1701 - 1710 AD 

1701 AD The Dublin Castle Corporation authority set up in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre), acting on behalf of the English Ascendancy Parliament erected a statue of William of Orange, "The Deliverer," in Dublin, around which there was to be an annual commemoration held each year by the non - Catholics on November 4th.

1702 -1714 AD To continue to sustain the Ascendancy in England, after the death of William of Orange, Anne, another non - Catholic daughter of James 11 the previous Catholic Stuart King of England, was installed as the next Stuart monarch of England and another anti - Catholic  Act was then passed that, "All the Catholic clergy had to register their names and parishes and put in a security for their good behaviour " and with 1,000 registered in Ireland, no more Catholic priests were now allowed into Ireland, and as there was to be no Catholic Bishops (supervisors) the Ascendancy considered this would ensure that there would be no further Ordinations of Catholic priests in Ireland. Those in authority in the Ascendancy were now sure that it was a foregone conclusionthat the Catholic priests would eventually die out, and accordingly so the Catholic faith with them. (At this time partial lists of male householders for Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster were also drawn up by their religious denominations and parishes).

     Among those Land Lords at this time who it was believed, had Jacobite Estates in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster who they confiscated were Henry Archer, Edmund Blanchfield, Walter Bryan, James Bolger, Edward Fitz Gerald, Viscount Piers Galmoy, John Grace, Richard Grace, Robert Grace Junior, John Larkan, Walter Lawless, Charles Ryan and Robert Walsh.

1703 AD Catholic land holdings held by the Mere Irish and the Anglo - Irish in Ireland by now had fallen from 49 % in 1641 AD to 10% - 14%. 

     Sir Stephen Rice / Lord Monteagle this year opposed an inquiry before the English Ascendancy House of Lords in England to present another Bill to introduce further new Irish Penal Laws, "To prevent the further growth of Catholics," and his son was then forced to join the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland so that they could hold onto their property at Mount Eagle in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster Province.

     The Anglo - Irish  Ascendancy Parliament was finally allowed to meet after a 5 year period, and they demanded the same type of set up for Ireland that was now being given to Scotland, after that Parliament had been immorially and forcibly unified with England in 1700 AD when only 200 persons there in Scotland out of all those in the whole Country were actually allowed to vote, but once again this was not agreeable to the English Ascendancy Parliament who also wanted further legislation strengthened and extended to ensure that the Catholic Irish received no benefits at all. To ensure that this occurred they prevented any further chance of any advancement for Catholics, and imposed a Sacramental Test on all office holders to keep them out of the political system, and thereby ensure that the Ascendancy maintained its overall control over the majority in Ireland.

      Lord Kenmare who was a Catholic landholder who had also supported James 11 lost his Estates, and the English lawyer, Asgil who had married his Episcopalian reared daughter was to purchase a life interest in them, and on September 1st he was elected as the M.P. for Enniscorthy and was then allowed entry into the Ascendancy Anglo - Irish Parliament until it was discovered that he had previously written a book in England based on Eternal Life without death, and the Conservatives among the Ascendancy passed a resolution to burn his book and his political career in Ireland was to be cut short. In October he was only permitted to sit in the Parliament for 4 days until he was expelled and he left Ireland altogether, but held on to the Kenmare Estates against the wishes of Lord Kenmare's other heirs.

1704 AD A further Irish Penal Code was enacted and Catholics were barred from voting, education and military service, and non - registered priests were to be expelled from Ireland from July, and Catholics were prohibited from taking leases exceeding 31 years or for their lives.

March: further Legislation was also passed for a new Popery Code / Catholic Penal Laws, "To prevent the further growth of  Catholics, restrict Catholic landholding rights, to do away with Catholic inheritance rights, and to exclude Catholics from professions and public life" and other English Laws were also passed so that no Catholic could be represented in the Parliament, no Catholic may be a constable, solicitor or gamekeeper, no Catholic may own a horse of the value of 5 pounds, no Catholic may go to University, keep a school or be educated abroad and there was to be 10 pound reward paid to anyone who reported a Catholic schoolteacher. No Catholic may purchase land or receive it as a gift, no Catholic may bequeath his land, but must divide it among all his sons, unless one of them becomes an adherent to the Church of England / Ireland and he was then to get the lot, no Catholic may be the guardian of a child, and all Catholic orphans were to be brought up as adherents to the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland, no Catholic can hold a commission in the army, no Catholic can sit on the Bench, no Catholic can hold a position in a government office, no Catholic can vote, and all Catholic churches and pilgrimages were banned.

