This volume contains over 170 original documents and materials covering Irish History from 1603-1800. Included among these documents are 1609 - Instructions for the inquisition of the state of the tenants in Ireland and other matters relating to the forfeited estates, 1616 - Account and opinion of the state of Ireland by Lord Chichester, 1622 - Report of the commissioners of inspection on the Irish plantations, 1632 - Appointment of Wentworth as chief governor of Ireland, 1640 - Subsidy Act, 1641 - Proclamation of Phelim O'Neill &c., 24 Oct. 1641, 1642 - Acts of the Ecclesiastical Congregation, Kilkenny, 10-13 May 1642, 1642 - Petition of the Confederate Supreme Council to Charles I, 31 July 1642, 1648 - Speech of Capt. Oliver French, agent of the Supreme Council, to the States General of the United Provinces, 5 May 1648, 1650s - Cromwellian Union, 1678 - Draft legislation for banishing Catholic prelates and regular clergy, 1689 - Jacobite parliament’s Act of Attainder, 1697 - Bishops’ Banishment Act, 1700 - Act of Resumption, 1723 - Address of the House of Commons to the king on Wood’s halfpence, 27 Sept. 1723, 1745 - The question of security and Scottish Jacobite rising, 1778 - Formation of the first Volunteer units, 1782 - Catholic Relief Act, 1796 - The Insurrection Act, 1798 - Documents on the rebellion.