S.P dom., 1693, pp 6-7.
4 Ibid., pp 8-9.
5 Archbishop Brenan of Cashel and Bishop Phelan of Ossory.
6 Spicil. Oss., ii. 304-9.
7 Cal. S.P dom., 1693, pp 15, 141.
8 Marsh’s Library, MS Z 3. 1 4, p. 163.
9 Archiv. Hib., xxii, 168.
10 Commons’ Jn. Ire., ii, 102.
11 B.M., Add. MS 9715, f. 28.
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13 Coll. Hib., iv, 62.
14 Ibid., p. 73.
15 Cal. S.P dom., 1697 p. 250.
16 Lords’ jn. Ire., i, 599-600.
17 Cal. S.P dom., 1697, pp 283-4. The bill seems to have been extensively redrafted. Apart from its extension to church dignitaries, the new title omitted the reference to the suppression of friaries etc., and the act made no substantive provision for such suppression, though there are two consequential references, one to burial in a suppressed monastery and the other to the powers of magistrates to issue warrants for suppression.
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19 Hoffmann’s report of 20/30 July 1697, cited in Klopp, vii, 470.
20 Cal. S.P dom., 1697, pp 197-8.
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23 Ibid., ii, 322; Coll. Hib., iv, 60.
24 Lords’ jn. Ire., i, 616, 620, 638; Commons’ jn. Ire., ii, 193. The dates are old style.
25 Lords’ jn. Ire., i, 633-7.
26 Coll. Hib., iv, 61
27 Coll. Hib., iv, 59-60.
28 Moran, , Spicil. Ossor., ii, 322–3 Google Scholar. The act makes no reference to seminary priests. It is not clear how the ninth article (which provided that the only oath to be taken by catholics should be the oath of allegiance) was involved.
29 Klopp, vii, 471-2, 512.
30 Klopp, vii, 472-4.
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38 Royal Soc. Phil, trans., xxii, 522. Burke, p. 132, quotes this source, but appears to have made a mistake in giving 190 as the Galway figure, he gives 424 as the total transported, p. 144. Renehan, p. 84, also gives 190 for the Galway figure.
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