ds returned the bill, with some amendments,
leaving out Lord Hunsden and four or five more, and inserting a few
others; and upon this day the parliament was prorogued.

Again, on the 30th October, a bill was ordered to attaint all such
persons as were in rebellion against their Majesties. On the 26th
November, certain members were ordered to prepare a bill attainting all
who had been in arms against William and Mary, since _14th February_,
1688-9, or any time since, and all who _have been_, or shall be,
_aiding, assisting, or abetting_ them. On the 10th December the bill
was reported and read a first time, and the committee ordered to bring
in a bill for sale of the estates forfeited thereby.

On the 4th April, 1690, another bill was ordered, and was read 22nd
April.

Again, on 22nd October, another attainder and confiscation bill was
brought and passed the Commons on the 23rd December.

Wearied at length by unsuccessful bills, which the better or more
interested feeling of the Lords, or the policy of the King, perpetually
defeated, they abandoned any further attainder bills, and merely
advertized for money on the forfeited lands in Ireland.

The attainders in _court_ might satisfy them. The commissioners of
forfeitures, under 10 William III., c. 9, reported to the Commons on
the 15th of December, 1699, that the persons outlawed for treason in
Ireland since the 13th of February, 1688-9, on account of the late
rebellion, were 3,921 in number. It was abominable for James's
parliament to attaint conditionally the rebels against the old king,
but reasonable for the Whigs to attaint about double the number
absolutely, for never having recognized the new king! These 3,921 had
properties, says the report, to the amount of 1,060,792 _plantation_
acres, worth L211,623 a year, and worth in money, L2,685,130, "besides
the several denominations in the said several counties to which no
number of acres can be added, by reason of the imperfection of the
surveys not here valued." Of these 3,921, there were 491 restored under
the first commission on the articles of Galway and Limerick; and 792
under the second commission, having joint properties of 233,106 acres,
worth L55,763 a year, or L724,923 purchase, leaving 2,638 persons
having 827,686 acres, worth L155,859 a year, or L1,960,206. Yet the
fees were monstrous, says the commissioners, in these Courts of Claims,
L5 being the register's fees for even _entering_ a claim. William