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is  deroted  to  scholaivhips  in  Hanrard  UniTenitj  for  the 
benefit  of  descendants  of 

HENRY  BRIGHT,  JR., 
who  died  St  Watertown,  Massachvsetts,  in  i686ii  In  the 
absence  of  snch  descendants,  other  persons  are  eligible 
to  the  scholarships.  The  will  reqvlres  that  this  annovnco- 
ment  shall  be  made  in  ererf  book  added  to  the  Library 
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HISTORICAL    MANUSCEIPTS    COMMISSION. 


CALENDAR 

OF    THE 

MANUSCRIPTS 

OF    THE 

MARQUESS  OF  ORMONDE,  K.R 


PRESERVED    AT 


KILKENNY     CASTLE. 


New  Series,  Vol.  III. 


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LONDON: 
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CONTENTS. 


PAGE. 

Introduction  ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...        v. 


I. — Miscellaneous  Correspondence,  1660-1675 1. 


II. — State  op  the  Eevbnue  op  Ireland,  1661 378. 


III. — Letters  op   Elizabeth,   Duchess   of   Ormond   to 

Captain  George  Mathew,  1668-1673  437. 


INTRODUCTION. 


I.    MISCELLANEOUS   CORRESPONDENCE,   1660-1675. 

Op  the  three  classes  of  documents  dealt  with  in  this  volume 
the  first  section  is  a  continuation  of  the  selections  from  the 
voluminous  correspondence  of  the  first  Duke  of  Ormond,  with 
which  the  present  series  of  the  Ormonde  Papers  commenced. 
This  correspondence  has  been  catalogued  in  extenso,  it  may 
be  remembered,  in  the  Appendices  to  the  Fourth,  Sixth  and 
Seventh  Reports  of  the  Historical  Manuscripts  Commission, 
compiled  by  the  late  Sir  John  Gilbert ;  and  in  Volume  L  of 
the  present  series  the  process  of  selection  was  carried  from 
the  opening  letter  of  the  long,  sequence  of  documents  in  1572 
down  to  the  year  1660.  In  this  volume  the  selection  is  con- 
tinued from  the  Restoration  down  to  1675,  and  covers  the 
period  of  the  Duke  of  Ormond's  first  post-Restoration  Vice- 
royalty  and  of  the  subsequent  temporary  eclipse  of  his  splendid 
fortunes,  which  lasted  from  1668  to  1677. 

'  For  the  reasons  adverted  to  in  the  Introduction  to  Volume  I., 
the  interest  of  the  correspondence,  though  in  many  respects 
it  is  of  great  value,  is  disproportionate  to  its  bulk.  The 
gaps  in  the  collection  at  Kilkenny  are  many  and  great,  and 
they  occur, 'as  a  rule,  just  at  those  periods  and  in  relation  to 
those  events  in  regard  to  which  historical  curiosity  is  keenest. 
No  better  testimony  can  be  l)orne  to  the  efficiency  with  which 
Thomas  Carte  discharged  his  great  biographical  task  than  that 
which  is  provided  by  the  comparative  poverty  of  the  materials 
remaining  at  Kilkenny.  The  biographer  thoroughly  under- 
stood his  business.  He  had  a  quick  eye  both  for  the  documents 
essential  to  his  task  and  for  those  which  would  serve  to  brighten 
his  work,  and  accordingly  he  carried  off  to  England  almost 
all  the  best  gems  of  a  singularly  varied  collection.  The  papers 
accumulated  by  the  first  Duke  of  Ormond  are  the  richest  of 
all  collections  of  extant  manuscript  materials  for  modern  Irish 
history.  But  their  most  precious  treasures  are  no  longer 
in  Ireland.  It  is  therefore  to  the  great  mass  of  papers  at 
Oxford  which  bear  the  biographer's  name,  rather  than  to  those 

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still  in  the  evidence  Eoom  at  ICilkenny  Castle,  that  we  must 
have  recourse  for  the  most  important  of  these  documents. 
Thus  it  is  that  an  impression  of  disappointment  is  inevitably 
produced  in  the  mind  of  the  ordinary  reader  by  the  detached 
and  inconsecutive  character  of  the  portion  of  the  correspondence 
which  still  remains  in  Ireland. 

By  far  the  greater  portion  of  the  existing  papers  at  Kilkenny, 
for  the  period  covered  by  this  report,  have  to  do  with  the 
strictly  domestic  interests  of  the  House  of  Ormond,  and 
with  the  management  df  the  immense  estates  of  the 
dukedom.  They  consist  largely  of  the  reports  of  stewards 
and  agents  on  these  and  cognate  matters  which,  though  they 
may  at  times  touch  on  matters  of  historical,  topographical,  or 
archaeological  interest,  are  in  general  remote  from  the  domain 
of  history.  As  in  Volume  I.  of  the  present  series,  so  in  this, 
it  may  be  assumed  that  those  items  in  the  chronological 
catalogue  compiled  by  Sir  John  Gilbert  which  are  not  noticed, 
either  lie  outside  the  purview  of  the  Historical  Manuscripts 
Commission,  or  have  already  been  printed  elsewhere.  The 
letter,  printed  at  p.  6,  from  the  Duchess  of  Ormond  to  her 
steward  is  a  fair  specimen  of  much  of  the  correspondence,  and 
will  enable  the  reader  to  judge  of  the  character  of  the 
manuscripts  which  have  not  been  transcribed  for  this  volume. 

To  the  student  of  seventeenth  century  history,  however,  who 
is  familiar  with  the  correspondence  accessible  elsewhere,  and 
still  more  to  the  reader  whose  knowledge  is  confined  to  printed 
sources,  the  correspondence  here  printed,  though  provokingly 
scrappy  and  disjointed,  will  not  ai)pear  uninteresting.  Upon 
at  least  three  important  topics  the  letters  throw  no  inconsider- 
able light.  They  supply  many  fresh  details  of  the  negotiations 
attending  the  Irish  Acts  of  Settlement  and  Explanation ;  they 
add  a  good  deal  to  our  comprehension  of  those  intrigues  of  the 
courtier  statesmen  of  Charles  II.,  which,  in  England,  resulted  in 
the  disgrace  of  Clarendon,  and,  in  Ireland,  led  to  the  removal 
of  the  Duke  of  Ormond  from  the  Viceroyalty ;  and  they  throw 
much  useful  light  on  the  reconstitution  of  the  administrative 
machinery  of  Ireland  after  the  Restoration.  They  are  also 
valuable  for  the  information  they  contain  on  many  matters  of 
social  and  topographical  interest ;  such  as  the  efforts  of  the 
Duke  of  Ormond  to  encourage  the  woollen  industry  in  Ireland, 


Vll 

and  the  formation  of  the  Phoenix  Park.  Finally,  they  supple- 
ment with  many  lively  touches  our  knowledge  of  the  career  of 
the  Duke  of  Ormond  himself,  and  contribute  to  a  correct 
appreciation  of  the  great  figure  which  filled  so  large  a  space  in 
the  Ireland  of  the  seventeenth  century. 

The  volume  opens,  appropriately  enough,  with  a  letter  from 
Lord  Anglesey,  with  whom,  as  Vice-Treasurer  of  Ireland,  Ormond 
was  throughout  his  Viceroyalty  in  the  closest  oflScial  relations. 
Anglesey's  numerous  letters  occupy  much  of  the  first  part  of 
the  volume,  and,  with  the  copies  of  Ormond's  less  numerous 
answers,  take  up  some  fifty  or  sixty  pages.*  Most  of  these 
belong  to  the  years  iQ63  and  1664,  and  relate  mainly  to  the 
negotiations  respecting  the  Act  of  Explanation.  How  to 
reconcile  the  conflicting  claims  of  half  a  dozen  antagonistic 
interests  and  to  produce  an  appearance  of  satisfaction  among 
a  crowd  of  applicants,  of  whom  only  a  small  minority  could  be 
gratified,  was  the  impossible  problem  of  the  early  years  of 
Ormond's  administration.  He  has  himself  stated  the  difiiculty 
with  which  he  w^as  confronted  in  a  striking  passage  quoted 
by  Carte.  "If  the  adventurer  and  soldier  must  be  satisfied 
to  the  extent  of  what  they  suppose  intended  them  by  the 
declaration;  and  if  all  that  accepted  and  constantly  adhered 
to  the  Peace  of  1648  must  be  restored,  as  the  same  declaration 
seems  also  to  intend,  and  was  partly  declared  to  be  intended 
at  the  last  debate,  there  must  be  new  discoveries  made  of  a 
new  Ireland,  for  the  old  will  not  serve  to  satisfy  their  engage- 
ments. It  remains  then  to  determine  which  party  must 
suffer  in  the  default  of  means  to  satisfy  all ;  or  whether  both 
must  be  proportionably  losers."  t  It  was  indeed  largely  the 
inevitable  dissatisfaction  of  the  disappointed  majority  who  failed 
to  make  good  their  claims  which  led  to  Ormond's  dismissal 
from  the  Irish  Government  in  1668.  The  correspondence 
between  Anglesey  and  Ormond  was  frequent,  and  indeed 
incessant,  from  July,  1663,  to  May,  1664,  when  the  latter  went 
over  to  England  to  assist  in  the  final  shaping  of  the  Act  of 
Explanation  by  the  King's  English  advisers.  The  two  friends 
discuss  men  and  measures  with  the  utmost  freedom  and 
unreserve.  Many  of  Anglesey's  letters  were  indeed  written  in 
cipher,  but  in  such  cases  the  originals  contain  Ormond's  decipher 

*  Vide  pp.  1  to  170  jmssim,        t  Carte's  Ormonde,  vol.  ii. ,  p.  240. 


VIU 

of  them,  often  pencilled  in  in  his  own  hand.  Many  of  Anglesey's 
letters  relate  to  questions  of  revenue  and  expenditure,  matters 
which  next  to  the  settlement  of  the  land  claimed  the  largest 
share  of  the  attention  of  those  responsible  for  the  Irish 
Government  at  the  time.  No  great  difficulty  would  have  been 
exjDerienced  in  meeting  the  ordinary  charges  of  the  Irish  Estab- 
lishment, which,  as  appears  from  the  Account  of  the  Revenue 
printed  in  Section  II.*  of  this  volume,  were  not  extravagantly 
framed.  But  the  King  was  perpetually  giving  warrants  for 
large  sums,  at  the  solicitation  of  individuals;  and  this  soon 
caused  serious  financial  difficulty.  These  embarrassments  were 
eventually  made  the  pretext  for  attacks  upon  Ormond,  and 
combined  with  the  clamour  of  the  landgrabbers  of  the  seven- 
teenth century  to  in'ocure  Ormond's  recall  from  Ireland.  But 
though  Ormond  had  certainly  a  taste  for  splendour,  and  main- 
tained a  viceiegal  court  on  a  scale  of  magnificence  not  greatly 
inferior  to  that  of  the  King  himself,  the  charges  against  him 
had  certainly  their  origin  in  personal  envy  rather  than  in  any 
sincere  desire  for  reform.  The  correspondence  with  Anglesey 
tends  to  substantiate  the  account  given  by  Carte  of  these 
matters,!  and  to  confirm  the  Duke*6  own  vindication  of  this 
part  of  his  conduct  in  the  vigorous  paper  he  addressed  to  the 
King  several  years  later  in  reply  to  Lord  Ranelagh's  criticisms 
on  his  administration.! 

Of  matters  of  more  immediately  local  concern  touched  on  in 
the  correspondence  the  most  interesting  are  the  references  to 
Ormond's  management  of  the  woollen  industry  at  Chapelizod§ 
near  Dublin,  at  Clonmel,|l  and  at  Carrick.^  Some  interesting 
information  is  also  given  in  the  correspondence  on  siich 
matters  as  the  formation  of  the  Phoenix  Park,**  a  project  in 
which  Ormond  was  keenly  interested;  the  fortification  of 
Dublintt  and  other  places  of  importance;  the  coinage  of 
money  in  Ireland ;It  and  the  holding  of  assizes  through  the 
country.§§  But  as  the  letters  from  1675  to  1684  supplement 
this  information  materially,  discussion  of  these  topics  may  con- 
veniently be  reserved  for  the  introduction  to  the  next  volume 
of  this  series. 


*  Vide  p.  375^  infrn,  et  acq.  f  Carte's  Life  of  Omiond,  vol.  ii.,  p.  307, 

rt  scq.         t  and  I])id  ii.,  p.  454.  §    pp.  322—337,  340—60.  ll  pp.  353— 

5.357—9.         ^\  p.  312.    An<l  see  Carta's  Life  of  Ormond,  vol.  ii.,  p.  341,  r/:.9r'«7. 
♦*  pp.  55,  189,  193     195,  291—3.  ft  pp.  '^^i  50-51,  226,  231,  236,  240,  275. 

XX  pp.   168,  302.         §§  p.  207,  2(50. 


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In  addition  to  the  letters  referring  to  public  affairs,  no 
inconsiderable  portion  of  the  correspondence  is  occupied,  as 
already  remarked,  with  matters  of  domestic  interest,  and  is 
concerned  with  the  private  interests  of  the  Duke  and  his  family. 
Of  these,  in  so  far  as  they  possess  historical  interest,  some 
account  will  be  found  in  the  third  section  of  this  introduction  in 
relation  to  the  Letters  of  the  Duchess  of  Ormond.  A  word 
may,  however,  be  said  here  as  to  the  acquisition  of  Moor  Park 
by  the  Duke,  and  the  ai)pearance  of  that  famous  seat  during  his 
ownership.  Ormond  acquired  it  in  1661,  prior  to  his  nomina- 
tion to  the  Viceroyalty,  by  purchase  from  the  Bishop  of 
Rochester  of  the  day,  subject,  however,  to  an  interest  held  in  it 
by  one  Sir  Eichard  Francklin.  He  appears  to  have  designed  it 
as  his  country  seat,  to  which  he  might  retire  in  "  such  starts 
of  retirement "  as  his  sedulous  attendance  on  the  Iting  as  Lord 
High  Steward  might  permit.  Lord  Anglesey,  who  was  asked 
by  Ormond  to  visit  and  report  on  the  place  and  the  improve- 
ments initiated  there  by  him,  gives  this  inviting  account  of  the 
house  and  its  surroundings :  **  I  was  last  week  to  view  Moor 
Park,  which  I  find  to  be  still  the  same  sweet  and  pleasant 
seat  I  knew  it  before,  and  had  a  taste  of  the  goodness  of  your 

Grace's   venison The  gardens  are   extraordinary, 

full  of  delightful  walks  and  fountains,  and  terraces  with  covered 
walks  for  rainy  weather,  and  I  believe  the  very  leiwl  of  the 
terraces  and  houses  is  not  less  worth  than  iJl,500.  The  Park 
is  well  wooded,  but   none  to  be  spared  for  sale,  yet  may  be 

valued  at  i6l,500 The  Park  is  set  out  into  w-alks 

shaded  with  trees  set  in  rows,  and  there  is  a  fair  brick  lodge 
that  hath  the  prospect  of  most  of  the  Park  and  country,  and 
may  be  seen  at  the  end  of  a  long  walk  out  of  your  dining  room 
window.  In  line,  when  you  will  refresh  yourself  for  a  few 
days  with  the  country  air,  you  cannot  do  it  anywhere  better, 
and  the  w'ay  will  hold  you  but  two  hours  or  a  little  more 
riding.  It  is  an  enclosed  country,  and  so  not  the  best  for 
hawking  or  hunting,  though  passable  for  both,  but  there  is 
excellent  brook  hawking,  which  I  think  your  Grace  takes 
pleasure  in."* 

Moor  Park  was  placed  in   charge   of  one   James  Buck,   a 
dependant  of  the  Duke,  who  appears  to  have  been  a  somewhat 

*  AiigleMoy  to  Ormond,  Sept.  8,  1063,  p.  83. 


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unjust  steward,  and  to  have  injured  the  place  by  cutting  and 
selling  timber  for  his  own  profit.  He,  however,  seems  to  have 
carried  out  a  number  of  improvements  in  the  Duke's  behalf, 
the  nature  of  which  are  detailed  in  one  of  his  letters,*  and  which 
included  planting  on  a  large  scale.  He  was,  moreover,  a  genial 
rogue,  and  some  of  his  letters  are  amusing.  Ormond  did  not 
long,  retain  Moor  Park.  Being  obliged  to  retrench  his  expendi- 
ture in  1670,  he  sold  it  in  that  year  to  the  Duke  of  Monmouth, 
as  detailed  in  the  Duchess's  letters,  for  i;l3,200.t 


II.    STATE   OF  HIS  MAJESTY'S  EEVENUE   IN 

IRELAND,  1661. 

This  manuscript,  which  is  here  reproduced  in  extenso,  is  the 
return  furnished  by  Sir  James  Ware,  the  Auditor-General  of 
Ireland,  better  known  as  an  accomplished  historian  and 
antiquary,  of  the  Eevenue  and  Expenditure  of  Ireland  for 
practically  the  first  clear  working  year  after  the  Restoration.  It 
is  of  the  utmost  interest  for  the  light  it  throws  upon  the 
administrative  machinery  of  Ireland,  as  constituted  after  the 
Restoration  under  the  government  of  the  first  Duke  of  Ormond. 

It  appears  by  this  account  that  the  total  income  which  came 
to  the  hands  of  His  Majesty's  Vice-Treasurer  and  Receiver- 
General  of  Ireland,  Arthur  Earl  of  Anglesey,  for  the  year 
1661-2  amounted  to  £201,046  12s.  Ifd.  The  principal  items 
of  which  this  modest  revenue  is  made  up  are  Excise  and 
Customs,  Quit  Rents  and  Crown  Rents,  and  Poll  Money. 

The  figures  of  the  returns  under  these  heads  are  respectively 
as  follows : — 

£        s.    d. 

Quit  Rents 45,408    7    5i 

Excise  and  Customs      ....    52,112    8  lOf 
Poll  Money 77,406    4    7f 

Of  this  income  a  sum  of  £37,143  9s.  7fd.,  or  somewhat 
less  than  one-fifth,  was  absorbed  by  the  charges  of  the  Civil 
Government,  leaving  a  balance  of  £163,903  2s.  5f d.  "  for  the 
payment  of  the  Military  List,"  a  sum  which,  however  dispro- 
portionate it  may  appear  to  the  civil  charges,  barely  sufficed  for 


p.  197.  t  p.  445. 


t 

XI 


the  calls  upon  it.  The  certijficate  of  the  Auditor-General  at  the 
end  of  the  account  shows  how  closely  the  Ministers  of  Charles 
II.  sailed  to  the  wind  financially,  even  in  the  first  years  after 
the  Restoration,  before  the  Irish  Pension  List  became  burdened, 
as  was  afterwards  the  case,  with  extravagant  pensions  to  royal 
mistresses  and  other  favourites  who  had  no  connection  with  the 
country.    It  is  in  these  terms: — 

"  Sum  total  of  the  payments  and  disbursements  aforesaid  "  [for 
military  charges]  "is  £168,820  17s.  OJd.  And  so  there 
'remaineth  in  the  hands  of  the  said  accomptant  the  sum 
*of    i*82  5s.  5id.     Out  of  which  is  allowed   to   the  Deputy- 

*  Receiver-General's  clerks  for  their  extraordinary  labour  and 
'  pains  taken  about  this  account,   £52,  and  to  the  Auditor's 

*  clerks  over  and  above  the  sums  allowed  them  in  the  account 

*  for  Civil  Affairs,  £30.     And  so  remains  in  the  hands  of  the 

*  accomptant,  5s.  4}d. 

"  J.  Ware." 

If  the  revenue  of  Ireland  was  thus  barely  adequate  to  the 
charges  on  it,  the  straitened  circumstances  of  the  Exchequer 
can  hardly  be  attributed  to  extravagance  in  the  salaries  paid  to 
the  ofl&cials  on  the  Civil  Establishment.  The  Lords  Justices 
— Sir  Maurice  Eustace,  Lord  Orrery,  and  Lord  Mountrath — to 
whom  the  administration  was  temporarily  entrusted  pending 
the  appointment  of  the  Duke  of  Ormond  as  Viceroy,  received 
the  considerable  emolument  of  £1,500  apiece,  and  the  first 
named  received  in  addition  a  like  sum  in  his  capacity  of  Lord 
Chancellor.  The  Chancellor  seems  also  to  have  received 
£311  17s.  6d.  as  a  Judge  in  Chancery.  But  with  these 
exceptions  the  servants  of  the  Crow^n,  both  legal  and  lay,  seem 
to  have  been  remunerated  on  a  modest  scale.  The  highest 
salaries  were  those  paid  to  His  Majesty's  Judges.  Of  these  the 
Chief  Justice  of  the  Chief  Place,  Lord  Santry,  received  £347  per 
annum,  and  apparently  the  Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas 
had  the  same  income.  The  Chief  Baron  was  better  off  with 
£600,  but  part  of  his  salary  was  for  non-judicial  services 
connected  with  the  Exchequer.  The  Puisne  Judges  of  all  three 
Courts  received  £150  apiece.  Circuit  allowances  were  paid  to 
the  Judges,  over  and  above  their  salaries,  at  the  rate  of 
£59  10s.  Od.  per  circuit  to  the  Chief  Judges,  and  £44  10s.  Od. 
to  the  puisnes.     A  sum  of  £18   6s.  8d.  per  annum  was  also 


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allowed  to  every  Judge  in  respect  of  his  robes.  Other  legal 
functionaries  were  thus  remunerated : — The  Master  of  the 
Court  of  Wards,  JE300;  the  Master  of  the  EoUs,  i:i40;  the 
Attorney-General  and  Solicitor-Generel  £75  each ;  Masters  in 
Chancery,  ^£20  each.  The  salaries  of  the  judiciary  attached  to 
the  provinces  of  Munster  and  Connaught  were  also  slender. 
The  Chief  Justice  of  each  province  had  £100,  and  the  lesser 
dignitaries  were  paid  in  proportion ;  the  whole  judicial  staff  of 
Munster  costing  no  more  than  £268  Gs.  8d. 

Of  non-judicial  officers  the  highest  salai^  was  paid  to  Sir 
Paul  Davis,  who  received  £750  in  his  dual  capacity  of  Secretary 
of  State  and  Clerk  of  the  Council.  Next  to  him  in  point  of 
emolument  came  Sir  James  Ware,  the  Auditor-General,  with 
£234  6s,  3d  ;  the  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer,  with  £150 ;  and 
the  Surveyor-General,  with  £125.  Other  officials  whose  incomes 
are  stated  are  Ulster  King  of  Arms,  £26  ISs.  4d ;  Athlone 
Pursuivant,  £10 ;  and,  smallest  of  all,  the  Escheators  of  Ulster 
and  Munster,  who  only  received  £1  5s.  Od.  per  annum  each. 

The  accounts  do  not  disclose  any  extravagance  in  the  nature 
of  perquisites  or  extra  allowances,  if  we  except  the  wine 
allowances.  A  sum  of  £73  lOs.  Od.  was  paid  to  Sir  Maurice 
Eustace,  Chancellor  and  Lord  Justice,  "  for  seven  tuns  of 
French  wine  for  the  provision  and  store  of  his  house  for  a 
year,'*  and  £68  5s.  Od.  to  his  colleague  Lord  Mountrath  for 
six  tuns  and  a  half.  Each  member  of  the  Privy  Council,  to 
the  number  of  twenty-one,  was  paid  £31  10.  Od.  for  three  tuns 
of  wine  per  annum. 

The  Pension  List,  too,  at  this  date  was  moderate.  W^ith  the 
exception  of  a  special  grant  of  £1,500  yearly  to  Lord  Clanricarde 
"till  he  should  be  restored  to  his  estate" — which  estate  had 
under  the  Commonwealth  become  part  of  the  possessions  of 
Henry  Cromwell — the  largest  were  £800  to  Viscount  Taaffe, 
£520  to  the  Marquis  of  Antrim,  £500  to  Daniel  O'Neill,  the 
constant  supporter  of  Ormond  in  his  years  of  struggle  with  the 
Confederate  Irish,  and  £300  to  Bridget,  Countess  of  Tyrconnel. 
These,  like  the  payment  to  Lord  Clanricarde,  seem  all  to  have 
been  in  the  nature  of  allowances  to  dispossessed  royalists 
pending  the  settlement  of  territorial  claims. 

The  charges  on  the  Military  List  are  mainly  payments  to 
captains  of  horse  and  foot    for   themselves   and    the  officers 


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of  their  resijective  troops  or  companies.  Payments  of  this 
kind  amounted  in  the  aggregate  to  £4t9fl80  6s.  Od.  for  the 
horse,  and  i*54,551  lis.  Od.  for  the  foot.  Another  hirge 
aggregate,  amounting  to  nearly  £40,000,  was  made  up  of  pay- 
ments in  respect  of  arrears  to  the  army.  Only  a  few 
individual  payments  are  shown ;  but  it  would  appear  that  a 
captain  of  Foot  received  £184  8s.  Od.  per  annum  as  his  pay, 
and  a  lieutenant  £67  4s.  Od.  The  pay  of  a  private  was 
£10  4b.  Od.,  or  a  little  less  than  7d.  a  day.  Cavalry  were 
paid  at  a  higher  rate.  A  captain  of  horse  had  £235  4d.  Od.  per 
annum. 

A  few  salaries  which  would  seem  naturally  to  belong  to  civil 
expenditure  were  charged  to  the  military  account.  Thus  the 
Presidents  of  Munster  and  Connaught  each  received  a  fee  of 
£100,  as  part  of  an  allowance  of  upwards  of  £800  allocated  to 
each  presidency,  in  respect  of  the  diet  of  the  President  and 
Council  and  their  retinue  of  thirty  horsemen  and  twenty  foot. 

This  account  of  the  State  of  the  Irish  Eevenue  in  1660-61, 
may  be  usefully  compared  with  the  Lists  of  Civil  Expenditure 
for  the  year  1666  and  of  the  Military  Establishment  for  1664, 
given  by  Sir  William  Petty  in  his  Political  Anatomy  of  Ireland^ 
1672. 

III.    LETTERS  OF  ELIZABETH,  DUCHESS  OF  OEMOND, 
TO  CAPTAIN  GEORGE  MATHEW,  1668-1675. 

The  collection  from  which  the  letters  of  Elizabeth,  Duchess 
of  Ormond,  printed  in  this  Report,  have  been  selected  consists 
of  a  series  of  one  hundred  and  thirty  letters,  addressed  by  the 
Duchess  to  her  husband's  half-brother.  Captain  George  Mathew, 
or  Mathews,  between  the  years  1668  and  1678.  The  mother  of 
the  first  Duke  of  Ormond,  Elizabeth,  Viscountess  Thurles,  who 
was  a  daughter  of  Sir  John  Poyntz,  of  Acton,  Gloucestershire, 
had  married  as  her  second  husband  George  Mathew,  of  Thurles, 
The  Duke,  who  was  always  upon  excellent  terms  with  his 
numerous  relatives,  seems  to  have  been  specially  intimate  with 
his  half-brother,  George  Mathew,  and  the  latter  appears  to  have 
acted  as  agent  for  Ormond's  estate  in  Ireland  and  as  his 
confidential  adviser  in  all  matters  of  private  and  domestic 
concern.    Mathew,  like  Ormond's  mother  and  most  of  Ormond's 


XIV 

relatives,  was  a  Eoman  Catholic.  The  Duke's  engrossing 
concern  in  politics,  even  when  not  in  power,  naturally  prevented 
his  giving  close  attention  to  his  private  affairs,  and  during  his 
often  lengthy  absence  from  Ireland  the  business  of  correspond- 
ence in  regard  to  family  matters  appears  to  have  been  left  for 
the  most  part  to  the  Duchess,  who  was  herself  owner  in  her  own 
right  of  a  large  part  of  the  Ormond  estates,  and  who  was 
possessed,  as  these  letters  demonstrate,  of  excellent  business 
aptitudes.  The  letters,  indeed,  show  that  the  Duchess  fully 
deserved  the  character  given  her  by  Carte  as  "  a  person  of  very 
good  sense  ....  of  an  excellent  capacity  .  .  .  . 
who  understood  all  business  in  which  it  came  in  her  way  to  be 
concerned  perfectly  well,  and  wrote  upon  them  with  great 
clearness  and  comprehension  and  strength  of  expression :  not  a 
superfluous  or  improper  word  appearing  in  her  longest  letters."* 
It  must  be  added  that  the  caligraphy  of  the  letters  confirms 
Carte's  statement  as  to  the  neglect  of  the  Duchess's  early 
education.  He  states  that  not  having  been  taught  to  write, 
"  she  learned  it  of  herself,  by  copying  after  print ;  for  which 
reason  she  never  joined  her  letters  together."  But  they  also  show 
that  Carte  was  right  in  adding  that  "  if  the  Duchess  of  Ormond 
had  any  fault  it  was  the  weight  of  her  spirit,  which  put  her  upon 
doing  everything  in  a  noble  and  magnificent  manner  without 
any  regard  to  the  expense."  She  was  extremely  extravagant,  and 
these  letters  unfold  many  a  tale  of  the  domestic  embarrassments 
which  resulted. 

The  Duchess's  letters,  accordingly,  are  all  of  them  mainly 
concerned  with  the  domestic  interests  of  the  Ormond  family, 
but  they  incidentally  touch  on  a  number  of  matters  of  public 
interest  and  importance.  They  begin  in  the  autumn  of  1668, 
when  the  second  of  Ormond's  three  terms  of  office  as  Viceroy  of 
Ireland  was  about  to  be  closed  as  a  consequence  of  the  successful 
intrigues  of  the  courtiers  who  had  brought  about  the  fall  of 
his  close  friend  and  ally.  Clarendon.  The  cabal  against  Ormond 
lasted  through  the  late  autumn  and  winter  of  1668-9,  and  only 
ended  on  February  14th  with  the  dismissal  of  the  Duke.  Most 
of  the  earlier  letters  contain  allusions  to  the  progress  of  this 
intrigue,  and  express  the  alternations  of  hope  and  misgiving 
in  the  mind  of  the  Duchess,  until,  on  February  16th,  1668-9,  she 

•  Carte's  Life  of  Oniioiid  II  ,  537-8. 


XV 

announces  "what  happened  on  Sunday  last,  which  was  my 
Lord's  dismissal  from  the  Government  of  Ireland  declared  by  His 
Majesty,  and  Lord  Eobartes  named  to  succeed  him.*'*  But  the 
Duchess  consoles  herself  in  this  misfortune  by  reflecting  with 
wifely  pride  that  her  Lord  "  preserves,  thank  God,  a  reputation 
beyond  what  any  of  them  can  blast,  and  has  at  this  time  the 
kindness  and  the  respect  of  all  this  nation  beyond  what  he 
ever  had."  Pepys,  in  his  diary  for  this  period,  notes  the 
progress  of  the  struggle  between  Ormond  and  his  enemies, 
and  in  November  thought,  like  the  Duchess,  that  the  Duke 
was  "  like  to  continue  in  his  command  in  Ireland.  At  least 
they  cannot  get  the  better  of  him  yet."t  Thenceforward 
there  are  continuous  allusions  to  the  state  of  politics,  and  the 
prospects  of  the  Duke's  reinstatement  in  the  royal  favour,  with 
comments  on  various  personages  connected  with  the.  Court. 
These  are  seldom  acrimonious,  with  the  exception  of  the  refer- 
ences to  Eoger  Boyle,  Lord  Orrery,  who  in  one  letter!  is  spoken 
of  as  *  the  most  false  and  ungrateful  man  living,'  and  whom  the 
Duchess  evidently  considered  to  be  the  centre  of  hostility 
to  her  husband's  interests.  It  may  be  gathered  from  one 
passage  that  Orrery  had  had  hopes  of  the  Viceroyalty  which 
were  disappointed  by  the  nomination  of  Lord  Robartes,  and  the 
Duchess  was  evidently  prudently  desirous  of  conciliating  the 
friendship  of  opponents  rather  than  aggravating  their  enmity. 
Though  removed  from  the  office  of  Viceroy,  Ormond  was 
continued  in  the  position  of  High  Steward,  and  remained  in 
attendance  on  the  King.  It  being  "  not  safe  for  his  interests  to 
leave  Court,"  the  Duke  maintained  a  great  establishment  in 
London,  his  house  "  being  daily  the  resort  of  all  strangers  and 
ambassadors,  and  all  the  nobility  besides."  § 

Although  largely  occupied  with  purely  business  matters  of  no 
historical  interest — the  letting  of  lands,  the  hiring  and  dismissal 
of  stewards,  bailiflfs  and  other  servants,  and  so  forth — the  letters 
of  the  Duchess  frequently  throw  interesting  light  upon  the  social 
conditions  of  the  period  both  in  England  and  Ireland,  and 
enable  us  to  understand  the  difficulties  of  maintaining  a  great 
establishment  which  beset  the  courtiers  of  Charles  II.,  and 
involved  in  almost  continuous  embarrassment  even  so  wealthy 
a  subject  as  the  Duke  of  Ormond.    At  the  opening  of  these  letters 

*  p.  441,        t  PepyV  Diary,  Nov.  25th,  1668.        t  \k  443.        §  p,  446. 


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tlie  Duke  owned,  in  addition  fco  his  numerous  private  and  official 
residences  in  Ireland,  a  house  of  great  magnificence  in  "St. 
James's,  Chelsea,"  and  his  celebrated  seat  of  Moor  Park  already 
noticed,  which  he  had  acquired  in  1661.  Many  of  the  Duchess's 
letters  are  eloquent  as  to  the  difficulty  of  finding  ready  money 
for  the  equipment  and  maintenance  of  these  mansions,  and  of 
the  necessity  for  retrenching  by  giving  up  Moor  Park.  After 
many  negotiations  Moor  Park  was  bought  by  Charles  II. 
"goods  and  all,"  for  the  Duke  of  Monmouth  for  £13,200, 
of  which  £1,700  was  for  the  furniture.  "  It  is  the  King," 
writes  the  Duchess,  "  that  buys  it  for  the  Duke,  so  as  it  is 
the  Lords  of  the  Treasury  that  we  are  now  treating  with,  and 
so  hope  that  will  secure  our  payment,  which  is  the  main  concern 
to  be  looked  after."* 

The  debts  which  figure  so  largely  in  these  letters  were  due  in 
part  to  the  great  magnificence  with  which  the  Duke  of  Ormond 
deemed  it  necessary  to  support  the  dignity  of  his  almost 
unexampled  position.  But  they  were  considerably  aggravated  by 
the  extravagance  of  the  three  sons  of  the  Duke  and  Duchess, 
Thomas,  Earl  of  Ossory ;  Eichard,  Earl  of  Arran ;  and  Lord 
John  Butler.  Of  these  the  last  named  was  a  hopeless  scapegrace, 
whose  difficulties  were  perpetual,  and  whose  excesses  terminated 
in  an  early  death.  During  the  i:)eriod  covered  by  these  letters 
this  young  hopeful  was  resident  in  Ireland,  and  the  corres- 
pondence is  much  occupied  with  appeals  to  Captain  Mathew 
to  endeavour  to  effect  his  reform ;  aj^peals  in  which  maternal 
solicitude  is  frequently  at  odds  with  wifely  prudence.  The 
precise  extent  of  Lord  John's  debts  does  not  ajipear  ;  but  that 
they  were  considerable  may  be  inferred  from  the  liberal 
arrangements  which  were  sanctioned  by  the  Duchess  as  a 
reasonable  and  moderate  allowance  for  his  future  maintenance 
when  they  had  been  paid  off,  and  which  showed  the  standard 
of  living  considered  appropriate  for  a  cadet  of  a  noble  family 
in  the  early  years  of  the  Restoration  : — "  By  the  computation 
made  of  the  yearly  charge  of  my  son  John's  servants  and 
equipage,  you  will  find  it  will  come  unto  two  hundred  and 
twenty  pound  a  year,  so  as  out  of  his  yearly  allowance  he  may 
have  besides,  for  clothes  and  pocket  money,  three  hundred  and 
fourscore,  which  well  managed  will  maintain  him  as  decently  as 

*  p.  ur,. 


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any  man  of  his  quality  needs  to  be,  and  his  entertainment 
to  go  towards  the  payment  of  his  debts.  The  greatest 
difficulty  I  apprehend  to  him  will  be  the  laying  out  of  a  hundred 
pound  for  a  chariot  and  a  pair  of  horses,  and  fifty  more  for 
liveries,  besides  what  clothes  he  may  need  at  his  first  coming 


over.* 


The  other  sons  reflected  much  more  honour  on  their  parents 
than  the  unlucky  John,  but  they  were  proportionately  costly. 
The  Duchess  writes  in  strong  terms  of  the  reckless  expenditure 
of  the  gallant  and  gifted  Ossory,  w^hich  was,  according  to  her,  only 
too  well  supported  by  his  wife  (a  different  character  of  Lady 
Ossory  is  given  by  Carte).  She  also  complains  with  almost  equal 
irritation  of  "the  expensive  habits  of  Lord  Arran.  But  both  these 
atoned  for  the  anxiety  they  caused,  the  former  by  the  splendour  of 
his  services  in  the  Dutch  war,  the  latter  by  a  wealthy  match. 
In  several  letters  the  Duchess  recounts  with  maternal  pride 
the  exploits  of  her  eldest  son  in  the  naval  battles  of  the  Dutch 
war,  in  which  Ossory  served  as  Bear-Admiral  under  the  Duke 
of  York.  In  June,  1672,  she  tells  how^  her  husband  has  been 
to  Windsor  to  attend  the  installation  of  Lord  Arlington  as  a 
Knight  of  the  Garter,  and  adds,  "  the  like  honour  the  King 
declared  my  son  Ossory  should  have  when  the  next  vacancj^ 
should  happen :  which  promise  he  made  in  public  upon 
Tuesday  last,  when  the  Queen  and  he  did  both  sup  with  my  son 
in  his  ship  ;  Her  Majesty  having  a  desire  to  see  the  fleet,  which 
she  did  and  lay  in  the  ship  two  nights."  t  Catherine  of 
Braganza  evidently  held  Ossory  in  high  esteem.  He  was 
towards  the  close  of  his  career  ai)poiuted  Governor  of  the 
fortress  of  Tangier ;  and  in  one  of  Queen  Catherine's  extant 
letters  preserved  at  Kilkenny  she  condoles  with  evident  sinceritj'' 
with  Ormond  on  the  premature  death  of  his  gifted  son.  J  A 
few  months  later  Ossory*s  instalment  is  dulj"  announced, — a 
ceremony  "  which  has  been  of  some  charge  to  my  Lord  (Ormond) 
who  was  willing  to  help  him  on  that  occasion,  and  did  unto  the 
value  of  £500."S  The  occasion  also  involved  some  charge  to  the 
Duchess  herself ;  for  not  long  afterwards  she  tells  Mathew  he 
will  do  her  *  a  special  courtesy '  l)y  procuring  her  ^200,"  for 
so  much  I  owe  for  a  diamond  Ocnvf/e  that  I  gave  unto  my  son 


*p.  451.  tl>-  450.  :J:  Tliis  letter  lias  hoen  printcvl  in  Vol,  1.  of  the 

Ormonde  Papers  (Fonrteentli  Hep.  App.,  part  vii.,  p.  30,)        §  Il»i<l, 


XVlll 

Ossory  when  he  was  made  knight  of  the  Garter."*  It  would 
seem  that  the  Duchess  was  sometimes  driven  by  the  expenses 
of  the  Ormond's  London  establishment  to  raise  money  by  even 
more  inconvenient  expedients.  In  1668  she  found  herself 
obliged  "to  pawn  a  pair  of  diamond  pendants  worth  £700," 
in  respect  of  which  £500  was  advanced  by  Sir  Stephen  Fox.t 

Of  Lord  Arran,  the  second  son,  we  also  hear  a  good  deal. 
When  first  mentioned  in  1668  he  is  described  as  "  in  great 
sadness,"  caused  by  the  untimely  death  of  his  first  wife. 
Subsequently  Arran  seems  to  have  fallen  into  doubtful  habits ; 
but  he  had  the  resolution  to  break  from  them,  and  to  drown  in 
the  excitement  of  war  the  sorrows  which  wine  could  not 
obliterate,  and  is  found  honourably  bracketed  with  Ossory  for 
his  gallantry  in  the  fights  with  the  Dutch.  Eventually,  towards 
the  close  of  the  correspondence,  he  consoles  himself  by  a 
second  marriage  with  Miss  Dorothy  Ferrars,  which  manifestly 
rejoiced  his  mother.  The  Duchess  was  a  confirmed  match- 
maker, and  these  letters  contain  many  allusions  to  possible 
alliances.  The  letter  announcing  Arran*s  engagement  is  quite 
triumphant.  "  If  you  have  not  heard  from  me  so  frequently 
of  late  as  you  might  expect,"  she  writes  in  May,  1673,  **  you 
will  the  less  wonder  when  you  hear  of  two  marriages  in  my 
family  that  are  near  concluded — the  one  for  my  son  Ossory's 
daughter  unto  the  Earl  of  Derby ;  the  other  my  son  Arran  to 
the  daughter  of  one  Mr.  Ferrars,  one  of  the  best  and  ancientest 
families  of  England,  formerly  Earls  of  Essex.  The  portion  is 
£12,000,  and  but  one   sickly  young    man   between  her  and 

£3,000  a  year  after  his  father's  decease "This," 

she  goes  on,  "  is  a  great  year  for  weddings  generally,  so 
as  I  do  not  despair  but  that  my  son  John  may  get  a  wife 
too,  for  so  he  makes  me  believe,  if  his  friends  assist  and 
countenance  him."t  The  ne'er-do-well  did  in  the  end  succeed 
in  making  a  great  alliance,  marrying  in  1676  the  Lady  Ann 
Chichester,  daughter  of  the  first  Earl  of  Donegall,  and  being 
created  a  peer  on  his  marriage  by  the  title  of  the  Earl  of 
Gowran.  But  he  survived  his  marriage  only  by  a  few  months. 
Several  letters  in  the  first  section  of  this  volume  refer  to  the 
negotiations  attending  this  alliance. 


*  p.  451.        t  p.  438.    See  also  as  to  tlieir  trans\otion  p.  290.        %  j).  452. 


XIX 

Of  the  customs  of  the  tmie  as  regards  the  establishments  of 
great  houses,  and  the  mode  of  travelling  between  England  and 
Ireland,  the  letters  of  the  Duchess  contain  numerous  illustra- 
tions. The  move  from  Ireland  must  have  been  a  formidable 
undertaking  even  to  those  who  could  best  afford  the  expense 
when,  as  detailed  in  the  first  of  these  letters,  a  great  lady 
brought  her  equipage  across  the  channel.  "I  arrived  at 
Minehead,"*  the  Duchess  writes  from  Moor  Park,  "  the  Sunday 
after  I  parted  from  you,  where  I  was  driven  to  stay  until  the 
Wednesday  following  to  give  my  coach  horses  one  day's  rest, 
that  came  not  into  the  harbour  till  two  days  after  me  ;  so  as  I 
came  not  hither  till  Tuesday  last."!  The  journey  from  Dublin 
to  Moor  Park  thus  occupied  at  least  ten  days,  and  it  cost 
exactly  A*140,  as  we  learn  from  the  next  letter :  "  I  must  tell 
you  that  I  have  been  so  good  a  manager  of  my  own,  as  paying 
the  charge  of  both  the  ships,  which  cost  me  threescore  and 
five  pounds — and  ten  shillings  a  head  duty  for  every  horse 
besides — I  brought  threescore  pound  of  my  two  hundred  with 
me  hither,  which  has  purchased  me  all  that  I  shall  lay  out 
upon  myself  until  Christmas  next."t  Elsewhere  we  learn 
that  the  salary  of  a  clerk  of  the  kitchen  engaged  in  London 
for  Kilkenny  Castle  was  i'20  yearly,  §  while  an  assistant  to 
that  functionary  called  *  a  larder  man,'  demanded  £15  a  year, 
**  but  with  much  ado  I  brought  him  to  A*10," — a  modest  wage 
for  one  who  was  certified  to  have  "  skill  to  powder  meat  and 
to  keep  the  wet  larder ;  he  is  a  cook  besides,  and  has  served 
as  a  caterer  seven  years  in  a  gentleman's  house."**  The 
scarcity  and  incapacity  of  domestic  seiTants  is  no  new  thing 
in  the  twentieth  century.  The  Duchess  pronounces  her  verdict 
on  those  of  the  Kestoration  in  terms  which  sound  familiar: 
"  So  strange  a  time  this  is  for  servants,  as  people  of  all  degrees 
complain  that  they  were  never  so  bad  as  now."tt  The  Duchess 
further  throws  light  on  house  rent  in  London  and  its  suburbs 
in  her  day.  "  My  son  (Ossory)  has  taken  a  house  for  his  lady, 
and  intends  to  send  for  her  as  soon  as  better  weather  is. 
The  rent  he  pays  for  it  is  £110  a  year.  It  is  competent  for 
the  bigness  of  it,  and  such  a  number  of  servants  as  he  intends 
to  keep."    The  Duke  himself,  we  learn,  paid  £250  per  annum 

*  In  the  17th  century  there  wan  much  communication  lietween  Minehead  in 
Somerset,  on  the  south  side  of  the  Bristol  Channel,  and  the  south  of 
Ireland,  especially  Waterford  and  Wexford.  fp.  437.  J  p.  4'dS,  §p.  444. 
••  p.  444.        tt  p.  440. 


for  his  town  house.*  This,  however,  does  not  sound  so  good 
a  bargain  as  that  which  she  made  for  herself  when  she  wintered 
at  Hampstead  for  the  benefit  of  her  health.  "  To  prevent  my 
cough  growing  worse,"  she  wTites  in  December,  1673,  I  came 
for  l)etter  air  to  Hampstead,  some  five  miles  from  London,  to 
a  pretty  house  furnished,  w^hich  I  took  from  Michaelmas  last 
unto  our  Lady  Day,  for  £40."  f 

This  Eeport  and  introduction  has  been  prepared  by  Mr. 
C.  Litton  Falkiner,  w^ho  desires  to  acknowledge  the  assistance 
he  has  received  in  the  work  of  transcrijDtion  from  Mr.  Sidney 
C.  Eatcliflf,  now  of  the  Public  Record  Office,  London,  and 
Mr.  Thomas  J.  Morrissev,  of  the  Irish  Record  Office. 

In  this  as  in  former  volumes,  Ormond  and  not  Ormonde 
has  been  uniformly  followed  as  the  form  of  the  title  almost 
invarial)ly  used  l)y  the  Duke  of  Ormond  and  by  his  Duchess. 

*  p-  445.        t  p.  440. 

Note. — The  letters  as  1x)und  up  in  the  volume  of  originals  at  Kilkenny 
Castle  are  nuHplaced  in  several  instances.  In  some  of  them  the  dates  of  the 
month  onlj*  is  ^iven,  and  is  ascribed  to  the  wrong  year.  They  are  here  printed 
as  far  as  jiossilvle  in  their  proper  elironolonrieal  order  j  as  in  the  case  of  the 
misplaced  letters  the  real  se«iuence  is  usnally  apparent  from  internal  evidence. 


THE     MANUSCEIPTS 


OF    THE 


MARQUESS  OF  ORMONDE,  K.P., 


KILKENNY   CASTLE. 


Arthur  Annesley  *  [Lord  Anglesey]  to  Ormond. 

1660,  May  26.  London. — The  multiplied  favours  of  your 
Lordship's  letters,  so  full  of  particular  kindness  to  me,  leave  me 
under  an  incapacity  of  return,  but  I  must  not  be  so  wanting  upon 
all  occasions  to  acknowledge  my  obligations  which  I  find  increase 
daily,  and  with  them  I  assure  your  Lordship  that  gratitude  which 
you  may  justly  expect.  The  warning  received  of  His  Majesty's 
intentions  both  as  to  the  time  and  place  of  his  reception  hath 
quickened  the  preparations  neccessary,  the  errors  whereof  will,  I 
hope,  be  lost  in  crowd  of  our  joys  to  see  him,  which,  I  assure 
your  Lordship,  the  condition  of  affairs  here  requires  should  be 
speeded. 

I  receive  it  as  a  sure  expression  of  your  Lordship's  particular 
respect  to  me  that  you  desire  my  meeting  His  Majesty  at  Canter- 
bury with  the  General,  and  the  adjournment  your  Lordship 
mentions  would  have  in  that  case  been  necessary,  but  by  the 
General's  and  other  sound  advice  I  am  tied  from  that  part  of  my 
duty  to  attend  His  Majesty's  service  here,  which  cannot  dispense 
with  my  absence  till  the  supply  His  Majesty  brings  be  in  place, 
and,  I  assure  your  Lordship,  the  state  of  affairs  is  not  such  yet  as 
can  admit  of  adjournment.  I  shall  say  no  more  till  I  be  so  happy 
as  to  see  your  Lordship  here,  but  that  I  am  highly  sensible  of 
your  Lordship's  owning  me,  and  count  my  own  particular  safe 
whilst  your  Lordship  is  the  patron  of  it.  Your  Lordship  will  find 
the  General  answer  the  expectation  I  have  given  your  Lordship. 

*  Arthur  Annesley,  created  in  1661  Earl  of  Anglesey,  was  at  this  time 
President  of  the  interim  Council  of  State. 

Wt  S878  A 


List  of  Officers  and  Servants  of  the  Royal  Household. 

1660,  June  10. — The  number  and  quality  of  His  Majesty's 
household  servants  in  every  OflBce.* 

Oomptinghouse, 

Lord  Steward  i. 

Treasurer  of  the  House  i. 

Comptroller  i. 

Cofferer  i. 

Clerks  of  the  Green  Cloth  ii. 

Cleric  of  the  Comptrolments  ii. 

Sergeant  of  the  Comptinghouse  i. 

Yeomen  ii. 

Groom  i. 

Messenger  i. 

Messenger  Extraordinary  i. 

Bakek<mBe. 
Sergeant  i. 
Clerk  i. 
Yeomen  iii. 
Conducts  iiii. 
Yeoman  Gamitor  i 
Yeomen  Purveyors  iiii. 

Pantry. 
Sergeant  i. 
Yeomen  iiii. 
Grooms  ii. 
Pages  ii. 
Breadbearers  ii. 

CeUar. 
Sergeant  i. 
Yeomen  iiii. 
Groom  i. 
Pages  ii. 

Yeoman  of  the  Bottles  i. 
Yeomen  Purveyors  ii. 

Buttery, 
Yeomen  iii. 
Grooms  ii. 
Pages  ii. 

Yeoman  Purveyor  i. 
Groom  Purveyors  iii. 

Pitcher-house. 
Yeoman  i. 
Grooms  ii. 
Page  i. 

*  This  liflt,  with  other  documents  relative  to  the  royal  household,  is  connected 
with  the  Duke  of  Ormond's  tenure  of  the  office  of  LDrd  Steward  of  the  House- 
hold, to  which  he  was  appointed  at  the  Restoration. 


Spicery. 

Clerks  iii. 
Grocer  i. 

Chandry. 

Yeomen  ii. 
Grooms  ii. 
Page  i. 

Yeoman  for  Wax  i. 
Tallow  Chandler  i. 

Ewry. 

Sergeant  i. 
Yeomen  iii. 
Grooms  ii. 
Page  i. 

Washery. 

Yeoman  i. 
Groom  i. 

Confectionery, 

Sergeant  i.  and  i.  Supernumerary. 
Yeoman  ii. 
Groom  i. 
Page  i. 

Laundry. 

Laundress  for  the  King's  feoard  i. 
Laundress  for  the  Household  i. 
Yeoman  i. 
Grooms  ii. 
Pages  iii. 

Kitchens. 

Mr.  Cook  for  the  King  i. 

Mr.  Cook  for  the  Household  i. 

Clerks  iii. 

Yeomen  vi. 

Grooms  vii. 

Children  x. 

Turnbroths36  j  Placed  by  the  Chief 

Porters  and  Scourers  10  [   Clerk  of  the  Kitchen 

Doorkeepers  2  )    and  Mr.,  Cook. 

Larder. 

Sergeant  i. 
Clerk  i. 
Yeomen  iii. 
Grooms  iii. 
Pages  ii. 


Accattery. 

Sergeant  i.  and  i.  Supernumerary. 

Clerk  i. 

Yeomen  ii. 

Grooms  ii. 

Yeomen  Purveyors  v. 

Keeper  of  the  Pastures  i. 

Herd  i. 

Boiling-house. 

Yeoman  i. 
Grooms  ii. 

Poultry. 
Sei^eant  i. 
Clerk  i. 
Grooms  iii. 
Purveyors  v. 

Scalding -house. 

Yeoman  i. 
Grooms  ii. 
Pages  ii. 

Almonry. 
Yeomen  ii. 
Grooms  ii. 

Pastry. 
Sergeant  i. 
Clerk  i. 
Yeomen  iii. 
Grooms  iii. 
Children  iii. 

Scullery. 
Sergeant  i. 
Clerk  i. 
Yeomen  iii. 
Grooms  ii. 
Pages  ii. 
Children  iiii. 

Porters  at  Gate. 
Sergeant  i. 
Yeomen  iii. 
Grooms  iii. 

Woodyard. 

Sergeant  i. 
Clerk  i. 
Yeomen  iii. 
Grooms  ii. 
Pages  ii. 
Woodbearers  ii. 


The  Hall. 

Marshals  vii.     . 

Sewer  iiii. 

Surveyors  of  the  Dresser  ii. 

Waiters  xi. 

Daily  Waiters  ii. 

Harbingers. 

Gentlemen  ii. 
Yeomen  vi. 

Caretakers. 

Clerk  of  the  Carriage  i. 
Yeoman  i. 
Grooms  iiii. 

Caretakers  of  London  iiii. 
Gilder  i. 
The  Cock  i.* 

The  Bellringer  i. 

Artificers  having  no  wages,  only  coat-cloths. 
Brewers  ii. 
Wine  Porters  viii. 
Wheat  Porters  viii. 
Cornmeaters  ii. 
Wine-cooper  i. 
Pewterer  i. 
Blacksmith  i. 
Basketmakers  ii. 
Twiner  i. 
Brazier  i. 
Potter  i. 
Wax-chandler  i. 
Fruiterers  ii. 
Stationer  i. 
Woollen  Draper  i. 
Trunkmaker  i. 
Jackmaker  i. 
Purveyor  of  Hushes  i. 
Milk  woman  i. 
Miller  i. 
Glover  i. 
Oatmeal  Man  i. 
Salary  Man  i. 
Cupmaker  i. 
Cutler  i. 
Bagmaker  i. 
Milliner  i. 
Barber  i. 


*  Possibly  CocA  for  Coachman  is  intended.   The  Cook  is  aoconnted  fov  At  p.  3. 


6 

Marchioness*  of  Obmond  to  John  Burden. 

1660,  October  9.  London. — I  received  but  one  letter 
from  you  since  you  left  this  place,  so  as  I  have  but  little  to 
say  in  answer  of  the  contents ;  but  that  there  is  a  letter  signed 
by  His  Majesty  concerning  the  rents  payable  into  the 
Exchequer  and  the  arrears,  according  as  you  did  desire  might 
be  procured,  which  shall  be  very  shortly  sent,  as  is  now  a  copy 
of  the  letter  for  the  reversion  of  one  of  the  offices  you  desired, 
the  original  whereof  I  thought  fit  to  send  by  a  sure  hand  for 
fear  of  miscarriage ;  which  I  do  assure  you  cost  me  some  pains 
to  procure,  which  if  it  had  not  been  gotten  when  it  was  I  have 
good  reason  to  believe  would  not  have  been  obtained,  in  regard 
the  King  has  resolved  to  grant  no  reversions,  therefore  the 
less  is  said  of  this  the  better.  As  for  answering  of  Sir  Henry 
Tichborne's  demand,  I  shall  not  adventure  to  do  it  unless  by 
advice  from  you  and  the  rest,  in  regard  I  find  none  here  that 
are  willing  to  lay  out  money  in  that  country,  therefore  let  me 
know,  in  case  that  he  do  importune  my  Lord  or  me,  what 
answer  will  be  fit  to  give  him,  and  to  use  the  best  endeavour 
you  can  the  meantime  to  prevent  the  place  from  being  left 
waste,  or  the  woods  from  destruction  both  there  and  elsewhere. 
I  perceive  that  Mr.  Butler  of  Balynahinchye  has  been 
threatening  of  Captain  Gilliard,  whom  T  desire  may  be 
encouraged  in  the  tenancy  until  Mr.  Butler  can  prove  his  title 
to  be  better  than  ours,  which,  his  carriage  considered  and  what 
is  to  be  said  against  him,  he  will  be  very  hardly  able  to  do. 
The  account  of  the  debt  due  to  my  Lord  from  the  King  is  now 
stated  and  ready  to  be  given  unto  the  Lord  Chancellor  of 
England  upon  Thursday  next,  who  we  hope  will  be  assisting 
to  procure  us  satisfaction ;  in  the  meantime  we  have  secured 
all  the  mortgage  and  obtained  a  grant  of  all  those  prizewines 
that  were  exempted  out  of  the  ancient  patent  which  it  is 
intended  shall  pass  under  the  Great  Seal  here  to  be  enrolled 
in  Ireland ;  by  which  you  may  perceive  that  I  have  not  been 
negligent  in  the  concern  of  our  estate  in  putting  my  Lord  in 
mind  to  move  for  what  is  so  necessary  to  the  preservation  of  his 
fortune,  of  which  I  pray  make  my  old  friend  the  Doctor! 
acquainted,  and  let  me  hear  from  you  of  all  such  affairs  as 
concerns 

E.  Ormond.J 


*  Ormond's  elevation  to  the  Dukedom  did  not  take  place  till  March  30,  1661. 

t  Fennell. 

t  A  number  of  the  documents  of  this  period,  cataloged  in  the  Appendix  to  the 
4th  Report,  are  letters  from  tiie  Duchess  of  Ormond  to  John  Burden  or  Bonrden,  who 
appears  to  have  been  her  steward  or  agent  at  Kilkenny,  and  to  other  dependants. 
Thej  relate  exclusively  to  private  affairs  and  have  no  particular  nistorical 
interest,  and  the  letter  here  printed  is  a  fair  specimen  of  their  general  character. 
The  letters  immediately  following,  to  or  from  Sir  W.  Flower,  though  lamly 
conversant  with  the  personal  int^ests  of  the  Ormond  family,  are  valuab&  as 
showing  the  difficulty  of  dealing  at  the  Restoration  with  lan(u  appropriated  to 
other  persons  under  the  Commonwealth^  and  are  printed  for  that  reason. 


Sir  William  Flower  and  John  Burden  to  Lady  Ormond. 

1660,  October  19.  Clonmel. — Though  we  [have]  not  so 
frequently  given  your  Ladyship  account  of  your  affairs  here  as 
might  be  expected  from  us,  yet  we  assure  your  Ladyship  that 
nothing  hath  been  omitted  by  us  in  discharge  of  that  trust  you 
were  pleased  to  repose  in  us ;  one  of  our  number  writ  only  once 
to  your  Ladyship  since  our  coming  into  this  kingdom,  but 
whether  his  letters  came  to  your  Ladyship's  hands  or  no  we 
know  not,  in  regard  we  have  not  received  a  line  from  that  side 
since  we  left  it. 

We  have  already  taken  possession  of  all  my  Lord's  lands  in 
the  counties  of  Dublin,  Meath,  and  Catherlogh  [Carlow]  and 
have  disposed  of  them  according  to  instructions.  As  also  the 
Castles  of  Kilkenny,  Knocktopher,  Gowran,  Carrick,  with  their 
appurtenances,  and  all  the  lands  in  the  country  of  my  Lord's  to 
this  town,  and  now  we  have  taken  possession  here,  and  from 
hence  we  intend  to  Cashel,  and  so  through  the  country,  and 
as  soon  as  we  have  brought  things  into  any  form  your  Ladyship 
shall  have  a  more  particular  account.  We  are  somewhat  at 
a  stand  as  to  those  lands  whereout  my  Lord  had  only  a  chief 
rent,  whereof  we  meet  with  a  vast  number,  and  they  are  held 
as  of  my  Lord's  manors.  We  shall  only  now  name  two  for 
example,  the  manors  of  Kilsheelan  and  Carrick.  We  have 
entered  upon  the  manor  in  the  name  of  the  whole  lands  held 
from  that  manor  and  upon  some  of  the  lands  themselves,  as 
namely  Ballineale  with  the  members.  But  that  which  we 
humbly  desire  to  be  instructed  in  is  whether  we  shall  accept 
of  the  chief  rents  or  the  whole  rents  for  which  they  are  set, 
the  question  being  whether  (the  Irish  possessors  forfeiting  their 
interest)  the  same  doth  not  revert  to  my  Lord.  This  is  matter  of 
law  and  what  requires  a  speedy  resolution,  or  (should  their 
interests  not  revert  by  their  forfeiture)  whether  it  would  not  be 
fit  for  his  Lordship  to  get  a  grant  of  them  from  His  Majesty. 
They  are  indeed  many  and  very  considerable,  and  (if  we  be 
not  informed)  almost  half  the  County  of  Tipperary  will  be 
included.  Next  to  this  we  humbly  desire  his  Lordship's 
commands  touching  Mr.  Richard  Butler  of  Kilcash  his  estate, 
for  it  is  my  Lord's,  and  peradventure  there  may  be  some 
prejudice,  if  possession  be  not  taken,  in  case  he  should  fail  in 
the  recovery  thereof  himself.  It  will  be  requisite  that  a  letter 
be  procured  from  His  Majesty  to  the  Lord  Chief  Baron  here 
requiring  him  to  take  order  that  all  my  Lord's  lands  which  have 
been  leased  by  the  late  powers  in  any  part  of  this  kingdom  be 
struck  out  of  charge,  otherwise  those  who  took  them  and  are 
now  become  his  Lordship's  servants  will  be  troubled  by  process 
out  of  that  Court,  and  his  Lordship  disappointed  of  his  rents. 
We  shall  at  present  add  no  more  to  your  Ladyship's  trouble,  but 
beg  your  commands  in  reference  to  what  is  now  humbly 
represented  unto  you  by,  may  it  please  your  Ijadyship,  your 
Ladyship's  most  faithful  and  most  obedient  servants, 

Wm.  Flower,  Jo.  Bourden. 


8 

Postscript : — ^We  have  taken  order  for  the  repair  of  Carrick 
house  and  Cloghgrenan ,  the  house  of  Kilkenny  being  in  pretty 
good  repair  already. 

We  humbly  desire  directions  as  to  the  chief  rents  of  this 
town  and  other  Corporations,  the  case  being  the  same  with 
that  of  the  lands  out  of  which  a  chief  rent  is  only  paid. 

Endorsed : — Sir  Will.  Flower  and  Mr.  Bourden  to  my  lady 
Marchioness. 

Paper  attached  to  this  letter,  with  answers  to  queries  in 
above  letter: — 

The  lands  held  by  my  Lord  as  of  any  his  manors  can  not 
escheat  to  him  in  case  they  become  forfeited  for  high  treasons, 
for  all  forfeitures  of  that  nature  goes  to  the  King  (the  case  of 
murder  only  excepted,  wherein  the  lands  goes  to  the  Lord  by 
escheat),  and  though  my  Lord  hath  the  King's  letter  for  all 
such  forfeited  lands,  yet  there  can  be  no  entry  before  the  letter 
be  passed  the  Great  Seal.  And  for  the  same  reason  the  whole 
rent  (which  is  intended  the  profit  of  the  land)  cannot  be  seized 
upon,  but  the  chief  rent  may  and  ought  to  be  taken,  and  the 
arrears  thereof  ought  to  be  taken  up,  for  they  are  not  saved  to 
the  present  tenants  within  the  Act  whereby  my  Lord  is  restored 
to  his  estate,  that  Act  tending  only  to  arrears  of  lands  held  in 
demesne  by  my  Lord.  The  Commissioners  are  not  to  meddle 
with  Mr.  Butler's  estate,  he  being  in  a  clear  way  to  be* restored. 

The  producing  of  the  Act  for  restoring  my  Lord  to  his  estate 
in  the  Exchequer  may  serve  for  a  warrant  there  to  put  out  of 
charge  any  lands  belonging  to  my  Lord  which  the  Commissioners 
are  to  try  by  conferring  with  the  Chief  Baron,  and  if  he  be  not 
therewith  satisfied ,  the  order  from  His  Majesty  may  be  had  in 
the  meantime.  And  for  any  rent  in  arrear  before  last  May, 
there  is  a  letter  from  His  Majesty  as  well  for  them  as  for  debts, 
which  is  to  be  passed  under  the  Great  Seal  as  soon  as  the 
Chancellor  goes  over. 

Sir  William  Flower  to  Lady  Ormond 

1660,  October  31.  Dublin. — I  hope  the  letter  that  was 
written  at  Clonmel  was  delivered  you,  in  which  was  an 
account  of  our  journey  in  that  country ;  from  whence  we  went 
to  Fethard  and  did  take  possession  of  what  land  lies  in  those 
parts,  and  from  thence  to  Cashel  and  Golden  Bridge  and  to 
all  the  land  that  Dr.  Fennell  held.  Marten  that  is  tenant  to 
the  land  was  then  here  in  Dublin ;  his  wife  delivered  the 
possession,  and  told  us  her  husband  would  willingly  turn 
tenant  to  my  Lord,  on  which  we  left  her  in  her  house.  Our  next 
journey  was  to  Holy  Cross  which  we  possessed  and  have  set  it 
until  Easter  to  the  tenant  we  found  in  it.  Then  we  went  to 
Fame  Bridge  [?  Farnane]  ;  there  is  a  castle  well  repaired  by 
Hulett ;  the  sheriff  had  seized  it  for  His  Majesty's,  but  when  we 
came  he  gave  us  the  key ;  we  have  set  some  part  of  the  land  and 
a  house  that  he  built  for  an  inn,  and  that  day  we  took  possession 
of  several  good  places  that  only  paid  chief  rents  unto  my  Lord , 


9 

which  now  being  forfeited  1  hope  that  my  Lord  will  get  a 
grant  of  them,  they  being  very  considerable  in  all  parts  as  the 
whole  town  of  Clonmel  and  Boss.  Some  of  those  that  hold 
the  land  would  pay  the  chief  rent,  but  I  gave  orders 
unto  Mr.  Butler  to  receive  none  until  we  receive  your  Lady- 
ship's commands.  On  Wednesday  last  we  were  at  Nenagh ; 
when  we  came  thither  I  sent  for  the  Governor  of  the  County 
and  desired  him  to  go  into  the  Castle  with  me  and  to  command 
his  soldiers  out,  that  possession  might  be  taken  for  my  Lord; 
he  went  with  us ;  when  I  came  in  I  told  Col.  Abbott  our 
business,  he  was  much  troubled,  but  at  last  drew  all  his  family 
out,  and  I  gave  the  possession  of  it  unto  Lieut. -Col.  Finch, 
who  is  the  Governor  in  those  parts,  and  he  has  promised  to 
deliver  it  us  on  dem[and].  That  night  we  set  Colonel  Abbott 
the  land  that  he  held  by  lease  until  Easter  next ;  very  much 
troubled  he  is,  and  hopes  to  have  a  lease,  and  says  he  will  give 
as  much  as  any  man.  I  told  him  I  thought  my  Lord  intended 
to  dispose  of  it  some  other  way.  I  having  received  a  letter  from 
the  Lord  of  Mountrath  at  my  coming  out  of  Kilkenny  to  repair 
to  Dublin,  having  done  with  all  places  of  greatest  concernment, 
I  left  the  orders  with  Major  Harman,  Mr.  Butler  and  Mr. 
Burden,  and  took  my  journey  hither  and  brought  with  me  a 
list  of  the  land  that  is  in  charge  of  the  Exchequer,  and  this  day 
I  have  been  with  the  Chief  Baron  and  Sir  James  Ware  and 
they  have  promised  to  have  them  put  out  of  charge.  I  was  with 
the  Lord  of  Mountrath,  who  tells  me  that  he  will  to-morrow 
give  me  order  for  the  fort  of  Duncannon.  We  have  not  been 
with  Sir  Robert  Meredith,  nor  taken  possession  of  that  land 
he  holds.  This  is  by  the  advice  of  Doctor  Fennell ;  we  find 
that  he  has  paid  no  rent  all  these  times,  so  that  I  hope  he  will 
be  found  to  be  in  my  Lord's  debt;  I  humbly  desire  some 
directions  as  to  this.  There  is  order  left  for  the  keeping  of 
Carrick  house  dry,  but  we  know  not  what  to  do  with 
Cloghgrenan,  it  is  so  very  much  out  of  repair.  I  sent  Mr. 
Harker  and  the  mason  and  slater  from  Dunmore  to  see  whether 
with  a  reasonable  charge  the  walls  may  be  preserved,  but  with- 
out orders  we  dare  not  undertake  it,  the  workmen  on  the  place 
telling  us  d£40  will  not  keep  it  dry. 

ORDER    BY    COMMISSIONERS    FOR    IRELAND. 

By  the  Commissioners  for  the  Government  and  Management 
of  Affairs  in  Ireland. 

1660,  November  7.  Dublin. — Forasmuch  as  our  very  good 
Lord  James,  Marquess  of  Ormond,  Lord  Steward  of  His 
Majesty's  Household,  hath  for  a  long  time  been  deprived  of  his 
estate  in  this  kingdom,  so  that  he  hath  not  as  yet  received 
such  benefit  thereby  as  might  enable  him  in  present  to  pay 
His  Majesty's  Crown  rents  due  thereout,  it  is  therefore  ordered 
that  for  the  present  there  be  no  assignments  made  of  any  of 
the  said  rents,  whereof  His  Majesty's  Auditor-General  and 
His  Majesty's  Beceiver  General  and  Deputy  are  to  take  notice, 


10 

and  to  take  care  that  this  onr  order  be  duly  observed.  And  in 
case  any  assignments  of  the  said  rents  have  been  already  made 
that  the  sum  be  taken  back  and  other  assignments  given  in  lieu 
thereof.     Mountrath.     William  Bury,     vii.  November,  1660. 

Entered  in  the  office  of  the  Auditor  General. 

Ja.  Ware. 

Oemond  to  Sib  William  Flower. 

1660,  December  18.  Whitehall. — ^I  have  prevailed  with 
my  trusty  and  well  beloved  Sir  Maurice  Eustace,  knight,  Lord 
Chancellor  of  Ireland,  one  of  the  Lords  Justices  of  the  same, 
to  have  an  inspection  into  my  affairs  there,  and  to  contribute 
his  advice  unto  you  in  the  carrying  on  of  my  business ;  whereof 
I  will  have  you  take  notice,  and  once  every  quarter  to  wait  on 
him  and  at  other  times  at  bis  Lordship's  house,  as  there  shall 
be  occasion,  to  give  him  an  account  of  your  proceedings  that 
so  his  directions  and  advice  may  go  along  with  you  in  the 
ordering  of  my  estate  and  what  may  concern  me,  and  this  I 
would  have  done  not  out  of  any  diffidence  I  have  in  any  of  you, 
but  for  your  greater  ease  and  security  by  having  such  a 
conductor  as  his  Lordship,  who,  I  am  sure,  will  make  my 
concernments  his  own,  if  not  more.  This  is  all  at  present, 
and  so  I  rest,  your  very  loving  friend. 

Endorsed: — A  copy  of  my  Lord's  letter  to  Sir  William 
Flower,  concerning  the  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland. 

Ormond  to  Dr.  Gerald  Fbnnell. 

1660,  December  19.  Whitehall. — Good  Doctor :  It  is  not 
long  since  I  writ  to  you  by  my  brother,  George  Mathew,*  who 
]  hope  is  long  since  gotten  home ;  what  was  then  in  preparation 
is  long  since  brought  to  a  conclusion  such  as  will  displease 
many,  and  those  perhaps  of  differing  interests  and  affections, 
and  that  was  not  to  be  avoided  where  expectations  were  so 
much  greater  than  the  means  to  satisfy  them.  The  ancient 
natives  who  had  the  misfortune  to  be  found  dispossessed  and 
under  a  severe  rule  (to  call  it  no  worse) ,  and  had  not  the  power 
or  opportunity  to  contribute  more  than  in  their  wishes  to  the 
happy  change,  will  no  doubt  bear  the  heaviest  burden,  and  will 
longer  feel  the  smart  of  those  wars  that  have  so  long  afflicted 
these  kingdoms.  I  am  not  afraid  to  say  that  I  am  sorry  for 
them,  nor  that  any  body  should  conclude  from  thence  that  I 
would  help  them  if  I  could ;  what  was  in  my  power  I  have  done, 
and  what  shall  be  I  will,  to  relieve  such  as  shall  in  my  judgement 
merit  it,  to  which  there  will  need  no  greater  inducement  than 
that  they  are  afflicted  and  repentant.  In  this  I  speak  only 
of  those  that  can  claim  least  of  my  ear.  I  was  willing  to  give 
you  this  account  of  my  own  inclination,  though  I  believe  you 

♦  Omiond  was  Mathew's  uterine  brother,  his  mother,  Lady  Thnrles,  having 
married  as  her  second  husliand  a  member  of  the  Mathew  family.-— 5ef 
Introduction. 


11 

remember  me  better  than  to  doubt  it  could  be  other.  For 
your  particular  I  hope  you  will  not  be  troubled  to  find  many 
I  value,  and  know  much  less  than  I  do  you,  named  in  the 
Declaration  and  yourself  left  out ;  you  may  be  sure  I  had 
reasons  for  it  you  would  not  disapprove.  I  shall  only 
mention  one  and  that  is  that  I  am  confident  I  shall  provide  as 
well  for  your  security  another  way.  John  Walsh*  will  tell 
all  things  more  at  large,  I  shall  only  assure  you  that  I  am  still 
as  much  as  ever  your  constant  and  faithful  friend. 

Endorsed: — A  copy  of  my  Lord's  letter  to  Doctor  Gerald 
Fennell. 

8m  William  Petty  to  Ormond. 

1660  [-1],  March  1. — The  enclosed  is  an  obscure  draft  of 
what  I  mentioned  to  your  Lordship  under  the  name  of  a 
Registry.  Whether  it  be  the  same  that  others  have  since 
offered  I  know  not,  but  shall  wonder  if  it  be.  I  beg  your 
Lordship  either  to  cause  it  to  be  considered  or  burnt.  I  do 
not  appear  a  projector  to  shark  for  my  necessities  nor  because 
the  newness  of  my  thoughts  hath  intoxicated  me,  but  because 
I  have  so  often  slept  upon  them  within  these  five  years  as  that 
I  can  hope  to  say  some  things  soberly  enough  concerning  my 
proposition.  I  should  have  presented  this  thing  to  your 
Lordship  in  gratitude  and  because  you  have  obliged  me,  but 
I  do  it  now  because  I  know  few  hands  besides  your  own  from 
which  Ireland  will  endure  to  receive  any  new  thing.  What 
I  intimated  at  my  last  waiting  upon  your  Lordship  shall  be 
present,  clear  and  certain.  Your  Lordship  shall  not  disoblige 
any  by  countenancing  what  I  offer,  because  it  shall  not  interfere 
with  other  proposals.  And  as  for  debating  the  feasibility  and 
usefulness  of  the  thing,  let  it  be  done  most  publicly  if  your 
Lordship  think  fit,  for  having  'scaped  pretty  well  in  several  new 
proposals  already,  I  have  the  courage  to  venture  being  laughed 
at  once  more.      I  beg  your  Lordship's  pardon  of  this  insolence. 

Endorsed: — ^Dr.  Potty's,  dated  the  1st  of  March,  1660; 
with  certain  proposals  for  the  improvement  of  Ireland,  etc. 

Elizabeth,  Lady  Thurlbs  to  Ormond. 

1660  [-1],  March  7.  Thurles.— Son :  This  bearer, 
Thomas  Comerford,  son  of  Edward  Comerford,  your  old 
servant,  has  occasion  to  make  his  address  to  you,  and  desires 
me  to  write  to  you  in  his  behalf,  and  to  let  you  know  that  what 
formerly  has  been  idle  in  him  is  now  reformed,  as  his  friends 
assure  me.  I  do  not  question  but  His  father's  merits  will 
prevail  with  you  to  use  your  endeavours  for  his  inheritance  and 
his  other  rights,  all  which  I  leave  to  your  consideration,  and 
pray  Almighty  God  to  keep  you  and  yours,  your  ever  loving 
mother,  Eliza  Thurles. 

Endorsed: — My  mother's. 

,       I  , ,  II  ■- — — ■ — • — ■ — ^"1 —        -  -"— ^^— 

*  Ormond't  family  lawyer. 


12 

EoYAL  Letter  for  Lease  of  Customs  of  Wines  to  the 

Earl  of  Northumberland. 

Charles  B. 

1661,  April  6. — Bight  trusty  and  well-beloved  Councillors, 
We  greet  you  well.     Whereas  our  right  trusty  and  right  well- 
beloved      cousin     and      councillor,      Algernon,      Earl      of 
Northumberland,  hath  by  his  petition  informed  us  that  the 
late  Earl  of  Carlisle  was  by  letters  patent  under  the  Great  Seal 
of  England,  bearing  date  the  9th  day  of  June,  1635,  possessed 
of  the  profits  arising  by  the  customs,  subsidies,  and  imposts 
of  wine  imported  into  our  kingdom  of  Ireland  for  the  term  of 
50  years,  commencing  from  Michaelmas,  1612,  under  the  yearly 
rent  of  d£l,400  payable  into  the  Exchequer  in  Ireland;    and 
that  the  said  Earl  of  Carlisle  did  convey  all  his  interest  in  the 
same  unto  Lucy,  Countess  of  Carlisle,  his  then  wife,  who  held 
and  enjoyed  the  same  accordingly  unto  the  year  1637  ;  at  which 
time  our  late  royal  father  of  blessed  memory  thought  fit  to 
resume  the  interest  of  the  said  Countess  in  that  grant  into  his 
own  hands,  and  upon  a  treaty  in  that  behalf  it  was  concluded 
that  the  said  Countess  should  surrender  the  said  grant,  and  in 
lieu  thereof  our  said  late  father  should  pay  unto  her  the  sum 
of  sixteen  thousand  pounds ;  in  pursuance  of  which  agreement 
there  was  eight  thousand  pounds,  part  thereof,  shortly  after 
paid  to  the  said  Countess,  but  the  surrender  upon  the  sole  suit 
of  the  said  Countess  (alleging  it  might  be  some  prejudice  to 
her  to   quit    all    her   pretensions  in  those  customs)  was  not 
accordingly  executed ;  whereupon  it  pleased  our  said  late  father 
to  accept  in  satisfaction  for  the  eight  thousand  pounds  so  paid 
as  aforesaid  the  yearly  rent  of  one  thousand  pounds  for  the 
term  unexpired  in  that  grant  to  be  paid  over  and  above  the 
£1400  per  annum  first  reserved  and  to  waive  the  surrender; 
and   for   the   other  eight  thousand  pounds  remaining  of  the 
sixteen  thousand  pounds  our  said  late  father  did  declare,  and 
accordingly  by  his  letters  bearing  date  the  7th  day  of  December 
in  the  15th  year  of  his  reign  was  pleased  to  give  directions  to 
his  then  Deputy  of  Ireland  to  pay  the  same,  and  upon  payment 
thereof  it  was  also  agreed  that  there  should  be  the  like  yearly 
rent  of  one  thousand  pounds  more  answered  out  of  the  profits 
of  the  said  customs  for  such  time  as  the  said  Countess  had  in 
the  said  grant ;   but  it   is   alleged  that  the  said  latter  eight 
thousand  pounds  was  not  accordingly  paid,  neither  could  the 
said  Countess  receive  the  profits  of  those  customs  for  many 
years  whereby  to  make  good  those   rents   by  reason   of  the 
Bebellion  which  broke  forth  in  that  kingdom.     Now  forasmuch 
as  there  is  a  small  term  in  being  in  the  said  grant  which  appears 
to  be  unsurrendered,  the  interest  whereof  is  now  devolved  upon 
the  said  Earl  of  Northumberland  as  administrator  to  her,  we 
are  well  pleased  upon  his  request  in  that  behalf  to  grant  him 
the  benefit  thereof,  and  do  therefore  hereby  require  you  to  give 
such  order  and  to  pass  such  act  or  acts  whereby  he  and  his 
agents  may  take  possession  and  be  enabled  to  receive  the  profits 


I  13 

of  the  said  customs  during  tbe  continuance  of  the  said  term 
unexpired  upon  the  due  payment  of  the  rents  reserved  and 
payable  to  us  by  virtue  of  the  said  grant  and  agreement.  And 
whereas  he  hath  likewise  petitioned  us  for  renewing  the  lease 
of  the  said  customs,  whose  request  we  are  pleased  to  grant  for 
the  term  of  one  and  twenty  years  at  the  yearly  rent  of  fourteen 
hundred  pounds  as  the  same  was  formerly  granted  to  the  Earl 
of  Carlisle,  yet  inasmuch  as  we  are  informed  that  other  customs 
and  impositions  are  upon  wines  than  were  granted  to  the  said 
Earl  of  Carlisle,  we  holding  it  necessary  to  be  certified  what 
the  customs  and  impositions  upon  wines  are  at  present  and 
what  part  thereof  are  comprised  in  the  Earl  of  Carlisle's  grant, 
do  direct  and  hereby  further  require  you  to  make  and  transmit 
unto  us  a  certificate  thereof  accordingly.  And  for  so  doing 
these  our  letters  shall  be  your  warrant.  Given  at  our  Court 
at  Whitehall  the  sixth  day  of  April,  1661.  By  His  Majesty's 
command.      Edw.  Nicholas. 

Bishop  of  Limerick*  to  Sir  William  Flower. 

1661,  August  2.  Limerick. — I  have  sent  you  (enclosed) 
a  copy  of  an  order  from  my  Lords  Justices  and  Council,  which 
when  you  are  pleased  to  read  you  will  find  that  thereby  there 
is  authority  given  to  me  (as  to  others  of  my  brethren)  to  dispose 
(for  this  year)  all  the  forfeited  impropriations  in  this  Diocese, 
amongst  which  the  rectory  of  Glenogra  is  one.  But  hearing 
that  you  (or  some  agents  under  you)  lay  claim  to  it  in  the 
right  [of]  my  Lord,  I  have  given  you  the  trouble  of  this  letter, 
and  herein  to  acquaint  you  that  upon  enquiry  I  find  by  clear 
evidence  that  either  my  Lord,  or  some  other  of  the  Earls  of 
Ormond,  sold  that  impropriation  to  Mr.  Earle  of  Bath  (who 
is  Lord  of  that  manor),  and  he  sold  or  mortgaged  it  to  Mr. 
Nicholas  Haly,  and  by  his  forfeiture  it  hath  been  set  (for  the 
use  of  the  State)  these  three  or  four  years  last  past,  and  now  (as 
forfeited)  by  the  King's  bounty  bestowed  upon  the  Church. 
So  if  it  be  my  Lord's  I  shall  cease,  and  wish  the  value  of  it 
were  multiplied  by  hundreds  and  thousands  to  him  and  his. 
But  if  not,  I  know  my  Lord  is  so  noble  and  I  know  you  to 
be  so  friendly  affectionated  to  the  Church  that  you  will  not 
deprive  us  of  it.  My  humble  service  to  you  and  my  entreaty 
for  a  word  or  two  in  answer  to  this  shall  conclude  you  the 
trouble  of  this  address. 

Sir  John  Temple  to  Ormond. 

1661,  September  17.  Dublin. — I  have  received  your 
letter  of  the  9th  of  this  present,  and  am  very  glad  of  this 
opportunity  to  express  the  great  affections  I  bear  unto  your 
Grace's  service  here.  As  for  that  particular  concerning  the 
mortgage,  I  did  when  I  had  the  honour  to  wait  upon  you  at 
Whitehall  let  your  Grace  know  that  the  whole  interest  was 

*  E<lward  Synge,  Bishop  of  Limerick  1661,  translated  to  Cork,  1663. 


14 

transferred  out  of  me  unto  Sir  John  Dingly,  knight,  of  the 
Isle  of  Wight,  and  I  then  brought  his  eldest  son,  Mr.  John 
Dingly,  to  wait  upon  you,  and  so  far  prevailed  with  him  that 
notwithstanding  he  had  received  no  interest  for  his  money  for 
fifteen  years  together  during  the  late  rebellion,  and  that  his 
mortgage  was  now  become  an  absolute  and  indefeasible  lease 
in  law  by  your  Grace's  not  payment  of  the  money  upon  demand 
made  according  to  the  deed,  he  was  content  that  upon  the 
payment  of  the  principal  money  and  some  reasonable  part  of 
the  great  arrear  due,  the  lease  should  be  resigned,  and  made  no 
question  of  prevailing  with  his  father  (who  is  very  old)  to 
satisfy  your  Grace  therein.  I  have  now  written  unto  him  to 
the  same  purpose. 

Sir  William  Flower  to  Ormond. 

1661,  November  26.  Dunmore. — ^By  the  last  post  I 
received  several  letters  from  your  Grace,  with  the  most  welcome 
news  of  my  Lord's  being  Lord-Lieutenant,  to  the  very  great 
comfort  of  all  honest  men ;  the  other  sort  of  people  pretend 
great  joy  too,  and  last  night  in  Kilkenny  were  as  many  fires 
and  guns  shot  off  as  was  heard  or  seen  in  that  city  this  many 
years. 

The  Names  of  those  Persons  whose  Estates  are  Forfeited 
IN  Ireland  for  sitting  on  His  late  Majesty's  Trial. 


Cromwell. 

Ludlow. 

Hewlitt. 

lertone. 

Clement. 

Axtell. 

Corbett. 

Wogane. 

Andrews. 

Jones. 

Cooke. 

Hewstone. 

Waller. 

Dendy. 

Ewers. 

Endorsed  :- 

-1663 

,  November  27  (re 

jceived). 

Elizabeth,  Lady  Thurles  to  Ormond. 

1661  [-2] ,  February  8. — Son  :  I  am  entreated  by  Mr.  John 
Corbit  to  desire  your  favour  for  his  wife  towards  the  obtaining 
of  her  suit,  and  to  let  you  know  I  never  heard  he  in  his  own 
person  did  deserve  any  ill,  unless  it  were  by  being  the  son  of 
such  a  father,  which  was  not  in  his  power  to  remedy ;  and  for 
his  wife's  sake  you  may  please  to  show  what  favour  you  think 
convenient,  for  she  was  most  dear  to  her  father  whom  I  know 
was  a  most  faithful  servant  of  your's,  which  with  much  affection 
he  expressed  a  little  before  his  death.  God  Almighty  bless 
and  keep  you  and  all  yours. — ^Your  ever  loving  mother, 

Eliza  Thurles. 

Izaac  Walton  to  Mrs.  Dorothy  Smith. 

1661  [-2],  March  21.  Worcester.— Good  Mrs.  Smith,— 
If  in  your  first  letter  you  had  given  me  notice  where 
to    have    directed    mine    to    you,    then    you    might    have 


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spared  your  second,  and  now,  in  answer  to  both,  I 
shall  say  faithfully  that  I  do  verily  believe  or  rather  know 
that  the  150  li  you  mention  was  paid  by  the  Duke's  order  for 
his  use  about  the  year  1641.  It  was  paid  (and  I  think  by  me) 
to  an*  agent  of  my  Lord's  who  was  very  well  acquainted  with 
Mr.  Whiniard,  his  Lordship's  tailor,  who  dwelt  then  in  the 
Old  Bailie  in  London,  and  I  believe  was  paid  by  me  at 
Mr.  Whiniard's  house  and  in  his  presence.  And  in  good  faith 
I  do  believe  it  was  used  by  direction  from  the  Duke  to  buy 
ensigns  and  flags  and  such  utensils  for  war.  *Tis  now  twenty 
years  since:  and  my  memory  may  fail  in  particulars,  but  in 
the  substance  I  know  I  do  not,  nor  do  I  make  any  doubt  but 
that  it  was  employed  for  his  Lordship's  use,  and  that  I  think 
I  am  not  mistaken,  I  dare  be  sworn. 

Though  I  am  a  stranger  almost  to  yourself,  yet  for  your 
husband's  sake,  who  was  my  dear  friend,  I  am  willing  this 
my  true  testimony  may  do  you  good ;  and  especially  at  this 
time,  which  it  seems  you  are  in  necessity  now,  that  it  may  do 
that  which  I  intend;  and  because  the  Duke  can  have  no 
knowledge  of  me  to  incline  him  to  believe  me,  if  his  Grace  will 
appoint  some  one  of  his  attendants  to  show  this  my  letter  to 
my  Lord  the  Bishop  of  Worcester,  I  think  he  will  both  say  he 
knows  this  to  be  my  hand,  and  that  he  thinks  I  am  an  honest 
man.  I  wish  your  business  or  any  thing  that  at  any  time 
may  concern  myself  may  so  prosper  as  I  conceive  I  have  spoken 
the  truth.  Beyond  this  I  shall  not  enlarge  myself.  Almighty 
God  keep  the  Duke  and  you  and  all  that  love  him  in  his 
favour. 

Your  loving  friend , 

Isaac  Walton. 

Postscript : — ^I  will  add  this  more,  that  I  think  I  may  have 
some  papers  that  be  not  now  with  me  that  may  give  notice  to 
whom  it  was  paid,  but  doubtless  buffcotes  and  ensigns  were 
bought  with  it,  and  for  my  Lord  of  Ormond's  use.  I  am  not 
in  health,  and  therefore  beg  to  be  excused  for  my  bad  writing. 

Endorsed  by  Ormond: — Iz.  Walton  to  Mrs.  Smith, 
concerning  a  debt  due  from  me  to  her  husband,  Mr.  Geo. 
Smith. 

Mayob  of  Clonmel  and  Others  to  Captain  George 

M  ATHE  w . 

1661  [-2] ,  March  22.  Clonmel.— Worthy  Sir :  Pursuant  to 
the  discourse  some  of  us  had  with  you  yesterday,  and  to  what 
some  weeks  since  was  requested  by  ourselves  and  many  others 
in  our  congratulatory  address  to  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Ormond, 
we  do  hereby  entreat  the  fulfilling  of  your  courteous  promise 
by  furthering  what  you  can  our  pressing  desires  of  holding 
from  that  noble  family.  And  of  this  great  happiness  we  do 
the  less  despair  because  the  walled  towns  are  allotted  by  His 
Majesty  for  satisfaction  of  arrears  before  '49,  and  because  we 
are  well  assured  that  this  place  will  bear  but  a  very  small 


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proportion  to  his  Grace's  debt  when  it  should  be  audited  on 
that  account.  Our  suit  to  you  is  that  by  a  letter  to  some  fit 
person  about  the  Duchess  you  would  first  inform  yourself,  and 
then  us,  what  course  will  be  the  most  acceptable  and  proper 
to  be  used  in  the  prosecution  of  this  affair.  And  although  we 
have  not  acquainted  many  with  our  writing  to  you  at  this  time, 
yet  dare  w^e  promise  you  that  nothing  can  be  more  welcome 
than  its  success  to  all  the  inhabitants  of  this  place,  as  their  late 
unanimous  and  cheerful  subscribing  the  address  above- 
mentioned  doth  sufficiently  evince.  Sir,  We  have  nothing  to 
add  but  that  your  careful  endeavours  in  this  business  (besides 
our  town  in  the  general)  shall  particularly  oblige  your  very 
humble  servants ,  Charles  Blount,  Tho.  Stanley,  Rob.  Knight, 
Ri.  Hamerton,  Sam.  Ladyman,  Charles  Alcocke. 

List  fbom  the  Great  Wardrobe,  London,  of  Articles  detailed 

FOR  THE  King's  service  in  Ireland. 

Great  Wardrobe  These  particulars   following    were 

in  London.  detailed  for  His  Majesty's  service 

in  the  Kingdom   of   Ireland   in 
the  year  1661. 

The  Royal  robes  of  crimson  velvet,  furred,  &c. 

A  cap  of  maintenance. 

Three  Cloths  of  Estate,  embroidered  with  His  Majesty's  arms 
and  badges,  and  to  each  of  them  one  great  chain,  two  high 
stools,  one  footstool,  and  two  cushions. 

Three  silver  and  gilt  maces. 

A  Sword  of  Estate. 

A  purse  for  the  Great  Seal,  embroidered,  &c. 

Two  Heralds*  coats,  richly  embroidered  with  His  Majesty's 
arms. 

Three  messengers'  coats  of  scarlet  coloured  cloth,  embroidered 
with  His  Majesty's  arms  on  back  and  breast. 

Two  suits  of  tapestry  hangings. 

Endorsed : — A  note  of  provisions  sent  into  Ireland  for  His 
Majesty's  service,  in  the  year  1661. 

Sir  Abraham  Yarner*  to  Ormond. 

1662,  April  5.  Dublin. — I  thought  it  my  duty  to  present 
your  Grace  a  brief  abstract  of  His  Majesty's  army  here  in 
Ireland  as  they  were  this  last  muster.  In  the  horse  are 
included  the  supernumeraries,  which  are  121,  as  also  such  as 
■  are  respited  and  absent,  which  are  15;  the  whole  number  of 
horse  2388;  the  whole  number  of  the  foot-soldiers  is  5978, 
besides  18  men  respited  and  absent.  The  supernumeraries 
are  to  be  reduced  into  the  troops,  and  each  troop  to  67,  besides 

*  Muster- Master  General  of  the  Army  in  Ireland, 


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commissioned  and  non-commissioned  ofiScers,  and  until  then 
no  vacancy  to  be  supplied ;  likewise  the  foot  companies  are  to 
be  reduced  to  87  soldiers,  besides  commissioned  and  non-com- 
missioned officers,  so  that  the  whole  army  of  horse  and  foot 
consists  of  8384  private  soldiers,  besides  all  wards,  Provost- 
Marshal's  men,  and  train  of  Artillery. 

1  had  given  your  Grace  this  account  before  now  but  that  this 
last  muster  my  deputies  were  much  retarded  by  the  great 
extremity  of  ill  weather,  each  one's  circuit  being  at  the  least 
300  miles,  some  400,  as  also  this  time  they  administered  both 
officers  and  soldiers  the  oaths  of  allegiance  and  supremacy. 
I  hope  I  shall  present  the  abstract  of  the  next  muster  to  your 
Grace  in  Ireland. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

16G2,  April  26.  Drury  Lane. — Nothing  hath  occurred 
here  since  your  Grace's  going  worthy  your  knowledge,  neither 
should  I  have  given  you  the  trouble  of  a  letter  but  for  what 
I  would  not  adventure  upon  the  despatch  of  in  your  Grace's 
absence.  Your  Grace  may  remember  that  when  you  were  last 
present  in  Council,  you  agreed  to  some  names  of  Commissioners 
for  Alderman  Smith's  bill  of  charitable  uses,  but  the  number  of 
thirty-two  allowed  by  the  bill  were  not  then  considered,  which 
hath  made  a  mistake ;  for  those  last  agreed  on  are  too  few,  and  of 
the  thirty-two  some  are  not  fit  to  stand ;  I  have  therefore  by 
direction  of  the  Council  sent  your  Grace  both  the  lists, to  the  end 
you  may,  instead  of  those  agreed  upon  in  the  smaller  list,  mark 
those  which  shall  be  put  out  in  the  greater,  wherein  I  have  given 
my  opinion  by  marking  them  with  a  cross,  and  have  no  more 
to  say  upon  the  business  but  that  the  Alderman  beseecheth  your 
Grace  that  Sir  Theophilus  Jones,  whom  he  accounts  his  greatest 
adversary  in  Ireland,  may  not  be  one ;  and  it  will  be  necessary 
most  of  the  Aldermen  continue,  that  they  may  never  want  a 
quorum  in  Dublin.  I  am  taking  care  for  Dr.  Currer  and 
the  rest  of  the  warrants  I  received  since  your  Grace  went ;  the 
greatest  difficulty  I  find  is  to  get'  the  £4,000 .  for  the 
Commissioners  and  Mr.  Vangelder,  which  I  am  still  labouring 
in,  but  find  some  doubt  raised  as  if  the  Queen's  money  would 
not  reach  to  pay  all.  I  have  prevailed  with  Mr.  Vyner  for 
almost  £3,000  in  assignments  more  than  the  £6,000,  your 
Grace's  occasions  requiring  it,  so  that  now  my  Lady  Duchess 
and  I  have,  I  hope,  overcome  all  difficulties.  I  am  to  allow 
this  last  £3,000  upon  payment  in  August,  and  when  your 
Grace  comes  will  attend  you  for  your  warrant  therein  to  be 
allowed  upon  your  entertainments  in  Ireland.  And  because  I 
have  observed  that  hitherto  estimates  have  not  been  rightly 
adjusted,  and  I  am  resolved  to  serve  your  Grace  thoroughly 
in  this  business,  I  desire  that  you  would  yet  timely  consider 
with  yourself  whether  some  money  may  not  yet  be  wanting 
for  the  journey  that  so  I  may  look  out  for  it  in  time,  that  there 
be  no  retardment  upon  that  account. 

Wt  8878  B 


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Mr.  Strode  hath  presented  your  Grace  with  a  fine  young 
stone  horse,  which  I  caused  to  be  sent  to  your  stable.  He 
brought  his  son  also  to  town,  who  is  to  attend  your  Grace  into* 
Ireland,  who  would  have  gone  to  Portsmouth,  finding  you 
were  there,  but  I  caused  him  forbear  till  I  had  your  Grace's 
pleasure  therein. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1662,  May  3.  Drury  Lane. — This  day  I  received  your 
Lordship's  of  the  first  of  this  month,  and  shall  settle  the 
business  enclosed  concerning  Alderman '  Smith  according  to 
your  Grace's  direction,  which  fully  suits  with  my  own  judg- 
ment. I  must  now  acquaint  your  Grace  with  a  consequence 
of  your  absence  which  happened  at  Council  yesterday,  and 
gives  me  ground  to  apprehend  worse  when  the  sea  is  between 
you  and  England,  if  a  secure  provision  of  prevention  be  not 
made  before  you  go,  wherein  my  Lord  of  Strafford's  wisdom 
hath  laid  a  fair  example.  Upon  the  information  of  Mr. 
Slingsby  (who  had  it  seems  forgotten  that  your  Grace  was 
Lieutenant  of  Ireland)  that  he  might  appear  a  singularly 
officious  officer  of  the  mint,  being  supported  with  some  of  the 
Council  that  I  could  not  balance,  exhibiting  to  His  Majesty 
and  their  Lordships  the  pretended  great  mischief  that  would 
befal  England  by  the  Letters  Patents  for  coining  of  small 
money  in  Ireland,  whatsoever  was  offered  for  delaying  a 
resolution  till  your  Lordship's  coming  or  otherwise  against  his 
intimations,  it  was  resolved  that  Mr.  Secretary  Nicholas  should 
send  a  letter  by  the  next  post  for  stop  of  all  proceedings  therein 
till  further  orders.  The  weighty  reason  pretended  was  that 
it  would  carry  all  the  money  out  of  England,  whereas  the 
patentee  is  bound  to  bring  all  the  coin  in  foreign  bullion  thither. 
My  Lord,  the  thing  is  not  so  considerable  in  itself  as  it  is 
dangerous  to  your  Lordship,  that  upon  an  information  so 
weakly  grounded  (that  I  hear  he  is  since  labouring  to  find 
matter  to  justify  his  complaint)  an  act  of  your  Lordship's 
relating  to  your  own  government,  and  which  I  believe  upon 
examination  will  justify  itself,  should  receive  a  demur  without 
your  Lordship's  being  heard  when  it  was  desired.  This  is 
all  I  shall  say  of  this  business  till  I  see  your  Grace. 

I  have  taken  care  to  satisfy  Sir  George  Hamilton ,  though  I 
could  not  pay  him  fully,  and  he  shall  not  at  all  be  disappointed. 

I  have  and  shall  attend  my  Lady  Duchess  about  the  main 
supply,  and  doubt  not  to  serve  your  Grace  effectually  therein. 
We  are  as  impatient  here  as  you  can  be  there  of  the  Queen's 
landing ;  I  hope  a  few  days  will  shew  us  what  is  to  be  done. 
I  shall  observe  all  your  Grace's  commands  relating  to  Mr. 
Strode. 

The  Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1662,  May  6.  Drury  Lane. — Since  my  last  nothing  hath 
come  from  Ireland  but  a  report,  without  letters  (that  I  can  hear 
of),  that  the  Parliament  there  had  adjourned  to  the  24th  of 


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this  month,  which  I  much  wonder  at,  having  given  notice 
long  before  that  the  bills  so  much  expected  were  upon  the  w^ay 
towards  them.  The  intended  despatch  concerning  the  small 
money,  wherein  I  advertised  your  Grace  Mr.  Slingsby  appeared 
so  concerned ,  is  by  His  Majesty '  s  order  respited  till  your  Grace  *  s 
return.  I  do  attend  my  Lady  Duchess,  from  whom  your  Grace 
commands  me  to  receive  a  measure  as  to  the  provision  to  be 
made  of  private  moneys,  and  shall  take  care  therein  I  hope 
to  your  satisfaction.  I  left  it  free  to  Mr.  Strode  whether  that 
five  hundred  pounds  should  be  paid  in  or  continued  six  months 
longer,  and  he  having  declared  his  willingness  to  the  latter, 
the  interest  shall  be  paid  the  14th'  of  this  month  when  it  is 
due.  Sir  George  Lane  communicated  to  me  your  Grace's 
commands  concerning  the  horse  to  be  ready  in  Ireland  in  July, 
but  no  resolution  being  yet  taken  about  the  money  I  forbear 
writing  more  than  generals  into  Ireland,  that  by  way  of 
preparation  it  may  be  considered  where  and  how  they  may  be 
best  and  most  speedily  raised  when  money  and  orders  arrive. 

The  Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1662,  May  16.  Drury  Lane. — This  bearer,  my  cousin, 
Thomas  Laugherne,  Major-General  Laugherne's  eldest  son, 
having  attended  (according  to  your  Grace's  intimation  of 
favouring  him  therewith)  a  vacancy  in  Ireland,  and  Captain 
Gifford,  who  had  the  command  of  a  foot-company,  being  lately 
deceased,  I  do  humbly  recommend  him  to  your  Grace  for  that 
charge,  his  fitness  for  the  place  and  the  great  sufferings  of 
that  family  for  the  Koyal  interest  pleading  much  in  his  behalf. 
His  Majesty  being  assured  of  the  Queen's  arrival,  though  he 
had  before  resolved  to  begin  his  journey  towards  Portsmouth, 
yet,  finding  some  bills  of  public  concernment  were  not 
despatched,  did  yesterday  by  a  message  to  both  Houses  quicken 
the  finishing  of  them  against  Monday,  when  he  declares  his 
intention  to  make  a  session,  and  the  same  day  to  begin  his 
journey ,  so  as  he  may  be  with  the  Queen  on  Tuesday  night ; 
here  were  bonfires,  ringing  of  bells,  and  other  expressions  of 
great  joy  yesterday  for  the  Queen's  arrival  in  safety. 

I  hope  now  your  Grace  will  hasten  your  journey  for  Ireland  ; 
that  kingdom  languisheth  for  you.  I  have  done  what  her 
Grace  hath  desired  as  to  money,  though  with  much  difficulty, 
and  must  pray  your  Grace  to  be  still  mindful  of  Sir  Thomas 
Vyner  for  his  twenty-two  thousand  pounds  of  the  Queen's 
money.  The  only  thing  wanting  is  the  £4,000  for  the 
Commissioners  and  Mr.  Vangelder,  which  without  greater 
allowance  and  security  than  I  have  power  to  propose  is  not  to 
be  obtained.  I  should  be  glad  to  receive  your  Grace's  further 
direction  herein  when  you  have  spoken  with  His   Majesty. 

Sir  John  Dbnham  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1662,  July  24. — The  bearer  hereof,  my  kinsman.  Dr. 
Denham,  is  the  gentleman  concerning  whom  I  spoke  to  you 
at  London,  who,  when  you  have  some  knowledge  of  him  will 


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recommend  himself  better  to  you  than  I  can.  What  his 
pretensions  are  I  know  not,  but  whether  they  concern  the  body 
natural  or  the  body  politic,  he  is  very  capable  of  serving  his 
Grace  in  either,  and  if  for  your  favour  to  him  I  can  make  you 
a  return  of  any  service  here,  I  shall  think  myself  very  happy 
to  have  it  in  my  power  to  do  it,  being  most  unfeignedly,  Sir, 
your  most  affectionate  kinsman  and  most  faithful  servant, 

Michael  Boyle,*  Bishop  of  Cork,  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1662,  July  29.  Cork. — This  paper  is  intended  to  meet 
you  at  Dublin.  Whether  it  will  do  so  or  no  I  know  not.  But 
this  I  assure  you,  that  there  are  few  persons  living  who  more 
heartily  prays  for  his  Grace's  safe  arrival  into  this  kingdom 
than  your  humble  servant.  It  is  no  small  affliction  to  me  that 
I  should  be  absent  at  this  time,  when  the  long-expected  joy 
of  this  nation  is  brought  unto  us  by  his  access.  I  had  not 
doubtless  stirred  from  my  post  nor  removed  one  foot  out  of 
Dublin  had  not  his  Grace's  licence  and  encouragement  inclined 
me  to  make  a  step  into  the  country  before  his  coming  over, 
and  I  presume  his  Grace  will  pardon  my  absence,  which  is  not 
only  my  misfortune  but  my  punishment.  I  am  at  present 
detained  here  by  a  great  distemper  of  my  wife's,  who  hath 
been  very  ill  this  fortnight,  but  I  shall  no  sooner  see  her  in  a 
probable  condition  of  recovery  but  I  shall  hasten  up  to  pay  my 
humble  duty  and  obedience  to  His  Excellency,  and  I  shall  beg 
your  favour  to  say  something  for  me  that  may  excuse  me  to 
His  Grace  that  I  am  not  as  early  at  his  feet  as  others  of  his 
servants  are.  I  have  a  great  impatience  until  I  shake  hands 
with  you  at  Dublin ,  for  until  I  see  you  I  shall  not  be  satisfied 
that  we  have  you.  I  beseech  your  presentment  of  my  very 
humble  service  to  your  lady  and  unto  yourself  the  most  resigned 
affection  of,  dear  sir,  your  most  humble  and  faithful  servant. 

Petition  of  Poor  Pensioners  and  Orders  Thereon. 

1662,  August  6.  Dublin. — The  humble  petition  of  the 
poor  pensioners,  being  most  of  them  widows  and  father- 
less children. 

Humbly  shewing  that  your  Honour's  poor  pensioners  have 
been  deprived  of  their  pensions  almost  this  year  and  a  half, 
by  means  whereof  they  are  all  of  them  in  a  most  miserable 
and  distressed  condition,  some  of  them  ready  to  starve,  other 
some  ready  to  be  cast  into  prison,  and  others  of  them  to  be 
turned  out  of  doors  and  to  lie  in  the  streets,  who  have  several 
times  presented  their  humble  petitions  to  this  honourable  Board 
for  means,  but  have  been  delayed  and  slighted  from  time  to 
time,  so  that  now  they  are  most  pitiful  objects  of  tender  com- 
passion, and  if  not  speedily  relieved  by  your  Honour's  means 
they  are  likely  to  starve  and  perish  in  the  streets. 

*  Subseqaently  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland,  1665,  and  Primate,  1675. 


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In  tender  coneideriition  whereof  may  it  therefore  please  your 
Excellency  and  the  rest  of  this  honourable  Council  tenderly 
to  commiserate  this  their  most  lamentable  condition,  and  to 
grant  them  your  Honour's  gracious  order  that  they  may  have 
their  means  and  allowance  granted  then  and  the  rather  for 
that  they  had  an  order  about  half  a  year  ago  for  half  a  year's 
means,  and  never  had  it  given  them  to  this  very  day.  And 
your  poor  petitioners  and  pensioners  shall  ever  pray. 

Endorsed  at  foot :- — ^Dublin  Castle,  August  7, 1662. — Let  this 
petition  be  presented  unto  us  at  our  next  sitting  at  the  Council 
Board,  where  the  same  shall  be  taken  into  consideration  and 
such  further  order  given  thereupon  as  shall  be  thought  fit. 

Ormond. 

Petition  of  Samuel  Pepys  and  order  thereon  by  Ormond. 

To  James,  Duke  of  Ormond,  his  Grace  Lord-Lieutenant 
General  and  Governor  General  of  Ireland.  The  humble 
petition  of  Samuel  Pepys.  Sheweth  that  your  petitioner's 
father  about  five  years  ago  for  a  very  valuable  consideration 
did  buy  from  Major  Dudley  Phillips  (a  person  of  known 
loyalty  to  His  Majesty)  certain  debentures  for  his  arrears 
due  to  him  for  his  service  in  the  war  of  Ireland  before 
the  fifth  of  June,  1649,  amounting  to  £4,000  or  £5,000  or 
thereabouts. 

That  the  late  usurpers  of  the  Government  in  1649  (w-ell 
knowing  the  said  Major  Phillips'  affections  to  His  Majesty,  and 
being  desirous  to  disband  him)  did  then  pay  unto  the  said 
Major  Phillips  the  sum  of  £130  in  money  for  three  months' 
pay,  due  to  him  for  his  service  after  the  5th  of  June  aforesaid, 
and  did  thereupon  disband  him. 

That  your  petitioner's  father  having  left  the  said  arrears  to 
him  for  his  portion,  your  petitioner  by  the  strictness  of  the 
late  Act  of  Settlement  is  to  be  postponed  for  satisfaction  of 
the  said  arrears,  to  your  petitioners  ruin  if  not  remedied  by 
your  Grace. 

May  it  therefore  please  your  Grace  to  take  your  petitioner's 
case  into  your  gracious  consideration,  and  that  the  sufferings 
of  the  said  Major  for  his  loyalty  may  not  be  any  prejudice  to 
your  petitioner,  but  that  your  Grace  would  be  pleased  to  take 
such  order  as  in  your  wisdom  shall  seem  expedient,  whereby 
the  trustees  appointed  for  the  '49  security  may  admit  your 
petitioner  to  a  prior  satsfacton  for  the  said  arrears.  And  he 
shall  pray. 

Undated.  Endorsed  at  foot :— Dublin  Castle,  August  8, 
1662. — We  recommend  the  petitioner  to  the  Trustees  of  the 
Commissioned  Officers  of  the  Army  before  the  fifth  of  June, 
1649,  whom  we  desire  to  take  his  petition  and  condition  into 
consideration,  and  to  afford  him  all  the  favour  and  furtherance 
they  may  towards  his  satisfaction  for  the  debentures  above 
mentioned .      Ormond . 


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Lists  of  Offices  received  from  Mr.  Attorney,  the 

10th  of  August,  1662. 

Several  sorts  of  officers  that  are  to  be  appointed  in  the 
several  ports  of  this  kingdom  for  levying  and  collecting  His 
Majesty's  duties  of  Excise  and  new  impost,  according  to  the 
tenor  of  an  Act  lately  passed  in  this  present  Parliament. 

1st. — To  be  appointed  by  the  \  Chief  Commissioners  not  ex- 
the  Lord  Lieutenant  only   t       ceeding  the  number  of  five. 

2ndly> — To  be  appointed  by/  A   Surveyor  General  in   His 
the  Lord  Lieutenant  only    |       Majesty's  port  of  the  said 

duties  of  Excise  and  new 
impost. 


\ 


Srdly, — To  be  appointed  by 
the  Lord  Lieutenant  and 
Council 

4t}dy. — To  be  approved  by 
the  Lord  Lieutenant  and 
Council 


Commissioners  of  Appeals 

The  Sub-Commissioners  in  all 
places  where  the  Lord  Lieut- 
enant and  Council  shall  think 
fit  to  appoint  Sub-Com- 
missioners. 


To  be  approved  by  the  Lord  |  Collectors  in  the  several  ports 
Lieutenant  and  Council       \      of  the  said  duties  of  Excise 

i       and  new  impost. 


To  be  approved  by 
the  Lord  Lieut- 
enant only 


Searchers 

Waiters 

Messengers 

Clerks  to  the^ 
Sub-Com- 
missioners 


-]  to  [- 


To  be  appointed  in  all 
places  for  the  levying 
and  collecting  of  the 
said  duties  of  Excise 
and  new  Impost  ac- 
cording to  the  late  Act. 


-]. 


1662,  August  11.  Hampton  Court. — By  the  last  letters 
from  Holland  is  confirmed  the  report  we  had  of  three  of  the 
East  Indy  ships,  together  with  their  whole  lading,  which  was 
very  rich,  being  cast  aw^ay  at  the  Texel,  which  disaster  together 
with  the  other  four  of  that  fleet  strayed  in  their  way  hither- 
wards  and  not  yet  heard  of,  as  also  their  late  great  loss  in  the 
island  of  Formosa,  very  much  afflicts  those  of  Amsterdam,  who 
are  more  considerably  interested  in  that  fortune.  The  Spanish 
Ambassador,  Don  Steph.  di  Gamarra,  hath  desired  two  months 
more  time  for  the  delivery  of  the  ratification  of  the  late  agree- 
ment made  between  his  master  and  the  Estates  concerning  the 
division  of  the  Pais  d'Outremeuse,  whereat  the  Dutch  seem 
a  little  altered,  and  say  they  will  admit  no  further  delays,  but 
will  expect  either  the  ratification  of  this  or  the  eflfects  of  that 
agreement  at  ITunster  made  concerning  this  matter  in  1648. 


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The  Elector  of  Brandenburg  hath  lately  received  his 
investiture  of  the  Duchy  of  Pomerania  from  the  Emperor,  and 
'tis  believed  a  good  sum  of  money,  so  as  he  being  now  wholly 
[Impjerialist  the  King  of  France  begins  to  think  his  game  the 
harder,  and  is  said  to  have  new  thoughts  of  his  journey  into 
Alsace,  for  which  he  hath  despatched  the  Duke  de  Mazarin 
thither  already.  The  late  fleet  set  on  by  the  French  under 
the  Duke  de  Beaufort  into  the  Mediterranean  is  after  much 
noise  quietly  returned  home  without  effecting  any  one  thing 
.  considerable,  and  now  the  Dutch  and  they  discoulrse  of  an 
union  of  their  forces  in  the  Mediterranean  against  the  Pirates. 

By  late  letters  from  Tanger  we  find  things  in  a  very  good 
condition  there,  and  the  Gay  land  [?]  having  again  desired  to 
treat  a  friendship,  so  as  it  were  with  the  Governor  himself,  upon 
that  and  other  considerations  of  advancing  the  King's  service 
in  that  place  the  Earl  of  Peterburgh  is  this  week  to  embark 
with  a  supply  of  all  necessaries  for  the  garrison.  The  same 
letters  tell  us  Sir  John  Lawson  was  making  for  Arzilla,  with 
intention  to  bring  them  to  a  peace  with  us  as  those  of  Tituan 
are  already,  which  both  lying  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Tanger 
will  be  of  great  use  for  the  supply  and  countenan  [ce]  [of] 
that  place.  Sir  Bichard  Fanshaw  is  likewise  [obliterated]  will 
be  setting  forward  for  Lisbon  as  His  Majesty's  Ambassador 
Ordinary  to  remain  there. 

Their  Majesties  and  the  Court  are  still  at  Hampton  Court, 
expecting  till  the  lodge  designed  to  receive  the  Queen  at 
Vauxhall  be  fully  ready,  which  may  possibly  yet  wear  out  a 
fortnight  or  more.  In  the  meantime  the  City  are  forward 
[ing  their]  preparations  to  meet  Her  Majesty  on  the  water  as 
far  as  Putney,  and  so  to  wait  on  her  to  her  landing  at  White- 
hall. 

The  Queen  Mot  [her]  remains  likewise  at  Greenwich  till 
Somerset  [Hou]se  be  fitted  to  receive  her. 

At  a  late  Common  Council  the  City  voted  a  pension  of  dE500 
per  annum  to  Sir  Bichard  Brown  for  the  good  services  he  hath 
and  daily  doth  His  Majesty  and  the  City  as  Major-General  of 
the  militia  of  London. 


Ordbr  to  the  Sheriffs  of  Dublin,  &c.,  for  Quartering 

Troops. 

1662,  August  25.     Dublin.  By  the  Lord-Lieutenant 

General   and    General 
Ormond.  Governor  of  Lreland. 

Whereas  we  have  thought  fit  to  give  order  for  the  marching 
of  the  four  troops  of  horse  lately  quartering  in  this  City  to  other 
places  in  the  country,  and  have  appointed  five  other  troops 
hereunder  mentioned  to  march  up  hither,  these  are  therefore 


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to  will  and  require  you  to  appoint  convenient  quarters  for  the 
said  five  troops,  as  they  shall  come  to  this  City  in  the  several 
places  following,  viz. :  Our  own  troop  in  Dammas  Street, 
St.  George's  Lane,  College  Green,  Lazyhill,  St.  Bride  Street, 
and  St.  Kevin  Street,  our  very  good  Lord  the  Duke  of 
Albemarle's  troop  in  Oxmantown,  our  very  good  Lord 
the  Lord  Viscount  Grandison's  troop  in  St.  Thomas  and 
St.  James  Streets,  Sir  Oliver  St.  George's  troop  in  St.  Francis 
Street  and  Ormond  Gate,  the  Coombe,  Crooked  Staff,  and 
Pimlico,  and  Colonel  Daniel  Bedman's  troop  in  St.  Patrick 
Street,  New  Street,  New  Row,  and  the  Fottle.  And  for  your 
so  doing  this  shall  be  a  warrant.  Given  at  His  Majesty's 
Castle  of  Dublin  the  25th  day  of  August,  166'2. 

To  our  trusty  and  well-beloved  the  Sheriffs  of  the  City  of 
Dublin,  and  the  Seneschals  of  the  respective  liberties  of 
St.  Sepulchre,  St.  Thomas  Court,  and  Donore,  and  every  of 
them. 

G.  Lane. 


Petition  op  the  Inhabitants  of  Co.  Tippbbaey  and  order 

THEREON    BY    THE   LoRD    LIEUTENANT. 

Sheweth :  That  the  pass  called  the  Long  Ford  in 
the  Barony  of  lUeogarty  in  the  said  county,  being  a 
causeway  of  a  mile  long  and  the  only  road  for  most  parts  of 
Munster,  is  eaten  away  and  destroyed  by  the  waters,  so  that 
the  same  must  be  wholly  new  done,  but  the  charge  thereof 
(amounting  by  estimation  to  so  great  a  sum  as  upwards  of 
six  hundred  pounds)  cannot  be  borne  by  the  said  county. 

Now  forasmuch  as  the  King  and  Queen's  counties  and  the 
counties  of  Limerick,  Clare,  and  Kilkenny  do  participate  of 
the  benefits  of  the  said  pass,  and  in  regard  the  said  county  of 
Tipperary  of  itself  is  no  way  able  to  bear  the  whole  charge 
thereof. 

Your  suppliants  are  become  humbly  bold  to  be  suitors  to 
your  Grace  in  this  extraordinary  case,  that  out  of  your  great 
wisdom  some  way  may  be  found  whereby  the  aforesaid  counties 
may  be  made  contributaries  with  your  suppliants  in  the  said 
great  charge. 

R.  Butler.  Geo.  Mathew.      Theobald  Mathew. 

Bedmond  Everard.       John  Walshe.        Hie  Sankey. 

Elias  Greene. 

Undated,  Endorsed  at  foot: — Dublin  Castle,  August  27, 
1662. — ^Let  this  petition  be  presented  unto  us  at  our  next 
sitting  at  the  Council  Board,  where  the  same  shall  be  taken 
into  consideration,  and  such  further  order  given  thereupon 
as  shall  be  thought  fit. 


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Estimate  Concerning  Repairs  to  Fortifications  of 

Dublin. 

1662,  August  28. — An  Estimate  concerning  the  repair  of 
the  fortifications  about  this  City. 

£       s.     d. 

Imprimis.  The  whole  line  contains  2212  perch 
of  10  foot  to  the  perch,  whereof  1662  perch 
the  scouring  and  making  the  trench  18  foot 
wide  at  the  top  and  10  foot  at  the  bottom 
and  8  foot  deep,  casting  the  earth  inwards 
at  6s.  the  perch,  comes  to 0498:12:00 

Item.  The  remaining  part  of  the  trench  being 
550  perch  is  filled  uj),  and  will  cost  10s.  the 
perch  to  be  new  sunk,  which  comes  to       ...     0275  :  00  :  00 

Item.  740  perch  of  the  trench,  being  a  loose 
earth,  must  be  sodded  from  the  bottom  to 
the  top  on  the  rampier  side,  which  at  5s. 
the  perch  comes  to 0185:00:00 

Item.  The  new  making  up  and  new  sodding  the 
rampier  and  parapet,  of  1475  perch,  where 
both  the  sods  and  some  part  of  the  earth  is 
wanting  and  must  be  fetched  at  a  good 
distance,  so  that  one  with  another  it  will 
come  to  12s.  the  perch,  and  is  in  all  ...     0885  :  00  :  00 

Item.  The  remaining  part  of  the  rampier  and 
parapet,  being  737  perch,  the  repair  will 
cost  8s.  the  perch,  which  comes  to...         ...     0294  :  16  :  00 

Item.  There  wants  seven  drawbridges  each  of 
which  will  cost,  the  making  and  materials 
£28  16s.  OOd.,  (the  particulars  are  on  the 
other  side),  so  the  whole  will  come  to        ...     0201  :  12  :  00 

Item.  There  wants  four  new  gates  each  at  £8, 
(with  some  stonework  that  is  wanting),  the 
whole  is  0032:00:00 

Item.  There  wants  four  new  Courts  of  Guard, 
each  will  cost  the  building  and  materials 
i-25,  the  whole  0100  :  00  :  00 

Item.     Six  old  Courts  of  Guard  to  be  repaired, 

each  at  £S,  one  with  another,  will  come  to       0048  :  00  :  00 

Item.     For  palisadoes,  turnpikes,  &c.,  in  all     ...     0120  :  00  :  00 

Item.     The  making  and  repairing  watercourses, 

beavers  and  turn- waters,  in  all       ...         ...     0040  :  00  :  00 


2680  :  00  :  00 


John  Paine. 


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An  Estimate  of  the  materials  and  workmanship  belonging 
to  each  drawbridge. 

£       8.     d. 
Imprimis.     The  jambs,  sill  and  headpiece,  1^  ton 

of  timber  at  40s.  per  ton      08:00:00 

Item.     The  braces,  spurs  and  brackets,  ^  ton  ...        01  :  00  :  00 

Item,.     The  wings  with  the  braces,  upper  roller, 

tail-piece  and  mud-sills,  3  ton         06:00:00 

Item,     Timber  for  the  planks,  one  ton 02  :  00  :  00 

Item.    The  under  roller,  fore-piece,  and  joists 

.  for  the  bridge,  one  ton         02:00:00 

Item.    The  carriage  of  the  timber,  being  7  tons, 

at  3s.  per  ton 01:01:00 

Item.    The  chains,  bolts,  spikes,  &c.,  2  hundred- 
weight at  5d.  the  pound,  comes  to 04  :  05  :  00 

Item,     The  masons' work  and  materials  ...         03:10:00 

Item.     The  carpenters'  and  sawyers'  work,  in  all        06  :  00  :  00 


28  :  16  :  00 


Endorsed  : — Received  from  Captain  Paine,  the  28  of  August, 
1662. 

A  List  of  the  Several  Garrisons  in  the  Irovince  of 

CONNAUGHT. 

1662,  August. 

In  the  County  of  Galway. 

The  town  of  Galway  fortified  with  a  good  wall  and  two 
strong  citadels ;  in  the  east  citadel  lies  a  lieutenant,  an 
ensign,  one  sergeant,  two  corporals,  one  drummer,  and  50 
private  soldiers  of  the  Lord  President  of  Conaght's  company ;  in 
the  west  citadel  all  Colonel  Chidly  Coote's  company,  except  a 
corporal  and  two  files,  and  in  the  town  Sir  Francis  Gore, 
Lieut. -Colonel  and  Governor,  and  all  his  company,  except  a 
sergeant,  a  corporal,  and  four  files,  and  all  Captain  Garrett 
Moore's  company  except  a  corporal  and  two  files. 

Bunowen,  a  small  castle  without  a  bawn,  situate  on  the 
seaside  in  Erconaght  (lar-Connaught)  and  secures  a  landing 
place  from  Enisbuffin  (Inisboffin),  wherein  are  two  files  and  a 
corporal  of  Colonel  Chidly  Coote's  company. 

Littormolan  (LettermuUen) ,  a  small  castle  without  a  bawn 
on  the  seaside  in  Erconaght,  from  whence  the  garrison  in 
Aran  have  their  firing,  which  the  Islands  do  not  afford ;  here 
are  two  files  and  a  corporal  of  Captain  Garrett  Moore's 
company. 

Aran. — In  the  great  island  is  a  fort,  wherein  Captain  Deey 
is  garrisoned  with  his  ensign,  one  sergeant,  one  corporal,  one 
drummer,  and  45  private  soldiers. 


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Dunmore,  an  old  castle  with  a  bawn  wall  and  a  gatehouse, 
no  flankers ;  here  lies  a  lieutenant,  one  corporal,  one  drummer, 
and  22  soldiers  of  Sir  Arthur  Gore's  company. 

Belamoe  (Ballymoe),  is  a  strong  regular  fort,  newly  built  of 
lime  and  stone,  with  four  bulwarks,  situate  on  a  pass  between 
the  counties  of  Galway  and  Roscommon  upon  the  river  Suck. 
The  garrison  that  lies  here  is  a  lieutenant,  one  sergeant,  two 
corporals,  one  drummer,  and  —  private  soldiers  of  the  Earl  of 
Mountrath's  company. 

Banagher,  a  new  castle  regularly  built  upon  a  pass  over  the 
Shannon,  in  it  a  sergeant  and  four  files  of  Sir  Arthur  Gore's 
company. 

My  lock  (Moy  lough),  a  castle  like  the  former  upon  another 
pass  over  the  Shannon,  and  in  it  a  sergeant  and  four  files  of 
Sir  Arthur  Gore's  company. 

In  the  County  of  Mayo. 

Ballinrobe,  a  large  strong  bawn  with  four  flankers  of  lime 
and  stone,  in  which  lies  Sir  James  Cuff  and  his  ensign,  two 
corporals,  one  drummer,  and  29  private  soldiers  of  his  company. 

Cahirnemart,  a  small  castle  on  the  sea  side  in  the  Owles 
(Burrishoole)  towards  Innisbufl&n,  in  it  a  sergeant  and  three 
files  of  Sir  James  Cuff's  company. 

Newtown,  a  castle  and  a  bawn  wherein  Sir  Arthur  Gore 
and  two  files  and  a  corporal  of  his  company  are  garrisoned. 

Inver,  a  small  castle  in  Erris  lying  upon  the  harbour  called 
Broad-haven,  an  ensign,  a  sergeant,  a  corporal,  a  drummer, 
and  30  private  soldiers  of  Sir  Arthur  Gt)re's  company. 

Moine  (Moyne),  an  old  abbey  wherein  is  a  corporal  and  three 
files  of  Sir  Eobert  Hannay's  company. 

Innisbuffin,  a  fort  in  an  island  in  the  sea ;  a  lieutenant,  one 
sergeant,  two  corporals,  one  drummer,  and  45  private  soldiers 
of  Captain  Deey's  company. 

In  the  County  of  Sligo. 

.  The  fort  of   Sligo,   not  yet  finished,  garrisoned  by  Major 
Edgeworth's  ward. 

Bellahy,  a  strong  regular  fort,  lately  built,  with  bulwarks 
of  lime  and  stone,  on  a  considerable  pass  between  the  counties 
of  Mayo  and  Sligo.  All  Sir  Robert  Hannay's  company  lie  here 
except  three  files. 

Eallyniote,  a  strong  castle  with  a  bawn,  moat,  and  draw- 
bridge ;  a  corporal  and  two  files  of  the  Lord  Roberts'  company. 

Bally naf ad,  a  small  castle  without  a  bawn  lying  at  the  foot 
of  the  mountains  of  the  Curlews ;  a  sergeant  and  three  files  of 
the  Lord  Roberts'  company. 

Countv  of  Roscommon. 

Athlone,  the  Lord  President's  seat,  a  strong  castle,  and  the 
town  is  fortified  on  Conaght  side  with  a  regular  earthwork,  and 


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on  Leinster  side  with  a  stone  wall.  Captain  Bichard  St. 
George  and  all  his  company,  except  two  files,  lies  in  the  castle ; 
and  Lieut-Col.  William  Moore  and  Captain  Baily  with  their 
two  companies  entire  in  the  town. 

Boscommon,  a  strong  castle  and  bawn ;  Mr.  Jones'  ward. 

Castlecoote,  a  new  regular  bawn  with  flankers,  the  Earl  of 
[  ]  with  one  sergeant,  one  corporal,  one  drummer  and 

—  soldiers  of  his  company. 

Boile  (Boyle) ,  a  considerable  bawn  with  a  gate  house  situate 
upon  a  pass  at  the  foot  of  the  mountains  of  the  Curlews  on 
Boscommon  side;  a  lieutenant,  an  ensign,  one  sergeant,  two 
corporals,  two  drummers,  and  57  private  soldiers  of  the  Lord 
Boberts'  company. 

Termonbarry,  a  small  castle  surrounded  with  great  bogs  and 
the  Shannon;  a  sergeant,  a  corporal,  and  two  files  of  Captain 
Bichard  St.  George's  company. 

In  the  County  of  Leitrim. 

Jamestown,  is  a  small  town  walled  about,  and  hath  a  bridge 
over  the  Shannon  betwixt  the  counties  of  Boscommon  and 
Leitrim;  here  are  two  sergeants,  one  corporal,  one  drummer, 
and  37  private  soldiers  of  Lord  Berkeley's  company,  and  an 
ensign  and  —  soldiers  of  the  Earl  of  Mountrath's  company. 

Carrick-drumruske,  a  strong  castle  and  bawn  near  a  bridge 
over  the  Shannon  ;  a  lieutenant,  one  sergeant,  one  corporal,  one 
drummer,  and  41  private  soldiers  of  Sir  James  Cuff's  company. 

Petition  of  Mabel,  Countess-Dowager  op  Fingall. 

Undated.  Most  humbly  showeth  that  after  her  husband,  the 
late  Earl  of  Fingall,  serving  under  your  Grace's  command,  died 
in  prison,  having  fallen  into  the  enemy's  hands  at  Baggotrath, 
she  was  possessed  of  her  jointure  in  Meath  until  the  year  1654, 
at  which  time  she  was  compelled  to  remove  herself  and  her 
family  into  Connaght,  being  assigned  for  a  livelihood  some 
lands  belonging  to  the  Bishop  of  Clonfert  and  part  of  your 
Grace's  estate  in  that  province,  in  possession  whereof  your 
Grace  having  been  established  in  the  year  1660,  and  the  Bishop 
being  repossessed  of  what  belonged  to  his  see,  your  suppliant 
had  since  that  time  wanted  a  dwelling  place,  and  been  exposed 
to  all  the  miseries  which  a  poor  widow  could  suffer,  but  that 
your  Grace's  commissioners  were  pleased  to  continue  her  a 
tenant  to  the  lands  belonging  to  your  Grace,  which  she 
formerly  enjoyed,  for  this  and  the  last  year. 

That  it  would  therefore  please  your  Grace,  in  pity  of  her 
present  sad  condition,  until  she  may  be  enabled  to  receive  the 
profits  of  her  said  jointure,  which  is  yet  in  the  hands  of 
soldiery  and  adventurers,  to  provide  for  her  own  and  the 
maintenance  of  her  daughters  and  youngest  son  in  some  decent 
manner  according  their  quality,  and  to  afford  her  means  to 
discharge  the  rent  of  the  land  so  tenanted  and  some  debts 
which  she  hath  been  necessitated  to  contract. 

Mabelle  Fingall. 


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Endorsed  at  foot : — 

Dublin  Castle,  21st  August,  1662. 

Our  Commissioners,  who  have  the  care  of  our  estate, 
are  to  certify  us  for  what  rent  that  part  of  our  land  which 
the  petitioner  had  is  now  set,  and  thereupon  we  shall  give 
our  further  order. 

Ormond. 

2nd  September,  1662. 

In  obedience  to  your  Grace's  commands  we  certify  that  that 
portion  of  your  Grace's  estate  in  the  Lordship  of  Aghrim,  which 
was  assigned  to  the  Countess  of  Fingall  for  her  lot,  was  by  us 
set  to  her  Ladyship  at  twenty  pounds  per  annum,  but  the 
quality  of  it  at  present  we  cannot  tell,  our  books  being  at 
Kilkenny,  but  the  rent  was  no  more  than  what  her  Ladyship 
was  pleased  at  the  first  offer  to  give  by  reason  of  her  turning 
your  tenant  out. 

Wm.  Flower. 
Mat.    Harrison. 

Dublin  Castle,  20th  September,  1662. 

Upon  consideration  had  of  the  above  certificate  we 
are  pleased,  and  so  do  order,  that  the  payment  of  the  rent 
due  unto  us  from  the  petitioner  for  the  lands  in  the  said 
certificate  mentioned  be  respited  until  the  petitioner  be 
restored  to  her  jointure ;  whereof  the  Commissioners  for 
managing  of  our  particular  affairs,  and  all  others  concerned 
are  to  take  notice. 

Ormond. 

Petition  of  Rev.  Wm.  Steeres. 

Humbly  sheweth  unto  your  Grace  that  your  petitioner  was 
a  student  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  for  the  space  of  seven 
years,  and  took  his  degree  therein,  and  hath  been  sworn  there 
one  of  the  King's  scholars,  and  being  of  late  destitute  of  a 
livelihood,  and  finding  a  vacancy  for  the  free  school  of  the 
County  of  Kerry,  your  petitioner  hath  for  these  three  years  last 
past  kept  the  free  school  at  Ardfert,  in  the  county  aforesaid, 
where  the  said  free  school  used  to  be  kept,  instructing  the 
Protestant  youth  with  little  or  no  satisfaction  for  his  great  pains, 
except  what  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Limerick  and  Ardfert  hath 
been  graciously  pleased  to  bestow  upon  your  petitioner,  but  now 
so  it  is,  may  it  please  your  Grace,  that  usually  there  hath  been 
letters  patents  granted  by  His  Majesty  of  the  said  free  school  to 
such  a  discerning  person  as  should  be  recommended  by  the  Lord 
Bishop  of  Limerick  and  Ardfert. 

Your  petitioner  therefore  humbly  prayeth  your  Grace  in 
your  wonted  care  of  the  nurture  of  learning  to  refer  the 
examination  of  your  petitioner's  merits  and  abilities  unto  the 
Right  Reverend  Father  in  God,  Edward,  Lord  Bishop  of 
Limerick  and  Ardfert,*  and  upon  his  report  to  your  Grace  of 

*  Edward  Synge,  Bishop  of  Limerick  1661 ;  translated  to  Cork  1663. 


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your  petitioner's  fitness  to  discharge  the  said  duty,  to  grant 
to  your  petitioner  orders  for  letters  patents  to  be  master  of  the 
said  free  school  of  Kerry,  with  the  usual  stipend  thereunto 
belonging. 

Undated.       Endorsed  at  foot : — 

Dublin  Castle,  11th  November,  1662. 
The  petitioner  (as  it  seems  by  his  petition)  being 
known  to  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Limerick  and  Ardfert, 
we  pray  his  Lordship  to  certify  us  what  he  conceives 
of  his  ability  and  fitness  to  be  master  of  the  school 
in  his  petition  mentioned,  that  thereupon  we  may 
give  such  further  order  as  shall  be  fit.  Ormond. 

Dublin,  November  14th,  1662. 
May  it  please  your  Grace, 
In  obedience  to  your  Grace's  commands,  I  do  hereby  humbly 
certify  that  I  know  the  petitioner,  William  Steeres,  and  '(to 
the  best  of  my  observation)  have  found  him  to  be  a  person  of 
good  abilities,  loyal  principles,  and  civil  conversation,  and  do 
conceive  him  to  be  a  fit  man  to  be  master  of  the  free  school 
of  Ardfert,  all  which  I  humbly  submit,  &c. 

Edw.  Lymerick  and  Ardfert. 

14th  November,  1662. 
Endorsed : — The  Lord  Bishop  of  Limerick's  certificate  to 
be  read. 
A  warrant  granted  the  20th  day  of  November,  1662. 

Petition  of  Inhabitants  of  the  Baronies  of  Moycullen 

AND    BaLLYNAHINCH,    IN    THE    CoUNTY  OF   GaLWAY. 

The  humble  petition  of  the  poor  inhabitants  of  the  Baronies 
of  Muckullen  and  Ballenehensie  (Moycullen  and  Ballynahinch) , 
in  the  County  of  Galway. 

Shewing  that  the  said  Baronies  for  the  most  part  are  coarse 
bog  and  mountain  and  waste  land,  and  not  owned  by  the 
persons  to  whom  the  same  was  assigned  upon  the  trans- 
plantation, and  will  ever  be  useless  to  the  landlords  and  yield 
no  quit  rent  or  other  revenue  to  his  Majesty,  unless  that  your 
Lordship,  for  the  encouragement  of  such  as  will  go  to  inhabit 
the  same,  issue  orders  to  the  High  Sheriff  of  the  County  of 
Galway  and  the  receivers  of  His  Majesty's  quit  rent  or  their 
deputy  in  the  said  county,  to  receive  from  such  as  shall 
inhabit  the  same  His  Majesty's  quit  rent  for  such  times 
only  as  they  make  use  thereof,  and  not  to  trouble  them 
for  any  arrears  further  than  as  aforesaid  for  the  advancement 
of  His  Majesty's  revenue  and  the  good  of  his  people. 

Undated. 

Petition-  of  Inferior  Officers  and  Artificers  of 

Artillery. 

1662,  November  11. — The  humble  petition  of  the  inferior 
officers  and  artificers  belonging  to  His  Majesty's  train  of 
artillery,  ordnance,  and  stores. 


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'  Sheweth  that  your  petitioners  had  warrants  granted  to  them 
from  time  to  time  by  the  late  Lords  Justices  to  receive  their 
pay  equal  with  the  rest  of  the  Army,  but  so  it  is  that  some  of 
the  said  warrants  do  still  remain  unpaid  by  the  Treasury, 
whereby  your  petitioners  are  reduced  to  very  great  extremities. 
May  it  therefore  please  your  grace  to  commiserate  your 
petitioners'  condition,  and  to  grant  your  order  to  His  Majesty's 
Vice-Treasurer  to  make  present  payment  of  such  warrants  as 
were  granted  by  the  late  Lords  Justices  to  your  petitioners  and 
are  not  paid  by  the  Treasury  as  yet. 

Endorsed  at  foot : — 

Dublin  Castle,  13th  November,  1662. 

We  pray  our  very  good  Lord  the  Earl  of  Anglesey, 
His  Majesty's  Vice-Treasurer  and  Treasurer  at  Wars, 
to  inform  himself  of  the  truth  of  the  matter  above 
mentioned,  and  to  certify  us  his  Lordship's  opinion 
what  he  shall  conceive  fit  to  be  done  therein. 

Ormond. 

November  14th ,  1662. 

May  it  please  your  Grace, 

The  warrants  in  the  petition  mentioned  are  unpaid  for  want 
of  money  in  the  Treasury,  but  I  conceive  it  just  that  the 
petitioners  should  be  paid  up  as  far  as  the  rest  of  the  Army, 
according  to  the  present  establishment,  wherein  such  order  as 
your  grace  shall  give  shall  be  obeyed  as  treasure  comes  in  to 
answer.      All  which  is  humbly  submitted. 

Anglesey. 

Dublin  Castle,  18th  November,  1662. 

Upon  consideration  of  the  above  certificate,  we  do  order 
that  the  petitioners  be  paid  up  as  far  as  the  rest  of  the 
Army,  according  to  the  present  establishment,  and  that 
accordingly  His  Majesty's  Vice-Treasurer  and  Treasurer 
at  Wars,  out  of  such  of  his  Majesty's  treasure  as  now  is 
or  first  shall  come  under  his  charge,  shall  satisfy  them ; 
and  for  his  so  doing  this,  together  with  their  acquittances 
confessing  satisfaction,  shall  be  to  him  and  the  Commis- 
sioners of  his  account  a  sufiicient  warrant. 


Ormond. 


Earl  op  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 


1662,  November  26th. — In  obedience  to  your  Grace's 
reference  of  the  17th  November,  1662,  on  the  humble  petition 
of  the  private  soldiers  under  the  command  of  the  Right 
Honourable  the  Earl  of  Donegall,  I  have  examined  the  allega- 
tions in  the  petition  set  forth,  and  do  find  that  the  late  Lords 
Justices  (on  reading  the  humble  petition  of  Walter  Staplehill, 
agent  in  the  behalf  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Athlone, 
setting  forth  that  the  Earl  of  Donegall's  troop  was  indebted  to 
the  said  inhabitants  in  the  sum  of  4S0li  sterling) ,  did  order  on 


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the  11th  of  October,  1661,  that  the  Deputy  Treasurer  should 
stop  one-third  part  out  of  the  growing  pay  of  the  respective 
troopers  from  time  to  time,  as  the  same  should  be  paid  and 
grow  due  according  to  an  annexed  schedule  signed  by  the 
muster-master,  until  the  said  debts  were  satisfied.  I  further 
find  that  the  humble  petition  of  the  said  Walter  Staplehill  to 
your  Grace  in  behalf  of  the  said  inhabitants  of  Athlone,  your 
Grace  was  pleased  by  your  order  of  the  7th  October,  1662,  to 
ratify  and  confirm  the  said  order  of  the  late  Jjords  Justices, 
by  virtue  of  which  several  orders  I  find  there  was  defalcation 
made  for  eight  months.  I  likewise  find  that  on  the  7th  of 
February,  1661,  the  Lord  Justices  ordered  the  said  Deputy 
Treasurer  to  make  payment  unto  the  said  Walter  Staplehill, 
or  his  assigns,  of  such  sum  or  sums  of  money  as  remained  in 
his  hands,  or  afterwards  should  come  to  his  hands,  upon  account 
of  the  said  debt  due  to  the  inhabitants  of  Athlone,  by  virtue  of 
which  order  I  find  the  said  Staplehill  hath  received  six  months 
defalcations,  and  allegeth  that  he  hath  delivered  up  the  troopers' 
bills  for  the  whole  eight  months  in  hopes  to  receive  the 
deductions  made  for  the  two  months  remaining  unsatisfied 
to  him,  as  well  as  the  former  deductions. 

And   as  to   the  reducing   of   the  troopers'   pay  from    two 

shillings  per  diem  to  18d.,  the  defalcations  of  the  last  two 

months  being  made  according  to  the  former  establishment,  I 

humbly  offer  (if  the  bills  be  delivered  up  as  the  said  Staplehill 

allegeth)  that  the  said  defalcations  may  stand,  and  that  the 

said  Staplehill  may  give  an  abatement  proportionably  out  of 

the  next  month's  pay  that  shall  be  issued  to  the  said  troop  or 

out  of  their  arrears. 

Anglesey. 

Eemonstrance  of  Gentry  of  the  Queen's  County. 

1662,  November  27.  Maryborough. — We  presume  his 
Grace  hath  been  informed  of  several  rebels  or  (as  they  are 
now  commonly  called)  Tories,  who  have  of  late  committed 
many  robberies,  felonies,  and  other  mischiefs  in  this  county 
and  continue  in  so  doing;  some  of  whom,  by  name,  John 
Costigan,  Gregory  Costigan,  Hugh  Lalor,  and  Martin  Connor 
(whether  out  of  sense  and  sorrow  for  their  offences  or  fear  that 
their  deserved  punishment  may  in  time  seize  them ,  we  cannot 
judge)  have  desired  us  of  His  Majesty's  Commission  of  the 
Peace  for  the  said  county  humbly  to  offer  unto  his  Grace  that 
if  they  may  be  pardoned  for  all  other  their  offences ,  they  will 
submit  themselves  unto  the  law  for  any  murder  that  can  be 
laid  to  their  charge,  and  will  after  such  trial  (if  any  happen 
to  be  and  they  acquitted)  give  sufiicient  security  to  depart  His 
Majesty's  kingdoms  by  Easter  next  and  not  to  return  without 
special  licence.  This,  Sir,  as  we  humbly  conceive  being  a 
proposition  that  may  tend  to  the  future  quiet  of  this  country 
and  the  peace  and  security  of  His  Majesty's  good  people  there, 
we  have  thought  fit  at  our  public  ineeting  on  the  subsidy,  most 


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humbly  to  desire  his  Grace's  pleasure  and  command  therein, 
with  what  dispatch  you  may  think  fit  the  matter  may  require, 
and  with  it  your  pardon  to,  Sir,  your  humble  servants. 

Amos  Meredyth. 

Robt.  Meredyth. 

Will.  Lestrange. 

Joh.  Pigott. 

Jo.  Rawline. 

Wm.  Weldon. 

Petition  op  John  Trarr  and  Others. 

1662,  November  28. — The  humble  petition  of  John  Teare, 
Luke  Austin,  Thomas  Fillgate,  John  Sammon,  Randall  Jones, 
John  Stones,  Patrick  Breaghan,  Stephen  Garland,  Francis 
Brickland,  Thomas  Walker,  Nicholas  Wallice,  and  James 
Walsh,  innkeepers  of  the  parish  of  St.  Michan's  in  Oxman- 
towne,  Dublin, 

Humbly  sheweth — That  the  persons  whose  names  are 
expressed  in  the  annexed  papers  do  stand  justly  indebted  unto 
your  petitioners  for  man's  meat  and  horse  meat  in  the  several 
sums  to  their  name  annexed,  as  will  appear  by  bills  under 
their  hands,  the  whole  amounting  to  the  sum  of  five  hundred 
and  sixteen  pounds  four  shillings  and  three  pence,  and  do  not 
satisfy  your  petitioners  their  said  debts;  and  that  your 
petitioners  never  did  (nor  do  not  now)  take  from  any  of  the 
said  persons  quartered  upon  them  more  than  six  pence  per 
night  for  hay,  and  that  at  this  time  your  petitioners  have  the 
Earl  of  Donegall's  troops  and  half  of  the  Lord  of  Dungannon*s 
troops  quartered  upon  them  this  month  past  (not  charged  in 
the  annexed  papers),  who  take  your  petitioners'  goods  and  do 
not  satisfy  them  for  the  same,  insomuch  that  your  petitioners 
are  disabled  to  satisfy  their  creditors,  and  without  speedy  course 
be  taken  for  satisfaction  of  the  said  debts  that  your  petitioners 
may  enjoy  what  God  doth  bless  them  with  in  their  endeavours 
and  thereby  be  able  to  satisfy  their  creditors,  your  petitioners, 
their  wives,  and  children  are  like  to  perish. 

Your  petitioners  humbly  beg  your  Grace's  tender  considera- 
tion of  the  premises,  and  that  your  Grace  will  be  pleased  to 
order  that  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham,  knight,  may  receive  your 
petitioners'  bills  of  the  said  troops,  and  pay  your  petitioners 
the  sums  therein  mentioned,  that  so  they  may  be  enabled  the 
better  to  trust  those  who  are  now  quartered  upon  them  ;  or 
some  other  way  for  the  present  relief  of  your  petitioners  and 
their  families  as  may  seem  meet  unto  your  Grace. 

Petition  of  thr  Private  Soldiers  under  the  Command 

OF  THE  Earl  of  Donegall. 

Sheweth    that    whereas    your    petitioners    were    formerly 
garrisoned  in  Athlone,  the  most  of  them  became  indebted  to 
the  inhabitants,  whose  agent  hath  continued  by  order  from 
\Vt  8878  c 


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the  late  Lords  Justices  for  near  a  year  and  an  half  to  stop 
one-third  out  of  the  pay  of  all  your  petitioners  in  the  hands 
of  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham,  knight ; 

That  lOZ  7$,  Id,  of  the  money  so  stopped  is  for  the  debts  of 
seven  persons  that  were  disbanded  out  of  the  said  troop  before 
the  stoppage  thereof,  and  81 2s.  more  of  the  money  so  stopped  is 
from  sixteen  of  your  petitioners,  more  than  they  were  indebted 
to  the  said  inhabitants,  who  have  delivered  their  bills  up  to  the 
said  persons,  and  discharged  them  from  all  demands;  an 
account  of  which  several  sums  so  wrongfully  and  over  stopped 
is  hereunto  annexed ; 

And  forasmuch  as  there  is  about  40Z  now  in  the  hands  of  the 
said  Sir  Daniel,  which  was  stopped  out  of  your  petitioners' 
last  two  months'  pay,  which  the  said  agent  expects  forthwith 
to  receive,  and  pretends  that  he  will  thereout  repay  the  afore- 
mentioned 101  Is,  Id.  and  8/  2<9.  Od.,  but  your  petitioners 
suspecting  his  payments,  and  believing  when  he  hath  it  in  his 
hand  he  will  withhold  it  upon  some  pretence  or  other,  to  your 
petitioners  further  prejudice,  wherefore  they  humbly  pray  your 
Grace  to  order  the  said  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham  to  pay  unto 
Edward  Butler,  Clerk  of  the  said  Troop,  the  said  sums  of  lOi 
Is.  Id.  and  8i  2^.  Od. ,  out  of  the  money  deducted  from  the  last 
two  months'  pay,  to  be  by  him  disposed  to  whom  it  is  due. 

Endorsed  at  foot : — 

Dublin  Castle,  10th  December,  1662. 

Referred  to  our  very  good  Lords  the  Earl  of  Anglesey 
and  the  Lord  Kingston  to  examine  the  matter  above 
mentioned,  and  to  compose  the  difference  between  the 
parties  concerned,  if  they  can,  by  consent,  or  else  to 
certify  us  what  they  shall  find  and  conceive  fit  to  be  done 
therein.  ^    Ormond. 

Thomas  Ashe  to  Ormond  and  Council. 

1662,  December  29.  Trim. — Tn  obedience  to  your 
Lordships'  commands,  I  humbly  make  bold  to  acquaint  your 
Lordships  that  this  day  (together  with  certain  printed  copies 
of  an  act  of  Council,  dated  the  13th  instant,  for  enlarging  the 
time  for  the  payment  of  the  first  half-year's  value,  payable 
out  of  the  e  tates  of  adventurers,  soldiers,  and  others  unto 
His  Majesty,  unto  the  third  of  February  next),  I  received  your 
Jjordships'  express  of  the  23rd  instant,  requiring  me  to  cause 
the  same  to  be  proclaimed  and  publicly  fixed  in  all  the  markets 
and  other  public  places  in  this  county;  and  that  I  shall,  in  all 
humble  obedience,  with  careful  speed  and  diligence,  have  the 
same  effected  accordingly,  as  all  other  your  Lordships' 
commands  which  at  any  time  shall  come. 

Thomas  Ashe  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1662,  December  29.  Trim. — Sir,  This  day  I  received 
yours  of  the  23rd  instant,  and  in  it  enclosed  two  printed  orders 
from  my  Lord  Lieutenant  concerning  debts  due  by  soldiers 


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in  their  quarters.  I  have  taken  care  for  the  speedy  and  careful 
publishing,  and  fixing  them  up  in  the  most  public  places  of 
this  county,  and  do  give  you  this  account  according  to  your 
commands. 

Endorsed: — ^From  Mr.  Tho.  Ashe,  Sheriff  of  Meath, 
concerning  his  receipt  of  the  order  for  soldiers'  debts  to  be  sent 
up. 

Sib  Nicholas  Armorer  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1662  [-3],  January  3.  Menes. — Dear  Knight,  God  send 
you  a  merry  New  Year,  and  next  that  we  may  hear  good  news 
of  you  all  from  Ireland,  it  being  now  almost  three  weeks  since 
any  letters  came  from  Dublin.  Here  enclosed  I  send  you 
Sir  Will.  Scott's  answer  to  your  own  and  mine  concerning 
the  horse ;  whenever  he  finds  it  time  to  call  for  him,  there  shall 
be  one  ready  here  according  to  my  Lord  Duke's  order. 

Poor  Jamey  has  been  ill,  and  is  in  great  trouble,  you  never 
write  to  him,  he  promised  to  bring  me  a  letter  this  day  for 
his  mother,  and  fetch  his  New  Year's  gift,  but  it's  five  of  the 
clock  and  yet  I  hear  nothing  from  him.  This  place  affords 
no  news  worth  your  knowing.  The  Russian  Ambassador  has 
had  his  audience  and  delivered  his  presents,  which  are  very 
fine.  This  night  there  is  dancing  at  the  Duchess,  her  lodgings, 
and  is  to  be  twice  a  week.  I  am  now  in  waiting,  and  will 
only  wait  till  the  day  after  that  to  return  to  my  Irish  duty.* 
Sir  Will.  Bourman  and  I  dined  yesterday  together  at  a  feast 
where  we  drank  your  health,  so  did  Mr.  Fox  this  day. 

My  service  to  your  Lady  and  her  fair  daughter  Charlotte. 
I  can  only  tell  you  the  old  tale  that  I  am  always  at  your  service, 
and  so  you  may  freely  command  (me). 

My  service  to  Sir  Rich.  Lane. 

Thomas  Samborne  to  [?  Sir  George  Lane]. 

1662  [-3],  January  3.  London. — After  my  most  zealous 
prayers  for  your  health  and  happiness  in  this  new  and  many 
following  years,  I  presume  to  send  you  this  enclosed  note  of 
my  disbursements  for  the  French  news  until  the  last  of 
December  last,  wherein  (deducting  the  lOZ  received  of  Mr. 
Vyner)  I  am  in  advance  besides  of  SI  5s.  6d.,  and  I  am 
remitting  a  quarter  more  in  advance  as  agreed  to  the 
intelligencers  at  Paris,  so  that  when  you  think  it  fit,  pray 
order  said  Mr.  Vyner  to  pay  me  what  may  satisfy  this  and 
post  of  letters.  I  am  informed  that  one  is  sworn  in  the 
yeoman  Harvanger  place,  which  I  advised  you  to  be  vacant, 
that  doth  not  lessen  my  hopes  of  your  accustomed  favours 
towards  me  in  time  and  opportunity  (to  your  wisdom)  fit, 
and  therein  do  I  comfort. 

*  Sir  Nicholas  Armorer,  who  hati  been  Eqnerry  to  Charles  IT.  abroad, 
was  at  this  time  Captain  of  the  King's  Company  in  the  newly-formed  regiment 
of  Irish  Guards 


s.  d, 

4:9 

8:6 

13:6 

14:6 

14:8' 

•    •    • 

2;:15«:6<f. 
5:00 

•   •    • 

13{ :  5s  :  6 
101 

•    •    • 

Si :  5» :  6<t" 

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Account  enclosed  with  preceding  letter  **  Disbursed  by 
Tho.  Samborne  for  intelligence  and  post  of  letters  from  Paris, 
from  the  15th  of  July  to  the  last  of  December,  1662 : — 

To  one  of  the  intelligencers  at  Paris  after  the  rate 
of  16  pistoles  a  year  as  agreed  for  5  months 
and  a  J      ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...  6Z,  Bter, 

To  another  intelligencer  from  the  1st  September 
at  same  rate         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...  4f :  6«. 

Post  of  Letters. 

Paid  postage  to  the  24th  of  August 

More  to  the  end  of  September    

More  to  the  end  of  October 
More  to  the  end  of  November     ... 
More  to  the  end  of  December 

For  carriage  of  letters  to  and  from  the  post 

Received  towards  this  note  of  Mr.  Vyner  . . . 
So  remains  due  to  said  Samborne 

John  Love  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1662  [-3] ,  January  6.  Kinsale. — Ever  honoured  Sir,  yours 
of  the  27th  of  December  I  did  not  receive  until  the  3rd  of 
January,  since  which  time  I  have  not  been  idle  in  observing 
my  Lord  Lieutenant,  his  Grace,  and  your  commands  in  making 
inquiry  into  the  present  state  and  condition  of  the  King 
of  Portugal's  ship.  I  did  write  and  speak  to  every  particular 
man  that  I  could  hear  of  that  had  anything  to  do  with  the 
said  ship,  and  I  have  got  an  account  under  each  of  their  hands, 
true  copies  of  which  I  have  here  enclosed  sent  you,  but  the 
originals  I  keep  by  me  fearing  they  should  miscarry.  Sir, 
there  is  a  gentleman  that  lodged  near  your  house  in  Dublin, 
one  Mr.  Tho.  Amory,  that  married  the  Lord  of  Kerry's 
daughter,  if  you  please  to  send  for  him,  he  knows  much 
concerning  that  ship,  for  he  had  some  order  from  the  Duke 
of  York  long  since  to  make  inquiry  after  her.  The  ship 
is  near  a  thousand  ton,  and  I  am  informed  that  she  cost 
twenty  thousand  pounds  the  building,  and  I  am  likewise 
informed,  by  very  skilful  men,  that  two  thousand  pounds 
will  not  set  her  to  sea  fit  with  all  materials.  And  this  is  all 
the  account  that  can  be  learned  at  present  concerning  that 
ship. 

Ever  honoured  Sir,  T  make  bold  to  acquaint  you  that  it  was 
a  custom  before  the  wars  that  whoever  were  governors  or 
d'^.puty  governors  of  this  fort,  had  a  privilege  to  have  what 
wine  or  other  provisions  was  spent  in  the  fort  duty-free. 
Now  may  it  please  you  to  send  me  an  order  under  my  good 
Lord  Lieutentant's  hand  to  the  officer  of  the  custom  house 


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of  Kiiisale,  that  Sir  William  Penn  may  have  that  privilege, 
or  myself  in  his  absence.  Sir,  this  is  a  place  of  great  resort 
and  of  great  expense,  and  I  must  confess  ingenuously  to  you, 
that  I  have  lived  here  not  above  seventeen  months,  and  it  hath 
cost  me  above  three  hundred  pounds  in  that  time  merely  in  house 
keeping,  and  in  all  that  time  I  have  received  but  seven  months 
pay  as  lieutenant  of  foot.  Truly,  Sir,  1  had  not  been  able 
to  subsist  till  now  had  not  my  Lady  Penn  helped  me  in 
housekeeping,  and  lent  me  money,  and  have  lived  with  me 
in  the  fort  ever  since  I  came  here.  She  desires  her  humble 
services  may  be  presented  to  your  sweet  self  and  your  virtuous 
lady.  My  Lady  Penn  bid  me  tell  you  that  she  sent  to  you 
by  Captain  Dorsey  for  this  order,  but  she  had  never  the 
happiness  to  hear  from  you  since.  I  have  nothing  else  to 
trouble  you,  but  to  beg  your  pardon  for  this  boldness.  It 
was  your  former  favour  to  me  when  I  was  Major  to  Sir  Wm. 
Vaughan,  in  the  years  '48  and  '49,  that  embolds  me  now 
to  be  thus  troublesome  to  you,  and  believe  it.  Sir,  there  is 
no  man  breathing  on  this  earth  shall  be  more  readier  and 
faithfuller  to  serve  his  Grace  and  yourself  than,  honoured 
Sir,  your,  etc. 

Postscript : — I  was  also  informed  that  Captain  Eobert 
Googin  and  Mr.  John  Stepney  did  sell  the  St,  Lewis  to  one 
Mr.  Anthony  Stowell  for  one  thousand  and  sixty  pounds,  but 
now  they  do  all  deny  it. 


Egbert  Googin  and  John  Stepney  to 
Major  John  Love. 

1662  [-3],  January  5. — According  to  your  desire,  we  have 
sent  you  this  account  of  the  Portugal  ship,  St.  Lewis,  that 
about  the  fifteenth  of  December,  1661,  she  was  forced  on 
shore,  overset,  and  sunk,  in  the  Harbour  of  Kinsale,  and  that 
Captain  Jacob  Eeynolls,  who  commanded  her  under  the  King 
of  Portugal,  attempted  the  raising  of  her  about  the  25th  of  the 
same  month,  but  could  not  eiTect  it ;  and  therefore  did  contract 
with  us  for  her  recovery  and  salvage  by  instruments  under 
his  hand  and  seal  in  the  behalf  of  himself  and  the  King  of 
Portugal,  as  by  the  same  may  more  at  large  appear,  (which 
we  the  more  readily  embraced  upon  encouragement  from  the 
late  Lords  Justices'  letter  to  the  gentlemen  of  the  county, 
and  for  the  good  of  his  Majesty's  Harbour  of  Kinsale,  and  the 
King  of  Portugal's  advantage),  in  which  said  instrument  the 
said  Captain  Jacob  Eeynolls  hath  and  did  mortgage  the  said 
ship  and  materials  to  her  belongings,  for  the  true  payment 
of  nine  hundred  pounds  sterling  for  our  charge  and  pains, 
within  twelve  hours  after  her  salvage  as  aforesaid  and  floating 
or  riding  at  anchor  in  the  Harbour  of  Kinsale,  thereby  also 
agreeing  that  in  case  of  non-payment  of  the  said  sum 
of  nine  hundred  pounds,  with  what  other  necessary  charge 


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we  should  be  at  in  securing  and  preserving  the  said  ship 
within  three  months  next  after  her  floating,  it  should  then 
be  lawful  for  us  to  make  sale  of  the  said  ship  and  materials. 
But,  notwithstanding  we  have  performed  our  part  in  raising, 
salvage,  and  floating  the  said  ship  on  the  27th  of  June  last, 
1662,  and  have  with  much  care,  charge,  and  hazard,  kept 
and  preserved  her  ever  since,  neither  the  said  Captain  Jacob 
Eeynolls,  nor  any  other  from  the  King  of  Portugal,  have 
appeared  to  make  us  due  satisfaction  and  receive  the  said 
ship  from  our  charge.  The  said  ship  is  in  good  condition, 
riding  afloat  in  this  Harbour  of  Kinsale,  with  her  masts,  yards, 
tops,  and  standing  riggings  very  good,  with  three  anchors, 
three  cables,  a  small  boat,  and  thirty-four  pieces  of  iron 
ordnance,  which  are  the  materials  mortgaged  to  us  as  aforesaid. 
Copy. 


Sir  Ralph  Wilson  to  Earl  op  Orrery. 

1662  [-3],  January  15.  Limerick. — His  Grace,  my 
Lord  Lieutenant,  was  pleased  to  send  a  book  of  Articles  (for 
the  better  government  of  his  Majesty's  Army  in  this  kingdom) 
to  the  several  troops  and  companies  quartered  in  this  city, 
but  no  commission  for  keeping  a  court  martial  to  put  these 
articles  in  execution  has  been  yet  sent  hither.  In  regard 
that  there  is  a  necessity  of  such  a  commission,  or  some  orders 
from  your  Lordship  in  this  case,  I  thought  it  my  duty  to 
signify  the  same  to  your  Lordship,  for  where  disorders  happen 
among  our  soldiers,  the  officers  here  (for  want  of  a  commission) 
question  whether  or  no  they  may  keep  a  court  martial,  and 
are  cautious  in  the  case,  and  therefore  his  Grace's  or  your 
Lordship's  further  orders  and  directions  in  this  case  is  the 
humble  request  of  your  Lordship's,  etc. 

Addressed: — These  to  the  right  honourable  my  very  good 
Lord  Roger,  Earl  of  Orrery,  Lord  President  of  Mounster, 
Dublin ,  humbly  present. 


Robert  Southwell  to  Ormond. 

1662  [-3],  January  16.  Cork. — In  most  humble  obedience 
unto  your  Grace's  commands  these  are  to  certify  that 
this  day  being  the  16th  day  of  January,  1662,  I  have  received 
your 'Grace's  letter  of  the  12th  January,  with  three  printed 
copies  of  the  late  Act  of  Parliament,  intituled  an  act  for 
establishing  an  additional  revenue  upon  his  Majesty,  his  heirs, 
and  successors,  for  the  support  of  his  and  their  crown  and 
dignity,  and  the  same  day  have  delivered  your  Grace's  said 
letter,  and  one  of  the  said  printed  copies,  unto  his  Majesty's 
Justices  of  the  Peace  then  sitting  upon  the  Bench  at  a 
general  Quarter  Sessions  held  at  Cork,  where  the  said  letter 


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and  printed  copy  was  publicly  read,  and  also  shall  deliver 
one  other  copy  unto  the  Mayor  of  that  city,  to  be  by  him 
published  there,  and  shall  also  send  other  copies  unto  other 
parts  of  this  County,  to  be  published  according  to  command. 

James  Buck  to  Sm  George  Lane. 

1662  [-3],  January  18  (Saturday).  Stone. — As  I  remember 
you  were  so  kind  as  to  command  me  to  give  you  an  account 
of  my  landing,  upon  which  score  I  shall  do  it,  and  to  let 
you  know  how  far  I  am  in  pursuit  of  those  commands  laid 
upon  me,  else  it  could  not  be  worth  your  trouble.  Upon 
Thursday  night,  about  10  o'clock,  I  landed  at  Holyhead,  and 
that  you  may  see  duty  has  wings,  I  did  immediately  (without 
the  fond  assistance  of  a  Cadle  [?  caudle]  or  buttered  ale) 
take  horse  and  make  no  stay  till  I  came  to  Stone  this  day, 
being  about  two  o'clock,  so  that  I  rode,  the  ways  being 
very  bad,  a  hundred  miles  in  less  than  two  days,  and  you 
may  say  'twas  well  rode  little  gent,  being  now  within  twenty 
miles  of  the  place  whither  I  am  commanded,  but  thought 
it  unfit  to  go  thither  in  an  unseasonable  hour  of  the  night, 
to  give  them  an  alarm,  but  stay  and  fest  myself  till  Monday 
to  be  there  in  a  more  fitting  hour,  and  appear  with  all 
cheerful  kindness  from  their  friends,  and  then  I  shall  give  a 
just  account  to  those  that  are  most  concerned.  But  give  me 
leave  to  return  a  little  to  my  journey.  Yesterday,  betwixt 
Denby  [Denbigh]  and  Chester,  I  met  a  gentleman  riding  post 
in  his  shoes  and  stockings,  a  close  coat,  with  a  high-crowned 
hat,  and  a  falling  band,  the  post-boy  blowing  his  horn  very 
fiercely  all  the  way  before  him,  and  being  something  curious 
to  know  w^hat  knight  errant  this  w^as,  by  enquiry  at  the  next 
stage  I  came  to  I  found  him  to  be  one  indeed,  for  he  told 
the  people  there  that  he  came  from  the  Countess  of 
Chesterfield,  daughter  to  the  Duke  of  Ormond,  and  that  he 
was  going  to  the  Duke  in  a  great  concernment,  and  was  to 
stay  but  five  hours  in  Ireland,  all  which  in  my  opinion  did  look 
as  madly  in  its  kind  as  any  thing  that  was  done  before.  By 
this  time  I  suppose  you  know  more  of  him,  but  I  supposed  his 
business  to  be  very  good  or  very  bad ,  but  had  the  two  knights 
errant  known  each  other  upon  the  rencontre,  'tis  hoped  the 
knight  of  the  spurs  might  have  had  the  better  of  it  by  way 
of  discovery,  and  made  some  advantage  of  it,  but  I  resolve 
to  take  no  notice  of  any  such  person,  who  put  me  in  mind 
of  St.  George    that  relieved  the  distressed  damsel. 

And  now,  Sir,  I  hope  you  will  desire  me  to  write  no  more  to 
you  upon  so  slender  an  occasion  as  my  particular  safety,  but  if 
you  please  you  may  let  her  Grace  know  how  far  I  am  got, 
and  how  near  I  am  to  give  her  Grace  an  account  of  her 
commands. 

Postscript : — The  last  night  here  fell  a  great  deal  of  snow, 
and  now  'tis  very  cold  and  travelling  will  be  very  bad. 


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P.  BoGBRS  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1662   [-3],  January  20th.       Waterford.— I  did  make  bold 
to  present  my  service  unto  you  in  a   letter  not  long  after 
your  departure  from  Waterford,  but  I  could  never  as  yet 
be  honoured  so  much  as  to  receive  one  line  from  you.     If  you 
did  truly  understand  the  faithfulness  of  my  heart,  and  fervent 
desires  that  I  have  to  serve  you  to  the  uttermost  of  my  power 
(I  believe)  you  would  at  some  times  be  pleased  to  let  me  hear 
from  you.      Truly,  Sir,  I  have  been  sometimes  fearful  that 
some  malicious  person  or  other  did  endeavour  to  take  you  off 
from  those  friendly  civilities  which  you  did  intend  towards 
me,  but  again  taking  into  consideration  your  great  wisdom, 
and  imparalleled  parts  and  endowments,  I  did  presume  your 
daily  experience  did  direct  you  to  be  sensible  that  the  malice 
of  some  persons  is  so  implacable,   that  their  whole   studies 
are  to  do  another  displeasure,  but  I  am  confident  that  such 
sordid  spirits  can  operate  nothing  upon  so  honourable  and  noble  a 
person  as  yourself.    I  know  I  have  many  enemies  in  Waterford, 
but  if  I  could  be  so  happy  as  to  obtain  but  the  least  favour 
from  you,  I  should  not  much  value  their  wicked  practices. 
His  Majesty,  Charles  the  Second,  was  graciously  pleased  not 
long  since  to  give  me  his  letters  patent  under  his  great  seal 
of  England  and  Ireland,  for  the  office  of  the  Becordership 
of  Waterford  during  my  natural  life,  expressing  therein  my 
fidelity  and  great  suffering  in  my  estate  for  his  royal  father 
of  blessed  memory.      His  Majesty  likewise,  in  the  said  letters 
patent,   doth  declare  his  royal   will  and  pleasure  is  that   I 
should  be  empowered  to  put  his  laws  in  execution  in  that  city, 
and  I  should  have  all  powers,  privileges,  and  pre-eminences 
whatsoever,  and  in  as  ample  manner  as  ever  any  Recorder 
had  in  that  city;  and,  also,  that  I  should  have  a  competent 
salary  for  my  livelihood,  as  by  the  said  letters  patent  and  several 
other  orders,  may  more  at  large  appear.       Notwithstanding 
all  this,  I  could  never  receive  one  penny  salary,  never  since 
his  Majesty's  happy  coming  into  England.       And  I,  having 
formerly  lost  so  many  thousand  pounds  in  England,  and  being 
so  oppressed  here  also,  your   Honour  may   clearly   perceive 
that  I  and  my  poor  family   must  needs  groan   under   such 
pressures.      Wherefore  my  humble  petition  unto  your  Honour 
is  that   you   w^ould  be   pleased    to  assist   me    to    my   Lord 
Lieutenant,  that  his  Grace  would  be  pleased  to  write  unto 
the  city  of  Waterford,  that  I  might  have  some  competent 
salary  settled  upon  me  according  to  his  Majesty's  royal  will 
and  pleasure,  together  with  what  is  already  due.       There  is 
very  few  Judges  in  Ireland  of  so  ancient  a  standing    in  Inns 
of  Court  as  myself,  though  for  want  of  some  powerful  friends 
I  am  so  slenderly  provided  for.      Let  me  beg  so  much  favour 
from  your  Honour,  to  write  a  line  or  two  unto  me  to  direct  me 
what  course  to  take  herein.       And  I  know  also,  if  my  Lord 
Chancellor  did  but  know  that  your  Honour  had  any  kindness 
for  me,   I  should  be  put   into  some   commission   or  other, 


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answerable  to  my  quality.       Honoured  Sir,  I  must  commit 
myself  and  all  my  concerns  to  your  tender  consideration. 


Jambs  Buck  to  Sir  George  Lanb. 

1662  [-3],  January  20.  Bretby. — Upon  Saturday  last, 
from  Stone,  I  gave  you  the  trouble  of  an  impertinent  account 
of  my  getting  thither,  and  now  I  must  put  the  like  upon 
you  from  my  Lord  Chesterfield's,  being  got  hither  yesterday, 
being  Monday,  his  Lordship  being  gone  to  London  a  week 
before,  but  her  Ladyship,  who  enquired  very  kindly  after 
you  and  your  Lady,  to  w-hom  I  did  discharge  the  true  oflBce 
of  a  friend,  is  as  well  as  *tis  possible  her  condition  can  make 
her,  and  my  coming  has  been  of  no  little  advantage  to  her 
satisfaction.  When  I  get  to  London  you  shall  receive  more 
of  these  troubles,  which  I  hope  will  be  within  this  two  days, 
but  if  I  receive  not  yours  and  your  Lady's  commands  in 
j)articular,  as  if  I  were  your  hired  and  domestic  servant,  I 
shall  fear  your  kindness,  which  hitherto  I  have  much  reason 
to  believe.  Direct  your  commands  to  the  Standinge  Wardropp 
in  Whitehall,  and  pardon  this  rude  haste. 


Answer  of  Dudley  Maynwaring   to  the   Petition   of 

Nicholas  Buck. 

1662  [-3],  January  23.  Dublin  Castle.— This  defendant 
saith  that  it  is  true  that  there  were  articles  perfected  between 
this  defendant  and  the  petitioner,  concerning  the  taking  of 
the  cellar,  in  the  petition  mentioned,  a  copy  whereof  is 
hereunto  annexed,  that  by  a  particular  clause  in  the  said 
articles,  the  petitioner  was  to  furnish  the  said  cellar  with 
good  wholesome  beer,  and  if  the  cellar  were  not  furnished,  that 
then  the  said  agreement  was  to  be  void.  This  defendant  saith 
that  from  the  one  and  twentieth  of  March,  one  thousand  six 
hundred  sixty  and  one,  until  the  thirteenth  day  of  June  following, 
the  petitioner  kept  no  beer  in  the  said  cellar,  and  thereupon 
this  defendant,  according  to  the  clause  in  the  said  articles, 
entered  upon  the  same,  and  furnished  the  same  with  beer, 
being  thereunto  necessitated  for  the  accommodation  of  himself 
and  such  persons  as  he  had  in  his  custody ;  and  which  he 
humbly  conceives,  and  is  so  advised,  it  was  lawful  for  him  to 
do,  and  whereas  the  petitioner  doth  allege  that  he  had  a 
warder's  place  and  gave  money  for  the  same,  this  defendant 
doth  confess  that  he  received  some  three  or  four  pounds  from 
the  petitioner  for  the  place,  and  was  contented  that  he  should 
have  remained  therein,  but  sayeth  that  the  petitioner,  without 
the  consent  or  knowledge  of  this  defendant,  quitted  the  said 
employment  in  April  or  May  last,  and  transported  himself 
into  England  or  some  other  place  unknown  to  the  defendant, 
and    doth    still    absent   himself,    so    as   this    defendant   was 


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necessitated  to  supply  his  place  by  another,  that  so  he  might 
the  better  discharge  the  trust  and  duty  of  his  place.  And 
whereas  it  is  also  alleged  that  this  defendant  doth  detain  a 
half-year's  pay  from  the  petitioner,  this  defendant  saith  that 
he  hath  detained  no  pay  from  the  petitioner,  but  hath  faithfully 
from  time  to  time  paid  unto  him  all  such  pay  as  he  hath  received 
for  him,  and  if  any  arrears  be  due  unto  him,  it  hath  not 
been  out  of  any  fault  or  neglect  of  this  defendant,  and  if  the 
complainant  hath  not  the  benefit  of  his  covenant  or  agreement 
in  writing,  the  law  is  open  and  will  give  everyone  his  right. 

Articles  of  Agreement  referred  to  in  the  preceding 

*'  Answer." 


1661,  August  19. — It  is  agreed  betwixt  Dudley  May n waring, 
Constable  of  his  Majesty's  castle  of  Dublin,  on  the  one  part, 
and  Nicholas  Buck  of  the  other  part,  witness  that  the  said 
Dudley  Mayn waring,  for  divers  good  causes  him  thereunto 
moving,  hath  set  unto  the  said  Nicholas  Buck  the  cellar 
belonging  to  the  aforesaid  constable,  he  paying  me  four  shillings 
for  every  barrel  of  beer  that  the  said  Nicholas*  Buck  shall 
retail  therein,  as  often  as  the  said  barrel  shall  be  drawn  or 
emptied,  to  have  and  to  hold  the  said  cellar  with  all  and 
singular,  the  profits  thereunto  belonging,  so  long  as  I  the 
said  Dudley  Maynwaring  shall  continue  constable  of  the 
aforesaid  castle;  the  said  Nicholas  Buck  being  to  pay  five 
pounds  fine  in  hand  upon  the  sealing  hereof,  and  four  shillings 
a  barrel  for  each  barrel  of  beer  that  he  shall  run  or  retail  within 
the  aforesaid  cellar;  the  said  Nicholas  Buck  being  bound  to 
furnish  the  aforesaid  cellar  with  good  wholesome,  suflBcient 
and  merchantable  beer ;  to  the  which  agreement  the  aforesaid 
parties  have  hereunto  put  to  their  hands  and  seals,  the  day 
and  year  first  above  written,  provided  always  that  if  the  said 
cellar  be  not  furnished  with  sufficient  beer  as  aforesaid,  that 
then  this  said  agreement  to  be  void,  and  of  none  effect,  unless 
the  said  Nicholas  Buck  do  take  no  other  beer  than  the  said 
constable  shall  choose  the  brewer  thereof,  and  this  to  be 
drawn  up  in  ample  manner  according  to  form  in  law,  the 
said  Dudley  Maynwaring  being  hereby  bound  not  to  suffer 
any  persons  whatsoever  to  draw  either  beer  or  wine  or  other 
liquor  within  his  jurisdiction,  saving  the  said  Nicholas  Buck 
during  the  time  aforesaid,  to  the  which  and  subsequent 
agreement  the  aforesaid  Dudley  Maynwaring  and  Nicholas 
Buck  do  bind  and  oblige  themselves  each  to  the  other,  them 
their  heirs,  executors,  administrators,  and  assigns  for  the  true 
preformance  of  the  same ;  and  further  it  is  agreed  upon  between 
the  said  parties,  that  if  the  said  Dudley  Maynwaring  shall 
happen  to  make  ov^r  or  dispose  of  his  said  constableship  during 
the  aforesaid  time,  that  then  the  said  Nicholas  Buck  is  to 
receive  from  the  aforesaid  Dudley  Maynwaring  what  shall 
be  awarded  him  by  two  indifferent  men. 


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James  Buck  to  Sib  George  Lane. 

1662  [-3],  February  17.— Yours  of  the  4th  instant  I 
received  three  or  four  days  after  I  received  others  of  the  same 
date  from  the  Castle,  and  if  you  knew  the  value  I  put  upon 
those  lines  that  brings  the  least  commands  with  it,  or  an 
account  of  your  health,  you  might  with  much  ease  make  me 
both  rich  and  happy,  but  such  blessings  I  am  neither  born  to 
or  can  deserve,  yet  as  soon  as  you  order  my  return,  I  shall 
not  fail  to  bring  with  me  such  a  cook  as  Mr.  Sawyers'  will  be  as 
curious  in  the  choice  of  [  ]  as  he  intends  to  be  of  his  mistress 
in  all  respects  but  that  of  getting  children.  I  shall  not  fail 
to  give  you  timely  notice  that  you  may  acquit  yourself  of  the 
other,  by  such  an  exchange  that  I  hope  my  Lady  Lane  will 
be  much  satisfied  wuth  it,  and  to  my  own  satisfaction  I  must 
tell  you  that,  next  to  my  Lady  Duchess,  I  never  heard  any 
person  better  spoken  of  than  your  lady,  and  I  think  I  am 
not  the  last  that  joins  in  so  pleasing  an  opinion ;  and  though 
I  have  very  good  ground  for  it  already,  yet  pray  let  her 
Ladyship  know  that  her  particular  commands  to  me  will  as 
much  heighten  the  prosecution  of  it,  as  your  kindness  and 
favour  to  Sir  George  Barker  has  transported  him,  who  would 
willingly  give  a  month's  board  wages.  The  letter  of  thanks 
was  writ  he  intends  you,  which  I  think  does  now  trouble 
him  as  much  as  the  discredit  or  reproach,  as  he  apprehended, 
by  being  left  out  of  commission  was  to  him  before,  but  I  find 
both  he  and  Mr.  Sawyers  are  glad  of  the  advantage  my  stay 
here  gives  them ,  the  better  to  consider  the  best  way  of  serving 
you.  The  Serjeant  of  the  Ewry's  place,  which  I  sold  to  an 
old  man  to  give  the  under  officers  the  fairer  play,  I  prevailed 
with  him  upon  a  little  distemper  of  his,  to  give  Mr.  Fox,  for 
my  Lord's  use,  200/,  to  exchange  his  for  another  man's  life 
as  old  as  himself,  and  the  ofiicers  are  well  satisfied,  but  if 
I  should,  stay  here  and  had  commands  for  it,  I  could  do  my 
Lord  very  often  such  services,  for  I  think  none  here  more 
obliged  to  it  than  myself,  and  without  a  horrid  ingratitude 
I  should  not  slip  any  opportunity  to  perform  it,  which  sin 
will  not  be  so  much  upon  any  other,  but  my  crime  of  keeping 
you  thus  long  from  your  more  serious  affairs. 

James  Buck  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1662  [-3],  March  3. — I  should  not  so  often  trouble  you 
with  my  unpertinent  lines  were  I  not  covetous  to  reach  at  eveiy 
glimpse  of  your  service,  which  I  hope  you  will  pardon, 
presenting  you  first  with  the  enclosed  from  my  namesake,  for 
on  Friday  last,  when  I  was  to  visit  him  and  the  Doctor,  his 
Master,  as  being  much  concerned  for  him  and  you,  amongst 
other  good  expressions  of  the  Doctor's,  he  did  protest  he  never 
saw  more  of  a  gentleman  in  so  few  years  in  his  life.  The  next 
time  (with  your  leave  and  my  Lady's)  that  I  wait  upon  my 
Lord  Chancellor,  I  will  take  him  along  with  me  to  pay  his 
duty  there,  as  by   your   directions.        When  T  was   coming 


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away  he  took  this  letter  out  of  his  pocket,  and  told  me  he 
had  kept  it  there  five  or  six  days,   and   knew  not   how^  to 
send  it.      It  has  given  me  a  sufficient  admiration,  but  showing 
it  to  a  Doctor  that  does  use  to  examine  him,  he  protested  he 
writ  the  Greek  character  much  better.      The  next  letter  you 
have  shall  be  in  that,  and  then  I  hope  both  you  and  the  learned 
there  will  as  much  admire  as  we  do  here.       He  is  my  Lady 
Borman's  valentine,  who  sent  him  a  very  handsome  present 
of  Court  tarts  and  a  Marchpaine  all  in  a  dish,  of  which  he 
can  yet  show  some  of  them.       Mr.  Sawyers  has  provided  a 
handsome  young  fellow,  and  as  he  says  a  most  incomparable 
cook,  I  have  promised  Mr.  Sawyers  that  if  he  goes  not  with 
me,  upon  the  return  of  this  and  some  other  letters    I  will 
put  him  in  a  way  how  he  may  be  sent  to  you.      This  enclosed 
letter  from  Sir  Hump.  Hooke  I  thought  fit  to  send  you,  that 
you   might  do  in   it  what  you  should  think   fit.     My   Lord 
Duke's  Serjeant  Trumpeter  has  been  several  times  with  me 
to  acquaint  me  that  my  Lord   Chamberlain  is  now   issuing 
out   liveries  for   the   King's    Trumpeters,   as    says   that    his 
Lordship  is  willing  my  Lord  Duke's  should  have  the  like, 
could  his  Lordship  but  receive  a  note  from  you  to  that  purpose, 
and  would  have  me  speak,  but  I  dare  not  for  all  the  world 
without  your  directions ;  but  I  promised  him  to  write  to  you 
about  it,  and  in  it  I  think  there  may  be  a  service  to  my  Lord. 
I  am  a  stranger  to  the  fellow,  but  your  commands  I  will  observe. 
I  have  been  with  Mr.  Lilly*  about  your  pictures,  who  told  me 
how   many,  and   what   they   are  that   you   bespoke,    but   I 
discovered    by  him  that  unless  he  knew  who  would  call  for 
them  and  pay  him  his  demands,  he  would  not  trouble  himself 
about  them,  and  in  this  I  shall  do  likewise  what  you  shall  think 
fit,  and  after  that  I  have  given  you  an  account  that  I  received 
the  honour  of  your  letter  of  the  thirteenth  February,   pray 
condemn  this  to  the  fire  for  offending  you  so  much,  nor  can  my 
most  faithful  service  to  your  Lady  redeem  the  crime  of  keeping 
you  thus  long. 

Postscript : — My  letters  to  my  Lady  I  always  send  to 
Mr.  Smith. 

Eliza,  Lady  Thurles  to  Ormond. 

1662  [-3],  March  9.  Thurles. — Son,  this  bearer,  James 
Butler's  son,  is  sent  to  wait  upon  you  w'ith  his  father's  writings 
of  Templemore,  which  he  had  done  at  the  time  you  commanded 
him  to  follow  you  with  them  to  Dublin,  when  you  were  at 
Kilkenny,  but  was  hindered  by  sickness.  I  am  certain  if 
he  were  able  to  wait  upon  you  himself,  he  would  make  appear 
to  you  that  he  has  always  been  ready  to  serve  you,  not  only 
with  his  own  substance,  but  made  use  of  all  his  credit  to 
borrow  money  to  supply  that  exigent  Sir  George  Hamilton 

*  Sir  Peter  Lely.     The  painter's  name  is  commonly  written  Lilly  by  Pepys 
and  otlier  contemporaries. 


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urged  to  him.  I  desire  your  favourable  consideration  of  his 
business.  God  Almighty  bless  you  and  all  yours.  Your  ever 
loving  mother,  Eliza  Thurles. 

Commissioners  at  Loughrba  to  the  Lord  Lieutenant 

AND  Council. 

1662  [-3],  March  16.  Loughreagh. — We  have  received  a 
letter  of  the  23rd  of  February  last,  wherein  your  Grace  and 
the  Council  are  pleased  to  take  notice  of  some  neglect  in  us 
in  not  causing  the  indented  writing,  mentioned  in  the  Act  for 
the  Subsidies,  and  the  money  due  from  this  county  for  the  first 
four  subsidies  to  be  returned  and  paid  into  the  receipt  of  his 
Majesty's  Exchequer  by  the  said  sixteenth  of  February  last 
past.  We  humbly  give  this  account  unto  your  Grace  and 
the  Council  that  when  first  the  Act  for  the  Subsidies,  with  the 
commission  and  instructions,  came  down  to  this  county,  the 
commissioners  therein  mentioned  were  for  the  most  part  absent, 
many  of  them  being  Parliament  men,  and  at  last  when  those 
few  that  were  in  the  county  did  meet,  some  differences  did 
arise  betwixt  some  baronies  concerning  the  sums  to  be  charged 
and  the  manner  of  charging,  which  controversy  hath  continued 
somew^hat  too  long  by  reason  of  the  obstinacy  of  some  persons 
and  the  pretended  poverty  of  others,  which  hath  been  the  cause 
of  the  delay,  but  we  are  still  upon  the  work,  and  do  hope  in 
a  short  time  to  give  your  Grace  and  the  council  such  an  account 
of  our  proceedings,  as  that  we  shall  make  it  evident  that  there 
is  no  wilful  neglect  in  us,  whereby  we  should  incur  your 
Grace's  displeasure ;  the  estreats  are  now  ingressing ;  the 
county  being  large,  and  the  work  somewhat  difficult,  it  will 
take  up  more  time  than  we  expect  or  desire,  but  we  shall  use 
our  utmost  endeavours  to  expedite,  as  well  the  returns  of  the 
estreats  as  also  the  collecting  of  the  money,  and  the  returning 
and  paying  of  the  same  with  all  possible  speed. 

Will.  Spenser. 

Hen.  Greneway. 

J.  C.  Hamilton. 

Eich.  Nangell. 

Henry  Dawes. 

Endorsed : — Commissioners  at  Loghreagh  for  collecting  the 
subsidies. 

Petition  op  Jane  Cary  [undated]  and  order  thereon. 

1662  [-3],  March  20. — The  humble  petition  of  Jane  Cary, 
widow,  on  the  behalf  of  herself  and  two  children.  Sheweth  : 
That  the  King's  most  excellent  Majesty  by  his  gracious  letters 
dated  the  19th  of  March,  1660  [-1],  for  the  reasons  therein 
expressed,  signified  his  royal  will  and  pleasure  that  your 
petitioner  should  be  inserted  in  the  Establishment  upon  His 
Majesty's  Civil  List  of  this  Kingdom,  for  a  pension  of  fifty 
pounds  yearly  for  the  term  of  her  life,  to  be  paid  by  quarterly 
portions. 


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That  the  late  Lords  Justices,  by  their  order  of  the  6th  of 
September,  1661,  made  pursuant  to  His  Majesty's  said  letters, 
required  the  Auditor-General  to  do  the  same  accordingly,  and 
to  make  forth  debentures  quarterly  for  the  payment  oif  the 
said  pension,  who  accordingly  hath  made  forth  debentures, 
but  your  petitioner  cannot  get  her  money  from  the  Deputy 
Treasurer,  who  daily  put  your  petitioner  off,  to  your  petitioner's 
great  grief  of  heart  and  utter  ruin ,  by  being  forced  to  run  on 
the  score  for  necessaries  at  extraordinary  rates. 

Now  forasmuch  as  your  petitioner's  deplorable  case,  by  the 
loss  of  her  late  husband,  Captain  David  Cary,  and  her  other 
considerable  relations  in  His  Majesty's  service,  is  not  unknown 
to  your  Grace,  who  is  the  only  person  that  obtained  the  said 
pension  for  your  petitioner,  and  for  that  the  non-payment  of 
the  said  debentures  will  put  your  petitioner  in  a  worse  condition 
than  ever  by  being  run  into  debt  by  the  credit  thereof. 

Your  petitioner  humbly  prays  your  Grace  to  continue  the 
favours  already  shewn  by  taking  some  effectual  course  for 
the  due  payment  of  the  said  debentures  from  time  to  time 
as  they  shall  be  made  forth  for  the  same,  that  so  your 
petitioner  may  not  be  hindered  of  partaking  of  his  Majesty's 
said  royal  intentions,  so  signified  for  the  release  and  support 
of  your  petitioner  and  her  said  children.  And  your  petitioner 
shall  pray,  &c. 

Endorsed  at  foot : — 

Dublin  Castle,  20  March,  1662. 
The  petitioner  being  inserted  in  the  Establishment 
for  the  pension  above  mentioned,  she  is  to  be  paid 
with  others  who  are  in  the  like  rank  and  quality 
for  payment ;  whereof  His  Majesty's  Vice-Treasurer  and 
Treasurer  and  Treasurer  at  Wars  is  to  take  notice  and  pay 
her  accordingly.  '  Ormond. 

Henry  Coventry  to  Ormond. 

1662  [-3] ,  March  20.  London. — The  honour  of  your  Grace's 
letters  of  the  4th  of  March  I  have  received,  and  am  glad  for  the 
prevention  of  so  much  of  the  evil  design,  but  I  am  confident 
it  consisted  of  more  parts  than  Dublin  Castle.  Sir  Audley's 
eloquence  hath  had  more  influence  than  it  was  like  to  have 
had  at  the  first  coming  out,  and  yet  I  thank  God  not  very 
considerable,  but  the  very  many  letters  that  are  writ  every 
week,  and  dispersed  here  in  the  House  of  Commons  (and 
principally  while  the  point  of  toleration  was  in  question)  it 
maketh  me  believe  the  design  reacheth  hither.  There  have 
been  several  letters  sent  to  members  of  the  House  of 
Commons  that  the  commissioners  had  made  it  impossible  for 
any  Englishman  to  carry  his  cause,  because  they  had  disallowed 
all  Englishmen  from  being  witnesses,  and  all  poor  Irish,  and 
the  Pope  had  power  enough  over  the  rich ,  so  that  in  conclusion 
an  Englishman  could  not  have  a  witness.  T  am  glad  your 
Grace  hath  had   so  good   an   influence  upon    the   House  of 


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Commons  there  as  to  allay  their  heat;  I  hope  it  will  be  so 
successful  to  extinguish  it.  We  have  not,  I  am  afraid, 
hitherto  used  the  arts  necessary  to  the  keeping  our  house 
here  in  temper.  We  are  upon  the  necessary  points  of 
revenue  and  the  militia,  but  proceed  in  neither  with  that 
vigour  and  zeal  as  the  last  sessions,  and  yet  I  believe  with 
very  little  considering  and  less  pains  we  may  be  brought  to 
our  old  cheerfulness,  at  least  to  a  good  part  of  it,  and  I  have 
some  reason  within  these  two  days  (more  than  I  had)  to  believe 
that  it  will  shortly  be  endeavoured..  The  declaration  hath 
hitherto  had  a  very  bad  effect  in  both  Houses.  The  King 
assured  me  but  yesterday  that  you  should  have  money  with 
the  first,  but  I  would  he  would  have  said  what  day  of  the  month 
he  himself  thinketh  that  men  and  money  are  best  to  come 
together.  I  would  your  Grace  had  them  both.  I  do  not 
doubt  but  that  if  it  were  fitting  to  move  the  Parliament,  and 
we  had  leave  to  give  them  an  account  of  affairs  there,  they 
would  contribute,  but  I  think  the  making  your  condition  and 
resolutions  so  public  would  be  very  prejudicial  to  the  business. 
For  it  would  alarm  them  so  long  before  money  (according 
to  our  dilatory  ways)  could  be  obtained,  that  they  might 
accelerate  their  designs  to  the  King's  prejudice ;  my  Lord 
Chancellor  seemeth  to  believe  that  you  will  quickly  be  furnished 
with  money,  and  as  for  men,  they  are  easily  had,  whensoever 
you  shall  think  them  useful. 

The  King  hath  this  night  given  Secretary  Bennett  order  to 
let  your  Grace  know  that  he  intendeth  not  the  prohibition  he 
sent  against  passing  the  Great  Seal,  upon  any  former  grants, 
shall  extend  to  those  pactions  he  formerly  granted  to  Colonel 
Legg  and  myself,  so  that  if  your  Grace  please  to  oblige  your 
humble  servants  so  far,  you  may  permit  my  Lord  Chancellor 
to  pass  the  Seal. 

I  am  promised  by  Secretary  Bennett  that  he  will  give  your 
Grace  notice  of  it  by  this  post. 

The  best  news  I  can  write  your  Grace  from  hence  is  that 
my  Lord  Chancellor  was  locked  up  with  the  King  and  the 
Duke  of  York  only  dbove  an  hour  yesterday,  at  Whitehall, 
without  any  other  of  the  council  admitted,  and  it  is  hoped  the 
river  will  take  its  old  channel.      Sir  John  Ogle  is  lately  dead. 

Ormond  to  Stephen  Fox. 

1662  [-3],  March  21.  Dublin  Castle.— Being  infornaed 
from  Frank  Yonge  that  the  King's  servants  do  call  upon  him, 
notwithstanding  my  absence  from  Court,  for  their  New  Year's 
gifts  of  the  last  Christmas,  I  have  thought  fit  to  desire  you  to 
take  care  to  see  them  satisfied  out  of  the  profits  of  my  office  of 
Lord  Steward,  which  I  shall  allow  unto  you  upon  the  account 
between  us.  I  have  also  had  advertisement  from  Sir  Thomas 
Clarges,  that  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Albemarle,  in  answer 
to  a  letter  he  received  from  the  Earl  of  Dorset  and  others, 
concerning  the  value  of  his  office  sent  unto  the  Lord  Berkeley,  of 


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Berkeley  Castle,  who  is  Treasurer  to  the  Lords  Commissioners, 
a  hundred  pounds  wherewith  they  were  well  satisfied,  I  shall 
therefore  desire  you  to  send  unto  his  Lordship,  as  from  me, 
the  like  sum,  which  I  shall  not  only  allow  upon  the  account,  but 
acknowledge  as  a  civility  unto.  Sir,  your  very  affectionate 
friend, 

Addressed  : — For  Stephen  Fox,  Esq. ,  Clerk  of  the  Greencloth 
to  His  Majesty,  these,  at  Whitehall. 

9 

James  Buck  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

^1662  [-3],  March  24. — I  dare  not  say  you  are  three  letters 
in*  my  debt,  but  T  am  sure  this  is  the  fourth  trouble  I  have 
given  you  since  T  had  the  honour  to  receive  any  of  your 
commands,  and  I  am  sure  none  of  mine  was  worth  the 
intercepting,  but  my  namesake's,  which  I  sent  you,  and  was 
worth  the  keeping  as  a  copy  to  learn  by.  Your  friends  here 
rejoice  at  the  great  danger*  that  you  and  all  our  worthy 
friends  there  did  lately  escape.  I  hope  you  have  by  this  time 
found  out  the  bottom  of  it,  though  some  here  of  our  acquaintance 
would  put  it  only  upon  some  idle  footman,  but  I  take  them  not 
to  be  our  real  friends.  The  cook  which  Mr.  Sawyers  has 
provided  for  you  goes  this  day  towards  Ireland,  in  company  of 
two  cooks  that  is  sent  to  my  Lady  Duchess.  He  tells  me  you  do 
already  in  part  know  him  ;  he  is  very  young,  but  has  been  in  very 
great  services,  and  the  master  cook  has  a  very  good  opinion 
of  him;  for  his  wages.  T  told  him  you  went  upon  this  just 
and  general  rule  as  to  reward  according  to  merit,  but  in  regard 
he  understood  that  Mr.  Younge  did  promise  my  Lady's  cooks 
that  her  Grace  should  bear  their  charges,  he  expects  the  same, 
and  desired  me  to  take  notice  of  it  to  you.  I  suppose  he 
may  be  with  you  in  this  fortnight,  and  that  he  may  be  very 
useful  to  my  Lady  and  you,  is  my  hearty  desire,  it  being 
out  of  my  element,  it  is  all  T  can  do. 

Robert  Caddell  to  Ormond. 

1662  [-3] ,  March  24. — I  do  hereby  humbly  certify  that  on 
Shrove  Monday,  being  the  second  day  of  this  instant,  I  came 
from  my  own  house  in  the  country  to  this  city,  and  that  night 
I  happened  in  the  company  of  Colonel  Thomas  Coote  and  one 
Sir  John  Eoly,  and  having  had  several  discourses  with  them 
concerning  the  Tories  that  were  risen,  and  concerning  the 
proceedings  in  the  Court  of  Claims,  as  touching  the  former, 
Colonel  Coote  demanded  of  me  whether  I  met  with  any  of  the 
Tories  in  my  way  coming  to  the  city.  And  I  replied  **  I  did  not,'* 
and  withal  I  said  that  they  were  but  three  or  four  inconsiderable 
rogues ;  the  said  Colonel  replied  unto  me  and  said  *  *  you  are 
deceived,  for  they  are  more  in  number  than  you  speak  of,"  and 
besides,  he  said,  that  of  small  risings  come  greater  parties, 
and  that  ere  long  he  beseemed  they  would  be  so  considerable 

*  Colonel  Blood's  plot  to  seize  Dublin  Castle  had  just  been  detected. 


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that  they  would  give  all  Ireland  work  enough  before  they 
should  shipwreck  them.  And  as  touching  Sir  John,  the 
discourse  with  him  was  touching  the  Commissioners  of  the  Court 
of  Claims  and  the  justness  of  their  proceedings,  who  answered 
in  the  said  words,  **  Gentlemen,  do  you  well  to  applaud  your 
Irish  Corbett. ' '  And  I  made  answer  to  him  and  said,  * '  I  hope. 
Sir,  you  do  not  balance  him  with  your  English  Corbett,"  who 
replied,  **I  do.  Sir,  for  I  know  not  any  difference  betwixt 
them  both."  And  I  replied,  **  Sir,  I  know  there  is  a  great 
difference  betwixt  them,  for  the  one  was  a  regicide  and  a 
traitor,  and  the  other  a  loyal  and  dutiful  subject,  and  had  not 
His  Majesty  known  him  to  be  so,  he  would  not  employ  him  in 
so  honourable  an  employment,"  all  which  I  humbly  certify. 

Sir  William  Flowe»  and  others  to  the  Duchess  of  Ormond. 

1663,  March  28.  Kilkenny  Castle. — May  it  please  your 
Grace :  We  were  hopeful  by  this  time  to  have  been  able  to  have- 
sent  your  Grace  a  perfect  state  of  the  account  both  of  his 
Grace's  revenue  for  the  three  last  half-years  ended  at  Michaelmas 
last,  as  also  of  the  disposal  of  it  according  to  your  Grace's  commands 
to  us  in  that  behalf,  but  we  cannot  without  much  trouble 
acquaint  you  that,  notwithstanding  our  daily  pains  and  industry 
since  your  departure,  we  cannot  struggle  through  it  more  than 
for  about  fourteen  thousand  pounds,  the  same  both  by  reason 
of  the  many  collectors  (being  about  fourteen  or  fifteen  in 
number,  and  of  them  three  employed  in  one  barony  only), 
and  also  because  many  of  their  accounts  are  so  perplexed  with 
such  irregularity  and  confusion  as  never  was  anjrthing  of  like 
nature. 

So  as  rather  than  to  stay  longer  here  (where  few  of  the 
accountants  are,  and  the  season  of  the  year  being  far  spent), 
we  judge  it  better  to  go  to  Carrick  upon  your  Grace's  other 
concerns,  taking  these  disordered  accounts  with  us,  to  the  end 
the  several  collectors  may  be  ordered  to  mend  their  accounts 
and  consequently  enable  us  to  put  an  end  to  the  tediousness 
of  that  business  we  have  so  long  fruitlessly  dwelt  upon.  But  we 
beseech  your  Grace  to  believe  that  (though  it  may  be  imputed 
either  to  our  weakness  or  want  of  industry  to  such  as  have 
not  been  eye  witnesses  thereunto)  we  have  not  been  wanting 
in  the  least  to  acquit  ourselves  therein  as  became  us,  as  when 
any  of  us  shall  have  the  honour  of  waiting  upon  your  Grace 
we  doubt  not  to  make  appear.  There  are  some  twelve  acres 
of  land  lying  twixt  Ormond' s  Leix  and  the  road  leading  up  to 
the  marble  quarry,  anciently  belonging  to  several  burgesses, 
whereout  his  Grace  hath  a  chief ry,  which  is  very  convenient 
for  his  Grace's  use ;  we  humbly  desire  to  know  whether  we 
may  take  a  lease  of  it  or  leave  it  to  be  determined  as  other 
chiefries  will  be  belonging  to  this  city ;  one  Tarr  is  present 
tenant  under  Captain  Burrell. 

We  now  received  his  Grace's  letter  commanding  us  to  receive 
the  proposals  of  Colonel  Abbot  for  Ballinecloghy,  and  requiring 
•a  return  to  be  made  thereof  before  agreement.     We  are  offered 

Wt.  8878.  D 


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a  rent  of  4s.  the  acre  for  it,  that  which  we  imagine  he  will 
never  give,  which  we  conceive  to  be  a  considerable  rent,  if 
the  offer  falls  not  off,  but  by  this  our  hands  are  tied  up  until 
his  Grace's  pleasure  be  known,  though  that  offer  should  be  made 
good.  All  which  is  humbly  submitted  by,  your  Grace's  most 
faithful'  and  most  humble  servants, 

Wm.  Flower. 

Math.  Harrison. 

Edm.  Butler. 

Jo.  Bourden. 

Propositions  op  John  Middlbton  for  establishing  a 

Gunpowder  Factory  in  Dublin. 

1668,  April  6  and  13. — ^The  humble  propositions  of  John 
Middleton,  gentleman,  for  the  making  of  powder  in  this 
Kingdom  of  Ireland. 

Imprimis.  If  it  shall  please  your  Grace  to  order  a  powder- 
mill  to  be  made  within  a  mile  or  two  of  the  city  of  Dublin, 
and  to  be  furnished  with  a  magazine  of  petre,  which  petre  I 
am  sure  your  Grace  may  have  delivered  in  Dublin  upon  the 
merchant's  hazard  as  cheap  as  it  is  delivered  at  London  by 
the  India  and  Barbary  merchants,  and  the  said  petre  being 
well  resined  and  fit  for  the  mill,  I  will  engage  by  able  security 
for  every  ton  of  petre  resined  as  aforesaid,  to  deliver  twenty 
barrels  of  good  and  sufficient  powder,  tower-proof,  into  the 
Castle  of  Dublin,  proportionable  to  the  weight,  that  is, 
delivered  into  the  Tower  of  London,  and  your  Grace  to  be  at 
no  other  charge  than  the  buying  of  the  said  petre  and  the 
erecting  of  the  said  mill,  and  finding  all  materials  that  is  for 
the  resining  of  the  said  powder,  which  charge  will  not  amount 
to  above  five  hundred  pounds  as  appears  by  the  particulars. 

And  if  there  be  any  powder  now  in  the  store  which  is  not 
fit  for  service,  if  the  said  mill  be  set  up  I  will  engage  to  recover 
it  and  to  make  it  as  good  and  as  cheap  as  any  man  in  England 
can  do  it. 

And  if  your  Grace  shall  please  to  allow  me  the  freedom  to 
search  and  try  the  ground  about  the  city  of  Dublin,  I  will, 
if  God  lends  me  life,  in  five  days  give  your  Grace  a  full  and 
perfect  account  what  quantity  of  petre  may  be  made  here  in 
Dublin,  and  what  the  making  of  it  will  stand  your  Grace  in 
for  each  ton  or  hundred. 

If  these  proposals  may  receive  any  approbation  or  encourage- 
ment from  your  Grace,  I  shall  humbly  desire  before  I  begin, 
an  assurance  of  seven  years  for  the  said  employment,  giving 
good  security  to  discharge  my  trust  faithfully,  and  to  perform 
any  agreement  that  can  be  made  in  that  case.  And  further, 
if  it  shall  please  your  Grace  to  pass  me  a  patent  for  fourteen 
years,  that  I  may  furnish  all  His  Majesty's  Kingdom  of  Ireland 
with  powder  during  the  said  term,  I  will  engage  by  security 
as  aforesaid  to  erect  the  said  mill  and  to  find  all  things  requisite 


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for  the  said  work  by  Midsummer  next  upon  my  own  charges, 
provided  that  I  may  have  two  shillings  for  every  barrel  of 
powder  which  shall  be  made  as  aforesaid',  over  and  above 
what  is  mentioned  in  the  aforesaid  propositions. 

If  any  of  these  proposals  may  appear  feasible  to  your  Grace, 
I  am  sure  it  will  save  His  Majesty  three  thousand  pounds  per 
annum. 

If  there  be  any  use  for  a  match  maker,  I  can  furnish  your 
Grace  with  as  good  a  one  as  any  in  Europe,  who  was  his  late 
Majesty's  chief  workman  at  Oxford. 

The  security  which  I  humbly  desire  may  be  taken  to  free  me 
out  of  the  Marshalsea,  are  William  Potter  and  William 
Mervine,  both  of  Dublin. 

John  Middleton. 

DUKB   OF  OrMOND'S   OBDBR   TO   PROROGUE  PARLIAMENT. 

1663,  April  14. — James,  Duke,  Marquis  and  Earl  of  Ormond, 
Earl  of  Ossory  and  Brecknock,  Viscount  Thurles,  Lord  Baron 
of  Arklow  and  Llanthony ,  Lord  of  the  Begalities  and  Liberties 
of  the  County  of  Tipperary,  Chancellor  of  the  University  of 
Dublin,  Lord  Lieutenant  General  and  General  Governor  of 
His  Majesty's  Kingdom  of  Ireland,  one  of  the  Lords  of  His 
Majesty's  most  honourable  Privy  Council  of  His  Majesty's 
Kingdoms  of  England,  Scotland,  and  Ireland,  Lord  Steward 
of  His  Majesty's  Household,  Gentleman  of  His  Majesty's 
Bedchamber,  Knight  of  the  Most  Noble  Order  of  the  Garter, 
and  Lord  Lieutenant  of  the  County  of  Somerset,  the  City  and 
County  of  Bristol,  and  the  Cities  of  Bath  and  Wells.  To 
the  Lords  Spiritual  and  Temporal,  and  to  the  Commons  in 
this  present  Parliament  assembled.  Greetings.  For  certain 
reasons  us  moving,  as  well  for  His  Majesty's  service  as  for 
the  good  of  the  subjects  of  this  Kingdom  in  general ,  We  have 
thought  it  convenient  to  prorogue  this  Parliament,  and  We 
do  by  these  presents  prorogue  the  same  until  the  five  and 
twentieth  day  of  May  next.  On  which  day  our  purpose  is  to  hold 
the  same  here  at  Chichester  House  near  Dublin.  Given  under 
our  Seal  at  Arms  at  His  Majesty's  Castle  of  Dublin,  the 
fourteenth  day  of  April,  in  the  fifteenth  year  of  the  reign  of 
our  Sovereign  Lord,  King  Charles  the  Second  of  England, 
Scotland,  France,  and  Ireland.  Defender  of  the  faith,  &c.. 
And  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  six  hundred  and 
sixty  three. 

PBTrrioN  OP  Free  Masons  and  order  thereon. 

1663,  May  5. — Sheweth,  having  contracted  with  the  Eight 
Honourable  Arthur  Earl  of  Anglesey  and  John  Lord  Viscount 
Massereene  for  the  building  of  walls  to  recover  divers  waste 
places  about  Dublin  from  the  overflowings  of  the  sea,  to  become 
dry  ground  for  improvements,  whereby  this  river  will  be  made 
more  navigable,  and  the  strength  and  beauty  of  Dublin  much 


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increased,  yet  so  it  is  that  divers  quarries  of  stone,  where  your 
petitioners  should  have  been  supplied  with  materials,  are 
seized  for  your  Grace's  service,  whereby  they  are  disabled  to 
proceed  in  the  said  work. 

They  humbly  pray  that  since  the  adjacent  quarries  are  taken 
up  for  your  Grace's  service,  that  they  may  have  your  Grace's 
permission  and  warrant  not  to  be  interrupted  in  any  new 
quarry  they  shall  discover,  and  they  hope  within  few  days  to 
open  a  quarry  that  will  not  only  supply  their  own  necessities 
but  your  Grace's  also  if  need  require,  which  they  dare  not 
attempt  without  your  Grace's  leave,  because  it  requireth  much 
labour  and  cost,  yet  without  any  private  or  public  damage, 
being  upon  a  common  waste.      And  they  shall  ever  pray. 

Endorsed  at  foot : — ^If  the  petitioners  can  find  any  quarry 
on  the  lands  of  the  Phoenix  or  Chappell  Isold,  belonging 
to  His  Majesty,  they  are  at  liberty  to  open  the  same,  and 
to  raise  stones  thereout  for  the  use  above-mentioned. 

Ormond. 

Henby  Coventry  to  Ormond. 

1663,  May  12  London  — I  am  much  ashamed  not  to  have 
presented  my  thanks  to  your  Grace  for  the  honour  of  one  of 
25th  April  from  you  till  now,  but  it  hath  been  my  waiting  week, 
and  sleep  so  parlious,  and  what  I  could  write  so  inconsiderable 
that  I  could  not  but  for  your  Grace's  sake  as  well  as  my  own, 
give  my  few  spare  hours  to  the  former. 

