he had misrepresented them. Trenchard declared that he had always
spoken of His Majesty as a subject ought to speak of an excellent
sovereign, who had been deceived by evil counsellors, and who
would be grateful to those who should bring the truth to his
knowledge. He vehemently denied that he had called the grant to
Lady Orkney villainous. It was a word that he never used, a word
that never came out of the mouth of a gentleman. These assertions
will be estimated at the proper value by those who are acquainted
with Trenchard's pamphlets, pamphlets in which the shocking word
villainous will without difficulty be found, and which are full
of malignant reflections on William.20 But the House was
determined not to believe Levinz. He was voted a calumniator, and
sent to the Tower, as an example to all who should be tempted to
speak truth which the Commons might not like to hear.

Meanwhile the bill had been brought in, and was proceeding
easily. It provided that all the property which had belonged to
the Crown at the time of the accession of James the Second, or
which had been forfeited to the Crown since that time, should be
vested in trustees. These trustees were named in the bill; and
among them were the four commissioners who had signed the report.
All the Irish grants of William were annulled. The legal rights
of persons other than the grantees were saved. But of those
rights the trustees were to be judges, and judges without appeal.
A claimant who gave them the trouble of attending to him, and
could not make out his case, was to be heavily fined. Rewards
were offered to informers who should discover any property which
was liable to confiscation, and which had not yet been
confiscated. Though eight years had elapsed since an arm had been
lifted up in the conquered island against the domination of the