Life
fl.1903; pseudonymous author of pamphlet contesting right of William III
to make grants [of land]; presumably Irish and Catholic, and poss. dispossessed
under Williamite Settlement in Ireland.
Works
The exorbitant grants of William the III examin'd and question’d: shewing
the nature of grants in successive and elective monarchies and proving
by law and history that crown-lands are inalienable, that resumptions
were common all the world over, and likewise shewing that where a prince
hath no hereditary title he can make no hereditary right, and that kings
set up by Parliament can dispose of no lands but with the consent of Parliament,
which renders William the Third’s grants totally void. With reflections
on each paragraph. (London: Printed & sold by B. Bragg 1703),
30pp., 4o. [COPAC Cat. cites ESTC as conjecturing that B. B[ragg] is David
Fitzgerald.]
Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)