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.