ABSTRACT
Meanwhile, the patent was abused, ridiculed, and denounced in other pamphlets, in poems, broadsides, and public declarations. The commotion fed on itself, and the Irish government did not interfere with much rigour. They arrested a printer or two, blocked a parade, saved a ship in Cork harbour, and stopped a few of the pamphlets. 1 But the Lords Justices also joined in a humble representation to the King, setting forth their reasons for not complying with the orders they had received. Coghill said that if they were absolutely commanded to act against their conscience, the three Justices would ask to be superseded.
