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CONTENTS. 


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Introduction v 

Report       .        . 1 

Index  .         , 403 


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This  Report  has  been  prepared  and  edited  by  Mr.  F. 
Elrington  Ball,  Hon.  Litt.  D.  of  Dublin,  one  of  the 
Historical  Manuscripts  Commissioners.  The  Index  was  com- 
piled by  the  late  Miss  M.  Bradshaw. 


INTKODUCTION 


This  volume  completes  the  Calendar  of  the  correspondence 
and  papers  in  the  Evidence  Room  at  Kilkenny  Castle. 
Between  the  years  1871  and  1879  five  reports  on  the  collection 
were  issued  by  the  Commission.  The  first  report  was  written 
when  the  collection  was  uncatalogued  and  unarranged.  It 
contains  an  account  of  the  Marquess  of  Ormonde's  ancestors 
compiled  from  external  sources.*  The  second  report  was 
written  as  soon  as  the  collection  had  been  divided  into  (i) 
documents  on  vellum,  (ii)  manuscript  books,  and  (iii)  corres- 
pondence and  papers.  It  contains  a  list  of  correspondents 
prior  to  the  year  1688,  and  letters  relating  to  the  acquisition 
in  the  seventeenth  century  of  papers  then  in  the  possession 
of  the  Fitzwilliam  family. f  The  third  report  contains  a 
catalogue  of  the  dated  letters  and  papers  prior  to  the  year 
1664,  arranged  in  chronological  sequence.  In  the  case  of 
the  letters,  the  date  and  names  of  the  writer  and  recipient 
are  given,  and  in  the  case  of  the  papers  the  date  and  subject. 
Some  specimens  of  the  letters  are  appended.  J  With  one 
exception, §  these  letters  have  been  reprinted  in  the  Calendar. 
The  fourth  report  contains  a  continuation  of  the  catalogue 
of  the  dated  letters  and  papers  from  the  year  1664  to  the 
year  1679.  As  in  the  previous  report,  specimens  of  the  letters 
are  appended.  ||  With  few  exceptions,^  these  letters  have 
been  reprinted  in  the  Calendar.  The  fifth  report  contains 
the  completion  of  the  catalogue  of  the  dated  letters  and 
papers,  covering  the  period  1679  to  1788,  and  a  similar  catalogue 
of  the  undated  letters  and  papers.  It  gives  also  some  account 
of  the  closing  years  of  the  life  of  the  first  Duke  of  Ormonde,  of 
the  lives  of  his  sons  the  Earls  of  Ossory  and  Arran,  and  of 
the  life  of  his  grandson  the  second  Duke  of  Ormonde,  and 
touches  upon  the  lives  of  some  of  those  with  whom  they  had 
correspondence.**     A   number   of  the  letters  enumerated  in 

*  Hist.  MSS.  Com.  Rept.  2,  pp.  xxi,  209-10. 

t  Ibid.   3,  pp.  XXV,  425-31. 

i  Ibid.  4,  pp.  xxiv,  539-73. 

§  Duke  of  Guise,  concerning  Queen  Christina  of  Sweden. 

II  Hist.  MSS.  Com.  Rept.  6,  pp.  xix,  719-80. 

II  1665,  Feb.  8,  W.  Penn  to  Sir  G.  Lane  ;  1674,  Aug.  25,  Lord  Clare  to 
Ossory  ;  1675,  June  22,  E.  Nelthorpe  to  G.  Matthew  ;  1676,  April  15,  Sir  M. 
Hale  to  Ormonde  ;  Dec.  2,  J.  Boyd  to  Bishop  of  Ossory  ;  1677,  Jan.  26, 
Ormonde  to  Earl  of  Orrery  ;  Oct.  16,  Friar  Walsh  to  Sir  R.  Southwell ; 
Dec.  17,  G.  Montgomery  to  H.  Montgomery  ;  Dec.  29,  R.  Maunsell  to  Arran  ; 
1678,  Jan.  7,  R.  Maunsell  to  Ormonde  ;  Jan.  12,  Ormonde  to  Viscount 
Massereene  ;  Jan.  18,  Viscount  Massereene  to  Ormonde  ;  June.  10,  Earl  of 
Orrery  to  Ormonde  ;  Aug.  15,  Friar  Moyer  to  Sir  H.  Hamilton  ;  Dec.  1, 
Lord  Clare  to  Ormonde  ;  1679,  Aug.  4,  Cooke  to  Ormonde  ;  Oct.  4,  Ormonde 
to  Ossory. 

♦*  Hist.  MSS.  Com.  Rept.  7,  pp.  xvii,  737-834. 


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the  catalogue  are  printed.  With  few  exceptions,*  these 
letters  will  be  found  in  the  Calendar.  In  addition,  the  report 
contains  letters  acquired  from  the  library  of  the  Rev.  Philip 
Bhss,  the  editor  of  Wood's  Athenae  Oxonienses,  and  a  catalogue 
of  these  letters  is  given  at  the  end  of  the  report.  To  these 
letters,  which  are  of  the  time  of  the  second  Duke  of  Ormonde, 
references  will  be  found  in  the  present  volume. 

The  first  calendar  of  papers  in  the  collection  was  issued 
between  the  years  1881  and  1885,  being  a  Calendar  of  Petitions 
addressed  to  the  first  Duke  of  Ormonde  as  Lord  Lieutenant 
of  Ireland,  and  to  his  son  the  Earl  of  Ossory,  while  acting  as 
his  Deputy,  f 

It  was  followed  by  a  calendar  entitled  "  The  Manuscripts 
of  the  Marquis  of  Ormonde  preserved  at  the  Castle,  Kilkenny." 
The  first  volume,  which  was  issued  in  1895,  contains  some 
early  documents  ;  letters  of  the  sovereigns,  of  members  of 
the  royal  family,  of  peers,  and  of  Sir  Audley  Mervjni,  some- 
time Speaker  of  the  Irish  House  of  Commons  ;  papers  relating 
to  the  army  in  Ireland  ;  and  extracts  from  a  manuscript 
volume  of  verses.  The  second  volume,  which  was  issued  in 
1898,  contains  papers  relating  to  the  army  in  Ireland  ;  a 
survey  of  the  fortifications  of  that  country  ;  letters  and  papers 
relating  to  Captain  William  Cadogan  ;  letters  from  the  first 
Duke  of  Ormonde  to  Sir  Robert  Southwell  ;  and  proclamations. 
In  1909  an  index  to  these  volumes  was  issued. 

The  present  "  Calendar  of  the  Manuscripts  of  the  Marquess  of 
Ormonde,  K.P.,  preserved  at  Kilkenny  Castle  "  began  in 
1902.  The  first  volume  contains  general  correspondence 
from  the  year  1572  to  the  year  1660.  The  second  volume, 
which  was  issued  in  1903,  contains  letters  relating  to  the 
government  of  Ireland  during  the  rebellion  of  1641,  papers 
relating  to  the  early  life  of  the  first  Duke  of  Ormonde  and 
to  the  fife  of  Lord  Bellasyse,  and  extracts  from  Charles  the 
First's  table  and  cellar  book.  The  third  volume,  which  was 
issued  in  1904,  contains  general  correspondence  from  the  year 
1660  to  the  year  1675,  papers  relating  to  the  Irish  revenue, 
and  letters  from  the  first  Duchess  of  Ormonde.  In  the  same 
year,  1904,  a  review  of  the  contents  of  these  three  volumes 
appeared  in  the  Commissioners'  report.  {  The  fourth  volume, 
which  was  issued  in  1906,  contains  general  correspondence 
from  the  year  1675  to  the  year  1678,  letters  from  Sir  Robert 

*  1680,  April  30,  Ossory  to  Ormonde ;  Aug.  18,  Prince  of  Orange  to 
Arlington  ;  Aug.  19,  Prince  of  Orange  to  Ormonde  ;  Aug.  — ,  John  Evelyn 
to  Countess  of  Ossory;  Sept.  30,  R.  Hanlon  to  Bishop  of  Clogher  ;  1681, 
Feb.  4,  Examination  of  J.  Gardner  and  J.  Red  ;  March  1,  Petition  of  Lord 
Clare  ;  March  4,  Ormonde  to  W.  Lucas  ;  April  3,  W.  Lucas  to  A.  O'Hanlon  ; 
April  27,  Anonymoiis  ;  July  21,  Minute  concerning  Lord  Kinsale  ;  July  30, 
A.  Sail  to  Ormonde  ;  — ,  A.  Sail  to  H.  Gascoigne  ;  Nov.  23,  Examination  of 
J.  Hawkins  and  N.  O'Mellaghlin. 

t  Hist.  MSS.  Com.  Rept.  8,  pp.  xviii,  499-552  ;  Sept.  9,  pp.  xix,  126-81  ; 
Rept.  10,  p.  xlii,  App.  v,  pp.  1-106. 

X  Rept.  16,  pp.   11,   122-132. 


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Southwell,  letters  relating  to  Oxford  University  and  the 
King's  household,  and  licences  for  the  Irish  wool  trade.  In 
the  following  year,  1907,  this  volume  was  reviewed  in  the 
Commissioners'  report.*  The  fifth  volume,  which  was  issued 
in  1908,  contains  general  correspondence  from  the  year  1678 
to  the  year  1681.  The  sixth  volume,  which  was  issued  in 
1911,  contains  general  correspondence  from  the  year  1681 
to  the  year  1683.  And  the  seventh  volume,  which  was  issued 
in  1913,  contains  general  correspondence  from  the  year  1683 
to  the  year  1688. 

The  present  volume,  the  eighth  of  the  last  Calendar  of  the 
Marquess  of  Ormonde's  Manuscripts,  comprises  the  corres- 
pondence of  the  second  Duke  of  Ormonde  from  his  succession 
to  the  title  in  the  year  1688  to  his  departure  from  England 
in  the  year  1715,  with  a  Diary  of  Events  in  Ireland  during 
the  reign  of  James  the  Second.  Of  the  value  of  the  second 
Duke  of  Ormonde's  correspondence  high  hopes  were  enter- 
tained, f  but  it  has  proved  to  be  disconnected,  and  to  be 
almost  entirely  confined  to  the  administration  of  Ireland 
during  his  tenure  of  the  office  of  Lord  Lieutenant  between 
the  years  1703  and  1707  and  1710  and  1713.  As  the  notices 
of  him  are  far  from  full,  some  further  particulars  of  his  life 
may  be  of  interest. 

James  second  Duke  of  Ormonde 

was  known  in  his  own  time  throughout  Europe  as  one  of 
the  great  figures  in  the  Court  of  William  and  of  Anne,  and 
was  regarded  as  an  example  of  the  magnificence  and  splendour 
of  the  nobility  of  England.  To  him  a  character  of  charm, 
no  less  than  of  virtue,  has  been  attributed  by  Swift  in  the 
"  Enquiry  into  the  Behaviour  of  the  Queen's  last  Ministry." 
His  affability,  his  generosity,  and  his  sweetness  of  temper 
were.  Swift  says,  no  less  conspicuous  than  his  justice  and 
charity,  his  true  sense  of  religion,  and  his  undoubted  valour ; 
and  an  invincible  modesty.  Swift  adds,  rendered  him  all  the 
more  amiable  to  his  friends.  But  as  it  led  him  frequently  to 
defer  his  own  judgment  to  that  of  persons  of  less  under- 
standing, this  modesty  was  beheved  by  Swift  to  have  been 
Ormonde's  bane. 

His  Early  Years    1665—1682. 

His  birth  took  place  on  April  29,  1665,  while  his  father, 
the  gallant  Ossory,  was  acting  as  Lord  Deputy  in  Ireland, 
during  the  absence  of  his  own  father,  and  occurred  in  the 
Castle  of  DubHn.t  The  event  was  notified  by  Ossory  to  the 
first  Duke  of  Ormonde  in  the  following  terms  : — 


*  Rept.    17,   p.    139. 

t  Hi^t.  MSS.  Com.  Rept.  2,  p.  xxi ;    Rept.  7,  p.  xvii. 
i  According  to  an  early  account  of  his  life,  he  was  bom  at  sea :  Life,  Lond., 
1716;    c/.  Life,  Lond.,   1739. 


Vlll 


"  I   can  now   answer   the   latter  part   of   your  letter 
wherein   you   were   pleased   to   express   a   most   obliging 
impatience  for  news  of  my  wife's  deUvery,   which  was 
this  morning  of  a  boy,  which  the  women  say  according 
to  custom  is  very  lusty  and  not  ugly.     I  wish  he  may 
prove  such  as  your  name  in  him  may  receive  no  dis- 
honour,  else   my   satisfaction   will  be   very  imperfect."* 
Of  Ormonde's   childhood    there  is    no   mention   until    the 
opening    months    of    the    year    1676,   when   some   references 
to   him   appear,   and   show   that    his   health    was   a    subject 
of  apprehension.     In  January  his  aunt,  Lady  Arran,  writing 
to  her  husband  from  Kilkenny,  says  that  he  is  not  well ;  and 
in  March  Lord  Arran,  who  was  at  Duncannon,  refers  to  his 
having  come  there  for  change  of  air,  and  to  the  motion  of  a 
coach  being  thought  likely  to  be  injurious  to  him.t 

In  the  following  year,  1677,  Ormonde  was  sent  abroad, 
for  the  recovery  of  his  health,  as  his  grandfather  remarks, 
rather  than  for  the  purpose  of  education.  |  He  was  placed 
in  charge  of  a  governor,  and  was  attended  by  a  small  train 
of  servants.  As  Carte  has  recorded,§  the  governor,  a  French- 
man called  de  Lange,  proved  untrustworthy,  and  took 
Ormonde  off  to  Orange,  then  described  as  "an  uncouth  and 
desolate  country,"  where  he  contracted  much  debt,||  but 
kept  Ormonde  and  his  servants  in  a  state  of  poverty.  Of 
de  Lange 's  character  there  seems  to  have  been  no  suspicion 
until  Ormonde's  grandfather  sent  in  the  summer  of  1678 
a  gentleman  of  his  household  to  see  Ormonde,  and  received 
from  him  an  unfavourable  report.  In  consequence  of  it 
de  Lange's  engagement  was  terminated.^  But  a  few  years 
later  Ormonde's  grandfather,  with  characteristic  generosity, 
in  spite  of  de  Lange's  behaviour,  recommended  a  member  of  his 
family  for  an  honorary  degree  at  Oxford.**  In  the  present 
volume  there  is  a  letter  from  de  Lange  appealing  to  Ormonde 
for  help, ft  and  also  references  to  one  James  AUary,  who  was 
instrumental  in  saving  Ormonde  from  being  burnt  to  death 
while  he  was  in  Orange.  J}  For  this  service  de  Lange  took 
credit  to  himself  at  the  time  in  a  letter  to  which  Ormonde 
appended  two  lines,  "  signifying  his  escape  and  magnifying 
the  care  of  Monsieur  de  Lange.  "§§ 

Before  the  termination  of  de  Lange's  engagement,  which 
was  not  accomplished  until  November,  Ormonde  was  brought 
to  Paris,  where  his  grandfather's  gentleman,  Barrington  by 
name,  provided  such  things  as  were  then  thought  essential 
for  one  of  "  Ormonde's  birth  and  age  " — handsome  lodgings, 
a  lavish  table  and  rich  hveries  for  his  servants.  He  had 
also  to  obtain  clothes  for  him,  as  both  he  and  his  servants 


*  Carte  PaperSy  ccxx,  230. 
t  Supra,  vol.  iv,  pp.   6,   8. 
%  Supra,  vol.  iv,  p.   306. 
§  Life  of  Ormonde,  iv,  632. 
II  Supra,  vol.  iv,  p.  451. 


II  Supra,  vol.  iv,  pp.  146,  223. 

*♦  Wood's  Fasti,  ii,  386. 

tt  Infra,  p.   150. 

XX  Infra,  pp.   33,    120,    143. 

§§  Supra,  vol.  iv,  p.  451. 


IX 

were  almost  naked,  and  proposed  as  soon  as  these  were  ready 
that  Ormonde  should  call  on  the  Comtesse  de  Grammont, 
and  be  introduced  by  her  at  the  French  Court.*  Possibly 
it  was  at  that  time  that  a  service  of  plate,  which  is  said  to 
have  been  bought  for  Ormonde  in  France,  was  obtained. 
Besides  the  usual  table  appointments  it  included  a  basin 
and  ewer  weighing  a  hundred  and  fourteen  ounces,  an  ink- 
stand weighing  fifty -five  ounces,  and  mountings  for  a  screen 
and  a  porter's  staff. f 

Ormonde's  grandfather,  who  bore  all  expenses  in  connection 
with  him,  was  inclined  to  be  autocratic  in  regard  to  the  arrange- 
ments, and  although  his  Duchess  urged  consideration  for 
her  son's  wishes,  he  wrote  from  Ireland  that  Ormonde  was 
to  remain  in  Paris.  But  meantime  Ormonde's  father,  who 
was  in  London,  had  given  directions  for  Ormonde's  return  to  Eng- 
land, and  could  not  countermand  them  before  he  had  started.} 
Difference  of  opinion  then  developed  as  td  the  next  step. 
Ormonde's  grandfather  considered  that  it  would  be  best  to 
send  him  to  Oxford  University  without  delay,  while  his  father, 
who  had  the  support  of  his  wife's  brother-in-law.  Lord 
Arlington,  considered  that  one  of  the  Parisian  academies, 
where  physical  rather  than  mental  training  was  the  aim,  would 
be  preferable. §  For  a  time  the  question  was  in  suspense, 
and  attention  was  concentrated  on  finding  another  governor, 
for  Barrington,  although  a  good  young  man  who  deplored 
"  the  liberties  and  indecencies  "  of  Whitehall,  where  Ormonde 
was  now  installed,  was  not  thought  calculated  to  secure  the 
reverence  that  was  desirable.  ||  Notwithstanding  the  serious 
condition  of  public  affairs  at  that  time,  Ormonde's  grandfather 
carried  on  an  interminable  correspondence  with  Sir  Robert 
Southwell  about  persons  eligible  to  be  in  Sir  Robert's  words 
"  governor  to  a  prince,"^  and  debated  whether  an  envoy- 
extraordinary,  or  a  future  minister-at-war,  could  be  induced 
to  accept  that  position.** 

In  the  end  after  five  months'  consideration,  on  the  recom- 
mendation of  Lord  Arlington,  another  Frenchman,  the 
Rev.  Peter  Drelincourt,  was  appointed.ft  He  was  the  son 
of  the  author  of  "  Les  Consolations  de  I'Ame  contre  les 
Frayeurs  de  la  Mort,"  and  his  elder  brothers  were  at  the  time 
of  his  appointment  as  Ormonde's  governor  distinguished 
in  the  paths  of  both  divinity  and  medicine,  but  his  own  attain- 
ments were  not  of  so  high  an  order,  and  he  proved  to  be 
singularly  unfit  for  his  charge.  From  the  first,  Sir  Robert 
Southwell  had  misgivings  about  "  the  young  spark,"  and 
before  many  months  had  passed  Drelincourt  allowed  Ormonde 

*  Supra,  vol.  iv,  p.  238. 

t  Supra,  vol.  vii,  p.   512. 

%  Supra,  vol.  iv,  pp.  168,  223,  239,  243. 

§  Supra,  vol.  iv,   pp.   269,   289,   291. 

II  Supra,  vol.  iv,  pp.  220,  261,  303. 

^  Supra,  Series  I,  vol.  ii,  p.  284  ;    vol.  iv,  p.  449. 

**  Thomas  Henshaw  and  William  Blathwayt,  supra,  vol.  iv,  passim. 

tt  Supra,  vol.  iv,  p.  296. 


"  to  rogue  him  like  a  lackey,"*  and  gave  Ormonde's  grand 
father  cause  to  exclaim  that  he  would  have  nothing  more  to 
do  with  Frenchmen. t 

The  close  of  his  fourteenth  year  saw  Ormonde  established 
in  Christ  Church,  Oxford,  where  it  was  at  last  decided  to 
send  him  until  he  should  have  gained  strength  for  the  exercises 
in  an  academy.  J  The  arrival  at  the  University  of  the  grandson 
of  its  chancellor  was  looked  upon  as  a  great  honour.  The 
arrangements  for  furnishing  his  rooms,  and  the  embroidery 
of  his  gown,  received  the  personal  attention  of  the  head  of 
the  house,  John  Fell,  Bishop  of  Oxford,§  and  although  lack 
of  employment  for  them  was  dreaded,  a  valet,  a  page,  two 
footmen  and  a  groom  were  thought  as  few  servants  as  would 
suffice.  1 1  As  his  tutor,  Ormonde  was  assigned  Henry  Aldrich, 
afterwards  Bishop  Fell's  successor,  and  widely  known  for 
his  accomplishments  and  love  of  conviviality.  He  has  been 
described  by  Lord  Macaulay  as  a  polite  though  not  profound 
scholar,  but  his  learning  was  sufficient  to  confuse  rather  than 
to  help  Ormonde,  and  at  the  end  of  eighteen  months'  residence 
at  Oxford  it  was  discovered  that  Ormonde  was  in  need  of  a 
plainer  method  of  teaching  than  the  University  afforded.^ 
Probably  whatever  he  learned  there  was  due  less  to  Aldrich 
than  to  Drelincourt,  who  wrote  a  graphic  description  of  the 
efforts  to  teach  Ormonde  "  the  Latin  tongue,"  in  which  he 
improved  "  so  much  as  his  love  of  it  permitted,"  and  arith- 
metic, in  which  the  multiplication  table  was  a  hindrance.** 

It  was  towards  the  end  of  February,  1679,  that  Ormonde 
came  to  Oxford,  and  the  first  month  of  his  residence  was 
signalised  by  a  quarrel  between  him  and  the  second  son  of 
Lord  Berkeley  of  Stratton,  who  ultimately  succeeded  to  that 
title.  Berkeley  was  two  years  older  than  Ormonde,  and, 
as  Aldrich  observed,  the  quarrel  would  have  been  no  great 
matter  if  left  to  themselves  and  others  of  their  own  age. ft 
But  a  conflict  between  Aldrich,  who  took  Berkeley's  part, 
and  Drelincourt,  who  took  Ormonde's  part,  was  the  outcome, 
and  as  it  was  never  entirely  healed,  it  cannot  but  have  had 
an  injurious  affect  on  Ormonde's  college  career.  It  is  possible 
that  Drelincourt  had  more  right  on  his  side  than  most  people 
allowed,  for  in  later  life  Berkeley  was  noted  for  his  jealous 
and  domineering  disposition,  and  Ormonde's  grandfather 
was  of  opinion  that  Aldrich  did  his  best  to  put  himself  in  the 
wrong. tt  In  connection  with  the  quarrel  a  curious  light  is 
thrown  on  the  life  of  these  children,  as  Aldrich  calls  them, 
and  no  less  on  the  life  of  their  pastors  and  masters.  On  a 
Sunday  night  Drehncourt,  albeit  a  clergyman,  is  seen  pursuing 
Berkeley,  a  boy  of  sixteen,  through  all  the  ale  houses  in  the 

*  Supra,  vol.  iv,  pp.  497,   550.  ^j  Supra,  vol.  v,  p.  416. 

f  Supra,  Series  I,  vol.  ii,  p.  286.  **  ^w^^ra,  vol.  v,  pp.  130,  141. 

X  Supra,  vol.  iv,   p.   306.  ft  Supra,  vol.  v,  p.   12. 

§  Supra,  vol.   iv,   p.    319.  %%  >Swpra,  Series  I,  vol.  ii,  p.  286. 
II  Supra,  vol.  iv,  p.   314. 


XI 

town  in  order  to  administer  chastisement,  and  when  brought 
to  book,  pleading  that  it  was  the  only  course  to  prevent 
Ormonde,  a  boy  of  fourteen,  "  fighting  with  the  sword."  On 
the  other  hand,  it  is  disclosed  that  Aldrich,  who  was  supposed 
to  take  Ormonde  for  half-an-hour  twice  a  day  four  times  in 
the  week,  reduced  the  time  often  to  a  quarter  of  an  hour, 
and  on  one  occasion  never  came  near  him  for  three  weeks.* 

Ormonde's  health  continued  to  be  a  source  of  disquietude. 
In  Paris  he  was  well,  but  on  his  landing  in  England  he  was 
again  attacked  by  illness,  and  the  aid  of  a  Canterbury  physician, 
a  man  of  "  skill  and  fortune,"  was  sought.  As  his  condition 
caused  anxiety,  the  opinion  of  a  second  physician  was  obtained 
on  Ormonde's  arrival  in  London. f  A  tendency  to  corpulency 
and  a  weakness  of  the  right  hand  were  the  symptoms  then 
mentioned,  and  subsequently  there  are  references  to  twitchings 
of  his  face  and  body.  J  A  doctor  at  Oxford  expressed  the 
opinion  that  the  college  diet  and  the  Oxford  climate  were 
not  desirable,  but  his  grandfather  attributed  the  advice  to 
its  accord  with  Drelincourt's  own  inclination,  and  paid  no 
heed,  although  Ormonde's  father  and  his  uncle.  Lord  ArHngton, 
took  the  same  view  as  the  doctor. § 

Soon  afterwards  Ormonde  went  on  a  visit  to  his  father 
at  Windsor,  and  on  his  return  to  Oxford  could  not  be  induced 
to  rise  at  five-thirty,  then  the  college  hour.  In  despair 
Drelincourt  invoked  the  aid  of  Ormonde's  grandfather.  ||  The 
aged  statesman  wrote  his  grandson  two  letters  of  admonition, 
of  which  the  second  is  still  extant,  and  has  been  described  as 
"  an  admirable  example  alike  of  the  style  appropriate  to 
such  a  relationship,  and  of  the  first  Duke  of  Ormonde's  stately 
conception  of  the  obhgations  of  a  great  position."^  A  letter 
from  Ormonde,  which  crossed  his  grandfather's  first  letter, 
and  in  which  the  hand  of  a  friend  is  visible,**  did  not  moderate 
his  grandfather's  indignation,  who  refers  in  his  second  letter, 
as  has  been  said,  "  with  sardonic  scepticism  to  its  fine  senti- 
ments." In  the  autumn  his  grandfather's  old  friend, 
Sir  Kobert  Southwell,  visited  Ormonde  at  Oxford.  A  sanguine 
constitution  was,  in  his  opinion,  at  the  root  of  Ormonde's 
ill  health,  and  exercise  was,  he  believed,  the  best  cure.  Of 
riding  Ormonde  was  fond,  but  owing  to  the  weakness  of  his 
right  hand  tennis  was  a  difficulty.  A  shuttlecock,  instead  of 
a  ball,  was  suggested  by  Sir  Robert,  and  the  disuse  of  a  wig, 
which  Ormonde  was  apparently  in  the  habit  of  wearing,  was 
recommended  by  him.  As  regards  the  state  of  Ormonde's 
education.  Sir  Robert  said  that  he  repeated  some  verses  of 
Virgil  and  construed  them  fairly  well,  but  to  another  book 
selected  by  Aldrich,  the  epigrams  of  Martial,  there  is  no 
reference,  tt      Subsequently      Ormonde      corresponded     with 

*  Supra,  vol.  v,  pp.   13,  47,    157.  If  Supra,  vol.  v,  pp.  vii,  214. 

t  Supra,  vol.  iv,  pp.  238,  274,  487.  **  Supra,  vol.  v,  p.  201. 

X  Supra,  vol.  iv,  p.  549.  ft  Supra,  vol.   iv,  pp.   549-51 

§  Supra,  vol.  v,  pp.    130,    165.  vol.  v,  p.  156. 
II  Supra,  vol.  v,  p.   195. 


xu 

Sir  Robert,  and  although  his  letters  left  something  to  be 
desired  in  regard  to  spelling  and  style,  they  exhibited  an 
open  and  frank  character,  which  much  pleased  his  grand- 
father.* 

At  Christmas  Ormonde's  grandfather  would  not  allow 
him  to  leave  Oxford,  but  he  sought  to  lessen  the  disappoint- 
ment by  promising  him  a  new  horse,  and  by  a  present  of 
globes  and  maps,  which,  although  they  cost  fifteen  guineas, 
are  hardly  likely  to  have  been  much  appreciated. f  The 
result  was  another  dutiful  letter,  in  which  the  hand  of  a  friend 
is  again  evident.  J  During  that  winter  Ormonde  hunted,§ 
and  began  to  earn  the  character  of  an  expensive  man,  which 
Swift  gives  him  in  the  Journal  to  Stella.  His  first  twelve 
months  at  Oxford  cost  his  grandfather  eleven  hundred  pounds, 
and  one  of  the  chief  items  of  expenditure  would  appear  to 
have  been  clothes,  of  which  he  had  a  new  suit  every  month  ; 
"  a  larger  wardrobe,"  remarks  his  grandfather,  "  than  any 
of  his  forefathers  had."||  But  his  moral  conduct  was  all  that 
could  be  desired,  and  his  attention  to  the  calls  of  religion  is 
more  than  once  mentioned.^ 

His  quickness  of  apprehension  had  impressed  Aldrich  on 
his  coming  to  Oxford,**  and  his  natural  abilities  stood  him 
in  good  stead  in  what  was  to  prove  his  last  appearance  there 
as  an  undergraduate.  A  few  months  after  he  had  attained 
the  age  of  fifteen,  in  July,  1680,  the  Act  took  place,  and  he 
recited  at  it  a  thesis  in  a  manner  that  gained  for  him  the 
utmost  applause.  From  a  letter  of  Bishop  Fell  to  John  Elhs, 
then  his  father's  secretary,  it  is  evident  that  his  elocution 
and  demeanour  were  the  subject  of  general  remark, ff  and 
in  writing  to  his  grandfather  the  Bishop  said  that  if 
Ormonde  spoke  with  the  same  assurance  in  parliament  or 
at  the  head  of  an  army  his  grandfather  would  not  be 
disappointed,  tt 

A  few  weeks  after  the  Act  the  death  of  his  father,  which 
conferred  on  Ormonde  the  title  of  Earl  of  Ossory,  brought 
his  Oxford  life  to  a  close.  Notwithstanding  the  protests  of 
Bishop  Fell,  who  had  been  enjoined  by  Ormonde's  grand- 
father not  to  allow  him  to  go  to  London, §§  Lord  Arlington 
had  insisted  after  his  father's  death  on  his  coming  there, 
and  had  carried  him  to  Windsor,  where  he  presented  him  to 
the  King  and  Queen.||||  He  began  also  to  urge  the  advantage 
of  sending  him  to  an  Academy  which  had  been  opened  in 
London.  But  Ormonde's  grandfather,  who  was  evidently 
annoyed  by  Lord  Arlington's  interference,   considered  it  in 

*  Supra,  Series  I,  vol.  ii,  p.  296.  **  Supra,   vol.   v,  p.    12. 

t  ^Sw/jra,  Series  I,  vol.  ii,  p.  298  ;  tt  ^^d.  MSS.  28927,  f.   14. 

vol.  iv,  p.  568.  XX  Supra,  vol.   v,  p.   347. 

X  Supra,  vol.  v,   p.   261.  §§  Supra,  vol.  v,  p.  358  ;    Add. 

§  Supra,   vol.   v,   p.   348.  MSS.  28927,  f.   18. 

II  Supra,  vol.  v,  pp.  333,  345.  ||||  Supra,  vol.  v,  pp.   373,   378. 
il  Supra,  vol.  iv,  p.  550 ;  vol.  v,  p.  141. 


xm 

dangerous  proximity  to  Whitehall,*  and  on  the  ground  that 
he  had  not  seen  Ormonde  for  three  years,  and  wished  to  judge 
for  himself  the  best  course  to  pursue,  he  desired  that  he  should 
join  him  in  Ireland,  and  that  until  arrangements  were  made 
he  should  return  to  Oxford.  In  order  to  escape  "  the  storms 
of  Michaelmas,"  Ormonde's  departure  was  hastened,t  but 
before  he  left  Oxford,  on  September  6,  the  Vice-Chancellor 
conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  a  Master  of  Arts,  for  which 
the  orator  introduced  him  with  a  speech.  J 

Eighteen  months  had  been  passed  by  Ormonde  at  Oxford, 
and  a  like  period  was  now  to  be  spent  by  him  with  his  grand- 
father in  Ireland.  The  duty  of  conducting  him  thither  was 
entrusted  to  his  father's  secretary,  John  ElBs,  and  after  some 
doubt  DreHncourt  was  left  behind. §  Long  before  that  time 
he  had  been  pronounced  unfit  to  act  as  governor  outside  the 
college  precincts,  and  when  Ormonde  had  been  in  London 
and  at  Windsor,  others  had  been  appointed  to  attend  him,|| 
but  as  a  search  for  a  substitute  proved  unsuccessful  he  followed 
Ormonde  to  Ireland  in  two  months,  and  was  restored  to  his 
old  position.^  At  that  time  it  was  the  intention  of  Ormonde's 
grandfather  to  send  him  abroad  the  next  year.  His  health 
had  improved,  and  although  there  was  little  to  boast  about 
in  regard  to  his  proficiency  in  letters,  he  did  tolerably  well  in 
exercises.**  The  difficulty  about  a  governor  was,  however, 
as  great  as  ever.  Drelincourt  did  no  better  in  Ireland,  where 
he  was  occupied  in  looking  out  for  preferment,  than  in  England, 
and  as  it  was  found  not  compatible  with  his  profession  for 
him  to  accompany  Ormonde  into  all  the  places  and  companies 
that  were  allowed  him,  a  search  was  begun  once  more  for  a 
successor. ft  Finally  the  services  of  Thomas  Burnett,  the 
future    master    of    the    Charter    House,    were    secured,    his 

*  Supra,  vol.  v,  pp.  301,  345,  375,  385.  In  a  letter  dated  August  9  {Carte 
Papers,  ccxxxii,  66)  the  first  Duke  of  Ormonde  wrote  to  Arlington  as  follows  : — 
"  I  am  not  able  to  judge  of  the  advantage  of  his  [Ossory's]  son  appearing 
so  early,  but  if  the  Doctor  [Fell]  has  delayed  the  sending  him  on  your 
summons  till  he  hears  from  me,  as  by  a  letter  from  him  I  find  his  intention 
was,  I  desire  he  may  be  left  there,  till  I  am  in  case  to  offer  your  Lordship 
my  sense  concerning  the  disposing  of  him  for  the  time  to  come ;  and  if  the 
youth  be  with  you,  I  wish  he  may  be  sent  back  as  soon  as  you  have  produced 
him  where  you  think  fit." 

t  Supra,  vol.  v,  pp.  385,  405,   416. 

X  Wood's  Fasti,  ii,  378. 

§  Supra,  vol.  v,  p.  417;    Add.  MSS.  28,875,  U   124. 

II  Supra,  vol.  v,  p.  417  ;    Add.  MSS.  28,875,  f.  124. 

•ff  Supra,  vol.  iv,  p.  549  ;    vol.  v,  pp.   184,  375. 

**  Supra,  vol.  v,  pp.   573,   585. 

tt  In  the  spring  of  that  year,  1681,  Drelincourt  was  given  by  Dublin 
University  the  degree  of  a  Master  of  Arts,  and  on  August  18  he  was  appointed 
Precentor  of  Christ  Church  Cathedral.  After  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  John 
Ellis  asked  Ormonde  to  obtain  fur^er  preferment  for  him,  on  the  ground 
of  the  perfection  to  which  he  had  brought  the  music  in  Christ  Church  (Add. 
MSS.  28,876,  f.  235),  and  on  February  18,  1691,  Drelincourt  was  appointed 
Dean  of  Armagh,  and  was  subsequently  given  the  degree  of  a  Doctor  of  Laws 
by  Dublin  University.  In  the  present  volume  there  is  a  letter  from  him 
soliciting  additional  favour  from  Ormonde,  but  the  application  was  un- 
successful. 


XIV 

"  Telluris  Theoria  Sacra,"  which  had  just  been  pubhshed, 
being  in  the  opinion  of  Ormonde's  uncles,  Arran  and  Arlington, 
proof  of  Burnett's  fitness  to  be  Ormonde's  guide.  But  some 
months  later  Ormonde's  grandfather  was  pertubed  by  finding 
that  Burnett,  although  wearing  the  garb  of  a  layman,  was 
in  holy  orders,*  and  gave  up  all  idea  of  Ormonde's  travelhng 
with  a  governor,  "  a  good  and  faithful  one  being  so  hard  to 
find,  the  youth  so  hard  to  govern,  and  the  prosperity  or  ruin 
of  his  family  depending  so  much  on  him."f 

His  Marriage,    1682—1688. 

Hitherto  Ormonde's  grandfather  had  discouraged  matri- 
monial schemes,  as,  in  his  experience,  of  the  early  alliances 
then  common  "  few  held  and  fewer  prospered."  Before 
Ormonde  was  fourteen  years  of  age,  at  the  time  that  he  returned 
from  Orange,  his  aunt,  the  Duchess  of  Devonshire,  had  tried 
to  arrange  an  alliance  between  him  and  the  heiress  of  the 
Percies,  afterwards  renowned  in  the  Court  of  Queen  Anne 
as  the  wife  of  the  sixth  Duke  of  Somerset.  She  was  then  a 
child  of  eleven,  and  Ormonde's  grandfather  would  not  allow 
the  project  to  be  pursued. {  On  the  death  of  her  first  husband, 
Lord  Ogle,  whom  she  married  at  the  age  of  twelve  and  lost 
when  she  was  thirteen,  the  question  of  this  alliance  had  been 
again  raised  by  Colonel  Edward  Cooke,  the  sporting  friend 
of  Ormonde's  grandfather. §  Shortly  before,  Cooke  had 
proposed  an  alliance  with  a  niece  of  his  own,  a  daughter  of  the 
third  Lord  Poulett,  which  Ormonde's  grandfather  had  dechned 
with  a  charming  grace,  saying  that  Ormonde  must  be  made 
more  fit  for  the  conversation  and  conduct  of  a  wife  before 
he  could  aspire  to  the  hand  of  Miss  Poulett,  ||  and  Cooke's 
second  venture  met  with  no  better  fate. 

But  in  December,  1681,  as  Ormonde  could  not  be  induced 
to  cultivate  his  natural  advantages,  his  grandfather  made 
up  his  mind  that  a  good  wife  was  the  only  remedy,  and  that 
the  question  of  marriage  must  be  seriously  taken  in  hand.^ 
For  more  than  a  year  and  a  haK  the  idea  of  an  alliance  with 
the  daughter  of  a  certain  Simon  Bennett,  known  as  the  rich 
man  of  Buckinghamshire,  had  been  mooted,  but  in  the  eyes 
of  Ormonde's  grandfather  the  prospect  of  a  fortune  of  a  hundred 
and  fifty  thousand  pounds  was  not  compensation  for  lack  of 
high   birth,   and  no   progress  was  made.**     Lord  Arhngton, 

*  It  is  recorded  by  Carte  {Carte  Papers,  cclxvi,  10)  that  Burnett  was 
wont  to  wear  a  sword  ;  when  he  stood  for  the  Mastership  of  the  Charter 
House,  the  Bishops  on  the  Board  opposed  his  election  on  the  ground  that 
though  he  was  a  clergyman,  "  yet  he  forgot  his  profession  so  far  as  to  go 
habited  like  a  layman  "  :    they  were,  l»owever,  outvoted. 

f  Supra,    vol.    vi,    passim. 

t  Supra,  vol.  iv,  pp.  215,  223,  229. 
Supra,  vol.  v,  p.  475. 

II  Supra,  vol.  v,  pp.  371,  405,  424,  449. 

^  Supra,  vol.  vi,  p.  550. 

♦*  Supra,  vols,  v  and  vi,  passim. 


XV 

who  was  a  cousin  of  the  young  lady,  was  most  persistent  in 
pressing  the  aUiance,  and  finally  in  the  spring  of  1682  per- 
suaded Ormonde's  grandfather  to  bring  Ormonde  to  England 
in  connection  with  it.*  Proximity  did  not  further  the  project, 
and  before  Ormonde  and  his  grandfather  had  been  many 
weeks  in  London  the  negotiations  were  broken  off,  and 
enquiries  began  about  a  sister  of  Lord  Ogle,t  afterwards 
the  wife  of  the  sixth  Earl  of  Thanet,  who  had  been  mentioned 
by  Lord  Arran  a  year  before.f  But  rumours  had  reached  her 
father,  the  Duke  of  Newcastle,  of  the  fortune  expected  from 
the  rich  man  of  Buckinghamshire,  and  he  declined  to  enter 
into  competition  with  him.  At  last  inspiration  came  to  the 
Duke  of  York,  and  before  Ormonde  had  been  two  months  in 
London  a  marriage  with  the  Duke's  niece.  Lady  Anne  Hyde, 
the  eldest  daughter  of  his  brother-in-law  Laurence,  first 
Earl  of  Rochester,  was  arranged,  and  in  July  it  took  place, 
the  ages  of  the  bridegroom  and  bride  being  then  respectively 
seventeen  years  and  three  months  and  fourteen  years  and 
six  months. 

In  his  loyalty  to  the  royal  family  Ormonde's  grandfather 
forgot  his  objection  to  young  matches,  and  as  Ormonde's 
indolent  habits  increased  he  had  soon  cause  to  repent  his  lack 
of  prudence.  In  March,  1683,  Ormonde  could  find  nothing 
better  to  do  than  to  accompany  his  father-in-law  to  New- 
market,§  and  twelve  months  later  he  was  passing  his  time 
yachting  in  the  Channel  with  Lord  Dunblane,  afterwards 
the  second  Duke  of  Leeds,  when  he  was  reported  to  have  been 
lost  at  sea,  but  was  at  the  moment  safe  in  Calais  harbour 
drinking  champagne. ||  In  May,  1683,  the  University  of 
Oxford  voted  him  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Civil  Law  on  the 
occasion  of  a  visit  from  the  Duke  and  Duchess  of  York,  but 
he  did  not  take  the  trouble  to  attend  to  receive  it,^  and  in 
August  his  uncle  Arran,  who  was  then  acting  as  Lord  Deputy 
of  Ireland,  nominated  him  as  a  colonel  of  horse,  but  could 
not  tempt  him  to  Ireland,  although  he  was  staying  at  the  time 
with  his  sister,  Lady  Derby,  at  Knowsley.**  But  in  the  spring 
of  1684  his  opportunity  came  and  his  metier  was  found.  It 
had  been  for  some  time  intended  that  if  war  broke  out  in  the 
Netherlands  he  should  be  a  spectator  of  the  operations, ff  and 
in  April  the  siege  of  Luxemburg  began,  and  as  soon  as  arrange- 
ments could  be  made  he  was  hurried  off  to  the  French  camp.  J{ 

*  Supra,  Series  I,  vol.  ii,  p.  301  ;    vol.  vi,  p.  ix. 
t  Supra,  vol.  vi,  p.  378. 

I  Supra,  vol.  v,  p.  554. 
§  Supra,  vol.  vi,  p.   546. 

II  Supra,  vol.  vii,  p.  214  ;  cf.  letter  incorrectly  dated,  Ellis  Correspondence, 
i,  77. 

H  Wood's  Life,  iii,  46,  54. 

**  His  sister  Elizabeth  married  in  1673  William,  sixteenth  Earl  of  Derby. 
She  was  probably  older  than  Ormonde,  but  at  the  time  of  her  marriage  cannot 
have  been  more  than  thirteen  years  of  age. 

tt  Supra,  vol.  vii,  p.   11. 

Xt   Supra,  vol.  vii,  p.  224;    Luttrell,  May  1. 


XVI 

He  was  attended  by  a  Major  Lawless  and  by  Thomas  Burnett, 
who  on  the  fall  of  Luxemburg  wrote  that  Ormonde  was  to 
enter  the  town  in  the  train  of  Marshal  Creque.*  Unfortu- 
nately, as  his  aunt  the  Duchess  of  Devonshire  believed,! 
his  stay  abroad  was  cut  short,  as  his  grandfather  was  obHged 
to  return  to  Ireland,  and  summoned  him  back  to  accompany 
him  thither. 

Ormonde's  grandfather  had  been  two  years  absent  from 
Ireland,  and  his  return  to  it  was  attended  with  much  sorrow. 
As  he  was  on  the  point  of  leaving  London,  his  Duchess  died, 
and  not  many  months  after  his  arrival  in  Dublin,  on  January  24, 
1685,  Ormonde's  wife  died.}  Before  her  death  it  had  been 
arranged  that  Ormonde's  grandfather  was  to  be  relieved 
as  Lord  Lieutenant  by  her  father.  Lord  Rochester,  with  whom 
she  and  her  husband  were  to  have  remained,  but  the  death 
of  Charles  the  Second  caused  Lord  Rochester's  appointment 
to  be  cancelled.§  In  the  latter  part  of  March,  Ormonde's 
grandfather  left  Ireland,  however,  bringing  with  him  Ormonde, 
who  developed  smallpox  on  the  journey,  and  had  to  stay  with 
his  sister  at  Knowsley.||  In  May  he  was  appointed  by 
James  a  Gentleman  of  his  Bedchamber,^  and  during  Mon- 
mouth's rebellion  he  accompanied  the  army  as  a  volunteer.** 
He  was  present  at  the  battle  of  Sedgemoor,  and  after  it 
he  entered  the  town  of  Bridgwater,  riding  at  the  head  of  a 
troop  of  gentlemen.  At  the  time  his  health  was  not  good, 
and  the  Bath  waters  were  suggested  by  his  physician. ft 

Within  a  few  weeks  of  the  death  of  Ormonde's  wiiPe  his 
grandfather  began  a  correspondence  with  Sir  Robert  Southwell 
about  finding  another  for  him, {J  and  wrote  to  Ormonde  while 
he  was  at  Knowsley  on  the  subject.  In  reply  Ormonde 
assured  his  grandfather  of  his  readiness  to  obey  him  in  that 
respect  as  well  as  in  everything  else,§§  and  as  a  result  of 
negotiations  carried  on  by  Sir  Robert  Southwell, ||||  he  was 
on  August  3  married  to  Lady  Mary  Somerset,  the  eldest 
daughter  of  Henry  first  Duke  of  Beaufort,  a  nobleman  who 
in  his  character  and  princely  mode  of  hving  bore  a  remarkable 
resemblance  to  Ormonde's  grandfather.  Three  days  before 
Ormonde  came  of  age  he  was  called  by  writ  to  the  House  of 
Lords,  but  the  Earl  of  Bradford  drew  attention  to  the  fact 
that  he  was  stiU  a  minor,  and  prevented  his  taking  his  seat 
until  the  three  days  were  expired.^^    In  the    same  year, 

*  Add.  MSS.  28,875,  f.  381. 

t  Supra,  vol.    vii,    p.    251. 

j  Egmont  Manuscripts,  i,    149. 

§  Supra,  vol.  vii,  pp.  vii-xii. 

II  Supra,  vol.  vii,  p.  339  ;    Egmont  Manuscripts,  i,   151. 

f  Buccleuch  Manuscripts,  i,  342. 

**  Supra,  vol.  vii,  p.  343. 

tt  Carte  Papers,  xl,  420;    Ixxii,  611. 

XX  Supra,  vol.  vii,  p.  335  ;    cf.  Carte's  Life  of  Ormonde,  iv,  677. 

§§  Hist.  MSS.  Com.  Rept.  7,  App.,  p.  753,  note. 

IjU  Egmont  Manuscripts,  i,  152.  ^^  Carte  Papers,   cclxvi,    iO. 


XVll 

1686,  Ormonde  succeeded  on  the  death  of  his  uncle  Arran 
to  the  command  of  the  foot-guards  in  Ireland,*  and  a 
correspondence  with  his  grandfather  in  the  month  of  May 
shows  that  however  prodigal  he  was  with  his  own  means, 
he  was  anxious  to  save  his  officers  any  unnecessary  expense. f 
His  complete  submission  to  his  grandfather  is  also  very  evident 
from  these  letters.  He  appears  to  have  been  abroad  in 
the  summer  of  1686,{  but  during  the  three  years  that  elapsed 
between  his  second  marriage  and  the  death  of  his  grandfather, 
Ormonde's  time  was  principally  spent  in  attendance  on  him 
in  town  or  country,  with  interludes  while  he  stayed  with  his 
father-in-law  at  Badminton  or  was  in  waiting  on  the  King.§ 
A  son  and  heir  was  born  to  him  on  September  24,  1686,  an 
event  which  gave  his  grandfather  intense  pleasure,  ||  but  the 
boy  survived  Ormonde's  grandfather  Httle  more  than  six 
months,  his  death  taking  place  on  February  26,  1687,  and 
Ormonde  never  had  another  son. 

His  Part  in  the  Revolution,    1688 — 1689. 

At  the  age  of  twenty-three,  on  July  21,  1688,  Ormonde 
succeeded  on  the  death  of  his  grandfather  to  the  dukedom. 
It  was  a  momentous  time  in  the  history  of  England,  and  he 
was  but  slenderly  equipped  for  the  part  that  was  to  fall  to  him. 
Misfortune,  as  his  aunt  the  Duchess  of  Devonshire  said,  had 
pursued  every  early  step,Tf  and  his  dependence  upon  others 
was  necessarily  great.  His  grandfather  had  foreseen  that 
this  would  be  the  case,  and  had  urged  him  to  be  most  cautious 
in  selecting  his  friends,  commending  to  him  particularly 
Sir  Robert  Southwell,  in  whose  fidelity  and  prudence  he  advised 
him  to  place  the  utmost  confidence.**  This  advice  Ormonde 
had  not  forgotten,  and  in  one  of  his  first  letters  after  his  grand- 
father's death  he  asks  his  kinsman,  Lord  Galmoye,  to  obtain 
leave  of  absence  for  his  grandfather's  old  and  tried  secretary, 
Henry  Gascoigne,tt  from  offices  held  by  him  in  Ireland,  in 
order  that  he  might  assist  him  not  only  in  arranging  his  grand- 
father's papers,  but  also  in  his  own  business. {J  Gascoigne's  help 
was  especially  valuable  to  Ormonde  in  connection  with  the 
office  of  Chancellor  of  Oxford  University,  to  which  he  had 
been  elected  in  his  grandfather's  place  two  days  after  his 
grandfather's  death.     This  hurried  proceeding  was  due  to  the 

*  Ellis  Correspondence,  i,  34. 

t  Supra,  vol.  vii,  pp.  420-1. 

j  Carte  Papers,  ccxx,   130. 

§  Add.  MSS.  28,875,  f.  436. 

II  Supra,  vol.  vii,  p.  458. 

^  Supra,   vol.   vii,   p.   251. 

**  Carte's  Life  of  Ormonde,  iv,  680. 

ft  Gascoigne's  wife.  Lady  Catherine  ISIildmay,  is  frequently  mentioned 
in  the  correspondence.  She  was  a  sister  of  Sir  Richard  Steele's  father,  and 
widow  of  Sir  Humphrey  Mildmay,  of  Danberry,  whom  she  married  in  1662, 
as  his  second  wife.  See  Colonel  Herbert  Mildmay's  Memoir  of  the  Mildmay 
Family,  pp.   97,  254. 

tt  Infra,  p.  3. 

Wt.  43482.  ^ 


XVlll 

anticipation  of  a  mandate  from  James,  and  on  the  following 
day  an  order  arrived  for  the  election  of  Lord  Chancellor  Jeffreys. 
When  he  heard  that  the  University  had  forestalled  his  mandate 
James  was  much  displeased,  and  desired  Ormonde  not  to 
accept  the  office,  but  after  an  interview  with  Lord  Rochester 
he  changed  his  mind,  and  four  days  after  the  election  he 
received  Ormonde  very  graciously  on  the  occasion  of  his 
delivering  up  his  grandfather's  insignia  as  a  Knight  of  the 
Garter.*  On  August  23  Ormonde  was  formally  installed  as 
chancellor  at  his  house  in  St.  James's  Square  by  a  deputation 
from  the  University.  His  short  reply  in  EngUsh  to  the 
eloquent  Latin  addresses  of  the  members  of  the  deputation 
was  supplemented  by  a  banquet  of  a  regal  character  for  which 
a  building  was  specially  erected  in  the  garden,  and  to  which 
five  hundred  persons,  including  many  peers  of  the  realm, 
sat  down,t  and  a  present  of  plate  was  subsequently  sent  to 
the  vice-chancellor  and  proctors. {  In  the  case  of  the  University 
of  Dublin,  of  which  he  was  also  elected  chancellor  in  place  of 
his  grandfather,  some  misapprehension  arose,  and  a  delay 
in  sending  a  reply  to  a  letter  from  the  authorities  was  resented.§ 
He  succeeded  his  grandfather  in  addition  as  steward  of  West- 
minster and  as  a  governor  of  the  Charter  House.  || 

What  Ormonde's  feelings  had  been  up  to  that  time  towards 
James  there  is  no  sign,  beyond  a  casual  observation  of  one 
of  his  suite  two  years  before  his  grandfather's  death,  that 
he  seemed  to  grow  shy  of  the  Court,^  but  there  can  be  no 
doubt  of  James's  wish  to  bind  him  to  his  side.  It  was  that 
desire  which  induced  James  to  desist  from  pressing  Jeffreys 
on  the  University  of  Oxford,  and  upon  WiUiam's  expedition 
to  England  becoming  a  matter  of  certainty  that  desire  was 
further  evinced  by  Ormonde's  election  to  the  Garter  vacated 
by  his  grandfather,   which  took  place  at  a  Chapter  of  the 

*  Clarendon's  Diary,  pp.  183,  489-92  ;  Ellis  Correspondence,  ii,  80-82  ; 
infra,  p.   1. 

t  Ellis  Correspondence,  ii,  132,  141  ;  Wood's  Life,  iii,  278  and  Fasti,  ii, 
403. 

J  Infra,   p.   5. 

§  Infra,  p.  4 ;  Ellis  Correspondence,  ii,  141.  Writing  from  Dublin  on 
August  10,  John  Ellis  says  that  the  University  had  chosen  Ormonde  as 
Chancellor,  but  owing  to  a  report  that  Ormonde  had  declined  the  Chancellor- 
ship of  Oxford,  deferred  an  annoimcement.  The  letters  the  day  before  had 
shown  that  the  report  was  false. — Carte  Papers,  cxvii,  291. 

II  Ormonde's  grandfather  had  held  also  the  Stewardship  of  Winchester 
Under  a  patent  of  survivance  it  passed  to  Lord  Clarendon,  but  as  a  mark 
of  respect  the  Bishop  of  Winchester  sent  Ormonde  a  like  patent  of  sur- 
vivance, which  Ormonde  resented,  not  understanding  that  the  Bishop  could 
do  no  more. — Carte  Papers,  cclxvi,   16. 

t  Ellis  Correspondence,  i,  103.  On  the  authority  of  the  Earl  of  Egmont, 
Carte  states  {Carte  Papers,  Ixix,  97)  that  the  first  Duke  of  Ormonde  knew 
before  his  death  of  William's  design,  and  said  that  he  would  neither  draw 
his  sword  against  King  James  nor  for  him.  It  is  further  related  by  Carte 
that  he  enjoined  his  grandson  neither  to  fight  for  James  nor  against  him, 
and  that  his  grandson  did  not  do  so  until  pressed  by  William  to  attend  him 
in  Ireland  in  the  field.  His  consent,  according  to  Carte,  was  due  to  the 
persuasion  of  the  'E^vl  of  Rochester,  who  gave  him  a  preseat  of  2,000Z.  or 
3,000;, 


XIX 

Order  held  on  September  28.*  He  was  at  that  time  much 
in  the  company  not  only  of  Lord  Rochester,  but  also  of  his 
brother  Lord  Clarendon,!  which  tended  to  make  James  the 
more  rely  upon  him,  and  early  in  October  he  was  commissioned 
to  enlist  in  his  service  volunteers  of  high  rank.f  His  regiment 
of  guards  was  brought  from  Ireland,  and  on  being  reviewed 
by  James  at  the  end  of  October,  it  was  found  to  comprise 
seven  hundred  men,  "  young  and  spritely,"  averaging 
six  feet  in  height,  with  uniforms  of  the  newest  style  and  frocks 
to  keep  them  clean. §  The  false  confidence  of  James  and  his 
entourage  is  very  apparent  from  this  incident,  and  also  from 
the  letters  received  in  the  autumn  of  1688  by  Ormonde. 
None  of  his  correspondents  anticipated  anything  but  the 
speedy  defeat  of  William's  forces,  and  the  officer,  who  brought 
over  Ormonde's  guards  from  Ireland,  considered  new  hats 
for  the  review  quite  as  pressing  a  need  as  bayonets,  with  which 
the  regiment  was  unprovided.  ||  No  less  striking  is  the  absence 
of  any  indication  that  WilHam  was  known  to  have  friends  in 
England.  Even  Ormonde's  father-in-law,  the  Duke  of 
Beaufort,  believed  that  if  the  army  was  sufficiently  strong 
to  defend  the  kingdom  from  the  invaders,  James  had  nothing 
to  fear.  If 

But  Ormonde  was  under  no  such  delusion,  and  was  in 
communication  with  those  who  were  preparing  the  way  for 
William.  According  to  the  Earl  of  Ailesbury,**  who  was 
married  to  the  Duchess  of  Ormonde's  haK-sister,  in  the 
month  of  August  he  was  actively  engaged  in  obtaining 
support  for  William,  and  according  to  Lord  Torringtonft 
about  the  middle  of  October  he  was  in  conference 
with  officers  of  the  navy  and  army  friendly  to  WiUiam, 
and  discussed  with  them  how  far  the  forces  of  the 
Crown  were  likely  to  be  favourable  to  William's  enterprise. 
In  the  opinion  of  Lord  Ailesbury,  Ormonde  was  influenced 
towards  WilUam  by  Lord  Drumlanrig,  afterwards  the  second 
Duke  of  Queensberry,  but  Ormonde's  descent  through  his 
mother  from  WilUam's  own  ancestors  can  hardly  but  have 
been  a  predisposing  cause,  and  there  is  reason  to  believe  that 
he  took  the  part  which  he  did  with  the  knowledge  of  the 
Princess  Anne  and  her  husband  Prince  George.  He  is  men- 
tioned by  Lord  Ailesbury  as  consulting  with  Prince  George's 
groom-of-the-bedchamber  in  matters  concerning  William,  and 
before  he  succeeded  to  the  dukedom  he  had  been  on  such  con- 
fidential terms  with  Prince  George  as  to  have  had  communicated 
to  him  by  the  Prince  knowledge  of  a  design  by  persons  in  a 

*  Clarendon's  Diary,  p.  191  ;    Ellia  Corresponderice,  ii,  82,  226. 

t  Clarendon's  Diary,  p.   194. 

j  Ellis's  Correspondence,  ii,  242. 

§  Le  Fleming  Manuscripts,  pp.  217-18. 

II  Infra,  pp.  6,  7. 

if  Infra,  p.  8. 

**  Memoirs,   p.    179. 

ft  Memoirs f  p.  27. 


XX 


high  station  on  the  life  of  Bishop  Burnet.*  It  was  in  the 
company  of  Prince  George,  as  well  as  of  Lord  Drumlanrig,  that 
Ormonde  took  the  final  step  and  left  James  on  the  night  of 
November  24  at  Andover.  Churchill  had  gone  to  WiUiam 
the  preceding  day,  and  they  would  probably  have  accompanied 
him  but  for  the  fear  of  detection,  which  was  evidently  con- 
siderable, as  their  junction  with  WilUam  was  not  effected  for 
five  or  six  days.f  When  calling  on  the  Duchess  of  Ormonde 
a  few  days  later,  Lord  ClarendonJ  formed  the  impression  that 
she  was  unaware  of  Ormonde's  intention  to  leave  James,  but 
Lord  Ailesbury  held  a  different  opinion,  and  believed  that  she 
was  fully  aware  of  it,  and  from  what  he  says  it  is  evident 
that  her  brother  Lord  Worcester  must  have  been  so.§ 

During  the  Convention  that  called  WiUiam  and  Mary  to 
the  throne,  Ormonde  was  assiduous  in  his  attendance  as  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Lords,  but  he  did  not  take  the  Une 
which  might  have  been  expected  from  the  alacrity  with  which 
he  threw  in  his  lot  with  WiUiam.  In  the  first  division  on  the 
proposal  of  a  regency,  which  was  defeated  by  only  two  votes, 
he  was  one  of  the  minority.  ||  Subsequently  he  is  said  to  have 
"  strengthened  the  party  for  a  king."TJ  But  in  the  last  division 
on  the  question  of  the  throne  being  vacant,  which  was  carried 
then  by  fifteen  votes,  he  appears  again  in  the  minority.**  In 
the  presentation  of  the  declaration  to  WilUam  and  Mary  he 
took  no  part,  but  at  the  opening  of  their  first  parUament  he 
was  present,  and  he  was  one  of  the  first  peers  to  take  the  oaths.tf 
There  is  ground  to  believe  that  in  the  Une  which  he  took  in 
the  Convention  he  had  again  the  approval  of  the  Princess  Anne 
and  Prince  George,  or  at  least  of  the  Prince,  who,  according 
to  Lord  Clarendon,  J t  was  more  opposed  to  the  proceedings 
of  the  Convention  than  the  Princess.  In  the  first  and  last 
divisions,  Ormonde  voted  in  company  with  the  fathers  of  both 
his  wives,  the  Earl  of  Rochester  and  the  Duke  of  Beaufort, 
but  his  brother-in-law,  the  Earl  of  Derby,  and  his  uncle,  the 
Duke  of  Devonshire,  voted  invariably  for  the  Revolution. 

At  that  time,  the  opening  months  of  1689,  the  position  of 
the  minority  in  Ireland  much  engaged  Ormonde's  attention. 
Owing  to  the  state  of  that  country  he  had  given  directions 
that  the  contents  of  Kilkenny  Castle  should  be  secured,§§ 
and  after  the  arrival  of  WilUam  he  was  foremost  in  the  con- 
sultations of  peers  and  gentlemen  belonging  to  Ireland,  who 

*  Bumet's  History,  Lond.,  1815,  i,  xxxi,  and  Foxcroft's  Supplement, 
p.  269. 

t  Foxcroft's  Supplement,  pp.  631,  533  ;  Marchmont  Papers,  iii,  99; 
Leyborne-PopTmm  Manuscripts,  p.  267. 

I  Diary,  p.  208. 

§  Memoirs,  p.   181. 

II  Clarendon's  Diary,  p.   256. 
il  Echard's  History,  p.   1142. 

**  House  of  Lords'  Journal,  Feb.  6. 

tt  l^id,  Feb.    18,   Mar.   2. 

%%  Diary,  pp.  254,  257,  259. 

§§  Infra,  p.  29.     The  letter  is  incorrectly  dated. 


XXI 

met  to  the  number  of  two  hundred  in  his  house  in  St.  James's 
Square,  and  recommended  that  an  attempt  should  be  made 
to  detach  Tyrconnel  from  James.*  From  Dubhn  urgent 
appeals  for  help  reached  him,  and  also  from  Bristol  in  regard 
to  the  minority  in  the  south  of  Ireland. |  Kilkenny  Castle 
was  seized  by  James's  army,  and  although  Ormonde  sent 
orders  that  everything  of  value  was  to  be  shipped  off  to  Poole 
in  Dorsetshire,  for  conveyance  to  Kingston  Hall,  where  his 
grandfather  died,  nothing  was  done,  as  most  of  his  agents 
and  servants  had  taken  up  arms  for  James.}  In  order  to 
save  his  Irish  property  he  was  then  recommended  by 
Lord  Ailesbury§  to  retire  to  Kingston  Hall,  but  he  could  not 
be  tempted  from  his  allegiance  to  Wilham,  and  for  seven 
years  he  would  not  speak  to  Lord  Ailesbury. 

Amongst  Ormonde's  correspondents  during  that  period, 
the  Vice-Chancellor  of  Oxford  University,  Gilbert  Ironside, 
is  prominent.  In  September  he  asks  Ormonde  to  request 
James  to  withdraw  a  writ  of  quo  warranto  which  had  been  served 
on  the  University,  1 1  and  tells  him  that  he  will  be  seconded  by 
Jeffreys,  to  whom  Ironside  had  sent  an  apology  for  his  not 
having  been  elected  chancellor.^  Three  months  later  Ironside 
informs  Ormonde  of  the  adoption  of  an  address  to  WiUiam 
in  response  to  gracious  words  from  him,  and  in  the  following 
March  he  requests  a  dispensation  for  a  son  of  Lord  Lindsey, 
no  less  on  account  of  his  principles  than  of  his  learning.** 
From  Ireland  the  wife  of  Lord  Longford,  who  had  been 
previously  married  to  Ormonde's  uncle,  the  Earl  of  Gowran, 
sends  Ormonde,  soon  after  his  grandfather's  death,  a  letter 
in  which  condolence  is  mingled  with  anxiety  about  her  jointure, 
and  just  when  Ormonde  was  joining  William,  Lord  Longford 
recommends  to  him  a  member  of  his  uncle  Arran's  household 
as  "  too  ingenuous  and  too  much  a  gentleman  to  play  fast 
and  loose. "tt  ^^  the  same  time  Sir  John  Meade,  one  of  the 
judges  of  Ormonde's  palatinate,  writes  about  a  new  sheriff, 
and  tells  Ormonde  that  in  the  absence  of  the  present  one, 
his  grandfather's  nephew,  George  Mathew,  in  the  service 
of  James,  the  gaol  is  neglected  and  the  prisoners  are  escaping.  J  J 
Before  William's  arrival,  James's  friends  in  Ireland  regarded 
Ormonde  as  their  best  sohcitor  at  his  Court.  An  Irish  officer 
writes  to  him  from  Cornwall  about  a   scuffle    between    his 

*  Clarendon's  Diary,  p.  242  ;    Luttrell,  Jan. 

t  Add.  MSS.  28876,  ff.  162-6,  172,  181  ;    infra,  pp.  15,  17. 

X  Infra,  pp.  15-17. 

§  Memoirs,   p.   248. 

II  The  quo  warranto  had  regard  to  the  pretended  right  of  the  King's  prmter 
and  company  of  stationers  to  control  the  University  Press.  In  the  month 
of  May  the  University  had  to  resist  "  two  suits  of  law,"  and  in  the  month 
of  June,  on  a  petition  of  the  King's  printer,  setting  forth  that  he  could  not 
suppress  seditious  pamphlets  unless  he  had  power  to  regulate  the  Oxford 
printing-press,  the    quo  warranto  issued. — Carte  Papers,  cxxxi,  281. 

t  Irifra,  p.  3  ;   c/.  Wood's  Life,  iii,  269  ;   Ellis  Correspondence,  ii,  76, 

**  Infra,  pp.   11,   17. 

tt  Infra,    pp.    1,    10, 

%X  Infra,  p.  11. 


xxii 

men  and  some  of  the  inhabitants,  and  Lord  Kinsale  expects 
Ormonde  to  obtain  leave  for  him  to  come  to  England.*  Even 
after  WilUam's  arrival  James's  adherents  sought  his  aid,  and 
letters  are  preserved  from  Simon  Luttrell,  James's  governor 
of  DubHn,  and  Sir  George  Barclay,  the  Jacobite  conspirator, 
asking  him  to  obtain  permission  for  them  to  leave  London. f 
On  the  other  hand  refugees  from  Ireland,  the  late  surgeon- 
general  of  the  army  and  an  anonymous  correspondent,  send 
him  accounts  of  the  sufferings  of  their  friends  in  that  country, 
and  Lady  Mount  joy  looks  to  him  to  secure  the  release  of  her 
husband  from  the  Bastille.}  But  the  letters  are  as  a  rule 
applications  for,  or  acknowledgments  of,  Ormonde's  favour 
as  Chancellor  of  Oxford  University  and  as  Governor  of  the 
Charter  House,  one  of  the  acknowledgments  being  from 
Thomas  Shadwell,  the  dramatist,  who  thanks  him  for  the 
election  of  his  son  as  Fellow  of  All  Souls. § 

His   Campaigns,    1689—1697. 

For  nine  years  from  1689  to  1697  Ormonde  spent  every 
summer  in  the  field.  As  in  the  case  of  other  persons  his  votes 
in  the  Convention  did  not  divert  Wilhams'  favour  from  him. 
In  the  month  of  February,  1689,  his  appointment  as  a  Gentle- 
man of  the  Bedchamber  was  announced.  On  April  5  he  was 
installed  at  Windsor  as  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  and  on  April  1 1 
he  appeared  at  the  coronation  as  Lord  High  Constable.  ||  In 
the  latter  month  he  was  appointed  also  colonel  of  the  second 
troop  of  hfe  guards,  a  command  which  he  held  for  more  than 
twenty  years.  As  its  colonel  he  accompanied  Marlborough 
that  summer  to  the  Netherlands,  and  his  troop  formed  part 
of  the  cavalry,  at  whose  head  Marlborough  charged  at  the 
battle  of  Walcourt.^  Ormonde's  conduct,  according  to  the 
Prince  of  Waldeck,  who  was  in  supreme  command,  gave  general 
satisfaction,**  and  in  September  he  had  become  so  conspicuous 
that  the  French  were  said  to  have  laid  a  plot  to  carry  him  off 
with  Marlborough  to  their  camp. ft  In  the  beginning  of 
November  he  returned  to  England  with  Marlborough, J} 
but  he  left  his  troop  behind  in  winter  quarters. 

Owing  to  his  gallantry  in  the  Netherlands,  Ormonde  had 
now  become  a  first  favourite  with  WiUiam.  When  WiUiam 
made  an  offering  in  the  Chapel  Royal  on  the  feast  of  the 
Circumcision  in  1690  it  was  Ormonde  who  was  selected  to 
bear  the  sword  before  him,  and  on  Twelfth-night  he  had  the 

*  Infra,  pp.   6,   7. 

t  Infra,  pp.  13,   17. 

X  Infra,   pp.    18-20. 

§  Infra,  p.  8. 

II  Luttrell. 

il  Arthur's  Hotisehold  Cavalry,  i,  235-37. 

**  S.P.  Dom.,  July   16. 

tt  LuttreU. 

Xt  Ibid. 


xxm 

honour  of  entertaining  William  at  one  of   his  houses.*     In 
March  it  was  reported  that  he  was  going  to  the  Netherlands 
as  "  general  of  all  the  EngUsh  forces  there, "t  but   he   was 
making  preparations  at  the  time  to   accompany  WiUiam  to 
Ireland,  where  his  presence  had  long  been  desired  by  Wilham's 
adherents. J     His   troop   was   ordered    home,   and  as  it  was 
designated  for  service  in  Ireland,  early  steps  were  taken   by 
Ormonde  to  provide  forage  at  Liverpool,§  and  after  it  had  landed 
at   Spithead  in  May  great   baskets   of   wine   and   hams   for 
Ormonde's  use  were  sent  from  Kingston  Hall  to  be  added  to 
the  baggage. II     In  the  end  it  did  not  get  further  than  London, 
and  was  left  there  to  guard  Queen  Mary. If    But  Ormonde  set 
out  with  WiUiam  in  June   for    Ireland,  and  was  present  at 
the  battle  of  the  Bojme.     Thence  he  was  sent  to  secure  Dublin 
for  William,  and  a  week  later  he  entertained  WiUiam  in  his 
own   castle   at   Kilkenny,  which   they   found   fortunately  in 
good  order  "  with  a  cellar  well   stored."**     He  returned  to 
England   with   WiUiam,    who    stayed   at   Badminton   on   his 
journey  from  Bristol  to  London,  and  as  a  mark  of  appreciation 
of  his  services  he  was  named  by  WiUiam  a  member  of  the 
Irish   Privy   Council. ft 

During  the  great  congress  at  the  Hague  in  the  beginning 
of  1691  Ormonde  was  in  attendance  on  William,  and  rivaUed 
in  his  mode  of  Uving  the  sovereign  princes.  At  the  banquet 
a  seat  was  provided  for  him  at  the  King's  table,  and  to  him 
alone  of  the  English  nobility  the  electors  were  said  to  have 
drank.  J{  He  had  shared  WilUam's  perilous  landing  on 
the  shores  of  Holland,  and  returned  also  in  April  with  him.§§ 
In  May  William  went  back  to  Holland,  and  Ormonde  joined 
him  in  the  Netherlands  with  his  troop, ||||  and  participated 
in  what  has  been  described  as  a  costly  parade. Klf  Not  the 
least  costly  part  was  that  taken  by  Ormonde.  His  equipage 
in  the  field  was  as  sumptuous  as  his  estabUshment  at  the 
Hague.  As  his  chaplain  wrote,***  in  him  his  father  and  his 
grandfather  were  concentrated.  His  table  had  the  reputation 
of  exceeding  that  of  the  King,  yet  for  the  ninth  time  he  had 
ordered  that  it  was  to  be  further  improved,  and  his  expenditure 
was  so  prodigious  that  his  chaplain,ttt  although  accustomed 
to  his  grandfather's  house  was  in  consternation.  It  was  the 
prevalent  idea  then  that  Ormonde  would  be  given  by  WilUam 

*  S.P.  Dom.,   Jan.  2,  13. 

t  Ihid,   Mar.  27. 

X  Ihid,   Dec.  24,  1689  ;  infra,   p.  28. 

§  Infra,  p.  31. 

II  Infra,  p.  32;    Luttrell. 

%  Arthur's  Household  Cavalry,  i,  239. 

**  Kennet's  History,  iii,  564. 

tt  S.P.   Dom.,   Nov.    6. 

it  Actions,   Lond.,    1716. 

§§  Infra,  p.  33. 

III!  Luttrell. 

11 II  Wolseley's  Life  of  Marlborotcgh,  ii,  238. 

♦**  Add.  MSS.  48926,  f.  25. 

ttt  John  Hartstongue,  afterwards  Bishop  of  Ossory. 


the  Irish  viceroyalty,  which  had  not  yet  been  filled.* 
He  considered  himself  that  he  had  an  hereditary  right  to  the 
office,  and  it  was  possibly  with  a  view  to  emphasize  his  con- 
nection with  Ireland  that  after  his  return  to  England  he 
entertained  Ginkel  and  his  staff  on  their  arrival  from 
Limerick,  t 

The  place  which  Ormonde  had  come  to  occupy  in  WilUam's 
confidence  is  indicated  by  rumours  that  he  was  the  bearer 
of  messages  in  the  spring  of  1692  to  the  Princess  Anne  with 
regard  to  the  Duchess  of  Marlborough,  messages  which  if 
they  were  entrusted  to  him  must  have  taxed  his  abihty  to 
couch  in  diplomatic  terms. {  Early  in  March  he  saw  William 
off  to  Holland,§  whence  a  commission  was  issued  giving 
him  the  rank  of  major-general,  and  a  few  weeks  later  he  joined 
William  with  his  troop,  which  had  remained  at  Breda  that 
winter.  II  During  that  summer  he  was  given  command 
of  a  brigade,^  and  was  present  at  the  disastrous  battle 
of  SteinHrk.  There  his  mihtary  ardour  is  said  to  have  been 
restrained,  but  apparently  not  before  his  courage  had  exposed 
him  to  considerable  danger.**  In  October  he  returned  to 
England  with  Wilham,  and  soon  afterwards  had  the  unpleasant 
experience  of  having  his  house  broken  into  by  one  of  the  bands 
of  robbers  that  then  infested  London. tt 

With  the  year  1693  an  opportunity  came  for  a  display  of 
prowess  on  Ormonde's  part  that  has  been  celebrated  by 
Dry  den  and  Prior,  and  brought  him  much  fame.  On  the 
last  day  of  March  he  sailed  from  Gravesend  with  Wilham,  J  J 
and  continued  at  his  side  until  the  battle  of  Landen.  There 
when  the  crisis  of  the  day  drew  near  he  charged  with  the 
first  squadron  he  could  find  in  fine,  and  fought,  as  d'Auvergne 
has  recorded, §§  amongst  "  the  thickest  of  the  enemies  "  with 
such  incomparable  bravery  as  became  "  the  son  of  the  great 
Ossory  and  the  heir  of  the  virtues  of  a  family  of  heroes."|||| 
His  horse  was  shot  under  him,  and  if  a  gentleman  of  the 
French  guards  had  not  come  to  his  rescue  he  would  have  been 
killed.  His  heroic  courage,  as  d'Auvergne  says,^^  vanquished 
his  victorious  enemies  "  even  when  he  fell  into  their  hands 
dyed  in  his  noble  blood,"  and  every  mark  of  respect  was 
paid  to  him.  He  was  brought  to  the  commander  of  the 
French  horse,  the  Due  d'Elboeuf,  who  sent  him  to  his  own 

*  Infra,  p.  23  ;     Luttrell,    Oct.    29. 
t  Luttrell,   Dec.   29. 
X  Ibid,  Feb.  23,  Mar.   1- 
§  Ibid,  Mar.   5. 
II  Ibid,  April  5.  . 
^  Add.  MSS.  28,926,  f.  44. 
♦*  Macaulay's  History,  iv,  281  ;    infra,  p.  34. 
tt  Luttrell,  Oct.  22,  Nov.  21. 
it  Kennet's  History,  iii,   660. 
§§  Campaign  of  1693,  p.  76. 

nil  It  has  been  said,  but  without  ground,  that  he  was  seeking  to  save  William. 
Life,  Lend.,  1716;    Memoirs,  Lond.,  1716;    Life,  Lond.,  1739. 
^11  Campaign  of   1695,    dedication. 


quarters  in  his  coach,  and  directed  the  best  surgeons  to  dress 
his  wounds.  He  was  afterwards  taken  to  Namur,  and  was 
there  treated  with  every  attention,  as  he  acknowledges  in  a 
letter  in  the  present  volume,*  by  the  Governor,  Count 
Guiscard,  whose  brother  he  was  destined  to  meet  twenty  years 
later  when  he  attempted  to  assassinate  Harley.  Ormonde's 
captivity  lasted  only  a  month,  as  he  was  exchanged  for  the 
Duke  of  Berwick,  who  was  in  WiUiam's  hands, f  but  it  was 
sufficiently  long  to  allow  of  his  distributing  five  thousand 
guineas,  which  WiUiam  had  sent  for  his  own  use,  amongst 
his  fellow  prisoners,  an  act  of  generosity  that  was  never  for- 
gotten by  the  people  .J  In  sending  this  money  to  Ormonde, 
William  evinced  a  regard  for  him  that  is  even  more  strikingly 
exhibited  in  a  letter  written  by  Queen  Mary  at  that  time 
to  the  Duchess  of  Ormonde  : 

"  In  the  letter  I  received  from  the  King  this  morning 
he  charges  me  to  let  you  know  that  the  Duke  of  Ormonde 
is  quite  out  of  danger,  and  to  assure  you  that  he  will 
take  all  the  care  he  can  to  procure  his  Hberty  before  any 
other    person.     He    thinks    himself    obHged    to    it    upon 
so  many  accounts,  that  though  I  am  very  ill  at  wording 
what  the  King  would  have  me  say,  I  am  sure  you  may 
depend  upon  his  care  to  show  all  the  kindness  he  can  on 
this   occasion,   his  having  the  Duke  of  Berwick  in  his 
hands  will  make  it,  I  beheve,  the  easier.     I  am  very  glad 
I  can  give  you  so  good  an  account,  and  hope  the  DucJhess  of 
Ormonde  will  do  me  the  justice  to  beheve  that  nobody 
can  rejoice  more  than  I  do  with  her,  and  that  I  shall  be 
very  glad  of  any  occasion  to  show  myself  reaUy  her  friend. 
— Mabie  R."§ 
Before  going  to  the  Netherlands  that  year,  Ormonde  had 
sought    leave    to   resign    his    commission   for   reasons    which 
will  hereafter  be  touched  upon,  but  he  was  not  allowed  to 
press  his  request  by  William,  who  was  reported  to  have  said 
that  he  could  not  spare  him,  and  to  have  assured  him  of  the 
great  kindness  which  he    entertained  for    him.||     During  the 
campaign,   Ormonde  is   mentioned  as   being  WilHam's   com- 
panion in  his  coach, If  and  at  home  he  was  frequently  a  guest 
at  houses  where  WiUiam  dined.     His  troop  had  been  brought 
back  from  the  Netherlands  after  the  campaign  of  1692,  and 
on  the  King's  birthday  his  loyalty  was  pubhcly  testified  by 
its  appearance  in  rich  caparison  on  black  horses,  which  had 
doubtless  not  been  procxu-ed  without  expense  to  Ormonde.** 
During  a  visit  paid  by  the  Margrave  of  Baden-Baden  to 

*  Infra,  pp.  127,  152. 

t  The  French  had  to  give  a  ransom  also  of    twenty  thousand  guilders. 
Wolseley's  Life  of  Marlborough,  ii,  298. 
X  Earl  of  Aileshury's  Memoirs,  p.  289. 
§  Add.  MSS.  28,878,  f.  116. 
II  Luttrell,    Ap.    1. 
i  Add.  MSS.  28,878,  f.   100. 
**  LuttreU,  passim. 


XXVI 

England  in  January,  1694,  the  nobility  vied  with  each  other 
in  the  hospitality  shown  to  him,  and  Ormonde  is  said  to  have 
eclipsed  every  one  else.*  He  invited  the  Margrave  to  visit 
Oxford,  but  the  Margrave  did  not  do  so,  perhaps  fortunately 
as  according  to  Anthony  Wood,!  the  deaths  of  various  great 
persons  at  that  time  were  occasioned  by  their  "  drinking  high 
in  the  German  mode  "  with  the  Margrave.  In  the  marches 
and  countermarches  of  that  year  Ormonde  and  his  troop, 
which  had  been  sent  back  to  the  Netherlands,  {  had 
their  full  share,  and  before  returning  to  England  in  the 
autumn  WiUiam  promoted  him  to  the  rank  of  lieutenant- 
general. 

In  the  campaign  of  1695,  which  resulted  in  the  capture  of 
Namur,  d'Auvergne  says§  that  Ormonde  was  more  than  ever 
the  sharer  of  William's  toils  and  dangers,  and  was  daily  beside 
him  in  the  trenches  during  "  that  most  famous  and  important 
siege."  Before  leaving  England,  as  a  special  mark  of  favour 
to  Ormonde,  William  had  received  in  person  the  address  from 
Oxford  University  on  the  death  of  Queen  Mary,  which  is  said 
to  have  caused  "  tears  to  stand  in  his  eyes,"||  and  had  held 
a  review  with  him,lf  and  on  his  arrival  in  the  Netherlands  he 
selected  Ormonde's  troop,  which  had  passed  the  winter  at 
Breda,  to  escort  him.**  During  the  progress  which  he  made  in 
England  that  autumn  William  visited  Oxford,  and  was  received 
by  Ormonde,  who  had  gone  there  on  the  preceding  day,  in 
extraordinary  state.  When  WilUam  drew  near  to  the  city 
he  was  met  by  Ormonde  at  the  head  of  a  cavalcade  of  doctors 
and  masters,  and  conducted  by  him  to  the  Theatre,  where 
WiUiam  was  observed  to  hold  much  discourse  with  him,  and 
accepted  from  him  specimens  of  the  books  printed  by  the 

University,  tt 

The  campaigns  of  1696  and  1697  gave  little  opportunity 
for  gaining  military  distinction,  and  as  soon  as  the  peace  of 
Ryswick  was  assured,  Ormonde  left  the  Netherlands.  In 
April,  1696,  he  had  been  appointed  a  member  of  the  Privy 
Council  of  England,  and  he  accompanied  that  year  WilUam 
both  on  his  journey  to  Holland  and  from  it. {J  In  the  winter 
he  was  present  at  the  debates  on  the  attainder  of  Sir  John 
Fenwick,  and  voted  against  the  admission  of  some  evidence, 
but  for  the  second  reading  of  the  bilL§§ 

Of  the  Ufe  of  the  Duchess  of  Ormonde  during  Ormonde's 
absences  from  England,  Dryden  wrote  : 

*  Life,  Lond.,  1747  ;    S.P.  Dom.,  Jan.  25  ;    Luttrell,  Jan.  30. 

t  Life,  iii,   438,   441-2. 

X  Luttrell,   Mar.    6. 

§  Campaign  of   1695,   dedication. 

II  Wood's  Life,  iii,   477. 

il  Luttrell,  Mar.  28. 

**  Arthur's  Household  Cavalry,  p.  282. 

tt  Wood's  Life,  iii,  494-6  ;    Add.  MSS.  28,879,  f.  289. 

tJ  Luttrell,  Ap.  11,  18;    Oct.  8;    S.P.  Dom.,  May  16, 

§§  James's  Letters,  i,    127,    134. 


xxvii 

All  is  your  lord's  alone,  e'en  absent  he 

Employs  the  care  of  chaste  Penelope  ; 

For  him  you  waste  in  tears  your  widow'd  hours, 

For  him  your  curious  needle  paints  the  flowers  ; 
and  elsewhere  her  character  has  ehcited  high  praise.*  Some 
letters  from  her  to  John  Ellis,  which  have  been  preserved, 
are  quite  in  accord  with  what  has  been  hitherto  known.  In 
the  first  of  these  letters,  which  is  dated  at  Badminton,  on 
August  22,  1691,  she  thanks  Elhs  for  letters  which  have  been 
"  a  great  diversion,"  as  she  hears  nothing  from  Flanders,  and 
fears  there  is  news  which  nobody  dares  to  send  her.  She 
has  "  ten  thousand  fancies,"  at  which  ElUs  will  not  be  sur- 
prised, as  he  knows  "  how  whimsical  she  is."  In  another 
letter,  which  was  written  on  May  22,  1692,  she  tells  EUis  that 
she  is  terribly  frightened,  as  she  hears  that  WilUam  and 
Prince  Vandemont  say  that  all  must  be  hazarded  before  Ath 
is  lost,  and  begs  Elhs  to  let  her  know  whether  he  thinks  a 
battle  is  imminent.  After  a  lapse  of  three  months,  on 
August  13,  she  writes  from  Bristol  thanking  him  for  an 
assurance  that  fighting  is  not  likely,  and  she  explains  that 
the  delay  in  sending  a  reply  has  been  due  to  an  accident  which 
happened  while  she  was  on  the  way  to  Bath,  and  which  has 
rendered  bone-setting  and  surgeons  necessary. f  The  battle 
of  Steinkirk  had  then  lately  taken  place,  and  there  was  a 
report  that  Ormonde  had  been  killed,  J  but  it  had  evidently 
not  reached  her  ears.  She  had  much  talent  for  business,  and 
refers  in  these  letters  to  the  office  of  high  bailiff  of  Westminster, 
which  was  then  vacant  and  in  Ormonde's  gift,  and  to  an  interest 
of  her  lord's  in  the  Irish  hnen  trade,  which  she  says  must 
not  suffer  through  his  absence. 

During  that  period  httle  of  Ormonde's  correspondence  has 
been  preserved. §  Some  letters  written  by  him  in  the  autumn 
of  1689  to  his  heutenant-colonel,  Lewis  BiUingsley,  and  to 
one  of  his  household,  Samuel  Douglas,  show  his  earnestness 
as  an  officer  and  the  great  attention  paid  by  him  to  his  troop 
both  in  regard  to  personnel  and  equipment.  In  that  year 
there  are  several  letters  from  Oxford.  In  May  the  Vice- 
Chancellor  writes  to  him  about  postponing  the  Act  and 
appointing  delegates  during  his  absence  from  England.  Other 
letters  concern  degrees,  including  one  conferred  on  George 
Walker  as  the  saviour  of  Londonderry,  and  the  appointment 
of  a  new  head  of  St.  Mary's  Hall.  By  Ormonde's  friend 
Aldrich,  the  successful  candidate  is  recommended  as  being 
hke  Ormonde  an  old  member  of  Christ  Church,  and  orator 
of  the  University,  in  which  capacity  he  would  address  Ormonde 
with  the  more  zeal  if  he  could  claim  him  as  his  benefactor. 

*  Memoirs,   Lond.,    1732. 

t  Add.  MSS.  28,927,  ff.  37,  71,  77.  Incorrect  years  have  been  inserted 
on  the  last  two  letters. 

X  Portland  Manuscripts,   iii,   495. 
§  Infra,  pp.  21-35. 


XXVUl 

In  the  next  year  Ormonde  was  obliged  to  intervene  in  a  dispute 
between  the  Master  of  Pembroke,  Dr.  John  Hall,  and  the 
Fellows,  which  originated  no  doubt  in  Hall's  Puritan  sym- 
pathies,* and  there  is  also  a  letter  from  Dr.  John  Hough,  the 
President  of  Magdalen,  who  had  been  his  grandfather's  chap- 
lain, promising  Ormonde  tolerable  claret  and  a  hearty  welcome 
if  he  came  to  Oxford.  In  addition  to  these  academic  letters, 
one  will  be  found  from  an  Irish  author,  George  Phihps,  who 
sends  Ormonde  his  "  Lex  ParUamentaria,"  of  which  a  copy 
is  now  not  known  to  exist. t  Amongst  other  correspondents 
there  appear  in  1694  Sir  Paul  Rycaut,  who  writes  from  Ham- 
biu-gh,  where  he  was  the  Enghsh  resident,  about  a  plantation 
of  Swiss  in  Ireland;  in  1695  the  Due  d'Elboeuf  who  writes 
from  Paris  about  an  exchange  of  horses  ;  and  in  1696  Brigadier- 
General  Wolseley,  who  had  been  for  a  short  time  a  Lord 
Justice  in  Ireland,  and  who  refers  to  his  suffering  from  the 
circulation  of  "  impudent  and  groundless  hes." 

Retrenchment,    1697 — 1701. 

During  these  years  in  the  field  Ormonde  had  kept  his  eyes 
steadily  fixed  on  the  office  of  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland. 
Apart  from  his  ambition  to  occupy  that  great  position,  the 
emoluments  were  a  consideration  to  him.  The  loss  of  revenue 
from  his  estates  as  a  consequence  of  the  rule  of  James  in 
Ireland  must  have  been  enormous,  and  a  diminished  income 
ill  accorded  with  his  expenditure.  At  the  time  that  it  was 
generally  expected  that  he  would  be  given  the  office  of  Lord 
Lieutenant,  the  Earl  of  Romney  was  appointed,  and  the  only 
compensation  Ormonde  received  was  his  commission  as  major- 
general,  which  entailed  expense  rather  than  brought  profit. 
It  was  reported  that  the  ground  on  which  he  sought  leave 
to  resign  his  commission  in  the  early  part  of  1693  was  the 
necessity  of  attending  to  his  estates,  and  in  the  summer  of 
that  year  he  complained  of  being  made  a  stalking  horse.  It 
had  then  become  proverbial  in  the  Court,  the  Earl  of  Ailesbury 
says,  J  that  to  employ  Ormonde  as  soHcitor  meant  failure, 
and  so  discontented  had  Ormonde  become  that  hopes  were 
formed  by  the  Jacobites  of  his  joining  them.     According  to 

*  In  a  letter  addressed  to  the  Master  and  Fellows  of  Pembroke  College, 
Ormonde  said  that  he  was  sorry  to  find  "  among  some  reasonable  pretences 
to  an  appeal,  so  many  unjust,  groundless,  and  injurious  complaints  against 
the  Master,"  that  he  was  fully  satisfied  of  the  Master's  "honesty,  integrity 
and  care  of  the  College  concerns,"  and  that  he  required  the  Fellows  to  repair 
the  public  injury  done  to  the  Master  by  a  respectful  and  obedient  behaviour 
for  the  future.  At  the  same  time  he  charged  the  Master  to  forget  all  injuries 
in  the  past,  and  to  admonish  the  Manciple  to  attend  at  the  beginning  of 
divine  service  and  receive  frequently  the  holy  communion.  Letters  from 
the  Fellows  tell  of  a  messenger  sent  a  hundred  miles  to  find  the  Master,  of 
his  being  surprised  coming  out  of  his  lodging,  and  of  his  disregard  of 
Ormonde's  commands. — Carte  Papers,  Ix,  70,  689,  691  ;    cxxxi,  238. 

t  Diet.  Nat.  Biog.,  xlv,   175. 

i  Memoirs,  p.  288.  The  passage  is  attributed  to  the  year  1691,  but  from 
a  reference  to  William's  forces  being  encamped  at  Park  near  Louvain,  it  is 
evident  that  it  has  reference  to  events  in  1693. 


XXIX 

the  Earl  of  Ailesbury,  on  his  return  to  England,  Ormonde 
mtended  to  renew  his  application  for  leave  to  resign  his  com- 
mission, but  was  dissuaded  by  his  sister.  Lady  Derby,  who 
was  groom  of  the  stole  to  Queen  Mary,  and  who  provided  him 
with  the  money  to  buy  his  equipage  for  the  campaign  of  the 
following  year.  Soon  after  Ormonde  had  been  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  lieutenant-general,  in  1695,  Lord  Romney  was 
removed,  and  Lord  Capel,  who  was  an  uncle  of  the  Duchess  of 
Ormonde's,  was  appointed  lord  deputy  in  his  place.  His 
death  occurred  a  year  later,  and  Ormonde's  hopes  of  being 
given  the  coveted  office  of  viceroy  revived.  At  the  time  he 
was  with  William  in  the  Netherlands,  and  spoke  of  his  ambition 
to  William,  who  gave  him  "  good  words,"  and  promised  not 
to  fill  the  office  until  he  returned  to  England.* 

Ormonde's  difficulties  in  managing  his  estates  were  great. 
His  grandfather  had  entrusted  the  management  entirely  to  his 
step-brother,  George  Mathew,  but  Mathew  had  died  at  Thomas- 
town  of  palsy  on  October  25,  1689,  and  his  son  had  taken  the 
side  of  James,  and  had  been  confined  in  the  summer  of  1691 
in  the  Tower  on  suspicion  of  compHcity  in  the  plot  against 
WilUam.f  Ormonde  had  therefore  been  obUged  to  make 
other  arrangements,  and  in  the  autumn  of  1691  he  had  consigned 
the  management  of  the  estates  to  five  commissioners,  of 
whom  Lord  Longford  was  the  chief. {  Their  proceedings  did 
not,  however,  give  Ormonde  satisfaction,  and  about  the  time 
that  he  wished  to  resign  his  commission,  he  superseded  them 
by  the  appointment  of  WiUiam  Worth,  an  ex-baron  of  the 
Exchequer,  giving  as  a  precedent  for  vesting  authority  in  one 
person  the  case  of  "  his  uncle  Mathew.  "§  To  Worth  there 
have  been  many  references  in  the  correspondence.  He  was 
the  son  of  an  Irish  bishop,  and  was  in  consequence  in  high 
favour  with  Primate  Boyle,  to  whom  he  owed  his  elevation 
to  the  bench,  where  he  proved  an  impartial  and  able  judge. 
Although  Tyrconnel  denounced  him,||  Worth  was  tolerant 
in  character,  and  one  of  the  superseded  commissioners  opined 
that  he  would  support  Ormonde's  agent,  Valentine  Smyth, 
who  was  said  to  discourage  Protestant  tenants.^  Worth 
proved  a  vigorous  administrator.  In  the  autumn  of  1695 
it  was  announced  that  bills  were  passing  in  the  Irish  parhament 
to  enable  Ormonde  to  sell  part  of  his  estates,**  and  in  the 
following  year  allusion  wiU  be  found  in  a  letter  from  George 
Mathew  the  younger  to  the  sale  of  Thurles,tt  and  in  a  letter 
from  Robert   Rochfort,   the  Speaker  of   the   Irish   House   of 

*  Add.  MSS.  28,927,  f.  57. 

t  Carte  Papers,  cxviii,  378  ;    Clarendon's  Diary,  pp.  312-13,  321. 

X  Add.  MSS.  28,877,  f.   164. 

§  Ihid,   28,878,  f.   81. 

II  Clarendon's  Diary,  passim. 

II  Add.  MSS.  28,878,  ff.  55,  74. 

**  Luttrell,  Sept.  14,  26  ;   S.P.  Dom.,  Oct.  23. 

tt  Infra,  p.  35. 


XXX 

Commons,  and  afterwards  Chief  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to 
the  renewal  of  a  patent  for  coining  small  money  in  Ormonde's 
favour.* 

With  a  view  to  retrenchment  and  to  popularity  in  Ireland, 
a  visit  by  Ormonde  and  his  Duchess  to  that  country  was  for 
some  time  in  contemplation, f  and  in  the  summer  of  1697 
the  Duchess  and  her  three  little  girls  J  arrived  at  Kilkenny. 
It  was  her  first  visit  to  Ireland,  and  she  wrote  in  great  dehght 
to  John  Ellis  on  her  arrival,  §  saying  that  she  had  never  seen 
a  finer  place  than  Kilkenny  Castle,  or  people  more  pleased 
than  the  Irish  were  at  her  coming  amongst  them.  Her  journey 
had  been  attended  by  more  than  one  contretemps :  delay  in 
obtaining  the  man-of-war  in  which  she  crossed,  her  own 
illness,  and  finally  a  west  wind  which  detained  her  for  a  fort- 
night at  the  waterside  and  for  ten  days  on  board  ship.  But 
all  was  forgotten  in  the  exuberant  welcome  accorded  to  her. 
She  crossed  from  Kingsweston  to  Waterford,  and  on  her  landing 
there  she  was  treated,  to  use  her  own  words,  as  if  she  had  been 
the  greatest  woman  in  the  world  by  the  civil,  ecclesiastical 
and  miHtary  power.  The  Lords  Justices,  to  whom  the  govern- 
ment was  then  entrusted,  gave  orders  that  the  same  honours 
were  to  be  paid  her  as  would  have  been  accorded  to  Ormonde, 
and  two  gentlemen  sent  by  them  to  convey  their  congratula- 
tions waited  upon  her  at  Kilkenny,  where  the  day  of  her  arrival 
was  described  "  as  one  of  jubilee,"  the  streets  being  strewed  with 
leaves  and  flowers  and  guns  and  bells  sounding  a  welcome. 
Her  own  progress  was  regal.  In  her  train  rode  bishops, 
noblemen,  and  gentlemen,  and  in  Bristol  the  citizens  stood  on 
tiptoe  to  see  her  cavalcade  pass,  attention  being  divided 
between  the  Duchess  and  her  coach -horses,  which  were  so 
famous  that  people  came  miles  to  see  them.|| 

Ormonde  arrived  in  England  at  the  end  of  August  from 
the  Netherlands,  and  in  October  he  set  out  to  join  the  Duchess 
at  Kilkenny,  crossing  from  Bideford  in  a  merchant  ship.^ 
His  stay  at  Kilkenny  was  but  brief,  and  early  in  November  he 
appeared  in  Dublin,  and  took  his  seat  in  the  House  of  Lords, 
which  was  then  assembled.**  But  excitement  was  wanting, 
and  after  attending  the  debates  for  a  few  days  he  set  out  for 
London,  leaving  his  proxy  to  be  used,  however,  to  the  dis- 
comfiture of  the  Whigs. ft  The  Duchess,  who  had  accompanied 
him  to  Dubhn,  remained  there  until  a  few  days  before  Christ- 
mas, when  she  returned  to  Kilkenny.  On  the  journey  she 
received  a  great  ovation.     On  leaving  Dublin  the  state  coaches 

♦  Infra,  p.  34. 
t  Add.  MSS.  28,879,  f.  88. 
J  One  of  them  did  not  survive  many  years. 

§  Add.  MSS.  28,927,  f.  161.     An  incorrect  year  has  been  supplied. 
II  Luttrell,  Ap.  22  ;  Add.  MSS.  28,881,  ff.    243,  254,  282,  295,    306,   324, 
331-2;    28,927,  ff.   67,   69. 

%  Infra,  p.  35;     Luttrell,  Aug.  14,  31,  Oct.  7  ;  Add,  MSS.  28,881,  f.  513, 
*♦  Journal  of  Irish  House  of  Lords. 
•ft  Buccletuih  Manuscripts,  ii,  683. 


XXXI 

of  the  Lords  Justices  and  the  Archbishop  of  DubUn  accom- 
panied her  for  some  miles  ;  on  the  route  officers  rode  beside 
her  coach  and  guards  were  mounted  in  the  towns,  and  on 
arriving  in  Kilkenny  the  corporation  met  her  "  in  their 
formalities,"  and  the  Recorder  made  a  speech  of  welcome, 
while  the  town  shone  with  illuminations  and  bonfires.* 

During  the  greater  part  of  the  year  1698  Ormonde  resided 
in  London.  The  Duchess  remained  at  Kilkenny,  but  novelty 
had  worn  off,  and  from  two  letters  which  she  wrote  at  that 
time  evidently  she  was  very  discontented,  f  Ormonde  did 
not  write  to  her,  Httle  news  reached  her,  and  her  only  resource 
was  riding  in  the  park,  which  she  did  every  day.f  Ormonde 
was  Hving  in  apartments  at  Whitehall,  which  he  had  inherited, 
and  his  great  mansion  in  St.  James's  Square  had  been  taken 
for  the  French  ambassador.  Count  Tallard,  with  whom  he  was 
on  terms  of  much  friendship. §  After  many  postponements 
he  joined  in  August  the  Duchess  at  Kilkenny,  and  remained 
in  Ireland  until  November.  ||  In  October  he  appeared  on  one 
day  in  the  Irish  House  of  Lords,  which  was  then  again  sitting, 
and  his  visit  proved  once  more  a  signal  of  trouble  for  the 
Whigs.1l 

In  the  opening  months  of  1699  it  became  known  that  a 
change  had  come  in  Ormonde's  relations  with  WiUiam.  It 
was  popularly  attributed  to  his  disHke  of  the  Dutch,  but  it 
is  improbable  in  view  of  his  own  descent  that  he  had  any 
aversion  to  them,  and  he  does  not  display  any  sign  of  it  in 
his  correspondence.  But  he  was  undoubtedly  extremely 
jealous  of  his  position,  and  saw  every  day  William's  Dutch 
favourites  preferred  before  him.  A  year  before  it  had  been 
rumoured  that  Lord  Romney  was  to  be  Lord  Chamberlain, 
that  Ormonde  was  to  have  his  regiment  of  foot  guards,  and 
that  Lord  Albemarle  was  to  have  Ormonde's  troop  of  life 
guards.**  The  ground  for  the  rumour  was  not  due  to  Wilham's 
anxiety  to  promote  Ormonde,  but  to  his  anxiety  to  provide  a 
command  for  Albemarle,  and  in  the  beginning  of  1699  Ormonde 
had,  no  doubt,  intimation  of  the  possibility  of  this  being 
effected  with  disadvantage  to  himself.  On  February  24  it 
was  announced  that  he  had  resigned  his  place  in  the  bedchamber 
and  the  reason  became  apparent  on  March  16,  when  William 
introduced  Albemarle  to  the  first  troop  of  hfe  guards  as  their 
colonel. ft  Ormonde  considered  that  position  his  right,  and 
on  April  11  it  was  announced  that  he  had  laid  down  his  com- 
mand of  the   second  troop,   "  being    resolved  to  travel  that 

*  Add.  MSS.  28,881,  f.   604. 

t  These  letters  will  be  found  under  the  dates  Feb.  12  and   May  5,  1704, 
the  year  having  been  incorrectly  supplied. 
J  Add.  MSS.  28,882,  ff.  10,   177. 
§  Luttrell,  passim. 

W  Add.  MSS.  28,883,  ff.  3,  87,  92,  99,  251. 
^  Buccleicch  Manuscripts,  ii,   617t 
**  Luttrell,  Jan.    15,    1698, 
tt  Lut;trell, 


xxxu 

summer  in  Italy."*  In  the  heated  poUtical  atmosphere  of 
that  time  the  matter  became  serious.  Fifty  members  of  the 
House  of  Commons  expressed  sympathy  with  Ormonde,t 
and  iU  consequences  were  apprehended.}  Wilham  had  not 
been  bUnd  to  the  possibiHty  of  trouble,  and  had  tried  to 
concihate  Ormonde  by  appointing  his  brother,  Lord  Arran, 
to  his  place  in  the  bedchamber,  and  by  throwing  out  a  sug- 
gestion of  appointing  his  brother-in-law,  the  Earl  of  Grantham,§ 
as  his  successor  in  command  of  the  second  troop. ||  But 
more  direct  measures  had  to  be  taken  to  allay  the  discontent, 
and  WiUiam  sent  for  Ormonde  and  asked  him  how  he  could 
expect  the  command  of  the  first  troop  when  he  had  not  appUed 
for  it,  to  which  Ormonde  rephed  that  he  thought  if  any  privi- 
lege was  annexed  to  the  command  he  might  have  been  given 
the  command  without  asking  for  it.  Finally  an  old  order 
made  by  WiUiam  for  the  benefit  of  his  Dutch  favourites  was 
unearthed,  which  provided  that  officers  were  to  take  rank 
by  the  dates  of  their  commissions  and  not  by  their  corps,  and 
a  compromise  was  effected,  by  which  Albemarle  retained  the 
first  troop,  but  Ormonde  took  command  when  the  three 
troops  were  combined.^ 

During  the  session  of  1698-99  Ormonde  was  a  constant 
attendant  in  the  House  of  Lords,  and,  like  Marlborough,  he 
voted  in  favour  of  a  compromise  with  WiUiam  on  the  question 
of  the  retention  of  the  Dutch  guards,  although  the  division 
took  place  only  a  few  days  after  his  resignation  of  his  place 
in  the  bedchamber.**  The  Duchess  returned  from  Ireland 
in  May,tt  ^^^  Ormonde  spent  the  remainder  of  that  year  in 
England,  acting  in  August  as  chief  of  a  commission  to  prorogue 
parliament. J}  In  that  month  it  was  ordered  that  the  life 
guards  were  to  be  clothed  more  sumptuously,  and  as  a  dehcate 
comphment  to  Ormonde  the  second  troop  was  to  have  green 
hat  feathers. §§ 

The  year  1700  was  spent  by  Ormonde  again  in  England, 
and  during  the  session  of  1699 — 1700  he  was  assiduous  in 
attending  the  House  of  Lords.  While  the  bill  deahng  with 
the  Irish  forfeitures  was  before  the  House  of  Commons,  his 
friends  endeavoured  to  have  the  forfeited  lands  in  his  palatinate 
reserved  to  him,  and  were  successful  in  obtaining  his  exemption 
from  the  payment  of  debts  which  he  had  owed  to  forfeiting 
persons  and  now  owed  to  the  Crown.  ||||     In  September  the 

*  Luttrell. 

t  Diet.  Nat.   Biog.,  viii,   62. 

%  James' 8  Letters,  ii,  274  ;  Portland  Mamiscripts,  iii,  604 ;  Bath  ManU' 
scripts,  iii,  338. 

§  Ormonde's  sister  Henrietta  had  married  in  1697  her  kinsman,  Henry 
d'Auverquerque,  who  was  created  in  1698  Earl  of  Grantham. 

II  Luttrell,   Feb.   4,   April   11. 

^  Leybome-Popham  Manicscripts,  p.  275. 

**  House  of  Lords'  Journal,  Feb.  8. 

tt  Add.  MSS.  28,884,  f.   13. 

%X  Hou^e  of  Lords'  Journal. 

§§  Luttrell,  Aug.  10,  12.  ||[]  James's  Letters,  iii,   1. 


xxxm 

three  troops  of  life  guards  were  mustered  before  him,  and  the 
son  of  the  Due  de  Duras,  who  was  present,  declared  that  they 
were  finer  than  those  of  his  own  country.* 

Worth's  policy  in  managing  Ormonde's  estates  was  not 
altogether  as  successful  as  could  be  wished,  and  about  the 
time  that  Ormonde  visited  Ireland  in  1697  he  reconstituted 
the  commission,  and  associated  with  Worth  Sir  Richard  Cox 
and  two  others.f  Of  the  members.  Sir  Richard  Cox,  then 
one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Common  Pleas,  took  the  lead,  and 
from  that  time  he  is  prominent  in  all  that  concerned  Ormonde's 
private  affairs.  This  able  Irishman,  who  trod  the  varied 
paths  of  a  lawyer,  a  soldier,  a  statesman,  and  an  historian, 
had  no  doubt  become  known  to  Ormonde  when  he  was  in 
Ireland  with  William,  and  had  subsequently  been  kept  in 
Ormonde's  memory  by  becoming  one  of  his  tenants. |  There 
are  several  letters  from  him  in  the  correspondence  of  that 
period§  relating  principally  to  the  management  of  Ormonde's 
estates,  and  especially  to  the  sale  of  Arklow,  which  then  passed 
from  Ormonde  to  the  first  Viscount  Allen,  an  ancestor  in 
the  female  line  of  the  late  Earl  of  Carysfort.  In  one  of  the 
letters  Cox  thanks  Ormonde  for  the  finest  present  of  burgundy 
ever  sent  into  Ireland,  and  tells  him  of  having  named  after 
him  one  of  his  sons,  his  twenty-first  child,  for  Cox's  quiver 
was  an  overflowing  one.  He  was  also  the  recommender  of  the 
successful  candidate  for  a  vacancy  in  the  provostship  of 
Trinity  College,  Dublin,  Dr.  Peter  Browne,  who  became 
celebrated  when  Bishop  of  Cork  for  his  opposition  to  the 
practice  of  drinking  to  WiUiam's  memory.  From  Browne 
himself  there  is  also  a  letter  applying  for  the  provostship, 
which  was  written  several  weeks  before  his  predecessor  died. 

The  letters  written  by  the  Duchess  of  Ormonde  from 
Kilkenny  are  addressed  to  Benjamin  Portlock,  who  had 
succeeded  Henry  Gascoigne  in  1693  as  Ormonde's  secretary. 
There  is  also  a  letter  from  Matthew  Prior  addressed  to  him. 
As  Portlock  had  been  a  Fellow  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge, 
he  had  probably  been  known  to  Prior  in  his  college  days,  and 
he  was  a  man  after  his  own  heart,  an  entertaining  friend  and 
jovial  companion.  Of  the  remaining  letters  one  is  from  the 
Mayor  of  Exeter,  through  which  city  Ormonde  had  passed  in 
1697  when  going  to  Ireland,  and  of  which  he  had  then  been 
appointed  high  steward.  ||  Another  is  from  Ormonde's  nephew, 
the  only  son  of  Lord  Derby,  who  died  in  the  following  year,  and  a 
third  is  from  General  Langston,  who  had  been  a  fellow-prisoner  of 
Ormonde's  at  Namur,  and  now  held  a  command  in  Ireland.  T[ 

*  Luttrell,  Sept.  3.  t  ^dd.  MSS.   28,881,   f.   439. 

t  Ibid,  28,877,  ff.  215,  265.  §  Infra,  pp.   35-8. 

II  Add.  MSS.  28,881,  f.   12. 

il  About  that  time  an  "  Establishment  for  the  Duke  and  Duchess  of 
Ormonde,"  while  living  in  St.  James's  Square,  was  drawn  up.  It  provided 
for  forty-one  servants,  twenty-five  men  and  sixteen  women,  in  the  house, 
a  gentleman  of  the  horse  and  ten  men  in  the  stables,  with  twenty  horses  and 
five  coaches  in  their  charge,  a  chasseur  with  the  care  of  fourteen  dogs,  two 
chairmen,  and  seventeen  watennen.     Add,  MSS.  22,267,  f.  68. 

Wt.  43482.  <? 


XXXIV 

Cadiz    and    Vigo,    1701—1702. 

When  Marlborough  was  appointed  in  1701  commander-in- 
chief  of  the  forces  in  Holland  he  had,  in  the  opinion  of 
Lord  Wolseley,*  a  formidable  rival  in  Ormonde,  the  question 
resolving  itself  into  one  of  the  soldier  of  genius  versus  the 
man  of  high  rank,  and  Ormonde  was  beUeved  by  his  contem- 
poraries to  have  himself  expected  that  command.f  But  he 
showed  no  chagrin,  although  in  addition  he  had  seen  the 
Irish  viceroy alty  once  more  given  away  from  him,  to  his 
father-in-law,  the  Earl  of  Rochester,  and  no  doubt  he  had 
received  a  hint  that  some  other  high  command  would  be  given 
to  him.  In  August  it  was  reported  that  he  had  prepared  a 
miHtary  equipage,}  and  he  was  present  at  the  launch  of  the 
Sovereign,^  which  was  the  leading  ship  in  the  Cadiz  fleet ;  and 
in  November  he  headed  a  deputation  from  Westminster  to 
WiUiam,  and  presented  him  with  an  address  signed  by  ten 
thousand  persons  in  favour  of  the  war.|| 

The  year  1702  opened  with  every  hope  of  his  obtaining 
military  distinction,  but  the  hope  was  not  fulfilled.  For  the 
failure  of  the  expedition  to  Cadiz,  which  the  success  at  Vigo 
cannot  be  said  to  have  redeemed,  search  has  been  made 
for  a  scapegoat,  and  blame  has  fallen  upon  Ormonde,  but 
sight  has  been  lost  of  many  untoward  circumstances,  over 
which  he  had  no  control,  i.e.  the  fact  that  the  departure  of  the 
expedition  was  delayed  by  adverse  winds,  that  Admiral  Rooke, 
who  was  disabled  by  gout,  was  consumed  with  anxiety  about 
"  the  great  ships,"  which  he  had  not  wished  to  bring,  and 
longed  to  see  safe  once  more  in  an  Enghsh  port,^  that  the 
generals  under  Ormonde  were  not  faithful  to  him,  and  that 
want  of  cavalry  crippled  the  operations.**  It  has  been  said 
that  if  WilHam  had  lived,  the  command  of  the  troops  would 
not  have  been  given  to  Ormonde,  but  the  command  had  been 
entrusted  to  him  by  WiUiam  long  before  his  last  illness.  On 
January  27  it  was  "  the  discourse  of  the  town  "  that  Ormonde 
was  to  have  the  command  of  a  force  of  ten  thousand  EngUsh 
and  six  thousand  Dutch  troops,  with  the  object  of  making 
descents,  as  was  then  supposed,  on  the  French  coasts,  and 
a  week  later  it  was  said  that  he  had  invited  French  refugee 
officers  to  join  the  expedition. ft  In  addition,  a  letter  in  this 
volume  shows  that  before  William's  death  Ormonde  had 
communicated  his  appointment  to  his  friend  Sir  Richard 
Cox.tt 


*  Life  of  Marlborough,  ii,    387. 

t  James's  Letters,  iii,    147. 

i  Luttrell,  Aug.  2. 

§  Infra,  p.   41. 

II  Luttrell,  Nov.  13. 

if  Add.  MSS.  28,925,  passim. 

**  Life,  Lond.,   1747,  p.  258. 

tt  Luttrell. 

^t  Infra,  p.  42  ;    cf.  Life,  Lond.,   1747,  p.  234, 


XXXV 

In  the  beginning  of  March  the  death  of  William  took  place, 
Ormonde  being  one  of  the  few  Englishmen  admitted  to  see 
him  when  he  was  dying.  It  was  a  few  days  later  reported 
that  he  had  discovered  that  his  appointment  was  due  to  the 
desire  of  the  Whigs  to  get  rid  of  one  who  was  looked  upon 
as  chief  of  the  rising  church  party,  and  that  if  he  could  do 
so  in  honour,  he  would  withdraw  from  his  command.*  But 
no  delay  was  perceptible,  and  a  fortnight  after  William's 
death  he  submitted  to  Anne  in  Council  his  requirements.! 
On  March  24  he  was  given  a  commission  as  general  of  horse ; 
on  April  4  it  was  known  that  an  encampment  for  the  troops 
was  being  prepared  on  the  Isle  of  Wight  ;|  on  April  12  he 
was  appointed  commander-in-chief  of  the  forces  to  be 
employed  on  the  fleet ;  and  on  May  19  the  troops  were  assembling 
in  the  Isle  of  Wight.§  On  June  1  Ormonde  went  thither, 
rooms  being  prepared  for  him  in  Carrisbrook  Castle,  ||  and 
Prince  George  joined  him  there  and  held  a  review.^  How 
far  Ormonde  was  given  freedom  to  select  his  staff  is  not  known. 
On  March  26  he  asked  for  two  major-generals  and  four 
brigadiers,  and  on  April  4  report  said  that  he  was  to  have  a 
lieutenant-general  and  a  major-general  and  eight  brigadiers.** 
For  the  first  places  Lord  Portmore  and  Sir  Charles  O'Hara, 
afterwards  Lord  Tjrrawley,  were  named,  and  it  is  probable 
that  they  were  his  own  selection,  for  the  former  was  a  personal 
friend,  and  the  latter  had  been  appointed  by  him  ten  years 
before  as  high  bailiff  of  Westminster,  and  had  been  connected 
with  his  father.  But  ultimately  the  generals  under  him  were 
a  lieutenant-general,  two  major-generals,  and  three  brigadiers 
for  the  English  troops,  and  a  major-general  and  a  brigadier 
for  the  Dutch  troops. ft  As  lieutenant-general.  Sir  Henry 
Bellasyse,  who  seems  to  have  had  no  connection  with  Ormonde, 
was  appointed,  and  Portmore  and  O'Hara  served  as  major- 
generals.  Before  the  expedition  left  England,  John  Ellis 
foresaw  that  some  of  Ormonde's  staff  would  give  him  trouble, 
and  as  a  correspondent  wrote  to  him  "  those  gentlemen  "  soon 
proved  that  they  valued  their  private  interest  before  the 
public  good.  J { 

Before  June  18  the  troops  from  the  Isle  of  Wight  had 
embarked,  but  it  was  not  until  July  26  that  the  fleet  was 
able  to  leave  the  EngHsh  coast,  and  in  consequence  of  further 
delay,  waiting  for  some  of  the  ships  off  the  Portuguese  coast, 
it  was  not  until  August  12  that  the  fleet  arrived  before  Cadiz. §§ 
The  plan  of  campaign  rested  with  a  council  composed  of  the 

*  Egmont  Manuscripts,  i,   207. 

t  S.P.  Dom.,  Mar.  23,  26. 

X  Luttrell. 

§  Ibid. 

II  Infra,  p.   43. 

If  Ufe,  Lond.,  1747,  p.  236. 

**  Luttrell. 

tt  Pamell's  War  of  the  Succession,  p.  21.  %%  Add.  MSS.  28,  926,  f.  148. 

§§  Transactions  of  the  Cfrand  Fleet,  Lond.,  1703  ;  Add.  MSS.  28,925,  f.  69. 


XXXVl 

admirals  and  generals.  When  the  council  met,  a  direct 
assault  upon  Cadiz  was  proposed  by  Ormonde,  but  although 
he  carried  with  him  half  the  admirals,*  the  English  generals 
voted  against  him,  and  his  proposal  was  defeated.  If  opposi- 
tion to  him  had  ended  in  the  council,  he  would  not  have  had 
much  reason  to  expect  sympathy,  but  in  contravention  of 
express  orders  issued  by  him,  "  the  two  Knights,"  as  he  calls 
Bellasyse  and  0'Hara,t  did  nothing  to  prevent  the  plundering 
of  Port  St.  Mary,  which  proved  so  injurious  to  the  cause  of 
the  House  of  Austria,  and  Bellasyse  was  found  guilty  of 
participation  and  cashiered.  Owing  to  the  resistance  offered 
to  him,  and  the  failure  of  his  own  battery  at  Matagorda, 
Ormonde  was  obliged  to  relinquish  his  operations,  but,  as 
soon  as  the  troops  had  re-embarked,  he  proposed  that  another 
descent  should  be  made  elsewhere,  with  the  object  of  obtaining 
quarters  in  which  the  troops  might  remain  for  the  winter. 
He  was  again  deserted  by  the  EngUsh  generals,  and  was  only 
supported  by  the  two  Dutch  generals.  Although  in  the 
success  of  the  attack  on  the  Spanish  ships  at  Vigo,  Rooke 
gave  Ormonde  credit  for  a  great  share,}  an  inquiry  was 
instituted  at  Ormonde's  instigation  by  the  House  of  Lords 
into  Rooke's  conduct.  Ormonde's  allegation  appears  to  have 
been  that  if  Rooke  had  been  as  anxious  for  success  at  Cadiz 
as  he  was  at  Vigo,  the  result  would  have  been  different, §  and 
Godolphin  did  all  in  his  power  to  dissuade  Ormonde  from 
pressing  a  charge  that  was  difficult  to  prove  and  almost  certain 
to  end,  as  it  did,  in  Rooke's  triumphant  acquittal. || 

The  success  at  Vigo  was  one  calculated  to  appeal  to  the 
populace,  and  Ormonde,  who  was  ever  their  darling,  was 
made  the  hero.  On  the  occasion  of  the  thanksgiving,  he  is 
said  to  have  been  more  applauded  than  any  subject  had  ever 
been  before,^  and  in  an  illumination  his  name  was  placed 
before  the  names  of  Marlborough  and  Rooke  as  "  general  of 
the  victorious  fleet."**  A  ballad  was  issued  with  the  heading 
"  The  Vigo  Victory,  or  the  Happy  Success  of  the  Duke  of 
Ormonde  in  the  taking  of  several  French  Men  of  War  and 
Galleons,  together  with  much  Plate,  which  crowns  him  with 
Immortal  Fame  and  Glory,"  and  in  his  dedication  of  "  The  Lying 
Lover "  to  Ormonde,  Steele  speaks  of  the  most  memorable 
advantage  the  country  had  gained  in  the  first  four  years  of 
the  eighteenth  century  as  being  obtained  under  Ormonde's 
command.  Even  the  grave  Dr.  Charlett  likened  Ormonde 
to  Drake,  and  compared  the  victory  to  that  over  the  Armada. ff 

*  House  of  Lords*  Journal,  1702-3,  p.  286.  Rooke  is  said  to  have  been 
one. 

t  Add.  MSS.  28,926,  f.   157. 

X  House  of  Lords'  Journal,  1702-3,  p.  283. 

§  Ihid,  p.  292. 

II  Portland  Manuscripts,  iv,  61. 

If  Noble's  Biog.  Hist.,  ii,  34. 

**  Ufe,  Lond.,    1747,   p.   287. 

tt  Add,  MSS,  28,889,  f.  384. 


XXXVll 

The  coiTespondence  of  these  two  years  is  almost  entirely 
concerned  with  the  expedition.*  Before  Ormonde  left 
England,  the  Secretaries  of  State,  the  Earl  of  Nottingham  and 
Sir  Charles  Hedges,  wrote  to  him  explaining  the  part  to  be 
taken  by  Prince  George  of  Hesse-Darmstadt,  who  had  been 
sent  to  England  by  the  Emperor,  and  is  supposed  to  have 
suggested  the  descent  upon  Cadiz,  and  informing  him  of 
instructions  sent  to  Rooke.  These  letters  are  followed  by 
one,  dated  at  sea  on  August  8,  from  the  Prince,  giving  reasons 
for  his  leaving  Lisbon,  where  he  had  gone,  and  for  his  following 
Ormonde  to  Cadiz.  During  the  period  of  the  operations 
there  will  be  found  a  letter,  dated  August  24,  from  three  of 
the  admirals  about  arrangements  for  transporting  the  troops 
by  boats  to  Matagorda  ;  a  letter,  dated  two  days  later,  from 
Ormonde,  asking  Rooke  to  delay  sending  despatches  to 
England  until  it  was  seen  if  the  attack  on  Matagorda  would 
enable  one  on  Cadiz  ;  a  letter,  dated  September  9,  from  the 
Prince,  asking  Ormonde  to  remain  in  Spain  for  the  winter  ; 
a  letter,  dated  September  10,  from  Rooke  about  re-embarking 
the  troops  ;  a  letter,  dated  September  16,  from  Sir  Charles 
Hedges,  acknowledging  a  despatch  from  Ormonde  and  giving 
Anne's  views  upon  it  ;  and  a  letter,  dated  on  the  same  day 
at  Lisbon,  from  John  Methuen,  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland  and 
special  envoy  to  the  King  of  Portugal,  assuring  Ormonde  of 
every  assistance.  In  addition  there  will  be  found  a  letter, 
dated  September  20,  from  the  Earl  of  Nottingham,  apologising 
for  not  having  notified  Ormonde  of  the  instructions  sent  to 
Rooke,  although  Hedges  had  done  so  ;  a  letter,  dated  on 
October  5  at  Lisbon,  from  Methuen,  written  under  the  im- 
pression that  news  of  the  Spanish  ships  being  at  Vigo  had  not 
reached  the  fleet,  and  expressing  his  satisfaction  that  this  was 
the  case,  as  the  place  was  believed  to  be  strongly  fortified  and 
the  treasure  had  been  carried  off  ;  and  finally  a  letter,  dated 
on  October  14  at  Lisbon,  from  an  officer,  who  attributes  the 
ill  conduct  at  Port  St.  Mary  to  Irish  soldiers  in  league  with  the 
French. 

The  only  other  subject  of  importance  touched  on  in  the 
correspondence  is  Ormonde's  own  business.  In  the  summer 
of  1701  he  issued  a  new  commission  for  the  management  of  his 
estates,  re-appointing  the  former  four  commissioners,  and 
adding  to  them  Francis  Annesley,  one  of  the  trustees  for  the 
forfeited  estates.  The  chief  correspondent  amongst  the 
commissioners  is  Worth,  who  made  friends  for  himself  by 
distributing  the  Kilkenny  venison,  and  was  much  disconcerted 
by  a  general  order  to  kill  the  deer  given  by  Ormonde  to  the 
Earl  of  Meath.  Another  correspondent  is  Annesley,  who 
gives  information  as  to  the  proceedings  of  the  trustees,  and 
as  to  the  feehng  in  Ireland  towards  Lord  Rochester.  It  is 
addressed  to   Simon   Harcourt,   the  future   Lord   Chancellor 

*  Infra,  pp.   38-45. 


Xkxvui 

and  Viscount.  He  was  much  engaged  about  Ormonde's 
affairs  and  on  terms  of  intimacy  with  him,  as  appears  from 
his  invitation  in  the  summer  of  1701  to  Harley,  then  Speaker 
of  the  House  of  Commons,  to  meet  Ormonde  at  dinner,  the 
only  other  guests  being  Charles  Davenant  and  *'  his  chum,"  who 
was  possibly  Jonathan  Swift.* 

His    Fibst    Viceroyalty,    1703-1707. 

The  inquiry  by  the  House  of  Lords  into  Rooke's  conduct 
extended  into  the  beginning  of  the  year  1703,  and  before  it 
had  concluded,  by  patent  dated  February  19,  Anne  conferred 
on  Ormonde  the  office  of  Lord-Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  which 
had  been  so  long  the  object  of  his  ambition,  and  which  had 
become  vacant  through  Lord  Rochester's  disinclination  to 
reside  in  Ireland.  It  was  evidently  intended  that  Ormonde 
was  to  live  there,  but  as  events  proved  he  spent  only  a  third 
of  the  time,  for  which  he  held  the  sword,  in  that  country.  He 
set  out  for  it  in  the  middle  of  May,  attended,  after  the  manner 
of  his  grandfather,  by  an  immense  train,  and  accompanied 
out  of  London  for  some  miles  by  "  many  of  the  nobihty  and 
gentry  and  over  two  thousand  of  inferior  rank."  The  size 
of  his  train  made  progress  very  slow,t  and  when  Chester  was 
reached,  with  characteristic  impatience,  Ormonde  broke  away 
from  his  retinue,  and  crossed  by  a  route  other  than  was 
intended,  leaving  champagne  which  had  been  provided  for 
him  on  the  yacht  to  be  consumed  by  others. J 

In  the  months  that  followed  Ormonde  had  much  opportunity 
of  showing  his  capacity  as  a  statesman.  The  first  session  of 
Anne's  Irish  parliament  has  been  described  as  "  the  most 
eventful  in  the  country's  history,"§  and  on  his  arrival  Ormonde 
was  confronted  with  the  task  of  assimilating  EngUsh  wishes 
with  Irish  ideas  in  regard  to  the  proposed  legislation.  But 
the  calm  of  the  council  chamber  did  not  satisfy  his  restless 
temperament.  In  July  he  made  a  progress  lasting  for  three 
weeks  through  the  south  of  Ireland  to  view  the  defences  of 
the  country,  II  on  his  return  from  which  he  submitted  for  a  day 
and  night  to  civic  hospitahty,!}  and  subsequently  he  went  to 
Kilkenny,**  whence  he  returned  in  time  to  open  parhament 
on  September  21  with  much  state  and  splendour,  tt 

The  House  of  Commons  proved  most  obstreperous.  A 
difference  in  the  opinion  of  gentlemen  before  election  and  after 
soon  became  perceptible,  and,  notwithstanding  a  generous 
expenditure  of  claret  and  arguments  on  the  part  of  Ormonde 
and  his  friends,}^  a  very  strong  opposition  to  the  Tory  or 

*  Portland  Manicscripta,  iv,  18. 

t  Life,  Lond.,   1747;    Add.  MSS.  28,890,  fE.  246-50. 

%  Infra,   p.    46. 

§  Froude's  English  in  Ireland,  i,  326. 

[|  Add.  MSS.  28,932,  £E.  71-7. 

t  Life,   Lond.,    1747. 

**  Add.  MSS.  28,932,  ff.   35,  83. 

tt  Life,  L5)nd.,   1747.  JJ  Add.  MSS.  28,891,  f.  72. 


I 


XXXIX 

Castle  party  was  formed.  Its  strength  was  in  the  largest 
degree  due  to  its  finding  in  the  Speaker  of  the  House  its  leader. 
To  the  chair  Alan  Brodrick,  who  was  then  the  Sohcitor- 
General,  had  been  elected  without  a  contest,  as  Ormonde 
was  anxious  to  propitiate  the  Whigs,  and  had  asked  the 
Attorney  General,  Robert  Rochfort,  the  previous  Speaker, 
who  was  a  Tory,  to  retire  in  Brodrick's  favour,*  but  from 
the  moment  of  his  election  Brodrick  used  his  position  and 
abihty  for  the  exclusive  benefit  of  his  own  party.  The  great 
trial  of  strength  was  the  number  of  years  for  which  supply 
was  to  be  voted.  The  Government  wished  it  voted  for  as  many 
as  possible,  to  postpone  the  necessity  for  another  session  ; 
the  Whigs  desired  to  vote  it  for  as  short  a  time  as  possible, 
in  order  to  be  able  to  bring  pressure  on  the  Government  to 
redress  the  grievances  under  which  as  they  alleged  the  country 
groaned.  In  the  end,  in  a  committee  of  the  whole  House, 
from  which  only  some  fifty  members  were  absent,  the  Castle 
party  succeeded  in  carrying  supply  for  two  years  by  three 
votes. t  As  the  debate  was  in  committee  the  Speaker  was  able 
to  take  part,  and  by  his  influence  rendered  it  impossible  for 
Ormonde  to  obtain  supply  for  three  years,  as  he  had  hoped. f 
Both  Lord  Godolphin  and  Lord  Rochester  wrote  to  congratulate 
Ormonde  on  what  they  considered  a  victory  for  him  and  a 
matter  of  the  utmost  importance  to  the  country. § 

Besides  supply,  the  penal  laws  and  a  representation  of  the 
state  of  the  country,  which  was  accompanied  by  a  request 
for  union  with  England,  were  the  chief  business  of  the  session, 
but  some  personal  questions  aroused,  as  always  in  Ireland, 
extreme  heat.  In  two  cases  the  persons  involved  were 
identified  with  Ormonde  as  commissioners  for  the  manage- 
ment of  his  estates.  In  the  first  case,  Francis  Annesley  was 
accused  of  being  the  author  of  an  allegation  that  the  free- 
holders of  Ireland  were  not  to  be  trusted  to  find  anyone  guilty 
of  rebellion,  and  on  such  evidence  as  common  fame  afforded 
he  was  expelled  from  the  House.  Although  in  the  opinion  of 
Ormonde's  chief  secretary,  Annesley  was  not  proved  to  have 
been  author  of  the  words,  the  country  gentlemen  were  so 
offended  that  Ormonde  was  unable  to  interfere  for  his  friend, 
and  Annesley 's  expulsion  was  carried  by  seventy -two  votes.  || 
In  the  second  case.  Sir  Wilham  Robinson,  the  deputy  vice- 
treasurer  of  Ireland,  who  had  been  appointed  one  of  Ormonde's 
commissioners  at  the  same  time  as  Sir  Richard  Cox,  was 
accused  of  concealing  a  balance  to  the  credit  of  the  nation. 
He  was  only  saved  from  Annesley's  fate  by  six  votes,  and  was 
committed    to    the    castle    nemine    contradicente.^    Although 


*  Add.  MSS.  28,891,  f.   129. 

t  Ibid,  ff.    137-9. 

j  Jameses  Letters,  iii,  238. 

§  Infra,   p.    48. 

II  Add.  MSS.  28,891,  f.   104. 

^  Ibid,  f.   139. 


the  temper  of  the  House  is  said  to  have  afterwards  improved,* 
it  must  have  been  with  no  ordinary  sense  of  rehef  that  Ormonde 
was  able  at  the  end  of  November  to  adjourn  ParUament  for 
a  short  time,  and  to  go  to  Kilkenny  for  Christmas.f 

In  the  opinion  of  Ormonde's  chaplain,  Welbore  Elhs,  after- 
wards successively  Bishop  of  Kildare  and  Meath,  the  debates 
would  not  have  run  so  high  if  the  management  had  been 
better,  J  and  one  of  the  permanent  officials  says  that  the 
difficulty  about  supply  was  caused  by  too  much  eagerness  on 
the  part  of  the  Castle  party. §  For  the  management  the 
Chief  Secretary  was  mainly  responsible,  and  in  that  capacity 
Ormonde  had  brought  Sir  Robert  Southwell's  son,  Edward 
Southwell,  whose  marriage  took  place  in  the  castle  during 
a  lull  in  the  parUamentary  proceedings.  ||  He  was  a  man  of 
no  mean  ability,  and  stood  to  Ormonde  in  much  the  same 
relation  as  his  father  did  to  Ormonde's  grandfather.  In 
addition  to  Southwell,  Ormonde's  personal  secretary,  Benjamin 
Portlock,  had  a  seat  in  the  House  of  Commons  for  Ormonde's 
pocket  borough  of  Inistiogue.  He  had  become  indispensable, 
and  at  Ormonde's  request  the  University  of  Oxford  had 
conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  a  doctor  of  civil  law  before  he 
left  England  with  Ormonde  on  the  Cadiz  expedition.  In  the 
correspondence  of  that  year  there  is  an  amusing  letter  to 
him  from  a  Kilkenny  clergyman,  who  welcomes  his  advent 
"  full  freighted  with  pistoles  and  cobs"  to  be  melted  amongst 
his  Irish  friends,  and  who  promises  to  have  his  little  parlour 
"  well  furnished  with  jests  of  the  newest  edition.^f 

As  Parhament  had  only  been  adjourned  to  January, 
Ormonde  returned  to  Dublin  from  Kilkenny,  where  he  is  said 
to  have  been  well  diverted,  a  few  days  after  the  year  1704 
opened,**  but  when  Parhament  assembled  the  bills  which 
had  been  sent  over  to  the  English  Privy  Council  had  not 
come  back,  and  a  further  adjournment  to  February  was 
necessary.  Meantime  Convocation  met  in  Dubhn  for  the 
first  time  for  many  years,  a  boon  which  it  owed  to  Ormonde, ft 
and  the  Queen's  birthday  was  observed  with  such  celebrations 
as  had  been  hitherto  unknown  in  Dubhn.  It  fell  on  a  Sunday, 
and  Ormonde  went  in  state  to  Christ  Church,  where  a  sermon 
was  preached  by  the  Bishop  of  Down,  and  Purcell's  Te  Deum 
was  sung,  and  on  his  return  to  the  castle  gave  an  entertain- 
ment, at  which  he  proposed  the  toast  of  the  Queen  while  the 
great  guns  boomed  and  the  soldiers  fired  three  volleys  from 
their  muskets.     The  next  evening  the  ladies  were  invited  to 

*  Add.  MSS.  -28,891,  f.  187. 

t  Ibid,  f.  263. 

%  Ibid.   28,932,   f.    93. 

§  Ibid.  28,891,  f.    129. 

II  Ibid.  28,932,  f.  93. 

^  Infra,  p.  45. 

♦*  Add.  MSS.  28,891,  f.  344 ;    28,932,  ff.  122-4. 

tt  ihid.  28,932,  f.   126. 


xH 

a  play,  then  taken  to  see  fireworks  in  St.  Stephen's  Green, 
and  finally  given  a  ball  and  "  a  very  noble  supper,"  at  which 
Ormonde  was  the  only  man  seated.  In  an  interlude  a  song 
was  sung  by  John  Abell,  the  celebrated  alto,  whom  Ormonde 
appears  to  have  brought  to  DubHn,  and  whom  the  efforts 
of  the  Irish  Executive  could  not  raise  from  a  state  of  poverty 
comparable  to  that  of  Job.*  There  was  great  anxiety  lest 
the  Enghsh  Privy  Council  should  lessen  the  severity  of  the 
penal  laws,  but  any  alteration  was  in  the  other  direction, 
and  the  Test  was  added  for  the  benefit  of  the  Presbyterians. 
A  warm  debate  arose,  however,  when  the  House  of  Commons 
met  again,  about  the  pubhcation  of  the  representation  as  to 
the  state  of  the  country  and  the  Queen's  reply.  The  Castle 
party  wished  to  postpone  their  appearance  until  after  Parhament 
was  prorogued,  and  defeated  a  motion  for  immediate  pub- 
lication by  a  majority  of  forty -three  ;  their  opponents  then 
proposed  a  motion  for  pubhcation  in  a  month,  which  was 
carried  by  eight  votes,  but  as  Parhament  had  risen  then  the 
decision  proved  immaterial,  f 

Parhament  rose  on  March  4,  and  in  a  fortnight  Ormonde 
set  off  for  London,  leaving  Ireland  in  charge  of  three  Lords 
Justices,  the  Lord  Chancellor,  the  Master  of  the  Ordnance, 
and  the  Commander  of  the  Forces.  To  the  position  of  Lord 
Chancellor  Sir  Richard  Cox  had  been  promoted  in  the  summer 
of  1703,  in  room  of  John  Methuen  ;  the  Master  of  the  Ordnance 
was  the  Earl  of  Mount -Alexander,  a  person  of  great  influence  in 
Ulster,  and  the  Commander  of  the  Forces  was  Thomas  Erie, 
an  officer  high  in  favour  with  Marlborough,  and  a  landed 
proprietor  of  Dorsetshire.  During  that  year  the  time  of  the 
Irish  executive  was  occupied,  almost  to  the  exclusion  of 
everything  else,  by  raising  and  despatching  troops  for  service 
in  Spain.  Ormonde  was  in  his  element,  and  besides  several 
regiments  of  foot,  he  raised  a  regiment  of  horse,  of  which  he 
became  the  colonel,  a  regiment  of  guards,  and  a  corps  of 
battle-axes.  Owing  to  the  state  of  Scotland,  constant  watch- 
fulness had  to  be  exercised  over  the  intercourse  between 
that  country  and  Ireland.  A  secret  service  agent  in  Scotland, 
called  Miller,  kept  Ormonde  informed  of  events  there,  and  an 
officer  called  Campbell  was  constantly  moving  about  in  Ireland 
amongst  the  Presbyterians.  The  arrangements  for  the 
Parhament  in  the  next  year  were  also  under  consideration, 
and  the  question  whether  a  dissolution  would  strengthen 
the  Castle  party  was  discussed.  J 

During  Ormonde's  absence  the  Duchess  remained  in  Ireland. 
She  had  made  herself  very  popular  by  promoting  Irish 
industries,  and  is  said  to  have  appeared  every  week  in  "  a  new 
stuff  suit."§     On  the  rising  of  Parhament  the  Lord  Chancellor, 

*  Add.  MSS.  28,932,  f.  141  ;    Life,  Lond.,  1747. 
t  Add.  MSS.  28,S9h  f-  428;    28,932,  f.  145. 
X  Infra,  passim. 
§  Faithful  Memoirs,  Lond.,  1732. 


xlii 

as  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Lords,  had  returned  her  thanks 
also  for  the  promotion  of  a  Bill  to  erect  a  workhouse  and 
give  employment  to  the  poor,  and  mentioned  that  she  had 
been  indefatigable  not  only  in  promoting  it,  but  also  in  securing 
its  passage  through  ParUament.*  During  the  summer  she 
visited  Kilkenny,  near  which  the  troops  were  encamped,  and 
went  afterwards  to  Rostellan  Castle  to  stay  with  the  Earl  of 
Inchiquin.f  The  encampment  of  the  troops  near  Kilkenny 
was  expected  to  bring  money  into  the  country,  and  Ormonde 
longed  to  hear  that  this  was  the  case  and  that  rents  were 
likely  to  be  better  paid  .J  It  was  very  necessary  that  they 
should  be,  as  Ormonde  had  just  obtained  a  long  lease  of  the 
Lodge  at  Richmond,  afterwards  a  favourite  residence  of 
George  the  Second,  and  was  busily  engaged  in  planning 
improvements  with  the  Earl  of  Ranelagh,  whose  extravagance 
was  as  undeniable  as  his  taste. §  After  a  stay  of  nearly  eight 
months  in  England,  Ormonde  returned  once  more  to  Dublin, 
where  he  was  received  with  "  the  loud  and  joyful  acclamations 
of  the  people."||  But  he  remained  there  only  a  few  days, 
and  set  off  for  Kilkenny,  where  pheasants  had  been  raised 
in  large  numbers  that  summer.^  In  a  letter  from  Sir  Richard 
Cox,  dated  December,  in  that  year,  there  is  an  amusing 
reference  to  the  execution  done  by  Ormonde  : 

"  If  Coxy's  account  be  true,  your  Grace  will  kill  all  the 
fowl  in  the  country  in  three  or  four  days  more  ;  it  would 
really  make  one  laugh  to  hear  him  describe  the  slaughter 
of  hares,  pheasants,  woodcocks,  &c.  I  told  him  he  was 
mistaken  as  to  the  former,  for  I  was  sure  none  but  wood- 
cocks would  come  in  your  way  when  you  were  angry. 
Coxy  repUed  that  I  was  mistaken,  for  you  were  no  more 
angry  when  you  went  a  shooting  than  we  were  then  ; 
"  on  the  contrary,  father,"  says  he,  "  there  is  great 
pleasure  in  it ;  "  and  this  dialogue  cost  me  a  little  gun, 
which  I  should  be  sorry  should  destroy  the  game  at 
Palmerston,  if  your  Grace  ever  intends  me  the  honour 
of  trying  your  skill  there." 
From  Kilkenny,  Ormonde  returned  a  few  days  before  Christmas, 
which  he  appears  to  have  spent  in  Dubhn.** 

When  the  year  1705  opened,  Ormonde  was  intent  on 
arranging  that  the  Irish  Parhament  should  assemble  at  the 
earhest  moment,  and  that  supply  should  be  voted  with  the 
least  opposition  possible.  To  that  end,  during  December, 
the  wire-pullers  of  the  Castle  party  had  met  several  times 
at  the  house  of  Lord  Chancellor  Cox  and  Mr.  Secretary 
Southwell.  They  were  of  opinion  that  April  was  the  earUest 
month  that  Parhament  could  assemble,  taking  into  con- 
sideration   "  the   term,   the   circuits,   the   iU-roads,    and   the 

*  Add.  MSS.  28,932,  f.   155.  §  Infra,  pp.   80,    120. 

t  Infra,  pp.   96,   99.  ||  Add.  MSS.  28,891,  f.  399. 

t  Ormonde  to  Worth,  infra,  p.    98.  ^  Infra^  pp.  98,   108. 

**  Add.  MSS.  28,932,  f.   176. 


xliii 

ploughing  for  the  spring  com,"*  and  they  advised  that  to 
placate  the  Brodericians,  as  Ormonde  called  the  Opposition, 
there  should  be  in  the  legislation  proposed  "  a  brilliant," 
imposing  further  disabiUties  on  Roman  CathoHcs,  or  con- 
ferring benefits  on  Protestants.  One  of  the  wire-pullers 
suggested  a  bill  rendering  it  penal  for  priests  ordained  since 
the  last  session  to  officiate,  and  another  threw  out  an  idea 
of  dividing  the  Opposition  by  a  declaration  of  dissent  from 
Scotch  disloyalty  and  aversion  to  the  Hanoverian  succession.f 
As  regards  the  date  of  assembling,  Ormonde,  who  was  in  a 
most  impatient  mood,  paid  no  heed,  and  at  the  beginning  of 
January  decided  that,  the  Parliament  should  be  summoned 
for  February  10.  The  wire-pullers  protested  on  the  ground 
that  the  circuits  would  clash  with  the  ParUament,  and  that 
it  was  desirable  they  should  take  place  before  it  assembled 
to  give  an  opportunity  of  seeing  the  members  before  they 
came  to  Dublin,  the  judges  being  presumably  the  intended 
channel  of  communication, J  but  Ormonde,  who  had  mean- 
time gone  again  to  Kilkenny,  was  inflexible.  He  was  more 
attentive,  however,  to  the  suggestion  about  an  extension  of 
the  penal  laws,  and  wrote  to  England  about  it,  and  also  about 
a  bill  extending  some  degree  of  toleration  to  Presbyterians. 
As  regards  the  former,  the  reply  was  that  if  the  Queen  were 
not  engaged  in  a  war  with  Roman  CathoUc  alUes  she  might 
be  willing  "  to  gratify  the  people  of  Ireland,"  and  as  regards 
the  latter,  Ormonde  was  told  to  allow  the  Irish  ParUament  to 
decide  the  question  according  to  its  natural  incUnations.§ 

On  his  return  from  Kilkenny,  where  he  remained  about 
three  weeks,  Ormonde  found  the  wire-pullers  in  a  state  of 
much  trepidation,  as  legislation  in  favour  of  the  Irish  Hnen 
trade,  which  was  then  before  the  Enghsh  ParUament,  was 
in  the  balance,  and  the  chance  of  "an  easy  session  "  in  Ireland 
greatly  depended  upon  its  becoming  law.||  But  the  opposition 
which  came  from  Lancashire^  was  overcome,  and  the  session 
in  Ireland  went  more  smoothly  than  the  most  sanguine  had 
dared  to  hope.**  When  the  great  question  of  Supply  came 
on  the  Opposition  could  only  muster  sixty-seven,  and  Supply 
was  voted  for  two  years  by  a  majority  of  seventy -five  votes. 
The  only  breeze  was  in  regard  to  the  assumption  by  Convocation 
of  the  duty  of  defending  the  civil  rights  of  the  clergy  ;  but 
by  the  efforts  of  Ormonde's  chaplain,  Welbore  Ellis,  the 
strife  was  allayed. ff  In  less  than  six  weeks  the  ParUament 
was  able  to  rise  for  the  usual  recess,  and  the  House  of  Commons 

*  Infra,   p.    123. 

t  Infra,  p.  125. 

%  Infra,  p.  133. 

§  Infra,   p.    135. 

II  Add.  MSS.  28,893,  ff.  8,  10,  18. 

If  Infra,  p.  137. 

**  It  was  opened  on  February  10  by  Ormonde,  who  proceeded  to  the 
Parliament  House  in  a  coach  drawn  bv  eight  horses.  Portland  Manuscripts, 
V.   165. 

tt  Life,  Lond.,  1747  ;    Add.  MSS.  28,931,  f.  212. 


xliv 

parted  "  in  great  good  humour  "  with  Ormonde,  to  whom 
they  voted  an  address  thanking  him  for  his  prudent  adminis- 
tration, and  promising  him  that  any  expenditure  which  he 
might  direct  on  fortifications  or  munitions  would  be  made 
good.*  In  spite  of  the  Queen's  scruples,  a  Bill  for  the  exclusion 
of  newly  ordained  priests  had  been  passed  by  the  House  of 
Commons,  but  when  sending  the  Bills  over  to  the  English 
Privy  Council,  Ormonde  gave  a  hint  that  it  had  served  its 
purpose  in  easing  the  way  for  Supply,  and  that  he  would  not 
be  sorry  if  it  was  stayed  in  England,  together  with  two  other 
measures  on  which  the  Irish  Privy  Council  had  insisted. f 
But  it  was  sent  back. 

During  the  recess  Ormonde  made  a  progress  through  the 
north  of  Ireland  to  view  its  preparedness  to  resist  invasion, 
penetrating  as  far  as  Antrim  and  Derry,J  and  reached  Dublin 
again  only  a  few  days  before  May  1,  the  date  fixed  for  the 
termination  of  the  recess. §  But  as  the  BiUs  had  not  been 
sent  back  from  England,  there  were  further  adjournments, 
during  which  Ormonde  went  to  Kilkenny,  ||  and  afterwards 
delay  in  proroguing  Parhament  was  caused  by  the  necessity 
of  submitting  a  Bill  a  second  time  to  the  EngHsh  Privy  Council, 
but  at  last,  with  the  help  of  a  flying  packet,1I  the  session  was 
on  June  17  brought  to  a  close.  Although  before  the  conclusion 
there  was  some  debate  about  publications  of  the  High  Church 
party  and  about  privilege,**  the  session  ended  with  nothing 
worse  than  a  speech  from  Brodrick  on  the  poverty  of  Ireland, 
"  notwithstanding  its  aids  are  so  great  and  its  complaints 
either  none  or  very  few,"  which  was  counterbalanced  by  an 
address  from  the  House  of  Lords,  thanking  Ormonde  for  his 
visits  to  the  most  remote  parts  of  the  kingdom  and  for  pro- 
viding a  good  train  of  artillery,  ft  He  was  longing  to  be 
back  in  England,  {{  and  in  httle  more  than  a  week  after  the 
prorogation  he  had  left  Ireland,  §§  which  he  was  destined  not 
to  see  again  for  six  years. 

The  Duchess,  who  had  crossed  to  England  before  Ormonde, 
went  in  July  to  Tunbridge  Wells, ||||  but  Ormonde  remained 
in  London,  where  he  had  an  illness  which  was  apparently 
caused  by  a  fall  in  his  own  room,  and  which  created  con- 
siderable alarm. ^^  There  had  been  rumours  while  Ormonde 
was  in  Ireland  of  his  being  superseded  in  the  viceroyalty  and 
given  command  of  another  expedition,***  but  his  successful 

*  Add.  MSS.  28,893,  ft.  35,  78,  82  ;    28,931,  f.  214. 

t  Ormonde  to  Godolphin  and  Hedges,  March  29. 

+  Infra,  pp.   149-50  ;    Life,  Lond.,   1747. 

§  Add.  MSS.  28,931,  f.   222. 

II  Infra,   p.    158. 

ij  Infra,  p.  159. 

**  Infra,  p.   159. 

tt  Life,   Lond.,   1747. 

it  Add.  MSS.  28,927,  f.   188. 

§§  Infra,  p.   161. 

nil  Add.  MSS.  28,931,  ff.  228,  232. 

11^  Infra,^  pp.    172-3,    178.  ***  Add.  MSS.  28,931,  &.  186,  190. 


I 


xlv 

conduct  of  the  Irish  session  had  established  him  in  high  favour. 
Soon  after  his  arrival  in  England  there  was  a  report  that  he 
was  to  be  given  command  of  the  forces  there,  and  in  September 
the  Lord  Treasurer  and  other  persons  of  high  position  were 
entertained  by  him  at  Richmond,  which  was  taken  as  an 
indication  that  his  commission  as  Lord  Lieutenant  would 
be  renewed.* 

The  year  1706  was  an  anxious  one  for  Ormonde  and  his 
friends,  as  the  preponderance  of  Whigs  in  the  Ministry  made 
his  tenure  of  office  very  precarious.  Early  in  the  year  an 
attempt  was  made  to  induce  him  to  accept  a  miUtary  command, 
probably  in  connection  with  the  expedition  to  Barcelona, 
but  the  proposal  did  not  attract  him  from  a  national  or  personal 
point  of  view,  and  the  command  was  decUned.f  The  diverse 
views  taken  as  to  his  continuance  in  the  Irish  Government 
were  represented  in  the  case  of  the  Lords  Justices,  of  whom 
there  were  now  only  two,  the  Lord  Chancellor  Sir  Richard 
Cox  and  the  Commander  of  the  Forces,  Lord  Cutts,  who  had 
succeeded  General  Erle.J  Cutts  was  sanguine,  and  was  of 
opinion  that  as  Ormonde  had  voted  in  accordance  with  the 
wishes  of  the  Court  against  inviting  the  Elector  of  Hanover 
to  England,  his  retention  in  office  was  certain,  but  Cox  was 
despondent,  and  was  of  opinion  that  sooner  or  later  Ormonde 
would  be  forced  to  resign  or  superseded. §  During  the  first 
five  months  of  the  year  the  question  was  involved  with  that 
of  filHng  the  place  of  Chief  Baron  of  Ireland,  which  had  become 
vacant  at  Christmas.  Ormonde  was  given  to  understand 
that  whatever  recommendation  he  made  would  be  accepted, 
and  had  offered  the  place  to  the  Attorney  General,  Robert 
Rochfort,  who  wished  to  obtain  it.  But  the  contest  between 
the  English  and  Irish  interest  was  then  acute,  and  towards 
the  end  of  January  Lord  Chancellor  Cowper  advised  the 
Queen  that  the  dependency  of  Ireland  on  England,  which 
she  had  much  at  heart,  would  be  best  preserved  by  the  appoint- 
ment of  a  member  of  the  English  Bar.||  He  apprehended, 
however,  great  difficulty  in  finding  a  fit  person  wiUing  to 
accept  the  office,  which  proved  the  case,  and  as  time  went 
on  doubt  arose  as  to  whether  Ormonde's  recommendation 
or  Cowper's  advice  would  prevail.  In  April,  Ormonde  was 
confident  that  a  further  confirmation  in  the  office  of  Lord 
Lieutenant,  which  was  then  granted  to  him,  wo\ild  be  accom- 
panied by  Rochfort's  appointment.^  But  after  a  lapse  of 
four  months  an  ehgible  member  of  the  EngHsh  Bar,  Richard 
Freeman,  afterwards  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland,  was  found 
and  appointed. 

*  Luttrell. 

t  Infra,  pp.  223,  225. 

j  Cutts,  who  was  created  a  peer   in    December,   1690,  took  the  title  of 
Baron  Cutts  of  Gowran,  a  title  doubtless  suggested  by  Ormonde. 
§  Infra,  pp.  212,   220. 
II  Diary,  William  Earl  of  Cowper,  p.  37. 
H  Infra,  p.   231. 


xlvi 

The  church  in  danger  was  then  as  much  a  cry  in  Ireland 
as  in  England,  and  the  Swan  Tripe-Club,  which  has  been 
celebrated  in  verses  attributed  to  Swift,  became  the  rendezvous 
of  the  High  Church  party  in  Dublin.  By  the  Brodericians 
it  was  unceasingly  attacked.  They  brought  it  under  the 
notice  of  the  English  Court,  *  and  they  promoted  a  presentment 
of  the  grand  jury  of  Dublin  against  it.f  In  connection  with 
the  army  the  supply  of  troops  to  the  Spanish  Peninsula  con- 
tinued to  absorb  the  attention  of  the  Irish  Government,  and 
a  protest  was  made  by  Cutts  as  to  the  inadequate  information 
suppUed  to  the  Lords  Justices  in  regard  to  what  was  required.  J 
During  the  summer  the  horse  and  foot  were  encamped  at  the 
Curragh,  but  the  artillery  was  encamped  nearer  Dublin  at 
Clontarf.§ 

In  the  beginning  of  the  year  1707  there  was  every  expectation 
that  Ormonde  would  return  to  Ireland.  The  Ministry  was 
then  passing  through  the  anxious  time  that  immediately 
preceded  the  union  with  Scotland,  and  Ormonde  was  giving 
them  great  support  in  the  House  of  Lords  and  also  by  con- 
centrating a  strong  military  force  in  Ulster  ready  for  trans- 
portation to  Scotland  if  rebellion  broke  out  there.  ||  Lord 
Cutts  died  in  January,  and  Ormonde's  recommendation  of  the 
Primate,  Narcissus  Marsh,  as  a  Lord  Justice  was  accepted 
without  demur. ^  But  instead  of  his  Irish  friends  seeing 
him  in  April,  as  they  had,  been  led  to  hope,  his  supersession 
by  the  appointment  of  Lord  Pembroke  as  Lord  Lieutenant 
was  announced.** 

During  his  first  viceroyalty,  Ormonde's  chief  correspondents 
were  the  Lords  Justices  either  in  their  collective  or  individual 
capacity. ft  While  Ormonde  was  absent  in  1704  Sir  Richard 
Cox  took  the  lead,  but  Lord  Mount-Alexander  and  General  Erie 
wrote  not  infrequently.  Lord  Mount-Alexander  confined 
himself  to  Ulster  and  Scotch  concerns,  and  General  Erie  to 
the  army,  so  far  as  is  known,  for  his  letters  have  not  been 
preserved,  and  copies  of  Ormonde's  repUes  only  remain. 
From  Ormonde's  departure  in  June,  1705,  to  Lord  Cutts's 
death  in  January,  1707,  Lord  Cutts  predominated  in  political 
as  well  as  army  affairs.  His  aversion  to  the  Brodericians 
and  devotion  to  Ormonde  are  conspicuous,  and  his  energy, 
notwithstanding  repeated  attacks  of  illness,  is  no  less  remark- 
able. He  discovered  that  the  arms  suppUed  to  the  Irish 
regiments  were  useless,  and  protested  against  a  system  of 
sending  detachments  instead  of  regiments  abroad,  which 
would,  he  said,  reduce  the  army  in  Ireland  to  what  the  French 

*  Correspondence  of  Sarah  Duchess  of  Marlborough,  i,  14. 

t  Infra,  pp.   197,  201,  211,  253. 

X  Infra,  p.  208. 

§  Infra,  pp.  240,  261. 

II  Infra,  pp.  262,  274. 

i[  Infra,   p.   285. 

**  Infra,  pp.  292,  298. 

tt  Infra,   pp.    45-298. 


xlvii 

would  call  une  armee  de  salade.  His  last  letter  to  Ormonde 
is  written  the  day  before  he  died,  and  shows  that  duty  and 
"  respect  and  passion  "  for  Ormonde  remained  to  the  end 
his  impulse.  Cox  was  then  much  disquieted  by  the  conviction 
that  Ormonde  would  be  soon  removed,  and  that  as  '*  the 
shadow  follows  the  substance,"  his  own  tenure  of  office  would 
be  coterminous  with  that  of  his  friend.  In  begging  Ormonde 
not  to  forget  him,  he  recalls  that  he  had  given  up  a  permanent 
seat  on  the  Bench  to  help  Ormonde,  and  later  on  he  refers 
with  pride  to  the  fact  that  he  was  clearing  off  the  business 
of  his  Court,  a  thing  that  had  not  been  done  for  at  least  a 
hundred  years.  From  Primate  Marsh,  who  succeeded 
Lord  Cutts,  there  are  only  a  few  letters. 

Amongst  other  correspondents  connected  with  the  Irish 
Government,  the  Chief  Secretary,  Edward  Southwell,  is  fore- 
most, and  his  letters,  especially  when  Ormonde  was  at  Kilkenny 
in  the  winter  of  1704,  are  voluminous.  The  Vice-Treasurer, 
Lord  Coningsby,  who  seldom  troubled  Ireland  with  his  presence, 
wrote  often  about  the  Irish  Bills  when  they  were  before  the 
EngUsh  Privy  Council.  In  view  of  his  future  relations  with 
the  Tories,  and  in  particular  with  Ormonde,  the  cordiaUty 
of  his  letters  is  remarkable,  and  in  some  of  them  there  is 
reference  to  his  having  eggs  of  black  game  brought  by  hand 
from  Wales  for  Ormonde.  His  deputy.  Captain  John  Pratt, 
who  had  succeeded  Sir  WiUiam  Robinson,  in  charge  of  the 
pubUc  purse,  communicated  with  Ormonde  about  the  revenue, 
and  the  Attorney  General,  Robert  Rochfort,  and  the  Solicitor 
General,  Sir  Richard  Levinge,  kept  Ormonde  informed  about 
poHtics,  and  corresponded  a  good  deal  about  the  office  of 
Chief  Baron,  which  it  was  believed  Rochfort  would  not  accept, 
but  which  he  preferred  to  a  peerage.  Other  pohtical  newsmen 
were  Thomas  Keightley,  a  commissioner  of  the  revenue  and 
a  great  personage  as  uncle  by  marriage  to  the  Queen  ;  Stephen 
Ludlow,  an  ancestor  of  the  Earls  Ludlow,  and  Robert  Johnson, 
a  Baron  of  the  Exchequer.  Baron  Johnson,  whom  Ormonde 
had  found  member  for  Athboy  and  had  raised  to  the  Bench, 
was  in  that  age  of  pohtical  judges  the  most  unblushing,  and 
gloried  in  using  his  judicial  position  to  help  his  party.  Of 
the  Irish  bishops,  there  wiU  be  found  amongst  Ormonde's 
correspondents  Edward  Smyth,  Bishop  of  Down,  who  con- 
sidered it  his  chief  function  to  watch  his  Presbyterian  neigh- 
bours ;  WiUiam  Moreton,  Bishop  of  Kildare  and  afterwards 
of  Meath,  and  Welbore  EUis,  who  succeeded  Moreton  in 
Kildare.  In  the  case  of  the  last  two,  Ormonde  showed  that 
the  pubHc  interest  was  with  him  the  first  consideration. 
Although  pressed  to  recommend  EUis,  then  his  own  chaplain, 
for  Meath,  he  had  not  done  so,  and  obtained  the  appointment 
for  Moreton,  in  the  hope  of  terminating  htigation  about  Christ 
Church  Cathedral,  the  deanery  of  which  the  Bishop  of  KUdare 
then  held  in  commendam. 

There  are  copies  of  many  letters  from  Ormonde  to  the 
Duke  of  Marlborough,  Lord  Godolphin,  and  the  Secretaries  of 


xlviii 

State,  as  well  as  letters  from  them,  concerning  the  reinforce- 
ments for  the  Peninsula,  and  Scotch  affairs  in  their  relation 
to  Ulster.  Perhaps  the  most  vigorous  letters  from  Ormonde 
are,  however,  two  written  in  July,  1704,  in  consequence  of  a 
rumour  that  he  had  come  to  terms  with  Stephen  Brodrick, 
which  perturbed  the  Tories.  One  of  these  letters  is  addressed 
to  Stephen  Ludlow,  and  the  other  to  Sir  Richard  Levinge. 
In  the  latter  letter  Ormonde  tells  Levinge  to  assure  his  friends 
that  he  will  not  desert  them  or  play  them  any  trick,  for  such 
a  thing  he  scorns. 

Military  correspondents  are  very  numerous.  Lord  Mount- 
Alexander,  whose  ceasing  to  be  a  Lord  Justice  was  in  part 
due  to  his  disposal  of  the  office  of  Master  of  the  Ordnance, 
wrote  afterwards  many  letters  about  his  pension,  and  his 
successor  as  head  of  the  Ordnance,  General  Richard  Ingoldsby, 
who  was  connected  by  property  with  Ireland,  is  also  a  corres- 
pondent. Of  Ormonde's  old  comrades.  General  Henry  Lumley, 
a  very  distinguished  soldier,  was  the  most  constant  in  com- 
municating, and  when  taking  part  in  the  siege  of  Menin  saved 
seed  of  "  mighty  good  melons  "  for  Ormonde,  whom  he  envies, 
amidst  the  dust  of  the  siege,  going  by  water  to  Richmond. 
Lord  Portmore,  who  was  married  to  the  Countess  of  Dorchester, 
writes  to  Ormonde  about  the  taxation  of  his  pension,  and 
Generals  Gustavus  Hamilton,  afterwards  Viscount  Boyne, 
Frederick  Hamilton,  Cornelius  Wood,  Charles  Ross,  and 
George  Carpenter,  afterwards  Lord  Carpenter,  claim  Ormonde's 
friendship.  Social  rather  than  mihtary  qualities  are  prominent 
in  the  case  of  General  William  Stewart,  who  was  married  to 
the  Viscountess  Grandison,  and  who  was  the  life  in  ParUament 
of  the  Castle  party,  of  the  Earl  of  Inchiquin,  who  was  colonel 
of  one  of  the  newly  raised  regiments,  and  of  General  John 
Tidcombe,  a  member  of  the  Eat-Cat  Club,  who  wrote  many 
letters  in  which  there  is  incidental  mention  of  the  fact  that  he 
commanded  a  regiment  in  Ireland.  Besides  Inchiquin  and 
Tidcombe  there  wiU  be  found  other  correspondents  with 
commands  in  Ireland  :  Lord  Henry  Scott,  afterwards  Earl  of 
Deloraine,  Viscount  Ikerrin,  Wentworth  Harman,  who  was 
colonel  of  the  battle-axes,  William  Villiers,  who  was  Ueutenant- 
colonel  of  Ormonde's  regiment  of  horse,  and  Sir  Richard 
Vernon,  a  Fellow  of  All  Souls,  who  was  one  of  his  captains. 
There  are  also  letters  from  Colonel  Thomas  Pulteney,  who 
was  in  charge  of  Ormonde's  troop  of  life  guards,  and  from  his 
kinsman.  Viscount  Tunbridge,  afterwards  second  Earl  of 
Rochford,*  who  had  accompanied  Ormonde  to  Cadiz,  and 
had  been  given  by  him  a  commission  in  Ireland. 

Amongst  Ormonde's  general  correspondents,  the  Princess 
Sophia,  who  wrote  to  Ormonde  about  the  advancement  of  a 
Mr.  Murray  in  the  army,  occupies  first  place.     Then  follows 

*  This  title,  which  was  conferred  in  1695  on  WiUiam  Henry  Nassau,  of 
Zulestein,  had  been  borne  in  the  fifteenth  century  by  an  ancestor  of  Ormonde's, 
and  was  probably  suggested  by  Ormonde. 


xlix 

Lord  Raby,  afterwards  Harl  of  Strafford,  who  writes  from 
Berlin,  and  who  in  his  first  letter  refers  to  a  princely  present 
of  horses  made  by  Ormonde  to  the  King  of  Poland,  and  in 
subsequent  letters  to  the  purchase  for  Ormonde  of  a  set  of 
coach-horses  from  the  King  of  Prussia's  stud.  In  connection 
with  the  Lodge  at  Richmond,  Lord  Ranelagh  tells  of  the 
provision  of  ponds,  green-houses,  summer-houses  and  other 
necessities,  and  Lord  Arran  and  Lord  Grantham,  Ormonde's 
brother  and  brother-in-law,  aid  in  spending  Ormonde's  money. 
From  Ireland,  Paul  Davys,  a  gay  member  of  society,  for 
whom  Ormonde  obtained  the  Viscounty  of  Mountcashell, 
and  WiUiam  Crowe,  the  Recorder  of  Blessington,  whom 
Swift  ridiculed,  send  amusing  missives  ;  while  from  abroad 
Tertius  Spencer,  the  EngUsh  resident  at  Morocco,  who  had 
been  with  Ormonde  at  Cadiz,  and  Marett  d'Antoigny,  a  Dutch 
friend,  keep  themselves  in  Ormonde's  memory.  Dr.  Charles 
Hickman,  who  was  Lord  Rochester's  chaplain,  and  was  given 
the  See  of  Derry,  writes  about  Ormonde's  purchasing  Stoke 
Pogis  ;  the  Oxford  authorities  communicate  about  a  sermon 
preached  by  a  Fellow  of  Magdalen  College,  which  was  alleged 
to  reflect  on  the  union  with  Scotland,  and  gave  offence  at 
Court,*  and  finally  French  prisoners  rely  on  Ormonde's  kind- 
ness to  obtain  their  release. 

Out  of  Office,    1707 — 1710. 

Although  deprived  of  the  Viceroyalty,  Ormonde  was  not 
banished  from  the  Court,  and  as  the  Duchess  of  Marlborough's 
influence  diminished,  the  favour  with  which  Ormonde  and  his 
Duchess  were  regarded  by  Anne  increased.  On  the  Queen's 
accession,  the  Duchess  of  Ormonde  had  been  appointed  one 
of  the  ladies  of  the  bedchamber,  a  place  which  the  Duchess  of 
Marlborough  said  that  she  owed  to  her,t  and  greatly  to  the 
Duchess  of  Marlborough's  indignation,  she  became  one  of 
Mrs.  Masham's  most  devoted  friends,  and  from  a  piece  of 
scandal  retailed  by  Erasmus  Lewis  to  Harley,  was  evidently 
in  the  year  1708  very  prominent  in  the  Court  circle. J  In 
the  spring  of  the  year,  at  the  time  of  the,  attempted  invasion 
of  Scotland,  Ormonde  introduced  to  the  Queen  many  depu- 
tations with  addresses,  and  towards  the  close  of  it  the  Queen 
accepted  from  him  a  book  of  poems  composed  by  members 
of  Oxford  University  on  the  death  of  Prince  George.§ 
Excepting  for  an  expedition  in  the  summer  to  Bath,||  he 
remained  constantly  in  London  or  its  neighbourhood,  and  he 
was  unremitting  in  his  attendance  in  the  House  of  Lords. 
The  year  1709  was  passed  similarly.  After  the  appointment 
of  Lord  Wharton  as  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  he  disposed 

*  Cf.  Heame's  Collections,  i,  282-6  ;    Luttrell,  1706,  Aug.  1,  Sept.  6. 

t  Correspondence,  ii,  129. 

X  Portland  Manuscripts,  iv,   493. 

§  Ufe,  Lond.,  1747. 

y  Dartmouth  Manuscripts,   iii,    146. 

Wt.  43482  rf 


1 

of  his  regiment  of  horse  in  that  country,*  but  the  hfe  guards 
remained  under  his  command,  and  during  the  year  1709  were 
twice  reviewed  by  him  in  Hyde  Park,  where  they  made  a  noble 
appearance  in  new  uniforms. f 

During  that  period  few  letters  have  been  preserved.} 
Baron  Johnson,  who  had  been  busy  prior  to  Ormonde's  super- 
session with  calculations  as  to  the  strength  of  the  Castle  party, 
wrote  long  accounts  of  the  Parliament  under  Ormonde's 
successor.  Lord  Pembroke.  His  letters  were  supplemented 
by  others  from  Sir  Richard  Levinge  and  Sir  Richard  Cox, 
who  was  superseded,  as  he  had  expected,  in  the  office  of 
Chancellor  by  the  appointment  of  Richard  Freeman,  and 
who  was  threatened  with  impeachment  for  not  allowing  the 
Privy  Council  to  elect  a  Lord  Justice  on  the  death  of  Lord  Cutts. 
Robert  Rochfort,  who  succeeded  Freeman  as  Chief  Baron, 
wrote  once,  as  did  Bishop  Welbore  EUis,  who  had  charge 
in  the  House  of  Lords  of  a  Bill  connected  with  Ormonde's 
estates.  Louis  CrommeUn,  a  great  Unen  manufacturer  in 
Ulster,  communicates  with  Ormonde  about  the  estabhshment 
of  a  factory  at  Kilkenny,  and  the  agent  of  Ormonde's  Irish 
regiment  of  horse  sends  an  estimate  for  their  equipment, 
while  General  Thomas  Pearce,  who  had  been  Ormonde's 
aide-de-camp  at  Cadiz,  gives  particulars  of  the  campaign 
in  Portugal  and  Spain. 

His  Second  Viceroyalty,   1710 — 1713. 

To  Ormonde,  in  common  with  the  whole  Tory  party,  the 
year  1710  began  with  an  expectation  of  an  early  return  to 
power,  and  terminated  in  the  event.  During  the  year  he  was 
much  before  the  pubhc  eye.  While  the  proceedings  against 
Sacheverell  were  pending,  he  was  unremitting  in  his  attendance 
in  the  House  of  Lords,  and  at  his  trial  he  was  one  of  the  large 
minority  voting  for  his  acquittal.  A  deputation  from  Oxford 
University  to  the  Queen,  with  an  address  which  was  denounced 
by  Hearne§  as  Whiggish  in  its  terms,  was  entertained  by 
him  in  May  with  much  magnificence,  and  the  life  guards  were 
in  the  summer  frequently  reviewed  by  him  in  Hyde  Park.|| 
During  the  formation  of  the  Tory  ministry  there  was  great 
speculation  as  to  whether  he  would  be  Master  of  the  Horse  or 
Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland,^  but  on  October  19  the  question 
was  set  at  rest  by  his  being  declared  Viceroy.  In  that  office 
he  had  once  more  the  assistance  of  Edward  Southwell  as 
Chief  Secretary,  and  of  Benjamin  Portlock  as  his  private 
secretary  ;  but  although  it  is  probable  that  Ormonde  desired 
his  re-appointment,**  Sir  Richard  Cox  was  not  considered  a 

*  Add.  MSS.  28,933,  f.  312  ;    Wentworth  Papers,  p.  71. 

t  Luttrell,  May  10,  June  28.  ^     »  i- 

j  Infra,   pp.   298-318. 

§  Collections,  i,  384. 

II  Luttrell,  passim. 

^  Wentworth  Papers,  pp.  144,  149. 

♦*  Journal  to  Stella,  Nov.  14. 


li 

sufficiently  strong  party  man  to  be  Lord  Chancellor,  and  in 
the  room  of  Richard  Freeman,  whose  death  anticipated  his 
removal,  one  of  Sachevarell's  counsel.  Sir  Constantine  Phipps, 
was  appointed.  On  Ormonde's  being  declared  Lord  Lieutenant 
the  Primate,  Narcissus  Marsh,  and  the  commander  of  the 
forces,  Richard  Ingoldsby,  were  appointed  Lords  Justices  ; 
but  on  his  arrival  Sir  Constantine  Phipps  superseded  the 
Primate.  As  a  High  Churchman  and  uncompromising  Tory, 
Phipps  left  nothing  to  be  desired,  but  his  zeal  surpassed  his 
discretion,  and  Ireland  was  in  perpetual  turmoil  under  his 
rule. 

As  was  usual  in  the  case  of  the  Lord  Lieutenants  of  the 
period,  Ormonde  postponed  a  visit  to  Ireland  as  long  as 
possible,  and  the  first  half  of  the  year  1711,  during  which 
the  attempted  assassination  of  Harley  by  Guiscard  took 
place,  was  spent  by  Ormonde  in  London.  But  he  lost  no 
opportunity  of  recommending  himself  to  such  Irishmen  as 
came  to  London,  and  Swift  gives  an  amusing  account  at 
that  time  of  his  helping  a  number  of  Irish  gentlemen  to  button- 
hold  members  in  the  lobby  of  the  House  of  Commons.*  At 
last,  on  June  14,  Ormonde  set  out  for  Ireland,  and  as  he  was 
unaccompanied  by  the  Duchess,  who  remained  in  England, 
he  made  a  rapid  journey  to  Chester,  where  "  a  noble  collation  " 
awaited  him  ;  but  on  proceeding  the  next  day  to  Parkgate 
to,  embark  he  found  a  west  wind  prevailed,  and  he  did  not 
reach  Dublin  for  a  fortnight,  eleven  days  being  spent  at  the 
waterside  and  four  days,  for  which  there  were  not  adequate 
provisions,  at  sea.  He  landed  at  Dunleary,  now  Kingstown, 
in  the  morning,  and  entered  Dublin  at  night ;  but  in  spite 
of  the  darkness  his  reception  was  unparalleled  for  enthusiasm. f 
A  Whiggish  address  from  the  Corporation,  which  Swift  has 
parodied,  was  the  only  untoward  incident,  {  but  it  was  counter- 
balanced by  the  publication  of  an  ode  of  nearly  two  hundred 
Unes  entitled  "  Loyalty  Honour 'd,  or  A  Welcome  to  his 
Illustrious  Grace  James  Duke  of  Ormonde,"  which  was 
emphatic  in  its  praise  of  Tory  principles  and  of  Ormonde 
as  their  exponent.  After  being  sworn  into  office  at  midnight, 
Ormonde  was  entertained  by  Lord  Chancellor  Phipps,  and 
from  that  time  he  surrendered  himself  to  his  guidance  in  all 
that  concerned  the  government  of  the  country.  When 
Parliament  met  a  few  days  later  everyone  prognosticated  a 
short  and  quiet  session.  Brodrick,  who  had  accepted  a  seat 
on  the  Bench,  from  which  he  was  evicted  in  favour  of 
Sir  Richard  Cox,  was  supposed  to  have  lost  much  of  his 
influence,  and  Supply  was  voted  immediately  for  two  years. 
But  a  conflict  arose  between  the  Lords  and  Commons  as  to 
what  constituted  true   loyalty,  which   Brodrick  helped   once 

*  Journal  to  Stella,  April  6. 

t  Life,   Lond.,   1747  ;    Add.  MSS.  28,934,  f.  289  ;  Portland  Manttscripts^ 
V,  30. 

\  Lonsdale  Manuecripts,  p.   121, 


lii 

more  to  fan,  and  a  recess  of  a  month,  during  which  Ormonde 
retired  to  Kilkenny,  did  not  abate  its  vehemence.*  In  addition, 
under  Lord  Chancellor  Phipps's  influence,  the  Privy  Council 
proceeded  to  exercise  their  right  to  veto  the  nominations 
made  by  the  corporations  to  civic  offices,  and  raised  a  storm 
in  the  country  by  rejecting  many  ehgible  persons.  The 
session  dragged  on,  while  the  Houses  passed  recriminatory 
resolutions  and  addresses,  and  it  was  not  until  November 
that  Ormonde  was  able  to  prorogue  Parhament  and  return 
to  London.  His  personal  popularity  remained  to  the  end 
undiminished,  and  even  Archbishop  King,  who  had  been 
in  his  previous  Viceroyalty  unfriendly  and  critical,  became 
one  of  his  warm  admirers.  The  general  disposition  was  to 
throw  the  blame  for  every  mishap  on  Ormonde's  advisers, 
and  they  were  said  to  be  his  enemies  rather  than  his  friends. f 

At  the  opening  of  the  year  1712  Ormonde's  appointment 
as  commander-in-chief  of  the  army,  and  as  colonel  of  the  first 
regiment  of  foot  guards,  in  room  of  the  Duke  of  Marlborough, 
was  announced,  and  in  February  his  commission  as  captain- 
general  of  all  the  forces  at  home  and  abroad  was  issued.  J 
The  populace  hailed  his  appointment  as  head  of  the  army 
with   delight,   and  to   commemorate   the   event   two   ballads 
appeared,  one  being  entitled  "  The  Queen's  and  the  Duke  of 
Ormonde's  New  Toast,"  and  the  other  "  The  Congratulation 
humbly  inscribed  to  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Ormonde."     In 
the  former  it  is  probable  that  Swift  had  some  share  : 
Brave  Ormonde  disdains  to  make  sale  of  commissions. 
To  be  brib'd  by  contractors  on  terms  and  conditions. 
He's  a  Butler  that  ne'er  will  be  censured  for  tripping, 
In  making  a  perquisite  of  the  bread's  chipping. 
But  still  be  content  with  the  dues  of  his  place. 
Abhorrent  of  what  is  unlawful  and  base  ; 
Tho'  a  villain  dares  call  him  an  ignorant  novice, 
And  a  lad  that  knows  not  how  to  manage  his  office. 
In  April  Ormonde  set  out  for  Holland,  and  for  the  next 
six  months  occupied  the  most  unenviable  position  in  which 
an  Enghsh  general  was  ever  placed.     Of  the  events  which 
led  to  his  impeachment,  and  of  his  life  abroad,  the  papers  at 
Kilkenny    tell    nothing.     While    in    England    that    winter. 
Prince  Eugene  had  described  Ormonde  as  the  glory  of  the 
Enghsh  nation,  their  first  cavaher  and  most  complete  gentle- 
man, ever  ready  to  sacrifice  himself  for  his  church  and  his 
sovereign,  and  winning  all  hearts  by  his  affabihty  ;    but  to 
this  eulogium  the  Prince  added  the  opinion  that  Ormonde 
had  no  great  sway  in  the  Cabinet,  and  acted  by  direction. § 
The  justice  of  this  account  is  shown  by  the  letters  which 
Ormonde    addressed,    while   the   restraining    orders    were   in 

*  Add.  MSS.  28,934,  ff.  297,  303. 

t  See  Archbishop  King's  letters  to  Swift. 

j  Luttrell ;    Dalton's  Army  Lists. 

§  Portland  Manuscripts,  v,    157. 


liii 

force,  to  Oxford,  who  did  not  deign  to  answer  them.* 
Ormonde  chafed  at  the  position,  but  he  submitted  to  it.  In 
the  opening  of  November  he  returned  to  England,  and  waited 
on  Anne  at  Windsor.  According  to  her  account  he  seemed 
at  first  a  Httle  uneasy,  but  after  talking  some  time  he  came 
into  good  humour,  and  her  frugal  mind  became  alarmed  lest 
he  should  demand  an  unreasonable  reward  for  his  services. f 

On  Ormonde's  leaving  Ireland  the  sword  had  been  com- 
mitted again  to  Lord  Chancellor  Phipps  and  General  Ingoldsby, 
but  two  months  later  Ingoldsby  died,  and  his  place  was  taken 
by  John  Vesey,  Archbishop  of  Tuam.  He  was  a  man  of 
moderate  views,  and  would  have  exercised  a  beneficial  influence 
on  the  Government  if  his  strength  had  permitted,  but  he  had 
reached  a  great  age,  and  the  power  became  more  than  ever 
vested  in  Lord  Chancellor  Phipps.  Under  Phipps's  rule,  as 
Bolingbroke  remarked,  Ireland,  instead  of  only  knowing  the 
distinction  of  Protestant  and  Papist,  became  madly  divided 
on  the  difference  between  Whig  and  Tory  and  High  and  Low 
Church,  even  to  a  greater  degree  than  England  was  at  the 
time,  and  the  conflict  between  the  governors  and  the  country 
gentlemen  was  unceasing.  When  the  necessity  of  calling 
the  ParUament  together  became  again  imminent,  the  Duke  of 
Shrewsbury  was  chosen  as  Lord  Lieutenant  in  the  hope  that 
he  might  be  able  to  allay  the  ferment,  and  in  September,  1713, 
Ormonde's  connection  with  the  Irish  Government  ceased. 

Ormonde's  last  year  of  office  was  memorable  for  the 
appointment  of  Swift  as  Dean  of  St.  Patrick's,  and  over  him 
Swift  obtained  a  great  ascendancy.  But  no  trace  of  their 
intercourse  is  to  be  found  amongst  the  papers  at  Kilkenny, 
except  a  memorandum  in  Swift's  handwriting  relating  to 
a  benefice  in  Ormonde's  gift.f  In  that  period  only  a  very 
smaU  part  of  Ormonde's  correspondence  has"  escaped 
destruction. §  Of  the  Lords  Justices,  Ingoldsby's  is  the 
only  case  where  more  than  one  letter  has  been  preserved. 
From  Lord  Chancellor  Phipps  there  is  one  ;  from  Primate 
Marsh  and  Archbishop  Vesey  there  is  none.  Amongst  the 
congratulatory  letters  on  Ormonde's  appointment  as  Lord 
Lieutenant  there  is  one  from  Thomas  Keightley,  telling 
Ormonde  that  as  King  William  saved  Ireland  from  popery 
and  arbitrary  power,  he  is  expected  to  deliver  it  from  presbytery 
and  a  factious  people  ready  to  devour  all  kingly  government. 
Baron  Johnson  sends  three  letters  in  which  he  shows  that  his 
devotion  to  his  party  is  unabated,  and  Dr.  Pratt,  who  had 
succeeded  Welbore  Ellis  as  Ormonde's  chaplain,  writes  about 
the  affairs  of  Trinity  College,  of  which  he  had  become  provost. 
Although     superseded     as     vice-treasurer.     Lord     Coningsby 

♦  Portland  Manuscripts,   v,    165,    176,    198  ;     Hodgkin   Manuscripts,   205, 
206,  208,  213  ;    cf.  Dartmouth  Manuscripts,  iii,  72-96. 
t  Bath  Manuscripts,  i,  222. 
%  Infra,   p.    337. 
i  Infra,   pp.    318-342- 


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professes  to  be  unalterably  Ormonde's  servant  on  account 
of  favour  shown  to  his  son,  but  in  the  debate  on  Ormonde's 
impeachment  he  is  said  to  have  abused  Ormonde  in  the  highest 
degree.*  Oxford  University  is  represented  by  George  Clarke, 
who  writes  about  the  affairs  of  All  Souls,  and  the  army  by 
General  Lumley,  who,  although  a  Whig,  took  Ormonde's 
part  in  the  impeachment  debate,  and  General  Pepper,  who 
sends  an  account  of  Stanhope's  surrender  at  Brighnega. 
Bishop  Stearne  thanks  Ormonde  for  his  appointment  to  the 
See  of  Dromore,  and  Sir  Thomas  Hanmer  urges  the  claim  of 
Francis  Higgins,  who  has  been  called  the  Irish  Sacheverell, 
to  a  seat  on  the  episcopal  bench.  Of  general  correspondents 
the  most  interesting  is  the  heroine  of  the  Beresford  ghost  story, 
then  the  wife  of  Lieutenant-General  Richard  Gorges,  and 
from  Brussels  Lord  Ailesbury,  and  from  New  York  a  name- 
sake of  General  Ingoldsby,  send  news  of  events  in  those  distant 
places. 

Before  the  close  of  the  year  1713  Ormonde  was  in  com- 
munication with  the  Jacobites,  but  up  to  the  time  of  the 
accession  of  George  the  First  he  does  not  appear  to  have 
taken  any  irrevocable  step.f  His  contemporaries  inchned  to 
the  opinion  that  his  impeachment  was  largely  due  to  the 
attitude  which  he  assumed  after  the  King's  arrival,  and 
attributed  his  ruin  to  the  influence  of  Bishop  Atterbury,J 
who  seems,  on  Swift's  withdrawal  from  London,  to  have 
become  Ormonde's  political  confident.  But  the  corres- 
pondence at  Kilkenny,  which  concludes  with  the  termination 
of  Ormonde's  second  Viceroyalty,  throws  no  light  on  the 
later  part  of  his  hfe,  and  information  as  to  it  must  be  sought 
from  other  sources. 

