defended you, your house had been a bonfire ere this about your
ears."

FN 7 L'Hermitage, January 11/21

FN 8 That a portion at least of the native population of Ireland
looked to the Parliament at Westminster for protection against
the tyranny of the Parliament at Dublin appears from a paper
entitled The Case of the Roman Catholic Nation of Ireland. This
paper, written in 1711 by one of the oppressed race and religion,
is in a MS. belonging to Lord Fingall. The Parliament of Ireland
is accused of treating the Irish worse than the Turks treat the
Christians, worse than the Egyptians treated the Israelites.
"Therefore," says the writer, "they (the Irish) apply themselves
to the present Parliament of Great Britain as a Parliament of
nice honour and stanch justice. . . Their request then is that
this great Parliament may make good the Treaty of Limerick in all
the Civil Articles." In order to propitiate those to whom he
makes this appeal, he accuses the Irish Parliament of encroaching
on the supreme authority of the English Parliament, and charges
the colonists generally with ingratitude to the mother country to
which they owe so much.

FN 9 London Gazette, Jan 6. 1697/8; Postman of the same date; Van
Cleverskirke, Jan. 7/17; L'Hermitage, Jan. 4/14/, 7/17; Evelyn's
Diary; Ward's London Spy; William to Heinsius, Jan. 7/17. "The
loss," the King writes, "is less to me than it would be to
another person, for I cannot live there. Yet it is serious." So
late as 1758 Johnson described a furious Jacobite as firmly
convinced that William burned down Whitehall in order to steal