Truly  my  Lord,  whether  everything  be  yellow  or  I  have  the 
jaundice  I  know  not,  but  certainly  either  all  things  are  in  the 
dark  or  better  eyes  than  mine  have  lost  their  sight.  I  am 
for  my  own  part  as  assiduous  both  at  Court  and  in  the  House 
as  I  can  be,  and  as  inquisitive  as  my  temper  will  give  me  leave, 
and  yet  I  can  neither  tell  you  what  the  House  intends  nor  what 
we  at  Whitehall  wish  they  should.  We  are  this  day  alarmed 
with  some  insolences  offered  the  Bishop  of  Galloway  in 
Scotland  by  the  i*abble,  so  far  as  that  the  forces  thereabouts 
are  drawn  out  to  suppress  them.  The  news  came  on  Sunday, 
but  it  was  then  represented  as  a  politic  fiction,  and  now,  being 
confirmed,  it  is  adjudged  inconsiderable,  but  it  is  by  the  least 
partial  believed  more  than  a  spark,  and  amongst  matter  very 
combustible.  The  dispute  betwixt  the  Earls  Middleton  and 
Lauderdale  is  not  yet  determined,  but  it  is  generally  believed 
(I  do  not  say  wished)  the  latter  will  have  the  advantage,  and 
the  Lord  Rothes  be  sent  down  Commissioner.  These  reports 
are  very  dissatisfactory  to  most  of  the  House  of  Commons, 
who  not  without  some  passion  extol  all  the  late  good  services 
of  Middleton,  and  with  the  same  warmth  exaggerate  the  past 
disservices  of  the  other,  who  nevertheless  loseth  no  ground 
in  our  Master's  good  opinion,  though  for  all  I  see  he  stands 
single  in  our  English  Court,  whatsoever  party  he  hath  amongst 
his  own  countrymen.     We  are  daily  upon  the  King's  revenue, 


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and  pr€(tend  to  great  vigour  in  inspecting  the  misdemeanours 
in  the  management.  A  vote  this  day  passed  to  pray  the  King 
not  to  grant  a  patent  of  the  Post  Office  till  he  had  received 
an  address  from  the  House  of  Commons  in  the  behalf  of  some 
that  offer  a  greater  rent.  There  is  a  bill  coming  in  against 
the  sale  of  Offices,  and  another  to  incapacitate  such  as  have 
borne  arms  against  the  King,  some  few  excepted.  This  day 
a  bill  was  brought  in  against  the  importation  of  any  fat  cattle 
from  Ireland,  and  it  is  after  a  long  debate  committed.  What 
fate  it  will  have  I  know  not.  Bills  against  Popery,  Quakers, 
Presbyters,  Conventicles,  and  what  not;  and  yet  the  Kevenue 
and  Militia  where  they  were;  only  this  much,  there  is  a  vote 
past,  in  order  to  the  method  of  the  management,  that  the 
Committee  shall  bring  in  a  bill  to  appropriate  each  considerable 
expense  to  a  particular  branch  of  the  Bevenue,  as  the  Customs, 
the  Navy  and  Garrisons,  and  so  to  others  in  such  manner  that 
those  branches  shall  not  be  chargeable  with  any  other  expenses 
till  such  debts  as  have  been  contracted  for  the  respectively 
appointed  issuings  out  be  first  satisfied.  My  Lord,  I  have 
now  troubled  you  with  that  which  constantly  troubleth  me. 
I  hope  all  will  end  well,  but  that  proceedeth  more  from 
my  desires  than  my  understandings.  With  this  packet  your 
Grace  will  receive  a  letter  signed  for  Sir  Alan  Brodrick. 
I  am  very  glad  I  shall  be  so  well  succeeded,  and  I  doubt  not 
but  your  Grace  will  find  him  very  ready  and  serviceable  in 
your  employment.  I  had  this  morning  some  occasion  to 
speak  to  the  King  that  he  would  remember  his  own  resolution 
of  not  transmitting  his  resolutions  to  your  Grace  concerning 
Ireland,  otherwise  than  by  one  Secretary.  He  told  me  he  did 
and  had  constantly  observed  it.  I  minded  him  of  my  Lord 
of  Anglesey  his  leave  to  come  over  sent  by  Secretary  Morice. 
He  said  it  was  never  intended  otherwise  than  a  signification 
of  his  willingness  to  consent  whensoever  you  should  judge  it 
fitting,  but  no  way  either  to  incline  or  control  your  Grace's 
opinion.  Sir  George  Lawson  is  gone  for  Portugal  with  a 
fleet.  The  Queen  intendeth  next  month  for  Tunbridge.  My 
Lords  of  Carlisle  and  Holtis  despatching  for  their  several 
embassies,  Muscovia  and  France.  The  Queen  mother  is 
perfectly  recovered. 

Jambs  Buck  to  Sib  Gbobqb  Lanb. 

1663,  May  12. — ^I  was  so  far  from  expecting  an  apology  for 
your  silence  that  the  honour  you  did  me  of  the  25th  of  the  last 
month,  that  you  were  not  angry  for  the  frequent  troubles  I 
had  put  upon  you,  was  the  highest  satisfaction  I  expected  or 
could  desire,  and  had  by  the  last  post  answered  your  commands, 
had  not  your  letter  of  the  same  date  of  my  Lady  Duchess  and 
Mr.  Smith  come  three  days  after  theirs  unto  my  hands,  with 
an  unusual  way  of  postage  upon  them,  but  did  then  give  Her 
Grace  an  account,  which  I  hope  you  have  seen,  of  the  same 
concerns  which  yours  does  mention,  so  that  as  to  that  I  shall 


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be  the  shorter  in  this.    The  letter  you  sent  me  of  Mr.  Vyner's, 
with  a  draft  of  indemnity  from  Bonfoye  and  others,  I  showed  to 
Mr.  PhiUips,  my  lord's  counsel,  for  the  better  understanding 
what  Mr.  Vyner  and  they  had  done.     Mr.  Vyner,  Mr.  Phillips 
and  another  counsel  with  myself  met,  and  in  the  debate,  had  not 
I  often  put  in  how  friendly  and  civil  Mr.  Vyner  had  been  upon 
all  occasions  to  my  Lord  and  Lady,  the  counsel  had  fallen 
too  rudely  upon  him,  first  for  making  a  discovery  of  my  Lord 
Bute's  money  in  his  hands,  a  breach  of  trust,  and  to  give  way 
to  so  unjust  an  attack  without  giving  me  notice,  being  every 
day  with  him,  a  breach  of  friendship,  and  a  high  contempt  of 
privilege  against  those  secret  employments  and  dignities  his 
Grace  does  now  and  I  hope  for  ever  will  enjoy ;  yet  notwith- 
standing, which  I  hope  his  Grace  will  forgive,  I  did  declare 
'twas  his  Grace^s  intent  to  pay  the  money  where  in  right  it 
ought  to  be,  and  in  their  cases  make  no  use  of  these  privileges, 
and  by  consent  referred  it  to  the  Attorney  General  and  Sir  Ed. 
Turner,  the  Speaker,  the  case  betwixt  Bonfoye  and  Bea,  and 
then  we  know  where  to  pay  the  money  with  most  safety ;  I 
only  put  this  to  them  that  whether  they  had  rather  be  put  to 
the  necessity,    and  their   children   after   them,    against   all 
accidents  to  preserve  a  paper  of  indemnity  or  to  have  a  bond 
remain  against  them  and  their  heirs,  which  is  the  case  of  those 
gentlemen  that  were  bound  for  my  Lady,  but  by  the  next  I  hope 
you  will  hear  this  is  cleared.     Mr.  Vyner  has  now  the  disposing 
of  the  greatest  part  of  Audesly's  estate,  and  by  him  believed 
'twas  all  one  to  my  Lord  to  whom  the  money  was  paid,  and 
had  not  Bea  demanded  the  money  when  he  did,  Bonfoye  had 
received  it,  and  the  bond  still  lying  against  us;  this  I  only 
whisper  in  your  ear,  pray  take  no  notice  of  it,  but  the  executors 
does  confess  'twas  Mr.  Vyner  put  them  upon  it,  and  now  they 
will  try  what  will  come  of  it.       I  acquainted  Mr.  Sawyers 
with  your  satisfaction  and  thanks  to  him  for  the  cook  he  sent 
you,  he  intends  to  present  his  service  himself  to  you.      Your 
son  was  very  well  on  Thursday  last,  he  tells  me  you  are 
in  his  debt  for  English,  Latin,  and  Greek,  and  pray  have  a 
care  you  come  out  of  it,  lest  he  write  no  more  languages  to 
you,  or  trust  his  mother,  my  Lady  Lane,  to  whom  my  most 
humble  service,  for  his  better  payment  hereafter.     I  shall  put 
Mr.  Lilly  in  the  way  you  directed  me  in  order  to  your  service. 
I  wonder  Mr.  Holmes  has  got  but  fifteen  pounds  for  me  since 
December  last,  that  with  ten  pounds  before,  which  makes  but 
five  and  twenty  pounds,  is  all  I  received  out  of  it  since  his 
Grace  went  over ;  I  was  in  hopes  upon  settlement  of  estates 
many  patents  would  be  passed;  pray.  Sir,  look  into  it,  for  I 
must  give  you  thanks  for  all  that  ever  I  shall  get  by  it ;  for 
the  Clerk  of  the  Market's  employment  I  never  get  6d.,  nor 
I  think  never  shall. 

Postscript : — I  am  like  to  suffer  for  engaging  for  Sir  John 
and  Sir  Maurice  Eustace ;  when  I  did  it  I  had  in  my  thoughts 
the  kindness  you  had  for  them,  and  my  Lord  Chancellor. 


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Jambs  Buck  to  Sm  George  Lake. 

1668,  May  22. — ^Before  I  received  the  honour  of  your  letter 
of  the  last  of  April,  I  attended  Mr.  Phillips  with  Mr.  Vyner's 
letter,  and  the  paper  you  sent  me,  but  that  dispute  is  not  yet 
ended  by  reason  Mr.  Bonfoye  will  not  meet  us,  or  bring  his 
counsel  to  any  meeting,  but  the  attachment  of  course  will  fall 
within  this  very  few  days;  those  gentlemen  that  are  bound 
will  be  satisfied  with  no  indemnity  but  the  bond  taken  up  and 
cancelled,  and  indeed  there  is  much  to  be  said  for  it. 

I  have  spoken  to  my  Lord  Cornbury  who  has  promised  to 
get  a  very  good  picture  of  his  father's  for  you,  Mr.  Cheffins  has 
made  the  same  promise  for  the  King's,  the  latter  end  of  this 
month  I  shall  send  from  hence  a  most  excellent  picture  of  my 
Lord  Duke's,  I  think  you  saw  the  face  done  before  you  went ; 
by  that  time  I  am  promised  the  Queen's  for  my  Lady  Duchess 
to  send  along  with  it ;  Mr.  Lilly  [Lely]  tells  me  there  is  one  very 
good  at  Cappeinge  [?]  in  Dublin,  if  not  pray  let  me  receive  your 
farther  commands;  Mr.  Lilly  will  presently  part  with  the 
Duchess'  pictures  for  you,  if  you  can  procure  any  to  bring 
directions  from  Her  Highness  to  him  for  it.  Mr.  Slingsby 
presents  his  most  humble  service  to  you,  and  though  he  is  sworn 
of  the  Queen's  Council  and  her  Surveyor  General,  yet  I  know 
that  he  is  in  such  want  that  if  you  could  find  out  a  way  to 
advance  a  hundred  pounds  for  him  out  of  what  he  is  to  receive 
by  the  papers  which  I  brought  over  of  his,  'twould  be  a  great 
deed  of  friendship  and  charity,  whose  worth  I  so  well  know  that 
I  would  willingly  become  bound  for  it ;  pray  Sir,  let  me  know 
your  opinion  of  this,  and  pardon  the  rudeness  of  your  most 
obedient  servant. 

Postscript: — My  most  humble  service  to  your  Lady,  and 
thanks  for  Mr.  Holmes'  letter  though  a  lame  account  of 
fifteen  pounds  received. 

Eabl  of  Kildarb  to  Ormond. 

1668,  May  24.  Carlow. — Sunday  morning. — In  obedience 
to  your  command  I  repaired  to  my  troop,  which  I  find  in  a 
posture  fit  to  oppose  any  discontented  spirit  whatsoever ;  this  is 
all  the  account  I  can  at  present  give  your  Grace,  only  I  hear  no 
ill  news  of  the  Castle  of  Kilkenny.  I  intend  to  stay  two  or  three 
days  here  to  receive  your  Grace's  commands,  which  if  I  do 
not,  I  intend  to  march  to  Athy  according  to  my  former  order ; 
all  here  is  peaceable;  this  is  all  at  present,  and  if  anything 
worth  your  notice  shall  come  to  me,  your  Grace  shall  quickly 
know. 

Kino's  Lbttbb,  giving  Authority  for  Purchase  of  Lands 

FOR  THE  Phoenix  Park. 
Charles  B. 

1663,  May  26.  Whitehall.— Eight  trusty  and  right  entirely 
beloved  Cousin  and  Counsellor,  We  greet  you  well ;  whereas 
by  our  letters  under  our  privy  signet  and  sign  manual,  bearing 


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date  the  first  day  of  December  last,  We  did  authorise  you  to 
satisfy  unto  Sir  Maurice  Eustace,  knight,  our  Chancellor  of 
Ireland,  for  the  purchase  of  four  hundred  forty- one  acres  of 
the  land  of  Chappell  Izard,  to  be  laid  unto  our  manor  house 
of  the  Phenix,  as  by  the  said  letter  doth  appear,  and  whereas 
the  quantity  of  lands  designed  to  make  a  park  for  our  use  near 
the  Phenix  do  amount  to  a  larger  quantity,  and  will  cost  more 
money  than  we  were  informed  of  at  the  passing  our  said  letter, 
and  that  we  are  now  resolved  to  buy  the  whole  manor  and 
house  of  Chappell  Izard,  with  the  town  and  lands  thereunto 
belonging,  and  several  other  lands  which  be  most  convenient 
to  enclose  for  a  park.  We  do  therefore  very  well  approve 
of  your  proceedings  herein  already  made,  and  do  by  these  our 
letters  authorise  you  to  purchase  from  our  said  Chancellor, 
and  any  other  persons  having  title  thereunto,  such  lands, 
tenements,  and  hereditaments  for  our  use  as  you  shall  think 
fit,  and  to  give  order  to  our  right  trusty  and  right  well-beloved 
Cousin  and  Counsellor,  Arthur,  Earl  of  Anglesey,  or  any  other 
Vice-Treasurer  for  the  time  being,  for  satisfaction  of  the 
purchase  money  that  shall  be  agreed  to  be  paid,  so  as  the  same 
amount  not  in  the  whole  to  above  the  sum  of  ten  thousand 
pounds,  and  also  to  enclose  or  impark  with  a  stone  wall,  in 
such  manner  as  you  have  already  begun,  such  lands  of  our 
ancient  inheritance,  or  new  purchase,  as  you  shall  judge  fit  for 
that  use,  and  to  store  the  same  with  deer, giving  order  to  our  said 
Vice-Treasurer  or  any  other  Vice-Treasurer  for  the  time  being, 
to  make  payment  of  such  sums  of  money  from  time  to  time 
as  shall  be  requisite  for  doing  the  said  work,  and  for  so  doing 
this  shall  be  a  sufiicient  warrant  to  you  and  to  our  said  Vice- 
Treasurer  and  to  all  whom  it  may  concern  ;  Given  at  our  Court 
at  Whitehall,  the  xxvith  day  of  May,  1663,  in  the  fifteenth 
year  of  our  reign.  By  His  Majesty's  commands.  Henry 
Bennett. 

Addressed : — ^To  our  right  trust  and  right  entirely  beloved 
Cousin  and  Counsellor,  James  Duke  of  Ormond,  our  Lieutenant 
General  and  General  Governor  of  our  Kingdom  of  Ireland. 

Entered  at  the  Signet  Office  the  27th  of  May,  1663.— Sydney 
Bere. 

Endorsed : — Concordatum  cum  originali. — G.  Lane. 

Obmond  to  Earl  op  Anglesey. 

1663,  June  6.  Dublin  Castle. — ^His  Majesty  having  been 
graciously  pleased  of  his  bounty  to  give  unto  Mr.  Francis 
Slingsby,  a  thousand  pounds  out  of  the  moneys  payable  by 
adventurers  and  soldiers,  for  the  repairing  the  losses  of  such 
who  have  eminently  acted  for  and  suffered  with  his  Majesty, 
These  are  to  pray  and  require  your  Lordship's  out  of  such 
moneys  as  now  are  or  next  shall  come  unto  your  hands  upon 
that  account  to  cause  payment  to  be  made  of  two  hundred 


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And  fifty  pounds,  part  of  the  said  lOOOli,  unto  the  said  Francis 
Slingsby  or  his  assigns.  And  this  together  with  his  acquittance 
acknowledging  the  receipt  thereof,  shall  be  as  well  to  your 
Lordship  as  to  the  Commissioners  of  your  Accounts,  a  sufficient 
warrant. 

Copy, 

Jambs  Buck  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1663,  June  13. — I  have  a  gTeat  deal  of  reason  to  congratulate 
your  safety,  and  the  King's  interest  under  that  happy  and 
prudent  Government  of  his  Grace  my  Lord  Duke,  but  hereafter 
you  and  I  must  not  part  without  a  cypher  betwixt  us,  for  as 
the  affairs  goes  now,  and  like  to  be,  such  a  thing  had  been 
very  useful,  being  very  confident  that  our  business  in  this  world 
aims  at  one  and  the  self  same  preservation.  I  hear  the 
Bonfoyes*  has  writ  to  my  Lord  again,  a  mere  delay,  and  be 
sure  my  Lord  does  engage  them  to  attend  his  counsel  with 
theirs,  which  I  nor  Mr.  Phillips  could  never  bring  them 
to  it  yet,  but  if  the  money  be  theirs,  the  law  will  give  them 
leave  better  to  recover  it  of  Sir  John  Eea  than  of  my  Lord 
Duke,  but  the  management  of  it  is  wholly  left  to  Mr.  Phillips, 
who  I  find  a  very  able  and  just  person  to  my  Lord.  I  hear 
one  Mr.  Deavon,  an  Irish  gentleman,  has  got  a  good  share 
of  that  employment  which  Sir  James  Shaen  had  unjustly  got 
from  me,  and  what  by  law  and  great  expense  I  have  almost 
recovered  again,  having  the  broad  seal  of  that  kingdom  and 
the  King's  peremptory  letter  to  renew  the  patent  in  mine  and 
my  son's  name,  and.  Dear  Sir,  I  must  tell  you,  though  my 
duty  and  affection  does  from  my  very  heart  submit,  yet  I  cannot 
so  much  command  nature  but  to  have  some  thoughts  of  it,  and 
must  say  'twas  my  absence  drew  it  upon  me,  and  though  I 
am  not  so  happy  as  to  serve  myself,  let  me  endeavour  to  be 
useful  to  others,  and  to  put  you  in  mind  of  Mr.  Slingsby's 
business,  which  I  desire  you  to  write  a  line  or  two  to  me  of, 
and  what  service  and  commands  you  may  think  one  fit  for. 

Obdeb  of  Lobd  Lieutenant  and  Council  belativb  to  a 

CONSPIBACY  TO  SURPRISE  DUBLIN  CaSTLB. 

1663,  June  16. — Upon  consideration  had  at  this  board  of 
the  late  honid  conspiracy  for  surprising  and  taking  his 
Majesty's  Castle  of  Dublin,  and  of  the  consequences  thereof 
if  it  had  taken  effect,  whereby  this  kingdom  might  have  been 
again  cast  into  those  confusions  and  calamities  out  of  which 
we  have  been  so  lately  delivered  by  the  blessing  of  God  in 
His  Majesty's  happy  restoration,  and  considering  also  the 
intelligences  we  have  lately  received,  and  finding  it  at  this 
time  necessary  (in  prevention  of  the  like  traitorous  attempts 
hereafter)  to  take  all  just  and  honourable  ways  to  preserve 
the  public  peace  and  tranquillity  of  the  kingdom ,  We  therefore 
in  order  thereunto  have  thought  fit  hereby  to  pray  and  require 


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your  Lordships  with  all  conyenient  speed  to  cause  all 
such  ministers  or  pretended  ministers  that  you  shall  find  cause 
to  suspect  (either  to  have  had  any  hand  in  the  said  late 
conspiracy  or  to  be  likely  by  their  preaching  or  otherwise, 
to  seduce  the  people  from  their  due  obedience  and  subjection 
to  His  Majesty's*  authority,  ecclesiastical  or  civil,  within 
this  realm)  to  be  apprehended  and  committed  to  safe  custody 
until  further  directions  from  us,  and  that  notwithstanding 
any  bonds  formerly  given  by  any  of  them  for  their  appearance. 
Yet  so  as  their  wives,  children,  and  necessary  servants 
and  no  others  be  admitted  to  them,  and  to  send  to  us,  the 
Lord  Lieutenant,  the  names  and  qualities  of  all  such  persons 
as  you  shall  commit  upon  this  occasion,  that  we  may 
thereupon  give  such  further  directions  herein  as  for  His 
Majesty's  service  and  the  peace  of  the  kingdom  we  shall 
judge  fit,  and  so  recommending  this  service  to  your  special 
and  extraordinary  care,  we  bid  your  Lordships  very 
heartily  farewell.  From  our  Council  Chamber  in  Dublin,  the 
16th  day  of  June,  1663.      Signed, 

Ormond. 

Ossory. 

Anglesey. 

Mount  Alexander. 

Dungannon. 

Paul  Davys. 

Endorsed : — Order  of  Lord  Lieutenant  and  Council. 
Blood's  Conspiracy.     Copy. 

Hbnbt  Coventry  to  Ormond. 

1663,  June  20. — I  am  ashamed  to  be  so  late  in  my 
congratulations  with  your  Grace  for  the  happy  discovery  of 
those  bad  designs  in  Ireland.  As  you  can  meet  with  none  more 
wicked,  so  I  hope  you  will  with  none  more  fortunate.  We  are 
here  very  busy  in  Parliament  about  finding  supplies  for  the 
King.  The  way  is  voted,  by  subsidy,  but  the  quantity  is  not 
yet  determined.  When  it  is,  I  doubt  not  but  the  pressing 
necessities  of  Ireland  will  be  considered  by  His  Majesty. 
I  believe  the  vote  concerning  Irish  cattle  hath  not  come  to 
you  with  any  great  applause.  It  was  not  to  be  avoided. 
The*  complaint  of  the  fall  of  rents  from  all  gentlemen  whose 
estates  lie  in  pastures  was  so  great,  and  so  many  even  in  the 
House  concerned,  that  there  was  no  opposing  it. 

I  believe  a  few  weeks  more  will  give  us  leave  to  see  the 
country,  but  whether  by  adjournment  or  prorogation  I  cannot 
yet  tell  your  Grace.  Your  Grace  will  by  other  hands,  I  doubt 
not,  hear  of  a  message  sent  by  the  King  concerning  Sir  Richard 
Temple  to  the  House  of  Commons,  who  have  this  day  sent  an 
address  to  His  Majesty  to  desire  him  to  name  the  person  who 
had  brought  a  message  from  Sir  Bichard  to  his  Majesty ;  upon 
the  compliance  of  His  Majesty  with  his  House  in  this,  very 


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much  is  like  to  depend.  The  Qneen  at  the  present  taketh 
physic  only  preparatory  for  her  journey  to  the  wells.  Our  news 
from  Portugal  is  very  bad. 

The  greatest  mortality  is  here  amongst  our  ladies,  and  but 
this  morning  the  young  Lady  Portman  is  reported  dead,  but 
I  know  not  the  certainty. 

Earl  of  Orrery  to  Ormond. 

1663,  July  8.  Newtown. — My  troop  having  (during  theV 
Usurper's  power)  received  their  arrears  in  the  most  barbarous  \ 
parts  of  Kerry,  the  Barony  of  Glanarought,  and  the  surveyors  / 
having  returned  that  in  some  places  of  that  Barony  eight  acres  / 
should  be  reckoned  for  one  profitable,  iii  other  places  twelve,  in 
others  twenty,  the  laud  was  so  extreme  bad,  I  made  it  my 
humble  suit  to  your  Grace,  when  in  London,  to  move  his  sacred 
Majesty  that  the  Quit  rent  payable  by  my  troops  might  be 
reduced  accordingly,  else  they  could  not  live  there,  that  rent 
being  by  much  more  worth  than  the  whole  profits  of  the  lands  in 
the  most  improved  times  of  peace,  as  appeared  by  the  valuation 
of  that  Barony  before  the  Bebellion,  and  the  Quit  rents 
unreduced  since  they  were  made  payable,  your  Grace  was 
pleased  to  obtain  from  his  Majesty  a  letter  in  my  troop's  just 
favour,  directed  to  the  then  Lords  Justices,  who  thereupon 
by  virtue  of  Sir  James  Vane's  return  and  the  certificates 
of  the  surveyors,  reduced  the  Quit  rent  accordingly,  but  your 
Grace's  arrival  to  this  Government  before  all  the  formalities 
of  the  reduction  had  received  perfection,  I  understand  there 
are  some  endeavours  to  cut  them  off  from  the  benefit  and 
justice  of  that  reducement.  This  has  made  me  an  humble 
and  common  suitor  to  your  Grace  that  they  may  have  the 
advantage  of  it.  The  whole  transaction  of  that  affair  this 
honorable  gentleman.  Colonel  Clayton,  will  fully  inform,  your 
Grace  of.  Therefore  I  shall  only  add  that  if  this  be  not 
confirmed  to  them  by  your  Grace,  which  the  Lords  Justices 
ordered  by  virtue  of  the  King's  authority  and  command  to 
them,  which  also  were  procured  by  your  Grace's  favour,  the 
consequences  thereof  will  be  that  the  troop  must  wholly  cast 
up  their  lot  and  thereby  remain  without  any  satisfaction ;  by 
which  also  this  evil  will  follow  to  the  kingdom  m  general  that, 
that  English  Plantation  being  withdrawn,  the  likeliest  part 
of  Ireland  for  an  invasion  or  rebellion  will  be  apt  and  fitted' 
for  either  or  both,  and  the  worst  sort  of  Irish  will  immediately 
possess  that  tract  of  land  and  those  good  harbours.  And 
since  the  granting  what  I  humbly  desire  is  but  a  fair  and 
warrantable  favour  to  a  number  of  good  soldiers  and  loyal 
subjects,  and  a  securing  and  planting  of  a  wild  and  dangerous 
country  with  industrious  and  faithhil  English,  I  will  rest 
confident  what  I  thus  earnestly  beg  will  not  be  denied  by  your 
Grace.  Colonel  Clayton  vnll  also  acquaint  your  Grace  that 
by  your  own  favour  the  deficiencies  of  my  troop's  lot  was 
appointed  to  be  made  up  by  His  Majesty's  orders  in  some 
other  lands  in  that  wild  country,  which  none  elsie  would  take 


for  satisfaction.  To  this  my  troop  understands  by  the 
information  of  one  Thos.  Connell,  your  Grace  or  my  Lord  of 
Ossory  does  lay  claim  as  in  the  right  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond. 
My  troop  have  desired  me  humbly  to  acquaint  your  Grace 
that  they  will  lose  all  they  have  rather  than  go  to  law  against 
your  Grace  or  my  Lord  Ossory,  and  therefore  lay  at  your 
Grace's  feet  all  their  right  or  pretences.  They  understand 
your  Grace  has  referred  the  business  to  Sir  Wm.  Domvile* 
which  is  putting  of  it  into  a  way  of  law  and  therefore  they 
will  lose  it  rather  than  so  defend  it,  but  if  your  Grace  will 
appoint  any  of  your  servants  at  Dublin,  as  Sir  Wm.  Flower 
or  any  other,  and  be  pleased  to  let  Colonel  Clayton  meet  with 
him  to  show  what  they  have  to  say,  it  will  be  a  favour  to 
them,  and  what  on  that  representation  your  Grace  shall  think 
fit  to  order  they  will  joyfully  submit  unto  it ;  only  in  case 
your  Grace  shall  find  you  have  the  right  I  am  an  humble 
suitor  to  you  that  Captain  Geo.  Dillon,  who  commands  my 
troop,  may  be  preferred  to  those  lands,  I  mean  as  much  only 
as  concerns  them,  as  your  Grace's  or  my  Lord  Ossory 's  tenant 
for  such  a  term  of  years  and  at  such  a  convenient  rent  as  your 
Grace  shall  think  fit,  that  they  may  continue  and  increase  a 
plantation  of  Protestants  there,  to  keep  it  from  being  a  nest 
of  such  as  may  disturb  the  peace  of  those  parts.  I  humbly 
beg  your  Grace's  pardon  for  this  long  trouble  and  your  speedy 
order  about  the  reduction  of  the  Quit  rent  as  it  has  been 
already  ordered,  for  if  green  wax  were  issued  for  it,  they  must 
pay  it  or  be  at  as  much  charge  as  the  payment  of  it  will  amount 
unto  to  get  it  off  again. 

I  have  made  this  confidence  as  short  as  I  could  because 
Colonel  Clayton  will  at  large  inform  your  Grace  of  all  particulars 
in  these  two  businesses,  now  humbly  offered  to  your  Grace's 
consideration  and  favour. 

Endorsed : — ^Earl  of  Orrery. — ^Received  18  July,  1663.  Quit 
rent  of  his  troop  and  my  pretensions  to  the  land.. 

William  Coventry  to  Ormond. 

1663,  July  14. — ^I  should  not  give  your  Grace  any  trouble 
at  present  if  I  did  not  conceive  it  necessary  to  give  your  Grace 
some  account  of  what  formerly  passed  here  in  England 
concerning  the  French  fishermen,  which  perhaps  may  be  a 
necessary  light  to  the  enclosed  from  his  Boyal  Highness. 
Some  time  after  the  King's  return  into  England  a  petition 
was  presented  to  the  King  in  Council  from  the  Cinque  Ports 
complaining  (amongst  other  grievances)  chiefly  of  the  French 
fishing  on  the  coast  of  the  Cinque  Forts  without  leave  first 
obtained,  it  having  been  customary  that  some  few  passes 
were  granted  for  fishing  there  for  the  accommodation  of  the 
Court  of  France  and  some  great  persons.      The  Council  were 

pleased  to  recommend  it  to  the  care  of  his  Boyal  Highness 

— '■  '  ■     ■  '  ■  ■       ■      ■  I  ■         ■  ■  i      .  ■    ■         ■    —  ■      ■ .  ■ 

*The  IriBh  Attorney  General. 


SI 

to  prevent  that  grievance,  in  pursuance  whereof  his  Eoyal 
Highness  ordered  from  time  to  time  ships  to  that  coast  with 
orders  to  take  the  nets  of  such  as  fished  without  leave,  which 
was  accordingly  done,  of  which  advertisement  being  given 
to  the  French  Court,  great  complaints  were  made  to  my  Lord 
St.  Albans  there  and  here  by  the  Marquis  d*  Estrades,  who 
about  that  time  came  first  on  his  Embassy  into  England, 
whereupon  by  direction  of  my  Lord  Chancellor  their  nets  were 
restored  and  their  disturbance  discontinued,  so  far  as  I  could 
conjecture  (for  it  is  but  a  conjecture),  that  so  the  matter  of 
the  fishing  might  be  passed  by  in  the  treaty  then  depending  (and 
which  is  not  yet  perfected)  without  any  mention  at  all,  fearing 
lest  the  mention  might  breed  difficulties,  especially  considering 
that  about  that  time  the  Hollanders'  and  f^rench  were  about 
the  guaranty  for  each  other.  This  cessation  of  the  King's 
claim  hath  hitherto  continued,  though  the  Ports  begin  again 
to  murmur  about  it.  His  Boyal  Highness  seeing  it  not  fit 
to  restrain  the  fishing  at  that  time,  thought  it  the  next  best  way 
to  fortify  the  King's  claim  by  giving  passes  to  fish,  especially 
for  such  fish  as  they  have  usually  taken  without  licence, 
viz. :  mackerel  and  herring,  and  therefore  during  two  seasons 
hath  granted  annual  passes  to  divers  for  those  fishings,  whereof 
possibly  some  may  reach  to  the  coast  of  Ireland.  Thus  your 
Lordship  hath  the  whole  narrative  of  the  proceedings  on  this 
matter,  how  soon  your  Lordship  will  think  fit  to  proceed  to 
vigour  with  them  (depending  the  treaty)  your  Lordship's 
prudence  will  direct,  but  if  you  shall  proceed  at  any  time  to 
seizing  their  ships  and  nets,  if  your  Grace  would  please  to  give 
his  Eoyal  Highness  advertisement  of  it,  I  suppose  it  could 
have  no  inconvenience  that  his  Boyal  Highness  did  the  same 
here,  since  it  would  be  satisfactory  to  the  Ports  and  the  whole 
make  but  one  complaint  in  France. 

Endorsed : — Mr.  William  Coventry,  received  20th  July,  1663. 

Egbert  Southwell  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1663,  July  17.  Kinsale. — ^The  answer  of  yours  with  that 
of  my  Lord  of  Anglesey  being  contained  in  the  enclosed  unto 
his  Lordship,  which  I  have  left  open  with  a  fiying  seal,  and 
humbly  beg  you  to  read  and  then  to  close  and  deliver  it,  will 
save  the  trouble  of  repeating  the  same  again  here,  but  believe 
me.  Sir,  I  would  speak  if  it  were  convenient,  very  much  more 
in  my  own  vindication  and  lay  the  blame  where  it  ought  to  be, 
but  I  chose  rather  to  be  silent  and  to  suffer  the  present  censure 
with  hopes  very  speedily  to  put  an  end  to  the  work;  the 
trouble  and  care  thereof  I  shall  not  mention,  though  it  has 
proved  one  of  the  hardest  tasks  I  have  hitherto  had  and  that 
through  the  several  commissions  and  neglects  of  others  whom 
I  may  not  name,  but  this  I  may  tell  you,  that  notwithstanding 
my  endeavours,  I  have  found  it  to  proceed  and  go  on  with  cold 
and  leaden  feet,  and  it  has  cost  me  so  much  the  more  care 
and  diligence  to  enliven  and  quicken  up  all  those  concerned 


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in  it,  and  if  I  could  with  all  that  have  obtained  the  desired 
effects  of  compliance  and  despatch  of  my  Lord  Duke's  service 
of  which  I  shall,  God  willing,  during  my  life  be  zealous,  I  had 
therein  fully  received  my  own  satisfaction. 

Sir,  I  beseech  you  present  my  most  humble  and  faithful 
service  and  to  assure  his  Grace  that  this  part  of  his  business 
shall  speedily  be  put  to  a  conclusion,  and  with  my  very  humble 
service  unto  yourself  and  your  most  noble  Lady. 

Endorsed : — Mr.  Southwell,*  Collector  of  his  Grace's  money 
in  the  County  of  Cork,  received  20th  July,  1663.  An  answer 
enclosed  to  the  Earl  of  Anglesey,  that  he  shall  have  all  the 
money  in  within  one  month.      3501  behind. 

Obmond  to  Eabl  of  Anolbset. 

1663,  July  22.  Dublin. — ^I  doubt  not  but  this  will  be  one 
of  the  first  that  from  hence  bids  you  welcome  to  London. 
I  am  sorry  you  were  not  there  when  the  articles  were  brought 
in  against  my  Lord  Chancellor,  but  you  will  be  there  time 
enough  to  vindicate  him  and  serve  the  King  in  your  proportion. 
My  Lord  of  Bristol's  care  of  the  Protestant  religion,  and 
against  the  Pope's  ecclesiastical  jurisdiction  in  England,  is 
very  admirable  and  deserves  commendation  if  it  be  the  sole 
motive  of  his  zeal  against  my  Lord  Chancellor.  Our  bill  is 
under  the  examination  of  some  of  the  most  modest  of  the  Irish 
lawyers.  When  they  shall  have  made  their  objections  to  it, 
it  may  be  fit  to  put  them  to  confer  with  English  counsel  to 
see  how  near  they  may  come  to  agree.  We  are  brought  into 
some  straits  at  council  by  reason  of  a  letter  we  have  received 
from  the  King  in  favour  of  my  Lord  of  Antrim,  by  which  the 
commissioners  are  in  effect  required  to  give  judgment  for  him 
as  an  innocent.  The  copy  you  may  have  there,  and  then 
your  own  judgment  will  suggest  to  you  what  difficulties  we 
must  be  in.  A  principal  foundation  of  that  letter  seems  to 
be  raised  upon  the  want  of  objections  against  that  Lord  in  our 
letter  in  March  last,  when  we  were  required  to  transmit  a  bill 
for  his  restitution,  which  implies  want  of  due  and  seasonable 
inconvenience  that  may  follow  his  restitution.  This  has  made 
us  suspend  the  sending  to  the  commissioners  and  to  appoint 
a  committee  of  the  Board  to  consider  what  is  fit  for  us  in  duty 
to  do,  and  so  the  matter  rests.  I  send  your  Lordship  the 
copy  of  a  letter  I  sent  to  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett,  concerning 
the  farming  of  the  customs,  that  nothing  should  be  concealed 
from  you. 

Copy. 

Earl  op  Anqlbsey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  July  26.  Drury  Lane,  London. — After  I  had  kissed 
your  Grace's  hands  I  used  such  diligence  in  my  journey  that  I 
came  to  Court  on  Tuesday  last  betimes  in  the  afternoon,  and 

*  Afterwards  Sir  Robert  Soathwell,  and  the  oonfidentiai  Mend  of  the  Duke 
of  Ormond. 


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presented  your  Grace's  letters  to  His  Majesty  and  my  Lord 
Chancellor,  my  Lord  Fitzharding  and  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett, 
and  on  Thursday  morning  I  had  fair  audience  from  His 
Majesty,  who  acquainted  me  with  how  much  kindness  your 
Grace  had  written  to  him  concerning  me ;  which  I  hope  I  shall 
never  misdeserve,  but  with  all  the  faithfulness  and  service 
I  am  capable  of,  endeavour  to  merit  the  continuance  of  your 
Grace's  favour.  I  found  the  Parliament  sitting  and  hath  so 
continued  since  morning  and  afternoon,  which  hath  been  a 
hindrance  hitherto  to  the  affairs  I  came  about,  nor  could  I  stop 
the  passing  of  the  bill  imposing  a  40th  upon  every  Irish  beef 
and  a  10th  upon  every  sheep,  which  was  put  to  the  question 
yesterday  in  the  Lords'  house,  but  my  Lord  Privy  seal,  myself 
and  some  others  have  protested  against  it  upon  that  account, 
and  for  the  free  exportation  of  money  and  bullion  which  the 
same  bill  gives,  being  entitled  a  bill  for  the  advancement  of 
trade. 

I  find  by  his  Majesty  and  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett  that  your 
Grace  was  mistaken  in  expecting  the  threescore  thousand, 
pounds  in  money  of  his  Majesty's  stamp ;  it  was  intended  in 
French  crowns,  but  I  am  not  without  hope  of  obtaining  it  in 
English  money  though  it  may  delay  the  sending  it  away  a 
month  the  longer.  His  Majesty  hath  resolved  to  call  my 
Lord  Chancellor,  Lord  Treasurer  and  some  others  together 
to  consult  upon  the  explanatory  bill  whereof  I  brought  a  copy, 
and  upon  my  instructions,  and  I  shall  give  your  Grace  from  time 
to  time  an  account  of  proceedings. 

His  Boyal  Highness'  son  was  christened  at  St.  James  on 
Wednesday  last,  and  had  the  same  name.  The  Queen  went 
to  Tunbridge  on  Thursday  last.  The  Parliament  will  be 
prorogued  on  Monday. 

I  find  my  Lord  Inchiquin,  my  Lord  Carlingford  and  others 
endeavouring  to  take  the  hearth  bill  of  Ireland  to  farm  for 
twenty-one  years  at  24,000i  a  year,  but  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett 
would  have  them  content  with  a  letter  recommendatory  for  it  to 
your  Grace.  I  was  moved  to  be  a  sharer  in  it,  but  I  doubt 
whether  it  will  quit  cost,  and  do  wish  the  King  had  good 
security  for  that  rent  for  seven  years,  whosoever  will  undertake 
it. 

I  hope  your  Grace  hath  by  this  time  discharged  the  Provost 
Martials'  men  and  trumpeters,  quartermasters,  and  others  your 
Grace  resolved  to  reduce  before  my  coming  away. 

I  shall  by  the  next  post  be  able  to  give  your  Grace  a  more 
satisfactory  account  of  all  matters,  and  when  I  receive  your 
Grace's  particular  commands  concerning  the  profits  of  your 
place  here  and  other  concernments,  shall  in  the  observance  of 
them  evidence  myself  your  Grace's  most  faithful  and  obedient 
servant. 

My  Lord  of  Bristol's  articles  are  entered  in  the  Lords' 
Journal,  but  the  consideration  of  them  suspended  till  next 
session.  His  Lordship  names  your  Grace  and  my  Lord 
Lauderdale  for  two  of  his  witnesses. 


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Earl  of  Anglbsby  to  Ormond. 

1663,  July  28.  London. — The  Parliament  was,  as  I 
intimated  by  my  last,  prorogued  yesterday  about  three  in  the 
afternoon  to  the  16th  of  March  next,  the  King  giving 
first  the  royal  assent  to  the  bill  of  subsidies  and  divers  other 
acts,  amongst  which  that  concerning  trade  is  one,  whereby 
the  transportation  of  Irish  cattle  by  the  high  custom  laid  upon 
them,  which  I  formerly  mentioned,  is  taken  away,  and  though 
I  represented  as  effectually  as  I  could  the  mischiefs  thereof 
to  his  Majesty,  it  was  not  possible  for  me  to  prevent  it. 
As  soon  as  I  can  get  a  copy  of  the  Act  your  Grace  shall  have 
it,  that  mature  consideration  may  be  had  thereupon  how  to 
prevent  the  ruin  of  that  poor  kingdom  by  setting  up  the  trade 
of  stall  feeding  and  barrel  beef  which,  if  they  can  subsist 
through  the  straits  of  two  or  three  years  till  that  way  of  trade 
be  settled,  will  turn  to  better  account  than  the  transportation 
of  live  cattle.  The  King  immediately  after  the  prorogation 
went  to  Tunbridge  to  visit  the  Queen  and  is  not  expected 
back  till  Thursday,  so  that  till  next  post  I  shall  be  at  no 
certainty  about  the  money,  nor  can  I  write  anything  about  the 
farms  of  Excise  and  Customs,  nor  concerning  the  Explanatory 
Act  till  His  Majesty's  return  gives  opportunity  for  consultation. 
The  letter  from  your  Grace  and  the  *49  men  to  his  Majesty 
concerning  the  Earl  of  Tyrconnell  is  not  yet  come.  I  wish 
it  were  dispatched.  There  is  an  explanatory  bill  for  hearth 
money  passed  this  session  here  which  will  be  necessary  to 
further  the  collection  of  that  revenue  in  Ireland,  and  shall  be 
sent  also  when  I  can  get  it. 

Postscript : — A  bill  passed  both  houses  and  the  King  and 
council  for  better  observing  the  Lord's  day  was  stolen  out  of 
the  House  of  Peers  yesterday,  and  so  is  not  made  an  act. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  August  1.  London. — ^I  received  the  honour  of  your 
Lordship's  of  the  22nd  the  29th  of  last  month,  and  though 
I  was  not  here  when  the  articles  were  brought  in  against  my 
Lord  Chancellor,  I  came  time  enough  to  see  a  calm  close  of 
a  session  of  Parliament  that  had  threatened  some  mutations, 
and  I  can  assure  your  Lordship  the  shakings  984  (the  Lord 
Chancellor  of  England)  hath  had  have  fixed  him  faster  and 
with  a  deeper  root  in  the  213,  61,  178,  248  (King's  favour). 
And  431,  760  (Lord  Bristol)  is  97,  105,  97,  12,  112,  1,  196, 
192 ,  104 ,  28 ,  40  (retired  with  discontent) .  Since  the  938 ,  135 , 
29,  2,  854  (Parliament  gone,  the  King)  hath  gone  56,  46,  148, 
(daily)  to  750,  208,  99  (Worcester  House).  The  King  is  now 
daily  in  consultation  for  the  reducing  of  his  charge,  and  will 
I  believe  give  a  good  example  to  his  subjects  for  the  moderating 
of  expense,  which  is  grown  generally  to  so  great  an  excess  that 
without  a  remedy  mischief  will  follow. 


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Your  Grace  will  now  well  expect  some  account  of  my 
proceedings  here,  but  when  you  have  considered  that  I  came  at 
the  close  of  a  Parliament  that  had  many  businesses  upon  their 
hands,  and  that  the  Queen  immediately  took  her  journey  to  the 
waters  whither  his  Majesty  went  soon  after  to  visit  her,  and  that 
till  yesterday  there  hath  been  no  council  at  which  the  King  was 
present  since  I  came,  but  for  a  cursory  perusal  of  bills  to  which 
the  royal  assent  was  to  be  given,  your  Grace  will  not  I  am  sure 
accuse  me  of  neglect.  Yesterday  your  Grace's  and  the  Councirs 
letters  by  me  with  my  instructions  were  read  at  Council  and 
after  some  debate  referred  to  a  committee,  who  are  to  meet 
on  Monday  morning  and  prepare  all  things  for  the  board,  but 
that  part  of  my  instructions  concerning  liberty  to  export  Irish 
cattle  being  now  (as  I  intimated  to  your  Grace  formerly)  past 
recovery  till  England  smart  by  the  project,  it  will  be  expedient 
for  your  Grace  and  the  council  there  to  countermine  the  design 
by  setting  on  foot  foreign  trade  for  the  vending  of  beef  and 
Irish  manufactures. 

The  King  and  Council  are  very  willing  to  have  the  Excise 
and  Customs  of  Ireland  farmed,  wherein  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett 
and  I  do  take  care  of  your  Grace's  engagement  to  Harvey, 
whereof  your  Grace's  last  letter  enclosed  me  the  information 
and  there  is  no  doubt  of  success  therein. 

His  Majesty  hath  appointed  Monday  morning  next  to  meet 

'    at  Worcester  House  where  he  hath  assured  me  we  shall  settle 

the  business  of  money,  and  your  Grace  may  be  assured  that 

•  you  shall  have  the  sixty  thousand  pounds  in  English  money 

which  I  press  hard  for,  or  speedily  returned  by  exchange  if 

the  other  cannot  be  obtained. 

It  hath  been  yet  so  busy  a  time  since  my  coming  that  my 
Lord  Chancellor  and  I  have  not  had  large  discourse,  but  it  is 
agreed  to  be  speedily  and  then  your  Grace  shall  have  a  full 
account  of  all.      His  Lordship  also  will  write  this  post. 

I  was  troubled  when  1006  (St.  Albans,  Earl)*  shewed  me  the 
letter  concerning  431,  186,  41,  105,  27  (Ijord  Antrim),  but 
896  (E.  Anglesey)  thinks  961  (your  Grace)  takes  the  right 
course,  and  since  it's  pressed  so  hard  upon  962,  401,  246,  692 
(you  and  the  council),  it  may  perhaps  give  just  occasion  to 
represent  things  fully  against  315,  431  (that  Lord)  which  may 
help  to  prevent  attempts  here  to  disorder  the  new  bill  when 
it  comes. 

431,  63,  41,  39,  180,  21,  328,  39  (Lord  Fitz- William)  had 
some  doubt  961  (your  Grace)  favours  not  his  restitution,  but 
1  have  satisfied  him  and  his  friends  an  answer  much  to  his 
disadvantage  was  prepared  and  had  come  if  962  (your  Grace) 
had  not  interposed,  which  produced  the  letter  lately  come 
which  keeps  yet  some  life  in  the  business.  941  (Queen  mother) 
is  very  earnest  for  him. 

I  hope  my  cousin  Boyd  hath  dealt  ingenuously  with  your 
Grace  in  his  confession  as  he  promised.     It's  good  to  have  the 

*  The  equivalente  of  the  cipher  figures  in  this  and  Bubsequent  lettei*s  have 
1)een  filled  in  by  Ormond  in  the  manuscript. 

Wt.  8878  K 


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bottom  of  the  business,  though  perhaps  it  will  not  be  advisable 
to  draw  much  more  blood,  if  there  be  any  hopes  offenders 
may  upon  repentance  be  made  useful,  as  I  believe  some  of  them 
jnay. 

I  came  away  so  on  the  sudden  that  I  forgot  to  move  your 
Grace  in  Sir  Audley  Mervyn's  business  though  I  had  his 
papers  about  me,  which  I  now  have  here.  He  hath  written 
to  me  about  it,  intimating  that  your  Grace  minded  me  of  it  in 
your  note  of  remembrance,  but  having  yet  no  direction  I  desire 
it  from  your  Grace  and  how  far  I  shall  move  his  Majesty  for 
him ;  I  think  it  will  be  necessary  the  House  of  Commons  have 
some  satisfaction  therein. 

I  attend  still  directions  about  your  Grace's  private  concern- 
ments. I  find  by  your  Grace's  letter  the  bill  is  under  the 
consideration  of  the  contrary  parties.  It  must  be  remembered 
that  the  clause  giving  leave  to  all  such  of  the  clergy  (not 
excepted  from  that  favour)  as  shall  within  a  certain  time  take 
your  Grace's  licence  to  depart  the  kingdom,  be  inserted  in  the 
bill.  My  Lord  I  have  now  more  to  say  than  I  can  write  by  one 
post  of  the  great  obligations  your  nobleness  and  favour  have  put 
upon  me,  whereof  T  meet  with  the  fruits  wheresoever  your 
Grace's  letters  have  mentioned  me,  and  I  shall  therefore 
rather  by  doing  than  saying  much,  endeavour  to  assure  your 
Grace  that  you  have  made  me  entirely  yours  and  as  I  resolve 
to  follow  your  fortune,  so  your  Grace  shall  ever  find  me,  a 
faithful  and  affectionate  servant  to  your  Grace  and  family. 

Postscript : — Next  post  I  shall  presume  to  get  the  letter 
concerning  my  Ijord  of  Arran  despatched. 

Now  I  understand  the  referees  have  reported  to  your  Grace 
what  lands  will  be  fittest  for  the  fort  of  Duncannon,  I  hope 
your  Grace  will  direct  a  present  settlement  of  them. 

Copy, 

Ormond  to  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

1663,  August  1.  Dublin. — I  have  yours  of  the  25th  of  the  last 
and  am  glad  the  truths  I  writ  concerning  your  Lordship  to  the 
King  and  your  services  are  so  well  accepted  of  by  him.  You 
may  be  sure  what  I  writ  to  him  are  my  thoughts,  for  I  dare 
not  WTite  anything  but  what  I  take  for  truth  to  one  I  must 
be  so  answerable  to. 

Though  you  could  not  prevent  the  passing  of  that  bill 
concerning  the  imposition  upon  Irish  cattle  in  the  House  of 
Lords,  yet  I  am  sure  you  are  able  to  represent  the  ruinous 
consequences  of  it  to  this  kingdom,  so  as  to  prevent  the  giving 
of  the  royal  assent  to  it,  unless  something  of  greater  weight 
than  that  shall  require  it,  and  what  that  can  be  I  cannot 
conceive.  Mistakes  for  advantage  are  easily  slipped  into, 
and  for  public  advantage  in  some  degree  excusable,  yet 
Mr.  Secretary  Bennett  mentioning  only  white  crowns  and 
such  having  been  stamped  by  the  King,  I  was  willing  to  believe 


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we  should  be  paid  in  them,  and  perhaps  it  were  not  amiss 
the  King's  army  and  people  here  might  see  his  representation 
in  coin  as  well  as  magistrates. 

I  doubt  not  but  that  his  Majesty,  and  those  he  appoints  to 
attend  him,  when  the  draft  of  the  explanatory  bill  and  your 
instructions  shall  be  considered,  will  look  upon  that  draft 
as  subject  to  alterations,  for  you  may  remember  it  was 
agreed  at  council  that  the  draft  should  be  put  into  the  hands 
of  some  of  the  soberest  and  most  moderate  of  the  Irish  lawyers 
to  look  into  and  make  their  observations  upon,  which  they 
accordingly  have  done,  and  now  the  first  drafts,  with  that 
whereof  you  have  a  copy,  and  the  observations,  are  under  the 
consideration  of  the  Judges,  members  of  the  board,  and 
Mr.  Secretary.  It  is  true  the  objections  are  some  of  them 
such  as  changes  the  whole  scope  of  the  Act  as  to  the  security 
of  reprisals,  but  it  is  likewise  true  that  unless  some  of  the 
objections  be  complied  with  the  Irish  do  rather  choose  to  be  left 
to  the  old  Act,  and  without  some  very  apparent  reason  of  state 
I  think  it  will  be  hard  to  obtrude  a  new  and  more  destructive 
law  than  the  other  upon  them.  I  believe  when  all  is  done 
the  reasonableness  of  the  new  Act  cannot  be  judged  of  till  the 
proportion  and  value  of  lands  to  be  restored  shall  be  compared 
with  what  shall  be  left  to  do  it  withal,  when  all  interests 
provided  for  in  the  other  Act  and  fit  to  be  secured  in  this 
shall  be  satisfied,  and  that  you  know  must  be  a  work  of  some 
time  and  depends  upon  the  names  and  number  of  those  that 
shall  be  named  for  restitution ,  which  are  not  yet  fully  brought 
in  to  me.  As  we  advance  in  the  work  your  Lordship  shall  have 
notice.  What  I  now-  write  I  desire  you  would  impart  to  my 
Lord  Chancellor,  because  I  think  I  shall  not  write  to  him  this 
post  on  this  subject,  if  on  any. 

There  is  yet  none  of  those  reductions  you  mention ,  but  within 
a  post  or  two  you  shall  hear  of  it,  some  provision  being 
necessary  to  be  made  for  some  deserving  quartermasters. 
Your  Lordship  has  my  authority  to  call  for  an  account  of  the 
past  profits  of  my  place  of  Lord  Steward.  Some  other 
concernments  of  mine  you  shall  be  troubled  with  as  soon  as 
I  am  ready  for  them,  since  you  are  pleased  to  undergo  it. 

Postscript : — I  send  you  herewith  an  account  of  disbursements 
made  by  Will.  Legg  for  my  troop  and  must  desire  your 
Lordship  to  see  it  paid ;  the  repayment  shall  be  placed  upon 
the  troop  or  elsewhere  to  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham's  satisfaction. 

Endorsed : — A  copy  of  letter  to  the  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  August  4.  Drury  Lane,  London. — The  committee 
appointed  for  Irish  afifairs  met  yesterday  very  full  and  have 
gone  through  most  of  my  instructions;  one  day  more  will 
make  their  report  ready  for  his  Majesty  and  council ,  and  then 
your  Grace  shall  have  an  account  of  the  result  and  I  shall 


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represent  all  to  your  Grace  and  the  council.  In  the  morning 
before  the  committee  met,  his  Majesty  assembled  the  Duke  of 
York,  Lord  Chancellor,  Lord  Treasurer,  Duke  of  Albemarle, 
myself  and  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett  at  Worcester  House,  where 
the  sixty  thousand  pounds  was  resolved  to  be  hastened  away 
in  English  money,  bating  so  much  as  was  made  use  of  of 
Sir  Thomas  Vyner's  money  before  I  came  away,  and 
Mr.  Vyner  and  others  are  dealt  with  to  advance  it  upon  the 
subsidies  payable  in  November,  concerning  w^hich  I  am 
appointed  to  meet  them  at  my  Lord  Treasurer's,  and  shall 
use  all  possible  diligence  therein. 

At  the  same  meeting  your  Lordship's  letter  concerning 
your  quasi-agreement  with  Harvey,  concerning  the  farming 
the  customs  and  imported  excise,  was  so  far  considered 
that  it  is  approved  of  to  be  remitted  to  your  Grace  to  conclude 
with  them  for  seven  years,  but  the  committee,  to  w'hom  his 
Majesty's  resolution  herein  was  signified  in  the  afternoon 
by  me  and  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett,  have  delivered  their 
opinion  against  any  farm  being  for  above  three  years,  but 
1  believe  upon  good  reason  the  King  and  council  will  enlarge  it. 

I  can  yet  get  liberty  at  the  committee  only  for  geldings  and 
nags  for  Ireland,  but  I  hope  the  council  will  go  further. 

854  (the  King)  hath  caused  Secretary  84,  165,  53  (Morice) 
to  issue  a  679  (warrant)  to  arrest  481  \  760  (Earl  Bristol)  of 
673  (treason),  and  the  302,  37  (ports)' are  laid  487  (for  the) 
taking  280  (him).  T  wish  the  business  be  not  driven  106, 
61,  36  (too  far).  481,  760  (Earl  Bristol)  I  know  apprehended 
the  692  (council)  would  have  done  something  614,  37,  40,  280 
(against  him)  but  388  (they)  did  226  (not). 

There  was  lately  a  fray  in  the  fair  of  St.  James'  wherein 
divers  of  the  soldiers  were  ill-used  and  disarmed,  but  four  or 
five  have  been  committed  of  the  rude  multitude  and  others 
are  sought  after.  896  (Earl  Anglesey)  doth  not  like  the  40, 
26,  92,  35,  298  (temper  of)  people. 

The  new  bill  is  much  expected.  I  hope  by  this  time  it  is 
ready  to  come  away.  T  moved  his  Majesty,  who  very  readily 
appointed  my  Lord  of  Arran*  one  of  his  council,  and  if  it  be 
possible  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett  will  despatch  it  this  night. 
Howsoever,  it  shall  not  fail  by  next  post. 

James  Buck  to  Sm  Grokgr  Lane. 

1663,  August  4.  Moor  Park. — I  am  so  much  out  of 
countenance  that  your  commands  concerning  the  pictures  had 
so  little  success  under  my  conduct,  but  in  truth  complaint  in 
some  and  unhappy  accidents  falling  out  to  others,  which  now 
is  unreasonable  to  press  them  for  it,  is  the  true  cause  you 
have  them  not  sent  you.  And  now  I  think  'tis  not 
unreasonable  to  beg  the  honour  of  yours  and  your  Lady's 
commands  before  I  leave  England,  for  I  intend  to  wait  upon 
you  in  Ireland  as  soon  as  I  receive  a  return  to  this  and  a 

*  Ormontl's  second  son,  Richard,  Earl  of  Arran. 


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letter  I  have  sent  her  Grace.  I  am  to  return  you  not  only  my 
thanks  for  my  Lord  Duke's  warrant  which  you  sent  me,  but 
for  your  kind  wishes  in  that  charge,  which  I  have  almost 
settled  for  your  son  :  though  I  shall  perform  what  .you  have 
commanded  me,  yet  I  assure  you  T  think  him  the  finest  youth 
in  the  world  of  his  age,  and  one  for  manners  and  humility 
in  its  proper  place  and  reason,  may  become  a  learned  tutor. 
My  Lord,  affairs  has  kept  me  so  long  here,  that  I  have  not 
been  in  London  almost  these  three  weeks. 

I  hear  my  Lord  of  Anglesey  is  there,  on  whom  I  intend  to 
wait  and  to  receive  Mr.  Vyner's  accounts,  which  he  tells  me 
shall  be  ready,  which  is  all  the  trouble  till  I  have  the  honour 
to  receive  your  commands,  that  I  may  express  the  thankfulness 
and  gratitude  due  to  you. 

Postscript : — My  most  humble  service  to  your  most  worthy 
Lady. 

Earl  of  Anglesfa  to  Ormond. 

1663,  August  8.  London. — The  Court  being  most  of  this 
week  at  Tun  bridge  and  like  to  continue  there  till  Tuesday, 
and  my  Lord  Chancellor  at  Twickenham,  I  have  not  much  to 
write  this  post. 

Yesterday  I  received  your  Grace's  of  the  first  of  this  month 
with  the  papers  enclosed,  which  I  shall  make  use  of  as  soon 
as  the  King  returns,  the  officers  of  the  Green  Cloth  being  with 
him  now,  and  Sir  George  Barker  dead  there  newly,  as  my 
Lady  Littleton  died  a  few  days  before. 

Mr.  Morris  and  his  partners  have  offered  53,000/  for  the 
water  dutv,  which  the  committee  count  so  considerable  an 
offer  beyond  the  other,  that  it  will  be  so  reported  next 
Wednesday,  in  the  meantime  is  ordered  to  be  kept  secret. 

Here  is  a  design  on  foot  to  farm  the  King's  whole  revenue ; 
there  is  offered  for  it  for  nine  years  a  million  a  year  incumbered 
as  it  is,  or  eleven  hundred  thousand  pounds,  clearing  all 
incumbrances,  besides  the  postage  and  licence  of  wines  allowed 
to  the  Duke  of  York. 

The  King  of  France  is  said  to  be  marched  with  his  great 
army  into  Lorraine,  and  its  thought  designs  for  Germany. 

I  shall  take  care  to  have  Will.  Legg  paid  for  the  arms  your 
Grace  sent  me  note  of,  and  in  all  other  your  Grace's  commands 
approve  myself,  your  Grace's  most  humble  and  faithful  servant. 

Postscript : — My  Lord  Chancellor  being  this  night  expected 
in  town,  T  shall  shew  him  your  Grace's  letter. 

T  hope  your  Grace  will  be  able  to  moderate  the  Irish  in  their 
e^cceptions  to  the  bill ,  that  there  may  be  a  close. 

Ormond  to  Earl  of  Anglesfa*. 

1663,  August  8.  Dublin. — I  have  your  Lordship's  of  the 
first  instant  which  gives  me  suflficient  reason  why  you  could 
not  obtain  a  more  speedy  hearing,  and  some  impatience  for 
the  arrival  of  the  next  post,  but  I  am  not  so  unreasonable  as 
then  to  expect  a  final  conclusion   to  all   the  points  of  your 


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negotiation.  I  shall  be  content  to  be  assured  that  a  fair 
entrance  is  made  into  the  consideration  of  them  and  effectual 
order  taken  for  the  transmission  of  the  supply,  but  that  supply 
will  want  much  of  the  use  and  gracefulness  of  it,  if  it  should 
be  but  returned  by  exchange  and  not  in  coin,  which  all  former 
letters  assured  me  it  should,  though  Mr.  Secretary  and  I 
mistook  one  another  in  the  sort  of  coin,  I  believing  we  should 
have  it  in  English  crowns  and  he  meaning  French,  which 
latter  is  much  better  than  paper  unless  the  exchanger  will  allow 
us  the  same  profit  that  is  taken  for  money  received  in  England 
and  paid  here.  If  the  farmers  that  would  be  of  our  customs 
will  still  keep  up  to  their  offer,  the  King  will  receive  less  damage 
by  the  prohibition  of  transporting  cattle  than  I  apprehended, 
but  I  much  doubt  they  will  not,  and  then  where  are  we  for 
the  pay  of  the  Army  and  other  necessary  charge  to  support  the 
Government  till  we  can  get  into  a  track  of  foreign  trade?  And 
that  cannot  be  expected  till  there  be  such  a  settlement  as  inay 
assure  every  man  what  is  his  own ,  and  encourage  improvements 
in  and  out  of  corporations.  We  cannot  well  tell  to  what 
degree  we  are  and  shall  be  prejudiced  by  this  prohibition  till 
we  see  the  Act,  nor  what  shift  may  be  made  to  help  ourselves, 
therefore  I  pray  hasten  it  over,  and  in  the  meantime  represent 
and  repeat  often  your  conceptions  of  the  state  we  shall  be  in, 
that  provision  may  be  made  to  supply  the  disappointments, 
or  that  at  the  worst  we  may  be  free  from  the  blame  of  those 
inconveniences  that  may  follow  if  the  Army  should  not  be 
paid,  though  we  are  like  to  be  the  first  that  shall  feel  the  smart. 

I  hope  the  stop  and  representation  we  made  in  the  case  of 
my  Lord  of  Antrim  will  meet  with  a  right  construction,  namely, 
that  it  proceeded  not  from  a  presumption  to  dispute  the  King's 
commands,  but  rather  from  a  due  obedience  to  that  fundamental 
command  by  which  we  are  required  to  make  stop  in  the 
execution  of  his  pleasure  if  it  shall  be  signified  to  us  in  things 
hurtful  to  his  Government  or  contrary  to  his  profit,  till  we 
have  represented  our  sense  and  received  a  second  declaration 
of  his  pleasure. 

With  that  of  my  Lord  of  Antrim's  was  sent  the  letter  from 
the  '49  trustees  to  the  King  touching  the  Earl  of  Tirconnell. 
If  a  way  can  be  found  how  the  consent  of  those  by  whom  they 
are  trusted  may  be  gathered  and  declared,  I  should  not  doubt 
of  obtaining  it,  but  if  that  be  not  possible  I  know  not 
what  to  propose  or  do  for  his  preservation,  how  desirous 
soever  for  his  Lady's  sake  and  her  relations  I  am  to  contribute 
to  it. 

It  is  hard  to  know  when  a  person  in  Mr.  Boyd's  condition, 
and  who  hath  once  obstinately  denied  his  knowledge,  deals 
ingenuously ;  perhaps  when  the  commission  now  in  preparation 
for  the  trial  of  some  more  of  that  gang  shall  be  sat  upon,  it 
will  make  him  and  others  think  it  time  to  deal  more  clearly ; 
.  when  the  degree  of  men's  guilt  is  discovered  it  will  be  seasonable 
to  think  of  mercy,  which  then  and  not  before  will  be 
acknowledged  to  be  mercy. 


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I  sli?i:ll  this  post  transmit  the  recommendation  of  the  House 
of  Commons  in  behalf  of  their  Speaker  to  Mr.  Secretary. 
I  wisli  he  had  so  carried  himself  as  that  I  might  have 
accompanied  it  with  more  advantageous  representations  than 
will  now  become  me,  yet  something  I  shall  say  of  the 
reasonableness  of  doing  something  for  him  unless  his  carriage 
had  been  such  as  to  have  brought  him  under  question ;  his 
charge  has  been  great  and  his  condition,  I  doubt,  is  but  low. 

I  have  now  I  think  answered  all  yours  by  the  last  post,  at 
least  before  now  you  have  other  letters  of  mine  that  do  it. 
It  remains  that  I  assure  you  I  have  entire  confidence  in  your 
friendship  to  me  and  a  perfect  one  to  you. 

Postscript : — When  you  have  leisure  to  take  the  air,  I  pray 
look  upon  Moor  Park,  and  till  you  have,  give  yourself  the 
trouble  to  speak  with  Mr.  Phillips  about  the  conveyances  and 
let  me  know  if  I  may  not  now  before  the  second  payment 
settle  the  estate  I  have  in  it  according  to  my  intentions 
hereafter. 

Endorsed : — A  copy  of  the  letter  to  the  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  August  11.  London. — His  Majesty  came  this  day  to 
Whitehall  before  noon,  and  will  settle  the  business  of  sending 
money  for  Ireland  before  he  goes  again  into  the  country. 

I  have  made  an  entrance  into  your  Grace's  business  entrusted 
with  the  oflScers  of  the  Green  Cloth,  but  am  not  yet  able  to  give 
your  Grace  a  satisfactory  account  thereof.  I  find  you  will  be 
somewhat  in  debt  here,  but  then  none  of  your  pension  as  one 
of  his  Majesty's  Bedchamber  is  yet  paid,  but  I  shall  give  my 
Lord  Treasurer  little  rest  till  I  get  it,  and  do  hope  a  fund  will 
be  discovered  for  it. 

My  Lord  Chancellor  and  I  have  had  much  discourse  of  several 
affairs.  I  shewed  him  your  Grace's  last  letter  as  you 
commanded,  and  we  shall  soon  meet  again.  /Among  other 
things  we  have  had  some  conference  about  extending  such 
liberty  as  may  be  safe  to  men  of  peaceable  spirits,  though  they 
differ  in  judgment.  It's  to  be  doubted  uniformity  hath 
been  pressed  with  too  much  earnestness,  many  ministers  are 
subdued  by  it,  but  the  people  seem  to  be  rather  provoked 
than  conquered.  My  Lord  Chancellor  and  I  are,  I  am  sure, 
of  the  same  judgment  herein  with  your  Grace,  and  time  with 
wisdom  may  do  that  which  haste  and  violence  will  never 
compass.  If  anything  be  advised  of  here  in  this  afifair,  your 
Grace  shall  be  informed  thereof,  w^ho  I  am  sure  as  much  as 
any  wishes  the  peace  and  prosperity  both  of  Church  and  State. 

Earl  op  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  August  15.  London. — I  received  your  Grace's  of  the 
8th  of  this  month  the  13th,  and  having  this  post,  in  my  public 
despatch  to  your  Grace  and  the  council,  given  an  account  of 


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several  particulars  of  my  negotiation,  I  shall  not  trouble  your 
Grace  with  a  repetition  of  the  same.  Your  Grace  will  thereby 
see  that  I  have  done  the  best  I  could  to  furnish  Ireland  with 
ready  money,  but  the  advantage  of  English  money  above 
foreign  coin  in  the  thirty  thousand  pounds  furnished  by 
Bakewell  I  could  not  obtain,  though  but  a  thousand  pounds. 
The  Treasury  here  would  save  what  they  could  to  pay 
interest  for  the  advance  and  were  too  hard  for  me  therein. 
Your  Grace  will  find  that  the  farmers  of  the  customs  do  not 
lessen  their  offer  for  the  prohibition  of  transporting  cattle, 
so  that  his  Majesty  will  not  suffer  thereby  in  his  customs, 
though  the  kingdom  be  prejudiced  in  their  trade,  and  if  the 
people  there  be  timely  warned  to  change  their  trade  into  stall 
feeding  of  beef  to  be  sent  out  of  Ireland,  in  the  months  of 
March,  April,  May  and  June,  when  beef  is  here  at  the  dearest, 
and  to  be  barrelled  up  for  foreign  and  sea  trade,  they  will 
make  more  of  their  beef  and  have  the  manufacture  of 
dressing  the  hides  and  sale  of  the  tallow  or  candles,  which 
will  also  increase  the  King's  customs  and  the  riches  of  that 
kingdom,  and  I  hope  your  Grace  will  call  upon  the  council 
to  consider  and  take  care  herein  for  the  good  of  that  poor 
kingdom,  w-hich  must  be  preserved  by  politic  rules  and  orders 
of  that  Board,  or  your  Grace  sees  they  will  be  oppressed  by  the 
laws  of  England,  which  are  now  calculated  more  narrowly  than 
in  former  times,  only  for  the  profit  [of]  this  kingdom.  I  have 
said  more  than  I  needed  to  your  Grace's  discerning  judgment 
in  this  particular,  having  the  warrant  of  your  Grace's 
command,  and  if  anything  further  occur,  I  shall  offer  it 
hereafter;  in  the  meanwhile  I  shall  make  what  advantage  I 
can  here  for  Ireland  from  the  present  mischiefs  this  Act  doth 
that  kingdom. 

The  representation  made  in  my  Lord  of  Antrim's  case,  which 
I  saw,  hath  so  lodged  that  affair  that  Mr.  Secretaiy  Bennett 
assured  me  nothing  more  would  be  done  therein.  69  (He) 
gave  it  1000  (Earl  St.  Albans)  yesterday  to  read,  and  if  anything 
should  be  intended  (unless  they  have  gotten  a  private  direction 
already  to  the  836,  129,  37  (commissioners),  it  will  come  too 
late  for  my  431,  718,  his  cause  will  be  over. 

The  letter  concerning  my  Lord  Tirconnell  is  made  use  of 
as  your  Grace  will  find  to  his  advantage,  and  a  way  resolved 
on  to  gain  the  particular  consent  of  the  '49  men  here  and  there 
by  a  subscription  set  on  foot,  w-hich  none  here  refuse,  and 
I  believe  few  will  there. 

I  shall  be  sorry  if  my  cousin  Boyd  shall  not  deal  very 
ingenuously.  I  hope  he  will.  Sir  Courtney  Poole  and 
divers  others  are  very  earnest  here  with  the  King  in 
behalf  of  Shapcott,  and  if  his  crime  appear  not  very  clear 
and  high,  I  believe  he  will  find  mercy,  and  methinks  he 
may  yet  be  made  useful  to  a  public  good  having  courage  and 
parts,  but  your  Grace  knows  what  is  best  to  be  done. 


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1  bhall  attend  your  Grace's  despatch  to  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett 
about  Sir  Audley  Mervyn,  though  I  doubt  his  application  now 
is  with  some  prejudice,  but  it  concerns  the  King  that  something 
be  done  for  him,  and  1  beUeve  his  low  condition  calls  for  it. 

I  design  next  week  to  see  Moor  Park,  as  your  Grace 
commands,  and  shall  by  the  next  post  speak  with  Mr.  Phillips 
about  the  conveyances  if  he  be  in  town,  and  give  your  Grace 
my  opinion  in  the  query  you  made. 

1  have  as  your  Grace  will  find  settled  the  money  business  as 
well  as  it  was  possible  upon  credit  to  get  ready  money.  1  know 
your  Grace  will  be  provident  in  the  expense,  for  1  do  not  find 
any  likelihood  of  getting^  the  other  forty-two  thousand  pounds, 
to  have  a  stock  there  ready  for  a  march  in  time  of  danger. 
1  suppose  with  half  this  sum  most  of  the  ten  months'  arrears 
may  be  bought  off,  and  the  subsidies  and  other  revenue  will 
near  defray  the  growing  charge,  when  the  reducements  I 
proposed  before  my  coming  away  shall  be  made,  whicli  I 
humbly  mind  your  Grace  again  of,  and  that  the  farm  of  the 
customs  and  excise  may  be  settled  with  that  despatch  according 
to  the  power  given  your  Grace  and  the  council  from  hence  this 
post,  that  it  may  take  beginning  from  Michaelmas  next. 

IS'ext  council  day  I  doubt  not  the  Inland  Excise  and  all 
licences  will  be  also  left  to  the  Board  to  farm,  not  going  under 
thirty-six  thousand  pounds  nor  for  above  the  term  of  seven 
years. 

1  am  all  1  can  pressing  on  the  bills  here ;  that  of  the  customs 
was  lost  between  my  Lord  Ashley  and  the  customers,  but  I 
have  retrieved  it  and  will  hasten  it  all  1  can.  His  Majesty 
goes  this  afternoon  to  Tunbridge,  and  returns  on  Tuesday  with 
the  Queen.  My  Lord  of  Bristol  writes  letters  as  out  of 
Flanders  and  France. 

My  Lord  Holies  is  arrived  at  Paris  but  yet  incognito ,  the 
officers  of  the  customs  not  suffering  his  goods  to  be  issued  but 
in  sight  of  an  officer  of  theirs,  which  he  refuseth,  the 
Ambassadors  of  that  King  having  received  a  different  respect 
here.  His  house  was  also  assaulted  in  the  night  by  voleurs 
since  his  arrival,  but  he  acquitted  himself  to  the  honour  of  the 
English  and  cost  of  the  French.  The  French  King  is  marched 
toward  Lorraine. 

The  T«rk  hath  agreed  to  give  up  the  Island  of  Candia  to  the 
Venetians  for  nineteen  millions  of  French  livres. 

I  have  sent  the  letter  for  my  Lord  of  Arran  to  himself,  and 
shall  trouble  your  Grace  no  further  at  this  time. 

Ormond   to  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

1663,  August  15.  ])ublin. — I  think  I  have  only  yours 
of  the  fourth  and  eighth  on  my  hands ;  for  those  pertinent 
informations  you  take  the  pains  to  give  me,  you  know  I  can 
make  you  no  proportionable  return  from  hence.  I  am  glad 
the  sixty  thousand  pounds  will  be  sent  in  English  money, 
but  do  not  understand  that  the  money  of  Sir  Thomas  Vyner's 


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made  use  of  here  can  reasonably  be  deducted  out  of  it,  no  such 
thing  having  been  as  I  remember  spoken  of  when  his  money 
was  advanced  in  cobs,  which  to  repay  in  English  money  and 
in  England  is  not  only  greater  profit  to  him  than  the  advance 
as  I  understood  it  can  come  to,  but  the  loss  of  so  much  money  to 
the  kingdom,  and  you  know  how  scarce  coin  is,  and  is  like 
to  be  here.  I  conceive  it  therefore  but  reasonable  he  should 
content  himself  with  repayment  here  in  the  same  coin  he  lent, 
or  at  most  out  of  that  when  it  comes  hither.  I  always 
understood  by  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett's  letters  upon  that  subject 
that  the  money  was  ready  to  be  delivered  out  of  the  Tower, 
and  that  the  King  would  repay  that  stock  out  of  the  subsidies, 
in  which  case  there  w^ould  have  been  no  reduction  for 
advancement,  and  though  the  money  had  been  to  be  paid  in 
white  French  crowns,  yet  the  worst  in  that  case  had  been  to 
have  chosen  whether  to  receive  it  in  that  coin,  or  to  have  paid 
for  the  change  of  it  into  English.  What  advance  money 
will  be  required  your  Lordship  was  not  able  to  say  when  you 
writ,  having  not  met  with  the  undertakers.  But  I  hope 
it  will  be  considered  how  little  time  is  like  to  be  betwixt  the  time 
of  our  receiving  it  here  and  the  repayment  there,  and  that 
unless  the  advance  be  upon  very  easy  terms,  it  will  be  better 
for  the  King's  service  that  you  receive  assignments  upon  the 
subsidies  of  the  adjacent  counties  than  that  too  much  deduction 
be  made.  Your  Lordship  knows  how  even  a  computation 
was  made  and  that  every  deduction  must  be  a  disappointment. 

Yours  of  the  eighth  hath  freed  me  from  the  apprehension 
of  ruin  to  the  King's  affairs  here  by  the  sinking  of  the  customs, 
provided  Mr.  Morris  and  his  partners  give  good  security  to 
make  good  their  undertaking,  but  it  increases  my  suspicion 
that  the  English  farmers  of  the  customs  have  helped  on  the 
prohibition  of  transporting  cattle  from  hence  with  a  prospect 
to  have  the  sole  trade  at  their  rates,  and  I  believe,  unless 
Mr.  Morris  and  they  understood  one  another,  he  w^ould  not 
undertake  the  bargain.  These  are  but  conjectures,  and  how 
reasonable  they  are  time  will  discover. 

The  huddle  of  causes  now  brought  into  the  Court  of  Claims 
takes  up  men  so  entirely  that  the  new  Act  can  have  few  to 
attend  it,  yet  before  I  go  into  the  country  I  hope  it  will  be 
sent ;  you  know  there  are  few^  of  council  that  one  way  or  other 
are  not  concerned  to  straiten  the  restitution  of  Irish,  and  that 
it  is  so  in  both  Houses  of  Parliament,  so  that  unless  the  most 
moderate  and  w-isest  of  the  Irish  be  in  some  measure  satisfied 
here,  it  will  fall  out  that  they  will  resort  into  England  and  there 
endeavour  to  obstruct  the  return  of  it  and  give  his  Majesty 
and  the  council  much  trouble. 

Till  the  twenty-first  of  this  be  past,  the  commissioners  will 
not  be  able  to  attend  the  setting  out  land  to  the  fort  of 
Duncannon,  but  then  they  promise  to  do  it. 

I  doubt  the  putting  down  the  tables  at  Court  will  make  the 
future  account  of  the  profits  of  my  Steward's  place  to  be  easily 
taken. 


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Earl  of  Orrery  to  Ormond. 

1663,  August  17.  Newtown. — I  presumed  some  weeks 
since  humbly  to  acquaint  your  Grace  that  my  troop  had  some 
lands  in  Kerry  set  out  as  an  additional  lot,  to  which  when 
your  Grace  laid  claim,  I  assured  your  Grace  they  laid  all  at 
your  Grace's  feet ;  since  when  the  lands  have  been  disposed 
of,  and  none  of  the  troop  are  tenants  to  it,  and  some  lands 
which  Captain  George  Dillon  held  in  his  hands,  and  stocked 
with  his  own  stock,  have  been  set  to  one  Joseph  Taylor,  who, 
I  am  confident,  was  not  known,  for  he  is  one  of  the  most 
notorious  fellows  in  this  Province,  three  eye-witnesses  being 
yet  alive  that  this  Taylor,  going  in  a  boat  to  buy  tobacco  at  a 
ship  in  the  Barony  of  Dunkerron,  in  the  Usurper's  time,  made 
some  poor  women  and  children  to  the  number  of  twenty-four, 
who  were  without  the  line,  to  bind  there  own  corn  and  to  carry 
it  down  on  their  backs  to  his  boat  side,  where  taking  out 
a  hatchet  he  made  them  all  to  be  murdered  with  the  edge  of 
it,  except  two  sucking  children,  which  he  caused  to  be  flung  into 
the  sea  and  drowned.  He  is  a  great  extortioner,  lending  money 
at  twenty-four  pounds  in  the  hundred  to  the  Irish  to  stop  their 
mouths,  who  else  would  prove  as  foul  murders  against  him  as 
this  which  is  ready  to  be  proved,  and  which  I  think  has  not 
many  greater  to  be  found  in  any  age.  He  was  also  cashiered  as 
being  a  drunkard  and  whore-master.  This  Taylor,  I  hear,  has 
much  inveighed  against  Captain  Dillon  at  Dublin,  and  his  being 
put  into  some  lands  by  Captain  Dillon  held  makes  me  fear 
Captain  Dillon  may  have  been  misrepresented  to  your  Grace, 
and  that  gives  me  the  confidence  humbly  to  a,ssure  your  Grace 
that  Captain  Dillon  is  a  gentleman  who  faithfully  served  the 
King  in  England  till  all  his  armies  were  broken,  then  he  came 
and  served  in  Ireland,  and  in  all  actions  which  related  to 
his  Majesty's  restoration,  no  man  living  of  his  quality  was  more 
active,  nor  more  willing  to  serve  the  King,  nor  more  hated  by 
all  the  Sectaries  of  all  sorts,  to  which  I  shall  only  add  there 
is  not  I  think  an  officer  of  his  quality  in  the  Army.  Upon  the 
whole  I  humbly  beseech  your  Lordship  to  look  upon  him  as 
one  who  deserves  this  character  as  a  friend  of  your  Grace's 
servant,  and  on  those  scores  to  aiford  him  your  Grace's  favour 
which  will  be  a  special  obligation  unto,  may  it  please  your 
Grace,  your  Grace's  most  humble,  most  faithful,  and  most 
obedient  servant.  Orrery. 

Postscript ; — In  the  Usurper's  time  Taylor's  usual  railing 
against  Captain  Dillon  was  upon  the  account  that  he  was  a 
Cavalier. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  August  18.  London. — The  King  is  newly  returned 
with  the  Queen, and  before  his  journey  next  week  to  Portsmouth 
will,  I  doubt  not,  settle  most  of  the  work  entrusted  to  my  care. 
The  Committee  for  Irish  affairs  have  this  afternoon  received 
an   account  from    Mr.   Solicitor  about  the  bills   transmitted 


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liitlier,  and  gone  through  most  of  them,  that  of  the  Star- 
Chamber  and  some  others  are  passed  as  they  came  thence ; 
when  the  council  hath  had  the  report  to-morrow  your  Grace 
shall  have  a  more  particular  account  of  them. 

The  discourse  here  is  that  the  Explanatory  Bill  expected 
thence  is  obst'ucted  and  like  to  come  to  nothing  :  I  hope  better, 
and  that  yet  that  poor  kingdom  shall  obtain  a  settlement  after 
all  their  troubles. 

I  am  hasting  away  the  money,  and  when  it  sets  forward 
shall  give  notice  to  your  Grace  that  two  frigates  may  meet  it 
at  Chester,  for  1  think  it  will  not  be  fit  to  venture  all  in  a 
bottom. 

I  have  no  more  to  add  but  what  the  enclosed  gives  your 
Grace. 

Postscript : — I  entreat  from  your  Grace  your  opinion 
concerning  the  new  bill,  for  if  that  be  not  like  to  succeed,  some 
serious  counsel  must  be  taken  for  the  settling  and  securing  that 
unhappy  kingdom. 

1  hear, though  T  mediate  with  your  Grace  for  favour  to  Colonel 
Wheeler,  he  endeavours  to  clear  his  land  from  the  foii;  of 
Duncannon  and  to  get  unjustly  some  of  mine  ordered  by  the 
Commissioners  instead  of  it.  1  hope  your  Grace  will  prevent 
my  suflering  in  that  kind  whilst  I  am  doing  that  kingdom 
service  here. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  August  22.  ]jondon. — I  received  your  Grace's  of  the 
15th  of  this  month  in  answer  to  mine  of  the  4th  and  8th. 
By  later  letters  your  Grace  understands  before  this  time  how 
the  affair  of  money  goes,  to  which  I  can  only  add  that  with 
much  ado,  it  is  at  last  settled  upon  Sir  Thomas  Vyner  and 
Alderman  Bakewell's  proposals  as  foUoweth  :  First,  Sir  Thomas 
Vyner,  in  consideration  that  his  money  hath  been  long  since 
made  use  of  there,  and  he  was  directed  (when  he  w^ould  have 
returned  his  money  hither)  by  the  King's  order  to  keep  it  there 
for  his  Majesty's  service,  upon  his  proposal  for  furnishing 
thirty  of  the  sixty  thousand  pounds,  is  by  order  of  his  Majesty 
and  council  allowed  w^hat  he  hath  advanced  there,  which  was 
most  of  it  in  English  money,  and  alleged  by  him  to  be  fifteen 
thousand  poimds  in  part  of  the  thirty  thousand  pounds  to  be 
advanced  by  him,  and  the  rest,  whatsoever  it  prove  short  to 
make  up  of  thirty  thousand  pounds,  he  is  to  pay  there  within 
twenty  days  in  English  money.  Alderman  Bakewell  who  is  to 
furnish  the  other  thirty  thousand  pounds  hath  circumvented 
the  council  into  a  better  bargain  for  himself,  for  though  a 
pretence  was  made  at  first  of  furnishing  thirty  thousand  pounds 
there  in  foreign  specie  for  twenty-nine  thousand  pounds 
English  money,  to  be  paid  here  out  of  the  subsidies,  yet  denying 
the  bargain  which  all  the  council  almost  remembered  to  be  so, 
and  pretending  the  great  loss  he  should  be  at  by  the  foreign 
specie  he  had  provided  if  he  were  now  put  by,  he  hath  gotten 


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thirty  thousand  pounds  secured  on  the  subsidies  for  thirty 
thousand  pounds  to  be  delivered  me  here  in  foreign  specie. 
Only  the  Duke  of  York*s  four  thousand  pounds  will  be  paid  in 
Knglish  money,  and  so  instead  of  the  King's  getting  a  thousand 
pounds,  which  was  the  first  pretence,  Ireland  loseth  one 
thousand  pounds  and  Alderman  Bakewell  gets  it.  He  and 
Vyner  were  both  secured  upon  the  subsidies  with  interest, 
and  though  the  King  pav  the  interest,  we  must  bear  the  charge 
of  sending  Bakewell's  money  thither,  wliereas  Vyner  would  have 
sent  all  in  English  money  from  hence  and  borne  the  charge  of  it, 
so  that  upon  the  whole,  considering  how  Vyner  hath  furnished 
much  of  his  thirty  thousand  pounds  beforehand  without 
interest  and  kept  it  there  for  the  King's  use,  he  hath  much 
a  worse  bargain  than  the  other,  wliirh  answers  the  objections 
in  your  Grace's  letter.  But  if  all  had  been  left  to  me  I  would 
have  undertaken  to  have  gotten  more  money  in  specie  and 
had  more  Engl'sh  money,  but  Bakewell.  by  the  help  of  some, 
disordered  all  past  my  remedy.  As  for  assignment  in  the 
subsidies  which  your  Grace  mentions,  it  would  not  have 
answered  the  occasion,  for  the  way  of  subsidies  having  been 
long  out  of  use,  it  is  believed  Lady  Day  will  be  the  soonest 
any  money  will  come  in. 

The  setting  of  the  Inlatid  Excise  and  ale  licences  are  left  to 
your  Grace  and  the  council  as  you  proposed  in  my  instructions, 
so  that  you  set  them  not  under  thirty-six  thousand  pounds. 

The  Explanatory  Bill  for  customs  and  excise  hath  passed 
the  supervision  of  the  Officers  of  the  Exchequer  and  Customs 
here,  without  any  alteration  but  limiting  the  power  of  the  Lord 
Lieutenant  and  council  for  lesseninsr  of  rates  to  the  allowance 
of  His  Majesty  and  the  council  here,  and  so  it  will  be 
transmitted  as  soon  as  may  be  with  that  of  the  Star-Chamber 
and  marriages  unaltered.  But  that  of  gunpowder  is  yet  under 
amendment,  and  those  of  bridges  laid  asleep,  with  my  Lord 
Chancellor's  bill  for  endowing  the  Church,  because  a  general 
act  is  conceived  better  for  the  one.  and  there  is  an  act  of  10 
CaroH  primi  in  force  already  in  Ireland,  which  enables  my 
liord  Chancellor  or  any  other  to  do  most  of  what  is  in  the  bill 
sent  hither. 

The  time  for  adjudging  claims  expiring  this  day,  I  hope  now 
the  new  bill  will  be  closely  followed  till  something  be  resolved 
on,  or  how  to  proceed  on  the  former  Act,  for  the  settlement 
of  Ireland  must  be  made  one  way  or  other  or  all  will  be  in 
danger,  and  methinks  all  private  interest  in  Council  and 
Parliament  should  give  way  for  a  general  good,  which  I  think 
will  be  better  provided  for  there  than  here. 

I  wish  I  had  all  the  proceed' ngs  transmitted  concerning  my 
Lord  of  Antrim,  because  I  find  artifice  is  used  here  to  disguise 
that  business  with  reflection  where  it  should  not  be,  and  which, 
T  am  sure,  a  true  state  of  the  matter  of  fact  would  enable  me 
easily  to  clear. 


78 

As  the  close  of  your  Grace's  letter  mentions  the  putting  down 
the  tables  at  Court,  so  I  must  acquaint  your  Grace  that  on 
Thursday  last,  the  20th  of  this  month,  it  was  resolved  upon ; 
yet  since  his  Majesty  hath  agreed  to  continue  them  till 
Michaelmas,  and  I  hope  then  the  council  will  be  advised  with 
before  such  a  thing  be  done.  I  must  let  your  Grace  be 
informed  of  some  passages  in  this  business,  because  your  Grace 
will  easily  apprehend  at  first  view  that  your  honour  is  much 
concerned  herein  as  well  as  his  Majesty's.  The  whole  charge 
of  the  household  diet,  wages,  and  pensions  comes  to  one 
hundred  and  twenty  thousand  pounds  by  the  establishment 
made  when  your  Grace  was  here.  The  design  is  to  take 
away  above  threescore  thousand  pounds  of  this  charge,  which 
will  be  all  the  pensions,  most  of  the  wages,  and  all  the  tables 
except  ten  dishes  for  the  King  and  Queen,  which  are  to  eat 
together,  and  are  estimated  at  twelve  or  thirteen  thousand 
pounds  a  year ;  the  ten  thousand  four  hundred  pounds  for  the 
Duke  of  York  is  continued.  The  establishment  of  the  stables  is 
by  the  Duke  of  Albemarle's  persuasion  untouched,  the  music, 
chapel  charge  and  some  other  general  expenses  make  up  the  rest 
of  what  continues ;  so  on  a  sudden,  above  three  hundred  below 
stairs,  most  of  which  have  families,  are  deprived  of  a  livelihood, 
the  splendour  and  dignity  of  the  Court  is  taken  away,  and 
general  discontent  and  murmuring  occasioned  hereby ;  for  though 
it's  said  the  King  will  reimburse  those  who  bought  their  places, 
that  gives  little  satisfaction  and  will  not  repair  the  dishonour 
of  cashiering  many  old  servants  well  deserving.  I  wait 
an  opportunity  to  be  a  little  free  with  the  King  about  it,  984 
(Lord  Chancellor)  seems  to  be  much  against  it  and  it  concerns 
961  (you)  to  bestir  640  (yourself)  about  it  for  believe  it,  'tis 
the  most  unadvisable  thing  that  was  ever  attempted  and  I 
think  impracticable.  I  do  not  doubt  yet  if  962  (your  Grace) 
would  open  yourself  freely  to  855  (the  King)  in  the  business 
against  his  coming  back, the  design  which  is  whispered  431,947, 
(Lord  Treasurer)  and  669,  51,  86,  40  (Secretary  Bennett)  have 
the  chief  hand  in  may  by  a  vigorous  assistance  of  326  (your)  484, 
39  (friends),  which  will  all  heartily  concern  themselves 
therein,  be  prevented,  and  certainly  better  ways  may  be 
projected  and  some  charge  abated  even  in  the  household  with 
satisfaction  upon  this  fright  without  a  general  over-turning, 
all  which  will  be  too  dangerous  and  dishonourable.  I  know 
not  w  hy  961  (you)  may  not  intercede  as  earnestly  for  those  under 
326  (your)  care  as  964  (the  Duke  of  Albemarle)  did  for  those 
under  139  (his)  and  prevailed.  Surely  this  is  no  time  to  level 
the  Court,  but  rather  to  cure  that  humour  in  the  people,  and 
if  it  be  fit  the  stable  be  well  provided  for,  much  more  the  854, 
871  (the  King  and  Queen  and  family).  It  is  too  much  to  say  all 
in  a  letter,  but  certainly  961  (you)  had  never  a  better  subject 
to  insist  on,  wherein  962  (your  Grace)  is  sure  to  have  264 
(Court),  692  (Council), 938  (Parliament)  and  the  whole  213, 126, 
82  (kingdom)  to  assist  256  (you)  and  applaud  and  637  (honour) 
256  (you)  for  it;  therefore  pray,  151  (my)  431  (Lord)  appear 


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quickly  and  trust  151  (my)  judgment  once,  and  advise  571 
(the  King)  to  resort  herein  to  his  692  (Council)  who  will  find 
better  ways  for  139  (his)  637  (honour)  and  232,  133  (profit), 
as  they  are  sworn.  Your  Grace  will  pardon  my  being  so 
tedious;  896  (my)  611  (zeal)  to  571  (the  King)  and  692  (your) 
637  (honour)  and  808  (service)  hath  occasioned  it. 

Postscript : — The  King  and  Queen  go  to  the  Bath  on  Tuesday 
or  Wednesday,  and  return  not  these  three  weeks.  If  your 
Grace's  letters  meet  571  (the  King),  then  I  hope  they  will  have 
good  effect. 

I  cannot  see  Moor  Park  nor  settle  your  Grace's  accounts  till 
the  King  be  gone ;  Sir  Henry  Wood  and  Mr.  Fox  promise  to 
serve  your  Grace  therein  effectually,  and  I  have  gotten  some 
insight  into  the  business. 

My  Lord  Chancellor  is  gone  into  the  country  not  to  return  till 
towards  Michaelmas.  Lord  Bristol  is  thought  yet  to  be  in  the 
kingdom. 

The  three  thousand  beeves  from  Ireland  will  help  well  to 
keep  up  the  tables.  The  adventurers  here  are  so  discouraged 
by  proceedings  in  Ireland  that  they  offer  their  adventures  for 
105.  in  the  pound  of  their  principal  money ;  I  apprehend  much 
the  consequences  of  such  a  dejection ;  I  hope  they  have  no 
cause,  but  the  fright  and  discontent  they  are  in  will  do  hurt. 

Addressed: — ^For  your  Grace,  to  be  unciphered  by  yourself. 

Alderman  James  Buncb  to  Ormond. 

1663,  August  22.  London. — I  most  humbly  thank  your 
Grace  for  your  noble  acceptance  of  my  last  letter,  and 
humbly  beg  the  continuance  of  your  favour,  not  doubting  but 
that  your  Grace  is  very  w^ell  satisfied  of  my  loyalty  and 
sufferings,  and  will  not  think  it  amiss  for  me  to  petition  His 
Majesty  for  his  favour  in  any  thing  that  may  conduce  to  the 
good  of  his  sacred  Majesty  and  kingdoms ;  therefore  I  am  the 
more  emboldened  to  implore  your  (trace's  assistance  in  a  suit 
which  I  have  made  unto  His  Majesty  on  my  behalf  and  others 
as  by  a  petition  and  reference  thereupon,  which  will  come 
to  your  Grace  in  Sir  Henry  Bennett's  packet  from  His  Majesty, 
and  most  humbly  entreat  that  you  will  be  pleased  not  only  to 
give  it  a  despatch,  but  to  do  me  and  the  persons  interested 
in  it  what  lawful  favour  you  can  therein,  and  do  hope  that  you 
will  find  it  reasonable  for  that  the  King's  Attorney,  Solicitor 
and  Surveyor  General  of  England,  upon  the  like  petition  for 
reliefs,  heriots,  year,  day,  and  waste  in  England  have  approved 
it  as  a  part  of  His  Majesty's  just  and  legal  revenue,  in  doing 
whereof  your  Grace  will  be  a  means  to  lessen  my  sufferings 
and  to  shew  the  world  that  loyalty,  however  it  be  too  much 
unregarded,  may  at  one  time  or  another  meet  with  such  as  will 
be  compassionate  and  helpful  to  it,  which  your  Grace  hath 
ever  made  it  to  be  one  of  your  principal  cares,  and  putteth 
me  into  a  confidence  of  all  that  your  Grace  can  do  for  me 
therein. 


80 

James  Buxcr  to  Sir  Grorok  Lane. 

1663,  August  22.  London. — Noble  Sir:  A  petition  coming 
from  afar  doth  seldom  obtain  an  audience  or  success  without 
the  help  and  mediation  of  some  that  may  assist  it  therein, 
which  being  likely  to  be  the  case  of  a  petition  to  His  Majesty 
of  Richard  Chamberlaine,  Esqr. ,  and  WilHam  Clapham,  gent., 
sent  unto  his  Grace  my  Tjord  Duke  of  Ormond  in  Sir  Henry 
]3ennett's  packet  from  His  ^lajesty,  I  that  am  concerned 
therein  and  some  other  persons  my  superiors,  of  great  honour 
and  loyalty  in  England,  and  therefore  I  do  become  an 
intercessor  unto  you  that  you  will  be  pleased  to  do  what 
favour  and  right  you  can  to  the  petitioners  and  parties 
concerned  therein,  which  we  hope  the  business  will  deserve, 
because  that  another  of  the  like  nature  in  England  being 
referred  by  His  Majesty  to  the  Attorney,  Solicitor  and  Surveyor 
General  of  England,  hath  received  their  favourable  certificate 
and  approbation  to  be  a  just  and  legal  part  of  the  King's 
revenue  and  fit  to  be  collected,  which  we  hope  it  will  not  miss 
in  Ireland,  if  it  may  receive  your  good  assistance  :  and  for  your 
despatch  therein  there  shall  not  be  wanting  the  due 
acknowledgment  and  thankfulness  of  those  honourable  persons 
now  in  England  concerned  in  it. 

Obmond  to  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

1663,  August  22.  Dublin . — Having  yesterday  received  yours 
of  the  15th  inst.,  and  that  containing  newer  and  more  matter 
than  a  former,  I  shall  only  apply  myself  to  the  answering  of  it. 
You  have  freed  me  from  the  fear  I  had  that  the  charge  of 
advance  and  transportation  would  have  made  a  hole  in  the  stock 
designed  us,  but  the  Duke  of  York's  four  thousand  pounds 
makes  a  considerable  deduction  and  w-ill  in  so  much  disappoint 
our  calculation.  I  wish  your  Lordship  would  consider  how 
we  might  in  some  measure  repair  ourselves  out  of  the  subsidies 
charged  upon  Irish  nobility  residing  in  England  ;  if  you  believe 
any  good  can  be  done  upon  it  you  shall  from  hence  have  any 
assistance  you  shall  desire.  You  will  not  need  to  recommend 
thrift  to  me  in  disposing  of  the  money,  for  I  do  not  intend 
any  xionsiderable  part  of  it  shall  be  issued  till  I  see  some 
assurance  of  a  settlement,  or  at  least  till  you  shall  be  come  over. 

I  had  rather  bear  the  importunities  of  pretenders  than  at 
such  a  time  as  this  to  be  without  money.  I  would  be  glad 
to  know  when  and  where  the  frigate  shall  attend  to  receive  it, 
and  I  hope  your  Lordship  will  put  it  into  good  iron  chests ; 
I  have  provided  a  place  in  the  Castle  for  the  keeping  it. 

I  have  desired  Sir  James  Ware  to  look  into  the  Provost 
Marshal's  patents,  and  he  seems  to  be  of  opinion  that  they 
hold  their  men  as  well  as  their  own  pay  during  good  behaviour : 
if  it  be  so,  I  would  be  glad  to  have  the  King's  order  for 
retrenching  them  which  you  may  send  me  to  be  made  use  of 
as  shall  be  found  fit.  The  other  reductions  I  shall  take  into 
consideration  before  I  leave  the  town. 


81 

I  yet  hear  nothing  of  the  farmers  of  the  water  duties,  I  hope 
they  will  come  prepared  with  reasonable  articles  and  very 
good  security,  the  life  of  all  depending  upon  that  fund. 

The  Act  of  Trade  is  under  consideration  of  a  Committee 
of  the  Board,  who  are  to  consider  of  it  and  report  what  they 
think  may  be  done  to  prevent  the  inconvenience  that  may 
arise  from  it  to  this  kingdom  and  to  advance  our  trade. 
Notwithstanding  what  was  said  to  you  by  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett 
a  letter  in  the  same  words  with  that  directed  to  me  and  the 
council  was  sent  to  the  commissioners  in  favour  of  my  Lord 
of  Antrim,  dated  the  11th  of  this  month,  and  undersigned 
by  Mr.  Secretary  Morris.  I  have  said  so  much  on  this 
subject  to  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett,  and  you  will  hear  so  much 
of  it  other  ways,  that  I  will  spare  you  and  myself.  I  have 
subscribed  after  your  good  example  to  the  paper  for  the  Earl 
of  Tirconnell,  but  whether  a  proviso  for  his  restitution  shall 
be  put  into  the  new  Act  is  matter  of  consideration,  if  any  thing 
be  so  amongst  you  relating  to  Ireland.  Having  many  more 
letters  to  write  give  me  leave  to  end  here. 

Endorsed : — Copy  of  my  Lord  Lieutenant's  letter  to  the  Earl 
of  Anglesey. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  August  25.  London. — ^We  continue  in  great 
expectation  of  the  new  bill  from  thence,  or  some  overtures  that 
may  give  hope  of  settlement  in  that  poor  kingdom ,  and  having 
had  discourse  with  His  Majesty  about  the  desire  which  some 
of  the  commissioners  have  made  for  liberty  to  come  into 
England,  I  find  that  it  is  not  only  his  Majesty's,  but  the 
opinion  of  most  that  understand  and  wish  well  to  his  affairs, 
that  those  commissioners  do  rather  remit  of  their  own  case 
and  private  accommodation  than  that  by  their  coming  over 
such  jealousies  and  apprehensions  be  raised  in  that  kingdom 
as  may  endanger  or  distress  his  Majesty's  affairs  and  the 
settlement  of  that  kingdom.  If  they  cannot  be  persuaded 
to  do  all  that  the  Act  requires,  yet  there  is  work  enough  for 
them  to  do  which  must  be  previous  to  a  settlement,  upon  the 
foundation  of  whatsoever  Act  it  be  carried  on,  whether  new 
or  old.      Thus  much  I  thought  fit  to  intimate  to  your  Grace. 

Yesterday  a  proclamation  was  brought  by  His  Majesty  to 
the  council  and  passed  for  bringing  in  the  Earl  of  Bristol  to 
answer  to  somewhat  criminal,  but  nothing  mentioned  of  any 
particular  crime,  and  His  Majesty  in  council  gave  order  to 
his  counsel  learned  to  proceed  to  a  conviction  of  him  for 
recusancy.  His  Majesty  and  the  Queen  go  to-morrow  as  far 
as  Maidenhead  towards  the  bath. 

I  send  your  Grace  the  Green  Cloth  account  which  I  had  from 

Mr.  Fox.      I  find  nothing  in  it  concerning  his  brother's  son's 

life  being  added  in  that  office,  which  I  have  been  informed 

should  be  five  hundred  pounds.       Your  Grace  may  inform 

Wt.  8878  F 


82 

me  if  anything  be  to  be  objected  in  that  particular  or  any  other. 
The  last  sum  for  the  Queen's  cook  if  the  tables  go  down  will  fail. 
I  am  now  labouring  about  your  pension  as  bed-chamber  man 
with  my  Lord  Treasurer ;  and  am  hastening  the  money  away 
and  shall  give  notice  by  the  next,  I  believe,  when  a  frigate  must 
be  sent  to  Chester  for  it. 

I  expect  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham  daily  who  I  intend  shall  take 
charge  of  the  money. 

Earl  op  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  September  1.  London. — I  received  your  Grace's 
letters  of  the  22nd  of  the  last  month,  but  his  Majesty's  progress, 
which  began  presently  after,  hath  superseded  my  applications 
for  the  present,  and  I  must  expect  his  return  for  despatch 
of  what  is  yet  unfinished  of  my  negotiation;  and  when  the 
new  bill  comes  I  shall  be  ready  to  observe  your  Grace's 
commands  therein. 

I  shall  do  what  I  can  to  repair  out  of  the  Lords'  subsidies 
here  what  the  Duke  of  York  takes  from  the  treasure  designed 
for  Ireland,  but  the  Great  Seal  being  now  away,  it  cannot 
be  done  till  my  Lord  Chancellor's  return. 

Alderman  Bakewell  keeps  me  at  uncertainty  till  the  last 
day,  for  his  twenty  days  are  not  out  till  to-morrow,  and  he  hath 
yet  paid  none;  but  his  time  once  elapsed,  I  shall  give  him 
no  rest,  and  by  the  next  post  will  advertise  your  Grace  when 
the  frigate  shall  attend. 

I  know  the  Provost  Marshal's  men's  allowance  is  in  their 
patents  also,  yet  his  Majesty  may  disband  them  when  ha  hath 
no  further  use  for  them,  and  I  beseech  your  Grace  that  and 
other  retrenchments,  whereof  I  gave  you  a  note  at  my  coming 
away,  may  be  made,  or  debts  will  increase  too  fast. 

I  hope  the  proposers  for  the  water-duty  are  with  your  Grace 
before  this  time,  and  that  it  and  the  Inland  Excise  will  be 
settled  before  Michaelmas;  at  least  let  the  accounts  be  kept 
distinct  from  that  day. 

I  am  glad  the  Board  is  upon  consideration  of  the  Act  of 
Trade. 

I  find  now  the  business  of  my  Lord  of  Antrim  went 
the  way  your  Grace  mentions,  Secretary  Morris  was  little 
less  than  trepanned  in  it,  and  the  cry  here  is  so  loud  against 
that  and  other  late  proceedings  of  the  Court  of  Claims  that 
I  wish  some  way  may  be  timely  considered  to  rectify  what's 
amiss,  and  prevent  for  the  future  such  arbitrary  proceedings 
as  are  represented  to  have  been. 

My  Lord  Tyrconnell  is  very  earnest  to  have  his  name  come 
thence  in  the  new  Act,  and  hearing  ray  Lord  of  Antrim  is  made 
innocent,  he  thinks  now  he  is  very  hardly  used  if  your  Grace 
and  my  Lord  Duke  of  Albemarle's  as  well  as  the  King's  favour 
be  not  made  good  to  him.      The  King  of  France  hath  had 


S3 

Vercelles  in  Lorraine  surrendered  to  him  and  is  returned  to 
Paris.  We  expect  daily  to  hear  news  of  the  Turks  besieging 
Vienna. 

•  Postscript : — I  hope  if  your  Grace  appear  cordially  about  the 
tables  they  may  yet  be  saved,  and  ways  more  honourable  and 
advantageous  for  His  Majesty  proposed.  I  had  some  discourse 
with  the  King  to  that  effect  the  day  before  he  began  his 
progress,  and  shall  be  prepared  further  for  it  against  his  return. 
The  Archbishop  of  Canterbury*  was  installed  yesterday  at 
Lambeth ;  we  all  were  nobly  entertained  there. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  September  8.  London. — I  was  last  week  to  view 
Moor  Park,  which  I  find  to  be  still  the  same  sweet  and  pleasant 
seat  I  knew  it  before,  and  had  a  taste  of  the  goodness  of  your 
Grace's  venison.  The  house  is  neat  and  convenient  for  the 
bigness,  but  no  way  suitable  to  the  largeness  of  your  Grace's 
family,  but  very  answ'erable  to  such  starts  of  retirement  as 
you  will  be  able  to  make  from  Court.  The  gardens  are 
extraordinary,  full  of  delightful  walks  and  fountains  and 
terraces  with  covered  walks  for  rainy  weather,  and  I  believe 
the  very  lead  of  the  terraces  and  house  is  not  less  worth  than 
j91,500.  The  Park  is  well  wooded,  but  none  to  be  spared 
for  sale,  yet  may  be  valued  at  £1,500. 

There  is  one  farm  which  your  Grace  will  find  in  your 
particular  at  £46  a  year,  that  was  taken  out  of  the  Park, 
and  being  now  as  I  understand  out  of  lease  will  be  fit  to  be 
joined  to  the  Park  again,  and  the  whole  land  cannot  be  less 
w^orth  than  £6,500,  so  that  though  counting  the  interest  of 
the  money  your  Grace  pays  upon  the  matter  £630  a  year 
for  your  pleasure  and  convenience,  yet  you  have  no  such  hard 
bargain,  but  that  if  you  should  at  any  time  be  disposed  to 
part  with  it  again  I  durst  undertake  to  procure  you,  but  if  your 
Grace  will  lay  out  somewhat  in  building  and  make  it  a  residence 
for  your  family,  there  is  land  enough  near  it  to  be  sold.  The 
Park  is  set  out  into  walks  shaded  with  trees  set  in  rows,  and 
there  is  a  fair  brick  lodge,  that  hath  the  prospect  of  most  of  the 
Park  and  country,  and  may  be  «een  at  the  end  of  a  long  walk 
out  of  your  dining  room  window,  in  fine,  w^hen  you  will  refresh 
yourself  for  a  few  days  with  the  country  air,  your  Grace  cannot 
do  it  anywhere  better,  and  the  way  will  hold  you  but  two  hours 
or  little  more  riding.  It  is  an  inclosed  country  and  so  not  the 
best  for  hawking  or  hunting,  though  passable  for  both,  but  there 
is  excellent  brook  hawking  which  I  think  your  Grace  takes 
pleasure  in ;  and  Sir  Eichard  Franklin  likes  the  place  so  well 
that  though  he  hath  sold  your  Grace  the  best,  he  is  building 
for  himself  upon  some  other  ground  within  sight  of  your  pale. 
I  know  the  place  will  please  my  Lady  Duchess  well,  though 
there  be  no  such  rooms  as  at  Dunmore.     I  have  been  this  day 

♦Sheldon. 


84 

again  to  speak  with  Mr.  Phillips  about  the  estate  and  settlement 
of  the  land  as  your  Grace  directed  me,  but  he  is  yet  out  of 
town  though  expected  to-morrow ;  when  he  comes  I  shall  speak 
with  him  also  about  the  £1,000  which  Sir  John  Nea  presseth 
to  have  paid,  and  Bonfoye  seems  to  have  not  just  pretence  to. 
The  Court  is  still  at  Bath.  The  17th  of  this  month  His 
Majesty  goes  to  Oxford.  The  Turk  prevails  much  in  Germany, 
and  letters  full  of  apprehensions  and  fears  came  last  post 
from  Hamburg,  Dantzig,  and  the  rest  of  the  Hans  towns, 
as  if  they  should  be  all  over  run  by  them.  About  half  the 
money  is  already  paid  by  Alderman  Bakewell  this  week. 
I  hope  for  the  rest,  but  will  not  move  your  Grace  for  a  frigate 
to  Chester  till  it  be  upon  its  march. 

Ormond  to  Earl  of  Anglesey, 

1663,  September  9.  Dublin. — I  have  yours  of  18th,  22nd, 
and  25th  August  before  me,  and  shall  say  something  to  all  that 
requires  answer  in  this  little  paper.  The  Explanatory  Bill 
is  at  length  agreed  on  at  the  Board,  and  will  I  hope  this  day 
be  under  the  Seal  and  put  into  the  hands  of  Colonel  Jefifreys, 
who  will  go  directly  with  it  to  the  King  and  leave  it  in  the 
hands  of  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett  that  it  may  as  soon  as  is 
possible  receive  the  approbation  or  amendment  of  His  Majesty 
and  the  council  there.  I  shall  say  no  more  of  it  than  that 
I  think  the  better  of  it  because  I  find  it  pleases  not  the  more 
violent  of  English  or  Irish.  A  copy  of  it  and  of  our  letter 
accompanying  it  shall  be  sent  by  Mr.  Secretary  Davys. 

The  Commissioners  think  not  fit  to  proceed  in  setting  out 
any  land  for  the  fort  of  Duncannon  as  yet ;  their  reasons  are 
too  long  to  be  now  writ  and  too  hard  for  my  understanding. 
You  may  be  sure  whenever  it  shall  be  care  will  be  had  of  your 
concernments.  431,  904,  is  more  busy  in  his  intelligence 
than  careful  of  writing  truly  or  wisely ;  I  am  in  reference  to 
the  matter  he  writ  of  just  in  the  temper  you  left  me  and  will 
find  me. 

It  is  long  since  I  sent  the  list  I  told  you  of  to  the  King  with 
those  remarks  you  advise,  and  since  then  there  have  been 
alterations  for  the  better.  I  shall  not  take  notice  of  the 
discourse  of  898  without  your  leave,  but  when  I  have  that 
I  will  and  perhaps  to  his  trouble.  I  would  the  money  were 
here,  for  I  see  it  will  not  grow  in  rolling.  As  soon  as  the  frigate 
and  yacht  can  get  hither  they  shall  have  order  to  get  to  Chester, 
and  receive  it  after  the  division  that  shall  be  appointed  by  the 
person  that  shall  have  charge  from  you  of  it. 

The  propositions  made  by  Dodson  here  in  behalf  of  Morris, 
from  whom  he  produces  a  letter  of  Attorney,  are  under  the 
consideration  of  a  committee  of  the  Board,  but  they  say  that 
unless  he  shall  depart  from  some  of  them,  that  branch  of  the 
revenue  may  be  as  uncertain  as  to  the  proportion  and  payment 
when  it  is  farmed  as  now,  and  then  it  will  be  best  to  keep 
it  as  it  is.      I  doubt  whether  yours,  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett's 


85 

letter,  or  the  attested  Order  of  Council  be  warrant  enough 
for  the  farming  that  duty,  and  therefore  I  desire  you  would 
send  us  a  letter,  formally  under  the  King's  hand,  wherein  the 
council's  advice  may  be  mentioned  to  do  it.  You  receive 
herewith  the  proceedings  in  my  Lord  of  Antrim's  case ;  I  do 
not  see  what  now  can  be  done  to  remedy  what  is  done. 

I  have  writ  to  the  King,  I  hope  as  becomes  me,  concerning 
the  intended  dissolving  of  his  House.  I  am  sure  it  is  a  matter 
of  more  moment  than  to  be  done  without  serious  deliberation 
and  invincible  necessity,  and  I  am  sure  my  own  concernment 
leads  me  not  to  this  belief. 

Some  of  the  commissioners  have  been  ear-nest  with  me 
without  warrant  from  the  King  to  give  them  leave  to  go  into 
England,  but  I  have  excused  myself,  and  shall ;  but  if  there 
were  such  warrant  there  would  a  quorum  be  left,  and  that 
of  those  most  in  the  good  graces  of  the  English. 

I  shall  take  time  at  Kilkenny,  w^hither  I  am  going  to-morrow, 
to  write  to  you  of  my  affair  of  Steward,  but  I  shall  desire 
your  Lordship  to  take  care  of  my  purchase,  that  the  former 
owner  may  have  the  remain  of  his  money  at  his  day  by 
engaging  the  place  to  some  other  for  it,  for  I  know  no 
other  way  for  the  present  to  do  it.  I  hope  you  may  be 
ready  to  return  with  the  new  bill ;  I  assure  you  you  are 
much  wanted  and  will  be  very  welcome. 

Postscript : — Sir  Daniel  Bellingham  and  other  good 
company  went  hence  on  Sunday  last ;  the  weather  has  since 
been  so  ill  that  we  are  in  fear  of  them.  He  reckons  the 
money  laid  out  by  Sir  Thomas  Vyner  to  ±18,000. 

Endorsed: — A  copy  of  my  Lord's  to  the  Earl  of  Anglesey, 
dated  the  9th  September,  1663. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  September  12.  London. — I  have  at  length  spoken 
with  Mr.  Phillips,  your  Grace's  counsel,  and  as  for  the 
estate  of  Moor  Park,  I  do  find  it  so  settled  that  your  Grace 
may  convey  it  in  what  manner  and  to  whom  you  please, 
notwithstanding  the  incumbrance  to  Sir  Eichard  Franklin, 
which  the  second  payment  being  made  will  be  discharged. 
I  have  also  searched  into  the  difference  between  Sir  John  Key 
and  Mr.  Bonfoye  concerning  the  thousand  pounds  payable  by 
your  Lordship,  and  do  not  think  it  safe  for  your  Grace  to  pay  it 
till  it  be  determined  in  Chancery  (for  which  end  your  Grace's 
bill  is  ready)  who  shall  have  it,  and  that  may  be  done  next  term. 
Mr.  Buck,  who  is  going  hence,  will  inform  your  Grace  farther. 
I  hope  your  Lordship  will  pardon  me  if  I  now  become  an 
humble  suitor  to  your  Grace  concerning  my  cousin  Boyd, 
understanding  that  he  is  one  of  those  now  appointed  to  be 
tried.  I  am  sorry  that  he  did  not  ingenuously  cast  himself 
on  your  Grace's  goodness  and  clemency  kt  first  by  a  free 
confession,   but  failing  therein   and  discovering  nothing  till 


86 

I  perBuaded  him  to  open  himself  fully  to  your  Grace,  and  having 
by  that  means,  besides  the  discovery  of  other  offenders,  brought 
himself  within  the  reach  of  the  law,  when  I  urged  him  to  it 
as  the  only  way  to  mercy,  though  I  hate  his  crime,  I  have 
some  trouble  upon  me  that  my  persuasion  should  seem  to 
have  drawn  his  ruin  upon  him,  and  should  receive  it  as  a 
special  obligation  if  I  may  obtain  his  pardon  and  freedom 
from  trial,  and  do  hope  he  will  redeem  himself  in  the  service 
of  his  whole  life  to  His  Majesty  and  your  Grace.  I  know 
your  Grace  is  as  much  troubled  as  I  that  any  British  should 
engage  in  such  foul  designs  or  conceal  them. 

Postscript : — I  hope  the  saving  my  cousin  Boyd  will  do 
good  and  no  hurt,  which  makes  me  the  more  earnest  for  your 
Grace's  clemency  towards  him. 

Sir  Daniel  Bellingham  arrived  here  this  evening.  I  am 
glad  he  gave  your  Grace  full  satisfaction  before  he  came  away. 


Egbert  Southwell  to  Sm  George  Lane. 

1663,  September  17.  Kinsale. — I  received  yours  of  the 
sixth  of  September  from  Sir  Joseph  Throckmorton  with  drder 
to  pay  unto  him  fourscore  pounds,  which  I  paid  him  the  ninth 
day,  and  do  here  enclosed  return  you  an  acquittance  for  the 
same,  and  the  rest  of  that  money  being  £2&9  18s.  Od.,  shall 
be  ready  to  be  paid  at  sight  whenever  my  Lord  Duke  or  yourself 
shall  appoint  the  payment  thereof,  and  I  beseech  you  to 
present  my  most  humble  thanks  unto  his  Grace  that  he  is 
pleased  to  accept  of  this  small  service  from  me  and  to  be  so 
well  satisfied  with  it,  and  I  humbly  beseech  you  to  favour 
me  so  far  as  to  assure  his  Grace  that  whilst  I  live  I  shall 
faithfully  obey  his  commands  and  that  nothing  can  rejoice 
me  more  than  to  receive  them  frequently  from  him,  and  I 
know  my  son  will  be  the  same  [whils]t  he  lives,  and  we 
should  be  very  much  forfeited  in  ourselves  if  we  did  not  reckon 
an  hereditary  right  that  we  have  unto  his  Grace's  service, 
and  faithfully  endeavour  on  all  occasions  to  pay  the  same. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  September  17.  London. — I  did  in  my  last  letter 
become  an  humble  suitor  to  your  Grace  in  behalf  of  my  cousin 
Boyd  upon  grounds  that  press  me  still,  and  indeed  how  much 
soever  I  abhor  such  designs  and  designers  against  His  Majesty 
and  the  peace  of  the  kingdom,  yet  I  account  it  some  misfortune 
upon  me  in  the  discoveries  that  have  been  made  that 
Mr.  Boyd's  ruin  is  fixed  upon  my  persuasions  to  him  to  confess 
all  ingenuously, "when  I  told  him  'twas  his  only  way  to  obtain 
mercy,  which  I  found  your  Grace  not  backward  to  afford  him, 
and  he  having  at  my  instance  discovered  all  he  knew  whereby 
his  life  and  fortune  is  in  His  Majesty's  dispose,  I  hope  and 
beseech  your  Grace  w^ill  have  compassion  upon  him,  his  wife 


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and  children,  and  engage  him  (who  is  a  sober,  fair,  conditioned 
man,  however  unfortunately  made  privy  to  such  a  treasonable 
design)  to  spend  all  his  days  in  faithful  serving  His  Majesty 
in  the  redeeming  himself  from  the  guilt  of  what  is  past. 
I  beg  your  Grace's  pardon  for  my  importunity,  which  I  am 
drawn  into  by  the  desire  I  had  to  serve  His  Majesty  and 
your  Lordship  in  drawing  him  to  a  free  confession. 

IPostscript.^  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham  came  safe  the  last 
week,  and  shall  be  hastened  back  with  the  money.  I  received 
yesterday  your  Grace's  of  the  9th,  which  I  shall  answer  by 
the  next. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  September  19.  London. — Though  I  have  received 
your  Grace's  letter  of  the  9th  instant,  I  intended  not  to  have 
written  anything  in  answer  till  Tuesday  post,  but  that  Colonel 
Jeffreys  arriving  here  this  evening,  and  having  left  his  charge 
at  Court,  I  thought  fit  to  signify  so  much  to  your  Grace,  and 
that  by  letter  from  Captain  Booth  I  find  the  Harp  frigate 
attends  for  the  money  in  Chester  water,  which  will  go  hence 
within  few  days,  I  having  taken  order  for  convoys  and  all 
things  needful,  and  have  directed  Captain  Rooth  in  the 
meanwhile  to  attend  His  Majesty's  other  service,  for  the 
money  will  be  fourteen  days  going. 

Endorsed: — Received  30th  September,  1663,  at  Kilkenny. 


Earl  of  Anolksey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  September  22.  London. — I  received  your  Grace's 
letter  of  the  9th  of  this  month,  and  Colonel  Jeffreys  is  since 
arrived  with  the  bill,  but  I  had  no  copy  sent  me  by 
Mr.  Secretary  Davys  as  your  Grace  intimated  I  should,  though 
I  have  obtained  it  otherwise.  I  will  not  take  upon  me  at 
first  reading  to  give  any  opinion  of  it,  but  I  believe  the  English 
will  think  themselves  safer  in  the  Lord  Lieutenant  and 
council's  hands  for  their  concernment,  where  the  bill  lodgeth 
the  interest  of  the  Irish  that  are  to  be  received  to  grace,  having 
no  more  to  come  under  the  experimented  judicature  of  the 
present  commissioners. 

I  am  satisfied  with  what  your  Grace  writes  concerning  the 
lands  to  be  set  out  to  the  fort  of  Duncannon,  and,  if  I  chance 
not  to  be  there  when  it  is  done,  rely  on  your  Grace's  care  of  me. 

I  think  it  will  not  be  convenient  for  your  Grace  to  take 
notice  of  898  discourse,  because  I  contradicted  him  in  it  before 
company,  but  it  is  very  likely  he  will  be  at  it  again,  and  then 
I  shall  desire  instances  or  intimation  of  it  under  his  hand, 
which  he  said  he  would  give  me  if  need  were. 

The  money  goes  away  this  week  under  the  charge  of  one 
Greene,  whom  I  send  with  it. 


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I  wrote  lately  to  your  Grace  about  the  farm  proposed  for 
by  Morris  and  Dodson,  and  when  the  King  comes,  which 
wdll  be  on  Tuesday  next,  I  shall  get  licences  under  his  royal 
signet  by  advice  of  the  council,  as  your  Grace  requires. 

I  gave  your  Grace  notice  that  the  bills  for  the  Castle  Chamber, 
Customs,  and  Excise  were  passed  here  and  are  engrossing,  yet 
I  see  your  Grace  and  the  council's  letters  to  Mr.  Secretary 
Bennett  takes  no  notice  thereof,  but  it  shall  serve  to  quicken 
the  despatch  of  them,  and  no  doubt  all  will  be  there  by  the 
17th  of  November,  to  which  day  the  Parliament  is  prorogued. 

What  success  we  shall  have  at  the  King's  return  that  advise 
against  dissolving  of  his  household  your  Grace  shall  be 
informed ;  I  am  sure  it  is  generally  disliked  that  such  a  thing 
is  intended. 

I  am  endeavouring  to  get  money  for  your  Grace's  second 
payment  of  your  purchase,  that  the  former  owner  may  have 
his  money  at  the  day.  And  though  I  know  not  how  soon 
the  new  bill  will  be  despatched,  yet  when  your  Grace  shall 
command  my  return  I  shall  not  stay  much  longer  here. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  September  28.  Parke  Hall. — The  money  being  now 
gone  from  London  towards  Chester  and  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham 
hastening  after  it,  I  thought  jBit  to  mind  your  Grace  of  one 
thing  which  will  be  necessary  to  be  provided  for  in  the  contracts 
to  be  made  w-ith  the  farmers  of  the  customs  and  the  farmers 
of  the  excise,  and  that  is,  that  the  moneys  for  the  customs  and 
excise  within  the  port  and  city  of  Dublin  and  county  of  the 
same,  be  paid  in  to  the  Treasury  weekly  or  monthly  at  least  as 
it  comes  in,  and  that  none  of  it  be  made  use  of  by  the  farmers ; 
without  this  be  done  there  will  never  be  any  ready  money 
for  concordatums  or  other  urgent  occasions,  or  for  your  Grace's 
own  entertainments.  I  have  charged  Sir  Daniel  to  mind  your 
Grace  also  hereof,  and  if  Sir  Paul  Davies  have  charge  from 
your  Grace,  to  remind  you  thereof  when  those  farms  pass  it 
will  be  the  surer  done,  and  indeed  it  is  of  absolute  necessity. 
The  King  is  expected  at  London  on  Thursday  next,  and  then 
1  shall  also  return  thither. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  October  6.  Drury  Lane,  London. — About  three 
weeks  since,  upon  the  notice  we  had  of  Mr.  Boyd's  trial  coming 
on,  I  presumed  to  write  to  your  Grace  a  few  lines  concerning 
him,  but  intimation  being  come  from  Dublin  that  it's  much 
doubted  that  week's  packet  is  cast  away,  I  do  again  renew 
your  Lordship's  trouble  by  remembering  your  Grace  that  the 
morning  I  left  Dublin,  upon  my  earnest  dealing  with  him, 
and  intimating  it  to  be  the  safest  way,  I  wrought  him  to  an 
ingenuous  confession  of  persons  and  things,  and  it  is  now  some 
trouble  to  me  if  his  condemnation  arriveth  from  what  h^ 


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confessed  only  at  my  persuasion  and  advice.  I  am  therefore 
an  humble  suitor  to  your  Grace  for  mercy  to  be  extended 
towards  him,  being  confident  he  will  meritoriously  redeem 
his  guilt  for  the  future.  I  am  the  more  solicitous  in  his 
behalf  because  I  understand  my  Lord  Mount  Alexander,  who 
would  have  also  interceded  for  him  and  gave  him  hope  of 
pardon,  is  lately  dead.  I  submit  all  to  your  Grace  with  this 
confidence,  that  very  good  use  may  be  made  of  Mr.  Boyd  if 
he  be  suffered  to  live,  and  it's  questionable  whether  his  death 
will  be  of  any  advantage. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  October  6.  London. — I  have  since  the  King's  return 
attended  him,  according  to  your  Lordship  and  the  council's 
directions,  about  the  several  particulars  of  your  Lordship's 
letters  of  the  9th  of  the  last  month.  I  believe  to-morrow  we 
shall  take  most  of  them  up  at  council,  and  854  (the  King)  assured 
me  that  the  business  of  431  (Lord),  186,  40,  165,  26  (Antrim) 
shall  be  left  to  the  692  (council)  w^here  when  it  is  stated. 
I  doubt  it  will  appear  462  (very)  46,  64,  42,  78  (foul).  But 
to  put  the  fairer  gloss  upon  211  (it)  some  have  endeavoured 
too  boldly  to  asperse  961  (your  Grace).  896  (Anglesey  Earl) 
gave  962  (you)  some  hint  thereof  before,  but  now  21  (I)  78, 
40  (let)  256  (you)  know  it's  insinuated  by  186,  41,  165,  27,  39 
(Antrim's)  friends  that  961  (your  Grace),  though  he  joined 
openly  with  293  (the)  692  (council)  against  280  (him),  yet 
underhand  256  (you)  did  139  (his)  business,  and  that  962 
(your)  letters  hither  will  shew  it.  896  (Anglesey  Earl) 
apprehends  such  intimations  are  levelled  rather  to  do  961  (your 
Grace)  138,  35,  40  (hurt)  than  him  348  (good),  though  962 
(your)  637  (honour)  is  too  well  known  for  such  aspersions 
to  be  believed,  and  yet  I  must  not  conceal  from  your  Grace  if 
21  (I)  mistake  not,  in  discourse  of  this  affair  yesterday  with 
855  (the  King) ,  he  seemed  to  apprehend  as  if  961  (you)  had  been 
somewhat  surprised  in  this  business.  I  could  not  tell  what  to 
imagine  by  it  unless  854  (the  King)  had  been  shewed  something 
either  in  961  (your)  own  hand,  which  might  be  strained  to  their 
mind,  or  under  573  (Lady)  186,  41,  165,  26,  39  (Antrim's) 
68,  28, 12  (hand)  as  896  (Anglesey  Earl)  did,  wherein  239  (she) 
did  too  grossly  express  that  961  (your  Grace)  advised  140  (her) 
the  way  they  took,  and  which  succeeded  as  539  (yourself) 
knows,  though  961  (you)  would  not  appear  publicly  200  (for) 
389  (them).  I  know  not  yet  what  will  become  of  the  business. 
I  am  sure  it  makes  a  80,  42,  12  (loud)  124,  46  (cry)  350  (here) 
as  well  as  459  (there).  And  whatever  962  (your)  mind  is  in 
it,  which  896  (Anglesey  Earl)  guesseth  as  well  from  326  (your) 
510  (own)  as  573  (Lady)  Duchess  78,  104,  35,  39  (letters), 
which  22  (I)  351  (have)  seen,  and  those  962  joined  with  the  692 
(council)  212  (in),  I  think  it  were  good  854  (the  King)  had 
it  from  540  (yourself),  and  as  21  (I)  have  advised  571  (the  King) 
w^hatever  be  done  in  it,  I  would  have  it  the  49,  41  (act)  of 


90 

246,  692  (council.  941  (Queen  mother)  hath  drawn  on  314 
(this)  688  (business),  and  spoke  earnestly  to  82  (me)  about  it, 
when  239  (she)  understood  896  (I)  had  directions  from  996  (you) 
and  243  (the)  692  (council)  about  it,  which  186,  40,  165,  26, 
37  (Antrim's)  484,  39  friends  did  by  information,  I  believe, 
from  139  (his)  573  (lady)  before  22  (I)  did,  for  some  of  them 
told  896  (me)  such  letters  were  106  (to)  194,  13  (come)  to  82 
(me)  before  21  (I)  had  them.  326  (your)  nephew  68,  83,  24, 
106,  28,  Hamilton  hath  heard  enough  of  the  like  reports. 
21  (I)  charged  280  (him)  to  write  to  962  (you)  what  he  heard 
and  knew,  which  I  hope  he  did.  I  have  wearied  your  Grace 
by  this  time,  I  shall  defer  other  matters  till  the  next  post. 
Lord  Chief  Justice  Forster  is  dead.  Newhansell,  in  Hungary, 
is  said  to  be  taken  by  Turks.  The  mote  at  Tangier  goes 
on  apace.  My  Lord  Siviott  is  now  here,  he  hath  gained 
300  hundred  acres  of  land  about  the  city  by  treaty,  and  laid 
in  good  store  of  hay  this  summer.  Sir  Richard  Fanshaw  is 
appointed  Ambassador  for  Spain,  and  is  sworn  of  the  council. 
I  am  glad  my  Lady  Chesterfield  is  safe  landed  after  our  fears 
of  her.  I  hope  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham  and  the  money  will  be 
wdth  your  Grace  as  soon  as  this,  he  went  hence  yesterday  to 
overtake  the  money  at  the  water  side,  where  both  the  Mary  and 
Harp  attended  it.  My  Lord  Mount  Alexander's  sudden  death 
will,  I  believe,  call  for  your  Grace's  help  in  his  children's 
behalf ;  here  are  divers  competitors  for  his  place.  Lord  Kildare., 
Sir  Robert  Byron,  etc.  It  will  deserve  an  able  man,  which  we 
should  principally  aim  at ;  I  believe  nothing  will  be  done  till 
the  King  hear  from  your  Grace. 

Postscript: — The  new  bill  will,  I  believe,  be  entered  upon 
to-morrow.  I  hear  571  wonders  961  hath  not  sent  326 
opinion  upon  it. 

I  have  advised  about  a  letter  for  some  of  the  English  arrear 
land,  which  will,  I  believe,  come  this  post  to  your  Grace  in 
behalf  of  my  Lord  Fitzharding,  w^ho  is  your  faithful  servant. 

Addressed: — ^For  your  Grace,  to  be  unciphered  with  your 
own  hand. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  October  13.  London. — I  have  little  to  say  (not 
having  heard  from  your  Grace  since  the  9th  of  last  month) 
but  that  the  new  bill  is  at  a  stand,  by  your  Grace's  desire,  till 
some  additions  you  resolved  upon  at  Kilkenny  come  over, 
and  I  find  that  opposition  prepared  by  the  Irish,  and  such  as 
they  can  incline  to  favour  them,  that  neither  this  nor  any 
other  bill  that  may  give  hopes  of  a  settlement  will  be  of  easy 
passage  unless  your  Grace  do,  by  your  letters  to  His  Majesty 
and  others,  urge  with  some  earnestness  the  necessity  thereof, 
as  your  Grace  upon  the  place  will  find  most  cause  to  do. 
I  hope  mine  of  the  sixth  of  this  month  is  with  your  Grace 
by  this  time,  and  the  treasure  which  with  Sir  Daniel 
Bellingham  went  to  sea  the  10th  inst.      The  Queen  hath  been 


91 

very  ill  and  let  blood  twice  or  thrice ;  it's  hoped  this  day  she  is 
upon  the  mending  hand.  The  tables  at  Court  are  now 
absolutely  gone,  except  ten  dishes  a  meal  for  the  King  and 
Queen.  Here  is  much  competition  for  the  General  of  the 
Ordnance's  place,  I  wish  my  Lord  of  Arran  had  it,  and  I  believe 
might  durst  I  have  adventured  to  move  it  without  your  Grace's 
leave.  It  hath  been  much  doubted  by  some  whether  the 
Parliament  would  meet  again  at  the  day  prefixed,  but  your 
Grace  may  be  confident  it  will. 

Postscript : — Here  is  speech  of  plots  and  insurrections,  but 
your  Grace  may  be  assured  there  will  be  none,  and  I  wish 
there  were  less  speech  of  them,  but  a  dangerous  book  like 
that  entitled  Killing  no  Murder,  was  taken  last  week  in  the 
press;  the  author,  said  to  be  one  Paul  Hobson,  a  speaker. 
I  send  your  Grace  a  taste  of  his  venom,  not  being  able  to 
recover  the  whole  pamphlet. 

Ormond  to  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

1663,  October  14.  Dublin. — I  have  several  of  yours  that 
came  to  me  while  I  w-as  in  my  way  to  Kilkenny  and  there, 
and  one  I  have  received  of  the  6th  instant  since  I  came 
hither,  which  I  have  deciphered  with  my  own  hand  as  your 
Lordship  desired.  You  will  find  by  a  transcript  of  part  of  a 
letter  I  writ  to  Sir  Alan  Brodrick  from  Kilkenny,  that 
I  had  received  notice  of  the  reports  raised  there  of  my  great 
kindness  to  my  Lord  of  Antrim,  and  of  the  art  1  had  used 
to  serve  him  and  deceive  the  council.  I  conceive  the  less 
credit  will  be  given  to  it  if  it  be  remembered  that  I.  need 
not  have  concealed  my  doing  it,  having  had  the  King's  warrant 
for  it,  and  if  it  be  considered  I  had  no  reason  so  much  to 
apprehend  my  Lord  of  Antrim  as  to  make  private  apologies 
and  satisfactions  to  him  for  my  public  actings.  However, 
I  have  by  this  post  taken  notice  to  the  King  of  those  reports, 
and  besought  him  to  receive  my  sense  in  that  affair,  out  of 
what  I  have  singly  and  jointly  with  the  council  writ  to 
Mr.  Secretary,  and  not  from  what  may  be  said  by  those  that 
take  liberty  to  make  me  more  cunning  than  I  am  or  desire 
to  be.  • 

There  have  escaped  us  at  the  Board  some  material  omissions 
as  they  are  represented  to  me  in  the  Act  transmitted,  such 
as  I  am  made  believe  require  amendment.  They  will  be 
sent  over  by  Sir  Thomas  Clarges  the  next  post,  and  that  they 
might  not  come  too  late  I  desired  Mr.  Secretary,  in  a  letter 
I  writ  from  Kilkenny,  that  too  much  haste  should  not  be 
made  with  the  bill  there,  which  was  perhaps  an  unnecessary 
caution  if  they  hold  their  usual  pace  there.  A  committee 
are  hard  at  work  with  Mr.  Dodson  concerning  the  farm  of 
the  customs ;  if  he  prove  as  reasonable  as  you  say  Mr.  Morris 
is,  it  may  take  effect.  In  the  meantime  I  have  this  day 
signed  an  order  for  distinguishing  the  receipts,  and  for  Dodson 's 
inspection  into  them  by  himself  or  such  as  he  shall  appoint. 


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Mr.  Boyd's  great  fright  is  at  least  reprieved.  I  shall  take 
care  whatever  becomes  of  him  that  he  shall  have  no  cause 
to  repent  his  confession  upon  your  advice  to  him,  though  he 
may  his  want  of  ingenuity  when  I  invited  him  to  it  in  so 
friendly  a  manner.  For  aught  I  hear  neither  my  writing 
nor  the  instances  of  those  that  lie  under  less  suspicion  of 
interest,  have  been  able  to  prevent  the  dissolving  of  His 
Majesty's  household.  I  have  now  no  more  to  trouble  you 
with  at  this  time. 

Postscript : — I  desire  your  Lordship  to  satisfy  my  subsidy 
for  me  according  to  the  adjoined  letter. 

Endorsed : — A  copy  of  my  Lord's  to  the  Earl  of  Anglesey. 


Egbert  Lovelace,  Mayor  of  Clonmbl,  to  John  Walsh. 

1663,  October  14.  Clonmel. — Your  brother,  deputed  to 
keep  his  Grace's  courts  under  you,  hath  notified  his  intent 
to  keep  a  court  leet  within  the  precincts  of  the  corporation 
of  Clonmel.  I  find  it  convenient  to  mind  you  of  your  promises 
the  last  year,  viz.,  that  what  you  did  then  should  not  be  drawn 
into  precedent  for  the  future.  A  customary  manor  hath 
been  held  out  of  a  manor,  but  a  leet  out  of  a  leet  was  never 
yet  reported.  That  we  have  a  leet  by  prescription  and 
charter,  I  am  confident  is  not  your  doubt,  and  if  you  have  it 
by  prescription  (which  we  have  diligently  enquired  after, 
and  cannot  find  it)  we  only  desire  you  to  make  it  appear. 
It  is  neither  our  interest  nor  desires  to  dispute  any  things 
with  his  Grace,  whom  we  acknowledge  the  patron  of  our 
liberties;  I  only  desire  the  privileges  *  of  this  town,  whilst 
our  charter  remains,  may  inviolably  be  preserved.  Your 
knowledge  is  such  in  the  law,  and  the  continual  respect  you 
have  always  manifested  towards  this  Corporation,  assures  me 
you  will  be  so  far  from  intrenching  on  our  rights,  that  you 
will  lend  a  cheerful  assistance  towards  the  maintaining  of  them, 
and  send  your  prohibition  to  your  brother,  to  desist  from  any 
further  proceeding  therein,  whereby  you  will  infinitely  oblige 
the  Corporation,  and  particularly,  Sir,  etc. 

Endorsed : — From  the  Mayor  of  Clonmel.  Received 
20th  October,  '63. 

Countess  of  Mountrath  to  Ormond. 

1663,  October  16.     I  understand  that  by  your 

Grace's  decree  I  am  barred  of  my  dower,  and  that  tlie 
sacrificing  up  my  subsistence,  which  all  laws  so  much 
favour  will  make  peace.  I  will  not  believe  I  am  so  used 
in  your  Grace's  government  until  I  see  your  Grace's  hand 
to  it,  and  do  so  much  tremble  at  the  thoughts  of  it,  that 
after  I  have  said  that  I  have  brought  my  writs  of  dower,  and 


93 

that  nothing  any  flesh  can  do  but  my  own  acknowledging 
of  a  fine  can  bar  me  out  of  it,  that  whether  the  will  be  a 
good  will  or  not,  a  good  will  doth  not  affect  my  dower.  I  shall 
be  left  to  mourn  that  ever  I  came  into  this  kingdom  for  justice, 
and  do  believe  the  King  did  not  intend  me  such  measure, 
and  give  me  leave  to  add  that  all  the  lands  but  my  dower 
will  go  to  pay  the  debts,  and  now  my  dower  is  taken  away ; 
I  beseech  your  Grace  I  may  be  left  to  law  for  it,  in  regard 
none  of  the  late  traitors'  wives  are  so  used.  I  humbly  remain, 
your  Grace's  most  sorrowful  servant,  I.  Mountrath. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  October  20.  London. — Understanding  by  letters 
from  Dublin  that  your  Grace  is  returned  thither,  I  thought 
fit  to  acquaint  you,  what  I  intimated  before,  that  the  new  bill 
is  at  a  stand  here  upon  the  expectation  of  some  amendments 
and  additions  concluded  on  by  your  Grace  at  Kilkenny,  upon 
debates  taken  up  since  the  bill  was  transmitted  hither.  I  do 
assure  your  Grace  it  is  necessary  they  be  hastened,  for  the 
bill  gets  no  advantage  by  this  long  pause,  there  being  more 
active  to  find  or  make  faults  than  to  justify  the  bill,  and  I  must 
not  forbear  to  inform  your  Grace  that  all  the  assistance  and 
countenance  your  Grace  can  give,  both  by  private  letters 
and  an  open  owning  of  it,  will  be  needful  to  carry  it  through, 
the  opposition  continuing  here  and  from  thence  against  it, 
and  how  unpleasing  a  condition  your  Grace  will  have  whilst 
that  kingdom  on  design  is  kept  in  an  unsettled  estate,  I  need 
not  mention,  as  on  the  other  side,  I  little  doubt  but  we  shall 
improve  the  declaration  of  your  Grace's  mind  for  the  settlement 
thereof,  to  a  happy  despatch  of  that  which  in  all  probability 
alone  can  do  it. 

The  King's  letter  to  the  commissioners,  upon  which  my 
Lord  of  Antrim  was  judged  innocent  and  restored,  is  printed 
here  with  wicked  observations  on  it,  and  very  injurious  to 
His  Majesty,  and  the  title  of  the  pamphlet  is  Murder  will  out. 
The  printer  nor  author  are  not  yet  found.  I  believe  to-morrow 
the  whole  business  of  that  letter  will  be  examined  at  council , 
which  had  been  done  before  that  scandalous  pamphlet  came 
out,  but  that  the  Queen's  extreme  sickness,  hath  kept  the 
King  this  last  fortnight  much  from  council,  but  now  Her 
Majesty  is  hoped  to  be  on  the  mending  hand. 

Sir  William  Compton,  Master  of  the  Ordinance,  was  at 
council  on  Friday  last,  and  died  of  a  dropsy  and  apoplexy, 
Sunday  in  the  evening.  All  the  plots  talked  of  here  come 
to  nothing,  and  may  they  ever  do  so.  I  find  Mr.  Butler,  of 
Lincoln's  Inn,  is  diverted  somewhat  from  his  study  by  his 
perplexity  about  a  debt  of  threescore  pounds  which  was  left 
unpaid  when  your  Grace  paid  an  hundred  pounds  towards  his 
being  steward  during  the  principality  at  Lincoln's  Inn,  and 


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which  he  will  never  be  able  to  recover  out  of  his  quarterly 
exhibition,  which  I  thought  fit  to  signify  to  your  Grace,  because 
I  hear  he  is  a  hard  student  and  fit  to  be  encouraged. 

I  believe  I  shall  now  get  a  day  weekly  at  council  added 
purposely  for  the  business  of  Ireland. 

The  last  news  I  had  of  the  money  was  that  it  was  put  into 
Beaumaris.      I  hope  it  is  by  this  time  safely  arrived  at  Dublin. 

We  have  no  news  yet  of  Sir  William  Petty *s  vessel  since  it 
left  Dublin. 

Petition  of  Sir  Adam  Loftus  and  order  thereon. 

Sheweth  that  your  petitioner  having  had  a  grant  from 
His  Majesty's  progenitors  of  blessed  memory,  of  the  Castle 
and  Manor  of  Trim,  long  before  the  Rebellion  of  Ireland, 
and  that  your  petitioner  having  lately  expended  a  great 
deal  of  labour  and  charges  in  the  repairing  of*  the  said 
castle,  and  houses  of  ofiBce  thereunto  belonging,  amounting  to  a 
great  sum  of  money ;  now  so  it  is,  may  it  please  your  Grace,  that 
your  petitioner  is  given  to  understand  that  about  May  last,  your 
Grace  was  pleased  to  grant  an  order  unto  one  Colonel  Hamon , 
who  then  commanded  a  foot  company  at  Trim  aforesaid,  to 
seize  on  the  said  castle  and  to  keep  his  garrison  therein,  by 
virtue  whereof  the  said  Hamon  accordingly  seized  thereon 
and  made  no  other  use  thereof,  only  locked  up  the  fore-street 
gates  belonging  to  the  said  castle  and  left  the  back-gate 
wide  open,  whereby  all  the  planks  and  floor  beams  of  seven 
or  eight  lofts,  together  with  the  roof  and  other  houses  of 
oflSces  belonging  to  the  said  castle,  have  been  ruined  and 
taken  away,  as  well  by  some  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  said 
town  as  also  by  some  of  the  said  Hamon's  company,  who 
sold  and  disposed  of  part  of  the  said  timber  to  several  of  the 
inhabitants  of  the  said  town,  before  their  being  removed 
lately  from  thence  into  the  town  of  Wicklow  to  garrison : 
by  means  whereof,  and  of  their  concealing  of  the  key  of  the 
said  castle,  the  same  is  totally  ruined  and  destroyed,  and 
your  petitioner's  agent  obstructed  from  having  any  access  to 
the  same,  whereby  he  might  preserve  what  is  yet  undemolished 
thereof;  May  it  therefore  please  your  Grace  to  grant  ypur 
order  whereby  your  petitioner  or  his  agent  may  have  the 
possession  of  the  said  castle  together  with  the  key  thereof, 
and  also  to  require  Mr.  Robert  Sill,  Portreeve  of  Trim  aforesaid, 
to  make  diligent  search  and  enquire  after  such  persons  as 
were  actors  in  the  ruins  and  destruction  of  the  said  castle, 
and  to  return  their  names  unto  your  Grace  whereby  they 
may  be  proceeded  withal  according  to  justice,  and  likewise 
to  require  the  said  Portreeve  to  seize  on  the  said  timber 
wheresoever  the  same  may  be  found  within  his  liberty,  and 
to  deliver  the  same  over  unto  the  custody  and  keeping  of  your 
petitioner  or  his  said  agent.      And  he  will  pray,  etc. 


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Undated.       Endorsed  at  foot : — 

Dublin  Castle,  21  October,  1663. 

Upon  consideration  of  this  petition  we  are  pleased  that 
the  possession  of  the  castle  therein  mentioned,  and  the 
key  thereof,  be  delivered  to  the  petitioner  or  his  agent 
for  the  petitioner's  use,  whereof  all  persons  whom  it  may 
concern  are  to  take  notice ;  And  the  Portreeve  of  the  town 
of  Trim  is  to  make  enquiry  what  persons  took  away  any 
of  the  timber  belonging  to  the  said  castle,  and  where  any 
of  it  can  be  found  to  seize  thereon  and  deliver  it  to  the 
petitioner's  agent,  and  return  a  list  of  the  persons  names 
that  took  away  the  same. 

Ormond  to  Sir  Henry  Bennett. 

1663,  October  22.  Dublin. — Sir  Thomas  Clarges,  knight, 
a  member  of  this  Board,  being  now  to  repair  thither,  I  have 
thought  fit  by  him  to  send  you  this  despatch.  Since  the 
joint  letters  from  me  and  the  council  of  the  19th  of  September 
last; directed  to  you, and  accompanying  the  Act  then  transmitted 
hence  thither  according  to  the  usual  form  under  His  Majesty's 
Great  Seal,  entitled,  **  An  Act  for  the  explaining  of  some 
doubts  arising  upon  an  Act  entitled  an  Act  for  the  better 
execution  of  His  Majesty's  gracious  declaration  for  the 
settlement  of  his  kingdom  of  Ireland,  and  satisfaction  of  the 
several  interests  of  adventurers,  soldiers,  and  other  his  subjects 
there,  and  for  making  some  alterations  of  and  additions  unto 
the  said  Act  for  the  more  speedy  and  effectual  settlement  of 
the  said  kingdom,"  some  particulars  have  been  thought  of 
here  as  necessary  alterations  and  additions  to  be  inserted  in 
that  intended  Act,  and  are  conceived  may  be  as  for  the 
advantage  of  His  Majesty's  service  and  the  satisfaction  of 
several  interests  concerned  in  the  said  Act,  so  for  facilitating 
the  passing  thereof  in  both  Houses  of  Parliament  here,  as 
will  more  fully  appear  to  you  upon  your  perusal  of  those 
alterations  and  additions,  and  the  marginal  notes  thereupon, 
which  contain  some  of  the  reasons  inducing  such  alterations 
and  additions ;  in  which  particulars  the  Earl  of  Anglesey  and 
Sir  Thomas  Clarges  are  fully  instructed,  and  it  is  left  to  their 
care  to  satisfy  His  Majesty  in  the  reason  of  them  or  any  other 
matters  that  shall  occur  relating  to  the  Act  or  those  alterations, 
and  I  have  consulted  some  of  His  Majesty's  judges  and  other 
members  of  this  council,  and  His  Majesty's  learned  counsel 
here,  concerning  these  several  alterations  and  additions,  which 
are  pinned  in  several  places  wherein  they  may  aptly  be 
inserted  (if  His  Majesty  shall  so  judge  fit)  in  the  copy  of  the 
said  Act  herewith  sent  you. 

There  is  also  now  sent  you  another  copy  of  the  said  Act 
wherein  all  those  alterations  and  additions  are  comprehended, 
which  is  sent  you  to  this  end  that  if  His  Majesty  shall  approve 
of  them  the  Act  may  be  engrossed  and  prepared  for  the  Seal 
there,  out  of  that  copy  so  sent  you  to  prevent  any  mistaking 


96 

that  may  happen  in  transcribing  the  Act  there  out  of  the 
copy  wherein  those  papers  are  pinned. 

This  way  of  despatching  the  business  there  I  have  chosen 
thus  humbly  to  offer,  in  regard  in  the  retransmission  of  the 
Act  from  thence  hither  those  things,  if  inserted,  will  appear 
but  as  alterations  and  additions  by  His  Majesty  thought  fit 
to  be  made  there,  as  is  usually  done,  rather  than  to  make  a 
new  formal  transmission  from  hence  of  an  Act  formerly 
transmitted,  which  is  not  usual.  All  which  I  humbly  submit 
to  His  Majesty's  excellent  judgment. 

Ormond  to  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

1663,  October  23.  Dublin. — Sir  Thomas  Clarges  carries 
with  him  such  amendments  of  the  new  Act,  transmitted  under 
the  Seal  by  Colonel  Jeffreys,  as  we  wish  His  Majesty  would 
cause  to  be  inserted  when  it  shall  be  returned  to  us. 
Sir  Thomas  having  been  of  all  committees  to  whom  the 
consideration  of  the  Act  and  of  the  amendments  was  referred, 
he  will  be  able  to  shew  the  reasons  inducing  them,  and  I 
conceive  will  be  of  good  use  to  your  Lordship  upon  all  occasions 
w^hen  you  shall  find  it  fit  to  confer  with  him.  You  are  very 
shortly  to  expect  some  agents  from  the  aggrieved  part  of  the 
Irish,  to  whose  going  as  it  was  not  thought  fit  to  give  any 
interruption,  so  they  go  without  any  countenance.  If  His 
Majesty  shall  admit  of  argument  to  be  made  and  answered 
as  long  as  lawyers  shall  desire  it,  and  find  matter  for  it,  he 
will  find  trouble  and  the  settlement  of  the  kingdom  delay  more 
than  enough,  but  that  there  may  be  danger,  and  that  there 
will  certainly  be  inconvenience  if  the  settlement  shall  be 
retarded,  is,  I  hope,  so  well  understood  there  that  all  superfluity 
of  discourse  will  be  cut  off,  and  the  Act  so  transmitted  that 
it  may  pass. 

I  have  also  by  Sir  Thomas  Clarges  sent  you  a  new 
Establishment  to  be  imparted  to  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett  and 
presented  to  His  Majesty's  consideration  and  signature. 
I  conceive  it  is  the  custom  and  may  be  convenient  that  it 
should  receive  the  approbation  of  the  Board  there.  If  they 
can  think  of  anything  now  that  may  be  saved,  I  shall  be 
glad  of  it.  I  say  nothing  of  the  particulars,  but  leave  them 
to  your  observation  when  you  shall  have  read  it  over. 

Endorsed : — Copy  of  my  Lord  Duke's  letter  to  the  Earl  of 
Anglesey. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  October  27.  London. — I  have  received  your  Grace's 
letter  of  the  14th  of  this  month  with  the  papers  enclosed, 
but  'tis  so  near  the  post's  going  away  that  I  have  scarce  time 
to  say  more,  yet  I  must  not  omit  to  acquaint  your  Grace  that 
yesterday  His  Majesty  and  council  spent  the  afternoon  entirely 
upon  my  Lord  of  Antrim's  business,  for  which  it  was  appointed. 


97 

I  got  all  the  papers  and  letters  I  had  from  your  Lordship  and 
the  council  upon  that  subject  read,  which,  with  what  was 
added  otherwise,  gave  so  clear  a  prospect  of  that  affair  that  it 
was  moved  strongly  that  the  whole  cause  might  be  re-examined 
in  Ireland,  and  if,  as  the  informations  import,  the  major  part 
of  the  commissioners  judged  him  innocent  upon  His  Majesty's 
letter  against  evidence,  they  are  like  to  be  without  excuse  for 
breach  of  oath  and  the  duty  of  judges,  the  King's  letter  being 
only  grounded  upon  what  is  therein  mentioned,  and  cannot 
justify  other  actions  or  done  in  other  times ;  but  the  Board 
being   informed  that  three  of  the  four   commissioners  that 
judged  for  my  Lord  of  Antrim  were  landed,  it  was  judged 
but  reasonable  that  they  should  be  heard  in  justification  of 
themselves  and  the   decree  before   we  gave  any   resolution 
against  it,  and  accordingly  ordered.      Your  Grace's  certificates 
for  my  Lord  Dungan,  etc.,  were  urged  to  justify  the  King's 
letter,  but  the  differences  were  cleared  to  the  Board,  and  896 
(Anglesey  Earl)  did  not  spare  to  vindicate  your  Grace  and  the 
council   that  evidence  was  not  sooner   sent  over,  the  cause 
depending  only  properly  in  the  Court  of  Claims,  and  your  Grace's 
certificates  were  shewed  to  be  only  matter  of  fact  within  your 
Grace's  sole  knowledge  for  the  most  part,  and  could  not  in 
justice  be  denied ;   yet  that  in   cases  where  other  evidence 
over  balanced  for  matters  not  within  your  certificates,  the 
commissioners  had  judged  against  them.     I  assure  your  Grace ^ 
the  Board  were  fully  satisfied  your  Grace  and  the  council  of 
Ireland    had    done   their    parts   faithfully,    and   unless    the 
commissioners  when  they  can  come  can  clear  themselves  from 
having  judged  in  virtue  of  the  King's  letter  against  positive 
evidence,  the  best  of  the  Board  will,  I  believe,  hardly  think 
them  fit  for  judicature  there  or  here,  and  the  justice  of  the 
rest  of  their  proceedings  will  be  very  much  questioned.      The 
blemish  some  endeavoured  to  cast  on  your  Grace  in  this  affair 
is  now  fallen  upon  themselves,  and  your  Grace  appears  the 
person  all  might  know  you  to  be,  above  reproach. 
I  shall  take  care  for  your  Grace's  subsidy. 

The  additions  to  the  bill  are  much  wanted  and,  now  Monday 
is  appointed  a  constant  day  for  Irish  affairs,  should  be  hastened. 

Here  is  discourse  of  agents  coming  for  the  Irish,  which  I 
believe  will  draw  over  some  also  for  the  English.  I  doubt 
the  bill  will  hold  me  here  beyond  my  licence,  unless  your 
Grace  and  the  council  will  have  me  leave  it,  which  I  believe 
you  will  not,  and  therefore  before  my  time  expire  I  desire 
your  Grace,  if  I  must  stay,  that  Sir  George  Lane  may  prepare 
a  new  warrant  to  my  Lord  Chancellor  to  renew  my  licence  of 
absence  when  the  present  expires. 

Mr.  Secretary  Bennett  shewing  me  the  letter  sent  under  His 
Majesty's  signet,  concerning  the  farming  of  the  customs  and 
port  excise,  I  found  it  was  sent  very  lame,  no  mention  being 
therein  of  the  term  nor  security,  but  he  told  me  he  had  referred 
to  my  letters,  and  I  remember  I  wrote  formerly  that  the  term 

Wt.  8878  G 


98 

* 

was  to  be  six  years,  and  the  security  is  referred  to  your  Lordship 
and  the  Board  with  the  conditions  also,  and  your  Lordship 
will  have  a  like  power  speedily  for  the  hearth  money.  I  beseech 
your  Lordship  that  commissions  and  instructions  may  be 
prepared  in  time  for  the  remaining  subsidies,  for  the  people 
are  so  slow  in  paying  that  no  time  had  need  be  slipt  above. 

Here  is  yet  no  news  of  Sir  William  Petty's  vessel.  The 
Turks  prevail  still  in  Hungary,  having  taken  many  places. 

The  Queen  continues  still  ill  though  supposed  to  mend; 
she  raves  pleasantly,  among  the  rest  tells  the  King  she  hath 
brought  him  a  fine  boy,  and  this  day  asked  him  when  it  should 
be  christened.  The  King  of  France  sent  one  of  low  condition, 
such  as  a  privy  chamber  man  in  ordinary,  to  visit  the  Queen, 
which  is  a  little  wondered  at  when  my  Lord  Mandeville  was 
sent  in  his  sickness. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  October  28.  London. — Sir  Nicholas  Armorer's  going 
saves  me  the  labour  of  writing  more  than  to  let  your  Grace 
know  that  he  is  a  real  servant  of  yours,  and  as  such  will,  I  am 
sure,  be  ready  to  acquaint  you  with  all  passages  and  the  state  of 
things  here.  I  am  glad  to  hear  by  my  Lord  Muskerry  that 
the  money  is  landed  at  Dublin.  I  hope  some  of  it  will  lie 
safe  in  the  Castle  for  all  accidents. 

Ormond  to  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

1663,  October  28.  Dublin. — The  two  last  posts  have  brought 
me  yours  of  the  13th  and  20th  of  this  month  ;  of  all  your  former 
letters  I  have  given  you  an  account  and  some  answers  to  them. 
I  do  not  doubt  but  that  much  opposition  will  be  given  to  the 
return  of  the  bill  transmitted,  as  well  by  the  Irish  as  by  those 
that  make  advantage  of  such  contentions  whilst  the  opportunity 
lasts.  I  could  explain  myself  if  I  were  upon  the  place  and 
would,  but  at  this  distance  it  would  be  fruitless,  and  would 
create  me  more  ill-will  than  may  be  for  my  quiet.  I  have 
earnestly  and  often  represented  the  necessity  of  some  and 
that  a  speedy  settlement,  but  I  have  not  been  so  positive  in 
defence  of  all  the  parts  of  the  bill  transmitted,  because  I  know 
my  want  of  skill  to  be  such  as  may  mislead  me,  especially 
in  computations  in  which  the  reasonableness  of  the  hope  of  that 
bill  does  principally  consist,  and  it  is  possible  that  provisoes 
in  favour  of  particular  persons  may  have  been  too  readily 
admitted  in  the  other  Act,  and  may  justly  and  fitly  receive 
correction  in  this.  But  still  the  danger  and  damage  of  delay 
is  most  visible,  and  will  therefore  I  hope  be  prevented; 
whatever  shall  become  of  other  particulars,  I  know  your 
Lordship  will  be  watchful  that  no  alteration  be  admitted  to 
the  King's  disprofit,  but  that  if  on  the  contrary  you  can  think 
of  anything  that  may  justly  and  honourably  advance  it,  you 
will  offer  it.       You  know  how  far  the  revenue  will  be  short 


99 

of  the  charge  after  all  reducements  and  improvements,  and 
how  little  help  the  Treasury  here  is  to  expect  out  of  England, 
though  I  conceive  we  have  now  as  good  warrant  as  can  be 
given  us  to  set  the  water  duties  to  farm,  and  doubt  not  but 
it  will  be  found  best  so  to  do ;  yet,  to  be  sure  that  we  go  upon 
safe  grounds,  we  hold  it  fit  to  make  a  very  strict  enquiry  how 
much  hath  come  clear  into  the  Exchequer,  all  charges  and 
losses  deducted,  lest  we  may  hereafter  be  told  we  had  done 
amiss,  and  had  direction  in  matters  relating  to  the  revenue 
to  suspend  execution  and  represent  oiu*  sense. 

I  hope  your  Lordship  is  thinking  how  to  pawn  Moor  Park 
for  the  satisfaction  of  Sir  K.  Franklin  at  his  day.  If  any 
authority  from  me  be  necessary,  I  beseech  you  let  it  be  sent 
me  and  it  shall  be  returned  perfected. 

Earl  op  Chesterfield  to  Ormond. 

1663,  November  2.  Bretby. — Suddenly  after  giving  of 
your  Lordship  a  trouble  of  this  nature  from  Holyhead,  I  was 
much  surprised  with  the  hot  alarm  of  Her  Majesty's  most 
dangerous  sickness,  which  I  thought  would  have  obliged  me 
to  go  directly  for  London,  but  meeting  the  certain  news  of 
Her  Majesty's  perfect  recovery,  I  think  my  own  occasions 
will  keep  me  here  three  or  four  days,  where  my  little  daughter 
is  my  best  company.  I  take  the  liberty  by  this  bearer  to 
send  your  Lordship  a  perspective  glass,  which  was  thought 
one  of  the  best  in  the  world.  Your  Lordship  may  try  it  either 
with  two  glasses  or  six,  which  shows  four  miles  compass  at 
once.  If  the  glasses  are  misplaced.  Sir  [William]  Petty  can 
easily  rectify  them.  I  also  send  your  Lordship  a  little  hand 
glass  made  by  the  same  master. 

Copy. 

Ormond  to  Earl  op  Anglesey. 

1663,  November  2.  Dublin. — Since  Buck  arrived  here, 
I  find  that  of  the  5,000Z  remaining  due  to  Sir  Richard  Franklin 
only  3,5001  is  to  be  paid  him  in  present,  and  that  1,500/  is 
to  be  detained  till  some  kind  of  incumbrance  in  reference  to 
the  King  shall  be  taken  off.  He  has  not  well  expressed, 
or  I  not  well  understood,  the  nature  of  the  incumbrance,  but 
I  conceive  it  is  well  known  to  Mr.  Phillips.  This  I  thought 
not  amiss  to  inform  you  of.  I  desire  your  Lordship  would 
enquire  whether  the  payment  of  a  pension  to  my  Lord  Dillon 
out  of  the  Exchequer  there  be  not  suspended  with  other 
pensions  placed  upon  any  good  fund,  because  a  friend  of  mine 
is  upon  the  purchase  of  it.  I  hope  Sir  Thomas  Clarges  is 
gotten  to  you  and  that  the  bill  is  in  good  forwardness.  The 
Parliament  stands  again  prorogued  from  the  17th  of  this  month 
to  the  12th,  as  I  think,  of  January ;  by  that  time  I  hope  it  will 
be  returned  to  us  so  as  to  pass. 


100 

Having  given  the  last  week  to  the  cosideration  of  provisoes, 
and  sat  hard  at  council,  I  am  this  morning  going  to  refresh 
myself  at  Maddenstown  till  the  end  of  the  week.  Having 
also  put  the  drawing  up  of  articles  for  the  farm  of  the 
customs  to  Mr.  Harvey  and  his  partners  for  55,000Z  into  the 
hands  of  a  fit  committee,  and  this  we  conceive  we  are  not 
only  warranted  but  obliged  in  duty  to  do.  We  were  hardly 
brought  to  believe  it  to  be  best  for  the  King  to  farm  it,  when 
we  saw  that  the  whole  proceed  of  that  duty  came  to  57,000/ 
the  last  year,  but  when  we  considered  the  deductions  and  the 
great  uncertainty  of  the  seasonable  coming  in  of  the  remain, 
we  were  convinced  that  farming  is  better,  though  it  was  not 
forgot  it  is  a  growing  revenue.  The  security  and  conditions 
are  all  that  remain  to  be  adjusted. 

Endorsed : — A  copy  of  the  letter  to  the  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  November  3.  London. — ^Within  these  four  days 
I  have  received  your  Grace's  three  letters,  two  of  the  23rd  and 
one  of  the  28th  of  October,  to  which  I  shall  give  such  answer 
as  1  can  for  the  present,  the  meeting  of  the  council  for  Irish 
affairs  having  been  put  off  yesterday,  but  Sir  Thomas  Clarges 
being  now  arrived  and  the  commissioners  near  at  hand,  and 
Mr.  Solicitor  recovered,  I  hope  all  matters  which  are  unfinished 
will  be  proceeded  in,  as  your  Grace  rightly  observes  'tis  high 
high  time. 

Concerning  the  contents  of  your  Grace's  first  letter,  which 
I  received  on  Saturday  by  my  Lord  Carlingford,  I  have  dealt 
with  Mr.  Vyner,  but  as  it  is  therein  proposed  for  500Z  to  be 
advanced  here,  to  be  repaid  there  by  my  Lord  Caulfeild 
out  of  the  money  for  Charlemont  if  that  contract  go  on,  or 
payment  to  be  secured  for  so  much  by  his  Lordship  if  that 
contract  proceed  not,  I  could  not  prevail,  but  if  your  Grace 
will  order  it  so  that  five  hundred  pounds  with  the  exchange 
may  be  paid  there  by  my  Lord  Caulfeild  or  otherwise  to  Sir 
Daniel  Bellingham,  my  Lord  Carlingford,  according  as  I  know 
your  Grace  intends,  shall  be  furnished  upon  notice  thereof 
with  five  hundred  pounds  here  as  your  Grace  directs,  and  in 
the  meanwhile  I  will  take  care  he  shall  not  be  distressed. 
He  speaks  fair  of  Irish  affairs,  and  if  his  Lordship's  actions 
be  not  suitable,  your  Grace  shall  know  it,  but  I  hope  he  wishes 
well  to  settlement. 

The  second  letter,  with  the  new  drafts  of  the  Establishment, 
both  civil  and  military,  I  received  this  day  by  Sir  Thomas 
Clarges'  man,  and  when  I  have  noted  the  differences  or  changes 
from  the  former,  shall  communicate  with,  and  proceed  by 
Mr.  Secretary  Bennett  as  your  Grace  directs,  and  transmit 
my  opinion  to  your  Grace,  if  there  be  cause. 

As  to  your  Grace's  concernment  in  the  second  payment  for 
Moor  Park,  touched  upon  in  your  Grace's  of  the  28th  of 
October,  which  I  received  yesterday,  I  have  been  so  mindful 


101 

of  yonr  Grace's  desire  therein,  that  Sir  Thomas  and  Mr.  Vyner 
(who  can  make  much  more  advantage  by  otherwise  turning 
their  moneys)  have,  to  continue  their  forwardness  to  serve 
your  Grace,  consented  to  lend  your  Grace  five  thousand  pounds, 
which  is  the  sum  due  upon  the  security  of  Moor  Park  for 
six  months,  and  in  order  thereunto  I  must  desire  your  Grace's 
authority  and  direction  to  Mr.  PhiUips  your  Grace's  counsel, 
or  who  else  is  intrusted  with  your  Grace's  conveyances,  to 
perfect  a  security  to  them  for  the  money,  and  because  they 
cannot  spare  the  money  longer  than  for  six  months,  your 
Grace  is  against  that  time  to  provide  to  pay  the  money  there 
with  allowance  for  exchange,  or  here  without.  I  beg  your 
Grace's  speedy  direction  herein. 

Matters  are  so  ill  minded  here  that  this  day  I  was  fain  to  go 
to  Mr.  Solicitor's  and  give  direction  for  an  amendment  in 
the  Explanatory  Bill  of  Customs  and  Excise,  which  was  passed 
about  six  weeks  ago,  and  not  at  all  advanced  in  when  I  called 
for  it,  to  be  transmitted  with  other  engrossed  bills,  which 
I  hope  shall  go  all  away  together  next  week. 

I  shall  by  the  next  send  some  copies  of  the  additional 
bill  here  for  hearth  money  as  your  Grace  and  the  council 
commands,  and  hasten  all  I  can  the  despatch  of  affairs 
committed  to  my  trust. 

Postscript: — My  most  humble  duty  to  my  Lady  Duchess, 
whose  recovery  I  heartily  congratulate. 

Dick  Talbot's  coach  with  six  horses  went  yesterday  to  meet 
the  commissioners  and  bring  them  this  day  to  town,  upon 
notice  whereof,  one  jested  they  might  have  come  on  foot 
before  an  English  coach  would  have  been  sent  to  meet  or 
fetch  them. 

The  Turk  prevails  still  in  Hungary,  and  is  crossed  the 
Danube,  taking  in  several  places  in  his  way  towards  Vienna, 
for  which  he  designs,  and  very  little  preparation  is  yet  made 
against  him. 

Our  Ambassador  hath  not  yet  had  audience  at  Paris.  He 
writes  me  word  he  expects  it  presently,  but  the  stop  hath  been 
upon  a  new  offer  of  the  French  to  have  all  the  Princes  of 
the  Blood's  coaches  go  next  the  King  of  France's  and  before 
our  Ambassador's  to  the  audience,  which  he  will  never  admit. 

During  this  dispute  on  the  Lord  Mayor's  day,  when  all 
the  council  were  feasted  at  Guildhall,  and  the  French 
Ambassador  also  invited,  though  'twas  not  known  to  above 
two  or  three  of  the  council,  of  which  were  my  Lord  St.  Albans 
and  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett,  who  never  acquainted  us  with  it, 
Monsieur  Cominges  had  that  which  he  takes,  and  hath  they 
say  represented,  as  a  great  affront;  for  when  we  were  in  the 
second  course.  Sir  Charles  Cottrell  having  stayed  over  long 
at  my  Lord  Mayor's  show  with  him,  not  knowing  it  seems 
that  the  council  had  resolved  to  dine  before  the  Lord  Mayor 


102 

came  to  the  hall,  brought  the  Ambassador  up  to  the  table 
where  we  were  after  three  of  the  clock,  at  which  being  surprised, 
very  few  of  us  so  much  as  saluted  or  took  notice  of  the 
Ambassador,  which  made  him  go  away  in  great  discontent 
especially  at  my  Lord  Chancellor  as  I  hear.  But  the  King, 
who  it  seems  occasioned  the  invitation,  saith  my  Lord  St. 
Albans  only  was  in  fault,  and  I  think  he  is  best  able  to  bear 
the  blame. 


Earl  of  Anglbsey  to  Obmond. 

1663,  November  10.     London. — Though  we  make  very  little 

Erogress  in  the  affairs  of  Ireland,  I  know  it  will  be  expected 
y  your  Grace  that  I  inform  you  what  is  done  or  doing. 
Yesterday  being  appointed  a  council  day  for  Ireland,  the 
Explanatory  Act  was  first  called  for  and  Mr.  Solicitor  present 
to  have  reported  it,  but  finding  that  he  had  but  late  on  Saturday 
received  the  amendments  lately  transmitted  by  your  Grace, 
to  the  end  that  upon  the  reading  of  the  bill  we  might  be 
informed  by  Mr.  Solicitor  what  alteration  or  addition  those 
amendments  would  make  in  it,  we  adjourned  the  reading  and 
debating  of  it  till  Monday  next. 

The  next  thing  offered  at  council  was  a  petition  of  Sir 
Nicholas  Plunket's  in  behalf  of  the  Boman  Catholics  concerned 
in  the  bill,  setting  forth  that  he  was  come  over  by  allowance 
of  the  Lord  Lieutenant  and  council  to  implore  His  Majesty's 
favour  and  care  of  them  in  the  proceeding  of  the  bill  now 
depending  for  the  settlement  of  that  kingdom.  Nothing  was 
done  hereupon,  but  an  intimation  given  that  he  should  be  heard 
in  due  time. 

Next  in  order  my  Lord  of  Antrim's  cause  was  called  for, 
wherein  984  (Lord  Chancellor)  moved,  and  accordingly  it  was 
ordered  that  it  should  be  heard  on  Friday  next,  and  in  the 
meanwhile  his  Lordship  with  his  counsel,  the  commissioners 
lately  come  over,  the  adventurers  and  soldiers  concerned  with 
their  counsel,  and  the  King's  learned  counsel  in  his  Majesty's 
behalf  (who  indeed  is  most  concerned  in  this  affair),  are  to  be 
summoned  to  attend  in  order  to  the  council's  giving  their 
judgment  therein.  I  give  your  Grace  the  bare  matter  of  fact 
being  loth  to  make  any  observations  upon  it,  though  some 
think  the  proceeding  too  formal  to  produce  a  proper  remedy 
for  the  evil. 

The  rest  of  this  council  was  spent  in  reading  and  receiving 
an  account  of  bills  from  Mr.  Solicitor. 

The  bill  for  wine  licences  was  referred  to  the  committee 
for  Irish  affairs,  with  special  direction  to  expunge  the  clause 
against  farming  it.  The  Act  for  rebuilding  St.  Andrew's 
Church,  and  for  maintenance  for  it  and  other  churches  in 
cities  and  corporations,  was  much  debated  and  committed 
also. 


103 

The  bill  for  impowering  ecclesiastical  persons  to  make 
leases  for  sixty  years  was  much  canvassed  and  spoken  against 
and  like  to  have  been  laid  aside,  yet  some  of  us  prevailed  at 
last  to  have  it  committed,  and  if  the  clergy  whom  it  principally 
concerns  desire  it,  some  of  them  shall  do  well  to  write  to  the 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury  about  it. 

The  bill  to  prevent  the  frequency  of  excommunications  was 
much  opposed  and  censured  by  some,  yet  so  far  justified  by 
others  that  we  got  it  also  committed. 

The  bill  for  a  bridge  at  Ballylege,  over  the  Shannon,  was 
laid  aside,  not  being  judged  fit  now  the  people  are  under  so 
many  payments,  and  the  sum  not  being  named  it  was  conceived 
impossible  to  get  in  Parliament  there  a  power  to  raise  what 
they  please  for  it  to  be  lodged  in  the  Lord  Lieutenant  and 
council. 

The  bill  against  stealing  of  children  and  for  making  it  felony 
was  passed,  there  being  no  exception  to  it. 

Here  I  must  not  omit  to  acquaint  your  Grace  that  before 
the  reading  of  the  two  last  bills,  854  (King)  with  some  reflexion 
upon  the  other  bills  and  in  general  upon  bills  sent  thence, 
wherein  984  (Lord  Chancellor)  seemed  to  concur,  used  this 
expression  that  there  was  some  leaven  212,  243,  692,  298,  641 
(in  the  council  of  Ireland),  and  spoke  it  with  some  heat; 
whereupon  896  (Earl  of  Anglesey)  held  it  his  duty,  who  had 
been  a  witness  to  their  impartiality  and  great  care  in  those 
matters  wherein  the  Judges  are  chiefly  employed,  freely  to 
speak  in  their  vindication,  which  he  did  to  good  satisfaction, 
and  I  cannot  imagine  how  this  passage  should  happen  unless 
the  568  (Irish)  had  been  at  work  and  particularly  aimed  at 
994  (my  Lord),  who  in  the  718  (Marq.)  behalf  is  much  railed 
at  here  by  some,  and  I  must  tell  your  Grace  855  (King  of 
England)  dined  yesterday  with  941  (Queen  mother),  but  that 
which  troubled  896  (me)  most  in  this  affair  was  that  984 
(Lord  Chancellor)  so  far  yielded  854,  37  (King's)  reprimand, 
just  that  he  undertook  by  private  letters  to  961  (your  Grace) 
to  warn  256  (you)  of  more  caution  in  329,  39  (acts)  hereafter ; 
but  his  Lordship  being  961,  38  (your  Grace's)  professed  friend, 
I  hope  no  reflexion  on  961,  38  (your  Grace's)  government  was 
intended.  I  am  sure  when  it  shall  be  tried  no  other  will  be 
found  that  can  hold  the  balance  so  even  and  preserve  peace. 
By  the  promised  letter,  when  it  comes  to  961,  256  (your  Grace, 
you)  will  judge  best  what  is  intended.  I  am  sure  896  (Earl  of 
Anglesey)  was  asked  by  some  of  the  692  (council)  upon  this 
passage  whether  all  were  well  between  539  and  984,  which 
I  spared  not  to  assert.  If  I  have  been  more  particular  than 
your  Grace  expects,  impute  it  to  the  faithfulness  of  my 
friendship  and  service,  which  would  have  your  Grace  know 
transactions  as  clearly  as  if  you  were  here. 

There  being  little  cipher  I  desire  it  may  be  unciphered  by 
your  Grace's  own  hand. 

Endorsed : — ^Beceived  20th  November,  1663. 


104 

Eabl  of  Anglesey  to  Obmond. 

1663,  November  17.  Loudon. — Your  Grace's  of  the  2n(i  of 
this  month  I  received  the  11th,  and  shall  take  care  that  there 
be  only  3,500Z  paid  to  Sir  Eich.  Franklin.  I  was  to  have 
found  Mr.  Phillips  to-day  for  direction  about  it  but  missed  him. 
To-morrow  I  will  seek  again  for  him,  and  by  the  next  shall 
inform  your  Grace  concerning  my  Lord  Dillon's  pension. 

Sir  Thomas  Clarges  hath  been  long  here,  but  the  bill  was  not 
read  at  council  till  yesterday  when  the  Irish  and  English  were 
admitted  to  be  by,  which  I  never  saw  before,  and  all  heard 
the  report  made  by  the  Solicitor,  which  Sir  Nicholas  Plunket 
approved  so  well  of  that  he  said  openly  the  Solicitor  had  Hit 
upon  most  of  the  exceptions  he  had  to  make,  yet  he  gave  in 
his  paper  of  observations  in  writing  upon  the  bill,  which  I 
understand  are  the  same  presented  to  your  Grace  in  Ireland. 
The  adventurers  also  gave  in  their  petition,  which  is  against 
parting  with  a  sixth,  and  for  the  lands  taken  away  and  granted 
in  custodiam,  to  be  resumed  and  restored  to  them,  etc.  The 
commissioners,  viz.,  Mr.  Coventry,  etc.,  were  also  present, 
but  Sir  Bich.  Eainsford  is  like  to  be  there  no  more,  being  this 
week  to  be  called  to  the  Exchequer  Bench. 

I  find  I  shall  have  a  hard  task  of  it.  I  shall  take  Sir  Tho. 
Clarges'  help  along,  and  do  my  best  to  justify  the  industry 
and  wisdom  of  your  Grace  and  the  council  shewed  in  thi   bill. 

1006  (Earl  St.  Albans)  and  898  (Berkeley)  are  great  sticklers 
for  the  21,  35,  22,  37,  20  and  898,  being  gotten  to  be  of  the 
568,  621.  104  is  very  troublesome  and  capable  of  giving  no 
help  at  all.  896  (Earl  of  Anglesey)  wisheth  he  were  at  his 
194,  399. 

It's  well  the  Parliament  is  prorogued  till  January  12th. 
I  doubt  much  the  bill  will  not  be  despatched  by  that  time,  and 
I  am  of  opinion  it's  to  little  purpose  to  propose  any  other  till  that 
be  made  satisfactory  and  sent  also. 

I  am  glad  Mr.  Harvey  and  his  partners  are  advanced  to 
55 ,000/ ,  but  it  must  be  looked  to  that  they  gain  not  more  in 
the  form  of  the  articles  than  the  addition  they  have  made,  for 
which  end,  if  the  draft  be  sent  me  before  it  be  agreed,  I  will 
get  the  best  advice  I  can  upon  it.  Howsoever  I  must  again 
remember  your  Grace  how  absolutely  necessary  it  is  that  they 
be  bound  from  disposing  any  of  the  income  of  the  city  and 
port  of  Dublin,  so  as  that  receipt  may  be  monthly  paid  into 
the  Exchequer,  without  which  there  will  be  no  money  in  the 
Treasury  for  the  civil  lists  (wherein  your  Grace's  entertainment 
is)  or  daily  emergencies,  but  they  will  pocket  up  much  of  that 
and  assign  others  to  receive  in  the  country,  whereby  the  King's 
guard  and  life  guard  will  be  also  straitened. 

My  Lord  of  Antrim's  business  being  appointed  for  Friday 
last  was  put  off,  no  side  nor  the  commissioners  themselves  being 
furnished  with  the  decree,  nor  was  it  sent  me  in  your  Grace's 


105 

and  the  councirs  letter ;  and  when  Sir  Eich.  Eainsford  said  in 
excuse  that  they  had  it  not,  that  he  knew  of  no  appeal  nor 
expected  it,  he  was  told  that  wp,s  very  strange,  when  it  had 
been  the  discourse  of  city  and  country  these  three  months 
almost. 

The  Queen  is  well  recovered.  I  long  to  hear  of  the  money's 
safe  arrival. 

Postscript: — My  Lord  Fitzharding  told  me  lately  he  had 
heard  nothing  of  the  King's  letter  sent  to  your  Grace  concerning 
2,000/  a  year  for  him,  and  asked  me  whether  I  had  heard 
anything  of  it  from  your  Grace.  Sir  Henry  Bennett's  bill 
is  passed. 

Ormond  to  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

1663,  November  18.  Dublin. — Though  I  think  I  have  a 
former  of  yours  unanswered,  yet  not  finding  of  it  on  the  sudden 
and  having  very  many  other  letters  on  my  hands,  I  shall  "at 
this  time  only  answer  that  of  the  3rd  instant,  which  is  the 
only  letter  I  had  from  you  in  three  packets  that  came  together. 

The  bargain  with  my  Lord  Caulfeild  is  not  fully  concluded, 
the  King's  council  advising  that  a  commission  should  issue 
to  fit  persons  to  examine  and  return  the  value  of  the  things 
bought,  which  will  be  to  the  King's  advantage  and  to  my 
security.  As  soon  as  that  commission  is  sped,  order  shall 
be  taken  that  5001  with  the  allowance  shall  be  put  into 
Sir  Daniel  Bellingham's  hands ;  till  then  my  Lord  of  Carlingford 
must  have  patience. 

1  conceive  you  had  not  considered  the  establishment  when 
you  were  writing  yours  of  the  3rd,  but  that  you  had  and 
discoursed  with  my  Lord  Chancellor  of  it  before  he  writ  his 
of  the  7th,  wherein  he  says  you  thought  some  unnecessary 
charge  was  by  it  like  to  be  perpetuated  upon  the  crown. 
1  have  not  looked  it  over  since  I  received  my  Lord  Chancellor's, 
nor  can  remember  what  charge  that  can  be  unless  it  be  that 
of  a  guard  of  horse  to  be  called  the  King's,  which  I  conceive, 
if  well  ordered,  to  be  of  great  security  and  ornament  to  the 
chief  governor,  but  I  shall  say  nothing  of  it  till  I  receive 
your  sense  and  observations.  I  am  much  obliged  to  your 
Lordship  for  your  care  of  the  affair  of  Moor  Park,  and  to  the 
two  Vyners  also.  I  send  you  herewith  a  letter  to  Mr.  Phillips 
to  the  effect  you  desire,  and  if  before  the  post  goes  I  can 
find  whose  names  were  made  use  of  in  trust  for  me,  they 
shall  have  direction  to  do  their  parts  towards  the  securing 
of  the  5,000/  to  the  Vyners,  and  I  will  be  careful  that  they 
shall  be  repaid  it  by  the  six  months  end.  The  bill  explanatory 
concerning  excise  and  customs,  with  two  hangers  on,  are 
gotten  hither,  but  they  must  lie  by  the  walls  tUl  the  Act  of 
Settlement  shall  be  returned,  for  till  then  it  will  not  be 
advisable  to  let  angry  men  meet  in  Parliament.  I  hope 
that  bill  will  come  so  to  them  as  to  make  good  way  for  any 


106 

other  that  may  be  of  advantage  to  the  King,  and  upon  this 
occasion  I  desire  your  opinion  why  an  act  of  repeal  of  or 
dispensation  with  Poynings'  Act,  at  least  during  this 
Parliament,  may  not  be  thought  fit,  so  it  be  limited  only  to 
grants  of  money,  or  of  something  that  may  make  money  to 
the  King.  The  reason  why  I  propose  it  is,  first,  that 
notwithstanding  all  the  computations  we  have  made  of  all 
the  branches  of  the  revenue  should  hold  to  the  height,  yet 
it  will  fall  short  to  answer  the  charge  by  near  20,000/  a  year, 
and  that  defect,  unless  it  can  be  remedied,  will  eat  every 
year  into  the  revenue,  and  grow  greater  for  all  shifts  for 
money  are  chargeable;  in  the  next  place  it  is  possible  the 
House  of  Commons  may  in  a  nick  of  time  be  found  in  so 
good  humour  as  to  pass  that,  which  if  all  the  formalities  of 
a  transmission  and  return  must  be  stayed  for,  may  meet 
with  more  difficulty.  Let  me  have  your  sense.  The  returns 
of  the  hearth  money  comes  so  shamefully  short,  and  we  are 
so  to  seek  how  to  help  it,  that  unless  it  be  forthwith  farmed 
it  will  be  a  year  longer  than  was  cast  up  before  it  can  be 
accounted  upon  to  answer  any  part  of  the  charge. 

I  hear  some,  that  think  they  could  do  everything  better  than 
tliey  that  do  them,  make  it  their  ordinary  discourse  that  the 
King's  revenue  here,  if  well  managed,  would  be  trebled  at 
least.  By  this  description  you  may  know  the  man,  it  is  he 
that  has  so  ill  an  opinion  of  the  Army  and  so  good  a  one 
of  himself.  The  money  will  be  all  lodged  in  the  Castle 
this  night. 

Postscript : — Though  I  now  mention  5 ,000/  to  be  paid 
Sir  Kichard  Franklin,  yet  1,500/  is  as  I  am  told  to  be  kept 
for  the  security  of  discharging  some  incumbrance.  I  writ 
of  this  to  you  in  mine  of  the  2nd,  but  Mr.  Phillips  will 
fully  inform  you. 

I  have  just  now  received  yours  of  the  10th  instant,  but 
cannot  decipher  it  before  the  going  of  the  packet.  You  say 
nothing  new  of  Moor  Park,  perhaps  Sir  Richard  Franklin, 
if  it  were  moved  to  him  by  Mr.  Phillips,  would  take  interest 
and  let  the  assurance  stand  till  May. 

Endorsed : — A  copy  of  the  letter  to  the  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

Ormond  to  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

1663,  November  21.  Dublin. — I  have  now  read  over  all 
yours  of  the  10th  of  this  month,  giving  an  account  of  the 
progress  of  all  things  there  concerning  Ireland.  What 
reception  the  Explanatory  Act  will  have  had  upon  the  first 
opening  by  Mr.  Solicitor  is  what  we  expect  to  hear  by  the  next. 
If  it  shall  indeed  be  found  so  void  of  justice  as  many  have 
successfully,  as  they  write  hither,  represented  it  there,  it  is 
fit  it  should  die  there  or  suffer  a  reasonable  change. 

Later  letters  than  yours  say  my  Lord  of  Antrim  hath  gained 
much  advantage  by  the  negligence  of  his  opponents,  who  were 
not  furnished  with  a  copy  of  the  decree  they  complain  of. 
I  thought  my  Lord  Massereene  more  provident  and  dexterous. 


107 

Mr.  Secretaiy  writes  to  me  that  at  the  time  of  the 
commitment  of  some  bills,  His  Majesty  said  he  observed  in 
many  of  the  late  bills  clauses  derogatory  to  the  prerogative 
of  the  Crown,  but  tells  me  not  in  what  bills  nor  what  the 
clauses  in  those  are  understood  to  be  so.  I  should  be  sorry 
to  have  any  part  in  hurting  that  I  have  ventured  so  much  to 
assert,  but  know  not  what  to  say  till  I  am  told  my  error. 

I  wish  Mr.  Temple,  who  is  there  upon  the  place  and  is  a 
discreet  person,  may  be  consulted  with  in  the  matter  of  the 
Act.  He  hath  always  gone  very  right  in  the  House  of 
Commons,  and  understands  their  temper  as  well  as  most  that 
sit  there.  I  have  had  no  letter  from  my  Lord  Chancellor 
since  the  7th  of  this  month,  but  Sir  A.  Brodrick  writ  me  his 
excuse. 

Endorsed : — A  copy  of  the  letter  to  the  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

Eabl  of  Anglesey  to  Obmond. 

1663,  November  28.  London. — This  day  I  received  your 
Grace's  letters  of  the  18th  and  21st  of  this  month,  which 
are  the  only  letters  from  your  Grace  since  the  5th  of  this  month, 
which  I  mention  to  clear  the  miscarriage  of  letters  if  any 
happens,  as  upon  observation  of  a  word  in  your  Grace's  of 
the  18th  intimating  that  mine  of  the  3rd  instant,  to  which 
that  was  an  answer,  was  the  only  letter  your  Grace  had 
from  me  in  three  packets  that  came  together,  I  presume  to 
mention  to  your  Grace  that  as  I  have  scarce  failed  one  week 
since  I  left  Ireland,  so  I  did  particularly  w^rite  to  your  Grace 
October  6th,  13th,  20th,  and  27th,  and  if  any  of  those  have 
failed  to  come  to  your  Grace's  hands,  some  have  been  more 
presumptuous  than  was  fit. 

I  shall  acquaint  my  Lord  Carlingford  with  your  Grace's 
direction  concerning  the  6002,  with  which  it's  reason  his 
Lordship  should  be  satisfied. 

As  for  the  establishment  I  had  not  considered  it  further,  when 
I  wrote  mine  of  the  3rd,  than  by  a  cursory  perusal  I  was  able 
to  do,  upon  which  speaking  aftei;  to  my  Lord  Chancellor  I 
remember  I  told  his  Lordship  I  was  particularly  noting  the 
differences  thereof  from  the  former,  and  could  only  then  tell  his 
Lordship  that  there  were  some  charges  made  perpetual  which 
I  thought  might  remain  temporary,  but  resolved  to  speak 
further  with  his  Lordship  thereof  before  it  came  to  the  board, 
and  though  I  have  since  stated  all  the  alterations  and  additions 
apart,  yet  that  I  may  the  more  fully  answer  your  Lordship 
in  other  particulars,  I  beg  your  Lordship's  forbearance  till 
Tuesday's  post,  when  I  will  present  your  Grace  with  all  I  have 
observed  or  think  fit  to  offer  concerning  it,  that  I  may  have 
your  Grace's  final  direction  in  the  offering  it  to  His  Majesty 
and  the  board.  In  the  meanwhile  I  assure  your  Grace  my 
discourse  with  the  Lord  Chancellor  had  not  the  least  reflexion 


108 

upon  the  charge  of  a  guard  of  horse  to  be  called  the  King's, 
which  I  am  of  opinion  with  your  Grace,  if  well  ordered,  to  be  of 
great  security  and  ornament  to  the  chief  Governor,  and  at  this 
time  I  may  add  very  necessary. 

I  shall  deliver  your  Grace's  letter  to  Mr.  Phillips,  with 
whom  I  spoke  the  beginning  of  this  week  before  the  gout  took 
me,  which  hath  since  and  still  doth  keep  me  at  home ;  by  him 
I  found  out  since  where  the  deeds  of  mortgage  of  Moor  Park 
are,  and  spoke  with  Dr.  Giles  Allen's  brother,  Mr.  Wm.  Allen, 
a  silkmaii,  who  is  trusted  by  the  Dr.  (who  is  mortgagee)  to 
receive  the  money,  and  he  expressing  a  willingness  to  let  your 
Grace  continue  the  money  six  months  longer,  paying  the 
interest,  and  finding  the  expressions  of  your  Grace's  last  letter 
to  be  indifferent  in  the  case  whether  it  be  paid  or  continued 
if  they  will,  I  shall  upon  speaking  with  them  and  Sir  Thomas 
and  Mr.  Vyner,  do  what  shall  be  most  convenient  and  safe  for 
your  Grace,  remembering  the  1,500Z  that  is  to  lie  in  deposit 
till  the  incumbrances  be  cleared. 

1  believe,  as  your  Grace  writes  that  the  Explanatory  Bill 
concerning  customs,  etc. ,  and  those  which  accompanied  it,  must 
lie  by  till  we  send  some  other  to  give  them  passage,  yet  finding 
the  proceeding  in  business  here  very  slow  and  much  upon  our 
hands,  I  was  desirous  to  hasten  away  what  I  could,  the 
rather  upon  the  intimation  of  your  Grace's  and  the  council's 
letters  of  the  29th  of  last  month,  which  I  have  answered  this 
post. 

As  to  what  your  Grace  writes  concerning  the  repeal  of  or 
dispensation  with  Poynings'  law  for  this  Parliament  upon  the 
grounds  mentioned,  though  upon  the  first  thoughts  of  it  I 
conceive  something  in  that  kind  may  be  fit  to  be  done,  as  was 
in  the  time  of  Sir  Wm.  Eussell's  government,  yet  I  shall  respite 
the  giving  any  positive  opinion  therein  till  my  next  letters. 

1  am  sorry  the  hearth  money  falls  so  short.  I  doubt  it  will 
not  mend  by  farming  till  a  new  bill  pass  to  remedy  the  defects 
of  the  first,  for  which  I  have  sent  the  council  a  copy  of  that 
passed  in  England,  as  I  enclose  one  also  to  your  Grace. 

If  the  man  your  Grace  describes  so  well  that  I  easily  know 
him,  were  capable  to  make  good  the  tenth  part  of  what  he 
discourses  of  trebling  the  King's  revenue,  he  would  deserve 
a  much  better  place  than  mine,  and  to  advance  His  Majesty's 
service  so  considerably  I  should  part  with  it  upon  the  terms 
my  Lord  Strafford  offered  my  father,  when  it  was  not  near  so 
good  as  it  is  now,  but  by  his  discourse,  which  I  have  too  often 
heard,  I  guess  his  design  would  be  to  increase  the  King's 
revenue  by  forfeiting  the  estates  of  most  of  the  Protestants 
and  making  them  crown  lands,  which  were  a  likelier  way  to 
lose  the  King's  subjects  and  the  rest  of  his  revenue  than  to 
make  it  more,  and  might  perpetuate  an  insupportable  charge 
on  the  crown  or  hazard  the  loss  of  Ireland,  which  the  advice  of 
such  politicans  tend  more  to  than  to  a  safe,  honourable,  and 


109 

just  settlement,  which  I  hope  others  will  have  the  honour  to 
stand  for  and  obtain.  I  am  glad  the  money  is  safe  lodged. 
I  doubt  the  revenue  there  comes  in  but  slowly.  I  will  hasten 
a  despatch  of  affairs  here,  that  I  may  spend  as  little  as  may  be 
of  my  second  licence  before  I  attend  my  charge  there. 

Before  this  time  your  Lordship  hath  an  account  of 
Mr.  Solicitor's  report.  The  last  Monday  nothing  was  done 
but  to  receive  the  Adventurers*  petition  of  delay  because  they 
had  not  received  copies  of  the  bill  and  other  papers  till  Saturday 
before,  and  to  receive  Sir  Thomas  Clarges*  answer  to  Sir 
Nicholas  Plunket  in  writing,  to  which  adding  some  discourse 
quick  enough  in  the  close  thereof,  he  resembled  the  Irish 
following  the  King  beyond  sea  (of  which  they  boast  too  much) 
"to  those  who  followed  Christ  for  the  loaves,  but  His  Majesty 
casting  in  a  word  that  some  of  them  had  left  their  bread  for 
him,  Sir  Thomas  touched  no  more  on  that  thing.  All  parties 
were  then  appointed  to  bring  in  all  they  had  to  offer  next 
Monday,  from  which  time  His  Majesty  and  the  council  would 
have  them  so  modest  as  to  trust  them  to  make  the  bill  such 
as  was  fit  to  pass  without  other  help. 

It  is  strange  that  any  should  write  thither  that  they  have 
successfully  represented  here  the  bill  to  be  void  of  justice,  it 
is  the  practice  of  some  when  they  have  satisfied  themselves 
with  an  earnest  though  empty  discourse,  to  fancy  they  have 
convinced  others.  This  is  a  new  sort  of  fanaticism  in  politics 
which  will  in  time  vanish  like  the  former ;  yet  I  will  not  conceal 
from  your  Grace  that  some  (whether  yours  or  Ireland's  friends 
time  will  show)  speak  more  liberally  than  decently  of  the  bill 
in  a  general  way  of  dislike  and  clamour,  among  which  the 
before-mentioned  great  undertaker  for  trebling  His  Majesty's 
revenue  is  not  the  least,  but  all  that  I  have  heard  objected  with 
any  show  of  reason  or  calmness,  is  the  leaving  the  nomination 
of  persons  to  be  received  to  grace  and  favour  to  your  Lordship 
and  the  council,  which  is  called  a  giving  away  the  King's 
prerogative,  and  the  repealing  the  clause  concerning  those 
who  have  either  broken  the  peace  or  opposed  the  King's 
restitution  and  some  other  small  matters.  These  particulars, 
though  they  were  added  since  I  came  away,  so  that  I  am  not 
fully  possessed  of  the  grounds  thereof,  yet  I  hope  I  shall  satisfy 
His  Majesty  and  the  council  the  advice  is  good,  being  satisfied 
your  Grace  and  the  council  best  know  what  stock  will  be  for 
the  Irish,  according  to  the  proportion  whereof  persons 
must  be  nominated,  besides  you  best  know  who  served 
the  King  best  in  Ireland,  and  no  persons  will  buy  their 
nomination  if  it  be  left  to  be  done  by  your  Grace,  etc., 
but  I  am  confident  if  the  King  will  have  the  nomination  and 
proportion  it  to  the  stock,  your  Grace  will  be  glad  to  be  rid  of  it, 
or  at  least  be  ready  to  send  him  names  to  be  approved  or 
corrected  here  as  he  shall  think  fit.  And  for  the  other 
particular,  as  it  is  of  inconsiderable  value  more  than  to  quiet 
minds  (already  too  much  disturbed),  so  it  is  that  which  the 


110 

yielding  of  a  sixth  part  for  reprisals  may  well  call  for  into  the 
bargain.  I  shall  say  no  more  of  this  till  Tuesday  when  your 
Grace,  by  the  account  of  Monday's  proceedings,  will  be  able 
to  guess  at  the  course  we  shall  steer. 

As  to  what  Mr.  Secretary  wrote  to  your  Grace  that  His 
Majesty,  at  the  time  of  the  commitment  of  some  bills,  said  he 
observed  in  many  of  the  late  bills  clauses  derogatory  to  the 
prerogative  of  the  Crown,  but  tells  not  in  what,  which  certainly 
he  should  have  done.  1  suppose  before  this  time  your  Grace 
hath  considered  what  I  wrote  my  Lord  Chancellor  had  under- 
taken to  intimate  to  your  Grace  upon  all  I  heard  the  King  say 
upon  the  commitment  of  some  bills,  which  in  the  same  letter 
I  expressed,  and  though  the  bill  of  settlement  was  not  then 
reported,  yet  I  conceive  the  King  had  been  by  some  so  possessed 
with  its  trenching  upon  his  prerogative  as  in  the  particular 
before-mentioned,  that  when  in  the  bills  for  wine  licences 
there  was  some  exception  to  the  proviso  against  His  Majesty's 
farming  it  which  was  therefore  altered,  and  to  the  making 
grants  thereof  void  as  to  pensions,  which  yet  is  suffered  to 
stand,  yet  His  Majesty  upon  the  whole  cast  out  some  expression 
of  reflection  upon  his  council  in  Ireland,  whose  painfulness 
and  duty  to  him  I  did  not  then  fail  to  indicate;  and  if 
Mr.  Secretary  know  more  of  the  matter  I  wish  he  would  declare 
it,  for  I  am  of  opinion  the  bills  from  Ireland  since  His  Majesty's 
restoration  have  been  as  full  of  care  and  duty  as  ever,  and 
more  for  his  profit  than  all  that  have  passed  since  primo 
Elizabethce,  I  may  say  much  higher;  and  since  your  Grace 
apprehends  by  Mr.  Secretary's  letter  you  are  touched  in  it, 
it  were  no  amiss  to  call  for  instances  of  particular  clauses 
understood  to  intrench  upon  His  Majesty's  prerogative,  the 
very  motion  for  which  will  clear  your  Grace  and  the  council 
and  beget  more  wariness  hereafter ;  but  this  puts  me  in  mind 
of  a  quick  letter  written  to  your  Grace  and  the  council,  presently 
after  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett  was  made  Secretary,  about  reasons 
desired  thence  why  some  public  bills  did  not  pass  here,  which 
was  then  interpreted  little  less  than  a  saucy  demand,  to  which 
Mr.  Secretary  Davis  had  prepared  a  fitting  answer,  which 
perhaps  it  had  been  good  to  have  sent,  but  your  Grace  sees 
that  exceptions  to  bills  are  sent  without  asking  for  them, 
and  reflecting  enough ;  how  is  it  possible  at  this  rate  for  those 
who  govern  there  to  satisfy. 

I  am  of  your  Grace's  opinion  concerning  Mr.  Temple,  and 
do  confer  with  him  as  I  advise  others  to  take  his  assistance 
in  business  of  Ireland.  Though  my  gout  continues  I  will 
creep  abroad  on  Monday,  God  willing,  and  if  your  Grace  pardon 
this  and  interpret  the  length  of  it  to  my  zeal  for  your  Grace's 
service  and  the  good  of  that  poor  kingdom,  I  will  not  offend 
so  much  again  at  once. 

Postscript: — Some  have  spoken  with  reflection  upon  a 
custodiam  granted  me  by  your  Grace  upon  my  petition  in 
order  to  my  reprisal,  for  what  the  Court  of  Claims  gave  away 


Ill 

of  mine,  the  custodiam  consisting  of  some  waste  things  in 
His  Majesty's  hands  or  not  before  yielding  him  any  profit. 
I  have  made  their  envy  ridiculous  here,  and  that  .your  Lordship 
may  be  justified  there,  I  do  assure  your  Grace  I  have  been  at 
charge  about  it,  but  never  got  two  pence  by  it,  and  so  I  be 
cleared  of  the  chequer  rent  I  shall  not  value  it  two  pence, 
though  if  it  fall  to  the  stock  of  reprisals  I  know  your  Grace 
will  judge  it  as  reasonable  I  have  a  share  in  it  as  others,  this 
being  the  case  to  a  tittle.  But  I  wonder  little  at  my  receiving 
this  measure,  when  I  find  your  Grace  nibbled  at  by  vermin 
in  the  dark,  for  though  I  have  hunted  for  them  none  will 
appear  openly  against  you. 


Earl  op  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  December  1.  London. — ^This  is  to  supply  what  my 
last  of  the  28th  of  November  was  defective  in,  though  I  then 
wrote  to  your  Grace  of  most  matters  touched  in  your  letters, 
yet  want  of  time  made  me  imperfect  in  some,  and  something 
hath  occurred  since. 

First  concerning  the  establishment  now  proposed,  upon  full 
consideration  thereof  I  do  not  find  much  to  be  contradicted 
more  than  what  I  intimated  before,  that  almost  all  the 
temporary  payments  of  the  last  establishment  are  made 
perpetual,  which  will  fix  them  past  recovery,  whereas  remaining 
temporary  the  King  will  be  eased  of  them  by  degrees.  I  could 
wish  also  if  your  Grace  judge  fit  that  now  the  troops  are  at  45, 
the  quarter  masters  and  one  trumpet  in  each  troop  were  taken 
off  which  will  be  a  considerable  ease  of  charge. 

Some  new  additions  also  there  are  of  charge  for  the  muster- 
master  general.  Governor  of  Dublin,  etc.,  which  I  find  will 
be  of  difficult  digestion  here,  where  a  resolution  is  taken  up 
to  make  Ireland  bear  its  own  charge. 

In  order  to  which,  therefore,  concerning  your  Grace's  proposal 
concerning  the  suspension  of  Poynings'  law  with  the  limitation 
and  restriction  your  Grace  mentioned  for  laws  only  concerning 
the  revenue,  as  was  done  formerly,  but  whether  in  Sir  William 
Eussell's  time  (as  I  thought  when  I  wrote  last)  or  in  which  other 
Chief  Governor's  time  I  cannot  recollect,  (but  Sir  Paul  Davys 
will  easily  find  in  the  statute  book) ,  I  conceive  upon  the  grounds 
your  Grace  gives,  and  many  others,  it  is  absolutely  necessary ; 
yet  being  a  matter  of  great  weight  and  putting  for  the  time 
and  subject  so  vast  a  power  and  prerogative  into  the  €hief 
Governor,  though  it  cannot  but  be  for  His  Majesty's  advantage, 
my  humble  advice  is  that  the  thing  with  the  reasons  be  first 
proposed  to  His  Majesty  before  any  such  bill  be  prepared  or 
submitted. 

As  to  your  Lordship's  concern  of  Moor  Park,  finding 
Dr.  Allen  willing  to  continue  the  money  in  your  Lordship's 
hands  for  six  months,  I  judged  it  every  way  most  convenient 


112 

for  you,  and  less  charge  than  to  remove  or  change  securities ; 
and  have  so  agreed  it,  and  the  rather  because  if  the  15,000/ 
had  been  taken  up,  l,600i  must  have  lain  dead  in  expectation 
of  Sir  Eich.  Franklin's  taking  of  incumbrances. 

I  shall  novvr  acquaint  your  Grace  how  far  we  have  proceeded 
in  the  new  bill.  Yesterday,  though  my  Lord  Chancellor  was 
ill  of  the  gout  and  absent,  thinking  it  the  more  needful  to 
strain  a  point  with  my  gout,  I  went  to  the  council  board  as 
I  was,  and  still  am,  where  the  Adventurers  gave  in  their  paper 
which  consisted  of  divers  points,  but  such  as  we  shall  easily 
overcome.  Then  the  commissioners,  after  a  grave  speech 
made  by  Sir  Eichard  Eainsford,  wliich  I  forget  and  omit 
because  it  was  not  delivered  in  writing,  delivered  in  three  papers 
answerable  to  the  three  particulars  enjoined  them  by  His 
Majesty  and  council,  viz. :  1 — ^to  show  the  reasons  why  they 
proceeded  not  after  the  21st  of  August  in  execution  of  their 
trust.  2 — To  offer  their  opinion  wherein  the  new  bill  varied 
from  the  declaration  and  instructions  and  Act  of  Settlement. 
3 — To  present  the  board  with  such  expedients  as  they  conceived 
might  settle  Ireland ;  a  great  task,  but  no  way  declined,  as  your 
Grace  will  find  by  those  who  know  themselves  able  to  go 
through  it,  and  in  their  short  sitting  in  the  Court  of  Claims 
are  come  to  understand  Ireland  as  your  Grace  may  perceive 
better  than  the  Lord  Lieutenant  and  council,  for  they  differ 
from  you  toto  coelo,  and  it's  well  if  what  they  have  offered 
agree  with  itself,  for  unless  the  glory  of  their  knowledge  have 
darkened  "my  little  understanding  of  matters  f  not  to  mention 
more) ,  I  think  one  passage  of  their  third  paper  is  diametrically 
contrary  to  one  in  the  second,  for  whereas  they  object  against 
the  new  bill  that  it  takes  away  a  sixth  part  when  the  parties 
ought  to  have  the  whole  made  good  to  them,  which  your  Grace 
will  find  in  the  second  paper.  In  the  third  paper  their  first 
proposal  is  to  take  away  above  a  third,  for  they  would  have 
the  soldiery  have  the  acre  by  English  measure,  which  is  to 
take  61  out  of  a  161.  But  I  forbear  troubling  your  Grace 
with  my  descants.  This  vdll  suffice,  as  I  observed  at  the 
committee  (which  met  this  day  and  were  all  there  but  my 
Lord  Chancellor),  to  show  that  the  commissioners  are  men 
and  may  err  themselves  as  well  as  find  fault  with  others. 

I  could  not  speak  with  His  Majesty  to-day  to  get  his  leave 
to  send  their  papers  to  your  Grace,  yet  got  them  copied  by 
my  servants  last  night,  and  adventure  to  send  them  to  your 
Grace  as  fittest  for  your  and  the  council's  view,  who  I  doubt 
not  will  justify  me  if  you  make  use  of  them  before  you  have 
them  as  sent  by  order  to  you. 

Having  these  and  Sir  Nicholas  Plunkett's  paper,  which  was 
the  same  he  presented  to  your  Grace  in  Ireland,  you  have  all 
upon  the  matter  before  you,  though  I  will  send  also  by  the  next 
the  Adventurers',  '49  men's  and  Sir  Thomas  Clarges'  answer 
to  Plunket,  upon  all  which  your  Grace  will  find  ground  to 


133 

transmit  something  further  thence,  wherein  my  thoughts  shall 
not  to  be  wanting  upon  the  whole  if  your  Grace  require  it,  for 
you  see  your  Grace  and  the  council  are  not  complimented 
with.  The  committee  are  these  :  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury, 
Lord  Chancellor,  Lord  Privy  Seal,  Duke  Albemarle,  Marquess 
Dorchester,  Earl  of  St.  Albans,  Earl  of  Anglesey,  Earl  of 
Lauderdale,  Lord  Berkeley,  Lord  Ashley,  Sir  George  Carteret, 
and  the  two  secretaries. 

