Cokayne 1887, p. 60. "Such Irish peerages however as were cr. by James II in 1689, at a time when he was in full possession of all his Regal Rights as King of Ireland, all of which creations, moreover, were duly enrolled on the Patent Rolls of that Kingdom, from which they has never been erased—stand in a very different category from other Peerages cr. by that King since his (so-called) 'abdication' ..."