mander in chief, censures the
army, ii. 419.

resigns, ib.
Absentee-tax, proposed by Lord
Harcourt, and rejected, ii. 168
Act to secure the crown in the
protestant line, ii. 32

-of Queen Ann, to prevent the
further growth of popery, ii. 35
Adam, his perfection, i. 27

his knowledge, how trans-
mitted, i. 28

Address of the Commons to the
throne, upon pensions, negativ-
ed, ii. 149

ditto, for redress of griev-
ances, ib.

to Lord Lieutenant, for pa-
pers about septennial bill, ii.

150

Ireland, ii. 174

178

her alliance with France, ii:

peace with, ii. 237

terms of, censured in the
British parliament, ii. 240
Amnesty, act of, passed in 1798,
ii. 501

Ann, her accession to the throne,

ii. 34

led alternately by Whigs and
Tories, ib.

35

persecutes the Catholics, ii.

insincerity and duplicity of
herself and ministers, ii. 37, 49

oppresses her catholic sub-
jects with a severe code of laws,
ii. 41

addressed by the Tories against
the Presbyterians, ii. 47.

adverse to the whig party in
Ireland, ii. 54

creates 12 new peers, ii. 56
favours and commends chan-
cellor Phipps, ii. 60-1

averse from the Hanover suc-
cession, ii. 61

irritated at being forced to
proclaim a reward of 50,000l. for
apprehending the pretender her
brother, ib.

hurt at Leslie's failure to
convert her brother to the pro-
testant faith, ib.

mortified at the conduct of
her council, ii. 63

taken ill and dies within 3

took, ii. 64-6

used in Ireland, ib.
Stanyhurst's description of,

Bagnal, Mr. proposes a patriotic
donation to Mr. Grattan, ii. 227
Bank of Ireland established, fi.
217, 231

Bar, meeting of, and resolutions
against union, ii. 520-1
Bards, estimation of, i. 51, 59
Beauchamp, Lord (now Marquis
of Hertford,) favourable to the
catholics, ii. 179

against simple repeal, ii. 239
Bective, Earl
Bective, Earl of, reprobates the
system of coercion, ii. 412
Bede, his silence about St. Patrick,
i. 112

4-5

account of his works, i. 113-

his honourable testimony of
Ireland, i. 124-5

confirms the Irish annals,i.126
Bedford, Duke of, favourable to
the catholics, ii. 125

forms an association for sup-
port of public credit, ii. 128

graciously receives the Ca-
tholic address, ii. 129
Belfast, inhabitants of, petition
Mr. Pitt for reform, ii. 260

celebrate the French Revolu-
tion, ii. 307

petition for the repeal of pe-
nal laws against catholics, ii.315
rejected, ii. 318

Bellamont, Lord, against union,
ii. 523

Beresford, Mr. his intrigues with
the British Cabinet, against Lord
Fitzwilliam, ii. 348

dismissed by Lord Fitzwil-
liam, and why, ii. 351

-

his dismissal the cause of
Lord Fitzwilliam's recal, ii. 355

Beresford, Mark, produces a
warrant for superseding the
commission of jail delivery at
Antrim, ii. 406

John Claudius, opposes the
recompense to proprietors of
boroughs, ii. 563
Bishops, Catholic,address the King,
ii.341

address the Lord Lieutenant
for a Catholic seminary, ii. 342
differences between them and
the laity, ib.
Blaquiere, Sir John, paving bill,
unpopularity of, ii. 257

opposes the bill for catholic
relief, ii. 353

opposes Mr. Graydon's mo-
tion for the reform of abuses, ii.
355

Bloody Friday, why socalled, ii. 482
Blore Heath, battle of, i. 250
Bogs, catholics enabled by statute
to take leases for 51 years for re-
claiming them, ii. 166
Bolingbroke, Lord, his ideas of his-
tory, i. 2

Bollandists, who, i. 114
Bolton, Duke of, purposely mis-

quotes the words of the statute,
granting ease to the dissenters,
ii. 76

Bond, Oliver, taken into custody,
ii. 424

his death, ii. 498
Boroughs, recompense to proprie-
tors of, opposed by Messrs. Sau-
rin, J. C. Beresford, and Daw-
son, ii. 563
Boulter, Primate, his caution of
Swift to the Duke of Newcastle,
ii. 80

