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Excerpt from The History of the Town of Belfast: With an Accurate Account of Its Former and Present State; To Which Are Added a Statistical Survey of the Parish of Belfast, and a Description of Some Remarkable Antiquities in Its Neighbourhood Tho'uen this organization of the inhabitants of Belfast into a corporate body must have stimulated their exertions and accelerated their improvement, the introduction, about the same time, of English and Scotch Protestants, into the north of Ireland, had a more immediate influence. Presbyterianism was first introduced into this kingdom in 1611, the principal part of those who were established in the counties of Down and Antrim being Scottish settlers. Though Belfast probably participated at an early period in some of the advantages attendant on such changes, it is certain that the Presbyterians, owing to the opposition which the episcopal party afterwards raised against them, acquired influence more slowly in towns than in the more open parts of the country. Early in the seventeenth century, however, Belfast was surrounded by Presbyterian settlements; and however useful such establishments were, in a poli tical point of view, they afterwards occasioned the most serious dissensions. The civil history of thi town, from its erection into a borough until the year 1641, is totally obscured by ecclesiastical transac tions, so that a brief account of them will form a good and necessary prelude to the more important affairs of Belfast, in the latter end of the memorable reign of King Charles the First. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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