The roll of names was not published, but kept carefully locked up in Fitton's closet.

Some Protestants, who still adhered to the cause of James, but who were anxious to know whether any of their friends or relations had been proscribed, tried hard to obtain a sight of the list; but solicitation, remonstrance, even bribery, proved vain.

Not a single copy got abroad till it was too late for any of the thousands who had been condemned without a trial to obtain a pardon, [233] Towards the close of July James prorogued the Houses.

They had sate more than ten weeks; and in that space of time they had proved most fully that, great as have been the evils which Protestant ascendency has produced in Ireland, the evils produced by Popish ascendancy would have been greater still.

That the colonists, when they had won the victory, grossly abused it, that their legislation was, during many years, unjust and tyrannical, is most true.