r persons in whose custody the
same are, be brought before the lord deputy, or other chief
governour or governours of this kingdom for the time being, at such
time as the lord deputy, or other chief governour or governours for
the time being shall appoint, at the council chamber in Dublin, and
there shall be publicly and openly cancelled and utterly destroyed:
and in case any officer or person in whose hands or custody the
said acts and rolls or proceedings, or any of them, do or shall
remain, shall wilfully neglect or refuse to produce the same, to
the intent that the same may be cancelled and destroyed, according
to the true intent of this act, every such person and officer shall
be, and is hereby adjudged and declared to be from thenceforth
incapable of any office or employment whatsoever, and shall forfeit
and pay the sum of five hundred pounds, one-half thereof to his
Majesty, and the other half to such person or persons that shall
sue for the same by any action of debt, bill, plaint, or
information, in any court of record whatsoever."--7 _Will. III.
Ir. c. 1._

"_It is possible_ an outline of some such bill might have been
prepared by one of those hot-headed people of whom James had too
many in his councils either for his safety or for his reputation,
and they were chiefly ENGLISH; and that such draft of a bill having
been laid before _parliament_, that wise, patriotic and sagacious
_body_ did ameliorate and reduce it into 'the statute for the
revival of the court of claims'; a law so unparalleled from its
moderation in its review of forfeitures, by going back to
_Cromwell's debentures exclusively_; a period of only thirty-eight
years anterior to the date of their then sitting.

"Such a _draft of a bill_, like our own protestant bill for the
castration of Romish priests, _which did pass_ here but was
cushioned in England,[1] or like the _threat of a bill for
levelling popish chapels_, which I myself heard made when I sat in
the house of commons, such a draft of a bill, I say, might have
been found among the baggage of the Duke of Tyrconnel, of Sir
Richard Nagle, or of the unfortunate sovereign himself, for Burnet
acquaints us, That all Tyrconnel's papers were taken in the camp;
and those of James were found in Dublin." (Burnet's "Own Times,"
Vol. 2nd, p. 30).