      These measures were to ensure that any Catholic Irish Land Lords were to be restricted from gaining any further land in Ireland whereby no Catholic may purchase an interest in Irish lands or be able to inherit lands either from a non - Catholic or by marriage and they could not bequeath their land, and as they had to divide it up among all their sons, or the eldest son was to become an adherent to the Church of England / Ireland to get the lot and if he was to do this before his father was to die then it was automatically to be his land only. Also a Bill was to be passed through the Parliament stating that if a non - Catholic acted for an Irish Catholic in an attempt to hold onto his land for his descendants than if they instead claimed it themselves this would be an honourable practise. Now also an Irish Catholic could not vote unless they took an Oath of Allegiance against James 111 / The Old Pretender (the young son of James 11 and Mary of Modena who would later on become the father of Bonnie Prince Charlie.) There was also a Sacramental Oath that was communion according to the rights of the Church of England / Ireland, which ensured that they were stopped from any chance of political public employment and this last English Law was to not only effect the Irish Catholics, but also all Dissenters (non - Conformists) to the Church of England, including the Lowland Scottish Presbyterians, which also had another effect as it now also removed the previous control that they had enjoyed in the Ulster Province, and this was to naturally upset them greatly, and cause them to begin to emigrate from out of Ulster in the second half of this Century.

     Although by now hundreds of Catholic priests were banished from Ireland, under threat of death for High Treason, the Catholic faith was still strong and alive in Ireland and doing well, for even though they were allowed no churches the Catholic Irish and Anglo - Irish made use of Mass Houses, Hedge Masses and Hedge Schools, although the Catholic priests and teachers were now under constant threat of exile and death and once again the message is clear if you want to make anything stronger continue to persecute it.

1706 AD William of Orange after he became the Dutch King of England had previously given away a castle in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province to one of his lackeys, that had been previously re - captured by the O Briens, and then taken by Ludlow for the Puritan Parliamentarians in 1651 AD and held by him for a year until 1666 AD when Charles 11 had then returned it to the O Briens and the Clare Dragoons had then been raised there, who later on were to fight for the French against the English Imperialism after O Brien / Lord Clare was to drill them in the field there after the Battle of the Boyne. It was then given over to Kepple / Capel the English Earl of Abbermarle who sold it at once to the Burtons who would then live there for 250 years.   

     During this period in time also Cruathair O Carevaun who was known to be 8' high lived on an island off Cape Clear in Co. Cork in Southern Munster as a hermit in the ruined Dunamore Castle.

1708 AD Sir Ulrich Burke the third English Baronet of Glinsk who had added to the Castle of Glinsk in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht, died this year.

     O Ferrall / Farrell produced the "Linea Antigua of Irish History" up to this year carrying on from Duald Mac Firbis in 1666 AD

1709 AD Anne the Stuart English Queen sent the English fleet to bring 7,000 non - Catholic Dutch from Rotterdam to England, of which on arrival in England 2,000 were nevertheless found to be Catholic, so she shipped them back, while some were also sent over to Ireland to increase the non - Catholic population and they were planted around Rathkeale in Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west of the Munster Province, including 1200 brought over by Sir Thomas Southwell and up until January 1710 AD there were also to be 821 foreign non - Catholic farming families, totalling 6,000 German Palatines, brought from Baden and Hesse in Germany who arrived into Dublin who had been sent over from England and planted on confiscated territory in Co. Limerick, Co. Kerry and Co. Tipperary in Munster also where the Land Lords there were to put in 538 of them as tenants on their Estates, but eventually 358 of these were to also leave Ireland and return to England.

      The English Ascendancy Parliament also passed an Act of Abjuration / Denial, but there was little response to it and it was not generally enforced. -

1710 AD St. Francis Abbey in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster was now utilised only for brewing beer by John Smithwick.

     With the merchants now well and truly in full control of the English Ascendancy Parliament, Joshua Dawson was appointed the English Secretary of State in Ireland and the beginnings of many new Commercial Acts were to be now also introduced against the interests of all the population in Ireland to ensure their complete control over the economics of Ireland regardless of their religion with one of these prohibiting the importation of hops into Ireland except from England, which was to last for another 60 years up until 1770 AD, which naturally saw a decline in production in Ireland, due to their monopoly of price increases.

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