Our  whole  morning's  work  this  day  concluded  in  doing 
nothing  but  to  debate  what  method  to  take;  in  conclusion,  at 
my  motion,  we  agreed  to  meet  to-morrow  at  Worcester  House, 
and  to  have  the  commissioners  and  King's  counsel  attend  us 
there.  Some  touched  to-day,  an  Earl  and  a  Baron,  your 
Grace  will  easily  guess  them,  as  if  we  might  now  enter  upon 
the  whole  settlement  de  piano,  as  concluding  all  was  in  His 
Majesty's  power. 

This  doctrine  I  doubt  not  by  our  papa  alterius  orbis  and  all 
his  associates  will  be  to-morrow  declared  heretical,  though  it 
be  a  pleasing  fancy  at  court  among  some  that  I  doubt  not  aim 
more  at  increasing  their  own  revenue  than  the  King's,  and 
perhaps  little  consider  that  whilst  some  would  build  high  they 
endanger  kingdoms  falling  low,  forget  engagements  and 
promises  passed  in  trouble,  and  are  not  tender  of  the  King's 
honour  nor  your  Grace's  quiet.  I  have  been  open  and  large 
to  your  Grace  and  shall  so  continue  if  your  Grace  think  fit,  that 
you  may  be  as  fully  informed  as  we  are  here  of  what  passeth , 
and  not  want  such  reflections  as  occur  to  me  in  the  way,  who 
I  am  confident  your  Grace  will  believe  have  the  same  and  no 
other  ends  in  this  affair  than  your  Grace,  His  Majesty's  honour, 
justice,  and  profit,  and  the  settlement  of  his  kingdoms  upon 
lasting  foundations. 

I  had  half-an-hour's  private  discourse  with  His  Majesty 
yesterday  before  council,  and  shall  attend  him  frequently  whilst 
this  business  depends.  Speaking  of  your  Grace  and  the  too 
great  freedom  some  take  in  corners  to  discourse  of  your  Grace 
and  government  of  that  kingdom,  His  Majesty  was  pleased  to 
tell  me  he  had  lately  written  to  you  that  which  would  satisfy  you 
concerning  his  resentment  thereof,  and  indeed  they  carry  it  so 
craftily  and  wound  so  in  the  dark  that  I  cannot  yet  fix  on  any, 
but  in  the  meanwhile  your  Grace's  honour  is  the  more 
triumphant. 

Postscript : — Mr.  Coventry  was  among  the  commissioners 
in  all. 


Ohmond  to  Earl  of  Anglbsby. 

1663,  December  4.  Dublin. — The  last  of  yours  in  my  hands 
unacknowledged  by  my  former  letters  are  of  the  17th  and  28th 
of  the  last  month,  if  you  have  written  any  between  those,  they 
are  otherwise  disposed  of  than  you  intended. 

Wt.  8878  H 


114 

I  am  much  obliged  to  you  for  the  care  you  take  in  my  affair 
of  Moor  Park,  and  woula  make  compliments  in  excuse  of  the 
trouble  I  give  you  in  it,  but  that  I  am  prepared  to  undertake 
the  like  for  you  when  you  shall  require  it,  and  in  the  meantime 
I  approve  of  continuing  the  mortgage  as  it  is,  and  will  pay 
the  interest. 

I  perceive  it  is  my  Lord  Chancellor's  sense  that  our 
settlement  must  be  upon  the  foundations  laid  and  method 
prescribed  by  the  first  act,  by  trials  of  innocency  upon  proofs, 
and  not  by  nomination  of  persons  to  be  restored.  If  I  could 
truly  say  I  am  of  his  opinion,  I  would,  because  of  the  deference 
I  have  to  his  judgment,  but  it  is  enough  that  I  suspect  and 
depart  with  my  own  sense  when  it  agrees  not  with  his.  It  will 
be  worth  your  pains  and  struggling  with  your  gout,  as  far  as 
is  reasonable,  to  vindicate  the  act  transmitted  from  the  board 
from  being  unchristian,  as  it  hath  been  styled  from  thence 
by  one  that  I  believe  never  read  it,  and  if  he  had  would 
understand  it  no  better  than  one  of  us ;  especially  it  will  be  fit 
to  vindicate  the  council  here  from  the  arrogance  of  invading  the 
prerogative  charged  on  them  in  proposing  to  have  the 
nomination  of  restorable  Irish.  The  motives  of  that  part 
of  the  Act,  and  the  arguments  to  free  us  from  such  a 
presumption  will  easily  occur  to  you.  We  are  now  very 
near,  I  think,  a  good  conclusion  with  Harvey  and  his  partners, 
having  driven  him  from  all  unreasonable  things  and  reserved 
the  incomes  of  Dublin  to  His  Majesty,  the  necessary  charge 
of  the  officers  of  that  port  deducted,  which  is  not  to  exceed 
500Z  a  month,  over  and  above  which  they  are  to  assure  5,0001 
a  quarter  out  of  the  port  to  the  King.  They  have  now  the 
Articles  drawn  by  the  King's  Attorney  in  their  hands,  and  a 
few  days  will  fit  us  to  give  a  full  state  of  it. 

The  King  will  be  at  a  great  loss  if  the  hearth  duty  cannot  be 
found  till  the  Explanatory  Act  shall  be  passed  here,  but  of 
that  you  shall  hear  more  from  the  board. 

I  have  already  called  for  instances  of  Acts,  or  clauses  in 
Acts,  wherein  we  have  been  so  careless  of  the  King's  prerogative ' 
and  our  own  duty,  but  can  yet  obtain  no  return.  It  is  enough 
with  some  men  boldly  and  sharply  to  suggest  calumnies,  those 
they  are  sure  will  spread  and  gain  belief  somewhere,  but  the 
vindication  is  sometimes  deferred,  sometimes  laid  quite  aside, 
but  never  reaches  so  far  as  the  calumny.  If  the  proportioning 
what  the  unrestored  Irish  should  have  were  assumed  by  us, 
the  presumption  were  great,  but  when  an  indefinite  share  is 
left  for  them  after  other  interests  are  provided  for  (which 
His  Majesty  and  his  council  there  may  alter),  and  the 
distribution  only  proposed  to  be  left  to  the  council  and  to 
me  who  must  best  know  and  remember  who  deserved  best 
of  the  King,  methinks  the  pretence  is  at  least  excusable :  but 
I  am  not  in  love  with  the  employment,  as  I  have  told  my  Lord 
Chancellor,  though  I  am  very  certain  the  honestest  Irish 
would  be  sorry  to  see  it  put  into  another  way,  but  if  the  thing 
be  wholly  laid  aside  the  dispute  may  very  well  be  so  too. 


115 

I  hear  my  Lord  Eanelagh  is  the  great  searcher  and  informer 
into  His  Majesty's  loss  by  custodiums.  It  is  to  show  how 
able  a  councillor  he  would  make,  but  this  is  the  chief  talent 
of  Jack  Davys,  and  I  have  known  but  few  informers  prove 
very  good  councillors. 

I  am  glad  you  think  of  returning  hither,  there  are  many 
things  that  might  be  done  to  get  in  money  due  to  the  King, 
which  I  cannot  drive  on  fast  enough  for  want  of  you.  I  shall 
not  complain  of  the  length  of  your  letters,  so  you  will  not  of 
the  shortness  of  mine. 

Endorsed : — A  copy  of  my  Lord's  to  the  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

Ormond  to  the  Earl  of  Orrery. 

1663,  December  5.  Dublin. — I  have  yours  of  the  20th  and 
27th  of  the  last,  and  that  of  the  first  of  this,  all  .unanswered, 
but  what  concerns  my  Lord  Chancellor's  money,  and  for  the 
refunding  of  what  has  been  taken  out  of  the  counties  designed 
to  him,  I  have  now  signed  a  warrant  and  sent  it  to  my  Lord 
Massereene,  by  whom  I  do  not  find  that  the  want  of  [it] 
hitherto  hath  been  the  cause  of  my  Lord  Chancellor's 
disappointment,  or  that  his  having  it  will  for  the  present 
advance  it. 

To  those  particulars  recommended  by  your  Lordship  in 
favour  of  Sir  James  Shaen,  all  I  can  say  is  that  for  the  arrear 
claimed  from  him  in  the  Exchequer,  I  will  inquire  what  it 
'is  and]  how  grown  due,  and  then  upon  consideration  of 
;he  King's  letter  in  his  behalf  do  what  I  may  safely  [and] 
justifiably,  for  I  find  I  [have]  to  be  very  circumspect  in  matters 
of  His  Majesty's  treasure  and  profit,  very  watchful  eyes  being 
upon  me  and  some  misinformations  given  of  me  in  that 
particular,  and  that  also  makes  me  unable  to  do  any  more  for 
him  in  the  other  particular  of  his  350Z,  than  to  be  ready  to 
assign  it  out  of  anything  falling  due  and  yet  unpaid  in  the 
time  of  his  service. 

Your  Lordship  could  in  nothing  more  oblige  me,  or  give  me 
a  more  pleasing  proof  of  your  friendship  to  me,  than  in  giving 
me  early  and  free  notice  when  any  injustice  or  even  hardness 
is  exercised,  under  pretence  of  warrant  from  me,  or  advantage 
to  me  towards  any,  and  especially  towards  English,  but  it  is 
not  enough  to  acknowledge  the  obligation  and  profess  a 
detestation  of  the  practice,  of  the  truth  of  both  which  a  sudden 
remedy  is  the  best  manifestation.  I  stopped  here  till 
I  inquired  of  one  Connell,  who  is  best  acquainted  with  my 
concernments,  if  he  knew  any  thing  of  the  proceedings 
complained  of  so  contrary  to  my  intentions  and  as  I  [obliterated] 
my  instructions.  He  told  me  he  thought  it  impossible  the 
complaint  could  have  any  truth  in  any  part  of  it,  but  said 
there  was  a  gentleman  newly  come  out  of  those  parts  who  he 
believed  was  able  to  say  something  of  it,  with  whom  I  gave 
him  time  to  speak,  which  wh^n  he  had  done  he  brought  me 


116 

the  inclosed  paper  as  what  the  said  gentleman  was  ready  to 
take  his  oath  of,  but  that  way  [of]  justifying  in  a  matter  so 
scandalous  to  me  and  oppressive  in  itself,  seemed  too  officious 
to  be  satisfactory.  I  have  therefore  required  Mr.  Crosby  and 
Mr.  Chute,  who  were  recommended  to  me  as  Protestants  and 
honest  men,  forthwith  to  attend  your  Lordship  and  give  you 
an  exact  account  of  what  they  had  done  by  virtue  of  the 
authority  and  instructions  they  had  from  me,  whereof  I  think 
I  shall  be  able  with  this  to  send  you  copies.  If  not,  they 
shall  be  ordered  to  produce  them,  and  I  earnestly  recommend 
it  to  your  Lordship  that  the  matter  may  be  thoroughly 
examined  and  the  true  state  of  it  represented  to  me,  whereupon 
I  assure  your  Lordship  any  person,  English  or  Irish,  that  shall 
be  found  to  have  suffered  loss  under  the  colour  of  commission 
from  me  shall  have  ample  reparation,  and  those  that  have 
done  it  such  reproof  as  they  deserve,  and  lose  all  credit  with  me 
for  ever.  On  the  other  side,  if  the  complaint  be  not  in  some 
measure  made  good,  I  shall  look  upon  the  informers  as  designers 
of  as  much  mischief  to  me  as  they  could  devise,  and  as  such 
desire  to  know  who  they  are. 

I  have  been  assured  from  a  good  hand  that  my  Lord  of 
Carlingford  assured  the  King  from  your  Lordship  that  whatever 
His  Majesty  would  have  done  in  the  settlement  of  this 
kingdom  should  be  done  without  difficulty,  which,  though 
[he]  might  well  undertake  in  regard  of  the  confidence  [he] 
may  have.  His  Majesty  will  desire  nothing  should  be  done 
but  what  is  honourable  and  just  and  for  the  ^ood  of  [his] 
people,  yet  the  construction  made  of  it  by  him  from  whom 
the  information  came  to  me,  seemed  to  import  something 
you  did  not  I  am  sure  intend. 

The  bill  transmitted  hence  is  severely  censured  by  some, 
and  as  it  should  seem  by  the  objections  of  all  parties  against 
it,  approved  of  by  none;  there  must  sure  be  much  skill  or 
much  ill-luck  in  such  a  contrivement.  I  do  heartily  wish  your 
health  and  occasions  would  permit  your  coming  hither.  If  the 
first  run  no  hazard  by  it,  I  shall  little  consider  the  last,  though 
I  am  more  concerned  in  them  than  you  are. 

Endorsed : — A  copy  of  my  Lord's  to  the  Earl  of  Orrery. 

Oemond  to  Eabl  of  Anglesey. 

1663,  December  9. — I  send  your  Lordship  herewith  a  draft 
of  a  letter  concerning  the  Lord  Massereene  which  I  wish  may 
be  obtained  for  him,  and  do  therefore  desire  your  Lordship 
to  take  an  opportunity  to  recommend  it  to  Mr.  Secretary 
Bennett  in  such  a  season  as  you  shall  judge  his  request  may 
be  granted  without  difficulty.  I  also  send  your  Lordship 
a  draft  concerning  Charlemont,  to  the  end  you  may  make 
such  amendments  in  it  as  you  shall  think  necessary,  and 
then  deliver  it  to  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett  to  be  offered  to  His 
Majesty's  signature. 

Endorsed : — ^A  copy  of  the  letter  to  the  Earl  of  Anglesey. 


.     117 

Order  of  Committee  of  Council. 

1663,  December. — It  is  ordered  that  the  three  Irish 
Commissioners  and  Mr.  Henry  Coventry  do  prepare  the  draft 
of  a  bill  out  of  these  following  materials,  viz. : — 

1.  The  Act  of  Settlement. 

2.  The  Explanatory  Bill  which  was  sent  from  Ireland 
some  time  since.     (This  is  the  bill  rejected  in  Ireland). 

3.  The  bill  lately  transmitted  from  Ireland. 

4.  The  heads  and  papers  presented  by  the  commissioners 
for  a  new  bill. 

5.  The  papers  of  the  several  interests  now  lying  before 
the  committee. 

Taking  the  Declaration  and  Instructions  for  the  foundation 
of  their  work. 

I  may  inform  your  Grace  that  to  the  fourth  branch  they 
have  added,  since  the  copies  I  last  sent  your  Grace,  about  forty 
sheets  more,  worse  than  the  former. 

And  the  fifth  branch  consists  of  the  contrary  papers  of  the 
Adventurers,  Soldiers,  '49  men,  Boman  Catholics,  Sir  Thomas 
Glarges,  etc. 

And  without  agreeing  upon  so  much  as  one  head  or 
proposition  or  resolving  one  doubt,  a  bill  is  to  be  drawn  up, 
a  difficult  work  in  my  judgment. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  December  12.  London. — On  Wednesday  last 
the  committee  for  the  bill  met  again,  but  after  much 
debate,  finding  great  difficulties  and  concluding  that  a  good 
entrance  would  be  half  the  work,  they  adjourned  till 
Friday,  resolving  then  to  meet  at  my  Lord  Chancellor's 
if  he  were  well  enough  to  sit  up,  that  we  might  have  his 
assistance  in  the  business,  but  understanding  that  his  Lordship 
had  little  rest  the  night  before,  upon  notice  whereof  my  Lord 
Privy  Seal  also,  and  my  Lord  Ashley  and  Sir  George  Carteret 
were  absent,  and  some  of  us  proposed  that  the  committee 
might  adjourn  to  another  day  (finding  less  help  now  than  we 
had  the  last  meeting),  but  1006  (Earl  St.  Albans),  898  (Lord 
Berkeley),  399,  99,  9,  51,  86,  40  (and  Sec.  Bennett),  with  77, 
57,  85,  56,  78,  399,  126,  35,  123,  270,  129,  (Lauderdale  and 
Dorchester)  seeing  388  (they)  had  186,  933,  21,  41  (an 
opportunity)  notwithstanding  all  the  734,  39  (reasons)  896 
(Earl  Anglesey),  399,  669,  4,  237  (and  secret.  M.),  who  only 
joined  322,  280  (with  him),  197,  48,  64,  80,  44,  14,  176  (did 
as  foUoweth) : — 

The  committee  after  long  debate  passed  the  enclosed 
resolution  with  this  only  difference,  that  the  Attorney  General 
and  Solicitor  with  the  assistance  of  the  Irish  Commissioners, 
etc.,  were  to  draw  up  a  bill. 


118 

But  when  the  report  was  made  in  the  afternoon  the  King's 
learned  counsel,  absolutely  excusing  themselves  and  showing 
the  impropriety  and  impossibility  of  the  work  to  be  undertaken 
by  them,  they  w^ere  left  out,  and  after  some  debate  it  passed 
the  council  as  it  now  stands,  but  whether  the  commissioners 
will  undertake  the  work  I  cannot  yet  tell. 

It  appeared  187,  692  (at  council)  that  246,  688,  110,  37  (the 
business  was)  laid  200,  854,  899,  408,  298,  610  (for  the  King  and 
Duke  of  York)  were  earnest  106,  91,  37,  38,  211  (to  pass  it), 
notwithstanding  weighty  734,  37,  275,  198,  614,  167,  211 
(reasons  given  against  it).  And  it  was  plainly  said  the  568, 
836,  129,  39  (Irish  Commissioners)  were  304,  46,  38  (parties) 
interested.  Among  other  expressions  when  it  was  objected 
that  to  prepare  a  new  120,  24,  25  (bill)  was  against  94,  22, 
46,  28,  354,  89,  77,  44  (Poynings'  law),  408  (the  Duke),  298,  610, 
said  the  corporation  120,  24,  25  (bill)  had  showed  a  way  how  to 
change  a  whole  120,  24,  25  (bill)  leaving  246,  105,  40,  78  (the 
title). 

My  Lord,  I  have  done  my  part  towards  the  procuring  a 
good  and  safe  settlement  for  Ireland.  What  the  issue  will 
now  be  is  past  my  divining.  Your  Grace  and  the  council's 
bill  hath  yet  been  cried  down  without  perusing,  for  it  was 
never  so  much  as  read  at  the  committee  nor  most  of  the  other 
materials  referred,  and  yet,  upon  a  fair  debate,  I  undertook 
to  justify  it  in  most  part  of  it,  and  I  am  confident  none  will 
be  proposed  half  so  indifferent  or  safe.  Besides,  we  all  know 
all  is  labour  in  vain,  if  not  worse,  if  it  receive  not  perfection 
in  Ireland. 

Y'esterday,  at  council,  Sir  Nicholas  Plunket  was  so  bold  as  in 
a  petition  to  arraign  the  qualification  in  the  Act  of  Settlement 
concerning  living  in  the  rebel's  quarters,  saying  it  was  against 
common  right  and  reason.  I  believe  he  durst  not  have 
said  more  in  the  supreme  council,  and  did  not  say  so  much 
when  it  passed  before  at  council  upon  good  reason,  notwith- 
standing all  he  could  say  against  it.  It  seems  'tis  forgotten, 
that  in  the  beginning  of  the  rebellion  all  were  required  by 
proclamation  to  desert  the  rebels  and  give  no  assistance  to 
them.  I  was  since  with  984  (Lord  Chancellor)  who  saith 
all  thiSwlSO,  194,  106,  508  (will  come  to  nothing)  though  69, 
210,  157,  4,  99,  11  (he  is  amazed)  at  211  (it).  He  told  896 
(Earl  Anglesey)  that  855  (K.)  did  not  understand  243, 
688  (the  business),  and  he  believes  the  836,  129,  39 
(commissioners)  have  more  112,  41,  317,  106  (wit  than  to) 
undertake  211  (it).  Yet  I  hear  388,  898,  51,  86,  41  (they, 
Lord  Berkeley,  Bennett),  etc.,  82,  40,  258,  314,  56,  46,  187, 
1006,  38,  met  all  this  day  at  Earl  St.  Albans',  and  896 
(Anglesey)  believes  389,  121,  24,  11  (them  bold)  enough  106, 
126  (to  do)  any  460  (thing). 

May  it  please  your  Grace  896  is  loth  to  make  observations 
but  finding  with  what  boldness  961,  210  (your  Grace  is) 
aspersed  140, 14  (here),  and  how  uneasy  189,  564,  222,  41  (your 


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government)  is  like  to  be  rendered  243,  97  (there)  by  the 
practice  89,  383,  (of  some),  I  should  fail  212,  273,  28, 12, 170, 
21,  32  (in  friendship)  if  896  (I)  did  not  179,  86,  961  (warn  your 
Grace)  to  look  117,  371,  256,  399,  385,  148,  552,  129,  325, 
106,  126  (about  you  and  timely  consider  what  to  do)  both  in 
your  own  behalf  399, 854  (and  the  King's)  who  will  be  damnified 
most  in  conclusion,  and  whether  961  (your  Grace)  quick 
appearing  209  (here)  with  855,  429  (the  King's  leave)  would  not 
be  292,  685,  642  (most  advisable).  Pardon  me  if  I  write 
foolishly.  I  am  sure  what  I  say  is  345,  186,  566,  69,  4,  35, 
40, 106,  855,  399,  961.  And  upon  the  same  account  I  must 
acquaint  your  Grace  that  James  Hamilton ,  your  nephew,  who 
is  very  faithful  and  vigilant  and  active  in  your  concernments, 
had  the  ill  hap  to  be  too  confident  of  a  97,  77,  105,  229,  89, 
961,  368,  187,  264  (relation  of  your  Grace  now  at  Court),  and 
showing  him  961, 149, 129,  39  (your  Grace's  letters)  as  to  one 
who  should  further  what  was  961,  83,  28,  12  (your  mind), 
he  hath  made  so  ill  use  thereof,  though  showed  under  secrecy, 
that  he  hath  vented  them  to  1006,  399,  51,  86,  40  (Earl  St. 
Albans  and  Bennett),  etc.,  as  if  256  (you)  aimed  187,  389  (at 
them),  so  that  51,  86,  41  (Bennett)  came  to  326  (your)  nephew 
68,  83,  24,  106,  29  (Hamilton)  and  showed  a  resentment  of 
an  expression  in  one  of  961, 199, 129,  39  (your  Grace's  letters) 
to  this  effect,  that  there  were  some  who  would  99,  40,  1  (set  a) 
5,  3,  208,  99  on  63,  97,  106,  3,  166,  167  their  13,  17,  18,  39, 
which  though  961  (your)  letter  applied  to  none  may  true  enough 
be  said  of  those  who  make  all  this  pudder  to  get  some  77,  28, 11, 
for  themselves,  for  that  is  in  the  bottom  of  all  and  they  think 
to  bring  all  into  855,  3,  68,  28,  12,  37  for  that  end,  not 
understanding  the  impossibility  of  it.  I  suppose  918,  3,  101, 
28  will  write  somewhat  hereof,  but  961  (you)  may  see  hereby  how 
few  may  be  trusted. 

I  wish  I  could  be  but  one  hour  with  your' Grace,  your  wisdom 
will  supply  what  I  come  short.  Having  already  tired  your 
Grace  and  myself,  which  I  hope  I  shall  not  again  have  so 
much  occasion  to  do,  I  take  leave  for  the  present. 

Postscript: — I  hope  I  shall  have  your  Grace's  excuse  for 
me  to  the  council  if  I  cannot  bring  things  to  that  good  pass 
I  would.      I  am  sure  I  am  careful  to  follow  instructions. 

I  beg  your  Grace  would  uncipher  this  yourself  though  it 
be  long. 

Eabl  op  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  December  19.  London. — ^Your  Grace's  letters  of 
the  9th  of  this  month,  with  the  two  drafts  enclosed  concerning 
Charlemont  and  the  Lord  Massereene,  and  your  letter  of  the 
4th,  I  received  together  the  16th,  which  are  all  of  your  Grace's 
that  came  to  my  hands  since  yours  of  November  21st,  which 
I  answered  by  mine  of  the  28th,  which,  with  that  of  the  17th 
(for  I  wrote  none  between  them),  your  Grace  acknowledges 
the  receipt  of.      And  all  I  have  written  since,  were  of  the 


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1st,  8th  and  l'2th  instant,  the  last  whereof  at  large  in  cipher, 
which  I  mention  that  your  Grace  may  know  how  you  are  used 
concerning  the  passage  of  letters,  which  some  complain  fall 
now  and  then  into  hands  they  should  not,  and  since  I 
understand  961  (your  Grace)  is  not  befriended  in  the  51,  11, 
3,  123,  26,  51,  35  (bedchamber)  by  those  who  have  most 
reason,  I  shall  be  glad  to  find  that  letters  go  safe  from  those 
who  are  your  faithful  servants. 

I  have  hitherto  wearied  your  Grace  with  my  long  letters, 
but  now  there  will  be  less  work  for  me  and  trouble  for  your 
Grace,  for  243,  213  (the  King),  on  Wednesday  last,  187,  692 
(at  council),  after  Sir  Henry  Bennett  had  made  known  106, 
243,  692  (to  the  council)  that  the  568,  836,  129,  39  (Irish 
Commissioners)  desired  they  might  have  the  assistance  of  the 
243,  214,  37,  692  (King's  Counsel),  and  nothing  was  ordered, 
thereupon  243,  214  (the  King),  I  say,  told  the  121,  35,  11 
(board)  that  he  would  be  answerable  for  a  120,  25,  24  (bill) 
to  be  prepared,  so  that  now  854  (the  King)  hath  621,  104,  12 
(committed)  243,  120,  24,  25  (the  bill)  106  (to)  himself,  the 
first  precedent  of  that  kind,  and  clearly  against  94,  212,  354, 
37,  3,  77,  44,  243,  692  (Poynings'  law.  The  council)  sat  all 
amazed  and  said  nothing,  and  896  (Earl  Anglesey)  did  not 
thing  it  fit  for  280  (him)  to  interpose  4,  80,  86,  3  (alone), 
961  (your  Grace)  sees  854  (the  King)  in  814,  846, 688  (this  great 
business)  w^aives  139,  692,  38  (his  councils)  of  both  214,  126, 
82,  39  (kingdoms),  and  hath  put  211  (it)  into  161,  21,  108, 
104,  3,  68,  28,  11,  38  (private  hands).  What  will  be  the 
success  I  cannot  tell,  but  expect  and  apprehend  the  worst 
imaginable.  It's  past  896  (Earl  of  Anglesey's)  power  to 
remedy,  and  I  must  deal  plainly  with  961  (your  Grace), 
(though  sub  sigillo),  21  (I)  hath  not  those  evening  opportunities 
and  familiarities  which  31,  243,  35,  37,  3,  351,  3,  399  (others 
have,  and)  abuse.  Besides,  I  find  the  whole  affair  is  not 
thoroughly  considered,  but  taken  up  and  carried  away  by 
snatches,  without  any  reference  to  641  (Ireland),  and  neither 
571,  37,  637  (the  King's  honour)  nor  424,  21,  53  (justice) 
considered,  but  private  advantage  reached  at. 

My  Lord,  it  will  concern  your  Grace,  not  only  as  the  present 
Chief  Governor  of  Ireland,  but  in  relation  to  your  posterity, 
that  the  present  opportunity  for  securing  that  kingdom  to 
His  Majesty  (which  our  ancestors  longed  for,  but  could  never 
attain)  be  not  now  lost.  It  is  not  fit  for  me,  nor  can  I  at  this 
distance,  say  all  that  were  necessary  upon  this  occasion. 
Your  Grace's  wisdom  will  prompt  you  with  considerations 
and  consequents  enough,  and  though  I  dare  give  no  advice 
in  the  case,  I  cannot  in  dutiful  affection  to  His  Majesty  and  zeal 
to  the  good  of  these 'kingdoms  but  wish  that  at  such  a  time 
His  Majesty  had  the  assistance  of  your  personal  counsel  and 
integrity,  which  I  am  sure  he  would  credit  before  any  others. 
Whilst  the  committee  were  possessed  of  the  bill,  they  did 
not  so  much  as  read  it,  but  whensoever  (as  I  believe  it  will 


1-21 

yet  come  to  pass)  it  shall  be  heard  speak  for  itself,  I  doubt 
not  to  justify  it  to  be  the  result  of  more  wisdom  and  impartiality 
than  any  we  shall  receive  from  hands  not  of  the  council  here 
or  there. 

My  Lord  of  Strafford  466,  225,  51,  101,  249,  59  (would  not 
be  so  used),  and  the  sooner  961,  166,  42,  172  (your  Grace 
courts)  this  little  sort  89,  726  (of  people),  the  more  firmly 
will  that  kingdom  and  961  (your  Grace)  be  established,  whereas 
I  know  not  w^hat  long  absence  and  the  opportunities  which 
some  enjoy,  accompanied  with  121,  24,  11,  86,  37  (boldness) 
which  they  want  not,  may  not  bring  to  pass,  though  I  know 
571  (the  King)  hath  a  great  affection  and  esteem  200,  256 
(for  you).  I  wish  I  may  prove  a  false  prophet,  but  my  affection 
and  friendship  will  not  suffer  me  to  conceal  my  fear  from  your 
Grace,  nor  though  I  know  571  (the  King)  of  all  other  would 
not  employ  408,  89,  610  (the  Duke  of  York)  there,  and  it  may 
be  spoken  at  random  without  design,  will  I  omit  to  let  you 
know  that  127,  3, 108,  24  (Duval),  one  of  that  408,  39  (Duke's) 
servants,  discoursed  to  a  friend  of  mine  as  if  he  were  to  go 
925  (Lieutenant)  thither. 

Your  Grace's  large  discourse  to  854  (the  King)  in  writing, 
hath  given  great  satisfaction.  What  would  it  have  done 
viva  voce,  seconded  with  daily  attendance?  If  your  Grace 
pardon  what  I  write,  and  receive  it  as  it  is  presented,  without 
any  design  but  to  inform  you  rightly,  I  have  my  aim. 

I  hear  no  more  from  the  party  concerning  Moor  Park 
since  he  yielded  to  continue  it  till  May,  so  that  your  Grace  is 
safe  as  to  that  point,  if  principal  and  interest  be  ready  then, 
for  there  was  no  interest  now  due. 

My  Lord  Chancellor  never  yet  expressed  himself  to  me  as 
your  Lordship  mentions  he  hath  done  to  your  Grace,  concerning 
the  trial  of  innocency  by  proofs,  and  not  by  nomination  of 
persons  to  be  restored.  I  think  it's  demonstrable  that  course 
will  never  settle,  but  further  unsettle  Ireland,  but  I  shall  say 
no  more  of  the  bill  till  we  see  what  shall  be  offered.  And  for 
my  gout,  though  it  yet  continue,  I  have  not  failed  yet,  upon 
all  occasions,  to  limp  to  Whitehall,  though  now  I  may  take 
a  little  rest  to  drive  it  away,  which,  by  going  abroad,  hath 
continued  longer  upon  me  than  ever. 

I  have  not  failed  to  vindicate  the  bill,  and  doubt  not  but 
I  shall  after  Christmas  be  more  patiently  heard  to  it  again. 
It's  like  to  be  christian  enough  to  keep  Christmas,  and  that 
season,  perhaps,  may  put  us  in  more  charity  with  that  which 
is  good.  For  the  encroachments  on  prerogative,  'twas  but 
a  sudden  fancy,  and  I  can  hear  no  more  of  it,  though  I  have 
enquired  after  it  and  openly  asserted  the  contrary,  but  w^e 
must  bear  worse  than  this,  as  long  as  matters  of  council  are 
mistaken  [?]  discourse  and  debate  abroad,  which  will  not  be 
remedied  by  the  frequent  addition  of  new  councillors. 

I  am  glad  the  business  with  Harvey  and  his  partners  is  so 
near  a  conclusion,  and  upon  so  good  terms. 


122 

The  business  of  custodiums  is  all  the  Irish  have  now  left 
to  discourse  against,  since  your  Grace's  large  letter  to  the  King 
hath  given  so  full  satisfaction  in  all  other  points,  and  as  I  have 
silenced  them  here  in  my  own  case,  which  was  one  instance 
by  which  my  ambition  is  but  to  be  no  loser,  so  (with  reverence 
to  my  Lord  Eanelagh's  new  and  honourable  employment) 
I  am  sure  your  Grace  may  confidently  write  that  a  double 
proportion  of  advantage  accrues  to  the  crown,  in  the  time 
of  your  Grace's  government  for  custodiums,  to  what  did  in  any 
time  before  the  King's  restitution,  and  I  am  sure  you  have 
much  increased  the  rent  since  the  Justice's  time. 

Your  Grace  expresses  yourself  pleased  with  the  thoughts  of 
my  return,  but  give  me  no  command  therein,  and  till  I  see 
what  will  become  of  the  bill,  and  get  some  other  matters, 
yet  depending,  despatched,  I  think  it  not  advisable  to  stir 
without  your  Grace's  direction. 

Sir  Henry  Bennett  promised  me  the  warrant  for  farming 
the  Inland  Excise  should  go  to  your  Grace  this  night,  if  it 
do  not,  I  shall  take  care  it  be  despatched,  Tuesday  next,  and 
the  two  letters  I  received  in  your  Grace's  of  the  9th,  as  soon 
as  may  be. 

I  hope  my  Lord  Chancellor  hath  perfected  the  assurance  of 
Chappell  Izard.* 

Earl  op  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663,  December  22.  London. — This  is  to  accompany  the 
inclosed,  which  His  Majesty  hath  passed  for  Sir  Henry  O'Neill, 
upon  consideration  of  what  your  Grace  wrote,  that  none  of  his 
former  intentions  for  his  advantage  had  taken  effect,  and  the 
King  expressed  himself  to  be  very  earnest  that  he  would  have 
some  care  taken  of  him,  as  I  doubt  not  your  Grace  will  do  now 
you  have  so  good  a  warrant,  upon  the  foundation  of  the  proviso 
in  the  Act,  to  which  this  letter  refers,  though  I  doubt  affairs 
there  will  hardly  spare  a  1,0001,  yet  he  may  have  his  share 
in  value  of  those  custodiums,  which  are  so  groundlessly  spoken 
against,  and,  indeed,  I  doubt  his  own,  as  well  as  his  wife's 
pressing  necessities,  call  for  it. 

I  understand  the  commissioners,  after  near  a  fortnight's 
breathing  upon  the  bill  and  other  materials,  are  endeavouring 
to  free  themselves  of  it.  I  doubt  not,  in  a  little  time  more, 
they  will  come  to  be  of  opinion  that  your  Grace  and  the  Council 
of  Ireland ,  and  the  Privy  Council  here ,  understand  the  affairs 
and  condition  of  Ireland  much  better  than  they  or  any  other, 
and  that  it's  a  great  deal  more  easy  to  find  fault  with,  and 
object  against  the  work  of  others,  than  to  mend  it  or  make 
better. 

*  The  Manor  of  Chapelizod  or  Chapel  Izard  had  just  been  purchased  by  the 
Crown  from  the  Lord  Chancellor,  Sir  Maurice  Eustace,  to  form  portion  of  the 
Phwnix  Park. 


123 

In  the  last  discourse  I  had  with  my  Lord  Chancellor,  upon 
some  passages  in  your  Grace's  letter  to  me  of  December  4th, 
he  assured  me  your  Lordship  had  utterly  mistaken  him,  for 
he  never  wrote  you  word  that  the  way  of  nomination  of  persons 
was  laid  aside,  and  resolution  taken  to  lengthen  the  time  for 
trials  of  innocency,  neither  is  his  Lordship's  opinion  fixed 
that  way ;  on  the  contrary,  both  his  Lordship  and  I  do  conceive 
that  though  some  things  in  the  bill  sent  over  are  liable  to 
exception,  and  will  undergo  change,  yet  this  is  the  fairest  offer 
to  go  on  upon  the  foundations  already  laid,  which  have  yet 
or  are  like  to  appear;  and  his  Lordship  wished  your  Grace 
had  written  as  much  to  His  Majesty  as  was  in  that  letter  to 
me,  of  your  own  opinion,  which,  it!s  not  to  be  doubted,  will  be 
of  great  "weight  to  His  Majesty,  and  as  to  the  nomination, 
I  wish  your  Grace  would  timely  prepare  a  list  for  His  Majesty's 
view,  which  might  answer  all  objection  against  naming  these 
after  a  bill  passed,  which  I  know  your  Grace  will  take  no 
great  pleasure  in,  and  by  your  naming  them  first,  and  sending 
them  hither,  the  best  Irish  will  be  most  secured. 

It  is  necessary  that  961  (your  Grace)  write  often  to  571 
(the  King),  but  whether  to  himself  always  or  to  some  484 
(friend),  who  may  shew  854  (him)  what  256  (you)  write, 
consider  well,  because  else  961,  39,  3,  149,  129,"  38  (your 
Grace's  letters)  come  to  1003,  51,  86,  40,  37,  3,  19,  399 
(Secretary  Bennett's  hand),  and  more  99,  13  (see)  them, 
896  (Earl  Anglesey)  doubts,  than  should  or  make  a  good  use 
of  them.  And  though  571  (the  King)  and  all  indifferent 
persons  are  satisfied  fully  by  961,  37  (your  Grace's)  large 
196,  55,  35,  99  (discourse)  in  answer  to  all  objections,  yet 
some,  I  doubt,  see  it  that  should  not,  and  will  strive  to 
countermine  in  matters  they  should  not  be  trusted  with,  but 
Mr.  1003  (Secretary)  saith  there  was  no  need  of  any  answer 
to  such  flying  reports.  It's  well,  if  69  (he)  were  never  willing, 
such  97,  94,  35,  172  (reports)  should  have  been,  or  did  not 
124,  59,  211  (credit)  them  too  much. 

431,  8,  80,  57,  86,  56,  78  (Lauderdale)  is  a  dangerous  practis- 
354  (ing)  81,  28  (man),  and  appears  too  earnestly  for  246, 
568  (the  Irish).  I  doubt  he  drives  at  more  than  kindness 
106,  389  (to  them) ;  he  saith  he  means  to  write  106,  961  (to 
your  Grace),  but  I  would  361,  961  (have  your  Grace)  upon 
326  (your)  guard,  for  69  (he)  doth  no  good  office  to  996  (Duke 
of  Ormond)  in  his  station. 

Here  hath  been  great  labour  by  the  568  (Irish)  to  get  431, 
96,  85,  77, 17, 19  (Lord  Eanelagh)  of  243,  692,  and  992  (Lord 
Muskery) ,  with  much  earnestness,  useth  996  (Duke  of  Ormond) 
and  997  (Duchess)  their  85,  82,  38  (names)  to  promote  it,  as 
that  which  is  much  desired  by  them,  and  it's  whispered  privately 
that  961  (your  Grace)  would  as  soon  leave  280,  681,  57,  233, 
46,  459  (him  your  deputy  there)  as  any  81,  28  (man),  so  highly 
256  (you)  esteem  280  (him).  But  this  is  so  much  contrary 
to  961,  38,  letter  and  896  own  knowledge,  that  69  hath  put  a 
spoke  in  the  wheel  for  the  present. 


124 

I  think  it  not  yet  seasonable  to  put  on  the  warrant  961  (your 
Grace)  sent  896  concerning  994,  and  have  written  so  much  to 
that  481,  as  961,  89  letter  gave  82  a  latitude  in  choice  of  time. 

My  Lord,  21, 3,  99,  28, 11,  961  (I  send  your  Grace)  notice  of 
258  (all)  according  to  the  best  information,  not  willingly  varying 
in  a  tittle  from  178,  42, 176,  whosoever  is  concerned,  but  under 
the  tie  of  961,  39,  484,  309,  that  it  shall  never  prejudice  82, 
which  some  would  too  gladly  receive  occasion  for.  I  am  sure 
896  writes  nothing  which  'tis  not  fit,  if  not  necessary  961 
(your  Grace)  should  427. 

Postscript : — I  beseech  your  Grace  to  uncipher  with  your 
own  hand.      There  is  not  much  of  it. 

Captain  Andrew  Adair  to  Lord  Aungibr. 

1663,  December  24.  St.  Johnstown. — This  day  I  have  got 
some  intelligence  that  there  is  some  dangerous  plot  intended 
this  night,  or  soon  after,  to  the  British  nation,  and  meeting 
with  my  friend,  Mr.  Paterson,  I  have  desired  him  to  impart 
to  your  Lordship,  and  if  I  get  any  more,  if  not  surprised,  you 
shall  know  speedily. 

However,  we  ought  to  take  all  alarms  as  truths,  from  such 
as  we  ought  never  to  trust,  since  the  23rd  October,  1641. 

Examination  of  James  Grant. 

1663,  December  24. — ^This  examinate  saith,  that  being  at 
mass  several  times,  and  having  discourse  with  one,  Edmond 
Ferrall,  the  Priest  of  the  Parish  of  Clonbrony,  did  say  to  this 
examinate,  that  this  night,  the  24th  of  December,  1663, 
there  was  a  plot  to  cut  ofif  all  the  Protestants  by  the 
Irish,  and  that  they  had  a  commission  from  the  King  of  Spain 
come  to  them  by  one.  Captain  Ferrall,  that  came  lately  from 
Spain,  and  that  there  was  several  Irish  officers  that  came 
from  Spain,  and  was  to  gather  together  betwixt  the 
borders  of  the  counties  of  Longford  and  Leitrim,  in  the  woods, 
for  performance  of  the  said  plot,  and  if  they  did  miss  the 
aforesaid  night,  they  were  to  perform  it  ere  long,  and  that 
this  examinate  was  conjured  by  oath,  by  the  said  priest,  to 
keep  secret. 

An.  Adair. 

Will.  Langford. 

Endorsed: — Received  from  the  Lord  Aungier  the  26th  of 
December,  1663. 

Francis,  Lord  Aungier  to  Ormond. 

1663,  December  25.  Culwyn. — Having  received  the 
enclosed  letter   from    Captain  Andrew   Adare   (one  of   His 


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Majesty's  Justices  of  the  Peace  in  the  County  of  Longford) 
so  late  last  night  that  I  was  not  able  to  make  so  particular 
an  inquiry  into  that  discovery  he  therein  makes,  of  a  plot 
intended  by  the  Irish  against  the  Protestants,  as  was  fit  for 
your  Grace's  knowledge,  I  did  immediately  despatch  a  letter 
to  him,  wherein  I  desired,  not  only  conference  with  himself, 
but  also  with  his  intelligencer,  and  both  of  them  coming  to 
me  this  afternoon,  I  did,  upon  oath,  take  the  enclosed 
examination.  The  person  who  makes  this  discovery.  Captain 
Adare  assures  me,  is  a  very  honest  man,  though  but  of  mean 
condition.  He  is  by  religion  a  Papist,  and  by  country, 
a  Highlander.  By  the  former,  he  had  the  opportunity  of 
being  acquainted  with  the  design,  and  by  the  latter,  he 
esteemed  himself  obliged  to  prevent  the  mischief  intended  to 
his  countrymen,  who  he  thought  would  be  sharers  in  the 
common  calamity.  The  person  I  have  sent  away  well 
contented  with  a  reward,  and  he  has  engaged,  within  a  week, 
to  give  me  a  further  account  of  the  design.  He  was  told 
by  a  priest,  as  he  was  coming  to  me,  that  the  plot  was  laid 
aside  till  this  day  sennight,  but  if  he  finds  new  resolutions 
taken,  he  has  promised  to  give  me  timely  advertisement  of 
them.  He  discourses  very  much  of  some  Spanish  oflBcers, 
who  are  lately  come  over,  and  lurk  in  Lei  trim,  whose  names 
he  is  at  present  ignorant  of,  but  within  a  few  days,  he  assures 
me,  I  shall  have  them.  He  intends,  on  Sunday  next,  to  be 
at  their  meeting,  which  is  appointed  at  one  Captain  Dowdall's, 
who  lives  not  far  from  St.  Johnstown,  where  I  would  spoil  their 
sport,  but  that  I  fear  thereby  I  should  spoil  my  intelligence. 
In  the  meantime  (my  Lord),  I  have  imparted  this  ajffair  to 
Sir  Arthur  Forbes,  and  have  given  order,  both  to  his  troop 
and  mine,  to  be  upon  their  guard,  and  I  had  been  now  at 
Longford  myself,  but  that  I  am  unwilling  to  alarm  those 
gentlemen  (who  I  find  have  very  strict  eyes  upon  all  my  actions) 
too  soon.  However,  the  beginning  of  next  week  I  intend  to 
be  at  Longford,  and  if  I  find  the  Irish  resolve  to  stir,  I  do 
not  doubt,  but  with  Sir  Arthur,  his  assistance,  and  the 
conjunction  of  those  few  English  in  these  parts,  to  prevent 
the  intended  mischief  here.  I  am  not  (my  Lord),  in  my  own 
nature,  apt  to  be  jealous,  but  when  I  reflect  upon  the  late 
Bebellion,  and  the  miraculous  discovery  of  it,  I  cannot  but 
esteem  it  the  best  prudence  not  to  be  too  secure. 

Most  of  those  arms  which  were  taken  from  the  English 
in  these  two  counties  are  still  in  the  store,  few  of  the  owners 
having  yet  made  their  application  to  me  for  them,  but  (unless 
I  receive  your  Grace's  commands  to  the  contrary)  I  shall  deny 
none  of  the  English  in  these  parts  their  arms,  for  though 
I  have  made  strict  inquiry,  I  find  no  turbulent  spirits  here. 
But  in  the  barony  of  Moycashell,  which  borders  upon  the 
King's  County,  I  am  informed  there  was,  at  one  Major  Loes, 
his  house  (who  is  an  arch-fanatic),  about  six  weeks  since,  a 
rendezvous  of  forty  fanatics,  who  after  they  had  stayed  there 
all  night,  they  went  next  morning  to  one  Lieutenant  Hawkins', 


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his  house,  who  not  long  since  removed  from  hence  into  those 
parts,  but  what  was  the  occasion  of  their  meeting,  or  their 
business  therein  transacted,  I  cannot  yet  learn. 

I  had  also  information  that  Anthony  Geoghagan  would  be 
in  these  parts  this  Christmas,  but  having  not  seen  my 
intelligencer  this  week,  I  have  now  no  certainty  of  it.  If  he 
come  within  my  reach,  your  Grace  may  expect  the  strict 
performance  of  my  duty,  not  only  in  this,  but  also  in  all  other 
things  that  concern  His  Majesty's  service,  and  that  I  may 
be  the  better  able  to  do  it,  I  most  humbly  beg,  with  all 
expedition,  your  Grace's  commands  and  opinion  upon  the 
several  particulars  of  this  letter,  and  whether  I  ought,  upon 
this  information  of  this  person  (he  giving  no  further  discoveries 
of  the  design),  to  proceed  to  the  disarming  of  the  Irish,  who 
are  now  better  accoutred  than  they  were  at  the  beginning  of 
the  rebellion.  I  must  therefore,  once  more,  beg  your  Grace's 
commands,  by  which  only  I  shall  always  steer  my  actions. 

Postscript: — ^The  enclosed  examination,  taken  by  Captain 
Adare  and  Lieutenant  Langford,  were  delivered  to  me  since 
I  despatched  away  the  Highlander. 

My  Lord,  after  I  had  sealed  up  this,  the  Highlander  returned 
and  assures  me  that  nothing  will  be  attempted  sooner  than 
New  Year's  eve,  at  night.  Upon  further  examination,  he 
deposes  that  Harry  McToole,  O'Neale,  Henry  Mc  A.  Gaiell, 
Captain  Harry  Steward,  Sir  Phelim  O'Keale's  eldest  son 
(who  is  to  marry  Harry  McToole's  daughter,  and  is  now 
lurking  upon  the  confines  of  the  counties  of  Longford  and 
Leitrim),  Lieutenant  Kernan,  Faghin  beg  Ferrall  of  Newtown, 
in  the  county  of  Longford,  and  Richard  Ferrall  of  Mastrim, 
are  the  chief  ringleaders,  and  did  all  take  the  oath  at  Lammas, 
and  were  not  only  at  several  meetings  since,  but  were  all 
together  in  arms  at  Some,  near  St.  Johnstown,  last  night. 
He  also  says  that  one,  Mr.  Plunkett,  who  lives  at  Rive,  in  the 
county  of  Longford,  being  present  at  the  association  at  Lammas 
last,  was  the  only  man  that  refused  to  take  the  oath,  using 
these  expressions,  viz. :  I  was  a  young  man  at  the  beginning 
of  the  wars,  and  had  one  hundred  cows  then,  and  denied  the 
Irish  first  and  last  to  join  with  them  against  the  English, 
and  yet  I  lost  my  land;  but  now  having  got  it  again,  I  will 
have  no  hand  in  your  business,  nor  meddle  with  it.  This 
I  give  your  Grace  an  account  of,  because  he  may  prove  a  good 
witness.  I  have  examined  the  Highlander  ten  times  over, 
and  have  used  all  arts  to  find  whether  he  would  trip  in  his 
story,  but  he  still  repeats  the  same  words,  and  says  he  will 
justify  this  discovery  with  his  life.  And  really  (my  Lord), 
I  had  sent  him  up  to  Dublin,  but  that  I  have  no  other  means, 
than  by  him,  to  get  intelligence.  I  send  this  messenger  on 
purpose,  and,  therefore,  I  humbly  beg  your  Grace's  commands, 
which  shall  with  all  industry  and  faith  imaginable,  be  executed 
by  your  Grace's  most  faithful  devoted  servant,  F.  A. 


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I  could  wish  (my  Lord)  there  were  a  good  garrison  of  foot 
at  St.  Johnstown,  which  borders  so  near  upon  the  county 
of  Leitrim,  where  all  these  gentlemen  nestle  themselves. 


Examination  of  James  Grant. 

1663,  December  25th. — ^The  examination  of  James  Grant 
taken  before  me  this  25th  day  of  December,  1663. 

Who  being  duly  sworn,  saith,  that  upon  Lammas  day  last, 
being  with  about  three  hundred  persons  more  (who  were  Irish 
Papists)  in  the  county  of  Leitrim,  ready  to  hear  mass,  one 
called  Teige  Boy, of  Hasselad  [?] ,  a  priest, administered  an  oath 
to  him  the  said  deponent  and  the  other  persons,  to  be  against 
all  men  whatsoever  that  were  not  Boman  Catholics,  and  calling 
to  this  deponent  to  come  and  take  his  oath ,  this  deponent  asked 
him,  after  he  had  taken  his  oath,  what  he  had  sworn  him  to, 
the  said  Teige  Boy  told  him  that  there  was  something  to  be 
done  about  Christmas  next,  against  the  English,  Scots,  and  all 
others  that  were  not  of  the  Eoman  Catholic  religion,  and  this 
deponent  saying,  that  having  been  formerly  a  soldier  under 
His  Majesty,  he  would  never  bear  arms  against  him  or  any 
of  his  good  subjects,  though  they  were  not  of  the  same  religion 
with  himself,  the  said  Teige  Boy  did  then,  by  virtue  of  his 
oath,  conjure  him  not  to  discover  what  he  knew. 

The  said  deponent  saith  further,  that  about  Sunday  was  a 
fortnight,  there  met  near  Mastrim,  in  the  county  of  Longford, 
at  least  eight  hundred  fighting  men,  and  the  most  of  them 
armed  with  swords  and  pistols.  They  had  four  priests  that  said 
mass  unto  them,  whose  names  he  knows  not,  but  at  this 
meeting  they  did  not  discourse  anything  of  the  aforesaid  plot, 
but  he  did  then  observe  the  chief  man  amongst  them  was 
one  Captain  Beilly,  who  came  last  summer  out  of  Spain.  This 
deponent  further  saith,  that  the  last  night  there  was  eight 
hundred  men  in  arms,  commanded  by  the  said  Captain  Beilly 
(who  was  also  assisted  by  the  said  Teige  Boy,  of  Hasselad, 
in  person),  and  that  their  intention  was  to  have  fallen  upon 
the  Protestants  in  the  county  of  Longford,  but  finding  some 
in  St.  Johnstown  in  arms,  and  upon  their  guard,  they 
immediately  dispersed  themselves,  and  have  no  resolutions  of 
present  action,  and  further,  the  said  deponent  saith  not. 


Francis,  Lord  Aungibr  to  Ormond. 

1663,  December  26.  Culwyn. — ^Within  a  few  hours  after 
I  had  despatched  away  to  your  Grace  my  express  of  the 
25th  instant,  I  changed  mv  resolution  of  staying  here  till  the 
beginning  of  the  next  week,  and  immediately  repaired  to  my 
garrison  at  Longford,  where  finding  my  troop  in  the  posture 
I  had  ordered  them,  I  from  thence  rode  over  to  Su:  Arthur  Forbes, 


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that  I  might  compare  notes  with  him.  He,  and  those 
Protestants  in  his  parts,  had  been  upon  very  severe  duty 
two  nights  before,  and  were  resolved,  when  I  parted  with  them, 
to  spend  this  night  so  too.  Sir  Arthur  had,  upon  the  first 
alarm,  repaired  to  his  troop  at  Mullingar,  but  that  he  found  he 
could  not  stir  from  his  own  house  without  giving  great 
disanimation  to  his  neighbours.  However,  I  can  assure  your 
Grace,  his  troop  is  in  very  good  order,  and  ready  upon  a 
minute's  warning  for  any  service  your  Grace  will  please  to 
command.  It  is  (my  Lord)  at  Sir  Arthur's  instance,  that 
I  at  present  presume  to  give  your  Grace  this  second  trouble, 
before  I  have  received  your  Grace's  commands  in  answer  to 
my  first,  for  he,  finding  his  own  intelligence  concurring  very 
much  with  what  I  have,  in  my  former,  imparted  to  your  Grace, 
is  equally  impatient  with  me  till  we  know  your  Grace's  positive 
directions  in  the  present  conjuncture.  He  desired  me  to 
acquaint  your  Grace  that  he  has  received  information  from 
several  hands,  that  Ludlow^  and  the  Primate  O'Keilly  are  both 
together  (but  where,  his  intelligence  has  not  yet  imparted), 
in  order  to  a  conjunction  between  the  Nuntio-popish  party 
and  the  Fanatics,  and  though  there  is  no  seeming  probability 
of  such  an  association,  yet  when  it  is  considered  that  both  are 
alike  desperate,  and  cannot  propose  a  more  hopeful  way  for 
their  own  advantage  than  by  fishing  in  troubled  waters,  it  is 
not  altogether  impossible,  notw'ithstanding^the  distance  they 
seem  to  be  at  in  profession  of  religion ,  but  that  they  may  agree 
in  aliquo  tertio  to  create  new  troubles  in  these  kingdoms. 
Sir  Arthur  desires  me  also  to  communicate  to  your  Grace  that 
he  is  certainly  informed,  that  whatever  design  they  have 
on  foot  is  formed  in  the  county  of  Leitrim,  about  the 
confines  of  which,  bordering  with  the  county  of  Longford, 
there  has  of  late  been  a  great  concourse  of  Irish  armed, 
who  have  at  present  dispersed  themselves  up  and  down 
those  woody  and  mountainous  parts,  but  they  are  so  near 
together,  and  keep  so  good. correspondence,  that  in  twenty-four 
hours'  time  they  can  draw  into  a  considerable  body.  And  these 
particulars  he  had  written  himself  to  your  Grace  sooner,  but 
that  he  expects  this  night  the  return  of  an  intelligencer,  whom 
he  sent  away  early  this  morning  into  the  county  of  Leitrim, 
to  observe  the  motion  of  those  dispersed  gentlemen ,  of  whose 
actions  and  designs  he  hopes,  within  a  day  or  two,  to  give 
your  Grace  a  particular  account.  In  the  meantime  (with  all 
submission  to  your  Grace's  better  judgment),  we  are  humbly 
of  opinion  that,  for  the  prevention  of  a  surprisal  (in  which 
only  we  apprehend  danger,  and  which  the  Irish  may  easily 
accomplish,  if  they  intend  their  business  heartily,  because 
not  only  our  troops  now  are  at  too  great  a  distance  for  the 
timely  relief  of  one  another,  if  there  should  be  occasion,  but 
also  the  English  are  dispersed  in  small  parties)  both  our  troops 
should  join,  and  draw  down  to  the  confines  of  the  two  counties 
(from  whence  the  danger  is  expected),  and  that  the  English 
dispersed,  now  might  gather  together  into  a  body.      But  this 


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being  not  to  be  done  by  us  without  your  Grace's  positive 
commands,  we  are  at  a  great  stand,  and  can  at  present  only 
secure  ourselves  by  being  upon  a  continual  guard,  but  how 
long  we  are  able  thus  to  hold  out  with  perpetual  watching, 
we  leave  to  your  Grace  to  judge.  But  if  your  Grace  think  fit 
that  we  should  join  our  troops,  and  embody  the  English,  I  am 
confident  we  should  be  able,  in  less  than  two  days'  time, 
to  make  up  a  party  of  four  hundred  effective  men,  with  which, 
though  the  Irish  never  so  much  exceed  us  in  number,  we 
make  not  the  least  question  of  being  able  to  give  a  check  to 
their  present  design,  if  they  proceed  to  action  on  New  Year's 
eve.  This  (my  Lord)  is  Sir  Arthur's  humble  opinion  and 
mine,  to  which  we  beg  your  Grace's  speedy  resolution.  In  the 
meantime,  we  have  given  order  to  the  Sheriff  of  the  County 
of  Longford  to  apprehend  those  persons  (whose  names  I  gave 
your  Grace  in  the  postscript  of  my  last) ,  and  we  hope  by  this 
time  to-morrow  night  to  have  as  many  of  them  as  are  within 
his  jurisdiction.  I  have  also  engaged  Captain  Adare  to  have 
the  Highlander  forthcoming,  who  had  never  parted  out  of 
my  clutches  but  upon  an  engagement  of  further  intelligence, 
for  which  he  desired  no  longer  time  than  till  to-morrove 
morning,  when  he  promised  to  return  again  to  Captain 
Adare,  who  is  the  person  he  pitched  upon  to  manage  our 
correspondence    with  the  more  privacy. 

I  forgot,  in  my  last,  to  acquaint  your  Grace  that  the 
Highlander,  at  parting,  told  me  of  one  (whose  name  he  knows 
not  at  present,  but  resolves  to  worm  it  out)  that  is  very  active 
in  the  county  of  Leitrim,  in  this  design.  He  came  the  last 
summer  from  Rome,  and  now  pretends  himself  to  be  employed 
by  your  Grace  as  your  Falconer. 

This  being  the  sum  of  what  I  have  at  present  to  impart, 
I  most  humbly  beg  your  Grace's  pardon,  in  the  first  place,  for 
the  length  of  this  letter,  and  in  the  second,  for  the  absurdities 
of  it,  which  I  hope  your  Grace  will  the  easilier  excuse,  since 
by  three  nights'  watching,  and  this  day's  hard  riding,  my 
head  may  be  allowed  to  be  a  little  out  of  tune,  but  my  heart 
I  assure  your  Grace  is  very  good,  and  when  I  have  the  honour 
to  receive  your  Grace's  commands,  my  vigorous  putting  them 
in  execution  will  demonstrate  how  cordially  I  am,  etc. 

Postscript : — Sir  Arthur  and  I  have  written  to  Sir  Francis 
Hamilton's  troop,  with  quarter  in  the  county  of  Cavan,  not 
far  from  Leitrim,  to  be  upon  their  guard. 

Ormond  to  Eabl  of  Anglesey. 

1663,  December  26.  Dublin. — The  last  post  brought  us 
five  packets,  and  in  them  your  Lordship's  of  the  Ist,  8th  and 
12th  of  this  month,  which  now  lie  before  me  to  receive  such 
answers  as  the  solemnity  of  the  time,  which  interrupts  meetings 
upon  business,  will  admit  of. 

Wt.  8878  I 


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When  the  establishment  transmitted  was  sent,  it  was  with 
purpose  to  submit  it  to  all  such  thrifty  alterations  as  should 
be  thought  requisite  there,  and  I  agree  with  your  Lordship 
that  temporary  offices  and  payments  should  be  reduced  to  the 
same  state  again,  and  I  agree  to  all  other  the  retrenchments 
mentioned  by  you  in  yours  of  the  first  of  this  month,  which 
I  am  now  answering,  all  which  I  shall  signify  to  Mr.  Secretary, 
and  both  to  him  and  you  my  desire  that  it  may  be  returned  to 
us  with  all  convenient  speed.  Your  Lordship  advised  well 
concerning  Poynings'  Act,  and  it  shall  be  accordingly  proposed. 

All  I  have  to  say,  in  answer  to  the  informations  you  give 
of  the  proceedings  there  in  order  to  our  settlement  shall  be 
in  this  section.  I  conceive  your  sending  the  three  papers 
delivered  in  by  the  commissioners  can  be  no  fault,  but  a  justice 
to  His  Majesty's  council  here,  and  a  diligence  in  the  King's 
service,  that  merits  thanks,  nor  can  it,  I  think,  be  intended 
that  things  relating  so  naturally  to  our  places  should  be  kept 
as  secrets  from  us.  Yet  to  avoid  any  misconstruction,  I  shall 
only  prepare  what  may  be  fit  to  be  said  from  us  upon  them, 
and  expect  such  a  transmission  of  those  papers  as  upon  motion 
I  believe  will  not  be  refused,  and  as  may  warrant  the  delivery 
of  our  sense  upon  them,  wherein  if  you  afford  us  the  help  of 
your  observations,  we  shall  make  fitting  use  of  them.  I  have 
read  the  papers  but  once,  and  that  hastily,  yet  I  dare  say  the 
fundamental  exceptions  to  the  last  bill  will  find  easy  answers. 

I  have  seen  nothing  yet  that  changes  my  opinion,  but  am 
still  persuaded  that  the  readiest  and  most  equitable  way  of 
settlement  is,  or  may  be,  by  nomination,  and  not  by  trial  of 
qualifications  and  innocency,  but  I  have  wearied  myself,  and 
perhaps  others,  so  much  with  the  arguments  that  prevail 
with  me,  that  I  will  not  now  trouble  you  with  them.  I  will 
not  say  but  that  some  things  offered  by  the  commissioners 
to  enlarge  the  stock  for  reprisals,  deficiencies  and  nominees, 
may  carry  reason  and  weight  with  them,  but  then  it  would 
be  considered  whether  they  be  such  as  will  pass  here,  as  if 
they  intrench  too  much  upon  any  general  interest,  I  doubt 
they  will  not. 

That  the  Parliament  here  were  glad  of  the  first  Act, 
founded  upon  the  declaration  and  instructions,  is  not  I  think 
doubted,  their  complaint  and  grief  is  (I  will  not  determine 
how  justly)  that  it  hath  not  been  punctually  pursued.  If  your 
ten  questions  shall  be  satisfactorily  answered,  I  conceive  that 
complaint  will  be  so  too. 

The  last  of  your  questions,  in  my  judgment,  requires 
mature  consideration  and  a  positive  solution,  for  if  His  Majesty 
shall  return  the  bill  a  just  and  fitting  one,  and  it  will  not  pass, 
I  doubt  not  he  may  (because  that  for  the  good  and  peace  of 
the  kingdom  he  must)  betake  himself  to  some  other  way  of 
settling  the  properties  of  his  subjects,  at  least  for  the  present. 

I  had  that  gracious  letter  from  His  Majesty,  which  he  told 
you  he  had  sent  me,  and  another  since,  upon  occasion  of  a  paper 
I  sent  him,  answering  all  the  objections  I  had  heard  were  cast 


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out  against  my  way  of  serving  him.  The  mischief  is  that 
when  one  contends  with  such  dark  reports  he  seems  ridiculously 
to  fight  with  the  air,  for  when  such  fellows  find  themselves 
answered  and  discovered,  they  shrink  away  as  unconcerned, 
and  yet  some  of  the  sting  may  remain. 

I  can  but  thank  you  for  all  you  wrote  in  cipher,  having 
nothing  to  return  that  requires  the  same  way  of  expressing. 
I  have  not  so  many  relations  at  Court,  but  that  I  fear  I  guess 
right  who  took  upon  him  to  apply  my  borrowed  sentence,  a 
liberty  I  ought  to  be  allowed  as  having  the  best,  if  not  only, 
right  to  it.  I  have  not  been  without  some  thoughts  of  making 
the  journey  you  mention ,  upon  something  my  Lord  Chancellor 
wrote  to  me  of  it.  There  are  in  it  some  inconveniences  in 
reference  to  my  private,  and  it  may  be  said,  some  danger  in 
regard  of  the  public,  but  neither  so  great,  but  I  am  ready  to  obey 
if  I  am  commanded. 

It  is  true  I  am  not  willing  to  be  so  far  answerable  for  what 
may  happen,  as  to  propose  it.  You  are  at  liberty  to  discourse 
of  it  with  my  Lord  Chancellor,  by  whose  opinion  I  will  be 
governed.  If  it  should  be  thought  fit,  you  know  what  leave 
and  directions  will  be  in  that  case  necessary. 

When  I  have  assured  you  that  your  letters  cannot  be  too 
long,  and  desired  the  continuance  of  them,  and  if  your 
friendship,  it  remains  only  that  I  profess  myself  to  be  as  I 
am,  etc. 

Postscript : — Being  desirous  this  should  go  with  other  letters, 
it  hath  stayed  till  now  that  yours  of  the  19th  hath  overtaken 
it,  to  which  I  find  little  to  answer,  nor  can  I  say  anything 
more  to  the  main  business,  which  now  seems  becalmed  till 
it  shall  be  again  in  motion,  and  that  I  know  whither  that 
motion  tends. 

Endorsed : — A  copy  of  my  Lord's  letter  to  the  Earl  of 
Anglesey. 

Ormond  to  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

1663,  December  26.  Dublin. — I  am  so  confident  that  this 
letter  will  be  safely  put  into  your  hands  by  Colonel  Thomas 
Howard,  that  I  shall  venture  upon  a  freedom  in  it,  I  should 
not  trust  out  of  cipher  by  the  post,  and  that  manner  of 
writing  is  tedious  to  me.  I  have  according  to  my  belief,  and 
suitable  to  my  experience  of  and  my  friendship  to  your 
Lordship,  upon  all  occasions  to  the  King  and  to  others, 
represented  you  as  a  person  I  knew  to  be  of  great  ability  to 
serve  the  crown,  and  who,  I  believed,  had  inclinations  equal 
to  those  abilities,  disposing  you  with  all  faithfulness  to  do  it. 
I  have  in  no  measure  changed  my  opinion,  and  of  that  I  can 
give  no  better  proof  than  the  liberty  I  take  to  let  you  know 
I  have  often  found,  and  am  now  of  late  informed,  that  the 
King  and  the  Duke  of  York  are,  and  have  been,  much 
unsatisfied  with  your  deportment  in  Parliaments  and  Councils, 


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• 

and  have  observed  that  upon  all  questions  wherein 
Nonconformists  are  concerned,  you  have  always  inclined  to 
their  favour,  and  cast  difficulties  in  the  way  to  all  means  that 
have  been  proposed  to  reduce  them  to  conformity,  or  to  secure 
the  peace  of  the  kingdom  against  them. 

If  I  should  conceal  from  you  that  even  in  my  own 
observation  you  have  laid  yourself  too  open  to  this  objection, 
I  should  not  deal  so  clearly  and  ingenuously  with  you  as  the 
friendship  I  profess  to  you  requires.  I  know  this  may,  and 
1  am  confident  does,  only  proceed  from  a  charitable  desire 
to  do  good  offices,  or  from  a  belief  that  moderation  and  lenity 
is  the  likeliest  way  to  gain  dissenters  and  to  establish 
tranquillity,  but  it  may  also  bear  a  worse  construction  and 
create  jealousy  of  you,  especially  when  you  are  single  in  the 
opinion,  or  supported  by  very  few,  and  those  only  such  as 
have  been  notedly  of  the  party ;  this  brings  a  prejudice  upon 
the  most  reasonable  things  you  can  say,  and  that  many  times 
in  matters  of  a  differing  nature  from  that  you  are  believed  over 
much  to  favour.  I  shall  not  need  to  enlarge  myself.  Your 
Lordship  understands  enough  by  this  little  animadversion, 
and  I  am  sure  will  not  suspect  it  can  proceed  from  any  other 
root  than  that  of  friendship  and  kindness. 

Endorsed : — A  copy  of  the  letter  to  the  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

Sir  William   Scott  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1668  [-4],  January  4,  Eouen. — Monseiur,  J'ay  receucelles  qu'  il 
vous  a  pleu  m*  escrire,  et  veu  comme  mon  Seigneur  le  Due  d* 
Ormond  et  vous  ont  receu  le  vin  que  je  vous  ay  envoye  ;  je  prie 
a  Dieu  que  le  puiriez  boire  aveo  sante.  Sir  Thomas  Vyner  a 
paye  mes  letres  de  change  avec  honneur  et  je  vous  remercie  du 
soing  que  vous  en  avez  eu.  Je  ne  mancqueray  pas  d'  envoyer 
par  la  premiere  comodit6  a  son  Altesse  neuf  tonneaus  de  bon  vin 
de  Mante  derriere  saison,  et  je  suis  bien  aise  de  voir  que  ceus 
que  je  vous  ay  envoye  cy  devant  sont  encore  bon.  Je  ne 
mancqueray  pas  aussi  d 'envoyer  pour  vous  un  Tonneau  de 
mesme  vin  de  garde,  8*il  y  a  quelque  autre  chose  icy  qui  vous 
^oit  agreable,  je  vous  prie  de  me  commander  librement. 

Suis  mari  de  voir  que  les  arbres  sont  si  mal  oonditionnez,  il 
est  vray  qu'  ils  ont  est6  arrache  un  peu  de  bon  heure,  a  cause 
que  le  navire  ne  pouvoit  point  attandre,  mais  quand  ils  sont 
venus  a  bord  il  estoient  frais  et  bons,  je  tacheray  de  vous 
envoyer  d'  autres,  que  je  feray  accomoder  a  ma  mode  n'ayant 
pas  este  en  ville  quand  on  a  embarque  les  autres.  Je  vous  prie 
de  faire  mes  tres  humbles  recommendations  a  son  Altesse  et  luy 
remercier  du  present,  qu*  il  luy  plaist  me  faire  d'  un  gelding  de 
quarante  pieces,  j'ay  escript  a  Sir  Nicolas  Armorer  qu*  il  ne  se 
hastapas  a  1*  achapter  d'autant  que  j'  esj)ere  faire  un  petit  tour 
en  Engletere  au  Priatamps  et  alors  luy  aideray  a  bieu  employer 
cet  argeant. 

Puis  que  le  transport  des  laines  est  si  hautement  defendu,  il 
n'y  faut  plus  penser,  et  par  ma  premiere  je  vous  manderay,  si  en 


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autre  marchandise,  nous  y  pourons  trouver  nostre  conte.  J'ay 
veu  par  V  imprime  qu'  il  vous  a  pleu  m'  envoy er,  la  liberie  que 
sa  Majeste  donne  au^  E  strangers  ix)ur  les  animer  a  venir 
deuieurer  en  Irlande,  et  en  ay  donne  communication  a  mes  amis. 
Si  je  n'estois  pas  si  advance  en  age,  je  serois  bien  resolu,  d' 
entreprendre  ce  voyage  avec  plusieurs  autres  families  je  prie 
Dieu  de  benir  les  desseins  de  son  Altesse  et  vous  tenir  en  sa 
sainte  guarde,  avec  Madame  vostre  chere  moitie,  vous  sonhaitaut 
un  bon  commencement  d*  annee  avec  plusieurs  autres.  Je 
demeure,  Monsieur,  vcstre  tres  humble  seiTiteur,  Guill*'"  Scott.* 

Addressed: — A  Monsieur  Mons'  G.  Lane,  Chevalier,  secretaire 
de  raon  seigneur  le  Due  d'  Ormond,  vice  Roy  d'  Yrlande  a  Dublin. 

Endorsed  r— Sir  Will.  Scott,  received  10th  January,  1662  [-8]. 
[French] . 

Earl  of  Anqlesby  to  Ormond. 

1663  [-4],  January  6.  London. — On  Saturday,  the  2nd 
of  this  month,  came  in  together  a  month's  letters  from  Dublin, 
but  neither  I  nor  any  other  that  I  hear  of  received  any  from 
your  Grace.  I  wish  here  were  anything  woii)h  your  knowledge 
to  send  to  you. 

The  bill  hath  kept  as  idle  a  Christmas  as  any  of  us. 
I  reminded  His  Majesty  yesterday  of  it,  who  hath  directed  it  shall 
be  speeded,  but  in  what  way  that  may  bring  it  to  a  good  issue 
I  cannot  yet  see,  and  therefore  do  presume  to  offer  to  your 
Grace's  consideration,  whether  since  the  Eoman  Catholic  Irish 
have  their  agents  here  and  want  not  powerful  assistance,  it 
will  not  be  fit  at  the  day  to  which  the  Parliament  is  now 
prorogued,  which  I  hear  is  to  the  3rd  of  February,  to  permit 
them  to  meet,  that  they  may  in  an  humble  and  dutiful  way 
apply  themselves  hither  before  it  be  too  late.  I  am  confident 
the  Protestants  depend  so  much  upon  your  Grace's  good  will 
towards  them,  that  if  your  Grace  give  or  intimate  your  advice 
to  them,  it  will  be  followed,  and  for  that  end  I  wish  your  Grace 
would  summon  the  Lord  President,  and  some  others  which 
your  Grace  will  foresee  useful,  to  Dublin  by  that  time,  for 
whatever  becomes  of  things,  I  would  not  have  it  in  the  powder 
of  any  to  say  that  whilst  the  Irish  Papists  had  leave  to  come 
over  and  address  themselves  to  authority  here,  the  English 
had  no  means  afiforded  them  to  meet  and  consult  their  own 
settlement,  or  send  agents  to  intercede  for  them,  which  I  assure 
your  Grace  is  already  spoken  of  and  lamented  here. 

Though  all  the  reasons  I  and  others  gave  against  putting 
the  bill  into  the  commissioners'  hands  could  not  hinder  the 
doing  of  it,  yet  the  inconveniences  since  appearing,  His  Majesty 
hath  caused  the  orders  touching  that  affair  to  be  taken  out 
of  the  council's  book,  and  all  papers  are  now,  I  hear,  lodged 
in  my  Lord  Chancellor's  hand,  the  commissioners  being  grown 
weary  of  their  undertaking  before  they  had  put  pen  to  paper 
ir.  it. 


The  orthography  of  the  original  is  followed  in  this  transcript. 


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I  forgot  in  my  former  letters  to  acquaint  your  Grace  that 
His  Majesty  hath  forbid  Sir  Kenelm  Digby  the  Court  and 
his  presence,  the  reason  is  said  to  be  because  he  interposed 
too  far  in  favour  of  my  Lord  of  Bristol. 

My  Lord  Lauderdale  hath  clearly  run  down  my  Lord 
Middleton,  so  that  both  his  commission  of  General  and 
Governor  of  Edinburgh  are  taken  from  him  by  His  Majesty, 
the  crime  not  yet  published,  but  said  to  be  his  exceeding  his 
authority,  which  matter  of  fact  I  find  not  agreed  by  my  Lord 
Chancellor  and  divers  others  of  His  Majesty's  most  intimate 
councillors,  yet  the  thing  is  done,  and  my  Lord  Chancellor 
and  Lord  Lauderdale  I  believe  little  satisfied  one  with  the 
other. 

Your  Grace  hath  before  this  time,  I  doubt  not,  received 
His  Majesty's  warrant  for  farming  the  Excise  of  ale  and  beer 
and  ale  licences  for  six  years,  for  His  Majesty  absolutely  refused 
to  grant  it  longer.  I  am  now  to  signify  to  your  Grace  that 
in  favour  of  Father  Patrick  Margin,  one  of  the  Queen's  priests, 
both  their  Majesties  injoined  me  that  some  friends  of  his  might 
have  the  farming  of  the  excise  in  the  county  of  Down,  or  at 
least  some  baronies  thereof,  giving  as  much  as  others,  and 
for  that  end  he  hath  named  Patrick  Bussell  of  Comanstown, 
in  the  barony  of  Lecale,  and  Michael  Garny  of  the  Newry, 
both  in  the  said  county,  to  take  the  same,  and  if  your  Grace 
think  fit  it  will  be  easy  when  the  farm  passeth  for  to  reserve 
this  liberty  for  Father  Patrick,  whom  their  Majesties  would 
shew  some  kindness  to  therein. 

I  changed  what  was  needful  in  the  warrant  for  Gharlemont, 
which  is  now  passed  and  will  be  sent  away  this  post.  I  beseech 
your  Grace  to  cause  the  6001  to  be  paid  to  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham 
for  my  Lord  Carlingford,  who  hath  already  received  it  here. 

I  understand  the  affairs  of  the  Treasury  go  a  little  backward 
in  my  absence.  I  beseech  your  Grace  that  my  deputy  may  be 
permitted  to  attend  you  therein,  and  that  you  would  please 
to  quicken  the  Lord  Chief  Baron  in  sending  pursuivants  by 
order  of  Court  for  offenders  or  failers  in  payment,  or  that  it 
may  be  done  by  order  of  council,  for  unless  they  be  so  awakened 
the  people  will  grow  every  day  slower  in  payment,  which  will 
be  mischievous  in  conclusion,  and  Hilary  Term  will  be  a  good 
time  to  be  prefixed  by  a  quick  proclamation  for  all  His  Majesty's 
accountants,  farmers,  tenants,  and  officers  and  debtors,  to  bring 
in  what  is  due.  Sir  Paul  Davies  will  easily  find  precedents, 
and  unless  they  be  stirred  up  sometimes  by  proclamation,  they 
will  think  there  is  no  need  of  money  when  it's  most  wanting. 

Postscript : — Mr.  Davyes  was  removed  last  Saturday  in  the 
evening  from  the  Tower  by  water,  it's  not  yet  known  whither. 

The  French  King  hath  refused  our  King's  expedient  of  his 
Ambassador  having  audience  without  public  entry,  but  we  have 
found  good  precedents  for  the  right  of  our  Ambassador's 
precedence  to  the  Princes  of  the  blood,  and  I  was^with  His 


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Majesty  yesterday,  who  in  discourse  privately  of  this  affair, 
assured  me  he  would  not  bate  them  an  ace  of  what  his 
predecessors  enjoyed.  If  France  persist,  I  believe  my  Lord 
HoUis  will  speedily  be  recalled. 

Francis,  Lord  Aungier  to  Ormond. 

1663  [-4],  January  5.  Culwyn. — Since  I  had  the  honour 
of  receiving  both  your  Grace's  letters  of  the  27th  and  28th 
of  the  last  month,  I  have  used  all  industry  imaginable  to  find 
out  by  other  hands  the  truth  of  Grant's  information,  but 
through  the  ill  conduct  of  Captain  Adare,  by  whose  oversight 
not  only  the  particulars  of  the  examination,  but  also  the 
informer  himself  have  been  made  public,  those  in  the  •county 
of  Leitrim  are  so  upon  their  guard  that  neither  Sir  Arthur 
Forbes  nor  I  can  get  any  further  information  of  Grant's 
intelligence,  but  that  the  gentry  of  Leitrim  have  frequent 
consultations  with  the  priests  in  private,  of  which  the  common 
people  are  very  apprehensive  and  fear  the  j-esult  of  it,  though 
they  are  wholly  ignorant  of  what  is  in  debate  amongst  them. 
This  information  we  had  from  one  Larkan  who  is  accused 
by  Grant  to  have  been  present  at  the  mass  at  Lammas  when 
the  oath  of  secrecy  was  given,  but  both  the  oath  and 
confederacy  Larkan  wholly  disavows.  Grant  and  he  have 
confronted  one  another,  the  former  as  stiffly  avowing  his 
information  as  the  other  denies  it.  Larkan,  we  have 
committed  to  the  goal  at  Longford  as  a  felon,  having  had 
several  complaints  against  him  for  horses  stolen  by  him,  and 
we  have  directed  the  gaoler  to  use  him  with  the  more  severity, 
because  we  hope  thereby  to  draw  him  to  a  further  confession. 
But  whatever  becomes  of  him  as  to  the  plot,  we  have  enough 
against  him  to  hang  him  as  a  felon,  for  he  is  a  very  notorious 
villain. 

As  for  Grant,  because  by  his  being  discovered,  I  found  there 
was  no  further  use  to  be  made  of  him  as  an  intelligencer, 
1  have  secured  him  at  Longford,  partly  to  secure  him  from 
danger  from  the  Irish  (who  before  he  was  secured  were  very 
inquisitive  after  him,  and  observed  to  lurk  about  his  house 
early  and  late) ,  but  chiefly  to  have  him  forthcoming  to  justify 
his  information,  in  which  he  is  so  confident  and  resolute  that 
he  presses  much  to  be  brought  face  to  face  with  those  whom* 
he  has  accused.  But  because  I  have  no  further  evidence 
than  from  himself,  I  have  not  thought  it  fit  to  apprehend  any 
other  persons,  or  proceed  any  further  in  this  affair  without 
your  Grace's  particular  directions,  which  I  most  humbly  beg 
with  as  much  expedition  as  may  be,  because  I  find  it 
troublesome  to  keep  Grant,  whom  (that  I  may  not  by  his 
example  discourage  intelligencers)  I  have  directed  to  be  kindly 
treated,  and  not  in  the  nature  of  a  close  prisoner,  having 
recommended  him  to  the  care  and  oversight  of  some  of  my 
troop  till  I  receive  your  Grace's  orders  concerning  him. 
On  Monday  last  T  had  some  discourse  with  Mr.  Plunkett,  who 


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with  bitter  execrations  denies  every  syllable  of  Grant's 
information  concerning  him.  And  yesterday  morning  Teige 
Boy,  the  Priest,  came  to  me  at  Castle  Forbes  just  as  I  was 
taking  horse  for  this  place,  and  I  finding  his  errand  was  to 
clear  himself  of  Grant's  information,  I  waived  all  particular 
discourse  of  it,  and  treated  him  only  as  a  visitant. 

As  to  the  restitution  of  arms,  I  shall  most  strictly  pursue 
your  Grace's  directions. 

Ormond  to  Earl  op  Anglesey. 

1663  [-4],  January  9.  Dublin.— Yours  of  the  22nd  of  the 
last  is,  I  think,  the  only  letter  of  yours  that  I  have  not 
answered,  and  there  is  little  in  that  requiring  more  than  the 
acknowledgment  that  I  have  received  it  with  much 
satisfaction. 

Now  that  the  holidays  are  over,  I  doubt  not  but  our  Irish 
affair  is  again  resumed.  I  am  glad  I  was  mistaken,  and  that 
my  Lord  Chancellor  is  not  for  the  way  of  trials,  but  sure 
the  words  of  his  letter  were  apt  to  lead  me  into  the  mistake. 
I  am  reasonably  well  prepared  to  give  a  list  of  persons  fit  for 
the  King's  nomination,  but  not  knowing  what  proportion 
will  be  designed  for  them,  it  will  not  be  possible  to  make  it 
certain.  Some  have  deserved  more  eminently  than  others 
His  Majesty's  grace,  and  if  there  must  be  preference  it  is  fit 
they  have  it.  In  this  I  shall  employ  some  part  of  my  time 
and  pains  to  make  myself  more  capable  of  satisfying  the  King, 
if  he  shall  think  fit  to  call  upon  me. 

My  son  Bichard  will  I  doubt  not  have  seen  you  before  this 
comes  to  your  hands,  he  was  weary  of  this  place  and  I  was 
not  willing  he  should  totally  surfeit  of  it.  He  is  now  a 
man  of  a  certain  estate,  if  there  be  any  such  here,  and  says 
he  will  look  out  for  a  wife  and  make  himself  a  settled  man. 
Let  him  have  your  good  advice.  I  have  of  late  written  often 
and  very  freely  to  571  (the  King),  and  I  conceive  what  was 
fit  for  him  to  know  and  think  seriously  of. 

On  Monday  next  I  go  for  some  refreshment  to  Maddenstovvn , 
and  to  fit  myself  to  endure  a  longer  journey  if  I  should  be 
called  upon,  as  'tis  possible  I  may  be. 

Endorsed : — Copy  of  my  Lord  Duke's  letter  to  my  Lord  of 
Anglesey. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663  [-4],  January  12.  London. — Your  Grace's  of  the 
double  date  of  the  26th  and  31st  of  December,  I  received  the 
sixth  instant,  which  is  the  only  letter  of  your  Grace's  which 
I  have  by  me  unanswered,  and  therein  your  Grace  takes  notice 
of  the  receipt  of  all  my  letters  to  and  of  the  19th  of  the  last 
month.  (I  have,  since  I  received  your  Grace's,  had  large 
discourse  with  984  (Lord   Chancellor),  to  whom  I   shewed 


187 

yours,  he  telling  me  that  961  (your  Grace)  had  written  but  a 
few  lines  to  him  last  post,  111  (we)  concluded  it  best  for  961 
(your  Grace)  to  194  (come)  for  843  (England)  in  all  respects. 
The  difficulty  was  how  it  might  be  done  with  safety  to  641 
(Ireland),  and  be  set  on  foot  by  854  (King  of  England),  and 
made  use  of  for  the  satisfaction  of  the  842  (English),  whereupon 
984  (Lord  Chancellor)  and  896  (Earl  of  Anglesey)  agreed  to 
proceed  in  this  manner.^    First,  the  120,  24,  25  (bill)  and  all 
the  papers  being  now  in  984,  68,  28, 11,  37  (Lord  Chancellor's 
hands),  the  836, 129,  38  (commissioners)  having  been  so  wise 
as  to  discover  the  688  (business)  a  weight  above  their  strength, 
as  easy  as  it  appeared  before  388  (they)   lifted  at  it,  and 
thereupon  554,  354  (desiring)  to  be  273,  12  (freed)  of  it,  854 
(Lord  Chancellor)  consented,  and  the  orders  concerning  that 
reference  are  by  856  (King's)  direction  taken  371  (out)  of  the 
692,   121,  30,  23   (council  book).       I  think  I  foretold  961 
(your  Grace)  this  would  be  the  issue,  and  a  month's  time  lost. 
We  conceive  that  it's  fit  first  a  149,  129  (letter)  be  prepared 
and  written  by  571  (the  King)  to  the  938,  298,  641  (Parliament 
of  Ireland)  taking  notice  of  the  difficulties  unexpectedly  arisen, 
and  to  571,  37   (King's)  grief  in  the  settlement  of  Ireland, 
after  854  (His  Majesty)  had  consented  to  pass  whatsoever  was 
proposed  to  280  (him),  and  out  of  tenderness  to  139,  726  (his 
people),  taking  notice  that  the  Parliament  having  been  from 
time  to  time  prorogued  whilst  there  was  hope  of  preparing 
something  to  pass  which  might  remove  obstructions,  by  means 
thereof  none  have  been  sent  over  to  attend  proceedings,  and  it 
becoming  now  necessary  both  for  571,  88  (the  King's)  information 
and  139,  726,  39  (his  people's)  satisfaction  that  some  members 
of  938  (Parliament)  should  come  over  and  assist  in  this  affair, 
that  therefore  he  had  directed  961  (your  Grace)  to  continue 
the  938  (Parliament)  for  some  time,  that  at  their  meeting  they 
might  agree  to  send  a  621,  40,  13,  14,  3,  106  (committee  to) 
attend  280  (him).      This  rise  being  given  will  be  so  pleasing 
to  938  (Parliament)  that  then  961  (your  Grace)  may  come  also 
and  leave  all  your  concernments  in  great  safety  459   (there) 
for  which  end  a  letter  will  be  written  also  by  571  (the  King) 
to  961  (your  Grace) ;  in  the  meanwhile  961  (your  Grace)  may 
be  thinking  who  to  leave  424,  21,  53,  37  (Justices),  and  all 
things  considered  896  (Earl  of  Anglesey)  is  of  opinion  985,  998, 
399  (and)  Sir  Henry  Tichborne  may  be  the  fittest  to  make 
choice  of.      And  961  (your  Grace)  need  not  doubt  but  if  what 
is  intended  to  be  done  this  way  succeed,  which  I  hope  shall  be 
carried  with  such  secrecy  that  it  shall  not  be  known  here  till 
acted  there,  984  (Lord  Chancellor)  and  896  (Earl  of  Anglesey) 
will  take  care  to  have  all  so  done  and  by  such  warrants  that 
961  (your  Grace)  nor  the  public  may  suffer  in  the  least.     My 
Lord,  ciphers  make  me  I  doubt  write  but  a  broken  style,  but 
I  hope  your  Grace  will  understand  my  meaning. 

Concerning  the  establishment,  I  shall  advise  with  Mr. 
Secretary  Bennett  as  soon  as  I  understand  your  Grace's  letter 
comes  to  him  in  the  way  your  last  mentions. 


138 

984  (Lord  Chancellor)  agrees  that  it  be  moved  that  the 
papers  be  all  sent  961  (your  Grace),  upon  which  there  will 
be  good  ground  to  proceed,  as  961  (your  Grace)  mentions,  and 
I  assure  996  (you)  he  hath  good  reasons  to  persist  in  his  opinion 
that  what  69  (he)  and  243,  692  (the  council)  there  have  done 
is  best,  for  most  begin  to  be  of  that  opinion  350  (here),  and 
243,  836,  129,  37  (the  commissioners)  are  much  sunk  in  the 
esteem  was  298,  389  (of  them),  and  have  been  so  wise  as 
neither  to  answer  nor  discourse  any  of  the  ten  questions. 

The  reports  are  now  grown  dark  indeed  since  your  Grace 
sent  the  paper  you  mention  to  His  Majesty,  yet  I  am  of  opinion 
your  Grace  did  wisely  not  to  slight  them,  and  now  the  authors 
see  your  Grace  is  awake,  you  will  be  less  troubled  with  them. 
Something  961  (your  Grace)  hath  written  to  one  here  hath  a 
little  alarmed  those  who  were  cold  friends,  if  not  enemies. 
896  (Earl  of  Anglesey)  is  certainly  informed  that  992  (Lord 
Muskery)  being  reproved  by  139,  61,  243,  36  (his  father)  upon 
a  letter  of  961  (your  Grace)  for  appearing  too  much  to  69,  118 
(heed)  the  568  (Irish)  and  some  other  particulars,  that  431 
(Lord)  casting  about  who  should  correspond  with  996  (Ormond) 
concerning  what  passeth  here,  concluded  it  must  be  896  (Earl 
of  Anglesey),  though  I  am  sure  21  (I)  never  mentioned  that 
of  his  69,  118,  354  (heeding)  the  568  (Irish),  though  I  must 
now  say  it's  too  true,  and  I  am  glad  961  (your  Grace)  gave  him 
notice  of  it.  918  (Sir  Geo.  Hamilton's)  son  is  also  much 
jealoused  by  389  (them).  By  which  961  (your  Grace)  may  see 
who  they  take  to  be  996,  484,  37  (Ormond's  friends)  now, 
though  I  doubt  not  many  more  will  be  so  when  961  (your 
Grace)  appears  350  (here). 

Cl  wish  99,  9,  51,  86,  40  (Sec.  Bennett)  were  4  (a)  thorough 
484  (friend)  to  996  (Ormond).  I  am  sure  if  896  (Earl  of 
Anglesey)  may  believe  918  (Sir  Geo.)  son,  he  endeavoured 
lately  to  persuade  him  961  (your  Grace)  did  not  care  for  him , 
and  would  never  do  anything  for  him.  He  answered  discreetly 
he  could  not  serve  961  (your  Grace)  enough  for  what  996  (you) 
had  done  for  280  (him)  already.^ 

Kew  and  extravagant  proposals  have  been  lately  made  to 
896  (Earl  of  Anglesey)  about  putting  the  settlement  of  Ireland 
in  another  way,  and  I  was  assured  from  those  who  think  they 
can  do  much  that  if  896  (he)  would  in  with  them  he  should 
guide  all  and  have  what  advantages  he  pleaseth.  After  time 
taken  to  consider,  he  answered,  being  4,  692, 129  (a  councillor) 
to  571  (the  £jng)  he  durst  not  but  keep  himself  free  to  do 
as  should  be  advisable  on  debate  212,  692  (in  council).  Out 
of  what  design  this  was  made,  I  cannot  tell.  It  might  (if 
it  could  have  taken)  been  made  use  of  either  to  promote 
their  designs  or  blast  896  (Earl  of  Anglesey's)  integrity,  which 
69  (he)  hopes  ever  to  preserve. 

431, 96,  85,  77  (Lord  Ranelagh)  his  design  is  stopped. 


139 

I  will  not  write  how  few  here  promote  what  961  (your  Grace) 
desires;  when  996,  194,  37,  69  (Ormond  comes,  he)  will  be 
fully  informed  of  all,  and  I  doubt  all  things  will  settle  to  961, 
83,  28,  11  (your  Grace's  mind). 

Your  nephew  Hamilton,  when  he  was  last  with  me,  seemed 
to  wonder  961  (your  Grace)  had  made  known  nothing  of  his 
mind  to  Mr.  Attorney  General  concerning  246,  688  (the 
business)  of  641  (Ireland),  which  he  told  me  he  acquainted 
996  (Ormond)  he  was  desirous  to  know,  and  though  984  (Lord 
Chancellor)  and  896  (Earl  of  Anglesey)  will  inform  him  as  there 
is  occasion,  yet  it  were  not  in  my  opinion  amiss  he  knew  961 
(your  Grace)  had  directed  it  so  to  be.  I  believe  I  shall  soon  have 
occasion  to  write  again  to  your  Grace,  and  shall  therefore 
cease  for  the  present  further  wearying  myself  or  your  Grace. 

Postscript : — I  entreat  your  Grace  to  uncipher  yourself. 

Endorsed  : — Received  24th  January,  1663  [-4]. 

Ormond  to  Lord  Aungier. 

1663  [-4],  January  12.  Dublin  Castle. — We  received  your 
Lordship's  of  the  5th  on  the  8th  of  this  instant,  and  as  to 
Larkan  we  need  give  your  Lordship  no  directions  concerning 
him,  but  as  to  Graut  we  think  fit  that  he  be  set  at  liberty  to 
follow  his  occasions,  if  there  be  no  other  matter  appearing 
against  him ,  which  being  all  we  have  to  say  in  answer  to  your 
said  letter,  we  bid  your  Lordship  very  heartily  farewell. 

Endorsed : — ^A  copy  of  his  Grace's  letter  to  the  Lord  Aungier. 

Eakl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663  [-4],  January  16.  London. — ^I  received  yesterday 
your  Grace's  of  the  9th  of  this  month,  and  my  Lord  of  Arran 
is  expected  in  town  this  night,  to  whom  my  advice  and  utmost 
service  shall  not  be  wanting. 

Since  my  last  I  had  much  discourse  with  984  (Lord 
Chancellor) ,  and  am  to  have  more  on  Monday  next, and  though  I 
will  not  yet  positively  conclude  anything,  yet  because  I  hold  it 
necessary  for  961  (your  Grace)  to  know  apprehensions  as  well  as 
certainties,  896  hath  desired  me  to  acquaint  your  Grace  that 
he  doubts  246,  568,  836, 129,  37  (the  Irish  commissioners)  by 
387  (their)  frequent  discourses,  which  are  now  carried  on  more 
dangerously  in  private  since  388  (they)  openly  seemed  to 
excuse  389,  99,  24,  109,  38  (themselves)  from  meddling  322, 
246,  120,  24,  25  (with  the  bill),  have  made  some  impressions 
on  984  (Lord  Chancellor),  which  will  not  so  easily  be  removed 
as  they  might  have  been  prevented,  had  the  course  now  taken 
been  apprehended ;  for  896  (Earl  of  Anglesey)  finds  that  984 
(Lord  Chancellor)  hath  been  strongly  pressed  with  the 
expediency  of  casting  all  the  101,  24,  11,  21, 129,  46  (soldiery) 
that  are  225,  368  (not  now)  of  the  613  (Army).  I  mean  with 
reference  to  the  time  of  the  declaration,  and  to  do  that  upon 
the  point  of  399  (arid)  and  88  (or) ,  against  which  so  much  will 
occur  to  961  (your  Grafce),  that  I  will  trouble  your  Grace 


140 

no  further  with  it  at  present.  The  pretence  is  to  find  more 
reprisals,  but  what  need  will  there  be  of  any  if  258  (all)  that 
are  not  of  the  613,  51,  52,  167  (Army  be  cast).  All  will  then 
almost  fall  of  course  106,  243,  568  (to  the  Irish).  The  King 
will  lose  his  rents,  and  that  kingdom  remain  very  insecure. 
I  hope  nothing  will  be  concluded  till  21,  99,  13,  3,  961,  140, 
14  (I  see  your  Grace  here). 

Colonel  Jeffreys  is  preparing  to  go  settle  with  his  family 
in  Ireland,  and  I  find  him  so  much  your  Grace's  servant  that 
I  cannot  but  remember  your  Grace  of  him,  that  in  the  removes 
that  happen  he  may  rise  above  a  Lieutenant,  unless  your 
Grace  continue  in  your  intention  of  having  him  Adjutant 
General  with  the  pay  of  a  corporal  of  the  field,  which  I  see 
are  now  added  to  the  establishment. 

The  Court  goes  into  short  mourning  to-morrow  for  the 
Duchess  of  Savoy. 

("Eighteen  are  found  guilty  at  York  of  the  late  Treason, 
among  the  rest  one  Ralph  Rimer,  a  kind  of  fifth  monarchy 
man  of  about  400Z  a  year  estate.") 

(969  is  in  more  favour  than  239,  120,  39  (she  was)  and  167, 
42,  119,  40  (Stuart)  is  thought  106,  51,  322,  123,  21,  29,  12 
(to  be  with  child)T) 

1  beseech  your  Grace  to  uncipher  this  yourself. 


Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 


1663 


-4],  January  23.  London. — Your  Grace's  letter 
of  the  26th  of  December,  by  Colonel  Thomas  Howard,  came 
safe  to  my  hands  the  19th  of  this  month,  and  as  I  was  before 
imder  great  obligations  to  your  Grace  for  your  favour  and 
friendly  representations  of  me  to  His  Majesty  and  others,  so 
I  am  by  this  letter  of  your  Grace's  engaged  beyond  as  well 
possibility  of  acknowledgment  as  return,  insomuch  that  I 
should  injure  the  efficacy  and  kindness  of  it  if  I  did  not  confess 
that,  though  I  knew  my  own  weakness  too  well  not  to  believe 
I  had  given  some  cause  in  Parliament  and  Council  for  those 
to  find  fault  whom  I  most  desired  to  observe  and  please,  when 
1  found  them  unsatisfied  with  me,  yet  I  had  never  knowledge 
of  the  particular  till  your  Grace  at  once  informed  and  convinced 
me  with  so  gentle  and  charitable  a  hand,  that  I  have  little 
more  to  say  for  myself  than  your  Grace's  kindness  hath 
prevented  me  in. 

Your  Grace,  I  am  sure,  will  believe  me  when  I  aver  that 
I  have  industriously  avoided  to  be  or  appear  of  a  party  or 
faction,  and  though  I  might  err  in  judgment,  I  never  failed 
in  affection  to  His  Majesty's  service,  and  accordingly  delivered 
my  counsel  at  all  times  with  faithfulness,  and  do  heartily 
wish  there  may  never  be  cause  to  return  to  some  of  those 
counsels  wherein  I  intended  service  to  His  Majesty,  though 
they  produced  only  prejudice  to  myself  and  to  what  I  might 
reasonably  offer  in  other  things. 


141 

That  which  I  most  wonder  at  is  that  your  Grace  should 
be  informed  that  of  late  there  hath  been  dissatisfaction  at  my 
deportment.  I  cannot  accuse  myself  to  have  deserved  it, 
and  His  Majesty  and  his  Royal  Highness  their  increasing 
favour  to  me  and  profession  of  satisfaction  makes  me  hope 
your  Grace  will  hear  no  more  in  that  kind,  as  you  may  rest 
assured  I  shall  hereafter  shew  myself  to  have  profited  so  well 
by  your  Grace's  friendly  animadversion,  that  when  true 
mention  shall  be  made  of  my  words  or  actions,  your  Grace  shall 
be  satisfied  you  have  not  flung  away  your  noble  and  good  advice. 
And  since  I  find  by  your  Grace's  esteem  and  care  of  me  that 
you  would  not  only  fix  me  entirely  to  His  Majesty's  service, 
but  take  occasion  from  thence  to  do  me  good,  I  have  only 
further  to  beg  that  I  may  never  want  your  Grace's  instruction 
and  reprehension  whensoever  you  shall  apprehend  it  needful, 
and  till  then  your  charitable  belief  that  I  am  your  Grace's 
real  proselyte. 

My  Lord  Chancellor  was  for  three  days  almost  freed  of  the 
gout,  but  is  a  little  relapsed,  which  obstructs  our  Irish  affairs. 
I  had  lately  long  discourse  with  him  and  have  fully  satisfied 
him  from  the  Act  itself,  etc.,  that  and  in  the  vesting  clause 
for  the  soldiers  ought  to  be  understood  or,  wherein  some  had 
taken  too  much  pains  to  persuade  his  Lordship  otherwise. 
As  soon  as  he  can  speak  with  the  King,  matters  will  I  believe 
be  put  into  the  way  I  mentioned  in  my  last  letter  but  one, 
and  I  doubt  not  all  will  go  at  length  to  your  Grace's  mind. 
The  Irish  themselves  are  now  I  hear  for  nomination  there  as 
fiercely  as  it  was  decried  at  first.  His  Majesty  received  my 
Lord  of  Arran  with  high  expression  of  kindness  and  favour, 
and  I  have  advised  him  to  keep  constantly  with  His  Majesty, 
which  he  finds  to  be  the  best  course. 

The  French  King  inclines  to  give  us  satisfaction  concerning 
the  entry  of  our  Ambassador.  Our  fleet  of  eleven  ships  is 
despatched  for  Algiers,  and  Sir  Eichard  Fanshaw,  Ambassador 
for  Spain,  began  his  journey  on  Thursday  last.  Sir  John 
Berkenhead  being  sworn  Master  of  Requests  in  his  place. 
One  Bacon,  the  son  of  him  who  was  called  Plush  Bacon, 
is  sent  to  Newgate  for  offering  a  lOOZ  to  one  to  pistol  or  stab 
the  Master  of  the  Bolls,  being  displeased  it  seems  with  a  decree 
made  against  him. 

[Postscript: — My  Lord  Bristol  is  confidently  reported  to 
have  been  twice  at  Church  at  Wimbledon  last  Lord's  day, 
and  after  evening  service  to  have  ridden  thence  again.  \ 

Obmond  to  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

1663  [-4],  January  27.  Dublin.— The  post  bark  last 
arrived  brought  six  mails  together.  In  them  I  had  yours 
of  5th,  9th,  and  16th  of  this  month.  You  will  not  wonder 
or  complain  if  we  on  this  side  be  not  so  frequent  in  our  letters, 
there  being  so  little  to  be  written  hence  and  so  much  to  be 
expected  thence. 


142 

I  am  not  fully  satisfied  with  the  method  and  expedient 
fallen  upon  by  my  Lord  Chancellor  and  your  Lordship.  I  have 
given  him  my  objections  to  them  and  shall  not  need  to  repeat 
them. 

The  farmers  had  their  lease  under  the  great  seal  before  I 
received  yours  mentioning  the  King's  and  Queen's  pleasure 
concerning  Father  Patrick's  friends,  so  that  it  is  out  of  the 
King's  power  to  resume  any  part  of  it  without  their  consent. 
The  warrant  for  the  purchase  of  Charlemont  is  not  yet  come, 
but  all  things  are  ready  against  it  shall.  Care  shall  then  be 
taken  for  the  500/  assigned  by  my  Lord  Caulfeild  to  my  Lord 
Carlingford,  that  it  be  paid  to  Sir  D.  Bellingham. 

Your  deputy  has  as  frequent  access  to  me  as  he  desires, 
and  shall  have  all  the  assistance  and  compulsories,  ordinary 
and  extraordinary,  to  bring  in  the  King's  dues,  which  he  shall 
propose,  for  Sir  Paul  Davys  says  much  of  what  you  desired  is 
already  done  from  the  Board.  If  anything  remain  to  do,  it 
shall  be  supplied. 

I  have  by  this  post  written  to  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett  to 
hasten  the  return  of  the  establishment,,  with  such  alterations 
as  His  Majesty  shall  think  fit  to  give  it.  Till  it  come,  the 
Marshal's  men,  warders  and  other  charges  will  continue. 

I  expect  the  arrival  of  the  next  post  bark  with  more 
impatience  than  I  did  the  last.  It  is.  uneasy  to  be  upon  so 
much  uncertainty  as  these  last  letters  have  left  us,  though 
they  look  more  tending  to  a  good  conclusion  than  the  former. 

Endorsed : — A  copy  of  my  Lord  Duke's  letter  to  my  Lord  of 
Anglesey. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Obmond. 

1663  [-4],  January  30.  London. — Having  nothing  worthy 
your  Grace's  knowledge  to  write  this  post,  my  Lord 
(/hancellor's  relapse  keeping  the  bill  yet  at  a  stand,  Mr.  Archer 
your  Grace's  old  servant,  brought  me  the  inclosed,  earnestly 
desiring  me  to  accompany  it  with  a  word  or  tw^o  to  your  Grace 
for  a  favourable  despatch  thereof,  without  which  he  saith  he 
is  quite  undone,  and  truly  I  believe  he  is  much  put  to  it  and 
altogether  unable  to  carry  his  family  into  Ireland.  His  Majesty 
hath  also  despatched  a  letter  this  post  for  .a  custodium  to 
Captain  Roose,  who  hath  that  interest  at  Somerset  House  that 
I  take  the  freedom  to  recommend  the  passing  thereof  to  your 
Grace. 

The  Irish  are  much  crestfallen  of  late,  and  I  hope  the  King's 
resolution  is  so  well  set  for  making  a  lasting  settlement  of 
Ireland  that  I  believe  they  will  insult  no  more. 

This  day  was  celebrated  with  great  solemnity,  the 
anniversary  of  the  late  King's  martyrdom.  It's  said  the 
King  of  France  and  the  Pope  are  agreed. 


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I  understand  your  Grace  is  upon  reducing  payments  to  the 
old  way  of  being  half-yearly,  which  I  think  will  be  best  for 
the  Treasury  and  Army.  And  if,  besides  the  diligence  of  my 
oflBce  and  the  Court  of  Exchequer,  pursuivants  may  be  sent 
for  the  greatest  defaulters,  I  hope  to  bring  it  so  about  that 
the  Army  and  Civil  List  may  be  punctually  paid  half-yearly 
as  before  the  rebellion,  which  will  also  bring  great  quiet  to 
your  Grace. 

I  have  not  yet  received  authentic  notice  of  the  new  farmers 
entering  upon  the  farm  of  customs  and  excise  at  55,0001  a 
year,  yet  being  by  a  sure  hand  informed  thereof,  I  have 
called  upon  Sir  Martin  Noel  and  the  two  Bences  to  enter  into 
forty  thousand  pounds  security  here  for  performance,  which 
is  ordered  by  His  Majesty  in  Council,  and  I  held  it  my  duty 
to  take  this  care  because  I  doubt  they  have  overshot  themselves 
in  bidding,  and  it's  no  reason  since  they  took  it  out  of  other 
hands  that  offered  to  secure  payment,  that  His  Majesty  should 
be  at  an  uncertainty  for  his  rent. 

Postscript : — ^The  *49  men  have  gotten  their  security  out  of 
charge  in  the  Exchequer,  insomuch  as  the  King's  chief  rent 
is  not  paid  by  them.  I  beseech  your  Lordship  to  give  order 
herein  for  they  are  to  pay  the  same  chief  rent  for  the  lands 
in  their  security  as  adventurers  and  soldiers,  and  they  are 
now  three  years  in  arrear.  I  have  directed "  Sir  Daniel 
Bellingham  to  attend  your  Grace  about  it. 

Ormond  to  Earl  op  Anglesey. 

1663  [-4],  February  5.  Dublin. — Since  my  last,  which 
acknowledged  the  receipt  of  three  of  yours,  no  packet  hath 
arrived  here,  to  the  greater  trouble  of  others  than  of  me, 
who  had  rather  be  assured  our  business  is  done  than  how 
it  is  doing. 

I  forgot  in  my  last  to  observe  to  your  Lordship  that  the 
authentic  copies  of  the  commissioners'  papers  promised  were 
not  then  come.  If  there  shall  be  a  full  agreement  upon  the 
amendments  to  the  bill  they  will  be  of  the  less  use,  for  if 
things  do  yet  go  well  forward  I  am  not  for  looking  back  upon 
the  rubs  that  are  laid  in  our  way.  Tour  Lordship  hath 
of  late  said  nothing  of  the  proceeding  to  recover  the  subsidies 
of  the  Irish  Lords  residing  in  England.  You  know  that, 
though  the  sum  should  prove  but  small,  our  occasions  for  it 
here  are  not  so,  and  that  we  need  all  helps  to  make  ends  meet. 

Upon  consideration  of  the  Act  giving  the  King  the  revenue 
upon  fire-hearths,  it  is  found  not  only  so  defective  for  the 
bringing  it  in,  but  such  strict  provision  made  against  the 
farming  of  it  with  such  indispensable  penalties  upon  farmers, 
that  till  the  Act  shall  be  mended  and  explained  by  a  new  one 
it  must  remain  as  it  is  in  collection  as  the  law  appoints. 
It  will  be  therefore  till  then  needless  to  send  any  authority 
from  the  King  to  farm  it;  it  is  referred  to  a  committee  to 


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consider  of  a  new  bill  when  it  shall  be  brought  them  by  the 
King's  council.  I  have  since  my  last,  and  not  before, 
considered  of  the  account  given  your  Lordship  by  Sir  James 
Shaen  of  money  laid  out  by  him  to  facilitate  the  sending  of 
the  money  sent  by  His  Majesty  for  the  service  of  this  kingdom. 
Some  of  the  persons  I  am  confident  would  not  take  money 
upon  that  account,  and  others  I  am  sure  could  not  contribute 
to  the  getting  it.  In  short,  I  like  it  not,  nor  can  allow  of  it 
since  it  is  such  as  cannot  be  passed  when  the  account  of  that 
money  shall  be  taken. 

Will.  Legg  tells  me  of  some  provisions  that  are  to  be  sent 
to  our  magazines  here.  I  know  not  the  nature  or  proportions 
of  them,  but  nothing  can  come  amiss ;  if  it  be  necessary  that 
anything  be  undertaken  for  payment  of  the  freight,  your 
Lordship  will  take  care  of  it. 

Postscript : — Whatever  shall  be  determined  of  my  going 
into  England  or  stay  there,  my  wife  intends,  when  the  spring 
is  a  little  more  advanced,  to  make  a  journey  over,  partly  to 
return  her  daughters  to  their  families,  and  partly  to  take 
better  advice  for  her  health  (which  she  finds  much  impairing) 
than  she  thinks  she  can  have  here.  She  does  not  wish  to 
be  in  the  town  nor  far  off  it,  and  likes  Chelsey  best  of  any 
place  for  such  an  occasion.  If  your  Lordship  would  employ 
some  fit  person  to  take  her  up  convenient  lodgings,  or  some 
small  house,  whether  furnished  or  unfurnished,  you  would 
do  her  a  great  favour.  The  times  she  stays  will  not  be  long, 
which  will  make  the  rate  of  hire  dearer,  but  that  she  will 
willingly  undergo. 

Endorsed : — A  copy  of  the  letter  to  the  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

Copy. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663  [-4],  February  9.  London. — Your  Grace's  of  the 
27th  of  the  last  month  I  received  the  third  instant,  but  have 
been  of  late  so  ill  of  the  gout  that  I  have  been  in  no  case  to 
write,  and  indeed  I  know  of  nothing  to  write  concerning  the 
main  business  more  than  your  Grace  hath  already  intimated 
to  you,  neither  have  I  through  indisposition  been  able  to  go 
of  late  to  my  Lord  Chancellor's,  who  is  also  yet  tied  to  his  chair. 

The  last  time  I  was  at  council,  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett 
assured  me  he  would  speedily  bring  on  the  establishment, 
which  I  urged  to  him  the  necessity  of  despatching. 

I  expected  Sir  Paul  Davys  or  my  Lord  Chief  Baron  would 
have  transmitted  me  a  copy  of  the  contract  made  there  with 
the  farmers  of  the  customs  and  imported  excise,  or  at  least 
of  the  bond  entered  into  by  them  there,  that  I  might  take 
security  here  from  Sir  Martin  Nowell  and  the  Bences,  since 
I  understood  they  entered  upon  the  farm  at  Christmas  last, 
yet  I  counted  it  my  duty,  since  I  was  not  furnished  with  the 
contract  (doubting  much  that  duty  will  not  come  in  to  answer 


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the  King's  rent),  to  get  security  from  them  here  in  general 
with  reference  to  a  contract  made  there  with  them,  which 
accordingly  I  got  ordered  at  council  for  my  Lord  Treasurer 
or  the  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer  to  take  in  40,000/ 
recognizance,  but  if  I  had  the  contract,  I  should  get  it  done 
more  formally. 

I  find  your  Grace  mistook  my  letter  concerning  Father 
Patrick  Magin,  which  was  for  his  friends  having  the  farm 
of  the  inland  excise  in  the  County  of  Down,  which  whosoever 
are  farmers  general  will  not  I  believe  refuse  to  give  them 
preference  in  since  the  King  and  Queen  desire,  and  that  if 
it  be  under  the  seal  is  but  for  one  year  as  I  understand,  though 
the  other  farm  be  for  six  years,  but  if  it  be  past  recovery  for 
this  year  I  hope  your  Grace  will  charge  Sir  George  Lane, 
and  give  me  leave  to  remember  you  of  it  next  year. 

I  humbly  acknowledge  your  Grace's  favour  in  the  free  access 
which  my  deputy  acquaints  me  he  hath  to  your  Grace  about 
revenue  matters.  I  hope  after  the  Parliament  hath  met  and 
sat  awhile,  I  shall  come  away  and  attend  my  duty  myself,  for 
sure  the  commissioners  having  told  all  their  story,  matters 
will  now  come  to  a  conclusion.  I  shall  say  nothing  of  my 
Lord  of  Arran  because  he  hath  written  at  large  by  his  own 
servant,  only  that  he  flies  at  a  fair  game,  and  none  shall  more 
wish  and  assist  his  good  success  than  myself. 


Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663  [-4],  February  13.  London.— Your  Grace's  of  the 
5th  current  I  received  the  11th,  and  though  several  of  mine 
were  then  upon  the  way  I  doubt  not  they  are  since  come  to 
hand,  and  by  this  time  I  hope  your  Grace  hath  received  my 
Lord  Chancellor's  large  letter  concerning  the  bill,  etc.,  by  my 
Lord  Arran 's  man,  which  spares  me  the  troubling  your  Grace 
with  any  account  of  those  matters,  and  though  I  am  not  fully 
satisfied  with  laying  aside  the  course  first  discoursed  of  by  my 
Lord  Chancellor  and  I,  concerning  the  Parliament  meeting 
and  the  King's  writing  to  them,  etc.,  yet  I  acquiesce  in  your 
Lordship's  better  judgment.  But  hope  all  will  be  made  by 
your  Grace's  coming,  which  I  conclude  is  the  only  way  to 
crown  the  work,  and  therefore  I  beseech  you  to  be  not  shy  of  it. 

In  the  meanwhile,  according  to  the  command  of  your  Grace's 
letter,  I  have  employed  others  and  been  at  Chelsey  myself 
to  find  a  convenient  house  for  my  Lady,  and  have  pitched 
upon  that  which  was  Sir  Arthur  Gorges' ,  if  I  can  prevail  with 
the  owner  to  let  it  for  the  summer  time  only,  which  he  hath 
taken  time  to  consider;  it  will  fit  my  Lady  Duchess,  but  her 
Grace  must  furnish  it.  I  intend  to  take  it  if  I  can  from  Lady 
Day  to  Michaelmas,  or  if  her  Grace  would  have  it  longer 
T  desire  to  know  her  pleasure  with  speed,  because  now  country 
air  will  be  sought  after,  or  if  my  Lady  will  have  lodgings  only 
Wt.  8878  J 


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furnished,  I  desire  to  know  the  number  and  time  her  Grace 
will  use  them.  Until  her  Grace  can  have  time  to  fit  herself, 
she  may  have  the  use  of  my  house  furnished,  fourteen  miles 
from  London.  I  desire  her  Grace's  resolution,  and  I  shall 
serve  her  to  her  mind. 

I  hope  your  Grace  will  have  no  need  now  of  any  more  of 
the  commissioners*  papers ;  they  are  grown  much  more  pliable 
and  conformable  to  others'  reason,  but  if  I  see  need  they  shall 
be  yet  transmitted.  My  Lord  Ashley  will  take  over  the 
certiorari  for  the  Irish  Lord's  subsidies  who  live  in  England 
to  be  sent. 

Sir  James  Shaen  is  much  damped  at  your  Grace's  answer, 
and  says  he  never  did  business  for  himself  to  occasion  his 
laying  out  that  sum,  but  employed  it  according  to  the  account 
thereof  sent. 

I  shall  take  care  of  the  freight  of  any  ammunition  or 
provisions  that  Mr.  Legge  will  despatch  if  it  be  required. 

(Postscript : — There  is  some  danger  of  our  breach  with  the 
Dutch,  and  the  French  do  not  yet  come  as  well  with  us.^ 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663  [-4] ,  February  22.  London. — I  received  your  Grace's 
of  the  10th  of  this  month,  since  the  receipt  whereof  I  have  been 
so  indisposed  of  the  gout,  which  yet  continues,  that  I  have 
been  tied  to  my  bed  and  couch ;  only  upon  Saturday  last,  in 
the  morning,  being  appointed  by  His  Majesty  for  the  meeting 
of  the  committee  for  Irish  affairs  to  receive  an  account  of  the 
bill  which  hath  been  so  long  under  consideration  elsewhere, 
.1  adventured  by  the  help  of  a  staff  as  strong  as  a  crutch,  big 
indeed  with  expectation  of  finding  something  suitable  to  the 
great  expectation  Sir  Alan  Brodrick  hath  given  your  Grace 
of  the  work  being  ready  for  us.  I  met  there  many  of  the 
committee  upon  the  same  hopes,  and  Mr.  Solicitor  with  some 
of  the  commissioners  of  Ireland  were  present,  but  when  we 
demanded  of  the  commissioners  (Sir  Richard  Eainsford  being 
absent)  whether  they  had  anything  ready  for  the  committee's 
consideration,  they  answered  they  had  not,  neither  was 
anything  reduced  to  writing  in  all  the  debates  they  had  at 
the  Lord  Chancellor's ;  Mr.  Solicitor  being  called  upon  to  offer 
what  he  had  ready,  made  the  same  answer,  and  did  protest 
it  was  so  long  since  they  had  met  at  my  Lord  Chancellor's 
that,  nothing  of  their  debates  or  resolutions  being  reduced  to 
writing,  all  was  out  of  his  memory,  and  that  hearing  the  King 
the  day  before  appoint  the  committee  to  meet  that  morning 
occasioned  his  coming,  hoping  to  hear  some  news  from  Ireland  : 
in  fine,  the  committee  finding  nothing  ready  for  them,  yet  that 
if  anything  was  resolved  upon  there  might  be  time  to  frame 
it  in  writing,  adjourned  till  Thursday  morning  next,  and 
appointed  Mr.  Solicitor  and  all  the  Irish  commissioners  then 
to  attend,  that  so  they  might  give  account  that  afternoon  to 


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His  Majesty  and  the  council  (who  have  appointed  then  to  sit) 
in  what  state  they  found  matters.  Coming  home,  I  called 
at  my  Lord  Chancellor's,  and  acquainting  his  Lordship  what 
had  passed,  he  wondered  they  were  ready  to  offer  nothing, 
yet  did  not  gainsay  what  they  had  asserted  that  nothing  was 
reduced  to  writing,  but  confessed,  as  I  had  told  the  committee 
and  my  Lord  Chancellor  had  formerly  discoursed  with  me, 
that  the  chief  aim  in  this  calling  the  committee  together  was 
to  possess  them  again  of  the  bill  which  came  from  Ireland 
(and  which  it's  concluded  can  only  be  the  foundation  of 
settlement),  that  thereupon  and  upon  what  should  be  offered 
from  the  commissioners  and  Solicitor  out  of  the  debates 
occasionally  had  at  Worcester  House,  the  council  might 
themselves  debate  and  resolve  what  to  pass  and  what  to  amend 
in  the  bill,  and  unless  (as  I  am  apt  to  believe)  there  have  or 
shall  be  meetings  since  Saturday  to  agree  upon  something 
in  writing,  we  shall  on  Thursday  receive  the  naked  bill  again 
as  it  came  from  Ireland  with  verbal  considerations  thereupon. 
So  that  your  Grace  may  perceive  that  Sir  Alan  Brodrick  in 
what  he  wrote  to  you  let  his  fancy  outrun  his  own  or  his 
brethren's  actings  or  resolutions ;  and  your  Grace  may  conceive 
me  very  negligent,  as  ill  in  health  as  I  am,  if  matters  were 
so  near  a  close  as  they  were  represented  by  him  to  your  Grace 
and  I  should  give  you  no  particular  account  of  them;  and  after 
all,  Irish  things  may  be  so  well  despatched  here  that  there 
may  be  no  need  of  your  Grace's  coming  over  (which  is  much 
discoursed  of  here  as  like  to  be  sudden,  though  I  tell  all  that 
speak  to  me  of  it  I  believe  no  such  thing,  but  think  it  a  mistake 
upon  my  Lady  Duchess  her  intention  to  come).  In  short, 
your  Grace,  notwithstanding  what  Sir  Alan  wrote,  may  rest 
assured  my  Lord  Chancellor's  last  large  letter  by  Lord 
Arran's  man,  and  what  I  now  write,  is  a  full  account  of  all 
that  is  proposed  or  in  motion  concerning  the  bill. 

I  shall  only  add  that  I  am  so  doubtful  in  divided  counsels 
what  will  be  done  in  this  affair,  that  my  resolution  is  to  procure 
your  Grace  and  the  council,  if  I  can,  a  view  by  order  of  what 
is  like  to  be,  that  it  may  finally  settle  the  better  by  the 
assistance  of  your  reasons  and  opinions.  I  have  resolved 
as  soon  as  the  bill  is  ready,  which  I  am  confident  will  not  be 
till  the  Parliament  hath  sat  many  weeks ,  to  come  away  with 
it  as  your  Grace  thinks  expedient,  and  by  that  time  I  shall 
have  done  His  Majesty  what  service  I  shall  be  able  in.  the 
Parliament,  if  any  can  be  done.  And  if  your  Grace  will 
be  pleased  to  respite  Captain  Kesse  his  return  till  then  and 
preserve  his  custodium  to  him,  I  doubt  not  to  make  good  use 
of  him  here  and  that  he  will  deserve  your  Grace's  favour 
therein,  which  I  have  given  him  hope  I  shall  receive  in  your 
Grace's  next  to  me. 

I  doubt  that  not  only  the  three  months'  pay  now  due,  viz., 
to  the  end  of  January,  but  the  next  three  months  ending  in 
April  must  be  paid  before  your  Grace  can  settle  to  half-yearly 


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payments  which  are  to  be  desired  afterwards,  and  I  hope  I 
shall  compass  against  Michaelmas  term  and  thenceforward. 
I  have  therefore  written  to  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham  to  bestir 
himself  in  order  to  the  paying  the  Army  the  last  and  the  three 
months  current,  that  we  may  have  the  whole  summer  free 
to  get  in  the  next  half-year's  payment,  by  which  time  I  hope 
the  new  men  shall  be  better  settled.  I  have  written  in  pain 
to  great  weariness  and  I  fear  shall  trouble  your  Grace  to 
read  my  scribble.  I  therefore  take  leave  at  present  and 
remain. 


Earl  op  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663  [-4],  February  27.  London.— The  Lord  Baltimore 
having  communicated  to  me  some  certificates  of  Sir  Henry 
Tichborne,  Sir  Francis  Hamilton,  Sir  Paul  Davies  and  others, 
concerning  Mr.  James  Talbot's  of  Ballyconnell,  his  demeanour 
during  the  Kebellion  of  Ireland,  which  will  also  be  showed 
your  Lordship,  whereby  it  seems  to  me  (if  nothing  to  the 
contrary  be  known  to  your  Grace  or  shall  be  discovered  there) 
that  he  will  be  fit  to  be  one  of  those  to  be  named  in  the  new 
Act  as  an  object  of  His  Majesty's  grace  and  favour,  since 
having  taken  lands  in  Connaught  he  was  postponed  from 
having  his  innocency  tried  within  the  time  limited  without 
any  failing  on  his  part.  And  being  a  brother-in-law  of  my  Lord 
Baltimore,  for  whom  I  have  a  great  honour,  and  who  merits 
civilities  from  all  that  knows  him,  1  have  presumed,  since 
his  Lordship  is  pleased  to  conceive  it  may  be  of  use  to  his 
brother-in-law,  to  trouble  your  Grace  with  a  line  or  two  to 
accompany  what  his  Lordship  intends  to  write  to  your  Gra<;e 
in  the  behalf  of  Mr.  Talbot,  who  as  I  remember,  when  he 
applied  himself  here  upon  the  passing  the  Bill  of  Settlement, 
was  esteemed  so  innocent  as  not  to  need  any  particular 
provision  in  the  bill,  which  now  by  elapse  of  the  time  for 
adjudging  innocency  is  become  necessary  to  his  preservation, 
which  I  recommend  to  your  Grace's  justice. 

Lady  Went  worth  to  Sir  Geo.  Lane. 

1663  [-4] ,  February  18.  London. — I  am  newly  come  to 
London  to  look  after  that  little  pension  I  had  given  me,  of 
which  I  have  not  yet  seen  one  shilling,  but  at  my  coming  to 
town  I  received  a  letter  from  Mr.  Leeson ,  who  lets  me  know 
that  Mr.  Flaningham  is  in  waiting  in  the  Duke's  guards,  for 
which  I  give  you  my  humble  thanks  and  shall  acknowledge 
your  great  kindness  in  this  business  as  long  as  I  live,  you 
being  the  only  person  that  has  performed  his  word  to  me 
since  the  irreparable  loss  of  my  dear  Lord.  I  hope  your 
blessings  will  be  doubled  for  it ;  I  am  sure  it  shall  ever  be 
the  prayers  of.  Sir,  your  faithful ,  humble,  and  obedient  servant, 
Philadelpha  Went  worth. 


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Postscript : — Sir,  if  you  think  it  fit,  pray  present  my  most 
humble  duty  to  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Ormond,  with  my  humble 
thanks  for  this  great  favour  to  Mr.  Flaningham.  I  would  have 
writ  to  his  Grace  myself,  but  for  fear  of  giving  him  too  great 
trouble.  Sir,  one  thing  more  I  shall  desire.  We  hear 
Mr.  Bolstrode  is  got  into  Ireland ;  if  you  do  light  on  so  great 
a  rogue  pray  charge  him  with  five  hundred  pounds  of  plate 
he  has  stolen  from  me,  and  you  wdll  do  me  a  great  kindness, 
for  I  hope  he  will  be  taken  in  Ireland. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663  [-4],  March  8.  London. — When  I  acquaint  you 
that  I  write  this  in  my  bed,  where  an  extreme  fit  of  the  gout 
hath  made  me  a  prisoner  many  days,  I  know  your  Grace 
will  not  expect  I  should  say  much,  and  indeed  the  slow  progress 
of  affairs  here  gives  me  little  occasion  but  to  lament  your 
Grace's  absence,  and  the  unsteadiness  of  our  resolutions  and 
ungroundedness  of  discourses  concerning  the  settlement  of 
Ireland,  which  I  must  acquaint  your  Grace*  is  still  in  the 
condition  you  transmitted  it  to  us,  for  though  His  Majesty 
had  appointed  yesterday  to  meet  at  my  Lord  Chancellor's  to 
put  the  wheels  a-going,  yet  upon  his  Lordship's  and  my 
indisposition  (as  I  am  informed)  it  is  put  off  till  Thursday  next, 
afternoon,  and  whether  we  shall  be  then  in  case  to  meet  is 
uncertain,  and  I  believe  the  business  will  hardly  proceed 
without  one  of  us  present,  unless  your  Grace  had  been  here. 

I  received  yesterday  your  Grace's  by  Mr.  Buck,  and  shall 
obey  your  commands  therein  for  lodgings  for  my  Lady  Duchess, 
and  by  the  next,  doubt  not  to  give  you  a  certain  account  thereof. 
I  send  this  letter  by  Sir  John  Boys,  who  hath  upon  all  occasions 
shewed  himself  so  much  your  Grace's  faithful  servant,  that 
though  I  know  he  needs  no  recommendation  to  increase  your 
Grace's  esteem  of  him,  I  cannot  but  give  your  Grace  notice 
thereof  in  a  time  when  so  few  appear  faithful  to  any,  and 
I  take  him  to  be  so  loyal  a  subject  to  His  Majesty,  and  so 
discreet,  that  he  will  deserve  countenance  and  encouragement 
in  Ireland,  where  he  is  now  going  to  settle  himself  and  family, 
and  I  shall  never  interpose  with  your  Grace  but  for  those 
of  that  sort. 

Here  is  great  discourse  of  the  approaching  Parliament,  but 
nothing  can  be  fixed  on  worth  acquainting  your  Grace. 

« 
James  Buck  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1663  [-4],  March  8.  London. — 'Tis  not  only  my  own 
satisfaction  to  let  my  friends  know  of  my  safe  arrival  at 
London ,  but  the  discharge  of  that  duty  his  Grace  was  pleased 
to  lay  upon  me,  for  upon  Wednesday  last,  about  ten  o'clock, 
we  set  sail  from  the  Ring's  End,  not  in  the  pleasure  boat, 
but  the  first  that  went  off,  and  landed  the  next  day  at  Chester 
about  five  o'clock.  The  pleasure  boat  got  in  the  same  tide. 
The  Sunday  night  following  I   got  hither  and  called  upon 


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Moor  Park  in  the  way,  where  I  thank  God  I  found  all  well, 
and  yesterday  being  Monday  I  waited  upon  my  Lord  Chancellor 
where  very  fortunately  I  met  my  Lord  of  Arran,  and  delivered 
their  letters  with  my  own  hands,  as  I  did  those  to  my  Lord 
of  Anglesey  and  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett,  and  all  within  two 
hours  after  the  post  came  in  which  put  to  sea  long  before 
us.  My  Lord  Duke  of  Albemarle  is  at  my  Lord  of  Lindsay's, 
but  the  packet  I  delivered  to  Mr.  Lock,  your  letter  to  Mr.  Fox, 
and  those  others  sent  by  me  of  my  Lord's  and  your  own  are 
likewise  delivered,  except  those  to  my  Lord  Chesterfield,  who 
is  yet  out  of  town  but  daily  expected,  which  I  entreat  you 
to  let  my  Lady  Chesterfield  know,  and  that  I  have  not  been 
wanting  in  any  duty  in  his  Grace's  commands,  which  may 
possibly  be  no  dissatisfaction  to  his  Grace  or  my  Lady  Duchess 
to  know,  but  till  the  next  post  I  shall  not  be  able  to  give  her 
Grace  an  account  of  her  commands  or  more  of  your  own 
concernments ;  but  this  done,  I  waited  upon  Jemmy  with 
your  tokens  and  his  grandfather's  letter,  who  seemed  to 
be  overjoyed  at  the  name  before  he  received  the  letter. 
I  could  not  forbear  asking  him  the  reason  of  the  particular  joy, 
whose  answer  was  that  he  never  had  the  happiness  to  see  his 
grandfather,  and  did  always  fear  he  could  not  deserve  to  hear 
from  him  because  he  desired  it  so  much.  He  is  grown  very 
fat  and  tall  since  I  saw  him  last,  and  I  am  confident  your  dear 
Lady,  to  whom  you  must  present  my  most  humble  duty,  will, 
with  yourself,  receive  so  handsome  an  account  from  your  son 
that  you  may  think  me  a  great  clown  I  gave  him  no  better 
a  character.  • 

Those  other  letters  which  was  designed  for  other  places, 
as  that  to  Colonel  Pigott,  I  have  this  night  sent  by  the  post, 
and  whenever  you  please  to  lay  any  commands  upon  me  pray 
direct  them  to  the  Standing  Wardrobe  at  Frank  Eogers'  at 
Whitehall,  and  they  will  come  safe. 


.    Ormond  to  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

1663  [-4],  March  9  and  12.  Dublin. — I  received  yours 
of  the  22nd  and  27th  of  the  last  month  at  Maddenstown. 
From  the  account  you  give  of  the  state  of  the  bill  transmitted 
hence  it  cannot  be  hoped  it  will  be  despatched  thence  before  the 
Parliament  meets,  and  then  it  may  be  well  doubted  it  will 
for  some  time  be  laid  aside  or  proceeded  very  slowly  upon. 
In  the  meantime,  though  the  result  of  the  several  conferences 
had  upon  it  at  my  Lord  Chancellor's  was  not  put  into  writing, 
yet  many  from  thence  take  upon  them  to  write  of  many 
alterations  resolved  on,  much  to  the  disturbance  of  men's  minds 
and  something  to  my  trouble,  who  am  sure  to  hear  of  all  their 
alarms.  During  this  delay,  industrious  men  are  hard  at  work 
to  raise  advantages  to  themselves  from  what  they  conjecture 
will  fall  out,  and  speedy  intelligence  becomes  as  valuable  here 
as  upon  the  Exchange. 


V 


151 

Sir  Alan  Brodrick  in  his  of  the  23rd  February,  took  notice 
to  me  of  reasons  they  had  given  why  it  was  not  fit  for  them 
to  make  answers  to  the  ten  queries,  but  told  me  withal  that 
proper  answers  were  prepared  and  given,  or  to  be  given,  to  my 
Lord  Chancellor  and  other  Lords  of  the  council  in  manifestation 
of  their  duty  and  for  their  information.  I  have  desired  to  have 
copies  of  them,  wishing  as  I  really  do  that  they  may  be  found 
such  as  will  vindicate  the  regularity  and  integrity  of  their 
proceedings.  If  those  answers  be  so  distributed,  you  will 
certainly  have  seen  them,  but  whether  it  be  in  revenge  for 
those  questions  or  out  of  zeal  for  the  King's  profit  we  say  the 
commissioners  or  somebody  else  have  made  it  appear  that  you 
hold  lands  to  the  value  of  ^9,000  a  year  at  the  rent  of  ten, 
and  though  if  it  should  be  so,  that  information  is  no  very 
pertinent  answer  to  the  questions,  yet  it  gains  credit  with  some 
and  will  be  fit  for  you  in  the  most  public  way  you  can  to 
refute,  if  in  truth  such  an  information  there  be  and  that 
it  is  false,  which  as  I  remember  you  once  told  me  it  was. 
And  now  I  am  upon  custodiums  it  is  fit  you  know  that  yesterday 
Mr.  Burniston,  the  Duke's  agent,  asked  me  if  I  had  not 
received  a  letter  or  warrant  from  the  King  commanding  that 
out  of  any  lands  in  custodium  His  Royal  Highness  should  have 
so  much  set  out  to  him  as  was  given  from  him  by  the  Court 
of  Claims,  which,  when  I  had  denied  to  have  received,  he 
brought  Mr.  Elliot  the  Deputy  Surveyor  to  me,  who  read  to 
me  part  of  a  letter  he  had  received  from  Sir  Alan  Brodrick, 
wherein  it  was  said  that  such  a  letter  was  sent  me  by  that 
post,  and  requiring  him  to  make  out  particulars  to  that  end. 
Whether  they  be  any  such  letter  or  no,  or  if  there  be,  what  is 
become  of  it  I  know  not ;  sure  I  am  it  never  came  to  my  hands. 
Your  last  letters  mention  not  the  sending  over  the  certiorari 
my  Lord  of  Ashley  promised ;  it  were  well  we  had  it,  the  sum 
would  serve  to  fill  a  gap. 

12  March.  The  easterly  winds  have  continued  till  now, 
and  brought  us  letters  of  the  1st  and  5th  of  this  month, 
amongst  which  1  am  sorry  to  find  none  from  your  Lordship, 
doubting  it  proceeds  from  your  relapse  into  your  gout,  which 
though  I  should  be  sorry  should  aflflict  you  at  any  time,  yet 
I  confess  it  more  troubles  me  it  should  seize  on  you  when 
there  is  so  much  use  of  your  assistance.  At  my  return  from 
Maddenstown,  I  found  my  Lord  of  Kildare  dead,  and  his 
troop  fit  to  supply  the  place  of  that  I  lose  by  giving  mine  up 
to  be  His  Majesty's  guards.  The  King  saves  the  pay  of  a 
Captain  of  horse  by  it.  I  desire  your  Lordship  would  now 
fit  the  establishment  to  this  change,  to  which  end  I  have  also 
written  to  the  Secretary. 

Endorsed : — A  copy  of  my  Lord's  to  the  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663  [-4],  March  19.  London.— That  I  may  not  fail  in 
the  duty  I  profess  to  owe  your  Grace,  I  shall  give  you  an 
account  of  what  hath  occurred  since  my  last.      On  Monday 


152 

we  met  again  at  Worcester  House,  as  was  appointed,  about 
the  Irish  bill,  wherein  some  further  proceeding  was  had;  but 
the  chief  thing  resolved  on  was  (which  I  had  started  the  day 
before  and  offered  again  to  consideration  that  day)  that  by 
the  great  Act  of  Settlement  all  persons  restored  or  reprised 
or  confirmed  are  to  pay  quit  rent  to  His  Majesty,  and  when 
I  pressed  that  the  commissioners  might  deliver  their  judgment 
therein  they  yielded  it  His  Majesty's  due,  and  so  it  stands, 
and  is  like  to  do,  whether  the  new  bill  pass  or  no,  which  I  hope 
will  be  for  the  great  advantage  of  His  Majesty  and  the  security 
of  Ireland,  though  for  but  moving  the  business  according  to 
my  oath  and  duty  of  my  place  I  endure  much  enmity  and 
reproach,  but  His  Majesty  having  accepted  my  service  and 
owning  me  therein,  I  bear  all  patiently. 

The  Parliament  being  then  to  come  on, the  business  of  Ireland 
was  left  sine  die ,  but  I  shall  endeavour  to  retrieve  it  within  a 
few  days,  l  I  shall  now,  because  what  makes  much  discourse 
here  may  be  misrepresented  to  your  Grace,  acquaint  you  that, 
some  days  before  the  Parliament  was  to  meet,  my  Lord  of 
Bristol  wrote  a  letter  to  me  enclosing  one  of  submission  to 
His  Majesty,  sealed  with  a  copy  thereof  for  me  to  peruse. 
I  was  then  sick  in  my  bed  of  the  gout,  yet  not  daring  to 
return  it  without  His  Majesty's  knowledge  of  it,  I  got,  lame 
as  I  was,  out  of  my  bed  and  attended  His  Majesty  with  the 
despatch,  giving  him  advice  as  a  faithful  counsellor  and  doing 
as  a  friend  to  my  Lord  Chancellor.  I  do  not  send  your  Grace 
copies  because  none  but  His  Majesty  hath  seen  them,  and 
I  will  be  able  still  to  say  so  till  I  have  leave  to  do  other,  but 
His  Majesty  returning  the  letter  sealed  again  to  my  Lord 
Bristol  with  his  resolution  to  have  nothing  to  do  with  him 
till  he  did  that  which  should  befit  him,  whiph  I  took  to  be 
to  render  himself  absolutely  to  His  Majesty.^  (  On  Wednesday 
last  the  Parliament  met,  Serjeants  at  Arms  having  been  all 
that  jnorning  at  the  several  avenues  supposed  to  wait  for  my 
Lord  of  Bristol,  and  his  house  in  Queen's  street  and  at 
Wimbledon  were  searched  for  him,  but  he  was  not  found, 
though  it  is  said  he  was  at  Wimbledon  ready  to  go  to  dinner 
when  Sir  Thomas  Sands  searched  for  him,  but  got  away.  So 
both  houses  were  adjourned  till  Monday  next  and  nothing  done^) 
Though  what  I  have  written  to  your  Grace  concerning  my  part 
in  the  business  was  only  known  to  His  Majesty  from  me, 
yet  those  that  wish  me  ill  have  gotten  some  general  inkling 
of  a  letter  sent  to  me,  and  would  blow  it  up  to  my  disadvantage 
as  if  I  were  no  friend  to  my  Lord  Chancellor,  but  his  Lordship 
as  well  as  the  King  is  satisfied  of  the  contrary,  and  if  your 
Grace  be  so  too  (who  by  what  passed  in  the  Lord's  house 
between  me  and  my  Lord  of  Bristol,  in  your  presence,  can 
easily  judge  whether  I  am  likely  to  hazard  my  Lord  Chancellor's 
friendship  for  my  Lord  Bristol's  compliment)  I  am  at  quiet, 
and  to  prevent  any  wrong  impressions  of  me  I  have  written 
this,  adding  the  assurance  to  your  Grace  that  in  this  or  any 
other  affair  I  will  never  forfeit  the  opinion  your  Grace  hath 


1S3 

of  my  integrity,  nor  do  anything  which  shall  not  shew  me 
faithful  to  the  uttermost  to  our  great  master  and  the  friend 
I  have  professed  myself  to  my  Lord  Chancellor,  and  which 
he  owns  me  to  be,  though  perhaps  when  all's  done,  I  should 
rather  have  advised  the  open  calling  for  my  Lord  Bristol  to 
justice  in  Parliament  than  to  take  the  course  that  is  now  held. 

Postscript : — Sir  Henry  Bennett  and  I  have  considered 
together  of  the  establishment,  and  I  hope  it  will  be  presently 
despatched  to  your  Grace's  content. 

Robert  Lye  to . 

1663  [-4] ,  March  19.  Whitehall.— Sir :  Since  my  last  to 
you  I  have  been  with  Baron  Eainsford  about  your  securing 
in  this  Act  (for  to  him  is  much  of  the  whole  settlement  now 
referred,  commonly,  to  give  his  approbation  therein),  but  tells 
me  plainly,  though  he  be  my  very  good  friend,  and  is  so  to 
most  patentees,  that  patents  granted  since  the  Declaration 
(being  so  contrary  to  the  Act  of  Settlement  and  so  many  of 
them),  that  he  will  be  absolutely  for  the  annulling  every  one 
of  them,  and  doth  hope  that  it  will  be  so  agreed  to;  that  his 
advice  to  me  was  I  should  by  no  means  press  in  a  thing  of 
so  great  consequence  as  to  make  a  precedent  for  others  to 
desire  the  like,  but  that  seeing  you  have  Sir  Francis  Butler's 
right  and  are  in  possession  of  all,  to  say  nothing  nor  make 
the  defect  known,  and  that  in  some  time  a  better  expedient 
may  be  found;  notwithstanding  all  this,  if  others  get  theirs 
confirmed,  I  hope  to  get  yours. 

As  for  my  own  of  O'Connor's,  1  am  so  indifferent  that  if 
be  annulled  it  shall  not  much  trouble  me,  since  it  leaves  me 
a  just  pretence  to  desire  something  in  lieu  of  it.  I  pray 
you  send  me  by  the  very  first  occasion  an  abstract  of  the 
several  letters  patents  by  which  you  hold  your  lands,  and  of 
those  grants  made  to  Sir  Francis  Butler  with  their  several 
dates,  that  1  may  the  better  know  what  proviso  or  other  security 
to  desire  for  you.  I  think  it  were  very  fit  you  took  an 
occasion  to  acquaint  Mr.  Attorney  and  others  concerned  in 
grants  of  the  aforesaid,  intent  to  make  them  void,  that 
somebody  be  employed  here  (as  is  from  other  interests)  to 
speak  to  the  allegations  that  shall  be  made  against  the  said 
patents,  for  though  many  think  to  have  theirs  confirmed,  upon 
a  particular  account,  I  can  assure  you,  they  will  be  deceived 
for  all  will  be  opposed. 

Upon  Monday  next  the  Parliament  sits  again,  but  there 
is  no  day  yet  appointed  for  the  hearing  of  the  Irish  business. 
I  am,  your  most  faithful  brother  and  humble  servant,  Robert 
Lye. 

Sir  George  Lane  writes  me  w^ord  he  gave  my  uncle  Knight 
his  warrant  to  be  one  of  the  Attorneys  of  the  Star  Chamber 
there  according  to  His  Majesty's  desire,  which  I  obtained  for 
him.      I  wonder  he  tells  me  nothing  of  it  himself. 

Endorsed : — Copy  of  a  letter  from  Mr.  Robert  Lye. 


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154 

Eabl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1663  [-4],  March  22.  London.— (Though  I  have  nothing 
to  write  of  the  Irish  bill,  the  business  of  Parliament  having 
stopped  the  course  thereof,  yet  I  must  not  omit  to  let  your 
Grace  know  that  the  two  Houses  met  yesterday  upon  their 
adjournment,  to  whom  His  Majesty  made  a  gracious  speech, 
taking  notice  of  the  late  plot  w^hich  was  yet  going  on  by  the 
incurable  malice  of  those  whom  no  mercy  would  reclaim,  but 
he  doubted  not  by  his  and  their  vigilancy  their  evil  designs 
would  be  prevented  and  prove  ruin  to  themselves ;  His  Majesty 
took  notice  how  the  subsidies  fell  short  by  half  of  what 
they  were  in  Queen  Elizabeth's  time,  by  ill  execution  of  the 
Act,  and  that  the  chimney  money  duty  already  decayed,  but 
he  hoped  they  would  leave  the  collection  thereof  to  his  own 
oflBcers,  and  then  he  doubted  not  it  would  answer  what  they 
intended  him ;  he  took  notice  of  the  triennial  bill  to  be  a 
strange  law,  wished  them  to  read  it  but  over  and  do  therein 
as  they  should  think  fit ;  he  concluded  desiring  them  to  take 
care  that  no  evil  and  factious  spirits  might  divide  between  the 
Houses  or  raise  jealousies  of  him^ 
^The  same  morning,  in  the  Lords'  house,  my  Lord 
^'orthampton  delivered  a  letter  sealed  to  the  Lord  Bridgeman, 
the  Speaker,  intimating  he  received  it  from  the  Countess  of 
Bristol ;  it  being  late  after  the  Speaker  had  acquainted  the  House 
therewith,  they  adjourned,  resolving  to  take  it  up  this  day, 
which  was  accordingly  done,  and  my  Lord  Northampton  having 
spoken  to  the  manner  of  it's  coming  to  him  and  his  opinion 
what  it  concerned,  and  who  it  was  from,  which  he  produced 
a  letter  to  himself  from  the  Earl  of  Bristol  to  justify  oflfering 
it  to  be  read,  and  the  Lord  Lucas  seconding  him  for  the 
opening  the  packet  and  reading  it,  yet  at  length  it  was  resolved 
upon  the  circumstances  appearing  whence  it  came  that  it 
should  be  delivered  unopened  to  the  King ;  but  no  order  is 
entered;  this  fault  will  be  mended  to-morrow,  for  else  no 
footsteps  will  remain  of  this  kindness  of  the  House  to  the  King.') 
The  House  of  Commons  have  appointed  a  committee  in  order 
to  renew  and  amend  the  Triennial  Act.  I  doubt  not  this 
Parliament  will  continue  very  serviceable  and  faithful  to  His 
Majesty.  Your  Grace  shall  hear  still  what  passeth ;  His 
Majesty,  in  his  speech,  intimated  there  should  be  a  sessions 
in  two  months  and  therefore  desired  despatchlj 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1664,.  March  26.  London.— The  23rd  of  this  month  I 
received  your  Grace's  letter  of  the  12th,  to  which  a  sudden 
indisposition  that  hath  seized  me  this  day  will  not  permit  my 
giving  answer  at  present  or  to  write  much.  Of  the  bill  I  have 
nothing  to  say  but  that  Monday  next  is  appointed  to  proceed 
in  it.  I  beseech  your  Grace  to  acquaint  my  Lady  Duchess 
that,  finding  no  other  place  fit  for  her  and  none  being  willing 
to  set  there  houses  for  less  than  a  year,  T  have  taken  the  house 


155 

that  was  Sir  John  Daner's  at  Chelsea,  for  a  year,  at  the  same 
rent  as  my  Lord  Privy  Seal  paid,  which  was  a  hundred 
and  fifty  pounds,  and  the  charge  of  keeping  the  gardens, 
which  I  understand  will  be  fifty  more,  and  I  have  directed 
Mr.  Buck  to  furnish  it  speedily  so  that  now  her  Grace  may 
depend  upon  a  fitting  accommodation,  come  as  soon  as  she 
will.  I  confess  it's  dear,  but  there  was  no  remedy,  and  the 
convenience  of  the  water  will  ease  the  charge.  I  have  written 
this  in  great  pain  and  must  beg  leave  to  conclude. 

1664,  March  26 : — A  List  of  the  fortifications  and  the  sums 
of  money  they  cost  in  building  and  repairing : — 

£      s.       d. 
The  Black  Castle  of  Wicklow,  in  the  County 
of  Wicklow^  cost  the  building  the  sum  of 

The  Castle  of  Wexford  cost  in  repairing  and 
making  the  out-work  thereof  the  sum  of 

The  fort  of  Duncannon,  in  the  County  of 
Wexford,  cost  in  repairing  the  sum  of... 

The  fort  of  Passage  cost  in  repairing  and 
building  up  part  of  one  of  the  flankers  the 

OU1X.1     \JX.  .«•  ...  ...  ••>  ••■ 

The  fort  of  Waterford  hath  cost  in  repairing 
the   sum   of 

The  Citadel,  in  the  Town  of  Clonmel,  hath 
cost  in  building  the  sum  of         

The  fort  of  Cork  hath  cost  in  repairing  the 

DLIXJLI.      \Jm»  •••  ••■  •••  ■■■  •«• 

The  fort  of  Kinsale,  called  Castle  Park, 
hath  cost  in  repairing  the  sum  of 

The  fort  of  Bantry,  in  the  County  of  Cork, 
hath  cost  in  building  the  sum  of 

The  fort  of  Villency  [Valencia] ,  in  the  Island 
of  Villency,  in  the' County  of  Kerry,  hath 
cost  in  building  the  sum  of     

The  Castle  of  Ballyknaw,  in  the  County  of 

Gal  way,  hath  cost  in  building  the  sum  of      390  :  00  :  00 

The  fort  of  Banagher  hath  cost  in  repairing 
the   sum  of 

The  Citadel  in  the  Town  of  Galway  hath  cost 
in  building  the  sum  of     ...         

The  fort  of  Ardkin,  in  the  great  Island  of 
Arran,  hath  cost  in  building  the  sum  of... 

The  fort  of  Innis  BoflBn,  in  the  Island  of  Innis 

Boffin,  hath  cost  in  building  the  sum  of    1100  :  00  :  00 

The  fort  at  Ballymoe  Bridge,  in  the  County 
of  Galway,  hath  cost  in  building  and 
repairing  part  of  the  Bridge,  the  sum  of    2050  :  00  :  00 


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£      s.      d. 
The  Castle  of  Termonbarry,  in  the  Island  of 
Termonbarry,  in  the  river  of  Shannon, 
six  miles  from  Jamestown,  hath  cost  in 
building  the  sum  of         390  :  00  :  00 

The  fort  of  Bally  league,  in  the  County  of 
Longford,  hath  cost  in  repairing  the  sum 
of      055  :  00  :  00 

The  fort  of  Bellaghy  pass,  on  the  borders  of 
the  County  of  Mayo  and  County  of 
Sligo,  hath  cost  in  building  the  sum  of...     2200  :  00  :  00 

The  fort  of  Sligo,  in  the  County  of  Sligo, 

hath  cost  in  building  the  sum  of  ...     1620  :  00  :  00 

The  Castle  of  Eathfoe  [Eaphoe]  ,in  the  County 
of  London  Derry,  hath  cost  in  repairing 
the  sum  of  ...         ...         ...         ...         ...       025  :  00  :  00 

The  Citadel,  in  the  City  of  London  Derry ,  hath 
cost  in  building  the  sum  of      

The  fort  of  Coleraine  hath  cost  in  building  the 

S)  UXX^     x^X  •••  •■•  •••  •••  ••• 

Castle  Doe,  in  the  County  of  Donegal,  hath 

cost  in  repairing  the  sum  of      100  :  00  :  00 

The  Castle  of  Carrickfergus  hath  cost  in 
repairing  the  sum  of       

The  fort  of  Charlemont  hath  cost  in  repairing 

the  sum  of 080  :  00  :  00 

The  Citadel,  or  the  Willmount,  in  the  Town 
of  Drogheda,  hath  cost  in  repairing  the 

oUXXa     \^X  •••  •••  ••«  ■••  ••• 

Endorsed  : — A  list  of  the  fortifications,  received  from  Captain 
Webb,  the  26th  of  March,  1664. 

Sir  Maurice  Eustace  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1664,  April  1. — My  dear  Cousin  :  I  send  you  the  copy  of  the 
warrant  drawn  by  you  for  the  payment  of  £1,000  unto  me, 
whereunto  exceptions  are  like  to  be  taken  by  the  commissioners 
appointed  to  take  the  Vice-Treasurer's  account,  for  that  no 
mention  is  made  therein  that  payment  was  to  be  made  by 
virtue  of  His  Majesty's  letters,  and  by  reason  the  warrant  doth 
bear  date  before  His  Majesty's  letter.  And  therefore  I  send 
you  the  draft  of  a  warrant  drawn  by  Sir  James  Ware,  which 
he  saith  will  do  the  business,  which  I  pray  you  to  send  me 
signed  by  the  first,  for  the  accounts  will  be  speedily  taken. 
And  give  me  leave  upon  this  occasion  to  mind  you  of  what 
I  did  formerly  write  to  you  concerning  this  matter,  viz.,  that 
his  Grace  do  procure  His  Majesty's  warrant  for  the  issuing 
of  so  much  money  as  he  is  to  pay  for  the  lands  enclosed 
within  the  Park,  for  by  the  letter    which  he  hath  already 


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procured  he  is  not  to  exceed  ten  thousand  pounds,  and  this 
much  I  am  to  have,  besides  several  sums  which  his  Grace 
hath  undertaken  to  pay  to  others,  for  which  he  is  to  procure 
His  Majesty's  warrant,  whereof  I  long  since  sent  you  a  draft 
ready  prepared,  and  the  commissioners  did  likewise  write  to 
his  Grace  to  that  effect.  And  so,  with  the  remembrance  of 
my  duty  to  my  supreme  Lord,  I  remain,  your  most  affectionate 
kinsman,  Mau.  Eustace,  Cane. 

Jambs  Buck  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1664,  April  2.  Moor  Park. — Dear  Sir:  Since  I  writ  last 
unto  you  (and  in  it  an  account  of  that  most  excellent  youth, 
who  has  gained  more  friends  and  admirers  than  I  know 
any  in  the  world  has  enemies,  and  I  am  confident  he  has 
before  this  given  both  you,  your  Lady,  and  his  grandfather, 
acknowledgments  of  the  favours  you  sent  him)  I  have  spent 
my  time  in  the  country  where  I  am  now,  and  can  therefore 
say  little  of  the  affair  you  know  of,  but  the  former  discourse 
is  off,  and  the  saddle  put  upon  the  right  horse,  which  never 
travels  far  from  the  town.  I  have  not  heard  from  my  Lady 
Duchess  herself  since  I  left  Ireland,  but  by  a  second  hand; 
for  God's  sake  send  me  word  how  she  does  and  how  your 
dear  Lady  and  all  your  family  is  in  health. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1664,  April  2.  London. — My  last  did  scarce  more  than 
acknowledge  your  Grace's  letter  of  the  9th  March,  since  which 
time  I  have  received  yours  of  the  26th ,  to  both  which  I  desire 
leave  now  to  make  answer. 

Those  who,  from  the  conferences  had  upon  the  bill  at  my 
Ijord  Chancellor's,  have  taken  upon  them  to  write  of  many 
alterations  as  resolved,  which  prove  to  the  disturbance  of 
men's  minds  and  something  to  your  Grace's  trouble,  had 
more  presumption  than  ground  for  what  they  did,  and,  your 
Grace  will  find  before  the  end,  reckoned  without  their  host, 
and  though  by  their  intelligence  they  may  abuse  unwary  people 
into  entangling  contracts,  I  hope  care  will  be  taken  in  the 
bill  to  make  them  disgorge  such  acquisitions,  and  if  your  Grace 
hath  not  mislaid  a  proviso,  which  I  drew  up  in  your  Grace's 
closet,  upon  full  debate  of  that  practice,  I  wish  a  copy  thereof 
might  be  transmitted  to  me  because  I  shall  hardly,  I  doubt, 
recollect  my  thoughts  to  draw  it  so  exactly  as  I  think  upon 
discourse  with  your  Grace  I  then  did  it. 

Sir  Alan  Brodrick  hath  not  yet  made  good  his  intelligence 
to  your  Grace  of  February  23rd,  for  I  upon  inquiry,  I  cannot 
find  by  my  Lord  Chancellor  or  any  of  the  council  that  they 
have  prepared  or  given  in  any  answers  to  the  ten  queries, 
or  are  like  to  do  it,  for  I  believe  they  do  upon  the  free  discourse 
they  have  met  with  here    grow  every  day  less  conceited  of 


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the  regularity  or  justice  of  their  late  proceedings,  which  they 
are  now  so  modest  as  to  desire  a  powder  to  review  and  reverse. 
I  am  glad  your  Grace  hath  desired  copies  of  what  answers 
they  pretend  to  have  prepared,  and  wish  they  may  be  still 
called  for,  though  I  never  expect  to  see  them,  since  they^  took 
the  pains  to  give  five  reasons  to  excuse  themselves  from  so 
hard  a  task. 

The  scandal  concerning  my  holding  lands  in  custodium  to 
the  value  of  £5,000  a  year,  at  the  rent  of  ten,  is  now  grown 
as  ridiculous  as  it  was  ever  false,  and  the  King  is  now  so  well 
aware  of  the  authors'  practice  that  they  have  increased  His 
Majesty's  good  opinion  of  and  confidence  in  me,  and  I  doubt  not 
but  your  Grace  will  so  fully  believe  w^hat  I  have  written  and 
do  now  write  of  this  aflfair,  viz.,  that  I  expect  no  other 
advantage  by  them,  as  I  have  yet  made  none,  but  that  I  may 
be  possessed  of  them  in  order  to  reprisals  for  what  hath  been 
taken  from  me,  and  that  therefore  your  Grace  will  be  pleased 
to  give  order  that  neither  Sir  Theophilus  Jones,  (who  should 
have  treated  his  fellow -oflBcer  of  the  Exchequer  better)  nor 
any  other,  may  obtain,  as  they  have  endeavoured,  to  get  your 
Grace's  order  to  pass  any  of  them  from  me  till  upon  hearing 
me  at  my  return,  which  I  hope  is  not  now  far,  if  your  Grace 
shall  find  cause.  I  humbly  thank  your  Grace  for  the  notice 
you  are  pleased  to  give  me  of  His  Highness  Eoyal's  warrant 
obtained  from  His  Majesty  for  a  custodium  in  order  to  his 
reprisal.  I  had  some  inkling  of  it  before,  and  I  hope  there 
will  be  enough  found  without  entrenching  upon  mine,  but  I 
shall  not  be  unwilling  that  some  of  mine  go  to  His  Highness' 
reprisal,  being  more  concerned  therein  than  any  of  his  tenants 
for  most  of  the  lands  I  held  of  him  are  decreed  away,  and 
I  doubt  not  your  Grace's  favour  as  far  as  may  be  admitted 
I  have  His  Highness'  covenant  to  be  reprised  for  them, 
where  His  Highness'  pretence  interposeth,  and  more  I  cannot 
ask  of  your  Grace. 

The  officers  of  the  Exchequer  cannot  yet  find  the  certiorari 
in  my  Lord  Strafford's  time  for  the  Irish  Peers'  subsidies,  but 
I  shall  not  fail  to  pursue  them  till  they  do  it. 

I  thank  God  I  am  now  very  well  recovered  of  the  gout,  and 
fail  not  to  attend  all  meetings  for  Irish  affairs  more  diligently 
than  some  would  have  me,  and  shall  take  care  to  have  the 
establishment  settled  as  your  Grace  desires,  when  the  King 
will  give  a  day  at  council  for  it,  Mr.  Secretary  Bennett  and 
I  having  prepared  it  all. 

On  Wednesday  last,  the  great  point  concerning  and  and  or 
was  heard  by  His  Majesty  and  council,  and  notwithstanding 
all  that  Sir  Richard  Kainsford  and  Mr.  Coventry,  who  spoke 
sharply  but  much  at  random,  could  say,  it  was  so  cleared,  and 
your  Grace  and  the  council's  explanation  so  fully  justified, 
that  it  passed  unanimously  after  long  debate,  and  it  is  also 
entered  as  the  act  and  judgment  of  His  Majesty  and  council 
in  the  council  heard  that  it  may  be  no  more  a  question  with 


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any  commissioners  or  judges.  I  shall  say  the  less  of  this  to 
your  Grace,  because  I  had  rather  what  passed  therein  came 
from  other'hands.  I  am  sure  I  failed  not  to  let  His  Majesty 
and  the  council  see  that  your  Grace  and  his  council  of  Ireland 
understood  the  affairs  of  Ireland  better  than  any  other 
pretenders,  and  doubt  not  but  it  will  be  believed  hereafter, 
and  those  who  have  been  so  busy  with  His  Majesty  in  this 
affair  lose  much  of  their  credit  with  him  for  being  so  earnest 
upon  so  little  or  no  ground. 

The  business  of  Innocents'  quit  rents  was  again  heard, 
but  settled  more  firmly,  and  from  the  very  Act  I  cleared 
the  Protestants,  but  for  more  assurance  it  is  to  be  particularly 
provided  for  in  the  new  bill  as  your  Grace  was  in  the  last. 
Letters  are  directed  to  your  Grace  from  His  Majesty  about 
the  nomination  of  the  fittest  persons  to  be  restored.  I  am 
glad  your  Grace  is  so  ready  for  it  and  so  methodical  and 
punctual  therein;  that  being  despatched,  I  hope  the  rest  will 
not  be  long,  for  I  am  continually  pressing  for  meetings  and 
despatch. 

rThere  is  now  jio  news  of  my  Lord  Bristol ;  I  think  he 
gives  over  the  design  of  applying  to  the  Lords*  House.  His 
Ijordship  addressed  himself  by  divers  others  as  well  as  by 
me  to  the  King,  and  I  know  not  why  he  should  offer  to  use 
me  in  it,  but  because  your  Grace  shall  be  as  fully  informed 
as  I  am,  I  intend  next  post  to  send  your  Grace  copies  of  all 
T  have  in  that  affair.] 

Before  I  had  received  your  Grace's  last  letter,  T  was  sent  to, 
that  your  Grace  might  have  notice  payment  of  the  money  for 
Moor  Park  was  expected  and  depended  upon  in  May  at  the 
day  appointed,  but  having  your  Grace's  mind  I  shall  labour 
to  serve  you  as  you  desire,  and  give  you  a  speedy  account  of 
my  diligence  other  ways  if  they  will  not  be  prevailed  with 
to  forbear  it  longer.  I  am  afraid  to  lose  this  post  and  therefore 
must  abruptly  conclude. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1664,  April  5.  London. — Yesterday,  His  Majesty  and  council 
met  again  and  went  through  the  Irish  bill,  and  directions 
are  ^iven  to  Mr.  Solicitor  upon  the  whole  to  make  a  new 
draft  or  book,  leaving  out  what  is  rejected  and  amending 
what  was  so  resolved.  I  have  not  failed  in  my  utmost  diligence 
to  obtain  it  so  to  pass  as  may  do  the  work,  but  the  sixth  part 
being  waived  and  no  other  competent  reprisals  visible  to  me, 
and  many  clauses  being  left  out  as  new  and  variations  from 
the  old  bill,  yet  perhaps  necessary  to  be  inserted  in  this  by 
reason  of  the  general  vesting  clause,  I  know  not  how  far 
the  bill  will  ever  be  adequate  to  the  work  intended,  and  the 
rather  because  to-morrow  is  appointed  to  consider  the  Irish 
commissioners'  proposals  to  increase  the  stock  of  reprisals,  etc., 
which  what  alteration  they  may  occasion  I  know  not.     That 


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which  I  press  for  privately,  and  which  His  Majesty  will 
grant,  is  that  whatever  draft  shall  be  agreed  on  here  may  be 
sent  to  your  Grace  to  consider  of  with  the  council  there, 
before  it  be  concluded  and  engrossed  here,  that  so  we  may 
have  your  opinion  upon  it.  The  stock  of  reprisals  for  those 
already  ejected  by  Decrees,  and  for  the  Irish  yet  to  be  named, 
will  fall  very  short,  and  there  will  be  the  difificulty  of  the 
work,  and  numbering  of  names  more  than  can  be  provided 
for  will  but  occasion  clamour  instead  of  settlement.  I  have 
little  hope  to  see  a  good  issue,  unless  the  Decrees  since  July  3rd 
be  voided  or  at  least  subjected  to  renewal  in  the  Courts  of 
Dublin,  for  I  believe  the  veriest  knaves  by  tricks  have  carried 
away  land,  whilst  the  best  of  the  confederate  Catholics  and 
those  who  repented  soonest,  are  like  to  be  as  ill  provided  for 
as  the  English.  His  Majesty  passed  the  Act  for  repeal  of 
the  Triennial  Act,  and  appointed  it  another  way  this  day, 
and  the  Lords  have  adjourned  till  Monday  sennight  after 
Easter;  the  Commons  I  believe  will  adjourn  also  to-morrow. 
Mr.  Ludlow  intends  to  be  upon  his  return  on  Thursday,  and 
if  anything  occur  further,  your  Grace  shall  have  it  by  him. 

Postscript : — His  Majesty  is  pleased  to  write  a  letter  to 
the  Mayor,  Aldermen,  and  Common  Council  of  Dublin,  to 
prevent  their  choosing  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham  Mayor  the 
next  year;  if  it  shall  not  be  despatched  this  post,  I  hope  your 
Grace  will  interpose  if  need  be,  because  till  the  revenue  be 
better  settled,  his  attendance  in  my  office  cannot  well  be 
wanted,  and  to  be  Mayor  must  wholly  divert  him. 


Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1664,  April  7.  London. — Mr.  Ludlow^  returning,  though 
my  next  letters  by  the  post  will  overtake  him,  yet  I  would  not 
omit  to  accompany  him  with  a  line  or  two  to  acquaint  your 
Grace  that  His  Majesty  and  council  sat  yesterday  upon  IHsh 
affairs,  when  the  commissioners,  after  all  the  brags  of  their 
uprightness,  came  off  to  the  judgment  of  most  very  poorly, 
but  of  that  more  on  Saturday.  I  cannot  prevail  with  Mr.  Allen 
for  continuing  the  second  payment  of  Moor  Park,  he  having 
contracted  for  a  purchase  which  will  make  use  of  his  money. 
T  will  by  other  ways  endeavour  to  serve  your  Grace,  and  to»my 
utmost,  in  all  things. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1664,  April  12.  London. — On  Wednesday  last,  being  the 
sixth  of  this  month.  His  Majesty  and  council  met  again  about 
the  Irish  business,  and  the  day  was  for  the  most  part  spent 
upon  the  commissioners'  proposals.  They  appeared  so  much 
against  the  interest  of  England,  and  so  contrary  to  the  Act 
of  Settlement,  that,  they  were  most  of  them  rejected.  The 
particulars  most  debated,  and  which  only  deserve  the  giving 


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your  Grace  an  account  of,  were  first  a  proposal  of  theirs  that 
the  soldiery  might  be  satisfied  in  English  measure,  but  upon 
opening  the  clauses  of  the  Act  that  refer  thereunto,  His 
Majesty  and  the  council  were  clearly  satisfied  their  landd 
ought  to  be  in  Irish  measure,  and  one  argument  was 
unanswerable,  viz.,  that  even  the  doubling  ordinance  men, 
though  their  lands  are  not  confirmed  yet  their  principal  money 
is  to  be  satisfied  in  Irish  measure,  but  my  Lord  Chancellor 
holding  it  so  clear  a  case  that  he  thought  it  might  be  referred 
to  the  commissioners'  own  ingenuity,  Sir  Richard  Rainsford 
thereupon  saying  that  in  his  judgment  by  the  Act  the  soldiery 
were  to  be  satisfied  in  English  measure,  which  he  grounded 
only  upon  wresting  the  words  false  and  undue  admeasurement, 
it  was  left  as  a  question  for  the  Judges'  resolution  here,  which 
I  think  there  is  no  reason  to  doubt  will  be  contrary  to  the 
commissioners. 

This  reference  in  a  clear  case  gave  me  occasion  to  move  one 
more,  disputable  in  some  men's  opinion  (though  not  in  mine), 
might  be  also  referred  to  the  judges,  as  by  most  interests 
was  desired  before,  viz.,  the  validity  of  the  Decrees  since 
July  2nd,  but  against  this  the  commissioners  bent  all  their 
might.  The  sum  of  what  they  urged,  besides  passion,  was, 
(1)  that  it  would  reflect  much  upon  their  reputation  that  their 
proceedings  should  be  questioned  and  endangered.  (2)  That 
they  should  be  forced  to  refund  their  acreage  money  if  judged 
against  them.  I  easily  answered  these  objections  (with  which 
indeed  none  of  the  council  nor  the  King  seemed  satisfied)  by 
saying  to  the  first  that  it  would  clear  their  reputation,  which 
was  now  under  question  (for  those  proceedings),  if  the  judges 
found  for  them,  and  if  they  did  not,  there  was  the  more  reason 
to  have  them  referred,  but  howsoever  their  reputation  was 
not  to  be  put  in  balance  against  justice  and  a  sure  settlement, 
which  could  hardly  take  place  if,  where  the  generality  thought 
themselves  injured,  they  should  neither  be  heard  nor  have 
the  satisfaction  to  be  concluded  by  the  judges.  To  the  second 
I  denied  the  objection  to  have  any  foundation  of  truth,  for 
if  the  judges  should  adjudge  against  them,  yet  whosoever  the 
same  lands  that  were  unduly  decreed  should  be  hereafter 
decreed  to  were  to  pay  the  acreage,  wherewith  they  might 
repay  the  other  and  lose  nothing  themselves.  But  they  took 
on  with  so  much  lamentation  that  though  the  council 
were  generally  satisfied  it  ought  to  be  referred  to  the  judges, 
and  the  King  inclined  the  same  way,  yet,  desirous  to  do  it 
by  the  commissioners'  own  consent,  which  none  thought 
would  be  denied,  the  King  said  he  would  leave  it  to  them, 
whether  they  would  willingly  have  it  referred;  but  they 
unexpectedly  persisting  to  implore  the  contrary,  it  is  not 
referred,  I  believe,  leaving  the  council  very  ill  satisfied  with 
the  commissioners.  And  it's  generally  much  wondered  that 
they  who  carried  it  so  high  before,  both  in  Ireland  and  England, 
fell  so  low  in  this,  and  by  it  your  Grace  will  see  they  had 
Wt.  8878  K 


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one  better  reason  than  the  five  they  gave,  why  they  did  not 
answer  the  ten  questions,  and  notwithstanding  Sir  Alan*s 
writing  to  your  Grace  that  they  had  answers  ready,  it  appears 
now  they  will  give  none  if  they  can  avoid  it. 

But  this  evasion  of  theirs  gave  me  good  occasion  to  vindicate 
the  whole  Council  of  Ireland,  whom  they  had  often  represented 
as  interested,  and  therefore  under  suspicion  of  partiality,  by 
telling  them  that  whatever  had  been  said  of  the  council 
reflecting  upon  them,  I  durst  undertake,  never  a  one  of  them, 
from  the  highest  to  the  lowest,  were  so  interested  or  partial 
that  they  would  refuse  to  refer  any  their  concernments  in  the 
Act  to  all  the  judges  of  England.  And  so  I  leave  that  point 
till  I  see  what  further  time  doth  with  it. 

I  have  sent  your  Grace  enclosed  a  paper  which  shows  the 
establishment  of  His  Majesty's  Horse  Guards  here,  and  if  the 
same  were  for  the  Guards  there,  your  Grace  perhaps  might  have 
an  opportunity  to  do  something  for  Colonel  Vernon,  who  hath 
been  a  long  follower  and  servant  of  your  Grace's,  and  I  believe 
well  esteemed  by  you,  but  I  shall  not  vary  from  your  Grace's 
former  direction  without  particular  order. 

If  your  Grace's  list  of  names  be  not  come  away,  I  offer  the 
enclosed  paper  concerning  Henry  O'Neil  to  your  Grace's  view 
and  consideration,  which  Mr.  Daniel  conceives  may  speed  the 
better  for  my  addressing  it  to  your  Grace. 

The  other  paper  is  an  authentic  copy  of  the  partners  here, 
their  security  for  the  custom  and  imported  excise  farm,  which 
they  have  offered  often  before  to  enter  into,  but  by  the  Clerks 
of  the  Council  spoiling  and  mistaking  two  orders  drawn  long 
before,  and  my  Lord  Ashley's  want  of  leisure,  it  hath 
been  deferred  till  now;  though  the  Articles  required  the 
acknowledging  before  the  Chief  Justice  of  England,  His 
Majesty  and  council  ordered  it  as  fittest  to  be  in  the  Exchequer, 
and  now  we  think  the  rent  secure,  which  none  did  upon  the 
security  taken  in  Ireland. 

I  cannot  prevail  with  Mr.  Allen  to  stay  any  longer  for  his 
money  due  on  Moor  Park,  he  having  contracted  for  a  purchase. 
Colonel  Pigot  told  me  he  would  return  as  much  money  as  he 
could  by  the  day  in  May.  I  desire  your  Grace  to  write  two 
or  three  lines  to  Sir  Thos.  Vyner,  to  supply  that  which  shall 
be  wanting  till  your  Grace  can  return  it,  and  I  hope  to  prevail 
with  him  therein.  (^Here  is  an  Envoyi  Extraordinaire  from 
the  Emperor  for  assistance  against  the  Turk,  but  I  believe 
nothing  will  be  done.  Much  discourse  of  war  with  Holland, 
but  I  hope  no  such  thing  will  be.  God  send  all  better  at 
home,  few  being  so  well  pleased  as  they  were  three  year  ago.l 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1664,  April  19.  London.— The  15th  and  19th  of  this  month 
I  received  your  Grace's  several  letters  of  the  9th  of  this  month, 
and  in  the  last  a  duplicate  of  the  letter  proposed  for  His 
Majesty  to  sign  for  the  Lord  Caulfeild's  £3,500  for  Charlemont, 


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which  I  saw  long  since  signed  by  His  Majesty,  and  which 
Mr.  Secretary  Bennett  assured  me  he  had  sent  away,  though 
after  I  found  it  forgotten  in  the  office,  but  hastened  it  away 
before  this  duplicate  came  to  my  hands  many  days,  and  I  doubt 
not  it  is  now  with  your  Grace. 

On  Wednesday  last  we  met  again  upon  the  Irish  bill,  and 
went  through  all  the  commissioners*  proposals,  most  of  which 
I  shewed  sufficient  reasons  for  the  King  and  council  to  lay 
aside,  and  direction  was  then  given  to  the  Solicitor  General 
to  draw  up  the  bill  according  to  the  orders  and  directions 
agreed  upon  at  council,  which  he  did  in  the  Easter  holidays, 
and  I  shall  take  such  care  that  when  the  council  hath  revised 
it,  your  Grace  and  none  other  shall  have  a  copy  of  it  before 
it  be  transmitted.  Amongst  the  proposals  of  the  commissioners 
which  they  carried  that  day,  that  about  custodiums  was  one, 
against  which  they  made  grievous  complaint,  wherein  your 
Grace  and  Barons  of  the  Exchequer,  who  alone  have  the  granting 
and  passing  of  them,  were  not  a  little  reflected  on,  for  it  was 
alleged  by  the  commissioners  that  the  custodium  lands  in 
His  Majesty's  hands  were  worth  thirty  thousand  pounds  a 
year,  and  yet  were  granted  at  £6,000  rent,  and  Sir  Bichard 
Bainsford  was  so  bold  as  upon  bare  information  to  assert 
that  I  in  particular  had  forty  thousand  acres  in  the  County 
of  Cork  let  to  me  in  custodium  for  £10,  of  which  I  made 
four  hundred  pounds  a  year,  and  the  commissioners  were 
so  confidently  extravagant  and  unjust  as  to  press  that  all 
custodies  might  be  accountable  for  the  full  value  towards 
the  stock  of  reprisals. 

The  defence  I  made"^  was,  first  that  your  Grace  and  the 
Barons  of  the  Exchequer  were  to  be  heard  in  the  case  before 
so  ill  a  management  of  affairs  for  His  Majesty  was  upon 
clamorous  (and  I  am  confident  ungrounded)  reports  to  be 
presumed,  that  I  verily  believed  here  would  appear  great 
cry  but  little  wool,  but  suppose  what  was  let  for  £6,000  a  year 
was  worth  £30,000,  yet  it  must  be  considered  that  the  grants 
were  but  during  the  King's  pleasure,  and  so  not  to  be  at  any 
considerable  rent  upon  so  uncertain  estate,  that  notwithstanding 
the  lands  were  let  at  a  greater  rent  than  heretofore  any 
custodiums,  that  such  grants  were  ever  accustomed  as  boons 
to  deserving  persons,  and  many  of  them  granted  in  order  to 
reprisals  to  those  who  had  lost  much  more  than  was  granted 
by  Decrees  in  the  Court  of  Claims,  that  howsoever  it  would 
be  as  unjust  for  the  full  value  to  be  exacted  ex  post  facto 
against  the  King's  seal,  as  if  His  Majesty  should  pass  an  Act 
in  England  to  revoke  all  beneficial  grants  which  he  hath  passed 
here  to  his  subjects  since  his  restitution,  which  sure  no  sober 
or  conscionable  man  would  advise.  And  as  to  the  assertion 
against  me,  I  openly  declared  it  so  false  (wherein  His  Majesty 
and  the  council  fully  credited  me  to  the  shame  of  the 
commissioners)  that  I  offered  to  make  His  Majesty  heir  to 
my  whole  estate  if  there  was  a  tittle  of  truth  in  it  more  than 


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that  the  land  was  let  to  me  for  dElO  a  year,  for  at  the  very 

same  rent  I  set  it  to  Mr.  de  Lan^,  my  Lord  Orrery's  secretary, 

who  held  it  the  year  before  at  £10,  and  I  believe  he  hardly 

gains  threescore  by  it,  but  whatsoever  he  makes,  I  wish  it 

were  examined,  and  that  it  may  be  certified  with  the  rent, 

and  I  believe  the  commissioners  will  not  rejoice  in  the  return. 

The  commissioners   would  gladly  have   had   the   setting  of 

custodiums  for  the  time  of  their  power  depending,  but  therein 

I  opposed  as  being  derogatory  to  your  Grace  and  the  Barons, 

who  I  aflBrmed  had  served  His  Majesty  as  faithfully  as  any 

before  them  or  that  would  come  after.      In  conclusion,  your 

Grace  will  see  by  the  order  resolved  upon  at  council,  to  which  I 

did  not  sign,  that  it  is  necessary  for  your  Grace  and  Barons  to 

have  some  vindication,  which  the  mere  true  stating  of  the 

business  will  afford  you;   and  for  my  own  part,  though  I 

opposed  and  carried  against  the  commissioners  the  doing  that 

injury  to  any  others  of  making  them  pay  the  full  value  of 

their  custodium  lands,  yet  for  good  example  I  offered  if  His 

Majesty  pleased  to  do  it  in  my  own  particular,  so  inconsiderable 

was  the  advantage  of  them  to  me,  but  it  wa    not  thought  fit 

to  be  accepted,  and  therefore  in  the  renewal  of  custodiums 

this  May,  all  my  desire  to  your  Grace  is  that  I  may  but  hold 

them  which  I  have  at  such  rent  as  shall  be  offered  highest. 

I  will  not  repeat  all  the  confidences  of  the  commissioners,  this 

gives  task  enough,  and  I  am  sure  most  of  the  council  disapprove 

their  pragmatical   boldness.       This   day   we  sat   again   and 

spent  it  upon  provisoes ;  my  fear  is  this  bill  will  be  almost 

as  bulky  as  the  last,  I  wish  it  return  passable.     Your  Lordship's 

expression  of  your  hope  that  I  will  be  there  rather  before 

than  after  the  bill,  is  a  warning  to  me  to  beg  your  Grace's 

positive  direction  when  you  will  have  me  return,  for  I  am 

ready  to  obey  your  command  therein   if  His   Majesty  give 

leave,  though  without  vanity  I  may  tell  your  Grace  that  I 

donbt  it  will  be  expedient  that  I  see  the  last  hand  of  the  bill 

which  will  yet  require  much  debate  and  polishing,  but  herein 

I  beseech  your  Grace's  pleasure  by  your  next,  for  if  you  do 

not  command  my  return  by  the  tenth  of  June,  my  license  of 

absence  must  be  renewed,  wherein  I  entreat  your  Grace's 

order.      I  humbly  acknowledge  your  Grace's  favour  and  care 

of  me.      I  hope  I  shall  ever  by  my  faithful  service  to  you 

and  your  family  shew  myself  thankful. 

Postscript ; — Colonel  Thomas  Howard  is  gone  towards 
your  Grace,  with  intention,  as  I  am  finally  informed 
(he  having  got  a  command  here),  to  hold  his  troop 
there  in  commendam  or  to  get  your  Grace's  leave  to 
sell  it.  If  your  Grace  give  way  to  his  parting  with 
it,  I  humbly  remember  you  of  Colonel  Jeffreys,  who  is 
coming  over  to  settle  wholly  there,  and  be  at  your  Grace's 
devotion,  and  I  believe  he  will  be  ready  to  give  Colonel  Howard 
content  for  his  troop,  and  your  Grace  may  please  to  afford 
him  the  same  liberty  for  his  Lieutenant's  place,  to  which  he 


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will  offer  such  a  one  as  your  Grace  will  not  disallow.  I  durst 
not  but  intimate  this  to  your  Grace  that  you  might  be  prepared 
for  what  Mr.  Howard  shall  offer,  wherein  your  Grace  may 
please  to  forbear  mentioning  whence  you  had  your  intelligence. 
It  is  so  late  I  cannot  enlarge  this  post,  and  therefore  take 
leave. 

Lucas  Dillon  to  Ormond. 

1664,  April  26.  Twomore  [?]. — I  think  it  more  pardonable 
to  do  my  duty  there  by  letter  than  to  seem  altogether  forgetful  of 
it ;  I  had  done  it  long  ere  now  in  person  had  I  been  in  any 
indifferent  condition  to  come  in  your  Grace's  presence;  the 
cruel  measure  I  have  received  from  the  late  usurped  tyrannical 
Government,  and  the  iniquity  of  the  times  past,  quite 
disenabling  me  to  perform  that  which  I  was  bound  to  in 
another  manner  than  this  and  willing  to  discharge.  It  is  not 
my  drift  hereby  to  weary  your  Grace  with  complaints,  though 
I  be  not  conscious  to  myself  of  ever  having  offended  any 
British  or  acted  ought  against  the  English  interest,  for  sure 
I  am  that  I  have  done  many  of  the  stript  distressed  many 
good  ofiBces  in  their  extreme  miseries,  which  not  being  my 
present  purposes  to  trouble  your  Grace  with  I  omit.  I  once 
had  a  brother  who  highly  honoured  and  truly  loved  you;  I 
must  not  so  degenerate  as  to  forget  contrary  to  all  the  laws 
of  gratitude  your  many  former  favours  to  our  family  and  in 
particular  to  myself,  and  seeing  I  am  not  serviceable  to  your 
Grace  in  any  worldly  affair,  I  will  not  slacken  in  my  poor 
devotions  to  praise  God  for  sending  you  to  us  again ,  and  pray 
for  your  and  your  posterity's  advancement  in  this  life  and 
continuance  in  the  same,  as  also  for  your  fruition  of  the  true 
felicity  in  the  other. 

Earl  of  Anglesey  to  Ormond. 

1664,  May  3.  London. — Your  Grace's  of  the  25th  of  the 
last  month  I  received  the  30th,  but  so  late  that  I  could  not 
then  return  an  answer,  and  indeed  there  was  nothing  to 
write,  the  bill  not  having  been  proceeded  in  since  my  last, 
and  indeed  since  we  have  gone  through  the  body  of  the  bill 
and  find  that  we  are  only  pressed  with  provisos  of  private 
concernment,  we  are  at  a  willing  delay  till  the  draft  shall  be  sent 
your  Grace  or  you  come  over  or  both,  which  I  am  glad  [to  learn 
by  your  Lordship's  said  letter,  and  His  Majesty's  ready  consent 
to  your  desire,  is  like  to  be  very  speedily,  and  your  Lordship 
knows  it  was  always  my  opinion  we  should  make  no  good 
conclusion  without  you.  The  Secretary  is  to  seek  for  the 
forms  necessary  in  order  to  your  Grace's  coming  thence,  and 
984  (Lord  Chancellor)  hath  therefore  spoken  to  82  (me)  to 
prepare  such  letters  for  His  Majesty's  signature  as  shall  be 
needful  to  be  despatched  on  Saturday  next ;  for  this  post  your 
Grace  will  have  notice  only  of  what  I  now  write.  896 
confesseth  that  being  at  a  distance  from  his  papers,  he  cannot 
so  exactly  conclude  of  the  old  forms,  but  he  will  endeavour  it ; 


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and  for  more  caution,  if  your  Grace  hasten  a  transmit  of  what 
you  desire  His  Majesty  to  sign,  I  shall  speed  them  back  to 
arrive,  I  doubt  not,  timely  enough  to  find  your  Grace  there; 
in  the  meanwhile  all  I  apprehend  necessary  is  a  letter  from 
His  Majesty  authorising  and  requiring  your  Grace  for  special 
service  of  his  own,  to  attend  his  Koyal  presence  with  all 
convenient  speed,  and  another  letter  authorising  and  directing 
you  to  appoint  a  Deputy  or  Justices  for  the  government  in 
your  absence,  and  warranting  letters  patents  to  pass  the 
Great  Seal  for  that  purpose.  These  will  be  prepared  time 
enough  to  be  sent  your  Grace  by  Saturday's  post. 

I  do  not  doubt  your  Grace's  coming  very  easily  provided 
to  answer  all  objections  against  or  reflections  upon  the 
government,  because,  as  I  well  know,  affairs  have  been 
managed  beyond  exception,  so  I  am  assured  upon  the  first 
news  of  your  coming  (which  yet  is  kept  very  private),  the 
race  of  whispering  informers  will  so  vanish  that  there  will 
be  no  footsteps  of  them  left. 

I  am  very  glad  your  Grace  is  hastening  to  me  materials 
to  make  it  appear  that  the  commissioners  could  not  proceed 
to  sit  after  the  2nd  of  July  upon  any  ground  given  by  your 
Grace  and  the  council's  order,  which  I  remembered  very  well 
was  cautious  to  the  utmost.  I  am  pretty  well  provided  already 
to  clear  that  point  which  is  again  reviving,  and  had  rather 
it  should  be  set  on  foot  again  before  your  Grace's  arrival, 
for  W'hich  end  I  long  for  such  materials  as  are  providing  there, 
and  the  truth  is,  I  see  little  hopes  of  a  good  settlement  without 
a  renew  or  vacating  of  that  extravagant  seven  weeks' 
proceedings,  from  the  2nd  of  July  to  the  22nd  of  August, 
which  I  can  find  no  manner  of  ground  to  warrant  them  in. 

The  custodiums  will  be  easily  cleared  against  the  loose 
clamours  made  against  them  by  those  who  would  willingly 
have  had  them  at  lower  rates,  if  your  Grace  do  but  bring 
a  list  of  them  with  the  grounds  of  their  granting,  the  values 
they  were  set  at  when  your  Grace  arrived  there,  and  the 
values  custodiums  were  set  at  in  the  beginning  of  the  war, 
and  what  those  which  remain  are  severally  worth  to  be  let  at 
a  rack  during  pleasure,  and  it  will  be  needful,  I  think,  to 
bring  a  copy  of  the  form  of  a  custodium  in  the  Exchequer, 
and  that  the  number  of  acres  be  in  the  list,  and  I  believe 
if  Sir  George  Lane  search  he  will  find  letters  from  His 
Majesty  to  your  Grace,  or  the  late  Lords  Justices,  for  most 
of  the  custodiums  that  are  now  in  being,  and  to  have  granted 
the  rest  to  the  Irish  proprietors  for  little  or  nothing. 

I  have  sent  for  Mr.  Vyner,  and  expect  him  this  evening, 
about  your  Grace's  money  matters.  Colonel  Piggott  hath 
yet  returned  none,  but  I  shall  not  fail  in  my  utmost  service 
to  answer  your  Grace's  occasions,  and  shall  speak  with 
Mr.  Temple  (who  is  yet  here)  about  the  payment  to  Sir  John 
Dingley,  and  shall  be  careful  to  take  up  the  deeds,  and  get 
9ucb  release  as  shall  be  fit. 


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I  humbly  thank  your  Grace  for  your  favourable  intentions 
towards  Colonel  Jeffreys,  and  for  the  proviso  against  bribery 
for  nominations,  which  I  shall  offer  in  due  time.  I  shall 
trouble  your  Grace  no  further,  but  to  desire  you  would  uncipher 
the  enclosed  with  your  own  hand. 

Postscript: — My  Lady  Duchess,  her  house  is  ready  at 
Chelsey,  come  when  her  Grace  please. 

Enclosures  (1). — ^I  desire  this  may  be  unciphered  by  your 
own  hand. 

(l  am  come  to  the  knowledge  of  that  which  under  secrecy, 
(though  I  wish  995  (Lord  Orrery)  very  well),  I  cannot  but 
communicate  to  961  (your  Grace).  139  (his)  Lordship  is 
resolved  to  194  (come),  13  (e),  260  (for),  843  (England)  within 
a  fortnight.  I  know  not  whether  69  (he)  279  (hath)  made 
known  314  (this)  to  961  (your  Grace) ,  but  I  find  by  139  (his) 
friends  that  69  (he)  conceives  539  (yourself)  126  (do)  not 
befriend  280  (him)  as  69  (he)  expected.  I  shall  say  no 
more  hereof  till  I  see  961  (your  Grace),  and  then  256  (you) 
shall  643  (know)  460,37  (things)  more  870,  24,  46  (particularly). 
In  the  meanwhile  this  hint  may  be  of  use  106  (to)  996  (you).^) 

Enclosure  (2). — To  be  unciphered  by  yourself. 

431,   904    (Lord  Chancellor)  hath   written  to  one   of  the 
51,  11  (bed)  chamber  that  the  new  329  (Act)  is  like  to  come 
to  508  (nothing),  because  246  (the)  692  (council)  of  641  (Ireland) 
refuse  such  reasonable  provisoes  as  961  (your  Grace)  would 
make  for  243  (the)  568  (Irish).      I  know  not  for  what  design 
this  is  given  out,  when  at  the  same  time  too  many  accuse 
962   (you)  for  having  been  too  775,  117,  78   (favourable)  to 
the  568  (Irish)   already,   whereas  I  am  sure  539   (yourself) 
desireth  nothing  more  than   an  equal  settlement   to   secure 
315  (that)  214,  126,  82  (kingdom)  to  854  (the  King).     I  am 
sure  such  reports  can   do  962  (you)  no  good;   and  as  little 
can  come  from  898  (Lord  Berkeley)  asserting  here,  and  which 
I  may  not  conceal  from  962  (you),  69  (he)  openly  said,  69  (he) 
would  give  it  under  his  hand  243  (the)  613   (Army)  89   (of) 
641  (Ireland)  was  so  rotten  and  bad,  that  855  (King)  could 
have  no  assurance  of  them^  and  that  there  was  no  danger  of 
568  (Irish)  but  only  of  them,  and  yet  898  (he)  could  not,  though 
69  (he)  had  desired  it  from  961  (your  Grace)  in  writing,  get  leave 
to  change  the  dangerous  82,  28  (men)  89  (of)  139  (his)  510 
(own)  814  (troop).     896  (Anglesey)  contradicted  898  (Berkeley) 
positively,   but  he  was   the   more  resolute  in  his   assertion, 
and  896  (Lord  Anglesey)  doubts  69  (he)  vents  more  to  others. 
It's  fit  961  (your  Grace)  clear  this  matter  to  855  (the  King), 
and  perhaps  to  the  692  (council)   by  a  list  of  the  653,  35,  37 
(oflBcers)  and  their  qualifications,  and  by  desiring  a  change 
here  if  any  dislike,  as  I  know  961  (your  Grace)  once  told  me 
256  (you)  intended,  when  the  same  431  (Lord)  spoke  so  once 
before;  and  yet  sometimes  69  (he)  gives  out  243  (the)  613 
(Army)  is  in  no  order  nor  condition  106  (to)  126   (do)  808 
(service),  though  it  may  be  dangerous  as  aforesaid. 


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James  Buck  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1664,  May  14.  Chelsey.— Dear  Sir ;  Your  favour  of  the  30th 
of  April  I  received  the  7th  instant,  and  must  in  the  &rst  place 
rejoice  at  my  good  Lady  Lane's  recovery,  and  for  ever  love  the 
limping  Doctor  for  that  and  the  good  effect  he  has  wrought  upon 
her  Grace,  who  is  expected  here  upon  Thursday  next,  where 
I  and  my  wife  are  preparing  for  her  reception,  who  is  still  at 
my  Lord  Chesterfield*s.  I  much  wonder  that  my  namesake 
has  not  as  yet  returned  you,  his  grandfather,  or  his  dear 
mother,  thanks  for  the  tokens  you  sent  him  by  me,  who  did 
promise  me  he  would  do  it  with  great  care,  and  for  his  sake 
I  hope  you  will  find  that  his  letters  are  miscarried ;  the  last 
time  I  saw  him  the  clothes  that  were  made  him  at  Christmas 
are  now  by  inches  too  short  for  him,  and  not  a  suit  he  has 
that  is  fit  to  wear.  I  am,  and  will  be,  still  so  much  concerned 
for  him,  which  I  hope  you  will  pardon,  that  I  spoke  to  Mr.  Eoch 
concerning  it,  who  tells  me  he  has  writ  to  you  of  it,  but  receives 
no  answer.  I  hope  I  need  make  no  farther  complaint  of  this 
kind,  since  I  have  fought  some  of  your  battles  of  late,  and 
I  thank  you  for  arming  me  so  well  at  my  coming  away  that  I 
have  gained  the  field,  and,  I  think,  tied  up  some  of  their 
tongues  for  ever,  but  I  know  you  have  received  long  since 
a  full  account,  both  of  the  persons  and  passages,  that  were 
informed  your  master  here,  which  related  to  one,  Eustace; 
the  name  I  honour,  but  I  could  wish  the  person  or  the  informer 
had  been  some  thousand  miles  off.  I  hate  an  ill  oflBce,  but  if  I 
know  how  to  do  good  in  this  I  would  run  greater  hazards 
than  I  have  attempted  yet,  and  if  I  could  but  receive  your 
instructions,  the  effects  should  not  be  long  after,  though  in  an 
unskilful  hand,  yet  with  the  most  affectionate  and  hearty 
desires. 


A  Breviate  of  the  Patent  granted  to  Sir  Thomas  Vynbr, 

Mr.  Robert  Vyner,  and  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham,  for 

minting  small  money  in  ireland. 

1664,  May  16. — The  consideration  of  the  Patent  itself,  and 
inducements  to  it. 

To  be  past  without  any  return  thereof. 

The  advantage  and  general  use  of  small  money. 

The  consideration  of  the  Lords    Justices,   and  their 
repre8enta,tion,  the  many  services  done  by  the  said  persons. 

The  said  patent  to  be  confirmed  and  strengthened  at 
any  time. 

Pardons  issued  to  said  Patentees  at  any  time. 

Proclamation  hereof. 

The  said  Patent  good  in  law  notwithstanding  any  defect, 
notwithstanding  any  former  grant  or  grants. 


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Manner  of  carrying  it  on  directed. 

A  Mint  house  conceived  necessary,  and  commanded  to 
be  erected. 

Passing  groats  or  4(f.  pieces  and  under. 

Officers  of  Master  Worker,  Warden,  Comptroller,  and 
Assay  Master  of  Mint  established. 

Power  to  settle  stipends  and  other  reasonable  allowances 
on  said  offices  to  be  settled  by  the  Chief  Governor  and 
paid  by  the  King. 

The  said  power  of  Minting  granted  to  Sir  Th.  V., 
B.  V.,andD.  B. 

To  be  issued  as  found  convenient. 

Distinction. 

H  pieces,  one  Bide  a  crown,  other  a  harp. 

Id.  pieces,  effigies  of  the  King  one  side,  other  a  harp 
crowned. 

2d.  pieces,   on   one  side  the  same  and  a  figure   to 
denominate  the  value,  other  the  same  harp  crowned. 

3d.  pieces,  the  same  effigy  and  title  and  figure,  the  other 
a  harp  crowned,  this  motto  oblectat  et  reperat. 

4d.  pieces,  the  same,  or  such  other  stamp  judged  fit. 

A  privy  mark  or  stamp  to  be  altered  at  pleasure. 

To  be  made  according  to  the  fineness  of  England's 
standard. 

To  be  fixed,  assayed,  and  proved. 

Sworn  officers  and  bullion  imported. 

Security  to  be  given  for  it. 

One  ounce  id.  pieces,  two  2d.  pieces,  three  of  3d.  pieces, 
four  of  4d.  pieces,  in  every  pound  containing  12  oz.  troy 
standard  silver. 

For  8upj)ly  of  change,  a  quantity  still  be  ready  made. 

To  be  sent  abroad  to  all  parts  of  Ireland. 

Provisoes  and  Provisions y  with  Prohibitions. 

None  obliged  to  receive  above  2s.  in  a  pound  payment. 

None  pass  made  for  any  parts  or  places  except  what 
made  before  the  30th  of  January,  1648,  and  were  then 
passable. 

Forfeiture  if  any  other  be  put  forth. 

And  of  all  engines. 

Imprisonment — one  moiety  of  all  forfeitures  to  His 
Majesty,  other  to  Sir  Th.  V.,  B.  V.,  etc. 

Power  with  a  constable  to  attach,  etc.,  seize  and  carry 
away,  etc. 


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To  enjoy  the  benefit  of  the  said  patent  for  twenty-one 
years  from  the  date. 

Paying  12d.,  small  silver  money,  out  of  every  pound 
troy  weight. 

Which  is  to  be  deducted  by  the  officers  to  His  Majesty's 
use. 

Without  any  further  order,  or  putting  the  said  Patentees 
to  any  further  account. 

The  said  Patentees  paying  the  charge  of  minting. 

Excepting  the  allowances  to  Master  Worker,  Warden, 
Comptroller,  Assay  Master,  and  other  Chief  Officer. 

All  Government  Officers,  etc.,  to  cause  the  same  to  pass. 

Command  to  all  to  be  assisting,  etc. 

Penalty  to  be  inflicted  on  refusers. 

Endorsed: — Extract  of  Sir  Thomas  Vyner,  Eobert  Vyner, 
and  Daniel  Bellingham's  power  for  coining  of  small  silver 
money,  16  May,  '64. 

Earl  of  Anglesby  to  Obmond. 

1664,  May  17.  London. — Your  Grace's  arrival  here  is 
now  so  much  the  general  discourse  and  expectation  that 
I  shall  say  no  more  of  that,  but  wish  it  may  be  speedy,  for 
I  doubt  the  business  of  Ireland  will  move  forward  very  slowly 
till  your  Grace's  coming.  My  Lady  Duchess  will  be  this 
night  at  Korthampton,  to-morrow  at  Dunstable,  and  on 
Thursday  at  her  house  at  Chelsey.  I  have  received  your 
Grace's  letter  by  the  Sergeant  Trumpeter,  and  before  I  would 
engage  for  their  liveries,  thought  fit  to  transmit  your  Grace 
an  estimate  what  they  come  to  at  His  Majesty's  rates,  as 
they  were  provided  formerly,  viz.,  for  both  suits  alone,  two 
hundred  and  fifty  pounds  a  man,  but  if  I  may  undertake 
present  payment,  I  have  other  estimates  for  as  good  liveries 
and  furniture,  for  two  hundred  pounds  a  man,  which  I  hope 
to  bring  lower,  for  the  least  rate  is  high  enough.  Herein 
I  desire  your  Grace's  positive  order  by  the  next,  that  they  may 
be  gone  in  hand  with  presently  after  Whitsuntide,  for  sooner 
none  will  undertake  them,  all  people  being  about  Whitsuntide 
engaged  for  so  much  work. 

[This  day  the  bill  against  Conventicles,  and  fifteen  other 
bnls,  were  passed,  and  His  Majesty  prorogued  the  Parliament 
till  the  20th  of  August,  though  he  expressed  he  intended  not 
to  have  them  come  till  November,  but  to  prorogue  them  again 
from  the  20th  of  August  to  November ,  unless  some  extraordinary 
occasion  required  it.J 

I  acquainted  your  Grace  formerly,  that  I  could  not  then 
prevail  at  Sir  Thomas  Vyner' s  to  have  the  £5,000  Sir  Daniel 
Bellingham  wrote  for,  paid  for  your  Grace's  use,  unless  quick 


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returns  of  money  were  made  to  him  thence  or  some  sent  in 
specie  to  Chester,  yet  I  had  then  as  I  wrote  some  hopes  to 
win  him  to  it,  but  since  find  he  cannot  or  will  not  undertake 
it  but  upon  those  terms,  and  therefore  your  Grace  may  be 
pleased  to  direct  Sir  Daniel  either  to  speed  returns  or  to  send 
money  to  Chester,  else  your  Grace's  payment  to  Mr.  Allen 
for  Moor  Park,  the  26th  of  this  month,  will  be  disappointed, 
as  by  Colonel  Piggott's  failing  to  return  any  money,  which 
he  wrote  me  word  he  found  impossible  for  him  to  do.  Sir  John 
Dingley's  sum  is  returned  re  infecia,  but  I  persuaded  him  to 
a  contented  waiting  till  returns  were  made,  which  I  told  him 
I  doubted  not  would  be  by  midsummer,  your  Lordship's  money 
being  ready  there.  Your  Grace  by  this  sees  how  necessary 
it  will  be,  before  you  come  away  or  when  you  come,  to  get 
Sir  Daniel  to  make  good  returns  in  specie,  for  returns  by  cattle 
are  dead,  and  slow  at  best. 

Postscript : — ^I  desire  to  know  when  and  where  I  shall  meet 
your  Grace  on  your  way. 


Colonel  Thomas  Coote  to  Ormond. 

1664,  May  20.  Hillsburrow. — The  manifold  favours  which 
I  have  formerly  received  from  your  Grace,  emboldens  me  to 
this  further  trouble  unto  you,  and  to  be  over  prolix  amidst 
your  more  weighty  affairs  would  be  too  great  a  presumption, 
therefore  in  short  it  is  thus :  Since  his  most  sacred  Majesty's 
most  happy  restoration ,  building  upon  his  declaration  and  the 
Act  of  Settlement,  I  purchased  a  very  considerable  estate,  both 
in  the  County  of  Mekth  and  the  Queen's  County,  from  an 
adventurer,  for  which  I  have  already  paid  and  disbursed  a  very 
great  sums  of  moneys,  and  must  likewise  pay  a  far  greater 
sum.  Some  of  those  lands  I  have  already  lost  in  the  County 
of  Meath  by  the  Court  of  Claims,  and  the  most  considerable 
part  yet  remaining  was  formerly  the  property  of  Sir  Eichard 
Barnewell,  who  durst  not  come  upon  his  trial  himself,  but 
brought  in  his  son  upon  a  remainder,  but  by  your  Grace's 
favourable  recommendations  of  my  concernments  unto  the 
commissioners,  and  the  justice  of  my  cause,  I  overthrew  him 
in  the  court.  I  have  now  received  information  from  very 
good  hands  that  Sir  Richard  Barnewell,  in  the  new  Act,  is 
proposed  to  be  one  of  those  that  shall  be  restored,  and  that 
without  any  previous  reprisal.  I  am  not  ignorant  of  the 
relation  his  son  hath  to  your  Grace,  but  I  have  so  much 
confidence  in  your  Grace's  favour  and  goodness  towards  me 
that  you  will  not  permit  me  to  be  ruined,  which  I  must 
unavoidably  if  that  should  be.  I  shall  never  complain  unto 
or  make  my  address  to  any  other  person  than  your  Grace,  and  I 
shall  ever  cast  both  my  person  and  estate  at  your  feet  to  be 
disposed  of  as  you  shall  think  fit,  which  you  may  really  believe. 


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Case  of  Arthur  Dillon. 

1664,  May  23.— In  the  year  1642,  the  Corporation  of  the 
City  of  London  adventured  in  the  name  of  Kobert  Bateman , 
Esq.,  then  a  Chamberlain  of  the  said  City,  £10,000  upon 
forfeited  lands  in  Ireland. 

The  said  sum  of  ^£10,000  fell  by  lot  to  be  satisfied 
the  one  moiety  thereof  in  the  Barony  of  Skreene  in  East  Meath, 
and  the  other  moiety  in  the  Barony  of  Demyfore  in  the  County 
of  Westmeath. 

The  Trustees  of  the  City  of  London,  in  or  about  the  year 
of  our  Lord,  1654,  sold  the  said  adventure  of  d910,000  to  Edward 
Cary,  of  Gray's  Inn,  Esq. ;  the  said  Cary  sold  one  third  part 
of  the  moiety  of  the  said  £10,000  to  Stephen  Monteage,  of 
London,  Esq.,  in  whose  lot  the  Town  and  lands  of  Lismullen, 
in  the  Barony  of  Skreene  did  fall,  which,  was  for  a  very 
valuable  consideration,  in  the  year  1662,  purchased  by  Mayor 
Arthur  Dillon  from  the  said  Monteage,  and  improvements 
since  made  thereon  by  him  to  the  value  of  £600,  amounting 
with  the  purchase  at  least  to  £2,000,  the  whole  lands  being 
but  seven  hundred  and  fifty  acres. 

William  Malone,  the  former  proprietor  of  Lismullen,  by 
his  own  confession,  in  his  examination  on  record,  acknowledgeth 
himself  to  have  been  at  the  Hill  of  Crufftie  at  the  time  of  the 
Irish  rebels  first  association,  and  also  there  when  Sir  Fhelim 
O'Neill  was  chosen  general,  that  he  was  likewise  at  the  meeting 
at  the  Hill  of  Tara,  where  the  Irish  nobility  and  gentry  first 
refused  to  give  obedience  to  the  then  Lords  Justices'  summons, 
and  that  he  sent  both  horse  and  arms  into  Fleming  of 
Cabra's  troop,  who  was  of  the  rebels'  party ;  and  it  can 
be  sufiSciently  proved  that  he  was  provider  to  the  Irish  army 
during  the  siege  at  Drogheda. 

Lismullen  being  but  five  hundred  acres  of  the  above- 
mentioned  number  of  seven  hundred  and  fifty ;  Patrick  Cusack 
of  Gerrardstown,  was  former  proprietor  of  the  other  two 
hundred  and  fifty,  who  served  a  captain  with  the  rebels  from 
the  beginning  of  the  rebellion  until  killed  in  their  service. 

Thomas  Crosbie  and  Kichard  Chute  to  John  Walsh. 

1664,  May  31.  Ardfert. — Honoured  Sir ;  when  we  received 
our  commission  and  instructions  from  my  Lord  Duke  for  the 
dispose  of  his  Grace's  interest  for  the  present  year,  we  did 
propose  unto  ourselves,  by  the  rules  therein  prescribed,  that 
we  should  have  been  able  to  have  advanced  his  Grace's  revenue 
to  double  the  rents  it  was  set  for  the  last  year,  being  resolved 
to  have  stuck  to  that  rule  of  not  setting  above  twelve  plough- 
lands  to  any  one  man,  but  having  since  received  his  Grace's 
positive  commands  to  let  all  the  English  have  their  respective 
holdings,  even  at  the  very  same  rent  they  were  set  for  the 
last  year,  and  they  being  possessed  of  the  most  considerablest 
part  of  his  Grace's  interest  in  this  county,  we  cannot  by  reason 
thereof  add  any  augmentation  to  my  Lord  Duke's  revenue. 


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Those  two  persons  that  were  the  main  obstructors  of  his  Grace's 
interest,  by  name  Captain  Dillon  and  Mr.  Haslett,  whom  we 
thought  this  year  should  have  been  secluded  from  any  part 
thereof,  reaping  equal  benefit  with  any  other  of  the  English 
tenants,  it  not  being  in  our  power  to  advance  one  penny  rent 
more  on  them  than  they  paid  the  last  year ;  besides  we  desire 
to  be  resolved  whether  his  Grace  doth  intend  by  his  last  order, 
that  they  should  only  enjoy  such  lands  as  they  lived  on  and 
made  use  of  with  their  own  stocks,  or  all  that  they  enjoyed 
the  last  year,  and  set  to  under-tenants  to  their  great  advantage, 
even  no  less  than  thirty  ploughlands  to  one  man,  therefore 
we  thought  fit  to  offer  this  to  your  knowledge,  that  it  may 
be  presented  to  his  Grace  as  you  shall  think  fit,  to  the  end 
we  may  yield  all  due  obedience  to  his  intentions  therein  and 
receive  a  positive  resolution  by  the  first  post,  which  we  leave 
to  your  more  serious  consideration. 

Postscript : — ^We  are,  by  means  of  the  last  order,  hindered 
from  doing  anything  in  order  to  that  lease  which  was  intended 
for  Doctor  Carroll. 

We  desire  you  will  be  pleased  to  present  the  enclosed  to  my 
Lord  Duke,  which  we  have  sent  with  a  flying  seal  to  the  end 
you  may  peruse  the  same  before  delivery.  We  have  likewise 
writ  to  the  Earl  of  Clancarty,  who  we  are  confident  will  second 
our  desires.      Pray  hasten  our  answer. 

Addressed: — ^For  John  Walsh,  Esq.,  his  Grace's  Counsel  at 
Law,  at  his  house  in  the  Quay  in  Dublin,  these. 

Endorsed: — From  the  Commissioners  of  Kerry. 

EicHARD  Chute,  Thomas  Crosbib  and  Jambs  Naglb  to 

Ormond. 