A  considerable  number  of  the  letters  in  the  present  volume 
are  inserted  under  different  years  to  those  under  which  they 
appear  in  the  catalogue,  and  while  writing  the  introduction 
the  editor  has  detected  further  errors  of  dating,  when  it  was 
too  late  for  any  re-arrangement  of  the  text  to  be  made. 
The  letters  in  which  these  errors  occurred  will  be  found  out 
of  chronological  order  but  correctly  dated,  on  pp.  26,  29,  38, 
42,  43,  57,  62,  79,  331,  332.  On  p.  206,  lines  4  to  15  belong 
to  a  letter  of  later  date. 

As  the  second  Duke  appears  to  have  invariably  spelled 
his  title  with  an  '  e,'  the  form  Ormonde  has  been  adopted 
throughout  this  volume. 

A  Diary  of  Events   m   Ireland,    1685 — 1690. 

This  diary  gives  many  particulars  as  to  life  in  Ireland, 
and  especially  in  Dublin,  during  the  occupation  of  James 
the  Second.     It  was  kept  by  a  Mr.  CoUes.     The  entries  were 

*  Portland  Manuscripts,  v,  512. 

t  Stuart  Papers,  vol.  i,  passim  ;    Duke  of  Berwick^ s  Memoirs,  ii,  185-86. 
%  Earl  of  Ailesbury' 8  Memoirs,  p.  653  ;  Faithful  Memoirs,  Lond.,   1732  ; 
Portland  Manuscripts,  vii,  200. 


made  on  copies  of  the  proclamations  issued  at  the  time,  and 
references  have  been  given  in  the  printed  version  of  the  diary 
to  the  notices  of  the  proclamations  in  the  "  Hand-Ust  of 
Proclamations  "  compiled  under  the  direction  of  the  Twenty - 
sixth  Earl  of  Crawford  in  the  Bihliotheca  Lindesiana. 

In  conclusion  the  Editor  desires  to  offer  his  thanks  to 
Mr.  T.  J.  Morrissey,  of  the  Public  Record  Office  of  Ireland, 
for  assistance  in  calendaring  the  correspondence. 


F.  ELRINGTON  BALL. 


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THE    MANUSCRIPTS 

OF   THE 

MAEQUESS  OF  OEMONDE.  K.P 


vol..    VIII. 


Countess  op  Longford  to  Ormonde. 

1688,  July  26.  Richmond. — I  received  a  letter  lately  from 
my  sister  Devonshire,  which  brought  me  the  unwelcome  news 
of  my  Lord  Duke's  death,  in  whom  I  have  not  only  lost 
the  relation  of  a  father  but  also  a  friend,  and  since  your 
lordship  hath  that  estate  out  of  which  my  Lord  Duke  made 
a  plentiful  provision  for  me  and  settled  it  as  a  jointure,  I 
humbly  beg  I  may  rely  on  your  protection  for  the  same.  .  .  . 

Ormonde  to  Hon.  Leopold  Finch. 

1688,  July  31.  Kingston  Hall. — At  my  coming  hither 
this  morning  I  find  the  favour  of  your  letter  of  the  28th  from 
Longleat.  I  understand  by  it  what  I  owe  to  the  University, 
in  acquainting  me  with  what  had  passed  about  the  mandamus 
and  for  employing  so  good  a  friend  in  the  message.  As  to  the 
election  itself,  I  have  reason  to  believe  that  his  Majesty  will 
let  things  alone  ;  and  for  the  time  of  the  instalment  I  hope 
it  may  be  done  within  a  week  after  the  interment  of  my 
grandfather,  which  is  to  be  on  Saturday.  But  it  shall  be  in 
my  care  when  I  am  at  London  to  correspond  with  you  herein 
and  to  adjust  all  things  to  the  satisfaction  of  my  friends.  I 
should  have  been  glad  to  have  seen  you  in  this  place,  but  now 
we  are  all  in  a  hurry,  yet  I  am,  &c.     Copy. 

John  Parker,  Junior,  to  Ormonde. 

1688,  August  2.  Nenagh. — Supplicating  an  office  in  his 
Grace's  Palatinate.  His  father  lies  sick  at  his  Grace's  castle 
at  Dromineer  ;  he  fears  the  news  of  the  death  of  his  Grace's 
grandfather  has  proved  fatal  to  him,  and  that  he  will  in  a 
short  time  leave  this  world  to  attend  his  dear  Lord  of 
Ormond  in  the  next.     Abstract. 

Edward  Prescott  to  Henry  Gascoignb. 
1688,  August  10.    Dublin.—  ...  We  talk  much  here   of 
the  family  being  brought  over  to  be  interred  at  Kilkenny  ; 
if  so,  we  have  hopes  of  seeing  you  soon.    .  .   .    Abstract, 
Wt,  43482,  0  I 


Gerard  Bor  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1688,  August  16.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  changes  made 
by  the  death  of  his  Grace's  grandfather.  Some  that  have 
true  friendship  for  the  house  of  Ormond  hope  that  Captain 
Mathew  and  Mr.  Smyth  will  be  continued  here,  and  Mr. 
Clarke  and  Mr.  Douglas,  as  Gascoigne  is,  wherever  his  Grace 
resides.  He  refers  to  Gascoigne's  office  of  chamberlain  in 
the  Exchequer,  and  at  the  Hospital.  He  hopes  to  be  at 
the  Carlow  assizes  on  the  following  Saturday  about  a  case 
in  which  his  Grace  is  a  party,  and  although  he  will  not  say 
that  he  fears  a  packed  jury,  he  is  sure  they  will  miss  their 
principal  solicitor,  Mr.  Valentine  Smyth,  to  whom  he  sends 
his  respects.  Chief  Justice  Keatinge  is  to  be  there.  He  had 
been  with  Bor  at  Wexford  to  drink  the  waters.  Bor  fell  ill 
there  of  a  fever,  succeeded  by  the  gout,  which  had  not  yet 
left  him.     Abstract. 

Benjamin  Cooper  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1688,  August  16.  Oxford. — Soliciting  the  clerkship  of  the 
markets,  which  by  the  favour  of  the  two  last  chancellors 
he  had  held  eight  and  twenty  years.  As  register  of  the 
University  he  will  attend  upon  Mr.  Vice-Chancellor  and  the 
delegates  appointed  for  the  admission  of  their  illustrious 
Chancellor  at  London  in  the  following  week.     Abstract. 

Colonel  Richard  Grace  to  Ormonde. 
1688,  September  4.  Dublin. — Recommending  a  kinsman, 
Mr.  Richard  Carroll,  as  a  person  fit  to  be  a  justice  of  the  peace 
in  the  county  of  Tipperary  ;  he  lives  in  Ormond,  is  a  person 
of  substance  and  parts,  and  an  attorney  both  in  Clonmel  and 
the  King's  Bench.  The  writer  had  lost  his  best  friend  by 
the  death  of  his  Grace's  grandfather,  and  nobody  can  be 
more  sincerely  his  Grace's  servant  or  well-wisher  than  Dick 
Grace.     Abstract. 

John  Butler  to  Ormonde. 
1688,  September  5.  Cashel. — Asking  for  the  receivership 
that  Mr.  Robert  Low  had  in  his  lifetime.  He  hears  that 
Captain  Mathew  is  going  to  England  to  renew  his  commission 
to  manage  his  Grace's  concerns.  Though  he  never  incurred 
Mathew's  displeasure,  he  is  sure  that  he  will  not  be  employed 
by  him.  He  had  been  in  the  family  of  his  Grace's  grand- 
father for  several  years,  and  was  given  employments  out  of 
which  he  is  turned  for  his  religion.     Abstract. 

LoDowiCK  Jackson  to  Ormonde. 
1688,  September  10.     London. — Concerning  his  misfortunes. 
When  his  Grace's  grandfather  first  entertained  him  of  his 
family,  he  left  a  considerable  station  in  Gray's  Inn,  recom- 
mended by  Sir  Robert  Poyntz,  as  the  son  of  his  Grace's  near 


kinswoman.  He  continued  about  twenty-four  years  in  his 
Grace's  favour,  and  served  in  several  capacities  in  three  farms 
of  the  Irish  revenue.  As  his  Grace's  favourite  he  became 
obnoxious  and  was  suspended.  He  came  to  London  full 
of  infirmities,  sick  and  lame,  and  could  never  get  employ. 
Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Viscount  Galmoye. 
1688,  September  11. — I  have  received  Mr.  Gascoigne,  my 
grandfather's  secretary,  into  my  service,  who,  knowing  much 
of  his  business,  may  be  of  great  use  to  me  ;  and  being  un- 
willing that  he  should,  by  his  attendance  on  me,  be  deprived 
of  the  benefit  of  his  employments  in  Ireland,  by  reason  of 
his  absence  from  thence,  especially  since  he  is  allowed  to  act 
by  his  deputy,  I  therefore  desire  your  lordship  to  do  me  the 
favour  to  move  my  Lord  Deputy  that  he  would  please  to  grant 
him  a  licence  of  absence  for  a  considerable  time,  that  he  may 
be  the  better  enabled  from  time  to  time  to  give  me  account 
of  such  things  as  I  may  have  occasion  to  make  use  of  him 
for  in  relation  to  my  grandfather's  papers,  and  other  business 
I  may  have  for  him  of  my  own.  I  have  heard  that  three  years 
have  been  usually  granted  at  a  time  by  the  favour  of  the 
Government,  which  favour,  if  it  may,  by  your  lordship's 
interposition,  be  granted  to  him,  will  very  much  oblige,  &c. 
Copy, 

Dr.  Gilbert  Ironside  to  Ormonde. 

1688,  September  11.  Wadham  College. — ^According  to  my 
promise  and  duty  to  your  Grace  when  your  University  had 
lately  the  great  honour  to  receive  so  many  noble  obligations, 
I  am  now  to  give  your  Grace  a  troublesome  welcome  into  the 
office  and  trust  you  were  pleased  to  undertake  for  us.  But 
it  is  in  a  business  of  that  nature  that  the  very  being  of  this 
University  and  the  honour  of  our  having  any  relation  to  your 
Grace  wholly  depends  upon.  My  Lord,  we  have  consulted 
amongst  ourselves,  and  with  my  Lord  Clarendon,  and  it  is 
thought  fit  his  Majesty  be  petitioned  to  withdraw  his  quo 
warranto,  with  which  I  was  served  in  June  last,  and  that  he 
would  be  pleased  to  leave  us  wholly  to  deal  with  our  adver- 
saries, the  printers  in  Westminster  Hall,  in  their  own  names. 
I  have  with  this  sent  our  petition,  and  humbly  desire  your 
Grace  to  deliver  it  to  his  Majesty  in  Council.  We  have  also 
reason  to  hope  my  Lord  Chancellor  of  England  will  second 
your  Grace  with  his  Majesty,  if  not  prepare  way  for  favour 
in  this  our  great  concern.  I  have  the  honour  to  send  this 
by  my  Lord  Clarendon,  who  will  give  your  Grace  a  particular 
account  of  this  whole  affair,  his  lordship  having  been  pleased 
to  take  much  pains  in  it  from  the  beginning. 

Colonel  John  Jeffreys  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 
1688,    September    15.     Dublin. — Concerning   the   Hospital. 
He  had  been  a  very  faithful,  constant  servant  to  the  Duke's 


father  and  grandfather.  There  is  some  notice  taken  that 
this  University  having  chosen  his  Grace  their  Chancellor, 
and  written  to  him,  they  never  heard  a  word  from  him. 
Abstract. 

Valentine  Crowe  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1688,  September  15. — A  young  gentleman,  who  is  fitly 
qualified  and  of  due  standing  in  the  University  of  Oxford, 
desires  to  be  elected  fellow  of  All  Souls  College  the  next  election 
day,  in  the  place  of  Mr.  Nicholas  Stanley,  late  fellow  of  the 
said  house.  A  friend  of  his  will  give  fifty  pounds  to  be  paid 
the  next  day  after  his  admittance.  "Kie  money  shall  be 
deposited  in  any  goldsmith's  hand  in  the  meantime. 

L.  Cole  to  Ormonde. 

1688,  September  15.  Poole. — Understanding  his  Grace  is 
in  election  of  being  chosen  master  of  the  Charter  House,  he  asks 
for  admission  of  his  two  poor  boys.  His  Grace's  company 
in  that  country,  where  there  is  much  game,  is  prayed  for. 
Abstract. 

Sir  Thomas  Worsopp  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1688,  September  16.  DubHn. — Asking  for  any  small  thing 
that  was  his  dear  deceased  Lord  Duke's,  if  it  were  but  a  pair 
of  spectacles,  a  stick  or  a  sword.  Next  to  his  God  the  Duke 
was  his  adored.  It  shall  be  a  hoUer  rehc  than  a  thousand 
acres  of  land.  Sir  Charles  Porter  will  convey  it  to  him.  The 
Duke  had  intended  to  make  him  one  of  his  standing  counsel. 
They  are  all  in  affliction  about  their  patents,  but  otherwise 
they  are  calm.  Bor  and  he  remember  Gascoigne  in  pure 
Florence.     Abstract. 

Henry  Constantine  to  Ormonde. 

1688,  September  19.  Merly. — Asking  for  a  nomination  to 
the  Charter  House  for  one  of  his  sons.     Abstract. 

Captain  Thomas  Leighton  to  Ormonde. 

1688,  September  20.  The  Downs. — Congratulating  his 
Grace  on  his  accession  to  the  Dukedom,  and  asking  his  Grace 
to  use  his  influence  to  enable  his  brother  Natt  to  place  himself 
in  the  Charter  House,  he  "  being  a  man  retired  from  all  secular 
employments."     Abstract. 

Seymour  Bowman  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1688,  September  22.  Bunch  of  Grapes,  Maiden  Lane, 
Covent  Garden. — Requesting  that  his  friend,  Mr.  John  Martiall, 
of  Cambridge  University,  and  minister  of  Ickleton,  near  Saffron 
Walden,  in  Essex,  be  recommended  by  his  Grace  to  proceed 
doctor  of  laws  at  Oxford.     He  is  a  person  of  learning  and 


exemplary  life  and  conversation,  and  a  pattern  of  piety  and 
virtue,  and  of  undoubted  loyalty,  whom  Gascoigne  may 
without  a  blush  propose  to  his  Grace.     Abstract. 

Dr.  Gilbert  Ironside  to  Ormonde. 

1688,  September  23.  Wadham  College. — Saying  that  he  had 
distributed  his  Grace's  noble  presents  to  himself,  the  proctors, 
etc. ;  he  intends  to  put  his  Grace's  coat  of  arms  on  the  one  to 
himself.     Abstract. 

Dr.  Gilbert  Ironside  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1688,  received  September  24. — Asking  for  dispensations  for 
Thomas  Sutton  of  Corpus,  Samuel  Finney  of  BaUiol,  and 
Bernard  Gardiner  of  Magdalen.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Wentworth  Harman  and  Another. 
1688,  September  25. — Referring  to  Wentworth  Harman 
and  John  Waring,  his  Grace's  seneschal  in  the  county  of 
Carlow,  statements  made  by  William  Robinson  and  Michael 
Smyth  concerning  Sherwood  Park.  In  his  statement  Robinson 
sets  forth  that  on  23  December,  1686,  he  had  been  constituted 
by  the  late  Duke  of  Ormond  ranger  of  the  Park,  and  on 
28  June  following  was  given  a  lease  of  the  same,  and  that 
Smyth,  who  had  been  in  occupation  of  the  Park,  had  obstructed 
him  in  taking  possession.  In  his  reply  Smyth  alleges  that 
Robinson  had  not  carried  out  the  covenants,  under  which 
Robinson  was  required  to  build  a  house  and  offices,  to  maintain 
a  hundred  and  fifty  brace  of  red  deer  and  a  pack  of  ten  couple 
of  dogs,  and  not  to  cut  any  timber  without  his  Grace's 
permission.     Abstract. 

Henry  Jones  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1688,    [received]    September    26. — Concerning    Gascoigne's 
mother    who    has    a    willingness    to    undertake    a    journey; 
Captain  Matliew,  if  he  be  come  to  London,  to  be  consulted. 
They  are  much  concerned  for  Lady  Mildmay's  indisposition 
Abstract. 

Simon  Digby,  Bishop  of  Limerick,  to  Ormonde. 

1688,  [received]  September  26.  Limerick. — Expressing  his 
sorrow  at  the  death  of  the  Duke's  grandfather,  and  wishing 
long  life  and  all  manner  of  felicity  to  his  Grace,  the  Duchess 
and  all  their  family.  The  bearer  of  the  letter,  a  nephew  of 
Mr.  Mathew  Harrison's,  who  lived  and  died  in  the  first  Duke 
of  Ormond 's  family,  and  a  near  relation  of  the  writer,  is 
ambitious  of  some  employment  in  his  Grace's  service. 
Abstract. 


BOBERT  BULKELEY  tO  OrMONDE. 

1688,  October  1.  Beaumaris. — Asking  his  Grace  to  obtain 
his  appointment  as  a  cornet  of  horse ;  his  father  is  upon  his 
death-bed.     Abstract. 

Captain  George  Aylmer  to  Ormonde. 

1688,  October  2.  Plymouth. — Being  here  stopped  upon 
some  false  accusations  about  a  scuffle  that  happened  between 
three  of  my  company  and  the  town  of  Penzeene  in  Cornwall, 
situated  two  miles  from  Pendenes,  wherein  a  townsman  was 
killed  and  they  accuse  me  to  his  Majesty  of  having  denied 
to  deliver  the  soldier  found  guilty,  as  also  that  I  conveyed 
them  away  by  sea,  all  which  being  false  and  not  knowing 
what  to  say  for  themselves  in  that  point  and  fearing  by  con- 
sequence that  they  may  suffer  for  it,  and  their  being  themselves 
the  occasion  of  said  disorder,  they  are  endeavouring  to 
calumniate  me  by  going  from  house  to  house  and  over  all  the 
country  inquiring  both  into  my  life  and  that  of  the  soldiers, 
seeking  to  find  out  grievances,  none  having  presented  them  with 
any.  My  Lord  of  Bath  being  to  examine  the  matter,  and  I 
being  wholly  a  stranger  to  his  lordship,  my  humble  request 
to  your  Grace  is  that  you  will  please  to  recommend  me  to 
his  lordship,  giving  that  character  you  shall  think  fit  of  me. 
To  encourage  your  Grace  to  this  favour,  I  do  avow  by  all 
that  is  sacred  my  being  innocent  in  everything  they  accuse 
me  of.  It  is  said  that  his  lordship  will  be  here  the  latter  end 
of  this  week,  which  obliges  me,  joined  to  your  Grace's  favours, 
to  duplicate  my  request  in  the  quality  of,  &c. 

L.  Cole  to  Ormonde. 
1688,    October    8.    Custom    House,    Poole. — Offering    his 
services,  but  is  reluctant  to  leave  his  present  employment. 
Abstract. 

Colonel  William  Dorrington  to  Ormonde. 
1688,  October  9.  Chester. — I  was  informed  that  the  route 
which  I  sent  your  Grace  a  copy  of  was  so  good  a  way  that  I 
thought  to  have  marched  all  the  seven  companies  that  way, 
but  since  that  I  have  informed  myself  better  by  those  that 
know  both  ways,  who  tells  me  that  three  companies  are  as 
many  as  can  be  well  accommodated,  so  I  march  the  other 
four  according  to  the  route  here  enclosed,  and  design  to  sojourn 
on  Sunday  next  at  Coventry  unless  I  have  orders  to  the 
contrary,  or  find  the  King's  affairs  requires  more  expedition. 
I  have  ordered  Capt.  Flower,  who  marches  the  aforesaid  three 
companies,  to  send  me  from  Warwick  to  Coventry  such  orders 
as  may  be  sent  me  thither.  I  must  take  the  liberty  once  more 
to  remind  your  Grace  of  the  illness  of  our  arms,  and  that  we 
have  no  bayonets,  which  I  hope  your  Grace  obtains  for  us  ; 
and  in  case  the  King  should  see  us  immediately,  I  wish,  if 


possible,  your  Grace  would  order  somebody  to  get  us  five 
hundred  hats  for  private  men,  and  eighteen  for  the  sergeants, 
for  these  we  have,  though  it  is  not  above  three  months  that  we 
have  worn  them,  they  are  a  shame  to  see,  at  first  they  were  so 
abominable  ill.     We  begin  our  march  this  morning. 

Lord  Kinsale  to  Ormonde. 

1688,  October  12.  Carrick. — I  am  infinitely  obliged  to  you 
for  your  kind  letter  and  was  something  afraid  that  your  Grace 
did  not  think  me  worthy  of  your  favour,  but  now  am  satisfied 
of  your  great  goodness,  which  cannot  be  expressed  by  my 
mouth  because  I  cannot  merit  anything  to  deserve  your 
friendship  ;  but  only  repeat  the  willingness  I  have  to  be 
everlastingly  devoted  to  your  service.  We  are  here  in  a  great 
consternation  about  the  Dutch  landing  with  you  ;  but  if  they 
be,  I  hope  that  our  gracious  King  will  handle  them  according 
to  their  treacherous  villainy.  We  have  lately  sent  you  very 
good  men  into  England,  where,  I  believe,  they  will  behave 
themselves  well.  There  is  three  packets  due,  which  makes  us 
very  uneasy,  for  our  last  letters  were  of  the  29th  of  September. 
I  have  pressingly  begged  leave  to  go  to  England  from  our 
governor,  but  cannot  attain  it,  because  he  told  me  I  must  not 
stir  from  my  command,  for  there  may  happen  some  rebellion 
here ;  but  I  am  resolved  when  this  business  is  over  to 
immediately  go  over.  I  hear  that  you  have  proffered  to  raise 
a  regiment  of  horse  for  the  King's  service,  and  if  you  do  think 
me  worthy,  I  should  be  most  happy  if  you  made  me  your 
lieutenant-colonel,  or  anything  to  be  with  you.  I  do  assure 
myself  if  you  will  speak  to  the  King  in  my  behalf  that  he  will 
not  deny  me  to  be  with  you,  or  anjrwhere  where  they  do  design 
raising  any  regiments  of  horse.  If  it  does  not  lie  with  your 
Grace's  conveniency  to  speak  in  my  behalf  I  shall  be  very 
well  satisfied,  and  I  hope  you  will  not  be  angry  that  I  desire 
this  favour  because  your  Grace  may  easily  guess  my  circum- 
stances in  this  kingdom,  for  I  have  not  been  from  hence 
since  the  camp,  but  have  been  here  at  Carrick,  and  does  not 
design  to  stir  from  my  command  till  I  go  for  England,  which 
will  be  as  soon  as  I  can.  My  dear  Lord,  if  you  have  any 
kindness  for  me,  answer  this  letter  soon,  and  you  will 
infinitely  oblige,  &c.  I  hope  to  God  the  Dutch  are  not  landed, 
but  if  they  be  they  will  have  their  reward. 

Colonel  William  Dorrington  to  Ormonde. 
1688,  October  14.  Coventry. — I  having  already  paid  my 
duty  two  or  three  times  to  your  Grace  since  our  landing  and 
informed  you  of  what  I  will  give  the  quarter-master  an 
account  of,  I  shall  have  little  now  to  take  up  your  Grace's 
time  after  telling  you  of  all  the  men  being  got  very  well  thus 
far,  and  that  the  other  three  companies  at  Warwick  are  the 
same,  which  I  have  ordered  to  join  us  on  Tuesday  night  at 


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Stony  Stratford,  if  it  can  be  done  conveniently,  otherwise  to 
continue  their  route  till  we  meet  at  London,  before  which 
your  Grace  shall  have  an  account  how  we  shall  be,  in  order 
to  our  knowing  where  your  Grace  will  do  us  the  honour  to  see 
us,  and  in  the  meantime  I  hope  your  Grace  will  be  pleased 
to  give  the  quarter-master  such  orders  and  instructions  as  is 
necessary  for  furnishing  us  with  such  things  as  are  of  absolute 
necessity  for  us,  which  is  all  at  present  from  he  that  most 
dutifully  is,  &c. 

Captain  Phineas  Pett  to  Ormonde. 

1688,  October  14.  Sevenoaks. — Concerning  the  agency 
of  his  Grace's  regiment  which  his  Grace  had  some  time  before 
bestowed  on  him,  but  which  did  not  consist  with  his  com- 
missary's place.     Abstract. 

Captain  Thomas  Leighton  to  Ormonde. 

1688,  October  19.  Buoy  in  the  Nore. — Regretting  his 
Grace's  inability  to  be  kind  "  to  a  poor  unfortunate  good 
man,"  and  giving  particulars  as  to  the  strength  of  the  fleet. 
Abstract. 

Duke  of  Beaufort  to  Ormonde. 

1688,  October  20.  Badminton. — Recommending  Mr.  Floyd 
for  an  officer's  place.  He  is  very  well  qualified  in  everything 
but  experience,  and  very  ambitious  of  a  place  in  the  new 
levies.  He  is  a  man  of  estate  in  his  country  and  could  raise 
men.  The  writer  is  sure  Ormonde  will  be  ready  to  help  such 
a  man  both  on  the  King's  account  and  his  own.     Abstract. 

Sir  Peter  Pett  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 
1688,  October  25. — Recommending  Nathaniel  Lloyd,  student 
in  Oxford,  son  of  Sir  Richard  Lloyd,  late  Dean  of  the  Arches 
and  Judge  of  the  Admiralty,  for  a  fellowship  of  All  Souls, 
a  position  the  writer  has  filled  for  many  years.     Abstract. 

Thomas  Shadwell  to  Ormonde. 

1688,  November  5. — Thanking  his  Grace  for  the  extra- 
ordinary favour  which  he  had  shown  to  his  son  concerning  his 
election  as  a  fellow  of  All  Souls.  He  hopes  his  Grace  will 
have  no  need  to  blush  upon  being  a  restorer  of  a  drooping 
family,  which  their  father's  losses  for  Charles  I  and  multitude 
of  children  had  almost  left  naked  to  the  world.     Abstract. 

Henry  Gascoigne  to  Gerard  Bor. 
1688,  November  10. — Acknowledging  his  letter,  which  had 
come  at  an  ill  time,  when  the  Dutch  are  landed  and  the  King 
preparing  for  their  reception.     Abstract. 


Lord  Delamer  to 


[1688,  November.] — My  very  good  friends  and  tenants. 
The  occasion  of  this  is  to  give  you  my  thoughts  in  the  present 
juncture,  which  concerns  not  only  you  but  every  Protestant 
and  free-bom  man  of  England.  I  am  confident  there  are  none 
among  you  but  wishes  well  to  the  Protestant  religion  and  his 
country,  and  I  also  am  persuaded  that  you  think  both  in  danger 
and  now  to  lie  at  stake.  I  am  also  persuaded  that  every  man 
of  you  will  rejoice  to  see  religion  and  property  settled.  If  then 
I  am  not  mistaken  in  my  conjectures  concerning  you,  can  you 
hope  for  a  better  occasion  to  root  out  Popery  and  slavery 
than  by  joining  with  the  Prince  of  Orange,  whose  proposals 
contain  and  speak  the  desires  of  every  man  that  loves  his 
religion  and  liberty  ?  And  in  saying  this  I  will  invite  you  to 
nothing  but  what  I  will  do  myself,  and  I  will  not  desire  any 
of  you  to  go  farther  than  I  move  myself,  neither  will  I  put  you 
upon  any  dangers  where  I  will  not  take  my  share  in  them. 
I  propose  this  to  you,  not  as  you  are  my  tenants,  but  as  you 
are  my  friends,  and  as  you  are  Englishmen.  No  man  can 
love  fighting  for  its  own  sake,  nor  find  any  pleasure  in  dangers, 
and  you  may  imagine  I  would  be  very  glad  to  spend  the  rest 
of  my  days  in  peace,  having  had  so  great  a  share  in  troubles, 
but  when  I  see  all  lies  at  stake,  I  am  not  to  choose  whether 
I  will  be  a  slave  and  a  Papist,  or  a  Protestant  and  a  free  man, 
and  therefore  the  cause  being  thus,  I  should  think  myself 
false  to  my  country  if  I  sat  still  at  this  time.  I  am  of  opinion 
that  when  the  nation  is  delivered,  it  must  be  by  force,  or  by 
miracle.  It  would  be  too  great  a  presumption  to  expect  the 
latter,  because  God  Almighty  in  the  methods  of  His  Providence, 
works  by  second  causes,  and  therefore  our  deliverance  must 
be  by  force,  and  I  hope  this  is  the  time  for  it.  A  way  is  now 
put  into  our  hands,  and  if  it  miscarry  for  want  of  assistance, 
our  blood  is  upon  our  own  heads,  and  he  that  is  passive  all 
this  time  may  very  well  expect  that  God  will  mock  when  the 
fear  of  that  comes  upon  him,  which  he  thought  to  avoid  by 
being  indifferent.  If  the  King  prevail,  farewell  liberty  of 
conscience,  which  has  hitherto  been  allowed,  not  for  the  sake 
of  the  Protestants,  but  in  order  to  serve  Popery.  You  may  see 
what  we  are  to  expect  if  he  gets  the  better.  He  has  lately 
given  you  of  this  town  a  taste  of  the  methods  whereby  he 
will  maintain  his  army,  and  you  may  see  of  what  sort  of  people 
he  intends  his  army  to  consist,  and  if  you  have  a  mind  to  serve 
such  a  master,  and  stand  by  and  see  your  countrymen  perish, 
when  they  are  endeavouring  to  defend  you,  the  crime  will  lie 
at  your  own  doors.  I  promise,  upon  my  word  and  honour, 
to  every  tenant  that  goes  along  with  me,  that  if  he  falls,  I 
will  make  his  lease  as  good  to  his  family  as  it  was  when  he 
went  from  home. 

The  thing  then  that  I  desire,  your  country  does  expect 
from  you,  is  this,  that  every  man  that  has  a  tolerable  horse, 
or  can  procure  one,  will  meet  me  on  Bowden  Downs  to-morrow, 


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where  I  intend  to  rendezvous  ;  but  if  any  of  you  is  rendered 
incapable  by  reason  of  age,  or  any  other  just  excuse,  that 
then  he  will  send  a  fitter  person,  and  put  him  five  pounds 
in  his  pocket.  Those  that  cannot  procure  horses  let  them 
stay  at  home,  and  assist  with  their  purses,  and  send  it  to  me, 
with  a  particular  of  every  man's  contribution.  I  impose 
upon  no  man,  but  let  him  lay  his  hand  upon  his  heart  and 
consider  what  he  is  willing  to  give  to  recover  his  religion  and 
liberty,  and  to  such  I  promise,  and  to  all  that  go  along  with  me, 
that  if  we  prevail,  I  will  be  as  industrious  to  have  him  recom- 
pensed for  his  charge  and  hazard,  as  I  will  be  to  seek  for  it 
myself.  This  advice  I  give  to  all  that  stay  behind,  that  when 
you  hear  the  Papists  committed  any  outrage,  or  are  rising, 
that  you  will  get  together,  for  it  is  better  to  meet  the  danger 
than  expect  it.  I  have  no  more  to  say  than  that  I  am  willing 
to  lose  my  life  in  the  cause,  if  God  see  good,  for  I  never  was 
unwilling  to  die  for  my  religion  and  country,  so  I  rest,  your 
loving  friend,  Delamer. 

Joseph  Norton  to  Ormonde. 

1688,  November  24.  Melbome. — Being  ordered  to  put 
the  port  of  Weymouth  in  some  posture  of  defence,  and  while 
there  to  swear  the  Prince's  officers  of  the  Customs,  and  to  put 
such  books  and  papers  into  their  hands  as  of  right  belonged 
to  their  several  employments,  I  found  in  the  late  collector's 
trunk,  some  time  since  run  away,  being  a  Romanist,  a  great 
bundle  of  these  books  in  print,  which  after  I  had  in  some 
measure  taken  a  view  of,  I  could  not  do  less  than  have  them 
burnt  by  the  hand  of  the  hangman  of  the  county,  the  contents 
thereof  being  so  reviling  his  Grace  the  late  Duke  of  Ormonde, 
for  whose  memory  I  shall  ever  have  a  peculiar  respect  too, 
being  one  that  by  inclination  as  well  as  obligation  owns  myself 
bound  ever  to  be  a  devoted  servant  to  the  august  family 
and  particularly  so  am  I,  &c.  My  wife  and  self  beg  leave* 
to  be  rendered  most  humble  servants  to  her  Grace  of  Ormonde. 

Earl  of  Longford  to  Ormonde. 
1688,  November  26.  Dublin. — Recommending  Mr.  Israel 
Fielding.  He  is  an  honest  and  sincere  man,  very  affectionate 
and  just  to  his  late  Lord,  the  Earl  of  Arran,  and  too  ingenuous 
and  too  much  a  gentleman  to  play  fast  and  loose,  as  is  surmised 
of  him.  Lord  Mountjoy's  regiment  embarks  the  next  week 
for  Chester ;  no  persons  or  horses  can  go  out  of  the  kingdom 
without  licence.    Abstract. 

Sir  John  Meade  to  Ormond. 

1688,  December  4. — It  is  now  the  time  that  usually  sheriffs 
are  appointed,  and  it  being  my  duty  to  name  some  persons  to 
your  Grace,  out  of  which  your  Grace  will,  if  you  approve  of 
them,  choose  a  sheriff  for  your  Palatinate  of  Tipperary  for  the 


11 

ensuing  year,  I  humbly  presume  to  propose  to  your  Grace 
Oliver  Latham,  senior,  Thomas  Sadleir  or  James  Harrison, 
Esqrs.,  as  persons  fit  for  that  employment,  any  of  which  I 
believe  will  discharge  the  office  well.  But  if  I  may  presume 
to  give  my  thoughts,  I  believe  Mr.  Latham  would  be  the  most 
acceptable  to  all  parties.  Our  present  high  sheriff,  Major 
George  Mathew,  being  with  his  command  now  in  England, 
makes  it  requisite  that  a  new  sheriff  be  the  sooner  appointed, 
for  in  his  absence  the  gaol  is  neglected,  and  has  been  twice 
broken  since  last  assizes,  and  several  prisoners,  some  of  them 
condemned  persons,  have  lately  made  their  escape,  to  the 
great  danger  of  the  quiet  of  the  country,  such  persons  usually 
making  very  bad  use  of  their  liberty,  running  out  on  their 
keeping,  and  robbing  all  they  can  master.  Your  Grace's 
commands  and  pleasure  herein  is  humbly  desired  by,  &c. 

L.  Cole  to  Ormonde. 
1688,  December  17.  Poole. — Informing  his  Grace  that  he 
had  set  out  to  join  him  with  his  Grace's  farrier  and  two  horses, 
but  meeting  with  the  hot  alarm  of  the  roads  being  disturbed 
by  the  Irish  he  had  returned.  He  believes  aU  things  are  in 
a  great  hurry  in  London.     Abstract. 

Dr.  Gilbert  Ironside  to  Ormonde. 

1688,  December  17.  Wadham  College. — This  morning  I 
called  a  congregation,  and  in  it  was  passed  a  letter  of  thanks 
to  his  Highness  the  Prince  of  Orange  for  his  gracious  letter  to 
your  Grace  concerning  us.  The  orator  who  was  to  draw  it, 
could  not  be  ready  with  it  before.  I  think  it  is  drawn  well 
enough,  though  I  am  sure  it  must  fall  short  of  our  wishes  and 
the  unfeigned  zeal  and  services  we  have  for  his  Highness 
upon  any  occasion.  I  have  sent  this  messenger  on  purpose 
to  deliver  it  your  Grace,  and  entreat  your  Grace  to  deliver 
it  to  the  Prince.  I  must  also  beg  your  Grace's  pardon  for  this 
hasty  scribble  and  to  esteem  me,  may  it  please  your  Grace, 
in  aU  maimer  of  duty,  &c. 

Simon  Luttrell  to  Ormonde. 

1688,  December  24.  London. — Your  Grace's  grandfather 
and  father  were  the  protectors  of  me  and  my  family.  It  was 
they  preserved  me  from  the  general  shipwreck  of  my  country. 
I  never  disobliged  the  son  neither  was  I  ever  capable  of  obliging 
your  father,  so  that  their  kindness  to  me  proceeded  out  of  their 
mere  bounty  and  goodness,  which  makes  me  hope  for  the  same 
protection  from  your  Grace.  I  have  been  sick  these  two 
years.  I  am  now  paralytic.  I  have  not  been  in  Ireland 
this  year  and  a  half.  I  come  with  no  command  here,  nor  bear 
no  arms  here,  so  hope  that  will  make  it  more  easy  to  get  my 
pass  that  I  may  go  to  seek  for  my  health  and  be  out  of  the  way 
till  things  come  to  some  settlement,  and  if  God  sends  me  my 


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health,  and  if  your  Grace  promises  me  leave,  I  will  go  and  serve 
the  Emperor.  I  got  cold  yesterday  which  occasions  the 
liberty  you  were  pleased  to  give  me  of  writing.  Pray  be  pleased 
to  send  me  an  answer. 

Declaration  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Northern 
Country  at  Nottingham. 

1688,  December  25. — We,  the  nobility,  gentry  and  com- 
monalty of  this  northern  country  asembled  together  at 
Nottingham,  for  the  defence  of  our  laws,  religion,  and  property 
according  to  those  free-bom  liberties  and  privileges  descended 
to  us  from  our  ancestors  as  the  undoubted  birth-right  of 
the  subjects  of  this  kingdom  of  England,  not  doubting  but  the 
infringers  and  invaders  of  our  rights  will  represent  us  to  the 
rest  of  the  nation  in  the  most  malicious  dress  they  can  put 
upon  us,  do  therefore  unanimously  think  it  our  duty  to  declare 
to  the  rest  of  our  Protestant  fellow-subjects  of  our  under- 
taking. 

We,  therefore,  being  by  innumerable  grievances  made  sensible 
that  the  very  fundamentals  of  our  religion,  liberties  and  pro- 
perties were  about  to  be  rooted  out  by  our  late  Jesuitical 
Privy  Council,  as  has  been  now  of  late  apparent :  i.  by  the 
King's  dispensing  with  all  established  laws  at  his  pleasure  ; 
ii.  by  displacing  all  officers  in  any  offices  of  trust  or  advantage 
and  placing  in  their  rooms  Papists,  disallowed  and  made 
incapable  of  the  same  by  the  established  laws  of  England  ; 
iii.  by  displacing  all  honest  and  conscientious  judges  unless 
they  should  contrary  to  their  conscience  declare  that  to  be  law 
that  was  merely  arbitrary  ;  iv.  by  discouraging  all  persons 
that  are  not  Papists  and  preferring  such  as  would  turn  to 
Popery  ;  v.  by  branding  all  men  by  the  name  of  rebels  that 
but  offered  to  justify  the  law  in  a  legal  course  against 
arbitrary  proceeding  of  the  King  or  any  of  his  corrupt 
Ministers  ;  vi.  by  providing  of  the  nation  with  an  army  to 
maintain  the  violation  of  the  rights  of  the  subjects  ;  vii. 
by  discountenancing  the  Established  Reformed  Religion ; 
viii.  by  forbidding  the  subjects  the  benefit  of  petitioning, 
and  construing  it  libelling,  so  rendering  the  laws  a  nose  of 
wax  to  settle  their  arbitrary  ends,  and  many  more  such  like 
too  long  to  be  here  inserted. 

We  being  thus  made  sadly  sensible  that  an  arbitrary  and 
tyrannical  government  is  by  the  influence  of  Jesuitical 
councils  coming  upon  us,  do  unanimously  declare  that  not 
being  willing  to  deliver  up  our  posterity  to  such  conditions 
of  Popery  and  slavery  as  the  aforesaid  appearances  effectually 
threatened,  we  will  to  the  utmost  of  our  power  oppose  the  same, 
and  by  joining  with  the  Prince  of  Orange,  whom  we  hope 
God  Almighty  hath  sent  to  rescue  us  from  the  oppression 
aforesaid,  will  use  our  utmost  endeavours  for  the  recovery  of 
our  almost  ruined  laws,  liberties  and  rights,  and  herein  we 
hope  all  good  Protestant  subjects  will  with  their  lives  and 


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fortunes  be  assisting  to  us  and  not  be  bug-beared  with  the 
opprobrious  names  of  rebels  by  which  they  would  fright  us 
to  become  perfect  slaves  to  their  tyrannical  insolency  and 
usurpation,  for  we  assure  ourselves  that  no  rational  unbiased 
persons  will  judge  it  rebellion  to  defend  our  laws  and  religion, 
which  all  our  just  princes  have  sworn  to  maintain  by  their 
coronation  oath,  which  oath,  how  well  it  has  been  observed, 
we  desire  a  free  Parliament  may  have  the  considera- 
tion of. 

We  count  it  rebellion  to  resist  a  king  that  governs  by  law, 
but  he  was  always  counted  a  tyrant  that  made  his  will  the 
law  ;  to  resist  such  a  one  we  justly  esteem  it  no  rebellion, 
but  a  necessary  defence,  and  in  this  confidence  we  doubt 
not  of  all  honest  Englishmen's  assistance,  and  humbly  hope 
for,  and  implore  the  great  God's  protection  that  tumeth  the 
hearts  of  His  people  as  pleases  Himself,  it  having  been 
observed  that  people  can  never  be  of  one  mind  without  His 
inspiration,  that  hath  in  all  ages  confirmed  this  observation 
that  vox  populi,  vox  Dei. 

The  present  restoring  of  charters  and  reversing  the  oppression 
and  unjust  judgment  of  Magdalen  College  Fellows,  it  is  as  plain 
as  plums  to  children,  are  but  to  still  the  people  by  deceiving 
them  for  a  while,  but  if  they  shall  by  this  stratagem  be  fooled 
till  the  present  storm  that  threatens  the  Papists  be  past,  as 
soon  as  they  shall  be  restored  the  former  oppressions  will  be 
pushed  on  with  the  greatest  vigour.  But  we  hope  in  vain 
is  the  net  spread  in  the  sight  of  the  birds  :  (i.)  for  the  Papists' 
old  rule  is  that  faith  is  not  to  be  kept  with  Heretics,  and  so 
they  term  Protestants,  though  the  Roman  religion  is  the 
greatest  heresy  ;  (ii.)  and  Queen  Mary  observed  her  promise 
to  the  Suffolk  men  that  helped  her  to  the  Crown  ;  (iii.)  and, 
above  all,  that  of  the  Pope's  dispensing  with  the  breach  of 
oaths  and  promises  at  his  pleasure,  when  it  makes  for  the 
service  of  Holy  Church  as  they  term  it. 

These,  I  say,  are  such  convincing  reasons  to  hinder  us  from 
giving  any  credit  to  the  aforesaid  mock  redress  that  we  think 
ourselves  bound  in  conscience  to  rest  on  no  other  security 
than  what  shall  be  made  in  a  free  Parliament,  to  whom  under 
God  we  refer  ourselves. 

LoDowiCK  Jackson  to  Ormonde. 
1688,  December  31. — Concerning  a  loan  which  he  was 
negotiating  for  his  Grace.  He  asks  his  Grace  to  countenance 
a  proposal  which  he  is  presenting  to  the  Prince  of  Orange. 
It  was  approved  by  his  Majesty,  Lord  Rochester,  and  his 
Grace's  grandfather  and  probably  would  have  taken  good 
effect  if  the  last  Parliament  had  not  been  dissolved.     Abstract. 

Captain  James  Buck  to  Ormonde. 
1688-9,     January    3.     Gravesend    Beach. — Asking    to    be 
allowed  to  serve  in  his  Grace's  regiment  as  captain  or  lieutenant. 


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On  New  Year's  Day  he  had  received  orders  to  carry  his  ship 
back  to  Chatham,  where  he  supposes  they  will  be  laid  up 
till  the  spring.  He  believes  all  the  rest  of  the  great  ships 
that  are  not  in  a  very  forward  condition  of  service,  have  the 
same  orders.  He  wishes  a  sufficient  fleet  may  be  kept  to  guard 
the  Irish  coast  from  the  French  landing.  Their  daily  news 
from  Ireland  gives  a  probability  of  service.     Abstract. 

John  Cleere  to  Ormonde. 

1688-9,  January  8. — ^Asking  to  be  recommended  for  em- 
ployment in  the  Customs.  He  has  been  out  of  employment 
for  four  years,  except  the  little  time  that  he  was  at  Monsieur 
Faubert's.  He  says  that  he  is  the  oldest  living  immediate 
servant  of  his  Grace,  with  the  exception  of  Mrs.  Harrabin. 
Abstract. 

Viscount  Mountjoy  to  Lord  Deputy  Tyrconnel. 

1688-9,  January  10. — Until  his  Majesty's  pleasure  be  further 
known  it  is  humbly  proposed  to  your  Excellency  :  (i)  that 
no  new  levies  be  made  in  this  kingdom,  no  more  arms  given 
out,  nor  no  commission  signed  ;  (ii)  that  all  the  new  raised 
forces  do  keep  in  their  present  quarters,  if  no  enemy  lands  here, 
and  that  the  kingdom  is  quiet,  and  that  no  more  troops  be 
commanded  into  Ulster  than  are  at  present  there  ;  (iii)  that 
no  nobleman,  gentleman,  or  common  man  in  this  kingdom 
shall  be  imprisoned,  seized,  or  in  any  wise  molested  for  any 
tumultuous  meetings,  [or]  arming  of  men  .  .  . 

Viscount  Mountjoy  to  Ormonde. 
1688-9,  January  10. — You  have  had  an  account  how  long  I 
have  stayed  on  the  way  after  I  left,  and  the  reason  which  made 
me  since  come  forward,  and  whatever  my  [ideas]  were  at  my 
first  arrival,  I  am  more  fully  satisfied  at  my  coming,  and  with 
God's  blessing  hope  it  will  come  to  good  to  us  all.  As  soon  as 
I  saw  my  Lord  Deputy  he  told  me  he  intended  to  send  me  to 
the  King  presently  with  the  Lord  Chief  Baron  Rice  to  lay 
before  him  the  state  of  the  kingdom,  and  to  tell  him,  if  he 
pleased,  he  could  ruin  it  for  [him],  and  make  [it]  a  heap  of 
rubbish,  but  it  was  impossible  to  preserve  and  make  it  of  use 
to  him,  and  therefore  to  desire  leave  to  [compound]  for  it.  The 
objections  I  made  to  this  were  two  ;  my  being  not  qualified 
for  this  as  an  orthodox  Roman  Catholic,  whom  in  all  like- 
lihood the  King  would  sooner  give  credit  to,  and  the 
improbability  of  being  able  to  persuade  the  King,  who  is  now 
in  the  French  hands,  to  a  thing  that  is  plainly  against  their 
interests.  To  the  first  I  was  answered  what  was  not  fit  for  me 
to  repeat,  and  the  other  is  so  well  answered  that  the  most 
knowing  Englishmen  are  satisfied  with  it.  He  desired  me  to 
undertake  this  matter,  which  I  have  done  .  .  .* 

*  This  letter  and  the  foregoing  proposals  are  portion  of  a  document  which 
has  been  much  injured. 


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John  Hickes,  Deputy  Mayor  of  Bristol,  to  Ormonde. 

1688-9,  January  12.  Bristol. — Enclosing  a  report  of  the 
present  state  of  Ireland  made  by  gentlemen,  who  came  from 
Waterford  on  the  8th  inst.  If  no  seasonable  relief  be  forthwith 
sent  over,  the  Protestant  interest  there  will  be  exposed  to 
great  hazard.     Abstract. 

Gerard  Bor  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1688-9,  January  14.  Dublin. — Enclosing  a  paper  received 
from  Mr.  Valentine  Smyth  from  Kilkenny.  Mr.  Attorney 
General  is  employed  to  move  the  Lord  Deputy  for  a  warrant 
to  remove  papers.  "We  are  here  much  distracted  with 
the  fear  of  an  approaching  war."     Abstract. 

Enclosure  : — 

Viscount  Galmoye  to  Valentine  Smyth. 

1688-9,  January  9. — Giving  directions  for  the  storing 
of  arms  and  ammunition  of  his  Majesty's  in  the  round 
tower  near  the  great  Castle  of  Kilkenny.     Abstract. 

Richard  Power  to  Valentine  Smyth. 

1688-9,  January  14.  Kilmore.^ — Reporting  the  conduct  of 
Major  Byrne,  now  a  lieutenant-colonel  in  the  new  army  raised 
for  the  King.  He  came  thither  with  two  or  three  ploughs  with 
labourers  proportionable  thereto  and  did  cut  and  carry  away 
ash  saplings  to  make  pikes  for  his  Majesty.     Abstract. 

Captain  John  Baxter  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1688-9,  January  15.  Dunmore. — I  have  written  twice 
to  you  since  I  heard  from  you,  which  make  me  think  mine 
never  came  to  your  hand.  This  now  is  to  tell  you  that  I  and 
my  wife  and  small  family  are,  and  have  been,  at  this  place 
these  six  weeks  according  to  his  Grace's  order  to  Mr. 
Valentine  Smyth  in  my  behalf,  for  which  I  desire  you  to  give 
his  Grace  my  most  humble  thanks.  I  am  as  well,  God  be 
praised,  as  ever  I  have  been  this  seven  years,  and  have  held 
so  since  the  last  March,  but  want  something  to  do  wherein 
I  might  serve  his  Grace,  being  not  only  able  but  very  willing 
to  express  my  gratitude  by  my  actions  as  well  as  words. 

My  Lord's  servants  here  are  most  of  them  in  arms.  Mr. 
James  Bryan  of  Jenkinstown  hath  by  commission  raised  a 
troop  of  horse.  Mr.  Valentine  Smyth's  eldest  son,  who  acts 
in  the  office  under  his  father,  is  the  comet  to  it.  Mr.  James 
Shea,  one  of  his  Grace's  collectors,  is  quartermaster,  and  his 
brother  Patrick  Shea,  who  is  clerk  and  receiver  under  Mr. 
Smyth  is  in  arms,  and  Michael  Langton,  who  supplies  that  place 
which  I  last  had  at  Kilkenny  Castle,  is  likewise  a  trooper  under 
the  said  Bryan,  and  it  is  very  likely  that  his  Grace's  servants 
and  collectors  do  the  same  in  other  places ;    but  how  these 


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actions  may  agree  with  his  Grace's  service  cannot  be  appre- 
hended by  me,  as  also  the  packing  up  his  Grace's  best  goods 
to  send  I  know  not  whither,  nor  where  they  can  be  safer, 
though  the  Castle  of  Kilkenny  is  in  part  seized  on  by  the  Lord 
Galmoye  for  a  store,  and  guards  for  the  same,  and  lodgings 
for  officers,  of  which  I  doubt  not  but  his  Grace  has  an  account 
from  Mr.  Smyth,  as  also  of  the  packing  up  the  goods  ;  and 
that  his  Grace  well  considers  before  they  are  removed, 
especially  at  this  unseasonable  time  of  the  year. 

I  shall  not  tell  you  how  ill  my  Lord  is  spoken  of  here,  by 
those  who  have  little  reason  for  it.  The  bearer  can  tell  you 
more  than  is  fit  to  write.  He  is  a  very  honest  man,  who 
was  the  Kilkenny  waggoner,  and  before  that  was  my  Lord 
Ossory's  waggoner  in  the  Netherlands,  and  if  his  Grace  wants 
a  servant  for  that  employment  I  know  not  where  he  can  have 
a  more  sober  or  careful  one,  either  for  that  or  a  bomb-cart,  if  his 
Grace  comes  over.  I  desire  you  will  take  an  opportunity 
privately  to  impart  what  I  have  written  to  my  Lord,  and  let 
not  my  name  be  publicly  mentioned,  lest  it  may  prejudice 
me  here,  where  most  are  fleeing  from  danger  ;  but,  God  be 
thanked,  fear  hath  not  yet  seized  me,  and  I  hope  never  shall. 
Pray  favour  me  with  a  line  or  two  to  let  me  know  how  both 
their  Graces  are,  and  the  young  Lord,  as  you  think  convenient 
which  will  be  a  very  great  kindness  to,  &c. 

Letter  of  William  Henry,  Prince  of  Orange. 

1688-9,  January  17.  St.  James's. — Whereas  it  hath  been 
represented  unto  us  that  Sir  George  Barclay  lies  dangerously 
ill  in  this  town,  so  that  he  cannot  without  hazard  of  his  life 
be  removed  from  hence,  these  are  to  require  all  justices  of  the 
peace,  magistrates  and  constables  whom  it  may  concern  to 
suffer  the  said  Sir  George  Barclay  to  continue  at  his  lodgings 
in  Westminster  without  any  disturbance  or  molestation  till 
he  is  in  a  condition  fit  to  travel. 

Christopher  Congreve  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1688-9,  January  21.  Eaton. — Concerning  his  pension.  He 
hears  that  Sir  Stephen  Fox  is  the  grand  cash-keeper.    Abstract. 

Matthew  Anderton  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1688-9,  January  23.  Chester. — I  have  been  sent  a  box  from 
Mr.  Edward  Prescott  directed  for  my  Lady  Mildmay,  which  he 
directs  me  to  keep  till  I  receive  your  order,  which,  when  I  have 
it,  shall  be  observed.  Sir  Thomas  Worsopp  died  here  on 
Sunday  last ;  his  corpse  goes  home  to-morrow  to  be  interred 
at  Windsor.  Eight  hundred  men  of  Colonel  Douglas's  regi- 
ment are  quartered  here  at  present.  Major  General  Werden's 
regiment  of  horse  are  quartered  at  Namptwich.  The  Prince 
gave  the  command  thereof  to  my  Lord  Delamer,  who  sent  some 
of  his  own  officers  to  command  them  ;   but  they  are  returned 


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hither,  the  soldiers  refusing  to  yield  obedience  to  them,  as 
I  am  informed.  Here  are  Sir  Richard  Rjrves,  Captain  Ford 
and  many  of  our  Irish  friends  who  drink  your  health  every 
day  we  meet.  I  pray  present  my  most  humble  duty  to  my 
Lord  Duke.     Accept  of  hearty  service  to  yourself  from,  &c. 

Sir  George  Barclay  to  Ormonde. 

1688-9,  January  29. — Saying  that  since  the  Prince  of  Orange's 
arrival  near  London  he  has  conformed  himself  to  his 
Highness's  directions.  On  leaving  his  regiment  he  was  visited 
with  sickness,  and  now  begs  his  Grace  to  intercede  with  the 
Prince  for  a  pass  to  go  into  France  and  for  payment  of  his  last 
four  months'  pay.     Abstract. 

Dr.  Gilbert  Ironside  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1688-9,  February  7.  Wadham  College. — Asking  for  a 
dispensation  for  John  Shadwell,  fellow  of  All  Souls,  to  enable 
him  to  take  his  bachelor  of  arts  degree. 

February  10. — Asking  for  a  dispensation  for  Thomas  Powel 
of  Jesus  College. 

February  19. — Asking  for  a  dispensation  for  John  Abdy, 
bachelor  of  arts  of  Brasenose  College.     Abstracts. 

Richard  Crump  to  Ormonde. 

1688-9,  February  25.  Bristol. — Enclosing  letter  in  order 
that  the  distressed  subjects  therein  referred  to  might  receive 
relief.     Abstract. 

Dr.  Gilbert  Ironside  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1688-9,  March  23.  Wadham  College. — Asking  for  a  dis- 
pensation for  William  Brewster,  bachelor  of  arts,  of  St.  John's 
College. 

1689,  March  27. — Asking  for  a  dispensation  for  John  Clifton, 
commoner  of  St.  Mary  Hall,  who  had  been  detained  in  the 
country  by  being  a  tutor  to  a  knight's  son. 

March  30. — ^Asking  for  a  dispensation  for  the  Honourable 
Albemarle  Bertie,  of  University  College,  to  enable  him  to  take 
his  degree  next  term.  The  request  is  made  not  only  on  account 
of  his  being  a  person  of  honour,  but  also  on  account  of  his 
learning  and  conflicts  with  Mr.  Forster,  when  master  of  that 
college.     Abstract. 

J.  Ferrers  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1689,  March  31.  Pall  Mall.— Concerning  Edmund  Cliff, 
who  was  formerly  his  servant  and  is  now  a  barber  surgeon. 
His  Grace  had  promised  to  have  him  exempted  from  service 
as  a  constable  in  Westminster.     Abstract. 

Anonymous. 
1689;  March.— /S'ee  Kept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  758. 
Wt.  43482.  0  2 


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Sir  James  Leslie  to  Ormonde. 

1689,  April  12.  Berwick. — ^Acknowledging  letter  by  Mr. 
Sturgeon,  whom  he  has  placed  to  do  duty  as  a  grenadier. 
Abstract. 

Charles  Thompson  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1689,  April  13.  Chester. — I  flattered  myseK  that  I  might 
have  been  in  a  condition  to  have  paid  my  duty  to  my  honoured 
Lord  by  the  next  month,  but  find  my  distemper  so  very  bad, 
my  lameness  so  great,  that  if  the  waters  with  a  steel  course 
and  the  Bath  do  not  relieve  me  I  am  in  hazard  of  losing  the 
use  of  all  my  limbs,  especially  all  the  left  side.  I  am  now  in 
a  milk  diet,  but  find  myself  worse.  But  if  I  am  not  in  a  con- 
dition to  march  when  the  army  goes  for  Ireland,  I  hope,  by 
the  blessing  of  God,  to  be  there  soon  after,  if  God  enables  me, 
that  by  use  of  the  Bath  I  recover  my  limbs.  Therefore,  dear 
Sir,  I  desire  you  will  give  my  most  humble  duty  to  my  Lord 
Duke,  and  on  my  behalf  beg  of  his  Grace  that  I  may  have 
leave  to  stay  at  the  Bath  a  while  to  recover  my  health  if  pos- 
sible, or  at  least  that  I  may  not  suffer  by  my  stay  here,  which 
shall  be  only  till  it  please  God  to  restore  me  to  my  health. 
Though  the  infirmity  of  my  body  at  present,  my  having  lost 
what  little  I  left  behind  me  in  Ireland,  hath  brought  me  into 
a  melancholy  that  makes  my  distemper  the  worse,  yet  the 
loss  of  my  employments  in  Ireland,  being  three  hundred  and 
fifty  pounds  a  year,  doth  not  so  much  affect  me,  because  I 
could  not  in  my  conscience  serve  any  longer  where  I  was. 
The  employments  of  Surgeon  General  and  surgeon  to  my 
Lord's  regiment  of  Guards,  Mr.  Yamer,  our  Muster-Master- 
General,  can  certify  I  quitted,  and  for  the  Hospital  it  was  taken 
from  me,  too  tedious  to  trouble  you  with  at  present.  Dear 
Sir,  my  Lord  Duke's  grace  and  favour,  next  to  God,  is  all 
I  have  to  depend  on,  the  effects  whereof  I  have  sufficiently 
enjoyed  both  from  my  present  Lord  and  his  most  honourable 
family,  and  I  most  humbly  beg  the  continuance  thereof, 
especially  at  this  time  of  affliction,  whilst  I  behave  myself 
as  his  Grace's  faithful  servant.  The  assurance  of  this  is  most 
of  the  comfort  I  have. 

Sir,  here  are  several  passengers  from  Dublin  since  Sunday, 
who  say  that  Ireland  is  put  into  French  Government,  and  it 
is  believed  given  to  that  King.  Everything  is  ordered  by 
Count  d'Avaux,  and  all  the  revenue  in  possession  of  the 
French,  and  French  officers  expected  daily  to  take  possession 
of  the  army.  They  design  to  try  if  money  will  purchase 
Derry,  that  they  may  make  the  more  haste  to  Scotland.  The 
two  regiments  went  hence  on  Wednesday  last  to  Derry  ;  we 
hope  they  are  arrived.  The  French  Ambassador  had  his 
public  audience  on  Saturday  last,  and  at  the  latter  end  of  his 
speech  said  he  had  orders  from  his  master  to  put  his  Majesty 
in  mind  of  his  Catholic  subjects,  ithat  they  were  the  most 
and  only  loyal  subjects,  and  therefore  desired  that  he  would 


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restore  them  to  their  estates,  which  had  been  so  long  unjustly 
detained  from  them,  and  that  he  would  make  them  satisfaction 
for  the  time  they  have  been  out  of  them  with  the  estates  of 
the  heretic  rebels.  And  notwithstanding  all  proclamations 
and  fair  promises  they  daily  plunder  all  they  can.  They  bend 
all  their  forces  northward.  King  James  himself  marched  on 
Monday  last,  and  all  the  carpenters  with  many  masons  and 
bricklayers  from  Dublin  went  to  the  North  to  build  ovens 
and  make  batteries,  and  make  floating  bridges,  so  that  it  is 
feared  our  army  cannot  be  there  soon  enough,  and  Colonel 
Nugent  was  heard  to  swear  they  would  be  in  the  heart  of 
England  by  midsummer  day.  I  pray  God  these  considerations 
may  unite  the  people  of  England,  if  not,  nothing  will,  and  their 
destruction  will  be  next.  There  is  one  Moore,  a  merchant 
at  Liverpool,  an  Irish  Papist,  who  certainly  holds  corres- 
pondence with  Ireland,  ships  going  ofiF  frequently  from  thence, 
and  particularly  two  yesterday  for  Dublin,  by  whom  they 
in  Ireland  are  informed  of  what  is  doing  here.  It  is  wondered 
the  officers  do  not  prohibit  ships  going  from  hence.  They  in 
Ireland,  the  passengers  say,  have  at  this  time  suffered  some 
ships  to  come  away  to  decoy  ships  from  hence  and  then  to 
stop  all  in  that  kingdom  for  their  use,  and  it  is  said  there  is 
now  an  embargo  there.  Pray  God  send  us  a  happy  issue 
out  of  all  these  troubles.  Dear  Sir,  pardon  this  tedious  scroll 
and  accept  of  the  respects  and  well  wishes  of,  &c. 

Viscountess  Mountjoy  to  Ormonde. 

1689,  April  20. — I  know  not  whom  to  apply  myself  to,  my 
Lord,  in  my  great  distress  but  to  your  Grace.  I  have  waited 
with  great  impatience  the  event  of  the  news  of  King  James 
being  got  into  Ireland  coming  to  Paris,  my  Lord  having  been 
told  that  he  should  then  have  his  liberty ;  but  I  now  find  that 
though  they  be  assured  of  it  there,  there  is  small  prospect 
of  good  to  him. 

I  therefore  beg  it  of  your  Grace  as  the  greatest  act  of 
charity  you  can  do,  that  I  may  have  your  advice  how  to  proceed 
for  him,  and  if  your  Grace  thinks  fit  to  advise  in  that  matter 
with  any,  I  hear  my  Lords  Halifax  and  Shrewsbury  are  his 
friends.  I  leave  it  to  your  lordship  to  order  it  as  you  think 
fit,  but  beg  I  may  know  how  you  would  have  my  Lord  and  I 
act,  for  I  design  to  send  one  to  him  privately  that  I  can  trust 
as  soon  as  I  have  your  Grace's  answer,  which  is  a  thing  he  much 
desires,  for  he  is  kept  in  perfect  ignorance,  and  begs  he  may 
be  informed  how  matters  go  here  and  in  Ireland,  which  I  am 
very  incapable  of  informing  him  if  not  assisted  by  your  Grace. 
If  you  will  freely  give  me  your  own  and  friends'  opinion  of 
matters,  and  if  you  think  the  King  will  interest  himself  for 
him  in  procuring  his  release,  I  will  oblige  myself  to  get  him 
an  account  of  it  without  the  least  prejudice  of  any  kind  to  you 
pr  them, 


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My  Lord,  my  case  is  not  less  deplorable  than  others  forced 
from  their  beings.  I  have  a  great  family,  no  prospect  of  sup- 
porting them,  and  myself  in  great  want  of  health  with  my  other 
misfortunes.  My  eldest  son's  being  so  deeply  engaged  in  the 
North,  I  believe,  makes  them  harder  on  my  Lord  of  that  side. 
I  have  a  second  son  here,  an  ensign  in  Colonel  Hastings's  regi- 
ment. If  your  lordship  thought  fit  to  motion  for  his  pre- 
ferment, whereby  he  may  be  enabled  to  live,  it  would  be  great 
kindness,  for  I  am  not  now  in  a  condition  to  help  him,  and  he 
can  hardly  subsist  without  it.  I  have  another  son  that  has 
been  a  great  while  at  school  and  under  the  care  of  the  Bishop 
of  Deny.  He  has  now  brought  him  to  me  and  advises  me 
to  put  him  to  Oxford,  and  has  pitched  upon  Wadham  College 
for  him.  I  believe  your  Grace's  interest  there  may  be  of  use 
to  me,  and  thither  I  go  with  him  on  Monday  next ;  if  I  may  to 
that  place  receive  an  answer  to  this  and  a  recommendation 
to  any  there  for  my  son,  it  would  be  an  infinite  obligation. 
I  dare  not  approach  nearer  London  without  my  friend's  advice 
for  fear  the  consequences  may  be  disadvantageous  to  my 
Lord  ;  but  when  I  am  satisfied  where,  and  how,  I  am  to 
proceed,  I  will  order  myself  accordingly,  but  would  fain  send 
one  from  that  place  to  my  Lord.  I  most  humbly  beg  your 
Grace's  pardon  for  this  great  trouble.  I  have  ever  received 
such  favours  in  your  family  that  I  can  no  way  question  your 
goodness  and  assistance  in  my  great  distress,  and  beg  leave 
to  subscribe  myself,  &c. 

Charles  Thompson  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1689,  April  22.  Chester. — Being  alarmed  by  a  letter  from 
London  that  Doctor  Chamberlain  from  Dublin,  our  man 
midwife,  is  making  an  interest  to  Marshal  Schomberg  for  my 
place  of  Surgeon  General  of  Ireland,  gives  me  the  confidence 
to  beg  of  you  to  implore  my  Lord  Duke's  grace  and  favour 
on  my  behalf,  and  be  pleased  to  acquaint  my  Lord  that  my 
father  served  in  that  employment  to  King  Charles  the  First 
in  the  time  of  the  former  Rebellion  in  Ireland,  under  my  Lord 
Duke  of  Ormond,  and  that  I  hold  it  by  patent  under  the  broad 
seal  from  King  Charles  the  Second,  and  have  served  under 
his  Grace,  the  present  Duke  of  Ormonde,  and  the  Earl  of  Arran, 
as  surgeon  in  the  regiment  of  Guards  in  Dublin  these  twenty- 
two  years,  that  I  have  quitted  my  employments  there,  and 
my  beings,  having  left  the  most  part  of  my  fortune  in  Ireland, 
my  wife  and  children  being  in  an  ill  condition  in  a  strange 
place,  and  myself  lame  in  my  limbs  by  a  fit  of  sickness,  have 
been  forced  to  stay  here  till  I  can  settle  them  a  little,  and 
recover  my  own  health,  which,  I  trust  in  God,  in  the  warm 
weather  I  shall.  Dear  Sir,  if  my  Lord  Duke  doth  not  continue 
his  wonted  grace  and  favour  to  me  I  am  ruined  ;  therefore 
I  humbly  implore  my  Lord's  goodness  to  me.  I  believe  one 
word  from  his  Grace  to  the  King  and  Marshal  Schomberg 
will  save  me,  which  I  doubt  not  of  when  you  please  to  mention 


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this  to  his  Grace.     Sir,  I  will,  with  what  haste  my  indisposition 
will  admit  of,  be  in  London. 

Sir,  our  hearts  are  almost  broke  here  with  the  ill  news  from 
the  North  of  Ireland.  The  two  regiments  that  went  a  fortnight 
since  are  come  back  last  night.  The  officers  are  not  yet  come 
ashore,  therefore  have  no  particulars,  but  say  in  general  all 
is  lost  there,  that  the  Protestants  [quitted]  Coleraine  and  burnt 
it.  Some  say  that  the  fort  of  Culmore  [which  com]mands 
the  river  of  Deny,  is  in  the  hands  of  the  Irish  and  therefore 
could  not  go  to  Derry  to  land  the  men  ;  but  until  the  officers 
come  to  town  we  cannot  learn  any  certainty,  but  the  soldiers 
being  come  back  makes  us  fear  all  is  lost.  If  so  we  are  all 
ruined.  Dear  Sir,  be  pleased  to  tender  most  humble  duty  to 
my  most  honoured  Lord,  my  respects  to  yourself,  &c. 

Dr.  Gilbert  Ironside  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1689,  April. — Concerning  Mr.  John  Deffray,  a  French 
Protestant,  He  took  his  degree  of  master  of  arts  in  the 
University  of  Saumur  nine  years  ago,  and  has  made  appli- 
cation for  the  same  degree  at  Oxford.  He  has  been  admitted 
to  holy  orders  by  the  Bishop  of  Ely.     Abstract. 

Edward  Gascoigne  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1689,  April  30. — Asking  him  to  secure  his  release  from 
prison.  He  had  been  three  months  in  Holywell  in  expectation 
to  get  into  Ireland  to  his  wife  and  family.  He  beseeches 
two  or  three  lines  directed  to  Mr.  Thorpe  at  the  Star  in 
Holywell.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Dr.  Gilbert  Ironside. 

1689,  May  2.  St.  James's  Square. — I  have  been  requested 
in  behalf  of  Mr.  Thomas  Hoy,  bachelor  of  physic  and  fellow 
of  St.  John's  College,  who  being  willing  to  proceed  doctor 
in  that  faculty  in  act  term,  but  wanting  two  terms  required 
by  the  statutes,  desires  the  favour  of  the  University  that  he 
may  be  dispensed  for  the  same  to  qualify  him  to  proceed  doctor 
in  physic  in  act  term,  to  which  I  give  my  consent  and 
remain,    &c.     Copy. 

Thomas  Graham  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 
1689,  May  6. — Offering  to  serve  in  the  second  troop  of  horse 
guards  going  into  Flanders  under  his  Grace's  command.  He 
was  an  ensign  in  Ireland,  and  came  in  that  employment  into 
England  in  the  year  1672  in  the  regiment  commanded  by  the 
Earl  of  Tyrone,  and  was  reduced  into  the  battalion  of  Colonel 
Skelton,  who  was  commanded  with  eight  companies  into  France, 
where  the  writer  stayed  four  years.  Then  he  returned 
back  to  England  and  was  received  into  the  first  troop  of  Horse 
Guards  commanded  by  the  Duke  of  Monmouth.     Abstract. 


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J.  Beversham  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1689,  May  11. — There  goes  a  story  of  one  Denham  Hemlock, 
a  famous  tailor,  in  this  town,  that  walking  along  the  Strand 
in  winter  time,  when  the  streets  were  veiy  dirty,  and  a  gen- 
tleman in  his  company,  they  saw  walking  the  same  way,  but 
on  the  other  side  of  the  street  another  gentleman,  who  still  when 
he  came  to  any  clean  place  would  cross  the  way  on  purpose  to 
put  himself  into  Denham's  company,  which,  to  avoid,  Denham 
always  crossed  the  street  as  soon  as  he  perceived  the  other 
near  him.  "  Why  what's  the  matter,"  quoth  the  gentleman 
that  walked  with  him,  "  Yonder  is  such  a  one,  has  crossed 
the  street  three  or  four  times  to  get  up  to  speak  with  you, 
and  you  still  avoid  him,  and  to  my  knowledge  he  owes  you  a 
good  sum  of  money."  "  I  know  that  well  enough,"  replied 
Denham,  "  but  I  avoid  speaking  with  him  that  he  may  owe 
me  no  more,"  and  if  this.  Dear  Harry,  be  the  cause  of  your 
staying  from  me  in  this  my  confinement,  let  it  suffice  that 
though  my  condition  was  never  so  necessitous  as  at  present, 
I  will  not  so  much  as  mention  my  going  further  into  your 
debt.  Wherefore  once  more  let  me  entreat  you  to  step  to  my 
lodging  and  let  me  speak  with  you,  and  in  so  doing  you  will 
add  very  much  to  the  obligations  of,  &c. 

Postscript. — Sir,  if  you  can  prevail  with  Mr.  Cleere  to  come 
with  you  I  shall  be  glad  to  see  him. 

Edward  Gascoigne  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1689,   May   15.      Chester  Castle. — I  have  given  you   the 
trouble  of  one  letter  before  this,  but  cannot  be  so  happy  as  to 
have  an  answer.     There  is  one,  Mr.  Kobert  Blennerhassett, 
who  has  two  sons  condemned  for  murder  or  felony,  or  some 
such  thing,  in  Ireland,  and  to  save  them  he  procures  an  order 
from  my  Lord  Shrewsbury  to  pursue  and  take  one  William 
Crosby,  Patrick  Trant,  and  two  more  of  the  Trants,  and  by 
virtue  of  this  order  he  takes  me  and  about  twenty-eight  dis- 
banded soldiers,  and  told   me  and  another  gentleman   that 
we  must  not  take  it  ill  for  he  had  no  other  way  to  save  the 
lives  of  his  two  sons  but  by  securing  as  many  of  the  Irish  as  he 
could  get.     You  know,  Sir,  and  so  does  his  Grace,  the  Duke 
of  Ormonde,  that  I  did  not  come  over  with  the  Irish  forces, 
and  if  you  will  suffer  me  to  lie  here  in  gaol  without  committing 
the  least  crime  in  a  strange  country,  it  seems  very  hard  to  me 
when  I  know  the  least  word  out  of  your  mouth  to  my  Lord 
Shrewsbury   may  get   me   off,   especially  when  his  lordship 
understands  the  state  of  my  affairs.     This  order  that  Mr. 
Hassett  had  was  dated  the  21st  of  April  last.     I  have  heard 
that  my  brother  James  Butler  is  in  London,  to  whom  I  have 
also  written  but  cannot  hear  from  him  neither,  but  I  believe 
all  manner  of  friendship  has  forsaken  mankind  in  these  times. 
I  beseech  you  to  do  something  for  my  releasement  or  write 
to  you;*  friend,  Mr.  Anderton,  to  get  me  the  liberty  to  walk 


► 


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the  streets,  which  he  may  do  with  a  word,  speaking  to  Mr.  Major, 
and  you  will  for  ever  oblige,  Sir,  your  most  obliged  cousin,  &c. 

Mrs.  Jane  Walsh  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1689,  May  22. — Asking  that  his  Grace  should  recommend 
Jack  to  Lord  Lumley.  His  lordship  designs  to  raise  a  troop 
of  Guards  and  intends  to  receive  into  that  troop  twenty  Irish 
gentlemen  and  give  them  ten  pounds  apiece  towards  furnishing 
themselves  with  horses.  His  mother  could  not  see  Lady 
Derby.     Abstract. 

Henry  Knight  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1689,  May  23.  Wadham  College. — Concerning  the  money 
due  to  Gascoigne.    Abstract. 

Dr.  Gilbert  Ironside  to  Ormonde. 

1689,  May  26.  Wadham  College. — Since  my  return  hither 
I  have  examined  the  condition  of  the  University  and  find  it 
as  I  left  it.  There  is  not  one  that  proceeded  doctor  in  any  one 
faculty,  nor  as  far  as  I  know  like  to  do  so.  If  your  Grace 
therefore  please  to  give  that  as  a  reason,  together  with  our 
having  a  sort  of  an  Act  not  long  since,  not  to  mention  the 
disturbance  of  men's  minds  and  the  unwelcome  guests  of 
soldiers  here,  for  the  putting  off  of  an  Act  this  year,  you  will 
do  that,  assure  your  Grace,  which  is  the  inclination  of  the 
University,  though  for  my  own  part  I  am  most  indifferent. 
As  for  the  business  of  delegates,  I  hope  in  God,  your  Grace 
will  not  leave  this  kingdom  till  you  go  as  Lord  Deputy  of 
Ireland.  But  if  it  must  be  otherwise,  I  have  sent  your  Grace 
the  instrument  your  illustrious  grandfather  left  behind  him 
in  1677,  together  with  a  list  of  names  of  such  persons  as  to  me 
seem  very  fit  to  be  employed  in  that  service,  and  as  for  one 
in  a  little  while  to  succeed  me,  I  am  still  of  the  same  mind 
that  it  may  well  be  Dr.  Jonathan  Edwards,  Principal  of  Jesus 
College,  and  I  pray  your  Grace  the  letter  be  sent  before  you 
leave  us.  Mr.  Justice  Lyndon  whom  your  Grace  recommended 
to  me,  hath  not  hitherto  brought  or  sent  his  son.  When  he 
comes  there  shall  be  particular  care  taken  of  him,  that  he 
may  have  a  sufficient  maintenance,  though  I  do  it  myself  as 
poor  as  I  am.  I  pray  God  to  prosper  your  Grace  in  all  things, 
and  that  I  may  live  to  see  it,  &c. 

For  Delegates. 

Dr.  Ralph  Bathurst,  Dr.  Timothy  Halton,  Dr.  Henry 
Aldrich,  Dr.  William  Jane,  Dr.  Jonathan  Edwards,  Dr. 
Henry  Beeston,  Dr.  J.  Hough. 

Dr.  Gilbert  Ironside  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 
1689,   June   2. — Asking  for  a   dispensation  for  Nathaniel 
Harris,  bachelor  of  arts,  of  Hart  Hall,  also  for  John  Hunt, 


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bachelor  of  arts,  of  University  College,  of  above  nineteen  years 
standing,  who  had  been  chaplain  of  St.  Cross  and  was  after- 
wards preferred  to  a  living  in  Hampshire.     Abstract. 

Monsieur  Bentinck  to  Ormonde. 

1689,  August  17.  Dieren. — Acknowledging  his  obligations 
for  the  honour  done  him  while  in  England.     Abstract. 

William  Talbot  to  Colonel  W.  Butler. 

1689,  September  7.  Dublin  Castle. — I  received  yours  of 
the  2nd  and  4th  inst.  The  matters  you  mention  in  yours 
of  the  4th  are  in  the  most  part  allowed  ;  but,  his  Majesty 
being  now  at  Drogheda,  I  cannot  at  this  time  say  any  more 
until  his  return,  at  which  time  I  will  lay  what  you  desire 
before  him  and  return  you  his  pleasure.     I  am,  &c. 

Postscript. — In  the  meantime  you  are  desired  to  make  the 
best  shift  you  can. 

Ormonde  to  Dr.  Jonathan  Edwards. 

1689,  November  9.  St.  James's  Square. — I  am  informed 
that  the  University  of  Oxford  have  invited  Mr.  Walker  of 
Londonderry  thither,  and  this  gentleman,  Mr.  Chambers, 
intending  a  visit  there  about  the  same  time,  I  desire  he  may 
have  the  degree  of  doctor  of  divinity  conferred  on  him.  He 
is  rector  of  St.  Catharine's  church  in  Dublin,  and  above  thirty 
years  standing  in  the  University  there  ;  but,  by  reason  of  the 
miseries  befallen  that  kingdom,  she  is  rendered  at  present 
incapable  of  conferring  any  degree  upon  her  sons.  I  remain,  &c. 
Copy. 

Dr.  Jonathan  Edwards  to  Ormonde. 

1689,  November  14. — Concerning  one  Sherwyn  that  day 
chosen  yeoman-bedel  in  the  room  of  Mr.  Davies,  lately 
deceased.  He  asks  for  him  also  place  of  bailiflf  of  the 
University.     Abstract. 

Peter  Mews,  Bishop  of  Winchester  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 
1689,  November   16.     Winchester. — Asking  for  the  bearer 
the  place  of  bedel.     Abstract. 

Matthew  Anderton  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1689,  November  16.  Chester. — By  a  vessel  that  left  Dublin 
on  Wednesday  last  came  a  passenger,  a  Quaker,  who  saith 
the  Lord  Dover  landed  on  Thursday  the  9th  inst.,  that  he  was 
said  to  escape  narrowly  in  his  passage  thither,  that  they  owned 
the  loss  of  a  ship  with  arms  and  ammunition,  and  when  he  left 
Dublin  he  heard  not  of  any  ships  the  said  lord  brought  with 
him  ;  that  at  Dublin  and  country  about  there  is  great 
mortality;    provisions  are  not  dear,  but  salt  is  worth  seven 


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pounds  per  hogshead,  and  tobacco  four  shillings  per  eight. 
From  the  North  he  heard  that  Sarsfield  went  from  the  camp 
with  a  detachment  of  five  thousand  men  to  Athlone,  where 
two  thousand  joined  him  from  Connaught,  that  they  marched 
to  Jamestown,  from  whence  the  English  garrison  upon  their 
approach  removed  with  their  cattle  and  effects  ;  that  Sarsfield 
marched  to  Sligo,  where  the  garrison,  after  four  days  holding 
out,  capitulated,  and  marched  out  with  arms  and  flying  colours. 
He  heard  nothing  of  the  slaughter  of  any  of  the  English,  but 
that  a  strong  detachment,  they  heard,  was  sent  by  Duke 
Schomberg  towards  the  North. 

L.  Cole  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1689,  November  16.  Portsmouth. — Concerning  a  dog  of 
his  Grace's  which  he  had  left  at  Poole.  He  would  as  soon 
part  with  a  lion  as  with  either  of  the  dogs.     Abstract. 

Robert  Parry  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1689,  November  24.  Jesus  College. — Concerning  a  dis- 
pensation for  William  Jones,  bachelor  of  arts,  of  St.  John's 
College.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Samuel  Douglas. 
1689,  November  29. — ^Though  I  left  you  behind  me  in 
Holland  about  the  affairs  of  the  troops,  in  order  to  make  up 
your  accounts  and  to  send  them  over,  I  now  desire  you  to  come 
hither  as  soon  as  conveniently  you  can,  and  to  bring  them  with 
you,  not  only  those  of  my  particular  household  matters  during 
my  being  abroad,  but  also  of  all  the  moneys  received  and 
paid  for  the  use  of  the  troop  and  grenadiers,  as  well  for  their 
immediate  pay  as  what  relates  to  their  clothing  and  other 
incident  charges.  Inform  yourself  the  best  you  can  and  bring 
with  you  a  true  state  of  the  condition  the  troop  and  grenadiers 
are  in  at  present,  and  take  care  that  no  moneys  be  paid  for  the 
use  of  any  trooper  or  grenadier  but  to  such  as  are  there 
effectively  on  the  place,  and  what  money  shall  remain  in  your 
hands,  when  you  have  proceeded  thus  far,  I  would  have 
brought  over  to  answer  the  occasions  of  such  of  the  ofl&cers' 
servants  and  others  who  are  here  in  England  by  leave,  and 
towards  furnishing  horses  and  other  materials  necessary  for 
the  next  campaign.  Let  me  know  what  the  new  hats  which  you 
had  orders  about  will  come  to,  and  what  boots,  saddles,  carbine- 
belts,  or  any  other  accoutrements  are  wanting  and  how  many 
horses  there  are  of  the  dead  men  discharged  or  preferred.  I 
wish  you  would  bring  with  you  Haniden's  account  of  the  horses 
and  things  in  his  charge.  I  believe  your  stay  in  England 
will  not  be  above  three  weeks  or  a  month,  and  when  you  return 
Haniden  may  receive  further  directions  from  me.  In  the 
meantime  he  is  to  stay  there.  I  find  one  Thomas  Moseley 
set  down  in  the  list  I  have  of  my  troops.     I  do  not  know 


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him  nor  can  I  learn  here  of  anybody  that  does.    Pray  inquire 
after  him.      Copy. 

Ormonde  to  Colonel  Lewis  Billingsley. 
1689,  November  29.  Greenhill. — I  have  sent  for  Douglas 
to  come  hither  with  what  convenient  speed  he  can  and  to  bring 
with  him  his  accounts  both  of  my  private  affairs  and  those 
relating  to  the  troop.  I  desire  you  to  give  him  a  state  of  the 
condition  the  troop  and  grenadiers  are  in,  and  what  horses, 
saddles,  or  other  accoutrements  are  wanting,  that  provisions 
may  be  made  here  accordingly.  I  believe  his  stay  here  will 
not  be  above  a  month,  and  therefore  desire  he  may  be 
hastened,  &c.  I  pray  take  an  exact  muster  of  the  grenadiers. 
Copy. 

Sir  Humphrey  Macworth  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1688,  December  20.  Inner  Temple. — Giving  his  opinion 
as  to  the  appointment  of  an  Attorney  and  a  Solicitor  to  their 
Highnesses  the  Prince  and  Princess  of  Orange,  and  discussing 
the  status  of  the  Attorney  and  Solicitor  to  the  heir  presumptive 
to  the  Crown.  He  dwells  on  the  importance  of  making  such 
appointments  at  the  present  time,  and  announces  that  he  is 
ambitious  of  becoming  one  or  other  of  those  officers.     Abstract. 

Michael  Parker  to  Ormonde. 

1689,  December  24.  Breda. — ^Asking  for  furlough  to  come 
to  England  to  settle  papers  and  affairs  with  some  friends  who 
are  going  to  Ireland.  He  heartily  rejoices  in  his  Grace's 
safe  arrival  in  sweet  England.     Abstract. 

Captain  Christopher  Billop  to  Ormonde. 

1689,  December  24.  Greenwich,  at  Spithead. — Complaining 
of  the  treatment  which  he  had  received  from  the  Admiralty. 
He  believes  the  usage  he  has  received  broke  his  wife's  heart 
from  the  last  letters  he  had  from  her  and  what  she  said  the 
night  before  she  died.     Abstract. 

Hon.  Leopold  Finch  to  Ormonde. 

1689,  December  26. — Recommending  Mr.  Wyatt  in  case 
there  is  a  vacancy  in  St.  Mary  Hall.     Abstract. 

Dr.  Henry  Aldrich  to  Ormonde. 

1689,  December  29.  Christ  Church.— St.  Mary  Hall  being 
vacant  by  the  death  of  Dr.  Crowther,  the  Bishop  of  Exeter 
sent  the  same  day  an  express  to  Kensington  to  beg  the  headship 
for  Mr.  Wyatt,  whom  your  Grace  had  formerly  promised  the 
first  Hall  that  should  be  vacant.  Before  Mr.  Wyatt  could 
come  to  town,  the  Bishop,  the  Warden,  Dr.  Jane  and  myself, 
who,  had  we  been  there,  should  aU  have  been  his  intercessors, 


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were  all  of  us  gone  from  London,  and  so  the  poor  gentleman 
for  want  of  an  University  friend  to  introduce  him  was  fain 
to  return  home  without  waiting  on  your  Grace.  To  repair, 
if  we  can,  this  unfortunate  accident  I  presume  to  trouble 
your  Grace,  and  to  beg  in  the  Bishop's  name  that  his  recom- 
mendation may  not  be  in  vain.  I  believe  there  will  be  no 
competitors,  because  a  Hall  is  no  place  of  profit,  unless  the 
reputation  of  the  Head  invite  scholars  to  come  and  live  with 
him,  which  is  one  advantage  the  patron  has  that  his  client 
if  he  should  want  merit  will  make  no  profit  of  his  place. 
Whereupon  I  shall  say  nothing,  though  I  could  a  great  deal, 
of  Mr.  Wyatt's  deserts,  the  rather  because  he  cannot  be 
unknown  to  your  Grace.  I  shall  only  say  he  is  a  Christ  Church 
man,  and  orator  to  the  University,  which  is  a  place  of  credit 
but  little  or  no  salary.  If  your  Grace  please  to  grant  him  this 
Hall  it  will  put  him  in  some  post,  where  his  own  merit  may 
raise  him  an  advantage,  and  if  ever  we  be  happy  in  your 
Grace's  company  at  Oxford,  he  will  do  the  duty  of  his  place 
much  better,  when  he  makes  an  oration  to  your  Grace  not 
only  as  our  Chancellor  but  his  benefactor. 

Ormonde  to  Colonel  Lewis  Billingsley. 

1689,  December  30. — I  received  your  letter  of  the  29th  of 
December  with  Monsieur  Webenham's  inclosed.  I  have  written 
three  times  to  you.  As  to  the  hats,  you  may  bespeak  them, 
but  I  expect  they  should  be  very  good,  with  a  good  broad 
gold  galloon,  and  the  crowns  high  and  the  brims  broad.  Those 
that  will  mount  themselves  there  may,  but  the  horses  must 
be  very  good  and  full  fifteen  hands,  and  those  that  have  a  mind 
to  English  horses,  they  shall  be  bought  for  them  here  ;  but 
assure  them  that  nobody  must  depend  on  me  to  give  them  horses. 
I  will  have  nobody  taken  into  the  troop  of  Guards  but  whom  I 
put  in  or  give  directions  about  myself,  because  I  find  Mr. 
Webenham  offers  both  for  men  and  horses  which  I  will  have 
nobody  else  do  but  myself.  You  may  bespeak  what  holsters 
are  wanting,  which  must  be  cheap  and  good.  There  is  no 
mention  made  of  houses  and  caps,  and  therefore  I  hope 
you  want  none.  You  must  bespeak  tents  a  good  deal  bigger 
than  the  former  both  higher  and  broader.  As  for  carbines, 
you  must  make  an  exchange,  and  know  what  they  will  have 
to  cost,  and  let  me  speedily  know  it.  I  am  informed  by  my 
Lord  Portland  that  the  man  that  made  his  arms  is  a  good 
workman  and  lives  at  Breda.  They  must  be  furnished  by  the 
middle  of  March,  and  be  well  proved,  the  number  a  hundred 
and  eighty  and  the  length  thirteen  inches  longer  than  those 
we  have  now. 

Mr.  Le  Clerk  may  have  his  discharge,  which  shall  be 
sent  over,  but  he  must  leave  all  his  accoutrements  and 
sell  his  horse  very  reasonably  before  you  let  him  go.  I 
have  ordered  Mr.  Douglas  to  bring  over  the  money  that  was 
stopped,  and  there  will  be  horses  bought  here  for  those  that  do 


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not  mount  themselves  at  Breda.  When  Monsieur  Webenham 
comes  you  must  make  him  a  compliment  for  me,  and  thank 
him  for  his  civilities.  Captain  Smith  is  going  over  this  week  with 
eight  gentlemen  well  mounted,  and  three  grenadiers  mounted. 
I  have  bespoke  bits  and  furnitures  for  the  troop  and  grenadiers, 
which  will  be  done  ready  to  be  sent  over  with  Mr.  Douglas. 
I  wonder  you  have  not  received  my  three  letters.  If  the 
carbines  cannot  be  made  and  changed  at  Breda,  you  must 
try  elsewhere,  but  they  must  be  well  proved  and  good  locks. 
The  grenadiers'  arms  must  be  changed,  and  be  made  three 
inches  longer  than  those  they  have,  and  a  wider  bore  and  well 
fortified.  Cartridge  boxes  that  are  wanting  for  the  troop 
I  have  bespoke,  and  those  for  the  grenadiers  with  pouches, 
&c.,  I  will  endeavour  to  get  out  of  the  Tower,  if  not  there 
shall  be  orders  taken  concerning  them.  You  must  bespeak 
the  boots  that  are  wanting.  Let  me  hear  speedily  from  you. 
In  the  meantime  you  may  be  assured  that  I  am,  &c. 

Postscript. — You  must  send  to  Charleroi  and  enquire  for 
Manier's  horse  and  pay  for  him  and  get  him  to  the  troop. 
Chevall  is  coming  over  :  he  must  expect  to  justify  himself. 
Co'py. 

Rev.  William  Wyatt  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1689-90,  January  6. — Asking  for  a  letter  from  Ormonde 
stating  his  appointment  as  Principal  of  St.  Mary  Hall. 
Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Colonel  Rupert  Billingsley. 

1689-90,  January  7. — I  writ  to  you  lately  on  the of 

the  wherein  I  directed  several  matters  to  be  done 

relating  to  the  troop  and  grenadiers,  since  which  time 
Douglas  is  come  to  town  and  brought  me  the  accounts  I 
desired  by  my  former  letters.  I  believe  I  shall  send  him  sooner 
back  than  I  thought  when  those  letters  went,  and  therefore 
till  he  shall  arrive  there  to  carry  my  further  directions,  I 
desire  you  to  make  no  further  progress  pursuant  to  that  letter 
of  mine  of  the .     Copy. 

Colonel  Francis  Edgeworth  to  Ormonde. 
1689-90,  January  10.  Breda. — Expressing  his  concern  at 
his  Grace's  departure  for  Ireland,  and  the  readiness  of  himself 
and  the  other  Irish  gentlemen  to  embrace  his  Grace's  service. 
He  begs  his  Grace's  leave  that  he  may  come  to  England,  and 
mentions  the  attempted  burning  of  Cambray  which  was 
frustrated  by  the  Spanish  Lieutenant-General  Monsieur  de  Buis  ; 
the  latter  was  killed  in  the  engagement.     Abstract. 

Dr.  John  Hough  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1689-90,  January  15.  Magdalen  College,  Oxford. — I  re- 
ceived yours  of  the  7th  instant  together  with  the  enclosed,  for 


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which  I  return  you  my  hearty  thanks  ;  but  this  post  brought 
me  some  papers  from  Sir  Robert  Southwell  so  full  and  satis- 
factory that  I  shall  not  need  to  give  you  any  further  trouble 
upon  that  subject.  I  go  on  Monday  to  Worcester  and  shall 
not  return  from  thence  in  less  than  six  weeks  ;  but  I  hope  by 
that  time  you  will  think  of  making  us  a  visit  in  good  earnest. 
All  the  heads  of  houses  are  your  humble  servants,  and  you  will 
find  tolerable  claret  and  a  hearty  welcome  from  all  of  them, 
but  the  last  not  more  truly  and  cheerfully  from  any  man  than 
from,  &c. 

Henry  Gascoigne  to  Gerard  Bor. 

1688-9,  January  17.  London. — I  received  last  night  your 
letter  of  the  8th  inst.  with  one  enclosed  from  Kilkenny  giving 
account  of  the  proceedings  there  about  laying  in  ammunition, 
&c.,  in  the  Castle  there  by  my  Lord  Galmoye  and  others,  which 
have  been  shown  to  his  Grace,  who  wonders  that  his  papers, 
pictures,  and  best  goods  were  not  secured  before,  according 
to  the  directions  Mr.  Smyth  had  from  my  Lord  when  he  was 
here.  He  now  desires,  if  it  be  not  too  late,  that  his  papers  and 
all  other  his  goods,  pictures,  hangings,  beds,  &c.,  may  be 
shipped  off  for  England,  to  be  landed  at  Poole,  or  Bristol, 
or  Minehead,  as  shipping  can  come  from  thence.  You  say 
that  Mr.  Smyth  writes  to  you  that  my  Lord  Galmoye  was  very 
inquisitive  to  know  what  store  of  money  was  in  the  Castle 
of  Kilkenny,  and  that  Mr.  Smyth  was  jealous  that  it  would 
be  seized.  If  there  be  money  there,  my  Lord  thinks  he  has 
been  very  ill  used  in  not  having  it  sent  over  to  answer  his 
occasions  here,  which  have  been  and  still  are  so  very  pressing. 
I  am  commanded  to  desire  you  to  acquaint  Mr.  Smyth  with 
what  I  now  write  and  so  will  mix  none  of  my  own  business 
with  it.     I  am,  &c. 

Postscript. — I  thought  to  have  directed  this  to  Mr.  Smyth, 
but  sent  it  to  you  lest  my  former  letter  should  miscarry,  that 
you  may  give  him  notice  thereof,  and  that  since  my  former 
orders  my  Lord  commands  that  all  his  goods  may  be  sent 
away  to  Poole  in  Dorsetshire  in  a  ship  to  be  hired  on  purpose, 
and  a  trusty  servant  to  be  sent  with  them.  Our  steward  has 
writ  to  this  effect  to  Mr.  Smyth,  however,  you  may  take  notice 
of  this  to  him  from,  &c. 

Dr.  Charles  Aldworth  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 
1689-90,    January    30.-— Reminding    him    of    his    Grace's 
promise  to  recommend  him  in  case  there  is  a  vacancy  of  his 
History  Lectures.     Abstract. 

Michael  Carney  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 
1689-90,  February  1 3.— Concerning  a  son  of  Mr.  Latham, 
of  the   county  of  Tipperary,  whom  Mr.  Mathew  has  asked 
to  be  recommended  to  the  University  of  Oxford.    Abstract. 


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Edwabd  Jones,  Bishop  of  Cloyne,  to  Henry 
Gascoigne. 

1689-90,  February  15.  Shrewsbury. — I  presume  to  give 
you  this  trouble  in  the  first  place  to  inquire  how  my  Lord  Duke 
of  Ormonde  does,  and  whether  he  returns  this  spring  to 
Holland,  or  goes  with  the  King  for  Ireland,  that  my  prayers 
may  accordingly  go  with  him.  The  other-  ground  of  writing 
this  is  to  know  whether  my  Lord  may  not  be  prevailed  with 
to  get  a  gentleman  a  patent  for  a  baronet,  and  what  money 
may  be  expected  for  the  honour.  I  know  the  person  may  move 
another  interest,  but  I  had  rather  my  Lord  should  have  the 
thanks.  If  you  please  to  let  me  have  your  sense  in  this  matter 
by  the  next  post,  you  will  oblige,  &c. 

Postscript. — Your  letter  directed  to  me  in  Shrewsbury  will 
come  safe. 

Dr.  John  Hall  to  Ormonde. 

1689-90,  March  11.  Pembroke  College. — Before  I  present 
my  answer  to  your  Grace's  most  favourable  letter  and  the 
fellows'  unjust  accusation,  I  must  give  your  Grace  an  account 
why  I  sent  it  no  sooner.  Your  Grace  may  be  pleased  to 
understand  that  I  was  obliged  to  be  in  Worcester  all  the  last 
month,  and  when  I  came  from  thence  some  unexpected  affairs 
detained  me  in  that  country  a  week  longer,  so  that  I  returned 
not  to  the  College  till  Friday,  the  7th  instant,  and  received 
not  your  Grace's  letter  till  Saturday,  the  8th,  in  the  evening. 
I  have  endeavoured  to  give  a  plain  and  brief  answer  to  all  the 
particulars  alleged  against  me,  and  I  hope  I  have  not  through 
haste  omitted  any  objection  though  never  so  minute.  But 
if  I  have  been  so  unfortunate,  and  that  your  Grace  desires  any 
further  satisfaction,  or  any  more  confirmation  of  what  I  have 
alleged,  I  will  give  it,  either  by  waiting  upon  your  Grace  or 
obeying  other  such  orders  as  your  Grace  shall  be  pleased  to 
give.  I  humbly  commend  your  Grace  to  the  Divine  pro- 
tection and  blessing,  and  am,  with  the  most  profound  respect, 
&c. 

Rev.  Francis  le  Couteur  and  Others  to  Ormonde. 

1689-90,    March    20.     Pembroke    College.— We,    the   vice- 
gerent and  fellows  of  Pembroke  College,  are  highly  sensible 
of  your  Grace's  particular  care  over  us  and  good  advice  to 
us,  but  having  abundantly  experienced  the  temper  of  our 
master,  think  it  in  vain  to  attempt  the  composing   of  our 
difference  amongst  ourselves  ;   therefore  in  pursuance  of  your 
Grace's  commands  we  have  made  such  a  reply  as  our  time 
would   permit   and  shall  be  ready    to  give  a  more  perfect 
account  to  those  whom  your  Grace  shall  depute  to  take  it  of. 
(Signed)    Fr.  le  Couteur,  vice-gerent ;  Jo. 
Alder,  Tho.  Horne,  Guil.  Blackaller, 
JoNAT.  Collins,  Guil.  Hunt. 


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George  Philips  ?  to  Heney  Gascoigne. 

1689-90,  March  24. — Concerning  a  book  which  he  sends  by 
his  son.  He  beseeches  Gascoigne  to  present  it  to  the  Duke, 
and  to  prevail  with  his  Grace  to  pardon  the  writer's 
publishing  the  dedication  without  his  allowance.     Abstract. 

Matthew  Anderton  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1690,  April  9.  Chester. — I  received  his  Grace's  commands 
in  yours  of  the  5th  inst.  about  hay.  I  intend  to-morrow  to 
go  towards  Frodsham  where  ships  may  come  from  Liverpool 
to  take  in  lading,  and  per  next  will  resolve  you  concerning 
the  price.  With  most  humble  duty  presented  to  his  Grace 
and  hearty  service  to  your  good  self,  I  remain,  &c. 

Postscript. — If  you  see  my  son  Tom  pray  persuade  him  to 
write  to  me  that  I  may  know  how  to  direct  my  letters  for  him. 

Same  to  Same. 

1690,  April  9.  Chester. — The  Smirna  merchant,  a  man  of 
war,  and  a  fire-ship  with  thirty  sail  of  victuallers  arrived  in 
Hoylake  on  the  6th  inst.  The  master  of  a  ship  of  this  place 
that  left  Carrickfergus  Sunday  last  tells  us  Duke  Schomberg 
marched  on  Friday  last  from  Carrickfergus,  and  took  with  him 
all  necessaries  for  the  besieging  and  reducing  of  Charlemont. 
We  have  here  Colonel  Babington's  regiment,  and  about  a 
hundred  recruits  quartered  here  ;  the  wind  is  fair  for  Ireland, 
and  yet  I  see  no  sign  of  moving  to  seaward.  I  doubt  not 
but  the  waggons  and  four  hundred  horses.  Colonel  Cutts's 
regiment,  and  the  money  that  hath  been  some  time  aboard, 
are  now  on  their  voyage  to  BeKast. 

Same  to  Same. 

1690,  April  12.  Chester. — I  was  yesterday  in  the  country 
about  hay  and  found  a  quantity  sufficient  to  answer  what 
you  wrote  his  Grace  desired,  and  good  hay,  but  very  dear ;  the 
hundred  weight,  six  score  to  the  hundred,  will  be  delivered 
at  Frodsham  in  Liverpool  Water  at  35.  The  ton  will  be  21.  .  .  . 
A  ship  of  about  forty  ton  will  but  take  in  eight  tons  of  hay. 

L.  Cole  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 
1690,  April  19.  Portsmouth.—  .  .  .  Last  night  arrived 
at  Spithead  two  Dutchmen  of  war  and  nineteen  great  mer- 
chantmen. The  latter  sailed  this  morning  for  Cowes,  and  are 
designed,  as  I  am  informed,  for  Chester  to  waft  over  soldiers, 
&c.,  for  Ireland.  .  .  . 

« 
Henry  Gascoigne  to  Captain  John  Graydon. 
1690,  April  20.     St.  James's  Square.— Concerning  two  of 
his  Grace's  watermen  whom  Graydon's  officers  had  pressed. 
One,  Richard  Gilford,  lately  made  his  escape  from  Ireland, 


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the  other,  John  Johnson,  has  a  wife  and  four  children,  and 
neither  of  them  are  used  to  the  sea  service.     Abstract. 

L.  Cole  to  Henry  Gascoigne. 

1690,  May  16.  Chichester. — Concerning  his  Lord  Duke's 
provisions  designed  for  Ireland.  He  had  only  been  able  to 
stop  at  Portsmouth  three  great  baskets  with  wine  and  hams 
which  he  promised  Colonel  Billingsley  to  have  with  him.  He 
is  to  take  a  troop  marched  there  the  previous  morning. 
Abstract. 

Henry  Gascoigne  to  Thomas  Horne. 

1690,  May  23. — ^Acknowledging  a  late  letter  complaining 
of  another  pupil  being  put  out  of  Pembroke  College  by  the 
Master.  The  Vice-Chancellor  and  other  very  eminent  men 
delegated  by  the  Duke  had  made  their  report,  and  his  Grace 
is  considering  the  case  of  the  College.     Abstract. 


Henry  Gascoigne  to 


1690,  May. — Concerning  an  injunction  about  Pembroke 
College  for  the  Duke  to  sign.  The  writer  has  his  commands 
to  put  the  recipient  in  mind  thereof,  lest  he  should  be  forced 
to  go  for  Ireland  with  the  King  before  that  matter  be 
accommodated.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to . 


1690,  May. — ^When  Dr.  Walker  of  Londonderry  had  a  mind 
upon  the  University's  invitation  to  take  the  degree  of  doctor 
in  divinity  there,  I  then  recommended  this  bearer,  Mr. 
Chambers,  rector  of  St.  Catharine's  Church  in  Dublin,  and  of 
above  thirty  years  standing  in  the  University  there,  that  by 
reason  of  the  misery  befallen  that  kingdom  at  present  he  might 
by  your  favour  be  admitted  to  his  doctor's  degree  with  you  ; 
since  he  was  prevented  of  going  there  by  a  fit  of  sickness, 
and  intending  to  make  a  visit  thither  at  this  Act,  I  desire  he  may 
on  his  return  for  Ireland  carry  that  mark  of  your  favour  along 
with  him.     Wherein  you  wiU  oblige,  &c.     Copy. 

Valentine  Smyth  to  W.  Williams. 

1B90,  July  21.  Holyhead. — Concerning  various  accounts. 
WiUiams's  letter  of  the  1 5th  had  overtaken  him  there  where  he 
waits  for  a  passage.  He  acknowledges  good  news  of  her  Grace's 
health,  and  when  he  gets  over  he  will  acquaint  his  Lord.  He 
desires  his  humble  respects  to  good  Mr.  Hartstonge  and  the 
ladies  at  the  table.  As  he  was  sealing  this  the  packet  came  in, 
so  he  goes  off  with  the  first  wind.     Abstract. 

Valentine  Smyth  to  Charles  Goslins. 

1690,  August  23.  Kilkenny. — ^Acknowledging  letters  from 
Mr.  Williams  and  Sir  Robert  King  with  account  of  Gosling. 


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He  is  very  sorry  but  he  has  no  collection  left  for  so  able  an 
officer.     Abstract. 

King's  Letteb  to  Ormonde. 

1690-1,  February  2. — Appointing  him  Lord  Lieutenant  of 
Somersetshire. 

Barzillai  Jones,  Dean  of  Lismore,  to  Ormonde. 

1691,  April  26.  Abergavenny. — ^Asking  his  Grace  to  re- 
commend Mr.  Martin  Baxter  to  Sir  John  Trevor,  as  a  com- 
missioner of  the  great  seal,  for  the  small  living  of  Treleg  in  that 
county.  He  begs  leave  to  congratulate  his  Grace's  safe  return 
to  London,  for  which  no  man  was  more  passionately  concerned 
than  the  most  insignificant  servant  he  has.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Earl  op  Longford. 

1691-2,  March  17. — ^This  bearer,  James  Allary,  lived  at 
Orange  when  I  was  there,  and  did  me  a  considerable  service, 
for  the  bed  where  I  lay,  being  on  fire,  he  took  me  out,  when  I 
did  not  know  what  to  do  ;  being  now  brought  to  poverty  by  the 
persecution  of  the  Protestants  in  France,  amongst  whom  he 
was  obliged  to  leave  his  country,  and  being  desirous  to  go  and 
live  in  Ireland,  I  desire  your  Lordship  and  the  rest  of  my 
commissioners  to  put  him  into  some  small  farm  about  Kil- 
kenny that  may  yield  him  a  subsistence  by  way  of  pension 
as  an  acknowledgment  of  the  aforesaid  service.     Copy. 

Earl  of  Longford  to  Josias  Haydock. 

1692,  September  6.  Dublin. — ^When  I  last  discoursed  you 
in  this  place  you  may  remember  the  subject  was  about  the 
election  of  Parliament  men  in  your  city  and  the  writs  being 
out  for  elections,  and  his  Grace  having  a  desire  to  compliment 
the  Lord  Lieutenant  with  the  election  of  his  nephew.  Colonel 
Robert  Smyth,  of  the  Privy  Council,  for  one  of  the  burgesses 
of  the  city,*  he  has  desired  me  to  write  to  you  not  only  for  your 
own  vote  in  it,  but  also  for  your  interest  in  engaging  as  many 
others  as  you  can  in  your  city  to  concur  with  you  in  it, 
which,  as  I  persuade  myself  both  for  his  Grace's  satisfaction 
and  the  advantage  of  your  city  you  will  cheerfully  undertake, 
so  I  assure  you  your  assistance  herein  will  very  much  oblige 
his  Grace.  His  Grace  has  also  directed  us  to  signify  to  his 
tenants  for  lives  who  are  capable  of  voting  for  knights  of  the 
shire  that  they  should  vote  for  Colonel  Richard  Coote  and 
Colonel  Ponsonby,  who  stand  for  knights  of  the  shire,  and  we 
have  given  directions  to  all  the  receivers  that  they  acquaint 
his  Grace's  tenants  with  his  Grace's  desire  herein,  in  which 
as  I  question  not  your  compliance,  so  you  will  therein 
particularly  oblige,   &c. 

*  i^e.  Kilkenny. 
Wt.  43482.  ^  3 


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W.  Williams  to  Charles  Gosling. 

1692,  October  15.  London. — Concerning  goods  in  dispute 
between  Lady  Hume  and  Mrs.  Mathew,  at  present  in  Kil- 
kenny Castle.  Her  Grace  daily  expected  his  Grace.  He, 
it  is  believed,  will  not  be  here  till  his  Majesty  comes,  who  is 
returned  to  Flanders,  as  their  last  letters  advise.    Abstract. 

James  Hamilton  to  Ormonde. 

1693-4,  January  21.  York. — Concerning  the  alnage  of 
Ireland,  which  is  a  very  considerable  part  of  his  wife's  fortune, 
settled  upon  him  and  his  by  her  father.  Sir  Robert  Reading. 
He  congratulates  his  Grace  on  his  narrow  escape  from 
the  imminent  dangers  his  courage  exposed  him  to  during  the 
last  campaign.     Abstract. 

Sir  Paul  Ryoaut  to  Ormonde. 

1694,  August  8.  Hamburg. — "These  your  Grace  will,  I 
hope,  receive  by  the  hands  of  Monsieur  Jacob  Ant  Seigneur 
de  Gerzance,  a  gentleman  of  Switzerland,  who  hath  a  design 
to  plant  a  colony  in  Ireland  of  about  a  hundred  families  of  his 
own  nation,  all  farmers  and  labourers  in  land.  He  came 
lately  to  me  with  a  letter  of  recommendations  from  the  Pro- 
testant Minister  of  Potsdam."  The  writer  recommends  this 
gentleman  to  his  Grace,  and  hopes  his  design  may  take  effect 
to  the  improvement  of  his  Grace's  land  in  Ireland.    Abstract. 

Due  D'Elbceup  to  Ormonde. 

1695,  May  3.  Paris. — Roger  Mayaut  rendue  ses  comptes ; 
Monsieur  ie  nay  rien  cherges  a  ce  quil  ma  diet  que  vous  anies 
faict  a  lesgard  de  lechenge  de  vos  cheuaurs  auec  les  mulest 
que  ie  vous  ay  enuoyes  a  lexcepsions  dun  cheual  absent  quil 
mamena  pendent  Ie  siege  de  Charleroy,  mais  comme  par  vue 
de  vos  lettres  vous  ne  me  idles  en  mesme  temps  que  ce  cheual 
auec  Ie  mille  fleurs  estoit  pour  les  quartres  mulest  quen  mesme 
temps  ie  vous  ay  enuoyes  ie  ne  luy  en  a  pas  voulue  payer  la 
valeur ;  cest  a  luy  et  a  vous  a  souenir  coment  vos  contes  se  sont 
passes.  Ie  voudrois  bien  que  pendent  Ie  cour  de  cette  campagne 
trouuer  quelques  ocasions  de  vous  estre  bon  a  quelques  choses  ; 
ie  les  embraserois  de  tout  mon  coeur  et  alles  de  vous  assurer 
Monsieur  quon  ne  pent  vous  honorer  plus  parfaictement  que, 
&c. 

Robert  Rochfort  to  Ormonde. 
1695-6,  January  10.  Dublin. — Mr.  Wood  carries  with  him 
the  Lord  Deputy's  return,  and  the  writer's  report  on  his 
Grace's  petition  to  his  Majesty  for  coining  small  money  in 
Ireland.  The  outcry  was  great  against  the  halfpenny  patent, 
which  Parliament  called  for.  The  bills  which  his  Grace  had 
before  Parliament,  passed  with  great  respect.     He  hopes  his 


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Grace  will  get  a  grant  to  coin  such  small  money  as  is  desired. 
Abstract. 

Brigadier-General  William  Wolseley  to  Ormonde. 
1696,  July  Q.—See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  'p.  762. 

Findings  of  Court  Martial  at  Attre. 

1696,  August  7-17. — Acquitting  William  Shamock,  who  was 
accused  of  killing  Francis  Stabbs,  and  Matthew  Draper,  who  was 
accused  of  killing  Jonathan  Croper,  all  serving  in  the  first 
troop  of  horse  guards.    Abstract. 

Captain  George  Mathew  to  Ormonde. 

1696,  October  6. — Concerning  the  sale  of  Thurles.  The 
unhappiness  of  his  circumstances  has  hitherto  debarred  him 
the  honour  of  kissing  his  Grace's  hand  since  his  Grace's  return 
out  of  Flanders.     Abstract. 

Admiral  John  Benbow  to  Ormonde. 

1697,  August  12.  Monmouth  before  Dunkirk. — In  ac- 
cordance with  Admiralty  orders  is  sending  the  Eruniney  to 
Ostend  Road  to  convey  his  Grace  to  England.  They  are 
waiting  Du  Bart's  motions,  whose  ships  are  expected  to  put 
to  sea  the  next  spring-tides.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormondj:. 

1697-8,  January  8.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  management 
of  his  Grace's  estates.  He  has  received  his  Grace's  commands 
to  himself  and  the  rest  of  his  Grace's  commissioners.    Abstract. 

John  Curson,  Mayor  of  Exeter,  and  Others  to 
Ormonde. 

1697-8,  March  2.  Exeter. — ^Asking  him  to  promote  the 
woollen  manufactory  bill  now  lying  before  the  House  of  Lords. 
They  are  very  sensible  of  a  great  neglect  in  their  duty  not  to 
have  given  his  Grace  their  unfeigned  thanks  for  the  honour 
they  received  by  his  Grace's  acceptance  to  be  their  Lord  High 
Steward.     Abstract. 

Matthew  Prior  to  Benjamin  Portlock. 

1698,  May  28-18.— /See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  'p.  760. 

Matthew  Prior  to  Ormonde. 
1698,  September  30-20.— /See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  759. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1698,  November  17.  Dublin. — I  hope,  my  noble  Lord, 
that  this  will  find  your  Grace  safe  and  well  at  London,  after  a 
good  voyage  and  a  pleasant  journey,  and  that  your  Grace  will 


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find  everything  there  according  to  your  own  desire.     I  am  sure 
I  shall  be  overjoyed  to  hear  it  is  so. 

We  have  done  little  here  but  what  relates  to  the  money 
bill,  which  has  taken  up  a  great  deal  of  our  time;  at  first 
90,000Z.  was  laid  on  land,  but  the  designed  fund  of  salt  having 
raised  the  price  of  that  commodity  from  six  to  sixteen 
shillings  per  barrel  in  one  day  after  the  vote  passed,  and  con- 
sequently drawing  on  the  House  the  clamours  of  the  poor, 
they  thought  fit  to  supersede  it  and  to  place  30,000Z.  on  land, 
and  they  talk  of  Lady  Dorchester's  and  other  quit-rents  to 
supply  the  remaining  1 8,000Z.  We  have  had  two  warm  votes 
in  the  case  of  the  Bishop  of  Derry  to  bring  the  sheriffs  and  six 
of  the  tenants  in  custody,  and  the  Lords  are  like  to  vote  him 
into  possession  unless  that  matter  can  be  accommodated, 
which  has  been  endeavoured  this  fortnight,  but  I  hear  this 
evening  is  farther  off  than  ever,  though  it  was  very  near  a 
conclusion  yesterday. 

[Lord  Stanley  to  the  Earl  of  Derby.] 

1698,  December  1.  Paris. — Informing  his  father  of  his 
arrival  there  with  Mr.  Inglish  on  Sunday.  They  were  twice 
overturned  and  had  snow  almost  all  the  way.  Everything 
is  very  dear,  and  people  who  have  lived  there  eighteen  years 
say  it  is  above  three  times  dearer  than  ever.  The  house  they 
have  eat  at  since  they  came  for  twenty-five  pence  a  meal, 
told  them  they  must  pay  half  a  crown  now.  He  had  seen  the 
statue  of  the  King  with  the  world  under  his  feet,  and  also  the 
one  on  horseback  to  be  set  up  in  the  Place  Vendome  He 
fancies  this  may  find  his  mother  at  Knowsley  still,  and 
mentions  his  sisters  Betty  and  Harriot.  He  hopes  his  father 
will  not  go  into  the  island  this  winter.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1699,  May  16.  DubHn. — Concerning  his  Grace's  private 
affairs.  He  hopes  the  Duchess  and  the  young  ladies  are 
safely  arrived  in  London.     Abstract. 

Rev.  Peter  Browne  to  Ormonde. 

1699,  May  16.  Trinity  College,  Dublin. — ^Asking  his  Grace 
to  recommend  him  to  his  Majesty  for  the  office  of  Provost, 
which  is  likely  to  become  vacant,  the  present  Provost  being 
in  all  appearance  past  recovery.  He  had  not  so  soon  made 
application  but  that  others  had  been  beforehand  by  another 
interest.     Abstract. 

William  Moreton,  Bishop  of  Kildare,  to  Ormonde. 

1 699,  May  1 7.  Dublin. — Recommending  for  the  provostship 
Dr.  Huntington,  whom  his  Grace's  grandfather  had  put  in. 
Upon  the  dispersion  he  was  as  a  father  to  all  that  went  to 
England,    He  laid  the  foundation  of  Bishop  Ashe  and  Bishop 


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Smith,  though  he  himself  be  neglected.  It  was  by  providence 
that  he  was  sent  over  to  England  to  provide  for  those  that 
knew  not  what  to  do  for  themselves.  He  has  been  married 
there,  but  is  capable  of  the  place  by  the  King's  dispensation, 
as  his  predecessor,  Dr.  Seele,  was  at  the  Restoration. 
Abstract. 

John  Vesey,  Archbishop  of  Tuam,  to  Ormonde. 

1699,  May  18.  Tuam. — ^Thanking  his  Grace  for  recom- 
mending his  son  to  the  Dean  of  Christ  Church,  to  be  admitted 
to  that  house.  It  is  hereditary  in  his  Grace's  family  to  oblige. 
Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1699,  May  22.  Dublin. — Concerning  Mr.  Medlicott's  ad- 
vocacy of  the  writer's  case  with  his  Grace.  Thanks  his  Grace 
for  his  kindness  therin.     Abstract. 

Same  to  Same. 

1699,  June  6.  Dublin.-— The  Provost  of  Trinity  College 
died  on  Sunday  night.  The  writer  asks  his  Grace,  as  Chan- 
cellor of  the  University,  to  use  his  influence  with  his  Majesty 
in  favour  of  Mr.  Peter  Browne,  an  eminent  preacher  and  a 
senior  fellow  of  that  College,  who  seeks  the  succession.  He 
wants  his  Grace's  orders  whether  he  will  send  the  large  map  of 
Ireland  to  Whitehall  or  Kilkenny.     Abstract. 

Richard  Tennison,  Bishop  of  Meath,  to  Ormonde. 
1699,  June  7.  Ardbraccan. — Begging  his  Grace  to  remember 
Dr.  Owen  Lloyd,  Divinity  Professor,  or  Mr.  John  Hall,  Vice- 
Provost,  to  his  Majesty,  to  succeed  Dr.  Browne,  the  Provost. 
Hearing  that  the  Lords  Justices  have  recommended  Mr.  Peter 
Browne,  the  writer  sets  out  various  reasons  against  appointing 
the  latter.  He  would  not  be  so  acceptable  to  the  University 
as  either  of  the  two  first  mentioned,  and  in  the  late  Provost's 
opinion  would  be  unfit  for  the  place.    Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1699,  July  8.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  management  of  his 
Grace's  estates.  He  designs  to  step  to  Carrick  with  Baron 
Worth  before  his  circuit.  Nobody  alive  but  such  as  loves  and 
honours  his  Grace  shall  taste  of  the  burgundy,  for  it  shall  be 
all  spent  in  drinking  his  Grace's  health,  his  Lady  Duchess's 
and  the  rest  of  his  Grace's  noble  family.  If  Mr.  Portlock  would 
let  him  know  in  what  ship  and  to  what  port  the  burgundy 
goes  he  would  take  great  care  of  it,  and  if  it  be  not  yet  sent, 
it  were  better  to  consign  it  to  Dublin  than  Cork,  for  he  has 
let  his  house  there  to  his  son  since  he  saw  his  Grace.     Abstract. 


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Same  to  Same. 

1699,  August  24.  Dublin. — ^Acknowledging  the  favour  of 
two  or  three  lines  from  Mr.  Portlock  which  import  the  noblest 
present  of  burgundy  that  ever  came  into  this  kingdom. 
He  refers  to  his  efforts,  in  conjunction  with  Baron  Worth 
towards  settling  his  Grace's  accounts.     Abstract. 


Sir  Kichard  Cox  to  Benjamin  Portlock. 

1699,  August  24.  Dublin. — Concerning  a  consignment  of 
burgundy  to  come  from  Chester,  and  the  precautions  to  be 
taken  for  its  safe  arrival.  "  I  am  just  going  to  give  the 
honour  of  my  Lord  Duke's  name  to  as  fine  a  boy  as  ever  I 
saw,  being  my  wife's  twenty-first  child."    Abstract. 

Colonel  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 

1700,  July  12.  Bellahinch  Camp. — Concerning  the  condi- 
tion of  the  troops  in  camp,  the  need  for  better  horses,  &c. 
By  some  mistake  Major-General  Windham's  commission  bears 
an  elder  date  to  that  of  the  writer,  though  that  ofl&cer  was  his 
junior.  He  hopes  this  may  be  set  right  in  the  next  commis- 
sion.    Abstract. 

Sir  Kichard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1700,  July  30.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  sale  of  Arklow  to 
Colonel  Allen.    Abstract. 


Theobald  Butler  to 


1700,  September  16.  Kells. — Concerning  two  leases  and  a 
settlement.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1700,  September  24. — Concerning  the  perfecting  the  lease 
of  Arklow  to  Colonel  Allen.  He  recommends  Allen's 
appointment  as  seneschal  of  that  manor.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Duke  of  Marlborough. 
1703-4,  January  U.—See  Kept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  762. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1700-1,  January  28.  Dublin. — Lord  Cahir,  the  late  Lord 
Carlingford,  and  Mr.  White  of  Leixlip,  among  others  reversed 
their  outlawries  in  the  King's  Bench.  They  were  also  out- 
lawed in  the  Palatinate.  Hence  arises  a  dispute  before  the 
trustees  about  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Palatinate  to  try  treasons. 
He  asks  his  Grace  to  tender  his  congratulations  to  the  Lord 
Lieutenant.     Abstract. 


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Pierce  Butler  and  Others  to  Ormonde. 

1701,  April  16.  Carlow.— We,  the  High  Sheriff,  Justices  of 
Peace,  Grand  Jury  and  others,  Protestant  gentry  and  in- 
habitants of  the  said  county,  whose  names  are  hereunto  sub- 
scribed, do  unanimously  and  with  one  accord,  make  it  our 
humble  and  earnest  request  to  the  Most  Noble  James  Duke  of 
Ormonde  his  Grace  that  he  will  please  in  favour  of  us,  and  all 
other  the  Protestants  in  this  county,  as  much  as  in  his  Grace 
lies,  to  obstruct  and  discountenance  Mark  Baggot,  a  violent 
Papist,  son  of  John  Baggot,  late  of  Mount  Arron,  in  this  county, 
from  returning  to  reside,  or  have  his  abode  among  us  ;  the  said 
Mark  having  been  titular  High  Sheriff  of  this  county  in  the  year 
1689  and  acted  as  such  with  that  unsufferable  pride,  rigour 
and  insolence  toward  the  Protestants  here,  as  will  never  be 
forgot ;  wherefore  as  his  neighbourhood  will  be  unwelcome  to 
all,  so  will  it  bring  a  terror  and  heartburning  to  the  poorer 
sort  especially,  for  whose  sake  as  well  as  our  own  we  make  this 
our  humble  request  to  his  Grace.  Pierce  Butler,  Jeff.  Paul, 
Robt.  Harris,  Jere.  Rydalle,  Jos.  Bunbury,  Thos.  Bunbury, 
Mau.  Warren,  Arthur  Hardy,  Laur.  Potts,  Ralph  Chritchly, 
Thos.  Conyers,  John  Bernard,  cum  sociis,  John  Browne,  Urban 
Vigors,  John  Beauchamp,  Tho.  Hardye,  Charles  Bernard, 
Ed.  Hunt,  John  Cooper,  Sam.  Curtis,  John  Wright,  Thos. 
Burdett,  vice-com.,  Tho.  Butler,  Wm.  Tench,  Went.  Harman, 
John  Beauchamp,  senr.,  Jo.  Reynolds,  Jo.  Allen. 

B.  Bennett  to  Ormonde. 

1701,  June  9.  Bermuda. — Mr.  Portlock  when  he  gives  this 
I  presume  will  acquaint  your  Grace  of  some  fine  apples  which 
I  beg  your  Grace's  acceptance  of,  and  wish  I  could  have  the 
conveniency  of  sending  more,  which  I  will  never  neglect  when 
in  my  power.  I  am  concerned  I  do  not  find  the  orange  trees 
in  that  condition  as  to  propose  sending  some  to  your  Grace, 
for  of  late  years  they  have  been  constantly  blasted,  and  indeed 
the  country  in  general  does  in  no  measure  answer  the 
character  it  has  in  England,  but  if  I  may  presume  to  live  in 
hopes  of  continuing  in  your  Grace's  favour,  it  will  extremely 
add  to  the  contentment  of,  &c. 

Pray  my  Lord  if  my  Lord  Rivers  be  in  town  let  me  intreat 
your  Grace's  pardon,  if  I  beg  his  Lordship  may  taste  a  pine, 
I  being  concerned,  I  could  not  send  him  any. 

William  Worth  to  Simon  Harcourt. 
1701,  July  11.  Dublin.— Lord  Chief  Justice  Pyne  insisted 
on  going  that  circuit,  wherein  the  business  of  the  writer's 
son  was  to  be  tried,  despite  all  the  efforts  of  the  Lord  Chan- 
cellor to  induce  him  to  go  another  circuit.  He  hopes  the  Lord 
Lieutenant  may  be  able  to  afford  some  relief,  otherwise  all 
must  be  given  up  for  loss,  and  his  child  oppressed  in  the 
highest  degree.    Abstract, 


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Same  to  Same. 

1701,  July  19.  Kilkenny. — Concerning  the  issue  of  general 
warrants  for  venison  out  of  his  Grace's  parks.  If  they  become 
numerous,  many  who  usually  had  the  favour  of  a  buck  or 
half  a  buck  every  season  must  be  disappointed.  Consequently, 
it  is  suggested,  it  would  be  better  to  renew  the  warrant  each 
year,  and  to  particularise  the  number  of  bucks  or  does  his 
Grace's  keeper  shall  serve  thereon  for  the  season.    Abstract. 

Enclosure  : — 

Earl  of  Meath  to  Michael  Smith. 

Enclosing  the  Duke  of  Ormonde's  general  warrant  for 
venison,  and  giving  particulars  as  to  how  same  is  to  be 
supplied.  The  fees  shall  not  be  forgotten.  In  August 
he  proposes  to  bring  his  bullet  gun  and  assist  Smith  to 
serve  warrants  in  Dunmore  Park.    Abstract. 

Enclosure  : — 

Ormonde  to  Michael  Smith. 

1701,  May  1.  St.  James's  Square. — Order  to  let  the 
Earl  of  Meath  have  out  of  Dunmore  Park  what  venison 
he  shall  have  occasion  for.     Abstract. 

William  Worth  to  Ormonde. 

1701,  August  2.  Dublin. — Informing  him  that  he  had 
given  Mr.  Brodrick  with  some  friends  leave  to  hunt  for  three 
or  four  days  outlying  deer  by  Dunmore.  It  has  not  only 
obliged  them,  but  the  city  of  Kilkenny  also,  by  bringing 
great  concourse  of  people.  He  hears  they  have  killed  two 
brace  of  bucks.  He  has  sent  a  buck  to  the  Lord  Chancellor,  and 
divided  another  between  Major- General  Erie  and  Colonel 
Harvey.    Abstract. 

William  Worth  to  Simon  Harcourt. 

1701,  August  2.  Dublin. — Since  my  last  to  you  from 
Kilkenny  on  notice  of  Mr.  Annesley's  landing,  I  posted 
hither,  where  he,  Mr.  Robinson,  Mr.  Corker  and  I  met.  Sir 
Richard  Cox  being  gone  into  the  country,  and  opened  the 
commission  given  to  us  by  my  Lord  Duke  of  Ormonde  ;  and 
after  we  read  the  same  all  of  us  agreed  that  the  place  of 
executing  this  commission  should  be  here,  for  three  of  us 
making  a  quorum  it  was  improbable  to  get  that  number 
together  on  all  occasions  anyi^^here  but  in  this  city.  And 
therefore  we  resolved  to  fix  on  some  certain  place  where  we 
would  meet  as  often  as  my  Lord  Duke's  business  required, 
and  that  a  clerk  under  us  should  be  there  constantly 
attending  every  day  to  answer  all  such  who  should  desire 
to  treat  with  us  about  any  of  my  Lord  Duke's  affairs.  .  .  . 


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Admiral  Stafford  Fairborne  to  Ormonde. 

1701,  August  3.  From  the  Plymouth  in  the  Downs. — 
Regretting  his  inabiUty  to  attend  his  Grace  at  the  launch  of 
the  Sovereign.     Abstract. 

William  Worth  to  Ormonde. 

1701,  August  14.  Dublin. — ^We  have  taken  a  place  wherein 
to  meet  together,  whensoever  a  clerk,  who  always  attends 
there,  shall  give  us  notice,  that  there  is  any  occasion.  My 
Lord  of  Meath  shall  have  venison,  as  oft  as  he  sends  for  it. 
Most  of  the  army  in  Ireland  are  marched  down  to  Cork,  the 
one  half  to  guard  the  other,  who  have  shamefully  deserted 
to  the  number  of  near  four  hundred,  in  apprehension  of  going 
to  the  West  Indies.  By  the  transportation  of  so  many  men, 
your  Grace  may  imagine,  the  kingdom  will  be  left  very  naked 
and  unguarded.  Great  preparations  are  making  for  my  Lord 
Rochester,  and  the  militia  are  all  commanded  to  draw  out  to 
meet  him.  But,  my  Lord,  I  weary  your  Grace  with  imper- 
tinences. 

Francis  Annesley  to  Simon  Harcourt. 

1 70 1 ,  August  2  5.  Dublin. — I  believe  it  will  not  be  ungrateful 
to  you  to  say  something  of  the  business  at  Chichester  House, 
especially  when  I  tell  you  that  I  have  hopes  to  send  the  Par- 
liament a  rental  that  will  please  them,  and  if  it  were  advisable 
for  the  Trustees  to  sell  the  estates  for  five,  seven  or  eleven 
years,  it  would  annually  advance  the  rent  10,000Z.,  and  that 
would  much  increase  the  sales.  The  Trustees  are  preparing 
for  the  next  meeting,  when  they  shall  know  the  true  value  of 
the  estates  petitioned  for ;  the  petitioners  are  very  high 
upon  the  favour  the  last  session  showed  them,  and  what 
they  expect  at  their  next  meeting ;  they  will  pay  no  rent,  will 
not  attend  the  hearing  of  their  claims  when  posted,  and  give 
for  answer  that  according  to  the  clause  in  the  Low  Wine  Act 
their  estates,  rights,  titles  in,  and  possessions  shall  not  be 
disturbed  or  prejudiced  by  the  Trustees.  I  hope  you  will 
at  the  first  meeting  next  session  resolve  on  what  petitions  you 
will  favour  and  what  not,  the  Trustees  are  very  unwilling 
to  do  anything  to  displease  the  least  of  their  masters.  Some 
of  the  Trustees  are  of  opinion  that  to  hear  the  claims  of  the 
petitioners  and  dismiss  them  is  a  prejudice  to  their  titles ; 
if  they  refuse  payment  of  rent,  that  we  will  not  compel  them, 
for  that  would  disturb  their  possessions.  We  have  within 
this  month  dispatched  over  three  thousand  claims,  and  I  do 
believe  shall  be  able  to  go  through  the  whole  number  within 
the  time  limited  by  the  last  clause ;  all  things  since  our  last 
coming  over  are  transacted  with  temper  amongst  us.  I 
believe  the  rest  of  the  Trustees  have  thoughts  of  sending 
over  me  to  the  next  session,  but  unless  the  Duke's  business 
can  be  expedited  before  that  time,  I  must  be  excused. 


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As  to  this  place  I  find  all  I  converse  with  very  much  for  the 
4  and  the  5,  against  the  Commons  and  for  the  Lords,  no 
great  fondness  for  their  new  Governor,  well-wishers  to  the 
addresses  for  a  new  Parliament,  and  for  a  war,  and  all  doctrine 
against  these  is  heretical.  I  know  not  what  alteration  in 
judgment  and  affection  time  and  the  good  conduct  of  our  next 
Chief  Governor  may  make.  You  will  pardon  the  prolixity  of 
this,  my  next  shall  be  shorter. 

Hon.  Leopold  Finch  to  Ormonde. 

1701,  September  5.  All  Souls. — As  Pro-Vice-Chancellor,  he 
had  shown  all  the  civilities  of  the  place  to  the  Archbishop 
of  Philippopolis.  He  recommends  Mr.  Brown  of  Merton 
College  for  a  living  in  the  gift  of  the  Charter  House.    Abstract. 

William  Worth  to  Ormonde. 

1701,  September  10.  Kilkenny. — ^Mr.  Booth,  seneschal  of 
all  his  Grace's  manor  courts  in  this  county,  is  dead,  and  several 
persons  are  seeking  to  succeed  him.  He  has  discoursed  of  the 
matter  with  Sir  Richard  Cox.  Both  are  of  opinion  that  the 
keeping  of  the  courts  should  be  divided  into  several  hands. 
Li  this  way  justice  would  be  better  executed  and  moreover 
his  Grace's  interest  would  be  strengthened  by  obliging  more 
people.     Abstract. 

Lord  Power  to  Ormonde. 

1701,  October  IS.-^See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  762. 

Earl  of  Galway  to  Ormonde. 
1703-4,  February  12.     See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  762. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1701-2,  March  3.  Dubhn. — Concerning  his  Grace's  private 
affairs.  He  wishes  he  were  young  enough  to  attend  his  Grace 
in  the  summer's  expedition,  but  as  he  is,  he  shall  do  more  good 
in  praying  for  his  Grace  at  home,  which  he  will  endeavour 
effectually.     Abstract. 

The  Earl  of  Derby  to  Sir  Christopher 
Greenfield. 

1 702,  April  2.  St.  James's  Palace. — I  return  you  many  thanks 
for  the  form  of  your  address  which  is  [compiled]  so  well  there 
is  no  occasion  for  the  least  alteration,  but  if  you  have  not 
a  party  strong  enough  to  keep  it  out  of  the  hands  of  the 
present  burgesses  or  their  friends  it  is  better  let  alone,  for 
without  I  have  the  disposal  so  far  as  to  introduce  some  of  the 
gentlemen  here  to  present  it  to  the  Queen,  as  I  did  this  day 
one  from  the  town  of  Macclesfield,  we  lose  our  aim.  It  will 
be  the  same  for  the  county  should  one  go  through  the  Sessions 
for  aU  the  justices — ^the  majority  at  least  are  wrong  ;  the  only 


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way  would  be  if  a  number  of  gentlemen  of  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land met,  agreed  upon  an  address  (this  very  one  of  yours  and 
set  the  corporation  aside)  and  so  send  it  to  me.  I  write  to 
Sir  Tom  Stanley  to  use  his  endeavours  ;  this  would  be  of 
consequence.  I  offer  this  as  my  thought,  and  I  think  the  best,  so 
it  is  done  soon  ;    it  is  late  and  I  can  add  ho  more. 

Ormonde  to  the  Vice- Chancellor  of  Oxford. 
1695,  May  5.— See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  759. 

Horatio  Moore  to  Ormonde. 

1702,  May  16.  Castle  at  Cowes. — Informing  Ormonde  that 
a  room  in  Carrisbrook  Castle  is  being  fitted  up  for  his  reception. 
Abstract. 

Duke  of  Marlborough  to  Ormonde. 
1702,  May  23.— iSec  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  763. 

Ormonde  to . 


1702,  June  6.—See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  763. 

Earl  of  Nottingham  to  Ormonde. 

1702,  June  9.  Whitehall. — Expressing  regret  that  he  had 
not  found  Ormonde  at  home  when  he  had  waited  upon  him 
that  morning,  and  assuring  Ormonde  of  his  hearty  wishes  for 
the  success  of  his  enterprise.    Abstract. 

Same  to  Same. 
1702,  June  19.— /See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  763. 

George  Clarke  to  Ormonde. 
1702,  June  20.-'See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  763. 

Earl  of  Nottingham  to  Ormonde. 
1702,  June  25.— /See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  763. 

Sir  Charles  Hedges  to  Ormonde. 
1702,  July  21.— /See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  764. 

George  Landgrave  of  Hesse  to  Ormonde. 
1702,  August  8-19.— /See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p,  764. 

Sir  Stafford  Fairborne  to  Ormonde. 
1702,  August  24.— /See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  764. 

Ormonde  to  Admiral  George  Rooke. 
1702,  August  26.— /See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  764. 


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Sir  Stafford  Fairborne  to  Ormonde. 

1702,  August  27.  Swiftsure. — Saying  that  Admiral  Almond 
and  the  rest  of  the  flags  would  attend  his  Grace  that  morn- 
ing at  Fort  Catalonia.  A  flag  of  truce  has  just  come  from 
Cadiz.  He  has  not  allowed  the  messenger  to  go  further 
without  his  Grace's  orders.     Abstract. 

Admiral  George  Rooke  to  Ormonde. 

1702,  September  10. — Royal  Sovereign  in  the  Bay  of  Bulls 
— Acknowledging  Ormonde's  counsel  of  war  sent  to  him  by 
Lord  Tunbridge.  There  will  be  no  delay  or  impediment  in 
the  embarkation.     Abstract. 

Sir  Charles  Hedges  to  Ormonde. 
1702,  September  16.— iS^ce  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  764. 

John  Methuen  to  Ormonde. 
1702,  September  16-27.--/S'ee  Kept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  765. 

George  Clarke  to  Ormonde. 
1702,  September  \^.—See  Kept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  765. 

Admiral  George  Rooke  to  Ormonde. 

1702,  September  17.  Royal  Sovereign. — Asking  for  the 
removal  of  thirty-five  Spanish  officers,  then  prisoners  on  the 
Torbay,  who  had  been  sent  off  from  St.  Mary  Port  by  Ormonde. 
Abstract. 

George  Landgrave  of  Hesse  to  Ormonde. 
1702,  September  20.— ^See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  765. 

Admiral  George  Rooke  to  Ormonde. 

1702,  September  24.  Royal  Sovereign. — Asking  for  twenty 
marines  for  the  Expedition.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Nottingham  to  Ormonde. 
1702,  September  2S.—See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  766. 

John  Methuen  to  Ormonde. 

1702,  October  5,  o.s.  Lisbon, — I  had  the  honour  of  your 
Grace's  letter  from  off  Cape  St.  Vincent,  and  when  I  received 
it  wished  heartily  that  mine  had  had  the  effect  to  have  brought 
your  Grace  nearer  this  place,  since  you  might  have  had  the 
occasion  at  Vigo  of  recovering  the  want  of  success  at  Cadiz. 
I  can  assure  your  Grace  you  would  have  wanted  neither 
provisions  or  anything  else  this  place  could  have  assisted  you 
with.  I  have  since  heard  the  French  and  Spanish  ships  are 
retired  up  into  a  small  bay  at  Redondela  within  a  narrow 


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entrance  of  land  very  strongly  fortified  by  the  bringing  the 
guns  of  the  ships  on  shore,  so  that  the  attempt  of  attacking 
them  would  have  been  very  difficult.  All  the  silver  is  Uke- 
wise  carried  on  shore  so  that  I  shall  be  very  glad  to  hear  that 
your  Grace  with  the  fleet  are  safe  arrived  in  England, 
reserving  the  fleet  and  army  for  better  success  in  the  ensuing 
year.  There  seems  not  one  single  man  either  present  at 
Cadiz  or  here  that  imputes  either  the  want  of  success  or  any- 
thing else  which  is  not  Uked  to  your  Grace's  conduct ;  on  the 
contrary  all  sides  agree,  even  the  French  and  Spanish 
themselves,  that  your  Grace's  whole  carriage  in  every 
particular  answers  the  character  your  Grace  would  wish 
always  to  have. 

O.  NiJA  to  Ormonde. 
1702,  October  23.— ^cc  Kept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  766. 

Earl  of  Normanby  and  Others  to  Ormonde. 
1702,  October  30.  St.  James's. — ^After  our  very  hearty 
commendations  to  your  Grace,  his  Royal  Highness  Prince 
George  of  Denmark,  Lord  High  Admiral,  having  by  his 
memorial  read  at  the  Board,  proposed,  that  since  the  ships 
necessary  for  the  winter  guard  are  either  well  manned  or  may 
be  so  by  some  men  to  be  removed  from  the  ships  ordered 
to  be  paid  off,  directions  may  be  given  to  all  persons  con- 
cerned to  forbear  the  impresting  or  entertaining  of  more  men 
for  the  sea  service  this  year.  Her  Majesty  in  Council 
approving  thereof,  we  do  by  her  Majesty's  command  pray  and 
require  your  Grace  to  give  the  necessary  directions  for  putting 
a  stop  to  the  impresting  within  your  lieutenancy*  any  more 
men  for  this  year's  service.  And  so  we  bid  your  Grace  very 
heartily  farewell.  Normanby,  C.P.S.,  Godolphin,  Pembroke, 
Leeds,  H.  Boyle,  J.  Granville. 

Ormonde  to  Duke  of  Marlborough. 
1702-3,  February  2. —See  Kept.,  VII,  App.,  p,  766. 

Robert  Rochfort  to  Ormonde. 
1702-3,   February   13.     Dublin. — Congratulating  his  Grace 
on  his  appointment  as  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland.     Abstract. 

[Peter]  Bonafous  to  Ormonde. 
1702-3,  February  18.— /Sec  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  766. 

Rev.  Martin  Baxter  to  Benjamin  Portlock. 
1702-3,  February  20.— /S'ee  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  767. 


*  i,6.  of  Somersetshire. 


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Rev.  C.  Hickman  to  Ormonde. 

1703,  March  28. — Concerning  the  sale  of  Stoke.  Sir  Robert 
Gayer,  whom  he  had  seen  in  accordance  with  his  Grace's 
commands,  will  ask  no  more  than  what  it  would  be  worth 
to  pull  down  the  house  and  cut  down  the  woods  and  plough 
up  the  ground.  It  comes  to  about  25,000Z.  If  his  Grace 
buys  Stoke,  the  writer  wiU  not  change  his  poor  parsonage 
adjoining  for  a  bishopric.     Abstract. 


Return  of  Value  of  Arms. 


1703,  March.— 
2,006  muskets  at  U. 
42  halberts  at  125. 
62  drums  at  U.     . . 
48  pouches  at  ll. 
48  hatchets  at  25. 
48  bayonets  at  25.  6d. 
674  cartouche  boxes  at  25.  6d. 


I.     5.  d. 

2,006     0  0 

26     4  0 

62     0  0 

48     0  0 

4  16  0 

6     0  0 

71   16  0 

£2,213  16  0 


Brigadier-General  John  Tidcombe  to  Ormonde. 
1703,  July  4.  Dublin. — Concerning  one  Moyer,  a  clothier 
whom  he  had  recommended  to  Ormonde.  "  I  am  just  now 
drinking  to  your  Grace's  health  with  Mr.  Deering  in  his 
champagne  which  was  designed  and  dedicated  to  entertain 
your  Grace."     Abstract. 

Lord  Raby  to  Ormonde. 

1703,  August  28.  Berlin. — Over  two  seas  and  many  miles 
of  land  I  only  send  this  to  assure  your  Grace  of  my  continuing 
your  humble  servant,  and  that  this  great  distance  may  not 
make  you  forget  [that]  amongst  the  multitude  of  your  friends 
you  have  a  faithful  one  in  this  comer  of  the  world,  who  should 
be  glad  of  any  opportunity  to  serve  your  Grace.  I  wish  I 
had  news  to  make  my  letter  worth  your  reading  ;  but  at  this 
distance  you  will  not  care  to  be  informed  of  the  disputes 
between  these  German  Courts,  as  long  as  they  continue  not 
to  obstruct  the  common  good,  and  that  is  my  chief  est 
employment  to  act  the  mediator  amongst  them,  especially 
between  this  Court  and  that  of  Hanover,  though  the  Electress 
is  now  here,  but  is  so  afflicted  for  the  loss  of  her  son  Christian 
that  she  does  not  care  to  meddle  in  business.  The  Eong  has 
lately  signed  a  treaty  with  Sweden,  which  has  alarmed  all 
our  neighbours,  and  Mr.  Secretary  Hedges  has  writ  to  me 
to  inform  him  about  it.  I  find  it  is  only  defensive,  and  no 
more  than  England  and  Holland  has  Hkewise  done  within 
these  few  days,  by  which  and  the  letters  I  have  from  Mr, 
Robinson  I  find  the  peace  of  Poland  is  as  far  off  as  ever ;  for 


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now  the  King  of  Sweden  has  secured  these  three  potentates 
he  need  fear  no  alliance  the  Poles  can  make  against  him.  I 
am  sorry  for  the  King  of  Poland,  your  Grace's  friend,  for  his 
affairs  seem  to  be  but  in  an  ill  posture  ;  for  the  Poles  them- 
selves betray  him.  All  the  hopes  of  success  given  him  by 
the  Diet  of  Lubhn  is  since  vanished.  I  hear  there  is  six  fine 
horses  your  Grace  is  sending  him  to  pass  through  this  town  in 
a  few  days.  You  will  make  these  German  Princes  blush  to 
see  the  great  presents  your  Grace  sends,  for  they  tell  me  the 
horses  are  extreme  fine.  We  have  very  fine  coach  horses 
in  this  Court,  but  the  saddle  horses  are  very  indifferent. 

I  hear  your  Grace  has  made  a  new  Chancellor,  and  though 
I  desire  nothing  but  justice,  yet  a  word  of  your  Grace  would 
make  her  go  even,  for  she  is  apt  to  lean  always  to  the  side 
of  the  present.  And  your  acknowledging  me  for  a  friend  and 
humble  servant  would  make  me  remembered  not  only  by  the 
judge,  but  by  the  lawyer,  if  I  could  beg  you  to  extend  your 
favour  so  far  as  to  recommend  me  as  an  acquaintance  of  yours 
to  Mr.  Attorney  Rochfort,  who  pleads  for  me.  Nothing  but 
the  assurance  of  your  goodness,  and  the  hopes  I  have  that 
your  Grace  allows  me  a  rank  amongst  your  faithful  friends 
and  humble  servants,  could  make  me  depend  on  a  pardon 
from  you  for  this  trouble.  Watson  is  in  Ireland,  who  will  not 
be  idle  in  solicitation  nor  bribes  to  get  more  from  me  ;  though 
I  think  he  might  be  satisfied  with  the  estate  and  not  desire 
to  wrong  me  of  more.  I  do  not  question  but  your  Grace 
passes  your  time  very  agreeably,  for  all  people  where  you  are 
will  strive  for  their  own  pleasure  and  satisfaction  to  do  you 
all  the  good  and  honours  they  can.  I  hope  your  greatness  and 
satisfaction  may  increase  daily,  as  is  heartily  wished  by,  &c. 

Ormonde  to  Earl  of  Nottingham. 
1703,  September  U.—See  Kept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  767. 

George  Elector  of  Hesse  to  Ormonde. 
1703,  October  I.— See  Kept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  767. 

Lieut. -General  Henry  Lumley  to  Ormonde. 
1703,  October  8,  n.s.  St.  Trond. — It  is  with  a  great  deal  of 
pleasure  I  receive  the  honour  of  your  Grace's  of  the  9th  of  last 
month.  As  for  us,  we  continue  at  this  place  thinking  of  nothing 
but  winter  quarters,  though  we  endeavour  to  hve  as  long  out 
of  them  as  possible,  that  the  French  may  not  make  any 
detachments  towards  Germany  or  Spain.  The  Prince  of 
Tserclaes  and  Dubois  are  both  gone  for  Spain  and  they 
talk  of  sending  many  more  from  this  country.  I  believe 
partly  to  be  rid  of  them  as  well  as  that  they  should  be  of  use 
there  to  them  ;  the  regiments  the  Dutch  send  from  thence 
are,  truly,  extremely  good,  as  well  as  the  officers  with 
them  whom  your  Grace  knows,  and  you  will  find  named  in 


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the  public  prints.  The  new  King  of  Spain  is  expected  in 
Holland  towards  the  20th  of  this  month.  The  Duke  of 
Marlborough,  I  beheve,  will  meet  him  at  Busseldorf  and 
expects  each  day  to  hear  news  of  him.  Though  your  Grace 
did  not  speak  in  your  letter  of  coming  to  England,  yet  I  will 
flatter  myself  I  shall  be  so  happy  to  meet  you  in  town  next 
month.  I  am  told  your  Grace  will  have  a  regiment  of  horse 
in  the  place  of  Harvey's.  I  conclude  you  have  fixed  on  your 
officers  or  I  should  have  recommended  Mr.  Wilson  to  your 
favour,  for  I  am  assured  he  would  have  deserved  it.  I  wish 
your  Grace  success  in  all  you  undertake,  and  that  you  were 
well  rid  of  your  ParHament.  BeHeve  me,  my  dear  Lord 
Duke,  nobody  can  wish  you  in  all  things  more  happiness  and 
satisfaction  than  does,  &c. 

Lord  Godolphest  to  Ormonde. 
1703,  October  12.— See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  767. 

John  Hough,  Bishop  of  Lichfield,  to  Ormonde. 
1703,  October  20.— /See  Rept.,  XIV,  App.,  pt.  VII,  p.  60. 

Earl  of  Rochester  to  Ormonde. 

[1703,]  October  21.  Newpark. — I  have  so  great  a  satis- 
faction in  the  victory  that  your  Grace  hath  gained  that  I 
cannot  defer  one  moment  giving  you  joy  of  it,  and  assuring 
you  that  I  am  heartily  pleased  with  it.  I  find  the  battle 
was  hard  fought,  and  therefore  you  have  the  greater  honour 
in  the  conquest.  I  hope  your  Grace  will  remember,  however, 
for  reward  and  punishment  govern  the  world,  who  were  your 
friends  and  who  were  not,  and  I  daresay  you  have  no  cause 
to  complain  of  Erie  and  Keightley.  Lord  Arran  and  Lord 
Grantham  drunk  your  health  yesterday  with  me  at  this  place 
before  the  good  news  came,  and  now  we  shall  repeat  it  very 
soon  on  this  good  occasion.  I  can  assure  you  very  faithfully 
that  they  two  are  not  more  your  servants  than  your  own  old,  &c. 

Lord  Godolphin  to  Ormonde. 
1703,  October  21.— /Sec  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p,  767. 

Earl  of  Portmore  to  Ormonde. 
1703,  October  31.  London. — Referring  to  an  account  of  a 
very  surprising  and  unwelcome  vote  of  Parhament  which, 
among  several  other  grants  of  King  Charles  and  King  James, 
tends  to  the  destroying  of  the  only  support  of  his  family, 
and  also  to  the  confusions  such  large  Hberties  in  resumptions 
would  bring  in  the  settlements  of  many  families.  He  relies  on 
his  Grace's  goodness  and  generosity,  and  hopes  he  will  engage 
the  Lord  Chancellor  also  to  be  his  friend.    Abstract. 


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Ormonde  to  Duke  of  Marlborough. 
1703,  December  7.— See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p,  768. 

Earl  of  Portmore  to  Ormonde. 
1703,  December  9.  Weybridge. — Thanking  his  Grace  for 
the  assurance  of  favours  contained  in  his  letter.  As  matters 
of  the  army  stand,  a  considerable  portion  of  the  writer's  fortune 
must  be  employed  to  support  the  honourable  and  necessary 
expenses  of  his  post.  He  expected  to  meet  with  acts  of  favour 
rather  than  severities  at  the  hands  of  the  Irish  Parliament. 
Abstract. 

Brigadier-General  Charles  Ross  to  Ormonde. 

1703,  December  10.  London. — Parliament  having  consented 
to  the  replacing  the  troops  taken  out  of  Holland  for  the  service 
of  Portugal,  he  begs  his  Grace  to  aUow  the  two  troops  of  his 
regiment  under  his  Grace's  command  in  Ireland  to  join  the 
others.  He  asks  that  his  regiment  may  have  the  title  of  Royal 
Irish.  There  is  a  regiment  of  foot  that  has  it,  and  his  being 
the  eldest  of  the  Dragoons  of  Ireland,  he  hopes  his  Grace  will 
not  be  displeased  with  his  pretending  to  it.     Abstract. 

Brigadier-General  Frederick  Hamilton  to  Ormonde. 

1703,  December  11-22.  Breda. — Recommending  Captain 
Duroure.  He  is  still  struggling  under  a  severe  wound  received 
in  his  head  at  the  siege  of  Namur.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  Henry  Lumley  to  Ormonde. 

1703,  December  13. — I  writ  to  your  Grace  as  soon  as  I 
came  over  to  let  you  know  how  much  I  regretted  not  having 
the  satisfaction  of  finding  your  Grace,  as  I  flattered  myself 
at  my  arrival  I  should.  The  biUs  not  being  returned,  as  I 
am  informed,  wiU  make  it  yet  some  time  before  I  can  propose 
to  myseK  the  pleasure  of  seeing  you.  The  wind  that  has 
been  long  favourable  for  the  Kmg  of  Spain  is  now  turned, 
and  my  Lord  Duke  of  Marlborough  goes  for  HoUand  to-morrow. 
He  is  sent  for,  as  I  conclude,  by  some  of  his  friends.  I  know 
he  expects  greater  powers,  and  I  am  told  that  several  of  the 
States  think  a  Captain  General,  at  last,  absolutely  necessary. 
At  this  time  proper  powers  cannot  be  given  to  anybody  else 
unless  he  serve.  Measures  must  be  taken  for  next  campaign, 
and  there  is  a  talk  of  new  alliances  between  the  Swedes  and 
the  King  of  Prussia,  which  may  prove  of  ill  consequence  if 
the  iU  effects  of  it  are  not  prevented.  The  Duke  of  Marlborough 
designs  not  staying  above  five  or  six  days,  so  that  we  shall  soon 
know  his  business  and  the  success.  I  will  not  trouble  your 
Grace  longer,  but  assure  you  most  faithfuUy  your  absence 
deprives  me  of  the  greatest  satisfaction  I  proposed  to  myself. 
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Brigadier-General  John  Tidcombe  to  Ormonde. 

1703,  December  14.  London. — Since  my  last  that  I  did 
myseK  the  honour  to  write  to  your  Grace  there  has  nothing  of 
moment  happened.  Though  Holland  has  escaped  with  little 
damage  in  the  last  storm,  yet  the  repairs  of  their  shipping 
will  require  seven  or  eight  days  longer  before  they  can  sail 
for  our  coast.  The  account  the  Admiralty  had  of  Sir  Stafford 
Fairbome  being  safe  do  not  prove  to  be  true,  but  we  are  still 
in  hopes  he  may  be  driven  to  Norway.  This  day  the  lords 
are  upon  the  Conformity  BiU  ;  I  believe  the  House  will  sit 
very  late  ;  both  sides  seem  to  be  positive  and  great  wagers 
are  laid,  but  odds  are  offered  that  it  will  be  flung  out.  My 
Lord,  Ensign  Barston  of  my  regiment  being  involved  here  in 
a  long  law  suit,  begs  leave  to  sell  to  Mr.  Freestone,  who  is  a 
very  pretty  gentleman  and  whose  elder  brother  has  a  good 
estate  and  can  serve  me  with  some  recruits  ;  I  beg  your  Grace 
will  be  pleased  to  grant  this  favour.  I  have  found  a  person 
for  a  baronet  that  I  doubt  not  but  your  Grace  will  approve  of, 
who  will  have  2,000Z.  a  year  settled  on  him  on  marriage.  They 
talk  of  six  regiments  to  be  raised  here  and  the  Marines  to  be 
filled  up  to  be  a  hundred,  and  the  Parhament  wiU  propose  some 
new  method  to  facilitate  recruiting  ;  I  have  nothing  to  add,  &c. 

Lieut. -Colonel  George  Carpenter  to  Ormonde. 

1703,  December  15.  Newport  in  the  Isle  of  Wight. — 
Setting  out  his  efforts  in  his  Grace's  service  in  Parhament 
and  entreating  his  Grace's  favour  and  justice,  if  any  regiment 
of  horse  is  raised  in  or  for  Ireland.  He  is  the  eldest  Heu tenant- 
colonel  of  horse  and  eldest  brevet  of  colonel  in  the  army, 
except  Palmer  in  Holland,  who  is  of  the  same  date.  He  has  had 
eighteen  years'  service  in  the  regiment  since  it  was  first  raised, 
both  in  the  Irish  and  Flanders  wars,  and  has  interest  money 
and  knowledge  in  soldiery  to  make  as  good  a  regiment  for 
her  Majesty's  service  as  any  man.     Abstract. 

Brigadier-General  Frederick  Hamilton  to  Ormonde. 

1703,  December  17-28.  Breda. — Since  your  Grace  has 
thought  fit  to  dispose  of  the  government  of  Derry  and  Culmore 
to  so  deserving  a  gentleman  as  Colonel  Newton,  I  am  certainly 
very  well  pleased  with  the  same,  especially  since  I  have  the 
great  honour  from  your  Grace  of  the  assurance  of  your  favour, 
which  I  will  ever  study  to  deserve,  and  take  all  opportunities 
of  giving  proofs  of  my  zeal  for  your  service.  I  have  no  way 
now  to  demonstrate  this  but  by  begging  leave  to  lay  before 
you  the  occurrences  of  this  place,  when  anything  may  happen 
worth  your  Grace's  knowledge. 

The  affairs  of  Germany  in  the  beginning  of  the  campaign 
had  a  good  aspect,  but  since  have  been  attended  with  a  dismal 
conclusion,  and  little  of  advantage  is  expected  from  them 
unless  Prince  Eugene  can  bring  the  disturbances  in  Hungary 


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to  some  happy  issue  ;  all  these  misfortunes  are  attributed  to 
Prince  Lewis  of  Baden,  of  whom  the  gentlemen  of  those 
countries  take  a  Uberty  to  speak  with  a  great  deal  of  freedom. 
How  our  campaign  began  and  ended  I  am  not  to  make  a 
judgment  of  the  same,  since  there  are  many  not  well  pleased 
and  this  State  much  out  of  humour  at  several  proceedings. 
This  as  well  as  the  great  animosities  that  daily  arise  among 
their  chief  officers  make  them  begin  to  see  the  necessity 
of  having  a  Captain-General,  though  still  averse  to  a  Stat- 
holder.  Several  debates  have  been  about  the  former,  and 
those  now  under  consideration  are  the  Landgrave  of  Hesse 
and  Prince  Eugene.  The  first  demands  the  power  to  dispose 
of  all  mihtary  command  which  the  States  are  not  willing  to 
grant,  and  they  are  somewhat  afraid  that  by  his  aUiances 
he  might  endeavour  to  bring  himself  or  some  of  his  family 
into  the  dignity  of  Statholder. 

The  rehgion  of  the  other  is  no  obstacle,  but  rather  furthers 
his  interest,  for  by  that  they  know  he  can  have  no  concern 
in  their  civil  government,  and  having  no  family  will  be  Uttle 
burden  to  them,  nor  make  encroachments  on  them  ;  but  his 
advice  and  assistance  being  so  requisite  at  this  juncture  it 
is  believed  the  Emperor  cannot  allow  of  his  coming  hither, 
so  that  the  States  must  be  obliged  to  desire  the  Landgrave  to 
accept  of  this  command,  and  such  as  are  of  the  Prince  of 
Frize's  party  are  rather  for  making  choice  of  him  than  any 
other.  The  King  of  Prussia  has  been  endeavouring  to  get 
himself  chosen  Statholder,  but  all  parties  oppose  his  design, 
yet  to  keep  him  in  their  interest  all  means  are  used  both  by 
presents  to  him  and  his  mistress,  who  has  a  mighty  ascendant 
over  him,  but  still  it  is  feared  he  will  be  a  very  troublesome 
neighbour.  He  has  lately  made  the  hereditary  Prince  of 
Hesse,  his  son-in-law,  governor  of  the  town  and  duchy  of 
Cleves,  and  General  of  all  his  forces  in  these  parts. 

The  contrary  winds  have  long  detained  the  King  of  Spain 
in  this  country,  which  is  wholly  to  be  attributed  to  the  ill 
conduct  of  the  Admiralty  here,  for  when  he  first  came  the  wind 
was  very  fair  and  continued  so  above  a  fortnight  after  Sir 
George  Rooke  was  arrived,  and  all  the  English  preparation 
in  readiness,  but  those  of  the  Dutch  were  in  no  forwardness, 
which  occasioned  this  delay  ;  and  it  is  to  be  feared  other 
matters  may  meet  with  the  same  disappointments,  since 
several  of  those  which  were  removed  out  of  the  administration 
of  affairs  here  by  his  late  Majesty  are  now  again  come  into  power, 
particularly  such  who  were  then  thought  to  have  too  strict  a 
friendship  with  a  neighbour  Prince  not  in  the  common  interest* 

General  Churchill,  Lieutenant-General  Lumley  with  several 
officers  designed  for  recruiting  have  been  a  tedious  while 
waiting  at  Rotterdam,  but  are  still  detained  there  by  contrary 
winds,  so  that  it  is  to  be  feared  our  recruits  will  be  very  late 
in  coming  over  this  next  year.  I  am  appointed  to  reside  in 
this  place  to  take  care  of  the  English  quartered  here  and  in 


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the  adjacent  garrisons,  so  that  if  your  Grace  may  think  fit 
at  any  time  to  honour  me  with  your  commands  they  shall 
always  have  a  perfect  obedience  from,  &c. 

Ormonde  to  Duke  of  Marlborough. 
1703,  December  2Q.—See  Rept'.,  VII,  App.,  p.  768. 

Ormonde  to  Lord  Coningsby. 
1703,  December  2Q.—See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  768. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 

1703,  December  27.  Dublin. — Concerning  two  petitions, 
one  from  Kilkenny  for  an  Act  of  Parhament  to  make  the 
River  Nore  navigable,  and  the  other  from  Ross  desiring  that 
it  may  be  of  the  number  of  those  ports  which  have  leave  to 
export  wool.  He  refers  to  the  movements  of  the  Shoreham 
and  the  Speedwell.  The  Arundel  is  grounded  at  Bristol,  but 
the  Captain  has  dug  a  great  hole  about  his  ship  and  hopes 
next  springtide  to  get  her  off.  Mr.  Miller  was  very  weU 
satisfied  with  the  30X,  which  is  a  great  sum  in  a  Scotchman's 
pocket,  and  a  sober  man  to  boot.  Since  his  Grace's  arrival 
no  letters  miscarried  except  the  packet  boat  which  was  taken. 
Lieutenant  Fenwick's  business  is  mentioned,  and  also  a  letter 
from  Harry  Kilhgrew  about  Toby  Caulfield.  Mr.  Blathwayt's 
letter  wiU  show  that  the  estabhshment  for  the  four  regiments 
is  almost  perfected,  with  which  Sir  WiUiam  Robinson  has 
been  acquainted,  so  that  the  Treasury  wiU  not  scruple  the 
payment  of  them.  Some  of  the  Lords  design  to  blast  my 
Lord  Nottingham's  reputation  by  taking  the  examination  of 
those  Scotchmen  into  their  own  management,  but  the  Commons 
have  very  signally  and  justly  acquitted  him.  He  refers  to 
correspondence  with  Lord  Nottingham  with  regard  to  leave 
from  her  Majesty  for  his  Grace  to  go  over  to  England,  and 
the  appointing  of  the  Lord  Chancellor,  Mr.  Erie  and  perhaps 
Lord  Mount- Alexander  as  Lords  Justices.  Whether  the  late 
discovery  of  affairs  in  Scotland  wiU  give  his  Grace  occasion 
to  consider  the  last  lord  is  of  that  country,  his  Grace  will 
have  time  enough  to  consider  of.  A  copy  of  Mr.  Wogan's 
letter  is  enclosed  ;  he  is  soHciting  the  bills.  "  The  Attorney 
is  nettled  with  our  Speaker's  speech,  which  may  prolong  the 
time  ;  and  methinks  the  Popish  agents  are  very  saucy  in  their 
apphcations."  Brigadier  Cunningham  seems  off  his  design 
of  seUing,  "  especially  now  that  plots  are  on  foot  and  there 
might  be  an  opportunity  to  show  his  zeal."  The  writer  is  in 
a  day  or  two  to  have  Stephen  Ludlow  and  aU  their  gang 
to  dinner,  where  they  wiU  remember  his  Grace,  as  they  never 
fail  to  do.  The  prints  say  that  Mathews  of  the  Guards  has 
got  the  government  of  the  Leeward  Islands.  "I  fear  he 
is  under  contribution."  Sir  Donough  O'Brien  had  a  hundred 
and  ten  ounces  of  blood  taken  from  him,  and,  they  say,  will 


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recover.  "  The  town  says  your  Grace  has  a  great  many  Com- 
missioners of  the  Revenue  at  Kilkenny."  The  Lord  Treasurer 
expects  an  account  of  the  horses  of  Brigadier  Harvey's 
regiment.     Abstract. 

Thomas  Keightley  to  Ormonde. 

1703,  December  30.  Castlemartin. — Concerning  the  ap- 
pointment of  new  commissioners  of  the  revenue.  He  has 
now  account  of  the  certain  death  of  Mr.  Vanhomrigh  and  the 
approaching  one  of  Mr.  Carleton.  He  offers  to  his  Grace's 
consideration  that  he  will  be  pleased  not  to  be  too  sudden 
in  his  recommendation  of  their  successors.  A  great  deal  more 
depends  upon  that  disposition  even  for  his  Grace's  service 
than  the  gratification  of  a  friend  with  a  good  salary.  He  is 
now  going  to  Dublin,  leaving  Sir  Donough  O'Brien  in  a  very 
bad  condition  at  that  place.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1 70 3-4,  January  1 .  Dublin. — Concerning  Lord  Meath  's  affair. 
He  is  of  opinion  that  it  should  stand  as  it  does  till  his  Grace 
is  here.  It  will  be  for  the  Queen's  service  and  his  Grace's 
to  have  the  next  meeting  of  Parliament  shortened  as  much  as 
possible.  All  the  bills  expected  should  be  here  before  it  sits 
for  business,  so  that  he  believes  it  will  be  necessary  to  adjourn 
to  the  18th.  Dean  Synge  has  come  from  the  Countess  of 
Meath  desiring  the  writer  to  recommend  her  Lord  for  the 
commission  of  the  revenue.  He  sent  her  word  that  she  was 
not  to  expect  a  favour  from  those  she  had  used  unkindly, 
but  if  she  would  withdraw  her  petition  he  was  sure  his  Grace 
would  return  the  civility  to  her  advantage,  and  if  the  office 
she  desired  could  not  be  had,  would  obtain  a  pension  of  300Z. 
per  annum  to  them,  which  was  more  than  an  equivalent  for 
her  precarious  pretensions  to  Lord  Ward's  lands.     Abstract. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  January  2.  Dublin. — ^The  King  of  Spain  had 
arrived,  and  was  to  eat  but  three  meals  at  Windsor,  and  so 
go  back  to  Portsmouth  on  last  Thursday.  He  refers  to  the 
adjournment  of  Parliament,  and  the  signing  of  the  three 
judges'  letters.  This  day  at  noon  poor  Carleton  died.  He 
fears  this  will  alarm  place  hunters  in  England,  "  for  your  Grace 
finds  it  here  that  the  more  places  to  bestow,  the  number  of 
pretenders  still  augments."  He  wrote  to  the  Lord  Treasurer 
and  Lord  Nottingham  to  beg  that  the  East  India  Company's 
petition  against  their  lajdng  duty  on  calico  may  not  be 
regarded.  The  Company  have  already  carried  away  all  the 
bobs  and  dollars  out  of  the  country  by  giving  high  prices  for 
them.  To-morrow  Lord  Shelboume  and  Lord  Grandison 
are  to  have  a  race  on  the  Strand  by  Ringsend,  which  will  draw 
the  town  together.     Abstract, 


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Simon  Haecoubt  to  Benjamin  Poetlock. 
1703-4,  January  2.— See  Kept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  768. 

Duke  of  Maelboeough  to  Oemonde. 
1703-4,  January  Q.—See  Kept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  768. 

Teetius  Spencee  to  Oemonde. 

1703,  January  6.  Tetuan. — ^I  presumed  to  do  myself 
honour  in  writing  your  Grace  a  few  lines  the  4th  of  October 
per  the  conveyance  which  carried  the  remnant  of  the  English 
captives  to  Lisbon,  which  Mr.  Methuen  advises  to  have 
forwarded,  and  I  hope  accordingly  arrived  your  Grace's  hands. 
I  have  been  at  Mequinez,  and  was  perfectly  well  received 
by  Muley  Ismael,  who  by  several  demonstrations  signified  to 
me  the  satisfaction  he  conceived  in  your  Grace's  great  and  good 
successes  in  these  adjacent  parts  of  Spain,  and  he  was  only 
sorry  that  the  season  of  the  year  did  not  concur  in  your 
extending  of  them  to  the  highest  pitch  of  advantage,  in  which 
I  am  persuaded  he  would  most  gladly  have  contributed  by 
supplying  such  necessaries  as  his  country  afforded,  as  well 
in  any  quantity  of  provisions  as  a  number  of  horses  for  the 
mounting  your  soldiers,  and  I  do  not  in  the  least  doubt  if  a  new 
design  of  this  nature  should  be  set  on  foot  and  overtures  made 
to  him,  but  he  wiU  comply  in  all  things  of  this  kind  according 
to  the  conditions  and  proposals  moved  by  AlcadeAly's  friends, 
who  were  with  your  Grace  in  Port.  I  now  send  Mr.  Anthony 
Palmer,  a  friend  of  mine,  to  deliver  a  letter  from  Muley 
Ismael  to  her  Majesty.  I  have  encharged  if  it  may  be 
attainable  his  making  four  brass  guns  to  carry  a  shot  of 
eighteen  pound,  by  which  method  I  propose  to  obtain  some  of 
the  best  horses  of  this  country  breed,  which  shall  be  at  your 
Grace's  service.  He  was  with  me  at  Mequinez  in  all  the 
several  occasions  when  I  spoke  to  Muley  Ismael,  was  present, 
and  he  also  carries  my  journals,  for  I  have  recommended 
the  recovery  of  ps.  8  :  5885,  which  I  am  indispurse  and  have 
laid  out  in  her  Majesty's  service.  If  your  Grace  desires 
information  in  such  passages  as  there  occurred  he  will  be  able 
to  satisfy  your  Grace  therin.  If  I  may  be  thought  anyways 
deserving  of  your  Grace's  commands  and  services  shall  always 
receive  them  as  singular  honours  and  comply  in  obeying 
them  to  the  utmost  of  my  capacity  as  being,  &c. 

Eael  of  Oeeeey  to  Oemonde. 
1703-4,  January  8. — Recommending  a  gentleman  caUed 
Lambert  for  the  position  of  major  in  the  regiment  which 
the  writer  is  to  be  given  under  his  Grace's  command  in 
Ireland.  Lambert  is  a  captain  in  Colonel  Leigh's  regiment, 
a  man  of  a  great  deal  of  merit  and  a  particular  friend  of  his 
own.     Abstract. 


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Earl  of  Winchilsea  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  January  8.  London. — Recommending  Captain 
Lambert.  He  has  the  better  assurance,  as  the  recommenda- 
tions is  approved  by  the  Duke  of  Marlborough.     Abstract. 

H.  Boyle  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  January  11.  London. — Soliciting  a  troop  of 
dragoons  in  the  new  regiment  for  Ireland  for  Captain  Barry, 
Lord  Barrymore's  brother.     Abstract. 

Edward  Cochran  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  January  11.  Westminster. — ^Desiring  a  troop  of 
dragoons  in  the  regiment  that  is  to  be  in  Ireland.  He  would 
be  glad  to  return  home  after  so  long  an  absence.  He  has 
served  these  two  last  campaigns  in  Flanders  to  his  great  cost. 
Abstract. 

Henry  Stanley  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  January  11.  London. — Asking  for  the  place  of 
a  commissioner  of  the  revenue.     Abstract. 


Captain  George  Camocke  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  January  12.  Dublin. — Speedwell^  Dublin  Bay. 
Begging  the  honour  of  carrying  his  Grace  to  England  in  the 
Speedwell,  which  would  be  a  much  safer  and  easier  way  than 
by  going  on  the  yacht.  By  his  Grace's  going  down  to 
Dunleary  he  can  sail  at  any  time  of  tide.  By  the  SpeedwelVs 
going  over  Chester  bar  to  Dawpool,  he  can  be  rowed  in  the 
pinnace  of  nine  oars  up  to  Chester  walls  in  an  hour  and  a 
half.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Earl  of  Nottingham. 
1703-4,  January  13.— /See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  769. 

Brigadier-General  Cornelius  Wood  to  Ormonde. 
1703-4,   January   13.     London. — Hoping  to  see  his  Grace 
there  before  he  leaves  for  Holland.     Abstract. 

Lord  Windsor  to  Ormonde. 
1703-4,  January  13.     Chelsea. — Asking  for  the  place  of  a 
brigadier  of  horse  on  the  Irish  estabhshment.     Abstract. 

Richard  Nutley  to  Ormonde. 
1703-4,    January    13.     London. — Concerning    his    Grace's 
private    affairs.     He    had    seen    the    Lord    Chancellor    and 
Solicitor    General    regarding    them.     Abstract. 


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Lord  Henry  Scott  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  January  13.  London. — ^Acknowledging  his  being 
given  one  of  the  new  raised  regiments  and  asking  that  Captain 
Stanix  should  be  his  lieutenant-colonel.     Abstract. 

George  Dashwood  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  January  15. — Asking  for  the  position  of  lieutenant- 
colonel  in  one  of  the  six  regiments  of  foot  to  be  raised. 
Abstract. 

Brigadier-General  Cornelius  Wood  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  January  20.  London. — Acknowledging  letter  from 
his  Grace  which  had  come  to  him  through  Breda  and  ofEering 
his  services.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Lord  Coningsby. 
1703-4,  January  26.— See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  769. 

Francis  Annesley  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  January  29.  London. — ^We  have  sat  so  late  this 
last  week,  and  so  little  of  the  affairs  of  Ireland  has  been  under 
consideration  for  that  reason,  that  I  have  had  no  occasion  to 
trouble  your  Grace  for  these  two  or  three  last  posts.  Last 
night  two  bills  passed  the  Council,  viz.,  that  for  registering 
priests,  without  the  obligation  to  take  the  abjuration  oath, 
and  Mr.  Brown's  private  bill  ;  and  at  the  same  time  Powis's 
and  Wall's  bills  were  both  rejected.  The  abjuration  oath 
was  left  out  of  the  priests'  bill  because  thought  too  much  to 
do  at  once,  considering  that  Popery  Bill  went  over  so  little 
changed,  and  the  two  bills  rejected  were  so  because  there 
appeared  great  and  strong  reasons  against  them,  which,  I 
suppose,  were  represented  by  those  whose  interest  it  was 
they  should  not  pass,  and  nobody  was  apprised  of  any 
argument  to  support  them  ;  I  am  sure  I  can  say  I  never  heard 
of  them  till  about  an  hour  before  they  came  to  Council,  and 
then  Mr.  Dagan  could  not  furnish  me  with  any  of  the  reasons 
why  they  passed  the  Council  in  Ireland. 

I  have  had  two  meetings  at  my  Lord  Bradford's  with  Mr. 
Emmett,  who  is  jointly  concerned  with  my  Lord  Ward  in  the 
estate  contested  with  my  Lady  Meath  in  Ireland,  to  persuade 
him  to  accept  of  the  accommodation  proposed,  which  he  has 
yet  absolutely  refused  to  do,  sajdng  my  Lord  and  Lady  Meath 
ought  to  pay  him  3,000/.  for  main  profits  and  costs  which  he 
will  never  release,  but  I  hope  my  Lord  Bradford  will  persuade 
him  at  last  to  comply. 

The  Attorney  and  Solicitor  think  200/.  too  little  for  the 
trouble  and  loss  they  have  been  at  about  the  Irish  bills,  and 
indeed  I  cannot  but  think  so  too,  therefore  if  your  Grace 
would  please  to  let  them  know  that  you  would  further  consider 
them  I  believe  it  would  not  be  money  ill  bestowed,  and  if  I 


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may  presume  to  give  my  opinion  I  should  think  200Z.  each 
would  be  but  a  moderate  compensation  for  the  loss  of  their 
time  and  the  pains  they  have  taken. 

I  need  not  tell  your  Grace  that  our  disputes  with  the 
Lords  run  high,  but  whilst  we  stick  to  a  paper  war  and 
do  not  come  to  the  close  fight  of  conference,  I  hope  we  may 
avoid  a  breach  till  our  business  is  done. 

Ormonde  to  Lord  Godolphin. 
1703-4,  February  lO.—See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  769. 

Ormonde  to  Lord  Coningsby. 
1703-4,  February  lO.See  Kept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  769. 

Duchess  of  Ormonde  to  Benjamin  Portlock. 
1697-8,  February  12.—See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  769. 

Tertius  Spencer  to  Ormonde. 

1 703-4,  February  1 4.  Tetuan. — I  supposed  when  I  writ  your 
Grace  the  6th  ult.  that  said  letter  would  have  been  ere  this 
delivered  into  your  hands,  but  an  unfortunate  accident  fell 
out  which  prevented  it.  The  vessel  on  which  Mr.  Palmer 
embarked  for  Lisbon  by  contrary  winds  was  compelled  to 
take  port  in  Gibraltar,  where  although  she  was  a  Spaniard, 
yet  the  governor  seized  on  her  and  her  lading,  pretending 
each  to  belong  to  her  Majesty's  subjects.  The  letter  I  writ 
your  Grace  with  several  others  had  the  good  fortune  to  be 
saved  by  the  diligences  of  Dr.  Francisco  Garcia,  who  was 
formerly  Consul  there,  who  after  having  secured  Muley  Ismael's 
letter  to  her  Majesty,  got  also  into  his  possession  those 
of  the  Alcade  and  all  my  letters,  but  several  papers  of 
more  bulk  fell  into  the  hands  of  the  governor  and  justice  of 
said  place,  who  have  embarged  them  till  the  pleasure  of  the 
Court  of  Spain  be  known  thereon.  Muley  Ismael  continues 
very  solicitous  about  the  return  of  her  Majesty's  forces  into 
these  parts  of  Spain  and  in  several  occasions  has  said  that 
if  the  Queen  should  require  it  he  would  furnish  a  number  of 
horses  and  all  other  necessaries  for  the  carrying  on  the  war 
which  his  country  affords,  as  I  have  been  advised  by  letter 
from  thence.  Your  Grace  is  the  best  judge  what  use  may  be 
made   of   this. 

Sir  Stafford  Fairborne  to  Ormonde. 
1703-4,  February  15.  London. — ^Acknowledging  his  Grace's 
very  kind  letter.  He  has  been  somewhat  out  of  order  with 
his  late  fatigue.  He  is  at  a  loss  what  to  do  in  relation  to 
his  flag,  as  he  cannot  serve  under  a  junior  flag  as  Mr.  Greydon's 
is.  The  King  of  Spain  is  judged  to  have  got  this  day  to  the 
length  of  Silly,  and  if  the  wind  continues  one  week  fair  may 
arrive  at  Lisbon.     Abstract. 


Lieut. -General  Henry  Lumley  to  Ormonde. 
1703-4,  February   15.     London. — Concerning  the  arrange 
ments  for  renewing  the  war  against  the  French  in  the  spring. 
The  States  cannot  agree  as  to  their  generals.     He  expresses 
his  concern  that  the  time  during  which  he  may  see  his  Grace 
is  so  short,  and  refers  to  Mr.  Wilson's  affair.     Abstract. 

Rev.  Francis  P.  de  Durette  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  February  16.  London. — ^Asking  for  a  vacant 
place  in  the  church  of  St.  Patrick.  He  has  the  honour  to  be 
one  of  his  Grace's  chaplains.     Abstract. 

Buke  of  Argyll  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  February  16.  London. — Recommending  Lieutenant 
Alexander  Gumming  to  be  a  captain  in  Lord  Arran's  regiment. 
Abstract. 

Viscount  Tunbridge  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  February  19.  London. — Concerning  his  preferment 
in  the  army.  He  hears  that  Lord  Harry  Scott  is  to  have  a 
regiment.    Abstract. 

H.  Boyle  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  February  22.  London. — Recommending  Captain 
Stanwix.     He  has  a  great  value  for  him.     Abstract. 

Marquis  of  Carmarthen  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  February  24.  London. — Recommending  Mr. 
Andrew  Richier,  an  old  officer  of  the  writer.  It  is  fourteen 
years  since  Richier  was  made  a  commission  officer,  and  whilst 
in  the  French  cadees  he  was  recommended  to  Ormonde  by 
the  writer's  father.     He  is  a  very  ingenious  man.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Lord  Godolphin. 
1703-4,  February  25.— See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  770. 

M.  FiNBURG  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  February  26.  London. — Recommending  Mr.. Henry 
Gary  for  a  commission  as  captain.     Abstract. 

Major  Oliver  d'Harcourt  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  February  26.  London. — Requesting  appointment 
as  an  officer  in  one  of  the  five  regiments  designed  to  be  raised 
for  the  Queen's  service  in  Ireland.  He  had  met  with  an 
unexpected  disappointment  in  being  made  major  to  the 
regiment  commanded  by  the  late  Colonel  Leigh,  but  at  the 


eame  time  in  having  a  much  younger  captain  of  the  same 
corps  made  lieutenant-colonel  over  his  head  by  the  Duke  of 
Schomberg.  He  has  withdrawn  from  that  regiment.  He 
refers  to  the  zeal  he  had  shown  in  the  late  expedition  to  Spain, 
and  to  the  fact  that  his  circumstances  do  not  force  him  to 
serve  for  bread,  and  that  his  services  are  given  only  in  hopes 
of  preferment,  as  becomes  a  gentleman.     Abstract. 

Captain  Samuel  Lennard  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  February  26. — Expressing  his  great  hopes  of  being 
advanced  to  a  field-officer.  He  has  been  informed  by  Mr. 
Portlock  of  his  Grace's  pleasure  in  designing  him  a  troop 
of  dragoons.     Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  February  2Q. — Concerning  the  proceedings  of  Par- 
liament, orders  for  putting  the  regiment  of  dragoons  upon  the 
establishment  and  for  raising  four  new  regiments  of  foot, 
and  the  passing  of  a  bill  "  in  favour  of  the  Bishop  of  Clojme 
to  his  heart's  content."     Abstract. 

Same  to  Same. 
1703-4,  February  21.— See  Kept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  769. 

Ormonde  to  Lord  Godolphin. 
1703-4,  February  27.— See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  770. 

Ormonde  to  Duke  of  Marlborough. 
1703-4,  February  27.— See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  770. 

Lord  Bruce  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  February  29.  London. — ^Desiring  that  Mr.  Thomas 
Ogle,  who  has  married  one  of  the  writer's  aunts,  may  be  made 
a  field  officer  in  one  of  the  new  regiments.  He  was  made 
ensign  in  1688  and  lieutenant  in  1690  in  Colonel  John  Hales's 
regiment,  and  afterwards  served  as  captain  in  Sir  Richard 
Atkin's  regiment.  Since  it  was  disbanded  in  Ireland,  when 
under  the  command  of  Colonel  George  Villiers,  he  has 
remained  in  the  list  of  the  half  officers.  His  father,  Sir  Thomas 
Ogle,  was  governor  of  Chelsea  Hospital.    Abstract. 

Captain  Francis  Columbine  to  Ormonde. 
1 703-4,  March  2.  London. — Hoping  to  be  made  a  lieutenant- 
colonel  in  one  of  the  new  regiments.  He  had  lost  a  father 
upon  the  last  expedition  to  the  West  Indies,  and  suffered  much 
by  sickness,  and  refers  to  his  pretensions  to  preferment  as 
eldest  captain  in  his  late  father's  regiment.    Abstract. 


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Ormonde  to  Sib  Charles  Hedges. 
1703-4,  March  4.— /S'ce  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  770. 

Ormonde  to  Lord  Godolphin. 
1703-4,  March  4:.—See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  110. 

Ormonde  to  Earl  of  Nottingham. 
1703-4,  March  4.— /See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  770. 

Brigadier- General  Cornelius  Wood  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  March  4.  London. — Acknowledging  so  kind  a 
letter  from  his  Grace  as  it  is  impossible  to  express.  He  is  sorry 
that  the  affairs  of  the  Parliament  keep  his  Grace  in  Ireland. 
Abstract. 

Colonel  Thomas  Pulteney  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  March  7.  London. — Reporting  that  his  Grace's 
troop  are  in  very  good  order  both  as  to  men  and  horses,  and 
handle  their  arms  very  well  both  on  foot  and  horseback.  Lord 
Henry  Scott  is  very  weU  recovered  of  his  late  sickness.  That  he 
is  to  be  succeeded  by  Colonel  ComwalPs  son  is,  he  supposes, 
no  news  to  his  Grace,  nor  the  reason  a  mystery  to  anyone. 
News  is  come  by  a  Dutch  vessel  that  the  fleet  with  the  King 
of  Spain  was  entering  into  the  river  Tajo  the  24th  of  the  last 
month.     Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  March  7. — Concerning  warrants  for  raising  the 
regiment  and  two  troops  of  dragoons,  and  the  three  regiments 
of  foot,  for  which  no  levy  money  could  be  procured.  It  must 
be  saved  out  of  the  pay  of  the  regiments.  The  seven  Lords 
tend  the  Scotch  plot  very  closely,  and  the  world  is  big  with 
expectations  what  their  report  will  produce.     Abstract. 

Duke  of  Marlborough  to  Ormonde. 
1703-4,  March  9.—See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  770. 

