ABSTRACT
David Hume's 1775 edition of his History of England does not cite Carte's biography by name, but he clearly used it to write his section on the Restoration in Ireland and his conclusion on the settlement echoed the attitude of the earlier work: 'though it be always the interest of all good government to prevent injustice, it is not always possible to remedy it, after it has had a long course, and has been attended with great success'. In dealing with the Restoration, MacGeoghegan cited his fellow Jacobite, Carte, but more often Reily, and it is clear that he was also strongly influenced by French though he did not mention him by name. Nicholas French, In Nominae Sanctissime, published in 1667, asserted that the Restoration regime intended religious persecution, but he also recognised that this policy had not yet been put into effect. S. J. Connolly noted, as Bottigheimer had before him, the continuity, between the latter and pre-1641 Ireland.
