ps out
the falsehood by inserting places--Thurles, Tipperary, Arklow, and
Birr--which _never_ had members before or since, by _creating_ a
_second_ town of Kells, by transferring St. Johnstown in Longford which
returned members, to St. Johnstown in Donegal, which was a seat of war,
and by other tricks equally discreditable to his honesty and
intelligence.

The towns unrestored _could_ not have sent members to James's
parliament, and it was apparently doubted whether they ought to have
done so to William's in '92.

Against the Commons actually elected the charge is that only six
Protestants were elected. In the very section containing the charge it
is much qualified by other statements. "Thus," he says, "one Gerard
Dillon, Sergeant-at-Law, a most furious Papist, was Recorder of Dublin,
and he stood to be chosen one of the burgesses for the city, but could
not prevail, because he had purchased a considerable estate under the
Act of Settlement, and they feared lest this might engage him to defend
it;" and therefore they chose Sir Michael Creagh and Terence Dermot,
their Senior Aldermen, showing pretty clearly that the good citizens of
Dublin set little value on the "furious Popery" of Prime Sergeant
Dillon, in comparison with their property plundered by the Act of
Settlement.

The election for Trinity College is worthy of notice. We have it set
out in flaming paragraphs how horribly the College was used, worse than
any other borough, "Popish Fellows" being intruded. "In the house they
placed a Popish garrison, turned the chapel into a magazine, and many
of the chambers into prisons for Protestants." (King, p. 220, Ed.
1744.) Yet, _miraculous_ to say, in the heart of this "Popish
garrison," the "turned-out Vice-Provost, Fellows, and Scholars" met,
and elected two most bold, notable, and Protestant Williamites.

If this election could take place in Dublin, under the very nose of the
Government, and in a corporation in which the king had unquestioned
control, one will hesitate about the compulsion or exclusion in other
places.

Besides Sir John Meade and Mr. Joseph Coghlan, the members for the
College, there "were four more Protestants returned, of whose behaviour
I can give no account," says King. Pity he does not give the names.

If we were to allow a similar error in King's account of the creed of
the elected, that we have proved in his lists of the borough electors,
it would raise the number of Protestants in the