1664,  May  31.  Ardfert. — May  it  please  your  Grace:  Your 
Grace's  commissioners  have  last  year,  upon  information  given 
that  Sir  William  Petty  had  upon  loose  debentures  purchased, 
laid  out  three  thousand  acres  in  a  territory  of  forty-eight 
thousand  acres  in  such  places  as  be  thought  fit,  which  the  said 
commissioners  did  the  last  year  set  to  your  Grace's  use, 
the  same  being  subject  to  your  Grace's  chiefries,  which,  as  they 
conceived,  was  contrary  to  the  rules  for  setting  out  lands  for 
debentures,  and  leaves  the  rest  very  inconsiderable,  we  humbly 
desire  to  know  your  Grace's  pleasure  whether  the  said  lands 
shall  be  set  this  year,  notwithstanding  our  instructions  directs 
us  not  to  meddle  with  lands  allotted  to  soldiers.  There  is  a  late 
order  from  your  Grace  (a  copy  is  enclosed)  directing  us  to 
continue  every  English  tenant  to  their  former  holdings  at 
their  former  rents,  we  conceive  that  by  the  same  order  we  shall 
not  be  able  to  advance  the  rents,  the  greater  part  of  the  estate 
being  in  the  hands  of  English  tenants.  We  also  humbly 
desire  to  know  whether  by  the  word  holdings,  in  the  said  order, 
is  intended  such  lands  as  the  said  English  livedon  or  had  their 
stock  depasturing  upon,  or  whether  the  whole  number  of 
ploughlands   they   enjoyed    the    last   year,    which    to   great 


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advantage  they  set  to  under-tenants,  be  intended  thereby,  which 
we  have  humbly  made  bold  to  crave  resolution  in,  by  reason 
your  Grace's  revenue  is  so  much  impaired  thereby.  All  which 
we  humbly  submit  to  your  further  pleasure,  and  remain  your 
Grace's  most  humble  and  obedient  servants, 

Bich.  Chute. 

Tho.  Crosbie. 

Jams.  Nagle. 

A  Particular  of  the  Present  Expense  of  their  Majesties' 

Household  and  Stables. 

1664,  June   16.—  f        s.       d. 

Their  Majesties'  diet  of  ten  dishes  of 
meat  a  meal ,  with  the  four  little  dishes  of 
meat  a  meal  for  Her  Majesty.  The 
dessert  at  dinner  only  included  with  the 
incidents  thereunto  belonging,  with  the 
diet  of  His  Highness  Prince  Kupert  and 
the  Maids  of  Honour,  will  come  to         ...  23328  :  02  :  04 

To  His  Eoyal  Highness  the  Duke  of 
York  10400  :  00  :  00 

The  charge  of  their  Majesties'  stables 
(the  board  wages  of  the  eleven  Equerries 
and  Avenor  not  included),  is  about      ...     19157  :  12  :  11 

Standing-wages  for  their  Majesties' 
servants  of  the  Chamber,  Chapel,  and 
Household,  is         04676  :  01  :  06 

For  the  relief  of  the  poor  at  the  gate...  00073  :  04  :  00 

Allowances  granted  unto  several  persons 
by  warrant  from  His  Majesty  since  the 
29th  of  September  last,  according  to 
particular  thereof  ...  04359  :  12  :  05 


Total 61994  :  13  :  02 


All  diet  lately  served  in  kind,  as  also  a  great  part  of  their 
Majesties'  diet  hereunder  mentioned,  board  wages  in  lieu  of 
diet  to  their  Majesties'  servants  of  the  Chamber,  Household, 
and  Stables,  Boudges*  of  Court  Pensions,  and  all  other 
allowances  whatsoever  granted  by  His  Majesty's  late  book  of 
Establishment  for  his  household  expenses,  dated  the  2nd  of 
December,  1663,  and  suspended  according  to  His  Majesty's 
warrant  of  the  25th  of  August  last  past,  viz. : — 

Dishes  of  meat  a  day. 

Abated  out  of  His  Majesty's  diet  ...  46 

Abated  out  of  Her  Majesty's  diet  ...  40 

Lord  Steward  ...  32 

Lord  Chamberlain  32 

Master  of  the  Horse  32 

Master  Treasurer     32 

*  Boudges,  t.e.  aUowanoes  of  food  and  Mrine. 


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Dishes  of  meat  a  day. 

Master  Comptroller  32 

Groom  of  the  Stool  to  His  Majesty  28 

Mr.  Secretary  20 

His  Majesty  *  s  breakfast      05 

Lord  Chamberlain  to  the  Queen  ...  32 

Groom  of  the  Stool  to  the  Queen  ...  14 

Dean  of  the  Chapel  07 

Chaplains  10 

The  Guard's  breakfast       04 

Countess  of  Chesterfield     08 

The  Cofferer      14 

Four  Officers  of  the  Green  Cloth  ...  28 

Clerks  of  the  Kitchen  ...  14 

Increases  at  Festival  times  to  the  Chapel,  etc. 
In  all  430  dishes  of  meat  a  day,  with  the  incidents  thereunto 
allowed,  with  the  increases  of  diets  at  Festival  times,  will  be 
defrayed  for  the  sum  of : —  Per  Annum. 

£        8.      d. 

27474  :  16  :  07 

The  feast  of  St.  George       ...         ...  01800  :  00  :  00 

Carriages  and  riding  wages,  horse  hire 

and  sumpter  horses         01800  :  00  :  00 

Plays  and  dancing       00450  :  00  :  00 

Board  wages  to  the    Equerries  and 

Avenor       ...  00139  :  00  :  00 

Pensions  to  the  servants  of  his  late 

Majesty  and  King  James,  Eockers  and 

other  servants  to  the  Princess  Koyal, 

the  Duke  of  Gloucester  and  Princess 

Anne,  as  allowed  by  the  last  Establish- 
ment   04929  :  00  :  00 

Board  wages  to  the  servants  of  His 

Majesty's  Chamber         05365  :  16  :  08 

Board  wages  of  the  Household  ...  07285  :  13  :  00 
Supernumerary  servants  board  wages  03281  :  08  :  08 
Board  wages  to  the  servants  of  Her 

Majesty's  Chamber  and  Household     ...  04300  :  01  :  lOJ 

Total 30531  :  00  :  02J 

£        8.      d. 
So   that  by  this   particular    it   doth 
appear  that     if   all    the    Diets    before 
expressed  be  wholly  suppressed,  and  all 
the  aforesaid  allowances  taken  from  His 
Majesty's   servants.  His   Majesty    will 
spend  less  this  present  year  than  he  did 
the  year  beginning  the  1st  October,  1662, 
and  ending  the  30th  September,  1663,  by    58005  :  06  :  10 
Endorsed: — The  particular  of  the  present  charge  of  His 
Majesty's  house  and  stables,  etc. 


176 

Fbancis,  Lord  Aungier  to  Ormond. 

1664,  June  22.  Dublin. — I  have  been  so  happy  in  your 
Grace's  favours  that  I  cannot  think  of  any  other  refuge  for  what 
concerns  me  or  my  fortune,  and  therefore  I  humbly  beg  leave 
of  your  Grace  that  my  wife  (who  is  now  in  London  to  that 
purpose)  may  address  herself  to  your  Grace  in  reference  to 
my  small  pretensions  in  the  Bill  of  Settlement.  She  will 
(with  your  Grace's  pardon)  acquaint  you  if  anything  be  likely 
to  entrench  on  my  interest,  and  I  shall  esteem  myself  very 
safe  in  your  Grace's  favour  and  patronage. 

Your  Grace  was  pleased  to  hear  from  me  the  state  of  my 
present  condition,  which  besides  your  Grace's  kindness  to 
me  and  your  natural  goodness,  which  makes  you  delight  in 
obliging  ofiBces,  will  engage  your  charity  to  help  me.  I  know 
it  is  not  fit  to  trouble  your  Grace  with  a  long  letter,  and  therefore 
I  shall  mention  no  particulars  of  my  concerns  but  this  one 
thing,  wherein  I  shall  be  wholly  disposed  by  your  Grace's 
pleasure  and  advice. 

I  have  certain  lands  intermixed  with  my  estate  in  the 
County  of  Longford,  which  were  by  the  proprietor  thereof 
mortgaged  to  my  grandfather,  and  the  right  of  redemption 
is  now  in  the  1649  officers  by  the  forfeiture  of  the  old  proprietor, 
who  was  notoriously  active  in  the  rebellion.  The  lands 
contain  one  thousand  acres,  and  do  not  yield  me,  at  this  present, 
full  £50  per  annum,  yet  because  I  would  secure  those  lands, 
and  that  without  the  clamour  of  the  '49  oflScers,  I  am  willing 
to  give  for  them  £400  in  good  stated  arrears,  which  I  should 
have  esteemed  too  dear  a  purchase,  but  that  those  lands  are 
very  near  my  house.  I  humbly  submit  this  to  your  Grace, 
which  if  your  Grace  approve  of,  my  wife  will  present  you  with 
a  proviso  to  be  inserted  in  the  bill.  I  must  humbly  beg  your 
Grace's  pardon  for  the  constant  trouble  you  meet  with  in  my 
behalf,  but  I  hope  it  is  the  less  uneasy  to  your  Grace,  because 
you  know  I  am  resolved  to  make  it  my  endeavour  to  render 
myself  worthy  of  your  Grace's  kindness,  while  I  have  a  life 
and  any  fortune  to  expose  in  your  service. 

Endorsed : — Lord  Aungier's  to  my  Lord,  by  his  Lady. 

Patrick  Moorb  to  Ormond. 

1664,  July  2.  Dublin. — My  obligation  to  your  Grace's 
honours  and  favour  are  so  great  that  I  can  omit  nothing  wherein 
your  Grace  is  concerned  without  giving  your  Grace  a  hint  of 
it,  therefore  know  that  being  in  conference  with  Sir  John 
Talbot  since  your  Grace  parted,  among  other  things  he  told 
me  how  great  a  patriot  my  Lord  of  Orrery  would  prove  to  the 
Pale,  and  that  you  were  all  for  Munster,  that  he  would  have 
the  English  there,  his  friends  and  many  of  the  Irish,  and 
likewise  gain  the  five  English  shires  of  his  side,  for  whose 
restitution  he  hath  furnished  himself  here  with  divers 
arguments,  and  all  to  be  in  equal  balance  in  the  public  esteem 


177 

with  your  Grace,  as  he  told  me.  He  further  said  that  Orreiy 
writ  to  his  brother  Dick  (so  he  called  him)  to  meet  your  Grace 
on  the  road,  and  at  least  to  shew  you  a  good  outside,  all  this 
he  spoke  as  from  Orrery,  and  that  Orrery  dissented  from  you 
in  some  things  here  before  your  departure,  which  you  would 
have  him  join  with  you  in  ;  in  fine  they  mean  those  brothers  are 
all  for  Orrery,  and  by  his  countenance  at  Court  intend  to  make 
a  very  great  harvest  of  their  poor  countrymen,  and  to  that 
purpose  John  tells  me  Dick  hath  been  very  active ;  he  likewise 
told  me  that  Orrery  commanded  his  brother  Peter  to  be  fifteen 
days  before  himself  there,  that  when  he  came  he  would  make 
it  his  own  work  to  restore  him  to  His  Majesty's  favour  and  his 
former  place ;  they  are  daily  contracting  with  new  clients  by 
John's  means  here,  as  last  day  Gilbert  (who  now  is  so  linked 
unto  that  family  by  the  marriage  of  my  Lady  Loftus,  and  that 
at  the  earnest  solicitation  of  Orrery)  contracted  with  one 
Morphew,  secretary  unto  Orrery,  for  Cheevers  of  Killean,  in 
the  County  of  Wexford,  that  is  to  say  that  for  four  hundred 
acres  of  Cheevers  his  estate  Orrery  should  get  him  the  rest ; 
Cheevers  is  Sir  Eichard  Butler  of  Knocktopher's  grandchild, 
and  they  were  with  me  to  make  the  bargain,  that  is  to  say  to 
speak  to  Hore  of  Kilshalchan's  wife  (Hore  himself  being  gone 
for  England),  who  is  sister  to  this  Cheevers,  and  they  threaten 
to  destroy  Hore  for  parting  hence,  being  engaged  to  Gilbert 
to  make  the  bargain  before  he  parted ;  and  all  she  could  say 
was  he  would  commend  it  in  England  with  Morphew.  They 
have  agreed  with  many  others  lately.  John  hath  promised 
shortly  to  shew  me  the  bottom  of  all  the  affairs  transacted 
in  England  from  Orrery ;  so  as  now  I  have  an  introspection 
into  John  Talbot's  transactions,  which  shall  be  no  sooner 
mine  than  your  Grace's,  if  I  can  find  them  acceptable  to  your 
Grace. 

I  told  your  Grace  of  Captain  Ross,  he  is  chief  of  their  grand 
engines,  and  indeed  a  dangerous  fellow  if  not  well  looked  to ; 
and  thus  hoping  your  Grace  will  pardon  this  my  great 
presumption ,  and  put  this  frivolous  paper  by  the  rest  of  mine 
(for  the  less  I  am  known,  the  more  I  may  prove  serviceable  to 
your  Grace,  the  latter  of  which  is  my  only  both  scope  and 
desire). 

Postscript : — I  hope  your  Grace  is  not  unmindful  of  mine 
and  my  father's  small  concern,  a  brief  of  w^hich  I  gave  your 
Grace  here. 


Proposals  for  Further  Reducbments  of  His  Majesty's 

Household  Expenses. 

1664,  August  4. — Proposals  humbly  offered  to  his  Grace,  the 
Lord  Steward  of  His  Majesty's  household,  for  reducing  the 
charge  thereof  from   £120,000  per  annum  to  £100,000  per 
annum,  according  to  the  directions  given  by  his  Grace. 
Wt.  8878  L 


178 

His  Majesty's  table  to  be  served  twenty-four  dishes  at 
dinner  and  twenty  at  supper,  and  the  Queen  twenty  dishes 
of  meat  at  dinner  and  sixteen  at  supper. 

Two  basins  of  fruit  and  confections  according  to  the 
season. 

To  the  Grooms  of  the  King's  bed-chamber  for  His 
Majesty's  breakfast,  three  pieces  of  mutton  and  two 
chickens. 

To  be  abated  out  of  each  diet  of  ten  dishes  two  dishes 
of  meat  a  meal,  and  out  of  each  diet  of  seven  or  six  dishes 
one  dish  of  meat  a  meal. 

The  Chaplains  five  dishes  of  meat  dinner  only,  or  125. 
per  diem  in  lieu  thereof. 

Additions  of  diet  at  Festival  times  to  be  discontinued. 

The  boudges  of  Court  to  be  discontinued. 

The  great  proportion  of  fire  and  light  now  served 
to  their  Majesty's  lodgings    to  be  reduced  to  moderation. 

All  board  wages  and  pensions  above  flOO  per  annum 
to  be  reduced,  and  the  rest  to  be  considered  of. 

The  service  of  breakfast,  collations  and  all  night  to 
be  taken  away. 

The  allowances  for  keeping  Greenwich  house  to  be  paid 
as  formerly  by  the  Treasurer  of  the  Chamber. 

Fasting  nights  to  be  observed  as  well  for  His  Majesty's 
diet  as  for  all  others. 

Coats  and  liveries  to  His  Majesty's  servants  to  be 
reduced. 

The  number  of  servants  in  each  office  to  be  reduced  to 
a  competent  number,  according  to  the  number  of  diets 
continued. 

The  rest  to  be  provided  for  by  moderate  pensions 
according  to  their  respective  qualities. 

All  fees  to  be  taken  away  and  consideration  given  for  the 
same. 

The  number  of  carriages  to  be  moderated. 

That  the  charge  of  the  Stable  be  reduced  in  proportion 
to  that  of  the  House,  and  that  this  be  recommended  to  the 
Master  of  the  Horse. 

That  your  Grace  will  please  that  the  allowances  for  board 
wages  and  pensions  may  be  passed  and  allowed  to  their 
Majesties*  servants  for  this  present  year  (viz.,  from  the  29th  of 
September,  1663,  to  the  last  of  September,  1664),  as  they  had 
allowed  them  in  the  precedent  year. 

Elizabeth,  Lady  Chesterfield  to  Ormond. 

1664,  August  6.  Bretby. — Though  I  constantly  give  your 
Lordship  this  trouble  once  a  week,  I  believe  your  Lordship 
seldom  receives  them.  My  concern  for  them  miscarrying 
only  proceeds  from  my  fear  that  your  Lordship  may  think  that 
negligence  and  disrespect    which  is  my  misfortune.     But  now 


179 

that  I  have  assured  your  Lordship  I  never  omit  the  paying  you 
all  the  duty  I  am  capable  of  at  this  distance,  give  me  leave 
to  tell  you  I  have  strictly  obeyed  your  commands  in  ceasing 
the  company  of  the  person  your  Lordship  forbid  my  conversing 
with.  They  have  since  their  being  in  the  country  sent  to  see 
me,  which  compliment  I  returned  with  my  thanks  for  the 
invitation  they  gave  me  of  spending  some  of  my  time  with 
them  at  their  house.  I  beseech  your  Lordship  if  there  be 
any  hopes  of  my  being  so  happy  as  to  return  with  your  Lordship 
into  Ireland,  let  me  know  it,  for  my  desires  are  very  great  of 
expressing  myself  at  a  nearer  distance,  my  Lord,  your 
Lordship's  most  dutiful  daughter  and  most  humble  servant, 
E.  Chesterfield. 

Endorsed: — My  daughter  Chesterfield's. 

Patbick  Mookb  to  Ormond. 

1664,  August  13.  Dublin. — Since  my  last,  which  was 
the  6th  instant,  I  have  seen  two  of  my  Lord  of  Antrim's 
letters  written  to  my  Lord  Iveagh.  The  first  was  in  March 
last,  the  substance  desiring  him  for  the  servation  of  his  estate 
to  engage,  which  he  did,  the  sum  of  £5,000  to  be  paid  in  five 
years,  the  agreement  so  intricate  as  to  this  day  he  knows  not 
to  whom  he  owes  the  money,  but  the  name  of  him  in  whose 
name  the  bond  was  taken  is  one,  John  CooU,  of  Lincoln's  Inn, 
and  because  they  would  be  sure  of  their  money  the  letter 
mentions  witnesses  here  in  Ireland  to  be  present,  which  are 
one  Christopher  Russell  (Captain  Eogers'  agent  here,  by 
which  your  Grace  may  guess  to  whom  the  money  is  to  go) ,  and 
the  other  a  stationer  called  Anthony  ;  Vice-Treasurer  Bellingham 
and  Sir  John  Bellew  were  by.  The  other  was  a  letter  of 
the  2nd  August,  in  which  he  mentions  his  own  hardship  and 
despair,  and  desires  him  to  repair  for  England  presently,  as  not 
able  to  attend  his  own  and  Iveagh's  interests,  and  among  the 
rest,  desires  him  to  bring  the  Ulster  articles  with  him  (T 
believe  to  make  use  of  them),  but  poor  Iveagh  says  he  never 
had  them,  but  they  were  given  to  a  servant  of  his  and  he 
gave  them  to  one,  Colonel  Charles  Kelly,  one  of  the  other  tribe 
there.  I  have  perused  some  letters  written  unto  John  Talbot 
by  his  brother  Peter  from  Court,  wherein  he  writes  that 
Thomas  Talbot  so  exclaims  against  your  Grace,  that  they 
are  all  like  to  be  lost,  and  that  he  wonders  he  is  not  banished. 
This  is  what  I  saw  in  that  letter,  but  Sir  Robert  writes  another, 
and  in  that  writes  that  first  an  English  interest  is  to  be  first 
settled  in  Ireland,  and  what  is  left  is  to  be  for  us ;  he  mentions 
your  Grace  and  those  of  the  Council  of  Ireland  there,  and  the 
Commissioners  of  Claims,  to  be  the  reporters  and  settlers  of 
this  work.  Iveagh  is  engaged  £1,500  more  to  Colonel  Talbot, 
but  could  wish  all  his  bonds  cancelled ;  and  would  altogether 
rely  on  His  Majesty's  favour  and  your  Grace's  goodness,  to 
which  purpose  he  hath  obtained  my  Ijord  Deputy's  letter  to 
Sir  George  Lane. 


180 

John  Talbot,  on  a  question  put  by  me,  how  your  Grace  and 
Orrery  corresponded,  told  me  all  your  correspondency  as  to 
affairs  were  but  teeth  outwards,  and  that  you  loved  not  one 
another. 

Elizabeth,  Lady  Chesterfield  to  Ormond. 

1664,  August  27. — My  Lord:  I  have  a  petition  to  make  to 
your  Lordship,  which  I  should  want  confidence  to  do  as  well 
as  reason  were  my  Lord's  tenants  so  just  to  him  as  to  pay 
their  rents  at  the  time  appointed.  Their  failing  now  gives 
me  so  much  disturbance  as  to  desire  your  Lordship  to  pay  a 
debt  which  I  owe  to  my  Lady  of  Essex,  and  which  she  has 
of  late  much  pressed  me  to  pay,  wtich  she  should  not  have 
done  could  I  have  compassed  the  sum.  It  is  so  considerable 
to  me  as  I  fear  I  shall  not  in  some  time  procure  it,  being  a 
hundred  pounds ;  if  it  may  not  be  inconvenient  to  your  Lordship 
I  beseech  you  to  send  it  her  by  Mr.  Congreve,  who  I  will 
desire,  when  I  know  your  Lordship's  pleasure,  to  put  it  into 
gold,  for  so  she  won  of  me.  And  now  I  beseech  your  Lordship 
to  pardon,  as  I  apprehend  this  unbecoming  freedom  of,  my 
Lord,  your  Lordship's  most  obedient  daughter  and  most  humble 
servant,  E.  Chesterfield. 

Endorsed: — Daughter  Chesterfield,  flOO   in  gold   to  the 
Countess  of  Essex. 

Elizabeth,  Lady  Chesterfield  to  Ormond. 

1664,  August  29  (received). — My  Lord :  I  received  the  honour 
of  a  letter  from  your  Lordship  by  my  brother  John,  and  as 
I  did  upon  your  first  commands  avoid  the  seeing  that  person, 
who  I  hear  most  of  the  world  are  unsatisfied  with ,  I  will  too 
all  means  of  correspondence  with  her.  I  hope  your  Lordship 
will  not  forget,  before  you  leave  England,  the  sending  me 
word  where  I  may  wait  upon  your  Lordship,  since  it  is  that 
you  are  pleased  to  promise  me,  and  were  it  not  the  happiness 
in  the  world  I  most  desire  and  think  of,  I  should  not  have 
the  confidence  to  say  this.  I  hope  I  shall  so  well  conform 
to  the  advice  you  are  pleased  to  send  me,  as  that  by  my 
actions  your  Lordship  will  judge  of  my  so  being,  witli  all 
the  duty  and  affection  imaginable,  my  Lord,  your  Lordship's 
most  obedient  daughter  and  most  humble  servant, 

E.  Chesterfield. 
Endorsed :— My  daughter  Chesterfield's. 

Sir  Christopher  Wandespordb  to  John  Welsh. 

1664,  September  3.  Dublin.— Upon  consideration  of 
your  note  sent  unto  me  by  Mr.  Wallis,  I  do  hereby  condescend 
and  agree  that  there  be  yearly  delivered  four  hundred  barrels 
of  earth  coals  at  the  coal  pits  of  Idough,  in  the  County  of 
Kilkenny,  unto  and   for  the  use  of  my  most  honoured  and 


181 

dear  good  friend  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Ormond,  and 
his  good  Lady  his  Duchess,  duriijg  both  their  lives,  provided 
that  the  said  coals  be  had  and  taken  away  in  such  convenient 
manner  as  may  not  hinder  the  carriage  of  the  country ;  and 
that  payment  be  made  for  the  digging  the  said  coals  per  barrel 
as  the  rest  are  paid  for,  to  begin  the  first  of  May  next. 

And  that  in  regard  the  year  is  far  spent  now,  there  be 
delivered  two  hundred  barrels  for  this  present  year.  To  which 
end  and  purpose  I  have  given  order  for  the  delivery  of  the 
same  accordingly. 

And  withal  I  do  most  humbly  submit  myself  unto  what 
his  Grace  shall  further  declare  in  and  concerning  the  passages 
that  passed  between  his  Grace  and  my  father,  and  shall  in 
all  parts  perform  the  same;  for  truly  I  am  a  mere  stranger 
thereunto,  and  further  desire  to  be  expressed.  Sir,  if  these 
be  answerable  to  your  expectation,  in  the  behalf  of  my  Lord, 
I  desire  you  would  signify  it  by  your  consent  under  your  hand  ; 
if  not,  I  desire  you  to  restore  this  back  again  to  Mr.  Wallis. 

Addressed: — For  John  Welsh,  Esq.,  Agent  for  his  Grace, 
James,  Duke  of  Ormond. 


Elizabeth,  Lady  Chesterfield  to  Ormond. 

1664,  September  24.  Bretby. — My  Lord:  Your  Lordship's 
first  commands  concerning  the  lady  were  of  so  great  force 
with  me,  that  I  have  by  all  the  ways  imaginable  ceased  any 
kind  of  correspondence  with  her ;  but  her  Lord  was  here  since 
my  Lord's  return,  and  told  me  his  w-ife,  upon  her  return  to 
her  mother,  intended  to  see  me.  I  made  him  no  answer 
at  all,  and  immediately  changed  that  discourse,  which  I  believe 
was  an  hint  to  make  him  see  how  little  I  esteemed  her  visit, 
which  I  hope  he  will  hinder  her  from  giving  me,  but  if  she 
do,  her  reception  shall  be  answerable  to  what  she  has  merited 
from  me,  which,  I  am  convinced,  is  very  ill.  I  am  sorry  my 
seeing  your  Lordship  before  you  leave  this  kingdom  is  in 
doubt ;  but  do  hope  yet  that  your  Lordship  will  continue  your 
honour  to  me  by.  endeavouring  to  give  me  some  time  of  seeing 
you,  for  1  do,  and  ever  will,  profess  that  nothing  in  all  the 
world  is  so  considerable  to  me  as  the  being  near  and  the  being 
sure  of  your  Lordship's  kindness,  which  I  hope  I  shall  rather 
every  day  improve  my  share  of,  by  a  strict  care  of  all  my 
actions  than  ever  to  lessen  by  the  contrary,  being  with  all 
the  affection  and  observance  I  am  capable  of,  my  Lord,  your 
Lordship's  most  obedient  daughter  and  most  humble  servant, 
E,  Chesterfield. 

Postscript : — I  most  humbly  thank  your  Lordship  for  the 
debt  you  have  given  yourself  the  trouble  of  paying  for  me. 

Endorsed : — My  daughter  Chesterfield's. 


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Patrick  Moore  to  Ormond. 

1664,  October  28.  Dublin. — My  Lord:  I  hope  this,  my 
further  presumption  in  writing  to  your  Grace,  will  find  the 
accustomed  pardon.  Being  lately  in  discourse  with  Sir  John 
Talbot,  he  told  me  that  there  is  a  clause  endeavoured  to  be 
inserted  in  the  Bill  of  Settlement,  to  avoid  the  payment  of 
any  sum  contracted  for  with  any  undertaker;  and  therefore 
desired  me  to  send  for  Lynch  of  the  Knock  and  for  Hussey 
of  Moylehussey  (for  whom,  as  I  formerly  observed  to  your 
Grace,  he  made  me  send),  and  I  believe  as  he  made  me  send 
for  those,  he  sent  for  all  those  concerned  in  his  brother,  the 
Colonel* s  undertakings,  to  sign  a  new  engagement  to  avoid  this 
law,  which,  as  he  tells  me,  he  will  have  done  this  way : — that 
is,  they  shall  give  an  instrument  under  their  hands  and  seals 
engaging  that,  as  they  are  Christians  and  gentlemen,  they  shall 
not  make  use  of  that  law  to  avoid  their  former  engagements 
unto  the  Colonel.  I  doubt. not  your  Grace  will  avoid  this 
new  desire  as  well  as  the  former,  and  to  this  purpose  he 
shewed  me  a  letter  he  had  last  post  out  of  England,  written 
in  Spanish,  which  by  the  character  I  suppose  was  his  brother 
Peter's,  I  could  not  see  the  name ;  and  then  he  tells  me  his 
reasons  for  his  new  invention,  and  said  that  your  Grace  was 
providing  for  your  own  friends  and  relations  in  Munster  and 
here  in  the  Pale,  and  that  the  rest  are  to  be  left  on  the  general 
score;  and  that  they  would  seek  to  preserve  their  own,  and 
that  must  be  done  by  the  Courtiers  who  must  have  money, 
and  that  they  desire  but  to  get  somewhat  for  their  negotiation , 
and  this  was  his  pretence  to  me  for  sending  for  those  gentlemen 
and  so  writ  for  them,  but  are  not  yet  come,  but  will  certainly. 

]\Iy  Lord,  I  formerly  did  intimate  to  your  Grace  another 
great  mischief  like  to  befall  a  great  number  of  our  poor  gentry , 
if  in  this  bill  not  prevented  by  your  Grace,  who  sold 
considerable  parts  of  their  estates  upon  very  inconsiderable 
considerations,  and  withal  have  bound  themselves  in  statute 
staples  to  make  them  good  the  estates,  so  as  the  purchasers 
run  no  hazard  (which,  if  anything,  would  excuse),  would  make 
good  the  bargains,  so  as  if  they  should  seek  by  the  law  to 
avoid  those  bargains,  they  have  no  elbow-room,  for  presently 
they  would  fall  upon  them  with  executions  on  the  statutes. 
I  have  heard  many  of  them  say  they  hoped  some  good 
Commonwealth's  man  would  seek  to  prevent  this  mischief, 
which  makes  me  bold  to  offer  it  to  your  Grace's  patronage, 
and  then  when  relieved  (and  not  before)  they  may  come  to 
know  how  much  your  Grace  concerns  yourself  against  every 
bad  interest. 

My  Lord,  as  in  my  former,  I  beg  your  Grace's  care  of  my 
small  concern. 

Mabelle,  Lady  Fingall  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1664,  November  2.  Dublin. — Sir :  My  Lord  Lieutenant  was 
pleased  to  give  me  an  order  to  respite  that  land  which  I  held 
from  his  Grace  at  Aghrim,  and  in  the  manor  thereof  in  Conaght, 


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until  I  had  gotten  my  jointure,  and  that  his  commissioners, 
and  all  concerned,  should  take  notice  thereof;  the  aforesaid 
commissioners,  notwithstanding,  set  the  said  lands,  last  May, 
at  fourscore  and  thirteen  pounds,  and  left  on  myself  for  the 
town  of  Aghrim,  which  I  hold  in  my  own  hands,  £50  of 
the  aforesaid  sum.  T  made  my  application  unto  them,  and 
they  said  that  there  was  but  £20  rent  on  that  land  when 
his  Grace  gave  me  that  order,  and  said  they  would  send 
the  copy  to  my  Lord  to  get  his  further  directions  thereon. 
I  shall  therefore  entreat  you  to  deliver  this  enclosed,  and  to 
pray  his  Grace  to  confirm  his  former  order,  w^hich  is  very 
plain  (though  I  am  put  to  trouble),  for  otherwise  all  the 
substance  1  have  in  the  world  will  not  discharge  the  rent. 
If  you  be  remembered,  I  made  known  unto  you  here  my  sad 
condition,  which  putteth  me  in  hope  you  have  cast  a  thought 
on  me,  in  minding  my  Lord  Duke  not  to  forget  me  in  the 
Bill  of  Settlement.  Sir,  I  pray  excuse  this  presumption, 
and  if  in  anything  I  may  serve  you,  none  shall  be  more  ready 
than,  sir,  your  very  assured  kinswoman  and  servant,  Mabelle 
Fingall. 

Elizabeth,  Lady  Chesterfield  to  Ormond. 

1664,  November  6.  Bretby. — My  Lord:  Since  I  last  gave 
myself  this  honour,  the  lady  that  your  Lordship  has  sometimes 
mentioned  in  your  letters,  was  here  in  her  way  to  her  father's, 
but  stayed  but  one  day,  and  that  as  she  said  to  justify  herself 
of  many  calumnies  her  enemies  had  thrown  upon  her,  and 
seemed  to  resent  those  most  that  she  had  heard  made  her 
appear  injurious  to  me,  whom  she  confidently  afiirmed  never 
to  have  spoken  reflectingly  of,  but  my  opinion  was  so  absolutely 
governed  by  your  Lordship's  judgment  that  her  protestation 
proved  veiy  ineffectual  as  to  the  persuading  me  of  her 
innocency.  I  give  your  Lordship  this  account  to  prevent 
possibly  your  belief  that  I  might  have  encouraged  her  to  an 
eclaircissement,  which,  after  your  Lordship's  commands  to 
the  contrary,  I  was  not  at  all  inclined  to  do,  for  I  beseech 
your  Lordship  to  believe  I  am  so  much  concerned  to  preserve 
myself  in  your  kindness,  that,  as  it  is  the  greatest  happiness 
I  pretend  to,  consequently  it  is  my  study  to  merit  the  title 
of,  my  Lord,  your  Lordship's  most  obedient  daughter  and 
most  humble  servant,  E.  Chesterfield. 

Endorsed  : — My  daughter  Chesterfield's. 

Sir  Nicholas  Plunkett  to  John  Walsh. 

1664,  November  15.  London. — I  have  received  yours 
of  the  28th  of  last  month  concerning  the  Earl  of  Middlesex's 
pretence,  and  having  the  papers  formerly  in  my  hands,  have 
endeavoured  to  satisfy  myself  how  the  matter  stood,  and 
as  I  find,  touching  the  principal  and  interest,  without 
computing  interest  upon  interest,  my  Lord  Duke  ^yill  owe 
him    but  an  inconsiderable    part  of   the   interest    (if  any). 


184 

As  for  the  charges,  I  shall  endeavour  to  distinguish  that  which 
is  fit  to  be  paid  from  that  which  is  not.  My  Lady  Duchess 
her  commands  to  me  since  she  received  yours,  was,  that  on 
the  whole,  I  should  confer  with  Mr.  Shad  well,  and  Sir  George 
Lane  promiseth  to  find  him  out  to  that  purpose,  with  whom 
I  shall  willingly  debate  the  matter,  and  I  hope  to  bring  it 
to  some  such  way  as  his  Grace  may  not  be  engaged  in  a  law 
suit  relating  to  that  cause,  and  if  I  find  that  anything  is 
objected,  which  may  require  your  opinion,  and  puts  on  the 
debate,  I  will  inform  you  at  full  and  expect  to  hear  from  you. 

I  have  received  yours  of  the  29th  of  October  with  the 
observations  on  the  proviso  intended  for  his  Grace,  and  because 
I  might  be  sure  to  proceed  on  a  true  copy  (for  I  doubt  the 
clerk's  omission  in  that  I  sent  you,  finding  a  **  Kilkenny** 
wanting,  which  certainly  was  in  the  proviso  given  in),  I  was 
with  Sir  George  Lane  this  morning  to  get  the  original  from 
him,  which  he  promised  me,  or  if  given  in,  that  he  would 
bring  it  me  from  the  Solicitor  General ;  when  I  have  it,  I  will 
lose  no  time  in  making  use  of  those  observations  for  his  Grace's 
advantage.  On  further  conference  with  himself,  I  shall 
understand  his  pleasure,  after  acquainting  his  Grace  with  the 
substance  and  reason  of  your  observations.  I  had  your  letter 
to  his  Grace,  and  that  to  myself  and  the  observations,  but 
yesterday  morning  from  his  Grace,  and  thereof  you  shall  have 
a  further  account  as  soon  as  possible,  and  I  hope  by  the  very 
next  post  to  send  you  the  draft  as  it  shall  be  penned,  and  as 
it  will  be  allowed  here. 

The  settlement  is  carried  on  with  so  great  secrecy  here,  as  we 
who  are  on  the  place,  I  mean  my  Lord  of  Clancarty,  Fitz- 
Maurice,  Sir  Robert  Talbot,  and  myself,  are  as  yet  strangers 
to  it,  but  are  promised  the  sight  of  it  and  to  be  heard  to  it  (if 
there  be  a  cause).  This  we  have  as  a  constant  report  from 
all  hands  that  the  adventurers  and  soldiers  part  with  a  third 
part,  the  '49  men  the  like,  but  that  last  is  not  so  certain. 
Colonel  Fitzpatrick  will  confer  with  you  of  doing  something 
there  for  the  support  of  my  expense  here,  being  for  a  much 
longer  time  than  expected.  I  know  you  will  give  him  your 
best  advice  and  directions  therein. 

You  shall  be  sure  of  the  continuance  of  my  endeavours  in 
your  father's  concerns. 

Addressed: — ^For  John  Walsh,  Esq.,  these,  in  Dublin,  at 
Mr.  Bringhaugh's  on  the  Merchant  Key. 

Sir  Nicholas  Plunkbtt  to  John  Walsh. 

1664,  December  17.  London. — Sir;  I  had  yours  of  the 
6th  of  December,  and  thought  ere  this  to  have  sent  you  a  draft 
of  the  proviso  as  it  stood  altered  in  your  observations. 
To  bring  it  to  that  pass,  I  must  first  have  had  a  seasonable 
opportunity  of  conferring  with  his  Grace,  which  I  had,  and 
received  his  directions,  and  sent  for  the  proviso  to  the  Solicitor 
to  alter  it,  and  have  accordingly  done  as  my  Lord  directed, 
and  the  most  material  parts  clearly  expressed  according  your 


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observations,  the  copy  whereof  1  intended  to  send  you,  but 
on  receipt  of  your  said  letter  of  the  6th  of  this  month,  I  resolved 
to  keep  it  till  I  had  added  or  altered  what  should  appear 
necessary  to  the  contents  of  your  said  letter  of  the  6th,  and 
then  to  send  it  answerable  to  your  former  and  latter 
observations.  That  which  you  touch  in  your  last,  touching 
the  reversions  and  remainders  that  were  in  my  Lord,  and  are 
to  be  parted  with,  I  clearly  made  it  out  to  my  Lord  that  he 
parted  with  that  which  was  his  own,  besides  that  which  was 
given  by  the  Act  of  Settlement,  yet  his  Grace's  answer  was  to 
me,  that  he  was  willing  so  to  do  as  to  reversions  and  remainders, 
depending  on  estate  tails  in  regard  the  tenant  in  tail  might, 
by  a  common  recovery,  dock  his  reversion  and  remainder 
without  his  countenance,  so  all  that  was  done  therein  was 
clearly  by  his  own  command  after  he  had  understood  the 
matter  at  full.  As  for  what  you  write  of  the  Transplanters' 
interest,  I  do  protest  that  your  reason  doth  convince  me  in 
my  judgment,  nor  did  I  ever  proceed  in  that  matter  but 
according  the  instructions,  which  differ  from  what  you  express ; 
but  that  I  would  have  done  if  my  advice  be  pursued,  is  that 
the  interest  of  Transplanters  be  neither  totally  confirmed  or 
taken  away,  but  they  be  left  to  be  regulated  or  confirmed  or 
totally  put  by  according  the  merits  or  demerits  of  those  enjoying 
the  lands  and  instruction,  and  power  be  given  to  that  purpose 
to  the  Lord  Lieutenant  and  such  as  His  Majesty  will  please  to 
join  with  him. 

Ihe  Marquess  of  Antrim  doth  yet  be  under  the  danger  of 
being  subject  by  a  clause  to  be  inserted  in  the  Act,  to  have  his 
cause  re-heard  without  obliging  the  commissioners  to  proceed 
according  to  His  Majesty's  former  letter,  whereon  his  decree 
of  acquittal  was  grounded. 

As  the  proviso  is  now  and  as  it  was  before,  if  Aghrim  was 
in  his  possession  it  is  very  safe  and  secure,  and  in  truth  that 
being  bis  own  lands  is  absolutely  out  of  the  vesting  clause, 
as  the  rest  of  his  own  estate  is. 

I  did  foresee  from  the  very  first  what  you  advise  me  in  my 
care  of  this  proviso,  and  therefore  never  had  any  business  in 
my  hands  which  I  more  seriously  consider  to  avoid  blame  as 
being  of  the  greatest  consequence  that  ever  was  trusted  to  my 
care,  and  concerning  a  person  to  whom  I  shall  owe  my  whole 
substance;  and,  be  sure  of  it,  I  will  let  nothing  slip  of  his 
advantage,  that  either  I  can  imagine  by  my  own  observation 
or  of  those  you  suggest,  and  if  any  be  omitted,  it  must  proceed 
from  my  obedience  to  his  own  commands,  and  which  I  am  sure 
he  will  own  for  my  discharge,  and  never  from  any  negligence 
in  me  in  what  my  judgment  shall  find  fit  or  prompt  me  to. 

I  thank  you  kindly  for  your  care  of  supplying  my  wants ; 
you  little  thought  I  should  stay  so  long ;  you  will  soon  hear 
from  me  when  all  is  ready. 

I  was  glad  to  see  your  letter  now,  having  heard  you  were 
not  well. 


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Sir  Nicholas  Plunkett  to  John  Walsh. 

1664,  December  24.  London. — I  had  yours  of  the 
29th  of  October  with  your  observations  on  the  draft  of  his 
Grace's  proviso,  and  could  not  make  you  any  certain  answer 
till  now,  through  the  delay  of  the  Settlement  here,  occasioned 
partly  by  the  consultations  and  preparation  concerning  war 
with  the  Dutch,  and  partly  by  the  Solicitor  General,  his 
term  employment,  and  his  attendance  in  the  Parliament  since 
the  end  of  term.  I  know  you  have  a  copy  of  the 
observations  you  sent  lying  by  you,  so  as  I  need  not  send 
them.  The  first  was  the  omission  of  **the  County  of 
Kilkenny  "  in  the  draft  I  sent  you,  which  was  the  neglect  of 
my  clerk  in  writing  that  draft,  for  it  is  otherwise  in  the  original, 
which  lay  in  Mr.  Solicitor's  hands,  and  which  I  have  again 
taken  from  him  that,  w^here  his  Grace  should  direct,  the  proviso 
might  be  enlarged  and  altered  pursuant  to  your  observations 
Now  it  is  amended  pursuant  thereunto,  and  thereof  I  send  you 
here  enclosed  a  copy.  The  second  point  in  your  observations 
is  that  of  the  time  for  the  payment  of  the  £50,000, 
which  must  be  as  in  the  precedent  part  of  the  Act  is  expressed, 
whereof  I  have  yet  no  knowledge,  nor  did  his  Grace  direct 
any  alteration  as  to  that. 

The  word  **  heirs"  wanting  in  the  saving  is  needless,  the 
saving  having  reference  to  the  quadruparite  deed,  20th  December, 
1661 ,  which  comprehends  a  settlement  of  his  whole  estate,  and 
therefore  the  saving  with  reference  to  it  is  full  without  the 
word  heirs;  this  was  your  third  observation.  The  saving 
was  mended  according  to  your  fourth  observation.  The  saving 
other  rents  and  duties  you  will  find  in  the  copy,  and  so  is 
your  fifth  observation  fulfilled  in  the  addition  of  the  words 
**  or  at  any  time  since,'*  and  your  sixth  is  done  as  you  directed 
in  the  omission  of  the  words  **now  in  possession  of,"  and 
in  addition  of  the  words  **  whereof  the  reversion  or  remainder," 
etc.,"  as  the  copy  now  sent  will  more  fully  inform  you.  You 
will  also  find  the  affirmative  words  you  directed  for  clearer 
expression  of  the  estates  saved  to  be  in  my  Lord.  Dingle  and 
Tralee  are  added,  but  Gowran  and  Knocktopher  my  Lord  would 
not  have  particularly  named,  in  regard  the  general  words  of 
what  was  not  allotted  to  adventurers  or  soldiers,  will  carry  and 
comprehend  those.  What  this  my  letter  doth  not  explain, 
the  copy  of  the  proviso  itself  will  supply.  I  wish  you  and 
Mrs.  Walsh  a  good  Christmas. 

Postscript : — The  draft  of  the  bill  is  promised  to  be  exposed  i 

to  object  what  they  may,  which  I  fear  will  take  much  time 
and  stay  me  here  so  long,  that  I  shall  return  deeply  indebted, 
if  friends  there  find  not  some  way  to  supply  me,  wherein 
I  shall  not  doubt  of  your  good  endeavours.  j 

I  minded  my  Lord,  since  I  received  your  last,  how  he  parts  I 

by  this  proviso  with  the  remainders  and  reversions,  which 
were  in  hun  before  1641,  yet  his  Lordship  would  have  it  so  for  the 
reason  I  writ  to  you  in  my  last,  viz.,  that  those  may  be  docked.  ! 


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Sir  Nicholas  Plunkett  to  John  Walsh. 

1664  [-5],  January  28.  London. — I  had  yours  of  the 
third  of  January,  from  Fethard,  in  answer  of  mine  of  the 
17th  of  December,  wherein  you  doubt  that  the  observations 
you  sent  are  not  observed.  Since  my  said  letter  of  the 
17th  of  December,  I  have  sent  you  a  despatch  of  the  26th  of 
December,  and  with  it  the  copy  of  the  proviso  as  it  is  drawn 
pursuant  to  your  observations,  wherein  you  will  find  that 
your  observations  are  so  pursued  as  nothing  is  omitted,  which 
his  Grace  was  pleased  to  allow  me  to  insert,  but  he  w^as  still 
of  opinion  to  part  with  the  reversions  and  remainders, 
depending  upon  any  estate  tail  of  any  lands  which  were  In 
the  hands  of  adventurers  and  soldiers;  the  which  despatch 
of  the  26th,  I  send  by  Mr.  John  Gey  don,  who  parted  hence 
the  26th  of  December,  and  doubtless  had  his  Grace's  pass  for 
his  going  into  Ireland  and  for  his  return.  On  perusal  of  the 
draft,  I  shall  be  glad  to  hear  from  you  that  if  any  doubt  you 
have  it  may  be  yet  amended. 

The  Settlement  goeth  on  very  slow,  in  regard  the  Lord 
Chancellor,  the  Lord  of  Anglesey,  and  the  Lord  of  Orrery,  are 
all  three  in  the  gout.  My  Lord  Duke  and  the  Lord  of 
Clancarty  are  both  in  good  health,  and  so  is  my  Lady  Duchess 
of  Ormond,  who  lately  strained  her  leg  coming  out  of  a 
coach,  and  kept  her  chamber  for  a  week,  but  now  is  so  well 
that  she  is  gone  this  day  to  her  house  at  Moor  Park.  I  pray 
let  me  hear  from  you  as  soon  as  possible,  that  if  my  despatch 
by  Geydon  met  with  any  misfortune  or  be  not  come  into  your 
hands,  I  may  hasten  to  you  another  copy  of  that  proviso. 
I  thank  you  for  your  care  of  endeavouring  to  supply  my 
expenses  here.  1  protest  I  have  already,  since  my  coming 
hither,  borrowed  £150  pounds.  You  and  the  rest  did  little 
think  I  should  have  cause  to  stay  here  so  long,  when  you 
first  employed  me  hither.  I  put  the  trust  of  sending  this 
on  the  Steward,  who  will,  I  hope,  despatch  it. 

Addressed: — For  John  Walsh,  Esq.,  these,  at  Dublin,. or 
elsewhere  in  Ireland. 

Samuel  Pdllon,  Archbishop  of  Tuam,  to  Ormond. 

1664  [-5],  January  30.  Tuam. — The  parsonage  of 
Knockgraffon,  in  the  County  of  Tipperary,  falling  void  by 
the  death  of  Mr.  Bartley,  the  late  incumbent,  gives  me  an 
unexpected  occasion  of  troubling  your  Grace  with  this  address, 
to  signify  so  much  to  your  Grace,  and  withal  to  remind 
your  Grace  of  my  right  to  the  next  presentation  thereto,  by 
virtue  of  an  advowson  under  your  Grace's  hand  and  seal, 
an  attested  copy  whereof  I  have  here  withal  enclosed.  Which 
favour  your  Grace  was  pleased  then  to  confer  upon  me  (as 
a  reward  for  my  endeavours  to  serve  the  Church,  and  your 
Grace's  interest  in  that  particular),  upon  my  free  and  voluntary 
tendering  to  yourself   my  interest  of  a  lease  of  that  parsonage 


188 

for  the  term  of  thirty-six  years  then  in  being  at  an 
inconsiderable  rent,  which  I  then  purchased  of  the  Archbishop 
of  Cassels  for  £300,  who  had  paid  the  same  rate  for  it  to 
Sir  Eichard  Butler.  My  most  noble  Lord,  I  have  a  nephew, 
at  present  a  student  in  the  College  of  Dublin,  of  some  hopes, 
for  whom  I  have  for  some  time  designed  the  living,  if  it  fell 
vacant  in  mine,  and  I  thought  it  my  duty  to  acquaint  your 
Grace  therewith,  as  well  to  prevent  the  applications  of  ethers 
(ignorant  of  the  predisposed  right)  from  taking  any  effect,  which 
possibly  might  happen  by  your  Grace's  not  remembering  it, 
as  also  to  receive  your  Grace's  approbation  thereof,  which  I 
esteem  more  than  my  own  title  to  it. 

Postscript : — May  it  please  your  Grace ;  the  parties  nominated 
in  the  advowson  were  my  two  brothers-in-law,  my  Lord 
Bishop  of  Derry  and  Mr.  Forward,  whom  I  put  in  as  feoffees 
in  trust  for  me. 

Elizabeth,  Lady  Chesterfield  to  Ormond. 

1664  [-5],  February  6.  Bretby. — My  Lord :  The  not  having 
heard  from  your  Lordship  this  three  months,  has  given  me  a 
great  deal  of  trouble,  not  that  I  have  pride  enough  to  expect  that 
honour,  had  not  your  Lordship's  kindness  to  me  formerly 
given  it  me,  and  as  I  ever  considered  it  as  an  expression  of 
that  concern  that  I  value  above  any  happiness  in  the  world. 
I  hope  your  Lordship  will  pardon  my  fears,  if  they  are 
groundless,  for  persuading  me  it  is  lessened,  since  they  are 
only  the  effects  of  that  duty  and  affection  that  is  paid  you, 
without  the  least  mixture  of  interest,  by,  my  Lord,  your 
Lordship's  most  obedient  daughter  and  most  humble  servant, 
E.  Chesterfield. 

Endorsed : — My  daughter  Chesterfield's. 

Sir  Nicholas  Plunkett  to  John  Walsh. 

1664  [-5],  February  25.  London. — The  last  I  had  from 
you  was  of  the  27th  of  January,  which  was  sent  me  hither 
from  Moor  Park,  enclosed  in  a  letter  from  my  Lady  Duchess 
of  Ormond,  together  with  a  paper  of  questions  concerning  my 
Lord  Duke's  proviso,  in  which  letter  her  Grace  directed  I 
should  confer  with  my  Ijord  Duke  thereof  on  his  coming  to 
London,  he  being  then  at  Moor  Park.  On  Thursday,  the 
23rd  of  this  month,  his  Grace  was  come  to  Court,  and  the 
very  next  day  I  minded  him  of  those  questions,  and  desired 
he  should  set  apart  some  convenient  hour  that  I  might  discourse 
with  his  Grace  of  those,  that  what  should  appear  necessary 
might  be  added  to  the  last  draft  of  his  proviso.  To-morrow, 
three  of  the  clock  in  the  afternoon,  his  Grace  appointed  me  to 
attend  him  about  it,  which  I  shall  not  fail  to  do,  and  give  you 
a  further  account  what  shall  be  directed  in  order  to  those 
questions,  the  consequence  whereof  I  have  taken  into 
consideration  and  prepared  myself  to  let  him  clearly  see  where 


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his  advantage  is.  But  some  of  those  questions  have  their 
resolutions  by  the  last  draft,  as  I  will  let  you  see  in  my  next, 
yet  in  that  you  will  be  resolved  on  sight  of  the  draft  itself 
which  I  sent  hence  by  Mr.  John  Geydon,  of  Irish  town,  in  the 
County  of  Kildare,  who  is  there  arrived,  as  I  find  by  a  letter 
from  my  wife,  and  cannot  doubt  you  have  ere  this  my  letter 
wherein  the  said  last  draft  was  enclosed,  but  to  be  sure  of 
your  receipt  thereof,  I  long  to  hear  from  you.  Here  is  nothing 
done  these  three  months  past,  but  what  Mr.  Solicitor  hath 
done  for  preparing  a  draft  of  the  bill,  yet  we  are  hopeful 
something  will  be  now  soon  done,  when  the  sitting  of  the 
Parliament  shall  be  concluded,  being  expected  on  Tuesday 
next. 

Lord  Shannon  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1664  [-5],  March  6.  Cork. — I  received,  by  my  brother 
Cork,  so  large  and  pleasing  an  account  of  your  civil  expressions 
of  me,  and  favour  to  me  in  the  procuring  me  (in  hopes)  His 
Majesty's  letter  for  a  patent  for  that  small  parcel  of  land  I 
begged  your  assistance  in,  as  I  owe  you  so  great  an  obligation 
for  it,  that  I  do  not  think  it  sufificient  to  have  sent  you  the 
one  bill  of  acknowledgment  for  it  by  the  post,  but  I  must 
send  you  also  this  second  bill  of  my  humble  and  real 
acknowledgment,  by  your  cousin  and  servant,  Jack  Jephson, 
and  truly  sir,  when  I  consider  how  obligingly  civil  you  are  in 
heaping  favours  on  me,  and  indeed  all  others,  I  can  say  no 
more  but  'tis  done  like  Sir  George  Lane  himself,  who  may 
say  with  the  greatest  assurance,  though  with  the  least 
advantage  that  none  can  have  a  more  faithful  servant  than 
you  have  of  me,  who  will  allow  none  to  honour  you  more  truly 
nor  to  serve  you  (if  it  ever  lies  in  my  power)  more  joyfully  and 
readily  than,  dear  sir,  your  ever  obliged,  faithful,  humble 
servant.  Shannon. 

Postscript : — My  wife  is  your  most  humble  servant  and  your 
Lady's. 

Lord  Dungannon  and  Sir  William  Flower  to  Ormond. 

1664  [-5],  March  18.  Dublin. — Mr.  Dodson  being  now 
upon  his  repair  into  England,  where  he  will  give  your  Grace 
an  account  of  his  proceedings  concerning  the  Park,*  we, 
according  to  the  trust  reposed  in  us  by  your  Grace,  are  humbly 
bold  to  certify  that  the  wall,  as  much  of  it  as  hath  been  finished, 
is  so  deficient,  both  for  the  badness  of  the  stone  and  in  the 
workmanship,  that  it  doth  daily  fall  in  great  proportions,  in 
so  much  that  of  what  hath  once  being  finished,  there  will 
now  be  very  many  perches  to  be  raised  to  the  height  of  four 
or  five  foot  at  most,  and  so  topped  with  furze,  until  better 
stone  can  be  drawn  to  finish  it.  My  Lord  Deputy  hath,  by 
our  humble  desire,  offered  Mr.  Dodson  dElOO  for  this  year  to 
repair  what  is  fallen  of  the  finished  w^ork,  and  so  to  keep  the 

♦The  Phcenix  Park. 


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whole  in  repair,  wiiich  he  refuses,  unless  your  Grace  will 
confirm  the  same  to  him  for  seven,  in  which  we  dare  not 
advise,  but  for  this  year  w-e  are  well  assured  he  can  be  no 
gainer  by  that  contract ;  but  the  repair  of  the  w^all  he  hath 
now  taken  in  hand,  and  hath  submitted  himself  to  your  Grace*s 
pleasure  therein,  whether  by  the  year  or  upon  account. 

This  enclosed  paper  we  are  humbly  bold  to  present  to  your 
Grace's  view,  as  that  which  w-ill  clearly  demonstrate  the 
condition  and  circumference  of  the  whole  work,  as  w^e  have 
had  the  same  surveyed  by  Captain  Wheaton,  which  being 
compared  with  Mr.  Dodson's  paper  that  he  shall  present,  will 
much  shorten  w^hat  your  Grace  hath  further  to  say  to  him  in 
that  concern. 

Enclosure : — The  survey  of  the  park  wall  at  Phoenix. 

The  contents  of  perches  in  the  surround  of  the  wall  of  the 
Phoenix  Park,  according  to  twenty-one  foot  in  length  and  one 
foot  in  height  to  the  perch,  taken  the  18th  of  March,  1664. 
Of  wall  finished  and  coped  of  7  foot  high     1,371  perches. 
Of  wall    formerly    finished   and   fallen 
down  in  breaches  again,  at  least  3  foot  of 
the  height,  and  now  filled  with  furze  and 
thorns  to  keep  in  the  deer 


Of  wall  4  foot  high 
Of  wall  4J  foot  high 
Of  wall  2  foot  high 
A  small  foundation 
Of  w^all      


...  0098  perch. 

...  0160  perch. 

0082  perch. 

0014  perch. 

0010  perch. 

0072  perch. 

In  all...  1807  perches. 


This  is  the  present  condition  of  the  wall  as  it  now  is,  what 
yet  stands  cannot,  by  what  is  past,  be  said  to  stand  long. 

By  William  Wheaton ,  Surveyor. 

Multiplying  this  wall  of  1,371  perches  in 
length  by  7  foot,  which  is  the  height  of  the 
height  of  the  wall,  it  makes        9597  perches. 

And  the  wall  of  98  perches  being 
multiplied  by  4  foot,  which  is  the  height 
of   it,   makes  ...     0392  perches. 

And  the  wall  of  160  perches  being  so 
multiplied,  makes  0640  perches. 

And  the  wall  of  82  perch  being  multiplied 
by  4 J  foot,   makes  0369  perch. 

And  the  wall  of  14  perch  being  multiplied 
to  2  foot,  which  is  the  height  of  it,  makes    0028  perch. 

Total  done...  11026  perches. 

The  whole  circumference  of  the  wall  is  1,807  perch,  at  one 
foot  to  the  perch  in  height,  being  multiplied  by  seven,  which 
is  the  height  the  wall  should  be,  makes  12,649  perches. 


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Captain  Roger  Bamber  to  Ormond. 

1665,  April  11.  Dublin. — Pursuant  to  your  gracious 
direction,  after  my  arrival  in  this  kingdom,  I  did  humbly  set 
forth  what  came  to  my  hands  of  your  Grace's  hawks,  in 
obedience  to  your  Grace's  commands.  Now,  likewise,  I  thought 
it  my  duty  to  intimate  unto  your  Grace  that  with  those 
hawks,  I  received  no  trimmings,  which  bear  so  high  a  rate 
here  that  for  half  the  value  or  price  they  may  be  acquired  in 
London,  and  better  accommodated  than  this  kingdom  can 
afford;  they  may  be  had  in  Boulton*s  shop  in  Fleet  Street, 
for  there  are  the  best.  Now  young  hawks  will  be  coming 
in,  wherefore  I  would  willingly  know  whether  your  Grace 
be  intended  to  furnish  His  Majesty,  or  any  other  your  friends 
in  England,  with  a  cage  of  hawks,  that  my  care  may  prove 
the  greater  as  well  in  preserving  them  for  your  Grace's  use 
as  in  preparing  them  fit  to  transport,  or  otherwise  to  observe 
your  Grace's  future  commands  for  the  disposing  of  them ; 
whereof  I  thought  it  my  bounden  duty  to  intimate' unto  your 
Grace    and  humbly  to  submit  to  your  gracious  commands. 

Addressed: — To  his  Grace,  James,  Duke  of  Ormond,  Lord 
Lieutenant  General  and  General  Governor  of  His  Majesty's 
kingdom  of  Ireland,  Palatinate  of  the  Regalities  and  Liberties 
of  the  Counties  of  Tipperary  jmd  Cross,  Lord  Steward  of 
His  Majesty's  household.  Knight  of  the  most  noble  Order 
of  the  Garter,  and  one  of  His  Majesty's  most  honourable 
Privy  Council,  these,  at  his  lodgings,  humbly  present  in 
Whitehall,  London. 


Thomas  Humes  to  Sir  Nicholas  Plunkett. 

1665,  May  10.  Dublin. — You  may  probably  think  it 
too  long  that  I  have  not  returned  an  account  of  the  contents 
of  your  letter  of  the  15th  of  April  last,  which  I  received  in  the 
country  the  25th  of  the  same,  and  could  not  possibly,  without 
prejudice  to  other  concerns  of  his  Grace's,  come  hither  till 
Saturday  last,  the  6th  instant.  That  day  I  sent  to 
Mr.  Boulton,  of  Corduffe,  who  had  the  originals  of  what  you 
would  have  (and  I  but  a  brief  of  them) ;  yesterday  I  received 
them;  now  I  send  you  the  four  papers  you  desire,  which 
proves  the  payment  of  1,650/  in  time,  after  the  gale  of 
Michaelmas,  1635,  and  in  regard  the  acquittances  mentioned 
by  you,  neither  of  the  other  two  papers  do  import  that  this 
sum  being  paid,  was  in  discharge  of  the  three  gales  now  in 
question,  viz.,  Easter,  1636,  Michaelmas,  1636,  and  Easter, 
1637.      I  send  you  other  papers  to  clear  it,  viz. : — • 

1.  Matthew  Derenzie's  acquittance  for  550Z  for  the  gale 
of  Michaelmas,  1635,  which  proves  that  that  and  all  the  gales 
before  were  paid,  and  by  consequence  this  1,650/  must  be 
for  the  subsequent  gales. 


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2.  His  Grace's  letter  to  the  trustees,  which  proves  the 
payment  of  Easter  gale,  1636.  Also  by  it  you  see  he  was 
not  satisfied  that  more  was  due  to  Midd  [lesex] ,  therefore  the 
trustees  kept  the  said  550i  in  their  hands  until  they  received 
my  Lord  of  Ormond's  further  letter,  which  is  marked  to  you 
under  the 

3.  Figure  of  three,  and  the  Chief  Baron's  letter 

4.  Marked  with  the  figure  of  four. 

5.  That  the  said  550/  was  paid  over,  appears  by  Tristram 
Whatcome's  letter  to  Christian  Borr,  and  by  Borr's  acquittance 
on  the  back  of  it,  both  marked  with  the  figure  of  five. 

6.  Prove  this  further,  you  receive  a  copy  of  a  letter  from 
the  trustees  to  the  p]arl  of  Midd  [lesex] ,  marked  with  the 
figure  of  six. 

7.  To  prove  the  1,100/  paid,  you  have  George  Carleton's 
acknowledgment,  marked  with  the  figure  of  seven,  that  it 
was  deposited  on  his  hands. 

8.  My  Lord  Duke's  letter  to  the  trustees,  marked  with 
the  figure  of  eight,  signifying  his  pleasure  that  the  said  1,100/ 
should  be  paid. 

Note, — The  letter  is  of  11,000/,  which  must  needs  be  the 
mistake  of  his  Grace's  secretary,  as  appears  also  by  Borr's 
acknowledgment,  and  by  the  subsequent  acquittance,  and  by 
all  the  proceedings. 

9.  Matthew  Derenzie's  acquittance  for  the  l,100i,  endorsed 
upon  his  letter  of  attorney,  both  marked  with  the  figure  of  nine. 

10.  I  send  you   also   Milward's   letter  marked  with   the 
figure  ten,  because  it  is  one  of  the  four  papers  you  desire 
though  I  conceive  it  not  much  material. 

It  should  seem  by  your  letter  that  some  question  is  made 
of  the  payment  of  the  Easter  gale,  1628,  which  indeed  carries 
no  colour  of  doubt,  there  being  so  many  acquittances  of  all 
the  subsequent  gales,  and  if  need  be,  as  I  cannot  believe  there 
will,  I  will  send  you  the  acquittance  of  that  very  gale.  So  as 
I  hope  by  the  next,  or  soon  after,  I  shall  hear  from  you  that 
this  matter  is  at  an  end,  which  I  desire  by  any  means  may 
be  effected  before  my  Lord  parts  from  thence. 

Now,  sir,  give  me  leave  to  say  something  to  another  part 
of  your  letter  in  answer  to  a  query  of  mine,  viz. :  Whether 
surplusage  lands,  possessed  by  adventurers  or  soldiers,  and  held 
of  my  Lord's  grace,  or  whereof  a  reversion  or  remainder  is  in 
him,  may  be  seized  upon  to  his  Grace's  use.  To  this  you 
are  pleased  to  answer  that  the  adventurers  and  soldiers  take 
in  a  gross  quantity,  therefore  no  surplusage  they  have  in  their 
lot  can  be  seized  upon  by  my  Lord  Duke.  It  cannot  be 
denied  that  by  the  late  Act  of  Settlement  his  Grace  may  enter 
upon  the  whole  lot  of  the  one  and  of  the  other,  being  held  of 
him,  even  that  which  is  not  surplusage,  much  more  upon  that 


193 

which  is.  In  the  saving  clause  for  his  Grace  in  the  present 
intended  Act,  there  is  an  exception  of  such  lands  as  were 
allotted  to  adventurers  or  soldiers,  which  certainly  must  be 
intended  of  lands  duly  and  rightly  allotted,  and  cannot  be 
intended  to  reach  to  more  than  their  due  proportion,  and  if 
there  be  such  a  rule  as  they  must  take  in  a  gross  quantity,  it 
cannot  follow  that  in  such  a  crowd  the  interest  already  settled 
in  my  Lord  shall  be  taken.  They  may  as  well,  and  by  the 
letter  too,  take  all  other  his  demesne  lands  w^hich  were  allotted. 
Also  these  surplusages  are,  for  the  most  part,  already  seized 
upon  by  another  name,  viz. : — concealments,  and  granted  in 
custodiams,  whole  towns,  some  whereof  I  have  seized  upon 
before  I  wrote  to  you  upon  this  subject.  Therefore  if  you  can 
borrow  so  much  time  from  your  other  great  affairs,  I  pray  you 
let  me  receive  your  further  answers  to  this,  and  (as  I  wrote  in 
relation  to  other  questions  before)  could  wish  you  had  conferred 
with  some  other  of  the  ablest  there,  so  they  were  trusty. 

I  can  receive  no  answer  to  that  of  the  regicide's  lands, 
whereof  I  wrote  to  you  long  since.  Doctor  Gorges,  together 
with  the  Chief  Baron  and  Justice  Alexander,  are  now  the 
setters  of  the  Duke  of  York's  estate.  They  speak  of  all  the 
custodiam  lands  too,  whereof  his  Grace  hath  some  in  possession, 
but  of  this  I  shall  write  more  particularly,  after  that  I  shall 
discourse  with  them  more  than  I  have  done  yesterday. 

King's  Letter  concerning  the  Phoenix  Park. 

Charles  E. 

1665,  May  11.  Whitehall. — ^Eight  trusty  and  right  entirely 
beloved  cousin  and  councillor,  and  right  trusty  and  right 
wellbeloved  cousin  and  councillor,  we  greet  you  well.  Whereas 
we  did,  by  our  letters  of  the  26th  day  of  May,  1663,  authorize 
you,  our  Lord  Lieutenant,  to  purchase  for  our  use  the  whole 
manor  and  house  of  Chappel  Izod,  with  the  town  and  lands 
thereunto  belonging,  and  such  several  other  lands  which  lie 
most  convenient  to  make  a  Park  about  our  house  of  the  Phoenix, 
as  you  should  think  fit,  so  as  the  same  should  not  amount  in 
the  whole  to  above  the  sum  of  ten  thousand  pounds,  and  also 
to  enclose  in  the  said  Park  with  a  stone  wall,  in  such  manner 
as  it  was  then  akeady  begun,  such  lands  of  our  ancient  inheritance 
or  new  purchase  as  you  shall  judge  fit  for  that  use,  and  to 
store  the  same  with  deer;  and  whereas,  besides  the  several 
other  lands  purchased  by  you  for  the  Park,  and  the  building 
the  Park  wall,  and  divers  other  necessaries  fit  to  be  provided 
there,  the  purchase  money  of  the  house  and  lands  of  Chappel 
Izod  from  our  Chancellor  there,  doth  amount  unto  the  sum 
of  ten  thousand  pounds  before  limited,  and  whereas  the  other 
lands  taken  into  the  said  Park,  together  with  the  charge  of 
building  the  said  wall  and  reparations  in  and  about  the  said 
Park,  will  amount  unto  a  greater  sum.  We  have  therefore 
thought  fit  hereby  to  authorize  you  to  give  order  to  our  right 
Wt.  8878  H 


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trusty  and  right  wellbeloved  cousin  and  councillor,  Arthur, 
Earl  of  Anglesey,  our  Vice-Treasurer  of  that  our  kingdom,  or 
any  other  Vice-Treasurer  that  hereafter  shall  be,  to  satisfy 
and  pay  such  several  sums  of  money  to  the  several  other  persons 
whose  lands  are  taken  into  the  said  Park,  as  are  or  shall  be 
agreed  to  be  paid  for  the  same,  and  also  such  other  sums  of 
money  from  time  to  time  as  shall  be  requisite  for  the  doing 
the  said  work,  so  as  the  same  do  not  amount  in  the  whole  to 
more  than  the  sum  of  twenty  thousand  pounds  sterling,  including 
the  said  sum  of  ten  thousand  pounds,  being  the  purchase 
money  for  the  house  and  lands  of  Chappel  Izod  agreed  to  be 
paid  to  our  said  Chancellor.  And  for  so  doing  this,  shall  be 
as  well  unto  you  as  to  our  said  Vice-Treasurer,  and  all  other  our 
officers  and  ministers  whom  it  may  concern,  a  sufficient 
warrant.  Given  at  our  Court  at  Whitehall,  the  11th  day  of 
May,  1665,  in  the  17th  year  of  our  reign. 

Py  His  Majesty's  command, 

Arlington. 

Entered  at  the  signet  office,  the  11th  day  of  May,  1665. 

Sidney  Bere. 

To  our  trusty  and  right  entirely  beloved  cousin  and  councillor, 
James,  Duke  of  Ormond,  our  Lieutenant  General  and  General 
Governor  of  our  kingdom  of  Ireland.  And  to  our  right  trusty 
and  right  wellbeloved  cousin  and  councillor,  Thomas,  Earl  of 
Ossory,  Lord  Deputy  of  our  said  kingdom,  and  to  any  other 
our  Chief  Governor  or  Governors  of  our  said  kingdom,  which 
hereafter  for  the  time  shall  be,  and  to  all  other  our  officers 
and  ministers  there  whom  it  may  concern. 

This  is  a  true  copy  of  the  original , 

G.  Lane. 

Sir  N.  Plunkbtt  to  Thomas  Humes. 

1665,  May  23.  London. — ^After  long  expectations,  I  had 
the  packet  you  sent  concerning  the  Earl  of  Middlesex,  and 
will  make  use  thereof  when  the  aflFair  shall  be  met  on,  wherein 
there  shall  be  no  delay  on  my  Lord's  part.  The  acquittance 
for  Easter,  1628,  I  wish  I  had,  for  they  still  insist  thereon, 
though  we  have  many  convincing  reasons  to  prove  the  same- 
to  have  been  paid.  It  is  true  that  when  I  observed  in  one 
of  your  objections,  that  concerning  the  surplusage  lands  which 
adventurers  and  soldiers  had,  on  conference  with  his  Grace, 
he  made  me  that  answer  which  it  seemeth  I  wrote  to  you  of, 
but  before  I  had  your  last  despatch,  reflecting  on  the 
disadvantage  put  on  his  Grace  by  his  parting  with  that 
surplusage,  I  took  occasion  to  discourse  again  with  his  Grace 
of  it,  and  got  his  allowance  to  insert  that  among  the  other 
savings  in  his  proviso,  which  I  did  accordingly  insert  by 
adding  in  the  draft  these  ensuing  words : — **  nor  what  surplus 
of  acres  any  adventurer  or  soldier  hath  above  his  due  lot."     It 


m 

cometh  in  after  the  place  where  you  find  in  the  draft  you 
have  the  words: — **claimeth  for  sea  service."  So  as  that 
question  was  ended  before  I  had  your  last.  I  have  often  minded 
his  Grace  of  that  concerning  the  regicides,  and  it  is  long  since 
I  stated  the  case  concerning  that  which  his  Grace  said  he 
would  deliver  to  the  Lord  Chancellor,  and  howbeit  nothing  can 
be  clearer  than  his  right  in  that  particular,  yet  have  I  no 
resolution  from  him  hitherto.  I  do  suppose  his  Grace's  reason 
is  for  that  there  is  a  very  probable  expectation  that  the  Duke 
of  York  will  waive  that  interest,  I  mean  all  his  proviso  or 
grant  concerning  the  regicides*  estates,  and  take  a  compensation 
in  money  by  a  general  tax.  If  so,  the  doubts  risen  on  his 
custodiam  will  also  fail.  Here  is  an  expectation  that  there 
will  be  a  speedy  end  put  to  the  general  settlement.  The  bill, 
which  was  so  long  in  preparation  and  read  publicly  to  those 
concerned,  is  laid  by,  and  now  they  go  on  other  grounds,  the 
soldiers  and  adventurers  being  content  to  accept  of  two  parts 
of  three  of  what  was  their  due,  and  leave  the  rest  to  the 
general  stock.  The  Protestant  Conaght  purchasers  do  so 
also,  so  far  they  are  gone  on  the  frame  of  a  new  bill.  This  is 
all  I  can  now  say. 

Postscript : — Mr.  Humes,  I  pray  hasten  this  to  Mr.  John 
Walsh,  from  your  humble  servant,  N.  Plunkett. 

Order  of  Lord  Dungannon  and  Sir  William  Flower  for 
Payment  to  Sir  John  Temple  for  his  Interest  in  the 

Phcenix  Park. 

1665,  June  27. — ^Whereas  his  Grace,  the  Duke  of  Ormond, 
hath  empowered  us  to  view,  appraise,  and  make  contracts 
with  the  several  persons  for  the  several  interests  in  His 
Majestv's  Park,  near  the  city  of  Dublin,  and  having  agreed 
with  the  honourable  Sir  John  Temple,  knight.  Master  of 
the  EoUs  of  His  Majesty's  High  Court  of  Chancery  in  Ireland, 
for  his  full  interest  therein  ;  and  whereas  there  is  now  remaining 
in  the  hands  of  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham,  knight,  the  sum  of 
eight  hundred  pounds  to  be  issued  out  for  the  satisfying  of 
such  contracts  as  we  shall  think  fit,  now  therefore  we  pray 
and  desire  the  said  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham  to  pay  to  the  said 
Sir  John  Temple,  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  fourscore  pounds 
for  his  interest  aforesaid,  out  of  the  said  eight  hundred  pounds. 
And  this  our  warrant,  together  with  the  said  Sir  John  Temple's 
acquittance  confessing  the  receipt  thereof,  shall  be  unto  the 
said  Sir  Daniel  a  sufficient  discharge  for  so  much. 

Dungannon. 
Wm.  Flower. 

Endorsed: — ^Lord  Dungannon  and  Sir  William  Flower's 
order  to  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham  to  pay  Sir  John  Temple  1801 
for  his  interest  in  the  Park. 

Warrant  for  payment  of  this  money,  dated  the  28th  of 
February,  1665. 


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Lord  Hatton  to  Ormond. 

1665,  July  9.  Hatton  House. — May  it  please  your  Grace : 
Being  as  yet  got  not  above  a  step  or  two  from  the  grave,  it  is 
a  bold  attempt,  I  confess,  to  suffer  my  weak  spirits  and  hand 
to  make  an  address  to  your  Grace.  But  the  case  of 
Mr.  Clement,  who  indeed,  next  my  children  and  my  domestics, 
I  am  beholding  to  for  his  long  fidelity  to  me  and  care  of  me 
and  my  affairs,  or  rather  my  own  reputation  being  no  less 
touched  in  the  affront  than  his  right,  do  embolden  me  to 
importune  your  Grace  in  his  behalf  that  a  junior  may  not 
invade  his  right.  Not  to  trouble  your  Grace  further,  I  most 
humbly  beseech  your  Grace  to  extend  this  favour  to  me,  who 
living  or  yet  dying  shall  to  the  last  continue,  may  it  please 
your  Grace,  your  Grace's  most  humble  servant, 

Chr.  Hatton. 

Endorsed : — ^Lord  Hatton  in  behalf  of  Mr.  Clement. 


Lb  Comtb  de  Gramont  to  Ormond. 

1665,  August  15. — Monsieur :  Faites  moy  s'il  vous  plet 
rhonneur  de  croire  que  i*ay  pris  la  part  que  ie  dois  a  la  perte 
que,  vous  aves  faite  et  que  ie  seray  toute  ma  vie  si  sansible 
a  toutes  les  choses  qui  vous  arriveront  que  i'espere  vous  obliger 
par  la  m'onorer  de  vostre  amitie  que  ie  vous  demande  Monsieur, 
avec  protestation  de  la  vouloir  meriter  par  mes  tres  humbles 
services  et  la  grace  d'estre  creu  de  vous.  Monsieur,  vostre  tres 
humble  et  tres  obeissant  serviteur  et  nepveu,* 

Ce  quinsuime  Aoust.  Ie  Comte  de  Gramont. 

Addressed: — A  Monsieur,  Monsieur  Ie  due  d'  Ormond. 

Endorsed: — Comte  de  Gramont.  Received  at  Kilkenny, 
20th  September,  '65. 

Sir  Daniel  Bellingham  to  Ormond. 

1665,  September  30.  Dublin. — His  Majesty's  council 
being  in  this  city,  it  will  not  be  fit  for  me  to  represent 
to  your  Grace  what  cannot  have  escaped  their  view^ 
and  censure,  not  doubting  but  they  have  communicated 
it  to  your  Grace.  But  for  my  more  safe  walking  I  have 
judged  it  necessary,  as  I  have  been  wholly  passive  hitherto 
in  the  business  of  honour  intended  me  and  this  city,  so  to 
suspend  the  taking  that  title t  (which  the  royal  grant  hath 
conferred  on  the  Mayor  of  this  city,  and  wiser  than  I  give 
me  upon  that  account)  till  I  receive  your  Grace's  direction, 
which,  next  His  Majesty,  shall  ever  be  most  cheerfully  obeyed 
by  your  Grace's,  etc. 

*  The  orthography  of  the  original  is  followed  in  this  transcript 
tThe  title  of  Lord  Mayor  of  Dublin  was  first  borne  by  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham. 


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Thomas  Bigby  to  Sib  Geobge  Lanb. 

1665,  October  30. — The  Park  wall  hath  taken  in  Newtown 
and  Insecore,  parcels  of  St.  James'  parish,  the  tithe  of  them 
belonging  unto  the  Minister  of  St.  Katherine's  and  St.  James, 
united  by  an  Act  of  State.  Immediately  after  the  wall  was 
begun,  I  petitioned  his  Grace  the  Lord  Lieutenant ;  his  Grace 
referred  it  to  Mr.  Dodson,  and  Mr.  Dodson  reported  my  damage 
to  be  ten  pounds  per  annum.  His  Grace  signed  the  report 
and  commended  my  petition  to  the  Council  Board.  They  all 
subscribed,  with  a  reference  to  four  of  the  council  or  any 
three  of  them,  for  my  allow^ance  in  recompense  of  my  loss. 

Mr.  Summers  hath  all  my  papers,  which  will  fully  satisfy 
my  proceedings  in  that  particular.  It  is  come  to  the  birth, 
and  I  want  strength  to  bring  forth  without  your  honour's 
assistance. 

Endorsed: — My  cousin  Eigby's. 

Sir  Jambs  Ware  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1665,  November  27.  Dublin. — ^Honoured  Sir:  To  your 
many  other  favours  I  pray  you  add  one  more,  that  my  nephew, 
Mr.  James  Eeynolds,  may  be  excused  from  being  Sheriff  of 
the  County  of  Leitrim  for  the  subsequent  year.  You  know 
his  condition,  and  that  he  is  not  as  yet  fully  restored  to  his  estate. 

Your  ready  and  obliged  servant,  Ja.  Ware. 

James  Buck  to  Ormond. 

1665,  December  5.  Moor  Park. — Upon  the  request  of  some 
gentlemen,  my  neighbours,  I  attended  them  to  Sir  Philip 
Butler's,  in  order  to  his  election  for  one  of  the  knights  for 
this  county,  who  has  presented  your  Grace  with  a  brace  of  male 
deer  and  two  brace  of  does,  piebald,  black  and  white,  fallow  and 
white.  I  have  left  order  for  the  taking  and  sending  them 
hither  after  Christmas.  I  did,  in  several  letters,  humbly  desire 
.  your  Grace  to  direct  two  or  three  lines  to  me  for  the  King's 
Serjeant  Trumpet  for  the  delivery  of  those  deer  and  ducks 
His  Majesty  promised  out  of  St.  James*  Park,  and  though 
the  late  great  winds  did  so  shatter  our  old  pales,  yet  they  are 
now  so  well  repaired,  that  they  are  a  very  good  fence  for  any 
strange  deer.  Next  to  the  town  I  have  set  up  a  handsome 
large  coach-gate,  horse-gate,  and  stile,  and  from  thence  in 
a  direct  line  is  already  planted  up  to  the  house  four  rows 
of  elms,  in  a  true  proportion  of  distance  like  unto  that  in 
the  front  of  the  house,  but  in  a  righter  method.  We  are 
now  planting  the  like  from  the  house  to  the  gate  leading  to 
Watford,  but  leaving  a  handsome  distance,  by  way  of  half- 
moon  at  each  gate  for  the  turning  of  coaches.  Here  is 
already  planted  eight  hundred  elms,  six  hundred  chestnuts, 
and  two  hundred  walnuts;  the  chestnuts  in  four  handsome 
walks,  a  true  distance  from  the  lodge,  and  the  lodge  in  the 
centre.       They  are  planted  there  for  their  preservation  by 


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the  lodge  when  they  bear,  and  the  pleasantness  of  the  ground, 
the  walnuts  planted  in  the  view  of  the  house,  and  the  great 
garden  from  the  comer  of  the  new  kitchen  garden,  betwixt  the 
snow-house  and  the  hill.  Another  walk  is  intended  on  the  other 
side  of  the  hill,  so  that  the  hill  (from  the  house)  shall  stand 
betwixt  two  walks.  I  have  already  put  in  some  ice  and 
snow  into  the  house.  The  new  fountain  is  finished  with  lead, 
constantly  playing.  The  old  rock  and  the  two  dolphins  are 
put  in,  but  easily  removed.  The  upper  pond  is  again  stored 
with  carps;  the  garden  walls  of  each  side  all  planted,  and 
as  Mr.  Moore  assures  me,  with  the  greatest  variety  and  best 
fruit  in  England,  but  that  garden  which  Mr.  Moore  undertakes 
will  be  so  pleasant  a  ground,  that  they  are  all  against  planting 
a  standard  there  for  spoiling  the  beauty  of  that  place,  we 
having  kitchen  garden  enough  for  such  uses. 

But  now  my  greatest  fear  is  that  the  best  of  my  duty 
cannot  recompense  the  least  diversion  from  your  greater  affairs, 
which  makes  me  often  present  that  trouble  to  her  Grace,  and 
have  humbly  begged  her  pardon  for  it,  as  I  do. 

Postscript : — ^We  are  now  upon  drawing  of  drains  as  they 
were  laid  out. 

Dr.  Benjamin  Parry*  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1665,  December  11.  Oxford. — I  received  information  this 
last  week,  from  my  Lord  Bishop  of  Winchester,  that  my 
brother.  Dr.  Parry,  was  fallen  very  sick  past  hopes  of  recovery, 
and  his  Lordship  advised  me  to  make  what  friends  I  could 
to  get  a  letter  from  his  Grace,  the  Duke  of  Ormond,  to  my  Lord 
Chancellor  here,  in  my  behalf,  for  a  living  in  Surrey,  which  my 
brother  had,  in  the  gift  of  the  great  seal.  And  now  not 
having  heard  almost  these  three  weeks  from  my  brother, 
fearing  the  unfortunate  news  may  be  true,  I  have  taken  the 
boldness  to  address  myself  to  you,  encouraged  by  the  noble 
and  generous  obligations  you  have  already  laid  on  us,  to  beg 
your  wonted  patronage  and  favour  in  procuring  me  my  Lord's 
letter  to  the  Lord  Chancellor  in  my  behalf,  in  case  it  hath 
gone  so  ill  with  my  brother,  with  what  speed  you  can  to 
prevent  others.  Be  pleased  to  pardon  this  trouble,  which 
the  experience  of  your  goodness  puts  me  upon,  since  I  have 
not  a  nobler  friend  than  yourself,  whose  worthy  assistance 
as  I  do  not  doubt  of  now,  so  it  will  be  an  eternal  obligation 
on,  noble  sir,  your  unfortunate  but  humble  servant, 

Oxford,  Corpus  Christi  College.  Ben.  Parry. 

William  Crispin  to  [  ]  Amoby. 

1665,  December  5.  Kinsale. — I  humbly  think  you  may 
do  well  to  hint  to  some  honourable  persons  of  the  council, 
that  here  is  one.  Monsieur  Choisin,  that  hath  made  exceeding 

*Dr.  Benjamin  Parry  was  the  son  of  one  Irish  Bishop  (Edward  Parry, 
Bishop  of  Killaloe)  and  the  brother  of  another  (John  Parry,  vtdep,  212,  infra) 
whom  he  lumself  succeeded  to  the  See  of  Ossory. 


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high  preparations  of  beef,  and  yet  makes  no  sign  of  his  intent 
of  shipping  it  hence.  I  wish  there  be  not  some  invading 
design  against  this  naked,  though  considerable,  part  of  Ireland. 
I  had  former  letters  from  the  said  Crispin,  that  this  Monsieur 
had  slaughtered  three  thousand  beeves,  and  did  still  continue 
slaughtering  more.  I  am  informed  that  this  Monsieur  is 
a  Boman  Catholic,  and  yet  to  be  made  free  of  Kinsale  (where 
he  arrived  about  four  months  ago),  he  hath  taken  the  oaths 
of  supremacy  and  allegiance. 

Kinsale,  8th  December,  1665. 

Here  is  a  strong  report  that  an  attempt  hath  been  lately 
made  by  some  forces  of  France  for  surprise  of  Jersey,  and  that 
they  were  beaten  ofif  with  loss  of  two  ships  of  theirs  sunk, 
one  of  which  is  said  had  thirty-eight  brass  guns.  Several 
letters  to  this  effect  is  come  hither.  If  you  have  any  certainty 
hereof,  pray  favour  me  with  a  line. 

Endorsed: — Extracts  of  several  letters  from  Kinsale. 
Received  from  Mr.  Amory  the  12th  of  December,  1665. 
[Endorsement  in  Sir  G.  Lane's  handwriting.] 

Humphrey  Barrowb  to  Ormond. 

1665,  December  12.  Tralee. — The  product  of  the  year 
1666  having  been  the  knotty  theme  of  some  laborious,  but  too 
many  confident  pens,  which  nevertheless  (and  that  without 
the  help  of  their  discord)  have  left  us  still  in  the  dark ,  I  humbly 
beg  it  may  not  be  accounted  a  piece  of  levity  in  your  servant 
to  acquaint  your  Grace  with  a  small  beam,  which  lately,  yet 

ferhaps  seasonably,  shined  into  his  observation.  My  Lord, 
neither  pretend  to  the  spirit  of  prophecy  nor  that  of 
interpretation,  but  on  Friday,  the  first  of  this  month,  about 
four  in  the  morning,  awaking  out  of  a  dream  (to  which  I 
dare  not  presume  to  be  the  Oedipus)  I  fell,  as  above  my  station 
I  use  to  do,  into  a  consideration  of  the  present  posture  of  affairs 
betwixt  the  King  and  his  neighbours,  amongst  whom  the 
French  King  was  pressed  deep  into  my  thoughts,  and  (as  under 
an  impulsive  violence)  his  name  (being  in  the  Boman  tongue, 
Ludovicus)  made  the  sole  subject  of  my  meditation,  which 
having  often  revolved  in  the  accusative  case,  Ludovicum,  I 
fancied  the  discretion  of  it,  and  found  it  to  consist  of  the 
numerical  letters  standing  for  1666,  viz.,M.D.C.L.V.V.V.I, 
with  the  letter  0  standing  in  the  body  of  the  name  exclamantly 
calling  for  the  wonder  and  admiration  of  the  world  at  what 
should  happen  that  year;  withal  observing  the  accusative 
Ludovicum  subject  to  the  government  of  some  verb,  but 
whether  elexi,  rejexi,  vocavi,  missi,  or  what  else,  God  only 
knows.  After  which,  retrospecting  the  nominative  Ludovicus, 
I  found  its  numerical  letters,  viz.,  D.  C.  L.  V.  V.  V.  I,  being 
666,  the  perfect  number  of  the  beast,  being  the  number  of 
a  man,  Kevelations  13th,  and  last  verse.  Other  observations 
I  made, as  that  of  the  evenness  of  the  figurative  letters  in  both 
cases  before  and  after  the  letter  0,  viz.,  in  Ludovicus,  before 


200 

the  letter  0  stands  555, and  after  it  111,  before  0  in  Ludovicum 
the  same  555,  and  after  it  1,111,  being  just  double  the  number 
555,  with  the  addition  of  a  not  dividable  unit,  which  last 
things  (by  the  perusal  of  some  books  I  then  wished  for)  may, 
in  comparing  things  with  things,  be  found  not  without  some 
signification. 

My  Lord,  these  observations  made,  my  next  consideration 
was  what  use  to  make  of  them,  and  finding  myself  born  the 
subject  and  servant  of  my  dear  and  dread  sovereign,  and 
all  I  am  either  in  body  or  mind  only  his,  I  resolved  upon  this 
way,  through  your  Grace's  noble  hands,  to  convey  the 
knowledge  of  them  to  his  sacred  Majesty,  to  the  end  that 
if  His  Highness  (upon  consultation  had  with  other  wise 
and  learned  persons)  shall  find  anything  of  God's  meaning 
in  these  things,  he  may  (pardon,  I  beseech  your  Grace,  the 
presumption  of  a  worm  to  write  it)  be  the  better  enabled  to 
play  his  national  games  with  all  his  neighbour  princes  and 
states,  to  the  glory  of  that  God  that  hath  so  miraculously 
restored  him,  and  the  good  of  his  Church,  the  honour  of  his 
crown  and  welfare  of  all  his  loyal  subjects,  which  is  the  daily 
prayer  of,  illustrious  sir,  your  Grace's  etc. 

Postscript : — My  Lord,  the  contents  of  this  humble  letter 
I  only  imparted  to  my  Captain,  Sir  Arthur  Denny,  of  whom 
I  first  received  assurance  of  secrecy,  as  not  thinking  it 
pardonable  to  divulge  that  whereof  His  Majesty  may  make 
a  private  use. 

Endorsed : — Captain  Barrowe's.  Keceived  19th  December, 
1665. 

Sib  Francis  Hamilton  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1665,  December  15. — Signifying  that  the  Duke  of  Ormond 
has  granted  to  him  that  his  son,  Sir  Charles  Hamilton,  shall 
have  his  troop,  and  his  second  son,  Claude  Hamilton,  Sir 
Charles'  foot  company. 

John  Morton  to  Ormond. 

1665 ,  December  20.  Kilkenny. — I  lately  received  commands 
from  her  Grace  to  send  your  Grace  a  survey  of  a  house  in 
Kilkenny,  formerly  belonging  to  one  Mr.  Eobert  Shee, 
whereupon  I  most  humbly  presumed  the  boldness  to  send 
your  Grace  this  with  the  enclosed  paper,  being  a  ground-plot 
of  the  house  and  all  the  garden  ground  that  did  formerly 
belong  unto  it,  with  three  several  estimates  of  charge  for 
three  ways  of  reparations  the  thing  is  capable  of,  humbly  leaving 
it  to  your  Grace's  further  consideration  and  pleasure  therein. 
And  what  your  Grace's  further  commands  are,  in  that  and  all 
things  else  you  be  pleased  to  command  your  servant,  shall 
be  obeyed  with  all  duty  and  diligence. 

May  it  please  your  Grace,  the  coach-house  building  your 
Grace  ordered  me  to  build,  will  be  suddenly  ready  to  put  on 
the  roof.      I  built  all  the  walls  with  stone  for  better  durance 


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and  strength.  It  will  be  finished  (God  willing)  in  March  next. 
All  the  works  her  Grace  was  pleased  to  order  to  be  done  in 
the  Castle,  are  near  finished,  and  the  alcove  likewise. 

May  it  please  your  Grace,  at  Dunmore  the  great  stairs 
at  the  upper  end  of  the  hall  are  put  up,  but  the  carvings  about 
them  not  yet  finished,  and  the  fretworks  and  wainscotings 
in  her  Grace's  apartments  are  finished,  and  the  masons  have 
worked  good  part  of  the  marble  steps  for  the  entrance  into 
the  house,  and  the  frontispiece  of  pillars  is  ready  to  put  up 
when  the  masons  have  paved  the  portico  before  the  entrance, 
which  is  good  part  done,  and  the  whole  house  is  glazed, 
and  the  rooms  plastered,  and  doors  made  and  the  rooms  locked 
up  to  preserve  the  glass  from  breaking. 

I  most  humbly  beg  your  Grace's  pardon  for  my  boldness, 
abruptness,  and  tediousness  herein,  most  humbly  assuring, 
your  Grace  I  shall  use  all  the  diligence  and  care  I  am  possibly 
able  to  expedite  your  Grace's  business  committed  to  my  charge, 
and  to  give  your  Grace  a  just  account  of  it. 

Endorsed: — Captain  Morton's,  with  a  draft  of  a  house, 
formerly  Kobert  Shee's,  and  with  a  computation  for  the 
repair  of  it. 

John  Fitz  Gekald  to  Helen,  Countess  of  Clancabty. 

1665,  December  22.  Dublin. — ^I  being  advertised  that  some 
person  or  persons  informed  your  Honour  that  I  have  by  some 
words  in  Parliament,  and  other  places,  reflected  on  the  right 
honourable,  your  Ladyship's  deceased  lord  and  husband, 
as  being  the  actor  or  inducer  of  inserting  in  the  late  passed 
bill  the  clause  of  investure  of  my  poor  estate  in  His  Majesty. 
Madam,  it  is  a  truth  generally  known  that  I  have  been  in  the 
course  of  my  life  subject  to  false  aspersions,  calumnies  and 
perjuries,  and  although  I  know  that,  in  common  justice  or 
good  conscience,  I  should  not  be  condemned  until  I  were  heard, 
yet  being  rendered  unable  at  present  to  give  my  personal 
attendance  on  your  Ladyship  to  falsify  that  ungodly  and  false 
suggestion,  I  conceived  it  my  duty  to  give  your  Honour  such 
satisfaction  by  these  of  my  being  free  from  and  guiltless  of 
that  calumnious  imputation,  as  my  conscience  truly  enables 
me  to  do.  In  the  first  place,  that  I  did  not  as  much  as 
once  mention  his  Lordship's  name  in  Parliament,  I  appeal  to 
the  whole  House  of  Commons,  nor  uttered  word  elsewhere, 
that  may  in  the  least  tend  to  his  Honour's  disparagement, 
I  take  God  to  witness,  and  am  sure  no  soul  will  have  the 
impudence  to  aver  the  contrary  in  my  presence.  In  the  next, 
that  in  the  presence  of  God,  I  do  not  know  to  this  hour 
who  did  or  contrived  the  same  against  me,  which  true  and  real 
protestation  will,  I  hope,  prove  satisfactory  unto  your  Honour. 
Humbly  kissing  your  Ladyship's  hands,  I  take  leave. 

Endorsed: — John    FitzGerald    to    my    sister     Clancarty. 


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Lord  Mayo  and  othebs  to  Obmond. 

1665,  December  22.  Cahernemarte. — May  it  please  your 
Grace :  As  soon  as  (in  obedience  to  your  Grace's  command 
by  a  warrant  directed  to  us,  bearing  date  the  second  of 
December)  we  were  arrived  at  Inver,  we  found  the  Dutch 
prisoners  escaped  from  the  wreck,  many  of  them  dead,  and 
many  daily  sickening,  partly  from  the  cold  they  had  taken 
in  their  coming  wet  to  shore,  and  partly  from  inconveniencies 
they  suffered,  both  in  their  lodging  and  diet,  in  that  waste 
place,  which  moved  us  (as  most  conducible  in  our  opinions 
to  His  Majesty's  honour  and  service,  and  as  the  most  likely 
means  of  preserving  the  men's  lives,  who,  in  probability,  in 
a  short  time  would  all  otherwise  have  perished)  to  resolve  upon 
the  speedy  sending  away  as  many  of  them  as  were  in  a  condition 
to  travel  to  Galway,  and  to  make  the  best  provision  in  that 
country  for  the  rest,  which  resolution  was  executed,  and 
the  Dutchmen  sent  away  before  we  received  notice  of  your 
Grace's  pleasure  in  committing  the  care  of  that  business  to 
Sir  Oliver  St.  George,  and  the  revocation  of  the  power 
committed  to  us. 

Our  most  humble  request  to  your  Grace  is  that  you  would 
be  pleased  to  order  their  reception  at  Galway,  and  that  those 
entrusted  by  us  with  the  conducting  them  thither  may  be 
discharged  of  them.  We  shall,  by  God's  assistance,  in  a  short 
time,  present  your  Grace  with  as  large  an  account  of  the 
wealth  recovered  and  embezzled  from  that  ship,  as  the 
examinations  taken  and  result  of  the  enquiries  we  have  made 
during  our  employment  in  that  business  will  enable  us,  which 
cannot  be  performed  with  such  exactness  as  will  be  fit  for  your 
Grace's  information  until  we  come  to  our  journey's  end. 
We  are  your  Grace's  most  humbly  devoted  servants. 

Mayo. 

Char.  Holcroft. 

Browne. 

Lady  Mary  Cavendish  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1665  [-6] ,  January  12.  Hardwicke. — I  am  forced  to  give 
you  this  trouble  by  a  promise  I  made  of  endeavouring  to  get 
the  liberty  of  this  man,  whose  name  I  have  here  sent  you,  to 
desire  you  that  you  would  employ  the  interest  you  have  with 
them  that  has  the  power  of  releasing  him  to  do  it.  They 
have  told  me  here  the  fault  he  is  imprisoned  for,  which,  if 
true,  it  is  not  very  great ;  but  he  is  a  quaker,  and  if  you  find  he 
is  guilty  of  any  great  fault,  I  would  not  have  you  speak  for 
him.  Pray  let  me  know  how  my  god-daughter  does.  I  hope 
when  I  see  her  in  Ireland  she  will  be  a  beauty. 

Postscript : — ^Pray  present  my  humble  service  to  my  Lady 
Lane.  If  you  are  not  very  kind  to  my  god-daughter,  I'll  take 
it  very  ill. 

Endorsed: — ^Lady  Cavendish.  Received  9th  February, 
1665  [-6]. 


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Duke  of  Albbmable  to  Sib  Gboboe  Lane. 

1665  [-6],  January  19.  ■  Cockpitt. — I  have  received  your 
letter  dated  the  10th  of  this  month,  with  the  Act  of  Parliament 
and  other  papers  you  sent  me,  for  which  I  return  you  hearty 
thanks.  I  am  glad  to  hear  that  the  Parliament  in  Ireland 
go  on  so  well  with  their  business.  I  am  bound  to  you  for 
many  favours,  and  for  your  care  of  my  business  and  assistance 
to  my  friends.  I  shall  be  glad  to  requite  the  same  if  I  can 
do  you  any  courtesy.  I  desire  you  to  present  my  humble 
service  to  my  Lord  Lieutenant  and  his  Lady,  and  to  my 
Lord  of  Ossory  and  my  Lord  of  Arran.  I  remain  your  -very 
affectionate  friend  and  servant. 

Endorsed : — ^Duke  of  Albemarle.  Received  9th  February, 
1665  [-6]. 

Sib  Coubtenay  Pole  to  Sib  Geobge  Lane. 

1665  [-6],  January  22.  Shute. — Give  me  leave  to  be  your 
remembrancer  that  Colonel  Legg,  about  this  time  twelve  month , 
whilst  I  was  at  the  Parliament,  did  me  once  the  favour 
to  be  my  guide  to  your  lodgings,  and  represented  my  case  to 
you  with  my  character.  You  were  pleased  to  give  me  the 
honour  of  a  fair  reception,  and  a  promise  of  your  assistance. 
A  sickness  presently  after  fell  upon  me,  and  I  hastened  to 
change  air,  that  I  could  not  again  wait  upon  you.  But  I 
understood,  in  a  short  time  after  that,  I  had  the  honour  of 
receiving  the  great  fruit  of  your  kindness,  that  I  was  secured 
by  a  particular  proviso,  which  gave  me  such  a  satisfaction  as 
I  did  not  trouble  you  with  any  of  my  scribbles.  But  now  I 
am  informed  by  my  agent  in  Dublin,  Mr.  Perriam  Pole,  my 
kinsman,  that  many  of  your  Parliament  whose  titles  are  but 
the  same  with  mine,  and  all  things  compared  much  worse, 
have  by  themselves  or  their  interests  inclosed  themselves  near 
eighty  by  so  many  provisoes,  so  as  to  receive  no  disturbance. 
Sir,  if  a  constant  loyalty  in  all  these  times  can  be  admitted 
argument  for  such  a  favour  also,  certainly  I  may  be  admitted. 
I  have  not  been  useless  also  to  His  Majesty  that  now  is,  as 
well  as  serviceable  to  his  father  of  blessed  memory.  I  do 
therefore  importunately  beg  you  to  represent  me  to  his  Grace 
my  Lord  Lieutenant,  that  he  would  be  pleased  by  your  hand 
to  receive  a  particular  proviso  for  me,  which  may  be  added 
to  the  bill  at  the  next  passing,  and  that  you  would  be  pleased 
to  present  my  most  humble  service  to  my  Lord  of  Ossory, 
whom  I  had  the  honour  to  know  in  the  beginning  of  this 
Parliament  in  London.  I  believe  he  will  intercede  for  me. 
If  I  am  too  late,  I  am,  as  many  other  honest  men  are, 
unfortunate,  but  in  all  conditions  I  am,  sir,  your  most  humble 
servant. 

Duke  of  Albemable  to  Sib  Geobge  Lane. 

16j65  [-6],  January  23.  Cockpitt. — ^There  being  one, 
William  Woodriffe,  cook  of  the  Rapahannick,  merchant,  which 
was  taken  by  the  Dutch,  and  is  now  prisoner  in  Flushing, 


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whom  the  Admiralty  Court  there  have  consented  to  release 
in  exchange  for  one  Albert  Albertson,  prisoner  in  Gal  way, 
in  Ireland,  which  his  Eoyal  Highness  has  consented  to,  I  desire 
you  will  please  to  move  my  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  that 
he  may  be  exchanged  in  release  accordingly.  There  being 
also  one,  Captain  Jean  Gillason,  a  prisoner  in  Ireland,  who 
is  a  considerable  person,  and  that  well  knows  your  coasts. 
His  Eoyal  Highness  desires  that  particular  care  be  taken  he 
may  not  be  released.  He  was  taken  by  the  Unitie,  near 
Guernsey,  in  a  Flushing  Caper. 

Sir  Stephen  Fox  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1665  [-6],  January  27.  Whitehall.— Ever  honoured  Sir: 
I  have  received  yours  of  the  10th  with  the  print,  for  which, 
and  your  many  obliging  expressions,  I  do  most  heartily  thank 
you.  I  have  got  again  under  my  own  roof  at  Chiswick 
my  whole  family,  where  I  hope  by  God's  mercy  we  shall  be  in 
safety,  and  that  with  the  great  abatement  of  the  last  bill, 
with  the  probability  of  the  same  this  week,  His  Majesty  will 
be  in  safety  at  Hampton  Court,  whither  he  intends  this  night, 
and  that  instead  of  going  back  to  Oxford,  it  will  be  counselable 
for  him  to  come  to  this  place,  which  I  assure  you  wants  his 
Eoyal  presence  in  all  respects.  I  shall  never  enough  lament 
the  loss  of  our  most  worthy  Bishop  and  excellent  friend. 
His  widow  is  retired  to  her  poor  house  at  Stratford,  from  whence 
I  hastened  my  children  to  make  way  for  her  retreat.  Indeed 
she  is  the  most  disconsolable  person  that  I  have  almost  heard 
of.  I  pray  God  comfort  her  and  us.  I  am  sure  your  excellent 
Lady  equals  our  grief,  for  his  friendship  towards  her  was  most 
tender  to  my  knowledge.  I  pray  with  my  humble  respects 
join  that  of  my  wife's  to  you  both,  and  Steenie  bids  me  make 
you  a  French  compliment  from  him. 

Sir,  as  to  the  business  of  your  letter,  I  herewith  send  you 
an  account  for  his  Grace,  which  will  best  state  that  matter, 
and  give  you  a  clear  light  to  what  you  desire  concerning  his 
allowances  as  Lord  Steward.  And,  as  yet,  I  have  little 
expectation  to  receive  anything  from  his  pension  as  Gentleman 
of  the  Bedchamber.  The  truth  is,  since  your  going  hence, 
it  hath  not  been  a  time  for  it.  I  did  never  speak  to  my  Lord 
Treasurer  of  it  but  he  seems  willing  to  oblige  his  Grace ; 
but,  withal,  finds  himself  unable,  and  since  the  King's 
restoration  his  Lordship  was  never  more  embarassed  than  at 
present,  for  money  is  not  got  without  the  greatest  difficulty 
imaginable.  I  will,  as  occasion  serves,  mind  my  Lord  Treasurer 
of  it,  and  whensoever  I  can  find  a  fit  opportunity  I  w^ill  press 
with  all  my  strength  for  it,  for  I  earnestly  wish  it  were  in  my 
power  to  do  his  Grace  some  service  herein,  but  I  find  it  is 
almost  alike  with  the  rest  of  the  Gentlemen  of  the  Bedchamber. 

The  Kettle  Drums  have  no  allowance  upon  the  Establishment 
but  barely  their  pay,  nor  hath  any  one  of  them  ever  had  a 
penny  towards  their  equipage  that   I  know   of,  save  only 


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Mr.  O'Neiirs  Kettle  Drum,  who  with  great  importunity  got 
His  Majesty  to  give  order  to  my  Lord  General  to  order  him 
wherewithal  to  buy  a  horse,  saddle,  and  drum,  which  my  Lord 
General  did  by  great  importunity,  as  unwillingly  as  ever  I  saw 
him  do  anything  in  my  life,  and  that  but  once,  which  is  the 
only  time  anything  hath  been  paid  by  me  upon  that  account. 
I  do  thank  you  for  your  intention  of  assisting  my  brother, 
when  it  lies  in  your  way,  which  I  hope  it  will  do  shortly. 
I  am  sure  you  will  if  you  can,  and  therefore  I  am  obliged  to 
be  thankful.  By  your  hand  I  shall  pass  to  him  20/  per  annum, 
if  you  will  oblige  me  therein,  and  charge  me  with  it  here,  which 
I  will  punctually  repay,  the  101  in  your  hand  for  Christmas 
last,  and  the  next  will  be  due  at  midsummer  next. 

Postscript: — I  beg  your  kindness  for  Mr.  Darcy,  whose 
whole  dependency  almost  is  from  the  issue  of  the  last  Act 
of  Settlement.  I  pray  when  you  shall  favour  me  with  your 
next  letter,  a  word  of  your  opinion  thereof.  I  am  hastening 
towards  Hampton  Court  to  attend  the  King's  coming  thither. 

William  Bolton  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1665  [-6],  February  2.  Barbadoes  (by  the  Castle  Gate). — 
Honourable  Sir:  Beading  over  your  letters,  and  two  or*three 
from  his  Grace,  of  several  dates  in  the  year  '63,  made  me  fall 
into  some  wonder  to  see  myself  and  services  in  that  plotting 
time  so  accepted,  and  now  in  a  condition  most  lamentable 
of  any  in  the  King's  dominions  that  I  can  know  of.  His 
Majesty's  gracious  speech  at  the  opening  of  Parliament  in  '61, 
with  his  pious  and  princely  regard  in  that  case  of  Christian 
of  the  Isle  of  Man,  of  the  5th  of  August,  '63,  makes  it  appear 
to  me  that  Ireland  and  the  Isle  of  Man  will  appropriate  to 
themselves  only  the  violation  of  that  pious  and  prudent  Act 
of  Indemnity  and  Oblivion,  but  I  fear,  sir,  I  may  run  too  far 
on  this  general  strain  before  I  come  to  tell  you  why  I  am 
thus  bold  to  give  you  the  trouble  of  this  letter,  which  I  pray 
you  pardon. 

I  was  by  his  Grace,  my  Lord  Lieutenant's  order  of  the 
4th  of  November,  summoned  to  answer  the  objections  Captain 
Eich.  Poer,  the  Governor  of  Waterford,  had  against  me,  but 
I  hear  of  none  to  this  day,  save  that  on  the  1st  of  December 
at  night,  I  was  by  my  Lord  Mayor's  warrant,  attacked  for 
murder,  as  is  said,  and  hurried  to  his  house,  and  amongst  a 
pack  of  whores  examined  and  remanded  to  my  lodgings  in 
the  constable's  custody,  since  which  time  I  have  endured 
imprisonment,  obloquy,  travel,  expense,  and  great  damage, 
disgrace,  terror,  and  pains  (doubtless  far  above  killing),  and 
which  is  worst  of  all,  cannot  get  to  his  Grace  to  be  heard, 
who  though  he  will  not  use  me  as  I  am  sure  I  should  be 
if  the  King  were  here,  yet  I  will  obey  him  according  to  the 
duty  I  owe  His  Majesty's  Lieutenant.  I  humbly  pray  you 
will,  worthy  sir,  remember  once  his  Grace  gave  order  when 
I  had  business   I  should   be  brought  to  him.       What  is  the 


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cause  now,  my  life  and  fortunes,  the  support  of  my  unfortunate 
wife  and  children  is  at  stake  and  almost  rooted  up,  and  I 
cannot  get  to  make  my  condition  known  to  the  King  (I  mean 
in  the  person  of  his  Lieutenant)  ?  When  I  cease  to  employ 
the  faculties  of  my  soul  and  body  to  be  serviceable  in  my  sphere 
to  God,  King,  Church,  laws,  and  commonweal,  let  me  be 
abandoned  by  all  lovers  of  merit  and  virtue.  Pray,  sir,  excuse 
my  importunity,  I  have  had  a  dismal  Christmas,  God  grant 
me  a  better  Easter.  And  I  pray  God  bless  his  Grace  and 
increase  his  honour,  which  will  be  illustrated  much  in 
descending  to  regard  the  stranger  and  friendless,  of  which 
number  I  reckon  myself. 

Edward  Geoghbgan  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1665  [-6] ,  February  6.  Bunowen. — There  happened  here 
an  accident  that  may  be  worth  the  relation,  and  probably  you 
may  not  be  so  rightly  or  really  informed  by  the  actors. 
Therefore  I  conceived  my  duty  to  aiford  your  Honour  a  serious 
information  of  the  same,  to  the  best  of  my  knowledge.  The 
last  of  January,  there  was  forced  by  a  storm  a  ship  about 
two  hundred  and  fifty  tons,  span  new,  with  twenty-five  pieces 
of  ordnance,  manned  with  thirty  men,  within  four  miles  of 
BoflSn  by  water,  and  six  mile  by  land  from  this  town.  She 
was  taken  by  Ancient  Monke.  They  did  not  discharge  a  shot 
in  their  own  defence.  She  is  laden  with  above  hundred 
chests,  containing  broad-cloth  and  holland,  as  they  say,  forty 
tons  of  beer,  with  good  store  of  arms.  The  men  are  Dutchmen , 
except  one  of  them,  that  owns  himself  a  Spaniard  or  Italian, 
who  convenanted  with  Ancient  Monke  for  five  months'  means, 
and  all  his  own  goods.  He  will  make  her  a  lawful  prize. 
He  doth  further  assert  that  they  burned  the  State  of  Holland's 
pass.  This  very  ship  cost  ten  thousand  pounds  the  building, 
besides  her  tacklings  and  other  accommodations  befitting  her. 
It  is  thought  she  is  worth  betwixt  four  or  five  thousand  pounds 
in  all,  at  least.  I  have  this  relation  from  those  that  were 
actors  in  taking  her.  I  would  wish  I  were  qualified  enough 
to  serve  His  Majesty  and  his  Grace,  wherein  my  endeavours 
should  not  be  wanting.  I  shall  conclude,  leaving  you  and 
all  yours  to  the  tuition  of  the  high  and  great  Tutor,  whose 
feeble  servants  we  are  all. 

Postscript : — The  ship  was  taken  the  4th  of  February. 

DxjEB  OF  Albemarle  to  Ormond. 

1665  [-6],  February  6.  Cockpitt.— This  bearer,  Mr.  Lock, 
one  of  my  secretaries,  having  some  urgent  occasions  to  go 
into  Ireland,  I  have  given  him  licence  in  that  behalf.  And 
considering  the  long  experience  I  have  had  of  his  fidelity  and 
good  affection  to  His  Majesty's  service,  with  his  abilities, 
diligence  and  trustiness  in  all  business  wherein  I  have 
employed  him,  I  have  thought  fit  (upon  this  occasion)  to  give 
him  this  just  character  to  your  Grace,  that  he  is  an  honest, 
faithful,  diligent   and  deserving  person,  and  (as  such)  I  make 


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bold  to  recommend  him  to  your  Grace  for  your  favour  and 
countenance  to  him,  assuring  your  Grace  that  it  will  be  well 
placed  upon  him.  He  intends  to  come  back  to  me  as  soon 
as  he  shall  despatch  his  business  in  Ireland.  I  crave  your 
Grace's  patronage  to  him  there,  which  shall  be  owned  and 
acknowledged  by  me,  for  I  have  a  great  desire  to  do  him  good, 
and  he  well  deserves  it,  but  his  interest  and  concerns  being 
in  that  kingdom,  I  make  bold  to  be  an  humble  suitor  to  your 
Grace  on  his  behalf. 

Mr.  Justice  Stockton  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1665  [6],  February  10. — Since  I  intimated  to  you  our 
intentions  to  keep  the  assizes  this  circuit  at  Drumahaire,  I  am 
informed  by  the  Clerk  of  the  Assizes  and  others,  that  the  place 
at  present  wanteth  a  sessions  house  and  other  conveniences 
for  reception  of  the  country,  who  are  to  attend  there,  and 
that  it  being  now  winter,  provision  for  horses  will  not  be 
provided, ^and  that  the  gaol  being  at  Jamestown,  it  will  be  a 
great  trouble  this  time  of  the  year  to  convey  prisoners  so  far. 
Upon  which  considerations,  my  brother  and  I  have  appointed 
Jamestown  for  that  work  the  coming  assizes.  However  I 
do  assure  you  that  when  I  come  to  Jamestown ,  I  shall  declare 
to  the  country  that  they  must  expect  the  following  assizes 
for  that  county  to  be  kept  at  Drumahaire,  so  that  if  there 
be  an  alteration,  it  shall  not  be  unexpected  to  the  country, 
which  they  may  not  so  much  regret  at,  as  they  now  would, 
if  it  should  come  upon  them  unexpected. 

Endorsed: — Mr.  Justice  Stockton. 

Mr.  Justice  Alexander  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1665  [-6],  February  11.  MuUingar. — ^The  enclosed  came 
so  late  to  my  hands,  being  upon  my  journey  hitherward, 
that  till  now  I  had  not  time  to  make  return  thereof.  I  shall 
no  further  enlarge  or  aggravate  his  fault,  although  I  must 
tell  you  he  sent  to  bribe  me  with  three  cows  before  his  trial, 
which  no  man  ever  before  durst  so  much  as  to  attempt,  being 
a  thing  which  I  of  all  things  do  abominate  and  detest ;  besides 
if  he  had  not  been  taken  when  he  was,  he  was  instantly  to 
have  left  the  County  of  Meath,  and  was  going  into  Wicklow, 
as  I  was  credibly  informed.  As  I  have  now  ended  two  stays, 
Meath  and  Westmeath,  for  the  first  Sir  Theophilus  Jones  will 
give  his  Grace  an  account  of  the  proceedings,  for  Westmeath 
I  have  ended  the  business  also ;  two  condemned  to  be  executed, 
two  branded,  which  are  all  done  here.  I  am  now  going 
to  Longford,  carrying  six  from  Eastmeath  to  be  tried  there, 
besides  what  I  shall  find  in  the  place.  I  hope  by  the  time 
of  my  return  to  give  a  good  account  of  all  or  the  most  of 
those  robbers  that  are  in  the  gaols. 

Endorsed : — Sir  Jerom  Alexander 


208 

Daeby  Bbillaghan  to  Ormond. 

1665  [-6] ,  February  16.  Coleraine.— Yours  of  the  10th 
instant  [I]  have  received,  and  as  for  any  vessel  belonging  to 
the  subjects  of  the  French  King,  there  are  none  at  present 
in  this  port,  creek  or  members  thereunto  belonging.  But  if 
it  happens  that  if  any  such  shall  arrive  hereafter  in  this  His 
Majesty's  port,  etc.,  that  your  Grace's  special  commands  and 
directions  shall  be  exactly  observed  and  performed  in  every 
particular,  and  account  given  from  time  to  time  as  occasion 
shall  offer. 

Endorsed: — Mr.  Darby  Brillaghan,  Customer  of  Dundalk. 

Samuel  Nobman  to  Ormond. 

1665  [-6],  February  16.  Londonderry. — In  obedience 
your  Grace's  letter  of  the  10th  present,  I  have  made  stay  of 
the  vessel  called  the  St.  Martin,  of  Aloonedebargis,  burden 
forty  tons,  Louis  Terry,  master.  The  said  vessel  belongs 
to  the  subjects  of  the  King  of  France.  Several  merchants 
of  this  city  freighted  the  said  vessel  to  Cadiz,  and  loaded  her 
with  butter  for  the  most  part,  and  some  salmon.  Here  is 
not  any  other  ship  or  vessel  within  this  port  (or  any  of  the 
creeks  or  members  thereunto  belonging)  that  belongs  to  the 
subjects  of  the  King  of  France.  A  diligent  observation  of 
your  Grace's  directions  shall  be  performed  to  the  utmost  power 
of  your  Grace's  most  humble  servant. 

Endorsed: — Mr.     Norman,     Customer     of     Londonderry. 

Edward  Gboghegan  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1665  [-6] ,  February  18.  Bunowen. — Since  my  last  letter 
unto  you,  I  am  better  informed  of  the  substance  of  the  vessel 
that  was  surprised  here,  and  to  that  purpose  I  shall  offer  to 
give  your  Honour  as  real  account  as  I  am  assured  of  from 
those  that  were  in  conference  with  those  that  were  embarked 
in  her  from  Amsterdam.  She  is  laden  with  spice,  cloth,  holland, 
silk,  stockings,  and  worsted,  bars  of  steel.  Therefore  persons 
of  quality,  integrity,  and  honesty  might  [be]  sent  there  to 
prevent  further  embezzling,  or  to  fetch  her  to  the  bar  of  Dublin, 
and  that  timely. 

Dublin.      Post  paid  4rf. 

William  Milner  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1665  [-6] ,  February  23.  Galway. — These  are  to  acquaint 
you  that  in  pursuance  of  orders  received  from  his  Excellency, 
my  Lord  Duke  of  Ormond's  Grace,  one  of  us  went  to  the 
Isles  of  Arran  to  stop  a  French  ship  that  is  there,  but  the 
oJBBcer  that  commands  in  chief  there  (having  before  made  stay 
of  her)  would  not  deliver  up  possession, although  that  the  French 
master  was  willing  to  have  her  brought  into  this  port,  in  regard 
that  she  lies  in  much  danger  of  losing,  if  a  storm  should  arise. 


209 

The  name  of  the  ship  is  the  Gift  of  God,  burden  sixty  tons, 
belonging  to  Someflewer,  in  the  river  of  Seine,  in  Normandy, 
James  Deuze,  master,  from  the  bank  of  Newfoundland,  most 
part  laden  with  Cod-fish ;  the  said  master  is  owner  of  the 
one  half  of  the  ship,  and  Esteme  Brabell  and  Sur  la  Signe,  of 
Someflewer  aforesaid,  of  the  other  half  part. 

Endorsed: — Mr.    Wm.     Millner,    Collector    at    Gall  way. 

Henry  Sankey  to  Ormond. 

1665  [-6],  February  24.  Longford. — ^I  have  this  day 
received  a  number  of  proclamations  for  putting  in  execution  the 
law  against  profane  swearing  and  cursing.  In  obedience 
thereunto,  I  have  sent  them  to  be  publicly  proclaimed  and  fixed 
up  in  all  the  market  towns,  and  other  convenient  places, 
within  my  bailiwick. 

Endorsed: — Sheriff  of  Longford.  Hen.  Sankey. 

Sir  Eichard  Clifton  to  Ormond. 

1665  [-6] ,  March  12.  Wexford. — I  know  not  better  how 
to  inform  your  Excellency  of  a  quaker's  misfortune,  within 
six  miles  of  this  place,  than  by  the  enclosed,  which  came  to 
me  about  nine  of  the  clock  this  morning.  In  case  it  should 
proceed  to  a  greater  height,  the  Castle  of  Enniscorthy  may  be 
possessed  at  pleasure ;  the  walls  of  this  garrison  are  in  three 
places  defective,  which  I  humbly  conceive  would,  at  the  least 
motion  from  your  Grace,  be  repaired  by  the  town  and  county, 
who  I  find  in  their  expressions  very  ready  and  willing  to  attend 
your  Excellency's  commands,  and  some  possibly  there  are 
that  may  be  trusted  when  your  Grace  find  occasion,  at  least 
such  that  have  not  as  yet  bowed  their  knees  to  Baal.  I  humbly 
take  boldness  still  to  continue  your  Grace's  humble  supplicant 
for  the  repair  of  some  part  of  the  Castle  of  this  town,  without 
which  we  cannot  keep  ourselves,  our  arms  or  ammunition  dry. 
It  may  be  mended  for  thirty-five  pounds  or  thereabouts.  Had 
I  but  half-a-score  carbines  upon  such  occasion  as  this,  I  should 
mount  some  of  our  foot,  if  your  Lordship  think  fit.  However, 
I  shall  lay  it  and  all  my  concerns  at  your  Grace's  feet. 

Thomas  Holme  to  Sir  Richard  Clifton. 

1665  [-6],  March  12.  Bregurteen. — The  last  night,  about 
8  o'clock.  Major  Bobert  Cuppage  was  robbed  of  even  all  he 
had  within  his  house.  He  being  at  supper,  there  came  into 
his  house  about  six  lusty  young  men,  and  with  pistols  and 
their  swords  drawn,  calling  him  dog,  rogue,  and  bad  words, 
demanded  his  moneys,  and  presently  they  fell  to  robbing, 
and  in  short  they  took  away  his  moneys,  plate,  linen,  woollen, 
ripped  open  some  of  the  bolsters  and  bedding,  and  let  the 
feathers  about  the  room,  broke  up  the  chests  and  trunks,  etc., 
Wt.  8878  N 


210 

and  so  in  about  an  hour's  time  they  made  an  endand  went  away. 
It  seems  they  were  about  thirty  horse,  and  they  said  themselves 
at  their  first  coming  into  the  house  that  they  were 
discontented  gentlemen.  They  spake  Irish-  one  to  another, 
and  would  eat  no  flesh,  but  did  eat  bread  and  cheese.  It  was 
the  Mayor's  desire  that  this  should  be  made  known  to  thee, 
and  also  represented  to  the  Duke  and  council,  that  so  they  may 
see  in  what  danger  Englishmen  in  the  country  are  in,  and 
how  easy  they  may  in  ordinary  houses  be  stripped  of  all. 
It  seems  that  of  late  there  have  beei;  several  English  in  the 
County  of  Cork  robbed  and  fired.  I  suppose  Major  Cuppage 
hath  lost  to  the  value  of  near  300Z. 

Postscript : — ^It  may  do  well  to  acquaint  the  Judge  of  this. 

Endorsed : — From  Thomas  Holme  to  Sir  Eichard  Clifton. 
This  came  enclosed  in  a  letter  of  the  12th  of  March,  1665  [-6] , 
from  Sir  Eichard  Clifton  to  the  Lord  Lieutenant. 

Matthew  Markbs  to  Sir  George  St.  George. 

1665  [-6] ,  March  14.  Abbey leix. — The  eminent  discontents 
lately  vented  by  the  Irish  in  these  parts,  with  the  impression 
it  hath  wrought  upon  the  English,  to  the  distraction  of  the 
country,  hath  put  me  upon  endeavours  to  find  the  bottom 
thereof,  and  by  the  depositions  of  credible  witnesses  (which 
suddenly  I  expect  to  lay  before  his  Grace)  and  a  number  of 
pregnant  circumstances,  nothing  seems  more  apparent  than  a 
fresh  rebellion  to  be  in  design,  and  attempted  upon  Friday 
or  Saturday  night  next,  and  in  discharge  of  my  duty  to  God, 
my  King,  his  Grace,  his  substitute,  and  the  country,  let  me 
importune  you  to  represent  the  contents  hereof,  though  but 
as  it  were  in  minutes  and  abruptly  hinted,  that  all  imaginable 
caution  (which  never  hurts)  in  the  place  where  he  is,  may  be 
used,  and  the  security  of  the  country  aimed  at,  as  to  his  Grace 
may  seem  meet,  which,  with  what  the  bearer  may  impart, 
is  all  at  present. 

Duke  of  Albemarle  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1665  [-6] ,  March  16.  Cockpitt. — The  deputed  councillors 
for  the  Admiralty  of  Zeeland  having  lately  released  seventeen 
English  mariners,  prisoners  in  that  province,  without  paying 
any  charges,  on  condition  that  the  like  number  of  prisoners 
belonging  to  that  province  be  forthwith  set  at  liberty  without 
paying  any  charges  in  exchange  for  them,  to  the  end  therefore 
that  the  number  on  our  part  to  be  released  may  have  their 
liberty,  I  desire  you  will  move  his  Grace,  my  Lord  Lieutenant 
of  Ireland,  to  give  command  that  Stephen  Petit,  prisoner  in 
Kinsale,  and  Jacob  Andriesse,  prisoner  in  ....  in 
Ireland,  be  set  at  liberty  without  paying  any  fees  or  charges, 
pursuant  to  an  order  of  His  Majesty  in  Council,  and  that  a 
note  to  be  taken  under  their  hands,  that  they  are  released 
w'ithout  charge.  I  desire  also  that  you  will  move  his  Grace 
for  his  pass  for  their  transportation  beyond  sea,  in  order  to 
their  said  exchange,  which  is  all  at  present. 


211 

Postscript : — I  desire  likewise  you  will  move  his  Grace  that 
Hendrick  JaDse  Bronwer  and  Abraham  Hey,  two  Dutch 
prisoner*'  in  Galloway,  be  set  at  liberty,  free  of  charges,  as 
the  other  two  above. 

V 

Sm  EicHARD  Clifton  to  Sm  Gborgb  Lane. 

1665  [-6] ,  March  20.  Wexford. — I  heartily  wish  his  Grace 
good  health  and  long  life.  His  Lordship's  enclosed  by  you 
to  the  Mayor,  I  have  closed  and  delivered,  and  shall  take  the 
best  care  possibly  I  may  to  apprehend  any  that  rob  or  otherwise 
disturb  His  Majesty's  peace,  and  upon  all  occasions  render 
account.  Those  thirty  horsemen  that  robbed  Major  Ciippage, 
were  gone  by  eight  o'clock  at  night,  I  heard  not  of  [them] 
until  nine  the  next  morning,  by  which  time  they  were  out 
of  my  reach,  and  have  not  since  heard  of  the  least  disturbance. 
I  pray  favour  me  in  moving  his  Grace  for  ten  ammunition 
saddles  and  furniture,  if  they  may  be  had,  to  be  delivered  with 
the  ten  carbines. 

George  Browne  to  John  Browne. 

1665  [-6],  March  21. — Honoured  Father:  In  order  to  your 
commands  I  went  to  take  a  view  of  his  Grace's  estate  in  the 
Owles,*  as  well  to  encourage  the  tenants,  as  also  to  send  you 
an  account  of  the  woods  and  bloomery,  the  last  being  in  good 
condition  other  than  a  leak  that  springs  under  the  hammer 
throw.  I  send  you  here  enclosed  a  note  of  the  particulars 
that  belong  to  it.  As  for  the  woods  I  took  pains  to  view, 
they  are  only  good  for  coal,  there  being  no  timber  left  fit 
for  any  other  use.  The  tenants  are  for  the  most  part  Ulstermen , 
and  those  always  uncertain,  especially  rent  being  raised  to 
such  height  that  as  the  case  stands  (money  being  scarce)  they 
can  hardly  live  by  their  farm.  Those  of  Achill  are  not  able 
to  take  all  that  land,  and  their  stock,  as  I  am  credibly 
informed,  is  hardly  worth  this  present  half-year's  rent.  Major 
Dogherty  (who  was  a  considerable  tenant)  hath  thoughts  to 
leave  the  country.  I  engage  as  many  as  I  can  to  plant  what 
they  waste.  I  pray  do  not  fail  on  any  account  to  come  and 
take  a  course  with  your  charge ;  it  were  a  discredit  to  you  that 
his  Grace's  rent  should  be  lessened  during  your  time.  Now  is 
the  season  to  agree  with  colliers  and  raisers  of  mine.  There 
is  hardly  so  much  left  of  last  year's  provision  as  will  keep  the 
work  going  one  fortnight,  and  whether  that  belongs  to  his 
Grace  or  last  year's  tenant,  be  pleased  to  inform  yourself. 
Sir  Arthur  Gore  bought  s^  boat  which  draws  the  mine;  you 
ought  to  find  whether  it  is  charged  on  my  Lord  Duke's  account. 
If  not,  another  must  be  provided.  You  write  of  hopes  that 
his  Grace  would  have  those  lands  of  my  Lord  Ikerrin's,  which 
made  me  encourage  the  tenants.     The  land  is  so  intermixed 

*  Burriflhoole. 


212 

amongst  his  Grace's,  that  it  will  be  most  inconvenient  to  be 
without  it.  I  have  no  more  to  say,  but  humbly  crave  your 
blessings  and  conclude,  honoured  father,  your  obedient  son, 

Geo.  Browne. 

Endorsed : — Mr.  George  Browne  to  his  father.  Burrishoole 
and  Iron  Works. 

Peter  Goodwin  to  Ormond. 

1665  [-6],  March  24.  Kilkenny. — In  obedience  to  your 
Grace's  commands  to  me,  directed  by  letter  bearing  date  the 
3rd  of  March,  1665,  concerning  the  receipt  and  providing 
lodgings  for  a  certain  number  of  Dutch  prisoners  brought  from 
Gal  way  to  this  city,  I  humbly  certify  unto  your  Grace  that 
yesterday  there  were  brought  to  this  city  thirty-three  Dutch 
prisoners,  all  being  private  persons,  for  whom  I  have  agreed 
for  their  lodgings  and  other  accommodations  in  two  of  the  best 
inns  in  this  city,  viz. ,  twenty  at  Mr.  Hugh  Farr's,  and  the  other 
thirteen  remaining  at  Mr.  John  WhitteU's,  at  the  rate  of  five 
pence  apiece  per  diem,  and  have  also,  pursuant  to  your  Grace's 
commands,  communicated  your  Grace's  directions  to  Colonel 
Cecil,  with  whose  assistance  I  have  taken  engagement  from  all 
the  said  prisoners,  one  for  the  other,  that  they  shall  continue 
true  prisoners  until  they  shall  be  released.  My  diligence 
shall  not  be  wanting,  not  only  in  preventing  any  of  their 
escapes,  but  also  in  duly  observing  all  other  your  Grace's 
commands. 

Charles  Alcockb  to  Ormond. 

1665  [-6],  March  24.  Clonmel. — Pursuant  to  your 
Lordship's  letter,  dated  the  3rd  of  March  instant,  I  have 
received  thirty  and  three  Dutch  prisoners,  who  were  sent  from 
Galway  unto  this  town  of  Clonmel,  and  have  taken  care 
and  hired  convenient  lodgings  for  them.  The  particular 
of  the  said  prisoners  names,  and  of  the  agreements  I  have 
made  for  their  lodgings  by  the  week,  and  with  what  particular 
persons  within  this  town,  your  Grace  will  hereinclosed  receive. 
But  the  thirty  pounds  mentioned  in  your  Lordship's  letter,  or 
any  other  sum  towards  their  relief,  I  have  not  as  yet  received. 
However,  I  have  engaged  for  their  lodgings  and  other  provisions 
for  them  until  I  shall  receive,  by  your  Grace's  order,  money 
to  pay  for  the  same,  which  when  received  shall  be  distributed 
amongst  them  according  to  your  Lordship's  direction.  Also 
I  have  taken  all  their  engagements  one  for  another,  that  they 
shall  continue  true  prisoners  until  they  shall  be  by  your  Grace's 
order  released.  And  furthermore,  I  have  communicated 
your  Lordship's  said  letter  unto  Sir  Francis  Fowlke,  who  hath 
been  very  ready  to  assist  me  therein,  according  to  your  Grace's 
directions. 


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James  Kearney  to  Ormond. 

1666,  March  28. — ^I  send  hereinclosed  the  information 
against  the  Tory  Dullany  and  his  own  examination.  The 
informant  is  bound  over  to  prosecute.  Captain  Furlong 
is  returned  to  Lismalyn,  according  my  first  letter,  and  hath 
a  stranger  in  his  company.  I  cannot  find  what  stay  he  intends 
to  make,  and  having  received  no  directions  in  Sir  George  Lane's 
letter  of  the  24th  what  to  do  with  him,  I  durst  not  hitherto 
attempt  to  get  him  taken  by  any  warrant,  lest  it  may  not 
suit  with  your  Grace's  pleasure,  for  when  I  heard  your  Grace 
enquire  for  him^  I  did  not  apprehend  whether  you  intended 
to  employ  him  against  the  Tories  or  secure  him  as  a 
malefactor.  Whatever  your  Grace  resolves  concerning  him, 
I  hope  your  commands  shall  overtake  him  and  his  comrade  at 
Lismalyn 

The  three  fellows  mentioned  in  my  last  letter,  upon  w^iom 
Lieutenant  Cleare  and  I  relied  for  the  service,  are  so  slow  in 
answering  our  expectations  (though  they  pretend  to  be  busy 
about  it)  that  in  case  they  do  not  suddenly  perform  something 
of  advantage  to  the  country  I  intend  to  advise  Cleare  to 
retract  his  engagement  of  procuring  their  pardon,  whereby 
he  and  others  may  be  at  liberty  to  set  upon  themselves.  For 
I  humbly  conceive  that  the  reducing  of  one  or  two  of  these 
ringleaders  to  your  Grace's  mercy  shall  exact  more  effectual 
discoveries  from  them  than  what  the  rogues  would  willingly  do 
when  they  have  an  engagement  for  their  pardon  ;  and  Lieutenant 
Cleare  is  pretty  confident  (once  he  is  at  liberty)  that  wherever 
they  lurk  in  the  county,  he  shall  have  them.  The  Justices 
of  the  Peace  have  issued  warrants  for  settling  a  watch  in  every 
parish  in  the  county,  which  the  constables  are  now  executing. 
The  punishment  of  the  harbourers  shieill  hereafter  rid  the 
country  from  this  infection,  and  the  people  are  so  frightened, 
by  their  apprehensions  of  being  burned  in  their  houses,  that 
few  or  none  have  the  public  spirit  to  give  public  evidence 
against  them.  Therefore  I  humbly  propose  tnat  your  Grace 
will  be  pleased  (before  my  Lord  of  Arran  comes  away)  to  advise 
him,  where  he  finds  private  effectual  evidence  given  by  persons 
of  credit,  that  his  Lordship  will  continue  the  persons  criminated 
thereby  in  gaol  till  it  be  tried  (when  the  storm  is  over)  whether 
more  clear  proof  can  be  found,  for  the  restraint  of  such  shall 
deter  others  from  the  like  transgressions.  I  hope  to  have 
several  of  the  suspected  harbourers  taken  before  the  assizes, 
for  I  have  private  warrants  against  them.  I  hear  no  kind 
of  robbery  committed  in  the  country,  since  the  people  were 
taken  up  by  the  Deputy  Provost  Marshal  of  Leinstel-. 

Mayor  and  Sheriffs  of  Droqheda  to  Ormond. 

1666,  March  28.  Drogheda. — May  it  please  your  Excellency  : 
We  received  your  Honour's  proclamations,  bearing  date  the 
24th    of   March,   1665,    concerning    the   preventing   of    the 


214 

plundering  of  any  ships  or  other  vessels  seized  on  as  prizes,  and 
shall  cause  the  same  to  be  proclaimed  and  fixed  up  in  all  the 
public  places  in  our  county.  No  more  at  present,  but  that 
we   ever  remain,  your  Honour's  most  obedient  servants, 

Josh.  Whorley ,  Mayor  of  Drogheda. 

Thomas  Barbington  to  Ormond. 

1666,  March  30.  Wexford. — In  obedience  to  your  Grace's 
letter  bearing  date  the  17th  of  this  instant,  after  several 
meetings  had  with  this  Corporation,  we  came  to  this  issue, 
and  it  is  resolved  that  certain  persons  by  us  nominated  do 
forthwith  raise  money  towards  the  repair  of  the  town  walls 
that  are  deficient,  and  persons  are  appointed  to  carry  on  the 
work  with  all  the  celerity  may  be ;  and  the  poor  impoverished 
Corporation  requested  me  to  acquaint  your  Grace  with  their 
daily  decays,  occasioned  as  well  by  the  failing  of  the  fishing 
as  by  the  usual  perquisites  and  burgess  plots  or  tenures  exacted 
and  taken  from  them.  The  Admiralty,  being  the  chief  est 
branch  or  support  of  the  Corporation,  being  allowed  in  their 
ancient  charter,  is  kept  from  them,  and  most  of  the  town 
lands  and  liberties  are  encroached  upon  by  Captain  William 
Ivory,  as  soldiers'  arrears  purchased  by  him ;  out  of  the  incomes 
of  this  town  (now  thereby  left  very  inconsiderable)  the  walls, 
as  the  ancient  inhabitants  allege,  were  constantly  repaired 
when  defective. 

We  humbly  beg  your  Grace's  favour  or  auspicious  hands  to 
support  our  poor  impaired  condition,  whereby  we  may  be 
capacitated  to  serve  His  Majesty,  and  further  it  is  our  humble 
request  that  those  persons  who  are  Lords  of  the  houses  in 
this  town,  and  non-residents,  may  be  by  your  Grace  caused 
to  contribute,  out  of  their  rents  reserved,  a  proportion  towards 
the  re-edifying  ol  the  said  walls,  being  best  able  so  to  do; 
all  which ,  at  the  request  of  the  Corporation ,  I  take  the  boldness , 
in  all  humility,  to  prostrate  to  your  Grace's  consideration,  and 
crave  your  pardon. 

James  Kearney  to  Ormond. 

1666,  March  31. — I  have,  on  the  29th,  sent  an  express  with 
your  Grace's  letter  of  the  27th  to  Sheriff  Sadler,  and  the  same 
day  did  carry  the  other  myself  to  Lieutenant  Cleare,  who 
promised  as  much  as  I  can  reasonably  expect,  and  seems  to 
be  very  real  in  it.  The  three  fellows  who  have  engaged  to 
perform  the  service,  do  but  juggle  in  the  matter.  They  protest 
to  Cleare,  they  are  still  labouring  to  bring  the  rest  of  their 
confederates  together,  but  I  find  (another  way)  they  never 
intend  it,  but  to  make  use  of  the  promise  of  pardon  given  them, 
in  case  they  were  surprised  by  any  other,  until  they  know 
your  Grace's  answer  to  an  address  they  made  by  Walter  Butler 


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(the  elder  brother  to  this  arch-tory  Lawrence  Butler),  whom 
they  employed  to  Dublin  about  six  days  ago ;  for  their  .whole 
design  is  to  try  if  they  could  procure  a  pardon  without 
discovering  their  harbourers  or  bringing  in  the  rest,  w-hich  I 
am  confident  your  Grace  will  never  grant.  At  the  first 
meeting  they  were  very  forward  and  seemingly  real  to  perform 
w^hat  was  desired  of  them,  but  afterwards  (when  they  advised 
with  some  of  their  friends)  they  did  decline.  This  Walter 
Butler  hath  a  very  great  stroke  in  their  council,  and  may  do 
much  on  this  occasion,  if  disposed.  This  consideration  caused 
me  on  Thursday  to  send  several  ways  to  see  where  Lieutenant 
Cleare  or  I  may  meet  them,  and  in  case  we  see  that  they  will 
not  prosecute  the  matter  with  greater  vigour  and  reality,  we 
intend  to  withdraw  the  promise  of  pardon,  and  leave  them 
to  their  other  shifts,  and  Lieutenant  Cleare  is  very  hopeful 
afterwards  to  surprise  them 

I  long  to  receive  some  directions  about  Furlong,  for  he  is 
much  mistrusted  in  these  parts  (though  he  may  be  honest  for 
anything  I  know).  Divers  of  the  harbourers  against  whom 
I  got  warrants  issued  (being  sensible  of  their  own  guilt)  have 
outrun  the  constables,  and  some  shun  their  houses,  leaving 
word  they  are  jgone  about  their  lawful  affairs  elsewhere. 
1  presume  your  Grace  did  or  will  give  directions  to  my  Lord 
of  Arran  what  to  do  in  such  cases.  I  find  that  the  rogues  are 
growing  numerous  about  Beallaghmore,  in  Ossory,  where  John 
l^wyggyn's  son  (by  name  James)  doth  guide  them ;  there  are 
two  or  three  dangerous  fellows  from  the  County  of  Cork 
among  them.  I  presume  your  Grace  takes  a  course  to  reduce 
them  that  way,  wherein  I  believe  Colonel  Richard  Grace  and 
Captain  Oxbery  may  be  instrumental.  If  your  Grace  will  be 
pleased  to  give  me  any  further  charge  in  this  affair,  I  humbly 
desire  that  Sir  George  will  be  pleased  to  direct  it  to  Clonmel. 

Ultimo  Marciiy  1666. 

Lord  le  Poer  and  Curraghmore  to  Ormond. 

1666,  April  3.  Curraghmore. — At  my  coming  into  the 
country  I  made  it  my  business  strictly  to  enquire  if  any 
disturbance  were  put  on  the  inhabitants  of  this  country  by 
Tories,  as  I  heard  reported  in  Dublin,  and  can  find  none, 
or  hear  of  any  such  persons  to  have  been  in  any  part  of  this 
country  these  six  weeks,  which  I  thought  my  duty  to  assure 
your  Grace  of,  and  also  of  the  condition  Dungarvan  is  in  for 
want  of  a  garrison  which  may  be  a  means  to  preserve  that 
side  of  the  country  and  itself  from  the  danger  it  lies  under 
since  Major  Dennis  and  his  company  were  removed  thence. 
My  Lord,  the  country  are  much  troubled  that  they  see  not 
the  bridge  of  Carrick  begun  with  yet,  and  do  fear  the 
constables  that  have  collected  their  money  may  run  away 
or  break  before  anything  be  done  as  to  the  building  of  it. 
This,  my  Lord,  they  say  happened  twice  before.  I  beseech 
your  Grace  it  may  be  now  prevented,  which  with  your  Grace's 
pardon  for  this  presumption,  I  conclude. 


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Thomas  Bedborough  to  Sm  George  Lane. 

1666,  April  4.  Kilkenny. — I  received  hia  Grace,  my  Lord 
Duke's  order  by  the  last  post,  and  in  obedience  thereto,  I 
went  out  last  Sunday  night,  immediately  after  the  receipt 
thereof,  with  a  party  of  horse  to  take  Captain  Furlong  and 
his  companion  at  Lismalin,  but  they  were  gone  from  tnence 
the  day  before,  as  I  was  informed  by  one,  Lieutenant  Minchen, 
an  honest  gentleman,  that  lives  hard  by  it.  Notwithstanding, 
1  searched  the  town,  and  finding  none  there,  I  ranged  the 
country  about  it,  though  to  no  effect  hitherto,  but  the  said 
Mr.  Minchen,  who  knows  the  person,  has  engaged  to  me 
to  give  me  speedy  notice  of  him  upon  his  next  coming  to 
Lismalin  or  thereabouts,  and  I  question  not  but  in  a  short  time 
I  shall  be  able  to  answer  my  Lord's  commands  effectually. 
In  the  meantime,  I  have  ordered  it  so  that  my  business  can 
be  little  suspected  in  those  parts  or  the  person,  I  having  had 
a  perfect  account  of  him  from  Mr.  Minchen  only. 

Postscript : — ^The  Tories,  that  are  out  in  the  Queen's  county, 
have  sent  to  me  to  endeavour  to  get  them  liberty  to  be 
transported  beyond  seas.  I  pray  acquaint  his  Grace 
my  Lord  Duke  of  it,  and  I  humbly  desire  to  know  his 
pleasure  in  it.  I  do  believe  if  I  had  leave  to  treat 
with  one  of  them,  I  should  soon  trepan  all  the  rest,  and  here 
is  a  Tory  in  prison,  that  was  taken  by  the  last  party  save 
one  that  turned  out,  who,  I  believe,  might  I  have  the  liberty 
to  take  him  abroad  as  I  found  occasion ,  might  be  serviceable  to 
to  find  out  many  others. 

Endorsed : — Quarter-Master  Bedborough. 

Mayor  and  Sheriffs  of  Droghbda  to  Ormond. 

1666,  April  8.  Drogheda. — May  it  please  your  Grace: 
We  received  the  proclamation  this  day,  bearing  date  the  26th 
day  of  March,  1666,  concerning  the  period  of  time  for  innocent 
Papists  to  take  out  their  decrees,  and  shall  cause  the  same 
to  be  proclaimed  and  publicly  fixed  up  in  all  the  usual  places 
within  our  county.  All  which  we  thought  good  to  signify 
unto  your  Grace,  and  ever  remain,  your  Grace's  most  humble 
servants. 

Josh.  Whorley,  Mayor. 


Edward  Bythell,lgv.^ 
JohnKiUogh,      ;»'^®"ff8- 


Sir  Stephen  Fox  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  April  14.  Whitehall. — I  am  now  by  this  single  letter 
to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  two  of  yours,  viz. ,  of  the  27th  of 
January,  and  28th  of  March  last.  The  first  I  did  not  sooner 
reply  to,  because  it  was  only  an  answer  to  one  of  mine,  and 
the  business  new  therein  was  only  to  pay  61  to  Mr.  Halsall, 
who  did  not  call  for  it  in  a  long  time  after  my  receiving  your 


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letter.  I  am  to  add  my  thanks  for  your  good  intentions  towards 
my  poor  brother,  who  I  again  recommend  to  you,  and  have 
advised  him  never  to  come  to  Dublin  till  you  send  for  him, 
nor  have  I  either  wTitten  or  spoken  to  any  other  person 
concerning  him,  wholly  relying  on  your  friendship  and 
kindness,  who  I  know  not  only  to  be  sufficiently  able,  but 
abundantly  willing. 

T  am  glad  his  Grace  is  satisfied  with  my  account.  I  have 
delivered  up  the  bond  of  800/,  and  the  receipt  for  300/,  to 
Mr  Buck,  and  shall  pay  the  balance,  being  23/,  when  it  is 
called  for,  and  always  serve  his  Grace  with  the  best  skill 
I  can  in  anything  in  my  power.  I  should  gladly  know 
whether  there  be  any  life  in  Mr.  Darcy*s  business,  who  doth 
very  much  depend  upon  it ,  and  is  comforted  by  your  expressions 
of  kindness  towards  him.  I  am  very  much  troubled  for  my 
Lady  Lane's  indisposition  and  yours.  I  pray  God  send  you 
both  well.  My  wife  desires  to  be  kindly  remembered  to  her 
Ladyship  and  yourself,  and  Miss  Charlotte.  All  mine  are  in 
good  health,  God  be  thanked,  and  Steeny  speaks  a  French 
compliment  for  them  all.  I  have  the  honour  sometimes  to 
see  Mr.  James  Tiane,  who  indeed  is  a  fine  cavalier,  and 
yesterday  he  was  in  our  seat  to  hear  the  Dean  of  Westminster 
preach  his  Good  Friday  sermon ,  wherein  he  exceeded.  Sir  John 
Denham,  that  great  master  of  wit  and  reason,  is  fallen  quite 
mad,  and  he  who  despised  religion,  now  in  his  distraction  raves 
of  nothing  else.  I  pray  God  divert  his  judgments  from  us 
and  send  us  health,  which  T  wish  you. 

John,  Lord  Bbrkblby  to  Ormond. 

1666,  April  14.  Whitehall. — May  it  please  your  Grace  : 
My  Lord  Kingston  hath  acquainted  me  with  some  occasions 
he  hath  of  being  absent  from  Connaught  some  times,  and 
hath  desired  me  to  recommend  Mr.  Thomas  Caulfeild  to  be 
Vice-President  in  his  Lordship's  absence.  I  have  received 
a  very  good  character  of  him,  who  I  presume  is  better  known 
to  your  Grace  than  to  me,  and  that  your  Grace  will  be  thereby 
the  more  willing  to  admit  of  my  most  humble  recommendation 
of  him  to  your  Grace,  which  I  shall  receive  as  a  very  singular 
favour  from  your  Grace,  and  ever  remain,  may  it  please  your 
Grace,  your  Grace's  most  humble  and  most  obedient  servant. 

John  Allin  to  John  Welch. 

1666,  April  27. — Have  patience  to  read. — Mr.  Walsh,  I  am 
informed  that  Major  Bayly  doth  make  his  brags  that  the  Earl 
of  Arran  will  set  the  Isles  of  Aran  unto  him.  It  is  not  my 
thoughts  that  he  will  so  far  forget  himself  as  to  do  it,  but 
being  so  that  it  is  so  generally  reported,  maketh  me  to  trouble 
you  with  these  few  lines,  desiring  you  to  know  whether  there 
be  any  such  thing,  and  to  give  you  a  copy  of  what  the  Earl 
hath  given  me  under  his  hand  and  seal,  which  is  here  enclosed, 
and  besides  that  T  paid  him  300/  towards  the  growing  rents. 


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It  cannot  sink  in  my  head  that  he  intends  any  such  thing, 
seeing  the  Earl  doth  know  what  great  injuries  the  said  Bayly 
hath  done  me  contrary  to  the  Lord  Duke's  orders  and  his 
Lordship's,   he   hath  by   what  moneys  he   had   of   me   and 
provisions  for  his  men,  and  damages  in  my  stocks,  charges 
and  loss  of  my  time  to  the  value  of  500/.     I  do  think  that  you 
might  as  lawfully  have  done  the  same  as  well  as  he.     I  have 
cleared  the  interest  of  the  place,  at  a  trial  before  the  Court  of 
Claims,  from  the  '49  trustees,  which  they  did  so  much  stickle 
for,  and  from  all  other  that  have  any  pretence  thereunto.     My 
commissioners  did  sit  to  discharge  the  trust  reposed  in  them 
by  the  examining  of  my  witnesses,  which  they  faithfully  did. 
The  commission   was  sealed  up  and  sent  to  his  Grace  on 
Tuesday  last.       I  doubt  not  but  it  will  come  to  your  sight, 
if  so  you  will  find  as  black  actions  that  ever  you  have  had 
knowledge  of  since  His  Majesty's  restoration,  but  if  I  had 
time  I  could  have  had  twenty  more  at  least,  if  there  had 
been  any  occasion   for  them,  which   I  should  have  thought 
would  have  been  enough  to  have  barred  him  from  making 
[claim]  for  that  which  is  another  man's  right.     But  that  is 
not  all.       He  hath  disobeyed  the  Lord  Duke's  order,  dated 
the  Ist  March  last,  in  doing  and  causing  to  be  done  many 
injuries  to  me  and  my  tenants,  which  by  the  same  order  he 
was  required  that  he  should  forbear  to  do  any  injury  to  me 
or  my  tenants ;  he  sent  men  from  Galway  to  drive  all  the 
cattle  in  the  island  for  the  most  part,  and  they  did  gather 
very  many,  and  in  such  a  place  that  many  of  them  were 
forced  into  the  sea,  damnifying  them  much,  and  forced  them 
into  the  rocks,  so  that  some  of  them  broke  their  legs.     After 
his  cruel  dealing  with  me  in  not  suffering  me  to  send  out  any 
cattle  to  sell,  so  many  were  starved  and  died  for  want  of 
grass.      My  troubles  and  losses  have  been  so  great  and  many 
by  him,  so  that  if  I  should  lay  them  dow^n,  you  could  not 
have  the  patience  to  read  them,  but  do  desire  you  to  consider 
of  them,  and  have  pity  and  speak  something  in  my  behalf, 
according  as  you  shall  find  cause  and  opportunity. 

Most  of  the  people  of  the  place  do  much  the  worse  since 
his  coming  to  it,  and  disabled  to  pay  their  rent  besides  myself. 
Major  Bayly  came  to  the  place  at  the  time  appointed,  with 
one  of  his  commissioners  with  him,  which  did  join  with 
mine  in  the  examination  of  some  witnesses,  and  by  cross 
interrogatories,  and  finding  the  matter  so  much  against  him, 
that  they  made  a  tale  that  the  other  was  not  there,  and  so 
went  away.      Naught  else,  but  to  remain  your  loving  friend. 

Postscript: — If  I  may  crave  a  few  lines  from  you,  let  them 
be  directed  to  be  left  in  the  Post  Office  in  Galway. 

Addressed: — For  his  much  esteemed  friend  Mr.  Walsh, 
Counsellor  unto  his  Grace,  the  Lord  Duke  of  Ormond,  at  the 
Castle  in  Dublin ,  these  deliver. 


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Sir  Matthew  Afpleyabd  to  Ormond. 

1666,  April  28.  Charlemont. — These  parts  have  been  very 
quiet  until  on  Sunday  night  last  one,  Zachary  Burney,  an 
Englishman,  in  the  parish  of  Clogher  and  County  of  Tyrone, 
was  robbed ;  eight  pounds  and  his  clothes,  wife's  and  children's, 
with  what  linen  and  woollen,  bedding,  pewter  and  brass,  they 
carried  away.  Five  men  broke  open  the  door  and  came  in, 
and  eight  more  stood  at  the  door.  All  had  swords  and  pistols. 
There  is  one,  Keill  McTurlogh  McShane  Oge  O'Neill  (who 
killed  a  man  at  the  fair  of  Eenard  [Caledon]  the  last  year), 
his  father  came  to  Mr.  Golborne  and  told  him  he  was  sorry 
his  son  took  such  ill  courses  (which  he  could  not  help),  but 
said  his  son  was  penitent,  and  would,  if  he  might  have  a 
protection  for  six  weeks,  and  a  pardon  when  the  service  were 
done,  cause  them  all  to  be  taken,  and  I  shall  humbly 
beg  (with  all  submission)  your  Grace's  leave  to  say  that  I  think 
that  way  (or  a  sum  of  money  to  one  to  do  it)  must  be  the  way. 
Their  relations,  harbourers,  and  favourers  are  so  numerous 
in  this  county,  that  it  will  be  impossible  to  do  it  otherwise, 
which  I  humbly  submit  to  your  Grace's  pleasure. 

Miles  O'Kbilly  to  Okmond. 

1666,  April  29.  Brussels. — The  undeserved  aspersions  cast 
on  me,  have  occasioned  my  retirement  out  of  Ireland  into  the 
King  of  Spain's  dominions  for  the  safety  of  my  person ;  and, 
my  Lord,  it  lies  in  the  power  of  your  Grace  to  use  a  preservative 
cause  for  your  Lordship's  faithful  field  officers,  which  by  this 
is  begged  of  your  Honour. 

Endorsed: — Miles  Keilly's.       Received  20th  May,  1666. 

Petition  of  Provost  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  to 

Ormond. 

1666,  April  30.  Dublin. — ^To  his  Grace,  James,  Duke 
of  Ormond,  Lord  Lieutenant  General,  and  General  Governor 
of  Ireland,  and  Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Dublin. 

The  humble  petition  of  Thomas  Seele,  Provost  of  Trinity 
College. 

Sheweth :  That  by  one  clause  in  the  Act  of  Explanation  of 
some  doubt  arising  on  the  Act  of  Settlement,  it  is  enacted, 
page  '27,  that  the  commissioners  for  execution  of  the  said  Act 
shall  set  out  or  cause  to  be  set  out  unto  your  petitioner  and  his 
successors  for  ever,  so  many  acres  of  forfeitable  land  as  may 
be  of  the  yearly  value  of  £300,  or  may  be  sufficient  to  answer 
a  yearly  rent  charge  of  £300  to  be  issuing  out  of  the  same ; 
To  the  end  the  same  may  be  a  proportional  revenue  for  the 
support  of  the  Provost  of  Trinity  College,  near  Dublin,  to  be 
settled  upon  the  said  Provost  and  his  successors  for  ever,  in 
such  way  and  manners  as  your  Grace  and  council  shall  direct. 


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And  forasmuch  as  your  petitioner  is  informed  that  the 
lands  in  the  annexed  schedule  are  lands  that  have  been  in  the 
hands  of  such  adventurers,  who  by  the  rules  of  the  said  Act 
have  not  right  to  them. 

He  therefore  most  humbly  prayeth  that  your  Grace  (by 
whose  favour  the  said  clause  is  inserted  in  the  said  Act)  will 
graciously  please  to  recommend  the  said  schedule  unto  the 
commissioners  for  execution  of  the  said  Act,  that  they  may 
set  out  unto  your  petitioner  and  his  successors,  so  much  therof 
as  may  in  the  whole  amount  unto  the  clear  yearly  value  of 
£300,  or  otherwise  that  the  said  commissioners  may  out  of 
any  other  forfeited  lands,  set  out  so  much  as  may  answer  a 
yearly  rent  charge  of  £300,  according  to  the  intent  of  the  said 
charge. 

And  he  shall  pray,  etc. 

Endorsed  at  foot : — The  clerk  of  the  council  is  to  present  this 
petition  unto  us  at  our  next  sitting  at  the  Council  Board,  where 
the  same  shall  be  taken  into  consideration,  and  such  further 
order  given  thereupon  as  shall  be  thought  fit. 

Ormond. 

Schedule  set  out.  1. — Lands  belonging  to  Sir  William 
Brereton's  lot  in  County  Tipperary,  Barony  of  Iffa  and  Offa, 
about  1 ,228  acres. 

2. — Lands  in  Barony  of  Kavan  and  County  of  Meath,  about 
1,600  plantation  acres. 

3. — Col.  Alexander  Popham's  in  north  east  quarter  of  liarony 
of  Clonwilliam,  about  1,467  acres. 

James  King  and  B.   Cuningham  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  May  JO.  Jamestown. — We  having  according  to  our 
duty  for  a  due  and  seasonable  return  of  the  hearth  books  for 
the  County  of  Leitrim  employed  our  best  endeavours,  and 
meeting  with  several  difficulties  as  the  want  of  a  conjunction 
of  a  third  to  sign,  the  Justices  of  the  County  being  for  most 
part  at  Dublin,  and  the  constables,  whom  we  have  fined, 
not  bringing  in  so  satisfactory  a  return  as  we  expected,  have 
been  the  principal  reasons  that  the  books  were  not  sent  up 
in  such  time  as  by  us  intended  and  the  Act  required.  And 
therefore  doubting,  though  our  diligence  and  endeavours  have 
not  therein  been  wanting,  that  both  we  and  the  rest  of  the 
Justices  may  thereby  suffer,  do  most  humbly  request  your 
Honour  so  far  to  favour  them  and  us  as  that  not  any  prejudice 
may  fall  upon  us  by  a  supposed  neglect,  which  by  our  best 
care  and  diligence  in  rectifying  what  may  any  ways  be  defective, 
we  purpose  speedily  to  repair.  This  great  favour  as  we  make 
bold  to  petition  your  Honour,  so  also  we  humbly  beg  your 
pardon  for  our  great  presumption  and  trouble  herein  given  your 

Honour. 
Endorsed  : — For  His  Majesty's  service.       Haste. 


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John  ]3ramston  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  May  22.  Athlone. — Having  received  an  order  from 
the  commissioners  for  sick  and  wounded  seamen  and  prisoners 
at  war,  to  set  at  liberty  Isaac  Vylansen,  one  of  the  Dutch 
prisoners  committed  to  my  charge,  but  supposing  the  order 
to  be  no  warrant  for  my  discharge,  I  herewith  send  the  man 
therein  concerned  (having  taken  sufficient  security  for  his 
return  hither  in  case  his  Grace  the  Lord  Lieutenant  do  not 
approve  of  his  enlargement)  and  have  enclosed  the  order, 
humbly  desiring  your  Honour  to  acquaint  his  Grace  therewith , 
and  to  afford  him  your  Honour's  assistance  therein. 

I  have  one  request  more  to  your  Honour,  that  you  will  be 
pleased  to  move  his  Grace  for  more  money  for  the  relief  of 
the  rest  of  the  prisoners,  they  being  much  indebted  to  the 
inhabitanats  here,  and  they  not  able  longer  to  trust  them. 

Dr.  William  Cole  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  May  22.  Whitehall.— Yours  from  Dublin  Castle 
of  May  9th  came  to  my  hands  this  May  22nd,  for  which 
and  your  favours  therein  I  am  most  humbly  bold  to  present 
my  most  affectionate  thanks,  as  having  a  due  resentment  of 
so  great  a  condescension  in  a  person  of  so  great  honour  to 
take  cognizance  of  the  concerns  of  one  so  undeserving  and 
unknown.  But  I  must  first  ascribe  all  to  the  honorableness 
and  goodness  of  yourself,  and  next  to  the  influence  of  my  Lord 
his  Grace,  upon  your  respects,  and  in  his  absence  I  doubt 
not  but  at  my  return  to  Newhall  to  have  her  Grace's  letter 
of  thanks  to  you  in  my  behalf.  I  have  this  night  taken 
course  to  Mr.  Alderman  Reader,  of  Dublin,  to  pay  201  for 
defraying  the  College  charge  to  Dr.  Stearne  there,  and  if 
the  houses'  testimonials  shall  wait  upon  youself,  I  humbly 
beg  they  may  be  directed  to  Mr.  Secretary  Mathew  Lock  at 
the  Cockpitt,  by  which  means  I  shall  have  them  safely 
conveyed.  My  Lady  Duchess  and  my  Lord  Torrington  are 
now  at  Newhall.  My  Lord,  his  Grace,  is  very  well,  and  was 
yesterday  weighing  anchor  from  the  river,  at  the  Buoy  in  the 
Nore,  for  the  Downes.  Captain  Clarke  had,  when  Sir  Wm. 
Clark  yesternight  dated  his  letter,  sent  advertisement  to  his 
Grace  that  he  had  with  others  newly  taken  nine  Dutch  ships, 
laden  from  Norway,  of  three  or  four  hundred  ton  apiece, 
and  in  their  company  redeemed  the  Hunter,  a  ship  of  London, 
taken  by  them.  Sir,  I  most  humbly  beg  your  pardon  for  this 
confidence. 

'Sir  Arthur  Forbes  to  Mr.  Secretary  Page. 

1666,  May  25. — When  I  left  Dublin  you  saw  a  letter  directed 
to  me  from  this  country,  wherein  I  was  informed  that  Edmond 
Nangle  was   desired   to   make  an   attempt  upon  my  house. 


It  being  sent  from  a  woman,  I  was  loath  to  trouble  my  Lord 
Lieutenant  with  an  account  of  it  till  I  had  more  fully  satisfied 
myself  of  the  truth  of  the  matter,  but  upon  my  further  inquiry 
I  find  that  Nangle  and  Miles  Reilly,  who  were  supposed  to 
have  gone  beyond  the  seas,  were  at  Strabane,  in  the  County  of 
Roscommon ,  with  three  hundred  men,  six  days  before  I  left  you , 
and  that  they  presumed  the  Castle  of  Longford,  with  my  house, 
a  fit  and  convenient  place  to  rendezvous  those  of  their  partes 
in  relation  to  a  further  disturbance.  This  day  I  have  notice 
from  the  County  of  Fermanagh  and  Cavan  of  the  same, 
not  from  bad  hands,  and  that  they  are  resolved  suddenly  to 
make  that  attempt  which  they  declined  formerly  upon 
the  account  of  the  not  appearance  of  those  men  they  expected 
from  Ulster.  I  doubt  not  to  preserve  my  family,  yet  I  suppose 
it  my  duty  to  acquaint  my  Lord  Lieutenant  that  if  their 
insolence  be  not  suddenly  suppressed  I  cannot  divine  where 
it  may  end.  Nangle  was  last  night  within  three  miles  of 
this  place  in  a  tenant's  house  of  mine,  where  no  horse  could 
reach  him,  it  was  in  the  County  of  Leitrim,  attended  with 
forty  men,  and  there  was  one,  O'Rorke,  with  fifteen  more, 
who  likewise  is  upon  his  keeping  within  a  half  mile  of  his 
quarter.  This  I  thought  my  duty  to  signify,  and  let  any 
suppose  madness  in  the  matter  who  pleases.  The  desire  seems 
solid,  if  my  Lord  Lieutenant  shall  think  fit  to  surprise  him, 
such  must  be  employed  who  can  hunt  him  in  the  bogs. 
Jamestown  is  one  of  the  places  desired  to  be  seized,  which 
may  be  easily  done,  for  there  is  no  garrison  in  it. 

Postscript: — Let  me  hear  from  you  by  this  bearer. 

Eabl  op  Inchiquin  to  Sib  Gborgb  Lanb. 

1666,  May  26.  Dublin. — Dear  George :  This  is  the  best  paper 
]  can  get  at  the  Bowling  Green  to  let  you  know  that  my  son-in- 
law's  footman  is  in  danger  to  be  hanged  for  want  of  that  reprieve 
which  my  Lord  gave  me  leave  to  petition  him  for ;  and  my  man 
gave  you  the  petition  on  Thursday  night,  but  the  hurry  you 
were  in  by  reason  of  your  journey,  having  hindered  your 
getting  an  answer  thereof  before  your  going  away,  I  am 
driven  to  give  you  this  trouble,  beseeching  you  to  get  me  a 
reprieve  for  him  till  next  term,  and  to  send  it  me  by  the  first, 
for  if  I  have  it  not  by  this  day  seven-night,  the  man  will  be 
hanged,  which  I  would  not  wish  for  a  brace  of  hundred  pounds. 
I  am,  dear  George,  your  most  affectionate  kinsman  and  most 
humble  servant. 

Postscript: — The  man's  name  is  Charles  O'Malley,  and  his 
sentence  was  given  this  day. 

Addressed: — For  my  worthy  cousin.  Sir  George  Lane, 
attending  his  Grace,  the  Lord  Lieutenant  General  of  Ireland, 

Free  T.K.  Belfast. 

Endorsed : — Earl  of  Inchiquin' s.  Received  29th  May,  1666. 
Reprieved. 


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Elizabeth,  Lady  Thurlbs  to  Ormond. 

1666,  May  27th.  Thurles. — Son;  I  have  upon  other 
occasions  acquainted  you  with  the  hard  condition  your  brother 
Butler  is  in,  having  a  family  that  I  doubt  makes  him  live  above 
his  revenue.  There  is  a  way  now  propounded  that  may  be 
of  some  advantage  for  his  second  son,  if  you  shall  think  it 
so  and  approve  of  it.  Mr.  Evered,  of  Featherd,  left  one 
sister,  who  married  the  Knight  of  Kerry's  son.  She  is  now 
a  widow,  and  has  a  jointure  in  Kerry  of  near  200Z  a  year; 
she  had  left  her  by  inheritance  150J  a  year,  which  at  present 
is  encumbered  with  some  debts,  and  is  to  come  in  free  to 
her  in  five  years,  and  this  is  tied  upon  a  daughter  she  has, 
if  she  shall  hereafter  have  no  son.  If  you  approve  of  this 
match  and  that  you  think  her  jointure  will  stand  secure,  they 
will  endeavour  to  compass  it,  having  reason  to  make  some 
settlement  for  their  younger  children  the  best  manner  they 
can  in  their  own  time.  God  keep  and  bless  you  and  all 
yours.      Your  ever  loving  mother,  Elisa  Thurles. 

Major  John  Love  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  May  29.  Kinsale. — I  did  write  to  you  in  my  last 
how  that  I  had  stopped  five  ships  laden  with  beef  belonging 
to  Mr.  Choisin,  but  I  find  that  there  is  but  four  laden.  'He 
had  two  more  laden  but  they  are  gone  long  since  and  reported 
for  France,  and  Mr.  Choisin  was  lately  hiring  of  a  ship 
in  this  harbour  to  load  her  with  beef,  but  the  master  and  he 
could  not  agree  and  so  they  broke  off.  Sir,  I  am  to  acquaint 
you  that  there  is  in  these  four  ships  goods  belonging  to 
several  Englishmen  besides  Mr.  Choisin's  beef.  I  humbly 
desire  to  know  whether  I  shall  deliver  them  their  goods,  and 
whether  I  shall  land  the  beef  into  the  fort  or  into  the  town. 
I  am  informed  that  Mr.  Choisin  is  gone  to  Dublin  for  to 
petition  his  Grace,  and  if  he  clears  his  ships  and  goods,  I 
humbly  desire  that  Mr.  Choisin  may  satisfy  all  those  men 
that  I  have  employed  in  watching  the  ships  day  and  night, 
and  carrying  all  their  sails  ashore.  I  have  nothing  else  to 
trouble  you  at  this  time. 

Postscript ; — I  have  sent  you  here  enclosed  a  copy  of  all  the 
passages  that  happened  to  Captain  Coventry  since  he  left 
England.  He  humbly  desires  that  you  will  be  pleased  to 
show  it  to  his  Grace,  and  then  to  send  it  to  the  principal 
officers  in  London.  Here  is  Captain  Grant,  Captain  Coventry, 
Captain  White,  and  Captain  Ball  ready  to  go  to  sea  again, 
and  so  is  Captain  Sherland  with  the  pleasure  boat,  waiting 
for  a  fair  wind  to  go  for  Dublin. 

Major  Robert  Edgeworth  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  June  1.  Sligo. — A  vessel  bound  for  Killybegs  from 
Pallyshannbn,  in  her  passage,  was  met  with  a  pickaroon,  a 
Frenchman,  and  forced  to  alter  her  course,  and  after  six  hours' 


2-24 

chase  was  driven  in  here  late  yesterday  in  the  evening.  The 
master  of  her  told  me  that  there  are  three  small  Cappers 
cruising  between  Killybegs,  Broadhaven,  and  this  bay  and 
port.  If  but  one  of  His  Majesty's  frigates  would  but  appear 
here,  we  doubt  they  would  find  it  worth  their  labour,  if  not 
in  taking  of  these  rogues,  at  least  in  driving  them  off  the  coast 
and  securing  the  small  trade  in  these  parts.  This  coming 
to  my  knowledge  I  thought  it  my  duty  to  make  it  known  unto 
you,  to  the  end  that  it  might  be  presented  to  his  Grace, 
being  desired  thereunto  by  the  small  merchants  and  traders 
of  these  parts.  As  for  anything  else  to  give  his  Grace 
account  of,  I  know  nothing  but  that  all,  blessed  be  God,  is 
quiet  and  very  well,  and  I  beseech  you  assure  his  Grace  from 
me  that  this  garrison  is  in  a  quiet,  obedient,  and  loyal  posture, 
and  by  the  blessing  of  God  shall  be  so,  or  I  will  not  live. 
I  received  a  letter  from  Dublin,  intimating  that  Cornet  Nangle 
and  Miles  Eeilly  w^ere  up  in  arms  and  in  these  parts.  I  can 
assure  you  also  whether  they  be  in  arms  or  no  is  unknown 
to  me  as  yet,  and  that  they  are  not  near  me  here  I  am  certain, 
for  I  should  be  very  sorry  to  have  so  slender  intelligence 
as  under  my  nose  to  have  such  companions  without  taking 
notice  of  them,  here  being  a  troop  of  horse  and  my  ward  or 
company,  you  may  call  it,  for  I  have  sixty  able  and  I  doubt  not 
loyal  fighting  men  in  it,  besides  my  Lord  Collooney's  horse. 
I  shall  humbly  beg  of  you,  with  the  humble  tender  of  my 
duty  to  his  Grace,  to  move  him  that  if  his  Grace  thing  it  fit, 
I  may  have  orders  directed  to  me  upon  notice  of  any  unlawful 
tumultuary  meeting  to  rise  with  a  convenient  party,  and 
disperse  or,  if  I  can,  take  some  of  them.  The  noise  of  this 
as  it  would  terrify  all  such  persons,  so  it  would  humble  ill 
humours  if  any  be  breeding  in  the  breasts  of  our  own,  w-hich 
by  way  of  prevention  is  no  bad  physic.  I  have  done  my 
duty,  and  with  my  prayers  to  the  Almighty  for  his  protection 
on  his  Grace  and  his  blessings  on  all  his  endeavours,  I  take 
leave. 

Postscript : — Sir,  I  beg  a  return  to  this. 

Addressed: — To  the  honourable  Sir  George  Lane,  knight, 
principal  secretary  to  his  Grace,  my  Lord  Lieutenant,  these, 
at  his  house  on  the  Blind  Kay,  Dublin,  present. 

For  His  Majesty's  most  especial  service.  Haste,  Haste, 
Haste. 

8m  Arthur  Forrbs  to  Mr.  Secretary  Page. 

1666,  June  7. — Having  received  my  Lord  Lieutenant's 
commands  from  Drogheda,  wherein  I  am  required  to  give 
his  Grace  an  account  of  Mister  Nangle*s  proceedings,  I 
presume  to  acquaint  you  that  what  I  formerly  wrote,  is  true, 
and  that  he  stayed  in  the  County  of  Leitrim  for  three  days 
after  the  date  of  my  last,  but  having  received  notice  of  the 
mutiny  of  Carrickfergus,  lest   it  might  not  only   encourage 


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Mister  Nangle  but  also  others,  I  thought  it  my  duty  to  put 
this  country  in  some  posture  of  defence,  and  with  some  of 
the  country  and  some  horsemen  afoot,  I  went  by  water  to 
seek  him  out,  but  he  was  upon  his  guard  and  retired  to 
Sleufineren,  a  fast  mountain  there,  upon  which  I  gave  notice 
to  Sir  Oliver  St.  George's  troop,  who  also  went  in  search  of 
him.  Then  he  came  into  the  County  of  Longford,  where 
we  the  next  day  on  horseback  hunted  him  into  the  woods 
which  divide  Leitrim  and  Cavan,  whither  now  he  is 
gone.  I  have  sent  notice  to  Sir  Charles  Hamilton 
of  his  motion  to  Cavan,  who  I  presume  will  give  him 
little  rest  there.  Upon  the  whole  he  has  used  all  possible 
endeavours  to  incite  all  discontented  people  to  an  insurrection, 
and  has  his  correspondents  all  the  kingdom  over.  He  likewise 
encourages  the  common  people  with  vain  hopes.  There  is 
one,  Dualtache  Costello,  who  has  been  with  him,  a  man  more 
considerable  than  himself  for  matters  of  action,  who  is,  as 
I  am  informed,  engaged  to  join  with  him  with  all  those  he 
can  influence.  I  have  secured  several  in  Leitrim,  where 
he  was  entertained,  and  especially  such  who  gave  no  notice 
to  any  of  His  Majesty's  oflBcers.  Horse  will  never  be  able 
to  find  him  out,  and  if  it  may  stand  with  my  Lord  Lieutenant's 
pleasure  to  command  two  small  parties  of  foot  to  hunt  him 
in  the  bogs  and  woods  where  he  haunts,  I  am  persuaded  there 
may  be  a  short  account  had  of  him.  There  is  one,  Sergeant 
Thomas,  who  belongs  to  that  company  which  was  Captain 
St.  George's,  now  quartered  in  Athlone,  whom  I  suppose  the 
fittest  person  to  employ,  he  being  acquainted  with  all  the 
fastnesses  of  these  countries.  Besides  he  is  an  active  stout 
fellow.       This  I  presumed  my  duty  to  acquaint  you  with. 

Sir  Arthur  Forbes  to  Mr.  Secretary  Page. 

1666,  June  8.  Castle  Forbes. — This  enclosed  came 
from  Mister  Irvine,  the  gentleman  I  made  bold  to 
recommend  to  your  favour.  You  will  better  know  by  his 
letter  what  he  proposes  than  I  can  write.  If  you  can  favour 
him,  it  will  be  an  act  of  charity  done  to  a  person  who  probably 
may  merit  it,  and  to  one  whose  relations  have  done  and  suffered 
as  much  as  any  of  their  quality  in  His  Majesty's  service. 
I  dare  not  presume  to  desire  that  my  Lord  Lieutenant  might 
be  moved  to  interpose  in  his  behalf,  but  will  leave  it  to  your 
own  judgment.      It  seems  there  is  none  yet  provided  to  it. 

As  for  news  there  is  so  much  and  so  frequent  alarms  in 
this  country,  that  I  know  not  what  to  write  first.  This  I 
presume,  if  my  intelligence  do  not  more  than  enough  abuse 
me^  there  is  some  sudden  and  dangerous  design  in  agitation 
amongst  the  Irish.  I  have  it  from  several  good  hands,  and 
from  several  parts  of  this  kingdom,  I  doubt  not  but  my  Lord 
Lieutenant  is  informed  of  it,  if  it  be  true;  yet  I  durst  not 
Wt.  8878  o 


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neglect  giving  you  an  account  of  what  I  hear.  There  is  one 
who  disposes  upon  oath  that  he  saw  and  handled  some  of 
the  arms  that  are  already  landed  at  Boilache  [  ?] .  One  thing 
I  am  informed  of  which,  if  true,  my  Lord  will  soon  know, 
which  is  that  the  Ulster  clergy  are  to  attend  his  Grace  in 
relation  to  an  oath  of  loyalty,  which  is  expected  from  them, 
which  they  are  resolved  not  to  refuse  positively  but  to  desire 
time  to  consider  of  it,  the  better  to  amuse  us  with  an  expectation 
of  what  he  says  they  will  not  do,  their  end  being  only  to  gain 
time  till  their  friends  be  prepared  for  what  they  intend.  If  my 
Lord  seem  to  apprehend  anything  of  this  matter,  be  pleased 
to  let  me  know  of  it,  for  I  am  promised  a  more  full  account 
within  this  week,  and  the  names  of  several  who  are 
engaged  in  the  design,  who  are  all  to  meet,  or  at  least  the 
most  considerable  persons,  in  some  place  of  Ulster,  where 
they  are  to  resolve  the  best  way  how  to  embody  themselves 
upon  occasions.  What  further  I  can  learn,  if  you  advise 
it,  shall  upon  all  occasions  be  despatched  to  you. 

Major  John  Love  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  June  9.  Kinsale. — ^This  is  humbly  to  acquaint  you, 
and  desiring  you  to  acquaint  his  Grace,  that  just  now  here 
arrived  fourteen  sail  of  ships  from  the  Barbadoes,  most  of 
them  belonging  to  London.  They  bring  sad  news,  how 
that  the  French  have  taken  Saint  Christopher's  and  put 
most  of  the  English  to  the  sword  there.  The  bearer, 
Mr.  Browne,  can  give  you  the  full  relation  of  it. 

Sir  Egbert  Byron  to  Ormond. 

1666,  June  12.  Kinsale. — On  Wednesday  last  I  arrived 
here  before  I  waited  upon  my  Lord  of  Orrery,  though  I  wrote 
to  him  by  the  first  conveniency  I  found,  after  I  came  into 
this  province,  to  acquaint  him  with  my  haste  hither,  as  a 
place  so  considerable  and  so  far  out  of  order  as  I  doubted 
not  of  his  pardon  that  I  performed  not  my  respects  to  him 
in  the  first  place,  which  by  his  letters  he  seems  to  allow  for 
a  very  just  excuse. 

I  find  this  place  the  most  considerable  fort  I  have  seen 
in  this  kingdom,  but  in  very  ill  condition,  the  rampier  being 
broken  down  in  many  places  that  a  man  might  ride  up  it, 
thirty  pieces  of  ordnance,  not  half  of  them  upon  carriages] 
all  the  platforms  decayed  and  rotten,  wholly  useless. 

My  allowance  for  this  place  according  to  estimate,  which 
was  given  in  to  your  Grace,  is  about  200Z,  which  I  fear  will 
not  hold  out  to  do  all  that  is  absolutely  necessary  considering 
the  importance  of  the  place,  which  to  my  thinking  is  the  noblest 
I  ever  saw,  and  hath  the  most  command  of  the  bravest 
harbour  I  have  ever  seen ;  as  to  the  security  of  a  fleet,  and 
for  the  work  made  by  Prince  Eupert,  as  much  may  be  done 


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in  six  hours  as  he  did,  for  I  have  viewed  all  those  places  since 
my  being  here,  and  I  hope  we  shall  never  have  the  like 
occasion  again  to  see  a  Parliament  fleet  without  waiting  an 
opportunity  to  seize  the  King's  fleet  within  the  harbour;  the 
blockhouse  having  those  guns  mounted,  which  lie  upon  the 
ground,  having  whole  culverin  of  brass  and  a  demy  cannon 
of  iron,  w411  command  the  harbour's  mouth.  I  beseech  your 
Grace  order  your  warrant  to  call  in  the  country  to  work,  and 
I  doubt  not  but  within  a  few  days  I  shall  put  this  place 
into  a  handsome  posture,  which  it  very  well  deserves. 

In  my  way  hither  I  viewed  all  the  castles,  towns,  and  forts, 
which  I  found  all  in  very  ill  condition  but  Duncannon,  except 
which  I  have  supplied  all  according  to  my  allowance;  the 
particular  of  all  this  I  think  too  tedious  to  put  into  a  letter, 
and  therefore  shall  defer  it  till  I  have  the  honour  to  wait 
upon  your  Grace  at  my  return,  when  I  shall  give  your  Grace 
that  account  of  my  diligence  as  I  hope  shall  declare  my 
obedience  to  your  commands,  and  that  I  make  it  my  business, 
which  I  have  ever  done,  to  deserve  the  esteem  of  your  Grace. 

Postscript : — I  have  sent  to  have  an  account  of  the  Bantry 
and  Crookhaven  forts,  and  shall  provide  for  them  as  far  as 
my  allowance  will  extend. 

CoL.  Egbert  Sandys  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  June  15.  Lanesborough. — The  enclosed  is  a  relation 
of  some  outings  of  Mr.  Nangle's,  which  my  duty  binds  me  to 
represent.  I  heartily  wish  some  course  might  be  taken  to 
secure  his  purposed  mischief,  for  most  certainly  he  prepares 
and  threatens  very  maliciously,  and  by  his  pious  insinuations 
grows  exceedingly  into  the  kindness  and  wonder  of  the  common 
Irish,  insomuch  that  in  some  parts  they  fall  down  on  their 
knees  at  sight  of  him.  I  should  be  glad  if  in  any  commands 
hither  I  might  serve  you. 

Postscript : — I  entreat  your  favour  to  procure  me  a  licence 
of  absence,  and,  if  it  may  be,  for  three  months,  though  I 
shall  in  that  interim  several  times  visit  my  garrison. 

CoL.  Egbert  Sandys  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  June  16.  Lanesborough. — I  was  Thursday  last  at 
your  Eathcline,  when  Mr.  Spike  received  the  joyful  news 
of  our  sea  victory,  which  your  fort  and  town  did  celebrate 
with  volleys  of  shot  and  bonfires,  the  bonfires  imitated  on  the 
other  side  your  bridge,  but  I  dare  say  not  with  the  like  affection, 
having  observed  the  Irish  droop  much  at  this  intelligence. 
Lord  Barneweirs  house  is  going  up  within  the  old  rampire 
near  the  bridge.  His  steward  tells  me  'tis  intended  but  a 
small  fabric,  but  if  built  a  nobleman's  house  after  the  manner 
of  Ireland,  I  dare  pronounce  it  shall  more  command  the  pass 
than  your  fort  shall  do,  and  be  a  galling  neighbour  of  your  fort. 


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If  then  too  the  rampire  and  graff  shall  be  repaired,  which 
may  be  done  without  any  great  expense  of  time  or  money, 
I  know  not  a  better  fortification  in  Ireland.  Your  mills 
begin  to  look  as  if  they  would  signify  something.  The  water 
does  fast  incline  to  them,  and  doubtless  they  will  be  of  great 
use  as  they  are  of  beauty.  The  bridge  seems  to  go  on  but 
slowly,  it  seems  there  wants  lime,  but  a  kiln  is  ready  to 
be  fired. 

Your  house  of  Eathcline  is  almost  brought  to  perfection, 
and  really  'tis  a  very  sufficient  good  house,  so  beautified  with 
all  sorts  of  ingenious  plantations,  that  a  small  time  will  shew 
it  an  earthly  paradise.  Sir,  I  beg  your  pardon  to  divert  you 
with  a  little  account  and  some  observations,  because  I  know 
they  are  not  unpleasant  to  you,  though  yet  you  have  them 
daily  in  the  far  more  knowing  style  of  your  most  industrious 
steward,  in  whom  truly  I  think  you  are  exceeding  happy. 
These  two  days  past  we  have  heard  little  of  Mr.  Nangle,  but 
we  suppose  him  in  the  woods.  This  we  certainly  know,  he 
has  a  considerable  strength  very  well  appointed,  though  his 
whole  numbers  not  at  all  times  about  him.  It  were  very 
happy  if  he  might  yet  be  reduced  to  a  civil  life  and  obedience 
to  the  Government,  for  'tis  scarce  imaginable  what  terror  he 
strikes  into  all  these  neighbour  countries  ;  nothing  apprehended 
but  war  and  rebellion.  The  effect  will  be  found  in  the  collection 
of  the  four  subsidies,  which  may  be  paid  in  cows  and  distresses, 
never  in  moneys  if  discerning  men  can  judge,  all  buying  and 
selling  being  almost  at  a  perfect  stand,  men  chiefly  considering 
how  they  may  secure  their  families  from  the  worst  of  violence 
and  destruction. 

Ormond  to  Sir  Eobebt  Byron. 

1666,  June  16.  Dublin. — I  have  received  yours  of 
the  12th  instant  from  Kinsale,  where  I  hope  you  still  are,  and 
are  putting  the  reparation  of  it  in  hand.  By  this  post  a 
letter  will  go  to  my  Lord  of  Orrery  to  dispose  the  country 
next  to  that  place,  to  give  you  the  help  of  workmen  and 
carriages  for  materials,  which  the  Justices  of  Peace  may  so 
distribute  as  that  the  burden  will  be  but  light  to  the  country, 
and  yet  the  service  very  useful  towards  the  speedy  putting 
the  place  in  condition  of  defence.  By  the  description  you 
make  of  that  fort,  I  should  think  it  worthy  of  a  greater  charge 
than  is  allowed  you  to  bestow  upon  it,  and  therefore  I  should 
think  that  in  the  present  reparations,  regard  should  be  had 
to  future  addition  of  strength,  so  that  what  shall  now  be 
laid  out  may  tend  to  it,  at  least  not  be  lost;  and  in  case 
the  money  designed  for  the  present  shall  fall  short  to  do  what 
is  now  needful,  upon  notice  there  shall  be  such  further 
allowance  as  you  shall  propose. 

In  an  answer  I  lately  made  to  a  letter  from  my  Lord  of 
Kingston,  wherein  he  mentions  the  ill  condition  of  the  fort 
at  Gal  way,   I  told  him  of  you   being  to  come  thither,   and 


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desired  him,  upon  consideration  of  the  work  there  to  be  done, 
to  lay  out  for  such  materials  as  would  be  needful,  to  the  end 
you  might  lose  the  less  time,  when  you  should  come  thither, 
and  I  conceive  if  you  could  spare  any  fit  person  to  contract 
for  and  provide  those  materials,  it  would  much  shorten 
your  work,  and  sooner  put  that  place  (on  which  an 
enemy  may  have  a  design  as  well  as  on  Kinsale)  into  a 
condition  of  security.  This  is  what  I  conceive  needful  in 
answer  to  yours,  and  so  I  remain,  your  very  affectionate 
servant,  Ormond. 

Endorsed: — Copy  of  my  Lord  Lieutenant's  letter  to  Sir 
Robert  Byron. 


Sir  Robert  Byron  to  Ormond. 

1666,  June  19th.  Kinsale. — I  am  still  at  the  fort  of  Kinsale, 
where  I  find  very  good  occasion  for  my  stay,  till  I  can  see  it 
in  some  forwardness  in  what  I  have  undertaken  for  the 
strengthening  of  it,  which  is  in  hand,  and  proceeding  with 
the  least  loss  of  time  that  may  be,  and  my  Lord  President 
being  to  be  here  this  day,  and  having  your  Grace's  direction 
for  help  from  the  country,  I  doubt  not  but  to  have 
this  place  in  a  handsome  posture  within  a  short  time,  and 
so  as  shall  appear  the  money  hath  been  disposed  of  to  good 
advantage. 

My  being  here  hath  not  taken  off  my  care  of  other  places 
more  westerly,  as  the  Bantry  and  Crookhaven,  the  first 
whereof  is  capable  of  being  made  very  useful  for  this  present 
occasion,  and  I  shall  take  care  with  the  Governor  to  have  the 
guns  mounted,  and  some  other  things  of  small  charge  added 
to  the  strengthening  of  that  fort ;  but  for  the  other,  though 
in  a  place  of  advantage  enough,  yet  is  of  so  little  defence  that 
it  is  not  sufficient  to  defend  the  few  guns  (which  are  but  two) 
that  are  in  it ;  wherefore  I  think  fit  rather  to  draw  them  off 
and  dispose  of  them  to  better  advantage.  I  am  informed 
of  many  other  harbours  in  the  west  very  opportune  for  an 
enemy's  landing,  more  particularly  that  of  Berehaven,  which, 
as  I  am  told,  hath  no  fort  or  any  other  thing  to  give  the  least 
resistance  to  an  enemy,  and  if  that  were  fortified,  yet  there 
are  so  many  others  for  that  use  that  in  my  opinion  it  is 
impossible  to  hinder  an  enemy's  landing,  if  he  be  not  met 
withal  at  sea. 

I  may  not  omit  to  inform  your  Grace  that  yesterday  morning 
here  was  a  vessel  chased  in  by  one  of  twenty-six  guns,  who 
pursued  him  to  the  very  mouth  of  the  harbour,  and  the  master 
having  of  late  been  twice  taken  by  the  Dutch  and  French 
Cappers,  tells  me  whilst  he  was  aboard  them,  they  made 
great  boasting  of  an  army  of  French  to  be  landed  here. 
What  use  is  to  be  made  of  such  intelligence,  your  Grace  best 
knows,  but  I  thought  it  my  duty  to  acquaint  you  therewith. 


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For  the  preparations  for  Gal  way,  I  took  order  about  it  before 
I  left  Dublin,  having  written  to  Colonel  Spencer  to  make 
provision  both  for  workmen  and  materials,  that  when  I  should 
be  upoQ  the  place  myself,  no  time  might  be  lost  in  putting 
on  so  great  a  work,  wherein  no  small  time  is  necessary  for 
the  doing. 

I  shall  acquaint  your  Grace  with  my  proceedings  here  from 
time  to  time,  and  when  I  have  put  this  place  in  order,  and 
what  else  on  this  coast  lies  under  my  care,  according  to 
what  I  have  to  help  them,  my  next  station  is  at  Limerick, 
which  will  not  hold  me  long,  so  as  I  hope  to  come  timely 
enough  to  Galway  to  perform  what  is  to  be  done  there,  and 
in  the  whole  course  of  this  employment  I  hope  I  shall  never 
be  wanting  in  my  diligence  nor  my  obedience  to  all  such 
commands  as  your  Grace  shall  please  to  lay  me. 

Major  John  Love  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  June  19.  Einsale. — Yours  of  the  16th  I  did  receive 
with  a  letter  from  his  Grace,  which  I  shall  observe,  God 
willing.  Mr.  Choisin  is  very  earnest  with  me  for  to  clear 
his  ship,  but  I  am  resolved  not  to  do  it  until  I  receive  further 
orders  or  commands  from  his  Grace  or  yourself. 

Sir,  yesterday  morning  here  was  a  Dutch  Capper  of  about 
twenty-four  or  twenty-six  guns,  that  did  chase  an  English 
merchantman  to  the  very  harbour's  mouth.  The  merchantman 
ran  up  under  the  command  of  our  guns,  so  the  Capper  struck 
off  to  sea  again.  The  merchant  told  Sir  Eobert  Byron  and 
myself  that  he  was  taken  twice  by  them  within  these  ten 
days,  and  the  first  time  they  were  taken,  the  master  did 
compound  with  them  for  three  hundred  and  twenty  pounds, 
and  to  stay  himself  with  them  until  the  money  was  paid,  upon 
which  his  ship  was  cleared,  and  so  he  sent  his  mate  and  his 
merchant  in  her  to  proceed  in  their  voyage  towards  Virginia, 
and  within  two  days  after  they  were  taken  again.  Notwith- 
standing that  they  had  a  pass  from  him  that  took  them  first, 
the  last  did  take  all  from  them,  and  did  strip  off  their  clothes 
and  sent  them  ashore  with  only  the  bare  hull  with  some  old 
sails,  which  brought  them  in  here.  The  merchant  did  swear 
before  Sir  Eobert  and  myself  that  he  was  abroad  three  of 
their  Cappers,  and  that  all  of  the  seamen  are  Dutch,  and  in 
each  Capper  there  is  about  sixty  French  soldiers,  and  both 
the  Dutch  and  the  French  made  great  inquiry  of  this  merchant 
whether  Mr.  Choisin*s  beef  were  ready  to  go  to  sea,  and  they 
could  tell  him  how  many  ships  Choisin  had  laden  with  beef,  and 
he  told  us  likewise  that  the  French  were  more  cruel  to  them 
than  the  Dutch.  I  thought  it  necessary  to  acquaint  you 
with  this  passage,  that  you  may  acquaint  his  Grace  with  it. 
I  do  believe  Sir  Eobert  Byron  will  give  an  account  unto  his 
Grace  of  this  business.  The  merchant  told  us  also  that  there 
is  above  sixty  sail  of  Dutch  and  French  Cappers  upon  the 


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coast  of  Ireland  at  this  time,  and  that  'tis  impossible  almost 
for  a  ship  to  escape  them.  I  am  informed  that  his  Grace  do 
pm-pose  to  send  some  arms  and  ammunition  in  the  pleasure  boat 
into  this  province.  Pray  be  pleased  for  to  acquaint  his  Grace 
that  it  is  not  safe  to  send  her  without  a  strong  convoy. 
Captain  Grant  and  his  squadron  is  now  about  seventy  or 
eighty  leagues  to  the  south-west  of  the  Cape,  and  we  have  not 
one  man  of  war  left  in  this  province  that  I  can  hear  of. 
About  four  days  since  there  was  the  Sara  of  Cork  taken  in 
the  harbour's  mouth  there,  laden  with  oxen  and  sheep,  bound 
for  England.       The  deal  boards  are  not  yet  come  in. 

Postscript : — Sir  Eobert  Byron  is  now  here  and  putting 
this  fort  into  a  better  condition  than  it  was  formerly. 

Addressed: — ^For  His  Majesty's  special  affairs.  To  Sir 
George  Lane,  knight  and  baronet,  at  his  house  in  Dublin, 
present  these.       Haste,  haste,  post  haste. 

Sir  Eobert  Byron  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  June  19.  Kinsale. — ^Dear  Gossip:  I  have  received 
yours  and  my  Lord's  letter,  and  am  very  glad  my  diligence 
is  so  well  approved  of.  I  hope  I  shall  so  perform  bis  commands 
.  as  he  shall  neither  have  cause  to  blame  my  care  nor  suspect 
.  my  obedience  to  all  his  commands.  I  thank  you  for  the 
account  you  give  me  of  the  late  bloody  engagement  at  sea. 
I  know  not  what  change  this  may  have  made  in  the  French 
designs,  but  as  I  was  yesterday  informed  by  one  that  was 
lately  taken  by  them,  they  give  out  that  they  will  land  a 
great  army  of  French  here  this  summer.  I  hear  there  is 
some  intention  of  supplying  this  province  with  ammunition, 
which  is  very  necessary  to  be  done,  care  being  taken  that  it 
be  sent  with  a  sufficient  convoy,  for  the  Cappers  are  very 
strong  upon  this  coast,  and  so  bold  as  but  yesterday  morning 
one  of  twenty-six  guns  chased  in  a  vessel  into  this  harbour, 
and  pursued  her  to  the  very  mouth  of  it. 

You  could  not  have  sent  any  information  to  me  so  pleasing 
as  that  my  Lord  of  Ossory  hath  acquired  so  eminent  an 
addition  to  his  reputation,  and  hath  so  far  outstripped  all  of 
his  own  degree  in  the  pursuit  of  honour.  I  wish  he  may  long 
enjoy  it,  and  that  I  may  always  have  the  esteem  of  being, 
dear  Gossip,  your  most  affectionate  humble  servant, 

Addressed: — For  my  honoured  friend.  Sir  George  Lane, 
knight,  present  this  at  the  Castle  of  Dublin. 

Sir  Arthur  Forbes  to  Ormond. 

1666,  June  21. — May  it  please  your  Grace  :  The  many  alarms 
we  have  had  in  this  country  is  a  volume.  The  bearer.  Mister 
Jones,  can  inform  your  Grace  of  some  of  the  grounds  of  them. 
Something  is  certainly  intended,  but  under  your  Grace's 
conduct  I  doubt  not  that  anything  can  be  secret.  He  will 
acquaint  you  with  what  he  has  observed. 


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Major  Robert  Edgeworth  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  June  29.  Sligo. — I  received  by  this  post  orders 
for  Captain  Eooth,  in  the  Dartmouth  frigate,  but  he  is 
not  at  present  on  the  coast,  as  I  am  credibly  informed  by 
several  seafaring  mexx  that  saw  him  lately  about  Broadhaven 
and  Killybegs.  Some  of  them  were  aboard  him,  and  they  tell 
me  that  for  aught  they  could  learn,  he  was  then  intended  to  set 
sail  for  Kinsale  to  victual.  He  never  sent  word  to  me  this 
post,  which  if  he  had,  I  should  have  observed  your  instructions 
in  your  former  letter,  yet  I  thought  fit  to  keep  this  letter 
now  sent  him,  lest  within  few  days  he  should  touch  here. 
If  you  please,  upon  notice  by  the  next  post,  I  will  return 
it  to  you. 

Sir,  the  garrison  of  Sligo  was  never  without  some  horse  until 
now,  and  this  last  week  my  Lord  of  CoUooney's  troop,  by 
orders  from  my  Lord  President,  was  removed  hence  to 
Collooney.  In  this  garrison  are  near  upon  two  hundred 
families,  and  only  my  company,  the  fort  unfinished,  and  no 
horse,  w^hich  I  thought  my  duty  early  to  give  his  Grace  an 
account  of,  which  I  beseech  you  do,  that  I  may  not  be  blamed 
upon  that  score.  I  am  sure  you  know  that  this  place  can 
better  answer  every  alarm  of  the  county  than  Collooney  ;  besides 
it  is  the  high  road  and  pass  from  Ulster.  I  have  no  more, 
sir,  but  with  the  humble  tender  of  my  duty  to  his  Grace 
and  an  earnest  desire  to  know  his  pleasure  as  to  the  premises, 
I  subscribe  myself,  sir,  your  unfeignedly  faithful  servant  and 
most  affectionate  kinsman. 

Major  John  Love  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  June  29.  Kinsale. — This  is  humbly  to  entreat  you  to 
let  me  know  whether  I  shall  discharge  Mr.  Choisin's  ships 
with  the  beef,  for  they  are  very  earnest  every  day  with  me 
for  to  deliver  their  sails,  but  you  know  I  dare  not  until  that 
1  do  receive  orders  from  his  Grace  or  yourself.  Just  now 
one  of  the  masters  came  to  me  and  told  me  that  there  was 
orders  come  from  his  Grace  this  post  for  to  discharge  them, 
but  I  did  not  see  it  as  yet.  When  it  comes,  I  shall  obey  it, 
God  willing.  Sir,  here  is  now  in  the  harbour  about  sixty 
merchantmen,  some  of  them  came  from  the  Barbadoes,  and 
about  forty  that  came  in  lately,  came  from  Virginia  and 
other  places.  They  gave  a  great  alarm  all  the  west  of  Ireland. 
Captain  Eooth  and  Captain  Jonson  brought  in  the  last  fleet, 
and  they  are  here  taking  in  some  provisions.  Here  is  also 
the  Mermaid  frigate,  come  in  for  to  convoy  some  Bristol 
ships  home. 

Sir,  here  is  no  deal  come  in  as  yet,  but  I  hear  that  there  is 
great  store  about  forty  or  fifty  miles  off  at  a  place  called 
Crookhaven.  If  you  think  fit  to  get  an  order  from  the  Lords 
Commissioners  for  Prizes  that  you  might  have  an  order  for 
a  thousand  of  them  as  they  are  appraised,  and  send  your  order 


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unto  Colonel  Eobert  Manly,  who  is  Governor  of  Bantry  and 
Crookhaven,  and  he  is  likewise  empowered  by  the  Admiralty 
Court  for  to  have  a  care  of  all  prizes  that  comes  in  there,  that  the 
goods  might  not  be  embezzled,  he  may  buy  them  for  you  at 
an  easy  rate,  if  you  please  to  write  to  him,  and  then  Captain 
Eooth  or  some  other  frigate  may  bring  them  when  they  sail 
to  Dublin. 

Col.  John  Gorges  to  Ormond. 

1666,  July  3.  Londonderry. — Sir  James  Middleton's  and 
Colonel  Sydenham's  companies  being  marched  by  your  Grace's 
order,  I  humbly  presume  to  beg  the  knowledge  of  your 
Lordship's  pleasure  whether  any  other  supply  is  ordered  hither, 
and  that  if  you  please  so  to  do,  I  humbly  tender  it  to  your 
Grace's  wisdom  whether  resident  English  oflBcers  be  not  most 
fit  for  this  so  remote  a  garrison.  It  would  be  too  saucy  a 
boldness  in  me  to  give  my  weak  opinion  or  reasons  herein, 
well  knowing  my  duty  is  to  submit  as  in  this  so  in  all  things 
to  your  Grace's  prudence,  which  I  have  and  always  shall 
cheerfully  do.  I  shall  also  beseech  your  Grace's  pardon  that 
I  so  oft  mention  the  miserable  want  here  of  carriages  for  all 
the  guns,  being  not  one  mounted,  but  I  shall  presume  no 
further. 

Major  John  Love  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  July  6.  Kinsale. — Yours  of  the  3rd  I  did  receive 
with  two  letters  enclosed,  which  I  did  deliver  with  my  own 
hand  as  you  may  see  by  the  two  enclosed  receipts.  Captain 
Grant  and  his  squadron  are  to  continue  in  the  west  for  to 
expect  to  convoy  a  fleet  that  is  bound  home  from  the  East 
Indies.  Captain  Booth  and  Captain  Watson  and  Captain 
J  on  son  are  here  staying  for  a  fair  wind  for  to  convoy  from 
hence  the  Virginia  fleet  and  the  Barbadoes  fleet  for  Plymouth. 
If  the  wind  serves  they  sail  in  the  morning. 

Sir,  I  did  receive  orders  from  his  Grace  for  to  deliver 
Mr.  Chossin  his  sails  and  for  to  take  the  soldiers  out  of  his 
ships,  which  accordingly  I  have  done.  I  have  here  sent 
you  a  copy  of  the  petition  and  order  that  you  might  see  how 
much  they  have  abused  both  myself  and  the  soldiers.  I  durst 
take  my  oath  that  the  soldiers  did  not  take  the  worth  of  a 
penny  from  them ;  the  soldiers  had  only  their  allowance  in 
provision  as  the  seamen  had  during  the  time  they  were  aboard. 
Now  I  humbly  pray  you  to  let  me  know  whether  I  shall  let 
those  four  ships  pass  when  they  are  ready  to  go  to  sea. 

^  Petition  op  Lewis  Des  Mynieres  and  order  thereon 

enclosed  with  the  preceding. 

1666,  June  26. — To  his  Grace  the  Lord  Duke  of  Ormond, 
Lord  Lieutenant  General  and  General  Governor  of  all  Irelaad. 


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The  humble  petition  of  Lewis  Desmynieres  of  Dublin, 
merchant,  for  and  on  the  behalf  of  John  Choisin,  merchant, 
of  Kinsale. 

In  most  humble  manner  showing  that  the  said  John  Choisin 
lately  obtained  of  the  right  honourable  the  Lords  of  the  Council 
an  order  to  the  Governor  of  the  fort  of  Kinsale  to  set  at 
liberty  four  ships  freighted  with  beef  which  were  bound  for 
the  English  plantations,  which  the  said  Governor  had  stayed 
by  your  Grace's  order,  but  so  it  is  that  the  said  Governor 
refuseth  to  discharge  the  said  ships  notwithstanding  the  said 
order  of  the  council,  alleging  that  he  hath  received  a  later 
order  from  your  Grace  for  the  detaining  of  the  said  ships, 
to  which  your  suppliant  do  most  humbly  acquiesce. 

And  whereas  the  said  Governor  hath  kept  soldiers  aboard, 
[who]  make  havoc  of  the  petitioner's  goods  in  a  very 
rude  manner  besides  other  indignities,  and  by  reason  also 
that  the  said  beef  is  in  danger  of  spoiling  by  lying  so  long 
aboard,  and  also  that  the  sails  of  the  said  ships  lying  together 
in  the  fort  are  in  great  danger  to  be  eaten  by  rats,  [and] 
utterly  to  be  destroyed  by  want  of  drying,  and  that  the  said 
ships  also  are  grown  foul  by  lying  so  long. 

The  premises  tenderly  considered  and  for  avoiding  the 
above  said  damages,  mischiefs  and  undoubted  losses,  your 
suppliant  humbly  implores  your  Grace's  favourable  order  to 
the  Governor  of  the  fort  to  restore  to  the  owners  the  sails 
of  the  said  four  ships,  that  he  may  have  liberty  to  discharge 
the  said  beef  that  he  may  be  enabled  to  preserve  it  from 
being  utterly  spoiled,  and  finally  to  dismiss  the  soldiers,  who 
have  already  done  great  damage  to  your  suppliant,  and  he 
will  pray. 

Copia  Vera. 

Dublin  Castle,  the  26th  day  of  June,  1666. 

Endorsed  at  foot : — 

Upon  consideration  had  of  the  within  petition  we  do 
hereby  order  that  the  sails  of  the  respective  ships  therein 
mentioned  be  forthwith  delivered  to  Monsieur  John 
Choisin  or  such  as  shall  be  appointed  by  him,  to  the  end 
they  may  not  be  damnified  by  lying  in  the  fort,  and  that 
the  said  Monsieur  Choisin  be  permitted  to  unload  the 
beef  laden  upon  the  said  ships  that  it  may  not  be  in 
danger  of  spoiling  by  lying  too  long  aboard.  And  it  is 
our  further  pleasure  that  the  soldiers  who  are  put  upon 
those  ships  be  forthwith  dismissed  from  them,  whereof 
Major  Love,  Deputy  Governor  of  the  fort  of  Kinsale,  and 
all  others  concerned  are  to  take  notice. 

Ormond. 
Copia  Vera. 


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Extract  from  *' A  List  of  the  Officers  of  tee  Militia 

IN  THE  SEVERAL  COUNTIES  OF  THE  PROVINCE  OF  CONNAUGHT." 

County  of  Sligo. 

Commissioners  for  settling  Militia. 

Lord  Coloony. 
The  High  Sheriff. 
Sir  Francis  Gore. 
Major  Edgeworth. 
Captain  Eobert  Morgan. 

Cornet  Edward  Cooper  and  all  the  Captains  of 
the  Militia. 

Places  for  securing   Arms. 

Sligo. 
Colooney. 

County  of  Lei  trim. 

Commissioners*  names. 

Lord  Coloony. 

Captain  William  St.  George,  high  sheriff. 

Sir  Oliver  St,   George. 

Captain  Eobert  Parke. 

James  Bathurst,  senior. 

Captain  Henry  Crofton. 

Captain  Bryan  Cunningham. 

Places  for  Arms. 

Jamestown. 
Drumahaire. 

County  of  Boscommon. 

Commissioners'  names. 

Lord  Coloony. 
Eichard  Jones,  Esq. 
Captain  Thomas  Caulfeild. 
Sir  Eichard  Lane. 
Sir  Edward  Crofton. 
Captain  William  Handcock. 
Captain  James  King. 
Edward  Donnellan,  Esq. 
Eichard  Crofton,  Esq. 
Nicholas  Mahon,  Esq. 
Eobert  Folliot,  Esq. 
Eobert  Drury,  Esq. 

Places  for  Arms. 

Athlone  and 

Boyle.  1        •- 


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County  of  Gal  way. 

Commissioners'  names. 

The  High  Sheriflf. 
Captain  Thomas  Caulfeild. 
Colonel  John  Spencer. 
Sir  James   CufFe. 
Captain  John  Morgan. 
Francis  Foster,  Esq. 
Captain  PuUen. 
Captain  Henry  Greene  way. 
Major  Tho.  Davis. 

Places  for  Arms. 
Galway  and 
Bally  moe. 

The  town  and  liberty  of  Galway. 

Commissioners'  names. 

Colonel  John  Spencer,  mayor. 
Captain  John  Morgan. 
Edward  Eyre,  Esq. 
Gabriel  King,  Esq. 
Captain  James  Bulteel. 

Place   for  Arms. 
Galway. 

County  of  Mayo. 

Commissioners'  names. 

Lord   Mayo. 
Lord  Colooney. 
Sir  Oliver  St.  George. 
Sir   Arthur  Gore. 

Sir   James  Cuffe  and   all  the   Captains   of   the 
Militia. 


Places  for  Arms. 
Galway  and 
Bellahy. 

County  of  Sligo    . . 
Leitrim 
Eoscommon 
County  of  Galway 
Town  of  Galway  . . 
County  of  Mayo   . . 


Horse.  Foot. 

400  300 

—  300 

150  500 

50  200 

50  100 

250  200 

0900  1600 


Endorsed : — Received  from  the  Lord  President  the  9th  July, 
1666. 


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Col.  John  Spencer  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  July  10.  Galway. — I  received  an  order  from  his 
Grace  the  Lord  Lieutenant,  dated  the  4th  instant,  for  the 
release  of  one  Abraham  Hey,  a  Dutch  prisoner  here,  by  which 
order  I  am  required  to  take  a  note  from  the  said  prisoner 
that  he  was  released  without  charge,  and  to  send  the  said 
note  to  his  Grace.  In  obedience  thereunto  I  released  and 
gave  a  pass  unto  the  said  Abraham  Hey,  and  I  have  here 
enclosed  the  said  note  under  his  hand. 

Sir,  I  heartily  wish  I  had  the  like  or  any  other  fair  occasion 
to  acquit  myself  of  the  rest  of  the  prisoners  here,  being  between 
forty  and  fifty  in  number.  I  have  often  with  submission 
humbly  represented  it  as  my  opinion  that  this  is  not  a  proper 
place  in  this  conjuncture  for  the  keeping  of  prisoners,  and 
I  likewise  in  my  last  address  to  the  Lords  Commissioners  for 
Prizes  recommended  it  to  their  Lordships'  consideration  how 
these  prisoners  should  be  maintained  in  case  they  were 
continued  here,  unto  which  I  have  not  received  any  answer. 
I  have  nothing  upon  my  hands  for  their  support,  nor  am  I 
able  to  give  them  credit.  All  the  money  and  credit  that  I 
am  able  to  make,  is  employed  upon  the  repairing  and  fortifying 
of  this  place  by  his  Grace's  order  intimated  unto  me  from 
the  Lord  President,  and  from  the  General  of  the  Ordnance. 
I  therefore  desire  the  favour  from  you  to  recommend  unto  his 
Grace  the  removal  of  the  prisoners  from  hence,  for  which  I 
could  offer  many  reasons,  too  tedious  to  insert,  and  needless 
because  I  know  they  will  easily  occur. 

