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These volumes have been written at such times and seasonsas could be made available during an active life in Ireland,and this may induce critics to take a merciful view of theirmany shortcomings. I have been diligent, but there isstill much extant manuscript material which I have beenunable to use. Ireland is the land of violent and persistentparty feeling, and no party will be pleased with the presentwork, for I hold with an ancient critic that the true functionof history is to bring out the facts and not to maintain athesis. If I am spared to finish the third volume, it willbring the narrative down to the Revolution, and will containchapters on the Church or Churches and on the social stateof Ireland.
The dates of all documents relied on have been given,and unless it is otherwise stated they are among the IrishState Papers calendared from 1603 to 1660. Many papers,chiefly, but not exclusively, from the Carte manuscripts,were printed by Sir J. T. Gilbert in the ‘ContemporaryHistory of Affairs in Ireland,’ or in the ‘History of the Confederationand War in Ireland.’ As these collections aremore generally accessible than the Bodleian Library, I havereferred to them as far as they go. The ‘AphorismicalDiscovery,’ which forms the nucleus of the first, is cited underthat title, and the narrative of Bellings in the second underhis name. The original Carte papers at Oxford have beenoften consulted, as well as the transcripts in the Public RecordOffice, while the manuscripts in the British Museum and in[Pg vi]Trinity College, Dublin, have not been neglected. In thecase of old tracts and newsletters, of which I have reada great many, dates and titles are given.
The late Lord Fitzwilliam did not consider it consistentwith his duty to let Dr. Gardiner see the Strafford correspondencepreserved at Wentworth Woodhouse, and myapplication to his successor has also been refused. Norestriction seems to have been imposed on the editors ofLaud’s works, of which the last instalment was published aslate as 1860. All the Archbishop’s letters are printed,Strafford’s being omitted only because they would havetaken too much room. In 1739 Dr. William K