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Excerpt from A History of Ireland, From the Earliest Account to the Accomplishment of the Union With Great Britain in 1801, Vol. 2 of 2
In the forming of these arrangements 3. Change took fif?ggfi; place in the administration in consequence of a revertiorllg-mo lutien in England, where Oliver Cromwell had for cibly dissolved the Long Parliament, 'and seized the sovereign power under the title of lord proteétor. In Ireland, where the news created pleasure in the army, but horror in some others, a resolution was with difficulty procured, by a majority of one in the council of state, for the acknowledgement of his title by a proclamation. His second son, Henry, sent into this country to examine into the state of affairs, and to establish his authority, found the commission ers guilty of enormous frauds for their own emo lument, the courts of judicature shamefully misma nagod, and the obstinate republicans unfit to be left entrusted with places of power. According to an instrument of government composed by the proteétor.
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