Sir,  I  likewise  received  by  this  post  a  letter  from  his  Grace 
and  the  council,  directed  to  the  Mayor,  Sheriffs  and  commonalty 
of  this  town,  concerning  Doctor  James  Vaughan,  warden  here, 
which  I  shall  take  care  shall  be  dutifully  obeyed.  Sir,  my 
Lord  President  having  been  lately  here  (who  is  yet  in  the 
Province)  hath  exempted  you  from  my  importunities.  It  only 
remains  that  I  beg  the  continuance  of  your  favour  in  presenting 
my  most  humble  duty  unto  his  Grace,  who  hath  not  in  the 
world  a  more  faithful  devoted  creature  than,  Sir,  your  most 
affectionate  and  most  obliged  humble  servant. 

Endorsed: — Colonel  John  Spencer.  Eeceived  13th  July, 
1666. 

Major  Robert  Edgeworth  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  July  10.  Sligo. — ^You  had  had  a  return  to  yours 
of  the  3rd  instant  by  the  last  post  but  that  an  indisposition 
seized  on  me,  and  that  I  hope  will  obtain  your  pardon  for 
that  omission  (which  I  cannot  admit  to  be  one,  considering 
the  quality  of  my  distemperature).  This  carries  only  the 
enclosed  according  to  your  commands  in  your  last,  and  my 
service  according  to  my  duty.  I  beg  a  second  pardon  of  you  for 
the  trouble  of  laying  before  you  a  grievance,  which  is  this: 
I  have  not  this  twelve  months  day  received  anything  of  my 


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personal  salary  but  442  or  thereabouts  as  I  take  it,  which  my 
agent,  Mr.  Eichard  Barry,  can  more  fully  inform  you  of. 
Kow  why  I  should  be  postponed  alone  of  all  the  officers  of 
the  army,  I  know  not;  the  plea  only,  as  I  understand,  that 
the  general  officers  (in  that  capacity  they  account  me)  are 
likewise  in  arrears ;  but  that  is  quickly  answered,  for  they 
are  paid  in  double  capacity  as  Captains  and  Governors,  I 
only  in  one,  and  how  I  can  subsist,  having  the  charge  of 
wife,  children  and  family,  you  yourself  are  a  competent  jtidge. 
I  am  so  much  a  soldier,  and  a  loyal  one,  that  I  did  scorn 
to  complain  (though  sad  my  case)  when  murmurings  were 
rife  amongst  the  soldiery,  but  now  to  give  you  Scripture  for 
it,  doth  not  the  ass  bray  when  he  wanteth  fodder?  Mutato 
nomine  de  me  fabula  narratur.  Sir,  I  am  confident  neither 
His  Majesty's  nor  his  Grace's  intention  ever  were  that  I  should 
be  thus  postponed.  The  soldiers  under  my  command  have 
their  assignments  come  to  them,  but  mine  not.  What  Sir 
Dan.  Bellingham  meaneth  I  know  not.  I  shall  humbly 
beg  the  favour  of  you  to  reason  the  matter  with  him  (this  is 
but  my  presumption  upon  your  wonted  patronage  of  me), 
and  if  he  will  not,  as  in  justice  he  ought  to,  equalize  me 
with  the  rest  of  the  army,  according  to  my  quality^  that  you 
will  be  pleased  to  lay  my  condition  at  his  Grace's  feet,  by 
his  commands  to  receive  some  relief.  My  Lord  President, 
my  Lord  of  CoUoony  and  all  the  officers  here  about  will,  I 
doubt  not  (without  being  a  trumpet  to  myself)  speak  my 
constant  attendance  on  my  duty  in  my  garrison.  I  have  myself 
naught  else  to  say  but  once  again  to  tell  you  the  condition 
is  sad  of,  Sir,  your  most  faithful  servant  and  affectionate 
cousin. 

Endorsed: — For  His  Majesty's  service,  haste,  haste,  haste. 

Captain  John  Bramston  to  Sm  George  Lane. 

1666,  July  14.  Athlone. — According  to  your  commands 
I  have  here  enclosed  sent  you  an  account  of  the  debts  due 
to  the  inhabitants  of  this  town  for  the  Dutch  prisoners,  which 
amounts  to  98/  19^.  4d. ,  whereof  I  received  by  assignments 
on  Mr.  Handcock  30J  O*.  Od.,  so  that  there  remains  68i  19^.  4d. 
My  humble  request  is  that  you  would  effectually  endeavour 
their  speedy  payment,  they  being  very  indigent  poor  people, 
and  I  standing  engaged  to  them  for  satisfaction. 

Postscript : — I  have  inquired  among  the  Dutch  prisoners  here 
and  can  find  none  will  own  any  skill  in  draining  grounds,  or 
the  like  work. 

Thomas  Bedborough  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1661,  July  21.  Kilkenny. — After  I  received  the  safe  conduct 
for  Costigan  and  Dugan,  I  could  not  meet  with  them  until 
the  fourth  of  this  instant,   and   since  I  was  myself  and   a 


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party  of  horse  with  me  looking  after  the  Tories  for  the  space 
of  eight  or  ten  days.  They  are  separated,  some  into  the 
County  of  Kerry  and  some  into  the  County  of  Cork,  but 
I  seized  on  some  of  them  that  were  relievers  of  the  Tories, 
and  are  now  bound  over  at  Clonmel.  But  if  they  might  have 
another  safe  conduct  for  thirty  days  longer,  they  will  engage 
their  lives  that  they  will  find  them  out,  provided  they  may  have 
a  party  of  horse  with  them  to  secure  the  bringing  of  fchem  in. 
This  I  shall  leave  to  your  Honour's  consideration  what  may 
be  done  in  it,  for  I  find  the  men  means  honestly  for  what 
they  have  undertaken,  for  they  have  made  themselves 
sufficiently  odious  to  the  country,  for  two  of  those  that  is 
gone  into  the  County  of  Cork,  are  as  well  mounted  as  any  of 
the  army,  and  was  in  sight  of  them  myself,  but  could  not 
reach  them  by  reason  of  the  great  woods  being  so  near  them. 
Having  no  more  at  present  but  that  the  men  stayeth  out 
of  the  way,  they  not  acting  anything  until  they  hear  from  your 
Honour  what  may  be  done  in  the  thing  for  a  safe  conduct. 

Major  John  Love  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  July  24.  Kinsale.— Yours  of  the  20th  I  did  receive 
with  a  letter  enclosed  unto  Captain  Eobert  Hooper  of  the 
Harp  frigate.  Sir,  I  am  informed  that  he  went  as  a  convoy 
yesterday  with  some  vessels  from  Youghal  unto  Minehead, 
but  I  shall  take  care  to  send  the  letter  to  Youghal  against 
his  return.  About  two  posts  since  I  did  receive  a  letter 
from  you  directed  unto  Captain  Jasper  Grant  of  the  Sapphyre 
frigate,  but  he  and  six  men  of  war  more  were  gone  the  day 
before  for  to  convoy  the  two  fleets  that  were  here  for  England, 
and  they  are  not  yet  returned.  When  he  comes  into  this 
harbour  or  any  other  in  these  parts  I  shall  deliver  or  send 
the  letter  safe  to  him.  Sir,  just  now  here  came  in  two 
ships,  the  one  from  Plymouth,  the  other  from  Swansea. 
Both  the  masters  told  me  that  all  our  fleet  went  to  sea  on 
Sunday  was  sennight  last,  and  that  all  the  Dutch  fleet  are 
all  sailed  towards  Holland.  Sir  Eobert  Byron  left  this  place 
on  Wednesday  last  for  Limerick ;  he  has  put  this  fort  in  a 
reasonable  good  posture  of  defence. 

Col.  Richard  Grace  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  July  27.  Breaghmoe. — Here  was  James  Dugan  with 
me  the  other  day,  who  had  a  safe  conduct  and  was  then  out 
to  three  or  four  days.  He  begged  of  me  to  be  a  solicitor  for 
him  and  to  get  him  a  pass  to  quit  the  kingdom.  I  desire 
that  you  may  be  pleased  to  acquaint  his  Grace  with  it,  and 
if  he  consents  to  give  him  w-ay  to  be  gone  out  of  the  country, 
to  send  him  a  pass  to  that  purpose;  if  this  may  not  be,  to 
send  him  a  safe  conduct  for  some  time,  if  you  think  it  fit, 
for  I  promise  you   when   I  looked   upon  the  youth's  sweet 


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countenance,  T  had  compassion  of  him,  and  when  I  began  to 
tell  him  of  his  folly,  he  wept  bitterly,  and  I  think  if  he  were 
aboard  some  of  the  King's  ships,  it  were  a  very  proper  place 
for  him.  It.  was  his  unlucky  sister  that  brought  all  this 
unhappiness  upon  him. 


Sir  Bobbrt  Bybon  to  Ormond. 

1666,  August  3.  Galway. — My  stay  at  Einsale  in  obedience 
to  your  Grace's  commands  to  put  that  place  into  the  condition 
the  consequences  of  it  well  deserves,  kept  me  the  longer  from 
this  place,  yet  with  that  care  of  it  that  I  sent  the  Lieutenant 
of  the  Ordnance  before  me  to  put  things  in  that  order  that 
the  season  of  the  year  might  not  prevent  us.  The  Governor 
hath  used  such  diligence  that  I  find  all  that  I  am  appointed 
to  do  in  reparations,  is  almost  performed,  but  that  only 
concerns  the  inward  strength  of  this  place  but  nothing  to 
that  without,  which,  as  I  conceive,  is  now  chiefly  to  be 
looked  upon.  I  was  of  opinion  that  this  place  had  been  of 
that  strength  which  reputation  gave  it,  but  having  had  more 
time  now  than  when  I  first  saw  it,  I  conceive  it  of  no  strength, 
as  it  now  is,  but  capable  of  being  made  as  strong  as  any  place 
may  be,  according  to  the  allowance,  more  or  less,  but  a  small 
matter  will  not  do  it.  This  hath  already  been  represented 
to  your  Grace  by  the  Governor,  and  the  list  of  the  ordnance, 
before  my  coming  hither,  and  therefore  I  shall  forbear  to 
repeat  the  same  thing  in  all  particulars,  with  my  humble 
submission  to  your  Grace's  pleasure,  what  you  shall  think  fit 
to  do  herein,  and  until  your  Grace  shall  find  it  fit  to  take 
this  into  your  consideration,  I  shall  employ  my  allowance  to 
the  best  advantage  of  His  Majesty's  service,  as  I  am  confident 
will  be  seen  w^hen  your  Grace  shall  view  Einsale,  which  I 
dare  say  is  stronger  than  ever  it  was  since  it  was  a  fort,  and 
brought  to  that  upon  as  little  charge  as  any  such  hath  been. 
If  your  Grace  shall  not  be  pleased  to  make  any  more  allowance 
to  this  place,  I  shall  soon  make  even  with  that,  and  set  myself 
to  the  care  of  other  places.  I  have  put  almost  a  thousand 
fire-arms  afixing  that  I  found  in  the  stores  more  than  was 
returned  to  me,  for  which  I  had  allowance,  but  in  this  I 
conceive  it  is  your  Grace's  pleasure  to  fix  all  I  can  meet  withal, 
which  I  have  set  adoing. 

James  Buck  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  August  7.  Moor  Park. — Mrs.  Humes  is  now  at  a  new 
well,  fourteen  miles  from  Oxford,  in  Northamptonshire,  called 
St.  Eumbale's  well,  cried  up  by  famous  Dr.  Willis  of  Oxford, 
who  pretends  he  found  in  a  manuscript  written  nine  hundred 
years  since,  the  place,  the  name  and  the  virtues  of  that  water. 
In  brief  it  cures  all  diseases.  It  has  already  drawn  a  world 
of  ladies  to  it,  and  persons  of  quality. 


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Jambs  Buck  to  Ormond. 

1666,  August  7.  Moor  Park. — I  received  your  commands 
of  the  11th  of  July  to  attend  your  counsel  in  the  business 
depending  betwixt  your  Grace  and  the  Earl  of  Middlesex,  but 
having  received  the  post  before  from  Sir  Nicholas  Plunkett 
a  letter  relating  to  that  affair,  and  being  with  Mr.  Phillips 
about  it,  we  found  my  Lord  Chief  Baron  was  gone  his  circuit, 
and  nothing  to  be  done  in  that  till  his  return,  which  will  not 
be  till  the  next  term. 

Your  Grace's  letter  to  Sergeant  Maynard  I  shall  keep  till  a 
fit  time  to  deliver  it,  for  if  done  unseasonable,  both  fees  and 
instructions  may  be  forgotten,  b»t  to  free  your  Grace  from 
troubles,  I  have  given  Sir  N.  P.  a  further  account,  as  I 
have  her  Grace,  of  this  place  and  of  the  conveniency  of  my  stay 
here  till  the  spring,  if  your  Grace  upon  these  considerations 
thinks  it  fit.  My  Lord  of  Ossory  has  stored  himself  and  his 
friends  very  well  this  year,  I  think  with  the  fattest  venison 
in  England  from  hence,  yet  I  am  confident  youx  Grace  will 
have  five  hundred  deer  in  it  this  winter.  Here  are  two  pied 
fawns,  and  as  all  believe,  two  the  finest  colts  that  have  been 
seen,  by  bay  Orrery  and  the  fleabitten  [mare] ,  they  being  both 
now  in  foal  by  the  horse  your  Grace  gave  Mr.  Phillips.  The 
summer  being  so  very  dry,  w^e  continue  watering  the  trees. 
About  sixteen  hundred  thrive  very  well  and  past  danger,  and 
I  fear  about  three  hundred  may  fail,  but  the  fence  and  the 
mole  being  in  the  place,  they  are  easily  recruited,  and  they 
make  me  believe,  who  never  had  much  experience  in  it,  that 
'tis  a  very  great  standing  in  one  year.  I  have  reduced  the 
\vhole  expense  of  the  place  to  forty  shillings  a  week,  which 
shall  keep  it  as  it  is,  and  daily  do  something  to  the  finishing 
of  that  large  ground,  the  kitchen  garden,  but  without  your 
Grace's  positive  commands  nothing  more  to  be  undertaken. 

SiB  Henry  Tichbornb.     Concerning  the  Surrender  of  his 

Office  of  Marshal. 

1666,  August  9. — My  Lord  of  Dungannon  several  times  by 
others  and  once  by  himself  treated  with  me  about  the  surrender 
of  the  place  I  hold  in  the  army,  whereof  his  Lordship  hath 
the  reversion,  and  to  accept  a  recompense  from  him  for  my 
present  interest,  which  at  last  upon  several  considerations 
I  assented  to,  and  demanded  JE2,000,  but  afterwards  descended 
to  accept  of  £1,900  to  be  paid  in  one  extra  payment,  and 
until  that  were  done  I  w^ould  remain  in  possession  of  the  place 
with  all  manner  of  advantages  belonging  unto  the  same. 
£1,400  his  lieutenant  offered  me,  which  I  refusing,  not  long 
after  received  a  letter  from  him,  wherein  I  conceived  he  was 
willing  to  embrace  my  proposition ,  and  thereupon  sent  my  son 
to  see  said  money  told,  and  that  upon  notice  of  it  I  would 
instantly  repair  to  Dublin  and  perfect  the  agreement ;  but  there 

Wt.  8878  p 


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fell  out  some  breach  between  them,  which  I  suppose  was  on 
my  Lord's  part,  for  I  then  was  and  am  still  ready  on  the 
receipt  of  £1,600  in  hand  to  surrender  my  interest  in  the 
plan  required. 

Jambs  Buck  to  Obmond. 

1666,  August  18.  London. — The  enclosed  from  the 
Governor  and  Court  for  the  Canary  Company  will  so  fully  give 
your  Grace  their  sense,  that  there  needs  no  repetition,  they 
having  all  very  earnestly  desired  me  to  assure  your  Grace  that 
if  you  will  at  any  time  by  myself  or  any  other,  let  them  receive 
your  Grace's  commands  as  to  the  particular  of  the  Canary 
wine,  your  Grace  and  the  world  shall  see  the  advantages  they 
will  make  out  to  your  Grace  by  their  proceedings,  and  I 
humbly  conceive  their  proposition  for  so  much  the  pipe,  your 
Grace  being  before  stinted  as  to  the  number  in  one  vessel, 
will  be  very  certain  and  add  to  that  particular  income.  These 
gentlemen  do  much  complain  of  their  agent.  One  of  his 
errors  I  undertook  to  destroy,  who  wrote  to  them  that  there 
was  no  way  possible  to  gain  your  Grace's  favour  towards  them 
but  by  their  complying  in  those  articles.  The  ill  effect  this 
business  takes  at  first,  I  hope,  will  not  bar  your  Grace's 
further  commands  to,  your  Grace's,  etc. 

Dr.  John  Parry*  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666,  August  28.  Dublin. — Although  your  occasions  were 
so  severe  as  not  to  permit  you  to  take  a  view  of  that  garden 
in  St.  Bride  street  which  lies  near  the  concerns  of  which  you 
seemed  to  desire  the  refusal,  yet  my  respects  command  me  to 
give  you  notice  how  things  stand  that  so  accordingly  you 
may  act  as  you  think  fit  therein.  I  have  had  a  draft  made 
of  the  ground  and  a  model  for  tenements  to  be  built  thereon , 
and  find  that  there  will  be  about  360  foot  in  all  to  be  built 
upon  according  to  our  model  (which  many  doth  approve  of). 
There  are  already  some  chapmen  desirous  to  take  it.  I  am 
offered  for  my  interest  in  that  piece  of  ground  by  some  (who 
would  take  it  in  gross  altogether)  fifty  pounds  a  year  clear, 
the  church  rent  81  per  annum  being  also  discharged,  and  some 
small  fine,  but  I  have  refused  that  offer  upon  this  consideration, 
that  by  setting  the  ground  by  parcels  to  several  men  by  the 
foot  I  can  get,  as  I  am  informed,  and  as  some  already  offer 
five  shillings  a  foot,  which  will  amount  unto  above  fourscore 
pounds  a  year,  which  if  compassed  will  be  a  pretty  handsome 
income  towards  the  maintenance  of  some  relations  in  case  it 
should  please  God  to  take  me  away.  I  do  desist  from 
concluding  with  any,  until  I  hear  from  you,  which  I  desire 
may  be  with  the  first,  that  so  the  time  for  building  may  not 
be  wholly  slipped  over,  and  I  heartily  wish  I  were  in  a  capacity 

•  Dr.  John  Parry,  afterwards  Bishop  of  Ossory,  was  at  this  time  Dean  of 
Christ  Church,  Dublin. 


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to  testify  the  acknowledgment  of  those  obligations  which  are 
due  unto  you  from  me  by  somewhat  more  than  by  tendering 
unto  you  the  bare  refusal  of  this  place ;  and  I  know  you  are 
too  generous  and  noble  to  desire  anything  more  (as  things 
at  present  stand  with  me,  there  being  nothing  else  left  for 
me  to  dispose  of  to  the  benefit  of  my  relations  in  case  I  should 
die),  and  therefore  I  do  desire  (in  case  you  think  it  fit)  that 
you  will  be  pleased  to  empower  Alderman  Tighe  or  any  other 
by  letter  of  attorney  from  you  to  conclude  with  me  either  for 
all  or  as  much  of  that  ground  as  your  convenience  will  require, 
which  I  beg  may  be  with  what  speed  you  can,  that  so 
accordingly  I  may  act  with  some  chapmen  who  daily  expect 
my  answer  to  their  proposals. 

Fbancis  Blacewell  to  Sib  Geobgb  Lane. 

1666,  September  8.  Ballaghmore,  Queen's  Co. — Since  my 
last  I  have  not  had  any  material  matter  for  to  acquaint  your 
Honour  withal ,  for  ever  since  I  have  been  very  diligent  both  in 
the  Queen's  County,  where  my  garrison  is,  and  in  the  King's 
County,  and  in  the  County  of  Tipperary,  but  the  Irish  of  the 
country  are  all  so  generally  inclined  to  the  concealing  of  the 
Tories,  that  it  is  a  very  hard  and  difficult  matter  for  to  get 
any  account  of  them ;  but  the  Justices  of  the  Peace  and  the 
gentlemen  of  the  country  have  manifested  very  much  readiness 
and  willingness  for  the  serving  of  the  soldiers  with  what  may 
be  necessary  for  the  garrison,  and  also  their  assistance  toward 
the  finding  out  of  the  places  and  residences  of  the  Tories, 
but  they  having  so  many  friends  and  acquaintance  in  the 
country,  so  that  I  cannot  do  any  good  on  them  as  yet,  but  I 
hope  I  may  be  able  for  to  give  your  Honour  a  further  account 
of  them  before  many  weeks  are  ended,  if  it  may  be  his  Grace's 
pleasure  not  for  to  grant  any  conditions  to  any  of  them  upon  any 
account,  for  I  have  followed  them  so  close  ever  since  my  coming 
here,  that  they  do  not  know  well  where  to  abide,  and  they 
are  improving  all  the  friends  that  they  can  for  to  get  conditions 
for  them ;  and  if  that  they  get  it,  all  my  former  labour  and 
charge  will  be  lost,  that  I  have  been  at  concerning  spies  and 
other  needful  charges  thereunto  belonging,  for  I  do  not  doubt 
but  by  God's  assistance  for  to  bring  in  either  their  heads  or 
their  bodies  very  shortly. 

John  Shadwell*  to  Sm  Geobgb  Lanb. 

1666,  September  11.  Dublin. — I  beseech  you  do  not  put 
me  out  of  credit  with  you  or  think  I  am  breaking  because  I 
run  further  in  debt  before  I  have  cleared  off  my  old  score  with 
you.  Sir,  this  comes  to  beg  your  favour  to  procure  my  Lord 
Lieutenant's  recommendatory  letter  to  the  town  of  Gal  way 
for  my  election  to  the  Eecorder's  place  for  the  ensuing  year, 
I  having  enjoyed  it  this  present  year,  of  which  though  I  make 

*  Father  of  Thomas  Shadwell,  the  poet-laureate. 


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no  great  doubt  (being  sure  of  all  the  honest  men  there)  yet 
yom-  friendship  will  put  it  quite  out  of  doubt  and  make  me 
secure  for  the  future,  and  I  am  advised  to  it  by  all  my  friends 
there.  The  election  is  upon  Michaelmas  day,  and  therefore 
I  must  humbly  beg  your  despatch  in  it  by  the  next  post  that 
I  may  send  it  down  timely  thither. 

There  are  many  fanatics  in  the  town  whom  I  have  much 
displeased,  and  they  may  possibly  take  an  opportunity  to  lay 
me  by  and  elect  one  who  hath  lately  headed  them  to  the 
insolency  of  slighting  my  Lord  Lieutenant's  letter  on  behalf 
of  the  warden,  of  which  I  have  since  made  them  sensible. 

Sir,  the  arrears  for  the  bridge  of  Ballileague  were  quickened 
up  very  much  this  circuit,  and,  the  bridge  in  so  much 
forwardness  as  the  Judge,  etc.,  walked  over  it,  and  I  took 
upon  me  as  one  of  the  Corporation  of  Lanesborough  to  attend 
the  Sovereign  and  Bailiffs  to  the  middle  of  the  bridge  to  meet 
the  Judge,  and  there  was  a  treat  in  readiness  at  Rathcline  for 
him,  if  his  time  would  have  permitted  him  thither. 

Sir,  I  pray,  pardon  my  boldness  and  let  me  not  miss  your 
knowledge  at  this  present,  which  with  the  rest  of  your  favours 
shall  be  in  the  memory,  prayers  and  perpetual  thanks  of 
your,  etc. 

Sm  William  Domvilb  to  Ormond. 

1666,  September  18. — I  do  further  humbly  crave  leave  to 
make  known  unto  your  Grace  that  in  my  attendance  on  His 
Majesty's  affairs  yesterday,  I  understood  from  Sir  Paul  Davis 
that  the  draft  of  a  Proclamation  touching  the  calling  in  of  all 
charters  which  concern  cities  and  towns  corporate  was  sent 
hither  by  your  Grace  to  be  considered  of ;  upon  perusal  whereof 
Mr.  Secretary  desiring  my  assistance  I  told  him  amongst  other 
things  that  I  conceived  that  draft  was  framed  to  the  great 
prejudice  of  my  undoubted  right  as  His  Majesty's  Attorney 
General,  for  that  no  Eoyal  Charters  granted  to  Corporations 
can  be  legally  avoided  by  Quo  icarranto  at  the  prosecution  of 
any  of  His  Majesty's  counsel  but  only  of  his  Attorney  General, 
and  as  he  alone  is  by  his  office  privileged  to  avoid  them,  so  no 
other  ought  to  inspect  and  examine  them  but  he  alone,  and 
offer  such  exceptions,  alterations  and  amendments  as  should 
be  expedient ;  and  if  that  which  is  my  peculiar  right  by  Patent 
should  be  taken  from  me  by  proclamation,  it  would  turn  much 
to  my  detriment.  I  did  therefore  desire  him  to  recommend 
this  to  your  Grace,  that  it  might  be  inserted  in  the  proclamation 
that  the  said  charters  should  be  brought  unto  me  without 
mention  of  any  others  of  His  Majesty's  counsel. 

I  humbly  beseech  your  Grace  to  take  this  into  your 
consideration  and  to  give  orders  accordingly,  for  it  is  well 
known  to  be  my  undoubted  right  to  inspect  all  charters  and 
to  offer  such  exceptions  and  alterations  as  shall  be  expedient, 
and  I  am  fully  assured  your  Grace  v>'ill  not  suffer  this  which 


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is  the  peculiar  perquisite  of  my  office  to  be  taken  from  me 
by  the  fabric  of  a  proclamation.  Indeed,  my  Lord,  what 
by  the  injury  of  the  times  and  the  evil  dispositions  of  some 
men  I  have  suffered  in  this  kind  beyond  any  that  ever  laboured 
so  long  in  my  en^iployment,  and  I  have  none  to  appeal  unto 
but  your  Grace,  who  I  trust  will  consider  me  in  my  office  with 
respect  unto  my  royal  master,  and  as  your  Grace's  most 
obedient  faithful  servant. 

John  Walsh  to  the  Mayor  of  Clonmbl. 

1666.  October  26.  Dublin.— Mr.  Mayor:  Your  letter  1 
received  wherein  you  desire  that  I  should  prohibit  my  deputy 
seneschal  from  keeping  a  Court  Leet  within  the  precinct  of 
Clonmel  in  the  behalf  of  and  by  authority  from  his  Grace 
my  Lord  Duke  of  Ormond,  offering  for  a  reason  that  you 
keep  a  Leet  by  prescription  and  charter,  and  that  if  his  Grace 
claims  his  by  prescription,  you  desire  it  may  be  proved. 
I  have  often  heard  and  read  that  the  lord  of  a  manor  may 
prescribe  in  a  Court  Leet  to  be  held  within  the  precinct  of 
his  manor,  but  certainly  this  is  the  first  time  that  I  heard 
a  corporation  to  make  title  to  a  Leet  by  prescription  unless 
it  were  in  relation  to  a  manor. 

You  are  pleased  to  say  that  a  customary  manor  hath  been 
held  out  of  a  manor,  but  a  Leet  out  of  a  Leet  was  never 
yet  reported.  I  must  acknowledge  my  ignorance  so  far  that 
I  cannot  understand  this  part  of  your  letter,  therefore  shall 
leave  the  construction  of  it  to  such  as  you  please  further  to 
advise  with  and  shall  state  the  case  as  it  is.  It  will  clearly 
appear  to  be  thus.  My  Lord  Duke  of  Ormond  and  his 
ancestors  and  those  whose  estates  they  had,  are  and  were 
lords  of  the  manor  of  Clonmel,  and  by  good  title  kept  their 
Courts  Leet  and  Baron  there.  The  burgesses  held  all  their 
burgagery  lands  as  of  that  manor,  as  all  those  of  Kilkenny 
hold  of  the  Castle  of  Kilkenny,  those  of  Callan  from  the 
Manor  of  Callan,  those  of  Gowran  from  the  Manor  of  Gowran, 
and  those  of  Knocktopher,  Inistioge  and  Old  Eoss,  being  all 
burgageries,  held  of  the  same  manors.  All  pay  their  chief ries- 
as  Clonmel  does,  and  the  courts  kept  in  the  towns  without 
contradiction,  and  yet  all  these  have  Leets  of  their  own. 
Clonmel  obtained  a  charter  by  which  they  are  to  keep  a  Court 
Leet,  and  so  have  the  corporations  before  mentioned.  Must 
it  therefore  follow  that  the  Lord's  Leet  shall  vanish? 

I  doubt  he  that  is  of  this  opinion  may  as  well  make  you 
believe  that  a  Court  Baron  neither  can  be  kept  there,  notwith- 
standing that  it  is  an  incident  inseparable  to  every  manor. 
And  to  say  that  you  cannot  inform  yourselves  of  any  Court  Leet 
to  have  been  held  there  at  any  time,  no  more  I  believe  do 
you  hear  of  a  Court  Baron  to  be  held.  Must  it  therefore 
follow  there  shall  be  no  sucli  Court?  It  is  true  that  a 
non-user  may  in  some  cases  destroy  a  prescription,  but  not 


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a  grant  or  incident.  Upon  the  whole  matter  I  must  crave 
your  pardon  in  not  subscribing  to  your  request,  which  so  much 
and  so  apparently  might  tend  to  his  Grace's  prejudice  in  his 
right  interest,  and  may  render  me  guilty  of  breaking  the  trust 
reposed  in  me,  being  ready  in  any  other  justifiable  way  to 
manifest  myself. 

Endorsed: — [A  draft  letter  only]. 

LoBD  Kingston  to  Obmond. 

1666,  October  30.  Elphin. — ^By  your  Grace's  former 
permission  to  leave  this  province,  when  I  conceive  it  might 
not  prejudice  His  Majesty's  service,  I  humbly  take  the  boldness 
to  begin  my  journey  now  towards  Kilkenny  with  hopes  of 
kissing  your  Grace's  hand  there  towards  the  latter  end  of  the 
next  week. 

I  have  not  been  able  by  all  the  skill  and  interest  I  have, 
to  apprehend  Dudley  Costello.  His  great  care  to  prevent  any 
mischief  that  might  happen  to  his  countrymen  hath  obliged 
them  to  at  least  prevent  his  taking,  and  without  them  'tis 
as  impossible  to  cast  him  as  a  wolf.  I  have  appointed  Sir 
Art.  Gore's  company  and  part  of  Captain  Deey's  so  to  quarter 
in  Costello  and  Gallan  that  'twill  be  very  hard  for  him  to 
continue  long  in  those  quarters,  and  I  think  his  interest  in 
other  parts  of  the  province  so  inconsiderable  that  he  cannot 
be  sheltered  elsewhere.  I  have  sent  a  commission  to  Sir 
Fr.  Gore  to  command  as  he  shall  see  occasion  those  several 
companies,  which  with  his  own  lying  at  Fort  Dillon  may 
make  a  good  party  or  two,  if  his  or  my  spies  be  so  true  to 
us  as  to  set  Costello  or  any  of  his  party  for  him.  This  is 
all  I  have  been  able  to  do  to  secure  those  quarters  from  that 
so  much  talked  of  Tory,  and  this  I  am  confident  will  be  enough 
to  keep  the  country  from  prejudice,  though  perhaps  not  from 
clamour. 

Draft  of  a  Letter  relating  to  the  Capfain  of  Lough 

Nbagh. 

1666,  November  1. -^Whereas  it  appears  by  Letters  Patent 
bearing  date  the  2nd  of  July,  in  the  sixteenth  year  of  the  reign 
of  our  grandfather  of  blessed  memory  King  James  of  England, 
France  and  Ireland,  and  of  Scotland  the  one  and  fiftieth,  which 
said  Letters  Patents  are  enrolled  in  our  High  Court  of  Chancery 
in  our  kingdom  of  Ireland,  that  for  and  in  consideration  of 
the  good  and  faithful  service  done  and  performed  by  Sir  Hugh 
Clotworthy,  knight,  who  was  captain  of  the  boats  on  Lough 
Neagh,  one  annuity  or  pension  is  granted  during  the  lives  of 
the  said  Sir  Hugh  and  his  son  John  Clotworthy  (late  Lord 
Viscount  Massereene)  as  by  the  said  Letters  Patent  and  the 
letters  under  the  signet  of  our  said  grandfather,  bearing  date  at 
Westminster  the  three  and  twentieth  day  of  March,  in  the 


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fifteenth  year  of  his  reign,  and  enrolled  in  our  High  Court 
of  Chancery  of  Ireland  may  more  at  large  appear ;  and  whereas 
John,  late  Lord  Viscount  Massereene,  by  the  name  of  Sir 
John  Clot  worthy,  knight,  was  captain  of  the  barque  and  boats 
on  Lough  Neagh,  as  his  father  had  been  in  Queen  Elizabeth 
and  King  James'  time,  as  appears  by  his  commission,  and 
there  was  appointed  fifteen  shillings  per  diem  for  himself, 
his  lieutenant  four  shillings,  the  master  four  shillings,  master's 
mate  two  shillings,  master-gunner  one  shilling  sixpence,  two 
gunners  twelvepence  apiece,  and  forty  men  at  eightpence  per 
diem  apiece. 

And  whereas  we  have  been  graciously  pleased  by  our  Letters 
Patent,  bearing  date  the  2l8t  of  November,  in  the  twelfth 
year  of  our  reign,  to  create  Sir  John  Clotworthy  Baron  of 
Lough  Neagh,  and  for  default  of  heirs,  male,  to  descend  to 
Sir  John  Skeffington,  baronet  (now  Lord  Massereene),  as  by 
the  said  Letters  Patents  may  more  at  large  appear;  and 
forasmuch  as  it  hath  further  pleased  us  to  grant  the  said 
Lough  with  the  fishing,  the  bottom  and  soil  thereof  to  the 
said  Lord  Viscount  Massereene,  as  by  our  Letters  Patents, 
bearing  date  the  15th  of  November,  1660,  may  appear. 

And  forasmuch  as  the  usefulness  of  that  service  on  the  said 
Lough,  wherein  the  said  Sir  Hugh  Clotworthy,  knight,  and 
John,  late  Lord  Viscount  Massereene,  were  employed,  is 
manifest  by  the  influence  of  the  boats  on  this  Lough  upon 
the  counties  and  places  adjacent,  and  that  a  line  of 
communication  may  be  most  usefully  held,  and  in  former 
times  has  been  maintained  and  considerable  service  done  by 
transporting  men,  etc.,  by  the  boats  and  barques  upon  the 
said  Lough,  between  the  garrison  of  Antrim  and  all  that  part 
of  the  country  to  Mountjoy  and  Charlemont,  and  divers  other 
places  bordering  upon  and  near  the  said  Lough,  which  is 
surrounded  by  the  counties  of  Antrim,  Down,  Armagh, 
Tyrone  and  Londonderry,  as  by  the  annexed  paper  may  appear ; 

And  to  the  end  so  great  an  advantage  may  not  be  lost  in 
case  of  any  trouble  in  that  part  of  our  kingdom,  where  in 
the  late  rebellion  and  in  former  times  there  has  been  so 
great  use  made  of  the  said  Lough,  we  are  graciously  pleased 
to  appoint,  and  it  is  our  will  and  pleasure  that  Letters  Patent 
under  the  great  seal  of  that  our  kingdom  of  Ireland  (or  a 
commission)  forthwith  pass  to  our  right  trusty  and  well 
beloved  John,  Lord  Viscount  Massereene,  constituting  him 
captain  of  the  said  Lough  and  commander  of  the  boats  and 
barques  that  are  or  shall  be  built  thereupon,  in  as  large  and 
ample  manner  as  the  said  Sir  Hugh  or  Sir  John  Clotworthy 
had  been  formerly;  and  that  for  the  same  service  he  shall 

have and  a  lieutenant' and ^men  at 

per  diem;  he,  the  said  Lord  Viscount  Massereene, 

building  at  his  own  proper  cost  and  charges  a  barque  with 
all  manner  of  sails  and  rigging  suitable,  as  big  as  conveniently 


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may  be  to  sail  upon  the  said  Lough,  to  carry  guns,  and  upon 
all  occasions  to  be  ready  for  His  Majesty's  service,  for  the 
transporting  men,  ammunition,  and  what  shall  be  necessary 
to  such  parts  of  the  said  counties  as  border  on  the  said  Lough. 

And  that  he  have  always  men  in  readiness  fit 

for  that  service,  and  have  other  less  boats  that  for  moderate 
wages  may  be  in  any  time  of  danger  ready  also  for  the  said 
service    to  carry  men  or  otherwise. 

Endorsed : — Draft  of  a  letter,  the  copy  of  which  was  left 
with  my  Lord  Lieutenant  Ormond,  and  another  with  Secretary 
Page,  about  the  1st  of  November,  1666. 

Chables  Whitakeb  to  Sm  Gbobgb  Lane. 

1666,  November  1.  Windsor. — There  is  a  young  man  in 
Ireland  who  calls  me  father  by  good  right  and  leave  to  do 
so  now,  being  returned  to  himself  and  those  duties  from  which 
he  formerly  strayed.  After  he  had  like  to  shipwreck  by 
occasion  of  bad  company  and  counsels,  he  was  cast  upon  your 
coasts,  where  necessity  became  his  cook  and  caterer  for  some 
time,  and  his  trade  and  hands  his  best  friends.  To  employ  these 
to  the  proper  ends  of  living  and  thriving  he  took  a  shop  upon 
the  stock  of  his  own  credit  in  Castle  street  in  Dublin,  and 
there  (if  report  hath  not  abused  me)  lives  inoffensively  to  all 
men,  industriously  for  himself,  but  yet  under  the  implacable 
enmity  of  Alderman  Quelch  (one  of  the  same  profession  he 
was  bred  to),  who  possibly  from  that  consideration  and  the 
sway  he  bears  of  an  oflScer  in  the  city,  denies  this  stranger 
all  conditions  of  peace,  offers  him  unhandsome  affronts,  and, 
as  I  am  informed,  abets  others  to  it,  to  make  the  place  uneasy 
and  intolerable  to  him.  I  shall  refer  you  for  particular 
instances  of  his  ill  usage  to  my  son's  relation,  if  your  patience 
and  pardon  will  admit  him  an  audience,  and  for  the  truth 
of  all  he  will,  I  doubt  not,  be  able  to  produce  sufficient 
testimonies.  Upon  this  presumption  and  to  procure  a  truce 
at  least  from  future  disturbances,  I  shall  make  it  my  humble 
petition  to  you  (as  the  only  known  friend  T  can  hope  to  find 
there)  that  the  young  trader  may  be  no  less  an  object  of  your 
compassion  and  favour,  in  licitis  et  honestis,  that  his  insolent 
neighbour  makes  him  a  fit  subject  for  it,  that  standing  so 
well  supported  and  secured  by  your  countenance  in  owning 
him,  he  may  entertain  his  time  and  cares  of  a  wife  and  family 
with  better  comfort  and  quiet.  In  giving  such  seasonable 
rehef  to  this  afflicted  stranger,  you  shall  do  a  God-like  action, 
and  thereby  not  only  oblige  so  inconsiderable  a  servant  as 
the  father  is,  to  a  most  hearty  acknowledgment,  but  also 
your  good  old  father  and  friend  Sir  Edward  Nicholas,  his  lady, 
and  all  that  family  to  whom  this  despited  creature  stands  very 
nearly  related  by  his  mother.  For  myself  I  shall  hope  from 
your  wonted  goodness  that  I  am  not  yet  forgotten  in  that 


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great  distance  wherein  my  humble  fortune  hath  placed  me 
here,  and  in  confidence  thereof  take  the  freedom  you  have 
ever  allowed  me,  to  underwrite  myself,  Sir,  your,  etc. 

Addressed : — ^For  my  ever  honoured  friend  Sir  George  Lane, 
knight,  etc. 

Elyas  Prbndbrgast  to  John  Walsh. 

1666,  November  7.  Clonmel. — I  wonder  wherein  I  have 
deserved  at  the  hands  of  those  persons  that  are  daily  in  their 
penning  and  words  writing  unto  your  Worship  to  put  variances 
between  you  and  me  not  deserved  at  any  person's  hands, 
for  all  the  papers  were  delivered  by  your  brother's  own  orders 
and  directions  upon  the  29th  of  September  last,  my  engagement 
cancelled  and  a  receipt  of  receiving  of  them  also  unto  my 
wife,  and  sithence  all  them  received  and  the  particulars  here 
endorsed  mentioned  to  your  Worship.  I  thank  God  I  never 
yet  betrayed  my  trust  to  any  persons  that  ever  intrusted  me, 
upon  any  reward  nor  never  will,  if  the  Turk  did  intrust  me, 
unless  it  were  against  my  conscience,  but  this  world  is  for 
ever  injuring  and  backbiting ;  but  I  leave  all  in  the 
hands  of  God.  I  beseech  you,  honoured  Sir,  amongst 
all  your  former  favours  and  according  your  promise,  to 
write  from  yourself  unto  his  Grace's  commissioners  in  my 
behalf  whilst  they  are  at  Kilkenny.  I  have  given  them 
several  briefs  to  be  presented  to  his  Grace  and  your  Worship 
to  be  advised  and  considered  of.  I  pray  forget  me  not,  and 
I  will  daily  pray  for  you.  I  pray  honour  me  with  few  lines 
of  your  pleasure ;  with  my  love  and  daily  service  I  leave  you 
to  God,  in  whom  I  rest  your  faithful  servant  and  cousin, 

Elyas  Frendergast. 

Delivered  Mr.  David  Walsh  the  list  as  appeareth. 

1.  The  seven  years  leases,  in  number — 88. 

2.  The  rent  rolls  of  Clonmel,  6th  May,  '59. 

3.  An  abstract  of  the  survey  of  the  burgagery,  1659. 

4.  A  copy  of  the  rent  roll  of  the  town  of  Clonmel,  28th  of 
June,  1660,  with  three  warrants  thereunto  annexed  signed 
by  Mr.  Thomas  Bally,  mayor,  Robert  Lovelace,  and  Richard 
Parrett,  bailiffs  then. 

5.  A  list  of  the  quantity  of  acres  in  the  Birg,  with  the  names 
of  such  inhabitants  as  had  then  paid  towards  the  depending 
the  title. 

6.  A  warrant  signed  by  the  general  meeting  at  Clonmel, 
the  20th  of  April,  1660,  by  the  then  mayor,  bailiffs,  free 
burgessess  and  commons  of  the  said  town  then. 

7.  The  authority  given  by  the  mayor,  bailiffs,  etc.,  bearing 
date  25th  of  April,  1659,  authorizing  and  enabling  Colonel 
Sankey,  John  Booke,  Tho.  Bally,  Esquires,  to  compound  them 
in  the  Exchequer  for  the  cabins  and  gardens. 


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8.  The  certificate  of  Bichard  Denison  to  Captain  Johu 
Harrison  of  his  proportion  in  the  suburbs,  dated  the  20th  May, 
1661. 

9.  Three  several  certificates  signed  by  John  Cooley, 
surveyor. 

10.  An  acquittance  signed  by  George  Derby  for  the  receipt 
of  55^.  sterling. 

Addressed : — ^These  to  his  loving  friend  John  Walsh,  Esquire, 
Councellor  in  the  Law,  at  his  chamber  at  the  sign  of  the  Holy 
Lamb  in  High  street  in  Dublin,  present. 

Dbaft  Appointment  of  Edwabd  Habbis  as  Mabshal  to  the 

City  op  Dublin  Mxlitia. 

1666,  November  14.  Dublin  Castle.— By  the  Lord 
Lieutenant  General  and  General  Governor  of  Ireland. 

Whereas  the  Lord  Mayor  of  the  City  of  Dublin  and  other 
the  commissioners  of  militia  and  array  for  the  said  city  and 
county  thereof,  have  the  10th  day  of  October  last  certified 
under  their  hands,  that  at  the  first  meeting  of  the  said 
commissioners  at  the  Tholsell,  Dublin,  for  the  putting  of  the 
citizens  in  array,  they  the  said  commissioners  nominated,  made 
choice  of,  and  settled  Edward  Harris,  Marshal  of  the  said 
City  of  Dublin  to  be  Marshal  unto  the  said  City  Militia  and 
to  officiate  as  Marshal  thereunto,  executing  the  commands  of 
them,  the  commissioners,  and  the  lawful  commands  of  the 
commissioned  officers  in  the  said  militia,  and  we  approving 
of  their  choice  of  the  said  Edward  Harris  for  that  employment, 
do  by  virtue  of  the  power  and  authority  unto  us  given  by  His 
Majesty,  hereby  nominate,  constitute,  and  appoint  the  said 
Edward  Harris,  Marshal  unto  the  militia  raised  or  to  be 
raised  in  the  City  and  County  of  the  City  of  Dublin  aforesaid, 
giving  him  full  power  and  authority  to  take  upon  him  and 
execute  the  said  place  or  office  of  Marshal  according  to  such 
orders  and  commands  as  he  shall  from  time  to  time  receive  from 
the  commissioners  aforesaid,  or  the  officers  of  the  said  militia, 
in  pursuance  of  and  according  to  the  power  given  the  said 
commissioners  and  officers  by  their  respective  commissions. 
And  for  so  doing  this  shall  be  a  sufficient  warrant  and 
commission  in  that  behalf.  Given  under  our  hand  and  seal 
of  arms  at  His  Majesty's  Castle  of  Dublin,  the  14th  day  of 
November,  1666. 

Countess  of  Pobtland  to  Obmond. 

1666,  November  17. — ^You  will  find  by  His  Majesty's 
reference  upon  my  petition  how  willing  he  is  to  relieve  my 
necessities,  and  I  account  my  business  done  when  I  had 
prevailed  so  far  by  His  Majesty  to  place  it  in  your  Lordship's 
power,  whom  I  have  ever  found  a  great  compassion  towards 
me.  My  Lord,  when  you  have  considered  the  way  it  is  put 
in^  I  doubt  not  but  you  will  find  that  it  may  be  done  without 


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the  least  prejudice  to  His  Majesty,  and  with  great  kindness 
to  me,  when  it  is  only  the  sparing  of  the  sum  of  2,000  pounds 
for  awhile  out  of  the  treasury,  which  will  certainly  be 
reimbursed  in  a  short  time  out  of  another  fund  to  answer 
His  Majesty's  occasions,  by  which,  my  Lord,  you  will  increase 
the  obligations  of  her  that  is,  my  Lord,  your  Grace's  humble 
servant. 

Endorsed: — Countess    of     Portland's.         Eeceived     6th 
December,  '66,  at  Kilkenny. 

SiE  Henry  Tichborne  to  Sm  William  Flower. 

1666,  December  15  Donganstown. — A  few  days  since  the 
sheriff  of  this  county  placed  Sir  Thomas  Esmond  in  the 
possession  of  the^bbey  of  Arklow,  with  the  tithes  and  lands 
belonging  unto  the  same,  and  likewise  some  parks,  never 
for  aught  I  can  learn  pretended  unto  but  by  certain  friars, 
which  thrust  themselves  into  that  Abbey  in  the  time  of  the 
late  rebellion,  and  by  their  own  authority,  whilst  they  continued 
masters  in  that  place,  took  these  parks  with  the  rest  and  enjoyed 
them.  I  desire  that  my  Lord  Duke's  and  my  Lady  Duchess' 
grants  of  the  lands  of  Arklow  may  be  looked  into,  that  if  Sir 
Thomas  Esmond  be  found  to  have  any  interest  in  the  Abbey, 
he  may  not  encroach  or  possess  more  than  belongs  unto  him, 
and  what  directions  I  receive  from  you,  shall  carefully  be 
observed  by,  Sir,  your  very  humble  servant. 

Donganstown,  the  15th  of  December,  1666. 

Postscript : — Sir  Thomas  Esmond  also  challenges  a  freehold 
in  the  town,  and  makes  choice  of  it  at  his  own  pleasure. 

James  Buck  to  Ormond. 

1666,  December  24.  Moor  Park. — ^I  have  at  several  times 
given  Mr.  Price  an  account  of  the  horses  left  in  my  charge, 
not  presuming  to  give  your  Grace  that  trouble,  and  that  such 
horses  that  would  have  matched  with  those  your  Grace  carried 
from  hence  might  have  been  very  reasonable  the  latter  end 
of  this  summer,  but  I  wanted  both  directions  and  money,  nor 
could  I  justify  the  charge  of  keeping  them  at  house  without 
your  Grace's  order,  our  main  work  being  finished.  The  horse 
I  bought  when  your  Grace  was  here  proves  very  good. 
I  bought  another  to  him  for  15/  10s.,  which  pair  my  Lord  of 
Ossory  did  much  desire,  but  having  no  other  coach  but  that 
large  one  which  your  Grace  left  here,  they  were  too  small 
for  that  service  and  the  streets.  Your  Grace  may  command 
them ;  I  am  sure  the  colour  is  right,  if  they  are  not  too  low. 
I  only  keep  three  at  house,  the  others  are  geldings  which 
is  at  grass.  I  did  the  last  winter  and  this  feed  the  colts 
and  mares  at  the  lodge;  the  colts  were  housed,  being  that 
of  the  flea-bitten  mare  and  bay  Orrery ;  they  are  already 
near  14  hands  high.       These  two  mares  are  now  deep  in  ' 


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foal  by  the  horse  your  Grace  gave  Mr.  Phillips.  The  other 
flea-bitten  mare  which  had  the  farcy  when  your  Grace  was 
here,  I  could  never  recover  her.  She  and  the  old  coach- 
gelding  and  mare,  which  went  in  the  park  lame  and  surfeited, 
died  last  winter.  The  little  gray  mare  your  Grace  had  with 
two  horses  that  was  my  Lord  of  Muskery's,  I  kept  at  house, 
and  became  the  finest  mare  I  think  in  England  for  shape  and 
pace.  I  intended  to  send  her  to  your  Grace,  but  one  morning 
in  the  stable  rising  sprained  herself,  and  being  very  tender 
fell  into  such  pain  that  though  I  had  three  or  four  of  the 
best  farriers,  I  could  not  recover  her. 

I  have  with  the  keeper  taken  the  strictest  view  we  could 
of  the  deer;  we  conclude  them  to  be  four  hundred  fifty  odd, 
and  we  are  confident  this  ground  will  well  ^eep  five  hundred 
nine  months  in  the  year,  for  the  new  ground  that  was  taken 
in  does  much  improve,  and  as  the  winter  falls  out,  so  they 
must  be  provided  for,  so  must  for  a  lesser  number.  Out  of 
this  number  your  Grace  may  kill  about  forty  bucks  and  tw^enty 
does  every  season,  but  after  this  next  fawning  time,  ms^ny 
of  the  fawns  must  be  disposed  of  to  keep  to  that  number. 
My  care  shall  not  be  wanting  whilst  I  have  the  honour  of 
your  concerns  here,  being  confident  your  Grace  is  informed 
that  my  remove  from  hence  at  our  Lady  day  next  is  thought 
convenient,  and  the  reasons  for  it,  though  I  should  with  the 
greatest  satisfaction  to  my  life,  spend  the  rest  of  the  time 
I  have  to  live  in  your  Grace's  service,  whose  experience  can 
best  judge  the  commands  I  am  fittest  for. 

It  would  be  a  very  great  addition  to  my  present  condition, 
and  a  certain  fortune  for  my  children,  if  your  Grace  would 
be  pleased  to  assign  me  out  of  your  profits  at  Whitehall  the 
400/  I  paid  for  the  Serjeant  of  the  Ewery,  which  your  Grace 
promised  to  repay,  your  Grace  being  pleased  to  say  at  that 
time  you  were  in  some  want  of  money,  which  I  did  then  borrow, 
having  not  a  farthing  in  the  world  but  what  is  in  your  Grace's 
hands,  and  what  by  your  Grace's  bounty  I  receive  out  of 
Ireland. 

Francis,  Lord  Aungier  to  Ormond. 

1666  [-7],  January  11.  Longford. — Your  Grace's  of  the 
8th  instant  I  have  received,  and  in  pursuance  of  the  commands 
therein  expressed  I  have  written  to  the  Commissioners  of  Array, 
and  the  respective  officers  of  the  militia  of  this  county  to  meet 
me  to-morrow,  that  I  may  communicate  to  tfiem  the  contents 
of  your  Grace's  letter.  I  shall  likewise  ihis  day  despatch 
letters  to  the  officers  in  the  adjoining  counties  for  the  adjusting 
that  correspondency  your  Grace  commands  us  to  have  for 
pursuing  the  Tories,  who  at  present  are  with  their  general 
withdrawn  out  of  Leitrim  towards  the  north,  from  whence 
if  they  return  into  our  parts,  I  doubt  not  but  your  Grace  shall 
have  a  very  good  account  of  them. 


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I  fear  that  proportion  of  powder  your  Grace  has  assigned 
the  militia  of  this  county,  will  not  be  suflficient  for  service, 
for  their  allowance  for  horse  and  foot  is  but  one  barrel,  without 
either  bullet  or  match,  and  the  fire-arms  of  the  foot  being 
all  muskets,  they  will  be  of  no  use  unless  they  have  match 
and  ball,  in  which  I  most  humbly  beg  your  Grace's  order. 
What  other  commands  your  Grace  shall  please  to  lay  upon  me, 
shall  with  all  faith  and  industry  imaginable  be  obeyed. 


LoBD  Power  and  Curraghmore  to  Ormond. 

1666  [-7],  January  11.  Waterford. — I  am  commanded  by 
my  Lord  President  of  Munster  to  bestow  a  careful  attendance 
on  my  command  here  in  this  garrison  by  occasion  of  the  late 
alarm  from  the  French.  I  have  resolved  to  stand  close  to 
my  duty,  though  the  whole  concernments  of  my  estate  be  at 
present  in  danger  to  be  picked  away  by  parcels  out  of  my  hands 
by  means  of  sudden  orders  from  the  Court  of  Claims,  upon 
whom  I  cannot  attend  for  defence  of  my  just  rights,  by  the 
present  occasion  of  my  necessary  attendance  here.  I  have  not 
used  to  be  very  troublesome  to  your  Grace  in  any  solicitations 
for  myself  though  I  found  your  Grace's  many  favours,  but 
the  present  necessity  of  making  this  request  enforceth  me  to 
beg  your  Grace's  assistance  at  present  by  your  directions  or 
letter  to  the  Commissioners  of  Claims,  that  during  my  necessary 
attendance  here  on  this  command  I  may  have  a  truce  from 
their  further  proceedings  against  my  estate,  until  your  Grace 
be  pleased  to  tolerate  with  my  personal  attendance  on  them 
to  defend  myself.      This  is  the  scope  and  effect  of  this  present 

petition  of,  my  Lord,  your  Grace's,  etc. 

• 

Endorsed : — ^Lord  Power. 


Sir  Eichard  Clifton  to  Ormond. 

1666  [-7],  January  11.  Wexford. — Your  Lordship's 
proclamation  commanding  all  ofl&cers  to  repair  to  their  charges, 
was  received  yesterday  and  immediately  effected,  and  having 
seen  another  letter  from  your  Grace  to  the  Mayor  of  Wexford, 
to  be  communicated  to  all  officers  concerned,  I  shall  this  day 
go  to  Eniscorthy  and  Ferns  to  meet  with  such  officers  of 
my  Lord  the  Earl  of  Anglesey's  troop,  and  of  the  militia 
forces  of  this  county  as  may  be  found  in  their  quarters,  to 
put  in  execution  your  Grace's  commands.  But  I  hear  Captain 
Parsons,  that  should  command  one  of  the  militia  troops,  is 
in  Dublin,  and  there  is  no  captain  for  the  other,  and  as  little 
care  taken  of  it,  in  that  Sir  Csesar  Colclough  declined  it.  Sir 
Nicholas  Armorer  told  me  he  would  move  your  Grace  for  a 
commission  to  Captain  John  Tench  in  Sir  CaBsar's  room,  and 
likewise  a  commission  for  Major  Thomas  Ouseley  to  command 
a  company  of  foot,  there  being  but  four  companies  yet  raised 


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or  arms  received  for,  in  regard  the  town  of  Wexford  are  willing 
(by  your  Grace's  favour)  to  arm  themselves  on  their  own 
account  and  to  that  end  have  sent  to  Bristol  for  arms,  so 
that  if  your  Grace  please,  there  will  be  six  companies  instead  of 
five,  and  all  at  the  same  charge.  The  two  gentlemen  above 
mentioned  were  conceived  by  Sir  Nicholas  Armorer"  and  very 
many  of  your  Grace's  faithful  servants  to  be  very  fit  persons 
for  this,  service,  and  are  nearest  upon  the  sea  side  where  is 
yet  little  or  no  provision  made  for  defence,  what  need  soever 
may  happen.  There  was  a  galliote  hoy  that  had  lain  within 
the  bay  of  Greenore  for  the  space  of  ten  days,  and  being 
deemed  otherwise  than  a  friend,  I  sent  to  the  gentlemen 
thereabouts  to  keep  watch  upon  the  shore,  which  w^as 
accordingly  done.  I  endeavoured  by  two  boats  with  three  files 
musketeers  and  ten  seamen  in  each  boat  to  see  what  she  was, 
but  I  found  such  averseness  in  the  seamen  dwelling  in  this 
town  that  I  could  not  prevail  with  them  at  any  rate  to  stir 
themselves  or  lend  their  boats,  until  I  would  first  engage  to 
satisfy  their  damages,  if  any  were.  But  by  the  voluntary 
offer  of  the  seamen  of  some  English  vessels,  boats  were  sent, 
though  not  in  that  manner  and  time  as  I  would  have  it  done, 
wherefore  the  hoy,  discovering  the  boats,  weighed  anchor  and 
went  to  sea. 

Charon  Fitzpatrick,  the  lay  friar  your  Grace  commanded 
me  to  apprehend,  moves  earnestly  for  liberty  upon  bail ;  the 
other  two  I  cannot  yet  light  of. 

Except  three  or  four  days  the  next  term  your  Grace  should 
please  to  grant  me  liberty,  I  shall  be  constant  in  this  town 
or  county,  still  attending  upon  all  occasions  your  Grace's  further 
commands,  which  to  the  utmost  of  my  power  shall  be  faithfully 
observed  and  duly  put  in  execution. 

Lawrence  Parsons  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666  [-7],  January  11.  Birr. — I  have  received  a  letter 
of  the  8th  instant  from  his  Grace  the  Lord  Lieutenant,  by 
which  the  militia  oflBcers  both  horse  and  foot  of  this  county 
are  required  to  be  in  a  readiness  for  fear  of  foreign  invasion. 
Sir,  for  my  own  part,  and  I  presume  I  may  answer  for  the 
rest  of  the  oflBcers  of  this  county,  we  are  all  ready  for  His 
Majesty's  service,  but  for  the  commonalty  they  are  generally 
very  poor  and  not  able  to  mount  themselves,  nor  are  we 
armed,  the  stores  not  being  able  to  furnish  us.  All  that  I 
have  yet  had  for  my  troop  hath  been  but  fifteen  carbines. 
The  men  I  cannot  complain  of,  but  dare  assure  you  that  were 
they  mounted  and  armed  well,  they  would  do  as  good  service 
as  any  troop  in  this  county.  Sir,  here  hath  been  a  report 
(how  true  I  know  not)  that  out  of  every  county  there  shall 
be  a  troop  and  foot  company  enlisted  into  His  Majesty's  army. 
Sir,  if  there  be  such  a  thing  I  should  take  it  for  a  very  high 
honour  if  my  Lord  Lieutenant  would  think  me  worthy  to 
command  either  for  this  county. 


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Postscript : — I  have  communicated  my  Lord's  commands  to 
as  many  of  the  militia  officers  and  commissioners  as  I  have 
met  with,  and  I  find  them  all  cheerfully  obey  his  Lordship's 
commands. 

Francis,  Lobd  Aungibr  to  Obmond. 

1666  [-7],  January  15.  Longford. — ^Having  in  my  last 
assured  your  Grace  of  my  endeavours  in  the  execution  of  those 
commands  I  received  in  your  Grace's  letter  of  the  eight  instant, 
I  esteem  it  now  my  duty  to  represent  to  your  Grace  both  how 
far  I  have  proceeded  therein  and  wherein  it  will  not  be  in  my 
power  to  answer  your  Grace's  expectations. 

As  to  the  first  part  of  the  letter  which  concerns  the  militia 
of  this  county,  I  have  consulted  the  commissioners  and  by  their 
advice  several  places  are  fixed  upon  and  appointed  as  the  most 
convenient  and  secure  for  both  horse  and  foot  to  draw  into 
upon  the  first  alarm »  and  ere  this  week  be  at  an  end  I  question 
not  but  we  shall  be  in  a  posture  to  defend  ourselves  against 
intestine  enemies.  But  besides  places  there  are  several  other 
strong  castles  both  in  the  hands  of  Protestants  and  Papists, 
which  if  possessed  by  an  enemy  (and  they  may  be  easily 
surprised,  if  a  rebellion  should  happen)  will  be  of  great 
disadvantage  to  the  good  subjects  of  this  county,  who  being 
few  in  number  will  be  exposed  to  great  danger  by  an  enemy's 
nestling  themselves  in  their  bosom.  And  therefore  as  I  am 
by  the  commissioners  desired  to  offer  this  to  your  Grace's 
consideration,  so  I  must  humbly  beg  your  Grace's  commands 
in  this  particular. 

As  to  the  other  part  of  the  letter,  which  relates  to  my 
corresponding  with  the  adjoining  counties,  I  have  had  a 
meeting  with  Sir  Charles  Hamilton  for  the  County  of  Cavan, 
and  he  tells  me  that  it  is  impossible  to  have  those  set  meetings 
your  Grace  mentions  observed  by  the  militias,  who  being  not 
constantly  upon  duty,  and  having  little  substance  to  maintain 
themselves,  will  neither  be  ready  nor  willing  to  answer  sudden 
occasions.  As  for  the  militia  of  the  County  of  Leitrim  I  have 
this  day  discoursed  with  the  governor  of  Jamestown,  who 
assures  me  the  militia  of  that  county  is  so  far  from  being 
modelled  that  the  officers  know  not  their  men  they  are  to 
command,  and  if  they  did,  they  have  no  arms  for  them,  but 
his  own  company  though  they  have  been  very  much  harassed 
already  by  hunting  after  Costelloe,  yet  they  are  ready  at  an 
hour's  warning  to  march  upon  the  first  intelligence  of  his 
coming  again  into  those  parts ;  but  I  find  by  discourse  with 
him  that  he  wants  ammunition,  having  had  no  supply  since 
he  came  thither.  To-morrow  I  expect  to  meet  with  Captain 
Mahon  for  settling  a  correspondency  with  the  County  of 
Roscommon,  which  I  fear  will  be  of  little  use  for  I  understand 
the  militia  of  that  county  is  as  much  out  of  order  as  that 
of  Leitrim. 


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By  this  your  Grace  will  collect  how  little  present  service 
is  to  be  expected  from  the  militias  of  three  counties,  which 
nothing  but  a  general  rebellion  or  foreign  invasion  can  rouse 
out  of  the  security  they  now  seem  to  lie  in.  But  as  for 
my  correspondency  with  the  officers  of  the  standing  army, 
I  have  so  adjusted  it  that  the  Tories  will  find  very  hot  quarters 
if  they  any  more  embody  amongst  us.  If  Sir  Arthur  Forbes 
waits  upon  your  Grace  at  Dublin,  he  can  more  particularly 
acquaint  your  Grace  as  well  of  the  condition  of  the  Protestants 
of  these  parts  as  of  the  present  humour  and  inclination  of 
the  natives,  which  is  too  long  for  the  close  of  a  letter, 
which  T  fear  hath  been  already  too  tedious  to  your  Grace. 

Col.  John  Gorges  to  Ormond. 

1666  [-7],  January  22.  Londonderry. — Hearing  it  hath 
been  your  pleasure  to  licence  me  to  be  Mayor  of  this 
Corporation,  I  shall  study  to  perform  that  duty  to  the  utmost 
of  His  Majesty's  service. 

Since  I  received  your  Grace's  permission  to  assure  pardon 
to  some  offenders  of  the  Tories  or  their  adherents,  I  have 
endeavoured  to  procure  a  faction  among  themselves,  and  in 
part  have  done  it,  but  I  despair  fully  to  effect  it  till  they  are 
put  to  some  straits,  which  I  hope  they  will  be  by  your  Grace's 
late  order,  which  I  have  so  pursued  that  in  few  days  these 
counties  intend,  notwithstanding  the  badness  of  the  weather, 
all  to  be  in  search  after  these  rogues.  What  our  endeavours 
produceth  I  shall  presume  to  present  to  your  Grace ;  only  my 
humble  request  is  that  you  would  please  to  pardon  me  that 
I  have  on  this  occasion  delivered  powder,  match  and  ball  to 
the  militia  of  these  counties  for  this  service  which  hath  been 
as  little  as  possible  the  work  requires. 

Francis,  Lord  Aungibr  to  Ormond. 

1666  [-7],  January  22.  Longford. —  Your  Grace's  of  the 
19th  instant  commanding  me  to  put  my  troop  in  a  readiness 
to  march  upon  the  first  summons  from  my  Lord  President 
of  Connaught  I  have  received,  and  shall  not  fail  to  give  your 
Grace  the  best  evidences  of  my  duty  and  regard  to  His  Majesty's 
service  when  occasion  offers  itself.  But  I  hope  your  Grace 
by  commanding  me  now  into  Connaught  does  not  intend  to 
deny  me  that  honour  you  were  long  since  pleased  to  promise 
me  of  being  either  in  your  own  or  my  Lord  Ossory's  regiment, 
unless  your  Grace  will  please  to  indulge  me  with  the  same 
favour  I  understand  your  Grace  shows  to  some  others,  who  are 
now  endeavouring  to  advance  their  troops  into  regiments. 
I  am  not  so  great  a  stranger  to  myself  as  to  be  ignorant  that 
want  of  experience  in  military  affairs  may  reasonably  be 
objected  against  my  having  so  considerable  a  command,  but 
I  hope  your  Grace  will  judge  charitably  and  believe  that  double 
care  and  diligence  may  not  only  make  some  amends  but  also 


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in  a  short  time  repair  that  defect.  Whenever  I  am  brought 
to  the  test,  your  Grace  will  find  me  as  forward  and  willing 
to  sacrifice  my  life  and  fortune  in  His  Majesty's  service  as 
any  subject  whatever,  and  I  will  with  confidence  aver  no  man 
breathing  shall  appear  more  cordially  and  faithfully  yours. 
I  am  not  so  vain  as  to  value  myself  upon  my  own  interest,  for 
it  is  your  Grace's  favour  and  countenance  that  can  render  me 
and  others  significant  in  this  kingdom.  Yet  whenever  your 
Grace  shall  think  me  worthy  of  your  favours  and  commands, 
I  shall  endeavour  as  soon  to  put  myself  into  a  condition  of 
serving  your  Grace,  as  they  who  have  already  got  the  start 
of  me.  However  I  shall  be  contented  to  serve  in  whatever 
station  your  Grace  shall  please  to  place  me,  and  will  always 
believe  that  fittest,  which  your  Grace  shall  determine  to  be 
so. 

Sir  Stephen  Fox  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1666  [-7],  February  2.  Whitehall. — I  received  yours  of 
the  15th  November,  which  being  only  a  reply  to  mine  of  the 
23rd  of  October,  I  did  not  think  myself  obliged  to  trespass 
upon  you»  time  in  troubling  you  upon  that  occasion  ;  since  yours 
of  the  29th  of  December  is  come  to  my  hands,  and  that  but 
this  day  sennight,  I  assure  you,  so  that  I  am  not  to  be  blamed 
that  my  answer  comes  back  to  you  no  sooner.  I  herewith 
send  you  an  account  of  his  Grace's  dues  from  the  cofferer  to 
the  end  of  December  last,  it  being  three-quarters  of  a  year 
from  the  last  account  I  sent  his  Grace,  a  copy  whereof  I  also 
send  that  you  may  see  how  the  bond  comes  to  be  cancelled, 
and  how  all  accounts  did  then  and  will  now  stand  betwixt 
his  Grace  and  your  servant,  and  although  I  make  myself  debtor, 
yet  I  have  not  received  assignments  for  above  half  the  money 
which  will  be  thereby  paid,  and  by  the  end  of  March  next 
I  hope  to  receive  assignments  for  the  rest,  so  that  his  Grace 
may  look  upon  it  as  money  (without  borrowing  of  me)  to 
be  disposed  of  shortly.  As  for  an  account  of  fees  for  warrants, 
it  retarded  my  writing  the  last  post  in  expectation  of  Sir 
William  Borman,  who  hath  not  been  in  Court  since  my  receipt 
of  your  letter,  nor  is  there  anything  worthy  your  expectation, 
for  there  are  but  four  warrants  disposed  of  and  these  for 
removes  or  exchanges,  of  which  I  shall  desire  Sir  William 
to  give  you  an  exact  account.  And  now  I  am  to  give  you 
my  hearty  thanks  for  your  many  so  kind  remembrances  to 
me  and  mine,  who  are  all  in  perfect  health,  and  my  wife 
is  well  up  again  of  her  sixth  son  John,  who  are  all  at  your 
service,  and  she  presents  her  humble  service  to  my  good  Lady 
Lane,  to  which  I  join  mine,  and  assure  you  none  wish  you 
health  and  happiness  with  greater  earnestness  and  respect 
than.  Sir,  your  most  affectionate  and  most  humble  servant. 

Postscript: — ^When  you  have  an  opportunity  of  obliging 
my  brother  William  with  minding  his  Grace  for  a  lieutenant's 
place,  it  will  be  of  great  advantage  to  him  and  of  satisfaction 
to  me. 

Wt.  8878  Q 


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I  have  not  found  myself  capable  of  getting  a  penny  of  what 
is  due  from  His  Majesty's  Exchequer  here  to  his  Grace  as 
Gentleman  of  the  Bedchamber,  nor  do  I  see  any  probability 
of  it.  However  as  an  adventurer  I  shall  presume  to  make 
a  proposition,  which  at  your  leisure  I  desire  you  to  let  be 
considered  by  his  Grace,  and  if  the  S,0O0l  given  to  Mr. 
Marmaduke  Darcy  in  the  Act  of  Settlement  may  be  got  in 
any  convenient  time,  then  I  think  the  proposition  good. 
If  not,  still  the  money  here  being  so  very  remote,  I  cannot 
blush  to  think  this  a  very  reasonable  proposition,  and  if  it 
shall  be  so  thought  with  you,  I  shall  be  ready  to  make  it 
good  without  ever  repining  or  having  any  recourse  to  his 
Grace,  although  it  should  prove  unsuccessful  to  me,  and  it 
cannot  be  successful  in  any  short  time,  though  probably  in 
process  of  time  when  I  shall  happen  to  be  desired  to  undertake 
some  great  payment  I  may  also  get  this  into  my  assignment, 
and  if  this  proposition  shall  not  be  accepted  of,  I  hope  I  shall 
not  be  suspected  of  being  less  zealous  in  the  soliciting  it 
when  occasion  serves  than  I  have  been  and  most  truly  ever 
shall  be  in  his  Grace's  service  of  what  concern  soever  it  be, 
as  long  as  I  live. 

I  beg  a  word  in  your  next  letter  what  likelihood  there  is 
of  Mr.  Darcy's  being  paid,  if  this  proposition  doth  not  take 
effect. 


Warrant  for  Commissioners  of  St.  Andrew's  Parish, 

Dublin. 

1666  [-7],  February  6.  Dublin  Castle.— By  the  Lord 
Lieutenant  General  and  General  Governor  of  Ireland. 

Ormond. 

These  are  to  will  and  require  you  forthwith  to  draw  up  a 
fiant  in  due  form  of  law  containing  such  a  commission  from 
His  Majesty  unto  Thomas  Pooly,  esquire,  John  NichoUs, 
esquire,  and  William  Crosse,  gentleman,  to  be  Commissioners 
for  the  Parish  of  St.  Andrew  in  the  City  of  Dublin,  as  in 
and  by  an  Act  of  Parliament  entitled  an  Act  for  Provision 
of  Ministers  in  cities  and  corporate  towns,  etc.,  is  directed, 
required  and  warranted,  in  all  points  giving,  and  by  the  said 
commission  granting,  unto  the  said  Thomas  Pooly,  John 
Nicholls,  and  William  Crosse,  or  any  two  of  them  full  power 
and  authority  within  the  said  Parish  of  St.  Andrew,  to  do, 
perform,  and  execute  all  such  act  and  acts,  thing  and  things 
whatsoever  as  any  commissioners  in  and  by  the  said  Act  are 
empowered  and  authorized  to  do ;  inserting  therein  all  such 
other  clauses,  powers,  and  authorities,  as  in  commissions  of 
like  nature  are  usual,  and  the  same  fairly  engrossed  on 
parchment  under  your  hand  to  send  unto  us  to  be  further 


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passed  as  appertaineth.  For  doing  whereof  this  shall  be 
your  warrant.  Given  at  His  Majesty's  Castle  of  Dublin, 
the  sixth  day  of  February,  1666  [-7] . 

To  our  trusty  and  well-beloved  His  Majesty's  Attorney  and 
Solicitor  General,  or  either  of  them. 

G.  Lane. 

Jambs  Butler  to  Ormond. 

1666  [-7] ,  February  6.  Munster  in  Westphalia.— Obliged 
duty  and  natural  obedience  forces  me  to  presume  that  boldness 
in  humbly  offering  to  kiss  your  Grace's  hand  by  these  few 
lines,  informing  my  indifferent  good  condition  in  his  Grace 
the  Lord  Bishop  and  Prince  of  Munster' s  army  since  my 
coming  into  Germany  in  July  last,  and  served  the  said  army 
a[8]  General  Adjutant,  much  respected  and  entertained 
contentedly,  and  now  am  commanded  by  Patent  to  be  Governor 
or  Commandant  in  Thefeght  [?],  a  town  of  pretty  strength 
bordering  upon  the  Luneburgers'  land,  who  is  much  suspected 
here  to  join  with  the  Hollanders  against  us,  if  they  can. 
They  are  reported  to  be  ten  or  twelve  thousand  horse  and 
foot.  The  Swedes'  forces  are  drawing  to  a  head  near  Breame, 
which  town  fears  much  to  be  blocked  by  them.  The 
Luneburgers  trusts  them  not,  likewise  mistrusting  them  as 
if  the  Swedes  were  to  join  with  our  forces,  as  we  hope. 

The  Duke  of  Brandeburg's  agent,  likewise  the  Duke  of 
Brunswick's,  was  here  at  this  Court  very  busy,  as  is  conceived 
for  the  Hollanders. 

The  King  of  France  wrote  to  the  States  of  Holland  wishing 
them  to  fall  upon  some  of  our  chief  towns  to  besiege  them, 
and  in  case  they  would  not,  sent  directions  to  his  commander 
of  those  French  troops  joined  with  the  Hollanders,  named 
Monsieur  Brodell,  to  make  an  inroad  upon  and  destroy  our 
quarters.  Yet  they  dare  not  venture,  our  forces  being  in 
such  a  ready  posture,  not  only  to  prevent  their  incursions  but 
also  to  make  cavalcados  into  their  quarters  and  going  upon 
parties  where  always  hitherto  we  had  the  best  of  them. 
Though  our  forces  are  reported  by  the  contrary  parties  to 
grow  weak  and  less  in  number,  I  assure  your  Grace  the 
contrary.  Where  one  goes,  ten  comes,  and  his  Grace  has 
many  officers  raising  still  men,  both  horse  and  foot. 

Here  is  a  very  gallant  noble  gentleman  of  a  very  good  ancient 
estate,  a  Butler  of  Hessenland,  raised  a  fair  strong  regiment 
of  horse  of  mere  affection  to  His  Majesty  our  King,  only  as 
he  says  for  the  family's  sake,  who  desired  me  to  present  in  my 
letter  his  most  humble  service  to  your  Grace,  and  very 
commonly  remembers  your  Grace  and  whole  family  in  Ireland's 
health.  So  doth  the  Bishop  of  Munster  likewise,  next  after 
His  Majesty's  and  the  Duke  of  York.  I  beseech  your  Grace 
for  the  honour  of  the  family  to  recommend  me  to  this  Prince 


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and  Bishop,  so  well  by  His  Majesty's  as  your  Grace's  letter, 
which  will  advance  me  in  this  service  that  I  am  resolved  to  stick 
into  so  long  as  His  Majesty  is  therein  concerned.  If  I  had 
known  when  I  took  leave  with  your  Grace  at  London, 
and  got  His  Majesty's  pass  that  I  should  engage  in  this  war 
as  I  did,  and  had  but  your  Grace's  letters  of  credence  or  His 
Majesty's,  I  migUt  have  a  good  regiment  long  ago,  but  I 
hope  there  is  no  good  time  lost,  and  by  your  Grace's  means 
procuring  His  Majesty's  directions  to  the  Bishop  to  that  effect, 
I  finding  myself  never  better  able  to  serve  them  now  both 
by  health,  strength,  and  knowledge,  and  as  well  acquainted 
with  the  Dutch  wars  as  any  of  themselves. 

Our  army  will  be  next  spring  twelve  thousand  foot  and 
eight  thousand  horse,  besides  what  alliance  we  hope  for ;  all 
Princes  in  Germany  araising  forces,  every  one  in  his  own 
territory,  so  there  is  nothing  over  all  but  preparations  of  war, 
and  scarce  one  trusts  another,  but  in  few  weeks  it  will 
and  must  appear,  and  your  Grace  shall  have  an  account 
of  what  I  shall  know  from  time  to  time,  if  your  Grace 
pleases.  I  keep  always  correspondency  with  His  Majesty's 
Resident  at  Hamburg,  Sir  William  Swane,  to  whom 
I  am  beholding  for  his  civil  correspondency;  and  [he] 
promises  to  address  my  letters.  I  humbly  take  leave 
with  the  hopeful  expectations  of  comfort  from  your  Grace 
for  the  honour  of  the  decayed  family  and  dutiful  servant, 

James  Butler  of  Castlecumber. 
Endx)T8ed : — Mr.  James  Butler  of  Castlecumber. 


List  op  Judges'  Circuits. 
Lent  Assizes,  1666  [-7]. 

IThe  Lord    Chief   Justice  of    the 
Common  Pleas. 
Mr.  Baron  Kennedy. 

Ulster  North  West  Circuit  {  gP  ^""*°^  ,^*«°-, 

I  Sir  Jerome  Alexander. 

Co^.»gh.  Circui. {  KnSk'E^Se. 

IThe  Lord  Chief    Justice  of    the 
Chief  Place. 
Mr.  Justice  Booth. 

Dated  8th  February,  1666  [-7]. 

Endorsed: — ^The  Judges'  Circuits,  Lent  Assizes,  1666  [-7]. 

Beceived  from  my  Lord  Chancellor  the  16th  of  March, 
1666  [-7]. 


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George  Deyos  to  Col.  George  Lytton. 

1666  [-7],  March  4.  Waterford.— On  Saturday  last 
there  came  a  letter  from  the  President  of  Munster  to  the  Mayor 
of  this  city,  requiring  him  and  three  or  four  of  the  faithfullest 
of  his  brethren  to  come  to  Charleville  with  all  speed  to  advise 
with  his  Lordship  about  passing  a  new  charter,  also  that  his 
Grace  my  Lord  Lieutenant  had  given  an  order  to  the  Attorney 
General  in  writing  that  he  should  insert  such  persons  in  the 
several  corporations  of  Munster  for  Aldermen,  Common 
Councilmen,  Company  of  the  Staple,  and  Freemen,  as  his 
Lordship  should  under  his  hand  and  seal  send  in  a  list  to 
the  said  Attorney  General.  In  order  whereto  the  Mayor  and 
two  Aldermen,  as  soon  as  our  assizes  is  past,  which  will  be  on 
Thursday  next,  go  to  Charleville.  There  is  no  man  of 
discretion  who  knows  the  temper  of  the  Mayor  and  those  two 
of  his  brethren,  which' are  the  two  Boltons  (both  known  to 
my  Lord  of  Arran),  that  can  expect  any  other  than  a  list  of 
knaves  and  fools  to  be  incorporated  here  unless  that  list  be 
perused  and  corrected  at  Dublin.  I  entreat  you  to  acquaint 
my  Lord  of  Arran  with  the  contents  hereof,  and  if  you  receive 
any  commands  from  him,  to  impart  them  to  him  that  is,  your 
faithful  humble  servant. 

Petition  of  John  Kelly  to  Ormond. 

1666  [-7] ,  March  6. — Humbly  sheweth  that  whereas  by  orders 
of  the  Lords  Justices  of  Assize  for  the  Province  of  Connaught,  in 
the  year  1661,  the  sum  of  sixty  pounds  was  applotted  and  levied 
in  the  County  of  Galway  by  certain  persons  appointed  to  receive 
the  same,  and  the  sum  of  thirty  pounds  was  likewise  applotted 
and  levied  by  others  in  the  County  of  Roscommon  for  and 
towards  the  building  of  a  bridge  at  the  ford  of  Garrura,  upon  the 
river  of  Suck,  yet  notwithstanding  that  the  said  respective  sums 
of  money  was  applotted  and  levied  as  aforesaid,  the  same 
was  not  yet  laid  out  by  the  persons  appointed  to  oversee  the 
building  of  the  said  bridge,  which  brings  an  unspeakable 
damage  and  inconveniency  upon  the  inhabitants  of  the  said 
counties  of  Galway  and  Boscommon,  and  all  other  persons  that 
during  the  whole  winter  season  may  have  any  occasion  to 
travel  from  Leinster  or  Athlone  to  Galway,  or  from  Sligo  to 
Loughrea  or  Galway,  backward  or  forward,  this  being  the 
straight,  nearest,  and  best  way  from  them  places,  but  altogether 
inaccessible  in  the  winter  time  for  want  of  making  up  the 
said  bridge  as  was  formerly  ordered. 

May  it  therefore  please  your  Grace  to  recommend  it  to  the 
care  of  the  now  Lords  Justices  of  Assize  appointed  for  the 
Circuit  of  Connaught  to  bring  such  persons  to  an  account  as 
were  formerly  appointed  to  oversee  the  building  of  the  said 
bridge,  and  that  have  received  the  moneys  intended  for  it, 
and  that  their  Lordships  may  take  special  care  to  have  that 
public  and  necessary  work  go  on,  and  that  your  Grace  may 


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be  further  graciously  pleased  to  send  an  absolute  command 
for  one  John  Martin,  now  dwelling  in  or  near  Kilkenny,  who 
received  by  order  of  Cornet  Michael  Stanley  the  said  sum  of 
thirty  pounds  applotted  in  the  County  of  Eoscommon  for  the 
said  bridge,  that  he  may  appear  at  the  now  Assizes  to  be  held 
at  Roscommon  to  give  an  account  of  the  said  thirty  pounds, 
which  wdthout  his  appearance  cannot  be  accounted  for;  and 
your  petitioner  will  ever  pray. 

Endorsed  at  foot : — 

Dublin  Castle,  6th  March,  1666  [-7]. 

We  recommend  it  to  the  next  going  Judges  of  Assize 
for  the  Province  of  Connaught  in  their  Circuit  to  inform 
themselves  concerning  the  matter  within  mentioned,  and 
to  take  such  course  therein  as  shall  appear  to  be  fit  in  a 
business  of  so  public  concernment. 

Ormond. 

Petition  of  Benjamin  Henshaw  to  the  King. 

1666  [-7],  March  7. — The  humble  petition  of  Benjamin 
Henshaw,  Major  of  the  Island  of  Jersey. 

Sheweth :  That  your  petitioner  in  the  year  1663,  did  for 
a  valuable  consideration  purchase  of  one,  Thomas  Warren, 
all  his  interest  in  a  fourth  part  of  a  lot  of  lands  containing 
3,500  acres  lying  in  the  barony  of  Iffa  and  Offa  in  Tipperary 
in  Ireland,  and  a  foui-th  part  of  what  lands  should  be  by  reprisal 
granted,  in  consideration  of  488  acres  taken  out  of  the  said 
lots,  and  after  the  said  Thomas  Warren,  endeavouring  to 
defraud  your  petitioner  of  his  said  purchase,  your  petitioner 
did  at  his  great  charge  in  law  obtain  a  confirmation  of  his 
purchase  by  a  decree  in  Chancery ;  that  shortly  after  your 
petitioner  being  sent  by  your  Majesty  to  command  as  Major 
your  Majesty's  forces  in  the  Island  of  Jersey,  during  your 
petitioner's  absence  there  was  inserted  a  proviso  into  the  Act 
for  the  Settlement  of  Ireland,  whereby  it  was  enacted  that 
if  the  assigns  of  Dike  and  Cunningham  (from  whom  your 
petitioner  derives  his  title)  did  not  within  forty  days  after  the 
passing  of  the  said  Act  make  good  their  claim,  all  those  lands 
in  Ireland  pretended  to  by  Dike,  Cunningham  and  their 
assigns  as  adventurers,  should  be  forfeit  to  your  Majesty,  all 
which  being  but  lately  come  to  your  petitioner's  know^ledge, 
who  by  reason  of  his  attendance  on  your  Majesty's  service  at 
so  great  a  distance,  has  been  utterly  disabled  to  act  in  the 
maintaining  of  his  title,  which  as  your  petitioner  is  informed, 
is  in  great  danger  to  be  overthrown ,  w^hich  would  bie  the  utter 
ruin  of  your  petitioner,  who  has  laid  out  his  whole  estate  in 
that  purchase. 

Your  petitioner  therefore  humbly  begs  that  if  it  shall  so 
happen  that  the  said  lands  shall  be  adjudged  to  your  Majesty, 
that  in  consideration  your  petitioner  did  at  his  own  charge 


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serve  your  Majesty's  father  of  blessed  memory  during  all  the 
war,  for  which  he  hath  never  received  any  recompense,  and 
in  consideration  that  your  petitioner  doth  now  with  all 
faithfulness  and  diligence  serve  your  Majesty  in  the  quality 
of  Major  in  the  said  Island  of  Jersey,  for  which  he  receives 
no  other  pay  but  as  Captain  of  a  foot  company,  your  Majesty 
out  of  your  princely  generosity  would  be  graciously  pleased  to 
bestow  upon  him  that  small  parcel  of  acres  he  hath  so  dearly 
purchased. 

Endorsed  at  foot : — 

At  the  Court  at  Whitehall,  March  7th,  1666  [-7]. 

His  Majesty  considering  the  hardness  of  the  petitioner's 
case  as  here  stated,  and  remembering  the  constant  loyalty 
and  affection  he  and  his  relations  have  all  along  presented 
to  His  Majesty  and  his  late  royal  father  of  blessed  memory, 
and  particularly  how  usefully  the  petitioner  now  serves 
him  in  the  command  he  bears,  is  pleased  to  recommend 
it  effectually  to  his  Grace  the  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland 
or  other  the  Chief  Governor  there,  to  consider  of  the 
petitioner's  pretensions  in  that  lot,  and  the  case  appearing 
as  he  here  states  it,  to  give  order  he  be  gratified  in  his 
suit,  if  the  whole  remain  in  His  Majesty's  disposal ;  which 
His  Majesty  will  hereafter  give  such  further  warrant  for 
as  shall  by  his  Grace  be  found  necessary. 

Arlington. 

James  Buck  to  Sir  Georgb  Lane. 

1665  [-6],  March  12.  Moor  Park. — I  render  you  many 
thanks  for  your  concerns  of  my  small  affairs  in  Ireland,  and 
though  it  is  general  that  all  fees  will  be  reduced  for  the 
reason  you  mention,  yet  I  hope  by  the  multiplicity  of  Patents 
upon  this  settlement  the  office  may  be  considerable  to  me, 
for  out  of  that  and  the  Clerk  of  the  Market  I  have  not 
received  these  two  years  one  hundred  pounds.  You  have 
heard  that  my  Lord  of  Ossory,  his  Lady  and  company  came 
safe  to  Moor  Park  the  3rd  instant.  This  day  with  my 
Lord  of  Arlington  they  are  all  gone  to  London,  where  they 
will  stay  till  other  company  be  landed,  and  then  for  this 
place  again.  To-morrow  I  shall  follow  his  Lordship,  and 
then  if  there  be  any  change  worth  your  notice,  you  shall 
receive  it. 

Postscript: — By  the  next  I  shall  let  my  Lord  and  Lady 
know  how  kind  you  are. 

Petition  of  John  Lovett  to  Ormond. 

1666  [-7],  March  15. — The  humble  petition  of  John  Lovett, 
Marshal  of  the  Four  Courts  and  Keeper  of  His  Majesty's  Gaol 
of  Newgate. 

Humbly  sheweth  and  discovereth  unto  your  Grace  that  one, 
John  Bruffe,  a  prisoner  in  His  Majesty's  Goal  of  Newgate, 


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long  since  condemned  for  murder,  the  last  week  wrote  a  letter 
to  one,  Mr.  Fish,  a  Chirurgion,  living  at  Lazy  Hill,  for  to 
procure  him,  the  said  Bruffe,  two  ounces  and  a  half  of  opium 
powder  and  a  bottle  of  oil  or  water,  and  the  said  Fish  not 
well  knowing  the  effects  thereof  shewed  the  letter  to  one, 
Doctor  Dorrell,  who  on  Wednesday  last  sent  word  to  your 
petitioner  to  have  a  care  of  the  prisoners,  upon  which  your 
petitioner  sent  William  Cole,  your  petitioner's  deputy,  to  the 
said  Doctor  Dorrell,  who  very  honestly  told  the  said  Cole  that 
the  quantity  of  powder  mentioned  in  the  first  letter  would 
lay  a  hun(&ed  persons  into  such  a  sleep  that  they   should 
never  awake,  and  that  the  bottle  of  oil  or  water  mentioned 
in  the  letter  would  in  four  and  twenty  hours  eat  any  bars 
or  irons  in  pieces,  upon  which  your  petitioner  hath  examined 
the  said  Bruffe  concerning  the  letter  and  what  his  intentions 
were,  who  hath  confessed  (although  he  at  first  denied  it)  that 
he  did  write  the  letter  to  the  said  Mr.  Fish,  and  that  he  did 
intend  to  get  a  friend  or  two  to  come  to  the  said  Cole,  your 
petitioner's  deputy,  to  pretend  some  business  to   him,  who 
was  to  send  for  a  bottle  or  two  of  wine  to  drink  with  the 
said  Cole  and  his  wife,  and  they  did  intend  to  convey  the 
said  powder  or  so  much  thereof  as  they  could  with  conveniency 
into  the  said  wine,  and  if  the  wine  should  not  agree  with 
the  palates  of  the  said  Cole,  his  wife  and  the  turnkey,  they 
did  intend  to  send  for  strong   waters  or  any  other  waters 
or  liquors  that  any  of  them  should  best  like  and  so  to  convey 
the   powder  into   the  cups   or  bottles,  and   the  said   Bruffe 
did  confess  that  he  had  provided  a  pill  to  give  a  great  mastiff 
dog  which  the  said  Cole  kept  in  the  prison  for  the  better 
securing  of  the  prisoners,  and  that  the  water  or  oil  was  to  be 
applied  to  the  bolts  and  bars  of  the  prison  ;  and  your  petitioner 
further  discovereth  that  he  hath  several  times  found  aqua  fortis 
with  the  said  Bruffe  and  other  prisoners ;  and  your  petitioner 
further    sheweth    unto    your   Grace   that   there    are    several 
condemned  persons  lying  in  Newgate  upon  reprieves, and  several 
other  prisoners  lately  brought  in  for  several  heinous  murders 
lately  committed  in  and  about  this  city,  besides  a  great  many 
notorious  fellows  who  are  always  endeavouring  to  make  an 
escape  from  your  petitioner,  notwithstanding  your  petitioner's 
constant  care  and  watchfulness  of  them ;  and  your  petitioner 
further  sheweth  and  discovereth  unto  your  Grace  that  after 
Bruffe  had  understood  that  his  design  was  discovered,  the 
said  Bruffe  wrote  another  letter  to  the  said  Mr.  Fish  to  desire 
him  to  commit  the  former  letter  to  the  fire,  which  letter  is 
come  to  your  petitioner's  hands,  but  your  petitioner  cannot 
get  the   first  letter  from  the   said   Mr.    Fish,  which   horrid 
design  of  the  said  Bruffe  (had  it  taken  effect)  all  the  prisoners 
would  have  made  an  escape,  and  would  have  been  a  ruin  and 
destruction  to  your  petitioner  and  family  and  the  sheriffs  of 
this  city,  all  which  your  petitioner  thought  in  duty  he  was 
bound  to  give  your  Grace  a  true  account  of. 


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And  your  petitioner  humbly  prayeth  that  your  Grace  will 
be  pleased  to  take  the  premises  into  your  Grace's  serious 
consideration  of  the  danger  this  city  and  your  petitioner  is 
in  if  so  many  great  oflFenders  should  escape,  and  that 
your  Grace  would  be  pleased  to  take  some  speedy  course 
for  bringing  .the  said  persons  to  their  trials,  that  they 
may  receive  condign  punishment  for  their  great  offences,  either 
by  granting  a  commission  of  oyer  and  terminer  to  such  persons 
as  your  Grace  shall  think  fit,  or  by  any  other  means  as  your 
Grace  shall  think  fit.  And  your  petitioner  as  in  duty  bound, 
shall  ever  pray, 'etc. 

Endorsed  at  foot : — 

Dublin  Castle,  the  15th  of  March,  1666   [-7]. 
Let  the  within  petition  be  presented  unto  us  at  our 
next  sitting  at  the  Council  Board,  where  the  same  shall 
be  taken  into  consideration ,  and  such  further  order  given 
thereupon  as  shall  be  thought  fit. 

Ormond. 

Francis,  Lord  Aungibr  to  Ormond. 

1667,  April  12.  MuUingar. — Your  Grace's  dated  the  ninth 
instant  together  with  the  copy  of  Mr.  Weaver's  letter  to  my 
Lord  Chief  Baron  I  have  received,  and  as  soon  as  the  Assizes 
of  this  county  are  over,  I  shall  return  to  Longford  and  examine 
Nangle  about  the  particulars  contained  in  it. 

I  have  also  received  from  my  Lord  President  of  Connaught 
a  copy  of  Flanagan's  examination,  which  agrees  in  the  most 
material  parts  of  it  with  Nangle' s,  of  which  this  use  may  be 
made,  that  thought  it  cannot  in  law  be  evidence  against  the 
parties  named  in  it,  because  Flanagan  is  condemned,  yet 
because  it  concurs  with  Nangle's  testimony  it  will  be  a  good 
inducement  to  a  jury  to  credit  Nangle,  whose  discoveries  may 
yet  be  further  confirmed  by  others,  if  your  Grace  will  please 
to  delay  the  pardon  of  some  now  in  treaty,  and  particularly 
Thomas  Plunkett,  who  is  come  in  to  Sir  Theophilus  Jones  upon 
protection  and  promise  to  do  service.  This  person  was  not 
only  an  eye-witness  of  those  poor  people  that  were  murdered 
at  Longford,  but  also  privy  to  the  whole  design,  and  can 
inform  your  Grace  of  all  those  who  were  joined  in  the 
confederacy  with  Nangle. 

I  find  that  James  Nangle's  not  being  tried  this  Assizes  has 
much  startled  not  only  his  fellows  who  betrayed  him,  but  also 
the  rest  of  their  party  in  the  County  of  Longford,  whose 
villainous  intentions  had  passed  undiscovered  if  he  had  suffered, 
there  being  none  so  well  able  to  give  evidence  against  them  as 
this  fellow,  who  was  Nangle's  constant  mercury,  and  sent 
by  him  upon  all  occasions  with  letters  and  messages  to  those 
who  were  joined  with  him  in  his  rebellious  designs;  and  I 
am  confident  it  is  for  this  reason  they  have  charged  him  with 


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the  murder  of  Deane,  who  upon  his  death-bed  laid  it  upon 
Charles  Roe  Ferrall  and  Michael  Cormicke.  And  James 
Nangle  now  charges  Garrett  Ferrall  (the  person  who  spoke 
with  your  Grace  in  Dublin),  so  that  of  those  six  to  whom  your 
Grace  has  promised  a  pardon,  three  of  them  are  accused  for 
killing  Deane,  and  therefore  if  Plunkett  were  interrogated  in 
this  particular,  from  his  confession  your  Grace  might  take  a 
measure  how  far  to  credit  Nangle  in  the  rest  of  his  examination. 

Ormond  to  Lord  Anglesey. 

1667,  April  13.  Maddenstown. — ^I  am  heartily  sorry  so 
unseasonable  and  painful  an  indisposition  forced  you  to  write 
yours  of  the  6th  instant  in  your  bed,  but  I  hope  the  season 
of  the  year  will  not  let  it  continue  long  upon  you.  The 
discourse  of  money  without  placing  it  on  an  effectual  fund 
will  rather  lose  than  get  us  credit,  and  unless  it  shall  be  speedily 
done,  the  army  will  not  only  want  pay,  but  many  preparations 
absolutely  necessary  at  such  a  time  as  this  must  be  omitted, 
and  without  the  passports  promised  to  merchants  in  the 
proclamation  published  by  virtue  of  the  King's  letter,  come  in 
due  time,  much  mischief  instead  of  advantage  may  befall  such 
as  in  confidence  of  them  may  furnish  themselves  with 
merchandise.  I  have  therefore  written  to  my  Lord  Chancellor 
in  this  time  of  your  sickness  to  concern  himself  in  the  despatch 
of  both,  and  your  Lordship  shall  do  well  to  employ  Mr.  Forster 
both  to  him  and  to  Sir  William  Coventry. 

I  am  gotten  hither  to  take  some  exercise  and  fresh  air, 
and  to-morrow  I  intend  to  make  a  further  step  to  Kilkenny, 
but  mean  to  be  at  Dublin,  God  willing,  on  the  18th  instant. 
There  your  Lordship  shall  be  sure  that  either  no  determination 
will  be  given  to  the  doubt  concerning  valuation  sent  us  by 
the  commissioners,  or  such  a  one  as  your  Lordship  will  have 
no  cause  to  complain  of. 

Endorsed : — A  copy  of  a  letter  to  my  Lord  of  Anglesey. 

Thomas  Amory  to  John  Walsh. 

1667,  April  15.  Dingle. — I  formerly  advised  the  receipt 
of  yours  dated  the  11th  December  last  with  return 
of  thanks,  etc.,  and  missing  the  conveyance  by  my  son  had 
no  opportunity  till  last  week  by  Captain  Henry  Ponsonby, 
to  whom  [I]  sent  the  copy  of  our  charter  to  be  delivered  to 
your  own  hands. 

We  had  a  later  charter  granted  by  King  James  but  it  is 
eaten  (in  the  war  time)  by  rats,  and  it  is  all  the  same  in  effect, 
only  is  added  the  forfeiture  of  all  felons'  lands  and  goods  to 
the  benefit  and  use  of  the  Corporation.  Pray  present  the 
enclosed  address  to  his  Grace,  and  to  his  pleasure  and  directions 
therein  we  submit,  rendering  as  due  the  true  manifestation 
of  our  love  and  service.  And  concerning  your  goodness  to 
agitate  for  us  we  shall  endeavour  requital.  In  the  interim 
pray  advise  us  as  needful. 


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Petition  of  Thomas  Amory. 

1667,  April  15.  Dingle. — To  his  Grace  the  Lord  Lieutenant 
of  Ireland  and  Duke  of  Ormond,  etc. 

Sheweth :  Whereas  your  Grace  is  pleased  to  renew  our 
Charter,  have  according  to  order  sent  the  copy  of  it  to  Mr.  John 
Walshe,  humbly  tendering  these  following  articles  may  be 
added  to  our  Charter,  viz. : — 

1.  None  to  be  Sovereign  without  first  taking  the  Oath  of 
Supremacy. 

2.  A.  market  every  Friday  weekly. 

3.  Two  fairs  yearly,  that  is  to  say  the  24th  of  June  and 
the  30th  of  November. 

And  although  we  are  under  a  cloud  of  poverty  at  present, 
these  privileges  with  future  contrivance  for  building  and 
encouragement  for  merchants,  tradesmen,  and  fishing,  as  shall 
with  your  Grace's  licence  propose,  it  may  with  God's  blessing 
have  a  flourishing  Corporation  as  formerly.  I  leave  the 
premises  to  your  Grace's  pious  consideration,  and  shall  as  in 
duty  pray  for  your  Grace's  good  health  and  happiness,  etc. 

Tho.  Amory,  Sovereign. 

Francis,  Lord  Aungier  to  Ormond. 

1667,  April  20.  Longford. — I  have  examined  Nangle  upon 
the  particulars  of  Mr.  Weaver's  letter  to  my  Lord  Chief  Baron, 
and  I  find  him  a  stranger  not  'only  to  Johnston  and 
Armstrong,  the  persons  mentioned  in  the  letter,  but  also  to 
all  of  Costelloe's  party  that  w^ere  at  Longford. 

Two  days  since  I  received  a  letter  from  Captain  Mahon  giving 
me  an  account  that  three  of  Costelloe's  men  skulked  and  robbed 
in  Slewbawne,  of  whom  he  can  learn  no  certain  intelligence 
because  the  person  who  discovered  Owen  McKenna  to  him 
has  not  yet  been  rewarded,  by  which  others  are  discouraged 
that  none  will  undertake  to  be  his  spy. 

Ormond  to  Earl  of  Anglesey. 

1667,  April  20.  Dublin. — As  long  as  I  find  you  able  to  write 
I  may  presume  you  are  better  able  to  read,  and  will  not  forbear 
to  return  answers  to.  such  letters  as  I  shall  receive  from  you 
till  I  am  assured  you  are  come  from  London,  which  I  wish 
you  may  be  soon  in  condition  to  leave  with  a  full  despatch 
and  in  perfect  health.  Your  Lordship's  of  the  9th  I  received 
at  Kilkenny,  and  that  of  the  13th  the  day  after  I  returned 
hither.  The  last  (which  I  only  find  needful  to  answer)  brought 
the  eighteen  passes  from  the  Duke,  with  a  promise  that  if  they 
should  be  found  too  few  or  defective,  that  the  number  should 
be  enlarged  and  the  form  mended  upon  notice.  I  have  given 
one  of  each  sort  to  one  of  the  farmers  of  the  customs  to 
consider  of  them.       When  he  shall  hav«  brought  me  the 


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sense  of  merchants  (who  are  to  be  most  concerned  in  the 
validity  of  them)  I  shall  send  it  your  Lordship,  and  that  I 
hope  may  be  by  this  post.  Some  of  my  Lords  of  the  Council, 
and  of  those  such  as  best  understand  the  law,  are  of  opinion 
that  the  proclamation  published  here  by  warrant  of  the  King's 
letter,  though  it  is  as  full  as  the  authority  extended,  will 
not  warrant  the  exportation  of  wool  to  foreign  parts,  at  least 
that  it  will  not  dispense  with  a  high  custom  imposed  by  a 
law  in  Queen  Elizabeth's  days,  without  the  payment  of  which 
the  exportation  of  that  commodity  is  made  felony.  So  that 
though  the  merchants  have  upon  the  first  issuing  of  the 
proclamation  made  large  provisions  of  wool,  yet  the  farmers 
will  not  permit  them  to  export  them  without  a  licence  from 
me,  and  my  Lords  of  the  Council,  even  those  who  think  the 
proclamation  will  bear  it,  are  not  very  ready  to  join  in  a 
Declaratory  Act  of  State  to  that  effect.  Thus  that  concession 
of  the  King's  which  would  doubtless  bring  in  most  ready 
money  is  like  to  become  fruitless  to  us,  unless  we  can  have 
an  express  warrant  from  His  Majesty  for  it  or  an  authentic 
copy  of  the  result  of  the  debate  at  the  council  there  in 
affirmation  that  it  was  intended,  and  whether  this  is  fit  to  be 
desired,  or  if  it  should  be  obtained,  sufficient  authority,  may 
be  a  question  there  and  here. 

I  am  sorry  the  money  hangs  so  long.  If  the  treaty  should 
end  in  a  rupture,  there  is  no  doubt  but  our  enemies  are  resolved 
what  then  to  do,  and  if  it  should  end  in  a  peace,  it  may  be 
feared  our  friends  would  not  think  the  sparing  so  much  to 
be  so  necessary,  as  I  am  sure  we  shall  find  it  whatever  happens, 
and  therefore  I  doubt  not  but  your  Lordship  will  hasten  the 
securing  of  it  as  much  as  your  indisposition  will  permit  you. 
The  commissioners  on  their  return  and  review  of  their  business 
do  not  find  themselves  so  near  the  end  of  their  work  as  they 
thought  they  should  be,  nor  will  they  find  me  disposed  to  ease 
them  by  undertaking  the  unthankful  part  by  way  of  resolution 
to  doubts.  I  have  other  affairs  and  better  divertisements. 
God  send  you  good  health,  good  despatch,  and  a  safe  passage. 

Endorsed : — A  copy  of  a  letter  to  my  Lord  of  Anglesey. 


Ormond  to  CoL.  Edward  Cookb. 

1667,  June  15.  Dublin. — George  Lane  being  out  of 
town  I  took  the  liberty  to  open  several  of  the  letters  directed 
to  him,  and  amongst  them  found  one  from  you  of  the  8th 
instant,  complaining  you  had  not  received  your  authority  to 
command  my  keeper  at  Moor  Park  nbf  the  instructions  I 
promised  to  send  you.  The  order  to  the  keeper  he  sent 
before  he  took  his  journey,  and  with  this  you  will  receive 
the  instructions  which  do  sufficiently  imply  authority  and 
may  give  you  divertisement  you  love.  For  the  disposing  of 
the  deer  this  season  you  will  need  no  other  power  or  direction 


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than  you  carried  with  you.  You  know  you  may  command 
all,  and  there  are  very  few  of  my  acquaintance  that  may 
not  command  some  as  far  as  the  ground  will  bear.  In  fine 
you  are  proprietor  and  judge. 

I  would  not  put  the  matter  of  the  wood  said  to  be  sold 
by  Buck  into  the  instructions,  but  I  wish  you  would  know 
what  James  Clarke  is  able  to  say  on  the  subject,  and  what 
proof  he  has  of  it,  and  then  I  will  say  more  of  the  matter. 
I  pray  send  me  a  particular  account  of  that  affair  of  Moor 
Park,  and  of  what  else  you  think  proper  to  be  known  by 
your  most  affectionate  cousin  and  servant,  Ormond. 

Endorsed : — A  copy  of  a  letter  and  articles  to  Colonel  Cooke. 

Eemembrancbs  for   Colonel   Edward   Cooke  concerning 

Moor  Park. 

1.  To  take  a  view  of  the  Park,  namely  of  the  fence  and 
plantations  and  drains,  and  of  the  stock  of  deer ;  to  give  order 
for  the  rectifying  of  anything  he  shall  find  amiss,  and  proportion 
the  stock  so  as  that  it  may  be  preserved  with  most  advantage ; 
to  consider  what  trees  are  fit  to  be  cut  down  for  fuel  or  any 
other  use,  and  to  cause  them  to  be  marked,  and  that  none 
other  be  felled  upon  any  pretence  whatsoever.  To  provide 
for  supplying  such  trees  as  shall  be  felled,  or  of  those  that  are 
failed  in  the  plantation,  to  which  purpose  it  will  be  best  to  take 
James  Clarke  with  him,  that  the  keeper,  gardener,  and  he 
may  advise  of  the  best  means  of  doing  all  things  proposed  in 
due  time  and  at  the  best  rate,  giving  to  each  of  them  his 
proper  charge. 

2.  To  look  upon  the  meadow  grounds,  and  give  order  for 
anything  he  shall  find  fit  to  be  done  for  the  preservation  or 
improvement  of  them,  to  consider  whether  the  gardener  and 
keeper  may  not  see  it  done  without  the  taking  of  any  other 
overseer  or  bailiff,  there  being  not  work  enough  for  such  a 
person   separate  from   them. 

3.  To  look  upon  the  gardens,  and  to  advise  Mrs.  Eyves 
how  best  to  deal  with  gardens  for  the  constant  keeping  in  order 
and  the  improvement  of  fruit  plantations,  and  all,  if  it  may  be, 
at  a  constant  settled  rate. 

4.  To  look  upon  my  mares  and  colts  there,  to  give  order 
how  they  shall  be  tended,  to  take  any  of  them  away  which 
he  shall  not  judge  to  be  worth  the  keeping,  and  to  dispose  of 
them  as  he  thinks  fit ;  to  get  an  honest  fellow  to  look  to  the 
colts,  when  it  shall  be  fit  to  take  them  to  house. 

5.  Lastly  to  make  as  certain  a  computation  as  may  be  of 
the  whole  charge  of  that  place,  as  to  all  things  without  doors, 
and  to  the  repair  of  the  house,  to  which  end  James  Clerke  and, 
if  need  be,  workmen  will  give  good  assistance. 


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Major  John  Love  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1667,  June  18.  Kinsale. — I  think  it  my  duty  for  to  acquaint 
his  Grace  and  yourself  with  anything  that  I  find  in  my 
conscience  that  do  derogate  from  His  Majesty's  service.  Sir, 
this  is  for  to  acquaint  you  that  there  is  one,  Knight,  that  belongs 
to  the  post  house  in  Dublin,  that  wrote  a  letter  this  last  post 
to  one,  Burrowes,  of  Kinsale,  how  that  the  East  India  ship 
that  is  in  the  river  of  Limerick  with  three  of  the  King's 
ships  that  was  her  convoy,  were  all  taken  by  the  Dutch. 
The  news  struck  a  great  amazement  to  all  the  merchants  and 
seamen  in  these  parts.  Sir,  this  is  to  acquaint  you  that 
the  ship  is  not  taken  nor  no  enemy  appeared  there,  but  I 
do  understand  that  this  Knight  was  bred  in  Holland  and  a 
Cromwellian  all  along,  and  'tis  possible  if  you  send  some 
cunning  men  for  to  search  his  house  and  study,  they  may 
find  some  papers  that  may  discover  some  roguery.  I  suspect 
him  the  more  by  reason  all  the  Pfanatiques  in  these  parts 
cry  him  up  to  a  very  honest  man. 

Major  James  Dennis  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1667,  July  1.  Wexford. — In  my  last  I  acquainted  you 
with  your  brother's  sickness.  I  am  now  the  unhappy 
messenger  of  reporting  his  death.  God  being  pleased  to 
take  him  out  of  this  world,  he  departed  this  life  on  Saturday 
at  night  last  about  twelve  of  the  clock.  In  the  time  of 
his  sickness  he  was  very  penitent  and  called  much  upon  God  and 
desired  the  prayers  of  the  church,  and  sent  several  times 
for  Mr.  Gilliner  of  this  place,  minister,  to  pray  with  him, 
which  was  performed,  and  likewise  desired  him  to  preach  his 
funeral  sermon.  He  was  very  handsomely  buried,  Sir  Richard 
Clifton,  myself.  Major  Poulden,  and  several  other  gentlemen 
carried  him  to  the  church,  being  attended  by  the  best  of 
the  town  and  country  hereabouts,  also  with  our  two  companies 
of  foot ;  all  the  officers  and  several  other  friends  had  mourning 
ribbons,  the  pulpit,  coffin,  and  drums  being  in  mourning. 
After  the  sermon  was  ended  w^e  carried  him  to  that  church 
which  he  desired  to  be  buried  in,  where  he  was  inhumed. 
After  three  volleys  of  shot  we  left  him,  where  he  rests  in 
peace.  Sir,  whilst  he  was  in  his  perfect  senses  he  sent 
for  me,  Mr.  Gilliner,  and  one,  Mr.  Hughes,  an  attorney, 
whom  he  desired  to  make  his  will.  He  made  Mr.  Nixon 
his  executor.  Sir,  I  verily  believe  that  all  the  pay  that  he 
is  mustered  for  will  not  discharge  his  debts,  funeral  and  other 
contingencies,  an  accompt  of  which  cannot  at  present  be  given. 
I  shall  at  all  times  be  ready  to  answer  your  commands,  and 
I  question  not  but  you  will  continue  your  favour  and  friendship 
to  him  that  is,  etc. 

Postscript: — Sir,  I   received  yours   as   the  minister  was 
preaching  his  funeral  sermon.      I  could  heartily  have  wished 


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that  some  of  his  relations  had  been  present,  for  there  was  as 
great  an  appearance  of  people  as  ever  I  did  see  in  these  parts. 

Sir,  I  desire  you  to  present  my  humble  service  to  his  Grace 
and  present  this  enclosed,  which  gives  a  short  account  of  your 
brother's  death. 


Col.  Egbert  Sandys  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1667,  July  6.  Lanesborough. — Though  I  doubt  not  you 
have  from  my  Lady  Lane  herself  an  account  of  her  journey, 
yet  I  cannot  satisfy  myself  without  giving  you  my  observation. 
On  Thursday  forenoon  her  Ladyship  began  her  journey,  rested 
some  hours  at  the  Black  Bull,  and  came  by  six  in  the  evening 
to  Bellamulvie,  something  weary  but  in  good  order  by  the 
opportunity  of  a  very  fine  cool  day.  Yesterday  morning  her 
children  came  to  her  from  Eathcline,  and  in  the  evening 
I  left  her  Ladyship  and  children  very  well  at  Mullimehan 
with  Mrs.  Eooksby.  This  morning  before  I  returned  to 
Lanesborough  I  had  an  account  they  were  all  very  well,  save 
only  a  little  weary  remembrance  of  the  journey. 

Sir,  I  do  now  beg  leave  to  give  you  some  account  of  the 
condition  of  this  garrison,  that  whilst  we  have  summer,  some 
course  may  be  considered  to  make  provision  of  firing  for  the 
winter,  without  which  'twill  be  impossible  to  pass  upon  duty. 
The  last  winter  I  had  an  opportunity  I  shall  have  not  more, 
of  a  wood  in  my  possession,  where  the  poor  [soldiers]  sometimes 
by  their  labours  and  [some]  times  for  their  money,  provided 
themselves  [with]  firing.  I  beseech  you.  Sir,  have  this 
matter  in  your  thoughts.  Our  neighbour  garrison  of  Longford 
is  plentifully  provided  of  fire  and  candle  by  the  care  and 
kindness  of  Lord  Aungier  (whose  fort  they  guard) ,  yet  without 
charge  to  himself.  No  garrison  or  guard  in  Ireland  wants 
this  accommodation,  nor  any  in  the  world  that  ever  I  did 
know  or  hear  of.  I  humbly  beg  your  pardon  for  enlarging 
myself  so  much  on  this  matter,  since  I  have  already  found  that 
nor  threats  or  blows  or  punishment  would  force  my  men  upon 
their  guard  or  duty  when  fire  and  candle  were  wanting,  and 
to  stop  their  pay  to  purchase  these  is  what  I  find  the  men 
will  no  more  endure,  being  altogether  without  precedent. 
I  know  I  shall  not  need  any  more  to  repeat  a  request  of 
your  favour  in  this  matter  to  have  in  your  care  the  people 
and  place  I  may  call  your  garrison.  The  poor  wretches  you 
may  freely  command. 

Francis,  Lord  Aungier  and  Sir  Arthur  Forbes  to  Ormond. 

1667,  July  7.— Your  Grace's  of  the  28th  of  June  last 
we  have  received,  and  in  obedience  to  your  Grace's  commands 
therein  expressed,  we  immediately  issued  out  our  orders 
to   the    several   captains  commanding   the    militia    of    this 


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county  for  their  rendezvousing  their  several  troops  and 
companies  at  Longford  the  4th  instant,  when  they  appeared 
all  completely  armed,  consisting  of  two  foot  companies,  which 
are  not  in  number  above  one  hundred  and  thirty  men,  and  one 
troop  of  horse,  consisting  of  fifty  men,  who  being  all  assembled 
at  Longford  as  aforesaid,  we  openly  caused  your  Grace's  letter 
to  be  read,  and  according  to  the  contents  thereof  have  not 
only  appointed  the  respective  ofiBcers  to  exercise  those  under 
their  control  once  a  fortnight,  but  have  also  sent  out  our 
warrants  for  the  raising  of  money  for  the  support  of  the  said 
militia  according  to  a  presentment  made  to  that  purpose 
by  the  Grand  Jury  of  this  county  at  their  last  Qilarter  Sessions, 
held  the  18th  of  April  .last.  As  for  our  settling  a  correspondency 
between  us  and  the  militias  of  the  adjoining  counties,  we 
have  already  wrote  our  letters  to  some,  and  shall  speedily  write 
to  the  rest,  being  resolved  not  to  be  wanting  in  any  thing 
that  may  evidence  our  duty  in  His  Majesty's  service,  and  our 
observance  of  your   Grace's  commands. 

Col.  Edward  Vernon  to  Ormond. 

1667,  July  16. — May  it  please  your  Grace,  that  my  Lord 
Arlington  doth  assure  me  that  Barker's  impudent  tranactions 
at  the  Council  Board  are  presented  to  your  Grace,  and  that 
by  this  night's  post  his  Lordship  will  give  your  Grace  an 
account  of  my  Lord  Chancellor's  discourses  to  him  concerning 
that  affair,  therefore  I  shall  not  trouble  your  Grace  with  them. 

The  enclosed  his  Lordship  advised  me  to  hasten  to  your 
Grace.  It  is  a  true  copy  of  a  printed  pamphlet  that  came 
to  my  hands  yesterday,  the  like  of  which,  I  am  informed, 
are  dispersed  in  the  city,  and  I  am  assured  from  the  person 
that  helped  to  it  that  Barker  and  the  rest  intend  to  present 
the  like  to  the  privy  councillors  here  at  the  return  of  your 
Grace's  answer  to  their  letter,  and  that  they  give  out  my  Lord 
Roberts  and  the  Lord  Ashby  are  their  patrons. 

There  cannot  be  a  more  seditious  false  paper  in  effect, 
accusing  the  King  and  council  here  for  passing  that  proviso 
and  arraigning  an  Act  of  Parliament,  as  well  as  falsely  accusing 
your  Grace  and  council  of  injustice. 

The  Government  here  are  of  opinion  this  print  is  very 
criminal  and  under  a  severe  lash  of  the  law.  Doubtless  they 
are  persons  fit  to  be  punished. 

My  Lord  Anglesey  and  my  Lord  Arlington  were  of  an  opinion 
that  the  print  was  fit  to  be  kept  here,  which  was  the  occasion 
of  the  copy. 

James  Clarke  to  Ormond. 

1667,  July  20. — I  have  received  your  Grace's  observations 
made  of  the  charge  of  Moor  Park  in  my  Lady  Duchess'  letter 
of  the  9th  instant.      As  to  the  first  particular  about  the  five 


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men  in  the  garden,  Colonel  Cooke  has  reduced  to  three,  and 
those  to  plant  the  trees  that  are  ordered  to  be  done  this  winter, 
which  charge  I  wrote  her  Grace  word  should  be  lessened  as 
soon  as  hay  making  was  over.  And  as  to  the  second  particular 
of  the  horses,  which  are  now  but  three,  I  wrote  above  a 
twelve-month  ago  that  I  thought  such  horses  as  might  be  kept 
the  most  part  of  the  year  in  the  park  might  do  that  work, 
and  to  that  end  the  Colonel  has  ordered  one  of  the  horses 
to  be  gelt,  the  other  which  was  a  lame  coach-horse  to  be 
either  changed  or  sold  for  a  gelding,  the  third  being  so  already ; 
keeping  those  three  as  they  may  be,  will  be  a  great  deal  cheaper 
than  to  hire  teams  upon  all  occasions. 

They  must  be  now  watering  the  trees,  and  at  the  season 
to  fetch  trees  to  be  planted  and  then  to  water  them ,  and  several 
other  things  which  the  Colonel  told  me  he  would  give  your 
Grace  an  accompt  of.  For  the  minister,  his  due  is  but  40^. 
a  year,  the  other  was  subscribed  by  Mr.  Buck,  I  thought  by 
your  Grace's  order.  There  has  been  nothing  paid  to  him 
since  Mrs.  Eeeves  came  thither,  nor  shall  not  without  your 
Grace's  order.  There  is  a  difference  between  Dr.  Edmonds 
(one  of  the  King's  chaplains)  and  the  vicar  that  serves  under 
him  in  the  parish  of  Bickmans worth,  that  there  has  been  but 
three  sermons  this  fourteen  weeks,  so  that  the  parish  is  resolved 
to  pay  neither  parson  nor  curate. 

As  to  the  assessments  for  the  poor,  the  militia,  constables, 
the  churchwardens'  charges,  and  the  Eoyal  and  additional 
tax  and  chimney  money,  the  four  first  being  uncertain,  the 
two  last  certain,  but  all  rated  according  to  the  value  of  Moor 
Park  and  not  to  your  Grace's  quality,  but  I  shall  be  better 
informed  by  Mr.  Herbert,  who  is  Justice  of  the  Peace  of  that 
place,  as  Colonel  Cooke  tells  me  he  hath  desired  him  to  do  it, 
and  your  Grace  shall  be  informed  with  his  9ense  in  this  case. 

The  last  concerning  the  hay,  which  is  this  year  very  good 
and  a  great  quantity,  which  should  overdo  what  it  is  designed 
for  in  my  judgment,  I  do  verily  believe  it  will  be  managed 
to  all  advantages. 

I  have  here  enclosed  sent  your  Grace  a  copy  of  Colonel 
Cooke's  note  he  left  with  me,  to  estimate  the  particulars  which 
I  have  done  on  the  other  side  that  paper.  I  gave  it  him 
and  he  told  me  he  would  write  to  your  Griace  about  it.  Your 
Grace  sees  all  that  he  thinks  needful  to  be  done  (which 
comes  to  732  ISs.  4d.,  besides  the  mending  the  house,  pavilion 
rooms  and  the  lead  work  of  the  cloister  walks,  which  cannot 
be  computed),  shall  be  as  little  done  to  them  as  'tis  possible 
only  to  make  them  stand  to  keep  out  the  rain  this  winter. 

I  wrote  to  her  Grace  concerning  money  to  pay  the  workmen 
since  Mrs.  Beeves  came,  which  is  now  near  three  months. 
The  gardeners'  and  keepers'  wages  and  all  the  taxes  are  now 
due.  If  your  Grace  sent  any  order  for  me  to  receive  any 
money  of  Sir  Stephen  Pox  besides  what  was  to  pay  for  the 
Wt.  8878  R 


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coach  and  saddles,  I  never  received  any.  I  received  for  that 
use  9001  y  and  the  things  came  within  il  of  that  sum,  as  will 
appear  by  the  bills  signed  by  Sir  Nicholas  Armorer. 

Postscript : — The  periwigs  your  Grace  wrote  for  will  be  done 
by  Monday  morning.  They  will  come  to  SSI  00s.  OOd.,  which 
money  must  be  paid  before  I  have  the  periwigs.  As  soon  as 
the  man  brings  them  home  and  I  have  my  Lord's  approbation 
of  them,  I  shall  pay  the  money  and  send  them  with  the  first 
convenience. 

CoL.  Edward  Vernon  to  Ormond. 

1667,  July  22. — Upon  the  delivery  of  my  Lord  Drogheda's 
letter  to  Sir  Henry  .Vernon,  I  found  Sir  Harry  very  knowing, 
and  very  sensible  of  your  Grace's  kindness  to  the  late  Lord 
Treasurer  and  his  relatives,  and  particularly  of  the  value  your 
Grace  had  for  the  young  lady. 

There  hath  been  some  forward  overtures  from  some  persons 
of  quality  by  their  relations  to  this  lady,  which  she  hath 
severely  checked  with  much  indignation,  and  at  present  will 
hear  of  none 

I  am  certain  when  time  serves  (if  your  Grace  shall  then  think 
fit),  Sir  Harry  will  be  very  ready  to  mind  her  of  the  great 
friendship  your  Grace  had  with  her  father  and  your  esteem 
of  her,  and  he  will  do  as  much  to  serve  your  Grace  as  you 
will  command,  for  if  I  be  not  mistaken  she  relies  most  upon 
his  advice,  and  with  a  salvo  to  his  trust,  he  is  wholly  at  your 
Grace's  commands,  valuing  yourself  and  family  (as  he  ought) 
above  all  others. 

The  lady  is  at  present  retired  to  Drayton  Manor,  five  miles 
from  Lichfield. 

Dr.  Charles  Cullbn  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1667,  September  5.  London. — I  took  the  boldness  to  write 
to  jou  about  six  weeks  past,  which  was  enclosed  in  a  letter 
of  your  son's,  Mr.  James  Lane.  I  then  craved  your  favour 
to  move  my  Lord  Duke's  Grace  in  my  behalf  that  I  might 
succeed  the  Bishop  of  Limerick,  who  was  to  be  preferred  here. 
Now  he  is  made  Bishop  of  Lincoln,  and  withal  a  worthy  friend 
of  yours  tells  me  that  he  hears  Doctor  Seele  is  to  be  Bishop 
of  Limerick.  If  so,  then  that  my  former  request  hath  proved 
ineffectual,  give  me  leave  to  beg  your  good  word  to  my  Lord's 
Grace  that  I  may  succeed  the  Doctor  in  the  Deanery  of  St. 
Patrick's.  Sir,  Colonel  Ijegg's  advice,  your  own  kind  letter, 
and  an  earnest  desire  to  serve  God  and  end  my  days  in 
mine  own  country,  makes  me  thus  importunate  with  you. 
I  have  a  long  time  stood  at  the  pool,  be  my  happy  angel  to 
move  the  waters  and  send  over  a  comfortable  line  to  me,  that 
1  may  pray  for  you  there  as  I  do  here. 

Postscript : — If  you  please  to  write,  direct  to  Colonel  Legg's 
in  the  little  Minories. 


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Col.  Eobebt  Manlby  to  Ormond. 

1667,  September  12.  Bantry  Fort. — The  war  now  being 
over,  I  presume  to  claim  your  Grace's  promise  to  grant  me 
a  licence  for  England ;  after  I  have  provided  for  my  company 
this  winter  and  put  them  in  good  order  as  I  intend  to  leave 
them,  T  shall  employ  my  agent  to  petition  your  Grace  to  that 
purpose. 

My  Lord,  I  have  maintained  Bantry  Fort  four  years  at 
my  own  cost  and  charges  to  support  the  place  from  falling 
to  the  ground,  and  because  my  poor  soldiers  should  not  perish 
or  too  much  suffer,  I  have  again  lately  covered  over  what 
building  is  necessary.  My  disbursements  now  amount  to 
721  Us.  lOd.,  which  I  am  ready  to  make  affidavit  of,  and  can 
make  good  by  sufficient  testimonies.  Upon  this  matter  I  shall 
not  at  present  insist,  only  entreat  your  Grace's  favour  therein, 
or  I  am  likely  to  suffer.  At  this  rate  God  deliver  me  from 
the  charge  of  His  Majesty's  forts. 

My  Lord,  observing  the  army  postponed  three  months  for 
want  of  effects,  as  my  agent  writes  me,  I  thought  requisite 
to  denote  to  your  Grace  a  concealment  many  gentlemen  who 
pay  quit  rent  wonder  at,  and  as  much  grudge  they  should 
be  continually  charged  and  pay,  while  their  neighbour  goes 
free  by  the  protection  of  the  Earl  of  Anglesey.  Geo.  Walters 
is  in  arrear  of  quit  rents  the  best  part  of  a  thousand  pounds, 
and  still  defers  payment  because  my  Lord  is  commonly  in 
England.  This  land  is  in  the  half  barony  of  Bantry,  and 
was  Sullivan  O'Bear's  estate  passed  in  my  Lord  Anglesey's 
patent,  who  hath  only  1001  yer  annum  patronage,  but  Walters 
and  his  assigns  enjoy  the  remainder,  so  that  the  said  Lord  will 
not  be  in  the  least  damnified  by  payment  of  the  quit  rent, 
for  Walters  swallows  it  up,  who  deserves  not  so  great  a 
kindness,  unless  merited  from  His  Majesty  by  rebellion ;  once 
a  Sequestrator  Eumper  Committee  man,  yet  a  disturber  of 
His  Majesty's  liege  people ;  his  original  a  pitful  hatter's  son 
of  Barnstable.      This  I  leave  to  your  Grace's  consideration. 

My  Lord,  I  am  now  to  acquaint  your  Grace  (as  I  have  already 
my  Lord  Orrery)  to  prevent  and  anticipate  informers ;  lately 
I  shipped  off  two  minion  cuts  and  five  falconets  in  His 
Majesty's  ship  called  the  Milkmaid,  riding  in  this  bay, 
bound  to  load  pipestaves  in  Ken  mare  river  for  the  King's  use 
and  for  London.  These  guns  I  brought  to  this  fort,  and 
although  in  right  I  am  the  chief  proprietor  of  them ,  yet  have  I 
caused  them  to  be  lawfully  appraised,  and  their  utmost  value 
comes  to  80«.  each  gun,  being  old  and  honeycombed,  which 
in  the  whole  amounts  to  no  more  than  101  10s,  Od.  These 
T  shall  be  accountable  for  upon  all  demands,  in  the  mean- 
time shall  fit  them  with  carriages  and  put  them  aboard  a 
little  vessel  for  trade  I  have  a  share  in,  to  avoid  idleness. 
My  Lord,  if  this  appears  like  a,  presumption  or  error  I  will 
yet  recall  what  is  done,  but  as  they  do  not  belong,  so  they 
can  be  of  no  use  to  this  fort,  where  yet  remains  in  as  good 


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a  condition  the  old  eight  guns  I  found  here,  as  is  afforded 
without  a  gunner,  for  I  never  had  any  allowed  me.  To  say 
truth,  the  fort  and  situation  does  not  deserve  one.  I  must 
make  my  conclusion  (as  ever)  with  my  acknowledgments. 
Your  Grace's  indulgences  are  so  grafted  within  my  soul,  from 
whence  shall  ever  spring  perpetual  gratitude. 

Lords  of  the  Council  in  England  to  Ormond,  concerning 

Londonderry. 

1667,  September  13.  Whitehall. — ^The  petition  enclosed 
signed  by  the  Governor  in  behalf  of  himself  and  assistants  of 
the  New  Plantation  in  Ulster,  within  the  Bealm  of  Ireland, 
being  read  at  the  Board,  and  upon  serious  debate  and 
consideration  had  of  the  complaint  therein  contained.  His 
Majesty  was  graciously  pleased  and  accordingly  ordered  us  to 
transmit  the  same  to  your  Grace,  with  directions  to  pray 
your  Grace  speedily  to  send  for  Sir  James  Shaen,  and  strictly 
to  examine  him  why  and  for  what  reason  he  hath  so  long 
deferred  payment  of  four  thousand  pounds  to  the  petitioners 
as  part  of  six  thousand  pounds  according  to  the  agreement 
made  between  him  on  His  Majesty's  behalf  and  the  petitioners 
in  March,  1664,  it  appearing  by  a  letter  written,  signed,  and 
directed  unto  the  petitioners  from  our  very  good  Lord,  the 
Earl  of  Anglesey,  dated  from  Dublin,  21st  of  July,  1666,  that 
there  had  been  paid  by  his  Lordship  out  of  ifis  Majesty's 
Treasury  there  upon  that  account,  according  to  warrants 
signed  by  His  Majesty,  the  sum  of  six  thousand  pounds 
contracted  for,  and  that  if  they  had  received  but  two  thousand 
pounds  thereof,  Sir  James  Shaen,  who  managed  much  of  that 
affair,  must  give  them  satisfaction  where  to  receive  the  rest, 
and  then  if  the  said  Sir  James  Shaen  shall  not  give  your 
Grace  just  satisfaction  and  reason  why  he  hath  not  paid  the 
said  remaining  sum  of  four  thousand  pounds  due  to  the 
petitioners,  that  you  proceed  strictly  and  effectually  against 
him  until  he  have  given  full  satisfaction  to  the  petitioners; 
and  in  the  interim  that  your  Grace  direct  that  no  further 
process  be  issued  out  of  His  Majesty's  Court  of  Exchequer 
in  that  kingdom  against  the  petitioners  for  their  arrears  of 
the  high  rent.  So  recommending  this  affair  unto  your  Grace's 
especial  care  and  examination,  we  conceiving  His  Majesty's 
honour  and  justice  to  be  therein  concerned,  and  praying  your 
Grace's  speedy  account  of  your  proceedings  thereupon,  we 
bid  your  Grace  very  heartily  farewell.  From  the  Court  at 
Whitehall,  the  13th  of  September,  1667. 

Your  Grace's  very  loving  friends,  Gilb,  Cant.  Orl. 
Bridgeman,  C.  S.  Roberts,  Albemarle,  Ossory,  Craven,  Bath, 
J.  Bridge  water,  Lauderdaill,  Arlington,  Middleton,  Jo. 
Berkeley,  G.  Carteret,  Ashley,  Fitzhding,  G.  Clifford,  Will. 
Morice,  W.  Coventry. 

Edw.  Walker. 


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Endorsed : — Copy  letters  from  the  Lords  of  the  Council  in 
England  to  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  with  petition  of  the 
Londoners  concerning  the  customs  of  Londonderry. 

Petition  of  Govbrnob  and  Assistants,  London,  of  the 

NEW  Plantation  in  Ulstbb. 

1667. — To  the  King's  most  excellent  Majesty. 

The  humble  petition  of  the  Society  of  the  Governor  and 
Assistants,  London,  of  the  New  Plantation  in  Ulster,  within 
the  realm  of  Ireland. 

Sheweth :  That  your  sacred  Majesty  by  your  letter  of  the 
18th  of  February,  1664,  was  graciously  pleased  to  signify 
unto  your  petitioners  several  reasons  why  the  customs  of 
Londonderry  and  Coleraine,  etc.,  in  your  kingdom  of  Ireland, 
granted  to  them  (amongst  other  things)  by  your  Majesty's 
gracious  letters  patents  of  the  10th  of  April,  1662,  ought  to 
continue  in  your  Majesty's  hands,  declaring  your  willingness 
to  give  your  petitioners  reasonable  compensation  for  their 
interest  thereunto,  and  that  you  had  appointed  Sir  James  Shaen 
to  treat  and  conclude  with  them  for  the  same,  which  letter  was 
delivered  to  your  petitioners  by  the  said  Sir  James  the  24th  of 
the  same  month  of  February,  with  whom  your  petitioners 
had  afterwards  several  conferences  concerning  the  contents 
of  the  same,  in  pursuance  whereof  and  to  demonstrate  your 
petitioners'  dutiful  compliance  with  your  Majesty's  commands, 
they  declared  their  readiness  to  part  with  their  interest  therein, 
and  gave  him  a  particular  in  writing  on  what  terms  (with  a 
very  small  alteration)  were  by  your  Majesty  thought  very 
reasonable,  and  with  which  (as  the  said  Sir  James  declared  to 
your  petitioners)  your  Majesty  was  well  satisfied.  Whereupon 
your  petitioners  did  also  consent  to  those  alterations,  so  that  in 
March ,  1664 ,  all  things  were  agreed  on  by  the  said  Sir  James 
on  your  Majesty's  behalf  and  your  petitioner  ,  since  which  time 
your  petitioners  have  settled  their  affairs  with  their  agents 
accordingly  and  thereby  performed  part  of  the  said  agreement, 
and  have  since  been  always  ready  to  perfect  what  is  further 
to  be  done  by  them  in  pursuance  of  the  same,  and  for  the 
more  effectual  despatch  thereof  several  writings  were  drawn, 
which  have  been  perused  and  approved  of  by  your  Majesty's 
learned  counsel  at  law,  and  are  ready  for  execution. 

But  so  it  is,  may  it  please  your  most  excellent  Majesty,  that 
notwithstanding  your  petitioners'  readiness  to  obey  your 
Majesty's  commands,  and  to  perform  the  agreement  on  their 
part,  yet  of  the  six  thousand  pounds  agreed  by  the  said  Sir 
James  Shaen  on  your  Majesty's  behalf  to  be  paid  your 
petitioners  at  two  several  payments  long  since  elapsed,  they 
have  received  no  more  than  two  thousand  pounds,  notwith- 
standing warrants  were  signed  by  your  Majesty  payable  to  the 
farmers  of  your  customs  in  Ireland  for  payment  of  the  whole 
unto  your  petitioners  as  agreed  on,  and  although  the  four 
thousand   pounds  residue   of  the  said   six  thousand   pounds 


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remains  still  to  be  paid  to  your  petitioners,  yet  the 
said  farmers  have  got  allowance  thereof,  as  may  appear 
now  of  record  in  your  Majesty's  Court  of  Exchequer 
in  that  your  kingdom,  neither  are  your  petitioners  according 
to  agreement  discharged  of  the  arrears  of  the  high  rent, 
but  as  they  are  informed  by  their  agents,  process  still 
issueth  out  of  your  Majesty's  Court  of  Exchequer  in  Ireland 
against  them  for  the  same,  to  their  very  great  damage.  Your 
petitioners  therefore  most  humbly  pray  that  your  Majesty 
win  be  graciously  pleased  to  give  your  royal  commands  for 
the  perfecting  of  what  is  further  to  be  done  on  your  Majesty's 
behalf  in  pursuance  of  the  said  agreement,  to  the  end  your 
petitioners  may  be  in  a  capacity  to  render  some  account  of 
that  business  to  the  several  companies  of  your  City  of  London. 

Thomas  Adams,  Governor. 
Thomas  Neville,  Deputy  Governor. 

Sir  George  Carteret  to  Ormond. 

1667,  September  14.  Whitehall. — The  report  that  hath 
been  in  Dublin  of  my  parting  with  my  employment  in  Ireland 
is  for  anything  I  know  very  groundless,  and  to  my  certain 
knowledge  so  far  from  my  own  thoughts  and  contrary  to  my 
intentions,  that  I  would  account  it  a  great  unhappiness  to  me 
if  anything  should  fall  out  that  might  deprive  me  of  the  honour 
and  satisfaction  of  serving  His  Majesty  under  your  Grace's 
commands  and  near  your  person,  and  therefore  I  will  use  my 
utmost  endeavours  to  shorten  the  time  of  absence  which  your 
Grace  hath  been  pleased  to  promise  to  allow  me. 

I  do  not  at  all  question  but  the  drawing  of  manufactures 
from  the  Netherlands  would  prove  very  beneficial,  but  whether 
it  may  safely  be  done  upon  a  public  account  cannot  so  readily 
be  determined.  But  ere  it  be  long  I  hope  to  have  the  honour 
to  wait  upon  your  Grace,  and  by  that  means  to  learn  more 
than  otherwise  I  can  know  of  the  advantages  or  diflSculties 
that  will  attend  such  an  undertaking. 

Petition  of  Thomas  Morris  and  William  Dodson. 

1667,  September  21. — To  the  King's  most  excellent  Majesty. 

Most  humbly  sheweth :  That  your  petitioners  have  for  some 
time  made  it  very  much  their  business  to  inquire  into  the 
true  value  of  the  Customs  and  Excise  of  Ireland,  wherein  they 
have  so  satisfied  themselves  that  they  presume  on  very  good 
grounds  to  propose  the  farming  of  the  said  duties  from  your 
Majesty. 

That  your  petitioners  humbly  propose  to  give  for  the  whole 
revenue  of  the  customs  and  excise  of  your  Majesty's  kingdom 
of  Ireland  (the  laws  and  rates  for  those  duties  as  they  are 
prepared  by  the  Lords  Justices  being  confirmed  by  Act  of 


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rarliament)  the  sum  of  seventy  thousand  pounds  sterling  per 
annum  for  eleven  years,  and  are  willing  for  their  securities 
to  lay  down  beforehand  a  quarter's  rent  for  your  Majesty's 
service  of  Ireland. 

They  therefore  humbly  pray  that  by  your  Majesty's  order 
they  may  be  treated  with  for  the  same  by  such  persons  as 
your  Majesty  shall  be  pleased  to  appoint  for  that  purpose. 

Tho.  Morris. 

William  Dodson. 

Jambs  Buck  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1667,  October  26.  Chelsea. — I  have  not  time  by  this  post 
to  give  his  Grace  an  account  of  his  letter  unto  me  by  Sir  Nich. 
Armorer,  who  sent  it  me  so  late  this  night  that  I  can  only 
desire  you  to  let  his  Grace  know  as  much.  My  Lord  Chancellor 
has  been  all  this  morning  under  an  impeachment,  and  a 
committee  appointed  for  the  manner  of  proceeding,  and  the 
impeachment  to  be  in  the  name  of  the  whole  House.  My 
Lord  Morden's  charge  brought  in  yesterday  and  committed. 
This  kind  of  news  I  delight  not  in,  but  could  furnish  you. 
with  much,  had  I  either  time  at  present  or  an  assurance  it 
might  find  a  welcome  from  the  hands  of,  Sfr,  etc. 

Postscript : — Several  petitions  brought  into  the  House  of 
Lords  against  my  Lord  Chancellor  upon  private  accounts. 

Summary  of  Charges  against  Clarendon. 

[Enclosed  with  preceding  letter]. 

1.  Getting  from  the  Crown  Clarendon  and  Cornbury. 

2.  Canary  patent  4,000Z  given  him. 

3.  The  farmers  of  the  customs  discharged  and  the 
commissioners  made  farmers,  and  to  pay  him  10,000Z  per 
annum. 

4.  All  places  as  the  Barbados  to  pay  him  a  farm  yearly. 

5.  50,000i  paid  him  for  settling  the  Irish  affairs. 

6.  That  he  said  the  King  was  not  fit  to  govern,  and  that 
he  was  popishly  affected. 

7.  When  the  Dutch  were  in  the  river,  he  did  obstruct  the 
Parliament's  sitting. 

8.  He  did  advise  the  King  to  raise  an  army  and  to  govern 
by  it,  and  being  demanded  how  it  should  be  maintained,  he 
said,  as  his  father  did  at  Oxford,  by  contribution  and  quarter. 

9.  Capital  offenders  impeached  in  Parliament,  he  did  put 
the  great  seal  to  their  pardons,  impeding  the  impeachment 
of  my  Lord  Mordaunt. 

10.  400  men  assembled  together  to  raise  money,  but  not 
to  govern. 

Endorsed : — The  particulars  the  House  this  day  insisted  on 
against  my  Lord  Chancellor;  a  committee  appointed,  and  all 
others  adjourned  till  Tuesday. 


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Obmond  to  Lord  Arlington. 

1667,  November  22.  Dublin.— I  was  unwilling  to  part 
with  the  only  post-bark  now  on  this  side  till  another 
should  arrive,  not  knowing  what  important  use  there  might 
be  of  sending  a  despatch  from  hence.  You  had  otherwise  sooner 
received  this  acknowledgment  of  my  having  yours  of  the  2nd 
and  6th  instant. 

If  we  are  to  take  our  measure  of  the  entertainment  Irish 
complaints  will  find  in  the  Parliament  by  the  success  of 
Backer's  petition  referred  to  the  committee  of  grievances,  the 
consequence  of  his  complaint  is  of  greater  importance  than 
the  matter  of  it  is  either  valuable  or  true,  and  the  Parliament, 
if  they  give  but  hearing  to  all  who  in  the  government  and 
settlement  of  this  kingdom  shall  pretend  to  be  injured,  will 
not  want  work  for  some  months,  if  they  should  have  no  other. 
It  is  said  the  climate  disposes  to  litigiousness,  I  am  sure  the 
contrary  interests  and  affections  of  the  people  does  it  plentifully. 
I  know  not  what  industry  or  innocence  can  prevent  accusation, 
and  if  I  did,  I  am  far  from  where  it  must  be  manifested  and 
applied  in  my  case,  so  that  I  must  resign  myself  to  providence 
and  to  the  care  of  my  friends.  Some  of  them  lay  more 
weight  than  I  can  find  upon  the  articles  concerning  the 
quartering  of  the  regiment  of  Guards  and  other  troops  in 
this  city,  which  yet  in  a  petition  from  them  is  no  part  of 
their  grievance,  but  they  rather  own  the  custom  and  propose 
ways  for  the  regular  continuance  of  it.  Some  abuses  under 
pretence  of  quarter  they  mention  in  general,  but  have  not 
yet,  though  called  to  for  it,  made  proof  of  them  by  particular 
instances.  In  fine,  I  thought  I  might  have  been  as  well 
accused  for  having  the  King's  sword  and  the  maces  borne 
before  me  as  for  this,  the  one  having  been  done  as  constantly 
as  the  other  by  all  the  Governors  who  have  been  here  as  far 
as  memory  will  reach,  and  I  having  found  this  very  regiment 
quartered  here  by  the  like  warrant  upon  my  arrival  in  '62.  The 
Earl  of  Meath,  who  enjoys  a  certain  liberty  in  the  suburbs  of 
this  city  in  right  of  a  dissolved  abbey,  has  thought  this  a  fit  time 
to  raise  scandal  on  the  regiment,  and  by  consequence  on  the 
Government,  upon  the  same  account  of  quartering.  I  did 
think  him  enough  my  friend  to  have  give  me  a  private  notice 
if  any  disorders  had  been  committed  in  five  years'  time  that 
the  regiment  has  been  here,  and  he  in  as  much  familiarity 
with  me  as  any  man.  I  confess  I  was  surprised  at  the  unkind- 
ness,  and  unsatisfied  with  the  meanness  of  his  proceeding, 
which  made  me  call  upon  him  with  earnestness  to  make  good 
his  complaints,  but  thereupon  he  added  to  the  former  a  worse 
scandal  by  saying  his  tenants  and  witnesses  durst  not  come 
to  prove  his  assertions  for  fear  of  the  soldiers.  In  the  debate 
of  this  matter  his  Lordship  affirming  the  same  things,  of 
which  he  could  not  be  eye-witness,  I  said  they  were  not 
true.      The  next  day  it  was  reported  in  town,  and  he  himself 


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said  to  Sir  George  Lane,  that  I  had  given  him  the  lie  at 
council,  which  necessitated  me  at  our  next  meeting  to  explain 
my  meaning  to  be  that  his  Lordship  was  misinformed  and 
that  my  words  could  not  be  otherwise  rightly  understood; 
if  they  could  I  there  publicly  retracted  them,  adding  that 
I  did  it  for  the  satisfaction  of  the  Board  and  the  justification 
of  my  good  manners,  without  any  design  to  court  my  Lord 
of  Meath's  friendship  or  to  avert  his  enmity.  This  is  the 
truth  of  that  passage  which  yet  may  be  otherwise  represented 
in  England,  perhaps  to  the  King  or  to  the  Government,  for 
so  his  Lordship  seems  to  threaten,  and  to  understand  my 
staying  the  post-bark  to  be  to  hinder  his  passing  over.  It  is 
fit  I  remember  that  on  my  apology  at  the  Board  he  denied 
that  he  had  ever  said  I  gave  him  the  lie,  which  yet  was  justified 
by  Sir  George  Lane  here  then  in  his  presence.  This  is  more 
of  myself  than  I  thought  to  have  troubled  you  with,  but  when 
articles  are  framed  out  of  nothing,  I  know  not  what  might 
be  made  out  of  this  something.  I  am  with  all  reality,  my 
Lord,  your  Lordship's  most  affectionate  and  most  humble 
servant. 

Postscript  I — At  the  instant  of  my  signing  this  1  am  told  the 
packet  is  come. 

James  Buck  to  Sir  George  Lane. 

1667,  December  10.  Chelsea.— Yours  of  the  23rd  of 
November  I  received  but  yesterday,  being  the  9th  December, 
and  then  left  with  my  servant  by  a  dirty  fellow  who  demanded 
three  times  more  than  it  was  fit  to  give  him,  but  had  you 
directed  it  to  Captain  Foster  or  Mr.  Clarke  I  had  received 
it  sooner  with  less  charge ;  and  receiving  long  since  an  answer 
of  what  letters  I  wrote  when  I  sent  my  last  unto  you,  made 
me  conclude  you  were  certainly  out  of  town,  so  that  the  last 
fortnight's  transactions  of  Parliament  I  sent  to  Mr.  Page, 
and  with  it  a  letter  to  his  Grace,  which  I  humbly  desire  you 
to  mind  his  Grace  of  the  contents  of  it,  being  wholly  his 
Grace's  concerns. 

I  dare  meddle  with  nothing  but  what  is  public  in  the  House, 
which  ds  upon  ordering  the  paper  of  the  Earl  of  Clarendon's  to 
be  burned  by  the  common  hangman,  and  till  we  have  the 
happiness  to  see  each  other,  I  shall  forbear,  only  with  your 
back-friend,  Mr.  Hartlipp,  has  had  much  ado  to  escape  a 
prison,  who  has  been  the  great  engine  of  corruption.  I  fear 
the  want  of  your  commands  has  made  this  paper  come  a  day 
after  the  fair,  which  is  no  fault  in  him  who  is,  Sir,  etc. 

Ormond  to  the  King. 
1667,  December  14.  Dublin. — I  am  not  able  to  guess 
whether  your  Majesty's  command  and  service  or  my  own 
defence  may  not  require  my  passing  into  England,  and  that 
at  shorter  warning  than  to  allow  of  despatches  and  returns 
from  Court  hither.      I  therefore  presume  humbly  to  beseech 


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your  Majesty  that  I  may  have  your  permission  to  attend  you , 
and,  if  it  stand  with  your  pleasure,  in  the  terms  and  form  of 
the  draft  of  a  letter  my  Lord  Arlington  will  present  to  your 
Majesty.  I  do  not,  I  confess,  foresee  any  occasion  you  can 
have  to  command  me  over,  nor  imagine  what  can  be  laid  to 
my  charge  to  necessitate  my  going,  yet  with  your  Majesty's 
leave  I  would  gladly  be  prepared  for  either.  God  preserve 
your  Majesty. 

Ormond  to  Lord  Arlington. 

1667,  December  17.  Dublin. — Since  mine  of  the 
14th  I  have  received  letters  of  the  10th  from  my  son 
Ossory,  letting  me  know  his  purpose  then  was  to  make  a 
journey  hither  during  the  recess  of  the  Parliament,  for  which, 
if  it  shall  be  to  the  17th  of  February,  he  may  well  have  time, 
and  for  the  same  reason  it  may  be  unnecessary  to  move  His 
Majesty  to  sign  the  letter  I  have  sent  your  Lordship,  giving 
me  leave  to  transport  myself  into  England,  or  for  the  present 
to  give  him  the  letter  I  have  presumed  to  direct  to  him, 
which  is  only  on  that  subject ;  but  yet  I  pray  your  Lordship 
to  keep  them  carefully  by  you  that  they  may  be  found  to  be 
given  the  King  when  I  shall  beg  the  favour  from  you.  I  think 
this  despatch,  at  least  the  secret  part  of  it,  will  be  sent  to  my 
Lord  Aungier,  who  is  the  more  ready  to  pass  over  on  his  own 
occasions  in  hope  he  may  do  me  some  friendly  oflBce  in  the  House 
of  Commons,  of  which  he  is  a  member,  and  I  dare  undertake  he 
will  be  as  ready  to  serve  your  Lordship  iu  what  may  concern 
your  particular.  I  therefore  recommend  him  to  your  favour 
and  confidence. 

Postscript : — I  send  your  Lordship  a  copy  of  my  letter  to 
the  King,  that  if  you  should  not  approve  of  the  style  or  matter, 
or  think  fit  on  any  charge  there  that  I  should  alter  either,  I 
may  receive  your  advice. 

My  Lord  Aungier  supposing  the  Parliament  will  be  adjourned 
to  the  17th  of  February,  determines  to  stay  here  till  near  that 
time,  so  this  despatch  will  be  delivered  to  your  Lordship  by 
Captain  Jo.  Butler. 

My  Lord  of  Anglesey  writes  to  me  of  a  proposition  concerning 
the  management  of  this  revenue  like  to  be  made  to  His  Majesty, 
who  I  hope  will  vouchsafe  to  hear  his  servants  here  upon  it, 
before  he  resolves  anything  in  it.  In  the  meantime  I  would 
be  glad  to  know  from  whom  the  overture  proceeds. 

John  Bryan  to  the  Duchess  of  Ormond. 

1667,  December  18. — I  have  advised  with  both  gardeners 
at  Dunmore  and  Adam  Seix  about  planting  the  acorns  and 
ashkeys.  They  are  all  of  opinion  that  a  large  nursery  be 
made,  out  of  which  the  plants  may  be  removed  into  any  place 
or  part  that  your  Graces  shall  command  it  hereafter.      And 


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such  a  place  for  a  nursery  have  I  now  ready,  close  and  strong- 
fenced.  And  for  planting  acorns  and  ashkeys  by  the  pale 
sides  in  the  park,  where  the  deer  can  come  at  them,  is  thought 
to  avail  little.  I  have  with  both  the  gardeners  viewed  the 
grounds  at  Dunmore  and  (as  w-e  conceive)  have  pitched  upon 
the  most  fit  and  convenient  places  for  ornament  and  shelter, 
yet  to  be  better  satisfied  I  gave  order  to  the  new  gardener, 
when  Captain  Morton  comes  to  Dunmore  to  take  his  advice. 

Adam  Seix  is  of  opinion  that  it  will  be  to  little  purpose  to 
plant  acorns  or  ashkeys  in  Kilkenny  meadows,  because  of  the 
cattle  coming  there,  and  where  to  get  trees  within  less  than 
fifteen  or  twenty  mile  he  knows  not ;  besides  that  the  season 
is  so  far  spent. 

They  are  going  about  renewing  what  is  decayed  of  the 
wilderness  at  Dunmore.  I  hope  to  furnish  them  with  trees 
for  that  out  of  the  Curragh. 

I  have  been  at  Archerstown  to  see  the  new  warren,  which 
goes  on  well,  and  had  I  been  there  when  they  began,  they 
should  not  pitch  so  near  the  castle  or  meadows.  I  did  forbid 
Thomas  to  make  any  more  at  that  small  distance.  There 
is  but  one  that  is  so  very  near,  and  he  did  acknowledge  the 
inconveniency.  The  place  may  be  made  a  pleasant  habitation 
for  a  private  man  noth withstanding  the  burrow.  There  is 
20i  a  year  bid  for  it.  I  have  lately  written  to  Mr.  Davyes 
somewhat  a  rough  letter,  whereof  I  have  only  a  verbal  answer 
by  his  factor  that  lives  at  Kilkenny,  who  tells  me  he  has 
a  vessel  now  arrived  at  Waterford  to  take  away  the  wool,  and 
that  he  will  be  at  Kilkenny  very  soon. 

James  Buck  to  Sir  Georgb  Lane. 

1667,  December  21.  Chelsea. — My  last  letter  unto 
you  was  upon  Tuesday,  the  17th  instant,  which  I  hope 
you  have  received.  This  being  the  conclusion  of  both  Houses 
for  this  meeting,  but  by  the  6th  of  February,  at  which  time 
they  meet  again,  much  work  is  prepared,  but  I  believe  the 
business  of  accounts  and  the  Act  of  Resumption  both  in  England 
and  Ireland  from  the  year  *40  will  take  up  much  of  their  time, 
being  so  fiercely  bent  upon  it.  It  was  once  put  whether  it 
should  not  commence  from  the  first  of  King  James.  I  have 
received  but  one  letter  from  you  this  two  months ;  pray  satisfy 
me  how  mine  comes  to  your  hands.  I  have  only  to  wish 
you  and  all  my  friends  there  a  healthful  and  happy  new  year, 
and  good  fortune  this  Christmas. 

Ormond's  Account  as  Guardian  of  the  Earl  of  Clancarty. 

The  charge  wherewith  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Ormond 
chargeth  himself  as  guardian  to  Charles  James,  late  Earl 
of  Clancarty,  an  infant,  of  the  rents,  issues,  and  profits  which 
accrued  out  of  the  estate  of  the  said  infant  from  the  fourth 


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of  August,  1665,  being  the  time  of  the  late  Earl  of  Donagh^s 
death,  to  the  two  and  twentieth  of  September,  1666,  being 
the  time  of  the  said  infant's  death. 

It  8,  d. 
Michaelmas  Gale's  rent,  1665,  and  Easter 
Gales  rent,  1666,  out  of  the  said  estate,  comes 
to  two  thousand  three  hundred  and  ten 
pounds,  eight  shillings  and  four  pence,  not 
including  herein  the  Countess  Dowager  of 
Clancarty's  jointure,  nor  a  thousand  pounds 
per  annum  due  in  the  lifetime  of  the  said 
late  Earl  to  the  said  Lady  Dowager's  two  sons, 
viz., -the  now  Earl  and  his  brother 2310  u08  :  04 

His  Grace  chargeth  himself  further  with 
other  reservations  reserved  out  of  the  said 
estate,  over  and  besides  the  said  year's  rent, 
which  do  amount  to  two  hundred  fifty-five 
pounds  eleven  shillings  and  eight  pence      ...     0255  :  11  :  08 

The  total  of  the  said  year's  charge  amounts 
to  two  thousand  five  hundred  sixty-six  pounds    2566  :  00  :  00 

His  Grace,  James,  Duke  of  Ormond,  his  account  of  the 
profits  of  the  estate  of  Charles  James,  late  Earl  of  Clancarty, 
an  infant,  whose  guardian  his  Grace  was  from  the  twentieth 
of  February,  1665  [-6],  to  the  time  of  the  death  of  the  said 
Charles  James,  which  happened  on  the  two  and  twentieth 
of  September,  1666.  And  dischargeth  himself  by  several 
disbursements  and  payments  to  balance  the  said  charge,  and 
other  disbursements  made  by  the  Countess  Dowager  of 
Clancarty,  over  and  besides  the  said  balance  pursuant  to  the 
intent  and  purport  of  the  last  will  and  testament  of  Donogh, 
Earl  of  Clancarty. 

It  8.  d. 
The  several  disbursements  and  payments 
made  in  the  lifetime  of  the  said  late  Earl, 
Charles  James,  including  herein  the  insolvent 
arrears  of  Michaelmas  Gale,  1665,  and  Easter, 
1666,  as  by  the  annexed  particulars  may 
appear,  amounts  to  five  thousand  pounds  and 
eight  pence         ...     5000  :  00  :  08 

There  rests  due  to  the  said  Countess,  as 
moneys  paid  out  of  her  own  jointure  over  and 
besides  the  balance  of  the  said  charge  to  be 
allowed  her  out  of  the  estate,  the  sum  of  two 
thousand  four  hundred  thirty-four  pounds  and 
eight  pence         2434  :  00  :  08 

Not  including  or  inserting  in  the  foregoing  payments  the 
great  expenses  the  Countess  hath  been  at  in  her  several  journeys 
to  and  from  Dublin,  and  her  long  attendance  in  prosecuting 
the  concerns  of  the  said  Charles  James. 


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W.  Tracy  to  Ormond. 

1668,  August  11. — ^Having  the  honour  somewhat  to  be  allied 
to  your  Grace,  'tis  my  duty  to  prevent  your  displeasure ; 
though  I  am  hopeless  (reflecting  on  my  own  demerit)  to 
purchase  your  favour.  My  Lord,  it  happened  that  a  poor 
youth,  petitioning  your  Grace  for  drops  of  mercy,  made  use 
of  my  name.  I  confess  I  have  made  him  breathe  some  months 
out  of  mere  charity ;  willing  he  should  find  better  balm  else- 
where, deemed  it  no  hardiness  to  supplicate  your  Grace,  he 
being  a  Poyntz  by  the  suter  side.  If  to  be  pinched  with 
want  is  a  sore  torture,  not  to  be  borne  even  by  a  Stoic,  'tis 
fairer  modesty  to  pray  a  dole  from  the  largesses  of  fortune, 
than  through  impatience  take  ill  courses  or  offer  violence  to 
nature;  honour  is  the  centre  of  virtue,  and  the  acme  of  virtue 
seraphically  is  charity.  If  there  is  no  excess  in  charity,  it 
being  the  very  effigies  of  divinity,  to  plume  feathered  fortunes 
admits  of  returns,  and  so  not  magnificence;  but  to  indulge 
the  impotent  (like  conferring  graces  on  the  dead)  is  beyond 
retaliation;  a  pure  oblation  to  honour,  an  act  truly  heroic, 
becoming  a  person  of  renown.  My  Lord  let  this  screen  all 
misprisions,  that  I  never  counselled  him  to  give  your  Grace 
any  trouble.  I  am  (Sir)  of  a  profession  wherein  if  I  can 
serve  you,  I  shall  embrace  it  as  a  blessing. 

Sir  G.  Middlbton  to  Ormond. 

1668,  August  12.  Leighton. — ^The  former  encouragement 
you  have  given  me  in  my  affairs,  emboldeneth  me  again 
humbly  to  present  unto  your  Grace  my  well  known  sufferings 
for  my  loyalty  to  my  Prince,  for  which  as  yet  I  have  not 
received  the  least  part  of  recompense.  And  now  understanding 
your  Grace  to  be  at  London^  I  thought  it  very  necessary 
(especially  upon  the  promise  you  were  pleased  to  give  me 
of  kindness)  to  remind  you  thereof,  to  the  end  your  Grace 
would  be  pleased  to  move  His  Majesty  on  my  behalf,  in  what 
kind  you  shall  think  convenient.  Your  Grace  may  remember 
you  had  thoughts  formerly  of  procuring  me  the  office  of  High 
Sheriff  of  Lancashire  for  life  or  a  certain  number  of  years, 
which  place  (if  of  any  reasonable  continuance)  might  prove 
beneficial;  but  at  that  time  when  you  had  that  intention, 
it  was  too  late;  in  regard  Sir  Thomas  Ingram,  Chancellor 
of  the  Duchy,  had  delivered  in  his  denominations  to  His 
Majesty.  Now  may  it  please  you,  I  conceive  it  time  enough, 
if  your  Grace  will  favour  me  so  much  with  your  commands 
to  Mr.  [illegible] ,  or  any  other  whom  you  please  to  mind  Sir 
Thomas  Ingram  thereof,  and  probably  your  countenance 
therein  may  take  effect.  I  must  also  trench  more  upon  your 
favour  in  another  matter;  that  whereas  upon  the  marriage 
of  my  daughter  to  Mr.  Oldfield,  it  was  covenanted  that  (if 
God  should  bless  them  with  a  son)  he  should  take  the  name 
of  George  Middleton ;  and  they  having  a  son  and  so  called ; 
that  your  Grace  would  be  pleased  to  move  His  Majesty  to 


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renew  my  patent  of  baronet,  that  after  my  decease  it  may 
descend  upon  him  being  my  grandson.  I  am  confident  your 
Grace  may  easily  effect  it,  seeing  it  takes  nothing  from  the 
King.  I  must  crave  your  excuse  for  these  troubles,  and  if 
your  Grace  conceive  it  requisite  for  me  to  come  to  London, 
I  shall  endeavour  so  to  do ;  although  I  am  much  indisposed 
of  health,  and  upon  any  the  least  occasion  subject  to  fall 
into  high  distemper.  However,  be  pleased  to  favour  me 
with  your  good  assistance  in  these  or  any  other  concern  wherein 
your  Grace  shall  conceive  it  fit  to  move  His  Majesty  for  me. 


Nicholas  Bayly  to 


1668,  September  12.  Galway. — I  received  your  commands 
yesterday  of  the  15th  instant,  empowering  me  to  take  into 
my  care  and  charge  such  prize  wines  due  to  his  Grace  as 
shall  arrive  in  the  ports  of  Galway  and  Sligo,  and  of  the 
quantity  and  quality  of  such  wine,  to  return  you  a  constant 
account,  which  I  shall  not  with  God's  assistance  fail  to  perform, 
and  to  endeavour  to  merit  the  confidence  you  are  pleased  to 
repose  in  me.  In  order  to  which  I  have  this  day  written 
to  Mr.  Booth,  customer  in  Sligo,  brother  to  Judy  Booth  (of 
whose  integrity  I  have  good  assurance  in  this  town) ,  to  secure 
such  wines  as  shall  there  grow  due  to  his  Grace,  and  shall 
upon  his  notice  repair  there  as  occasion  shall  require.  As 
for  this  port,  a  small  vessel  arrived  here  last  week  with  French 
wine,  which  being  before  the  20th  instant,  I  take  it  not 
within  my  instructions  to  concern  myself  in  her,  but 
considerable  cargoes  are  expected  this  new  vintage,  of  which, 
I  doubt  not  by  the  intimation  you  give  me,  my  former 
knowledge  with  my  future  care,  to  give  you  such  account 
from  time  to  time,  as  will  in  some  measure  demonstrate  my 
duty  to  his  Grace's  service  and  my  readiness  to  observe  those 
commands  you  have  and  shall  please  to  lay  upon  me. 


Earl  of  Manchester  to  Ormond. 

1668,  September  23.  Audley  End. — I  find  this  place  very 
great  and  noble,  yet  many  wants  will  be  found  that  will  prove 
very  inconvenient  upon  this  remove,  it  will  now  be  found 
very  difficult  to  go  a  progress  unless  the  diets  were  served 
in  kind,  for  it  will  be  impossible  for  every  one  that  keeps 
a  table  to  have  places  apart,  and  in  particular  to  himself, 
so  as  to  carry  on  the  necessaries  belonging  to  his  diet. 
I  have  done  what  I  could  to  accommodate  your  Grace ;  I  was 
told  here  that  you  desired  but  three  rooms,  and  they  are  very 
good  ones  that  are  appointed  for  you,  and  a  kitchen  and  a 
cellar.  When  you  come  hither  you  will  find  the  straitness 
of  this  house,  now  that  the  King  and  Queen  bring  so  great 
a  train  with  them.  My  Lord,  I  thought  fit  to  give  your 
Grace  this  account,  with  the  tender  of  my  service  to  you. 


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Petition  of  Col.  John  Bhamston  to  Lord  Ossory. 

To  his  Excellency  Thomas,  Earl  of  Ossory,  Lord  Deputy 
of  Ireland. 

The  humble  petition  of  Colonel  John  Bramston,  Governor 
of  Athlone. 

Sheweth  :  That  your  petitioner  having  orders  to  receive  2591 
12s.  9Jd.  for  his  own  and  company's  pay  out  of  the  hearth 
money,  the  commissioners  thereof  assigned  him  by  two  bills 
dated  the  first  of  July  last,  on  the  collectors  thereof  in  the 
Counties  of  Gal  way  and  Eoscommon,  from  whom  your 
petitioner  hath  not  received  nor  can  procure  any  more  than 
1201.  That  although  your  petitioner  hath  acquainted  the 
said  commissioners  therewith,  and  his  servants  hath  attended 
them  this  fortnight  (to  a  very  great  expense)  in  hopes  to 
receive  the  remainder  of  the  said  money,  being  139Z  12s.  9d. ; 
they  delay  either  the  payment  thereof  or  the  giving  good 
assignments  for  the  same,  to  the  great  detriment  and  disappoin- 
ment  of  the  said  company  as  well  as  your  petitioner. 

Your  petitioner  therefore  humbly  prayeth  your  Excellency 
to  give  such  further  order  for  the  payment  of  the  said  139i 
12s.  9d.,  and  reparation  for  the  expense  and  damage  the 
looking  after  the  same  hath  occasioned,  as  your  Excellency 
shall  think  fit. 

And  your  petitioner  shall  pray,  etc. 

Endx)rsed  at  foot : — 

Dublin  Castle,  September  24th,  1668. 
We  pray  Sir  George  Carteret,  knight.  His  Majesty's 
Vice-Treasurer  and  Eeceiver  General  in  this  kingdom, 
to  inform  himself  how  the  matter  above  mentioned  doth 
stand,  and  finding  the  petitioner's  alligations  to  be  true, 
to  take  order  that  so  much  as  remaineth  due  may  be  paid 
in  money,  or  that  such  solvent  assignments  may  be  given 
for  the  same,  as  may  be  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  petitioner. 

Ossory. 

Ormond  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathbw. 

1668,  September  29.  Whitehall. — Since  my  former  of 
this  day's  date,  I  have  spoken  with  Major  Deane  about  the 
prize  wines,  supposing  they  are  not  yet  let.  I  find  he  has 
a  desire  to  deal  for  them  in  behalf  of  himself  and  his  partners, 
farmers  of  the  customs ;  but  he  says  that  he  took  them  once 
at  2,400Z  for  one  year,  and  swears  he  lost  8001  by  it,  so  that 
above  l,600i  he  will  not  venture  upon.  This  is  a  great  fall, 
and  if  I  once  submit  to  it,  possibly  it  may  be  hard  to  raise 
it  again,  yet  unless  you  can  get  more  for  them  by  contract, 
or  imagine  I  may  make  as  much  of  them  by  collecting  by 
my  own  oflBcers,  it  will  be  best  to  take  his  offer,  the  rather 
that  he  will  on  reasonable  terms  advance  the  money  and 
perhaps  pay  it  here.       Somebody  from  him  will  speak  with 


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you  on  this  occasion.  It  is  fit  you  know  I  have  given 
him  no  encouragement  to  hope  to  have  them  at  that  rate. 
I  make  all  the  propositions  I  can  to  be  sure  not  to  want 
market  money  while  I  stay  here. 

Michael  Harrison  to  Capt.  G.  Mathew  and  Sir  W.  Flower. 

1668,  September  30. — Pursuant  to  my  last  letter  unto  you, 
I  went  to  Belfast  and  Carrickfergus  about  the  prizage ;  and 
have  taken  order  for  securing  of  what  comes  in,  and  I  am 
assured  by  some  of  the  inhabitants  that  his  Grace  lost  this 
year  by  his  prizage  above  two  tons  of  Spanish  wine  by  a 
cheat  of  the  merchants;  which  if  not  prevented,  the  example 
may  be  of  worse  prejudice  hereafter.  And  this  it  is;  the 
merchant  that  takes  in  his  cargo  in  Spain  comes  by  the  Isle 
of  Man,  unships  his  wine  there  into  lesser  bottoms,  not  above 
seven  or  eight  tons  in  a  bottom ;  and  so  conveys  them  into 
several  ports,  by  which  juggle  your  prizage  is  lost;  this  they 
affirmed  to  be  true.  I  pray  you  send  me  a  power  to  myself 
and  deputies  to  look  to  the  prizage  of  these  ports. 

As  for  Killybeggs  I  cannot  undertake  that,  it  lying  above 
ninety  miles  from  me  towards  Sligo ;  those  that  look  after 
Derry  or  Sligo  prizage  are  fittest  to  manage  that.  Your 
answer  to  this  is  all  that  is  desired  by  me. 

H.  Norwood  to  Ormond. 

1668,  November  7.  Tanger. — The  signal  generosity  your 
Grace  was  pleased  to  express  in  my  cause  when  the  Advocates 
of  the  Turks  would  have  come  behind  me  to  strike  me  before, 
will  I  trust  to  Heaven  be  turned  into  your  Grace's  own  bosom, 
if  there  be  men  on  earth  so  impudent  as  to  bring  that  honour 
and  integrity  in  question,  which  none  so  good  as  Turks  will 
ever  venture  to  dispute. 

Since  the  juncture  that  by  your  Grace's  means  I  got  time  to 
assert  my  innocency  as  to  the  Turks,  I  have  fallen  into  as  ill 
a  reckoning  with  a  most  unchristian  Mayor  of  this  place,  at 
least  I  think  it  so,  because  I  must  be  forced  once  more  to 
mount  the  stage,  and  give  new  trouble  to  my  friends. 

The  narrative  of  this  business  is  too  large  to  present  unto 
your  Grace  in  writing;  the  bearer,  Captain  Mordaunt,  does 
favour  me  to  carry  all  by  heart  unto  His  Majesty  in  council , 
and  there  if  your  Grace  has  leisure  to  be  present  or  otherwise 
to  examine  the  Captain  upon  any  particulars,  I  cannot  miscarry 
unless  I  do  deserve  it. 

J.  Archer  to  Ormond. 

1668,  December  1.  Dublin. — The  good  news  given  us  by 
the  last  packet,  together  with  Secretary  Page's  indisposition, 
gave  me  the  liberty  to  trouble  your  Grace  with  this  enclosed 
petition  which  I  durst  not  venture  to  do  till  now.  May  it 
please  your  Grace,  after  finishing  and  perclosing  the  one  half 


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of  the  bridge  of  Carrick  in  ten  weeks  time,  I  fell  a  working 
of  the  rocks  in  the  river  below  your  Grace's  house  in  Carrick, 
so  that  in  ten  days  time  I  made  a  road  through  the  said  rocks 
of  eighty  or  a  hundred  yards  broad,  for  bottoms  of  thirty, 
forty,  fifty,  and  sixty  tons  to  sail  without  any  danger  to  the 
quay  of  Carrick,  as  Mr.  Controller  can  testify,  he  being  an 
eye-witness  of  what  is  done  there.  Captain  Mathew  offered 
to  pay  me  for  what  money  I  laid  out  for  that  work,  which 
I  would  not  accept  of,  being  so  insignificant  a  sun>,  the  matter 
of  3/  more  or  less,  and  I  do  think  it  too  little  a  thing,  together 
with  my  own  labour,  to  bestow  upon  such  a  great  design,  so 
that  Carrick  wants  nothing  to  make  it  considerable  but  the 
establishing  of  a  custom  house  there. 

Your  Grace's  house  in  Carrick  is  at  present  stanch  for  five 
years,  if  no  new  breaches  be  made  by  future  storms,  and  it  did 
cost  about  141,  a  little  more  or  less.  May  it  please  your 
Grace,  your  Grace's  ill  wishers  both  English  and  Irish  makes 
it  now  of  late  their  business  of  copying  of  a  book  entitled : 
A  Narrative  of  the  Earl  of  Glarendon*s  Settlement  and  Sale 
of  Ireland,  and  spreading  the  same  amongst  the  people,  wherein 
it  is  set  forth  publicly  amongst  that  factious  people  that  your 
Grace  is  the  only  man  that  destroyed  the  Irish  nation  by 
hindering  them  of  not  being  included  in  the  Act  of  Indemnity, 
Although  all  those  stratagems  cannot  prejudice  your  Grace  in 
the  least,  yet  their  intention  is  malicious,  and  I  in  duty  bound 
to  acquaint  your  Grace  of  what  I  hear  as  to  that  nature. 

Petition  to  Mr.  Secretary  Page  (enclosed  with  the  foregoing 

letter). 

1668,  November  26.  Carrick. — Monsieur  et  tres  honnor^ 
Amy,  Je  me  souvien  estant  a  Kilkenny  que  sa  Grace  m'a 
demand^  s'il  auroit  moyen  de  faire  venir  de  vesseaux  jusques 
a  Carrick,  mais  main  tent  je  suis  plus  capable  a  luy  satisfaire 
que  je  n'estois  en  ce  temps  la,  car  depuis  mon  retoure  icy 
de  Kilkenny  j'ay  est^  visiter  touts  les  endroits  les  plus  diflBsils 
qui  puis  donner  empechemt  aux  vesseaux ;  brefe  je  ne  treuve 
aucune  difficoulte  de  randre  la  Biviere  toutafaict  naugable 
pour  mounter  barques  de  20  a  30  tons  jusques  aux  pied  du 
pont  de  Carrick,  et  a  fort  peu  de  depence,  et  pour  parler  la 
bouche  convert  qui  ouroit  song6  a  ce  la  I'est^  pass6  30  shillings 
seullement  ferroit  la  faire,  et  a  present  je  croy  que  doublant 
la  diet  somme  le  ferroit  encoir  un  peu  plus  ou  moins,  et  come 
sa  Grace  est  du  santiment  de  randre  sa  ville  de  Carrick 
considerable  et  la  faire  fleurir  a  jamais  en  restablisant  la 
commers  le  pouvant  commodement,  elle  seroit  assurement 
une  des  meilleurs  petites  villes  d'Ireland,  sa  situatione  estant 
si  advantagieux  et  le  moyen  pour  ce  faire  le  voycy  scavoir, 
si  sa  Grace  pouvoit  s'accommoder  avec  le  fermier  des  Customs 
on  de  quel  autre  manier  pour  establir  un  Custome  house  a 
Carrick,  afin  que  les  vesseaux  destin^  pour  les  marchands  de 
Carrick  et  de  Clonmell  ne  fussent  oblig^  a  decharger  leur 
Wt.  8878  s 


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marchandise  a  Waterford ;  et  si  ce  la  ce  pouvoit  estre  menag^ 
aipsi,  je  vous  peu  bien  asseurer,  Monsr.,  que  sa  Grace  veroit 
des  vesseaux  francois  charge  du  vign  et  du  sel  a  la  Kay  de 
Carrick  devant  la  fin  du  mois  de  mars  prochen,  and 
consequament  des  vesseaux  d'Espaigne,  de  Hollande  et  de  tout 
autres  lieux  de  T Europe,  pourveu  que  la  commers  de  la  mere 
soit  libre,  et  par  cest  moyen  inviteroit  de  marchands  de 
Kilkenny,  de  Cassell,  de  Clonmell  et  mesme  de  Waterford 
de  venir  demurer  et  bastir  des  belles  maisons  a  Carrick,  et 
apres  nous  devons  esperrer  mil  autre  advages  qui  deveroit 
suivre  en  crup,  mais  sans  dout  ceux  de  Waterford  s'opposeroint 
fort  et  ferme  countre  ceste  commers  cy  desus,  alegent  que  le 
Eoy  seroit  interess^ ;  et  moy  je  soutiendray  le  countraire  et 
que  le  Eoy  en  profiteroit  plutost  et  le  pais  s'enrichiroit.  La 
reson  en  est  evident,  car  si  ceux  de  Waterford  ne  recoivent 
point  le  droict  des  diet  vesseaux,  cela  se  treuverot  au  dotible 
a  Carrick,  quand  je  dirois  cent  pour  un,  par  ce  que  tous  les 
marchands  de  Carrick  et  de  Clonmell  quils  ne  fount  nen  a 
present  pour  lors  ils  marcheroint,  et  quantity  d'autres  resons 
pouroint  estre  diets  s'il  le  temps  permettoit.  Au  rest  sa 
Grace  en  usera  selon  son  bon  plaisir  et  tous  ce  que  ]*en  dis 
provien  purement  et  simplement  de  T  inclination  que  j'ay  pour 
les  interest  de  sa  Grace  et  de  sa  maison. 

De  la  quelle  je  promet  solemnellement  devant  Dieu  que  je 
ne  me  detacheray  jamais  durant  ma  vie  et  au  dela  du  tombeaon. 
Oye,  Monsieur,  je  prendois  plaisir  de  sacrifier  ma  vie  et  ma 
fortune  dans  les  interres  de  monseigneur  le  Due  et  eels  de  mon 
maistre  monsieur  le  Comte  d'  Ossory.  Pourquoy  parce  qu'ils 
m'  out  obJig^  de  si  bonne  Grace  et  dedans  ma  plus  grand 
necessity,  c'est  pourquoy  monsieur.  Je  vous  en  conjure  me 
faire  la  faveur  s'il  vous  plaist,  d'assurer  a  sa  Grace  que  lors 
pue  je  ne  seray  plus  util  pour  le  service  de  sa  Grace, 
que  je  ne  point  pretand  point  de  plus  vivre  dans  ce 
monde.  Cest  pourquoy,  monsieur,  je  attandray  tousjours 
r  honneur  de  ces  commendements  pour  luy  aller  servir  jusques 
au  butt  du  monde.  Monsieur,  sa  Grace  m'a  parl^  a  Kilkenny 
de  faire  une  glasiere  proch  sa  maison  de  Carrick  mais  toutes 
euvrages  qui  se  fount  de  ces  espece  la  en  hivere,  rarement 
sount  ils  bonnes,  et  pour  faire  une  glasiere  et  assur^e,  il  foudroit 
commenser  au  printemps  pour  mieux  faire.  Cest  ce,  monsieur, 
ce  que  j'ay  a  vous  dir  a  present  et  que  je  suis  tres  passionement. 

Monsieur,  vostre  tres  humble  et  tres  obeisent  serviteur. 

Addressed: — A  Monsieur,  Monsieur  le  Page  scecretaire  a  sa 
Grace  Monseigneur  le  Due  d'Ormond  a  Dublin. 

Endorsed : — Captain  Archer.    Eeceived  2nd  December,  '68.* 

[French] . 

Duchess  of  Ormond  to  Sir  Stephen  Fox. 

1668,  September  28.  Whitehall. — ^Eeceived  and  borrowed 
from  the  hands  of  Sir  Stephen  Fox  the  sum  of  500Z,  which  sum  I 

'  *  The  speUing  of  the  original  has  been  followed  in  this  transcript. 


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hereby  promise  to  repay  with  interest  of  61  per  cent,  at  or 
upon  the  28th  day  of  March  next  ensuing  the  date  hereof. 
And  for  security  thereof  I  have  placed  in  the  hands  of  the 
said  Sir  Stephen  Fox,  a  pair  of  diamond  pendants  and  a 
diamond  fosset  ring,  which  I  value  at  the  rate  of  700Z.  I  say 
received.  E.  Ormond. 

Witness: — G.  Lane. 

I  do  attest  this  to  be  a  true  copy.     Ste.  Fox. 

Report  on  Works  in  Phosnix  Park. 

1668,  October  27. — Pursuant  to  your  Lordship's  commands, 
grounded  on  his  Grace  the  Lord  Lieutenant  and  council's 
orders,  dated  the  2nd  of  August,  1667,  on  the  petition  of 
William  Dodson,  Esq.,  we  have  viewed  the  work  performed 
by  the  said  William  Dodson  in  and  about  the  Phoenix  and 
Chappellizard,  and  other  things  in  the  said  Dodson 's  petition 
mentioned.  And  do  certify  that  two  thirds  of  the  wall 
about  the  Phoenix  are  so  insuflBcient  that  they  are  not  to 
be  repaired  without  being  clear  taken  down  and  new  laid. 
And  that  the  expense  His  Majesty  hath  been  at  (being  6,080Z 
65.  lid.)  about  the  said  wall  in  the  first  building  thereof 
might  have  done  that  work  sufficiently  at  first  in  lime  and 
stone  without  further  expense  of  lOOi  per  annum,  the  cause 
of  which  insufficiency  we  have  diligently  enquired  into,  as 
well  by  our  own  view  as  information  of  several  workmen 
employed  by  the  said  Dodson  in  the  work  aforesaid,  and  by 
both  do  find  a  great  failure  in  that  work  occasioned  by 
the  badness  of  the  stone,  and  that  the  said  Dodson  was 
frequently  admonished  thereof  by  the  workmen  employed  by 
him;  and  we  find  that  there  is  plenty  enough  of  .very  good 
stone  in  several  quarries  in  and  near  the  park  aforesaid,  and 
where  these  stones  were  laid  we  find  the  wall  in  many 
places  insufficient,  which  we  impute  to  the  unskilfulness  of 
some  of  the  workmen  employed  by  him,  the  said  Dodson. 
As  for  the  work  about  the  house  of  Chapellizard,  we  do  find 
the  expense  great,  and  nothing  of  the  fabric  of  that  house 
left  by  him  proportionable  to  the  expense  of  999/  55.  lOd. 
pretended  to  be  laid  out  by  the  petitoner,  nor  left  by  him 
stanch  or  sufficient  to  continue  long  habitable  with  safety. 
The  new  bridge  of  Chapellizard  we  find  sufficiently  done,  and 
worth  the  sum  of  195i  Is.  Id,  alleged  to  be  expended  in  that 
work.  But  as  for  the  work  alleged  to  be  done  at  the  house 
of  the  Phoenix,  Ash  town  and  Newtown,  and  other  miscellaneous 
payments  within  the  said  park,  amounting  to  the  sum  of 
1,073Z  5$.  9d.,  we  cannot  give  any  certain  judgment,  but  leave 
it  to  his  vouchers  before  the  auditor  of  His  Majesty's  foreign 
accounts.      All  which  we  humbly  certify. 

Postscript : — 1668,  October  28.  Dublin. — We  here  enclosed 
send  you  a  copy  of  a  reference  to  us  directed,  concerning  Mr. 
Dodson 's  work  in  and  about  the  park,  with  a  copy  of  our  report 
thereof,  which  we  desire  you  to  shew  to  his  Grace,  and  let  us 


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know  his  Grace's  opinion  thereof,  whether  fit  to  be  given  in  or 
not.  We  have  shewed  it  to  his  Excellency  here,  who  thinks  fit 
that  his  Grace  should  be  acquainted  therewith;  until  we 
hear  from  you  (which  we  desire  to  be  as  soon  as  may  be) 
we, shall  keep  our  report  unreturned. 

Earl  of  Clanricardb  to  Ormond. 

1668,  December  18. — I  find  by  Captain  Moragh  Flaherty  that 
your  Grace  is  somewhat  dissatisfied  with  certain  expressions 
of  mine  in  a  letter  to  himself.  I  do  not  now  remember  the 
words,  and  perhaps  at  that  time  I  was  not  careful  enough  to 
examine  how  they  were  couched  in  a  private  letter  to  a  friend 
whom  I  employ  about  my  concerns,  and  which  I  never  expected 
should  be  produced  before  so  eminent  a  person.  But  I  can 
assure  your  Grace  (whatever  the  words  were)  it  was  never 
my  intention  to  express  the  Feast  mistrust  of  your  real  friend- 
ship and  constant  favours,  whereof  I  have  had  so  many  evident 
proofs,  when  I  had  not  the  honour  of  being  so  near  related 
unto  you,  that  I  have  no  reason  now  to  raise  any  doubt  of 
the  reality  of  your  affection. 

The  greatest  jealousy  I  ever  retained  of  your  Grace  is  that 
you  are  not  pleased  to  acquaint  me  with  the  condition  of  your 
own  affairs,  wherein  I  am  more  concerned  than  for  any  that 
relate  unto  myself,  in  regard  they  are  of  a  higher  sphere  and 
greater  consequence.  I  hope  your  Grace  will  do  me  the 
favour  to  believe  it,  and  also  this  infallible  truth,  that  no  man 
in  the  world  hath  a  greater  passion  and  a  more  ardent  zeal 
to  serve  you  than,  my  Lord,  etc.,  etc. 

John  Baxter  to  Sir  Geo.  Lane. 

1669,  June  1.  Dublin. — ^Yours  of  25th  of  April  I  have 
received,  and  have  gotten  a  concordatum  for  1,100Z  laid  out 
for  the  manufacture  at  Chapellizod,  and  by  Captain  Mathews 
his  order  have  given  it  to  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham  on  account 
of  a  greater  sum  due  to  him  from  his  Grace,  which  Sir  Daniel 
hath  accepted  of  as  payment-  I  have  likewise  stated  his 
Grace's  entertainment  to  the  first  of  May  last,  out  of  which 
I  have  paid  Mr.  Croker  the  reijaainder  of  what  was  due  to 
Sir  George  Carteret  out  of  the  l,050i  paid  to  his  Grace  in 
London;  I  have  been  lately  commanded  by  his  Excellency 
to  make  as  strict  and  private  enquiry  as  I  could  into  the 
charge  of  the  Phoenix  Park  wall,  the  purchasing  of  lands  in 
the  said  park,  and  other  incident  charges  within  the  said 
park,  which  I  have  privately  extracted  out  of  the  Treasurer's 
ofiice,  the  Auditor's  office,  and  Mr.  Dodson's  account,  as  also 
by  informaton  what  monies  are  unpaid,  for  lands  purchased 
in  the  said  park,  besides  the  interest  thereof  due  since 
September,  1663.  A  particular  account  whereof  (according 
to  my  best  computation)  I  send  you  here  enclosed ;  in  which 
the  first  page  doth  mention  the  monies  laid  out  for  the  wall 
and  purchasing  of  lands,  etc.,  amounting  to  the  sum  of  16,449i 
7^.  lid. ;  the  second  page  doth  mention  the  monies  disbursed 


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for  other  uses  within  the  said  park,  being  2,107i  135.  Id. ; 
the  third  page  doth  mention  the  monies  yet  unpaid  for  lands 
purchased  in  the  said  park,  being  8,0341,  besides  interest  since 
September,  1663,  which  will  come  to  at  least  4,000i  at  ten 
per  cent. ;  all  which,  with  907Z  Is.  8d.  claimed  by  Mr.  Dodson 
as  yet  unpaid  for  the  park  wall  and  repairing  thereof  at  1001 
per  annum,  will  amount  unto  the  sum  of  31,498J  1*.  8d. ; 
but  if  his  Grace  be  pleased  to  look  on  the  copy  of  a 
report  concerning  Mr.  Dodson's  account  sent  over  by  Sir 
William  Flower  and  myself,  I  believe  his  Grace  will  find 
that  Mr.  Dodson  hath  no  reason  to  expect  payment  of  that 
sum  of  9071  IS'  8d. ,  but  may  be  very  glad  to  escape  without 
further  punishment  for  his  fraud  in  that  work  or  very  ill 
management  thereof.  The  clamours  of  ill  affected  people 
about  the  greatness  of  the  charge  to  His  Majesty  in  walling 
and  purchasing  lands  in  the  park,  and  not  paying  of  some  other 
persons  for  their  lands  in  this  park,  the  prejudice  done  to  some 
undertenants  to  lands  unpurchased  therein,  and  the  ill  making 
the  wall  in  general  by  Mr.  Dodson,  I  wish  his  Grace  was 
once  well  freed  from ;  this  account  I  am  commanded  by  his 
Excellency  to  send  to  you  to  acquaint  his  Grace  with. 

Postscript : — The  whole  charge  that  His  Majesty  hath  been 
at  about  the  manufactures  at  Chapellizod,  come  to  2,425Z 
Is.  3d.,  of  which  I  sent  his  Grace  a  report  of  long  since,  as 
for  that  work,  the  rent  of  those  houses  will  pay  the  interest 
of  the  money  laid  out,  besides  the  general  good  intended 
thereby  is  come  to  great  perfection  in  those  manufactures. 

Account  of  Money  Expended  and  Owing  for  Purchase 
OF  Land  and  Works  in  the  Phcenix  Park. 

1669,  June  1. — Payments  made  for  building  the  Phoenix 
Park  wall,  and  purchasing  land  within  the  said  park. 

March  16th,  1662. — Lord  John  Kingston  H  s.  d. 
on  account  of  emparking         0800  :  00  :  00 

June  29th,  1663. — Michael  Ennos  to  satisfy 
for  breaking  fences       0014  :  00  :  00 

January  9th,  1663  [-4]. — Colonel  John 
Daniel  for  part  of  Grangegorman ,  and  for 
breaking  fences  in  carrying  stones 0126  :  01  :  00 

February  5th,  1663  [-4].— Thomas  Pooley, 
Esq.,  for  lands  taken  into  the  Park 0500  :  00  :  00 

March  6th,  1662  [-3].— Lord  Chancellor 
Eustace  on  account  of  Chappellizard 5000  :  00  :  00 

March  9th,  1665  [-6].— Grace  Wolfenden 
for  grazing  horses  employed  for  carrying  stones    0018  :  00  :  00 

January  10th,  1665  [-6]. — John  Council, 
Esq.,  for  using  his  quarry  at  Pelletstown  ...     0040  :  00  :  00 

February  28th,  1665  [-6] .—Sir  John  Temple 
for  interest  in  lands  in  the  Park     0200  :  00  :  00 

March  25th,  1667.— William  and  John 
Warren  for  interest  in  lands  in  the  Park      ...     0241  :  00  :  00 


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li        8.      d, 

June  12th,  1667. — ^John  Connell  on 
account  of  interest  in  land  in  the  Park     ...     0280  :  00  :  00 

October  18th,  1667.— Item  to  him  in  full...     0360  :  00  :  00 

William  Dodson,  Esq.,  on  account  of 
emparking  at  several  times      6080  :  06  :  11 

Alderman  Daniel  Hutchinson  on  account  of 
Newtown  within  the  Park        0800  :  00  :  00 


16449  :  07  :  11 


An  Account  of  Moneys  Disbursed  for  other  uses  within 

THE  Phcenix  Park. 

li        8.      d. 
February     25th,     1663     [-4].  — Lord 
Dungannon  storing  the  Park  with  deer      ...     0200  :  00  :  00 

August  12th,  1663. — John  Carcas  surveying 
several  parcels  of  land 0024  :  00  :  00 

March  3rd,  1664  [-5] .—January  28th,  1664 
f-5] . — Lord  Dungannon  storing  the  Park  with 
deer,  two  warrants        0200  :  00  :  00 

June  18th,  1064. — Colonel  Jeffryes  trans- 
portation of  deer         0034  :  00  :  00 

April  2nd,  1666.— Colonel  Thomas  Piggott 
transporting  deer  0060  :  00  :  00 

William  Dodson,  Esq.,  for  buildings  and 
reparations  at  the  Phoenix  and  Chappellizard 
at  several  times  1589  :  13  :  01 


The  total  disbursed  as  aforesaid 2107  :  13  :  01 

The  total  paid  for  purchasing  land  in  the 
said  Park,  and  making  the  wall,  is 16i49  :  07  :  11 

The  total  for  purchasing  land  and  other 
disbursements  as  aforesaid,  is 18557  :  00  :  00 

Moneys  yet  due  to  the  undernamed  persons  for  lands 
purchased  within  the  Ph(enix  Park. 

li        8.      d. 

Due  to  the  executors  of  Sir  Maurice  Eustace, 
besides  interest  from  Michaelmas,  1663,  for 
the  same  5000  :  00  :  00 

Due  to  Alderman  Daniel  Hutchinson, 
besides  interest  from  Michaelmas,  1663,  of 
which  interest  he  hath  only  received  8001 
mentioned  in  the  precedent  account 3000  :  00  :  00 

Due  to  Eobert  Bowyer,  Esq.,  besides 
interest 0034  :  00  :  00 


The  total  due  for  land  in  the  Phoenix  Park    8034  :  00  :  00 


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li        8.       d. 
The  total  disbursed,  as  by  the  two  precedent 
pages  appears      18557  :  00  :  00 

The  total  paid,  with  what  remains  due,  is...  26591  :  00  :  00 

li        s,      d. 
More  demanded  as  a  debt  due  to  Mr.  Dodson 
on   account    of  miscellaneous   disbursements 
within  the  said  Park,  and  repairing  the  Park 
wall  at  100/  ver  annum         00907  :  01  :  08 

li        s.      d. 
Which,  if  allowed,  amounts  the  account  to  27498  :  01  :  08 

For  interest  of  8034Z,  yet  unpaid,  since 
September,  1663,  to  September,  1669,  besides 
the  800Z  paid  to  Alderman  Hutchinson,  as 
above        04000  :  00  :  00 


31498  :  01  :  08 


Endorsed : — An  account  of  money  paid  for  land  purchased 
within  the  Phoenix  Park,  for  making  the  wall,  repairs  at 
Chappellizard  and  Phoenix,  with  what  yet  remains  due  for 
purchased  land,  etc.,  within  the  said  Park. 

Keceived  from  Mr.  Baxter  the  6th  of  June,  1669. 


John  Graham  to  Eichard  Delves. 

1669,  June  1.  Dublin. — Yours  dated  the  22nd  of  this 
instant  came  to  my  hands  the  29th  of  the  same,  wherein 
you  are  pleased  to  signify  the  Queen  being  with  child,  and  the 
safe  arrival  of  the  horses,  both  which  were  welcome  news  to 
me,  especially  the  first ;  I  perceive  I  am  no  longer  to  continue 
of  this  family,  which  is  no  mean  affliction  to  me.  My 
judgment  (upon  this  unhappy  change)  rendering  me  incapable 
to  continue  my  now  employment,  or  in  any  military 
condition.  The  premisses  considered,  I  humbly  desire  you 
will  as  wontedly  be  pleased  in  commiseration  of  my  condition 
and  great  charge,  to  implore  his  Grace's  charity  in  bestowing 
upon  me  the  Old  White  Pad,  which  is  now  useless,  and  Gray 
Fulks,  which  notwithstanding  this  winter's  running  remains 
foundered,  and  will  ever  be  so.  My  Lord  of  Ossory  never 
rode  the  old  white  horse  but  once,  and  he  then  said  he  was 
not  worth  keeping,  having  neither  pace  nor  limbs  to  bear  him. 
The  old  bay  Spanish  horse  we  had  from  my  Lord  Dungannon , 
I  find  not  proper  for  a  stallion  any  longer  in  regard  of  his 
great  age,  for  we  have  but  four  mares  this  year  in  foal  by 
him. 


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Pray  so  soon  as  possible  vouchsafe  me  your  answer,  and 
if  his  Grace  be  pleased  to  give  me  the  horses,  pray  get  me 
his  note  for  them,  and  by  the  first  send  it  to  me. 

Postscript: — If  opportunity  present,  pray  afford  me  your 
favourable  recommendation  to  my  Lord  Eoberts,  Gentleman  of 
the  Horse,  that  I  may  be  continued  in  the  same  capacity  I 
have  been.  I  hear  one,  Mr.  Bridges,  is  the  man  who  is  brother- 
in-law  to  Mr.  Oliver  Lambert,  by  whose  means  you  may  if 
you  please  do  my  business  by  engaging  of  Colonel  Cooke  to 
solicit  Mr.  Lambert  in  the  thing. 

A  Prayer  for  Queen  Catherine. 

0  Lord  God,  who  extendeth  Thy  mercies  to  a  thousand 
generations  of  them  that  fear  Thee,  be  gracious  to  these 
nations  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland ;  pardon  our  sins,  which 
make  us  difi&dent  of  Thy  future  blessings  and  unworthy  of 
Thy  present  favours,  and  prevail  upon  us  by  all  the  benefits 
we  have  received  to  bear  proportion  to  Thy  loving  kindness, 
and  to  endear  Thy  providence  for  our  continual  welfare  and 
prosperity;  by  perfect  obedience  to  Thy  holy  laws,  loyalty 
to  our  Gracious  Sovereign,  and  charity  to  one  another;  and 
beside  the  vast  rewards  Thou  hast  already  promised  to  well- 
doing, continue  the  hopes  Thou  hast  permitted  us  to  conceive 
of  receiving  the  greatest  of  earthly  blessings,  by  assuring 
the  succession  of  this  Imperial  Crown  to  the  happy  issue  of  our 
most  Gracious  Sovereign  and  his  Royal  Consort,  Queen 
Katherine.  Preserve  thine  handmaid  from  all  evil  accidents 
that  may  render  our  hopes  abortive,  and  command  all  natural 
causes  to  be  subservient  to  the  safety  of  her  person,  the 
making  her  a  happy  mother,  and  the  perfecting  of  this  great 
blessing,  which  we  have  only  confidence  to  ask  of  thee,  the 
God  of  boundless  mercies,  for  the  sake  of  the  ever  blessed 
Jesus,  our  dearest  Lord  and  Mediator.       Amen. 

Lord  J.  Butler  to  Ormond. 

1669,  June  21. — I  should  not  have  given  your  Lordship 
the  disturbance  of  these  lines  had  it  not  been  to  acquaint 
you  the  condition  I  am  in,  which  will  be  very  ill  without  your 
Lordship's  favour,  for  I  have  had  the  advantage  of  your 
equipage,  which  was  a  great  credit  to  me,  and  if  it  should 
be  taken  away  now  I  have  the  most  need  to  appear  well 
before  the  new  Governor  (who  as  I  am  informed  will  look 
narrowly  into  everything  of  this  nature).  I  should  be  very 
much  out  of  countenance  not  to  appear  suitable  to  the 
employment  I  have ;  my  mother  is  pleased  to  bring  with  her 
the  particulars  of  my  request,  and  I  do  assure  your  Lordship 
that  they  shall  not  at  all  suffer  in  my  hands,  but  shall  be 
ready  when  you  please  to  command  them.  I  desire  to  know 
of  your  Lordship  what  you  will  do  with  those  of  the  guard 
that  attend  you,  and  what  other  commands  your  Lordship 
hath,  and  it  shall  be  punctually  obeyed. 


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Ormond  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathbw. 

1669,  August  10.  Whitehall. — ^I  have  received  yours  of 
the  Slst  of  the  last  and  3rd  of  this  month.  Now  that  the 
books  of  valuation  are  perfected  and  placed  where  they  should 
be,  I  conceive  it  will  be  safest  in  all  respects  and  of  great 
conveniency  otherwise  that  you  obtain  acquittances  for  as 
many  adventurers  or  soldiers  as  shall  give  you  sufficient  security 
for  payment  of  their  shares  within  such  time  as  you  shall 
agree  upon,  which  ought  to  be  as  short  as  you  can  bring 
them  to  consent  to,  during  which  time  it  is  but  reasonable 
that  they  should  allow  such  interest  as  I  am  paying  by  their 
default.  And  since  by  agreeing  with  me  they  avoid  the  penalty 
annexed  by  the  Act  to  their  non-payment;  I  conceive  for 
as  much  as  you  shall  thus  contract  for,  I  am  safe  from  the 
pretence  of  preference  of  the  '49  officers,  and  from  any  trick 
that  may  be  put  upon  me  when  the  Lieutenant  arrives.  It 
may  not  be  amiss  as  soon  as  you  have  given  acquittances 
and  received  security,  that  you  make  offer  of  it  to  the  person 
authorised  by  Sir  Eobert  Vyner  to  receive  his  money,  he 
giving  me  a  discharge  for  so  much  of  his  debt,  and  likewise 
to  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham  for  so  much  as  remains  of  his. 

I  am  glad  my  Patent  for  the  5,000/  a  year  is  passed  the 
Seal,  and  do  wonder  on  what  ground  some  of  the  '49  officers 
were  brought  to  think  themselves  concerned  to  oppose  it; 
the  question  will  now  be  how  I  shall  bring  it  to  be  of  present 
use  to  my  subsistence,  for  though  the  contract  with  the  King 
is  that  I  shall  receive  the  first  payment,  I  think  on  the  first 
of  November,  yet  you  know  the  King's  Michaelmas  rents 
are  seldom  paid  in  till  Easter  term  following,  so  I  shall  be 
always  half-a-year  behind  till  my  last  payment,  unless  the  rents 
be  so  good  that  the  tenants  will  voluntarily  pay  them,  or 
unless  Sir  George  Carteret  can  find  an  expedient  to  help 
me.  It  may  further  be  considered  whether  some  entry  of  my 
patent  in  the  Exchequer  may  not  be  necessary,  that  the 
officers  may  not  write  out  or  issue  process  for  those  rents 
passed  to  me,  which  may  retard  my  payments  and  prove  a 
vexation  to  the  tenants. 

I  think  you  are  in  the  right  touching  West  and  Buck, 
and  I  shall  govern  myself  accordingly ;  yet  with  some  regard 
to  Buck,  who  is  upon  making  a  fortune  here  by  marriage, 
in  which  I  am  content  to  help  him. 

Sir  George  Lane  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathbw. 

1669,  October  5.  Dublin. — I  thank  you  for  the  favour 
and  kindness  of  yours  dated  the  second  of  this  month,  with 
which  I  received  the  note  concerning  the  school,  wherein  I 
have  consulted  Mr.  Solicitor,  who  finding  not  precedent  for 
such  a  grant  here,  advises  me  to  send  to  my  Lord  to  search 
if  there  be  any  such  grant  to  be  found  on  that  side ;  he  is 
very  apprehensive  the  thing  cannot  be  done  but  by  Act  of 
Parliament.      The  '49  agents  have  not  as  yet  appeared  iu 


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anything,  but  the  Lord  Lieutenant  calling  on  Sir  Alexander 
Bence  for  an  account  of  the  300,000!,  and  having  caused  a 
copy  of  my  Lord's  patent  for  the  5,0001  a  year  to  be  made, 
my  Lord  Arran  and  Mr.  Solicitor  think  it  of  absolute  necessity 
that  you  hasten  hither  to  produce  the  King's  letter  for  my 
Lord's  preference  for  payment  before  the  King's  part,  and 
to  take  care  of  these  particulars,  in  which  I  will  do  all  I  can 
in  the  meantime.  Mr.  Wallis  shall  be  spoken  to  for  a  copy 
to  be  made  of  my  Lord's  patent  for  the  5,0001  to  be  sent 
him,  but  it  is  so  long  that  I  do  not  believe  it  can  be  despatched 
before  you  come.  I  send  you  a  letter  from  one,  Prendergast, 
and  think  it  will  be  acceptable  to  my  Lord  and  Lady  if  you 
can  do  something  that  may  stop  bis  going  into  England, 
and  giving  their  Graces  further  trouble  by  his  importunity. 
I  send  you  enclosed  these  letters  from  my  Lord  and  Lady 
Duchess,  hearing  by  Mr.  Page  you  are  at  Kilkenny,  though 
I  was  told  by  another  you  intended  for  Waterford. 

Postscript : — I  pray  present  the  very  best  of  service  to  my 
dear  Lady  Mathews,  and  put  her  in  mind  of  the  great  fool 
who  made  her  and  us  laugh  so  heartily. 

Sir  Geo.  Lane  to  Lord  Ossory. 

1669,  October  26.  Kilkenny. — I  am  very  glad  to  hear  of 
your  safe  arrival  and  the  reception  you  had  from  your  master, 
which  I  never  doubted  of.  I  have  made  a  full  inquiry  of 
the  monies  I  acquainted  your  Lordship  with  that  was 
forced  to  be  paid  the  second  time  by  soldiers  that  were  assessed 
upon  the  County  of  Tipperary,  by  the  orders  of  my  Lord 
of  Orrery  and  my  Lord  of  Mountrath.  I  find  the  time  when 
this  was  done  was  in  April,  1660,  so  that  I  conceive  that  the 
Act  of  Indemnity  frees  them  from  the  crime  of  that  illegal 
proceeding.  I  have  500/,  but  cannot  as  yet  procure  bills  to 
be  sent  by  the  bearer,  but  if  I  can  they  shall  overtake  him 
at  Dublin.  Three  pounds  in  the  hundred  is  demanded  for 
the  return.  All  the  friends  here  are  very  well,  and  my 
Lord  Roberts  himself  gives  you  the  character  of  a  very 
honourable  and  worthy  person,  and  wishes  no  greater  happiness 
than  to  quit  his  charge  with  that  esteem  from  the  people  as 
your  Lordship  hath  done.  I  can  as  yet  make  no  progress 
in  your  father's  affairs,  for  want  of  those  acquittances  Sir 
George  Carteret  promised  I  should  have. 

Captain  Egoth  to 


1669,  October  26.  Kinsale  Fort. — ^I  apprehended  it  my  duty 
to  desire  you  to  acquaint  his  Grace,  that  about  two  days  since 
I  saw  a  letter  from  the  Earl  of  Orrery  to  Major  Love,  who 
is  Lieutenant  of  this  company,  wherein  he  was  very  earnest 
with  him  to  send  a  copy  of  his  Grace's  orders,  which  were  for  the 
burning  and  detaining  Monsieur  Choisin,  a  French  merchant  of 
this  place,  his  ships  that  were  in  this  harbour  during  the  late 
wars.      What  his  Lordship's  intentions  are  I  know  not,  but 


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I  am  sure  his  desires  were  very  vehement   for  the  speedy 
sending  over  the  said  orders. 

1669,  November  16.  Holyrood  House. — Your  release 
from  the  late  order  by  what  Eobert  Murray  writ  this  day 
seven  night,  was  welcome  in  the  highest  degree,  for  I  was 
afflicted  above  measure  to  have  so  great  a  business  miscarry 
in  my  hand  by  precipitation,  which  will  go  well  here;  if 
we  meet  with  any  suitable  return  we  may  well  wait  some 
time,  and  since  it  will  be  at  last  considered  at  Westminster, 
unless  they  be  resolved  to  reject  it,  then  I  hope  you  will 
allow  us  to  do  something  for  our  trade  now  turned,  but  I 
have  troubled  you  too  much  on  this  subject  already. 

I  received  your  instructions  concerning  your  supremacy, 
dated  the  9th  instant;  immediately  went  about  the  obeying 
it;  on  Sunday  before  noon  I  shewed  it  to  my  Lord  St. 
Andrew.  He  said  he  acquiesced,  but  I  found  the  old  spirit 
of  Presbytery  did  remain  with  some  of  the  bishops,  and  that 
a  most  impertinent  paper  was  drawn  even  against  the  Act, 
so  unwilling  are  Churchmen,  by  what  name  or  title  soever 
the  are  dignified,  to  part  with  power,  and  they  would  forsooth 
desire  a  conference  with  me  about  it,  but  I  found  ways  to 
fright  them  out  of  the  current  of  their  conceits;  so  this 
morning  early  I  went  to  the  articles,  and  resolved  to  bring 
it  in  the  first  business.  I  brought  in  the  Parliament  before 
eleven,  and  had  it  passed  without  so  much  as  a  contrary  vote 
before  noon.  As  soon  as  it  was  voted,  I  called  for  your 
sceptre  and  solemnly  touched  it,  and  the  Act  of  Militia,  with 
two  other  small  Acts,  and  appointed  the  Acts  of  Militia  and 
Supremacy  to  be  forthwith  printed  and  solemnly  published; 
the  first  makes  you  Sovereign  of  the  Church ;  you  may  dispose 
of  the  bishops  and  ministers,  and  remove  them  and  transplant 
them  as  you  please  (which  I  doubt  you  cannot  do  in  England). 
In  a  word,  this  Church,  nor  no  meeting,  nor  no  ecclesiastical 
person  in  it,  can  ever  trouble  you  more  unless  you  please, 
and  the  other  Act  settles  you  20,000  men  to  make  good  that 
power.  But  by  the  way  they  say  that  the  Militia  Act  gives 
jealousy  in  England,  because  it  is  declared  you  may  command 
them  to  any  of  your  Dominions;  though  there  is  no  new  clause 
in  this  Act,  it  is  verbatim  the  Act  six  years  ago,  this  only 
ascertains  and  regulates  the  Militia,  and  if  any  shall  talk  to 
you  of  such  jealousy,  you  may  easily  tell  them  from  me  better 
news,  and  if  that  you  command  them,  not  only  this  militia 
but  all  the  fencible  men  in  Scotland  shall  march  when  and 
where  you  shall  please  to  command,  for  never  was  King  so 
absolute  as  you  are  in  poor  old  Scotland.  We  have  been 
working  through  great  opposition  of  merchants,  almost  in  all 
the  boroughs,  for  regulating  and  ascertaining  the  excise  and 
customs ;  it  is  very  long,  and  was  this  day  read  in  the  House, 
the  articles  meet  each  two  for  the  finishing  of  it,  and  at  ten 
of  the  clock  the  Parliament,  where  I  hope  it  shall  pass,  but 
I  must  trouble  you  no  more;  Robin  Murray  will  say  the  rest. 


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Sir  Geo.  Lane  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathbw. 

