As to Down and Connor, the bishop of that diocese likewise, Eugene Magennis, had been advanced to it by provision from Pope Paul III.; but he likewise had made submission, and sworn fealty to King Henry VIII., from whom he had a pardon for accepting the sees, in September or October, 1541; together with a dispensation for holding in commendam other benefices, which he voluntarily surrendered, and which were then, by letters patent, annexed to his bishoprick. Moreover in 1552, he assisted Archbishop Browne, together with Lancaster, bishop of Kildare, at the consecration of Goodacre and Bale, appointed by King Edward VI., respectively to Armagh and Ossory. And he was present in the session of parliament which was opened in Dublin on the 12th of January, 1560, wherein the Pope's power was utterly abrogated. "But I do not find," says Sir James Ware, "when he died." "when he died." Ware, therefore, supposes, and so does, of course, his continuator Harris, that the vacancy of this see was made by death, and not by resignation, of which latter cause, if it had occurred, they could hardly have been ignorant; but, however made, the grant of the see to his successor in 1565, renders it probable that the vacancy did not occur in immediate connexion with the queen's accession. Upon the whole, if the position which I have been examining, rests upon any direct testimony, it is entitled to credit in proportion to the validity of that testimony. If not, the foregoing review of the occupancy of the Irish sees at Queen Elizabeth's accession may be a sufficient warrant for the opinion, that no resignations were made in consequence of that event; but rather that the hypothesis of such resignations having been made, is not better founded than the fiction, which, so late as the time of Strype, attributed to the queen the deprivation of Primate Dowdall, who, in fact, died three months before she came to the throne. POSTSCRIPT. WITH reference to the foregoing investigation, my attention has been just now directed to Mr. Dodsworth's little volume, The Church of England a Protester against Romanism and Dissent; in the eighth number of which, page 8, is contained a quotation from a recent tract, entitled, Historical Notices of Peculiar Tenets of the Church of Rome. This quotation states, "That by the records of the Irish Church it appears, that when, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the Roman jurisdiction was renounced, of all the Irish bishops only two, namely, Walsh, bishop of Clonard," (meaning Meath, of which Clonard was one of the numerous constituents,) "and Liverous," (Leverous,) "bishop of Kildare, suffered deprivation for their refusal to join in that renunciation. Two others, Lacey, bishop of Limerick, and Skiddy, bishop of Cork and Cloyne, resigned; the former in 1566, and the latter in 1571, possibly from scruples on the same score." It may be that these are the two bishops of whom Mr. Perceval speaks as having "resigned, at the accession of Queen Elizabeth." But, whether their resignation was at all connected with the alleged or supposed cause, is left to the decision of the reader, when he shall have considered the circumstances above stated concerning the investiture and consecration of Bishop Skiddy, and the length of time which elapsed during his and Bishop Lacy's contented occupancy of their sees, without any scruple, as it should seem, as to the Roman jurisdiction and supremacy. After all, the question is of no great moment. But, having stated as a fact what appears to be differently regarded by the abovenamed respectable writers, I am fain to take this opportunity for endeavouring to explain and verify my statement. INDEX. ABBEVADDO, alias Belfast, several chapels annexed to its church in Abbeys, suppression of thirteen, enacted, 122 Abbots and Priors, provision made for them, on surrendering their of suppressed houses, lords of parliament, 158 Acts of Parliament, 26 Henry VIII., chap. 14, English, concerning Poyning's Act, its purport, 115 repealed in Henry VIII.'s first parliament, 116 28 Henry VIII., chap. 4, repeals Poyning's Act, 116 28 Henry VIII., chap. 5, enacts the King's Supremacy, 116 28 Henry VIII., chap. 16, enacts the suppression of certain 28 Henry VIII., chap. 26, vests the first-fruits of suppressed 28 Henry VIII., chap. 14, gives the twentieth of all spiritual 28 Henry VIII., chap. 19, prohibits all payments to the Pope, 123 28 Henry VIII., chap. 13, annuls Papal authority, 116 28 Henry VIII., chap. 12, determines the authority of proctors in 28 Henry VIII., chap. 15, for encouraging the English order, 28 Henry VIII., chap. 16, enacts the dissolution of monasteries, 155 28 Henry VIII., chap. 16, for the suppression of abbeys, 164 31 Henry VIII., chap. 14, and 32 Henry VIII., chap. 10, for 33 Henry VIII., chap. 5, for the suppression of Kilmainham and 33 Henry VIII., chap. 14, for endowing vicarages in parishes 33 Henry VIII., chap. 1, for entitling the King of England the earliest in Ireland directed against the reformed doctrines, 243 Acts of Parliament, 3 and 4 Philip and Mary, chap. 9, for reviving explanation of the three statutes, 246 gloomy prospect opened by them to Protestants, 248 purpose of carrying them into effect, 249 3 and 4 Philip and Mary, chap. 8, for repealing statutes against its provisions, 245 3 and 4 Philip and Mary, chap. 10, for the discharge of the first- its provisions, 247 2 Eliz., chap. 1, for restoring the Crown's ancient jurisdiction, for Uniformity, of Queen Elizabeth, still in force when the 2 Eliz., chap. 3, for restitution of first-fruits to the Crown, 262 hesitation about carrying it into effect, 266 correspondence between the queen and council about it, 267 11 Eliz., chap. 6, to prevent the nomination of improper persons 12 Eliz., chap. 1, for the erection of free-schools, 289 its occasion, 289 and provisions, 290 28 Eliz., chap. 2, against witchcraft and sorcery, 313 3 and 4 Philip and Mary, prohibited the bringing of the Scots repealed by 11 James I., 367 10 Charles I., for improving the estates of the Church, 483 and principal enactments, 645, 646 its operation on nonconformist ministers, 647 17 and 18 Charles II., chap. 10, for disabling persons to hold of Charles II., enacting an annual thanksgiving for the King's ditto for preservation from the late Rebellion, 636 of Uniformity in England, proceedings connected with it, their of Attainder, passed in the parliament of King James II., 709 its enactments, 710 five lists of persons proscribed by it, 710–713 its spirit of fraud, violence, and cruelty, 713 of Repeal of the Act of Settlement, its injustice, 708 opposition made to it, 709 its effect on Protestants, 710 |