Miller  to  [Benjamin  Portlock.] 


1703-4,  March  11. — The  enclosed  proclamations  I  thought 
to  have  sent  sooner,  but  was  so  very  indisposed  that  I  could 
not  write.  Many  searches  have  been  made  in  city  and  country 
for  suspected  persons,  and  nothing  found  but  two  or  three 
priests  and  some  persons  of  no  moment  or  consideration. 
Every  day  brings  us  stories  of  changes  and  alterations  amongst 
our  Statesmen,  but  nothing  of  that  is  certain.  Our  General 
Assembly  will  sit  this  month,  my  Lord  Ross  commissioner. 
If  they  be  of  the  old  temper  they  will  make  work  enough  for 
our  Parliament,  in  which  it  is  feared  there  will  be  violent 
flames.    That  I  write  not  often  is  because  I  have  nothing 


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worth  the  while.  I  hope,  Sir,  you  will  let  me  know  a  name 
in  England,  which  I  may  put  upon  the  Duke's  cover  when  he 
is  there.  Our  great  men  are  not  come  down  from  Court ; 
you  will  hear  what  they  are  doing  there. 

Earl  of  Inchiquin  to  Ormonde. 

1703-4,  March  23.  Dublin. — Complaining  of  the  appoint- 
ments made  in  his  regiment.  After  the  Lords  Justices  were 
that  day  sworn  he  had  seen  the  list  and  was  extremely  surprised 
to  find  a  strange  chaplain  put  upon  him.  Dean  Jephson, 
whom  Lord  Inchiquin  had  recommended,  had  always  assured 
him  that  he  would  pay  a  constant  attendance  on  the  regiment, 
his  other  livings  being  provided  with  curates  to  serve  them. 
He  had  also  recommended  William  Browne  for  lieutenant 
and  James  Goold  and  David  Cugley  for  ensigns,  but  does  not 
find  them  in  the  list.  He  will  not  take  out  the  chaplain's  com- 
mission, and  will  also  have  in  the  office  those  of  Lieutenant 
Aplin  and  Ensigns  Meares  and  Lathum,  till  his  Grace  signifies 
his  further  pleasure.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  Henry  Ltjmley  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  March. — Congratulating  his  Grace  on  his  success 
in  Ireland  in'  spite  of  the  designs  of  an  envious  party.  The 
writer  is  to  embark  next  week  for  Holland.  He  hopes  his  Grace 
will  remember  Mr.  Wilson  when  the  dragoons  are  raised. 
Abstract. 

Captain  Thomas  South  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  March  25.  Dublin. — Concerning  a  lodge  in  the 
Phoenix  Park  occupied  by  him.  A  report  is  current  in  Dublin 
that  his  Grace  had  dispossessed  him  in  favour  of  Mr.  Price. 
Abstract. 

Earl  of  Thomond  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  March  25.  London. — Thanking  him  for  acting  as 
one  of  his  trustees.     Abstract. 

Earl  op  Mount-Alexander  to  Ormonde. 
1 704,  March  25.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  omission  of  Captain 
Josias  Campbell  from  the  list  of  officers,  and  the  posting  of 
Captain  William  Campbell  in  Lord  Dungannon's  regiment. 
He  concludes  it  is  a  mistake  of  the  Christian  name.  The 
appointment  of  Captain  Josias  Campbell  will  contribute  to 
the  ease  of  his  Grace's  government,  and  will  be  a  means  to 
enable  the  writer  to  do  that  service  his  Grace  expects  from 
him  of  keeping  the  Dissenters  in  the  North  in  a  good  temper 
at  this  juncture  when  some  endeavour  to  exasperate  them 
on  account  of  the  clause  in  the  Act  against  Popery.    Abstract, 


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Rev.  William  Edwards  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  March  28.  Dublin. — ^Acquainting  his  Grace  that 
Lord  Inchiquin  had  stopped  his  commission  as  chaplain  to 
his  Lordship's  regiment.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Lord  Godolphin. 

1705,  March  29.—See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  770. 

Ormonde  to  Sir  Charles  Hedges. 
1704,  March  29.—See  Rept.,  VII,  App.,  p.  770. 

Miller  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  March  30. — Since  I  heard  in  the  public  letters  of  your 
Grace's  resolving  to  go  to  England,  I  knew  not  which  place 
to  write,  and  now  I  beg  leave  to  congratulate  your  Grace's 
happy  arrival.  My  Lord,  on  the  15th  of  this  month,  by  a  public 
order,  some  Popish  Priests'  vestments  and  surplices,  our 
Saviour's  picture,  the  crucifix  and  some  Popish  books  found 
in  Popish  houses  were  publicly  burned  at  the  Cross  of 
Edinburgh  by  the  hands  of  the  hangmen.  On  the  16th  day 
the  General  Assembly  sat  down  in  this  city,  my  Lord  Ross 
being  the  Queen's  commissioner  to  it ;  they  have  done 
nothing  worth  your  Grace's  notice  and  will  rise  in  a  few  days. 
On  the  22nd  day,  Mr.  Bailly,  who  wrote  the  letter  to  Duke 
Hamilton  anent  the  Duke  of  Queensberry,  being  found  guilty 
of  leasing  making,  was  set  upon  the  tram,  a  place  of  as  great 
disgrace  as  pillorying,  with  a  paper  on  his  breast  containing 
his  crime,  and  because  he  tore  off  the  paper  twice  and  swore 
in  the  audience  of  the  people  what  he  wrote  was  true,  and  made 
many  salutations  to  the  spectators,  he  was  yesterday  set  upon 
the  same  place  with  his  hands  tied  behind  his  back,  and  after 
he  had  stood  one  hour  in  a  more  humble  posture  than  before, 
he  was  carried  prisoner  to  Blacknesse  Castle  twelve  miles 
from  Edinburgh.  This  day  the  Scotch  Parliament  is 
adjourned  to  the  9th  of  May  next.  Some  more  of  Highland 
chiefs  of  clans  are  committed  to  prison  upon  account  of  the 
plot,  some  in  Edinburgh  and  some  in  the  garrison  of 
Enverlochie,  and  their  dwelling  houses  are  made  garrisons. 
It  is  thought  if  the  Parliament  meet,  they  will  first  call  upon 
examination  of  the  plot,  and  God  knows  what  heats  may  be 
upon  that  head. 

Lieut.-General  William  Stuart  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  March  31. — ^Asking  his  Grace  to  lay  his  pretensions 
for  promotion  in  the  army  before  the  Queen  and  the  Lord 
Treasurer,  with  a  representation  of  the  zeal  with  which  he 
serves  her  interest  in  Parliament.  He  hopes  that  he  may  be 
able  to  pay  his  duty  to  his  Grace  next  day,  but  in  the  mean- 
time he  troubles  him  with  this,  hearing  that  Lieutenant-General 
Erie  is  to  be  Lieutenant  of  the  Ordnance,  and  goes  suddenly 
for  Irelftnd.     Abstract, 


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Lords  Justices  of  Ireland  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  April  4.  Dublin  Castle. — Telling  of  the  capture  of 
the  privateer  called  the  Ruzee  by  Captain  Saunders.  She  had 
eight  guns  and  fifty  men,  who  were  all  taken  prisoners.  The 
latter  report  that  four  privateers  more  are  to  come  into  this 
Channel,  one  of  which  carries  eighteen  guns,  and  that  the 
French  are  preparing  a  great  fleet.  The  Lords  Justices 
remind  his  Grace  of  what  was  proposed  with  reference  to 
fitting  out  a  privateer  to  cruise.     Abstract. 

W.  Moore  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  April  5. — Reminding  his  Grace  of  a  promise  which 
he  made  to  the  writer.  He  congratulates  his  Grace  on  his 
arrival  in  England,  and  will  shortly  send  him  a  present  of  a 
pair  of  stud  horses.  They  are  very  remarkable  colours,  were 
both  foaled  in  one  day,  and  are  three  years  old  that  month. 
They  are  not  to  be  matched  in  England,  for  he  has  tried.  He 
begs  his  Grace  to  give  him  a  commission  to  raise  a  company. 
He  can  get  fifty  or  sixty  men  that  will  not  list  themselves 
except  he  is  their  captain.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Mount-Alexander  to  Ormonde. 
1704,   April    7. — Concerning   a   letter   for   the    Lieutenant 
General  which  had  been  by  mistake  addressed  to  him. 

Duke  of  Leeds  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  April  7.     London. — Recommending  Andrew  Richier 
to  be  a  heutenant  in  the  Earl  of  Orrery's  regiment.     Abstract. 

Primate  Marsh  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  April  11.  Dublin. — In  obedience  to  your  Grace's 
commands  I  have  sent  to  Mr.  Southwell  a  memorial  to  be 
laid  before  your  Grace  containing  the  state  of  the  quarter's 
rent  of  the  diocese  of  Armagh,  about  which  I  have  been  so 
troublesome  to  your  Grace  already,  that  I  could  not  venture 
to  be  further  importunate  in  that  affair,  if  I  did  aim  only  at 
my  own  advantage  in  it.  But  the  truth  is,  that  I  look  upon 
it  to  be  a  matter  of  public  concern  to  the  Church.  For  if 
the  revenues  of  the  Church  be  once  applied  to  secular  uses, 
though  but  for  one  quarter,  it  will  be  a  precedent  for  their 
having  been  so  applied,  that  in  time  may  be  lengthened  to  a 
year  and  years,  the  occasion  whereof  will  perhaps  be  laid  to 
my  charge  hereafter.  This  consideration  makes  me  the  more 
solicitous,  lest  I  should  be  made  the  first  example  of  this 
kind  ;  who  am  moreover  as  ill  able  to  bear  it  through  the 
meanness  of  my  present  circumstances,  as  any  Bishop  in  this 
kingdom.  I  therefore  hunbly  lay  this,  which  is  the  Church's 
case,  as  well  as  mine  own,  before  your  Grace,  to  make  such 
representation  thereof  to  her  Majesty  as  you  shall  think  fit ; 
to  whose  determination  I  will  readily  and  cheerfuUy  submit, 
find  approve  myself  in  all  things,  &c, 


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Lords  Justices  of  Ireland  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  April  11.  Dublin  Castle. — His  Grace's  letter  of  the 
4th  inst.  brought  a  pleasing  account  of  her  Majesty's  gracious 
sense  of  the  services  of  those  gentlemen  who  were  zealous 
for  her  interest  in  the  late  session  of  Parliament.  His 
commands  as  to  filling  the  commissions  of  Flood  and 
Campbell  have  been  obeyed.  A  list  of  half -pay  officers  still 
unprovided  for  was  sent  last  post  by  Mr.  Dawson  to  Mr. 
Southwell.  An  account  of  the  charges  attending  the  late 
session  of  Parliament  wiU  be  sent  as  soon  as  possible.  Orders 
for  the  levy  money  for  the  three  new  regiments  have  been 
signed.     Abstract. 

Major-General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  April  11.  Dublin. — Sending  his  Grace  military  news. 
He  presumes  the  captain-general  has  acquainted  his  Grace 
that  the  quarter-master-general  has  pitched  on  ground  for 
their  encampment  and  grazing  for  the  horses.  His  officer  in 
England  has  sent  an  account  that  all  the  recruit  horses  for  the 
writer's  regiment  are  bought,  except  such  as  Major  Hebbume 
wants  for  his  troop,  which  it  is  hoped  he  will  bring  over  with 
him  soon.  He  is  assured  that  the  horses  that  have  been  bought 
are  very  good.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Inchiquin  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  April  11.  Dublin. — Acknowledging  a  letter  from 
his  Grace.  He  fears  that  he  has  offended  him  and  that  breaks 
his  heart.  He  admires  his  Grace's  virtues  as  he  honours  and 
loves  his  person,  and  thinks  him  the  greatest  and  worthiest 
of  men.     Abstract. 

Colonel  John  Eyres  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  April  11.  Eyre  Court. — ^Acknowledging  the  provision 
his  Grace  has  made  for  his  son  and  nephew,  and  desiring  his 
Grace  to  look  over  his  memorial  upon  the  establishment  of 
the  writer's  government.  His  Grace  knows  the  necessity 
of  a  governor  in  that  Popish  town.  He  has  had  no  allowance 
for  two  years.  A  town-major  is  absolutely  necessary.  He 
recommends  Captain  Edward  Cornwall.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Levinge  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  April  13.  Monelea. — Thanking  his  Grace  for  re- 
storing him  to  his  old  station.     Abstract. 

Major-General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  April.  Dublin. — Asking  if  Captain  Strafford  be 
removed  from  his  regiment  that  Captain  Laux  be  appointed 
in  his  place.     Abstract. 


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Lords  Justices  of  Ireland  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  April  13.  Dublin  Castle.- — Enclosing  an  exact  list 
of  the  half -pay  officers  remaining  on  the  establishment  un- 
provided for,  and  a  petition  of  several  half -pay  officers  who 
were  put  ofE  the  establishment  by  the  Queen's  order  ;  also 
an  account  of  the  charge  attending  the  late  session  of  Par- 
liament amounting  to  2,740?.  Is,  6d.  Several  letters  were 
received  lately  by  Lord  Nottingham  from  Captain  Camocke 
relating  to  a  secret  trade  carried  on  between  the  merchants  of 
Ireland  and  France.  Copies  of  these  letters  were  forwarded 
by  the  former  to  the  Lords  Justices,  who  referred  them  to  the 
Commissioners  of  the  Revenue.  Enclosed  is  a  memorial 
from  the  Commissioners  showing  what  steps  they  have  made 
in  the  matter.    Abstract. 

Same  to  Same. 

1 70  4,  April  1 5.  Dublin  Castle. — Concerning  the  appointment  of 
chaplains  to  the  three  new  regiments,  his  Grace's  commands  as 
to  deserters,  and  the  execution  of  their  orders  by  the  captains 
of  the  men  of  war,  in  order  to  the  security  of  trade.  The 
petition  of  the  merchants  of  Biddeford  shall  be  answered. 
There  is  also  reference  to  the  movements  of  the  several 
frigates,  and  the  opinion  of  the  Commissioners  of  Revenue 
about  the  lighthouses.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Cavan  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  April  16. — ^Asking  for  a  commission  in  the  new  forces. 
Abstract. 

John  Davis  to  Sir  Richard  Cox. 
1704,  April  17.  Bantry. — I  hold  it  my  duty  to  acquaint 
your  Lordship  that  the  privateers  begin  now  again  to  be 
troublesome  on  our  coast,  and  more  particularly  about  the 
Dursey.  They  have  of  late  chased  several  vessels  and  boats 
and  taken  some  of  them.  Yesterday  came  hither  fourteen 
men  who  were  chased  for  several  hours  in  the  Diamond  Galley 
of  London,  a  vessel  of  about  a  hundred  and  fifty  tons,  belonging 
to  one  Diamond,  a  merchant,  and  other  merchants  there  ; 
they  were  so  closely  pursued  that  they  were  forced  on  shore 
and  struck  upon  a  rock  near  the  Dursey,  where  she  sunk, 
but  the  men  all  saved.  She  was  laden  from  Fayal  with  wine, 
oranges,  and  other  valuable  goods  ;  these  men  report  that  they 
were  at  first  chased  only  by  the  privateer,  but  at  length  four 
others  came  up  to  her.  Amongst  these  fourteen  men  there  are 
four  Portuguese,  and  they  say  that  the  French  have  resolved 
their  privateers  shall  not  henceforth  come  out  single,  but  in 
small  squadrons  of  four  or  five  and  the  people  of  Berehaven, 
whom  I  do  not  entirely  credit  I  confess,  do  aver  that  they  see 
privateers  daily  hovering  thereabouts,  and  that  they  have 
within  this  ten  days  taken  seventeen  or  eighteen  vessels,  but 

Wt.  43482.  O  5 


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most  certainly  they  are  too  busy  upon  our  coast.  I  thank 
your  Lordship  for  the  favour  of  your  last  letter,  and  the  good 
news  of  our  Church,  and  shall  not  add  further  at  present  to 
your  Lordship's  trouble  save  by  subscribing  my  ever  honoured 
Lord,  &c. 

Thomas  Beecher  to  Sir  Richard  Cox. 

1704,  April  20.  Sherkin. — I  am  glad  to  hear  of  the  taking 
of  the  privateer  that  did  so  much  mischief  on  that  coast,  and 
if  your  Excellency  could  obtain  from  the  Lord  Admiral  to 
send  two  ships  to  guard  the  coast  between  this  and  the 
Skelligs,  where  there  are  not  less  than  five  or  six  privateers 
constantly  cruising,  and  no  longer  than  last  night  a  vessel 
from  the  West  Indies  loaden  with  logwood  was  chased  into 
this  harbour  by  one  of  them,  you  would  not  only  oblige 
the  merchants  of  this  kingdom  but  also  the  merchants  of 
England  thereby.  Last  week  there  was  a  ship  of  three  hundred 
tons  drove  on  shore  by  them  loaden  with  wine  and  brandy  from 
Fayal  and  cast  away  near  the  Dursey,  which  was  not  only  a 
great  loss  to  the  merchants,  but  also  to  her  Majesty  in  the 
duties. 

Mr.  Soulden  in  his  letter  of  the  23rd  inst.  to  Mr.  Dawson, 
says  that  a  French  privateer  of  twenty-four  guns  and  another 
being  a  sloop  of  eight  guns  looked  into  that  harbour,  and  had 
like  to  have  snapped  a  ship  from  Cork  bound  to  the  West 
Indies.  They  have  been  seen  for  some  time  cruising  to  the 
westward,  but  are  now  gone  eastward. 

Jean  Chandellor  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  April  20.  Dublin. — Asking  his  Grace  to  represent 
his  case  to  the  Queen.  He  had  served  for  thirty  years,  and 
commanded  a  brigade  of  engineers  in  Flanders,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Royal  Society  of  London  and  a  naturalized 
Englishman.     Abstract. 

Countess  of  Cavan  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  April  26. — Requesting  the  Duke's  favour  for  her 
poor  son  Cavan.  She  fears  Brigadier  Hamilton,  in  whose 
regiment  he  went  to  the  West  Indies,  has  put  his  Grace  against 
him.  She  mentions  his  expensive  law-suit  with  his  son-in-law, 
Mr.  Lambart,  and  asks  his  Grace  not  to  let  him  with  a 
burdensome  title  want  bread.     Abstract. 

Lords  Justices  of  Ireland  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  April  27.  Dublin  Castle. — Giving  an  account  of 
the  disposition  of  the  men  of  war,  and  referring  to  his  Grace's 
orders  to  have  the  Earl  of  Barrymore  conveyed  to  Bideford, 
and  the  stay  of  Mr.  Jemett,  collector  of  Cork,  in  that  city. 
As  to  the  difficulty  experienced  in  getting  the  clothing  of  Col. 
Lalo's  regiment  conveyed  to  Chester  or  Bristol,  because  of  the 


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penalty  of  the  Act  of  Parliament  without  a  permit  from  the 
Commissioners  of  the  Revenue,  it  is  intended  that  Captain 
Camocke,  who  is  to  convoy  twenty  wool  ships  to  the  Severn, 
shall  carry  the  clothing  to  Bristol.  They  enclose  letters 
showing  how  the  Irish  coasts  are  infested  with  privateers.  Some 
more  ships  must  be  sent  southwards,  as  all  the  West  India 
ships  come  in  that  way  ;  otherwise  both  England  and  Ireland 
will  suffer.  The  frigates  are  all  kept  constantly  employed 
in  convoying  the  trade  to  and  from  England.  The  French 
paper  enclosed  was  given  to  Mr.  Dawson  by  a  gentleman  of 
this  town,  with  the  assurance  that  the  account  therein  con- 
tained came  directly  from  France,  and  may  be  depended 
upon  for  truth.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Mount-Alexandee  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  April  27.  Dublin  Castle. — I  have  nothing  to  add  to 
the  accounts  sent  your  Grace  from  the  Lords  Justices,  but 
that  some  persons  have  been  very  busy  in  the  North  to 
exasperate  the  people  there  upon  the  clause  in  the  Act  against 
Popery,  which  obliges  all  in  employments  to  receive  the 
Sacrament.  These  endeavours  had  some  effect ;  but  by  the 
last  letters  I  had,  there  was  a  stop  put  to  it,  and  I  am  not 
without  hopes  of  its  proving  an  effectual  one,  but  I  can  say  no 
more  till  I  receive  the  letters  which  are  to  come  in  to-morrow. 
Your  Grace  may  be  assured  that  nothing  shall  be  wanting 
on  my  part  which  I  can  think  of  for  her  Majesty's  service, 
and  that  may  prevent  the  murmurings  of  the  Dissenters  in 
the  North. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to 
Ormonde. 

1704,  April  29. — ^The  late  though  but  few  yet  signal  in- 
stances of  your  Grace's  high  resentments  to  some,  and  of  your 
Grace's  great  favours  conferred  on  others,  have  both  of  them 
given  so  convincing  an  evidence  of  your  power  and  readiness 
in  both,  that  nobody  in  this  kingdom  can  doubt  of  either. 

It  is  certain  that  such  a  steady  resolution  joined  with  such 
a  power  must  reduce  to  reason  all  here  that  are  governed 
either  by  fear  or  interest.  And  as  for  those  whose  minds 
are  moved  by  the  worthy  principles  of  honour  and  honesty, 
your  Grace  had  them  tied  fast  to  you  as  your  servants  long 
before,  and  that  by  ties  never  to  be  broken.  This  in  all 
human  probability  being  the  present  state  of  affairs,  the  next 
thing  to  be  considered  may  be  what  tie  there  can  be  made 
of  this  your  Grace's  power  for  the  service  of  the  country  ; 
that  is,  what  can  a  Parliament  here  do  that  your  Grace  would 
desire  they  should  do.  They  can  give  again  the  additional 
excise  and  other  duties  for  one  or  more  years,  as  at  the  time 
of  their  meeting  shall  be  thought  most  proper,  and  that  they  can 
give  too  with  a  borrowing  clause.      And  upon  a  borrowing 


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clause,  I  believe,  money  may  be  had,  for  in  lending  money 
to  the  Queen  lOl.  per  cent,  may  be  taken,  though  from  others 
none,  since  the  late  statute  must  venture  to  receive  it  and 
perhaps  that,  or  a  greater  advance  of  interest,  might  tempt 
some  in  England  to  send  their  money  here,  and  so  it  will  be 
still  a  greater  advantage  to  the  kingdom  by  bringing  in  money, 
which  it  so  much  wants  at  present,  and  which  was  an 
advantage  so  mightily  pressed  by  others  as  easy  and  proper 
in  the  late  sessions,  when  it  served  to  a  purpose  that  was 
against  the  Queen's  service. 

This  being  done,  which  seems  easy  to  be  done,  the  debt  to 
the  civil  and  military  list  might  be  paid  with  ease  to  the 
subject,  and  the  government  would  have  money  to  answer 
emergencies,  and  thereby  we  should  be  more  secure  against 
our  common  enemy.  Besides  this  one  other  happy  sessions 
would  give  a  finishing  stroke  and  fully  assert  the  reputation 
of  your  real  power  and  ascending  interest  in  this  kingdom, 
whereby  your  Grace  may  be  the  better  able  to  relieve  it  in 
its  present  drooping,  and  to  advance  it  to  a  more  happy  and  a 
more  flourishing  condition.  What  can  possibly  hinder  matters 
to  succeed  in  this  manner  that  they  are  laid  down,  I  mean  in 
the  present  Parliament  where  your  Grace  has  a  manifest 
majority  and  where  your  interest  grows  daily  ;  where  you 
personally  know  everybody  to  a  man  and  know  his  principles 
and  his  engagements,  how  far  he  is  to  be  trusted  and  where 
he  is  not,  and  who  have  several  of  them  declared,  that  now 
they  can  refuse  nothing  that  you  can  desire,  because  they 
know  your  Grace  can  desire  nothing  that  they  ought  to  refuse. 

Postscript — This  being  the  29th  day  of  April,  I  beg  leave 
to  wish  your  Grace  to  see  many  of  them  and  in  that  number 
of  years  still  to  have  your  desire  upon  your  enemies  and  your 
friends. 

Sir  Richard  Vernon  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  April  29.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  condition  of  his 
troop.  He  begs  his  Grace's  orders  for  the  restoration  of  two 
horses  belonging  to  the  troop,  one  of  which  is  now  with  Col. 
Ponsonby  and  the  other  with  Lady  Evans  at  Kilkenny.  He  is 
about  to  drink  his  Grace's  health  with  Mr.  Baron  Johnson, 
Mr.  Ludlow,  and  the  Lord  Major-General.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Mount-Alexander  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  April  29.  Dublin.— Saying  that  a  stop  has  been 
put  to  those  who  would  have  exasperated  the  people 
in  the  North  upon  the  sacramental  clause  in  the  Act 
against  Popery.  He  puts  forward  his  claims  to  advancement 
as  Master  of  the  Ordnance  upon  the  new  establishment.  He 
is  not  able  to  support  the  dignity  of  that  post  as  his  enter- 
tainment is  so  very  small ;  considering,  too,  that  he  is  "a 
man  of  quality "  and  one  whose  family  has  "  for  three 
generations  successively  been  sufferers  in  the  service  of  the 


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Crown,*'  he  hopes  he  will  have  right  done  in  his  just  pre- 
tensions.   Abstract. 

SiE  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  April  29.  Dublin. — I  am  just  come  from  celebrating 
your  birthday  with  the  Lieutenant-General  and  some  other 
of  your  humble  servants  ;  we  all  drank  heartily  to  your  safe 
and  speedy  return,  which  nobody  can  wish  more  heartily 
than  I  do. 

All  your  Grace's  friends  are  so  unanimous  against  dis- 
solving this  Parliament  here  that  I  can  only  desire  that  your 
Grace  may  have  directions  from  her  Majesty  to  do  in  that 
matter  as  you  shall  find  convenient  here  upon  the  spot ;  for 
notwithstanding  all  that  has  or  can  be  said,  there  are  weighty 
considerations  on  the  other  side  ;  but  perhaps  a  little  time 
may  render  the  matter  more  plain  one  side  or  other. 

My  Lord  Mount-Alexander  seems  to  have  good  interest 
and  intelligence  in  the  North,  which  is  to  be  valued  at  this 
juncture  ;  he  also  professes  the  utmost  respect  imaginable 
for  your  Grace,  and  upon  these  accounts  I  mention  to  your 
Grace  his  Lordship's  pretensions  to  be  put  on  the  establishment 
as  brigadier.  Langston  being  now  on  as  major-general  as 
is  supposed,  and  my  Lord  says  he  has  an  ancient  brevet  for 
brigadier,  that  is,  more  ancient  than  any  other  brigadier 
in  Ireland. 

Mr.  Pacy  tells  me  he  saves  money  every  week,  which  I  am 
glad  to  hear  of.  It  will  be  no  news  to  your  Grace  that  trade 
is  dead  and  money  scarce  here,  nor  that  I  am  ever,  &o. 

Lords  Justices  of  Ireland  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  April  29.  Dublin  Castle. — Giving  particulars  as  to 
the  raising  of  men  for  the  new  regiments,  and  as  to  recruiting 
for  the  regiments  commanded  by  Colonel  Pearce,  Brigadier 
Tidcombe,  Colonel  Sankey  and  Lord  Mohun,  and  also  for  the 
four  regiments  that  came  lately  from  the  West  Indies. 
Warrants  of  concordatum  have  been  issued  for  such  sums 
as  are  necessary  for  repairing  the  fortifications.  They  refer 
to  the  raising  of  levy  money  and  the  establishment  of  the  two 
regiments  to  be  raised  by  the  Earl  of  Orrery  and  Lord  Harry- 
Scott.  The  revenue  at  present  comes  in  but  very  slowly, 
and  it  may  be  expedient  to  defer  some  payments.  They 
enclose  a  petition  of  Cornet  Shepherd.     Abstract. 

Sir  Charles  Fielding  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  April  30.  Dublin. — On  behalf  of  the  bearer.  Captain 
Pym.  He  is  heartily  recommended  by  his  Grace's  vassals, 
by  whom  when  an  assignation  can  be  obtained  his  Grace's 
health  is  not  only  heartily  drunk  but  wished,  especially  by 
the  writer.  By  the  unkindness  of  his  uncle  this  unfortunate 
gentleman  is  reduced  very  low,  therefore  a  lieutenancy  for 
him  will  infinitely  oblige.    Abstract. 


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Sir  Stafford  Fairborne  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  May  1. — His  Majesty's  ship  Shrewsbury  at  St. 
Heliers. — The  service  requiring  my  coming  directly  from 
the  Bath  to  this  place  has  prevented  my  waiting  upon  your 
Grace  which  I  earnestly  wished  for  ;  however,  I  beg  the  honour 
of  your  Grace's  commands,  before  we  go  to  sea,  which  Sir 
Cloudesley  is  every  day  expecting  orders  for.  Thank  God 
the  ships  we  have  here  are  in  a  very  good  condition,  and  for 
the  number  and  qualities  never  better  manned,  so  that  we  may 
disappoint  the  enemy,  and  become  seekers  instead  of  their 
looking  after  us  ;  however,  it  were  to  be  wished  we  had  some  of 
our  Dutch  friends  with  us.  I  pray  for  your  Grace's  health 
and  all  the  happiness  this  world  affords,  constantly  to  attend 
you,  being  among  the  number  of  your  servants,  my  lord  Duke, 
&c.,  &c. 

Earl  of  Inchiquin  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  May  2.  Dublin. — Concerning  various  applications  to 
his  Grace.  Monsieur  de  Boisroud  laments  extremely  that 
his  nephew  has  not  been  thought  on  by  his  Grace  for  a  com- 
mission in  Ireland.  He  made  him  quit  one  in  Holland  and 
was  at  the  expense  of  his  being  naturalized  in  England  and 
coming  hither.  Monsieur  de  Boisroud's  services  deserve  some 
recompense  as  well  as  those  of  Monsieur  de  Bellcastell  or 
Monsieur  Moritandre,  for  whom  he  got  a  company  in  the 
regiment  he  was  lieutenant-colonel  to.  The  two  poor  old 
ladies,  Madame  de  Tonais  and  Madame  de  Fargote  are  starving. 
The  Lords  Justices  could  not  give  them  what  his  Grace 
ordered,  there  being  no  money  in  the  Treasury.  The  same 
reason  retards  the  reparation  at  the  fort  of  Kinsale.  The 
levies  will  be  at  Cork  the  end  of  the  month.  He  intends  to 
go  towards  it  next  week.  Mr.  Campbell,  ensign  to  Captain 
Woodward,  in  his  regiment,  who  is  very  infirm,  is  willing  to 
resign  his  post  to  Mr.  Hannington,  brother  of  one  that  was 
in  his  Grace's  family.  They  are  told  of  great  changes  in 
England,  but  shall  complain  of  none  while  they  can  enjoy 
the  happiness  of  his  Grace's  government.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Lieut. -General  Thomas  Erle. 
1704,  May  2.— See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  770. 

Earl  of  Mount-Alexander  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  May  2.  Dublin. — Concerning  Mr.  John  Hannington's 
purchase  of  Ensign  Campbell's  commission.  He  is  brother 
to  your  Grace's  servant  of  that  name,  and  a  very  pretty  fellow. 
His  father  has  abandoned  him  because  he  will  not  be  a 
Presbyterian.     Abstract. 

William  Moreton,  Bishop  of  Kildare,  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  May  2.     Dublin. — I  little  thought  of  disturbing  your 
Grace  on  that  side  the  water,  as  much  as  I  have  done  on  this 


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with  the  controversy  betwixt  the  Archbishop  of  Dublin  and  my 
Chapter  ;  but  that  he  has  insulted  us  more  since  your  Grace 
went  hence  than  ever  he  did  before,  for  now  he  pursues  us  with 
one  citation  after  another,  against  the  custom  of  all  his  pre- 
decessors. And  though  he  has  made  a  resolution  never  to 
come  to  prayers  to  Christ  Church  till  he  is  enthroned  there, 
which  he  cannot  regularly  be,  yet  he  was  pleased  upon 
Saturday  last,  whilst  I  was  absent  in  my  own  diocese,  as  soon 
as  the  service  was  over,  to  come  into  the  church  to  take 
possession  of  my  stall,  and  there  to  hold  a  visitation,  in  which 
he  threatened  to  put  us  all  under  the  sentence  of  excom- 
munication. This  forces  us  to  ply  to  your  Grace's  protection, 
and  lay  ourselves  at  your  Grace's  feet,  and  likewise  at  the 
Queen's  by  your  Grace's  favour  and  assistance. 

Your  Grace  knows  the  man  and  his  communication,  which 
gives  me  an  assurance  that  all  things  will  in  due  time  be  done 
according  to  the  just  expectations  of  one  of  your  family,  who 
has  lived  above  six  and  twenty  years  in  this  place  with  all  the 
comfort  and  satisfaction  possible,  and  now  though  pursued 
like  a  partridge  upon  the  mountains,  yet  hopes  for  relief  from 
your  Grace,  as  being,  &c. 

Colonel  William  Villiers  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  May  4.  Dublin. — Concerning  his  regiment.  Mr. 
Morris  tells  him  that  he  has  his  Grace's  leave  to  buy  of  Captain 
Stafford.  Major-General  Langston  is  very  much  averse  to 
it.  The  horses  are  in  good  order  and  the  men  do  very  well 
for  the  time.  The  time  being  come  to  turn  to  grass  will  hinder 
their  riding  in  some  measure.  He  hopes  they  will  have  some 
handsome  men  out  of  England.  Mr.  Taylor  is  rejoiced  at  his 
Grace's  remembrance  of  him.  Lady  Kate  is  his  Grace's 
obliged  humble  servant  ;  if  anything  can  be  done  in  her 
business  it  will  be  a  means  to  support  her  new  honour  and  stiU 
heap  more  obligations  on  her  and  the  writer.     Abstract. 

Brigadier- General  Gustavus  Hamilton  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  May  6.  Dublin. — Asking  his  Grace  to  recommend 
him  to  the  Queen  for  a  major-general's  commission.     Abstract. 

Captain  John  Bingham  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  May  . — Expressing  his  great  mortification  that 

while  every  place  around  is  moistened  with  the  refreshing 
dew  of  his  Grace's  favour  his  own  like  Gideon's  of  old  should 
remain  dry.  His  Grace  by  a  wise  and  noble  politic  suitable 
to  his  just  and  generous  temper  hath  reversed  that  pernicious 
and  cowardly  state  maxim  of  neglecting  your  friends  and 
caressing  your  enemies.  He  will  not  put  himself  in  the  rank 
with  others  lately  provided  since  his  Grace  hath  not  thought 
fit  to  do  it,  though  he  will  presume  to  say  some  of  them  may 
not  exceed  his  calibre  in  anything,  health  only  excepted.     Some 


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mark  of  his  Grace's  favour  before  his  return  to  Ireland  might 
improve  his  credit  there,  but  the  want  of  it  shall  never  lessen 
his  zeal  for  his  Grace's  service.     Abstract. 

Brigadier-General  Thomas  Fairfax  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  May  9.     Dublin. — Informing  his  Grace  that  he  would 
willingly  resign  his  government  of  Limerick  for  the  guard  of 
battle-axes,  which  he  hears  is  to  be  raised.     Abstract. 

Lords  Justices  of  Ireland  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  May  9.  Dublin  Castle. — The  two  privateers  taken  by 
Captain  Saunders  will  be  a  burden  on  the  Irish  Government 
unless  the  Admiralty  entertains  and  supports  them  as  her 
Majesty's  ships.  They  hope  that  the  Warspright  and  Orford  men 
of  war  will  be  able  to  do  good  service  against  privateers  in  the 
neighbourhood  of  Cape  Clear.  It  would  be  a  great  act  of 
justice  to  get  the  half  pay  officers,  who  shall  appear  innocent, 
restored.  They  refer  to  the  duty  demanded  by  the  Commis- 
sioners.   Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  May  9.  Dublin. — I  have  the  honour  of  your  Grace's 
of  the  2nd,  and  have  five  times  written  and  spoke  to  Baron 
Worth,  as  I  do  again  this  night,  to  hasten  the  departure  of  the 
prisage  and  PoUexfen's  case,  and  I  believe  he  does  all  he  can 
to  dispatch  them,  and  doubtless  will  be  in  town  this  week 
with  them,  and  all  the  money  he  can  get  at  Kilkenny.  I  am 
glad  your  Grace  takes  time  to  consider  of  the  Parliament, 
for  there  are  weighty  considerations  on  both  sides. 

Upon  the  Judges'  report  of  the  insolence  of  some  Irish  who 
have  arms  in  Connaught  by  virtue  of  Articles,  we  did  propose 
to  recall  their  licences  if  any,  and  disarm  them  by  procla- 
mation. Your  Grace  may  believe  we  were  surprised  to  hear 
it  said,  that  they  could  not  be  disarmed  by  law,  but  I  pro- 
duced a  proclamation  signed  by  that  Chief  Justice  for  dis- 
arming them  formerly,  and  the  Council  ended  when  the 
Attorney  and  Solicitor  General  were  ordered  to  prepare  a 
draft  against  next  Council  day ;  by  the  countenance  given 
to  that  opinion,  we  perceived  little  good  could  be  done  about 
the  Militia,  and  therefore  it  was  not  moved  at  aU. 

I  could  not  tell  from  whom  we  had  the  intelligence  about 
the  preparations  at  Brest ;  the  person  purposely  concealed 
his  name,  else  I  would  have  acquainted  your  Grace,  to  whom 
I  would  make  nothing  a  secret,  for  I  am  entirely,  &c. 

Harry  Morgan  to  Benjamin  Portlock. 
1704,  May  11.  The  Infirmary,  Carlow. — Concerning  a 
letter  for  his  son  Henry  aboard  the  Speedwell.  He  refers  to 
Portlock's  arrival  into  that  sink  of  sin  and  sea  coal  commonly 
called  London.  Lord  Ikerrin  went  through  here  yesterday 
to  Kilkem^y.     Abstract, 


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Colonel  John  Eyre  to  Ormonde. 
1704,    May    12.     Eyre  Court. — Expressing  his  pride  that 
his  Grace  had  espoused  him  with  so  kind  a  concern.     He 
values  the  honour  of  his  Grace's  owning  him  more  than  the 
profit  of  the  government.     Abstract. 

Colonel  Wentworth  Harman  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  May  13. — Bawn,  near  Longford. — Acknowledging  his 
Grace's  letter  giving  him  the  honourable  employment  of 
commanding  the  battle-axes.  It  does  show  to  the  world  the 
continuance  of  the  favours  which  his  Grace's  princely  family 
had  bestowed  on  the  writer's  family.     Abstract. 

Major-General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  May  13.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  horses  in  his 
regiment.  His  Grace  had  found  very  just  fault  with  many 
of  them.  The  officers  had  been  ordered  to  change  them, 
and  have  all  complied  except  Major  Hebbume,  who  has  sent 
over  nine  of  the  worst  that  ever  one  seen ;  the  writer  is  very 
sure  they  did  not  cost  him  ten  pounds  one  with  another. 
Major  Hebburne  is  in  London  and  his  Grace  is  asked  to  give 
him  orders  to  renew  his  troop  and  return  to  the  regiment. 
Abstract. 

Earl  op  Mount-Alexander  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  May  13.  Dublin. — I  had  not  so  long  delayed 
acknowledging  the  honour  of  your  Grace's  of  the  2nd,  but 
that  I  waited  for  another  letter  from  the  North  from  Captain 
Campbell,  who  has  been  so  successful  as  to  prevent  an  agent's 
being  sent  into  England  to  solicit  the  Queen  and  your  Grace 
about  the  Dissenting  ministers'  pension.  This  was  what  I 
gave  him  very  particularly  in  charge  to  do,  for  seeing  how 
difficult  it  would  be  for  her  Majesty  to  grant  a  request  so 
disagreeable  to  what  was  done  in  the  House  of  Commons, 
or  for  your  Grace  to  countenance  it,  and  on  the  other  hand 
how  inconvenient  it  might  be  at  this  time  to  give  a  denial. 
I  hope  your  Grace  will  keep  what  was  allowed  them  in  your 
own  power  to  dispose  of  as  you  shall  think  fit.  Captain 
Campbell  is  now  gone  towards  Derry  and  Antrim,  at  the 
request  of  two  Presbyteries,  to  temper  those  who  have  been 
warmed  by  the  influence  of  the  Upton  family,  and  their  great 
concern  now  is,  how  to  engage  me  in  their  service.  I  will 
give  your  Grace  no  further  trouble  on  this  subject  at  present ; 
but  will  constantly  inform  you  of  everj^hing  worth  your 
knowledge. 

Ormonde  to  Lieut. -General  Thomas  Erle. 
1704,  May  16.— /See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  771. 


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Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1704,   May    16.     Dublin. — Baron   Worth   came   hither    on 

Saturday I   do   not  write   to   your   Grace  an3rthing 

of  military  matters,  because  I  know  the  Lieutenant^General 
does  it  more  effectively,  nor  much  of  the  North  because  I  leave 
that  to  my  Lord  Mount-Alexander,  but  I  cannot  forbear  to 
acquaint  your  Grace  that  several  of  them  being  merry  at  a 
christening  in  town  expressed  themselves  with  bitterness, 
as  if  they  would  not  help  in  case  of  invasion,  but  I  take  this 
to  be  the  echo  of  a  few  angry  ringleaders  who  would  fain  be 
lieutenant-colonels,  &c.,  rather  than  the  true  sense  of  any  party 
of  Protestants  ;  however,  I  hope  we  shall  have  no  occasion 
to  try  their  kindness. 

Brinsley  Butler  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  May  16.  Dublin. — Concerning  his  employment  in 
the  company  of  battle-axes  to  be  raised  in  that  kingdom. 
He  beseeches  his  Grace  that  this  provision  may  not  discharge 
his  attending  his  Grace's  person  in  his  bedchamber,  which  he 
reckons  the  greatest  honour  of  his  life.     Abstract. 

Viscount  Tunbridge  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  May  19.  N.S.  The  camp  at  Bedburg,  three  leagues 
from  Juliers. — It  was  impossible  for  me  to  write  to  your  Grace 
before  now,  for  my  father  hurried  me  into  the  field  as  soon 
as  I  came  over.  I  hope  your  Grace  wiU  not  take  it  ill  that 
I  make  this  campaign,  for  it  is  with  no  other  design  than  to 
render  myself  capable  to  be  fit  for  the  post  your  Grace  has 
been  pleased  to  give  me.  I  can  assure  you  that  it  is  not  to 
get  preferment,  for  I  expect  nor  desire  any  but  from  your 
[Grace],  to  whose  service  I  have  devoted  myself.  I  will  come 
to  Ireland  the  moment  the  campaign  is  done,  if  your  Grace 
will  give  me  leave  to  stay  from  my  post  so  long.  Our  projects 
are  kept  very  secret,  so  that  I  cannot  as  yet  give  your  Grace 
an  account  of  them,  though  I  do  not  doubt  but  you  know 
them  already.  It  is  said  that  when  all  the  detachments  are 
joined  we  are  to  be  fifty-five  bataUions  and  seventy  squadrons. 
It  is  believed  that  we  shall  take  Trarback,  Treves  and  Thionville, 
and  so  to  join  with  some  of  the  Emperor's  forces.  One  thing 
I  see  plainly,  that  we  shall  have  a  great  many  marches.  I 
hope  they  may  be  for  some  purpose.     This  is  aU  from,  &c. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  May  20.  Dublin. — ^We  have  at  last  issued  a  procla- 
mation for  disarming  the  Papists,  and  returning  their  licences, 
and  it  was  necessary  to  do  it,  to  encourage  the  English  and 
stop  the  clamour  of  some  of  them,  and  to  check  the  insolence 
of  the  Irish,  which  is  intolerable  upon  every  foolish  rumour 
of    an    invasion,    which    some    of    them  expect  with  great 


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impatience  ;  though  I  think  there  is  little  ground  for  it, 
nothing  being  in  my  judgment  more  unlikely  than  that  an 
island  should  be  invaded  by  any  one  who  is  not  master  at  sea. 

I  have  the  honour  of  your  Grace's  of  the  9th  and  will 
acquaint  my  Lord  Mount-Alexander  with  your  kind  intentions 
towards  him,  and  I  did  already  anticipate  what  your  Grace 
has  wrote  by  telling  him  then  that  I  thought  he  was  too  late, 
and  that  the  post  was  disposed  of. 

I  am  considering  of  some  popular  thing  to  be  done  for  this 
kingdom  next  session,  if  perhaps  it  should  be  next  spring, 
not  only  to  stop  the  mouths  of  enemies,  but  to  oblige  our  friends, 
and  do  good  to  the  whole  kingdom  and  consequently  to  our- 
selves, and  nothing  of  this  sort  can  be  more  successful  than 
that  which  does  no  hurt  to  England  nor  at  all  interfere  with 
its  interest.  Of  this  sort  I  take  a  registry  to  be,  which  is  the  more 
needful  here  because  our  evidences  are  more  exposed  to 
raparees  and  rebels:  it  is  in  part  done  already  by  the 
Act  in  England  relating  to  the  trustees  which  obliges  their 
conveyances  to  be  enrolled  and  by  the  late  Act  which  requires 
all  incumbrances  on  estates  of  Papists  to  be  registered  ;  it 
seems  that  this  one  Act  would  bring  a  ready  compliance  to 
continue  the  excise,  &c.,  two  years  more,  but  your  Grace  will 
consider  of  it.     I  am  ever,  my  best  Lord,  &c. 

Primate  Marsh  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  May  20. — I  am  informed  that  Mr.  Bouhereau's  salary 
from  the  Queen  as  Library  Keeper  of  200Z.  a  year  is  to  be 
reduced  to  lOOZ.  The  consideration  for  which  that  salary 
was  thought  fit  to  be  settled  upon  him,  at  my  Lord  Rochester's 
intercession  when  he  was  in  the  government,  was  his  giving 
all  his  books,  worth  about  5001.,  to  the  new  library,  which 
were  thereupon  delivered  up  into  my  custody,  and  they  being 
all  his  worldly  substance,  as  I  think,  I  fear  he  will  be  a  sufferer 
by  this  reduction,  having  a  family  to  maintain.  I  therefore 
humbly  beg  your  Grace  that  his  salary  of  200Z.  a  year  may 
be  continued  to  him  which  he  will  highly  deserve  both  by  the 
donation  of  his  books,  and  his  abilities  for  the  executing  the 
office  of  such  a  place  of  care  and  trust,  as  the  well  managing 
a  library  requires.  I  beg  your  Grace's  pardon  for  having 
given  you  this  trouble,  and  remain,  &c. 

Postscript. — ^A  present  weakness  in  my  right  arm  hath  caused 
me  to  use  another  hand  writing  this  letter,  for  which  I  beg 
pardon. 

Earl  of  Galway  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  May  21.  a  Rookley. — J'ay  apres  que  la  Reine  a 
ordone  un  nouuel  establissement  pour  I'lrlande ;  permetez  moy 
de  vous  suplees  d'acorder  vostre  protection  a  Monsr. 
Bouhereau.  J'ose  vous  asseurer  my  lord  qu'il  en  est  digne, 
il  a  done  un  grand  nombre  de  livres  estimes  plus  de  cinq 
cents   livres   sterlings   a  la  biblioteque  que  le   Primat   veut 


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doner  au  public ;  c'est  en  consideration  de  ce  present  que  le 
feu  Roy  luy  acorda  une  pension  de  deus  cents  livres  sterlings 
pour  cesser  lorsque  I'un  de  deus  benefices  qui  estoient  a  la 
nomination  du  primat  alors  archeuesque  de  Dublin  viendoit 
a  vaquer,  parce  que  1' Archeuesque  avoit  resolu  d'atacher 
un  de  ces  deus  benefices  aTentretien  du  bibliotequaire  ;  je  vous 
prie  instament  my  lord  de  considerer  ce  qu'il  y  a  de  particulier 
dans  le  cas  de  Mons.  Bouhereau,  et  de  lui  faire  conserver  cette 
pension  entiere ;  je  vous  en  seray  tres  sensiblement  oblige ;  je 
suis  avec  respect  my  lord,  &c. 

Ormonde  to  Lieut. -General  Thomas  Erlb. 
1704,  May  22.— ^ee  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  771. 

Ormonde  to  Earl  of  Mount-Alexander. 
1704,  May  22.— ^ce  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  771. 

Earl  of  Mount-Alexander  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  May  23.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  estimate  for 
drawing  and  mounting  the  guns,  as  desired  by  his  Grace,  and 
as  to  the  recovery  of  guns  and  bombs  which  were  lost  in  a 
bombship  which  was  separated  from  Sir  George  Rooke,  and  cast 
away  about  Brounston  Head.  He  acknowledges  his  Grace's 
letter  with  reference  to  the  writer's  being  put  on  the  estab- 
lishment as  brigadier.     Abstract. 

William  Crowe  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  May  23.  Dublin. — Giving  an  account  of  an  attempt 
to  murder  the  Attorney-General  (Robert  Rochfort)  the 
previous  Sunday  at  church.  His  parish  church  being  not 
yet  finished  he  had  brought  his  lady  and  family  to  St. 
Andrew's,  known  more  by  the  name  of  the  Round  Church, 
and  the  Lords  Justices  being  dispersed,  he  was  discharged 
from  any  attendance  at  Christ  Church,  so  that  he  came  to  the 
Round  Church,  too.  At  the  conclusion  of  service  he  was 
attacked  by  an  elderly  man  who  stabbed  him  in  the  right 
thigh,  inflicting  a  wound  "  about  two  inches  deep  and  five 
upwards."  The  assailant  proved  to  be  one  Francis  Creswick, 
son  of  a  knight  of  that  name,  from  near  Bristol.  He  had  lost 
the  greater  part  of  a  plentiful  fortune,  by  extravagance  or  loss 
at  sea,  and  alleged  that  he  was  the  victim  of  intolerable  hard- 
ships on  the  part  of  the  Attorney-General,  who  by  chicanery, 
as  he  charged,  was  keeping  him  out  of  his  estate.  Creswick 
was  immediately  secured,  and  committed  to  Newgate  by  the 
Recorder.  There  "  with  a  very  strange  unconcernedness  he 
bears  all  the  terrors  of  the  place,  as  a  dark,  loathsome  dungeon, 
neck-yoke,  handcuffs,  chains,  &c.,  repining  at  nothing  so  much 
as  the  ill  success,  as  he  calls  it,  of  his  attempt."  Before  the 
Recorder  would  proceed  to  take  his  examinations  in  the  prison 
he  caused  his  pockets  to  be  examined,  when  a  second  knife 


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of  the  same  shape  as  the  one  he  had  stabbed  his  victim  with, 
as  well  as  a  small  pen-knife  and  a  razor  were  found  upon  his 
person.  He  evidently  intended  to  use  one  of  these  latter 
weapons  to  take  his  life  with.  He  is  to  be  tried  the  latter 
end  of  this  week  before  the  Queen's  Bench,  as  the  Grand 
Jury  have  already  found  a  true  bill.  The  Attorney-General's 
wounds  were  dressed  by  the  surgeons,  and  he  was  ordered  to 
bed  immediately.  His  account  of  his  relations  with  Creswick 
contradicts  that  of  the  latter  in  every  point  that  seems 
material,  and  he  intends  to  have  the  whole  proceeding,  which 
relates  to  a  purchase  of  property  from  Creswick,  thoroughly 
canvassed  at  the  trial,  and  the  vile  imputations  laid  on  the 
offender,  to  whom  they  properly  belong.     Abstract. 

Lords  Justices  of  Ireland  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  May  23.  Dublin  Castle.— The  fund  for  military 
contingencies,  being  at  present  overdrawn,  cannot  bear  the 
charge  of  above  500?.  for  mounting  and  bringing  to  Dublin 
the  six  six-pounders  and  three  nine-pounders  directed  by  his 
Grace  to  be  immediately  fitted  up  for  completing  a  field  train. 
Some  provision  in  the  army  is  desired  for  Comet  Robert 
Flaherty,  whose  small  allowance  of  half -pay  is  not  sufficient 
to  discharge  his  incumbrances  and  deliver  him  out  of  prison. 
Captain  Anstruther  desires  leave  to  go  into  England,  having 
extraordinary  occasions  which  require  his  attendance  there. 
Abstract. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to 
Ormonde. 
1704,  May  23. — I  yesterday  had  the  honour  of  receiving 
your  Grace's,  or  rather  indeed  I  may  more  truly  say  I  had 
the  pride  of  receiving  one  from  your  Grace  all  under  your  own 
hand,  and  that  at  a  time  when  everybody  must  know  how 
very  precious  every  moment  must  be  to  you  so  that  it  was  not 
possible  to  have  expected  it,  but  that  is  often  possible  to  your 
Grace  in  favour  which  is  not  possible  to  others  even  in 
expectation.  I  am  most  extremely  delighted  that  your 
Grace  is  pleased  not  to  determine  anything  as  to  the  Par- 
liament till  your  arrival  here,  since  there  is  an  ill  sort  of  people 
that  will  thereby  find  themselves  mightily  disappointed  in 
that  fulness  of  assurance  thay  had  of  being  offered  one  fair 
opportunity  more  of  a  retrieve  upon  some  measures  they 
thought  had  been  certainly  resolved  upon,  and  so  with  great 
joy  they  gave  it  out  among  those  that  were  of  the  same 
temper  with  themselves.  I  am  mighty  glad  that  that  is  for 
the  present  all  over  and  I  do  not  doubt  will  be  so  for  the  future. 

Edward  Smyth,  Bishop  of  Down,  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  May  24.     Lisburn.— I  have  been  two  months  in  my 
diocese,   and   have   been   very   observant   of    your    Grace's 


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commands  by  looking  out  all  the  ways  I  could  think  of,  to  get 
such  intelligence  as  might  be  worth  transmitting  to  your 
Grace  in  England.  Your  Grace  is  already  fully  informed 
of  the  general  state  of  this  country,  and  as  to  the  particular 
accounts  I  receive  from  Scotland,  they  are  so  often  con- 
tradicted as  the  persons  who  relate  them  are  engaged  in  parties, 
that  I  know  not  which  to  depend  upon.  All  seems  to  depend 
on  their  Parliament,  which  is  now  ready  to  sit  down ;  if  they 
fall  into  the  same  settlement  of  their  Crown,  that  England 
has  done,  our  Scotch  Presbyterians  in  these  parts  will  have 
no  temptations  to  disturb  us  ;  if  it  be  otherwise,  their  country 
and  their  religion  will  give  a  dangerous  influence,  and  by 
discourses  which  drop  frequently  from  them,  it  may  be  justly 
feared  they  will  take  part  in  the  cause  of  Scotland.  May  God 
prevent  these  mischiefs  by  keeping  England  and  Scotland 
still  united  under  the  same  prince. 

My  chief  reason  for  giving  your  Grace  this  trouble  is  from 
some  conversation  I  have  lately  had  with  Mr.  Charles 
O'Neill,  a  very  worthy  gentleman  in  my  neighbourhood,  and 
who  has  the  greatest  devotion  for  your  Grace.  He  has  been 
under  some  scruples  about  the  abjurations  oath,  and  withdrew 
himself  on  this  account  from  public  business,  but  his  diffi- 
culties are  now,  I  hope,  all  removed,  and  if  your  Grace  should 
resolve  to  dissolve  our  present  Parliament  in  which  great 
affair  I  pray  God  to  direct  you,  he  resolves  to  stand  for  Knight 
of  the  Shire  for  the  county  of  Antrim,  and  I  make  no  doubt 
but  he  will  carry  it  against  Mr.  Clotworthy  Upton.  His  service 
in  that  station  and  the  Corporation  of  Randalstown,  which 
is  also  in  his  power,  will,  I  am  confident,  be  at  your  Grace's 
disposal,  and  I  have  power  from  him  to  intimate  this  with 
his  duty  to  your  Grace. 

That  God  may  prosper  your  Grace  in  all  your  undertakings 
and  give  you  daily  increase  of  honour  and  satisfaction  shall 
be  the  endeavour  as  it  is  the  prayer  of,  &c. 

Earl  op  Inchiquin  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  May  24.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  state  of  his 
regiment,  which,  he  hopes,  may  be  sent  to  Cork  again  when 
the  camp  is  at  an  end.  He  begs  his  Grace  not  to  forget  the 
favour  he  promised  of  sitting  for  his  picture  to  Sir  Godfrey 
Kneller,  before  he  again  leaves  England.     Abstract. 

Lords  Justices  of  Ireland  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  May  25.  Dublin  Castle. — As  to  the  purchase  of  a 
privateer,  and  the  making  of  some  provision  for  the  innocent 
half -pay  officers,  and  concerning  the  transportation  of  the  three 
regiments  ordered  to  be  sent  to  Portugal.  Their  greatest 
expectation  is  from  the  Whitehaven  ships.  These  will 
scarcely  be  at  Cork  or  Kinsale  till  the  10th  July  next,  when  it 
is  hoped  all  things  will  be  ready  for  embarkation.     It  would  be 


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best  to  have  the  three  regiments  in  question  proceed  to  the 
encampment,  where  they  could  be  brought  up  to  full  strength 
by  drafts  out  of  the  other  regiments.  They  refer  to  measures  for 
protecting  the  south-west  coast  against  privateers.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Roscommon  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  May. — Concerning  an  addition  to  his  pension.  He 
has  had  ungenerous  usage  in  the  world,  which  renders  his 
present  circumstances  so  cruel  that  he  is  forced  to  fly  to  his 
Grace  as  the  only  person  of  earth.     Abstract. 

Duchess  of  Ormonde  to  Benjamin  Portlock. 
[1698,]  May  25. — I  received  your  letter  this  minute,  Mr. 
Portlock,  with  the  enclosed  pattern  for  my  coat  and  waistcoat. 
I  have  a  coat  I  made  here  a  great  many  months  ago  of  the 
same  colour  of  that  and  lined  with  red.  I  therefore  desire 
you  will  make  it  of  some  other  colour,  and  as  to  the  petticoat 
I  am  very  sure  it  were  better  either  of  some  of  the  outside, 
or  of  the  lining,  than  of  a  rich  stuff,  and  the  trimming  being 
heavy  I  know  it  is  very  necessary  to  have  the  bottom  heavy 
or  else  in  riding  and  with  the  wind  they  are  apt  to  be 
bothersome,  and  I  am  sure  a  slight  stuff  with  such  a  trimming 
as  I  mention  will  be  much  cheaper  and  ten  times  more  con- 
venient than  the  rich  one  my  Lady  Fitzhardinge  advised 
you  to.  I  wish  you  would  choose  it  all  yourself,  for  she  the 
last  time  made  everything  twice  as  dear  as  one  would  have 
guessed.  She  left  it  as  I  heard  to  the  management  of  the 
tradespeople  who  chose  it,  and  then  set  down  what  rates  they 
pleased.  Here  are  two  packets  come  in  to-night  and  on 
Sunday  last,  but  not  one  letter  from  my  Lord.  Pray  desire 
him  to  do  me  the  favour  but  to  write  two  words  once  in  four 
posts,  and  I  am  satisfied.     I  am  your  friend  to  serve  you,  &c. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  May  25.  Dublin. — Mr.  Power,  one  of  those  who 
killed  Mr.  Dixon's  son,  was  tried  last  Assizes,  and  it  appearing 
a  sudden  quarrel,  was  found  guilty  only  of  manslaughter, 
and  in  regard  the  gentleman  had  an  unblemished  reputation, 
and  an  extraordinary  good  character,  my  Lord  Chief  Justice 
Doyne  respited  the  burning  in  the  hand.  Power  now  petitions 
to  have  that  pardoned,  and  the  judges  give  an  ample  certificate, 
and  we  should  have  granted  the  pardon,  as  is  usual  in  such 
cases,  but  because  Dixon  says  that  when  your  Grace  first 
heard  of  the  killing  his  son,  you  were  pleased  to  say  the 
offenders  should  be  left  to  law,  I  trouble  your  Grace  with  this 
account  of  the  matter,  though  I  told  him  your  Grace's 
expression  extended  but  to  a  trial  for  their  lives,  and  upon  a 
supposition  that  it  was,  as  he  represented  it,  a  barbarous 
murder,  but  it  was  never  meant  to  burn  a  gentleman  in  the 
hand,  unless  the  fact  had  appeared  villainous,  as  it  did  not. 


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I  am  told  your  Grace  has  a  new  grant  of  Richmond,  which 
I  am  extremely  glad  of,  for  I  think  it  the  prettiest  place  in  the 
world.  The  experience  of  this  year  shows  the  necessity  of 
a  fort  at  Berehaven,  which  nevertheless  I  think  should  be  a 
very  good  one  for  an  indifferent  fort  would  but  expose  our 
men  and  our  reputation.  I  write  to  Mr.  Portlock  to  mind 
your  Grace  of  your  picture,  for  I  would  rather  lose  a  plowland 
than  miss  that  monument  of  your  favour,  which  with  my 
monteith  shall  be  preserved  in  my  family  as  long  as  any  of 
them  has  respect  for  me,  who  am  ever,  &c. 

Same  to  Same. 

1704,  May  27.  Dublin. — Saying  that  Kilkenny  and  ad- 
jacent parts  have  made  such  preparations  for  the  camp 
as  would  half  ruin  them  if  they  were  disappointed.  Besides 
the  troops  designed  for  Portugal  will  be  better  sent  from  the 
camp  than  from  their  garrisons.  It  might  be  better  to  send 
at  least  one  Scotch  regiment  rather  than  all  three  English 
on  that  expedition.  One  William  Jennings  would  be  glad 
of  the  post  of  underkeeper  in  the  Park.  "  I  believe  it  will 
be  no  disadvantage  to  him  that  he  is  my  nurse's  son."  If 
his  Grace  could  make  Sir  William  Mansel  a  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  in  one  of  the  three  new  regiments  that  are  likely  to  be 
raised  it  would  oblige  Mr.  Comptroller,  and  a  great  many  fair 
ladies.     Abstract. 

Brigadier- General  Robert  Echlin  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  May  29.  Edenderry. — Begging  his  Grace  to  intercede 
with  the  Queen  and  Prince  to  grant  him  a  brevet  as  major- 
general,  which  is  the  only  method  he  can  propose  to  regain 
his  post.  It  has  been  given  away  by  making  so  many  younger 
colonels  brigadiers  before  him.     Abstract. 

Captain  John  Pratt  to  Benjamin  Portlock. 
1704,  May  30.  Dublin. — Saying  that  hardship  is  like  to 
fall  on  the  army  on  account  of  the  sending  of  the  detachments 
from  the  regiments  of  foot  on  the  expedition  to  Portugal. 
Each  regiment  will  lose  the  clothing  of  one  hundred  and  fifty 
men  at  least,  and  perhaps  as  many  accoutrements.  The  loss 
will  fall  especially  on  six  regiments,  viz.,  those  of  Erie, 
Hamilton,  Donegal,  Charlemont,  Sankey  and  Mohun,  which 
are  to  have  entire  new  clothing  just  now.  The  cost  of  pro- 
viding new  clothing  would  come  to  about  51.  per  man  and  for 
the  six  regiments  to  4,500Z.,  which  additional  charge  can 
scarcely  be  borne  by  the  revenue.  The  writer  proposes,  as  the 
best  solution  of  the  difficulty,  that  the  detachments  from  the 
six  regiments  mentioned  should  receive  a  coat,  hat,  shoes, 
stockings,  shirt  and  cravat,  which  may  be  furnished  for  265. 
per  man.  The  fund  for  military  contingencies  might  be 
utilised  to  provide  the  sum  of  1,200Z.  necessary  for  the  purpose 


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on  credit,  until  the  receipt  of  her  Majesty's  letter  to  place 
the  sum  on  the  revenue  at  large,  or  until  it  is  repaid  by 
England.     Abstract. 

Lords  Justices  op  Ireland  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  May  30.  Dublin  Castle. — Concerning  the  detach- 
ments intended  for  Portugal.  It  will  be  necessary  to  form 
an  encampment,  so  that  only  such  may  be  sent  who  are 
fit  for  the  service,  and  who  are  not  suspected  to  be  Papists. 
Mr.  Tucker  is  confident  that  a  sufficient  number  of  the  White- 
haven ships  may  be  had  to  serve  as  transport  ships.  Various 
orders  are  suggested  in  the  way  of  providing  money  for 
facilitating  generally  the  work  of  transportation  and  for 
preventing  desertion.  It  is  suggested  that  the  two  sixty- 
gun  ships  appointed  to  convoy  the  troops  may  cruise  as  far  as 
the  Blaskets  in  the  meantime  to  protect  the  coast  against 
privateers.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  1.  Dublin. — Saying  that  though  unwilling  to 
consent  to  a  warrant  for  clothing  the  detachments  until 
his  Grace's  pleasure  were  known,  yet  believing  the  matter 
to  be  one  of  urgency  and  Captain  Pratt's  plan  to  be  a  good  one, 
he  has  this  once  sacrificed  his  discretion  to  the  public.  He 
refers  to  the  appointment  of  an  under  park-keeper  in  room  of 
ScoUy,  deceased,  who  left  a  widow  and  five  children.  Though 
he  already  recommended  William  Jennings,  he  is  unwilling 
to  oppose  the  claims  of  the  dead  man's  eldest  son.  He  is  glad 
his  Grace  approves  of  the  encampment.  "Do  what  we  can 
your  Grace  will  find  Mr.  Abel  as  poor  as  Job  when  you  come 
here.  I  assure  your  Grace  that  I  prefer  the  honour  and 
happiness  of  your  good  company  much  before  the  grandeur 
and  profit  of  my  share  of  the  government."     Abstract. 

Lords  Justices  of  Ireland  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  June  1.  Dublin  Castle.— Concerning  directions 
given  to  the  Captain  of  the  Seaford  as  to  convoying  some  Chester 
and  Liverpool  ships  across,  and  bringing  back  the  Speaker, 
Lord  Blessington  and  others.  As  soon  as  the  three  new 
regiments  are  mustered  they  will  be  reviewed  again  at 
Limerick  and  Galway,  and  then  orders  will  be  given  for  officers 
to  be  sent  into  England  for  recruits  to  complete  them. 
They  refer  to  steps  taken  towards  the  exchange  of  an  officer 
of  revenue  taken  into  France  by  a  privateer.  With  regard 
to  his  Grace's  orders  for  more  men  to  be  quartered  on  the  sea 
coast  in  Kerry  for  the  defence  thereof  against  privateers, 
it  is  feared  it  cannot  be  done  because  there  are  no  places  near 
the  shore  where  the  soldiers  can  be  quartered.  They  mention 
arrangements  for  sending  the  various  regiments  to  the  encamp- 
ment.    His  Grace  has  prevailed  for  31  a  man  out  of  England 

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for  recruiting  three  regiments  again.  If,  however,  it  might 
be  made  up  to  4Z.  65.  a  man  it  would  be  sufficient  both  to  raise 
the  men  and  pay  for  the  clothing  of  those  who  go  from  hence. 
This  would  prevent  a  great  deal  of  otherwise  unavoidable 
confusion,  and  would  make  both  the  colonels  and  government 
easy.     Abstract. 

Captain  John  Pratt  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  1.  Treasury,  Dublin. — Enclosing  an  abstract 
of  the  revenue  for  the  week  ending  the  29th  May,  and  dis- 
cussing the  practicability  of  paying  the  levy  money  of  the 
two  regiments  of  foot.  "  If  the  revenue  should  be  straitened 
on  this  occasion  it  must  lie  at  the  door  of  our  good  patriots, 
who  make  no  better  provision,  and  not  at  your  Grace's " 

Sir  Thomas  Taylor  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  2.  Dublin. — Thanking  his  Grace  for  the 
warrant  to  make  him  a  baronet  of  that  kingdom.  He  will 
inform  his  Grace  when  any  vacancy  happens  amongst  the 
commissioners  of  the  revenue,  for  he  wholly  depends  on  his 
Grace's  favour.     Abstract. 

Earl  op  Mount-Alexander  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  3.  Mount- Alexander. — My  Lords  Justices 
having  given  me  leave  to  look  after  my  own  concerns  for  a 
little  time,  your  Grace's  of  the  22nd  past  I  had  the  honour 
to  receive  here.  I  do  very  well  remember  that  your  Grace 
did  say  you  would  endeavour  to  get  the  1,200Z.  appointed 
for  the  Dissenting  ministers  in  the  North  continued,  and 
they  were  informed  your  Grace  had  them  in  your  thoughts, 
and  if  they  did  not  prevent  your  favour  towards  them  they 
might  expect  to  find  the  effects  of  it ;  but  notwithstanding 
that  they  were,  by  the  influence  of  those  I  mentioned 
formerly  to  your  Grace,  resolved  to  send  a  solicitor  to 
England,  for  the  pension  was  not  all  that  was  to  be  done  ; 
but  that  is  over  for  once,  by  the  great  care  and  pains  of  Captain 
Campbell,  who  has  not  rested  in  any  place,  but  went  from 
Presbytery  to  Presbytery,  and  yet  he  has  got  up  his  company 
too,  and  came  to  me  to  inform  me  of  what  had  passed.  Your 
Grace  will  find  that  gentleman  useful  and  honest,  and  I 
hope  I  shall  never  have  the  misfortune  to  recommend  anyone 
to  your  favour  that  will  not  deserve  it.  I  am  sure  my 
intention  will  always  be  to  show  myself  very  faithfully,  &c. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  4.  Dublin. —  .  .  .  .Now  that  the  Parliament 
charge  is  referred  to  your  Grace,  I  think  myself  safe  as  to  my 
1,000Z.  for  the  two  sessions,  that  is  5001.  each  meeting  according 
to  custom,  by  which  I  shall  be  a  very  small  gainer,  but  that 
which  pcQurs  to  me  now  ia  that  it  seems  necessary  the  Speaker 


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of  the  House  of  Commons  should  have  the  same  allowance, 
for  indeed  it  is  his  right,  that  is,  it  has  been  customary  to 
allow  him  500/.  the  session,  and  both  these  sessions  were 
long,  and  since  it  is  not  a  reward  for  his  service  but  a  reim- 
bursement of  his  expense  on  the  Commons,  it  would  disoblige 
them  to  let  him  be  a  sufferer,  and  might  occasion  a  bad 
precedent  of  putting  it  in  the  next  money  bill,  and  therefore 
it  seems  to  me  both  just  and  prudent  to  administer  no  cause 
of  complaint  upon  that  score,  which  nevertheless  I  submit 
to  your  Grace's  better  judgment. 

Our  transports  will  be  ready  to  sail  to  Cork  the  24th,  and 
if  the  Admiralty  take  care  to  have  the  convoy  ready,  which 
sure  ought  to  be  more  than  two  frigates,  they  may  sail  from 
Kinsale  the  first  week  in  July.  I  doubt  not  but  your  Grace 
will  do  all  that  is  possible  that  this  kingdom  may  be  at  no 
charge  in  reference  to  this  transport,  for  if  that  should  once 
come  into  precedent  we  should  be  infallibly  undone. 

Sir  Richard  Vernon  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  6.  Dublin. — Concerning  his  troop.  He  hopes 
his  Grace  will  not  find  him  deservedly  blameable,  nor  be 
inclined  from  the  hasty  resentments  of  some  people  to  suspect 
him  of  a  want  of  duty.  He  has  incurred  the  displeasure 
of  a  certain  lady,  the  violence  of  whose  temper  he  believes  his 
Grace  has  heard  of,  and  she  has  spread  a  report  that  he  is 
married,  which  he  thanks  his  stars  he  is  as  free  from  as  he  is 
from  any  thought  or  design  of  offending  his  Grace  or 
forfeiting  his  good  opinion.     Abstract. 

Colonel  William  Ponsonby  to  Ormonde. 
1704,    June    9. — Concerning    Colonel    Thomas    Newcombe. 
He  had  had  the  misfortune  to  lose  a  hand  in  the  Queen's 
service,  and  was  an  applicant  for  a  pension.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  10.  Dublin. — I  have  the  honour  of  your  Grace's 
of  the  3rd  and  am  extremely  thankful  for  the  favour  your 
Grace  intends  for  Sir  W.  Mansel  in  proper  time.  I  shall 
never  press  it  sooner  than  it  stands  with  your  Grace's  con- 
venience, and  I  hope  Mr.  Controller  will  thank  your  Grace 
for  it  whenever  it  happens.  As  to  public  matters,  I  must  refer 
your  Grace  to  our  joint  despatch,  only  may  say  in  general 
that  all  is  well,  and  your  Grace's  commands  immediately 
obeyed,  or  good  reason  given,  when  we  are  to  expect  your 
further  pleasure,  which  is  but  very  seldom. 

But  there  is  a  private  affair  which  should  be  set  before  your 
Grace  in  a  true  light,  and  it  is  about  the  fees  of  honour,  being 
39Z.  8s.  Id.  due  to  the  Castle  for  Sir  Thomas  Taylor's  baronetcy  ; 
none  of  us  value  it,  but  being  a  right  of  the  sword,  and  so 
allowed  by  Lord  Rochester,  though  Captain  Bellew  and  some 


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of  his  servants  then  here  disputed  it,  when  the  same  and  Mr. 
Keightley  were  Justices,  it  seems  a  diminution  to  us  to 
traverse  that  matter.  But  as  your  Grace  sees  the  thing  is 
trivial,  and  more  so  when  divided  into  three  parts  and  goes  to 
many  servants,  so  you  will  be  convinced  that  the  value  is  not 
in  our  thoughts,  and  if  it  were  never  so  much,  your  deter- 
mination should  be  definitive. 

I  write  this  post  to  Baron  Worth,  and  am  sure  that  the  camp 
will  bring  in  most  of  the  rent  and  arrears  that  is  solvent,  and 
that  he  will  press  them  effectually,  and  though  I  am  not  fond 
of  his  breeding,  yet  I  am  confident  he  will  do  the  business 
more  effectually  than  one  of  twice  his  manners,  but  however 
that  happen  I  will  ever  be,  my  best  Lord,  &c. 

Colonel  Willl^m  Villiers  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  10.  Dublin. — Concerning  his  hopes  of  pro- 
motion and  past  ill  fortune  in  not  being  made  a  brigadier. 
Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Lieut. -General  Thomas  Erle. 
1704,  June  lO.—See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  771. 

Lords  Justices  of  Ireland  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  10.  Dublin  Castle. — According  to  his  Grace's 
instructions  the  guns  designed  to  be  brought  from  Limerick 
and  the  other  places  shall  for  the  present  be  only  mounted 
and  afterwards  brought  to  Dublin  as  money  comes  in. 
Arrangements  have  been  made  for  clothing  the  detachments 
going  to  Portugal  and  the  amount  charged  upon  the  military 
contingencies.  They  ask  directions  from  his  Grace  as  to  sup- 
plying provisions,  in  order  that  the  Queen  may  not  be  put 
to  double  expense  if  both  Alderman  Hoare  of  Cork  and  Mr. 
Tucker  set  about  this  business.  Mr.  Tucker  had  this  charge, 
as  well  as  the  hiring  of  shipping,  upon  former  occasions,  and 
the  Lords  Justices  had  given  him  like  orders  for  the  coming 
embarkation.  They  hope  these  orders  will  be  confirmed  by 
his  Grace,  and  that  a  sufficient  credit  be  immediately  lodged 
in  Mr.  Tucker's  hands  to  enable  him  to  perform  the  work. 
If  the  coming  of  the  convoy  should  be  delayed  it  might 
endanger  a  great  desertion.  They  refer  to  the  pay  and 
levy  money  of  the  two  new  regiments,  and  the  strength  of 
Lord  Inchiquin's  and  Lord  Dungannon's  regiments  delivered 
upon  their  honours  to  Lieutenant -General  Erie.  They  promise 
attention  to  Mr.  Secretary  Harley's  letter  concerning  one 
Lewis  Gordon,  the  petition  of  the  soldiers  of  Colonel  Pearce's 
regiment,  and  the  case  of  the  French  officers.  They  refer  to 
the  movements  of  the  Bridgewater,  Fever  sham  and  other  frigates, 
and  the  orders  for  not  requiring  duty  for  the  provisions  put 
on  board  her  Majesty's  men-of-war  or  on  board  transport 
ships.    LAbstract. 


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Captain  John  Pratt  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  June  10.     Treasury,  Dublin. — Enclosing  an  abstract 
of  the  previous  week's  revenue,  and  stating  that  there  is  a 
great  demand  for  money  for  the  civil  list  and  for  levy  money 
for  the  army.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Mount-Alexander  to  Ormonde. 
1704,      June      12.       Mount -Alexander. — Concerning      the 
mounting  of  guns,  and  the  recovery  of  guns  and  bombs  cast 
away  in  one  of  the  ships  of  Sir  George  Rooke's  fleet  on  the 
Waterford  coast.     Abstract. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 
1 70  4,  June  1 2.  Kingsweston. — Concerning  Lord  Godolphin's 
letter  as  to  what  was  written  to  him  about  Lord  Rosse, 
the  signing  commissions  for  Lieutenant  Albert  Nesbit  and 
other  officers,  and  a  letter  from  Brigadier  Echlin  who 
desires  Cornet  Graham  for  his  captain-lieutenant  and  Mr. 
Echlin  to  be  the  cornet.  The  Chester  men  desire  earnestly 
a  convoy  having  several  rich  ships  bound  to  Dublin.  They 
think  the  Whitehaven  men  engross  the  whole  convoy.  The 
writer  mentions  the  movements  of  the  Speedwell,  the  Arundel 
and  other  ships,  a  letter  from  Colonel  Edgeworth,  whose 
desire  is  against  his  Grace's  instructions,  the  Portugal 
convoy  and  the  placing  of  the  Bridgeioater  at  Klnsale  when 
Sir  Stafford  Fairborne  went  there.     Abstract. 

Edward  Smyth,  Bishop  of  Down,  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  14.  Lisburn. — I  am  highly  honoured  with  your 
Grace's  favour  of  the  3rd  inst.,  and  will  observe  your  Grace's 
commands  to  Mr.  O'Neill,  who  I  am  sure  wiU  join  with  me  in 
acknowledging  your  Grace's  esteem  for  him.  I  dare  under- 
take he  will  serve  her  Majesty  and  your  Grace  faithfully,  and 
I  know  he  has  a  weight  of  parts  and  interest  to  render  himself 
considerable.  I  wiU,  with  God's  help,  answer  your  Grace's 
expectations  from  me  with  a  sincere  disposition  and  my  best 
endeavours  to  distinguish  myself  among  your  servants,  and 
this  I  always  took  to  be  the  way  to  serve  my  country  and 
religion  to  go  in  with  your  Grace's  measures,  who  have  always 
appeared  such  a  zealous  protector  of  both,  and  I  hope  most 
of  our  Irish  gentlemen  who  were  misled  before  do  now  see  the 
same. 

I  pray  God  to  direct  your  Grace  in  that  great  affair  of  your 
Parliament.  Should  the  resolution  to  dissolve  it  prevail, 
I  would  humbly  recommend  that  my  Lord  Donegal  be  desired 
to  change  his  two  members  for  Belfast,  for  they  are  both 
Presbyterians  and  have  taken  their  party. 

By  the  correspondence  I  have  from  Scotland  I  cannot  see 
a  disposition  there  to  settle  the  succession.  It  is,  I  am  sen- 
sible, very  difficult  for  particular  persons  to  judge  of  a  point 


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so  weighty  and  the  Scotch  Parliament  when  assembled  may 
see  other  lights  to  determine  them,  but  I  think  it  is  plain  that 
a  great  number  of  that  people  are  for  breaking  with  England, 
and  if  they  should  prevail,  it  will  be  owing  to  your  Grace's 
conduct  to  preserve  their  countrymen  here  in  their  allegiance 
and  duty  to  the  Crown  of  England.  I  find  they  reckon  in 
Scotland  upon  three  counties  here  being  in  their  interest, 
and  these  are  Derry,  Down  and  Antrim. 

I  commend  your  Grace  to  the  care  and  protection  of 
Almighty  God,  and  am  with  the  most  profound  duty  and 
respect. 

D.  Gumming  to  Earl  of  Abercorn. 

1704,  June  15.  Dublin. — Your  Lordship  did  me  a  great 
honour  in  writing  to  me  of  the  3rd  inst.  ;  and  your  son,  I  pre- 
sume by  my  Lady's  order,  was  so  condescending  as  to  bring 
me  that  letter  together  with  another  for  Mr.  Upton,  which  I 
transmitted  to  him,  and  leaving  him  and  his  friends  in  the 
North  to  answer  for  themselves,  I  do  for  myself  and  at  the 
desire  of  the  Dissenting  Protestant  ministers  of  this  city 
return  your  Lordship  our  most  grateful  and  humble  thanks 
for  the  just  representation  your  Lordship  has  made  of  us. 
The  ministers  do  beg  and  hope  for  your  Lordship's  continued 
favour,  as  you  have  opportunity  of  rectifying  any  mis- 
apprehensions entertained  concerning  them.  They  doubt 
not  they  shall  always  in  their  conduct  make  good  the  account 
your  Lordship  has  given  of  their  fidelity  amd  dutiful  affection 
to  her  Majesty's  person  and  government,  and  firm  adherence 
to  the  Protestant  succession  as  established  by  law  in  opposi- 
tion to  the  pretended  Prince  of  Wales  and  all  his  adherents, 
particularly  whereas  it  is  suggested  that  they  do  not  pray 
for  her  Majesty  and  the  Princess  Sophia  in  their  meetings  ; 
they  pray  your  Lordship  assuredly  to  believe  that  they  know 
not  of  one  meeting  wherein  her  Majesty  is  not  constantly 
prayed  for,  and  that  the  Princess  Sophia  is  not  expressly 
mentioned,  is  not  from  the  least  aversion  to  the  succession 
of  the  Crown  in  that  line,  which  they  have  sworn  to  maintain, 
but  from  its  being  unusual  with  them  to  name  any  successors 
at  all  in  their  public  devotions.  They  always  pray  for  the 
Queen  and  those  who  rule  over  them  under  her  Majesty,  in 
which  they  do  what  is  expressly  required  of  them  when  they 
are  commanded  by  the  Apostle  to  pray  for  kings  and  all 
that  are  in  authority,  and  as  they  doubt  not  but  the  North 
will  answer  for  themselves,  so  those  here  do  solemnly  assure 
your  Lordship  that  they  know  of  none  of  their  persuasions 
either  there  or  here  that  is  in  the  Jacobite  interest  or  any  way 
favourable  to  it ;  so  that  your  Lordship  may  with  great  con- 
fidence clear  them  from  so  unjust  a  calumny  and  thus  far  I 
have  transcribed  from  a  written  minute  which  the  ministers 
sent  to  me,  for  I  was  resolved  not  to  write  to  your  Lordship 
my  own 'sentiments  only  but  the  sentiments  of  the  ministers 


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which  I  desired,  and  have  under  their  own  hands.  At  the  same 
time  the  ministers  desire  me  also  to  represent  to  your  Lordship 
how  seasonable  and  welcome  it  was  to  them  to  be  assured 
by  your  Lordship  of  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Ormonde's  pro- 
tection, for  though  they  are  unwilling  to  accuse  anybody 
yet  they  must  complain  that  the  Bishop  of  Kildare  has  renewed 
this  last  week  a  former  process  and  action  against  any  of 
their  number  who  are  settled  at  Edenderry.  There  is  no  crime 
alleged  but  preaching  without  the  Bishop's  licence.  His  Lordship 
began  this  process  two  or  three  years  ago,  and  the  government 
always  interposed,  and  my  Lord  Rochester  did  it  so  effectually 
that  Mr.  Parsons,  the  Presbyterian  minister  at  Edenderry, 
has  been  at  quiet  ever  since,  but  now  the  Bishop  has  cited 
him  anew  upon  the  former  process  to  appear  and  hear  the 
sentence  of  excommunication  pronounced  against  him.  Now, 
my  Lord,  if  there  be  not  a  new  stop  put  to  this  violent  pro- 
ceeding the  public  peace  will  quickly  be  disturbed  here,  though 
both  her  Majesty  and  the  Duke  have  promised  protection 
to  the  Protestant  Dissenters,  I  believe  the  ministers  will  apply 
to  the  Lords  Justices,  but  in  the  meantime  they  humbly 
beg  your  Lordship  to  lay  this  matter  before  his  Grace  our 
Lord  Lieutenant. 

Now,  my  Lord,  having  written  what  is  above  at  the  desire  of 
the  ministers,  I  shall  beg  your  Lordship's  patience  to  suggest 
one  or  two  things  from  myself,  as  there  were  but  two  or  three 
of  all  the  Dissenting  ministers  in  Ireland  who  refused  the 
oath  of  abjuration,  so  I  have  myself  discoursed  the  principal 
of  them  and  found  that  his  main  objection  was  only  lest  by 
that  oath  he  was  to  swear  to  the  qualifications  of  the  successor, 
one  of  which  qualifications  is  declared  by  the  law  establishing 
the  succession  to  be  that  the  successor  be  of  the  communion 
of  the  Church  of  England  ;  but,  my  Lord,  I  endeavoured  to 
convince  him  though  I  did  it  not,  that  the  oath  of  abjuration 
respected  only  the  limitation  of  the  Crown  to  the  House  of 
Hanover,  and  was  in  no  wise  concerned  in  this  qualification 
of  the  successor.  I  mention  this  to  your  Lordship  to  satisfy 
you  that  these  two  or  three  nonjurors  amongst  the  great 
Dissenters  go  upon  quite  another  bottom  than  the  nonjurors 
in  England  and  Ireland  who  refuse  the  oath  of  allegiance, 
which  even  the  Dissenting  ministers  have  cheerfully  taken. 
In  the  next  place,  my  Lord,  I  do  pretend  and  I  am  sure  on 
good  and  true  grounds,  to  understand  matters  in  Scotland, 
and  though  this  be  no  proper  place  to  teU  your  Lordship  all 
that  I  can  of  the  state  of  that  country,  yet  I  not  only  believe 
but  I  assuredly  know  and  can  demonstrate  that  amongst 
all  the  Presbyterians  in  Scotland  there  is  not  one  Jacobite. 
I  do  not  say  what  some  pretending  patriots,  who  have  a  design 
to  cajole  parties  and  to  lead  them,  may  be,  but  I  know 
assuredly  that  a  true  Jacobite  and  a  true  Presbyterian  in  one 
person  is  a  true  chimera.  When  this  is  duly  considered 
I  think  there   is   no  fear  of  any  combination  between  the 


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Presbyterians  in  the  North  of  Ireland  and  the  Jacobites  in 
Scotland,  but  I  must  not  weary  your  Lordship.  I  therefore 
beg  pardon  for  my  scrawling  hand  and  tediousness,  and 
subscribe  myself,  &c. 

Postscript. — I  began  this  letter  when  it  is  dated  as  above, 
but  ended  it  not  till  this  1 7th,  before  which  I  had  the  enclosed 
sent  open  to  me  with  desire  to  endorse  and  seal  it  before  I 
sent  it,  but  not  being  able  to  do  the  latter  without  obscuring 
some  of  the  writing  I  send  it  under  the  seal  of  this  which 
encloses  it,  which  I  pray  your  Lordship  to  excuse. 

Ormonde  to  Lieut. -General  Thomas  Erle. 
1704,  June  17.— /See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  771. 

Earl  of  Cromartie  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  17.  Hatfield. — Expressing  regret  that  his  Grace 
had  escaped  his  several  attempts  to  wait  upon  him.     Abstract. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  17.  Kingsweston. — Sir  Thomas  Southwell  has 
sent  the  writer  a  copy  of  the  report  upon  his  Grace's  petition, 
which  states  the  matter  very  well  for  his  Grace's  advantage. 
"  Poor  Sir  Thomas's  shins  are  very  sore  when  they  are  rubbed 
up  with  that  old  story  of  the  rapparees  and  it's  a  rare  spur 
to  his  diligence."  Captain  Burgh,  the  Accountant-General,  has 
set  the  account  of  his  Grace's  prisage  right.  The  writer  refers  to 
the  transports  from  Whitehaven,  and  encloses  a  letter  from  Sir 
Hans  Hamilton,  which  contains  a  very  barbarous  story,  and 
if  true  will  no  doubt  meet  with  no  favour  from  his  Grace. 
He  refers  to  a  request  from  Captain  Shadwell  for  setting  up 
an  office  of  assurance  in  Dublin  to  voluntary  subscribers, 
and  petitions  of  Mr.  Haughton  and  Sir  Thomas  Smith. 
He  has  read  the  affidavit  against  his  Grace's  one-armed 
follower,  Tyrrell ;  if  it  be  true,  it  will  make  a  noise  his  having 
been  a  rapparee.  "  I  must  own  his  bushy  head  of  hair  and 
countenance  do  a  little  confirm  the  same,  yet  if  the  fellow 
lost  his  arm  in  our  artillery  service,  it  would  be  hard  after 
such  a  proof  not  to  forget  past  omissions."     Abstract. 

Lords  Justices  of  Ireland  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  17.  Dublin  Castle. — Enclosing  a  list  of  the  ships 
hired  to  carry  the  troops  to  Portugal,  in  order  that  protections 
may  be  got  for  the  sailors  on  board,  and  concerning  clothing, 
provisions,  &c.,  for  the  soldiers  to  be  sent  on  that  expedition. 
It  will  be  necessary  to  provide  a  timely  supply  of  money  for 
Mr.  Tucker  so  that  the  work  may  not  suffer  any  obstruction. 
There  will  be  no  need  to  employ  Alderman  Hoare  in  that  service. 
Part  of  the  detachment  will  be  embarked  at  Kinsale,  and  no 
soldiers  ^iU  be  taken  from  the  grenadiers,  in  accordance  with 


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his  Grace's  commands.  The  petition  of  the  clergy  will  be 
inquired  into.  The  accounts  of  the  transport  ships  returned 
from  Portugal  have  already  been  sent  to  Mr.  Southwell.  They 
refer  to  the  absence  of  Major  Flower,  Lieutenant  La  Porte, 
Captain  Hargrave,  and  Lieutenant  Harrison.  A  report  from 
the  Muster-Master-General  as  to  the  muster  rolls  of  the  three 
West  India  regiments  will  be  sent  over  with  all  speed.  With 
regard  to  the  petition  of  the  French  officers,  it  appears  that 
the  regiments  to  which  they  belonged  were  not  upon  the 
establishment  of  Ireland  ;  what  relief  they  expect  must  be 
given  them  in  England.  The  only  information  obtainable 
about  Lewis  Gordon  is  that  he  came  from  Scotland  with  his 
wife  and  family,  stayed  a  short  time  here,  went  thither  again 
leaving  his  wife  behind,  returned  again,  and  after  a  while 
went  to  England  about  a  year  ago,  since  when  he  has  not  been 
in  Ireland.  They  refer  to  lighthouses  at  Dublin,  Kinsale, 
Waterford  and  Belfast.  The  second  lighthouse  voted  by  the 
Parliament  to  be  upon  the  Hill  of  Howth  will  not  be  very 
useful  unless  the  two  other  light  houses  mentioned  in  Captain 
Burgh's  report  be  also  erected.     Abstract. 

Colonel  Thomas  Handasyde  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  19.  Jamaica. — ^Acknowledging  his  Grace's  re- 
commendation of  Mr.  Alexander  Cosby,  who  he  assures  his 
Grace  will  make  a  pretty  officer.  The  writer  served  under 
Lord  Ossory,  his  Grace's  father,  in  the  Prince  of  Orange's 
service,  and  since  under  his  Grace  himself.     Abstract. 

L.  Delafaye  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  June  21.  (Received.) — Begging  his  Grace  to  give  the 
next  company  falling  vacant  to  the  writer's  son,  who  has 
married  a  young  lady  at  Kilkenny.  Her  family  is  known  to 
his  Grace.  The  writer  has  supplied  his  Grace  with  foreign 
news  for  twelve  years  without  any  reward.  {French.) 
Abstract. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  June  24.  Eangsweston. — Concerning  Mr.  Tucker's  bill 
for  3,600Z.  to  carry  on  the  transport  service,  and  details  about 
the  appointment  of  the  Dragoon  officers.  Captain  Sanders 
is  reported  dangerously  ill.  He  recommends  in  case  he  should 
die,  Covin  Maine,  "who  has  been  long  biting  his  thumbs." 
He  explains,  with  regard  to  Lord  Walden's  anger,  the  orders 
sent  for  carrying  some  persons  of  quality  from  Chester  on 
board  the  Seaford.  He  is  glad  to  hear  of  a  cash  of  23,000/.  at 
Dublin,  which  will  set  all  the  new  levies  on  float.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  June  25.     Dublin.— Concerning  a  little  ruffle  between 
nine  or  ten  soldiers  and  some  of  the  militia  in  which  the  former 


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were  to  blame.  It  is  remarked  by  several  that  there  is  not 
a  sufficient  number  of  officers  with  their  soldiers.  The 
Treasury  is  in  good  condition,  so  that  the  demands  of  the 
army  may  easily  be  met.     Abstract. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  26.  Kingsweston. — If  new  levies  prove 
necessary  he  hopes  his  Grace  will  think  of  Colonel  Price,  in 
which  request  Lady  Betty  joins.  To  oblige  and  quiet  Lady 
Orrery  it  would  be  well  also  to  provide  for  Roger  Boyle. 
He  refers  to  the  report  of  the  houses  and  Mr.  Tucker's 
accounts.     Abstract. 

Lords  Justices  of  Ireland  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  26.  Dublin  Castle. — Concerning  the  arrange- 
ments for  transporting  to  Portugal  the  detachment  which 
is  to  be  composed  of  fifteen  hundred  effective  men.  If  a  proper 
licence  be  forthcoming  from  England,  the  clothing  of  Colonel 
Brudenal's  regiment  may  be  shipped  from  hence  ;  otherwise 
the  officers  of  the  revenue  here  will  not  allow  it  to  be  put  on 
board.  Placing  soldiers  at  Berehaven  is  not  now  necessary, 
seeing  the  Bridgewater  is  returned  to  the  Irish  coast.  The 
Lords  Justices  hope  that  by  the  time  Brigadier  Tidcombe  is  at 
Chester,  the  Seaford  may  be  returned  with  a  fleet  of  colliers 
from  Whitehaven,  and  then  be  at  liberty  to  go  for  the  Brigadier. 
As  the  revenue  has  risen  pretty  well,  the  Lords  Justices  have 
returned  to  give  the  army  three  months  clearing,  that  is,  two 
regiments  of  horse,  two  of  dragoons,  and  six  regiments  of 
foot ;  those  which  came  lately  from  the  West  Indies,  and  the 
new  raised  regiments  not  being  of  that  number.  The  clothing 
of  Lord  Mount]  oy's  regiment  was  sent  off  at  the  same  time  with 
the  regiment.     Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  26. — I  have  had  the  honour  of  your  Grace's 
and  return  my  most  humble  acknowledgments  for  the  promise 
you  are  pleased  to  make  me  of  recommending  the  gentlemen, 
in  whose  behalf  I  presumed  to  write,  the  next  year.  That 
what  your  Grace  is  pleased  to  say  against  the  dissolution  of 
the  present  Parliament  here  has  great  weight  in  it,  but  the 
success  of  the  next  sessions  there  will  be  a  matter  of  that 
consequence  to  your  Grace  that  I  would  most  humbly  beseech 
you  before  you  return  to  lay  before  the  ministry  here  the 
arguments  of  both  sides,  and  take  her  Majesty's  orders  in  that 
particular,  which  I  am  sure  will  be  very  safe  for  your  Grace. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  27.  Dublin. — Setting  out  the  orders  he  has 
given  with  regard  to  the  expedition  to  be  sent  to  Portugal. 
All  hands'  are  to  be  set  at  work  shipping  provisions,  and  the 


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ships  now  ready  are  to  sail  to  Cork  and  Kinsale  to  be  ready 
there  to  attend  his  Grace's  orders.  He  prays  that  Mr.  Tucker's 
bills  may  be  punctually  answered.  He  drew  for  3,600Z.,  they 
paid  3,000Z.,  and  the  bill  for  600Z.  had  been  protested,  if  it 
were  not  for  a  friend.  Unless  his  Grace  be  pleased  to  provide 
for  Sir  W.  Mansel  in  the  two  regiments  to  be  raised  his 
poor  daughter  is  like  to  remain  a  married  widow  as  long  as  she 
lives.     Abstract. 

William  Moreton,  Bishop  of  Kildare,  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  27.  Dublin. — ^Whilst  I  was  last  week  in  the 
visitation  of  my  diocese,  I  received  the  honour  of  your  Grace's 
letter  of  the  1st  instant,  for  which  I  return  your  Grace  my 
most  humble  thanks,  for  it  was  no  less  a  comfort  than  an 
honour  to  me,  it  being  the  only  support  I  have  had,  besides 
the  righteousness  of  my  cause,  in  the  perplexities  I  have 
laboured  under  during  this  present  unhappy  controversy. 

There  is  nobody  that  I  know  of  that  has  yet  got  anji^hing 
by  this  contest,  except  it  be  your  Grace's  chaplain,  Mr.  Colsby, 
who  has  for  a  considerable  time  served  your  Grace  under  that 
title,  and  upon  whom,  for  that  reason,  the  Dean  and  Chapter 
of  Christ  Church  have  bestowed  a  pretty  good  living  of  theirs 
in  this  town,  which  Dr.  Burridge  has  forfeited  by  neglecting 
to  read  his  assent  and  consent  for  at  least  two  years,  though 
he  was  obliged  by  the  act  of  uniformity  to  read  it  within 
two  months  under  the  penalty  of  losing  it. 

This  will  in  all  likelihood  come  to  be  argued  by  the  two 
litigants  before  the  common  law  judges,  and  if  it  appears 
then  that  by  lapse  it  comes  within  your  Grace's  disposal, 
we  shall  submit  it  to  your  Grace,  and  at  the  same  time  beg 
it  for  this  chaplain  of  your  Grace's,  upon  whom  we  have 
already  bestowed  it. 

I  must  farther  beg  leave  to  inform  your  Grace  that  there 
have  been  several  attempts  of  late  made  towards  a  settled  peace 
by  referring  the  main  controversy  to  the  determination  of  two 
English  bishops  ;  but  the  preliminaries  are  not  yet  agreed 
on,  and  truly  the  Archbishop's  behaviour  has  been  such,  even 
under  these  hopes,  by  his  continuing  these  acts  of  jurisdiction 
over  us,  which  we  were  never  acquainted  with  before,  and 
pursuing  them  also  to  such  a  degree,  that  we  are  all  of  us 
afraid  he  only  speaks  of  peace  that  he  may  make  himself  more 
ready  for  battle. 

Insomuch  that  if  this  compromise  does  not  go  on,  which 
we  very  much  suspect,  we  must  further  crave  leave  to  lay 
before  your  Grace  the  state  of  our  case,  and  by  your  Grace's 
favour  and  assistance  also  before  her  Majesty,  that  her 
Majesty  may  know  how  much  her  privileges  are  now  invaded  ; 
for  it  is  to  her  Majesty  and  her  predecessors  our  constant 
patrons  that  we  owe  all  we  have  or  do  pretend  to,  who  have  for 
many  ages  endowed,  supported,  repaired,  protected,  governed 
and  enfranchised  this  ancient  church   as  being  their  royal 


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church  for  the  resort  of    the  State  to  the  performances  of 
divine  service. 

Thus  I  presume  to  put  myself  and  all  my  concerns,  and 
particularly  this,  under  your  Grace's  feet,  and  do  beg,  &c.  - 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  28.  Kingsweston. — Asking  for  his  Grace's 
speedy  directions  concerning  Colonel  Hussy,  who  travelled 
over  upon  a  public  occasion.  His  services,  however,  were 
not  required,  and  he  is  willing  to  return  home  and  take  the  best 
care  he  can  of  his  western  parts,  which  need  a  watchful  eye, 
and  will  do  so  much  more,  unless  affairs  have  a  better  turn 
in  Portugal.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  29.  Dublin. — Relating  to  measures  to  be  taken 
for  conveying  two  regiments  to  Portugal.  Mr.  Tucker  is 
preparing  the  necessary  ships.  Captain  Sanders  ordered 
to  send  the  Seaforth  to  Whitehaven  to  convoy  the  fleet  there 
hither  with  all  expedition.  The  transport  office  to  be  urged 
to  provide  the  money  required  for  the  purpose.  He  promises 
to  take  care  of  Mr.  Shadwell's  reference.  Lady  Orrery  is 
very  much  interested  in  Mr.  Roger  Boyle's  affair,  which  is 
commended  to  his  Grace.  Sir  W.  Mansel's  appointment  as 
officer  is  urged.  Brigadier  Fairfax,  governor  of  Limerick, 
seeks  to  be  made  a  Privy  Councillor.  Mr.  Dunkin  is  surprised 
that  the  order  for  his  being  made  a  Queen's  Counsel  (to  which 
Lord  Granville  recommended  him)  has  not  yet  come.    Abstract. 

Lords  Justices  of  Ireland  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  29.  Dublin  Castle. — ^Detaihng  the  preparations 
being  made  to  transport  two  regiments  of  foot  (besides  the 
fifteen  hundred  men  already  ordered)  to  Portugal.  The  Earl 
of  Donegal's  and  Colonel  Caulfield's  regiments  are  designed 
for  that  service.  Mr.  Tucker  is  engaged  in  providing  the  ships, 
provisions,  &c.,  necessary.  The  coal  fleet  at  Whitehaven  is 
to  be  convoyed  to  Dublin.  They  complain  that  the  necessary 
credit  for  Mr.  Tucker  has  not  arrived.  The  changes  con- 
sequent on  the  sending  away  of  the  two  regiments  should  be 
reimbursed  by  England.  Lewis  Gordon  will  be  enquired  after. 
Payments  to  French  pensioners  are  settled.  Mr.  Cromelin  is 
placed  on  the  establishment.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Inchiquin  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  June  30.  Rostellan. — Mr.  Mills  (lieutenant  to  Captain 
Godart  in  my  regiment)  desires  to  resign  his  post  to  Mr.  Sextus 
Spencer,  who  is  now  in  Yorkshire.  The  latter  will  be  able 
to  bring  us  some  good  men  from  thence,  which  will  be  of 
service,  for  they  are  very  hard  to  get  in  this  country.  He  in- 
tends to  go  to  the  camp  to  wait  on  Lieutenant-General  Erie  and 


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afterwards  to  Limerick,  where  his  men  are.  The  partisans 
of  the  Brodricks  are  verj  much  elevated  at  the  favour  shown 
by  the  Queen  to  the  Speaker.  Betty  Maynard  presents  her 
respects.     Abstract. 

Eabl  of  Mount- Alexander  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  1.  Dublin. — I  had  the  honour  to  receive  your 
Grace's  of  the  10th  of  last  month  when  I  was  in  the  North, 
and  that  of  the  24th  since  I  came  hither,  which  I  did  not  do 
till  late  on  Thursday  night ;  for  I  found  it  necessary  to  stay 
some  days  longer  than  I  intended  when  I  wrote  to  your  Grace, 
to  discourse  with  one  of  the  Presb3i:erian  ministers,  and  I 
have  reason  to  hope  it  may  have  a  good  effect  both  in  relation 
to  the  Queen  and  your  Grace's  government.  I  find  they  are 
very  desirous  to  be  well  with  me  ;  but  I  will  do  as  I  always 
did,  and  make  very  few  steps  towards  them  ;  but  such  as  I  am 
directed  by  your  Grace.  It  is  necessary  I  should  give  your 
Grace  this  caution,  that  if  any  addresses  be  made  to  you 
relating  to  them,  or  their  pension,  you  will  please  to  defer 
giving  an  answer  till  you  come  to  Ireland  ;  they  are  very 
capable  of  being  misled,  and  there  are  some  among  them 
ready  to  do  it,  and  hence  at  their  late  Synod  endeavoured 
to  create  an  ill  opinion  of  Captain  Campbell  upon  his  having 
done  as  I  formerly  advised  your  Grace  he  had,  but  I  believe 
these  gentlemen  will  not  be  successful,  yet  it  was  unlucky 
that  he  could  not  be  at  their  Synod.  I  will  immediately  go 
about  mounting  the  guns  as  far  as  the  money  designed  for  that 
purpose  will  go,  and  it  shall  be  as  weU  husbanded  as  I  can. 

Colonel  Wentworth  Harman  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  1.  Dublin. — He  has  had  numerous  requests  to 
take  men  into  the  battle-axes,  none  of  them  being  under  six 
feet  high.  Some  friends  of  their  House  of  Commons  have 
spoken  to  him  on  the  matter.  He  has  informed  aU  applicants 
that  he  will  submit  their  names  to  his  Grace.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Feversham  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  July  2. — Soliciting  on  behalf  of  Madam  Molenead,  niece 
to  the  late  M.  Gueraud  (one  of  the  best  officers  the  late  King 
had  in  Piedmont)  that  she  may  be  placed  among  the  number 
of  his  Grace's  pensioners.     Abstract. 

Lords  Justices  of  Ireland  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  July  4.  Dublin  Castle. — Captain  Saunders  in  the 
Seaford  sailed  on  Saturday  last  to  Whitehaven  for  the  coal 
fleet.  Mr.  Tucker  is  busily  preparing  all  necessaries  for  the 
transport  service,  but  is  hampered  because  the  credit  has  not 
come.  His  Grace's  pleasure  desired  as  to  allowing  tents  out 
of  the  stores  here  to  the  two  regiments  going  to  Portugal. 


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The    transports    for    the    detachments    are    ready    and    the 
Bridgewater  waits  here  to  convoy  them  to  Cork.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Duke  of  Marlborough. 
1704,  July  4.— /See  Report,  VII,  App.,  'p.   772. 

Captain  John  Pratt  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  July  4.  Dublin. — Enclosing  abstract  of  revenue  to 
24th  June.  On  account  of  payment  of  a  quarter  to  the  civil 
list  and  general  officers,  and  to  the  management  of  the 
revenue,  besides  levy  money  and  clearings  to  the  regiments 
bound  for  Portugal,  the  Lords  Justices  have  postponed  the 
three  months'  clearings  they  intended  to  pay  the  army.  Abstract. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  July  5.  Kingsweston. — ^According  to  a  letter  received 
from  Mr.  Dawson  the  preparations  for  sending  the  two 
regiments  to  Portugal  cannot  be  done  in  less  than  three  weeks. 
The  Seaford  arrived  in  Dublin  and  should  go  to  Whitehaven 
for  more  ships.  There  is  a  rumour  of  great  success  in  Germany 
and  at  sea,  and  of  Sir  George  Rooke's  being  killed.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Levinge  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  6.  Dublin. — The  very  great  honour  your  Grace 
has  done  me  by  your  letters  would  oblige  me  to  write  often, 
if  I  did  not  fear  to  give  your  Grace  too  much  trouble.  This 
thought  weighs  so  much  with  me  that  I  do  not  think  I  show 
respect  enough  if  I  should  write  unless  I  have  something  of 
moment  for  your  Grace's  service  to  propound  to  your  con- 
sideration. At  this  time  it  seems  to  me  that  if  your  Grace 
intends  this  Parliament  should  meet  there  should  be  some- 
thing thought  of  that  without  prejudice  to  the  Crown  would 
be  generally  grateful  to  this  people,  and  I  believe  nothing 
would  be  more  to  them  a  bill  for  a  registry.  If  your  Grace 
would  be  pleased  to  consider  of  this  while  you  stay  in  England 
and  treat  of  it  with  fit  persons  there  and  know  their  sentiments 
of  it  and  their  objections  against  it,  I  am  perfectly  of  opinion 
that  we  on  this  side  could  fully  convince  them  there  that  it 
would  be  no  prejudice  to  them,  and  that  it  would  be  the 
cheapest  and  easiest  way  to  oblige  the  people  here,  and  it  would 
go  down  better  in  England  now  than  heretofore,  because  they 
have  by  the  several  acts  relating  to  the  forfeitures  prepared  the 
way  for  it  as  to  a  great  many  of  the  estates  here. 

I  know  not  whether  any  one  has  informed  your  Grace  of  the 
behaviour  of  our  Speaker  since  he  came  over,  which,  without 
sajdng  more,  is  with  as  great,  or  greater,  mettle  and  assurance 
than  at  any  time  heretofore,  and  his  friends  give  out  that  he 
is  on  some  better  terms  with  your  Grace  than  formerly,  which 
your  Grace's  friends  here  do  not  believe,  because  they  hope 
if  any  such  thing  happen  your  Grace  will  be  pleased  to  give 
us  some  hint  of  it  that  our  behaviour  to  him  may  not  run 
counter  to  your  Grace's  inclinations  for  want  of  a  due  know- 
ledge of  them. 


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There  is  no  need  of  telling  your  Grace  how  melancholy 
this  country  has  been  since  your  Grace's  departure.  Your 
presence  will  give  new  life  to  it  and  a  gaiety  to  all  your 
faithful  servants  among  whom  none  has  a  greater  sense  of 
gratitude,  nor  more  zeal  to  express  his  devotion,  than  him  that 
is,  &c. 

Ormonde  to  Lieut. -General  Thomas  Erle. 
1704,  July  Q.—See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  772. 

Brigadier-General  Gustavus  Hamilton  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  8.  At  the  Camp  near  Bennetts'  Bridge. — 
Relating  to  his  advancement  in  the  army.  In  May,  1689, 
King  William  gave  him  the  regiment  vacant  by  the  death  of 
Sir  Robert  Peiton.  In  July,  1691,  he  stormed  Athlone  at  the 
head  of  the  English  grenadiers,  for  which  service  he  obtained 
the  governorship  of  the  place  with  the  pay  of  1 55.  a  day.  This 
was  struck  off  the  establishment  about  four  years  ago  to  make 
room  for  pensioners.  He  attended  his  Grace  to  Spain  as 
brigadier.  He  requests  that  he  may  be  made  major-general 
and  put  on  an  equal  footing  with  several  of  his  juniors  who 
have  attained  that  rank  already.     Abstract. 

Lords  Justices  of  Ireland  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  8.  Dublin  Castle. — Attention  will  be  given  to 
the  discovering  by  William  Sullivame  and  Thomas  Joyce  of 
wool  to  be  sent  from  Ireland  to  France.  They  have  no  confi- 
dence in  Mr.  Knox  as  to  obtaining  intelligence  from  the  southern 
ports  of  France.  The  Bishop  of  Kildare  has  dropped  the 
process  against  one  of  the  Presbyterian  ministers.  The  pre- 
tentions of  the  general  officers  shall  be  sent  to  his  Grace 
when  they  receive  them  from  Lieut. -General  Erie.  Mr.  Tucker 
complains  that  the  bill  which  he  drew  for  the  transport  service 
on  Mr.  Fox  is  not  yet  accepted.  It  is  imperative  that  this 
matter  should  be  remedied.     Abstract. 

Captain  John  Pratt  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  July  8.     Dublin. — Enclosing  abstract  of  receipts  and 
payments  for  week  ending   3rd  inst.      The  payment  of  the 
quarter's  salary  to  the  officers  of  the  revenue  has  consider- 
ably reduced  the  Commissioners'  balance.     Abstract. 

Sir  R.  Vernon  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  July  8.  From  the  Camp  at  the  Grove,  near  Kil- 
kenny.— Stating  how  pleased  the  Lieutenant-General  was  with 
the  appearance  of  the  troop  in  his  Grace's  regiment  commanded 
by  the  writer  ;  hopes  whenever  he  has  the  honour  to  appear 
before  his  Grace  to  show  him  some  handsome  young  fellows ; 
as  well  on  horseback  and  with  as  good  an  air  in  their  exercise, 
as  shall  not  be  disagreeable  for  your  Grace  to  review.     Abstract. 


Thomas  Coote,  Justice  of  King's  Bench,  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  9  (received). — The  gentleman  his  Grace  in- 
tended to  provide  for  in  the  army  has  bought  a  company 
in  Mr.  Sallow's  regiment.  "  He  has  in  this  as  in  many  other 
things  disobliged  me  since  his  going  for  England,  therefore 
I  shall  not  further  trouble  your  Grace  in  his  favour."  The 
writer  expresses  his  obligations  for  the  favours  received  from 
his  Grace.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Lieut. -General  Thomas  Erle. 
1704,  July  11.— /See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  772. 

Lady  Elizabeth  Butler  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  July  11. — ^We  are  all  in  great  expectation  to  see  you 
soon  ;  we  think  the  time  very  tedious  till  you  come,  but  I 
often  hear  of  your  health,  which  is  a  great  satisfaction  to 
me.  My  sister  presents  her  humble  duty  to  you.  Mama 
went  the  7th  of  this  month  for  Kilkenny,  and  designs  to  stay 
there  a  fortnight.  I  hear  by  a  letter  I  had  from  Mrs.  Denty 
that  you  were  pleased  to  take  notice  of  her,  and  tell  her  you 
would  remember  her,  for  which  I  return  you  thanks.  I  hope 
I  shall  always  acknowledge  what  a  good  father  I  have,  and 
show  that  I  do  so  by  being  very  dutiful.  I  beg  the  favour 
of  you  to  give  my  duty  to  my  aunts,  and  accept  of  the 
same  yourself,  from  dear  Papa,  your  most  dutiful  daugh- 
ter, &c. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  July  11.  Dublin. — Mentioning  rejoicings  on  the 
glorious  news  in  his  Grace's  letter  of  the  4th.  His  Grace's 
schoolmaster  has  taken  his  doctor's  degree  in  Dublin  University, 
all  fees  being  remitted.  Petition  for  an  increase  in  the 
salary  of  the  Masters  in  Chancery  is  enclosed.  It  is  but  20Z. 
per  annum  and  with  perquisites  falls  short  of  SOL,  which  is 
too  small  for  persons  that  have  the  honour  to  sit  covered 
on  the  Chancery  Bench.  An  increase  to  501.  would  make 
it  more  in  accordance  with  the  dignity  of  their  station.  It 
is  requested  that  Mr.  Roger  Boyle  be  put  in  Lord  Orrery's 
regiment,  to  oblige  Lady  Orrery,  who  with  Lady  Mary  Dilkes, 
had  contributed  towards  raising  a  company  for  this  young 
gentleman.  His  Grace's  commands  about  Cunningham's  regi- 
ment shall  be  attended  to.  Sir  William  Mansel,  who  is 
the  greatest  incumbrance  the  writer  has  now  upon  him, 
wants  leave  to  sell.     Abstract. 

Lords  Justices  of  Ireland  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  July  11.  Dublin  Castle.— Mr.  Tucker's  bill  for  the 
transport  service  has  at  last  arrived.  The  Whitehaven  fleet 
not  yet  come  as  the  wind  has  been  out  of  the  way.  They 
give  particulars  about  the  shipping  of  the  troops,  and  ac- 
knowledge the  welcome  news  of  Marlborough's  success  against 
the  French  and  Bavarians.     Abstract. 


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Earl  op  Mount-Alexander  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  11.  Dublin. — Concerning  his  pretensions  in 
the  matter  of  promoting  officers.     Abstract. 

Monsieur  F.  Desibourg  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  12  (n.s.).  Estremoz,  Portugal. — He  has  learned 
that  the  captains  of  Schomberg's  regiment  of  dragoons  have 
tried  to  persuade  his  GracQ  that  the  money  advanced  to  him 
for  the  raising  of  that  corps  had  not  been  properly  expended, 
and  have  endeavoured  to  have  moneys  charged  on  his  pension. 
He  protests  that  he  has  benefited  nothing  personally  on  this 
account,  and  asks  to  have  his  pension  continued.  He  has  no 
other  post  than  that  of  adjutant-general  at  ten  shillings  a 
day,  which  post  is  not  permanent,  being  for  the  present 
expedition  only.  The  Duke  of  Schomberg  is  suffering  from 
the  general  sickness  of  the  country  and  also  from  the  gout. 
(French.)     Abstract. 

Lieut. -Colonel  William  Villiers  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  12.  "From  our  Camp  upon  the  Hove." — 
Concerning  the  condition  of  the  troops  which  are  on  the  eve 
of  breaking  up  camp  and  marching  to  quarters.     Abstract, 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  13.  Dublin. — Concerning  Sir  Wm.  Mansel's 
ambition  to  be  a  captain  in  horse  or  dragoons,  and  his  desire 
to  dispose  of  his  present  commission.  The  writer  goes  on  to 
say  :  "I  have  paid  500Z.  of  my  portion  and  would  gladly  pay 
the  rest  upon  performance  of  marriage  articles,  but  whatever 
Mr.  Speaker  says  of  the  misery  of  Ireland,  'tis  worse  in  Wales, 
at  least  I  can't  see  a  penny  thence  nor  settlement  there,  and 
so  my  daughter  is  a  wedded  widow,  unless  your  Grace  does 
more  for  her  than  the  parson,  and  by  your  goodness  to  Sir 
William  effectually  give  her  a  husband."     Abstract. 

Brigadier- General  Robert  Echlin  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  July   13.     Kilkenny. — Concerning  his  pretensions  to 
promotion.     At  the  death  of  the  late  King  he  was  the  eldest 
colonel  of    horse  or    dragoons  in    the  service.     He    asks   to 
have  Cornet  Shepard  restored  to  his  post.     Abstract. 

Earl  op  Mount-Alexander  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  14.  Dublin. — Recommending  the  enclosed 
memorial  of  a  convert  gentleman.  He  puts  his  Grace  in  mind 
of  poor  Cornet  Flaherty,  who  is  on  half -pay.  "  He  was  recom- 
mended to  you  by  the  whole  Council,  his  case  was  so 
deplorable,  and  lastly  by  the  Lords  Justices,  and  is  now  in 
gaol."  He  hopes  his  Grace  will  oppose  the  sending  of  more 
regiments  to  the  West  Indies,  of  which  there  is  a  rumour. 
Abstract. 

Wt.  43482.  O  7 


Colonel  Nicholas  Sankey  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  July  14.  Kilkenny. — He  writes  from  Kilkenny  on  the 
way  to  Kinsale.  He  has  as  yet  received  no  commission.  "  The 
Bishop  took  me  yesterday  to  see  the  pheasantry.  'Twas 
wonderful  pleasant  to  find  some  three  hundred  little  polts 
picking  the  ant  hills.  I  hope  your  Grace  will  have  the 
pleasure  of  that  pretty  prospect  before  they  become  flyans.  .  ." 
Abstract. 

Captain  Edward  Shadwell  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  14  (received). — Reciting  his  services  to  the 
Crown  and  to  the  Ormonde  family.  At  the  Revolution  he 
passed  into  the  late  Duke  of  Bolton's  regiment,  and  since  into 
the  Lord  Lucas's.  He  has  been  ten  years  a  captain,  and 
asks  for  a  company  in  the  regiment  of  guards  now  going  to  be 
raised.  His  father  brought  a  considerable  estate  to  nothing 
by  his  unshaken  loyalty.     Abstract. 

Primate  Marsh  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  15.  Rathbeal. — Lord  Ronsele,  for  whom  his 
Grace  had  procured  a  pension  of  lOOZ.  per  annum  for  life, 
is  just  dead,  leaving  his  daughter  Elizabeth  Adomes  Ronsele 
without  friends  or  money.  She  is  a  very  hopeful  young 
gentlewoman  versed  in  languages  and  learned,  and  is  likely 
to  be  reduced  to  great  want  and  misery,  unless  his  Grace 
interests  himself  on  her  behalf  to  procure  a  continuance  to  her 
of  her  father's  pension.     Abstract. 

Captain  John  Pratt  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  15.  Dublin. — Enclosing  abstract  of  receipts 
and  payments  for  the  previous  week,  and  an  account  of  the 
sum  due  by  England  in  respect  of  the  levy  money,  arms,  &c., 
of  the  Earl  of  Donegal's  regiment  of  dragoons  and  others. 
Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Lieut. -General  Thomas  Erle. 
1704,  July  15.—See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  772. 

Ormonde  to  William  Worth. 
1704,  July  15.--See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  772. 

Earl  op  Mount-Alexander  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  18.  Dublin.— The  Military  Contingencies  Fund 
is  so  much  overdrawn  that  the  362Z.  ordered  by  his  Grace 
for  mounting  the  guns  cannot  be  had  now.  Mr.  Miller  has 
had  no  money  sent  him  since  he  went  to  Scotland  in  January. 
He  asks  whether  Miller  is  to  be  supplied  out  of  the  secret 
service  money.     Abstract, 


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Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  July  18.  Dublin. — As  to  what  part  of  the  furniture 
in  Dublin  Castle  is  public  and  what  the  private  property  of 
his  Grace.  Lord  Donegal's  regiment  is  not  so  well  recovered 
from  its  American  expedition  as  to  be  fit  for  Portugal.  Un- 
satisfactory condition  of  affairs  with  regard  to  Mr.  Tucker's 
bills  for  transport  service  is  mentioned,  and  there  is  reference 
to  Conyngham's  and  Echlin's  regiments.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -Colonel  Francis  Edgeworth  to  Lieut.-General 
Thomas  Erle. 

1704,  July  18.  Waterford. — ^The  favour  conferred  on  the 
writer  by  Lieut.-General  Erie  in  being  godfather  to  his  son 
encourages   him, 

"  Like  beggars  that  still  haunt  the  door 
Where  they  received  a  charity  before," 
to  ask  to  be  allowed  to  raise  one  of  the  new  regiments  designed 
to  be  levied,  and   to  name  his   own  captains,  who  will  be 
young  gentlemen  having  three  or  four  hundred  a  year.  Abstract. 

Earl  of  Galway  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  July  19. — Conveying  compliments.    (French.)  Abstract. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  19.  MuUingar. — Being  appointed  one  of  the 
Judges  of  Assize  for  Connaught  he  will,  on  his  circuit,  do  his 
utmost  to  engage  the  people  there  to  his  Grace's  service  so 
that  the  same  opposition  may  not  be  shown  by  them  in  the 
next  meeting  of  Parliament  as  there  was  in  the  last.     Abstract, 

Brigadier- General  Robert  Echlin  to  Ormonde. 
1704,   July   20.     Kilkenny. — Concerning  the  movement  of 
a  troop  in  his  regiment,  and  recommendations  of  Lieutenants 
Casper  Wills  and  Luck  Davis,  and  of  Charles  Echlin  to  be 
cornet.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Lieut.-General  Thomas  Erle. 
1704,  July  20.— See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  772. 

Earl  of  Inchiquin  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  July  21.  Rostellan.— The  obliging  letter  and  the 
promise  of  his  Grace's  picture  have  made  the  writer's  mind 
easy,  as  he  had  very  much  feared  he  had  incurred  his  Grace's 
displeasure.  Lord  Ikerrin  has  got  an  order  for  raising  men 
in  England  and  the  writer  asks  for  a  similar  order  for  his  own 
regiment.  The  Duchess  of  Ormonde,  Lady  Buckley,  Mrs. 
Mary  Villiers,  Lady  Mary  Dilkes,  Mrs.  Jephson,  and  Lady 
Grandison  are  here  at  Rostellan.  "  Your  Grace  will,  I  hope, 
be  so  just  to  this  company  as  to  believe  your  health  is  devoutly 
drunk  by  them  without  compliment."    Abstract. 


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Sir  R.  Vernon  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  22.  Dublin. — He  has  returned  to  Dublin  from 
Clonmel  whither  he  had  marched  his  own  and  Sir  Francis 
Hamilton's  troops  into  quarters  from  the  camp.  He  refers  to 
the  appearance  of  his  Grace's  regiment  and  of  his  own  troop 
in  particular.  He  was  afraid  the  Lieutenant-General  would 
deal  more  severely  with  them.  "  I  had  incurred  his  Lady's 
displeasure  by  buying  the  lacing  of  my  furniture,  though  at 
a  cheaper  rate,  at  another  place  than  she  had  a  mind  I  should, 
which  I  unwarily  disobliged  her  in,  and  she  in  return 
industriously  spread  a  report  all  over  this  town  that  I  was 
married  to  Mrs.  South 's  daughter."  He  asks  for  leave  to  go 
to  Hodnet  to  look  after  his  own  affairs,  and  to  get  recruits. 
Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  22.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  transport  of  the 
troops.  The  hay  is  spun  so  dexterously  that  one  may  carry 
fifty  pounds  weight  under  one  arm.  He  hopes  the  beer  put  in  a 
month  ago  may  not  be  sour  by  now.  He  refers  to  the  meeting 
of  Parliament  and  Lord  Meath's  business.  The  foot  and 
dragoons  are  still  encamped,  waiting  until  the  ships  are  ready 
to  sail.  He  mentions  the  effect  of  his  Grace's  coming  over 
on  the  trade  and  company  of  the  city.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Lieut. -General  Thomas  Erle. 
1704,  July  22.— See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  772. 

Ormonde  to  Sir  Richard  Levinge. 
1704,  July  22.— /See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  773. 

Ormonde  to  Stephen  Ludlow. 
1704,  July  22,— See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  773. 

Miller  to  Duke  op  Ormonde. 


1704,  July  25. — ^This  day  has  been  wholly  spent  in  warm 
disputes  about  the  Act  of  Six  Months'  Subsidy,  which  was  once 
read  21st  day  and  has  met  with  great  opposition.  My  Lord 
Ross,  who  is  now  zealous  for  the  country  party,  as  they  call 
it,  gave  in  a  resolution  for  two  months'  subsidy  presently  and 
four  months'  subsidy  to  be  given  when  the  Queen  approves 
the  Act  of  Security.  The  Earl  of  Roxburgh  gave  in  a  resolution 
that  the  Act  of  Security  should  be  once  read,  and  lie  on  the 
board  with  Roxburgh's  resolution  until  the  Queen  shall  give 
her  instructions  about  the  matter  unto  my  Lord  Commissioner. 
This  resolution  [was]  carried  by  seventeen  or  eighteen  votes, 
and  the  Parliament  is  adjourned  to  Thursday  come  sevennight. 
My  Lord,  those  who  press  that  the  Security  Act  be  touched 
pass  from  that  part  of  it  which  relates  to  commerce  with 


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England,  and  insist  upon  the  limitations  of  government.  Mr. 
Johnston  had  a  speech  in  which  he  regretted  that  there  was 
such  a  change  upon  the  tempers  of  the  members  of  Parliament 
since  he  was  last  in  Scotland,  and  alleged  it  was  very  much 
to  be  imputed  to  a  foreign  influence.  Salton,  who  always 
distinguishes  himself  upon  such  occasions,  had  another  speech 
in  which  he  had  severe  reflections  upon  Mr.  Johnston,  as  one 
that  was  sent  express  to  manage  the  English  influence,  with 
many  expressions  I  cannot  trouble  your  Grace  with,  to  all 
which  he  answered  very  handsomely,  as  I  was  told  by  a  person 
who  heard  him  and  is  his  enemy. 

The  Earl  of  Roxburgh  had  a  discourse  with  which  Salton 
was  so  very  ill  pleased  that  he  in  answering  of  him  had  so  much 
heat  and  so  many  reflections  that  one  Sir  James  Hacket  did 
take  him  to  task  and  called  him  impertinent,  for  which  Salton 
called  Sir  James  a  rascal.  They  were  both  commanded 
silence  and  bound  upon  their  honour  to  make  no  resentment 
of  what  had  passed.  My  Lord,  every  one  asserted  that  my 
Lord  Chancellor  behaved  with  a  great  deal  of  temper.  Some 
are  of  opinion  that  the  Parliament  shall  not  meet  again, 
the  thirty -six  thousand  pounds  sterling,  which  is  six  months' 
subsidy,  being  all  the  matter  of  so  great  controversy,  and  all 
that  can  be  got  this  session  of  Parliament,  though  they  were 
unanimous,  but  this  would  be  of  dangerous  consequence. 
My  Lord,  because  it  is  like  your  Grace  may  be  inclined  to  see 
the  Act  for  Security,  I  have  sent  it  and  a  speech  relating  to 
the   subsidy. 

Ormonde  to  Lieut. -General  Thomas  Erle. 
1704,  July  26.— See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  773. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  July  27.  Dublin. — Asking  that  Sir  William  Mansel 
may  have  one  of  the  two  new  troops  to  be  raised  for  Echlin, 
and  if  Sir  William  will  not  come  over,  then  the  writer's  son 
may  have  one.  He  protests  his  unwillingness  to  unduly  impor- 
tune his  Grace,  and  acknowledges  his  obligations.  "  It  is  both 
your  noble  humour  and  your  true  interest  to  make  your 
dependents  as  considerable  as  you  can."     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Mount- Alexander  to  Ormonde. 
1704,   July   27.     Dublin. — Concerning  defects   in  some    of 
the  arms  lately  issued  from  the  stores.     Abstract. 

Marquess  of  Carmarthen  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  July  29.     Thorpe  Galvin.— Asking  that  Mr.  Richier's 
commission  should  be  restored  to  him.     Abstract. 

Viscount  Doneraile  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  July  30.     Exon.— -Asking  for  a  man-of-war  to  carry 
him  to  Cork.     Abstract. 


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Viscount  Tttnbridge  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  July  30,  n.s.  From  the  Camp  at  Friperg. — Concerning 
the  campaign  in  Germany.  Count  Tallant  has  passed  the 
Black  Forest  with  twenty-five  thousand  men  in  order  to 
join  the  Elector,  but  Prince  Eugene  follows  him  very  close 
Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Lieut. -General  Thomas  Erle. 
1704,  July  31.— See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  773. 

Ormonde  to  Dr.  Henry  Aldrich. 
1704,  July  n.—See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  773. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  1.  Dublin. — On  account  of  the  Assizes  the 
town  is  thin.  Very  little  doing  except  what  relates  to  their 
transport,  which  is  managed  as  if  the  fate  of  Europe  depended 
on  it.  Concerning  the  sending  of  forces  to  the  North. 
Reference  to  Presbyterian  pensions.  One  is  the  more  sure  of 
those  gentlemen  when  one  can  add  interest  to  duty.  The  Earl 
of  Mount-Alexander  at  first  startled  at  the  new  clause  about 
the  Ordnance,  till  told  it  was  made  not  so  much  for  his 
time  as  for  succession.  Col.  Legge  was  tapped  yesterday 
and  thirteen  quarts  of  water  drawn  from  him.  It  is  not 
believed  he  can  live,  though  he  was  hearty  after  the  operation. 
Longing  for  good  news  from  Bavaria  and  Hungary.      Abstract. 

Michael  Wadding  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  Aug.  1  (received). — Since  his  late  conversion  to 
the  Protestant  faith  has  been  a  great  sufferer,  and  accordingly 
looks  to  his  Grace  for  patronage.  The  Duchess  of  Ormonde, 
the  Duchess  of  Devonshire  and  Lady  Fretewell  can  vouch 
for  him.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Lieut. -General  Thomas  Erle. 
1704,  August  1. — See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  774. 

Sir  Richard  Levinge  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  Aug.  2.  Monelea. — I  had  the  honour  of  both  your 
Grace's  letters  this  day.  In  the  first  your  Grace  has  been 
pleased  to  express  your  goodness  in  condescending  to  satisfy 
your  friends  and  servants  of  the  state  of  matters  between 
your  Grace  and  Mr.  Brodrick,  which  confirms  us  in  the 
certainty  we  had  of  your  Grace's  constancy  and  of  that 
gentleman's  vanity  and  boldness.  In  the  last  your  Grace 
gives  me  a  further  instance  of  that  favour.  I  have  already 
received  so  many  in  so  short  a  time  that  I  am  in  pain  how  to 
express  the  grateful  sense  I  have  of  them,  but  if  the  devoting 
myself  and  my  family  to  your  Grace's  service  and  interest 


103 

will  be  any  return  acceptable  to  your  Grace  I  have  already 
done  that  upon  the  justest  consideration  in  the  world.  I  am 
very  glad  to  find  that  your  Grace  will  have  an  opportunity 
to  do  the  country  so  signal  a  kindness  as  your  Grace  mentions  ; 
your  Grace  takes  the  right  way  to  silence  the  worst  of  your 
enemies  by  acts  of  goodness  and  generosity  of  which  even  they 
themselves  are  sensible  of  the  good  effect.  I  made  mention 
in  my  last  of  a  Register,  perhaps  it  may  not  be  agreeable 
there,  or  that  your  Grace  does  not  thiii  it  convenient ;  I 
submit,  and  at  the  same  time  am  assured,  that  if  the  Crown 
want  money,  as  I  believe  it  will,  such  an  Act  would  be  a  ready 
way  to  purchase  it.  I  thank  your  Grace  for  the  admonition 
you  gave  me  not  to  be  lazy  in  other  business.  I  do  assure 
your  Grace  that  I  will  use  all  diligence  in  whatever  concerns 
the  service,  and  though  I  am  now  in  the  country  yet  as  soon 
as  the  judges  return  I  will  go  back  to  Dublin  to  be  ready 
on  all  occasions  that  shall  happen  to  present  themselves,  and 
since  your  Grace  is  pleased  to  command  me  to  leave 
off  excuses  for  not  writing,  your  Grace  shall  never  more 
be  troubled  with  them.  I  beseech  your  Grace  to  accept  my 
most  hearty  desires  and  wishes  for  your  long  life  and 
happiness. 

Duke  of  Marlborough  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  August  3.— See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  TJ4:. 

Lieut. -Colonel  Humphrey  Gore  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  3.  Northampton. — Intends  to  send  a 
hundred  horses  to  Chester  to  embark  at  the  first  opportunity. 
"The  prices •  answer  the  scarcity  of  the  horses,  for  I  am  for 
it  to  buy  them  out  of  their  carts  in  the  fields  as  they  are  at 
work,  the  fairs  affording  so  few,  and  those  now  over."  Very 
difficult  to  get  in  men.  Has  given  orders  to  beat  up  at  War- 
wick, Birmingham,  Manchester  and  all  the  great  towns  round, 
with  very  poor  results.  Hopes  for  more  success  when  the 
harvest  is  over.     Abstract, 

Robert  Rochfort  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  Aug.  3.  Dublin. — Your  Grace  has  such  certain  and 
constant  accounts  from  many  better  hands  of  all  occurrences 
in  this  kingdom  that  there  is  no  room  for  any  from  me,  else 
you  had  therein  received  earlier  testimonies  of  the  duty  and 
respects  I  owe  and  shall  always  most  sincerely  and  heartily 
pay  your  Grace  at  all  times,  but  the  following  account  relating 
to  the  city  of  Londonderry,  where  I  am  Recorder,  I  thought 
proper  to  give  your  Grace. 

By  the  late  Act  passed  in  this  kingdom  to  prevent  the 
farther  growth  of  Popery,  all  persons  in  any  trust  or  employ- 
ment, civil  or    military,  under   her  Majesty,  or  any  of  her 


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predecessors  on  the  1st  of  Easter  term  last  were  thereby 
to  take  the  oaths  and  receive  the  sacrament  before  the  1st 
of  August  instant  or  lose  their  places. 

I  received  a  letter  from  the  Corporation  last  week  for  my 
advice,  in  which  they  tell  me  two  of  the  twelve  aldermen, 
which  is  the  number  of  the  aldermen,  and  twelve  of  the 
twenty-four  burgesses,  which  is  the  number  of  the  burgesses, 
wiU  not  qualify  themselves  by  receiving  the  sacrament  as  the 
Act  directs,  and  consequently  must  lay  down,  for  by  our 
charter  all  the  aldermen  and  all  the  burgesses  are  constituted 
the  common  council  of  the  city  and  to  have  the  government 
of  the  city  affairs,  which  is  a  place  of  trust  and  so  within  the 
Act.  I  gave  them  my  advice  that  such  who  would  not  qualify 
themselves  should  resign  and  choose  new  persons  in  their 
places,  which  I  hope  will  be  done,  though  there  are  endeavours 
to  persuade  them  to  be  obstinate,  as  the  only  means  and  best 
argument  in  another  sessions  to  have  the  sacramental  test 
repealed,  which  some  undertakers  have  flattered  them  wiU 
be  effected,  and  if  not  I  do  not  think  but  they  will  aU  come 
in  again  after  some  little  time. 

I  lay  hold  on  this  occasion  to  acquaint  your  Grace  that  I 
do  not  foresee  that  the  designs  of  any  turbulent  spirits  here  can 
ruffle  or  discompose  her  Majesty's  affairs  in  another  session 
of  the  present  Parliament,  whenever  your  Grace  shall  advise 
her  Majesty  to  have  them  sit,  and  in  my  poor  opinion  if  they 
did  sit  for  some  time  for  proposing  and  consulting  of  such 
laws  as  may  be  yet  wanting  for  our  security  and  defence  before 
the  necessities  of  the  government  require  a  supply,  it  would 
take  away  aU  the  popular  arguments  which  have  been  usually 
pressed  on  such  occasions  when  supplies  are  called  for.  The 
wolves  are  now  stripped  of  their  sheep's  clothing,  and  gentlemen 
are  so  much  changed  in  their  opinions  generally  that  they 
will  not  be  any  more  imposed  on  by  the  deceitful  glosses  of 
false  pretending  patriots. 

My  Lord,  I  presume  now  to  become  an  humble  suitor  to 
your  Grace  on  behalf  of  my  wife's  brother,  Mr.  Matthew 
Handcock,  and  one  of  your  Grace's  chaplains,  for  a  small 
living  called  Killary,  in  the  diocese  of  Meath,  vacant  by  the 
death  of  Doctor  Sterne,  who  died  last  night ;  it  is  about  30Z. 
a  year,  but  a  sinecure.  I  waited  on  my  Lord  Chancellor, 
who  was  pleased  to  say  he  would  name  him  to  your  Grace  ; 
he  was  recommended  to  your  Grace  by  Colonel  Stephen 
Stanley  ;  though  this  be  but  small,  yet  it  will  contribute  to 
the  support  of  a  numerous  family  that  is  but  slenderly  pro- 
vided for  otherwise.  When  I  introduced  him  to  your  Grace 
you  were  pleased  to  command  me  to  put  you  in  mind  of  him 
when  an3d:hing  fell. 

I  most  humbly  beg  your  Grace's  pardon  for  this  presumption 
and  that  you  will  please  to  accept  the  tender  of  my  duty, 
respects  and  services,  and  hearty  wishes  and  prayers  tor  your 
health  and  prosperity. 


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Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  5.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  difficulty  of 
providing  a  thousand  horses  and  shipping  them  to  Portugal. 
The  various  candidates  for  the  rectory  of  KJllary,  which  is 
vacant  by  the  death  of  Dr.  Sterne,  and  worth  40?.  per  annum, 
are  "  (1)  your  Grace's  chaplain,  Mr.  Hartlib,  (2)  my  chaplain, 
(3)  Archdeacon  Handcock,  and  (4)  Mr.  Grantham.  My 
humble  opinion  is,  as  Sir  Standish  Hartstonge  said  in  the 
Exchequer  when  his  son  and  others  were  offering  to  speak, 
that  you  should  christen  your  own  child  first,  and  let  your  own 
chaplain  have  this  sinecure."  He  mentions  also  the  claim 
of  Mr.  Whealy,  vicar  of  Killary,  to  the  rectory.     Abstract. 

William  Moreton,  Bishop  of  Kildare,  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  5.  Dublin. — Relative  to  the  dispute  between 
the  Archbishop  of  Dublin  and  the  writer,  who  is  threatened 
by  the  former  with  suspension  from  his  office  as  Dean,  and  with 
excommunication.  Hopes  his  Grace  will  further  his  petition 
to  her  Majesty.  Mr.  Clayton  and  Mr.  Justice  Upton  will 
present  his  case  to  his  Grace.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Suffolk  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  5.  Bath. — His  son  Charles  Howard  will  wait 
upon  his  Grace  with  a  request  as  to  the  command  of  a  regiment 
of  dragoons.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Mount-Alexander  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  5.  Dublin. — As  to  the  mounting  of  guns 
which  are  at  Limerick,  Sligo  and  Galway,  and  the  removal 
of  arms  and  ammunition  from  the  stores  at  Cork.  Sir  James 
Jefferys,  who  is  governor  there,  is  with  his  Grace.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Lieut. -General  Thomas  Erle. 
1704,  August  7.— /See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  774. 

Francis  Cornwall  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  7.  London. — By  the  late  Irish  Act  all  persons 
resident  in  this  kingdom  must  take  the  oaths  therein  mentioned 
or  forfeit  all  grants  in  Ireland.  There  was  no  authority  to 
administer  in  England  the  oath  prescribed  by  the  Act  of  the 
3rd  of  William.  The  said  late  Irish  Act  obliges  all  such  as 
have  any  grants  in  Ireland  to  take  that  oath  by  the  1st  of 
this  month.  This  applies  even  to  those  whose  business  detains 
them  here.  "  After  I  had  delivered  a  certificate  of  taking 
the  sacrament  and  had  the  other  oaths  administered  to  me, 
I  urged  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  to  permit  me  to  take  the 
said  oath  prescribed  in  the  3rd  of  King  William,  but  the  Court 
declared  they  had  no  authority  to  administer  it."  Hopes 
that  his  Grace  wiU  not  let  him  suffer  on  that  account.  Asks 
for  leave  of  absence  for  six  or  seven  years,  as  frequent  licences 


take  up  the  profits  of  his  patent,  "  which  never  yet  yielded 
me  ten  pounds  a  year  clear,  being  a  reversion."     Abstract. 

Jacques  Fotjllon  to  John  Hartstonge,  Bishop  of 
Ossory. 

1704,  August  8.  Dublin. — Requesting  the  Bishop  to  use 
his  influence  with  the  Duke  of  Ormonde  to  procure  the  writer 
a  pension.     {French.)     Abstract. 

Sir  R.  Vernon  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  8. — Regarding  his  request  for  leave  to  go  to 
England  on  private  business  and  also  to  get  some  men  for  the 
service.  Owing  to  his  having  received  no  answer  to  his  request 
is  apprehensive  lest  he  should  have  incurred  his  Grace's  dis- 
pleasure. Hopes  also  to  be  continued  in  the  post  of  aide-de- 
camp to  his  Grace.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  8.  Dublin. — I  have  the  honour  of  your  Grace's 
of  the  31st  July,  and  as  to  the  public,  humbly  refer  your  Grace 
to  our  joint  letter,  and  as  for  privilege  of  Parliament  it  is  under 
a  two-fold  consideration,  for  there  being  a  statute  relating 
to  it,  of  which  the  judges  are  interpreters,  we  have  resolved 
unanimously  that  the  word  "  finished  "  in  the  Act  extends  to 
prorogation,  because  it  finishes  that  session,  and  whenever 
privilege  is  pleaded,  so  that  it  comes  before  any  Court 
judicially,  the  judges  will  always  declare  the  law  to  be  so, 
as  their  predecessors  did  before  them.  But  as  to  agents, 
solicitors,  and  parties,  the  Lords  and  Commons  will  ever  be 
judges  of  their  own  privileges,  and  will  punish  those  who 
violate  them,  and  how  they  will  adjudge  this  matter,  time 
must  show  ;  in  the  meantime  poor  people  are  frightened  with 
the  terror  of  it,  so  that  though  the  judges  have  done  all  in  their 
power  to  remedy  this  great  mischief,  yet  one  cannot  say  but 
that  the  kingdom  suffers  much  upon  the  account  of  privilege, 
since  many  are  thereby  deterred  from  seeking  their  right  by 
process  of  law. 

It  is  now  time  to  know  your  Grace's  pleasure  about  a 
further  prorogation  from  3rd  October,  which  ought  to  be  by 
proclamation,  and  the  sooner  the  better,  to  prevent  disputes, 
which  else  will  happen  about  franking  post  letters,  which  they 
will  claim  from  25th  instant.  I  suppose  February  will  he  a 
proper  time  to  meet,  but  if  your  Grace  think  that  too  early, 
it  may  do  as  well  in  Easter  term,  the  intermediate  month  will 
oblige  the  judges  and  the  country  gentlemen  to  attend  the 
circuit,  summer  will  be  too  hot,  and  it  will  be  great  loss  if  the 
present  funds  expire  before  the  Parliament  sits,  so  that 
February  or  April  seem  the  fittest  seasons  for  the  session, 
which  is  nevertheless  submitted  to  your  Grace's  better 
judgment. 


107 

As  to  horses,  I  think  we  should  try  three  hundred,  and  in  the 
same  ships  which  may  return  in  October  and  will  save  above 
2,000Z.  As  to  the  rectory  of  Killary,  your  Grace  will  see  the 
Bishop's  recommendation  and  pretensions,  but  whether  you 
should  prefer  the  Bishop's  vicar,  or  your  own  household 
chaplain,  is,  I  think,  all  the  question.  I  am  sure  it  is  none 
that  I  am  ever,  my  most  noble  Lord,  &c. 

Primate  Marsh  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  August  9.  Dublin. — ^Thanking  his  Grace  for  securing 
half  her  father's  pension  to  be  settled  on  Mrs.  Ronsele,  and 
hoping  he  will  be  also  successful  in  recovering  the  remaining 
part  of  the  first  quarter's  rent  due  from  the  see  of  Armagh. 
Abstract. 

Dr.  Bernard  Gardiner  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  August  9.  All  Souls. — Assuring  his  Grace  of  his 
compliance  with  his  Grace's  recommendation  concerning  the 
gentleman  of  Brasenose,  who  is  to  appear  with  them  for  a 
fellowship  this  year.  Though  he  has  not  the  advantage  of 
his  predecessor  in  being  personally  known  to  his  Grace,  yet 
he  hopes  to  preserve  the  reputation  All  Souls  has  always  had 
of  being  desirous  to  show  respect  to  his  Grace's  person,  family 
and  character.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Lieut. -General  Thomas  Erle. 
1704,  August  10.  London. — I  received  your  letter,  and  shall 
be  very  ready  to  contribute  to  anything  that  may  be  for  your 
interest,  and  therefore  I  desire  you  wiU  take  care  to  settle  as 
soon  as  conveniently  you  can  the  quarters,  the  officers  for 
recruits,  and  whatever  else  is  necessary  to  be  done  in  the 
service,  and  that  you  may  be  sure  of  my  consent  to  come 
for  England.  I  have  officers  for  the  recruits  sent  over.  As 
to  the  levy  money,  I  will  take  care  to  have  it  ready  for  the 
officers  before  they  come  from  Ireland,  which  I  would  not  have 
them  do  until  the  forces  are  embarked.  As  to  Brigadier 
Conyngham's  pretension,  the  Lords  Justices  wiU  take  care  to 
do  him  right.  He  will  be  allowed  for  his  accoutrements,  and 
everything  else  that  is  justly  due  to  him  ;  but  he  must  consider 
he  has  troops  with  accoutrements  in  lieu  of  those  which  went 
off.  My  Lord  Donegal  was  with  me  this  morning,  and  says 
he  has  ordered  500?.  more  to  satisfy  the  men,  till  my  Lord 
Treasurer  pay  them.  According  to  your  desire  I  have  ordered 
a  commission  for  Mr.  Henry  Cottingham.  The  convoy  only 
stays  for  a  wind,  the  guards  are  already  embarked.  I  will 
hasten  all  I  can  Lord  H.  Scott  and  Lord  Ossory's  regiments 
over.     Copy. 

Brigadier-General  John  Tidcombe  to  Ormonde. 
1704,    August    12.     Camp. — Enclosing    the    present    state 
of    the    regiments,    of    which  some    particulars    are    given, 


k 


108 

and  concerning  a  plot  to  desert  and  seize  on  the  money  com- 
ing from  Galway  for  the  soldiers.  The  conspirators  are  being 
court-martialled.  Puts  his  Grace  in  mind  of  Col.  Nicholson 
and  Captain  Kendall  in  connection  with  the  two  new  regiments 
that  are  being  formed.  The  Bishop  of  Ossory  is  so  well 
recovered  that  he  is  able  to  drink  his  Grace's  health  in  pure 
wine  without  water.  The  writer  has  been  to  see  the  young 
pheasants  at  Dunmore.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -Colonel  Humphrey  Gobe  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  13.  Northampton. — Continues  the  account 
given  in  his  letter  of  ten  days  since  relative  to  the  sending  of 
horses  for  the  army.  It  is  more  difficult  to  obtain  men,  but 
hopes  now  that  the  harvest  is  near  at  an  end  to  be  more 
successful  before  long.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  15.  Dublin. — Details  the  result  of  his  inquiry 
into  Lord  Bellamont's  circumstances.  The  transports  will 
sail  on  the  22nd  at  farthest.  With  a  view  to  lessen  the 
frequency  of  desertions  suggests  two  details  of  improvement 
in  the  conditions  of  military  service  :  (1)  after  three  or  five  years 
services  soldiers  may  be  at  liberty  to  stay  or  go,  (2)  that  but 
one  penny  per  diem  be  deducted  for  clothing,  the  colonels 
to  be  otherwise  compensated  for  that  scandalous  perquisite. 
In  this  way  brave  mettled  fellows  would  be  induced  to  enter 
the  service,  whereas  now  the  officers  are  fain  to  buy  them, 
as  farmers  do  cows  and  horses,  and  therefore  like  those  beasts 
they  stray  to  their  former  pastures  on  the  first  opportunity. 
"  We  are  overjoyed  at  the  good  news  from  Germany,  and  want 
nothing  but  your  Grace's  presence  and  a  little  money  to  make 
us  entirely  happy."     Abstract. 

Lieut. -Colonel  William  Villiers  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  15. — Giving  an  account  of  the  state  of  his 
Grace's  regiment,  which  is  now  returned  to  quarters,  and 
bespeaking  his  Grace's  favours  for  the  writer's  advancement. 
Abstract. 

Thomas  Knox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  15. — As  to  measures  for  preventing  the  sending 
of  wool  and  provisions  from  the  south  coast  of  Ireland  into 
France.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  17.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  prorogation 
of  Parliament.  Toby  Purcell's  anger  on  account  of  post- 
ponement of  payment  of  his  salary.  Furnishing  of  horses  by 
Captain  MoUoy.  The  departure  of  the  transports  intended 
for  Portugal.     Abstract. 


109 


Ormonde  to 


1704,  August  19. — I  have  yours  of  the  8th  from  the  camp  and 
hope  that  there  is  an  end  to  the  little  war.  You  will  find  by  mine 
of  the  12th  that  the  convoy  was  sailed,  and  I  hope  that  these 
winds  will  have  brought  them  to  Cork.  As  to  what  you  mention 
concerning  the  West  Indies,  I  had  spoke  of  it  some  time  ago, 
and  am  promised  that  the  next  relief  is  to  go  from  England. 
The  regiments  that  are  now  there  cannot  stay  much  longer, 
they  having  the  Queen's  promise  inserted  in  the  Gazette 
that  no  troops  should  stay  there  above  three  years,  and  that 
term  is  now  out,  so  that  they  must  be  soon  relieved,  or  the 
Queen  break  her  word,  which  I  suppose  she  will  not.  I  hope 
the  desertion  will  be  at  an  end,  and  the  campaign  also.     Copy, 

Ormonde  to  Lieut. -General  Thomas  Erle. 
1704,  August  20.— /See  Report,  VII,  p.  774. 

Lieut.-General  William  Stewart  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  21.  Bristol. — Concerning  the  establishment 
of  the  new  regiment  of  Irish  guards.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Mount-Alexander  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  22.  Dublin. — ^As  to  the  misunderstanding 
relative  to  the  new  rules  framed  for  the  Ordnance  Office. 
Abstract. 

Viscount  Ikerrin  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  27.  Cork. — Thanks  his  Grace  for  the 
command  he  has  been  honoured  with  and  promises  to  raise 
such  a  regiment  as  his  Grace  may  never  have  reason  to  find 
fault  with.  Strict  review  of  his  men  made  by  Major-General 
Langston,  who  examined  every  man  both  as  to  his  religion  and 
country.  Rumours  as  to  changes  in  the  officers'  commands, 
mention  being  made  of  Col.  Caulfield  and  Major  Creighton. 
Abstract. 

Major-General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  28.  Dublin. — The  writer  has  reviewed  the 
men  commanded  by  Lords  Dungannon,  Ikerrin  and  Inchiquin. 
All  are  extremely  good,  especially  those  of  Lord  Ikerrin,  with 
whom  Major  Creighton  has  taken  great  pains.  The  detach- 
ments for  abroad  are  ready  to  embark  when  the  transports 
arrive.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  August  29.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  time  for  the 
next  session  of  Parliament  and  its  bearing  on  Lord  Meath's 
case.  Requesting  a  company  in  the  guards  when  raised 
for  Sir  William  Mansel,  or  else  for  the  writer's  own  son. 
Abstract. 


110 

Sir  Stafford  Fairbornb  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  29.  From  aboard  her  Majesty's  ship  Edgar 
at  Spithead. — When  a  favourable  easterly  wind  offers  the 
writer  is  to  proceed  to  Ireland  to  convoy  the  forces  part  of  the 
way  to  Portugal,  and  after  to  cruise  against  the  privateers. 
Prays  the  Duke  to  speak  a  good  word  for  him  to  the  Prince 
and  to  the  Lord  Treasurer  that  he  may  obtain  some  additional 
employment  either  as  Commissioner  of  the  Navy,  Admiralty, 
&c.,  or  else  a  pension  extraordinary.  Sir  George  Rooke, 
Sir  Cloudesley  Shovel,  Sir  David  Mitchell,  Mr.  Killygrew,  Sir 
Ralph  Delaval,  Hopson  and  many  others  have  been  so 
favoured.  It  is  rumoured  that  Sir  Thomas  Hopson  is  going  to 
quit  the  business  of  the  Navy  to  become  Governor  of  Green- 
wich Hospital ;  accordingly  if  the  writer  cannot  reach 
being  of  Council  to  the  Prince  he  may  have  that  of  the  Navy. 
Urges  the  special  claims  of  his  family,  grounded  on  various 
reasons.     Abstract. 

William  Moreton,  Bishop  of  Kildare,  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  August  29.  Dublin. — I  have  the  honour  of  your 
Grace's  of  the  22nd  instant  to  acknowledge  ;  and  there  is  so 
much  of  comfort  as  well  as  honour  in  it,  that  I  could  not  omit 
the  very  first  opportunity  of  owning  the  extraordinary 
satisfaction  I  have  by  it,  and  at  the  same  time  of  informing 
your  Grace  that  the  Archbishop  goes  on  in  great  fury  still, 
insomuch  that  if  I  had  not  kept  both  the  church  doors  and  the 
doors  of  the  precincts  locked  against  him  both  upon  Wednesday 
and  Saturday  last,  for  which  I  have  precedents  as  well 
as  the  reason  of  the  thing,  he  had  most  certainly  pro- 
nounced the  sentence  of  excommunication  against  me, 
and  that  for  no  other  crime  than  my  not  obejring  his 
arbitrary  commands,  which  were  utterly  inconsistent  with 
the  duty  I  owe  her  Majesty,  and  this  peculiar  free  church 
of  hers. 

And  if  these  proceedings  of  the  Archbishop  had  gone  on  to 
the  degree  he  would  have  had  them,  they  would  have  en- 
dangered the  dissolution  of  this  corporation  of  ours,  and 
inevitably  have  occasioned  a  schism  here. 

I  must  also  crave  leave  to  tell  your  Grace  that  the  only 
reason  why  we  made  the  prayer  of  our  petition  to  her  Majesty 
so  much  in  general  was  this,  that  we  thought  it  our  duty  to 
leave  it  to  your  Grace  and  to  her  Majesty's  Attorney  and 
Solicitor  General  to  particularize  our  request  by  prevailing 
with  her  Majesty  to  command  the  Archbishop  upon  his 
allegiance  to  stop  his  hands,  that  her  Majesty  may  have  time 
to  take  this  matter  into  her  own  cognisance,  and  to  determine 
it  at  her  best  leisure  and  by  what  method  she  thinks  fit,  as 
her  Majesty's  predecessors  have  done  upon  the  like  occasion 
with  their  donatives  and  cathedrals  royal,  as  this  most 
certainly  is. 


Ill 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  2.  Dublin. — ^The  fleet  sailed  on  Thursday 
last  for  Cork,  and  it  is  hoped  will  be  there  as  soon  as  the  convoy 
and  the  rest  of  the  ships  from  Portsmouth.  The  frigates 
have  orders  to  hasten  to  Hoylake  to  attend  his  Grace. 
Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  William  Stewart  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  2.  Bath. — Concerning  his  troubles  with 
the  convoy  and  with  his  report,  which  he  begs  his  Grace  to 
lay  before  the  Queen  and  the  Lord  Treasurer.  As  to  the 
establishment  of  the  royal  regiment  of  guards,  the  number 
of  men  and  companies,  the  appointment  of  officers,  &c. 
Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  4.  Dublin. — Concerning  fee  farm  grants 
to  certain  of  the  Duke's  tenantry.  Arrangements  to  be  made 
to  have  transports  at  Hoylake  to  attend  his  Grace  on  his 
crossing  to  Ireland,  and  in  connection  with  the  prorogation  of 
Parliament.  Rumour  of  four  French  men-of-war  off  Cape 
Clear.     Abstract. 

Colonel  Edward  Berkeley  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  4. — Concerning  the  affairs  of  the  Bath 
regiment,  and  of  Mr.  Andrews,  who  will  inform  his  Grace 
further  in  the  matter.     Abstract. 

Earl  op  Rochford  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  7.  Zulestein. — Concerning  his  obligations 
about  his  son.     Abstract. 

Countess  op  Granard  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  8. — Requesting  a  company  in  the  regiment 
of  guards  that  is  to  be  raised  for  Ireland  for  her  grandson. 
She  has  lost  a  husband,  four  sons  and  lately  a  grandson  by 
being  soldiers.     Abstract. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  9.  Dublin. — ^There  is  a  sensible  ap- 
pearance of  satisfaction  in  the  countenances  of  people  here 
since  the  agreeable  news  they  have  received  that  your  Grace 
is  determined  in  your  resolution  of  letting  us  have  the  honour 
to  see  you  soon  in  this  place.  Your  presence  in  the  kingdom 
does  now  become  almost  absolutely  necessary,  in  order  to 
dispose  matters  rightly  for  her  Majesty's  service,  and  the 
advantage  of  the  nation.  HI  men  are  at  work,  are  labouring 
and  trying  all  manner  of  ways  to  stir  up  mischief,  and  to  make 
the  weather  of  the  next  sessions,  let  it  happen  when  it  will, 
tempestuous,  when  it  does  happen,  and  happen  one  time  or 


112 

other  they  think  it  must.  But  upon  your  Grace's  appearing 
here,  all  those  black  clouds  will  be  easily  dispersed  and  the 
same  busy  men,  if  they  persist  in  the  same  way,  will  only 
show  again  their  malice  and  their  want  of  power. 

The  comfort  of  it  is,  though  they  are  violent,  your  Grace 
has  none  to  contest  with,  but  those  or  rather  the  broken 
remains  of  those  you  have  before,  when  in  their  full  force, 
defeated.  However,  perhaps  it  were  to  be  wished  they  might 
not  have  an  opportunity  of  going  on  farther,  and  that  they 
might  have  a  stop  put  to  the  progress  their  ill  impressions 
may  make,  which  will  end  with  your  Grace's  arrival,  or  else 
perhaps  they  may  run  a  head  too  much,  and  cost  your  Grace 
more  labour. 

I  beg  pardon  for  taking  this  liberty,  but  I  venture  upon  it, 
because  I  know  your  Grace  was  always  inclined  to  know  the 
very  worst  of  things,  and  I  would  not  wish  that  you  should 
meet  with  any  disappointment  in  finding  them  much  otherwise 
than  you  expected.  I  must  confess  I  writ  to  your  Grace 
long  ago  that  I  thought  it  not  possible  you  should  now 
meet  with  any  difficulties,  and  so  I  should  think  still,  if  reason 
or  honour,  or  their  interest,  had  the  least  influence  in 
governing  the  actions  of  some  people. 

There  are  some  who  came  lately  out  of  the  North  tell  me 
several  there  have  sworn  they  will  not  give  one  farthing  ;  they 
say  that  to  repeat  the  tax  of  double  excise  is  the  same  thing 
in  effect  as  to  make  it  hereditary,  and  if  that  be  intended, 
it  is  best  then  to  buy  with  it  from  the  Crown  the  hearth- 
money,  which  they  call  a  most  heavy  burthen  upon  the  subject. 
This  popular  wheedle,  they  think,  will  pass,  and  make  people 
stubborn  in  refusing  it  upon  any  other  terms,  and  knowing 
very  well  that  it  will  never  be  accepted  upon  those,  they  hope 
to  see  the  sessions  end  in  the  disappointment  they  aim  at. 
Besides,  too,  with  this  plausible  pretence  and  under  this 
canting  disguise  of  the  public  service,  they  hope  to  cover 
over  their  private  designs  of  acting  in  concert  with  Scotland, 
which  they  must  not  openly  avow,  though  most  heartily  do 
inwardly  espouse.  These  whom  I  am  speaking  of,  are  persons 
that  your  Grace  knows  and  understands  perfectly  well,  and 
have  not  for  this  considerable  time,  by  any  friends,  been 
mistaken  for  men  of  any  honesty,  but,  of  most  mighty  large 
professions  of  it  upon  all  occasions,  as  well  as  of  affection  and 
honour  to  those  they  are  at  the  same  time  undermining. 

The  Archbishop  of  Dublin  at  his  own  request  to  the 
Government,  preached  the  thanksgiving  sermon  in  Christ 
Church,  though  another  was  appointed,  and  was  prepared  to 
do  it;  and  until  that  very  morning  at  the  Castle,  and  upon 
his  request,  he  was  not  to  have  preached  there,  but  another 
whom  he  mightily  disappointed.  In  his  sermon  he  abounded 
with  great  praises  of  the  army  and  that  after  this  success  we 
ought  to  double  our  forces,  for  that  the  King  of  France  would 
certainly  next  year  make  his  utmost  effort,  that  he  looked 


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upon  the  victory  to  be  God  Almighty's  reward  to  the  Queen's 
piety,  in  short  he  said  all  things  that  a  man  could  wish  a  good 
bishop  to  say,  and  make  me  doubt  that  either  the  intelligence 
I  formerly  had  written  your  Grace  an  account  of,  was  mis- 
taken, or  else  that  some  people  have  one  body  of  divinity 
for  private  conversation,  and  another  for  public  preaching. 
•  My  Lord  Abercorn  is  lately  gone  into  the  North.  My  Lord 
Archbishop's  sermon  is  to  be  printed  by  him  and  if  he  stick 
by  it,  he  cannot  in  many  particulars  do  better,  at  least  I  hope 
that  other  people  will  think  it  but  reasonable  that  he  should* 
keep  up  to  it.  I  have  nothing  farther  to  add,  only  to  beg 
your  Grace's  pardon  for  this  trouble,  who  am  with  all 
imaginable  respect. 

Viscount  Grandison  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  10.  Dromana. — Asking  to  have  the 
government  of  co.  Waterf ord,  vacant  by  the  sudden  death 
of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone,  given  to  the  writer,  and  also  that  of  the 
city  of  Waterford,  as  the  two  always  go  together.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  12.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  prorogation 
of  Parliament,  the  money  for  clothing  the  battle-axes,  and 
the  transports  at  Milford.     Abstract. 

Duke  op  Marlborough  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  September  12.— -See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  11^. 

Edward  Smyth,  Bishop  of  Down  and  Connor,  to 
Ormonde. 

1704,  September  13. — See  Report,  XIV,  App.,  pt.  vii,  ^.61. 

William  Moreton,  Bishop  of  Ealdare,  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  14.  Dublin. — I  am  infinitely  obliged  to 
your  Grace  for  all  the  trouble  I  have  given  you,  but  I  may 
rather  say  the  Archbishop  has  given  you.  I  hope  your  Grace 
has  received,  or  will  suddenly  receive  three  of  my  cases,  and  I 
am  afraid  I  shall  have  occasion  for  many  more.  I  cannot 
yet  get  my  appeal  to  be  received  by  the  Archbishop,  no  nor 
my  Lord  Keeper's  fiat  neither  for  a  Commission  of  Delegates, 
which  I  received  this  day  and  sent  it  to  him,  my  Proctor 
refusing  to  serve  it  upon  him,  for  he  has  threatened  him  so 
far  that  he  dares  not  appear  for  me.  I  find  I  am  charged 
as  a  person  that  will  submit  to  no  reference.  I  can  assure 
your  Grace  that  I  did  propose  to  him  the  reference  which  is 
in  print,  and  as  for  other  references  I  every  day  see  that  they 
have  more  design  than  truth. 

Being  now  at  the  feet  of  her  Majesty  by  the  great  goodness 
of  your  Grace,  I  have  nothing  wanting  that  I  can  in  justice  hope 
for.     But  having  so  restless  an  adversary  there  is  nothing 

Wt).  43482.  0  8 


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that  I  may  not  fear,  since  law  and  justice  have  no  influence 
upon  him.  Your  Grace's  protection  is  both  my  safety  and  my 
honour,  to  whom  I  cannot  sufficiently  return  thanks,  being 
not  able  to  say  more  than  that  I  am,  &c. 

Sir  Charles  Fielding  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  16.  Dublin. — Requesting  the  appoint- 
ment of  Mr.  Ingram  to  be  Dean  of  Limerick.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Mount- Alexander  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  16.  Dublin. — Requesting  the  appoint- 
ment of  Dr.  Hinton  to  be  Dean  of  Limerick.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  16.  Dublin. — Concerning  Sir  William 
Robinson's  affair.  As  to  the  formalities  in  the  prorogation 
of  Parliament.  Mention  of  Dr.  Hinton  as  a  likely  successor 
to  Webb,  Dean  of  Limerick.  Recommending  Lord  Grandison's 
petition.     The  movements  of  the  transports.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Denbigh  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  17.  Warwick  Castle. — Recommending 
Mr.  Robert  Hatton,  second  son  of  Sir  John  Hatton,  bart., 
deceased.  He  rode  as  a  volunteer  in  the  writer's  regiment. 
Abstract. 

Brigadier-General  Cornelius  Wood  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  18,  (n.s.).  Weissenberg  Camp. — Concerning 
the  operations  on  the  Continent.  He  refers  to  the  battle 
of  Blenheim.  His  lieutenant-colonel,  Fetherston,  was 
killed  there.  Ulm  has  surrendered  and  the  trenches  before 
Landau  are  to  be  opened  that  night.  The  King  of  the  Romans 
is  expected  to  come  during  the  siege.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  19.  Dublin. — The  transports  are  safe 
at  Cork,  and  their  convoy  hastening  to  Hoylake.  Claims 
of  Dr.  Hinton  to  the  Deanery  of  Limerick.  Recommending 
Mr.  Baxter  to  the  Archdeaconry  of  Aghadoe.  The  pro- 
rogation of  Parliament,  and  his  Grace's  coming  to  Ireland. 
Abstract. 

Monsieur  Reboulet  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  19.  The  Hague. — As  English  troops  are 
to  be  sent  to  aid  the  Duke  of  Savoy,  the  writer  begs  his  Grace 
to  procure  for  him  the  appointment  of  commissary  and  pay- 
paaster  to  those  forces.     (French.)    Abstract, 


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Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  21.  Dublin. — "All  the  world  and  our 
secretary  being  at  the  Curragh,  I  must  acknowledge  the 
favour  of  your  Grace's  of  the  13th  ..."  Rejoicings  at  the 
success  of  the  fleet.  Encloses  a  letter  from  a  captain  of 
rapparees  to  Mr.  Southwell.  "If  we  can  get  rid  of  these 
troublesome  rogues  for  their  freight,  why  should  we  be  plagued 
with  them  ?  The  Council  of  Ireland  will  always  hesitate  upon 
this  subject  till  we  have  some  hint  from  England.  It  was  the 
rule  to  make  a  bridge  for  an  enemy  to  fly,  and  'tis  more 
reasonable  to  do  so  for  tories  that  can't  be  found."  Lieut.- 
Greneral  Erie  would  like  to  recommend  Mr.  Twigg  of  Palmerston 
to  the  Archdeaconry  of  Aghadoe.  The  security  of  the 
transports  in  Cork  harbour.     Abstract. 

Brigadier- General  Henry  Conyngham  to  Lieut. -General 

Thomas  Erle. 

1704,  September  22.  Cork. — Wishing  to  know  if  Major- 
General  O'Farrell,  who  is  to  go  to  Portugal,  has  a  commission 
from  the  Queen.  Unless  the  writer  is  satisfied  on  the  point 
he  cannot  acknowledge  O'Farrell  as  his  superior  officer. 
Wishing  to  have  his  Grace's  thoughts  on  the  matter,  which 
is  set  forth  at  length.     Abstract. 

Viscount  Tunbridge  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  22  (n.s.).  Zulestein. — The  writer  would 
be  glad  to  know  when  that  regiment  is  to  be  arrayed. 
He  will  take  good  care  of  his  Grace's  wine,  and  will  bring  over 
a  good  setting  dog.     Abstract. 

Colonel  John  Eyre  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  22.  Galway. — Writes  in  favour  of  his 
nephew  Coote,  one  of  his  Grace's  chaplains,  who  is  seeking 
the  Deanery  of  Limerick.  He  has  an  estate  worth  1,000Z. 
a  year  near  Limerick.  He  is  a  man  of  good  life  and  good 
family,  and  it  is  advantageous  to  the  Church  to  prefer 
gentlemen  in  it.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  23.  Dublin. — Concerning  Sir  William 
Robinson's  affair,  in  which  it  is  best  not  to  make  more  haste 
than  good  speed.  Death  of  Jack  Price,  constable  of  the 
Castle.  Lord  Abercorn's  and  the  two  Bishops'  cases  are  being 
dealt  with.  Movements  of  the  frigates  to  attend  his  Grace. 
No  letters  have  come  for  the  prorogation  of  Parliament. 
Abstract. 

Ebenezer  Wood  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  September  23.     Kilkenny. — Acknowledging  his  Grace's 
favours  to  his  son,  now  gone  to  Portugal,  and  asking  for  himself 


11« 

a  commission  as  captain  of  dragoons  in  the  regiment  whereof 
Lord  Ikerrin  is  to  be  colonel.  He  is  concerned  for  Lord 
Inchiquin  as  his  deputy-mayor.     Abstract. 

Marshall  to  Ormonde. 


1704,  September  23.  Dublin. — Asking  to  be  made  Con- 
stable of  Dublin  Castle.     Abstract. 

Captain  James  Butler  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  25.  Armagh. — Asking  for  a  company  in 
the  new  regiment  of  guards  and  a  lieutenancy  in  the  same 
for  his  son.     Abstract. 

Sir  George  St.  George  to  Ormonde. 
1704,    September    25.     Carrick. — Concerning   his    being    of 
the  Council,  and  also  Mr.   Shepard,  who  still  lies  under  his 
Grace's  displeasure.     Abstract. 

Henry  Harris  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  September  26.     Dublin. — Recounting  his  services  in 
the  army,  and  acknowledging  the  great  favours  he  has  received 
from  his  Grace.     Asks  for  some  appointment  as  he  hears  there 
are  regiments  to  be  raised.     Abstract. 

Brigadier- General  Gustavtjs  Hamilton  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  26.  Dublin. — Acknowledging  his  Grace's 
efforts  towards  obtaining  a  commission  for  the  writer. 
Abstract. 

Lords  Justices  of  Ireland  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  September  28.  Dublin  Castle. — Major-General  D. 
O'Farrell  was  appointed  to  command  the  forces  to  be  sent  to 
Portugal.  As  he  has  no  commission  Brigadier  Conyngham 
disputes  his  authority.  Various  letters  connected  with  the 
matter  are  enclosed.     Abstract. 

Brigadier-General  Henry  Conyngham  to  Ormonde. 

1 704,  October  1 .  Cork. — Enclosing  an  account  of  the  dispute 
between  Major-General  O'Farrell  and  himself  as  to  precedence 
in  rank,  viz.,  the  former  has  no  commission  from  the  Queen 
appointing  him  to  the  complete  command  of  the  forces 
destined  for  Portugal,  but  only  her  Majesty's  letter  to 
Portugal  that  he  should  be  a  major-general  there.  Though 
he  is  in  charge  of  the  fifteen  hundred  detached  men,  he 
is  not  warranted  in  assuming  command  over  the  complete 
regiments  which  have  been  ordered  to  go  on  that  service. 
Abstract. 


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Viscount  Tunbridge  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  October  5.  Zulestein. — Concerning  wine  to  be  sent 
to  his  Grace.  It  is  dear,  950  gilders  for  the  three  hogs- 
heads. Hopes  his  Grace  has  given  what  he  promised  in 
connection  with  the  regiments  that  are  being  raised  •  for 
Ireland.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Inchiquin  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  October  7.  Waterford. — ^Took  on  himself  during  the 
past  week  the  office  of  Mayor  of  Kilkenny.  Recommending 
Major  Spencer  to  the  consideration  of  his  Grace.  The  latter 
has  received  an  account  of  his  brother's  death  at  Tehean  in 
Barbary.  Hopes  Major  Spencer  will  inherit  a  good  part  of 
his  fortune.  His  deceased  brother  laid  down,  by  the  late 
King's  command,  a  considerable  sum  there  for  the  redemption 
of  slaves,  and  he  hopes  justice  will  be  done  him  in  England 
about  that  matter.  Details  as  to  the  condition  of  the  soldiers 
reviewed  by  the  writer,  efforts  towards  recruiting,  changing 
of  officers,  &c.     Abstract. 

Edward  Smyth,  Bishop  of  Down  and  Connor,  to 
Ormonde. 

1704,  October  21.  Lisburn. — Recommending  .his  brother 
William  Smyth,  to  be  made  Dean  of  Limerick.     Abstract. 

Monsieur  du  Marett  D'Antoigny  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  October  27.  A  la  Haye. — Nous  n'avons  encore  icy 
auq'unes  nouvelles  de  la  prise  de  Barcelonne ;  ce  quy  inquiete 
beaucoup  le  pays  icy  ou  on  a  apris  avec  bien  du  regret  la  mort 
du  Prince  D'Armestat.  On  na  point  aussy  de  nouvelles 
qu'on  aye  commence  le  siege  de  Badaiose.  Le  Prince  Ugenne 
s'est  randu  maitre  de  Crema  quy  est  aux  Vinitiens  ;  ce  sera  une 
bonne  place  d'armes  pour  luy  dont  il  avoit  grand  besoing.  La 
bonne  maneuure  quil  a  faite  jusque  a  cette  heure  a  fait  echoner 
le  siege  de  Turin,  malgre  les  grandes  depences  et  touts  les  pre- 
paratifs  de  la  France  pour  cela.  Le  Prince  de  Bade  a  assiege 
Hombourg  et  pretand  le  prandre  auant  de  partir  pour  Vienne. 
My  lord  Due"  de  Marleborough  attant  aussy  la  prise  de  Sanduhet 
quy  fut  yer  inuesty  auant  de  partir  pour  ce  randre  a  Vienne. 

L'Electeur  de  Bauiere  avec  les  Marechaux  de  Villeroy  et  de 
Marcin  voulurent  charger  I'arriere  garde  de  I'armee  de  Monsieur 
Dauverkerk  Mercredy  dernier  lorsque  decampant  d'Herentals. 
II  passoit  la  riuiere  de  Nitti  au  dessus  de  cette  petite  ville 
tandis  que  I'armee  Angloise  passoit  la  mesme  riuiere  au  dessous, 
mais  il  ny  eut  auqune  action  seulment  quelques  officiers 
paresseux  et  plusieurs  vivandiers  furent  surpris  dans  Herentals 
par  les  enmis.  Sanduhet  est  une  tres  petite  ville  quy  a  un 
bon  rampart,  sept  bons  bastions,  un  large  et  profond  fosse, 
un  chemin  couuert  et  une  contrescarpe ;  le  tout  bien  palissad6 
et  huit  cents  hommes  de  garnison. 


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Same  to  Same. 

1704,  October  30.  A  la  Haye. — Les  lettres  particulieres 
et  gens  assures  arriuees  aujourduy  de  Paris  marquent 
positiuement  que  Barcelonne  a  este  pris  le  4  de  ce  moise  et 
la  garnison  faite  prisouniere  de  guere,  dont  la  plus  grande 
partie  c'est  declaree  pour  le  Roy  Charle  3  et  ceux  quy  ont 
persiste  dansle  party  du  Due  Daniou  sont  demeures  prisonniers. 
Le  Due  de  Velasco,  Viceroy  de  Catalogne,  et  quy  a  defendu  la 
place  ne  c'est  pas  trouue  on  ni  salt  s'il  c'est  sauu  ou  s'il  aura 
este  tue.  La  flotte  et  les  troupes  ont  este  assieger  en  suitte. 
Rose  et  les  mecontants  ce  grossissent  de  iour  a  autre  ;  la  Cour 
de  France  est  fort  inquiette  de  tout  cela  et  craint  de  terribles 
suittes  et  que  Larron  et  Valance  ne  ce  declare  entierment  pour 
le  Roy  Charles  ;  le  Baron  de  Suasso  Tuif  a  aussy  receu  ce  matin 
des  lettres  de  Madrid  quy  assurent  qu'il  y  a  une  grande 
consternation  et  vn  soulevement  presque  general  dans 
I'Espagne. 

Nous  tenons  Sanduhet  sieg  mais  sy  nous  le  prenons  il  nous 
coutera  cher  car  est  dejia  cause  de  la  perte  de  Diest  que 
I'Electeur  a  assiege  et  pris  en  trois  iours  lorsqu'il  nous  a  veu 
occupes  a  Sanduhet,  le  quy  nous  obligera  d'abandonner  toutes 
les  petites  places  du  domir  que  nous  contions  de  garder  les 
enmis ;  nous  ont  pris  quatres.  bataillons  et  un  regiment  de 
dragons  prisonniers  de  guerre  et  menacent  d'ataquer  nostre 
armee.  My  lord  Due  de  Marleborough  partit  pour  Vienne  le 
26  apres  que  Sanduhet  fut  siege;  le  Prince  Ugenne  meditte 
quel  que  dessing  quy  esclorra  bien  tot ;  le  siege  de  Turin  est 
remis  a  vne  autres  fois. 

Le  Prince  de  Bade  a  fait  assieger  Lombourg  part  vn  detache- 
mant.  La  mortalite  des  [armees]  est  touiours  tres  grande 
et  surtou[t  de  I'Jarmee  Angloise. 

Je  prents  encore  la  liberte  de  suplier  vostre  grandeur  Mon- 
seignr  de  vouloir  ordonner  que  je  sois  paye  de  ma  petite 
penssion  dont  il  m'est  due  plus  d'un  an  le  quy  me  fait  beaucoup 
d'inquiettude  quoy  qu'elle  soit  de  moins  de  35  pieces ;  j'espere 
Monseigneur  que  nostre  grandeur  macordera  cette  grace  et 
celle  d'estre  persuade  du  zesle  ardant  et  du  respect  tres  prof  ond 
auec  lequel  &c. 

Marquis  of  Carmarthen  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  November  2.  London. — Asking  that  Mr.  Andrew 
Richier  should  have  the  commission  promised  by  his  Grace 
in  the  event  of  there  being  a  vacancy.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  the  Prince  of  Wales. 
1704,  November  2. — See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  714:. 

Duke  of  Buckingham  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  November  3.  St.  James's  Park. — Recommending 
the  son  of  his  old  friend  Mr.  Arrius.     He  asks  a  step  higher 


for  him  than  the  colours,  which  Ormonde  had  already  given 
him.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Rochford  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  November  4.  Zulestein. — Confiding  his  son  to  the 
protection  and  favour  of  his   Grace.     (French.)     Abstract. 

Major-General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  November  8.  Dublin.— Concerning  the  supply  of 
army  tents,  and  of  horses  for  the  expedition  to  Portugal. 
Abstract. 

Captain  George  Camocke  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  November  8.  Dublin. — "Captain  Saunders  and 
myself  arrived  in  the  Bay  of  Dublin  in  less  than  twenty-four 
hours  from  the  Bay  of  Holyhead."  Details  as  to  the  passage. 
Abstract. 

Joshua  Dawson  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  November  8.  Dublin  Castle. — Yesterday  the  Speed- 
well and  Seaford  came  into  the  Bay  of  Dublin.  They  are  now 
taking  in  wine  and  other  provisions  for  his  Grace's  use,  and 
intend  to  make  all  the  expedition  back  again  they  can  possible. 
Abstract. 

H.  Masclary  to  Benjamin  Portlock. 

1704,  November  11.  Chester. — Writes  for  money  to  defray 
various  expenses,  servants'  wages,  charges  for  the  Duke's 
horses,  &c.,  and  addresses  his  letter  to  Holyhead.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Donegal  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  November  12.  Cork  Harbour.  From  aboard  the 
Greenwich. — Concerning  the  bringing  of  the  writer's  regiment 
to  full  strength,  the  clothing  of  the  soldiers,  &c.     Abstract. 

•    Don  Luiz  da  Cunza,  Portuguese  Envoy,  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  November  16.  London. — With  regard  to  the  supply 
of  horses  for  the  expedition  to  Portugal.     (French.)    Abstract. 

Major-General  D.  O'Farrell  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  November  16.  Cove. — Relative  to  the  expedition  to 
Portugal  which  has  been  delayed  by  contrary  winds,  but  is 
now  about  to  sail.  The  writer  is  in  command  of  the  troops 
and  fleet.     Abstract. 

COMTE    DE    BRIANgON   tO    OrMONDE. 

1704,  November  20.  London. — As  to  the  raising  of  Irish 
battalions.     (French.)     Abstract. 


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Colonel  John  Eyre  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  November  21.  Eyrecourt. — The  sheriff  of  Galway 
being  on  the  execution  of  his  office,  was  set  upon  by  upwards 
of  six  hundred  people.  He  saved  his  life  by  flight,  but  in 
his  getting  of  it,  it  happened  a  woman  or  two  were  killed. 
The  sheriff  will  pay  his  duty  to  his  Grace  upon  that  occasion. 
This  part  of  the  country  is  not  reduced  to  the  Queen's 
obedience,  the  whole  magistracy  here  being  in  terror. 
Abstract. 

CoMTE   DE  BRIANgON  to  . 

1704,  November  21.  London. — Enclosing  a  packet  for  the 
Duke  of  Ormonde,  touching  the  raising  of  Irish  soldiers. 
(French.)    Abstract. 

Earl  of  Ranelagh  to  Ormonde. 
17Q4,  November  2l.~See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  774. 

Viscount  Falkland  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  November  26. — He  will  always  do  his  utmost  to  make 
up  this  unhappy  breach  with  his  mother.  Acknowledges  his 
obligations  to  his  Grace.     Abstract. 

James  Alary  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  November  27.  Berlin. — Appealing  to  the  bounty 
of  his  Grace  to  succour  him  in  his  old  age.  He  has  only  four 
"  sols "  a  day  and  his  wife  the  same.  Finding  himself 
importuned  to  abandon  his  religion,  he  has  given  up  all  to 
follow  the  dictates  of  his  conscience.  Refers  to  his  rescue  of 
the  Duke  from  a  great  danger.     (French.)     Abstract. 

Sir  Charles  Hedges  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  November  28.— /See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  774. 

Major-General  George  Cholmondeley  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  November  28. — Congratulates  his  Grace  upon  his 
safe  arrival  in  Ireland.  "  Our  Parliament  affairs  begin  to 
ferment  a  little  and  grow  warm.  My  Lord  Haversham  hath 
let  off  his  speech  among  the  Lords  and  awakened  them  into 
a  consideration  of  the  state  of  the  fleet  and  the  state  of 
Scotland.  To-morrow  the  Lords'  House  sit  upon  the  Scotch 
Act  of  Security,  and  whoever  hath  been  an  adviser  in  it  may 
expect  to  be  sorely  wip'd.  The  House  of  Commons  to-day 
endeavoured  to  have  tacked  their  conformity  bill  to  the 
land  tax,  but  it  was  carried  by  127  not  to  tack,  so  there's 
an  end  against  old  Occasional  this  session."  The  Duke  of 
Marlborough  is  expected  this  week  at  the  Hague.  Has  not 
been  at  Richmond  since  his  Grace  left,  as  it  would  but  make 
him  more  sensibly  want  his  Grace's  company.     "My  Lord 


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Tunbridge  is  preparing  to  wait  on  your  Grace  very  soon,  as 
he  told  me  to-night  at  the  play."     Abstract. 

Miller  to  Ormonde. 


1704,  November  28.  From  Scotland. — There  is  a  grand 
design  on  foot  to  have  the  Dukes  of  Hamilton,  Athol  and 
Queensbury  brought  to  a  good  understanding.  Details  as  to 
the  strength  of  the  court  and  country  parties  in  the  Scotch 
Parliament.  "  Our  secretaries,  the  Earl  of  Seafield  and  the 
Earl  of  Koxburgh  are  not  of  one  mind  nor  in  good  terms  as  to 
many  things  of  public  concern."  Lord  Yester  has  too  great 
ascendant  in  business  over  his  father  the  Lord  Marquis  of 
Tweeddale,  the  Lord  Chancellor.  A  Dutch  man-of-war 
arrived  at  Leith  last  week  with  one  hundred  and  forty  officers 
in  quest  of  recruits.  They  want  2,000  men,  but  will  find  it 
hard  to  get  that  number,  except  they  take, a  good  part  from 
the  standing  forces.  Two  ships  were  taken  at  Leith  in  which 
were  found  a  great  many  Popish  priests'  vestments,  very 
rich  crucifixes  of  ivory,  brass  and  gold  and  many  pictures 
of  our  Saviour  and  some  papers  about  the  Duke  of  Gordon 
and  the  Marquis  of  Seaforth.  Many  ships  have  gone  from 
Scotland  to  France  with  lead,  wool  and  salmon.  Last 
week  were  seized  two  men  who  have  of  a  long  time  been 
coining  money  in  the  form  of  ducats  to  the  value  of  3,000/. 
sterling.     Abstract. 

Monsieur  Du  Marett  D'Antoigny  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  November  28.  A  la  Haye. — Monseigneur,  Mercredy 
26  un  courrier  de  devand  Landau  arriva  icy  a  10  heures  du 
soir  pour  donner  auis  a  I'Etat  que  le  dimanche  23  les  assieges 
avoient  batu  la  chamede  et  demande  a  capituler ;  nous 
attendons  d'heure  a  autre  nouuelle  de  la  redition  de  celle 
comme  aussy  Monseigneur  de  Warbacq;  nous  croy  quapre 
paret  lune  et  lautre  sont  entre  nos  a  moins  quon  ne  veille 
les  prandre  a  discretion.  My  Lord  Due  de  Marleborough  est 
attandu  icy  dans  15  ou  16  iours.  On  assure  que  le  Prince 
Royal  de  Pruce  viendra  auec  luy  et  quil  yra  en  Angleterre. 
On  parle  fort  icy  du  mariage  de  my  Lord  Nortumgrey  auec 
la  fille  aynee  de  Monsieur  Delmet  quy  a  13  a  quatorze  ans  et 
deux  cent  mil  florins  en  mariage  ;  elle  est  iolye  de  sa  persoune. 