1669,  December  14.  Dublin. — I  am  to  account  for  yours 
of  the  8th  and  10th,  received  on  the  10th  and  13th  instant. 
I  suppose  in  these  letters  from  my  lady,  and  others  to  yourself 
and  your  lady,  you  will  have  the  news  of  the  Lord  of  Orrery. 
Our  chiefest  comfort  is  that  my  Lord  keeps  his  ground  still 
and  is  yet  unattacked,  and  I  hope  he  will  continue  so,  or  if 
he  do  not  that,  his  enemy  will  not  be  able  to  do  him  any 
hurt.  I  send  the  copies  of  papers  passed  lately  between  my 
Lord  and  Sir  Robert  Vyner,  that  you  may  answer  I  think 
better  than  I  can  how  that  debt  is  accounted  here  in  his 
Grace's  behalf.  This  is  my  Lord's  question  to  me,  and 
therefore  I  pray  in  your  next  let  him  have  your  answer. 
I  have  caused  the  question  to  be  asked  Mr.  Taylor  and 
Captain  Corker,  and  they  professed  to  know  nothing  of  it. 

Proposals  concerning  Londonderry. 

The  humble  proposals  of  Colonel  John  Gorges  in  order  to 
His  Majesty's  service  in  the  City  and  County  of  Londonderry. 

That  your  Grace  will  be  pleased  to  order  that  the  store 
there  may  be  allowed  so  much  munition  of  powder,  match 
and  ball  as  your  Grace  shall  judge  fit  for  that  place,  their 
being  a  very  small  quantity  now. 

That  your  Grace  would  please  to  order  that  there  may  be 
also  a  proportion  of  swords  and  bandoliers  for  the  companies 
of  that  garrison.  That  your  Grace  will  please  to  complete 
the  citadel  there,  or  give  commands  for  its  demolishing,  it 
being  now  of  no  strength,  but  rather  an  encouragement  to 
an  enemy  to  surprise  it. 

That  you  would  be  pleased  in  regard  of  the  poverty  of 
the  City  of  Londonderry,  of  want  of  trade  and  the  late  fire, 
to  recommend  by  your  Grace's  letter  to  the  adjacent  parts 
of  the  Counties  of  Londonderry,  Tyrone,  and  Donegal  to 
contribute  to  the  fire  and  other  necessaries  for  the  guards  of 
the  garrisons  of  Londonderry  and  Castle  of  Culmore,  they 
having  equal  safety  with  that  city  by  those  garrisons. 

That  your  Grace  will  vouchsafe  the  guns  of  the  City  of 
Londonderry  to  be  speedily  mounted  on  carriages. 

Case  of  Dowager  Countess  of  Clancarty. 

The  Countess  Dowager  of  Clancarty  being  empowered  by  the 
last  will  and  testament  of  Donogh,  late  Earl  of  Clancarty,  to 
ascertain  the  lands  that  should  be  liable  to  one  thousand  pounds 
yearly  for  the  livelihood  and  maintenance  of  his  son,  Justin 
McCarty,  during  his  life,  she,  the  said  Countess  Dowager, 
having  pursuant  to  the  said  will  ascertained  the  same  accordingly, 
by  the  advice  and  consent  of  James  Duke  of  Ormond,  and 
others  named  overseers  of  the  said  will ;  the  writing  by  which 
she  so  ascertained  the  same,  and  wherein  the  consent  and 
concurrence  of  the  said  James,  Duke  of  Ormond,  and  of  the  rest 


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of  the  overseers  doth  appear,  is  so  necessary  to  be  had  in  the 
behalf  of  her  said  son  Justin,  that  by  the  want  thereof  he  cannot 
himself,  nor  the  said  Countess  Dowager  in  his  behalf,  justify 
to  distrain,  or  hath  any  means  for  want  thereof  to  be  settled 
in  the  possession  of  the  lands  so  ascertained  for  him,  and 
thereby  his  brother,  the  now  Earl  of  Clancarty,  taketh  occasion 
to  deprive  the  said  Justin  of  his  yearly  maintenance,  his 
Lordship  knowing  that  the  said  Countess  Dowager  or  her 
said  son  Justin  have  not  the  said  writing  to  produce  or  make 
use  of,  the  said  Countess  Dowager  finding  that  his  Grace 
the  Duke  of  Ormond  did  rather  incline  to  have  an  estate  in 
fee  or  fee  tail  settled  on  the  said  Justin,  for  the  subsistence 
of  him,  his  wife  and  children,  than  that  so  great  a  rent 
as  one  thousand  pounds  yearly  should  issue  out  of  the  said 
Earl's  estate,  to  which  the  said  Countess  Dowager  and  her 
said  son  Justin  did  give  their  assent,  as  may  appear  by  an 
award  to  that  effect  made  by  his  said  Grace,  whereupon  the 
said  Countess  Dowager  did  put  the  said  former  writing  made 
by  her  as  aforesaid  for  ascertaining  the  lands  which  should 
be  liable  to  the  said  thousand  pounds  yearly  into  his 
Grace's  hands,  expecting  the  now  Earl  of  Clancarty  would 
perform  his  Grace's  said  award,  to  which  he  did  also 
formerly  assent;  yet  now  she  finds  the  said  Earl  doth 
decline  the  performance  of  the  said  award,  and  doth  not  secure 
any  lands  pursuant  thereunto  to  the  said  Justin,  which  he 
doth  the  rather  neglect,  that  the  said  writing  is  not  in  the 
hands  of  the  said  Countess,  being  given  and  put  into  his 
Grace's  hands  in  trust  as  aforesaid,  and  therefore  desireth 
to  have  the  said  writing  again,  not  that  she  intends  to  make 
use  thereof. 

I  presented  another  petition  to  my  Lord  Lieutenant  to 
the  effect  of  that  whereof  I  sent  my  Lord  a  copy  the  last 
post,  but  his  Excellency  was  pleased  to  stop  the  reading  of 
it  at  council.  Sir  George  Lane  happened  to  be  this  day 
present  in  council  when  the  business  of  the  purchase  of  the 
Park  was  very  much  pressed  to  be  reported  into  England, 
it  appearing  there  was  30,000Z  contracted  for  when  the  King 
gave  warrant  only  for  20,000J,  but  his  arguments  prevailed 
to  give  a  stop  to  it  until  his  Grace  be  made  first  acquainted 
with  the  state  of  the  business,  as  it  now  appears  to  the  Board 
here. 

Archbishop  Boyle,  Lobd  Chancellor  op  Ireland,  to 

Ormond. 

• 

1669,  March  22. — I  understand  from  many  hands  how 
exceedingly  I  am  obliged  to  your  Grace's  favour  for  the  increase 
of  my  allowance,  and  yet  I  find  myself  in  no  degree  capable  of 
acknowledging  more  services  to  your  Grace  than  I  have  ever 
preferred.  I  lay  under  so  many  obligations  already,  yet  I 
have  nothing  left  me  but  to  repeat  my  duty  in  being  without 
any  reserve,  etc.,  etc. 

Signed: — Michael  Dublin,  C. 


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Patent  for  Silver  Coinage  in  Dublin. 

A  brief  of  the  Patent  granted  to  Sir  Thomas  Vyner,  Mr. 
Robert  Vyner,  and  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham  for  minting  small 
silver  money  in  Ireland. 

Considerations  on  the  Patent  itself,  and  inducements  to  it. 

The  Patent  to  be  passed  without  making  any  return 
thereof. 

The  advantage  and  general  use  of  small   money. 

The  consideration  of  the  Lords  Justices  and  Council 
of  Ireland,  their  representation  thereof. 

The  many  services  done  by  the  Patentees  to  enjoy 
the  same  for  twenty-one  years  from  the  date,  without 
any  account  for  the  same. 

The  manner  of  managing  it,  and  rules  for  direction  therein. 

A  mint  house  conceived  necessary. 

Positive  command  to  erect  one  in  Dublin,  and  passing 
of  groats  or  id.  pieces  and  under. 

The  officers  of  Master  Worker,  Warden,  Comptroller, 
and  Assay  Master  of  the  Mint  established. 

Power  to  settle  stipends  or  other  reasonable  allowances 
on  the  said  officers. 

The  said  power  of  minting  granted  to  the  said  Patentees. 

The  said  small  money  to  be  issued  as  they  can 
conveniently. 

Distinction  of  said  small  money  ordered. 

Half-penny  pieces — on  one  side  a  crown,  on  the  other 
a  harp. 

Penny  pieces — on  one  side  the  effigies  of  His  Majesty, 
and  on  the  other  a  harp  crowned. 

2d.  pieces — on  one  side  the  same  effigies  and  a  figure 
to  denominate  its  value,  and  on  the  other  a  harp  crowned. 

3d.  pieces — on  one  side  the  same  effigies  and  figure, 
on  the  other  a  harp  crowned,  and  this  motto:  oblectat 
et  reperat. 

4d.  pieces — the  same,  or  such  other  stamp  judged 
convenient. 

A  privy  mark  to  be  stamped  and  altered  at  pleasure. 

To  be  made  according  to  the  fineness  of  England's 
standard,  pixed,  assayed,  and  proved. 

Sworn  officers  and  bullion  imported. 

One  ounce  half-penny  pieces ;  two  of  2d.  pieces ;  three 
of  3d.  pieces ;  four  of  4d.  pieces  in  every  pound  containing 
12ozs.  troy  standard  silver. 

Every  pound  weight  to  be  3Z  10s.  in  tale,  with  allowance 
of  6  dwt.  in  every  pound  for  sheering,  etc. 

For  fineness  2  dwt.  in  every  pound — ^that  is  11  ozs., 
2  dwt.  fine,  and  18  dwt.  allay  in  every  pound  troy. 

To  run  current  in  these  denominations. 


808 

Patentees  paying  12d.  of  small  silver  money  out  of 
every  pound  weight  troy. 

The  8d.,  12d.,  to  be  deducted  by  officers  of  the  Mint. 

To  the  use  of  His  Majesty  and  successors  without  any 
further  order,  or  putting  the  Patentees  to  any  further 
account,  they  paying  and  defraying  the  8d.  charge,  etc., 
of  minting,  etc. 

Excepting  the  allowances  made  to  thiB  Master  Worker, 
Warden  Comptroller,  Assay  Master,  and  other  chief 
officers. 

A  quantity  of  small  money  still  to  be  ready  to  deliver 
out. 

The  said  Patentees  to  send  them  abroad  into  all  parts 
of  Ireland. 

Provisos  and  Provisions  for  the  encouragement  of  the 
Patentees. 

None  obliged  to  receive  above  2s.  in  a  pound  in 
payment. 

A  general  prohibition  of  all  others  to  mint  or  coin  small 
money. 

Or  that  any  pass  be  made  for  other  parts  or  places. 

Except  what  were  passable  the  30th  January,  1648. 

A  forfeiture  if  any  other  be  paid  forth. 

And  of  all  engines,  etc. 

Imprisonment,  etc. 

One  moiety  thereof  to  His  Majesty  and  successors,  the 
other  to  the  said  Patentees. 

Without  any  account. 

Power  for  the  Patentees  with  a  constable,  etc. ,  to  attach, 
etc. 

To  seize  and  carry  away,  etc. 

That  all  Governors  and  officers  do  cause  the  same  to 
pass  by  all  ways  and  means,  etc. 

A  command  to  all  officers  to  be  assisting  in  execution 
hereof. 

Penalties  to  the  refusers. 

The  Patent  on  any  account  proving  defective,  to  be 
further  confirmed  and  strengthened. 

Pardons  from  time  to  time  to  be  passed  to  the  Patentees. 

Upon  trying  the  assay,  and  pix  being  found  agreeable, 
etc. ,  the  pardons  to  pass. 

Proclamation  hereof  to  be  made  in  all  parts. 

The  Patent  to  be  good  in  law,  notwithstanding  any 
defect  that  may  be  or  can  be  pretended. 

Notwithstanding  any  grant  formerly  to  any  other. 

Capt.  Geo.  Mathbw  to  Lobd  Chancellor  Boyle. 

1670,  May.  Thomastown. — I  am  forced  to  give  your 
Grace  this  trouble  of  the  enclosed  state  of  my  Lord  Duke  of 
Ormond's  title  in  his  impropriate  tithes,  by  reason  of  the  great 
disturbance  I  meet  with  from  my  Lord  Archbishop  of  Cashel, 


S04 

who  is  no  way  satisfied  with  the  allowance  my  Lord  gave 
for  serving  the  cures  before  the  war  in  the  several  church 
livings  within  this  diocese,  nor  will  not  allow  that  my  Lord 
has  the  presentation  of  cures  in  his  one  church  living,  as 
hitherto  has  been  pra^ised. 

I  desire  your  Grace  will  be  pleased  to  direct  me  what  is 
just  and  reasonable  to  be  done  herein,  that  so  I  may  act 
blameless  pursuant  to  your  advice,  upon  which  I  am  sure  my 
Lord  does  chiefly  depend. 

Sir  Geo.  Lane  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1670,  June  11.  Whitehall. — I  send  you  enclosed  by  my 
Lord's  command,  an  account  of  the  disbursement  of  the  monies 
received  and  secured  upon  the  sale  of  Moor  Park ;  the  purchase 
money  being  13,200i  ,  besides  which  disbursements  there 
is  500/  promised  to  be  speedily  paid  to  one,  Rogers,  by  which 
you  will  perceive  how  small  a  proportion  will  remain  to  his 
Grace,  which  occasions  his  desire  that  you  will  use  all  diligence 
for  his  supply,  which  is  all  I  have  at  present  in  command. 

Postscript : — The  writings  will  not  be  ready  to  be  signed 
till  about  the  29th  of  this  month. 

Endorsed  on  back  by  Capt.  Mathew  : — I  am  glad  to  hear  by 
yours  of  the  11th  instant,  that  the  sale  of  Moor  Park  is  like  to 
stop  so  great  a  gap  and  accruing  interest ;  you  may  assure  my 
Lord  no  endeavours  shall  be  wanting  in  me  for  his  supply. 
I  did  attest  copies  of  two  bills,  which  her  Grace  gave  you, 
and  in  our  last  account  you  gave  up  the  originals.  I  desire 
those  copies  under  my  hand  may  be  delivered  to  her  Grace, 
I  having  desired  her  Grace  to  call  for  them. 

Capt.  Geo.  Mathew  to  Sir  N.  Plunkett. 

1670,  July  26.  Kilkenny. — My  Lord's  public  monies  coming 
in  so  slowly,  it  lies  not  in  me  out  of  any  other  branch  of  my 
Lord's  estate  to  promise  Sir  Pat.  Muledy  any  part  of  his 
principal.  The  prize  wines  which  I  formerly  intended  to 
settle  for  his  satisfaction,  are  now  to  be  set  by  his  Grace, 
the  merchants  choosing  rather  to  deal  with  his  Grace  than 
with  me. 

I  have  lately  transmitted  the  full  state  of  his  Grace's  fortune 
unto  him,  and  until  I  receive  particular  orders,  I  cannot  dispose 
of  any  of  his  Eevenue  otherwise  than  is  already  settled  for 
his  maintenance  and  the  payment  of  interest,  which  shall  be 
my  care  to  see  punctually  discharged. 

Its  possible  Sir  Pat.  might  deal  with  some  of  the  tenants 
on  sight  of  his  security,  but  my  occasions  are  so  pressing 
otherwise  that  I  cannot  attend  treating  with  them  about  it. 
I  would  on  the  account  do  what  lay  in  my  power  to  pay  oflF 
Sir  Patrick,  but  till  directions  come  out  of  England  nothing 
further  can  be  done. 

Pray  excuse  me  to  Sir  Pat.  Muledy  in  regard  I  can  write 
nothing  to  him  more  than  herein  is  inserted. 


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Sir  Geo.  Lane  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1670,  July  30.  Whitehall. — I  have  only  at  present  from 
my  Lord  and  my  Lady  Duchess  in  command,  to  tell  you  that 
their  Graces,  hearing  my  Lord  Lieutenant  intends  to  give  a 
visit  to  Kilkenny,  they  have  commanded  me  to  desire  you 
to  direct  Captain  Baxter  to  take  care  he  be  entertained  as 
well  as  is  possible,  or  as  if  their  Graces  were  to  come  there, 
and  to  that  end  they  desire  (if  his  Excellency  goes  there) 
that  the  furniture  may  be  put  up  again,  and  all  provisions 
laid  in,  and  that  if  his  Excellency  shall  think  fit  to  go  further 
into  the  country,  and  home  that  way,  that  the  same  care 
may  be  taken  for  his  entertainment  there. 

Postscript: — In  the  enclosed  from  her  Grace,  you  will  have 
particular  directions  concerning  my  Lord  Lieutenant's 
reception. 

CoL.  E.  Vernon  to  Sir  Geo.  Lane. 

1670,  August  25.  Ampthill. — Dear  Sir  George  :  I  heartily 
thank  you  for  yours ;  your  so  generously  engaging  in  that  affair 
puts  a  greater  value  upon  your  friendship  in  it;  and  I  am 
much  obliged  to  Lord  Carlingford  for  acquainting  you  with  it. 
By  your  character  I  know  Mr.  Fitzgerald,  and  that  upon 
parting  with  his  religion  (which  he  hath  again  taken  up)  to 
troop  under  Harry  Cromwell,  he  was  placed  by  him  in  the 
Temple  library.  And  he  was  of  Mr.  Barker's  counsel  in  Ireland 
and  England  in  this  concern  against  the  King,  and  so 
consequently  against  what  he  seems  to  design,  for  his  name- 
sake the  Mayor  (as  he  styles  him)  until  he  and  his  brother 
quit  their  master.  Orrery.  Much  more  of  knavery  I  could 
say  as  to  the  person  of  the  man,  and  as  much  to  his  businesses, 
which  my  Lord  Ashley  w^as  pleased  to  tell  me  was  by  the 
lawyer  brought  before  him,  desiring  a  caveat  might  be  entered 
upon  those  allegations  in  the  petitions.  That  upon  discoursing 
it  with  him,  his  Lordship  refused  to  entertain  it,  or  to  put 
a  stop  to  the  docket  upon  that  account ;  for  his  Lordship  told 
him  that  if  his  client  had  had  a  pretence  as  was  alleged, 
he  ought  to  have  made  it  out  against  Barker  before  the 
Commissioners  of  Claims  in  Ireland,  whose  power  was  many 
years  since  determined.  And  now  it's  near  ten  years  since 
the  declaration  he  mentions,  before  any  news  of  the  Banner 
man. 

I  conceive  there  is  not  anything  necessary  to  be  added  to 
his  Lordship's  reasons  but  my  wonder  how  the  caveat  was 
afterwards  repeated,  for  I  will  not  believe  that  Sir  George 
remembered   how  Fitzgerald  became   a   Templer. 

I  am  without  book,  and  do  not  remember  the  words  of 
page  26.  But  I  well  know,  and  so  doth  Mr.  Fitzgerald, 
that  these  lands  were  disposed  of  to  the  uses  of  the  declaration 
and  the  law  upon  it;  and  that  part  of  them  in  three  towns, 
Cahiragihen,  etc.,  with  the  chief  rents  and  house,  the  Glen 
Wt.  8878  T 


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Castle,  are  decreed  and  possessed  by  Alderman  Barker  at  the 
time,  and  that  the  rest  were  possessed  (according  to  rule)  by 
the  assignees  of  Dike  and  Cunningham,  and  had  near  been 
so  had  not  the  Explanatory  Act  vested  them  in  His  Majesty. 
And  after  many  contests,  and  after  a  commission  of  inquiry 
to  find  His  Majesty's  title  as  to  the  forfeiture  of  the  old 
proprietor  and  the  value,  about  this  time  twelve  months  by 
injunction  out  of  the  exchequer,  they  were  placed  in  charge 
in  the  court.  These  are  the  lands  Sir  Edward  Fitzharris 
pretends  to  as  his  Lady's  inheritance ;  the  other  Fitzgerald 
by  entail.  I  shall  not  determine  their  title,  but  this  I 
know  that  neither  of  them  have  any  title  against  the  King 
in  law  or  equity;  and  what  either  of  them  can  hope  for 
must  be  from  the  Duke  of  Ormond's  declaration  upon  the 
grant,  for  Thomas  Fitzgerald,  under  whom  they  both  claim, 
was  an  arrant  rebel,  and  I  have  heard  and  believe  the  Major 
was  no  better;  and  the  Explanation  Act  takes  little  notice 
of  Banner  men,  nor  either  of  the  acts  of  such  descents. 

I  have  held  you  too  long  upon  this  account,  and  shall  now 
tell  you  that  that  will  please  you,  which  is,  that  my  Lord 
Duke  is  very  well,  and  we  all  live  sober  and  godly  lives. 
This  day  his  Grace  (to  whom  I  shewed  your  letter,  and  he 
was  much  concerned  at  the  delay)  dine'th  at  Lord  Bedford's ; 
at  night  is  for  Northampton;  the  next  night  at  Leicester, 
and  may  be  at  Lord  Chesterfield's,  Saturday  by  noon ;  what 
commands  you  have,  be  pleased  to  send  them  in  my  Lord's 
packet,  for  I  will  not  leave  him  so  long  as  he  is  so  near  the 
divell's  ars  in  the  Peak,  or  barked  at  by  any  of  his  enemies, 
so  that  where  he  is  I  am.  About  this  day  sennight  you  will 
have  read  this,  and  by  that  time,  I  presume,  I  shall  know 
from  you  that  the  document  is  signed ;  sweet  meat  must  have 
sour  sauce,  therefore  this  letter  attends  my  Lord  to  you. 

Postscript: — I  shall  desire  one,  Mr.  Wolfe,  whom  I  have 
desired  to  look  after  this  business  and  to  discharge  the  fees, 
to  attend  you.  He  is  a  very  honest  and  able,  though  a  very 
modest  person,  and  in  great  employments. 

Col.  E.  Vernon  to  Sir  Geo.  Lane. 

1670,  September  1.  Bretby. — I  received  yours  of  the 
27th  August,  and  have  communicated  the  enclosed  to  many. 
I  had  returned  it  by  this,  but  that  Lord  Conway  is  to  be 
here  this  night,  who  shall  have  a  sight  of  it.  I  wish  he 
had  been  upon  Tuesday  in  the  forest,  where  there  was  above 
three  hundred  horse  and  not  one  Roundhead  a  [  ]  with 

the  Duke  of  Ormond.  I  believe  to-morrow  will  produce  twice 
the  number. 

In  yours  you  desire  me  to  do  your  good  ofiSces  to  my  wife, 
for  you  were  never  in  more  need  of  diversion  than  now ; 
well  done  to  employ  me  in  your  low  concerns  to  my  own  wife, 
but  my  Lady  Duchess  shall  know  it. 


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God  be  thanked  her  Grace  is  very  well,  and  I  hope  we  shall 
so  continue,  for  we  are  very  careful  of  our  healths;  and  pray 
you  proceed  in  your  visiting  as  to  the  Carrick. 

Col.  E.  Vebnon  to  Sir  Geo.  Lane. 

1670,  September  8.  Sudbury. — You  will  think  it  strange 
to  be  troubled  by  one  post  with  two  letters  from  me,  the 
first  written  from  Chatsworth,  which  being  delivered  to  the 
post,  and  afterwards  understanding  by  my  Lord  Duke  that 
he  intended  to  leave  that  place  upon  Friday,  and  to  stay 
at  Stayly  and  Hardwicke,  places  of  little  receipt,  until 
Wednesday  next,  I  got  leave  of  him  to  come  into  the  posts 
until  then  to  meet  your  mistress  and  my  wife;  so  that  if 
you  do  me  the  favour  to  write  to  me  by  Saturday  post,  direct 
your  letter  to  me  at  Sudbury  in  Derbyshire,  by  Derby  post. 

Francis,  Lord  Aungibr,  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1670,  October  8.  Dublin. — My  Lord  of  Arran  and  the 
rest  of  my  Lord  Duke  of  Ormond's  friends  here  in  town,  are 
of  opinion  that  it  highly  imports  his  Grace's  affairs,  especially 
that  of  his  50,000/,  that  you  immediately  repair  to  town, 
where  the  best  opportunity  will  be  had  of  consulting  and 
resolving  what  course  will  be  most  effectual  and  conducing 
to  his  Grace's  payment.  Of  this  I  thought  fit  to  give  you 
notice,  that  I  may  not  be  wanting  in  the  least  measure  of 
paying  my  duty  to  that  noble  person,  to  whom  I  am  so  much 
obliged,  and  whose  interest  I  am  no  less  concerned  for  than 
my  own.  I  hope  therefore  you  will  immediately  hasten 
hither,  where  you  shall  more  at  large  be  discoursed  with 
in  this  affair. 

Ormond  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1670,  October  25.  Clarendon  House. — I  have  yours  of  the 
12th  instant  from  Clonmel,  and  the  last  week  I  received  letters 
from  my  son  Arran,  the  Lord  Chancellor,  and  Lord  Aungier, 
all  of  them  giving  me  an  account  of  the  composition  with 
the  '49  men,  and  seeming  to  believe  it  would  be  to  my 
advantage,  but  giving  me  no  reasons  for  that  opinion;  withal 
they  propose  that  you  should  agree  with  persons  liable  to  the 
payment  of  the  year's  value,  so  as  to  secure  the  money  and 
prevent  the  bringing  of  it  into  the  Exchequer,  from  whence 
it  may  upon  some  real  or  pretended  necessity  for  the  public 
service  be  drawn  out  to  other  uses  than  my  satisfaction. 
I  confess  there  may  be  some  danger  of  that,  but  I  know  not 
how  the  money  would  have  been  brought  in  without  process, 
nor  will  anything  sooner  dispose  men  to  deal  with  you  for 
acquittances  than  the  issuing  of  process,  so  that  if  anything 
be  to  be  done  securely  that  way,  I  conceive  this  is  the  fittest 
time  for  it,  but  that  I  leave  entirely  to  your  judgment ;  and 
in  the    meantime   I  am   endeavouring   here  to   prevent   the 


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giving  of  any  acquittances  upon  the  composition,  or  the 
disposing  of  what  shall  be  brought  into  the  Exchequer  any 
other  way  than  to  me-  I  am  satisfied,  and  I  have  already 
written  to  my  Lord  Aungier  to  put  him  in  mind  of  the 
directions  he  hath  for  my  preference,  and  desiring  him  to 
force  what  remains  in  Bellingham's  hands  from  him,  that  it 
may  be  applied  to  Vyner's  satisfaction.  I  hope  this  will  find 
you  at  Dublin,  where  I  hope  you  will  soon  after  receive  full 
directions  in  my  behalf. 

Archbishop  Boyle,  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland,  to 

Ormond. 

1670,  November  26.  St.  Sepulchre's,  Dublin. — After  my 
hearty  commendations  to  your  Grace,  I  greet  you  well,  whereas 
there  hath  been  of  late  a  Bill  of  Complaint  exhibited  against 
your  Grace  in  His  Majesty's  High  Court  of  Chancery  here, 
by  Dame  Martha  Pierce,  widow,  the  relict  of  Anthony,  late 
Lord  Bishop  of  Meath.  I  have  thought  good  to  give  your 
Grace  notice  thereof  rather  by  these  my  private  letters,  than 
by  awarding  His  Majesty's  ordinary  process.  Wherefore 
these  are  to  pray  and  require  your  Grace  to  give  order  for 
taking  out  a  copy  of  the  said  Bill,  and  for  the  putting  in 
your  answer  thereunto  at  or  before  the  first  return  of  the 
next  Hilary  Term,  according  to  the  usual  course  in  such 
cases  accustomed.  Of  which  nothing  doubting  but  your 
Grace  will  have  that  care  and  regard  which  appertaineth, 
I  bid  your  Grace  heartily  farewell. 

Endorsed: — Dame  Martha  Pierce,  widow,  the  relict  of 
Anthony,  late  Lord  Bishop  of  Meath,  plaintiff ;  and  his  Grace, 
James,  Duke  of  Ormond  and  others,  defendants. 

Sir  John  Temple  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1670,  December  6.  Dublin. — I  received  yesterday  a  letter 
from  my  Lord  of  Ormond,  wherein  he  tells  me  that  he  intends 
to  advise  you  to  proceed  in  taking  good  security  for  his  money, 
allowing  days  of  payment,  and  that  without  interest,  that 
so  the  '49  men  may  not  have  that  advantage  of  compounding 
with  those  that  owe  money  upon  easier  terms  than  you  have 
done,  and  he  thereby  also  declares  his  opinion  that  if  the 
time  given  be  not  above  a  year,  he  may  possibly  get  the 
money  that  way  as  soon  as  by  the  Exchequer  process. 
I  suppose  you  will  hear  further  from  him  to  this  purpose, 
and  I  think  he  has  taken  no  ill  resolution,  for  thereby  he 
will  make  his  payment  certain,  and  without  any  possibility 
of  further  delay.  That  which  I  have  to  advise  you  in  it, 
is  only,  first,  that  you  do  not  take  security  presently  for  the 
whole  money,  but  that  you  may  receive  all  the  ready  money 
that  will  come  in  next  term  from  those  sheriffs  that  have 
not  yet  accounted,  and  upon  the  writs  of  assistance,  and 
next,  that  you  do  not  make  one  general  rule  for  all  persons 


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that  shall  offer  security,  but  that  you  make  the  best  bargains 
that  you  can  with  the  several  persons  that  you  shall  deal 
with,  and  some  I  believe  will  be  content  to  pay  some  interest, 
though  not  the  full  interest  of  101  per  cent.,  and  others  will 
be  satisfied  with  less  time  than  a  year.  If  your  occasions 
will  permit  you  to  be  here  at  the  beginning  of  next  term, 
and  to  stay  till  the  end  of  it,  I  make  no  doubt  but  you  may 
then  be  able  either  to  receive  or  secure  the  whole  remainder 
of  your  debt.  I  am  going  this  day  into  England,  and  desire 
you  to  let  me  some  times  hear  from  you  there,  if  there  be 
any  further  obstruction  in  this  business  than  I  can  foresee  is 
likely  to  happen ;  and  I  shall  not  fail  to  give  you  the  best 
assistance  I  can,  either  in  writing  to  the  Barons  or  in  making 
more  haste  over  myself  than  I  now  design,  if  you  find  my 
presence  here  will  be  of  any  use  to  you  in  it. 

Sib  John  Templb  to  Gapt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1670,  December  31.  London. — I  wrote  to  you  just  before 
my  leaving  Ireland,  and  then  gave  you  an  account  of  what 
my  Lord  of  Ormond  had  lately  writ  to  me  about  the  taking 
security  for  his  money,  and  giving  some  time  for  payment 
of  it  without  expecting  any  interest.  Since  my  coming 
hither,  I  have  spoken  with  his  Grace  about  it,  and  we  do 
both  agree  that  the  letter  which  is  lately  gone  over  for 
disallowing  the  composition  made  with  the  '49  officers,  hath 
made  some  alteration  in  that  affair,  so  that  we  believe  you 
may  very  quickly  secure  the  rest  of  my  Lord's  50,000/  upon 
terms  more  to  his  advantage  than  those  which  he  was  then 
willing  to  consent  unto. 

I  do  not  find  my  Lord  inclined  to  that  proposal  which 
both  you  and  I  have  made  him  of  applying  the  ready  money 
that  shall  come  in  towards  the  payment  of  other  debts  for 
which  he  pays  interest,  rather  than  to  the  discharge  of  the 
interest  of  Sir  Robert  Vyner's  debt,  because  he  having  assigned 
that  money  absolutely  to  Sir  Robert  Vyner  towards  satisfaction 
of  that  his  debt,  it  might  seem  not  to  be  fair  for  my  Lord 
to  apply  any  part  of  it  to  any  other  uses.  I  hope  you  will 
find  as  good  sum  of  money  to  come  in  next  term  upon  those 
sheriffs  accounts  which  did  not  account  last  term,  they  having 
no  pretence  of  want  of  time  for  the  executing  their  process, 
and  I  suppose  some  service  also  will  be  done  upon  the  writs 
of  assistance  that  were  ordered  to  issue  to  those  sheriffs  who 
did  account  last  term.  I  suppose  my  Lord  Lieutenant 
and  council  will  not  think  fit  to  enlarge  the  time  for  the  next 
payment,  and  then  you  will  find  it  necessary  that  someone 
be  employed  to  mind  Mr.  Sands  to  prepare  the  process  for  all 
that  is  unpaid,  that  so  it  may  issue  as  soon  as  the  first  of 
March  is  past,  and  may  be  returnable  about  the  end  of  Easter 
term,  and  then  you  having  such  letters  as  you  now  have 
from  my  Lord  Aungier  to  the  sheriffs  to  pay  you  what  money 
they  shall  levy,  I  doubt  not  but  you  will  be  speedily  satisfied 
the  remainder  of  your  money. 


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Sib  John  Tehplb  to  Oaft.  Geo.  Mathbw. 

1670  [-1],  February  4.  Dublin. — I  am  glad  to  hear  you 
are  safe  and  well  there.  Your  letter  of  the  3l8t  of  December 
last  came  not  to  my  hands  till  'ere  yesterday. 

I  find  things  here  much  as  you  seemed  to  believe  they  would 
be,  for  the  sheriffs  are  now  on  their  accounts,  and  what 
money  they  pay  I  am  like  to  receive  without  obstruction. 
I  have  gotten  the  Judges  to  order  Mr.  Sands  to  issue  process 
by  the  first  of  March,  to  be  accountable  in  Easter  term,  and 
if  our  friends  there  can  hinder  any  order  for  the  '49  or  otherwise 
to  obstruct  us,  I  am  in  hopes  to  receive  most  part  of  my 
Lord's  money  by  the  end  of  Easter  term,  though  my  Lord 
Aungier's  letters  to  the.  sheriff  produced  but  300/  by  reason 
of  the  supersedeases  and  large  allowances  from  the  '49  men 
as  they  had  last  time.  I  forbore  prosecuting  our  plea  for 
freeing  some  part  of  my  Lord's  old  estate  from  the  year's 
value,  until  I  saw  precedents  of  others  in  the  like  case.  I  am 
doubtful  what  the  issue  will  be,  and  therefore  our  case  shall 
be  the  last  argued. 

Obmond  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1670  [-1] ,  January  17.  Clarendon  House. — As  soon  as  a  stop 
was  put  to  the  further  prosecution  of  the  composition  with 
the  '49  ofl&cers  I  gave  you  notice  of  it,  and  advised  you  whilst 
that  stop  remained  to  endeavour  not  only  the  getting  in  what 
ready  money  you  could,  but  to  make  the  best  agreement  you 
could  with  such  as  are  to  pay,  lest  a  revocation  of  that  stop 
should  be  obtained  upon  representations  of  advantage  to  His 
Majesty  from  the  Lord  Lieutenant.  I  hope  you  have  made 
good  use  of  this  time,  the  rather  that  my  Lord  Aungier  assures 
me  he  gave  you  all  the  help  he  could.  It  is  now  endeavoured 
that  the  compact  with  the  '49  men  should  be  again  revived, 
and  I  do  not  know  but  it  may  at  length  be  so  determined, 
but  I  think  if  it  shall,  I  shall  be  able  to  keep  it  off  for  some  time, 
and  in  the  end  have  my  preference  reserved  to  me,  I  know 
you  apprehend  that,  both  to  secure  my  payment  and  stop  the 
cause  of  interest,  nothing  can  improve  my  fortune  more  than 
a  speedy  conclusion  of  this  affair,  and  therefore  I  cannot  doubt 
but  that  you  will  apply  all  possible  diligence  and  industry 
in  effecting  what  may  set  us  at  ease  hereafter. 

When  I  made  the  bargain  with  Bucknall  for  the  5,000/ 
a  year,  I  told  you  that  sum  and  what  I  sold  Moor  Park  for, 
would  not  only  pay  some  debts  but  keep  me  till  the  spring, 
which  time  draws  on,  and  therefore  I  desire  you  would 
consider  and  then  let  me  know  in  what  proportion  and  times 
you  think  you  shall  be  able  to  supply  me  either  for  any 
support  here  or  transportation  thither,  by  the  prospects  I 
can  yet  take  of  affairs  here,  and  by  comparing  them  with  my 
private  concerns.  I  do  not  judge  I  shall  be  able  to  begin 
my  journey  into  Ireland  till  about  the  latter  end  of  the  suniimer. 


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My  Lord  Aungier  tells  me  Dublin  is  the  best  place,  and 
the  term  the  best  time  for  your  getting  money  and  making 
good  agreements ;  you  will  excuse  me  if  I  begin  and  end  with 
what  so  much  concerns  me. 

Sir  E.  Butler  to  Lord  Ossory. 

1670  [-1] ,  January  21.  Bramblestown. — ^Having  the  honour 
to  sit  amongst  the  Justices  of  this  country  at  a  private  session , 
I  found  it  their  complaint  that  the  country  suffered  much  for 
want  of  execution  of  the  duty  of  the  Gustos  Rotulorum ; 
some  of  them  asking  who  he  was,  although  I  presumed  they 
knew  it  was  your  Lordship  (as  your  father  was  formerly), 
for  they  alleged  (and  they  knew  justly)  that  several  fines 
which  accrued  to  the  King  were  never  estreated  through  favour 
of  the  Clerk  of  the  Peace,  and  several  men  that  appeared 
were  fined  through  malice  of  the  said  clerk,  whose  check  the 
custos  ought  to  be.  Now  may  it  please  your  Lordship  for 
that  the  Custos  ought  by  himself  or  deputy  to  give  constant 
attendance  at  every  sessions,  and  that  Sir  Patrick  Wemyss' 
(deputy  to  your  father)  son,  Sir  James,  by  reason  of  his  many 
troubles  in  law  is  seldom  resident,  I  have  taken  the  boldness 
to  present  unto  your  Lordship  as  a  fit  deputy,  a  gentleman 
that  hath  married  a  near  relation  of  your  Lordship,  one  who 
is  constantly  attendant  as  a  Justice  of  Peace,  known  (I 
presume)  by  my  Lady  Duchess,  and  a  person  who  I  do 
undertake  for  to  your  Lordship,  and  if  that  seems  too  small, 
will  be  seconded  by  the  best  of  this  county  to  your  Lordship's 
content.  Therefore  my  humble  request  to  your  Honour  is 
to  stave  off  all  future  reflections,  and  for  the  good  of  this 
country  you  will  be  pleased  to  appoint  the  said  gentleman 
(whose  name  is  John  Bradstreet)  to  be  your  deputy,  and  the 
rather  because  it  is  none  of  his  own  motion,  but  yet  will  I 
know  take  it  as  a  supreme  favour  from  your  Lordship's  hand. 

Jambs  Archer  to  Lord  Ossory. 

1670  [-1] ,  February  17.  London. — This  is  in  order  to  what 
your  Lordship  required  of  me  to  send  you,  which  is  but 
reflections  upon  every  part  of  the  fortifications;  and  first  of 
the  earthen  ramparts  covered  with  sods,  as  also  of  the 
foitifications  covered  with  stones  and  brick  walls,  all  which 
your  Lordship  shall  find  in  the  other  side  of  this  letter,  and 
as  far  as  I  understand,  your  Lordship  desires  only  to  take 
the  plans  of  places  already  fortified  for  curiosity  sake,  and 
not  to  trouble  yourself  with  delineating  any  new  designs, 
therefore  its  to  no  purpose,  but  rather  a  confusion,  to  mind 
any  new  way  of  fortifying  during  your  Lordship's  travelling, 
but  only  to  make  use  of  the  little  instrument  I  gave  your 
Lordship  at  your  departure  from  London,  and  your  Lordship 
shall  know  more  of  my  mind  as  soon  as  I  shall  have  the 
honour  to  see  your  Lordship. 


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Dr.  Dbsfontaines  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1671,  March  28.  Dublin. — Being  in  London  about  a  year 
ago,  I  had  the  honour  to  see  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Ormond, 
who  made  me  understand  that  he  had  a  great  desire  to  settle 
French  merchants  in  Carrick,  to  set  up  a  manufacture,  and  to 
bring  in  trading  to  that  country,  which  I  have  endeavoured 
80  to  do,  having  a  very  great  passion  to  serve  his  Grace,  and 
to  that  purpose  have  engaged  several  French  merchants  to 
go  and  abide  at  Carrick,  being  induced  to  it  by  the  protection 
and  generosity  of  my  Lord  Duke  of  Ormond,  who  promised 
and  set  out  advantageous  articles  and  privileges  unto  me  and 
those  strangers  that  would  go  settle  in  Carrick,  so  that  having 
written  my  designs  unto  his  Grace  my  Lord  Duke  of  Ormond, 
and  that  there  was  merchants  resolved  to  go  and  take  houses 
and  land  at  Carrick,  as  well  as  tradesmen  who  have  engaged 
themselves  by  bond  to  come  within  there,  his  Grace  hath 
been  pleased  to  send  me  a  letter  directed  unto  your  worship 
for  to  treat  with  me  and  the  others,  and  did  let  me  know 
that  his  desire  is  that  we  should  settle  the  tradesmen  in  Carrick 
sooner  than  elsewhere.  Therefore,  Sir,  I  do  humbly  entreat 
you  to  send  me  by  the  first  opportunity,  a  note  of  all  the 
houses  and  land  that  may  be  disposed  of  in  the  said  Carrick 
or  in  other  places  fit  for  trading,  viz.,  at  Boss,  Clonmel, 
Waterford,  or  of  any  town  fit  for  forwarding  the  trade. 
My  Lord  Duke  promised  me  a  dwelling  place  in  the  Castle 
of  Carrick,  and  five  hundred  acres  of  land  belonging  to  the 
said  place,  which  I  hope  you  will  grant  me.  Expecting  at 
the  soonest  an  answer  to  this,  and  an  account  of  the  situation 
and  being  of  houses  and  land,  I  am,  etc. 

Postscript: — Having  design,  as  well  as  all  the  other 
gentlemen,  to  settle  in  the  country  this  springtime,  we  do 
entreat  you  to  give  us  notice  where  we  shall  meet  you  for 
to  conclude  an  agreement,  or  to  order  some  man  or  another 
to  do  it  in  your  stead.  You  shall  direct  your  letter  if  you  please 
unto  Doctor  Desfontaines,  Physician  General  of  the  army  of 
Ireland. 

Lord  John  Butler  to  the  Duchess  op  Ormond. 

1671,  April  10.  Dublin. — I  received  your  last  letter,  and 
am  very  much  concerned  that  any  affair  of  mine  should  give 
any  trouble,  but  if  your  Ladyship  please  to  consider  what 
,  my  allowance  from  my  father  is,  and  all  I  have  in  addition 
is  but  a  private  captain  of  horse  his  pay,  and  of  that  there 
is  twelve  months  in  arrear,  and  that  the  command  is 
chargeable  your  Ladyship  may  very  well  imagine,  especially 
now  I  have  left  here  so  few  of  my  relations  to  depend  on, 
and  having  been  under  the  severity  of  two  governors  that 
have  not  showed  me  much  kindness.  Now  I  must  beg  your 
Ladyship  to  prevail  with  my  father  that  he  will  either  add 
to  my  allowance  here  or  send  me  abroad,  where  I  may  pass 
a   more  comfortable   life    than   I   do  now,   in   having  your 


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Ladyship's  censure  of  being  an  ill   husband,   which  I  will 
endeavour  to  clear  myself  of. 

Subsidy  Commissioners  to  Lord  Ossory. 

1671,  April  16. — I  do  most  humbly  request  your  Ladyship 
to  move  my  good  Lord  of  Ossory,  that  his  Lordship  will 
be  pleased  to  procure  a  grant  from  His  Majesty,  that  the 
Prebendary  of  Windsor  (likely  to  fall  void  by  the  death 
of  D^an  Brough,  who  they  say  is  past  recovery),  may  be 
conferred  upon  my  brother  Dr.  Benjamin  Parry,  chaplain 
to  His  Majesty,  by  which  favour  your  Ladyship  will  eternally 
engage  him,  and  your  Ladyship's  already  most  obliged  servant. 

Postscript : — There  are  many  pretenders  to  this  place,  and 
therefore  the  sooner  the  request  is  made,  the  more  likely  it 
is  to  prevail.      Pray  pardon  this  trouble. 

Subsidy  Commissioners  to  Ossory. 

1671 ,  May  3.  Westminster. — His  Majesty  having  appointed 
a  distinct  commisson  under  the  Great  Seal  of  England,  for 
rating  and  assessing  the  Peers  of  the  realm  to  the  new  Act 
of  Subsidy,  we  having  had  several  meetings  thereupon,  and 
being  equally  tender  that  neither  His  Majesty  should  receive 
less  than  his  due,  nor  any  Peer  be  burthened  beyond  what 
the  Act  of  Parliament  requires,  and  being  most  confident  that 
the  nobility,  who  are  most  concerned  in  the  safety  and 
happiness  of  the  kingdom,  and  the  honour  and  prosperity 
of  the  crown,  will  be  exemplary  to  others  herein;  and  being 
well  assured  of  your  Lordship's  particular  zeal  and  affectionate 
regard  to  both,  and  therefore  no  way  doubting  your  ready 
submission  to  such  charges  as  you  are  by  this  law  liable  uuto, 
we  have  chosen  rather  by  these  our  letters  to  invite  you  to 
assess  yourself  by  a  just  return  of  what  you  are  chargeable 
for  than  to  run  the  hazard  of  our  laying  at  adventure  (which 
we  may  else  do)  more  upon  you  than  your  due  proportion; 
and  therefore  we  pray  your  Lordship  at  or  before  the  fifth 
day  of  June  next,  by  your  answer  to  these  our  letters,  to 
signify  to  us  under  your  hand,  the  value  of  all  such  personal 
estate,  goods,  stock,  or  other  chattels  personal  whatsoever, 
either  in  your  Lordship's  own  possession  or  in  the  possession 
of  others  in  trust  for  you  (except  and  out  of  the  same  deducted 
such  sum  of  monies  as  you  do  owe  and  in  your  conscience 
intend  truly  to  pay,  together  with  your  stock  upon  lands  or 
the  product  thereof  where  the  same  is  in  your  own  occupation, 
and  such  goods  as  are  used  for  household  staff),  for  all  which 
personal  estate  you  are  to  pay  after  the  rate  of  six  shillings 
for  every  hundred  pounds  in  value,  which  comes  to  three 
pounds  for  every  thousand  pounds  and  no  more,  which  sum 
is  to  be  paid  by  the  last  of  June  next,  and  if  your  Lordship 
shall  fail  to  return  your  answer  to  us  by  the  time  aforesaid, 


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we  shall  proceed  to  the  execution  of  our  commission,  by 
returning  into  the  Exchequer  such  rate  and  tax  upon  your 
Lordship  as  upon  our  best  information  we  shall  judge  equal. 
But  not  doubting  of  your  Lordship's  full  and  affectionate 
compliance  with  His  Majesty's  service  herein  (as  the  Lords 
in  this  commission  have  given  example). 

You  may  be  pleased  to  direct  your  answer  to  be  left  with 
Mr.  John  Eddowes,  the  clerk  attending  this  commission,  who 
is  collector  for  the  Peers'  subsidy,  and  to  pay  in  the  monies 
by  the  end  of  June  next,  whose  lodgings  is  in  Essex  house 
in  the  Strand. 

From  the  Painted  Chamber,  near  the  Lords  House  of 
Parliament  in  Westminster,  May  the  23rd,  1671. 

Craven. 

Anglesey. 

W.  Grey., 

Holies. 

Cornwalles. 

Jonathan  Hooper  to  Lord  Ossory. 

1671,  July  20.  Barbados. — ^Finding  so  opportune  occasion 
as  Captain  Barrett's  going  from  these  parts  for  England, 
I  presume  to  assure  your  Honour  that  neither  this  great 
distance  of  place,  nor  no  process  of  time  shall  be  ever  able 
to  eflFace  out  of  my  mind  the  manifold  and  signal  favours 
1  have  received  from  your  Honour  during  my  being  in  your 
regiment  in  Exeter.  It's  impossible,  my  most  honoured  Lord, 
to  have  any  dealing  with  your  Honour  and  to  forget  you ,  your 
comportments  being  to  all  so  noble,  so  generous,  and  so  obliging 
that  nothing  but  black  ingratitude  can  forget  them.  Captain 
Barrett  will  inform  your  Honour  of  my  present  being,  so 
wishing  your  Honour  all  happiness  in  this  life  and  in  the 
future. 

Francis  Marsh,  Bishop  of  Limerick,  to  Lord  Ossory. 

1671,  July  20.  Limerick. — I  am  so  sensible  of  my  too 
great  boldness  in  imposing  upon  your  Lordship  the  trouble 
of  my  last,  that  I  will  not  enquire  after  the  issue  of  it,  but 
gladly  apprehend  this  opportunity  which  Captain  Foxon  gives 
me,  to  beg  your  Lordship's  pardon  and  recommend  him  to 
your  favour  in  the  case  he  wall  explain  more  fully  to  your 
Lordship,  which  if  your  Lordship  understands  as  I  do,  I  do 
believe  your  excellent  charity  and  great  generosity  will  engage 
you  to  the  favourable  protection  of  an  innocent  man  (if  need 
be) ,  and  I  am  confident  a  great  honourer  of  your  Lordship  and 
all  your  family.  Mr.  Foxon  for  ought  that  ever  I  heard 
is  a  person  of  a  fair  reputation,  excepting  what  hath  lately 
passed  in  whispers  about  this  country  that  he  hath  been  a 
party  concerned  in  the  trade  of  piracy,  which  they  say  hath 
lately  been  practised  by  some  in  this  country,  and  for  which 
I  know  not  who  nor  how  many  have  been  condemned  at 
Cork,  but  reprieved  from  execution  (as  it  is  supposed)  upon 


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condition  of  discovering  men  more  considerable  than  them- 
selves. And  what  may  tempt  them  besides  their  hope  of 
life  to  mention  Captain  Foxon  (as  I  am  told  they  do)  I  cannot 
tell,  unless  it  be  that  he  is  unhappily  related  by  marriage 
to  one  Mr.  Bodkin  who  was  apprehended  for  this  crime  and 
made  escape,  and  therefore  probably  a  partner  in  his  crimes. 
But  besides  the  serious  protestation  of  his  innocence  and 
detestation  of  so  foul  a  fault,  I  think  the  general  credit  of 
the  man,  and  I  am  sure  the  rule  of  charity,  will  be  sufl&cient 
counterbalance  against  (it  may  be  but)  a  malicious  suspicion 
and  the  reports  of  tempted  and  condemned  persons  till  it  be 
plainly  confuted.  It  is  a  grievous  crime  if  true,  and  an  infinite 
defamation  to  a  man  of  his  profession  if  untrue,  for  the  trial 
whereof  he  relies  upon  God  and  his  own  innocence,  whether  he 
be  called  upon  as  a  criminal  to  acquit  himself,  or  whether 
he  thinks  fit  (when  he  knows  when  and  how)  to  vindicate 
his  fame  against  those  that  have  aspersed  him.  In  either 
case  he  desires  no  more  from  your  Lordship  than  your 
favourable  opinion  till  you  have  reason  to  withdraw  it,  nor 
can  I  for  him  than  what  is  very  safe  and  worthy  always  to 
be  on  God's  side  and  the  King's.  My  dear  Lord,  the  clergy 
are  infinitely  endeared  to  your  noble  father  in  his  forward 
assistance  to  prevent  the  grand  inconveniencies  of  a  tax, 
which  I  desire  he  may  understand,  and  that  I  am  really  and 
naturally  inclined  to  love  and  serve  him.  I  grow  very  weary  of 
Munster,  and  it  would  be  a  great  comfort  to  me  to  be 
encouraged  to  hope  that  by  his  Grace's  favour  and  your  own, 
I  might  live  in  expectation  of  being  translated  elsewhere, 
though  but  of  equal  value  with  Limerick.  I  have  too  little 
room  to  tell  your  Lordship  why.  God  Almighty  bless  and 
preserve  your  family. 

Capt.  Samuel  Foxon  to  Lord  Ossory. 

1671,  July  20.  Limerick. — I  hope  these  will  find  your 
Lordship  safe  returned  to  London.  That  I  have  not  this 
long  time  paid  my  duty  to  your  Lordship  by  letters,  has 
not  been  for  want  of  a  will,  but  fearing  I  might  be  troublesome 
or  w^ant  of  subject.  But  now  I  am  forced  by  evil  men's  purposes 
to  lay  before  your  Lordship  a  bad  one. 

About  ten  months  since,  on  this  coast,  was  one,  Bodkin, 
with  a  private  commission ,  and  it  seems  he  exceeded  the  same 
by  committing  some  outrages  by  robbing  on  the  sea.  They 
were  apprehended  in  Munster,  and  because  the  said  Bodkin 
was  a  kinsman  of  my  wife's,  I  was  lustily  inquired  after, 
as  if  had  a  hand  in  said  actions.  A  particular  commission 
for  the  prisoners'  trial  was  obtained,  and  they  were  condemned 
in  January  last,  and  as  I  am  credibly  informed,  these 
condemned  persons  are  kept  from  being  executed,  and  fed  with 
hopes  of  saving  their  lives  if  they  will  confess  anything  against 
me.  The  men  know  me  not,  nor  I  them,  neither  ever  had 
I  anything  to  do  with  them  nor  know  anything  of  their  design, 
and  which  is  safe  for  me      I  thank  God  I  am  as  innocent  as 


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the  child  unborn  of  having  the  least  to  do  in  this  or  the 
like,  which  I  abhor.  No  endeavours  in  these  parts,  and  in 
particular  in  the  County  Cork,  are  wanting  to  ruin  my 
reputation. 

My  friends  that  may  hear  these  reports  at  a  distance,  may 
be  apt  to  believe,  I  fear,  them  true,  so  cunningly  to  my 
disadvantage  they  have  them  reported.  Now  I  would  rather 
than  this  imputation  should  lie  hovering  so  to  have  it  brought 
to  the  test,  and  do  beseech  your  Lordship  to  consult  what 
is  fit  for  me  to  do,  not  doubting  your  Lordship's  favourable 
help  to  see  me  have  right.  I  bless  God  hitherto  I  have 
lived  in  as  good  repute  as  any  of  my  quality ;  how  far  this 
piece  of  malice  may  lessen  it,  time  will  shew. 

Pray  my  Lord  if  it  can  be  ordered  so  as  that  I  may  be 
sent  for  to  Dublin  before  the  Chief  Governors  and  council, 
and  all  persons  in  Munster  or  elsewhere  to  give  in  what  they 
can  against  me,  then  I  shall  see  an  end,  for  now  they  carry 
it,  whispering  one  to  another,  and  set  people  to  write  to  my 
correspondents,  as  if  it  were  a  thing  true  against  me,  of  no 
less  than  piracy,  which  is  much  to  my  disreputation.  Truly 
my  Lord  this  is  of  great  weight  to  one  that  lives  by  his  credit 
as  I  do,  so  that  I  once  more  beg  your  Lordship's  speedy  and 
effectual  assistance  to  the  vindicating  my  reputation,  for  I 
most  unjustly  am  abased  in  it.  I  am  sure  on  the  test  to 
make  some  ashamed  of  this  malicious  contrivance. 

Pray  my  Lord  have  my  humble  duty  to  the  Duke  and 
Duchess,  my  good  Lady  Ossory,  in  fine  to  all  your  noble 
family,  hoping  your  Lordship  will  pardon  this  trouble;  I  have 
some  friends  will  trouble  your  Lordship  on  this.  I  beg  an 
answer  as  speedily  as  possible  may  be. 

Lord  O'Brien  to  Lord  Ossory. 

1671,  July  21.  Bunratty. — I  am  from  all  hands  informed 
of  the  great  damage  your  faithful  servant  Sam.  Foxon  is 
like  to  sustain  merely  but  of  the  malice  that  some  in  Munster, 
whom  I  doubt  not  but  your  Lordship  will  easily  imagine 
who  they  are,  have  hatched  up  against  him.  All  the  favour 
he  begs  is  but  to  be  tried  as  to  what  will  be  objected  against 
him  before  the  Chief  Magistrate  at  Dublin,  and  so  to  receive 
the  severest  punishment  if  nocent,  or  else  vindicated  if  other- 
ways.  His  request  as  I  conceive  being  so  just,  I  do  pray  your 
Lordship's  assistance. 

Sir  Thomas  Page  to  Lord  Ossory. 

1671  [-2] ,  February  20. — Though  the  season  of  the  year 
seem  to  be  improper  for  a  naval  expedition,  yet  report  giving 
out  that  your  preparations  in  particular  are  in  a  very  great 
forwardness,  I  must  be  careful  not  to  neglect  my  duty,  and 
do  therefore  thus  early  commend  your  Lordship  to  the  supreme 
Director  whom  the  winds  and  the  seas  obey.  I  have  one 
great  advantage  in  my  retirement  here,  that  as  I  have  always 


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a  zeal  and  devotion  to  pray  for  you,  so  I  have  a  public 
opportunity  to  do  it  every  morning  and  every  evening.  This 
is  a  charity  to  which  the  greatest  persons  are  capable  and 
stand  in  need.  But  though  in  general  it  be  a  charity,  yet 
in  me  it  is  a  particular  gratitude  for  all  the  favours  I  have 
received  from  your  Lordship  since  first  I  had  the  honour  to 
be  known  to  your  family.  Your  kindness  begot  confidence 
in  me,  and  that  has  procured  you  many  importunities  as 
well  in  behalf  of  others  as  myself.  We,  your  little  troop  of 
the  Hague,  are  now  disbanded,  and  though  our  successors  may 
render  your  Lordship  better  service,  yet  certainly  they  will 
not  have  more  sincerity  and  affection  for  you  than  some  of 
us  had.  I  doubt  not,  therefore,  but  that  since  Boland's 
indisposition  may  not  permit  him  to  continue  near  your  person , 
you  will  be  pleased  to  own  him  at  his  dismission  to  be  in 
your  favour,  which  may  prove  his  great  advantage,  and  the 
contrary  his  undoing.  And  because  your  Lordship,  as  I 
understand,  designs  him  for  Ireland,  I  humbly  offer  that  he 
may  be  recommended  to  Sir  George  St.  George,  from  whom 
he  has  often  told  me  that  ten  months  pay  are  due  to  him ; 
but  how  to  get  the  money  I  know  not.  If  I  may  be  authorized 
by  your  Lordship  under  Mr.  Mules,  his  hand,  I  will  write 
the  letter  and  spare  you  the  labour.  *Tis  your  personal 
goodness  Boland  relies  on,  and  expects  not  the  like  compassion 
from  any  you  leave  behind  you.  God  Almighty  preserve 
your  Lordship  in  all  times  and  places. 

Ormond  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathbw. 

1672,  May  3.  Whitehall. — The  exchange  of  money 
continues  so  high,  that  there  is  no  tolerable  way  of  being 
supplied  but  by  ready  money  to  be  sent  over  in  silver  and 
gold.  James  Clarke  has  lately  informed  you  what  species 
are  best.  I  conceive  the  way  will  be  to  send  off  that  to 
Dublin  as  good  a  sum  as  you  can  get,  to  lie  ready  there  to 
be  transported  when  my  Lord  Berkeley  shall  transport  himself, 
which  I  suppose  he  will  do  with  all  the  security  he  can, 
and  the  vessel  that  conveys  my  Lord  of  Essex  will  bring  it 
to  Chester;  at  least  I  will  endeavour  it  may,  though  it  should 
take  him  in  at  Holyhead,  but  of  this  you  shall  have  further 
instruction  before  his  Lordship  can  go.  In  the  meantime 
I  must  strive  the  best  I  can.  I  find  by  your  last  letter  that 
Milo  Power  has  stood  in  his  own  light  and  mine,  so  that 
I  can  say  nothing  to  his  affair  till  the  case  be  more  clearly 
stated  to  me  than  yet  it  is. 

Ormond  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathbw. 

1672,  July  13.  Clarendon  House. — My  Lord  of  Essex  goes 
from  hence  on  the  22nd  of  this  month,  of  which  I  give  you 
this  notice,  that  Baxter  may  be  ready  at  Dublin  against  he 
lands  to  transport  himself  and  my  money  for  England,  if  he 
shall  not  think  it  safe  to  trust  it  in  a  Liverpool  or  Chester 
vessel.     I  have  sent  the  original  of  the  enclosed  copy  of  his 


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Majesty's  letter  to  Sir  Paul  Davys  to  be  presented  to  the  Lord 
Lieutenant  and  council,  and  have  sent  to  Baxter  my  authority 
for  him  to  bring  over  the  money. 

Lord  John  Butler's  Accounts. 

All  the  funds  my  Lord  John  has  towards  the  payment  of 
the  within  debts,  as  for : — 
Due  to  my  Lord  John  the  end  of  this  month 

on  account  of  his  entertainment  as  Captain 

of  the  Guards  for  eighteen  months 
Whereof  there  is  at  present  to  be  expected  six 

months   pay 
Of  which  he  has  already  received  from  the 

farmers  upon  the  three  months  pay  ended 

the  last  of  June,  1672       

Then  there  will  remain  due  but       

Together  with  a  twelve  months  pay  of  the  above 

allowance,  which  comes  to  

Due  to  my  Lord  John  at  Michaelmas  next, 

being  advanced  him,  also  paid  in  all 


Best  due  to  be  paid  him 


£        s.      d. 
336  :  00  :  00 


112  :  00  :  00 


020 
092 


00 
00 


00 
00 


224  :  00  :  00 


.  240  :  00  : 

00 

556  :  00  : 
.  336  :  00  : 

00 
00 

668  :  00  : 

00 

An  abstract  of  what  debts  are  owing  of  the  Bight  Honourable 
the  Lord  John  Butler,  the  7th  of  September,  1672. 


To  Thomas  Hooke,  mercer    

To  James  Hoyston,  tailor      

To  Mr.  Edward  Corker         

To  John  English,  tailor         

To  Henry  Warren,  haberdasher 

To  Bobt.  Miller,  apothecary 

To  Edward  Bobinson,  girdler 

To  Wm.  Story  

To  Ignatius  Segrave     

To  Patrick  Gemon,  for  lodging 
To  Mrs.  Nugent,  for  lodging 
To  Mrs-  Hemsworth,  seamstress 
To  Thomas  Speight,  milliner 

To  Joseph  Low,  milliner        

To  James  Sweetman,  for  hay 

To  Nathaniel  Phillpott,  haberdasher 

To  Bichard  Noyse        

To  Thomas  Donnogh,  blacksmith 
To  Giflford  Green,  for  diet  for  the  groom 
To  Elinor  Bobinson,  for  the  same  ... 
To  Esther  Carrier,  for  the  same 


£ 
309 
275 
080 
092 
087 
098 
051 
183 
015 
173 
015 
148 
007 
Oil 
016 
004 

043 
089 
025 
054 
035 


s. 
18 
07 
00 
00 
04 
03 
14 
04 
00 
12 
10 
15 
10 
10 
00 
00 
19 
06 
00 
00 
10 


d. 

05 

11 

00 

00 

00 

11 

00 

07 

00 

00 

00 

06 

00 

03 

00 

00 

07i 

00 

00 

00 

00 


1816  :  06  :  02i 


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To  Sir  Charles  Hamilton,  for  which  he  has 
his  Lordship's  Imprest  Bill        

To  Mr.  Eichard  Hawkshaw,  for  hay  delivered 
in  Mr.  Osborn's  time,  and  is  charged  to 
my  Lord  in  his  account 

To  Constantine  Baven,  harness  maker 

To  Wm.  Hartley,  shoe  maker 

To  Richard  Weaver,  coach  maker 

To  Nicholas  Cann,  harness  maker 

To  Bichard  Norris,  sadler 

To  John  Shepherd        

To  Thomas  Hand,  chandler    ... 

To  Joseph  Moxon,  for  livery  lace 

To  Captain  Bradock,  for  livery  cloth  and  serge 

To  Mr.  Phillip  Savage,  for  money  lent 

Brought  over  from  the  other  side 

In  all 


040  :  00  :  00 


085 
036 
Oil 
015 
003 
016 
020 
001 
004 
063 
020 
1816 


:  18 
:  12 
:  12 
:  10 
:  00 
:  19 
:  04 
:  14 
:  16 
:  04 
:  00 
:  06 


:  00 
:  03 
:  06 
:  10 
:  04 
:  01 
:  09 
:  09 
:  06 
:  04 
:  00 
:  02J 


2135  :  19  :  06J 


Francis,  Lord  Aungibr,  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathbw. 

1672,  October  26.  Dublin. — ^We  have  at  length  run  through 
all  the  accounts,  and  have  taken  up  the  vouchers  belonging 
to  the  particular  account  given  in  by  yourself,  which  remain 
in  my  custody.  The  next  thing  to  be  considered  was  in 
what  method  to  draw  up  the  accounts,  so  as  my  Lord  Duke 
may  have  the  most  clear  view  of  the  disposition  of  his  revenue, 
and  you  might  be  more  fully  discharged,  which  we  find  cannot 
be  done  with  any  satisfaction  unless  all  the  accounts  be  drawn 
together  into'  one,  by  your  charging  yourself  with  all  the 
receipts  of  the  particular  receivers,  and  discharging  yourself 
by  the  vouchers  allowed  in  their  accounts  only.  The  method 
will  be  more  perspicuous,  and  it  will  require  only  clerk's  work 
to  reduce  it  to  that  which  we  propound,  and  we  are  content 
that  a  reasonable  allowance  be  made  to  Mr.  Smyth  and  any 
other  that  shall  be  employed  with  him  in  the  doing  of  it. 
Mr.  Smyth  offered  us  a  discharge  to  be  signed  by  us  whereby 
we  should  not  only  acquit  you  of  the  monies  that  came  to 
your  particular  hands,  but  all  the  particular  receivers  also, 
for  all  the  accounts  they  made  up  with  you.  But  we  do 
not  think  ourselves  yet  ready  to  sign  so  full  a  discharge,  because 
you  know  we  have  taken  only  a  superficial  view  of  the  receivers 
accounts,  and  to  discharge  you  of  those  of  sums  only  which, 
came  to  your  own  hands,  I  think  will  not  be  suflBcient  for  you, 
our  authority  from  his  Grace  being  to  take  an  account  from 
you  of  all  his  Grace's  revenue,  and  to  discharge  you  for  the 
same.  And  it  is  the  opinion  of  your  friends  here,  that  it 
is  as  necessary  for  you  to  be  discharged  of  the  monies  accounted 
for  to  you  by  the  receivers,  as  for  what  you  have  accounted 
for  yourself. 

All  this  will  be  answered  in  the  method  we  insist  upon, 
and  by  that  hieans  the  payment  of  every  particular  kind,  and 


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the  payment  to  every  particular  person  will  be  drawn  together 
under  one  view,  which  now  lie  scattered  and  divided  in  several 
accounts.  Therefore  we  desire  you  (if  you  think  fit  to  comply 
with  us  herein)  to  send  up  Mr.  Smyth  as  soon  as  conveniently 
you  can,  to  reduce  the  account  in  this  method,  upon  the  back 
of  which  we  will  give  you  a  full  discharge  for  his  Grace's 
whole  revenue  to  Monday  last.  In  the  meantime  we  have 
given  Mr.  Smyth  a  certificate  that  we  have  taken  up  the 
vouchers  of  your  particular  account,  and  have  left  in  his  hands 
the  several  accounts  of  the  receivers  and  their  vouchers. 

I  desire  your  answer  to  this  as  soon  as  you  can. 


Francis,  Lord  Aungibr,  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathbw. 

1672,  November  2.  Dublin.— By  yours  of  the  29th  of 
October,  I  perceive  that  you  faiistake  our  intentions  in 
propounding  that  method  of  the  account  which  I  signified 
in  my  letter  to  you,  for  we  do  not  expect  nor  think  it  reasonable 
that  you  should  answer  for  the  miscarriages  of  the  receivers, 
or  be  liable  to  their  false  accounts  or  misreturns  as  you 
apprehend,  especially  of  such  as  were  employed  before  your 
coming  in-  What  we  desire  is  only  to  bring  the  account 
into  such  a  method  as  may  be  intelligible,  which  at  present 
it  is  not,  either  to  us  or  any  that  shall  be  concerned  to  view 
it.  It  is  true  the  account  of  the  particular  receipts  is  clear 
and  plain,  but  we  are  instructed  to  take  an  account  of  all 
my  Lord's  revenue,  and  the  particular  receivers  being 
already  accounted  with  and  discharged  by  you,  we  cannot 
bring  them  to  account  again.  Therefore  all  the  money 
comprised  in  their  accounts,  must  be  either  not  accounted  for 
at  all  to  us,  or  else  it  must  be  accounted  for  by  you.  That 
is  one  account  must  be  drawn  up,  wherein  the  charge  must 
contain  all  the  money  of  all  kinds  received  for  his  Grace 
from  the  date  of  the  commission  to  May  last,  and  the  discharge 
must  contain  all  the  monies  paid  out  for  his  Grace  within  that 
time,  in  such  distinct  and  proper  heads  as  may  be  easy  and 
intelligible.  The  doing  of  this  (which  I  think  requires  only 
clerk's  work)  will  not  materially  alter  the  account  as  it  now 
stands,  nor  in  my  judgment  make  you  more  responsible  than 
you  are  at  present.  But  on  the  contrary,  a  discharge  in 
the  close  of  such  an  account  will  be  much  more  full  and  effectual 
for  you  than  that  which  reaches  only  to  your  particular  receipts ; 
and  if  the  receivers  have  made  a  false  return  of  arrears,  it 
cannot  reflect  upon  you,  because  it  will  be  mentioned  in  the 
account  as  their  return  of  arrears  and  not  yours,  and  they 
are  responsible  for  it  and  not  you ;  this  I  hope  will  give  you 
satisfaction  that  in  what  we  propound  we  do  not  aim  at 
putting  any  inconvenience  upon  you,  neither  will  it  be  material 
to  us  whether  the  account  when  it  is  drawn  up  together,  be 
styled  your  account  or  the  account  of  yourself  and  the  several 
receivers,  or  otherwise.      That  may  be  considered  in  due  time, 


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so  the  account  be  drawn  up  together  into  one  body  as  we 
have  fully  discoursed  it  with  Mr.  Smith.  We  shall  be  satisfied, 
as  I  suppose  you  will  be,  when  you  have  perused  this  and  spoken 
with  him. 

The  Information  of  Thomas  Cullen  taken  before  the 

Earl  of  Thomond. 

1672,  November  5.  County  of  Clare. — The  said  informant 
being  duly  sworn  upon  the  Holy  Evangelists,  and  examined 
upon  his  oath,  saith  that  upon  Thursday  last,  being  the  Slst 
of  October,  1672,  at  Ballynaclogh ,  in  the  house  of  the  said 
informant,  one  Captain  Thomas  Walcott,  of  the  City  of 
Limerick,  came  to  him  then  and  there,  and  desired  the 
informant  to  walk  out  into  the  garden,  which  the  informant 
did,  where  the  said  Captain  Walcott  first  bewailed  the  condition 
of  the  English  in  this  kingdom,  and  then  said  the  Irish  was 
like  to  have  all  again ;  he  as  for  his  part  wished  himself  out 
of  the  kingdom,  and  then,  said  he,  our  condition  is  not  so 
bad  but  that  we  may  prevent  our  ruin  if  we  stick  one  to  another  ; 
and  he  added  that  Limerick  would  be  secured  with  a  w^et 
finger,  and  though  he  knew  not  how  the  Castle  of  Dublin 
or  any  other  castles  should  be  secured,  yet  he  was  confident 
if  they  could  hold  but  one  month,  they  should  do  well  enough  : 
and  thereupon  he  desired  him,  the  informant,  that  he  would 
walk  into  the  said  informant's  house,  and  being  in  it,  into  a 
private  chamber,  where  he  being  come,  he  drew  forth  a  paper 
containing  about  two  sheets,  all  written,  as  he  apprehends,  by 
the  said  Captain  Walcott.  Holding  it  in  his  hand  he  read 
unto  the  informant,  and  the  substance  thereof,  as  he  can 
remember,  was  to  this  effect,  the  mention  of  many  grievances 
occasioned  by  divers  ministers  of  state  since  the  King's 
Majesty's  coming  in,  as  the  Duke  of  Buckingham,  Sir  George 
Carteret,  the  Lord  Arlington  and  many  others,  whose  names 
he  now  remembers  not ;  also  that  the  perpetual  Parliament 
should  be  re-established,  and  what  members  thereof  are 
wanting,  others  should  be  chosen  in  their  stead:  and  that 
Popery  and  Prelacy  should  be  put  down  and  Presbytery 
established,  and  told  him  that  by  to-morrow  night  he  should 
know  more  of  it  from  another,  which  he  did  not,  though  ho 
stayed  at  home  all  that  day  in  expectation ;  and  the  said 
informant  being  asked  of  what  communion  in  matters  of 
religion  the  said  Captain  Walcott  was,  he  said  the  said  Captain 
Walcott  was  not  a  Conformist  to  the  Church  of  Ireland,  but 
was  reputed,  and  so  owned  of  all  to  be,  a  professed  Anabaptist : 
and  being  asked  who  wrote  that  paper,  he  said  that  Captain 
Walcott  told  him  he  had  it  from  a  Scotchman,  but  named 
him  not,  whereupon  the  day  following  the  said  informant  made 
his  application  to  the  Eight  Honourable  the  Earl  of  Thomond, 
and  gave  him  such  information  according  to  his  duty,  and 
further  says  not,  save  only  that  the  informant  says  that 
upon    the    reading    the    paper   by    the    said    Walcott,    the 


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said  informant  said  these  things  are  of  dangerous  consequence, 
whereupon  the  said  Walcott  said  he  would  carry  this  paper 
no  longer  after  this  night. 

Thomas  Cullen. 

Capt,  coram  me  5to  die  Novembris,  1672. 

Thomond. 

Ot^mond  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1072,  November  9-  Clarendon  House. — I  have  made  no 
great  haste  to  answer  yours  of  the  9th  of  the  last,  because 
I  expected  some  further  informations  from  you  in  other  affairs, 
and  from  my  Lord  Aungier  and  those  who  took  your  accounts, 
such  a  state  of  the  condition  of  my  fortune  as  must  guide  me 
for  the  future.  As  to  my  son  John's  affair,  my  wife  writes 
my  sense  as  well  as  her  own  in  it,  and  has  designed  for  him 
such  a  way  of  living  as  that  if  he  will  conform  to  it,  will 
be  more  for  his  ease,  honour  and  profit,  than  the  course  of 
life  he  has  hitherto  led,  and  he  w411  but  deceive  himself  if 
he  thinks  I  can  or  will  ever  again  redeem  him  from  the  like 
incumbrance,  if  he  shall  draw  it  on  himself.  Here  he  will 
meet  with  the  same  temptations,  and  those  more  alluring  than 
these,  with  the  addition  of  example"  w^hich  he  may  be  too  apt 
to  follow ;  however  I  have,  for  my  wife's  sake  and  his,  consented 
to  this  further  trial. 

As  to  ray  sister's  Clancarty's  pretensions,  I  know  not  what 
they  are  if  they  are  more  than  she  claimed  here,  and  therefore 
desire  they  may  be  sent  to  me,  because  that  if  they  are 
reasonable,  I  will  not  give  her  or  any  lawyers  or  gentlemen 
the  trouble  of  hearing  or  determining  them,  but  freely  pay 
what  is  justly  due. 

I  hope  this  term  will  bring  in  all  or  the  most  of  the  money 
for  which  you  have  taken  security  of  those  who  were  to  have 
paid  the  year's  value,  and  that  you  will  w-ith  what  speed 
vou  can  advertise  me  of  it. 

Ormond  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1672,  December  7.  Burford. — I  received  yours  of  the 
17th  of  the  last  here,  w^here  my  son  Arran  is  not,  so  that 
I  cannot  confer  with  him  about  the  continuance  of  the  old 
or  making  a  new  sheriff  of  Tipperary.  I  do  not  conceive 
any  great  ground  for  the  objection  of  my  bearing  the  sheriff's 
charge,  since  he  is  not  a  judge  to  impose  nor  a  commissioner 
to  reduce  fines  and  amercements,  but  my  officer  to  cause  them 
to  be  collected.  When  my  son  Arran  comes  I  will  discourse 
more  with  him  on  the  subject,  and  you  shall  hear  again  from 
me.  In  the  meantime,  till  another  sheriff  be  appointed, 
I  conceive  he  stands  enough  authorised  to  act. 

I  suppose  upon  those  letters  which  have  passed  betwixt  you 
and  my  Lord  Aungier,  etc.,  the  question  concerning  the  method 
of  your  accounts  is  at  an  end.  I  conceive  that  as,  on  the  one 
hand,  you  should  stand  charged  with  all  the  discharges  you 
have  given,  so,  on  the  other,  there  is  no  reason  you  should 


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be  charged  with  the  miscarriages  of  those  receivers  who  had 
the  collection  of  my  rents  before  you  had  to  do  with  my  estate, 
any  further  than  as  the  arrears  which  were  upon  them  were 
discharged  or  otherwise  disposed  of  by  you,  and  as  you  had 
power  to  compound  for  the  recovering  of  something,  so  your 
compositions  must  be  made  good  and  you  discharged  of  the 
whole.  In  this  I  may  well  err  in  my  conception  of  the 
matter,  having  little  skill  in  things  of  this  nature,  but  as  I 
do  not  wish  you  should  be  entangled,  so  I  know  you  will 
consent  to  the  plainest  and  clearest  way  of  accounting. 

I  do  easily  believe  that  any  considerable  proportion  of  rent 
is  not  for  this  year  to  be  depended  upon.  Two  things  are 
therefore  timely  and  seriously  to  be  taken  into  consideration ; 
the  first  is  how  I  shall  subsist  and  be  supplied  if  rents  cannot 
be  relied  on,  and  if  the  money  for  which  you  have  taken 
security,  and  which  is  properly  payable  to  Sir  Eobert  Vyner, 
can  be  had,  I  must  make  use  of  that  or  of  as  much  of  it  as 
as  can  be  had.  If  none  of  that  can  be  brought  in,  then  trial 
is  to  be  made  if  money  can  be  gotten  on  sale  or  mortgage  of 
land;  and  if  none  of  this  can  be  done,  I  am  to  be  as  early 
informed  as  may  be  that  I  may  then  think  of  what  I  am  to  do. 
The  other  thing  which  is  to  be  considered  is  whether  it 
will  not  be  better  to  take  from  the  tenants  such  commodity 
as  they  have  for  rent,  than  to  let  them  run  into  a  whole 
year's  ^arrear  or  more.  I  know  there  will  belong  to  this 
much  trouble,  charge  and  uncertainty,  and  some  danger  of 
the  spoil  and  embezzlement  of  some  sorts  of  commodities, 
but  I  propose  this  in  case  of  extremity,  and  only  as  a  thing 
of  which  I  desire  your  thoughts.  As  soon  as  two  commissioners 
can  be  gotten  hither,  my  wife's  answer  will  be  taken  and 
returned  touching  Mrs.  Keefe.  The  w^oman  sent  over  has  made 
lamentable  complaints  of  her  being  neglected  and  driven  to 
misery ;  I  hope  it  is  without  cause. 


Duchess  of  Okmond  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew.* 

1672,  December  21. — My  being  upon  my  remove  to  Burford 
when  I  received  your  two  letters  o^^  the  28th  of  October  and 
13th  of  November,  which  came  together  though  of  very 
different  date,  did  occasion  my  not  answering  of  them  until 
now  that  I  am  settled  here  for  a  while,  until  my  Lord's  going 
up  into  the  Parliament,  which  will  be  the  beginning  of 
February  next,  at  which  time  I  purpose  to  go  too;  whereby 
to  avoid  the  excuse  of  keeping  two  houses.  I  was,  I  confess, 
desirous  to  try  whether  living  in  the  country  for  a  considerable 
part  of  the  year  would  abate  the  charge  w- e  are  at  in  London , 
and  I  find  it  will  very  considerably ;  as  if  the  wars  abroad  and 
the  misfortune  that  Ireland  is  in,  so  ruined  upon  all  accounts, 
so  that  we  cannot  hope  to  receive  any  considerable  part  of 

•  This  letter  should  be  read  in  connection  with  the  series  of  the  Duchess's 
letters  printed  in  the  concluding  section  of  this  volume. 


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our  rents,  be  like  to  continue  in  so  ill  a  posture,  my  Lord 
must  resolve  either  to  betake  himself  to  live  in  the  country 
here  or  go  into  Ireland,  for  impossible  it  will  be  for  him  to 
subsist  at  London. 

Lady  Strafford  to  Lady  Derby. 

1672  [-3],  January  13. — I  beg  your  pardon  dear  sister  for 
omitting  in  my  last  letter  to  congratulate  the  kindness  my 
nephew  has  expressed  in  making  choice  of  you  for  his 
guardian.  I  return  you  many  thanks  for  the  knowledge  of 
it,  as  I  do  for  the  good  interpretation  you  give  me  in  your 
letter,  which  brought  me  great  consolation  both  in  that 
particular  and  in  the  assurance  you  give  therein  that  my  dear 
brother  had  a  right  opinion  of  my  affection  to  him.  The 
power  you  wish  to  enable  you  to  do  my  nephew  good,  and 
which  God  and  nature  now  leaves  you  for  your  greatest  comfort 
in  this  world,  I  believe  may  now  reasonably  be  thought  you 
have  your  best  opportunity  for  you  could  possibly  expect; 
and  T  conjure  you  to  weigh  it  thoroughly,  and  then  I  doubt 
not  but  you  will  see  cause  to  advise  my  nephew  to  that  advice 
which  my  Lord  and  I  have  taken  the  freedom  to  propose, 
and  which  in  all  probability  will  most  conduce  to  both  your 
satisfaction.  Possibly  the  portion  may  not  be  exceeding 
great,  yet  I  make  no  question  but  it  will  be  considerable, 
and  for  other  advantages  I  know  not  when  they  may  be 
more  reasonably  expected.       Forgive  this  trouble. 

Lord  Strafford  to  Ormond. 

1672  [-3],  January  29.  Wentworth  Woodhouse.— Sir 
Thomas  Wharton  did  me  the  favour  yesterday  to  shew  me 
a  letter  of  your  Grace's,  so  noble  in  itself,  and  so  obliging 
to  my  near  relations  and  to  my  wdfe  and  me,  that  it  is  my 
duty  to  appear  the  earliest  I  can  with  my  humble  thanks  and 
acknowledgments  for  it,  though  T  know  not  how  to  do  it  in 
the  terms  that  such  favours  do  deserve.  Upon  sight  of  this 
honour  you  have  done  us,  T  have  immediately  sent  to  acquaint 
my  Lady  Derby  and  my  nephew  how  much  they  are  bound 
to  your  Grace  on  this  occasion,  and  had  we  not  used  all  the 
means  we  could  before,  and  found  it  answered  with  as  great 
forwardness  as  we  could  desire,  I  cannot  imagine  but  that 
the  sense  of  the  obligation  they  now  receive,  will  speedily 
(encourage  them  to  seek  the  happiness  we  wish  them  of  your 
alliance,  which  a  respect  to  both  families  can  make  none 
desire  more  than  myself. 

Lord  Strafford  to  the  Duchess  of  Ormond. 

1672  [-3] ,  January  29.  Wentworth  Woodhouse. — Madam  : 
I  cannot  be  silent  at  this  time,  though  I  want  words  to  express 
the  joy  I  have  that  my  relations  are  so  forward  and  ambitious 
the  way  I  wish  them,  and  that  we  find  an  approbation  from 
my  Lord  Duke  and  your  Grace  so  highly  obliging.  My  Lord 
of  Derby  intending  to  be  here  this  next  week,  I  hope  your 


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Grace  will  very  soou  have  such  an  address  made  as  may 
better  manifest  the  respects  that  ought  to  be  shewed  than 
can  be  expressed  by  me,  therefore  I  shall  not  importune  your 
Grace  with  reading  more  here  than  my  subscribing  myself 
with  all  the  duty  1  owe  you. 

Lord  Inchiquin  to  Ormond. 

1672,  February  17.  Orleans. — I  believe  your  friendship 
is  firmer  without  ceremony  than  most  others  with  it,  yet  for 
all  that  my  want  of  merit  of  so  great  a  happiness  and  my 
no  less  esteem  thereof,  introduces  a  fear,  sometimes  in  spite 
of  my  teeth,  that  so  long  a  silence  may  be  an  effect  of  some 
diminution  therein,  and  being  most  unwilling  to  nourish  so 
unwelcome  a  guest,  I  think  it  the  best  expedient  to  give  him 
notice  thereof  from  whom  only  I  can  expect  assistance  against 
him.  It  may  be  it  is  because  you  cannot  give  me  the 
satisfaction  you  believe  I  expect  in  some  particulars  we 
discoursed  of  at  parting ;  but  I  shall  never  allow  that  a  just 
reason,  for  it  is  a  truth  that  I  think  you  ought  not  to  be 
ignorant  of,  that  I  could  not  receive  that  dissatisfaction  by 
His  Majesty's  disapproving  of  what  you  might  propose  to 
him  in  pursuance  of  it,  as  the  least  ground  of  jealousy  of 
your  favour  would  give  me. 

I  am  not  so  insensible  of  my  own  incapacity  and  want  of 
merit,  as  to  think  His  Majesty  ought  to  satisfy  my  expectations 
with  any  inconvenience  to  himself  or  displeasure  to  others 
who  meriting  better,  cannot  all  participate  of  equal  marks 
of  his  favours,  so  as  your  Lordship  may  assure  yourself  I 
should  and  shall  as  thankfully  receive  }'our  advice  to  decline 
any  unseasonable  expectation,  as  your  successful  endeavours 
in  the  accomplishment  thereof.  I  beseech  you  therefore,  deal 
with  me  with  that  freedom  that  may  best  sort  with  the  interest 
you  have  in  my  affections,  and  which  they  challenge  at  your 
Lordship's  hands  in  spite  of  all  my  imperfections. 

I  have  now  reason  to  fear  that  your  Lordship  moving 
anything  in  my  behalf  may  be  some  prejudice  to  you 
considering  the  blame  w^hich  I  hear  his-Eoyal  Highness  before 
His  Majesty  laid  upon  me,  and  the  Queen's  expressions 
thereupon.  And  really  I  had  much  rather  want  any  advantage 
1  can  propose  to  myself  by  a  present  mark  of  favour,  than 
be  an  occasion  thereof.  I  shall  content  myself  with  that 
confidence  His  Majesty's  goodness  and  justice  give  me  of  bein^ 
remembered  among  other  faithful  and  suffering  servants  if 
it  please  God  to  restore  him,  which,  as  I  do  daily  pray  for  so, 
1  would  not  only  willingly  quit  all  advantages  thereby,  but 
cheerfully  sacrifice  my  life  to  see  effected. 

I  have  about  six  weeks  since  sent  your  Lordship  the 
adjudication  obtained  by  Captain  Brett  at  Dunkirk.  I  do 
not  know  whether  you  had  it  or  not,  or  what  is  done  in  that 
business.  I  beseech  your  Lordship  let  Mr.  Lane  therein 
inform. 


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Lord  John  Butler's  Expenses. 

1672  [-3],  March. — An  abstract  of  my  Lord  John's  charges 
at  Kilkenny. 

Mr.  St.  Leger's  bill  for  wines  and  tobacco  and 
candles,   amounts   to  

Mr.  Tho.  Cooksie's  bill  for  meat 

Mr.  Archer's  bill  for  groceries 

A  bill  charged  by  Kyran  Loghlin  for  several 

necessaries     ...         ...         ...         ...         ...       03  :  04  :  07 

The  labourer  and   woman   employed    in   the 
i^iucnen  ...         ...         ...         ... 

Kyran  Loghlin's  disbursements 

Mr.  Eoth's  bill  for  groceries 

Mr.    Garnet's  bill   for  bread 

Mr.  Garnet's  bill  for  bread  for  the  horses 

Mr.  Wright's  bill  for  wines 

Ixobt.  Joyce's  bill  for  tobacco  and  pipes  and 

\jViX  \JLO       ...  ...  •«.  •••  ... 

Half-a-hogshead  of  wine  brought  from  Clonmel 
Another  bill  of  Mr.  Garnet's  for  bread 


Anthony  Phillip's  bill  for  meat 


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Sir  Geo.  Lane  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1673,  April  26.  Whitehall. — I  am  commanded  by  my  Lady 
Duchess  to  tell  you  that  the  match  between  my  Lady  Betty 
Butler  and  my  Lord  of  Derby  is  concluded,  and  that  some 
help  to  pay  the  portion  is  obtained,  whereof  her  Grace  will 
give  you  a  particular  account  by  the  next  post,  being  hindered 
from  writing  by  this  by  a  defluxion  on  one  of  her  eyes. 
T  am  glad  of  this  opportunity  of  assuring  your  Lady  of  my 
humble  respects,  and  yourself  of  my  real  being,  dear  Sir,  etc. 

Ormond  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1673,  May  1.  Clarendon  House. — I  find  by  others  as  well 
as  by  Sir  Ralph  Freeman  that  my  house  at  Carrick  is  much 
the  better  for  him  inhabiting  in  it,  but  he  is  much  discouraged 
by  the  incumbrance  of  those  French  families  which  take  up 
a  great  part  of  the  house,  and  render  the  rest  noisome  and 
unquiet,  so  that  I  would  for  his  satisfaction  as  well  as  the 
good  of  the  place  have  them  removed ;  but  t)eing  poor  people 
I  desire  they  may  have  warning,  and  if  any  other  house  or 
houses  be  free  and  fit  for  them,  I  would  have  them  fixed 
at  easy  rents. 


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Sir  William  Bankes  to  Ormond. 

1G73,  June  13.  Winstanley. — Hoping  my  Lord  of  Derby's 
match  is  now  near  the  happy  conclusion  we  all  desire,  I 
humbly  beg  leave  to  acquaint  your  Grace  something  of  his 
Lordship's  concerns,  and  which  your  Grace  was  pleased  to 
speak  to  me  of  when  I  came  out  of  town.  And  'tis  chiefly 
concerning  the  Isle  of  Man,  of  which  there  were  some  proposals 
to  farm  out;  I  have  looked  over  the  accounts  of  the  Isle,  and 
have  discoursed  with  Mr.  Calcott  (my  Lord's  steward  there), 
as  likew^ise  with  Mr.  Roper,  who  is  to  be  solicitor  and  secretary 
to  my  Lord,  and  in  a  good  measure  understands  that  Isle, 
and  by  what  I  can  collect  from  the  whole,  I  conceive  the 
Isle  may  be  easily  at  present  brought  to  make  clear  1,000Z 
per  annum  in  the  way  'tis  now  in,  only  by  redecreeing  the 
charge.  And  this  I  humbly  conceive  will  be  much  more 
agreeable  to  the  people  there,  and  more  suitable  to  my  Lord 
of  Derby's  honour,  and  possibly  of  more  lasting  profit  than 
by  the  way  of  farm.  Mr.  Calcott  brings  up  the  account  of 
the  Isle  at  large,  and  Mr.  Roper  will  be  up  in  a  few  days, 
and  then  your  Grace  will  be  more  fully  informed,  and  if  the 
Governor  and  Deputy  Governor  were  advised  with  likewise, 
your  Grace  would  then  have  a  perfect  understanding  of  the 
whole.  Your  Grace  will  find  it  so  pretty  a  dominion,  and 
of  so  much  honour,  as  to  deserve  a  good  care  in  the  settlement 
of  it.  For  the  goods  at  Knowsley  and  Lathom,  I  have  been 
twice  there  to  advise  with  my  Lord's  servants,  Mr.  Morean 
and  Mr.  Jones,  what  is  fittest  to  buy,  and  they  have  now  sent 
a  particular  of  as  much  as  comes  to  550/,  and  if  it  be  thought 
convenient  to  take  less,  my  Lord,  I  may  take  or  leave  as 
he  pleases.  For  the  debts  owing  in  those  parts  (to  which 
the  goods  would  not  extend),  Mr.  Jones  and  Mr.  Morean  arc 
examining  and  making  a  list  of  them.  For  all  other  particulars 
which  Mr.  Phillips  desired ;  they  have  been  before  sent  up,  so 
that  I  hope  nothing  is  wanting  to  give  a  full  satisfaction. 

William  Jones  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1G73,  June  30.  Tralee. — Such  persons  as  are  employed 
in  the  Duke  of  Ormond's  business  in  the  County  of  Kerry  for 
the  receiving  of  his  chief eries,  the  people  tells  them  that  Teige 
Mahonjr  hath  forewarned  them  not  to  pay  any  monies  unto 
them  for  he  hath  the  collection  of  it,  and  so  the  collectors 
cannot  proceed;  they  were  in  a  good  way  in  discovering  of 
his  concealments;  he,  finding  of  that,  has  followed  the 
collectors  into  the  several  baronies,  and  out  of  several  Manor 
Courts  has  replevied  such  cattle  as  were  taken  for  chief 
rent ;  this  he  hath  done  by  Baltinglasses  his  chief  rents ; 
he  hath  concealed  one  place  within  a  mile  and  a  half  of  his 
own  house,  which,- when  he  saw  discovered,  he  got  a  replevin 
out  of  Sir  Valentine  Brown's  manor.  I  was  in  a  good  way 
to  bring  the  people  to  some  compliance,  for  I  have  found  a 
man  which  has  a  book  of  the  last  composition   made   with 


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i)ykes  and  his  partner  for  Desmond's  cliieferies,  and  will  let 
you  have  it  if  you  will  let  him  have  the  collection  of  two 
l)aronies,  where  I  could  never  receive  one  penny,  they  being 
generally  concerned  in  Desmond's  chieferies.  His  book  is  far 
(liffcrent  from  yours,  and  I  am  apt  to  believe  is  a  true  book, 
for  the  particulars  of  each  knight's  fee  are  mentioned  in  it, 
so  that  all  will  be  made  plain.  I  will  have  some  further 
discourse  with  the  man  about  it,  for  I  tliink  him  to  be  an 
honest  man,  which  is  hard  for  me  to  say  of  many  others  in 
this  country.  Teige  Mahony  is  afraid  he  will  spoil  his  business. 
I  would  send  him  down  to  you  if  I  knew  when  you  would  be 
at  home.  In  the  meantime,  pray  let  Sir  Valentine  Brown 
have  two  or  three  lines  from  you  to  caution  him  to  return  the 
cattle  that  were  replevied,  and  it  will  be  done,  and  that  will 
encourage  your  collectors  to  follow  your  business,  and  put  us 
in  a  good  way  of  proceeding,  for  we  have  no  better  place  to 
secure  the  cattle  we  drive,  than  w-ithin  his  town  of  Killarney, 
for  that  is  the  next  safe  place  to  these  places  w^hich  receives 
and  breaks  pounds ;  therefore,  if  you  please,  let  me  have  from 
you  a  line  to  Sir  Valentine  to  that  purpose. 

SiK  Fkaxcis  Brewster  to  Capt.  George  MATHEW^ 

1G73,  June  30.  Dingle. — I  have  yours  desiring  my  ordering  a 
meeting  with  you  at  Clonmel,  the  9th  of  next  month,  to  perfect 
the  lease  of  this  town,  which  I  wish  were  done,  and  to  that  end 
I  should  have  waited  on  you  now,  but  am  hindered  by  the 
(lisoiders  of  this  place,  where  I  meet  wuth  as  much  discourtesy 
iis  is  in  the  power  of  some  to  give  me,  which,  had  I  known,  I 
siiould  not  have  brought  from  their  settled  dwellings  a  hundred 
]''.nglish  to  be  every  day  terrified  with  being  sent  from  whence 
they  came,  after  they  have  spent  there  substance  in  removing, 
etc.  To  quiet  the  minds  of  those  I  have  brought  here,  I  am 
forced  to  stay  longer  than  I  intended,  so  must  beg  your  excuse 
at  this  time,  but  in  my  return  to  Dublin  I  shall  w^ait  upon  you  ; 
in  the  meantime  give  me  leave  to  write  unto  you  the  diflBculties 
I  lie  under  in  this  place.  According  to  my  contract  of  making 
good  the  Duke  of  Ormond's  contracts,  both  the  last  year  and 
this,  I  sent  and  gave  notice  that  notwithstanding  their  contracts 
were  all  void,  by  not  taking  out  their  leases,  yet  if  they  w^ould 
now  do  it,  I  was  ready  to  perfect  it ;  upon  this,  some  that  had 
houses  or  cabins  in  the  middle  of  the  town,  which  they  were 
not  bound  to  build  or  repair,  came ;  but  to  this  day  not  one 
whose  contracts  oblige  them  to  build  appears ;  upon  which  I 
sent  to  some  for  their  rents,  and  to  tell  them  I  expected 
performance  of  their  articles,  to  which  they  returned  me  such 
answers  as  the  enclosed  copy  of  Sir  Valentine  Browne's  letter 
mentions,  which  was  a  great  surprise  to  me ;  and  making 
further  inquiry,  I  found  too  many  such  contracts  in  the  book, 
which  T  acquainted  Mr.  Crosby  of,  w^ho  I  perceive  is  as  ignorant 
of  it  as  myself:  and  so  I  do  believe  are  all  the  commissioners, 
but  1  fear  they  put  too  much  trust  in  some  they  employed. 


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It  is  my  great  loss  that  I  can  find  no  builders  in  performance 
of  these  contracts,  and  it  is  yet'my  greater  damage  that  where 
I  would  build,  it  is  let  to  those  that  are  not  obliged  to  build, 
so  that  they  are  neither  fast  nor  loose.  The  choice  walls 
and  house  plots  in  the  town  are  let  for  trifles ;  and  not  being 
obliged  to  build  will  be  a  nuisance,  which  if  not  removed  wall 
hinder  the  building  of  this  town.  And  now  that  I  have 
brought  so  many  families  of  able  tradesmen  that  came 
not  from  their  habitations  through  necessity,  it  is  unhappy 
that  they  should  be  thus  obstructed,  and  if  they  that  do  it 
would  but  perform  what  these  are  to  do,  there  would  be 
some  pretence,  but  none  w^hen  they  do  it  only  to  obstruct  so 
good  a  w^ork,  and  for  the  gaining  five  or  ten  shillings  per 
annum  from  a  poor  man,  that  lives  in  a  house  no  longer  than 
the  timber  and  boards  serve  him  to  buy  victuals  for  his  family  ; 
and  that  thus  it  hath  been  is  apparent,  for  that  in  all  this 
town  is  now  standing  but  four  or  five  houses  with  a  roof, 
but  only  thatched  hovels  in  the  walls  of  a  house.  I  have 
intruded  too  much  on  your  patience  in  this  relation,  which 
is  yet  far  short  of  the  whole.  What  now  I  desire  is  your 
advice  what  I  shall  do.  I  presume  it  will  not  be  either  for 
the  Duke's  honour  or  profit  to  let  this  town  lie  in  ashes,  and 
otherwise  it  cannot  be  i*  the  middle  of  the  town  must  remain 
dirty  cabins  and  other  parts  lie  in  dispute  whether  let  or  no ; 
but  seeing  there  hath  been  such  miscarriage  in  the.  whole 
affair,  I  conceive  there  is  no  way  but  to  lay  aside  all,  nor 
do  I  think  you  will  think  it  reasonable  for  me  to  make  good 
one,  when  1  cannot  enforce  another.     Your  answer  will  oblige. 

Okmond  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1673,  July  5.  Clarendon  House. — We  are  not  yet  well 
informed  how  to  make  the  best  of  wool  when  it  shall  be  landed 
here,  but  we  are  satisfied  that  more  wdll  be  made  of  it  that 
way  than  by  selling  of  it  to  merchants  there.  The  sooner 
it  can  be  gotten,  the  more  safely  it  will  be  transported,  because 
that  when  the  fleets  are  drawn  in  (which  may  be  about  the 
end  of  September),  the  privateers  will  be  more  numerous 
abroad ;  and  if  I  have  notice  about  what  time  a  vessel  laden 
may  be  ready  to  set  sail  and  from  what  port,  it  is  very  possible 
1  may  obtain  a  convoy  for  her,  to  put  her  safe  into  liarnstable 
or  rather  into  Bideford  or  Exeter,  the  last  being  the  place 
to  which  that  commodity  must  be  brought  to  be  taken  oil', 
and  it  will  receive  a  vessel  of  200  tons,  as  I  am  informed  by 
the  controller  of  the  customs  of  that  port.  My  Lord  O'Brien 
of  Thomond,  tells  me  he  is  in  partnership  with  some  consider- 
able merchant,  and  that  if  hides  and  tallow  shall  be  delivered  at 
Limerick  or  Cork  to  his  correspondent  (whose  name  T  have  for- 
got, but  it  may  be  learnt  of  his  steward  at  Bunratty),they  will  be 
taken  if  for  ready  money  at  good  rates,  and  it  is  possible  good 
bills  may  be  had  from  them  at  lower  rates  than  the  exchange 
runs.       If  some  honest  and  knowing  ))erson  be  employed  to 


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those  towns,  I  conceive  much  good  may  be  done  both  for  me 
and  my  tenants  this  way,  and  it  may  be  worth  a  good  salary 
to  one  or  more  persons  so  qualified,  who  will  take  the  pains 
to  go  to  those  places  to  receive  the  goods  and  bargain  for 
them ;  and  I  suppose  the  tenants  will  convey  them  to  such 
places  as  shall  be  appointed,  receiving  some  allowance  for  it. 
However,  at  so  dead  a  time  as  this  is,  and  wdll  be  if  the  war 
continue,  I  conceive  it  needful  to  make  one  trial  of  this  kind, 
rather  than  suffer  the  tenants  to  run  into  a  desperate  arrear, 
though  you  should  allow  the  mer.  *iants  time  for  payment  upon 
good  security. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  Exeter,  12th  July,  1673,  enclosed 
in  foregoing  letter, 

I  have  inquired  after  the  rates  of  tallow  and  hides,  and  find 
that  tallow  is  worth  about  325.  per  cwt.,  and  Irish  hides 
salted,  if  good,  are  at  present  worth  about  2|d.  per  pound, 
and  a  quantity  at  this  time  will  sell  well.  The  yarn  is  not 
to  be  valued ;  that  might  be  according  to  the  goodness.  The 
finest  will  sell  best. 

Ormond  to  Major  Neville. 

1673,  July  30.  Clarendon  House. — The  good  character 
given  unto  me  of  your  integrity  to  the  Earl  of  Derby,  and 
your  abilities  to  do  his  Lordship  service  in  the  Isle  of  Man, 
hath  induced  me  to  commit  the  government  of  that  place  to 
your  management  during  my  good  pleasure,  as  by  your 
commission  herewith  sent  will  appear.  In  pursuance  whereof, 
so  soon  as  this  shall  come  to  your  hands,  you  and  the  rest 
of  the  auditors  by  me  appointed,  are  to  take  the  water  bailiffs' 
accounts  for  all  importations,  exportations,  anchorage,  and 
what  else  they  are  chargeable  with,  for  one  whole  year  ending 
the  24th  day  of  June  last  past,  and  what  money  you  find  due 
from  them,  to  receive  and  lay  up  in  the  treasury,  as  also  what 
monies  shall  be  due  the  29th  of  September  next  ensuing,  and  in 
default  of  payment,  you  are  to  put  the  law  in  execution  against 
them.  I  do  likewise  expect  punctual  obedience  unto  that 
commission  by  which  you  and  others  are  by  [me]  now 
constituted  auditors,  and  to  the  establishment  of  fees  and 
salaries,  both  which  do  accompany  this  letter;  and  you  are 
not  to  fail  in  settling  the  collectors  accounts,  29th  September 
next,  and  cause  them  to  pay  into  your  hands  what  shall  be 
due  from  them  for  one  year's  rent  then  ending ;  after  which 
time  you  are  to  take  the  same  care  that  the  Receiver  General's 
water  bailiff  or  his  deputy,  and  the  steward's  accounts  be 
quarterly  cleared,  to  the  intent  that  no  loss  may  happen  by 
suffering  money  to  continue  in  their  hands,  and  if  any  lands 
shall  fall  out  of  lease  during  my  Lord  Derby's  minority,  you 
are  to  let  such  lands  during  that  time  to  the  right  tenant 
thereof  at  such  a  moderate  improved  rent  as  yourself  and  the 
rest  of  the  oflBcers  of  the  revenue  shall  conceive  reasonable. 
You  are  also  to  take  especial  care  that  no  money  be  suffered 


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to  be  transported  out  of  the  Island  which  by  any  legal  means 
may  be  prevented,  and  that  all  goods  and  merchandise  hnported 
and  sold,  the  proceeds  thereof  to  be  invested  in  the  native 
commodities,  in  which  particular  especial  regard  is  to  be 
had  that  traffic  and  trade  receive  all  due  encouragement.  As 
for  the  returning  of  the  receipts  quarterly  into  England,  you 
may  consider  of  the  surest  way  for  that  performance,  wherein 
I  shall  be  well  contented  if  all  or  the  greatest  part  be  remitted 
by  bills  of  exchange  to  Liverpool  or  Chester. 

Eakl  of  Derby  to  Ormond. 

1673,  August  6.  Paris. — My  Lord :  On  Saturday  we  came 
here.  We  are  now  settled  in  a  house,  and  I  hope  within 
two  or  three  days  to  be  pretty  well  at  ease.  The  news  here 
is  of  the  consternation  the  people  in  Zealand  were  when  our 
fleet  was  seen  by  them,  and  that  they  did  not  know  whether 
they  should  surrender  themselves    or  not. 

Charles  Alcocke  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathbw. 

1673,  August  9.  Clonmel. — According  to  the  commands 
I  received  lately  from  your  Honour  at  Thomastown,  I  have 
acquainted  the  mayor  of  this  town  with  what  Sir  Wm.  Davis 
lately  intimated  to  your  Honour  concerning  the  dismantling 
of  the  citadel  of  this  town,  which  the  mayor  apprehends  to 
be  a  matter  of  that  moment,  that  he  desires  that  your  Honour 
or  Sir  William  Davis  will  please  to  intimate  your  sense  or 
desire  in  the  matter  under  your  hands,  that  so  he  may  advise 
with  his  brethren  of  this  corporation  in  order  to  give  your 
Honour  a  full  and  satisfactory  answer,  which  will  be  much 
an  obligation  to  them. 

Henry  Gascoigne  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1673,  August  19.  Clarendon  House. — Not  knowing  where 
to  direct  my  Lord's  letter  to  Mr.  Hutchinson,  the  Quaker, 
or  how  it  may  be  conveyed  to  him,  I  send  it  enclosed  to  you 
with  a  flying  seal  for  your  perusal,  to  the  end  you  may  as 
you  see  cause  order  the  delivery  of  it.  I  am  commanded 
to  give  you  notice  that  yesterday  my  Lord  drew  first  and 
second  bills  upon  you  for  the  payment  of  a  hundred  and  eleven 
pounds  to  Mr.  Nelthorpe  or  his  order,  the  value  being  received 
here  by  his  Grace. 

My  Lord  of  Ossory  is  I  thank  God  in  good  health,  though 
in  the  last  engagement  there  were  left  upon  his  quarter-deck 
but  himself,  his  page,  and  Captain  Narborough.*  We  have 
not  yet  an  account  of  the  particular  men  lost  in  this  fight, 
which  has  been  very  desperate  and  bloody. 

Postscript: — My  Lady  Duchess  is  at  present  at  the  Bath, 
where  I  believe  she  may  continue  a  fortnight. 

*  This  was  probabljr  the  engagement  of  Aug.  11,  1C73,  in  which  Narborough 
commanded  tlie  Henrietta, 


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txTiiACT  laioM  A  Letter  of  Colonel  Laurence. 

1673,  August  -28. — To  move  you  to  set  others  an  example 
by  returning  over  your  money  to  England  in  Irish  commodities, 
wherein  I  shall  be  willing  to  serve  your  Grace  upon  such 
reasonable  terms,  that  I  question  not  but  to  save  you  a 
considerable  part  of  your  exchange,  and  all  required  to  practice 
it  will  be  your  forbearing  your  money  three  or  four  months 
at  most,  sometimes  not  half  so  long,  after  being  paid  in  Ireland 
before  you  receive  it  in  England.  Your  example  herein  may 
prompt  others  to  take  the  same  course,  and  thereby  preserve 
this  poor  kingdom  from  further  ruin  by  that  means ;  and  when 
your  Grace  hath  experienced  the  advantage  of  it,  you  may 
move  His  Majesty  to  return  the  pay  of  the  Irish  regiments 
by  the  same  way.  When  I  understand  how  your  Grace 
inclines  to  try  this  experiment,  I  shall  more  at  large  give  you 
an  account  of  the  method  and  platform  of  it. 

Col.  Eichard  Laurence  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1673,  September  22.  Dublin. — I  received  a  letter  from  his 
Grace,  the  Duke  of  Ormond,  dated  the  6th  instant,  in  which 
amongst  other  things  his  Grace  advises  me  he  hath  a  great 
parcel  of  wool,  received  for  rents,  which  lies  at  Carrick, which  he 
directs  me  to  advise  with  yourself  about  the  disposement  of 
it  to  his  best  advantage,  in  order  to  which,  if  you  please  to 
advise  me  of  the  quantity  and  quality,  that  is  how  much  of  it 
is  large  for  the  comb,  and  what  quantity  fine  small  wool  for 
clothiers,  and  what  quantity  of  middle  ordinary  wool  of  the 
growth  of  your  poorer  tenants ;  whether  it  be  all  whole  year's 
growth  or  any  part  half-year's  growth  and  lambs.  Upon 
advice  from  you,  I  shall  give  you  my  opinion,  and  advise  what 
markets  I  judge  to  be  best  to  consign  each  several  parcels  to ; 
only  let  me  also  know  the  general  price  you  receive  it  at. 

Commissioners  of  the  Treasury  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew 

and  Lieut.  F.  Lego. 

1673,  September  22.  Treasury  Chambers. — ^We  have 
pl'ocured  a  commission  under  the  seal  of  His  Majesty's  Court 
of  Exchequer,  directed  unto  Mr.  Nathaniel  Taylor,  to  be  His 
^Majesty's  commissioner  and  receiver  of  arrears  of  rents  and 
other  sums  of  money  due  to  His  ilajesty  in  the  County  of 
Tipperary,  thereby  intending  to  free  the  country  from  that 
burthen  they  have  so  long  groaned  under  by  the  sheriff's 
bailiffs,  and  the  discharge  of  such  unnecessary  and  undue 
charges  that  have  usually  issued  in  process  to  the  disquiet 
and  vexation  of  His  Majesty's  subjects.  And  have  presumed 
to  direct  the  bearer  to  leave  the  said  commission  with  you, 
until  the  said  Mr.  Taylor,  together  with  such  sufficient  security 
as  you  shall  approve  of,  has  signed  and  perfected  the  enclosed 
bond  before  von.  whicli  we  entreat  vou  to  st*e  done  aceordinjxH'. 


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and  then  to  transmit  the  same  to  us  by  some  safe  hand  or 
by  the  post.  We  beg  your  pardon  for  this  trouble,  and  remain 
your  affectionate  friends  and  servants. 

John  Stepney. 

Edw.  Roberts. 

Joh.  Hayes. 

Alex.  Bence. 

Jos.  Deane. 

Col.  Richard  Laurence  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1673,  October  1.  Chapelizod.— Yours,  the  27th  of  September, 
is  before  me.  The  proposals  I  sent  to  his  Grace  was  upon 
misinformation  that  his  Grace  transmitted  most  of  his  money 
into  England  in  specie  (which  I  looked  at  as  a  great  damage 
to  the  kingdom,  which  I  am  sure  he  wishes  well),  or  otherways 
returned  it  at  exchange  current,  which  last  year  was  betwixt 
twelve  and  fifteen  per  cent. ,  which  had  been  a  great  damage 
to  himself,  on  which  considerations  I  writ  these  propositions 
to  relieve  both ;  but  soon  after  meeting  Mr.  Controller  Baxter, 
he  informed  me  neither  \vas  true,  but  that  his  Grace  had 
agreed  with  a  merchant  in  London,  who  returned  his  money 
at  eight  per  cent.,  and  advance  much  beforehand,  which 
made  me  wish  my  propositions  in  my  hand  again,  for  I  fear 
all  my  ambition  to  serve  his  Grace  will  hardly  bring  his  return 
within  that  compass,  and  the  way  attended  with  much  more 
hazard  and  delay;  but  had  it  been  as  I  understood,  I  think  I 
might  have  proposed  to  his  Grace  a  way  to  save  half  his 
exchange,  and  that  I  believe  is  as  much  as  most  merchants 
gain  by  their  adventure,  and  computing  his  Grace's  returns  to 
be  12,000  pounds  per  annum  at  least,  and  exchange  ten  per 
cent.,  one  time  with  another,  I  computed  his  Grace  might 
save  about  600Z  per  annum,  and  withal  promote  the  trade  of 
the  kingdom ;  but  if  his  Grace  can  return  his  money  as 
Mr.  Baxter  informed,  I  do  not  believe  the  gain  will  be  worth 
the  designing.  Therefore  I  will  say  no  more  to  that  design  till 
his  Grace  be  at  a  greater  loss,  for  great  persons  rarely  love  to  play 
at  small  gain.  But,  Sir,  for  the  8,000  stone  of  wools  on  your 
hand,  received  in  at  7^.  6d.  per  stone,  unless  they  be  generally 
of  a  better  sort  than  the  wools  in  these  parts,  they  are  bought 
too  dear,  for  though  there  are  some  choice  flocks  in  Tipperary, 
as  Moore's  and  Martin's,  etc.,  that  are  worth  more  money, 
yet  the  middle  sort  of  wools  are  much  such  as  ours  are,  and 
the  generality  of  the  wools  here  were  sold  under  65. ,  some  few 
choice  flocks  at  75.  per  stone,  great  quantities  of  which  lies 
now  both  in  the  north  and  west  of  England  unsold ;  and  hard 
it  is  to  sell  wool  in  England  now  for  ready  money ;  and  while 
the  Dutch  war  continues  I  fear  will  be  so.  Therefore,  Sir,  if 
you  could  sell  your  wools  in  Ireland,  and  secure  your  money 
to  be  paid  in  England  at  three  or  four  months,  and  five  or  six 
per  cent,  loss,  I  advise  you  to  do  it;  if  not,  let  me  know  if 
yourself  or  any  of  your  friends  in  those  parts  have  any  corres- 
pondence or  acquaintance  with  any  honest,  sufficient  merchants 


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at  Bristol,  Minehead,  Taunton,  Bideford,  Exeter,  Tiverton, 
etc.,  to  consign  goods  unto;  if  not,  I  shall  advise  you  to  such 
as  myself  has  traded  with  these  several  years,  and  found  them 
able  and  honest,  to  whom  you  may  consign  parcels  of  three 
or  four  hundred  stone  at  a  time  to  sell  by  commission,  that  is 
to  have  two  per  cent,  for  sails,  and  be  accountable  to  you  for 
the  product;  and  thus  by  one  thousand  stone  of  the  parcel, 
you  would  receive  advice  from  them  how  markets  rule  (which 
are  subject  to  vary  monthly),  and  after  that,  might  consign 
the  rest  of  it  to  such  places  as  you  observed  by  this  trial  the 
markets  most  encouraged ;  and  if  you  can  keep  your  wool  till 
after  Christmas,  markets  are  best  in  February,  March,  and 
April.  But  then  his  Grace  must  have  some  person  in  London 
to  whom  copies  of  the  invoice  and  bills  of  lading  for  each 
ship  must  be  sent,  and  they  must  correspond  with  your  factors 
of  the  respective  ports  in  England,  and  receive  their  accounts 
of  sales,  and  advise  them  about  their  proceeds  and  charge  bills 
on  them  for  the  money ;  which  if  his  Grace  thinks  none  of  his 
servants  is  capable  of,  I  shall  propose  to  him  a  sufficient 
merchant  in  London  (responsible  for  40,000  pounds),  that  shall 
there  manage  the  whole  correspondence  betwixt  yourself  in 
Ireland  and  your  factors  in  England,  which  person  may  save 
his  Grace  the  charge  of  keeping  any  other  cashier  (or  treasurer) 
except  for  petty  expenses,  and  the  same  person  may  probably 
advance  (upon  reasonable  terms,  when  special  occasions  require) 
upon  the  security  of  the  effects  in  his  hand ;  besides,  the  same 
person  may  probably  find  a  way  to  truck  wool  for  cloth 
and  stuffs,  which  "is  now  the  chief  trade  for  wools,  and  take 
them  to  his  own  account,  and  pay  his  Grace  a  better  price  for 
his  wools  than  they  can  be  sold  for  ready  money.  If  you  incline 
(before  you  receive  his  Grace's  further  advice)  to  send  over 
some  small  parcels  to  Minehead  and  Bideford,  I  shall  send 
you  forms  for  your  invoice,  and  letters  of  advice  with  directions 
how  to  make  your  entries  at  Custom  house  (if  needful),  and 
when  you  are  in  your  way,  shall  from  time  to  time  give  what- 
soever assistance  and  advise  may  be  needful. 

Postscript : — When  I  understand  what  other  goods  you 
receive  of  your  tenants,  I  shall  give  you  my  best  advice  about 
their  disposal. 

CoL.  EicHARD  Laurence  to  Captain  Geo.  Mathew. 

1678,  October  14.  Dublin. — My  servant's  neglect  in  bringing 
your  letter  so  late  on  Saturday,  prevented  my  answering  till 
this  post.  I  have  here  enclosed  sent  you  forms  of  bills  of  lading, 
invoice,  and  letters  of  advice.*  When  you  ship  your  goods, 
if  the  weather  be  fair,  or  you  have  a  dry  warehouse  near  the 
King's  scales,  weigh  before  you  make  your  entry,  because  then 
y^u  will  have  no  trouble  of  post  entries,  but  if  the  weather 
be  likely  to  rain,  undergo  any  trouble  or  charge  rather  than 
have  your  wool  wet,  for  wet  will  not  only  spoil  the  colour  of 
your  wool,  but  rot  all  your  bags,  which  will  be  a  great  loss, 

*  See  below. 


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and  the  same  bags  will  last  you  several  years  if  they  be  kept 
dry,  therefore  write  to  your  factors  at  every  port  to  be  careful 
of  your  bags,  and  if  they  can't  sell  them  with  your  wool,  to 
wash  and  dry  them  and  return  them  back  to  you  with  all 
speed,  and  in  this  case  make  a  guess  entry,  and  perfect  all 
your  business  in  the  Custom  house  within  doors  before  you  bring 
your  wool  to  the  scales,  and*have  a  close  gabbard  lie  ready  as 
near  the  scales  as  you  can,  that  the  wool  may  be  turned  just 
from  the  scales  into  the  gabbard,  and  make  the  porters  sweep 
the  ground  very  clean  about  the  scales  before  you  throw  down 
your  bags,  and  be  sure  your  gabbard  be  not  leaky,  but  see  her 
bottom  be  dry  and  clean  before  you  throw  in  your  wool.  For 
the  fees  of  the  Custom  house,  both  within  doors  and  without, 
every  clerk  of  the  Custom  house  will  readily  inform  you. 
When  you  make  a  computed  or  guess  entry,  do  not  compute 
it  exactly,  keep  the  officer  as  ignorant  as  you  can  of  the 
exact  weight  of  your  wool,  for  if  the  officer  at  the  scales 
be  anything  civil,  they  give  good  weight,  sometimes  seven  or 
eight,  ten  or  twelve  pound  at  a  draft,  that  if  you  enter  short, 
your  making  a  post  entry  for  forty  stone  is  as  little  trouble 
as  for  ten,  and  if  you  enter  considerably  over,  it  will  be  the  same 
with  the  officer  in  the  making  his  return.  If  there  be  anything 
else  you  need  advice  more  than  what  is  on  the  other  side  that 
comes  not  into  my  memory,  upon  notice  you  shall  receive  it 
from  him  who  is  glad  of  an  opportunity  in  anything  within 
his  power  to  express  his  readiness  to  be  serviceable  to  his  Grace. 

Enclosed  with  the  foregoing  Letter. 

The  usual  duties  and  fees  paid  at  the  Custom  house  to  bring 
the  wool  aboard  the  ship. 
Per  stone. 

Prime  duty,  15d. 
Licence,  4d. 

Fees  for  Hcence,  1,500  stones,  11  5s. 
Petty  duty. 

Searcher,  4rf.  per  bag. 

Cranier,4(f.  per  bag. 

Weigher  and  parceler  at  scales,  2d.  per  bag. 

Writing  the  entry,  and  cocket  fees  of  the  whole 

parcel,  61  Is. 

Gabridge    at   Dublin,    4d.;    but    at   Waterford, 

according  to  the  distance  of  the  ship. 

So  that  we  compute  our  wool  stands  us  in  clear  on  board  all 

charge,  betwixt  18d.  and  19d.  per  stone,  allowing  16  pounds 

to  the  stone;  if  the  officer  of  the  scales  be  very  strict,  more; 

and  it  would  rise  higher,  but  that  you  are  allowed  18  pounds 

to  the  stone  (by  the  King's  scales),  called  the  great  stone,  so 

that  every  hundred-weight  of  wool  at  the  scales  at  16  pounds 

to  the  stone,  makes  seven  stone,  but  at  18  pounds  to  the  stone, 

is  six  stone,  and  so  you  must  reckon  your  stones  with  the  King's 

officer,  every  hundred-weight  six  stone;  and  so  expresses  your 

cocket  and  your  bond  for  certificate  of  its  landing,  but  your 


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account  or  invoice  to  your  factors  must  be  at  16  pounds  to  the 
stone.  For  the  variation  of  weights  in  the  several  ports  in 
England  you  consign  to,  your  factors  in  England  will  express 
in  their  accounts. 

We  usually  pay  for  freight  from  Dublin  to  Bristol  6d.  per 
stone,  sometimes  6d. ,  and  the  same  to  Minehead  if  the  ship 
belong  not  to  that  port,  but  if  she  do,  they  will  carry  as  cheap 
as  to  Bideford  or  Appledore,  which  is  4d.,  sometimes  3d.,  per 
stone;  but  Waterford  being  a  shorter  cut,  it  is  probable  you 
may  agree  cheaper;  but  never  pinch  freight  to  miss  a  good 
vessel.  I  had  rather  give  some  vessels  6d.  than  others  4d. 
per  stone ;  let  your  vessel  be  stiff  and  staunch,  reputed  a  good 
sailer,  with  an  honest  skilful  master,  well  acquainted  with  the 
coast,  and  well  manned,  otherways  your  goods  may  sink  in 
a  storm  while  others  gets  safe  to  shore,  or  be  taken  by  a  pirate 
while  others  escapes.  If  you  ship  off  any  goods  before  further 
advice,  consign  at  Bristol  to  Mr.  John  Teig,  at  the  Dolphin; 
at  Minehead,  to  Mr.  Nathaniel  Bullock;  at  Bideford,  to  Mr. 
Samuel  Leach ;  what  you  ship  to  Minehead,  let  it  be  most 
combing  wool ;  at  Taunton,  serge  makers  give  the  best  rates; 
for  Bristol,  some  combing,  but  most  clothing;  at  Bideford, 
both  sorts  usually  docs  well.  I  am  against  your  venturing  to 
Exeter,  or  any  place  beyond  the  Land's  End  while  war  and 
winter  lasts.  The  venture  is  too  great  upon  both  accounts  for 
the  small  matter  gotten  by  wool  to  run  the  hazard  of ;  and  for 
the  person  to  manage  this  affair  at  London,!  intend  to  commend 
Mr.  William  Kiffin  (a  person  well  known  to  his  Grace) ,  either 
to  undertake  it  himself,  or  to  commend  some  other  person  to 
his  Grace  in  whom  he  may  be  satisfied. 

Foi^M  OF  Letter  of  Advice,  Bill  of  Lading,  and  Invoice. 

[Enclosed  with  above  letter]. 

1673,  October  12.  Dublin. — These  are  to  advise  you  I  have 
shipped  on  board  the  Swan,  of  Bristol,  John  Styles,  master, 
for  this  present  voyage,  twelve  bags  of  wool;  the  quantity 
and  quality  is  expressed  in  the  enclosed  invoice.  You  are  to 
receive  the  same  into  your  charge,  paying  freight  according 
to  the  bill  of  lading,  with  the  customs  and  duties  of  your  port, 
and  to  secure  them  in  a  dry  warehouse  till  you  receive  advice 
from  Mr.  William  Kiffin  of  London,  merchant,  whose  orders 
you  are  to  observe  in  the  disposement  of  them,  and  to  send 
to  him  an  account  of  sales  with  an  account  current,  and  observe 
his  orders  and  accept  his  bills  for  the  money  you  sell  the  goods 
for.  Send  myself  advice  of  their  arrival,  and  the  condition 
you  receive  them  in ,  with  a  certificate  from  the  Custom  house 
of  their  landing ;  and  when  sold,  send  me  copies  of  all  accounts 
you  send  of  sales,  etc.,  to  William  KifiBn  aforesaid,  and  of  all 
bills  he  charges  on  you.  By  all  your  letters,  advise  me  how 
the  rates  of  wools  and  other  Irish  commodities  rules  with  you , 
and  you  shall  from  time  to  time  receive  further  advice  and 
supply  of  fresh  parcels  of  goods  as  your  markets  gives  encourage- 
ments to  your  loving  friend. 


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Direct  your  letter  to  ]\r.  ,  Esq.,  to  be  left  with  the 

postmaster  of  Dublin;  or  if  by  ship  to  Dublin,  to  R.  L. ;  or 
if  Waterford,  to  N.  G. ;  to  be  sent  as  above  said. 

Shipped  by  the  grace  of  God  in  good  order  and  well  con- 
ditioned, by  me,  R.  L.,  of  D.,  merchant,  in  and  upon  the 
good  ship  called  the  S.  of  P.,  whereof  is  master,  under  God, 
for  this  present  voyage,  G.  L.,  and  now  riding  at  anchor  in 

the  port  of  H ;  to  say bags  of  wool,  containing 

stones,  and  is  on  the  proper  account  and  adventure  of  R.  L.  of 
B.,  merchant,  being  marked  and  numbered  as  in  the  margin ; 
and  are  to  be  delivered  in  the  like  good  order,  and  well  con- 
ditioned, at  the  aforesaid  port  of  H ,  the  dangers  of  the 

seas  only  excepted,  unto  G.  M.  or  his  assignees,  he  or  they 
paying  freight  for  the  said  goods  at  the  rate  of  6d.  per  stone, 
with  primage  and  average  accustomed.  In  witness  whereof 
the  master  or  purser  of  the  said  ship  hath  affirmed  to  three 
bills  of  lading,  all  of  this  tenor  and  date,  the  one  of  which  three 
bills  being  accomplished,  the  other  two  to  stand  void;  and 
so  God  send  the  good  ship  to  her  desired  port  in  safety.  Amen. 
Dated  this  day  of 

1671,  May  13.  Dublin. — Account  of  twelve  bags  of  wool 
shipped  on  board  the  Orange  Tree  of  Northam,  Joseph  Comber, 
master,  for  Appledore,  and  is  on  my  proper  account  and 
adventure,  and  goes  consigned  unto  Mr.  Ethel  Davie  for 
Mr.  George  Ivie  of  Crediton,  in  Devonshire,  merchant,  marked 
and  numbered  as  per  margin,  viz. : — 


No. 

Of  whom 

SortH  of 

Net 

Quantity 

of 
Stones. 

Prices 
Cleared 

Bought.               Wool. 

1 

Weight. 

on 
Board. 

£   s.    d. 

c.  qt.  lb. 

77 

Joseph  Fish 
Do. 

Long  fleece  ... 

1  :    3:20 

78 

Do. 

1:3:6 

79 

Do. 

Do. 

1:3:6 

ston.    lb. 

s.     d. 

80 

Do. 

Do. 

2:   0:20 

93  :  12 

12  :  6 

58  11  10} 

81 

Do. 

Do. 

1  :03:  13 

82 

Do.   . 

Do. 

2:    1:    0 

83 

Do. 

Do. 

1:2:    3 

84 

Will  Bkooleigh  Short  fteeoe.. 

1  :   3  :  12 

85 

Do.                  Do. 

2:   0:    1 

Mton.    lb. 

H.     d. 

86            Do.                    Do. 

2:    1:  11 

73  :    7 

10  :  0 

36  14    4i 

87            Do.                    Do. 

1  :   3:  18 

88 

Do.            !        Do. 

1 

2:    1:13 

In  12  bags  of  sundry  persons 

23  :   3  :  15 

1 

167  :    3       ... 

95    6    3 

12  bags  at  68.  per  bag         

•  •  « 

■  •  ■             ,             •  •  • 

03  12    0 

Total       

1 

98  18    3 

Ahthur  Podmore  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1673,  October  25.  Dublin. — The  enclosed  letters  came  hither 
with  three  packets  on  Thnrsday  night  last.  Mr.  Eead  has 
the  wool  licences  for  1,000  stone  each.     We  could  not  get  them 

Wt.  8878  V 


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for  500  each  without  paying  255.  every  warrant  to  the  secretary, 
which  in  that  respect  would  have  been  a  double  charge.  I 
proposed  to  him  to  take  half-fees  for  every  licence,  and  let 
them  go  for  500  stone  each,  which  would  have  been  the  same 
thing  in  effect  to  him,  but  he  said  it  would  be  an  ill  precedent, 
and  others  would  expect  the  like.  However,  in  making  the 
warrants  to  you  or  your  assignees,  he  did  comply,  but  not 
without  first  asking  my  Lord  Lieutenant  if  any  danger  from 
capers  should  be  apprehended.  It  has  been  usual  in  such  cases 
to  have  a  warrant  for  one  of  the  frigates,  plying  near  Kinsale, 
to  convoy  ships  with  wool ;  should  the  like  be  thought  needful 
now,  I  presume,  upon  request  made,  it  will  be  granted. 


Jambs  Clarke  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1673,  October  28.  Clarendon  House. — ^The  gentleman*  that 
Colonel  Laurence  recommended  was  with  his  Grace,  and 
is  known  to  be  an  able,  understanding  man,  and  has  promised 
to  serve  his  Grace  to  his  power ;  he  will  write  to  his  corres- 
pondents in  all  parts  of  the  west,  and  upon  their  answers,  will 
return  his  advice  w^hat  he  had  best  to  do  w^ith  his  wool ;  this 
being  the  deadest  time  for  a  market,  we  hope  to  have  time 
enough  to  order  the  transporting  of  it  against  a  probable  time 
to  dispose  of  it  to  advantage.  This  day,  Mr.  Mulys  tells 
us  of  a  merchant  that  deals  greatly  in  that  commodity,  and 
that  has  seen  the  wool,  or  at  least  have  had  a  report  what 
it  is ;  he  believes  this  man  will  deal  for  the  w^hole  quantity. 
I  suppose  his  proposals  will  be  given  to  his  Grace  within  two 
days,  and  by  the  next  post  you  shall  know  the  result. 


EiCHARD  Mulys  to  Ormond. 

1673  [-4] ,  January  3.  Paris. — In  my  last  I  advertised  your 
Grace  of  2001  that  my  Lord  of  Derby  had  drawn  upon  you 
for  the  two  months'  maintenance.  I  produced  the  bill  to 
Monsieur  D.  Voulyrs  for  advance  of  the  said  sum,  and  received 
for  answer  that  his  order  [obliterated] ,  and  he  could  advance 
no  more  money  upon  his  Lordship's  bills.  This  my  Lord 
would  not  give  credit  to ;  himself  having  been  with  the  merchant 
formerly,  w-ho  told  him  that  if  I  would  appear,  his  Lordship 
might  have  what  money  he  pleased;  whereupon,  on  Saturday 
last,  I  went  together  with  my  Lord,  and  was  repulsed  in  like 
manner  as  before;  at  which  he  grew  highly  displeased  as 
believing  some  trick  in  it  on  purpose  to  oppose  and  disgrace 
him.  I  can  answer  for  myself  that  I  was  wholly  ignorant  and 
much  surprised  at  this  stop  of  necessary  payments.  Whatever 
his  Lordship's  resentments  were  upon  this  disappointment  of 
money,  and  the  notice  that  he  told  me  was  lately  given  him 
from  London  of  your  Grace's  intention  to  abandon  him  and 

♦Mr.  Kiffin. 


930 

all  his  affairs,  besides  his  own  pressing  occasions  for  pocket 
money,  his  Lordship  concealed  [them]  from  me,  and  secretly 
is  slipt  from  hence  with  deaign  (as  appears  by  his  Lordship's 
letter  to  me  received  yesterday  at  noon),  and  by  the  report 
of  his  friends,  Mr.  Ainsworth  and  Mr.  Morrits,  to  appear 
first  in  his  own  story  and  disabuse  your  Grace.  He  parted 
hence  on  Sunday,  in  the  afternoon,  and  he  hoped  to  be  at 
London  on  this  day.  His  course  here  your  Grace  has  partly 
heard ;  the  manner  of  living  that  he  proposeth  to  himself,  your 
Grace  will  understand  from  his  own  mouth.  His  friends  here 
extol  his  prudence,  conduct,  close  and  steady  resolutions,  and 
expect  his  sudden  return  to  Paris,  which  I  believe  is  at  present 
designed.  He  hath  privately  disposed  of  his  coach  and  horses ; 
His  other  goods  I  have  taken  an  inventory  of,  and  will  lodge 
with  Monsieur  Joubert,  the  master  of  the  Academy.  There 
is  nobody  with  him  but  a  French  footboy,  that  speaks  less 
English  than  his  Lordship  hath  French  (and  some  say  one 
other  servant  that  belongs  to  Morrits,  and  was  in  the  attempt 
upon  Mr.  Forbes,  but  this  is  not  spoke  with  certainty),  they  are 
both  of  very  ill  fame.  He  hath  had  supplies  of  money,  I 
presume  from  Mr.  Wentworth,  or  some  ways  that  they  have  . 
put  him  upon,  of  which  your  Grace  may  hear  in  time.  And 
because  his  Lordship  could  not  command  enough  here  to  repay 
the  same  in  the  manner  he  intended,  he  grew  incensed  against 
me,  who  had  not  power  over  one  penny  of  his  money,  but  am 
now  forced,  considering  the  manner  of  his  departure,  the 
clamour  of  the  poor  mechanics,  and  the  dishonour  that  would 
thereupon  fall  upon  his  Lordship,  to  employ  that  money  and 
credit  that  my  own  friends  had  given  me  here  for  other  uses, 
to  the  discharging  of  his  Lordship's  debts,  which  done,  I 
cheerfully  lay  hold  on  the  liberty  that  your  Grace  hath  given 
me,  and  on  Saturday  next  set  out  with  the  rest  of  my  Lord's 
servants  under  my  charge  for  England.  Since  within  this 
eight  days,  I  have  supplied  my  Lord  with  100  pistoles  for  his 
pocket  expense. 

Postscript : — ^I  shall  lay  out  for  payment  of  my  Lord's  debts 
here,  and  otherwise  on  his  Lordship's  accounts,  betwixt  200/ 
and  SOOl.  I  bes,eech  your  Grace  that  provision  may  be  made 
for  discharge  thereof,  by  reason  of  Mr.  Forbes  his  great  charges 
here ;  and  the  disappointment  of  satisfaction  from  Marrits  by 
his  discharge  from  prison  without  any  regard  to  damages,  cost, 
and  charge.  I  am  forced  to  advance  to  him  some  part  of  his 
salary. 

Encloses  copy  of  the  Earl  of  Derby's  letter  to  Rich, 
Mulys : — 

1673,  December  31.  Paris. — I  am  gone  towards  England 
this  day,  therefore  I  desire  you  to  take  care  that  my  debts  be 
paid,  especially  those  to  De  Hollando,  and  to  pay  off  the  coach- 
man and  Mountaine,  and  take  their  liveries,  and  to  send  Mr. 
[    ]ereign6  and  the  page  after  me. 


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Edward  Corker  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1674,  March  25.  Dublin. — Since  you  left  Dublin,  looking 
more  narrowly  into  the  accounts  passed  in  the  year  1662, 1  find 
an  account  of  1,004,000?,  which  was  advanced  by  Sir  Bobert 
Vyner  upon  his  Grace's  first  coming  to  the  government ;  and 
in  the  payments  out  of  that  sum,  I  have  discovered  the  very 
truth  of  that  matter  now  in  question  before  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Treasury — and  which  I  doubt  not  but  will  satisfy  you 
when  you  see  the  account,  that  the  547/  1,9.  Sd.  paid  by  way 
of  imprest,  is  not  the  same  that  his  Grace  allows  as  paid  in 
his  account  with  Sir  Daniel  Bellingham,  for  on  the  13th  of 
April,  1662,  there  is  paid  Mr.  Hume's  547/  1^.  8d.,  besides 
the  former  sum — and  in  that  very  account  is  said  to  be  allowed 
back  by  his  Grace — how  they  happened  to  be  alike  I  know  not, 
but  am  confident  it  is  really  as  I  have  found  it.  I  will  not 
proceed  in  anything  by  informing  the  commissioners  how  the 
matter  is  until  I  hear  from  you,  or  that  you  appoint  one  to 
examine  that  account  with  me.  I  owe  a  duty  to  his  Grace 
which  obligeth  me  to  regard  any  concern  of  his — and  although 
this  account  may  satisfy  you  that  I  am  now  in  the  right,  yet 
I  think  it  not  convenient  that  the  commissioners  should  see 
it.  I  will  be  directed  by  you  what  is  best  to  be  done,  for  when 
you  are  satisfied  that  the  matter  has  been  misapprehended 
all  this  while,  it  may  be  you  may  think  it  necessary  to  proceed 
some  particular  way  for  the  satisfaction  of  the  commissioners, 
for  I  guess  it  to  be  his  Grace's  humour  that  he  would  equally 
choose  the  loss  of  so  much  money  rather  than  to  be  found  in 
arrear  for  it,  although  through  mistake. 

Lady  Mary  Cavendish  to  the  Duchess  op  Ormond. 

1674,  June  28. — I  was  sorry  yesterday  when  I  received  your 
Ladyship's  letter,  to  find  it  was  not  written  from  Ireland. 
They  told  me  the  wind  was  fair,  two  or  three  days  together, 
after  you  were  at  the  sea  side,  which  made  me  hope  you  were 
landed.  I  wrote  a  letter  four  or  five  days  ago,  which  I  believe 
your  Ladyship  will  not  receive.  My  Lord  Devonshire  is  resolved 
upon  going  into  the  country  within  a  fortnight,  but  I  believe 
I  shall  not,  for  my  Lord  says  he  will  not  go.  I  have  written 
to  Betty  Stanhope ;  when  I  hear  how  she  does,  I  will  give 
your  Ladyship  an  account.  The  town  has  now  very  little 
company  in  it ;  I  hear  they  talk  very  much  again  of  my  Lord 
Lauderdale's  going  into  Ireland.  I  met  him  the  other  day 
with  my  Lady  Devonshire,  whom  he  comes  often  to  see ;  which 
you  may  imagine  she  was  pleased  with.  He  has  gotten  her 
chaplain,  Mr.  Naylor,  the  promise  of  being  a  prebendary  of 
Westminster.  The  children  are  very  well.  I  shall  now  only 
beg  of  your  Ladyship  to  present  my  humble  duty  to  my  father. 

Ormond  to  Sir  H.  Co^tsntry. 

1674,  July  13.  Kilkenny. — By  what  steps  I  am  gotten 
hither  will   not  be  much  for  your  instruction,  and  it  will  be 


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of  as  little  importance  to  tell  you  I  am  here  ready  to  receive 
your  commands.  I  neither  have,  nor  »m  like  to  have,  any 
observations  to  make  touching  the  place,  the  people,  or  the 
government.  You  are  therefore  like  to  receive  addresses  from 
me  very  rarely ;  at  least  I  hope  so,  because  the  subject  can 
probably  be  only  when  I  find  myself  or  some  friend  of  mine 
under  some  difficulty,  by  the  act  or  power  of  those  that  profess 
not  to  wish  us  well.  This  I  already  meet  with  in  the  case 
of  Sir  George  Lane,  in  whose  behalf  I  presumed  to  importune 
His  Majesty  for  a  just  declaration  of  his  pleasure  that  he  might 
receive  the  benefit  of  two  letters  patents,  by  which  offices  and 
salaries  are  conferred  on  him  for  life.  His  pretension  was 
referred  to  my  Lord  Treasurer's  examination,  and  on  his  report 
the  suit  was  granted.  In  a  very  few  days  after,  a  letter  is 
contrived  which  absolutely  frustrates  the  King's  justice  and 
favour  to  Sir  George,  and  though  it  was  without  doubt  calculated 
principally  for  that  end,  yet  it  carries  so  much  appearance  of 
reason  with  it,  that  I  do  not  wonder  it  should  pass  without 
any  observation  of  the  main  drift  of  it.  If  you  please  to  allow 
Sir  George  Lane  the  liberty  of  informing  you  of  all  the 
circumstances  of  this  aiTair,  I  think  it  will  appear  to  you,  and 
then  to  His  Majesty,  that  as  his  bounty  has  been  placed  in  this 
particular  upon  the  consideration  of  long  and  faithful  seryice,  so 
if  the  establishment  be  examined,  places  less  useful  and  persons 
less  meriting  will  be  found  provided  for.  Besides  that,  Sir 
George  Lane's  places  and  pensions  were  in  the  establishment 
undertaken  to  be  paid  by  the  Lord  Eanelagh's  contract,  and 
divers  others  which  were  not,  are  since  added  and  paid-  All  I 
will  add  is  that  I  was  very  desirous  at  my  parting  with  His 
Majesty,  to  bring  with  me  this  mark  of  my  credit  with  him,  and 
that  it  will  put  me  much  out  of  countenance  to  be  disappointed. 
I  am,  Sir,  your  most  affectionate  and  most  humble  servant. 


Cabroll  Bolton  to  Lord  John  Butler. 

1674,  July  24.  Belfast. — Excnfie  Bland's  stay,  for  he  could 
be  despatched  no  sooner ;  and  however  things  may  be  presented 
to  you,  and  notwithstanding  your  adversaries  here,  I  doubt 
not  of  two  true  friends,  and  tliose  will  (in  due  time)  bring  in 
the  third.  Whatever  answer  (to  yours)  you  receive  from  my 
Lord,  be  sure  you  constantly  write  to  liim,  and  let  him  know 
your  passions  increase,  and  let  affairs  jog  as  please  the  fates. 
Write  to  Hoyle,  and  enclose  it  in  a  letter  from  Henry  Bryn 
to  me,  but  put  not  your  hand  to  the  letter,  yet  let  all  be  written 
with  your  own  hand,  and  write  as  from  a  third  person ;  you 
know  what  you  have  to  say.  I  shall  manage  the  business  so 
that  she  shall  know  it  to  be  your  Lordship's  hand,  and  from 
yourself,  but  nobody  else.  As  I  am  yet  very  confident  of  good 
success  (though  these  little  oppositions  by  shaking  the  root 
serve  to  hinder  the  growth  and  thriving  thereof,  yet  do  they 
the  better  fix  it  by  making  it  take  surer  root,  and  consequently 


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it  must  pro4)er  the  more  plentifully,  and  the  enjoyment  will 
prove  more  satisfactory  when  matters  are  compared  with 
difficulty),  so  there  shall  be  no  want  of  my  best  endeavours. 

Carroll  Bolton  to  Ormond. 

1674,  July  29.  Belfast. — May  it  please  your  Grace:  The 
gout  is  so  in  my  hand  that  I  can  hardly  write;  however,  I 
thought  it  necessary  to  give  your  Grace  an  account  of  occur- 
rences since  my  last  by  Mr.  Bland. 

The  Countess  Donegall  received  a  letter  from  the  Countess 
of  Mountrath  in  the  behalf  of  the  Earl,  her  son ;  after  reading 
whereof,  she  said :  **  I  think  I  shall  be  persuaded  to  let  Lord 
John  have  Nan,  but  Mountrath  shall  never,  yet  I  hope  there's 
an  end  put  to  Lord  John's  further  addresses  if  he  has  not  a 
greater  passion  for  her  than  I  think  "  ;  so  that  I  find  now,  the 
Countess  being  confirmed  in  Lord  John's  passion  for  Lady  Ann 
(having  assurance  that  Lady  Ann  hath  a  kindness  for  him), 
she  will  no  longer  oppose  it  since  my  Lord  Donegall  is 
altogether  for  a  match ;  upon  consideration  whereof,  with  all 
submission,  I  humbly  conceive  Lord  John  should  do  well  to 
haste  hither  as  privately  as  possible  may  be,  and  with  as  few 
attendants,  that  his  coming  may  not  be  known  before  he  be 
here ;  his  work  will  be  to  satisfy  the  Countess  and  Lady  Ann 
of  his  real  passions  for  her,  and  then  nothing  can  obstruct 
the  confirmation.  Truly,  my  Lord,  Lady  Ann  hath  been  so 
free  with  her  mother,  that  she  hath  commended  the  person  of 
Lord  John,  and  more  effectually  his  humour ;  and  give  me  leave 
to  acquaint  your  Grace  that  Lady  Ann  is  very  fair,  virtuous, 
of  an  excellent  humour,  and  mighty  ingenious.  *Tis  true 
she  is  little,  but  exceeding  pretty,  and  I  am  confident  marriage 
would  increase  her  stature.  When  matters  come  to  a  treaty, 
which  I  hope  will  be  soon  after  Lord  John  hath  been  here 
(if  I  may  advise  your  Grace),  do  as  much  as  you  well  can  for 
him,  and  refer  Lady  Ann's  portion  or  estate  or  both  to  my 
Jjord;  for  to  my  knowledge,  if  he  match  her  in  your  Grace's 
family,  he  will  settle  upon  her,  in  England  and  Ireland,  above 
3,000/  per  annum,  with  noble  seats;  but  this  to  your  Grace 
only. 

Lord  Clare*  to  Ossory. 

1G74,  July  30.  Paris. — ^From  Perwis,  six  leagues  from 
Charleroi. — My  last  was  of  the  23rd  to  your  Lordship,  upon 
our  march  from  Park,  near  Lovaine,  which  we  continued  all 
that  night,  to  join  next  day  with  10,000  German  horse  at 
Bonuff ;  their  foot,  being  but  12,000,  came  last  night  to  us, 
we  having  laid  between  them  and  the  enemy.  There  went 
4,000  German  foot  and  3,000  horse  from  us  to  assist  the 
Palatinate  army.  We  have  the  finest  army  that  ever  was 
seen  ;  we  are  at  least  17,000  horse  and  35,000  foot. 

*  Gilbert  Holies,  3rd  Earl  of  Clare,  of  the  Holies  creation. 


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The  Prince  of  Conde  fortifies  liimself  close  to  Charleroi, 
and  it  seems  he  hath  no  mind  to  us,  though  we  be  come  here 
to  him.  When  there  is  anything  more,  your  Lordship  shall 
have  it. 

Postscript : — I  beseech  your  Lordship  to  send  this  to  my 
Lord  Duke  for  Ireland,  since  I  cannot  write  by  a  quicker  way 
to  his  Grace,  and  that  here  in  our  camp  we  have  no  certain 
way  of  sending  by  reason  of  the  boors  and  enemy,  but  as  by 
chance  we  meet  with  convoys. 

James  Clarke  to  Ormond. 

1674,  August  8.  Clarendon  House. — This  day  Sir  Cyril 
Wych  was  with  me  to  desire  that  his  principal  money  might 
be  paid  with  the  interest,  which  will  be  due  the  21st  instant ; 
it  will  be  618/.  This  was  due  to  Sir  William  Boardman,  who 
told  him,  as  he  tells  me,  that  he  believed  about  this  time  he 
would  help  your  Grace  with  the  same  sum,  for  I  understand 
this  gentleman  is  now  building  a  house  in  the  square  in  St. 
James'  fields.  There  is  a  report  when  the  King  comes  from 
Windsor  he  will  go  to  Newmarket,  and  that  the  Queen  will 
go.  If  your  Grace  think  it  convenient  to  consider  to  whom 
you  will  lend  your  house,  I  heard  the  King  should  say  that 
the  Queen  should  have  his,  and  he  would  have  your  Grace's. 
How  true  this  is  I  know  not.  If  your  Grace  has  sent  any 
answer  to  Squire's  propositions,  I  must  stay  till  Sir  George 
comes  from  my  Lord  of  Dorset's  on  Tuesday  ;  he  went  yesterday 
thither.  I  think  it  would  be  convenient  to  know  from  thence 
whether  the  money  deducted  out  of  the  prize  wines  be  allowed , 
or  how  much,  that  there  may  be  no  stop  at  the  next  payment, 
for  without  some  testimony  from  thence  what  is  done,  I  shall 
be  delayed  here. 

Francis,  Lord  Aungier  to  Ormond. 

1674,  August  8.  Longford. — I  have  returned  the  bearer  your 
Grace's  falconer,  with  two  cast  of  hawks,  of  which  one  cast 
was  mewed  this  last  year.  I  hope  they  will  please  your  Grace, 
but  if  they  should  fail  your  expectation,  your  Grace  has  this 
reserve,  that  if  you  like  mine  better,  both  they  and  my  falconer 
are  at  your  Grace's  disposal.  About  a  month  hence,  I  resolve 
to  kiss  your  Grace's  hands  at  Kilkenny,  by  which  time,  if 
this  fair  weather  lasts,  I  doubt  not  but  the  harvest  will  be  in, 
and  then  the  season  will  be  proper  for  this  sport,  in  the  trial  of 
which,  your  Grace  will  soon  find  how  far  I  am  improved  in 
this  art  since  your  Grace  left  Dublin. 

I  received,  three  posts  since,  a  kind  of  summons  from  Mr. 
Secretary  Coventry  to  the  Parliament  in  November  next, 
when  he  tells  me  'tis  agreed  on  all  hands  we  shall  meet ;  but 
in  this  affair  I  am  wholly  governed  by  your  Grace. 

Postscript: — My  Lord,  just  as  the  goshawk  was  drawn, 
there  was  an  impediment  discovered  in  her  wing,  so  that  I 


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was  forced  to  scud  a  flying  hawk  in  her  stead,  the  only  hawk 
I  have,  and  the  hopefullest  in  the  three  kingdoms.  She  has 
already  this  season  killed  three  brace  of  old  stagers,  and  I 
liad  that  value  for  her,  that  no  man  on  earth  (except  the  King 
and  the  Duke)  should  have  had  her  from  me  but  your  Grace. 

LoKD  Clare  to  Earl  of  Ossory. 

1674,  August  6.— My  Lord :  I  have  written  to  your  Lordship 
from  our  camp  near  Nivel,  and  from  Lenef,  where  w^e  came 
nearer  to  the  enemy's  camp  at  Tresini.  We  were  at  Lenef 
two  nights  in  view  of  the  enemy,  and  upon  Saturday,  the  11th 
of  this  month,  we  marched  from  thence  towards  Mariemont, 
leaving  a  thousand  foot  and  2,000  horse  and  dragoons  in  the 
rear  guard,  under  the  Prince  of  Vodemon's  command.  Our 
army  marched  in  three  several  w'ays  to  Mariemont,  and  our 
ba^^gage  in  three  more ;  the  disposition  of  the  march  being 
always  left  to  the  Spanish  commanders  in  this  country,  though 
that  day  the  Prince  would  have  his  baggage  go  further  about 
to  tlio  right  hand,  rather  than  take  the  nearer  way  that  was 
full  of  ill  passages  and  very  narrow,  but  it  was  not  observed, 
which  obliged  our  guards  to  keep  their  post  so  long,  that  the 
Germans  were  encamped,  and  most  of  the  Spanish  and  Holland 
army  got  to  Mariemont,  two  leagues  and  a  half  from  our  guard, 
to  see  our  waggons  pass  the  first  narrow  way  they  met  with. 
In  the  meanwhile,  the  Prince  of  Cond^  drew  out  his  army 
behind  a  hill,  which  was  opposite  to  our  guards,  which  he 
attacked  with  two  regiments  of  dragoons  and  foot,  at  nine  of 
the  clock  in  the  morning,  and  we  disputing  the  ground,  he 
brought  two  pieces  of  artillery  and  sent  more  men  to  fire  upon 
us. 

When  we  saw  our  waggons  past  the  first  narrow  passage,  we 
retired  to  a  bridge  behind  us,  and  there  we  disputed  the  passage, 
but  being  overpowered  by  the  enemy's  foot,  we  were  forced 
to  give  way,  having  lost  young  Prince  Maurice  of  Nasau, 
Colonel  to  one  of  the  foot  battalions,  and  the  Colonel  that 
commanded  the  other  battalion,  with  most  of  their  officers. 
Then  our  horse  kept  no  ground,  being  all  inclosures  about  us, 
until  we  came  a  league  further,  where  we  were  received  by 
Count  Valdeck,  Marquess  de  Assontar,  and  Duke  de  Villaher- 
niosa,  at  the  head  of  four  regiments  of  foot  and  a  thousand 
horse :  they  also  had  two  small  pieces  of  artillery  planted  on 
a  rising  ground  before  thcni.  And  there,  after  a  shaiTp  dispute, 
and  giving  a  stop  to  the  enemy,  the  Prince  left  the  post  to 
those  great  commanders,  and  went  to  put  the  rest  of  his  army 
in  a  posture  of  fighting. 

About  half  a  league  further  he  found  his  artillery  and  the 
wing  of  the  Holland  foot,  w^hich  the  Eeigne  Grave  (a  brave 
man,  and  Lieutenant  General  of  the  foot)  commanded;  his 
Higliness  got  this  artillery  planted  on  a  height  near  Mariemont, 
and  drew  his  foot  and  some  horse  to  defend  it.  In  the  mean- 
while,   the    Marquess   Assentar   was   talicn   prisoner,    Count 


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Valdeck  wouuded,  and  most  of  the  commanders  and  soldiers 
of  those  five  regiments  lost,  and  their  two  guns,  our  horse 
having  not  stuck  well  to  them ;  only  the  Duke  of  Villahermosa 
behaved  himself  like  a  brave  man. 

Then  the  Prince  of  Cond^  attacks  our  artillery,  about  one 
of  the  clock,  with  all  his  force,  but  it  was  resolutely  and  bravely 
defended  by  the  Prince  of  Orange;  he  drew  thither  all  his 
foot,  who  fought  admirable  well,  and  five  German  regiments. 
He  had  also  some  squadrons  of  horse,  but  the  gross  of  our 
horse  were  on  the  bottom  and  plains  near  us,  towards  Mons, 
to  which  plains  some  of  our  great  commanders  would  persuade 
the  Prince  to  retire,  but  his  Highness  told*  them  he  would 
make  good  the  place ;  and  it  was  necessary,  for  if  we  had  lost 
it,  we  had  been  in  danger  of  losing  all.  The  hill  was  level 
and  large  on  the  top,  and  surrounded  with  woods  and  orchards  ; 
the  enemy  pressed  through  these  orchards  to  come  upon  us, 
and  planted  their  artillery  upon  some  houses  and  heights 
which  were  in  them,  and  continued  sharp  fighting  until  twelve 
of  the  clock  at  night,  having  broke  in  twice  in  the  night  with 
some  squadrons  of  horse  on  our  flank,  crying  to  us  to  lay  down 
arms,  but  they  were  beaten  out  again.  The  enemy  and  we 
set  many  houses  afire  to  give  us  light  in  the  night.  They 
retired  about  one  of  the  clock  in  the  morning,  and  we  continued 
until  eight  in  the  same  place  where  we  fought,  then  having 
taken  all  the  w^ounded  men  with  us,  and  the  bodies  of  the  dead 
which  were  of  quality,  we  marched  as  formerly  we  intended 
to  the  plains  between  Mariemont  and  Mons,  where  we  now 
are ;  but  few  of  our  horse  could  come  that  day  to  service. 

Count  Zowis  and  all  our  generals  were  on  the  place,  but 
none  so  active,  so  steady  and  so  brave  as  the  Prince  of  Orange, 
who  from  nine  of  the  clock  in  the  morning  until  twelve  at 
night,  w^as  in  the  heat  of  all  engagements,  and  indeed  all  that 
while  it  w^as  a  continued  one. 

His  Highness  fortunately  escaped,  having  once  or  twice 
come  to  the  head  of  the  enemy's  squadrons  of  horse  to  command 
them  to  follow  him,  and  the  second  time  asking  the  captain 
why  he  did  not  follow  at  the  first  command,  he  answered  he 
was  putting  his  men  in  order,  upon  which,  the  Prince, 
discovering  his  white  scarf,  he  clapt  spurs  to  his  horse  and 
went  to  the  head  of  another  squadron,  which  immediately  he 
brought  upon  the  enemy  and  defeated  him.  We  lost  two  small 
])ieces  of  cannon,  and  the  greatest  part  of  our  Holland  army's 
baggage.  I  believe  there  was  4,000  of  our  side  killed,  and 
above  2,000  wounded,  and  that  the  enemy  had  as  many  killed 
and  w^ounded  of  theirs.  The  Prince  of  Lorraine,  Prince  Pio 
the  Reignegrave,  the  Prince  of  Turtenbergh,  the  Duke  of 
Holstein,  Lieutenant  General  Alnay,  and  a  great  many  more 
oflScers  of  quality  wounded. 

Prince  Zalmes,  Count  Solmes,  Colonel  of  the  Prince  of 
Orange's  guards  of  foot,  and  a  great  many  other  ofiicers  of  ours, 
prisoners.  You  shall  have  a  perfecter  account  of  what  were 
killed,  wounded,  and  taken  by  the  next,  but  I  give  you  now 


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a  true  and  impartial  accouut  of  the  engagemeut,  as  1  liave  been 
eye  witness  to  it  from  first  to  last,  having  no  other  charge 
that  day  but  the  honour  of  following  the  Prince. 

Sir  Walter  Fane  died  this  morning  of  his  wounds,  having 
behaved  himself  with  much  credit  and  applause.  It  was  a 
sharp  engagement,  and  obstinately  pursued  by  the  French. 
Your  brother,  Overkirke,  behaved  himself  gallantly,  and 
received  a  musket  bullet  in  his  head,  but  did  not  break  his 
skull ;  he  is  now  ready  for  another  bout. 

The  Conde  Montekey  sent  us  this  day  a  good  body  of  fresh 
horse  and  5,000  Spanish  foot.  The  Prince  attributes  our 
disaster  to  Monsieur  Lavigne,  as  designed  to  have  us  affronted, 
and  so  much  his  Highness  told  him  before  Duke  de  Villaher- 
mosa,  Prince  of  Vodemont,  and  many  others. 

I  pray  send  this  to  my  Lord  Duke,  your  father,  with  my 
most  humble  duty. 

Postscript : — Marquess  de  Assentar  died  of  his  wounds ;  and 
I  pray  excuse  my  blots.* 

Ormond  to  the  Governor  of  the  Isle  of  Man. 

1674,  August  17.  Kilkenny. — I  received  your  letter  of  the 
25th  of  July  last,  representing  the  bad  estate  the  people  of 
the  Isle  of  Man  are  in  for  want  of  due  provisions,  and  the 
scarcity  of  money  amongst  them  hereby,  tliough  my  Lord 
of  Derby's  affair-  will  be  exceedingly  incommoded.  I  shall 
yet,  upon  the  hopes  you  have  there  of  a  good  herring  fishing, 
give  some  further  time  to  the  people  for  their  bringing  in  their 
rents  and  arrears.  I  hope  this  encouragement  will  induce 
them  to  use  their  utmost  endeavours  to  comply  with  my  Lord 
of  Derby's  straits  for  want  of  the  rents  of  the  island,  and  doubt 
not  of  your  taking  all  imaginable  care  to  have  it  the  most 
speedily  effected.  I  am  in  my  Lord's  behalf  to  give  you 
my  thanks  for  your  care  of  the  government  there,  and  return 
you  my  own  for  the  present  of  hawks  you  sent  me  by  the 
bearer.  I  am  glad  to  find  that  your  bishop  is  now  arrived, 
who  I  hope  will  continue  with  you  for  the  further  encourage- 
ment of  the  people. 

As  to  the  person  you  say  you  have  reprieved  and  pardon 
of  another,  in  regard  their  faults  were  small,  for  obtaining 
rovisions  in  the  time  of  dearth  there,  and  writing  so  reprieved 
y  what  appears  to  me  in  your  letter,  I  know  no  reason  but 
that  he  may  have  his  pardon  as  well  as  the  other. 

Col.  Eichard  Laurence  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1674,  September  22. — ^I  have  here  enclosed  a  copy  of  articles 
containing  the  substance  of  the  contract  betwixt  yourself  and 
Mr.  Middleton ;  you  may  alter  as  you  see  cause  those  covenants 
of  parting.  I  thought  necessary,  in  case  the  business  should 
not  answer  expectation ,  though  I  can  foresee  no  reason  to  doubt 

*The  spoiling  of  the  proper  names  adopted  in  the  original  has  been 
followed  in  this  transcript. 


I 


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on  either  part,  but  by  this  one,  Mr.  Person,  you  will  make 
an  experiment  how  the  country  will  take  to  spinning  better 
than  by  more;  and  proportionable  to  your  spinnmgs'  increase, 
you  may  increase  looms  and  artists  at  pleasure.  We  cannot 
make  too  much  of  this  commodity  if  we  can  make  it  so  much 
cheaper  than  England  as  will  repay  the  disproportion  of  freight 
and  adventure,  which  will  be  above  treble  what  it  is  from 
London  or  Hull,  in  regard  the  voyage  and  adventure  is  so  much 
more  hazardous  and  chargeable,  we  have  the  advantage  of 
England  thirty  pounds  per  cent,  in  the  wools.  If  we  can  reduce 
the  labour  near  the  rate  of  England,  the  design  will  take,  and 
then  we  may  as  well  transport  5,000Z  worth  a  year  as  one.  If  we 
cannot  attain  to  this  foreign  manufacture,  it  is  vain  to  attempt 
any  other,  depending  upon  the  expense  of  the  country.  The 
trouble  and  uncertainty  of  sales,  and  hazards  of  trusting  is 
not  to  be  endured,  and  the  country  wears  little  of  this  sort 
of  coarse  cloth ;  and  for  fine  cloth,  our  spinning  will  not  come 
to  it  in  seven  years  for  any  quantity  I  concern  myself  in.  The 
receipt  and  approbation  of  the  cloth,  because  I  know  yourselt 
neither  understands  nor  will  undergo  the  trouble,  if  yourself  or 
any  other  friends  of  yours  think  fit  to  stand  the  venture  of  seas 
and  markets,  I  shall  be  your  factor  on  very  reasonable  terms 
(the  chief  profit  I  aim  at  is  to  be  serviceable  to  his  Grace) ; 
if  not,  I  shall  take  the  cloth  at  the  rate  he  is  to  deliver  them, 
and  be  accountable  to  his  Grace  for  them  at  six  months  after 
shipping  of  each  pack,  which  is  ten  cloths.  When  I  find  they 
turn  to  a  good  account,  I  shall  allow  his  Grace  interest  for  his 
money.  In  the  meanwhile,  I  presume  your  profit  by  the  wool 
will  do  it,  for  the  smallest  wool,  which  is  to  be  bought  for 
the  most  part  at  65.  6d.  and  7s.,  is  best  for  us,  and  12d.  per 
stone  profit  by  your  wool  is  65.  a  cloth  at  51,  which  is  61  per 
cent.,  and  if  we  can  make  two  returns  a  year,  as  I  hope  we 
may,  it  will  be  121  per  cent,  per  annum,  besides  the  planting 
of  your  town  and  filling  the  country  full  of  money.  If  this 
design  fail,  I  will  never  meddle  more  with  manufacture  in 
Ireland ;  but  it  appears  to  me  to  be  the  most  rational  and 
hopeful  that  hath  been  undertaken ;  if  there  be  anything  either 
in  the  articles  or  in  my  letter  obscure,  upon  notice  I  shall 
e^cplain. 

Postscript: — Present  my  faithful  humble  service  to  their 
Graces,  tell  them  I  repent  the  sending  that  small  parcel  of 
linen ;  my  design  was  not  to  put  off  the  goods,  but  that  her 
Grace,  who  I  looked  at  as  the  mother  of  this  manufacture, 
his  Grace  being  the  father  of  it,  should  see  what  linen  it 
produceth,  and  order  her  housekeeper  to  give  her  an  account 
how  it  wears ;  hoping  her  Grace  commending  of  it  upon  her 
own  experience  to  other  ladies  of  her  acquaintance  might  bring 
it  into  request.  For  the  sheeting  and  table  linen,  I  know  there 
is  none  such  made  in  the  King's  dominions,  nor  in  Europe, 
better  at  the  price,  and  my  great  discouragement  is  want  of 
sales  for  ready  money,  and  if  her  Grace  should  return  this  small 
parcel,  it  may  bring  an  ill  report  upon  it. 


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AnTicLi'is   oi?   Aghki^ment  betwixt   George  Mathew,  Esq., 

ON    THE   BEHALF   OF   HIS    GrACE,  THE   DUKE  OF  ORMOND,  ETC., 

ON  THE  ONE   PART,    AND   WiLLTAM  MiDDLETON    OF  DUBLlN, 

CLOTHIER,  ON  THE  OTHER  PART,  AS  FOLLOWETH.  : — 

That  the  said  George  Mathew,  Esq.,  shall  furnish  the  said 
William  Middletoii,  with  a  convenient  dwelling-house  and 
other  conveniences  for  work-houses  in  the  town  of  Callan,  at 
the  rates  expressed  in  his  Grace's  propositions  for  the  planting 
of  the  said  town,  etc. 

That  the  said  George  Mathew,  Esq.,  shall  supply  the  said 
William  Middleton  with  wools  such  as  he  shall  have  occasion 
for  from  time  to  time  at  the  rate  of  8«.  per  stone,  not  exceeding 
oOl  worth  at  a  time ;  the  said  Middleton  to  give  security  to  be 
responsible  for  the  said  wools,  and  to  perform  the  conditions 
of  the  next  article. 

That  the  said  Middleton  shall  cause  to  be  spun  the  said  wools 
at  the  town  of  Callan  and  country  adjacent,  and  shall  there 
weave  the  same  in  broad  cloth  according  to  the  length,  breadth, 
size  and  weight  agreed  upon  betwixt  the  said  William  Middleton 
and  Richard  Laurence  of  Chapelizod,  Esq.,  which  cloth  the 
said  Middleton  is  to  send  to  Dublin  from  the  loom,  and  there 
deliver  the  same  at  his  ow-n  proper  cost  to  the  said  Eichard 
Laurence  or  his  assigns ;  and  upon  the  certificate  of  the  said 
llichard  Laurence  that  he  hath  received  the  said  cloth  well 
and  sufficiently  performed  according  to  agreement,  the  said 
George  Mathew,  Esq.,  will  pay  the  said  Middleton  five  pounds 
for  each  cloth. 

The  said  George  Mathew^  Esq.,  doth  covenant  to  take,  and 
the  said  William  Middleton  doth  covenant  to  deliver,  for  the 
first  year  500/  worth  of  the  sa»id  cloth,  for  the  second  year  1,000Z 
w^orth,  and  for  the  third  year  1,500Z  worth,  and  no  more  nor 
less,  unless  by  a  new  or  further  agreement  betwixt  them. 

Articles  between  Col.   Eichard  Laurence  and  William 

Middleton. 

It  is  agreed  betw^ixt  Eichard  Laurence  and  William 
Middleton,  that  the  said  Middleton  shall  make  a  sort  of  cloth 
known  by  the  name  of  Wiltshire  pack  cloths,  \\^hich  are  to 
contain  out  of  the  loom  betwixt  41  and  42  yards,  and  full 
three  yards  broad  within  the  lyst;  the  lyst  of  a  deep  blue, 
two  inches  broad;  the  cloth  to  be  weaved  in  a  ten  hundred 
reed,  and  made  of  good  fine  fieece  wool. 

That  the  said  contract  shall  continue  for  three  years  in  case 
both  persons  find  mutual  encouragement;  but  if  the  said 
Middleton  shall  not  be  able  to  perform  according  to  contract, 
he  shall  have  liberty  after  three  months  w^arning,  and  delivering 
cloth  for  the  stock  of  wools  in  his  hand,  to  remove  or  stay 
and  employ  himself  for  his  best  advantage.  And  on  the  other 
hand,   if   the   said  George    ^^athew  shall    bo   d'"scouraged   to 


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proceed,  he  fthall  liave  liberty,  after  six  months  warning,  to 
withdraw  his  stock,  allowing  to  the  said  Middleton  20i  towards 
the  charge  of  his  remove,  and  other  damages  he  may  suffer  by 
the  trade  undertaking. 

Capt.  Geo.  Mathew  to  (?)  Col.  Laurence. 

1674,  September  22,  Kilkenny, — ^I  received  yours  with  the 
articles  intended  to  be  passed  between  me  and  Middleton  for 
setting  up  a  trade  at  Callan,  in  which  I  do  not  observe  what 
articles  are  to  pass  between  his  Grace  and  you  for  payin»j[ 
his  Grace.  For  the  cloth  only,  you  mention  that  you  will 
pay  his  Grace  in  six  months  after  the  goods  are  shipped,  which 
is  very  uncertain,  and  also  what  you  mention  about  the  interest 
of  my  Lord's  money  if  you  find  the  goods  turn  to  a  good  account , 
Therefore,  I  desire  a  certain  time  may  be  limited  for  your 
payment  after  receiving  the  goods  with  the  interest,  and  for 
the  wool  that  Middleton  shall  from  time  to  time  receive  it 
at  the  price  current  here  when  he  takes  it,  and  what  buildings 
he  thinks  fit  to  make  at  Callan ,  to  do  it  upon  his  own  charge 
upon  the  terms  proposed,  and  my  Lord  to  be  obliged  only  to 
take  of  the  value  of  five  hundred  pounds  a  year. 

What  houses  are  undisposed  of  in  the  place,  shall  be  delivered 
Mr.  Middleton  by  the  time  appointed,  which  is  all  from  your 
friend. 

Col.  Richard  Laurence  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1674,  September  25.  Chapelizod, — Yours  of  the  22nd  instant 
I  received.  Upon  reading  the  same  to  Mr.  Middleton,  he 
seemed  to  be  discouraged,  suspecting  yourself  hath  no  great 
kindness  for  that  affair,  and  it  is  your  unhappiness,  though  I 
am  persuaded  undeserved,  to  be  thought  no  favourer  of  his 
Grace's  designs  in  promoting  Protestant  plantations,  which  I 
suppose  arises  from  the  discontent,  and  from  thence  the 
complaints  of  several  of  your  Protestant  tenants  in  Kilkenny : 
for  I  observed  while  there  that  not  only  Doctor  Jerome  but 
Mr.  Clubb,  a  Norwich  weaver,  and  others  that  came  along  with 
us  about  settling  at  Callan,  after  they  observed  his  Grace  left 
them  wholly  to  your  encouragement,  they  presently  declined 
your  purposes  of  removing.  Now,  Sir,  being  satisfied  this  is 
but  the  groundless  jealousies  of  weak  people,  for  that  your 
near  relation  to  that  noble  family,  w^ith  your  English  education 
and  great  concernedness  in  the  English  interest  by  your  estate, 
doth  suflBciently  satisfy  me  your  parts  and  ingenuity  are  too 
high  to  subject  civil  interest  to  the  interest  of  a  particular 
opinion  in  religion ;  but  to  satisfy  such  a  sort  of  people  as 
we  must  have  to  do  with  about  planting  Callan  with  the  most 
rational  arguments  against  your  fancy  will  be  hard  work, 
Therefore,  Sir,  I  presume  in  the  behalf  of  his  Grace,  to  offer 
it  to  your  great  prudence  whether  it  may  not  be  advisable  to 
put  out  your  name  in  his  Grace's  propositions,  and  to  put  in 


850 

Controller  Baxter's,  or  some  other  Protestant  servant  of  my 
Lord's  to  manage  that  business,  who  may  be  bound  to  transact 
all  by  your  advice  and  direction  so  far  as  it  concerns  my  Lord's 
profit  or  loss;  and  the  rather  because  as  these  kind  of 
mechanic  affairs  are  far  below  your  quality  and  education, 
so  are  they  much  besides  your  humour  to  trouble  yourself 
with  things  of  this  nature;  for  whoever  meddles  with 
them,  must  subject  himself  to  converse  and  treat  with  many 
impertinent  people.  Sir,  excuse  this  freedom,  for  had  not  I 
good  assurance  of  your  great  candour  and  ingenuity  in  inter- 
preting all  things  well  that  is  so  meant,  I  should  not  have 
presumed  thus  to  have  writ.  In  answer  [obliterated]  write 
about  my  covenants  with  his  Grace  for  the  payment  of  the 
cloth.  I  have  writ  at  large  to  himself,  and  I  am  willing  to 
sign  to  any  reasonable  covenants  tendered  by  you,  provided 
I  hazard  the  loss  of  no  more  than  my  labour ;  and  it  will  be 
hard  for  me  to  covenant  to  pay  interest  till  I  have  tried  the 
markets  beyond  sea,  and  know  what  profit  our  goods  will 
turn  to  above  freight  and  insurance.  I  desire  if  you  proceed 
with  Mr.  Middleton,  you  would  not  alter  the  article  of  delivering 
him  wool  at  Ss.  per  stone,  for  upon  that  depends  much  of 
the  success  of  our  undertaking,  for  which  I  shall  give  you  good 
reasons  when  I  see  you,  which  are  in  short  these: — ^First, 
unless  we  fix  the  wool  at  a  certain  price,  we  cannot  fix  the 
cloth  at  a  certain  price ;  secondly,  if  he  be  at  liberty  to  buy  his 
own  wool,  he  will  be  tempted  to  buy  such  wool  as  is  for  his 
own  profit,  though  much  to  our  loss,  for  the  goodness  of  the 
cloth  depends  upon  the  nature  of  the  wool,  and  I  intend  next 
shear  time  to  send  down  a  skilful  man  to  view  the  wool  of 
all  my  Lord's  tenants,  and  to  pitch  upon  such  parcels  as  are 
fittest  for  our  use,  and  to  take  the  same  wool  every  year  at 
the  price  then  current.  Sir,  Mr.  Middleton  coming  down  again 
to  wait  upon  you  to  make  an  end  with  you  off  or  on,  I  shall 
add  no  more. 

Capt.  Geo.  Mathew  to  Col.  Eichahd  Laurence. 

1674,  October  14. — I  deferred  answering  your  letter  until  I 
could  give  you  an  account  what  we  should  conclude  with 
Mr.  Middleton.  I  produced  him  those  concessions  that  I  drew 
in  behalf  of  my  Lord,  and  that  I  would  in  every  point  that 
he  would  fix  upon  observe  them  to  him,  and  desired  no  other 
security  but  a  covenant  that  he  w^ould  settle  the  manufactory 
at  Callan,  and  during  his  continuance  of  it  there  he  should 
have  the  benefit  of  what  was  promised,  which  he  accepted 
of  and  signed  to  an  agreement  in  order  to  a  lease ;  and  in  regard 
my  Lord  was  not  free  to  run  the  hazard  of  adventure  of  the 
product  of  that  manufacture,  I  did  not  think  fit  to  give  you 
any  further  trouble  upon  those  terms  you  proposed  to  serve 
his  Grace, 

I  must  now  return  you  my  thanks,  though  your  letter  later 
produced  by  Middleton  seems  to  take  notice  as  if  you  heard  I 


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was  dissatisfied  for  the  free  dealing  with  me.  In  relation  to 
what  these  artists  suggest  of  my  backwardness  to  promote  an 
English  plantation,  I  am  so  little  conscious  that  I  do  not  in 
the  least  regard  what  they  say,  nor  will  I  at  all  decline 
interposing  what  occurs  to  me  to  my  Lord's  advantage  in 
purchasing  to  myself  their  good  opinion,  for  it  was  his  concern 
alone  that  induced  me  to  propose  those  encouragements  for  a 
Protestant  plantation  in  that  town  before  his  Grace  had 
thoughts  of  it ;  but  I  must  confess  I  was  not  inclined  to  any 
other  sort  of  persuasion  but  of  the  old  Protestant  church. 
Having  had  experience  before  of  the  French  and  Walloons, 
made  me  the  more  backward  to  have  any  further  dealings 
with  them ;  which  is  all  I  have  to  trouble  you  with  at  present. 

EoGER  L'E strange' s  Case. 

1674,  October. — After  L'Estrange  had  spent  his  fortune,  and 
above  twenty  years  of  his  life  in  the  service  of  the  crown,  almost 
four  of  them  in  Newgate  under  sentence  of  death,  besides  other 
imprisonments  without  any  sort  of  consideration  whatsoever, 
His  Majesty  was  graciously  pleased,  in  1663,  to  grant  him  a 
patent  for  the  News  book,  with  certain  other  privileges  of 
printing ;  and  to  appoint  him  also  by  the  said  patent,  Overseer 
of  the  Press ;  which  he  reduced  to  that  degree,  that  His  Majesty 
said  several  times  he  wondered  how  it  could  be  done. 

In  the  year  1665,  the  News  book  was  taken  into  the 
secretary's  oflBce ;  the  rights  and  the  patent  for  it  remaining 
to  this  day  with  L'Estrange.  The  terms  will  appear  in  the 
following  certificate. 

The  Certificate  of  the  Right  Honourable  the  Lord 

Chamberlain. 

These  are  to  certify  that  in  the  time  I  was  Secretary  of  State, 
it  was  His  Majesty's  pleasure  to  grant  unto  Eoger  L'Estrange 
a  patent  for  the  News  book,  and  other  privileges  of  sole 
printing ;  and  afterwards  to  direct  the  News  books  to  be  taken 
into  the  secretary's  oflBce.  And  in  consideration  thereof;  His 
Majesty  did  order  that  lOOZ  per  annum  should  be  allowed  him 
out  of  the  profits  of  the  News  books ;  and  also  that  I  should 
give  him  yearly  the  sum  of  200Z,  which  I  constantly  paid  him 
(over  the  above  allowance  for  extraordinary  expenses  in  the 
discovery  of  libels,  according  to  bills  made  by  him)  unto  the 
29th  of  September,  1674,  upon  the  account  of  secret  service. 

Arlington. 

After  the  removal  of  the  Earl  of  Arlington  from  the 
secretary's  ofiBce,  L'Estrange  being  much  behind  in  his 
allowance,  the  King  was  pleased  to  promise  him  a  direction 
to  the  Lord  Treasurer  for  the  payment  of  his  arrears,  where- 
upon he  did  humbly  petition  His  Majesty  for  that  arrear,  and 
likewise  for  the  renewing  of  his  patent  with  certain  amendments 
and  additions,  which  His  Majesty  had  formerly  referred,  upon 


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L'Estraiige's  humble  request,  to  Sir  Jeffrey  Palmer  and  Sir 
Heneage  Finch  (at  that  time  His  Majesty's  Attorney  General 
and  Solicitor),  whose  report  was  full  and  clear  to  the  advantage 
of  the  petitioner.  Ihit  some  of  the  particulars  therein 
comprised  having  obliquely  some  relation  to  the  King's 
revenue,  so  far  as  to  the  printing  of  papers  with  blanks  for 
the  collecting  of  it,  the  Earl  of  Arlington  was  of  opinion  for 
a  furtlier  reference  of  the  matter  to  the  Lords  Commissioners 
of  the  Treasury,  that  there  might  be  no  further  scruple  or 
difficulty  in  the  case.  The  Lords  Commissioners  of  the 
Treasury  referred  the  petitioner  again  to  Sir  Eobert  Long, 
whose  report  w-as  as  clear  for  the  petitioner  as  the  former, 
and  the  Earl  of  Arlington  (to  whom  L'Estrange  was  highly 
obliged  in  it)  knows  every  step  of  this  affair. 

This  report  being  passed,  L'Estrange  could  never  recover 
his  originals  out  of  the  treasury  office ;  some  of  the  particulars 
being  granted  to  others  over  his  head,  and  others  fraudulently 
conveyed  from  him  by  some  of  the  King's  officers  and  servants, 
taking  the  advantage  even  of  that  opportunity  that  forced  him 
out  of  the  kingdom  for  his  safety. 

The  petition  above  mentioned  for  his  arrear,  etc.,  was 
presented  to  His  Majesty  by  the  Lord  Bishop  of  London,  and 
referred  in  his  presence  by  His  Majesty  to  the  Lord  Treasurer, 
who  was  pleased  to  order  unto  Ij'Estrange  at  several  times 
the  sum  of  400Z,  which  he  received  accordingly,  being  first 
thoroughly  satisfied  in  the  state  of  the  account.  Eeferring  to  the 
other  branch  of  the  petition  concerning  the  legality  of  the  grant 
to  the  King's  learned  counsel  at  law,  upon  which  reference  Sir 
Francis  Winnington  reported  the  lawfulness  of  such  a  grant, 
as  Sir  Jeffrey  Palmer  and  Sir  Heneage  Finch  had  formerly 
done. 

Upon  this  report  the  Lord  Treasurer  being  fully  satisfied , 
directed  a  report  to  be  drawn  up  for  himself  to  sign ;  which 
report  was  drawn  up  and  presented.  But  either  through 
business,  mislaying  the  papers,  or  other  accidents  intervening, 
L'Estrange  could  never  reap  any  further  effect  of  the  King's 
gracious  intentions  towards  him ;  but  my  Lord  Treasurer  going 
off  from  his  office,  the  matter  remains  to  this  day  depending 
before  the  Treasury,  and  the  papers  to  prove  every  particular 
of  this  affair  are  at  present  in  the  hands  of  L'Estrange,  and 
ready  to  be  produced. 

The  arrears  from  the  Earl  of  Arlington's  going  off,  September 
29th,  1674,  to  Christmas,  1682,  amounts  to  2,060/,  whereof 
was  received  of  the  Lord  Treasurer  400/,  and  of  Sir  Leoline 
Jenkins  (by  His  Majesty's  order)  260/,  which  being  discounted, 
there  remains  behind  1,400/. 

James  Claeke  to  Ormond. 

1674 ,  October  8.  Clarendon  House. — ^I  received  a  letter  from 
Captain  Mathew  last  night,  and  one  to  Mr.  Nelthorpe  to 
advance  a  thousand  pounds  towards  the  discharging  the  table 


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and  stables.  Mr.  Xclthorpe  present!}'  complied  with  it,  that 
is,  to  make  up  what  I  took  up  upon  his  letter  of  credit  at 
Minehead,  and  to  paj^  the  annuities  and  interest  money  that 
fell  due  since  your  Grace's  going  hence  to  this  day,  which  are 
all  discharged,  so  there  will  not  be  to  receive  for  that  purpose 
above  450/.  Those  that  are  in  the  most  necessity  shall  be 
supplied  w^ith  this,  the  rest  must  stay;  but  I  have  proposed 
to  Captain  Mathew  for  the  clearing  of  the  table  and  stables, 
and  for  the  rest  of  the  debts,  which  I  think  may  better  stay  to 
be  paid,  as  your  Grace's  entertainment  and  prize  wines  will 
come  in  for  to  do  it. 

Mr.  Nelthorpe  has  written  a  letter  to  your  Grace  by  one 
of  those  that  intend  to  set  up  a  manufacture  at  Clonmel,  if 
they  can  have  your  Grace's  asaistance.  He  tells  me  they  are 
the  best  workmen  in  England,  and  there  will  be  a  stock  of 
thirty  or  forty  thousand  pounds.  They  are  resolved  to  go 
through  with  it.  Those  undertakers  having  ships  of  their 
own,  and  having  ways  of  vending  those  serges,  they  intend  to 
make  as  soon  and  as  fast  as  they  are  ready.  If  it  be  as  he 
tells  me,  they  must  upon  necessity  be  an  advantage  to  the  whole 
country.  They  were  invited  to  other  parts  of  the  country,  but 
he  will  have  it  there  as  he  intends,  out  of  respect  and  the  great 
service  it  will  prove  to  your  Grace,  but  I  rather  think  it  is 
the  most  convenient  place  in  the  kingdom.  He  desired  me 
to  write  to  your  Grace  about  it,  and  that  the  town  being  your 
Grace's  own  there  mi{?ht  be  some  great  house  for  a  work-house, 
and  a  place  for  a  fulling  mill  without  much  charge.  His 
proposals  will  be  very  full.  He  tells  me  they  are  now  laying 
out  500Z  upon  tools  for  their  purpose,  and  then  will  go  several 
good  families  over.  If  your  Grace  will  order  something  to  be 
writ  to  me  in  answer  to  this,  that  I  may  show  it  him,  I  believe 
his  furnishing  your  Grace  with  money  here.  He  has  more 
than  an  ordinary  advantage,  but  I  dare  say  hjalf  the  Lords  in 
this  town  have  not  so  much  credit  with  him.  He  desires 
your  Grace  will  underwrite  the  bill,  as  well  as  Captain  Mathew, 
in  case  of  mortality. 

E.  Nelthorpe  to  Ormond. 

1674,  October  8.  London. — Having  always  (since  I  had  the 
honour  of  being  acquainted)  made  it  my  chief  business  to 
contrive  how  T  might  be  most  serviceable  to  your  Grace,  obliges 
me  at  this  time  to  make  these  following  proposals.  Being 
encouraged  by  some  intelligent  clothiers  to  set  up  a  considerable 
manufactory  in  Ireland,  in  which  at  least  twenty  thousand 
pounds  or  a  greater  sum  will  be  constantly  employed  for  the 
making  of  the  finest  serges  and  cloth,  and  finding  sufficient 
invitation  from  other  great  persons  in  Ireland,  I  thought  it 
my  duty  first  to  give  your  Grace  the  preference.  I  humbly 
conceive  nothing  would  more  conduce  to  the  advancement  of 
rents,  and  encouragement  of  tenants,  and  in  process  of  time 
to  the  great  advantage  of  trade  in  general,  and  an  employment 

Wt.  8878  w 


35t 

for  a  great  many  idle  poor  people  ;  for  they  must  spin  most  of  the 
yarn,  and  by  degrees  be  taught  the  whole  mystery.  So  that 
I  leave  your  Grace  to  judge  the  great  benefit  must  necessarily 
ensue  upon  such  an  undertaking,  especially  if  it  may  have  the 
kind  influence  of  your  Grace's  assistance,  which  neither  I 
cannot  doubt  of  from  one  that  is  so  great  a  patron  and  lover  of 
his  country.  And  that  which  I  humbly  beg  is  that  your  Grace 
would  assign  this  bearer,  Mr.  Humphry  Hill,  such  convenient 
work-houses  and  dwelling-houses  in  Clonmel  as  may  be  most 
proper  for  carrying  on  this  affair,  without  paying  any  rent 
for  twenty-one  years,  save  one  piece  of  fine  serge  yearly  as  an 
acknowledgment ;  I  mean  for  his  own  house  and  work-houses. 
And  whereas  several  families  will  remove  out  of  England,  and 
others,  proper  workmen  to  carry  on  this  aifair,  that  such 
convenient  dwellings  may  be  assigned  them  at  reasonable 
rents,  as  thereby  they  may  be  encouraged.  That  your  Grace 
would  please  to  vouchsafe  letters  of  recommendation  to  the 
Chief  Magistrates  in  Clonmel.  That  Mr.  Hill  and  other 
manufacturers  that  come  out  of  England  with  him,  may  have 
their  freedoms  and  liberties  in  Clonmel  and  denizens  of  the 
place  without  charge,  and  have  all  encouragement.  Also  that 
there  may  be  such  bye  laws  made  as  may  compel  such  refractory 
idle,  begging,  poor  people  to  work,  and  due  punishments 
ordered  for  neglects  and  spoiling  of  work.  That  the  chief 
manufacturers  be  exempted  from  all  public  offices  for  the  term 
of  seven  years,  the  better  to  perfect  the  manufactory.  These 
being  the  chief  things  in  memory  which  I  have  to  crave  of  your 
Grace,  and  what  other  things  may  further  be  necessary  shall 
be  intimated ;  not  questioning  but  your  Grace  will  favourably 
grant  your  kind  assistance  for  the  promoting  of  so  propitious 
a  design,  and  that  Mr.  Humphry  Hill  may  at  all  times  have 
your  Grace's  encouragement  and  protection,  being  the  chief 
manager,  and  who  will  more  fully  discourse  with  your  Grace, 
concerning  this  matter.  To  whom  I  refer  your  Grace,  and 
humbly  take  leave. 

John  Parky,  Bishop  of  Ossory,  to  the  Mayor  of  Kilkenny. 

1674,  October  13.  Kilkenny. — I  find  his  Grace,  the  Duke  of 
Ormond,  to  be  very  desirous  that  the  designed  ornaments  of  this 
city  (a  ring  of  bells)  should  be  perfected,  by  whose  interposal 
we  hope  to  be  furnished  with  some  metal  from  Callan  for  the 
present.  His  Grace  hath  been  also  pleased  to  promise  nobly 
an  hundred  pound  toward  that  service ;  and  it  is  now  that  this 
opportunity  may  be  made  use  of,  or  never,  to  complete  that 
design.  And  that  you  may  understand  the  charge  of  the  two 
bells  already  cast,  and  that  neither  myself  nor  the  dean  and 
chapter  have  been  behindhand  to  our  power  towards  this  work, 
I  have  here  subjoined  a  brief  of  accounts,  whereby  also  you 
may  have  a  prospect  of  the  future  expenses.  Sirs,  I  do  desire 
you  to  take  a  speedy  course  that  what  is  already  subscribed  in 
the  city  and  county,  as  also  what  new  subscriptions  may  be 


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had,  may  by  your  assistance  and  favour  be  procured,  and  the 
money  thereof  paid  into  the  treasurer  hereof,  Mr.  William 
Cooke,  whom  I  do  hereby  appoint  to  receive  the  same.  I  must 
deaire  also  that  the  companies  may  be  called  together,  that 
they  may  bring  in  what  was  promised  and  designed  from  them, 
and  if  all  of  them  be  pleased  to  act  herein,  I  doubt  not  by 
God's  blessing,  but  that  against  Christmas  next  all  may  be 
finished.  Thus  desiring  the  effectual  promoting  hereof  (which 
may  prove  a  standing  ornament  for  ever),  I  am,  etc. 

Postscript : — ^The  charge  of  the  two  bells  already  cast : — 

Disbursed  by  Mr.  Cooke  in  several  materials    023  :  17  :  06 

Disbursed  more  for  blocked  tin,  iron  works, 

metal,  etc 038  :  14  :  10 

For  casting  and  other  expenses  to  the  bell- 
founders         ...        037  :  18  :  06 


Total...    098  :  10  :  10 

Towards  the  payment  whereof  received  these  sums  : — 

From  the  Roman  Catholics,  by  Mr.  Eafter, 

your  s[ervant],   besides  5/  expended  for 

bricks,  etc 005  :  00  :  00 

From  Mr.  Cooke  and  Mr.  Blott,  by  city  and 

county  subscriptions  017  :  17  :  00 

Paid  by  the  Bishop  and  Dean  and  Chapter  . . .     075  :  13  :  10 
Besides  201  weight  in  metal,  worth  4Z 13^.  4d. 

per  cent.,  which  comes  to  93/  13s.  id, 

sterling,    which    was   procured   and    dis- 
charged by  the  Bishop ,  Dean ,  and  Chapter 
The  charge  of  the  four  bells  to  be  cast : — 
For  20/  weight  of  metal,  besides  what  can  be 

had  from  Callan,  Gowran,  etc.,  will  come 

v^^  •••  •••  •••  •••  ••• 

For  blocked  tin 

For  ironwork,  timber,  and  the  frame... 
For  casting  the  four  bells 


093  : 

13  : 

04 

012  : 

00  : 

00 

070  : 

00  : 

00 

050  : 

00  : 

00 

225  : 

03  : 

04 

E.  Nelthorpb  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathbw. 

1674,  November  3.  London. — I  had  the  honour  of  yours 
delivered  me  by  Mr.  Clarke,  desiring  me  to  furnish  him  with. 
1,000J  more,  which  accordingly  I  did,  and  took  his  bill,  not 
doubting  of  its  acceptance. 

I  have  also  to  acknowledge  my  obligations  for  your  continual 
care  in  a  punctual  discharge  of  my  several  bills,  formerly  drawn 
upon  you  (which,  besides  all  others,  is  a  sufficient  encourage- 
ment to  continue  in  the  service  of  so  great  and  good  a  patron 
as  his  Grace) ;  and  to  demonstrate  my  entire  affection  to  the 
family,  T  have  ordered  the  setting  up  a  manufactory  in  the 


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midst  of  his  Grace's  concerns.  The  chief  manager,  being  a 
modest  person,  and  it  may  be  not  conversant  with  Dukes,  will 
stand  in  need  of  your  introduction  and  assistance.  I  hope  all 
the  encouragement  you  can  shew  to  him  in  this*  great  affair 
will  be  as  well  a  benefit  to  his  Grace  as  also  a  particular 
favour  to  me. 

Countess  of  Burlington  to  'Duchess  op  Ormond. 

1674,  November  16.  London. — Having  now  presented  my 
Lord  Duke  with  my  Lord  AthoFs  desires  in  short  (approved 
on  here  by  his  Lady's  two  sisters),  I  presume  further  to  add 
the  enclosed  copy  of  his  letter  to  me,  which  gives  us  this 
authority,  and  expresses  his  great  sense  of  both  your  favours 
to  him,  and  his  own  sincerity  in  this  matter,  which  I  hope 
will  now  speedily  come  to  a  fair  end  by  his  Grace's  means  m 
getting  my  Lord  Derby's  hand  to  such  an  instrument  as  may 
confirm  that  agreement,  which  when  obtained,  those  entrusted 
by  my  Lord  Duke  here,  will  receive  from  my  Lord  Athol  such 
security  as  shall  be  reasonably  here  demanded,  and  that  the 
money  itself  will  be  the  best  security,  is  the  opinion. of  better 
judgments  than  mine,  the  growing  interest  whereof  being  paid 
my  Lord  Athol  in  the  meantime,  unless  disputed  by  my  Lord 
Derby's  heir,  if  he  should  die  ere  he  comes  at  age.  I  do  the 
rather  enlarge  this,  lest  at  this  distance  mistakes  might  arise 
which  cannot  readily  be  rectified,  and  the  speedy  despatch 
herein,  I  find  would  much  heighten  the  obligation  with  his 
Lordship  and  his  friends.  I  would  gladly  now  divert  your 
Grace  with  such  news  as  falls  within  my  sphere  (not  pretending 
to  state  matters) ,  but  here  is  at  present  only  some  late  marriages 
which  holds  up  discourse,  as  that  of  my  Lord  Buckhurst  with 
my  Lady  Falmouth  in  summer,  but  not  owned  till  my  Lord 
Middlesex  had  breathed  out  his  last,  by  which  the  former  has 
all  his  estate,  though  not  without  suit  threatened  by  my  Lady 
Dorset,  his  mother.  My  Lord  Pembroke's  address  to  my 
La.  Mar.  Kerwell,  though  declared  against  (both  to  His  Majesty 
and  her  sister)  by  his  mother,  is  so  far  advanced  as  the  marriage 
is  only  suspended  till  his  cure  perfected.  In  the  meantime, 
he  has  presented  his  mistress  a  diamond  ring  of  900/  price.  My 
Lord  Roscommon's  marriage  to  the  Duchess's  maid  of  honour, 
["Isabella]  Boynton,  was  at  six  at  night,  in  Sir  Allen  Apsley's 
chamber,  by  the  Bishop  of  ,  from  whence  immediately, 

in  the  dark,  they  went  to  Dick  Talbot's  at  Twittnam  ;  returned 
here  Saturday  night  and  Sunday  morning.  He  attended  the 
Duke  into  Sussex,  where  they  hunt  some  few  days,  and  when 
this  hurry  is  over  they  may,  I  suppose  with  leisure,  consider 
where  the  portion  may  be  raised,  which  is  expected  only  from 
the  King's  and  Duke's  county.  My  Lady  Eliz.  Howard  of 
Arundel  is  likewise  married  to  one,  Captain  McDonnell,  who 
was  formerly  under  my  Lord  Roscommon  in  his  French 
expedition ;  all  which  shews  though  matrimony  be  generally 
slighted,  others  take  it  up,  whether  with  or  without  considera- 
tion as  time  shall  try.     That  I  may  not  longer  trespass  upon 


35? 

your  Ladyship,  which  T  hear  is  very  pleasingly  taken  up  with 
additional  buildings  and  alterations,  I  shall  conclude  this  with 
the  presentment  of  my  Lord's  very  humble  service  to  your 
Grace  and  my  own. 

Duchess  of  Ormond  to  Dr.  Hall. 

1674,  December  3.  Kilkenny. — Having  employed  the 
Steward,  Baxter,  to  Dublin  about  some  affairs  of  my  Lord's, 
and  remembering  the  kind  offer  my  Lord  of  Strafford  made  by 
you  about  three  months  since  of  presenting  my  Lord  with 
such  of  the  marble  door  cases  and  chimney  pieces  in  the  ruinous 
house  near  the  Xaas,*  as  we  should  have  occasion  for,  I  have 
ordered  him  to  wait  on  you,  and  to  desire  you  to  return  my 
Lord's  and  my  most  humble  service  to  my  Lord  and  Lady 
Strafford  for  their  civility  to  us  in  their  generous  present. 
The  bearer  carries  with  him  the  dimensions  of  such  stone  as 
we  have  present  use  of,  which' if  the  marble  there  suits  and 
can  be  conveniently  spared  without  prejudice  to  my  Lord  of 
Strafford,  I  desire  you  will  order  it  to  be  delivered  to  him,  or 
whom  he  shall  under  his  hand  appoint  to  receive  it,  which  will 
be  owned  as  a  great  obligation  from  uiy  Jjord  of  Strafford  and 
his  Lady  upon  my  Lord  and  myself. 

Edw\\rd  Nelthorpe  to  Capt.  Geo.  Mathew. 

1674,  December  22.  London. — I  perceive  by  Mr.  Hill  the 
daily  trouble  he  gives  you  in  an  affair  of  my  concern,  for  which 
I  must  give  you  my  kind  acknowledgment.  But  I  understand 
Mr.  Hill  cannot  conveniently  settle  himself  w  ithout  the  liberty 
of  his  Grace's  fort  and  your  favourable  assistance  therein, 
so  that  I  earnestly  make  it  my  request  that  (as  you  have  hitherto 
been  kind  to  him)  you  would  increase  your  favours,  which  are 
all  as  fresh  obligations  to  myself,  and  shall  not  be  unrequited. 
I  have  wrote  his  Grace  that  he  would  please  let  me  all  the 
conveniences  of  the  fort  by  lease,  also  the  little  house  and 
what  other  land  Mr.  Hill  shall  desire,  and  the  price  you  shall 
refer  to  his  Grace;  and  I  know  your  assistance  herein  will 
make  all  things  easy. 

I  am  strongly  invited  to  settle  with  my  servant  in  other 
parts,  where  I  have  great  offers  of  all  conveniences  gratis,  but 
1  use  not  this  as  any  argument  to  impose  on  his  Grace.  For 
so  long  as  I  can  be  kindly  used  by  you ,  I  shall  never  think  of 
embracing  never  so  advantageous  offers  from  any  others.  I 
must  be  at  great  charge  to  settle  this  affair,  therefore  once 
more  I  must  entreat  your  kind  assistance. 

Edward  Kelthorpe  to  Ormond. 

1674,  December  22.  London. — I  took  the  boldness  in  my  last 
to  trouble  your  Grace  with  a  few^  lines  of  my  acknowledgments 
for  your  Grace's  favours  to  Mr.  Hill,  and  to  beg  your  Grace's 

*Thc  mansion  begun  by  Strafford  at  Sigginstown  near  Naa**,   but  left 
unfinished  at  hi»  death,  and  never  completed  by  hin  heii"s. 


{JS8 

further  favour  in  some  timber  to  assist  in  building  d,  mill, 
and  other  necessaries.  I  also  hinted  to  your  Grace  of  some 
other  manufacturers  designing  for  Ireland,  which  I  should 
endeavour  to  direct  to  your  Grace's  province,  that  their  industry 
might  redound  to  your  Grace's  advantage;  and  whilst  I  am 
thus  endeavouring  my  utmost  to  promote  your  Grace's  interest, 
I  find  by  Mr.  Hill's  letters  that  he  labours  under  some 
difficulties.  At  Clonmel  he  tells  me  he  cannot  find  any  place 
so  convenient  as  your  Grace's  fort,  which  is  walled  in  with  the 
little  house  and  other  conveniences  therein,  for  which  your 
Graces  receives  but  lOZ  per  annum,  with  the  addition  of  ten 
acres  of  land.  I  do  assure  your  Grace,  I  am  by  the  last  post 
extremely  solicited  to  send  my  sei^vants  and  manufacturers  to 
join  with  others  lately  set  up  within  three  miles  of  Dublin, 
as  also  to  begin  a  manufactory  at  Carlow,  where  I  could  have 
very  fair  and  large  conveniences  gratis,  but  I  have  hitherto 
refused  all  offers  of  this  kind.  •  However,  I  would  not  anyways 
be  burthensome  to  your  Grace,  and  therefore  shall  freely  refer 
it  to  your  Grace,  and  give  you  what  your  Grace  pleases  for  the 
fort,  with  as  much  other  land  as  Mr.  Hill  shall  desire  to  it. 
And  I  humbly  request  your  Grace  would  make  me  a  lease 
thereof,  for  as  long  a  time  as  your  Grace  usually  lets  leases 
to  any  other,  for  its  probable  I  may  improve  it  by  erecting 
some  buildings.  And  I  fear  Mr.  Hill  will  not  find  his  con- 
veniences to  carry  on  the  manufactory  in  Clonmel  w-ithout 
your  Grace's  favourable  concession  to  this  small  request,  and 
I  am  certain  your  Grace  will  not  deny  so  reasonable  a  favour, 
wherein  your  Grace's  advantage  is  equally  aimed  at.  It's 
true  I  must  send  over  many  families,  and  lay  out  several 
thousands  of  pounds  for  the  settlement  and  carrying  on  of  this 
affair,  which  creates  a  more  than  ordinary  importunity  for  your 
Grace's  assistance. 

Abstract  of  Eevenue  from  Wool. 

An  abstract  of  what  monies  has  been  received  by  the 
respective  Chief  Governors  of  this  kingdom  upon  the  account 
of  w^ool  duties,  since  His  Majesty's  happy  restoration. 

£        s.       d. 
I©  the  Lords  Justices  Government,  from  the 

beginning   of  January,   1660,   until  the 

latter  end  of  July,  1662,  the  sum  of  ...     2530  :  00  :  00 
In  his  Grace  the  Lord  Duke  of  Ormond's 

Government,   from  the   6th  of  August, 

1662,  until  the  death  of  Sir  George  Carr, 

February  13th,  1662,  the  sum  of 1206  :  08  :  00 

From  the  death  of  the  said  Sir  George  Carr, 

February  13th,  1662,  until  the  coming 

over  of  Mr.  Page,  April  13th,  1663      ...     0298  :  17  :  00 
From  the  said  13th  of  Appil,  1663,  to  the  14th 

of  April,  1664,  in  Mr.  Page's  time,  the 

sum  of  '  2512  :  01  :  08 


359 

£        s.      cl. 
From  the  14th  of  April,  1664,  to  the  16th  of 

April,  1665,  the  sum  of 3251  :  15  :  01 

From  the  15th  of  April,  1665,  to  the  16th  of 

April,  1666,  the  smu  of 2174  :  16  :  10 

From  the  15th  of  April,  1666,  to  the  16th  of 

April,  1667,  the  sum  of 2136  :  08  :  08 

From  the  15th  of  April,  1667,  to  the  16th  of 

April,  1668,  the  sum  of 2266  :  11  :  05 

From  the  15th  of  April,  1668,  to  the  28th  of 

April,  1669,  the  sum  of  ...         3046  :  10  :  05 

During  his  Excellency,  the  Earl  of  Ossory's 

Government  as  Lord  Lieutenant,  from 

the  28th  of  April,  1669,  until  the  15th  of 

September,  1669,  the  sum  of      1493  :  07  :  11 

During  the  short  government   of  the   Lord 

Koberts,  I  can  say  nothing  of  it  ... 
In  the  Lord  Berkeley's  Government,  my  son 

was  employed  imder  Mr.  Peter  Bingham , 

and  there  was  received  for  wool  duties, 

from  the  28th  of  April,  1670,  to  the  28th 

of  April,  1671,  the  sum  of        4548  :  08  ;  00 

From  the  28th  of  April,  1671,  to  the  28th  of 

April,  1672,  the  sum  of 5557  :  05  :  00 

From  the  28th  of  April,  1672,  to  the  5th  of 

August,  1672,  the  sum  of 0706  :  08  :  06 

In  the  Earl  of  Essex,  his  Government,  from 

the  5th  of  August,  1672,  to  the  last  day  of 

July,  1673,  the  sum  of 4419  :  06  :  09 

From  the  last  of  July,  1673,  to  the  last  of  July, 

1674,  the  sum  of 6221  :  05  :  01 

From  the  last  of  July,  1674,  to  the  last  of 

January,  1674,  the  sum  of  2193  :  04  :  02 

James  Margetson,  Archbishop  of  Armagh,  to  Ormond. 

1674,  February  1.  Dublin. — It  is  proper  for  me,  though  I 
suppose  some  others  will  acquaint  your  Grace  with  the  sudden 
death  of  Dr.  Seele,  Provost  of  the  College,  by  the  statutes 
whereof  the  fellows  are  to  signify  the  same  to  your  Grace  as 
their  Chancellor,  and  your  Grace  to  the  King,  who  will  be 
pleased,  I  hope,  to  prefer  the  person  you  shall  think  fit  to 
recommend,  and  I  am  sure  your  Grace  will  name  a  man  every 
way  qualified  for  a  place  of  so  great  concern  to  this  church 
and  kingdom,  as  I  heard  you  prevented  one  who  in  all 
probability  w^ould  have  been  contrary.  I  foresee  that  a  man 
of  eminent  parts  will  hardly  be  persuaded  to  come  out  of 
England  to  undertake  the  care  and  charge  of  this  place,  unless 
he  may  be  assured  of  some  other  considerable  preferment^ 
which  is  in  my  Lord  Lieutenant's  power  to  bestow,  and  give 
me  leave  to  assure  your  Grace  that  we  have  no  man  so  fit 
for  that  place  as  Dr.  Michael  Ward,  in  respect  of  his  prudence, 


360 

piety  and  leariuug,  and  my  Lord  Lieutenant  is  of  my  opinion. 
1  could  wish  he  had  more  years,  yet  his  good  esteem  in  the 
college,  and  great  prudence,  will  gain  him  authority,  and  if 
your  Grace  be  pleased  to  recommend  him  to  be  Provost,  it 
will  be  acceptable  to  the  college,  and  advantageous  to  the  whole 
church,  which  I  humbly  leave  to  your  Grace's  great  wisdom. 
God  Almighty  bless  your  Grace  with  all  blessings  temporal 
and  eternal. 

Ormoxd  to  Earl  of  Clarendon. 

liui  [-5]  ,  February  -27.  Kilkenny. — If  I  should  upon  every 
occasion  that  is  offered  renew  and  repeat  the  honour  and 
friendship  I  had  for  my  Loi'd  your  father,  and  the  service  I 
am  prepared  to  do  your  Lordship  and  your  family  when  I  can, 
1  should  but  grow  troublesome,  and  perhaps  with  reason  be 
suspected  of  greater  ostentation  than  real  friendship ;  it  is 
enough  that  your  Lordship  knows  me,  and  may  remember  me 
in  several  capacities  and  conditions  of  fortune.  I  cannot  for 
all  I  have  heard  and  seen  but  continue  in  some  doubt  that 
the  rarlianient  will  not  sit  at  the  prefixt  day,  and  yet  I  am 
preparing  for  my  transportation  as  if  I  were  certain  it  would, 
only  1  dare  not  attempt  the  removing  of  my  family  upon 
the  uncertainty  of  its  meeting,  and  the  greater  uncertainty 
of  the  time  it  will  sit;  my  purpose  being,  if  it  should 
sit  but  a  little  while,  to  come  over  again  and  fetch  my 
wife  towards  the  latter  end  of  summer,  till  when  she  will  have 
our  domestic  affairs  to  employ  herself  in;  in  the  meantime, 
my  lodgings  at  Whitehall  will  serve  me  very  commodiously, 
reserving  the  favour  and  accommodation  your  Lordship  offers 
me  to  our  discourse  together.  ]\Iy  Lord,  your  father's  desire 
concerning  his  chaplain,  Mr.  Levett,  would  have  been  readily 
obeyed  if  the  circumstances  of  time  had  been  less  powerful. 
T  am  sorry  his  last  commands  were  of  no  greater  importance 
and  difficulty,  but  I  hope  he  supposed  himself  securer  of  them, 
and  your  Lordship  may  yourself,  of  my  being. 

Ormond  to  Sir  William  Temple. 

1674  [-5],  February  27.  Kilkenny. — Ever  since  1  received 
yours  of  the  5th  inst.  that  style,  which  was  on  the  10th 
according  to  ours,  I  have  been  in  expectation  of  some  more 
certainty  than  appeared  to  me  of  the  sitting  or  further 
proroguing  of  the  Parliament,  not  being  able  at  this  distance 
to  comprehend  the  necessity  or  (without  that)  the  conveniency 
of  calling  them  together ;  those  popular  things  which  have 
been  done  at  Court-,  and  are  held  for  undoubted  arguments 
that  it  will  sit,  do  not  seem  to  me  to  be  so,  since  if  it  be  foreseen 
that  it  wiU  be  fit  they  should  meet  in  October,  the  punctual 
pursuance  in  the  meantime  of  the  things  begun  may  be  useful 
towards  persuading  the  world  we  are  in  earnest,  and  as  their 
faith  is  disposed  that  time  and  diligence  are  but  little  enough. 
If  we  are  prepared  a  shorter  way  to  satisfy  the  people  that  all 


361 

their  fears  are  groundless,  I  confess  the  sooner  that  is  done 
the  better.  But  I  am  beside  my  purpose  slipt  into  these 
reflections.  My  intention  only  was  to  let  your  Excellency  know 
that  if  the  Parliament  sits  in  April,  about  that  time  your 
commands  are  like  to  find  me  at  Court ;  but  if  it  should  be 
prorogued  to  winter,  I  shall  desire  to  bring  the  year  round 
here,  and  ask  leave  to  be  absent  till  towards  the  latter  end 
of  summer,  unless  the  increase  of  vapours  from  the  spleen, 
which  have  much  troubled  me  all  this  w^inter,  shall  require 
my  drinking  of  the  Bath  waters ;  the  most  proper  remedy 
against  them,  as  physicians  tell  me.  You  are  like  in  Holland 
to  know,  at  least  as  soon  as  we  here,  what  shall  become  of 
the  Parliament,  and  consequently  what  cour  e  will  be  steered 
by  your  Excellency's,  etc. 

Okmond  to  SiE  Egbert  Southwell. 

