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though it continued to meet at intervals for six y&rs * its only public act Was a Declaration vindicating themselves from the gr 6 whig suspicions of their being disaffected to the cause of the Queen . Their sittings were mostly employed in those frivolous discussions , conducted \ n that intemperate tone , which is so proverbial in clerical assemblies . They were for a long time occupied in discussing the question , whether the verger or the actuary of the
Upper House was the proper person to bring messages to the tower . It is singular that the Archbishop of Tuam was the only member of this assembly who sat in the one held in the reign of Charles II . The convocation was again constituted in July , 1711 , under the patronage of the Tory adorinistration that had just entered on the government c £ Ireland , and their addresses to the throne , their only acts , were worthy of the party that had given them this brief existence , —When a new parliament assembled in November , 1713 , the convocation was , for the sixth and last time , summoned ; and on this
occasion its members distinguished themselves by . becoming the champions of the Lord Chancellor Phipps , the great abettor in Ireland of Sacheverell's party . They presented an Address to the Lord Lieutenant in favour of the Chancellor , in order to counteract one that had been presented by the House of Commons for his removal from office . At the presentation of this Address ,
a circumstance occcured which shews the temper of those times . On their entering the presence-chamber at the castle , Mr . Molesworth , a privy counsellor , who happened to be present , said tp some gentlemen near him" They who have turned the world upside down are come hither also . " He was overheard by the clergy , who took fire and complained of the aspersion to the Lords , The Lords desired a conference with the Commons on this
supposed breach of privilege ; but the latter treated the matter with indifference . The ministry , however , viewed it in a different li g ht , and , to the disgrace of their party , removed 3 \ Jr . M . from the privy council . Since this period I do not find that the Irish Convocation ever again met for business . The Bangorian controversy in England , in 1718 , appears to have convinced the House of Hanover of the inexpediency of continuing these turbulent and unmanageable assemblies either there or in Ireland . How the rights of the Irish Church in the matter of their convocation were disposed of at the
Union , I am not civilian enough to ascertain or illustrate . In this rapid survey of Irish convocations your correspondent " Clericus Anglicus" will , I trust , find satisfactory answers to his late queries on the subject . He will learn the number and nature of the original articles of the Irish Church-r-the time arid manner of their being summarily exchanged ^ for those of the English hierarchy—the periods at whicli the Irish convocations have sat since the Reformation , ana the fact of their authority , though still
existing dejure , having been , as in England , silently superseded ckfacfo , Roping this communication m&y be worth y of a p lace in vour Repository , and be the means of exciting further curiosity respecting the ecclesiastical history of this country ; I reinain your obedient servant ,
CiERICUS HIBERNU& Qarrickfergus , February 17 , 1827 ..
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Irish Convocations . 239
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1827, page 239, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1795/page/7/
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