Comme  Monsieur  Souhtwell  me  fit  chouneur  de  me  mander, 
il  y  a  trois  semaines  que  vostre  grandeur  partoit  pour  Dublin 
je  luy  ay  adresse  la  toutes  mes  lettres  ;  mais  aprenant 
amourduy  par  les  Gazettes  que  vostre  grandeur  estoit  encore 
a  Londre  il  ny  a  que  peu  de  iours  je  me  donne  Ihouneur  de  luy 
addresser  celle  cy  et  en  mesme  temps  une  autre  en  Irlande. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  November  30. — Refers  to  his  Grace's  arrival  in  Ireland. 
Details   the    means   being   taken   to    secure   the    money   for 


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recruiting  the  regiments  that  sent  recruits  to  Portugal.  He  says  : 
"  We  were  on  Tuesday  last  delivered  from  a  most  desperate 
attempt  of  an  angry  squadron  in  our  house,  who  thought 
themselves  sure  of  marrying  the  conformity  bill  to  the  land 
tax,  but  after  much  pains  taken  on  both  sides  and  a  debate 
of  seven  hours,  the  fatal  design  was  rejected  with  contempt, 
there  being  134  for  it  and  251  against  it,  from  which  majority 
we  hope  a  happy  and  a  short  sessions.  Yesterday  it  was 
warmly  endeavoured  by  some  of  the  same  side  in  the  House 
of  Lords  to  bring  on  the  Scotch  business,  but  to  no  purpose 
likewise,  the  Whigs,  contrary  to  their  usual  custom  acting 
twin  together  the  prudent  part,  the  Queen  as  King  Charles 
used  to  do  sitting  by  the  fire  in  the  Lords'  House  all  the  debate, 
and  when  our  bill  of  conformity  comes  up  to  the  Lords  to  be 
flung  out,  which  now  it  stands  on  its  own  legs  it  will  most 
certainly  be,  her  Majesty  it's  said  is  resolved  also  to  be  present." 
Abstract. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  November  30.  Chester. — Arrived  last  night  cross 
the  country  from  Staffordshire  through  most  execrable  roads 
and  some  difficulties,  but  no  ill  accident.  It  now  blows  hard 
and  dirty  at  S.W.  Captain  Saunders'  commission.  "  I 
expect  every  post  our  letters  from  the  Treasury,  which  were 
not  signed,  according  to  the  wonted  delay."     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  2.  Dublin. — As  to  the  disposal  of  Wicklow 
Castle  in  which  Mr.  Anderton  Saunders  is  interested.  "  This 
whole  day  was  taken  up  by  the  Bishops,  and  I  believe  two 
days  more  must  be  sacrificed  to  them."     Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  5. — The  sum  of  3,000Z.  due  for  transports 
is  ordered  to  be  paid  out  of  the  first  money  that  shall  come 
in  upon  the  land  tax  which  this  week  is  expected  to  pass  the 
Royal  assent.  As  to  the  money  for  providing  1,000  horses  for 
the  Portugal  service.  Thinks  it  is  inexpedient  to  continue 
this  Parliament  with  such  a  Speaker  in  the  chair.  "  This 
day's  mail  from  Lisbon  makes  us  uneasy  for  Gibraltar." 
Abstract. 

Lord  Mohun  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  3. — Asking  that  Captain  Rapin  be  made 
major  in  the  writer's  regiment.     Abstract. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  9.  Dublin. — Informs  his  Grace  of  his 
safe  crossing  to  Ireland.  "  My  Lady  Betty  was  most  terribly 
sick  all  the  way,  and  even  after  she  was  ashore,  but  I  hope 


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a  little  rest  will  recover  her."  Met  this  day  at  the  Lord 
Chancellor's,  Sir  R.  Levinge,  Mr.  Keightley,  Mr.  Savage,  &c., 
where  they  discussed  the  approaching  session.  As  to  the  time^ 
the  10th  February  would  be  too  near  for  the  necessary 
preparations,  and  besides  the  term,  the  circuit,  the  ill  roads, 
and  more  than  that  the  ploughing  season  for  spring  corn 
would  make  it  inconvenient  for  the  country  gentlemen  to  come 
up.  The  beginning  of  April  would  be  a  better  time.  All 
bills  formerly  transmitted  and  which  have  dropped  through 
negligence  or  mistake,  are  to  be  examined  to  help  in  deciding 
on  those  to  be  presented.     Abstract. 

M.  Pretyman  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  9. — Reminding  his  Grace  of  his  promise 
to  give  a  commission  to  "  my  cos.  Fenn."     Abstract. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  10.  Dublin. — Enclosing  letters  from 
England,  including  one  from  Mr.  Meul's  about  champagne, 
as  the  writer  thinks.     It  came  from  Mr.  Dantigny.     Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  11. — Concerning  payments  for  the  transport 
service  and  for  raising  recruits  for  the  expedition  to  Portugal. 
Debate  concerning  Scotland  in  the  House  of  Commons. 
Encloses  some  plans  from  Lord  Ranelagh.     Abstract. 

Sir  Charles  Hedges  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  December  U.—See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  775. 

Earl  of  Ranelagh  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  December  12. — See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  775. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  12.  Dublin. — Gibraltar  still  in  danger. 
The  House  of  Lords  busy  inquiring  into  the  question  of  trading 
with  France.  He  is  consulting  with  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Revenue  in  order  to  have  the  matter  set  in  its  right  light 
before  the  Lord  Treasurer  as  far  as  Ireland  is  concerned,  "  for 
fear  they  put  some  new  hardship  upon  us,  which  would  help 
to  make  the  people  here  more  peevish."  Had  a  meeting  the 
previous  night  with  several  of  his  Grace's  friends  about  the 
bills  to  be  submitted  in  the  coming  session  of  Parliament. 
There  is  a  great  noise  of  a  hardship  done  to  Capt.  Stafford, 
which  is  that  he  had  been  commanded  by  his  Grace  to  sell 
his  commission  for  SOOl.,  though  he  had  been  offered  1,000Z., 
and  this  on  account  of  his  behaviour  in  the  last  session.  The 
writer  expresses  his  belief  that  there  had  been  no  such  positive 
command.     Lord   Abercorn  seems  much  pleased  wdth  what 


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his  Grace  has  done  in  his  affair.  Col.  George  should  give  a 
full  certificate  of  what  time  the  several  regiments  and  men 
embarked  at  Cork  and  so  went  off  the  Irish  establishment. 
Order  for  Captain  MoUoy's  levy  money,  to  be  signed  by  his 
Grace,  enclosed.  Lady  Betty  was  let  blood  by  Dr.  Roger, 
and  was  very  bad.     Abstract. 

Colonel  Thomas  Pulteney  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  12. — Refers  to  a  great  loss  he  has  sustained. 
Report  that  his  Grace  had  been  captured  by  the  French. 
Refers  to  a  dismissal  from  a  troop  for  disobedience  of  orders. 
Abstract. 

Lieut. -Colonel  John  Newton  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  12.  London. — Brigadier  Gustavus  Hamilton 
not  inclined  to  dispose  of  his  regiment.  Col.  Fox  having 
been  killed  at  Gibraltar  there  is,  however,  a  vacancy,  to  fill 
which  he  hopes  his  Grace  will  recommend  him  to  the  Duke  of 
Marlborough.  If  he  obtains  this  command  he  does  not  question 
but  he  will  find  some  Colonel  in  Ireland  who  will  willingly 
change.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Grantham  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  12.  London. — The  Duke  of  Marlborough 
is  reported  to  be  bringing  with  him  the  French  general  officers. 
All  goes  well  at  Richmond.     (French.)     Abstract. 

Lord  Bulkeley  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  13.  Baron  Hill. — Thanking  his  Grace  for 
making  that  place  the  road  to  Ireland,  and  congratulating  his 
Grace  on  his  safe  arrival  in  that  country  after  his  tedious 
confinement  at  Holyhead.     Abstract. 

Major-General  George  Cholmondeley  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  14.  London. — Concerning  a  payment  of 
700L  which  will  relieve  the  very  great  necessities  of  the  Isle 
of  Man,  and  the  sad  condition  of  the  poor  people  there. 
Abstract. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  December  14.  Dublin. — Arrangements  for  paying 
for  horses  by  a  warrant  from  his  Grace  on  the  military  con- 
tingencies' fund.  Major-General  Langston  says  he  was  acting 
by  his  Grace's  directions  when  he  told  Capt.  Stafford  to  sell. 
"  Last  night  the  company  I  mentioned  in  my  last  met  here 
with  the  addition  of  Baron  Johnson  and  supped  with  me, 
but  we  took  care  to  dispatch  our  business  first.  We  had  before 
us  all  the  bills,  prepared  by  former  Houses  of  Commons  and 
the  Council  Board,  and  which  had  not  been  past  into  laws. 
We  wrote  down  the  heads  of  such  as  seemed  most  beneficial 


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to  the  number  of  a  dozen  or  fourteen,  which  in  truth  after  all 
seem  of  very  indifferent  consequence,  and  therefore  I  proposed 
if  they  could  think  of  some  Brilliant  to  open  the  session  withal 
that  might  have  some  relish  with  it  for  extraordinary 
good,  like  our  last  Popish  Act  or  Plus  Acres.  Mr.  Solicitor 
in  his  merry  way  thought  there  must  be  some  raw  head  and 
bloody  bones,  viz.,  some  corroboration  of  the  last  Popish 
Act,  which  as  it  now  directs  all  priests  to  be  registered,  so 
may  make  it  penal  for  any  priest  hereafter  to  officiate  who  may 
have  been  ordained  since.  Mr.  Ludlow  thought  if  we  could 
think  of  some  bill  or  address,  &c.,  which  might  declare  our 
dissent  from  any  of  the  Scotch  mutineering  proceedings  and 
aversion  to  the  succession,  it  would  break  our  northern  faction 
and  create  friends  in  England.  We  meet  to-morrow  night 
at  Anderton  Saunders's  where  we  shall  consider  farther."  Con- 
cerning Lieut. -General  Stewart's  commission  and  the  Arch- 
bishop's case  which  the  town  give  on  his  side.     Abstract. 

Lord  Mohun  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  14. — It  will  be  a  great  obligation  to  Lord 
Oxford  and  the  writer  if  the  Captain-Lieutenant  of  the  latter 
is  provided  for  by  his  Grace.     Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  16.  London. — Concerning  the  raising  of 
recruits,  on  matters  connected  with  which  his  Grace  wiU 
probably  receive  the  Duke  of  Marlborough's  opinion.  He  adds  : 
"  The  Occasional  Bill  was  yesterday  by  a  majority  of  twenty 
flung  out  of  the  House  of  Lords  upon  the  first  reading,  the 
Queen  being  present  during  the  whole  debate,  which  lasted 
from  one  till  six  at  night.  We  have  this  day  voted  a  com- 
mission for  persons  to  treat  of  an  union  with  Scotland,  and  in 
case  of  refusal  on  their  part  intend  to  pass  another  Act  to 
deprive  them  of  all  the  privileges  they  now  enjoy.  I  hope 
from  these  differences  between  Scotland  and  England  some 
advantages  may  at  last  be  got  for  poor  Ireland  which  has  not 
been  forgot  in  the  debates  on  these  occasions,  and  I  can  assure 
your  Grace  no  opportunities  shall  be  lost  to  thrust  in  our  claim." 
Abstract. 

Viscount  Tunbridge  to  Ormonde. 
1 704,  December  1 9.     London. — Rumour  of  relief  of  Gibraltar. 
As  soon  as  he  is  able  to  get  a  horseback  he  intends  starting 
on  the  journey  to  join  his  Grace,  from  whom  he  hopes  to  obtain 
a  commission  in  the  new  regiment.     Abstract. 

Sir  Thomas  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  December  19.     Dublin. — Asking  his  Grace  to  intimate 
his  pleasure  to  the  Lords  Justices  to  make  the  writer  Lieutenant 
gf  the  county  Limerick,  that  by  the  credit  of  it  he  may  be  the 


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better  able  to  oppose  the  interest  that  the  Speaker  and 
Mr.  Clayton  are  now  making  there  to  procure  a  knight  of  the 
shire  to  be  chosen  in  the  room  of  the  deceased,  Mr.  Oliver. 
Abstract. 

'Brigadier- General  John  Tidcombe  to  Ormonde. 

1 704,  December  21 .  London. — There  are  no  certain  accounts 
from  Italy  or  Gibraltar,  but  of  the  latter  various  reports  as  best 
serves  the  purpose  of  the  wagerers.  Parliament  busy  with 
bills  in  relation  to  Scotland.  This  is  a  subject  entirely  new 
to  our  old  stagers  and  puzzles  them  in  the  steps  they  are  to 
make.  The  writer  complains  of  the  injustice  done  him  in 
having  seven  major-generals  made  over  his  head  that  were 
younger  officers.  Begs  his  Grace  to  write  two  or  three  lines 
on  his  behalf  to  the  Duke  of  Marlborough,  who  professes 
great  value  for  his  Grace.     Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  23.  London. — Parliament  is  displaying 
a  spirit  of  kindness  and  indulgence  towards  Ireland  in  con- 
sidering the  affairs  of  Scotland  in  relation  to  England.  Details 
arrangements  for  getting  the  money  for  recruits,  which  cannot 
be  paid  out  till  returns  are  received  from  Portugal.  Those 
who  have  drawn  bills  and  received  the  money  in  Ireland 
will  not  be  prejudiced  as  those  who  have  the  bills  have  been 
assured  they  will  be  honoured.  Kerus  Hastwell  and 
Carbonnell  are  satisfied  with  that  assurance.  Three,  or 
perhaps  four,  regiments  of  the  five  thousand  men  voted  in 
addition  for  this  year's  service  at  sea  will  be  taken  out  of 
Ireland,  and  replaced  by  new  ones  to  be  raised  in  England. 
Mr.  Tucker  has  drawn  for  1,200?.  due  for  transports  on 
Mr.  Fox,  which  sum  should  have  been  drawn  on  the  Commis- 
sioners for  Transport.  There  is  5,000?.  ordered  to  be  sent  his 
Grace  for  paying  for  the  1,000  horses  directed  to  be  bought 
for  the  Portugal  service.     Abstract. 

Monsieur  Rosenkranz  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  23.  London. — Begs  his  Grace  to  use  his 
influence  to  procure  some  little  pension  for  the  bearer  of  the 
letter,  Madame  Erard.  Her  son-in-law,  who  commanded  the 
Danish  Guards  at  the  battle  of  Blenheim,  was  killed  there. 
(French.)     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Comte  de  Brian^on. 

1704,  December  25.  Dublin. — J'ay  re9eu  votre  lettre, 
dans  laquelle  vous  marquez  le  desir  que  S.A.R.  a  de  lever 
des  troupes  dans  cette  Royaume,  comme  aussy  Ihonneur 
que  S.A.R.  me  fait  de  se  souvenir  de  moy.  Je  vous  prie, 
Monsieur,  d'asseurer  S.A.R.  de  la  veneration  que  j'ay  pour 
sa  personne,  et  le  zele  que  j'auray  tou jours  pour  son  service  ; 


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et  d'abord  que  j'auray  des  ordres  de  la  Cour  pour  cette  affaire, 
je  feray  tous  ce  que  dependra  de  moy  pour  faciliter  les  levees. 
En  attendant  comme  vous  me  demandez  mes  sentiments,  je 
vous  les  dits  franchenemt  que  je  croy  qu'on  ne  pourray  point 
empecher  ces  gens  de  deserter  pour  joindre  les  bataillons 
Irlandois  qui  sont  au  service  de  France.  En  ce  cas  I'argent 
seroit  tres  mal  employee.  Je  seray  ravi  de  vous  estre  utile 
en  ce  pays,  car  je  suis,  avec  respect,  Monsieur,  &c.     Co'py. 

Monsieur  Guiscard  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  26.  The  Hague. — Je  croirois  faire  une 
offence  a  la  grandeur  et  la  generosite  de  votre  ame,  si  dans  la 
situation  ou  ie  me  trouve,  ie  n'avois  recours  a  votre  protection 
preferablement  a  toute  autre. 

Votre  Excellence  S9aura  que  ie  suis  Ie  propre  frere  du  Comte 
de  Guiscard,  qui  ai  u  plusieurs  fois  I'honneur  de  lui  offrir  ses 
services  et  les  mieus  dans  Ie  tems  qu'elle  etoit  blessee  et 
prisonniere  a  Namur. 

In  dur  et  injuste  traitement  fait  par  Ie  Roi  de  France  a  un 
autre  de  mes  freres  m'a  engage  a  lui  en  temoigner  mon  res- 
sentiment,  et  a  me  soulever  contre  lui. 

C'est  moi  qui  lui  ai  sussite  I'affaire  des  Ceuennes  et  qui 
sans  un  fatal  contretems  m'etois  mis  en  etat  et  sur  Ie  point 
Ceuennes  et  qui  de  faire  prendre  encore  les  armes  a  plusieurs 
provinces  voisines  de  celle  la. 

Depuis  ce  tems,  aiant  ete  oblige  de  sortir  en  diligence  hors 
du  Roiaume,  et  aiant  ete  deterre  (dans  Ie  fond  d'un  village  de 
Suisse  ou  ie  m'etois  retire)  par  Mrs.  Hill  et  Wandermeer  envoier 
de  S.M.B.  et  de  C.H.P.  vers  S.A.R. ;  ces  Mrs.  m'engagerent  a 
tanter  cette  descente  sur  les  cotes  du  bas  Languedoc,  dont 
votre  Excellence  aura  sans  doute  entendu  parter. 

Auiourd'hui,  Milord,  ie  me  suis  cru  dans  I'obligation  de 
venir  rendre  compte  a  sa  Mte.  Bque.  et  al.  C.H.P.  dela  maniere 
dont  ie  me  suis  comporte  dans  cette  expedition,  et  leur  offrir 
de  nouveau  mes  services. 

J'ai  u  I'honneur  de  faire  la  reverence  a  M*^.  D.  de  Marlborough 
a  Landau  et  ice  et  de  I'informer  de  toutes  choses ;  il  m'a  paru 
etre  dans  des  dispositions  tres  favorables ;  ie  lui  ai  ete  recom- 
mande  tres  fortement  par  Mr.  Ie  P.  Eugene  ;  S.A.R.  Mr.  Ie 
Due  de  Savoie  parle  en  ma  faveur,  et  mes  proiets  et  mes 
habitudes  en  France  ne  peuvent  etre  que  tres  utiles  et  tres 
avantageuses  a  la  cause  commune. 

De  sorte,  Milord,  que  pour  peu  que  votre  Excellence  daigne 
tremoigner  de  prendre  quelque  interet  en  ma  personne  et 
ecrire  en  ma  faveur,  soit  a  M'^  D.  de  Marlborough  ou  meme  a 
la  Reine  ie  serai  sur  d'eu  etre  favorablement  traite  et  ecoute. 

Je  suplie  tres  humblement,  votre  Excellence,  de  con- 
siderer,  qu'en  cas  qu'elle  prenne  Ie  parti  de  m'accorder  cette 
grace,  la  chose  demande  un  peu  de  diligence. 

J'ai  scu.  Milord,  que  vous  aviez  exalte  beaucoups  au  dessus 
de  ce  qu'ils  meritoient  de  I'etre,  les  legers  offices  que  mon 


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frere  de  Guiscard  a  u  le  bonheur  d'etre  en  occasion  de  vous 
rendre,  cela  est,  Milord,  d'un  coeur  aussi  bien  place  et  aussi 
genereux  que  le  votre. 

Cependant,  j'oserai  bien  dire  a  votre  Excellence,  qui  inde- 
pendament  de  cela,  ie  ne  suis  pas  tout  a  fait  indigne  de  la 
protection  dont  ie  lui  demande  de  m'honorer,  soit  par  mes 
qualiter  personneles  ou  par  mes  viies  et  mes  desseins,  ou  plus 
particulierement  encore  par  le  respect  profond  avec  lequel 
j'ai  rhonneur  d'etre,  Milord. 

Si  votre  Excellence  a  la  bonte  de  m'honnier  d'un  mot  de 
reponce,  elle  me  faira  s'il  L.P.  addresser  sa  lettre  ches  Mr. 
Croye  dans  le  Moll  Straat  derriere  la  Vieille  Cour  a  la  Haye. 

Viscount  Tunbridge  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  26.  London. — Owing  to  a  relapse  his 
journey  has  been  retarded.  Nevertheless  he  hopes  that  his 
Grace  will  sign  his  commission.     Abstract. 

Monsieur  de  Belcastle  to  Ormonde. 
1704,    December    27.     Cressehtin. — Enclosing    an    account 
of  the  siege  of  Verona.     (French.)     Abstract. 

Enclosure  : 

1704,  Xbre  27.  a  Cressentin. — S.A.R.  ayant  resolu  de 
faire  un  sortie  de  Verrue,  le  26  de  ce  mois  a  quart  re 
heures  du  soir,  elle  ordonna  mille  hommes  d'infanterie 
qu'elle  fit  poster  sous  la  place  dans  les  dehors  avec  ordre 
de  marcher  aux  quatre  batteries  des  ennemis  dans  les 
memes  temps  que  mille  chevaux  passeroient  le  Po 
pour  donner  I'allarme  au  quartier  general  des  Fran9ois, 
et  comme  ces  batteries  etoient  S9ituees  sur  vue  hauteur 
assez  eloignees  des  tranchees  sans  aucune  communi- 
cation nos  gens  s'en  rendirent  maistres  enclouerent 
plusieurs  canons,  et  ils  les  auroient  tous  enclouer 
si  les  lumieres  des  autre  pieces  ne  se  fussent  pas 
trouvees  d'une  ouverture  trop  grande  pour  la  grosseur  de 
nos  cloux.  Les  ennemis  furent  tellement  surpris  de  cette 
hardie  entreprise,  qu'ils  firent  battre  la  generalle  et  se 
mirent  sous  les  armes  avec  beaucoup  de  confusion 
I'eloignement  des  batteries,  et  leurs  tranchees  donna 
le  temps  a  nos  trouppes  d'executer  ce  que  ie  viens 
de  vous  marquer,  apres  quoy  elles  marcherent  a  la 
tranchee  et  au  logement  que  les  ennemis  avoient  sur 
la  contrescarpe.  lis  rencontrerent  le  Sr.  D'Immecourt, 
Marechal  de  Camp,  avec  quatre  compagnies  de  grenadiers 
que  le  Sieur  de  Chart ogne,  lieutenant  general,  quy  y 
commandoit  avoit  dettachees  pour  aller  s'oposer  a 
I'attaque  dez  dites  batteries.  Le  combat  fut  assez 
rude.  Le  dit  marechal  de  camp  y  fut  tue  et  on  fit 
prisonniers  un  lieut. -colonel,  un  major,  trois  cap"®" 
et  trois  lieutenants.    S.A.R.    quy  I'avoit  bien  preneu 


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proffita  de  Tintervalle,  et  fit  sortir  de  la  place  trois  cens 
hommes  qu'elle  y  tenoit  tous  prets ;  leques  joints  par  le 
premier  dettachement  entrerent  dans  le  logement  de 
la  contrescarpe,  et  dans  les  tranchees,  en  chasserent 
les  ennemis,  raserent  en  partie  leurs  travaux,  blesserent 
dangereusement  de  deux  coups  le  susdit  lieutenant 
general,  et  le  firent  prisonnier.  S.A.R.  etant  sur  le 
rempart  de  la  place  presente  a  tout  ce  quy  se  passoit 
et  jugeant  bien  que  les  ennemis  viendroient  avec  toutes 
leurs  forces  pour  regagner  ce  qu'ils  avoient  perdu,  ne 
laissa  que  cinquant  hommes  ausdits  postes  avec  ordre 
de  se  retirer  a  I'approche  des  Francois,  ne  voulant  pas 
risquer  sa  garnison.  H  est  certain  que  si  S.A.R.  avoit 
en  quatre  mille  hommes  a  sa  disposition,  dans  la 
surprise  ou  etoient  les  ennemis  elle  auroit  fait  lever 
le  siege,  et  pouse  la  chose  bien  plus  loin.  Notre 
detachement  de  cavallerie  a  mis  en  deroute  la  garde  des 
Frangois,  tue  trente  de  leurs  cavalliers.  Le  quartier 
general  a  este  dans  vn  sy  grand  desordre  qu'on  y  a 
commence  a  debagager.  On  scauroit  marquer  le  temps 
que  cette  place  poura  encore  tenir,  puisque  ceUa 
dependra  de  la  dilligence  que  les  ennemis  aporteront 
a  reparer  ce  qu'on  leur  a  ruyne. 

Colonel  J.  Webb  to  Oemonde. 

1704,  December  27. — Recommending  a  relation  named 
Richmond  Webb  for  a  company  in  one  of  the  regiments  to  be 
raised.  His  father  was  an  officer  in  the  Irish  guards  and  was 
turned  out  by  Lord  Tyrconnel.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Ranelagh  to  Ormonde. 
1704,  December  29.— /See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  775. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  December  30.  London. — I  had  last  night  the  honour 
of  your  Grace's  of  the  22nd  instant,  by  which  I  find  your 
Grace  is  by  your  friends  advised  to  hold  this  Parliament ;  since 
its  their  opinion  it  ought  most  certainly  to  be  complied  with, 
they  being  the  best  judges  in  this  case,  but  then  I  hope  you 
will  not  forget  to  represent  this  whole  matter  to  this  side, 
that  you  may  have  such  directions  from  hence  that  may 
satisfy  your  Grace,  let  the  event  be  what  it  will,  though  I 
cannot  but  hope  all  will  be  well  because  I  do  not  doubt  but  that 
they  will  have  much  more  reason  to  be  in  good  humour  with 
the  Parliament  of  England  than  ever  they  have  had  for  some 
time  past,  and  upon  this  occasion  give  me  leave  to  assure 
your  Grace  that  no  ill  usage  which  I  have  undeservedly  met 
with  from  some  of  the  gentlemen  of  that  country  last  Par- 
liament shall  discourage  me  from  serving  that  poor  kingdom 
zealously,    or    shall    make    me    desist    from    watching    all 

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opportunities  to  promote  their  interest  here,  and  the  last 
vote  I  sent  your  Grace  is  I  hope  a  sufficient  earnest  of  my 
intentions  in  this  matter.  I  told  you  some  time  since  there 
could  no  danger  come  from  this  side  this  sessions  from  my 
Lord  Meath's  affair,  which  ought,  unless  they  are  the  most 
unreasonable  men  in  the  world,  to  put  the  Lords  in  the  highest 
good  humour.  As  to  the  time  the  Parliament  should  meet,  I 
confess  I  cannot  but  think  the  soonest  the  best,  if  they  should 
not  meet  till  the  19th  of  April  the  whole  summer  would  be 
taken  up  with  the  first  and  second  sessions  which  would  not 
only  be  very  inconvenient  there  but  the  same  here,  whereas 
if  they  meet  in  February  the  first  and  last  may  be  reasonably 
expected  to  be  at  an  end  before  the  harvest.  I  cannot 
apprehend  any  inconveniency  from  their  sitting  some  short 
time  during  our  being  together  here.  I  am  sure  there  can 
be  none,  but  the  contrary,  in  case  we  continue  in  the  same 
temper  towards  them  we  are  at  present,  but  though  your 
Grace  will  be  pleased  to  advise,  yet  the  resolution  must  be  taken 
here  and  when  you  please  to  transmit  it  in  form  I  wiQ  not 
fail  to  do  all  I  can  to  persuade  that  what  you  incline 
to  may  be  directed.  I  have  writ  to  Mr.  Southwell  a  full 
answer  to  all  that  part  of  his  letter  as  relating  to  Treasury 
affairs. 

Viscount  Cholmondeley  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  January  1.  London. — Acknowledging  the  honour 
his  Grace  did  him  by  calling  at  Cholmondeley  and  begging 
that  his  Grace  will  do  so  for  the  future  and  esteem  it  his  own. 
Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  January  2.  London. — Concerning  arrangements 
for  the  meeting  of  Parliament.  Above  two  years  in  the 
additional  duty  should  not  be  attempted ;  the  Lord 
Treasurer  said  he  believed  her  Majesty  expected  no  more. 
Abstract. 

Lord  Henry  Scott  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  January  2.  London. — Concerning  the  affairs  of 
the  writer's  regiment.  Captain  Wilson,  who  has  a  lawsuit, 
desires  leave  for  a  month  longer.  Lieut.  Griffith  is  dead, 
and  the  writer  wishes  that  his  own  ensign  should  succeed, 
and  that  Col.  Berry's  relation  should  have  the  colours. 
Abstract. 

Don  Ltnz  da  Cunza,  Portuguese  Ambassador,  to 
Ormonde. 

1704-5,  January  3.  London. — As  to  convoying  two 
vessels  laden  with  corn  at  Dublin  to  Portugal.  (French.) 
Abstract, 


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Ormonde  to  Lord  Godolphin. 
1704-5,  January  5. — See  Report,  VII,  App.,  ^.  776. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  January  6.     London. — Concerning  bills  for  pa3dng 
for  the  Portugal   recruits,  bills  for   5,000?.   for   1,000   horses 
for  that  country  and  the  despatch  of  warrants  for  the  Parlia- 
ment officers.     Abstract. 

Anonymous. 

1704-5,  January  6.  London. — I  see  that  our  Parliament's 
vote  relating  to  the  exports  of  Irish  linen,  is  very  acceptable 
to  you  that  are  in  that  country,  but  I  would  not  have  you 
depend  too  much  on  it,  for  I  can  assure  you  a  gentleman, 
a  neighbour  of  yours,  both  in  town  and  country,  who  is  not 
apt  to  make  long  speeches  in  Parliament,  has  been  during 
this  recess  of  the  House,  taking  great  pains  to  convince  many 
members  as  well  as  the  Council  of  Trade  that  this  vote  is  very 
detrimental  to  the  trade  of  England,  a  great  encouragement 
to  Scotland,  and  of  little  advantage  to  Ireland.  The 
detriment  to  England  will  be,  says  he,  by  their  employing 
ships  built  in  Ireland  or  Scotland,  which  goes  under  the 
denomination  of  English  bottoms,  as  well  as  those  of  England, 
by  their  sending  Irish  stuffs  packed  up  in  their  linen  instead 
of  our  woollen  manufactures,  and  who,  says  he,  lives  in  Ireland 
should  they  know  this  to  be  done  would  ever  discover  it,  since 
they  can  never  after  expect  the  favour  of  the  Government 
there  or  a  good  name  in  the  country  ;  that  this  will  encourage 
the  Scots  to  send  their  linen  over  to  their  brethren  in  the 
north  of  Ireland  from  whence  it  will  be  transported  to  the 
Plantations  as  Irish,  and  who  can  disprove  it ;  that  the  Scotch 
not  only  work  cheaper  and  make  better  linen  cloth  than  in 
Ireland  and  consequently  will  be  preferred,  so  that  Ireland 
will  have  the  name  but  Scotland  all  the  advantage  of  this  vote  ; 
nay,  he  says  that  most  of  your  wool  will  be  carried  in  exchange 
for  linen  to  Scotland,  and  from  thence  to  France,  so  that  it 
is  in  effect  conniving  at  a  correspondence  with  our  enemies, 
and  therefore  that  the  vote  ought  either  to  be  repealed,  or 
else  amended — I  guess  so  as  that  Ireland  may  have  no  benefit 
thereby. 

I  was  in  company  two  nights  since  and  talking  of  this  very 
matter,  I  mentioned  some  of  the  heads  before  recited  as  the 
arguments  of  the  gentleman  I  mentioned,  when  one  of  the 
company  in  some  passion  cried,  "  If  the  gentleman  had  got  half 
so  much  by  Ireland  as  he  has  by  the  Plantations,  he  woidd 
be  very  quiet  and  not  raise  these  difficulties  "  ;  but  his  getting 
times  is  near  an  end,  if  he  does  not  in  a  little  time  give  a 
satisfactory  report  about  the  Plantation  accounts,  which  it 
is  said  he  has  not  been  over  strict  in  the  examination  of. 

Endorsed :  Opinion  concerning  the  exportation  of  Irish 
linen. 


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J.  N.  to  Sir  Stephen  Fox. 

1704-5,  January  6.  Ireland. — ^Desiring  to  have  the  fol- 
lowing letter  delivered  as  directed,  there  being  matter  of 
great   consequence   in  it. 

Endorsed  :    Concerning  Scotland.     Abstract. 

J.  N.  to  Duke  of  Marlborough. 

1704-5,  January  6.  Ireland. — I  that  write  this  am  an 
Englishman  born,  but  near  allied  with  the  Scotch  of  this 
kingdom,  and  retaining  an  affection  for  my  country,  my 
conscience  forces  me,  having  covenanted  against  it,  to  give 
you  this  advertisement.  The  heads  of  the  Scotch  of  this 
kingdom  are  all  leagued  as  one  man  together,  and  have  arms 
ready  to  put  into  the  Irish  hands,  and  so  join  them  and  push 
the  English  out  of  this  kingdom,  and  as  I  have  good  reason 
to  know,  the  Scotch  of  Scotland  are  to  act  at  the  same  time 
in  concert  with  them.  All  that  I  shall  add  is  that  if  extra- 
ordinary care  be  not  presently  taken,  it  will  never  be  in  the 
power  of  the  English  to  assist  the  English  of  this  kingdom 
more,  but  matters  are  gone  so  far,  that  I  fear  all  that  can  be 
done  will  be  too  late. 

Ormonde  to  Sir  Charles  Hedges. 
1704-5,  January  8. — See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  776. 

Ormonde  to  Lord  Coningsby. 
1704-5,  January  8. — See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  776. 

Lord  Godolphin  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  January  9. — See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  776. 

John  Taylour  to  Edward  Southwell. 

1704-5,  January  9.  Whitehall,  Treasury  Chambers. — As 
to  the  warrant  for  the  Parliament  charges,  there  will  be  no 
very  great  alterations,  only  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of 
Lords  will  have  no  more  than  the  usual  allowance  of  5001. 
a  session.  Splendid  entertainment  made  last  Saturday  by 
the  Lord  Mayor  and  Aldermen  for  the  Duke  of  Marlborough. 
The  House  of  Commons  also  passed  a  resolution  to  take  steps 
to  perpetuate  the  memory  of  his  great  services  last  summer. 
Refers  to  the  melancholy  deportment  of  Count  Tallard  and 
his  adherents  in  the  town  of  Nottingham,  and  of  those  other 
gentlemen  residing  at  Lichfield.     Abstract. 

Lord  Mohun  to  Ormonde. 

1704r-5.  January  11.  London. — Has  heard  of  the  un- 
fortunate accident  to  Captain  May  and  that  his  Grace  is 
resolved  to  break  him.  Requests  promotion  for  his  captain- 
lieutenant,  for  Mr,   Tucks,   Mr.   Grosvenor    and    Mr.   Poole 


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respectively.     The  latter  is  a  near  relation  of  Col.  Culliford. 
Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5.  January  11.  London. — ^The  Lord  Treasurer  has 
promised  to  have  the  Parliament  warrant  despatched  to-morrow. 
"All  I  find  picked  is  my  Lord  Chancellor's  additional  5001." 
The  Lord  Treasurer  cannot  be  prevailed  on  to  insert  it,  as  it 
would  certainly  prove  a  fixed  precedent  for  others.  It  may  be 
possible  for  his  Grace  to  pay  it  privately  and  have  it  allowed 
out  of  the  exceedings  in  concordatum.  The  House  of 
Commons  passed  to-day  an  address  to  her  Majesty  that  she 
might  be  pleased  to  consider  how  most  effectually  to  transmit 
to  posterity  the  memory  of  the  glorious  victory  at  Blenheim. 
Abstract. 

Major-General  Cornelius  Wood  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  January  11,  n.s.  Breda. — Acknowledging  obligations 
that  cannot  be  numbered.  He  had  not  long  come  out  of 
Germany,  staying  there  with  the  last  of  the  troops.  The 
Duke  of  Marlborough  had  gone  to  England  before  he  could 
see  him,  and  with  the  Duke  Lieut. -General  Lumley,  who 
left  them  at  Dusseldorf  a  fortnight  before  they  came  to  the 
end  of  their  march.     Abstract. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 

1704,  January  12.  Dublin. — I  hope  your  Grace  had  a  safe 
journey  to  Kilkenny,  and  that  you  will  have  pleasant  weather 
during  your  stay. 

Last  night  several  of  your  Grace's  friends  met  at  my  house. 
Mr.  Savage,  Ludlow,  Attorney,  Bernard,  Tennison,  and  Baron 
Johnson.  I  imparted  to  them  that  your  Grace  had  now 
received  directions  from  England  for  the  speedy  meeting  of 
the  Parliament,  that  it  was  to  sit  the  10th  of  next  month, 
that  our  bills  were  gone  and  recommended  heartily  for  dispatch 
on  that  side.  They  all  said  since  it  was  so  they  would  do  their 
best  endeavours  for  your  Grace's  service.  But  I  must  also 
own  that  they  thought  the  time  too  soon,  for  that  supposing 
the  bills  returned  by  the  10th  there  would  be  but  a  month 
to  sit  till  the  judges  must  necessarily  go  out,  which  would 
carry  away  more  of  your  Grace's  friends  than  others  ;  that 
it  would  be  very  easy  for  the  opposite  party  to  run  us  into 
delays  to  bring  us  to  that  inconvenience,  whereas  if  we  sat 
the  19th  of  April  we  might  expect  great  benefit  by  the  judges' 
circuit  and  the  opportunity  of  seeing  gentlemen  before  their 
coming  up.  They  thought  it  would  be  very  difficult  to  get 
all  the  gentlemen  to  town  at  so  ill  a  time  of  the  year,  and 
questioned  much  if  Lieut. -General  Erie  and  Stewart  and  the 
rest  could  come  from  England  against  that  time,  which  part 
I  must  own  I  fear  myself.      They  said  there  were  daily  people 


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more  reconciled  which  a  little  time  would  effectually  bring  in. 
But  above  all  if  any  accident  should  make  us  miss  an  Act 
for  what  the  House  have  voted  about  exporting  linen,  it 
would  be  absolutely  necessary  to  have  time  to  recover  so  fatal 
a  blow.  They  were  all  desirous  I  should  communicate  their 
minds  to  your  Lordship,  because  as  they  said  they  would  do 
their  best  whenever  it  sat,  so  they  would  be  glad  your  Lordship 
knew  that  in  their  humble  opinion  the  farther  time  were  the 
safest  for  the  success  of  the  session.  I  must  therefore  have 
your  Grace's  directions  what  to  return  them  in  answer,  and 
in  my  own  particular  would  know  whether  your  Grace  will 
write  to  the  two  Lieutenants- Generals  to  come  over  positively 
at  that  time,  and  what  I  shall  say  to  the  others  now  in 
London,  as  Haly,  Fitzpatrick,  Maude,  Southwell,   &c. 

I  write  this  night  again  to  press  that  the  bills  may  be  here 
by  the  10th  for  any  small  delay  after  that  would  be  of  ill 
consequence  by  reason  of  the  circuits  coming  on.  Lieu  tenant- 
General  Erie  has  writ  to  your  Grace  to  desire  your  favour 
to  his  brother  Haly ;  I  hope  I  may  at  the  same  time  beg  the 
like  for  my  brother  Price,  for  this  will  certainly  be  now  the 
critical  juncture  at  St.  James's  for  things  of  that  kind. 

Robert  Dixon  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  January  12. — Begging  a  company  in  the  guards, 
"  my  circumstances  requiring  it,  as  my  Lord  Ikerrin  and  Baron 
Johnson  know."     Abstract. 

Viscount  Tunbridge  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  January  12.  London. — Thanking  his  Grace  for 
his  commission  of  lieut.-colonel  in  the  guards.  Mentions 
a  rumour  of  his  Grace's  commanding  the  expedition  at  sea  ; 
if  so,  the  writer  would  be  proud  to  accompany  his  Grace  in 
any  capacity  he  would  be  thought  capable  of.     Abstract. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  January  13.  Dublin. — If  our  vote  of  exportation 
should  miscarry  in  England,  Mr.  Tennison  thinks  it  would  be 
well  if  your  Grace  could  obtain  that  the  Queen  might 
recommend  Ireland  in  some  speech.     Abstract. 

Same  to  Same. 
1704-5,  January  14.  Dublin. — Informing  his  Grace  of  the 
contents  of  two  packets  just  arrived.  News  of  a  great  and 
successful  sally  from  Verona  and  a  great  victory  against  the 
Hungarians.  By  the  Parliament  warrant  it  appears  that  500Z. 
is  to  be  cut  off  from  the  Lord  Chancellor.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Lord  Godolphin. 

1704-5,  January  15.  Kilkenny. — I  have  the  honour  of  your 
lordship's  of  the  9th  this  morning,  and  have  already  received 


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her  Majesty's  pleasure  concerning  the  meeting  of  the  Parlia- 
ment. If  the  Commons  go  on  and  perfect  what  they  have 
already  begun,  it  will  with  much  reason  give  a  general  satis- 
faction to  the  people  here,  but  I  cannot  be  so  sanguine  as 
these  gentlemen  are  that  your  lordship  mentions,  but  for  the 
two  years  I  hope  there  will  not  be  much  difficulty  in  the  getting. 
If  more  be  expected,  I  hope  Mr.  Secretary  will  let  me  know  it, 
and  I  will  do  my  endeavours  to  the  obtaining  of  it,  though  I 
fear  it  will  be  with  much  difficulty  if  obtained,  and  I  doubt 
of  the  success.  We  are  alarmed  here  with  the  apprehensions 
that  what  has  been  proposed  in  the  House  of  Commons  will 
meet  with  so  great  an  opposition  that  what  is  begun  con- 
cerning the  exportation  of  the  linen  will  be  obstructed,  but  for 
my  own  part  I  have  no  fear  on  that  head,  being  assured  that 
your  lordship  will  interest  yourself  for  the  good  of  this  poor 
country.  I  do  not  doubt  of  the  easiness  and  cheapness  of  re- 
cruiting in  the  North,  which  shall  be  done  without  loss  of 
time.  I  am  very  glad  to  hear  of  the  good  news  your  lordship 
mentions.     Copy. 

Primate  Marsh  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  January  16.  Dublin. — Complains  that  the  Arch- 
bishop of  Dublin  told  the  clergy  of  this  city,  without  having 
conferred  with  the  writer  or  any  other  Bishop,  that  he  would 
procure  the  Queen's  licence  for  the  Convocation  to  act,  &c. 
Such  a  matter  should  go  to  her  Majesty  recommended  by  his 
Grace  only.  Hopes  his  Grace  will  not  discover  who  his 
informer  is.     Abstract. 

Lord  Godolphin  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  January  20.— /See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  176. 

Earl  of  Ranelagh  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  January  20.~8ee  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  776. 

Ormonde  to  Sir  Charles  Hedges. 
1704-5,  January  21. — See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  117. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  January  21.  London. — The  Lord  Treasurer  will 
let  your  Grace  know  her  Majesty's  pleasure  in  relation  to  the 
two  bills  your  Grace  apprehends  difficulty  from,  viz.,  that  of 
toleration,  and  the  exclusion  of  all  priests  after  those  by  the 
last  law  registered  shall  die  off.  Her  Majesty's  opinion  is  like 
to  be  that  your  Grace  should  let  the  first  take  its  own  natural 
progress,  and  as  to  the  second  her  Majesty  may  be  ready 
to  gratify  the  people  of  Ireland  in  this  point  when  she  is  not 
engaged  in  a  big  war  with  so  many  Roman  Catholic  allies, 
yet  at  this  time  she  fears  it  may  occasion  too  great  a  noise 
abroad.     The  linen  bill  may  be  carried   through  in  spite  of 


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all  opposition.  The  Parliament  warrant  will  be  sent  to-night, 
but  your  Grace  must  send  over  what  is  owing  to  the  clerks  of 
the  Treasury  or  we  shall  get  nothing  to  stir  there.  All  I  could 
say  could  not  get  the  Lord  Chancellor's  additional  allowance 
continued,  but  your  Grace  must  give  it  him  by  way  of  secret 
service.  My  Lord  Ranelagh  has  been  this  day  at  Richmond 
with  a  coachful  of  carpenters,  bricklayers  and  joiners. 

Same  to  Same. 

1704-5,  January  23,— See  Report,  XIV,  App.,  pt.  VII, 
p.  61. 

Sir  Simon  Harcourt  to  [Edward  Southwell]. 
1704-5,  January  23. — See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  777. 

Ormonde  to  Sir  Charles  Hedges. 
1704-5,  January  24. — See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  111. 

Edward  Smyth,  Bishop  of  Down  and  Connor,  to 
Ormonde. 

1704-5,  January  27.  Lisburn. — Concerning  a  certain  Cap- 
tain or  Lieut.  Harper,  whose  account  of  the  affairs  of  Scotland 
the  writer  has  transmitted  to  his  Grace.  Hopes  to  kiss  his 
Grace's  hands  before  Parliament  meets,  and  to  entertain 
his  Grace  with  the  best  observations  he  has  been  able  to  make 
"upon  the  disposition  of  these  parts  with  reference  to  our 
neighbours. ' '     Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  January  27.  London. — Concerning  the  proceedings 
in  Parliament  relative  to.  the  two  self-denial  bills  and  the  linen 
bill.     Abstract. 

Lady  A.  Carington  to  Duchess  of  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  January  28.     London. — Asking  her  Grace  to  remind 
the  Duke  of  Ormonde  of  his  promise  of  a  pair  of  colours  to 
Mr.  George,  Col.  Mackenzie's  son.     Abstract, 

Ormonde  to  Lord  Godolphin. 
1704-5,  January  28.— /See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  111. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  January  30. — Urges  the  quickening  of  the  pre- 
parations for  sending  the  1,000  horses  to  Portugal.  Hopes  the 
linen  bill  may  get  through  the  committee,  "  if  my  Lord 
Marlborough's  bill  do  not  take  up  much  more  time  than  is 
imagined."     Abstract. 


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Lieutenant  Covill  Mayne  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  January  30.     London. — Asking  his  Grace's  favour 
with   regard   to    becoming   a    lieutenant    to    Sir   Cloudesley 
Shovel.     Abstract. 

Lord  Mohxjn  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,    January    31.     London. — ^Thanking   his    Grace   for 
granting  his  request  in  favour  of    his    Captain-Lieutenant. 
Abstract. 

Earl  of  Abingdon  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  February  1.  London. — Reminding  his  Grace  of 
his  cousin  Washington  Shirley.     Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  February  1. — ^Doubts  not  but  the  linen  bill  will 
pass.  Concerning  an  intimation  that  the  adverse  party 
in  the  Irish  Parliament  design  an  address  to  restore  the 
Speaker.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  William  Stewart  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  February  3.  London. — Concerning  the  objections 
made  to  Major  Stewart  being  continued  as  Major  of  the 
Guards.  If  to  accommodate  the  nice  fancies  of  some  people 
he  must  go,  then  Captain  Wansborrow  would  be  the  best  to 
succeed  him.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Portmore  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  February  3.  London. — Complaining  of  a  tax 
which  is  being  proposed  to  be  passed  by  Parliament.  The 
tax  is  remarkably  severe  on  the  writer,  who  has  to  pay  every 
year  seven  hundred  pound  out  of  an  annuity  of  three  thousand 
only  for  life.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Lord  Godolphin. 
1704^5,  February  5. — See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  777. 

Ormonde  to  Sm  Charles  Hedges. 
1704-5,  February  5.— See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  777. 

Lord  Godolphin  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  February  5.~See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  111. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  February  6. — Concerning  the  progress  of  the  linen 
bill  through  Parliament.  Yesterday  in  spite  of  Lancashire 
it  got  through  committee.  Fears  its  being  made  teraporary 
cannot  be  avoided,  "  one  of  our  best  friends  having  given  up 
the  point."     Abstract. 


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Sir  Stafford  Fairborne  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  February  6.     Chatham. — Concerning  the  obtaining 
of  seamen  for  the  ships  under  the  writer's  command.    Abstract. 

Major-General  John  Tidcombe  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  February  8.  London. — Concerning  his  promotion, 
the  progress  being  made  in  recruiting  for  the  army  in  England, 
and  news  of  the  forces,  &c.,  being  sent  against  the  French. 
Dr.  Garth  is  attending  the  writer,  who  has  had  a  terrible  cold 
all  the  winter.     Abstract. 

Colonel  Thomas  Pijlteney  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  February  10. — Captain  Brushfield  wishes  to 
dispose  of  his  commission  in  the  guards,  and  wishes  to  have 
your  Grace's  leave  with  a  view  to  obtaining  permission  for 
that  step  from  the  Duke  of  Marlborough.  There  are  some 
officers  of  the  first  troop  that  are  getting  into  the  light  horse 
because  the  service  of  the  guards  is  so  poor  and  slow. 
Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  February  10. — The  hnen  bill  is  ordered  to  be 
engrossed,  and  consequently  past  the  power  of  the  members 
of  Liverpool,  who  alone  gave  us  any  considerable  opposition. 
It  is,  however,  to  be  enacted  only  for  eleven  years.  "  If  this 
beginning  of  good  usage  from  hence  be  rightly  taken  on  that 
side  it  won't  be  the  last  instance  of  kindness  Ireland  will 
receive  from  England."     Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  William  Stewart  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  February  10.  London. — Refers  to  a  lawsuit  he  lost 
owing  to  his  absence  in  Ireland  attending  Parliament  last 
winter,  but  will  go  thither  to  serve  his  Grace  as  soon  as  possible. 
Yesterday  the  Prince  spoke  to  him  to  make  one  Captain  Lloyd 
a  captain  in  the  Irish  guards.  Asks  whether  Major  Stewart 
or  Captain  Wansborrow  is  to  be  made  major.  Believes  he 
will  be  able  to  prevail  with  Mr.  Ashbury,  who  is  the  chief 
hautboy  to  the  guards,  and  the  little  boy  his  son,  who  is  a 
trumpet,  that  sounds  with  the  hautboys  as  they  march  with 
the  guards.  "  He  is  the  prettiest  boy  that  ever  I  saw,  and  I 
believe  your  Grace  may  remember  him,  and  hope  he  and  his 
father  will  not  be  disagreeable  to  your  Grace.     The  Duke  of 

Marlborough   is   very  unwilling   to  part   with   him " 

Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Sir  Charles  Hedges. 
1704-5,  February  lO.—See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  111. 

Dr.  de  Laussac  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,    February    12.     London. — Learning    from    M.    de 
Boisrond  that  his  Grace  has  remembered  him,  he  returns  his 


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heartiest  thanks.  With  regard  to  the  choice  of  some  one 
to  fill  the  deanery  of  St.  Patrick's  he  will  thankfully  accept 
of  anything  that  may  be  bestowed  on  a  foreigner  without 
stirring  too  much  the  jealousy  of  the  natives.     Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  February  13. — ^The  linen  bill  this  day  passed  the 
Commons,  and  is  ordered  up  to  the  Lords.  With  regard  to 
the  term  of  eleven  years,  when  he  complained  of  its  being 
temporary,  the  Lord  Treasurer  answered  that  he  thought 
it  was  eternal.     Abstract. 

Countess  of  Derby  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  February  IS.—See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  778. 

Viscount  Cholmondeley  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  February  14.  London. — Returns  thanks  for  a 
present  of  hawks.  Reminds  his  Grace  of  two  country  friends 
"  who  hope  to  come  into  some  of  your  regiments,  one  as 
captain,  the  other  as  lieutenant."    Abstract. 

E.  Nicholas  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  February  15.  Whitehall. — Begs  leave  that  Mr. 
Southwell  may  remind  his  Grace  of  Mr.  Davis  to  be  a 
lieutenant  when  the  guards  are  raised.  Is  ambitious  of  being 
serviceable  to  his  Grace,  as  his  father  and  grandfather  had  been 
to  his  Grace's  father  and  grandfather.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Lord  Godolphin. 
1704-5,  February  16.— See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  778. 

Ormonde  to  Sir  Charles  Hedges. 
1704-5,  February  15.— See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  778. 

Marqxhs  de  Lassay  to  Ormonde. 

1704r-5,  February  17. — Je  profite  de  I'occasion  dun  de  vos  aides 
de  camp  pour  vous  assurer  de  nouvau  de  mes  tres  humbles 
respects ;  comme  jespere  que  cette  lettre  sera  plus  heureux 
que  les  autres  et  quelle  parviendra  jusqua  vous,  je  prends 
la  liberte  de  vous  suplier  comme  je  lay  deja  faict  de  me 
procurer  vn  conge  pour  retourner  pendant  quell  que  temps 
en  France  ou  mes  affaires  my  apellent  indispensablement.  Les 
ordres  que  portes  vostre  aide  de  camp  et  la  politesse  quil  a 
de  vouloir  bien  attendre  que  jaye  eu  I'honneur  de  vous  escrire 
ne  me  permettent  pas  den  abuser  plus  longtemps,  et  tout  ce 
que  je  vous  dirois  seroit  innutil  puisque  je  connois  mieux 
que  personne  I'enuie  naturelle  que  vous  avez  d'obliger.  Jay 
I'honneur  d'estre  avec  un  tres  profond  respect,  Milord, 
vostre  tres  humble  et  tres  obeissant  serviteur,  Le  Marquis  De 
Lassay. 


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A  Lichtfield,  le  Heme  fevrier,  vieux  style,  1704;  je  vous 
suplie,  Milord,  de  my  honorer  dune  response. 

Sir  Richard  Myddelton  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  February  18.  Chirk  Castle.— Thanking  his  Grace 
for  favours  conferred  on  Captain  Myddleton,  a  kinsman  of 
the  writer.     Abstract. 

Sir  John  Conway  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  February  18. — Similar  to  the  foregoing.  He  is 
also  a  kinsman.     Abstract. 

Duchess  of  Devonshire  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  February  22.  London. — Recommending  Mr.  Francis 
Manning  as  a  captain  in  Lord  Orrery's  regiment.     Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  February  23. — Fair  prospect  of  the  linen  bill 
passing  through  the  House  of  Lords  without  alteration. 
Abstract. 

Viscount  Ikerrin  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  February  23.— See  Report,  XIV,  App.,  pt.  VII,  p.  62. 

Earl  oe  Grantham  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  February  24.  London. — J'ay  paye,  selon  vos 
ordres,  a  M.  Van  Brugh  cinquente  guinees  ;  le  compte  de 
Mrs.  Hunter  se  monte  a  saixante  dix  pieces  seize  sheUings,  et 
celuy  du  taiUeur  a  treize  pieces,  de  sorte  que  pour  achever 
de  payer  le  tailleur  et  Mrs.  Hunter  il  me  faut  encore  trente  six 
pieces  onze  sheUings.  Tout  s'avance  beaucoup  a  Richemont ; 
on  a  abattu  tout  ce  qu'il  y  avoit  a  abattre  et  toutte  la  peinture 
est  presque  finie.  My  Lord  Ranela  a  et6  heir  avec  moy  pour 
ordonner  votre  ameublement,  on  nous  a  promis  que  tout  servit 
fait  dans  un  mois ;  espere  que  vous  le  trouverres  a  votre  gre. 
le  souhaiterois  avoir  quelques  nouveUes  a  vous  mander ;  tout 
le  monde  se  porte  bien  icy ;  tout  a  que  ie  vous  recommande 
c'est  de  ne  point  oublier  le  pauvre  Hanrey  qui  est  tres 
sincerement  &c. 

Lord  Henry  Scott  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  February  24.  London. — Concerning  the  appoint- 
ment of  some  officers,  in  whom  the  writer  is  interested, 
particularly  one  named  Kent,  a  gentleman  of  an  estate,  for 
whom  a  captaincy  is  desired.     Abstract. 

Viscount  Charlemont  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  February  24.     Charlemont. — As  to  the  state  of  the 
garrison  at  Charlemont.     The  works  there  are  finished,  and 


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these  are  now  wanting  mounted  guns,  ammunition  and 
provisions  in  case  there  should  be  occasion  for  those  things. 
The  writer,  however,  assures  his  Grace  he  never  found  people 
under  less  apprehension  of  danger.     Abstract, 

Viscount  Tunbridgb  to  Ormonde. 

1704-6,  February  24.  London. — Hoping  to  have  the 
happiness  of  seeing  his  Grace  in  England  in  a  little  time  was 
the  only  reason  that  made  the  writer  come  over  from  Holland. 
Has  met  with  but  little  encouragement  from  other  people. 
Col.  Wroth  has  asked  him  to  recommend  to  his  Grace  the 
Colonel's  son  to  be  made  an  ensign  in  the  new  levies.    Abstract. 

Lord  Godolphin  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  February  25.— /See  Report,  VII,  p.  778. 

Ormonde  to  Sir  Charles  Hedges. 
1704-5,  February  2Q.—8ee  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  778. 

Lieut. -General  Henry  Lumley  to  Ormonde. 
1704-6,  February  26.  London. — The  Dutch  envoy  has 
solicited  extremely  that  the  writer  would  request  a  company 
of  foot  for  one  Mr.  Cory.  The  writer  hopes  his  Grace  will 
think  of  Mr.  Wilson.  He  thinks  he  will  be  ordered  to  Holland 
before  he  has  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  his  Grace,  for  there 
is  talk  of  taking  the  field  at  the  end  of  March  ;  there  he  expects 
to  be  for  seven  or  eight  months.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Arran  to  Ormonde, 

1704-5,  Feburary  26. — I  am  sorry  to  trouble  you  so  often, 
dear  brother,  but  this  is  to  beg  the  favour  of  you  that  I  may 
recommend  to  you  four  or  five  of  my  troop  to  be  lieutenants 
or  ensigns  in  those  new  levies,  which  are  men  that  have  been 
a  great  many  years  in  the  guards  and  deserve  very  well.  If 
you  give  the  commissions  out  before  you  come  over,  I  will 
send  their  names  to  Mr.  Southwell,  or  else  stay  till  you  come 
here,  which  I  hope  wiU  be  very  soon.  I  was  at  Richmond 
the  other  day  with  Mr.  Kendall ;  he  has  sent  you  an  account 
of  what  the  removing  the  pales  will  cost  and  will  do  nothing 
till  you  see  it  yourself  or  send  orders.  There  was  a  play  at 
Court  last  night  and  abundance  of  fine  ladies  at  it  ;  it  is  to 
be  the  last  till  next  winter.  We  have  not  one  word  of  news, 
there  being  no  foreign  posts  come.  Pray  let  Mr.  Southwell 
send  me  word  whether  it  will  be  necessary  to  send  the  names 
over  or  not. 

Captain  Thomas  Harrison  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  February  27.     London. — Concerning  his  purchase  of 
Colonel  Hiems'  commission  in  the  first  regiment  of  the  guards. 


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He  is  now  in  treaty  for  it,  and  asks  his  Grace's  leave  to  resign 
his  comet's  commission  to  Mr.  Samuel  Coppin,  a  gentleman 
of  a  very  good  family  in  Hertfordshire.  He  hopes  also  not 
to  loose  the  honour  of  being  one  of  his  Grace's  aide-de-camps. 
Abstract. 

Account  of  Ormonde's  Military  Pay. 

1704-5,  February.— 

Credit.  I.       s.    d. 

Due  to  your  Grace,  being  the  balance  of  your 
arrears  and  of  reckoning  from  March  the  1st, 
1703-4,  to  June  the  30th  following  .  .      . .        84  18     8J 

More  due  to  your  Grace,  your  subscription  as 
Colonel  and  six  servants  from  January  1st, 
1704-5,  to  February  the  28th  following,  being 
59  days  at  ll5.  per  diem 32     9     0 

More  due  to  your  Grace  the  pay  of  the  Captain- 
Lieutenant  and  one  servant  at  6s.  per  diem 
the  above  time 17  14     0 

Due  to  your  Grace  your  full  pay  for  yourseK  and 
four  servants  from  March  the  1st,  1703-4,  to 
June  the  30th  following,  being  122  days  at 
1^.  Us.  Od.  per  diem 195     4     0 

More  due  to  your  Grace  for  four  servants  from 
the  1st  of  April  to  the  30th  June,  1704,  at 
45.  per  diem  by  reason  the  clothes  were  made 
for  those  additional  servants  before  the  order 
came  out  to  allow  them 18     4     0 

Debit. 

Paid  Captain  Butler  to  make  his  pay  equal  to  a 
captain  of  horse,  by  your  Grace's  order,  from 
October  1st,  1704,  to  January  the  1st  following, 
being  formerly  paid  your  Grace  in  the  account 

to  Christmas,  1704      13  16     0 

Paid  in  subscriptions  at  I65.  per  diem  to  March 

the  31st,  1704       24  16     0 

Paid  more  to  June  the  30th  at  205.  per  diem     . .       91     0     0 

I.     s.     d. 
To  the  Treasury  fees  of  195?.  4s.     . .    10  14     9 

Agency  of  195Z.  45 1  12     6i 

Proportion  of  the  warrant         . .      . .     0     6     0 


12  13     3i 


Ormonde  to  Sir  Charles  Hedges. 
1704-5,  March.— /See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  778. 

Ormonde  to  Lord  Godolphin. 
1704-5,  March  1.— /See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  778. 


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Colonel  Thomas  Pultbney  to  Oemonde. 
1704-5,  March  3.  London. — Thanking  his  Grace  for  the 
votes  of  the  House  of  Commons  with  which  he  is  kept  suppHed. 
Mr.  Harris  of  his  Grace's  troop  was  tried  the  previous  Thursday 
for  a  robbery  committed  on  Hounslow  Heath,  found  guilty 
and  sentenced  to  death.  He  hopes,  however,  to  obtain  a  par- 
don. Mr.  Marteile  of  his  Grace's  troop  and  Mr.  Harrison,  who 
is  purchasing  a  company  in  the  guards,  are  mentioned. 
Abstract. 

Monsieur  Lubieres  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  March  3.  Geneva. — Concerning  Mr.  Alary,  who 
has  been  forced  to  leave  Orange  on  account  of  the  persecution 
in  that  country.  He  wishes  to  return  to  Ireland,  where  he 
had  formerly  obtained  lands  in  the  county  of  Thurles.  He 
and  his  wife  are  very  old,  and  it  would  be  a  work  of  great 
charity  to  grant  him  a  pension  of  twenty  pounds  sterling. 
(French.)    Abstract. 

Lord  Mohun  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  March  6.  London. — Concerning  Captain  May  of 
his  regiment.  He  has  been  informed  by  him  of  the  misfortune 
he  hes  under  as  to  the  chirurgeon  and  hopes  his  Grace 
will  suspend  his  judgment  until  he  hears  Captain  May. 
Abstract. 

Lord  Hervey  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  March  6.  London. — Concerning  the  same  matter 
and  making  a  similar  request.     Abstract. 

Sir  Stafford  Fairborne  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  March  7. — The  ships  gone  manned  from  this  river 
Medway  to  Spithead  are  : — 

Guns. 

Ranelagh. — Capt.  Delavall . .     80 

Torbay.—Csiipt.  Fairfax 80 

Dorsetshire. — Capt.  Butler      80 

Nassau. — Capt.  Dive       70 

.  Suffolk.— Qd^^t.  Wakehn 70  . 

Berwick. — Capt.  Lyall 70 

The  ships  now  in  this  river  and  manned  and  in  readiness 
to  follow  : — 

Ouna. 

Royal  Anne. — Capt.  Townsend      100 

Britannia. — Capt.  Norres       100 

Association. — Capt.  Whitaker        90 

Grafton. — Capt.  Heme 70 

Lenox. — Sir  Wm.  Jumper      70 


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Ships  in  this  river  every  way  fitted,  wanting  men  only  : — 


Guns. 

Men 

wanted. 

Royal  Sovereign. — Capt.  Hartnell.    100     . 

.      450 

Triumph. — Capt.  Edwards 

..      96     . 

.      300 

Barfleur.—^iv  Ed.  Whitaker 

..      96     . 

.      400 

Albemarle  . — Capt.  Mitchell . . 

..      90     . 

.      350 

Russell. — Capt.  Vincent 

..      80     . 

.      300 

Breda. — Capt.  Moody    . . 

.  .      70     . 

.      250 

Ipswichi — Capt.  Ejrkton 

..      70     . 

.      250 

Windsor. — Capt.  Trevor 

..      60     . 

.      250 
2,550 

The  account  on  the  other  side  and  above  mentioned  are  all 
the  ships  that  I  found  in  this  river  the  20th  January  without 
men,  provisions,  masts  or  anything  aboard;  and  there  is 
besides  here  of  her  Majesty's  ships  only  the  St.  George,  Royal 
Katharine,  Royal  Oak  and  Norfolk  that  are  not  intended 
this  year  for  the  sea  ;  all  which  I  humbly  offer  to  lay  before 
your  Grace. 

I  have  not  been  lately  at  Portsmouth,  but  by  accounts  I 
have  from  thence  there  is  about  a  thousand  men  wanting  to 
man  all  the  ships  there.  Sir  WiUiam  Whetstone  is  ready  to 
sail  from  thence  with  a  good  squadron.  Sir  Thomas  Hardy 
is  gone  with  the  Kent,  Orford  and  Eagle  to  join  Sir  John  Leake 
and  &r  Thomas  Dilkes  at  Lisbon  ;  and  those  men-of-war  that 
went  from  hence  are  either  gone  or  will  soon  follow,  so  that 
in  a  little  time  there  will  be  together  between  thirty  and  forty 
men-of-war.  About  the  20th  of  next  month  Sir  Cloudesley 
will  be  following  if  we  can  but  get  those  men  we  want. 

Same  to  Same. 

1704-5,  March  7.  Aboard  the  Royal  Sovereign,  Chatham. — 
Thanking  his  Grace  for  the  men  Captain  Saunders  is  bringing. 
There  is  a  great  want  of  men  in  the  fleet,  the  protection  and 
trade  keeping  the  best  men  from  the  service.  About  three 
thousand  more  would  go  near  to  man  the  fleet  which  is 
proposed  to  be  with  twenty  Dutch,  about  seventy  ships  of  the 
line.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Lord  Godolphin. 
1704-5,  March  S.—See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  779. 

Ormonde  to  Sir  Charles  Hedges. 
1704-5,  March  S.See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  779. 


Rev.  Marius  D' Assign y  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  March  9.     Kinsale. — ^May  it  please  your  Grace  to 
accept   from    my    pen   an   exact   account   of  a    very   sharp 


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engagement  for  six  or  seven  hours  between  the  Exeter,  Captain 
Swanton,  commander,  Sir  George  Byng  Vice- Admiral  of 
the  Blue  being  on  board,  and  the  Thesis  of  Rochefort,  south- 
west of  England  about  the  degree  of  45  latitude.  The  Exeter, 
Medway,  Rochester  and  Deptford  sailed  out  of  Plymouth 
31st  January  to  convoy  forty-one  merchantmen  out  of  the 
roads  of  privateers.  The  next  morning  the  Medway  took  a 
privateer  of  St.  Malo*s,  of  ten  guns,  near  the  Lizard,  and 
retook  an  English  vessel  laden  with  salt  which  was  sent  into 
Falmouth.  The  privateer  was  brought  away  with  us. 
February  12th  in  the  evening  we  left  the  merchantmen  there, 
being  sixteen  with  East  India  merchants.  Wednesday 
following,  the  14th  of  February,  Valentine's  Day,  we  discovered 
five  sail  before  us  by  break  of  day  about  three  leagues  off, 
a  strong  easterly  wind  blowing  and  the  sea  very  rough  and 
rolling.  We  made  after  them  with  all  sail,  and  finding  them 
to  be  French,  we  being  at  the  head  of  our  small  squadron, 
passed  by  the  first,  second  and  third  sail,  and  made  up  to  a 
French  man-of-war  that  was  their  convoy.  When  we  came 
up  within  pistol  shot  we  plied  him  with  all  the  guns  that 
the  winds  and  sea  would  suffer  us  to  make  use  of,  for  they 
being  to  wind  of  us  we  could  make  but  Httle  use  of  our  lower 
tiers.  The  Frenchman  kept  us  in  play  about  seven  hours, 
killed  of  us  fourteen  men,  wounded  thirty-one,  cut  our  ropes 
and  tackling,  hurt  our  foremast,  and  would  not  yield  till  we 
had  killed  him  and  wounded  about  thirty-three.  All  his  masts 
were  shot  through,  his  ropes  and  sails  were  rendered  useless 
and  he  received  four  shots  between  wind  and  water. 

It  was  a  desperate  fight  for  the  time,  and  we  must  needs 
do  the  Frenchmen  that  justice  that  they  behaved  themselves 
with  extraordinary  courage  and  resolution.  When  their 
captain  and  officers  came  on  board  they  gave  this  account  of 
themselves :  that  their  ship  was  the  King's  ship,  called  the 
Thesis  of  Rochefort  near  Rochelle  ;  it  sailed  out  of  France 
4th  August  last  to  the  Carribby  Islands  and  St.  Domingo 
as  convoy  to  twenty  merchantmen,  and  came  from  thence 
in  forty-four  days  in  the  company  of  about  nine  sail.  Four 
were  separated  by  bad  weather,  five  were  yet  in  company, 
one  escaped  us,  three  were  picked  up  by  the  ships  astern. 
The  Medway  took  the  Elephant,  a  fly-boat  of  four  hundred 
ton,  the  Deptford  took  the  Gloutone  of  three  hundred  ton, 
the  Rochester  the  John  James  of  about  a  hundred  ton.  Their 
loading  is  of  sugar,  Indigo,  cacao,  &c.  Our  prize  had  forty-four 
guns,  two  hundred  and  forty-four  men,  commanded  by  a 
captain  of  great  courage  and  skill,  named  de  Sausin,  a  knight 
of  the  order  of  St.  Lewis,  having  Monsieur  de  la  Tour  Landry, 
a  knight  of  Malta  lately  taken  at  Vigo,  for  his  first  heutenant. 
Monsieur  de  Saige,  Captain  of  the  Marines,  for  his  second, 
and  two  ensigns  of  the  Marines — one  is  alive,  the  other. 
Monsieur  de  St.  Hermine,  having  married  with  a  lady  a  month 
before  his  departure  from  the  Cape,  was  killed  with  a  cannon 

Wt.  43482.  0  10 


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shot  and  left  aboard  a  sorrowful  widow  of  seventeen  years  of 
age ;  she  has  on  board  the  Elephant  in  sugars  to  the  value 
of  ten  thousand  crowns.  We  had  on  board  our  prize  taken 
Valentine's  Day  above  two  thousand  pounds  worth  in  Spanish 
and  French  coin  and  plate,  three  hundred  hogsheads  of  sugar, 
twenty-five  of  indigo,  twenty-five  barrels  of  cacao,  besides 
bago,  two  hundred  and  fifty  hides,  besides  tobacco.  The 
ship  being  very  leaky,  our  commanders  Hghtened  it  of  sugars, 
indigo  and  cacao,  but  we  met  with  cross  winds  and  stormy 
weather,  which  blowed  away  twice  the  main  mast,  so  that 
they  burnt  the  ship,  judging  it  impossible  to  bring  into  harbour. 
The  other  prizes  are  now  in  this  harbour  and  the  chief  prisoners 
are  the  captain,  the  two  lieutenants,  one  ensign,  the  lady, 
the  Count  de  Jenes,  Messrs.  Feret  de  Vasmeinier,  the  King's 
lieutenant  in  St.  Martin's  Isle,  Messieurs  de  Marienne,  de 
Boisluche  de  Silly,  guard  marines.  Monsieur  de  Nemond, 
another  was  killed.  They  humbly  entreat  your  Grace's 
favour  and  assistance  for  a  speedy  exchange.  They  are 
designed  for  Plymouth  with  our  ship.  Monsieur  de  la  Tour 
Landry  having  been  already  most  nobly  entertained  by  your 
Grace  at  London  and  Oxford  desires  his  humble  service  to  be 
presented  to  your  Grace.  They  have  the  Hberty  of  this  town 
upon  their  parole.  I  entreat  your  Grace's  favourable  accept- 
ance of  this  account  from  your  Grace's  most  humble  servant 
to  command  and  chaplain  of  the  Exeter,  &c. 

Thomas  Clarke  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  March  10. — Whitehall. — Captain  Lloyd,  whom  the 
Prince  recommended  to  his  Grace,  has  been  told  to  go  for 
Ireland.  The  transports  and  part  of  the  convoy  designed  for 
Lisbon  sailed  from  Spithead,  and  orders  are  sent  to  two  seventy- 
gun  ships  to  follow  them  to  Cork.  Particulars  concerning  the 
siege  of  Gibraltar.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Thomond  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  March  12. — Thankiag  his  Grace  for  acting  as  his 
trustee.     Abstract. 

Francis  Nicholls  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  March  12.  London. — Reminding  his  Grace  of  his 
promise  in  connection  with  the  appointing  of  officers  to 
the  three  regiments  which  are  being  raised  in  Ireland. 
Abstract. 

Countess  of  Bellamont  to  Ormonde. 

1704-5,  received  March  13. — Hoping  that  Ormonde  will 
accord  to  her  husband  and  herself  his  protection.  She  sends 
some  httle  presents  for  the  Duchess  of  Ormonde's  daughters. 
(French.)    Abstract, 


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Sir  Stafford  Fairborne  to  Ormonde. 
1704-5,  March  15.  From  aboard  the  Royal  Sovereign  in 
the  Medway. — Concerning  his  candidature  for  Rochester. 
Sir  Cloudesley  Shovel  will  be  unanimously  chosen  for  that 
place,  but  will  not  join  with  the  writer  because  he  has  refused 
others.  As  there  wiU  be  a  prevailing  party  for  a  county 
gentleman  and  a  sea-officer,  he  persuades  them  that  Sir 
Cloudesley  is  a  very  good  county  gentleman,  having  an  estate 
in  that  county,  and  desires  that  he  may  be  accounted  the 
sea-officer.  He  fears  opposition  from  Ormonde's  old  friend 
Sir  Edward  Gregory,  and  begs  Ormonde  to  intercede  with 
the  old  gentleman  not  to  make  any  party  against  him. 
Abstract. 

Payments  by  Concord atum  in  1704. 

I.      s.  d. 
For   the   repairs    of    Mutton  Island  Fort   near 

Galway 38  16  3 

For  repairs  at  Carrickfergus 170  1311 

For  repairs  at  Charlemont 430  11  4  J 

For  repairs  at  Kinsale 282  17  6| 

For  repairs  at  Limerick          . .  75     0  0 

For  building  a  guard  house  at  Dingle  in  Kerry.' .  21     7  0 

£1,019     6     l\ 


Troops  at  Bruges. 

Com.        Ser-       Drums.     Men. 
Officers,     geants. 

Brigadier  Sutton 25     . .     35     . 

Brigadier  Preston 30     . .     35     . 

Col.  Lee 28     . .      30     . 

Lord  Orrery 26     . .      37 


21   . 

.  573 

18  . 

.   561 

21   . 

.   466 

21   . 

.   544 

109  137  81  2,144 

Sergeants      137 

Drums   ....  . .  81 


2,362 
Officers 109 


2,471 


Duke  of  Marlborough  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  March  25.— ^S'ee  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  779. 

Lord  Godolphin  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  March  27.~See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  779. 


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Earl  of  Rochester  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  March  21. —See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  779. 

Lieut. -General  Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  March  27.  Ramey  Camp. — Concerning  the  campaign 
on  the  Continent.  He  refers  to  what  Lieutenant-General 
Lumley  has  told  his  Grace.  He  confesses  that  he  had  been 
for  attacking  the  enemy.  The  Duke  of  Marlborough  is 
allowing  him  to  go  to  Aix-la-Chapelle  for  his  health.     Abstract 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  March  27.  London. — Informing  Ormonde  that  the 
writer  has  been  appointed  to  command  the  army  in  Ireland 
and  would  make  it  his  constant  study  and  labour  to  serve 
and  please  his  Grace.     Abstract, 

Madam  D'Auverquerque  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  March  27  (received). — Concerning  business  to  be  trans- 
acted on  Lord  Bellamont's  account  with  his  uncle.  She  asks 
the  Duke  to  see  that  the  latter  completes  a  recovery  during 
the  next  term,  and  reminds  his  Grace  of  Madame  de  Teny's 
affair,  and  begs  him  to  obtain  a  company  for  Monsr.  Malide. 
She  refers  to  a  treaty  of  marriage  between  her  son  Cornelius 
and  the  daughter  of  Monsr.  Salis,  Governor  of  Breda, 
who  it  is  said  will  have  50,000Z.  sterhng  after  her  father's 
death.  She  mentions  a  law  suit  in  Chancery  in  respect  of  her 
grandson's  estate ;  she  has  not  been  able  to  obtain  an  account 
of  it  from  Lord  Grandtestle.     {French.)    Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  March  29.  London. — He  has  had  a  violent  defluction 
on  his  eye  and  has  been  confined  to  his  house  for  over  three 
weeks.  Congratulates  his  Grace  upon  the  happy  conclusion 
of  the  first  part  of  the  session  and  hopes  to  be  well  enough 
to  assist  towards  the  despatch  of  the  bills.  WiU  see  to  the 
Lord  Chancellor's  affair,  and  also  to  the  providing  of  money 
for  the  horses  and  for  the  levy  of  the  additional  men.   Abstract. 

Same  to  Same. 
1705,  April  5.  London. — Concerning  proceedings  with 
regard  to  biUs  sent  over  from  Ireland.  Hopes  they  will  be 
all  ready  on  her  Majesty's  return  from  Newmarket.  Thinks 
there  is  little  ground  for  the  rumour  that  Lord  Wharton  is 
to  be  his  Grace's  successor.     Abstract. 

Major-General  John  Tidcombe  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  April  5.  London. — Hopes  he  will  soon  have  his 
Qpmmissipn  and  then  intends  to  begin  his  journey  to  wait  upon 


149 

his  Grace.  Lord  Harry  Scott  and  Captain  Porter  will  accom- 
pany him.  It  is  very  earnestly  desired  that  Mr.  Baker  may 
have  a  company  in  the  guards.  Concerning  the  siege  of 
Gibraltar  and  the  designs  of  the  French  with  regard  to  Verrue. 
Prince  Eugene  having  at  last  opened  the  eyes  of  the  drowsy 
Emperor  they  are  in  hopes  his  army  may  come  time  enough  to 
succour  Italy.  Their  new  playhouse  opens  next  Monday  with 
an  Italian  opera  ;  it  is  very  good  of  its  kind  and  very  good 
voices  to  perform  it.     Abstract. 

Sir  Charles  Hedges  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  April  5.— See  Eeport,  VII,  App.,  p.   779. 

Brigadier- General  Emanuel  Howe  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  April  6.  London. — Concerning  the  unsatisfactory 
behaviour  of  Captain  Johnson  of  the  writer's  regiment.  He 
has  not  even  now  raised  all  the  recruits  for  his  regiment, 
though  all  the  other  captains  completed  their  companies 
at  the  beginning  of  February ;  moreover,  and  especially,  he 
made  a  bargain  with  Captain  Walhs  about  the  sale  of  his 
commission  without  the  knowledge  of  the  writer.  The  Duke 
of  Marlborough  refused  to  give  his  sanction  to  this  bargain, 
as  also  to  a  bargain  he  was  making  with  a  comet  of  horse. 
Abstract. 

Colonel  John  Eyre  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  April  10.  Galway. — Asking  his  Grace,  if  the  register 
bill  passes,  to  dispose  of  this  province  to  the  writer  or  his  son. 
Abstract. 

Lord  Conway  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  April  11. — Asking  his  Grace  to  give  his  countenance 
to  a  bill  which  is  being  brought  on  his  behalf  before  the  Par- 
liament of  Dublin.     Abstract. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Sir  William  Robinson. 

1705,  April  11.  DubHn. — Concerning  various  affairs.  He 
refers  to  his  Grace's  journey  into  the  North  and  to  a  supply 
of  powder  for  Ireland.  All  the  money  necessary  for  raising 
the  new  men  to  replace  the  three  regiments  ordered  to  sea 
has  not  yet  been  sent  over.  Desires  the  recipient  to  represent 
this  matter  to  Lord  Coningsby.  It  is  very  difficult  to  do 
anything  for  poor  O'Brien,  inasmuch  as  the  mihtary  con- 
tingencies fund  is  so  overcharged  with  orders  from  England, 
but  something  will  be  provided.  Another  obstruction  to 
his  receiving  his  salary  on  the  estabhshment  is  that  Lord 
Mount -Alexander  has  prevailed  on  his  Grace  to  allow  the 
two  engineers  to  be  paid  under  him  as  before.  Mr.  Pouncefold 
has  not  yet  returned  the  clothing  money.     Abstract. 


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Viscount  Falkland  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  April  13. — Informing  him  that  he  has  had  a  severe 
fever  and  has  been  ordered  to  the  country  for  the  summer, 
so  cannot  be  at  his  post  to  serve  his  Majesty.  He  apologises 
for  not  having  sooner  returned  thanks  to  his  Grace.    Abstract. 

Monsieur  De  Langes  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  April  14. — En  verite  je  peris  absolument  faute  de 
pouvoir  plus  subsister.  C'est  pourquoy  je  me  vois  reduit 
a  cette  extremite  que  d'estre  constraint  a  vous  demander 
un  assistance  charitable. 

Au  nom  de  Dieu  secourez  moy, 
Au  nom  de  Dieu  aydez  moy, 
Au  nom  de  Dieu  ayez  pitie  de  moy. 
Je  n'ay  pas  la  force,  My  Lord,  de  pousser  plus  loin  mes  Htanies, 
et  a  peine  m'en  reste-t-il  assez  pour  assurer  votre  Grandeur, 
que  je  suis  de  toute  mon  ame  &c. 
Endorsed  : — ^Monsr.  de  Langes,  governor  to  his  Grace. 

Captain  George  Rogers  to  Sir  William  Robinson. 

1705,  April  14.  Seaford  at  Portsmouth. — Concerning  nego- 
tiations with  the  masters  belonging  to  one  of  the  ships  at 
Southampton  for  the  carrjdng  of  powder.     Abstract. 

Robert  Dixon  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  April  16.  Dubhn. — Requesting  a  company  in  the 
guards  and  promising  to  employ  his  interest  in  several  counties 
in  his  Grace's  service  if  a  new  Parliament  be  called.     Abstract. 

Major-General  John  Tidcombe  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  April  17.  London. — He  has  received  his  commission 
and  is  now  obHged  to  wait  till  the  first  day  of  the  term  to  take 
the  oaths  in  order  to  quahfy  according  to  the  Act.  He  will 
thereupon  immediately  begin  his  journey  and  wiU  be  at 
Holyhead  the  15th  of  May.  Begs  his  Grace  for  the  favour 
of  a  man-of-war  or  the  yacht,  lest  a  privateer  might  carry 
him  to  a  place  he  has  no  ambition  to  see.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Vernon  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  April  17.  Dubhn. — Liforming  his  Grace  of  the 
improvement  in   Col.   Pearce's  condition.     Abstract. 

Earl  oe  Rochester  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  April  IS.— See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  779. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  April  21.  Dubhn. — Hopes  the  rest  of  his  Grace's 
northern  progress  will  be  as  pleasant  and  as  happy  as  it  had 
been  so  far  to  Lisbum.     Abstract. 


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Mathew  Johnson  to  Benjamin  Portlock. 

1705,  April  22.  Middle  Temple. — Asking  for  some  further 
preferment  for  his  cousin  Shepard  from  the  Duke  of  Ormonde. 
Abstract. 

Lord  Mohun  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  April  24.  London. — Pleading  that  Captain  May's 
commission  may  be  restored  to  him,  or,  if  it  is  disposed  of, 
that  he  may  have  the  company  of  Captain  Gery  (who  is  just 
dead)  in  the  writer's  regiment.  Concerning  Captain  Erie's 
leave  to  dispose  of  his  company.     Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  April  24.  London. — Explaining  the  proceedings  being 
had  in  England  upon  the  Irish  bills.  The  objections  thereto, 
especially  to  the  linen  bill,  the  hollow-swords- blades  bill,  the 
rape-seed  bill,  and  that  that  changes  the  duty  upon  hops. 
Abstract. 

Monsieur  Guiscard  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  April  24.  La  Haye. — Gives  particulars  as  to  troops 
placed  at  his  service  for  his  proposed  expedition.  M.  de 
Foissac,  his  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  M.  Dumeny,  his  Major, 
enjoy  pensions  from  her  Majesty,  which  he  hopes  will  be 
continued  to  them.     (French.)    Abstract. 

Duke  of  Montague  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  April  24. — Expressing  his  obhgations  to  his  Grace 
for  his  favours  to  Captains  Samason  and  Wansos,  whom  he 
had  recommended.     Abstract. 

Lord  Godolphin  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  April  24.— ^See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  780. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  April  28. — Concerning  the  proceedings  on  the  linen 
bill,  which  was  opposed  by  the  Bishop  of  Dublin,  on  account 
of  its  reducing  the  tythe  of  hemp  and  flax  to  half  what  it 
formerly  paid.  Also  concerning  the  hollow-swords-blades  bill, 
the  bill  of  mines,  that  for  taking  off  the  duty  upon  rape-seed, 
the  bill  for  the  priests  and  that  relating  to  hops  and  muslins. 
Abstract. 

Robert  Wythe  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  April  28.  Richmond. — Requesting  a  company  in 
the  guards  or  dragoons  for  his  son.     Abstract. 

George  Rogers  to  Sir  William  Robinson. 
1705,  April  28.     Seaford  at  Portsmouth.— Is  waiting  for  the 
ship  on  which  the  powder  has  been  placed  and  desires  to  know 


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her  name  and  the  master's  name,  and  when  she  is  expected  to 
reach  Portsmouth.     Abstract. 

James  Medlycott  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  May  1. — This  morning  Serjeant  Bony thon  shot  himself 
through  the  head  with  a  pistol,  and  is  dead  or  at  least  past  hopes 
of  recovery.  Reminds  his  Grace  that  his  brother  is  a  candidate 
for  the  stewardship  of  Westminster,  which  is  or  soon  wiU  be 
at  his  Grace's  disposal  accordingly.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  May  1.  St.  James's  Street. — Setting  forth  his  zeal 
to  serve  his  Grace,  whose  hands  he  hopes  soon  to  kiss  at 
Dublin.  He  refers  to  a  conversation  with  the  Duke  of  Marl- 
borough concerning  alterations  in  Ireland.  The  writer  could 
be  easy  under  the  Duke  of  Ormonde,  but  could  not  promise 
himself  the  same  happiness  under  everybody.     Abstract. 

Cavendish  Weedon  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  1. — Lincohi's  Inn. — ^Mr.  Serjeant  Bonython,  his 
Grace's  steward,  having  shot  himself,  the  writer  entreats  his 
Grace's  favour  to  succeed  him.  He  is  steward  of  the  next  manor 
of  Chelsea  under  Lord  Cheyne,  and  has  done  more  pubhc  service 
to  Westminster  than  any  person  of  the  gown  besides.  Brigadier 
Fairfax,  the  Earl  of  Rochester  and  the  SoHcitor  General  will 
vouch  for  him.     Abstract. 

Ormonde  to  Monsieur  Guiscard. 

1705,  May  1.  Dublin. — Jay  le  honeur  des  vos  letter  et  je 
vous  prie  detre  tres  persuadee  que  je  me  feroy  vu  plaisir 
extreme  de  vous  povoire  etre  util  done  ce  pays  ici.  Je  receu 
tant  dhonestee  de  Monsieur  votre  frere  pendant  que  je 
etoite  prisoner  a  Namur  que  je  me  croirois  fort  ingrate  si  je 
manquee  a  temoigner  la  reconason  des  amities  honestee  que  ils 
m'a  faite.  Monsieur,  je  vous  enveri  le  chiffre  que  vous  m'aues 
demmandes  et  je  seray  raire  de  povoire  aider  en  ce  que  vous 
aUez  entre  prender.  Je  suis  tres  fachee  deprender  le  mavais 
traitement  de  monsieur  votre  frere.  J'espere  que  irris  auray 
I'occasion  et  le  boune  heure  de  lui  venger. 

Je  vous  envoie  les  dits  memoirs  que  vous  m'auez  demande  ; 
seray  toujours  pret  a  vous  temoigner  combien  je  sui 
imuablement,  &c.     Copy. 

Earl  of  Halifax  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  1. — Asking  for  Serjeant  Bonython's  place  for 
his  brother  James.  There  is  little  or  no  profit,  but  as  the 
court  is  kept  under  the  writer's  roof,  the  office  would  be  more 
proper  and  convenient  for  his  brother  than  for  any  other  of 
the  long  robe.     Abstract. 


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Sir  Stephen  Fox  to  Ormonde. 
1705,    May   1.     Chiswick. — Recommending  a  successor    to 
Serjeant  Bonython.     Abstract 

to  Ormonde. 


1705,  May  2. — Concerning  the  rectory  of  Ahoghill  in  the 
diocese  of  Connor.  It  is  in  his  Grace's  gift  and  will  soon  be 
vacant  by  the  death  of  Dr.  Leslie.  The  writer  begs  the 
preferment  for  Mr.  Walkington.     Abstract. 

Thomas  Goodinge  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  2. — Asking  for  the  deputy-stewardship  of 
Westminster  vacant  by  the  unhappy  and  untimely  death  of 
Mr.  Serjeant  Bonython.     Abstract. 

Minute  of  the  Privy  Council. 

1705,  May  3.  St.  James's. — Upon  reading  this  day  at 
the  Board  an  account  of  the  charge  for  sending  five  hundred 
barrels  of  powder  (a  copy  whereof  is  hereunto  annexed)  for  the 
supply  of  her  Majesty's  stores  of  war  in  Ireland,  her  Majesty 
with  the  advice  of  her  Privy  Council  is  pleased  to  order  that 
the  said  five  hundred  barrels  of  powder  be  supplied  out  of  her 
Majesty's  stores  here  and  sent  thither  to  remain  for  her 
Majesty's  service  in  the  stores  of  that  kingdom,  the  whole 
charge  of  which  said  powder  with  the  freight  thereof  according 
to  the  said  account  will  amount  to  the  sum  of  2,928Z.  25.  2d. 
and  that  the  same  be  paid  out  of  her  Majesty's  revenues  in 
Ireland,  and  the  Right  Honourable  the  Lord  High  Treasurer 
is  to  give  the  necessary  directions  to  the  Lord  Lieutenant  of 
that  kingdom  for  the  payment  of  the  said  charges  accordingly. 

Enclosure : — 

An  account  of  the  charge  for  sending  500  barrels  of  powder 
to  the  stores  in  Dublin  in  Ireland  : — 

I.       s.  d. 

To  the  Office  of  the  Ordnance  for  600 

barrels . .      . .    2,529     8     0 

To  exchange  of  that  sum  at  8|  per  cent.       215     0     0 

Fees    for    her    Majesty's    letter    with 

exchange        7  15     0 

Freight  to  DubUn  at  505.  per  ton,  allow- 
ing 16  barrels  to  the  ton,  is  SOJs.     . .         78     2     6 

Fees  for  the  warrants  at  Dublin, 
21.  lis.  ;  port  charges  and  contin- 
gencies, lOl 12  11     0 

Poundage  and  pells  of  2,842^.  16s.  6d.  .         85     5     8 

£2,928     2     2 


A  true  copy. — John  Povey. 


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Thomas  Medlycott  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  May  3. — Requesting  fulfilment  of  his  Grace's  promise 
to  appoint  him  in  Mr.  Bonython's  place.  He  is  still  at  Mil- 
borne  Port.  He  hopes  the  election  will  be  over  next  week. 
They  have  but  forty-eight  voters,  and  forty  of  them  have 
promised  him.  He  had  received  his  Grace's  letter  of  April 
21st  from  Strabane.     Abstract. 

T.  BoTELER  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  3.  Orchard  Street,  Westminster. — Begging  to 
be  remembered  now  that  Serjeant  Bonython's  place  is  vacant, 
'  more  especially  that  he  had  a  promise  of  something  from  the 
first  Duke  of  Ormond  in  Heu  of  the  post  of  head  baihff  of 
Westminster.  Mr.  Strode,  who  held  that  office  in  the  time  of 
King  Charles  II,  having  affronted  the  envoy  of  Savoy,  was 
displaced.  The  writer  at  great  trouble  and  expense  got  a 
patent  drawn  up  and  sent  to  Ireland,  with  the  name  blank, 
which  Mr.  WilUam  Ellis  had  the  good  fortune  to  get  fiUed 
with  his,  and  the  writer  had  only  the  promise  of  something 
of  the  like  nature.  He  relies  whoUy  on  the  dead  and  living 
Ormonds.     Abstract. 

Joseph  Ayloff  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  3.  Chancery  Lane. — A  request  for  Mr.  Serjeant 
Bonython's  place.     Abstract. 

J.  Latton  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  3. — Recommending  Mr.  Ayloff,  her  Majesty's 
steward  at  Richmond,  to  succeed  Mr.  Serjeant  Bonython  as 
his  Grace's  under  steward  of  Westminster.     Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  3. — Concerning  the  bills  passed  and  rejected  by 
the  Council.     Abstract. 

Same  to  Same. 
1705,  May  5.-— See  Report,  XIV,  App.,  pt.  VII,  p.  62. 

Ormonde  to  Princess  Sophia. 
1705,  May  6.— See  Report,  XIV,  App.,  pt.  VII,  p.  780. 

Major-General  D.   O'Parrell  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  7.  Valenca. — Giving  an  account  of  recent 
operations  of  the  army  in  Spain.     Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  8.  London. — Concerning  the  bills  rejected  by 
the  Council.     Abstract. 


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Ormonde  to  Lord  Godolphin. 

1705,  May  10.  Dublin. — Last  Tuesday  night  I  received 
the  honour  of  your  lordship's  of  the  3rd  with  the  recom- 
mendation of  Sir  James  Montagu  to  succeed  Mr.  Bonython, 
which  I  should  have  been  glad  to  comply  with  in  obedience 
to  your  Lordship's  commands,  but  that  I  have  been  engaged 
for  above  these  four  years  to  Mr.  Medlycott  for  that  place 
in  case  it  should  become  vacant,  which  puts  it  out  of  my 
power  to  comply  with  your  Lordship's  desire.  My  Lord, 
nothing  but  a  pre-engagement  could  hinder  me  from  obeying 
your  commands,  for  I  shall  always  endeavour  to  show  your 
Lordship  that  I  am  with  the  greatest  truth  and  respect,  &c. 
Copy. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  10.  London. — Announcing  his  hopes  of  being 
able  to  leave  for  DubHn  by  the  latter  end  of  the  coming  week. 
Abstract 

Brigadier- General  Nicholas  Sankey  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  11.  Kinsale. — Concerning  the  strength  and 
condition  of  the  regiments  at  Kinsale  and  Cork.     Abstract. 

J.  Ellis  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  15.  Whitehall. — Enclosing  a  Hst  of  the  regiments 
and  general  officers  that  go  with  the  Earl  of  Peterborough, 
and  refering  to  the  elections  to  Parliament,  which  are  in  progress, 
movements  of  naval  officers  and  of  the  Dutch  fleet,  and  his 
Grace's  northern  progress.     Abstract. 

Colonel  Thomas  Pulteney  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  May  15.  London. — Finding  that  his  Grace  is  engaged 
to  Mr.  Medlycott  for  Serjeant  Bonython 's  place  he  gives 
Mr.  Medlycott  joy  of  the  place  as  heartily  as  he  could  have  done 
to  his  brother.  Mr.  Boyle  and  Sir  Harry  Colt  were  elected  on 
Saturday  members  of  Parfiament  for  Westminster.  Mr. 
Cross  was  outpolled  by  above  nine  hundred  votes.  Captain 
Myvod  died  last  Sunday.  Hopes  his  Grace  will  be  charitable 
to  his  widow.  Recommends  Mr.  Rogers,  now  adjutant,  to 
be  made  brigadier.  Cannot  recommend  Mr.  Greenhill,  eldest 
sub-brigadier,  to  be  adjutant,  but  thinks  Mr.  Hardishe,  second 
sub-brigadier,  well  quahfied  to  succeed,  and  that  Mr.  King, 
who  had  a  promise  of  a  lieutenancy  in  the  new  raised  dragoons, 
may  get  the  place  of  sub-brigadier.  He  is  willing  to  gratify 
Mr.  Myvod's  widow  out  of  his  future  frugality,  and  if  Mr. 
Maudsley,  Mr.  Marteille  or  Mr.  Wood  may  be  made  Heutenant 
in  Mr.  King's  stead,  that  will  help  to  a  full  satisfaction  for  her. 
The  writer  has  been  offered  400Z.  to  get  his  Grace's  consent 
for  a  sub-brigadier,  but  recommends  the  other  persons  as  most 
agreeable  to  his  Grace.     Abstract. 


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Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  15.  London. — ^Now  that  his  small  affair  in  the 
Treasury  is  so  far  despatched  as  to  have  passed  the  Queen's 
sign  manual,  he  hopes  to  be  able  to  leave  for  Dublin  in  a 
week's  time.     Abstract. 

Monsieur  Guiscard  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  15.  The  Hague. — Concerning  the  affair  of  the 
Cevenes  and  the  opposition  to  the  carrying  out  of  the  resolution 
taken  by  the  States  General  to  give  him  a  body  of  fifteen 
hundred  men  to  enter  into  the  kingdom.  He  begs  his  Grace 
to  afford  him  help  in  money  in  order  that  he  may  carry  out 
his  project.     (French.)    Abstract. 

Sir  Charles  Hedges  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  May  15.  Whitehall. — Concerning  his  Grace's  ap- 
proaching departure  from  Ireland,  and  bills  which  had  been 
passed  by  the  Privy  Council  there.  The  Queen  had  approved 
of  the  two  Lords  Justices  recommended  by  his  Grace. 
Abstract. 

Colonel  Thomas  Pulteney  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  17.  London. — Stating  that  he  has  altered  his 
opinion  respecting  Mr.  Greenhill's  fitness  for  the  adjutancy, 
rendered  vacant  by  Mr.  Myvod's  death,  and  recommending 
him  for  that  promotion,  and  thanking  his  Grace  for  approving 
of  the  method  proposed  for  having  the  whole  complement 
of  a  hundred  and  sixty  gentlemen  upon  the  duty  roU,  so  that 
aU  those  excused  as  non-effective  wiU  appear  to  be  effective 
by  paying  for  their  duty  to  those  who  do  it  for  them.   Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  19.  London. — Expressing  his  anxiety  to  leave 
for  Dublin  at  the  earliest  possible  date  and  hoping  to  do  so 
by  the  1st  or  2nd  of  June.     Abstract. 

James  Fontaine  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  19.  London. — Begging  his  Grace  to  write  a 
letter  with  his  own  hand  to  Lord  Godolphin,  so  that  the  writer 
may  make  good  his  demand  on  the  Treasury  in  respect  of  the 
fort  he  built  at  Berehaven.     Abstract. 

Thomas  Medlycott  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  19.  St.  James. — He  has  just  come  to  town 
from  his  election  as  burgess  for  the  ensuing  Parliament  at 
Milbome  Port.  His  opponent.  Sir  R.  Newman,  had  but 
three  voices.  Sir  Thomas  Travell  forty  and  he  himself  thirty- 
seven.  Thanks  his  Grace  for  the  place  he  has  been  honoured 
with.  As  to  his  Church  principles,  he  beHeves  his  enemies 
will  scarce  reproach  him  with  being  a  Whig.     At  his  election 


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he  was  reckoned  the  contrary  and  opposed  by  the  Presbyterian 
minister.  Has  not  been  to  the  playhouse  since  he  came, 
save  once  to  wait  on  Lord  Arran,  and  assures  his  Grace  his 
dress  or  conduct  shall  never  offend.  Acknowledges  the  receipt 
of  his  Grace's  three  letters  for  the  Lord  Treasurer,  the  Bishop 
of  Rochester  and  Lord  Ha  Ufa  x.  Assures  his  Grace  that, 
though  he  were  starving,  he  would  not  get  a  shilling  indirectly 
from  his  new  place,  the  profits  of  which  or  how  they  arise  he 
does  not  yet  know.     Abstract. 

Viscount  Charlemont  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  May  22.— /See  Report,  XIV,  App.,  pt.  VII,  p.  62. 

Laloust  de  Vileuse  to  Ormonde. 
1705,   May   22.     London. — As   the   Irish   Establishment  is 
about  to  be  renewed,  sets  forth  the  miserable  state  of  himself 
and  family  and  appeals  for  a  pension  for  Madame  de  la  Court 
and  his  son.     (French.)    Abstract. 

Count  de  Monasterol  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  22.  Paris.— Writes  on  behalf  of  M.  le  Comte 
de  Lionne,  who  desires  permission  to  return  to  France  for  some 
time.  The  affairs  of  his  house  require  his  presence  there. 
(French.)    Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  22. — Acknowledges  with  pleasure  his  Grace's 
letter  of  the  12th,  which  assures  him  that  he  still  retains  his 
Grace's  protection  and  kindness  notwithstanding  misrepresenta- 
tions.    Abstract. 

Earl  of  Ranelagh  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  26. — Since  my  last  to  my  own  dear  Duke,  I  have 
received  from  my  good  friend  Dick  Gorges  a  bill  for  5001.  due 
to  me  at  Christmas  last,  which  came  most  seasonably  to  reUeve 
my  necessities,  and  therefore  I  hasten  to  return  you  a  thousand 
thanks  for  your  goodness  to  me  and  the  assurance  you  have 
given  the  great  Kendall,  as  well  as  to  myself,  that  for  the 
time  to  come  you  will  direct  punctual  payment,  and  with  your 
leave  I  must  desire  my  payments  may  be  quarterly,  which 
will  be  easier  to  the  Treasury  there,  and  I  am  sure  much 
more  convenient  for  my  subsistence  here,  since  I  am  now 
forced  to  allow  my  London  merchant  a  considerable  rate  for 
every  farthing  he  advances  to  me,  which  makes  a  hole  in  my 
income.  Besides,  my  worthy  son-in-law  doth  without  any 
scruple  make  me  pay  poundage  both  to  himself  and  the  Hospital, 
which  is  taking  from  me  251.  every  haK  year,  and  this  good 
nature  of  his,  together  with  the  exchange,  reduces  my  5001. 
to  433/.,  and  this,  I  am  told,  is  what  he  ought  not  to  do  to  the 
greatest  stranger,  since  no  part  of  the  fund  allowed  for  military 


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incidents  ought  to  pay  poundage  either  to  him  or  the  Hospital, 
at  least  Sir  WiUiam  Robinson  is  of  that  opinion.  But  of  this 
more  when  I  have  the  honor  to  see  my  dear  Duke  at  Marly, 
which  I  expect  with  great  impatience,  being  with  all  truth  and 
by  a  thousand  reasons  your  devoted,  &c. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  May  26.— The  24th  of  this  month  is  fixed  for  a  day 
certain  (and  not  from  their  embarkation  as  formerly)  for  the 
three  regiments  sent  from  Ireland  to  England  to  enter  upon 
Enghsh  pay,  and  the  same  day  the  part  of  the  regiment  now 
raising  here  are  to  be  upon  the  Irish  Estabhshment.    Abstract. 

Earl  of  Arran  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  May  26. — I  return  you  many  thanks  for  your  letter, 
and  am  very  glad  you  had  such  good  sport  at  Kilkenny.  You 
would  have  as  good  at  Richmond,  I  believe,  for  I  was  there  the 
other  day  and  saw  eight  or  nine  covers,  some  very  large,  and 
a  good  many  hares.  Your  pond  is  now  quite  finished,  as 
Mr.  O'Brien  told  me  two  days  ago,  and  everything  without- 
doors  that  you  ordered  to  be  done  before  you  went.  My 
Lady  Bertie's  lords  go  on  but  slowly  by  reason  of  the  many 
delays  of  the  counsel  the  other  side,  but  it  seems  to  have  a 
very  good  prospect  for  the  young  ladies,  and  all  relating  to 
her  own  jointure  as  she  could  wish.  I  am,  dear  brother,  &c. 
Lady  Amelia  presents  her  humble  service  to  you. 

Thomas  Medlycott  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  May  26.  St.  James. — This  day  my  Lord  Arran, 
my  Lord  Torrington,  and  the  young  lady  signed  and  sealed 
all  the  writings,  and  my  Lord  presses  to  be  married  on 
Tuesday,  and  accordingly  I  have  taken  out  a  licence  for  him, 
but  my  Lady  Torrington  says  she  cannot  in  conscience  ask 
her  daughter  so  soon,  but  prays  his  Lordship  would  have 
patience  till  Saturday,  but  my  Lord  Torrington  has  under- 
taken to  shorten  the  matter,  and  I  believe  Tuesday  is  the  day. 
The  portion  is  in  securities  for  6,000Z.  ;  the  other  is  money 
in  Mr.  Cartwright's  hands,  and  tallies  upon  the  land-tax, 
which  is  ready  money,  out  of  which  I  will  take  care  of  your 
Grace's  2,000Z.  as  soon  as  ever  they  are  married.  I  have 
seen  the  Bishop  of  Rochester  again  to-night  ;  his  Lordship 
treats  me  with  great  kindness  and  has  promised  to  write  to 
your  Grace  next  post.  Your  Grace  has  heard  that  some 
of  your  letters  have  been  opened.  It  was  Colonel  Kendall 
told  it  me.  He  is  chosen  a  parliament  man  agaia  ia  Cornwall. 
We  had  yesterday  two  Dutch  mails.  Mirandola  is  taken 
and  Huy  invested,  and  Monsieur  Auverquerque's  camp 
threatened  by  the  Duke  of  Bavaria.  We  have  no  news  in 
town.  I  am,  &c.  My  Lord  Arran 's  lady  is  a  pretty, 
agreeable,  well-tempered  young  lady. 


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Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 


1705,  May  27.  Sunday.  At  Jossiter  in  Northamptonshire. 
— He  is  making  all  possible  haste  to  cross  over  to  Dublin. 
The  delay  in  doing  so  arises  from  his  being  so  suddenly 
transplanted  from  one  service  to  another.     Abstract. 

to  Ormonde. 


1705,  May  31.  Eden. — Thanking  his  Grace  for  granting 
the  request  in  his  letter  of  May  2.     Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 
1705,   May   31. — Concerning   the   progress   made   with   the 
linen  bill  in  Parliament.     Abstract. 

Richard  Nutley  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  May  31. — Asking  to  succeed  Mr.  Hartstonge  as  second 
Judge    of    the    Palatinate    of    Tipperary    and    Recorder    of 
Kilkenny.     Abstract. 

Colonel  Thomas  Pulteney  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  June  2.  London. — Asking  for  instructions  as  to  the 
signing  of  the  officers'  commissions,  upon  which  matter  he  is 
to  speak  to  the  Secretary.  Presses  the  claims  of  Mr.  King 
to  be  sub-brigadier,  and  proposes  Mr.  Maudsley  to  be 
lieutenant  of  dragoons  in  his  stead.  Has  sent  Mr.  Smyth, 
one  of  the  gentlemen  of  his  Grace's  troop,  to  learn  to  ride  at 
Monsr.  Faubert's.     Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  June  5. — The  linen  bill  has  been  delayed  by  Mr. 
Attorney  going  out  of  town.  He  has  ordered  Sir  William 
Robinson  to  take  Mr.  Medlycott  with  him  and  follow  it  through 
the  offices,  so  that  it  progress  may  be  expedited.     Abstract. 

Same  to  Same. 

1705,  June  7. — After  I  had  sent  my  last  of  the  5th  to  the 
post  I  prevailed  with  Mr.  Secretary  so  to  quicken  Mr.  Tucker 
that  the  bill  left  this  place  on  Wednesday  morning  at  eleven 
o'clock  by  a  flying  packet,  so  that  it  wiU  be  soon,  I  hope,  with 
your  Grace,  and  that  it  will  not  be  long  before  we  shall  be  so 
happy  to  see  you  here.  I  am  extremely  concerned  to  find 
the  House  of  Commons  have  flung  out  the  bill  for  restraining 
their  unreasonable  privileges  not  only  because  it  wiU  reflect 
very  hardly  on  them,  but  chiefly  because  I  fear  it  will  necessitate 
your  Grace  to  dissolve  them  ;  it  being  scarce  possible  to 
imagine  that  the  kingdom  can  bear  so  extensive  a  privilege 
as  they  claim  at  present  for  two  years  to  come.  Therefore  I 
should  think  they  may  to  salve  their  own  reputations  be 
prevailed   with  to   pass   some  declaratory  vote   before  they 


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rise,  which  might  restrain  their  privileges  within  some  bounds 
of  reason,  as  we  in  England  have  often  done  before  we  passed 
it  into  a  law.  That  it  is  above  measure  the  interest  of  your 
Grace  and  your  friends  that  this  should  be  done  there  is  no 
room  to  doubt,  since  whilst  you  can  keep  this  House  of  Commons 
it  is  well  known  here  you  can  manage  them,  and  though  I 
dare  assure  your  Grace  that  you  do  not  want  anything  to  secure 
you  the  government  of  Ireland,  yet  it  is  not  amiss  to  have  it 
known  that  you  have  a  Parhament  in  being  that  by  your  own 
personal  interest  you  can  be  sure  on  all  occasions  to  influence 
for  the  Queen's  service.  Pray,  my  Lord,  advise  with  some 
few  of  your  most  faithful  friends  in  this  matter,  for  I  take  it 
to  have  much  more  of  consequence  in  it  than  perhaps  may  be 
at  first  thought  on.  I  hope  this  will  find  your  Grace  perfectly 
recovered  of  your  late  indisposition.  I  am  sure  it  is  heartily 
wished,  by  my  Lord,  &c. 

Madam  D'Auverquerque  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  June  12.  London. — Reminding  him  of  Madam  de 
Teny's  affair,  and  thanking  him  for  speaking  to  Lord 
Bellamont's  uncle.  She  hears  the  Duchess  has  arrived  in 
England.  Letters  from  Holland  bring  no  good  news.  Monsieur 
D'Auverquerque  is  obliged  to  entrench.  Unless  a  diversion 
is  made,  they  may  lose  all.  She  congratulates  his  Grace  on 
Lord  Arran's  marriage.     (French.)    Abstract. 

Sir  Stafford  Fairborne  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  June  13.  From  aboard  the  Royal  Sovereign, — 
Informing  Ormonde  that  the  fleet  had  got  into  a  river 
unnamed  on  the  previous  day,  having  arrived  before  it  the 
9th.  They  had  served  Admiral  Almond  with  twenty  very 
good  Dutch  ships,  and  the  squadron  under  Sir  John  Leake 
and  Sir  Thomas  Dilkes,  so  that  they  only  wait  for  Sir  William 
Jumper  with  the  ships  and  troops  from  Ireland  to  proceed 
farther.  Their  strength  at  sea  is  much  the  same  as  when 
his  Grace  was  with  them  before  Cadiz,  but  at  land  they  are 
short.  Lord  Galway  is  expected  there  from  the  frontier  to 
assist  at  a  council  of  war.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Ranelagh  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  June  16.  London. — I  hope  this  short  epistle  will 
come  time  enough  to  wait  upon  my  own  dear  Duke  before 
he  leaves  his  dominions  ;  if  it  doth  so,  it  will  acquaint  him 
that  he  will  find  his  Marly  ready  to  receive  him.  Your  four 
commissioners  dined  there  yesterday  to  see  your  own  apart- 
ment entirely  furnished,  which  it  is  to  our  satisfaction,  and 
we  hope  you  wiU  be  pleased  with  it.  Your  bathing  apartment 
wiU  also  be  ready  and  furnished  by  the  end  of  next  week, 
and  though  we  cannot  assure  you  as  yet  that  you  shall  not 
see  workmen  there  when  you  first  visit  it,  yet  you  may  depend 


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upon  it  they  shall  not  trouble  you  with  their  noise.  And 
now  a  word  or  two  relating  to  old  Ranelagh.  In  the  first 
place  take  notice  that  within  very  few  days  there  will  be  a 
full  half  year  due  of  his  pension  upon  the  miHtary  incidents  ; 
therefore  you  will  please,  as  he  humbly  desires,  to  sign  his 
warrant  for  the  payment  of  his  first  half  year  to  his  new  trustee, 
James  Clarke  of  Whitehall,  esquire,  before  you  leave  that 
kingdom,  that  so  your  old  petitioner  may  soon  receive  the 
benefit  of  it.  In  the  next  place  he  further  prays  that  you 
will  give  your  concordatum  orders  for  paying  half  a  year's 
pension  to  the  two  men  whom  he  recommended  to  your 
charitable  favour  before  you  left  England  ;  one  of  which  is  a 
poor  worthy  French  refugee  and  the  other  the  mother  of 
Auditor  Bythell ;  their  small  allowances  were  to  begin  from 
last  Michaelmas,  and  they  have  hitherto  only  received  the 
quarter  due  at  Christmas  last,  so  that  on  the  24th  instant 
there  will  be  due  to  them  a  full  half  year,  which  for  both  will 
not  amount  to  501.,  but  whatsoever  it  is  it  will  keep  them 
from  starving  ;  therefore,  my  dear  Duke,  be  pleased  to  direct 
this  small  payment  before  you  leave  Ireland  that  we  may  have 
no  occasion  of  applying  to  Lords  Justices.  I  have  no  more 
to  add,  but  to  tell  you  I  am  impatient  to  kiss  you,  being  heartily, 
truly  and  sincerely  yours  till  death,  &c. 

Major  Robert  Wroth  to  Ormonde. 
1705,    June    17.     Guildford. — Acquainting   his   Grace   that 
Captain  Beverley,  who  commanded  the  invalids  at  Windsor, 
is  dead,  and  asking  his  Grace  to  get  the  commission  for  Mr. 
Staple  ton.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  June  27.  Dubhn. — Hopes  that  his  Grace  has  had  a 
good  passage.  Last  night  Lord  Cutts,  Chief  Justice  Pyne,  Mr. 
Southwell  and  others  met  at  his  house  and  agreed  upon  an 
advertisement  for  the  Gazette,  which  the  Secretary  transmits 
this  post  to  his  Grace  and  Sir  C.  Hedges.  The  Lords  Justices 
will  be  sworn  this  morning  and  the  Privy  Council  (who  all 
dine  with  him)  shall  be  witnesses  how  heartily  he  drinks  his 
Grace's  health.     Abstract. 

Dr.  Arthur  Charlett  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  June  27.  University  College,  Oxford. — I  presume  to 
send  your  Grace  an  account  of  the  present  state  of  your 
University's  press  at  the  Theatre,  as  also  a  short  essay  of  our 
excellent  Professor  of  Geometry  and  successor  to  Dr.  WalHs, 
the  learned  Captain  Edmund  HaUy,  tending  to  the  fixing, 
determining  and  estabHshing  the  motions  of  comets,  so  as  to 
be  able  to  predict  their  returns,  the  first  attempt  that  was 
ever  made  in  that  kind  by  any  astronomer  that  pretended 
only  to  reason,  not  to  magic.    For  the  use  of  him  and  his 

Wt.  43482.  0  U 


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colleague,  Dr.  Gregory,  the  other  Satilian  Professor,  we  are 
now  building  a  very  commodious  and  well  constructed  (by  the 
professors  themselves)  observatory,  that  wiU  produce,  I  doubt 
not,  discoveries  and  improvements  in  the  mathematical  sciences 
equal  if  not  superior  to  any  in  Europe. 

The  University  is  also  very  full  at  present  of  quality,  and 
all  other  ranks  and  orders  of  scholars.  At  Christ  Church  the 
table  which  has  held  the  noblemen  ever  since  the  Restoration 
is  now  of  necessity  forced  to  be  enlarged  as  the  Dean  told 
me  yesterday.  Dr.  Radcliff,  the  Canon,  is  dead  and  has 
left  the  Dean  above  2,000Z.  to  begin  the  pulling  down  of 
Peckwater  quadrangle.  The  last  nobleman  entered  is  the 
young  Earl  of  Sahsbury,  a  gentleman  of  excellent  parts, 
principles  and  temper,  very  curious  and  observing,  so  intent 
in  observing  our  little  rites  and  ceremonies  that  I  tell  his 
Lordship  that  your  Grace  might  name  him  your  vice-chanceUor, . 
for  I  am  sure  he  can  create  a  doctor  in  any  faculty  as  well  as 
any  of  us.  Our  election  of  members  was  very  quiet  and 
unanimous  and  we  are  made  to  beUeve  what  we  are  willing 
to  hope,  that  one  of  them  wiU  be  the  next  Speaker.  Mr. 
Secretary  Harley,  as  he  passed  last  week  through  Oxford, 
dined  with  the  Dean  and  gave  him  a  biU  of  lOOZ.  towards 
their  building,  as  a  testimony  of  his  special  respect  to  that 
society. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  June  30.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  testing  of  the 
firearms  of  the  troops  at  the  camp.  The  Major  of  the  Artillery 
began  with  the  writer's  regiment  of  dragoons,  supposed 
to  be  the  best  armed.  Out  of  the  first  130  that  were  proved 
53  burst,  upon  which  they  stopped.  Then  they  proceeded 
with  Lord  Orrery's  regiment,  in  which  195  burst.  Major- 
General  Langston  then  put  a  stop  and  sent  the  writer  an 
express  to  know  if  he  would  have  them  go  any  farther  ;  he 
repHed  that  to  do  so  would  be  to  expose  the  weakness  of  the 
army  and  make  haK  the  troops  go  to  quarters  without  arms 
in  their  hands.  Tells  his  Grace  in  plain  EngMsh  that  her 
Majesty's  forces  there  are  in  effect  unarmed,  since  arms  that 
will  not  bear  firing  are  worse  than  none.  Proposes  steps  to 
be  taken  in  order  that  the  soldiers  may  have  good  arms. 
Abstract. 

Brigadier- General  Emanuel  Howe  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  July  3. — Begging  his  Grace  to  make  Captain  Mugg 
a  captain  in  the  Irish  guards.  "  He  is  one  that  I  am 
unwilling  to  let  starve,  having  married  much  against  my  will 
a  daughter  of  mine."     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Benjamin  Portlock. 

1705,  July  5.  Dublin. — Concerning  business  of  his  Grace. 
He  refers  to  this  thin  melancholy  town.     They  will  mind 


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their  business  better,  now  the  ladies  are  retired  to  the  country. 
He  wishes  the  vicarage  of  Timahoe  conferred  on  Mr.  William 
Mullart.  It  is  a  sinecure  worth  but  201.  per  annum,  and 
compatible  with  his  fellowship  in  the  College.     Abstract. 

Princess  Sophia  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  July  7.— 'See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  780. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  July  7.  Dulbin. — Giving  an  account  of  proceedings 
taken  with  regard  to  Captain  Morgan  of  Lord  Dungannon's 
regiment.  He  was  summoned  before  a  board  of  general 
officers  called  together  by  the  writer  at  the  Curragh  of  Kildare 
to  answer  several  complaints,  but  did  not  appear.  Conse- 
quently they  suspended  him.  The  complaints  against  him, 
which  are  of  being  called  a  rogue  and  rascal  and  several  other 
scandalous  things  (though  he  began  the  complaints  about 
his  rank),  will  be  examined  in  DubHn.  He  refers  to  exercises 
the  foot  went  through  after  the  meeting  of  the  board, 
and  makes  suggestions  with  regard  to  providing  good  fire- 
arms for  the  army.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  Henry  Lumley  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  July  9,  n.s.  Camp  at  Lous  de  Begonne. — Referring 
to  his  Grace's  illness  and  administration  of  Ireland.  He 
mentions  their  return  from  Trives,  never  a  quicker  march 
was  made  by  such  an  army,  and  says  that  they  have  saved 
Liege.  He  cannot  regret  not  being  chosen  for  the  new  Par- 
liament. He  had  some  interest  in  the  last,  and  doubts  he 
would  have  forfeited  the  good  opinion  of  his  friends  in  this. 
Abstract. 

Lieut. -Colonel  William  Villiers  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  July  10.  Dublin. — Concerning  measures  he  proposes 
to  take  in  order  to  improve  the  standard  both  of  men  and 
horses  in  his  Grace's  regiment.  He  hopes  honest  Hugh  Morgan 
(a  captain  for  twelve  years)  will  not  be  forgotten  by  his  Grace, 
to  whom  he  is  apprehensive  he  has  been  ill  represented. 
Abstract. 

Edward  Nicholls  to  . 

1705,  July  10.  Dublin. — Begging  his  Lordship  to  remind 
the  Duke  that  he  is  waiting  here  for  the  Duke's  leave  to  come 
for  England  on  account  of  business.  He  has  obtained  Col. 
Culliford's  leave,  and  hopes  to  obtain  that  of  Lord  Mohun. 
Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1705,    July    10.     DubHn. — Concerning    private    affairs    of 
Ormonde.     He  congratulates  his  Grace  upon  his  arrival  in 
London,  and  hopes  that  his  Grace  is  free  from  the  importimitie^ 


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and  vexations  that  tormented  him  in  Dublin.  Mr.  Southwell 
is  gone  that  morning  to  the  North,  and  expects  to  wait  on 
his  Grace  in  London  in  a  month.    Abstract 

Earl  of  Inchiqtjin  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  July  10.  Dublin. — Recommending  a  brother  of  his 
agent  Mr.  Watson  to  succeed  Ensign  Hennington  of  the  writer's 
regiment,  who  is  dead.  "  I  came  last  night  to  town,  our 
campaign  being  now  at  an  end  ;  the  last  four  or  five  days 
we  spent  very  merrily  in  some  extraordinary  good  company ; 
Lady  Dungannon  and  Lady  Slane  were  there  ;  they  dined 
at  Major-General  Langston's,  supped  with  Lord  Cutts  and 
did  me  the  honour  to  eat  a  bit  last  Sunday  in  my  tent,  where 
we  drank  the  Duke  of  Ormonde's  health  most  heartily  and 
wished  him  prosperity  equal  to  his  merit,  if  it  were  possible." 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  July  10.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  state  of  the  arms, 
of  which  he  had  given  an  account  in  his  letter  of  June  30. 
He  represents  the  dangerous  condition  of  Ireland,  if  there 
should  be  ill  success  abroad  and  an  attempt  upon  that  country, 
and  also  the  inabiUty  of  the  forces  to  serve  if  the  unhappy 
posture  of  the  affairs  of  Scotland  should  call  for  their  assistance. 
The  total  defect  in  their  arms  will  not  be  a  secret,  and  may 
incite  her  Majesty's  enemies  to  attempts  which  they  would  not 
otherwise  have  made.  He  refers  also  to  the  probability  of 
great  clamour  against  the  Government.  It  may  be  said  that 
no  capital  misfortune  is  Hkely  to  happen,  but  the  change  of 
the  face  of  affairs  upon  the  Mozelle  through  the  behaviour  of 
the  Germans  is  a  late  and  unhappy  instance  of  the  necessity 
of  their  being  upon  their  guard.  He  urges  his  Grace  to  find 
out  some  way  to  be  furnished  as  soon  as  may  be  with  six  or 
seven  thousand  new  arms  out  of  England  or  Holland.  He 
enters  into  particulars  as  to  the  examination  of  the  arms 
that  will  be  necessary  to  ensure  that  they  are  perfect.  The 
artillery  has  returned  safe  from  the  camp  to  Dublin,  and 
the  last  of  the  forces  that  have  been  encamped  march  the 
next  day.  Several  troops  of  horse  and  dragoons  are  at  their 
quarters  and  not  one  complaint  as  yet.     Abstract. 

Same  to  Same. 
1705,  July  12.  Dublin. — Acknowledging  Ormonde's  reply 
to  his  letter  of  June  30.  The  proof  that  was  made  at  the 
camp  was  very  moderate.  The  powder  and  ball  were  both 
weighed  in  the  presence  of  Major-General  Langston  and 
Tidcombe  ;  the  ball  weighed  but  an  ounce  and  two  penny- 
weight, which  he  thinks  is  two  penny- weight  under  the  ball  of  the 
Dutch  cahbre  of  their  musketry,  and  the  powder  was  but  the 
bare  weight  of  the  ball.  He  asks  leave  to  buy  arms  for  his 
own  dragoons  forthwith,  and  shall  not  sleep  easy  until  they 


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have  them.  Captam  St.  Loo  of  Colonel  Lillingston's  regiment 
has  been  found  by  a  board  of  officers  to  have  behaved  himself 
very  insolently  and  intolerably  to  his  colonel.  Langston 
who  presided,  said  his  behaviour  before  the  board  was  not 
what  it  ought  to  have  been.  If  such  things  are  not  roughly 
resented  there  will  soon  be  an  end  to  all  discipline.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  July  14.  Dublin. — Concerning  Ormonde's  private 
affairs.  He  had  never  recommended  before  any  of  his 
relatives  who  had  commissions,  but  now  asks  his  Grace  to 
make  his  cousin  John  Bird,  who  is  ensign  in  Lord  Lichiquin's 
regiment,  and  Jeremy  Mordack,  who  is  ensign  to  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Caulfield  in  Lord  Ikerrin's,  lieutenants.    Abstract. 

Richard  Andrews  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  July  15.  Kilkenny. — Asking  to  be  posted  in  Major- 
General  EchUn's  regiment.  Since  he  left  the  late  war  of 
Flanders  he  had  served  as  a  gentleman  in  it,  being  related  to 
Echlin.     Abstract. 

Madame  Louise  Rangrave  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  July  16.  Herenhanse. — Asking  a  httle  pension  of 
twenty-five  or  thirty  pieces  for  a  young  French  lady.  She 
has  a  brother  captain  in  the  Irish  arms.  Their  name  is 
d'Offranville.     {French.)    Abstract. 

St.  George  Ashe,  Bishop  of  Clogher,  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  July  16. — I  have  visited  Enniskillen  since  I  had  the 
honour  to  wait  upon  your  Grace  in  Dublin,  and  am  myself 
a  witness  of  the  great  ruin  and  desolation  of  that  poor  place 
and  the  extreme  misery  and  necessities  to  which  the  distressed 
inhabitants  thereof  are  reduced  by  the  late  dismal  fire  ;  nothing 
supports  them  under  their  sufferings  but  the  hopes  they  have 
of  the  continuance  of  your  Grace's  favour  and  protection 
and  that  you  will  be  pleased  so  to  represent  their  deplorable 
condition  to  the  Queen,  that  they  may,  by  your  Grace's 
intercession,  obtain  a  grant  for  a  collection  in  England  towards 
their  refief,  without  which  all  the  assistance  our  poor  country 
can  be  able  to  afford  will  avail  Httle.  Sir  Gustavus  Hume, 
their  worthy  good  neighbour,  has,  at  the  request  of  the 
Corporation,  kindly  undertaken  a  journey  into  England  to 
wait  upon  your  Grace,  with  a  full  power  to  act  in  the  name 
of  all  the  poor  inhabitants  ;  he  will  inform  your  Grace  of  all 
the  particulars  of  their  sufferings  and  receive  your  Grace's 
commands  how  to  act  and  whom  to  soHcit,  under  your  Grace's 
countenance.  Though  the  services  of  the  Enniskillen  men 
are  not,  it  is  to  be  hoped,  yet  forgotten  in  England  and  may 
reasonably  expect  some  consideration,  yet  their  chief 
dependence  is  upon  your  Grace's  goodness  and  favour,  and 


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her  Majesty's  compassion,  both  which  in  their  behalf  I  do 
most  humbly  suppHcate,  and  am  with  the  most  profomid 
respect,  &c. 

Thomas  Crawford  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  July  16.  Ross. — Concerning  his  position  under  the 
Commissioners  of  the  Revenue.  They  have  suppressed  the 
collection  of  Ross  and  added  the  same  to  Kilkenny,  and  have 
ordered  his  removal  to  Eallybegs,  the  worst  collection  in  the 
kingdom.  "  This  misfortune  encourages  me  to  fly  to  your 
Grace's  protection  and  humbly  to  put  your  Grace  in  mind 
that  I  have  been  a  servant  to  your  family  from  my  youth, 
that  I  suffered  hardships  for  adhering  to  your  Grace's  interest 
in  former  ParUaments,  particularly  for  voting  for  disbanding 
the  French  forces,  and  in  this  last  Parhament  I  constantly 
did  my  duty  as  I  believe  Mr.  Savage  or  Mr.  Portlock  can  assure 
your  Grace."    Abstract 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  July  17.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  army  in  Dublin. 
He  refers  to  his  Grace's  uneasiness  at  the  regiments  of 
LiUingston,  Wynne  and  Lepell  being  so  slow  in  coming  over. 
Camocke  and  Saunders  have  been  sent  to  the  northwards  to 
look  after  some  privateers  who  have  done  mischief  on  that 
coast,  and  the  Seaford  is  plying  constantly  between  Dublin 
and  Chester.  The  men-of-war  can  transport  but  one  company 
at  a  time,  which  would  be  slow  work  even  if  they  could  be  all 
employed.  The  only  remedy  will  be  for  the  officers  to  take 
the  conveniency  of  transportation,  which  offers  every  convoy 
from  Chester.  His  Grace's  regiment's  arms  cost  twenty-four 
shillings  apiece,  but  they  are  very  fine.  Nineteen  or  twenty 
shillings  will  be  the  least  that  good  arms  can  be  had  for.  They 
have  pardoned  Captain  Morgan  of  Lord  Dungannon's  regiment 
for  not  appearing  before  the  board  at  the  camp.  He  is  to  be 
posted  only  according  to  his  last  commission.  Some  of  the 
barracks  are  not  in  order,  and  the  horse's  backs  of  half  of  his 
own  regiment  were  spoiled  through  the  trees  of  the  saddles 
being  too  narrow.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  July  19.  Dublin. — Concerning  pubUc  and  private 
affairs.  He  hears  the  soldiers  were  within  sight  and  by  contrary 
winds  were  driven  back  to  Holyhead.  The  Frenchman  shall 
have  a  patent  for  the  vicarage  of  Timahoe.  The  Bridgewater 
is  come  with  the  Lisbon  fleet  from  Cork,  and  the  Seaford  with 
some  soldiers  and  goes  next  day  to  Holyhead  to  convoy  the 
rest.     Abstract, 

Lieut. -General  Henry  Lumley  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  July  20.— ^ee  Report,  VII,  App.,  p,  780. 


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Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  July  21.    Dublin. — Importuning  his  Grace  in  favour 
of  his   son-in-law,  Sir  William    Mansel.     The    ships  shall  be 
sent  for  Lady  Anglesey,  Lady  Pjme  and  Lepell's  regiment. 
Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Benjamin  Portlock. 
1705,  July  21. — "  I  have  the  favour  of  yours  of  the  12th 
and  the  14th,  and  did  express  our  joy  for  the  latter  by  bells, 
guns  and  bonfires,  and  for  the  former  by  drinking  the  SoUcitor's 
health  and  yours  in  very  good  company  at  Palmerston.  Pray 
give  him  my  hearty  service."  He  refers  to  his  appUcation 
for  Bird  and  Mordack  and  for  Thomas  Teape,  trooper  in  Sir 
Richard  Vernon's  troop.  As  Portlock  tenders  the  favour  of 
the  ladies  he  is  to  soHcit  Sir  W.  ManseFs  matter.  Mansel 
lives  upon  Cox  until  he  is  provided  for.    Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  July  21.     Dublin. — Concerning  the  transportation  of 
the  troops  from  England.    Abstract. 

Primate  Marsh  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  July  21. — I  made  bold  when  your  Grace  was  in  Dublin 
to  represent  what  I  thought  might  conduce  to  the  peace  of  our 
Church  by  removing  the  Bishop  of  Kildare  to  some  other 
preferment  when  there  should  be  an  opportunity,  and  although 
there  was  none  then,  nor  is  there  yet,  nevertheless  I  cannot 
forbear  acquainting  your  Grace  that  the  Bishop  of  Meath 
not  only  continues  ill  still,  but  grows  worse  and  worse  and 
his  physicians  do  doubt  whether  he  may  recover.  I  have 
no  design  of  mine  own  in  the  motion  I  have  made,  nor  do  I 
act  by  the  persuasion  of  others  ;  but  what  hath  entered  into 
mine  own  private  thoughts  is,  that  if  it  should  please  God  to 
take  the  Bishop  of  Meath  unto  Himself,  and  the  Bishop  of 
Kildare  were  removed  to  that  see,  and  he  is  capable  of  being 
promoted  none  else  besides  an  archbishopric,  he  being  at 
present  the  second  Bishop  in  the  kingdom,  the  Archbishop 
of  DubUn  would  be  glad  to  make  up  all  differences  with  his 
successor.  I  hope  your  Grace  will  not  be  offended  at  my 
freedom  in  this  matter,  whereunto  nothing  but  an  earnest 
desire  of  peace  in  our  poor  Church  could  have  moved,  &c. 

Rev.  Charles  Herbert  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  July  23.  Monmouth. — Renewing  his  request  that 
Ormonde  would  move  her  Majesty  to  give  him  preferment. 
He  owns  that  when  he  desired  his  Excellency  to  ask  for  the 
first  Welsh  bishopric  or  Enghsh  deanery  he  beheved  the  see 
of  St.  David's  would  be  very  suddenly  filled  up,  and  the  arrears 
of  three  or  four  thousand  pounds  given  to  the  person  promoted, 
as  he  hears  they  were.     He  refers  to  his  descent  through  his 


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mother  from  Worcester  House,  and  his  father's  sufferings 
for  Charles  I.  He  asks  now  for  the  deanery  of  Exeter  or  Ely 
if  either  become  vacant.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1705,      July      24.      Dublin. — Enclosing      some      remarks. 
Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  July  25. — Referring  to  a  conversation  with  Ormonde 
about  removing  Captain  Pratt  as  a  chief  occasion  of  Sir 
WiUiam  Robinson's  disappointments,  and  hoping  his  Grace 
will  keep  it  from  anyone's  knowledge.  He  has  been  obHged 
to  Pratt  in  the  affair  of  the  poundage.     Abstract. 

John  Hartstonge,  Bishop  of  Ossory,  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  July  26.  Kilkenny.— Mr.  Renoult,  the  French 
minister,  by  your  Grace's  order  in  the  camp,  expected  his 
last  quarter  payment  from  Mr.  FitzGerald,  who  had  no 
instructions  from  your  Grace,  so  he  is  at  some  difficulty  to 
whom  he  should  apply.  I  have  wrote  to  Mr.  Southwell,  but 
he  is  in  the  North,  and  Hkewise  to  remind  your  Grace  of  Dr. 
MoreU,  who  is  an  eminent  physician  here,  and  served  his 
late  Majesty  three  or  four  campaigns  under  Dr.  Lawrence. 
Lord  Chief  Justice  Doyne,  Justice  Coote,  Baron  Worth,  Mr. 
FitzGerald,  with  several  gentlemen  of  the  county,  together 
with  myself,  visited  the  linen  manufacture  which  probably 
will  succeed  to  the  best  advantage  of  this  place.  There  is 
still  some  warmth  and  contentions  among  the  French,  but 
I  hope  in  God  they  wiU  soon  vanish.  Postscript. — There  was 
a  strong  report  here  of  the  Bishop  of  Meath's  death,  which 
gave  occasion  for  many  to  feHcitate  me  and  Dr.  Ellis  ;  I 
submit  aU  to  your  Grace  when  any  accident  happen. 

Lieut. -General  Henry  Lumley  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  July  27,  n.s.  Fridberg. — Concerning  the  campaign 
on  the  Continent.  .  .  .  Last  night  I  gave  your  services  to 
the  Prince  of  Baden,  who  inquires  after  your  Grace  with  a 
great  deal  of  concern,  and  last  time  I  dined  with  him  drank 
your  health.  I  took  occasion  in  talking  with  his  Grace  of 
Marlborough  to  tell  him  your  Grace  regretted  that  people  had 
been  so  busy  in  their  reflections  on  the  Prince  of  Baden.  He 
desired  me  to  assure  your  Grace  from  him  that  he  was 
extremely  well  satisfied  with  the  Prince  in  all  things  and  that 
it  was  impossible  for  anybody  to  be  on  better  terms  than 
they  were,  and  he  had  all  the  reason  in  the  world  to  commend 
his  proceedings.  I  spoke  to  him  at  the  same  time  concerning 
the  Duke  of  Schomberg.  He  pubHcly  declares  against  the 
proceeding  and  thinks  it  is  using  him  extremely  ill.  If  they 
had  a  mind  to  remove  him,   they  ought  to  have  done  it  in 


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another  manner.  This  he  has  assured  several  people  and  I 
believe  will  write  the  same  into  England.  His  Grace  ordered 
me  to  assure  you  when  I  writ  that  he  would  have  given  you 
an  account  of  matters  here,  but  he  thought  you  might  be  gone 
for  Ireland,  and  made  many  professions,  which  I  conclude 
he  designed  I  should  let  you  know,  as  we  seem  for  the  present 
to  be  at  a  kind  of  stand.  I  can  give  you  no  account  of  what  we 
design  next ;  when  anything  happens  I  wiU  not  fail  obeying 
your  command  with  pleasure,  for  nobody  can  be  more  faith- 
fully, &c.  Postscript. — Wood  will  be  with  us  in  ten  days 
and  I  have  some  hopes  of  Colonel  Palmer.  I  hoped  your 
Grace  would  remember  Wilson,  and  give  a  gentleman  that  was 
wounded  in  my  troop  a  Ueutenant's  or  ensign's  commission ; 
you  will  be  so  good  to  pardon  this  importunity. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  July  28.  Dubhn. — Informing  Ormonde  that  he  had 
returned  from  the  North  the  previous  night.  Lord  Orrery 
came  that  day  in  the  yacht.  "  I  am  very  glad  of  his  arrival 
for  I  have  nothing  more  to  do  but  to  pack  up  and  send  away 
my  horses  ;  it  is  what  I  desire  with  the  utmost  impatience." 
Abstract. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Benjamin  Portlock. 

1705,  July  28.  Dublin. — Similar  to  the  foregoing.  "  You 
know  one  doth  not  usually  wait  here  long  for  a  westerly  wind." 
Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  July  28.  DubHn. — Concerning  the  affairs  of  the 
army.  He  is  extremely  overjoyed  that  his  Grace  has  used 
his  interest  with  the  Queen  about  the  arms.  He  makes  some 
comments  on  the  operations  under  the  Duke  of  Marlborough. 
Abstract. 

William  Moreton,  Bishop  of  Kildare,  to  Ormonde. 
1705,    July   30.     Dublin. — Announcing   the   death   on   the 
previous  day  of  the  Bishop  of  Meath,  and  requesting  his  Grace 
to  complete  what  his  grandfather  began  near  thirty  years 
ago.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  July  31.  DubHn,  9.30  at  night.— Concerning  his 
Grace's  letter  directing  the  preparation  of  four  hundred  men 
for  Portugal.  It  is  too  late  for  him  and  the  Lord  Chancellor 
to  meet  and  answer  it  by  that  post.  In  his  private  capacity 
he  represents,  however,  the  very  ill  consequences  of  making 
detachments.  "  It  abates  the  ambition  of  every  colonel  to  keep 
a  good  regiment,  since  they  have  not  the  honour  they  labour 
for,  either  in  their  men  or  their  discipline ;  it  multiplies 
desertion  and  makes  recruits  more  and  more  difficult  every 


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day,  and  will  give  some  colonels  too  plausible  excuses  for 
having  bad  regiments ;  it  breeds  distraction  in  accounts, 
and  must  inevitably  be  a  loss  to  the  Queen  in  the  clothing, 
or  the  regiments  here  will  be  in  part  unclothed,  for  it  is  certain 
we  cannot  send  men  naked  ;  in  a  word  I  dare  pawn  my 
reputation  that  if  this  method  of  detachments  be  continued 
the  wisdom  and  industry  of  man  can  never  have  the  army 
here  complete,  nor  near  complete.  I  know  your  Grace  is  in 
your  opinion  against  it,  and  the  Duke  of  Marlborough  declared 
this  last  spring  he  would  never  be  for  it.  It  were  better  to 
send  a  regiment  entire,  and  my  Lord  Mohun  has  always 
desired  to  go  abroad.  .  .  .  They  never  make  detachments 
in  France,  Holland,  or  anywhere  to  send  abroad,  unless  out 
of  those  regiments  that  are  called  hataillons  de  salade,  and  by 
this  method  the  army  in  Ireland  will  become  une  armee  de 


Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  August  2.     Dublin. — Enclosing  various  accounts  and 
making   comments  thereon.     "Mr.  Bourchier  is  at  Wexford 
waters  and  we  every  day  expect  from  him  the  state  of  the 
account  relating  to  the  Portugal  horses."     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  August  2.  Dubhn. — Concerning  army  affairs.  He 
encloses  a  calculation  of  what  the  firelocks  which  his  Grace 
writes  about  will  cost.  One  must  talk  with  a  great  many 
tradesmen  to  know  the  cheapest  of  the  market  for  good  work. 
"  I  did  forthwith  upon  your  Grace's  orders  to  the  Lords  Justices 
to  prepare  a  detachment  of  four  hundred  men  make  a 
disposition,  and  my  Lord  Chancellor  and  I  did  this  day  sign 
an  order  to  the  following  regiments  : — Hamilton,  Pearce, 
Tidcombe,  Dungannon,  Mohun,  Ikerrin,  Inchiquin  and  Scott, 
to  send  a  captain,  lieutenant,  ensign,  two  sergeants  and  fifty 
men  out  of  each  regiment  to  be  at  Kinsale  on  the  20th  instant 
pursuant  to  your  Grace's  orders.  In  choosing  the  regiments 
I  had  regard  to  the  situation  of  their  quarters,  some  Ijring 
so  scattering  and  distant  that  it  would  have  been  impossible 
for  our  orders  to  have  circulated  and  for  them  to  have  been  at 
Kinsale  by  that  time.  But  the  regiments  that  give  none 
by  these  orders  shall  forthwith  repay  their  quotas  to  those 
that  give  ;  and  I  will  put  it  in  such  a  method  that  they  shall 
not  put  their  worst  men  upon  them,  of  which  I  will  give  your 
Grace  an  account  in  my  next." 

Countess  of  Drogheda  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  August  2.  MeUifont. — Regarding  Ormonde's  favour 
to  her  two  sons  in  the  changes  on  the  death  of  the  Bishop  of 
Meath.  Most  of  the  bishops  have  swarms  of  their  own  relations 
to  prefer.     Abstract, 


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Captain  Thomas  Ashe  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  August  2.  Cavan. — The  bishopric  of  Meath,  vacant 
by  the  death  of  its  late  reverend  prelate,  as  it  gives  occasion 
for  various  appUcations  to  your  Grace's  favour,  I  humbly 
hope  my  brother,  the  Bishop  of  Clogher,  may  have  some  place 
in  your  thoughts.  Your  Grace's  goodness  wiU  forgive  me 
when  I  seek  his  translation  to  the  diocese  of  Meath  not  only 
for  my  own  sake,  but  on  the  account  of  a  number  of  friends 
and  relations  in  that  county  where  he  was  bom  and  educated. 
I  must  further  take  the  boldness  to  acquaint  your  Grace  that 
wheresoever  you  are  pleased  to  bestow  this  favour  the 
bishopric  of  Clogher  is  at  least  equivalent  to  Meath  in  point 
of  revenue.  And  now,  my  Lord,  having  acted  the  part  of  a 
brother  and  a  friend,  both  which  I  am  sure  will  have  weight 
with  your  Grace's  good  nature,  I  humbly  beg  pardon  for  this 
presumption,  because  it  proceeds  from  one  who  is  entirely 
devoted  to  your  service,  being,  &c. 

Rev.  Peter  Drelincourt  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  August  2.  Dubhn. — Asking  not  to  be  forgotten  in 
the  removals  on  the  filling  up  the  vacancy  in  the  see  of  Meath. 
"  My  Lord,  my  long  standing  in  the  Church  and  in  your  Grace's 
noble  family,  together  with  my  particular  relations  to  your 
own  great  self  for  some  years,  make  my  friends  as  weU  as 
myseS  beHeve  I  have  some  interest  in  your  Grace's  favour 
and  that  I  may  without  breach  of  modesty  flatter  myself 
with  hopes  of  being  remembered  in  this  occasion,  especially 
when  I  consider  as  I  often  do,  with  great  satisfaction  to  myself 
as  weU  as  thankfulness  to  your  Grace,  that  kind  assurance 
your  Lordship  was  pleased  to  give  me  at  your  Grace's  last 
leaving  this  kingdom,  that  you  would  never  forget  me." 

R.  Stewart  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  August  2.  Dublin. — Asking  his  Grace's  intercession  to 
obtain  employment  for  him.  "  The  late  Queen  in  regard 
to  my  family,  and  compassion  to  their  singular  sufferings, 
thought  fit  soon  after  the  Revolution  to  take  me  out  of  the 
care  of  my  friends  into  her  immediate  care  and  support,  in 
which  I  continued  till  her  death  prevented  what  she  might 
further  design  or  I  expect,  and  my  youth  and  inexperience 
(being  then  at  school  and  without  the  assistance  of  any 
mediator,  not  to  say  so  powerful  a  one  as  your  Grace),  forbad 
me  to  entertain  any  thought  of  laying  claim  to  such  share 
of  his  Majesty's  favour  as  I  upon  that  account  might  seem 
entitled  to." 

Major-General  John  Tidcombe  to  Ormonde. 
1705,    August    2.    Dublin. — Acknowledging   a   letter  from 
Ormonde.     "I  am  glad  your  Grace  has  taken  so  early  care 
of  the  arms,  which  will  be  a  great  service  to  this  country. 


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and  since,  my  Lord,  you  have  given  us  so  fine  a  train  of  artillery 
it  would  be  a  pity  not  to  have  them  matched  with  small  arms. 
.  .  .  Captain  Camocke  and  Saunders  brought  in  to-day  a 
privateer  of  eight  guns  and  twenty-three  men.  It  was  a 
pretty  action  in  the  taking  her,  which  they  did  with  their  two 
pinnaces  and  two  yawls,  there  being  a  dead  calm,  they 
rowed  up  to  her  and  received  their  shot.  Our  boats  when 
they  came  near  entertained  them  with  smaU  shot  and  attacked 
sword  in  hand,  and  carried  her  without  the  loss  of  a  man. 
There  was  one  of  the  crew,  a  man  of  this  country,  that  had 
been  a  seaman  on  board  our  fleet,  and  owns  to  have  deserted 
the  service  and  listed  himself  with  the  French.  This  fellow 
served  as  a  pilot  to  the  privateer.  This  wiU  be  rare  news 
for  good  Mr.  Justice  Pyne  that  for  a  great  while  has  longed 
for  the  hanging  of  such  a  fellow." 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  August  4.     Dublin. — Enclosing  a  hundred  pounds  to 
reheve  Lord  Roche's  necessity.     Abstract. 

Robert  Harley  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  August  4.  Whitehall. — I  am  commanded  to  acquaint 
your  Grace  that  it  is  her  Majesty's  pleasure  that  there  be 
appointed  one  chirurgeon  and  two  chirurgeon's  mates,  with 
chests  of  medicines  and  other  necessaries  proper  for  them, 
to  be  sent  with  the  troops  to  be  embarked  at  Cork  upon  the 
intended  expedition,  and  would  have  your  Grace  give  your 
orders  therein  accordingly, 

Duke  of  Montagu  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  August  4.      Boughton. — Recommending  Mr.  Holing, 
who  has  some  pretensions  in  Ireland.     He  is  a  very  ingenious 
man,  and  writes  very  well,  as  Ormonde  will  see  by  something 
he  has  writ  on  Ormonde's  expedition.     Abstract. 

Major-General  John  Tidcombe  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  August  4.  Dublin. — Concerning  promotions  in  the 
army.  An  agreement  was  made  with  Major  Holroyd  by 
Captain  Kendall  for  his  post,  and  Captain  John  Dawson  to 
have  the  company.  Holroyd  two  days  since,  poor  man,  was 
unfortunately  killed  by  a  fall  from  his  horse.  The  writer 
humbly  begs  his  Grace's  favour  for  these  two  commissions. 
Kendall's  merit,  length  of  service  and  abiUty  are  known  to  his 
Grace.  Dawson  has  an  extraordinary  good  character  and 
has  served  with  reputation  a  long  time.  This  will  be  not  only 
service  to  the  regiment,  but  an  advantage  to  himself,  and 
will  pay  his  expense  of  the  last  camp.  Baron  Johnson,  Andrew 
Saunders  and  Deering,  with  some  more  honest  fellows  of  his 
Grace's  faithful  friends,  make  a  hearty  rejoicing  at  his  Grace's 
happy  recovery.    Abstract. 


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Same  to  Same. 

1705,  August  4.  Dublin. — As  Captain  Kendall  has  the 
Lords  Justices'  leave  to  wait  on  his  Grace,  being  appointed 
for  recruiting,  he  writes  a  further  letter  to  the  same  effect  as 
the  foregoing.     Abstract. 

Edward  Smyth,  Bishop  of  Down  and  Connor,  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  August  4.  Lisbum. — Asking  for  the  bishopric  of 
Meath.  The  ill  condition  of  his  wife's  health,  which  suffers 
by  the  sharp  northern  air,  and  his  children's  education  have 
determined  him  to  desire  a  situation  nearer  Dublin.  The 
bishopric  which  he  now  enjoys  is  equal  to  it  and  there  is  expense 
in  removing,  but  the  above  reasons  outweigh  all  this.  "  Nothing 
has  offered  lately  in  these  parts  worthy  your  Grace's  notice, 
and  for  this  reason  I  have  not  given  your  Grace  the  trouble 
of  letters.  It  is  the  general  opinion  that  the  Scotch  Parliament 
will  not  at  this  time  settle  their  succession,  but  this,  I  believe, 
is  akeady  well  known  in  England.  They  are  still  as  intent 
upon  exercising  and  arming  as  they  were.  I  pray  God  to 
prevent  the  mischief,  with  which  these  appearances  seem  to 
threaten  us,  and  long  to  preserve  to  us  the  blessing  of  so 
glorious  a  Queen  and  of  such  an  excellent  Governor." 

Major-Gbneral  Robert  Echlin  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  August  5. — Aclaiowledging  the  confirmation  of  his 
post  as  major-general.     Abstract. 

Viscount  Tunbridge  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  August  5.  Harwich. — I  did  not  hear  of  your  Grace's 
fall  till  I  was  just  going  away.  I  went  to  Whitehall  that 
moment,  but  found  your  Grace  asleep  ;  my  father's  iUness 
made  it  impossible  for  me  to  stay  any  longer.  It  was  a  great 
satisfaction  when  Dr.  Garth  told  me  that  your  Grace  was 
in  no  danger.  I  will  be  sure  to  take  care  of  your  Grace's 
wine. 

William  King,  Archbishop  of  Dubhn,  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  August  5.  Tunbridge  Wells. — Introducing  Sir 
Gustavus  Hume  to  Ormonde.  He  is  employed  by  the 
inhabitants  of  Enniskillen  to  represent  their  condition. 
Abstract. 

Duke  of  Schomberg  to  Ormonde. 
1705,    August    6.     EdUingdon. — Recommending  the  young 
French  lady,  Judith  Marie  Channin  d'Offranville,  for  a  pension. 
(French . )     A  bstract. 

Marquis  de  Lassay  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  August  6,  n.s.     Lichfield.— Concerning  the  exchange 
of  prisoners    (French.)    Abstract. 


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Major-General  Cornelius  Wood  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  August  7,  n.s.  Camp  at  Melden. — Congratulating 
his  Grace  on  the  success  of  his  government  in  Ireland  and 
the  marriage  of  Lord  Arran.  He  recommends  Captain  Wilson, 
aide-de-camp  to  Lieut. -General  Lumley,  to  be  captain  of 
dragoons.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Levinge  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  August  7.  Mount  Ephraim. — Concerning  a  judgeship. 
Mr.  Justice  Neville  is  either  dead  or  at  the  point  of  death. 
The  writer's  place  fitter  for  a  younger  man,  but  if  his  Grace 
would  have  him  to  continue  he  is  satisfied.  He  does  not  doubt 
that  his  Grace  will  in  proper  time  take  care  to  put  him  out  of 
the  power  of  those  who  will  certainly  injure  him  if  he  should 
be  disarmed  of  his  Grace's  protection.  He  stays  here  to  drink 
the  waters.     Abstract. 

E.  Caldwell  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  received  August  8. — Concerning  a  grant  made  a  year 
before  and  not  yet  paid. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  August  9.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  detachment  for 
Portugal.  He  finds  his  Grace  orders  them  to  send  clothes 
and  arms  with  the  men,  though  in  the  first  letter  there  was  no 
mention  of  it.  The  arms  can  be  suppHed  out  of  the  stores  at 
Kinsale.  He  refers  also  to  works  which  his  Grace  had  ordered 
at  Carrickfergus,  and  which  Captain  Burgh  said  could  not  be 
carried  out  until  the  following  spring.  The  Charlotte  had 
arrived.     Lady  Anglesey  is  on  board  the  Seaford.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  August  10,  n.s.  MiUin  Camp. — Acknowledging  a  letter 
from  Ormonde.  He  refers  to  the  unhappy  mismanagement 
of  their  last  attempt  on  the  river  Dyle.  Nothing  can  be 
done  unless  their  general  can  have  the  order  to  command  the 
alUed  troops  as  he  does  their  own  men.     Abstract. 

James  Corry  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  August  10.  Castle  Coole  near  Enniskillen. — I  am 
honoured  with  two  letters  of  the  24th  and  31st  of  July  in 
answer  to  those  I  addressed  your  Grace  with  some  time  since, 
the  favour  of  which  I  cannot  sufiiciently  acknowledge.  I 
have  acquainted  the  people  of  Enniskillen  how  much  they  are 
obliged  to  your  Grace  for  obtaining  her  Majesty's  royal  favour 
of  granting  her  brief  through  England,  as  likewise  her 
particular  charity  for  their  relief,  which  I  think  is  the  first 
precedent.  It  was  very  surprising  to  them,  and  the  more 
when  they  found  I  was  their  solicitor  to  your  Grace,  and  not 


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their  new  agent,  and  that  it  is  done  without  either  attendance 
or  expense.  I  expect  no  advantage  by  them,  though  I  think 
if  there  is  any  advantage,  with  submission,  I  have  as  much 
right  to  it  as  anybody,  but  I  would  have  them  sensible  who 
it  is  that  has  served  them,  and  that  when  there  is  money  got 
it  is  justly  and  equally  divided  among  them,  for  upon  my  word 
some  of  them  have  returned  three  times  as  much  as  they  have 
lost,  and  others  are  not  returned  for  anything  although  they 
did  lose,  and  this  matter  carried  on  by  the  dexterity  of  some 
persons  that  have  already  cheated  them  on  the  like  occasion, 
and  dread  coming  under  my  enquiry.  I  shall  faithfully 
discharge  my  trust,  but  think,  with  submission,  that  a 
gentleman  nominated  by  the  influence  of  those  very  persons 
in  my  absence,  and  to  serve  that  very  turn,  is  not  proper  to  be 
a  commissioner  for  distributing  that  money  when  it  is  got, 
and  perhaps  to  account  himself.  I  have  likewise  reason  to 
believe  the  Bishop  and  he  may  be  of  a  mind,  and  then  I  can 
do  nothing,  but  if  more  than  two  is  necessary  why  not  their 
representatives  in  Parliament,  viz.  John  Cole,  esqre.,  and 
John  Corry,  esqre.,  or  the  latter  only.  I  could  tell  your 
Grace  what  industry  there  is  used  to  magnify  and  commend 
the  endeavour  of  those  who  have  with  such  obstinacy  inter- 
cepted the  public  affairs.  I  am  surrounded  with  too  many 
of  that  principle,  but  I  hope  their  designs  will  prove  fruitless 
as  hitherto  they  have,  and  the  Queen  be  well  served  and  your 
Grace  for  ever  loved  and  valued  by  this  kingdom,  as  I  am  sure 
they  are  obliged  in  particular. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  August  11.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  ajBfairs  of  the 
army.  Colonel  Pearce's  clothes  were  new  this  last  year,  and 
it  wiU  be  a  great  damage  to  his  regiment  to  send  their  clothes 
with  the  detachment.  Major-General  Tidcombe's  clothes  are 
so  very  bad  that  they  will  scarce  serve  for  the  voyage.  He 
has  ventured  to  order  the  clothes  that  Mr.  Pratt  can  procure 
for  the  old  detachment  to  be  sent  to  Kinsale  to  be  in  readiness, 
without  absolutely  engaging  for  them.  "  I  hope  your  Grace's 
next  letter  will  give  me  some  farther  insight  into  the  service, 
which  this  detachment  is  going  upon,  because,  not  knowing 
whether  it  is  a  post  of  honour  or  a  post  of  fatigue,  I  cannot 
give  any  directions  for  choosing  the  eldest  or  the  youngest 
officers  ;  and  we  have  made  no  mention  of  it  in  our  orders 
but  left  it  at  large  to  the  colonels.  I  am  also  at  a  loss 
whether  to  send  any  drums,  not  knowing  whether  they 
are  to  do  duty  as  a  battaHon  or  be  incorporated  into  other 
regiments.  I  had  mentioned  this  sooner  but  have  lived  in 
hopes  of  having  some  more  particular  directions.  I  mention 
this  because  I  would  do  everything  to  please  your  Grace,  and 
without  either  knowing  the  service  they  are  going  upon  or 
having  every  particular  part  of  the  detachment  expressed,  I  may 
be  liable  to  make  some  mistakes  innocently,  which  I  would 


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not  willingly  do."  Colonel  Villiers  desires  his  Grace  to  be 
put  in  mind  of  the  hopes  his  Grace  gave  him  of  being  brigadier. 
He  is  careful  of  his  duty  and  an  old  officer,  and  his  being  his 
Grace's  lieutenant-colonel  entitles  him  something  the  more 
to  marks  of  favour.  "  I  cannot  but  repeat  how  very  great 
a  satisfaction  I  had  in  what  your  Grace  was  pleased  to  promise 
me,  to  let  me  know  if  you  heard  anything  relating  particularly 
to  myself.  I  know  I  have  enemies,  and  I  know  your  Grace 
has  enemies  too  in  England  as  well  as  here  ;  and  it  may  be, 
though  I  am  far  from  making  comparisons,  we  have  some 
enemies  from  one  and  the  same  cause.  If  anyone  should  at 
any  time  endeavour  to  insinuate  anything  to  your  Grace  to 
my  prejudice,  I  beg  an  opportunity  of  setting  your  Grace 
right  in  that  point,  whatever  it  may  be." 

Sir  Richard  Levinge  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  August  12.  Tunbridge  Wells. — Eecommending  Sir 
Gustavus  Hume  to  Ormonde.  They  were  in  great  consterna- 
tion on  reading  the  news  of  his  Grace's  accident,  which  was 
represented  as  more  grievous  than  they  believe  now  that  it 
was.     Abstract. 

Henry  Compton,  Bishop  of  London,  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  August  12. — Renewing  a  request  to  Ormonde  to 
prefer  a  Mr.  Dane.  The  death  of  the  Bishop  of  Meath  may 
give  an  opportunity.     Abstract 

Due  D'Elboeuf  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  August  13.  Paris. — Concerning  Brigadier  Joly,  who 
is  a  prisoner  and  desires  to  be  exchanged.     {French.)    Abstract. 

Major-Generai.  John  Tidcombe  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  August  14.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  troops  for 
Portugal.  The  detachments  out  of  eight  regiments  are 
marched,  fifty  men  of  each  regiment  with  five  officers,  two 
sergeants,  two  corporals  and  one  drum.  It  was  thought  that 
the  expedition  was  only  a  post  of  fatigue,  and  so  of  consequence 
the  youngest  captains  were  ordered,  but  by  the  preparation 
of  the  ships  it  seems  for  a  long  voyage  and  to  go  upon  action, 
if  so  the  eldest  captains  should  have  been  sent.  It  would 
be  a  great  hardship  on  them  to  be  formed  into  a  new  corps. 
"My  Lord,  we  have  no  news  here  more  considerable  than 
Mr.  Southwell  and  his  fair  lady  wife  embarking  to-day  for 
England."  Their  spirits  would  be  lulled  asleep  only  for  the 
warhke  exploits  of  their  general,  who  copies  Alexander  in 
thinking  nothing  fits  a  soldier's  mouth  Hke  talk  of  war.  He 
longs  to  come  to  England,  and  had  a  letter  last  post  from  their 
friend  fuU  of  expressions  of  joy  for  the  honour  of  his  Grace's 
visits,  and  the  favour  which  he  designed.  It  will  be  a  great 
help  in  easing  her  unfortunate  circumstance.    Abstract, 


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Monsieur  Boisrond  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  August  14.    Dublin. — Concerning  the  difficulties  of 
the  linen  manufacture  in  the  North  and  at  Kilkenny.     (French. ) 
Abstract. 

Monsieur  Du  Barett  D'Antoigny  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  August  14.     La  Haye. — Sending  information  as  to 
the  campaign,  and  asking  his  Grace  to  secure   the  payment 
of  his  pension.     {French.)    Abstract. 

Richard  House  to  . 

1705,    August    15. — Concerning    the    affairs    of    Scotland. 
Abstract. 

Earl  of  Mount- Alexander  to  Ormonde. 
1705,   August    16.     Dublin. — Concerning   his   pension.     He 
is  surprised  to  find  that  the  Lord  Treasurer  makes  a  difficulty. 
It  was  on  that  condition  only  that  he  agreed  with  Lieutenant- 
General  Ingoldsby.    Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  August  16.  Dublin. — Concerning  various  military 
affairs.  He  refers  to  his  Grace's  desire  to  know  the  name  of 
the  officer  who  is  to  command  the  troops  for  Portugal.  In 
his  original  order  his  Grace  had  named  eight  captains,  but 
mentioned  nothing  of  a  field  officer,  and  being  ignorant  of  the 
nature  of  the  service  these  people  are  going  upon,  the  writer 
could  not  take  upon  himself  to  command  a  field  officer,  it 
being  to  go  beyond  sea.  As  the  command  stands  now,  the  eldest 
captain  will  command.  The  clothes  Mr.  Pratt  offers  them 
are  brand  new.  There  is  a  coat  and  waistcoat  for  every  man. 
They  were  made  to  be  sent  to  the  West  Indies.  Tidcombe's 
clothes  are  so  bad  they  will  not  cover  the  men.  The  people 
here  are  not  able  to  make  the  firelocks  unless  they  be  paid 
weekly  or  monthly.  The  estimate  of  the  office  of  ordnance 
comes  to  four  and  twenty  shillings  a  musket.  The  dragoons* 
arms  are  naturally  muskets  and  the  caHbre  and  length  should 
be  the  same  with  the  foot ;  the  difference  should  be  only  in 
the  mounting,  with  regard  to  their  slinging  them  on  horseback. 
He  refers  to  his  paper  about  recruiting..    Abstract. 

Captain  George  Camocke  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  August  16.  Dublin. — Informing  Ormonde  that  he  is 
going  to  Bristol  with  the  wool  fleet.  "  I  was  told  your  Grace 
wanted  a  cast  of  hawks  ;  I  have  a  very  fine  cast  at  your  Grace's 
service  and  shall  bring  them  to  Bristol  and  be  very  careful  to 
send  them  to  London." 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  August  17.     Dublin.— It  is  with  the  greatest  satisfac- 
tion that  I  have  read  three  times  over  Mr.  Portlock's  account 

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of  your  Grace's  happy  recovery  after  your  mischance  and 
that  your  Grace  is  past  all  danger  from  thence,  for  which 
God  be  praised.  We  should  have  been  under  unspeakable 
consternation  here  if  the  same  packet  which  informed  us  of  the 
accident  had  not  brought  us  the  joyful  account  of  your  recovery, 
but  now  aU  is  well,  and  it  will  be  yet  better  if  your  Grace  be 
pleased  often  to  make  this  reflection,  that  the  greatest  and 
healthiest  are  by  small  and  unforeseen  accidents  as  soon 
brought  to  the  grave  as  the  most  inconsiderable,  for  this 
consideration,  my  dear  Lord,  will  not  only  increase  your 
piety  and  improve  those  good  inclinations  shining  in  you 
already,  but  even  as  to  this  world  it  wiU  fix  your  Grace  in  the 
resolutions  you  have  taken  of  seeing  your  debts  paid  in  your 
lifetime  and  of  not  contracting  more  ;  but  enough  of  this, 
and  your  Grace  will  forgive  the  freedom  of  it,  because  it 
proceeds  from  a  hearty  and  affectionate  concern  for  your 
prosperity 

I  had  gone  this  far  before  I  received  the  honour  of  your 
Grace's  of  the  9th,  and  therefore  for  the  future  your  Grace 
wiU  be  pleased  to  send  directly  to  myseH  and  not  by  the 
Secretary's  packet,  for  I  pay  no  postage  and  sometimes  I 
lose  a  post  because  I  do  not  get  my  letters  in  time.  I  see 
Sir  William  Robinson  and  Mr.  Ludlow  were  to  meet  about  the 
premises,  and  I  hope  next  packet  will  bring  me  their  result. 
I  am  glad  your  Grace  wrote  nothing  of  Mr.  Crosse,  for  every 
day  renders  me  more  averse  to  that  matter,  for  he  is  entirely 
governed  by  the  Baron  and  will  never  be  easy  where  the  Baron 
is  uneasy.  I  am  extremely  obliged  to  your  Grace  for  your 
favour  to  Sir  WilUam  Mansel,  who  now  Hves  at  my  charge, 
and  therefore  if  the  guards  are  not  to  be  raised  I  must  beg 
your  Grace  to  provide  for  him  in  some  other  corps,  as  there 
shall  be  opportunity  ;  this  is  the  greatest  trouble  I  have  in 
the  world  and  nobody  can  remove  it  but  your  Grace.  .  .  . 

As  to  the  four  hundred  and  sixty  men,  which  will  be  ready, 
and  what  else  concerns  the  Army  I  refer  to  our  joint  despatch, 
or  to  my  Lord  Cutts's  letters  ;  only  must  observe  that  we  have 
given  two  or  three  orders  first  for  four  hundred  men  then  for 
sixty  more,  then  for  drums  and  clothes,  for  want  of  full 
directions  from  your  Grace  at  first  and  some  hint  how  the 
men  were  to  be  employed.  My  poor  Lord  Mount-Alexander 
is  very  uneasy  at  the  grant  of  his  pension  during  pleasure 
which  he  expected  for  Hfe,  and  his  agreement  with  Lieutenant- 
Genera  1  Ingoldsby  is  so,  and  therefore  hopes  your  Grace  wiU 
stop  any  further  progress  in  that  matter  till  Lieutenant- 
General  Ingoldsby  does  obtain  the  grant  for  life.  The  packet 
is  just  going,  so  that  I  have  not  time  to  transcribe  this  nor 
to  add  but  that  I  am,  &c.  A  proclamation  for  a  thanksgiving 
issues  to-day. 

St.  George  Ashe,  Bishop  of  Clogher,  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  August  18.— /See  Report,  XIV,  App.,  pt.  VII,  f.  62. 


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Viscount  Tunbridge  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  August  20.  Zulestein. — Concerning  his  Grace's  wine 
and  the  progress  of  the  campaign.  The  Duke  of  Marlborough 
and  Monsieur  D'Auverqurque  were  for  attacking  the  French, 
all  the  other  generals  against.  An  account  has  come  of  Prince 
Eugene's  attack  on  the  Duke  of  Vendome.     Abstract. 

Captain  Robert  Campbell  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  August  23.  Monaghan. — In  obedience  to  your  Grace's 
commands  I  have  been  through  the  North,  and  upon  sure 
grounds  say  they  were  never  so  unanimous  and  had  such  a 
sense  of  the  government  favour  to  them.  The  ministers 
have  passed  an  account  that  none  shall,  upon  any  pretence,  hold 
correspondence  with  Scotland  whilst  the  succession  be  settled. 
They  are  about,  according  to  their  Church  government,  to 
censure  the  two  non-jurors,  Mr.  Bird  and  Mr.  Cracken,  who  offer 
to  give  the  Government  any  security  for  their  loyalty  and  say 
their  not  swearing  was  no  disHke  to  the  settlement  but  contrary. 
There  is  some  difference  Hke  to  arise  about  the  burial  of  a 
dead  person  in  the  Bishop  of  Clogher's  diocese,  but  I  hope  to 
get  it  taken  away  before  it  go  to  the  Government.  There 
was  a  letter  came  from  England  in  answer  to  one  from  this 
kingdom,  which  gives  them  here  an  assurance  of  your  Grace's 
return,  which  is  very  satisfactory  and  earnestly  prayed  for 
wherever  I  went.  If  anything  here  be  worth  troubling  your 
Grace  with  I  will  make  bold  to  do  it,  and  hope  your  Grace  will 
pardon  this  trouble. 

Major-General  John  Tidcombe  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  August  25.  Dublin. — Conveying  inexpressible  grief 
for  his  Grace's  unhappy  accident.  Their  friend  has  comforted 
him  with  the  news  of  his  Grace  being  out  of  danger.    Abstract. 

William  Moreton,  Bishop  of  Kildare,  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  August  28.  DubHn.— Your  Grace's  of  the  21st  I 
received  last  night,  and  with  it  an  inexpressible  satisfaction  to 
find  your  Grace  so  immovable  and  steady  to  one  of  the  oldest 
servants  of  your  family.  It  is  so  very  Hke  your  noble  ancestor, 
my  old  master,  that  I  cannot  but  beg  leave  to  mention  him 
upon  this  occasion,  having  always  had  the  most  profound 
respect  and  veneration  for  his  memory.  As  for  my  church, 
which  I  am  now  going  to  leave,  it  hath  as  many  royalties, 
both  in  its  foundation  and  superstructure,  as  any  church 
hath  or  need  to  have  ;  for  by  its  charter  it  appears  to  be  a 
pecuhar  of  the  Crown's  own  making,  as  it  was  formerly  of  the 
Pope's,  and  it  hath  privileges  which  can  never  be  in  danger 
whilst  your  Grace  continues  the  patron  of  it,  which  makes  me 
hope  that  my  successor,  in  case  the  Archbishop  will  not  let 
fall  his  suit,  will  take  up  the  gauntlet  which  I  lay  down,  the 
cause  I  plead  for  being  a  most  righteous  cause  I  am  sure,  and 


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of  considerable  consequence  and  moment  to  the  prerogative 
of  the  Crown.  I  must  hkewise  presume  to  hope  that  the 
gentleman  who  has  borne  the  burthen  and  heat  of  the  day, 
I  mean  Dr.  Clayton,  will  have  a  share  of  your  Grace's  favour, 
he  being  the  principal  manager  of  this  cause  and  a  very 
fortunate  assistant  of,  my  Lord,  &c. 

Major  Robert  Wroth  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  August  29.     Guildford. — Acquainting  his  Grace  that 
his  designed  charity  for  Mr.  Stapleton  had  not  reached  him. 
He  is  a  prisoner  for  debt  in  Dublin,  and  in  so  much  want 
that  he  is  forced  to  lie  on  the  common  side.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  August  31.  Dublin. — Since  my  last  the  Bishop  of 
Meath  is  dead,  and  our  joint  letter  will  mention  the  Bishops  of 
Kildare,  Down  and  Ossory  as  candidates  for  it.  Some  say 
the  Convocation  would  be  obliged  if  their  prolocutor.  Dean 
Synge,  were  preferred,  and  others  that  the  Parliament  would 
take  it  kindly  if  your  own  chaplain  and  theirs,  Dr.  Pratt, 
might  have  some  advancement.  But  since  your  Grace  knows 
the  merits,  pretensions  and  circumstances  of  them  all,  and  your 
own  obHgations  to  provide  honourably  for  your  domestic 
chaplain,  Dr.  ElHs,  I  have  no  more  to  offer  on  that  subject. 
My  Lord  Orrery  is  here  and  very  much  your  Grace's  humble 
servant.  He  was  telling  me  that  your  Grace  gave  him  very 
kind  promises  of  something  relating  to  his  regiment,  which  will 
render  him  very  easy.  .  .  .  I  am  told  the  report  between 
the  Archbishop  and  Bishop  of  Kildare  is  sent  to  your  Grace. 
They  should  not  have  done  so  without  showing  it  to  me  and 
the  chief  judges,  since  we  took  pains  to  hear  it  five  or  six 
days,  but  I  am  well  contented  to  be  excused  the  trouble  of 
examining  it,  for  I  well  foresee  that  be  it  how  it  will,  the 
reporters  will  not  escape  the  censure  of  partiaHty  from  the 
one  side  or  the  other. 

Major-General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  September  1.  Dubhn. — Concerning  the  contracts  for 
supplying  the  furniture  of  the  barracks.  They  beheve  that 
they  will  save  1,000?.  by  their  fire  and  candle  that  year.  He 
intends  in  two  months  to  send  some  of  his  officers  to  England 
to  beg  recruits  for  his  regiment.     He  desires  thirty.    Abstract. 

Colonel  Nicholas  Lepell  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  September  1.  Dublin. — -Asking  the  appointment  of 
Captain  Creeds  as  a  second-major  in  his  regiment.  Others 
who  have  been  suggested  have  been  disaffected  to  the 
government  until  necessity  obUged  them  to  take  service. 
Abstract, 


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Earl  of  Mount-Alexander  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  September  1.  Dublin. — Concerning  his  pension.  He 
desires  that  his  Grace  will  have  Lieutenant-Genera  1  Ingoldsby's 
letter  stopped.  The  time  is  now  past  in  which  Ingoldsby  is 
limited  by  their  agreement  to  get  the  writer  a  pension. 
Abstract 

Edward  Shadwell  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  September  2.  Dublin. — Asking  for  a  commission 
in  the  guards.  An  opportunity  offers  by  the  sudden  death 
of  Major  Francis  Holdrich.  Would  not  have  written  himself 
had  not  his  nephew,  Doctor  Shadwell  (whom  he  would  have 
assigned  the  honour  of  addressing  his  Grace),  been  now  at 
Bath.     He  mentions  his  brother  Brady.     Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  September  3. — Informing  his  Grace  that  he  had  sent 
him  the  cider.  He  refers  to  Ormonde*s  unlucky  accident  in 
his  own  closet.     Abstract. 


Monsieur  Du  Marett  D'Antoigny  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  September  4.  La  Haye. — Concerning  news  of  the 
Prince  of  Baden  surprising  the  lines  of  Haguenau.  {French.) 
Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  Henry  Lumley  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  received  September  6. — Concerning  the  campaign. 
{Injured.) 

Major-General  John  Tidcombe  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  September  8.  Dubhn. — Liforming  Ormonde  that  he 
hopes  to  set  sail  on  the  10th  of  that  month  in  order  to  kiss 
his  Grace's  hands  at  London.     Abstract. 

Primate  Marsh  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  September  8.  Dubhn. — Having  been  upon  my 
visitation  for  some  time  I  did  not  receive  your  Grace's  of 
August  21st  until  yesterday,  whereby  I  understand  that  your 
Grace  hath  procured  her  Majesty's  grant  for  translating  the 
Bishop  of  Kildare  to  Meath  and  Doctor  EUis  to  succeed  liim 
in  Ealdare  ;  whereat  I  very  much  rejoice  because  by  this  means 
I  hope  your  Grace  will  the  easier  put  an  end  to  that  unhappy 
difference  betwixt  the  Archbishop  of  Dubhn  and  Dean  of 
Christ  Church,  which  hath  already  continued  but  too  long 
for  the  good  of  our  church.  I  am  with  all  imaginable  respect, 
&c.  I  hope  your  Grace  will  find  as  good  success  in  the  business 
of  the  first-fruits  and  twentieth-parts,  when  you  shall  please 
to  lay  it  before  her  Majesty. 


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Edward  Smyth,  Bishop  of  Down  and  Connor,  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  September  8.  Lisbum. — Acknowledging  the  great 
honour  of  a  letter  from  his  Grace.  He  thanks  him  for  his 
intention  of  reserving  him  in  his  thoughts.  His  wife  has  been 
so  ill  that  he  has  found  it  necessary  to  caU  Sir  Patrick  Dun 
from  Dublin  to  her.     Abstract. 

Major-General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  September  8.  Dublin. — Concerning  various  military 
details.  The  three  new  regiments  will  want  great  recruiting. 
Mr.  Bourchier  is  sending  the  account  of  the  money  for  buying 
horses  for  the  Portugal  service.  The  writer  has  allowed 
Mr.  Boucher  twopence  per  pound  for  his  trouble  and  care  in 
keeping  the  account.    Abstract. 

Same  to  Same. 

1705,  September  9.  Dublin. — Informing  him  that  he  is 
beginning  a  journey  to  inspect  various  regiments  and  barracks. 
Lieutenant  Fieldmg  of  his  regiment  desires  a  brevet. 
Abstract. 

Brigadier-General  Thomas  Fairfax  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  September  9.  Limerick. — I  had  the  great  honour  of 
your  Grace's  letter  of  the  28th  of  August  and  cannot  but 
admire  your  goodness  and  generosity  in  thinking  of  Ould 
Thom  amidst  the  crowd  of  your  Grace's  affairs.  I  know  your 
Grace  loves  not  long  letters,  and  therefore  I  pray  God  give  you 
success  in  all  you  go  about,  and  that  your  Grace  will  please 
to  beHeve  that  I  am  with  all  thankfulness  and  sincerity 
imaginable,  my  Lord,  your  Grace's  most  faithful,  &c. 

Alderman  William  Allen  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  September  10.  Chester. — I  make  bold  to  trouble 
your  Grace  about  some  money  that  was  going  from  hence  for 
Ireland  and  lately  seized  by  the  officers  of  the  Customs,  which 
moneys  they  pretend  to  condemn  at  the  Exchequer  as  being 
shipped  off  contrary  to  law,  but  this  is  so  discouraging  to  the 
trade  of  Iceland  which  is  drained  of  all  other  sort  of  coin, 
that  if  they  had  no  Enghsh  money  they  could  neither  have 
hardly  any  trade  at  all,  neither  should  they  have  almost 
wherewithal  to  buy  bread,  and  your  Grace  being  so  nearly 
concerned  in  the  welfare  of  that  kingdom  I  hope  you  wiU  not 
take  it  amiss  if  I  humbly  represent  the  case  to  your  Grace, 
desiring  you  would  be  pleased  to  represent  to  the  Queen  or 
my  Lord  Treasurer  the  necessity  of  winking  at  this  time  to 
that  law,  by  reason  no  custom  could  be  paid  in  Ireland  if  it 
was  not  for  the  English  coin,  nor  indeed  any  trade  can  be 
carried  there  without  it,  so  that  all  their  wool,  butter  and 
other  commodities  must  lie  on  their  hands,  and  in  this  particular 


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of  the  moneys  lately  seized  here  on  board  the  Amity,  John 
Ball  master,  I  most  humbly  desire  your  Grace  to  intercede, 
that  it  may  be  restored  to  the  owners,  the  whole  seizure  coming 
to  her  Majesty,  and  my  friends  will  very  readily  submit  to  give 
a  gratuity  to  the  officers  who  seized  it,  and  humbly  beg  your 
Grace's  pardon  for  this  trouble,  and  doubt  not  but  by  your 
Grace's  interest  may  meet  with  that  success  that  may  answer 
this  request  from,  &c. 

Countess  of  Tyrconnel  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  September  10. — Concerning  the  marriage  of  Lady 
Rosse's  daughter  to  Lord  Cahir.  The  writer  has  endeavoured 
twice  to  find  his  Grace  at  his  lodgings,  and  is  sorry  to  be  obliged 
to  leave  the  kingdom  without  acquitting  herself  of  a  com- 
mission from  Lady  Rosse  to  obtain  his  Grace's  approbation 
of  the  match.  Lady  Rosse  hopes  his  Grace  will  be  as  gracious 
as  on  a  former  occasion  in  ordering  Mr.  Butler,  Lord  Rosse's 
steward,  to  let  her  have  lOOZ.  for  the  clothes.  The  writer 
refers  to  her  own  interest  in  the  double  alliance  with  Sir  George 
Barnewall's  family,  his  Grace's  goodness  about  Sir  George's 
pension,  and  the  miserable  condition  of  Lady  Barnewall 
and  her  four  daughters,  who  want  the  necessaries  of  life. 
Abstract. 

Commissioners  of  the  Revenue  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  September  11.     Custom  House. — Concerning  a  repre- 
sentation from  them  relating  to  the  Ught-houses.     It  is  high 
time  that  work  was  set  on  foot.     Signed,  Thomas  Everard, 
Thomas  Keightley,  Samuel  Ogle,  Henry  Tenison.     Abstract. 

Captain  George  Camocke  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  September  11.  Speedwell,  Kinsale. — Acknowledging 
his  Grace's  favours  to  him  which  are  such  that  he  wants  words 
to  express  himself.     Abstract 

Viscount  Ikerrin  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  September  13.  Castlelyons. — Acknowledging  his 
Grace's  letter  received  two  days  before  at  Lord  Inchiquin's. 
He  cannot  find  words  to  express  his  sense  of  the  great  honour 
his  Grace  has  done  him.  He  has  been  since  the  camp  at 
Kinsale.  Only  three  men  of  his  regiment  have  deserted, 
but  several  of  the  detachments  have  run  and  it  grows  every 
day  more  and  more  difficult  to  keep  them.  Lords  Barrymore 
and  Lichiquin  desire  their  duty  to  be  presented  to  his  Grace. 
Abstract. 

Colonel  Luke  Lillingston  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  September  13.     DubHn.— Recommending  Mr.  Lambert 
to  be  a  Ueutenant  in  his  regiment.     He  has  received  advice 
from  Cork  that  one  Smith,  who  held  that  rank  in  his  regiment, 


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died  a  few  days  ago.  Lambert  is  ensign  to  his  company  and 
the  eldest  in  the  regiment.  He  desires  that  Mr.  Evered,  who 
carries  arms  in  his  regiment,  may  be  ensign  in  Lambert's  room. 
The  Lords  Justices  have  given  him  leave  to  go  to  England 
with  several  of  his  officers  to  raise  recruits  and  he  hopes  soon 
to  wait  on  his  Grace.     Abstract. 

Captain  John  Pratt  to  Ormonde. 
1705,    September    13.     Dublin. — Reminding    his    Grace    of 
his  promise  to  have  the  rent  of  the  lodgings  of  the  Constable 
of  the  Castle  put  upon  the  estabHshment.     Abstract. 

Henry  Davys  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  September  15.  Carrickfergus. — I  had  sooner  obeyed 
your  Grace's  command  but  that  I  waited  for  the  return  of  a 
friend  from  Scotland  upon  whose  information  I  could  depend, 
who  tells  me  that  the  people  of  that  kingdom  are  in  a  great 
ferment ;  that  they  are  enraged  against  England  to  the  last 
degree  ;  that  they  want  nothing  but  power  to  show  their 
resentments  ;  that  every  landlord  has  got  a  soldier  or  some 
person  that  has  carried  arms  to  discipHne  his  tenants  and 
cottiers  for  that  upon  the  first  occasion  they  will  be  able  to 
bring  a  hundred  thousand  men  into  the  field  ;  that  it  was 
reported  when  he  came  away  that  a  considerable  number  of 
Highlanders  would  be  sent  to  the  borders  of  England  ;  that 
they  drink  the  pretended  Prince  of  Wales's  health  as  freely 
and  openly  as  we  do  our  Queen's  ;  that  the  Duke  of  Argyll, 
the  now  Commissioner,  does  act  with  great  prudence  and 
temper,  and  that  the  Duke  of  Queensberry  has  since  he  came 
last  into  Scotland  brought  off  several  noblemen  from  Duke 
Hamilton's  party  ;  that  they  are  a  strange,  divided,  distracted 
people  insomuch  that  it  is  hoped  their  dissensions  among 
themselves  will  prevent  their  giving  trouble  to  England  during 
the  Queen's  fife.  I  wish  the  ParHament  of  England  would 
consider  the  hardships  they  have  put  both  upon  that  and 
this  kingdom  and  not  strain  the  string  until  it  break.  I  have 
here  enclosed  the  Lord  Belhaven's  speech,  and  shall  be  glad 
to  receive  your  Grace's  commands  upon  all  occasions. 

Enclosure  : — 

The  Lord  Belhaven's  Speech  in  the  Parliament  of  Scotland 
on  the  17th  day  of  July  last  past,  1705,  upon  Unanimity, 
Limitations  and  a  Treaty,  &c.  Dublin  :  Reprinted  by 
Francis  Dickson  in  Smock  Alley,  1705. 

Duke  of  Schomberg  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  September  15.— -/See  Report,  XIV,  App.,  pt.  VII,  p.  63. 

Captain  Henry  Roche  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  September  16.     Plymouth,  from  on  board  the  Fox. — 
Desiring  that  the  ship  which  he  commands  may  be  appointed 


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for  the  Irish  station.  He  does  not  doubt  but  she  will  answer 
everyone's  expectation  that  has  seen  her  of  being  an  incom- 
parable good  sailor.  AU  the  French  prisoners  told  him  that 
no  ship  in  France  would  wrong  her  when  she  was  clean. 
Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  September  17,  n.s.  Aix-la-Cliapelle. — Hoping  his 
Grace  will  prevent  any  stop  to  the  patent.  The  giving  it  for 
life  can  be  no  prejudice  to  her  Majesty.  It  is  not  without 
precedent ;  Sir  Harry  Goodrich  had  it.  The  Duke  of 
Marlborough  was  pleased  at  the  Hague  to  wish  him  joy  as 
master  of  the  ordnance,  and  assured  him  the  Queen  had 
consented  to  the  proposal.     Abstract 

LlEUT.-COLONEL  WiLLIAM  ViLLIERS  to   OrMONDE. 

