16; King's State of the Protestants of Ireland, chap.ii.sec.

8.] [Footnote 155: King, chap.ii.sec.8.Miss Edgeworth's King Corny belongs to a later and much more civilised generation; but whoever has studied that admirable portrait can form some notion of what King Corny's great grandfather must have been.] [Footnote 156: King, chap.iii.sec.

2.] [Footnote 157: Sheridan MS.; Preface to the first volume of the Hibernia Anglicana, 1690; Secret Consults of the Romish Party in Ireland, 1689.] [Footnote 158: "There was a free liberty of conscience by connivance, though not by the law."-- King, chap.iii.sec.

i.] [Footnote 159: In a letter to James found among Bishop Tyrrel's papers, and dated Aug.14.1686, are some remarkable expressions.

"There are few or none Protestants in that country but such as are joined with the Whigs against the common enemy." And again: "Those that passed for Tories here" (that is in England) "publicly espouse the Whig quarrel on the other side the water." Swift said the same thing to King William a few years later "I remember when I was last in England, I told the King that the highest Tories we had with us would make tolerable Whigs there."-- Letters concerning the Sacramental Test.] [Footnote 160: The wealth and negligence of the established clergy of Ireland are mentioned in the strongest terms by the Lord Lieutenant Clarendon, a most unexceptionable witness.] [Footnote 161: Clarendon reminds the King of this in a letter dated March 14.