Essay on the origine of the royal family of Stewarts

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of them, rather as his own Countrymen the
Irijh, with whom he might converfe without
an Interpreter ?
And is it to be imagined, That his Grand-
child would, in his Foundations, have been
fo profufe to the Englifi Monks and Nuns,
when in the Cloiflers of Ireland he might have
found great Numbers of all Sorts of Religious,
worthy of his bounty, as fit for the fame Pur-
pofe ?_
This Preference then, which thefe Two
Stuarts gave to the EngljJJj, in Exclufion of
the Iri/h, together with fomething like Affec-
tation in Walter the Firfl Stuart, to mention
in his Charter Henry King of Engla?id, with-
out noticing the Kings of Ireland r , is to me a
plain Proof, that our Kings had very little
Kindnefs or Regard for thofe of Ireland: For
Experience may teach us, that all Men, efpe-
cially Perfons of great Note, have a diilingui-
fhing Affection for their Country and Fami-
ly ; and when they are defcended of Crown'd
Heads, or ilich as have made a considerable
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