1674  [-5] ,  March  3.  Kilkenny. — Though  I  am  not  absolutely 
free  from  suspecting  there  may  be  a  possibility  that  the 
Parliament  will  not  meet  this  next  April,  yet  I  prepare  as  if 
I  were  very  certain  it  would.  The  means  of  getting  over  with 
some  decency,  and  as  much  security  as  the  adventure  will  bear, 
I  am  not  yet  assured  of.  If  I  knew  I  could  have  none  from 
thence,  I  might  perhaps  fit  myself  from  Dublin ;  but  I  am 
unwiHing  that  two  vessels  should  attend  when  one  is  sufficient. 
I  am  told  Mr.  Nelthorpe  himself  is  expected  here  to  visit  the 
beginnings  of  his  designed  manufacture.  I  think  he  does 
wisely,  for  the  representations  of  his  agents  are  not  always 
safely  relied  upon.  However,  I  send  you  herewith  the  substance 
of  what  was  desired  by  way  of  encouragement,  and  what  1  have 
done  beyond  what  w^as  desired,  that  you  may  judge  of  the 
difference,  and  if  yet  more  shall  be  reasonably  proposed,  I  shall 
not  be  found  backward.  By  the  copies  of  two  letters  from  the 
agent  to  his  principal,  my  conjecture  of  his  undervaluing  of  what 
1  had  done  for  them  appears  well  grounded,  and  by  his  saying 
that  in  four  days  he  could  not  get  to  speak  with  me,  I  guess  he 
does  not  over  strictly  tie  himself  to  truth ;  for  I  dare  confidently 
affirm  that  no  man  ever  stayed  so  long  for  an  audience  from 
me,  that  had  a  mind  to  speak  with  me  and  came  to  desire  it, 
if  I  were  then  in  health  and  in  my  wits,  and  I  thank  God  I 
never  was  so  long  mad  or  drunk.  My  Lord  of  Meath  is 
preparing  to  pass  over  with  his  articles;  and  being,  as  he 
certainly  is,  made  a  tool  of  (such  as  my  friend  Hudibras  says 
Iv naves  make  use  of),  I  do  not  doubt  but  he  is  well  instructed ; 
but  to  what  points  of  accusation  I  know  not,  only  I  must 
suppose  the  heads  must  principally  be  the  mismanagement  of 
the  public  treasure  and  prodigious  acquisitions ;  but  invention 
being  unlimited,  it  will  be  in  vain  to  prognosticate. 

Eabl  of  Donegall  to  Sir  W.  Flo  wee. 

1674  [-5] ,  March  3.  Belfast. — T  am  much  obliged  to  you  for 
vour  affectionate  letter  of  the  29tli  of  the  last  month,  and  am 
heartily  glad  to  learn  by  yours  of  the  welfare  of  my  Lord  Duke 


•2 

• 

and  Duchess,  and  that  I  have  the  honour  to  live  still  in  their 
memory.  I  assure  you  there  is  not  a  family  in  the  three 
kingdoms  that  myself  and  wife  have  a  greater  esteem  for,  which 
we  have  been  ready  upon  all  occasions  to  express,  particularly 
to  my  Lord  John,  who  I  am  sure  must  do  us  justice  that 
he  was  treated  here  with  all  the  freedom  and  kindness 
imaginable.  You  are  a  person  that  I  have  that  confidence, 
and  therefore  may  use  the  more  freedom  with ;  you  are  pleased 
to  intimate  the  passionate  love  my  Lord  John  hath  for  my 
daughter,  which  was  not  thought  .so  real  w'hilst  he  was  here,  and 
we  rather  believed  his  address  was  out  of  a  dutiful  compliance 
to  his  noble  parents  than  any  real  affection  he  had  to  her 
person.  Something  of  this  has  been  heard  formerly  to  drop 
from  himself.  I  am  sure  you  are  not  a  stranger  to  the  discourse 
of  people  as  to  his  many  misses,  and  yet  could  I  be  assured 
he  was  wholly  reclaimed  from  that  course,  which  is  now  grown 
almost  epidemical,  and  that  he  could  heartily  love  my  child, 
I  shall  not  be  against  suitable  proposals.  I  intend  to  make 
her  a  considerable  fortune  and  shall  expect  an  answerable 
settlement  for  her;  but  I  perceive  by  yours  that  his  Grace 
intends  speedily  for  England,  and  so  doth  my  wife,  and  it  is 
impossible  before  his  going  to  consider  of  such  proposals  as 
shall  be  made,  and  therefore  think  it  will  be  more  convenient 
to  defer  it  till  he  return,  w^hich  I  hope  may  not  be  long;  in 
the  meantime  assure  those  noble  persons  there  are  none  in 
this  w^orld  have  a  greater  honour  for  them  nor  desire  to  be 
nearer  allied  to  them,  were  all  other  circumstances  concurring. 
She  is  our  all ,  and  therefore  I  am  sure  you  will  think  us  obliged 
to  look  chiefly  after  her  comfortable  settlement.  Thus  you 
see  I  have  taken  the  freedom  to  discourse  my  thoughts  to  you , 
assuring  myself  of  your  prudence  and  affection  in  this  concern. 

Oemond  to  Sir  William  Temple. 

1674,  March  3.  Kilkenny. — Since  mine  of  the  27th  of  the 
last  (as  I  take  it) ,  I  received  yours  of  the  16th ,  though  I  knew 
that  what  your  Excellency  mentions  was  in  the  errand  of  those 
two  Lords ;  yet  I  must  confess  that  with  the  vulgar  I  did  think 
there  might  be  more,  the  rather  that  such  persons  sent  in 
such  a  season  cannot  move  without  giving  matter  of  conjecture, 
if  not  of  jealousy,  when  there  is  so  numerous  a  confederacy  to 
reflect  on  all  that  passes,  and  when  some  of  those  may  be  glad 
of  a  thin  pretext  to  slip  out  of  it.  Our  last  letters  out  of 
England  say  that  some  there  will  not  yet  believe  that  the 
Parliament  will  sit  at  the  time  appointed;  but  I  do  not  for 
that  slacken  either  in  my  purpose  or  preparations  for  the 
voyage.  I  am  only  to  seek  for  a  commodious  and  decent  means 
Df  transportation,  and  for  that  have  written  to  my  son  Ossory 
upon  the  credit  of  my  being  one  of  the  Commissioners  of  the 
Admiralty.  When  1  have  gotten  thither  1  shall,  by  the  first 
proper  conveyance,  send  you  a  cipher  that  you  may  more  freely 
hear  from  me. 


3G3 

Ormond  to  Sir  E.  Howard. 

1674  [-5] ,  March  3.  Kilkenny. — Upon  my  receiving  yours  of 
the  9th  of  February,  I  betook  myself  to  my  preparations  for 
England,  and  I  think  could  have  been  there  by  this  time,  but 
that  there  is  to  be  found  no  means  of  transportation.  His 
Majesty  having  no  ship  or  yacht  nearer  than  Dover,  whereas 
I  thought  there  were.  I  am  sure  there  ought  to  be  always  some 
of  his  men  of  war  about  the  Land's  End  and  the  soundings. 
All  I  have  to  trust  to  is  the  coming  about  of  the  Norwich, 
now  victualling  in  the  west  of  Ireland,  and  without  a  westerly 
or  southerly  wind  she  cannot  get  to  the  river  of  Waterford. 
I  tell  you  this  story  that  you  may  not  charge  me  with  negligence, 
and  because  you  are* pleased  to  be  concerned  for  me.  We  have 
here  several  copies  of  my  Lord  of  Shaftsbury's  letter  to  my 
Lord  of  Carlisle, which  shows  that  he  or  somebody  else  thought 
it  fit  for  publication.  The  things  that  are  asserted  in  it  are  of 
no  small  moment.  The  advice  given  1  should  have  thought 
dangerous  to  me  to  have  declared,  but  the  professions  are 


generous. 


Ormond  to  OSSORY. 


1674,  March  4.  Kilkenny. — I  have  yours  of  the  23rd  of  the 
last,  and  though  with  it  there  came  other  letters  that  speak 
doubtfully  of  the  sitting  of  the  Parliament,  yet  I  am  prepairng 
for  my  voyage  as  if  I  were  sure  it  would.  If  it  should  be  put 
off,  you  will  have  no  need  of  getting  me  means  of  transportation , 
but  if  it  holds,  you  have  scarce  time  enough  to  let  me  know 
there  can  be  none  had  from  thence,  and  for  me  to  provide 
from  Dublin,  from  whence  to  Waterford  is  longer  and  a  more 
uncertain  voyage  than  I  design  to  make  by  sea. 

Ormond  to  Col.  Cooke. 

1674,  March  10.  Kilkenny. — I  was  careful  of  your  promise 
and  mine,  and  by  a  letter  sent  two  or  three  posts  since,  informed 
you  of  my  purpose  to  pass  over  by  the  way  of  Milford  as  soon 
as  I  could  meet  with  a  convenient  and  something  a  safe  way 
of  transportation.  By  letters  of  the  2nd  inst.  (of  which  date 
yours  from  London  was),  I  find  the  King  had  but  that  day 
consented  that  one  of  his  yachts  should  come  about  for  me  ; 
what  time  she  may  take  in  coming,  or  how  long  it  may  be  after 
she  shall  be  come  before  the  wind  may  serve  for  my  voyage 
cannot  be  said,  but  God  willing,  she  shall  not  stay  many  hours 
for  me.  It  is  possible  that  though  I  send  my  horses,  if  I  can, 
before  me  to  stay  about  Milford  for  me,  yet  if  the  winds  offer 
fair  for  Bristol,  I  may  endeavour  to  land  there,  that  I  may  the 
sooner  get  to  the  Bath,  where  I  would  stay  as  long  as  I  could 
to  drink  those  waters,  as  I  am  advised  to  do  as  soon  as  I  can. 
In  all  this  uncertainty  your  best  course  to  be  sure  to  meet  with 
me  is  to  stay  at  or  about  Highnam,  where  you  shall  be  sure 
to  hear  from  me  wheresoever  I  land  by  the  first  opportunity. 


364 

1  ai)i  ^lad  liiy  good  old  Lady  Devonshire's  interment  was  so 
suitable  to  the  whole  course  of  her  life,  full  of  honour,  and 
with  the  respects  of  all  sorts  of  people.  If  I  had  been  in 
England,  I  think  I  should  have  supplied  the  place  of  my  Lord 
Cavendish.  1  am  sure  it  would  have  become  me  better  to 
have  done  it,  than  it  did  him  not  to  do  it. 

Ormond  to  Earl  of  Donegall. 

1674  [-5],  March  10.  Kilkenny. — Having  seen  a  letter  of 
your  Lordship's  to  Sir  William  Flower,  and  finding  my  son 
John  resolved  to  w^ait  upon  my  Lady  Donegall  and  my  Lady 
Ann  before  their  going  for  England,  with  hope  to  gain  more 
belief  of  his  passion  for  the  young  lady  than  it  seems  he 
has  yet  had  the  a'd dress  or  good  fortune  to  do,  I  thought  it 
agreeable  to  my  respects  to  your  Lordship  and  your  Lady,  by 
an  application  from  myself  and  the  interposition  of  my  good 
friend  Sir  James  Cuflfe,  to  let  you  see  that  my  inclinations  are 
still  the  same,  and  that  I  am  prepared  to  do  as  much  as  is 
])ossible  on  my  part  to  make  my  son  fit  for  the  honour  of 
your  Lordship's  alliance.  I  have  too  much  honour  for  your 
Lordship  and  your  Lady  to  proceed  otherwise  than  openly 
and  frankly,  or  to  detain  you  with  circumstances.  If  therefore, 
you  are  pleased  to  be  discoursed  with  upon  the  subject,  Sir 
James  is  prepared  and  authorised  to  engage  me  to  the  extent 
of  my  present  power ;  if  that  falls  short  of  what  you  propose 
to  yourself,  you  may  put  a  period  to  the  affair,  but  not  to  my 
affection. 

Sir  William  Flower  and  Sir  James  Cuffb  to  Ormond. 

1674,  March  18.  Belfast. — We  came  hither  last  night,  but 
beyond  our  expectation  found  my  Lord  of  Donegall  speechless 
and  past  all  hope  of  recovery.  He  was  well  and  at  church  on 
Sunday  last,  but  fell  sick  that  night  and  died  at  four  o'clock 
this  morning.  What  measures  to  take  in  our  affair  upon  this 
occasion  we  cannot  yet  resolve,  nor  how  long  it  will  be  before 
my  Lord  John  or  we  can  have  access  to  either  of  the  ladies. 
It  is  certain  that  until  the  funeral  be  over  we  can  do  nothing 
but  make  our  observations,  which  we  will  do  with  all  possible 
diligence,  and  perhaps  may  be  able  to  give  your  Grace  a  further 
account  by  Saturday's  post,  this  being  only  to  acquaint  j'our 
Grace  of  this  unfortunate  and  unexpected  occassion ;  and  if 
your  Grace  shall  think  fit  thereu|)on  to  give  us  any  new 
commands,  we  hope  your  Grace  will  ba pleased  (by  some  means) 
to  send  them  to  Dublin  by  Tuesday  night,  that  they  may  come 
to  us  by  that  night's  packet.  If  we  should  find  encouragement 
after  a  little  time  to  proceed  in  a  treaty  with  the  Countess 
or  the  young  lady,  it  may  be  the  authority  we  have  (being  to 
treat  with  my  Lord)  will  not  be  thought  sufficient,  therefore 
your  Grace  wall  be  pleased  to  consider  whether  another  authority 
of  the  same  kind,  with  a  blank  for  the  party  to  be  treated  with, 
will  not  be  necessary  to  remain  in  our  hands,  and  be  made  use 
of  if  there  be  occasion. 


305 

Ormond  to  Sir  William  Flowfji  and  Sir  James  Ciffe. 

3674,  March  22.  Kilkenny. — Though  I  do  believe  that  my 
Lord  of  Donegairs  death  (for  which  I  am  heartily  sorry  for 
other  reasons)  will  put  an  end  to  your  present  negotiation,  yet 
since  you  are  upon  the  place,  and  that  unexpected  opportunities 
may  offer  themselves,  I  have  sent  the  authority  proposed,  varied 
according  to  the  occasion  and  your  advice.  I  have  also  written 
a  letter  to  the  Lady  Donegall,  of  which  I  send  you  a  copy,  but 
it  must  be  left  to  your  observation  and  prudence  whether  any 
use  can  at  this  time  be  properly  made  of  the  authority,  or 
whether  it  be  fit  to  deliver  the  letter  or  not ;  though  1  have 
as  well  as  I  could  so  drawn  it  as  that  it  may  serve  towards  a 
continuation  of  the  treaty  as  to  manifest  my  respects  to  the 
deceased  Lord,  which  were  really  very  ereat.  Whether  as 
things  now  stand  John  is  to  advance  any  further  or  to  return , 
can  only  be  determined  by  you. 

Ormoxd  to  Countess  of  Donegall. 

1674  [-5],  March  22.  Kilkenny. — It  was  a  great  and 
afflicting  surprise  to  me  when  from  Sir  William  Flower  and 
Sir  James  C'uffe  I  was  informed  of  the  death  of  my  Lord  your 
husband.  The  long  knowledge  I  had  of  his  honour  and  worth 
were  the  first  and  principal  motives  that  induced  me  to  assist 
my  son  John  in  his  addresses  to  my  Lady  your  daughter,  and 
bis ;  and  those  gentlemen  were  now  sent  with  such  offers  on 
my  part  as  (my  condition  considered)  I  did  hope  would  be  some 
evidence  of  the  great  value  I  set  upon  the  alliance,  though  it 
might  be  short  of  what  the  lady's  person  and  fortunp  deserve. 
The  memory  of  so  good  and  ancient  a  friend,  approved  in  times 
of  greatest  difficulty  and  hazard,  shall  be  ever  honoured  by 
me,  and  whether  your  Ladyship  shall  think  fit  to  entertain  the 
treaty  (to  which  a  late  letter  from  his  Lordship  to  Sir  William 
Flower  gave  some  encouragement)  or  no,  yet  I  beg  that  if 
in  the  persons  of  those  he  hath  left  behind  him,  or  in  their 
concerns,  I  can  be  useful  where  I  am  going,  or  anywhere  else, 
that  I  may  receive  your  Ladyship's  commands  and  direction, 
which  shall  be  obeyed  with  all  the  satisfaction  imaginable. 

Earl  of  Derby  to  Ormond. 

1675,  April  19.  Venice. — I  am  come  thus  far  on  my  way 
for  France.  I  hope  to  be  at  the  holy  place  of  Geneva  within 
three  weeks,  where  I  shall  make  some  stay.  Whilst  I  was  at 
Eome  (I  met)  one  Doctor  Gibbs,  famous  for  poetry  as  Horace 
was  in  his  time,  therefore  the  Emperor  honoured  him  with  the 
title  of  his  Poet  Laureate  and  sent  him  about  three  years  ago  a 
gold  chain  and  a  medal ;  the  doctor  thought  he  could  do  no 
better  than  to  send  it  to  Oxford,  and  the  University  thought 
they  could  not  requite  Doctor  Gibbs  better  than  to  have  him 
be  a  doctor,  and  sent  him  a  long  harangue  in  his  praise,  which 
the  doctor  liked  ver)"  well,  and  shows  it  to  every  person  that 


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comes  to  see  him.  The  doctor  was  extreme  civil  to  me,  for 
he  honoured  me  with  a  copy  of  his  verses,  with  a  book  which 
I  shall  show  your  Grace  when  I  have  the  honour  of  seeing  you. 
The  doctor  desired  a  gentleman  to  speak  to  me  (he  being  one 
of  my  own  country)  that  the  only  thing  the  doctor  should 
desire  was  that  since  the  University  of  Oxford  has  been  so 
civil  and  so  like  a  courtier  to  him,  that  he  has  his  wish  in  all 
things  but  one  thing,  which  is,  that  because  you  are  the 
Chancellor,  your  Grace  would  honour  him  with  a  letter.  He 
never  did  desire  any  more  in  this  world ;  if  you  think  fit  it 
should  be  done,  I  shall  be  much  obliged  to  your  Grace  for  it, 
yet  I  leave  it  to  your  discretion  to  do  in  it  what  way  you  judge 
best ;  I  humbly  beg  your  Grace's  pardon  if  you  think  I  am 
too  importunate.  Since  I  writ  thus  much  of  your  letter,  I 
leceived  one  from  your  Grace.  I  don't  know  how  to  express 
thanks  enough  for  your  most  obliging  letter  and  supply,  I  can 
only  say  it  was  done  like  your  Grace ;  but  I  do  assure  you  I  had 
not  desired  more  if  I  had  not  been  very  much  pressed  for  it ; 
T  shall  not  desire  any  more  whilst  I  am  abroad.  I  am  much  of 
your  mind  that  it  will  be  best  to  live  in  London  at  my  first 
coming  over,  and  I  leave  it  to  your  Grace  which  will  be  better, 
Derby  house  or  another.  I  suppose  this  will  find  you  at 
London  (the  Parliament  sitting).  I  wish  it  was  to  be  governed 
by  you  alone ;  we  should  hope  for  better  things.  In  the  mean- 
time I  wish  you  success  in  all  proceedings,  for  I  am  wdth  all  zeal, 
j'our  Grace's  most  humble  dutiful  friend  and  faithful  servant, 

Derby. 

T.  Fairfax  to  Ormond. 

1675,  April  20.  Venice. — Though  we  arrived  here  before 
we  knew  of  your  Grace's  largesse,  yet  (I  believe)  my  Lord  of 
Derby  left  Rome  with  as  good  a  reputation  as  any  of  his  quality 
that  has  been  here  He  did  me  the  honour  to  show  me  your 
Grace's  kind  letter  of  the  6th  of  February,  since  which  he  has 
some  thoughts  of  going  to  Paris,  because  your  Grace's  largesse 
may  put  him  in  an  equipage  to  live  handsomely,  or  at  least  not 
less  than  he  did  before.  I  must  confess  I  think  it  very 
necessary  for  him  to  be  there  to  learn  something  which 
hitherto  we  have  made  but  a  slender  progress  in.  I  hope  we 
may  persuade  him  to  something  of  reason  till  he  comes  to  be 
of  age;  but  what  may  happen  after,  God  knows.  I  perceive 
his  inclinations  much  to  a  country  life  for  the  present,  but 
his  mind  is  as  unconstant  as  one  would  wish.  The  little  reason 
and  experience  I  have  shall  be  employed  wholly  to  his 
Lordship's  service,  while  I  have  the  honour  to  be  with  him. 
The  greatest  happiness  I  can  expect  is  your  Grace's  approbation 
of  my  endeavours,  not  only  in  this   but  all  other  things. 

Thomas  Bickesteth  to  Ormond. 

1675,  May  16.  Liverpool. — On  Thursday  last  I  received 
your  Grace's  letter  of  the  third  instant,  but  perceive  the  reason 
it  came  not  sooner  to  my  hands  was  JNIr.  Roger's  absence. 


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My  Lord,  no  sooner  had  we  the  sad  news  of  Sk  Gilbert  Ireland's 
death,  but  the  general  esteem,  value  and  interest  Mr.  Banks 
hath  in  these  parts,  with  that  relation  and  trust  he  hath  in  that 
great  neighbouring  family,  which  is  now  happily  ingrafted  in 
yours,  put  into  our  minds  the  only  choice  of  him  for  our  succeed- 
ing burgess  in  Parliament ;  and  we  concluded  we  should  be  very 
safe  and  happy  in  the  choice  of  so  worthy  a  person  if  he  would 
stand.  And  he  being  a  member  of  our  corporation ,  was  pleased 
to  conceive  himself  obliged  to  comply  with  our  desires ;  in 
which  choice  we  hope  your  Grace  will  be  very  well  satisfied. 
My  Lord,  we  render  our  humble  and  hearty  thanks  to  your 
Grace  that  you  would  be  pleased  to  honour  us  with  your 
thoughts  and  care  of  a  member  of  Parliament  for  us.  On 
behalf  of  myself  and  rest,  I  crave  pardon  to  subscribe  myself, 
etc. 

Peter  Brooke  to  Ormond. 

1675,  May  17.  Astley. — My  neighbours  of  Liverpool  have 
desired  me  to  acquaint  you  that  a  great  reason  why  they 
resolved  to  elect  Mr.  Banks  their  burgess,  was  because  they 
conceived  it  would  be  agreeable  to  your  Grace  and  my  Lord 
of  Ossory,  and  well  pleasing  to  the  Earl  of  Derby.  I  know^ 
Mr.  Fleetwood  to  be  a  gentleman  of  excellent  accomplishments, 
but  the  other  being  a  neighbour  and  well  qualified  to  serve 
his  country,  they  hope  is  beyond  exception,  and  I  do  humbly 
pray  to  hear  that  your  Grace  is  not  offended  with  them ;  whereof 
if  I  may  receive  signification  under  the  hand  of  your  servants, 
it  will  be  a  cordial  to  that  corporation.  I  had  not  presumed 
to  have  directed  this  coarse  paper  to  so  great  a  person,  but 
that  I  hear  my  nephew,  Mr.  Asheton,  is  at  Oxford,  for  whom 
myself  and  all  his  relations  are  ever  bound  to  pray  for  your 
Grace.  Not  long  since  I  received  a  letter  from  my  Lord  of 
Derby,  and  saw  another  to  the  Countess  Dowager,  wherein 
he  expresseth  a  noble  passion  for  his  Countess,  but  I  dare  not 
be  further  troublesome ;  praying  that  the  blessings  of  heaven 
and  earth  may  befall  your  illustrious  family,  I  am  in  all 
humility,  your  Grace's,  etc 

William  Banks  to  Ormond. 

1675,  May  29.  Winstanley.  I  think  it  agreeable  to  my 
duty  to  give  your  Grace  an  account  that  the  Corporation  of 
Liverpool  have  been  pleased  this  week  to  elect  me  their  burgess, 
which  act  of  kindness  in  them  w^as  chiefly  in  respect  to  my  Lord 
of  Derby,  upon  my  relation  to  his  service,  and  to  your  Grace's 
unmerited  favour  in  pleasing  to  own  me  by  your  letter,  for 
which  I  desire  to  pay  my  humble  acknowledgments. 

T.  Fairfax  to  Ormond. 

1675,  June  5.  Lyons. — I  had  the  honour  of  your  Grace's 
of  the  29th  of  April ,  though  I  wish  it  had  met  us  at  Geneva,  that 
we  might  have  come  no  nearer  Paris.     I  find  my  Lord  Derby 


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is  not  so  much  wodded  to  that  place  but  that  he  is  willing  to 
comply  with  j'oiir  Grace's  desires  for  his  abode  anywhere  else. 
As  yet  we  have  not  exceeded  our  allowance  one  farthing, 
notwithstanding  our  expenses  were  more  than  ordinary  at 
Rorae,  nor  have  we  received  one  penny  of  the  largesse  your 
Grace  was  pleased  to  grant  us,  which  now  we  hope  to  have  to 
put  us  into  clothes  and  other  necessaries.  I  am  thinking  of 
going  to  Caen  in  Normandy,  if  I  can  persuade  my  Lord  Derby 
to  it :  it  is  very  necessary  for  him  to  learn  some  exercises  (as 
dancing  especially)  before  his  coming  over.  I  suppose  he  will 
give  your  Grace  some  reasons  for  his  stay  at  Paris,  though  I 
believe  he  will  do  nothing  against  your  Grace's  opinion,  which 
humour  I  shall  endeavour  to  cherish  in  him  as  much  as  I  can. 
However,  I  shall  be  mighty  glad  to  have  your  Grace's  further 
commands  to  meet  us  at  Paris,  which  will  the  more  facilitate 
all  our  matters. 

T.  Faihfax  to  Obmond. 

1675,  June  12.  Paris. — Though  we  are  in  this  place  it  is 
but  to  attend  your  Grace's  orders  for  our  remove.  Our  long 
voyage,  together  with  some  expenses  in  Italy,  which  for  my 
life  T  could  not  hinder,  since  they  were  for  my  Lord  of  Derby's 
honour,  has  put  us  a  little  behindhand,  which  we  thought 
might  have  been  made  up  by  the  largesse  your  Grace  was 
pleased  to  mention  to  me ;  but  our  merchant  here  tells  me 
he  never  had  any  orders  to  that  purpose.  We  are  all  out  of 
clothes  and  linen,  so  that  we  shall  make  but  a  hard  shift  without 
it.  If  your  Grace  does  anything  in  this,  I  believe  we  shall 
need  no  more  of  that  nature  while  we  are  abroad.  I  am  very 
glad  Mr.  Henry  Stanley  came  to  us  (though  it  augments  our 
charge),  for  I  find  him  to  be  a  very  civil  young  man,  and  one 
that  can  tell  all  my  Lord  Derby's  relations  of  my  endeavours 
in  order  to  his  Lordship's  service.  I  should  not  have  given 
your  Grace  this  frequent  trouble,  which  I  was  wont  to  do  to 
my  Lord  of  Arran,  but  that  I  find  he  is  not  in  England. 

Earl  of  Dbbby  to  Ormond. 

1675,  June  12.  Paris. — I  had  the  honour  of  receiving  your 
Grace's  at  Lyons,  I  humbly  beg  your  pardon  that  my  time 
did  not  permit  me  to  answer  your  Grace's  then.  I  am  mightily 
obliged  to  you  for  the  honour  your  Grace  was  pleased  to  offer 
me,  that  at  my  return  to  lodge  at  your  lodgings.  You  may  be 
sure  that  I  shall  take  it  for  the  greatest  honour  and  happiness 
in  the  world  to  be  so  near  you,  if  it  were  not  for  the  fear  of 
incommoding  your  Grace.  My  intention  was  to  stay  here  till 
the  latter  end  of  this  summer,  and  then  to  make  a  little  journey 
into  Normandy  to  see  the  towns  there,  and  afterwards  to  come 
back  again  here  and  to  continue  the  winter  in  this  place,  for 
I  thought  that  it  would  be  more  beneficial  for  me  to  do  all  my 
exercises  (for  certainly  this  is  the  best  place  to  learn  them) 
something  well  before  I  go  into  England,  and  that  with  part 


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of  the  supply  that  your  Grace  was  pleased  to  promise  me,  might 
buy  coach  and  horses ;  and  I  do  assure  you  I  will  not  spend  the 
least  thing  above  my  allowance,  for  I  did  not  do  it  when  I 
came  to  Paris,  and  I  shall  take  the  same  care  again.  I  beg 
your  pardon  if  I  stay  here  till  I  receive  an  order  from  some 
person  about  your  Grace  whether  I  should  stay  or  not ;  and 
whatsoever  you  command,  I  shall  very  willingly  obey,  for  I  am 
certain  vour  Grace  knows  what  is  fit  for  me  better  than 
myself. 

I  received  a  letter  from  my  wife  the  last  post,  that  she  was 
put  to  the  charge  of  500Z  the  last  ball  she  danced.  I  leave  if 
to  your  Grace  to  do  in  it  what  you  think  most  convenient.  T 
suppose  Mr.  Fairfax  has  writ  to  you  concerning  my  allowance. 
If  you  have  any  commands  for  me  to  do  in  this  place,  I  shall 
observe  it  with  all  care. 

Earl  of  Derby  to  Ormond. 

1675,  St.  Peter's  Day.  Paris. — I  received  your  Grace's 
yesterday,  with  one  enclosed  concerning  my  Aunt  Athol's 
business,  and  here  it  is  signed,  though  I  think  there  are  several 
circumstances  which  might  have  been  very  well  left  out,  and 
it  says  as  if  I  were  obliged,  whereas  I  am  not  at  all,  not  but 
that  I  am  very  well  pleased  in  the  whole,  for  I  give  your  Grace 
humble  thanks  for  making  this  agreement,  and  I  shall  ever 
own  it  for  a  great  happiness,  that  instead  of  a  difference  I 
hope  we  shall  have  a  good  correspondence  together. 

Since  I  find  that  you  are  absolutely  of  the  opinion  that  it 
is  not  fit  for  me  to  stay  here,  I  shall  obey  your  Grace's 
commands  to  go  into  the  country,  and  am  troubled  that  I 
cannot  fulfil  your  orders  in  all  things,  that  is  to  go  to  Caen, 
for  there  being  an  epidemical  disease  all  through  Normandy, 
I  think  it  not  safe  to  go  there.  They  say  it  is  not  the  plague, 
but  it  is  as  bad,  for  people  die  of  it.  Therefore,  my  intention 
is  to  go  to  Orleans,  unless  your  Grace  thinks  it  not  fit  that  I 
should  be  so  near  I'aris.  I  believe  I  shall  go  there  either  the 
latter  end  of  this  week  or  the  beginning  of  the  other,  for  I 
shall  make  what  haste  I  can  to  be  out  of  this  town,  and  if 
your  Grace  thinks  of  any  place  fitter  than  Orleans,  I  shall  go 
there  upon  the  first  notice. 

All  the  news  that  is  here  is  the  expectation  of  the  Prince  of 
Orange,  whether  he  will  be  so  brisk  as  to  fight  with  the  French  ; 
the  King  being  at  the  head  of  his  army,  who  is  resolved  to 
fight  in  person,  notwithstanding  the  Prince  of  Conde's 
persuasions  to  the  contrary  that  his  person  is  worth  more  than 
all  the  kingdoms  in  the  world;  but  the  King  said  he  had 
considered  of  it,  that  it  was  fit  he  should  hazard  himself  once, 
though  the  French  does  think  that  it  may  be  reasonably 
supposed  that  the  Prince  of  Orange  will  not  think  it  fit  to  fight 
against  a  king  who  knows  nothing  but  to  overcome,  that  the 
sun  may  easily  melt  a  Holland  cheese.  I  humbly  beg  your 
Grace's  pardon  if  this  news  be  old  to  you ;  it  is  the  freshest 
that  is  here. 

Wt.  8878  X 


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Yon  may  easily  think  that  I  shall  long  much  to  wait  upon 
your  Grace  when  my  time  is  finished,  and  that  I  long  very 
much  (and  shall  think  it  longer  for  that  reason)  to  see  a  lady 
that  lodges  at  Whitehall,  by  whom  I  have  so  great  an  honour 
as  to  be  allied  to  your  Grace,  for  which  and  all  other  favours 
I  have  had  the  honour  of  receving  from  you,  I  shall  always 
think  myself  obliged  to  be,  your  Grace's  most  humble  and 
faithful  servant. 

Andreas  Olszouski,  Archbishop  of  Gnesme,  to  Archbishop 

OF  Canterbury. 

1675,  July  11.  Lovice. — Most  illustrious  and  most  reverend 
Lord  and  my  most  honoured  friend :  Some  fit  persons  having 
at  my  request  undertaken  the  business  of  inquiring  after  the 
ancient  privileges  of  the  most  famous  and  primatial  Church  of 
Canterbury  in  England,  I  have  myself  taken  the  boldness  to 
write  concerning  that  matter  to  your  most  illustrious  and  most 
reverend  Lordship ;  for  although  we  are  strangers,  and  different 
in  religion,  and  live  at  so  vast  a  distance  of  lands  and  seas 
interposed  betwixt  us,  yet  the  celebrated  humanity  of  your 
most  illustrious  and  most  reverend  Lordship  makes  me  very 
much  confide  you  will  not  unwillingly  give  a  demonstration 
thereof  by  letting  me  have  an  authentic  copy  of  the  privileges, 
especially  of  the  Native  Legation,  by  which  the  Church  of 
Canterbury,  before  it  parted  with  the  Church  of  Eome,  excelled 
and  outshined,  and  now  also  outshines  all  other  Sees  of 
England.  In  the  year  1515,  by  Pope  Leo  the  tenth,  was 
granted  to  the  Archbishops  of  Gnesme,  Primates  of  Poland, 
the  privilege  of  legates  born,  in  this  form  of  words,  granting 
they  may  use  and  enjoy  all  and  singular  privileges,  liberties, 
pre-eminences,  exemptions,  immunities,  honours  and  graces, 
and  may  freely  and  lawfully  do  and  exercise,  and  command, 
ordain,  and  execute  all  things  whatsoever,  which  anyway 
belong  to  the  legates  born,  or  such  as  have  this  oflSce  and  which 
other  legates  born,  but  chiefly  the  Legate  of  Canterbury  in 
his  provinces,  by  right,  privilege  and  custom  may  command, 
do  and  execute,  etc.  But  how  it  came  to  pass  that  my  pre- 
decessors never  sought  for  the  privilege  itself  of  the  Church 
of  Canterbury  giving  it  a  born  legation,  or  whether  it  was 
lost  by  the  carelessness  of  men  or  injury  of  the  times,  I  do 
not  know.  I  find  some  footsteps  in  authors,  chiefly  of  the 
prerogatives  of  the  Archbishops  of  Canterbury ;  but  I  had  rather 
draw  out  of  the  fountain  itself  what  I  may  advantageously 
derive  to  my  ow^n  profit,  honour  and  right,  which  if  I  obtain  of 
your  most  illustrious  and  most  reverend  Lordship,  I  shall 
during  life  remain  very  much  bound  to  the  benevolence  and 
office  done  me,  and  shall  endeavour  to  show  my  readiness  to 
acknowledge  it  if  ever  any  occasion  be  offered.  For  the  rest 
I  desire  to  be  most  heartily  commended  to  your  most  illustrious 
and  most  reverend  Lordship,  from  my  soul,  wishing  you 
continual  health  and  all  kind  of  prosperity. 


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Given  at  Lovice  in  my  Archiepiscopal  Palace,  11th  July, 
1675. 

Your  most  reverend  and  most  illustrious  Lordship's  most 
addicted,  and  I  profess  most  ready,  Andreas  Olszouski,  Arch- 
bishop of  Gnesme. 

Ormond  to  H.  Coventry. 

1675,  July  22. — Yesterday,  after  the  Council  of  Foreign 
Aflfairs  was  risen,  I  desired  leave  to  speak  with  the  King  in 
private,  and  he  was  pleased  to  allow  me  the  liberty.  I  told 
him  that  when  the  Irish  affairs  were  discoursed  of  I  thought 
that  something  would  have  been  said  by  His  Majesty  or  my 
Lord  Lieutenant  concerning  the  revenue  and  the  performance 
or  failure  of  my  Lord  of  Eanelagh  and  his  partners'  under- 
taking. I  excused  myself  for  putting  him  in  mind  of  it  upon 
my  particular  concernment  that  that  affair  should  fairly,  yet 
in  some  public  manner,  be  examined,  because  use  was  made 
of  that  undertaking  as  of  a  strong  argument  to  prove  that  the 
revenue  was  ill  managed  in  the  time  of  my  government. 
His  Majesty  heard  me  patiently,  though  I  took  that  occasion 
to  put  him  in  mind  of  some  things  that  might  give  the  world 
cause  to  think  I  was  fallen  under  his  suspicion  and  displeasure. 
The  conclusion  was  (after  more  discojarse  than  is  fit  for  me 
to  put  in  writing).  His  Majesty  promised  to  call  to  my  Lord 
Tjieutenant  for  an  account  of  that  undertaking,  which  I 
presume  he  may  do  this  night ;  and  then  if  his  Lordship's 
representation  prove  suitable  to  his  letters  and  discourse  (of 
which  I  cannot  doubt),  that  affair  may  be  brought  to  the  point 
I  aim  at,  and  put  an  end  to  the  disquiet  I  have  supported  for 
five  years.     I  thought  this  account  of  myself  due  to  you. 


Ormoxd  to  H.  Coventry. 

1675,  July  30. — Soon  after  the  prorogation  I  had  His 
^fajesty's  leave  to  return  into  Ireland,  but  some  occasions  of 
ray  own,  and  a  belief  that  I  might  possibly  have  an  opportunity 
to*  serve  the  King  and  do  myself  right  in  relation  to  my  Lord 
of  Eanelagh *s  contract,  now  near  expiring,  made  me  defer 
my  journey  till  now,  and  now  the  inconvenient  season  of 
passing  the  sea  approaching,  it  is  time  to  take  my  resolution. 
My  return  is  much  more  agreeable  to  my  own  affairs  and  to 
my  inclination,  and  I  do  not  foresee  that  I  can  be  of  any  use 
to  the  King's  service ;  yet  if  he  did  think  I  could,  I  would  waive 
all  consideration  of  my  particular  advantage  or  satisfaction,  and 
prefer  a  bare  possibility  of  being  useful  to  him  as  the  greater 
satisfaction.  If  you  could  find  an  apt  occasion  to  fall  into  any 
discourse  with  him  on  the  subject,  and  discover  what  he  wishes 
in  the  point,  it  might  guide  my  determination.  Do  not  suspect 
I  beg  or  command  you  to  stay  so  as  to  have  a  pretext  to  beg 
something  else,  T  have  l)een  already  rewarded  for  all  I  havi^ 


I 


372 

done  or  shall  do;  all  I  have  now  to  wish  is  to  show  I  have 
given  His  Majesty  no  cause  to  repent  him  of  his  bounties  to 
rae.  This  whole  matter  is  left  to  your  discretion  to  manage 
or  let  fall,  with  this  intimation  only,  that  on  Wednesday  I 
propose  to  return  with  the  King  from  Hampton  Court  to 
Windsor,  and  thence  to  Bath. 

EiCHARD  Bellings  to  Ormond. 

1675,  July  31.  Dublin. — It  was  my  fortune  in  turning  over 
the  history  written  by  one,  Sanderson,  of  the  late  actions  in 
His  Majesty's  dominions,  to  find  in  folio  900  or  920  (for  I  have 
not  the  book  now  by  me),  these  words:  On  the  King's  part, 
Ormond f  Olamorgan,  and  Digby ;  on  the  other,  Mountgarret, 
Muskery^  etc.  This  peace  concluded  the  first  of  August;  and 
folio  1646  and  7,  Ormond  forced  to  conclude  a  cessation  with 
the  rebels;  some  say  a  confederacy.  And  these  propositions 
give  likelihood  that  they  are  agreed. 

Those  are  the  two  propositions  which  the  two  generals  sent 
your  Grace  when  the  Nuntio  and  they  besieged  Dublin ;  and 
the  short  answer  immediately  given  them  was  too  knotty  to 
be  solved,  and  therefore  they  did  not  reply  other  than  by 
preparing  for  an  assault.  That  of  your  Grace's  joining  on  the 
King's  part  with  Glamorgan  and  Digby,  or  that  any  two  of 
you  joined  in  making  any  peace  with  the  Irish,  is  an  ignorant 
calumnv.  Besides  those,  I  am  confident  many  scandalous 
errors  have  dropped  from  the  pens  of  several  writers,  who 
extended  their  discourse  to  the  affairs  of  the  three  kingdoms, 
and  therefore  I  should  think  that  Sir  George  Lane  may  employ 
a  few  hours  of  his  time  usefully  in  collecting  such  mistakes 
relating  to  your  Grace  as  I  doubt  not  he  will  meet  with  in  the 
many  authors  that  did  intermix  the  business  of  Ireland  with 
that  of  England  and  Scotland. 

H.  CovENTKY  to  Ormond. 

167i5,  July  33 .  Windsor. — I  have  received  both  your  favours 
by  Mr,  Page;  his  own  business  is  despatched  with  all  the 
expedition  I  could  to  your  own.  Mr.  Herbert,  who  is  now  in 
London,  and  told  me  he  had  taken  course  your  Grace  should 
be  informed  of  it,  told  me  something  concerning  some  queries 
my  Lord  Lieutenant  had  proposed  to  the  committee  for  the 
Irish  affairs  concerning  some  considerable  sums  of  money, 
whether  payable  by  the  King  or  my  Lord  Eanelagh  and  partner, 
possibly  your  Lordship's  arrears  may  be  part  of  it;  if  so,  not 
only  the  King's  service,  but  your  own  interest  will  be  concerned. 
I  intend  to  be  by  Tuesday  morning  at  London,  possibly  on 
Monday  night.  I  shall  therefore  defer  this  business  till  I  see 
you,  and  when  your  Grace  hath  resolved  the  measures  you  will 
take,  there  will  be  little  hesitation  on  my  part  t6  obey  your 
Grace  in  things  much  more  difficult  than  this. 


373 


STATE    OF 
THE    EEVENUE    OF    IRELAND 

FOR 

1661. 


IRELAND. 


The  state  of  the  Keceipt  of  His  Majesty's 
revenues  of  Ireland,  both  certain  and 
casual,  by  the  Eight  Honourable, 
Arthur,  Earl  of  Anglesey,  Vice- 
Treasurer  and  Receiver-General  of 
the  said  Kingdom,  for  one  year  ending 
the  20th  of  March,  1661  [-2]. 


The  remain  upon  the  foot  of  the  said  Vice- 
Treasurer's  last  account,  ending  the 
•20th  of  March,  1660  [-1]         

Old  rents 

New  rents 

(^uit  rents 

Sequestered  rents 

C'listodiuni   rents 

Impropriate  tithes 

Rents  by  particular  Receivers 

Excise  and  Customs  

Fines  for  licences  of  seUing  ale     ... 

(rreen  wax  money     ... 

Felons',  goods 

]^rofits  of  the  Hanaper  Office — 

The  Charge, 
Respite  of  Homage  ... 


£ 


201040 


Moneys  received  of  John  Blackweli  and 
Richard  Deane,  late  pretended  Treasur- 
ers of  the  Army  ... 

Moneys  received  of  James  Mortimer  for  the 
remain  of  a  certain  imprest    

Poll  money 

Moneys  received  out  of  England 


£ 

300 

121 
77406 
11000 


s. 


s. 

10 

0 
4 
0 


d. 


6  : 

6 

;  8^ 

6613  : 

6  , 

:  9J 

2830  : 

6  , 

;  8 

46408  : 

7  ; 

;  53 

394  : 

5  ; 

:  H 

337  : 

12  : 

9 

983  : 

9  : 

m 

254  : 

1  : 

2J 

52112  : 

8  : 

lOJ 

640  : 

14  : 

0 

1943  : 

0  : 

IJ 

179  : 

0  : 

10 

50  : 

0  : 

0 

65  :  17  :    8J 


Of 


d. 

7 

0 

7^ 
0 


Sum  total  of  all  the  aforesaid  charges  201016  :  12  :     l-^ 


371 

lEELAND. 

rayments  made  as  well  to  patentees  for  fees,  peDsioiis, 
luinuities,  and  such  like,  as  to  other  persons  by  several 
debentures  and  other  warrants  and  directions,  according  to  the 
particulars  hereafter  ensuing,  made  by  the  Eight  Honourable, 
Arthur,  Earl  of  Anglesey,  His  Majesty's  Vice-Treasurer  and 
General  Eeceiver  in  Ireland,  for  a  year  ending  the  twentieth 
of  March,  1661  [-2],  viz.  :— 

The  Exchequer.  £        s.       d. 

The    Eight    Honourable    Arthur,    Earl    of 

Anglesey,  His  Majesty's  Vice-Treasurer 

and  General  Eeceiver  in  Ireland,  for  his 

fee  for  a  year  ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661       49  :     5  :     0 
Sir  Eobert  Meredith,  Knight,  Chancellor  of 

the  Exchequer,  for  his  fee  for  the  same 

time ...     100  :    0  :    0 

John  Bysse,  Esq.,  Lord  Chief  Baron  of  the 

Excliequer,  for  his  fee  for  one  quarter  of 

a  year  ending  at  Easter,  1661 62  :  17  :    8j^ 

To  the  said  Lord  Chief  Baron  for  his  fee  at 

£000  per  annum,  for  three-quarters  of  a 

year  ending  at  Easter,  1661,   over  and 

above  £188  13^.  IJd.  for  his  ancient  fee 

paid  him  within  the  said  time 261  :     0  :  lOJ- 

To  him  also  for  his  fee  at  £251  10s.  lOd.  per 

annum,  and  for  an  increase  of  the  said 

fee  at  £348  9s.  2d.  per  annum,  making  in 

all  £600  per  annum,  for  three-quarters  of 

a  year  ending  at  Christmas,  1661       ...     450  :     0  :    0 
Sir  Eichard  Kenedy,  Knight,  second  Baron  of 

the  Exchequer,  for  his  fee   for  a  year 

ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661       100  :    0  :    0 

Thomas  Dongan,  Esq.,  another  of  the  Barons 

of  the  same  Court  for  the  same  time  ...      06  :  13  :    4 
Sir  William  Domvile,  Knight,  His  Majesty's 

Attorney  General ,  for  his  fee  for  the  same 

uime  ...         ...         ..•         ...         ...        ...       to  I    u  •    u 

John  Temple,  Esq.,  His  Majesty's  Solicitor 

General,  for  his  fee  for  a  year  ending  at 

Michaelmas,  1661 75  :    0  :    0 

PhiHp  fferneley,  Esq.,  Chief  Eemembrancer 

of  the  Court  of  Exchequer,  for  his  fee  for  a 

quarter  of  a  year,  ending  the  24th   of 

June,  1659,  and  for  half -a-y ear  ending  at 

Michaelmas,  1661 22:10:    0 

Sir   James    Ware,    Knight,    His    Majesty's 

Auditor  General,  for  his  fee  for  a  year 

ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661        234  :    6  :    3 

Sir  Alan  Brodrick,  Knight,  Surveyor  General, 

for    his    fee    lor    half-a-year    ending    at 

Easter,  1661  3U  :    0  :    0 


375 


Patrick  Tallant,  General  Escbeator  of  the 
province  of  Leinster,  for  his  fee  for  a  year 
ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661       

Henry  Warren,  Esq.,  second  Remembrancer 
of  the  Exchequer,  for  bis  fee  for  the  same 

UXXXav^   •••         ••■         •••         •••         •••         •«• 

Nicholas  Loftus,  Esq.,  Clerk  of  the  Pipe,  for 
his  fee  for  a  year  ending  at  Michaelmas, 

>LV/v/«L       •••  •••  •••  •••  •••  ••« 

Eoger  Moore,  Esq.,  Chief  Chamberlain,  for 
bis  fee  for  the  same  time 

Kobert  Kenedy,  Esq.,  second  Chamberlain, 
for  his  fee  for  the  same  time       

Maurice  Keating,  Esq.,  second  Engrosser  and 
Comptroller  of  the  Pipe,  for  his  fee  for 
half-a-year  ending  at  Easter,  1661 

Eobert  Ardagh,  Somonister,  for  his  fee  for  a 
year  ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661 

Thomas  Lea,  Transcriptor  and  Foreign 
Opposer,  for  his  fee  for  the  same  time  ... 

Philip  Carpenter,  Serjeant-at-Arms,  for  bis 
fee  for  a  year  ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661 

To  him  also  as  Pursuivant  of  the  Exchequer, 
for  his  fee  for  the  same  time      

Silvanus  Stirrup,  Usher  of  the  Exchequer, 
for  his  fee,  and  for  an  allowance  for 
providing  of  ink  for  the  said  Court  for  the 
same  liime  ...         ...         ...         ••■         ... 

William  Dobbins,  Esq.,  Escbeator  General  of 
Ulster,  for  bis  fee  for  the  same  time 

Jobn  Ijurmiston,  gentleman,  Marshal  of  the 
four  Courts,  for  his  fee  for  half-a-year 
ending  at  Easter,  1661     

William  Meade,  Esq.,  Escbeator  of  the 
Province  of  Munster,  for  bis  fee  for  half- 
a-year  ending  at  Easter,  1661 

Jobn  Exbam,  Clerk  of  the  First  Fruits  and 
20tli  parts,  for  bis  fee  for  a  year  and  a  half 
ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661      

Philip  Jones,  Crier  of  the  Exchequer,  for  his 
fee  for  a  year  ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661 


£ 


a.      d, 


6  :  13  :    4 


7  :  17  :    6 


40  :    0 


10  :    0 


5  :    0 


7  :  10 

7  :  10 

15  :    0 

13  :  11 


71  :    5 


» 


12  :  10  : 
1:5: 


0 


0 
0 


0 


0 


0 


8 


0 


0 
0 


'J  :  1)  :  0 

:  12  :  6 

41  :  5  :  0 

1  :  13  :  4 


Sum.  ...  1770  :  12  :    6 


Kimfs  Bench. 

The  Eight  Honourable  James,  Lord  Baron  of 
Santry,  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  the  King's 
Bench,  for  his  fee  for  a  year  ending  at 
Michaelmas,  1661  


Jf^ 


8. 


d. 


347  :    0  :    0 


S76 


Sir  William  Aston,  Knight,  second  Judge  of 
that  Court,  for  his  fee  for  the  same  time 

Thomas  Stockton,  Esq. ,  another  of  the  Judges 
of  that  Court,  for  his  fee  for  the  same  time 


£ 

150 
150 


Sum  ...    647 


The  Chancery- 

To  tlie  Eight  Honourable  Sir  Maurice  Eustace, 
Knight,  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland,  for 
his  fee  for  a  year  ending  at  Michaelmas, 

^  V/ V^-J-        ■••  m  ■*  m  •••  ••■  •••  ••• 

Sir  John  Temple,  Knight,  Master  of  the 
Eolls,  for  his  fee  for  the  same  time 

IDoctor  Dudley  Loftus,  one  of  the  Masters  of 
the  Chancery,  for  his  fee  for  the  same 

w  1 XX^  v^       •••  •••  •»•  ■••  ••*  ••• 

Thomas    Caulfeild,    Esq.,    another    of    the 

Maaters  of  that  Court,  for  his  fee  for  the 

same  time    ... 
Edward  Cooke,  Esq.,  another  of  the  Masters 

of  that  Court,  for  his  fee  for  the  same  time 
John  Westley,  Esq.,  another  of  the  Masters  of 

that  Court,  for  his  fee  for  the  same  time 


£ 


s. 
0 
0 


s. 


0 
0 


0 


311  :  17  :    6 
144  :    3  :    4 


20  :    0  :    0 


20  . 

;  0 

:  0 

20  : 

;  0  ; 

;  0 

20  : 

•  0  ; 

;  0 

636  ; 

•  0  ; 

,  10 

Common  Pleas, 

Sir  James  Donelan,  Knight,  Lord  Chief 
Justice  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas, 
for  his  fee  for  half-a-year  ending  at 
Easter,  1661,  and  for  an  increase  oi  the 
said  fee  at  55.  per  diem  for  86  days,  ending 
as  aforesaid,  as  for  his  fee  and  increase 
thereof  for  half-a-year  ending  at  ilichael- 
nias,   1061   ... 

Su-  Jerome  Alexander,  Knight,  second  Judge 
of  the  said  Court,  for  his  fee  for  a  year 
ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661        

Kobert  Booth,  Esq.,  another  Judge  of  that 
Court,  for  his  fee  for  the  same  time  ... 

Sir  Walter  Plunkett,  Knight,  Prothonotary  of 
that  Court,  for  his  fee  for  the  same  time 


s.      d. 


181  :    8  :    U 


150 

:  0 

:  0 

150  , 

;  0  ; 

:  0 

7  ; 

;  10  ; 

;  0 

491  : 

•  18  ; 

■  3i 

Court  of  Wards, 

Thomas  Piggott,  Esq.,  Master  of  the  Court  of 
Wards  and  Liveries,  for  his  fee  for  a  year 
ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661        

Sir  Eichard  Kenedy,  Knight,  Attorney  of  that 
Court,  for  his  fee  for  the  same  time 

Nicholas  Loftus,  Esq.,  Surveyor  of  that  Court, 
for  his  fee  for  the  same  time      ...        ... 

Eichard  Newcomen,  Esq.,  Auditor  of  that 
Court,  for  his  fee  for  the  same  time 


£ 


s. 


300  , 

;    0 

;    0 

133 

:    6  ; 

;    8 

50  . 

;    0  , 

:    0 

26  ; 

;  13  , 

;    4 

510  ; 

;    0  ! 

;    0 

Officers  attending  the  State. 

Sir  Paul  Davis,  Knight,  Principal  Secretary 
of  State,  for  his  fee  for  half -a-y ear  ending 
at  Michaelmas,  1661         

The  said  Sir  Paul  Davis  for  his  intelligence 
for  the  same  time 

The  said  Sir  Paul  Davis  as  Clerk  of  the 
Council,  and  for  his  allowance  for  paper 
and  parchment,  for  one  year  ending  at 
Michaelmas,  1661  ... 

Eichard  St.  George,  Esq.,  Ulster  King-at- 
Arms,  for  one  year  ending  as  aforesaid 

George  Wakefield,  Gent. ,  one  of  His  Majesty's 
Pursuivants,  for  his  fee  for  33  days  and 
half-a-year  ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661 

William  Eowe,  one  of  His  Majesty's  Pursui- 
vants, for  his  fee  for  83  days  ending  at 
Michaelmas,  1661 

Eichard  Carney,  Athlone  Pursuivant,  for  his 
fee  for  a  year  ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661 

Thomas  Lee,  Keeper  of  the  Council  Chamber, 
for  his  fee  for  the  same  time      

John  Thornton,  late  Usher,  and  Eichard 
Jones,  Andrew  Sturgis,  and  Arthur 
Podmore,  late  Messengers  attending  the 
Council  Board, for  their  respective  services 
for  two  months,  beginning  the  25th  of 
December,  1660,  and  ending  the  25th  of 
February  following 


s. 


100  :    0  :    0 


50  :     0  :    0 


47  :  10  :    0 
26  :  13  :    4 

8  :    1  :    7i 


3  : 

2  : 

3 

10  : 

0  : 

1 

0 

18  : 

5  : 

1 

0                       ; 

33  :    G  :    8 


Sum  ...    29G  :  18  :  lOJ 


AmS^ 


378 

Circuits.  iL        s.       d. 

James,  Lord  Baron  of  Santry,  Lord  Chief 

Justice  of   the   King's  Bench,    for   his 

Circuit    in    Summer,    1661,    and    Lent 

following      ...         ...         ...         ...         ...     119  :    0  :    0 

Sir  William  Aston,  Knight,  one  of  the  Judges 

of  that  Court,  for  his  Circuits  for  the  same 

uime  ...         ...         ...         ...         «.•         ...       0(7  •     v/  •    \j 

Thomas  Stockton,  Esq. ,  another  of  the  Judges 

of  that  Court,  for  his  Circuits  for  the  same 

uime  ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         •*.       Ot/  •     K)  »     \j 

Sir   James    Donelan,    Knight,.  Lord    Chief 

Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas,   for  his 

Circuits  for  the  same  time  119  :    0  :    0 

Sir  Jerome    Alexander,*  Knight,  one    of    the 

Judges  of  that  Court,  for  his  Circuits  for 

the  same  time        89  :    0  :    0 

Robert  Booth,  Esq. ,  one  of  the  Judges  of  that 

Court,  for  his  Circuit  in  Summer,  1661      44  :  10  :    0 
John  Bysse,  Esq.,  Lord  Chief  Baron  of  the 

Exchequer,  for  his  Circuit  in  Summer, 

1661 ,  and  Lent  following 119:    0:    0 

Sir  Richard  Kenedy,  Knight,  second  Baron  of 

the  Exchequer,  for  his  Circuits  for  the 

same  time 89  :    0  :    0 

Thomas  Dongan,  Esq.,  one  of  the  Barons  of 

that  Court,  for  his  Circuits  for  the  same 

time 

John  Povey,  Esq.,  for  his  Circuit  in  Lent, 

•L  \J\MJL       •••  •••  ••■  •■»  ■••  ••* 

Oliver  Jones,  Esq.,  for  his  Circuits  in  Summer, 
1661 ,  and  Lent  following 


89  :    0  : 

0 

44  :  10  : 

0 

79  :    0  : 

0 

Sum  ...     970  :    0  :    0 


Robes,  £        s.       d. 

James,  Lord   Baron  of  Santry,  Lord   Chief 

Justice  of  the  King's  Courts,  for  his  robes 

for  a  year  ending  at  Christmas,  1661  ...  13  :  6  :  8 
Sir  WilHam  Aston,  Knight,  one  of  the  Judges 

of  that  Court,  for  his  robes   for  the  same 

uLXXJlC     ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  JLO     •         vl     •         O 

Thomas  Stockton,  Esq.,  one  of  the  Judges  of 

that  Court,  for  his  robes  for  the  same  time  13  :  6  :  8 
Sir    eTames    Donelan,    Knight,    Lord    Chief 

Justice  of  the   Common   Pleas,  for  his 

robes  for  the  same  time 13  :    6  :    8 

Sir  Jerome  Alexander,  Knight,  second  Judge 

of  that  Court,  for  his  robes  for  the  same 

uinLie  ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...       j.ui     01     o 

Robert  Booth,  p]sq.,  one  of  the  Judges  of  that 

Court,  for  his  robes  for  the  same  time...      13  :    6  :    8 


379 

Joluj  Bysse,  Esq.,  Lord  Chief  Baron  of  the      £        s.       d. 

Exchequer,  for  his  robes  for  the  same  time  13  :  6:8 
Sir  Eichard  Kenedy,  Knight,  second  Baron  of 

that  Court,  for  his  robes  for  the  same  time  18  :  6  :  8 
Thomas  Dongan,  Esq.,  one  of  the  Barons  of 

that  Court,  for  his  robes    for  the  same 

i\mi^  1^    •       C\    •       ft 

Sir  WiUiam  Domvile,  Knight,  His  Majesty's 

Attorney  General,  for  his  robes    for  the 

same  time 13  :    6  :    8 

John  Temple,  Esq.,  His  Majesty's  Solicitor 

General,  for  his  robes  for  the  same  time  13  :  6  :  8 
Sir  John  Temple,  Knight,  Master  of  the  Itolls, 

for  his  robes  for  the  same   time         ...       13  :    6  :    8 


Sum  ...     160  :    0  :    0 


Liberates.  £        s.       d. 

Sir  Bobert  Meredith,  Knight,  Chancellor  of 
the  Exchequer,  by  two  Liberates,  for  a 
year  and  a  half  ending  at  Michaelmas, 

XUDjL         ...  ...  ...  ...  •■•  ...  AJU       •  Lf       a  \J 

Sir  James  Ware,  Knight,  Auditor  General,  by 
Liberate,  for  one  year  ending  at  Michael- 
mas, 1661     ...         ...         ...         ...         ...        6  :  13  :    4 

Nicholas  Loftus,  Esq.,  Clerk  of  the  Pipe,  by 
Liberate,  for  one  year  ending  at  Easter, 

^V^vr  JL   •••  •■•  •••  •••  •••  «••  \J      m       «L^^   •     aL 

Henry  Warren,  Esq.,  second  Remembrancer, 

by  two  Liberates,  for  a  year  and  a  half 

ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661       ...         ...        7  :  10  :    0 

Boger  Moore,   Esq.,  Chief  Chamberlain,  by 

Liberate,  for  one  year  ending  at  Michael- 
mas, 1661    ...        ...        ...        ...        ...        5:0:0 

Bobert  Kenedy,  second  Chamberlain,  by  two 

Liberates,  for  one  year  and  a  half  ending 

at  Michaelmas,  1661        7  :  10  :    0 

Bobert  Ardagh,  Somonister  of  the  Exchequer, 

by  two  Liberates,  for  one  year  ending  at 

Michaelmas,  1661 10  :    0  :    0 

Maurice  Keating,   second  Ingrosser  of   that 

Court,  by  Liberate,  for  one  year  ending  at 

Easter,  1661  5:0:0 

Silvanus  Stirrup,  Usher  of  that  Court,  by  two 

Liberates,  for  one  year  ending  at  Michael- 
mas, 1661 10  :    0  :    0 

William  Molloy,  Clerk  of  the  Common  Pleas 

of  the  Exchequer,  by  two  Liberates,  for 

one  year  ending  at  Michaelmas,  1601  ...        5  :    0  :    0 


Sum  ...       83  :     6  :    8 


380 
Other  Incidents. 

£       B.      d. 

The    Bight    Honourable     Arthur,    Earl    of 

Anglesey,  His  Majesty's  Vice-Treasurer 

and    General    Receiver    in    Ireland,    for 

providing  of  paper  and  parchment  for  the 

Court  of  King's  Bench,  Common  Pleas, 

and  the  Exchequer,  for  one  year  ending 

at  Michaelmas,  1661        150  :    0  :    0 

The  Singers  of  Christchurch,  for  their  allow- 
ance for  a  year  ending  at  Michaelmas, 

ififii  9  •    a  '    0 

JL  V/xx-L       •••  ••■  «»•  •«•  •••  •••  *J      •  V^      •  \J 

Thomas  Williams,  Keeper  of  the  House  of 

Receipt,  for  a  year  and  a  half  ending  as 

aforesaid       7  :  10  :    0 

John    Crooke,   Printer    to    His    Majesty   in 

Ireland,  for  his  fee  for  half-a-year  ending 

at  Easter,  1661      4:0:0 


Sum  ...    163  :  10  :    0 

Officers  Provincial. 

£        s.      d. 
William  Halsey,  Esq.,  Chief  Justice  of  the 

province  of  Munster,  for  his  fee  for  one 

year  ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661  ...     100  :    0  ;    0 

Henry    Bathurst,    Esq.,    Attorney    of    that 

province,  for  his  fee  for  the  same  time  ...      13  :    6  :    8 
George  Carr,  Esq.,  Clerk  of  the  Council  there, 

for  his  fee  for  a  year  and  a  half  ending  at 

Michaelmas,  1661 11  :    5  :    0 

Thomas  Piggott,  Esq.,   Serjeant-at-Arms  of 

that  province,  for  a  year  ending  at  Easter, 

1661  ...        ...        ...        ...        ...        ...      20  :    0  :    0 

Sir  James  Donelan,  Knight,  Chief  Justice  of 

the  province  of  Conaght,  for  his  fee  for  a 

year  ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661  ...     100  :    0  :    0 

Sir  James  Cuffe,  Knight,  Clerk  of  the  Council 

there,  for  his  fee  for  half-a-year  ending  at 

Easter,  1661  ...         ...         ...         ...        3  :  15  :    0 

Thomas  Elliott,  Serjeant-at-Arms  of  Conaght, 

for  his  fee  for  a  year  ending  at  Michael- 
mas, 1661 20  :    0  :    0 


Su7n  ...     268  :    6  :    8 

Customers. 

£        s.      d. 
Thomas  Maule,  Esq.,  Surveyor  General  of  the 
Customs  of  Ireland,  for  his  fee  for  one 
year  and  a  quarter  ending  the  25fch  of 
December,  1601      125:     0:     0 


381 


s.      d. 


John  Wiborrow,  Customer  of  Wexford  and 

Arklovv,  for  his  fee  for  a  year  and  a  half 

ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661       15  :    0  :    0 

Nicholas  Stoute,  Customer  and  Collector  of 

the  port  of  Youghal  and  Dungarvan,  for 

his  fee  for  half-a-year  ending  at  Easter, 

j^yjxj^      •••  •••  •••  •••  •«•  ••■  \#«J.  kJ     •  T. 

Eichard    Scudamore    and    Rowland    Davis, 

Customers  and  Collectors  of  the  port  of 

Cork,  for  their  fee  for  a  year  ending  at 

Michaelmas,  1661 fi  :  13  :    4 

Robert  Williams,    Searcher  of   the   port   of 

Cork,  for  his  fee  for  a  quarter  of  a  year 

ending  at  Michaelmas,  1660 — ilO;  and 

for  his  fee  at  IOO5.  per  annum,  for  one 

year  ending  at  Easter,  1661        15  :    0  :    0 

Thomas    Bullock,    as    Comptroller    of    the 

Customs  and  Landwaiter  in  the  port  of 

Cork,  viz.,  as  Comptroller  from  the  28th 

of  March,  1660,  until  the  14th  of  March 

following — £60 ;  and  as  Landwaiter  from 

the  14th  of  March,  1660,  till  the  29th  of 

September  following — £15;  for  all  ...  75  :  0  :  0 
Robert    Southwell,  gentleman,  Customer  of 

the  port  of  Kin  sale,  for  his  fee  for  one  year 

and  a  half  ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661...  20  :  0  :  0 
John  Browne,  Searcher  of  the  port  of  Kinsale, 

for  his  fee  for  a  year  ending  at  Easter, 

Ji.\yvJJL       •••  •••  .«•  •••  ••■  ■••  VI*      jLij     •  c 

John    Whaley,    Customer    of    the    port    of 

Limerick,    for    his    fee    for    half-a-vear 

ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661       6:13:    4 

Mountfort  Westropp,  Comptroller  of  the  port 

of  Limerick,  for  his  fee  for  a  year  ending 

at  Michaelmas,  1661  13:6:8 

John    Ogleby,    Customer    of    the    port    of 

Drogheda,  for  his  fee  for  a  year  and  a  half 

ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661       ...         ...       11  :     5  :    0 

Worseley  Batten,  Searcher  of  that  port,  for 

his  fee  for  a  year  ending  at  Easter,  1661  5:0:0 
Roger    Jjindon,    Customer    of    the    port    of 

Carrickfergus,  for  his  fee  for  a  year  ending 

at  Michaelmas,  1661        7  :  10  ;    0 

Robert  Ward,  Esq.,  Searcher  of  the  port  of 

Bangor,  Holy  wood,  Belfast,  etc.,  except 

the    port   of   Carrickfergus,   for    his  fee 

for   half-a-year   ending    at   Michaelmas, 

J. 00 J.     ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  O.       Ot       o 

Sum  ...     317  :    1  :    8 


382 
Creation  Money. 


Perpetmties. 


s.      d. 


The  Right  Honourable  Roger,  Earl  of  Orrery, 

for  his  annuity    for  a   year   ending  at 

Michaelmas,  1661 20  :    0  :    0 

The  Right  Honourable  the  Earl  of  Mountrath, 

for  his  annuity  for  the  same  time 20  :    0  :    0 

The    Right    Honourable    Arthur,    Earl    of 

Donegall,  for  his  annuity  for  a  year  and  a 

half  ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661  ...       22  :  10  :    0 

The  Right  Honourable  Henry,  Earl  of  Clan- 

brazill,  for  his  annuity  for  a  year  and  a 

half  ending  as  aforesaid 30  :    0  :    0 

The  Right  Honourable  Oliver,  Earl  of  Tircon- 

nell,  for  his  annuity  for  half-a-year  ending 

as  aforesaid ]0  :    0  :    0 

The  Right  Honourable  the  Earl  of  Westmeath , 

for  his  annuity  for  half-a-year  ending  at 

Easter,  1661 
The  Lord  Viscount  Shannon,  for  his  annuity 

for  half-a-year  ending  at  Easter,  1661... 
The  Lord  Viscount  Merryon ,  for  his  annuity 

for  half-a-year  ending  at  Easter,  1661  ... 
The   Lord   Viscount    !Mountgomery,  for   his 

annuity  for  the  same  time        

The  Lord  Viscount   Sarsfield  of   Kilmallock, 

for    his  annuity   for   a   year  ending   at 

Michaelmas,  1661 10  :    0  :    0 

Arthur,    Lord   Viscount    Ranelagh,    for    his 

annuity  for  one  year  ending  at  Michael- 
mas, 1661 10  :    0  :    0 

Edward,   Lord  Viscount  Kilultagh,    for   his 

annuity  for  half-a-year  ending  at  Easter, 

-•   t_#V/ J.  •••  ••«  9  •   •  •••  ■••  ••■  C^         •  \J         •  \^ 


7  :  10  : 

0 

6  :  13  : 

4 

6  :  13  : 

4 

5:0: 

0 

Sum  ...     353  :    6  :    8 


s.       d. 


The  Provost  and  Fellows  of  Trinity  College, 

for  their  better  support  and  maintenance, 

for  a  year  ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661...  388  :  15  :  0 
The  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Christchurch,  for 

their  annuity    for  one  year  ending   at 

Michaelmas,  1661 45  :     6  :    8 

The  Archbishop  of  Dublin ,  for  Proxes  due  to 

him  out  01  divers  Abbeys,  for  the  same 

uill.l\?««*  ••«  •••  •••  ■•«  •••  J-'J* 


5 


Sum ...    452  :    7  :    2 


383 


Pensioners. 

Bridget,  Countess  of  Tirconnell,  for  her 
annuity,  for  a  year  and  a  half  ending  at 
Michaelmas,  1661 

Daniel  O'Neill,  Esq.,  for  his  pension  for  a 
year  ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661 

Christopher  Roper,  for  his  pension  for  the 
same  time 

Edward  flfitz  Gerald,  for  his  pension  for  the 
same  time   •••         ■•>         •<>         *..         ••• 

Jane  Carey,  widow,  for  her  pension  for  half-a- 
year  ending  the  ninth  of  September,  1661 

Sarah  King,  widow,  for  her  pension  for  three- 
quarters  of  a  year  ending  the  26th  of 
December,  1661 

Susanna  Johnson,  for  her  pension  for  half-a- 
year  ending  the  27th  of  November,  1661 

Jephson  Maguire,  for  his  pension  for  half-a- 
year  ending  the  11th  of  January,  1661... 


£ 


Concordatums  and  Imprest  Warrants, 

£ 

Sir  Paul  Davis,  Knight,  Clerk  of  the  Council, 
for  his  labour  and  pains  in  His  Majesty's 
Service  for  13  months,  from  the  18th  of 
February,  1660,  to  the  18th  of  March, 
1661 

Matthew  Barry,  gentleman,  for  his  extra- 
ordinary pains,  and  the  rest  of  the  clerks 
under  the  said  Sir  Paul  Davis,  for  the 
same  Dime    ...         ...         ...         ...         ... 

Sir  John  Stephens,  Knight,  Governor  of  His 
Majesty's  Castle  of  Dublin,  to  be  issued 
upon  account  for  cleansing  and  repairing 
the  said  Castle  by  concordatum,  dated  1st 
July,  1661   ... 

William  Bladen,  Alderman,  for  printing  of 
several  declarations  of  the  late  General 
Convention  of  Ireland,  by  warrant  dated 
5th  April,  1661       

John  Keating,  Esq.,  in  recompense  of  his 
service  being  employed  upon  special 
service  of  His  Majesty  into  England,  by 
two  warrants  dated  the  19th  of  December, 
1661,  and  the  8th  of  January,  1661 

Bridget  Delahide,  for  her  present  relief,  by 
warrant  dated  1st  June,  1661 

The  Lady  Elizabeth  Butler,  for  her  relief,  by 
warrant  dated  the  28th  of  February,  1660 


8.   d. 


450  :  0  :  0 

500  :  0  ;  0 

109  :  10  :  0 

100  :  0  :  0 


25  :  0  :  0 


60  :  0  :  0 
25  :  0  :  0 


20  :  0  :  0 


Sum   ...  1289  :  10  :  0 


s. 


346  :  13 


200  : 

0  : 

20  : 

0  : 

50  : 

0  : 

d. 


G50  :  0  :  0 


50  :  0  :  0 


109  :  14  :  10 


0 


0 


0 


38t 

£        s.      d. 

Peter   Clinton,    for    his   present    relief,     by 

warrant  dated  the  Mth  of  June,  1061...       15  :    0  :    0 

Anne  I)arcy,  widow,  towards  her  charges  for 

London,  by  warrant  dated  the   17th  of 

Koveuiber,  1661     10  :    0  :    0 

Theobald  Verdon,  for  his  present  relief,  by 

warrant  dated  20th  of  April,  1661        ...       15  :     0  :    0 

Ellen,  Viscountess  of  Ikerin,  for  her  present 
relief,  by  warrant   dated  20th   of  April, 

J.*  'vJJ-  ...  ...  •••  •••  ...  ...  A   ij         I  yj        m  \' 

Elinor  fitz  Gerald,  for  her  and  her  husband's 

present  relief,  by  warrant  dated  the  3rd 

of  April,  1661        10  :    0  :    0 

Sir  William  Xeale,  Knight,  by  w^arrant  dated 

the  8th  of  July,  1661       60  :    0  :    0 

Richard  Wilson,  for  a  quarter  of  a  year's  salary 
for  keeping  in  repair  the  windows  of 
Dublin  Castle  and  the  Phoenix,  from  the 
25th  of  December  last  to  the  24  th  of 
March  following,  bv  warrant  dated  the 
10th  of  August,  1060       3:0:0 

Major  John  Allen,  for  monies  by  him  disbursed 

for  relief  of  popish  priests  in  restraint  in 

the  Isles  of  Arran,  by  warrant  dated  19th 

of  March,  1660     44  :  17  :    6 

Thomas  .Tones,  Comptroller  of  the  Ordinance, 

to  be  by  him  issued  upon  account   for 

buying  provision  of  coals   and  hay   for 

the  use  of  the  Lords  Justices,  viz.,  to 

each  of  them  £100  worth,   by   warrant 

dated  the  17th  of  August,  1661 300  :    0  :    0 

Robert  fFl etcher,  for  monies  disbursed  about 
the  stores  of  Cork  and  Kinsale  from  the 
28th  of  January,  1659,  to  the  25th  of 
March,  1661,  by  warrant  dated  the  8th 
of  November,  1661 39  :    5  :    3 

George  Carr,  Esq. ,  to  be  by  him  issued  for  His 

Majesty's  service,  by  warrant  dated  the 

16th  of  August,  1661        50  :    0  :    0 

Sir  James  Shaen,  Knight,  to  be  by  him  issued 

for  His   Majesty's   service,   by  warrant 

dated  the  16th  of  August,  1661 50  :     0  :     0 

The  said  Sir  James  Shaen,  for  his  extra- 
ordinary charges  and  expenses  in  England 
in  the  negotiating  and  transacting  of 
several  public  affairs  relating  to  this  King- 
dom, as  well  before  as  since  His  Majesty's 
restoration,  by  warrant  dated  the  19th  of 
October,  1001         300  :     0  :    0 


886 


8.      d. 


Doctor    Eobert    Gorges,    Eichard    Phillips, 

Anne  Webb,  widow,  and  Thomas  Mus- 

champ,  Esq.,  Assignees  of  Patrick  Darcy, 

by  warrant  dated  the  6th  of  December, 

1661 100  :    0  :    0 

William  Taylor,  for  his  pains  and  personal 

charges  and  expenses  in  bringing   over 

several  Ensigns  of  Eoyalty,  by  warrant 

dated  the  18th  of  June,  1661     ...         ...       24  :    0  :     6 

Sir  John  Stephens,  Knight,  to  be  by  him 

issued  upon  account  towards  providing  a 

pulpit  cloth  and  other  necessaries  for  the 

Chapel  in  His  Majesty's  Castle  of  Dublin, 

by  warrant  dated  the  17th  of  August,  1661  10  :  0  :  0 
John  Boone,  gardener  at  the  Phoenix,  for  six 

months,  from  the  first  of  August,  1659, 

by    concordatum,    dated    the    27th    of 

March,  1661  8:0:0 

John  Jewett,  gardener,  for  his  pains  about 

the  garden  at  the  new  Custom  house, 

Dublin,  for  a  quarter's  salary,  ending  the 

25th  of  March,  1661,  by  warrant  dated  the 

20th  of  April,  1661 3  :  10  :    0 

Eandall    Beckett,    Overseer    of    the    Public 

Buildings,  for  half-a-year  ani  49  days, 

ending  the  8th  of  August,  1660 38  :    1  :    0 

The  said  Eandall  Beckett,  for  his  disburse- 
ments about  the  Wash-house  at  Kilmain- 

ham   Bridge,    the  Phoenix,   the    King's 

Bench,  the  Armoury  and  Castle  Stables, 

and  at  the  new  Custom  house,  from  the 

16th  of  October,  1659,  to  the  27th' of  June, 

last,  by  warrant  dated  the  13th  of  August, 

1660 41  :  17  :    8 

Thomas  Horneby,  Cutler,  in  full  satisfaction 

for  his  work  and  service  in  cleaning  and 

dressing    the   swords   in    His   Majesty's 

Stores  in  Dublin,  and  for  his  arrears  of 

pay    as     soldier     in     Captain     Cooke's 

company,  from  the  30th  of  August,  1658, 

and  ending  the  10th  of  February,  1660...  38  :  13  :  4 
Hugh,  Lord  Viscount  Mountgomery  of  the 

Ardes,  Master  of  His  Majesty's  Ordin- 
ance ,  for  the  providing  of  Horse-Tents ,  by 

warrant  dated  the  22nd  of  July,  1661  ...  170  :  0  :  0 
The  said  Lord  Viscount  Mountgomery,  upon 

account  towards  the  defraying  the  charge 

of  shoeing  and  binding  with  iron  40  pairs 

of   wheels   prepared  for   His   Majesty's 

Ordnance    at    Mountrath,    by    warrant 

dated  the  8th  of  August,  1661      150  :    0  :    0 

Wt.  8878  Y 


SftC) 


s.      d. 


Nicholas  ffrench ,  for  his  personal  charges  and 
entertainment  from  Gal  way,  to  be 
examined  against  Mr.  Edward  Eyre,  by 
warrant  dated  the  9th  of  July,  1661      ...        4  :    3  :    0 

Hugh  Eeyly,  for  his  charges  from  Galway  as 
a  witness  against  Mr.  Edward  Eyre^  by 
warrant  dated  the  9th  of  July,  1661      ...        3  :  19  :    0 

Nicholas  Martin,  for  bis  charges  from  Galway 
as  a  witness  against  the  said  Eyre,  by 
warrant  dated  the  5th  of  July,  1661      ...        4  :  15  :    0 

Eobert  Martin  and  Isodorus  Lynch,  for  their 

charges  from  Galway  as  a  witness  against 

the  said  Eyre,  by  warrant  dated  the  9th 

of  July,  1661         7  :  16  :    0 

Anthony  Lynch  and  Thomas  Deane  for  their 

charges  from  Galway  as  a  witness  against 

the  said  Eyre,  by  warrant  dated  the  9th 

of  July,  1661  5  :  16  :    8 

Colonel  William  Knight,  in  consideration  of 

the  great  trouble  and  constant  attendance 

imposed   on    him   as   Chairman    to    the 

Standing     Committee     of     Convention 

appointed  to  sit  and  a<;t  during  the  last 

adjournment  of  the  said  Convention,  by 

warrant  dated  the  5th  of  April,  1661  ...     100  :    0  :    0 

Sir  William  Domvile,  Knight,  as  an  acknow- 
ledgment of  his  care  and  trouble  which  he 
hath  undergone  in  discharging  of  the  trust 
reposed  in  him  as  Chairman  of  the  General 
Convention  of  Ireland,  by  warrant  dated 
the  5th  of  April,  1661      300  :    0  :    0 

Mr.  Stephen  Charnocke,  for  his  labour  and 

pains  taken  in  officiating  at  Christchurch 

in  Dublin,  in  the  time  of  the  late  Con- 
vention, by  warrant  dated  31st  of  May, 

1661 100  :    0  :    0 

Mr.  Matthew  Barry  and  several  other  officers, 

for  their  service  and  attendance  about  the 

late  Convention,  by  warrant  dated  the  5th 

of  April,  1661      231  :  14  :    0 

Sir  Eichard  Barnewall,  by  warrant  dated  the 

14th  of  June,  1661 41  :    0  :    0 

Oliver  Walsh,  Marshal  of  the  City  of  Dublin, 
for  monies  by  him  disbursed  to  two  popish 
priests  committed  to  his  custody,  at  6d. 
per  diem  for  each  of  them  for  797  days, 
by  warrant  dated  the  14th  of  March,  1661, 
amounting  to  J619  18^.  6d.,  out  of  which, 
deducting  iOs.  formerly  paid,  so  remains      17  :  18  :    6 


387 


B.      d. 


John  Lovett,  Gaoler  of  the  Prison  of  Newgate, 

Dublin,  for  several  sums  of  money  by  him 

disbursed  for  the  use  and  maintenance  of 

several     prisoners     committed     to     his 

custody,  by  warrant    dated  the  6th  of 

March,  1661 22  :  12  :    4 

Dudley  Main  waring,  Esq.,  Constable  of  His 

Majesty's  Castle  of  Dublin,  to  be  by  him 

issued   upon   account   towards  relief  of 

Nicholas  Wright,  John  O'Dwiggin,  and 

Michael    Byrne,   prisoners    in   the   said 

Castle,  at  4d.  per  diem  to  each,  by  three 

warrants,  dated  the  5th  June,  13th  of 

September,  and  the  10th  of  January,  1661      15  :    0  :    0 
John  Dal  way.  Mayor  of  Carrickfergus,  to  be 

by  him  issued  to  three  popish  priests,  now 

prisoners  at  Carrickfergus,  at  6d.  per  diem 

to  each  of  them,  towards  their  relief,  by 

warrant .  dated  the  6th  of  August,  1661      10  :    0  :    0 
Captain  Charles  Twig,  for  monies  by  him 

disbursed  for  relief  of  the  popish  priests, 

prisoners  in  Gal  way ,  by  warrant  dated  the 

4th  of  October,  1661       9:9:0 

William  Eowe,  gentleman,  for  his  fees  as  one 

of  His  Majesty's  Pursuivants  for  124  days, 

from  the  23rd  of  February,  1660,  to  the 

27thof  June,  1661 4  :  13  :    0 

Thomas  Bringhurst  and  Thomas  Bate,  for 

their  disbursements  for  the  rent  of  the 

Office    of    the   Common    Pleas    of    the 

Exchequer,  by  warrant  dated  the  14th 

of  June,  1661        17  :  10  :    0 

Thomas  Brewer,  gardener  at  the  Phoenix,  for 

a  quarter  of  a  year's  salary,  ending  the 

17th,  1661 5:0:0 

Thomas   Harrington,   late  gardener   at   the 

Phoenix,  for  a  year  and  eight  months 

ending  the  17th  of  October,  1661...        ...      30  :  17  :    0 

The  said  Thomas  Harrington,  for  his  disburse- 
ments to  several  labourers  for  digging  and 

weeding  at  the  Phoenix,  by  two  warrants 

dated  the  4th  of  May  and  19th  of  Nov- 
ember, 1661 12  :  10  :  10 

Sir  Bichard  Blake,  Knight,  for  his  present 

relief,  by  concordatum  dated  the  29th  of 

November,  1661     ...        50  :    0  :    0 

Sir  James   Cuff,   Knight,  and   Major   Ellis 

Goodwin,  beiiig  employed  into  England 

with    bills    to    be    transmitted    to    His 

Majesty,  by  concordatum  dated  the  29th 

of  November,  1661 100  :    0  :    0 


888 


s.      d. 


Mrs.  Anne  Cannocke,  widow,  for  the  present 

relief  of  herself  and  children,  by  two  con- 

cordatums  dated  the  10th  of  July  and  29th 

of  November,  1661 30  :    0  :    0 

David  Kelly,  for  his  present  relief,  by  con- 

cordatum  dated  the  14th  of  June,  1661...        2:0:0 
Samuel  Bathurst,  Esq.,  for  monies  by  him 

disbursed  for  sending  away  expresses  into 

several  parts  of  Ireland  with  despatches 

and   letters   relating   to    His    Majesty's 

service,  by  concordatum  dated  the  2nd  of 

April,  1661 ...      49  :  19  :    2 

John    Graydon,    for    one    quarter's    pension 

ending  the  25th  of  June,  1661,  by  concor- 
datum dated  the  4th  of  June,  1661        ...      12  :  10  :    0 
William  Somers,  Esq.,  to  be  by  him  issued 

upon  account  towards  providing  furniture 

and  other  necessaries  for  the  Court  house 

at  Athlone,   by  concordatum  dated  the 

10th  of  September,  1661 20  :    0  :    0 

Anthony  Stoughton,  to  the  use  of  Sir  Thomas 

Vyner  and  Company,   for  advance,  ex- 
change and  interest  of  thirty  thousand 
'  pounds  advanced  by  the  said  Sir  Thomas 

Vvner  and  Company  towards  the  charge 

of  reducing  His  Majesty's  army  here,  by 

concordatum  dated  the  27th  of  April,  1661  1500  :  0  :  0 
Ellen  Butler,  for  her  relief,  by  concordatum 

dated  the  11th  of  July,  1661      2  :  10  :    0 

Eichard  Whitty,  Esq. ,  for  his  present  support, 

by  concordatum  dated  the  14th  of  June, 

JLODJ.    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ^U   •      U   •      U 

Anthony  Stoughton,  for  one  thousand  pounds 

by  him  advanced  to  the  Commissioners 

and  their  Secretaries  appointed  to  attend 

His  Majesty  with  the  Bills  to  be  trans- 
mitted into   England,    by    concordatum 

dated  the  30th  of  July,  1661       80  :    0  :    0 

Mary  Fox,  alias  fitz  Gerald,  widow,  for  the 

present  relief  of  herself  and  orphans,  by 

concordatum  dated  the  8th  of  July,  1661  10  :  0  :  0 
George  Carr,  Esq.,  for  money  disbursed  by 

him  for  defraying  of  the  charges  of  trans- 
porting the  ensigns  of  royalty  into  Ireland, 

and    sundry    other    particulars    for    the 

service  of  this  Kingdom 40  :    0  :    0 

Elizabeth  and  Jane  Preston,  for  their  present 

relief,  by  concordatum  dated  the  14th  of 

June,  1661 15  :    0  :    0 

Dame  Ellen  Shortall,  for  her  present  relief,  by 

concordatum  dated  the  29th  of  April,  1661        5:0:0 


389 


John  fifarrell,  one  of  His  Majesty's  footmen, 
for  special  reasons  of  His  Majesty's 
service,  by  concordatnm  dated  the  10th  of 
September,  1661 

Jane  Dillon,  alias  Madden,  for  her  present 
relief,  by  concordatnm  dated  the  29th  of 
April,  1661  ... 

Ellis  Crince,  widow,  for  her  present  relief,  by 
concordatnm  dated  the  26th  of  March, 

JLx^\^-L      «■■  ••■  •••  •••  ••«  «•■ 

Edward  Wesley,  of  AUasty,  in  the  county  of 
Kildare,  for  his  present  relief,  by  two  con- 
cordatums  dated  the  19th  of  April  and 
the  23rd  of  November,  1661      

Alison  Belling,  widow,  for  the  relief  of  her  and 
her  children,  by  concordatnm  dated  the 
11th  of  April,  1661 

Elinor  fitz  Gerald,  for  her  present  relief,  by 
concordatnm  dated  the  4th  of  May,  1661 

Theobald  Dillon,  for  his  present  relief,  by 
concordatnm  dated  the  29th  of  April,  1661 

Thomas  Chamberlain,  for  his  present  relief, 
by  concordatnm  dated  the  18th  of  April, 

J-  vr  V/ J.     •••  •*.  *••  ...  ■••  ■•■ 

Ellis  Twile,  for  her  present  relief,  by  con- 
cordatnm dated  the  2l3t  of  May,  1661  ... 

J3arnard  Talbot,  for  his  present  relief,  by 
concordatnm  dated  the  21st  of  May,  1661 

Elizabeth  Nangle,  widow,  for  her  present 
relief,  by  concordatnm  dated  the  drd  of 
April,  1661  ... 

George  Lynskill,  for  his  present  relief,  by 
concordatnm  dated  the  8th  of  July,  1661 

Elinor  fitz  Gerald,  by  concordatum  dated 
the  14th  of  June,  1661      

Dudley  Phillips,  by  warrant  dated  the  15th 
of  October,  1661 

Geort^e  Carr,  Esq.,  for  special  reasons  of  His 
Majesty's  service,  by  concordatum  dated 
the  14th  of  January ,  1661 

Anthony  Stoughton,  for  special  reasons  of  His 
Majesty's  service,  by  two  concordat  urns 
dated  the  6th  of  January  and  the  15th  of 
February,  1661       

The  said  Anthony  Stoughton,  to  be  by  him 
made  over  into  England  by  Bill  of 
Exchange  to  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Cork, 
Cloyne  and  Boss,  and  others  for  His 
Majesty's  special  sei-vice,  by  warrant 
dated  the  third  of  February,  1661 


£ 


s. 


i. 


10  :    0  :    0 


6:0:0 


8:0:0 


30  : 

0  : 

0 

20  : 

0  : 

0 

5  : 

0  : 

0 

10  : 

0  : 

0 

6  : 

0  i 

0 

10  : 

0  : 

0 

10  : 

0  : 

0 

5  : 

0  : 

0 

2  : 

0  : 

0 

6  : 

0  : 

0 

10  : 

0: 

0 

126  : 

0  : 

0 

200  : 

0  : 

0 

700  :    0  :    0 


390 


B.      d. 


William  Somers,  Esq.,  being  employed  into 

England    upon    His    Majesty's    special 

service,  by  concordatum  dated  the  last  of 

November,  1661     50  :    0  :    0 

Captain   Thomas   Wright,    for    his    present 

relief,   by   concordatum  dated  the  30th 

of  November,  1661 ...       10  :    0  :    0 

Bichard  Carney,  for  making  of  several  of  the 

King's  Arms,  and  furnishing  himself  with 

necessaries  for  solemnizing  the  proclaim- 
ing of  His  Majesty,  by  concordatum  dated 

the  first  of  July,  1661      ...       77  :  15  :    0 

Mary  flinglas,  widow,  for  her  present  relief, 

by  concordatum  dated  the  16th  of  August, 

J.OO^        ...  •*.  ...  ...  ...  ..•  £^J      •  \J      •  Vr 

James  Bamford,  for  his  care  as  Clerk  to  the 

Committee   of   Trade   from   the   8th   of 

March,    1660,    to   the    18th    of   August 

following,  and  for  pen,  ink  and  paper,  by 

concordatum  dated  the  9th  of  November, 

1661  ...        ...        ...        ...        ...         ...      46  :  16  :    0 

Captain  Charles  ffarrell,  by  concordatum  dated 

the  4th  of  December,  1661  10  :    0  :    0 

Anthony  Stoughton,  by  Concordatum  dated 

the  28th  of  February,  1661  300  :    0  :    0 

The  said  Anthony  Stoughton,  towards  pay- 
ment of  the  rent  for  the  rooms  belonging 

to  the  Receipt  OflBce  for  a  year  ending  at 

Michaelmas,  1661,  by  Concordatum  dated 

the  12th  of  March,  1661 11  :  10  :    0 

The    said    Anthony   Stoughton,   for    monies 

disbursed    for    letters    directed    to    the 

Deputy  Receiver  General  concerning  the 

Pole,  by  Concordatum  dated  the  12th  of 

March,  1661 5  :    4  :  10 

Patrick  Tallant,   for  disbursements  by  him 

made  in  taking  Inquisition  into  the  value 

and  profits  of  the  estate  of  John  Black- 
well,  Esq.,  in  the  counties  of  Dublin  and 

Kildare,  and  for  recompense  of  his  pains 

therein,  by  Concordatum  dated  the  28th 

of  February,  1661 40  :    0  :    0 

Bichard  de  Laune,  gentleman,  for  so  much  by 

him  advanced  to  Capt.  William  Rosse, 

who  was  lately  employed  into  England 

for  the  special  service  of  His  Majes^,  by 

Concordatum  dated  the  10th  of  January, 

^  v/\J  JL       ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ^Cvr      •  \j      »  \J 

The  said  Richard,  for  providing  new  [?]...      21  :    0  :    0 
Charles  Ireton,  for  his  present  relief,  by  Con- 
cordatum dated  the  16th  of  January,  1661      20  :    0  :    0 


391 


B.         cl. 


Samuel  Bathurst,  Esq.,  for  several  sums  of 
money  by  him  laid  out  for  particular 
messages  and  not  by  way  of  post,  and 
other  occasions  relating  to  His  Majesty's 
service,  by  Concordatum  dated  the  27th 
of  January,  1661 62  :  10  :    3 

Bandall  Beckett,  for  money  by  him  disbursed 
in  fitting  the  rooms  for  the  Court  of 
Claims,  by  Concordatum  dated  the  17th 
of  August,  1661      19  :    6  :    3 

Christopher  Kussell,  for  special  reasons  of  His 
Majesty's  service,  by  Concordatum  dated 
theSlst  of  January,  1661 20:    0:    0 

Maurice  fitz  Gerald,  for  his  present  relief, 
by  Concordatum  dated  the  17th  of  August, 

JL\J"^   •••       •••       •••       •••       •••       ■••     ^V/  •    \^  •    v/ 

Lawrence  Hamond,  for  the  present  relief  of 
himself,  his  wife  and  children,  by  Con- 
cordatum dated  the  fifth  of  October,  1661      20  :    0  :    0 

Peter  Pett,  His  Majesty's  Advocate  General, 
Edward  Cooke  and  Joshua  Boyle,  Doctors 
of  Law,  for  their  expense  and  charge  in 
accommodating  a  difference  between  the 
French  Marquis  and  Capt.  Jacob  Rey- 
nolds, by  Concordatum  dated  the  14th  of 
November,  1661      ...  -  80  :    0  :    0 

James  Waggett,  for  special  service  of  His 
Majesty,  by  Concordatum  dated  the  29th 
of  October,  1661 5:0:0 

Mary,  Lady  Caulfeild,  for  her  present  main- 
tenance, by  Concordatum  dated  the  17th 
of  August,  1661      40  :    0  :    0 

Bichard  de  Laune,  gentleman,  to  be  by  him 
paid  over  unto  John  MacDavid  Mulcahy, 
who  by  order  of  the  Lords  Justices  and 
Council  is  to  employ  four  horsemen  and 
eight  footmen  to  prosecute  Torido  [  ?]  who 
committed  many  robberies  and  murders 
in  the  counties  of  Tipperary  and  Water- 
ford,  etc.,  by  Concordatum  dated  29th  of 
October,  1661        18  :  18  :    0 

Mary  Draper,  by  Concordatum  dated  9th  of 

August,  1661  15:    0:    0 

Elinor  Gascoigne,  for  relief  of  herself  and 
children,  by  Concordatum  dated  14th 
November,  1661     5:0:0 

Mary  Lewis,  alias  Molloy,  widow,  by  Con- 
cordatum dated  the  15th  of  August,  1661      10  :    0  :    0 


392 


s. 


Alexander  Knox,  Collector  of  the  last  Pole- 
money  in  the  County  of  Donegal,  for 

bringing   up    the    Poll-money    of    that 

county  to  this  city,  by  Concordatum  dated 

the  3l8t  of  January,  1661  10  :    0  :    0 

William  Hibbert,  in  consideration  of  his  pains 

in  bringing  up  the  second  Poll-money  of 

the  County  of  Tipperary,  by  Concordatum 

dated  the  13th  of  September,  1661  ...  10  :  0  :  0 
Sir  George  Blundell,  Baronet,  for  his  pains  in 

assessing  and  collecting  of  the  first  pay- 
ment of  the  Poll-money  in  the  King's 

County,  by  Concordatum  dated  the  5th 

of  October,  1661 10  :    0  :     0 

Peter  Beaghan  and  Robert  Colvill,  Esquires, 

for  their  pains  in  assessing  and  collecting 

the  Poll-money  in  the  county  of  Antrim, 

by  Concordatum  dated  the  8th  of  January, 

•i  OU  1.  m   m   m  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ^\J        *  \J        '  U 

William   Toxteth,    Henry    Bellingham,   and 

William  Pepper,  Esquires,  £10  a  year  for 

their   pains   in   assessing,  levying,    and 

bringing  up  the  Poll-money  in  the  county 

of  Louth ,  by  Concordatum  dated  the  27th 

of  January,  1661 80  :    0  :    0 

Samuel  Bathurst,  Esq.,  to  be  by  him  issued 

for  the  hiring  of  a  vessel  to  be  employed 

upon  His  Majesty's  special  service  into 

England,  by  Concordatum  dated  the  8th 

of  January,  1661 10  :    0  :    0 

Mary,  Jane,  and  Anne  Ware,  for  their  present 

relief,  by  Concordatum  dated  the  24th  of 

December,  1661     75  :    0  :    0 

Thomas  Burgh,  for  his  service  as  Attorney  on 

behalf  of  His  Majesty  for  prosecuting  of 

malefactors,  by  Concordatum  dated  the 

24th  of  December,  1661 20  :    0  :    0 

Arthur    Podmore,    George    Wakefield,    and 

William  Rowe,  His  Majesty's  Pursuivants, 

for  their  extraordinary  and  constant  atten- 
dance on  His  Majesty's  attendance,  by 

Concordatum  dated  the  24th  of  December, 

1661 40  :    0  :    0 

Jeoffrey  Malbone,  yeoman  of  the  Wardrobe 

and  housekeeper  attending  the  Castle  of 

DubUn,   by    warrant    dated    the   3rd   of 

December,  1661     2:0:0 

Doctor  Edward  Denham,  for  his  allowance 

for  twelve  months  ending   the  26th   of 

February,  1661,   by   warrant  dated   the 

14th  of  August,  1660      70  :  16  :    0 


393 

Colonel  Arthur  Hill,  for  a  year's  rent  allowed       £        6.      d. 

unto  him  for  Newry    Castle   with    the 

garden  and  backside  thereto  belonging, 

being  made  use  of  fdr  His  Majesty's 

service,  beginning  the  25th  of  March, 

1660,  and  ending  the  26th  of  March,  1661 , 

by  warrant  dated  the  19th  of  March,  1661  20  :  0  :  0 
Thomas  Lea,  Keeper  of  the  Council  Chamber, 

for    disbursements    by    him    made    for 

necessaries  for  the  Council  Chamber,  by 

Concordatum  dated  the  28th  of  February, 

J.vJVlJ>     ••■  ••*  •••  •••  •«•  ■••  \j\J    •        J.    •    A.\j 

The  Reverend  Father  in  God,  Michael,  Lord 

Bishop    of    Cork,    Cloyne,    and    Ross, 

being  employed  into  England  to  attend 

His  Majesty  with  the  bills  to  be  trans- 
mitted thither,  by  Concordatum  dated  the 

30th  of  July,  1661 300  :    0  :    0 

John,     Lord     Baron     of    Kingston,    being 

employed  into  England  to  attend  His 

Majesty  with  the  Bills  to  be  transmitted 

thither,  by  Concordatum  dated  the  30th 

of  July,  1661 300  :    0  :    0 

Thomas  Paggott,  Esq.,  Master  of  the  Court 

of  Wards  and  Liveries,  being  employed 

into  England  upon  the  same  account,  by 

Concordatum  dated  the  80th  of  July,  1661  300  :  0  :  0 
John  Burniston,  Esq. ,  Secretary,  to  attend  the 

Commissioners   employed   into  England 

upon  the  same  account,  by  Concordatum 

dated  the  30th  of  July,  1661      100  :    0  :    0 

Francis,  Lord  Aungier,  being  employed  by  the 

Lords  Justices  into   England  upon  His 

Majesty's  special  service,  by  Concordatum 

dated  the  9th  of  July,  1661  ...         ....     250  :    0  :    0 

Sir  James  Shaen,  Knight,  to  be  by  him  paid 

over   to    the   Lord    Bishop    of    Cloyne, 

Cork  and  Rosse,  John,  Lord  Baron  of 

Kingston,   Thomas   Piggott,   Esq.,   and 

Anthony  Stoughton ,  by  warrant  dated  the 

17th  of  October,  1661      630  :    0  :    0 

Edward  Roberts,  Esq.,  out  of  the  estate  of 

Colonel  Daniell  Axtell,  being  bound  for 

the  said  Axtell,  by  warrant  dated  the  6th 

of  August,  1661     246  :    6  :    0 

The  Right   Honourable  Anne,   Marchioness 

Dowager  of  Clanrickarde,  for  so  much 

accounted  for  in  His  Majesty's  Exchequer 

as  money  received  for  Quit  rents  out  of 

her  Ladyship's  jointure  in  the  County  of 

Gal  way,  by  warrant  dated  the  24th  of 

January,  1661        135  :    4  :  10| 


394 

John  Blackwell,  Esq.,  for  so  much  charged      £        8.      d. 

upon  and  received  out  of  his  rents  since 

His  Majesty's  Bestoration,  by  warrant 

dated  the  6th  of  August ,  1661      292  :  15  :    8 

Capt.  Henry  fiBnch,  for  supply  of  his  present 

necessities,  to  be  defaulted  out  of  such 

monies   as  are  due   to    him  from    His 

Majesty,  by  warrant  dated  the  12th  of 

October,  1661        21  :    0  :    0 

Luke,  Earl  of  flftngall,  for  three-quarters  of  a 

year's  pension  ending  the  25th  of  March, 

1661,  by  warrant  dated  the  16th  of  April, 

JLUv^JL     ••■  •■•  •••  •■•  •••  •••  ■(/•       \J    •       \J 

Thomas  Flunkett,  for  the  use  of  the  Earl  of 

ffingall,  by  Concordatum  dated  the  7th  of 

December,  1661     100  :    0  :    0 

Sir  Paul  Davis,  Knight,  for  the  use  of  Mathew 

Locke,  Esq.,  for  his  allowance  at  20^.  per 

diem   for  212   days,    from  the   first  of 

January,  1660,  to  the  last  of  July,  1661, 

by  two  warrants  dated  the  18th  of  April, 

1661 ,  and  the  31st  of  July,  1661 212  :    0:0 

Arthur     Podmore,    Junior,     Clerk     to    the 

Secretary    for    the    Martial    Affairs    of 

Ireland  at  5^.  per  diem  for  234  days,  from 

the  first  of  April,  1661,  to  the  20th  of 

November  following,   by   two  warrants 

dated  the  31st  of  July,  1661,  and  the  20th 

of  November,  1661 58  :  10  :    0 

The  said  Arthur  Podmore,  to  be  by  him  issued 

upon  account  for  buying  paper,  ink,  and 

other  necessaries  for  the  Office  of  the 

Secretary  at  War,  and  for  other  con- 
tingent charges  relating  to  the  said  office , 

by  warrant  dated  the  31st  of  May,  1661  20  :  0  :  0 
Edward  Peck,  for  his  allowance  at  2^.  per 

diem  as  Messenger  for  the  affairs  of  the 

Army  for  304  days,  from   the  first   of 

January,  1660,  to  the  last  of  October, 

1661 ,  by  two  warrants  dated  the  29th  of 

March,  1661,  and  the  10th  of  November, 

J-OOJ.    ...  ...  •(,  •••  •..  ,,,         q(J   I      O   I      U 

The  said  Edward  Peck,  for  several  disburse- 
ments by  him  made  for  the  use  of  the 

Committee   for  the  Martial  Affairs,   by 

Concordatum  dated  the  12th  of  April,  1661  2  :  0  ;  8 
Capt.  Bichard  St.  George,  to  be  by  him  issued 

upon  account  for  necessary  repairs  on  His 

Majesty's    Castle   of    Athlone   and    the 

Courts  of  Guards,  and  the  Stables  and 

other  offices  to  the  said  Castle  belonging , 

by  warrant  dated  the  7th  of  August,  1661      50  :    0  :    0 


396 


s.      d« 


The  Earl  of  Drogheda,  to  be  by  him  issued 

upon  account  towards  repairing  of  the 

Fort  of  Drogheda,  by  warrant  dated  the 

12th  of  October,  1661       100  :    0  :    0 

Mr.  Bichard  de  Laune,  to  be  by  him  issued 

for  the  repairs  of  the  Blockhouse  and  Fort 

of  Einsale,  by  warrant  dated  the  21st  of 

December,  1661     10  :    0    0: 

Thomas   Caulfeild,  William  Handcock,  and 

Nicholas    Mahon,    EsquLres,    for    their 

charge  and   pains   about   the  assessing, 

levying,  and  bringing  in  the  first  payment 

of    Poll-money   of   the  county    of   Bos- 
common,  by  warrant  dated  the  8th  of 

January,  1661        30  :    0  :    0 

Sir  William  fflower,  Knight,  to  be  by  him 

issued  upon  account  for  repairing  the  fort 

of  Duncannon ,  by  warrant  dated  the  10th 

of  September,  1661 150:    0:    0 

John  Povey,  Esq.,  being  employed  Judge  of 

Assize  in   the  room  of  Justice  Booth, 

visited  with   sickness,  for   the  sununer 

circuit,  1661,  by  Concordatum  dated  3rd 

August,  1661  44  :  10  :    0 

Balph  Wallas,  for  finding  two  several  Inquis- 
itions   in   the   counties   of    Dublin    and 

Kildare  concerning  the  estate  of  John 

Black  well,    by   Concordatum    dated  the 

28th  of  February,  1661      20  :    0  :    0 

John  Westley  and  Balph  Wallis,  Esquires,  to 

be  by  them  laid  out  for  repairing  the  lower 

Courts  in  Dublin,  by  two  warrants  dated 

the   13th    of  August    and    the   26th    of 

October,  1661         ...        ...     150  :    0  :    0 

Capt.  Albert  Conyngham,  to  be  by  him  issued 

upon  account  towards  repairing  of  several 

of  the  Stores  of  this  Kingdom  in  such 

manner    as    the    Lords    Justices    shajl 

appoint,  by  warrant  250  :    0  :    0 

Capt.  William  Webb,  for  his  labour  and  pains 

about  the  fortifications  at  Sligo  and  Bally- 
more  bridge,  from  the  12th  of  August, 

1660,  to  the  25th  of  March,  1661,  by  Con- 

cordatimi      67  :  10  :    0 

Doctor  Balph  King,  to  be  by  him  paid  over  to 

John  Beeves  in  satisfaction  of  his  pains 

in  looking  to  the  stores  at  Londonderry, 

by  warrant 10  :    0  :    0 


Sum    12220  :  14 .:    7J 


396 

Other  Payments  made  upon  Concordatums  granted  upon  several 
occasions  for  the  use  of  the  Parliament. 

Lieut.  Col.  Philip  fferneley,  to  be  by  him  £  s.  d. 
paid  to  Mrs.  Sankey  upon  perfecting  the 
writings  on  her  part  concerning  Chi- 
chester House,  now  to  be  made  use  of  for 
the  Parliament,  by  warrant  dated  the  5th 
of  April,  1661        300  :    0:0 

The  said  Philip  fiPerneley,  to  be  paid  to 
Eichard  White  upon  perfecting  the 
writings  on  his  part  concerning  Chichester 
House,  to  be  made  use  of  for  the  Parlia- 
ment, by  warrant  dated  the  6th  of  April, 

J-DOJ.    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...         qU   I      \J  I      U 

The   said   Philip   fferneley  to   be  issued  for 

providing  necessaries  for  furnishing  the 

rooms  in    Chichester   House,   appointed 

the  sitting  of  the  Parliament,  by  warrant 

dated  the  3rd  of  May,  1661  80  :    0  :    0 

The  said  Philip  fferneley,  for  monies  dis- 
bursed in  fitting  and  preparing  the  rooms 

in  Chichester  House  for  the  sitting  of  the 

Parliament,  by  Concordatum  dated  the 

14th  of  August,  1661       87  :    6  :    4 

The  said  Philip  fferneley,  to  be  issued  upon 

account  *or  providing  of  coals,  candles, 

and  other  necessaries  for  the  use  of  the 

said  house,  by  warrant  dated  the  21st  of 

December,  1661      40  :    0  :    0 

John  Keating,  Esq. ,  for  buying  a  Clock  for  the 

Lords*  House  of  Parliament,  by  warrant 

dated  the  14th  of  June,  1661      10  :    0  :    0 

Doctor  John  Stearne,  for  his  pains  taken  in 

overseeing  the  printing  of  the  Acts  and 

Declarations  that  have  issued  from  the 

Parliament,  by  Concordatum  dated  the  ^ 

5th  of  August,  1661  60  :    0  :    0 

Eobert  Hall,  gentleman,  Usher  of  the  Black- 
rood  of  the  Lords'  House  of  Parliament, 

to   be    issued    to    the    doorkeepers    and 

messengers    of    the    Lords'    House    by 

warrant  dated  the  8th  of  January,  1661  40  :  0  :  0 
John  Thorneton,  Usher  of  the  House  of  Lords, 

for  buying  coals  and  other  necessaries  for 

the  use  of  the  said  House,  by  Concordatum 

dated  the  15th  of  October,  1661 100  :    0  :    0 

Highgate  Love,  doorkeeper  of  the  House  of 

Commons,  and  William  Craig,  Keeper  of 

the  Speaker's  Chambers,  for  their  several 

attendances  and  services  during  the  siting 

of  Parliament,  by  warrant  50  :     0  :    0 


397 


s. 


Quartermaster  Thomas  Cheeke,  for  money 
disbursed  by  him  for  building  a  stable 
for  the  Horse  Guards  attending  'the 
Parliament,  by  two  warrants  dated  the 
14th  of  May  and  the  17th  of  October, 

J.DO J.    «••  «••  •■•  ■••  •••  t*«  OX    •       \J    •       \J 


Sum  ...    818  :    8 


Payments  made  by  virtue  of  His  Majesty's  Letters  and  other 

warrants. 

£        8.       d. 
The    Right   Honourable    Eichard,    Earl    of 

Cork,  Lord  High  Treasurer  of  Ireland, 

for  his  fee  for  a  year  ending  at  Michael- 
mas, 1661 30  :    0  :    0 

Bryan  Jones,  Auditor  of  Foreign  Accounts,  for 

his  fee  for  the  same  time 121  :  13  :    4 

Jeoffrey  Malbone,  Keeper  of  the  Clock  of  the 

Castle  of  Dublin,  for  his  fee  from  the  15th 

of  June,  1660,  to  the  8rd  of  .Tune,  1661, 

together  with  15*.  by  him  laid  out  for 

repairing  the  said  clock,  by  warrant  dated 

the  28th  of  October,  1661 18  :    8  :    0 

The  said  Jeoffrey  Malbone,  for  83  days  ending 

at  Michaelmas,  1661         4:3:0 

Elizabeth  fitz  Gerald,   alias  Bolton,  widow, 

by  virtue  of  a  decree  of  His  Majesty's 

Court  of  Exchequer,  dated  the  28th  of 

November,  1661,  for  one  year  and  a  half's 

annuity   due    to   her    out    of    Trinocho, 

Gil  town  and  Garbage,  in  the  County  of 

Kildare,  ending  at  Michaelmas,  1661  ...      75  :    0  :    0 


Sum  ...     249 


Pensions  and  other  payments  by  special  Letters  from  His 

Majesty. 

£        8.      d. 
The  Eight  Honourable  Sir  Maurice  Eustace, 

Knight,  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland,  for 

his  pension,  by  virtue  of  His  Majesty's 

Letters  dated  the  first  of  February,  1661  1500  :    0  :    0 
Sir  Robert  Meredith,  Knight,  Chancellor  of 

the  Exchequer,  for  his  pension  for  one 

year  and  a  half  ending  at  Michaelmas, 

1661 150  :    0  :    0 

George  Carr,  Esq.,  for  his  Grace  the  Duke  of 

Ormond's  use,  by  virtue  of  His  Majesty's 

letters  dated  the  6th  of  December,  1660, 

by  warrant  dated  the  12th  of  June,  1661  3179  :  13  :    0 


398 


£        8.      d. 


Sir  James  Shaen,  Knight,  for  incident 
expenses  and  necessaries  for  the  use  of 
the  Lords  Justices,  by  virtue  of  His 
Majesty's  Letters  of  the  6th  of  February, 

"    J.t)OU   «••  •■•  «■•  •■•  •■•  •••      OUU  I     \)  I     u 

William  Davyes,  for  the  Earle  of  ffingall,  by 

virtue  of  His  Majesty's  Letters  of  the 

7th  of  February,  1660      600  :    0  :    0 

Colonel   Bichard  Butler,   by   virtue  of   His 

Majesty's  Letters  of  the  13th  of  April, 

1661,  by  two  warrants  dated  the  first  of 

May  and  15th  of  May,  1661       1000  :    0  :    0 

Thomas  Daunt  and  Mary,  his  wife,  pursuant 

to  His  Majesty's  Order  of  reference  to  the 

Lords  Justices  of  the  30th  of  September, 

1661,  and  by  order  of  the  said  Lords 

Justices   thereupon,  dated   the  20th   of 

March,   1661  70  :    0  :    0 


Sum  ...  6999  :  13  :    0 


Pensioners,  etc,,  by  Concordatums  and  other  warrants. 

£  8.  d. 
The    Bight    Honourable    the    Marquis    of 

Antrim,  for  a  pension  of  d£10  per  week 

from  the  19th  of  July,  1661,  by  Concor- 

datum  dated  the  30th  of  July,  1661,  viz., 

for  34  weeks  ending  14th  of  March,  1661  340  :  0  :  0 
The  Lord  Viscount  TaafFe,  for  a  pension  of 

£800  per  annum  towards  his  support,  by 

Concordatum  dated  the  17th  of  August, 

1661,  for  seven  months  ending  18th  of 

March,  1661  466  :  13  :    4 

Edward,  Lord  Blaney,  for  a  pension  of  100^. 

Ser  week  for  28  weeks  ending  the  1 5th  of 
larch,  1661,  by  Concordatum  dated  the 
19th  of  September,  1661 140  :    0  :    0 

The  Earl  of  Clanrickarde,  for  his  present 
support  at  100*.  per  week  for  14  weeks 
ending  the  17th  of  August,  1661,  by  Con- 
cordatum dated  the  17th  of  July,  1661...      70  :    0  :    0 

The  said  Earl  of  Clanrickarde,  for  an  allow- 
ance J£l,600  per  annum,  and  payable 
monthly  for  his  present  upport  until  he 
be  restored  to  his  estate,  by  Concordatum 
dated  the  17th  of  August,  1661 256  :    4  :    0 

David,  Lord  Viscount  Kilmallock,  for  his 
pension  of  50«.  per  week  for  26  weeks, 
from  the  9th  of  May,  1661,  to  the  6th  of 
November,  following,  by  Concordatum 
dated  the  25th  of  July,  1661      65  :    0  :    0 


399 


s.      d. 


Luke,  Earl  of  ffingall,  for  a  pension  of  £5  a 
week  from  the  first  of  July,  1661,  towards 
his  present  support  till  he  be  restored  to 
his  estate,  by  warrant  dated  the  8th  of 
July,  1661 51  :  10  :    0 

Theobald, Lord  Viscount  Mayo,  at  40^.  a  week 
for  his  better  support  for  7  weeks  ending 
the  5th  of  June,  1661,  by  warrant  dated 
the  17th  of  May,  1661      14  :    0  :    0 

Patrick,    Lord    Baron    of   Dunsany,    for    a 

Jension  of  50^.  a  week  from  the  24th  of 
une,  1661,  by  Concordatum  dated  the 
nth  of  July,  1661 37  :  10  :    0 

Sir  Connell  ffarrell,  Enight,  at  £300  per 
annum,  payable  monthly,  from  the  17th 
of  August,  1661,  for  his  support  for  7 
months  ending  the  17th  of  March ,  1661 , 
by  warrant  dated  the  11th  of  October, 

J-OOX  •••      •••      •••      •••      •■•      •••   J-fcJ*   ''•   vl 

George  fitz  Gerald,  Esq. ,  for  a  pension  of  SOs. 
a  week,  for  23  weeks  ending  9th 
December,  1661 ,  for  his  support,  by  Con- 
cordatum dated  the  30th  of  July,  1661  ...      34  :  10  :    0 

The  Lady  Mayo,  for  her  support,  at  SOs,  a 
week  for  14  weeks  ending  the  24th  of 
June,  1661,  by  Concordatum  dated  the 
21stof  June,  1661  ... 21:    0:    0 

The  said  Lady  Mayo,  for  her  pension  due  to 
her  three  children  for  half-a-year  ending 
the  24th  of  June,  1661,  by  warrant  dated 
the  2l8t  of  June,  1661      18  :    0  :    0 

Mary  Pallice,  alias  Plunkett,  widow,  for  her 
present  relief  for  half-a-year  ending  the 
last  of  October,  1661,  by  Concordatum 
dated  the  16th  of  August,  1661 10  :    0  :    0 

Mary  Usher,  widow,  at  £40  per  annum, 
payable  monthly,  for  her  present  relief, 
by  Concordatum  dated  the  17th  of  August, 

^  vv>L      ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  .A-C^     •         \/     •         \J 

Eve  Yaxeley,  widow,  at  10*.  a  week  for  one 
year  ending  the  25th  of  December,  1661, 
in  consideration  of  her  great  sufferings, 
by  Concordatum  dated  the  4th  of  October, 

JLDOX    ...  •■■  ...  •..  ...  ...  ^O    •       U    •       vl 

Katherine  Wogan,  for  the  support  of  herself 
and  children  for  one  year  ending  the  29th 
of  September,  1661,  by  two  warrants 
dated  the  14th  of  May  and  the  14th  of 
December,  1661     50  :    0  :    0 


400 


s.      d. 


The  said  Katherine  Wogan,  for  her  allowance 
at  10s,  a  week  for  one  year,  one  quarter, 
and  twelve  weeks,  from  the  29th  of 
September,  1660,  and  ending  the  27th  of 
March,  1661,  by  two  warrants  dated  the 
14th  of  May  and  14th  of  December,  1661      38  :  10  :    0 

William  Aubrey,  for  his  relief  at  10*.  per  week 
for  16  weeks  ending  the  20th  of  March, 
1661,  by  warrant,  dated  the  19th  of 
September,  1661 8:0:0 

Tirlagh  o'  Lowth,  for  his  allowance  at  7^.  a 
week  for  12  weeks  from  the  11th  of 
October,  1661,  to  the  9th  of  January 
following,  by  warrant  dated  the  11th  of 
October,.1661  4:4:0 

Robert  and  Pierce  Shortall,  Cripples,  for  their 
pension  at  £20  per  annum  for  their  relief 
for  three-quarters  of  a  year  ending  the 
29th  of  September,  1660,  by  warrant 
dated  the  13th  of  September,  1661        ...      15  :    0  :    0 

Margaret  Mathews,  widow,  for  her  mainten- 
ance at  10s.  a  week  from  the  10th  of  July, 
1661,  to  the  19th  of  March,  1661,  by  Con- 
cordatum  dated  the  tenth  of  July,  1661...       18  :     0  :    0 

Julia  Johnson,  widow,  for  her  pension  at  12*. 
per  week  in  part  payment  thereof,  by 
warrantdated  the  14th  of  December,  1661      10:    0:    0 

Mary  Warren ,  for  herself  and  children  of  her 
deceased  sister,  the  Viscountess  of 
Tara,  at  £10  per  week  for  19  weeks 
ending  the  22nd  of  February,  1661,  by 
warrant  dated  the  21st  of  October,  1661    190  :    0  :    0 

.^_  ^^  ^_^  • 

Jane,  Lady  Blaney,  for  her  pension  at  20^.  per 
week,  and  her  three  children  at  7s,  8d. 
each  per  week,  viz.,  her  ladyship  for  one 
year  from  the  25th  of  December,  1660,  to 
the  25th  of  December,  1661,  likewise  for 
her  three  children  for  33  weeks  ending  the 
3rd  of  November,  1661— £37  19^.,  by 
warrant  dated  the  21st  of  June,  1661      ...      89  :  19  :    0 

Walter  Eustace,  in  full  satisfaction  of  his 
pension  at  12^.  per  week  from  the  20th 
of  March,  1660,  to  the  13th  of  September, 
1661,  by  warrant  dated  the  3rd  of  Sep- 
tember, 1661  12  :  10  :    0 

Colonel  Garret  fitz  Symons,  for  his  pension  at 
205.  per  week  for  28  wrecks  from  the  20th 
of  March,  1660,  by  warrant  dated  the 
second  of  July,  1601         28:     0:0 


401 


8.      d. 


Eobert  Nettervill,  Esq.,  for  himself  and  the 
rest  of  the  Ijady  Netterviirs  children  for 
their  pension  at  50^.  per  week  from  the 
29th  of  September,  1660,  to  the  25th  of 
September,  1661,  by  two  warrants  dated 
the  20th  of  November,  1661      127  :  10  :    0 

Edward  Butler,  for  his  relief,  by  warrant  dated 

the  14th  of  June,  1660    .: 8  :  10  :    0 

Christopher  Eustace,  for  his  pension  for  half- 

a-year  ending  the  24th  of  June,  1661      ...      10  :    0  :    0 

Eichard  Wawe,  for  his  pension  at  6s.  per  week 
for  38  weeks  ending  the  18th  of  March, 

1660,  by    warrant    dated    the    21st    of 
September,  1660 11  :    8  :    0 

John  Daniel  Shonhub[?] ,  for  his  pension  for  a 
quarter  of  a  year  ending  the  24th  of  June, 

1661,  by  warrant  dated  the  8th  of  June, 

•L  V  vJU  ...  ...  .••  ..a  ...  •*.  \j         •         ^yj         m  v/ 

Elizabeth  Graham,  for  her  relief  for  half-a- 

y ear's  pension  ending  the  25th  of  March, 

1 661 ,  by  warrant  dated  the  25th  of  March , 

ififii  m  •    0  •    0 

Katherine  Plunkett,  for  half-a-year's  pension 
due  to  her  ending  the  25th  of  June,  1661, 
by  warrant  dated  the  5th  of  July,  1661...        6:0:0 

The  several  pensioners  hereafter  mentioned 
for  one  quarter's  pension  ending  the  24th 
of  March,  1660,  viz. ,  the  Lady  Anderson, 
£6  10s, ;  Susanna  Robertson,  26^. ;  Sarah 
Wynn,  455.  6d. ;  Katherine  Gierke,  39^. ; 
Joan  Harropp,  195.  6rf. ;  Jane  Griffin, 
265. ;  by  warrant  dated  the  14th  of 
December,  1661     14  :    6  :    0 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Raymond,  for  her  pension  at 
85.  per  week  for  36  weeks  ending  the  19th 
of  March,  1661 ,  by  warrant  dated  the  30th 
of  July,  1661  14  :    8  :    0 

Doctor  Richard  Heaton,  for  half-a-year's 
pension  due  to  Captain  John  Strongman 
ending  the  24th  of  June,  1661,  by  warrant 
dated  the  20th  of  December,  1661  ...       13  :     0  :    0 

Mary  Goodman,  widow,  for  her  pension  at  5s. 
per  week  for  eight  weeks  ending  the  13th 
of  May,  1661,  by  warrant  dated  the  27th 
of  January,  1661 2:0:0 

Lady  Anderson,  for  the  remain  of  a  quarter's 
pension  ending  the  24th  of  June,  1660,  by 
warrant  dated  the  31st  of  January,  1661        6  :  10  :    0 

Wt.  8878  Z 


402 


s.      d. 


John  Dougherty,  for  himself  and  his  father, 
Richard  Dougherty,  for  their  pension  at 
Is,  6d.  per  diem  for  365  days  from  the  21st 
of  March,  1660,  to  the  30th  of  March, 

Ififil  97  •     7  •     fi 

Sir  John  Stephens,  Knight,  Governor  of  His 
Majesty's  Castle  of  Dublin,  for  providing 
caddowes,  pots,  coals  and  candles  for  the 
soldiers  in  the  said  castle  for  one  year,  by 
warrant  dated  the  28th  of  June,  1661      ...      89  :  12  :    0 

Corporal  James  Bradley,  for  so  much  by  him 
(tisbursed  for  fire  and  candles  for  the 
Horse  Guards  in  Dublin ,  by  Concordatum 
dated  the  11th  of  April,  1661      3  :    9  :    6 

Richard  Gray,  for  fire  and  candles  for  the 
Horse  Guards  in  this  city  from  the  28th 
of  January,  1660,  to  the  last  of  Septem- 
ber, 1661,  by  warrant  dated  the  7th  of 
December,  1661     23  :  13  :    6 

William  Gill,  for  his  disbursements  for  firing 

and  candles  for  the  Horse  Guards  in  this 

city,  by  concordatum  dated  the  11th  of 

October,  1661         18  :  13  :    0 

Sir  John  Stephens,  Knight,  Governor  of  His 

Majesty's  Castle  of  Dublin,  to  be  by  him 

issued  upon  account   towards  providing 

fire  and  candle  light  for  the  use  of  the 

guards  in  the  said  Castle  yard,  and  for 

repairing  the  Courts  of  guard  there,  by 

warrant  dated  the  22nd  of  October,  1661      20  :    0  :    0 

Lieut. -Colonel  AUeyn,  for  so  much  by  him 
disbursed  for  the  use  of  the  guards  in  the 
said  Castle,  by  two  concordatums  dated 
17th  of  April  and  25th  of  April ,  1661      ...        5  :  10  :    0 

Richard  Tomlinson,.for  money  disbursed  by 

him  for  the  use  of  the  troops  when  upon 

the  guards  in  the  city  of  Dublin,  by  Con- 
cordatum dated  the  11th  of  April,  1661...  6:6:0 
Henry  Barton,  for  providing  of  fire  and  candle 

for  the  Horse  Guards  kept  in  his  house, 

and  for  his  damage  sustained  thereby  for 

the  loss  of  his  guests,  by  Concordatum 

dated  the  16th  of  April,  1661      20  :    0  :    0 

The  said  Henry  Barton,  for  providing  fire  and 

candles  for  the  Horse  Guards  kept  in  his 

house,  and  for  repairing  and  cleaning  the 

the    stables    there    from    the    28th    of 

January,  1661,  to  the  last  of  September 

following,  by  Concordatum  dated  the  10th 

of  January,  1661 28  :    3  :    6 


403 

Francis  Poole,  for  the  use  of  Elizabeth  Curlee       £        s.      d. 
for  her  pension  at  Is.  6d.  a  week  for  three- 
quarters  of   a  year   ending  the  last   of 
January,  1661        2  :  18  :    6 

Mrs.  Anne  Sarsfield,  for  her  support  at  20^. 
per  week  for  five  weeks  ending  the  5th  of 
October,  1661,  by  warrant  dated  the  5th 
of  October  aforesaid  5:0:0 


Sum  ...  2690  :    5  :  10 


Payments  made  to  the  Lords  Justices. 

Sir  Maurice  Eustace,  Knight,  Lord  Chancellor      £        s.       d. 

of  Ireland,  and  one  of  the  Lords  Justices 

of  Ireland,  for  his  allowance  for  twelve 

months   ending  the   22nd  of  February, 

1661 1500  :    0  :    0 

Roger,   Earl   of   Orrery,  one   of  the    Lords 

Justices  of  Ireland,  for  his  allowance  for 

twelve  months  ending  as  aforesaid  ...  1500  :    0  :    0 

Charles,  late  Earl  of  Mountrath,  one  of  the 

Lords  Justices  of  Ireland,  for  his  allow- 
ance for  ten  months  ending  the  20th  of 

December,  1661     .    ...  1250  :    0  :    0 

Sir  John  Temple,  Knight,  in  full  satisfaction 

for  his  entertainment  and  allowance  as 

one  of  His  Majesty's  Commissioners  for 

the    Government   of    this    Kingdom    of 

Ireland  for  three  months  ending  the  28th 

of  September,  1660,  by  warrant  dated  the 

29th  of  September,  1660 250  :    0  :    0 

John  Weaver,  Esq.  [?],  in  full  satisfaction  of 

his  entertainment  and  allowance  as  one  of 

His    Majesty's    Commissioners    for    the 

Government  of  Ireland  for  three  months 

ending  the  20th  of  June,  1660,  by  warrant 

dated  the  24th  of  June,  1661      250  :    0  :    0 

Sum  ...  4750  :    0  :    0 


Payments  made  to  the  Lords  Justices  and  Council  for  allowance 
of  wine  for  the  provision  and  store  of  their  houses,  for  a  year 

beginning  the  eight  day  of  May,  1661. 

Sir  Maurice  Eustace,  Knight,  Lord  Chancellor  £  s.  d. 
of  Ireland,  and  one  of  the  Lords  Justices 
of  this  Kingdom,  for  seven  tuns  of  French 
wine  for  the  provision  and  store  of  his 
house  for  a  year  beginning  the  8th  of 
May,  1661,  by  warrant  dated  the  9th  of 
August,  1661  73  :  10  :    0 


404 


8.      d. 


Charles,  late  Earl  of  Mountrath,  and  one  of 
the  Lords  Justices  of  Ireland,  for  six  tuns 
and  a  half  of  French  wine  for  the  provision    ' 
and  store  of  his  house  for  the  same  time      68  :     5  :    0 

Wentworth,  Earl  of  Kildare,  for  three  tuns 
of  French  wine  for  the  provision  and  store 
of  his  house  for  the  same  time      31  :  10  :    0 

James,  Lord  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  Primate 
and  Metropolitan  of  Ireland,  for  the  like 
allowance     ...         31  :  10  :    0 

Henry,  Lord  Bishop  of  Meath,  for  the  like 

allowance     31  :  10  :    0 

John,  Lord  Bishop  of  Clogher,  for  the  like 

allowance     31  :  10  :     0 

Edward,  Earl  of  Meath,  for  the  like  allow- 

ance  •••  ••«  «..  ...  •••  •••       ojl  •  a\j  •     kj 

William,  Lord  Caulfeild,  for  the  like  allow- 

ance  «••  ■••  •..  «..  •■•  •••  oj.  ■  xiy  •  u 
Francis,  Lord  Viscount  Shannon,  for  the  like 

allowance     31  :  10  :    0 

Sir  James  Barry,  Knight,  Lord  Chief  Justice 

of  the  King's  Bench,  for  the  like  allow- 

ance  ■>.         .••         ..«         ...         •••         •••       ox  •  j,u  •     u 

Sir  Robert  Meredith,  Knight,  Chancellor  of 

His  Majesty's  Court  of  Exchequer,  for 

the  like  allowance 31  :  10  :    0 

John  Bysse,  Esq.,  Lord  Chief  Baron  of  the 

Exchequer,  for  the  like  allowance  ...      81  :  10  :    0 

John,  Lord  Viscount  Massareene,  for  the  like 

allowance     81  :  10  :    0 

Richard,  Lord  Bsfron  of  Colooney,  for  the  like 

allowance     ...         ...        ...         ...        ...      31  :  10  :    0 

Sir    Paul     Davis,    Knight,    His     Majesty's 

principal   Secretary  of  State  in  Ireland, 

for  the  like  allowance      31  :  10  :    0 

Sir  John  Temple,  Knight,  Master  of  the  Rolls, 

for  the  like  allowance      31  :  10  :    0 

Sir    James    Ware,   Knight,    His    Majesty's 

Auditor  General,  for  the  like  allowance      31  :  10  :     0 

Sir  Francis  Hamilton,  Knight,  for  the  like 

allowance     31  :  10  :     0 

Sir  George  Wentworth,  Knight,  for  the  like 

allowance     81  :  10  :    0 

Sir  Henry  Tichborne,  Knight,   for  the  like 

allowance     81  :  10  :    0 

Sir  Robert  fforth.  Knight,  for  the  like  allow- 

ance   ...  ...  ...  ...         •>.  ...       oj.  •  a.\J  ,     \j 

Arthur  Hill,  Esq.,  for  the  like  allowance      ...       31  :  10  :    0 

Colonel  Marcus  Trevor,  for  the  like  allowance      31  :  10  :     0 


m 


sir  William  Domvile,  Knight,  His  Majesty's 
Attorney  General,  for  his  allowance  for 
one  tun  and  a  half  of  French  wine  for 
the  same  time 

John  Temple,  Esq.,  His  Majesty's  Solicitor 
General  for  the  like  allowance 

Robert  Griffith,  Esq.,  His  Majesty's  second 
Serjeant-at-Law,  for  the  like  allowance... 


s.       d. 


15  :  15  : 

0 

15  :  16  : 

0 

15  :  15  : 

0 

860  :  10  : 

0 

Allowances  made  to  Alderman  Daniel  Belliugham,  Deputy 

Eeceiver  General,  viz. : — 

i,        s.       d. 
Alderman  Daniel  Bellingham,  by  virtue  of  an 

order  signed  by  the  Kight  Honourable  the 

Lords  Justices  and  Council,  dated  the  5th 

day  of  March,  1661,  for  so  much  of  His 

Majesty's  monies  taken  out  of  the  Office 

of   Receipt   when    the    said    Office    was 

broken  open,  the  sum  of 169  :     7  :     2 

Sum.  pet. 

The  Commissioners  of  Accounts  and  others, 
by  their  warrant  dated  the  30th  of  August, 
166-2 285  :  10  :     0 

Sum.  pet. 

Sum  total  of  all  the  aforesaid  payments  and 
allowances    ... 


37143  : 

9  : 

7| 

£ 

8. 

d. 

163903  : 

_2j. 

5* 

And  so  there  remaineth  towards  the  payment 
of  the  Military  List  

Which  sum  is  charged  upon  the  Accountant  in  his  account 
for  the  Military  List  hereafter  following : — 

The  State  of  the  Account  of  the  Right  Honourable  Arthur, 
Earl  of  Anglesey,  His  Majesty's  Vice-Treasurer,  etc., 
during  the  time  aforesaid  for  payment  of  the  Military  List. 

That  is  to  say : — 

£  8.  d. 
The  said  Accountant  is  charged  with  the 
remain  of  His  Majesty's  Revenues  and 
Casualties  in  his  hands  upon  the  foot  of 
his  Account  for  Civil  Affairs,  which  is 
appointed  for  satisfying  of  the  Military 
List  and  for  Payments  directed  by  His 
Majesty's  Courts,  amounting  to  the  sum 

01    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...    1  DO  tK/O    *      t^    '.      o^ 


406 

Payments  made  to  the  Militaiy  List. 
Officers  General. 


s.      d. 


Paid  to  Thomas,  Earl  of  Ossory,  for  his  enter- 
tainment as  Lieut. -General  of  the  Horse 
at  208.  per  diem  for  104  days  ending  the 
last  of  September,  1661  ...         ...         ...     104  :    0:0 

Paid  unto  John,  Lord  Baron  of  Kingston,  for 
his  entertainment  as  Commissary  General 
of  the  Horse  at  205.  per  diem  for  one  year 
ending  the  29th  of  September,  1661      ...     365  :    0  :    0 

Paid  unto  Sir  Thomas  Armstrong,  Knight, 
for  his  entertainment  as  Quartermaster 
General  of  His  Majesty's  Troops  of  Horse 
in  the  Kingdom  of  Ireland  at  10^.  per 
-diem,  beginning  the  5th  of  July,  1661, 
and  ending  the  last  of  September  following      44  :    0  :    0 

Paid  unto  Sir  Henry  Tichborne,  Knight,  for 
his  entertainment  as  Marshal  of  the  Army 
and  his  retinue,  one  Trumpeter  and  thirty 
horsemen  lightly  armed,  viz.,  himself  at 
6^.  8d.,  the  said  Trumpeter  and  horsemen 
at  12d.  le  pece  per  diem,  for  252  days 
ending  the  29th  September,  1661  ...     474  :  12  :     0 

Paid    to    Captain    James    Garstin,    Provost 

Marshal  of  the  Army,  at  8^.  per  diem  for 

288  days  ending  the  last  of  September, 

1661,  as  by  two  warrants  dated  the  28th 

of  May  and  8th  of  October,  1661,  with 

acquittance  presented       115  :    4  :    0 

Paid  unto  Lieut.  Col.  Abraham  Yarner  for  his 

entertainment  as  Muster  Master  General 

of  the  Army  at  15^.  per  di^u,  and  his 

Clerk  at  2^.  6d.  per  diem,  for  288  days 

ending  the  last  of  September,  1661      ...     252  :    0  :     0 

Paid  unto  Robert  ffitz  Gerald,  Esq.,  for  his 
entertainment  as  Comptroller  of  the 
Musters  and  Checks  of  His  Majesty's 
army  in  Ireland  for  169  days  at  20^.  per 
diem  ending  the  30th  of  September,  1661    169  :    0  :    0 

Paid  to  Sir  Theophilus  Jones,  Knight,  for  his 
entertainment  as  Scout  Master  General 
of  the  Army  at  6^.  8d.  per  diem,  and  six 
horsemen  at  18d.  le  pece  per  diem  for 
196  days  beginning  the  18th  of  March, 
1660,  and  ending  the  29th  of  September 
following,  and  also  for  an  increase  of  the 
said  entertainment  at  £100  per  annum 
for  one  year  ending  the  29th  of  Sep- 
tember, 1661  253  ;  10  :    8 


407 


B.      d. 


Paid  unto  Doctor  Ealph  King  for  his  enter- 
tainment as  Advocate  Greneral  to  the 
Army,  and  one  Clerk  at  18^.  4d.  per  diem 
for  288  days  ending  the  last  of  September, 

JLuDx    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...      Jfy §    I     1.  I     U 

Paid  unto  Doctor  William  Currer  upon  account 
for  his  entertainment  as  Physician 
General  to  His  Majesty's  Army  in  Ireland    100  :    0  :    0 

Paid  to  James  ffountaine,  gentleman,  for  his 
entertainment  as  Chirurgeon-General  to 
the  Army  at  6^.  per  diem,  and  as 
Chirurgeon  to  the  Hospital  at  Dublin  at 
4s.  per  diem,  for  305  days  ending  the 
the  30th  of  September,  1661       152  :  10  :    0 

Paid  to  Bryan  Jones,  Esq.,  for  his  entertain- 
ment as  Deputy-Commissioner  of  the 
Musters  at  6^.  per  diem  for  288  days 
ending  the  last  of  September,  1661       ...      86  :    8  :    0 

Paid  to  him  also  as  one  of  the  Commissaries 
of  the  Musters  for  his  entertainment  at 
£100  per  annum  for  three-quarters  of  a 
year  ending  the  29th  of  September,  1661       75  :    0  :    0 

Paid  to  Eichard  Barry,  gentleman,  one  of  the 
Commissaries  of  the  Musters,  for  his 
entertainment  at  £100  per  annum  for 
three-quarters  of  a  year  ending  the  29th 
of  September,  1661  75  :    0  :    0 

Paid  to  Bichard  Warburton,  one  of  the  Com- 
missaries of  the  Musters,  at  £100  per 
annum  for  one  year  ending  the  29th  of 
September,  1661 100  :    0  :    0 

Paid  to  Capt.  Thomas  Hart,  one  of  the  Assist- 
ant Commissaries  of  the  Musters,  for  one 
quarter  of  a  year  and  106  days  ending  the 
29th  of  September,  1660 66  :  18  :    4J 

Paid  to  Capt.  James  Small  wood  for  his  enter- 
tainment as  Assistant  Commissary  of  the 
Musters  at  £100  per  annum  for  three- 
quarters  of  a  year  ending  the  29th  of 
September,  1661 75  :    0  :    0 

Paid  to  Eichard  Phillips,  one  of  the  Com- 
missaries of  the  Musters,  for  his  enter- 
taanment  at  £100  per  annum  for  the  said 

nxue  ...         *.■         ...  ...         ...         ...        ft/,     vi.     \j 

Paid  to  Henry  Eltonhead,  one  of  the  Com- 
missaries of  the  Musters,  for  his  enter- 
tainment at  £100  per  annum  for  the  said 

wlLUC     ...  •••  *•*  ...  ...  ...  It/*        V/.        \J 


408 


s. 


A. 


Paid  to  Eichard  Nevill,  one  of  the  Commis- 
saries of  the  Musters,  for  his  entertain- 
ment at  £100  per  annum  for  half-a-year 
and  48  days  ending  the  29th  of  September, 

^\y  vlJL      •••  •••  ••«  ••<  ■••  •••  wO     •         O     •         J> 

Paid  to  Capt.  Percival  Hart,  one  of  the 
Commissaries  of  the  Musters,  for  his 
entertainment  at  £100  per  annum  for 
half-a-year  and  48  days  ending  the  29th 
of  September,  1661  63  :    3  :    1 

Paid  unto  John  Williams  the  sum  of 
£60  05.  8d.  which  with  £37  10*.  paid  him 
by  former  warrant,  makes  £97  10s,  8d., 
and  is  for  his  fee  as  Commissary  of  the 
Stores  at  Waterford  at  £50  per  annum  for 
344  days  ending  the  25th  of  March,  1660      40  :    0  :    8 

Paid  to  Lieut.  Col.  John  Eoseworme, 
Engineer,  to  be  defaulted  out  of  his 
entertainment         50  :    0  :    0 

Paid  to  Captain  John  Paine  for  his  entertain- 
ment as  Overseer  Surveyor  and  Director 
General  of  all  fortifications,  buildings, 
etc.,  within  the  realm  of  Ireland  at  5^. 
per  diem  for  157  days  beginning  the  26th 
of  April,  1661,  and  ending  the  29th 
September,  following       39  :    5  :    0 


Sum  ...  3190  :  15  :  lOJ 


Officers  Provincial. 


8.       d. 


Paid  unto  Eoger,  Earl  of  Orrery,  in  full 
satisfaction  of  his  fee  as  Lord  President 
of  Munster  at  £100  English  per  annum, 
for  his  diet  and  the  Council's  there  at 
£7  105.  per  w^eek,  for  his  retinue  of  thirty 
horsemen  and  forty  footmen  at  22,9.  lljd. 
per  diem ,  for  three-quarters  of  a  year  and 
58  days  ending  the  25th  of  December, 
1661 827  :    4  :    9i 

Paid  unto  Charles,  late  Earl  of  Mountrath, 
in  full  satisfaction  of  his  fee  as  Lord 
President  of  Connaght  at  £100  English 
per  annum,  for  his  diet  and  the  CounciPs 
there  at  £7  IO5.  per  week,  for  his  retinue 
of  thirty  horsemen  and  twenty  footmen  at 
225.  lljd.  per  diem,  for  three-quarters  of 
a  year  and  80  days  ending  the  18th  of 
December,  1661     882  :    2  :    Oi 


m 

]?aid  unto  him  also  for  his  entertaiument  as      £        s.      d. 

Provost    Marshal    of    the    Province    of 

Connaght  at  4^.  per  diem,  and  for  12 

horsemen  at  12d.  le  pece  per  diem,  for 

195  days  ending  29th  of  September,  1661  156  :  0  :  0 
Paid  to  Sir  George  Went  worth,  Knight,  for 

his  entertainment  as  Provost  Marshal  in 

the  Province  of  Leinster  at  4^.  2Jd.  per 

diem,  and  12  horsemen  at  12d.  le  pece  per 

diem,  viz. ,  to  himself  for  one  year  and  125 

days  ending  the  last  of  September,  1661, 

£103  Gs,  3d.,  and  the  said  horsemen  for 

233  days  ending  as  aforesaid,  £139  16^., 

making  in  all  £243  2^.  3d.,  as  by  warrant 

dated  the  8th  November 243  :    2  :    3 

Paid  to  Sir  Nicholas  Purdon,  Knight,  for  his 

entertainment    as    Provost    Marshal    of 

Munster  at  8s.  per  diem,  and  ten  horse- 
men at  12d.  le  pece  per  diem,  for  220  days 

ending  the  11th  of  February,  1660  ...  198  :  0  :  0 
Paid  to  ffrancis  Peisley,  Esq.,  for  his  enter- 
tainment as  Provost  Marshal  of  Munster, 

viz.,  to  himself  at  45.  2Jd.  per  diem,  and 

12  horsemen  at  12d.  le  pece  per  diem,  for 

for  180  days  ending  the  last  of  July,  1661  145  :  17  :  6 
Paid  to  Major  Eobert  Ward  for  his  entertain- 
ment as  Provost   Marshal  of  Ulster  at 

45.  2Jd.  per  diem,  and  12  horsemen  at 

12d.  le  pece  per  diem,  for  372  days  ending 

the  last  of  September,  1661         301:    9:    0 

Paid  to  Capt.  Adam  Molyneux  for  220  days' 

pay  unto   him   as   Provost   Marshal    of 

Leinster,  and  the  party  of  horse  under 

his  command,  viz.,   himself  at  8s.  .per 

diem,  and  ten  horsemen  at  12d.  le  pece 

per  diem,  beginning  the  5th  of  July,  1659, 

and  ending  the  11th  of  February  follow- 
ing, inclusive  ...        ...         ...        ...     198  :    0  :    0 

Sum  ...  2951  :  15  :    6J 

Governors,  Constables,  and  Warders. 

Paid  to  Roger,  Earl  of  Orrery,  for  his  enter-      £        s.      d. 

tainment  as  Constable  of  the  Castle  of 

Limerick  at  £10  per  annum,  due  for  a 

year  and  157  days  ending  the  29th  of 

September,  1661     ...         ...         ...         ...       14  :     6  :    0 

Paid  unto  him  also  as  Governor  of  the  County 

of  Clare  at  10^.  per  diem,  due  for  a  year 

and  157  days  ending  the  29th  of  Sep- 
tember, 1661  261  :    0  :    0 


410 


8.      d. 


Paid  to  the  Earl  of  Mountrath  for  his  enter- 
tainment as  Constable  of  Athlone  Castle 
at  £13  2s,  6d.  per  annum,  and  14  warders 
at  6d.  le  pece  per  diem  for  311  days  ending 
the  14th  of  December,  1661       121  :  18  :    2 

Paid  to  William,  Lord  Caulfeild,  for  his  enter- 
tainment as  Constable  of  the  Fort  of 
Charlemont  at  Ss.  id.  per  diem,  and  15 
warders  at  6d.  le  pece  per  diem,  for  231 
days  ending  the  29th  of  September,  1661    125  :    2  :    6 

Paid  to  Sir  John  Stephens,  Knight,  Governor 
of  the  Castle  of  Dublin,  at  lOs.  sterling 
per  diem  for  250  days  ending  the  29th  of 
September,  1661 125  :    0  :    0 

Paid  to  him  also  for  an  increase  of  his  fee  at 
10s.  per  diem  for  248  days  ending  the 
29th  of  September,  1661 124  :    0  :    0 

Paid  to  Dudley  Mainwaring,  Esq.,  Constable 
of  His  Majesty's  Castle  of  Dublin,  at  JE20 
per  annum  for  one  year  ending  the  last  of 
March,  1661,  ^£20,  and  14  wardens  at  6d. 
le  pece  per  diem,  for  189  days  ending  as 
aforesaid,  £66,  amounting  in  all  to  £'86      86  :    0  :    0 

Paid  to  Arthur  Hill,  Esq.,  for  his  fee  as 
Constable  of  the  Fort  of  Hillsboro  at 
Ss.  id.  per  diem,  and  20  warders  at  6d. 
le  pece  j)er  diem,  viz.,  to  himself  for  131 
days  ending  the  last  of  April,  1661,  and  to 
the  said  warders  for  79  days  ending  as 
aforesaid      61  :    6  :    8 

Paid  to  Sir  Robert  iforth.  Knight,  for  his 
entertainment  as  Constable  of  His 
Majesty's  Castle,  of  Philipstown  in  the 
King's  County,  at  18d.  per  diem  for  one 
year  and  125  days  ending  the  last  of 
September,  166] ,  and  for  12  warders  at 
6d.  le  pece  per  diem  for  231  days  ending 
the  29th  of  September,  1661       106  :    2  :    6 

Paid  to  Major  Eobert  Edgeworth  for  his  enter- 
tainment as  Governor  of  the  Fort  of  Sligo 
at  10*.  per  diem  for  246  days  ending  the 
last  of  September,  1661 123  :    0  :    0 

Paid  to  Samuel  ffoxcroft,  gentleman,  for  his 
entertainment  as  Constable  of  His 
Majesty's  castle  or  fort  of  the  Moy  in 
the  County  of  Armagh,  at  3s,  per  diem 
for  one  year  and  125  days  ending  the  last 
of  September,  1661  73  :  13  :    0 


411 


Paid  to  George  St.  George,  Esq.,  for  his 
entertainmeut  as  constable  of  His 
Majesty's  Castle  and  Fort  of  Maryborough 
in  the  Queen's  County,  at  18d.  per  diem 
for  one  year  and  63  days  ending  the  last 
of  September,  1661  

Paid  to  Robert  Astwood,  Porter  of  the  Castle 
of  Dublin,  for  his  entertainment  at  9d. 
per  diem  for  206  days  ending  the  29th  of 
September,  1661 


s.      d. 


32  :    2  :    6 


7  :  14  :    6 


Sum  ...  1261  :    6  :  10 


Francis,  Lord  Aungier,  on  account 


1771 


Edward,  Lord  Viscount  Conway,  upon  account  1748 

John,  Lord  Roberts,  upon  account      1706 

Francis,     Lord     Viscount    Shannon,     upon 

account        1721 

Richard,  Lord  Colooney,  upon  account  ...  1741 
John,  Lord  Baron  of  Kingston,  upon  account  1779 
Sir  Arthur  Forbes,  Baronet,  upon  account...  1745 
Sir  Henry  Tichborne,  Knight,  upon  account  1757 
Sir  Thomas  Armstrong,  Knight,  upon  account  1751 
Sir  Theophilus  Jones,  Knight,  upon  account  1751 
Sir  William  Meredith,  Baronet,  upon  account  1745 

*  Unless  otherwbe  specified* 


B. 

d. 

4  : 

0 

0  : 

0 

Horse  troops  with  their  OflScers. 

Paid  to  the  following  Captains  for  themselves,  their  oflScers, 
and  the  troops  of  Horse  under  their  command,  for  six  months* 
pay  ending  July  28th,  1661.* 

£ 
James,  Duke  of  Ormond,  on  account  ...  1782 

George,  Duke  of  Albemarle 1771 

Roger,   Earl   of   Orrery    (for  three  months' 

entertainment  to  himself  as  Captain)  ...       58 
To  the  same  (six  months'  pay  to  his  officers 

and  troop)  ....        ...        ...         ...        ...  1745 

Charles,  Earl  of  Mountrath   (three  months* 

entertainment  as  Captain)  58 

To  the  same  (six  months'  pay  to  his  officers 

and  troop)    ... 
Arthur,  Earl  of  Anglesey,  upon  account 

Wentworth,  Earl  of  Kildare 

Edward,  Earl  of  Meath,  upon  account 
Arthur,  Earl  of  Donegall,  upon  account 
Henry,  Earl  of  Drogheda,  upon  account    ... 
Hugh,  Earl  of  Mount  Alexander,  upon  account  1754 
George,    Lord    Viscount    Grandison,    upon 

account  ...         ...         ...         ...         ...1716 

William,  Lord  Caulfeild,  upon  account      ...  1751 


16  :    0 


0 


16  :    0 


1709  : 

1812  : 

1761  : 

1745  : 

1765  : 

1818  : 

1754  : 

8  : 

;  0 

6  : 

;  0 

18  : 

;  0 

16  : 

;  0 

8  : 

;  0 

12  : 

;  0 

4  ; 

;  0 

14  : 

;  0 

8  : 

;  0 

0  : 

;  0 

12  , 

:  0 

12  : 

;  0 

10  ; 

;  0 

12  : 

;  0 

8  : 

;  0 

16  : 

;  0 

0  : 

;  0 

8  . 

:  0 

8  ; 

;  0 

16  , 

;  0 

s. 

d. 

12  : 

0 

4  : 

0 

16  : 

0 

412 

£ 
Sir  Oliver  St.  George,  Knight,  upon  account  3636 

Lord  Marcus  Trevor,  upon  account 1754 

Col.  Vere  Essex  Cromwell,  upon  account    ...  1731 
Major  George  Eawden,  upon  account  (for  one 

month's  pay  to  himself,  oflficers  and  troop)  1748  :,  12  :    0 
Col.  Daniell  Eedman,  on  account  (six  months' 

pay  to  himself ,  officers  and  troop)  ...  1709  :    8  :    0 

John    Andrews    and    Eoger    Khett,    Super- 
numeraries   in    Sir   Henry    Tichborne's 

troop  of  horse,  for  four  months'  pay  due 

to  them,  viz.,  dEll  45.  each,  beginning  the 

11th  of  February,  1660,  and  ending  the 

2nd  of  June,  following      22  :    8  :     0 

John  Blackelocke,  for  two  month's  pay  due  to 

him  as  private  soldier  in  Lord  Caulfeild's 

troop,   beginning    the    27th   of   August, 

166(3,   and  ending  the   21st   of  October 

following      ...         ...         ...         ...         ...        5  :  12  :    0 


Sum     49080  :    6  :    0 


Foot  Companies. 

Paid  to  the  following  Captains  for  themselves,  their  Officers, 
and  the  foot  companies  under  their  command,  for  seven  months' 
pay  ending  August  25th,  1661,  unless  otherwise  specified. 

James ,  D  uke  of  Ormond  

George ,  Duke  of  Albemarle      

Eoger,  Earl  of  Orrery  (upon  account  for  three 

months'  pay  as  Captain  of  foot) 

To  the  same  (for  seven  months'  pay  to  his 

Officers  and  company)      

Charles,  Earl  of  Mountrath  (for  three  months* 

pay  a    Captain) 
To  the  same  (for  seven  months'  pay  to  his 

Officers  and  company)       

Charles,  Lord  Castle-Coote,  on  account 

Thomas,  Earl  of  Ossory  

John ,  Lord  Eoberts ,  on  account  

Eichard,  Earl  of  Barrymore,  on  account 
John,  Lord  Viscount  Massareene,  on  account 
Thomas,  Lord  ffolliott,  on  account 
Sir  Eobert  Stewart,  Knight  ... 
Sir  Thomas  Wharton,  Knight  ... 
Sir  Francis  Butler,  Knight 

Sir  John  Cole ,  Baronet 

Sir  Thomas  Gifford,  Knight,  on  account 
Sir  John  Stephens,  Knight,  on  account 
Sir  Eobert  Sterling,  Knight,  on  account 


£ 

s. 

d. 

878  : 

14  : 

8 

816  : 

18  : 

4 

33  : 

12  : 

0 

796  : 

12  : 

0 

33  : 

12  : 

0 

801  : 

5  : 

4 

844  : 

4  : 

0 

806  : 

8  : 

0 

822  : 

14  : 

8 

806  : 

8  : 

0 

846  : 

1  : 

4 

771  : 

8  : 

0 

799  : 

17  : 

4 

817  : 

12  : 

0 

816  : 

13  : 

4 

844  : 

4  : 

0 

819  : 

9  : 

4 

826  : 

9  : 

4- 

823  : 

13  : 

4 

418 


Sir  Robert  Byron,  Knight 

Sir  Patrick  Weymes,  Knight 

Sir  Edward  Massey,  Knight 

Sir  Francis  ffowkes,  Knight 

Sir  William  King,  Knight       

Sir  Nicholas  Purdon,  Knight 

Robert  Eussell,  for  seven  months'  pay  due  to 
himself  as  Ensign  in  Sir  Nicholas 
Purdon *s  company  of  foot,  ending  the 
25th  of  August,  1661,  aforesaid 

Sir  St.  John  Broderick,  Knight       

Sir  James  Cuffe,  Knight  

Sir  Robert  Hanna,  Knight      

Sir  Ralph  Wilson,  Knight      * 

Sir  William  Pen ,  Knight  

Sir  Peter  Courthope,  Knight 

Major  Richard  Goodwin  

Col.  John  Hublethorne 

Capt.  John  St.  Leger  ...         ...       .... 

Capt.  Robert  Deey,  upon  account      

Lieut.  Col.  Arthur  Gore  

Major  Thomas  ffortescue  

Capt .  Thomas  Steward 

Capt.   Nicholas  Bayly 

Capt.  Richard  Power 

Lieut.  Col.  Hans  Hamilton 

Major  James  Dennis,  on  account      

Capt.   William  Rosse 

Col.  Chidley  Coote 

Sir  John  Ogle ,  Knight ,  upon  account 

Capt.  Charles  Hamilton  

Capt.  Richard  St.  George       

Col.  Robert  Manley,  upon  account 

Lieut.  Col.  William  Moore 

Col.  John  Mayart ,  on  account 

Lieut.  Col.  John  Read 

Col.  Thomas  Piggott 

Major  Seafowle  Gibson     ...  

Col.  William  Warden 

Col.  Charles  Blount       

Col.  James  Motlow      * 

Col.  John  Gorges,  on  account 

Col.  Robert  Sands ,  on  account 

Col.  Thomas  Coote  

Col .  Charles  Wheeler 

Sir  Francis  Gore ,  Knight  

Col.  John  Brett  ... 

Col.  John  Jephson 

Col.  Daniel  Treswell 

Sir  Richard  Kerle,  Knight      

Major  George  Ingoldsby  


£ 

s. 

d. 

821  ; 

;  16 

:  0 

786 

;  16 

:  0 

812  ; 

;  9 

:  4 

846  ; 

:  1 

:  4 

833  ; 

;  0 

:  0 

798  ; 

■  0 

:  0 

29  : 

8 

:  0 

806  : 

17 

:  4 

844  : 

4 

:  0 

832  : 

10 

:  8 

846  : 

1 

:  4 

816  : 

13 

:  4 

833  : 

9 

:  4 

815  : 

5 

:  4 

816  : 

18 

:  4 

812  : 

9 

:  4 

836  : 

14  I 

;  8 

842  : 

6  ; 

;  8 

836  : 

5  : 

;  4 

788  : 

13  ; 

;  4 

823  : 

6  1 

1  8 

797  : 

1  ; 

:  4 

846  : 

1  : 

4 

822  : 

5  : 

4 

839  : 

10  : 

8 

844  : 

4  : 

0 

802  : 

13  : 

4 

777  : 

9  : 

4 

846  : 

1  : 

4 

818  : 

10  : 

8 

816  : 

13  : 

4 

846  : 

1  : 

4 

794  : 

5  : 

4 

816  : 

13  : 

4 

824  : 

2  : 

8 

830  : 

4  : 

0 

842  : 

6  : 

8 

816  : 

13  : 

4 

816  : 

13  : 

4 

752  : 

5  : 

4 

844  : 

4  : 

0 

835  : 

16  : 

0 

831  : 

2  : 

8 

844  : 

4  : 

0 

826  : 

9  : 

4 

888  : 

9  : 

4 

808  : 

5  : 

4 

846  : 

1  : 

4 

M        s. 

d. 

824  :  12  : 

0 

808  :  14  : 

8 

414 


Col.  Eandall  Clayton 

Capt.  Garratt  Moore     ... 

Lieut.  Col.  Edward  Allen,  to  be  by  him  issued 

to  the  soldiers  quartered  in  His  Majesty's 

Castle  of  Dublin,  and  the  out  yards  of  the 

said  Castle,  to  be  defaulted  out  of  their 

respective  entertainments 140  :    0  :    0 

To  the  same  upon  account  for  fourteen  days' 

pay  to  part  of  the  foot  company  under  his 

command,  as  by  warrant  dated  15th  of 

May,  1661 10  :    7  :    8 

Capt.  Felix  Long,  for  fourteen  days'  pay  to 

part  of  his  company,  part  of  Capt.  Eobert 

ffenix'  company,  and  one  soldier  of  Capt. 

Knight's  company,  as  by  warrant  with 

acquittance  p.  13  :  17  :    8 

Capt.  William   St.  George,  on  account   for 

fourteen  days'  pay  to  part  of  the  company 

under  his  command,  as  by  warrant  with 

acquittance  p 20  :  17  :    8 

Capt.  Peter  fflower,  for  the  Officers  and  soldiers 

of  Sir  Thomas  Gifford's  foot  company  in 

satisfaction  of  the  like  sum  assigned  him 

by  the  late  Eeceiver  of  the  Precinct  of 

Waterford  upon  Capt.  Thomas  Aske,  and 

Michael  Browne  for  half-a-year's  rent  of 

the  Impropriate  Tithes  of  Thurlestown, 

etc.,  in  the  county  of  Tipperary,  ending 

the  20th  of  December,  1660,  as  by  warrant 

with  acquittance  presented  29  :    0  :    0 


Sum     54551  :  11  :    0 


Payments  made  to  the  Shipping. 


s.       d. 


Paid  to  Eobert  Courser,  Purser  of  the  Harp 

frigate,  upon  account  towards  the  buying 

of  provisions  for  the  said  frigate 20  :    0  :    0 

Captain  Daniel  Nixon,  towards  providing  of 

provisions  for  the  men  serving  in  the 

Rose-Pink 20  ;    0  :    0 

Captain  Eobert  Williamson,  in  full  of  his  pay 

and  disbursements  for  the  use  of  the  Harp 

frigate  under  his  command  from  the  10th 

of  April,  1660,  to  the  28th  of  May,  1661...  127  :  17  :  11 
John  Stephens  and  Henry  Alverston ,  the  sum 

of   25^.    apiece,    which    sum    is    to    be 

defaulted  out  of  such  monies  as  are  or  shall 

be  due  to  them  in  respect  of  their  service 

in  His  Majesty's  ship  called  the  Dolphin        2  :  10  :     0 


416 


£        s.      d. 


Capt.  John  Bartlett,  for  his  allowance  and 
disbursements  for  two  vessels  employed 
by  him  in  carrying  the  packets  from  the 
first  of  October  last  to  the  24th  of  June  last    458  :    0  :    0 


Sum  ...    628  :    7  :  11 


Officers  of  the  Ordnance  and  trains  of  Artillery. 

£  s.  d. 
Paid  to  Hugh,  Lord  Viscount  Mountgomery, 
Master  of  the  Ordnance,  to  be  defaulted 
out  of  such  entertainment  as  is  or  shall 
become  due  unto  him,  as  by  warrant  dated 
4th  June,  1661,  with  acquittance  pre- 
sented (?) 400  :    0  :    0 

Capt.  Albert  Conyngham,  Lieutenant  of  the 
Ordnance,  to  be  by  him  paid  over  to  the 
Earl  of  Mount-Alexander,  to  be  defaulted 
out  of  such  entertainments  as  are  or  shall 
be  due  to  the  said  Earl  as  Master  of  the 
Ordnance     200  :    0  :    0 

Thomas  Jones,  Comptroller  of  the  Ordnance, 
at  8^.  per  diem,  and  one  clerk  at  2^.  per 
diem,  for  five  hundred  and  fifty-one  days 
ending  the  last  of  January,  1661 275  :  10  :    0 

Capt.  Albert  Conyngham,  Lieut,  of  the 
Ordnance,  for  six  months*  pay  to  six 
Waggoners  belonging  to  the  train  of 
Artillery,  ending  the  21st  of  October,  1661       37  :  16  :    0 

To  him  also  for  several  officers  and  artificers 
of  His  Majesty's  Train  of  Artillery, 
Ordnance  and  Stores,  for  their  respective 
entertainments  to  the  second  of  June, 
1661 1460  :    8  :    6 

To  him  also,  to  be  defaulted  out  of  such  enter- 
tainments as  are  or  shall  be  due  to  him  as 
Lieut,  of  the  Ordnance      150:    0;    0 

Capt.  Thomas  Jones,  Comptroller  of  the 
Ordnance,  in  full  of  his  disbursements 
from  the  first  of  June,  1660,  to  the  8th  of 
February  following,  in  relation  to  the 
train  of  artillery  for  necessaries  for  the 
guards  41  :    1  :    2 


Sum  ...  2564  :  15  :    8 


416 
Payments  made  to  the  Hospital. 


8. 


Paid  to  George  Carr,  Esq.,   to   be   by  him 

equally  distributed  amongst  such  of  the 

soldiers   in    His    Majesty's    Hospital   of 

Dublin   as   are   by   the  late  Committee 

thought  fit  to  be  continued,  and  to  the 

Nurses  and  washwomen  there  employed  120  :  0  :  0 
Adam  Darley,  for  three  months'  pay  to  him  as 

Overseer  of  the  Hospital  of  Dublin  at  the 

allowance  of  £50  per  annum,  ending  the 

12th  of  May,  1661 12  :  10  :    0 

Ann  Shirley,  in  part  payment  of  ten  months' 

wages  for  washing  for  the  soldiers  in  the 

said  Hospital,  from  the  14th  of  January, 

1660,  to  the  21st  of  October,  1661  ...        2:0:0 

Katherine  Nicholas,  for  arrears  due  to  her  late 

husband,  Richard  Nicholas,  as  one  of  the 

soldiers  belonging  to  the  Hospital  since 

His  Majesty's  happy  restoration 7:10:    0 


Sum  ...    142  :    0  :    0 


Payments  of  arrears  to  the  Horse  and  to  the  Foot.    ' 

£        s.      d. 

Charles,  Earl  of  Mountrath,  as  Colonel  and 

Captain,  ending  February  10th,  1660  ...  218  :  8  :  0 
Poger,  Earl  of  Orrery,  as  Colonel  and  Captain, 

ending  February  10th,  1660        218  :    8  :    0 

Capt.    Anthony    Yardley,   as   Lieutenant    to 

Capt.  John  Salt's  troop,  beginning  July 

10th,  1658,  and  ending  August  1st,  1659, 

includng  eleven  days'  pay  on  the  Muster 

of  October  1st,  1655  201  :  10  :    0 

Henry  Langley,  as  Lieut,  in  the  late  Capt. 

Thomas  Aske's  troop,  July  5th,  1658,  to 

January  15th,  1660,  including  eleven  days 

on  the  Muster  of  October  1st,  1655  ...  271  :  10  :  0 
Quartermaster  William  Hart,  as  Quarter- 
master in  Capt.  Henry  Whaley's  troop, 

August  30th,  1658,  to  January  16th,  1659, 

including  eleven  days'  pay  on  the  Muster, 

October  Ist,  1655 137  :  14  :    0 

Abraham  Bates,  four  months'  pay  as  Corporal 

to     Capt.     Sampson    Toogood's     troop, 

October  22nd,  1660,  to  February,  11th, 

J-^-*  vJ.       .a.  ...  .••  ...  ...  .••  J-^E      •  yj      »  \J 

Quartermaster  John  Gevery,  as  quartermaster 
'  to  Capt.  Eichard  Kyrle's  troop,  January 
16th,  1659,  to  February  11th,  1660        ...       50  :     8  :     0 


417 

Elizabeth   Phillips,   widow  of  Lieut.    Hugh       i*         s.       d. 

Phillips,  Cornet  in  Col.  Pritty's  troop,  and 

Lieut,    in   Sir   Maurice   ffenton's   troop, 

August  30th,  1658,  to  October  2l8t,  1660  215  :  12  :  0 
Lieut.  John  Otway,  as  Lieut,  to  Col.  Edmond 

Temple's  troop,  August  30th,  1658,  to 

January    13th,    1660,    including    eleven 

days'  pay  on  the  Muster  of  October  30th, 

J-uDO    ...  ...  ••.  •••  ...  ...      oJ.O   !    -LU   I      U 

Capt.  Thomas  Newcomen,  as  Lieut,  to  Capt. 

Thomas   Hopkins'   troop,    August   27th, 

1660 ,  to  February  10th ,  1661       84  :     0  :     0 

Quartermaster  Robert  Thelwall,  as  quarter- 
master  to    Capt.    John   ffranck's   troop, 

August  27th ,  1660,  to  February  10th ,1661  50  :  8  :  0 
Quartermaster  George  Oliver,  for  one  months* 

pay  as  Quartermaster  to  late  Capt.  Aske's 

troop,  on  the  Muster  of  December  17th,  1660  8  :  8  :  0 
Major  Daniel  Lisle,  for  two  months'  pay  as 

Capt.  of  a  troop,  from  November  21«'t, 

1659,  to  January  15th,  1660      39  :    4  :    0 

Capt.   Theophilus   Sandford,   as  Capt.    of   a 

troop,   August   30th,    1658,   to   January 
15th,  1659,  including  eleven  days*  pay  on 

the  Muster  of  October  1st,  1655 321  :    6  :    0 

Lieut.  Thomas  Beard,  as  Quartermaster  and 
Lieut,  to  Sir  William  Meredith *s  troop, 
December  30th,  1658,  to  February  11th, 

1660,  including  eleven  days*  pay  on  the 

Muster  of  October  1st,  1655        154  :  10  :     0 

Alexander  Eustace,  as  Cornet  to  Sir  Henry 

Tichborne,  August  26th,  1661,  to  January 

12th,  1662 63  :    0  :    0 

George  Cole  and  five  more,  disbanded  out  of 

the   Earl  of   Donegal I's   troop,   in    part 

payment       ...         ...         ...         ...         ...       12  :     0  :     0 

Mary  Moyle,  widow  of  Lieut.  Thomas  Moyle, 

in  Capt.  John  Thompson's  troop,  August 

30th,  1668,  to  August  27th,  1660 57  :    2  :    0 

Michael  Jenkins,  for  two-thirds  of  £74  17^.  6d. 

due  to  him  as  Trumpeter  to  the  Earl  of 

Orrery's   troop,   August    30th,    1658,   to 

February  nth,  1660  49:18:     4 

Jane  Beare,  w^dow  of  Simon  Beare,  late  of 

Sir  Arthur  flforbes'  troop 3:0:0 

Imprested  to  Abraham  Puller,  Edward  Walsh, 

John  King,  Robert  Davis,  John  ffleet- 

wood,  Nicholas  Murphy,  James  Stanse, 

Edward  Gurlin,  and  Thomas  ffleetwood, 

late   of    Lord    Conway's    troop,    to    be 

defaulted  out  of  the  respective  arrears  due 

to  them        18  :    0  :    0 

Wt.  8878  1 A 


418 


s.      d. 


John  flfleetwood,  Abraham  Puller,  Robert 
Davis,  Nicholas  Murphy,  John  King, 
Edward  Gurlin,  Edward  Walsh,  and 
Thomas  flfleetwood,  late  of  Lord  Conway's 
troop,  which  money  is  to  be  distributed, 
viz.,  to  each  of  the  said  persons  405.  for 
their  present  relief,  and  to  be  discounted 
when  they  shall  receive  their  respective 
arrears  ...         •••         >••         ..•         •■•       xo  •    u  •    u 

John  Hubbard,  John  Holdenast,  Francis 
Bunbury,  John  Plunkett,  John  Arnon,  ^ 
William  Donford,  and  William  Good,  late 
of  Col.  Vere  Essex  Cromwell's  troop,  the 
sum  of  405.  le  pece  to  be  deducted  out  of 
their  respective  arrears       14  :    0  :    0 

Kandall  Jones,  Nicholas  Morton,  John  Jack- 
man,  Francis  Price,  and  others,  late  of 
Col.  Trevor's  troop,  to  be  defaulted  out 
of  their  arrears,  as  by  warrant  with 
acquittance  p 40  :    0  :    0 

Mary  MuUins,  widow  of  a  private  in  Lord 
Shannon's  troop  since  His  Majesty's 
happy  restoration,  upon  five  Musters, 
August  27th,  1660,  to  January  14th,  1661      14  :    0  :    0 

Imprested  to  Thomas  Wade,  late  of  Capt. 
Salt's  troop,  for  his  present  relief,  to  be 
defaulted  out  of  arrears 10-:    0:    0 

John  Denton,  Edmond  Sainton,  Thomas 
Brigs,  John  Harison,  and  Robert  Eeyly, 
late  of  the  Duke  of  Albemarle's  troop,  £S 
le  pece,  to  be  defaulted  out  of  arrears    ...       15  :    0  :    0 

Thomas  Cottis,  William  Jones,  Edward 
Edringham,  and  John  Campbell,  late  of 
the  Earl  of  Mount  Alexander's  troop, 
and  John  Davis,  late  of  Sir  Arthur  fforbes' 
troop,  to  be  defaulted  out  of  an-ears       ...       10  :    0  :    0 

Ann  Bradford,  widow  of  Francis  Bradford, 
late  of  Capt.  Hopkins'  troop,  to  be 
defaulted  out  of  arrears    ...        5:    0:    0 

Ann  Martin,  widow  of  Thomas  Martin,  of 
Capt.  Abel  Warren's  troop,  to  be 
defaulted  out  of  arrears 2:0:0 

Cornet  Daniel  Rooney,  in  part  payment  of 
d£'244  7s. ,  as  Cornet  of  Sampson  Toogood's 
troop,  August  29th,  1658,  to  November 
18th,  1660,  including  eleven  days'  pay  on 
the  Munster  of  October  1st,  1655  ...     165  :  11  :    2 


419 


s.       d. 


Jane,  Countess  Dowager  of  Mountrath,  widow 
of  Charles,  late  Earl  of  Mountrath,  as 
Colonel  of  a  regiment  of  foot,  and  Captain 
of  a  company  and  of  a  troop  for  seventeen 
months  and  eleven  days,  August  30th, 
1658,  to  January  16th,  1659,  including 
eleven  days  on  the  Muster,  October  1st, 
1655 780  :    6  :    0 

Michael  Holme,  for  three  months'  pay  as 
private  in  Col.  Daniel  Eedman's  troop 
on  the  Musters  of  May  7th,  June  4th,  and 
July  2nd,  1662       8:8:0 

William  Lyne,  of  Capt.  John   Salt's  troop, 

July  5th,  1658,  to  August  5th,  1659      ...      40  :    6  :    0 

Gabriel  Eacy,  of  the  Duke  of  Albemarle's 
troop,  for  eleven  months  since  His 
Majesty's  happy  restoration,  ending  June 
30th,  1660 30  :  16  :    0 

WiUiam  Stephens,  of  Sir  Theophilus  Jones' 
troop,  on  four  Musters  ending  December 
16th,  1660  .; 11  :    4  :    0 

John  Gardiner,  for  John  Holmes  on  six 
Musters  as  private  in  the  Earl  of 
Anglesey's  troop,  August  27th,  1660,  to 
February  10th,  1661         16  :  16  :    0 

Elizabeth  ffreeman,  widow  of  a  private  in  Col. 
Kedman's  and  Major  Meredith's  troops, 
August  27th,  1660,  *o  January  14th,  1661      16  :  16  :    0 

Elizabeth  Boothman,  widow  of  John  Booth- 
man  of  Lord  Falkland's  troop,  on  four 
Musters  ending  December  16th,  1660  ...       11  :    4  :    0 

Henry  Plunkett  and  seven  others,  late  of 
Col.  Cromwell's  troop,  to  each  40^.  for 
their  present  relief,  to  be  defaulted  out 
of  their  respective  arrears,  as  by  warrant 
with  acquittance  p 16  :    0  :    0 

Mary  Walsh,  widow  of  James  Walsh,  of  Capt. 

Sampson  Toogood's  troop 4:    0:    0 

Mary  Moyle,  widow  of  Lieut.  Thomas  Moyle 
of  CoJ.  Trevor's  troop,  to  be  defaulted  out 
of  arrears     10  :    0  :    0 

Jane  Lunt,  widow  of  Robert  Lunt  of  Capt. 

Ashe's  troop  2:0:0 


Sum  ...  3741 


420 

Payments  made  for  arrears  to  the  late  Regiment  of  Dragoons. 

£        B.       d. 

Sir  Oliver  St.  George,  Knight,  for  one  month's 
pay  to  him  and  Cornet  Gilbert  Carter, 
viz.,  himself  as  Colonel  and  Captain  of  a 
regiment  of  Dragoons,  £'33  12«.,  and  to 
the  said  Gilbert  Carter  as  Cornet  of 
Dragoons,  £5 12s, ,  ending  February  10th, 
1660 39  :    4  :    0 

To  the  same  also  for  one  month's  pay  to 
himself  and  the  regiment  of  Dragoons 
under  his  command,  viz. ,  to  his  own  troop, 
c4*203  14.9, ;  to  Major  Nicholas  Moore's 
troop,  £191 165. ;  to  Capt.  Henry  Packen- 
ham's  troop,  £169  8s, ;  to  Capt.  John 
Rose's  troop,  £170  2^. ;  to  Capt.  John 
Coplin's  troop^  £180  12s. ;  to  Capt.  John 
PoweJl's  troop,  £191  2^.,  from  January 
14th,  3660,  to  February  10th,  1661,  as  by 
warrant  with  acquittance  p 1106  :  14  :     0 

Sir  Oliver  St.  George,  Knight,  and  the 
regiment  of  Dragoons  under  his  command 
(there  being  paid  by  former  warrant  the 
sum  of  £11,286  10^.  3d.),  viz.,  to  his  own 
troop,  £924  10.5.  8d. ;  to  Msljot  Moore's 
troop,  £1,004  17.9.  2Jd. ;  to  Capt.  Packen- 
ham's  troop,  £907  lis,  lOd. ;  to  Capt. 
Rose's  troop,  £864  10^.  2d. ;  to  Capt. 
Coplin's  troop,  £1,026  8*.  lOrf. ;  to  Capt. 
Powell's  troop,  £903  lis.  4JJ.,  from 
August  30th,  1658,  to  January  30th,  1660, 
inclusive,  wherein  is  also  included  eleven 
days'  pay  on  the  Muster  of  October  1st, 
1655,  as  by  warrant  with  acquittance  p....  6632  :     1  :     1 

Capt.  John  l^arker,  for  two-thirds  of  £229  6^. 
as  Capt.  Lieut,  to  Col.  Daniel  Abbott's 
troop  of  Dragoons  for  fifteen  months, 
August  30th,  1658,  to  January  15th,  1659, 
wherein  is  also  included  eleven  days'  pay 
on  the  Muster  of  October  1st,  1655        ...     152  :  17  :     4 

Major  Thomas  Bowington,  for  two-thirds  as 
Capt.  of  a  troop  of  Dragoons,  August 
30th,  1658,  to  January  15th,  1659, 
wherein  is  included  eleven  days'  pay  on 
the  Muster  of  October  1st,  1655 153  :    0  :    0 


Sum  ...  7083  :  16  :    5 


421 

Paymeuts  made  of  arrears  to  the  Foot. 

£        s.      d. 

Eoger,  Earl  of  Orrery,  as  Captain  of  a  company 
in  Col.  Humphry  Kurd's  regiment,  for 
six  months  ending  February  10th,  1660...       67:     4:    0 

To  the  same  for  his  entertainment  as  Capt.  of 
Horse  and  Capt.  of  Foot  for  five  months, 
July  29th,  1661,  to  December  15th,  1661, 
inclusive,  viz.,  as  Capt.  of  Horse,  £98, 
and  Capt.  of  Foot,  £56 154  :    0  :    0 

Charles,  Earl  of  Mountrath,  as  Colonel  and 
Captain  of  Foot  for  six  months,  August 
27th,  1660,  to  February  10th,  1661,  as  by 
warrant  with  acquittance  p 168  :    0  :    0 

Charles,  Earl  of  Mountrath,  for  his  entertain- 
ment as  Captain  of  a  troop  and  Captain 
of  a  company  for  five  months,  July  29th, 
1661,  to  December  15th,  1661,  viz.,  as 
Capt.  of  Horse,  £98,  and  as  Capt.  of  Foot, 

f^  ty\j  •••  •••  •••  •••  •■■  •■•  JL  ^/ «X      •  \J      •  \J 

Sir  Oliver  St.  George,  Knight,  for  Sir  George 

St.   George,  deceased,  as  Captain  of  a 

company,  August  30th,  1658,  to  January 

15th,  1659 183  :  12  :    0 

Capt.  Charles  Gore,  in  part  payment  of  £262 

as  Captain  of  Foot  and  Lieutenant  of 

Foot,  August  30th,  1658,  to  June  30th, 

•l-vyv/J-.a.  ...  •..  ...  *••  ...  .^If.  V/      •  ^? 

Quartermaster  Thomas  Hussey,  as  Quarter- 
master to  Col.  Humphry  Hurd's  Eegiment 
of  Foot,  January  16th,  1659,  to  February 
11th,  1660,  as  by  warrant  with  acquittance 

I J  m  ...  ...  •..  ...  ...  ...  ^iXJ        .  \J        .  \J 

Major  Thomas  Brereton,  for  five  months  as 

Lieut,     to    Lord    Caulfeild's    company 

ending  July  3l8t,  1659      28  :    0  :    0 

Lieut.    William    Davenport,    late    of    Capt. 

Thomas  Tomlin's  company  of  Col.  Brett's 

Regiment  in  the  Irish  Brigade,  for  four 

months  as  Lieut,  ending  August  26th, 

J-uuO    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...         ^12   I      O  I      U 

Lieut.  Thomas  Main  waring,  as  Ensign  to  Col. 

John  Warren's  company,  August  30th, 

1658,  to  February  11th,  1660      102  :    9  :    0 

Capt.    x\ndrew    Buddocke,    as    Capt.    of    a 

Company,  August  27th,  1660,  to  February 

nth,  1661 ...         ...      67  :    4  :    0 

Quartermaster   Samuel   Hackett,   as  Private 

and  Quartermaster  in  Capt.  Salt's  troop, 

November  21st,  1659,  to  February  10th, 

1660 56  :    0  ;    0 


422 

Major   ffoulke   Martiu,   as    Lieut,   in    Capt.      £        s.      d* 
King's   company,    and    Daniel    Sullivan 
as  private  in  the  said  company,  August 
27th,    1660,    to    February    10th,    1661, 
inclusive       ...         ...         ...         ...         ...      39  :    4  :    0 

Lieut.  Eichard  Daniell,  as  private  in  Major 
Abel  Warren's  troop,  August  30th,  1658, 

to  January  15th,  1669      39  :    4  :    0 

Phillipp  Serjeant,  as  Quartermaster  to  the 
Earl  of  Mountrath's  Regiment  of  foot, 
August  30th,  1658,  to  February  11th,  1660  104  :  10  :  0 
Lieut.  Philip  Constable,  for  two-thirds,  as 
Ensign  to  Major  Benjamin  Woodward's 
company,     November    22nd,    1658,     to 

September  25th,  1659       25  :    4  :    0 

Richard  Barry,  for  two  privates  in  Col.  Chidley 
Coote's  company,  August  30th,  1658,  to 

February  11th,  1660         27  :    8  :    8 

To  the  same  for  the  Ensign  of  Capt.  Charles 

Ellis'  company  for  the  said  time 39  :    4  :    0 

Katherine  Home,   for  John  Horn  of  Capt. 

John  Jones*  company  for  the  said  time...       19  :  19  :     4 
William  Barwicke,  as  Quartermaster  to  Col. 
John  Bridge's  Regiment  of  foot  for  the 

said  time     104  :  10  :     0 

Sir  Thomas  Gilford,  Knight,  for  three  privates 
of  his  company,  August  30th,  1658,  to 

February  11th,  1660  45  :     3  :     4 

Quartermaster   William    Court,   as    Quarter- 
master  to    Sir   John   Cole's    Regiment, 
January  16th,  1659,  to  February   11th, 
1660  ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         ...      28:    0:0 

Ensign  William  White,  as  Serjeant  in  Lieut. 

Col.    John    Jeonar's    company,    August 

30th,  1658,  to  January  15th,  1659  ...      32  :     6  :     6 

Dudley  Main  waring,  as  Quartermaster  to  Col. 

Thomas  Scott's  Regiment,  January  16th, 

1659,  to  February  11th,  1660      28  :    0  :    0 

Lieut.  Thomas  Lewis,  for  two-thirds  as  Lieut. 

to  Lieut.    Col.   John    Read's   company, 

I  August   30th,  1658,   to  February   10th, 

1060 83  :  14  :    8 

John  Pittman,  for  four  months'  pay  as  private 
in   Lieut.    Col.   Oliver  •  Jones*   company 

ending  December  16th,  1660      3  :  14  :    8 

Thomas  Skelhorne,  for  four  months*  as  private 
in    Capt.    Thomas    Tomlin*s    company, 

ending  August  26th,  1660  3  :  14  :    8 

Richard  Jefferies,  in  part  payment  of 
£12  2s,  8d.  as  private  in  Major  Davis' 
company,  August  30th,  1658,  to  October 
23rd,  1659 3:0:0 


42d 

Grizell  Clothier,  widow  of  John  Clothier  of      £        s.      d. 
Sir   William    King's   company,    August 
30th,  1658,  to  February  11th,  1660        ...       19  :  12  :    0 
Cicily  Arundell,  widow  of  Abraham  Arundell 
of  Capt.  Humphry  Hartwell's  company, 
August  80th,  1658,  to  November  18th,  1660      17  :    3  :    4 
Honor  Willington,  widow  of  Thomas  Willing- 
ton  of  Col.  John  Bridge's  company  since 
His  Majesty's  happy  restoration,  August 
17th,  1660,  to  January  13th,  1661,  as  by 

warrant  with  acquittance  p 4  :  13  :    4 

Henry  Holme,  of  Major  Billingsley's  late 
company,  August  27th,  1660,  to  January 

10th  1661 5  :  12  :    0 

EUinor  Spare,  widow  of  Ellis  Spare  of  Sir 
William  King's  company,  August  30th, 

1658,  to  February  11th,  1660      19  :  19  :    4 

Joan  Davis,  widow  of  Samuel  Davis  of  Sir 
Ealph  Wilson's  company,  August  30th, 

1658,  to  January  15th,  1659        2  :    0  :    0 

Alice  Huston,  widow  of  Edward  Huston  of 
Sir  Ralph  Wilson's  company,  August 
30th,  1658,  to  January  15th,  1659  ...        2  :    0  :    0 

Col.  Thomas  Scott,  for  two  months  as  Captain 

of  a  company  ending  January  15th,  1659      22  :    8  :    0 
William  Ellis,  as  Chirurgeon's  mate  to  Col. 
Thomas  Scott's  Eegiment,  August  30th, 

1658  ,to  January  16th,  1659       54  :  12  :    0 

Thomas  Kirkeham,  as  Chirurgeon  to  Col. 
Humphry  Hurd's  Eegiment,  August  30th, 

1658,  to  February  11th,  1660     125  :    8  :    0 

William  Brookes,  as  Chirurgeon  to  the  Earl 
of  Mountrath's  Eegiment,  August  30th, 

1658,  to  February  11th,  1660      05  :  18  :    4 

Michael  Madox,  as  Chirurgeon's  mate  to  Col. 
John    Cole's    Eegiment,    August    30th, 

1658,  to  February  11th,  1660      44  :    2  :    0 

Murtagh  Kelly,  of  Capt.  James  Hand's 
company  on  five  musters,  ending  February 

10th,  1660 ...        4  :  13  :    4 

Joan  Croaker,  for  two-thirds  due  to  William 
Croaker,  late  Corporal  in  Lieut.  Col. 
William  Moore's  company,  Au^st  30th, 

1658,  to  January  15th,  1659      14  :    7  :    4 

David  Griffith,  of  Lieut.   Col.   Smithwick's 

company       ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         2  i 

Alexander  Holmes,  of  Col.  John  Howson's 
Eegiment,  August  30th,  1658,  to  Sep- 
tember, 25th,  1659 ...      11  :  11 

Corporal  Thomas  Smith,  for  two-thirds,  as 
Corporal  in  Capt.  Tandy's  company, 
August  30th,  1658,  to  February  11th,  1660      19  :  19 


0  :    0 


•124 


s.      d. 


Thomas  Symer,  for  six  months  in  Sir  William 

King's    company    since    January    16th, 

1659,  as  by  warrant  with  acquittance  p.  5  :  12  :  0 
Alexander  Stewart,   for  two- thirds,   of  Col. 

John  Jephson's  company,  August  30th, 

1658,  to  January  13th,  1660       13  :    6  :    0 

Ensign  Chidley  Piggott,  for  three  months  as 

ensign  in  Col.  Thomas  Piggott *s  company, 

February  11th,  1660,  to  May  5th,  1660...  12  :  12  :  0 
Ensign  John  Sloughter,  since  His  Majesty's 

happy  restoration,  ending  January  15th, 

-^  v/  (x  %j      •••        •••        •••        •■•        •••        •••        K^     •    K^     •    V^ 

Ensign  John  Aikers,  for  two-thirds,  as 
Serjeant  and  Ensign  in  Col.  Chidley 
Coote's  Eegiment,  August  30th,  1658,  to 

February  10th,  3660         38  :     7  :    0 

Ellen  Whitehead,  widow  of  John  Whitehead, 
Serjeant  to  Capt.  Twigg's  company,  on 

six  musters  ending  February  10th,  1660...  12  :  12  :  0 
Katharine  Price,  widow  of  Thomas  Price  of 

Capt.  Edward  Hoyle's  company,  in  two 

musters  ending  October  21st,  1660  ...        1  :  17  :    4 

Margaret  Locke,  widow  of  James  Locke  of 

Capt.  Peacocke's  company  2  :    0  :    0 

Trevelyan  Pierce,  widow  of  Maurice  Pierce, 

for  seven  months,  August  27th,  1660,  to 

March  10th,  1661 6  :  10  :    4 

Lieut.  Col.  William  Purefoy,  for  two-thirds 

of  sixteen   months  and   eleven   days  as 

Lieut. -Colonel  to  Col.  Henry  Ingoldsby's 

Eegiment  of  Foot,  and  Captain  in  the  said 

Eegiment,  ending  January  15th,  1659...  229  :  10  :  0 
Morgan  Kenedy,  of  Lieut. -Col.  Oliver  Jones* 

Company,  August  27th,  1660,  to  February 

10th,  1661 8  :  14  :    8 

Humphry  Pugh,  for  two-thirds  pay,  August 

27th,  1660,  to  February  10th,  1661  ...  3  :  14  :  8 
Eobert    Eussell,    of    Capt.     Felix     Long's 

Company,    for   two-thirds    pay,    August 

30th,  1058,  to  February  nth,  1660       ...       13  :    6  :     2J 
Mary   Dix,    widow  of   Walter   Dix    of  Col. 

Brett's  company,  August  30th,  1658,  to 

December  19th,  1659        2  ;    0  :    0 

Henry     Bell,    of     Col.     Humphry    Hurd's 

compapy,   to   be  defaulted  out  of   such 

entertainments  as  are  due  to  him,  as  by 

warrant  with  acquittance  p 2:0:0 

Elizabeth  Morgan,  wife  of  John  Morgan,  late 

Lieut,  to  Capt.  Felix  Tjong's  company, 

to  be  defaulted  out  of  such  entertainments 

as  are  due  to  the  said  Lieut.  Morgan      ...        5  :    0  :    0 


425 

Mujor  Henry  Stanley,  to  be  defaulted  out  of      £        s.      d. 

such  entertainments  as  are  due  to  him  by 

His  Majesty  20  :    0  :    0 

Lady  Sterling,  widow  of  Sir  Eobert  Sterling, 

Knight  50  :    0  :    0 

Mathew  Edwards,  to  be  defaulted  out  of  such 

entertainments    as  are    due   to   him   as 

private  in  Capt.  George  Pepper's  com- 
pany,  as   by  warrant   with   acquittance  . 

presented      3:0:0 

Capt.  John  Rugeley,  to  be  defaulted  out  of 

such  entertainments  as  are  or  shall  be  due 

to  him,  as  by  warrant  with  acquittance 

presented      10  :     0  :     0 

Richard      Bany,      in      part      payment      of 

d£415   Is.  lOd.    due   to  the  Lieut.,  one 

ensign,  one  Serjeant,  two  corporals,  and 

fourteen     privates     of     Capt.     Charles 

Wheeler's  company,  August  30th,  1658, 

to  February  nth,  1G60      283:     7:11 

Lieut.     Col.     Alexander     Staples,     in    part 

payment   of  £574  135.   4d.    for   pay   as 

Lieut. -Col.  and  Capt.,  and  to  part  of  his 

company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign  and 

Drummer,   and   seven  Privates,   August 

30th,  1658,  to  February  11th,  1660  ...  390  :  7  :  0 
To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  d£671  19&*.  Ad. 

due  to  Capt.  William  Jackson  and  part  of 

his  company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign, 

two    Serjeants   and   ten    Privates,    from 

August  30th,  1658,  to  February  11th,  1660  456  :  6  :  2 
Lieut. -Col.  Alexander    Staples    aforesaid,    in 

part  payment  of  £8il   18.9.   8d.  due  to 

Capt.  William  Hepburne  and  part  of  his 

(yOXULictil  Y  ...  ...  ...  ».*  ... 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £937  due  to 

Capt.    Thomas   Tandy  and  part  of   his 

company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign,  two 

Serjeants      and      twenty-two     Privates, 

August   30th,  1658,   to   February   11th, 

1660,  as   by   warrant    with   acquittance 

presented      ...         ...         ...         ...         ...     636  :     5  :     5 

Richard  Barry,  in  part  payment  of  £334  lOs. 

due  to  Capt.    Nicholas   Barrington,  the 

Ensign  and  two  Serjeants  of  his  company, 

August  30th,   1658,  to   February   11th, 

1660  ...         ...         ...         ...         ...         .  >  •     227  :     o  :     b 

Major  Tristram  Beresford,  in  part  payment  of 

£591  12.5.  6rf.  due  to  him  as  Major  and 

Captain,  and  to  part  of  his  company,  viz. , 

the    Ensign    and    twenty-two     Privates 

August  30th,  1658,  to  February  11th,  1660    401:10:    8 


426 


8.      d. 


Major  Joseph  Fox,  in  part  payment  of  j£870  55. 

due  to  him  as  Captain,  and  to  the  Lieut. 

and  Ensign  of  his  company,  August  30th, 

1658,  to  February  11th,  1660      319  :    2  :    8J 

Lieut.  Col.  William  Walker,  in  part  payment 

of  i:*311   9^.  due  to  him   as  Major  and 

Captain     in     the     late     Col.      Sadler's 

Regiment,  and  as  Lieut.  Col.  and  Captain, 

August  30th,  1658,  to  January  15th,  1659    206  :    7  :    4 

llichard  Barry,  in  part  payment  of  £299  75.  4d. 
due  to  one  Corporal  and  fourteen  Privates 
of  Col.  Thomas  Coote's  company,  August 
30th,  1658,  to  February  11th,  1660      ...     203  :    i  :    5 

Major  Solomon  Camby,  in  part  payment  of 
£489  17*.  due  to  him  as  Major  and 
Captain,  and  to  his  Lieutenant,  August 
30th ,  1658 ,  to  February  11th ,  1660      ...        337  :  13  :    6 

llichard  Barry,  in  part  payment  of 
£1,141  15s,  6c/.  due  to  Capt.  Francis 
King  and  part  of  his  company,  viz.,  the 
Ensign,  two  Serjeants,  one  Drummer, 
and  fourty-five  Privates,  from  August 
30th,  1658,  to  February  nth,  1660  ...     775  :    8  :    8 

To  the  same,  in  part  satisfaction  of 
£234  15*.  lOd.  due  to  one  Serjeant,  one 
Corporal,  and  eight  Privates  of  Sir  James 
Cufif's  company,  August  30th,  1658,  to 
February  nth,  1660  159:    8:     7 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £233  175.  6d. 
due  to  one  Serj^int,  one  Corporal,  and 
eight  Privates  in  Capt.  William  St. 
George's  company,  August  30th,  1658,  to 
February  11th,  1660  158  :  17  :    9 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £961  85.  8d. 
due  to  Capt.  Thomas  Barrington  and  part 
of  his  company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign, 
two  Serjeants  and  twenty-three  Privates, 
August  30th ,  1658,  to  February  11th ,  1660    652  :  17  :    0 

Capt.  Eichard  Hannay,  in  part  payment  of 
£429  95.  due  to  him  and  part  of  his 
company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign,  two 
Serjeants  and  ten  Privates,  August  30th, 
1658,  to  February  11th,  1660     291  :  15  :    6J 

Richard  Barry,  in  part  payment  of 
£436  I65.  lOd.  due  to  Capt.  James  Hand 
and  part  of  his  company,  viz.,  the  Lieut., 
Ensign,  two  Serjeants,  one  Drummer 
and  six  Privates,  August  30th,  1658,  to 
February  11th,  1660  296  :  15  :     4 


m 


£        8.       d. 


To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £655  8s.  due 

to  Capt.  Edward  Knight  and  part  of  his 

company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign,  two 

Serjeants   and   twelve  Privates,   August 

30th,  1658,  to  February  11th,  1660      ...     445  :     7  :    3 
To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £394  135.  2d. 

due  to   the  Ensign,   one  Serjeant   and 

thirteen  Privates  of  Capt.   Robert  ffen- 

wicke's  company,  for  the  time  aforesaid    268  :    0  :     7J 
To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £271 19^.  8d. 

due  to  one  Drummer  and  fifteen  Privates 

of  Capt.  Richard  St.  George's  company, 

for  the  time  aforesaid       186  :     0  :  10 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £756  3s.  4d. 

due  to  the  Lieut.,   two   Serjeants,  one 

Corporal    and    twenty-nine    Privates    of 

Capt.    Felix    Long's    company,    August 

30th,  1658,  to  February  11th,  1660        ...     513  :    9  :  10 
To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £256  9^.  2d. 

due  to  the  Ensign  and  t^n  Privates  of 

Capt.  William  King's  Company,  August 

30th,  1658,  to  February  11th,  1660       ...     174  :    3  :    2 
To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £478  5*.  lOd. 

due  to  Major  William  Bond  as  Major  and 

Captain,  and  to  part  of  his  Company,  viz. , 

the  Lieut. ,  Ensign,  two  Serjeants  and  ten 

Privates  for  the  time  aforesaid 324  :  19  :  10 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £217  5s.  due 

to  the  Lieut,  and  Ensign  of  Capt.  Charles 

Hamilton's  company  for  the  time  afore- 

said  ...        ...        ■••        *•.        ...        *•■      Xt)o  •  x^  I    ft/7 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £419  75.  due 

to  Capt.  Henry  Baker  and  part  of  his 

company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign  and 

eight  Privates  for  the  time  aforesaid      . . .     284  :  19  :    4 J 
To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £396  18s.  lOd. 

due  to  the  Lieut.,  Ensign,  two  Serjeants, 

and  sixteen  Privates   of  Capt.   Mayre's 

company,  for  the  time  aforesaid  ...     269  :  13  :    0-J 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £250  15^.  4d. 

due  to  Capt.  Thomas  Tomkins  and  part 

of  his  company,  viz.,  the  Ensign,  one 

Serjeant  and  four   Privates  for  the  time 

aforesaid         ,     ...    171  :    5  :    1 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £148  9^.  lOd. 

due  to  one  Serjeant  and  six  Privates  of 

Lieut.  Col.  Allen's  company  for  the  time 

aforesaid       101  :  16  :     1 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £151  4^.  due 

to  Capt.  William  Hartwell  and  the  Ensign 

of  his  company  for  the  time  aforesaid    ...     103  :     7  :     3 


428 

To  the  same,  in  part  payiiient  of  i'(577  7,9.  2d.       £         s.       d. 

due  to  Capt.  John  Harrison  and  part  of 

his    company,    viz.,    the    Ensign,    one 

Serjeant,   one  Corporal   and  twenty-four 

Privates  for  the  time  aforesaid  ...         ...     460  :     0  :  10 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  i:279  145.  8d. 

due  to  the  Lieut,  and  fifteen  Privates  of 

Col.  John  Mayart's  company  for  the  time 

aforesaid       189  :    8  :    4 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £189  Is.  id, 

due  to  the  Ensign  and  nine  Privates  of 

John,  Lord  Viscount  Massareene's  com- 
pany for  the  time  aforesaid  ...         ...     128  :    8  :    4 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £606  3^.  2d. 

due  to  Capt.  Charles  Twigg  and  part  of 

his  company,  viz.,   the  Lieut.,   Ensign 

and  fourteen  Privates  for  the  time  afore- 

SclKl  ...  ...  ...  a..  ...  ...  7J- J.        a        XO       a  O 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £'564  I85.  8d. 

due    to    the    Ensign    and    twenty-eight 

Privates  of  Col.  John  Gorges'  company 

for  the  time  aforesaid       383  :  12  :  11 

Capt.    Edmond  Hoyle,   in  part  payment   of 

£534  16s.   due  to  him  and  part  of  his 

company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign,  two 

Serjeants  and  nine  Privates  for  the  time 

aforesaid       365  :     5  :    OJ- 

William     Bragg,     in     part      payment     of 

£133  8s.  8d.  due  to  the  Ensign  and  six 

Privates  of  Sir  John  Cole's  company  for 

the  time  aforesaid 90  :  12  :  10 

Major  Benjamin  Woodward,  in  part  payment 

of  £325  16^.  6d.  due  to  him  as  Major  and 

Captain,  and  to  his  Ensign  for  the  time 

aforesaid       221  :    6  :  10 

Eichard      Barry,      in      part      payment      of 

£367  125.  8d.  due  to  the  Lieut.,  Ensign, 

one  Serjeant  with  five  Privates  of  Capt. 

Korris  Cave's  company  for  the  time  afore- 
said     249  :  1&  :  10 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £156  45.  due 

to  the  Ensign  and  five  Privates  of  Sir 

Francis  Butler's  company  for  the  time 

aforesaid       106  :    0  :     7 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £1,380  55.  6S. 

due  to  Capt.  John  Eeading  and  part  of 

his  company,  viz.,  the  Lietit.,  Ensign, 

two    Serjeants   and    forty-four   Privates, 

from  August  30th,  1658,  to  February  11th, 

1660,  £890  65.  4d.,  and  to  Henry  Shaw, 

Serjeant  to  the  said  Captain,  in  full  of 

his  pay,  flO  IO5.  5d.  ;  in  all         901  :     5  :     9 


429 


£        s.      d. 


To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £501  6.9.  4d. 

due  to  the  Lieut.,  Ensign,  one  Serjeant 

and  thirteen  Privates  of  Capt.  Humphry 

Barrowe's  company  for  the  time  aforesaid    340  :     7  :     7 
To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £491  due  to 

Capt.    Thomas   Lucas   and  part   of   his 

company,   viz.,  the    Lieut,    and   fifteen 

Privates  for  the  time  aforesaid 313  :    9  :     9 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £407  13.9. 

due  to  Col.  Thomas  Scott  as  Col.   and 

Capt.,  and  to  the  Lieut,  and  Ensign  of 

the  company  late  under  his  command,  for 

the  time  aforesaid » 277  :    0  :    4 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £761 15*.  4d. 

due  to  Lieut.  Col.  Alexander  Barrington 

as  Col.  and  Capt.,  and  to  part  of  his 

company,  viz.,  the  Ensign  and  twenty- 
four  Privates,  for  the  time  aforesaid    ...     517  :    7  :  lOJ^ 
Lieut. -Col.  Simon  Rugeley,  in  part  payment 

of  £862  45.  lOd.  due  to  him  as  Capt.,  and 

to  part  of  his  company,  viz.,  the  Lieut., 

Ensign,     two     Serjeants     and     fifteen 

Privates  for  the  time  aforesaid 585  :    0  :    6 J 

Richard  Barry,  in  part  payment  of  £520  9^.  8*. 

due  to  Lieut. -Col.  Oliver  Jones  as  Lieut.- 

Col.    and   Captain,   and  to   part  of  his 

company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign,  two 

Serjeants  and  eleven  Privates,  for  the  time 

aforesaid       ...         ...         ...         ...         ....   353  :  33  ;     6 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £116  Is,  4d. 

due  to  six   Privates  of  His  Grace    the 

Duke  of  Ormond's  company   for  the  time 

aforesaid       ...         ...         ...         ...         ...       78  :  16  :     2 

Capt.    John    Sands,    in    part    payment    of 

£455   19^.   2d.   due  to  the  Ensign  and  . 

twenty-six  Privates  of  his  company    for 

the  time  aforesaid 329  :  13  :    S} 

Richard      Barry,      in      part      payment      of 

£423  145.  lOd.  due  to  the  Lieut.,  Ensign, 

one  Serjeant  and  eight  Privates  of  Capt. 

Robert   Deey's   company,  for   the   time 

aforesaid       ...         ...         ...         ...         ...     287  :  14  :    4 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £451  17^.  4d. 

due  to  the  Lieut.,   one   Drummer  and 

sixteen  Privates  of  Major  John  flFolliott*s 

company  for  the  time  aforesaid 300  :  16  :    7 J 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £972  Is.  8d. 

due  to  Major  Thomas  Brereton  and  part 

of  his  company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign, 

two  Serjeants  and  thirty-three  Privates  for 

the  time  aforesaid ...     670  :     3  :  10 


430 


s.      d. 


To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £711  18^.  2d. 

due  to  Capt.  John  Webster  and  part  of  his 

company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  two  Serjeants 

and  twenty-five  Privates,  for  the  time 

aforesaid      ...        483  :  10  :    5 J 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  ^£463  18*.  2d. 

due  to  the  Lieut.,  Ensign,  two  Serjeants 

and   fifteen   Privates  of    Capt.   Eichard 

Billingsley's  company  for  the  time  afore- 
said   ...         ...         ...         ..•         ...         ...     oUt>  *  J.O  I     O2 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  d9432  45.  6d. 

due  to  Capt.  Henry  Gilbert  and  part  of 

his  company,  viz.,  Lieut.,  Ensign,  and 

eight  Privates  for  the  time  aforesaid      ...     293  :  11  :    8 

Major  George  Peppard,  in  part  payment  of 

JE530  Os.  6d.  due  to  him  as  Major  and 

Capt.,    and    to    the    Ensign    and    nine 

Privates  of  his  company  for  the  time  afore- 

saiQ.   ...         ...         ...        ...         ...         •..     oo«7  •  J.0  •    0 

Richard     Barry,      in     part      payment     of 

^9617  18s.  8d.  due  to  Col.  Humphry  Hurd 

as  Col.   and   Capt.,  and  to  part  of  his 

company,  viz.,  the  Ensign   and  eleven 

Privates  for  the  time  aforesaid 419  :  14  :  11 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £229  85.  due 
to  the  Lieut.,  Ensign  and  seven  Privates 
of  Capt.  Henry  Smithwick's  company 
for  the  time  aforesaid      155  :  16  :    6 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £65  10^.  due 
to  four  Privates  of  Lieut. -Col.,  Hans 
Hamilton's  company  for  the  time  afore- 

SaiQ    •.•  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...         4D    •      Urn      ^ 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £475  85.  8d. 
due  to  part  of  the  Earl  of  Orrery's 
company,  viz.,  one  Serjeant  and  thirty- 
eight  Privates  for  the  time  aforesaid      ...     323  :    0  :    3 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £592  2^.  4d. 

due  to  Major  William  Wade  as  Captain, 

and  part  of  his  company,  viz. ,  the  Lieut. , 

Ensign  and  four  privates  for  the  time 

aforesaid       402  :    2  :    2 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £734  17^.  4d. 

due  to  the  Lieut. ,  Ensign,  one  Serjeant  (?) 

and    twenty-seven    Privates    of     Capt. 

Thomas  Cullen's  company  for  the  time 

aforesaid      593  :    4  :   -2 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £608  I85.  2d. 

due  to  Capt.  John  Peacocke  and  part  of 

his  company,  viz.,  his  Lieut.,  Ensign  and 

fifteen  Privates  for  the  time  aforesaid     ...     413:    0:     1 


431 

Capt.  Robert  ffenwicke,  in  part  payment  of      £        s.      d. 

£238  18^.  lOd.  due  to  him  and  part  of  his 

company,  viz.,  one  Serjeant  and  seven 

Privates  for  the  time  aforesaid 162  :    6  :  lOJ 

Capt.    Felix    Long,    in    part    payment    of 

£529  Ss.  4d.  due  to  him,  a  Corporal  and 

fifteen  Privates  of  his  company  for  the 

time  aforesaid        359  :    G  :    8 

Richard  Barry,  in  part  payment  of  £228  0^.  8d. 

due  to    twelve   Privates  of    Sir   James 

Cuffe's  company  at  DubHn,  for  the  time 

aforesaid       154  :  16  :  10 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £502 18s.  due 

to  Col.  Henry  Slade  as  Captain,  and  part 

of  his  company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign, 

one  Corporal  and  thirteen  Privates  for  the 

time  aforesaid         341  :  12  :    IJ 

To  the  same,  in  part  satisfaction  of  £338  lis, 

due  to  the  Lieut,  and  fifteen  Privates  of 

Sir  Francis  ffoulke's  company  for  the  time 

aforesaid       263  :    9  :    1 

To  the  same,  in  part  satisfaction  of  £799  14^. 

due  to  Capt.  Thomas  Dancer  and  part  of 

his  company,  viz. ,  the  Lieut. ,  Ensign,  one 

Corporal  and  fifteen  Privates  for  the  time 

aforesaid       543  :    0  :    0 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £648  175.  4d. 

due  to  Capt.  John  Wakeham  and  part  of 

his  company,  viz. ,  the  Lieut. ,  Ensign  and 

twenty  Privates  for  the  time  aforesaid  ...     440  :  15  :    OJ 
To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £604  55.  4rf. 

due  to  Capt.  John  Tench  and  part  of  his 

company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign  and 

twenty  Privates  for  the  time  aforesaid  ...     410  :    8  :  11 J 
To  the  same, in  part  payment  of  £1,024 135. 4d. 

due  to  Capt.  John  Jones'  company,  viz., 

the  Lieut.,  Ensign,  two  Serjeants,  one 

Corporal  and  fourty-two  Privates  for  the 

time  aforesaid         736  :     2  :     1 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £438  195.  2d. 

due  to   the   Ensign,    one   Serjeant  and 

seventeen  Privates  of  Lieut. -Col.   John 

Bead's  company    for  the  time  aforesaid    298* :    3  :     5 
To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £496 175.  lOd. 

due   to  the  Ensign,  one  Serjeant,   and 

twenty-one    Privates   of    Capt.    Andrew 

Ruddocke's  company  for  the  time  afore- 

saiu    ...         ...         ...         ...         •..         •..     t)o f  •    o  •  '  o^ 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £354  45.  6d. 

due  to  the  Ensign  and  fifteen  Privates  of 

Major  Bichard  Goodwin's  company  for 

the  time  aforesaid 240  :  10  :  11 


4B2 


M        s.      d. 


To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £395  lis.  4d. 

due  to  Capt.  Bryan  Mansergh  and  part  of 

his  company,  viz. ,  the  Lient. ,  Ensign  and 

nine  Privates  for  the  time  aforesaid  ...  268  :  18  :  8 
To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £465  9^.  lOd. 

due  to  the  Lieut.,  Ensign  and  twenty-one 

Privates     of     Capt.      Charles     Blunt's 

company  for  the  time  aforesaid 316  :     3  :    3 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £620  18*.  8d. 

due    to    the    Lieut.,    Ensign    and    nine 

Privates    of    Capt.    George    Ingoldsby's 

company  for  the  time  aforesaid 353  :  15  :    3 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £162  7s.  due 

to  the  Lieut,  and  three  Privates  of  Sir 

William  King's  company  for  the  time 

aforesaid       110  :     5  :    0 

To  the  same,  in  part  satisfaction  of  £159  due 

to  eight  Privates  of  Sir  Ealph  Wilson's 

company  for  the  time  aforesaid 107  :  19  :    4 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £446  Os.  8d. 

due    to    the    Ensign    and    twenty-four 

Privates     of      Sir     Peter     Courthope's 

company  for  the  time  aforesaid 302  :  18  :    9 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £738  145. 

due  to  Lieut. -Col.  Lucas  as  Lieut. -Col. 

and  Capt.,  and  to  part  of  his  company, 

viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign,  tw^o  Serjeants 

and  seven  Privates  for  the  time  aforesaid  521  :  13  :  6 
To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £613  19^.  6rf. 

due  to  Capt.   Arthur  Ormsby  and  part 

of  his  company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign, 

one  Serjeant  and  six  Privates  for  the  time 

aforesaid       416  :  13  :    1 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £465  18s,  8d, 

due  to  Capt.  Humphry  Hartwell  and  part 

of  his  company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign, 

two  Serjeants  and  fhree  Privates  for  the 

time  aforesaid        316  :    8  :  11 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £216  9s.  4d. 

due  to  thirteen  Privates  of  Capt.  Eobert 

Oliver's  company  for  the  time  aforesaid  147  :  0  :  1 
To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £1,153  Is. 

due  to  Lieut. -Col.  Simon  flBnch  as  Lieut. - 

Col.    and    Capt.,    and    to    part    of    his 

company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign,  one 

Corporal  and  twenty-seven  Privates  for 

the  time  aforesaid 792:    7:    4 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £411  3^.  lOd. 

due  to  the  Lieut.,  Ensign  and  nineteen 

Privates  of  Capt.  John  Jephson's  com- 
pany for  the  time  aforesaid  279:    5:     5 


488 


£        8.       d. 