Boulter, his jealousy of any Irish
influence, ii. 94

opposes the restoration of
Lord Clanricarde to his estates,
ii 95

opposes toleration in favour
of the dissenters, ii 99

supports the English ascend-
ancy in Ireland, ii. 100

yields to the loss of the clergy
rather than hazard the English
interest, ii. 101

his death, ii. 104
Boyd, Captain, seizes Messrs. Har-
vey, Colclough, and Fitzgerald,
and sends them on an embassy
to the rebels, at Enniscorthy,
and effects thereof, ii. 456 7

his house plundered by the
rebels, ii. 461
Boyle, Mr. (Speaker of the house
of commons) created Earl of
Shannon by George II. ii. 123
his death, ii. 148

Walsingham, his motion in
the British house of commons,
about Lord Townshend's proro
gation of the Irish parliament,
negatived, ii. 162
Broghull, Lord, sells himself to
Cromwell, i. 398

his testimony of the perse-
verance of the catholics in the
royal cause, i. 406

his duplicity before the resto-
ration, i. 414

inclines to the royal party;
i. 416

reconciled to Sir C. Coote, in
order to forward the royal 'cause,
i. 417

their insidious conduct to
each other, ib.

created Earl of Orrery by
Charles II, i. 419

Brown, Denis, moves an address

to the throne on retrenchment,
ii. 251

Brown, opposed by the attorney-
general (Fitz Gibbon), ii. 252
Bruce, Robert, beats the English
at Bannockburn, i. 204

Edw. lands in Ireland, i. 205
crowned at Dundalk, ib.
falls in battle, i. 209
Buckingham, Marquis of, vide
Temple.
Buckinghamshire, Lord, succeeds
Lord Harcourt, ii. 177

admits the financial difficul-
ties of the kingdom, ii. 178

weak government of, ii. 186
pro gues parliament, ii. 196
unpopular in Ireland and dis-
approved of in England, ib.

recalled and succeeded by
Lord Carlisle, ib.
Burdett, Sir Francis, seconds Mr.
Fox's motion for an address to
the throne for allaying the dis-
turbances of Ireland, ii. 392
Burgb, Mr. Hussey, proposes an
amendment for free trade, ii. 185

his amiable character, ib.
Burgundy, Duchess of, her in-
trigues against Henry VII. i.
267, 270, 280
Burke, Edmund, his ideas of pub-
-lishing Irish annals, i. 182

his opinion of the revolution
of 1688 as to Ireland, ii 2

his opinion of the penal code
under Ann, ii. 35

his character of Geo. II.ii. 133
his opinion of Mr. Gardiner's
catholic bill, ii. 216

his book on the French Re-
volution and defection from the
Whig party, ii. 302

his letter to Sir Herc. Lang-
rishe on the catholic claims, ii.
308

Burke, Richard, Agent to the Ca-
tholics, ii. 308

imprudently ventures into
the House of Commons, ii.

314

Burston, Counsellor, his opinion
of the legality of catholic dele-
gation, ii 324.

Butler, Simon, chairman to the
society of united Irishmen of
Dublin, ii. 306

publishes digest of popery
laws, ii. 323

his opinion of legality of ca-
tholic delegation, ii. 324
—Rev. Mr., his murder charg-
ed on the catholics, ii. 341
Byrne, Pat. the bookseller, com-
mitted for high-treason, ii. 430

Michael William, executed
contrary to agreement with
government, ii. 498

Cabal, why so called, i. 435

their plans to alter the con-
stitution of Great Brit. i. 437
, encourage plots and plot-
ters, ib.
Cabinet, vide English.
Cabyria, what, i. 867

, their antiquity, i. 878
indecency of, i. 130-1
Camden, his authority in favour
of Ireland, i. 126-7.

Earl of, his speech in the
British Peers in favour of Ire-
land, ii. 186

arrives in Dublin as Lord
Lieutenant, ii. 362.
ill received, ib.

addressed by the Commons,
ii. 364

his speech on prorogueing
the parliament, ii. 367

ditto on meeting of Parlia-
ment, 21st Jan. ii. 373