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 Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 5:17 pm Post subject: Regardless of the proclamation |
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Lord Carteret read passages from the fourth letter about Irish constitutional independence to the Irish Privy Council and claimed that they were treasonable.[60] It was then that Harding was arrested for printing the letters and a reward of £300 was offered for the identity of the Drapier.[61] Lord Carteret wrote that the arrest and bounty were the result of an "unfortunate accident" and he did not want to respond in such a way.[62] Lord Midleton was also forced to denounce his previous ally, the Drapier, when did so when he wrote, "to provoke England to that degree as some have endeavoured to do, is not the true way to keep them out".[63] Archbishop King responded to the letters by saying they were "ludicrous and satyrically writ".[64] However, the Archbishop publicly supported the constitutional actions more than the other three, and his support caused others important officials to criticize him.[65]
Regardless of the proclamation against the Drapier and the words issued by important Irish officials, the people of Ireland had stood by the writer, and it was their support that protected Swift.[66] Some critics have viewed this support as resulting from the letter's appeal to the "mob", or common people, of Ireland.[5]
[edit] To Viscount Molesworth
A document with the title "A Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Molesworth" and containing several Biblical excerpts. It has the same signature and printer as before.
Title page of To Viscount Molesworth from the 1735 Faulkner edition and reproduced by the 1903 Temple Scott edition
The Drapier's fifth letter, A Letter To the Honourable the Lord Viscount Molesworth, at his House at Brackdenstown, near Swords was published on 31 December 1724. The letter includes the most pseudo-biographical information on the Drapier.[67]
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