1705,  September  17.  Dublin. — Thanking  his  Grace  for  his 
kind  obHging  letter.  He  does  not  doubt  success  since  he  is 
honoured  with  so  great  a  soHcitor.  The  regiment  continues 
in  very  good  order.  That  they  may  be  pretty  well  in  horses 
as  well  as  in  men  he  designs  that  every  captain  should  send 
over  a  man  to  buy  his  horses,  and  that  an  officer  should  be 
appointed  to  view  the  whole  when  bought.  Captain  Butler 
desires  leave  to  go  to  England,  and  may  be  a  fit  man  to  execute 
that  office.  Their  money  will  not  amount  to  a  sufficient  sum 
until  the  1st  of  April,  and  the  horses  will  then  be  over  in  a 
good  time  to  turn  to  grass,  which  they  find  does  best  with  them 
after  they  have  recovered  their  voyage.     Abstract. 

R.  Stewart  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  September  18.  DubUn. — Acknowledging  the  honour 
of  a  letter  from  his  Grace  and  his  relief  at  hearing  of  his  Grace's 
escape  from  so  imminent  a  danger.     Abstract. 

Monsieur  Du  Marett  D'Antoigny  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  September  18.     La  Haye. — Concerning  the  iUness  of 
Monsieur    Dadyck    and    Monsieur    Courtienne,    with    some 
references  to  the  progress  of  the  campaign  and  mention  of  his 
pension.     (French.)    Abstract. 

Major  Francis  Columbine  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  September  20.  Chester.— Informing  his  Grace  that 
he  is  now  commanded  with  Colonel  Rooke's  regiment  to 
Ireland.  He  hopes  his  Grace  will  give  him  leave  for  three 
months  to  come  into  England  to  settle  his  father's  affairs, 
which  are  yet  undetermined.     Abstract. 

Viscount  Tunbridge  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  September  20,  o.s.      Zulestein.— Informing  his  Grace 
that  he  has  sent  to  Utrecht  for  the  moselle  and  will  forward 


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it  out  of  hand.  The  burgundy  will  be  harder.  He  must  stay 
till  he  can  speak  with  a  captain  of  a  yacht.  His  Grace  knows 
what  care  they  take  to  hinder  any  wine  coming  in.     Abstract. 

Colonel  Nicholas  Lepell  to  Ormonde. 

1 705,  September  20.  Dublin. — Protesting  against  a  company 
being  taken  from  his  regiment  and  given  to  Lord  Arran's. 
It  is  still  undecided  whether  Colonel  LiUingston  or  he  is  the 
younger,  by  reason  that  LiUingston  is  said  to  have  been  broke 
by  the  King  for  coming  away  from  the  Ladies  without  leave. 
If  by  the  interests  of  his  friends  LiUingston  shaU  be  declared 
the  elder,  the  writer  hopes  that  he  wiU  be  aUowed  for  the 
clothing  for  which  he  had  drawn  articles  before  he  heard  of 
this.     Abstract. 

Count  F.  Nassau  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  September  21.     Camp  d'Arphot. — ^Thanking  his  Grace 
for  his  protection  of  Mr.  Vincent.     (French.)    Abstract. 

Colonel  John  Eyre  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  September  22.  Dubhn. — Asking  that  his  son  may 
be  appointed  sheriff  of  County  Galway  for  the  ensuing  year. 
He  was  hard  pushed  by  Sir  George  St.  George  and  that  party 
in  his  election  for  Galway.  The  design  was  that,  if  by  their 
clamours  in  England  this  Parhament  was  dissolved,  they 
might  put  in  two  new  friends  at  Galway.  After  two  hearings 
at  the  Council  Board  their  petition  was  dismissed.  He  wiU 
take  care  they  shaU  never  be  able  to  contest  it  again.  Athenry 
is  also  sound,  so  the  whole  county  is  at  his  Grace's  devotion. 
Abstract. 

Monsieur  Joly  to  Ormonde. 
1705,    September   23.     Lichfield. — About  a  pass   to   aUow 
him  to  attend  to  his  own  affairs.     (French.)    Abstract. 

Major-General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  Septemer  24.  DubHn. — Concerning  the  of&cers  going 
to  England  to  recruit.  He  wiU  send  his  own  the  next  month, 
but  the  officers  that  command  the  other  regiments  of  horse 
and  dragoons  are  unwilling  to  begin  tiU  the  spring,  aUeging 
that  the  longer  they  stay  the  more  money  they  wiU  have  out 
of  their  vacancies  to  recruit  with.     Abstract. 

Same  to  Same. 

1705,  September  26.  DubHn. — TeUing  his  Grace  that  he 
thinks  it  convenient  to  review  his  regiment  before  the  officers 
go  to  recruit.  When  he  is  out  he  designs  to  review  aU  the 
troops  and  barracks  between  Dublin  and  Kinsale,  and  thence 
to  Cork,  Waterford,  Youghal,  and  so  along  that  coast  to 
Dublin.     Abstract. 


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Colonel  Owen  Wynne  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  September  29.     Dublin. — Recommending  some  gentle- 
men whose  names  he  has  sent  to  Mr.  Southwell  for  commissions 
in  his  regiment.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Mount- Alexander  to  Ormonde. 
1705,   September  29.     Dublin. — Informing  his   Grace  that 
he  has  received  a  letter  from  Lieutenant-General  Ingoldsby. 
Abstract. 

The  Provost  and  Inhabitants  of  Enniskillen  to 
Ormonde. 

1705  [no  date]. — ^May  it  please  your  Grace,  we  the  poor 
distressed  sufferers  and  inhabitants  of  a  corporation  of 
Enniskillen  do  with  all  gratitude  return  our  most  humble  and 
imfeigned  thanks  to  your  Grace  for  your  most  generous  and 
charitable  interposition  with  her  Majesty  in  our  favour,  by 
means  whereof  we  doubt  not  but  that  our  great  losses  will  be 
retrieved,  and  as  your  Grace  on  all  occasions  has  endeavoured 
the  good  of  this  kingdom  in  general  and  thereby  justly  gained 
the  hearts  of  all  the  good  men  therein,  so  we  in  particular 
have  hkewise  found  the  effects  of  it  in  what  your  Grace  has 
done  in  our  favour  here  ;  and  therefore  do  in  all  humility  beg 
leave  to  assure  your  Grace  that  we  retain  the  due  sense  thereof, 
and  shall  to  the  expense  of  what  is  most  dear  to  us  testify  it 
on  all  occasions  ;  which  with  humbly  begging  the  continuance 
of  your  further  interposition  for  us  in  England  as  also  pardon 
for  this  great  trouble  we  are  sensible  we  put  on  your  Grace, 
we  remain,  your  Grace's  most  obliged  and  most  humble  servants. 
Signed  by  William  Roscrow,  Provost,  and  sixty-six  others. 

Marquis  de  Lassay  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  received  October  2.  Nottingham. — Concerning  per- 
mission to  go  to  London.     (French.)    Abstract. 

Colonel  Nicholas  Lepell  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  October  4.  Dublin. — Informing  his  Grace  that  he  is 
advised  his  affairs  require  his  attendance  in  England,  and 
hoping  his  Grace  wiU  not  deny  him  permission  to  go.   Abstract. 

Monsieur  Joly  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  October   4.     Lichfield. — ^Thanking  his  Grace  for  his 
attention  to  his  request.     (French.)    Abstract. 

Earl  of  Mount-Alexander  to  Edward  Southwell. 

1705,  October  7.     Dublin.— Thanking  him  for  the  care  which 

he  has  taken  in  his  affair.     He  has  received  Southwell's  letter 

telling  him  that  the  Queen  has  granted  him  a  pension  for  her 

own  life  and  has  already  acquainted  Southwell  that  he  is 


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willing  to  accept  it.  He  thinks  that  he  will  change  his  English 
journey  to  a  northern  one,  when  he  shall  be  glad  if  he  can 
serve  Southwell  or  Lady  Betty.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Mount- Alexander  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  October  7.  Dubhn. — Acknowledging  his  Grace's  letter 
and  saying  that  he  acquiesces  in  his  pension  being  for  the  life 
of  the  Queen.  He  hopes  she  will  hve  many  years  longer  than 
he  shall.     Abstract. 

Colonel  Nicholas  Lepell  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  October  9.  Dublin. — Acknowledging  his  Grace's 
favour  in  granting  the  two  commissions,  and  stating  that  he 
had  transmitted  a  memorial  to  the  Lords  Justices  in  regard  to 
his  dispute  with  Colonel  Lillingston.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  October  14.  Dubhn. — Informing  Ormonde  that  the 
remainder  of  the  recruiting  officers  are  to  embark  the  next  day. 
There  is  an  account  come  in  of  unusual  heats  and  animosities 
between  the  parties  in  England.  Count  Noyelle,  brigadier 
of  the  Dutch,  is  in  Dubhn  ;  he  embarks  to-morrow  for  England  ; 
there  is  another  brigadier  with  him.     Abstract. 

LlEUT.-COLONEL  WiLLIAM  ViLLIERS  tO   OrMONDE. 

1705,  October  20.  Dubhn. — Announcing  that  Captain 
Butler  and  Quarter-Master  Moon  are  ready  to  embark.  Captain 
Butler  is  to  approve  of  the  horses  without  favour  or  affection. 
They  are  to  be  sent  to  the  Head  as  soon  as  proper  after  they 
are  bought,  by  reason  it  is  very  dear  keeping  them  ia  England 
and  the  packet  boats  will  not  hold  many.  The  place  appointed 
for  viewing  them  is  Dunstable.  The  officers  are  also  to  get  as 
many  handsome  Enghshmen  as  are  wanting.  They  have  a 
little  above  three  score  pounds  a  troop  by  stock  purse  and 
vacancies  to  the  first  of  the  next  month.  He  wants  four  horses 
in  his  troop,  Sir  Richard  Vernon  six.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Vernon  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  October  21.  Hodnet. — Asking  whether  he  shall  send 
over  recruit  horses  for  his  troop  at  that  time  and  run  the  risk 
of  the  bad  season  of  the  year,  or  send  them  in  spring.  He 
has  given  Keys  of  Northampton  directions  to  secure  them 
now.  He  has  endeavoured  in  vain  to  find  out  a  pad  fit  for 
his  Grace.    Abstract. 

Thomas  Cosby  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  October  22.  Transport  Office. — Liforming  his  Grace 
that  they  have  heard  from  Mr.  Tyrer  of  Liverpool  that 
Ldeutenant-Greneral  Erie's  regiment  of  foot  landed  from  L:eland 


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at  Parkgate  on  the  17th.     They  marched  directly  for  Chester. 
Abstract. 

to  Ormonde. 

1705,  October  23.  Camp  near  Elvas. — Concerning  the 
campaign  and  the  writer's  personal  interests.     (Injured.) 

Lieut. -General  Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  October  26,  n.s.  Workum. — Concerning  his  patent. 
He  waits  the  Duke  of  Marlborough's  leave  to  go  to  England. 
He  is  not  able  to  take  the  field,  having  lost  and  bought  this 
campaign  three  score  and  nine  horses  out  of  his  own  equipage, 
which  has  almost  broke  him.    Abstract. 

Major-General  Robert  Echlin  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  October  27.  Dublin. — Informing  his  Grace  that  he 
had  sent  the  officers  to  buy  the  horses  in  England  and 
suggesting  the  appointment  of  Mr.  Carey,  who  is  in  very 
indifferent  circumstances,  as  lieutenant  to  Captain  Dumas  in 
his  regiment.     Abstract. 

Don  Pedro  de  Benavides  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  October  28.     La  Haye. — Asking  for  a  pension.     He 
refers  to  visits  to  Iceland  and  England,  and  to  his  having  been 
driven  from  Spain  and  Portugal  on  account  of  his  religion. 
(French.)    Abstract. 

Viscount  Tunbridge  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  October  29.  Zulestein. — Enclosing  a  loading  bill  for 
the  wine.  It  comes  over  with  the  convoy  with  the  yachts. 
His  father  gives  his  services  to  his  Grace.  They  only  stay  for 
a  yacht  to  embark  for  England.     Abstract. 

Francis  Molyneux  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  October  30. — Asking  his  Grace  to  allow  Lord  Falkland 
to  come  home  from  Gibraltar.  If  he  dies  his  lady,  who  now 
lies  in,  and  child  will  have  nothing  to  live  upon.  This 
expedition,  with  Lord  Falkland's  journey  to  Ireland,  cost  the 
writer  a  great  sum.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  October  30.  Clancarty  House  in  Dublin. — Concerning 
mihtary  affairs.  He  expects  in  a  few  days  to  ascertain  the 
vacancies  of  officers  in  the  troops.  As  Lepell  is  going  to 
England,  and  Lillingston  is  there,  it  will  be  best  for  his  Grace 
to  hear  their  pretensions  face  to  face.  In  his  opinion  the 
dispute  turns  upon  the  question  whether  Lillingston  was 
broke  by  way  of  punishment  or  not.  He  encloses  a  Hst  of 
recruiting  officers  of  Lord  Harry  Scott's  regiment.  The 
company   commanded    by   Captain   Foster,   who  desires   to 


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sell,  wants  sixteen  men.     There  are  three  children  in  that  one 
battaHon.     Abstract. 

William  Mobeton,  Bishop  of  Meath,  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  October  30.  DubUn. — I  am  not  a  little  surprised  at 
the  information  your  Grace  has  had  of  a  dispute  betwixt  the 
Dean  of  Derry  and  me,  whereas  there  has  nothing  passed 
between  us  but  acts  of  kindness  and  friendship  since  I  came 
into  this  diocese,  though  I  find  by  my  visitation  book  that 
he  has  six  Uvings  in  it  at  this  great  distance  from  the  place 
where  he  resides,  which  is  looked  upon  by  others  as  a  Uttle 
scandalous,  though  I  never  so  much  as  mentioned  it  to  him, 
but  instead  of  that,  upon  his  request,  I  excused  his  attendance 
at  the  primary  visitation  which  I  held  at  Trim  upon  the  1 7th 
of  this  month,  so  far  am  I  from  being  troublesome  to  any- 
body, when  I  can  possibly  avoid  it  and  not  run  myself  imder 
the  imputation  of  being  neghgent  of  my  duty.  Your  Grace 
has  been  pleased  most  generously  to  rid  me  of  a  trouble  which 
might  have  a  long  time  stuck  very  close  to  me,  and  therefore 
your  Grace  may  be  assured  that  I  shall  always  avoid  the 
putting  your  Grace  to  any  farther  trouble  than  continuing 
to  receive  the  most  humble  and  most  constant  thanks  of,  &c. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  November  3.  Clancarty  House  in  Dublin. — Concern- 
ing army  affairs.  He  is  glad  his  Grace  has  rewarded  Mr. 
Portlock's  good  services  with  the  place  of  Taster.  He  did 
not  know  it  was  so  valuable  when  he  asked  it  for  Mr.  Budiani. 
Now  he  requests  a  Ueutenancy  for  that  gentleman,  who  has 
followed  him  several  years  in  the  army  and  is  very  brave, 
sober  and  diHgent,  speaks  French  and  Dutch  and  will  make 
a  very  pretty  ofiicer.  He  has  sent  Echhn  to  view  the  forces 
quartered  in  the  North,  particularly  Rooke's  regiment,  which 
has  not  been  seen  by  any  general  officer  since  their  arrival. 
He  refers  to  the  hsts  of  the  recruiting  officers.  He  never  had 
so  much  pains  in  anything  as  to  get  them  away.  He  reminds 
his  Grace  that  he  said  the  vacancies  made  by  the  men  sent  to 
Portugal  were  not  to  be  filled.     Abstract. 

Major  Arthur  Hebburne  to  Ormonde. 
1705,   November   3.     Dublin. — Thanking   his   Grace   for  a 
brevet  to  command  as  Heutenant-colonel  of  horse.     Abstract. 

Marqtjis  de  Lassay  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  November  3.     Nottingham. — Concerning  his  wish  to 
go  to  London.     {French.)    Abstract. 

Viscount  Tunbridge  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  November  5,  n.s.  Zulestein. — Concerning  the  wine 
for  his  Grace  and  the  war  on  the  Continent.    Their  victorious 


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army  of  last  year  have  not  followed  their  victory  this.  The 
French  have  retook  Oiest  and  made  the  garrison  prisoners 
of  war,  after  which  they  blew  up  the  gates  and  retired.  It 
is  believed  Prince  Eugene  will  yet  attempt  to  pass  the  Adda, 
but  it  will  be  very  hazardous,  as  the  Due  de  Fenillade  has 
sent  a  great  detachment  to  the  Duke  of  Vendome.  His 
father  and  Monsieur  Jaire  give  their  service  to  his  Grace. 
Abstract. 

Major-General  Cornelius  Wood  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  November  5,  n.s.  Camp  at  Hochstad. — ^Telling  his 
Grace  that  he  has  not  been  able  to  write  owing  to  an  attack 
of  colic.  They  march  the  next  day  to  their  winter  quarters 
at  Breda.  When  he  sees  his  regiment  settled  there  he  hopes 
to  come  to  England.     Abstract. 

Major-General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  November  6.  Dublin. — Announcing  his  return  from 
reviewing  regiments.  He  found  Lord  Ikerrin  at  the  head  of 
his  regiment  at  Kinsale.  It  is  in  good  order,  as  are  Lord 
Inchiquin's  and  Lord  Dungannon's.  LiUingston's  regiment 
is-  the  best  clothed  and  accoutred  new  one  he  ever  saw.  He 
wishes  Wynne's  were  so  well ;  when  he  reviewed  nine  com- 
panies at  Cork  he  found  but  five  ofiicers  with  them.  He 
found  the  barracks  in  good  repair,  only  a  general  complaint 
of  the  chimneys  smoking.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Inchiquin  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  November  6.  Rostellan. — Concerning  his  own  affairs 
and  those  of  the  army.  His  Grace's  letter  of  September  26th 
found  him  at  Kinsale.  There  are  very  necessary  repairs  to 
be  made  in  that  fort,  about  which  he  has  written  to  Lord  Cutts. 
He  has  a  very  good  neighbourhood  at  Rostellan  in  Sir  John 
Jennings'  squadron,  which  has  been  for  three  weeks  in  Cork 
harbour.  "  We  have  been  very  merry,  always  together  on 
board  or  on  sjiore.  Captain  Mordaunt  and  Greville  lay  some 
nights  here  ;  they  are  two  very  pretty  gentlemen,  sober  and 
well-bred."  The  India-men  that  were  at  Kinsale  came  in 
also  four  or  five  days  before.  They  sailed  that  day  about 
one  o'clock.  Lady  Mary  Dilkes  is  gone  to  England  with  them. 
He  refers  to  a  petition  for  a  patent  for  some  ground  he  is 
taking  in  from  the  sea,  and  for  a  village  there  to  be  made  a 
borough  and  to  have  fairs  and  markets.  He  has  already  made 
some  progress  in  that  work.  When  he  went  to  Kilkenny  at 
Michaelmas  to  deliver  up  his  civil  office  and  look  into  his 
miUtary  one  he  left  La  Condiere  there,  who  would  have  been 
dehghted  to  have  seen  himself  remembered  by  his  Grace. 
"  I  am  sure  the  esteem  and  veneration  I  have  for  the  Duke  of 
Ormonde  will  be  as  lasting  as  the  Ufe  of  his  most  faithful  and 
most  obedient  servant  Inchiquin."    Abstract. 


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Monsieur  Du  Marett  D'Antoigny  to  Ormonde. 
1705,   November  6.     La  Haye. — ^Announcing  the  news  of 
the  fall  of  Barcelona  on  October  Hth,  and  giving  some  other 
information  as  to  the  campaign.     {French.)    Abstract. 

Major-General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  November  8.  Dublin. — Concerning  a  review  of  his 
own  regiment.  He  found  the  horse  very  fat  and  in  good  order. 
He  wants  twenty-six  horses.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1705,    November    8.    Dublin. — Concerning    army    affairs. 
Abstract. 

Earl  of  Mount- Alexander  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  November  10.  DubHn. — Saying  that  he  had  seen 
the  Queen's  letter  for  granting  his  employment  to  Lieutenant- 
General  Ligoldsby,  but  was  somewhat  surprised  to  find  that 
there  was  no  order  or  letter  for  his  own  pension.    Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  November  10.  Dublin. — Concerning  Ormonde's  pri- 
vate affairs.  Sir  K.  Levinge,  who  has  been  in  England  and 
consulted  the  most  eminent  lawyers  there,  seems  of  opinion 
that  the  deanery  of  St.  Patrick's  is  not  in  the  Queen's  gift  and 
the  rest  of  the  counsel  do  not  differ  from  him.  The  writer 
has  desired  their  positive  opinion  that  no  more  money  may 
be  spent  in  that  suit  unless  there  may  be  probabiHty  of  success. 
Mr.  Sjnige  will  not  be  much  disappointed,  since  the  chancellor- 
ship of  Christ  Church  and  parish  of  St.  Werburgh's  are  kept 
for  him.     Abstract. 

Paul  Davys  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  November  10.  St.  Catherine's. — Concerning  the  set- 
tlement of  a  title  which  his  Grace  had  promised  him.  He  was 
for  a  month  ill  of  a  fever.  Mrs.  Purcell  that  married  Mr. 
White  of  Leixlip,  wiU  be  there  for  part  of  the  winter,  so  they 
will  have  the  unexpected  pleasure  of  a  neighbour.  It  is  a 
pity  he  is  not  fifteen  for  both  their  sakes.  Lady  Slane,  who 
is  with  him,  and  Lady  Newburgh  are  mentioned.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Vernon  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  November  11.  Hodnet. — Liforming  his  Grace  that 
one  of  his  corporals  has  come  from  Ireland  to  buy  the  horses 
for  his  troop.  He  will  send  him  hence  to-morrow  in  order 
to  be  beforehand  with  the  officers  that  come  out  of  Holland, 
and  designs  to  go  to  Northampton  himself  to  take  care  to 
find  such  horses  as  he  has  often  heard  his  Grace  give  his  orders 
for.     His  corporal  has  orders  to  send  the  horses  to  Dunstable 


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for  Captain  Butler  to  see,  but  the  writer  begs  that  he  may  be 
allowed  to  bring  them  to  Hodnet  to  save  their  travelling  a 
long  way  and  expense. 

Viscount  Tunbridge  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  November  12.  Zulestein. — Hoping  his  Grace  has 
received  the  moselle.  It  was  the  best  to  be  got.  A  yacht 
is  to  come  for  his  father  by  the  next  convoy.     Abstract. 

Edward  Evans  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  November  13.  Dublin. — Asking  his  Grace  to  desire 
Lord  Chancellor  Cox  to  befriend  him  in  a  difference  that  has 
been  referred  to  Cox  in  his  private  capacity.  He  is  oppressively 
pursued  by  Mr.  Conolly  and  his  faction.     Abstract. 

Welbore  Ellis,  Bishop  of  Kildare,  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  November  13.  DubHn. — Acknowledging  his  Grace's 
favour  in  advancing  him  to  his  present  dignities.  His  Grace 
will  please  to  declare  before  Lent  who  is  to  represent  him  as 
Chancellor  of  the  University.     Abstract. 

Rev.  John  Hinton  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  November  14.  Kilkenny. — Asking  for  the  living  of 
Carrick,  as  Mr.  Breding,  the  present  minister,  is  past  all  hope 
of  recovery.  He  is  the  only  domestic  chaplain  unprovided  for. 
Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1705,   November    19.     Dublin. — Saying   that  he  will  send 
his  Grace  some  letters  from  members  of  Parliament  which  he. 
thinks  are  curious.     Abstract. 

Paul  Davys  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  November  22. — ^Thanking  his  Grace  for  getting  his 
patent.  Lady  Rosse  is  in  great  affliction  about  her  daughter 
who  married  Lord  NetterviUe.  He  throws  things  at  his  wife's 
head  and  has  turned  Lady  Rosse  out  of  the  house.  He  is  a 
strange  brute.  The  writer's  cousin,  Mrs.  Purcell,  desires  not 
to  live  with  her  husband  until  he  is  eighteen.  The  town  says 
Lord  Cutts  has  made  airs  to  Lady  Anglesey,  but  she  has  not 
received  them  and  has  retired  to  a  place  twenty  miles  from 
Dublin.  Lady  Newburgh  has  grown  a  woman  of  much 
business  and  manages  all  her  Lord's  affairs  and  law-suits. 
Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  November  25.     Dubhn. — Sending  an  abstract  of  the 
army  in  that  kingdom  which  it  is  not   amiss  his  Grace  have 
in  his  closet.     His  Grace  will  observe  how  weak  Lillingston's 
regiment  is.     It  is  reaUy  scandalous.     Abstract. 

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Robert  Rochfort  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  November  28.      Dublin. — Presuming  to  tender  his 
services  by  the  hands  of  his  nephew  Captain  Fox.     Abstract. 

Paul  Davys  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  November  29. — Concerning  his  taking  the  title  of 
Mountcashell.  He  finds  it  is  in  the  palatinate  of  Tipperary, 
and  is  in  great  confusion  that  he  did  not  ask  his  Grace's  leave 
to  take  that  name.  He  thought  the  place  was  in  the  county 
of  Cork.  "  I  came  to  town  to-day  and  dined  with  Lady 
Slane,  where  we  had  the  honour  tete  a  tite  to  drink  your  health." 
Abstract. 

Princess  Sophia  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  November  2d.— See  Report  VII,  App.,  p.  781. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  November  30.  Dublin. — Concerning  army  affairs. 
Upon  receipt  of  his  Grace's  orders  they  had  dispatched  an 
express  to  countermand  the  detachment  ordered  for  foreign 
service,  and  he  is  of  opinion  the  orders  will  find  them  at  Kinsale 
or  in  Bantry  Bay.  He  will  observe  strict  secrecy  in  what 
his  Grace  tells  him  concerning  some  regiments  to  be  detached 
from  that  kingdom,  though  he  has  insinuated  for  some  weeks 
that  there  was  a  UkeUhood  of  regiments  being  sent  hence. 
Abstract. 

Anthony  Murray  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  November  30,  n.s.  Hanover. — I  had  before  now 
given  your  Grace  an  account  of  the  great  esteem  which  I 
found  the  whole  Court  of  Hanover  hath  for  your  Grace,  had 
I  not  been  prevented  by  a  sudden  illness  that  took  me  which 
made  me  keep  my  room  for  several  weeks,  which  hindered  me 
from  sending  your  Grace  those  particulars  that  I  intended 
to  have  done.  About  two  months  ago  I  was  for  some  con- 
siderable time  in  her  Highness 's  closet,  and  amongst  other  affairs 
her  Royal  Highness  did  speak  of  your  Grace  with  a  great  deal 
of  esteem  and  friendship,  of  which,  my  Lord,  I  was  very  glad, 
it  giving  me  an  occasion  not  only  to  do  your  Grace  justice, 
but  also  to  express  my  acknowledgments  for  your  Grace's 
singular  favours  and  loudnesses  to  my  son,  in  letting  her 
Royal  Highness  know  the  great  veneration  and  love  the  three 
kingdoms  bad  for  your  Grace — particularly  England  and 
Ireland,  where  you  was  most  concerned,  and  that  you  was  the 
subject  in  the  three  kingdoms  that  had,  without  comparison, 
the  greatest  interest  to  serve  her  Royal  Highness  and  family. 
At  the  same  time  the  Elector  came  in  ;  then  the  discourse 
was  French.  Her  Royal  Highness  said  to  the  Elector  :  "  We 
are  speaking  of  the  Duke  of  Ormonde."  His  Electoral  Highness 
said  ;    "  He  is  a  very  fine  gentleman  ;   I  am  acquainted  with 


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him."  The  Electoress  made  answer  :  "  He  is  mightily  valued 
in  England,"  and  I  added  :  "  And  almost  adored  in  Ireland." 
Her  Highness  said  :  *'  Your  son  writes  me  so  and  that  the 
Duke  is  very  kind  to  him  on  my  recommendation."  I  told 
her  Highness  that  my  son  had  all  the  reason  in  the  world  to 
write  so  ;  "  for  his  Grace  has  favoured  him  on  your  Royal 
Highness 's  recommendation,  as  if  he  had  had  the  honour  to 
be  his  Grace's  near  kinsman."  "  I  did  expect,"  says  her 
Royal  Highness,  "  that  the  Duke  would  be  kind  to  him  for 
my  sake,  for  he  is  a  most  generous  nobleman."  I  told  her 
that  it  was  "his  Grace's  affableness,  generosity,  justice,  his 
capacity  and  diligence  in  State  ajffairs  that  made  him  so  much 
esteemed  and  beloved."  The  Elector  asked  me  what  my  son 
had.  I  told  his  Highness  that  your  Grace  had  given  him  a 
lieutenancy,  and  that  the  Mnd  assurances  that  your  Grace 
gave  by  providing  so  well  for  him  made  me  hope  that  if  the  Irish 
guards  were  raised  that  your  Grace  would  give  him  a  company. 
The  Elector  said  that  he  did  not  question  it,  and  the  Electoress 
was  so  kind  to  my  son  as  to  say  that  he  would  become  such  a 
post.  Company  being  come  in,  the  Elector  took  me  to  the 
window  and  told  me  a  very  kind  thing  of  your  Grace,  which 
I  do  not  think  fit  to  trust  to  a  letter,  but  shall  acquaint  your 
Grace  when  I  have  the  honour  to  kiss  your  hands.  Both 
their  Highnesses  commanded  me  to  make  their  compliments 
to  your  Grace. 

At  my  return  to  Court,  my  Lord,  after  my  recovery,  I 
found  the  Elector  then  taken  up  with  settling  the  late  Duke 
of  ZeU's  servants,  and  hke  the  best  of  Princes  he  hath  provided 
for  them  all,  though  very  numerous.  The  Electoress  was  with 
Mrs.  How  walking  in  the  garden,  where  her  Highness  took  me 
aside  and  told  me  that  she  was  very  fond  of  your  Grace's 
letters  and  that  she  had  writ  oftener  to  you  but  that  she  was 
afraid  it  might  .  .  .  (sic).  If  your  Grace  will  write  to  her  Highness, 
she  will  take  it  very  kindly  and  I  will  answer  your  Grace  for 
the  safeness  of  your  letters  to  her  Royal  Highness,  for  I  shall 
dehver  them  out  of  my  own  hand,  as  also  for  her  Highness's 
to  your  Grace,  providing  that  the  letters  are  put  under  my 
son's  cover,  for  while  I  am  in  this  country  your  Grace  may  be 
assured  that  my  utmost  interest  shall  be  employed  to  serve 
your  Grace.  I  have  tired  your  Grace  with  a  long  letter,  but 
since  it  is  for  your  service  your  Grace  will  pardon  me,  who 
am  entirely,  &c. 

John  Hahtstonge,  Bishop  of  Ossory,  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  November  30.  Dublin.— Telling  his  Grace  that  he  is 
soHcited  by  Mr.  Bligh  to  beg  from  his  Grace  four  or  five  brace 
of  pheasants,  and  that  he  is  importuned  to  write  to  him 
also  on  behalf  of  Mr.  Hinton  for  the  living  of  Carrick.  He 
goes  to  Kilkenny  on  Monday,  and  there  continues  without 
intermission  until  February,  when  with  his  Grace's  leave  he 
designs  for  England,    AMract, 


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Lieut. -Colonel  Willla.m  Villiers  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  December  1.  Dublin. — Concerning  his  regiment. 
Lieutenant  Gore  has  obtained  leave  to  go  to  England  on  very 
sudden  pressing  business.  He  is  a  very  diligent  officer.  Lord 
Cutts  tells  him  Comet  Harcourt  has  his  Grace's  leave  to  sell 
his  commission.  There  is  no  quarter-master  able  to  purchase 
it  except  Mr.  Moon,  who  is  very  deserving.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Mount- Alexander  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  December  1.  Dublin. — Concerning  his  pension. 
Lieutenant-General  tigoldsby  has  written  that  his  Grace 
was  surprised  to  find  that  the  writer  had  desired  the  Lords 
Justices  to  delay  passing  Ligoldsby's  patent  till  the  letter  for 
his  pension  came.  He  has  no  other  meaning  in  it,  but  that 
he  would  act  with  the  common  prudence  aU  men  do  on  such 
occasions.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  December  3.  Dublin. — Concerning  army  affairs.  In 
the  memorial  to  Mr.  St.  John  mention  is  made  of  recruiting 
the  three  regiments  of  Mohun,  Ikerrin  and  Sankey  to  the 
English  estabUshment,  but  no  mention  is  made  of  supplying 
what  they  want  of  their  complement  now  upon  the  Irish 
establishment.  Their  orders  came  time  enough  to  stop  the 
detachments  on  board  for  foreign  service,  and  they  have 
commanded  them  back  to  their  quarters.     Abstract. 

Rev.  Peter  Browne  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  December  3.  Trinity  College. — I  humbly  beg  leave 
to  take  this  opportunity  by  Doctor  Pratt  to  acquaint  your 
Grace  from  our  society  that  the  proctors  are  chosen  for  the 
two  next  commencements,  the  first  of  which  now  near 
approaching  we  pray  your  Grace  will  be  pleased  to  appoint 
a  Vice-Chancellor.  The  great  characters  of  the  persons  who 
have  hitherto  acted  under  your  Grace  in  that  honourable  post 
is  no  small  instance  of  the  tender  regard  you  have  always  had 
to  the  honour  and  advantage  of  our  University,  for  which 
and  for  the  many  other  expressions  of  your  concern  for  us 
our  whole  society  as  one  man  lay  ourselves  at  your  Grace's 
feet  with  the  humblest  acknowledgments.  That  God  would 
still  increase  your  noble  virtues  and  give  you  full  scope  for 
the  exercise  of  them,  and  that  you  may  be  long  a  pubUc 
blessing  to  this  poor  Church  and  nation  is  the  hearty  prayer 
of,  &c. 

Brigadier- General  Nicholas  Sankey  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  December  3.  Dublin. — Returning  his  Grace  thanks 
for  ordering  his  regiment  abroad.  He  hopes  that  he  may  not 
suffer  the  mortification  of  being  commanded  by  a  junior. 
He  is  now  the  eldest  brigadier  in  the  army.    Abstract 


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Major  Jacques  Wibault  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  December  4.     Dublin. — Asking  a  place  in  the  infantry 
to  augment  his  appointment  as  major  of  artillery.     (French.) 
Abstract. 

Major  Jacques  Wibault  to  Edward  Southwell. 
1705,   December   4.     Dublin. — Reminding   him   of   the  in- 
structions for  the  ordnance,  and  praying  him  not  to  forget 
poor  Foullon.     (French.)     Abstract. 

Monsieur  Varangle  to  Ormonde. 
1705,   December  6.     Dublin. — Concerning  the  French  pen- 
sioners and  especially  himself  and    his  brother.      (French.) 
Abstract. 

Countess  of  Coventry  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  December  6.     Suit. — Asking  for  Mr.  Foulkes  a  post 
in  the  army  or  in  Ireland.     Abstract. 

Major-General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  December  7.  Dublin. — Concerning  his  abstract  of 
the  foot  regiments.  Those  he  calls  Irish  are  men  of  that 
country,  but  Protestants,  and  most  of  them  of  the  northern 
parts.  Captain  Burke  is  considering  of  some  way  to  prevent 
the  chinmeys  in  the  barracks  smoking.     Abstract. 

Countess  of  Dungannon  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  December  9.     Dublin. — Concerning  her  husband  being 
ordered  to  go  beyond  sea.     Abstract. 

Thomas  Keightley  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  December  10.  DubUn. — Though  I  have  lately  desired 
Mr.  Southwell  to  acquaint  your  Grace,  together  with  my 
faithful  respects,  that  I  forebore  still  to  trouble  you  with  any 
letters  of  mine  because  I  did  not  find  anything  in  our  quiet 
country  and  government  which  deserved  you  should  be  troubled 
with  it,  yet  having  since  that  made  some  observations  upon 
the  proceedings  and  contrivance  of  a  late  odd  presentment 
made  by  the  grand  jury  of  DubHn  the  last  day  of  the  last 
term  in  the  Queen's  Bench,  which  I  believe  your  Grace  has 
both  heard  of  and  seen  by  this  time,  I  know  you  will  forgive 
me  for  saying  what  I  think  upon  it  to  you,  and  believe  that 
I,  who  have  not  drunk  so  deep  in  the  bowl  to  the  Church  as 
to  raise  or  countenance  unnecessary  jealousies  or  differences 
in  a  government  about  it,  have  no  other  end  in  what  I  say 
but  that  you  should  know  impartially  not  only  what  passes 
of  open  iU  consequence  here,  but  what  is  thought  may,  at 
a  close  entrance,  proceed  designedly  under  a  covered  way  to 
that  at  last.  Give  me  leave  then  to  say  in  one  word  to  your 
Grace,  though  I  have  not  made  use  of  one  to  anybody  else 
upon  this  occasion,  that  as  it  is  certain,  which  I  am  informed 


198 

it  is  by  persons  more  knowing  in  such  matters  than  I  am, 
that  this  presentment  is  of  a  very  unusual  and  extraordinary 
kind  for  these  reasons,  by  its  naming  no  person  nor  proving 
any  fact  ;  by  its  not  arising  originally  from  the  grand  jury, 
but  being  of  a  style  as  well  as  nature  which  shows,  if  it  were 
not  otherways  known  to  be  so,  that  it  has  been  contrived  and 
drawn  by  much  abler  hands  than  any  of  them  ;  by  its  having 
been  privately  managed  and  concealed  from  the  Queen's  counsel, 
who  used  and  properly  ought  to  be  consulted  in  all  things 
where  the  State  and  Government  seem  to  be  concerned  ;  by 
its  beginning  with  a  recital  of  votes  in  ParUament  which  relate 
to  the  Church  and  State,  picking  out  one  half  of  them  and 
leaving  out  the  other  ;  by  keeping  the  presentment  to  the 
last  hour  of  the  term  that  the  bench  receiving  it  in  a  hurry  might, 
as  indeed  it  did,  I  know  not  whether  occasioned  by  the  hurry 
or  not,  hastily  order  it  to  be  printed  and  published  ;  if  aU 
these  reasons  make  this  I  say  an  extraordinary  proceeding, 
and  if  it  be  true  that  this  extraordinary  presentment  is  so 
civil  as  to  forbear  provoking  any  of  the  malicious  suggestions 
in  it,  of  making  divisions  among  Protestants  against  any  person, 
is  because  there  is  no  such  thing  to  prove,  does  it  not  then  prove, 
there  being  no  such  divisions  in  Ireland  yet,  which  it  is  plain 
would  be  proved  upon  this  occasion  by  particular  persons 
and  facts,  as  well  as  dust  endeavoured  to  be  thrown  about 
in  general,  if  there  were,  that  this  presentment  itself  at  rovers 
is  designed  to  make  that  decision  which  it  seems  to  present. 
And  then  ought  not  the  saddle,  not  only  in  your  Grace's  private 
opinion,  but  wherever  else  it  may  be  necessary  to  do  justice 
or  prevent  mischief,  be  laid  upon  the  right  horse,  I  mean  so 
laid  only  as  that  your  Grace  may  be  aware  of  whatever  may 
be  at  the  bottom  of  so  pernicious  a  design  as  a  private  man, 
very  slenderly  backed,  God  knows,  taking  upon  himself,  by 
creating,  by  a  word  of  his  mouth  only,  a  High  Church  and 
Low  Church  in  this  kingdom,  to  set  up  one  gentleman  and  one 
neighbour  against  another,  and  to  make  a  show  of  taking  more 
care  of  the  kingdom  and  government  on  this  point  than  the 
government  is  inclined  to  do.  And  I  am  the  most  mistaken 
that  can  be  if  this  last  case  be  not  the  bottom  of  this  plot. 
I  will  add  no  more  but  that  ten  times  more  rancour  and  revenge 
with  more  assurance  appears  in  one  gentleman  of  late  than 
ever  and  that  I  am  with  truth  and  respect  always  in  the  same 
way,  &c. 

LiEUT.-CoLONEL  Francis  Edgeworth  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  December  12.  Dublin. — Reminding  his  Grace  once 
more  that  he  is  the  eldest  lieutenant-colonel  in  the  army,  and 
that  his  Grace  was  pleased  to  give  him  a  colonel  brevet  to 
make  it  real.  He  begs  that  he  may  be  permitted  to  raise  one 
of  the  new  regiments.  His  hopes  are  grounded  on  the  merit 
of  thirty-three  years'  service,  and  his  payment  of  his  widow's 
mite  by  his  industry  in  Parliament.    Abstract. 


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Earl  of  Inchiquin  to  Edward  Southwell. 
1706,    December    U.—See    Report    XIV,   App.,    pt.   VII, 
p.  63. 

Lieut. -Colonel  David  Creighton  to  Ormonde. 
1705,   December   14. — ^Thanking   his  Grace  for  appointing 
him  lieutenant-colonel  to  Colonel  Caulfeild.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  December  15.  Dublin. — All  the  sanguine  hopes  I 
had  of  compounding  Lord  Kangsland's  affair  are  disappointed, 
and  that  lady  let  me  know  that  the  greatest  kindness  I  could 
do  her  was  to  dispatch  it,  so  that  she  might  have  time  to 
appeal  this  session.  I  was  not  wanting  in  any  civiUty  I  could 
show  her,  but  as  to  the  point  of  justice  did  as  I  ought  and 
with  the  assistance  of  Lord  Chief  Justice  Doyne,  Lord  Chief 
Baron  Donelan  and  Mr.  Justice  Coote,  the  rest  of  the  judges 
being  sick  or  absent,  who  were  aU  of  my  opinion,  I  dismissed 
that  bill.  .  .  .  We  have  had  a  great  hearing  at  Council  Board 
about  Athenry,  where  some  of  the  lawyers  who  think  they 
squall  well  gave  us  such  horrible  ideas  of  the  matter,  as  if 
hberty  and  property,  and  even  Magna  Carta  were  to  be 
subverted  unless  there  were  sudden  reHef .  The  Speaker  opened 
it  as  if  there  were  a  design  of  murder  in  case  of  opposition, 
but  upon  full  examination  it  dwindled  into  a  suspicion  that 
one  man  had  a  gun  and  no  manner  of  violence  used  at  all,  so 
Colonel  Eyre's  friend  carried  it  nemine  contradicente.  We 
have  taken  such  effectual  care  about  the  three  regiments 
designed  for  Barcelona  that  we  hope  they  will  be  all  at  Cork 
by  the  1st  of  January. 

Sir  Hans  Hamilton  to  Ormonde. 
1705,    December    15.     Dubhn. — Asking   to    be   lieutenant- 
colonel  to   Lord  Dungannon,   whose  regiment  is   ordered  to 
Catalonia.     He   knows   Lord   Dungannon   is   entirely  in   his 
Grace's  interest.     Abstract. 

Captain  James  Crofton  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  December  15.  Dubhn. — Begging  his  Grace  to  provide 
for  him  in  the  new  levies  of  horse  and  dragoons.  The  regiment 
he  is  of  is  commanded  on  service.  He  has  this  seventeen 
years  served  in  the  foot.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Dungannon  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  December  15.     Dubhn. — Expressing  his  fear  that  he 
has  displeased  his  Grace.     He  has  received  no  reply  to  his 
request  for  some  more  months'  clothing  such  as  the  other 
colonels  had  received.     Abstract. 


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Lieut. -Colonel  James  Nicholson  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  December  16.  Dutlin. — Asking  for  the  command  of 
a  regiment.  He  hears  there  are  six  regiments  to  be  raised 
in  England  and  Ireland.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Levinge  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  December  20.  Dublin. — I  hope  your  Grace  will  not 
take  it  ill  from  me  that  I  become  my  own  advocate  to  your 
Grace,  and  that  I  presume  to  rely  alone  on  your  Grace's  goodness 
and  favour.  My  Lord  Chief  Baron  of  the  Exchequer  is  very 
ill  and  it  is  believed  he  will  not  live.  If  that  should  happen 
I  think,  if  I  have  your  Grace  on  my  side,  I  have  as  good 

fretensions  to  succeed  him  as  any  other  person.  I  am  sure 
do  not  desire  this  change  for  any  profit  of  my  own,  but  I 
have  two  advocates  to  plead  for  me,  which  are  the  gout  and 
stone,  and  I  hope  if  I  obtain  this,  I  shall  be  always  useful, 
as  I  am  sure  I  will  be  ever  faithful  to  your  interest.  If  the 
Chief  Baron  die  or  recovers,  I  will  give  your  Grace  immediate 
notice  of  it,  and  beg  your  Grace's  favour  in  this  to  be  added 
to  the  many  obligations  with  which  you  have  been  pleased  to 
honour,  &c. 

Earl  of  Mount-Alexander  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  December  22.  Dublin. — Expressing  regret  for  the 
trouble  which  his  Grace  has  been  given  in  the  affair  between 
Lieutenant-General  Ingoldsby  and  himself.  He  does  not  want 
so  much  good  manners  as  to  doubt  that  the  Queen  will  do 
what  she  promised,  but  he  thinks  Mr.  Ingoldsby  might  have 
patience  till  that  could  be  done,  and  not  expect  him  to  give 
up  his  patent  before  he  had  what  he  had  agreed  with  him 
for  it.     Abstract. 

Lieut.-Colonel  Francis  Edgeworth  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  December  22.     Dublin. — Sending  an  enclosure  from 
the  Earl  of  Inchiquin.     He  has  been    serviceable  and  easy 
to  him  and  to  his  other  colonels,  though  falsely  calunmiated 
by  those  that  durst  not  own  it.    Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  December  22. — ^Though  there  are  four  packets  wanting 
and  I  have  little  to  say,  yet  I  would  not  longer  delay  paying 
my  duty  to  your  Grace  and  heartily  wishing  your  Grace  a 
merry  Christmas  and  many  of  them.  Your  comet  Mr.  Har- 
court  has  agreed  for  three  hundred  guineas  with  Mr.  Baggs's 
son,  who  is  a  sprightly  young  gentleman  and  not  to  be  disliked. 
His  father  is  an  humble  suppliant  to  your  Grace  that  you  will 
be  pleased  to  approve  of  this  exchange,  since  Mr.  Harcourt 
says  he  has  your  Grace's  permission  to  dispose.  The  Speaker 
is  gone  to  Munster  and  great  endeavours  are  used  by  some  of 
the  partisans  to  get  the  youngest  George  Evans  chosen  knight 


201 

of  the  shire  in  room  of  Charles  Oliver,  deceased,  &r  Thomas 
Southwell  and  our  friends  set  up  Counsellor  Piggot  and  it 
would  give  Sir  Thomas  some  more  credit  if  he  were  governor 
of  that  county  and  custos  rotulorum.  It  is  but  during  pleasure, 
so  that  no  inconvenience  is  hkely  to  happen  if  your  Grace 
shall  be  pleased  to  gratify  him  therein.  .  .  .  Whatever 
recommendations  I  may  be  importuned  to  make,  your  Grace 
may  beUeve  that  none  concern  me  so  much  as  Sir  William 
Mansel ;  others'  pretensions  I  may  lay  before  you,  but  always 
with  that  modesty  and  regard  to  your  service  and  convenience 
as  becomes,  my  most  noble  Lord,  &c. 

LoED  CuTTS  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  Christmas  Day. — Your  Grace  will  pardon  me  if  I 
trouble  you  with  nothing  by  this  day's  post,  but  only  to  repeat 
my  wishes  that  I  sent  you  by  my  last  and  to  tell  your  Grace 
that  I  do  from  the  bottom  of  my  heart  wish  you  a  merry 
Christmas  and  a  great  many  happy  and  glorious  new  years  ; 
and  to  tell  your  Grace  that  my  Lord  Chief  Justice  Donelan 
being  dead.  Sir  Richard  Levinge,  the  SoUcitor-General,  his 
friends  have  privately  applied  to  me  to  mention  his  pretensions 
to  your  Grace,  he  being  out  of  town.  What  I  know  of  the 
matter  is  that  your  Grace  carried  me  to  dinner  at  his  house 
before  you  left  this  place,  and  by  your  Grace's  talking  with 
him  in  a  very  free  manner  and  your  speaking  of  him  to  me 
as  of  a  man  in  whom  you  put  a  confidence,  I  have  talked  very 
freely  with  him  of  several  matters  from  time  to  time  and  he 
seems  very  zealously  attached  to  your  Grace's  personal  interests 
as  well  as  to  the  public.  If  that  be  so  in  the  bottom,  as  it 
seems  really  to  me  to  be,  I  believe  your  Grace  has  no  doubt 
but  that  he  is  much  the  quickest,  most  skilful  and  best  turned 
man  on  this  side  of  the  water  for  such  a  post.  But  your 
Grace  knows  best  both  the  men  and  the  business,  and  I  wish 
nothing  so  much  in  it  as  that  you  may  be  entirely  pleased 
and  served. 

Thomas   Coote,   Justice  of  King's   Bench,   to  Colonel 
Thomas  Pearce. 

1706,  December  25.  Dublin. — I  believe  you  have  heard  of 
a  presentment  that  was  made  the  last  term  by  the  grand 
jury  of  the  county  of  the  city  of  Dublin,  which  has  made  a 
great  noise  here,  and  by  what  I  am  told  makes  no  less  with 
you.  I  was  this  day  informed  by  my  Lord  Chief  Justice  Pyne 
that  my  Lord  Duke  has  mentioned  something  relating  thereto 
in  a  letter  to  the  Lords  Justices,  and  on  some  discourse  he  had 
with  the  Lords  Justices  one  of  their  Lordships  was  pleased  to 
say  that  it  was  a  contrivance  of  mine  with  Mr.  Brodrick,  and 
that  I  had  given  occasion  thereto  by  somewhat  I  had  said 
in  the  charge  which  I  gave  the  grand  jury  the  first  day  of  the 
term.     As  to  what  I  gave  in  charge  to  the  grand  jury  it  was 


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no  other  than  what  had  been  agreed  and  concerted  between 
my  Lord  Chancellor,  Lord  Chief  Justice  Doyne,  Lord  Chief 
Baron,  Mr.  Justice  Upton,  Mr.  Attorney  General,  Mr.  Solicitor 
General  and  myself  the  day  before  the  term  in  relation  to 
certain  seditious  pamphlets  that  came  from  Scotland  reprinted 
here,  and  against  seditious  pamphlets  in  general  that  reflect  on 
her  Majesty  or  the  memory  of  the  late  King.  There  was  not 
the  least  hint  towards  the  club,  nor  did  I  know  of  the  present- 
ment above-mentioned  until  such  time  as  I  heard  it  read  in 
Court.  As  for  Mr.  Brodrick,  I  never  exchanged  a  word 
with  him  since  he  came  to  Ireland  unless  it  were  in  court, 
save  only  at  one  visit  which  he  made  me,  during  all  which 
time  Robin  EchUn  was  present  during  our  whole  conversation, 
and  there  was  not  the  least  syllable  mentioned  relating  to 
other  affairs  than  a  general  discourse  of  news  and  an  account 
of  a  sermon  which  he  said  he  had  heard  that  day.  Now 
how  I  came  to  be  drawn  in  for  a  [conspirator]  with  Mr. 
Brodrick  I  know  not.  It  is  certain  that  neither  Mr.  Brodrick 
nor  any  of  the  warm  gentlemen  of  his  party  and  I  have  had 
any  correspondence  further  than  common  civihties  ever  since 
the  division  on  account  of  the  supply,  and  I  would  not  He  under 
an  imputation  of  wearing  two  faces  under  a  hood,  which  is 
the  occasion  of  my  giving  you  this  trouble  and  to  desire  you 
to  let  my  Lord  Duke  know  that  I  had  no  share  or  part  in 
this  affair  other  than  as  I  have  told  you.  My  Lord  Chancellor 
promised  me  to-night  to  signify  the  same  to  my  Lord  Duke, 
but  considering  the  multiphcity  of  business  he  is  obhged  to 
entertain  his  Grace  withal,  I  thought  the  standing  fair  in  his 
Grace's  opinion  was  too  valuable  a  thing  to  me  to  trust  only 
to  that,  and  I  am  confident  your  friendship  to  me  is  too  sincere 
as  not  to  miss  an  occasion  of  doing  me  justice. — I  am  with 
great  respect  and  gratitude  &c. 

Sir  Richard  Levinge  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  December  26.  Monelea. — ^What  I  writ  of  in  my  last 
is  come  to  pass  and  my  Lord  Chief  Baron  is  since  dead.  I 
believe  I  was  as  early  in  my  notice  and  in  my  application  to 
your  Grace  as  any  other  whatsoever.  I  hope  I  have  never 
done  anything  to  demerit  your  Grace's  favour,  and  if  your 
Grace  has  any  intention  ever  to  do  anything  for  me  this  is  the 
time  most  easy  to  your  Grace  and  most  obUging  to  me.  I 
neither  could  nor  would  be  importunate  on  this  occasion  if  I  had 
my  health  as  I  have  had  formerly,  which  circumstance  obHges 
me  to  desire  a  place  of  more  ease  than  that  which  by  the 
favour  of  your  Grace  I  now  enjoy.  I  hope  I  shall  not  fare 
the  worse  for  relying  only  on  your  Grace,  and  I  doubt  not 
that  if  your  Grace  add  this  to  the  rest  of  your  favours  your 
Grace  will  see  by  the  event  that  it  will  not  be  to  the  prejudice 
of  that  service.  I  am  sure  I  will  always  own  this  favour  with 
the  deepest  sense  of  gratitude.  Pray  do  not  let  my  enemies 
prevail  against  me  nor  suffer  me  to  miscarry  when  your  own 


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hand  can  support  me.  I  rest  full  of  hopes  that  the  person  in 
the  world  for  whom  I  have  the  greatest  devotion  will  take 
care  of  me,  and  show  a  tenderness  for  him  that  is,  may  it  please 
your  Grace,  &c. 

Earl  of  Galway  to  Sir  Charles  Hedges. 

1705,  December  26.  Lisbon. — Recommending  the  bearer, 
Captain  White,  to  her  Majesty's  bounty.  He  had  his  leg 
broke  at  the  attack  of  the  breach  of  Valentia,  where  he 
commanded  a  party  of  grenadiers,  and  cannot  perfect  his 
cure  without  going  to  Bath.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Meath  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  December  26.  Newhall. — Acquainting  him  that  he 
could  raise  a  good  regiment  of  foot  in  three  weeks  or  a  month 
at  farthest,  and  requesting  that  Mr.  James  Stopford,  his 
nephew,  may  be  his  Heutenant-colonel.  He  is  a  man  very 
considerable  in  his  county.  There  shall  not  be  one  Papist  in 
the  regiment.     Abstract. 

Sir  Henry  Echlin,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  December  26. — The  many  favours  I  have  already 
received  from  yourseK  and  your  family  encourages  me  to  give 
you  this  further  trouble.  My  Lord  Chief  Baron  died  yesterday. 
I  have  been  so  long  second  judge  of  that  Court,  having  served 
almost  two  apprenticeships,  that  I  hope  your  Grace  will  think 
fit  to  advance  me  and  the  rather  because  I  have  no  prospect 
of  living  long  enough  for  any  other  favour.  I  do  not  know 
that  ever  I  made  any  false  step  in  relation  either  to  the  service 
of  the  Crown  or  of  your  Grace,  and  yet  I  have  not  so  much 
presumption  as  to  plead  any  merit  from  either,  but  hope  your 
Grace  will  finish  that  building  which  your  grandfather  begun, 
my  first  preferment  being  given  by  him  above  twenty-two 
years  ago,  which  will  always  engage  me  to  call  myself,  as 
really  I  am,  &c. 

Major-General  Robert  Echlin  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  received  December  26. — Being  just  returned  from  the 
North,  where  I  was  commanded  by  our  Lords  Justices  to  view 
the  forces  there,  I  embrace  this  opportunity  as  in  duty  bound 
to  acquaint  your  Grace  with  the  steady  zeal  I  found  in  the 
Dissenters  there  for  her  Majesty's  person  and  government, 
insomuch  that  it  is  my  real  opinion  they  may  be  depended 
upon  all  occasions  for  her  Majesty's  service.  There  is  three 
men  come  out  of  Scotland  ;  on  their  first  arrival  they  passed 
for  merchants,  but  afterwards  appeared  more  like  Jesuits 
for  that  they  go  about  the  country  endeavouring  to  possess 
the  minds  of  the  common  people  that  their  ministers  are  not 
lawfully  such,  having  taken  the  oaths  pursuant  to  the  late  Act 
of  Parliament  and  that  the  House  of  Hanover  are  next  to 


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Papists,  their  tenets  being  unsubstantiation,  which  is  very 
near  transubstantiation.  These  rogues  are  gifted  well  with 
extemporary  prayer,  by  which  means  they  may  do  some 
mischief  if  not  prevented,  but  I  am  informed  the  Dissenting 
clergy  are  very  industrious  to  have  them  apprehended. 

My  Lord  Dungannon's  regiment  being  now  commanded 
abroad,  I  know  not  what  I  shall  do  for  want  of  Captain 
Campbell*s  assistance.  The  troops  I  viewed  were  good,  their 
numbers  small,  Colonel  Rooke's  regiment  almost  complete. 
I  have  laid  before  the  government  the  grievance  of  my  Lord 
Windsor's  regiment.  .  .  . 

Robert  Rochfort  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  December  27.  DubHn. — I  had  not  presumed  to  have 
given  your  Grace  this  trouble  but  that  my  Lord  Chancellor 
was  pleased  to  tell  me  I  stood  among  those  recommended 
to  your  Grace  by  the  Lords  Justices  for  the  place  of  Lord  Chief 
Baron  in  the  room  of  that  great  and  good  man  who  is  gone, 
and  then  I  thought  it  my  indispensable  duty  to  own  that  it 
is  to  your  Grace's  patronage  I  must  own  this  favour  if  it  meets 
your  approbation  and  her  Majesty  shall  please  to  grant  it, 
for  as  I  have  devoted  myself  to  serve  her  Majesty  so  I  shall 
always  submit  entirely  to  her  and  your  Grace's  pleasure  to 
command  my  services  in  what  station  she  shall  think  fit. 
In  the  changes  or  removals,  if  the  place  of  Sohcitor  General 
should  be  vacant  I  humbly  beg  leave  to  lay  before  your  Grace 
whether  Mr.  Recorder  of  Dublin  should  not  be  thought  of. 
He  is  a  man  of  good  parts,  has  many  friends  and  relations 
and  will  be  very  zealous  in  her  Majesty's  and  your  Grace's 
service  in  this  or  any  other  ParUament,  and  besides  he  is  now 
counsel  to  the  Commissioners  of  the  Revenue  here,  for  which 
he  receives  lOOZ.  a  year  salary  and  I  believe  makes  as  much 
more  by  that  place,  to  which  your  Grace  may  recommend 
any  person  you  shall  judge  worthy  of  your  favour  on  his 
promotion.  I  dare  not  venture  to  say  more  than  to  make 
an  humble  tender  of  my  respects  and  duty  to  your  Grace,  and 
beg  your  pardon  for  this  transgression  and  beseech  your  Grace 
to  look  on  it  as  the  effects  of  the  most  grateful  sense  I  have 
of  the  many  obligations  I  owe  your  Grace  which  shall  always 
be  most  thankfully  acknowledged  by,  &c. 

Joseph  Kelly  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  December  27.  Kilkenny. — Thanking  his  Grace  for 
his  unbounded  generosity  in  the  past  and  asking  not  to  be 
forgotten  in  the  removals  caused  by  the  death  of  the  Chief 
Baron.     Abstract. 

Monsieur  Vimare  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  December  27.     Dublin. — Concerning  the  employment 
of  a  hundred  officers,  French  pensioners,  of  whom  the  writer 


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ifi  colonel,  and  the  need  of  two  French  ministers.     {French.) 
Abstract. 

Captain  W.  Fitzmauricb  to  Ormonde. 
1705,  December  29.  Dublin. — Reminding  his  Grace  that 
it  is  now  almost  seventeen  years  since  he  was  made  a  captain, 
and  asking  to  be  made  a  Heutenant-colonel  in  the  regiments 
to  be  sent  to  Barcelona  or  in  the  new  ones  to  be  raised  in  their 
stead.  He  suspects  himself  to  be  very  much  misrepresented 
to  his  Grace.  When  here  his  Grace  was  pleased  as  a  mark 
of  the  writer  being  restored  to  his  favour  to  promise  to  make 
him  a  lieutenant-colonel.    Abstract. 

Lieut. -Colonel  William  Villiers  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  December  29.  DubUn. — Hoping  his  Grace  will  not 
alter  his  resolutions  of  making  Mr.  Moon  comet  in  the  place 
of  Mr.  Harcourt.  The  bargain  has  been  made  and  money 
paid.  Lord  Cutts,  from  whom  he  has  just  come  and  who  is 
much  indisposed,  says  that  when  he  recommended  Mr.  Baggs 
he  understood  there  was  no  officer  able  to  purchase  the  place. 
Abstract, 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  December  30.  Dublin. — Your  Grace  will  pardon  my 
not  answering  the  particulars  of  the  letter  of  the  22nd  instant 
which  your  Grace  honoured  me  with,  when  I  tell  your  Grace 
that  on  Thursday  last  I  was  taken  very  ill  and  have  not  been 
off  of  my  bed  since  above  a  quarter  of  an  hour  at  a  time.  I 
had  been  troubled  for  some  time  with  what  they  call  the 
distemper  of  the  country,  and  on  Thursday  was  seized  with  a 
kind  of  a  fever,  which  quitted  me  not  tiU  this  morning  and 
has  made  me  weak  for  the  present  ;  but  it  is  now  quite  off 
and  by  Tuesday's  post  I  doubt  not,  God  wiUing,  to  write  to 
your  Grace  of  everything.  My  Lord  Ikerrin  is  gone  with 
Brigadier  Sankey  to  Kinsale  to  head  his  regiment  till  he  receives 
your  Grace's  further  orders.     I  am  with  respect  and  zeal,  &c. 

P.S. — I  shall  write  my  Lord  Ikerrin  word  that  your  Grace 
writes  about  him. 

P.S. — I  find  a  great  deal  of  interest  will  be  made  against 
Sir  Richard  Levinge's  being  successor  to  Chief  Baron  Donelan, 
but  if  Echhn  is  put  by  I  think  he  has  as  fair  a  pretence  as  any 
other  and  is  certainly  the  readiest  man  we  have.  I  have 
since  my  last  been  appHed  to  by  himself.  His  chief  reason  for 
wishing  that  post  is  his  gout  and  stone.  If  your  Grace  is 
satisfied  of  his  attachment  to  your  person,  of  which  he  makes 
all  imaginable  expressions,  to  be  sure  there  is  not  an  abler 
person  ;  and  it  is,  by  what  I  perceive,  what  he  pretty  earnestly 
wishes,  whatever  some  people  may  think,  to  whom,  it  may  be, 
he  has  not  opened  his  heart  so  fuUy.     But  I  write  this  only  to 


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inform  your  Grace  of  my  observations  and  submit  the  whole 
entirely  to  your  Grace's  judgment  and  pleasure. 

P.S. — Your  Grace  will  pardon  ill  writing  from  a  man  in  bed. 

Private.  Postscript.* — I  am  extremely  surprised  that  the 
affair  of  the  Chief  Baron  is  not  decided  yet.  It  is  of  ill 
consequence,  and  on  the  other  side  it  would  be  a  useful  victory 
for  your  Grace,  if  you  could  carry  it,  according  to  your  last 
recommendations,  for  Sir  E.  Levinge.  The  service  really  suffers 
here  for  want  of  one  and  it  causes  unnecessary  and  inconvenient 
discourses  being  delayed  so  very  long  ;  and  it  is  certain, 
if  it  is  decided  contrary  to  your  Grace's  recommendations, 
it  will  have  very  ill  consequences.  I  mention  this  as  being 
of  opinion  that  if  your  Grace  makes  use  of  your  utmost  skiU 
and  application  to  carry  this  point,  it  very  weU  deserves  it ; 
the  consequence  will  be  so  great  in  our  ensuing  Parliament 
here.  As  to  the  affair  of  recruiting,  concerning  which  the 
Lords  Justices'  letter  of  this  day's  date  refers  to  me,  your 
Grace  shall  have  the  detail  of  that  matter  in  my  next. — C. 

Welbore  Ellis,  Bishop  of  Ealdare,  to  Ormonde. 

1706-6,  January  1. — That  I  may  enter  upon  the  new  year 
in  the  best  manner  I  can  I  begin  it  with  paying  my  duty  to 
your  Grace.  This  is  what  I  shall  do  not  only  this  year,  but 
aU  the  years  of  my  Ufe,  and  never  reckon  them  prosperous 
unless  they  are  so  to  your  Grace.  I  wish  and  pray  your  Grace 
may  have  many  such  to  come.  The  controversy  between  the 
Archbishop  of  Dubhn  and  the  Chapter  of  Christ  Church  is  in 
a  way  of  reference  to  my  Lord  Chief  Justice  Holt  ;  the  articles 
are  ready  and  upon  sending  away.  There  wiU  be  no  stop 
in  the  Chapter  side  if  the  Archbishop  approves  of  them,  so 
that  I  hope  your  Grace  will  have  no  further  trouble  with 
that  matter. 

Lieut. -General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  January  1.  DubHn. — Concerning  the  recruit  horses. 
The  twenty-five  for  his  Grace's  regiment  have  been  extremely 
well  chose  and  brought  over  in  very  good  order  under  Quarter- 
Master  Moon,  who  has  shown  himself  very  dihgent.  Twenty- 
three  for  Lord  Windsor's  regiment  are  the  worst  chose  the 
writer  ever  saw  come  into  that  country.  There  were 
twenty-seven  sailed,  four  were  killed  at  sea,  and  if  they  had 
had  bad  weather  they  must  have  lost  most  of  them,  there 
being  but  one  man  to  take  care  of  them.  Forty-five  for 
Major-General  Echlir's  regiment  are  the  best  chose  dragoon 
horses  that  ever  he  sf  w,  except  two  or  three  which  are  to  be 
changed.     Abstract. 

William  Moreton,  Bishop  of  Meath,  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  January  1.  Dublin. — Now  that  I  find  that  the  con- 
troversy betwixt  the  Bean  of  Christ  Church  and  the  Archbishop 

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of  Dublin  is  not  yet  determined,  which  is  an  argument  to  me, 
and  I  hope  to  your  Grace  as  to  many  others,  that  it  is  no 
trifling  controversy  to  the  management  whereof  I  own  I  have 
been  unfortunate,  because  I  have  been  bought  and  sold  over 
and  over,  I  cannot  but  concern  myself  so  far  in  the  affair 
as  to  supphcate  your  Grace's  countenance  to  the  bearer  hereof, 
Mr.  Higgins,  who  is  now  Prebend  of  St.  Michael's  and  member 
of  Christ  Church,  and  is  sent  by  the  Dean  and  Chapter  to  bring 
the  matter  to  as  fair  an  issue  as  possibly  he  can  that  that 
noble  and  royal  Church  may  receive  no  damage,  which  it  will 
certainly  do  if  it  be  not  well  looked  after.  I  take  this 
opportunity  Hkewise  to  wish  your  Grace  many  happy  and 
prosperous  new  years  and  to  beg  the  continuance  of  your 
Grace's  favour  to,  &c. 

Lieut. -Colonel  William  Villiers  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  January  1.     Dublin. — Concerning  Mr.  Moon's  affair. 
Abstract. 

James  Dawson  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  January  1.  Ballynacourty. — Offering  to  raise  a 
regiment.  He  has  interest  sufficient  in  his  county  to  raise  a 
good  one.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  January  2.  Dublin. — Concerning  recruits.  The 
last  week  has  not  been  very  fruitful.  Ensign  Stroud  of  Lord 
Orrery's  regiment  was  killed  the  previous  night  by  one  of 
the  bullies  about  town,  none  of  the  army.  The  writer  has 
written  to  Lord  Orrery  to  ask  the  commission  for  Mr.  White 
who  is  with  him.  His  father  lost  his  Ufe  under  the  writer's 
command  in  the  last  war  in  Ireland.     Abstract. 

Brigadier- General  Nicholas  Sankey  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  January  4.     Kinsale. — Acknowledging  a  letter  from 
his  Grace.     The  three  regiments  are  generally  pretty  good. 
Abstract. 

Earl  of  Dungannon  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  January  5.     Dublin. — Acquainting  his  Grace  with 
his  fortune  about  his  regiment.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  January  5.  DubHn. — I  have  received  the  honour 
of  your  Grace's  of  the  29th  of  December  and  am  extremely 
happy  in  that  your  Grace  is  pleased  in  everything  to  approve 
of  my  endeavours  for  the  service.  As  to  what  your  Grace 
mentions  in  your  letter  to  the  Lords  Justices  your  Grace  may 
please  to  remember  that  your  first  orders  to  me  were  positively 
to  put  the  three  regiments  commanded  for  Catalonia  every 


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way  in  a  good  condition,  which  I  could  not  do  without 
completing  them  to  the  Irish,  as  well  as  the  English  establish- 
ment ;  but  my  scheme  always  was  that  they  shall  pay  for 
every  man  they  want  of  the  Irish  estabhshment  in  ready 
money  ;  and  for  that  end  I  have  taken  care  that  enough  of 
their  clearings  shall  be  kept  in  the  Treasury  to  answer  our 
demands  on  that  head  at  the  time  of  embarkation,  which  shall 
be  forthwith  paid  to  the  regiments  that  furnish  the  men  to 
complete  the  Irish  estabhshment.  This  ready  money,  with 
the  Queen's  three  pounds  a  man  in  England,  may  be 
immediately  issued  to  the  regiments  that  have  given  the 
hundred  and  odd  men  apiece  to  complete  the  three  regiments 
to  the  EngUsh  and  Irish  estabHshments  and  though,  as  the 
Lords  Justices'  letter  of  this  day  mentions,  it  is  impossible 
to  tell  to  a  man  what  will  be  the  claim  of  every  regiment  that 
gives  men  till  the  three  regiments  are  actually  embarked,  yet 
if  all  the  ready  money  immediately  to  be  received  in  England 
and  Ireland  be  forthwith  equally  divided  on  account  to  those 
regiments,  of  which  Dawson  sends  a  Hst  by  this  post  to  Mr. 
Southwell,  the  odd  money,  or  surplus  of  what  some  regiments 
wiU  have  a  right  to,  may  be  adjusted  from  the  growing  vacancies 
of  such  regiments  as  shaU  not  have  given  so  many,  which  shall 
be  stopped  in  the  Treasury.  By  this  means  time  may  be 
gained  and  men  raised  forthwith  as  far  as  the  ready 
money  will  go,  whereas  by  any  other  method  it  will  be 
tedious,  and  your  Grace  wiU  scarce  have  an  army  of  foot 
this  summer. 

If  the  Cabinet  Council  in  England  would  consent  to  let  the 
Lords  Justices  know  a  Httle  more  of  the  intentions  of  the 
Court  as  to  time  and  circumstance  when  her  Majesty  commands 
your  Grace  to  order  any  movements  here,  we  could  serve  her 
Majesty  with  more  exactness  and  success  ;  but  when  we  are 
so  extremely  pressed  in  time,  though  it  appears  afterwards 
that  there  was  no  such  necessity  for  it,  I  cannot  tell  what 
to  say  to  it  ;  but  that  at  some  time  or  other  miscarriages  of 
moment  may  happen  in  the  service,  for  which  somebody  or 
other  will  be  blamed.  In  such  a  case  the  Lords  Justices* 
ignorance  will  be  their  security,  though  not  much  for  their 
credit.  I  mention  this  out  of  a  true  concern  for  her  Majesty's 
service  and  your  Grace's  honour.  And  I  do  aver  it  to  your 
Grace,  from  what  I  have  learned  accidentally  since,  that  if 
the  expedition  of  the  four  hundred  and  sixty  men  had 
gone  on,  the  ignorance  the  Cabinet  Council  kept  us  in 
would  have  occasioned  the  death  of  a  great  many  men  ; 
for  different  voyages  require  different  sorts  of  preparations. 
Lieutenant- General  Langston  seconded  my  Lord  Dungannon 
to  desire  me  to  propose  to  your  Grace  that  Ensign 
PhiUips  in  his  regiment,  too  young  for  service,  may 
dispose  to  Mr.  Deyes,  for  whom  Mr.  Fownes  says  your 
Grace  promised  him  a  colour. — I  am,  with  respect  and 
zeal,   &c. 


209 

Viscount  Ikerrin  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  January  8.  Kinsale. — Acknowledging  a  letter  from 
which  he  is  sensible  that  his  Grace  is  angry  with  him.  He 
did  not  know  that  it  was  his  Grace's  pleasure  that  Colonel 
Caulfield  should  clothe  the  regiment.  His  Grace's  instructions 
to  the  Lords  Justices  not  to  give  Colonel  Caulfield  his  commis- 
sion until  some  Httle  time  before  the  regiment  was  to  embark 
left  him  no  room  to  doubt  that  he  was  to  take  care  of  it  until 
then.  He  beheves  it  has  been  suggested  to  his  Grace  that 
he  has  ordered  the  clothing  purely  for  the  sake  of  the  reward 
a  colonel  gets  by  doing  it,  but  hopes  his  Grace  will  not  think 
so  meanly  of  him.  To  convince  his  Grace  that  he  had  no 
such  thought,  though  the  dragoons  is  the  service  which  he  has 
always  coveted  and  though  there  are  many  more  advantages 
to  be  made  of  them  than  of  a  regiment  of  foot,  he  will  be  very 
well  satisfied  to  serve  with  that  he  now  has.  If  his  Grace 
is  pleased  to  alter  this  matter,  it  wiU  inevitably  involve  the 
writer  in  a  law-suit  with  the  clothiers.     Abstract. 

James  Stopford  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  January  8.     Dublin. — Asking  his  Grace  to  post  him 
in  the  new  regiments.     Little  or  no  rents  are  to  be  got  here. 
Abstract. 

William  MaRETON,  Bishop  of  Meath,  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  January  8.  Dublin. — Seconding  the  request  of 
Mr.  Henry  Moore,  Lord  Drogheda's  second  son,  that  his  Grace 
should  appoint  him  to  the  church  of  Carrick.  The  writer  is 
well  acquainted  with  the  worth  and  merits  of  that  gentleman. 
Abstract. 

Robert  Rochfort  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  January  10.  Dublin. — ^This  begs  leave  to  return 
your  Grace  my  most  humble  acknowledgments  and  thanks 
for  the  assurances  of  your  noble  patronage,  which  I  learn 
under  your  Grace's  own  hand  as  weU  as  from  your  Lords  Justices, 
who  were  pleased  to  send  for  me  and  communicated  to  me 
your  Grace's  most  obliging  proposal  either  to  be  created  as 
Baron  or  Peer  of  this  kingdom  or  Chief  Baron  of  the  Exchequer. 
Besides  the  want  of  a  suitable  fortune  for  such  an  honour, 
I  have  neither  ambition  or  inclination  for  it  and  therefore 
entreated  their  Excellencies  to  excuse  me  to  your  Grace  for 
not  being  wiUing  to  accept  it,  but  if  your  Grace  shall  judge, 
for  to  your  judgment  and  pleasure  I  submit,  that  I  may  be 
capable  of  doing  her  Majesty  and  your  Grace  service  in  the 
station  of  Chief  Baron  I  entirely  acquiesce  in  your  Grace's 
disposal  of  me,  for  that  is  in  the  way  of  my  profession  where 
I  hope  to  be  of  more  use  to  her  Majesty,  your  Grace  and  my 
country.  As  to  Mr.  Recorder,  I  had  not  presumed  to  have 
recommended    him    to    your    Grace's    consideration    in    the 

Wt.  43483.  0  14 


210 

removes  but  that  I  know  he  will  be  firmly  and  sincerely  of 
opinion  with  your  Grace's  friends,  and  with  all  his  interest 
forward  what  shall  be  proposed  for  her  Majesty's  and  your 
Grace's  service.  As  for  myself,  however,  your  Grace  shall 
dispose  of  my  services  which  shall  always  be  employed  to 
testify  the  indispensable  obhgations  I  am  under  on  all  occasions 
to  show  that  I  desire  no  longer  to  live  than  I  am  with  the 
utmost  duty  and  respect,  &c. 

Captain  Robert  Campbell  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  January  12.  Dublin. — In  obedience  to  your  Grace's 
commands,  I  give  this  trouble.  I  have  been  through  the  whole 
North  and  at  all  pubHc  meetings  of  the  Presbyterian  ministers, 
who  now  are  in  very  good  temper,  though  it  hath  been  very 
industriously  given  out  that  your  Grace  was  to  be  removed, 
and  the  Lord  Wharton  succeed.  There  hath  several  ill  men 
of  late  come  from  Scotland,  and  particularly  two  ministers, 
one  of  which  settled  at  Coleraine  and  was  very  troublesome, 
but  having  his  character  from  Scotland  I  went  there  and  he 
now  is  dismissed  and  returned  back.  I  was  at  Belfast  in  order 
to  have  gone  to  Scotland,  but  the  account  of  our  regiment 
going  abroad,  I  came  to  this  place  last  night,  and  humbly  beg 
that  your  Grace  would  be  pleased  to  take  into  consideration 
my  long  service.  I  have  been  a  captain  these  nineteen  years, 
and  served  in  the  siege  of  Londonderry,  and  was  wounded 
and  left  among  the  dead  at  Limerick,  and  raised  a  company 
in  four  days,  and  went  with  your  Grace  into  Spain,  seven  of 
whose  wives  I  am  now  obliged  in  honour  to  maintain,  their 
husbands  being  dead.  If  it  please  your  Grace,  either  to  give 
me  a  better  post  or  a  hcense  for  some  time  to  settle  my  affairs, 
I  humbly  beg  your  Grace's  pardon  for  this  boldness,  which 
necessity  forces  me  to,  having  no  friend  to  recommend  him, 
who  is,  my  Lord,  &c. 

Sir  Richard  Levinge  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  January  16.  Dublin. — I  have  had  the  honour  of 
a  letter  from  your  Grace  fuU  of  the  same  goodness  which  you 
have  always  expressed  to  me  and  which  I  esteem  as  the  chief 
happiness  of  my  life,  and  my  Lord  Cutts  and  Mr.  Keightley 
have  both  done  me  the  favour  to  inform  me  in  general  of 
many  expressions  of  your  favour  to  me,  so  that  I  have  nothing 
more  to  do  but  to  make  the  services  of  my  remaining  Hfe  as 
useful  and  acceptable  to  your  Grace  as  is  possible.  I  beseech 
your  Grace  not  to  make  yourself  uneasy  in  any  respect  on 
my  account,  but  study  your  own  real  interest  and  service 
and  dispose  of  me  accordingly.  I  ask  a  thousand  pardons 
for  my  importunity  in  my  last  to  your  Grace.  I  was  at  that 
time  ill,  both  of  the  gout  and  stone,  and  I  did  not  then  know, 
or  believe,  that  Mr.  Attorney  would  accept  of  Chief  Baron's 
place  and  if  I  had  I  would  never  have  proposed  myself,  for  I 


211 

know  it  would  not  have  been  convenient  that  I  should  have 
been  preferred  before  him.  But  I  own  I  should  be  sorry  to 
be  postponed  to  Baron  Echlin  on  many  accounts,  but 
especially  for  this  cause  that  all  the  Speaker's  friends  as  one 
man  are  most  zealously  concerned  for  him,  and  long  for  his 
advancement. 

We  have  lately  a  pamphlet  in  verse  published  ;  it  is  a 
carrjdng  on  the  matter  of  the  presentment.  I  could  have 
heartily  wished  there  had  been  no  club,  as  heartily  that 
there  had  been  no  presentment.  It  is  the  beginning  of  a 
division  of  which  one  cannot  see  the  event.  I  happened 
to  be  in  court  when  the  presentment  was  brought  in,  but  had 
not  the  least  notice  of  it  before,  nor  then  gave  it  any 
encouragement.  I  saw  plainly  whence  it  came  by  their 
leaving  out  one  set  of  the  votes  of  the  Commons,  which  were 
brought  in  by  your  Grace's  friends  and  which  were  necessary 
to  keep  this  kingdom  from  interesting  themselves  in  disputes, 
in  which  they  can  do  Uttle  hurt  but  to  their  own  interest, 
and  I  thought  it  a  very  great  disgrace  to  the  Government  that 
a  thing  of  that  nature  and  consequence  should  be  without 
their  privity  and  approbation,  but  it  happened  that  my  mouth 
was  shut  by  what  was  moved  by  my  right-hand  man,  who  it 
seems  had  some  intimation  of  it.  I  sent  for  Mr.  Locke  before 
any  presentment  was  moved  and  advised  him  to  break  up 
their  meeting,  and  he  promised  so  to  do,  but  how  he  has  since 
been  prevailed  on  I  know  not.  I  think,  as  the  case  is,  the  less 
your  Grace  and  the  Government  seems  concerned  at  it  the  better, 
only  if  one  could  hinder  any  replies  which  will  draw  the  matter 
out  into  a  formal  dispute.  I  beg  your  Grace's  pardon  for  this 
my  so  long  letter  and  am,  may  it  please  your  Grace,  your 
Grace's  most  devoted,  &c. 

Colonel  Toby  Caulfield  to  . 


1 765-6,  January  17.  DubHn. — Concerning  the  clothing  of 
the  regiment  to  which  he  has  been  appointed.  It  would  be 
a  kindness  to  his  large  family  that  he  should  have  it.  Lord 
Ikerrin  agreed  for  8501.  and  has  got  500^  of  it,  so  the  writer 
will  require  a  positive  order  to  his  lordship  to  refund.    Abstract. 

Adam  Murray  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  January  17. — Asking  to  be  posted  in  her  Majesty's 
forces.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  January  19.  DubHn.— I  observed  in  your  Grace's 
letter  of  the  9th,  which  I  have  received  about  half  an  hour 
ago,  your  Grace  seems  to  doubt  how  the  affair  will  go 
concerning  the  promotion  of  Mr.  Attorney- General  Rochfort 
and  Sir  Richard  Levinge,  which  gives  me  very  melancholy 
reflections,  not  upon  the  particular  account  of  either  of  these 


212 

gentlemen,  though  to  one  of  them  I  owe  myself  a  well-wisher 
heartily,  but  upon  the  account  of  your  Grace's  interest  in  this 
kingdom,  and  the  fatal  consequence  it  wiU  have  in  the  next 
session  of  Parliament  here  if  a  notion  be  set  about  that  your 
Grace  has  not  credit  enough  at  the  Court  of  England  to  promote 
such  as  have  done  their  duty  to  the  Crown  and  rowed  against 
the  tide  in  Parliament,  when  an  Irish  interest  was  set  up 
against  an  English  one,  which  the  most  sensible  men  here 
tell  me  was  the  case  in  the  last  sessions  here.  This  at  any  time 
would  be  of  very  ill  consequence,  but  after  we  had  been 
informed  that  my  Lord  Treasurer  had  left  that  matter  entirely 
to  your  Grace,  and  that  by  your  Grace's  order  we  had 
discoursed  with  Rochfort  and  Levinge,  and  prepared  them 
for  their  respective  promotions,  and  that  every  one,  as  well 
as  they  themselves,  I  mean  every  one  in  the  secret,  thought 
the  thing  secure,  if  after  all  this  it  should  go  any  other  way 
it  would  certainly  lead  people  into  a  notion  that  they  must 
look  another  way  for  perferment  than  to  your  Grace's  favour, 
the  consequence  of  which  would  naturally  be  that  in  the  next 
sessions  here  your  friends,  a  very  few  excepted,  would  be  more 
faint  and  languid  and  your  enemies  more  enterprising  and 
bold.  The  crossing  your  Grace's  intentions  and  recommenda- 
tions in  this  matter  is  undoubtedly  set  on  foot  by  some  persons 
who  foresee  this  consequence  and  think  that  by  undermining 
your  interest  here,  if  they  can  make  your  next  sessions  of 
Parliament  miscarry,  they  may  have  a  handle  to  propose  an 
alteration  in  this  government.  Everybody  knows  that  Echlin, 
though  a  very  honest  man,  is  by  no  means  fit  for  that  station. 
If  Rochfort  is  objected  against  because  not  an  Englishman, 
Levinge  is  an  Enghshman.  But  I  could  wish  it  might  go  for 
Rochfort  now,  since  by  your  Grace's  commands  we  have 
discoursed  with  him  and  Levinge  about  it ;  though  I  find 
Levinge  is  better  beloved  than  Rochfort,  and  some  knowing 
people  told  me  they  beheve  less  noise  would  have  been  made 
had  he  been  Chief  Baron.  I  write  with  this  freedom,  which 
your  Grace  will  forgive,  because  I  think  it  a  capital  point 
that  these  promotions  should  go  with  honour  to  your  Grace, 
I  mean  according  to  your  recommendations,  and  it  is  my 
humble  opinion  that  your  Grace  should  exert  your  utmost 
interest  to  have  this  matter  go  as  you  had  settled  it.  The 
alteration  can  be  nothing  but  a  mine  sprung  by  the  enemy 
to  cut  the  grass  under  your  feet  in  order  to  work  their  ends. 
I  am,  with  respect,  my  Lord,  &c. 

After  your  Grace  has  made  such  considerable  steps  for  the 
service  of  the  Court,  as  you  have  done  this  winter,  it  would 
look  very  unnatural  if  such  a  disregard  should  be  shown  to 
your  Grace,  after  my  Lord  Treasurer  seemed  to  have  left  it 
to  you. 

Same  to  Same. 

1706-6,  January  19.  Dublin. — Concerning  army  affairs. 
It  is  a  great  encouragement  to  him  that  his  Grace  approves 


213 

his  hearty  endeavours  with  relation  to  the  three  regiments 
commanded  for  Catalonia.  He  sends  his  Grace  a  list  of  the 
recruits  whom  he  has  reviewed  and  shall  send  a  similar  list 
every  week.  His  Grace  will  be  able  at  any  time  carelessly 
to  let  any  of  the  colonels  that  are  in  England  see  that  he  knows 
to  a  man  what  they  have  sent  over.  Mr.  PhiUips*s  friends 
are  extremely  obUged  to  his  Grace.  The  writer  thanks  him 
also  in  regard  to  Mr.  Baggs  and  Budiani.  Poor  Mr.  Baggs*s 
father  is  dead  of  a  violent  fever.  The  writer  refers  to  many 
officers  being  absent  from  their  posts,  and  to  the  inconvenience 
of  their  getting  leave  in  England  without  his  knowledge. 
Captain  Campbell  of  Lord  Dungannon's  regiment  is  so  very 
useful  privately  among  the  Scotch  in  the  North  that  it  will 
be  necessary  to  change  him  into  a  regiment  that  stays.  It 
is  rumoured  that  Captain  Fox  in  Caulfield's  regiment  has  a 
major's  breviate  ;  there  are  officers  in  the  regiment  ten  years 
older.  The  writer  conceives  his  Grace  mistook  his  meaning 
in  thinking  that  only  sixty  French  officers  were  to  go  ;  the 
list  has  long  since  been  filled  up  to  a  hundred.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1705,  January  19.  DubHn. — I  have  the  honour  of  your 
Grace's  of  the  12th  and  am  extremely  obliged  to  your  Grace 
for  your  concern  for  Sir  W.  Mansel,  and  since  your  Grace  is 
pleased  to  think  of  a  way  to  provide  for  him  I  will  entirely 
rely  upon  your  favour,  as  I  always  do,  and  acquiesce  in  what 
your  Grace  thinks  fit.  .  .  . 

It  is  said  that  your  Grace  has  given  Captain  Fox  a 
brevet  for  major,  and  that  one  Wybrants,  who  I  think  is  the 
only  senior  captain  in  that  regiment,  who  is  pretty  ancient 
and  somewhat  indisposed,  would  be  glad  if  your  Grace  would 
permit  him  to  sell,  and  here  is  now  Sir  John  Rogerson  with 
me  who  prays  your  Grace's  favour  in  permitting  his  son  to 
buy  it.  The  young  gentleman  is  very  well  bred,  and  a  very 
personable  and  a  very  promising  man,  and  being  the  eldest 
by  this  wife  would  have  a  very  good  estate,  but  nothing  will 
serve  him  but  the  army.  Sir  John  will  think  himself  extremely 
obUged  to  your  Grace  if  you  be  pleased  to  send  over  a  blank 
commission  with  directions  to  this  purpose,  if  there  be  no 
inconvenience  to  your  Grace  in  so  doing,  and  he  tells  me 
that  Colonel  Caulfield  consents.  Mr.  Lestrilles  is  not 
naturahsed,  so  I  beheve  there  is  an  end  of  that  matter.  I 
will  observe  what  your  Grace  says  in  reference  to  our  enemies, 
who  are  very  blank,  and  indeed  I  am  not  apt  to  fear,  unless 
there  be  more  than  ordinary  reason  for  it,  and  I  never  thought 
the  danger  so  near  as  the  enemy  gives  out,  but  however  that 
may  happen,  I  shall  ever  be,  my  most  noble  Lord,  &c. 

Lord  Archibald  Hamilton  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  January  20.     London.— Asking  for  a  company  in 
the  regiment  of  guards  to  be  raised  in  Ireland.     He  had  the 


214 

late  King's  promise  for  such  a  promotion,  but  has  had  little 
favour  showed  him  since.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Obmonde. 
1705-6,  January  22.  Dublin. — Concerning  army  affairs. 
It  will  be  impossible  for  one  regiment  to  do  the  DubHn  duty 
in  the  state  which  these  drafts  have  put  the  regiments.  There 
is  a  Cathohc  and  disaffected  mob,  though  they  are  kept  under 
and  in  awe,  and  if  upon  any  tumult  the  wealmess  of  the  army 
became  known  it  might  bring  some  affront  on  the  government, 
and  sometimes  small  beginnings  produce  fatal  ill-consequences. 
He  proposes  to  bring  Tidcombe's  regiment  to  Dublin  and  to 
send  Lord  Harry  Scott's  regiment  in  their  room  to  Limerick. 
The  latter,  which  Hes  along  the  Shannon,  may  be  spared  out 
of  their  present  quarters,  but  Limerick  ought  not  to  be  without 
two  regiments.  There  are  only  two  considerations  :  the  safety 
of  the  kingdom  and  the  accommodation  of  the  subject  by  the 
forces  spending  their  money  among  them.  Mohun,  Ikerrin 
and  Dungannon  leave  them,  Wynne,  Lillingston  and  Lepell 
are  to  part  with  all  their  men,  and  will  have  no  regiments  till 
raised  anew,  so  that  in  effect  there  will  be  but  eight  battalions 
left  in  that  kingdom.  Colonel  Dunscombe  offers  to  carry 
the  recruits  to  Catalonia,  provided  he  may  have  a  breviate 
as  colonel  to  make  amends  for  his  expense  and  trouble. 
Abstract. 

Lieut. -Colonel  Francis  Edgewobth  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  January  23.  DubHn. — Asking  his  Grace  to  approve 
of  his  acting  as  deputy  to  Lord  Lichiquin  as  governor  of 
Kinsale  fort.  Captain  Hawley,  who  is  now  so,  is  commanded 
to  England.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  January  24.  Dublin,  eight  o'clock  at  night. — ^The 
three  regiments  that  are  to  give  the  nine  hundred  men  will 
be  at  Waterford  that  week.  He  observes  that  no  half-pay 
officers  are  to  go  and  how  the  French  pensioners  are  to  be 
disposed  of.  He  is  infinitely  obliged  for  his  Grace's  favour 
to  Colonel  Rivet.     Abstract. 

Francis  Wemys  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  January  24.  Dublin. — Asking  to  be  preferred  in 
regiments  to  be  raised  in  England  or  in  the  Irish  Guards.  He 
mentions  how  ill  Irish  rents  are  paid  and  his  twelve  children, 
and  hopes  his  Grace  will  not  impute  his  not  waiting  upon  him 
in  London  to  a  neglect  of  duty.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  January  26. — We  have  accoimts  from  very 
prudent  men  in  London,  of  experience  and  known  prudence 


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as  well  as  integrity,  that  the  great  countenance  shown  to  a 
certain  sort  of  people  and  the  discountenance  shown  to  others, 
together  with  the  high  hand  with  which  some  matters  have 
been  carried,  the  discourses  of  certain  private  cabals  and  the 
confidence  of  some  of  the  pamphlets  which  appear  in  public 
have  dissatisfied  a  great  many  men  of  sobriety  and  credit, 
who  will  not  show  themselves  until  things  come  to  extremities, 
but  when  they  do  speak  will  be  dangerous  speakers.  They 
pretend  to  rip  up  old  stories,  if  forced  to  it,  and  to  lay  open, 
as  they  term  it,  an  odious  scheme.  On  the  other  hand,  a 
certain  party,  who  have  now  as  they  think  the  ascendant, 
hope  when  they  are  a  little  better  fixed  in  the  saddle  to  make, 
all  of  a  piece,  and  to  root  out  by  degrees  such  who  remain  in 
business,  and  are  not  entirely  of  their  own  kidney.  Some 
letters  from  that  party  to  persons  in  this  place  intimate  as 
much,  and  have  made  visible  impressions  upon  several  persons 
here,  even  some  of  the  army.  And  particularly  a  certain 
lieutenant-general  of  a  late  creation  has  shown  so  much  of 
this  that  he  has  been  very  untoward  upon  several  occasions. 
He  has  held  some  odd  discourses  and  some  disputes  in  the  way 
of  business,  even  with  the  first  men  in  the  Government,  to 
the  amazement  of  all  that  were  present,  who  condenmed 
him  to  the  last  degree.  He  was  indeed  pretty  smartly  taken 
down  to  order  as  often  as  he  gave  occasion  for  it,  and  I  believe 
he  is  grown  pretty  weary  of  those  sort  of  vivacities.  But, 
however,  as  we  have  some  accounts  of  his  discourses  in  some 
sorts  of  companies,  particularly  always  taking  the  Speaker's 
part,  it  is  my  colleague's  opinion  as  well  as  mine  that  he  would 
not  die  of  grief  if  there  were  an  alteration  in  the  government 
here,  provided  it  fell  among  his  friends  on  the  other  side  of 
the  water.  I  was  amazed  at  his  conduct  and  httle  officious 
and  underhand  ways  of  proceeding  in  several  occasions,  till 
my  colleague  let  me  into  the  secret  of  his  sentiments  and 
inclinations.  However,  I  hold  my  tongue  and  temporise  with 
him.  Other  letters  from  England  give  an  account  that  the 
design  of  a  certain  cabal  is  to  make  the  flying  squadron  of 
the  Church  party  that  are  in  employments  loose  themselves 
with  their  own  party  by  steps  which  they  will  be  obliged  to 
make,  and  then  to  pick  a  querelle  d'AUemand  with  them  and 
discard  them. 

Be  it  how  it  will,  I  thought  it  not  improper  to  let  your 
Grace  know  what  is  wrote  us  out  of  England.  You  are  upon 
the  spot  and  can  best  judge  if  there  is  anything  in  it  or  not, 
or  in  any  part  of  it.  I  thought  it  my  duty  not  to  conceal  it 
from  your  Grace,  especially  coming  from  good  hands.  I  wish 
all  people  who  preach  moderation  would  use  it,  and  not  carry 
some  things  so  partially  and  others  with  so  high  a  hand.  An 
enraged  party,  though  they  have  not  the  majority  at  present, 
may  by  the  help  of  time  and  accidents  get  the  weather  gage 
of  those  by  whom  they  think  themselves  illused,  and  then 
it  will  be  too  late  to  oblige  them.     I  have  in  my  time  seen  ^ 


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a  minister,  my  Lord  Halifax,  voted  meritorious  for  his  services 
and  deserving  his  Majesty's  favour  ;  and  I  have  in  the  same 
place  in,  I  think,  two  years'  time  seen  him  impeached,  so 
variable  are  matters  of  State  in  some  climates.  And  therefore 
it  is  prudence  in  the  superior  party  to  act  always  with  temper. 
I  say  all  this  as  heartily  wishing  the  quiet,  glory  and  prosperity 
of  my  country. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  January  27.  Dublin. — This  is  humbly  to  beg  of 
you  that  if  Mr.  Baron  Echhn  is  to  be  our  Chief  Baron,  as  we 
hear  he  is,  that  then  I  may  not  be  put  out  of  the  post  in  which 
I  am,  but  that  whoever  is  to  be  made  a  Baron  may  be  made 
second  Baron  as  Mr.  Worth  was  formerly.  Because  I  shall 
else  lose  some  advantages  which  I  enjoy  by  being  in  the  inferior 
post  where  I  am  and  do  desire  to  continue.  But  if  your 
Grace  does  not  hinder  it,  I  shall  be  of  course  thrust  up  to  my 
prejudice. 

Rev.  John  Lesley  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,    January    28. — Asking   to   be   appointed   domestic 
chaplain.     He  had  the  happiness  to  lead  the  pleasingest  part 
of  his  life  in  the  family  of  his  Grace's  grandfather  in  a  similar 
position  for  four  or  five  years.     Abstract, 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  January  29.  Dublin. — Concerning  army  affairs. 
He  sends  an  enclosure  from  Monsieur  Wibault,  major  of  the 
train.  He  desires  to  have  a  blank  commission  for  Budiani 
that  he  may  get  him  into  one  of  the  regiments  going  for 
Catalonia.     Abstract. 

Colonel  George  Carpenter  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  January  29. — Concerning  his  brother  Caulfield. 
As  his  Grace's  tenant  Caulfield  hopes  for  his  Grace's  favour 
about  the  clothing  of  his  regiment.     Abstract. 

Viscount  Mountcashell  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  January  29. — The  encouragement  your  Grace  gave 
me  when  I  received  the  honour  of  your  last  letter  in  telling 
me  mine  was  not  troublesome  to  you  I  fear  will  obUge  you, 
my  Lord,  to  repent  it  when  you  find  you  are  so  often  teased 
with  my  scrawl  and  from  a  place  which  affords  nothing  diverting 
to  make  a  letter  agreeable.  I  beg  leave  to  tell  your  Grace  of 
an  adventure  I  had  the  other  day  going  to  St.  Catherine's  : 
driving  very  fast  the  braces  of  my  old  rotten  coach  broke  and 
the  coach  fell  off  the  carriage  and  the  first  part  came  to  the 
ground  was  the  top.  In  the  fall  one  of  the  doors  fell  off  and 
threw  me  in  the  dirt  above  three  foot.  I  fell  soft  and  was 
covered  with  dirt  and  had  Hke  to  have  broke  my  arm.     Your 


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Grace  would  have  laughed  to  have  seen  how  squat  I  fell,  and 
the  carriage,  not  being  over,  dragged  the  coach  fifty  yards 
before  the  coachman  found  it  out,  and  he  was  so  stupid  he 
did  not  hear  the  horsemen  that  with  much  to  do  overtook 
him.  Lady  Plumper  Eustace  is  retired  lest  the  bailies  should 
spoil  her  furbellowed  sheet.  Lady  Rosse  [is]  so  ill  of  the  vapours 
she  sits  all  day  in  a  room  with  the  windows  shut  and  one 
candle  Ugbted,  and  says  she  can  sleep  no  night  that  she  has 
not  rid  five  or  six  miles  with  her  footman  till  her  bones  are 
weary  ;  if  it  were  not  scandal  I  should  fear  the  footman's 
being  first  fatigued.  And  for  Lord  Netterville,  her  son-in-law, 
she  swears  she  will  never  go  to  his  house  till  she  sees  the  fool, 
as  she  calls  him,  he  upon  straw  in  a  diet  to  be  cured.  He  is 
a  brute  they  eay.  Madam  Kangsland  has  kept  up  this  three 
months  expecting  a  son,  but  disappointed  to  her  great  grief 
and  must  have  the  pain  to  go  to  the  Bath.  It  would  be  a 
double  pleasure  to  me  if  I  could  flatter  myself  that  I  had 
not  tired  your  Grace's  patience,  and  beg  leave  to  assure  your 
Grace  that  you  have  not  in  the  world  a  more  faithful  and 
obedient  servant  than,  &c. 

St.  George  Ashe,  Bishop  of  Clogher,  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  February  2.  Dublin. — ^May  it  please  your  Grace 
to  accept  of  my  most  humble  acknowledgements  for  the  very 
great  honour  you  have  done  me  in  appointing  me  your  Grace's 
Vice- Chancellor  at  the  approaching  commencement  of  the 
University  of  Dublin.  I  am  now  come  to  town  on  purpose 
to  be  present  at  it,  and  to  perform  the  duties  of  that  place, 
and  beg  leave  to  assure  your  Grace  that  by  all  the  good  offices 
I  can  do  the  College  and  whatever  other  services  I  shall  think 
may  be  any  way  acceptable  to  your  Grace  I  will  endeavour, 
as  far  as  I  am  able,  to  deserve  that  honour,  and  to  express 
with  how  sensible  a  gratitude  and  profound  a  respect,  I 
am,  &c. 

Sir  Richard  Vernon  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  February  3. — Informing  his  Grace  of  Major-Grcneral 
Echlin's  consent  that  the  writer  should  serve  under  him  and 
of  Colonel  Montgomery's  readiness  to  resign  to  him.     Abstract. 

Lieut.-General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  February  4.  Dublin. — Concerning  his  regiment. 
Twenty-two  recruit  horses  have  come  over  for  it ;  they  are 
well  chose,  but  not  so  well  as  they  used  to  be.  As  his  Grace 
has  favoured  Major  Hebbume  with  a  brevet  as  Heutenant- colonel, 
the  writer  begs  his  Grace  to  favour  Captain  Strother  with  one 
as  major.  The  next  month  is  the  time  they  usually  contract 
for  grass  during  the  time  of  the  camp  for  the  horse  and  dragoons. 
He  begs  his  Grace  to  signify  where  the  camp  shall  be.     He 


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thinks  the  kingdom  affords  no  better  place  than  the  Curragh. 
Abstract 

Monsieur  de  St.  Amand  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,    February    6. — ^Asking    a   recommendation    to    the 
Pensioner  of  Holland  for  the  position  of  a  major-general. 
(French. )    Abstract. 

Viscount  Mountcashell  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  February  7. — Asking,  in  all  the  confusion  imaginable 
for  taking  the  Uberty,  that  his  Grace  will  attend  the  hearing 
of  an  appeal  to  the  House  of  Lords  in  England  in  which  his 
relation,  Mr.  Eustace,  who  bears  the  letter,  is  a  party. 
Abstract 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Benjamin  Portlock. 

1705,  February  9.  DubUn. — I  have  the  favour  of  yours 
and  by  mutual  consent  all  jealousies  shall  be  set  apart  on 
both  sides,  though  it  is  a  certain  sign  of  love.  .  .  . 

It  is  said  Dr.  Barton  is  in  extremis.  He  has  a  sinecure  of 
4Ql.  per  annum  near  Kilkenny,  which  may  obhge  Dr.  Andrews, 
master  of  Kilkenny  School,  and  I  think  should  not  be  given 
from  him.  He  is  also  Dean  of  Ardagh  with  lOOZ.  per  annum 
clear,  and  has  the  parish  of  Slane,  worth  about  120Z.,  as  I  am 
told.  If  Dr.  Pratt  will  not  accept  of  them,  I  hope  Mr.  MuUart 
will  be  in  your  thoughts.  I  am  going  to  court,  but  in  all 
conditions  and  places  shall  ever  be,  dear  Sir,  &c. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  February  9.  DubUn. — Concerning  army  affairs. 
He  refers  again  to  the  question  of  the  officers'  leave.  As  to 
Major  Fox,  he  did  not  Imow  the  circumstances  of  that  gentle- 
man being  so  well  affected  and  serviceable  to  his  Grace.  The 
reasons  which  have  induced  his  Grace  to  do  something 
extraordinary  in  this  case  are  of  weight.  He  desires  orders 
how  the  vacancies  of  such  officers  as  shall  not  embark  with  the 
regiments  for  Catalonia  are  to  be  fiUed.  He  thanks  his  Grace 
for  Budiani's  commission,  and  has  effected  an  exchange  for 
him  with  Lieutenant  Harrison  in  Colonel  Caulfield's  regiment, 
who  might  be  ruined  if  he  went  abroad.  Mr.  Moon,  a 
quarter-master  in  his  Grace's  regiment,  desires  to  buy  Captain 
Harte's  company  in  Lord  Mohun's  regiment.  Harte  would 
do  them  no  great  credit  in  Catalonia.  Lieutenant  Shackford 
of  Tidcombe's  regiment  desires  to  sell.  The  writer's  opinion 
is  against  buying  and  selling,  but  upon  very  particular  occasions 
and  seldom.  He  sends  his  Grace  a  hst  of  a  hundred  and  eleven 
recruits  that  he  has  reviewed  that  week.  They  are  very  good 
men.  His  being  a  Httle  severe  with  some  officers  has  cured 
them  of  showing  him  old  men  and  boys  and  cripples. 
Abstract, 


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Lieut. -Colonel  William  Ponsonby  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  February  10.    Dublin. — ^Reminding    his    Grace    of 
his   promise  to  him   of  the   fort  of  Duncamion.     He  hears 
from   Waterford   that   Colonel   Purcell  is    past   all  hope   of 
recovery.     Abstract 

John  Newport  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  February  11.  Carrick. — Asking  for  the  Customer's 
place  of  Waterford  and  Ross,  which  Mr.  Crowe  is  resigning. 
He  never  aimed  at  any  gratitude  for  settling  the  woollen 
factory  at  Carrick,  whereas  great  sums  of  money  have  been 
given  for  setting  up  the  Hnen  manufactory  and  the  effect 
thereof  is  uncertain.  On  his  own  account  and  risk  he  brought 
a  colony  from  Holland  to  Carrick.     Abstract. 

John  Newport  to  the  Duchess  of  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  February  11.     Carrick. — ^Requesting  her  mediation 
with  his  Grace  in  regard  to  the  foregoing.     Abstract, 

Earl  op  Inchiquin  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  February  12.  Rostellan. — I  am  afraid  your  Grace 
will  be  tired  with  the  trouble  of  so  many  letters  from  me  ;  the 
occasion  of  this  is  an  account  I  have  this  day  from  Kilkenny, 
that  a  brother  of  Captain  Goddard's  Ues  adying  there,  who 
has  a  company  in  Colonel  LiUingston's  regiment,  which  I  take 
the  liberty  to  lay  before  your  Grace,  to  know  whether  it  be 
your  pleasure  to  give  it  to  Lord  O'Brien  till  there  is  one  vacant 
in  my  regiment.  I  hear  Lady  Grandison  is  in  great  ajBfliction 
for  my  Lord's  being  married  unknown  to  her  to  Mrs.  Gary's 
daughter,  who  can  be  no  great  fortune,  and  that  was  what 
he  wanted  to  make  himself  and  family  easy  ;  she  swooned  at 
the  news.  I  hear  Lord  Dorset  is  dead.  I  wish  my  Lady  do 
not  receive  a  great  deal  of  trouble  from  his  family  about  what 
he  has  left  her,  and  I  fear  she  will  soon  follow  him,  for  Lord 
Barrymore  writ  me  word  from  Bath  that  she  continues  very 
ill  and  weak.  Colonel  Edgeworth  tells  me  your  Grace  will 
not  give  him  leave  to  dispose  of  his  commission,  but  that 
he  believes  he  shall  again  soHcit  you  about  it  and  if  he  makes 
a  second  request  you  will  not,  I  hope,  deny  him,  provided  it 
be  to  Major  Spencer.  My  gout  is  pretty  well  over  and  I  begin 
to  crawl  about  the  house  again.  Give  me  leave  to  end  this 
with  repeating  the  profession  I  must  always  make  of  being 
inviolably  and  with  the  greatest  truth  and  respect,  &c.,  my 
Lord. 

Monsieur  de  Vilerise  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,   February    13.     London. — Concerning   his  pension. 
(French. )    A  bstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,    February    13.     Dublin.— Concerning   Mr.    Shirley, 
who  desires  a  troop  or  company.     He  served  as  ensign  in  the 


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Coldstream  guards,   of  which  the  writer  is  colonel,  and  is  a 
man  of  quality  who  can  be  relied  upon.     Abstract 

Same  to  Same. 

1705-6,  February  24,  Dublin. — I  have  received  the  honour 
of  your  Grace's  of  the  9th  instant  and  am  both  proud  and 
pleased  that  my  sentiments  are  so  fortunate  as  to  correspond 
with  your  Grace's.  I  think  myself  at  the  same  time  extremely 
happy  that  my  opinion  of  a  certain  person  has  not  proved 
wrong,  and  that  it  has  your  Grace's  approbation.  Your 
Grace's  reflection  that  there  are  but  few  to  be  found  that  are 
sincere  is  so  certainly  true  that  every  day  gives  one  fresh 
instances  of  it,  of  which  I  shall  be  able  to  convince  your  Grace 
more  fully  when  I  have  the  honour  to  kiss  your  hands.  Your 
Grace  has  my  honour  that  no  one  Uving  shall  ever  know  a 
tittle  of  what  you  write  me  in  secrecy.  Wibault  is  very 
sensible  of  your  Grace's  goodness  to  him.  I  shall  discourse 
Lieutenant- General  Ingoldsby  at  large  upon  what  your  Grace's 
letter  instructs  me  in  and  keep  exactly  to  your  instructions. 
I  am  glad  your  Grace  has  taken  such  good  measures  for  the 
ten  thousand  arms  to  be  had  from  HoUand.  I  am  with  the 
deepest  sincerity,  gratitude  and  respect,  my  Lord,  &c. 

I  shall  observe  what  your  Grace  directs  me  by  Mr.  Southwell 
to  which  I  have  answered  him  particularly. — C. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  February  26.  Dublin. — I  have  the  honour  of  your 
Grace's  of  the  20th,  and  though  I  was  always  of  opinion  that 
whenever  a  party  prevails  they  will  never  leave  Ireland  but 
in  the  hands  of  a  partisan,  yet  I  cannot  think  they  will  supersede 
your  Grace  so  soon,  but  rather  will  expect  that  by  some 
collateral  hardships  you  may  be  induced  to  quit  in  time. 
But  when  your  Grace  perceives  the  design,  it  will  obhge  you 
in  prudence  to  temporise  longer  than  else  you  would,  that 
your  enemies'  designs  may  be  frustrated,  and  it  is  possible 
there  may  be  no  necessity  of  declaring  your  sentiments  till 
winter,  when  the  session  here  approaches.  I  write  plainly 
because  I  know  my  sincerity  will  excuse  my  freedom.  Your 
Grace  knows  that  I  must  follow  you  as  the  shadow  does  the 
substance,  and  when  your  Grace  considers  that  I  was  in  a 
post  of  honour  and  profit,  which  I  might  have  held  during 
Hfe,  and  obUged  me  but  to  small  expense,  you  will  now  believe 
that  I  would  not  have  meddled  with  the  great  seal  but  for 
your  sake  and  for  your  service,  and  if  there  be  not  some 
capitulation  made  for  me,  and  Sir  Wilham  Mansel  provided 
for,  I  must  be  forced  to  retire  to  some  obscurity,  where  I  can 
maintain  his  family  and  mine  for  a  little.  Not  but  that  I 
have  a  good  estate,  but  my  son  has  a  great  share  of  it,  and 
there  are  many  annuities  and  portions  to  be  paid  out  of  it, 
and  I  foresee  that  the  oppressions  and  taxes  of  our  enemies 
wiU  occasion  large  deductions.    To  talk  like  a  soldier,  your 


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Grace  will  consider  that  I  am  left  to  manage  the  retreat  here 
and  therefore  you  will  take  all  the  care  of  me  you  can.  I 
put  my  kinsman,  William  Teape,  in  your  Grace's  regiment 
of  horse  a  year  ago  in  Sir  R.  Vernon's  troop,  in  expectation 
of  an  ensign's  commission,  which  your  Grace  assured  me  at 
parting,  and  I  now  pray  you  to  remember,  for  I  am  anxious 
for  no  more  but  Sir  WiUiam  Mansel  and  this  gentleman.  .  .  . 

I  can  send  your  Grace  no  cordial  from  hence,  but  a 
Dunmanway  cheese,  which  the  Bishop  of  Ossory  undertakes 
to  convey  safely.  I  have  not  to  add  but  that  I  will  ever 
be,  &c. 

Lord  Ctjtts  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  February  27.  Dubhn. — Concerning  a  succession 
for  the  major  of  EchUn's  regiment,  who  desires  to  sell.  Serjeant, 
the  first  captain,  is  by  no  means  fit.  Echlin  desires  Dumas 
or  Captain  WiUiam  Butler.  The  writer  is  of  opinion  that 
Dumas  is  the  fittest.  The  discipline  of  the  regiment  is  a  little 
out  of  order.     Abstract. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  March  1.  Dublin. — I  humbly  beg  leave  to  lay  before 
your  Grace  an  unlucky  accident  that  has  lately  befallen  Colonel 
Corry,  which  is  by  his  having  been  left  out  of  that  brief  which 
her  Majesty  has  been  pleased  to  grant  for  the  rebuilding  of 
Enniskillen  and  by  having  those  put  into  it  that  are  his 
adversaries  and  his  rivals  in  interest,  though  always  hitherto 
very  unsuccessfully  so  in  that  county,  for  Sir  Michael  Cole 
standing  for  knight  of  the  shire  when  ParHaments  were  first 
called  here  after  the  Revolution,  he  was  so  distanced  by 
Colonel  Corry  he  never  since  durst  attempt  at  it.  But  the 
other  has  been  three  times  chosen  in  three  successive  Parlia- 
ments, one  after  another,  so  that  Sir  Michael  has  been  forced 
to  serve  for  a  private  borough,  that  of  Enniskillen,  which 
afterwards  the  Parliament  turned  him  out  of  for  his  long  absence 
from  duty,  and  the  town  then  chose  the  Colonel's  son  in  the 
other's  room.  These  are  facts  that  I  know  to  be  so  to  my 
own  knowledge,  and  can  therefore  pretend  to  vouch  for  the 
certainty  of  them.  It  is  reasonable  to  believe  that  these 
contests  and  defeats  may  have  made  Sir  Michael  enemy  enough 
to  both  the  Corrys,  and  Sir  Gustavus  Hume,  who  is  his  nephew 
by  marriage  and  whose  father  had  no  better  fortune  when 
alive  in  his  contests  with  the  Colonel,  is  no  less  an  enemy  than 
his  uncle,  and  if  I  am  not  misinformed,  and  I  verily  beUeve  I 
am  not,  they  are  no  less  enemies  to  what  the  Colonel  and  I, 
and  we  think  ourselves  much  in  the  right,  call  the  true  interest 
of  the  Queen  and  of  this  kingdom.  This  makes  it  a  little 
uneasy  to  Colonel  Corry  to  see  them  have  the  reputation  in 
that  county  to  be  made  choice  of  for  the  rebuilding  of  that 
town,  where  his  son  is  a  member  of  Parliament,  which  neither 
of  those  two  are,  and  that  he  himself  lives  so  near  to  as  to  be 


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within  a  mile  of  it,  and  that  yet  neither  he  nor  his  son  should 
be  thought  fit  to  be  trusted  with  it,  or  to  be  so  much  as  joined 
with  them  in  that  trust  and  in  a  work  which,  though  the 
management  of  it  can  be  no  profit  to  any  honest  man,  yet 
the  government  of  it  is  matter  of  power  and  credit  in  that 
country  and  amongst  those  people  and  a  satisfaction  to  one 
whose  seat  is  so  very  near  that  town  to  have  it  said  and 
remembered  hereafter  that  he  had  the  care  and  direction  of 
the  rebuilding  of  it. 

Though  these  things  may  seem  inconsiderable  to  greater 
minds,  yet  amongst  those  people  they  make  men  appear 
with  lustre,  and  as  they  gain  to  them  much  power  and 
dependance,  so  the  contrary  is  attended  with  very  ill 
consequences,  and  first  his  son  must  never  more  expect  to 
be  chosen  a  member  of  ParHament  for  that  town,  who  will 
certainly  choose  Sir  Gustavus  Hume  in  his  room,  he  being 
looked  upon  to  have  the  best  interest,  and  by  that  interest, 
together  with  his  uncle's,  Sir  Michael,  when  in  England,  to 
have  procured  them  this  brief  and  to  whom  they  think  them- 
selves wholly  indebted  for  the  advantage  and  for  being  thereby 
enabled  to  rebuild  their  town,  which  they  cannot  now  doubt 
their  having  been  the  chief  instruments  of,  siuce  they  are 
so  particularly  trusted  in  it  when  the  Parhament  men  both 
for  town  and  county  are  left  out,  who  suffers  the  more  upon 
this  occasion  in  their  credit  because  they  two  voting  with  the 
Government,  and  none  else  in  that  county,  are  yet  not  thought 
fitting  to  be  employed  by  it,  which  disappointment  is  no 
smaU  satisfaction  to  those  who  have  differed  with  them  in 
opinion,  and  to  others  besides  upon  that  account,  whose 
friendship  they  have  lost,  the  virulency  of  that  faction  being 
such  that  nearest  relations  become  enemies  and  rejoice  at 
blemishes  that  may  happen  to  any  whom  they  falsely  and 
injuriously  asperse  with  not  being  true  to  the  country  interest. 
However,  neither  this  accident  or  anything  else  will  so  far 
hurt  Colonel  Corry  as  to  hinder  him  upon  any  occasion  that 
shall  offer  to  be  chosen  knight  of  the  shire,  but  still  it  will 
hurt  him  and  that  I  am  very  sure  your  Grace  would  not  have 
done  in  the  least  degree  anywhere,  much  less  in  his  own  country, 
and  that  too  by  favours  obtained  from  the  Queen  by  your 
Grace,  which  thus  by  artifice  and  surprise  those  who  are  not 
your  servants  have  imposed  to  themselves  and  make  use  of, 
to  lessen  their  interest  who  are  truly  so,  and  thereby  in  a 
manner  turn  their  own  power  against  yourself  by  makmg  use 
of  it  to  hurt  them  whom  your  Grace  did  alone  intend  to  oblige 
by  it,  though  it  has  been  otherwise  appHed  by  the  subtle 
contrivance  and  some  undue  practices  of  this  uncle  and  nephew. 
I  would  therefore  most  humbly  entreat  your  Grace,  if  it  be 
not  too  great  a  trouble,  that  you  would  be  pleased  to  set 
matters  right  either  by  adding  the  father  and  son  to  those 
already  appointed  for  the  management  of  that  affair,  or  if 
that  be  not  at  present  to  be  done  that  your  Grace  will  be 


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pleased  to  take  the  next  opportunity  that  may  ojffer  to  let 
the  people  of  his  country  Imow  it  was  not  by  your  Grace's 
disfavour,  but  by  surprise  or  some  other  accident,  that  matters 
have  happened  so  unluckily  to  him  as  lately  they  have  done. 
All  which  is  humbly  submitted  to  your  Grace  by,  &c. 

Lieut. -Colonel  Francis  Edgeworth  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  March  2.  Dublin. — Informing  his  Grace  that  he 
has  agreed  with  his  major,  Spencer,  for  his  post  as  lieutenant- 
colonel.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Barrymore  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  March  4.  Newark,  Plymouth  Sound. — ^Telling  his 
Grace  that  it  grates  him  very  much  to  serve  under  a  colonel 
younger  than  himself,  as  Mr.  Killigrew  is,  and  asking  his 
Grace  to  recommend  him  to  Lord  Peterborough  to  serve  as 
a  volunteer  or  as  his  aide-de-camp.  They  expect  to  sail 
every  hour.  They  only  stay  till  the  Cumberland  and  Dorset- 
shire come  off  the  harbour.  Count  de  Noyelles  is  on  board 
the  last.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  March  5.  Dublin. — Concerning  army  affairs.  He 
is  impatient  to  hear  how  things  go  with  his  Grace.  He  fears 
a  letter  may  have  been  intercepted.     Abstract. 

Major-General  Robert  Echlin  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  received  March  11. — Concerning  the  post  of  major. 
Major  Noris,  who  is  now  old,  is  willing  to  retire  and  the  writer 
recommends  his  second  captain,  Captain  Butler,  for  that 
position.  The  price  agreed  on  is  3502.  If  his  Grace  does  not 
agree  to  the  proposal  Captain  Dumas  is  very  fit.  He  recom- 
mends also  Comet  Wingate,  and  William  Noris  to  be  comet. 
He  hopes  his  Grace  will  let  the  officers  rise  gradually.   Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  March  12.  Dublin. — I  have  the  honour  of  your 
Grace's  of  the  2nd  and  5th  and  am  so  much  obUged  to  your 
Grace  for  your  kind  promise  in  favour  of  my  son  Mansel  and 
so  sure  of  your  care  of  him  the  first  opportunity  that  I  wiU 
trouble  your  Grace  no  more  upon  that  subject.  ...  I  think 
your  Grace  has  determined  very  wisely  not  to  hasten  your 
dissolution  by  any  unseasonable  presentment,  nor  to  undertake 
an  excessive  voyage  without  full  credit  and  authority  and 
probable  hopes  of  success.  Whenever  we  retreat  I  am  sure 
it  will  be  with  honour  and  nothing  but  the  malice  of  a  faction 
could  interrupt  or  censure  your  proceedings,  which  will  shine 
brighter  in  history  and  be  more  applauded  by  posterity  than 
those  of  your  predecessors,  for  though  some  of   them,  and 


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particularly  your  illustrious  ancestors,  especially  your  grand- 
father, had  the  same  noble  resolutions,  yet  none  of  them  had 
the  felicity  of  improving  the  opportunity  so  well  as  your 
Grace  has  done  in  the  acts  against  the  growth  of  Popery, 
for  more  acres,  &c.,  and  in  vindicating  the  EngHsh  interest 
against  the  mutterers  of  independence. 

Major  Arthur  Hebburne  to  David  Kennedy. 

1705-6,  March  12. — AU  your  friends  here  hope  you  are 
safely  arrived  upon  the  Calidonian  shore.  Dr.  Worth  has 
been  under  some  indisposition,  but  was  strong  enough  last 
night  to  meet  the  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer  and  your  other 
friend  at  the  wine-shop,  where  he  promised  me  they  would 
not  fail  of  doing  you  justice.  There  is  no  scandal  of  any  sort 
in  town,  it  being  a  preparation  for  Passion  week.  There  is  a 
talk  about  town  that  we  shall  lose  our  Chancellor,  though 
Humpty  Dumpty  be  a  fine  dance 

Welbore  Ellis,  Bishop  of  Kildare,  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  March  16.— /S'ec  Report  XIV,  App.,  pt.  VII,  ^.  64. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  March  20. — I  received  the  honour  of  your  Grace's 
letter  of  the  14th  late  last  night,  and  the  post  going  away  this 
morning  I  am  not  able  to  answer  every  particular  in  it  too 
fully,  as  I  would,  the  next  post.  I  perfectly  acquiesced  and 
am  totally  resigned  in  what  your  Grace  proposes  in  favour 
of  Sir  Richard  Vernon  and  Captain  Butler  and  am,  without 
compliment,  glad  of  every  occasion  your  Grace  is  pleased  to 
give  me,  whereby  I  may  give  you  repeated  marks  of  the 
sincerity  of  my  intentions  to  everything  I  have  said  to  your 
Grace  upon  the  subject  of  our  friendship  which  deserves  no 
less,  since  your  Grace  has  had  the  goodness  to  promise  me 
it  should  never  end  nor  alter  but  with  our  Hves.  I  shall  there- 
fore discourse  with  my  best  skill  with  the  parties  concerned 
and  doubt  not  but  to  make  all  things  answer  to  what  your 
Grace  desires.  I  shall  say  no  more  on  this  head  than  that 
your  Grace  cannot  at  any  time  oblige  me  more  than  by  opening 
your  thoughts  to  me  with  the  freedom  you  are  pleased  to  use 
on  this  matter,  since  without  that  I  must  not  presume  to  tell 
your  Grace  my  sentiments  upon  everything  so  openly  as  I 
do.  I  shall  be  glad  of  the  blank  commissions  your  Grace 
promises  me,  though  I  wish  I  may  have  no  occasion  of  using 
them,  but  fear  I  shall ;  the  delays  of  some  people  are 
unaccountable.  If  any  part  of  the  service  should  fail  capitally, 
I  am  afraid  it  would  lay  the  foundation  of  enquiries  for  next 
winter.  I  am  more  and  more  of  the  same  opinion  I  was  a 
pretty  while  since,  when  all  your  Grace's  friends  here  had  the 
spleen  and  were  chapfallen,  that  it  will  be  twice  thought  on 
before  you  will  be  once  removed.     I  pretend  to  no  infallibiHty, 


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but  the  whole  scheme  of  all  politics  must  be  changed,  and  I 
judge  upon  good  grounds.  I  am  glad  your  Grace  takes 
measures  in  everything  so  entirely  becoming  your  character. 

I  must  now  take  leave  to  put  your  Grace  in  mind  of  what 
you  promised  me  in  a  letter  some  time  since  in  favour  of 
Mr.  Shirley.  There  is  now  a  vacancy  of  a  company  in  Major- 
General  Tidcombe*s  regiment,  Captain  Trailboys's  company 
being  yet  undisposed  of.  I  know  your  Grace  has  a  great 
tenderness  not  to  disoblige  a  colonel,  much  less  a  general 
officer,  but,  as  your  Grace  has  commanded  me  to  conceal 
nothing  from  you,  I  must  inform  your  Grace  that  Major- General 
Tidcombe  received  4:501.  for  the  company  your  Grace  gave 
upon  his  late  major's  death  and  this  I  have  from  the  very 
person  who  paid  the  money.  I  must  further  inform  your  Grace 
that  no  man  in  this  kingdom  has  made  more  of  his  regiment 
than  he  has  and  that  if  Trailboys's  company  is  given  in  his 
regiment  there  is  to  be  money  paid  down  for  it.  I  say^  not 
this  to  do  the  Major-General  ill  offices,  for  I  am  really  his 
friend,  but  there  ought  to  be  reason  and  moderation  in  all 
things.  Your  Grace  invited  Mr.  Shirley  two  years  since  into 
this  kingdom,  as  he  tells  me  himself,  upon  which  he  quitted 
his  post  of  ensign  in  my  regiment  of  guards,  which  is 
valued  equivalent  almost  to  a  company,  and  where  in 
course  he  would  have  been  Heutenant  by  this  time,  several  of 
my  Heutenants  having  been  preferred,  and  your  Grace  knows 
a  Heutenancy  in  the  guards  sells  for  700?.  I  give  your  Grace 
this  detail  because  I  am  sure  when  you  put  it  in  the  balance 
and  consider  on  the  other  hand  what  douceurs  and  favours 
Tidcombe  has  had  you  will  not  think  it  hard  to  give  Mr.  Shirley 
this  company.  I  mean  not  hard  upon  Tidcombe.  I  will 
only  add  that  a  favour  in  that  family,  and  your  supporting 
your  friends  at  this  critical  time,  will  be  much  for  your  Grace's 
honour  and  interest.  I  am,  with  respect  and  passion,  my 
Lord,  &c. 

Endorsed:  The  copy  of  a  letter  to  his  Grace  the  Duke  of 
Ormonde  of  the  20th  of  March  thrown  overboard  when  the 
packet-boat  was  taken  by  the  privateer. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,  March  21.  DubHn. — I  have  the  honour  of  your 
Grace's  of  the  12th  and  with  great  pleasure  read  your  wise 
and  honourable  resolutions  therein,  and  have  great  hopes  that 
the  Attorney  will  be  Chief  Baron,  having  some  reason  to 
beheve  that  it  will  be  thought  wiser  to  mortify  your  enemies 
than  disoblige  you.  .  .  . 

Major- General  Robert  Echlin  to  Ormonde. 
1705-6,   March    21.     DubHn. — ^Assuring   his   Grace   that  if 
he  had  known  it  was  his  Grace's  inclination  to  have  Captain 
Butler,  his  Grace's  captain-lieutenant,   in  the  post  of  major 

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he  would  not  have  recommended  any  other.  He  hopes  his 
Grace  will  order  Captain  Butler  to  give  the  same  money  the 
other  gentlemen  would  have  given.  Sir  Peirce  Butler  only 
mentioned  Captain  Butler's  desire  of  being  a  heutenant-colonel. 
Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1705-6,  March  23.  Dublin. — Concerning  army  affairs.  He 
has  referred  Count  Paulin's  account  to  Captains  Elwes  and 
Wolseley,  the  only  captains  of  Lord  Windsor's  regiment  then 
in  Ireland.  If  the  Count  is  to  return  to  his  post  in  this  kingdom 
the  sooner  he  comes  the  better,  that  all  these  matters,  which 
are  very  clamorous,  may  be  settled.  He  has  to  complain  of 
the  Count  on  his  own  behalf  for  a  very  great  breach  of 
discipline.  He  has  just  now  an  express  from  Brigadier  Sankey, 
dated  at  Kinsale  the  21st  instant  between  four  and  five  o'clock 
in  the  afternoon,  saying  that  the  three  men-of-war  to  complete 
the  convoy  for  Catalonia  had  arrived  and  that  the  men  on 
board  were  in  good  health  and  all  things  in  order.  He  is 
heartily  glad  of  it  for  this  Catalonia  expedition,  and  the  trouble 
it  has  given  him  has  made  him  pass  his  Lent  not  without 
true  mortification.  The  death  of  Harte  has  caused  great 
confusion  in  the  accounts  of  Lord  Mohun's  regiment,  which 
was  not  before  in  the  best  order  in  the  world.  Lord 
Dungannon's  accounts  with  his  agent  have  also  been  a  little 
hrouillees.  He  hopes  that  he  has  set  that  right,  but  some 
things  will  remain  unfinished  between  his  Lordship  and  Paul 
Aungier.  There  are  but  two  companies  of  Lord  Orrery's 
regiment  here.  Major  Lambart  of  that  regiment  desires 
a  breviate  of  heutenant-colonel ;  he  is  exact  in  performing 
his  duty  and  ambitious  of  knowing  every  day  more  and  more. 
Abstract. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  March  25.  Carrickdrumough,  Sir  George  St.  George's 
house,  CO.  Leitrim. — I  had  the  honour  of  your  Grace's  about 
Colonel  Corry's  affair  which  I  received  this  day  in  this  place 
and  therefore  could  not  let  him  know  your  Grace's  sentiment 
about  that  matter,  but  as  soon  as  I  can  I  am  very  sure  that 
he  will  be  as  weU  pleased  with  even  the  disappointment, 
since  it  does  not  carry  with  it  your  Grace's  displeasure,  as  he 
would  have  been  with  the  success,  though  the  success  in  that 
matter  Ues  very  near  the  hearts  of  those  two  worthy  members, 
himself  and  his  son.  Your  Grace  may  remember  I  told  you 
my  opinion  of  them  when  first  I  introduced  them,  and  I  do 
think  they  will  be  both  serviceable  to  you  ;  and  I  am  sure  it 
is  not  possible  for  man  to  write  more  kindly  about  them  than 
you  have  been  pleased  to  do  to  me. 

I  saw  Mr.  Butler  last  night  at  the  Boyle,  who  was  so  kind 
as  to  sup  with  Sir  Richard  Levinge  and  I,  who  go  together 
this  circuit.    I  had  almost  forgot  to  acquaint  your  Grace 


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that  Captain  Bingham  being  dead  and  the  news  of  it  coming 
to  us  in  the  county  of  Mayo,  for  which  county  he  served  as 
knight  of  the  shire,  due  care  has  been  taken  that  an  honest 
gentleman  shall  be  chosen  in  his  place  ;  one  who  will  be  for  the 
true  interest  of  this  country  and  not  for  the  false  pretended 
interest  of  it,  who  are  for  flying  in  the  face  of  the  people  of 
England,  whom  your  Grace  remembers  to  be  the  only  enemies 
you  have  had  here,  for  I  cannot  remember  any  other  you 
had. 

Lieut. -General  Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  March  26.  Dublin. — Concerning  a  paymaster  or 
treasurer.  For  several  years  past  that  o£&ce  has  been  paid 
two  shillings  and  sixpence  per  day  out  of  the  contingent  money 
of  the  ordnance  and  sixpence  in  the  pound  from  the  inferior 
officers.  The  writer  hopes  to  leave  this  in  six  or  seven  days 
in  order  to  kiss  his  Grace's  hands,  and  brings  Major  Wibault 
with  him.     Abstract. 

Viscount  Mountcashell  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  March  26.     St.  Catherine's.— Thanking  his  Grace  for 
his  protection  of  Mr.  Eustace.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  March  28.  Dublin. — Concerning  army  affairs.  The 
letters  coming  from  England  and  an  express  were  thrown 
iato  the  sea,  the  packet-boats  having  been  taken  by  a  privateer. 
The  letters  from  Dublin  of  the  19th  and  20th  had  the  same 
fate.  He  encloses  a  copy  of  his  letter  of  the  20th.  His  Grace 
now  sees  the  disorder  that  happened  to  correspondence  and 
trade  for  want  of  the  men-of-war  as  was  foretold.     Abstract. 

Monsieur  Joly  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  March  30.     Lichfield. — Concerning  a  pass.     Abstract. 

Thomas  Keightlby  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  March  31.  Dublin. — I  would  with  patience  and 
submission  expect  to  hear  in  its  proper  time  in  what  manner 
the  English  counsels  are  like  to  ajffect  L-eland  now  the 
Parliament  is  up,  without  troubling  your  Grace  in  the 
meantime  with  letters,  which  can  be  nothing  but  troublesome 
to  you,  but  upon  the  news  which  we  have  here  of  Count  Palin's 
being  to  have  one  of  the  new  raised  regiments  in  England, 
and  consequently  of  his  leaving  a  lieutenant-colonel's  post 
vacant  in  the  regiment  where  he  now  is,  I  am  pressed  beyond 
any  refusal  by  Captain  Elwes,  who  is  my  near  relation,  to  put 
your  Grace  once  more  in  mind  not  only  of  his  pretensions, 
and  as  he  thinks  his  right,  by  having  been  much  longer  a 
captain  and  more  in  service  than  any  other  captain  in  the 
regiment,  to  a  better  post  there,  but  also  to  remind  you  that 


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you  were  pleased  to  say  when  Sir  Thomas  Travel!  was  made 
major  that  Elwes  should  not  be  put  by  any  more  when  there 
should  be  an  opportunity  to  advance  him.  My  Lord  Cutts, 
to  whom  he  is  also  related,  and  who  upon  that  and  many 
other  accounts  is  very  much  his  friend,  has  promised  at  this 
time  too  to  recommend  him  to  your  Grace's  favour,  which 
if  he  does  I  shall  hope  for  success,  and  to  whatever  share 
my  request  shall  have  in  procuring  this  service  to  my  relation, 
I  shall  for  ever  return  a  double  acknowledgment  and  take 
myself  to  be  more  obUged  to  be,  my  Lord,  &c. 

Eael  of  Mount- Alexander  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  April  2.  Dublin.— The  occasion  of  my  giving  your 
Grace  this  trouble  is  to  acquaint  you  that  the  Queen's  letter 
for  my  pension  was  unhappily  sent  in  that  packet  which  was 
sunk  when  the  packet  boat  was  taken,  which  obliges  me  to 
beg  your  Grace's  favour  to  speak  to  my  Lord  Treasurer  to 
have  another  sent.  I  do  once  more  beg  your  Grace  to  forgive 
my  being  so  troublesome  to  you,  and  hope  this  extraordinary 
accident  which  occasions  it  will  obtain  it. 

Lieut. -Colonel  William  Villiers  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  April  2.  Dublin. — Recommending  the  bearer,  Mr. 
Moon.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  April  3.  Dublin. — ^Reminding  his  Grace  of  Monsieur 
Wibault,  master  of  the  train,  and  asking  that  he  should  be 
recommended  to  the  new  Master  of  the  Ordnance.  He  fancies 
there  is  a  kind  of  brigue  against  Wibault  on  the  Board  on 
account  of  jealousy  because  his  Grace  favoured  him  so  much. 
Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  April  4.  Dublin. — Thanking  his  Grace  for  favouring 
Mr.  Fielding  with  his  brevet  as  captain.  He  fears  his  last 
in  favour  of  Captain  Strothers  may  have  miscarried.  They 
have  taken  grass  at  the  Curragh  in  order  to  encamp  by  the 
10th  of  June.     Abstract. 

Earl  op  Inchiquin  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  April  5.  Rostellan. — Concerning  his  regiment.  He 
finds  that  his  Grace  has  sent  Major  Spencer  a  commission 
as  Ueutenant-colonel  with  commands  to  keep  it  till  the 
business  of  the  majorship  be  settled.  Captain  Bor  claiming  a 
right  to  purchase  it  by  seniority.  Captain  Woodward  seems 
the  proper  person  for  the  post.  Captain  Bor's  is  some  sort 
of  a  West  Lidian  commission.  Captain  Woodward  was  in 
the  fight  at  Newtown-Butler,  made  a  lieutenant  in  1689, 
served  all  the  war  in  Lreland,    made  a  captain  in  1695  and 


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continued  in  the  service  during  the  war  in  Flanders  under 
Brigadier  Tiffins,  who  had  a  particular  regard  to  him  for  his 
.capacity  and  diligence.  Lieutenant  Archer  desists  from 
buying  the  company  and  there  is  no  other  Heutenant  in  the 
regiment  can  come  up  to  the  price.  Lieutenant  Sewell  of 
Tidcombe's  regiment  is  ready  to  do  so.  Colonel  Edgeworth 
is  very  impatient  for  his  money  and  if  Bor  is  to  be  major 
he  should  be  ordered  to  make  immediate  payment  to  Spencer, 
who  is  tied  in  very  strict  articles  to  Edgeworth.  Mr.  Conyng- 
ham  is  dead.  The  writer  wishes  the  kingdom  may  never 
have  a  greater  loss.  He  has  seen  nobody  much  afflicted, 
but  their  Speaker,  who  has  been  lately  in  that  country. 
Abstract. 

Lieut. -Colonel  Francis  Edgeworth  to  Ormonde. 

1 706,  April  6.  Dublin. — Hoping  the  news  that  Lord  Wharton 
is  to  be  Lord  Lieutenant  is  impossible.  A  sudden  damp  and 
numbness  has  seized  his  Grace's  true  but  afflicted  friend.  Last 
night  he  was  the  diminutive  of  a  number,  most  Parhament 
men,  who  resolved  to  celebrate  his  Grace's  birthday.  He  asks 
for  leave  to  purchase  a  regiment  or  to  be  made  master  of 
the  Dublin  barracks,  which  will  give  him  300?.  or  400^  a  year. 
Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  April  8.     At  the  Camp  of  Kildare. — He  was  in  such 
want  of  air  and  exercise  that  on  Wednesday  last  he  came 
down  to  this  place  to  see  the  plates  and  matches,  and  to  hunt 
a  little.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Vernon  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  April  12.  Dublin. — ^Acquainting  his  Grace  that  he 
landed  there  the  previous  day  after  being  driven  to  the  coast 
of  Scotland  in  his  passage  from  Holyhead.  He  finds  his 
Grace's  friends  dispirited  with  the  report  that  they  are  not 
to  be  happy  in  his  Grace's  presence  there.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  April  13.  Dubhn. — I  have  received  the  honour  of 
your  Grace's  of  the  2nd  instant  and  am  sorry  to  find  things 
are  not  yet  come  to  a  settlement,  though  I  must  own  to  your 
Grace  I  continue  still  of  my  former  opinion  that  there  wiU 
not  be  an  alteration  in  this  government  at  present.  I  do 
not  pretend  to  be  infaUible,  but  that  is  naturally  my  sentiinent. 
I  considered  what  your  Grace  wrote  as  to  the  place  of  encamping 
the  horse  ;  but  the  number  will  be  so  smaU  this  year  and  the 
conveniences  of  the  Curragh  of  Kildare  are  so  great,  we  having 
preserved  our  pumps  there,  which  cost  us  money  the  last  year, 
and  the  ground  is  so  very  favourable  for  exercising  the  horse 
and  dragoons,  which  some  of  them  have  need  of,  that  I  have 
ventured  to  order  the  camp  there,  and  I  hope  your  Grace  will 


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approve  of  it.  The  number  of  troops  being  so  small,  as  I 
said  before,  I  find  nobody  will  take  it  ill  that  it  is  there  two 
years  together,  and  accordingly  we  have  agreed  for  our  grass 
as  we  did  last  year.  I  find  upon  Sir  Richard  Vernon's  arrival 
that  he  has  not  yet  sold  his  own  troop  and  consequently  has 
not  his  money  ready,  and  that  he  has  not  yet  treated  with 
Montgomery,  and  so  I  keep  the  commission  in  the  office  tiU 
all  be  settled.  I  long  for  some  good  news,  being  with  respect 
and  passion,  my  Lord,  &c. 

Same  to  Same. 

1706,  April  16.  Dublin. — ^Hoping  that  private  advices  that 
his  Grace  is  confirmed  in  his  government  are  true,  and  asking 
that  Mr.  Shirley  should  have  a  company  in  Lillingston*s 
regiment  vacant  by  the  death  of  Captain  Goddard,  if  his 
Grace  has  given  away  the  one  in  Tidcombe's  regiment. 
Abstract. 

Lietjt.-General  William  Stewart  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  April  18.  London. — Concerning  a  memorial  left  by 
him  with  Mr.  Southwell.  He  would  accept  an  augmentation 
to  his  pension,  but  to  be  employed  in  his  rank  in  the  guards 
in  Flanders  is  the  only  place  he  desires.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  April  18.  Dublin. — ^Telling  his  Grace  that  he  has 
found  Ingoldsby  very  reasonable  in  everything  relating  to 
the  ordnance,  and  reminding  his  Grace  of  Brigadier  Sankey's 
great  dihgence  in  embarking  the  troops  and  of  other  matters. 
Abstract. 

Viscount  Mountcashell  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  April  22.  St.  Catherines. — Having  had  the  honour  to 
write  several  letters  to  your  Grace  within  this  httle  while,  I 
beg  leave  not  to  be  thought  troublesome  in  taking  this  further 
hberty,  since  it  is  not  in  my  power  to  contain  from  expressing 
the  pleasure  I  have  to  congratulate  your  Grace's  confounding 
all  your  enemies,  which  God  continue  you,  my  Lord,  always 
to  do.  As  Dublin  is  always  full  of  scandal,  they  say  the 
vapory  ladies  of  Dublin  have  got  nags  to  ride  about  with 
their  lusty  doctors.  Lady  Slane  and  my  wife  presents  their 
most  humble  service  to  your  Grace,  and  because  your  Grace's 
great  hurry  of  business  must  make  a  longer  letter  ungrateful 
at  present  I  entirely  depend  upon  your  goodness  to  pardon 
the  faults  of  this  scrawl. 

Lieut. -Colonel  Oliver  Long  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  St.  George's  Day.  Dublin. — ^Asking  his  Grace  to 
recommend  him  to  be  Governor  of  Barbadoes.     He  is  very 


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well  acquainted  with  that  island.  He  asks  his  Grace  also 
to  recommend  his  only  brother,  George  Long,  to  Sir  Cloudsley 
Shovell.  He  had  been  told  by  Captain  Butler  of  his  brother, 
who  he  thought  had  been  dead  many  a  year  ago,  but  who 
is  on  board  Captain  Swanton's  ship.     Abstract, 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  April  23.  DubUn. — ^I  have  received  the  honour  of 
your  Grace's  of  the  16th  instant,  and  no  letter  ever  brought 
me  a  sincerer  joy.  This  day  being  the  anniversary  of  her 
Majesty's  coronation,  with  the  addition  of  the  pleasing  news  of 
your  Grace's  being  confirmed  in  this  government,  I  have 
had  a  good  many  of  your  Grace's  true  friends  at  Clancarty 
House  and  have  given  the  day  to  joy  and  pleasure,  beHeving 
it  due  to  such  an  occasion  ;  and  therefore  hope  your  Grace  will 
have  indulgence  enough  to  forgive  me  if  I  omit  writing  upon 
business  till  the  next  post.  But  henceforwards,  now  that 
the  uneasiness  is  over,  I  shall  enter  into  the  minute  detail  of 
everything  with  my  former  exactness,  and  in  the  meantime 
no  one  feels  a  more  real  satisfaction  in  this  good  news  than,  &c. 

Same  to  Same. 

1706,  April  24.  DubUn. — Consenting  to  Wingate  buying 
Whitworth's  troop.  In  regard  to  his  own  regiment,  he  desires 
that  Captain  Howard  may  sell  his  troop,  that  Captain  Wills, 
the  captain-Heutenant,  may  buy  it,  and  that  Mr.  Levinge, 
"  my  comet  of  my  own  troop,"  may  have  the  captain- 
lieutenancy.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  Henry  Lumley  to  Ormonde. 
1706,   April  24.     Ghent. — Concerning  affairs  on  the  Con- 
tinent.   (Injured. ) 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  April  25.  Dubhn. — "I  have  received  the  honour  of 
your  Grace's  of  the  20th  instant,  and  am  overjoyed  to  find 
my  Lord  Treasurer  in  so  good  a  disposition  with  relation  to 
the  affair  your  Grace  is  pleased  to  mention  in  that  letter, 
of  which  I  hope  for  the  confirmation  by  the  next  post.  I 
observe  what  your  Grace  says  about  secrecy  and  shaU 
punctually  obey  your  commands  in  this  and  all  other  occasions. 
My  Lord  Treasurer  will  do  himself  a  great  deal  of  justice  in 
the  eyes  of  the  world  by  such  measures,  it  being  really  and 
evidently  true  that  her  Majesty's  service,  as  well  as  your 
Grace's  credit,  will  be  very  much  strengthened  by  it,  and 
your  Grace  cannot  imagine,  without  being  here  on  the  spot, 
of  what  prodigious  service  it  will  be  to  your  interest  in  this 
kingdom  when  that  matter  shall  come  to  be  declared,  for 
though  upon  your  Grace's  being  confirmed  in  your  government 
everybody  thinks  you  have  power,  yet  it  is  not  thought  to 


reach  that  length.*'  The  writer  enters  then  at  length  on  the 
steps  which  he  had  taken  to  require  the  colonels  to  provide 
clothing  for  their  regiments.  There  is  no  way  to  do  it,  but 
to  threaten  the  colonels  that  the  Government  will  contract 
for  them.  If  a  colonel  is  not  content  to  be  absent,  but  will 
at  the  same  time  neglect  the  service,  there  is  no  other  way 
to  make  him  sensible  of  his  error.     Abstract. 

Lieut.- General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 
1706,   April  27.     DubHn. — Rejoicing  that  the  alarm  they 
have  had  of  his  Grace  not  coming  again  proves  a  false  one. 
Abstract. 

Robert  Rocheort  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  April  27.  Dublin. — ^The  general  satisfaction  and 
pleasure,  as  well  as  mine  in  particular,  for  your  Grace's  con- 
firmation in  this  government  work  too  powerfully  on  me  to 
be  silent  on  this  happy  occasion  to  congratulate  your  Grace, 
and  the  rather  that  your  enemies  are  disappointed  in  the  many 
employments  they  carved  out  for  themselves,  and  your  Grace's 
power  is  continued  of  pursuing  your  own  scheme  in  fiUing 
the  vacant  place  on  the  bench  to  which  your  Grace  was  pleased 
to  name  me.  It  is  to  your  noble  grandfather  I  stand  indebted 
for  my  first  preferment  in  my  profession  and  it  is  to  your 
Grace's  goodness  and  favour  I  presumed  to  desire  to  owe  my 
advancement  to  the  bench  and  therefore  made  my  humble 
addresses  only  to  your  Grace.  But  to  my  unspeakable  grief 
I  hear  Mr.  Sohcitor-General  is  to  be  put  over  my  head,  though 
his  station  is  below  mine.  This  disappointment  after  so  much 
discourse  that  I  was  the  person  is  uneasy,  and  what  adds  to 
my  misfortune  and  imhappiness  is  that  it  is  done  during  your 
Grace's  administration,  from  whence  all  men  will  conclude 
I  am  fallen  under  your  Grace's  displeasure  and  so  low  in  your 
esteem  as  to  deserve  it.  I  thought  it  my  duty  to  lay  myself 
at  your  Grace's  feet  and  to  beg  the  continuance  of  your  Grace's 
favour  and  patronage  in  this  as  you  shall  think  fit  and  in  the 
next  place  to  assure  your  Grace  that,  &c, 

John  Trevelyan  and  Others  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  April  30.  WeUs.— Here  being  few  or  none  of  the 
Deputy  Lieutenants  but  what  are  Justices  of  the  Peace  and 
we  having  received  an  order  of  Council  from  the  Lord  Fitz- 
hardinge,  Gustos  Rotulorum  for  this  county,  concerning  the 
Papists,  before  that  of  your  Grace's  coming  to  our  hands, 
meetings  were  thereupon  appointed  according  to  that  order. 
We  have  the  good  fortune  to  have  very  few  of  that  religion 
in  this  county,  and  those  inconsiderable  either  for  estate  or 
interest,  but  those  that  are  a  particular  account  wiU  be  given 
of  their  number  and  quah'ties  to  your  Grace  by  us  and  others 


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the  Deputy  Lieutenants,  who  are,  &c. — Signed,  John 
Trevelyan,  Francis  Warre,  Edward  Berkeley,  John  Hunt, 
W.  Coward. 

Captain  F.  Butler  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  April  30.     Dorsetshire,  in  Barcelona   Road. — I  hope 

your  Grace  received  mine  from  Lisbon,  whence  we  sailed  for 

the  Mediterranean  with  six  men-of-war  and  our  Irish  forces 

on  the  9th  of  April,  and  on  the  22nd  joined  Sir  John  Leake 

abreast  Altea,  as  Sir  George  Bynge  had  done  a  httle  before. 

We  then  made  a  line  of  battle  of  fifty  good  ships  and  so  stood 

with  all  the  possible  speed  could  make  to  the  relief  of  Barcelona 

and  anchored  in  the  road  of  it  the  27th,  but  to  our  great  surprise 

we  found  that  Fort  Mountjoy  had  been  taken  and  demolished 

fifteen  days  before,   in  which  action  my   Lord   Donegal  was 

killed.     The  enemy  had  so  good  inteUigence   of   our  fleets 

being  near  them  that  they  got  away  the  night  before  and 

had  we  not  been  so  very  much  becalmed  they  had  been  secure 

enough  from  ever  having    made    so    lucky  an  escape.     The 

town  lay  under  very  great  extremity  and  the  King  was  got 

into  a  boat  to  preserve  his  person,  the  enemy  having  brought 

their  works  quite  up  to  the  foot  of  the  bastion,  and  so  securely 

too  that  they  could  not  be  seen  in  their  trenches  and  keep  a 

continual  fire  from  six  several  places.     Abundance  of  bombs 

flies  into  the  town,  which  they  had  certainly  carried  in  two 

days  had  we  not  come  so  timely  to  their  assistance,  for  their 

people  being  few  were  worn  off  by  extra  duty  and  killed  by 

the  enemy,  but  now  we  think  we  are  ten  thousand  strong, 

besides  inhabitants  within  the  walls,  and  every  night  brings 

about  some  effect  or  other,  and  there  comes  into  us  ten,  fifteen 

or  twenty  deserters  every  night,  and  they  say  that  the  Duke 

of  Anjou  looks  very  sorrowfully  upon  it,  and  though  he  is 

computed  to  have  about  fifteen  thousand  men,   yet  in  all 

likelihood  he  has  besieged  himself,  not  being    able  to  look 

round  him  anywhere  but  he  has  in  view  a  sad  presage  of  ruin, 

for  there  is  not  above  four  days'  provisions  in  his  camp,  and 

he  is  surrounded  on  the  side  of  the  country  with  about  forty 

thousand  Miquelets,  who  are  resolved  to  revenge  the  cruelty 

the  French  has  treated  them  with  in  their  coming  hither. 

The  only  deKverance  they  expect  is  taking  the  town  and  by 

battering  the  walls  to  enter,  which  if  they  attempt  they  will 

meet  with  a  very  warm  reception,  for  our  people  has  raised 

inward  works  and  are  ready  to  cut  them  in  pieces  if  they 

dare  venture  it,  and  all  things  look  very  promising  with  success 

on  our  side,  nor  have  we  any  apprehension  of  their  getting  any 

point  of  us  as  matters  stand  to-day,  and  this  is  the  account 

our  present  case  affords,  all  which  must  have  an  end  in  a  very 

short  time.     Having  troubled  your  Lordship  with  this  tedious 

relation,  I  am  under  so  much  the  more  necessity  to  intreat  your 

pardon  and  beg  you  will  please  to  allow  me  the  favour  of 

assuring  your  Grace  how  much  I  am,  &c. 


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Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  May  1.  Hampton  Court. — ^The  day  after  I  came  to 
this  place  in  obedience  to  your  Grace's  commands  I  sent  for 
a  man  out  of  Wales  to  procure  some  eggs  of  the  black  game, 
which  he  has  undertook  to  do,  and  is  this  day  gone  about  it. 
I  beg  therefore  your  Grace's  orders  to  whom  they  shall  be  sent 
at  Chester  for  a  man  on  purpose  must  bring  them  on  foot  to 
prevent  shaking.  I  will  take  care  to  have  some  there,  God 
willing,  the  end  of  the  next  week.  I  am,  with  the  greatest 
duty  and  respect,  &c. 

J.  Petit  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  May  1.  Barcelona. — ^I  hope  your  Grace  will  pardon 
the  liberty  I  take  to  trouble  you  with  this  scrawl,  which  I 
would  not  have  ventured  to  do  if  it  was  not  to  acquaint  your 
Grace  with  the  joyful  news  of  the  French  leaving  this  place 
after  a  siege  of  forty  days,  where  they  have  lost  abundance  of 
men,  cannons,  mortars  and  ammunition,  besides  what  they 
will  lose  upon  their  march,  by  the  Miquelets,  which  tends 
towards  Gerona.  Our  loss  is  inconsiderable,  so  that  we  have 
all  the  reason  in  the  world  to  expect  a  speedy  conclusion  of 
the  affair  on  this  side  of  Europe.  We  have  report  here  that 
the  Duchess  of  Anjou  has  left  Madrid  and  is  upon  her  journey 
to  France.  I  will  not  fail  by  the  next  opportunity  to  give 
your  Grace  a  full  account  of  our  transactions.  We  are  now 
so  hurried  that  I  humbly  hope  your  Grace  will  excuse  my 
ending  abruptly,  and  subscribe  myself  with  all  submission,  &c. 

Captain  F.  Butler  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  May  1.  Dorsetshire  in  Barcelona  Road. — Since  my 
sending  up  the  enclosed  of  yesterday's  date  it  is  with 
inexpressible  joy  that  I  am  to  add  the  following  account. 
This  morning  at  three  o'clock  the  enemy  went  ofE  in  a  most 
confused  manner,  leaving  behind  them  27  mortars,  140  brass 
cannons,  40,000  cannon  balls,  6,000  barrels  of  powder,  with 
shells  of  aU  sorts  to  a  great  number,  pickaxes  and  spades  near 
10,000,  with  a  great  store  of  habiUments  of  war,  meal  in  sacks 
for  12,000  men  ^for  eight  months  and  great  quantities  of 
provisions  and  answerable  thereto,  three  large  hospitals  of 
sick  and  wounded  said  to  be  about  5,000,  and  the  enemy  is 
pursued  by  most  of  the  Miquelets  of  the  country,  from  whence 
we  expect  a  miserable  account  of  such  an  army  as  is  gone  off 
in  mutiny  and  disorder,  and  all  this  is  done  without  their  offering 
battle  or  one  attack  to  the  town,  though  governed  by  Duke 
Anjou,  Marshal  De  Tesse  and  their  mighty  General  Noales. 
At  the  time  of  my  writing  this  we  believe  the  enemy  takes  the 
nearest  way  into  Provence,  but  attacked  all  the  way  and  must 
suffer.  Count  De  Tesse  writ  to  my  Lord  Peterborough  in 
these  words,  that  the  glory  of  the  day  was  his,  that  the  French 
fleet  was  gone  and  the  English  gained  the  victory,  but  prayed 


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his  Lordship  to  use  humanity  and  kindness  to  preserve  the 
sick  and  wounded,  on  which  my  Lord  ordered  a  guard  for  their 
security,  but  before  their  coming  thither  it  is  said  the 
Miquelets  had  destroyed  some  of  them.  Abundance  of 
things  is  to  be  said  of  our  glorious  victory  which  I  cannot 
comprise  here,  but  expect  the  whole  monarchy  is  and  will  be 
in  a  short  time  devoted  to  King  Charles.  We  are  all  in  a  good 
condition  and  hope  this  will  not  be  the  last  stroke  we  shall 
give  them  this  summer.  This  account  I  took  at  the  King's 
palace  as  the  very  same  he  had  himseK  at  that  time,  and  if 
you  will  please  to  receive  it  at  second  hand  from  me  it  will 
be  the  greatest  obligation  to  him  who  is,  &c. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde, 
1706,  May  2.  Dublin. — Longing  to  hear  that  the  Chief 
Baron  is  settled  to  his  Grace's  satisfaction  and  telling  his 
Grace  that  the  ten  ofl&cers'  sons  whom  his  Grace  had  observed 
in  the  muster  rolls  had  been  supphed  by  effective  men  before 
the  regiments  had  embarked.     Abstract, 

Same  to  Same. 
1706,  May  4.  Dublin. — Li  the  letter  I  had  the  honour  to 
write  your  Grace  on  the  2nd  instant  I  told  your  Grace  I  would 
give  you  an  account  of  the  quarters  by  this  post.  The  horse 
and  dragoons  continue  in  their  old  quarters  till  the  camp, 
which  I  have  appointed  for  the  10th  of  June,  from  whence, 
when  they  discamp,  they  are  to  march  respectively  into  the 
quarters  here  enclosed,  of  which  I  have  given  notice  to  the 
regiments  that  they  may  in  time  provide  for  their  forage. 
Langston  has  already  by  my  order  agreed  for  forage,  I  mean 
grass,  for  the  horse  and  dragoons  during  their  encampment 
at  the  Curragh  ;  the  contract  begins  from  the  10th  of  June 
and  is  made  absolute  for  eighteen  days,  but  so  ordered  that 
we  can  have  grass  for  a  longer  time  if  your  Grace  would  not 
have  us  decamp  so  soon.  I  cannot  send  your  Grace  the  exact 
hst  of  the  foot  quarters  till  the  next  post,  they  being  not 
quite  settled.  Pearce's  regiment  is  at  Kinsale,  which  your 
Grace  hinted  as  your  inclinations  some  months  since.  Sankey's 
and  Scott's  are  at  Limerick,  Orrery's  is  upon  the  march  to  the 
North  and  Rooke's  is  ordered  upon  their  arrival  to  march 
to  DubHn,  where  Tidcombe's  is  already  come,  tichiquin  is 
designed  for  Galway,  and  Gustavus  Hamilton  now  at  Galway 
for  the  Eonsale  quarters  or  the  Kerry  quarters.  I  think 
now  we  have  so  small  a  force  of  infantry  in  the  kingdom  our 
principal  care  must  be  to  provide  first  for  our  maritime  places 
and  garrisons  of  importance,  they  being  in  effect  our  frontiers. 
I  mention  not  the  regiments  of  Wynne,  Lillingston  and  Lepell, 
they  being  so  weak  at  present  that  we  must  treat  them  as 
fragments  of  regiments,  and  put  them  in  the  quarters  that 
may  be  the  most  proper  for  the  recovering  of  them,  not 
expecting  any  duty  from  them  for  some  time  yet.     I  shaD 


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give  your  Grace  an  account  by  next  post  where  we  design 
them.  Your  Grace  sees  by  this  disposition  that  none  of  the 
regiments  of  foot  are  removed  into  their  new  quarters,  but 
such  as  it  was  necessary  to  remove  upon  the  sending  the  three 
regiments  for  Catalonia.  I  do  not  design  the  rest  of  the 
regiments  of  foot  shall  change  their  quarters  till  the  horse 
move  because  it  wiU  look  better  when  we  can  do  it  to  make 
but  one  movement  for  the  whole  ;  I  mean  at  the  same  time 
if  your  Grace  approves  of  it.  I  wiU  trouble  your  Grace  no 
further  by  this  than  to  assure  you  that  I  am  with  respect  and 
passion,  &c. 

Same  to  Same. 
1706,  May  7.  Dublin. —  .  .  .  The  delaying  the  declaring 
of  the  Chief  Baron  unsettles  people's  minds  and  does  a  great 
deal  of  hurt  here,  especially  now  that  nobody  can  invent  a 
plausible  reason  for  such  delay,  whilst  on  the  other  hand 
everyone  who  understands  the  business  of  this  kingdom  is 
convinced  that  her  Majesty's  service  suffers  very  considerably 
for  want  of  such  an  officer.  .  .  . 

Same  to  Same. 

1706,  May  9.  Dublin. — Concerning  army  affairs.  He  will 
not  fail  to  give  his  Grace  an  account  of  the  dispute  between 
Captain  Belasyse  and  Captain  Francis.  He  refers  to  his 
Grace  giving  Mr.  Shirley  Colonel  Stanwix's  company.  Lord 
Deloraine  dined  with  him  the  day  before.  Mr.  Abbot,  a  comet 
in  Langston's  regiment,  and  the  writer's  aide-de-camp,  has 
his  money  ready  to  buy  a  troop  in  the  writer's  dragoons  and 
has  been  named  for  Whitworth's  troop.  Captain  WiUs  is  the 
person  named  for  the  other  troop.  He  wishes  his  Grace 
would  give  the  same  hints  to  the  rest  of  his  friends  and  servants 
as  he  is  pleased  to  do  to  the  writer  when  affairs  ought  to  be 
kept  secret.     Abstract. 

Same  to  Same. 
1706,  May  11.  Dublin. — I  send  your  Grace  enclosed  a  list 
of  the  whole  quarters  of  the  horse,  foot  and  dragoons  as  they 
will  be  after  the  encampment,  for,  as  I  told  your  Grace  in  my 
former,  I  think  it  will  be  best  in  reality,  as  well  as  look  more 
soldier-like,  to  move  the  foot  that  are  to  change  their  quarters 
at  the  same  time  that  the  horse  march  from  their  camp  and 
so  make  but  one  movement  for  the  whole  all  at  once,  which 
will  give  the  country  but  one  alarm  ;  and  then  by  harvest 
time  all  the  forces  in  the  kingdom  will  be  quiet  in  their  new 
quarters.  Some  regiments  of  foot,  as  I  wrote  your  Grace 
word,  are  already  in  their  new  quarters,  viz.  Tidcombe,  Sankey, 
Deloraine,  Pearce,  and  Orrery  and  Rooke  on  their  march  ;  the 
first  four  it  was  necessary  to  move  on  account  of  the  embarka- 
tion of  the  three  regiments,  and  we  were  forced  to  order  Rooke 
to  relieve  Orrery  here  because  the  latter  of  those  have  suffered 


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already  more  than  their  share  by  the  hardship  of  the  Dublin 
duty.  I  believe  it  will  be  necessary  to  make  one  alteration 
which  is  to  bring  Lillingston  nearer  Dublin,  as  to  Bray, 
Wicklow  and  Arklow,  they  being  so  very  weak,  and  to  send 
two  or  three  companies  of  Hamilton's  regiment  to  Ross  Castle 
and  Dingle.  Your  Grace  will  have  your  own  regiment  of  horse 
new  clothed  and  much  better  than  last  time  and  Hamilton's 
regiment  of  foot  new  and  well  clothed  in  the  Kilkenny  quarters 
which  I  thought  would  not  be  disagreeable  to  your  Grace  ; 
they  will  have  something  of  an  air  to  serve  you  as  your  guards 
whenever  your  Grace  goes  to  Kilkenny.  I  have  presented 
Mr.  Shirley  to  my  Lord  Deloraine  one  day  that  he  dined  with 
me  and  he  received  him  very  kindly.  I  wish  your  Grace 
would  send  over  his  commission  whilst  my  Lord  is  in  so  good 
humour.  He  told  me  it  was  natural  for  a  colonel  to  endeavour 
to  promote  his  own  officers,  but  since  your  Grace  had  a  friend 
to  provide  for  he  was  glad  it  was  a  man  of  qiiahty  and  seemed 
mighty  well  satisfied.  I  am,  with  the  greatest  duty  and 
passion,  &c. 

Sir  Richard  Levingb  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  May  11.  DubUn. — I  have  a  fresh  occasion  given  me 
to  write  to  your  Grace,  which  is  to  return  my  most  humble 
thanks  to  your  Grace  for  your  goodness  and  favour  to  Mr. 
Shirley.  I  am  certain  I  will  always  endeavour  to  deserve 
this  favour  by  my  faithful  services  to  your  Grace,  and  I  shall 
reject  every  creature  which  belongs  to  me  who  shall  be  wanting 
in  the  same  grateful  and  just  sentiments  and  wish  my  own 
health  were  equal  to  what  it  has  been  that  I  might  give  your 
Grace  active  and  hearty  testimonies  of  my  zeal  and  industry, 
but  I  am  so  afflicted  with  the  gravel  that  there  seldom  passes 
a  week  without  a  severe  fit  which  disables  me  in  some  degree 
from  attendance  on  my  ordinary  business,  but  whatever 
abiUties  I  have  of  mind  or  body,  and  whilst  I  have  any,  they 
shall  be  always  appUed  for  your  Grace  and  your  honour  and 
service  without  reserve,  &c. 

Henry  Villiers  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  May  13.  Tynemouth  Castle. — Recommending  Mr. 
Samuel  Blechyndon,  now  supervisor  for  the  rate  duties  in 
North  Shiells,  for  the  same  post  at  South  Shiells.  His  masters 
have  ordered  him  to  Cheshire,  whence  he  lately  came,  and 
since  he  has  had  the  misfortune  to  break  his  thigh  in  the 
service  of  the  revenue.     Abstract. 

Lady  Rosse  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  May   18.     Dublin. — Introducmg  one  of  her  sons-in- 
law.     Abstract. 

Rev.  Edmund  Arwaker  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  May   18. — Dimgannon. — Acquainting  his  Grace  that 
Dr.  Enoch  Reader,  Dean  of  Emly,  is  reported  to  be  dead. 


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His  Grace  when  at  Armagh  gave  the  writer  hope  that  he 
would  provide  for  him.     Abstract. 

Lords  Justices  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  May  18.  Dublin  Castle. — Concerning  military  and 
naval  affairs.  They  had  ordered  the  Speedwell  and  Shoreham 
to  scour  the  coasts  round  Limerick  and  to  convoy  the  Queen 
Anne  of  London  thence  to  Konsale.  They  note  that  his  Grace 
has  given  Sir  Gilbert  Gerrard  leave  to  stay  in  England,  and 
directed  the  date  of  Lieutenant  Murray's  commission  to  be 
changed.  They  enclose  a  petition  from  Lieutenant- Colonel 
Jones.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Deloraine  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  May  25. — ^Thanking  his    Grace  for  leave  to  go  to 
England.     He  came  the  previous  night  from  Limerick,  where 
he  found  the  regiment  in  very  good  order.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Vernon  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  May  25.  Dublin. — Liforming  his  Grace  that  he  had 
received  a  year's  pay  in  part  of  arrears  as  aide-de-camp  to  his 
Grace.  For  the  expression  in  his  Grace's  last  letter  in  relation 
to  professed  friends,  he  is  sorry  to  say,  if  common  fame  is 
to  be  credited,  there  are  some  that  deserve  no  other  title. 
Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Levingb  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  May  27.  Dublin. — I  have  had  the  honour  of  your 
Grace's  letter  and  beg  leave  to  assure  your  Grace  that  the 
knowledge  I  have  of  your  Grace's  concern  for  me  has  done 
abundantly  more  than  compensated  me  for  any  disappointment 
I  have  met  with.  I  heartily  thank  your  Grace  for  your  good- 
ness to  me  and  mine,  and  wiU  labour  to  deserve  it  to  the  last 
moment  of  my  hfe.  I  am  sorry  I  have  no  good  news  to  tell 
your  Grace  from  this  side.  We  have  had  a  very  great 
misfortune  in  the  loss  of  your  Grace's  godson,  who  is  newly 
dead  of  the  small- pox.  I  wish  your  Grace  all  honour,  health 
and  happiness  and  long  for  the  pleasure  of  seeing  your  Grace 
in  Ireland,  and  am,  &c. 

William  Crowe  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  May  30.     Dublin. — Acknowledging  a  letter  from  his 
Grace  and  assuring  his  Grace  of  his  being  eternally  attached 
to  his  Grace's  service.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  June  3.  Dublin. — Referring  to  Brigadier  Sankey's 
pains  in  the  embarkation  for  Catalonia,  and  telling  his  Grace 
that  Captain  Abbott  has  paid  Sir  Richard  Vernon  the  700?. 
his  Grace  ordered  he  should  pay  for  Whitworth's  troop. 
Abstract 


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Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  June  4.  Dublin. — Your  Grace  has  sent  over  the 
Queen's  letter  for  Sir  Gilbert  Dolben*s  circuit  money,  which 
it  seems  came  from  the  Treasury,  or  was  thought  of  there, 
before  your  Grace  spoke  of  it,  or  some  other  circumstance 
there  is  in  that  matter  that  made  him  scrupulous  of  taking  it 
without  your  special  order,  protesting  that  for  twenty  times 
that  sum  he  would  not  transgress  the  forms  or  do  anything 
that  might  savour  of  the  least  disrespect  to  your  Grace,  wherein 
I  believe  he  is  very  sincere,  and  since  he  proceeded  in  that 
ingenuous  and  respectful  manner  to  your  Grace  I  undertook 
to  make  his  apology  to  your  Grace,  which  I  pray  you  will  be 
pleased  to  accept  of. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  June  4.  Dublin. — Concerning  Abbot's  payment  to 
Sir  Richard  Vernon.  The  writer  has  removed  his  Grace's 
own  regiment  from  Dubhn  to  Kilkenny  because  Langston 
told  him  it  was  his  Grace's  intention  no  regiment  should  do 
duty  at  DubUn  above  a  year  at  a  time,  it  being  the  worst 
quarters.     Abstract 

Same  to  Same. 

1706,  June  4.  Dubhn. — Asking  that  Captain  Wills  should 
be  given  a  breviate  as  captain  and  that  Comet  Levinge  should 
be  allowed  to  purchase  Captain  Howard's  troop.  Sir  Richard 
Levinge  wiU  lay  down  the  money  at  an  hour's  warning  and 
the  promotion  of  his  son  will  a  Mttle  revive  his  spirits  after 
his  mortification  in  losing  the  Chief  Baron's  place.  Langston 
has  recommended  Mr.  Fitzreary  to  buy  Captain  Abbot's 
post  of  comet  in  his  regiment.  Fitzreary  is  a  graceful  and 
hopeful  young  man,  and  his  friends  are  well  affected  to  his 
Grace's  interest.  Mr.  Spring,  who  Uves  near  the  Naas,  is  his 
father-in-law.     Abstract. 

Monsieur  Du  Marett  D'Antoigny  to  Ormonde. 
1706,    June    4.     La    Haye. — Concerning    the    victory    at 
RamiUies.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Vernon  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  June  7.     Dublin. — Acknowledging  his  Grace's  favour, 
which  has  enabled  him  that  day  to  take  out  his  commission 
as  lieutenant-colonel  to  Major-General  EchUn.     He  has  been 
forced  to  pay  1,460^.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -Colonel  John  Newton  to  Ormonde. 
1706,   June    12.     Dublin. — Asking  for  a  new  commission. 
He  had  been  taken  in  the  packet-boat  between  the  Head  and 
Dubhn  by  a  privateer,  by  whom  he  was  stripped  of  all  he 


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had  and  his  pockets  searched.  He  had  been  forced  to  pay 
651  ransom  and  Sir  Francis  Blundell,  who  was  with  'him,  60L 
Abstract, 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  June  13.  Dublin. — I  had  designed  myseK  the 
honour  of  writing  to  your  Grace  by  the  Tuesday's  post,  but 
was  on  Sunday  in  the  evening  upon  taking  a  vomit  seized 
with  a  violent  vomiting  of  blood,  insomuch  that  I  lost  in 
less  than  an  hour  above  two  and  thirty  ounces,  and  the  next 
morning  they  bled  me  at  the  arm  above  thirteen  ounces  more 
to  prevent  any  farther  inward  bleeding.  I  have  been  freed 
from  my  colic  ever  since,  which  I  had  to  a  great  degree  before, 
and  find  no  inconvenience  but  a  weakness  from  the  loss  of 
so  much  blood,  my  physicians  assuring  me  that  it  wiU  make 
me  much  healthfuUer  than  before.  I  trouble  your  Grace  with 
this  account  that  you  may  not  wonder  at  my  silence,  but 
I  hope  it  is  now  over.  The  horse  and  dragoons  entered  into 
the  camp  at  the  Curragh  on  Monday  and  Tuesday  last, 
Langston  being  there  to  receive  them.  I  had  a  letter  from 
him  to-day  wherein  he  desires  me  not  to  come  down  till  next 
week,  some  regiments  not  having  got  all  their  clothes  and 
accoutrements  yet.  I  design  about  this  day  sennit  to  go  down 
and  see  them  ;  I  shall  inspect  every  regiment  narrowly,  see 
them  make  their  movements  and  enquire  of  the  commanders 
into  the  conduct  and  behaviour  of  their  officers,  of  all  which 
your  Grace  shaU  have  a  faithful  and  exact  account.  I  am 
with  the  greatest  respect  and  passion,  my  Lord,  &c. 

Sir  Richard  Vernon  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  June  13.  From  the  camp  near  Kildare. — Recom- 
mending that  Major- General  EchHn's  nephew,  Mr.  Charles 
Echlin,  who  is  comet  to  the  writer,  may  succeed  Captain 
Lieutenant  Grimes,  who  is  dead,  and  that  the  eldest  lieutenant 
may  be  given  leave  to  buy  Captain  Serjeant's  troop.     Abstract, 

Sir  Stafford  Fairborne  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  June  14.  The  Eagle  in  Ostend  Road. — Acknowledging 
his  Grace's  recommendation  of  Lieutenant  Crawford,  who  is 
with  him  in  that  ship,  and  acquainting  his  Grace  with  Monsieur 
Auverquerque's  great  civilities.  The  latter  is  very  busy  in 
the  siege  of  Ostend,  but  the  writer's  chief  business  is  to  prevent 
any  communication  by  sea.  It  is  hoped  the  place  will  surrender 
after  feeling  the  smart  of  some  bombs,  but  if  the  bombs  do  not 
terrify  them  the  breach  must.     Abstract. 

Viscount  Mountcashell  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  June  15.     St.  Catherine's. — ^Thanking  his  Grace  for 
his  letter.     Mr.  Kelly  has  gained  some  advantage  in  a  law- 
suit of  great  consequence  between  Lord  Bellew  and  him,  which 


241 

has  given  Lady  Newburgh  one  of  the  fashionable  distempers 
that  reigns  at  Tunbridge  Wells  for  vapory  people  called  the 
hogle-grodeles.  Lady  Kingsland  is  settling  a  correspondence 
with  a  young  banker  in  town  against  she  goes  for  England 
with  an  appeal  she  is  carrying  there.  Madam  Rosse  has  got 
some  new  affair  in  her  head  that  she  has  gone  for  England 
about.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  June  20.  Dublin. — Concerning  army  affairs.  He 
has  private  advice  that  Lord  Rivers  moves  heaven  and  earth 
to  have  the  writer's  regiment  of  dragoons  with  him  in  his 
expedition  and  begs  his  Grace's  protection  to  prevent  it. 
Mr.  Levinge  has  paid  Captain  Smyth,  agent  to  the  regiment, 
700?.,  and  Captain  Howard  may  draw  for  it  when  he  pleases. 
Abstract. 

Princess  Sophia  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  June  22.--^ee  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  781. 

Sir  Richard  Vernon  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  June  24.  Camp  near  Kildare. — Informing  his  Grace 
that  his  regiment  wants  a  great  recruit  of  men  and  horses. 
Captain  Butler,  from  whose  hand  his  Grace  will  receive  this 
letter,  has,  however,  behaved  himself  with  aU  the  diligence, 
though  under  all  the  disadvantage  in  the  world,  being  at  Boyle, 
a  quarter  in  Connaught.     Abstract. 

Joseph  Kelly  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  June  27.  Kilkenny. — Regretting  that  he  has  been 
disabled  from  sending  an  address  to  her  Majesty  from 
Kilkenny.  His  leg  has  been  well  set  and  cured.  He  is  obliged 
to  an  excellent  French  surgeon  whom  his  Grace's  grandfather 
planted  in  Kilkeimy.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  June  28.  Dublin. — I  have  this  day  received  the 
honour  of  your  Grace's  of  the  19th  instant  and  give  your  Grace 
my  humble  thanks  for  your  expressions  of  kindness  with 
relation  to  my  illness.  I  returned  yesterday  early  from  the 
camp  and  had  my  share  in  the  thanksgiving,  which  was 
observed  here  with  the  greatest  solemnity  imaginable.  I 
found  the  horse  and  dragoons  in  good  order,  generally  speaking, 
Lord  Windsor's  regiment  excepted,  and  that  some  troops 
here  and  there  appeared  weaker  than  they  should  have  done. 
Echlin's  regiment  is  much  mended  by  the  recruit  of  horses 
he  had  this  spring,  though  it  will  require  another  effort  to  set 
that  regiment  right  indeed,  and  several  of  the  men  will  want 
to  be  changed,  concerning  aU  which  your  Grace  may  be  assured 
I  wiU  talk  to  him  fully  and  in  the  best  manner  I  can.  "TOndsor's 

Wt.  43488.  0  10 


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regiment  is  in  very  great  disorder,  of  which  your  Grace  shall 
have  an  account  at  large  and  a  detail  of  the  whole.  I  kept 
the  troops  on  horseback  till  after  three  in  the  afternoon, 
making  them  perform  the  movements  which  your  Grace  asked 
of  them  last  year,  as  I  had  advertised  Langston  I  would, 
and  indeed  I  could  see  a  great  deal  of  pains  had  been  taken 
with  them  and  they  did  them  pretty  well. 

Sm  Stafford  Fairborne  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  June  28.  Before  Ostend. — Congratulating  with  his 
Grace  on  their  good  success.  On  the  23rd  their  batteries 
opened  and  on  the  25th  the  town  surrendered.  It  had  a  great 
fire  of  shells  upon  it,  and  is  quite  raised.  Monsieur  La  Motte 
was  somewhat  in  haste  considering  the  strength  of  the  place. 
He  believes  they  shall  get  six  or  seven  ships  for  King  Charles. 
The  Marshal  daily  visits  the  trenches,  and  it  is  wonderful 
how  he  holds  out.    Abstract. 

Earl  of  Abbrcorn  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  June  29.  Dublin. — Informing  his  Grace  that  by  the 
advice  of  his  friends  he  is  about  to  attend  the  approaching 
session  of  Parliament  in  Scotland.  He  is  sure  his  behaviour 
in  that  station  will  give  no  offence  to  such  persons  as  wish 
well  to  the  Hanover  succession.  His  best  judgment,  as  well 
as  inchnation,  engages  him  to  dispose  of  the  only  mite  left 
him  in  that  kingdom,  his  vote  towards  compassing  a  happy 
union  with  England.     Abstract. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  June  30. — Assuring  his  Grace  that  by  his  last  act 
of  favour  his  Grace  had  laid  the  greatest  obHgation  upon 
Mr.  BHgh  and  himseK.  He  has  been  tied  to  his  bed  by  a 
tormenting  rheumatism  from  the  28th  of  May,  and  is  still 
under  the  racking  torments  of  it.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  July  2.  Dubhn. — Concerning  the  army.  The  horse 
and  dragoons  decamped  yesterday.  He  had  not  one  complaint 
excepting  that  a  gentleman  of  Colonel  Villiers's  troop  of  his 
Grace's  regiment  was  killed  by  another  who  has  fled.  He 
has  ordered  the  field  train  of  artillery  to  draw  out  the  end  of 
this  week  or  beginning  of  the  next,  and  designs  to  encamp 
them  during  a  day  and  a  night  somewhere  near  Clontarf. 
Abstract. 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  July  3. — I  sent  on  Monday  towards  Chester  nine  eggs 
of  the  black  game,  and  could  not  for  my  hfe  procure  a  greater 
number  since  it  is  the  nature  of  them  as  soon  as  they  find  their 
nests  to  be  discovered  to  remove  their  eggs.    I  have  likewise 


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sent  directions  for  the  setting  of  them  from  a  servant  of  mine 
who  has  raised  a  great  many,  and  have  writ  to  Alderman  Allen 
to  despatch  them  for  Ireland. 

Lieut. -Colonel  John  Dalyell  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  July  9.  Teknevan. — Complaining  of  being  com- 
manded by  those  who  were  comets  when  he  commanded 
under  the  Duke  of  Hamilton  as  major.  It  is  above  fourteen 
years  since  he  had  a  commission  as  lieutenant-colonel. 
Abstract. 

Countess  of  Donegal  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  July  10. — Acknowledging  the  great  honour  his  Grace 
had  done  her  family  and  herself  in  expressing  concern  for 
the  death  of  her  Lord.  Her  Lord's  always  preferring  the 
Queen's  service  before  his  own  affairs  has  left  his  numerous 
family  in  great  confusion  and  like  to  be  great  sufferers. 
Abstract, 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  July  11.  Dubhn. — Acknowledging,  as  the  Lord 
Chancellor  had  gone  to  Kilkenny  for  four  or  five  days,  her 
Majesty's  letter  creating  Mr.  Freeman,  Chief  Baron  of  the 
Exchequer.  Six  companies  of  Lord  Lichiquin's  regiment 
have  arrived  and  three  more  are  expected.  As  soon  as  he 
has  reviewed  them  he  will  send  them  to  their  quarters  at 
Galway.  He  reminds  his  Grace  of  his  goodness  in  lending 
him  ChapeUzod  House  and  gardens  till  his  Grace  or  the  Duchess 
should  make  use  of  them.  He  has  put  some  furniture  there 
and  is  going  on  Saturday  or  Monday  to  He  there.  He  will 
keep  his  family  in  Dublin,  and  be  there  every  day  at  aU  the 
hours  of  business,  and  retire  to  Chapelizod  of  nights  as  he  used 
to  do  to  Kensington.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -Colonel  John  Dalyell  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  July  11.  Teknevan. — Thanking  his  Grace  for 
promising  to  lay  his  pretensions  before  the  Queen.  He  is 
sorry  that  his  modesty  is  a  hindrance  to  his  promotion  ;  he 
thought  it  should  rather  have  been  a  means  to  promote  it. 
Abstract. 

Earl  of  Inchiquin  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  July  14.  Rostellan. — Recommending  Mr.  Francis 
Smith  to  be  High  Sheriff  of  County  Cork  for  the  ensuing  year. 
Nine  companies  of  his  regiment  are  now  at  Dublin  and  three 
at  Galway,  where  he  hopes  the  rest  will  soon  follow.  They 
have  been  for  this  year  past  terribly  dispersed,  the  quarters 
reaching  from  Bray  to  Dingle.     Abstract. 

William  Waring  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  July  15.     Belfast.— Recommending  to  his  Grace  an 
address  from  the  county  of  Antrim  to  her  Majesty,  and  asking 


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his  Grace  to  present  it.     It  will  be  delivered  to  his  Grace 
by  Mr.  Portlock  with  this  letter.     Abstract. 

Captain  George  Camocke  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  July  15.  Dublin. — Thanking  his  Grace  for  recom- 
mending him  for  diligence  in  raising  men  for  the  fleet  and 
in  taking  ships  laden  with  provisions  for  the  West  Indies. 
He  begs  his  Grace  to  prevent  his  ruin  by  stopping  the  Speedwell 
being  sent  to  the  West  Indies  with  the  four  French  prizes. 
The  Speedwell  was  not  judged  in  October  a  fit  ship  for 
Newfoundland  by  reason  she  could  not  stow  two  months* 
provisions,  and  this  voyage  being  as  far  again  it  is  impossible 
for  her  to  proceed.  The  Bridgewater  can  stow  six  months* 
provisions  and  is  a  better  man-of-war.     Abstract, 

Same  to  Same. 

1706,  July  17.  Dublin. — Fearing  that  the  last  packet  has 
been  taken,  he  writes  another  letter  to  the  same  purport  as 
the  foregoing.     Abstract. 

Colonel  Thomas  Pearce  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  July  19.  Booton,  near  Norwich. — It  is  with  the 
greatest  thankfulness  that  I  received  the  honour  your  Grace 
have  done  me  by  your  letter  of  the  10th,  for  it  has  rid  me  of 
an  uneasiness  which  till  then  I  could  noways  get  over,  being 
possessed  with  an  opinion  that  I  had  shown  too  much  forward- 
ness in  offering  my  notions  relating  to  your  Grace's  affairs, 
but  since  you  have  encouraged  me  by  your  leave  to  write,  I 
shall  think  it  my  duty  at  any  distance  to  acquaint  you  with 
whatever  I  hear  concerns  your  interest  or  may  prove  for  your 
Grace's  service.  My  Lord,  I  have  just  come  from  Mr.  Cook's, 
where  I  have  been  eight  days  ;  he  is  a  grandson  of  the  Duke 
of  Leeds  and  well-wisher  to  your  Grace,  and  one  that  never 
failed  a  day  drinking  your  health.  I  have  promised  to  meet 
him  with  some  other  gentlemen  at  Norwich  Assizes,  which 
begins  the  25th  and  continues  about  six  days.  Then  with 
your  Grace's  leave,  being  you  do  not  design  going  to  Ireland 
till  September,  I  would  wait  on  my  Lord  ComwaUis,  but  if 
your  Grace  should  think  fit  to  order  your  commands  sooner 
than  you  intended  they  will  cheerfully  be  obeyed  by,  &c. 

Lieut. -Colonel  Humphrey  Gore  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  July  19.  DubHn. — Concerning  his  position  in  the 
expeditionary  forces.     Abstract. 

Colonel  Heyman  Rooke  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  July  19.  Dublin. — Reminding  his  Grace  that  when 
his  regiment  was  sent  to  Ireland  his  Grace  and  the  Duke  of 
Marlborough  promised  it  should  be  one  of  the  first  to  be  sent 
abroad.  His  regiment  is  the  strongest  in  the  kingdom  and 
all  English,  which  no  other  regiment  can  pretend  to.     Abstract 


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Monsieur  Renoult  to  Ormonde, 
1706,  July  20.     Kilkenny. — Concerning  a  pension  for  him- 
self and  his  wife.     (French.)    Abstract. 