To  the  same  also,  in  part  payment  of 
£577  95.  4rf.  due  to  Capt.  John  Ewers  and 
part  of  his  company,  viz.,  the  Lieut., 
Ensign,  one  Serjeant  and  seven  Privates 
for  the  time  aforesaid      477  :    8  :     0 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  d£932  0^.  6d. 
due  to  Capt.  Henry  Shrimpton  and  part 
of  his  company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign, 
two  Serjeants,  one  Corporal  and  twenty- 
six  Privates  for  the  time  aforesaid         ...     G32  :  19  :    2 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £360  9^.  lOrf. 
due  to  part  of  Capt.  John  Bury*s 
company,  viz.,  the  Ensign,  one  Serjeant 
and  sixteen  Privates  for  the  time  afore- 
said     244  :  16  :    9 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £263  0^.  8d. 
due  to  fifteen  Privates  of  Capt.  William 
St.  George's  company  for  the  time  afore- 
said     178  :  12  :    9 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £376  9^*  4d. 
due  to  Lieut. -Col.  Allen  as  Capt.,  and 
eleven  Privates  of  his  company  for  the 
time  aforesaid         237  :  11  :  11 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £141  9s.  id. 
due  to  nine  Privates  of  Col.  Thomas 
Coote's  company  for  the  time  aforesaid...       96  :     1  :     6 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £994  10s.  8d. 
due  to  Capt.  John  Ewers  and  part  of  his 
company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign,  two 
Serjeants,  one  Corporal  and  twenty-eight 
Privates  for  the  said  time 678  :  15  :    3 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £313  11^.  2d. 
due  to  the  Lieut.,  Ensign,  one  Serjeant 
and  six  Privates  of  Lieut. -Col.  William 
Moore's  company  for  the  time  aforesaid    208  :     0  :    8^ 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £102  9s.  due 
to  the  Ensign  in  Capt.  Arthur  Gore's 
company  for  the  time  aforesaid 69  :    9  :     2 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £277  12^.  lOd. 
due  to  Capt.  Benjamin  Perry,  and  to  the 
Ensign  and  two  Serjeants  of  his  company 
for  the  time  aforesaid      188  :  12  :     1 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £679  14s.  lOd. 
due  to  Capt.  Henry  Legg  and  part  of  his 
company,  viz.,  the  Lieut.,  Ensign,  one 
Serjeant  and  eighteen  Privates   for  the 
time  aforesaid        ...         ...         ...         ...     463  :     5  :  10 

Wt.  8878  1  B 


434 

To  the  same,  in  part  payment  of  £189  4.9.  8rf.      M        s.      d. 
due  to  the  Lieut. ,  Ensign  and  six  Privates 
of  Sir  Patrick  Weymes'  company  for  the 
time  aforesaid         ...         ...         ...         ...     138  :  11  :    4 

John  Hewlett, in  part  payment  of  £102 135. 4rf. 
due  to  him  as  Quartermaster  to  Col. 
Henry  Ingoldsby's  Kegiment  for  the 
time  aforesaid         ...         ...         ...         ...       69  :  12  :    4J 

Henry  Lee,  in  part  payment  of  £104  10.<f.  due 
to  him  as  Quartermaster  to  Sir  Ralph 
Wilson's  Regiment  for  the  time  aforesaid      70  :  17  :     2J 

Charles  Lord  Castle-Coote,  in  part  payment 
of  £364  Vis,  8d,  due  to  nineteen  disbanded 
Privates  of  his  company  for  the  time 
aforesaid       ...         ...         ...         ...         ...     264  :  12  :    8 

Capt.  Henry  Webb,  in  part  payment  of 
£850  6,"?.  2d.  due  to  him  and  part  of  his 
company  for  the  time  aforesaid 577  :    7  :     7 

Sir  Francis  Gore,  Knight,  in  part  payment 
of  £313  6^.  4d.  due  to  the  Ensign  and 
eleven  Privates  of  his  company  for  the 
time  aforesaid        ...         ...         ...         ...     214  :    6  :    0 

Capt.  William  Hamilton,  in  part  payment  of 
£509  9.V.  8d.  due  to  one  Serjeant  and 
twenty-four  Privates  (disbanded)  of  the 
Earl  of  Mountrath's  company  for  the  time 
aforesaid       345  :  19  :    1 

Major  John  ffolliott,  in  part  payment  of 
£292 16.5.  due  to  him  as  ^lajor  and  Captain 
of  a  company  for  the  time  aforesaid       ...     199  ;  10  :    9 

Robert  Harrison,  in  part  payment  of  £33  12*. 
due  to  him  as  Lieut,  in  Capt.  Robert 
Meredith's  company  from  August  27th, 
1660,  to  February  11th,  1661      22  :  10  :    9 

Capt.  Robert  Cooke,  in  part  paj^ment  of 
£446  45.  4rf.  due  to  the  Lieut.,  Ensign 
and  twenty-five  Privates  of  his  company, 
August  30th,   1658,   to  February   11th, 

±uOU    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...      oUu   I      ^   I      t/ 

William  Brett, in  part  payment  of  £498135.6d. 
due  to  the  Ensign,  one  Serjeant,  one 
Drummer  and  twenty  Privates  of  Sir 
Robert  Hannay's  company  for  the  time 
aforesaid       338  :  14  :  10 

Capt.  James  Synnocke,  in  part  payment  of 
£428  15.9.  8d,  due  to  him  and  part  of  his 
company,  viz.,  the  Ensign,  two  Serjeants, 
one  Corporal  and  eight  Privates  for  the 
time  aforesaid         291  :     5  :     IJ 


435 

Capt.  John  Honor,  in  part  payment  of  £213  45.       £        s.      d. 
due  to  him  as  Captain  of  a  company  for 
the  time  aforesaid 147  :    9  :  10 

Ensign  James  Hudson,  in  part  payment  of 
£93  2s.  6d.  due  to  the  Ensign  and  two 
Privates  of  Col.  John  Brett's  company  for 
the  time  aforesaid 63:    1;    9 

Edward  Blackall,  in  part  payment  of  £12  12^. 
due  to  him  as  Chirurgeon's  mate  to  Col. 
Henry  Ingoldsby's  Regiment  for  the 
time  aforesaid         8  :  11  :    4 

Walter  Harris,  in  part  payment  of  £125  8s. 
due  to  him  as  Chirurgeon  to  Col.  John 
Gorges*  Regiment  for  the  time  aforesaid      84  :  13  :    3 

John  Munday ,  in  part  payment  of  £44 18s.  6d. 
due  to  him  as  Chirurgeon's  mate  to  Sir 
Ralph  Wilson's  Regiment  for  the  time 
aforesaid       30  :  10  :    8 

Thomas  .flfettyplace,  in  part  payment  of 
£33  125.  due  to  him  as  Chirurgeon  to  Col. 
Henry  Tngoldsby's  Regiment  for  the  time 
aforesaid       22  :  16  :  .  8 

John  Britton,  in  part  payment  of  £104  10s. 
due  to  him  as  Quartermaster  to  Lord 
Massareene's  Regiment  for  the  time 
aforesaid       70  :  17  :     2J 

John  Crabb,  in  part  payment  of  £125  8s.  due 
to  him  as  Chirurgeon  to  Sir  Ralph 
Wilson's  Regiment  for  the  time  aforesaid      85  :    1  :    4 

Capt.  Thomas  Newburgh,  in  part  payment  of 
£119  165.  due  to  him  as  Capt.  Lieut,  in 
Charles,  Earl  of  Mountrath's  company  for 
the  time  aforesaid 87  :    3  :    IJ 

Ensign  Abraham  May,  in  part  payment  of 
£60  95.  due  to  him  as  Ensign  to  the  late 
Capt.  Robert  Sterne's  company,  July  5th, 
1658,  to  August  1st,  1659 40  :    9  :    0 

Lewis  Cheevers  and  Anthony  Martin,  to  be 
defaulted  out  of  the  third  part  of  their 
arrears  as  soldiers  in  Col.  Jephson's 
company       5:0:0 

Roger  Bevins,  in  part  payment  of  arrears  due 
to  him  as  Private  in  Sir  Francis  ftouke's 
company,  to  be  discounted  when  his 
arrears  come  to  be  paid 2:0:0 

Margareft  Locke,  widow  of  James  Locke  of 
Capt.  Peacocke's  company,  for  her  relief, 
which  is  to  be  defaulted  out  of  arrears  of 
pay    ...         ...         ...         ...         ••.         •••         'J'     v/.     \j 


43(> 


B.      d. 


Trevelyan  Pierce ,  widow ,  towards  her  present 
relief,  to  be  defaulted  out  of  arrears  due 
to  her  deceased  husband,  Maurice  Pierce, 
late  of  Major  Thomas  Brereton's  company        4:0:0 

Joan  Cocke,  widow,  for  her  present  relief, 

to  be  defaulted  out  of  arrears  due  to  her 

deceased  husband,  John  Cocke,  late  of 

Capt.  Webster's  company  2  :  10  :    0 

]\rary  Dix,   widow  of  Walter  Dix  of  Capt. 

William  Bolton's  company         3  :    0  :    0 

Mary  Spencer,  widow  of  John  Spencer  of  the 

late  Capt.  Samuel  Wade's  company,  for 

two  months'  pay,  November  21st,  1659, 

to  January  15th,  lfi60      1  :  17  :    4 


Sum    38624  :  18  :    3| 

£        8.      d. 
Sum  total  of  the  Payments  and  Disbursements 

aforesaid  is 163820  :  17  :    OJ- 

£        8.      d. 
And  so  there  remaineth  in  the  hands  of  the 

said  Accomptant,  the  sum  of      82  :     5  :    5^ 

Out  of  which  is  allowed  to  the  Deputy  Receiver  General's 
Clerks  for  their  extraordinary  labour  and  pains  taken  about 
this  account,  £52,  and  to  the  Auditor's  Clerks  over  and  above 
the  sums  allowed  them  in  the  Account  for  Civil  AflFairs,  £30, 
And  so  remains  in  the  hands  of  the  Accomptant,  6«.  6Jd. 

Ja.  Ware. 


487 


LETTEES  OF 
ELIZABETH.  DUCHESS  OF  ORMOND 

TO 

CAPTAIN    GEORGE    MATHEW, 

1668-1678. 


1668,  September  12.  Moor  Park. — Brotlier:  I  arrived  at 
Minchead  the  Sunday  after  I  parted  from  you,  where  1  was 
driven  to  stay  until  the  Wednesday  following  to  give  my  coach 
horses  one  day's  rest,  that  came  not  into  the  harbour  till  two 
days  after  me ;  so  as  I  came  not  hither  till  Tuesday  last,  where  I 
intend  to  stay  until  Monday  next,  and  then  to  go  to  London. 

My  Lord  has  gone  this  day  to  wait  upon  the  King,  who  has 
been  abroad  at  Bagshot  and  other  places  a  hunting,  ever  since 
my  Lord  left  the  town,  so  as  no  business  could  be  done.  My 
Lord  Arlington  being  gone  to  his  own  house  in  the  country 
to  put  preparations  on  foot  when  the  Court  returns  to  prosecute 
all  the  designs  that  are  laid  against  my  Lord  and  the  Lord  of 
Anglesey ;  so  as  a  very  little  time  will  make  a  full  discovery 
of  what  my  Lord's  enemies  are  able  to  do  against  him,  which, 
for  anything  that  I  can  yet  apprehend,  will  be  more  likely  to 
prejudice  themselves  than  ruin  him,  though  there  is  nothing 
that  they  will  and  does  more  endeavour,  having  engaged  them- 
selves so  far,  and  therefore  wdll  lay  the  strength  of  their  whole 
interest  upon  it. 

I  found  my  son  Arran  in  great  sadness*  when  I  came,  who 
intends  to  go  for  Ireland  very  suddenly,  though  I  did  what 
I  could  to  dissuade  him  from  it.  His  chief  reason  is  to  settle 
his  affairs  there  and  discharge  his  debts,  and  to  return  hither 
again  when  that  is  done,  and  attend  the  Parliament  until  he 
sees  what  will  be  done  for  or  against  his  father,  and  afterwards 
has  I  find  some  thoughts  to  travel.     Your  affectionate  sister, 

E.  Ormond. 
Addressed: — For  my  brother,  Mr.  George  Mathew. 

1668,  September  19.  Whitehall. — It  was  Monday  last 
before  I  came  hither,  where  I  have  been  so  employed  in 
paying  my  duty  to  my  betters,  and  receiving  the  ceremony 
of  visits,  as  I  had  not  time,  and  scarcely  have  yet,  to  write 
unto  any  of  my  friends.     The  letter  of  attorney  I  gave  unto 

*  Lord  Arran's  first  wife— Lady  Mary  Stewart— died  July  4,  lOttS. 


438 

tuy  Lord  so  soon  as  I  came  to  town,  who  tells  me  he  has  signed 
and  returned  it  to  you  by  the  last  post.  I  cannot  as  yet  give 
you  an  account  of  our  weekly  expenses  here,  not  having  yet 
had  an  hour's  time  to  look  into  that  affair ;  but  do  resolve  to 
make  it  my  business  so  soon  as  ever  I  can.  Only  I  must  tell 
you  I  have  been  so  good  a  manager  of  my  own  as  paying  the 
charge  of  both  the  ships,  which  cost  me  threescore  and  five 
pounds,  and  ten  shillings  a  head  duty  for  every  horse  levied, 
I  brought  threescore  pound  of  my  two  hundred  with  me  hither, 
which  has  purchased  me  all  that  I  shall  lay  out  upon  myself 
until  Christmas  next. 

I  have  not  seen  your  friend  and  mine  as  yet,  but  received 
a  request  from  her  to  get  the  King's  letter  for  passing  the  fee 
of  all  those  lands  she  holds  by  lease  from  the  Crown,  which 
I  immediately  moved  my  Lord  in,  who  told  me  that  he  believed 
it  a  very  improper  time  for  him  to  desire  anything  of  the 
King  in  his  own  behalf  or  in  any  others,  when  all  his  actions 
were  ransacked  into  by  his  greatest  enemies,  and  that  he 
believed  nothing  that  should  come  recommended  by  him  of 
this  nature  but  would  be  opposed,  and  not  only  so,  but  might 
more  probably  be  a  means  to  question  what  was  already  granted 
than  obtain  beyond  it ;  and  therefore  advised  a  suspense  as  much 
safer  at  this  time  unto  the  person  concerned  than  any  further 
proceeding  in  that  affair  could  be,  which  accordingly  I  have 
been  free  to  tell  your  friend  by  letter. 

My  son  Arran  and  my  Lord  of  Cahir  went  hence  for 
Ireland  yesterday,  of  whose  safe  arrival  I  much  long  to  hear, 
being  very  apprehensive  of  this  season  of  the  year,  that  for 
the  most  part  proves  stormy ;  and  should  be  glad  to  know  how 
you  advance  in  the  affair  concerning  Captain  Power's  money, 
that  out  of  it  the  tradesmen  may  be  satisfied,  who  are  upon 
that  account  very  much  importuning. 

1668,  November  14.  London. — Yours  of  the  3rd  and  7th 
of  November  came  together  to  my  hands  upon  Thursday  last. 
So  did  the  account  of  the  weekly  expense  of  the  house  since 
my  coming  away,  which  I  do  think  (as  you  do)  might  be 
lessened  were  the  clerk  of  the  kitchen  as  just  as  he  ought  to 
be,  but  I  believe  is  not.  And  therefore  I  do  hope  to  send  one 
over  that  shall  better  discharge  that  employment  than  he,  and 
is  a  single  man.  But  I  would  not  advise  you  to  let  Conway 
know  that  there  is  an  intent  of  parting  with  him  until  I  be 
sure  of  this  other,  and  then  I  will  send  you  notice.  I  am  in 
hope  to  get  Moor  Park  sold,  which  would  ease  us  of  a  good 
part  of  our  debt,  and  stop  a  growing  charge.  My  Lord  was 
in  arrear  of  the  first  half-year's  interest,  which  was  like  to 
have  drawn  some  clamour  upon  him,  which  came  in  all  to 
four  hundred  and  sixty  odd  pounds,  which  to  discharge  I  was 
driven  to  pawn  a  pair  of  diamond  pendants,  worth  £700.* 


*  Sec  p.  290  supra  for  a  note  of  tliis  tran!<}action. 


439 

1  have  furnished  the  house  from  ]Moor  Park  with  bedding 
and  goods  from  thence,  and  have  avoided  as  much  as  I  could 
devise  the  laying  out  of  money  as  to  what  I  have  the  ordering 
of,  which  I  keep  a  particular  account  of. 

I  am  of  opinion  that  you  will  see  my  Lord  return  Lord 
Lieutenant  again  in  spite  of  all  his  enemies;  this,  in  brief, 
is  as  much  as  I  shall  venture  to  say,  and  what  I  suppose  will 
satisfy  you.  I  could  wdsh  that  in  rating  the  weekly  expense 
that  w^as  sent  me,  I  could  have  known  how  much  in  ready 
money  was  disbursed  for  the  care  of  the  table  and  other 
necessary  charges. 

Your  friend  went  from  hence  on  Monday  last  to  Acton,  and 
from  thence  intends  for  Ireland  with  the  first  opportunity, 
which 'I  wdsh  may  be  safe  and  speedy. 

1668,  November.     London — Here  is  great 

discourse  of  my  Lord's  being  to  leave  the  Government,  but 
the  King  has  never  spoken  unto  him  as  yet  concerning  it ;  and 
truly  I  think  will  not  upon  that  subject,  though  there  is  a  very 
great  portion  that  presses  him  to  it.  But  as  yet  I  do  not  hear 
they  have  prevailed 

1668,  November. — My  Lord's  enemies  are  very  industrious 
to  get  him  out  of  the  Government,  and  all  his  out  of  command 
in  Ireland;  till  when,  they  say,  they  cannot  go  on  in  their 
business  (what  that  is  I  cannot  tell,  but  what  is  generally 
believed  is  the  destruction  of  all,  if  God's  mercy  and  the  King's 
wisdom  does  not  prevent  them). 

1668,  November  2*2. — There  is  transmitted  to  you  by  my 
Lord's  directions,  an  account  of  what  money  he  has  paid  for 
my  son  Ossory  since  his  coming  last  over,  that  was  due  before 
that  time  for  the  keeping  of  his  horses  and  the  charge  of  his 
stables,  with  what  he  has  laid  out  since,  that  some  account 
may  be  made  with  him.  I  find  him  indebted  to  many 
tradesmen  here,  who  complain  of  him  to  be  a  bad  paymaster ; 
and  I  cannot  but  fear  and  suspect  him  so,  because  that  neither 
he  nor  his  lady  does  know  what  their  debts  are,  or  to  whom 
they  owe,  though  the  greatest  part  is  hers,  who  gave  so  large 
a  power  unto  her  servants  to  go  on  the  score,  without  looking 
nor  correcting  the  bills  herself.  And  this  prejudice  will  be 
still,  unless  you  can  prevail  with  one  or  both  of  them  to  manage 
their  expenses  with  more  care,  and  to  be  concerned  in  the 
government  of  the  family,  which  I  do  fear  my  daughter  will 
not  apply  herself  to,  for  I  hear  she  eats  more  in  her  chamber 
than  at  the  table,  which  is  not  the  way  to  live  with  that  decency 
that  both  now  is  and  will  be  hereafter  expected  from  her.  And 
I  believe  her  debts  at  Dublin  are  great,  so  as  I  know  not  what 
course  of  life  they  can  propose  unto  themselves  if  they  run 
out  of  all  compass,  after  all  the  help  they  have  had  from  us 
both  in  Ireland  and  here.  This  I  tell  you,  that  by  under- 
standing how  their  condition  is,  you  may  give  them  both  some 


440 

advice  from  yourself  without  naming  me,  to  avoid  my  daughter 
taking  any  exceptions,  as  possibly  she  might,  at  my  finding 
fault ;  though  I  do  assure  you  I  may  very  justly  [complain]  of 
her  neglect  and  want  of  conduct  in  her  affairs,  which  has  made  a 
great  discovery  of  her  weakness  here  and  is  generally  taken 
notice  of  at  the  Court ,  at  which  I  am  much  troubled 

I  am  still  of  the  same  opinion  I  w^as  in  my  last  letter,  that 
you  will  see  my  Lord  return  in  the  same  power  that  he  left 
you. 

1608,  December  5.  London.  .  .  . — I  cannot  tell  yon  for 
certain  that  my  Lord  will  be  continued  in  the  Government, 
though  it  is  generally  so  said  and  believed  both  in  the  Court 
and  town,  by  reason  I  see  so  great  changes  as  I  cannot  believe 
anything  sure.  But  if  this  shall  happen  to  prove  so,  it  may 
be  owed  to  his  innocency  in  not  having  proved  negligent  or 
corrupt  in  his  government,  rather  than  from  any  favour  he 
has  found  from  any  man  that  does  yet  appear.  But  let  this 
be  kept  to  yourself,  for  it  may  perhaps  be  better  the  world 
should  believe  him  better  befriended  than  I  doubt  he  is. 

I  am  endeavouring  to  get  one  in  Conway's  place,  and  to 
look  the  best  I  can  that  my  Lord  be  not  cozened  here ;  though 
I  have  so  little  help  as  I  much  fear  we  are  wronged,  for  all 
the  care  I  can  take  to  the  contrary.  So  strange  a  time  this 
is  for  servants,  as  people  of  all  degrees  complain  that  they  were 
never  so  bad  as  now.  I  pray  you  send  me  word  how  they  are 
there  in  my  son's  family,  and  what  order  is  kept  by  them,  with 
what  other  account  you-  shall  think  fit  to  be  transmitted 
concerning  domestic  affairs. 

1668  [-9] ,  January  28.  London. — My  Lord  and  I  both  does 
so  much  apprehend  the  danger  of  the  roof  of  the  old  hall  of 
the  Castle  of  Kilkenny,  as  he  desires  it  may  be  secured,  repaired, 
and  mended  with  as  much  speed  as  may  be,  there  being  timber 
enough  there  to  do  it,  which  was  left  of  [from]  other  works. 
And  I  do  believe  that  Taylor,  the  carpenter,  would  contrive 
it  as  well  or  better  than  any  other  workman  that  is  there, 
provided  he  be  articled  with  and  give  security  to  perform  the 
agreement ;  and  ]Mr.  Archer  is  to  oversee  the  work  and  deliver 
out  the  materials  for  it,  that  such  an  account  may  be  kept 
thereof  that  we  may  not  be  cozened  by  the  workmen,  nor  be 
betrayed  into  a  greater  expense  than  there  is  a  necessity  for. 

I  send  you  here  enclosed  a  note  of  some  pieces  of  plate  that 
I  desire  to  have  sent  me,  to  be  changed  for  what  is  now  more 
in  use  and  better  for  show.  Here  is  little  news  but  that  the 
Duchess*  was  brought  to  bed  on  Wednesday  last  of  a  daughter, 
and  that  Mr.  Simmons,  who  did  very  barbarously  kill  my  cousin 
Browicke  in  a  tavern,  and  the  two  accessories  are  all  fled. 
The  weather  here  is  cold  unto  so  great  a  degree  that  I  have 

*  The  Duchess  of  York.    Anne  Hyde's  third  daughter,  the  Princess  Henrietta, 
was  born  in  Jan.  1668-9,  and  died  in  the  Novembet  following. 


441 

hot  found  the  like  of  it  in  England,  which  gives  my  Lord  hopes 
that  the  frosts  are  in  some  proportion  equalling  it  in  Ireland, 
that  so  his  snow  houses  may  be  filled. 

1668  [-9],  February  5. — I  thank  you  for  your  care  in 
providing  a  house  for  the  Dutchman  who  I  intend  to  bring 
over  with  me,  and  do  hope  that  my  Lord  will  be  over  very 
shortly  in  what  capacity  soever;  though  my  belief  is  still 
that  it  will  be  the  same  as  it  was,  notwithstanding  all  that 
you  do  hear  to  the  contrary.  And  I  think  I  have  some  reason 
to  be  of  that  opinion,  which  is  not  convenient  for  me  to  write. 
My  Lord  bid  me  to  write  unto  the  Controller,  as  this  day 
I  have  done,  to  lay  in  beer  at  Kilkenny  the  next  month,  and 
to  fill  both  the  cellars.  A  proportion  of  wine  will  be  likewise 
necessary  to  be  in  a  readiness,  and  the  securing  of  the  roof  of 
the  great  hall  there  is  required  [as  much]  or  more  than  any- 
thing; concerning  which  I  writ  formerly  to  you,  and  do  again 
second  my  request  that  in  your  own  presence  it  may  be  viewed, 
and  so  much  done  as  may  prevent  it  from  the  danger  of  falling. 

1668  [-9],  February  16.  London. — My  letter  to  you  upon 
Saturday*  did,  I  suppose,  prepare  you  for  what  happened  on 
Sunday  last,  which  was  my  Lord's  dismiss  from  the  Govern- 
ment of  Ireland  declared  by  His  Majesty,  and  the  Lord  Roberts 
named  to  succeed  him  with  the  title  of  Lord  Lieutenant.  I 
cannot  as  yet  inform  you  of  the  certain  time  when  his  Lordship 
will  be  there,  but  so  soon  as  I  do  know  you  shall  have  speedy 
notice  sent  you.  [In]  the  meantime  it  will  be  necessary  to 
get  either  the  Phoenix  or  Chapelizard  house  t  in  a  readiness  for 
my  son  Ossory  and  as  many  of  his  family  as  the  place  he 
chooses  can  contain  ;  the  rest  may  lodge  in  the  town.  And  he 
[is]  to  keep  but  a  private  table  whilst  he  is  there ;  and  to 
dismiss  as  many  servants  of  all  kinds  as  may  be  spared,  and 
give  opportunity  to  have  our  goods  removed  out  of  the  Castle 
unto  Dunmore,  at  least  such  as  will  take  up  most  room,  by 
reason  that  house  is  empty  and  the  best  of  them  is  there,  that 
Dublin  Castle  may  be  the  sooner  cleared  for  the  new  Governor ; 
which  will  also  put  our  own  affairs  into  a  great  forwardness 
against  I  come  myself,  which  shall  be,  God  willing,  about  the 
middle  of  the  next  month.  I  do  believe  that  what  provisions 
of  coal,  beer,  hay,  oats,  wine  or  the  like,  will  possibly  be  bought 
by  the  persons  employed  by  the  new  Governor  for  his  use, 
as  also  the  bedsteads  for  servants,  tables,  and  such  lumber 
which  it  may  not  be  amiss  to  consider  and  set  some  value  upon. 
All  the  locks  and  keys  I  likewise  paid  for,  and  particularly 
those  belonging  to  my  Lord's  closet  and  my  own  chamber, 
with  the  iron  racks  in  the  several  chimnies.  By  the  next  I 
shall  possibly  know  more,  and  then  you  shall  accordingly  hear 
further. 

Postscript : — I  pray  remember  me  to  my  sister,  to  whom  T 
was  not  willing  to  write  what  I  was  sure  would  not  please  her. 

*  This  letter  is  not  fortlicoming. 
t  The  Viceregal  residences  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Dublin. 


442 

1668  [-9] ,  February. — I  still  hold  my  resolution  of  going 
for  Ireland  about  the  middle  of  the  next  month,  so  as  I  do 
hope  to  be  there  time  enough  for  the  Lord  Roberts  his  arrival, 
to  help  in  the  ordering  of  the  family,  and  the  moving  and 
modelling  of  it  as  may  suit  our  present  condition.  I  do  not 
certainly  know  when  the  new  Governor  will  be  there,  some 
says  not  till  ilay ;  but  I  desire  that  no  time  may  be  lost  to 
put  Kilkenny  into  a  readiness  to  receive  my  son's  family  and 
myself,  for  I  will  make  my  friends  welcome  to  that  place  whilst 
I  stay. 

My  Lord  of  OiTcry  is  as  little  satisfied  with  this  change  that 
is  made,  and  the  Duke  of  Buckingham,  as  if  my  Lord  had 
continued ;  and  I  am  of  opinion  that  they  will  find  cause,  at 
the  least  I  wish  it  may  fall  out  so,  and  so  I  am  sure  do  many 
more 

When  any  person  conies  from  the  Lord  Roberts  to  make 
provision  for  him,  I  would  have  the  Steward  and  Controller 
to  be  civil  in  offering  him  any  ordinary  assistance  that  he  may 
lequire,  as  I  have  done  the  Lady  Roberts  of  anything  in  the 
Castle  belonging  to  us  that  may  be  useful  to  her  until  her 
goods  come  over;   which  I  find  was  extremely  well  taken. 

I  think  the  Phoenix  will  be  a  much  fitter  place  for  my  son 
to  be  at  when  he  leaves  the  sword  than  Chapelizod ;  and  I  am 
not  unapt  to  believe  but  Col.  Jeffers  would  lend  it  furnished 
as  it  is  for  so  short  a  time  as  would  be  needful  for  my  son 
singly  to  make  use  of  it ;  his  lady  and  children  being  fitter  to 
remove  with  me  to  Kilkenny  some  time  before  the  new 
(jovernor*s  arrival  than  to  be  there  at  that  time,  which  may 
be  very  well  contrived  by  my  going  over  so  early  before  his 
coming ;  who  cannot  go  sooner  than  May  as  is  thought,  for 
he  has  a  great  family  of  children  and  estate  to  settle,  and  a 
place  to  part  with,  that  is  looked  after  by  many.  But  I  cannot 
inform  you  so  particularly  by  this  as  I  do  hope  to  by  the  next 
post,  and  therefore  shall  add  no  further  unto  your  trouble  at 
this  time. 

1668  [-9],  March  6.  London. — Several  of  your  letters 
coming  to  my  hand  yesterday  late  gave  me  not  time  to  answer 
all  the  particulars  of  them  this  day  with  mine  own  hand,  being 
upon  some  business  concerned  to  be  at  my  Lady  of  Devon- 
shire's this  forenoon,  and  therefore  have  desired  Sir  George 
Lane  to  perform  it  for  me ;  so  as  I  have  only  to  add  in  this  my 
desire  that  the  notes  which  my  Lady  Lane  has  of  mine,  one 
as  I  take  it  being  for  two  hundred,  and  another  for  one  hundred, 
may  be  attested  by  you.  The  money  I  had  from  him  was  to 
pay  off  such  of  my  Lord's  servants  as  was  sent  with  my  son 
Ossory  into  England,  and  the  other  upon  a  debt  that  my  Lord 
did  owe  unto  a  poor  widow ;  all  which  he  well  remembers. 
I  suppose  my  Lady  Lane  does  not  press  any  speedy  payment, 
only  aims  at  the  better  strengthening  of  her  security  for  the 
debt. 


448 

1  do  not  think  it  convenient  tliat  my  daughter  Ossory  should 
remove  from  Dublin,  nor  the  goods  be  carried  from  thence  until 
I  come,  by  reason  the  Lord  Roberts  desires  to  buy  such 
furniture  as  we  can  spare,  and  provisions  also,  which  will  be 
a  conveniency  unto  us  both.  I  intend,  God  willing,  to  be  at 
Holyhead  the  1st  of  April,  where  a  ship  will  be  in  a  readiness 
to  bring  me  over.  I  have  sent  to  the  Controller  to  lay  in  more 
beer  at  Kilkenny,  suflBcient  for  my  stay  three  months  there, 
and  for  my  son's  family  when  I  leave  them,  wine  and  all 
provisions  also ;  so  as  it  will  be  needless  to  lay  in  anything  at 
Chapelizard,  but  to  have  the  place  well  kept  that  my  Lord 
Eoberts  may  find  it  so;  whom  I  have  some  reason  to  hope 
will  be  a  friend. 

1668  [-9] ,  March.  London. — I  hear  there  is  some  retrench- 
ments made  in  the  family  since  this  change  in  the  Government 
by  lessening  of  the  numbers  of  them ,  which  I  do  approve  very 
well  of,  and  the  more  that  it  is  done  with  your  approbation  and 
advice,  that  I  am  sure  will  consider  that  the  best  servants  in 
their  several  kinds  are  to  be  retained  to  make  up  a  family 
proper  for  my  son  to  keep  at  Kilkenny  when  he  parts  with  the 
Government.  For  there,  I  do  take  for  granted,  he  must  reside 
at  the  least  until  such  time  as  his  father's  money  is  received, 
and  the  kingdom  settled  in  his  hand  whom  the  King  has 
honoured  with  that  trust ;  and  who  I  am  persuaded  will  be 
very  just  and  friendly  unto  my  Lord  and  all  his  relations,  and 
not  so  indulgent  I  suppose  to  my  Lord  of  Orrery  as  my  Lord 
was,  ho  understanding  very  well  what  that  person  has  been 
from  the  beginning,  and  what  he  is  still — the  most  false  and 
ungrateful  man  living — and  under  that  esteem  I  can  assure 
you  he  passes  here  with  all  the  considerable  persons  of  this 
kingdom,  and  I  hear  he  is  dejected  at  this  disappointment  that 
he  has  met  with,  and  so  are  all  his  adherents,  which  is  some 
satisfaction  yet,  and  more  I  expect  will  be  the  downfall  of 
some  ere  long  that  has  been  my  Lord's  enemies,  whilst  he 
preserves,  thank  God,  a  reputation  beyond  what  any  of  them 
can  boast,  and  has  at  this  time  the  kindness  and  respect  of  all 
this  nation  beyond  what  he  ever  had. 

I  desire  that  you  will  send  Seshons  order  to  furnish  the 
Castle  of  Kilkenny  to  be  in  a  readiness  to  receive  me,  my  son, 
and  his  family,  by  the  middle  of  the  next  month,  and  that  all 
necessary  provisions  for  the  house  may  be  laid  in  accordingly, 
though  I  do  not  believe  that  my  Lord  Eoberts  can  be  there 
till  the  later  end  of  May ;  till  when,  my  son  is  to  continue  in 
the  same  power  and  to  be  allowed  as  former  lords  deputies 
were,  and  to  dispose  of  all  commands  during  that  time.  So 
as  I  do  hope  he  may  get  a  company  for  Captain  Jones  either 
in  the  guards  or  in  the  army,  which  he  shall  himself  choose; 
and  some  lower  employment  for  such  other  of  my  Lord's 
servants  as  may  be  spared,  and  is  not  yet  provided  for. 

I  pray  you  tell  my  sister  Mathews  that  my  Lady  Roberts 
did  inquire  for  her  with  great  kindness,  and  promises  herself 


iniich  content  in  having  her  company  and  esteem ;  for  slie 
knows  none  there  but  herself  and  my  Lady  of  Desmond.  She 
is  a  very  virtuous  and  a  worthy  person,  and  goes  prepared  to 
be  very  obliging  to  all  our  relations,  and  so  I  do  hope  they 
will  all  be  to  her.  The  discontents  of  the  people  here  are  very 
great,  and  their  hatred  of  the  Duke  of  P>uckingham  far  beyond 
any  they  had  for  the  Lord  Clarendon  or  any  others.  God 
knows  what  it  will  end  in,  but  it  is  thought  in  no  good  unto 
his  Grace.  The  General*  is  very  ill  and  not  like  to  recover. 
Who  the  succeeding  person  shall  be  is  not  as  yet  known,  but 
conjectured. 

1668  [-9] ,  March  16. — I  thought  it  fit  to  acquaint  you  that  I 
have  now  agreed  w-ith  a  clerk  of  the  kitchen  for  £20  a  year,  and 
will  bring  over  with  me  a  larder  man  also,  upon  as  reasonable 
terms  as  I  can  agree,  if  you  do  find  that  the  latter  of  these  will 
be  useful  for  my  son/s  family  when  he  settles  himself  at 
Kilkenny  ;  where  I  do  hope  he  will  be  contented  to  spend  some 
time  until  he  sees  the  public  and  his  father's  affairs  better 
settled  than  at  present  they  are.  The  hopes  of  selling  Moor 
Park  makes  me  defer  my  journey  until  the  twentieth  of  the 
next  month,  and  the  rather  that  the  new  Governor's  going 
cannot  be  so  sudden  as  at  the  first  I  did  believe.  Besides,  the 
great  unsteadiness  of  affairs  are  such  as  we  hardly  as  yet  know 
what  we  may  account  to  be  certain,  and  therefore  I  think  it 
best  to  know  the  full  resolutions  that  will  be  taken  here,  which 
we  are  made  believe  are  changed  since  the  King's  going  to 
Newmarket  in  very  considerable  things  as  to  the  Government. 

1668  [-9] ,  March  20. — In  my  last  I  gave  you  an  account 
that  I  had  bargained  with  one  to  be  clerk  of  the  kitchen  for 
.i'20  a  year,  and  now  I  am  offered  a  young  man  that  has  skill 
to  powder  meat  and  to  keep  the  best  larder.  He  is  a  cook 
besides,  and  has  served  as  a  caterer  seven  years  in  a  gentleman's 
house,  that  gives  a  very  good  character  of  him.  The  wages 
he  demanded  was  £15  a  year,  but  with  much  ado  I  have  brought 
him  to  £10.  If  you  think  that  such  an  officer  will  be  needful 
in  my  son's  family  when  he  settles  at  Kilkenny,  I  pray  send 
me  word  as  soon  as  possibly  you  can,  that  I  may  either  bring 
him  over  when  I  come  or  give  him  his  answer,  which  he  desires 
may  be  so  soon  as  may  be,  that  in  case  I  do  not  entertain  him 
he  may  be  at  liberty  to  dispose  of  himself  otherwise. 

1669  [-70] ,  January  29 —My  Lord  of  Berkeley  is 

preparing  for  his  journey  into  Ireland,  w-ho  I  do  not  doubt 
will  keep  a  better  correspondence  wath  my  Lord  than  his 
predecessor  did.  My  Lord  Dunkellin's  marriage  has  extremely 
troubled  all  his  friends  here,  my  own  Lord  being  as  much 
concerned  as  if  he  had  been  his  son,  and  as  sensible  of  the 
affliction  it  must  be  unto  my  Lord  Clanriekarde,  the  ruin  that 
this  unhappy  young  man  has  brought  on  himself  and  his  family. 

*  Duke  of  Al>)emarle. 


445 

My  Lord  and  Lady  Berkeley  has  desired  the  assistance  of 
Baxter  to  advise  the  person  that  they  intend  to  employ  about 
the  making  of  provisions  for  him  and  bargaining  for  the  goods 
that  are  there,  the  which  it  is  supposed  will  be  sold;  so  as  by 
my  Lord's  direction  I  have  written  to  him  to  repair  to  Dublin 
so  soon  as  he  hears  from  my  Lord  Berkeley's  steward,  who 
is  ordered  to  give  him  notice  so  soon  as  he  arrives. 

I  have  at  this  time  some  hopes  of  putting  off  Moor  Park, 
but  not  so  great  a  certainty  as  I  wish.  My  son*  has  taken 
a  house  for  his  lady,  and  intends  to  send  for  her  as  soon  as 
better  weather  is.  The  rent  he  pays  for  it  is  dOllO  a  year. 
It  is  competent  for  the  bigness  of  it,  and  convenient  for  such 
a  number  as  he  intends  to  keep  ;  though  with  the  best  managing 
they  can  use,  I  am  afraid  they  will  not  be  able  to  live  within 
the  compass  of  their  allowance,  though  he  has  gotten  settled 
upon  him  since  his  coming  over  a  thousand  a  year  for  his 
salary,  as  he  is  a  Gentleman  of  the  Bedchamber,  which  will  be 
well  paid  him. 

The  w'ind  has  been  so  cross  of  late,  as  has  kept  me  from 
hearing  what  success  the  late  order  from  the  King  and  Council 
has  had  in  my  Lord's  concern. 

1670,  April  16. — My  Lord  has  agreed  for  the  sale  of  Moor 
Park  to  the  Duke  of  Monmouth  (goods  and  all) ,  for  which  he 
is  to  have  thirteen  thousand  two  hundred  pounds.  It  is  the 
King  that  buys  it  for  the  Duke,  so  as  it  is  the  Lords  of  the 
Treasury  that  we  are  now  treating  with,  and  do  hope  will  secure 
our  payment ;  which  is  the  main  concern  that  is  to  be  looked 
after,  as  I  doubt  not  but  it  will  be  by  Sir  George  Lane,  who 
is  entrusted  in  that  affair  by  my  Lord.  My  Lord  Lieutenant 
went  from  hence  on  Monday,  so  as  you  may  expect  his  arrival 
very  quickly. 

1670,  June  11. — Moor  Park  is  now  sold  for  eleven  thousand 
five  hu:ndred  pounds,  and  so  much  of  the  furniture  as  was  left 
from  what  I  brought  hither  for  our  present  use,  came  to 
Reventeen  hundred  pounds  more ;  so  as  the  whole  sum  had 
for  the  place  and  goods  is  thirteen  thousand  two  hundred 
pounds,  which  is,  all  but  five  hundred  that  is  for  the  use 
of  the  house,  already  disposed  of  for  the  payment  of  the  debts ; 
a  particular  of  which  Sir  George  Lane  has  promised  me  to 
send  you  this  night. 

1670,  June  18. — In  my  last  I  gave  you  an  account  that  Moor 
Park  is  sold.  ...  I  wish  there  could  be  some  way  found 
out  to  pay  off  the  rest  of  what  debts  remain  due  here,  and  then 
I  doubt  not  but  we  should  live  within  the  compass  of  what 
our  estate  will  bear  without  running  in  debt,  now  that  the 
charge  of  Moor  Park  is  at  an  end,  and  that  we  are  lent  a  part 
of  Clarendon  House,  whither  we  remove  the  next  week,  which 
will  save  us  the  rent  we  pay  for  this  we  have  hitherto  lived  in, 
w4iich  was  £250  a  year,  besides  other  charges  incident  to  it. 

•Lord  Osfiory. 


146 

1670  [-1],  January  7. — I  am  very  well  pleased  to  find  that 
there  is  so  considerable  a  sum  discharged,  which  .  .  .  gives 
me  some  hopes  that  what  remains  of  our  engagements  may  be 
discharged  in  a  few  years ;  which  renders  our  condition  more 
easy  to  us  than  I  could  have  expected,  considering  of  my  Lord's 
living  here,  where  we  are  forced  into  an  expense  of  our  keeping  a 
great  table  not  possible  to  be  avoided,  having  daily  the  resort 
of  all  strangers  and  ambassadors,  and  all  the  nobility  besides. 

1670  [-1],  January  21. — My  Lord  does  doubt  whether  his 
journey  over  may  not  be  better  deferred  than  undertaken, 
wherefore  I  do  the  more  wish  that  business  were  once  put  past 
danger,  that  my  Lord  might  have  no  more  to  do  with  any 
governors  there,  but  be  free  as  other  men  are  to  go  or  stay  as 
they  please.  The  persons  who  made  that  attempt  upon  my 
Lord*  are  some  of  them  known,  but  are  not  as  yet  taken.     .     . 

My  Lord  is  very  well  pleased,  and  so  am  I,  with  what  you 
design  in  building  of  brick  houses  at  Kilkenny  in  the  room  of 
those  thatched  cabins  that  are  pulled  down ;  which  if  done  in 
John  street  also,  would  secure  the  school  from  danger  of  being 
fired,  which  as  it  is  may  by  such  neighbours  be  in  some  hazard ; 
and  it  may  be  worth  your  consideration  whether  it  might  not 
be  convenient  to  take  such  land  from  the  Corporation,  where 
cabins  would  be  built  near  unto  where  stone  houses  are,  to 
prevent  the  mischief  that  so  frequently  does  happen  by  them. 

I  have  written  lately  to  my  son  Arran  and  acquainted  him  of 
the  reports  here  that  are  greatly  to  his  dishonour,  that  I  fear 
are  but  too  true.  I  pray  take  no  notice  that  you  know  anything 
of  my  resenting  of  his  strange  course  of  life,  but  let  me  know 
what  effects  it  has  had.  My  letter  was  sent  by  my  Lord  Mount 
Alexander,  who  I  do  hope  is  there  long  before  this.  As  for 
my  son  John,  I  have  so  mean  an  opinion  of  his  parts,  as  I 
think  him  wanting  in  a  capacity  of  living  better,  so  as  I  have 
cast  off  any  hopes  of  him ;  but  the  other  I  wish  were  out  of 
that  place  and  company,  in  hope  that  the  advice  of  his  friends 
here  may  have  some  power  to  prevail  with  him ,  whose  reason 
I  take  to  be  beyond  that  of  his  younger  brother,  whose  debts  here 
are  great,  and  I  fear  are  increased  there  also  since  I  left  Ireland. 
The  truth  of  what  concerns  this  last  I  ought  not  to  be  kept  a 
stranger  to,  so  as  some  information  from  you  concerning  him 
and  his  deportment  is  desired  by  your  affectionate  sister. 

1670  [-1] ,  February  14. — I  find  you  in  some  hopes  of  getting 
in  a  considerable  part  of  my  Lord's  money  by  Easter  next,  if 
no  new  interruption  do  happen  to  hinder  it;  as  I  am  willing 
to  believe  will  not,  unless  the  rumours  of  Mr.  Talbot's 
endeavours  to  break  the  settlement  of  Ireland  may  work  any 
change,  as  my  [Lord]  thinks  it  should  not  considering  how 
unlikely  or  rather  impossible  it  is  that  such  extravagant 
designs  as  he  goes  upon  should  ever  take  effect,  though  count- 
enanced by  the  Duke  of  Buckingham. 

I  -m  - 

•  Col.  Blood's  attack  on  the  Duke  of  Ormond. 


447 

1671,  April  1. — I  suppose  my  Lord  has  informed  you  of  the 
reasons  he  has  to  suspend  his  journey  over  for  some  longer 
time  than  I  did  believe ;  such  are  the  great  uncertainties  and 
changes  that  happens  here  as  it  cannot  be  thought  safe  for 
his  interests  to  remove  from  hence  until  affairs  be  better  settled 
that  relates  to  that  country,  which  at  the  present  hangs  in 
some  kind  of  suspense. 
My  son  Ossory  is  not  yet  returned  out  of  Holland  and  Flanders, 
who  intends  to  see  France  as  I  hear,  but  to  what  purpose  unless 
to  spend  nioney  I  know  not,  and  to  satisfy  a  vaulting  and  un- 
settled humour  which  he  still  retains;  and  he  is  cozened,  and  so  is 
my  daughter,  by  their  servants,  neither  of  them  being  inclined  to 
trouble  themselves  with  their  own  affairs,  but  be  undone  by 
their  own  negligence 

The  Duchess*  died  yesterday  about  three  of  the  clock  in  the 
afternoon,  having  been  at  dinner  at  my  Lord  Burlington's 
but  the  day  before.  Very  few  did  believe  she  could  recover,  but 
did  not  think  her  death  would  have  been  so  soon. 

1671,  July  1. — The  Lord  Kanelagh*s  business  goes  on  as 
little  to  the  satisfaction  of  honest  men  here  as  of  those  in 
Ireland ;  but  the  King  is  pleased  with  the  project,  and  that 
is  all  that  can  be  said  of  it. 

1671,  July  24. — Pray  send  me  word  whether  anything  can 
be  had  for  sheep  or  wool,  which  I  did  hope  I  might  have  had 
some  money  for,  but  do  now  begin  to  doubt  that  our  new  under- 
takers will  hinder  all  trade;  instead  of  making  the  King  rich, 
will  beggar  every  man,  and  ruin  the  King's  interest  at  length. 

1671,  August  19. — My  Lord  is  now  so  well,  thanks  be  to  God, 
that  he  needs  not  go  to  the  Spaw,  nor  had  he  ever  any  thoughts 
of  it.  I  send  you  a  copy  of  Purcell's  petition!  delivered  unto 
the  King.  The  fellow  was  sent  unto  the  Tower,  where  he  is 
still  a  prisoner,  though  Newgate  or  Bedlam  had  been  a  fitter 
prison  for  him ;  and  truly  there  are  but  too  many  of  such  fools 
and  knaves  set  on  to  exclaim  against  ray  Lord  without  cause. 
God  defend  him  from  their  malice.  .  .  .  We  are  much 
vexed  with  petitioners  that  comes  over;  set  on  as  I  verily 
believe  by  some  that  are  our  enemies  there,  and  encouraged 
by  the  like  here  to  make  a  noise  and  clamour. 

1671,  August  26.  .  .  . — I  hope  the  changes  here,  by  new 
letters  and  orders  sent  from  the  King,  will  not  hinder  my 
Lord  from  receiving  the  remainder  of  his  money,  which  if  once 
secure  would  not  only  free  him  from  so  much  debt,  but  of 
having  anything  to  do  with  the  Chief  Governor,  which  last 
good  fortune  as  well  as  the  former  is  much  wished. 

*  The  Duchess  of  York  died  March  31,  1671. 

tit  appears  b^r  a  letter  of  the  Duchess,  dated  Aug.  11,  but  so  torn  as  to  be 
only  partially  legible,  and  therefore  not  reproduced  here,  that  Purcell  was  a  son 
of  one  Philip  Purcell  of  Ballvfoyle,  and  his  petition  related  to  his  title  to  a  place 
called  Kilcolinduflf.  Purcell  seems  to  have  threatened  violence  to  the  Duke,  avI lo 
thereupon  called  on  Lord  Arlington  to  commit  Purcell  to  prison. 


418 

1671,  September  5. — The  good  fortune  that  it  has  pleased 
God  to  send  me  this  day  by  my  daughter  Ossory's  being  this 
morning  brought  to  bed  of  a  son,*  large  and  like  to  live,  has 
put  all  other  business  so  much  out  of  my  head,  as  I  must  defer 
writing  upon  any  other  subject  until  by  the  next  post.  The 
King  has  invited  himself  to  be  the  godfather,  so  as  this  child 
is  like  to  be  the  first  Charles  that  has  been  of  his  family. 

The  Lord  Lieutenant  went  for  Ireland  yesterday. 

1671  [-2],  February  10.  London. — It  being  not  possible 
for  my  Lord  to  prefix  what  month  to  go  into  Ireland,  though 
I  do  conclude  it  must  be  this  next  summer,  and  that  we  have 
no  longer  the  use  of  my  Lord  Si.  Alban's  goods  than  to  the 
last  of  March,  I  have  been  advised  to  send  over  for  three  of 
the  Dieppe  suits  of  hangings  at  Kilkenny,  to  use  here  whilst 
I  stay,  and  to  bring  them  back  when  I  come,  rather  than  be 
at  the  charge  of  buying  so  large  ones  here,  which  will  cost  a 
grear  deal  of  money.  When  I  came  from  Kilkenny  I  left 
two  boxes  o!  silver  sconces  in  the  room  where  my  Lord's 
writings  are  now  kept,  four  pair  of  large  ones  with  top  pieces 
and  double  sockets,  and  four  pair  more  of  a  lesser  sort  with 
double  brackets  without  tops,  all  which  I  desire  may  be  put 
into  a  strong  deal  case,  and  sent  to  Dublin  unto  Captain 
Baxter,  who  has  orders  to  send  them  and  the  cases  of  hangings 
over  to  me.  The  plate  is  intended  to  be  changed  for  what 
will  be  more  useful.  I  pray  you  hasten  your  directions  for  the 
sending  them  with  all  speed,  with  the  white  damask  curtains 
that  are  mentioned  in  Low's  note. 

1671  f-2] ,  February  20. — I  doubt  not  but  you  hear  that 
my  son  Ossory  has  taken  the  command  of  a  ship,  and  that 
my  son  Arran  goes  likewise  to  sea  with  the  Duke,  whose 
hazards  is  the  more  uneasy  to  me  that  my  third  son,  who  lives 
in  greater  security  than  the  lest,  does  live  so  scandalously  and 
so  unprofitably  unto  himself,  as  is  a  great  affliction  unto  his 
friends.  I  am  told  that  he  is  much  given  to  drinking  and  to 
the  keeping  of  the  worst  company,  that  he  has  very  ill  servants, 
and  is  extremely  cheated  by  them,  is  very  much  indebted  at 
Dublin  as  well  as  here,  so  as  it  is  strange  to  see  that  so  good 
an  allowance  as  he  has  from  his  annuity  and  entertainment 
is  so  ill  managed  by  his  extravagance  and  expense  as  not  to 
afford  him  a  decent  maintenance,  and  to  observe  him  so  little 
regarded  in  the  world  as  nobody  does  or  can  commend  him  for 
any  one  good  quality. 

I  pray  deal  freely  with  me  and  let  me  know  who  it  is,  if  any 
sober  person  there  be,  that  has  any  credit  with  him,  yourself 
or  any  other  of  our  relations  or  friends,  that  might  be  made  use 
of  to  lay  before  him  the  disadvantages  of  his  course  of  life,  and 
how  it  has  lessened  him  in  the  world's  esteem  as  well  as  in 


This  was  Lord  Ossory's  second  son,  Charlefl,  afterwards  Earl  of  Arran. 


449 

that  of  hia  parents,  who  are  very  sensible  and  ashamed  of  his 
faults,  though  he  is  not.  My  Lord  bid  me  to  desire  you  to 
get  from  him  an  account  of  all  his  debts  both  there  and  here. 

1671  f-2] ,  February  20. — I  showed  my  Lord  this  enclosed 
fthe  letter  regarding  her  son  John  of  the  same  date] ,  who 
advises  that  you  should  as  from  yourself,  in  kindness  to  my 
son  John,  show  him  this  letter  but  not  send  it  to  him,  and  from 
it  to  ground  your  discourse  and  advice  unto  him  ;  and  according 
as  he  receives  it  to  let  us  know  what  your  opinion  is  of  him, 
and  what  he  does  for  the  future  propose  unto  himself. 

I  suppose  you  hear  the  general  discourse  that  is  of  the  Earl 
of  Essex  being  to  go  ovei.^Lord  Lieutenant,  which  though  it 
has  not  as  yet  been  publicly  declared  by  the  King,  yet  it  is 
generally  believed  that  ho  will  be  the  person  chosen  ;  who  being 
so  temperate  and  prudent  as  he  is  said  to  be,  will  give  so 
good  example  as  my  son  John  will  have  very  little  reason  to 
believe  that  he  can  have  credit  or  interest  in  his  Loidship'a 
favours  if  he  continues  to  live  as  he  does. 

There  is  a  person  in  Beading  that  pretends  he  has  a  great 
intimacy  with  John,*  but  I  hope  has  not,  for  there  is  not  a 
more  worthless  nor  unfit  companion  for  a  man  of  honour  living 
than  himse-lf,  and  so  is  reported  by  all  the  world  that  knows 
him,  and  a  spy  for  these  new  Undertakers.  But  this  character 
T  thought  better  to  tell  you  than  write  it  to  my  son,  to  whom 
you  may  in  discourse  give  some  caution  concerning  him. 

1672,  May  7, — You  will  soon  receive  a  list  of  the  Table  of 
Fees  established  in  the  County  Palatine  Courts  here,  which 
will  I  hope  be  of  some  use  unto  you  to  form  and  regulate  that 
of  Tipperary,  which  as  it  is  now  occasions  a  great  charge  unto 
my  Tjord  far  above  the  profits  of  it.  I  was  as  ignorant  of  the 
bargains  my  Lord  made  with  Mr.  Dwyer  for  the  lands  of 
Ballyconishe  as  I  was  of  that  of  Nenagh;  but  I  shall  hence- 
forward be  more  watchful,  which  I  thought  I  needed  the  less 
be  w^hen  I  had  my  Lorfl's  promise,  after  the  last  mentioned 
cheat  that  was  put  upon  him,  that  he  would  not  engage  himself 
any  more  in  things  of  that  kind  without  acquainting  me,  which 
it  seems  he  did  forget,  having  other  things  to  think  on. 

1672,  June  4. — Both  my  sons  have,  I  bless  God,  escaped  with 
their  lives  in  this  last  fight  with  the  Dutch ;  my  son  Ossory 
being  only  a  little  bruised  in  both  his  legs  with  a  splinter,  but 
it  is  so  light  a  hurt  as  he  walks  with  it,  and  does  not  make 
anything  of  it. 

1672,  June  6. — I  think  it  would  be  necessary  to  have  the 
money  that  you  design  to  send  over  in  a  read'ness  to  be  trans- 
ported when  the  convoy  returns  that  is  to  attend  my  Lord  ot 
Essex,  who  purposes  to  be  going  for  Ireland  three  weeks  hence. 
And  if  you  could  the  meantime  contrive  to  send  their  supply 
Wt.  8878  I  c 


450 

without  noise,  the  more  privately  it  were  done  the  better,  and 
the  securer  it  would  be,  which  possibly  might  be  by  puttinjj 
it  into  a  good  strong  aqua  ritae  cask,  and  so  ordered  as  there 
might  be  no  greater  weight  in  each  than  so  much  of  that  sort 
of  drink  might  equal ;  or  send  it  over  in  wool,  which  I  believe, 
if  sold  at  Chester,  would  quit  the  charge  of  carrying  a  few 
packs  thither. 

1072,  June  22 — The  letter  you  desire  from  my 

Lord  unto  Mr.  Keating  shall  be  sent  you  by  the  next  post, 
but  cannot  by  this,  my  Lord  being  gone  to  Windsor  this 
morning  very  early  unto  the  instalment  of  my  Lord  Arlington, 
who  is  made  Knight  of  the  Garter.  The  like  honour  the  King 
declared  my  son  Ossory  should  have  when  the  next  vacancy 
should  happen,  which  promise  he  made  in  public  upon  Tuesday 
last,  when  the  Queen  and  he  did  both  sup  with  my  son  in  his 
ship;  her  Majesty  having  a  desire  to  see  the  fleet,  which  she 
did,  and  lay  in  the  Duke's  ship  two  nights.  My  son  Arran 
continues  his  conmiand  in  Ireland,  and  so  does  Sir  William 
Flower,  though  the  Lord  of  Ranelagh  did  do  all  that  he  could 
to  hinder  both.  T  pray  write  freely  for  me  concerning  my  son 
John,  and  let  me  know  what  his  debts  are,  that  we  may 
consider  what  course  to  take  with  him,  for  I  do  believe  the 
troop  of  guards  will  be  reduced  unto  an  ordinary  troop,  and  the 
pay  to  be  accordingly. 

1672,  July  10. — My  Lord  having  procured  licence  from  the 
King  to  have  his  money  transported,  not  exceeding  ten  thousand 
I)ounds,  and  will  have  the  security  of  having  it  brought  over  to 
Chester  in  the  man  of  war  that  carries  over  the  Earl  of  Essex, 
it  would  be  a  great  advantage  unto  his  affairs  here  if  more 
money  could  be  sent  (at  the  same  charge),  for  then  we  could 
free  ourselves  of  all  the  material  debts  and  be  at  ease  until 
the  next  rents  does  come  in ;  and  by  that  time  it  may  be  hoped 
that  the  exchange  of  money  will  fall,  which  in  that  kingdom 
T  do  know  is  veiy  difficult  to  be  raised,  yet  if  upon  any  security 
or  reasonable  advantage  a  thousand  pounds  more  can  be 
procured,  it  w'ould  be  very  important  unto  my  Lord  at  this 
time,  to  support  the  credit  with  which  he  has  hitherto  lived 
without  the  clamour  of  creditors,  which  few^  or  none  of  the 
nobility  here  but  are  vexed  with,  and  cried  out  for  being  ill 
paymasters. 

1672,  Kovember  3. — The  printed  papers  will  give  you  an 
account  of  my  son  Ossory's  instalment  at  Windsor,  which  has 
been  of  some  charge  to  my  Lord,  who  was  willing  to  help  him 
upon  that  occasion,  and  did  unto  the  value  of  above  £500. 

1672,  November  16. — My  son  Ossory  has  contracted  a  great 
debt  by  his  going  to  sea,  and  yet  runs  into  further  incon- 
veniencies  of  a  like  nature,  neither  he  nor  his  Lady  regarding 
the  ruin  that  is  like  to  fall  very  suddenly  upon  them,  which  is 
a  great  trouble  to  me  that  am  under  diflSculties  of  the  like  kind  by 


451 

helping  him ;  so  as  I  am  afraid  we  shall  suffer  together  if  our 
supplies  from  Ireland  should  fail  by  reason  of  the  fall  of  trade 
in  that  kingdom,  as  we  have  but  too  much  reason  to  fear  they 
will.  I  had  some  hopes  to  have  received  d9400  before  Christmas 
for  my  particular  uses,  but  now  Baxter  wTites  me  word  that  no 
money  can  be  had  neither  for  sheep  nor  wool,  which  is  a  great 
disappointment  to  me.  We  shall  go  within  a  few  days  to  a 
place  called  Burford  in  Oxfordshire,  where  I  will  try  whether 
we  can  live  cheaper  than  at  London,  that  we  may  spend  the  most 
time  where  we  can  best  subsist. 

1672,  November  9. — What  you  have  proposed  concerning 
my  son  John's  debts  is  certainly  the  best  course ;  that  he  should 
come  away  privately  from  thence,  and  leave  his  creditors  to  be 
compounded  with  in  his  absence,  and  gain  time  for  paying 
what  is  owing  unto  them.  I  will  send  you  w-hat  agreement  has 
been  made  with  those  here ;  but  all  that  is  endeavoured  wuU 
be  unto  little  purpose  unless  he  will  resolve  to  change  the  way 
of  his  living,  and  conform  unto  that  course  as  is  by  my  Lord 
proposed  unto  him,  which  I  send  you  here  enclosed  in  writing 
for  you  to  see,  and  afterw^ards  to  show  unto  him,  and  to  return 
his  answer,  which  will  be  before  he  shall  have  leave  to  stir  from 
thence.  And  when  he  comes  he  is  to  be  sure  to  bring  over 
none  but  such  servants  as  are  useful  and  honest,  or  else  let 
his  friends  find  out  for  him  here  such  as  are  so,  which  would 
be  the  better  way  and  less  charge  unto  him,  without  which  he 
can  never  hope  to  be  well  served,  nor  his  friends  secure  but 
that  he  will  exceed  his  allowance  and  run  in  debt  as  much  as 
before.  And  then  imagine  how  uneasy  that  will  be  unto  his 
father,  that  is  willing  to  engage  himself  so  far  to  free  him,  at 
a  time  w^hen  his  own  debts  are  so  pressing  upon  him,  which, 
besides  other  considerations,  my  Lord  thinks  ought  to  move 
him  to  amendment  and  gratitude. 

By  the  computation  made  of  the  yearly  charge  of  my  son 
John's  servants'  wages  and  levyage,  you  will  find  it  will  come 
unto  two  hundred  and  twenty  pounds  a  year,  so  as  out  of  his 
yearly  allowance  he  may  have  besides,  for  clothes  and  pocket 
money,  three  hundred  and  fourscore,  which,  well  managed, 
will  maintain  him  as  decently  as  any  man  of  his  quality  needs 
to  be,  and  his  entertainment  to  go  towards  the  payment  of 
his  debts  there.  The  greatest  difficulty  I  apprehend  to  him 
will  be  the  laying  out  of  a  hundred  pound  for  a  chariot  and  a 
pair  of  horses,  and  fifty  more  for  liveries,  besides  what  clothes 
he  may  need  at  his  first  coniing.  But  if  he  can  come  provided 
for  these  necessary  occasions  and  some  spending  money,  I 
do  believe  he  will  live  more  unto  his  credit,  and  I  hope  unto  his 
content  also,  than  ever  he  did  in  his  life. 

1672  [-3] ,  January  4.  Burford. — If  you  could  procure  me 
£200  to  be  paid  out  of  the  wool  or  stock,  you  w^ould  do  me  a 
special  courtesy,  for  so  much  I  owe  for  a  diamond  George,  that 
I  gave  unto  my  son  Ossory  when  he  was  made  Knight  of  the 
Garter. 


462 

1672,  May  13. — If  you  have  not  heard  from  me  so  frequently 
of  late  as  you  might  expect,  you  will  the  less  wonder  when  you 
hear  of  two  marriages  in  my  family  that  are  near  concluded ; 
the  one  for  my  son  Ossory's  daughter  unto  the  Earl  of  Derby ; 
the  other  my  son  Arran  to  the  daughter  of  one  Mr.  Ferrers, 
one  of  the  best  and  ancientest  families  of  England ;  formerly 
Earls  of  Essex.  The  portion  is  £12,000,  and  but  one  plckly 
young  man,  her  brother,  between  her  and  f3,000  a  year  after 
her  father's  decease. 

.  .  .  .  ■.  My  Lord  and  I  were  for  strengthening  of  our 
family  by  the  best  alliances,  to  fortify  it  against  the  malice  of 
mean  and  little  people  that  has  laboured  all  they  could  to  ruin 
US.  My  Lord  has  sold  his  uncertain  pension  of  a  thousand 
pounds  a  year  as  Gentleman  of  the  Bedchamber  for  £6,000; 
£3,000  whereof  is  to  be  paid  in  hand  for  my  Lord  of  Derby's 
wife;  the  other  seven,  being  £10,000  in  all  that  we  are  to 
give,  to  be  paid  in  a  year  and  a  half  from  November  next,  or 
when  my  Lord  of  Derby  comes  of  age,  who  is  at  present  in 
his  eighteenth  year. 

This  is  a  great  year  of  weddings  generally,  so  as  I  do  not 
despair  but  tliat  my  son  John  may  get  a  wife  too,  for  so  he 
maKes  me  believe,  if  his  friends  assist  and  countenance  him. 

1673,  May  27.— The  news  of  my  mother's  death*  was  received 
by  my  Lord,  myself,  and  all  her  relations  here  with  that  sense 
01  her  loss  as  wa^  due  unto  a  person  so  much  beloved  and 
valued  as  she  w^as,  and  deserved  to  be  by  all  her  family.  .  .  . 
The  two  weddings  of  my  son  and  grandchild  will  be  soon,  but 
private.  My  son  Ossory's  going  to  sea  was  a  great  surprise 
to  me  and  all  his  friends,  who  had  not  so  much  as  a  thought 
of  it,  nor  he  himself,  as  I  do  believe,  until  he  came  to  Rye, 
where  the  Fleet  then  was  that  wanted  a  Rear-Admiral  unto 
one  of  the  squadrons;  and  finding  that  it  would  be  grateful 
unto  the  King  and  the  Duke,  he  did  offer  himself;  who  is  at 
present  upon  the  Dutch  coast.  God  send  us  good  news  of 
him  and  the  rest,  until  when  his  friends  are  but  in  any  uneasy 
condition. 

1673,  June  7. — I  doubt  not  but  you  have  heard  of  my 
nephew  James  Hamilton's!  having  lost  a  leg  in  the  last  fight 
at  sea,  who  died  of  that  wound  yesterday  at  4  of  the  clock  in 
the  morning,  and  is  to  be  buried  at  10  this  night.  He  was 
a  great  loss  unto  his  own  family  and  ours,  by  whom  he  is  very 
much  regretted,  and  by  many  more  who  will  find  the  loss  of 
so  generous  a  friend  (for  so  he  was)  to  all  that  he  could  serve 
that  needed  his  kindness.  I  could  not  prevail  with  myself 
to  write  unto  my  brother  Hamilton  or  my  sister  upon  a  subject 
that  I  well  know  will  be  greatly  affecting  to  them.     I  cannot 

*  The  mother  of  Uie  Duke,  Ellsa,  Lady  Thurlea,  is  .meant. 

t  James  Hamilton,  grandson  of  the  Ist  and  father  of  the  6th  Earl  of  Aher- 
com.  He  was  buried  in  Westminster  Abbey.  His  father,  Sir  Geoi^ge  Hamilton, 
had  married  the  Duke  of  Ormond's  sister  Lady  Mary  Butler. 


46d 

say  tbat  he  died  in  his  reason,  for  his  fever  and  the  gangrene 
of  his  wounds  made  him  rave  soon  after  he  was  brought  on 
shore,  until  a  few  hours  before  he  died  that  he  lay  quiet,  and,  as 
those  that  was  about  him  thought,  was  in  a  sleep  and  breathing 
sweet,  and  so  ended  without  speech  or  appearance  of  pain. 
He  showed  the  greatest  patience  in  the  pain  that  he  endured 
that  was  possible  for  man  to  do,  and  said  nothing  that  was  ill 
in  his  ravings  but  of  the  business  of  the  sea,  and  would  be  silent 
when  he  was  desired,  and  knew  people,  but  was  not  capable 
of  anything  that  was  serious,  the  d'sease  having  so  far  seized 
his  spirits.  There  has  been  a  second  fight  at  sea,  but  I  bless 
God  my  son  Ossory  has  escaped  and  is  well,  and  come  in  with 
the  fleet  unto  the  bay  of  the  Nore,  a  place  where  they  are  to 
take  in  provisions.  My  son  Arran  is  lately  married,  and  I 
hope  very  happily,  unto  the  young  gentlewoman  that  I  formerly 
acquainted  you  with. 

1673,  July  15. — I  have  omitted  writing  a  post  or  two  upon 
the  occasion  of  the  late  wedding  of  my  Lord  of  Derby  to  my 
son  Ossory 's  eldest  daughter,  which  was  upon  Thursday  last, 
who  is  to  go  for  France  two  days  hence,  and  is  a  very  consider- 
able and  well  natured  young  man ;  so  as  this  match  promises 
much  happiness  to  her  and  to  her  family,  for  whom  he  lias 
expressed  so  great  kindness  and  respect  as  he  has  chosen  my 
Lord  to  be  his  guardian,  and  put  himself  entirely  in  his  hands. 

1673,  December  5.  Hampstead. — I  began  about  a  fortnight 
since  to  find  a  return  of  my  cough,  which  to  prevent  my 
growing  worse,  I  came  for  better  air  to  Hampstead,  some  five 
miles  from  London,  to  a  pretty  house  furnished,  which  I  took 
so  from  Michaelmas  last  unto  our  Ijady  Day  for  forty  pound ; 
which  place,  and  the  quietness  of  it,  has  given  me  greater 
advantages  in  my  health  than  all  tlic  remedies  the  doctors 
could  have  prescribed,  so  as  I  do  intend,  God  willing,,  to 
continue  here  until  the  worst  of  the  winter  be  past,  and  to  go 
sometimes  when  the  weather  is  fine  to  visit  my  family  at 
Clarendon  House,  and  to  inquire  after  the  affairs  of  it. 

1674  [-5],  February  3. — All  that  I  have  to  tell  you  this  day 
is  that  the  peace  with  Holland  is  resolved  upon  by  the  King 
and  the  concurrence  of  both  Houses,  and  that  an  express  goe6 
away  this  night  unto  the  Prince  of  Orange.  The  next  news 
we  expect  is  that  licence  will  be  given  for  bringing  over  of 
Irish  cattle,  and  that  we  are  like  to  have  very  good  markets 
for  our  wool,  so  soon  as  the  declaration  of  peace  shall  make 
it  more  safe  than  hitherto  it  has  been  to  bring  it  over.  We 
still  continue  our  resolution  of  going  for  Ireland. 

1673  [-4] ,  February  6. — I  have  this  day  written  to  Mr.  Baxter 
about  the  furniture  of  a  damask  bed  that  had  received  some 
stains  of  salt  water,  which  I  would  have  to  be  altered  and 
mended  here,  and  to  that  end  T  have  sent  for  it,  and  the 


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plumes  of  feathers  to  be  made  up  here  according  as  they  are 
now  used,  which  I  bid  him  to  acquaint  you  of.  I  would  not 
have  any  other  of  the  furniture  belonging  to  it,  but  the  out 
and  inside  of  the  bed  only,  in  regard  I  purpose  to  return  it 
back  with  my  other  goods ;  which  I  intend  within  these  few 
months  to  send  by  long  sea  to  Waterford. 

My  Lord  thinks  it  very  requisite  to  have  a  good  innkeeper 
at  Kilkenny,  and  is  endeavouring  to  find  one  for  that  purpose. 
But  before  we  proceed  further  it  will  be  necessary  to  be  informed 
wiiether  the  house  that  Wright  is  now  in  may  be  free  to  be 
disposed  of,  or  any  other  as  convenient,  and  in  what  repair, 
as  also  what  stabling,  cellars,  gardens  and  other  accommodation 
does  belong  to  it,  and  what  rent  it  now  yields,  since  it  would 
be  of  so  great  advantage  to  the  town  to  have  a  good  inn  there, 
as  it  would  draw  a  great  resort,  which  for  want  of  entertainment 
are  forced  to  go  other  roads. 


(    455     , 


GENERAL   INDEX 


Abbey loix,   letter  dated  at,  210. 
Abbott,  Col.,  9,  49. 

Col.  Daniel,  troop  of,  420. 
Act  of  Settlement,  21. 
Acts  of  Parliament,  printing  of,  396. 
Adair,  Capt.  Andrew,  124,  126. 
Adams,  Tnomas,  278. 
Adare,  Captain,  129,  135. 
Aghrini,  185. 

land  of,  in  Conaght,  182. 
Aikcrs,   Ensign   John,    payment  to, 

424. 
Ainswortli,  Mr.,  339. 
Albennarle,  Duke  of,  47,  68,  78,  82, 
444. 

payment  to.  411,  412. 

troop  of,  24,  113,  150,  203,  210, 
418,  419. 
Albert  son,       Albert,      prisoner      in 

Gal  way    204. 
Alcocke,  Charios,  16,  212,  331. 
Ale,  fines  for  soiling  (1661),  373. 
Alexander,     Sir     Jerome,     Knight, 
Judge  of  the  Common  Pleas, 
193,  207. 

,  fees  of,  376,  378. 

Al criers,  fleet  dispatched  to,   141. 
Allasty,  CO.  Kildare,  389. 
Allen,  Doctor,  111. 

Lieut. -Col.,  company  of,  427,  433. 

Major  John,  payment  to,  384. 

Mr.,  160,  162,  171. 
A  ley:i,  Lieut. -Col.  Edward,  payment 

to,  402,  414. 
Allin,  John,   letter  from,   217. 
AInay,  Lieutenant  General,  345. 
Alsace,  22. 

Alvoston,  Henry,  414. 
Armorer,  Sir  Nicholas,  letti»r  from, 

35,  98. 
Amory,  Mr.  Tho..  36. 

[     .  .    J,  198. 

,  tK»tition  of,  267. 

Ampthill,  letter  dated  at,  305. 
Amsterdam,  22,  208. 
Anderson,  Lady,  pension  of,  401. 
Andricsse,  Jacob,  a  prisoner,  210. 

Andrews,  ,  estates  of,  forfeited, 

14. 

John,  payment  to,  412. 


Anglesey,  Arthur,  Earl  of,  Vice- 
Treasurer  and  Receiver 
General,  31,  32,  34,  51,  66, 
58,  61,  62,  65,  67,  69,  97, 
103,  104,  106,  150,  167,  272, 
282,  314,  405,  437. 

,  fees  of  (1661),  374,  380. 

,   letters  from,  pa^nm. 

,  letters  to,  'gammi, 

,  payment  to,  411. 

,  receipt    of   ReTenue   by 

(1661),  373-436. 
-,  troop  of,  419. 


Anne,  Princess,  175. 

Annesley.     Arthur.     5iee     Anglesey, 

Earl  of. 
Anthony,  — ,  a  stationer,  179. 
Antrim,  co.,  collectors  of  poll  money, 
392. 
Lord,'  62,   65,    70,   72,    77,    81, 
82,  89,  91,  93,  96,  97, 102,  104, 
106,  179,  185. 

,  pension  of,  398. 

Appledore,  337. 

Appleyard,  Sir  Mat  hew,  letter  from, 

219. 
Apsley,  Sir  Allen,  356. 
Aran,  26. 

Archer,  Captain,  290. 
J.,  288,  311. 
Mr.,  142,  326,  440. 
Archerstown,  283. 
Ardagh,   Robert,   Somonister  of  the 

Exchequer,  fee  of,  375,  379. 
Ardfert,  school  at,  29,  30. 

letter  dat<»d  at,  173. 
Ardkin  or  Arkin,  Arran,  fort  of,  155. 
Arklow,  abbey  of,  251. 

Baron,  title  borne  by  Ormond, 

51. 
Customer  of,  fee  of,  381. 
Arlington,  194. 

certificate  of,  351. 
Lord,  272,    280,    282,    321,  352, 
437,  450. 
Armagh,  Archbishop  of,  359. 

CO.,  410. 
Armorer,  Sir  Nicholas,  253,  254,  274, 

279. 
Armstrong,  — ,  267. 

Sir  Tnomas,   Knight,   payments 
to,  406,  411. 
Army  in  Ireland,  16,  17. 
Arnon,  John,  418. 
Arran,  Richard,  Earl  of,  66,  68,  73, 
139,   141,   145,   150,   215,   217, 
261,  298,  368,  437,  438,   446, 
448,  459,  453. 
Isles  of,  208,  217,  307,  322,  884. 
Arthur,  Sir,  129. 


1 


456 


illD£i3c. 


Aruudoll,  Abruhani,  423. 

Cicily,  423. 
Arzilla,  23. 
Ashby,  Lord;  272. 
Aslus  Captain,  troop  of,  419. 

Thomas,  Sheriff  of  Meath,  36. 

,  lettor  from,  34. 

Aslietoii,  Mr.,  307. 

Ashlov,  Lord,  73.  113,  117,  146,  162, 

30o. 
Ai^htown,  CO.  Dublin,  291. 
Aflke,  Captain  Thomas,  414,  416. 

C*aptain,  troop  of,  417. 
AHK<>ntar,  Marquess  of,  344,  346. 
AstU'y,  Unter  dated  at,  367. 
A.ston,  Sir  William,  Judge  of  King's 

Hench.  fees  of,  376,  378. 
A.stwood,  Robert,  payment  to,  411. 
Athlone,  31,  32,  33,  221,  225,  236. 

castle,  27,  894,  410. 

court  house.  388. 

Governor  or.  Col.  J.  Bramston, 
287 

letter* dated  at,  238. 

Puniuivant,  fee  of,  377. 
Athol,  Aunt,  369. 

Lord,  356. 
Athy,  55. 

Attorney  General,  54. 
Aubrey,  William,  payment  to,  400. 
AudeHly,  estate,  54. 
Audley,  Sir,   46. 

End,  letter  dated  at.  286. 
Aungier,  Lord  Franci.s,  124,  ia5,  139, 
176,   252,   255,  256,   282,  307, 
308,  309,  322. 

,  letters  from,  267,  271,  319, 

320,  343. 

,  payment  to,  393. 


Austin,  Luke,  petition  of^  33. 
Axtell,    estates    of,    forfeited,    14. 
Col.  Daniel,  393. 


B 


Backer,  280. 

Bacon,  son  of,  141. 

Magshot,  437. 

Bally,  Captain,  28. 

Bainton,  Kdmond,  418. 

Baker,  Captain  Henry,  company  of, 

427. 
Bakewell,  Alderman,  76,  77,  84. 
Ball,  Capt.,  223. 
Ballaghmore,     Queen's     co.,     letter 

dated  at,  243. 
Ballileague,  bridge,  244. 
Balinealo,  7. 
Ballinecloghy,  49. 
Ballinrobe,  27. 
Ballyconishe,  449. 


Ballyknaw,  castle,  co.  Galway,  155. 
Ballylegc,    bridge   of    the   Shannon, 
103. 

fort,  156. 
Bally   MoThoniaB,  Mayor  of  Clonmel, 

249. 
Ballymoe,  co.  Galway,  236. 

bridge,  fort  of,  155. 

,  CO.  Mayo,  fort,  27. 

Ballymore,  bridge,  396. 

Bally  mote,  co.  Sligo,  castle,  27. 

Bally naclogh,  321. 

Ballynafad,  co.  Sligo,  castle,  27. 

Ballynahinch,    barony,    oo.    Galway, 

petition  of  inhabitants  of,  30. 
Baltimore,  Lord,  148. 
Baltinglasses,  327. 
Balynahinchye,  Mr.  Butler,  of,  6. 
Bamber,  Roger,  letter  from,  191. 
Bamford,  James,  payment  to,  390. 
Banaghcr,  37. 

fort  of,  155. 
Baneor,  port  ojL  381. 
Bankes,    Sir   William,    letter    from, 

327. 
Banks,  Mr.,  367. 

William,  letter  from,  367. 
Bantry,  fort,  165,  227,  229. 

letter  dated  at,  275. 
Barbadoes,  by  the  castle  gate,   205, 

226,  232,  233,  314. 
Barkeley,  Lord,  28. 
Barker,   — ,  272. 

Alderman,  306. 

Mr.,  305. 

Sir  George,   43. 

,  death  of,  69. 

Barkly,  Lord,  113. 
Barnewell,  Lord,  227. 

Sir  Richard,  payment  to,  386. 
-,  property  of,  171. 


BariiHtable,  Sit 
Barrett,  Capt.,  314. 
Barrington,     Lieut. -Col.    Alexandp*-, 
company  of,  429 
C^apt.   Nicholas,   426. 
Thos.,  letter  from,  214. 
Captain    Thomas,    oompatiy    of, 
426. 
Barrowe,    Humphrey,     letter    from, 
199. 

,  Captain,  company  of,  429. 

Barry,  Sir  James,  Lord  Chief  Justice 
of  King's  Bench,  allowance  to, 
404. 
Matthew,     payments     to,    383, 

386. 
Richard,  238. 

,    payments    to,    407,    422, 

425-434. 
Barrymore,   Richard,   Earl    of,    pay- 
ment to,  412. 
Bart  let  t,    Capt.    John,  payment   to, 

415. 
Bartley,  Mr.,  187. 
Barton,  Henry,  payment  to,  402. 
Barwicke,  William,  422. 
Bate,  Thomas,  payment  to,  387. 
Bateman,    Robert,    Chamberlain    of 
London,  172. 


tMt>K:C. 


457 


Bates,  Abraham,  payliieiit  to,  410. 
Bath,  12,  372. 

Oriiiond,  Lord  Lieutonant  of,  51. 
Bathurst,       Henry,       Attorney      of 
Munst^T,  foe  of,  380. 
Jamos,  235. 

Samuel,  payments  to,   388,  391, 
392. 
Batten,   Worsolcy,   Searcher  of  port 

of  Drogheda,  fco  of,  381. 
Baxter,  317,  318. 
John,  295. 

,  letter  from,  292. 

Capt.,  305. 
Baxtor,    Mr.    Controller,    333,    350, 

357,  445,  448,  461,  453. 
Bayly   Major,  217. 

Nicholas,  letter  from,  286. 
Col.  Nicholas,  payment  to,  413. 
Beaghan,  Peter,  payment  to,  392. 
Beating,  Alison^  payment  to,  389. 
Beallaghmore,  m  Ossory,  215. 
Beard,  Lieut.  Thomas,  payment  to, 

417. 
Boare^  Jane,  payment  to,  417. 

Simon,  417. 
Beaufort,  Duke  de,  23. 
Beaumorris,  94. 
Beckett,  Randall,  salary  of,  385. 

payment  to.  391. 
Bedborough,    Tnomas,   letters   from, 

216,  238. 
Bedford,  Lord,  306. 
Belfast,  letter  dated  at,  341,  342. 

port  of,  381. 
Bell,  Henry,  424. 
Bellahy,  236. 

CO.  Sligo,  fort,  27. 
pass,  fort,  156. 
Bellamulvie,  271. 
Bellew,  Sir  John.  179. 
Bellingham,        Alderman        Daniel, 
Deputy      Receiver      General, 
allowance  to,  405". 
Sir  Daniel,  Knight,  33,  34,  67. 
82,    85,   86,   87,    88,   90,    105; 
134,   142,  143,    148,    168,  170, 
179,   195,   196,  238,  292,   297, 
308,   340. 

,     first     Lord      Mayor     of 

Dublin,  196. 
Henry,  payment  to,  392. 
Boilings,  Richard,  letter  from,  372. 
B(»nce,  Sir  Alexander,  298,"  333. 
Bennett,    Mr.  Secretary  Henry,    62, 
63,  05,  66,  67,  68,  72,  73,  74,  79, 
81,  95,  97,  100,  101,  106,  110,  116, 
120,   122,  137,  142,   16U,   153,   158, 
163. 
Berc,  Sydney,  66,  194. 
Beresford,  Major  Tristram,  payment 

to,  425. 
Berkeley,  104. 
castle,  48. 
Lady,  445. 

Lord,    47,   167,   217,    317,    a59, 
444,  445. 
Berkenhead,  Sir  John,  141. 
Beviiis,  Roger,  payment  to,  435. 
Bickesteth,  Thomas,  letter  froiu.  336. 


Hideford,  329.  33-1. 

BillingHley,  Major,  company  of,  423. 

Billingsly,  Captain  Richard,  company 

of,  430. 
Bingham,  Mr.  Peter,  309. 
Birne,  Michael,  387. 
Birr,  letter  dated  at,  354. 
Blackall,  >klward,  payment  to,  435. 
Black  Castle,  Wicklow,  155. 
Blackelocke,  John,  payment  to,  412. 
Black  well,  Francis,  letter  from,  243. 

John,  373. 

,  estate  of,  390,  395. 

,  payment  to,  394. 

Bladen,  Alderman  William,  payment 

to,  383. 
Blake,  Sir  Richard,  Knight,  payment 

to,  387. 
Bland,  341,  ^42. 

Blauey,    Edward,   Lord,    pension  of, 
398. 

Jane,  Lady,  pension  of,  400. 
Blood,  plot  of,  48  note,  58. 

Col.,  attack  on  the  Duke,  446. 
Blott,  Mr.,  3<56. 
Blount,  Charles,  16. 

C^ol.  Charl(»8,  payment  to,  413. 
Blundell,  Sir  George,  Bart,  payment 

to,.  392. 
Blunt,    Capt.    Charles,    company   of, 

432. 
Boardman,  Sir  William,  343. 
Bodkin,   Mr.,   315. 
Boilache,  225. 
Bolstrode,  Mr.,  149. 
Bolton,  Carroll,  841,  342. 

Klizabeth,  397. 

William,   letter  from,   205. 

Captain    William,    company    of, 

436. 
Boltons,  two,  261. 
Bond,  Major  William,  payment   to, 

427. 
Boufoye,  54.  -55,  57,  85. 
Bonuff,  34r 
Booke,  John,  249. 
Boone,  John,  payment  to,  385. 
Booth,  Judy,  286. 

Mr.,  286. 

Robert,  Judge  of   the  Common 
Pleas,  fee  s  of,  370,  378. 

,  illness  of,  395. 

Boothnian,    llllizabeth,    payment    to, 
419. 

John,  419. 
Bornian,  Lady,  44. 

Sir  William,  257. 
Borr,  Christian,  192. 
Boulton,  Mr.,  of  Corduffe,  191. 
Bourdon,  John.     ,SV«  Burden. 
Bourman,  Sir  William,  35. 
Bowington,  Major  Thomas,  payment 

to,  420. 
Bowyer,  Robert,  294. 
Boy,  Teige,  127,  136. 
Boyd,  65,  85,  80. 

wife  of,  8(). 

trial  of,  88. 

roprieve  of,  92. 

Mr.,  70,  72. 


458 


INDEX. 


Ijoylc,  28,  23o. 

Joshua,  payment  to,  391. 

Michael,  Bishop  of  Cork,  Lord 
Chancellor  and  Primate, 
letters  from,  20,  301,  308. 

,  letter  to,  303. 

Boyiiton,  [Isabellal,  356. 
Boys,  Sir  John,  149. 
Brabell,  Esteme,  209. 
Bradford,  Ann,  418. 

Francis,  418. 
Braclley,    Corporal   Jameti,    payment 

to.  402. 
Braaock,  Captain,  319. 
Bradstreet,  John,  311. 
Braj2;g,  William,  payment  to,  428. 
Brambh^town,  lett<T  dated  at,  311. 
Bramston,  John,  221. 

C*aptain  John,  letter  from,  238. 

Col.,  287. 
Bratidenburg,  elector  of,  23. 

a(;ent  of,  2/39. 
Breaghan,  Patrick,  petition  of,  33. 
Breaghmoe,  letter  dated  at,  239. 
Brecknock,  Karl   of,    title  borne   by 

Ormond,  51. 
BregurttH»n,  letter  dated  at,  209. 
Brereton,  Sir  Wm.,  220. 

Major  Thomas,  421. 

,  company  of,  429. 

Brett,  Captain,  325. 

Col.  John,  company  of,  435. 

,  payment  to,  413. 

Col.,  regiment  of,  421,  424. 

William,  payment  to,  434. 
Bretby,  letters  dated  at,  41,  99,  178, 

181,  306. 
Brewer,  Thomas,  gardener,  salary  of, 

387. 
Brewster,   Sir  Francis,    letter   from, 

328. 
Brickland,  Francis,  petition  of,  33. 
Bridge,  Col.  John,  regiment  of,  422, 

423. 
Bridgeman,  Lord,  speaker,  154. 
Bridges,  Mr.,  296. 
Brigs,  Thomas,  418. 
Brillaj5han    Darby,  208. 
liringhaugn,  Mr.,  184. 
Bringhurst,     Thomas,    payment    to, 

387 
Bristol,  254,  336,  363. 

Countess  of,  154. 

Earl  of,  62,  63,  68,  73,  79,  81, 
134,   141,   152,   154,  159. 

Ormond,  Lord  Lieutenant  of ,  51. 
Brit  ton,  John,  payment  to,  435. 
Brondhaven,  27,  224,  232. 
Brodell,  Monsieur,  2"9. 
Brodrick,       Sir       Alan,       Surveyor 
General,    53,    107,    146,    147, 
151,  157. 

fees  of,  374. 

Bronwer,     Hendrick     Janse,     Dutch 

prisoner,  211. 
Broderick,    Sir    St.    John,    Knight, 

,  payment  to,  413. 

Brooke,  Pi't<»r,  letter  from,  367. 
Brookes,  William,  payment  to,  423. 
Brough,  Dian.  313. 


Browicke,  murder  of,  440. 
Brown,  Mr.,  226. 

Sir  Richard,  23. 

Sir  Valentine,  327,  328. 
Browne,  George,  letter  from,  211. 

John,  letter  to,  211. 

^,      Searcher      of      port     of 

Kinsale,  fee  of,  381. 

Michael,  414. 
Brussels,  letter  dated  at,  219. 
Bryan,  John,  letter  from,  282. 
Bryn,  Henry,  341. 
Buck,  — ,  269,  297. 

James,  149.  155,  168,  197,  217. 

,  letters  from,  39,  41,  43,  48, 

53,   55,   57,  68,  99,  157,   240, 
241,  251. 

Nicholas,  41,  42,  85. 
Buckhurst,  Lord,  356. 
Buckingham,  Duke  of,  321,  442,  444, 

446. 
Bucknall,  310. 
Bullock,  Mr.  Nathaniel,  336. 

Thomas,  Comptroller  of  Customs 
of  Cork,  fees  of,  381. 
Bultecl,  Captain  James,  236. 
Bunbury,  Francis,  418. 
Bunce,  James,  letters  from,  79,  80. 
Bunowen,  letters  dated  at,  206,  208. 
Bunratty,  329. 

letter  dated  at,  316. 
Burden,  John,  letters  to,  6,  8,  9. 

letters  from,  7,  50. 
Burford,  323,  451. 

letter  dated  at,  322. 
Burgh,  Thomas,   Attorney,  payment 

to,  392. 
Burlington,  Countess  of,  letter  from, 
356. 

Lord,  447. 
Burmi.ston,     John,     Marshal    of    the 
Four  Courts,  fee  of,  375. 

John,  payment  to,  393. 

Mr.,  the  Duke's  ajgent,  161. 
Burney,  Zachary,  robbed,  219. 
Burrell,  Captain,  49. 
Burrishoole,   27,   211. 
Burrowes,  270. 

Bury,    Captain    John,    company    of, 
433. 

William,  10. 
Bute,  Lord,  54. 
Butler,  — ,  of  Hesseulaud,  259. 

Lady  Betty,  320. 

Edm.,  letter  from,  50. 

Edward,  34,  311. 

,  payment  to,  401. 

Lady    Elizabeth,     payment     to, 
383. 

Ellen,  payment  to,  388. 

Sir  Francis,  Knight,   153. 

,  company  of,  428. 

,  payment  to,  412. 

James,  son  of,  44,  259,  260. 

Lord  J.,  letters  from,  296,  312. 

Lord    John,    accounts   of,    318, 
319,  iil. 

,    expenses  of,  326. 

Captain  J.,  282. 

Lawrence.  215. 


INDEX. 


459 


Butler— COM  ^. 

Mr.,  of  Balynahinchye;  6. 

Mr.,  9. 

of  Linoohi's  Inn,  03. 

Sir  Philip,  197. 

R.,  24. 

Richard,  of  Eilcash,  7,  8. 

Col.  Richard,   398. 

Sir    Richard,    of    Kuocktophcr, 
177,  188. 

Walter,  214. 
Byron,    Sir    Robert,     Knight,    230, 
239 

letters  from,  226,  231,  240. 

letter  to,  228. 

payment  to,  413. 
Bysse,    John,    Lord     Chief    Baron, 

allowance  of  wine  to,  404. 

fees  of,  374,  378,  379. 


C 


Cabbra's  troop,  172. 

Caddell,  Robert,  letter  koni,  48. 

Caen,  369. 

Cahir,  Lord,  438. 

Cahimomart,  castle,  27,  202. 

Calcott,  Mr.,  327. 

Callan,  348,  349,  350. 

Camby,  Major  Solonian,  payment  to, 

426. 
Campbell,  John,  418. 
Candia,  island  of,  73. 
Cann,  Nichol&s,  319. 
Cannocke,   Mrs.   Anne,   payment  to, 

388 
CantA>rbtiry,  I,  370. 

Archbishop  of,  113. 

,  Sheldon  installed,  83. 

-^— ,  letter  to,  370. 
Cappeinge,  Dublin,  55. 
Carcas,  John,  294. 
Carey,  Jane,  pension  of,  383. 
Carlingford,  Lord,  03,  100,  105,  107, 

111,  134,  142,  305. 
Carlisle,  Lucy,  Count^'ss  of,  14. 

Earl  of,  13,  14,  53,  363. 
Carlow,  358. 

lett<>r  dated  at,  55. 

CO.,  7. 
Carney,    Richard,    Athlone    Pursui- 
vant, fee  of,  377. 

,  payment  to,  390. 

Carpenter,  Philip,  Serjeant  at  Arms, 

375. 
Carr,  George,  Clerk  of  the  Council  of 
Munster,  fee  of,  380. 

George,  payments   to,  384,  388, 
389,  397,  416. 

Sir  George,  3.")8. 


Carrick,  49,  290,  312. 
bridge,  215,  289. 
castle,  7. 
house,  8,  9. 
manor,  7. 

Ormond's  house  at,  326. 
the,  307. 
Carrick-drumruske,   co.  Leitrim, 

castle,  28. 
Carrickfergus,  castle  of,  156,  224. 
Customer  of,  381. 
Mayor  of,  387. 
Carrier,  Esther^^  318. 
Carroll,   Dr.,   173. 
Carter,  Cornet  Gilbert,  payment  to, 

420. 
Carteret,  Sir  George,  113,  117,  278, 

287,  292,  297,  298,  321. 
Cary,  Captain  David,  46. 

Edward,  of  Gray's  Iim,  172. 
Jane,  petition  of,  45. 
Oashel,  7,  8. 

Archbishop  of,  303. 
Cassell,  290. 

Cassels,  Archbishop  of,  188. 
Castlecoote,   co.  Roscommon,  28. 
Charles,  Lord,  payments  to,  412, 
434. 
Castle  Doe,  co.  Donegal,  156. 
Caulfeild,  Mary,  Lady,  payment  to, 
391. 
Thomas,  217,  395. 

,  Captain^  235,  236. 

,  Master  in  Chancery,  fee  of, 

376. 
William,    Lord,    100,    105,    141, 
162. 

,  allowance  of  wine  to,  401. 

,  payments  to,   410,   411. 

,  troop  of,  412,  421. 

Cavan,  co.,  129. 

Cave,    Captain  Norris,   company   of, 

428. 
Cavendish,  Lady  Mary,  letters  from, 
202,  340. 
Lord,  364. 
Chamberlain,  Richard,  80. 

Thomas,   payment  to,  389. 
Chancery,  payments  to  in  1601,  376. 
Chapelizod,    o2,    56,    122,    193,    291, 
292,   293,  294,   295,   333,   348. 
bridge  at,  291. 
house,  349,  443. 
letter  dated  at,  291. 
Charlemont,  100,  134,  219. 
fort  of,  156,  410. 
purcha.«e  of,  142,  162. 
Charles  I.,  175. 

Charles  IT.,   conversation  with,  371. 
council  of,  68. 
expenst^s  of  household,   etc.,   of, 

174,  177. 
equerry  to,  35. 
letters  from,  13,  55,  193. 
movements  of,  23,  64,  71,  78,  79, 

81. 
officers  of  household,  2-5. 
CharleviUe,  261. 

Charnocke,    Stephen,    payment    to, 
386. 


4G0 


INDBX. 


Chatsworth,  307. 

Clu't'ko,  Thomajj,  payment  to,  397. 

Cheovors,  — ,  177. 

Lewis,  435. 
Choffins,  Mr.,  56. 

Chrlsoa,  lott<*r8  dat4»d  at,  279,  281. 
CMu'lsoy,  145  ,168,  170. 
Chostor,  39,  7(),  82,  84,  88,  149,  170, 

317,  331,  450. 
Clu  Btcrfiold,  Count<>PS  of,  39,  41,  90, 
150,  178,  180,  181,  183,  188. 

Lord,  41,  99,  150,  168,  306. 
Chisvvick,  204. 

Choisiii  (Chos.sixi)  ,Monsuur,  198,  223, 
230,  233,  298. 

petition  of,  234. 
Chute,   Mr.   IIG. 

Richard,  h^ttor  from,   172. 
Cinque  Port«,  fi-shing  at,  60. 
Circuits,  lists  of  (10(31),  260. 

payments  for  (16G1).  378. 
Clanbrazill,  Henry,  Karl  of,  annuity 

of,  382. 
Claucartv,  Karl  of,  173,  184,  180,  283, 
284. 

Dowager  C*ountc^8  of,  300. 

Helen  Countess  of,  201,  284,  322. 
Clanricarde,  P^^rl  of,  444. 

lett^rr  from,  292. 

payment  to,  398. 
Clanrickarde,      Anne,      Marchioness 

Dowager  of,  payment  to,  393. 
Clapham,  Wm.,  gent.,  80. 
Clare,  co.,  24,  321,  409. 

Gilbert  Holies,  3rd  Karl,  342. 

,  letter  from,  344. 

Clarendon,  Karl  of,  289,  360,  444. 

summary  of  charges  against,  279. 
Clarendon  House,  307,  310,  445,  453. 

letters  dated  at,  317,  322,   326, 
329.  330,  331,  343,  352. 
Clargc^,  Sir  Thomaw,  47,  91,  96,  99, 

100,  101,  104,  109. 
Clarke  or  Clark,  James,  269,  317. 

,  lett«i-s  from,  272,  343,  352. 

Mr.,  281,.  355. 
Clayton,  Col.,  59,  50. 

Col.     Randall,    payment     to, 
414. 
Cleare,  Lieut.,  213,  214,  216. 
ClenuMit,  estates  of,  forfeited,  16. 

Mr.,  19<). 
Clerke,  Katheriiie,  pension  of,  401. 
Clifton,  Sir  Richard,  270. 

letters  from,   209,  211,  253. 

letter  to,   200. 
Clinton,  Peter,  payment  to,  384. 
Clogher,  John,  bishop  of,  allowanoo 

to,  404. 
Cloghgrenan,  8,  9. 
Clonbrony,  parish  of,  124. 
Clonfert,  Bishop  of,  28. 
Clonmel,  8,  9,  239,  249,  289,  290,  326, 
328.  353. 

citadel  of,  166. 

letters  dat<^  at,  7,  16,  212.  249. 

Mayor  of,   letters  from,   16,  92, 
246. 
Clothier,  Grizell,  payment  to,  423. 

Jolm,  423. 


Clotworthy.  Sir  Hugh,  246. 

Sir      John,      his      son      (Lord 
Massereene),  246. 
Cloyne,  393. 
Clubb,  Mr.,  ^49. 
Cocke,  JocHi,  436. 

John,  436. 
Cockpitt,  letters  dated  at.  203,  210. 
Coinage,    silver,    in    Dublin,    patent 

for,  302. 
Colclough,  Sir  Oflesar,  263. 
Gole,  Qeorge,  payment  to,  417. 

Sir    John,    Bart,    payment    to, 
412. 

,  regiment  of,  422,  428. 

Col.  John,  regiment  of,  423. 

Dr.  Wm.,  letter  from,  221. 
Coleraine,  208. 

fort  of,  166. 
Colooney  (Collooney),  Richard,  Baron 
of,  224,  232,  235,  236,  238. 

allowance  of  wine  to,  404. 

payment  to,  411. 
Coloony,  236. 

Colvill,  Robert,  payment  to,  392. 
Comber,  Josepn,  337. 
Comerford,  Kidward,   11. 

Thomas,  11. 
Cominges,  Monsieur,  101. 
Common  Pleas,  payments  to  (1661), 

376. 
Compton,   Sir  Wm.,   Master  of  the 

Ordinance,  death  of,  93. 
Conoordatums,  383. 
Cond6,  Prince  of,  343,  344,  346. 
Congrove,  Mr.,  180. 
Connaught,  28. 

garrisons  in,  26. 

Lord  President  of,  236,  256. 

Lords  Justices  of  Assise,  261. 

Officers  of  Militia  in,  235,  286. 

Provost  Marshall  of,  409. 
Connell,  — ,  115. 

John,  293,  294. 

Thomas,  information,  60. 
Conningham,  Capt.  Albert,  payment 

to,  396. 
Connor,  Martin,  82. 
Constable,  Lieut.  Philip,  payment  to, 

422. 
Controller,  Mr.,  289. 
Conway,  438. 

Fxlward  Visoount,  306. 

,  payment  to,  41. 

,  troop  of,  417,  418. 

Cooke,  — ,  estates  of,  forfeited,  16. 

Captain,  386. 

Edward,  payment  to,  891. 

Edward,    Master    in  Chancery, 
fee  of,  376. 

Col.  Edward,  269,  273,  296. 

,  letter  to,  268. 

,    remembrances,   269. 

Cyfliptain    Robert,     payment    to, 
434. 

Mr.  William,  366. 
Cooksie,  Mr.,  326. 
Cooley,  John,  surveyor.  260. 
Cooll.  John,  of  Lincoln  8  Inn,  179. 


INDEX. 


461 


Coopor,  Cor.iot  Edward,  235. 
CoQto,  Col.  Chidly,  26. 

,  oompany  of,  438,  424. 

Col.  Thoma.s,  48,  171. 

,  company  of,  426,  438. 

,  payment  to,  418. 

Coplin,  Captain  John,  troop  of,  420. 
Corbet,  estates  of,  forfeited,  16. 

Irish,  49. 
Corbit,  Mr.  John,  16. 
CV)rduflfe,  191. 
Cork,  Bishop  of  (Edward  Syn^e),  13. 

,  (Michael  Boyle),  20. 

payments    to,    380, 

393 
City  of,  329,  384. 

,  customers  of,  fees  of,  381. 

,  fort  of,  156. 

,    letters  dated   at,  20,    38, 

189. 
county  of,  239. 

Earl  of,    Lord   Hif^h   Treasurer, 
fee  of,  397. 
Corker,  Captain,  300. 

Edward,  318,  340. 
Cornburv,  Lord,  55. 
Cornwalles,   314. 
Costello,  Dualtache,  226. 

Dudley,  246,  255. 
Costelloe,  — ,  267. 
Costigan,  — ,  238. 
Gregory,  32. 
John,  32. 
Cottis,  Thomas,  418. 
Cottrell,  Sir  Charles,  101. 
Courser,  Robert,  414. 
Court,   movements  of  the,  84,  140. 
of  Claims,  48,  49,  391. 
Quartermaster  William,  payment 

to,  422. 
of  Wards,  payments  to,  377. 
Courthope,  Sir  rater,  Knight,  company 
of,  432. 
payment  to,  413. 
Coventry,  Captain,  223. 
Sir  H.,  340. 
H.,  letter  to,  371. 

,  letter  from,  372. 

Henry,  letters  from,  46,  52,  58, 

117. 
Mr.,   118. 

Mr.  Commissioner,  104,   158. 
Mr.  Secretary,  343. 
William,  61. 

,  letter  from,  60. 

Crabb,  John,  payment  to,  435. 
Craig,  William,  payment  to,  396. 
Craven,  314. 
Creation  money,  382. 
Credit  ion,  387. 

Crinoe,  Ellis,  payment  to,  389. 
Crispin,  Win.,  letters  from,  198,  199. 
Croaker,  Joan,  payment  to,  423. 

William,  423. 
Crofton,  Sir  Edward,  235. 
Captain   Henry,  235. 
Richard,  2^5. 
Croker,  Mr.    292. 


Cromwell,  estates  of,  forfeited,  15. 
Harry.  305. 

Col.    Vere   Essex,    paymont    to, 
412. 

,  troop  of,  418,  419. 

CVooke,  John,  printer  to  the  King  in 
Ireland,   fee  of,   380. 
Mr.   Ormpton,   443. 
Crookhaven,  fort  of,   227,  229,   232. 
Crosby,    Mr.    Crosbie   Thomas,    116, 
172. 
Mr.,  328. 
Crosse,  William,  gentleman,  258. 
Crown  rents,  old  and  new  (1661),  373. 
Orufftie,  hill  of,  172. 
Cuff  (CufFe),  Sir  James,  Knight,  27, 
28,   236,  364    365. 

,    clerk    of    the    council    of 

Connaught,   company  of,  426, 
431. 

-,  fee  of,  380. 


, ,  payment  to,  387,  413. 

Cullen,  Dr.  Charles,  letter  from,  274. 
Thomas,  322. 

,  information  of,  321. 

Captain    Thomas,    oompany    of, 
430. 
Culmore,  castle  of,  300. 
Culwyn,  letters  dated  at,  124,  l^j. 
Cunningham,  Capt.  Albert,  415. 
B.,  262,  306. 

,  letter  from,  220. 

Captain  Bryan,  285. 
!    Cuppage,  Major  Robert,  robbed,  209, 
211. 
Curlee,  Elizabeth,  pension  of,  403. 
Curlews,  mountains,  27,  28. 
Currer,  Doctor,  17. 

Doctor    William,     payment    to, 
407. 
Cusack,    Patrick,    of    Gerrardstown, 

172. 
Custo<lium  rents  (1601),  373, 
Customers,  fees  of,  380. 
Cypher,  letters  written  in,  64,  65,  68, 
103,  118,  119,  120,  121,   123,124. 


D 


Dal  way,    John,    Mayor    of   Carrick- 

fergus,  payment  to,  387. 
DaTicer,  Capt.  Tliomas,  oompany  of, 

431. 
Daner,   Sir  John,  houso  at  Chelsea, 

155 
Daniel,  Col.  John,  293. 

Mr.,  102. 
Daniell,  Lieut.  Richard,  payment  to, 

422. 
Dantzig,  84. 


4()2 


INDEX. 


Danube.  101. 

Darcv.  Anno,  payment  to,  384. 

Mr.,  47,  205. 

Marniaduko,  258. 

Patrick,  38o. 
Daunt,  Mary,  398. 

Thomas,  398. 
Davenport,  Lieut.  William,  payment 

to,  421. 
Davie,  Mr.  Ethel,  337. 
Davis,  Joan,  payment  to,  423. 

John,  418. 

Major,  company  of,  422. 

Sir  Paul,  Principal  Secretary 
of  State,  84,  87,  88,  110,  111, 
134,  142,  144,  148,  244. 

,  allowance  of  wine  to,  404. 

,  fee  of,  377. 

,  payments  to,  383,  394. 

Robert,  417,  418. 

Rowland,  Customer  of  Cork,  fee 
of,  381. 

Samuel,  423. 

Major  Tliomas,  236. 

Sir  William,  331. 
Davyee,  Mr.,  134,  283. 

William,  398. 
Davys,  Jack,  115. 

Paul,  58. 

Sir  Paul,  318. 
Dawes,  Henry,   letter  from,  45. 
Deane,  Major,  287. 

Joseph,  333. 

Richard,  373. 

Thomas,  386. 
Deavon,  Mr.,  57. 
Deey,  Captain,  26,  27,  246. 

,  payment  to,  413. 

Captam    Robert,     company    of, 
429. 
De  Hollaiido,  339. 

Delahide,  Bridget,  payment  to,  383. 
De  Lane,  Mr.,  Lord  Orrery's  secre- 
tary, 164. 
De    Laune,    Richard,    payments    to, 

390,  391,  395. 
Delves,  Richard,  letter  to,  295. 
Denbigh,  39. 

Deiidy,  cstatx^s  of,  forfeited,  14. 
Denham,  Doctor,  19. 

Doctor  Edward,  payment  to, 
392 

Sir  John,  217. 

,  letter  from,  19. 

Dcnison,  Richard,  250. 
Dennis,  Major,  215. 

Major  James,  270. 
Denny,  Sir  Arthur,  200. 
Denton,  John,  418. 
Derby,  George,  250. 

Lady,  letter  to,  324. 

Lord,  324,  330,  338,  346,  356, 
366,  367,  368. 

,  engagement  to  Lady  Betty 

Butler,  326,  327. 

,  marriage  to,  452,   453. 

,  letters  from,  331,  339,  369. 

to,  366. 


,  wife  of,  369,  370. 

Derenzie,  Matthew,  191,  192. 


Derry,  liiRhop  of,  188. 

See  Londonderry. 
Desfontaines.  Dr.,  letter  from,  312. 
Desmond,  328. 

Earl  of.  60. 

Lad^  or,  444. 
des  Mynieres,  Lewes,  234. 

,  petition  of,  233. 

D'Estracles,  Marquis  do,   61. 
Devonshire,  Lady,  442. 

,  funeral  of,  364. 

Lord,  340. 
Deyoe,  George,  letter  from,  261. 
di  Gamarra,   Don  Stephen,   Spanish 

Ambassador,  22. 
Digby,  — ,  372. 

Sir  Kenelm,  134. 
Dike.  262,  306. 
Dillon,  Arthur,  case  of-,  172. 

fort,  246. 

Captain  George,  60,  75,  173. 

Jane,  payment  to,  389. 

Lord,  99,  104. 

Luoas,  letter  from,  165. 

Tlieobald,  payment  to,  389. 
Dingle,  charter  of,  267. 

estate  of,  186. 

letters  dated  at,  267,  328. 
Dingley,  Sir  John,  Knight,  14,  166, 
171. 

Mr.   John,   14. 
Dix,  Mary,  payment  to,  424,  436. 

Walter,  424,  436. 
Dobbins,  William,  Escheator  General 

of  rister,  fee  of,  375. 
Dodson,  84,  88,  91,  189,  292,  293. 

William,  294,  295. 

,  petition  of,  278,  291. 

Dogherty,  Major^ll. 
Domvile,      Sir     William,      Attorney 
General,  60,  244. 

allowance  of  wine  to,  405. 

fees  of,  374,  379. 

payment  to,  386. 
Donagh.  Earl  of,  284. 
Donegal,  Arthur,  Earl  of,  33,  361. 

,  annuity  of,  382. 

,  death  of,  364,  366. 

,  payment  to,  411. 

,  petition  of,  31. 

-,  petition  of  soldiers  under, 


33. 


-,  troop  of,  417. 


Countess  of,  342,  364,  365. 

,  daughter,  Lady  Ann 

Chichester,  342,  3*64. 
00.,   collector  of  pole-money  in, 
392. 
Donelan,  Sir  James,  Chief  Justice  of 
the   Common    Pleas,   fees   of, 
376,  378. 

,  Chief  Justice  of  Connaught, 

fee  of,  380. 
Donford,  William,  418. 
Dongan,     Thomas,     Baron     of    the 
Exchequer,  fees  of,  374,  378,  379. 
Donganstown,  letter  dated  at,  251. 
Donnellan,  Edward,  235. 
Donnogh,  Thomas,  318. 
Dordiestor,  Marqurss  of,  113. 


INDEX. 


463 


Dorset,  Earl  of,  47,  343. 

Lady,  365. 
Dorsoy,  Captain,  37. 
Dougherty,  John,  pension  of,  402. 

Kichard,  pension  of,  402. 
Dowdall,  Capt,,  125. 
Down,  CO.,  145. 

Draper,  Mary,  payment  to,  391. 
Drayton  Manor,  274. 
Droghcda,  customer  and  searcher  of, 
port  of,  381. 

fort,  166,  395. 

Mayor  and  Sheriffs  of,  213,  216. 

siege  of,  172. 

Henry,  Earl  of,  274,  305. 

,  payment  to,  411. 

Drumahaire,  207.  235. 
Drui7,  Robert,  235. 
Dubhn,   Archbishop,   proxes  due  to, 
out  of  Abbeys,  382. 

,  allowance  to,  404. 

Baggotrath,  28. 

Blind  Kay,  224. 

building  of  sea  wall  of,  51. 

castle,  24,  46,  321,  402,  410,  411, 

414. 

,  chapel,  385. 

,  conspiracy  to  surprise,  57. 

,  constable  of,  387. 

,  governor  of,  383. 

,   letters   dated  at,   41,  47, 

56,  95. 
-,  removal  of  furniture  from. 


441. 
.,  repair  of  windows  of,  384. 


Castle  Street,  248. 
Chichester  House,  51. 

,  payments  respecting,  396. 

Christchurch,  386. 

,    allowance   for  singers  at, 

380. 
-,  Dean  and  Chapter,  annuity 


of,  382. 

clock,  in  Castle,  397. 

,  in  House  of  Lords,  396. 

College  Green,  24. 

Coonibe,  24. 

Courts  in,  395. 

Crooked  Staff,  24. 

Custom  House,  385. 

Dammas  Street,  24. 

Donoro,  24. 

Fleet  Street,  191. 

fortifications,  repair  of,  25. 

Francis  Street,   24. 

Grangegorman,  293. 

High  Street,  250. 

Horse  Guards,  397,  402. 

Kilmainham  Bridge,  Wash- 
house,  385. 

Lazyhill,  24. 

letters  dated  at,  8,  9,  12,  16,  23, 
66,  98,  99,  105,  106,  292. 

Lord  Mayor,  title  first  borne  by 
Sir  D.  Bellingham,  196. 

Marshalsea,  51. 

Merchants  Quay,  184. 

Newgate  Prison,  387. 

Now  Row,  24. 

New  Street,  24. 


Dublin — coiit. 

Newtown  (Phoenix  Park),  291. 
Ormond  Gate,  24. 
Oxmantowne,  24,  33. 
Parliament,  House  of  Lords,  396. 
Phoenix  lands,  52. 

,  Manor  House,  56,  291,  385, 

442. 

,  repair  of  windows  of,  384. 

-,  gardener  of,  385,  387. 


,  Park,  189,  292,  295. 

,  money  spent  on,  293,  294. 

,  purchase  of  lands  for,  65, 

195. 

,  report  of  works  in,  291. 

Pimlico,  24. 

Pottle,  the,  24. 

Ring^s  End,  149. 

St.  Andrew's  Church,  102. 

,  Parish,  258. 

St.  Brido  Street,  24,  242. 
St  .George's  Lane,  24. 
St.  James  Parish,  197. 

,  Street,   24. 

St.  Kevin  Street,  24. 

St.  Michan's,  33. 

St.  Patrick  Street,  24. 

St.   Sepulchres,  letter  dated  at, 

308. 

,  Liberty,  24. 

St.  Thomas  Court,  24. 

,  Street,  24. 

Sheriffs     order    for     quartering 

troops,  23. 
Siege  of,  372. 
Tliolsell,  250. 
Trinity  College,  29. 
,    annuity    for    support   of, 

382. 


,  Ormond,  Chancellor  of ,  51. 

,  Provost  of,  219,  274,  359. 

CO.,  7,  395. 
Dugan,  — ,  238. 
Dugin,  James,  239. 
DuUany,  Tory,  213. 
Duncannon,  fort,   9,   66,  74,  76,  84, 

87,  155.  227,  395. 
Dungan,  Lord  of,  97. 
Dungannon,    Lord,  24,  33,   58,    189, 

195,  294,  295. 
Dungarvan,  Customer  of,  381. 
Dunkellin,  Lord,  marriage  of,  444. 
Dunkerron,  barony,  75. 
Dunkirk,  325. 
Duimiore,  9.   27,  83,   201,   282,  441. 

letter  dated  at,  14. 
Dunsany,  Patrick,  Baron,  pension  of, 

399. 
Dunstable,  170. 
Dutch,  the,  23. 

prisoners,  202. 
Dwyer,  Mr.,  449. 

I^wyggyn,  John,  leader  of  rebels,  215. 
Dykes,  — ,  328. 


464 


INDEX. 


E 


Earlo,  Mr.   of  Bath,  13. 
Mdowos,  Afr.  John,  clerk,  314. 
Kdgoworth,  Major,  27,  223,  232,  235. 

Major  Robert,  letter  from,  237. 

,  paynuMii  to,  410. 

Edinburgh,  General  and  Governor  of, 

134. 
Kdmunds,    Dr.,    one   of   the   King's 

C'haplaiiis,  273. 
Kdringham,  Edward,  418. 
Edwards,  Mat  hew,  425. 
Elliott,  Mr.,  Deputy  Surveyor,  150. 

Thomas,      Serjeant-at-Arms      of 
Connaught,  fee  of,  380. 
Ellis,   Captain  Charles,   oompany  of, 
422. 

William,  payment  to,  423. 
Eltonhead,  Henry,  payment  to,  407. 
Emperor,  the,  23. 

Envoy 6  Extraordinaire,  102. 
Enniscortliv,  2";3. 

Castle,"^  209. 
Elinor.  Michael,  293. 
Erris,  27. 

lOsmond,  Sir  Thomas,  251. 
E.KS(x,  Lady,  180. 

I^rd,  317,  a'59,  449,  450,  4^')2. 
Eustace,  — ,  1(58. 

Alexander,  payment  to,  417. 

Christoher,  pension  of,  401. 

Sir  John,  54. 

Sir  Maurice,  Knight,  Lord 
Cliancellor  of  Ireland,  10,  54, 
50,  150,  293,  294. 

,  allowance  to,  403. 

,  fee  of,  37u. 

,  pension  of,  397. 

Walter,  pension  of,  400. 
Everard,  Mr.,  of  Featherd,  223. 

Redmond,  24. 
Ewers,  — ,  estates  of,  forfeited,  15. 

Captain  John,  payment  to,  433. 
Ewry,  43. 

Exchequer,  payment.s  to  (1001),  374. 
Excise  and  Customs  (1001),  373. 
Excise  Officers,  list  of,  22. 
Exeter,  329,  330,  334. 
Exham,    John,    Clerk   of   tho    First 

Fruit.s,  foe  of,  375. 
Evre,  Edward,  230,  386. 


F 


Fairfax,  Mr.,  309. 

T.,  letters  from,  300,  307,  308. 
Falkland.  Lord,  trop  of,  419. 
Falmouth,  Lady,  35f). 
Fane,   Sir  Walter,  death  of,   340. 
Faashaw,  Sir  Richard,  23. 

Ambassador  for  Spain,   90,  141. 


Fame  Hridge,  cattle,  8. 

Farnane  (Fame  Bridge),   castle,  8. 

Farr,  Mr.  Hugh,  212. 

Featherd,  Mr.  Everard,  of,  233. 

Felons'  goods,  1661,  373. 

Fennell,  Doctor  Gerald,  6,  8,  9,  11. 

letter  to,    10. 
Ferns,  co.  Wexford,  263. 
Ferrall,  Captain,  124. 
Edmund,  124. 
Faghin  beg,   126. 
Richard,  of  Mastrim,  126. 
Ferrers,  Mr.,  marriage  of  daughter 

of,  to  Kichanl,  LoruArran,  452. 
Fethard,  8,  187. 

fParrell,  Captain  Charles,  payment  to, 
390. 
Sir  Connell,  paymejit  to,  399. 
John,  payment  to,  -389. 
ffenton.  Sir  Maurice,  troop  of,  417. 
ffenwicke.  Captain  Robert,  oompany 

of,  427,  431. 
fferneley,  Philip,   Chief  Remembran- 
cer of  the  Exchequer,  fees  of, 
374 
Lieut.-Col.  Philip,  396. 
ffenix.  Captain  Robert,  414. 
ffettvplaee,  Thomas,  payment  to,  435. 
ffincn.   Captain  Henry,   payment  to, 
394. 
Lieut. -Col.  Simon,  payment  to, 
432. 
ffittch.     See  Finch, 
ffingall.    See  Fingal. 
ffinglas,    Mary,  widow,  payment  to, 

390. 
ffit«  Gerald,  Edward,  pension  of,  383. 
Elizabeth,  annuity  to,  397. 
Elinor,  payments  to,  884,  389. 
George,  pension  of,  S^. 
Mary,  payment  to,  388. 
Maurice,  payment  to,  391. 
Robert,  payment  to,  400. 
See  Fita  Gerald, 
ffleetwood,  John,  417,  418. 
Thomas,  417,  418. 
See  Fleetwood, 
ffletcher,  Robert,  payment  to,  384. 
fflowcr,  Captain  teter,  payment  to, 
414. 
See  Flower, 
ffolliott.    Major   John,    oompany  of, 
429. 

,  payment  to,  434. 

Thomas,  Lord,  payment  to,  412. 
See  Folliott. 
fforbes.     See  Forbes, 
ffortcscue,    Major  Thomas,  payment 

to,  413. 
(forth,  Sir  Robert,  Knight,  allowance 
of  wine  to,  404. 
payment  to,  410. 
ffoulko.  Sir  Francis,  oompany  of,  431, 

435. 
ffountaine,  James,  payment  to,  407. 
ffowkes,    Sir   Franois,    payment  to, 

413. 
ffoxcroft,  Samuel,  payment  to,  410. 
ffrank.  Captain  John,  troop  of,  417. 
ffreeman,  Elizabeth,  payment  to,  419. 


I'NDEX. 


465 


fFrpiich,  Nicholas,  payment  to,  386. 
Fillgato,  Thomius,  pptition  of,  33. 
Finch,  Sir  Ilonoage,  Solicitor  Gonoral. 
3/52. 

Liout.-Col.,  9. 

Sec  ffinch. 
Fingall,  Mabel,  Dowager  C*ountess  of, 
29. 

poUtion  of,  28,  182. 

Earl   of,    death   at   Baggotrath, 
28 

Luke,  Earl  of,  398. 

,  pension  of,  394,  399. 

Fish,  Joseph,  337. 

Fitz  Gerald,  John,  letter  from,  201. 

Mr.,  30o. 

Thomas,  306. 
Fitaharding,  Lord,  63,  105. 
Fitzharris,   Sir  Edward,  306. 
Fitz  Maurice.  184. 
Fitzpatrick,  Charon,  a  lay  friar,  254. 

Col.,  184. 
Fitz  Simons,  CoJ.  Garrett,  pension  of, 

400. 
Fitz  Williams,  Lord,  65. 
Flaherty,  Captain  Moragh,  292. 
Flaningham,  Air.,  148. 
Fleetwood.  Mr.,  367. 

See  ffleetwood. 
Fleming,  — ,  of  Cabbra's  troop,  172. 
Flower,  Sir  William,  6,  8,  29,  50,  60, 
293,  364,  395,  450. 

letters  from,   7,  8,    15,  49,  189, 
195,  361. 

,  to,   10,  12,  251,  288,   361, 

365. 

See.  fflower. 
Flushing,  203. 
Folliott,  Robert,  2^5. 

,SV^  ffolliott. 
Forbes  (fforbes),  Sir  Arthur,  125,  1^7, 
128,  221,  224,  225,  231,  256. 

,  letter  from,  271. 

,  payment  to,  411. 

,  troop  of,  417,  418. 

Mr.,  33Q. 
Forfeited  Estates,  list  of,  15. 
Formosa,  22. 

Forster,  Lord  Chief  Jastice,  90. 
Forward,  Mr.,  188. 
Foflter,  Capt.,  281. 

Francis,  236. 
Fowlke,  Sir  Francis,  212. 
Fox,  Mr.,  3,5,  43,  79,  81,  150. 

Major  Joseph,  payment  to,  426. 

Mary,  payment  to,  388. 

Sir  Stephen,  Clerk  of  (Jreen  oloth, 
letters  from,  204,  216,  257, 
273. 

,  letters  to,  47,  290. 

Foxon,  Captain,  314. 

Samuel,  315,  316. 
France,  I-Cmbassy  to,  53,  141. 

King  of,  23. 

,  movements  of,  69,  82,  134, 

141,  142,  259,  369. 
Francklin,   Sir  R.,  83,  85,   99,   104, 

106,  112. 
Freeman,  Sir  Ralph,  326. 
Frremasons,  petition  of,  51. 

Wt.  8878 


French  fishirmen,  61). 
Marquis,  the,  391. 
Furlong,  Captain,  213,  215,  216. 


Gaiell,  Henry  McA.,  126. 
Galloway,  Bishop  of,  52. 
Galway,  co.    26,  30,  393. 

,  Commissioners  for  Settling 

Militia,  236. 

,  garrisons  in,  27,  228,  230. 

-,   Sheriff  of,  236. 


town,    26,    202,    208,   218,    23(i, 
386,  387. 

,  citadel  in,  155. 

,  letters  dat<Ki  at,  237,  240, 

286. 
Garbage,  co.  Kildare,  397. 
Gardincu',  John,  payment  to,  419. 
Garland,  St<»phen,  petition  of,  33. 
Gc-rnet,  Mr.,  326. 
Garney,  Micha<'l,  of  Newry,  134. 
Garrison,  Math.,  letter  from,  50. 
Garrura,  ford  of,  261. 
Garstin,     Captain     James,     Provost 

Marshall,   payment  to,  406. 
Gascoigne,  Elinor,  payment  to,  391. 

Henry,  letter  from,  331. 
Gauran,  186. 
Gayland,  23. 
General,  the,  1. 
General  Convention,  383,  386. 
Geneva,  365,  367. 
G(X)ghagan,  Anthony,  126. 

Edward,  letters  from,  206,  208. 
George,  — ,   Sir,   343. 
German  regiments,  344,  315. 
Germany,  69,  84. 
Gernon,  Patrick,  318. 
Gerrardstown,  172. 
Gevery,    Quartermaster   John,    pa}-- 

meiit  to,  416. 
Geydon,  Mr.  John,  187,  189. 
Gibbs,  Doctor,  365. 
Gibson,    Major    Seafowle,    payment 

to,  413. 
Gifford,  Captain,  19. 
Sir   Thomas,    414. 

,  payment  to,  412,  422. 

Gilbert,  Captain  He?iry,  company  of, 

430. 
Gill,  William,  payment  to,  402. 
Gillason,   Captain  Jejin,    a  prisoner, 

204. 
Gilliard,  Captain,  6. 
Gilliner,   Mr.,   of  Wexford.   270. 
Giltown,  CO.  Kildare,  397. 
Glamorgan,  — ,  372. 
Glanarought,  barony,  59. 
Glenogra,  Rectory  of,  12. 
Gloucester,  Duke  of,  175. 
Gnesme,  Archbishop  of,  371. 
letters  from,  370. 

1  D 


466 


INDEX. 


(iolborno,  Mr.,  219. 
Goldon  Bridge,  8. 
Good,  William,  418. 
Goodwin,    Major  Ellis,   paymont  to, 
387. 

Major  Richard,  company  of,  431. 

,  payment  to,  413. 

Potor,  letter  from,  212. 
Googin,  Captain  Robert,  37. 

,  letter  from,  37. 

Gore,   Captain  Arthur,  company   of, 
433 

Sir  Ai-thur,  27,  211,  236,  246. 

Lieut.-Col.  Arthur,  payment  to, 
413. 

Capt.  Charles,  payment  to,  421. 

Sir  Francis,  26,  235,  246. 

,  payment  to,  434. 

Gorges,  Sir  Arthur,  145. 

Doctor,  193. 

Robert,  payment  to,  385. 

Col.  John,  letters  from,  233,  256, 
300. 

,  company  of,  428. 

,  payment  to,  413. 

,  regiment  of,  435. 

Gowran  Castle,   7. 

Grace,  Col.  Richard,   215,  240. 

,  letter  from,  239. 

Graham,  Elizabeth,  payment  to,  401. 

John,   letter  from,  295. 
Gramont,  Lc  Comte  de,  letter  from, 

196. 
Granagh,  farm  of,  443. 
Grandison,  Viscount,  troop  of,  24. 

,  payment  to,  411. 

Grant,  Captain,  223,  231,  233. 

James,  124,   126,  135,  139. 

CiUDtain  Jasper,   239. 
Gray,  Richard,  payment  to,  402. 
Gray  don,  John,  pension  of,  388. 
Green,   Gilford.  318. 
Greon  Wax  Money,  1661,  373. 
Greene,  — ,87. 

Elias,  24. 
Greeneway,  Captain  Henry,  236. 
Greenwich,  23. 

Groneway,  Hen.,  letter  from,  45. 
Grey,  W.,  314. 

Griffin,  Jane,  pension  of,  401. 
Griffith,  David,  payment  to,  423. 

Robert,   allowance    of    wine    to, 
405. 
Guernsey,  204. 
Gurlin,  Edward,  417,  418. 


H 


Hackett,      Quarterma.stor      Samuel, 

payment  to,  421. 
Hall,  Dr.,  357. 

Robert,  Tsher  of  the  Black  rod, 
396. 
Hahall,  Mr.,  216. 


Halsev,    William,    Chief   Justice    of 

Munster,  fee  of,  380. 
Ilaly,  Mr.  Nicholas,  12. 
Hamburg,  84,  260. 
Hamertori,  Ri.,  16. 
Hamilton,  — ,  139. 

Sir  Charles,  200,  255,  319. 
Captain    Charles,    company    of, 
497 

Claude,  200,  225. 

Sir  Francis,  129,  148,  200. 

,  allowance  of  wine  to,  404. 

Sir  George,  18,  44. 

,  son  of,  138. 

Lieut.-Col.    Hans,    company   of, 
430,  431. 

J.  C,  letters  from,  45,  119. 

James,  452. 

Capt.  William,  payment  to,  434. 
Hammond,    Lawrence,   payment    to, 

391. 
Hamon,  Col.,  94. 
Hampton  Court,  204,  372. 

letter  dated  at,  22. 
Hanaper  Office  (1661),  373. 
Hand,   Captain  James,   company  of, 
423,  426. 

Thomas.  319. 
Handcock,  Mr.,  238. 

Captain  William,  235. 

William,  payment  to,  395. 
Hanna,  Sir  Rohert,  Knight,  payment 

to,  413. 
Hannay,  Captain  Richard,   payment 
to,  426. 

Sir  Robert,  27. 

,  company  of,  434. 

Hardwicke,  202,  307. 
Harison,  John,  418. 
Harker,  Mr.,  9. 
Harm  an,  Major,  9. 
Harrington,  Thomas,  salary  of,  387. 
Harris,     Edward,    appointment    of, 
250. 

Walter,  payment  to,  435. 
Harrison,  Captain  John,  250,  428. 

Matthew,  29. 

Michael,  288. 

Robert,  payment  to,  434. 
Harropp,  Joan,  pension  of,  401. 
Hart,  Captain  Percival,  payment  to, 
408. 

Captain    Thomas,    payment    to, 
407. 

Quartermaster  Wiliam,  payment 
to,  416. 
Hartley,  Wm.,  319. 
Hartlipp,  281. 

Hartwell,  Capt.  Humphry,  company 
of,  423,  432. 

Captain    William,    company    r.f, 
427. 
Harvanger,  35. 
Harvev,  — ,  65,  68. 

Mr.,  100,  104,  122. 
Haslett.  Mr.,  173. 
Hassolad.  127,  136, 
Hat  ton,  Lord,  letter  from,  196. 
Hawkins,  Lieutenant,  125. 
llawkshaw,  Richard,  319. 


INDEX. 


467 


Hayes,  John,  letter  from,  333. 
Hoarth  Bill,  farming  of,  63. 
Hcmsworth,  Mrs.,  318. 
Hcnshaw,      Benjamin,      Mayor      of 

Jersey,  petition  of,  262. 
Hepburne,  Captain  William,  425. 
Hewlett,  John,  payment  to,  43 i. 
Hcwlitt,  estates  of,  forfeited,  lo. 
Herbert,  Mr.,  372. 

,  J.P.,  273. 

Hewstono,  estates  of,  forfeited,  16. 
Hey,    Abraham,    a   Dutch   prisoner, 

211,  237. 
Hibbert,  William,  payment  to,  392. 
Hill,    Col.  Arthur,  rent  allowed  to, 
393. 

Arthur,   allowance    of    wine    to, 
404. 

,  payment  to,  410. 

Mr.  Humphrey,  354    a58. 
Hillsburrow,  letter  datea  at,  171. 

fort  of,  410. 
Hobson,  Paul,  91. 
Ho^croft,  Char.,  202. 
Holdona.st,  John,  418. 
Holland,  22,  162,  239,  259. 

army  of,  344,  a45. 
Hollos,  Lord,  73,  135,  314. 
Holme,  Henry,  payment  to,  423. 

Michael,  payment  to,  419. 

Hiomas,  letter  from,  209. 
Holmes,  Alexander,  payment  to,  423. 

John,  419. 

Mr.,  54,  65, 
Holstein,  Duke  of,  345. 
Holt  is.  Lord,  53. 
Holy  Cross,  8. 
Holyhoad,  39,  317,  443. 
Holyrood  House,  letter  dated  at,  299. 
Holy  wood,  port  of,  381. 
Homage,  respite  of,  1661,  373. 
Honor,  Capt.  John,  payment  to,  435. 
Hooko,  Sir  Humphrey,  44. 

Thomas,  318. 
Hooper,  Jonathan,  letter  from,  314. 

Captain  Robert,  239. 
Hopkins,  Captain,  troop  of,  418. 

Captain  Thomas,   troop  of,   417. 
Hore,  —,  of  Kilshalcan,  177. 
Honi,  John,  422. 
Home,  Katherine,  422. 
Horneby,  Thomas,  cutler,  385. 
Hospital,  payments  made  to,  416. 
Howard,  Lady  Elizabeth,  3^6. 

Sir  R.,  letter  to,  363. 

Col.  Thomas,  131,  140,  164. 
Howflon,  Col.  John,  regiment  of,  423. 
Hoyle,  — ,  341. 

Captain    Edward,    company   of, 
424. 

,  payment  to,  428. 

Hoyston,  James,  218. 

Hubbard,  John,  418. 

Hublethome,  Col.  John,  payment  to, 

413. 
Hudson,  Ensign  James,  payment  to, 

435. 
Hufijhes,  Mr.,  an  attorney,  270. 
Hulott,  — ,  8. 
Hull.  317. 


Hume,  Mr.,  340. 
Humes,  Mrs.,  240. 

Thomas,  191. 

,  letter  from,  145. 

,  letter  to,  194. 

Hungary,  101. 

Hurd,  Col.  Humphry,  424. 

regiment  of,  421,  423,  430. 
Hussev,  — ,  of  Moylehussey,  182. 

Thomas,  payment  to,  421. 
Huston,  Alice,  payment  to,  423. 

Edward,  423. 
Hutchinson,    Alderman  Daniel,   294, 
295. 

Mr.,  the  Quaker,  331. 


lar-Connaught,  26. 
Tdough,  coal  pits,  co.  Kilkenny,  180. 
lertone,  estates  of,  forfeited,  15. 
Iffa  and  Oflfa,  barony,  co.  Tipperary, 

262. 
Ikerin,   Ellen,    Viscountess   of,    pay- 
ment to,  384. 

Viscount.  211. 
Ult-ogorty,  CO.   lipperary,  24. 
Imprest  Warrants,  383. 
Impropriate  Tithes  (1661),  373. 
Incnequin,  Earl  of,  letters  from,  222, 

325. 
Indemnity,  Act  of,  289. 
Ingoldby,  Col.   Henry,   regiment  of, 

424,  434,  435. 
Ingoldsby,    Major  George,    payment 
to,  413. 

Captain    George,    company    of, 
432. 
Ingram,  Sir  Thomas,  285. 
Inisboflin,  26,  27. 

fort  of,  155. 
Insecore,  197. 
Inver,  202. 

CO.  Mayo,  castle,  27. 
Ireland,  Sir  Gilbert,  death  of,  367. 
Ireton,  Charles,  payment  to,  390. 
Irishtown,  oo.  Kildare,  189. 
Irome,  Mr.,  225. 
Isle  of  Man,  327,  330. 

Bishop  of,  346. 

Governor  of,  letter  to,  346. 
Iveagh,  Lord,  179. 
Ivie,  Mr.  George,  of  Crediton,  337. 
Ivory,  Captain  William,  214. 


468 


IMDBX. 


K 


Jackman,  John,  418. 

Jackson,  Cftptain  WUliam,  payment 

to.  42o. 
Janios  I.,  175. 

lottor  from,  220. 
Jamostown,  Governor  <rf,  265. 

CO.  Loitrim,  28,  207,  222,  235. 
Jeff  erics,  Richard,  payment  to,  422. 
Jeffors,  Col.,  442. 
Jeffreys,   Col.,  84,  87,  96,  140,  164, 

167,  298. 
Jemmy,  150. 
Jenkins.  Sir  Leoline,  352. 

Michael,  payment  to,  417. 
Jeonar,    Lieut. -Col.    John,    company 

of,  422. 
Jephson,  Col.  John,  company  of,  424, 
432,  4a5. 
payment  to,  418. 
Jerome,  Doctor,  349, 
Jersey,  262. 

attempt  to  surprise,  199. 
Jewett,  John^  salaiy  of,  385. 
Johnson,  Julia,  pension  of,  400. 

Susanna,  pension  of,  383. 
Johnstowne,  267. 
JoneSy  estatea  of,  forfeited,  15. 
Bryan,  fee  of,  397. 

,  payment  to,  407. 

Captain,  443. 

Captain  John,  company  of,  422, 

431. 
Mr.,  28,  231,  327. 
Oliver,  circuit  fees  of,  378. 
Col.    Oliver,   company    of,    422, 

424,  429. 
Philip,  Crier  of  the  £xdiequer, 

fee  of,  375. 
Randall,  418. 

,  petition  of,  33. 

Richard,  235.  i 

,  Messenger  of  the  Council   i 

Board,  fee  of,  377.  I 

Sir  Theophilus,  17,  158,  207. 

,  payments  to,  406,  411. 

,  troop  of,  419. 

Thomas,  payments  to,  384,  415. 
William,  418. 

•.  letter  from,  327. 

Jonson,  Captain,  232,  233. 
Jouhert,  Alonsieur,  339. 
Joyce,  Robert,  326. 
Judges'  robes,  payments  of,  378. 


Kearney,  James,  letters  from,  213, 

214. 
Keating,   John,    payments    to,   383, 
396. 
Mr.,  450. 

Maurice,  Second  Engrosser  and 
Comptroller  of  the  Pipe,    fee 
of,  375,  379. 
Keefe,  Mrs.,  323. 
Kelley,  David,  payment  to,  388. 
Kelly,  Col.  Charles,  179. 
John,  petition  of,  261. 
Murtagh,  payment  to,  423. 
Kenard  [C^edonJ,  fair  of,  219. 
Kenedy,  Morgan,  payment  to,  424. 
Sir   Richard,    Knight,  Baron  of 
the   Exchequer,   fees  of,   374, 
378,  379. 

Attorney     of     Court    of 


Wards,  fees  of,  877. 

Robert,     Second     Chamberlain, 
fees  of,  375,  379. 
Kernan,  Lieut.,  126. 
Konj,  county,  29,  30,  59,  289,  327. 

Knight  of,  son  of,  223. 

Lord,  daughter  of,  36. 
Kerwell,  La  Mar,  356. 
Keese,  Capt.,  147. 
Key,  Sir  John.  85. 
Kiffin.  Mr.  William.  336. 


Kilcash,  Richard  Butler,  of,  7. 
Kildare.  county,  390,  395. 
Earl  of,  55. 

,  death  of,  151. 

Wentworth,   Earl   of,   allowance 
to,  404. 

,  payment  to,  411. 

Kilkenny,  9,  15,  44.  85,  91,  212,  289, 
290,  326,  343,  349,  454. 

letters  dated  at,  238,  346. 

CO.,  24. 

C^tle.  7,  8,  55,  440. 

,  letter  dated  at,  55. 

Killarney,  328. 
Killean,  oo.  Wexford,  177. 
Killing  no  Murder,  91. 
Killybegs,  223,  232,  288. 
Kilmainham  Bridge,  385. 
Kilmallock,  382. 

Viscount,  pension  of,  398. 
Kilshalcan,  177. 
Kilsheelan  Manor,  7. 
Kilultagh,  Viscount,  annuity  of,  382. 
King,  Captain,  company  of,  422. 

Captain    Francis,    payment    to, 
426. 

Gabriel,  236. 

Captain  James,  235. 

John,  417,  418. 

Doctor  Ralph,  payment  to,  395, 
407. 

Sarah,  pension  of,  383. 

Sir   William,    Knight,    company 
of,  423,  424,  427,  432. 

,  payment  to,  413. 


tifbz'x.. 


46d 


K^ing^s   Bench,   payments  to   (1661), 
376. 
county,  410. 

,  collector  of  poll-money  in, 

392. 
Kingston,' John,  Lord,  34,  228,  246, 
293. 
paynuMit  to,   393,   406,  411. 
Kinsalo,  234,  240,  338,  384. 

blockhouse  and  fort,  155,  396. 
harbour,  37,  38. 

letters  dated  at,  36,  61,  86,  198, 
223,  226,  229,  233,   239,   270, 
298. 
port  of.  Customer  and  Searcher 
of,  381. 
Kirkehnm,  Thomas,  payment  to,  423. 
Knight,  — ,  270. 
Captain,  414. 
Captain    Edward,    payment   to, 

427. 
Robert,  16. 

C\)l.  William,  payment  to,  386. 
KnockgrafFon,  parsonage  of,  187. 
Knocktophcr  Castle,   7. 
Knocktopper,  estate  of,  186. 
Knowsley,  327. 

Knox,  Alexander,  payment  to,  392. 
Kyrle,  Capt.  Richard,  troop  of,  416. 


Lady  man,  Samuel,  16. 
Lalor,  Hugh,  32. 
Lambert,  Oliver,  296. 
Lancashire,  Sheriff  of,  285. 
Lane,  Miss  Charlotte,  217. 

Sir  George,  19,  24,  56,  97,  184, 
208,  291,  372,  442,  443. 

,  death  of  brother  of,  270. 

litters  to,  passim. 

Mr.  James,  217,  274. 

Mr.,  325. 

Lady,  43,  54,  168,  217,  271,  442. 

Sir  hichard,  236. 
Lanesborough,  letters  dated  at,  227, 
271. 

Corporation  of,  244. 
Langford,  Will,  124,  126. 
Langley,   Henry,   payment  to,  416. 
Larkan,  139. 
Lathom,  327. 
Laugherne,    Major   General,  19. 

Thomas,  19. 
Lauderdale,  Earl  of,  52,  63,  113,  134. 
Lawrence,  Col.,  332,  338. 

,  letter  to,  349. 

Col.  Richard,  letters  from,  332, 
333,  334,  346,  349. 

.  letter  to,   350. 

Richard,  of  Chapelizod,  348. 
Lavigne,  Monsieur,  346. 


Lawson,  Sir  George,  53. 

Sir  John,  23. 
Lea,      Thomas,      Transcriptor      and 
Foreigii  Opposer,  fee  of,  375. 

,     Keeper    of    the    Council 

Chamber,  payniont  to,  393. 
Lt^ach,  Mr.  Samuel,  336. 
Lecale,  barony  of,  134. 
Lee,  Henry,  payment  to,  434. 

Til o mas.   Keeper  of  the  Council 
Chamber,  fee  of,  377. 
Letison,  Mr.,  148. 
Lege,  Colonel,  47,  203,  274. 

Lieut.  F.,  332. 

Captain     Henry,     i>ayment    to, 
433. 

William,  67,  69,  144. 
Legge,  Mr.,  146. 

Lemster,  Provost  Marshall  of,  409. 
Leigh  ton,  letter  dated  at,  285. 
Leitrim,      co.,     Commissioners     for 
settling  Militia,  235. 

garrisons  in,  28,  129,   135. 

hearths  books  of,  220. 
Lely,  Sir  Peter,  44,  54,  56. 
Lenef,  344. 
Le    Peer    and    Curraghmore,    Lord, 

letttT  from,  215. 
L'Estrange,  Roger,  352. 

case  of,  351. 
Lest  range,   Will,   letter  from,  33. 
Lottermullen,  26. 
Levett,   Mr.,  360. 
Lewis,  Mary   payment  to,  391. 

Lieut.  Tliomas,  payment  to,  422. 
Liberates,  payments,  3/9. 
Lichfield,  274. 

Lilly.     Sec  Lely,  Sir  Peter. 
Limerick,  oity,  239,  321,  329. 

,  letter  dated  at,  12. 

,   ships  in  river  at,  270. 

Bishop  of  (Edward   Synge),    29, 
30. 

,  letter  from,  12. 

,     (Francis     Marsh),     letter 

from,    314. 

castle,  409. 

Comptroller  of  port  of,  381. 

Customer  of  port  of,  381. 

CO.,  24. 
Liiich  of  the  Knock,  182. 
Lindoii,  Roger,  Customer  of  Carrick- 

fergus,  fee  of,  381. 
Lindsay,  Lord  of,  150. 
Lisbon,  23. 

Lisle,  Major  Daniel,  payment  to,  417. 
Lismalyn,  213,  216. 
Lismullen,  town  and  lands  of,  172. 
Littleton,  Lady,  death  of,  69. 
liiverpool,  317,  331,  366,  367. 
Llantliony,    Baron,    title    borne    by 

Ormond,  51. 
Lock,  Mr.,  150. 
Locke,  James,  424,  435. 

Margaret,  payment  to,  424,  435. 

Mathew,  394. 
Loc»s,  Major,  125. 
Loftus,  Sir  Adam,  petition  of,  94. 

Doctor      Dudley,       Master      of 
Chancery,  fee  of,  376. 


470 


INDEX. 


Loftus— co?i^. 
Lady,  177. 

Nicholas,  C?lerk  of  the  Pipe,  fee 
of,  375,  379. 

,     Surveyor     of     Court    of 

Wards,  fee  of,  377. 
Loghlin,  Kyran,  326. 
London,  Bishop  of,  352. 
Common  Council.  23. 
Corporation  of  Uity  of,  172. 
Drury  Lane,  letters  dated  at,  17, 

18,  19,  67.  88. 
Governor  ana  Assistants,  petition 

of,  277. 
Hampstead,  letter  dated  at,  453. 

,  letters  dated  at,  passim. 

Newgate,  351. 
Old  Bailie,  13. 
St.  James,  63,  68 
St.  James'  fields,  square  iu,  343. 
Somerset  House,  142. 
Tower  of.  134. 

WhiUvhall,   12,    15,    47,    66,  71, 
204,  370. 

,    letters  dated   at,    10,  55, 

153,  193^  290,  297,  326. 
the   Standmse  Wardropp.  41. 
Worcester    House,    64,    65,    68, 
113,  147,  152. 
Londonderry,  396. 
citadel  in,   155. 
l(vtters  dated  at,  233,  256. 
Icttors  concerning,  276,  300. 
Long,    Captain   Felix,    company   of, 
424,  427,  431. 

-,  payment  to,  414. 

Sir  Robert,  352. 
Longford,  town,  271,  272. 

,  letters  dated  at,  255,  267, 

343. 
county,   176. 

,  SheriflP  of,  129. 

Lone  Ford,  co.  Tipperary,  24,  252. 
Lord    Chamberlain  (Arlington),    cer- 
tificate of,  351. 
Lord  Chancellor,  43,  47,  68,  77,  79, 
113,   133,   139,  141,   143,    145, 
152,  161,    167,   187,   195,  279. 
articles  against,   62,  64. 
Lord  Chief  Baron,  7,  9,  134,  144,  192, 

193,  241,  267. 
Lords    of  the   Council   in    England, 

letter  from,  276. 
Lord  Privy  Seal,  113,  155. 
Lord  Treasurer,  68,  204,  274. 
Lorraine,  69,  73. 

Prince  of,  345. 
Lough  Neagh,  246,  247. 
Loughrea,  Commissioners  of,  45. 
Louth,   CO.,  Collectors  of  poll-money 

in,  392. 
Louvaine,  342. 

Love,  Highgate,  paj^ment  to,  396. 
Major  John,  37,  234. 

,  Lettei-sfrom,  36,  223,  226, 

230,  232,  233,  238. 

-,  to,  37,  270,  298. 


Lovice,  371. 

letrter  dated  at,  370. 
Low,  Joseph,  318. 

Lowth,  Tirlagh  O',  payment  to,  400. 
Lucas,  Lieut  .-Col.,  payment  to,  432. 

Lord,  154. 

Captain    Thomas,    company    of, 
429. 
Ludlow,  estates  of,  forfeited,  15. 

Mr.,  160. 
Lunt,  Jane,  payment  to,  419. 

Robert,  419. 
Lurkan,  135. 

Lye,  Robert,  letter  from,  153. 
Lynch,  Anthony,  payment  to,  386. 

Isodorus,  payment  to,  386. 
Lyne,  William,  payment  to,  419. 
Lynskill,  George,  payment  to,  389. 
Lyons,  letter  dated  at,  367. 
Lytton,  Col.  George,  261. 


Lovelace,  Robert,  Bailiff  of  Clonmel. 

249. 
Lovett,  John,  payment  to,  387. 


M 


McCarthy,    Justin,  son   of   Earl    of 

Clancarty,  300. 
McDonnell,  Ciptain,  356. 
MoToole,  Harry,  126. 
Madden,  Jane,  payment  to,  389. 
Maddenstown,  100,  136,  150,  151. 
Madox,  Michael,  payment  to,  423. 
Magin,  Father  Patrick,   145. 
Maguire,  Jephson,  pension  of,  383. 
Mahon,  Captain,  255,  267. 
Nicholas,  235. 

,  payment  to,  305. 

Mahony,  Teigc,  327,  328. 
Maidenhead,  baths,  81. 
Mainwaring,  Dudley,  Quartermaster, 
payment  to,  422. 

,  Constable  of  Dublin  Castle, 

payments  to,  387,  410. 
Lieut.  Thomas,  payment  to,  421. 
Malone,  William,  172. 
Malbone,  Jeoffrey,  payment  to,  392, 

397. 
Manchester,  Earl  of,  286. 
Mandevillc,  Lord,  98. 
Manley,   Col.    Robert,   payment   to, 

413. 
Manly,  Col.  Robert,  233. 

,  letter  from,  275. 

Mansergh,  Capt.  Bryan,  payment  to, 

432. 
Margetson,    James,     Archbishop    of 

Armagh,  3o9. 
Margin,  Father  Patrick,  134. 
Manemont,  344,  ^5. 
Markes,  Matthew,  letter  from,  210. 
Marsh,  Francis,  Bishop  of  Limerick, 
letter  from,  314. 


IKDBX. 


471 


Martin,  S. 

Anthony,  435. 

Major  ffoulke,  paymoiit  to,  422. 

John,  262. 

Mary,  418. 

Nicholas,  payment  to,  38G. 

Robert,  payment  to,  386. 

Thomas.  418. 
Marvborouen,  castle  and  fort  at,  411. 

letter  dated  at,  32. 
Massareene,  John,  Viscount,  51.  106, 
116,  119. 

allowance  of  wine  to,  404. 

company  of,  428. 

payment  to,  412. 

regiment  of,  435. 
Massey,    Sir  Eld  ward.  Knight,    pay- 
ment to,  413. 
Mathcw,  Captain,  288,  289,  297,  303, 
352,  353. 

,  letter  from,  305. 

.  letters  to,  passirn. 

George,  10,  24. 

,    agreement   with    William 

Middleton,  348. 

Theobald,  24. 
Mathews,  Captain,  292. 

Lady,  298,  443. 

Margaret,  payment  to,  400. 
Maule,  Thomas,  Surveyor  General  of 

Customs,  fee  of,  380. 
May,  Ensign  Abraham,  payment  to, 

435. 
May  art.  Col.  John,  company  of,  428. 

,  payment  to,  413. 

Maynard,  Serjeant,  241. 
Mayiiwaring,    Dudley,    CoiLstable    of 
Dublin  Castle,  aiLswer  of,  41. 

,  agreement  with,  42. 

Mayo,  CO.,  Commissioners  for  settling 
Militia,  236. 

garrisons  in,  27. 

Theobald,  Viscount,  202,  236. 

,  pension  of,  399. 

Lady,  pension  of,  399. 
Mayre^  Captain,  company  of,  427. 
Mazann,  Duke  de,  23. 
Mrade,       William,       J^jscheator      of 

Munster,  fee  of,  375. 
Mcath,  BLshop  of  (Henrj^),  allowance 
of  wine  to,  404. 

CO.,  7.  28. 

,  Sheriff  of,  35. 

Mward,  Earl  of,  280,  361. 

,  allowance  of  wine  to,  404. 

,  payment  to,  411. 

M<  diterranean,  23. 
Menes,  letter  dated  at,  35. 
Meredith,  Major,  419. 

Captain    Robert,    company    of, 
434 

Sir  Robert,  9. 

,        Chancellor       of        the 

Exchequer,  fees  of,  374,  379. 

,  allowance  of  wine  to,  404. 

— ^ — ,  pension  of,  397. 

Sir  William,   Bart,  payment  to, 
411. 

,  troop  of,  417. 


Meredyth,  Amos,  letter  from,  33. 

Robert,  letter  from,  33. 
Merryon,  Viscount,  annuity  of,  382. 
Mervine,  William,  51. 
Mervyn,  Sir  Audley,  66,  73. 
Middlesex,    Earl  of,   183,    194,    241, 

356. 
Middleton,  Earl  of,  52,  134. 

Sir  G.,  letter  from,  285. 

Sir  James,  233. 

John,  51. 

,  propositions  from,  re  gun- 
powder, 50. 

Mr..  346. 

William,  349,  ^50. 

,      agreement      of     Georgo 

Mathew  with,  348. 
Milford,  363. 

Militia,  officers  of,  235,  236. 
Miller,  Robert,  318. 
Milner,  Wm.,  letter  from,  208. 
Milward,  letter  of,  192. 
Minchin,   Lieutenant,   216. 
Minehead,  239,  334^,  353,  437. 
Minories,   274. 
Molloy,  Mary,  391. 

William,  Clerk  of  Common  Pleas 

of  the  Exchequer,  fees  of,  379. 

Molyneux,  Captain  Adam,  payment 

to,  409. 
Monmouth,  Duke  of,  445. 
Mons,  345. 

Monteage,  Stephen,  of  London,  172. 
Montekey,  Monsieur,  346. 
Moor  Park.  71,  73.  79,  83.  85,  99, 
100,  101,  105,  111,  121,  150; 
159,  162,  171,  187,  188,  197, 
241,  268,  269,  272,  304,  310, 
438,  445. 

letter  dated   at,  68. 
Moore,  Captain  Garrett,  26. 

,  payment  to,  414. 

Mr.,  198. 

Nicholas,  troop  of,  420. 

Patrick,  176,   179,   182. 

Roger,    Chief   Chamberlain,   fee 
of,  375,  379. 

Lieut.-Col.  William,  28. 

,  company  of,  423,  433. 

,  payment  to,  413. 

Mordaunt,  Capt..  288. 

Morden,  Lord,  279. 

Morean,  Mr.,  327. 

Morgan,  Elizabeth,  payment  to,  424. 

Lieut.  John,  424. 

Captain  John,  236. 

Captain  Robert,  235. 
Morice,  68,  88. 

Secretary,  53,  81,  82. 
Morris,  Mr.,  69,  74,  84,  91. 

Thomas,  petition  of,  278. 
Morrits,  Mr.,  339. 
Mortimer,  James,  373. 
Morton,   Captain,  283. 

John,  letter  from,  200. 

Nicholas,  418. 
Motlow,    Col.    James,    payment    to, 

413. 
Mountaine,  339. 


472 


INI)EX. 


Mount-  Ali'xaiidi  r,  ."i8,  8i),  440. 

,  Kuddt>n  death  of,  UO. 

HukIi,  Earl  of,  paynioiit  to,  411, 
41.-,. 

,  troop  of,  418. 

Mount  goiiKTv,       llugli,       Viscount, 
a'lnuity  of,  38*2. 
payments  to,  38-k  415. 
Mount  rat li.  town,  38."). 

Charlo's,    Earl  of.  9,   10,  27,   28, 
298. 

,  allowance  to,  403,  404. 

,  annuity  of,  382. 

,  company  of,  4{^. 

,  payments  to,  408,  409,  410, 


411,  412,  41(),  421. 

,  roKinuMit  of.  422,  423,  435. 

Jane,  Countess  of,  92,  342,  419. 
Afoxon,  Joseph,  319. 
Moy,  CO.  Armagh,  castle  at,  410. 
Moyrashel,  harony,  12.'3. 
Moycull(Mi,      barony,      co.      Galway, 

petition  of  inhabitants  of,  30. 
MoyliN  Mary,  payment  to,  417,  419. 

Tliomas,  Lieut..  417,  419. 
Moylougli,  castle,  27. 
Moyne,  eo.  Mayo,  abbey,  27. 
Mulcabv,  John   MaeDavid,   payment 

of,  391. 
:\Iubdv,  Sir  Pat.,  304. 
.MuKs,"  Mr.,  317. 
Mullimehan,  271. 
MuUingar,   128,  207. 
Mulliiis,  Mary,  payment  to.  418. 
Mulys,  Mr..  338. 

Richard,   letter  from,  338. 
Munday,  John,    payment  to,    435. 
Munster,  Lord  President  of,  38,  253, 
201. 

Provost  Marshall  of,  409. 

(\V<'stplialia),   259. 

,    agreement    at,   22. 

-  -  -,   Hisliop  of,  259. 
Miirtirr  irill  (mf,  pamnhlet.  93. 
Murphy,  Nicholas,  417,   418. 
Murray,  Robert,  299. 
3lusehanip,  Thomas,  payment  to.  385. 
Muscovia,  Embassy  to,  53. 
Muskerry,  Lord.  98,   138,   252. 


Naylor,  Mr.,  540. 

N(>a.  Sir  John,  84. 

Ncale,  Sir  William,  paymeut  to,  384. 

Nelthorpe,  Mr.,  331,  352,  353,  355, 

357,  301. 
Nenagh,  9. 
Netherlands,  278. 
Nellerville,  Lady,  401. 

Robert,  payment  to,  401. 
Nevill,  Richard,  payment  to,  408. 
Neville,  Major,  330. 

Thomas,        Deputy       Governor, 
Loudon,  278. 
Newburgh,    Captain    Thamas,     pay- 
ment tOy  435. 
Newcomen,     Richard,     Auditor     of 
Court  of  Wards,  fee  of,  377. 

Captain    Thomas,    payment    to, 
417. 
Newhausell,  Hungary,  90. 
Ntnvmarket,  343,  444. 
Newry,  134. 

castle.   393. 
N(>ws  Book,  pat-ont  for,  351. 
Newtown,  197. 

hitters  dated  at,  59,  75,   197. 

CO.  Mavo,  castle,  27. 
Nicholas,  Sir  Edward,  248. 

Katherino,  410. 

Richard,  410. 

Mr.  SiKjretary,  18. 
NichoUs,  John,  258. 
Nivel,  344. 
Nixon,  Col.  Daniel,  payment  to,  414. 

Mr.,  270. 
Noel,  Sir  Martin,  143. 
Noro,  river,  221. 
NowWl,  144. 

Norman,  Samuel,  letter  from,  208. 
Normandy,  308,  309. 
Norrls.  Richard,  319. 
Northam,   337. 
Northampton,  town,  170. 

Lord,  154. 

shir(\  240. 
NortJiumberland.  Algernon,  Earl  of. 

13,  14. 
Norwich,  3-19. 

Norwood.    11.,   letter  from,   288. 
Xoyse.  Ricliard,  318. 
Nugent.  Mrs.,  318. 


N 


Xaas,  357. 

Nagle,   James,  173. 

Nancle,  Edmund,  221,  224. 

Mr.,   225,   227,   228. 

Richard,  letter  from,   45. 
Nangle,  —,  207. 

Elizaht^th.  payment  to,  389. 
Narborouqh,  Captain,  331. 
Nassau,    Prince   Maurice  of,  344. 


0 


O'Roar,  Sullivan,  estate  of,  275. 
O'l^rien,  Lord,  329. 

letter  from,  310. 
O'Dwiggin,  John,  387. 
Offia*rs  attending  the  State,  fees  of. 
377. 


iNbBS. 


ilQ 


Oflfic  Ts,  Provincial,  fees  of,  380. 

Ogle,  Sir  John   47. 

Ogleby,  John,  Customer  of  Drogheda, 

fee  of,  381. 
Oldfield,  Mr.,  285. 
Oliver,   Quartermaster  George,  pay- 
ment to.  417. 
Captain    Kobert,    company    of, 
432. 
Olszouski,    Andreas,    Archbishop    of 
Gnesine,  371. 
letter  from,  370. 
O'Malley,  Charles,  222. 
O'Neale,  126. 

Sir  Phelim,  126,  172. 
O^Neil,  Honry,  162. 
O'Neill,  Daniel,  pension  of,  383. 
Sir  Henry,  122. 
Niel    219. 
Orange,  'PrincV  of,  345,  369,  453. 
O'Reilly,  Primate,  128. 

Miles.  219. 
Orleans,  369. 

letU>r  dated  at,  325. 
Ormesbye,  Captain  Arthur,  payment 

to,  432. 
Ormond,  James,    Duke  of,  58,  327, 
328,  397. 

,       agreement       by       Geo. 

Mathew  on  behalf  of,  348. 

,  company  of,  429. 

-,   John,    son  of,    322,    362, 


364,  449. 
— ,  lands  of,  7.  8,  9. 
— ,  movements  or,  267. 
— ,  order  to  prorogue  Parlia- 
ment, 51. 

— ,  payments  to,  411,  412. 
— ,  Kichard,  son  of,  136. 
-,  titles  of,  61. 


Ducluss  of,   43,   170,   187,    272, 

282,   326. 

,  letters  from,  290,  323. 

,  letter  to,  324. 

Marohionoss  of,   53,   155. 

,  letter  from,  6. 

,  lottors  to,  7,  8,  49. 

Ormond's  Loix,  49. 

O'Rorko.  222. 

Orrery,  Roger,  Karl  of,  167,  176,  177, 

226,  228,  21)8,  300,  442,  443. 
allowance  to,   -103. 
annuity  to.   382. 
company  of,  430. 
letter  from,  69. 
letters  to,  38,  115,  116. 
payments  to,  408,  409,  411,  412, 

416,  421. 
troop  of,  417. 
Osborn,  Mr.,  319. 

Ossorv,  Bishop  of,  letter  from,  354. 
fhoma«,    Karl   of,    58,   60,    194. 

203,   231,  241,  251,  290,  295', 

331,  359,  367,  439,  441,  442, 

446,  447,  449,  450,  451,   453. 

,  letter  to,  298. 

,  payments  to,  400,  412. 

,    title   bom©   by    Ormond, 

51. 
Lady.  448. 


Otway,    Lieut.    John,    payment   to, 

417. 
Ouseley.  Major  Thomas,  253. 
Overkirke,  — ,  346. 
Overseer  of  the  Press,  351. 
Owk«,  211. 
Oxberry,  Capt.,  215. 
Oxford,  84,  198,  240. 


Packenham,    Captain   Henry,    troop 

of,  420. 
Padmore,  Arthur,  payment  to,  392. 
Page,  Mr.,  372. 

Mr.    Sec,    221,    224,    225,   248, 
288,  290,  298,  358. 

petition  to,  208. 

Sir  Thomas,  letter  from,  310. 
Paine,  Captain  John,  25,  26. 

payment  to,  408. 
Pais    a'Outremeu.se,   22. 
Pallice,  Mary,  payment  to,  399. 
Pahner,       Sir      Jeffrey,       Attorney 

General,  352. 
Paris,   101,  369. 

letters  dated  at,  331,  338,  342, 
369. 
Parko,  Hiil,  letter  dated  at,  88. 

Captain  Robert,  235. 
Parker,    Capt.    John,    payment    to, 

420. 
Parrett,  Richard,  Bailiff  of  Clonmel, 

249. 
Parry,    Dr.   Benjamin,   letter   from, 
313. 

,  brother  of,  198. 

Dr.  John,  242. 

John  (Bishop  of  Ossory),   letter 
from,   354. 
Parsons,  Lawrence,  letter  from,  254. 
Passage,  fort  of,  155. 
Patrick,   Father,   friends  of,  141. 
Paterson,  Mr.,   124. 
Peacocke,  Captain,  company  of.  424, 
435. 
John,  company  of,  430. 
Peok,  Edward,  payment  to,  394. 
Peisley,  ffrancis,  payment  to,  409. 
Pelletstown,   co.  Dublin,   293. 
Pembroke,  Lord,  356. 
Pen,  Sir  William,  Knight,  37. 

pavment  to,  413. 
Penn,   Lady,   37. 
Pensioners,  payments  to,  383. 

petition  of  poor,  20. 
Peppard,  Major  George,  company  of, 

430. 
Pepper,    Captain    George,    company 
of,   425. 
William,  payment  to,  392. 
Pepys,  Samuel,  petition  of,  21. 


474 


INDEX. 


Perpetuities,  382. 

Perry,  Capt.  Benjamin,  payment  to, 

433. 
Peterburgh,   Earl  of,  23. 
Petit,   Stephen,  prisoner  in  Kinsalo, 

210. 
Pett,  Peter,  Advocate  General,  pay- 
ment to,  391. 
Pc^ttv,  Sir  William,  98,  99. 
letter  from,  11. 
vessel  of,  94,  173. 
Philips.  Major  Dudley,  21. 
Philipstown,  King^s  co.,  constable  of 

castle  of,  410. 
Phillip,  Anthony,  326. 
Phillips,  Elizabeth,  payment  to,  417. 
Lieut.  Hugh,  417. 
Mr.,  64,  oS,  67,  71,  73    84,  So, 
99,    101,   104,    105,    106,    108, 
241,  327. 
Richard,  payment  to,  407. 
Phillipps,  Dudley,  payment  to,  389. 

Hichard,  payment  to,  385. 
Phillpot,  Nathaniel,  318. 
Pierce,  Maurice,  424,  436. 

Trevelyan,  payment  to,  424,  436. 

Piggott,    Ensign    Chidley,    payment 

to,  424. 

Tliomas,  Master  of  the  Court  of 

Wards,  payment  to  and  fee  of, 

377,  393. 

Thomas,      Serjeant-at-Arms      of 

Munster,  fee  of,  380. 
Col.  Thomas,  294. 

,  company  of,  424. 

,  payment  to,  413. 

Pigott,  CoL,  160,  162,  166,  171. 

John,  letter  from,  33. 
Pio,  Prince,  the  Reignegrave,  345. 
Pitt  man,  John,  payment  to,  422. 
Plunket,  Mr.,  126,  136. 

Sir  Nicholas,  102,  104,  109.  112, 
183,  184,  186,   191,   194,  241. 
Plunkett,  Henry,  419. 
John,  418. 

Katherine,  pension  of,  401. 
Mary,  399. 

Thomas,  payment  to,  894. 
Sir  Walter,   Knijght,    Prothono- 
tary    of    the    Common   Pleas, 
fees  of,  376. 
Pierop,     Dame     Martha,     relict     of 

Anthony,  Bishop  of  Meath,  308. 
Plymouth,  233,  239. 
Pod  more,  Arthur,  letter  from,  337. 

.  Messenger  of  the  Council 

Board,  fee  of,   377. 
-,     clerk     of    Secretary     for 


Martial    affairs,    payment  to, 
394. 
Poer,    Capt.    Richard,    Governor    of 

Waterford,  205. 
Poland,  370. 

Pole,    Sir    Courtenay,    letter    from, 
203. 
Mr.  Perriam,  203. 
Poll  Money  (1661),  373,  392. 
Pomerania,  Duchy  of,  23. 
Poole,  Sir  Courtney,  72. 

Francis,   payment  to,  403. 


Pooley  (Pooly),  258,  293. 

Pope  Leo  X..  370. 

Popham,  Col.  Alexander,  220. 

Porson,  Mr.,  347. 

Portland,    Countess   of,  letter  from, 

250. 
Port  man,  Lady,   reported  death  of, 

59. 
Portsmouth,  18,  19. 
Portugal,  53. 

news  from,  69. 

ship  of  King  of,  36,  37,  38. 
Post  Office,  patent  for,  63. 
Potter  William,  51. 
Poulden,  Major,  270. 
Povey,  John,  fees  of,  378. 

Judge  of  Assize,  395. 
Powell,  Captain  John,  troop  of,  420. 
Power,  Captain,  438. 

Milo,  317. 

Captain    Richard,    payment   to, 
413. 

and  Curraghmore,  Lord.  263. 
Poyning,  Act  of,  106,  110,  120,  130. 
Poyntz,  2a5. 
Prende»rgast,  — ,  298. 

Klyas,  letter  from,  249. 
Preston,  Pllizabeth,  payment  to,  388. 

Jane,  payment  to,  388. 
Price,   Francis,  418. 

Katherine,  payment  to,  424. 

Mr.,  251. 

Thomas,  424. 
Princess  Royal,  175. 
Pritty,  Col.,  troop  of,  417. 
Provost  Marshall,  80,  82,  142.  • 
Pugh,   Humphry,   payment  to,   424. 
Pullcn,  C^tain,  236. 
Puller,  Abraham,  417,  418. 
Pullon,  Samuel,  Archbishop  of  Tuam, 

187. 
Purcell,   petition  of,   447. 
Purdon,   Sir  Nicholas,   Knight,  pay- 
ments to,  409,    413. 
Purefoy,    Lieut. -Col.    William,    pay- 
ment to,  424. 
Putney,  23. 


Q 


Queen  Catherine,  wife  of  Charles  11., 
53,  295,  325. 

,  arrival  of,  19. 

,  illness  and  recovery  of,  93, 

98,  99,  105. 

,  movements  of,  63,  66,  78, 


79. 


-,  prayer  for,  296. 


mother,  23,  63,  90. 
Queen's  county,  411. 

gentry  of,  32. 
Quelch,  Alderman,  248. 
Quit  rent,  o9,  373. 


IKDEX. 


475 


R 


Racy,  Gabriel,  payment  to,  419. 

Rafter,   Mr.,  355. 

Raiusford,  Baron,  153,  157,  161. 

Sir  Richard,  104,  105,  112,  146, 
163. 
Ranelagh,   Viscount,    115,  122,   138, 
341,  371,  372,  447,  450. 

annuity  of,  382. 
Raphoc  (Rathfoe),  castle  of,  156. 
Rathcliue,  227,  228,  271. 
Raven,  Constantine,  319. 
Rawden,  Major  George,  payment  to, 

412. 
Rawline,  Jo.,  letter  from,  33. 
Rea,  — ,  54. 

Sir  John,  67. 
Read,  Lieut.-Col.  John,  company  of, 
422,  431. 

,  payment  to,  413. 

Mr.,  337. 
Reader,    Mr.,  Alderman   of  Dublin, 

221. 
Reading,  Captain  John,  company  of, 

428. 
Rect»ivers,  rents  by  particular,  (1661), 

373. 
Redman,   Col.  Daniel,   troop  of,  24, 
419. 

payment  to,  42. 
Reeves,  Mrs.,  273. 

John,  395. 
Rcigno  Grave,  the,  344,  345. 
Rcilly,  Captain,  127. 

Miles,  222,  224. 
Revenue,  proposed  farming  of,   69. 

of  Ireland  (1661),  state  of,  373— 
436. 
Reyly,  Hugh,  payment  to,  386. 

Robert,   418. 
Reynolds,  Captain  Jacob,   391. 

Mr.  James,  197. 
Roynolls,  Captain  Jacob,  37,  38. 
Rhott,  Roger,  payment  to,  412. 
Rickmansworth,  parish,   273. 
Rigby,  Thomas,   letter  from,   197. 
Rimer,  Ralph,   140. 
Roberts,  Edward,  letter  from,  333. 


-,  payment  to,  393. 


John,   Lord,    27,    28,    272,    296, 
298,  359,  441,  442. 

,  payments  to,  411,  412. 

Lady,  442,  443. 
Robertson,  Susanna,  pension  of,  401. 
Robes  of  Judges,  payments  for,  378. 
Robinson,  Elinor,  318. 

Edward,  318. 
Roch,  Mr.,  168. 
Rogers,  — ,  304. 

Captain,  179. 

Mr.,  366. 

P.,  letter  from,  40. 


Roly,  Sir  John,  48,  49. 

Roney,   Comet  Daniel,  payment  to, 

418. 
Rooksby,  Mrs.,  27. 
Roose,  Capt.,  142. 
Rooth,  Captain,  87,  232,  233,  298. 
Roper,  Christopher,  pension  of,  383. 

Mr.,  327. 
Roscommon,  castle,  28. 
CO.,  27. 

,  Conmiissioners  for  settling 

Militia,  235. 

,  garrisons  in,  27. 

-,  Poll  money  in,  395. 


Lord,   356. 
Rose,  Captain  John,  troop  of,  420. 
Roseworme,    Lieut.-Col.    John,    pay- 
ment to,  408. 
Ross,  9. 

Capt.,  177. 
Rosse,  Captain  William,  390. 
Roth,  Mr.,  326. 
Rothes,  Lord,  52. 
Rouen,  letter  dated  at,  132. 
Rowe,  William,  Pursuivant,  fees  of, 
377,  387. 

Saymeut  to,  392. 
ocke.  Captain  Andrew,  payment 
to,  421. 
company   of,  431. 
Rugeley,  Captain  Joha,  425. 

Lieut.-Col.  Simon,  company  of, 
429. 
Rupert,  Prince,  174,  226. 
Russell,  Christopher,  179. 

,  payment  to,  391. 

Patrick,  of  Cormanstown,  134. 
Robert,  payments  to,   413,   424. 
Sir  William,  108,  111. 
Russian  Ambassador,   35. 
Ryvcs,  Mrs.,  269. 


S 


Sadler,  Col.,  regiment  of,  426. 

Sheriff,  214. 
St.  Albans,  Earl  of,  61,  65,  72,  101, 

102,   104,  448. 
St.  Andrew,  Lord,  299. 
St.  Christopher,  taken  by  the  French, 

226. 
St.    George,    Captain,  payments   to, 
394,  413. 

George,  payment  to,  411. 

Sir  George,  210,  317,  421. 

Sir  Oliver,  202,  225,  235,  236. 

,  payments  to,  412,  420,  421. 

,  troop  of,  24,  420. 

Richard,    Ulster    King-at-Arms, 
fee  of,  377. 

Captain  Richard,  28. 

,  company  of,  427. 

Captain  William,   235. 

,  company  of,  426,  433. 

,  payment  to.  414. 


476 


iKDElt. 


St.  Jolinslown.  letter  dated  at,  124. 
St.  Ledger,  Captain  John,  payment 
to,  413. 

Mr.,  326. 
St.  Runibale's  well,  240. 
Salt,  Captain  John,  payment  to,  416. 

,  troop  of,  419. 

Captain,  troop  of,  418,  421. 
Sam  borne,  Tliomas,  30. 

letter  from,  3"). 
Saramon,  John,  petition  of,  33. 
Sanderson,  — ,  history  by,  372. 
Sandford,  Capt.  Theophilus,  payment 

to.  417. 
Sancis,    Captain   John,   payment    to, 
429. 

Mr.,  300,  310. 

Col.  Robert,  payment  to,  413. 

Sir  Thomas,  in2. 
Sandys,   Col.    Robert,    letters   from, 

227    271. 
Sankey,  Henry,  209. 

Col.  Henry,  249. 

Hie,  24. 

Mrs..  396. 
Santry,  James,  Baron,  Chief  Justice 
of  the  King's  Bench,  fees  of,  375, 
378. 
Sarsfield,   Anne,  payment  to,  403. 

Viscount,  of  Kilmallock,  annuity 
of,  382. 
Savage,  Philip,  319. 
Savov,  Duchess  of,  140. 
Sawyers,  Mr.,  43,  44,  48,  54. 
Scott,  Col.  Thomas,  com|:>any  of,  420. 

,   paynient  to,  423. 

,  regiment  of,  422. 

Sir  William,  35. 

,  letter  from,  132. 

Scudamore,    Richard,     Customer    of 

Cork,  fee  of,  381. 
Seele,      Dr.     Thomas,     Provost     of 

Trinity  College,  219,  274,  359. 
Segravo,    Ignatius,   318.- 
Seix,  Adam,  282. 
Sequestered  Rents  (1661),  373. 
Serjeant,  Phillip,  payment  to,  422. 
Scshons,  443. 
Shadwcll,  John,  letter  from,  243. 

Mr.,  184. 
Shaen,  Sir  JaDies,  .')7,  11;"),  144,  146, 
276.  277. 

payments  to,  384,  392,  398. 
Shaft sbury.  Lord,  363. 
Shannon,    Francis,    Viscount,    allow- 
ance of  wine  to,  404. 

,  annuity  of,  382. 

,  payment  to,  411. 

,  letter  from,  189. 

,  troop  of,  418. 

river,    27,   28. 
Shapoott^  — ,  72. 
Shaw%  Henry,  payment  to,   428. 
Shepherd,  John,  319. 
Shoe,  Mr.  Robert,  200. 
Sherland,  Captain,  223. 
Ship,  Dolphin,  414. 

Gift  of  God,  209. 

Harp,  87.  90,  239.  414. 

Hunter.  221. 


Ship  -cont, 

Mary,  90. 

Mermaid,  232,  275. 

Norwich,  363. 

Orange  Tree,  337. 

Rapheimick,  203. 

Rose  Pink,  414. 

St.  Lewis,  37. 

Sapphyre,  239. 

Sarah,  of  Cork,  209,  231, 

Swan,  336. 

Unitie,  204. 
Shirley    Ann,  payment  to,  416. 
Shonhub,  John  Daniel,  pension  to,  401. 
Shortall,   Dame  Ellen,   payment  to. 
388. 

Pierce,  pension  to,  400. 

Robert,  pension  to,  400. 
Shrimpton,    Capt.    Henry,   payment 

to,  433. 
Shute,  letter  dated  at,  203. 
Shooleigh,  Will,  337. 
Sigginstown,  357. 
Sill,  Robert,  Portreeve  of  Trim,  94, 

95. 
Simmons,  Mr.,  440. 
Siviott,  Lord,  90. 

Skelhorne,  Thom&s,  payment  to,  422. 
Shreene,  barony  of,  172. 
Slade,  Col.  Henry,  payment  to.  431. 
Sleufineren,  225. 
Slewbawne,  267. 

Sligo,  CO.,  Commigsioners  for  settlinc; 
Militia,  235. 

,  garrisons  in,  27. 

,  Sheriff  of,  235. 

town,   fort,   27,    156,    223     232, 
395,  410. 

,  letter  dated  at,  237. 

Sliiigsby,   Mr.   Francis,  66,   57. 

Mr.,  18,  19,  55. 
Sloughter,  Ensign  John,  payment  to, 
424. 

Smallwood,  Captain  James,  payment 

to,  407. 
Smith,  Alderman,  18. 

,  Bill  for  charitable  uses,  17. 

Mrs.   Dorothv,  13. 

,  letter  to,  12. 

George,  13. 
Mr.,  44,  53,  321. 
Thomas,  payment  to,  423. 
Smithwick,  Captain  Henry,  company 
of,  430. 
Lieut. -Col.,  company  of,  423. 
Smyth,  Mr..  319,  320. 
Solicitor,  Mr.,  297,  298. 
Solmes,  Count,  345. 
Someflewer    (?    Eonfleur),    on    the 

Seine,  209. 
Somers,    William,  payment  to,    388, 

390. 
Somerset,       co.,       Ormond        Lord 

Lieutenant  of,  61. 
Some,  near  St.  Johnstown,  126. 
Southwell.  Robert,  62.  , 

,  lettcTs  from,  38,  61.  86. 

Robert,    Customer    of    Kinsale, 

fee  of,  381. 
Sir  Robert,  letter  to,  361. 


INDEX. 


477 


Spanish  Ambassador,  22. 

army,  3-44. 
Spare,  Elinor,  payment  to,  423. 

Ellis,  423. 
Speight,  Thomas.  318. 
Spencer,  Col.,  230. 

Col.  John,  236. 

,  letter  from,  237. 

John,  436. 

Mary^  436. 
Spenser,  Will.,  letter  from,  45. 
Spike,  Mr.,  227. 
Squire,  — ,  343. 
Stanhope,  Betty,  340. 
Stanley,  Henry,  368. 

Major  Henry,  426. 

Comet,  Michael,  262. 

Thomas,  16. 
Stanse,  James,  417. 
wStaplehill,  Walter,  31,  32. 
Staples,  Lieut.-Col.  Alexander,  pay- 
ment to,  425. 
Stayly,  307. 
Steame,  Dr.,  221. 

Dr.  John,  payment  to,  396. 

Steeres,  Rev.   Wm.,   petition  of,   29. 

St<^phens,     Sir    John,     Governor    of 

Dublin    Castle,     payment    to, 

383,  385,  402,  410,  412. 

John,  414. 

William,  payment  to,  419. 
Stepney,  Mr.  John,  37. 

letters  from,  37,  333. 
Sterling,  Lady,  payment  to,  426. 

Sir  Robert,  Knight,  payment  to, 
412. 

,  widow  of,  425. 

St<^me,  Captain  Robert,  company  of, 

435. 
St-eward,  Captain  Harry,  126. 

Captain    Thomas,    payment    to, 
413. 
Stewart,  Alexander,  ])ayment  to,  424, 

Lady  Mary,  deatK  of,  437. 

Sir  Robert,  Knight,  payment  to, 
412. 
Stirrup,     Silvanus,     lusher     of     the 

Exchequer,  fees  of,  315,  379. 
Stockton,     Thomas,     Judgo    of    the 
King's  Bench,  fees  of,  376,  378. 

letter  from,  207. 
Stone,   41. 

letter  dated  at.  39. 
Stones,  John,  petition  of,  33. 
Story,  William,  318. 
Stoughton,    Anthony,    payments    to, 

388,  389,  390,  393. 
Stout<»,  Nicholas,  Customer  of  Youg- 

hal  and  Dungarvan,  fee  of,  381. 
Stowell,  Mr.  Anthony,  37. 
Strabaiie,  222. 
Strafford,  Ijady,  letter  from,  324. 

Lord,  18,  108,  121,  158,  357. 

,  letter  from,  324. 

Strode,  Mr.,  18,  19. 

Stuart>,  140. 

Sturgis,   Andrew,   Messenger  of  the 

Council  Board,  fee  of,  377. 
Styles,  John,  336. 
Subsidies,  Act  for  the,  45. 


Suck,  river,  27. 

Sudbury,  letter  dated  at,  307. 

Sullivan,  Daniel,   payment  to,  422. 

Surveyor  General,  65. 

Swane,  Sir  William,  Hamburg,  260. 

Swansea,  239. 

Sweet  man,  James,  318. 

Sydenham,  Col.,  233. 

Symer,  Thomas,  payment  to^  424. 

SyngOj  Edward,  Bishop  of  Limerick, 

letter  from,  12. 
Synnocke,   Captain  James,  payment 

to,  434. 


T 


Taaffe,  Viscount,  pension  of,  398. 
Talbot,   Bernard,  payment  to,  389. 

Mr.,  446. 

Dick,  101,  356. 

John^  177,  179,  180. 

Sir  John,  176,  182. 

James,  148. 

Peter,  179. 

Sir  Robert,  184. 
Tallant,   Patrick,  payment  to.  390. 

Patrick,    Goneral    Escheat  or    of 
Leinstor,  fees  of,  375. 
Tandy,  Captain,   company  of,  423. 

Captain    Thoma-?,    company    of, 
425. 
Tanger,  288. 
Tangier,  23. 
Tara,  hill  of,  172. 

Viscountess  of,  payment  to,  400. 
Tarr,  — ,  49. 
Taunton,  334. 
Taylor,  440. 

Joseph,  75. 

Mr.,  300. 

Nathaniel,  332. 

William,  payment  to.  385. 
Tearo,  John,  petition  of,  33. 
Toig,  Mr.  John,  336. 
Temple,  Col.  Edmond,  troop  of,  417. 

John,    Solicitor   General,    allow- 
ance of  wine  to,  405. 

,  fees  of,  374,  379. 

Sir  John,   Master  of  the  Rolls, 
195,  293. 

,   allowances   to,   403,    404. 

,  fees  of,  376,  379. 

,  letters  from,  12,  308. 

Mr.,  107,  110,  166. 

Sir  Richard,  58. 

Sir  William,  letters  to,  360,  362. 

library,  305. 
Templemore,  44. 
Tench,  Capt.  John,  253. 

,  company  of,  431. 

Termonbarry,  co.  Roscommon,  castle, 
28,  156. 


478 


INDEX. 


Texol,  tho,  23. 

Thofoght  l?\  town  of,  209. 

ThoUwall,      Quart^^rmaster     Robert, 

payment  to,  417. 
Thomas,  Sergeant,  225. 
Thomastown,  3S1. 

letter  dated  at,  303. 
Thomond,  329. 

Earl  of,  321. 
Thompson,   Captain  John,   troop  of, 

417. 
Thornton,  John,  Usher  of  the  Council 

Board,  fee  of,   377,  396. 
Throckmorton,  Sir  Joseph,  86. 
Thurlos,    Viscount,    title    borne    by 
Ormond,  51. 
Filizabcth,  Lady,  tO, 

,    letters  from,    11,  14,    44, 

223. 
-,  death  of,  452. 


letter  dated  at,  44. 
Thurleetown,  co.  Tipperary,  414. 
Tichborne,   Sir   Henry,    Marshal    of 
the  Army,   6,    137,   148,   241, 
251. 
alowance  of  wine  to,  404. 
payments  to,  406,   411. 
troop  of,  412,  417. 
Tighe,  Alderman,  243. 
Tipperaxy,  co.,  7. 

collector   of  poll-money  in,   392. 
Ormond,  Lord  of  Royalties  and 
Liberties  of,  51. 

getition  of  inhabitants  of,  24. 
heriff  of,  322. 
Tireconnell,    Bridget,    Countess    of, 
annuity  to,  383. 
Oliver,  Earl  of,  annuity  of,  382. 
Tituan,  23. 
Tiverton,  334. 
Tomkins,  Captain  Thomas,  company 

of.  427. 
Tomlin,    Captain   Thomas,    company 

of,  421,  422. 
Tomlinson,     Richard,     payment    to, 

402. 
Toogood,  Captain  Sampson,  troop  of, 

416,  418,  419. 
Torido,  —,  391. 
Tories,  48. 

Torrington,  Lord,  221. 
Toxtetn,  William,  payment  to,  392. 
Tracy,  W.,  letter  from,  285. 
Tralee,  estate  of,  186. 

condition  of,   328,   329. 
letters  dated  at,  199,  327. 
Treasury,  Commissioners  of,  352. 
Treftini,  344. 
Treswell,   Col.    Daniel,   payment  to, 

413. 
Trevor,  Col.,  troop  of,  418,  419. 

Col.   Marcus,  allowance  of  wino 

to,  404. 
Lord  Marcus,  payment  to,  412. 
Trim,  castle  and  manor  of,  94. 
letters  dated  at,  34. 
portreeve  of,  94,  95. 
Trinocho,  co.  Kildare,  397. 
Tunbridge,  53,  63,  64. 
Court  at,  69,  73. 


Trinity  College,   Dublin,     i^et  under 

Dublin. 
Tuam,  Samuel  Pullon,  Archbishop  of, 
187. 

•   letter  dated  at,  187. 
Turks,  84,  101,  288. 
Turner,   Sir  Edward,  Speaker,  54. 
Turtenbergh,  Prince  of,  345. 
Twig,  Captain  Charles,  payment  to, 

Twigg,  Captain,  company  of,  424. 
Captain    Charles,    company    of, 
428. 
Twile,   Ellis,   payment  to,   389. 
Twitnham,    Lord  Chancellor  at,   69. 
Tyrconnell,  Earl  of,   64,  70,   72,  81, 
82. 


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Ulster,  clergy,  oath  of  loyalty,  220. 

new  plantation  of,  276,  277. 

Provost  Marshal    of,  409. 

King-ai>Arms,  fee  of,  377. 
Usher,  Mary,   payment  to,  399. 


Valdeck,  Count,  344,  345. 
Vane,  Sir  James,  59. 
Vangelder,  Mr.,  17,  19. 
Vaughan,  Doctor  James,  237. 

Sir  William,  37. 
Vauxhall,  23. 

Venice,  leter  dated  at,  365. 
Vercelles,  Lorraine,  83. 
Verdon,  Theobald,  payment  to,  384. 
Vernon,   Col.   Edward,  letters  from, 
272,  274,  305. 
Col.,  162,  306. 
Vienna,  101. 
Villahermosa,    Duke    de,    344,    345, 

346. 
Valencia   (Villency),  Kerry,    fort  of, 

155. 
Virginia,  230,  232,  233. 
Vodemont,  Prince  of,  344,  346: 
Voulyrs,  Monsieur  de,  338. 
Vylanson,  I«aac,  Dutch  prisoner,  221. 


INDEX. 


479 


Vyner,  — ,  308. 

Mr.,  17,  35,  54,  56,  68,  69,  73, 

76,  100,  101,  105,  168. 
Sir  Robert,  297,  300,   309,  323, 

340. 
Sir  Thomas,  19,  68,  85,  132,  162, 

166,  168,  170. 
,  and  Company,  payment  to, 

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Wado,  Captain  Samuel,  company  of, 
436. 
Thomas,  payment  to,  418. 
Major  William,  company  of,  430. 
Waggett,  James,  payment  to,  301. 
Wakefield,    George,   Pursuivant,    fee 
of,  377. 
payment  to,  392. 
Wakeham,    Captain  John,    company 

of,  431. 
Walcott,  Captain  Thomas,  321. 
Walker,  Thomas,  petition  of,  33. 
Lieut.-Col.  William,  payment  to, 
426. 
Waller,  estates  of,  forfeited,  15. 
Wallice,   Nicholas,  petition  of,  33. 
Wallls,  Mr.,  180,  181,  298. 

Ralph,  payment  to,  395. 
Walsh,  Edward,  417,  418. 
James,  419. 

,  petition  of,  33. 

John,  11,  92,  172,  186,  245,  249. 
Mary,  419. 

Oliver,     Marshal      of     Dublin, 
payment  to,  386. 
Walshe,  John,  24,  184,  267. 
Walters,  Geo.,  275. 
Walton,  Izaac,  letter  from,  12. 
Wandesforde,    Sir   Christopher,    180, 

181. 
Warburton,    Richard,    payment    to, 

407. 
Ward,  Dr.  Michael,  359. 

Robert,     Searcher    of    port     of 

Bangor,  etc.,  fee  of,  381. 
Major  Robert,  Provost  Marshal 
of  Ulster,  payment  to,  409. 
Warden,  Col.  Wuliam,   payment  to, 

413. 
Wardrobe,  Articles  from,  for  King's 
service,  16. 
Yeoman  of  the,  392. 
Ware,  Anne,  payment  to,  392. 

Sir  James,  Auditor  General,  9, 
80,  156,  197,  436. 

,  allowance  of  wine  to,  404. 

,  fees  of,  374,  379. 

Jane,  payment  to,  392. 
Mary,  payment  to,  392. 


Warren,   Capt.  Abel,   troop  of,   418, 
422. 

Henry,  318. 

,     Remembrancer     of     the 

Exchequer,  fees  of,  374,   379. 

John,  293. 

Col.  John,  company  of,  421. 

Mary,  payment  to,  400. 

Thomas,  262. 

William,  293. 
Waterford,  290,  363,  408,  414. 

fort  of,  155. 

letters  dated  at,  40,  261. 

Recorder  of,  40. 
Watford,  197. 
Watson,  Captain,  233. 
Wawe,  Richard,  pension  of,  401. 
Weaver,  John,   allowance  to,  403. 

Mr.,  267. 

Richard,  319. 

Webb,   Anne,    widow,    payment   to, 
385. 
Captain,  156. 

Captain  Henry,  payment  to,  434. 
Captain    William,    payment   to, 
395. 
Webster,  Captain,  company  of,  436. 
Captain  John,  compdtoj^  of,  430. 
Welch,  John,  217. 
Weldon,  Wm.,  letter  from,  33. 
Wells,  Ormond,  Lord  Lieutenant  of, 

51. 
Welsh,  John,  180,  181. 
Wemyss,  Sijr  Patrick,  311. 
Wentworth,     Sir     George,     Knight, 
allowance  of  wine  to,  404. 

,  payment  to,  409. 

Lady,  letter  from,   148. 
Mr.,  339. 

Woodhouse,  letter  dated  at,  324. 
Wesley,     P^dward,    of     Allesty,     co. 

Kildare,  payment  to,  389, 
West,  — ,  297. 

Weetley,  John,  Master  of  Chancery, 
fee  of,  376. 
payment  to,  395. 
Westmeath,  Earl  of,  annuity  of,  382. 
Westminster,  Dean  of,  217. 
Westropp,  M;ountfort,  Comptroller  of 

port  of  Limerick,  fee  of,  381. 
Wcocford,  town,  254. 
castle  of,  155. 
Customer  of,  381. 
letters  dated  at,   209.  214,  253, 
270. 
Weymes,      Sir      Patrick,      Knight, 
company  of,   434. 
payment  to,  413. 
Whaley,  Capt.  Henry,  416. 

John,  Cfustomer  of  Limerick,  fee 
of,  381. 
Wharton,  Sir  Thomas,  Knight,  324. 

payment  to.  412. 
Whatcome,  Tristram,   192. 
Wheaton,  Capt.,  190. 
Wheeler,   Captain  Charles,  company 
of    425. 
Col.,  76. 
,  Charles,  payment  to,  413. 


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INDEX. 


Whiniard,   Mr.,   tailor,  13. 
Whitaker,  Charlofi,  letter  from,  248. 
Whito.  Capt.,  223. 

Richard,  396. 

William,  payment  to,  422. 
Whitehead,  Ellen,  payment  to,  424. 

John,  424. 
Whittell,  John,  212. 
Whitty,  Richard,   payment  to,   388. 
Wiborrow,  John,  Customer  of  Wex- 
ford and  Arklow,  fee  of,  381. 
Wicklow,  town  of,  94. 
Wight,  Isle  of,  12. 
Williams,  John,  payment  to,  408. 

Robert,  Starcher  of  port  of  Cork, 
fet^s  of,  381. 

Thomas,  Keeper  of  the  House  of 
Receipt,  fee  of,  380. 
WillianiBon,  Captain  RrObert,  payment 

to,  414. 
Willis,  Doctor,  of  Oxford,  240. 
Willington,  Honor,  payment  to,  423. 

Thomas,  423. 
Wilnon,  Sir  Ralph,  Knight,  company 
of,  423,  432. 

,  letter  from,  38. 

,  pajrment  to,  413. 

,  regiment  of,  434,  435. 

Robert,  payment  to,  384. 
Wimbledon,  141,  162. 
Winchester,  Binhop  of,  198. 
Windsor,  343,  372. 

letter  dated  at,  372. 
Wine,  allowance  of,  403. 

lease  of  Customs  of,  13.  69. 
Winnington,  Sir  Francis,  352. 
Winstanley,   lett<»rs    dated   at,    327, 

367. 
Wogan,  Katherine,  payments  to,  399, 

Wogan,  estates  of,   forfeited,   15. 
Wolfe,  Mr.,  306. 
Wolfenden,  Grace,  293. 
Wood,  Sir  Henry,  79. 
Woodriffe,  Wm.,  203. 
Woodward,    Major   Benjamin,    com- 
pany of,  422. 

payment  to,    428. 
Worcester,  Bishop  of,  13. 

letter  dated  at,  12. 


Wright,  454. 

Mr.,  326. 

Nicholas,  387. 

Captain    Thomas,    payment   to, 
§90, 
Wych,  Sir  Cyril,  343. 
Wynn,  Sarah,  pension  of,  401. 


Yardley,  Captain  Anthony,  payment 

to,  416. 
Yarner,  Sir  Abraham  (Muster  Master 
General),  letter  from,  16. 
payment  to,  406. 
Yaxeley,  Eve,  payment  to,  399. 
Yonge,  Frank,  47. 
York,  140. 

Duchess  of,  440. 

,  death  of,  447. 

Duke  of,  36,  47,  68,  77,  78,  121. 

,   allowance  of  postage  and 

wine  licenses  to,  69,  80,  82. 

,  estate  of,  193. 

-,  picture  of,  65. 


Youghal,  239. 

Customer  of,  381. 


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Zalmes,  Prince,  345. 
Zeeland,  331. 

Admiralty  of,  210. 
Zowis,  Count,  345. 


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First  Repobt,  with  Appendix 
Contents  :-- 

£ngland.  House  of  Loids  -/Cambridge 
Colleges;  Abingdon,  and  other  Cor- 
porations, etc. 
Scotland.  Advocates'  Library,  Glas- 
gow Corporation,  etc. 
Ireland.  Dublin,  Cork,  and  other 
Corporations,  etc. 

Second     Report,     with     Appendix,     and 
Index     to     the      First     and     Second 
Repobts       ..... 
Contents  :— 
England.     House    of  Lords ;    Cam- 
«  bridge  Colleges;  Oxford  Colleges; 

Monastery  of  Dominican  Friars  at 
Woodchester,  Duke  of  Bedford, 
Earl  Spencer,  etc. 
Scotland.  Aberdeen  and  St.  An- 
drew's Universities,  etc. 
Ireland.  Marquis  of  Ormonde ; 
Dr.  Lyons,  etc. 

Third      Report,      with      Appendix     and 
Index-         .  .  .  .  . 

Contents  : — 
England.  House  of  Lords ;  Cam- 
bridge Colleges ;  Stonyhurst  Col- 
lege ;  Bridgwater  and  other  Cor- 
porations ;  Duke  of  Northumber- 
land. Marquis  of  Lansdowne,  Mar- 
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Scotland.      University  of   Glasgow  ; 

Duke  of  Montrose,  etc. 
Ireland.      Marquis     of     Ormonde ; 
Black  Book  of  Limerick,  etc. 


reap. 


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Part  L        -  -  -  -  - 

Contents  : — 

England.  House  of  Lords ;  West- 
minster Abbey ;  Cambridge  and 
Oxford  Colleges  ;  Cinque  Ports, 
Hythe,  and  other  Corporations, 
Marquis  of  Bath,  Earl  of  Denbigh, 
etc. 

Scotland.    Duke  of  Argyll,  etc. 

Irkt^nd.  Trinity  College,  Dublin  ; 
Marquis  of  Ormonde. 


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I  Chapter  of  Canterbury  ;    Bye,    Lydd, 

and    other    Corporations.     Dnke    of 
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Enolakd.  House  of  Lords ;  Oxford 
and  Cambridge  Colleges  ;  Lambeth 
Palace  ;  Black  Book  of  the  Arch- 
deacon of  Canterbury ;  Bridport, 
Waliingford,  and  other  Corporations ; 
Lord  Leconfield,  Sir  Reginald  Graham, 
Sir  Henry  Ingilby,  etc. 

Scotland.  Duke  of  Argyll,  Earl  of 
Moray,  eta 

Irblamd.    Marquis  of  Ormonde. 


Ditto.    Part  II.    Indsx. 


Sbyenth        Report,        with        Appendix. 
Part  I.        ....  . 

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House  of  Lords  ;  County  of  Somerset ; 
Earl    of    Egmont,    Sir    Frederick 
Qraham,  Sir  Harry  Verney,  etc. 

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Duke  of  AthoU,  Marquis  of  Ormonde, 
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List  of  oollectioDB  examined,  1869-1880, 
England.  House  of  Lords ;  Duke 
of  Marlborough :  Magdalen  Col- 
lege, Oxford  ;  Royal  College  of 
Physicians  ;  Queen  Anne's  Bounty 
Office ;  Corporations  of  Chester, 
Leicester,  etc. 
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Emly,  The  O'Conor  Don,  Trinity 
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Earl  of  Ashburnham. 


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rison, EsqB.,  etc. 
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Maxwell  Stuart,  Esq.,  etc. 
Ibeland.     Duke  of  Leinster,  Marquis  pf  > 
Drogheda,  etc. 

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Mrs.  Stopford  Sackville. 


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Ditto.  Pabt  IX.  • 

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This  is  introductory  to  the  following  :— 

(1.)  Appendix  and  Index 

Earl  of  Eglinton,  Sir  J.  S.  Maxwell 
Bart. ,  and  C.  S.  H.  D.  Moray.  C.  F 
Weston  Underwood,  G.  W.  Digby 
Esqs. 

(2  )  Appendix  and  Index 

The  Family  of  Gawdy. 

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1887 

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1887 
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(4.)  Appbndix  and  Index 

Earl  of  Westmorland ;  Capt.  Stewart ; 
Lord  Stafford ;  Sir  N.  W.  Throck- 
morton ;  Sir  P.  T.  Mainwaring, 
Lord    Muncaeter,    M.P.,   Capt.  J. 

F.  Bagot,  Earl  of  Kilmorey,  Earl  of 
Powis,  and  others,  the  Corporations 
of  Kendal,  Wenlock.  Bridgnorth. 
Eye,  Plymouth,  and  the  County  of 
Essex ;  and  Stonyhuist  College. 

(5.)  Appendix  and  Index 

The  Marquis  of  Ormonde,  Earl  of 
Fingall,  Coporations  of  Galway 
Waterford|  the  Sees  of  Dublin  and 
Ossory,  the  Jesuits  in  Ireland. 

(6.)  Appendix  and  Index 

Marquis  of  Abergavenny,  Lord  Braye, 

G.  F.  Luttrell,  P.  P.  Botiverie, 
W.  Bromley  Davenport,  R.  T. 
Balfour,  Esqs. 

Eleventh  Bbpobt      .  .  -  - 

This  is  introductory  to  the  following  :— 

(1.)  Appendix  and  Ind».x 

H.  D.  Skrine,  Esq,,  Salvetti  Corres- 
pondence. 

(2.)  Appendix  and  Index 

House  of  Lords,  1678—1688. 

(3.)  Appendix  and  Index 

Corporations  of  Southampton  and 
Lynn. 

(4.)  Appendix  and  Index 
Marquis  Townshend. 

(5.)  Appendix  and  Index 
Earl  of  Dartmouth. 

(6.)  Appendix  and  Index 
Duke  of  Hamilton. 

(7.)  Appendix  and  Index 

Duke  of  Leeds,  Maichiouess  of 
Waterford,  Lord  Hothfield,  etc. ; 
Bridgewater  Trust  Office,  Reading 
Corporation,  Inner  Temple  Library. 

Twelfth  Report        .... 
This  is  introductory  to  the  following  :— 

(1.)  Appendix  .  -  .  - 

Earl  Cowper,  E.a.  (Coke  MSS.,  at 
Melbourne  Hall,  Derby).    Vol.  I. 

(2.)  Appendix-  .... 

Ditto.    Vol.  II, 


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1888 
1691 
1689 
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1891 

1891 


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1891 

1893 

1892 

1892 


1892 
1898 


(3.)  Appendix  and  Imdxx 

Earl  Gowper.  E.G.    (Coke  MSS  ,  at 
Melbourne  Hall,  Derby.)     Vol.  III. 

(4.)  Appendix-  .... 

The  Dake  of  Butland,  G.C.B.    Vol.  1.  . 

(5.)  Appendix  and  Index 

Ditto.    Vol.  IL  I 

(6.)  Appendix  and  Index  -  ' 

Hoase  of  Lords,  1689-1690. 

(7.)  Appendix  and  Index 

S.  H.  le  Fleming,  Esq.,  of  Bydal. 


(8.)  Appendix  and  Index 

The  Duke  of  Athole,  K.T.,  and  the 
Earl  of  Home. 

(9.)  Appendix  and  Index 

The  Duke  of  Beaufort.  E.G.,  the  Earl 
of  Donoughmore,  J.  H.  Gurney,  W. 
W.  B.  Hulton,  B.  W.  Ketton,  G.  A. 
Aitken,  P.  V.  Smith,  Esqs. ;  Bishop 
of  Ely ;  Cathedrals  of  Ely,  Glouces- 
ter, Lincoln,  and  Peterborough : 
Corporations  of  Gloucester,  Highau- 
Ferrers,  and  Newark ;  Southwell  i 
Minster ;  Lincoln  District  Begtstrj 

(10.)  Appendix  ...  - 

The  First  Earl  of  Charlemont.  Vol.  I. 
1745-1783. 

Thibtebnth  Befoet  -  .  .  - 

This  is  introductory  to  the  foUoiwng  ,— 

(1.)  Appendix-  .  .  .  . 

The  Duke  of  Portland.     Vol.  I. 

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(2.)  Appendix  and  Index 
Ditto.    Vol.  IL 

(3.)  Appendix-  .... 

J.  B.  Fortescue,  Esq.,  of  Dropmore. 
Vol.  L 

(4.)  Appendix  and  Index 

Corporations  of  Bye,  Hastings,  and 
Hereford;  Captain  F.  C.  Loder- 
Symonds,  E.  B.  Wodehouse,  M.P., 
J.  Dovaston,  Esqs.,  Sir  T.  Barrett 
Leonard,  Bart.,  Bev.  W.  D.  Macray, 
and  Earl  of  Dartmouth  (Supple- 
mentary Beport). 

(5.)  Appendix  and  Index 

House  of  Lords,  1690-1691. 

(6.)  Appendix  and  Index 

Sir  W.  Fitzherbert,  Bart. ;  the  Delava) 
Family,  of  Seaton  Delaval ;  the  Earl 
of  Ancaster ;  and  GeneriJ  Lyttelton- 
Annesley. 


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1898 

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1894 
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1896 


1895 


1895 
1895 


1896 


1895 


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(7.)  Appendix  and  Indbx 

The  Earl  of  Lonsdale. 

(8.)  Appendix  and  Index 

The  First  Earl  of  Oharlemont.  Vol.  II. 
1784-99. 

FOUBTEBNTH  BePORT   -  -  -  - 

This  is  Introductory  to  the  following  :— 

(1.)  Appendix  and  Index 

The  Doke  of  Rutland,  G.O.B.  Vol.  HI. 

(2.)  Appbndix-  .  -  -  - 

The  Duke  of  Portland.    Vol.  III. 

(3.)  Append.x  and  Index 

The  Duke  of  Boxburghe ;  Sir  H.  H. 
Campbell,  Bart.  ;  the  Earl  of 
Strathmore ;  and  the  Countess 
Dowager  of  Seafield. 

(4.)  Appendix  and  Index 
Lord  Kenyon. 

(5.)  Appendix  -  -  •  -  - 

J.  B.  Fortescue,  Esq.,  of  Dropmore. 
Vol.  II. 

(6.)  Appendix  and  Indbx 

House  of  Lords,  1692-93. 

(MantiscripU  of  the  House  of  Lords,  \ 
1693-161^5.  Vol.  I.  (New  Series  J.    See  | 
H.L,  No.  (3)  of  1900.     Price  2s.  9d. 
See  also  Maniisnripts  of  the  House  of 
Lords,    1696-1697,   Vol.    II.    (New 
Series)    H.L.    No.    (18)    of    1903. 
Price  2s  9rf.) 

(7.)  Appendix-  .... 

The  Marquis  of  Ormonde. 

(8.)  Appendix  and  Index 

Lincoln.  Bury  S.  Edmunds,  Hertford, 
and  Great  Grimsby  Corporations ; 
the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Wor- 
cester, and  of  Lichfield  ;  the 
Bishop's  Registry  of  Worcester. 

(9.)  Appendix  and  Index 

Earl  of  Buckinghamshire ;  Earl  of 
Lindsey ;  Earl  of  Onslow ;  Lord 
Emly  ;  T.  J.  Hare,  Esq.,  and  J. 
Round,  Esq.,  M.P. 

(10.)  Appendix  and  Indbx     - 

The  Earl  of  Dartmouth.  Vol.  U. 
American  Papers. 


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1697 


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1898 

1899 
1892 


FlTTBKNTH  BePOBT       .... 

This  is  introdactory  to  the  following  : — 

(1.)  Appendix  and  Index 

The  Earl  of  Dartmooth,    Vol.  III. 

(2.)  Appendix-  .  .  .  . 

J.  Eliot  Hodgkin,  Esq.,  of  Bichmcnd, 
Surrey. 

(t*))  Appendix  and  Index 

'  Charles  Haliday,  Esq.,  of  Dablin  ; 
Acts  of  the  Privy  Council  in  Ireland, 
1556-1571;  Sir  William  Ussher's 
Table  to  the  Council  Book ;  Table 
to  the  Bed  Council  Book. 

(4.)  APPENDIX  .  .  .  -  . 

The  Duke  of  Portland    Vol.  lY. 

(5.;  Appendix  and  Index 

The  Bight  Hon.  F.  J.  Savile  Foljambe. 

(6.)  Appendix  and  Index 

The  Earl  of  Carlisle,  Castle  Howard. 

(7.)  Appendix  and  Index 

The  Duke  of  Somerset;  the  Marquis 
of  Ailesbury  ;  and  Sir  F.  G. 
Puleston,  Bart 

(8.)  Appendix  and  Index 

The  Duke  of  Bucoleuch  and  Queens- 
berry,  at  Drumlanrig. 

(9.)  Appendix  and  Index 

J.  J.  Hope  Johnstone,  Esq.,  of  Annan- 
dale. 

(10.)  Shrewsbury  and  Coventry  Corpora- 
tions ;  Sir  H.  O.  Corbet,  Barr.,  Earl 
of  Badnor,  P.T.  Tillard;  J  B.  Carr- 
Ellison  ;  Andrtw  Kings  mill,  Esqs. 

Manuscbipts  in  the  Welsh  Language  : 

Vol.  I. — Lord  Mostyn,  at  Mostyn  Hall, 
CO.  Flint. 

Vol.  I.  Part  II.— W.  B.  M.  Wynne, 
Esq.,  of  Peniarth. 

Vol.  II.  Part  1.— Jesus  College,  Ox- 
ford ;  Free  Library,  Cardiff ;  Havod ; 
Wrexham  ;  Llanwrin  ;  Merthyr  ; 
Aberddr. 


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;      Queensberry,    E.G.,    K.T.,    preserved    at 
Montagu  House,  Whitehall.    Vol.  I. 


1899      Ditto  Marquis  of  Ormonde,  E. P.,  preserved 
at  the  Castle,  Kilkenny.    Vol.  II. 


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