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A History of Ireland. From the Earliest Period, to the Present Time (1783)
A History of Ireland From the Earliest Period to the Present Time - 1783 Author:William Crawford Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tradiction to Poynings' Statute, the lords having no power, in the firft inftance, but that of remonftrat- ing to the Deputy and council with refpect to fuch poi... more »nts as they wifhed fhould be paffed into a law, Wentworth catered his proteft againft the meafure. Farewell. LETTER III. IT had been fettled betwixt Charles and the Deputy that there fhould be two feffions of the pre- fent parliament and that in the beginning of the firft the act of fubfidy fhould be paffed. To procure money was the deflgn for which the parliament had been convened, and by complying with it previous to the confideration of grievances, they gave up the only power, by the prudent exercife of which, the redrefs of them could be accornplifhed. But not- withftanding, there was a difficulty in the matter which it was neceffary to obviate to fave the charac-r ter of the King from fevere reflexions. It has been related that to procure a confiderable fum from the recufants, his Majefly had engaged, under the royal fignet, that the graces which they defired fhould be confirmed by parliament. Charles faw that fome of the graces were inconfiftent with his'intereft and though he did not fcruple to promote his felfifh de figns, at the expence of fmcerity, he had difficulty in breaking an obligation of fo very particular a nature. To folve his doubts, Wentworth obferved; that by Poynings' Law, he and the council were empowered to tranfmit or to fupprefs bills, at pleafure, that thofe of them proper to be fent over might be tranfmitted, the palling of which into laws would redound to his Majefty's honor; that fuch of them as were not conducive to his intereft could be fuppref- fed,fed, the odium of which he would take entirely on himfelf and be refponfible for the confequences. In this mean fubterfuge, with wh...« less