Dr.  Thomas  Bayley  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  July  21.  Magdalen  College. — Acknowledging  his 
Grace's  recommendation  of  Mr.  William  Clinch  to  a  demi's 
place.  His  Grace's  commands  are  the  more  obUging  as 
they  have  a  regard  to  merit,  and  expect  so  much  favour 
only  as  the  young  man  upon  examination  shall  deserve. 
Abstract. 

Viscount  Ikerrin  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  July  27.  Northampton. — Acquainting  his  Grace 
that  he  has  there  now  about  a  hundred  horses.  He  has  sent 
Captain  Morris  to  Leicestershire  and  Captain  Gibbs  to  Suffolk, 
but  has  no  account  from  them  of  what  men  or  horses  they 
have  got.  He  does  not  despair  of  raising  a  regiment  that  will 
please  his  Grace.     Abstract. 

Captain  Thomas  Burgh  to  Edward  Southwell. 
1706,  July  27. — Concerning  various  works  then  being 
executed  under  his  directions.  He  acknowledges  his  Grace's 
order  to  build  a  bagnio  between  the  closet  at  the  end  of  his 
Grace's  bedchamber  and  the  chapel.  He  was  at  Wexford 
when  the  letter  came  to  his  hands.  He  is  glad  his  Grace 
approves  of  his  design  for  the  barracks  which  are  now  in  very 
great  forwardness  as  to  so  much  as  he  was  directed  to  proceed 
on.  He  wants  to  know  whether  those  for  the  other  regiment 
of  foot  and  the  three  troops  of  horse  should  be  put  in  hand. 
It  will  be  difficult  to  bring  the  stone-cutters,  who  have  come 
from  several  parts  of  the  kingdom,  together  again,  and  it 
would  be  better  to  employ  those  who  are  acquainted  with 
the  work  and  the  nature  of  the  stone.  Though  there  were  a 
great  number  they  were  not  able  to  work  fast  enough  to 
employ  a  few  rough  masons  and  carpenters,  but  now 
they  have  closed  the  works  he  hopes  to  have  all  covered 
in  a  little  time.  The  new  closet  in  the  Castle  is  finished. 
Abstract. 

Dr.  Henry  Aldrich  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  July  21.— See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  781. 

Monsieur  de  Comarque  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  July  29.     Portsmouth. — Requesting  the  continuation 
of  his  pension  to  his  wife.     Several  officers  of  his  regiment 
have  already  obtained  that  favour.     They  are  under  orders 
to  embark  that  day.     (French.)    Abstract. 


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Earl  of  Bradford  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  July  29.     Twickenham. — Asking  the  rank  of  major 
brevet  for  Captain  Brereton,  who  has  got  a  commission  in 
Sir  Roger  Bradshaigh's  regiment.     Abstract. 

Dr.  William  Delanne  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  August  I,— See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  781. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  August  3.  Dublin. — Thanking  his  Grace  for  prevent- 
ing any  horses  or  dragoons  going.  If  this  kingdom  is  left 
with  so  very  weak  an  army  in  time  of  war,  the  angry  people 
in  Parliament  will  say  there  needs  not  so  great  a  force  in 
time  of  peace  as  there  has  been.  Besides  there  is  the  solid 
reason  of  the  safety  and  quiet  of  her  Majesty's  Protestant 
subjects.  If  his  Grace  could  have  the  four  regiments  named 
to  go  thence  reduced  to  two  it  would  be  for  the  service.  It 
has  been  no  news  to  him  this  fifteen  years  that  some  people 
are  not  at  all  his  friends.     Abstract. 

Major  Jacques  Wibault  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  August  6. — Acknowledging  his  Grace's  goodness  to 
his  wife,  his  son,  and  himself,  and  concerning  his  pay.     He 
had    left    Ireland    nearly    four    months    before.     (French.) 
Abstract. 

Major  Jacques  Wibault  to  Edward  Southwell. 
1706,  August  6.     Rotterdam. — Concerning  his  pay.  (French.) 
Abstract. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 
1706,     August     7.     Kingsweston. — Enclosing     letter    from 
Captain  Burgh.     Major  Wibault  writes  in  great  distress  for 
want  of  money.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  August  8.  Dublin. — Concerning  army  and  other 
afEairs.  He  is  glad  his  Grace  has  laid  before  the  Cabinet  the 
want  of  more  ships  to  guard  the  Irish  coast  and  trade.  Major- 
General  Echlin  desires  Comet  Shepard  to  be  heutenant  to 
Captain  Serjeant  in  his  regiment,  in  the  room  of  Lieutenant 
GaUaut,  who  has  sold  to  him.  Colonel  Brudenel  desires  that 
Lieutenant  Najac  of  Major  Morgan's  troop  in  his  Grace's 
regiment  may  sell  to  Comet  Welsh.  Major  Muschamp  of 
Lord  Ikerrin's  dragoons  tells  the  writer  that  one  Francis, 
alias  Davidson,  is  made  a  Heutenant  in  that  regiment.  His 
Grace  must  have  forgotten  that  Francis  deserted  from  Caul- 
field's  regiment.  If  his  Grace  had  not  written  that  he  had 
forgiven  him,  the  writer  would  then  have  sent  him  to  the  provost 
and  have  used  him  very  roughly.     Abstract. 


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Dr.  William  Lancaster  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  August  S.—8ee  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  781. 

Major-General  Robert  Echlin  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  received  August  10. — ^Assuring  his  Grace  that  his 
regiment  is  fit  and  ready  to  be  sent  on  foreign  service. 
Abstract. 

Major  Jacques  Wibault  to  Edward  Southwell. 
1706,   August    10.     Rotterdam. — Concerning   munitions  of 
war.     (French,)    Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  August  11,  Sunday.  Dublin. — ^The  packet  of  last 
night  not  being  yet  gone  out,  I  have  the  honour  of  answering 
your  Grace's,  which  I  received  this  morning,  the  date  of  it 
being  omitted,  but  I  suppose  it  must  have  been  of  the  6th 
instant.  I  immediately  sent  for  the  quarter-master-general 
and  ordered  routes  forthwith  to  be  prepared  for  the  marching 
of  Langston,  Cutts,  Sankey,  Pearce,  Newton  and  Rooke  to 
the  place  of  their  encampment.  At  the  same  time  I  sent 
for  the  secretary  and  gave  him  the  necessary  instructions, 
my  Lord  Chancellor  and  I  having  first  had  a  conference  for 
preparing  the  marching  orders.  I  sent  for  Langston  and 
ordered  him  to  go  down  to  Cork  to  command  the  troops  to 
be  encamped  near  that  place  tiU  they  embark,  and  to  take 
care  of  their  embarkation,  which  he  received  very  readily  and 
willingly.  And  your  Grace  may  depend  upon  it  that  no  time 
shall  be  lost,  nor  no  pains  wanting,  to  have  this  service  answered 
pursuant  to  your  Grace's  commands.  Your  Grace  says  these 
forces  are  not  to  be  filled  up  to  the  EngUsh  estabHshment, 
but  you  are  not  pleased  to  mention  if  they  should  be  helped 
towards  fiUing  them  in  the  Irish  establishment,  and  therefore 
I  conclude  they  are  to  go  as  they  are  in  numbers.  The  horse 
and  dragoons  will  want  very  few  of  the  Irish  estabHshment, 
but  the  foot  have  been  so  drafted  that  if  we  were  to  fiU  the 
four  regiments  that  are  commanded  to  the  Irish  estabHshment 
only  it  would  so  weaken  the  remaining  regiments  that  the 
necessary  service  would  fail,  and  the  regiments  at  the  same 
time  be  ruined.  Your  Grace  will  not  wonder  at  this  if  you 
are  pleased  to  remember  that  immediately  after  the  draft  for 
Catalonia  it  was  my  Lord  Treasurer's  opinion  not  to  give  the 
recruiting-money  till  after  harvest,  which  was  the  reason  that 
we  could  not  recruit  to  supply  the  deficiencies  of  the  men 
drafted  out. 

Same  to  Same. 
1706,  August  11.     DubHn. — ^Assuring  his  Grace  that  he  may 
depend  upon  his  not  disclosing  to  any  soul  Hving  what  his 
Grace  says  as  to  this  encampment  near  Cork  being  an  amuse- 
ment.    He  beHeves  some  persons  in  England  would  be  glad 


us 

to  get  his  regiment  off  this  establishment.  He  recommends 
Mr.  Boen,  his  gentleman  of  horse,  in  the  room  of  his  comet 
Mr.  Goodiere,  who  died  on  Sunday  of  the  small-pox,  but  if 
his  regiment  should  embark  he  will  recommend  another  person. 
Rooke  is  mortified  that  Ensign  Stonehouse  has  got  the 
lieutenancy  in  his  regiment  instead  of  Harrison.  The  former 
has  behaved  himself  very  scandalously  by  challenging  an 
officer  and  then  refusing  to  fight,  behaviour  which  the  writer 
believes  his  Grace  will  not  encourage.     Abstract. 

Same  to  Same. 

1706,  August   13.     DubUn. — Concerning  the  fitness  of  the 
regiments  left  in  Ireland  to  furnish  drafts.     Abstract. 
Enclosure  : — 

Memorandum. — Regiments  of  foot  to  embark  :  Sankey, 
Pearce,  Newton,  Rooke. 

These  regiments,  having  given  to  the  regiments  sent 
this  summer  to  Catalonia  above  100  men  apiece,  will, 
with  accidents  since  happened,  want  near  500  men. 

Regiments  of  foot  that  stay  in  Ireland  :  Tidcombe, 
fiichiquin.  Orrery,  Deloraine,  LiUingston,  Lapell,  Wynne. 

The  three  last  of  these  regiments  are  not  able  to  give  a 
man,  having  had  at  one  draft  300  men  apiece  taken 
from  them.  So  that  Tidcombe,  Inchiquin,  Orrery  and 
Deloraine  must  give  near  500  men  to  fill  the  four 
that  go  to  the  Irish  establishment,  and  Orrery,  I  am 
sorry  to  tell  it  your  Grace,  is  weak  and  in  but  an  in- 
different condition.  Major  Lambart  does  all  he  can, 
but  there  are  some  very  incapable  officers  in  that 
regiment,  which,  I  am  told,  were  not  of  my  Lord  Orrery's 
choosing.  A  middle  way  would  be  if  your  Grace  will 
have  the  four  regiments  that  go  have  some  help,  to  let 
them  have  50  or  60  men  apiece  out  of  Tidcombe, 
Inchiquin,  Orrery  and  Deloraine  and  divide  them 
as  far  as  they  will  go. 

Brigadier- General  Nicholas  Sankey  to  Ormonde. 
1706,    August    13.     DubHn.—Thanking   his   Grace   for   the 
great  honour  of  being  sent  upon  the  present  expedition  and 
reminding  his  Grace  of  their  difficulties  owing  to  want  of  money. 
Abstract. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  August  13. — I  had  the  honour  of  your  Grace's  of  the 
2nd  instant,  wherein  I  had  the  satisfaction  to  read  several 
passages  which  gave  great  ease  to  my  mind  in  a  matter  of  the 
greatest  concern  to  us  here,  and  since  your  Grace  is  pleased 
to  permit  me  to  judge  of  it  upon  the  relation  that  is  there,  I 
must  with  pleasure  own  that  I  see  nothing  in  it  but  what  looks 
extremely  well,  and  removes  me  from  the  uneasy  condition 


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of  still  hanging  between  hope  and  fear,  and  has  put  me  into 
the  happier  circumstance  of  security.  The  great  surprise 
showed  by  him  in  the  beginning,  the  mighty  concern  to  excuse 
it,  the  hasty  interruption  by  both,  and  then  that  full  declaration 
at  the  last  methinks  finishes  all,  and  after,  it  either  leaves  no 
room  any  more  to  doubt,  or  leaves  no  room  for  anybody  to  be 
at  any  time  secure  or  ever  satisfied  by  anything  that  can 
hereafter  be  said  to  you  if  this  should  fail,  but  I  resolve  to 
entertain  no  such  thought  until  occasion  be  given,  which  I 
hope  will  never  be.  I  do  confess  that  I  am  not  a  Httle  proud 
that  I  am  not  left  as  many  others  are  altogether  to  the  wild 
and  uncertain  guesses  and  guessers  of  the  town,  but  have  the 
honour  showed  me  to  be  let  into  the  knowledge  of  the  true 
particulars  upon  which  this  matter  must  turn  and  have  its 
fate,  that  is  of  such  high  and  general  consequence  to  everybody 
here  who  has  any  true  kindness  either  for  this  country  or 
themselves.  Methinks  I  cannot  tell  how  to  be  so  ill-natured 
as  wholly  to  conceal  this  from  friends,  who  by  that  means 
will  lose  the  great  satisfaction  it  would  be  to  them,  nor  can 
I  resolve  to  be  so  good-natured  neither  as  to  spare  some  others 
the  mortification.  They  will  readily  beHeve  the  general  report 
that  all  is  safe  and  well,  it  coming  with  a  full  assurance  from 
one  they  have  not  known  yet  to  have  been  too  sanguine  in 
his  behef  of  matters.  If  they  kept  so,  it  is  that  neither  of 
them  can  come  at  any  more  than  this  general  account,  which 
one  Hkes  very  well,  and  the  other  side  not  at  all.  I  think 
this  piece  of  good-nature,  nor  this  piece  of  ill-nature,  will 
either  of  them  be  very  much  misapplied.  I  am  very  certain 
that  I  have  my  vanity  a  Httle  better  under  disciphne  than 
to  suffer  it  to  discover  any  more  either  of  what  I  know  or  from 
whence  it  comes,  so  that  they  are  very  sure  to  have  their 
curiosity  kept  strictly  within  the  bounds  of  this  general 
knowledge,  which  is  a  thing  I  cannot  well  in  conscience  refuse 
them.  I  am  not  sensible  of  any  danger  if  friends  should 
know  more,  but  I  have  no  such  directions,  and  I  am  sure  will 
not  venture  upon  the  Hberty,  a  caution  that  shall  ever  by 
me  be  most  strictly  observed.     I  remain,  &c. 

Robin  presents  his  most  humble  duty  to  your  Grace  from 
before  the  walls  of  Menin. 


Lords  Justices  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  August  13.  Dubhn  Castle. — Concerning  army  and 
other  affairs.  They  have  received  the  letter  for  continuing 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Durand  and  some  other  French  pensioners 
on  the  establishment.  Upon  the  Speedwell  being  commanded 
to  the  West  Lidies,  two  ships  will  in  effect  be  lost,  as  the 
prizes  under  her  convoy  are  to  be  manned  out  of  the  Shoreham. 
They  propose  to  order  the  Arundel  and  Bridgewater  to  give 
each  ten  men  to  the  Shoreham.  One  Mathew  Rainsford  is 
recommended  as  a  barrack-master,  and  one  Page,  who  belongs 


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to  his  Grace's  family,  says  that  he  has  a  promise  of  some  such 
provision.     Abstract. 

Monsieur  Candaid  to  Ormonde. 
1706,    August    13.     La    Haye. — Concerning    the   departure 
of  Lord  Halifax,  the  siege  of  Turin,  Prince  Eugene,  and  the 
siege  of  Menin.    Lord  Hartford  desires  his  respects.     (French.) 
Abstract. 

Lieut-General  Henry  Lumley  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  received  August  13. — Concerning  the  siege  of  Menin. 
The  weather  had  been  extremely  hot,  and  no  rain  had  fallen 
that  month.  The  fruit  was  extremely  fine,  and  he  designs 
keeping  the  seed  of  mighty  good  melons,  which  he  had  had 
this  ttoe  weeks,  for  his  Grace.  He  doubts  not  his  Grace 
makes  use  of  the  river  to  go  to  Richmond,  and  does  not  swallow 
so  much  dirt  as  they  do.     (Injured.)    Abstract. 

Captain  Thomas  Ashe  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  August  14.  Trim. — The  members  of  the  Corporation 
of  Trim  do  humbly  suppUcate  your  Grace  by  me  their  provost 
that  you  will  be  pleased  to  present  their  address  to  the  Queen 
and  to  assure  her  Majesty  of  their  steadfast  fideHty.  I  have 
only  to  add  that  I  am  with  zeal  for  your  Grace's  honour  and 
service,  your  Grace's  most  faithful  and  obedient,  &c. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  August  17.  DubUn. — Concerning  army  and  other 
affairs.  Mr.  Bourden,  whose  memorial  is  enclosed,  has  a  very 
good  character  and  is  a  capable  man.  Colonel  Newton  desires 
that  Mr.  WiUiam  Grimes  may  be  ensign  in  Major  Flower's 
company  in  room  of  Ensign  Howell,  deceased.  Four  com- 
panies of  Colonel  Rooke's  regiment  began  their  march  yesterday, 
and  all  the  rest  of  the  regiments  designed  to  encamp  near 
Cork  have  their  routes  and  will  be  in  the  camp  on  September  3. 
Rooke's  regiment  wants  near  ninety  men,  amongst  other 
reasons  by  loss  through  small-pox.  If  there  should  fall  long 
or  heavy  rains,  or  very  cold  weather,  it  might  be  well  to  canton 
the  regiments  sent  to  encamp  near  Cork  in  adjacent  towns 
or  barracks.  He  reminds  his  Grace  of  the  officers  absent  in 
England.  It  may  give  their  enemies  impressions  "  which  we 
would  not  have  them  take."  Langston's  regiment  and  his 
own  will  appear  at  the  camp  well  armed  and  mounted.  They 
have  bought  a  parcel  of  new  swords  that  came  from  Holland 
and  he  has  supphed  the  defect  of  the  ill-saddles  in  his  own 
regiment.  They  have  also  caused  the  Ordnance  Office  to 
make  and  deliver  very  fine  pistols.  He  wishes  the  foot  were 
as  well  armed.  He  beUeves  that  his  Grace  is  very  sensible 
now  that  only  for  the  favourable  consideration  given  to  his 
letters  of  July  10  and  12,  1705,  they  should  be  in  a  very  bad 


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condition  to  answer  her  Majesty's  ends  in  this  expedition. 
The  day  before  his  Grace's  field-train  of  artillery  marched 
out  of  the  Castle,  with  their  waggons,  tumbrils,  &c.,  and 
encamped  in  a  fair  meadow  a  little  beyond  Clontarf,  under 
the  command  of  Captain  Bourke,  lieutenant  of  the  ordnance, 
attended  by  a  convenient  number  of  the  officers  of  the  ordnance 
and  gunners.  He  designs  they  shall  continue  encamped  until 
Tuesday  morning.  He  has  given  a  silver-hilted  sword  to 
be  shot  for  as  a  prize  by  the  gunners,  and  the  gunner  who 
makes  the  best  shot  in  two  shall  have  it.  It  will  put  more 
emulation  amongst  them  than  if  one  should  give  them  501. 
They  are  regularly  encamped  with  a  guard  of  a  hundred  and 
five  men.  The  artillery  moving  at  the  same  time  that  the 
troops  have  order  to  march  makes  the  Irish  believe  the  train 
is  to  embark,  which  increases  the  amusement.     Abstract 

Lieut. -General  Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  August  19,  n.s.  Helchin. — I  came  here  on  Sunday  last 
and  am  sorry  to  find  things  go  on  so  slowly  at  our  siege.  It 
is  commanded  by  Monsieur  Salloy,  and  some  of  the  Deputies 
of  the  States,  who  fancy  they  know  more  than  really  they 
do  and  retard  the  affair,  take  upon  them  to  give  directions 
when  my  Lord  Marlborough  is  not  there.  Besides,  I  observe 
the  Dutch  Generals,  when  once  so,  are  very  cautious  of  their 
actions  and  careful  of  their  persons.  My  Lord,  last  night 
we  made  a  lodgment  in  the  counterscarp  from  two  attacks, 
as  you  will  see  by  the  enclosed,  that  on  the  right  by  the 
foreigner  and  the  left  by  the  EngHsh,  my  regiment  entering 
the  counterscarp  first,  and  as  soon  as  we  had  blown  up  the 
palisades  fell  in  with  the  enemy  before  they  could  retire  in 
order  and  killed  a  great  many  of  them,  but  not  without  loss 
on  our  side.  I  had  nine  officers  killed  and  wounded  last 
night,  of  which  are  four  captains,  one  of  them  kiUed  ;  the 
number  of  men  we  know  not,  the  regiment  being  still  in  the 
trenches  and  not  relieved,  but  are  said  to  be  considerable. 
If  this  siege  could  be  compassed  I  believe  Lille  will  be  the  next 
thing  ;  Monsieur  Vendome  is  there  assembling  what  troops 
he  can  and  they  give  out  he  will  be  pretty  strong.  If  we 
undertake  another  siege,  your  Grace  knows  it  will  be  pretty 
late  in  the  year  and  all  I  believe  we  shall  be  able  to  do,  the 
rains  often  falling  here  sooner  than  in  England.  I  am  for 
the  day,  and  have  only  time  to  assure  your  Lordship  how 
sincerely  I  am,  &c. 

Brigadier-General  Nicholas  Sankey  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  August  23.  Dublin.— Acknowledging  a  letter  from 
his  Grace.  He  has  seven  companies  that  want  not  a  man, 
and  the  other  five  but  a  few  and  those  they  expect  to  fill  up 
from  Wales.  The  loss  was  chiefly  by  the  small-pox,  which 
fell  foul  upon  their  new  men.     They  are  in  sad  want  of  tents  ; 


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those   for   the   last   camp   were   miserable   rotten    old   stuff. 
Abstract. 

Colonel  Heyman  Rooke  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  August  23. — Protesting  against  Colonel  LiUingston's 
regiment  being  ordered  on  the  intended  descent  in  the  room 
of  his.  It  is  a  younger  regiment.  His  regiment  is  now  more 
than  half  way  to  Cork,  and  the  officers  have  made  up  the 
equipage  and  have  provided  the  men  with  kettles,  water- 
bottles  and  a  surgeon's  box.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -Colonel  William  Ponsonby  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  August  23.  Dublin. — Recommending  the  distressed 
condition  of  John  Campemot,  who  lost  a  great  estate  in  France 
and  has  the  charge  of  an  old  brother  and  three  sisters  ;  30^. 
would  be  sufficient  to  get  them  bread.  He  understands 
Mr.  Deering  is  to  return  a  list  of  French  pensioners  to  the 
Lord  Treasurer  to  lay  before  the  Queen.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  August  23.  Dublin. — Concerning  Ormonde's  private 
affairs.  Sir  William  Robinson  goes  to  England  to-morrow. 
As  soon  as  Lord  Treasurer  orders  the  money  to  be  received 
from  Lord  Bophin  the  writer  will  find  a  fund  for  those  children 
and  take  care  of  their  education  ;  till  then  there  is  no  money 
only  for  the  eldest,  for  whom  with  much  ado  he  gets  100/. 
The  complaint  against  Mr.  Dawson  about  a  convoy  for  the 
Bishop  of  Killaloe  was  groundless.  If  there  was  any  fault, 
it  was  the  Lords  Justices.     Abstract. 


Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  August  24.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  army.  It  will 
ruin  Rooke's  officers  if  his  regiment  is  not  sent  on  the  expedition, 
and  Lillingston's  regiment  is  the  very  unfittest  in  relation  to 
the  service  intended.  He  consents  readily  to  what  his  Grace 
desires  as  to  Morrison  and  Price,  and  asks  his  Grace  to  make 
his  compliments  to  the  Prince,  when  his  Grace  speaks  to  the 
Prince  on  the  matter.  Langston's  regiment  being  near  the 
sea-side  has  been  put  in  quarters  near  Cork.  Two  troops  of 
his  Grace's  regiment  are  in  Dublin  ;  the  rest  at  ease  and 
quiet  in  the  Kilkenny  quarters.  Windsor's  regiment  is  in 
so  very  discreditable  a  condition,  that  it  would  not  be  for  the 
honour  and  interest  of  his  Grace  or  the  government  that  they 
should  appear  in  Dublin.  There  are  not  also  enough  officers 
to  take  charge  of  it  on  a  march.  Another  barrack-master 
is  dead  and  one  Pearce,  captain-lieutenant  of  Wynne's 
regiment,  is  recommended  for  the  place  by  Sir  Richard  Levinge. 
Abstract, 


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Earl  of  Inchiquin  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  August  27.  Rostellan. — Acknowledging  a  letter  from 
his  Grace,  which  an  attack  of  gout  has  hindered  his  doing 
sooner.  His  Grace  has  made  a  very  good  choice  in  Mr.  Silver 
as  Sheriff.  His  ensign,  Mr.  Stewart,  desires  to  surrender 
his  post  to  a  son  of  Lieutenant  Archer,  who  is  a  proper  comely- 
young  man,  and  recommended  by  Colonel  Spencer.  Colonel 
Spencer  has  been  extremely  ill  ;  he  is  at  Islandbridge  for  the 
air  and  mends  so  slowly  that  the  writer  is  in  great  concern 
about  him.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  August  27.  Dublin. — I  have  the  honour  of  your 
Grace's  of  the  20th,  and  am  extremely  obliged  to  your  Grace 
for  the  assurance  you  are  pleased  to  give  me  of  providing  for 
Sir  W.  Mansel,  and  I  pray  your  Grace  to  believe  that  nothing 
is  more  contrary  to  my  nature  than  to  be  troublesome  to  your 
Grace  on  that  score,  but  really  his  circumstance  and  mine 
upon  his  account  do  want  your  Grace's  assistance,  which  I 
have  no  doubt  but  we  shall  have  effectually,  and  I,  having 
nothing  more  to  ask  but  an  ensign's  commission  for  WiUiam 
Teape,  who  is  a  stout  young  fellow,  and  has  been  in  your 
Grace's  regiment  of  horse  these  two  years,  in  expectation  of 
it,  I  am  in  hopes  that  my  petitions  will  soon  be  granted  and 
then  I  shall  trouble  your  Grace  no  more  upon  those  topics. 
Your  Grace  may  be  sure  I  will  be  as  cautious  as  you  can  desire 
for  the  future,  and  your  Grace  may  depend  upon  it  that  I 
said  nothing  at  the  Mayor's  but  what  I  ought,  at  least  I 
did  not  say  one  word  either  in  favour  of  the  club  or  their 
principles,  but  I  hope  that  is  over  now,  and  I  am  sure  your 
Grace  shall  have  no  more  of  it  or  of  the  like  nature  from  me. 
It  is  worth  your  Grace's  consideration  whether  the  kingdom 
will  not  be  left  unsecure,  since  the  six  remaining  regiments, 
after  the  detachments  made,  will  scarce  make  a  thousand 
men,  therefore  new  regiments  and  recruits  should  be  hastened 
over. 

Earl  of  Mount- Alexander  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  August  31.  Mount- Alexander. — Thanking  his  Grace 
for  his  kindly  remembrance  of  him  when  speaking  to  his 
kinsman.  Colonel  Crawford,  and  telling  his  Grace  that  Mr. 
Putland  scruples  to  pay  his  pension  out  of  the  Treasury  fees. 
Abstract. 

Brigadier-General  Thomas  Fairfax  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  August  31.  Dublin.— The  great  favour  and  pity  your 
Grace  has  been  pleased  to  show  to  Charles  Robinson's  son, 
my  kinsman  and  your  Grace's  god-son,  with  my  Lady 
Roscommon  his  god-mother,  who  admires  your  Grace's  good- 
ness in  the  matter,  [must  excuse  this  letter,]  but  that  regiment 


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being,  as  it  is  reported,  to  go  on  the  descent  it  will  be  hard 
for  the  poor  boy  to  go,  being  but  barely  eleven  years  old, 
but  rather  [he  ought  to]  go  to  school  for  two  or  three  years  to 
make  him  fit  for  the  Queen's  service,  which  I  humbly  lay  at 
your  Grace's  feet,  if  the  regiment  goes.  I  pray  God  send 
your  Grace  safe  to  us  and  that  your  Grace  will  believe  me  to 
be  always,  &c. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  September  2.  Dublin. — Having  been  eight  and  forty 
hours  at  Mr.  Keightley's  in  the  country,  I  find  at  my  return 
the  unhappy  news  of  the  Fox  man-of-war  being  cast  away 
in  Holyhead  Bay.  The  mate,  who  saved  himself  by  swimming, 
I  have  just  now  examined,  and  had  Captain  Camocke  by 
when  I  examined  him,  in  the  presence  of  my  Lord  Shelbome 
and  some  other  persons  of  note.  It  is  Captain  Camocke 's 
opinion  that  the  ship  was  lost  for  want  of  seamanship,  for 
they  did  not  take  their  measures  either  for  going  out  to  sea 
or  riding  it  out  at  anchor,  but  in  confusion  balanced  between 
two  parties.  Old  Welsh  rode  it  out  so  near  the  Fox  that  when 
the  Fox  drove  from  her  anchor  she  drove  within  two  yards 
of  Welsh.  About  forty-seven  men  are  saved,  who  were  the 
most  inconsiderable  and  of  the  least  consequence  ;  Captain 
Roche  with  his  lieutenant  and  about  seventy  men,  of  the  best 
seamen,  stayed  to  the  last  and  were  all  lost.  Mr.  Shirley  and 
several  other  passengers  are  saved.  I  have  time  to  add  no 
more,  this  coming  by  a  Chester  ship  that  is  just  sailing,  but 
only  to  acknowledge  the  honour  of  having  received  your 
Grace's  of  the  24th  of  August  and  to  give  your  Grace  my  humble 
thanks  for  Mr.  Boen.  I  forgot  to  tell  your  Grace  that  Roche 
lay  here  two  days  after  he  had  his  orders  for  provisions,  which 
threw  him  into  this  distress.  Your  Grace  will  move  the 
Prince  for  a  ship  in  the  room  of  the  Fox.  She  was  sent  for 
Ikerrin's  horses. — ^I  am,   &c. 

We  expect  the  Bridgewater  from  Cork,  which  shall  fetch 
Ikerrin's  horses. 

Major  Francis  Columbine  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  received  September  7. — Informing  his  Grace  that  his 
colonel  is  troubled  at  his  regiment  not  going  abroad  and 
presses  mightily  for  the  writer's  coming  back.     Abstract. 

Captain  E.  Burgess  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  September  8.  On  board  the  Centurion  in  Torbay. — 
Informing  his  Grace  that  affairs  are  said  to  have  taken  a  new 
turn  since  they  came  to  Torbay  three  weeks  before.  The  first 
design  is  laid  aside  and  they  are  to  go  further  than  was  then 
intended.  But  his  Grace,  who  is  of  the  Cabinet,  knows  that 
best.    Abstract. 


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Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  September  13.  Dublin. — Concerning  Ormonde's  pri- 
vate affairs.  He  says  that  poor  Will  Robinson  is  confined  at 
Conway  with  the  gout  and  that  he  fears  that  it  will  be  a 
fortnight  before  Robinson  reaches  London.     Abstract, 

LiEXJT. -General  Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  September  13.  Vallaines. — Concerning  armament  for 
Ireland.  This  day  the  siege  of  Ath  was  resolved  upon,  and  is 
to  be  carried  on  by  a  marshal,  three  lieutenant-generals,  six 
major-generals  and  six  brigadiers.  They  begin  their  march  to- 
morrow with  forty  battalions  and  thirty  squadrons,  and  the 
Duke  of  Marlborough  with  the  rest  of  the  army  marches  about 
the  same  time.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  William  Stewart  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  September  14.  Dublin. — Concerning  an  address  from 
ike  county  of  Waterford.  The  county  have  desired  him, 
as  their  representative  in  Parliament,  to  present  it  to  his 
Grace  to  be  laid  before  the  Queen.  He  would  have  been  very 
glad  of  being  introduced  by  his  Grace  to  the  Queen,  but  not 
in  the  manner  worthy  Mr.  Brodrick  did.  He  has  given  the 
address  to  the  Lords  Justices  to  be  transmitted  to  his  Grace, 
and  begs  his  Grace  to  take  some  notice  of  him  to  the  Queen 
so  that  her  Majesty  may  know  he  was  employed  as  knight  of 
the  shire  to  present  it.  He  designs  soon  for  England  and 
reminds  his  Grace  of  some  poor  officers  that  quitted  their 
commands  to  be  advanced  in  the  Irish  guards,  particu- 
larly Captain  Lyon,  a  relation  of  the  Earl  of  Strathmore. 
Abstract. 

Earl  of  Inchiquin  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  September  15.  Rostellan. — Recommending  Mr.  Wat- 
son for  a  lieutenancy  in  his  regiment  vacant  by  the  death  of 
Captain  Roche.  He  looks  upon  Watson  as  his  ensign, 
supposing  his  Grace  has  given  Mr.  Stewart  leave  to  part  with 
his  commission  to  Mr.  Bradshaw.  As  for  the  colours  he 
hopes  his  Grace  will  give  them  to  Mr.  Cugley.  They  have 
in  that  country  the  wettest  weather  ever  was  known, 
which  has  occasioned  his  falling  into  another  fit  of  the  gout. 
Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  September  17.  Cork. — Regarding  the  expeditionary 
force.  He  fears  the  winter  is  too  far  advanced  to  transport 
horses.  The  foot  have  been  ordered  into  quarters  in  that 
town  and  in  Kinsale.  Colonel  Newton's  regiment  is  very 
indifferent.  Brigadier  Sankey's  is  a  good  battalion  and  Colonel 
Pearce's  the  best  battalion  that  ever  he  saw  for  the  number 
of  men  in  any  country.     Abstract. 


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Lieut. -General  Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  September  21,  n.s.  Ath. — Being  just  come  out  of  the 
trenches,  I  take  it  to  be  my  duty  to  let  you  know  the  disposi- 
tion that  was  made  for  breaking  of  ground  and  with  it  a  sketch 
of  that  part  of  the  town  we  are  to  attack,  with  the  approaches 
we  made  last  night,  which  your  Grace  will  find  by  the  scale 
has  been  considerable.  We  hope  to  have  our  batteries  ready 
to  fire  by  Friday  morning,  within  four  hundred  paces  of  their 
works.  The  garrison  consists  of  four  regiments  of  foot  and 
three  Swiss  companies.  Our  attacking  them  where  we  do 
is  what  they  did  not  expect,  and  gives  them  great  trouble 
to  remove  their  cannon,  ammunition  and  batteries  from  the 
French  attack  to  this  of  ours.  I  hope  by  Sunday  or  Monday  next 
we  shall  be  able  to  give  a  good  account  of  them,  though  they 
seem  very  industrious  and  resolved  upon  a  vigorous  defence. 
In  my  next  your  Grace  may  expect  every  day's  progress 
during  the  siege  from,  &c. 

Robert  Harley  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  September  21,  Saturday. — I  have  been  so  much 
disordered  with  a  cold  and  a  feverish  distemper  that  I  have 
not  been  able  to  wait  upon  your  Grace  in  person  as  I  intended, 
for  I  do  assure  your  Grace  you  have  not  a  more  hearty  and 
zealous  servant  in  the  world  than  myself  nor  one  that  honours 
you  more.  The  last  time  I  waited  upon  the  Queen  she  was 
pleased  to  say  that  she  would  be  glad  all  the  Lord  Lieutenants 
had  private  notice  given  them  that  taxes  being  very  heavy, 
and  now  there  being  no  apprehension  of  danger,  that  they 
should  give  direction  to  their  Deputy  Lieutenants  to  take 
care  not  to  burden  the  country  with  calling  in  the  Militia. 
This  will  be  very  acceptable  to  the  country,  and  therefore  I 
am  glad  I  have  the  honour  to  signify  the  same  to  your  Grace. 
I  am  with  the  utmost  respect,  &c. 

Colonel  George  Carpenter  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  September  27.  Torbay. — Intreating  his  Grace's  assist- 
ance in  getting  off  a  heavy  and  unreasonable  charge  on  his 
regiment  for  arms.  The  regiment  had  the  honour  to  serve 
under  his  Grace  in  Spain.  Although  the  same  number  of  old 
arms  were  returned  they  charge  for  the  new  arms  very  near 
600^.  They  wait  a  fair  wind.  The  horses  hold  better  than 
he  could  have  imagined,  having  been  embarked  nine  weeks 
from  the  previous  day.     Abstract. 

Duke  of  Somerset  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  September  30. — I  am  informed  by  a  fair  lady  that 

your  Grace  do  give  letters  of  recommendation  to  heads  of 

colleges,  &c.,  when  fellowships  become  vacant.     At  the  same 

time  she  was  very  importunate  to  desire  the  favour  of  your 


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Grace  to  give  Mr.  Sedgwick  Harrison  such  a  letter  to  Dr. 
Gardiner,  Warden  of  All  Souls,  for  a  fellowship  there  vacant. 
I  would  have  no  more  presumed  to  give  your  Grace  this  trouble 
could  any  way  have  been  found  to  refuse  a  fair  lady  anything, 
therefore  I  beg  your  pardon  ten  thousand  times  over  and  I 
do  likewise  beg  you  to  believe  that  I  am,  &c. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  October  2.  Dublin. — Acknowledging  letters  of  his 
Grace's,  as  Lord  Cutts  is  at  the  Curragh.  The  three  ships 
they  have  are  (i)  Captain  Saunders's  ship  commanded  by 
the  Prince  to  accompany  Captain  Camocke  to  Kjnsale  to  refit 
and  then  to  convoy  the  Cork  ships  to  the  Severn  ;  (ii)  the 
Arundel,  now  in  Milf  ord,  and  expected  here  every  day  to  convoy 
the  Waterford  ships  to  the  Severn  and  to  carry  Lieutenant- 
General  Stewart  and  his  family  to  England  ;  (iii)  the  Bridge- 
water  expected  from  Cork,  which  shall  be  sient  to  Liverpool, 
but  cannot  he  supposes  get  nearer  than  Hoylake.  As  the 
descent  was  not  so  forward  as  they  thought,  they  have  ordered 
Tidcombe's  detachment  to  Dublin  and  Lord  Windsor's  regiment 
will  also  be  brought  thither.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 
1 706,  October  2,  n.s.    Ath. — Informing  his  Grace  that  contrary 
to  all  expectation  the  garrison  surrendered  between  twelve 
and  one  o'clock  and  are  prisoners  of  war.     The  season  is  very 
wet  and  the  ways  heavy.     Abstract. 

Countess  of  Donegal  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  October  10. — Concerning  her  private  affairs.    Abstract. 

Lord  Raby  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  October  23.     Berlin. — Mr.  Stratford  writes  me  word 
that  he  had  a  commission  from  your  Grace  to  buy  a  set  of 
Russian  horses,   but  that  he   cannot   come  hither.     I  have 
some  reason  to  take  it  ill  your  Grace  would  not  honour  me 
with  your  commands,  having  been  so  long  an  humble  servant 
of  yours.     What  colour  would  you  have  them,  bright  bays, 
brown  bays  or  blacks,  which  are  the  colours  the  most  common 
and  easiest  to  be  had  here  ?     Greys  are  very  scarce,  but  if 
your  Grace  would  have  pied  ones,  bays  and  white,  they  are 
pretty   common  here.     You   would   have   at   least   eight   to 
your  set,  and  I  would  desire  your  Grace  to  send  me  word  to 
what  price  you  would  go  at  the  most,  and  I  will  get  them  as 
much  under  as  I  can.     This  advantage  I  will  promise  your 
Grace,  you  shall  have  by  my  buying  them,  which  you  would 
not  have  had  by  Mr.  Stratford's,  that  I  will  buy  them  all 
young  ones  and  of  the  King's  own  breed,  which  he  could  not 
get  for  you,  if  you  will  stay  to  the  time  of  the  year,  which  is  in  the 
spring,  that  they  come  here  out  of  Prussia.     They  shall  be  five 

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or  six  years  old  at  most  and  fresh,  not  used,  as  they  will  certainly 
improve  till  they  are  eight,  and  I  think  veiy  hardy,  for  I 
carried  one  set  of  five  years  old  which  the  King  gave  me  to 
Hanover  and  back  again  this  summer,  and  they  are  not  a  bit 
the  worse,  and  another  to  Holland  and  back  again.  Some  of 
them  drew  by  turns  a  heavy  waggon  and  they  are  now  in 
good  case  here.  It  is  six  hundred  EngUsh  miles  to  Holland  and 
back  again ;  and  to  Hanover,  that  those  young  horses  of  five 
years  old  and  less  went  and  back  again  with  a  waggon  well 
loaded,  is  three  hundred  miles,  but  indeed  the  ways  are  better 
than  English  high  roads.  Can  I,  my  Lord,  be  serviceable  to 
your  Grace  in  anything  else  here,  for  I  desire  nothing  more 
than  opportunities  of  serving  you,  for  really  I  have  had  a  long 
time  a  sincere  respect  and  value  for  your  Grace,  though  never 
an  opportunty  of  showing  how  faithfully  I  am,  &c. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  October  24.  Dublin. — I  am  glad  to  hear  it  from  good 
hands  that  your  Grace  resolves  to  stay  where  you  are  this 
winter,  because  you  will  I  doubt  not  have  a  full  opportunity  to 
make  all  secure  and  safe  in  the  rear  and  to  leave  it  so,  well  fixed 
behind  you,  when  you  come  over  in  the  spring.  I  cannot  but 
think  it  was  very  fortunate  your  Grace  was  there  for  all  this 
time  past,  since  otherwise  the  several  engines  at  work,  those 
mines  and  subtle  contrivances,  which  have  been  without  success, 
would  not  I  fear  in  your  absence  have  all  of  them  been  so 
happily  disappointed.  The  chief  engineer  of  that  party, 
who  build  their  greatest  hopes  upon  the  success  of  artifice  and 
falsehood,  is  now  safely  arrived.  Several  of  those  he  calls 
his  friends  did  lately  blame  his  conduct  in  the  delivering  of 
those  addresses  and  condemned  it  as  an  act  of  great  pre- 
sumption in  him  to  do  it,  your  Grace  being  then  in  the  kingdom, 
and  some  there  were  who  condemned  him  for  it,  who  I  did 
not  think  could  have  brought  themselves  to  resolve  upon 
doing  him  so  great  a  piece  of  justice.  But  since  he  is  come 
over  and  has  brought  with  him  some  accounts  of  things  that 
give  them  a  pleasing  prospect  of  soon  obtaining  what  they 
desire,  they  are  again  changed,  and  he  is  extremely  caressed 
and  complimented  at  all  entertainments,  private  and  public, 
by  my  Lord  Mayor  and  several  others,  where  he  appears  with 
a  mighty  assurance  and  fulness  of  satisfaction.  This  staggers 
some  weak  people  and  makes  them  apprehend  that  the  time 
for  your  Grace's  journey,  being  so  often  appointed  and  still 
put  off,  will  never  come,  and  they  hearken  to  those  that  tell 
them  all  the  interest  and  power  is  going  into  another  channel. 
These  rumours,  spread  thus  industriously  abroad,  makes  those 
who  were  ever  constant  friends  to  the  chief  governor,  and  never 
to  anything  else,  begin  to  think  of  drawing  off  and  do  already 
give  broad  signs  enough  of  their  intentions,  which  they  are  not 
very  shy  to  show  by  dropping  such  expressions  as  seem  to 
make  very  plainly  appear  a  change  in  them,  and  that  they  arQ 


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the  most  of  anything  afraid  they  should  not  be  early  enough 
in  their  new  applications  where  they  think  there  is  now  the 
greatest  warmth  and  sunshine.  I  long  for  the  day  of  your 
return  which,  being  after  all  these  difficulties  and  an  absence 
for  so  considerable  a  time,  will  be  to  us  like  a  new  accession 
to  the  government,  and  bringing  with  you  that  fulness  of  power 
that  I  hear  you  may,  I  hope  your  Grace  will  do  them  the 
justice  to  chastise  their  unfaithful  tempers  and  to  mortify 
his  giddy  insolence,  which  I  am  sure  are  the  hearty  wishes 
of,  &c. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  October  28.  Dublin. — Informing  his  Grace  that  he 
had  been  seized  with  a  violent  return  of  the  colic,  which  he 
had  the  previous  winter,  and  was  confined  to  his  bed  for  some 
days.     Abstract. 

Same  to  Same. 

1706,  October  29.  Dublin. — In  my  last  I  told  your  Grace 
I  would  by  this  day's  post  have  the  honour  to  write  to  your 
Grace  upon  several  matters  and  particularly  something  relating 
to  the  city ;  by  Thursday's  post  I  shall  not,  God  willing,  fail  to 
write  to  your  Grace  at  large,  if  you  will  have  the  goodness  to 
respite  me  for  two  days,  not  but  that  I  am  now  I  think  perfectly 
cured  of  the  colic  by  a  physician  my  Lord  Cholmondeley 
was  so  kind  as  to  recommend  to  me,  who  came  hither  lately 
from  England.  He  has  found  out  that  my  distemper 
proceeded  from  too  much  blood  and  from  my  blood's  being 
overheated  by  drinking  strong  wines,  usquebaugh,  &c.,  which 
he  says  though  they  give  me  present  ease  in  my  pain  would 
have  destroyed  me  at  the  long  run,  because  they  fomented 
the  cause  of  my  distemper.  He  uses  no  other  method  with 
me  than,  after  large  evacuations  by  bleeding,  &c.,  to  give 
me  all  the  cooling  things  he  can,  as  lemonade,  Bath  water,  &c., 
and  to  keep  me  to  a  very  low  diet,  which  has  quite  removed 
my  colic  in  eight  days'  time  and  recovered  my  appetite,  but 
this  severe  discipline  has  made  me  very  weak,  but  I  recover 
strength  every  day.  Your  Grace  will  pardon  my  troubling 
you  with  this  detail  of  myself  since  your  Grace  will  be  able 
from  this  to  assure  everybody  that  is  misinformed  that  the 
Irish  air  has  had  no  share  in  causing  my  indisposition.  Your 
Grace's  letter  to  me  of  the  16th  was  very  seasonable  and 
comfortable  to  me,  the  town  being  full  of  strange  reports. 

Lieut. -General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  October  29.  Dublin. — Informing  him  that  he  had 
arrived  there  from  Cork.  His  regiment  is  ordered  into  their 
old  quarters  and  to  take  the  guard  there.  Lord  Cutts  designs 
to  order  his  own  regiment  to  Connaught,  an  extraordinary 
march  at  that  time  of  year.  He  asks  leave  to  go  to  London 
for  some  months  on  business.    Abstract, 


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Richard  Nixon  to  Benjamin  Portlock. 
1706,  October  30.  Kilkenny. — Concerning  Portlock's 
interest  in  Newpark.  The  scarcity  of  coin  is  common.  The 
disappointment  in  Spain  injures  trade,  and  the  merchants 
advise  from  Holland  that  the  French  King  hath  put  a  stop 
to  all  passes  in  relation  to  the  smuggling  trade  of  this  kingdom, 
which  will  prove  of  ill  consequence  to  the  sale  of  beef  and 
this  country's  growth.     Abstract, 

Lieut. -General  Henry  Lumley  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  November  1,  n.s.  Camp  on  Guidenghien. — Acknow- 
ledging letter  from  his  Grace.  The  business  of  the  Vice- 
ChanceUor  wiU  always  be  a  great  satisfaction  to  him.  If  he 
finds  any  horses  among  the  Prussians  or  Hanoverians  he 
will  not  fail  to  buy  them,  but  he  has  not  seen  any  wiU  match 
his  Grace's  Poles.  They  marched  from  Cambrai  on  Tuesday 
last  to  that  place,  whence  the  Duke  of  Marlborough  went  to 
Brussels.  He  returned  last  night.  They  set  out  next  day 
for  their  winter  quarters.     {Injured.) 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  November  4.  Dublin. — I  have  the  honour  of  your 
Grace's  and  return  my  most  humble  thanks  for  your  favour 
in  the  Baronet,  which  at  this  juncture  may  do  me  some  service 
by  showing  the  world  that  neither  your  interest  nor  my  credit 
are  so  low  at  Whitehall  as  our  enemies  give  out.  I  find  Mr. 
Dawson  is  under  great  affliction,  being  extremely  mortified 
at  your  Grace's  displeasure.  There  was  certainly  a  mistake 
in  the  business  of  Wicklow,  but  upon  enquiry  it  proves  rather 
inadvertence  than  design,  and  for  his  making  application  to 
the  Speaker  or  being  unconcerned  at  the  report  of  your  removal 
I  verily  believe  he  is  wronged.  I  am  sure  he  carried  a  quite 
different  countenance  to  us,  and  indeed  his  own  interest  will 
justify  him  in  that  particular,  for  report  had  disposed  of  his 
place  as  well  as  ours.  Your  Grace  need  not  be  importuned 
to  acts  of  goodness  and  generosity  ;  they  are  connatural  to 
you,  and  you  delight  in  them.  Your  frank  pardon  of  what 
might  have  been  amiss  about  Wicklow  will  oblige  this  gentle- 
man to  gratitude  and  caution,  and  I  will  undertake  that  your 
Grace  shall  not  have  the  least  just  complaint  of  his  future 
conduct,  and  therefore  I  pray  your  Grace  not  to  let  him  come 
back  to  us  uneasy  and  discontented.  .  .  . 

I  am  in  no  apprehensions  of  Lady  Kingsland,  nor  indeed  of 
any  appellant,  for  it  will  be  found,  I  believe,  that  my  decrees 
are  very  just ;  I  am  sure  they  are  so  to  the  best  of  my 
understanding.  This  term  I  purpose,  God  willing,  not  to  leave 
one  cause  in  the  court  undetermined  that  is  ripe  for  judgement 
which  has  not  been  done  these  hundred  years  before,  and 
perhaps  never.  And  this  your  Grace  may  depend  upon, 
that  I  have  not  had  the  least  partiality  in  any  decree  I  have 
paade,  which  the  o^cer  tells  me  are  in  all  above  two  hundred, 


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Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  November  4.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  army  and 
referring  incidentally  to  the  Expedition,  a  packet  boat,  having 
been  cast  away.  He  mentions  the  arrival  of  detachments 
from  England,  portions  of  the  regiments  commanded  by 
Lord  Tunbridge,  Lord  Lovelace,  Colonel  Stanwix  and  Sir  Roger 
Bradshaigh,  numbering  between  four  and  five  hundred  men. 
If  the  regiments  commanded  to  Cork  are  not  to  sail  until 
the  spring,  it  is  high  time  that  a  signification  was  sent.  They 
cannot  send  officers  to  recruit,  and  small-pox  as  well  as  other 
distempers  has  got  amongst  them.  They  have  already  moved 
Langston's  regiment  to  its  former  quarters  in  order  to  give 
the  foot  a  little  more  breathing  room,  crowding  having  been 
the  occasion  of  its  sickness.  The  two  troops  of  his  Grace's 
regiment  now  on  duty  in  Dublin  march  away  the  end  of  the 
week.  The  officers  of  his  own  regiment  are  ruined  by  the 
deamess  of  forage  at  Cork.     Abstract. 

C.  BouRCHiER  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  November  5. — Enclosing  a  statement  of  his  Grace's 
account  from  the  commencement  of  his  regiment  to  December 
31,  1707.     Abstract. 

Enclosure  : — 

[The  payments  include] 

Lieutenant  Townsend  for  the  kettledrum 
Mrs.    Walsh   for   embroidering   the   standards 

and  banner-rolls       

Silver  trumpet  for  your  Grace's  troop     . . 
Lace  for  kettledrum's  and  trumpeter's  coats . . 

Clothier  for  making  them 10 

Accoutrements  for  the  kettledrum  and  trumpet 

Lieut. -Colonel  Francis  Edgeworth  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  November  8.  Dublin. — Confessing  it  was  very  incon- 
siderate of  him  to  sell  and  imploring  his  Grace  to  have  him  in 
his  thoughts  if  he  raises  any  regiments  in  England.  They 
can  make  nothing  out  of  their  estates.  He  must  beg  to  put 
in  for  something  like  the  gentleman  that  was  recommended 
by  a  great  man  to  another,  and  desired  to  be  a  chaplain  or  a 
gardener.     Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  November  14.  Dublin,  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon. 
— I  have  received  the  honour  of  your  Grace's  of  the  5th  instant 
and  have  but  just  time  to  tell  your  Grace  by  an  express  that 
comes  from  Cork  with  the  good  news  of  the  arrival  of  eleven 
rich  East  India  ships  in  the  fort,  and  is  going  forward  with 
the  news  to  his  Royal  Highness  and  to  embark  within  this 


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half-hour  in  a  Liverpool  vessel,  I  have  but  time,  I  say,  to 
acquaint  your  Grace  that  my  Lord  Chancellor  and  I  met 
this  morning,  having  received  your  Grace's  commands  late 
last  night ;  and  the  best  way,  as  we  have  considered  the 
matter  with  regard  to  the  troops  and  the  situation  of  their 
quarters  and  the  nature  of  this  affair,  will  be  as  follows  : 
Windsor  to  march  forthwith  to  the  North  ;  your  Grace's 
regiment  to  march  into  Windsor's  quarters,  which  will  be 
so  much  nearer  the  North  ;  my  regiment  to  march  into  your 
Grace's  quarters  ;  Tidcombe's  regiment  to  march  forthwith 
to  the' North  and  Newton's  regiment  to  march  hither  from 
Cork  in  the  room  of  Tidcombe's. 

Our  reasons  for  this  are  :  the  sooner  some  troops  are  in 
the  North  of  Ireland  the  better,  and  if  it  should  be  necessary 
to  send  any  more  horse  your  Grace's  regiment  will  be  so  much 
the  nearer,  and  in  the  spring  when  your  Grace  is  coming  over 
they  may  return  to  the  Kilkenny  quarters.  To  turn  Ikerrin's 
dragoons  out  of  their  quarters  now  would  ruin  them. 
Tidcombe's  is  an  old  English  regiment  and  has  serviceable 
firearms,  which  Inchiquin,  who  is  at  Galway,  has  not,  that 
being  one  of  the  regiments  that  refused  to  fire  before  your  Grace 
at  the  camp,  whereas  I  have  made  Tidcombe's  fire  before 
me  this  summer  several  times.  This  will  be  the  saving  of  my 
regiment,  which  would  have  been  ruined  had  they  marched 
into  their  old  quarters  in  Connaught.  My  regiment  shall 
take  your  Grace's  regiment's  forage,  and  they  shall  take 
Windsor's.  Langston's  regiment  is  already  in  the  Dublin 
quarters. 

I  hope  your  Grace  will  like  this,  we  having  a  design  to  send 
our  orders  for  it  this  day,  not  knowing  how  long  our  letters 
from  England  may  be  coming  with  a  contrary  wind,  as  it  is 
now.  The  disposition  of  the  rest  of  the  foot  I  will  send  by 
next. 

When  Tidcombe's  regiment  is  marched  we  will  get  the  militia 
to  do  duty  till  Newton  arrives,  for  though,  at  this  time,  I 
would  not  ask  anything  of  the  city  without  necessity,  yet 
in  such  a  case  and  for  a  few  days  it  w  ill  not  be  uneasy. 

Same  to  Same. 
1706,  November  16.  Dublin. — I  wrote  the  13th  instant, 
I  think  it  was,  by  an  express  coming  to  the  Admiralty,  and 
in  that  letter  I  acquainted  your  Grace  that  my  Lord  Chancellor 
and  I  were  both  clear  in  our  opinion  that  it  would  be  absolutely 
and  undoubtedly  for  her  Majesty's  service  and  your  Grace's 
credit  both  here  and  in  England  to  march  some  troops  imme- 
diately into  the  North  of  Ireland  ;  and  the  accounts  we  have 
of  some  people's  dispositions  in  those  parts  (by  our  private 
intelligence)  makes  us  who  are  upon  the  spot  see  the  necessity 
of  it  to  be  greater  than  it  appears  at  a  distance.  I  told  your 
Grace  in  that  letter  that  Windsor's  regiment,  who  lies 
northwards  some  of  them,  is  marching  into  the  North.     Your 


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Grace*s  regiment,  which  will  be  the  next  to  march  that  way 
— ^if  the  affairs  of  Scotland  should  ferment,  Langston*s 
regiment  being  ordered  for  the  foreign  service  and  now  upon 
the  Dublin  duty — ^your  Grace's  regiment,  I  say,  which  will 
be  the  next  to  move  northwards,  if  that  service  calls  for  more 
horse,  is  marching  into  Windsor's  quarters  ;  my  regiment 
comes  into  your  Grace's  quarters ;  Tidcombe's  marches  on 
Monday  for  the  North  ;  and  Newton's  is  marching  up  hither 
from  Cork. 

The  reasons  which  made  us  think  this  movement  necessary 
I  can  give  your  Grace  more  at  large  now  than  I  could  in  my 
letter  by  the  express,  which  I  wrote  in  too  great  haste.  First, 
our  foot  has  been  so  weak  considering  what  we  have  sent 
away  and  the  number  of  troops  commanded  to  the  southern 
parts  of  the  kingdom  that  since  the  embarkation  of  Orrery's 
regiment  we  have  not  had  a  regiment  of  foot  in  the  North 
till  Lovelace's  regiment  arrived,  which  is  but  a  piece  of  a 
regiment  without  either  clothes  or  arms,  and  consequently 
no  regiment  for  service  ;  and  your  Grace  knows  the  condition 
of  our  fortifications  in  those  parts.  Echlin's  dragoons  have 
done  duty  in  those  garrisons  since  Orrery  went  off.  In  the 
next  place  this  movement  is  easy  both  to  the  country  and  the 
troops,  as  much  as  the  nature  of  a  winter  movement  will 
possibly  admit  of,  for  every  regiment  moves  only  into  the 
quarters  of  the  next  regiment  to  them,  excepting  Echlin, 
who  is  already  upon  the  frontiers,  and  Langston,  who  does 
duty  here,  and  the  whole  line  of  horse  and  dragoons  making 
such  a  movement  all  at  once  will  confound  our  enemies  and 
their  spies,  for  they  cannot  tell  whether  we  are  marching  one 
regiment  into  the  North  or  all  the  horse  and  dragoons.  I 
can  perceive  already  by  the  whispers  occasioned  by  our  orders 
going  out  that  it  will  have  a  very  good  effect  for  her  Majesty's 
service  and  your  Grace's  credit,  and  some  of  your  Grace's 
enemies  in  this  place  are  not  a  little  struck  to  see  your  Grace 
so  alert  and  zealous  in  supporting  the  Union,  for  they  had 
whispered  about  the  town  th^it  your  Grace  opposed  it  violently. 
We  execute  our  orders  with  as  much  secrecy  and  as  little 
noise  as  the  nature  of  the  thing  will  permit,  but  when  troops 
move  in  the  winter  penetrating  people  will  have  their  guesses 
and  it  does  no  hurt. 

If  your  Grace  does  not  like  the  Trim  quarters  out  of  which 
Windsor  marches  for  your  own  regiment,  they  can  change 
with  my  regiment  any  time  in  the  winter  or  the  spring, 
whenever  your  Grace  shall  think  it  needful.  But  my  regiment 
being  commanded  upon  the  foreign  service,  and  your  Grace's 
being  the  next  in  course  to  march  northward,  I  thought  it 
for  the  service  to  lay  the  one  as  northwards  and  the  other  as 
southwards  as  I  could.  I  have  ordered  the  marches  easy 
and  the  rests  frequent,  so  that  in  effect  it  will  do  the  troops 
more  good  than  hurt,  for  if  they  never  make  a  sudden  winter 
movement  they  will  be  strangers  to  it  and  never  expect  such 


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a  thing,  not  that  I  should  be  of  opinion  to  make  such  a 
movement  if  reasons  of  State  and  the  service  did  not  essentially 
require  it,  but  I  say  since  it  necessarily  falls  out  so  it  will  do 
the  troops,  as  I  have  ordered  it,  more  good  than  hurt.  I 
wrote  your  Grace  in  my  last  that  the  Galway  regiment  of  foot 
have  not  arms  that  will  fire  and  that  there  is  in  Limerick 
only  Deloraine's  regiment  and  one  of  the  last  new  ones, 
which  have  yet  neither  arms  nor  clothes,  so  that  it  would  not 
have  been  for  the  service  to  have  taken  from  those  parts  the 
first  regiment  to  be  sent  into  the  North  ;  but  if  this  affair  is 
not  quietly  ended,  I  can  reinforce  Galway  with  another 
regiment  from  the  southward  and  march  Inchiquin  from 
Galway  this  way. 

I  wish  your  Grace  would  send  over  Columbine,  Eooke's 
lieutenant-colonel  ;  the  regiment  suffers  for  want  of  him 
and  he  has  stayed  in  England  three  times  as  long  as  he  had 
leave  from  the  government  here  to  stay  ;  I  suppose  he  had 
your  Grace's  leave,  but  it  is  high  time  he  were  sent  over.  I 
have  ordered  Major-General  Echlin  to  go  down  into  the  North, 
Langston  having  been  the  last  on  command,  and  Echlin  is  to 
stay  there  till  further  orders,  for  which  he  shall  have  the 
necessary  instructions. — ^I  am,  &c. 

P.S. — ^The  Trim  quarters  are  very  good. 

Robert  Johnston,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  November  16. — ^The  letter  your  Grace  has  been  pleased 
to  send  in  favour  of  Mr.  Bligh  does  him  a  very  great  kindness 
and  honour  in  his  country  and  does  fulfil  his  ambition  and 
desires  as  to  all  employments  whatever.  This  advancement, 
as  it  is  a  great  satisfaction  to  him,  so  it  gives  an  equal 
uneasiness  to  a  sort  of  people  whom  your  Grace  has  not  any 
reason  nor  any  desire  to  please.  They  are  grieved  to  see  new 
instances  of  power  that  give  a  flat  contradiction  to  what  they 
had  so  lately  and  so  very  confidently  reported.  I  am  sure 
Mr.  Bligh  will  always  retain  a  just  sense  of  your  Grace's  favour 
to  him,  but  he  had  before  so  great  a  zeal  for  that  service  and 
was  so  fixed  and  determined  that  way  in  all  events  which  were 
talked  of  or  could  be  feared,  that  no  obligations  can  either 
make  him  more  faithful  or  give  your  Grace  a  greater  power 
over  him. — I  remain,  &c. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  November  19.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  army.  He 
complains  of  Lillingston  not  accounting  with  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Jones  and  the  other  officers  of  his  regiment  and  of  his 
remaining  in  England.  He  wishes  her  Majesty  would  give 
Jones  the  regiment  and  oblige  him  to  give  Lillingston  200^. 
or  250Z.  a  year.     Abstract. 

Colonel  John  Newton  to  Ormonde. 
1706,    November    29.     Dublin. — Concerning    his    regiment. 
Major  Vernon  Parker,  a  captain  in  it,  died  on  the  26th.     He 


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requests  that  his  captain-lieutenant,  John  Hamilton,  may  have 
Parker's  place  and  his  oldest  lieutenant,  John  Gorsuch, 
Hamilton's  place,  and  that  his  oldest  ensign,  John  McKenzie, 
may  be  lieutenant  to  Lieutenant-Colonel  Flower,  and  Mr. 
Mark  Owen  ensign  to  Captain  Synge  in  McKenzie's  room. 
He  also  asks  his  Grace  to  allow  Adam  Conyngham,  a  lieutenant 
in  his  Grace's  regiment,  to  resign  his  command  to  Mr.  Arthur 
Maxwell,  who  carries  arms  in  his  own.  His  regiment  has 
been  ordered  to  Dublin,  but  he  begs  that  it  may  not  be 
hindered  going  on  the  expedition  and  may  be  allowed  to  march 
back  to  Cork.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -Colonel  Francis  Edge  worth  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  December  4.  Dublin. — Imploring  his  Grace  again  to 
give  him  some  employment.  Beggars  cannot  be  choosers. 
Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  December  5.  Dublin. — I  was  prevented  the  honour 
of  writing  to  your  Grace  by  the  Tuesday's  packet  some 
extraordinary  business  relating  to  our  northern  affairs  having 
taken  up  my  time,  and  I  forbear  now  sending  your  Grace  my 
remarks  in  form  upon  the  list  of  the  forces  transmitted  to 
me  by  Mr.  Southwell  till  I  can  have  a  fresh  list  from  the  quarters 
in  Ireland,  which  your  Grace  shall  have  with  a  great  deal  of 
care  and  exactness.  I  will  only  take  leave  in  the  meantime 
to  lay  before  your  Grace  some  of  the  reasons  which  make  the 
infantry  want  so  many  men  as  they  do.  Your  Grace  will 
be  pleased  to  call  to  mind  that  after  we  had  made  very  great 
detachments  to  complete  the  regiments  of  Mohun,  Caulfield 
and  Dungannon,  besides  nine  hundred  to  recruit  her  Majesty's 
foot  forces  in  Spain,  I  presumed  to  write  very  pressingly  to 
your  Grace  concerning  the  recruiting  to  foot  forthwith  and 
getting  the  money  paid  in  England  that  was  due  upon  that 
service,  upon  which  your  Grace  was  pleased  to  write  me  word 
that  it  was  not  thought  in  England  for  the  service  to  issue  the 
levy  money  till  harvest  was  over,  because  of  the  clause  in  the 
Act  of  Parliament  that  does  in  a  manner  disable  the  recruiting 
act  during  harvest  time.  Since  that  time  we  have  waited 
still  in  expectation  of  the  moneys  being  issued  out  in  England, 
and  since  your  Grace  has  acquainted  us  that  it  will  soon  be 
issued  out  we  have  sent  for  the  recruiting  officers  from  the 
several  parts  of  the  kingdom  and  they  are  coming  over  with 
all  diligence. 

Another  thing  has  been  prejudicial  to  some  regiments, 
which  I  hope  your  Grace  will  be  pleased  to  cure,  and  that  is 
several  officers  of  all  ranks  get  licence  from  the  Government 
here  to  go  for  England  for  a  reasonable  time,  whether  it  be 
for  recruiting  or  upon  any  other  extraordinary  account,  and 
when  the  time  of  their  licence  is  out  they  find  friends  in  England 
to  prevail  with  your  Grace  to  continue  their  leave,  so  that  I 


can  instance  in  several  officers  beneath  the  rank  of  a  colonel 
whom  we  have  not  seen  for  a  twelvemonth  together.  I  dare 
venture  to  say  that  Colonel  Rooke's  regiment  is  above  fifty  men 
the  weaker  for  Lieutenant-Colonel  Columbine's  long  absence. 
The  effects  of  Colonel  Lillingston's  long  absence  and  getting 
leave  for  so  many  of  his  officers  to  stay  in  England  appears 
sufficiently  and  need  not  be  explained.  LepelPs  regiment 
has  at  this  time  so  very  few  officers  with  it  that  it  is  a  shame, 
and  your  Grace  sees  their  strength.  To  cure  this  I  would 
humbly  propose  that  your  Grace  would  be  pleased  to  give 
orders  in  the  Secretary  of  Ireland's  office  in  England  as  well 
as  here  when  your  Grace  is  in  England  that  an  exact  list  be 
kept  of  such  officers  as  have  leave,  with  the  dates  of  the 
beginning  and  expiration  of  their  licences,  and  that  your  Grace 
would  lay  down  a  regulation  to  be  strictly  observed  that  not 
above  such  a  proportion  of  captains,  such  of  lieutenants  and 
such  of  ensigns  be  absent  from  any  regiment  of  foot  at  the 
same  time,  that  one  field  officer  be  present  with  every  regiment 
during  the  winter  season  and  two  during  the  summer  season. 
The  proportion  of  captains,  lieutenants  and  ensigns  which  they 
allow  in  Holland  used  to  be  in  the  last  war  a  third,  which 
makes  just  an  officer  for  every  company,  the  staff  excluded, 
but  the  half  is  the  greatest  number  I  ever  knew  allowed  any- 
where in  a  well  regulated  army,  and  if  your  Grace  regulates 
it  at  a  third  there  will  be  extraordinary  accidents  that  will 
strain  it  higher,  do  what  one  can.  As  for  the  colonels,  your 
Grace  may  give  grains  of  allowance  when  they  keep  strong 
and  good  regiments  without  any  prejudice  to  the  service. 
Colonel  Pearce's  regiment  is  one  instance  of  this,  which  has, 
ever  since  I  have  had  the  honour  to  be  in  the  administration 
here,  been  one  of  the  strongest  and  best  disciplined  regiments 
in  the  kingdom,  though  he  has  been  absent ;  and  when  your 
Grace  sees  my  remarks  on  the  list  of  the  foot  you  will  find 
that  allowing  him  his  drafts  and  the  ordinary  contingencies 
of  the  summer's  service  by  death,  desertion,  &c.,  he  will  not 
appear  weaker  than  is  usual  in  the  like  cases,  where  regiments 
cannot  recruit  without  sending  beyond  sea,  and  consequently 
can  do  it  but  once  a  year.  As  for  what  the  officers  would 
a  great  many  of  them  be  at,  which  is  to  be  always  recruiting, 
it  is  in  effect  but  a  skilful  pretence  to  put  a  great  deal  of  the 
Queen's  money  in  their  pockets  and  never  to  be  complete, 
whereas  if  they  are  obliged  to  be  complete  every  spring,  we 
shall  have  nothing  to  recruit  in  the  winter  time  but  the  drafts 
taken  from  us  and  the  ordinary  contingencies  of  the  service, 
which  may  be  timely  and  effectually  provided  for  by  your 
Grace's  and  my  Lord  Treasurer's  assistance,  according  to 
a  scheme  which  I  will  have  the  honour  to  lay  before  your 
Grace.  But  I  have  not  yet  mentioned  the  greatest  discourage- 
ment of  all  to  the  recruiting  service,  which  is  that  the  colonels 
and  captains,  who  are  notoriously  to  blame  in  this  point,  are 
not  sufficiently  discountenanced  ;  and  your  Grace  may  depend 


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upon  it  till  some  few  examples  of  that  sort  are  made  it  is 
impossible  for  the  service  to  be  carried  on  as  it  should  be. 

Upon  the  whole,  my  Lord,  your  Grace  will  find  when  I  send 
you  my  remarks  upon  the  lists  that  most  of  the  regiments  in 
this  kingdom,  allowing  the  drafts  taken  from  them  this  summer, 
and  the  extraordinary  contingencies  of  the  service,  are  as 
strong  as  any  regiments  even  in  garrison  are  at  this  time  of 
the  year,  where  they  are  forced  to  recruit  in  another  kingdom. 
I  shall  add  no  more  at  present  upon  this  subject,  but  only  to 
assure  your  Grace  that  I  shall  apply  myself  industriously  to 
remedy  everything  that  I  have  power  to  remedy,  and  I  shall 
give  your  Grace  a  faithful  account  from  time  to  time  of  who 
does  well  and  who  does  ill,  and  the  rest  will  depend  upon  your 
Grace's  will  and  pleasure.  In  the  meantime  I  believe  it  will 
be  for  the  service  if  your  Grace  will  be  pleased  as  occasion 
offers  to  declare  yourself  a  little  openly  and  in  earnest  upon 
this  business  of  recruiting,  on  the  distinctions  you  are  resolved 
to  make  between  those  who  shall  keep  strong  and  good 
regiments  and  companies  or  troops  and  such  as  shall  do  the 
contrary.  And  we  shall  not  fail  to  do  the  same  effectually 
here. 

I  had  forgot  one  article  in  the  regulation,  which  I  have 
proposed  concerning  officers'  licences  to  be  registered  in  the 
Secretary's  office,  which  is  that  no  officer  under  a  colonel 
effective  should  have  leave  to  be  out  of  this  kingdom  upon 
any  pretence  whatsoever  above  six  months  at  a  time,  by  which 
means  every  gentleman  that  has  real  business  may  take  his 
turn,  and  there  would  be  no  partiality  in  the  service.  I  put 
six  months  as  the  utmost  term,  though  it  is  to  be  hoped 
gentlemen  will  content  themselves  with  a  less  time,  and  it  is 
always  understood  that  the  recruiting  officers  are  to  return 
with  their  recruits  by  the  time  prefixed  in  their  recruiting 
orders,  wind  and  weather  permitting. 

I  send  your  Grace  enclosed  a  list  of  the  artillery  ready  to 
march  upon  a  day's  warning,  provided  we  are  enabled  to  furnish 
money  for  horses.  I  have  added  to  the  list,  which  was  sent 
your  Grace  by  the  Lords  Justices,  two  twelve-pounders.  Our 
best  way,  I  believe,  if  this  train  or  any  part  of  it  should  be 
necessary  would  be  to  send  them  from  hence  to  Carrickfergus 
by  water,  but  then  we  must  buy  horses  if  we  send  them  into 
Scotland,  for  they  will  find  none  there  at  their  landing.  In 
the  letters  which  my  Lord  Chancellor  and  I  have  the  honour 
to  write  your  Grace  by  this  post  we  take  the  liberty  to  represent 
the  discreditable  and  bad  condition  we  find  my  Lord  Windsor's 
regiment  in  upon  a  stricter  enquiry  for  the  intended  service, 
and  indeed  the  first  thing  that  determined  us  to  make  choice 
of  that  regiment  was  your  Grace's  inclination,  but  when  one 
considers  the  matter  maturely  it  evidently  appears  that  the 
sending  that  regiment  will  give  ill  impressions  in  Scotland  of 
the  troops  and  service  here,  which  impression  may  be 
maliciously  improved  by  designing  people  and  have  ill  effects 


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in  England,  besides  that  the  regiment  is  not  in  a  good  condition 
for  service,  whereas  your  own  regiment  or  Langston's  will 
do  your  Grace  credit.  I  shall  be  glad  to  know  by  the  first 
which  of  those  two  your  Grace  had  rather  have.  I  shall 
leave  the  rest  to  my  next  and  am  with  respect  and  passion,  &c. 

Lieut. -Colonel  William  Ponsonby  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  December  8.     Bessborough. — Asking  his  Grace  to  sign 
a  presentment  in  favour  of  Mr.  Thomas  Bolton  as  master  of 
the  Free  School  of  Clonmel.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1 706,  December  9.  Dublin. — ^Will  Crowe  has  sold  his  commis- 
sion of  appeals  for  400Z.  to  Counsellor  Jephson,  who  now  thinks 
it  too  dear  and  would  fly  off  as  I  am  told,  but  the  money  is 
deposited,  but  would  be  called  for  unless  the  patent  were  expe- 
dited, and  therefore  upon  Mr.  Crowe's  importunity  and  showing 
us  Mr.  Southwell's  letter  importing  your  Grace's  consent  if 
you  liked  the  person,  and  in  prospect  that  Mr.  Jephson,  who 
is  member  for  Blessington,  may  by  his  oifice  be  obliged  to 
respect  the  Government,  we  venture  to  proceed  therein,  as 
thinking  it  will  be  pleasing  to  your  Grace,  but  I  shall  neverthe- 
less stop  the  patent  at  the  seal  till  I  have  your  commands 
therein,  which  in  favour  of  poor  Crowe  I  hope  your  Grace 
will  send  by  the  first  packet.  And  now  your  Grace  sees  plainly 
whether  I  am  a  friend  to  Mr.  Crowe  or  not,  since  I  venture  so 
far  without  your  order,  which  I  would  not  do  for  anybody, 
but  your  friend  and  servant  as  surely  he  is.  I  have  performed 
my  promise  made  in  the  beginning  of  the  term  and  shall  not 
leave  one  cause  in  Chancery  undetermined  that  is  ripe  for 
judgment. — I  am  ever  without  reserve,  &c. 

Viscount  Mountcashell  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  December  10. — Informing  his  Grace  that  he  has  had 
the  assurance  to  name  him  as  a  trustee  in  a  settlement  he  is 
making  of  his  estate.  They  make  a  shift  to  groan  out  a 
dismal  play  in  this  place.  Madam  Kingsland  he  does  not 
question  makes  up  her  lost  time.     Abstract. 

Captain  Theodore  Vesey  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  December  12.  Dublin. — ^Asking  for  a  brevet  as 
major. 

Brigadier-General  Thomas  Fairfax  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  December  14.  Dublin. — I  was  very  proud  in 
receiving  the  honour  of  your  Grace's  of  the  1st  of  December 
and  do  give  your  Grace  my  most  hearty  and  humble  thanks. 
Poor  Robinson  would  have  been  undone  if  he  had  gone  to 
the  West  Indies,  for  now  we  can  take  care  to  put  him  to  school 


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and  then  he  will  be  better  able  to  serve  the  Queen,  which  he 
would  be  in  a  capacity  to  do,  for  the  boy  is  wild  enough. 
I  humbly  beg  pardon  for  this  trouble,  which  I  should  be  much 
ashamed  of  did  it  not  give  me  an  opportunity  of  assuring  your 
Grace  I  am  with  all  sincerity,  my  Lord,  &c. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  December  19.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  army.  He 
has  given  directions  to  the  recruiting  officers  (Mr.  Pratt,  who 
acts  as  Secretary  of  State  and  War,  and  his  own  secretary 
being  present),  and  has  desired  them  to  have  all  recruits  over 
by  February  20th.  He  sends  the  strength  of  Lepell's  regi- 
ment :  the  three  field  officers  are  absent,  too  great  a  proportion 
of  the  other  officers  are  in  England  and  there  is  but  one  private 
man  in  the  colonel's  company,  and  but  three  or  four  in  some  of 
the  others.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  December  21.  Dublin. — Poor  Robin  Echlin  is  dead. 
How  can  your  Grace  prevail  with  old  Mr.  Bagenal  of  Newry 
to  recommend  some  honest  gentleman  to  represent  that 
borough  ?  There  is  a  great  contest  about  Sir  Roger  Bradshaigh's 
clothing,  which  indeed  is  the  worst  I  ever  saw.  But  whilst 
the  matter  was  a  debate  before  the  Lords  Justices,  Major 
Brereton  was  so  simply  passionate  as  to  strike  the  undertaker, 
one  Martin,  deputy  to  Mr.  Cornish,  in  the  coffee-house,  which 
is  a  great  affront  to  government,  for  if  it  cannot  protect 
people  to  plead  their  cause  before  them,  it  is  insignificant. 
I  therefore  think  the  Major,  though  my  friend,  must  be  humbled, 
and  I  am  sure  care  should  be  taken  that  the  army  be  not 
abused  in  their  clothing  to  such  a  ridiculous  degree,  for  according 
to  the  best  of  my  judgment  it  is  not  worth  one  third  of  what 
the  soldier  pays  for  it.  I  wish  your  Grace  a  merry  Christmas 
and  many  of  them,  and  my  next  wish  is  to  kiss  your  Grace's 
hand  here  in  March. 

Earl  of  Inchiquin  to  Ormonde. 

1706,  December  22.  Rostellan. — Concerning  himself  and 
his  regiment.  Lieutenant-General  Stewart,  Lady  Grandison 
and  family  have  been  these  seven  weeks  waiting  for  a  passage 
to  England.  They  expected  the  Shoreham  from  Kinsale,  but 
she  has  been  ordered  by  the  Prince  to  go  to  Plymouth.  They 
are  resolved  now  to  go  round  with  Captain  Bennett  in  the 
Oxford,  who  is  commodore  of  the  convoy  to  the  Indian  fleet. 
The  writer  designs  to  go  then  to  his  regiment  at  Londonderry. 
They  have  left  several  men  sick  at  Galway,  and  he  fears  that 
he  shall  find  a  great  many  more  at  Derry  after  such  a  march 
at  this  time  of  year  and  the  wet  weather  they  have  had. 
Abstract, 


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Ormonde's  Christmas  Gratuities. 

I     8,     d. 

To  the  Drums  of  the  Royal  Regiment 1     1     6 

„             „           ,,     Coldstream  Regiment     . .      . .  1     1     6 

„             „           ,,     Horse  Grenadiers 1     1     6 

„            „          „    Chelsea  College        1     1     6 

To  the  Queen's  Watermen 1     1     6 

Footmen 2     30 

To  the  Prince's  Watermen 1     1     6 

„           „        Footmen 1     1     6 

To  the  Yeomen  of  the  Guard     6     7     6 

The  Grooms  of  the  Chamber       1     1     6 

The  Boys  of  the  Chapel       1     1     6 

The  Chapel  Keeper  at  Whitehall        1     1     6 

The  Doorkeeper  of  the  Council  Chamber         . .      . .  2     3    0 

„            „                      House  of  Lords 2     3    0 

Privy  Garden       0  10    0 

The  Firemakers  of  the  Presence  Chamber        . .      . .  1     1     6 

The  Porters  at  the  Gate       230 

His  Grace's  Trumpeters        3     46 

The  Knight-Marshal's  men 1     I     6 

To  his  Grace's  Watermen 230 

His  Grace's  Porter         000 

The  Waits       1     1     6 

The  Ringers  of  St.  Margaret's 1     1     6 

the  Abbey           1     1     6 

St.  Martin's        1     1     6 

The  Militia   Trumpets 1     1     6 

„       ,,         Drums       1     1     6 

Fiddlers 1     1     6 

The  Watchman      1     1     6 

The  Beadle      0  10     9 

The  Scavenger        0  10     0 

The  Pew-keeper 10     0 

Bills  of  Mortality 0     60 

The  Postman  for  Ireland  and  England 1     1     6 

The  Foreign  Postman 0  10     9 

The  Box-keeper  of  the  Playhouse      2     3     0 

To  the  Butcher 0  10     0 

Poulterer 0  10     0 

Brewer      0  10     0 

Baker        0     60 

Oil-woman        0     50 

Fish-monger 0     60 

Smith         060 

Joiner        0     60 

Tallow-chandler       0     60 

Carpenter          0     60 

Glazier       0     60 

Cabinet-maker 0     60 


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I.  8.    d. 

To  the  Tailor        0  10     0 

Shoemaker        0  5     0 

Hosier        0  50 

Peruque-maker        0  50 

Hatter       0  50 

Bricklayer         0  50 

Charcoal-man 0  50 

Laundress's  maid 0  50 

Coachmaker      0  10     0 

Harness-maker         0  10     0 

Bit-maker         0  10     0 

Saddler      0  10     0 

Farrier       . .      . .  0  10     0 

Corn-chandler 0  10     0 

The  Porters  at  St.  James's  Square 5  7     6 


Egbert  JoimsoN,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Benjamin 

PORTLOCK. 

1706,  December  26.  Dublin. — So  soon  as  I  received  your's 
I  sent  your  kind  compliments  into  the  country  to  the  new 
Privy  Councillor,  who  I  am  sure  will  be  mighty  glad  to  hear 
you  are  well.  The  malicious  envious  part,  and  that  I  will 
assure  you  is  a  pretty  considerable  part  of  this  town,  have  in 
this  case  lost  many  of  their  usual  ready  and  favourite  topics 
upon  the  occasion  of  any  man's  being  advanced.  They  do 
not  say  with  their  usual  spiteful  air  he  is  a  man  of  no  fortune, 
he  has  not  an  estate  fit  for  such  a  post,  he  is  a  Jacobite,  he  is 
a  high-flyer,  he  is  a  great  favourer  of  them,  he  is  an  enemy 
to  the  succession  in  the  Protestant  line,  he  is  disaffected  to  the 
Government ;  none  of  all  this  artillery  is  made  use  of,  for  none  of 
it  can  with  probability  be  brought  to  bear  upon  him,  and 
what  they  will  do  under  such  a  strait  and  for  want  of  the 
pleasure  of  this  common  routine  of  railing  I  do  not  know. 
It  is  most  unmercifully  cruel  to  set  up  a  man  and  to  give  us 
no  opportunity  to  throw  any  one  of  these  stones  at  his  head, 
and  to  give  malice  and  envy  nothing  to  fasten  upon,  and  to 
comfort  itself  with  upon  the  great  misfortune,  always  so 
reckoned  here,  of  another  man's  exaltation.  I  hope  he  has 
given  his  Grace  thanks  for  this  favour  ;  I  am  sure  he  promised 
to  do  it  before  he  went  out  of  town.  If  he  has  been  so  forgetful 
as  to  omit  that  duty,  great  as  his  Worship  is  grown,  he  shall 
not  want  the  reproaches  so  justly  due  to  him.  That  which 
makes  me  a  little  suspicious  is  because  I  am  of  opinion  he  does 
not  know  so  well  how  to  express  in  words  that  he  is  grateful, 
as  to  be  so  in  reality.  But  he  is  to  be  in  some  measure  excused, 
for  it  is  but  lately  he  has  belonged  to  any  Court ;  it  is  a  thing 
he  has  lately  taken  up  and  may  learn  to  do  better  in  time. 

Being  now  upon  the  point  of  good  breeding  it  puts  me  in 


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mind  of  something  that  will  lie  as  a  just  reflection  upon  him  ; 
especially  if  he  be  guilty  of  this  neglect  or  however  the  good 
people  here  will  please  themselves  with  the  repetition  of  some 
verses  made  in  my  Lord  Galway's  time  against  some  who 
were  not  thought  so  much  his  friends  as  they  should  be.  In 
those  verses  the  wit  and  jest  of  the  poem  lay  in  expressing 
the  supposed  faults  of  several  people  by  contraries,  one  of 
those  verses  concluded  with 

And  as  mannerly  as  Bligh. 

Now  though  it  be  true  that  the  gentleman  has  been  since  at 
Court,  yet  however  that  has  not  so  polished  him  already 
but  that  there  still  may  remain  a  rough  side  of  his  carriage 
as  well  as  of  his  tongue,  which  last,  rather  indeed  both  which, 
they  do  more  often  experiment  than  is  easy  to  them. 
The  Court,  as  I  said,  cannot  yet  have  quite  polished  him; 
it  is  yet  too  soon ;  the  work  is  a  great  work  and  requires 
time. 

But  I  am  afraid  you  will  think  I  trifle  away  too  much  of 
yours  in  playing  thus  between  jest  and  earnest  with  my  friend 
Bligh.  Therefore  to  mend  the  fault  as  well  as  see  it,  I  shall 
say  no  more  of  our  old  friend  and  new  courtier,  but  must  before 
parting  with  you  recommend  to  your  care  and  government  a 
young  captain,  who  is  lately  come  out  of  Flanders.  Laugh 
him  out  of  fancying  drinking  to  be  a  fine  thing  and  a  very 
honest  good-humoured  quality  ;  put  him  in  mind  how  much 
my  Lord  Duke  hates  it  in  all  that  do  it,  and  if  he  does  not 
renounce  it,  then  I  despair.  I  beg  of  you  to  give  him 
opportunities  of  being  near  my  Lord's  person  as  often  as  that 
may  be  without  being  troublesome.  And  now  having  com- 
mitted my  friend  and  my  son  to  your  care,  I  have  nothing 
more  to  add,  but  that  which  gives  me  the  confidence 
of  asking  it,  and  the  assurance  of  your  kind  complying,  and 
that  is  a  very  inconsiderable  matter,  my  being  most 
sincerely,  &c. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  December  26.  Dublin. — I  have  the  honour  of  your 
Grace's  of  the  19th,  which  came  very  seasonably  for  Will 
Crowe,  for  his  chapman  would  fain  be  off.  The  Bishop  and 
Mr.  Renoult  are  earnest  suitors  to  continue  that  poor  refugee's 
pension  for  half  a  year  longer  at  least,  for  though  his  benefices 
are  represented  to  me  worth  601.,  and  doubtless  are  so  to  a 
good  manager,  yet  this  poor  stranger  avers  that  he  cannot  get 
401.  for  them  this  year;  and  though  I  took  no  fees  of  him 
yet  the  other  offices,  ecclesiastical  and  civil,  cost  him  above 
201.  to  get  his  patent.  It  is  indifferent  to  me  how  Lady 
Kingston's  appeal  goes,  but  it  may  have  great  consequences 
as  to  the  public,  for  that  decree  was  given  with  universal 
applause  and  approbation,  and  if  it  does  not  stand  the  test, 
people  will  think  that  decisions  here  are  of  small  value  and 
property  will  be  valued  accordingly. 


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Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 
1706,  December  30.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  army.  The 
foot  is  in  as  good  condition  as  any  foot  can  be  at  this  time 
of  year  that  is  obliged  to  recruit  beyond  sea.  The  horse, 
Windsor's  excepted,  are  also  in  a  good  condition.  Langston 
is  making  rich  clothes  and  accoutrements  ;  the  writer  believes 
they  propose  to  outvie  the  mounting  of  his  Grace's  regiment. 
Echlin's  and  Ikerrin's  will  also  be  very  good  if  they  keep  to 
the  patterns.     Abstract. 

Same  to  Same. 

1706-7,  New  Year's  Day.  Dublin. — I  will  trouble  your 
Grace  no  farther  by  this  than  to  wish  you  a  happy  new  year 
and  a  great  many  of  them,  which  I  do  unfeignedly  from  the 
bottom  of  my  soul.  Your  Grace  was  so  kind  upon  this  occasion 
last  year  as  to  write  me  word  you  had,  at  my  humble  request, 
made  my  most  dutiful  compliments  to  her  Majesty  upon  the 
new  year  ;  I  humbly  beg  the  same  favour  now,  and  am,  my 
Lord,  &c. 

Lord  Raby  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,    January    1.     Berlin. — As   soon   as  I  received  the 
honour  of  your  Grace's  letters  I  set  myself  about  inquiring 
for  a  set  of  horses,  and  believe  it  will  be  best  for  your  Grace 
to  stay  till  the  spring  till  the  King's  young  horses  come  up 
from  his  studs  in  Prussia.     Bays  and  brown  bays  are  the 
hardest  colours  to  be  got,  but  I  will  do  my  utmost.     I  believe 
your  Grace  will  not  much  like  blacks,  else  they  are  the  easiest 
to  be  had.     What  does  your  Grace  think  of  very  fine  cream 
coloured  horses  ?     There  is  a  set  of  them  now  in  the  King's 
stables  to  be  disposed  of,  all  young  Prussian  horses  I  believe  ; 
there  is  eight  or  nine  of  them,  and  I  could  every  year  whilst 
I  stay  here,  if  you  had  a  mind  to  it,  send  your  Grace  one  or 
two  of  them  to  keep  up  the  set  (which  must  be  done  from  hence 
which  is  the  worst  of  those  horses),  which  cannot  be  done  in 
England.     They  have  a  very  fine  set  of  pied  ones,  bay  and 
white,  with  black  manes  and  tails,  but  a  set  of  them  will  be 
more  difficult  to  be  kept  up  than  the  others.     If  your  Grace 
would  have  me  buy  up  a  set  this  winter,  I  will  try  to  do  it,  but 
else  I  would  advise  you  to  stay  till  spring,   and  about  that 
time  to  send  over  some  coachman  you  could  trust  to  bring 
them  to  England  safe,  and  also  to  see  them  before  they  go 
from  this  place.     A  man  is  easily  sent  alone,  for  when  he 
is  at  Amsterdam  he  can  from  thence  for  about  three  pounds 
come  in  the  post  waggon  hither  in  eight  days'  time,  and  though 
he  cannot  speak  the  language  will  find  little  difficulty  to  have 
what    he  wants  by  the  way,  if  he   takes  the  precaution  at 
Amsterdam  to  change  his  Holland  money  into  German,  for 
the  Holland  money  does  not  go  here  ;    and  in  the  spring  in  a 
fortnight's  time  at  easy  journeys  the  horses  may  come  to 
Holland  and  be  fit  to  embark  soon  after.    This  is  but  a  little 

Wt.  43483.  0  18 


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commission,  but  really  it  pleases  me  since  by  it  I  have  an 
opportunity  of  showing  my  inclinations  of  serving  your  Grace  ; 
I  wish  I  was  capable  of  doing  it  in  greater  things  since  nobody 
is  more  sincerely  nor  with  a  truer  respect  and  inclination,  &c. 
All  the  news  we  have  here  relates  to  the  peace  in  Saxony, 
but  all  the  newspapers  are  so  full  of  it  that  it  is  not  worth 
mentioning  to  your  Grace. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1706-7,  January  1,  Dublin. —  .  .  .  My  Lord  Chief  Baron 
is  a  very  honest  gentleman,  very  quiet  and  inoffensive : 
sufficient  for  his  business,  as  Robin  Johnson  tells  me.  Doubtless 
he  is  a  creature  of  Lord  Somers's  or  Lord  Keeper's,  but  seems 
to  think  that  they  are  imposed  upon  by  the  character  of 
things  and  people  here,  for  without  naming  them  he  often 
says  that  he  has  found  little  or  nothing  true  that  he  was  told 
in  England  relating  to  Ireland.  He  speaks  with  great  respect 
of  your  Grace,  and  is  sensible  that  there  is  no  reason  for  mutiny 
or  faction  here.  I  wish  your  Grace  many  a  merry  new  year 
and  am  ever,  &c. 

Edward  Smyth,  Bishop  of  Down  and  Connor,  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  January  4.  Lisbum. — I  have  received  the  great 
honour  of  your  Grace's  letter,  and  have  presumed  to  delay  for 
some  posts  the  acknowledgment  of  it  to  give  your  Grace  the 
best  observations  I  could  make  of  the  disposition  of  this 
country,  and  see  every  day  reasons  to  confirm  what  I  formerly 
writ  that  such  as  are  bigoted  to  the  idol  of  Presbyterian 
government  in  the  Church  are  not  friends  to  the  Union,  but 
what  correspondence  they  carry  on  with  those  who  may 
have  the  same  sentiments  in  Scotland  is  a  secret  into  which 
I  cannot  penetrate.  The  wise  distribution  of  the  army  into 
these  parts  gave  a  seasonable  check  to  these  practices,  and 
if  anything  of  this  nature  be  now  carried  on  it  must  be  done 
with  great  hazard  and  privacy.  The  other  objections  I  meet 
with  against  the  Union  seem  to  arise  from  a  bigotry  to  their 
country ;  this  they  think  is  lessened  by  their  having  no  more 
Parliaments  and  by  the  removal  of  their  crown,  which  pretences, 
though  in  themselves  trifling  and  much  overbalanced  by  the 
great  concessions  that  are  made  to  that  kingdom,  yet  make  a 
deep  impression  on  some  people  and  are  the  common  subjects 
of  discourse.  It  is  now  generally  believed  among  us  that  the 
Union  will  pass  in  the  Scots  Parliament,  for  there  are  persons 
already  come  to  Belfast  to  buy  ships  for  carrying  on  the  trade 
which  will  be  opened  to  them  by  the  Union,  and  our  last 
accounts  from  thence  tell  us  that  the  mobs  are  all  quieted 
and  that  we  may  now  hope  that  neither  the  public  peace  nor 
Parliament  will  be  much  disturbed.  I  give  your  Grace  with 
all  my  heart  the  best  wishes  of  this  season  of  a  happy  new 
year  and  many.  I  commend  you  to  the  protection  of  Almighty 
God,  and  am  with  the  most  profound  respect,  &c. 


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Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  January  7.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  army.  He 
sends  an  enclosure  from  Captain  Harris  of  Lord  Orrery's 
regiment.  He  is  sure  that  the  Government  did  nothing  but 
what  was  very  regular.  Upon  a  pressing  representation  from 
Sir  Thomas  Prendergast  that  Captain  Harris  was  guilty  of 
the  highest  degree  of  mutiny  against  the  commanding  officer 
of  the  battalion  in  the  quarters,  a  court-martial  sat  and  their 
sentence  was  that  Captain  Harris  deserved  death,  but  in 
compassion  they  only  broke  him.  The  ceremony  and  fatigue 
of  the  holidays  have  given  the  writer  a  pretty  sharp  return 
of  his  colic  ;  his  physicians  tell  him  he  must  expect  such 
returns  till  spring  begins.     Abstract. 

George  Strathan  to  Ormonde. 
1706-7,  January  1.  Glamis. — Concerning  an  ill  character 
his  last  colonel,  Lord  Strathnave,  has  given  of  him  to  his 
Grace.  He  is  at  Glamis  with  Lord  Strathmore.  He  served 
very  faithfully  for  three  years  in  Flanders  and  would  have 
continued  in  the  service  only  he  fell  ill  of  a  decay.  Since  he 
was  cast  away  in  the  James  galley  he  has  never  been  altogether 
well.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  January  11.  Belfast. — Concerning  reflections  on 
some  of  the  detachments  designed  to  go  on  the  descent. 
Abstract. 

Same  to  Same. 
1706-7,  January  13.  Carrickfergus.— The  Presbyterian 
clergy  of  this  country  held  a  synod  the  other  day  at  Belfast 
and  deputed  some  of  that  body  to  compliment  me  on  my 
coming  into  this  country,  and  desired  I  would  let  your  Grace 
know  that  they  have  a  fervent  zeal  for  her  Majesty's  service 
and  will  continue  in  their  several  stations  to  serve  her  faith- 
fully, and  I  do  assure  your  Lordship  that  I  have  no  reason  to 
doubt  their  sincerity,  for  I  do  observe  that  they  seem  to  be 
unanimously  for  an  incorporated  Union,  and  I  am  informed 
by  the  best  of  this  town  that  they  do  very  often  pray  for  it 
in  their  pulpits.  I  have  constant  intelligence  from  Scotland 
where  they  seem  to  be  at  quiet  at  present.  I  hear  nothing 
as  yet  of  the  transports.  The  last  company  of  my  Lord 
Inchiquin's  regiment  will  be  in  their  quarters  to-morrow. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 
1706-7,  January  16.— I  had  the  honour  of  one  from  your 
Grace  of  the  23rd  of  December,  which  in  every  point  gave 
an  answer  particularly  to  everything  I  had  in  several  letters 
desired  to  know  your  Grace's  pleasure  in.  Since  the  Bill  of 
Union  is  here  thought  to  be  as  good  as  passed  in  Scotland, 


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we  are  in  great  pain  to  know  what  will  become  of  it  in  England, 
all  people  here  desiring  that  Union  most  extremely.  I  had 
forgot  to  acquaint  your  Grace  that  the  reason  I  did  not  receive 
the  honour  of  your  Grace's  sooner  than  about  three  days  ago 
was  because  it  went  into  Connaught  to  Mr.  Solicitor  General, 
who  sent  it  to  me  by  the  first  opportunity,  but  the  post  does 
not  come  from  thence  as  often  as  from  other  parts.  Your 
Grace's  opinion  about  our  new  Lord  Chief  Baron  and  the  faction 
will,  I  do  not  doubt,  prove  to  be  very  right,  for  he  seems  to  be 
in  all  points  for  honour  and  honesty,  both  which,  your  Grace 
very  well  knows,  are  always  their  opposites.  Mr.  Brodrick 
does  not  find  his  opinion  can  at  all  prevail  with  him  any 
further  than  that  opinion  can  be  supported  by  reasons  that 
would  make  it  prevail  out  of  any  man's  mouth  that  were  at 
the  bar,  and  those  reasons  not  happening  to  be  often  of  his 
side,  my  Lord  and  he  do  very  often  differ  in  opinion,  which 
the  standers-by  do  observe  with  no  small  esteem  of  my  Lord's 
impartial  justice.  There  are  several  instances  of  that  kind 
wherein  the  gentleman  that  use  to  carry  it  so  high  has  lost 
much  of  the  opinion  of  having  an  universal  or  a  particular 
influence  over  that  new-comer,  whom  once  he  would  have 
had  thought  had  in  a  manner  instructions  to  show  a  most 
particular  regard  to  his  Honour.  But  what  is  still  worse  is 
that  this  new  gentleman  is  not  to  be  importuned  out  of  any- 
thing and  then  instead  of  admiring  it,  he  hates  an  obstreperous, 
noisy  way  of  practice,  the  only  or  the  chiefest  excellency  of 
some  people,  by  which  they  have  got  such  vast  sums  of  money. 
I  could  wish  your  Grace  would  give  yourself  the  trouble  to 
let  some  of  my  Lord's  friends  know  how  well  he  is  liked  here. 
It  would  be  a  very  great  favour,  because  his  friends  will  be 
pleased  with  him  that  he  is  not  likely  to  put  them  to  such 
trouble  as  might  have  been  expected  since  he  has  to  do 
altogether  with  strangers,  who  I  find  are  very  wrongly 
represented  by  their  enemies  here  to  those  who  would  otherwise 
be  their  friends  on  the  other  side  of  the  water. 

I  did  formerly  acquaint  your  Grace  with  the  great  honour 
this  gentleman  had  brought  with  him  for  your  Grace  out  of 
England,  and  that  therefore  he  was  under  an  uneasiness  upon 
an  apprehension  as  if  your  Grace  might  have  received  some 
ill  impression  of  him  upon  an  apprehension  that  he  had  not 
paid  his  duty  to  you  so  early  as  he  ought  to  have  done,  which 
I  wrote  to  your  Grace  about,  to  give  you  an  account  how  the 
matter  happened  and  that  he  was  wholly  innocent  in  it,  as 
I  dare  to  swear  he  is  of  anything  that  may  be  in  the  least 
disrespectful  to  you.  It  would  be  a  great  satisfaction  to  him, 
as  well  as  a  great  honour  to  me,  if  your  Grace  would  be  pleased 
in  one  line  to  me  that  I  might  show  him,  to  express  yourself 
satisfied  in  that  point.  I  take  a  delight  in  satisfying  scrupulous 
consciences  because  those  scruples  show  a  niceness,  which 
people  are  without  who  are  not  tender  of  offending. — I 
remain,  &c, 


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Colonel  Allen's  second  son  has  stolen  a  marriage  with  my 
daughter  ;  no  consent  or  acquainting  of  him  or  me.  I  fancy 
they  will  find  they  have  two  very  difficult  fathers  to  persuade 
to  part  with  anything  to  either  of  them. 

William  Crowe  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  January  16.  Dublin. — I  had  the  honour  of  your 
Grace's  of  the  23rd  of  the  last  month  four  days  ago,  which  has 
lain  by  much  against  my  inclination  all  this  while  unanswered. 
My  old  headache  has  so  tormented  me  that  had  I  lain  under 
sentence  of  death  and  been  assured  that  writing  a  petition 
for  a  pardon  would  procure  me  one,  it  would  be  with  difficulty 
that  I  should  be  brought  to  take  pen  in  hand.  But  since 
your  Grace  has  been  pleased  to  admit  me  into  your  closet, 
whatever  pain  I  used  to  write  with  heretofore,  the  thoughts 
of  being  permitted  to  converse  with  your  Grace,  though  at 
this  distance,  may  mitigate  my  uneasiness  at  last,  if  not  totally 
remove  it. 

I  am  infinitely  obliged  to  your  Grace  for  the  despatch  I 
found  in  my  affair  with  Mr.  Jephson ;  he  is  in  possession  of 
my  patent,  but  I  of  his  money,  which  may  prove  the  more 
durable  commodity  of  the  two.  Had  I  thought  the  employ- 
ment tenable  I  am  sure  I  should  have  been  far  from  desiring  to 
have  parted  with  it,  for  [I]  do  not  look  on  400Z.  as  a  consideration 
for  lOOl.  per  annum,  so  well  paid  and  so  very  little  to  do  for  it, 
but  its  precariousness  does  much  depreciate  it,  so  that  my 
friends  think  I  have  made  a  good  bargain,  with  which  I  am 
better  pleased,  because  I  am  in  hopes  that  Blessington  will 
be  now  represented  in  Parliament,  though  it  has  not  been 
so  our  last  two  sessions,  my  colleague  and  I  constantly  going 
different  ways.  We  were  dock  and  nettle  to  one  another 
heretofore,  but  I  believe  at  our  next  meeting  I  shall  have  the 
honour  of  showing  him  the  way  out  of  the  House  into  the 
lobby  upon  every  division  that  is  material,  though  what  reason 
there  will  be  for  any  such  division,  other  than  the  peevishness 
of  our  old  enemies,  who  love  it  for  its  very  namesake,  I  cannot 
foresee. 

Our  town  talk  much  of  what  I  formerly  apprehended,  that 
the  commissioners  of  the  revenue  were  using  their  utmost 
interest  to  get  the  commission  of  appeals  put  into  the  hands 
of  the  judges.  The  commissioners  themselves  talk  openly 
of  it,  and  the  judges  too  do  not  forbear  it.  Pyne  would 
willingly  have  100?.  a  year  more  to  live  upon,  for,  poor  man, 
he  has  not  enough  of  1,300Z.  from  the  Crown.  His  behaviour 
has  been  such  that  he  is  a  favourite  abroad  no  more  than  he 
is  at  home  to  his  wife  and  family,  but  least  of  aU  in  the  House 
of  Commons  ;  there  are  members  that  would  be  glad  of 
quarrelling  with  him  upon  any  account,  who  when  upon 
reading  over  the  civil  list  of  our  establishment  they  find  his 
Lordship  double-cushioned,  will  be  apt  to  enquire,  and  pretty 
strictly  too,  how  he  got  into  the  court  of  appeals.     He  will 


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be  thought  a  chief  judge,  indeed,  when  he  presides  everywhere. 
It  is  well  if  this  covetous  temper  of  his  does  not  bring  an  old 
house  (Chichester  House)  upon  his  head.  The  commissioners 
of  the  revenue,  like  the  generality  of  mankind,  are  fond  of 
power,  and  the  more  unlimited  the  better  for  them  they  think. 
No  wonder  therefore  they  should  be  no  great  admirers  of  a 
commission  that  is  so  great  a  check  upon  theirs,  nor  of  such 
men  to  fill  it  that  will  venture,  not  biased  by  so  poor  a 
temptation  as  lOOZ.  per  annum,  to  control  the  arbitrament  of 
their  proceedings.  They  are  mightily  in  the  right  of  it  to 
press  its  being  in  the  hands  of  judges,  for  what  is  that  but 
for  the  subject  to  appeal  from  one  servant  of  1,000Z.  to  another 
servant  of  1,200/.,  both  salaries  paid  by  the  same  hand,  and 
that  too  only  during  pleasure  ;  so  that  if  they  do  not  confirm 
the  first  judgment  they  do  it  at  their  peril.  Now,  my  Lord, 
though  this  way  of  arguing  be  not  according  to  my  sentiments, 
being  convinced  that  ^s  there  are  men  whose  integrity  is  not 
to  be  shocked  by  any  slender  temptation,  so  there  are  others 
not  capable  of  being  corrupted  by  means  of  the  greatest  worldly 
consideration,  yet  this  wUl  be  the  language  of  several  in  the 
House  of  Commons,  especially  should  they  know  how 
groundlessly  the  sub-commissioners  in  the  country  have 
given  judgment  against  the  subject,  which  has  been  confirmed 
by  their  masters  here,  and  with  what  trifling  arguments  either 
one  or  the  other  have  been  provided  to  justify  their  proceedings 
upon  a  full  and  fair  hearing  upon  an  appeal.  But  the 
incapacity  of  any  man's  giving  a  right  opinion  upon  an  Act 
of  Parliament  that  has  not  made  the  law  his  profession  many 
years,  is  the  reason  the  commissioners  of  the  revenue  give 
for  their  desire  of  having  the  judges  of  the  land  in  the  com- 
mission of  appeals.  It  is  to  be  hoped  our  air  being  a  little 
thick  now  and  then  does  not  make  our  brains  always  cloudy, 
but  that  we  may  have  a  share  of  understanding  here  in  some 
proportion  to  the  people  of  England.  Now  I  am  satisfied 
there  was  not  a  Dashwood  in  London,  nor  Arnold  in 
Westminster,  nor  any  other  mercenary  compounder  of  malt 
and  hops  in  my  time  about  town  but  what  could  give  as  good 
a  judgment  upon  any  clause  in  the  Act  of  Excise  of  England 
as  Sir  John  Holt  or  Sir  Edward  Northey  can  now.  And  it  is 
hard  that  a  gentleman  of  common  education  should  not 
understand  common  letters  as  well  as  a  common  brewer.  I 
thought,  indeed,  the  little  learning  I  have  had  might  have 
entitled  me  to  understand  words,  whether  separate  or  in  a 
sentence,  the  nature  of  them  and  the  grammatical  connection 
and  dependance  they  have  on  one  another,  as  well  as  Mr. 
Everard,  and  that  my  syntax  rules  might  be  as  useful  and 
proper  for  such  a  knowledge  as  his  sliding-rule,  a  piece  of  figured 
stick  this  gentleman  values  himself  so  much  upon  the  invention 
of,  but  it  is  sufficient  that  Mr.  Everard  thinks  otherwise,  and 
therefore  I  must  either  sell  for  what  I  can  get  or  run  the  risk 
of  being  superseded  without  the  consideration  that  Mr.  Clarke, 


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being  a  purchaser  with  your  Grace's  approbation  might 
have  a  sort  of  claim  to.  But,  thanks  to  your  Grace,  I  have 
the  benefit  of  the  first  of  these  force-puts,  so  that  I  am  in  no 
danger  of  being  hurt  by  the  latter,  since  I  am  now  out  of  their 
reach  and,  I  hope,  out  of  their  power  too.  I  should  have 
taken  it  as  a  favour  if  any  one  of  them,  since  the  greater  part 
have  a  long  time  possessed  a  friendship  for  me,  had  been  so 
kind  as  to  have  given  me  some  small  notice  of  what  they 
intended  in  relation  to  their  endeavours  of  getting  an  alteration 
in  our  commission,  so  as  to  have  done  the  best  I  could  for 
myself  by  sale  or  otherwise.  But  the  friendly  hint  I  had 
from  others,  but  not  a  single  word  of  the  matter  from  them, 
and  yet  I  bustled  as  hard  and  voted  as  heartily  for  the  con- 
tinuance of  their  additional  salary  of  2001.  per  annum  as  if 
I  were  to  have  shared  the  benefit  with  them.  Mr.  Everard, 
though  he  has  the  lowest  seat  at  the  board,  yet  he  fancies 
himself  the  Pope  of  it,  and  that  the  infallibility  lies  in  him 
only  and  that  the  conclave  of  his  brethren  have  no  share  in 
it,  though  men  as  much  superior  to  him  in  understanding 
as  in  education.  I  am  so  far  disinterested  now,  having  nothing 
to  do  in  the  commission,  that  I  may  be  the  better  allowed 
to  speak  my  thoughts,  which  I  propose  to  do  with  all  submission 
imaginable.  Whatever  therefore  alteration  may  hereafter  be 
judged  proper  to  be  made  in  this  commission,  whether  the 
power  be  to  be  lodged  in  its  original  source,  under  her  Majesty, 
the  Council,  or  whether  they  will  transfer  their  right  to  the 
three  chief  judges,  or  the  barons  of  the  Exchequer  or  elsewhere, 
be  the  alteration  where  it  will,  I  hope  nothing  will  be  done 
in  it  till  after  your  Grace's  next  session  of  Parliament.  I 
am,  &c. 

Earl  op  Inchiquin  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  January  19.  Rostellan. — Concerning  his  regiment 
and  other  matters.  Lady  Grandison  and  Lieutenant-General 
Stewart  embarked  on  the  14th  in  the  morning  on  board  the 
Chester,  which  was  to  convoy  to  Bristol  about  twenty  merchant- 
men. The  next  night  they  were  off  the  Bishop  and  Clerks, 
in  sight  of  the  Welsh  shore,  but  the  wind  shifting  were  put 
back  on  this  coast,  and  yesterday  returned  here  in  the  evening 
in  the  boat  of  the  Chester,  which  they  left  eight  leagues  off. 
Had  Lady  Grandison  continued  on  board  she  must  have 
died,  she  was  reduced  to  so  low  a  condition,  and  her 
daughters  were  almost  as  bad,  for  none  of  them  could  take 
the  least  sustenance  while  on  board.  They  left  five  servants 
on  the  Chester,  and  their  coach  and  horses  in  another  ship. 
The  India  fleet  that  sailed  at  the  same  time  with  Sir 
Thomas  Hardy  is  coming  in  again.  The  writer  desires  that 
his  major.  Woodward,  may  be  allowed  to  succeed  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Spencer,  whose  physicians  despair  of  his  recovery. 
Abstract. 


Thomas  Coote,  Justice  of  Queen's  Bench,  to  Ormondh. 

1706-7,  January  21.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  unhappy 
circumstances  of  Lady  Donegal  and  her  family,  with  which 
he  is  the  person  best  acquainted.     Abstract. 

Richard  Rooth  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  January  25. — Giving  details  as  to  the  affairs  of 
Lady  Donegal  and  her  family.  Five  of  the  younger  children 
are  daughters,  the  eldest  nineteen  years  of  age,  and  the  next 
between  sixteen  and  seventeen.  The  late  Lord  lent  the 
Prince  of  Hesse  a  considerable  sum  of  money  during  the  siege 
of  Gibraltar,  which  was  expended  in  works  for  its  defence, 
and  at  his  own  expense  fortified  Gerona  when  governor. 
Abstract. 

Lord  Cutts  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  January  25.  Dublin. — I  have  received  the  honour 
of  your  Grace's  of  the  15th  and  18th  instant,  and  shall  be  very 
mindful  of  the  contents  of  them,  but  must  beg  your  Grace's 
pardon  if  I  cannot  be  so  happy  as  to  answer  them  in  detail 
by  this  post,  having  had  yesterday  in  the  evening  and  great 
part  of  the  night  a  severe  attack  of  the  colic,  but  the  physicians 
unanimously  make  me  hope  that  in  a  short  time  now  that  the 
spring  is  coming  on  I  shall  get  rid  of  these  relapses.  This 
indisposition  has  hindered  me  sending  your  Grace  any  lists 
by  this  post  but  of  the  four  new  regiments,  but  I  hope  to 
supply  all  defects  and  to  add  the  rest  of  the  lists  of  the  infantry 
with  my  remarks  upon  these  by  next  post ;  and  am  always 
with  respect  and  passion,  my  Lord,  &c. 

Countess  of  Donegal  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  January  25. — Acknowledging  his  Grace's  great 
bounty  and  unparalleled  goodness  to  her  family  and  herself 
in  recommending  her  petition  to  the  Queen.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  January  28.  Belfast. — I  received  this  day  the 
surprising  news  of  my  Lord  Cutts's  death,  for  I  thought  he 
was  on  recovery,  but  since  he  is  gone  I  hope  by  your  Grace's 
favour  I  may  succeed  him  as  lieutenant-general  on  the 
establishment.  I  do  assure  your  Grace  that  nobody  will  be 
more  grateful  for  your  favours  or  more  careful  to  obey  all  your 
commands.  Upon  this  extraordinary  occasion,  things  being 
so  quiet  in  Scotland  and  the  transports  not  being  come,  I 
design  for  Dublin,  where  I  will  attend  your  Grace's  further 
orders,  and  am  with  the  greatest  respect,  &c. 

Same  to  Same. 

1706-7,  January  30.  Dublin. — ^Announcing  his  arrival  there 
the   previous   night    and    renewing   his  request    to    succeed 


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Lord  Outts.  His  poor  captain-lieutenant,  I^ane,  is  dead.  He 
recommends  Lieut.  Chebalds  to  succeed  Lane,  Comet  Renovard 
in  his  place,  and  one  of  the  quartermasters  to  be  comet. 
Abstract, 

Earl  of  Inchiquin  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  January  31.  Rostellan. — Concerning  his  regiment 
and  other  matters.  On  Monday  last  Lady  Grandison,  the 
lieutenant-general,  and  he  began  a  journey  towards  Dublin. 
They  halted  for  two  days  at  Colonel  Barry's,  where  they 
heard  of  the  Union  Bill  being  passed  in  Scotland,  which  easily 
persuaded  him  that  he  need  not  go  to  the  North.  He  could 
not  in  any  case  have  gone  to  Kilkenny  in  the  way  he  had 
designed.  The  ladies  had  his  own  coach,  and  the  lieutenant- 
general  and  he  were  in  one  which  the  lieutenant-general  had 
hired  in  Cork.  The  horses  and  harness  of  the  latter  were  in 
so  ill  a  condition  that  it  was  impossible  for  them  to  go  on, 
the  weather  and  roads  being  worse  than  ever  were  known. 
He  therefore  returned,  and  the  lieutenant-general  was  forced 
to  make  a  fifth  in  the  other  coach.  He  hears  Colonel  Spencer 
is  in  a  fair  way  to  recover.  The  same  post  brings  him  the 
news  of  Lord  Cutts's  death.  He  asks  the  favour  of  being 
named  by  his  Grace  as  one  of  the  lords  justices.  When  he 
mentioned  it  before  his  Grace  said  that  there  were  to  be  only 
two,  and  that  Lord  Cutts  came  recommended  from  England, 
but  that  is  now  at  an  end.  Sir  Thomas  Hardy  and  the  India 
fleet  are  still  detained  in  Cork  harbour  by  contrary  winds 
and  bad  weather.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Albemarle  to  Ormonde. 
1706-7,  February  6.—See  Report  VII,  App.,  p.  782. 

Major  Hugh  Morgan  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  Febmary  6. — Informing  his  Grace  that  he  has 
parted  with  his  troop  to  Mr.  Friend.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 
1706-7,  Febmary  8.  Dublin. — Renewing  his  request  to  suc- 
ceed Lord  Cutts.  All  is  quiet  in  Scotland.  The  transports  are 
ready  to  sail  and  Major-General  Echlin  is  going  to  the  North. 
The  writer  has  also  laid  horses  upon  the  road  so  that  he  can 
be  there  in  two  days.     Abstract. 

Same  to  Same. 
1706-7,  Febmary  8.     Dublin.— Asking  that  Captain  Stafford 
of  his  regiment  may  dispose  of  his  troop  to  some  of  the  other 
officers.     The  new  regiments  are  very  thin  of  officers  and 
soldiers,  especially  Sir  Roger  Bradshaigh's.     Abstract. 


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Monsieur  St.  Germains  to  Ormonde. 
1706-7,   February   8.     Kilkenny. — Concerning   a  brevet  as 
lieutenant-colonel    and    augmentation    for    himself    and    for 
his  wife  Marianne  de  Garr.     {French.)    Abstract 

William  Crowe  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  February  11.  Dublin. — Though  my  good  Lord 
Chancellor,  whom  I  must  ever  love  and  honour  for  his  courage 
and  constancy  in  his  late  behaviour  relating  to  an  affair  wherein 
your  Grace's  interest  was  most  immediately  concerned  and 
struck  at,  particulars  of  which  I  doubt  not  but  your  Grace 
has  had  from  the  best  hands,  though  he  resolved  to  run  the 
risk  of  an  impeachment  rather  than  by  any  act  of  his  contribute 
to  divest  your  Grace  one  minute  of  any  your  honours  or 
dignities,  and  though  this  resolution  was  taken  previous  to 
his  Lordship's  recollection  of  so  material  a  precedent  as  that 
in  Lord  Strafford's  time  on  the  death  of  Mr.  Christopher 
Wandesf  ord,  which  of  itself  were  sufficient  to  secure  his  Lord- 
ship, though  the  statute  our  adversaries  are  so  fond  of  does 
in  my  opinion  secure  him  too,  there  not  being  by  the  death 
of  Lord  Cutts  such  an  avoidance  as  should  oblige  my  Lord 
Chancellor  to  issue  his  writ  in  order  to  the  electing  a  new 
lord  justice,  the  kingdom  not  being,  as  the  statute  expresses 
it,  "  destitute  of  a  head  governor,"  yet  the  second  title  in 
your  Grace's  patent,  that  of  general,  so  peculiarly  your  Grace's 
due,  was  it  seems  a  while  ago  conferred  on  the  heroic  Mr. 
Langston  by  the  worthy  Mr.  Conolly,  and  what  time  and 
place  so  proper  for  making  the  present  as  her  Majesty's 
birthday  and  our  Lord  Mayor's  table,  where  after  Mr.  Conolly 
had  declared  openly  there  was  now  no  government  in  being, 
he  pronounced  Mr.  Langston  general  and  began  his  health 
by  the  name  of  General  Langston,  and,  though  several  at  table 
took  no  notice  either  of  him  or  the  health  by  that  title,  yet 
there  were  others  with  whom  it  went  glibly  down.  But  how 
pleased  soever  they  were,  none  seemed  so  delighted  with  it 
as  Mr.  Langston  himself,  who  has  ever  since  fancied  the  title 
his  due  and  takes  upon  him  accordingly,  except  in  appearances 
at  his  levee,  which  he  forbids  because  it  dirties  stairs  and 
rooms.  But  he  comes  every  day  about  noon  to  the  coffee- 
house, for  he  deigns  to  appear  in  public,  where  he  stands 
encircled  with  officers,  and  it  is  not  a  little  pleasant  to  observe 
the  different  airs  he  gives  himself.  Sometimes  he  puts  on  the 
fierceness  of  an  Orlando  Furioso,  and  anon  he  assumes  the 
superciliousness  of  Betterton  in  Aurangzebe.  He  seems  to 
have  joints  no  more  than  the  silly  vulgar  fancied  the  elephant, 
as  if  like  an  image  he  were  only  made  to  be  bowed  to,  not  to 
bow.  Quantum  mutatus,  thought  I,  for  I  have  seen  him  in 
more  humble  guise.  They  tell  me  his  picture  is  now  drawing 
here,  cap-d-pie,  for  the  Hospital,  I  hope,  or  some  public  place, 
for  if  it  be  comeatable  it  shall  go  hard   but  I  will  get  it  a 


^83 

finishing  stroke.  I  have  a  case  in  point  :  the  following  story — 
a  true  one  and  within  my  own  memory,  the  person's  name 
was  Gregory,  he  died  a  wealthy  citizen  in  the  year  1670 — 

A  purse-proud  cit,  who  from  a  cellar  in  a  carters'  inn  in 
Bishopgate  Street  had  by  his  industry  wrought  himself  into 
one  of  the  top  taverns  about  the  Royal  Exchange,  where 
thriving  in  some  years  to  an  extraordinary  degree  he  grew 
fond  of  some  superior  title  to  drown  that  of  his  present 
profession,  in  order  to  which,  since  it  was  not  to  be  leaped  into 
all  at  once,  he  begins  with  carrying  a  musket  in  the  artillery 
company,  that  military  academy  of  city  chiefs,  in  which  he 
had  not  passed  many  sunshiny  days  before  by  dint  of  merit 
or  treating,  no  matter  which,  he  was  advanced  to  the  post  of 
lieutenant-colonel  of  one  of  the  city  regiments,  Orange  Tawny 
it  may  be,  and  having  acquired  now  the  honourable  name  of 
colonel,  to  which  his  commission  did  by  the  courtesy  entitle 
him,  he  wanted  nothing  to  make  him  completely  happy  but 
a  copy  of  his  countenance,  which  a  sign  dauber  did  for  him, 
drawing  him  from  head  to  foot  adorned  with  all  his  train-band 
accoutrements.  The  precious  piece  was  immediately  clapped 
into  a  wooden  frame,  well  carved  and  richly  gilded,  a  more 
lively  emblem  of  the  colonel  than  the  canvas  it  contained, 
and  hung  up  in  the  great  dining-room  with  a  curtain  before 
it,  which  was  not  to  be  drawn  but  for  the  view  of  particular 
friends.  However,  the  news  of  this  raree-show  took  such 
wind,  and  city  and  country  came  in  so  thick,  as  quickly  enabled 
the  colonel  to  reimburse  himself  the  charge  of  painting  and 
gilding.  Some  waggish  neighbours  of  his  that  used  to  have 
as  much  pleasure  in  mortifying  him  by  putting  him  in  mind 
of  what  he  had  been  heretofore,  as  he  did  in  boasting  what 
he  was  now,  got  a  painter  or  two,  and  having  bespoke  the 
great  room  they  after  dinner  on  pretence  of  private  business 
locked  themselves  up,  and  taking  down  the  copy  whilst  the 
original  was  sweating  with  his  regiment  at  Finsbury,  never 
left  transmogrifying  it  till  they  had  reduced  the  man  to  his 
youthful  likeness.  His  hat,  with  overgrown  plume  and 
peruque,  they  struck  off,  and  whip  him  on  a  little  black  cap 
that  could  scarce  cover  his  ears.  His  fighting  face  and  whiskers 
were  swept  away  with  a  brush  or  two,  and  an  obsequious  young 
tapster's  put  in  its  stead.  They  stripped  him  of  his  coat  of 
man  and  croslet,  sword  and  belt,  and  drew  him  in  a  white 
waistcoat  and  blue  apron.  They  took  his  leading  staff  from 
him,  and  filled  both  his  hands  with  cans  of  deep  nicks  and 
towering  froth.  Having  thus  finished  what  they  at  first 
intended,  they  hang  the  picture  up  again  in  its  place,  draw 
the  curtain  before  it,  open  the  door,  pay  the  reckoning,  and 
"  Ye're  welcome,  gentlemen,"  without  one  creature  of  the 
family  knowing  how  the  canvas  had  been  dealt  with.  By 
this  time  the  mock  siege  at  Finsbury  draws  to  a  conclusion, 
and  the  town  (Madstrcht)  being  taken  both  conquerors  and 
conquered  march  duh-a-dub  homewards  together  very  good 


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friends.  The  colonel,  who  had  the  honour  to  command  the 
attack,  overjoyed  at  the  success  of  the  day,  invites  several 
of  his  regiment  with  him  to  refresh  themselves  after  the  heat 
of  the  action,  and  where  should  they  fix  but  in  his  great  room, 
where,  after  they  had  recounted  the  adventures  of  the  siege 
and  the  imminent  dangers  they  had  escaped,  the  curiosity  of 
one  of  the  company,  who  was  a  new-comer,  led  him  to  peep 
behind  the  curtain,  which  when  drawn  afforded  matter  of 
unconcealed  entertainment  to  all  but  the  colonel,  who  was 
in  the  utmost  confusion,  believing  the  devil  or  some  of  his 
emissaries  had  been  there,  so  that,  not  being  able  to  withstand 
the  ridicule,  he  broke  up  the  company,  and  being  some  days 
after  let  into  the  secret  by  one  of  his  neighbours,  who  first 
proposed  the  waggery,  the  change  in  the  picture  wrought  as 
great  a  change  in  him,  for  he  was  never  after  known  to  over- 
value himself  upon  his  acquired  fortune  or  title,  but  was  as 
humble  as  when  in  his  primeval  state  of  cellarage. 

Now  Mr.  Langston's  case  being  in  many  respects  like  Mr. 
Gregory's,  I  should  be  glad  to  see  the  like  rule  put  upon  the 
picture.  But  as  little  as  I  care  for  the  No  General,  I  am  for 
doing  him  justice,  and,  in  lieu  of  the  cans  would  paint  him 
with  a  pint  pot  in  one  hand  and  a  glass  of  sincere  racy,  as  his 
brother  Long  used  to  call  his  canary,  in  the  other,  with  a 
label  from  his  mouth,  "  See  how  sweetly  it  knits,  master." 
Notwithstanding  this,  my  Lord,  I  am  very  far  from  upbraiding 
any  man  with  the  meanness  of  his  past  condition  that  has 
temper  to  bear  a  glut  of  prosperity  with  anything  of  common 
modesty,  but  when  a  man  of  low  degree  originally  grows 
insolent  on  his  future  advancement,  as  the  most  lofty  and 
blazing  meteors  are  exhaled  from  the  lowest  grounds,  the 
generality  of  mankind  take  a  pleasure  in  seeing  him  humbled. 
I  have  made  the  freer  with  this  gentleman  because  he  has 
more  than  once  given  me  reason  to  believe  he  has  not  half 
the  kindness  for  my  Duke  that  I  have  for  his,  and  yet  mine  has 
deserved  as  well  of  him  as  his  of  me.  Besides  I  know  him  to 
be  a  slave  to  our  Speaker,  and  consequently  can  be  no  friend 
to  my  best  friend.  I  long  for  the  arrival  of  our  next  packet, 
that  the  news  of  Mr.  Ingoldsby's  being  lieutenant-general 
may  take  him  down  some  inches,  at  least,  of  his  forced  stature, 
for  at  present  no  awkward  girl  with  backboard  and  collar 
holds  up  its  head  like  him.  Our  enemies  were  never  in  greater 
hopes  of  an  alteration  in  the  government  to  their  liking  than 
now.  But  our  faith  is  very  different,  and  we  hope  a  few  hours 
will  convince  them  of  their  error  and  an  account  of  two  Lords 
Justices  of  your  Grace's  proposing  be  their  farther  mortifica- 
tion. But  come  what  will  nothing  can  make  me  otherwise 
than,  &c. 

Dr.  Arthur  Charlett  to  Ormonde. 
1 70  6-7,  February  1 1 .    University  College. — ^This  morning  was 
sealed  in  congregation  the  answer  of  your  University  to  the 


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letter  from  Geneva.  I  have  caused  a  fair  copy  of  both  to  be 
presented  unto  your  Grace,  to  which  purpose  I  sent  it  this 
morning  to  our  very  acceptable  Vice-Chancellor.  The  original 
copy  of  our  large  statute  book,  in  vellum  manuscript,  is  kept 
in  the  Convocation  House  under  the  distinct  keys  of  the 
Vice-Chancellor  and  the  two  proctors  ;  this  morning  I  had 
the  curiosity  to  look  upon  it  and  was  pleased  to  see  such 
was  the  noble  care  of  your  Grace's  predecessor  as  to  sign  every 
single  statute  distinctly  "  Guil.  Cant.  Cancellarius " ;  at  the 
end  of  the  whole  King  Charles  I  signed  it  in  CouncU.  The 
same  steady  zeal  and  firmness  to  the  interests  of  the  Church 
and  University,  of  which  we  have  daily  instances,  the  present 
and  future  age  must  celebrate  in  your  Grace ;  for  the  good  of 
both  permit  me  to  wish  your  Grace  length  of  days  and  plenty 
of  honour  and  health  with  all  the  sincerity  and  duty  of  one 
that  is  a  lover,  as  well  as  member,  of  the  University  and  Church, 
and  humbly  begs  leave  to  be  reputed,  &c. 

I  here  enclose  an  order  of  sessions,  which  I  printed  at  the 
request  of  the  Recorder,  signed  by  the  Town  Clerk,  by  which 
it  may  appear  where  the  precedency  lies  even  by  the  confession 
of  the  city,  at  the  city  sessions  in  the  city  guildhall. 

Major  Clement  Nevill  to  Ormonde. 
1 70  6-7,  February  1 3 .     Dublin.  — Asking  for  Colonel  Munden*s 
post  in  Lord   Lovelace's  regiment.     He   has  been  nineteen 
years  an  officer.     Abstract. 

Primate  Marsh  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  February  13.  Dublin. — Mr.  Secretary  Southwell 
acquainted  me  by  the  last  packet  that  your  Grace  recom- 
mended me  to  the  Queen  to  be  one  of  the  Lords  Justices  in 
Ireland  in  your  Grace's  absence,  and  that  her  Majesty  had 
given  her  consent  thereunto  and  appointed  it  so  to  be,  for 
which  signal  favour  I  return  your  Grace  these  my  most  hearty 
thanks,  promising  to  use  my  utmost  endeavour  to  discharge 
my  duty  therein  to  the  best  of  my  ability,  that  I  may  approve 
myself  a  most  dutiful  and  loyal  subject  to  her  Majesty  and 
a  truly  devoted  servant  to  your  Grace.  I  have  no  more  to 
add,  but  that  I  pray  for  your  Grace's  health  and  speedy  arrival 
in  this  kingdom,  who  am  &c. 

Lieut. -General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  February  13.  Dublin. — Concerning  officers  already 
mentioned.  He  shall  not  be  wanting  to  advise  the  Lords 
Justices  in  anything  relating  to  the  army.     Abstract. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  February  15. — The  two  Lords  Justices  that  are 
sworn  this  evening  are  not  very  agreeable  to  those  whose  desires 
do  not  always  agree  with  your  Grace's.     They  had  hopes  that 


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one  at  least  might  have  been  of  such  a  temper  as  they  could 
wish  most  men  in  the  kingdom  :  methinks  they  should  at 
last  grow  weary  of  wishing  vainly  and  of  as  vain  attempts. 
They  must  be  brave,  or  rather  very  obstinate,  who  can  hold 
out  against  so  many  and  such  constant  defeats,  but  as  I  take 
it  this  last  makes  their  constancy  look  a  little  melancholy 
and  dejected.  I  am  glad  the  rashness  of  some,  in  believing 
things  would  have  gone  otherwise,  has  made  a  timely  discovery 
by  his  officious  declaring  himself  in  a  public  place.  How  little  his 
former  and  now  again  his  present  violent  professions  of  service 
are  to  be  depended  upon.  We  were  in  a  manner  turned  all 
topsy-turvy  by  the  late  small  accidents,  and  now  we  are  again 
just  as  we  were. 

I  suppose  my  brother  Dixon  has  been  to  trouble  your  Grace 
with  his  humble  desires  that  you  would  please  be  at  the  hearing 
of  his  cause.  It  is  universally  looked  upon  here  as  one  of 
the  most  odious  and  most  cruel  actions  of  the  trustees,  as 
well  as  a  very  unfaithful  action  of  his  guardian,  to  turn  informer 
to  him  and  have  a  sum  of  money  for  so  informing  against  him. 
That  guardian  is  the  man  he  is  now  disputing  with.  Sir 
Thomas  Smith  has  been  indisposed  lately,  being  troubled 
with  fainting  fits,  which  seizing  his  head  begin  to  grow  a  little 
dangerous  to  him.     I  remain,  &c. 

The  beauty,  Mrs.  Bradston,  is  married  to  a  young  lawyer, 
one  Mr.  Pagnam.  The  Bishop  of  Clonfert  is  married  to  a 
daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Taylor. 

Viscount  Mountcashell  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  February  15.  St.  Catherine's. — Concerning  his 
Grace  acting  as  trustee  in  the  settlement  of  his  estate. 
Abstract. 

Major-General  Robert  Echlin  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  February  15.  Dublin. — ^Asking  that  his  regiment 
may  be  employed  abroad,  and  that  this  glorious  war  may 
not  end  without  his  sharing  therein.     Abstract. 

Lieut.-General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  February  17.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  army.  Lord 
Windsor's  regiment  is  in  great  want  of  forage  in  their  present 
quarters.  The  writer  desires  they  may  march  to  their  former 
quarters,  his  Grace's  regiment  into  the  Munster  quarters  and 
Lord  Tunbridge's  into  Connaught.     Abstract. 

Lord  Raby  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  February  22.  Berlin.— Mr.  Lewis  of  the  Secretary's 
office  inquiring  of  my  secretary  whether  I  had  not  received  a 
letter  from  your  Grace  makes  me  apprehend  that  you  might 
not  have  received  mine  in  answer  to  it,  since  nothing  could 
vex  me  more  than  to  have  one  I  have  so  much  real  value  and 


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respect  for,  as  I  have  for  your  Grace,  think  I  should  fail 
answering  any  commands  of  yours,  when  it  gives  me  an 
opportunity  of  expressing  how  much  I  am  a  faithful  humble 
servant  of  yours.  At  the  same  time  I  am  executing  your 
commands,  which  being  they  are  yours  are  agreeable  to  me, 
and  lest  my  letter  should  have  miscarried  and  since  the  spring 
is  coming  on  apace,  give  me  leave  to  repeat  to  your  Grace 
that  as  to  brown  bay  and  light  bay  horses  the  King  has  yet 
never  a  set  of  those  two  colours,  but  about  Easter  his  young 
horses  will  then  come  up,  but  as  I  told  your  Grace  before,  I 
could  wish  you  would  send  some  coachman  not  only  to  bring 
them  safe  to  you,  but  to  see  them  before  they  are  bought. 
I  have  lately  seen  those  cream  coloured  or  dun  set  of  horses, 
and,  indeed,  I  think  them  very  fine  and  very  improvable,  and 
I  believe  I  may  get  them  at  a  very  good  rate  since  they  are 
to  be  sent  so  far ;  else  the  King  would  not  sell  them  because 
his  best  set  of  parade  are  of  that  colour,  and  about  two  years 
ago  he  gave  the  Marquis  de  Bre  a  set  of  the  same  colour,  but 
not  near  so  fine,  and  they  were  extremely  admired  at  Vienna. 
I  remember  when  the  Duke  of  Berwick  first  came  to  England 
he  had  such  a  set,  which  he  gave  to  King  James's  Queen,  and 
were  extremely  admired.  They  are  not  quite  the  colour  of 
Lord  Cutts's,  but  something  like  it,  though  they  have  nothing 
of  them  either  in  their  shapes,  ages  nor  soundness,  for  these 
are  well  made,  young  and  very  sound,  and  as  your  Grace  has 
many  for  use  I  believe  you  would  like  these  for  parade,  and 
there  are  indeed  as  yet  no  other  to  be  had  out  of  the  King's 
stables,  though  I  hear  of  a  set  to  be  sold  in  town  of  brown 
bays,  but  I  cannot  answer  for  them  being  all  Prussia  horses. 
I  do  once  more  assure  your  Grace  I  wish  I  could  by  any  service 
show  you  how  much  and  how  sincerely  I  am,  &c. 

Major  Clement  Nevill  to  Ormonde. 
1706-7,    February    22.     Dublin.— Thanking    his   Grace   for 
his  commission  as  lieutenant-colonel.     Abstract 

Lieut. -General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,    February   25. — Referring   to   his   Grace's   sickness 
and  wishing  for  his  happy  recovery.     Abstract. 

Viscount  Mountcashell  to  Ormonde. 
1706-7,  February  25.      St.  Catherine's.— Referring  to  his 
Grace  having  been  indisposed,  and  expressing  his  joy  at  hearing 
that  his  Grace  has  perfectly  recovered.     Abstract. 

Viscount  Mountg arret  to  Ormonde. 
1706-7,  February  27.     Ormschurch. — Acquainting  his  Grace 
as  chief  and  head  of  his  family  that  his  father  had  died  that 
morning  about  four  o'clock.     Abstract, 


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Lieut. -General  Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 
1706-7,  February  28.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  affairs  of 
his  oJBice.  He  has  been  able  to  do  little  more  than  qualify 
by  taking  the  oaths  and  sacrament.  The  disorders  of  his 
office  are  too  many  to  trouble  his  Grace  with  at  this  distance. 
He  is  making  a  general  survey  of  the  stores,  and  has  sent  Lord 
Mount- Alexander  notice  that  if  he  pleases  he  might  join  in 
it.  He  intends  to  put  the  office  upon  a  method  of  accounting 
each  year  and  must  beg  his  Grace's  assistance  in  getting  a 
paymaster  or  treasurer  put  upon  the  establishment,  with  such 
a  salary  as  his  Grace  thinks  fit  for  the  trust.  There  is  need 
of  an  adjutant  for  the  train,  as  Major  Wibault  is  to  attend 
the  arms  that  are  to  be  made  in  Holland.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -Colonel  William  Ponsonby  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  March  2. — Asking  leave  to  dispose  of  the  command 
which  his  Grace  had  given  him.  It  requires  attendance 
entirely  inconsistent  by  some  late  misfortunes  with  his  other 
affairs.     Abstract. 

Primate  Marsh  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  March  4.  Dublin. — Your  Grace's  letter  of 
February  22nd  came  to  me  yesterday,  and  this  day  being 
March  4th,  after  the  Convocation  was  prorogued  to  May  13th 
pursuant  to  her  Majesty's  writ  of  prorogation,  I  communicated 
it  to  the  Archbishops  and  Bishops  there  present,  who  were 
all  deeply  affected  with  the  great  favour  and  honour  your 
Grace  hath  done  us  in  espousing  our  Church's  cause,  and 
desired  me  to  return  to  your  Grace  their  most  humble  duty 
and  most  hearty  thanks  for  the  same,  which  together  with 
mine  own  I  hereby  do.  Your  Grace  perhaps  hath  by  this 
time  received,  or  shortly  may  receive,  a  complaint  of  a  mass- 
house  in  St.  Mary's  Lane  being  shut  up,  it  having  been  pre- 
sented by  the  grand  jury  to  the  Queen's  Bench  as  a  nuisance, 
whereupon  the  Lord  Chief  Justice  issued  out  his  warrant  for 
doing  it.  I  would  not  trouble  your  Grace  with  this  matter, 
but  that  I  am  told  they  say  it  is  my  doing,  who  know  no  hand 
I  had  in  it,  nor  hath  any  application  been  made  to  me  about 
it  since  it  was  done.  I  hope  your  Grace  now  enjoys  your 
perfect  health,  the  continuance  whereof  is  the  hearty  prayer 
of,  &c. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  March  4. — I  had  the  honour  of  your  Grace's  yester- 
day, dated  the  22nd  of  last  month,  which  brought  the  agreeable 
news  of  your  Grace's  recovery.  I  am  making  those  lists  of 
absent  and  dead  members,  which  you  were  pleased  to  write 
for,  and  shall  have  them  ready  to  send  by  the  packet  next 
Thursday.  Since  my  last  Sir  Robert  King  is  dead,  who  was 
a  member  for  Abbey  Boyle  in  Connaught ;  he  will  be  succeeded 


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either  by  his  younger  son  or  by  one  of  the  Gores  of  that  country. 
The  feud  between  Bishop  Pooley  and  the  Archbishop  of  Dublin 
is  grown  up  to  such  a  height  as  is  almost  incredible,  and  now 
my  Lord  Primate  is  taken  into  it  as  well  as  the  Archbishop, 
for  Bishop  Pooley  preached  against  them  both  with  the  greatest 
violence  imaginable,  under  the  characters  of  High  Priests  and 
Priests  in  high  places.  This  makes  agreeable  entertainment 
to  the  fanatics,  and  to  many  others  who  are  not  so.  I 
remain,  &c. 

John  Hartstonge,  Bishop  of  Ossory,  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  March  5.  Kjlkenny. — Expressing  their  joy  at  his 
Grace's  recovery.  He  has  been  confined  himself  for  near  a 
month,  but  is  now  indifferent  free,  and  is  going  to  visit  Callan 
and  all  the  churches  between  Kilkenny  and  Waterf  ord  and  Ross, 
which  he  will  easily  dispatch  in  ten  days.  Their  physician 
is  for  temper,  learning  and  morals  an  extraordinary  man, 
and  served  his  late  Majesty  in  the  camp.  He  would  willingly 
succeed  Dr.  Monginot,  who  is  dead  or  dying,  in  his  pension  of 
five  shiUings  a  day.     Abstract. 

Sm  William  Penn  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  March  8,  n.s. — Recommending  the  bearer,  for 
whom  he  hopes  the  removes  on  the  death  of  Lord  Cutts  may 
open  a  place.     Abstract. 

Daniel  Morell  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  March  8.  Kilkenny. — Asking  for  a  pension  on 
account  of  his  services  in  the  English  hospital  during  the 
last  war  of  Flanders.  He  learns  that  Dr.  Monginot,  a  refugee 
doctor  at  Dublin,  has  an  illness  of  which  his  great  age  will 
not  allow  him  to  recover.  He  enjoys  a  pension  of  five  shillings 
a  day,  to  which  the  writer  wishes  to  succeed.  {French.) 
Abstract. 

Earl  of  Inchiquin  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  March  9.  Rostellan. — Referring  to  his  Grace's 
illness.  He  reminds  his  Grace  of  Monsieur  Boisrond,  who 
he  hears  is  stiU  in  London,  and  tells  his  Grace  that  Colonel 
Spencer  is  going  into  England  for  his  health.     Abstract. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 
1706-7,  March  11. — I  wanted  some  information  in  some 
particulars  which  hindered  my  sending  the  list  according 
to  your  Grace's  commands  so  soon  as  I  should  have  done. 
Those  who  are  struck  out  by  a  line  drawn  through  their  names 
are  such  as  are  dead  since  the  last  sessions,  which  I  think 
are  eleven  in  number,  but  the  absent,  which  are  marked  with 
the  letter  A,  are  much  more ;  they,  I  think,  amounting  to  six 
and  thirty.  All  that  are  marked  as  absent  are  in  England, 
Wt.  43483,  Q  A? 


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unless  it  be  such  as  are  officers  of  the  army,  and  if  some  of  them 
who  are  in  England  would  be  pleased  to  stay  there,  I  must 
confess,  they  have  my  full  consent,  if  that  would  be  of  any 
service  to  them.  There  are  others  who  I  could  wish  here, 
and  will  I  am  sure  be  here,  if  your  Grace  pleases  to  let  them 
know  you  would  have  it  so.  In  the  list  there  are  the  names 
of  several  who  died  after  the  first  sessions,  but  others  being 
chosen  in  their  room  before  the  second  I  did  not  think  it 
necessary  to  take  any  notice  of  them,  they  being  known  to 
your  Grace  before  you  went  from  hence.  Who  they  are  that 
will  be  the  men  that  will  be,  or  are  the  most  likely  to  be,  chosen 
to  serve  as  members  in  the  places  of  the  eleven  who  are  lately 
dead  I  shall  endeavour  to  inform  myself,  so  as  to  send  an 
account  by  the  next  packet,  though  I  believe  your  Grace  does 
already  know  very  near  the  matter  how  their  several  places 
will  be  filled. 

There  was  this  last  commencement  at  the  CoUege  a  great 
mutiny  by  the  under-graduates  against  the  masters  and 
their  other  superiors,  who  made  a  difficulty  about  giving  the 
degrees  to  those  who  were  candidates.  It  was  feared  matters 
would  have  come  to  an  extremity,  and  a  great  disorder  was 
apprehended  from  the  tumultuous  assembling  of  a  number  of 
the  scholars,  not  without  menaces  to  their  superiors  in  case  they 
were  stopped  from  taking  their  degrees,  but  they  had  their 
degrees  given  them  and  so  all  is  over.  The  occasion  of  this 
is  said  to  be  the  affront  they  gave  to  a  master  of  arts,  who 
they  thought  a  little  too  troublesome  by  being  a  little  more 
than  ordinary  nice  in  examining  into  their  qualifications  for 
their  degrees.     I  remain,  &c. 

Brigadier- General  Nicholas  Sankey  to  Ormonde. 
1706-7,  March  12.     Dublin. — Informing  him  that  no  man 
was  more  sensibly  touched  by  his  sickness  or  more  delighted 
by  his  recovery.     Abstract. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 
1706-7,  March  13. — I  think  they  were  eleven  in  number  that 
I  returned  to  your  Grace  in  the  list  I  sent  by  the  last  packet 
as  members  who  died  since  the  last  sessions  of  Parliament. 
Six  of  the  places  of  those  members  served  for  will  be  supplied 
in  the  manner  following  : — Captain  Bingham,  who  served  as 
knight  of  the  shire  for  the  county  of  Mayo,  will  be  succeeded 
by  one  Robert  Miller,  junr.,  of  that  county.  I  was  in  that 
country  at  the  assizes  when  the  news  came  of  the  Captain's 
death,  and  I  made  it  my  business  with  the  Archbishop  of 
Tuam  and  some  other  of  the  leading  men  there  to  secure  their 
interest  for  this  gentleman,  who  has  all  their  promises,  and  I 
am  morally  sure  he  will  be  elected  there,  and  am  also  as  con- 
fident of  his  proving  true  to  his  country's  interest  as  I  can  be 
of  one  who  never  yet  had  an  opportunity  to  be  tried.     But 


291 

I  am  sure  he  keeps  out  one,  who  I  know  would  be  quite 
otherwise.  This  I  gave  your  Grace  an  account  of  long  ago, 
so  long  that  I  thought  it  might  by  this  time  very  well  be 
forgotten.  In  the  county  of  Tyrone  Gustavus  Hamilton's 
son  is  to  succeed  Conyngham.  I  think  that  is  by  the  interest 
chiefly  of  my  Lord  Abercom.  As  a  burgess  for  the  Newry 
in  the  room  of  Mr.  Echlin,  there  is  to  be  chosen  one  Mr.  Hans 
Hamilton,  an  attorney,  by  the  recommendation  of  Mr.  Bagenal, 
whose  town  it  is,  and  whose  nephew  Mr.  Baily  is  the  other 
member,  who  has  never  divided  but  it  was  always  with  them. 
The  member  for  the  town  of  Louth  was  one  Mr.  Somerville, 
ever  perverse  while  he  lived  to  vote.  He  will  be  succeeded 
by  one,  Mr.  Tisdall,  a  nephew  of  Mr.  Savage's,  or  by  one,  Mr. 
Leigh,  a  friend  of  Mr.  Tennison's,  but  which  will  carry  it  is 
yet  very  uncertain.  Old  Mr.  Handcock  was  for  the  county 
of  Westmeath,  and  will  be  succeeded  by  his  grandson,  Greorge 
Rochford,  the  Attorney-General's  son.  The  sixth  is  Mr. 
Crawford,  who  served  for  Ross,  a  town  of  the  Earl  of  Anglesey's. 
He  will  be  succeeded  by  Mr.  Francis  Annesley,  though  he  has 
a  competitor,  Mr.  Auditor  Bushe's  brother,  who  is  collector  of 
that  port,  and  thereby  has  an  interest.  As  to  the  rest,  I  cannot 
tell  who  will  be  in  their  places,  but  in  Colonel  Caulfield's  your 
Grace  knows  my  Lord  Charlemont  does  appoint.  Who  will 
be  for  the  county  of  Limerick  in  Mr.  Oliver's  stead  I  believe 
is  uncertain.  I  believe  Mr.  Southwell  can  fill  up  that  of  Bangor 
where  his  uncle,  Hamilton,  died,  but  I  cannot  hear  who  is  to 
be  in  the  county  of  Tipperary  upon  the  death  of  Sir  John 
Meade.  I  find  I  am  mistaken  in  my  account.  I  thought 
there  were  eleven,  and  he  makes  but  ten.     I  remain,  &c. 

Lieut.-General  Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 
1706-7,  March  16.  Dublin. — Informing  his  Grace  that  he 
has  sent  Mr.  Southwell  a  long  letter  to  lay  before  his  Grace, 
and  expressing  regret  to  find  himself  and  his  office  under 
any  person  but  the  Queen  and  his  Grace.  He  encloses  Colonel 
Coote's  resignation  to  Captain  Burgh.     Abstract. 

Robert  Rochford  to  Ormonde. 
1 706-7,  March  1 8.  Dublin. — ^It  is  with  unspeakable  satisfac- 
tion your  friends  received  the  news  of  your  Grace's  recovery 
from  your  late  indisposition,  and  what  added  to  it  was  your 
account  of  your  return  into  this  kingdom  in  April  next,  to  the 
great  disappointment  of  some  evil  members  among  us,  which 
are  the  only  venomous  creatures  this  soil  can  bear,  and  I 
hope  your  Grace's  time  is  so  fixed  that  you  may  have  oppor- 
tunity to  know  what  is  aimed  at  on  the  one  hand,  as  well  as 
what  your  Grace  may  in  your  wisdom  think  necessary  to  be 
advanced  on  the  other  hand,  for  her  Majesty's  service,  the 
good  of  this  poor  country,  and  your  Grace's  honour  in  your 
administration,  to  which  I  shall  always  contribute  my  poor 
endeavours* 


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Your  Grace  will  by  this  packet  receive  a  recommendation 
from  the  Lords  Justices  at  the  instance  of  my  Lord  Santry, 
Mr.  Recorder  of  Dublin,  and  me  who  are  the  chief  parishioners 
in  Santry  parish,  that  Mr.  John  Jackson  may  succeed  in  the 
parish  of  Santry  to  an  excellent  good  man  that  is  newly  dead, 
and  the  living  in  the  government's  disposal,  in  which  your 
Grace  will  oblige  all  the  parish  and  a  great  many  more  than 
will  presume  to  trouble  your  Grace  on  this  occasion.  In  the 
next  place  I  am  a  most  humble  suitor  to  your  Grace  that  a 
rather  small  living  in  the  county  of  Dublin  of  about  60Z.  a 
year,  but  a  constant  cure,  may  by  your  Grace's  favour  be 
given  to  one  Mr.  Robert  Grattan ;  his  father  was  a  worthy 
considerable  divine  in  our  Church,  was  chaplain  to  your  Grace's 
most  noble  grandfather  and  family,  and  this  gentleman  I 
make  bold  to  mention  to  your  Grace  is  of  an  unblemished 
character  and  reputation  and  of  great  learning,  and  if  he  were 
not  master  of  all  the  endowments  befitting  his  function,  I 
had  not  presumed  to  have  interceded  for  your  Grace's  favour 
herein.  I  have  troubled  your  Grace  too  much  and  therefore 
must  humbly  beg  your  pardon,  and  your  Grace's  acceptance 
of  my  being  as  I  am,  &c. 

The  living  is  Kilsallaghan. 

Monsieur  De  Peralta  to  Ormonde. 
1706-7,  March  19.     Coventry. — Asking  his  Grace  to  obtain 
leave  for  him  to  go  into  Flanders.     He  sends  the  letter  by  his 
valet.     (French.)    Abstract. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 
1706-7,  March  19. — I  had  the  honour  of  one  under  your 
Grace's  own  hand  from  Richmond,  which  gave  hopes  of  Our 
happiness  in  seeing  you  here  the  middle  of  the  next  month, 
but  the  news  which  came  by  last  packet  of  your  having  had 
a  fit  of  an  ague  makes  us  again  fear  your  journey  may  be  put 
off,  but  we  are  in  a  great  measure  eased  of  our  fears  as  to  the 
danger  of  your  indisposition  because  we  are  told  it  missed  the 
time  it  was  expected  it  would  have  returned,  and  we  do  imagine 
there  will  be  no  danger  of  it  here,  for  though  it  may  seem 
very  strange  to  recommend  the  air  of  this  place,  yet  the 
physicians  do  assure  us  that  at  this  time,  nor  for  many  months 
past,  there  have  not  been  two  agues  in  the  whole  town,  so  free 
is  the  air  from  any  disposition  to  incline  people  to  that  dis- 
temper. It  has  been  usual  for  those  dangerous  accidents, 
which  have  now  more  than  once  happened  to  your  Grace  since 
your  going  over,  the  news  of  them  has  always  come  upon 
us  very  unexpectedly  and  looked  for  the  most  part  very 
desperate,  but  we  may  thank  Heaven  this,  though  it  were 
unexpected,  is  not  so  very  frightful,  since  we  are  told  that 
an  ague  in  the  spring  is  of  a  quite  different  nature  than  when 
it  happens  at  another  time  of  the  year,  which  is  a  great  relief 
to  us  upon  the  news  of  this  accident. 


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Last  Sunday  the  mutinous  parson  with  whose  seditious 
sermon  I  formerly  did  acquaint  your  Grace  mounted  the  pulpit 
again,  but  it  was  upon  a  different  occasion.  It  was  to  recant 
his  former  doctrines,  or  rather,  as  he  made  it,  to  renounce 
such  Jacobite  principles  as  were,  he  says,  by  misunderstanding 
imputed  to  him,  and  which  he  pretended  to  clear  himself 
of  by  explanation,  and,  indeed,  he  did  very  handsomely  and 
fully  declare  his  detestation  of  all  such  principles,  and  his  true 
loyalty  and  being  entirely  devoted  to  the  Queen's  service  and 
to  the  government  as  now  by  law  established.  I  forgot  to 
acquaint  your  Grace  in  my  last  that  in  the  room  of  Mr.  Daniel 
Reading  Mr.  Pooley,  the  painter,  is  to  be  chosen.  I  believe 
your  Grace  sees  the  number  of  the  dead  are  almost  all  good  men, 
and  above  two  parts  in  those  of  the  absent.  I  forbore  making 
any  observation  of  that  sort  because  having  sent  your  Grace 
everybody's  name  I  was  very  sensible  your  Grace  knew  them 
all,  every  man  of  them,  so  well  that  there  needed  not  any 
such  remarks.     I  am,  &c. 

Captain  George  Murray  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  March  20.  Dublin  Castle. — Asking  for  the  honour  of 
the  place  of  Black  Rod.  He  had  applied  to  Colonel  Price  for 
leave  to  wait  on  his  Grace  to  make  the  request,  but  the 
regiment  is  about  to  be  clothed  and  to  be  upon  duty  in  that 
city,  and  the  colonel  was  unwilling  to  grant  it.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  March  20. — Concerning  army  accounts.  Two  of 
Colonel  Stanwix's  men  were  condemned  for  desertion  ;  they 
drew  lots  for  their  lives,  and  one  of  them  was  shot  this  morning. 
Abstract. 

Hugh  Hamel  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  March  21.  Strabane. — Expressing  pleasure  on 
his  Grace's  recovery  and  coming  to  Lreland.  He  much  wants 
some  assistance.    Abstract. 

Sm  Richard  Levinge  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  March  22. — I  did  myself  the  honour  to  write  to 
your  Grace  some  time  since  to  congratulate  your  Grace  upon 
the  happy  recovery  of  your  health.  I  am  sure  no  person 
whatsoever  could  have  a  greater  degree  of  satisfaction  than 
I  had  on  the  receipt  of  that  good  news.  No  man  has  greater 
obligations  nor  no  man  a  deeper  sense  of  them,  and  I  should 
envy  the  man  very  much  whom  I  should  believe  to  have  more 
zeal  and  affection.  I  do  not,  indeed,  importune  your  Grace 
with  many  letters  because  when  I  have  nothing  to  write  of 
importance  to  the  service  I  think  it  would  be  a  trouble  to  you, 
since  I  have  heard  and  even  observed  amongst  the  rest  of 
your  generosities  that  you  never  omit  answering  the  letters 


S94 

of  your  friends  and  servants.  I  know  but  one  thing  of 
importance  to  your  Grace's  affairs,  and  that  is  your  being 
personally  here.  Your  presence  warms  and  cherishes  your 
friends  and  interest,  and  your  absence  casts  a  melancholy 
shadow  over  all ;  and  your  Grace  must  needs  be  of  opinion 
that  amongst  the  friends  you  have  here  some  of  them  are 
cold  hearted  and  want  to  be  comforted.  I  have  mentioned 
this  to  your  Grace  in  the  letters  I  have  writ,  and  would  have 
pressed  it  more,  but  that  I  took  it  for  granted  that  your  Grace 
saw  good  reason  for  your  long  stay  in  England.  Your  Grace 
will  not  take  this  ill  from  me  when  you  consider  how  much 
I  am  concerned  in  the  success  of  your  affairs,  and  that  I  am 
upon  the  same  bottom,  not  meaning  the  Solicitor  shall 
survive  the  Lord  Lieutenant.  I  writ  a  letter  to  Mr.  Portlock 
to  take  an  opportunity  when  most  easy  to  your  Grace  to  beg 
the  favour  of  your  Grace's  to  the  Commissioners  of  the  Revenue 
for  Mr.  Thomas  Levinge,  a  poor  kinsman  of  mine,  to  be  a 
land  waiter  upon  the  next  vacancy.  I  presume  to  ask  this 
because  I  know  your  Grace  is  not  weary  of  doing  kindnesses 
to  your  humble  servants.  I  have  nothing  more  to  wish  but 
that  your  Grace  may  have  a  happy  and  speedy  passage  into 
Ireland,  and  I  may  have  frequent  occasions  of  showing  your 
Grace  how  much  and  how  sincerely  I  am,  &c. 

Earl  of  Inchiqttin  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  March  23.  Rostellan. — ^Asking  his  Grace  to  approve 
of  Captain  Weldon  of  his  regiment  disposing  of  his  company 
to  Lieutenant  Archer,  and  Ensign  Woodward  buying  Archer's 
company.     Abstract. 

Captain  Theodore  Vesey  to  Ormonde. 
1706-7,  March  23.     Dublin. — ^Asking  his  Grace  for  a  letter 
in  his  favour  to  Lord  Rivers  or  Mr.  Erie  as  the   regiment 
is  marching  and  is,  he  hopes,  designed  for  service  abroad. 
Abstract. 

Captain  Thomas  Burgh  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  March  25.  Dublin. — I  was  directed  by  my  Lord 
Chancellor  to  consider  on  a  method  for  making  a  proper  maga- 
zine for  storing  up  arms,  and  all  other  materials  and  necessary 
instruments  and  habiliments  of  war  that  may  be  judged  proper 
for  the  army  of  this  kingdom,  and  a  suitable  proportion  to  be 
in  reserve  for  the  better  security  and  defence  of  the  nation, 
or  to  answer  any  occasion  the  Crown  may  have  for  furnishing 
troops  to  be  sent  on  any  expedition.  And  in  obedience  to 
your  Grace's  command,  signified  to  me  by  his  Lordship,  I 
first  considered  what  room  there  might  be  in  the  present 
ground  set  apart  for  the  use  of  the  ordnance  at  the  back  of 
the  Castle,  and  how  that  ground  may  answer  such  a  design. 
I  find  that  ground  very  much  confined  and  strangely  irregular, 
so  low  and  moist  that  we  can  never  keep  arms  free  from  rust, 


S&5 

and  the  back-yards  and  gardens  of  the  persons  bordering 
upon  it  lie  so  much  higher  that  in  the  night  time  any  number 
of  people  may  easily  get  into  it,  and  either  steal  or  destroy 
what  they  please.  However,  I  formed  a  rough  draft  of  what 
that  ground  is  capable  to  contain,  and  of  those  store-houses 
and  offices  which  are  most  essentially  necessary  for  answering 
your  Grace's  ends  of  having  the  service  well  performed  and 
I  find  that  to  build  an  armory  fit  for  twenty  thousand  arms, 
which  I  suppose  is  as  few  as  your  Grace  would  have  it  made 
for,  and  ten  thousand  of  which  number  we  expect  soon  from 
Holland  and  know  not  where  to  lay  them,  together  with 
store-houses  for  the  several  other  kinds  of  dry  stores,  and 
work-houses  for  artificers,  the  expense  will  be  about  5,000Z. 
I  think  it  my  duty  to  offer  to  your  Grace's  consideration 
whether  it  were  not  more  advisable  to  choose  a  spot  of  ground 
somewhere  else  to  make  a  complete  arsenal  that  might  be 
securer  from  the  moisture  and  against  any  ill-designing  people, 
where  the  powder  might  be  laid  up  in  a  proper  magazine  and 
removed  from  the  Royal  Hospital,  where  it  has  no  other  security 
than  the  bare  walls  of  the  house  it  is  lodged  in,  and  if  your 
Grace  do  think  this  last  method  to  be  most  advisable,  then 
whether  a  convenient  comer  of  the  Park  may  not  be  set  apart 
for  that  service,  and  to  be  so  fortified  as  to  be  out  of  danger 
of  any  sudden  surprise,  is  humbly  submitted.  I  take  this 
opportunity  of  acquainting  your  Grace  that  the  barracks  of 
this  town  are  in  very  great  forwardness ;  nothing  but  the  want 
of  money  can  hinder  those  for  one  regiment  from  being  in  a 
little  time  completely  finished. 

Lieut.-General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 

1706-7,  March  25. — ^About  encamping  the  army.  He  finds 
it  impossible  to  get  grass  for  the  horse  for  more  than  three 
weeks,  nor  is  it  usual  for  them  to  stay  longer,  by  reason  it  is 
the  time  of  the  year  to  provide  their  winter  forage.  All  the 
regiments  are  on  their  march,  and  the  last  of  Colonel  Stanwix's 
will  be  in  Cork  April  8.  They  are  very  thin,  but  280,  and 
want  five  suits  to  each  company  and  new  pouches.     Abstract. 

Captain  Gerard  Devine  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  April  2.  Ghent. — I  delivered  your  Grace's  message 
to  the  Countess  D'Erps,  who  was  much  pleased  with  your 
Grace's  favour,  and  gave  me  the  enclosed  to  send  to  your 
Grace.  My  Lord,  she  seemed  to  hint  to  me  that  your  Grace 
had  promised  to  send  her  some  usquebaugh  and  palm-wine. 
I  saw  my  Lady  Helen  Fleming,  who  desired  me  to  tell  your 
Grace  that  nobody  rejoiced  more  at  your  Grace's  recovery 
than  herself,  and  gave  your  Grace  her  humble  service.  My 
Lord,  I  humbly  beg  your  Grace  will  be  pleased  to  send  the 
letter  your  Grace  promised  me  to  General  Ingoldsby,  and 
hope  never  to  forfeit  your  Grace's  recommendation,  &c. 


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HoBERT  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  April  5.  Omagh. — Since  my  last  there  is  Captain 
Montgomery  of  the  horse  come  over  from  Spain ;  he  may 
therefore  be  struck  out  of  the  number  of  the  absent.  But 
there  are  three  more  gone  over  for  England,  viz.  Mr.  James 
Naper,  Mr.  Thomas  Jones  and  Mr.  Bligh,  who  are  to  be  added 
to  the  absentees.  The  first  of  these  is  gone  up  for  recovery 
of  his  health,  the  second  to  marry  and  the  last  to  purchase, 
having  agreed  for  a  considerable  purchase  of  ground  rents 
in  London.  I  was  lately  at  Cavan,  where  I  saw  Sir  Francis 
Hamilton,  and  he  promises  without  fail  to  be  at  the  opening 
of  the  Parliament.  The  other  knight  of  the  shire  is  Mr. 
Theodore  Butler,  who  is  absent,  and  they  say  is  to  be  made 
a  lord  as  well  as  Sir  Christopher  Wandesford,  in  whose  room 
I  hope  your  Grace  has  in  your  eye  some  good  man  that  may 
be  relied  upon. 

I  am  in  the  county  of  Tyrone,  being  appointed  to  go  the 
north-west  circuit  with  my  brother  Dolben,  who  is  not  yet 
come  over.  This  country  is  most  sadly  infected  with  tories 
and  robbers,  some  of  whom  are  proclaimed  and  some  are  not. 
One  of  the  former  was  brought  in  last  by  Mr.  Mervyn,  knight 
of  the  shire  for  this  county.  This  tory  has  been  guilty  of 
many  murders,  so  that  the  gentlemen  of  the  country  are  very 
desirous  to  have  him  gibbeted,  that  way  making  him  an 
example  of  long  standing,  whereas  the  other  is  but  of  half  an 
hour's  continuance.  I  told  them  I  could  not  order  it,  but 
would  write  to  my  Lord  Chancellor  to  acquaint  him  with  it, 
which  I  accordingly  did  by  this  post.  At  Cavan  some  of  the 
Popish  clergy  falling  out  among  themselves,  one  of  them 
discovered  against  four  of  the  others  that  they  continued 
privately  to  exercise  foreign  jurisdiction.  But  before  the 
trial  could  be  brought  on  they  agreed  again,  and  the  priest 
unswore  all  he  had  sworn  before,  so  for  want  of  evidence  they 
could  not  be  convicted.  If  anything  do  occur  in  the  circuit 
more  worth  your  Grace's  notice  than  these  are,  I  will  be  sure 
to  give  an  account  of  them,  who  am,  &c. 

Monsieur  D 'Albany  to  Ormonde. 
1707,  April  7.      Amersfont. — Asking  for  a  passport  to  go 
into  Guelder.     He  was  a  lieutenant-colonel  in  the  Cologne 
guards  and  had  been  taken    prisoner  in  the  last  battle  in 
Flanders.     (French.)    Abstract. 

Colonel  Thomas  Pearce  to  Ormonde. 
1707,  April  12.  Dublin.— When  I  had  the  honour  to  take 
leave  of  your  Grace  I  hoped  to  have  been  more  expeditious 
in  my  journey  hither  than  we  were,  though  considering  the 
goodness  of  our  passage,  being  but  twenty-four  hours  on  ship- 
board, and  the  good  luck  we  had  to  escape  the  privateers  that 
are  in  the  channel  we  have  no  reason  to  complain,  for  on 


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Good  Friday  we  landed  safe  and  well.  I  wish  I  could  say 
the  same  of  the  Princess  Meredith,  who,  poor  woman,  met 
with  a  very  unlucky  accident  upon  the  road  by  the  carelessness 
of  her  coachman,  who  gave  her  no  notice  of  the  danger.  It 
happened  in  the  Dirty  Lane,  near  my  Lord  Sunderland's, 
where  the  fore-wheels  of  the  chariot  sinking  suddenly  into  a 
hole,  plunged  her  forward  and  bruised  her  face  to  that  degree 
that  she  will  hardly  be  fit  to  appear  these  two  months  ;  she 
wears  a  great  black  patch  upon  her  nose,  which  causes  here 
very  odd  speculations,  for  though  I  have  taken  mortal  pains 
to  convince  people  of  the  truth  of  the  accident  I  find  a  great 
many  will  not  believe  me.  I  have  waited  on  my  Lord 
Chancellor,  who  is  mighty  glad  to  hear  of  your  Grace's  recovery, 
and  all  the  rest  of  your 'friends  that  I  have  seen  are  much 
rejoiced  at  the  hopes  I  have  given  them  of  their  seeing  your 
Grace  soon  here.  We  have  no  news  yet  of  the  arrival  of  the 
convoy  and  transports  at  Eansale.  My  recruiting  officers  are 
all  come  to  the  regiment ;  the  men  they  have  brought  are 
very  good,  but  I  find  they  bring  short  of  their  complement. 
My  Lord,  I  now  beg  leave,  not  to  trespass  longer  upon  your 
Grace's  patience,  to  offer  my  most  humble  aclmowledgments 
for  all  your  great  favours  and  that  your  Grace  will  believe 
me  as  long  as  I  have  life  to  be  thoroughly  faithful  to  you  in 
all  respects,  &c. 

Lieut.-General  Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  April  17,  n.s.  Ghent. — Acquainting  his  Grace  with 
his  uneasiness  on  receiving  no  reply  to  the  letter  which  he 
wrote  him  upon  Lord  Cutts's  death.  He  would  never  for- 
give himself  were  he  capable  of  saying  or  doing  anything 
to  disoblige  his  Grace.  Lord  Marlborough  is  hourly  expected. 
Abstract 

Primate  Marsh  and  Others  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  April  17.  Dublin. — ^The  last  packets  informed  us 
that  our  bill  for  the  forfeited  impropriations  is  passed.  We 
think  ourselves  obliged  in  all  humility  to  return  your  Grace 
our  most  hearty  thanks  for  your  Grace's  care  of  the  Church 
in  that  and  all  other  its  concerns,  and  we  take  this  opportunity 
to  profess  the  great  sense  we  have  of  your  Grace's  favours. 
We  did  not  trouble  ourselves  to  make  any  interest  amongst 
the  Lords  to  further  the  bill,  because  we  entirely  depended 
on  your  Grace's  conduct,  and  we  most  heartily  pray  that  your 
Grace  may  be  able  to  bring  to  the  like  good  issue  all  your 
good  designs  for  this  Church  and  kingdom.  We  earnestly 
desire  your  Grace  to  accept  of  our  most  humble  duty,  as  we 
hope  God  in  your  Grace's  behalf  will  accept  of  the  most 
instant  prayers  of,  &c.  Signed,  Narcissus  Armagh,  Will. 
Dublin,  W.  Cassel,  Welbore  Kildare,  Wm.  KiUala,  St.  Geo. 
Qogher. 


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Monsieur  Dv  Marett  D'Antoigny  to  Ormonde. 
1707,  April   19,  n.s.     The  Hague. — Informing  him  of  the 
arrival  of  the  Duke  of  Marlborough  and  departure  of  Monsieur 
D'Auverquerque.     (French.)    Abstract 

Colonel  Thomas  Pearce  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  April  19.  Dublin. — It  is  a  very  melancholy  subject 
that  I  am  set  down  to  write  upon,  and  therefore  will  trouble 
your  Grace  with  so  little  of  it  that  I  shall  only  beg  you  will 
believe  that  the  news  we  have  received  here  of  your  being 
removed  from  this  government  is  as  great  an  affliction  to  me 
as  to  the  most  faithful  of  your  humble  servants.  What  could 
occasion  it.  Heaven  knows.  I  am  sure  it  is  much  beyond 
my  apprehension.  I  wish  the  Queen's  service  and  this  country 
may  not  suffer  by  it,  and  that  she  may  soon  think  she  has 
as  good  reason  to  restore  your  Grace  as  now  to  put  you  out. 
The  people  here  seem  generally  to  have  a  hearty  concern  for 
their  loss,  and  those  fools  that  were  rogues  enough  to  oppose 
the  Queen's  and  their  own  interest  while  your  Grace  was 
labouring  for  their  good,  seem  not  so  much  rejoiced  as  might 
be  expected,  which  makes  me  believe  they  are  bit.  Whether 
I  am  right  or  no,  I  know  not.  If  I  am  wrong  and  the  Brodricks 
have  any  benefit  by  this  change,  I  must  beg  leave  to  mention 
what  a  certain  Bishop  of  this  country  said  upon  the  death  of 
Queen  Elizabeth,  not  knowing  the  consequences  of  it : 
"  Beloved,  our  enemies  have  long  waited  for  a  day ;  'tis  now 
come,  and  the  devil  do  'em  good  with  it."  Pray,  my  Lord, 
give  my  humble  duty  to  my  Lord  Arran  and  my  Lord 
Grantham,  and  once  more  let  me  beg  your  Grace  to  believe 
that  I  am,  &c. 


Ormonde  to 


1707,  April  21.  London. — In  September  last  I  sent  you  a 
letter  respiting  any  further  muster  of  the  militia  till  a  more 
convenient  opportunity,  but  mentioned  nothing  of  the  muster- 
master's  pay  and  arrears.  He  has  now  very  earnestly  desired 
me  to  recommend  to  you  his  case,  and  if  you  think  it  reasonable 
and  just  I  hope  you  will  order  what  is  due  to  him  to  be  collected 
in  such  a  manner  as  may  be  easy  to  you  aU.  I  am,  &c. 
Copy. 

Ormonde  to  . 

1707,  April  21. — Your  late  muster-master,  Mr.  Connery,  has 
now  very  earnestly  desired  me  to  recommend  to  you  his  case 
about  his  yearly  salary  and  disbursements  ;  if  you  think  it 
reasonable  and  just  I  hope  you  wiU  order  it  for  him,  to  be 
collected  in  such  manner  as  may  be  easy  to  you  aU.     Copy. 

Colonel  John  Newton  to  Ormonde. 
1707,  April  24.     Dublin. — Informing  his  Grace  that  he  is 
just  preparing  to  go  to  Cork  in  order  to  embark  with  his 


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regiment.     He  is  obliged  to  condole  with  a  great  many  others 
the  loss  of  his  Grace  in  that  kingdom.     Abstract. 

John  Hartstonge,  Bishop  of  Ossory,  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  May  1.  Kilkenny. — Expressing  the  affliction  of  not 
only  himself  but  all  universally  here  at  the  manner  and 
suddenness  of  his  Grace's  supersession.  It  is  some  small 
comfort  that  Lord  Pembroke  succeeds.  They  hope  all  things 
will  not  suddenly  be  turned  topsy-turvy  as  was  expected  by 
some.  He  entreats  his  Grace's  thoughts  as  to  the  election  of 
members,  if  there  be  a  new  Parliament.  He  visited  yesterday 
Lord  Castlecomer  at  his  coal-pits.  His  Lordship  thanks 
his  Grace  for  his  kind  character  of  him  to  the  Lord 
Treasurer,  of  which  he  had  notice  from  his  brother  Halifax. 
Abstract. 

Major-General  Robert  Echlin  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  May  4.  Cork. — Expressing  his  regret  that  his  Grace 
is  removed  from  them.  It  is  the  greatest  misfortune  that 
ever  he  met.  He  finished  the  day  before  the  embarkation  of 
the  four  regiments  for  Portugal.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 

1 707,  May  7,  n.s.  Ghent. — Expressing  his  satisfaction  with  his 
Grace's  reasons  as  to  the  regiment  of  dragoons.  He  is  mightily 
glad  his  Grace  was  able  to  oblige  Lord  Tunbridge.  The 
Duke  of  Marlborough  is  to  be  at  the  Hague  the  next  day. 
Wibault  writes  that  the  materials  for  the  ten  thousand  arms 
are  very  good.  The  report  of  his  Grace's  removal  from  the 
government  of  Ireland  gave  great  trouble  to  his  Grace's  friends 
until  they  heard  his  Grace  was  made  easy  some  other  way. 
Abstract 

Louis  Crommelin  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  May  24.  Lisbum. — ^Acquainting  his  Grace  with  the 
deplorable  condition  of  the  families  who  are  to  go  to 
Kilkenny,  by  the  terrible  fire  that  entirely  consumed  Lisbum. 
Those  that  are  to  remain  in  the  North  have  lodged  themselves 
in  Lurgan,  but  the  others  are  stayed  there  in  the  ruins  and 
cabins.  A  good  part  of  their  looms  were  burned,  and  the 
workmen  have  to  be  maintained,  which  puts  them  to  great 
expense.  He  begs  that  their  establishment  at  Kilkenny  may 
be  proceeded  with  with  all  expedition.  Their  establishment 
at  Lisbum  had  cost  6,000?.  besides  a  great  deal  of  labour. 
Abstract. 

Princess  Sophia  to  Ormonde. 
1707,  May  27.— /See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  781. 


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Louis  Crommelin  to  Oemonde. 

1707,  May  31.  Lisbum. — Hearing  the  packet-boat  was 
taken  by  the  privateers,  he  writes  another  letter  to  the  same 
purport  as  the  former.     Abstract. 

Joseph  Kelly  to  Ormonde. 
1707,   Jmie   24.     Dublia. — Expressiag   his   concern   to   see 
that  day  welcome  paid  to  their  new  governor,  that  was  justly 
his  Grace's  due.     Abstract. 

Captain  William  Gore  to  Ormonde. 
1707,  June  28.  Dublin. — Concerning  his  Grace's  regiment, 
which  is  commanded  abroad.  He  refers  to  his  Grace's  favour 
in  giving  him  the  command  of  his  Grace's  own  troop,  and 
also  a  breviate  to  command  as  such  in  the  regiment.  He 
hopes  to  be  made  a  field  officer.  Brigadier  Villiers  designs 
not  to  go  with  them.     Abstract. 

Major  Arthur  Hebburne  to  Ormonde. 
1707,  July  1.     Dublin. — Asking  leave  to  agree  with  Colonel 
Villiers  for  his  command,  provided  his  friend  Colonel  Brudenel 
refuses  it.     He  will  stick  at  no  price  to  be  under  his  Grace's 
command.     Abstract. 

Dr.  Henry  Aldrich  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  July  6.  Christ  Church. — Concerning  a  request  from 
his  Grace  that  he  would  serve  Dean  Jones.  He  had  gone 
to  Combury  expecting  to  find  his  Grace  there.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  July  8.  Dublin. —  ...  I  send  your  Grace  my  Lord 
Lieutenant's  speech.  It  is  not  believed  that  either  House 
will  repeal  the  Test,  but  time  will  show.  I  am  daily  threatened 
with  impeachments,  but  fear  them  not.  However,  I  have  a 
troublesome  life  of  it,  but  I  hope  by  the  middle  of  August 
at  farthest  to  kiss  your  Grace's  hands  at  Richmond,  and  relate 
all  my  sufferings  to  your  Grace  with  pleasure. 

John  Kelly  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  July  25.  Oporto. — ^When  I  had  the  honour  to  kiss 
your  Grace's  hand  in  London  you  were  pleased  also  to  confer 
on  me  that  of  your  commands  ;  in  obedience  to  which  I 
have  been  as  diUgent  in  my  endeavours  as  I  hope  I  may  be 
successful  in  the  design  of  pleasing  your  Grace  with 
the  few  partridges,  being  twenty-two,  and  the  two  partridge 
dogs,  which  I  humbly  offer  to  your  Grace's  acceptance  by 
the  bearer.  Captain  John  Harvey,  to  whom  I  have  recom- 
mended, and  I  am  sure  he  wiU  take,  particular  care  of 
them.  I  shall  not  trouble  your  Grace  with  the  character 
of  the  dogs,  having  wrote  Mr.  Portlock  at  large  on  that  head. 


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But  I  shall  wholly  rely  on  your  Grace's  goodness  to  pardon 
my  weak  endeavours,  as  well  as  my  presumption  in  now 
begging  your  Grace's  acceptance  of  a  hogshead  of  port-wine 
and  a  small  barrel  containing  a  dozen  of  this  country's  hams  and 
a  few  puddings,  which  are  made  in  this  country  in  imitation 
of  those  of  Bolonia.  The  wine  is  a  sort  called  here  Lachryma 
Christi,  being  the  genuine  juice  or  tears  of  the  grape  without 
being  pressed.  If  they  reach  home  in  good  order  and  prove 
worthy  your  Grace's  acceptance,  it  will  be  the  greatest 
satisfaction  imaginable  to  him,  who  does  and  always  shall 
pray  for  your  Grace's  long  life,  health  and  prosperity,  who  is, 
as  in  duty  bound,  &c. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  July  26.  Dublin.— The  House  this  day,  Mr.  Ludlow 
being  in  the  chair,  upon  the  report  from  the  committee  of 
accounts,  resolved,  first,  that  there  was  no  debt  due  from 
the  nation,  but  on  the  contrary  that  there  was  10,000Z.  or 
15,000Z.  to  the  good  towards  defraying  the  charges  of  the 
next  year,  which  was  very  extraordinary  considering  that  the 
committee  reported,  as  I  am  informed,  that  60,000Z.  was  paid 
upon  the  Queen's  letter  over  and  above  the  charges  settled 
upon  establishment.  I  should  therefore  presume  to  think 
that  the  late  government  had  been  no  ill  managers,  nor  had 
not  left  the  Treasury  in  any  very  ill  circumstances.  The 
next  thing  I  hear  that  was  in  the  report  did  bear  a  little  hard 
upon  the  pensions,  especially  to  those  who  spent  them  in  other 
countries,  and  some  pensions  to  persons  that  live  here  were 
thought  fit  to  be  taken  off,  among  the  rest  a  small  pension  of 
200?.  per  annum  to  Mrs.  Villiers,  wife  to  Colonel  Villiers,  was 
reported  by  the  committee  of  accounts  as  an  unnecessary 
charge  and  agreed  to  by  the  committee  of  the  whole  House 
for  the  supply.  The  supply  was  moved  for  by  Mr.  Keightley 
for  a  year  and  three-quarters,  and  seconded  by  Sir  George 
St.  Greorge  the  elder,  who  was  followed  by  Mr.  Upton.  Mr. 
Keightley  acquainted  the  House  that  it  was  my  Lord  Lieu- 
tenant's desire  to  have  it  for  that  time,  and  that  he  intended  to 
do  all  the  service  he  could  for  the  country,  and  should  take  it 
very  kindly  to  be  complied  with.  It  was  afterwards  voted 
nemine  contradicente,  unless  two  that  said  no,  rather  out  of 
humour  than  emythmg  else.  The  two  brothers  said  nothing 
one  way  or  other. 

This  day  the  Lords  Spiritual  in  their  habits  waited  upon 
my  Lord  at  the  Castle  with  an  address  from  themselves  and 
inferior  House  of  Convocation,  full  of  duty  and  loyalty,  wherein 
amongst  other  occasions  of  their  general  thankisgiving  they 
thank  her  Majesty  for  the  bill  to  prevent  the  further  growti 
of  Popery,  and  for*  the  clauses  that  are  in  it  for  the  greater 
security  of  the  Church.  Some  would  have  worded  the  address 
a  little  more  particularly,  but  the  general  terms  were  thought 
best.    Last  night  there  landed  a  great  number  of  members 


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who  were  all  in  the  House  this  morning  ;  there  was  Colonel 
Southwell,  Colonel  Creighton,  Mr.  Henry  Fox,  Mr.  Crowe, 
Colonel  Palliser,  Colonel  Frend.     I  remain,  &c. 

Major  Theodore  Vesey  to  Ormonde. 

1 70  7,  July  2  7.  London. — Concerning  a  breviate  as  lieutenant- 
colonel.  He  had  hoped  to  find  his  Grace  at  Windsor  or 
in  town,  and  has  not  an  opportunity  of  waiting  upon  his 
Grace  at  Richmond  Park.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Abercorn  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  July  29.  Dublin. — Concerning  heads  of  a  bill  to 
revive  powers  granted  to  his  Grace  by  former  Acts  of  Parlia- 
ment. Sir  Richard  Cox  and  he  had  spoken  to  the  Lord 
Lieutenant  about  it.  He  will  not  fail  diligently  attending 
the  committee.  The  trouble  Sir  Richard  Cox  is  involved  in 
may  for  a  while  take  up  his  thoughts.     Abstract. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  July  29. — This  day  the  dialogue  between  Mr.  Higgins 
and  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  printed  here,  was  brought 
into  the  House  of  Lords  by  the  Archbishop  of  Dublin.  He 
moved  that  such  a  scandalous  and  seditious  pamphlet  was 
sold  about  the  streets  and  desired  that  a  committee  might 
be  appointed  to  examine  it,  which  was  done  accordingly,  and 
the  committee  came  to  a  resolution  that  it  was  false  and 
scandalous,  that  it  reflected  upon  great  persons  in  the  Church 
of  England  and  of  this  kingdom,  and  tended  to  sedition. 
Another  motion  was  made  that  it  should  be  burnt  by  the 
common  hangman,  which  was  ordered  accordingly.  Another 
motion  was  made  that  those  votes  should  be  printed  and 
ordered.  The  Commons  agreed  to-day  with  the  report  of 
some  resolutions  from  the  committee  that  sat  upon  the  state 
of  the  nation.  One  was  in  relation  to  my  late  Lord  Chancellor 
as  to  the  not  issuing  of  writs  upon  the  death  of  Lord  Cutts. 
Some  would  have  carried  it  very  far  against  him,  but  could 
not ;  however,  they  went  so  far  as  to  vote  that  he  had  not  done 
as,  they  said,  he  ought  to  have  done.  It  seems  they  got  such 
notions  in  their  heads  concerning  that  matter  it  was  not  in 
the  power  of  his  friends  to  remove  them.  I  cannot  tell  whether 
your  Grace  has  been  acquainted  with  the  great  charity  given 
by  Sir  Francis  Blundel  in  his  will  to  the  poor  of  the  parish 
where  he  lived  in  the  King's  County.  Major-General  Echlin 
assures  me  it  amounts  to  no  less  than  4,000/.     I  remain,  &c. 

Richard  Stewart  to  Ormonde. 

1707,    July    29.     Dublin. — Concerning    proceedings    in   the 

Irish  Parliament.     The  supply  is  to  be  continued  for  a  year 

and  three  quarters  as  a  salvo  for  two  years,  a  pitiful  evasio'n 

and  like  a  Jesuitical  sophistry  of  those  knaves  who  opposed 


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her  Majesty  and  his  Grace  in  so  reasonable  a  demand. 
Interest  is  more  Mr.  Brodrick's  God  than  his  coimtry,  nor 
ought  they  to  be  sm-prised  that  the  same  man  should  now 
betray  them  for  an  Attorney's  gown,  who  before  had  done  it 
for  a  Solicitor's.  In  the  state  of  the  nation  they  were  pleased 
to  compliment  Mr.  Page's  presentment  of  a  club  that  has  made 
so  much  noise,  and  by  that  means  gave  the  writer  their 
censure,  which  he  shall  always  take  to  be  his  credit.  Mr. 
Ludlow,  Mr.  Bernard,  and  Mr.  Saunders  interposed  warmly. 
His  own  relations  deserted  him.  The  late  Lord  Chancellor 
has  been  attacked  ;  they  have  warded  off  the  blow  though 
somewhat  tamely.     Abstract. 

