Clarendon, Oxford Edition of 1815

The following curious fact, relating to the Oxford edition of Lord Clarendon's History in 1815, was communicated to me by a gentleman who was then officially interested in the publication, and personally cognisant of the circumstances. In the year 1815, the University of Oxford determined to reprint Clarendon's *History of the Rebellion*, and to add to it that of the Irish rebellion; but as it was suspected by one of the delegates of the press, that the edition from which they were printing the "Irish Rebellion" was spurious, as it attributed the origin of the rebellion *to the Protestants ins…