i. 72; Letter of Monck and other officers, September 12, in

_Confederation and War_, ii. 363. Some wit produced the following:--

'Contra Romanos mores, res mira, dynasta Morus ab Eugenio canonizatus erat.'

[39] Ormonde to Nicholas, August 13, 1642, in appendix to Carte's _Ormonde_; _Confederation and War_, ii. 50, 129, 139, 243.

[40] Remonstrance of grievances, March 17; the King's letters and Commission, April 23, _Confederation and War_, ii. 248, 265.

[41] Inchiquin to Cork, May 25, in Smith's _History of Cork_; _Castlehaven_, p. 41.

[42] Commission dated Oxford, April 23, in _Confederation and War_, i. 267; Propositions of the Confederates, June 24, with Ormonde's answer, June 29; Bellings' reasons in favour of a cessation and Scarampi's answer, July and August. The above are in _Confederation and War_, ii.; _Bellings_, i. 160; Carte's _Ormonde_. See the observations in Gardiner's _Great Civil War_, chap. xi.

[43] _Confederation and War_, ii. 364-384; _Bellings_, i. 156, 163; Declaration of Clanricarde, Inchiquin, and fifteen others that the cessation was necessary, printed by Cox, ii. 133.

[44] Lords Justices and Council to the King, May 11, 1643, and to the two Houses, October 28; the Speakers of both Houses to the Lords Justices and Council, July 4--all in Clarendon's _Hist. of the Rebellion_, book vii. 334, 366. Ormonde was appointed Lord Lieutenant November 13, and sworn in January 21 following. As to Leicester, see the preface to Blencowe's _Sydney Papers_ and his letter of complaint to the Queen in Collins's _Sydney Papers_, ii. 673.