iv. 181, calendared at August 13, 1678, but the date must be considered

doubtful. Southwell to Ormonde, September 28, _ib._ p. 454. Ormonde to Lord Chancellor Boyle, October 7, _ib._ Narrative of proceedings of Lord Lieutenant from October 7, 1678, to April 5, 1679, transmitted to Coventry, _Ormonde Papers_, 1st series, ii. 254. Ormonde to Southwell, October 5, _ib._, and the proclamations, _ib._ pp. 350-359. Account of the public affairs in Ireland since the discovery of the late plot, London, 1679 (after April 7).

[120] Anglesey to Ormonde, November 23, 1678, and the answer, November 29, which was considered satisfactory, _Ormonde Papers_, N.S. Ossory to Ormonde, October 23 and December 10, _ib._

[121] Among the many letters in _Ormonde Papers_, vol. iv., the following are the most important: Ossory to Ormonde, November 26, 1678; Ormonde to Burlington, December 21; Ormonde to Orrery, January 11, 1678-9 (unfinished, with the above quotation endorsed); Burlington to Ormonde, January 10; Orrery to Lord Chancellor Boyle, January 28, and the answer March 8. A correspondent of Ormonde, writing from London, May 13, 1679, says, 'Lady Ranelagh defames your Grace more maliciously than ever, and there have been and daily are frequent meetings, both public and private, for that purpose.'

[122] Shaftesbury's speech, March 25, 1679, is in his _Life_ by Christie, ii. appx. vi., and Ormonde's letter to him, May 25, _ib._ ii. 337. Ossory's speech and William of Orange's comments (French) in Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. appx. 93 and 94. Ormonde to Southwell, May 24 and November 8, _Ormonde Papers_, 1st series, ii. 288, 293. Southwell to Ormonde, _ib._, N.S., April 22, iv. 505.

[123] 'Monsieur Barillon said it 'was making _des Etats_ and not _des conseils_,' Temple's _Memoirs_, 3rd part. Many details in Courtenay's _Life of Temple_, chap. xxiv. See the remarks in the second chapter of Macaulay's _History_. Henry Savile to Halifax, May 17, 1679, in _Savile Correspondence_. Halifax favoured the reappointment of Essex in 1679, Burnet, i. 470. Later on Shaftesbury accused him of bargaining with the Court to make him Lord Lieutenant, _ib._ 537.

[124] _Lords Journals_, xiii. 643. _Hist. MSS. Commission_, xi. 2.

[125] Grey's _Debates_, December 9, 10, and 15, January 6 and 7, 1680-1. Burnet's _Own Times_, i. 485. An independent version of the January debates in _H.M.C._, 12th Report, appx. ix. 106.

[126] Plunket's account of the proceedings at Dundalk and afterwards in Cardinal Moran's _Life_ of him, p. 289. Arran to Ormonde, November 6, 1680, _Ormonde Papers_, v. 477, and April 16, 1681, _ib._ vi. 36. _The present state and condition of Ireland_, but more especially of the province of Ulster humbly represented to the kingdom of England by Edmund Murphy secular priest and titular chanter of Armagh, and one of the first discoverers of the Irish Plot, London, 1681.

[127] Francis Gwyn to Ormonde, February 12, 1680-1, _Ormonde Papers_, v. 580. Ormonde to Arran, February 19, _ib._ 586. Burnet's _Own Times_, i. 502. Moran's _Life of Plunket_, chaps. xxv. and xxvi. Writing to Sir John Malet, May 13, 1679, Orrery says Murphy had deposed very circumstantially at Dublin, but was said to be a man of crazed brain and therefore not much to be believed, _Additional MSS._ 32095, f. 186.

[128] State Trials, iii. 293.

[129] State Trials, _ut sup._ For the opinion of Essex and the King's comments on it, see the notes to Airy's edition of Burnet, ii. 292, and Burnet's own opinion. Luttrell does not seem to have had much misgiving, for he considered the charge fully proved and 'the defence very weak, alleging only that he wanted his witnesses and papers which were in Ireland,' June 9 and July 1, 1681. _Hibernia Dominicana_, p. 130.