Joseph  Kelly  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  July  31.  Dublin. — Your  Grace  could  not  have  done 
me  a  greater  favour  than  the  honour  you  were  pleased  to 
allow  me  of  writing  to  you.  In  return  I  wish  I  could  find 
anything  worthy  to  entertain  your  Grace's  ear.  The  business 
of  our  sessions  of  Parliament  is  almost  at  an  end,  and  for  the 
most  part  the  House  have  kept  a  pretty  even  temper,  except 
in  some  few  heats  against  the  late  Lord  Chancellor  on  account 
of  his  forbearing  to  issue  writs  on  the  death  of  the  Lord  Cutts. 
This  torrent  your  Grace's  friends  were  not  able  to  stem,  though 
it  was  the  opinion  of  a  great  many  of  them,  and  I  am  sure 
mine,  that  his  Lordship  was  safe  and  justifiable  in  what  he 
did  from  the  precedent  of  the  Lord  Strafford's  case,  but 
notwithstanding  that  was  cited  and  urged,  the  House  placed 
some  hard  votes  on  his  Lordship. 

The  business  of  the  supply  has  given  greater  difficulty  to 
your  Grace's  opposers  than  anything  else,  for  they  that  had 
given  such  violent  reasons  against  voting  for  two  years  when 
requested  by  your  Grace  found  themselves  greatly  embarrassed 
in  changing  their  resolution  now  with  any  tolerable  grace. 
Therefore  they  found  out  the  expedient  of  giving  the  former 
duties  but  for  one  year  and  three  quarters,  instead  of  two 
years,  which  was  unanimously  carried,  which  finesse  could 
not  but  make  us  merry  and  put  every  one  in  mind  of  the  Spanish 
friar  whose  conscience  was  so  squeamish  at  taking  the  fifty, 
yet  could  easily  digest  the  nine  and  forty  pieces. 

This  day  our  House  was  taken  up  in  answering  a  gracious 
answer  sent  by  her  Majesty  to  our  address  about  the  Union, 
in  the  debates  of  which  there  happened  to  be  occasion  to 
mention  the  clause  of  the  Test  in  the  Act  against  Popery, 
as  there  had  been  formerly  in  another  debate,  but  both  then 
and  now  the  House  showed  great  firmness  not  to  give  any 
colour  for  hopes  that  they  would  ever  consent  to  take  of  that 
great  barrier  against  Presbytery.  This  resolution  was  greatly 
owing  to  your  Grace's  friends,  who  on  a  division  on  that 
occasion  appeared  to  be  a  great  majority,  and  I  may  assure 
your  Grace  that  as  your  Grace  had  always  the  entire  affections 
of  the  better  part  of  this  kingdom,  so  your  Grace  has  gained 


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many  more  of  those  who  were  in  high  expectation  of  favours 
from  your  Grace's  successor,  but  are  now  made  sensible  by 
the  change  that  your  Grace's  designs  were  only  such  as  tended 
to  the  general  good  of  that  kingdom,  which  we  doubt  not  to 
see  your  Grace  again  govern,  which  is  the  hearty  wish  of  none 
more  than  your  Grace's,  &c. 

Joshua  Dawson  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  August  1.  Dublin  Castle. — I  would  not  presume  to 
trouble  your  Grace  with  any  accounts  from  home  until  I 
knew  from  Mr.  Southwell  that  they  would  be  acceptable, 
and  he  having  in  his  letter  of  the  24th  of  last  month  acquainted 
me  that  your  Grace  is  desirous  to  see  the  prints  as  they  come 
out,  I  have  by  this  post  transmitted  all  the  votes  to  this  time. 
As  to  what  has  passed  in  the  House  of  Commons  hitherto, 
I  doubt  not  but  your  Grace  has  had  a  better  account  than 
I  can  give  from  several  hands,  and  therefore  I  shall  only 
begin  from  what  passed  yesterday  in  the  House,  and  acquaint 
your  Grace  that  her  Majesty  having  sent  a  very  gracious 
answer  to  the  address  of  our  House,  Mr.  Dodington,  our  secre- 
tary, by  my  Lord  Lieutenant's  order,  brought  the  answer  to 
the  House,  and  after  being  read  it  was  moved  that  an  address 
of  thanks  should  be  drawn  up  and  printed  to  her  Majesty  for 
her  gracious  answer,  and  the  committee  was  appointed 
accordingly,  of  which  Mr.  Dodington  was  chosen  chairman, 
and  he  drew  up  an  address,  in  which  were  these  words,  that 
her  Majesty  should  find  the  people  of  this  kingdom  in  a 
disposition  to  embrace  any  expedient  her  Majesty  should 
think  of  for  the  union  of  her  subjects,  which  when  it  came 
to  be  read  in  the  House  was  understood  to  carry  another 
meaning  than  would  be  intended  by  the  House,  and  therefore 
as  the  Sacramental  Test  might  one  time  or  other  be  thought  an 
expedient  to  union,  and  if  that  address  so  worded  had  passed, 
the  House  would  have  thought  themselves  under  a  necessity 
to  have  complied  with  what  they  had  promised,  and  therefore 
would  have  that  paragraph  expunged.  It  was  much  debated, 
and  at  last  they  divided,  but  those  gentlemen  who  were  for 
the  address  with  the  expedient,  finding  a  very  great  majority, 
yielded  the  question  and  would  not  be  told.  We  that  were 
for  expunging  the  paragraph  were  to  go  out,  and  I  believe 
there  would  not  have  stayed  in  above  twenty.  When  that 
was  carried  Mr.  Tennison  proposed  a  clause  in  the  room  of 
that  expunged,  and  there  was  a  divison  whether  that  should 
be  received,  or  the  address  recommitted,  and  it  was  carried 
it  should  be  received,  and  then  those  who  approved  the  address 
would  have  had  it  quite  rejected  when  they  saw  they  could  not 
carry  it,  and  there  was  another  division  upon  that  question, 
but  it  was  carried  against  them,  and  the  address  with  the 
paragraph  prepared  by  Mr.  Tennison  was  allowed.  The 
gentlemen  who  opposed  your  Grace  the  last  session  have 
the  mortification  to  see  themselves  deserted,  and  that  they  are 


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not  able  to  carry  any  question  this  session.  On  Wednesday, 
upon  the  report  to  the  House  of  a  year  and  three  quarters 
being  given  in  the  committee  as  a  supply,  there  was  a  motion 
for  the  quantum,  and  Mr.  Keightley  proposed  135,000/., 
which  was  agreed  to  by  the  House  without  so  much  as  a 
debate  or  one  single  speech,  so  that  there  was  a  great 
likelihood  that  this  session  will  have  a  very  happy  conclusion. 
I  am,  &c. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  August  1.  Dublin. — The  Commons  came  yesterday 
to  the  greatest  divisions  that  they  have  done  since  this  session 
began.  It  happened  upon  occasion  of  an  address  to  thank  the 
Queen  for  her  answer  to  their  former  address,  wherein  her 
Majesty  gives  them  assurances  of  her  resolution  to  extend 
the  union  of  her  subjects  as  far  as  she  can.  In  the  address  of 
thanks  for  this  gracious  answer,  the  committee  agreed  to 
these  words,  that  they  were  ready  to  concur  in  any  expedient 
her  Majesty  should  think  fit  to  propose  for  that  great  end. 
The  address  being  so  reported  to  the  House,  great  debates 
arose  upon  those  words,  "  any  expedient,"  which  several  took 
exception  against  saying  what  if  the  expedient  should  be 
taking  off  the  Sacramental  Test,  and  if  so  then  they  should  engage 
themselves  to  take  that  off,  which  they  never  intended,  and 
therefore  insisted  that  those  words  should  be  struck  out. 
The  debate  was  very  long,  many  speeches  made  on  both  sides, 
but  none  offering  to  say  anything  for  taking  off  the  Test. 
Those  who  spoke  the  most  earnestly  for  the  words  continuing 
in  it  generally  declared  against  that,  but  pretended  to  show 
that  the  agreeing  to  those  words  obliged  nobody  to  any  such 
thing.  At  last  they  came  to  a  division  and  it  was  carried 
to  leave  out  the  words  by  such  a  majority  that  the  ayes  gave 
it  up  and  would  not  tell,  but  some  who  were  in  the  House, 
and  were  used  to  number  those  that  were  there,  do,  according 
to  the  best  computation  they  can  make,  believe  that  the  noes 
who  were  for  rejecting  the  words  were  at  least  160,  and  the 
ayes  but  40. 

Afterwards  a  motion  was  made  to  recommit  it,  but  that 
was  carried  against  them,  but  by  a  less  majority.  The  second 
and  last  division  was  upon  the  question  whether  this  address 
as  amended  in  that  and  some  other  particulars  should  stand, 
the  address  to  be  delivered  to  the  government  to  be  sent  to  the 
Queen,  which  was  carried  in  the  affirmative  though  by  three 
only.  The  smallness  of  the  number  was  partly  because 
according  to  custom,  it  being  late,  many  that  were  weary  or 
expected  no  more  divisions  were  gone  away,  and  some  who 
stayed  did  not  like  some  new  clauses  that  were  put  into  it  upon 
the  debates  of  the  House. 

Mr.  Secretary  Dodington  being  the  chairman  of  the  com- 
mittee for  drawing  up  the  address,  was  also  the  person  that 
reported  it  to  the  House.     I  remain,  &c. 

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Major-General  John  Tidcombe  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  August  2.  Dublin. — ^Though  I  have  nothing  to  write 
worth  giving  your  Grace  the  trouble  of  reading,  I  cannot  help 
doing  myself  the  honour  this  way  of  kissing  your  Grace's 
hands,  and  hope  this  will  find  you  in  as  perfect  health  as  I 
heartily  wish  and  drink  to  twice  a  day  with  your  Grace's 
humble  servants.  Our  weather  here  has  been  so  bad  that 
it  has  rained  every  day  since  we  landed.  I  should  be  very 
sorry  Richmond  Park  should  have  had  so  bad  a  summer 
to  deprive  you  of  the  diversion  of  that  sweet  villa,  for  though, 
my  Lord,  I  am  a  very  young  fellow,  I  confess  I  am  so  much 
a  philosopher  to  think  a  wood  and  garden  one  of  the  greatest 
pleasures  of  life.  I  believe  I  may  be  allowed  the  latter ;  I 
fear  your  Grace  will  hardly  allow  me  that  youth  I  speak  of. 
I  can  give  you  but  a  slender  account  of  the  affairs  here,  but 
in  general  those  gentlemen  that  used  to  be  angry  act  much 
the  same  way  as  they  did,  and  in  my  opinion  the  late 
Chancellor  has  suffered  nothing  for  being  brought  upon  the 
tapis,  but  this  your  Grace  must  be  better  informed  of  than  I 
am  able.  My  Lord,  in  our  meeting  of  the  general  officers 
there  was  a  dispute  of  some  officers  relating  to  their  brevets, 
if  to  take  post  in  the  regiment  or  the  army,  and  I  moved  that 
Colonel  Price,  in  whose  regiment  it  was  in,  before  I  would 
come  to  any  determination,  should  write  to  Mr.  Southwell 
and  send  a  copy  of  the  commission  enclosed  to  lay  before 
your  Grace  to  determine  it,  which  before  this  I  suppose  may 
have  come  over.  I  beg  pardon  for  the  trouble  of  this  from 
him  that  always  hopes  of  the  honour  of  being,  &c. 

Joshua  Dawson  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  August  2.  Dublin  Castle. — This  day  in  a  committee 
of  the  whole  House  Colonel  Barry  attacked  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Revenue  and  charged  them  with  taking  duty  of  foreign 
salt  contrary  to  law.  It  appeared  to  the  committee  that 
the  duty  had  been  taken  for  some  time,  but  upon  the  Recorder's 
giving  them  his  opinion  that  it  was  against  law,  they  retraced 
and  gave  directions  to  their  officers  not  to  collect  that  duty 
for  the  future.  However,  this  brought  some  hard  votes 
upon  the  Commissioners,  that  the  taking  that  duty  was 
arbitrary  and  illegal  and  tended  to  the  destruction  of  our 
trade,  and  then  Colonel  Barry  laid  some  other  articles  to  the 
Commissioners'  charge,  which  were  adjourned  to  another  time. 
I  am,  &c. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  August  2. — ^This  day  was  appointed  for  the  state  of 
the  nation,  but  the  matter  was  put  off  tiQ  Monday.  A  vote 
passed  afterwards  condemning  those  who  laid  the  accounts 
before  the  House  as  not  having  done  their  duty  by  bringing 
the  nation  in  debt,  either  by  mistake  or  otherwise,  when  in 


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truth  there  was  no  debt  at  all,  but  money  in  the  Treasury 
to  the  good  towards  the  charges  of  next  year.  Yesterday  there 
was  a  great  meeting  at  the  Bowling-Green  House.  It  was 
said  to  be  a  meeting  of  the  family  of  the  St.  Greorges, 
where  all  that  were  for  or  nearly  related  to  them  made  their 
appearance  ;  some  strangers  too  were  invited,  as  Lord  Herbert, 
Mr.  Dodington  and  some  few  more  ;  the  Speaker  too  was 
there.  This  day  the  Lord  Granard  came  into  the  House  of 
Lords  and  took  the  oaths.  He  dined  with  me  and  I  had  the 
honour  to  drink  your  Grace's  health  with  him  who  is  very 
much  your  servant.  There  are  some  discourses  as  if  very 
great  heats  would  be  in  the  House  before  the  recess  ;  several 
projects  are  on  foot,  which  if  any  of  them  take,  will  make  a 
great  disorder,  or  at  least  put  the  House  into  a  great  ferment. 
If  anything  happens  your  Grace  will  be  sure  to  have  an  account 
of  it  from,  &c. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  August  2.  Kingsweston. — I  got  well  down  to  this 
place  on  Wednesday  night  but  pretty  much  tired.  Since 
which  I  received  my  Irish  letters.  Your  Grace  has  seen  what 
Mr.  Saunders  writes  and  I  have  nothing  more  to  add  thereon 
but  to  desire  your  Grace  would  take  notice  thereof  to  him 
when  you  write.  Sir  Richard  Cox  writes  me  word  of  the 
stroke  they  have  had  at  him,  which  is  the  highest  malice, 
but  I  am  much  more  pleased  they  have  chosen  that  matter 
than  to  have  reflected  on  him  in  his  judicial  capacity,  or  any 
other  act  of  government.     He  tells  me  Sir  Richard  Levinge 

and  honest  Sir  Thomas  S left  him.     It  seems  Captain 

Philips  put  the  House  into  a  ferment  upon  speaking  against 
the  grand  jury,  which  was  very  improper,  but  I  believe  it 
hindered  them  from  going  on  farther  upon  Sir  Richard  Cox. 

The  committee  of  accounts  are  mighty  scrupulous  and 
very  angry  at  the  money  paid  to  Mr.  Sloper,  as  also  of  the 
sums  paid  to  me  for  Parliament  service.  Your  Grace  may 
remember  that  every  farthing  of  this  was  laid  before  my 
Lord  Treasurer,  and  paid  pursuant  to  the  Queen's  warrant  to 
the  several  persons  as  Attorney,  Solicitor,  Clerk  of  the  Crown, 
Council  Office,  Secretary's  Office,  Expresses,  &c.,  and  though 
I  might  have  had  as  much  pretension  to  have  charged  my 
expenses  and  trouble  in  soliciting  and  following  those  bills, 
I  never  did  apply  one  farthing  thereof  and  have  every  man's 
receipt  for  the  money.  But  by  this  one  may  see  the  ingratitude 
of  the  people,  who  can  question  the  charges  of  the  very  bills 
that  are  made  for  their  own  good,  as  if  the  offices  of  England 
were  bound  to  do  their  business  gratis  ;  besides  it  has  passed 
the  Queen's  approbation  and  has  had  her  direction. 

I  received  this  day  a  letter  from  Brigadier  Villiers  in  answer 
to  what  I  wrote  him  upon  his  former  letter  to  me,  wherein 
I  had  told  him  that  I  did  not  think  his  letter  fit  to  be  shown 
your  Grace,  and  that  I  should  always  take  your  Grace's  part 


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against  him,  because  I  knew  the  obligations  he  had  to  your 
Grace.  This  has  produced  the  enclosed  letter,  and  if  your 
Grace  will  direct  Mr.  Portlock  to  let  me  know  your  mind 
about  the  chaplain  and  surgeon,  I  will  write  it  to  him  and  desire 
the  letter  back.  If  the  regiment  comes  to  Spithead,  perhaps 
your  Grace  will  think  it  then  time  enough  to  settle  that 
matter. 

My  Lady  Betty  gives  her  most  humble  service  to  your  Grace, 
and  I  am  with  the  sincerest  respect,  &c. 

Same  to  Same. 
1707,  August  3.  Kingsweston. — I  had  a  letter  from  Colonel 
Price,  wherein  he  tells  me  the  general  officers  had  been  settling 
the  rank  of  his  officers,  that  they  had  ordered  Captain  Butler 
to  Sir  Roger  Bradshaigh ;  also  that  they  had  determined  that 
Lieutenant  St.  Leger  and  Lieutenant  Burton,  to  whom  your 
Grace  had  given  brevets  of  captains,  should  continue  to  do 
duty  in  the  regiment  as  lieutenants,  but  the  entire  order 
thereupon  was  deferred  till  Colonel  Price  should  hear  from 
me  which  way  your  Grace  designed  it.  I  wrote  Colonel  Price 
I  would  know  your  Grace's  pleasure  therein,  but  I  had  often 
heard  your  Grace  say,  when  you  had  been  importuned  to  grant 
brevets,  that  your  Grace  never  intended  they  should  hinder 
the  duty  of  the  regiment.  I  desire  your  Grace  would  favour 
me  with  your  determination  in  this  affair.     I  am,  &c. 

Colonel  Wentworth  Harman  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  August  6.  Dublin. — Concerning  a  report  that  he  is 
not  in  his  Grace's  interest  in  the  House  of  Commons,  It  is 
impossible  for  him  to  forget  the  many  favours  which  he  received 
from  the  late  Duke  and  Duchess  of  Ormonde.  He  has  voted 
for  his  Grace's  friends  so  often  that  he  has  been  told  he  was 
going  the  way  to  have  his  Grace's  battle-axes  broke.  He 
has  created  some  enemies  from  contradicting  a  great  officer 
here,  who  was  reflecting  on  his  Grace's  government  in  the 
administration  of  the  then  Lords  Justices.  Since  then  he  finds 
all  the  private  underhand  doings  in  the  world  to  the  prejudice 
of  himself  and  the  battle-axes.  The  quarters  of  the  officers 
and  men  have  been  taken  away  by  the  Lord  Mayor  since  the 
middle  of  January  last.     Abstract. 

Edward  Southwell  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  August  9.  Kingsweston. — I  here  enclose  your  Grace 
Mr.  Saunders's  two  last  letters,  which  came  to  me  yesterday. 
Your  Grace  will  see  another  instance  therein  of  their  dislike 
to  any  inroad  to  repeal  the  Test,  and,  indeed,  I  hope  your  Grace 
will  give  the  Attorney-General  a  caution  how  any  clause  is 
introduced,  and  if  your  Grace  appeared  once  at  those  bills 
it  would  easily  knock  any  such  design  in  the  head  ;  it  would 
be  most  grateful  to  all  your  Grace's  friends  in  Ireland.     I 


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hear  the  committee  of  accounts  has  been  as  spiteful  as  they 
could  in  their  report ;  we  shall  see  it  next  post.  They  would 
pretend  the  money  has  been  lavished  ;  I  should  be  glad  to  know 
where.  Poor  Sir  R.  Cox  has  got  a  wipe  by  adhering  firmly 
to  your  Grace's  interest,  and  is  like  to  be  the  only  martyr 
of  the  session,  but  where  he  had  so  much  concurrence  of  his 
brethren  in  the  law  on  that  side  and  this,  I  think  he  cannot 
suffer  either  in  his  prudence,  his  integrity  or  his  reputation 
with  impartial  men.  I  believe  your  Grace  has  comforted 
him  on  this  subject.  The  letters  this  day  mention 
that  they  have  altered  Mr.  Dodington's  draft  in  their 
answer  to  the  Queen,  so  I  believe  this  has  quite  knocked  the 
business  in  the  head.  I  have  nothing  more  to  add  but  my 
Lady  Betty's  humble  respects  to  your  Grace  and  that  I 
am,  &c. 

Sir  Richard  Cox  to  Ormonde. 
1707,  August  9.  Dublin. — I  forgot  to  remark  to  your 
Grace  that  the  committee  reported  to  the  House  that  there 
is  11,000Z.  to  the  good  and  no  debt,  which  is  as  great  an  applause 
as  could  be  given  to  your  government,  since  notwithstanding 
the  vote  of  credit  and  the  buying  arms,  building  barracks,  &c., 
things  were  so  well  ordered  that  no  debt  remains.  I  found 
it  necessary  to  sit  with  the  committee  of  Council  yesterday 
to  despatch  your  Grace's  bill,  which  was  then  agreed  to,  and 
will  be  reported  on  Monday,  and  I  hope  soon  to  bring  it  over. 
I  am  constantly  summoned  to  Council,  but  never  went  but 
on  this  occasion.  Colonel  Allen  is  on  the  mending  hand, 
but  does  not  yet  come  abroad.  I  believe  the  Houses  will 
rise  on  Wednesday.  Your  friends  are  not  lessened  in  number 
and  are  by  much  the  majority,  but  many  do  not  attend,  which 
gives  an  opportunity  to  others  to  show  their  malice  and 
their  art.  My  courage  has  appeared  equal  to  my  innocence, 
and  I  have  not  been  at  aU  dejected  by  the  endeavours  of 
my  enemies,  nor  indeed  ought  I,  for  they  happen  to  fall  upon 
the  best  and  most  shining  actions  of  my  life,  which  as  wise 
and  indifferent  persons  plainly  perceive,  so  they  give  me 
rather  more  than  less  respect  than  before.  Anderson  Saunders 
is  gone,  indisposed  with  the  colic,  into  the  country,  and  Frank 
Bernard  is  very  ill  with  the  same  distemper,  so  that  we  want 
two  of  our  best  friends.  My  Lord  Lieutenant  is  very  civil  to 
me,  but  I  do  not  wait  on  him  more  than  once  a  week  because 
I  would  not  give  any  occasion  of  jealousy.  I  hope  to  be 
going  in  ten  days  and  will  ever  be,  &c. 

Lieut. -General  Francis  Langston  to  Ormonde. 
•  1707,   August  26.     Dublin.— Informing   his  Grace  that  he 
had  been  to  Athlone  to  review   Lord  Ikerrin's  regiment,  and 
that   Lord   Pembroke   had  reviewed  Major-General   Echlin's 
regiment  in  the  Park.     Abstract. 


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Lieut. -General  Henry  Lumley  to  Ormonde. 
1707,  August  29.  Soignies. — Concerning  the  campaign. 
Toulon  is  much  more  difficult  than  was  imagined.  One  would 
think  taking  the  place  impracticable,  but  that  so  great  a  man 
has  undertaken  it.  It  is  reported  that  Prince  Eugene  and  all 
the  generals  were  against  making  the  siege.  They  will  march 
in  a  day  or  two  towards  Italy.  Mr.  Cholmondeley  tells  him 
his  Grace  is  much  at  Richmond,  and  pleased  with  a  retired 
life.     Abstract. 

Monsieur  Du  Marett  D'Antoigny  to  Ormonde. 
1707,  September  22.     The  Hague. — Concerning  the  death 
of   Monsieur    Dodyck    and    the   progress    of    the    campaign. 
(French.)    Abstract. 

Rev.  Martin  Baxter  to  Benjamin  Portlock. 
1707,  September  23.— See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  780. 

Colonel  John  Eyre  to  Ormonde. 
1707,   October  7.     Dublin. — Informing  his  Grace  that  the 
petition  was  not  proved  and  has  been  so  voted  by  the  House. 
Captain  Pennefather,  who  is  extremely  devoted  to  his  Grace's 
service,  desires  to  be  his  Grace's  sheriff  this  year.     Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Levingb  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  October  7.  Dublin. — I  was  extremely  surprised  and 
troubled  when  I  found  Lieutenant-General  Cholmondeley's 
letter  at  my  coming  to  Dublin  in  answer  to  mine  writ  some 
time  before.  The  occasion  of  my  writing  to  him  was  that  I 
had  writ  two  or  three  letters  to  your  Grace  with  such  accounts 
of  our  proceedings  here  as  I  thought  your  Grace  would  be 
desirous  to  know,  and  had  received  no  answer,  and  because  I 
knew  your  Grace  to  be  ever  very  punctual  in  favouring  your 
friends  with  answering  their  letters,  I  concluded  they  were 
intercepted,  and  therefore  prayed  him  to  get  me  a  name  under 
cover  of  which  I  might  write  to  your  Grace.  I  beseech  your 
Grace  to  be  assured  that  no  change  of  affairs  whatsoever  shall 
ever  make  me  forgetful  of  the  honour  and  favour  I  have 
received  from  your  Grace,  or  the  gratitude,  duty  and  service 
which  I  owe  you  and  will  faithfully  pay  to  the  last  period  of 
my  life,  and  that  I  could  not  be  capable  of  so  much  disrespect 
as  to  neglect  doing  myself  the  honour  of  answering  any  letter 
from  your  Grace  or  obeying  you  in  anything  in  my  power. 
It  is,  however,  a  very  great  pleasure  to  me  that  while  your 
Grace  was  under  this  apprehension  you  were  pleased  to  let  me 
know  in  what  manner  to  write  without  the  same  hazard  of 
having  my  letters  intercepted,  and  I  cheerfully  accept  of  the 
favour  with  most  absolute  confidence 'in  your  Grace's  goodness 
and  my  own  sincerity.  I  forbore  writing  a  few  days  that  I 
might  give  you  an  account  of  Colonel  Eyre's  affair.     We  sat 


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upon  it  from  ten  in  the  morning  till  two  or  three  on  Sunday 
morning,  and  yet  came  to  no  resolution,  everybody  being  tired 
out,  and  so  they  agreed  to  adjourn  till  this  day,  and  now 
the  petition  is  voted  not  to  be  proved  to  the  satisfaction 
of  the  House.  There  would  and  ought  to  have  been  other 
votes  for  punishing  the  promoters  of  the  petition,  but  they 
were  hindered  by  a  treaty  of  peace  between  Sir  George  St. 
George  and  Mr.  Eyre,  so  Mr.  Eyre  is  safe  both  in  his  credit 
and  authority.  All  your  Grace's  friends  showed  themselves  on 
this  occasion.     The  bills  are  just  now  landed.     I  am,  &c. 

Major  William  Butler  to  Ormonde. 
1707,  October  7.     Dublin. — ^Fearing  that  he  has  offended 
his  Grace.     He  had  hoped  to  have  his  Grace's  commands  to 
come  to  England.     Abstract. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 
1707,  October  14.  Dublin. — ^This  day  the  Lords  were  very 
warm  upon  an  enquiry  how  a  clause  came  to  be  left  out  which 
was  to  the  disadvantage  of  the  six-clerks  of  chancery,  and 
was  by  them  inserted  in  the  bill  for  regulating  the  laws  ;  they 
were  very  desirous  to  discover  who  it  was,  or  where  this  clause 
was  dropped,  but  as  yet  have  not  been  able  to  find  it  out. 
Sir  Thomas  Montgomery  going  this  morning  to  Sir  George 
St.  George  and  his  brother  Oliver's  lodgings,  where  he  com- 
plained of  hard  usage  by  them  in  Parliament  and  insisting 
upon  it,  with  many  threatening  and  insolent  expressions, 
that  they  should  procure  the  undoing  of  these  things  which 
were  done  to  his  prejudice,  the  House  upon  complaint  made 
by  Mr.  Oliver  St.  Greorge  did  with  one  voice  order  him  to  be 
taken  into  custody  of  the  Sergeant-at-Arms,  though  at  first 
some  would  have  slighted  him  as  a  madman.  The  bill  against 
Putland  was  carried  on  Saturday  to  my  Lord  Pembroke  ; 
last  night  it  was  read  in  Council  and  this  night  is  before  a 
committee  of  the  Council,  so  that  it  will  go  over  with  all  the 
expedition  possible.  Mr.  Putland  has  the  misfortune  to  have 
the  whole  House  against  him,  however  they  may  differ  in  other 
matters. 

Sir  Richard  Levinge  is  again  in  danger  of  being  attacked ; 
it  is  reported  that  several  bills  being  given  to  him  by  the 
Council,  a  very  great  number,  he  made  very  many  and  great 
alterations  in  them  before  he  brought  them  back ;  these 
were  all  heads  of  bills  that  had  been  sent  from  the  Commons 
to  the  government  to  be  put  into  form,  and  they  say  when  he 
returned  them  he  said  that  truly  all  the  alterations  he  had 
made  were  only  such  as  were  necessary  to  make  them  common 
sense.  How  he  will  get  off  of  this  I  do  not  know,  but  it  is 
certain  several  do  murmur  and  threaten  severe  things  against 
him.  I  heard  one  say  that  if  he  be  called  to  account  he  says 
he  will  justify  it  and  show  the  particulars. 


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People  here  have  their  heads  so  filled  with  wrong  opinions 
that  it  is  feared  the  bill  of  privileges  will  be  thrown  out,  and 
that  too  with  great  indignation.  Yet  they  foresee  their  own 
dissolution  and  that  their  enemies  desire  it  as  what  will  be 
most  advantageous  to  them.  Whitshed,  who  used  to  be  with 
them,  is  for  the  bill,  and  begins  to  differ  from  them  very  often. 
On  Thursday  the  election  for  Belfast  is  finally  to  be  tried 
before  the  committee  of  elections.     I  remain,  &c. 

John  Pacy  to  Ormonde. 
1707,  October  17.  Dublin. — Informiug  his  Grace  that  he 
had  put  on  board  the  Pearl  of  Chester  the  glasses,  window- 
curtains  and  maps.  He  has  spoken  with  Signer  Tempest, 
who  demands  sixteen  guineas  for  the  sign,  and  ten  guineas 
for  his  Grace's  portrait  not  finished.  The  first  is  thought  too 
much.  His  condition  is  very  low.  The  writer  has  some 
extraordinary  wine.  The  collector  of  Chester  is  so  scrupulous 
that  he  fears  he  can  pass  but  little.     Abstract. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  October  18.  Dublin.— Last  Thursday  night  the 
election  went,  as  I  doubted  it  would,  for  Mr.  Ogle.  The 
majority  was  such  that  the  committee  did  not  divide  upon 
it.  The  reason  was  because  that  there  being  but  three  for 
Mr.  Cairnes  upon  the  election  at  Belfast,  one  of  them  was 
disallowed  by  the  committee  and  judged  incapable,  not  having 
taken  the  Sacramental  Test,  so  then  Mr.  Ogle  having  three  for 
him  that  were  allowed  to  be  good  votes  he  had  a  plain  majority 
without  any  straining,  as  was  at  first  intended  by  them,  to  give 
the  sovereign  two  votes  upon  the  election. 

Thus  Mr.  Ogle  comes  into  the  House,  or  rather  stays  in  it, 
for  he  was  the  sitting  member,  in  virtue  and  by  the  power 
of  the  law  for  the  Sacramental  Test.  Some  people  say  would 
it  not  be  a  little  odd  now  if  that  gentleman,  so  obliged  to  this 
law,  should  upon  the  first  occasion  be  very  ready  to  repeal  the 
clause  whereby  it  is  enacted,  yet  there  are  those  who  think 
such  a  thing  possible,  nay  very  probable,  though  it  be  made 
use  of  to  serve  the  present  turn  of  his  affairs.  The  other 
side  would  hardly  have  shown  so  much  equity  in  their  pro- 
ceedings, but  would  have  leaped  over  these  difficulties  when 
laid  in  their  way,  as  they  do  every  day  give  instances  they 
can  do  any  sort  of  objection  that  stands  between  them  and 
their  interest. 

There  happened  some  things  a  little  contrary  to  the  rules 
of  decency  upon  hearing  of  this  cause.  Some  ladies  of  quality 
were  present  at  it ;  my  Lady  Donegal,  who  was  chiefly  con- 
cerned in  her  own  right  and  her  son's,  to  whose  family  the 
magistracy  and  the  powers  of  the  corporation  always  belonged 
from  the  first  creation  of  it  obtained  by  their  ancestors,  with 
my  Lady  Donegal  were  several   other  ladies,   her  relations 


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and  some  others  to  wait  upon  her  to  this  hearing.  When 
the  counsel  on  both  sides  had  ended  all  persons  were  ordered 
to  withdraw,  but  the  ladies  stayed  out  of  curiosity  and  were 
unwilling  to  remove,  upon  which  a  member  whom  your  Grace 
knows  very  well,  it  was  Mr.  Caulfield,  stood  up  and  called  out, 
"  Put  out  the  candles,  put  out  the  candles,"  at  which  the 
ladies  fled,  very  much  resenting  the  affront  so  openly  offered 
them.  It  is  so  usual  for  everybody  here  to  stay  and  hear 
the  debates  that  it  was  a  particular  unkindness  to  refuse 
them. 

On  the  other  hand  my  brother  Macartney  did  himself  the 
particular  favour  to  stay  ;  he  was  one  of  the  three  electors 
of  Ogle,  the  chief  manager  for  him,  who  together  with  his 
brother,  the  sovereign,  do  set  up  to  have  the  great  power  over 
the  corporation,  to  the  prejudice  of  the  Countess  Dowager 
and  the  young  Earl.  It  is  true  they  were  raised  by  a 
dependence  and  by  the  favour  of  that  family,  but  it  will  not 
be  strange  to  your  Grace  if  one  should  say  that  sometimes 
signifies  nothing. 

Mr.  Macartney  being  thus  left  behind  in  the  committee 
when  the  Countess  was  turned  out,  and  seated  at  his  ease  to 
hear  the  cause  debated,  for  his  it  was  in  effect,  he  heard  some 
untoward  reflections  upon  judges  concerning  themselves  as 
little  burgesses  in  corporations  to  meddle  with  their  matter, 
and  which  was  worse  it  was  observed  how  intolerable  it  was 
that  one  who  was  then  judge  of  assize  in  that  country  should 
offer  to  do  it.  These  discourses  did  I  believe  grate  a  little 
upon  his  ears,  but  this  was  not  all,  he  came  not  off  so  ;  for 
one  Mr.  Philips,  a  member  who  can  sometimes  turn  fables 
into  verses  and  being  a  relation  of  the  Donegal  family  was 
incensed  to  see  the  judge  either  take  or  be  given  a  privilege 
which  the  Countess  was  refused,  went  up  to  the  gallery, 
where  he  was,  and  bid  the  judge  remove,  which  he  seeming  not 
to  mind,  he  told  the  judge  he  must  be  gone  out,  for  that  that 
place  was  not  a  place  for  him,  upon  which  the  other  told  the 
captain  he  wanted  manners.  These  being  words  that  naturally 
put  captains  into  a  flame  and  make  them  forget  their  respects 
to  the  furs  and  ermine,  the  captain  brustled  up  to  him  and 
told  him  he  was  a  villain  and  that  he  despised  him  and  all 
that  belonged  to  him.  Nay,  our  order  was  in  danger  of  suffering 
further  if  some  charitable  person  had  not  providentially 
interposed,  and  this,  my  Lord,  is  all  I  know  about  the  election. 

Yesterday  two  bills  were  thrown  out  of  the  House  of 
Commons,  that  for  the  relief  of  poor  prisoners  and  the  Popery 
bill.  The  first  was  said  to  be  a  money  bill  and  ought  to  have 
had  its  rise  here  in  that  House  ;  the  last  was  altered  since  it 
went  from  hence  and  had  a  promisory  clause  or  clauses  inserted 
into  it  that  in  consequence  would  have  repealed  a  great  part 
of  the  bill  already  passed  against  the  farther  growth  of  Popery. 

The  answer  sent  by  the  Lords  to  the  message  of  the  Commons 
mentioned  in  my  last  was  immediately  voted  not  satisfactory, 


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and  a  committee  appointed  to  inspect  the  journals  of  the 
Lords  and  the  evidences  that  were  before  them  in  relation  to 
that  matter,  of  which  I  find  we  are  to  hear  much  more. 

The  library  bill,  or  bill  for  erecting  a  library,  came  on 
yesterday  in  the  Lords'  House.  By  that  bill  a  place  is  appointed 
for  putting  up  Bishop  Stillingfleet's  library  near  St.  Patrick's, 
which  was  bought  by  our  Primate,  and  at  his  desire  several 
regulations  are  made  and  other  valuable  books  are  to  be 
placed  there  bought  by  him.  The  whole  project  will  it  is  said 
cost  him  6,0001.  ;  nobody  else  is  to  contribute  a  farthing 
to  it,  but  there  were  vast  objections  raised  against  that  bill 
and  Bishop  Pooley  made  a  long  and  vehement  discourse 
against  it  and  said  among  other  things  that  the  Primate 
was  not  worth  anything  when  he  came  over  here,  but  fled 
for  debt,  &c.  ;  much  more  besides  that  was  very  severe  upon 
him,  so  that  the  old  father  is  likely  to  suffer  much  for  this 
act  of  bounty.  The  Bishop  was  going  on  very  warmly  against 
him  when  the  Primate  was  happily  rescued  by  a  message 
from  the  Commons,  who  brought  up  the  money  bill,  which 
being  then  read  put  an  end  to  the  Bishop's  speech  for  that 
time,  but  the  Primate  may  assure  himself  of  having  the  best 
of  it  with  fresh  vigour  on  Monday  morning.     I  remain,  &c. 

Three  more  of  the  transports  that  were  gone  to  Portugal 
have  escaped  and  got  into  Kinsale.  Two  of  them  have  horses 
in  them,  the  third  provisions.  Most  of  the  horses  are  dead. 
They  report  that  the  commodore  so  soon  as  he  spied  the  French 
put  up  a  signal  for  the  merchant-men  and  transports  to  make 
the  best  of  their  way,  which  they  did  accordingly,  and  hope 
many  more  are  escaped.  The  news  of  the  French  being  in 
pursuit  of  several  of  them  towards  the  coast  has  frightened 
five  East  Indiamen  that  were  at  Cork  and  some  say  that 
endeavouring  for  more  security  to  go  to  Kinsale  they  are 
driven  by  contrary  winds  into  Berehaven,  where  they  will 
be  more  exposed  than  at  Cork,  besides  too  the  inhabitants 
thereabouts  are  suspected  to  be  of  intelligence  with  the  French. 

Welbore  Ellis,  Bishop  of  Kildare,  to  Ormonde. 

1707,  November  8.  Dublin. — Your  Grace's  letter  of  the 
30th  past,  which  your  Grace  did  me  the  honour  to  write  to 
me,  came  not  to  me  till  a  packet  later  than  it  was  designed  ; 
this  hindered  me  from  paying  my  acknowledgments  sooner 
for  the  honour  your  Grace  was  pleased  to  do  me.  Your 
Grace's  bill  passed  the  House  of  Lords  as  fast  as  the  forms 
would  allow  it.  All  persons  appeared  there  very  ready  to 
serve  your  Grace ;  only  my  Lord  Drogheda  made  this  remark 
that  it  confirmed  the  agreement  between  the  Queen  and 
your  Grace  and  said  he  did  not  mention  this  to  oppose  the 
bill,  but  to  show  they  were  sensible  what  they  passed.  I 
am  told  Mr.  Conolly  was  apprehensive  it  was  a  money  bill, 
but  the  House  were  not  of  his  opinion,  and  so  it  went  on  very 
easily  and  was  brought  back  to  the  Lords  by  Mr.  Ludlow. 


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I  must  humbly  thank  your  Grace  for  accepting  so  favourably 
my  endeavours  and  I  beg  the  honour  of  your  Grace's  commands 
whenever  I  am  in  the  least  capable  of  obeying  them,  which 
I  shall  always  do  in  the  best  manner  I  can,  and  shall  therefore 
serve  my  Lord  Mountcashell  as  far  as  I  am  able,  and  hope 
his  Lordship's  lease  will  be  renewed  on  easy  terms  to  his 
satisfaction.  I  shall  ever  wish  and  pray  for  your  Grace's 
health  and  prosperity.     I  am,  &c. 

Queen's  Letter  for  the  Clothing  or  the  Army. 
1707-8,    January    14.     Kensington. — Detailing    regulations 
to  prevent  debts  being  incurred,  and  giving  partici2ars  and 
quantity    of    clothing    for    troopers,    dragoons,    and    foot. 
Abstract. 

Sir  Richard  Levinge  to  Ormonde. 

1707-8,  January  31.  Dublin. — I  have  had  the  honour  of 
your  Grace's  letter  and  am  extremely  obliged  to  your  Grace 
for  your  good  intentions  to  me,  which  I  do  not  decline,  but  yet 
will  endeavour  to  get  myself  in  where  I  may  put  out  some  one 
of  the  enemy,  and  I  hope  your  Grace  will  be  pleased  to 
remember  to  manage  the  matter  of  Tulsk  to  Lord  Lanes- 
borough,  for  my  coming  in  there  will  balance  my  loss  at 
Longford.  We  are  quite  in  the  dark  here  what  is  adoing  in 
relation  to  our  affairs  and  what  steps  our  adversaries  are 
making,  but  by  my  Lord  Chancellor's  manner  of  acting,  and 
by  his  not  consulting  with  us  in  anything,  I  cannot  but 
apprehend  that  we  shall  receive  a  notable  change,  or  at  least 
that  he  is  of  that  opinion.  We  have  had  no  accident  here 
worth  your  Grace's  knowledge,  but  we  have  a  very  gentle 
government  that  acts  little,  and  is  less  attended  and  minded, 
and  therefore  not  likely  to  give  occasion  for  any  great  dis- 
courses. I  heartily  wish  your  Grace  all  health,  honour  and 
happiness,  and  am,  &c. 

I  had  writ  sooner  but  that  I  have  had  a  severe  fit  of  the 
gout,  which  made  me  keep  my  bed  many  days. 

Brigadier-General  Thomas  Pearce  to  Ormonde. 
1708,  May  14.     From  the  Portugese  Camp  upon  Caya. — 
Recommending  the  bearer,  Colonel  Rainsford,  who  has  been 
a  great   sufferer   in   Catalonia.     Colonel   Stanwix  never  fails 
a  day  to  drink  his  Grace's  health.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Rochford  to  Ormonde. 
1708,  July  23,  n.s.  Zulestein.— Asking  his  Grace  to  say 
a  word  in  favour  of  his  application  to  the  Queen  to  continue 
to  him  his  father's  pension.  It  was  1,000?.  a  year  out  of  the 
post-o£&ce  and  was  given  by  the  late  King  to  support  the 
title.     Abstract. 


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C.  BouRCHiER  to  Ormonde. 
1708,  July  31. — Concerning  his  Grace's  pay  and  the  clothing 
of  his  Grace's  regiment.     Abstract. 
Enclosure  : — 

List  of  particulars  to  be  provided  for  clothing  the  Duke 
of  Ormonde's  regiment  for  two  years  commencing 
1  March,  1707-8. 
7  Accoutrements  of  the  following  particulars  for  trumpets 
and  kettle-drums  ;  a  trumpet  coat  and  vest  of  buff 
coloured  cloth  laced  with  blue  and  gold  lace,  as  the 
former  or  as  your  Grace  shall  think  fit ;  a  trumpet 
string  of  blue  and  gold  coloured  silk ;  a  hat  laced 
with  gold  ;  a  pair  of  gloves  ;  a  hair  bag  ;  a  blue  cockade  ; 
a  collar  ;  a  pair  of  boots  ;  a  new  cloak  lining  ;  a  new 
treble  girth. 

186  Coats  and  vests  for  privates  as  the  former. 
12  Corporal's  vests,  edged  down   before  and  round   the 
sleeves  and  pockets  with   gold  galloon  as   the  former 
or  otherwise  as  your  Grace  pleases. 

198  Pair  of  boots,  they  having  none  since  the  first  raising. 

198  Pair  of  gloves. 

198  Hats  laced  with  gold. 

198  Hair  bags. 

198  Cockades  of  black  ribbon. 

198  Collars. 

198  Scabbards. 

198  Horse  leather  furniture. 
36  New  bits  and  bosses,  and  the  rest  new  tinned. 

198  New  treble  girths. 

And  whatever  other  small  accoutrements  shall  be  wanting 
at  the  next  review  of  the  regiment  shall  be  provided. 

Marquis  De  Lassay  to  Ormonde. 
1708,  December    15.     The  Hague. — Announcing  his  arrival 
there  and  expressing  his  obligations  to  his  Grace.     {French.) 
Abstract. 

Francis  Wright  to  Ormonde. 
1708-9,  January  17. — Concerning  the  clothing  of  his  Grace's 
regiment.  The  number  in  the  troop  is  137  ;  four  of  them, 
being  the  right-hand  men,  had  no  clothes  delivered  to  them 
the  last  clothing  and  neither  had  the  two  standard-bearers. 
Abstract. 

Brigadier-General  Thomas  Pearce  to  Ormonde. 
1708-9,  February  23,  o.s.  Lisbon. — I  have  had  the  honour 
to  receive  two  letters  from  your  Grace  lately,  one  dated 
December,  the  other  January  26.  I  find  by  both  that  your 
Grace  have  not  received  all  that  I  have  sent  since  I  came  into 
this  country.     I  must  confess,  my  Lord,  I  have  not  writ  so 


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many  as  I  ought,  but  I  am  very  sure  I  despatched  one  or  two 
from  the  camp  ;  what  became  of  them  I  cannot  imagine,  but 
since  I  find  your  Grace  is  willing  to  excuse  my  troubling  you, 
I  shall  not  fail  for  the  future  in  paying  my  duty  to  you  as 
often  as  any  opportunity  offers,  and,  as  well  as  I  am  capable, 
will  give  your  Grace  an  account  how  matters  stand  with  us 
at  present. 

My  Lord,  the  season  now  drawing  nigh  for  our  next 
campaign,  the  generals  do  pretty  often  meet  about  the 
regulation  of  the  troops,  and  orders  have  been  sent  to  Count 
St.  Ivan  to  march  forthwith  into  Alentejo,  but  the  badness  of 
the  weather  has  caused  the  Court  to  countermand  those  orders 
by  sending  him  directions  to  march  at  his  own  leisure.  He 
brings  with  him  four  regiments  of  foot  and  five  hundred  horse 
from  Entre  Minho  e  Douro,  four  of  foot  and  eight  hundred  of 
horse  from  Tralos  Montes,  and  four  of  foot  from  Beira.  They 
are  to  be  joined  by  four  of  foot  and  four  hundred  horse  from 
Lisbon,  four  of  foot  and  fourteen  hundred  horse  from  Alentejo 
and  four  of  foot  and  four  hundred  horse  from  Algarve.  This 
is  what  I  heard  Count  Taroka  say  yesterday  ;  how  true  it  is 
I  know  not,  but  in  a  little  time  I  shall  be  better  able  to  judge 
of  it.  To  reckon  the  foot  at  four  hundred  a  battalion,  which, 
one  with  another,  I  fancy  will  be  as  many  as  we  shall  find  them, 
they  will  make  nine  thousand  six  hundred  foot,  and  by  their 
own  reckoning  they  will  be  three  thousand  five  hundred  horse. 
As  to  our  four  regiments,  they  may  make  two  battalions  and 
no  more,  unless  our  recruits  come  in  time  ;  what  likelihood 
there  is  of  that  we  know  nothing  of  here,  nor  what  sort  of 
regiments  those  are  that  are  now  coming  from  England.  If 
they  are  all  new  men  I  am  afraid  you  will  have  but  an  indifferent 
account  of  them  after  the  first  campaign.  What  men  we 
have  now  here  are  pretty  well  seasoned  to  the  country,  for  I 
think  most  of  those  that  were  sick  are  underground.  The 
King  has  made  Count  St.  Ivan,  Taroka  and  D'Asminas 
lieutenant-generals,  and  Don  John  Manuell,  who  was  prisoner 
at  the  battle  of  Almanza,  general  of  the  artillery  ;  it  is  thought 
he  might  have  been  much  better  placed,  for  as  he  is  reckoned 
here  to  be  a  very  good  officer  he  wUl  be  more  wanted  in  another 
station. 

The  Marquis  of  Frontiera  seems  to  be  in  earnest  now  to 
continue  the  command  of  the  artillery,  which  makes  us  hope 
that  things  will  go  something  better  than  they  used.  He 
talks  of  going  out  the  beginning  of  the  next  month  for  the 
frontiers,  but  what  he  will  do  when  he  comes  there  I  cannot 
imagine  ;  for  my  part  I  think  all  that  we  have  reason  to  hope 
for  from  him  is  that  he  can  better  defend  them  than  any  one 
of  their  country,  or  else  by  his  taking  the  command  of  the 
army  he  may  know  Debai  will  not  be  so  strong  as  was  reported  ; 
how  it  will  prove  time  will  soon  show. 

We  have  had  several  unlucky  accidents  by  the  extreme 
badness  of  the  weather ;   a  great  part  of  the  wall  at  Campo 


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Mayor  is  fallen  down  and  a  whole  bastion  at  Olivenza  ;  some- 
thing of  this  kind  has  happened  at  Maura  and  they  say  that 
some  of  the  wall  that  is  next  the  river  is  tumbled  down  at 
Badajoz.  The  Marquis  D'Bay,  hearing  of  what  had  happened 
at  Campo  Mayor,  went  with  four  hundred  horse  to  view  the 
breach,  then  fired  a  good  many  cannon  at  him,  which  I  fancy 
signified  not  much  and  after  staying  there  some  hours  he 
returned  to  Badajoz.  The  Marquis  Montandre  has  sent 
orders  for  our  detachment  to  leave  Campo  Mayor  and  join 
their  several  regiments  by  the  24th  of  the  next  month,  n.s. 

We  have  had  some  misfortunes  at  sea  ;  first  the  Expedition 
packet-boat  fell  in  with  four  French  men-of-war  that  came 
from  Brest ;  she  is  ransomed  I  think  for  5001.  and  is  now  in 
the  river.  She  saved  the  mail  by  delivering  it  to  the  Alliance 
packet-boat  about  three  days  before,  which  was  occasioned 
by  her  being  disabled  from  keeping  company  with  her  by  the 
violent  storms.  The  Alliance  packet-boat  was  afterwards 
lost  in  this  river,  but  the  mails  and  men  are  all  saved.  These 
four  French  men-of-war  did  us  more  mischief,  for  not  far 
from  the  Rock  they  took  three  gallies,  the  Teny,  the  Eagle 
and  the  Hooker,  and  a  Dutch  privateer  of  twenty-four  guns, 
Captain  Croof  commander ;  they  were  all  carried  to  Calais. 
But  the  Dutch  have  had  better  fortune  than  we,  for  Captain 
Boms,  who  commands  a  ship  of  fifty-four  guns  with  three 
privateers  more,  have  brought  in  here  ten  prizes  that  were 
bound  to  Martineco  under  convoy  of  two  men-of-war. 

There  is  nothing  more  to  acquaint  your  Grace  with  that  I 
can  think  of  at  present,  therefore  I  shall  conclude  with  my 
most  humble  thanks  for  the  favour  you  have  done  me  in 
procuring  me  a  commission  for  brigadier.  My  Lord,  I  know 
not  how  to  express  the  sense  I  have  of  your  Grace's  kindness, 
but  beg  you  wiU  believe  that  in  everything  you  wiU  lay  your 
commands  upon  me.  I  shall  receive  them  with  the  greatest 
pleasure  in  the  world,  being  entirely  devoted  to  your  Grace's 
service.     I  am,  &c. 

I  am  promised  a  couple  of  very  good  dogs,  which  shall  be 
sent  by  the  first  opportunity. 

Queen's  Letter  for  Earl  of  Grantham. 

1709,  December  29.  St.  James's. — Directing  the  Earl  of 
Wharton  to  give  orders  as  Lord  Lieutenant  for  the  payment 
of  a  pension  of  1,000?.  a  year  to  Henry  Earl  of  Grantham  in 
consideration  of  the  merit  and  services  of  his  father  the  late 
Lord  Averquerque  in  the  reduction  of  Ireland.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Godolphin  to  Earl  of  Wharton. 

1710,  June  5.  Whitehall  Treasury  Chambers. — Sir  Stephen 
Fox  having  presented  to  her  Majesty  the  enclosed  petition 
praying  that  bedding  and  other  necessaries  may  be  provided 
for  lodging  a  company  of  foot  in  the  Isles  of  Aran  near  Galway 


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in  Ireland  ;  alleging  the  advantage  it  will  be  to  the  western 
trade  of  that  kingdom,  as  well  as  the  benefit  of  those  isles, 
which  are  his  estate  by  purchase,  that  the  inhabitants  thereof 
be  secure  from  the  insults  of  the  enemy,  I  do  by  her  Majesty's 
command  transmit  to  your  Excellency  the  said  petition  and 
desire  you  will  please  to  cause  the  allegations  thereof  to  be 
examined  into  and  let  me  have  your  opinion  what  may  be 
proper  to  be  done  therein.  I  remain,  &c. 
Enclosure  : — 

To  the  Queen's  most  Excellent  Majesty,  the  humble 
petition  of   Sir  Stephen  Fox,   knight,   sheweth, 

That  the  Islands  of  Arran,  situate  in  the  Bay  of  Galway 
in  your  Majesty's  kingdom  of  Ireland,  belongs  to  your 
petitioner  and  is  inhabited  by  his  tenants,  who  during 
the  war  with  France  have  been  often  plundered  and 
their  houses  destroyed  by  French  privateers,  who 
infest  that  coast  every  summer  to  the  great  damage 
and  lessening  of  your  petitioner's  rent  and  the  utter 
ruin  of  many  families.  On  the  chiefest  of  these  islands 
was  formerly  built  a  fort  and  fitted  for  quartering  an 
independent  company  of  foot,  who  constantly  remained 
on  the  same,  many  years  before  and  after  the  Restora- 
tion, but  in  times  of  peace  it  was  neglected. 

Your  petitioner  further  sheweth  that  upon  application 
made  to  the  several  late  Chief  Governors  of  Ireland  to 
quarter  a  sufiicient  guard  of  soldiers  for  protecting  the 
inhabitants,  orders  have  issued  for  detaching  men  out 
of  the  regiments  quartered  in  Galway  during  the  summer 
season,  which  has  cost  your  petitioner  a  considerable 
sum  of  money  to  make  them  tolerable  quarters,  as  of 
bedding,  &c.,  but  this  detachment  being  drawn  off 
at  Michaelmas  yearly,  the  said  bedding,  &c.,  has  been 
spoiled  and  embezzled  before  the  next  summer.  And 
in  regard  a  very  small  charge  will  put  the  said  fort 
into  a  defensible  condition  against  those  privateers 
and  to  receive  an  entire  company  of  foot  with  their 
officers,  for  which  use  the  fund  already  appointed  for 
the  barracks  is  properly  applicable.  Your  petitioner 
most  humbly  prays  that  your  Majesty  wiU  take  the 
miserable  condition  of  those  island  subjects  into  your 
royal  protection,  like  as  the  rest  of  your  loyal  people 
in  other  parts  of  that  kingdom,  by  giving  directions 
for  repairing  and  fitting  up  the  said  fort,  as  need  requires  ; 
and  also  to  establish  an  entire  independent  company 
of  foot  that  may  constantly  reside  therein  and  take 
care  thereof,  or  by  such  other  ways  as  to  your  Majesty 
shall  seem  fit ;    and  your  petitioner,  &c. 

Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 
1710,    July    17.     New    York. — ^The    many    extraordinary 
favours  which  I  have  received  from  your  Grace  makes  me  take 


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this  opportunity  by  the  Earl  of  Clarendon  to  acknowledge 
the  same,  hoping  I  may  deserve  the  continuance  thereof, 
chiefly  since  I  lie  under  her  Majesty's  displeasure  and  know 
not  for  what,  but  I  have  received  the  Queen's  letter  for  the 
revoking  of  my  commission  a  lieutenant-governor  of  these 
provinces,  since  I  am  informed  that  my  Lady  Lovelace  was 
pleased  to  charge  me  to  the  Queen  with  ill  usages  towards  her 
and  several  other  irregularities  which  I  am  ignorant  of,  and  beg 
your  Grace  will  inquire  of  my  Lord  Clarendon  about  my 
behaviour  therein,  which  makes  me  beg  your  Grace's  favour 
to  obtain  her  Majesty's  directions  how  to  enquire  into  the 
truth  of  those  allegations,  which  beforehand  I  may  sincerely 
assure  your  Grace  I  never  gave  the  least  ground  for,  as  it  is 
the  hardest  case  for  an  old  servant  to  the  Crown  to  lie  under 
his  Queen's  and  mistress's  displeasure  through  mere  mis- 
representation. I  must  desire  again  that  your  Grace  will  be 
pleased  to  procure  me  this  means  of  clearing  myself  thereof, 
which  I  am  sure  to  do  provided  the  matters  be  reported 
faithfully  to  her  Majesty.  There  are  some  acts  gone  home 
which  was  passed  in  the  Jersey  and  where  they  have  given 
me  money  since  the  death  of  Lord  Lovelace  for  the  support 
of  government.  I  hope  your  Grace  will  give  a  help  towards 
that  bill  passing  or  I  am  undone,  for  I  have  been  at  a  great 
charge  in  attending  to  assemblies  in  the  two  provinces, 
especially  when  the  intended  expedition  was  going  forward 
against  Canada,  nor  have  I  received  one  penny  of  salary  from 
either  province  this  five  years.  I  have  warrants  signed  by 
my  Lord  Combury  for  near  800Z.  due  for  my  salary,  but  the 
country  did  not  raise  any  money  at  that  time  for  the  support 
of  the  government.  I  humbly  beg  your  Grace's  pardon  for  the 
liberty  I  have  taken  and  beg  leave  to  subscribe  myself,  &c. 

Viscount  Mountcashell  to  Ormonde. 
1710,    October   19.     Dublin. — Hoping  his   Grace   on  being 
restored  to  the   government  will  favour  his  being   made  a 
commissioner  of  the  revenue.     Abstract. 

Monsieur  Du  Marett  D'Antoigny  to  Ormonde. 
1710,    October   23.     The   Hague. — Concerning   his   circum- 
stances, which  have  suffered  by  the  death  of  Monsieur  Dodyck. 
The  Duke  of   Marlborough  is  detained  by  contrary   winds. 
{French.)     Abstract. 

Sir  Thomas  Hanmer  to  Ormonde. 
1710,  October  23.  Mildenhall,  near  Newmarket. — Congratula- 
ting his  Grace  both  on  family  and  public  concerns.  He  thanks  his 
Grace  for  his  kind  inclination  to  Sir  Henry  Bunbury.     Abstract. 

Thomas  Keightley  to  Ormonde. 

1710,  October  28.     Dublin. — I  have  deceived  myself  very 

much  in  one  of  the  most  important  concerns  of  my  life  if  your 

Grace  has  not  too  just  an  opinion  of  my  constant  inclinations 

and  endeavours  at  all  times  for  your  service  to  let  you  question 


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the  sincerity  of  my  congratulations  at  this  time  upon  your 
becoming  again  our  immediate  lord  and  master.  The  whole 
kingdom  I  am  sure  has  reason,  and  I  think  verily  I  may  say 
with  truth  that  by  far  the  greatest  part  of  it  are  actually  at 
this  time  rejoicing  over  their  second  deliverance  by  the  Duke 
of  Ormonde's  coming  to  their  defence,  in  the  same  manner 
they  did  over  that  of  King  William's  at  first.  One  delivery 
was  from  Popery  and  the  arbitrary  power  of  a  King  resolved  to 
execute  it  as  far  as  he  could,  and  the  other  is  from  Presbytery 
and  the  insults  of  a  Dissenting  factious  people  just  going  to 
devour  us  and  all  kingly  government  together.  As  saying 
God  be  praised  you  are  coming  is  I  think  the  best  compliment 
can  be  made  your  Grace  upon  it,  and  serving  you  honestly 
and  faithfully  in  your  government  now  you  have  got  it  is  the 
best  way  to  praise  God  for  that,  give  me  leave,  my  Lord,  to 
assure  your  Grace  that  I  will  do  so  according  to  the  utmost  of 
my  power  and  the  power  you  shall  think  fit  to  give  me  for 
it,  and  let  me  say  in  one  honest  word,  which  I  am  sure  you 
like  better  than  many  compliments,  that  you  shall  not  find 
in  your  whole  dominions  one  more  sincerely  and  less  interestedly 
devoted  to  your  service  than,  &c. 

Lord  Slane  to  Ormonde. 
1710,    October    31.     Dublin. — Expressing    his   pleasure    to 
be  imder  his  Grace's  government  again.      His  regiment  is 
commanded  away,  so  he  cannot  wait  on  his  Grace.     Abstract. 

Thomas  Keightley  to  Ormonde. 
1710,  November  2. — On  behalf  of  Captain  Glegston,  who 
takes  the  letter.     His  Grace  had  already  given  him  a  company 
in  Lord  Deloraine's  regiment.     Abstract. 

George  Clarke  to  Ormonde. 
1710,  November  l.—See  Report,  VII,  App.,  p.  782. 

Lieut. -General  Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 
1710,  November  9.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  army  and 
other  matters.  About  two  o'clock  that  afternoon  Dr.  Molyneux 
had  acquainted  him  that  the  medicines,  which  he  had 
prescribed  for  the  Lord  Chancellor,  had  not  the  effect  he  hoped 
for,  and  that  he  was  afraid  his  Lordship  would  never  recover 
as  his  Lordship  was  more  disordered  in  his  head  that  morning 
than  ever.  If  he  should  recover,  it  must  be  by  a  very  long 
and  strict  course,  which  Dr.  Molyneux  feared  his  Lordship's 
age  and  constitution  would  not  allow.  Captain  Grimaudet's 
company  in  General  Tidcombe's  regiment  is  vacant ;  poor 
Major  Wibault  hopes  for  his  Grace's  favour,  and  so  does 
Captain  Edgeworth.  A  gentleman  named  Swift  has  a 
commission  from  the  Earl  of  Wharton,  dated  October  13, 
appointing  him  a  captain  in  Colonel  Jones's  regiment  in  room 
of  Sir  WiBiam  Parsons.     They  were  informed  Lord  Wharton 

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had  resigned  on  September  22.  The  writer  looks  upon  his 
Lordship  to  have  had  no  authority  to  grant  the  commission, 
and  desires  his  Grace  to  send  over  Sir  William  Parsons  or  to 
appoint  William  Gifford,  the  captain-lieutenant,  unless  his 
Grace  shall  in  regard  to  Mr.  Swift,  who  bought  the  company, 
think  fit  to  grant  him  a  commission  to  succeed  Sir  William 
Parsons.  The  writer  adds  in  a  postscript  that  Mr.  Swift  has 
actually  paid  the  money,  and  that  it  is  a  great  part  of  his 
fortune.     Abstract. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 

1710,  November  9.  Dublin. — There  is  now  a  fresh  alarm, 
nobody  knows  by  whose  means,  gone  through  the  kingdom 
of  a  new  Parliament,  and  everybody  in  city  and  country  are 
making  their  interest  against  the  time  of  dissolution,  which 
they  seem  to  imagine  is  very  near,  and  in  this  city  the 
candidates  having  been  going  about  for  votes  these  two  days. 
The  next  thing  that  makes  the  great  subject  for  talk  in  this 
place  at  this  time,  when  two  packets  are  wanting,  is  the 
continuance  of  my  Lord  Chancellor's  illness  and  being  incapable 
of  meddling  in  any  affairs  ;  his  friends  to-day  seem  to  despair 
that  he  will  ever  recover  again.  They  have  done  now  with  the 
great  outcries  that  were  every  hour  in  all  people's  mouths  against 
the  officers  of  Sir  John  Witterong's  regiment  that  were  concerned 
in  the  outrageous  insult  upon  the  Bishop  of  Limerick  com- 
mitted upon  him  in  his  palace  after  midnight,  because  they 
hear  that  matter  is  transmitted  over  to  your  Grace  in  order 
to  their  punishment.  They  say  the  Palatines  are  most  of 
them  shipping  themselves  to  go  for  their  own  country.  It 
seems  that  their  money,  which  was  to  be  paid  them  by  the 
government  for  their  subsistence,  was  put  into  such  hands  as 
are  not  now  to  be  found  so  that  they  have  nothing  to  buy  them 
bread.  Major  Burdett  of  the  county  of  Carlow  is  in  a  fair 
way  of  recovering  after  his  being  poisoned  ;  this  was  an 
accident  that  happened  to  him  and  a  son  of  Major  Weldon's 
by  unfortunately  taking  some  poison  that  was  intended  for 
the  rats,  though  some  malicious  people  at  first  gave  it  another 
turn  and  reported  he  had  done  it  out  of  a  family  discontent 
in  a  melancholy  humour.     I  remain,  &c. 

Lieut. -General  Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 
1710,  November  14.  Dublin. — I  have  received  the  honour 
of  your  Grace's  of  the  4th  and  7th  instant,  and  must  ever 
aclmowledge  myself  infinitely  obliged  to  you  for  your  kind 
professions  to  me,  and  shall  make  it  the  chief  concern  of  my 
life  in  some  measure  to  entitle  myself  to  the  honour  of  your 
Grace's  esteem.  I  have  also  received  your  Grace's  joint 
letter  to  the  Lords  Justices,  which  cannot  be  acknowledged 
in  the  form  it  ought  by  reason  of  my  Lord  Chancellor's 
indisposition.    I  shall  punctually  observe  what  your  Grace 


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has  been  pleased  to  give  me  in  command  in  relation  to  the 
government  and  state  of  the  army,  and  have  lately  sent  you 
an  abstract  of  the  condition  of  the  several  regiments,  which 
by  this  time,  I  hope,  may  be  come  to  your  Grace's  hands. 
You  will  not  find  them  so  strong  as  you  might  expect ;  the 
reasons  I  shall  communicate  to  you  when  I  have  the  honour 
to  see  your  Grace,  they  being  too  tedious  to  write.  As  to 
what  your  Grace  requires  of  me  in  relation  to  the  arsenal,  I 
must  beg  the  favour  of  your  patience  till  next  post,  having 
four  packets  on  our  hands  at  once,  but  by  the  next  packet  shaU 
do  myself  the  honour  to  send  you  my  thoughts  thereupon. 
Enclosed  is  the  list  of  the  new  sheriffs,  which  I  hope  will  be 
agreeable  to  your  Grace,  they  being  all  in  your  interest,  as  I 
am  informed  by  the  persons  in  the  margin  who  will  be 
answerable  for  them  ;  if  your  Grace  shall  think  fit  to  make 
any  alteration  in  the  list,  be  pleased  to  return  them  by  the 
first  post  that  no  time  may  be  lost,  for  as  yet  there  are  none 
pricked  in  the  kingdom. 

My  Lord,  I  am  extremely  concerned  at  the  hint  I  have 
received  that  some  one  has  been  suggesting  to  your  Grace 
that  the  Lords  Justices  designed  to  interfere  with  your 
appointment  of  chief  governor,  which  is  so  unjust  an 
insinuation  that  to  confute  it  I  have  ordered  to  be  enclosed 
to  Mr.  Southwell  for  your  Grace's  view  a  copy  of  the  Lords 
Justices'  warrant  to  the  Receiver  General  for  the  payment 
of  the  appointment  of  the  chief  governors  to  us  from  the  day 
of  Lord  Wharton's  resigning  to  the  day  of  your  Grace's  being 
declared  exclusive,  and  I  cannot  imagine  that  anybody  could 
be  capable  of  doing  us  that  ill  office  with  you  unless  it  were 
some  of  Lord  V^Tiarton's  emissaries,  who  would  make  their 
court  to  your  Grace  at  our  expense,  but  be  they  who  they  will, 
I  hope  you  will  never  give  credit  to  them  to  our  prejudice, 
for  I  do  solemnly  aver  to  you  I  never  had  a  thought  of  that 
kind,  nor  shall  ever  entertain  any  but  what  shall  be  for  your 
service,  which  I  have  very  much  at  heart,  as  shall  appear  by 
all  the  actions  of  my  life,  and  am  with  unfeigned  respect  and 
sincerity,  my  Lord,  &c. 

Captain  Richard  Roberts  to  Ormonde. 

1710,  December  3.  Ghent. — Asking  to  be  nominated  as  a 
lieutenant-colonel  in  the  regiments  that  are  to  be  raised  in 
Ireland.  His  Grace  had  made  him  an  officer  in  Sir  Richard 
Temple's  regiment,  now  Colonel  Newton's,  and  the  Duke  of 
Argyll  will  acquaint  his  Grace  how  industrious  he  has  been. 
He  is  the  eldest  captain  and  has  commanded  the  grenadiers 
in  Colonel  Newton's  regiment  for  three  years.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -Colonel  Arthur  Hebburne  to  Ormonde. 
1710,  December  6.     Dublin. — Requesting  his  Grace  to  give 
him  some  reward.     He  has  lived  in  purgatory  ever  since  his 


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Grace  left  them.     His  Grace  knows  the  man  he  is  unfortunately 
under.     Abstract. 

Queen's  Letter  for  William  Cecil. 

1710,  December  8.  St.  James's. — Appointing  him  major 
in  the  regiment  of  foot  commanded  by  Major-General  Charles 
Sibourg  and  also  to  have  command  of  a  company  therein. 
Abstract. 

Captain  Francis  Cope  to  Ormonde. 
1710,  December  19.  Limerick. — Asking  his  Grace  for  a 
removal.  He  had  been  in  Lord  Ikerrin's  dragoons  about  four 
years,  and  had  then  bought  for  450?.  Captain  Paget's  grenadiers 
in  Sir  John  Witter ong's  regiment  of  foot.  No  sooner  had  he 
taken  out  his  commission  than  news  came  of  the  disorders  in 
Limerick.  He  intreats  his  Grace  to  remove  him  in  order 
that  he  may  escape  ruin,  and  not  fall  a  sacrifice  for  crimes 
he  is  not  only  innocent  of,  but  utterly  abhors.     Abstract, 

Major-General  John  Pepper  to  Ormonde. 

1710,  December  25.  Valladolid. — T  did  myself  the  honour 
to  write  to  your  Grace  from  Madrid,  wherein  I  gave  you  an 
account  of  the  success  of  this  campaign  to  that  time,  since  which 
we  have  lost  eight  battalion  of  foot  and  four  regiments  of 
horse,  being  taken  at  Brihuega  by  the  Duke  of  Vendome, 
who  invested  us  with  thirty-four  battalions  of  foot  and  eight 
thousand  horse  with  thirty-three  pieces  of  artillery,  we  being 
separate  from  the  rest  of  the  army  on  our  march  towards  our 
winter  quarters.  The  enemy  having  made  four  several  attacks 
at  once,  which  continued  three  hours  and  having  spent  all 
our  ammunition,  we  defended  the  breaches  half  an  hour  sword 
in  hand,  then  finding  it  impracticable  to  defend  it  any  longer, 
a  chamade  was  beat,  but  not  till  the  enemy  had  above  two 
thousand  of  their  troops  in  town  and  a  great  part  of  the  town 
all  in  fire,  where  was  a  great  number  of  the  enemy  as  well  as 
our  own  men  destroyed.  We  were  made  prisoners  of  war. 
General  Stanhope  commanded  ;  there  were  General  Carpenter, 
Wills,  myself  and  Brigadier  Gore,  who  are  all  come  hither 
and  have  been  extremely  well  treated.  The  9th  instant  at 
ten  at  night  Mr.  Stanhope  signed  the  capitulations,  but  not 
with  my  consent,  nor  had  I  any  hand  in  this  unfortunate 
affair  otherwise  than  the  defence  of  the  town,  which  was 
defended  to  the  last,  nor  General  Wills,  and  it  was  against 
both  of  our  opinions  in  coming  to  that  place,  and  had  disposi- 
tions been  made  as  they  ought  we  should  not  have  been,  I 
may  say,  surprised.  As  I  am  not  answerable  for  the  troops 
coming  to  Brihuega,  nor  for  our  being  surprised,  but  to  the 
contrary  did  all  within  my  power  to  prevent  both,  so  I  must 
beg  your  Lordship  to  have  an  honourable  opinion  of  me  till 
you   be  informed   of   the  truth   of   this  unfortunate  affair. 


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Marshal  Honunborgh  marched  with  all  diligence  imaginable 
to  our  relief,  but  came  too  late,  we  having  marched  out  of 
Brihuega  the  10th  instant  about  eleven  o'clock.  The  Marshal 
came  up  with  the  Duke  of  Vendome's  army  about  twelve  towards 
our  relief,  who  engaged  the  enemy  very  vigorously.  The 
battle  held  till  ten  at  night,  and  how  it  is  decided  I  am 
altogether  a  stranger  to,  being  prisoner.  Of  the  horse  there 
are  taken  at  Brihuega  Raby's,  Harvey's,  my  own  and 
Stanhope's  ;  of  the  foot  the  Guards,  Harrison's,  Wade's, 
Dormer's,  Bowles's,  Grore's,  Munden's  and  Dalzell's.  I  have 
here  enclosed  your  Grace  a  copy  of  the  capitulations.  I 
long  to  be  in  England  that  I  may  have  the  opportunity  once 
more  to  see  your  Grace  to  own  with  all  gratitude  the  many 
favours  that  you  have  shown  upon  all  occasions  to,  &c. 

Stephen  Ludlow  to  Ormonde. 

1710,  December  28. — Recommending  the  bearer,  a  son  of 
Sii'  John  Rogerson.  He  has  served  in  Colonel  Creighton's 
regiment  several  years.  Sir  John's  eldest  son  has  married  the 
writer's  daughter.     Abstract. 

Lieut.-General  Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 
1710-11,  January  9.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  army.  He 
has  pitched  upon  the  regiments  of  Tyrrell  and  Fielding  for 
the  service  of  Portugal.  The  weakness  of  their  regiments 
there  is  very  much  owing  to  licence  given  in  the  time  of  their 
last  governor  to  certain  favourites,  and  the  weakness  in  general 
to  a  custom  of  allowing  the  agents  a  man  from  each  company, 
and  some  ill  practices  amongst  the  captains.  Sir  John 
Witterong's  regiment  is  in  no  condition  to  stir,  the  major  being 
broke,  the  colonel  and  lieutenant-colonel  in  England,  several 
officers  under  suspension  and  the  men  in  bad  condition.  Colonel 
Seldwyn's  regiment  is  in  Kinsale  port.  Major  Cromwell  begs 
to  be  recommended  to  his  Grace.     Abstract. 

Richard  Butler  to  Ormonde. 

1710-11,  January  20.  •  Dublin. — ^Asking  his  Grace  to  give 
him  some  employment.  As  one  of  Lord  Ikerrin's  nearest 
relatives  he  had  three  weeks  before  informed  his  Grace  of 
his  Lordship's  death.     His  Lordship  made  no  will.     Abstract. 

Lieut.-General  William  Stewart  to  Ormonde. 

1710-11,  January  10.  Dromana. — Concerning  a  reference 
from  the  Lords  Justice,  as  to  Mrs.  Burgard's  pension.  He 
hopes  his  Grace  will  not  continue  Captain  Coningsby.  He 
is  very  much  importuned  upon  the  raising  of  the  new  regiment 
to  recommend  a  brother  of  Colonel  Edgeworth.  He  was  a 
second  captain  in  the  writer's  regiment.  His  two  brothers 
are  in  Parliament  and  in  his  Grace's  interest.  The  writer 
mentions  also  his  nephew  Colonel  Stewart.     Abstract, 


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Silvester  Crosse  to  Ormonde. 
1710-11,  January  22.     Dublin. — Asking  for  some  preferment. 
He  had  been  his  Grace's  first  gentleman  usher.     Abstract. 

Captain  James  Butler  to  Ormonde. 
1710-11,  January  23.  Londonderry. — Asking  employment 
in  the  new  levy  ;  when  the  late  king  landed  his  Grace  put 
him  into  the  guards,  where  he  remained  ten  years ;  then  for 
thirteen  years  he  was  a  lieutenant  and  for  four  years  a  captain 
in  Colonel  Creighton's  regiment.  He  had  served  in  last  war  in 
Flanders  and  was  with  his  Grace  in  Spain.     Abstract. 

Dr.  Benjamin  Pratt  to  Ormonde. 

1710-11,  January  27.  Dublin. — I  had  the  honour  some  time 
since  to  acquaint  your  Grace  that  the  deputation  of  our  Vice- 
Chancellor  was  now  expired,  and  humbly  to  desire  a  new 
appointment  against  our  next  commencement,  which  is  to 
be  the  14th  of  February.  Lest  that  letter  might  have  mis- 
carried, I  presume  to  write  a  second  time  and  to  request  a 
new  deputation  as  soon  as  your  Grace  shall  judge  convenient. 
It  is  with  very  great  concern  that  I  have  heard  some 
misrepresentations  have  been  made  of  me  to  your  Grace,  but 
did  hope  they  could  not  easily  be  believed,  because  I  know 
no  influence  wherein  I  have  ever  been  unfaithful  or  ungrateful 
and  particularly  the  crime  then  objected  was  without  any 
ground  or  occasion  given.  I  own  many  obligations  to  your 
Grace,  and  upon  that  account  shall  be  always  dutiful,  but 
there  is  a  stronger  principle  that  engages  me  to  your  Grace's 
interest  and  that  is  the  good  of  my  country,  which  I  am  sensible 
depends  much  upon  your  Grace's  welfare  and  prosperity. 
These  verbal  professions  of  duty  and  service  are  what  I  never 
used,  believing  them  needless  where  the  actions  were  sincere 
and  honest,  but  since  they  are  occasioned  by  an  unjust 
accusation,  and  only  offered  to  clear  my  innocence,  I  beg 
your  Grace's  pardon  for  them,  and  leave  to  declare  myself 
with  the  truest  gratitude  and  respect,  your  Grace's  most 
faithful  servant  and  dutiful  chaplain. 

Captain  James  Crofts  to  Ormonde. 

1710-11,  February  3.  Frankfort. — In  obedience  to  your 
Grace's  commands  I  troubled  you  with  a  letter  from  Utrecht 
and  I  hope  the  consideration  of  that  will  be  an  apology  for 
the  doing  of  it,  for  the  haste  I  go  through  a  country  and  the 
little  stay  I  make  in  any  place  cannot  furnish  me  with  any 
matter  worth  your  Grace's  knowing,  though  I  had  the  good 
fortune  the  night  I  came  to  Dusseldorf  to  come  time  enough 
to  see  an  opera,  of  which  I  will  give  your  Grace  a  small  account. 
The  theatre  is  not  altogether  so  large  as  ours,  but  of  a  very 
good  size ;  the  actors  are  musicianers  and  people  which  are 
under  the  Elector  of  Palatine's  pay  all  the  year,  so  that  during 


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the  carnival  it  costs  the  spectators  nothing.  I  heard  to  my 
small  judgment  two  or  three  very  good  voices,  but  particularly 
one,  which  they  call  Valeriano,  an  eunuch,  and  next  to  Nicolino, 
to  whom  I  will  always  submit,  I  think  is  the  best  I  ever  heard. 
As  to  their  decorations,  I  must  own  they  outdo  us,  both  as 
to  their  fancy  and  magnificence.  There  is  a  great  deal  of 
grandeur  in  everything  that  is  done  at  that  Court,  for  the 
minute  the  Elector  and  Electress  comes  into  the  house  the 
whole  audience  gets  up  and  drums  and  trumpets  sound,  and 
after  the  comedy,  which  is  acted  of  another  night  at  Court, 
the  comedians  come  and  kiss  his  hand  and  the  hem  of  her 
garment.  There  is  one  thing  I  believe  your  Grace  will  think 
odd,  which  is  that  in  neither  opera  nor  play  there  is  one  woman 
acts  ;  the  female  parts  of  both  are  done  by  eunuchs,  young 
or  old  as  proportionable  to  the  part  they  are  to  act.  I  asked 
the  reason,  and  they  told  me  the  Electress  do  not  like  there 
should  be  any  women,  but  that  reason  I  could  not  learn. 
If  it  was  so  in  England,  we  should  have  our  stage  very  little 
encumbered  and  a  neighbour  of  your  Grace's  would  save  a 
great  deal  of  money  in  a  year.  I  went  away  the  next  morning 
so  could  not  see  another  opera,  which  they  said  was  finer 
than  that  I  had  seen.  I  have  troubled  you,  my  Lord,  with  a 
tedious  narrative,  therefore  it  is  time  to  beg  pardon,  and  I 
hope  your  Grace  will  forgive  and  remember,  &c. 

Captain  Egbert  Stubber  to  Ormonde. 
1710-11,  February  5.  Dublin. — Informing  his  Grace  that 
he  is  acting  as  high  sheriff  of  County  Dublin  as  he  understood 
that  he  could  be  serviceable  to  his  Grace  in  that  station.  It 
is  attended  with  a  vast  charge,  Dublin  being  quite  different 
to  all  other  counties.  He  reminds  his  Grace  that  he  has  been 
fourteen  years  a  captain  and  was  through  the  last  war  both 
in  Ireland  and  Flanders,  and  was  wounded  at  Namur  when 
in  the  grenadier  service.  He  is  at  present  aide-de-camp  to 
General  Tidcombe.     Abstract. 

Stephen  Ludlow  to  Ormonde. 

1710-11,  February  9. — ^I  hope  your  Grace  will  pardon  my  long 
silence,  and  not  impute  it  either  to  a  laziness  in  my  temper, 
or  want  of  duty  to  your  Grace.  I  must  own  that  I  ought 
before  this  time  to  have  returned  your  Grace  my  most  humble 
thanks  for  your  Grace's  last  kind  letter,  but  one  reason  for 
the  omission  was  that  I  was  confined  by  the  gout  for  above 
six  weeks,  and  indeed  I  was  unwilling,  knowing  it  was  a  busy 
time  with  your  Grace,  to  trouble  you  with  letters,  but  I  having 
lately  received  a  letter  from  Mr.  Secretary  Southwell  wherein 
he  tells  me  that  your  Grace  had  done  me  the  honour  to 
recommend  me  to  Mr.  Secretary  Harley,  and  that  he  had  said 
I  should  not  be  forgot,  I  could  not  in  gratitude  forbear 
returning  your  Grace  my  most  humble  thanks  for  having 


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me  in  your  thoughts.  I  know  not  how  it  comes  to  pass,  but 
some  people  had  lately  writ  to  their  friends  here  that  I  am 
soon  to  quit  my  employment  and  be  otherwise  provided  for, 
which,  if  it  should  not  succeed,  has  done  me  a  great  prejudice 
in  my  practice,  several  clients  having  put  their  business  into 
other  hands  upon  a  supposition  that  I  shall  not  be  long  able  to 
serve  them,  but  that  if  they  employed  me  they  should  be 
soon  forced  to  change.  How  this  came  to  be  talked  of  I  know 
not,  but  it  is  most  certain  that  several  letters  have  been  writ 
to  this  purpose. 

Colonel  Saunders  told  me  he  had  given  your  Grace  an  account 
of  what  happened  upon  the  trial  of  one  Cammell,  a  bookseller, 
who  was  indicted  for  publishing  scandalous  pamphlets. 
Therefore  I  shall  not  trouble  your  Grace  with  a  repetition 
of  that  matter.  It  is  again  discoursed  here  that  our  present 
Parliament  is  to  be  dissolved,  and  I  beseech  your  Grace  not 
to  come  to  any  positive  resolutions  in  that  affair  untU  you 
had  the  reasons  of  your  Grace's  friends  on  this  side  the  water 
for  and  against  it.  Our  Lord  Chancellor  is  very  well  liked, 
and  does  the  business  of  the  court  with  great  judgment  and 
to  the  satisfaction  of  everybody.  Your  Grace's  friends  met 
last  Tuesday  to  celebrate  the  Queen's  birthday ;  we  out- 
numbered the  Whigs  who  dined  at  the  Tholsel,  being  sixty  and 
one  good  men  and  true  to  Queen  and  Church.  It  was  observed 
that  we  were  exactly  the  same  number  that  divided  in  the 
House  of  Commons  in  Lord  Wharton's  time.  The  Lords 
Justices  were  invited  by  the  Whigs,  but  refused  to  go,  to  the 
great  mortification  of  that  party.  I  dare  not  presume  to  take 
up  more  of  your  Grace's  time  than  to  subscribe  myself,  &c. 

Colonel  George  Whitehead  to  Ormonde. 
1710-11,  February  1 1 .  Plymouth .  — ^I  know  your  Grace  will 
have  several  accounts  of  our  arrival  here,  which  made  me 
omit  troubling  your  Grace  therewith  just  at  our  landing 
till  I  could  give  your  Grace  a  more  particular  account  of  our 
present  circumstance.  There  are  still  wanting  four  of  the 
transports,  besides  one  which  I  believe  your  Grace  may  have 
had  an  account  of,  which  was  stranded  by  neglect  or  accident, 
and  left  behind  in  Cork  harbour.  A  transport,  on  board 
which  were  two  companies  of  Brigadier  Price's  regiment, 
was  taken  by  a  privateer  of  force  and  pillaged,  but  the 
Assurance  man-of-war  coming  up,  they  quitted  her.  They 
took  away  six  firelocks  and  most  of  their  swords,  belts,  bayonets, 
&c.  We  stni  want  a  detachment  of  fifty  men  of  our  regiment 
with  our  captain  of  grenadiers  and  two  subalterns,  who  were 
on  board  a  Swede,  being  one  of  the  four  transports  before 
mentioned.  There  was  fifty  of  each  regiment  on  board  the 
said  ship.  I  must  also  acquaint  your  Grace  that  we  have 
here  a  dispute  about  superiority,  which  may  be  for  the  service 
to  have  determined,  for  at  present  we  are  four  regiments  and 
three  hundred  dragoons  without  any  head  to  command  the 


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whole,  though  we  shall  in  the  meantime  do  everything  that 
may  be  for  the  service.  The  dragoons  have  not  any  officer 
to  take  care  of  them,  nor  to  provide  them  with  any  little 
necessaries  that  they  may  want,  nor  is  there  any  surgeon,  and 
several  of  them  are  ill.  They  are  also  an  unruly  sort  of  people, 
but  each  regiment  has  given  an  officer  or  more  to  keep  them 
in  a  little  order.  These  troops  having  been  lately  under  your 
Grace's  more  immediate  command  and  direction  I  thought 
it  my  duty  to  give  your  Grace  this  account,  and  I  hope  your 
Grace  will  pardon  the  freedom  I  have  taken  in  giving  your 
Grace  a  trouble  of  this  kind.     I  am,  &c. 

Viscount  Falkland  to  Ormonde. 
1710-11,  February  11. — See  Report,  XIV,  App.,  pt.  vii,  p.  64. 

Lieut. -General  William  Stewart  to  Ormonde. 
1710-11,     February     14.      Dromana. — Concerning   Captain 
Browne  of  the  late  Lord  Ikerrin's  regiment.      He  hears  Mr. 
Erie  is  made  general,  and  hopes  his  Grace  will  lay  his  pretensions 
before  her  Majesty.     Abstract. 

Francis  Wemys  to  Ormonde. 
1710-11,  February  17.  Dublin. — Asking  the  same  favour 
as  his  uncle  Wemys.  He  is  his  uncle's  eldest  brother's  son, 
and  heir  to  Sir  Patrick  Wemys,  who  was  a  constant  attendant, 
in  the  war  of  1641,  on  his  Grace's  grandfather.  He  is  father 
of  fifteen  children.     Abstract 

Earl  op  Cavan  to  Ormonde. 

1710-11,  February  17.  Dublin. — Requesting  his  Grace  to 
make  him  lieutenant-colonel  to  the  regiment  that  was  Lord 
Wharton's.  He  asks  his  Grace  not  to  credit  the  representation 
that  he  is  a  person  not  in  his  Grace's  interest.     Abstract. 

Robert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 
1710-11,  February  20. — It  was  with  the  greatest  pride  and 
pleasure  that  I  received  the  honour  of  your  Grace's  letter, 
for  so  it  must  needs  be  to  think  that  in  such  vast  affairs  of 
the  highest  consequence,  which  must  at  this  time  fill  your  Grace's 
mind,  you  could  be  pleased  to  do  me  the  favour  to  throw 
away  one  single  moment  upon  me.  The  young  gentleman 
whom  your  Grace  has  lately  been  pleased  to  raise  in  the  army 
to  the  dignity  of  being  lieutenant-colonel  desired  me  to  present 
his  most  humble  duty  to  your  Grace,  which  I  presume  to  do  ; 
he  is  gone  into  the  country  to  take  care  of  some  affairs  relating 
to  the  regiment.  The  scholars  of  the  College  who  were  fined 
in  the  Queen's  Bench  lOOZ.  apiece  upon  that  affair  about  the 
statue  on  horseback  did  this  day  petition  the  Court  of 
Exchequer  to  have  their  fines  mitigated,  and  we  have  reduced 
the  fines  to  half  a  crown  apiece,  so  that  now  they  will  soon 


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be  set  at  liberty.     My  Lord  Chancellor  is  highly  entertained 
everywhere  and  in  this  point  all  parties  are  agreed. 

Lieut. -Colonel  Francis  Columbine  to  Ormonde. 
1710-11,  February  23.  Plymouth. — Acknowledging  assurance 
of  his  Grace's  favour  and  protection.  The  missing  companies 
of  Major-General  Rooke's  regiment  are  all  heard  of,  but  the 
grenadiers  are  lost  at  sea  or  taken  into  France.  He  refers  to 
his  promotion  as  brigadier.     Abstract. 

Sir  Constantine  Phipps  to  Ormonde. 
1710-11,  March  S.—See  Report,  XIV,  App.,  pt.  vii,  p.  64 

Lord  Coningsby  to  Edward  Southwell. 

1710-11,  March  10. — I  have  the  favour  of  your's  and  think 
myself  extremely  obliged  to  you  for  it,  and  must  beg  you  to 
let  my  Lord  Duke  know  that  I  ever  was  to  him  a  faithful 
servant,  and  that  by  his  taking  notice  of  me  at  this  time  and 
on  this  occasion  he  has  made  me  unalterably  so  during  my  life. 
The  unaccountable  matter  contained  in  the  report  you  sent 
me,  I  submit  entirely  to  him  to  do  in  it  as  he  pleases,  being 
so  unhappy  to  have  too  many  reasons,  and  some  very  late 
ones,  to  have  no  concern  for  whatever  happens  to  so  undutiful 
a  son,  but  as  I  am  his  father  I  cannot  help  wishing,  bad  as  he 
has  been  to  me,  that  he  may  not  be  reduced  to  starving, 
which  he  must  inevitably  be  if  he  loses  his  command.  I  can 
say  no  more  on  this  melancholy  subject,  and  therefore  beg  of 
your  leave  to  conclude  with  assuring  you,  I  am,  &c. 

Lady  Beresford  to  Ormonde. 
1711,  March  25.  Kilbrew. — I  should  be  extremely  out  of 
countenance  to  give  your  Grace  the  trouble  of  this  epistle, 
had  I  not  the  experience  of  your  goodness  and  generosity, 
and  must  depend  upon  both  those  great  qualities  to  forgive 
my  sex  in  meddling  with  military  affairs,  and  in  granttag  a 
request  that  by  your  former  promise  I  hope  you  will  not 
think  unreasonable  when  it  is  the  preferment  of  my  son,  Sir 
Marcus  Beresford,  who  has  given  himself  up  entirely  to  the 
thoughts  of  the  army,  and  is  now  captain  in  Sir  John 
Witterong's  regiment,  which  is  not  the  best  regiment  in  the  world 
for  youth,  and  therefore  would  humbly  beg  [you],  if  your  Grace 
thinks  proper,  to  honour  him  with  the  command  of  a  troop 
of  dragoons  in  the  regiment  that  I  hear  is  to  be  raised.  Your 
inclination  to  do  good-natured  things  encourages  me  to  beg 
this  favour,  and  pardon  for  the  liberty  I  take  in  subscribing 
myself  your  Grace's,  &c. 

Lord  Slane  to  Ormonde. 
1711,  April  13.— ^ec  Report,  XIV,  App.,  pt.  vii,  p.  65. 


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Queen's  Letter  concerning  the  Army. 
1711,  May  14.     St.  James's. — Establishing  rules  for  general 
officers,  brevets,  sale  of  commissions,  clothing  and  nationality 
of  recruits.     Abstract. 

Queen's  Letter  for  Captain  William  Butler. 
1711,  May  14.  St.  James's. — Granting  him  pay  of  a  second 
captain  of  foot  on  account  of  his  services  in  the  Netherlands 
in  Brigadier  Devenish's  regiment  of  foot,  the  sufferings  of  his 
family  upon  account  of  their  loyalty,  and  his  desire  to  enter 
into  her  service  in  Portugal.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  Henry  Lumley  to  Ormonde. 

1711,  July  7.  Douai. — Concerning  the  campaign.  He 
refers  to  the  surrender  of  Douai.  Arras  would  be  of  more 
consequence  to  them.  The  enemy  are  making  lines.  It  is 
concluded  that  they  will  besiege  Bethune.  He  mentions  the 
advice  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  bank.     Abstract. 

Queen's  Letter  for  Captain  Thomas  Fitzgerald. 
1711,  November  23.  Hampton  Court. — ^Appointing  him 
captain  in  second  in  the  regiment  of  dragoons  in  Portugal 
commanded  by  Colonel  Charles  de  la  Bouchetiere.  The 
letter  mentions  that  he  had  served  in  the  regiment  of  dragoons 
commanded  by  Major-General  Edward  Pearce,  that  he  had 
been  taken  and  plundered  by  the  enemy  five  times,  that  at 
the  battle  of  Almanza  he  had  received  seventeen  wounds, 
and  that  he  had  met  with  disappointments  by  younger  officers 
being  put  over  his  head.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 

1710-11,  January  20.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  army.  He 
is  glad  his  recommendation  has  been  of  service  to  Colonel 
Morris.  Mr.  Southwell  writes  that  he  is  sending  him  the 
draft  of  an  arsenal.  He  is  entirely  of  his  Grace's  opinion  that 
there  are  few  concerned  at  the  fate  of  Lord  Wharton's  regiment 
more  than  the  officers  of  it,  and  the  few  seem  every  day  to 
dwindle,  and  to  be  sensible  of  the  infatuation  they  were 
under  of  late.  It  is  a  great  satisfaction  to  him  that  their  new 
Chancellor  is  so  acceptable  to  his  Grace.  The  regiments  of 
Tyrrell  and  Fielding  will  be  ready  to  embark  when  ships 
arrive  for  them.  He  hopes  the  four  regiments  and  drafts 
are  sailed  from  Cork,  notwithstanding  that  one  of  the  transports 
was  burned,  as  they  had  ordered  another  ship  to  be  hired. 
Abstract. 

Officers  of  the  Army  to  the  Queen. 
1711-12,  February  16.— Reporting  on  the  petition  of  Captain 
Gabriel  Crespigny  of  Lieutenant-General  Gorges's  regiment  of 


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foot.  The  officers  of  the  army  have  enquired  mto  it,  and 
find  that  when  employed  in  recruiting  the  regiment  the  last 
year  at  Wigan  he  met  with  very  barbarous  treatment  from 
the  people,  who  hindered  him  in  carrying  off  the  recruits  and 
assaulted  him  with  stones  ;  that  he  has  lain  under  the  care 
of  physicians  and  surgeons  and  had  been  obliged  to  make 
an  expensive  journey  to  the  Bath  ;  and  that,  as  Sir  Roger 
Bradshaigh,  member  of  Parliament  for  Wigan,  and  the  petitioner 
inform  them  that  it  is  impossible  to  make  any  persons  concerned 
in  the  riot  responsible,  the  petitioner  is  a  fit  object  of  com- 
passion and  deserves  leave  to  sell  his  company  and  to  receive 
such  further  provision  as  her  Majesty  shall  think  fit.  Abstract. 
Enclosure : — 

The  petition  of  Captain  Gabriel  Crespigny  sets  forth 
that  he  has  served  for  twenty-eight  years  ;  that  in 
1695  he  was  wounded  at  the  siege  of  Namur  by  a  bullet 
which  remains  in  his  head  ;  and  that  he  was  also  in 
the  service  in  Spain,  at  Gibraltar,  Barcelona,  where 
he  was  the  first  captain  to  attack  Fort  Montjuich, 
and  other  places  until  the  battle  of  Almanza.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Clancarty  to  Ormonde. 
1711-12,    February    18.      Hamburgh. — Congratulating    his 
Grace  on  his  employments.     By  his  banishment  he  is  hindered 
the  satisfaction  of  making  his  court  to  his  Grace.     Abstract. 

Lieut. -General  Richard  Ingoldsby  to  Ormonde. 

1 710-1 1,  February  23.  Dublin. — Concerning  the  army.  The 
plan  of  the  arsenal  has  come  in  the  ships  that  brought  the 
Lord  Chancellor's  equipage.  He  encloses  a  memorial  from 
Major  Dormer  and  hopes  his  Grace  will  think  his  request 
reasonable,  if  Colonel  Wallis  has  leave  to  dispose.  He  encloses 
also  a  memorial  from  Captain  Forth.     Abstract. 

Same  to  Same. 

1710-11,  February  27.  Carton. — I  am  honoured  with  your 
two  letters  of  15th  and  one  since  without  date  ;  as  to  the  first 
I  own  it  is  a  great  misfortune  to  the  service  to  have  a  fieet 
of  that  consequence  miscarry,  but,  as  it  is  the  will  of  God, 
submission  is  the  only  part  we  have  to  act.  As  to  the  rumours 
of  the  plague  being  in  this  kingdom,  I  hope  the  last  letter 
my  Lord  Chancellor  and  I  troubled  your  Grace  with  sufficiently 
convinced  you  there  was  no  grounds  for  it,  and  that  the 
complaint  I  understand  some  of  the  land  officers  make  for 
want  of  powder  was  not  the, fault  of  your  government  here 
or  Sir  James  Jeffrey's,  but  the  commander  of  the  men-of-war, 
who  ought  to  have  supplied  them,  being  under  their  care, 
and  off  of  this  establishment.  I  have  inquired  into  the  practice 
of  the  ordnance  here  and  cannot  find  that  ever  there  was  an 
ounce  of  powder  given  to  regiments  sent  into  foreign  service, 


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but  by  the  men-of-war  who  had  the  care  of  them,  for  as  soon 
as  they  are  on  board  we  look  upon  them  to  be  off  of  this 
establishment,  but  since  it  is  your  Grace's  pleasure  it  shall  be 
obeyed  for  the  future.  I  likewise  understand  by  Colonel 
Jones  that  several  of  Lord  Wharton's  and  Sir  John  Witterong's 
men  declare  themselves  to  be  Papists,  of  which  he  seems  to 
complain,  and  I  fear  there  may  be  too  much  truth  in  it,  for 
both  those  regiments  were  raised  here,  the  Queen's  letter 
not  mentioning  where  they  should  be  raised,  so  that  it  was 
not  in  my  power  to  say  anything  to  prevent  it.  I  have  writ 
to  Colonel  Jones  to  be  very  careful  that  they  be  Papists  before 
he  discharges  them,  for  if  he  should  discharge  all  that  will 
say  they  are  so  he  will  carry  very  few  with  him,  that  being 
a  usual  method  to  get  off.  My  Lord,  I  can  only  assure  you 
that  by  the  commissary's  returns  they  have  been  all  sworn 
and  mustered  as  Protestants,  but  suppose  the  last  storm  has 
frightened  some  of  them.  I  hope  your  Grace  will  pardon  the 
length  of  this  and  believe  me  with  all  imaginable  respect  and 
duty,  my  Lord,  &c. 

Lord  Lansdowne  to  Ormonde. 

1711-12,  March  15. — Concerning  a  commission  for  Colonel 
Bernard.     Abstract. 

Minute  of  Board  op  General  Officers  in  Ireland. 

1712,  July  2. — It  sets  forth  that  there  were  present  his 
Excellency,  General  Stewart,  the  Muster-Master-General  and 
the  Engineering  and  Surveying  General,  and  that  it  was 
resolved  to  apply  for  a  new  commission  empowering  all  officers 
who  were  in  Ireland,  either  on  service  or  by  licence  about 
their  own  affairs,  to  serve  on  the  Board,  instead  of  its 
consisting  only  of  general  officers  on  the  establishment. 
Abstract. 

Viscount  Mountcashell  to  Ormonde. 
1712,    November     5. — Expressing     pleasure     on     hearing 
that  his  Grace  had  safely  arrived  in  London.     Abstract. 

Sir  Thomas  Hanmer  to  Ormonde. 
1712,  November  25.  Paris. — I  am  glad  of  every  occasion 
of  writing  to  your  Grace  which  presents  itself,  and  at  this 
time  it  is  a  part  exacted  from  me  which  I  willingly  perform 
and  without  any  other  reluctance  than  the  fear  only  of  being 
possibly  troublesome  to  you.  I  received  last  post  a  letter 
from  Sir  John  Conway  and  Sir  William  Glyim  pressing  me 
very  earnestly  to  recommend  a  suit  of  theirs  to  your  Grace 
on  the  behalf  of  Mr.  Higgins,  who  married  Sir  William  Glynn's 
sister.  The  occasion  arises  from  the  death  of  the  Bishop  of 
Raphoe  in  Ireland,  to  whom  Mr.  Higgins  is  desirous  by  your 
Grace's  favour  to  succeed  and  his  friends  are  solicitous  to 
obtain  that  for  him.     It  is  needless  I  am  sure  to  do  any  more 


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than  name  the  man  to  your  Grace  in  order  to  make  him  known 
to  you  ;  I  am  apt  to  conclude  you  are  much  better  acquainted 
with  him  than  I  am,  though  I  have  some  knowledge  of  him 
personally  and  more  by  character,  which  makes  him  famous 
for  his  courage  and  firmness  in  opposing  the  enemies  of  our 
constitution,  and  [he]  was  never  subject  to  the  imputation 
of  any  ill  qualities,  but  what  he  is  falsely  accused  with  by 
those  who  bear  him  ill  will  for  his  good  ones.  I  may  safely 
speak  in  his  commendation  without  being  thought  to  detract 
from  the  virtues  of  any  other  who  are  candidates  for  the  same 
preferment,  because  I  know  not  who  they  are.  Your  Grace, 
I  know,  whenever  you  chose  will  have  good  reasons  for  it ; 
those  on  the  behalf  of  Mr.  Higgins  will  be  as  likely  to  be 
publicly  understood  and  approved  as  most  men  you  could 
pitch  upon. 

I  rejoice  to  hear  from  private  hands  as  well  as  by  the  public 
prints  of  your  Grace's  safe  arrival  at  London ;  the  former 
tedious  life  I  longed  to  see  you  discharged  from,  and  I  hope 
you  will  be  able  to  infuse  life  and  dispatch  where  they  seem 
to  be  wanting.  All  that  I  can  learn  here  is  that  they  wait  for 
Mr.  Prior's  return  and  impatiently  wish  for  it,  because  every- 
thing stops  till  he  comes  with  answers  from  your  side  of  the 
water.  It  is  much  wondered  at  too  that  although  Duke 
Hamilton  has  been  so  long  named  for  coming  hither  and 
his  journey  so  long  talked  of  as  very  near  at  hand,  yet  there 
is  no  house  taken  for  him  nor  any  person  employed  to  inquire 
after  one  or  make  the  least  preparation  to  receive  him. 
Whether  it  be  for  the  same  reason  that  the  Duke  d'Aumont's 
journey  is  uncertain  I  cannot  tell,  but  his  time  is  not  yet 
fixed,  though  all  his  servants  and  equipage  have  been 
despatched  some  days  ago  with  orders  to  wait  for  him  at 
Boulogne.  Monsieur  Monteleon  goes  towards  England  for 
certain  on  Monday  next  in  order  to  accommodate  some  little 
matters  of  difficulty  which  I  find  still  remain  with  regard  to 
the  trade  of  Spain  and  other  articles  relating  particularly 
to  that  kingdom. 

The  King  has  been  at  Marly  ever  since  I  came  hither,  but 
I  have  not  the  honour  to  be  admitted  over  to  see  him  there. 
He  returns  to-morrow  to  Versailles,  so  that  hereafter  it  will 
not  be  so  difficult.  I  wish  the  packets  were  established  betwixt 
Calais  and  Dover,  for  we  find  great  uncertainty  in  sending 
and  receiving  letters  and  are  forced  to  use  more  than  ordinary 
precautions  for  it.  I  see  no  reason  when  all  other  trade  is 
opened  why  barely  the  convenience  of  correspondence  should 
be  denied.  But  whenever  your  Grace  has  any  commands 
for  me  be  pleased  to  send  them  to  my  house  in  the  Pall  Mall, 
and  they  have  directions  for  conveying  them  to  me.     I  am,  &c. 

General  Officers  to  the  Queen. 
1712,    December    16. — Concerning    the    complaint    of    Mr. 
Alexander    Agnew    against    Colonel    Richard    Franks.     The 


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Board  find  that  in  the  year  1711  the  colonel  undertook  to  sell 
to  Agnew  the  commission  of  his  nephew,  Mr.  Martin  Emmenes, 
an  ensign  in  Major-General  Livesay's  regiment ;  that  Agnew 
repaired  to  Port  Mahon,  where  the  regiment  was,  but  Emmenes 
denied  all  knowledge  of  the  transaction  ;  and  that  the  colonel 
should  be  obliged  to  pay  back  105/.,  which  he  received,  with 
501.  for  the  expenses  of  Agnew.     Abstract. 

Egbert  Johnson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Ormonde. 

1712,  December  18.  Dublin. — I  did  not  believe  it  would 
become  me  any  sooner  to  give  your  Grace  the  trouble,  but 
that  I  ought  to  have  patience  and  wait  for  another  opportunity 
while  crowds  of  the  greatest  quality  of  the  kingdom  were 
pressing  to  congratulate  your  Grace's  happy  arrival  into 
Great  Britain.  I  was  the  more  confirmed  in  that  opinion 
because  of  having  nothing  more  to  say,  but  what  I  should  be 
very  unhappy  if  your  Grace  were  not  well  assured  of  it  already, 
which  is  that  I  must  undoubtedly  be  filled  with  the  most 
sensible  joy  upon  the  news  of  your  Grace's  being  safely  returned, 
after  having  had  so  great  a  share  in  the  conduct  of  those  actions 
which  give  occasion  to  the  blessings  of  a  peace  and  by  a  happy 
peace  will  give  such  a  turn  to  all  the  great  affairs  of  Europe. 
I  am  sorry  that  upon  your  coming  here  your  Grace  will  come 
to  a  city  most  strongly  poisoned  with  faction ;  the  malignity 
of  it  increases  every  day  and  seems  to  spread  its  infection 
very  fast  into  the  country.  I  do  most  heartily  wish  I  had  a 
more  agreeable  account  to  give  your  Grace  of  the  present 
condition  of  affairs  in  this  place,  being  as  in  duty  bound, 
with  the  greatest  respect  and  sincerity,  &c. 

Earl  of  Ailesbury  to  Ormonde. 

1712-13,  January  27.  Brussels. — ^Although  I  fear  I  am 
forgotten  by  your  Grace  and  my  Lady,  I  cannot  however  omit 
so  good  an  opportunity  as  this  of  Mr.  Bagenal  for  to  congratulate 
you  both  on  the  honour  the  good  Queen  hath  so  justly  bestowed 
upon  you.  Without  flattery,  which  was  ever  my  aversion, 
I  must  say  that  this  choice  was  here  universally  applauded 
as  well  as  in  England,  save  by  a  few  shakers,  who  hates  the 
Queen  as  well  as  our  happy  constitution.  I  that  am  for 
supporting  both  in  all  its  lustre  am  greatly  revived  at  this 
happy  change  ;  the  impending  ruin  we  lay  under,  with  but 
indifferent  treatment  and  great  trouble  of  mind,  hath  made 
me  pass  my  time  with  great  melancholy.  I  am,  with  aU 
truth  and  respect,  &c. 

The  Countess  of  Egmont  desires  me  earnestly  to  assure 
your  Grace  of  her  most  humble  service  and  congratulates 
most  truly. 

Mr.  Bagenal  hath  deferred  his  journey  from  day  to  day 
and  this  day,  the  16th  of  February,  returned  it  me,  not  going 
over.  The  Countess  of  Egmont  was  given  over  four  days 
since,  but  by  a  violent  vomiting  she  is  in  fair  way  of  recovering. 


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I  beg  of  your  Grace  to  direct  my  Lord  Lansdown  to  show  you 
a  paper  I  sent  to  him  some  time  since  relating  to  your  regiment 
here.  I  entered  into  the  matter  for  the  honour  of  our 
nation.  Burghers  were  so  enraged  that  out  of  prudence  the 
commanding  officer  ordered  the  execution  out  of  the  town, 
drawing  out  both  battalions,  one  to  support  the  other ;  after 
the  first  whipping  they  promised  me  that  they  would  connive 
because  they  could  not  alter  the  sentence.  Instead  of  that 
they  whipped  him  with  more  violence  than  before ;  they 
are  enraged  at  me  and  come  near  me  no  more  after  all  the 
civilities  I  showed  them,  which  I  value  but  little.  The  man 
deserved  death  that  is  certain,  but  new  invented  punishments 
are  a  little  contrary  to  our  constitution,  especially  one  done 
with  the  utmost  barbarity,  and  but  for  my  surgeon  I  sent 
to  dress  him  daily  the  man  had  died,  which  I  did  out  of  mere 
charity.  I  wish  you  had  here  a  steady  old  officer  to  com- 
mand the  two  battalions,  which  the  eldest  of  the  first  doth 
in  course. 

Lieut. -Colonel  Robert  Wallis  to  Ormonde. 
1712-13,  February  9. — ^Laying   his   memorial   before   him. 
Abstract. 
Enclosure : — 

The  memorial  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Wallis,  late  of 
Colonel  Tyrrell's  regiment,  shows  that  he  had  served 
the  Crown  near  thirty  years  in  the  wars  of  Ireland 
and  the  late  and  present  war  in  Flanders  ;  that  he  had 
all  the  fatigue  and  trouble  of  being  head  of  the  regiment 
in  Portugal ;  that  he  was  hindered  from  purchasing 
the  regiment  when  it  was  disposed  of  by  Sir  Roger 
Bradshaigh  to  Captain  Tyrell,  who  was  a  much  younger 
officer  than  Wallis;  that  not  only  did  Wallis  lose  his 
preferment,  but  also  in  his  passage  from  Portugal 
his  equipage  and  200Z.,  which  were  taken  from  him 
by  a  French  privateer  ;  and  that  the  lieu  tenant-colonel's 
post  in  Lieutenant-General  Mordaunt's  regiment  being 
vacant,  he  prays  that  he  may  be  appointed  to  it  or 
given  a  colonel's  commission.     Abstract. 

Earl  of  Strafford  to  Ormonde. 

1712-13,  March  20.  Utrecht. — Recommending  Colonel  Ben- 
son, sometime  major  of  the  Royal  Regiment  of  Dragoons. 
He  has  behaved  himself  so  as  to  deserve  the  applause  of  all 
the  generals  he  has  served  under  in  Spain,  and  will  represent 
the  hardships  the  regiment  has  suffered  since  the  writer  left 
it,  and  their  reasonable  demand  of  having  orders  to  raise  in 
England  the  men  wanting.  It  is  above  half  the  number, 
there  not  being  above  a  hundred  and  fifty  in  Spain. 
Abstract 


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JoKNT  Stbarnb,  Bishop  of  Dromore,  to  Ormonde. 
1713,  May  5. — I  am  under  very  great  obligations  to  your 
Grace  for  the  unexpected  favour  which  your  Grace  has  been 
pleased  to  do  me  in  recommending  me  to  her  Majesty  for  the 
vacant  see  of  Dromore,  and  I  cannot  be  easy  in  my  mind 
till  I  have  assured  your  Grace  that  I  have  and  shall  always 
retain  a  grateful  sense  of  that  your  Grace's  undeserved  kindness, 
to  which  her  Majesty's  great  goodness  in  conferring  on  me 
the  bishopric  is  chiefly  owing,  without  which  I  could  not 
reasonably  either  expect  or  desire  the  promotion.  I  am 
firmly  persuaded  that  the  best  and  most  agreeable  return 
that  I  can  make  for  these  favours  will  be  a  conscientious 
discharge  of  the  offices  I  am  called  to,  and  that  with  God's 
help  I  shall  endeavour  to  make,  and  I  will  beg  your  Grace  to 
believe  that  no  prospect  of  bettering  my  worldly  fortune  has 
so  far  influenced  me  to  a  cheerful  acceptance  of  this  prefer- 
ment, as  the  hopes  that  it  may  afford  me  some  better  oppor- 
tunity of  showing  my  zeal  for  the  established  Church  and 
my  unshaken  loyalty  to  the  Queen,  than  I  could  expect  to  meet 
with  in  my  lower  station  ;  and  it  will  be  a  mighty  improvement 
of  my  satisfaction  if  it  ever  give  me  an  opportunity  of  promoting 
your  Grace's  interest,  and  thereby  of  demonstrating  the 
gratitude  of,  may  it  please  your  Grace,  &c. 

Dr.  Benjamin  Pratt  and  Dr.  Jonathan  Swiet  to  Edward 

Southwell. 
1713,  May  5. — ^The  rectory  of  Moymet,  within  two  miles 
of  Trim,  in  the  county  of  Meath,  value  about  forty  pounds 
per  annum,  [is]  in  the  gift  of  Lady  Roscommon,  but  now  on 
Dr.  Steame's  promotion  in  the  gift  of  the  Government.  It 
hath  been  usually  given  to  the  minister  of  Trim,  and  is  no 
sinecure,  but  the  Bishop  will  oblige  whoever  has  it  to  keep 
a  curate.  It  is  only  convenient  for  the  minister  of  Trim, 
being  hardly  worth  while  for  anybody  else  to  pass  patent  for 
it.  Therefore  his  Grace  is  desired  to  bestow  it  to  Dr.  Raymond, 
minister  of  Trim,  unless  anybody  whom  his  Grace  hath  a  mind 
to  oblige  think  it  worth  their  acceptance.  The  cure  of  Trim 
is  very  great,  and  profits  small.     (In  Swiff s  handwriting,) 

Captain  James  Richards  to  Ormonde. 

1713,  June  9.  London. — Laying  a  copy  of  the  result  of 
a  court-martial  upon  him  before  his  Grace.  He  prays  leave 
to  observe  that  the  captains  who  accused  him  sat  with  the 
court  and  interrogated  evidence,  so  that  they  were  judges, 
jurors  and  evidences,  and  to  request  that  his  sentence  may 
be  explained.     Abstract. 

Enclosure  : — 

A  report  of  a  court-martial  held  on  the    Cumberland  at 
the  Nore  on  May  28,  1713,  Sir  John  Leake  president, 

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shows  that  the  court  had  under  consideration  the 
complaint  of  Captain  Riddel,  commander  of  the 
Falmouth,  with  respect  to  the  behaviour  of  Captain 
James  Richards  when  commanding  the  Mary  galley 
and  engaged  with  French  ships  off  Dasso  on  the  coast 
of  Guinea  on  March  9,  1711-12,  and  his  refusal  to  go 
into  gunshot  when  in  command  of  boats  at  Cape 
Meyurado.  The  court  found  that  the  Mary  galley 
was  not  in  a  condition  for  fighting,  but  on  information 
given  by  Captains  Percy  and  Jacob  found  that  Captain 
Riddel  had  sufficient  grounds  for  dismissing  Captain 
Richards.  They  found  also  in  regard  to  a  complaint 
by  Captain  Richards  against  Captain  Riddel  that  the 
latter  did  not  do  his  duty  and  that  he  should  be  dis- 
missed from  the  command  of  the  Falmouth  and  fined 
three  months'  pay.     Abstract. 

Case  of  Thomas  Wyndham  and  John  Birch. 

1713,    July   21.     Cork.— The   case   of   Thomas   Wyndham, 
Esqre.,  and  John  Birch,  gentleman,   who  were  tried  at  the 
assizes    before    the    Lord    Chief    Justice    Cox,    and    Serjeant 
Saunders,  upon  an  indictment  for  speaking  seditious  words. 
General  Nicholson  being  at  Kinsale  the  1 1th  of  June  last  upon 
account  of  taking  some  men  out  of  Brigadier  Dormer's  regiment, 
which    was    next    day    to    be    broke,    ordered    a    handsome 
entertainment  to  be  made  for  the  officers  and  several  other 
gentlemen    of    the    town.     In    one    room    were    Lieutenants 
Davenport,  Boswell,  Pyke  and    Ensign  Bray,  together  with 
Mr.  Wyndham,  Mr.  Birch  and  Mr.  Steele,  collector  of  Kinsale. 
After  a  great  quantity  of  punch  had  been  drank  and  several 
ladies'  healths  toasted,   one  of  the  officers  began  my  Lady 
Wharton's.     Mr.   Birch,   instead   of  pledging   it,   proposed  a 
health  in  these  terms  :    "  To  all  Whigs  that  are  not  Presby- 
terians and  to  all  Tories  that  are  not  Papists."     Mr.  Davenport 
insisted  upon  changing  the  word  Papist  for  Jacobite.     Mr. 
Birch  replied  there  could  be  no  Jacobite,  there  being  no  King 
James.     Mr.  Davenport  answered  whilst  there  was  a  Pretender 
abroad  there  would  be  Jacobites  at  home,  and  that  those  that 
were  friends  to  the  late  King  James  might  very  properly  be 
called   Jacobites.     Mr.    Birch   said   that   a   man   might  love 
King  James  and  yet  hate  his  principles,  and  to  all  such  friends 
of  his  he  drank  a  health,  upon  which  the  officers  rising  up 
and  a  quarrel  being  likely  to  ensue,  Mr.   Steele  interposed 
and  endeavoured  to  pacify  them,  but  Mr.  Birch  continuing 
to  justify  what  he  said,  and  thereupon  appealing  to  Mr.  Steele's 
judgment,  Mr.  Wjrndham  checked  him  by  saying,  "  Why  will 
you  hold  an  argument  against  so  many  and  show  your  teeth 
when  you  can't  bite  ?  "  and  immediately  Mr.  Birch  left  the 
company.     Mr.  Wjnidham  stayed  behind,  and  by  the  means 
of  Mr.  Dennis,  who  then  came  in,  prevailed  upon  the  rest  to 
sit  down  and  be  easy,  telling  them  that  Mr.  Birch  was  a  young 


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man  and  meant  no  harm ;  and  several  bumpers  being  drank 
to  the  Queen,  the  House  of  Hanover,  &c.,  afterwards  a  health 
went  round  to  the  glorious  and  immortal  memory  of  King 
William.  Mr.  Wyndham  in  his  turn  toasted  the  pious  memory 
of  King  James,  and  being  asked  if  he  loved  King  James,  he 
answered,  yes,  he  did,  for  he  was  likewise  once  their  King. 
Mr.  Bray  replied  that  he  was  not  surprised  to  hear  him  make 
such  a  declaration,  being  informed  that  he  had  formerly 
toasted  three  pounds  fourteen  shillings  and  fivepence,  and 
at  the  same  time  desired  he  would  explain  it.  Mr.  Wyndham 
said  he  had  heard  there  was  such  a  health,  and  the  meaning 
of  it  was  supposed  to  be  the  Pretender  under  the  name  of 
King  James  the  Third,  Lewis  the  Fourteenth  and  Philip  the 
Fifth,  but  "  for  my  part,  gentlemen,"  continued  he,  "I  do 
assure  you  I  never  did  nor  never  will  drink  it,  though  I  wish, 
now  you  are  going  to  be  broke,  you  may  never  want  so  much 
money  in  your  pockets."  Upon  this  he  was  assaulted  and 
knocked  down  and  afterwards  carried  home. 

The  officers  already  mentioned,  instead  of  giving  any  account 
of  what  happened  on  this  occasion  to  Greneral  Nicholson  or 
Colonel  Hawley,  Lieutenant-Governor  of  Kinsale,  agreed 
amongst  themselves  to  draw  up  a  paper  by  way  of  information 
against  Mr.  Birch  and  Mr.  Wyndham,  which  they  signed  and 
brought  to  Cork,  and  from  thence  posting  to  Dublin  despatched 
one  of  their  number,  viz.  Mr.  Pyke,  to  London,  to  represent 
their  zeal  and  good  services,  and  having  inserted  their 
information  in  the  public  newspapers  obtained  by  virtue  of 
their  depositions  before  the  Lords  Justices  their  order  signed 
by  Mr.  Dawson  to  Mr.  Lacy,  Sovereign  of  KLinsale,  for 
committing  to  prison  Mr.  Birch  and  Mr.  Wjnidham  unless 
sufficient  security  was  found  for  their  appearance  at  the  next 
assizes  at  Cork.  The  Sovereign  was  enjoined  by  their  order 
to  show  in  this  affair  his  utmost  zeal,  and  he  gave  a  very 
remarkable  proof  of  it  by  rejecting  not  only  some  sufficient 
people,  who  were  willing  to  bail  them,  but  also  Colonel  Hawley's 
ofiFer  by  his  letter  to  the  Sovereign  that  he  would  be  answerable 
for  their  appearance  ;  so  they  were  sent  to  Cork,  where  they 
continued  close  prisoners,  in  order  to  stand  their  trial,  which 
came  on  the  21st  of  July,  1713. 

Mr.  Wyndham  and  Mr.  Birch  were  severally  indicted  for 
speaking  malicious  and  seditious  words  against  the  Queen  and 
government,  and  though  it  plainly  appears  from  the  nature 
of  their  case,  as  it  has  been  stated,  that  Mr.  Birch  ought  to  have 
been  tried  first,  yet  that  matter  was  overruled  by  the  court, 
on  purpose  to  cast  a  greater  odium  upon  him  by  what  should 
be  alleged  against  Mr.  Wyndham.  The  particular  heads  of 
the  indictment  against  Mr.  Wyndham  were  these :  First, 
that  he  said  to  Mr.  Birch,  "  Why  should  we  show  our  teeth 
when  we  can't  bite  "  ;  secondly,  that  he  tacked  King  James 
to  the  House  of  Hanover  and  every  loyal  health  ;  and  thirdly, 
that  he  drank  three  pounds  fourteen  shillings  and  fivepence, 


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by  all  which  he  was  charged  to  mean  the  Pretender,  and  the 
several  charges  were  supported  by  the  evidence  of  Lieutenants 
Davenport  and  Boswell  and  Ensign  Bray,  who  being  examined 
whether  Mr.  Wyndham  did  at  all  mention  King  James  the 
Third,  they  said  he  did  not,  but  were  positive  that  he  meant 
him,  as  likewise  being  asked  whether  the  natural  construction 
of  these  words,  "  Why  do  we  show  our  teeth  till  we  can  bite," 
considering  the  occasion  of  speaking  them,  might  not  be 
"  Why  do  you,"  speaking  to  Mr.  Birch,  "  hold  an  argument 
against  so  many."  They  were  as  positive  that  the  meaning 
of  these  words  was  "Why  should  we  show  our  inclinations  for 
the  Pretender  till  we  can  make  them  effectual."  Mr.  Solicitor 
General  observed  that  Mr.  Wyndham  by  wishing  them  three 
pounds  fourteen  shillings  and  fivepence  meant  the  Pretender, 
&c.,  otherwise  he  would  have  wished  them  more  money. 

It  was  proved  that  the  informers  and  others  in  company 
had  drunk  eight  gallons  of  brandy  in  punch,  besides  four  dozen 
of  wine,  and  were  so  drunk  that  some  of  them,  particularly 
Mr.  Davenport,  slept  upon  the  table,  but  the  Court  was  so 
far  from  taking  notice  of  that  circumstance,  which  was  urged 
to  be  very  material,  that  when  the  landlady,  being  an  evidence, 
gave  an  account  of  the  abuses  they  offered  her  for  not  bringing 
them  more  liquor,  one  of  the  judges  checked  her  and  said  it 
was  a  certain  sign  they  had  not  enough.  Upon  the  whole 
the  partiality  of  the  court  was  so  very  evident  that  there 
was  no  room  left  for  Mr.  Wyndham's  counsel  to  say  the  least 
thing  in  his  defence,  for  instance,  when  one  of  them  pleaded 
that  since  King  James  was  our  lawful  sovereign  for  many 
years,  and  that  we  were  once  his  subjects  by  the  strictest  ties 
of  allegiance,  it  could  be  no  crime  to  treat  his  memory  with 
honour  and  regard,  my  Lord  Chief  Justice  said  that  he  believed 
to  mention  the  name  of  King  James  the  Second  with  love 
and  esteem  was  a  crime  equal  to  that  of  drinking  the  Pretender's 
health,  since  it  might  in  time  facilitate  his  accession  to  the 
throne,  and  hoped  that  the  gentlemen  of  the  jury  had  not 
yet  forgot  the  oppressions  and  tyrannies  of  his  reign  and  the 
fatal  consequences  of  the  same,  and  desired  them  expressly 
to  take  notice  of  it  in  the  present  case  before  them. 

Mr.  Wyndham  in  his  defence  denied  that  he  said  to  Mr. 
Birch,  "  Why  should  we  show  our  teeth  when  we  can't  bite," 
but  that  "  Why  should  you,"  &c.,  and  to  prove  it  he  called 
Mr.  Steele,  who  swore  that  he  heard  no  such  words  spoken 
as  are  set  forth  in  that  part  of  the  indictment.  As  to  the 
other  two  points,  he  desired  Mr.  Dennis,  Sovereign  elect  of 
Kinsale,  might  be  examined,  who  notwithstanding  he  had 
the  day  before  solemnly  declared  in  the  presence  of  General 
Nicholson,  Colonel  Harvey  and  ten  or  twelve  gentlemen  more 
that  he  did  not  hear  Mr.  Wyndham  toast  three  pounds  fourteen 
shillings  and  fivepence,  and  did  believe  in  his  conscience  that 
as  often  as  he  mentioned  King  James  he  meant  King  James 
the  Second,  and  said  that  if  he  had  not  gone  into  the  company 


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murder  would  have  been  committed,  yet  he  gave  it  in  evidence 
that  he  meant  King  James  the  Third.  Several  gentlemen 
were  called  upon  to  give  a  character  of  Mr.  Wyndham, 
particularly  General  Nicholson,  who  all  unanimously  agreed 
that  in  the  course  of  their  acquaintance  with  him  they  had 
never  heard  anything  said  of  him,  or  by  him,  that  had  the 
least  tendency  to  such  principles  as  he  stood  indicted  for. 

Mr.  Birch  was  indicted  for  speaking  the  following  seditious 
words,  viz.  :  "  Here  is  a  health  to  all  King  James's  friends,'* 
and  likewise  for  drinking  to  three  pounds  fourteen  shillings  and 
fivepence,  meaning  thereby  the  Pretender.  Lieutenant  Daven- 
port being  asked  by  the  court  whom  he  thought  Mr.  Birch 
meant  by  King  James,  he  answered,  "  King  James  the  Third." 
On  the  contrary  Mr.  Steele  said  that  the  whole  discourse 
turning  upon  the  late  King  James  and  his  friends,  no  other 
persons  could  be  meant,  and  added  that  Mr.  Birch  upon 
drinking  the  health  said,  "  I  love  the  man,  though  I  hated 
his  principles."  As  to  the  other  part  of  the  indictment  the 
informers  acknowledged  that  Mr.  Birch  had  left  the  company 
before  three  pounds  fourteen  shillings  and  fivepence  was 
mentioned,  but  one  Daniel  King,  being  brought  as  evidence 
for  the  Queen,  said  that  some  time  before  the  11th  of  June 
whilst  he  was  drinking  in  Kinsale  with  Mr.  Wyndham  and 
Mr.  Birch,  Mr.  Wyndham  toasted,  "  May  you  never  want 
three  pounds  fourteen  shillings  and  fivepence,"  which  was 
pledged  by  himself  and  Mr.  Birch  without  any  explanation 
offered  upon  it.  The  court  asked  him  whether  he  then  knew 
the  meaning  of  that  health  ;  he  answered  he  knew  no  other 
than  what  was  literal,  and  being  again  asked  whether  he 
thought  Mr.  Birch  knew  what  it  meant,  he  said  he  did  not 
know,  but  believed  Mr.  Birch  might  drink  it  innocently,  as 
he  did  himself.  Upon  this  point  the  counsel  for  Mr.  Birch 
pleaded  that  the  indictment  against  him  being  laid  for  drinking 
three  pounds  fourteen  shillings  and  fivepence  in  the  presence 
of  Lieutenants  Davenport,  Boswell,  Pyke  and  Ensign  Bray,  &c., 
upon  the  11th  of  June,  what  Mr.  King  said  could  not  affect 
him,  since  he  was  not  in  company  when  the  words  charged  in 
the  indictment  upon  Mr.  Birch  were  spoken,  but  that  was 
overruled.  Mr.  Birch  made  a  very  handsome  defence  for 
himself,  and  every  one  expected  he  would  be  acquitted,  but 
the  jury  after  an  hour's  stay  brought  him  in  guilty  with  Mr. 
Wyndham,  and  immediately  the  sentence  of  the  court  was 
pronounced  against  each  of  them,  viz.,  Mr.  Wyndham  to  pay 
lOOZ.  and  suffer  a  year's  imprisonment,  without  bail  or 
mainprize,  and  though  my  Lord  Chief  Justice  declared  that 
Mr.  Birch's  crime  was  not  of  so  high  a  nature  as  Mr.  Wyndham's, 
nor  so  fully  proved,  yet  he  had  the  same  punishment  inflicted 
upon  him. 

To  conclude,  as  this  prosecution  did  first  take  rise  from  the 
view  the  informers  might  have  of  raising  their  fortunes 
upon  the  ruin  of  others,  and  was  carried  on  and  sustained 


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with  the  greatest  rage  and  malice  (insomuch  that  when  some 
gentlemen  belonging  to  General  Nicholson  endeavoured  to 
get  them  bailed  at  their  first  coming  to  Cork  they  could  hardly 
avoid  being  insulted,  and  still  are  threatened  mth  the  effects 
of  their  indignation),  and  was  at  last  determined  by  a  very 
severe  sentence,  it  is  to  be  hoped  her  Majesty  will  be  graciously 
pleased  to  take  the  miserable  case  of  Mr.  Wyndham  and 
Mr.  Birch  into  her  consideration,  and  to  mitigate  the  punish- 
ment they  now  suffer  by  being  strangers  among  the  factious 
offspring  of  rebellious  persons. 

Earl  of  Mount- Alexander  to  Ormonde. 

1713,  July  29.  Mount- Alexander. — The  great  honour  your 
Grace  has  done  me  in  your  letter  of  the  8th  instant  calls  for 
my  most  humble  acknowledgements,  otherwise  I  should  not 
have  ventured  upon  giving  you  the  trouble  of  reading  a  second 
letter  from  me  at  this  time.  I  want  words  to  express  the 
satisfaction  I  have  in  the  honour  of  your  Grace's  friendship 
and  to  find  myself  once  more  under  the  protection  of  the 
house  of  Ormonde,  to  whose  care  my  father  left  me.  I  can 
make  no  other  return  to  your  Grace's  goodness  but  to  assure 
you  that  there  is  no  truth  greater  than  this.  I  am  with  the 
utmost  sincerity,  &c. 


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A  DIARY  OF   EVENTS   IN  IRELAND 
FROM    1686  TO   1690. 


1685. 

March  20. — Duke  of  Ormond  takes  shipping  for  England, 
and  leaves  Lord  Primate  and  Lord  Granard  Lords  Justices. 
May  20. — Colonel  Talbot  made  Earl  of   Tyrconnel.     Lord 
Granard  goes  into  the  North.     The  army  draws  that  way. 

May  24. — Four  companies  from  Dublin  march  that  way, 
it  being  reported  that  Argyll  landed  there  and  declared  for 
liberty  and  reUgion. 

May  28. — Earl  of  Tyrconnel  comes  over  lieutenant-General 
of  the  Army. 

[June  10.] — About  this  time  great  complaints  were  made 
of  false  merchandise,  which  occasion  the  following  proclama- 
tion.    [Bibliography y  No.  942.] 

June  11. — Two  companies  were  marched  from  Dublin 
towards  the  North. 

June  18. — The  Government  grew  jealous  of  the  Protestants 
of  the  North,  else  made  that  an  umbrage  for  the  following 
proclamation  for  taking  away  the  miUtia  arms,  and  against 
spreading  of  Monmouth's  declaration.  [Bibliography,  Nos.  947, 
951.] 

July  [10]. — Here  many  stories  about  Monmouth's  followers, 
which  occasioned  the  following  proclamation.  [Bibliography, 
No.  952.] 

July  11. — Enniskillen  burned,  thought  by  treachery,  the 
fire  beginning  in  three  or  four  places  at  once ;  nor  were  the 
Irish  idle,  for  about  this  time  the  Tories  began  to  infest 
the  country,  which  caused  the  following  proclamation. 
[Bibliography,  No.  953.] 

July  14. — On  the  news  of  Monmouth's  defeat  there  was 
great  joy,  but  especially  amongst  the  Irish  Papists,  who 
burned  a  manikin  in  Francis  Street  for  him.  In  High  Street 
some  burned  stools  and  chairs.  It  was  reported  that  Bandon- 
bridge  was  burned  and  Londonderry  attempted.  Tyrconnel 
goes  into  the  West,  but  soon  after  returns.  He  did  all, 
the  Lords  Justices  now  but  ciphers. 

July  17. — Lord  Granard  returns  from  the  North,  and  then 
issued  out  this  following  proclamation  against  spreading  of 
false  news.     [Bibliography,  No.  952.] 

July  23. — The  Battle-axes  now  disbanded,  so  was  the 
Life  Guard  of  Horse. 

July  29. — Some  companies  returned  from  England,  and  a 
proclamation  issued  here  to  call  home  the  Irish  that  were 


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affrighted  by  noise  of  a  Presbyterian  plot.  [Bibliography, 
No.  955.] 

August  [10]. — On  the  defeat  of  Monmouth,  this  following 
proclamation  for  a  thanksgiving  came  out.  [Bibliography , 
No.  956.] 

August  11. — There  came  out  this  proclamation  [Biblio- 
graphy No.  957],  to  save  the  Irish,  who  were  getting  into  all 
emplojnnents,  rather  than  anything  else,  for  Tyrconnel 
encourages  the  Irish  to  come  to  town  on  the  disbanding  of 
the  Life  Guard,  and  being  poor  fellows  they  made  great  suit 
to  the  Earl  to  be  admitted  into  his  troop  then  raising,  as  did 
also  many  of  the  disbanded  troopers,  which  he  readily  granted, 
protesting  he  had  no  hand  in  their  disbanding  ;  he  took  in 
about  fourteen  of  the  Horse  Guards,  and  to  make  way  for 
them  turned  out  about  as  many  Protestants,  and  after  some 
months  turned  many  of  them  also.  Colonel  McCarty  shares 
the  chaplain's  salary  with  a  priest,  which  he  had  put  in,  or 
threatens  him  to  disband  him. 

September  23. — One  Captain  Purcell,  governor  of  Wexford, 
drew  up  his  men  in  the  market-place,  and  ordered  them  to 
charge  with  baU ;  then  sent  them  to  disarm  the  inhabitants, 
which  they  did,  and  took  away  aU  they  found,  wherever  they 
were.  The  town  complained  to  the  Council,  but  could  have 
no  redress,  only  they  promised  privately  to  caU  for  them 
into  the  stores,  and  then  give  them  back  again,  the  contrary 
of  which  you  will  find  in  the  next  month. 

October. — There  was  much  swearing  of  treason  all  the 
circuits  over,  and  here  at  Dublin  one  stood  in  the  piUory ; 
aU  done  by  the  maMce  of  the  Papists.  This  fellow  had 
two  hundred  eggs  flung  by  a  Popish  boy  at  him,  many  of 
the  Papists  encouraging  their  servants  to  it ;  so  that  there 
was  a  mutiny  and  a  man  killed  in  Skinner  Row,  with  many 
wounded,  till  the  guard  quieted  all  with  a  file  of  men. 
Tyrconnel  said  he  wondered  next  day  how  the  soldiers 
durst  stir  from  the  guard  when  he  had  inquired  into  the 
matter ;  but  instead  of  returning  the  Protestants  their  arms 
this  following  proclamation  came  out.  [Bibliography, 
No.  958.] 

[October  — .] — This  month  many  gentlemen  at  Clonmel 
were  tried  for  treasonable  words,  the  evidence  against  them 
mere  sculloges,  scarce  a  cravat  about  their  necks,  and  not 
to  be  credited,  as  Judge  ReyneU  observed.  The  jury  were  five 
Protestants  and  seven  Papists.  The  foreman,  one  Grace, 
a  Papist,  claps  him  down  in  a  chair,  and  swore  :  "  God  damn 
him  if  he  would  stir  till  they  found  them  guilty."  At  length 
repeating  the  same  words,  he  leaned  on  both  elbows,  and  they 
observing  him  after  some  time  found  him  dead.  So  the  jury 
was  drawn. 

[December  23.] — The  Lord  Galmoye  and  Lord  Ikerrin, 
one  Sunday,  being  drunk,  were  rude  in  St.  Werburgh's  Church, 
and  lest  the  other  sort  should  be  found  idle  there  was  great 


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robbing  all  over  the   country,   which   occasioned  this  pro- 
clamation.    [Bibliography,  No.  959.] 

1686. 

January  9. — Lord  Clarendon  came  Lord  Lieutenant,  landed 
at  Bray,  and  was  brought  in  with  many  of  the  Enghsh  nobiUty 
of  this  coimtry.  At  his  receiving  the  Sword,  he  assured  them 
that  the  King  would  make  no  alteration  either  in  Church  or 
State,  which  much  damped  the  Papists.  The  Earl  of  Arran 
dies.  Schombergh  confined  in  France.  At  Lord  Clarendon's 
coming,  he  soon  issued  the  following  proclamation  for  the 
King's  Accession.     [Bibliography,  No.  962.] 

February  9. — Sir  John  Eaiox,  the  Lord  Mayor,  was  knighted, 
and  in  the  next  month  the  Papists  came  in  judges,  and  a 
report  that  the  Earl  of  Tyrconnel  was  made  Lieutenant- 
General  of  the  Army,  and  that  he  had  two  hundred  blank 
commissions  to  fill  up,  and  that  the  Lord  Chancellor,  and 
many  judges  would  be  changed,  which  put  people  under  great 
fears.  About  the  20th  of  February  a  proclamation  was  issued 
against  printing  news,  ballads,  etc.,  without  hcence,  and  the 
20th  of  February  St.  Peter's  Church  was  consecrated. 

April  16. — Sir  Charles  Porter  landed,  and  next  day  was 
sworn  Chancellor. 

April  21. — ^Nugent,  Rice  and  Daly  were  put  in  the  places 
of  Rejmell,  Hartstonge  and  Jones  for  judges. 

April  23. — One  Creagh,  a  merchant,  was  knighted.  Reynell 
and  Hartstonge  came  to  the  bar,  and  had  much  practice. 

May  14. — Sir  Edward  Hales  in  England  is  dispensed  with,  and 
his  coachman  cast.  This  day  some  trunks  were  brought 
to  the  Custom  House,  but  passed  without  opening  by  the 
King's  command  ;   supposed  to  be  Popish  Bishops'  robes,  etc. 

June  5. — Earl  of  Tyrconnel,  who  went  for  England,  lands 
here,  being  made  Lieutenant-General  of  the  Army  of  Ireland, 
with  many  officers  in  his  train ;  the  officers  of  the  Army  soon 
after  dismissed. 

June  8. — The  royal  regiment  was  drawn  out,  and 
Colonel  Dorrington  supersedes  Sir  Charles  Feilding. 

June  9. — Earl  Tyrconnel,  Earl  of  Limerick,  Lord  Gormans- 
town  (aU  Papists),  sworn  of  the  Privy  Council,  as  also  the 
three  Popish  Judges,  Lord  Galmoye,  Justin  McCarty, 
Colonel  Purcell,  Lord  Ikerrin,  and  Colonel  Hamilton.  A 
Papist  made  Master  of  the  Ordnance  in  Mr.  Joy's  room. 

June  12. — Earl  Tyrconnel  draws  out  the  royal  regiment 
into  the  Deer-park,  and  marks  out  three  or  four  himdred 
to  be  disbanded,  but  the  Lord  Lieutenant,  who  knew  nothing 
of  it  till  then,  opposed  it,  until  he  knew  the  King's  pleasure, 
and  dispatched  an  express  to  that  purpose,  and  refused  to 
suffer  the  regiment  to  be  drawn  out  the  next  day,  as  Tjo-connel 
had  commanded.  But  Captain  Arthur,  a  Popish  officer  in 
the  regiment,  dismissed  about  twenty-five  of  his  company, 
and  sent  a  sergeant  and  a  drummer  to  St.  John's  Well  to 


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beat  for  volunteers,  so  did  others  of  the  new  officers,  and 
beat  up  for  them  at  all  fairs  about  the  country,  before  the 
return  of  the  Lord  Lieutenant's  express  ;  so  that  the  Popish 
party  went  on  in  spite  of  any  opposition.  The  King's  letter 
was  sent  to  the  city  of  DubHn,  and  to  all  Corporations  in 
Ireland,  to  admit  Papists  to  the  freedom  of  the  city  without 
taking  the  oaths  ;  it  was  referred  to  a  committee  of  Aldermen 
and  Commons  to  advise  with  counsel  about  it.  A  motion 
was  made,  as  it  was  reported,  in  the  Privy  Council  by  the 
Lord  Gormanstown  to  prohibit  famiUes  to  remove  for  England, 
as  many  upon  the  great  rise  of  Popery  were  about  to  do, 
and  to  leave  their  effects,  but  it  was  rejected.  Upon  the 
dismissal  of  so  many  soldiers,  the  Irish  fellows  that  came 
to  be  hsted,  when  one  asked  them  where  they  were  going, 
they  would  say  "  to  get  a  wacancy,"  which  after  proved 
a  jeer  or  by-word. 

July  1 . — On  this  day  happened  a  quarrel  about  the  by-word 
*'  wacancy,"  and  one  or  two  in  town  were  killed  on  that  account, 
for  the  Popish  officers  bid  the  men  beat  any  that  jeered  them. 
Of  the  better  sort  several  asked  for  shoulder -knots  for  their 
swords,  and  blue  scarlet,  at  the  shops.  All  this  while  the 
Protestants  were  under  great  discontents  that  so  many  soldiers 
were  dismissed  without  a  cause,  and  the  very  scum  of  the 
people  put  in,  culled  by  the  priests  and  sent  to  the  officers, 
which  was  looked  on  as  done  for  some  bloody  end. 

July  12. — Lord  Lieutenant  went  to  Kilkenny,  where  he 
had  an  honorable  reception,  and  returned  about  17th.  Then 
the  Ecclesiastical  Commission  came  out  in  England. 

July  28. — The  following  proclamation  came  forth  for  to 
quiet  the  minds  of  the  people  for  words  spoken.  {Bibliography, 
No.  966.] 

July  31. — The  whole  subject  of  discourse  about  this  time 
was  about  disbanding  the  army,  and  taking  houses  at  under 
rates. 

August  18. — The  Countess  of  Dorset  returns  for  England. 

September  4. — Earl  of  Tyrconnel  returns  for  England, 
and  soon  after  Primate  Boyle  and  Earl  of  Granard.  The 
Lord  Lieutenant  returns  from  Munster  progress,  and  is  received 
with  bonfires. 

October  4. — The  Irish  Army  grows  insolent  at  Kilkenny 
under  the  Lord  Galmoye,  and  insult  one  Wilsby  at  his  meeting- 
house. 

October  23. — Mr.  Major  Connell's  bonfire  was  put  out, 
and  himself  forced  to  get  out  of  the  way ;  his  windows  were 
broken,  and  one  of  their  own  troopers  shot  instead  of  young 
Mukins  for  making  a  bonfire.  At  Carlow  the  Sovereign 
refusing  to  make  a  Papist  free,  was  kicked  and  beaten  by 
Dan  Shelden,  who  bade  him  go  and  complain  to  the  Lord 
Lieutenant,  which  he  did,  without  rehef.  Many  Protestant 
houses  in  the  country  they  searched  for  arms,  and  several 
robberies  were  committed  and  some  very  barbarous  murders. 


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Near  Kilbeggan  a  whole  family  was  murdered,  and  the  house 
robbed,  on  which  the  following  proclamation.  [Bibliography ^ 
No.  968.]  Many  of  the  Papists  made  justices  of  the  peace, 
and  the  Protestants  put  out. 

1687. 

January  1. — The  Lord  Lieutenant  knighted  the  Lord  Mayor 
in  Christ  Church.  The  Lord  Rochester  put  out  from  being 
Treasurer,  has  a  pension  of  4,000?.  per  annum  out  of  the  Post- 
Office.  Lords  Belasyse,  Dover,  and  Godolphin,  Ernley,  and 
Sir  Stephen  Fox  made  Commissioners  of  the  Treasury. 
Lord  Rochester  retires  to  Twickenham. 

January  7. — The  ParUament  prorogued  in  England  to  the 
28th  of  April,  1687,  and  the  King  sends  Earl  of  Tjrrconnel  Lord 
Deputy  of  Ireland,  the  news  of  which  put  the  city  into  great 
consternation  and  very  many  famihes  prepared  to  remove 
for  England  ;  there  being  also  great  robberies  committed, 
hardly  a  night  passed  but  some  house  was  assaulted.  The 
King  knights  Alexander  Fitton,  and  declares  him  Lord 
Chancellor  of  Ireland.  It  was  reported  that  both  the  Chief 
Justices,  Davys  and  Keatinge,  were  to  be  dismissed,  and 
that  Christ  Church  was  to  be  given  to  the  Papists,  all  which 
discouraged  the  EngUsh  Protestants,  and  put  a  great  stop 
to  all  trade,  so  that  money  became  very  scarce,  and  many 
houses  empty.  The  Earl  of  Huntingdon  made  an  Ecclesiastical 
Commissioner  instead  of  Earl  of  Rochester,  and  Earl  of 
Mulgrave  instead  of  Archbishop  of  Canterbury. 

January  19. — The  chapel  in  the  new  Hospital  was  this 
day  consecrated  by  Archbishop  of  Dublin  in  the  presence  of 
Lord  Lieutenant  Clarendon  and  many  of  the  nobihty.  It 
was  reported  that  Tyrconnel,  at  his  coming,  would  put  a 
stop  to  people  leaving  the  kingdom  and  carrjdng  away 
their  effects,  as  in  France,  which  made  many  people  hasten 
away  to  begone  as  soon  as  they  could  ;  it  being  also  reported 
that  the  Irish  soldiers  would  be  quartered  upon  private  houses, 
which  was  actually  done  in  Drogheda. 

January  19. — ^About  eight  o'clock  this  night  an  English 
Protestant  near  Kilgobbin,  that  was  a  constable  and  a  stout 
man,  was  beset  in  his  house,  and  being  sensible  of  it,  stood 
on  his  guard,  and  prevented  their  getting  in,  but  they  set 
the  house  on  fire,  and  then  he  endeavouring  to  escape,  was 
pursued  and  taken  by  Irish  rogues  ;  his  throat  they  cut  from 
ear  to  ear  ;  his  wife  was  also  taken  and  stabbed  ;  his  daughter 
about  thirteen  years  old,  was  took,  knocked  down  and  her 
brains  dashed  into  the  ground  with  a  great  stone  cast  upon 
her,  and  four  small  children  burned  to  cinders  in  the  house. 
This  murder  at  this  time  much  heightened  people's  discontents. 
A  little  before  this,  Gay,  the  Quaker,  was  robbed  in  George's 
Lane,  and  his  servant-maid  murdered.  Great  sums  were 
transmitted  into  England,  so  that  guineas  were  at  twenty-four 
shillings  apiece,  and  exchange  at  twelve  per  cent. 


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January  21. — Much  money  was  stopped  at  the  Custom 
House,  and  plate  sold  at  four  shillings  per  ounce  in  England. 
One  Massy,  a  Papist,  was  made  Dean  of  Christ  Church  in 
Oxford,  and  French  afterwards  had  it.  At  Kihnainham  five 
were  this  Sessions  condemned,  and  but  one  executed,  so  well 
did  the  State  keep  their  word  in  the  late  proclamation.  At 
this  month's  assembly  in  the  city.  Papists  were  admitted 
free  without  taking  the  oaths  as  obliged  by  law. 

January  26. — Whilst  the  Earl  of  Tyrconnel  lay  at  the  Head 
for  a  wind,  both  himself  and  party  expressed  much  impatience 
thereat,  but  we  were  as  glad  as  they  vexed  at  the  check,  and 
it  is  hardly  credible  how  the  minds  of  people  were  quieted  by 
this  respite,  which  was  but  seventeen  days. 

February  6. — Tjrrconnel  lands  at  Dunleary,  and  was  brought 
to  town  by  a  great  train  of  his  party,  but  few  or  none  of  the 
Protestant  gentry  ;  he  went  to  his  own  house,  with  the  crowd, 
till  he  was  sworn.  Some  days  before  his  arrival,  the  Lord 
Mayor  gave  orders  to  the  constables  that  the  people  should 
make  bonfires,  but  they  warned  them  to  make  none,  of  which 
Tyrconnel  having  notice,  wrote  to  the  Mayor,  who,  to  do 
him  justice,  set  the  constables  in  stocks.  The  King  made  one 
Bassett  rector  of  Sydney  CoUege  in  Cambridge,,  a  Roman 
Cathohc.  In  France  dragoons  were  sent  to  Languedoc. 
In  England  Berwick  made  master  of  the  horse  and  colonel  of 
horse.  The  Lord  Maitland,  a  Roman  Cathohc,  made  Secretary 
of  State  in  Scotland,  in  Earl  of  Midleton's  room.  Princess  of 
Denmark's  daughter  dies.  In  Ireland,  Peters,  a  Roman 
Cathohc,  made  Archbishop  of  Cashel. 

February  12. — This  day  being  Saturday,  Earl  of  Tyrconnel 
was  sworn  Lord  Deputy  (then  came  up  the  story  of  Toby 
Barnes  about  twenty-one  or  two  years  ago,  videlicet,  that 
nothing  stuck  closer  in  his  conscience  as  he  lay  a-d5dng, 
nor  was  he  troubled  for  any  action  of  his  Hfe  as  for  not  kilhng 
Talbot  when  it  was  in  his  power,  for  that  he  would  ruin  the 
Protestants)  at  Lord  Archbishop  of  Dubhn's  house,  and  went 
from  thence  to  the  Castle.  The  Earl  of  Clarendon  made  a 
speech,  and  went  on  shipboard  immediately,  but  the  wind 
not  favouring  he  stayed  at  Dunleary.  There  were  many 
at  his  departure,  though  many  imagined  him  to  be  but  a 
blind,  having  scarce  power  to  punish  what  he  saw  amiss. 
Chancellor  Porter,  on  the  same  day,  resigned  the  seal.  At 
Ratoath,  a  cow-boy  went  to  a  Protestant's  house  for  a  penny- 
worth of  tobacco,  which  the  woman  of  the  house  gave  him, 
then  pretending  to  be  cold,  he  sat  down  by  the  fire,  and  on  a 
sudden  gave  the  woman  a  gash  ;  she  falling  with  the  fright 
and  stab,  he  ran  to  the  husband,  who  lay  in  his  bed,  and 
thinking  to  cut  his  throat  too,  wounded  him  on  the  side  of  the 
neck,  of  which  he  died,  and  then  endeavoured  to  escape, 
but  was  taken,  and  confessed  he  was  set  on  by  the  devil. 
The  College  plate,  about  four  thousand  ounces,  was  taken  at 
going  off.    At  Ealgobbin,  where  the  murder  was  committed, 


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much  screeching  was  heard,  and  a  suspected  woman  attempted 
to  cut  the  throat  of  one  who  seized  her  on  suspicion,  but  cut 
only  his  fingers. 

February  15. — Sir  William  Domville  was  dismissed,  who 
had  been  about  twenty-five  years  Attorney  General,  and  Nagle 
put  in  his  place  and  knighted.  The  Lord  Deputy  expressed 
much  kindness  to  Sir  WiUiam  but  two  days  before.  Sir  Richard 
Ryves,  Recorder  of  Dublin,  was  dismissed,  and  Gerald  Dillon 
was  put  in  his  place.  Not  three  Protestants  pricked  among 
the  sheriffs.  A  text  preached  on  before  the  Lord  Deputy, 
Numbers,  33,  55,  56.     One  Dermot,  a  noted  thief,  executed. 

February  19. — Earl  of  Clarendon  went  for  England.  The 
Judges  of  Assizes  haK  Roman  Cathohcs.  Lord  Deputy  went 
pubKcly  to  Mass,  two  companies  of  foot  and  a  squadron  of 
horse  attending  him.  The  Earl  of  Longford  carried  the 
sword  of  state. 

February  21. — ^The  following  proclamation  was  issued 
against  Tories,  and  for  trying  of  felons  [Bibliography,  No.  970], 
and  that  [against  spreading  reports]  [Bibliography ,  No. 
969]. 

February  23. — Lady  Mary,  Princess  Ann's  eldest  daughter, 
dies  ;   an  attempt  to  poison  the  Princess  of  Orange  in  tea. 

February  24. — Earl  of  Longford  dismissed,  notwithstanding 
his  cringing,  of  being  prime  Commissioner  of  the  Revenues  ; 
and  Robert  Bridge  sent  out  also. 

February  26. — About  this  time  Lord  Deputy  issues  the 
following  declaration  [Bibliography,  No.  971],  notwithstanding 
which  at  St.  Michan's,  a  gentleman  being  to  be  buried,  and  his 
grave  made  in  a  place  purchased  from  the  parish,  a  soldier 
being  to  be  buried,  the  soldiers  put  their  fellow  soldier's  corpse 
in  the  gentleman's  grave,  upon  which  complaint  being  made 
the  soldiers  were  cashiered  and  promises  were  made  of  peace 
and  happiness,  yet  six  hundred  Protestants  went  off  upon  it. 
One  Bermingham  pretends  a  scruple  in  religion,  and  apphes 
to  the  Archbishop  of  Dubhn,  who  appointed  Dr.  Foy, 
Dr.  King  and  Dr.  Acton  to  meet  some  priests  the  24th,  but 
it  was  put  off  to  the  27th.  In  the  meanwhile  a  juggle  was 
discovered  in  the  matter,  for  Bermingham,  a  pretended 
Protestant,  was  really  a  Papist,  and  to  advance  the  credit 
of  the  Popish  clergy  procured  this  disputation,  designing  to 
go  to  Mass  upon  the  dispute  ;  upon  which  the  Archbishop 
sent  letters  mandatory  not  to  dispute,  which  letters  were 
publicly  read  at  St.  Werburgh's.  Now  the  charters  of  this 
city  of  DubKn,  and  all  other  cities  sent  for,  but  refused. 
Liberty  of  conscience  read  at  Edinburgh  ;  the  miseries  of  the 
Protestants  at  Piedmont  the  same  time. 

March  7.^This  proclamation  about  salmon  fry  was 
published.     [Bibliography,  No.  972.] 

March  15.— Wybrants,  Margetson  and  Withers,  three 
ensigns  of  the  royal  regiment,  were  dismissed,  notwithstanding 
the   Lord  Deputy's   protestation  to   the   contrary.     Earl  of 


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Clarendon  put  out  from  being  Lord  President,  and 
Lord  Arundel  put  in  his  place.  The  Parliament  prorogued 
to  the  22nd  of  November,  1687,  in  which  a  toleration  for  all 
rehgion. 

March  18. — Lord  Archbishop  of  Dublin  put  out  of  the 
Council. 

March  31. — The  charter  of  the  new  Hospital  seized,  and 
Mass  said  in  that  chapel. 

April  4. — Comes  out  the  King's  declaration  for  hberty  of 
conscience  and  a  proclamation  about  com.  [Bibliography y 
Nos.  973,  976.] 

April  10. — Lord  Deputy  goes  to  Mass  to  St.  Francis's  Chapel. 
One  of  Lord  Clancarty's  troopers  losing  his  horse,  and  being 
to  march,  the  Lord  bade  him  take  his  landlord's,  which  not 
daring  himself  to  do,  he  made  a  constable  to  do  it,  for  which 
the  landlord  making  the  constable  pay,  the  constable  com- 
plaining of  the  hardship,  the  Lord  tossed  the  landlord  in  a 
blanket  to  death.  Many  of  the  charters  in  the  country  given 
up  to  the  Judges  of  Assize  on  their  circuit.  The  Lord  Deputy 
abuses  the  Lord  Mayor  for  refusing  the  charter,  and  calls  the 
Recorder  a  rebel,  though  they  had  chosen  one  Lincoln,  a 
Papist,  Sheriff  before.  About  this  time  also  Dean  Manly 
turns  Papist,  and  writes  for  Popery.  Baron  Henn  super- 
seded by  Rice,  and  Lynch  knighted  and  made  a  puisne  baron, 
and  Martin  made  Judge  in  the  Common  Pleas  in  the  room  of 
Gorges. 

April  30. — Boyle,  Roche  and  McNamara  hanged  for  the 
Quaker  Gay's  robbery  in  George's  Lane,  and  gibbetted.  About 
the  11th  justices  appointed  to  sign  widow's  certificates  for 
hearth-money,  and  the  29th  a  declaration  about  the  clothing 
and  pay  of  Army.     [Bibliography,  No.  977,  978.] 

May  2. — A  proclamation  taking  off  duty  from  Spanish 
iron.     [Bibliography,  No.  980.] 

May  4. — Quo  warrantos  now  brought  against  all  the  charters, 
upon  which  many  surrendered,  and  a  proclamation  was  designed 
to  back  them  if  refusal  had  been. 

June  15. — Judgment  against  Dublin  charter  ;  Baron  Rice 
declaring  that  they  had  as  good  maintain  a  civil  war  against 
the  King  as  those.  Sir  Edward  Hales  made  Lieutenant  of 
the  Tower,  and  the  Duke  of  Somerset  turned  out  of  all  his 
employment  for  affronting  the  Pope's  nuntio. 

July  18. — Seven  companies  with  eight  pieces  of  ordnance 
march  to  the  Curragh  of  Kildare,  on  which  the  following 
declaration,  and  also  a  proclamation  revoking  that  of  the 
2nd  of  May  last.     [Bibliography,  Nos.  981,  982.] 

August  8. — The  friars  appear  in  habits  and  laughed  at  by 
the  boys.  The  Lord  Mayor  sends  for  the  constables  and 
orders  that  the  friars  shall  be  protected  from  injury.  Bow 
Bridge  near  the  Hospital  made,  and  the  way  mended. 

August  11. — Hennessey  whipped  out  of  the  Hospital 
Chapel. 


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August  12. — Lord  Deputy  returns  from  Curragh  to  Chapel- 
izod.  The  Queen  at  Bath  ;  the  King  goes  to  her  ;  returns 
by  Chester. 

August  21. — Lord  Deputy  goes  to  Chester  to  meet  the 
King,  leaves  Lord  Chancellor  and  Lord  Clanricarde  justices. 

August  30. — Eight  sergeants  and  many  corporals  of  the 
regiment  cashiered. 

September  4. — Lord  Deputy  returns,  lands  at  Ringsend, 
being  absent  only  fourteen  days. 

September  24. — Lord  Chief  Justice  Davys  dies,  in  whose 
room  Nugent  is  placed. 

September  27. — Earl  of  Clanricarde  dies,  and  Lord  Chancellor 
Fitton's  lady.  The  Earl  of  Castlemaine  made  Privy  Councillor. 
Then  comes  out  the  Freyberg  letter. 

October  23. — Lord  Deputy  forbids  the  great  guns  to  be 
fired,  and  at  night  a  rabble  of  Popish  soldiers  with  drawn 
swords  and  a  crowd  of  other  rabble  ran  about  to  put  out 
bonfires.  A  joiner  killed  as  he  stood  at  his  own  door,  and 
two  more  wounded  that  night.  He  that  killed  him  said 
he  was  sorry  he  did  not  kill  twenty  more.  One  of  Irish  quaUty 
would  not  lie  in  a  Protestant  house  at  Castledermot,  till  they 
were  laughed  at,  because  they  could  not  find  a  Cathohc  inn. 
One  David  O'Neill  made  Master  of  Chancery.  About  this 
time  Magdalen  College  business. 

October  31. — A  proclamation  against  bonfires  [Bibliography  y 
No.  983].  A  new  charter  given  to  Dublin.  Sir  Thomas 
Hackett,  Lord  Mayor,  sworn.  Hennessey  whipped  out  of  the 
Tholsel  and  High  Mass  said  in  it. 

November  2. — Sir  Richard  Nagle  got  to  the  Tholsel,  and 
was  made  Town  Clerk,  and  one  Barnewall  was  made  Recorder. 
The  like  at  Kilkenny,  and  also  wherever  the  new  charter. 
Six  Protestant  Aldermen  left  to  give  a  varnish  in  the  city  of 
Dubhn,  vizt.,  two  Churchmen,  two  Dissenters  and  two 
Quakers  ;  the  rest  Papists.  Thirty  of  the  Common  Council 
Papists.  He  that  killed  the  joiner  found  guilty  of  man- 
slaughter ;  not  a  Protestant  in  the  jury,  all  Papists.  About 
two  hundred  and  fifty  disbanded,  and  blockheads  admitted 
to  be  taught  about  this  time. 

November  25. — Sir  Charles  Meredith  put  out,  and  Buno 
Talbot  put  in  his  stead. 

December  3. — About  five  in  the  evening  it  began  to  rain, 
upon  which  a  good  flood  took  down  Essex  Bridge,  and  coach 
and  horses  dropped  in  and  were  drowned.  At  this  time  many 
arms  and  bombs,  etc.,  brought  from  England  to  the  stores 
here.  The  freedom  of  the  city  to  be  renewed  at  threepence  per 
man,  but  this  utterly  denied  by  the  Corporation  of  the  city. 

December  20. — The  Lord  Mayor  hangs  up  six  hundred 
lanthorns,  and  taxes  nine  shillings  to  five  of  the  inhabitants, 
though  they  cost  him  but  six  shiUings  apiece.  The  usual 
cessments  for  the  poor  refused  the  churchwardens,  and  Lord 
Mayor  issues  warrants  to  collect  and  would  fain  collect  it 


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himself,  pretending  the  poor  were  cheated.  He  sets  the  toll 
of  the  markets  for  800Z.  per  annum  to  his  friend  (formerly 
set  at  IjlOOZ.  per  annum,)  for  his  own  use.  The  Hght  bread 
and  butter  he  sent  to  the  friars,  which  formerly  was  sent  to 
the  prisoners. 

1688. 

January  16. — Several  scruples  arising  about  coin,  the 
following  proclamation  comes  out.     [Bibliography,  No.  984.] 

January  20. — The  Secretary  of  State,  Sir  Thomas  Sheridan, 
upon  a  difference  betwixt  Lord  Deputy  and  him,  dismissed  of 
all  his  employments.  The  new  Lieutenant  of  the  Tower 
obhges  all  the  warders  to  give  up  all  their  places,  which  they 
had  during  good  behaviour,  and  take  them  during  pleasure. 
Now  also  the  King  presses  the  States  to  deliver  up  Dr.  Burnet, 
which  is  refused,  upon  which  he  calls  home  his  forces,  which 
is  refused  also.  Sir  Bryan  O'Neill  made  judge  of  the  King's 
Bench  in  place  of  Nugent,  advanced  to  Lord  Chief  Justice 
of  the  same. 

January  21. — About  eleven  at  night  a  fiery  meteor  seen 
over  this  city,  which  breaking  appeared  Uke  H'ghtning,  and 
about  a  minute  after  came  a  crack  Hke  the  report  of  a  piece 
of  ordnance,  which  made  the  houses  to  shake. 

February  2. — On  Candlemas  day  the  great  house  in  Sheep's 
Street  was  consecrated  to  the  nuns.  A  day  of  thanksgiving 
was  appointed  for  the  Queen's  being  with  child  in  England, 
Scotland  and  Ireland  ;  see  proclamation  [Bibliography^ 
No.  986].  This  was  looked  upon  by  many  to  be  a  mean 
design,  it  being  so  passionately  desired  by  all  the  Cathohcs, 
who  ever  since  the  King  came  home  would  drink  Hans-en- 
kelder,  even  two  years  before  to  many's  knowledge,  the 
thoughts  of  a  Protestant  successor  being  more  terrible  than 
doomsday,  and  what  rendered  it  more  suspicious  was  the 
confidence  that  the  Papists  had  that  it  was  a  boy.  One 
TerriU,  titular  Bishop  of  Clogher,  made  Secretary  in 
Sir  Thomas  Sheridan's  place,  and  Alexius  Stafford,  titular 
Dean  of  Christ  Church,  made  Master  of  Chancery  in 
Dr.  Topham's  place,  who  was  turned  out. 

March  17. — Lord  Chief  Justice  Nugent  and  Lord  Chief 
Baron  Rice  went  for  England,  on  which  Nagle's  letter  appears. 
The  King  will  raise  three  regiments  to  employ  the  officers 
that  came  home  from  HoUand,  which  were  but  a  few,  and 
by  proclamation  England  commands  all  his  subjects  in  the 
service  to  return  on  his  displeasure.     [Bibliography,  No.  987.] 

April  4. — Out  comes  the  proclamation  not  to  serve  the 
Hollanders.     [Bibliography,  No.   987.] 

April  7. — From  the  county  of  Wicklow  and  Wexford  a  cross 
was  seen  in  the  moon.  Princess  Ann  miscarries.  The  three 
new  regiments  raised. 

May  — . — ^The  King  puts  out  his  declaration  now  for  Uberty 
of  conscience,  and  endeavours  to  pack  a  ParUament  for  that 


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purpose,  to  which  the  three  questions  were  to  be  put  as  in 
the  Freyberg  letter.  The  declaration  ordered  to  be  read 
in  the  churches  refused  by  many  of  the  bishops  and  clergy 
of  London,  at  which  the  King  displeased  and  threatens  them 
with  Ecclesiastical  Commissioners,  the  particulars  of  which 
were  soon  printed  and  as  soon  suppressed.  A  discovery  of 
some  attempts  to  poison  the  Prince  of  Orange.  Several 
hundred  of  Irish  soldiers  carried  for  England  under  pressure 
to  form  a  regiment  of  the  officers  from  Holland.  The  seven 
Bishops  sent  to  the  Tower  for  petitioning  the  King,  which  gave 
great  discontent.     The  Jesuits'  school  opened  in  London. 

June  10. — A  camp  at  the  Curragh  is  designed,  declaration 
for  it  IBibliography,  No.  990].  Between  nine  and  ten  the 
Queen  brought  to  bed  of  a  boy,  designed  to  be  brought  up 
by  hand.  The  Bishops  imprisoned  two  days  before.  The 
Prince  and  Princess  of  Denmark  then  at  the  Bath.  The 
King  orders  a  day  of  thanksgiving  and  prayers  by  the  Bishop 
of  Rochester,  etc.,  on  that  occasion  in  London  on  the  17th, 
and  in  the  country  the  1st  July.     [Bibliography,  No.  991.] 

July  1. — The  thanksgiving  here  at  DubKn,  and  the  8th  in 
the  country.  The  Bishops  tried  and  found  not  guilty,  with 
great  joy.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  declares  Roman  CathoKc 
before  the  King  and  Council. 

July  5. — Judge  Hollo  way  and  Judge  Powell  turned  out 
for  their  opinion  in  the  Bishops'  case,  so  was  Street  and 
Milton. 

July  19. — Duke  of  Ormond  dies.  Two  great  herring -hogs 
killed  at  Dunleary,  the  least  as  big  as  a  whale  turned  upwards, 
the  other  much  bigger. 

July  20. — ^A  declaration  for  the  government  of  the  army. 
[Bibliography,  No.  992.] 

August  — . — ^And  another  24th  of  August.  Another  the 
28th  for  provision  for  the  camp.  [Bibliography,  Nos.  993, 
994.] 

September  — . — The  King  puts  out  a  declaration  in  England 
for  a  free  Parhament,  and  that  no  Popish  sit  in  the  House  of 
Commons.  [Bibliography,  No.  997.]  Here  was  issued  a  pro- 
clamation for  not  exporting  wool,  as  also  a  declaration  for 
officers  to  keep  at  their  command.  [Bibliography,  Nos.  995, 
998.]  At  Ennis,  in  the  county  of  Clare,  in  Munster,  a  male- 
factor was  indicted  for  burglary  and  felony,  and  in  full  proof 
of  both  the  jury  would  not  find  the  burglary,  but  only  the 
felony.  He  demanded  his  clergy,  and  though  a  scholar  he  could 
not  read.  They  said  the  print  was  too  Httle  ;  he  said  so 
too,  and  the  book  appeared  red  as  blood  ;  on  which  the 
judges  sent  for  a  Church  Bible,  and  called  him  up  to  the  Bench, 
and  gave  him  the  book,  but  to  no  purpose,  for  there  he  could 
not  read,  for  the  book  was  all  over  black  as  ink,  upon  which 
he  was  sentenced  to  die.  After  he  received  his  sentence,  he 
could  read  those  or  any  book  readily.  At  execution  he  con- 
fessed a  murder,  which  he  was  not  suspected  for.    There 

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came  to  England  news  of  the  Prince  of  Orange's  designs, 
known  no  doubt  to  some,  for  the  King  puts  in  all  the  Justices 
lately  turned  out ;  the  like  to  all  deputy  lords,  but  cashiers 
several  of  the  Duke  of  Berwick's  officers,  for  refusing  Irish 
soldiers. 

October  3. — Others  threw  up  their  commissions  on  news 
of  the  Prince's  being  at  sea.  Seven  companies  of  the  royal 
regiment  now  shipped  off  for  England.  Our  Government 
and  Papists  in  great  consternation. 

October  6. — Several  companies  of  Lord  Forbes's  regiment 
shipped  off.  The  King  fawns  on  the  Church  of  England  ; 
the  Bishops  admitted  to  kiss  his  hand  ;  makes  promises  ; 
flatters  the  city  of  London ;  recalls  the  charter ;  makes 
Sir  —  Chapman  Lord  Mayor  ;  dissolves  the  Ecclesiastical 
Commissioners  ;  recalls  two  warrantos  against  Oxford  ; 
restores  Magdalen  College  ;  makes  the  young  Duke  of  Ormond 
and  Berwick  Knights  of  the  Garter  ;  commissions  several 
Protestants  to  raise  forces ;  so  that  all  suspected  what  the 
end  of  this  would  be. 

October  17. — A  proclamation  issued  here  against  spreaders 
of  news.  [Bibliography,  No.  1000.]  The  young  Prince  of 
Wales  christened  ;  named  James  Francis  Edward  ;  Queen 
Dowager  godmother ;  the  Pope's  nuntio  godfather.  The 
King  calls  an  assembly  and  prints  the  bawdy  depositions, 
though  no  questions  were  asked,  but  the  worthy  Chancellor 
Jeffreys  asked  what  he  thought  fit. 

October  30. — Two  armies  appear  in  the  clouds  ;  seen  by 
several  in  this  city — watch  and  seamen  ;  went  from  east 
to  north  ;  they  saw  them  perfectly  shoot  at  one  another, 
and  saw  some  fall  dead  ;  saw  the  very  blood,  and  the  seamen 
repeat  they  heard  the  guns  ;  Colonel  Justin  McCarty  saw  it 
at  sea,  and  told  the  Lord  Deputy  of  it ;  it  continued  about 
one  hour,  with  a  very  bright  night  above,  and  clouds  and  a 
fog  below.  About  this  time  the  new  building  in  the  Castle  of 
Dubhn  was  finished,  and  the  Lord  Deputy  removed  from 
Chapelizod,  for  that  house  was  so  disturbed  with  spirits  they 
could  not  rest.  On  the  23rd  some  Protestants  in  the  county 
of  Meath  made  bonfires,  which  the  Papists  quenched,  and 
were  very  rude,  which  the  Government  seemed  to  resent 
and  promised  to  punish.  Orders  were  given  out  to  raise  five 
new  regiments  :  Earl  of  Clanricarde's,  Antrim's,  Lord  Clare's, 
Limerick's  and  Tyrone's.  The  Bishops  made  their  eleven 
proposals,  and  in  the  history  of  the  desertion  Sunderland 
displaced  (Edward  Viscount  Preston  in  his  place) ;  said  for 
some  letters  about  the  treaty  with  the  French  King  sent 
by  him  to  the  Prince  of  Orange  ;  he  pretends  his  closet  broken 
open.  The  29th,  rabble  break  the  Mass  House  in  Lime  Street, 
while  Lord  Mayor  was  at  dinner. 

November  1. — The  Prince  of  Orange  sails  from  Brill ;  his 
fleet,  seen  from  Dover  the  4th,  was  five  hours  passing  by  ; 
at  seven  in  the  morning  they  were  seen  from  the  Isle  of  Wight, 


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and    on    Monday,    November    15,    landed    at    Dartmouth, 
Exmouth  and  Torbay,  without  any  opposition. 

November  15. — Our  pubhc  news  at  this  time  was  wholly 
suppressed  by  order.  Great  was  the  concern  of  the  Roman 
Cathohcs  at  the  present  posture  of  affairs,  and  fast  days  were 
appointed  and  kept  for  the  King's  success  and  his  enemies' 
confusion.  Among  the  ceremonies  they  used  at  the  Mass 
Houses,  one  was  that  they  made  the  effigy  of  the  Prince  of 
Orange,  and  having  formally  cursed  it  after  their  manner, 
they  cut  it  in  pieces  and  cursed  every  piece  and  spit  on  it, 
and  then  burned  it ;  and  it  was  hotly  reported  three  Jesuits 
went  hence  to  poison  him ;  they  usually  drank  his  and  all  his 
adherents'  confusions,  and  generally  expressed  themselves  with 
much  bitterness.  About  the  6th  just  came  out  the  King's 
declaration,  and  about  the  30th  a  proclamation  for  caUing 
a  ParUament.  [Bibliography,  Nos.  1002,  1003.]  Such 
scandalous  letters  as  the  enclosed  were  written  and  dispersed 
to  several : — 

London,  November  the  14th,  1688. 
Mr.  Deputy-Recorder. 

I  know  that  your  fanatical  crew  longs  to  hear  some 
news  from  us  in  England,  and  therefore  know  that  we 
have  beaten  your  fanatical  army  here,  and  will  ere 
long  cut  the  throats  of  aU  your  fanatical  crew,  and 
so  I  leave  aU  to  your  prayers  till  your  throats  be  cut, 
which  will  be  the  hearty  prayers  of 

Rory  McFlynn. 

To  Josias  Haydocke,  Deputy  Recorder  of  Kilkenny, 
these  (Postmark  and  charge  on  it  from  Dublin). 

Good  my  Lord, 

I  have  written  to  you  to  let  you  know  that  all  out 
Irishmen  through  Ireland  is  sworn;  on  the  ninth  of 
this  month  they  are  all  to  fall  on  and  kill  and  murder 
man,  wife,  and  child,  and  spare  none,  and  I  desire 
your  Lordship  to  take  off  yourself  and  all  others  that 
are  adjudged  by  our  men  to  be  heads,  for  wherever  of 
them  can  kill  any  of  you,  they  are  to  have  a  captain's 
place  ;  so  my  desire  to  your  Honour  is  to  look  to  your- 
self, and  give  other  noblemen  warning,  and  go  not 
out  neither  night  nor  day  without  a  good  guard  with 
you,  and  let  no  Irishman  come  near  you  whatsoever 
he  be,  so  that  is  all  from  your  father's  friend  and  your 
friend,  and  will  be,  although  I  dare  not  be  known  as 
yet  for  fear  of  my  life. 

(No  subscriber.) 
To  my  Lord  Mount-Alexander,  with  care  in  all  haste. 

The  writing  was  iU,  and  it  appeared  by  the  whole  strain, 
the  minute  came  not  from  a  learned  hand. 


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December. — The  Roman  Catholics  having  since  the  Prince  of 
Orange's  coming  for  England  given  out  threatening  speeches 
very  often  against  the  EngHsh,  who  were  as  apt  to  consider 
of  them  as  having  often  tasted  of  their  cruel  usage  in  times 
past,  some  Roman  Cathohcs  gave  out  they  would  be  revenged 
of  the  Protestants  before  Christmas,  whereby  a  general 
suspicion  was  raised  of  some  mischievous  design  in  hand. 
To  back  this,  several  letters  were  sent  from  the  country  to 
persons  here  of  the  best  quaUty  of  a  general  massacre  intended 
the  9th  of  December,  which  occasioned  the  proclamation 
[Bibliography,  No.  1004],  and  also  a  great  consternation. 
One  said  to  be  to  the  Earl  of  Mount-Alexander,  vide  before 
December  3,  and  from  him  to  Lord  Mountjoy,  made  the 
greatest  noise  ;  so  that  several  Lords  went  to  speak  to  the 
Lord  Deputy  about  it ;  but  the  packets  which  then  came  in 
displeasing  the  Government,  put  the  Deputy  into  such  a 
fury,  that  he  was  not  to  be  spoken  to,  but  at  last  the  Earl  of 
Meath  getting  to  him  let  him  know  the  fears  of  the  people  ; 
but  he  stormed,  and  said  he  thought  himself  in  more  danger 
than  they,  and  for  aught  he  knew  the  Protestamts  had  a 
design  to  cut  the  Roman  Cathohcs'  throats,  and  gave  out 
that  report  to  colour  their  purposes,  &c. ;  that  he  knew  of 
no  such  design  and  the  hke. 

December  6. — A  precept  sent  to  the  Seneschal  of  the 
Liberties  of  Donore  to  quarter  a  regiment,  made  the  Earl  of 
Meath  stir.  The  Earl  of  Meath  desired  that  the  Protestants 
might  have  arms  out  of  the  stores  for  their  security,  as  was  for- 
merly proffered,  but  [the  Deputy]  told  him  there  was  not  enough 
for  the  King's  army.  Then  he  desired  they  might  furnish 
themselves  with  arms,  at  which  the  Deputy  swore  this  smelt 
of  a  rebelHon,  and  were  it  not  for  the  respect  he  had  to  his 
family  he  would  commit  him,  and  so  they  parted.  The 
Protestants  that  intended  to  stand  by  it  armed  themselves 
vigorously,  but  very  many  families  of  the  best  and  the  middle 
sort  resolved  to  fly,  and  shipped  themselves  and  children, 
with  what  goods  they  could  pack  up  in  haste,  with  much 
precipitation  and  hurry,  so  that  there  went  out  eight  ships 
on  the  7th,  and  seven  on  the  8th,  and  seventeen  or  eighteen 
on  the  9th,  laden  mostly  with  women  and  children  and  such 
goods  as  they  could  get  on  board.  Those  of  more  courage 
put  themselves  in  places  of  security,  as  the  College,  etc.,  and 
others  prepared  to  defend  their  houses,  and  the  Earl  of  Meath's 
Liberties  kept  such  strong  watches,  that  it  is  reflected  on  in 
the  proclamation  pubhshed,  so  that  such  an  attempt  must 
have  been  very  fatal  to  the  Roman  Cathohcs  in  the  city. 
The  Government,  instead  of  doing  somewhat  to  allay  these 
fears,  was  so  unfortunate  that  all  their  acts  served  to  augment 
them  ;  some  loads  of  arms  were  sent  in  the  night  to  the  Mass 
Houses  in  Cook  Street,  and  on  Saturday  (8th),  when  the 
emotion  was  greatest,  three  car-loads  of  arms  were  sent  to 
the  Mass  House  in  St,  Francis's  Street,  and  the  soldiers  were 


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armed  with  muskets  instead  of  pikes,  and  two  barrels  of  powder 
and  one  of  ball  were  sent  to  the  main  guard,  the  Lord  Deputy 
being  all  day  very  busy  in  giving  out  commissions  for  raising 
twenty  thousand  men  ;  all  which  were  interpreted  by  the 
Protestants  to  the  worst  sense.  At  night  when  business  and 
hurry  was  a  Mttle  over,  and  the  Deputy  began  to  reflect  on 
these  circumstances,  it  began  to  repent  him,  whether  a  Uttle 
too  late.  He  sent  that  night  (8th)  to  the  Archbishop  of  Dublin, 
and  gave  him  many  and  large  assurances  of  the  safety  of  the 
Protestants,  and  prevailed  on  him  to  give  the  same  to  the 
people,  which  was  done  by  a  paper  being  read  upon  morning 
service  m  all  the  Churches  to  that  purpose.  He  then  laid 
embargoes  on  the  ships  that  no  more  should  go  away,  and 
on  Sunday  night  sent  for  several  of  the  most  noted  persons, 
to  whom  he  gave  great  assurance  of  their  safety,  and  desired 
them  give  the  like  to  their  friends  and  acquaintances, 
protesting  he  was  never  more  afflicted,  nor  did  anything 
ever  go  nearer  his  heart  than  did  those  fears  of  a  massacre, 
and  the  people's  flying  (9th),  and  on  Monday  issued  that 
proclamation  [Bibliography,  No.  1004],  though  it  was  too 
late  to  stop  matters,  for  the  Earl  of  Meath  was  gone  on 
Saturday  for  England  ;  and  the  fright  of  so  many  people  of 
such  quahty,  and  such  crowds  of  women  and  children  coming 
at  once  for  England,  at  this  conjuncture,  when  a  report  was 
lately  spread  there  of  a  massacre  in  Ireland,  must  necessarily 
injure  the  King,  and  load  the  Roman  CathoHc  cause,  already 
hated,  with  an  odium  not  to  be  easily  got  off. 

December  10. — ^News  was  brought  that  Londonderry  had 
shut  her  gates  against  the  Earl  of  Antrim,  who  with  four  or 
five  companies  of  his  new  raised  men  went  to  quarter  there, 
on  which  Lord  Mount  joy  went  down  with  six  companies  of 
his  men  and  some  troops  of  horse  followed  him,  but  did  Kttle. 

December  13. — We  received  news  that  Bandon  in  the 
county  of  Cork  turned  out  the  Roman  Cathohcs,  to  reduce 
which  place  Justin  McCarty  was  sent  down. 

December  19. — The  news  of  our  King's  going  off  made  our 
Government  double  the  guards  ;  they  mounted  the  ordnance 
and  planted  several  about  the  Castle,  and  distributed  great 
quantities  of  arms  and  ammunition  ;  they  removed  the  powder 
and  bombs  to  the  Castle. 

December    22. — They    received    advice    that    Duncannon 

was    secured   by   one    Captain   for   the   use   of   the 

Protestants  and  the  Prince  of  Orange.  Captain  Wright  was 
ordered  to  lay  up  his  yacht  and  to  unrig  her,  but  he,  to  the 
contrary,  went  off  with  her.  Many  people  still  quit  the  country, 
and  many  Roman  Cathohcs  send  goods  to  France.  About 
this  time  news  came  from  England  of  the  King's  being  taken 
and  abused,  and  Princess  Ann's  leaving  him,  which  put  a 
damp  on  the  Roman  Cathohcs  here,  and  made  some  of  the 
most  active  provide  for  themselves,  by  disposing  of  their 
goods  into  places  of  safety. 


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December  28. — The  Deputy  put  out  a  proclamation 
appointing  who  should  give  certificates  for  widows'  hearths. 
[Bibliography,  No.  1007.] 

December  29.— And  on  this  day  [the  Deputy  put  out]  a 
declaration  for  officers  not  to  leave  their  old  regiments,  which 
they  did  everywhere  in  hopes  to  be  advanced  in  the  new 
levies.     [Bibliography,  No,  1008.] 

1689. 

January  5. — ^This  new  year  began  here  with  a  sad  accident, 
for  on  the  5th  a  ship  was  cast  away  in  the  Bay  near  Merrion, 
and  all  the  passengers  in  her  lost.  Their  cries  were  heard 
from  six  to  ten  at  night ;  no  boats  could  get  off  to  their 
assistance,  so  that  on  the  next  day  forty-six  persons  were 
taken  up  drowned,  of  which  three  were  judged  to  be  seamen, 
the  rest  officers  and  soldiers  that  went  home  for  England, 
and  disbanded  there,  fled  thence ;  among  them  one 
Captain  Huggard,  who  had  changed  his  reUgion  with  the 
times. 

January  8. — ^Now  came  over  Colonel  Hamilton  from  the 
Prince  to  the  Lord  Deputy,  to  persuade  him  to  give  up  the 
sword  on  conditions,  which  were  said  to  be  that  he  should 
have  his  life  and  estate  ;  that  all  things  were  to  be  reduced 
to  the  state  of  Charles's  time  ;  that  judicial  proceedings 
between  Papists  and  Protestants  should  be  Uable  to  be 
reversed  and  left  as  before  ;  of  which  instructions  he  gave 
quite  the  contrary,  and  instead  of  laying  down  the  sword, 
he  caused  the  Deputy  to  use  other  counsels  altogether  reverse 
to  his  promise  to  the  Prince  at  leaving  England. 

January  10. — We  had  an  account  of  offers  made  by 
Londonderry  to  Lord  Mountjoy,  videlicet  :  1st,  that  no  more 
levies  be  made  in  this  kingdom,  no  more  arms  given  out,  nor 
no  commissions  signed  ;  2nd,  that  all  the  new  raised  forces  be 
kept  in  their  present  quarters,  if  no  enemy  lands  here  and 
that  the  kingdom  is  quiet,  and  that  no  more  troops  be  com- 
manded into  Ulster  than  are  at  present  there  ;  3rd,  that 
no  nobleman,  gentleman  or  common-man  in  this  kingdom 
shall  be  imprisoned,  seized,  or  in  any  wise  molested  for  any 
tumultuous  meetings,  arming  of  men,  forming  of  troops,  or 
attempting  anything  that  may  be  called  riotous  or  rebelhous 
before  this  day ;  4th,  that  no  private  gentleman's  house 
shall  be  made  a  garrison,  or  soldiers  quartered  in  it. 