[130] _The Irish evidence convicted_ by their own oaths by W. Hetherington, London, 1682. Power of attorney from Ormonde, September 1, 1681, _Ormonde Papers_, vi. 306; to Arran, June 26, 1683, _ib._ vii. 52. Luttrell, March 26 and May 3, 1683. Newsletter to Lady Weymouth, May 3, _Additional MSS._, 32095, f. 212. Ormonde to Arran, November 17, 1681, in appx. to Carte's _Ormonde_, no. 126, contains the curious word 'caronated.' It appears in the original MS., but the late Sir James Murray was unable to pronounce on the etymology. Writing to Ormonde on May 20, 1682, Arran says, nine of the King's witnesses petitioned for not less than 20_l._ apiece. He gave 40_l._ among them, 'part to defray their charge at the inn where they lay, the rest to carry them home, where I doubt not but they will follow their other trade and come to the gallows that way.'--_Ormonde Papers_, vi. 365.

[131] Burnet, who was not prejudiced in Ormonde's favour, says (i. 97) Anglesey 'stuck at nothing and was ashamed of nothing,' that he was loved and trusted by no man of any party, had no regard for truth or justice, sold everything and 'himself so often that at last the price fell so low that he grew useless.' Essex thought he intrigued against him, and Lord Mountjoy said he had no friends. Correspondence in the _Ormonde Papers_, beginning with Lord Burlington's letter of October 12, 1680, and Ormonde's of February 19 following. Mountjoy's narrative in 2nd Report of _Hist. MSS. Commission_, p. 213. _Athenæ Oxonienses_ (Bliss), iv. 181. I have used the Dublin 1815 reprint of Castlehaven's _Memoirs_ from the revised edition of 1684: Anglesey's letter is appended. In the _Supplement_ to his History, ed. Foxcroft, p. 62, Burnet says Anglesey 'often begun a speech in Parliament all one way and (upon some secret look that wrought upon him) has changed his note quite and concluded totally different from his beginning ... I never knew any one man that either loved him or trusted him.'

[132] _A true account of the whole proceedings_ between his Grace James Duke of Ormonde and the Rt. Hon. Arthur Earl of Anglesey, late Privy Seal before the King and Council, London, 1682 (attributed to Bishop Morley). Lord Longford to Ormonde, February 25, 1681-2, and March 28, _Ormonde Papers_, vi. 324, 325. Foxcroft's _Life of Halifax_, i. 360. Luttrell, August 10, 1682. Anglesey's account of the Irish Civil War is unfortunately lost. His son told John Dunton that the MS. was in hands which would not let it all appear, Dunton's _Conversation in Ireland_, 1699.

[133] Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 512; _Ormonde Papers_, vols. v. and vi., particularly Captain Charles Poyntz to Sir William Flower, May 3, 1681. Edmund Murphy's pamphlet quoted above. Other details in Prendergast's _Cromwellian Settlement_, 2nd edition, p. 352, and in the same writer's _Ireland from the Restoration to the Revolution_. Notes to Hill's _Montgomery MSS._, p. 119. Article on Redmond O'Hanlon in _Dict. of National Biography_.

[134] Letters in vol. vii. of the _Ormonde Papers_, particularly W. Hamilton to William Ellis, January 2, 1683-4; Primate Boyle to Ormonde, October 3, 17, and 27, 1685; Longford to Ormonde, October 27.

[135] Arran's letters of May 27 and 30, and June 5, 1684, in _Ormonde Papers_, vol. vii.; Anglesey to North and Halifax, _ib._ March 13; Sir C. Wyche to Ormonde, _ib._ February 24, 1684-5. Cox's _Hibernia Anglicana_, ii., Charles II., p. 16. _Secret Consults of the Romish Party_, London, 1690, p. 40.

[136] Statement of Revenue for 1664, signed by Anglesey as Vice-Treasurer, March 20, 1664-5, State Papers, _Ireland_: the total is 153,205_l._ 19_s._ 8_d._ Abstract of Revenue for 1683 in appx. v. to _Clarendon and Rochester Correspondence_, vol. i.: the total is 300,953_l._ 17_s._ 6_d._ _Liber Munerum Publicorum_, part ii. 133. Among a host of letters in _Ormonde Papers_, see particularly Longford to Ormonde, March 21, 1681-2, vi. 349, and Arran's letter with Report on arrears following September 22, 1683, _ib._ vii. 135. See also the article on Ranelagh in _Dict. of National Biography_.

[137] Charles II. to Ormonde, November 19, 1684, Carte's _Ormonde_ ii. appx. 128. Ormonde to Southwell, _ib._ 135 and 139. Rochester to Ormonde, August 26, _Ormonde Papers_, vii. 266.

[138] Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 542 _sqq._ Ormonde to Sunderland, March 6, 1684-5, in _Ormonde Papers_, vii. 266.