January  14. — Lord  Deputy  was  not  wilHng  to  give  up 
the  sword  without  the  King's  consent,  to  whom  he  sent 
Lord  Mountjoy  and  Lord  Chief  Baron  Rice.  The  Protestants 
of  Derry,  Enniskillen  and  SUgo  put  out  declarations.  Many 
of  the  Protestant  soldiers  of  the  army  deserted  and  ran  to 
the  North,  and  on  the  18th  about  fifty  soldiers  deserted  out 
of  Lord  Mountjoy's  regiment,  carrjdng  away  arms,  drums,  etc., 
but  being  pursued  and  overtaken,  stood  on  their  guard,  but 
by  one  Nugent,  who  promised  fair  things,  were  persuaded 


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to  lay  down,  which  they  no  sooner  did,  but  they  were  most 
of  them  made  prisoners,  and  brought  to  town  with  a  stroi^ 
guard,  and  sent  to  several  gaols,  some  to  Trim,  etc.  It  is 
hardly  credible  how  many  daily  quitted  the  kingdom,  and 
some  retired  to  the  North,  and  many  Protestants  came  to 
town.  In  the  meanwhile  there  was  great  robbing  and  steaUng 
of  cattle  in  the  country,  and  a  great  dissatisfaction  and  fear 
throughout  the  kingdom  upon  the  present  posture  of  affairs, 
for  an  army  from  England  being  expected  with  the  first  easterly 
wind,  the  Protestants  were  fearful  of  some  barbarities  from 
the  Irish.  Upon  the  great  deserting  of  the  Protestants  from 
the  army,  many  others  were  turned  off,  and  about  this  time 
all  the  Protestants,  both  officers  and  soldiers,  laid  down,  so 
that  the  army  was  all  Papists  here  now,  and  the  word 
"  loyalty  "  grew  much  out  of  use,  except  with  the  Papists, 
Protestants  and  Papists  being  the  words  of  contests. 

January  24. — The  poor  old  men  of  the  Hospital  had  forty 
shiUings  apiece  given  them,  and  all  turned  out  of  the  House, 
being  as  it  was  so  intended  for  a  garrison.  One  Sanderson 
seizes  on  four  loads  of  arms  and  ammunition  in  the  county  of 
Cavan.  A  gentleman,  one  Monsieur  Pontee,  arrived  from 
the  King  to  see  how  affairs  stood  here,  and  soon  returned. 
Commissions  were  given  for  making  the  army  fifty  thousand. 

January  25. — And  a  proclamation  issued  against  associations, 
and  for  laying  down  of  arms.  There  was  great  stealing, 
driving  and  kiUing  of  cattle  all  the  kingdom  over,  on  which 
a  declaration  was  pubUshed.     {Bibliography,  No.  1009.] 

February  5. — There  was  great  crowding  into  England  still, 
so  that  guineas  were  at  four  shiUings  and  sixpence  apiece,  and 
money  about  twelve  per  cent.,  and  some  fourteen,  exchange, 
and  very  great  rates  were  given  for  passages,  and  carrying 
goods,  of  which  Sir  WilHam  EUis  for  passes  made  a  hand, 
so  did  one  White  of  Ringsend,  a  noted  knave.  A  declaration 
also  comes  out  against  kiUing  cattle,  but  sHghted. 
[Bibliography,  No.  1010.]  The  Popish  party  arm  themselves 
with  great  vigour  by  the  instigation  of  the  priests,  and  were 
not  to  have  Mass  unless  they  had  skeans  or  some  other  weapons. 
There  was  a  report  of  a  fight  at  sea,  and  the  guns,  as  said, 
heard  from  the  2nd  to  the  5th.  The  expectation  of  the  King's 
coming  here,  made  it  beheved  that  the  Dutch  had  met  him, 
which  much  damped  the  Irish.  On  the  22nd,  at  night,  there 
was  great  danger  of  an  uproar  in  the  city  by  reason  of  a  quarrel 
in  New  Row,  in  the  Poddle,  wherein  two  or  three  were  killed  ; 
the  soldiers  all  in  arms,  but  it  passed  over  without  much  trouble 
more.  The  whole  North  was  in  the  power  of  the  Protestants, 
except  two  or  three  places. 

February  23. — A  report  was  spread  of  a  defeat  of  some  of 
the  army  in  the  North,  and  some  prisoners  taken,  but  false. 
But  the  packets  coming  in  caused  some  sadness  at  Court, 
which  was  revived  again  by  the  coming  of  Captain  Arthur 
and  Lord  Dungan,  who  said  the  King  would  come  here.    This 


was  spread  all  over  town  about  nine  at  night,  and  the  King 
or  son,  Berwick,  was  landed  at  Youghal  with  thirty  thousand 
French,  upon  which  bonfires  were  made  and  the  bells  rung 
most  of  the  night ;  the  Papists  being  much  overjoyed  at 
the  news,  the  Protestants  much  daunted  and  amazed.  The 
hurry  being  over,  and  the  people  gone  home  to  rest,  the  forces 
were  called  together  in  great  silence  ;  the  foot  and  some  horse 
within  and  without  the  city,  and  very  strong  guards  and 
sentinels  set  at  every  street,  the  gates  close  shut,  and  none 
but  soldiers  admitted  in  and  out,  or  from  street  to  street  in 
the  out  parts  ;  and  in  this  posture  were  all  things  found  in 
the  morning,  when  about  nine  of  the  clock  orders  were  given 
to  search  for  and  take  up  all  horses  and  arms  about  the  city. 

February  25. — On  this  great  search  was  made,  and  all  that 
could  be  found  were  seized  on,  but  within  the  gates  the  Lord 
Mayor  went  about  with  the  constables,  declaring  that  unless 
they  sent  in  all  their  arms  to  Christ  Church  or  St.  Werburgh's, 
they  with  whom  any  should  be  found  afterwards  should  be 
left  to  the  discretion  of  the  soldiers  ;  on  which  all  Protestants 
sent  in  their  arms,  for  fear  of  ill  usage.  They  were  all  searched, 
both  men  and  women,  as  they  passed  in  the  evening,  for 
bayonets  and  pocket-pistols.  They  seized  on  the  College 
and  most  of  the  almshouses  in  the  suburbs,  breaking  trunks 
open,  and  tearing  seals  from  patents  and  detained  them  two 
days.  On  the  same  evening  they  restored  many  horses,  and 
next  morning  gave  back  more. 

February  26. — ^While  this  was  doing  an  embargo  was  laid 
on  the  ships,  and  the  next  morning  guards  set  as  before,  and 
persons  stopped  and  seized  in  the  street,  but  they  were  about 
noon  drawn  off.  On  this  occasion  Woods,  a  butcher,  was 
killed,  and  some  other  insolences  committed,  yet  in  the  main 
it  was  acted  with  much  civihty. 

February  27. — This  morning  some  sugar-plums  were  given 
after  the  potion,  for  the  letters  of  the  packets  were  given  out, 
though  searched  and  opened  before,  but  no  Gazettes  dehvered, 
and  the  Lord  Deputy  had,  as  it  was  reported,  three  letters  from 
the  King  to  be  kind  to  his  Protestant  subjects  that  were  loyal. 
This  evening  the  sham  of  the  King's  landing  and  the  French 
was  laughed  at,  it  being  a  mere  device  to  amuse  the 
Protestants  while  they  were  disarmed  ;  but  the  thing  being 
done,  out  comes  a  declaration  [Bibliography ,  No.  1017],  a 
mere  ridiculous  thing,  and  a  detachment  was  sent  to 
Ballinderry  in  the  county  of  Wicklow,  in  which  many 
Protestants  were  got,  but  it  was  given  up  and  many  of  them 
made  prisoners,  John  Price,  etc.,  and  this  evening  bonfires 
were  made  for  joy  of  an  express  to  the  Deputy  that  the  King 
would  be  here  on  Saturday  or  Sunday,  but  this  was  quashed, 
the  business  being  over,  and  the  soldiers  punished  that  began  the 
thing,  but  the  party  was  found  still  for  the  King's  coming, 
the  Lord  Mayor  ordering  all  the  streets  of  the  city  to  be  mended 
and  gravelled,  which  made  Protestants  to  beheve  that  there 


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was  some  farther  design  on  foot,  so  that  had  there  been  shipping 
and  free  passage  many  thousands  would  have  left  the  kingdom, 
their  discontents  being  heightened  by  some  reports  of  raising 
a  contribution  for  the  army  and  plundering  the  city.  This 
great  work  of  disarming  the  Protestants  gave  thousands 
of  arms  to  the  Papists,  and  made  them  not  fear  doing  what 
they  pleased,  for  now  they  quartered  upon  private  houses 
and  prepared  for  an  expedition  into  the  North. 

March  1. — A  declaration  was  issued  [Bibliography,  No.  1018], 
for  many  of  the  best  arms  were  embezzled  by  officers  and 
soldiers,  insomuch  that  the  ministers  and  wardens  of  every 
parish  went  from  house  to  house  to  see  what  arms  had  been 
taken  from  them  or  given  in,  and  it  was  found  they  had 
above  seven  hundred  arms  from  St.  Werburgh's  only. 

March  8. — The  forces  began  to  march  to  the  North,  and 
next  day  the  train  of  artillery,  consisting  of  seven  brass  pieces 
[  and]  two  iron  ones  with  empty  carriage .  More  of  the  forces  went 
daily.  An  express  brought  a  declaration  from  King  WiUiam 
and  Queen  Mary,  commanding  all  to  lay  down  arms,  and 
come  under  their  standards,  else  to  be  prosecuted  as  robbers 
and  traitors ;  on  the  7th  out  comes  a  proclamation 
[Bibliography,  No.  1020]  against  several  Lords  and  gentlemen 
of  SHgo  and  Ulster,  as  Lords  Massareene,  Mount-Alexander, 
Kingston,  etc. 

March  10. — News  came  to  town  that  a  fleet  of  ships  were 
seen  off  Waterford,  but  not  known  what. 

March  14. — ^And  now  the  news  came  that  the  King  was 
landed  at  Kinsale  on  the  12th  at  night  last.  Great  preparations 
were  made  for  his  reception,  of  plate  and  furniture  for  the 
Castle.  The  bells  ordered  to  be  rung,  but  no  bonfires.  The 
Lord  Deputy  sent  his  coach  to  meet  him,  though  many  would 
not  beheve  he  being  gone  eastward,  and  they  abused  with 
such  stories  often,  and  expecting  a  potent  army  from  England 
very  soon. 

March  15. — The  Lord  Deputy  went  to  meet  the  Kong  at 
Kilkenny.  Yet  still  people  were  doubtful  of  his  coming 
until  Colonel  Dorrington  and  some  baggage  confirmed  that  he 
was  come  to  most,  though  not  to  all,  for  it  was  reported  he 
came  with   Captain  Arthur. 

March  16. — It  was  certain  the  King's  party  was  not  merry 
nor  satisfied.  Some  thought  the  Lord  Deputy  and  grandees 
had  made  peace  with  King  WiUiam,  and  used  this  poUcy  to 
introduce  his  government  without  blood,  and  the  declaration 
seemed  to  further  it  by  giving  time  (till  the  10th  of  April) 
to  lay  down  arms.  So  Hkewise  did  other  circumstances, 
as  sending  the  forces  from  the  city,  stopping  business  at  the 
Custom  House,  nothing  being  done  there  since  the  12th  instant. 
Yet  still  the  general  talk  was  of  bringing  in  the  King. 

March  18. — ^A  hot  report  was  of  a  skirmish  in  the  North, 
confirmed  by  some  that  came  to  a  saddler's  shop  and  pressed 
two  saddles  to  send  an  express  to  the  King. 


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March  20. — It  was  said  that  some  country  people  at  Lough- 
brickland,  flying  to  the  North  quarters,  were  shot  down  to 
the  number  of  two  or  three  hundred. 

March  21. — This  day  a  party  of  about  three  hundred  were 
drawn  out  and  sent  with  two  mortar-pieces  and  some  carts 
northward,  and  Tj^connel  made  Duke,  and  so  Powis  also. 

March  22. — The  King  came  to  Kilkenny,  where  he  had 
this  speech  made  to  him  by  one  Murphy,  an  Irish  doctor  of 
divinity,  or  rather  the  titular  Bishop  of  Ossory,  though  after 
it  was  printed  as  the  Recorder's  speech.     [See  infra.] 

March  24. — The  King  came  to  town  with  far  less  splendour 
than  the  Lord  Deputy  used  to  do.  He  rode  on  horseback, 
and  Tyrconnel  carried  the  sword,  his  two  base  sons  riding  on 
each  hand  of  him.  He  was  very  courteous  to  all  as  he  passed 
by.  It  is  said  he  wept  as  he  rode  into  the  Castle.  His  apparel 
was  red,  though  rusty.  He  brought  with  him  about  150,000L 
in  money,  arms  for  forty  thousand  men,  and  one  hundred 
officers,  but  said  the  most  part  rabble  of  France.  He  sent 
back  the  fleet  immediately,  being  twenty-one  frigates.  He 
left  the  Lord  Mount  joy  prisoner  in  France,  who  he  committed 
for  desiring  to  stand  neuter  two  days  before  he  left  Paris. 
It  is  said  the  King  was  inchnable  to  release  him,  had  not 
the  French  King  interposed,  and  assured  the  King  that  his 
clemency  brought  him  to  this  pass.  Sir  Charles  Murray  was 
also  committed  at  Cork,  though  afterwards  released  and  came 
hither. 

March  25. — The  King  calls  a  Parhament  per  proclamation, 
and  orders  a  proclamation  against  rapparees,  and  raises  the 
coin  as  by  proclamation.  [Bibliography,  Nos.  1023,  1026, 
1032.] 

March  26. — They  began  to  act  again  at  the  Custom  House, 
by  the  King's  permission,  to  which  act  of  permission  there 
were  named  as  Privy  Councillors,  Duke  Tyrconnel,  Lord 
Chancellor,  Dukes  Berwick  and  Powis,  Earl  of  Granard,  Lord 
President,  Limerick,  Abercom,  Lord  Thomas  Howard, 
Lord  Viscount  Gormanstown,  Netterfield,  Rosse,  Bellew,  Lord 
Chief  Baron  Rice,  Sir  Thomas  Newcomen,  Buno  Talbot, 
Colonel  Anthony  Hamilton,  Colonel  Nicholas  Purcell,  Plowden  ; 
Earl  of  Melfort  was  Secretary  of  State. 

March  27. — This  day  the  King  viewed  the  soldiers,  and  his 
money  came  to  town.  Colonel  Russell  disbanded,  and 
Sir  Thomas  Newcomen,  Sarsfield  and  Hamilton  succeeded. 
There  was  an  attempt  on  Coleraine,  where  the  EngUsh  ran, 
by  means  of  Colonel  Lundy,  who  betrayed  them. 

March  30. — There  was  a  proclamation  to  call  home  [the 
king's]  subjects,  and  Mr.  Browne  was  executed  at  Cork  for  assist- 
ing some  that  went  to  the  North.  Till  the  King  came  all  that 
had  acted  for  themselves  and  houses  against  the  robbers  and 
haM-pikemen  were  connived  at,  but  now  they  were  sentenced, 
tried  and  condemned  (the  judges,  jury  and  sheriffs  all  Papists), 
and  several  of  them  executed,  as  one  Lewis,  etc.     On  Good 


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Friday  the  King  touched  for  the  evil,  and  all  that  were  touched 
brought  their  own  money.  It  was  reported  that  men  were 
landed  in  the  North,  and  that  Massereene  and  Mount-Alexander 
were  gone  for  England,  their  houses  being  plundered  by  the 
Irish.  It  was  talked  that  the  King  would  be  in  his  throne 
before  Midsummer  by  the  aid  of  fifteen  thousand  French  to 
join  the  Irish,  and  so  into  Scotland,  to  join  those,  so  for 
England,  where  were  forty  thousand  ready  to  rise,  and  nothing 
could  stop  them  it  was  so  certain. 

April  1. — The  King  sends  a  proclamation  to  Scotland,  signed 
by  Earl  Melfort,  and  also  a  declaration. 

April  3. — Duke  of  Berwick  got  down  to  the  North  with 
suppHes. 

April  8. — The  King  went  down  in  person,  and  resolved 
to  be  back  in  twelve  days.  Then  also  was  an  embargo  again, 
which  made  for  EUis's  pocket,  said  it  must  be  under  the  King's 
hand.  The  day  the  King  went  a  regiment  from  Wicklow 
marched,  as  did  many  of  the  forces  daily. 

April  10. — A  report  that  the  King's  army  had  received  a 
defeat,  and  that  Berwick  and  Galmoye  were  taken  prisoners. 

April  11. — Duke  of  Tyrconnel  went  to  regulate  things  in 
Munster.     Sir  WiUiam  Talbot  made  Master  of  the  RoUs. 

April  14. — Bishop  of  Chester,  Cartwright,  the  Ecclesiastical 
Commissioner,  died  a  Protestant,  and  would  not  endure  the 
priests.  He  died  with  three  days'  sickness,  at  Bishop  Dopping's 
house,  and  the  Irish  were  glad  he  was  gone.  It  was  given 
out  he  was  poisoned.  Some  French  landed  at  Passage  out 
of  three  privateers,  defaced  the  church,  burned  the  seats, 
tore  the  Bible,  and  had  Hke  to  kill  the  minister,  [and]  wore 
the  leaves  of  the  Bible  in  their  hats. 

April  18. — Ammunition  sent  down  to  the  North,  forty  cars, 
four  bomb-carts.  Coleraine  said  to  be  deserted.  The  Recorder, 
Sir  John  Bamewall,  made  second  Baron  of  the  Exchequer. 
Baron  Worth  out.  Dillon  made  Recorder.  Twelve  packets 
came  in,  but  not  one  word  suffered  to  come  out ;  only  said 
that  King  Wilham  and  Queen  Mary  were  to  be  crowned. 
Lord  Chief  Justice  Nugent,  in  a  charge  to  the  grand  jury, 
insisted  on  their  care  against  haK-pikemen,  robbers,  spreaders 
of  hbels,  because  the  news  in  the  packets  were  not  to  their 
minds. 

April  25. — The  King  returned  to  town  from  the  North, 
where  they  had  a  skirmish  (in  which  General  Mamough  was 
kiUed  going  to  view  the  fort  at  Kilmore,  as  it  was  said  from 
that  fort) ;  it  was  said  so  many  of  the  coimty  of  Down  rebelled 
that  had  protections  upon  the  sight  of  ships,  but  is  sure  many 
of  them  were  killed  upon  it. 

April  28.— Lord  Blaney  and  Lord  Kingston  go  for  England. 
Derry  holds  out,  and  makes  a  sally  and  killed  another  French 
Greneral,  called  Pusignan. 

May  1. — Dorrington  sent  with  more  forces  to  the  North. 
The  French  fleet  in  Bantry  Bay  overtaken  by  the  English, 


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who  are  said  to  be  worsted,  and  the  bells  and  bonfires  ordered 
by  the  King.  Some  thought  it  to  be  an  artifice  to  encourage 
the  soldiers  now  on  their  march. 

May  5. — Sixty  car-loads  of  arms  came  to  town.  Reported 
that  the  Protestants  of  Down  had  received  assistance  ;  others 
said  they  were  all  destroyed.  The  great  guns  in  Palace  Gardens 
were  removed  to  the  Castle. 

May  7. — The  7th  the  Parhament  of  Ireland  sat  and  chose 
Sir  Eichard  Nagle  their  Speaker.  On  the  4th  the  King 
sent  another  proclamation  to  Scotland,  and  on  the  same  day 
issued  a  proclamation  here  for  advancing  petty  pieces. 
[Bibliography,  No.  1036.] 

May  8. — Lord  Netterville  and  Louth  made  prisoners  at 
Derry  on  the  6th  by  assault  from  the  town,  in  which 
Colonel  Ramsey  was  killed,  with  many  others. 

May  9. — ^The  King  speeches,  and  the  ParHament  address 
him  ;  then  they  begin  to  seize  the  absentees'  estates,  and 
houses  and  shops  shut  up.  The  shipping  were  enlarged, 
but  none  to  go  without  hcence,  which  could  not  be  had  under 
31.  105.  charges,  and  then  was  sent  a  proclamation  with  com- 
missions into  England. 

May  10. — Two  mortars  with  some  guns  were  sent  to  the 
camp,  and  the  Lord  Chief  Justice  Herbert  arrived  from  France, 
and  several  others  and  also  arms  for  twenty  thousand  foot 
and  ten  thousand  horse  from  thence. 

May  15. — The  town  begins  to  be  crowded  with  French 
officers.     Colonel  Butler's  regiment  march  northward. 

May  16. — About  two  hundred  cars  of  powder  and  match 
from  France  came  to  town. 

May  17. — Twenty -three  cars  of  it  sent  to  the  North. 

May  20. — It  was  said  the  King  told  the  Parhament  he 
expected  fifty  thousand  French  here  soon,  and  that  there 
would  be  no  invasion  here  this  two  months.  An  account  of 
the  French  suppHes  from  one  that  came  with  them  is  thus  : 
the  fleet  forty -two  in  aU,  of  which  seven  were  fire  ships,  and 
in  them  the  King's  subjects,  money,  arms  and  ammunition 
embarked  ;  they  came  into  Bantry  with  five  men-of-war  ; 
thirty  stayed  without,  and  were  attacked  by  the  Engfish 
fleet  from  about  eleven  o'clock  till  nine  ;  three  of  the  Enghsh 
prove  treacherous  and  stood  off  (this  was  May  1st),  and  stayed 
tiQ  the  finish. 

May  25. — Little  good  was  to  be  done  at  Derry,  though  the 
siege  continued.  An  army  of  seven  or  eight  thousand  was 
sent  against  Enniskillen,  and  preparations  for  to  encamp 
fifteen  thousand  men  near  this  city,  and  it  was  given  out 
that  three  or  four  such  companies  were  to  be  in  the  country. 
About  a  hundred  cars  of  ammunition  were  sent  down 
to  the  army,  and  hardly  a  day  but  some  forces  or  other  went 
down. 

June  1. — Sir  Michael  Creagh's  regiment  marched  with 
four  guns  and  much  ammunition. 


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June  2. — In  the  evening  was  some  disturbance,  for  all  the 
King's  guards  ran  to  their  arms,  though  it  was  not  known 
what  the  matter  was.  It  was  said,  but  falsely,  that  Deny 
was  much  pressed,  and  that  none  was  landed,  notwithstanding 
the  reports  ;  others  said  five  thousand  were  landed  without 
the  town. 

June  4. — Though  this  day  one  told  the  House  of  Lords 
that  Derry  was  burned,  etc.,  on  which  they  gave  two  great 
shouts  and  sent  two  of  the  judges  to  the  House  of  Commons 
with  the  news,  who  gave  three  great  shouts,  all  was  but  Ues. 
Lord  Clancarty's  regiment  and  Colonel  Bagenal's  came  to 
town  with  a  hundred  cars  of  ammunition.  Several  Dissenters 
were  seized  on  a  pretended  plot,  their  houses  rifled,  and 
themselves  kept  prisoners,  Mr.  Hugh  Price,  Joy  and  Peal, 
Dissenting  Ministers.  Duke  of  Tyxconnel,  about  this  time, 
was  extremely  ill,  and  Rosse  or  Rose  made  Lieutenant-General. 
The  French  were  masters  of  all  the  towns  in  Munster. 
Colonel  McCarty,  Lord  Mountcashell,  and  Lord  Chancellor 
landed,  and  on  the  4th  a  great  defeat  at  Derry  was  given 
the  King's  party,  and  a  list  of  the  slain  given  about. 

June  7. — Colonel  Creagh's  regiment  were  sent  towards 
Enniskillen  with  two  pieces  of  cannon  and  much  ammunition, 
followed  soon  by  Lord  Clancarty's  regiment,  and  many  every 
day  sent  to  the  North. 

June  8. — Colonel  Barker  went  down,  who  had  like  to  have 
been  killed  by  the  General  for  a  miscarriage,  for  a  regiment 
had  got  French  arms  of  a  finer  bore  than  ours  and  the  bullets 
were  not  changed,  and  when  they  came  to  Trim  were  all  found 
too  big  for  their  guns,  which  might  have  been  of  ill  effect, 
but  they  were  changed  afterwards. 

June  10. — At  this  time  the  two  last  pieces  of  ordnance 
that  were  sent  came  back  not  fit  for  service.  At  night  great 
quantity  of  ammunition  was  sent  towards  Enniskillen,  and 
a  great  party  along  with  it. 

June  11. — It  was  reported  that  the  King's  army  had  taken 
two  ships  and  killed  a  thousand  men  and  drove  five  hundred 
more  into  the  sea  ;  the  latter  false,  but  the  first  was  a  ship 
stranded,  and  they  played  at  her  with  two  guns,  but  she 
went  off  next  tide. 

June  14. — Several  of  the  horses  that  had  been  taken  up  being 
taken,  and  converted  to  foot-officers'  and  soldiers'  own  use, 
the  King  was  forced,  wanting  horses,  to  issue  out  the  following 
proclamation.     [Bibliography,  No.  1037.] 

June  18. — Also  money  being  scarce,  the  King  put  out  a 
parcel  of  brass  money  made  of  the  metal  of  brass  guns,  etc., 
as  by  proclamation  [Bibliography,  No.  1038],  which  proved 
of  excellent  use  to  the  kingdom,  and  saved  many  Protestants 
from  starving. 

June  19. — Several  regiments  were  ordered  to  the  North, 
with  ammunition,  etc.,  and  among  them  Colonel  Bagenal's 
and  Lord  Iveagh's. 


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June  20. — The  Irish  gentry  were  discontented  at  the  advance- 
ment of  the  French,  and  some  of  the  soldiers  refused  to  follow 
the  French.  Monsieur  Russell,  the  French  Minister  here, 
was  seized,  at  the  instance  of  the  French  Ambassador,  and 
it  was  said  he  and  the  French  Protestants  were  to  be  sent 
back  to  France. 

June  22. — The  King  passed  several  Acts  of  Parliament, 
and  amongst  them  the  repeals  of  the  Act  of  Settlement, 
etc.  The  reason  for  the  brass  money  was  the  necessity 
of  the  King's  affairs ;  the  money  which  he  brought  over  with 
him  not  being  so  much  as  it  was  reported,  fell  short,  and 
grew  exhausted,  having  a  great  army  on  foot.  The  French 
Ambassador  had  money,  which  he  disposed  of  as  he  thought 
fit  in  the  King's  affairs.  He  caused  fifty  bomb-carts  for  three 
horses  to  be  made,  which  stood  him  in  11.  apiece,  with  many 
other  utensils,  in  order,  as  supposed,  to  lay  in  magazines  of 
com. 

June  23. — Two  regiments  were  now  sent  to  the  North, 
most  of  the  forces  of  the  kingdom  going  that  way.  It  was 
reported  that  Rose  would  storm  Derry,  though  it  cost  him 
ten  thousand  men.  Mrs.  Price,  the  wife  of  Mr.  Price,  of 
Ballinderry,  having  had  leave  to  go  for  England,  returns  from 
thence,  and  it  was  said  she  brought  a  packet  to  the  King. 
The  old  proprietors  could  stay  no  longer  for  possession  of 
their  estates,  and  so  began  to  enter  upon  them  everywhere, 
and  turned  out  the  possessors. 

June  24. — The  King  wanted  horses  to  mount  his  guards 
with,  and  so  issued  out  a  proclamation.  [Bibliography , 
No.  1039.]  It  was  usual  for  any  soldier  to  stop  gentlemen, 
and  take  his  horse,  and  make  him  go  on  foot,  though  on  the 
road,  and  though  he  had  a  pass  or  a  protection  in  his  pocket, 
which  if  he  produced  they  would  tear  and  scorn  at  it,  and 
carry  away  the  horse,  which  would  fall  to  the  share  of  some 
Irish  officer,  so  that  horses  grew  scarce,  and  many  sold  for 
405.  which  cost  lOZ.  About  the  24th  also  a  disturbance 
happened  on  the  Glibb  between  soldiers  and  butchers,  so 
that  some  houses  were  plundered,  and  many  made  prisoners  ; 
said  next  day  to  be  caused  by  the  new  soldiers. 

June  27. — The  King  puts  out  brass  shillings  and  half- 
crowns  of  the  old  gun  money,  and  this  day  puts  out  a  pro- 
clamation for  it.  [Bibliography y  No.  1040.]  It  was  also 
a  general  field-day  on  the  Green,  where  were  drawn  out  two 
regiments,  which  contained  about  fourteen  hundred  foot, 
and  three  troops  which  contained  a  hundred  men.  Some  were 
to  run  the  gauntlet  for  refusing  the  bread  given  them  now 
after  the  French  fashion,  that  is  made  of  leaven,  but  did  not. 
The  loaves  cost  the  soldiers  threepence  apiece,  which  those 
of  the  town  would  not  eat,  they  were  so  bad.  It  was  now 
reported  also  that  the  King's  forces  had  secured  the  river  at 
Derry  with  a  boom,  and  laid  a  battery  of  fourteen  guns  on 
it,  and  that  General  Rose  would  storm  it  soon.    The  French 


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Ambassador  laid  sixty  guineas  to  three  with  the  King  that 
it  would  be  taken  in  a  week. 

June  28. — The  King  issues  a  proclamation  against  the 
Prince  of  Orange  and  his  adherents.     [Bibliography,  No.  1041.] 

June  29. — A  regiment  was  sent  down  with  great  quantity 
of  ammunition  to  the  North  on  fifty-five  cars  and  eleven  or 
twelve  new  bomb-carts,  and  several  officers  and  soldiers  came 
to  town  wounded. 

July  1. — This  day  it  was  reported  that  Colonel  Kirk  relieved 
Derry,  but  contradicted  the  next  day,  and  on  the  4th  there 
was  a  report  of  a  great  slaughter  made  at  Derry  the  Friday 
before.  This  day  the  Lord  MountcashelFs  regiment  came  to 
town,  consisting  of  six  hundred  and  fifty  men,  well  clad  and 
very  sightly  men. 

July  6. — Fifteen  bomb-carts  went  out  of  town  this  day 
northwards  and  five  towards  Cork. 

July  10. — About  sixty  cars  came  to  town  with  arms, 
ammunition  and  saddles  from  Cork,  and  two  or  three  days 
after  came  eight  troops  of  Dragoons  and  two  or  three  regiments 
of  foot.  It  was  talked  that  Kirk  would  betray  Derry  to  the 
King,  who  had  sent  him  his  pardon.  Three  French  frigates 
passed  by  this  way  from  Waterford  towards  the  North. 

July  14. — Came  in  three  prizes  taken  by  them  ;  two  Scotch 
privateers,  videlicet,  Browne  and  Hamilton,  who  were  both 
killed,  the  other  a  packet-boat,  and  fifteen  prisoners  in  it.  Very 
great  quantity  of  ammunition  sent  to  the  North,  and  twelve 
French  bomb- carts. 

July  16. — About  eight  troops  of  Cotter's  Dragoons,  about 
four  hundred  and  fifty  men,  march  towards  the  North,  and 
the  regiment  of  Colonel  MacCarty  Moore's  of  six  hundred 
and  fifty  foot,  lined  with  green,  and  some  of  the  Lord  Bohan's 
men,  lined  with  yellow,  marched.  Said  the  French  frigates 
took  up  eight  hundred  men  and  landed  them  in  Scotland. 
There  was  a  report,  and  bets  laid  at  the  Court,  that  Kirk 
would  betray  Derry,  and  four  brass  guns  and  two  mortars 
were  sent  towards  Enniskillen  with  great  quantities  of 
ammunition. 

July  17. — Lord  Mountcashell's  men,  about  six  hundred, 
went  towards  Crom  Castle.  The  Lord  Antrim's  regiment 
came  to  town. 

July  18. — The  Parhament,  after  breaking  the  Settlement, 
etc.,  was  this  day  prorogued,  and  there  was  a  talk  of  a  defeat 
of  the  Enniskilliners,  but  uncertain,  and  that  forces  were 
landed  from  England.  This  night  Sir  John  Davys  and  many 
Protestant  gentlemen  were  seized  (and  some  of  the  meaner 
sort  at  the  Dolphin),  at  Mr.  John  Forster's  in  Skinner's  Row, 
as  they  were  drinking,  and  sent  to  the  Castle  and  Newgate, 
and  they  continued  to  pick  up  folks  for  many  days.  Eleven 
men,  endeavouring  to  get  off  in  a  boat,  were  taken  and  laid 
in  a  dungeon,  and  the  20th  out  comes  a  proclamation  for 
so  doing,  and  that  strangers  should  leave  Dublin  for  their 


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country  houses  that  had  not  been  there  above  six  weeks 
[Bibliography,  No.  1042] ;  an  order  to  bring  in  horses  and 
arms  again  in  fourteen  days  at  peril  [Bibliography^  No.  1043] ; 
and  on  the  26th  another  proclamation  [Bibliography ,  No.  1045] 
that  no  Protestants  should  leave  their  parishes  without  a  licence, 
and  also  a  proclamation  to  lessen  the  duty  on  French  wines, 
etc.     [Bibliography,  No.  1044.] 

July  27. — A  proclamation  for  officers  not  to  leave  their 
posts.     [Bibliography,  No.  1047.] 

July  30. — Another  about  the  lieutenants  of  counties,  etc., 
and  commissioners  of  array  [Bibliography,  No.  1497],  whose 
order  for  raising  the  MiUtia  see  ibid.,  and  great  hurry  there 
was  to  get  to  the  standard. 

July  31. — It  was  the  general  talk  that  Derry  was  relieved, 
and  that  the  King's  army  retreated,  and  that  a  great  many 
would  land  here  from  England. 

August  1. — Given  out  that  the  King  would  cover  this  city 
with  camps,  and  this  day  an  empty  gabbard  was  sent  in  by 
a  privateer  with  pickets  for  horses.  Most  of  the  Protestants 
of  note  were  seized  all  over  the  kingdom,  but  some  released 
on  bail.  This  after  the  news  of  the  Lord  Mountcashell's  defeat 
at  Crom  Castle  :  so  great  a  defeat  that  not  two  of  the  King's 
side  were  together,  and  so  confused  that  they  could  not  tell 
what  was  done  but  they  lost  their  guns  and  their  General  was 
taken  prisoner.  This  defeat  sank  the  courage  of  the  Irish. 
Burslow,  the  French  General,  was  called  from  Cork,  and  the 
Lord  Clare  left  in  his  place  there.  Burslow's  regiment  came 
this  evening  to  town,  about  six  hundred  and  forty  men. 

August  2. — The  King  viewed  the  forces  here  in  Stephen's 
Green,  videlicet,  Colonel  Dorrington's,  Burslow's,  Earl  of 
Antrim's,  and  some  of  Colonel  John  Grace's  regiment,  in  all 
about  two  thousand  men,  and  troops  of  English,  Colonel  Parker's 
Horse  and  two  troops  of  Colonel  Cotter's  Dragoons.  This 
night  the  soldiers  were  kept  together  by  two  or  three  companies 
in  a  place,  and  so  put  into  empty  houses  to  be  ready  upon 
occasion.  About  sixty  cars  of  ammunition  came  to  town 
from  Cork,  and  many  came  wounded  from  Crom  Castle.  The 
Lord  Mayor  came  from  the  North,  and  beat  up  for  volunteers. 

August  3. — The  King  went  to  Bray  to  view  the  coasts, 
and  on  the  5th  a  rendezvous  of  all  from  sixteen  to  sixty  at 
Swords,  where  the  King  went,  and  from  thence  to  Skerries. 
The  people  were  told  there  that  those  that  could  must  furnish 
themselves  with  horse  and  arms  at  their  own  charge,  and 
those  that  were  not  able  it  should  be  allowed  them  out  of 
their  rent,  for  that  an  invasion  of  several  nations  would  be 
very  suddenly,  and  if  they  would  not  fight,  they  would  be 
made  slaves  of  and  sent  to  the  Plantations,  etc. 

August  5. — About  eighty  bomb-cars  were  sent  to  Athlone 
with  ammunition ;  James  Ryan,  carman,  conductor.  It 
was  now  said  that  fifteen  thousand  were  landed  in  the  North, 
but  this  is  certain  that  two  or  three  ships  broke  the  boom 


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the  King  had  made  to  hinder  the  relief  of  Deny,  and  went 
in,  upon  which  the  army  broke  up  the  siege,  and  came  to- 
wards this  city,  burning  and  destroying  the  country  as  they 
marched.  The  French  General's  regiment  marched  and  en- 
camped at  Roebuck ;  and  the  King  issues  the  following 
proclamation  for  his  Militia,  and  also  another  of  the  same 
day  for  charity  for  the  wounded  soldiers.  [Bibliography ^ 
Nos.  1051,  1052.] 

August  6. — Lord  Clancarty  and  Lord  Fitz- James  came 
to  town,  and  soon  after  Duke  of  Berwick. 

August  10. — Some  reports  went  of  two  ships  of  arms  and 
ammunition  from  France,  which  only  proved  a  packet.  Others 
said  Sir  Michael  Creagh's  regiment  came  to  town  with  above 
four  hundred  and  fifty  men,  which  went  down  to  the  camp 
thirteen  hundred. 

August  12. — The  Earl  of  Antrim's  men  marched  to  camp. 

August  13. — Nine  regiments  under  General  Rose  came  in 
from  the  siege  of  Derry,  extremely  shattered  and  thin,  some 
but  three  hundred,  some  four  hundred  in  a  regiment,  nor 
had  they  much  plunder,  though  they  destroyed  all  the  North. 
Six  of  the  nine  went  to  camp.  And  some  days  ago,  all 
churches  and  meeting-houses  were  searched  for  arms,  and  many 
graves,  tombs  and  coffins  broken  open,  but  no  arms  found, 
only  the  sexton  and  ringer  of  Christ  Church  had  hid  a  saddle 
and  two  cases  of  pistols,  and  a  little  biscayen,  for  one  of  his 
neighbours,  for  which  they  were  put  in  Newgate,  and  the 
church  shut  up. 

August  15. — There  was  a  report  that  Schomberg  was  on  the 
coasts  of  Munster  with  a  fleet  and  army. 

August  16. — Great  consultations  were  held  at  the  Castle, 
and  about  four  this  morning  all  the  serviceable  horses  of 
the  Papists  were  taken  up,  and  they  began  to  be  very  busy 
betimes  this  morning,  the  army  decamping  from  Rathmines 
and  marching  through  the  city,  encamped  on  this  side  Drum- 
condra  Bridge,  thence  to  the  road  of  Finglas. 

August  18. — Colonel  Sarsfield  came  to  town  from  Connaught, 
where  he  had  been  at  the  head  of  a  small  party.  It  was  said 
Kirk  was  made  General  of  the  English,  and  that  Mountcashell 
was  to  be  sent  for  England,  and  now  was  pubHshed  a  pro- 
clamation that  arms  embezzled  should  be  made  good  out 
of  the  pay  of  the  officers.     [Bibliography,  No.  1054.] 

August  19. — ^This  morning  a  soldier  was  shot  on  Oxmantown 
Green,  at  the  head  of  the  royal  regiment,  for  leaving  his 
colours,  and  Captain  LanalHn  sent  to  the  camp  to  be  shot 
there,  which  was  done,  after  which  several  were  shot  for  the 
same  fact ;  and  it  was  but  necessary,  for  many  had  deserted, 
and  the  regiments  grew  thin,  ten  of  those  lately  in  service 
not  amounting  to  three  thousand  men,  beside  the  sick  and 
wounded.  There  was  uncertain  news  here  of  an  English 
army  landed.  Athlone  was  fortified,  and  three  cannon  and 
three  mortars  sent  there,  and  about  eighty  cars  of  ammunition, 

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and  a  proclamation  to  raise  the  disbanded  forces  on  the  Kling's 
coming.  And  there  came  also  to  town  three  troops  of 
Colonel  Parker's  regiment.  The  Earl  of  Melfort  lays  down 
his  employments,  to  Sir  Richard  Nagle  as  to  civil  affairs, 
and  to  Sir  WiUiam  Talbot  for  miUtary. 

August  20. — A  proclamation  issued  for  saving  of  meadows 
and  saving  hay  and  oats.     [Bibliography^  No.  1055.] 

August  23. — A  hundred  and  sixty  cars  of  arms  and 
ammunition  come  from  Waterford,  and  haK  the  royal  regiment 
goes  to  the  North,  being  about  five  hundred  men.  On  the 
25th  a  sort  of  hue  and  cry  is  issued  after  the  Lord  Brittas 
and  the  Lord  Castleconnell's  men's  men,  as  was  also  on  the 
23rd  a  proclamation  for  raising  the  pay  of  the  army. 
[Bibliography f  Nos.  1056,  1057.]  Brass  money  began  to  fall, 
and  things  began  to  rise. 

August  26. — The  King  went  towards  the  North,  designing 
to  set  up  his  standard  at  Lurgan  Race.  Colonel  Parker's 
regiment  went  before  him,  and  about  seventy  cars  of  arms, 
etc.     The  EngUsh  army  said  to  be  landed  at  Carrickfergus. 

August  28. — The  other  part  of  the  royal  regiment  marches, 
and  great  flocking  to  Tredath  every  day. 

August  29. — It  was  reported  that  Carrickfergus  was  taken 
by  storm  by  the  EngUsh,  and  the  Duke  of  Tyrconnel  viewed 
eight  regiments  in  Stephen's  Green  of  about  two  thousand 
men,  and  people  continue  to  flock  to  Drogheda  daily. 

September  1. — Little  matter  occurs  here. 

September  2. — The  King  pubHshes  a  declaration  for  forty 
shilHngs  to  be  paid  to  deserters  from  Schomberg,  be  they 
of  what  persuasion  they  will,  so  much  per  man.  [Bibliography, 
No.  1059.] 

September  3. — This  day  issued  a  proclamation  for  in- 
couragement  of  the  cow-boys,  or  half-pike  men,  and  also 
another  for  officers  to  keep  within  regiments,  as  also  to 
encourage  the  English  and  others  to  desert,  and  an  order 
to  repair  to  the  standard  at  Drogheda,  where  all  the  regiments 
of  horse  and  foot  marched  from  this  city,  being  about  three 
thousand  foot  and  seven  hundred  horse.  [Bibliography , 
Nos.  1061,  1062,  1063.] 

September  4. — The  Duke  of  Berwick  was  defeated  at  Newry, 
where  he  attempted  to  burn  the  town.  The  said  day  Tyrconnel 
licenses  brewers'  horses.     [Bibliography,  No.  1065.] 

September  5. — It  was  reported  that  Charlemont  was  taken. 
The  Lord  Duke  of  Tyrconnel  went  to  Tredath,  and  at  this 
time  brass  money  falls  to  sevenpence  per  pound  exchange, 
and  thirty-eight  shilHngs  per  guinea,  and  as  that  falls  so 
the  value  of  the  goods  rise  in  proportion. 

September  6. — Two  troops  of  horse  and  a  regiment  of  foot 
is  raised  in  this  city  for  MiUtia,  all  Roman  Cathohcs,  and 
guards  put  in  the  College. 

September  7. — The  King's  army  was  retreating  and  burning 
all  places  which  they  left  behind    them,  designing  a  camp 


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at  Gormanstown.  The  Earl  of  Granard  went  to  his  house 
near  Longford,  and  about  this  time  the  Papists  began  to 
put  goods  into  Protestant  houses.  Then  Schomberg  sends 
a  trumpet  to  the  King  about  burning  the  country,  which 
the  King  sends  back  without  answer. 

September  8. — The  English  march  forward,  and  a  battle 
is  expected  every  day.  Twelve  troops  of  new  raised  Dragoons 
came  to  Stephen's  Green,  but  neither  had  they  clothes  or 
arms,  yet  it  is  said  some  of  them  went  to  the  camp  that  night. 

September  9. — Schomberg  encamped  at  the  fatal  Dundalk. 
The  Protestants  are  seized  in  the  city,  and  imprisoned  in  the 
Blue  Boys'  Hospital ;  others  in  the  College,  St.  Thomas's 
Court,  and  other  places  ;  and  they  continue  to  take  them  up 
for  several  days. 

September  11. — About  sixty  cars  of  arms  and  ammunition 
came  to  town. 

September  14. — Then  a  proclamation  issues  for  encouraging 
the  bringing  of  provision  to  the  camp  [Bibliography,  No.  1067], 
and  the  city  is  in  great  disorder  by  a  report  of  men  landing 
at  Howth,  though  the  sea  was  tempestuous  and  the  thing 
impossible. 

September  15. — Church  and  meeting  was  forbidden,  and 
the  Protestants  commanded  to  keep  their  houses. 

September  16. — A  ship  sailing  home  for  France  was  scarce 
out  of  the  harbour  when  she  was  chased  by  five  men-of-war 
and  four  small  vessels,  which  came  clear  of  Howth,  and 
presently  chased  her  in  again,  following  her  to  the  bar,  and 
two  of  them  came  over  the  bar  after  her,  but  she  ran  up  to 
the  point  of  Ringsend,  and  then  they  stood  to  the  southward. 
But  ships  coming  so  near  frighted  the  Roman  CathoHcs 
mightily.  The  gates  were  shut,  and  all  got  into  a  posture 
of  defence  ;  the  soldiers  marched  to  Ringsend,  etc.,  and  the 
scholars  put  out  of  the  College  to  make  it  a  garrison. 

September  17. — Some  regiments  march  to  the  camp  and 
others  come  to  town. 

September  18. — A  lieutenant  and  soldier  were  hanged  in 
Thomas  Street,  on  a  sign-post  at  the  end  of  New  Row,  for 
pressing  horses  and  selling  them,  which  was  very  common, 
though  those  only  suffered.  They  were  also  very  busy  in 
fortifjdng  the  city,  trenching  the  streets,  and  setting  up  gates 
and  paUsadoes,  and  now  the  great  brass  gun  that  stood  in 
the  Castle  was  melted  to  make  brass  money  ;  it  weighed 
7,32 1/&5.,  and  was  the  fourth  or  fifth  broke  for  the  purpose. 

September  21. — The  English  encamp  strongly  at  Dundalk, 
and  the  King  near  them,  and  a  battle  was  expected,  but  given 
out  that  Schomberg  would  not  venture  gentlemen  against 
cow-boys  till  he  saw  his  own  time. 

September  24. — At  this  time  a  proclamation  was  issued 
against  the  Kereight  men  to  go  to  the  mountains  with  stock, 
etc.,  and  another  that  no  plough  horses  should  be  seized  on 
any  pretence,  or  ploughmen.     [Bibliography,  Nos,  1071,  1072.] 


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September  26. — There  was  a  report  that  Prince  George 
was  landed  in  the  West.  The  ships  that  went  by  here  and 
took  in  cattle  near  Cork,  gave  birth  to  it,  and  regiments  were 
sent  from  the  camp  and  city  towards  Munster,  and  an  account 
of  great  rejoicing  in  the  English  camp,  but  not  known  for  what. 

September  29. — Terence  Dermot  was  sworn  Lord  Mayor, 
and  Ignatius  Browne  and  John  Moore  his  Sheriffs,  and  went 
to  Mass  in  the  Inns,  where  the  Court  of  Claims  sat,  now  made 
a  Mass  House.  The  Protestants  were  turned  out  of  Cork, 
and  the  Lord  Mayor  Reilly  set  a  rate  on  goods.  [Bibliography, 
No.  1073.] 

October  3. — Little  done  the  beginning  of  this  month,  but 
towards  the  8th  a  proclamation  issued  for  putting  on  the 
duty  on  wine  and  brandy  again.     [Bibliography,  No.  1074.] 

October  11. — A  gun  of  4,300^6.  weight  was  melted  into 
money. 

October  17. — The  King  prorogues  the  Parliament  to 
January   12.     [Bibliography,  No.   1075.] 

September  22. — The  King  breaks  up  camp,  fortifying  Ardee 
and  putting  a  garrison  in  it,  the  forage  for  horse  being  spent ; 
and  Mass  was  said  publicly  in  the  College  Chapel. 

September  23. — Was  not  kept  as  by  Act  of  Parliament, 
though  the  Act  not  dissolved. 

September  27. — Christ  Church  seized  on,  and  consecrated  to 
Popery ;  to  which  [went]  the  Lord  Mayor,  Duchess  of  T5a'connel, 
in  coach  ;  the  Lord  Chancellor's  coach  empty ;  himself  on  foot, 
with  the  two  maces  and  two  purses  before  him  ;  and  the 
Governor,  Simon  Luttrell,  with  officers,  judges  and  gentry 
in  a  crowd  after ;  but  before  they  came  back  they  ranged  the 
soldiers  in  the  school. 

September  30. — A  defeat  in  Connaught  near  Sligo  by  Sarsfield 
to  the  English,  on  which  he  came  to  town. 

September  31. — Some  gentlemen  endeavouring  to  get  off  in 
a  boat  were  discovered  and  prevented  ;  two  after  were  taken 
but  the  rest  escaped,  which  caused  a  great  alarm  at  midnight 
all  over  the  city,  though  none  knew  the  reason  of  it  for  a  time. 
At  this  time  poor  Captain  Carr  was  drowned,  and  a  boy,  going 
off,  and  then  issue  two  proclamations,  one  for  encouraging 
the  bringing  in  hay,  oats,  etc.,  the  other  that  officers  in 
service  should  keep  with  their  regiments.  [Bibliography, 
Nos.  1076,  1077.] 

November  2. — A  proclamation  issues  for  making  it  death 
to  take  hay,  oats  or  straw  from  any  coming  to  garrisons 
[Bibliography,  No.  1078],  and  people  began  to  be  discontented 
at  Schomberg's  lying  at  Dundalk  and  doing  nothing,  but 
orders  being  given  for  some  regiments  to  repair  to  camp, 
made  people  hope  something  would  be  done,  the  Papists 
themselves  being  weary  and  wishing  a  change  one  way  or 
other.  All  things  but  meat  grow  scarce,  even  brass  money 
itself,  which  made  the  Irish  to  wonder  that  England  had 
more  silver  and  gold  than  Ireland  brass. 


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November  8. — The  King  having  dispersed  his  forces  into 
quarters  comes  to  town.  It  was  said  he  lost  ten  thousand 
men  by  sickness,  since  he  went  down.  The  reports  of 
Schomberg  were  uncertain  ;  some  said  he  had  shipped  his 
guns  and  men.  Some  days  since  some  thirty  prisoners  were 
brought  up  stripped  and  barefooted,  which  were  picked  up 
by  the  King's  party,  but  were  soon  refreshed  by  charity. 

September  9. — And  this  day  were  brought  from  Wicklow 
some  put  in  there  by  stress  of  weather.  Bread  begins  to  be 
scarce  now,  but  some  care  being  taken  about  it  grows  more 
plentiful. 

September  11. — A  small  ship  laden  with  red  cloth,  brandy 
sack,  shoes  and  stockings  from  Liverpool  was  betrayed  by 
the  pilot  and  brought  under  Howth,  where  she  was  taken  ; 
the  master's  name  was  Johnson.  The  Lord  Dover  landed 
in  a  small  ship  from  France.  It  was  said  he  came  out  with 
seven  ships  of  arms,  which  were  met  by  the  English,  who 
took  two,  sunk  two,  and  the  other  three  fled,  but  this  uncertain. 
The  French  General  Rose  lays  down  his  commission,  and 
many  of  the  French  prepare  to  go  home.  It  was  said  the 
Bishop  of  Meath  petitioned  for  Christ  Church,  that  the  King 
told  him  had  he  been  in  town  it  should  not  have  been  taken 
away,  but  since  it  was  he  could  not  restore  it  without  dis- 
obliging the  Irish,  whose  interest  was  all  he  had  to  trust  to  ; 
and  indeed  they  could  not  abide  any  but  their  own  nation. 
A  report  was  sometime  since  set  on  foot,  and  was  now  pursued 
hotly,  that  all  housekeepers  should  send  in  beds,  bolsters 
and  caddows  according  to  ability,  as  also  pay  twenty-four 
shilUngs  for  a  bed  and  twopence  per  week  for  fire  and  candle, 
and  that  those  that  paid  should  have  a  protection  from 
quartering,  and  those  beds  were  to  lodge  the  army  in  the 
College  and  empty  houses.  It  was  the  money  that  was  sought 
for  ;  and  an  office  on  Cork  Hill  to  receive  the  beds.  It  was 
reported  that  Sligo  was  besieged  by  young  Schomberg.  Some 
knew  that  the  prisoners  were  famished  to  death  in  the  dungeon 
in  the  Castle.  Two  troopers  deserted  the  English  army  and 
came  to  the  King. 

November  12. — A  proclamation  was  issued,  or  declaration, 
for  colonels,  etc.,  to  keep  at  their  command  on  pain  of  imprison- 
ment.    [Bibliography,  No.  1079.] 

November  17. — Notwithstanding  the  report  of  the  King's 
displeasure  for  taking  Christ  Church,  and  that  he  said  he 
would  never  come  hither,  yet  this  day  he  went  to  Mass  there, 
attended  very  meanly,  much  worse  than  the  Deputy  used 
to  do.  The  Earl  of  Clancarty  was  tried  by  a  court-martial, 
and  on  the  18th  a  proclamation  issues  that  who  would  might 
bake  and  bring  to  market  bread  without  custom.  [Bibliography , 
No.  1080.] 

November  23. — Many  prisoners  brought  in  stripped, 
generally  housekeepers  and  inhabitants  from  the  North. 
Schomberg  quits  Dundalk's  fatal  camp  ;    Newry  a  frontier. 


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Burslow  follows  him,  and  is  beaten  back  with  shame. 
General  Rose  quits  the  service  and  goes  to  France. 

November  24. — Fuel  being  scarce,  the  soldiers  and  poor 
pull  down  empty  houses,  which  occasions  a  proclamation 
against  it.     [Bibliography,  No.  1081.] 

November  29. — A  proclamation  encouraging  bringing  in 
hay,  oats,  straw,  and  coals.     [Bibliography,  No.  1082.] 

November  30. — A  proclamation  against  pressing  post-horses. 
[Bibliography,  No.  1083.] 

December  1. — December  begins  with  no  great  matter  of 
news  or  action  till  the  6th.  A  report  was  spread  that  seven 
thousand  Danes  landed  in  England  to  come  for  Ireland,  and 
stables  began  to  be  built  round  the  yard  next  to  the  Bowling 
Green,  and  round  the  Artillery  Yard. 

December  10. — On  Schomberg's  retreat  the  brass  money 
held  up  for  some  months,  yet  all  things  grew  dear,  and  a  paper 
was  published  of  the  ill  condition  the  English  were  in  at  leaving 
Dundalk,  and  no  question  but  Drogheda  and  Ardee  had  their 
share  of  fevers  and  distempers.  Three  or  four  of  Schomberg's 
grenadiers  revolt  to  the  King.  A  gun  or  two  was  brought 
from  Athlone  to  coin  ;  money  was  scarce  yet,  the  kingdom 
not  being  supplied. 

December  13. — There  comes  out  a  proclamation  against 
seizing  of  churches  without  the  King's  leave,  and  restoring 
when  seized,  but  not  one  restored.     [Bibliography,  No.  1084.] 

December  14. — A  report  of  two  millions  given  to 
King  Wilham  by  Parliament  discouraged  the  Irish  mightily ; 
and  the  officers  of  the  ordnance  were  this  day  dismissed  and 
others  put  in  their  places. 

December  17. — Lord  Mountcashell  escapes  from  Enniskillen 
and  comes  to  town,  and  was  received  by  the  Eong  with  joy 
and  bonfires.  All  this  time  a  tax  of  21.  2s.  6d.  and  3/.  3^.  Qd. 
was  levied  on  Protestants  per  week  for  subsisting  the  Militia, 
as  was  pretended  the  only  way  civilly  to  plunder  the 
Protestants  of  the  city,  since  they  had  not  felt  that  usage 
as  the  country  had.  It  was  collected  with  force  against 
law. 

December  21. — The  Marquis  D'Albeville,  Ignatius  White, 
sometime  envoy  of  State  at  the  Hague,  made  Secretary  of 
State  in  Sir  Wilham  Talbot's  place,  who  since  he  had  but  an 
ill  hand  at  news  was  turned  out,  and  the  Marquis  licensed 
as  silly  stuff.  Talbot  was  made  Master  of  the  Rolls.  There 
came  out  a  declaration  for  the  army  adjusting  their  pay,  and 
another  declaration  adjusting  the  pay  of  the  private  sentinels. 
[Bibliography,  Nos.   1085,    1087.] 

December  23. — There  was  much  discourse  now  of  the  King's 
going  to  Kilkenny,  but  two  or  three  days  before  it  grew  all 
hushed,  for  it  was  then  said  one  Hamilton  was  to  have  betrayed 
Enniskillen  to  the  King,  and  that  the  King  was  to  have  gone 
that  way.  But  the  business  was  discovered,  and  he  secured, 
so  that  the  King's  journey  was  stopped.     Notwithstanding 


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the  proclamation  against  seizing  churches,  the  Roman  CathoHcs 
still  continue  to  seize  more,  which  disgusts  many  that  followed 
the  King,  though  that  proclamation  was  by  advice  from 
England  to  mollify  some  whom  that  action  had  disgusted. 

December  27. — On  this  day  the  KLing  issues  his  proclamation 
for  further  proroguing  the  ParUament  till  October,  1690. 
[Bibliography,  No.  1089.] 

1690. 

January  8. — ^This  month  begins  with  proclamations  and 
declarations,  which  were  printed  before,  until  the  8th,  then 
several  of  the  French  and  Lord  Mountcashell  prepare  for 
France  giving  four  shillings  for  guineas  and  alike  for  silver, 
which  makes  money  pretty  plenty  and  raises  goods  extremely. 
On  the  3rd  comes  out  the  proclamation  against  forestalling 
the  market,  and  on  the  10th  another  proclamation  taking 
off  the  duty  on  foreign  goods.     [Bibliography ,  Nos.  1090, 1091.] 

January  15. — On  this  day  Kenagh  Castle,  which  held  out, 
was  surrendered  on  terms. 

January  21. — A  proclamation  issues  for  encouraging  the 
farmers  to  bring  in  provision  to  the  markets,  against  all 
charters,  and  another  to  encourage  the  sowing,  etc.,  and  hay. 
[Bibliography,  Nos.   1093,    1094.] 

January  24. — A  proclamation  or  declaration  against  officers 
taking  French  officers'  servants.     [Bibliography,  No.  1095.] 

January  25. — There  was  a  very  great  disturbance  in  the 
city,  for  the  Lord  Mayor,  weighing  the  bread,  took  some  of 
it  away,  on  which  the  soldiers  fell  a-taking  all  the  bakers' 
and  huxters'  bread  in  the  city,  as  also  the  oatmeal  and  other 
edible  things,  and  stealing  the  bakers'  money  found  in  the 
shops,  and  committed  many  offences,  for  which  seven  ran 
the  gauntlet  and  seven  more  were  to  be  hanged,  of  whom 
four  only  died.  Two  were  hanged  before  the  regiments  on 
Hospital  Green,  one  near  Essex  Gate  on  the  Blind  Quay, 
and  one  at  Temple  Bar  near  the  baker's  door.  Three  ships 
went  out,  supposed  for  Scotland,  with  men  and  money. 

January  31. — A  wicked  design  was  discovered.  A  man 
walking  in  the  Castle  dropped  a  letter,  which  a  sentinel  seeing 
called  to  him  telling  him  he  dropped  a  paper,  which  the  man 
denied.  The  soldier  swore  it  was  true,  and  a  sergeant  coming 
to  quiet  them  or  the  hke,  hearing  the  business,  and  the  sentinel 
affirming  he  saw  him  put  his  hand  into  his  pocket  and,  pulling 
it  out,  the  paper  dropped,  and  that  he  believed  he  dropped 
it  on  purpose,  by  his  denying  it,  the  sergeant  carried  both 
man  and  paper  to  the  guard,  where  the  paper  being  read, 
was  found  to  be  a  letter  directed  to  a  Protestant  that  had 
some  employment  in  the  Castle,  with  directions  about 
an  insurrection  intended  by  the  Protestants  of  the  city  for 
seizing  the  King  and  killing  the  Roman  Catholics,  and  that 
Schomberg  would  come  to  their  assistance  with  ten  thousand 


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men  in  fourteen  days,  etc.  Its  contents  being  read,  both  were 
carried  to  the  King,  who  was  much  offended  with  it,  and 
ordered  the  fellow  to  Newgate.  The  Papists  were  much 
vexed  and  ashamed  of  it,  reporting  it  to  be  a  private  malice 
that  man  had  to  him  it  was  directed  to.  Some  said  one  thing, 
some  another,  but  the  man  was  acquitted,  and  the  business 
hushed  up.  The  three  Waterses  were  hanged  for  coining 
brass  money. 

February  2. — This  day  there  was  an  alarm,  for  news  came 
that  the  enemy  was  coming  on,  so  the  drums  beat,  and  all 
went  to  arms  ;  and  the  grenadiers  of  three  regiments  were 
sent  out  of  town  and  a  strong  detachment  out  of  the  regiments, 
and  three  whole  regiments  sent  out  of  town.  Soon  after  the 
Duke  of  Berwick  went  with  orders,  as  said,  to  fight  the  enemy 
wherever  they  met  them,  for  it  was  said  the  enemy  with  five 
hundred  horse  and  two  hundred  foot  had  fallen  upon  the 
forces  at  Belturbet,  being  six  hundred  men,  and  drove  them 
thence  with  great  slaughter,  pursuing  them  to  a  house  of 
Esquire  Townley,  where  was  a  pass  which  the  King's  men 
defended  ;  but  being  beaten  thence,  were  pursued  to  Virginia, 
where  the  enemy  left  them,  and  in  their  retreat  swept  away 
all  the  cattle  of  the  country,  on  which  the  Kereights  or 
rapparees  got  together  to  recover  their  cattle,  and  setting 
upon  the  enemy  were  notably  beaten,  about  fifteen  hundred 
being  said  to  be  killed,  but  the  English  carried  away  all  the 
cattle,  to  revenge  which  loss  the  Duke  of  Berwick  was  sent  away 
with  a  good  force.  It  was  said  the  King  lost  on  this  occasion 
three  thousand  men.  About  this  time  one  Nugent,  a  Prior 
in  England,  escaped  by  France,  with  a  packet ;  what  in  it 
not  known. 

February  4. — A  proclamation  issues  for  levying  twenty 
thousand  pounds  per  month  for  carrying  on  the  war  without 
Act  of  Parliament,  and  also  another  proclamation  for  the 
brass  money  to  pay  bills,  bonds,  etc.,  with  promise  to  make 
good  the  same.     [Bibliography y  Nos.  1096,  1097.] 

February  12. — The  Duke  of  Berwick  had  an  engagement 
at  Cavan,  where  he  was  beaten;  the  Enniskilleners  losing 
Colonel  Armstrong,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Mayo,  and  several 
others,  yet  the  Duke  fled  for  the  same.  It  was  said  the 
King  lost  three  thousand,  but  the  Protestants  were  set  on 
in  the  retreat  by  Brigadier  William  Nugent,  with  a  party  of 
horse,  which  did  them  much  mischief,  yet  he  received  a 
wound  in  the  engagement  of  which  he  soon  after  died.  It 
was  said  the  Duke  of  Berwick  fled  to  a  fort,  which  being 
invested  by  the  Protestants,  Colonel  Sarsfield  was  sent  down 
with  the  Lord  Slane's  regiment  from  hence  and  fifty  of  the 
King's  guards. 

February  14. — A  declaration  issues  for  seizing  serviceable 
horses  in  the  hands  of  foot- officers.     [Bibliography,  No.  1099.] 

February  15. — The  King  sent  three  great  guns  to  Ringsend, 
and  it  was  said  he  expected  the  French  fleet  in  five  days, 


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and  lists  were  given  out  of  its  contents  in  ammunition, 
provision,  men  and  arms.  Said  also  that  the  Prince  of  Orange 
would  come  over  in  person  with  twenty  thousand  English. 
Then  officers  were  commanded  to  their  garrisons,  and  house- 
keepers to  give  an  account  of  what  officers  they  housed  to 
the  Government,  and  the  inhabitants  of  most  part  of  Castle 
Street  warned  to  provide  for  themselves  elsewhere,  that  that 
street  must  be  pulled  down,  but  it  was  deferred,  though  some 
near  the  Castle  were  actually  moved. 

February  18. — Then  the  King  issues  a  declaration  for  setting 
forfeited  estates  of  absentees,  and  those  attainted  by  the 
Act  of  Unsettlement  (of  the  Settlement),  and  also  of  their 
chattels,  etc.,  signed  by  four  of  the  Commissioners  of  the 
Revenue,  for  the  King's  use.  [Bibliography,  No.  1100.] 
And  this  day  also  the  French  Ambassador  went  towards  Cork 
to  return  home  by  the  expected  fleet.  Sir  Michael  Creagh's 
regiment  march  to  Tredath.  The  Duke  of  Berwick  came 
to  town,  leaving  all  to  be  commanded  at  Cavan  by 
Colonel  Sarsfield. 

February  21. — Orders  given  by  beat  of  drum  that  officers 
repair  to  their  posts  on  pain  of  cashiering  and  soldiers  on 
pain  of  death,  and  all  persons  not  Uving  in  the  city  to  go 
home  on  pain  of  imprisonment.  The  Lord  Westmeath's 
regiment  came  to  town  this  day,  and  seventeen  men  brought 
in  prisoners  from  Cavan,  venturing  too  far.  One  of  them 
had  killed  Geoghegan,  and  was  attempted  to  be  murdered  in 
Bridwell  by  some  of  Geoghegan's  friends. 

February  23. — All  the  Protestants  at  church  disarmed, 
though  many  of  the  army  there,  and  some  churches  searched 
for  arms. 

February  27. — The  Earl  of  Westmeath's  regiment  march 
to  Tredath,  and  a  part  of  the  King's  Horse  Guards.  There 
was  a  report  that  some  of  the  Mint  had  cheated  the  fall  in 
sixpences,  but  this  came  to  nothing. 

February  28. — This  day  came  out  a  declaration  for  a  loan 
of  the  brass  money,  and  also  a  proclamation  setting  rates 
on  all  grain  and  leather  for  the  stores.  [Bibliography,  Nos. 
1101,  1102.] 

March  — . — It  was  said  the  French  fleet  were  met  with 
at  sea,  and  several  corps  taken  up  near  Cork. 

March  5. — Few  acts  of  State  but  what  fell  heavy  on  some, 
but  the  proclamation  aforesaid  on  com,  with  seizing  tallow, 
hides,  etc.,  to  be  transported,  was  hard  on  all.  The  EngUsh 
gentlemen  were  ruined  by  being  turned  out  of  their  estates 
by  the  proprietors,  and  their  stocks  destroyed  by  the  rabble, 
killing  and  steaHng  their  cattle,  and  plundering  their  houses  ; 
and  now  the  tradesmen's  time  was  come,  which  must  be 
affected  by  this  act  of  seizing  under  pretence  for  the  army 
of  all  they  had  sold  their  goods  for.  Upon  the  first  coming 
in  of  the  proclamation,  the  common  market  was  in  great 
disorder ;    some  selling  their  corn  for  twenty  shillings  per 


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barrel,  and  some  refusing,  but  by  next  market  day  the  country 
people  began  to  understand  that  the  King  would  have  what 
he  had  occasion  for  at  the  prices  set  down,  but  of  others  they 
might  get  what  they  could,  so  that  afterwards  corn  rose  three 
or  four  shilUngs  a  barrel  every  market  day,  for  it  was  sold  for 
forty -three  shillings  per  barrel,  and  next  market  for  forty -six 
shilhngs  ;  wheat  and  other  grains  proportionably.  So  now 
the  Protestant  farmers  that  had  anything  left  had  their  com 
seized  for  the  King  at  twenty  shillings  per  barrel,  but  the 
Papists  might  sell  theirs  at  their  own  rate,  which  was  a  notable 
device  to  enrich  the  Papists,  and  to  carry  [on]  on  the  grain  of 
the  Protestants,  which  seemed  to  be  the  design,  and  was  the  real 
effect  of  many  pubUc  acts,  besides  conniving  at  the  doings 
of  many  private  persons  against  them.  The  deer  of  the  Parks 
were  destroyed,  though  mere  carrion,  and  sold  at  the  Shambles. 
Great  was  the  expectation  of  the  French  fleet's  arrival. 

March  13. — An  express  from  Cork  came  of  white  colours 
at  sea,  and  I  know  not  what.  They  seemed  to  depend  more 
on  Ues  than  God,  giving  all  for  gone  if  this  fleet  came  not.  It 
was  said  again  that  the  Danes  were  landed  with  other  forces, 
for  we  had  those  could  invent  lies  as  fast  as  they.  But  the 
King  seemed  to  intend  his  own  defence  only  by  breaking 
down  bridges  and  spoiling  the  ways,  defending  passes,  and 
fortifying  towns,  as  he  did  Finogh,  MuUingar  and  other  places. 
The  Lord  Fitz-James's  regiment  that  had  been  collegians 
all  winter,  were  now  brought  into  the  city  to  quarter,  for  they 
were  so  nasty  [and]  so  lazy  [that  they  neglected  sanitary 
precautions  until  five  or  six  of  them  died  in  a  week] ;  and 
indeed  the  ignorance  of  the  Irish  was  as  remarkable,  for  at 
the  first  coming  into  service  they  were  fain  to  tie  a  string 
about  one  wrist  to  distinguish  the  right  and  left ;  and  after 
the  fight  at  Crom  Castle  it  was  credibly  reported  by  eye 
witnesses  that  many  of  their  arms  taken  up  were  loaded 
the  ball  undermost ;  one  affirms  he  saw  the  breech-pins  of 
thirty  taken  out  to  cleanse  them,  and  some  with  bullets  without 
powder,  which  is  thought  was  spilled  by  the  shaking  of  their 
hands,  yet  the  bullet  put  in.  There  was  a  grenadier  in 
Castle  Street,  who  knew  no  better,  that  had  his  pipe  of  tobacco 
to  stop  down  as  it  rose  with  smoking,  and  had  no  more  sense 
than  to  turn  the  small  end  of  his  flask  to  do  it  with,  which 
blowing  to  pieces  about  his  ears  had  his  whole  head  and  face 
miserably  disfigured  with  the  powder  and  flask  pieces. 

March  17. — ^The  news  of  the  French  fleet  from  Cork  arrived 
with  great  supplies  of  all  habihments  of  war,  for  they  had 
very  little  powder  left.  They  came  in  the  13th,  and  had 
bonfires  at  Tredath  the  14th  for  them.  They  brought  with 
them  about  seven  thousand  men,  for  whom  they  had  as  many 
hence,  under  the  command  of  the  Lord  Mountcashell,  and 
shipped  them  off  with  a  great  deal  of  howling. 

March  19. — Comes  out  a  declaration  for  all  officers  to  repair 
to  their  posts  on  pain  of  imprisonment  and  a  month's  pay 


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and  for  officers  in  second  to  repair  to  the  regiments  to  which 
they  belonged  on  pain  of  cashiering.  [^Bibliography,  No.  1103.] 
A  great  disturbance  in  the  market  about  corn,  for  the  county 
selling  their  corn  at  forty-six  shillings  per  barrel,  the 
Lord  Mayor  would  have  it  sold  at  the  King's  declaration 
price,  that  was  twenty  shillings  per  barrel ;  the  Lord  Mayor, 
being  better  informed  of  the  King's  intentions  by  a  proclama- 
tion of  his  own,  he  went  into  the  market  and  ordered  that 
no  corn  should  be  bought  or  sold  but  at  the  previous  prices, 
on  which  they  would  sell  none,  pretending  it  was  all  sold  ; 
but  he  left  a  guard  in  the  market,  and  would  let  none  go  out, 
or  be  set  up,  but  what  was  sworn  to  be  bought  and  sold,  and 
so  kept  them  there  until  they  sold  it  so,  and  then  he  gave 
the  bakers  assize  by  that  price. 

March  25. — The  next  market  day  none  came,  and  great 
complaints  were  made  for  want  of  bread,  which  continued  till 
the  29th,  and  then  a  proclamation  was  published  for  raising 
the  price  of  grain.  [Bibliography,  No.  1104.]  Upon  the 
shipping  the  Irish  great  complaint  was  made  ;  they  said 
the  English  never  served  them  so.  The  24th  the  Duke  of 
Berwick  went  to  Tredath,  and  so  to  Cavan  ;  his  business 
was  kept  private  ;  the  Lieutenant-General  Richard  Hamilton 
and  Major -General  Burslow  went  towards  Galway  to  change 
officers,  and  put  in  French,  for  the  King  declared  that  many 
Irish  were  unfit  for  service,  though  he  was  satisfied  of  their 
loyalty  ;  and  to  let  them  see  he  would  not  be  wanting  to 
do  what  lay  in  his  power  for  them,  he  gave  orders  that  all 
the  old  proprietors  that  could  make  out  their  titles  before 
the  Lord  Lieutenants  of  the  counties,  etc.,  should  be  by  them 
put  into  immediate  possession  of  their  estates  without  a 
Court  of  Claims  or  further  delay,  so  that  this  must  be  a 
plaster  for  the  former  wound.  A  ship  was  cast  away  in  the 
last  great  storm  near  Wicklow,  but  the  most  part  of  the  men 
were  saved  and  made  prisoners.  They  said  King  William 
was  on  his  journey  hither  with  a  great  army.  It  was  com- 
monly said  the  Prince  of  Denmark  was  landed,  and  much 
discourse  of  a  plot  discovered  in  England,  and  that  there  was 
a  new  Parliament,  the  20th,  in  England.  Said  also  that  the 
EngUsh  misled  the  French  fleet  by  conducting  home  the  new 
Queen  of  Spain,  who  was  to  marry  the  King. 

March  28. — On  this  day  was  published  a  proclamation  for 
leaden  pence  and  half -pence.     [Bibliography,  No.  1105.] 

March  30. — Lauzun,  the  French  General,  came  to  town  ; 
received  by  the  King  with  great  kindness.  It  was  said  those 
of  Belturbet  on  the  27th  took  a  great  booty  of  cattle,  and 
fell  upon  the  King's  party. 

April  4. — A  proclamation  was  put  out  this  day  for  taking 
off  the  duty  on  merchants'  goods.     [Bibliography,  No.  1106.] 

April  8. — A  small  vessel  of  the  French  fleet  came  here  from 
Cork,  but  a  fly-boat  of  three  hundred  tons,  laden  with  wine, 
brandy,  and  some  of  the  soldiers'  clothes,  was  said  to  be  taken 


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by  the  English,  as  also  a  small  yacht  belonging  to  the 
Lord  Clancarty,  with  all  his  plate,  tents,  etc.,  going  for  Cork. 
A  Gazette  was  now  put  up,  which  published  an  account  of  the 
French  fleet,  and  one  Yalden,  a  news-broker,  changed  his 
Abhorrence,  as  he  called  it,  to  an  Observator.  Corn  continued 
scarce,  so  that  many  could  not  get  bread,  the  country  refusing 
to  bring  it  in.  Brass  money  rises  to  double  value,  and  a 
pamphlet  is  pubUshed  by  way  of  State  affairs  in  Ireland, 
but  scurvily  silly. 

April  10. — The  barbarous  rudeness  of  the  French  soldiers 
was  now  the  whole  subject  of  discourse ;  about  sixty,  coming 
up  as  guard  to  the  French  General's  goods,  were  quartered  in 
Lazy  Hill  for  three  nights,  in  which  time  they  murdered  one 
or  two  women  and  ravished  one  or  two,  and  were  so  insolent 
that  one  who  quartered  two  of  them  gave  twelve  shillings 
to  buy  his  peace  those  three  nights,  besides  what  they  stole 
at  parting,  and  it  was  said  those  inhabitants  were  damaged 
301.  by  those  few  while  they  stayed,  as  was  found  by  an  enquiry 
made  by  the  Lord  Mayor's  orders  to  stop  boats  and  lay  them 
all  up,  which  was  done  and  a  guard  set  on  them.  It  was 
said  there  were  great  disputes  in  Council  about  bringing  in 
the  French  regiments  to  town,  which  was  much  opposed 
both  by  English  and  Irish.  The  Protestants,  about  fifty 
of  them,  were  turned  out  of  Dundalk  and  Ardee,  and  being 
permitted  to  carry  what  they  could  with  them  had  a  convoy 
to  Tredath,  but  though  so  few,  yet  were  soon  missed  by  the 
garrisons  and  invited  back,  if  they  would  go  back.  It  was 
said  one  Colonel  McDonnell  deserted  to  Schomberg,  kilhng 
two  captains  that  opposed  him. 

April  14. — About  this  time  the  Lord  Mayor  took  upon  him 
to  rate  goods,  as  he  said,  by  the  King's  orders,  as  may  be 
seen.     [Bibliography,  No.  1107.] 

April  16. — Eight  companies  of  Colonel  Bagenal's  regiment 
at  this  time  came  to  town,  and  to-day  march  to  Tredath. 
There  was  a  proclamation  issued  of  the  15th  about  the  further 
preservation  of  hay,  etc.,  with  severe  penalties,  and  this  day 
another.  [Bibliography,  No.  1108.]  Great  debate  happened  in 
Council  about  the  French,  and  it  was  said  that  Lauzun, 
the  French  General,  struck  our  City  Governor,  Simon  Luttrell, 
a  box  on  the  ear,  and  Dorrington  threatened  to  lay  down 
his  command. 

April  10. — Five  ships  and  four  yachts  came  to  an  anchor 
about  seven  in  the  morning,  but  when  the  tide  came  in  the 
four  yachts  and  one  ship  weighed  and  stood  into  the  harbour 
of  Dublin,  to  take  out  one  Bennett's  ship,  a  vessel  of  twenty- 
two  guns,  laden  with  Protestants'  goods,  for  France,  and  about 
sixty  men  in  her,  and  was  to  sail  in  a  day  or  two.  She  was 
about  two  hundred  and  fifty  tons  burden  ;  some  reported  her 
worth  60,000^.  They  came  up  with  her,  and  the  four  yachts 
and  a  boat  engaged  her  for  some  time.  The  captain  and  all 
the  men  fled  after  firing  a  very  few  shots,  and  losing  about 


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five  or  six  more  killed  in  the  ship,  in  the  sight  of  the  King 
and  all  the  army  that  was  in  town.  This  loss  fretted  the 
King's  party  much,  not  only  for  the  loss,  for  the  yachts  towed 
her  out  immediately,  but  the  insolence  of  the  attempt,  for 
it  was  said  a  shot  flew  pretty  near  the  King,  which  made 
him  remove.  The  ships  sent  the  prize  away,  but  stayed  in 
the  bay  till  the  20th,  and  so  sailed  off  to  the  North.  In  the 
fight,  two  men  and  two  pipers  made  their  escape,  who,  pursued 
by  a  horseman,  were  reUeved  by  a  boat,  who  shot  the  horse 
under  him  and  caused  him  to  wade,  and  then  played  up  and 
down  the  river  Lallibolero. 

April  21. — The  King's  troops  suffered  much  for  want  of 
hay,  which  at  this  time  began  to  be  sold  at  twenty -five  shillings 
per  load,  so  that  there  was  nothing  but  straw  in  the  stores. 
The  waste  at  first  was  so  great  the  com  began  to  be  scarce 
again,  and  the  people  being  not  willing  to  sell  for  brass,  the 
Lord  Chancellor  Fitton  himseK  was  fain  to  give  twenty  shillings 
per  barrel  in  silver  for  a  score,  though  3^.  a  barrel  in  brass 
would  not  buy  it.  And  the  coin  of  that  sort  falling  short 
too,  the  King  was  forced  to  put  out  a  proclamation  for  passing 
pewter  crowns.     [Bibliography,  No.   1109.] 

April  25. — The  King  forbids  by  proclamation  the  setting 
of  more  of  the  forfeited  estates  after  26th  inst.  [Bibliography , 
No.  1110.] 

April  28. — Three  ships  cam^  in  from  France  ;  they  said 
eight  came  out,  but  that  five  were  taken  by  two  frigates. 
It  seems  a  great  oversight  in  the  English  not  to  guard  these 
coasts,  but  leave  them  open  for  the  French.  About  twelve 
vessels  came  and  went  last  week,  though  some  were  met 
with.  About  five  hundred  and  fifty  of  the  French  regiments 
came  into  this  city,  and  the  Earl  of  Tyrone's  regiment  of 
about  six  hundred  men  march  to  Tredagh. 

April  29. — More  of  the  French,  about  five  hundred,  came 
in  this  day.  It  was  said  that  not  above  100,000^.  was  coined 
in  this  Mint  to  this  time. 

May  1. — Metal  grew  scarce,  so  that  what  is  to  come  to 
the  King  was  coined  less.  A  regiment  of  French,  three 
hundred  and  sixty  (their  clothes  and  hats  are  old),  came  in 
here. 

May  2. — The  two  first  regiments  were  viewed  by  the  King 
on  Stephen's  Green,  made  a  fine  appearance,  and  were  about 
a  thousand  men,  besides  commissioned  officers.  Many  of 
these  soldiers  were  very  rude,  and  killed  a  man  on  the  Coomb. 
All  the  malt  in  town  was  seized  on  by  the  King  at  his  own 
rate,  to  make  beer  for  the  camp,  and  it  was  said  he  sold  out 
the  wool  he  had  taken  up  at  ten  shillings  per  stone  for 
fifteen  shillings  per  stone,  because  the  seamen  refused  to 
carry  it  away,  though  some  was  after  shipped. 

May  5. — A  French  proclamation  was  published,  forbidding 
all  French  soldiers  to  take  anything  without  payment  on 
pain   of    death,   or  the  officers  on  pain   of  cashiering,  and 


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forbidding  them  to  disturb  any  churches  or  public  meetings 
of  Protestants,  on  pain  of  severe  punishment ;  and  it  was  but 
necessary,  they  having  been  rude  in  this  kind  also.  A  great 
quantity  of  meal  and  ammunition  was  brought  to  town  on 
the  Green,  sold  and  accounted.  It  was  reported  that  fifty 
horse  and  six  hundred  foot  went  to  relieve  Charlemont  with 
provision,  and  were  kept  in  by  the  EngUsh,  on  which  the  King 
gave  out  he  would  relieve  it. 

May  6. — A  detachment  of  a  hundred  horse  and  about 
five  hundred  and  fifty  foot  out  of  the  Guards  and  Royal 
regiment  marched  towards  the  North,  and  it  was  said  the  whole 
army  was  in  motion.  The  names  and  numbers  of  the 
Protestants  in  every  house  were  taken,  but  for  what  end 
was  not  known  ;  four  hundred  and  sixty  in  St.  Warburgh's. 
Several  persons  made  escape  to  the  displeasure  of  the  King 
and  his  party.  The  Court  went  into  mourning  for  the 
Dauphin  of  France. 

May  8. — Another  regiment  of  the  French,  of  six  hundred 
and  fifty  Walloons,  came  into  town.  It  was  said  Charlemont 
was  surrounded. 

May  9. — The  King  viewed  the  regiment  of  Walloons  and 
two  French  regiments,  and  saw  them  exercise.  The  two 
battalions  of  the  Royal  regiment  were  also  in  the  Green  in 
new  clothes.  They  made  a  fine  show,  and  were  about  twelve 
hundred  men,  but  went  out^  of  the  field  before  the  King 
came. 

May  10. — The  King  viewed  them  and  saw  them  march. 
The  Lord  Mayor  issued  his  declaration  about  the  price  of 
goods ;  [it]  was  set  up,  backed  by  Governor  Luttrell's  declaration 
that  those  that  either  bought  or  sold  those  goods  so  priced 
at  other  rates  than  was  thereby  prescribed,  should  be 
punished  with  death  and  hanged  at  their  own  doors. 

May  11. — The  brass  money  still  loses  its  credit,  so  that 
the  Government  was  at  a  loss  how  to  keep  down  the  price 
of  the  most  necessary  things,  which  still  rose  as  it  fell ;  so 
that  now  they  carried  it  to  the  highest  pitch.  Great  quantity 
of  butter,  meal,  biscuits,  shipped  on  gabbards  for  Tredagh. 
The  guns  now  brought  from  Ardee  to  Tredagh,  the  King 
designing  to  quit  it  and  Dundalk  upon  the  first  motion  of 
the  English. 

May  13. — A  quantity  of  ammunition  was  brought  to  town 
also  ;  and  two  blue  regiments  of  French  (one  of  eight  hundred 
men,  the  other  about  seven  hundred  men)  came  to  town 
also,  so  that  now  about  four  thousand  of  them  were  in 
town. 

May  14. — The  news  was  foohsh  and  uncertain.  The  French 
artillery,  about  twelve  brass  field  pieces,  all  of  a  size,  about 
six  pounders,  with  ammunition,  etc.,  came  to  town. 

May  15. — The  King  saw  the  white  French  regiments  encamp 
and  decamp. 

May  16. — He  did  the  like  by  the  Walloons. 


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May  17. — He  was  to  see  the  Royal  regiment  do  the  like, 
and  now  it  was  certain  Charlemont  was  surrendered  on  honour- 
able terms,  and  Teigue  O 'Regan,  the  Governor,  came  to  town  ; 
received  and  kissed  by  the  King  ;  on  parley  they  were  to  have 
three  guns,  but  having  no  cattle  to  draw  them,  they  left  them. 
The  garrison  were  kindly  treated  by  the  Enghsh  General,  to 
his  honour,  having  their  bellies  filled,  and  each  man  a  loaf 
of  bread  and  sixpence  given  him,  and  so  sent  to  Dundalk. 
It  was  said  there  was  about  twenty-six  pieces  of  ordnance, 
and  an  abundance  of  arms,  seventy -nine  barrels  of  powder, 
and  much  linen-cloth,  and  a  great  quantity  of  goods,  that 
was  plundered  in  the  North,  found  there. 

May  20. — Fitz -James's  regiment  marched  to  Tredagh  ; 
a  troop  of  Colonel  Sutherland's  horse  came  to  town,  and  a 
troop  of  Lord  Dungan's  Dragoons.  The  King  came  to 
Stephen's  Green  to  see  the  French  regiments. 

May  21. — Another  battaUon  of  the  Royal  regiment,  about 
six  hundred  and  fifty  men,  marched  towards  the  North.  One 
shot  at  Oxmantown  Green  this  day. 

May  22. — AU  the  French  regiments  were  in  the  Green, 
where  the  King  saw  them  march  and  exercise,  and  then  Cormack 
O'Neill's  regiment  was  broken,  and  inserted  to  fill  the  French 
up.  Two  troops  of  the  Lord  Tyrconnel's  regiment  of  horse 
were  viewed  also,  man  by  man,  and  then  sent  away,  and 
two  more  the  next  day,  and  not  a  day  passed  but  some  horse 
marched  to  the  North. 

May  23. — Two  of  the  Walloons,  endeavouring  to  desert, 
were  sent  from  Tredagh,  and  shot  on  Stephen's  Green  (but  a 
gibbet  was  set  up  and  [they  were]  designed  to  be  hanged), 
all  the  French  regiments  being  in  the  Green.  They  gave  a  boy 
twenty  shilfings  to  show  them  the  way,  who  it  was  said 
'  betrayed  them.  About  seven  of  them  got  off  clear.  The  King 
viewed  some  troops  at  Tara  Hill  and  Naas  ;  it  was  said  he 
designed  a  camp  there. 

May  26. — He  went  to  view  more  ;  it  was  said  that  thirty 
of  the  King's  guards  went  to  the  enemy. 

May  30. — Four  ships  went  out  laden  for  France  with  hides, 
tallow,  wool,  etc.,  taken  from  Protestants,  but  they  anchored 
in  the  bay  till  night,  and  then  sailed  ;  it  was  not  doubted 
but  the  English  met  them. 

May  31. — Two  men-of-war  came  to  an  anchor  in  the  Bay 
and  stayed  there,  on  sight  of  whom  seven  of  the  French  guns 
were  sent  to  Dunleary,  and  a  regiment  went  down  towards 
the  sea.  There  was  some  shots  at  the  vessels,  but  to  no 
purpose.  The  men-of-war  carried  away  a  gabbard  of  wheat, 
and  some  horses  off  Dalkey  Island,  and  some  two  boats  of 
meal  designed  for  the  stores  of  Tredagh,  for  it  was  said 
provisions  were  scarce  there,  and  that  many  died  for  want, 
and  that  the  camp  was  removed  to  Mellifont  Park. 

June  — . — The  two  ships  set  one  on  shore  that  they  had 
taken  and  told  him  they  were  going  for  King  William,  whose 


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baggage  was  landed  at  Belfast.  The  French  regiment  of 
about  four  hundred  and  fifty  men  fain  to  be  made  up  by  Irish 
before  they  came  into  town,  many  of  the  soldiers  dying  at  Cork 
and  Kilkenny.  There  were  seven  regiments  in  all  of  the 
French  and  Walloons. 

June  3. — They  encamped  all  in  the  Deer  Park  in  a  line, 
with  the  twelve  guns,  where  they  were  viewed  by  the  King  again 
and  again,  who  was  after  treated  by  the  French  Ambassador 
at  Chapelizod,  and  then  returned  to  the  city. 

June  4. — The  Duke  of  Berwick's  guards  marched  to  the 
North.  Major-General  Burslow's  regiment  marched  through 
the  city  to  the  horse  fair  at  Donnybrook,  where  they  encamped, 
and  were  furnished  with  all  necessaries.  There  was  talk 
as  if  a  hundred  sail  were  seen  towards  the  northward  and 
landed  men  at  Carlingford  ;  that  the  Duke  of  Ormonde  was 
come,  etc.  Major  Nathaniel  Hook  came  from  France,  with 
an  account  of  fifteen  thousand  men  coming  in  the  French 
fleet,  which  was  a  fiame,  though  much  talked  of. 

June  9. — Burslow's  regiment  marched  towards  the  North, 
and  Colonel  O'Brien's  came  to  Donnybrook,  about  five  hundred 
and  fifty  men.  The  King  gave  orders  to  seize  on  what  cattle 
he  pleases,  and  put  them  into  grass,  for  the  use  of  the  army. 
He  also  seized  on  what  meadows  he  would  for  mowing  ;  meum 
and  tuum  being  dissolved  as  to  him,  being  master  of  anything 
he  had,  but  only  kept  as  stewards  till  the  King  called  for  it. 
Brass  money  falls  to  3Z.  IO5.  Od.,  and  guineas  to  4L  IO5.  Od. 
The  Lord  Kilmallock's  regiment  goes  to  Donnybrook,  about 
six  hundred  and  fifty. 

June  10. — The  King  orders  suttling  houses  all  over  the 
town,  as  by  proclamation,  at  twopence  per  quart.  [Biblio- 
graphy ^  No.   1113.] 

June  12. — It  was  now  discoursed  that  King  WilUam  was 
landed.  The  French  make  a  flying  bridge  for  the  better 
passing  rivers  with  ordnance  and  carriage. 

June  15. — Orders  that  contracts  be  made  with  Rowland 
White  for  hay,  etc.,  in  several  parts  of  the  kingdom. 
[Bibliography,  No.  1114.] 

June  14. — Colonel  O'Brien's  regiment  march  towards  the 
North,  five  hundred  and  fifty  men. 

June  15. — Then  [the  King]  gives  two  orders  for  brass  money 
[Bibliography,  Nos.  1116,  1117],  and  dismisses  the  Lord  Dover 
out  of  all  employments,  and  [he]  is  laid  aside,  and  obliged  to  sell 
all  his  horses,  etc.,  the  reason  of  which  was  not  certainly 
known  ;  some  contest  fell  out  between  the  French  General 
and  him  which  occasioned  it. 

June  10. — This  day  also  there  issued  a  proclamation  settling 
rates  between  gold  and  brass  money,  etc.,  the  last  King  James 
prints  at  Dublin,  and  then  prepares  to  go  on  his  expedition 
towards  the  North. 

June  16. — This  day  the  King  went  towards  the  North, 
with  the  whole  power  of  the  French,  whose  regiments  being 


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filled  up  of  Irish  made  five  thousand  there.  The  artillery 
with  carriage  and  baggage  made  up  four  hundred  and  sixty, 
of  sumpter  horses  about  two  hundred  and  thirty,  besides 
what  went  with  the  battaHons  of  the  Royal  regiment,  which 
went  another  road,  and  besides  what  went  before  and  after, 
so  that  the  King  had  a  very  well  furnished  army.  On  their 
going  out,  four  regiments  came  into  town — Kalmallock's, 
McGilhcuddy's,  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's  and  O'Donnell's.  It 
was  said  the  King's  camp  was  three  miles  beyond  Ardee,  and 
the  English  on  Lurgan  Race. 

June  17. — The  Duke  of  Tyrconnel  went  to  the  camp,  and 
many  others  ;    forty  cars  of  meal,  etc. 

June  19. — There  came  out  a  well-designed  proclamation 
this  day  from  King  WilUam,  which  forbids  all  rapine  and 
depredation  on  any  account,  the  first  which  the  King  prints 
at  DubUn*  [Bibliography,  No.  1119],  and  this  day  the  names 
of  the  Protestants  were  taken  again,  which  was  the  third 
time.  And  an  order  of  the  General's  was  pubUshed  by  beat 
of  drum  in  all  quarters  of  the  town,  that  all  Protestants  in 
town  not  inhabiting  in  it  three  months  should  depart  in 
twenty-four  hours  on  pain  of  imprisonment ;  that  no 
Protestant  be  in  the  street  from  ten  at  night  to  five  in  the 
morning,  nor  out  of  their  houses,  if  an  alarm  be  beaten,  on 
pain  of  death,  and  all  Protestants  to  deHver  up  their  arms 
and  ammunition,  both  offensive  and  defensive,  on  pain  of 
death.  This  was  no  sooner  published,  but  guards  were  set 
at  all  the  street  ends,  etc.,  and  all  Protestants  that  appeared 
abroad  seized,  even  beggars  themselves,  and  carried  to  the 
guards,  and  Tholsel,  and  other  places,  many  of  whom  were 
again  discharged  at  night,  and  the  rest  sent  prisoners  to  the 
College.  That  night  the  Lord  Kilmallock's  regiment  encamped 
in  Stephen's  Green. 

June  21. — The  people  was  all  day  hurrying  their  base 
large  haK-crowns  for  the  new  small  ones,  just  exposed  at  the 
Mint,  and  those  that  should  have  changed  them  began  to 
make  a  hand  of  the  people,  who  came  over  to  change  them. 

June  22. — All  the  ministers  were  forbidden  to  open  church 
by  the  Governor  Simon  Luttrell's  orders,  or  McGilhcuddy's, 
which  was  done.  Not  a  bell  but  Mass  bells  to  be  heard,  and 
all  people  kept  house  that  Sunday. 

June  23. — Three  ships  came  up  to  the  bar,  and  after  some 
little  time  stood  off  again  ;  but  they  put  them  to  the  trouble 
of  an  alarm,  and  many  soldiers  were  sent  to  Ringsend. 
Colonel  Browne's  regiment  of  five  hundred  and  fifty  men 
came  into  town.  There  was  a  report  also  of  a  skirmish,  in 
which  the  EngHsh  had  Captain  Jones  and  Captain  John  Farley 
taken  prisoners,  as  proved  true  afterwards,  for  they  were 
brought  to  town,  and  a  French  Huguenot,  who  behaved  him- 
self finely.     The  particulars  were  uncertain,  though  related 

♦  In  margin  "  miast  be  a  mistake  of  the  printer's." 
Wt.  43482.  O  26 


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thus :  that  about  two  hundred  of  the  English,  being  betrayed 
by  a  scout  and  mists,  were  set  upon  by  fifteen  hundred  of  the 
King's  men  and  about  fifty  of  them  killed  and  seven  taken. 
The  King,  upon  the  approach  of  the  English,  retreats,  and  quits 
Dundalk  in  some  disorder,  leaving  some  provision  behind, 
which  he  had  not  time  to  destroy,  and  much  of  it  fell  into 
the  enemy's  hands.  Many  of  the  prisoners  taken  above  were 
this  day  sent  from  the  College  to  the  Merchants'  Quay.  The 
Lord  Kilmallock's  regiment  left  the  field  one  night  and  lodged 
in  the  town.  The  King  retreats  to  Drogheda,  with  the 
enemy  at  his  heels. 

June  24. — King  WiUiam  pubhshes  this  proclamation. 
[Bibliography,  No.  1121.] 

June  27. — Five  ships  came  into  the  bay  of  Dublin,  and 
lay  there  all  night,  which  with  some  flying  reports  gave  a  great 
alarm  to  the  Roman  Catholics  in  the  city.  All  shops  were 
shut  down,  the  drums  beat,  and  Colonel  Felix  O'Neill's 
regiment  of  about  six  hundred  and  fifty  men  came  into  town. 
The  Galway  prisoners  that  were  in  the  Lord  Longford's  house, 
and  that  were  in  Newgate  and  Bridewell,  were  last  night 
removed  to  the  Round  Church,  which  now  was  made  a  prison 
of,  and  very  incommodious  for  them. 

June  29. — All  the  Roman  Catholics  were  commanded 
to  appear  on  Oxmantown  Green  on  this  day,  on  pain  of  death, 
which  they  did,  and  to  move  them  to  take  arms,  the  Govern- 
ment, it  was  said,  told  them  among  other  things  that  the 
King  having  quitted  Dundalk,  the  enemy  had  hanged  up  all 
they  found  in  it,  and  that  they  must  expect  no  mercy,  etc. 
But  yet  they  were  very  backward  to  engage,  but  as  soon  as 
they  could  get  leave  again  courted  and  cringed  to  the 
Protestants  as  much  as  they  durst.  It  was  said  the  King 
quitted  Ardee,  with  the  enemy  at  his  heels. 

June  30. — It  was  said  the  English  were  before  Tredagh, 
and  the  guns  were  heard  by  many  to  this  city  ;  and  it  was 
said,  but  falsely,  that  it  was  taken  that  night,  and  that  there 
had  been  an  engagement  between  some  of  the  horse  on  both 
sides,  and  that  the  Duke  of  Berwick  was  killed,  and  the 
Duke  of  Tyrconnel  had  his  arm  shot  off,  which  was  false.  At 
night  was  a  very  great  alarm  in  the  city.  The  cause  said  to 
be  that  the  enemy  had  passed  the  Navan.  Great  shooting  was 
heard  this  day  [July  1] ;  it  being  said  to  be  fighting  at  Tredagh  ; 
but  at  about  six  or  seven  at  night  people  began  to  come  to 
town,  by  whom  it  was  said  the  King's  army  was  defeated, 
and  was  retreating  hither,  which  proved  true,  for  they  marched 
all  night,  and  about  ten  at  night  a  regiment  of  Dragoons 
came  into  Stephen's  Green,  and  lay  there  all  night  on  their 
arms.  In  the  morning  several  regiments  and  troops  came 
and  went,  and  there  was  a  very  great  distraction,  and  disorders 
among  them.  Many  families  left  the  town  ;  great  removing 
of  goods,  etc.  Sir  Patrick  Trant  and  the  two  Lords  Justices, 
Nugent  and  Rice,  the  Marquis  of  Albeville,  and  some  others 


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went  towards  Waterford,  and  there  was  a  universal  run. 
About  nine  at  night  the  King  came  to  town,  and  gave  some 
orders  about  giving  it  up,  and  about  four  or  five  in  the  morning 
went  out  towards  Bray,  and  so  to  Passage,  bitterly  bewailing 
his  own  misfortunes,  and  detesting  the  base  cowardice  of  the 
Irish,  with  whom  he  resolved  never  to  oppose  more  the  EngUsh, 
and  to  end  his  reign  here  for  ever.  The  Duke  of  Berwick  and 
Tyrconnel  came  also  to  town,  and  taking  some  refreshment 
went  away,  as  did  all  the  rest,  to  the  Curragh  of  Kildare. 
Such  a  Wednesday  as  this  I  never  did  see  the  like  to.  About 
six  or  seven  last  night  they  began  to  come  thick  to  town,  and 
were  coming  all  night,  but  the  gross  of  the  army  came  this 
morning,  both  horse  and  foot  passed  over  our  bridges,  but 
in  great  disorder  and  distraction,  and  their  regiments  scattered 
and  broken.  It  did  not  appear  by  their  multitudes  that  they 
had  lost  many,  nor  was  there  any  sign  of  their  rallying,  though 
such  a  fancy  drew  many  of  us  up  to  house-tops  to  see  it. 

July  3. — The  Lord  Mayor  and  Aldermen  and  most  of  the 
Militia  went  all  away,  carrying  with  them  the  medal  and 
collar  of  S.S.,  but  left  the  sword,  mace  and  cap.  In  the 
evening  all  was  gone,  but  here  and  there  a  straggler.  A 
stiU  silence  followed  ;  the  gates  were  opened,  and  only  a 
Militiaman  or  two  left  at  them.  The  guards  were  all  drawn 
off  the  prisoners,  and  they  at  liberty  ;  we  were  all  in  a  seeming, 
though  true,  dream.  The  Irish  were  supposed  to  be  about 
thirty  thousand,  and  were  brisk  at  going  down,  and  the  French 
wanted  not  their  spices,  their  luggage  was  rich  with  the 
spoil  of  the  English  here,  and  of  value,  but  little  returned, 
and  some  that  went  out  worth  1,000Z.  returned  not  worth  a 
farthing.  As  to  their  motions  in  the  North,  the  best  account 
we  had  was  that  they  went  down  beyond  Dundalk,  and, 
after  they  had  the  skirmish  in  which  John  Farley  was  taken, 
a  fleet  of  ships  coming  into  the  bay,  they,  perhaps  fearing 
they  would  land  some  men  in  the  rear,  returned  thence  in 
such  haste  that  it  was  said  they  ran  like  hares,  and  quitted 
Dundalk  in  great  haste,  but  they  made  a  stand  at  Ardee, 
though  on  the  appearance  of  the  English,  quitted  it  also, 
standing  again  on  this  side  Tredagh,  resolving  to  defend  that 
river  called  the  Boyne,  and  did  what  they  could  to  impede 
the  passage  by  planting  of  batteries  against  the  fords,  etc., 
and  both  armies  being  drawn  up,  the  English  sent  the  Ennis- 
kiUen  Horse  three  miles  up  the  river  to  pass  it  at  a  place  caUed 
Slane  ;  then  the  Royal  regiment  came  on,  who,  after  a  volley 
or  two,  broke,  and  so  did  some  other  regiments,  who  were 
fain  to  kill  them  to  keep  them  off,  and  very  soon  the  whole 
army  ran  before  five  regiments  of  the  EngUsh  had  got  over. 
The  King,  seeing  all  going  out  of  order,  went  away  towards 
Trim,  but  finding  the  Enniskillen  Horse  before  him,  turned 
back  and  fled  towards  Dublin.  It  was  uncertain  what  men  were 
lost  on  the  Irish  side,  but  this  is  certain  that  they  killed  one 
another  to  get  away.    One  said  he  shot  a  trooper  for  his 


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horse,  another  his  lieutenant,  and  in  the  retreat  plundered 
all  the  poor  English  of  Glasnevin  and  Kilmainham,  and 
all  the  Httle  villages  as  they  passed.  On  the  English  side 
the  great  General  Schomberg  was  slain  by  a  musket  shot  above 
the  ferry,  and  near  him  General  Walker  of  Derry,  just  coming 
out  of  the  ford,  and  above  fifty  or  a  hundred  men,  some  say 
three  hundred,  but  a  small  number  for  such  a  victory.  On 
the  3rd,  about  three  in  the  morning,  our  joy  began,  being 
called  up  by  a  peal  of  great  guns  in  the  bay  from  three  frigates, 
who  came  with  intention  to  take  or  burn  what  shipping  lay 
in  the  harbour,  but  they  found  them  all  their  own,  and  no 
need  of  it.  The  rabble  fell  to  disarming  the  Roman  Catholics, 
and  the  Government  was  left  and  assumed  by  Sir  Robert  Gore, 
Captain  Farley  the  prisoner,  Captain  Fitz-Gerald,  etc.,  who 
published  an  order  against  these  riots,  and  for  the  safety  of 
the  Roman  Cathohcs'  bodies  and  goods.  Another  order 
was  published,  that  the  brass  money  should  pass  till  further 
orders,  though  not  observed.  Another  order  was  passed  for 
raising  the  MiUtia  of  Protestants,  under  those  who  had  been 
officers  before,  directed  to  Major  Moore,  and  signed  by  the 
Earl  of  Meath,  Earl  of  Longford,  Bishop  of  Limerick, 
Lord  Rosse,  Captain  Fitz-Gerald,  Dr.  King,  Dr.  Loftus, 
Sir  Thomas  Newcomen,  Colonel  Roscarrick,  Thomas  Whitshed, 
etc.  The  city  sword  was  carried  to  the  Tholsel  and  deposited 
with  Alderman  Mottley,  who  should  have  been  Mayor  before. 
In  the  evening  several  gentlemen  of  the  EngUsh  came  to  town, 
and  a  small  detachment  of  Dragoons.  There  was  very  great 
joy,  and  sorrow  and  sadness  was  gone  away,  when  we  crept 
out  of  our  houses  and  found  ourselves  as  it  were  in  a  new 
world. 

July  4. — This  morning  Tredagh  was  surrendered,  and  the 
garrison  laid  down  their  arms  and  went  off  where  they  wanted. 
The  Duke  of  Ormonde,  Lord  Lisburn,  Sir  Charles  Fielding, 
with  a  detachment  of  horse,  came  to  town.  Towards  noon 
two  battaUons  of  King  WilHam's  Dutch  guards  came,  who 
encamped  on  Stephen's  Green,  to  the  joy  of  all  the 
Protestants. 

July  5. — The  Enghsh  encamped  this  day  at  Finglas,  with 
an  army  of  fifteen  thousand  men,  where  God  blessed  us  with 
a  sight  of  many  of  our  absent  friends,  but,  more  abundantly 
with  the  never  to  be  forgotten  sight  of  the  glorious 
King  William.  On  the  10th  the  King  causes  the  late  King's 
brass  money  to  pass  at  certain  rate.     [Bibliography,  No.  1127.] 

Here  ended  the  tyranny,  oppression,  arbitrary  power,  will 
and  pleasure,  against  all  law,  all  charity  and  Christianity, 
all  promises  and  assurances  made  by  a  Popish  Prince  to  a 
most  dutiful  people,  the  Protestants  of  Dublin. 


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Address  presented  to  James  the  Second  at  Kilkenny 
ON  March  22nd,  1688-9. 

Great  Monarch, 

If  our  affection  to  your  Majesty  could  digest  an  abuse  that 
proved  so  fatal  to  the  prerogative,  we  should  rejoice  at  the 
defection  of  England  that  lent  us  the  opportunity  of  kissing 
your  hand  in  this  loyal  kingdom  of  Ireland.  Whereas  the 
honour  of  your  Majesty's  pleasure  was  unexpected,  so  are 
our  expectations  of  joy  unspeakable.  Never  was  a  King 
of  England  so  kind  to  this  country  ;  never  was  this  country 
so  kind  to  a  British  prince.  We  conducted  a  Fergus  to 
Scotland  ;  we  welcome  in  James  the  Second  the  undoubted 
heir  of  Fergus  by  the  lineal  descent  of  one  hundred  and  ten 
crowned  heads,  with  that  boast  of  antiquity,  to  which  no 
other  monarch  of  the  universe  can  aspire.  We  acquit  Scotland 
for  the  principal  and  interest  of  thirteen  hundred  years  by 
receiving  your  Majesty,  in  whose  person  we  consider  no 
stranger,  we  behold  no  conqueror,  but  our  own  blood 
restored  to  us  after  the  absence  of  so  many  centuries,  a  son 
of  Fergus,  King  of  Ireland,  and  actually  present  in  Ireland, 
which  verifies  an  old  proverb  of  ours  that  avereth  we  should 
have  about  this  time  a  King  of  our  own,  and  continue  under 
him  and  his  issue  a  most  happy  nation  for  ever. 

And  though  the  regard  to  antiquity  and  right  of  accession 
be  very  taking  with  this  nation,  yet  your  Majesty's  fondness 
all  along  of  this  country  prompted  them  to  that  alacrity,  that 
James  Duke  of  York  was  always  their  darling  and  King  James 
the  Second  almost  their  God.  We  offered  the  other  Enghsh 
monarchs  perhaps  but  the  bare  duty  of  our  allegiance  ;  your 
Majesty  has  robbed  our  affections.  They  commanded  our 
obedience  ;  your  Majesty  sways  our  hearts.  Our  comphance 
with  the  other  princes  was  reported  to  smell  of  compulsion  ; 
our  endeavours  for  your  Majesty's  interest  are  the  effect  of 
a  national  inclination  and  the  work  of  a  sympathy  of  blood. 
This  occasioned  our  chapels  to  be  daily  thronged,  and  our 
altars  to  be  constantly  perfumed  with  fervent  prayers  for 
your  Majesty's  long  life  since  your  access  to  the  Crown.  This 
motived  our  fervent  votaries  before  the  venerable  Sacrament 
of  the  Body  of  Christ  for  that  issue  male  that  should  inherit 
as  well  your  virtues  as  your  sceptre.  This  caused  our  fasts 
and  three  days  of  humiUation  each  week  to  beg  the  defeat 
of  so  unnatural  an  invasion.  This  squeezed  our  tears  at  the 
news  of  your  Majesty's  confinement,  and  prompted  our  grief 
to  a  resolution  either  of  securing  your  Majesty's  interest  at 
least  here,  though  horseless,  armless,  and  untrained,  or  of 
being  buried  in  the  same  ruins  that  would  oppress  your  person, 
for  we  Hved  by  your  government  and  breathed  by  your  life  ; 
our  love  to  this  fight  could  not  survive  your  funeral. 

And  if  violence  had  wrought  so  far  on  necessity  as  to  force 
from  your  Majesty  in  that  pressing  juncture  an  order  for 


lajdng  down  our  arms,  we  were  resolved  not  to  obey 
King  James  against  Eang  James,  nor  heed  the  commands  of 
a  restraint  that  would  obstruct  the  liberty  which  to  compass 
we  did  not  stammer  at  the  consideration  of  the  power.  We 
were  engaging  beyond  our  ability.  The  justice  of  our  cause 
did  dictate  unto  us  those  assurances  of  Heaven's  assistance 
that  we  thought  but  of  victories,  though  we  were  investing 
men  well  accoutred  all  naked  ourselves,  though  we  were 
encountering  muskets  with  pikes,  and  cannons  with  clubs, 
and  to  that  end  the  young  wife  did  not  dread  the  hazard  of 
her  husband,  the  mother  did  not  heed  the  risk  of  her  only 
son,  the  aged  father  did  encourage  the  enHsting  of  that  child 
that  was  the  prop  of  his  drooping  years,  our  peers  quitted 
their  ease,  our  gentlemen  regarded  not  the  hazard  of  their 
estates,  our  farmers  did  not  value  the  loss  of  their  stock,  all 
were  rich  enough  so  they  were  backed  with  so  much  wealth 
as  could  subsist  men  for  your  Majesty's  service.  Our  barns 
are  changed  into  armouries,  our  shops  are  metamorphosed 
into  magazines,  our  lex  mercatoria  is  the  right  and  left,  our 
exchanges  are  the  chapels  and  parades,  pouring  forth  prayers 
in  the  one  and  trailing  pikes  in  the  other.  All  ages,  sexes, 
and  professions  do  run  as  for  a  wager  to  assert  your  Majesty's 
right ;  our  very  children  are  better  skilled  in  the  book  of 
exercise  than  in  the  horn-book  ;  they  are  better  with  the 
word  than  with  the  ABC;  for  no  age  pleads  minority,  no  years 
does  challenge  privilege,  when  your  Majesty's  crown  is  at  stake. 

All  this,  great  Sir,  is  nothing  to  the  measure  of  our  wishes  ; 
it  is  a  short  sphere  to  the  scope  of  our  affection.  If  our  capacity 
did  enable  us  farther,  our  endeavours  would  stretch  farther, 
our  fortress  would  vie  with  the  malice  of  our  enemies,  our 
loyalty  would  outdo  their  desertion  ;  if  more  able  we  were, 
more  active  would  we  be. 

What  we  have  left,  dread  Sovereign,  is  to  supply  with 
voices  what  we  are  short  of  means,  to  wish  your  sacred  Majesty 
a  thousand  times  welcome  to  this  your  natural  kingdom, 
to  offer  you  with  all  sincerity  of  our  souls,  all  our  Uves  and 
fortunes  towards  your  reinthroning.  The  sun  has  not  seen 
us  these  three  thousand  years  so  united  as  your  Majesty's 
interest  has  at  present  knitted  us.  We  are  now  one  hand, 
one  soul,  one  bill,  one  heart.  That  one  heart  dances  in  your 
hand.  Order  us  to  attack  the  faithless  excellent,  your  fanatic 
Bristol,  your  deserting  Chester,  your  rebeUious  London  ;  we 
will  march  by  the  first  beat  of  drum  Command  us  to  the  East 
or  West  Indies,  to  the  Northern  or  Southern  Pole  ;  the  first 
sound  of  trumpet  still  finds  us  ready  to  sail.  Give  us  the 
signal  to  invest  the  source  of  treacherous  Amsterdam,  to 
surround  the  factious  Hague,  and  seize  the  sinews  of  ungrateful 
Holland  ;  we  have  stock  enough  of  courage  to  advance  towards 
them. 

These  are,  mighty  Sir,  the  real  sentiments  of  all  Irish  heads, 
prompted  by  God  towards   your   Majesty's  restoration,  and 


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animated  by  the  great  person  you  deputed  here  ;  none  else 
could  stem  the  tide  of  defection  that  was  flowing  as  violently 
in  the  Irish  Channel  as  in  the  English,  none  but  he  could 
outstand  the  shock  that  was  threatened.  Particularly  this 
is  the  sense  of  the  trusty  city  of  Kilkenny,  which  being  styled 
Little  Rome,  stoops  not  to  the  Great  Rome,  with  assiduity 
of  precarious  addresses  to  Heaven  for  your  Majesty's  prosperity, 
nor  in  this  forwardness  to  maintain  our  interest  does  it  vere 
to  Carthage,  to  Numantia. 

Sure,  best  of  Princes,  as  you  are  master  of  our  hearts,  com- 
mand our  willingness  ;  you  will  find  our  hearts  as  ready  for 
blows  as  ourselves  are  stowed  with  wishes,  for  the  reinthroning, 
reseating  your  Majesty  unto  your  own  throne. 

King  Jambs  the  Second's  Speech  at  opening  his 
Parliament  tor  Ireland,  the  7th  of  May,  1689, 
AT  Dublin. 

My  Lords  and  Gentlemen, 

The  exemplary  loyalty  which  this  nation  expressed  to  me 
at  a  time  when  others  of  my  subjects  so  undutifully  mis- 
behaved themselves  to  me,  or  so  basely  betrayed  me,  and 
your  seconding  my  Deputy  as  you  did  in  his  bold  and  resolute 
attesting  my  right  in  preserving  this  kingdom  for  me,  and 
putting  it  in  a  posture  of  defence,  made  me  resolve  to  come 
to  you,  and  to  venture  my  life  with  you  in  defence  of  your 
liberties  and  my  own  right,  and  to  my  great  satisfaction  I 
have  not  only  found  you  ready  to  serve  me,  but  that  your 
courage  has  equalled  your  zeal. 

I  have  also  really  been  for  liberty  of  conscience,  and  against 
invading  any  man's  property,  having  still  in  my  mind  that 
saying  in  Holy  Writ,  do  as  you  would  be  done  to  for  that 
is  the  law  and  the  prophets. 

It  was  this  liberty  of  conscience  I  gave  which  my  enemies 
both  abroad  and  at  home  dreaded,  especially  when  they 
saw  I  was  resolved  to  have  it  established  by  law  in  all  my 
dominions,  and  made  them  set  themselves  up  against  me, 
though  for  different  reasons,  seeing  that  if  I  had  once  settled 
it  my  people,  in  the  opinion  of  the  one,  would  have  been  too 
happy,  and  I,  in  the  opinion  of  the  other,  too  great. 

This  argument  was  made  use  of  to  persuade  their  own 
people  to  join  with  them,  and  to  many  of  my  subjects  to 
use  me  as  they  have  done.  But  nothing  shall  ever  persuade 
me  to  change  my  mind  as  to  that,  and  whensoever  now  I  am 
the  master,  I  design,  God  willing,  to  establish  it  my  law, 
and  have  no  other  test  or  distinction  but  that  of  loyalty. 

I  expect  your  concurrence  in  so  Christian  a  work,  and  in 
making  [laws]  against  prophaneness  and  all  sorts  of 
debauchery. 

I  shall  also  most  readily  consent  to  the  making  such  good 
and  wholesome  laws  as  may  be  for  your  and  the  general  good 


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of  the  nation,  and  the  improvement  of  trade,  and  relieving 
such  as  have  been  injured  by  the  late  Acts  of  Settlement, 
as  far  forth  as  may  be  consistent  with  reason,  justice,  and 
the  pubhc  good  of  my  people. 

And  as  I  have  done  my  part  to  make  you  happy  and  rich, 
I  make  no  doubt  of  your  assistance  by  enabUng  me  to  oppose 
the  unjust  designs  of  my  enemies,  and  to  make  this  nation 
flourish. 

And  to  encourage  you  the  more  to  it,  you  know  with  how 
great  generosity  and  kindness  the  most  Christian  King  gave 
a  secure  retreat  to  the  Queen,  my  son  and  myseK,  when  we 
were  forced  out  of  England,  and  came  to  look  for  protection 
and  safety  in  his  dominions,  how  he  embraced  my  interest  and 
gave  me  such  supplies  of  all  sorts  as  enabled  me  to  come  to 
you,  which,  without  his  obliging  assistance,  I  could  not  have 
done.  This  he  did  at  a  time  when  he  had  so  many  and  so 
considerable  enemies  to  deal  with,  and  you  see,  still  continues 
to  do. 

I  shall  conclude  as  I  have  begun,  and  assure  you  I  am  as 
sensible  as  you  desire  of  the  signal  loyalty  you  have  expressed 
to  me,  and  shall  make  it  my  chief  study,  as  it  always  has 
been,  to  make  you  and  all  my  subjects  happy. 

The  Great  Bishop  of  Meath's  (Dr.  Dopping's)  Speech, 
THE  20th  of  May,  1689,  being  reasons  humbly 
offered  to  King  James  the  Second  for  not 
repealing  the  Acts  of  Settlement. 

This  humble  representation  made  unto  your  sacred  Majesty 
is  in  the  behalf  of  your  Majesty's  dutiful  and  obedient  subjects 
of  all  degrees  and  sexes  and  ages.  The  design  and  intention 
of  it  is  to  prevent  the  ruin  and  destruction  which  a  Bill  now 
under  consideration  in  order  to  be  made  a  law  will  bring  upon 
them  and  their  families,  in  case  your  Majesty  do  not  interpose 
and  by  your  moderation  and  justice  protect  them  so  far  as  the 
known  laws  of  the  kingdom  and  equity  and  good  conscience  will 
warrant  and  require. 

It  is  on  the  behalf  of  purchasers  who  for  great  and  valuable 
considerations  have  acquired  land  and  tenements  in  this 
kingdom  by  laying  out,  not  only  the  portions  and  provisions 
made  for  them  by  their  parents,  but  also  the  whole  produce 
of  their  own  industry  and  the  labour  of  their  youth,  together 
with  what  could  be  saved  by  a  frugal  management,  in  order 
to  make  some  certain  provision  for  old  age  and  their  famihes, 
in  purchasing  lands  and  tenements  under  the  security  of  divers 
Acts  of  Parhament  and  pubHc  declarations  from  the  late 
King,  and  all  these  accompanied  with  a  possession  of  twenty- 
five  years. 

Divine  providence  has  appointed  us  our  dwelling  in  an 
island,  and  consequently  we  must  trade  or  Hve  in  penury 
and  at  the  mercy  of  our  neighbours.     This  necessitates  a 


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transmutation  of  possession  by  purchase  from  one  hand  unto 
another,  of  mortgaging  and  pledging  land  for  [many]  and 
considerable  sums  of  money,  by  a  charging  of  them  with 
judgments,  indeed  gives  name  to  one  of  the  greatest  securities 
made  use  of  in  this  kingdom,  statute  merchant  and  of  the 
staple,  and  very  many,  especially  widows  and  orphans,  have 
their  whole  estates  and  portions  secured  by  mortgages  of  the 
staple  and  judgments.  Where  or  when  shall  a  man  purchase 
in  this  kingdom,  under  what  title  and  on  what  security  shall 
he  lay  out  money  or  secure  the  portion  he  designs  for  his 
children,  if  he  may  [not]  do  it  under  the  security  of  divers 
Acts  of  Parliament,  the  solemn  and  reiterated  declarations 
of  his  Prince,  and  a  great  and  innocent  possession  of  twenty 
years  together,  and  this  is  [the  case  of]  thousands  of  families, 
who  are  purchasers  under  the  Acts  of  Settlement  and 
Explanation. 

It  were  a  hard  task  to  justify  these  Acts  in  every  particular 
contained  in  them  ;  I  will  not  undertake  it,  but  if  it  be  con- 
sidered that  from  the  23rd  of  October,  1641,  until  the  29th  of 
May,  1660,  the  time  of  his  Majesty's  restoration,  the  kingdom 
was  upon  the  matter  in  one  continued  storm,  that  the 
alteration  of  possessions  was  so  universal  and  property  so 
blended  and  mixed  by  allotments  and  dispositions  made 
by  the  then  usurping  power,  it  may  be  well  concluded  that 
they  must  be  somewhat  more  than  men  that  could  or  can 
frame  a  law  to  take  in  every  particular  case,  though  it  should 
have  swollen  to  many  volumes,  and  laws  which  are  to  be  of 
such  universal  consequence  as  this  was,  and  to  have  regard 
to  the  generality  of  a  kingdom  or  people,  though  possibly 
some  particular  person  may  have  hardships  in  his  private 
concern. 

But  if  we  may  judge  of  general  laws  by  the  produce  and 
effect  of  them,  and  at  the  same  time  have  a  prospect  of  the 
state  and  condition  of  this  kingdom  from  1640,  and  as  far 
backward  as  you  please,  until  the  time  of  his  late  Majesty's 
restoration,  and  at  the  same  time  take  into  consideration  what 
the  kingdom  became  in  a  few  years  after  the  commission  for 
execution  of  these  Acts  was  at  an  end,  the  buildings  and  other 
improvements,  the  trade  and  commerce,  the  vast  herds  of 
cattle  and  flocks  of  sheep  equal  to  those  of  England,  together 
with  great  sums  of  money  brought  over  by  our  fellow  subjects 
of  England,  who  came  to  purchase  and  plant  in  this  king- 
dom, the  manufactories  set  on  foot  in  divers  parts,  whereby 
the  meaner  inhabitants  were  at  once  enriched  and  civilised, 
it  would  hardly  be  beheved  to  be  the  same  spot  of  earthly 
way  ;  overflown  and  moorish  grounds  were  reduced  to  the 
bettering  of  both  the  soil  and  the  air.  The  purchasers  who 
brought  the  kingdom  to  this  flourishing  condition  applied 
to  your  Majesty  for  succour,  offering  not  only  their  estates  and 
fortunes,  but  even  their  hves  to  any  legal  trial  within  this 
your  Majesty's  kingdom,  being  ready  to  submit  their  persons 


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and  estates  to  any  established  judicature,  where,  if  it  shall  be 
found  they  enjoy  anything  without  legal  title,  or  [have]  done 
anything  that  may  forfeit  what  they  have  purchased,  they 
will  sit  down  and  most  willingly  acquiesce  in  the  judgment. 
But  to  have  their  purchases  made  void,  their  lands  and 
improvements  taken  from  them,  their  securities  and  assurances 
for  money  lent  declared  null  and  void,  by  a  law  made  ex  post 
facto  is  what  was  never  practised  in  any  kingdom  or  country. 

If  the  Bill  now  designed  to  be  made  a  law  had  been  attempted 
within  two,  three,  four  or  five  years  after  the  Court  for 
execution  of  these  Acts  was  ended,  the  purchasers  would 
not  have  laid  out  their  estates  in  acquiring  of  lands,  or  in 
buildings  or  improving  on  them.  Thousands  who  sold  their 
small  estates  and  freeholds  in  England  and  brought  the  price 
of  them  to  purchase  and  plant  here,  would  have  stayed  at 
home,  and  your  Majesty's  revenue  with  that  of  the  nobihty 
and  gentry  would  never  have  come  to  the  height  it  did. 

If  your  Majesty  please  to  consider  upon  what  grounds  and 
assurances  the  purchasers  of  lands  and  tenements  in  this 
kingdom  proceeded,  you  wiU  soon  conclude  that  never  any 
proceeded  upon  securer  grounds. 

The  Acts  of  17th  and  18th  of  King  Charles  the  First,  your 
father  of  blessed  memory,  takes  notice  that  there  was  a 
revolution  begun  in  this  kingdom  on  the  23rd  of  October,  1641, 
and  so  does  a  Bill  once  read  in  the  House  of  Lords.  Whoever 
looks  into  the  royal  Martyr's  discourses  on  that  occasion 
will  see  with  what  an  abhorrency  he  laments  it,  and  that  he 
had  once  thoughts  of  coming  over  in  person  to  suppress  it. 
These  Acts  promise  satisfaction  out  of  the  forfeited  estates 
and  lands  to  such  as  would  advance  money  for  reducing  these 
disturbers  of  the  pubUc  peace  to  their  duty. 

The  next  invitation  was  his  late  Majesty's,  your  royal 
brother's,  letter  from  Breda  some  few  weeks  before  his 
restoration,  which  happened  on  29th  of  May,  1660,  and  within 
six  months  after  comes  forth  his  Majesty's  gracious  declaration 
for  the  settlement  of  this  his  kingdom. 

This,  may  it  please  your  Majesty,  is  the  basis  and  foundation 
of  the  settlement,  and  was  some  years  afterwards  enacted  and 
made  a  law  by  two  several  Acts  of  Parliament. 

It  is  true  that  the  usurping  power  in  the  year  1653,  having 
by  the  permission  of  the  Almighty  as  a  judgment  on  us  for  our 
sins  prevailed  here,  did  dispose  and  set  out  the  estates  of 
CathoHcs  unto  adventurers  and  soldiers,  and  in  a  year  or 
two  after  transplanted  aU  CathoHc  freeholders,  for  no  other 
reason  than  their  being  so,  into  Connaught,  whose  lands  were 
set  or  [given]  unto  them  under  divers  quaUfications  which 
they  and  their  heirs,  or  those  deriving  under  them  as  purchasers, 
enjoyed,  or  still  do  enjoy,  on  the  security  of  the  before- 
mentioned  Acts  of  Parhament  and  declaration. 

His  Majesty's  gracious  declaration  of  the  30th  of  November, 
1660,  which  I  call  [the]  foundation  of  the  settlement,  was 


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before  it  was  concluded  on  under  the  consideration  of  the 
great  Prince  and  the  Lords  of  his  Council  in  England,  when 
all  persons  concerned  for  the  proprietors,  as  well  old  as  new, 
were  heard.  Whoever  reads  it  will  find  the  many  difficulties 
which  he  and  his  Council  met  with  from  the  different  and 
several  parties,  what  consideration  was  had  and  care  taken 
to  reconcile  their  [divers]  interests,  and  to  accommodate 
and  settle  as  well  as  was  possible  the  mass  or  body  of  the 
subjects   here. 

It  was  some  years  after  before  the  Act  for  the  better 
execution  of  his  Majesty's  most  gracious  declaration  became 
a  law.  It  was  near  [two]  years  upon  the  anvil,  it  was  not  a 
law  that  passed  in  a  few  days,  or  sub  silentio.  It  was  first, 
according  to  the  then  course  of  passed  laws  here,  framed  by 
the  Chief  Governor  and  Council  of  this  kingdom  by  the  advice 
and  with  the  assistance  of  all  the  judges  and  of  his  Majesty's 
counsel  learned  in  the  laws,  and  then  transmitted  into  England 
to  be  further  considered  by  his  Majesty  and  the  Lords  of 
his  Council  there,  where  the  counsels  at  law,  the  agents  of  all 
pretenders  to  the  proprietary  of  lands  in  this  kingdom,  were 
heard  and  the  Act  came  out  called  the  Act  of  Settlement, 
[otherwise]  the  Act  of  Settlement  approved  of  and  re-trans- 
mitted under  the  seal  of  England  to  receive  the  Royal  assent, 
which  it  did  after  having  passed  both  Houses  of  ParUament. 

The  innocent  proprietors  being  restored  pursuant  to  this 
Act,  and  some  difficulties  appearing  as  to  the  further  execution 
of  it,  another  Act  passed,  commonly  called  the  Act  of 
Explanation,  which  went  the  same  course  and  under  the 
same  scrutiny. 

It  is  confessed  that  though  they  were  two  Acts  it  was  the 
same  Parliament,  who  was  chosen  according  to  the  ancient 
course  of  choosing  ParUaments.  But  if  any  miscarriage  were 
in  bringing  that  ParHament  together,  or  in  procuring  the 
aforesaid  Acts  of  Parliament  to  pass,  which  I  can  in  no  wise 
admit,  and  the  less  for  that  your  Majesty's  revenue  was  granted 
and  settled  by  that  Parliament  and  many  good  and  wholesome 
laws  there  enacted,  yet  it  is  manifest  that  nothing  of  the 
kind  ought  to  affect  the  plain  and  honest  purchaser,  who  for 
great  and  valuable  considerations  acquired  lands  under  the 
security  aforesaid,  and  expended  the  remainder  of  his  means 
in  building,  improving  and  planting  on  them,  and  that  for 
the  following  reasons :  first,  the  purchaser  advising  with 
his  counsel  how  to  lay  out  or  secure  his  money  that  it  may 
not  lie  dead,  not  only  to  his  but  the  pubUc  detriment,  telk 
him  that  he  is  offered  a  purchase  of  land  in  fee,  or  desired  by 
his  neighbour  to  accommodate  him  with  money  on  the  security 
of  a  mortgage,  judgment  or  statute  staple,  and  upon  inquiry 
into  the  title  he  finds  a  good  and  secure  estate,  as  first  law  as 
two  several  Acts  of  ParUament  of  force  in  this  kingdom  can 
make  it,  and  in  many  cases  letters  patent  upon  a  Commission 
of  Grace  for  Remedying  of  Defective  Titles.     He  finds  possession 


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has  for  many  years  gone  on  along  with  this  title,  several 
discoveries  [etc.  have  taken  place,  and  his  counsel  considers 
the  title]  and  tells  him  that  there  is  no  scruple,  no  difficulty 
of  purchasing  under  this  title,  since  he  hath  the  security  of 
two  Acts  of  ParUament,  certificate  and  letters  patent,  with 
fines  and  recoveries,  and  that  no  law  of  force  in  the  kingdom 
can  stir  much  less  shake  this  title. 

How  is  it  possible  to  imagine  that  the  legislative  power 
should  be  made  use  of  to  avoid  this  man's  estate,  who  perhaps 
was  never  in  this  kingdom  until  after  those  Acts  were  enacted 
and  became  laws.  It  will  be  the  hke  case  with  all  persons 
who  upon  the  marriage  of  their  children,  and  considerable 
marriage  portions  paid  and  secured,  have  procured  settlements 
for  jointures,  portions,  and  remainders  for  their  children  and 
grand-children,  and  all  these  are  to  be  laid  aside  without 
any  consideration  of  law  or  equity  in  the  case  of  the  purchasers, 
or  any  misdemeanour  or  offence  committed  by  them,  whereby 
vast  numbers  of  your  Majesty's  dutiful  subjects,  the  present 
proprietors  and  their  lessees,  and  in  very  many  cases  widows 
and  orphans,  merchants  and  traders,  will  be  at  one  stroke  outed 
and  removed  from  the  possession  of  their  lands  and  improve- 
ments, which  in  many  places  are  more  in  value  than  the 
townships  whereon  they  are  made. 

This,  with  submission,  without  some  fraud,  deceit,  or  default 
of  the  purchaser,  never  was,  and  it  is  hoped  never  will  be  done, 
by  any  people  or  nation  professing  Christianity,  nor  is  it  for 
the  honour,  welfare  or  advantage  of  the  King  or  kingdom 
to  have  it  so  done.  What  will  strangers  and  our  fellow  sub- 
jects of  England  and  Scotland  say  ?  We  sold  our  estates  in 
England,  transplanted  us  and  our  famihes  into  Ireland  to 
purchase,  improve  and  plant  there.  We  acquired  lands  under 
as  secure  titles  as  Acts  of  Parhament  and  the  greatest  known 
security  could  make  them.  Our  conveyances  both  by  deed 
and  matters  of  record  are  allowed  good,  firm  and  unquestion- 
able by  any  law  in  force  at  the  time  of  purchase.  We  have  had 
the  possession  ten,  twelve  or  fifteen  years,  and  are  grown  old 
upon  them.  We  have  clearly  withdrawn  our  effects  from 
England  and  settled  here,  not  doubting  but  our  posterity 
may  be  so  hkewise.  We  have  purchased  annuities  and  rent- 
charges  out  of  lands  under  the  same  securities,  and  now  the 
old  proprietors,  who  many  of  them  had  satisfaction  in  Con- 
naught,  would  fain  have  a  new  law  to  dispossess  us  of  our 
estates  and  improvements  made  as  aforesaid. 

It  will  not  be  beHeved  that  the  chief  of  those  who  drive 
on  this  design  should  in  Parhament  or  elsewhere  (which  ought 
to  consist  of  the  gravest,  wisest  and  wealthiest  freeholders  of 
the  kingdom,  for  such  the  law  presumes  them),  make  a  noise 
with  that  good  and  wholesome  advice  of  caveat  emptor  in 
this  case,  or  can  think  that  caveat  is  proper  here. 

The  purchaser  ought  to  be  wary  of  any  flaw  in  the  title  at 
the  time  of  the  purchase  made,  and  purchases  at  his  peril,  if 


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any  such  there  be  ;  but  who  is  it  purchases  that  must  beware 
of  a  law  to  be  made,  twenty,  thirty,  or  forty  years  after 
his  purchase,  or  to  destroy  security  for  money,  land  or  settle- 
ment upon  marriage  ?  This  is  not  a  defect  in  the  title,  but, 
under  favour,  is  a  precedent  which  no  human  foresight  can 
prevent,  and  if  once  introduced  no  purchaser  could  ever  be 
safe,  the  worst  of  lotteries  offering  a  securer  way  of  dealing 
than  Ireland  would. 

Can  it  be  for  your  Majesty's  honour  or  advantage  to  have 
thousands  of  famihes  ruined  by  such  a  proceeding  as  this  is  ? 
What  will  become  of  our  credit  and  consequently  of  our  trade 
abroad  ?  Where  will  the  reputation  and  public  faith  and 
security  of  the  kingdom  be  when  foreign  monarchs  shall 
know  from  their  correspondents  here  that  they  cannot  comply 
with  their  engagements  to  them  ?  Their  estates,  houses 
and  improvements  both  in  country  and  city,  which  they  had 
acquired  here  for  great  and  valuable  considerations,  trusting 
in  the  security  of  the  laws,  are  taken  from  them  by  a  law 
made  yesterday  in  case  this  Bill  should  pass.  So  that  in 
effect  we  are  not  only  contriving  to  break  and  ruin  our  own 
traders  and  merchants  at  home,  but  even  those  in  foreign 
parts,  which  will  infallibly  destroy  your  Majesty's  revenue 
and  injure  that  of  every  subject. 

Surely  the  particulars,  and  the  consequences  of  them,  are 
worth  more  than  two  or  three  days'  consideration,  which  is 
as  much  as  this  Bill  could  have  since  the  ParUament  was  not 
opened  until  the  7th  of  this  month.  The  very  report  of  what 
is  designed  to  be  done  by  this  Bill  hath  already,  from  the 
most  improved  and  improving  spot  of  earth  in  Europe,  from 
stately  herds  and  flocks,  from  plenty  of  money  at  seven  per  cent, 
whereby  trade  and  industry  were  encouraged,  and  all  upon 
the  security  of  those  Acts  of  ParUament,  from  great  con- 
venient buildings  newly  erected  in  cities  and  other 
corporations  to  that  degree  that  even  the  city  of  Dublin  is 
since  the  passing  of  those  Acts  and  the  security  and  quiet 
promised  from  them  enlarged  to  double  what  it  was,  that 
the  shipping  in  divers  parts  were  five  or  six  times  more  than 
ever  was  known  before,  to  the  vast  increase  of  your  Majesty's 
revenue,  reduced  to  the  sad  and  most  disconsolate  condi- 
tion of  any  kingdom  in  Europe ;  infinite  numbers  of 
inhabitants  having  transported  themselves  and  famihes  with 
what  remained  unfixed  in  purchases  and  improvements  and 
was  portable  of  their  estates  into  other  kingdoms,  [soj  that  very 
many  of  the  inhabitants'  buildings,  both  new  and  old,  in 
this  city  and  in  the  very  heart  and  trading  place  of  it,  are 
uninhabited  and  waste.  It  is  grievous  to  see  as  you  pass 
through  the  city  the  shops  and  houses  shut  up.  The  herds 
and  flocks  are  utterly  destroyed,  so  that  of  necessity  the 
tenant  must  break,  throw  up  his  lease,  leave  the  key  under 
the  door,  and  the  lands  become  waste,  and  from  hence  will 
necessarily  follow  that  the  farm  houses  and  improvements 


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must  go  to  decay,  and  beef,  tallow,  hides,  wool,  and  butter, 
from  whence  arise  the  wealth  of  the  country,  will  fail  us. 

What  is  become  of  the  frequent  declarations  made  by  the 
Earl  of  Clarendon,  and  the  now  Duke  of  Tyrconnel,  of  your 
Majesty's  fixed  resolution  never  to  lay  aside  the  Acts  of 
Settlement  and  Explanation  ?  Why  did  the  judges  in  their 
several  circuits  declare  all  places  where  they  sat  unto  Hie 
counties  there  assembled  that  your  Majesty  was  resolved  to 
preserve  the  Acts  of  Settlement,  and  that  they  were  appointed 
by  the  then  Chief  Governor  here  to  declare  the  same  unto 
them,  from  whence  they  took  confidence  to  proceed  in  their 
purchases  and  improvements,  and,  with  submission  be  it 
spoken,  if  this  Bill  passes,  are  deluded  ?  Shall  patents  on  the 
Commission  of  Grace  signify  nothing  ?  The  great  seal  of 
England  tells  them  they  may  proceed  upon  the  pubhc  faith, 
and  here  again  they  become  purchasers,  paying  considerable 
fines  unto  the  King,  to  whom  rents  were  reserved,  where 
none  were  before,  and  many  places  the  rent  increased.  .  .  . 
Surely  consideration  ought  to  be  had  of  those  whose  money 
was  paid  on  this  account. 

It  would  be  further  considered  that  your  Majesty,  before 
your  access  unto  the  Crown,  had  passed  several  lands  and 
tenements  in  this  kingdom  in  certificates  and  patents,  pursuant 
to  these  Acts  of  Settlement,  and  that  you  made  leases  of 
them  on  which  many  and  great  improvements  have  been 
made.  It  is  hkewise  true  that  your  Majesty  sold  and 
exchanged  some  small  proportions  of  the  same  lands,  and 
received  in  money  twelve  years'  purchase  for  some  of  them, 
which  your  Majesty  conveyed  by  fines  and  other  assurances 
in  law,  and  though  your  Majesty  may,  if  it  seem  meet  unto 
you,  part  with  all  your  estate,  yet  it  is  humbly  conceived  it 
ought  to  be  with  reservation  to  the  lessees  and  those  few 
purchasers,  as  it  was  done  by  Mary,  Queen  of  England,  who 
though  zealous  to  the  highest  degree*  in  the  religion  she 
professed,  [so]  that  she  restored  such  parts  of  lands  belonging 
unto  monasteries  as  remained  in  her  hands  undisposed,  did 
nevertheless  permit  the  grantees  and  purchasers  quietly 
and  peacefully  to  retain  such  of  them  as  they  were  possessed 
of  by  grant  or  purchase,  and  which  for  aught  appearing,  is 
enjoyed  by  them  and  those  deriving  under  them  unto  this 
day,  though  she  came  to  the  Crown  within  a  few  years  after 
passing  the  Act  for  Dissolving  Monasteries.  For  if  no 
consideration  be  had  of  them,  your  Majesty  gives  away  the 
term  of  years  and  improvements  from  the  lessees,  and  your 
land  from  him  to  whom  your  Majesty  sold  it,  and,  without 
the  Royal  assent,  neither  of  these  can  be  done. 

For  the  objections  contently  made  against  the  Acts  of 
Settlement  and  Explanation,  which  are  usually  that  many 
innocents  were  never  heard,  and  that  there  was  not  time 
sufficient  for  hearing  of  them,  but  how  this  should  affect 
those    who    purchased    after    the    Acts    were    passed,    and 


399 

certificates  and  letters  patent  passed  on  them,  is  not  demon 
strable  from  any  rules  of  law  or  equity. 

The  person  designing  to  purchase  enquires  whether  the 
title  of  the  lands  or  tenements  to  be  sold  be  good  in  law  and 
equity,  and  being  assured  in  that,  he  forbears  further  enquiry, 
being  assured  that  never  any  purchaser  in  possession  having 
law  and  equity  on  his  side  was  dispossessed  by  any  person 
whatsoever  upon  grounds  of  equity,  and  the  purchaser  here 
hath  the  law  with  him  by  the  Acts  of  Settlement,  and  the 
equity  by  the  payment  of  his  money. 

It  is  to  be  wished  that  if  widows  and  orphans,  or  any  other 
persons,  have  fallen  under  any  hardship  by  the  general  settle- 
ment of  the  kingdom  that  some  way  may  be  devised  to  make 
them  reparation,  but  the  way  prescribed  by  this  Bill  is  to 
rob  the  innocent  purchasers  credibly  and  orphans  of  their 
estates,  to  do  it  contrary  to  the  pubHc  faith.  Jaws  of  the  land, 
and  to  the  precept  of  Holy  Writ,  which  forbids  evil  that  good 
may  come  thereof. 

It  is  manifest,  from  what  has  been  said,  that  if  this  Bill 
proceed  as  it  now  is  contrived,  that  all  the  Protestants  in 
the  kingdom  are  undoubtedly,  and  without  reason,  ruined, 
since  the  rapparees,  that  is  the  armed  multitude,  have  taken 
away  all  their  moveable  estates,  and  the  design  is  to  take  away 
all  the  lands  and  tenements  purchased  by  them. 

The  thriving  CathoUcs,  who  were  purchasers,  as  indeed  most 
of  the  province  of  Connaught  are,  are  likewise  to  be  turned 
out  of  their  estates  and  possessions,  and  their  own  and  the 
improvements  of  those  who  hold  under  them  utterly  lost. 

As  to  the  politic  part  which  those  great  statesmen  who 
drive  on  this  Bill  make  mention  of,  that  will  be  Ukewise  worthy 
of  consideration.  It  is  said  that  this  will  unite  your  Majesty's 
subjects  in  this  kingdom.  That  is  too  gross  to  pass.  Since 
the  first  mentioning  thereof  has  it  not  made  a  division  and 
breach  between  them,  where  there  was  none  before,  and  does 
not  it  grow  daily  wider  ?  It  was  never  heard  that  accom- 
modations, where  all  in  contest  was  given  to  one  of  the  parties, 
made  a  union  or  friendship.  It  is  so  far  the  contrary  that 
where  nothing  is.  awarded  to  one  of  the  parties,  it  makes 
the  whole  award  void  and  of  none  effect,  and  admitting  that 
the  old  proprietor  had  right  it  is  not  enough  except  he  have 
it  against  the  purchaser,  and  if  the  design  be  what  is  pretended, 
to  restore  the  kingdom  to  the  peace  and  plenty  which  it 
flourished  in  some  years  since,  to  unite  your  Majesty's  subjects 
whereby  they  may  be  [trusted  as  obedient]  to  their  duty  and 
allegiance  to  restore  your  Majesty  to  the  exercise  of  the  royal 
dignity  in  all  your  kingdoms,  this  can  never  be  effected  except 
all  pretenders  recede  in  some  degree  from  the  fuU  of  their 
pretensions  for  the  accommodation  of  the  whole  and  the 
pubHc  quiet  and  safety.  Would  it  not  be  an  unreasonable 
thing  in  a  cargo,  where  divers  merchants  are  concerned  and 
have  goods  and  merchandise,  in  a  storm  to  throw  out  by 


400 

consent  the  goods  of  any  one  merchant,  though  in  the  bottom  of 
the  hold  and  hardest  to  be  come  at,  for  the  safety  of  all  con- 
cerned without  satisfaction  given  him  by  a  contribution  from 
those  who  had  the  advantage  of  it,  or,  if  it  could  be  done, 
or  that  they  have  time  for  it,  were  it  not  much  more  just  that 
the  loss  should  be  equally  divided  amongst  them  by  throwing 
out  a  just  proportion  from  all  concerned  than  to  single  out 
one  part  of  the  people  to  their  ruin  to  advance  the  other  ? 
This  is  not  in  my  judgment  the  readiest  way  and  must  [anger] 
them. 

Suffer  me  to  make  one  step  more,  and  query  whether  the 
CathoHc  purchasers  now  to  be  turned  out  of  possession 
will  join  heartily  with  those  that  enter  upon  them.  Farewell 
trade  and  commerce  where  Acts  of  ParHament  shall  be  made 
to  destroy  the  securities  which  were  good  when  made.  Fare- 
well all  improvements  in  Ireland  where  no  man  shall  ever 
know  what  estate  he  hath,  if  the  foundation  of  the  general 
settlement  should  now  be  overturned. 

I  cannot  forget  what  the  consequence  may  be  of  having 
it  published  and  made  known  in  your  Majesty's  other  kingdoms 
and  dominions,  and  elsewhere,  where  the  Protestant  reUgion 
is  professed,  that  such  a  proposal  as  this  in  relation  to  such 
of  your  Protestant  subjects  as  have  made  no  defection  hath 
been  prepared  for  your  Majesty's  consideration  in  order  to 
be  passed  into  a  law,  and  this  when  they  were  secured  by  the 
laws  of  the  land,  not  so  much  as  common  equity  to  question 
the  titles  by  which  they  held,  that  nevertheless  use  should 
be  made  of  the  legislative  power  to  enact  a  law  after  so  many 
assurances  given  them  to  the  contrary,  and  after  so  many 
years'  quiet  possession,  to  turn  them  out  of  their  estates 
altogether. 

It  is  much  to  be  feared  that  those  who  first  advised  this 
method  of  proceeding  have  considered  their  own  particular 
advantage,  and  that  of  their  friends  and  relations,  without 
the  least  thought  of  your  Majesty's  service,  for  surely  this 
can  never  be  thought  so,  nor  the  way  to  settle  this  kingdom 
whereby  it  may  be  serviceable  unto  your  Majesty,  nor  can  it 
be  imagined  but  that  men  thus  despoiled  will  as  often  as 
Parliaments  shall  be  caUed,  make  appUcations  for  redress 
and  repeal,  as  in  the  case  of  the  Spencers  to  repeal  a  repeal, 
and  they  and  their  posterity  will  be  always  soliciting  your 
Majesty  and  your  successors  to  give  them  relief  in  a  case  of 
so  great  moment  and  general  concern  as  this  is. 

As  for  the  reprisals  mentioned  to  be  made  them  out  of  the 
rebels'  estates,  which  must  be  contrived  to  give  any  colour 
to  this  manner  of  proceeding,  [these]  ought  to  be  equal  to 
the  estates  which  the  proprietors  shall  be  ousted  of.  That 
wiU  be  very  uncertain,  for  it  must  be  known  who  the  rebels 
are,  and  what  their  lands  amount  to,  since  it  may  be  probably 
concluded  that  there  are  many  of  your  Majesty's  subjects 
now  in  England  no  way  concerned  in  the  rebellion,  and  would 


401 

ere  this  have  attended  your  Majesty  here  if  they  had  not 
been  stopped  from  coming  by  duresse  or  embargo,  and  many 
other  legal  and  justifiable  excuses  too  long  for  this  present 
paper,  and  withal  that  where  any  of  them  are  seized  of  any 
new  estate,  so  much  must  be  restored  to  the  old  proprietors, 
and  what  is  old  subject  to  their  settlements  and  other  incum- 
brances. 

After  all  this,  it  is  in  the  power  of  your  Majesty  to  prevent 
the  total  ruin  of  so  many  of  your  subjects  as  have  been 
purchasers  and  improvers  in  this  kingdom  by  prescribing 
more  moderate  ways  than  depriving  them  of  the  whole  of 
what  they  have  loyally  and  industriously  acquired.  And 
the  Committees  of  both  Houses  may  hear  and  enquire  whether 
any  mediation  may  be  found  out  betwixt  the  extremes,  for 
the  accommodating,  as  near  as  may  be,  the  purchasers  and 
the  old  proprietors,  so  that  if  there  be  cause  to  complain, 
it  may  not  arise  from  a  total  disappointment  of  either  party. 

This  is  a  little  of  what  may  be  said  on  this  occasion,  but 
the  haste  of  the  BiU  will  allow  no  further  time  at  present 
to  speak  to  all  the  several  interests  concerned  in  the  Acts 
of  Settlement  and  Explanation. 

Speech  made  by  James  the  Second  in  Dublin  on  July  1st, 
1690  ;  (on  the  1st  of  July  he  came  to  Dublin,  routed 
from  the  Boyne,  and  made  this  Speech  at  eleven  at  night 
in  Coimcil). 

I  had  a  very  good  army  in  England,  and  when  I  had  the 
greatest  occasion  for  them,  they  deserted  me  and  went  to 
the  enemy,  and  finding  a  total  defection  against  me  there, 
I  returned  and  went  to  France,  where  I  was  kindly  received 
by  that  King,  and  had  all  the  assurances  imaginable  from 
him  to  re-establish  me  on  my  throne.     In  some  time  after 
I  came  to  this  kingdom,  and  found  my  Roman  Catholic  subjects 
here  equipped  and  prepared  to  defend  my  cause  as  their  ability 
could  bear,  and  though  I  have  often  been  cautioned  that 
when  it  came  to  the  touch  they  would  never  bear  the  brunt 
of  a  battle,  I  could  never  credit  the  same  till  this  day,  when 
having  a  good  army  and  aU  preparations  fit  to  engage  any 
foreign  invader,  I  found  the  fatal  truth  of  what  I  had  been 
so  often  precautioned,  and  though  the  army  did  not  desert 
me  here,  as  they  did  in  England,  yet  when  it  came  to  a  trial 
they  basely  fled  the  field  and  left  the  spoil  to  the  enemies, 
nor  could  they  be  prevailed  upon  to  rally,  though  the  loss 
in  the  whole  defeat  was  but  inconsiderable  ;    so  that  hence- 
forward, I  never  more  determine  to  head  an  Irish  army,  and 
do  now  resolve  to  shift  for  myself,  and  so  gentlemen  must 
you.     It  has  been  often  debated  in  case  such  a  revolution 
should  happen  whether  upon  deserting  the  city  of  Dublin, 
the  same  ought  not  to  be  fired.     I  do  therefore  now  charge 
you  on  your  allegiance  that  you  neither  rifle  the  city  by  plunder, 

Wt.  43482.  0  20 


402 

nor  destroy  it  by  fire,  which  in  all  kingdoms  will  be  judged 
very  barbarous,  and  must  be  believed  to  be  done  by  my  orders, 
and  if  done  there  will  be  but  little  mercy  expected  from  an 
enemy  thus  enraged. 


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INDEX. 


Abbey  Boyle,  288. 
Abbot,  Comet,  later  Captain,  Aide- 
de-Camp  to  Lord  Cutts,  236, 
238,  239. 
Abdy,  John,  of  Brasenose  College, 

Oxford,  17. 
Abel,  Mr.,  81. 
Abercom : 

Elizabeth  (d.  1754),  wife  of  6th 
Earl  of,  daughter  of  Sir 
Robert  Reading,  86. 
James  Hamilton  (d.  1734),  6th 
Earl  of  (sue.  1701),  113,  115, 
123,  291,  362. 

,  letters  from,  242,   302. 

,  letter  to,  86. 

,  son  of,  86. 

Abergavenny,  letter  dated  from,  33. 
Abhorrence,  a  gazette,  380. 
Abingdon,  Montagu  Bertie  (d.  1743), 
2nd  Earl  of  (sue.  1699),  letter 
from,  137. 
Abjuration,  Oath  of,  52,  78,  87. 
Absence  and  travel,  leave  or  license 
for,  3,  10,  11,  17,  18,  26,  28, 
52,  74,  77,  105,  106,  130,  157, 
163,  184,  185,  186,  187,  189, 
190,  195,  196,  210,  289,  292, 
293,  296,  366,   368. 
of  officers  from  their  regiments, 
73,  213,  218,  232,  250,  259, 
264,  265,  266,  267,  269,  290, 
296,  325,  368,  372,  373,  377, 
378. 
Acton,  Dr.,  349. 
Adda,  the,  191. 

Admiralty,  the,   8,   26,   60,   51,   72, 
83,  262. 
Commissioners  of,  110. 
Judge  of,  8. 
Orders  of,  36. 


Aghadoe,  archdeaconry  of,  114,  116. 
Agnew,  Alexander,  334,  336. 
Ahoghill,  rectory  of,  163. 
Ailesbury,  Thomas  Bruce  (d.  1741), 
2nd  Earl  of  (sue.  1686),  letter 
from,  336. 
Aix-la-Chapelle,  148. 

letter  dated  from,  186. 
Alary,  Allary : 
James,  33. 

,  letter  from,  120. 

Mr.,  143. 
Albemarle,  Arnold  Joost  van  Keppel 
(d.    1718),    1st    Earl    of    (cr. 
1697),   letter  from.     See  Re- 
port VII,  782. 
Albemarle,  the,  a  ship,  144. 
Albeville,      Marquis      of,     Ignatius 
White,     Secretary    of     State 
(1689),  374,  386. 
Alder,  John,   Fellow    of    Pembroke 
College,  Oxford,  letter  signed 
by,  30. 
Aldrich,    Henry,    Dean    of    Christ 
Church,  Oxford,  23. 
letters  from,  26,  27,  300. 

to.    See  Report  VII,  773, 

781. 
Aldworth,     Charles,    Vice-President 
of  Magdalen  College,  Oxford 
(1687-8),  letter  from,  29. 
Alemtejo  (Alentejo),  317. 
Algarve,  317. 

Allegiance  and  Supremacy,  Oath  of, 
67,  68,  78,  87,  104,  105,  160, 
203,  288,  304,  346,  348. 
Allen: 

Colonel,  38,  309. 

,  son  of,  277. 

Jo.,  letter  signed  by,  39. 
William,  Alderman  of  Chester, 
243. 

,  letter  from,  182. 

Alliance,  the,  packet  boat,  318. 

Ahnanza,  317,  331,  332. 

Almond,  Admiral,  44,  160. 

Altea,  233. 

Aly,  Alcade,  54,  66. 

America : 

English   Provinces   of,    Assem- 
bUes  of,  320. 


404 


America — cont . 

expedition  to,  99. 
Amersfont,  letter  dated  from,  296. 
Amity,  the,  a  ship,  183. 
Amsterdam,  273,  390. 
Anderton  : 

Mathew,  22. 

,  letters  from,  16,  24,  31. 

Tom,  31. 
Andrews : 
Mr.,  111. 
Richard,  165. 

Dr.,      Master      of       Kilkenny- 
School,  218. 
Anglesey : 

Countess  of,  167,  174,  193. 
John   Annesley   (d.    1710),    6th 
Earl  of  (sue.   1702),  291. 
Anjou: 

Duchess  of,  234. 
Duke  of,  118,  233,  234. 
Anne,  Queen  of  England.    See  under 

England,  Sovereigns  of. 
Annesley,   Francis,   M.P.   for  Ross, 
40,  291. 
letters  from,  41,  66. 
Anonymous  persons  : 

letters  from,  131,  163,  169,  189, 
355. 

to,  5,  9,  17,  32,  38,  43,  109, 

120,  131,  177,  211,  298. 
Anstruther,  Captain,  77. 
Ant,  Jacob,  Seigneur  de  Gerzance, 

34. 
Antrim,  73. 

County,  86. 

,  address  from,  alluded  to, 

243. 

,  Knight  of  the  Shire  for, 

78. 
Presbytery  in,  73,  82. 
Alexander  MacDonnell  (d.l699), 
3rd  Earl  of  (sue.  1682),  357. 

,    regiment    of,    354,    367, 

368,  369. 
Aplin,  Lieutenant,  61. 
Aragon  (Larron),  118 
Aran,  Isles  of,  318,  319. 
Archer,  Lieutenant,  229,  294. 

son  of,  253. 
Arches,  Dean  of,  8. 
Ardagh,  Dean  of,  218. 
Ardbraccan,  letter  dated  from,  37. 
Ardee,  374,  382,  387. 

camp  near,  385,  386. 
garrison  at,  372. 
Protestants  removed  from,  380. 
Argyle: 

Archibald   Campbell,    9th  Earl 

of  (sue.  1663),  343. 
John  Campbell   (d.   1743),  2nd 
Duke    of    (sue.    1703),    Lord 


Argyle,  John  Campbell,  2nd  Duke  of 
— cont. 

High  Commissioner  of  Scot- 
land (1705),  184,  323. 

,  letter  from,   abstract  of, 

58. 
Arklow,  38. 

seneschal  of,  38. 
troops  for,  237. 
Armagh,  238. 

Archbishop  of.  Primate  of  All 

Ireland.     See  under  Marsh, 
diocese  or  see  of,  rent  of,   63, 

107. 
letter  dated  from,  116. 
Armstrong,  Colonel,  376. 
Arnold,  — ,  brewer,  of  Westminster, 

278. 
Arran : 

Elizabeth  (d.  1756),  Coimtess  of, 
wife  of  2nd  Earl  of,  daughter 
of  Lord  Crewe  of  Staines,  158, 
160,  174. 
Charles  Butler  (d.  1758),  2nd 
Earl  of  (cr.  1693),  son  of  1st 
Earl  of  Ossory,  48,  157,  158, 
298. 

,  letters  from,  141,  158. 

,  marriage  of,  158,  160,  174. 

,  regiment  of,  58,  186. 

Richard   Butler    (d.    1686),    1st 
Earl   of    (cr.    1662),    10,    20, 
345. 
Arras,  331. 
Arrius,  Mr.,  118. 
Arthur,  Captain,  345,  359,  361. 
Arundel,  the,  a  ship,   52,   85,   249, 

257. 
Arundel,  Henry,  Baron  Arundel  of 
Wardour    (sue.    1643),    Lord 
President    of    Privy    Council 
(1687),  350. 
Arwaker,  Rev.  Edmund,  letter  from, 

237. 
Ashbury,  Mr.,   chief  hautboy,  Irish 
Guards,  138. 
son  of,  138. 
Ashe  : 

St.   George,   Bishop  of  Clogher 
(1697-1717),   36,    171,    175. 

,    letters    from,    165,    217. 

See  also  Report  XIV,   App. 
vii,  62. 

,  letter  signed  by,  297. 

Thomas,    Captain,    Provost    of 
Trim,  250. 

,  letters  from,   171,  250. 

,  letter  signed  by,  297, 

Association,  the,  a  ship,  143. 
Assurance,  the,  man-of-war,  328. 
Ath: 

garrison  of,  266,  267. 


m 


Atii — cont, 

siege  of,  256,  267. 
letter  dated  from,  266. 
Athemy,  186,  199. 
Athlone,  25,  309. 

ammunition  sent  to,  368,  369. 
Governor  of.    See  under  Hamil- 
ton, Gustavus. 
guns  from,  coined,  374. 
Athol,  John  Murray  (d.   1724),   1st 

Duke  of  (cr.  1703),  121. 
Atkin,    Sir    Richard,    regiment    of, 

59. 
Attr6,  court  martial  at,  35. 
Aungier,  Paul,  226. 
Austria,    Emperor    of.      See    under 

Leopold. 
Aylmer,     George,     Captain,     letter 

from,  6. 
Ayloff,  Joseph,  Queen's  Steward  at 
Richmond,  154. 
letter  from,  154. 


B 


Babington,  Colonel,  regiment  of,  31. 

Badajos,  117,  318. 

Baden,    Prince    of,    117,    118,    168, 

181. 
Badminton,  letter  dated  from,  8. 
Bagenal : 

Colonel,  regiment  of,  365,  380. 

Mr.,  of  Newry,  269,  291,  335. 
Baggot : 

John,    of   Mount   Arron,    High 
Sheriff  of  co.  Carlow,  39. 

Mark,  39. 
Baggs,  Mr.,  200,  205,  213. 

father  of,  213. 
Baily,  Bailly : 

Mr.,  62. 

,  M.P.  for  CO.  Tyrone,  291. 

Baker,  Mr.,  149. 

Ball,   John,   master   of   the  Amity, 

183. 
Ballinderry,  co.  Wicklow,  360. 
Ballynacourty,    letter    dated    from, 

207. 
Bandon,  co.  Cork,  357. 

Bridge,  343. 
Bangor,  co.  Down,  M.P.  for,  291. 
Bantry : 

letter  dated  from,  66. 

Bay,  194. 


Bantry  Bay — corU. 

,     French    fleet     in,     363, 

364. 
Barbadoes,  the.  Governor  of,  230. 
Barcelona,  117,  118,  199,  206,  234, 
332. 
fall  of,  192. 
reUef  of,  233,  234. 
letter  dated  from,  234. 
Road,  233,  234. 
Barclay,  Sir  George,  16. 

letter  from,  abstract  of,  17. 
Barfleury  the,  a  ship,  144. 
Barker,  Colonel,  365. 
Bamewall : 

Sir  George,  family  of,  183. 
Lady,  wSe  of  above,  183. 

,  daughters  of,  183. 

Sir  John,   Recorder  of  Dublin 
(1687),    Baron    of    the    Ex- 
chequer (Ire.),  361,  363. 
Barns,  Toby,  348. 
Baron     Hill,     letter    dated     from, 

124. 
Barry: 

Captain,  55. 
Colonel,  281,  306. 
Banymore,  James  Barry  (d.  1748), 
4th  Earl  of  (sue.   1699),  66, 
66,  183,  219. 
letter  from,  223. 
Barston,  Ensign,  50. 
Barton,  Rev.  John,  Dean  of  Ardagh 
(1703-19),    Rector   of    Slane, 
218. 
Bassett  [Joshua],  Rector  of   Sidney 
Sussex    College,     Cambridge, 
348. 
Bath: 

curative  and  fashionable  resort, 
18,   70,    181,   203,   217,   219, 
332,  351,  353. 
letter  dated  from.  111. 
John  Granville  (d.   1701),  Earl 
of  (cr.  1661),  6. 

,  regiment  of.  111. 

Bathurst,  Rev.  Ralph,  D.D.,  23. 
Bawn,  near  Longford,  73. 
Baxter : 

John,  Captain,  letters  from,  16, 

16. 
Martin,  Rev.,  33,  114. 

,  letters  from.    See  Report 

Vn,  767,  768,  780. 
Bayley,  Rev.  Thomas,  D.D.  Presi- 
dent of  Magdalen  College,  Ox- 
ford, letter  from,  abstwwjt  of, 
245. 
Bavaria,  102. 

Duke  of,  168. 
Elector  of,  117,  118. 
Bavarians,  the,  96. 


406 


Beauchamp : 

(a)  John,  letter  signed  by,  39. 

(b) ,  senr.,  letter  signed  by, 

39. 
Beaufort,  Henry  Somerset  (d.  1700), 
1st  Duke  of  (cr.  1682),  letter 
from,  8. 
Beaumaris,  letter  dated  from,  6. 
Bedburg,  near  Juliers,  74. 
Beecher,  Thomas,   letter  from,  66. 
Beeston,  Henry,  D.D.,  23. 
Beira,  317. 
Belasyse  : 

Captain,  236. 

John  (d.  1689),  Baron  Belasyse 
of  Worseley  (cr.   1645),  Com- 
missioner   of    the    Treasury 
(Eng.),  (1687),  347. 
Belcastle     (Belcastell),     Mons.     de, 

letters  from,  70,  128. 
Belfast,  31,  210,  274,  275,  384. 
Corporation  of,  312,  313. 
lighthouse  at,  89. 
M.P.  for,  85,  312. 
,   election   of,   petition   re- 
garding, 312,  313. 
Presbyterian  synod  at,  275. 
Sovereign  of,  313. 
letters   dated   from,    243,    275, 
280. 
Belhaven,  John  Hamilton  (d.  1708), 
2nd  Baron  (sue.  1679),  speech 
of,  184. 
Bellahinch  Camp,  letter  dated  from, 

38. 
Bellamont : 

Lucia  Anne  (d.  1712),  Countess 
of,  wife  of  2nd  Earl  of, 
daughter  of  Lord  D'Auver- 
querque,  letter  from,  146. 
Nanfan  Cootes,  2nd  Earl  of 
(sue.   1701),   108,   148. 

,  imcle  of,  160. 

Bellcastell,  Mons.  de.    See  Belcastle. 
Bellew : 

Captain,  83. 

John  (d.  1693),  1st  Baron  B.  of 

Duleek  (cr.  1686),  362. 
Richard   (d.    1714),   3rd  Baron 
B.  of  Duleek  (sue.  1694),  240. 
Belturbet,  376,  379. 
Benavides,    Don    Pedro    de,    letter 

from,  189. 
Benbow,  Admiral  John,  letter  from, 

35. 
Benefit  of  Clergy,  353. 
Bennett : 

B.,  letter  from,  39. 

Captain,  H.M.S.  Oxford,  269. 

,  ship  belonging  to,  380. 

Bennetts'  Bridge,  camp  near,  letter 
dated  from,  95. 


Benson,  Major,  336. 

Bentinck,  Mons.,  letter  from,  24. 

Berehaven  : 

fort  at,  80,  156. 
garrison  for,  90. 
inhabitants  of,  65. 
ships  at,  314. 
Beresford  : 

Sir  Marcus  (d.   1747),   1st  Vis- 
count Tjn'one  (cr.   1720),   1st 
Earl    of    Tyrone    (cr.    1721), 
330. 
Nicola     Sophia,     wife     of     Sir 
Tristram,  daughter  of  Baron 
Hamilton,  letter  from,  330. 
Berkeley,  Edward,  Colonel,  Deputy- 
Lieutenant  of  Somersetshire, 
letter     from,      abstract     of, 
111. 
letter  signed  by,  233. 
Berlin,  letters  dated  from,  46,  120, 

273,  286. 
Bermingham,  — ,  349. 
Bermuda,  letter  dated  from,   39. 
Bernard  : 

Charles,  letter  signed  by,  39. 

Colonel,  333. 

Francis,  Solicitor-General  (Ire.), 

(1711-1714),  340. 
Frank,  303,  309. 
John,  letter  signed  by,  39. 
Mr.,  133. 
Berry,  Colonel,  130. 
Bertie : 

Hon.  Albemarle,  17. 
Lady,  158. 
Berwick : 

letter  dated  from,  18. 
James  FitzJames  (d.  1734), 
1st  Duke  of  (cr.  1687),  at- 
tainted 1695,  Master  of  the 
Horse  (1687),  287,  348,  354, 
360,  362,  363,  369,  370,  376, 
377,  379,  384,  386,  387. 

,  regiment  of,   354,   384. 

Berwick,  the,  a  ship,  143. 
Bessborough,     letter    dated     from, 

268. 
Bethune,  331. 

Betterton,  in  "Aurangzebe,"  282. 
Beverley,  Captain,  161. 
Beversham,  J.,  letter  from,  22. 
Bideford,  66. 

merchants  of,  petition  of,  65. 
Billingsley,   Rupert,   Colonel,    32. 

letters  to,  26,  27,  28. 
Billop,  Christopher,  Captain,  letter 

from,  26. 
Bingham,  John,  Captain,  Knight  of 
the  Shire  for  co.  Mayo,  death 
of,  227,  290. 
letter  from,  7. 


407 


Birch,  John,  trial  of,  338,  339,  340, 

341,  342. 
Bird,  John,  165,  167,  179. 
Birmingham,  103. 
**  Bishop  and  Clerks,"  rocks,  279. 
Bishops,  The  Seven,  353. 
proposals  made  by,  354. 
trial  and  acquittal  of,  353. 
Bishopsgate  Street,  London,  283. 
Blackaller,  William,  Fellow  of  Pem- 
broke   College,    letter   signed 
by,  30. 
Black  Forest,  the,  102. 
Blacknesse  Castle,  near  Edinburgh, 

62. 
Black  Rod,  office  of,  293. 
Blaney,   Henry  Vincent   (d.    1689), 

5th  Baron  (sue.  1670),  363. 
Blaskets,  the,  81. 
Blathwayt,  Mr.,  letter  from,  alluded 

to,  52. 
Blechyndon,     Samuel,     Supervisor, 

Rate  Duties,  237. 
Blenheim,  battle  of,  114,  126,  133. 
Blennerhassett,  Robert,  22. 

sons  of,  22. 
Blessington  : 

M.P.  for,  268,  277. 
Murrough  Boyle  (d.   1728),   1st 
Viscount  (cr.  1673),  81. 
Bligh,  Mr.,  Privy  Councillor  (Ire.), 
195,  242,  264,  271,  272,  296. 
Blundell,  Sir  Francis,  240,  302. 
Boen,  Mr.,  248,  254. 
Bohan,  Lord,  regiment  of,  367. 
Boisrond,  Mons.  de,  70,   138,  289. 
nephew  of,  70. 
letter  from,  177. 
Bolonia,  puddings  of,  301. 
Bolton  : 

Charles  Powlett   (d.    1699),   1st 
Duke  of  (cr.  1689),  regiment 
of,  98. 
John  (d.  1724),  Dean  of  Derry 

(1700-24),  190. 
Thomas,  268. 
Bonafous  [Peter],  letter  from.     See 

Report  VII,  766. 
Bonython,  Serjeant-at-Law,  Steward 
of  Westminster,  152,  153,  154, 
155. 
Booth,  Mr.,  seneschal  to  2nd  Duke 

of  Ormonde,  42, 
Booton,  near  Norwich,  244. 
Bophin,    John    Bourke    (d.     1722), 
Baron  B.  of  Bophin  (cr.  1689), 
attainted  (1704),  252. 
Bor: 

Captain,  228,  229. 
Gerrard,  2,  4. 

,  letters  from,  2,  15. 

, to,  8,  29. 


Boms,    Captain,     of    Dutch    fleet, 

318. 
Boswell,  Lieutenant,  338,  340,  341. 
Boteler,  T.,  letter  from,  abstract  of, 

154. 
Boucher,  Bouchier,  C,   170,   182. 
letters  from,  abstracts  of,  261, 
316. 
Bouchetiere,  Charles  de  la.  Colonel, 

regiment  of,  331. 
Boughton,  letter   dated   from,   172. 
Bouhereau,    Mr.,    Library    Keeper, 

75,  76. 
Boulogne,  334. 
Bourden,  Mr.,  250. 
Boiirke,  Captain,  Lieutenant  of  the 

Ordnance,  251. 
Bowden  Downs,  9. 
Bowles's  regiment,  325. 
Bowling-Green  House,  307. 
Bowman,    Seymoxir,    letters    from, 

4,6. 
Boyle,  241. 

the,  226.    ' 
Boyle : 

H.,   letters  from,   abstracts  of, 
55,  58. 

,  letter  signed  by,  45. 

Henry  (d.  1725),  1st  Lord  Carle- 
ton  (cr.  1714),  Commissioner 
of  the  Treasury  (1699-1701), 
Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer 
(1701-8),      Lord      Treasurer 
(1704HO),  107,  110,  252,  307. 
Michael,  Archbishop  of  Armagh 
and  Primate  of  Ireland  (1685- 
1703),  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ire- 
land   (1665-1686),    343,    345, 
346. 
Mr.,  M.P.  for  Westminster,  155. 
Roger,  90,  92,  96. 
—  ,  a  thief,  350. 
Boyne,  the,  battle  of,  387,  401. 
Bradford,  Francis  Newport  (d.  1708), 
1st  Earl  of  (cr.  1694),  meet- 
ings at  house  of,  66. 
letter  from,  246. 
Bradshaigh,    Sir    Roger,    M.P.    for 
Wigan,  332,  336. 
regiment"  of,  246,  261,  269,  281, 
308. 
Bradshaw,  Mr.,  256. 
Bradston,  Mrs.,  a  beauty,  286. 
Bray,  co.  Wicklow,  345,  368,  387. 

troops  for,  237,  243. 
Bray,    Lieutenant,    338,    339,    340, 

341. 
Br6,  Marquis  de,  287. 
Breda,  27,  28,  56,  191,  394. 
Governor  of,  148. 
letters  dated  from,  26,  28,  49, 
60,  133. 


40^ 


^reday  a  ship,  144. 

Breding,  Rev.  — ,  rector  of  Carrick, 

193. 
Brereton,  Captain,  later  Major,  246, 

269. 
Brest,  72,  318. 
Brewster,    William,    of    St.    John's 

College,  Oxford,  17. 
Brian9on,   Comte   de,   letters   from, 
119,  120. 
letter  to,  126. 
Bridge    or    Bridges,    Robert,    Com- 
missioner   of     the     Revenue 
(1687),  dismissal  of,  349. 
Bridgewater,  the,  a  ship,  84,  85,  90, 

94,  166,  244,  249,  254,  257. 
Brihuega,  324,  325. 

capitulations    signed    at,     324, 
325. 
Brill,  354. 
Bristol,  29,  66,  67,  76,  390. 

Deputy  Mayor  of,  letter  from, 

15. 
ships  at,  and  bound  from  or  to, 

52,  67,  177,  279. 
letters  dated  from,  15,  17,  109. 
Britannia^  the,  a  ship,  143. 
Brittas,  Theobald  Bourke,  3rd  Baron 

Bourke  of  (sue.  1668),  370. 
Brodrick,  Alan   (d.    1728),   1st  Vis- 
count  Middleton    (cr.    1717), 
Speaker  House  of  Commons 
(Ire.)  (elected  1703),  Solicitor- 
General     (Ire.)     (1695-1704), 
Attorney-General  (Ire.)  (1707- 
9),      Lord       Chief      Justice, 
King's    Bench    (Ire.)    (1717- 
20),    Lord    Chancellor    (Ire.) 
(1714-25),     aUuded     to,     by 
name,  40,  201,  202,  265,  276, 
303. 
alluded  to,  as  opponent  of  2nd 
Duke  of  Ormonde,   93,    102, 
201,  202,  276,  298. 
alluded  to,  as  Speaker  of  House 
of   Commons    (Ire.),    52,    81, 
93,  94,  97,  122,  126,  137,  199, 
200,  211,  215,  229,  260,  284, 
307. 
alluded  to,  as  SoUcitor-General 
(Ire.),  55,  56. 
Brounston  Head,  76. 
Brown,  Browne : 
Captain,  329. 

Colonel,  regiment  of,   385. 
Dr.,  Provost  of  Trinity  College, 

Dublin,  36,  37. 
Ignatius,  Sheriff  of  Dublin,  372. 
John,  letter  signed  by,  39. 
Mr.,  execution  of,  362. 
Mr.,  private  BUI  presented  by, 
66. 


Brown — cant. 

Mr.,  of  Merton  College,  Oxford, 

42. 
Rev.  Peter,  S.F.T.C.D.,  37. 

,  letters  from,  36,  196. 

WilHam,  Lieutenant,  61. 
a  privateer,  367. 
Bruce,  Charles,  styled  Lord  Bruce, 
Earl  of  Ailesbury  (sue.  1741), 
letter  from,  abstract  of,   69. 
Brudenel,  Colonel,  246,  300. 

regiment  of,  90. 
Bruges,  troops  at,  147. 
Brugh,  M.  van,  140. 
Brushfield,  Captain,  138. 
Brussels,  260,  336. 

letter  dated  from,  335. 
Bryan,  James,  of  Jenkinstown,   15. 
Buck,  James,  Captain,  letters  from, 

13,  14. 
Buckingham,     John     Shefifield     (d. 
1720),  1st  Duke  of  (cr.  1703), 
letter  from,  118. 
Buckley,  Lady,  99. 
Budiani,  Mr.,  190,  213,  216,  218. 
Buis,  M.  de,  Lieutenant-General,  28. 
Bulkeley  : 

Richard  (d.  1704),  3rd  Viscount 
B.  of  Cashel  (sue.  1688),  letter 
from,  124. 
Robert,  letter  from,  6. 
Bulls,  Bay  of,  44. 
Bunbury : 

Jos.,  letter  signed  by,  39. 
Sir  Henry,  320. 
Thos.,  letter  signed  by,  39. 
*•  Bunch  of  Grapes,"  Maiden  Lane, 
Co  vent  Garden,  letters  dated 
from,  4. 
Buoy  in  the  Nore,  letter  dated  from,  8. 
Burdett : 

Major,  of  co.  Carlow,  322. 
Thos.,  letter  signed  by,  39. 
Burgard,  Mrs.,  pension  of,  325. 
Burgess,   E.,   Captain,   letter   from, 

254. 
Burgh : 

Captain,      Accoimtant-General, 

88. 
Thomas,  Captain,  89,  174,  291. 

,  letters  from,  245,  294. 

,  letter    from,  alluded    to, 

246. 
Burke,  Captain,  197. 
Burnet,  Alexander  (d.   1684),  Arch- 
bishop  of   Glasgow  (1664-9), 
translated    to    St.    Andrew's 
(1679),  352. 
Burridge,  Rev.  — ,  D.D.,  91. 
Burslow,  — ,  French  General,   368, 
374,  379. 
regiment  of,  368,  369,  384. 


40& 


Bushe,    Mr.    Auditor,    brother    of, 

291. 
Butler : 

Brinsley,  letter  from,  74. 

Captain,  142,  308. 

F.,     letters     from,     233, 

234. 
Elizabeth  (Betty),  Lady,  letter 

from,  96. 
James,  22. 

,  letters  from,  116,  326. 

John,  letter  from,  2. 

Mr.,  steward  to  Lord  Rosse,  183. 

Mr.,  226. 

Sir  Pierce,  226. 

,  letter  signed  by,  39. 

Richard,  letter  from,  325. 
Theobald,  letter  from,  38. 
Theodore,  Knight  of  the  Shire, 

296. 
Tho.,  letter  signed  by,  39. 
W.,  Colonel,  regiment  of,   364. 

,  letter  to,  24. 

William,  Captain,  185,  188,  193, 

221,  223,  224,  225,  226,  231, 

241,  331. 

,  letter  from,  311. 

, to,  331. 

Byrne,  Major,  15. 

Byng,  Sir  George,  Vice -Admiral  of 

the  Blue,  145,  233. 
Bythell,  Mr.  Auditor,  161. 


Cabinet,  the,  208,  246,  254. 
Cadiz,  44,  45,  160, 
Cahir: 

Theobald  Butler  (d.  1700),  6th 

Baron  (sue.  1677),  38. 
Thomas   Butler   (d.    1744),   6th 
Baron  (sue.    1700),  marriage 
of,  183. 
Caimes,  Mr.,  312. 
Calais,  318. 

packet    plying    to    and    from, 
334. 
Caldwell,  E.,  letter  from,   174. 
CaUan,  289. 

Cambrai,  Cambray,  28,  260. 
Cambridge,  University  of,  4. 

Sidney  Sussex  College,  Sydney, 
348. 


Cammell,  a  bookseller,  328. 
Camocke,  George,  Captain,  67,  166, 
172,  254,  257. 
letters  from,  55,  119,  177,  183, 
244. 

,  alluded  to,  65. 

Campbell : 

Ensign,  70. 

Josias,  Captain,  61,  64,  73,  82, 

93. 
Robert,  Captain,  204,  213. 

,  letters  from,  179,  210. 

William,  Captain,  61. 
Campemot,  John,  252. 
Campo  Maior,  Portugal,   318. 
Canada,  expedition  against,  320. 
Candaid,  Mons.,  letter  from,  250. 
Candlemas  Day,  352. 
Canterbury,    Archbishop    of.      See 

under  Sancroft ;  Tenison. 
Cape  Clear,  72,  111. 

of  Good  Hope,  145. 
Meyurado,  338. 
Capel,  Henry  (d.   1696),   1st  Baron 
(cr.    1692),   Lord   Lieutenant 
of  Ireland  (1695-6),  34. 
Carbonnell,  — ,  126. 
Carey,  Mr.,  189. 
Carisbrooke  Castle,  43. 
Carleton,  Mr.,  53. 
Carlingford,  384. 

Nicholas  Taafe  (d.    1690),  2nd 
Earl  of  (sue.  1677),  38. 
Carlow : 

assizes  at,  2. 

county,  5,  322. 

Grand  Jiuy  of,  39. 

High  Sheriff  of,  39. 

Infirmary  at,  letter  dated  from, 

72. 
Justices  of  the  Peace  in,  39. 
Sovereign  of,   346. 
letter  dated  from,  39. 
Carmarthen,    Sir   Thomas    Osborne 
(d.  1712),  1st  Marquis  of  (cr. 
1689),  letters  from,  68,   101, 
118.     See  also  under  Leeds, 
Duke  of. 
Carney,  Michael,  letter  from,  29. 
Carpenter,    George,    Colonel,    later 
General,  324. 
regiment  of,  256. 
letters  from,  60,  216,  256. 
Carr,  Captain,  372. 
Carribee  Islands,  146. 
Carrick,  7,  37. 

Dutch  at,  219. 

factories  at,  linen  and  woollen, 

219. 
Uvingof,  193,  195,  209. 
letters    dated     from,    7,     116, 
219. 


410 


Carrickdnimough,  co.  Leitrim,  letter 

dated  from,  226. 
Carrickfergus,  31,  147,  174,  370. 
letters  dated  from,  184,  275. 
Carrington,    Anne    (d.    1748),    Vis- 
countess,   2nd    wife    of    2nd 
Viscount  (m.  1687),  daughter 
of   1st  Earl  of  Powis,  letter 
from,  136. 
Carroll,  Richard,  attorney,  2. 
Carthage,  391. 

Carton,  letter  dated  from,  332. 
Cartwright : 

Thomas,     Bishop    of     Chester, 
Ecclesiastical     Commissioner, 
religion  of,  363. 
Mr.,  158. 
Cary : 

Henry,  68. 

Mrs.,  and  daughter  of,  219. 
Cashel : 

letter  dated  from,  2. 
Archbishop  of.  See  under  Peters. 
Bishop  of.     See  under  Palliser. 
Castlecomer.    Christopher    Wandes- 
ford  (d.    1707),    1st  Viscoimt 
(cr.   1707),  299. 
Castleconnell,  William  Bourke,   7th 
Baron     Bourko     of    Connell, 
attainted  (1691),  370. 
Castlecoole,  letter  dated  from,  174. 
Castledermot,  351. 
Castle    Lyons,    letter    dated    from, 

183. 

Castlemaine,  Roger  Palmer  (d.  1705), 

1st    Earl    (cr.     1661),    Privy 

Councillor  (Eng.)  (1687),  351. 

Castlemartin,  letter  dated  from,  53. 

Catalonia  Fort,  44,  207,  315. 

troops  for,   199,  208,  213,  214, 
216,  218,  226,  236,  238,  247, 
248,  255. 
Caulfield : 
Mr.,  313. 
Toby,  Colonel,  62,  291. 

,  regiment  of,  92,  165,  199, 

209,  211,  213,  216,  218,  246, 
265. 

letter  from,  abstract  of. 


211. 

Cavan,  296,  359,  376,  377,  379. 
letter  dated  from,  171. 
Margaret,  Coimtess  of  (d.  1737), 
wife   of    4th   Earl   of,    letter 
from,  66. 
Richard  Lambert  (d.  1742),  4th 
Earl  of  (sue.    1702),   66. 

,  letters  from,  65,  329. 

Cay  a,  Portuguese  camp  upon,  letter 

dated  from,  315. 
Cecil,  William,  Major,  Queen's  letter 
for,  324. 


Centurion,  the,  a  ship,  letter  dated 

aboard,  254. 
Cevennes,  the,  127,  166. 
Chamberlain,  Dr.,  man-midwife,  20. 
Chambers,  Rev.  — ,  D.D.,  Rector  of 
St.    Catherine's,    Dublin,    24, 
32. 
Chancery  Lane,  London,  letter  dated 

from,  154. 
Chandelier,  Jean,  P.R.S .,  letter  from, 

66. 
Chapelizod   House,    243,    351,    354, 

384. 
Chapman,  Sir   [John],   Lord  Mayor 

of  London  (1688),  354. 
Charlemont,  31,  147,  370. 

garrison  of,  140,  382,  383. 
surrender  of,  382,  383. 
letter  dated  from,   140. 
WiUiam  Caulfield  (d.  1726),  2nd 
Viscount   (sue.    1671),   291. 

,  regiment  of,  80. 

,   letter    from,     140.       See 

also  Report  XIV,  App.  vii,  62. 
Charleroi,  28,  34. 

Charlett,    Rev.    Arthur,    D.D.,    of 
University    College,    Oxford, 
letters  from,  161,  284. 
Charlotte,  the,  a  ship,  174. 
Charterhouse,  the  : 

livings  in  gift  of,  42. 
Master  of,  election  of,   4.     See 
also     under     Ormonde,     2nd 
Duke  of. 
nominations  to,  4. 
Chartogne,    Sieur    de.    Lieutenant - 

General,  128 
Chatham,  14. 

letter  dated  from,  138. 
Chebalds,  Lieutenant,  281. 
Chelsea  : 

letter  dated  from,  55. 
College,  270. 

Hospital,  Governor  of,  59. 
manor  of,  152. 
Cheshire,  237. 

Chester,  10,  31,  38,  66,  85,  90,  103, 
189,  234,  242,  351,  390. 
Bishop  of      See  Cartwright. 
collector  at,  312 
ships  bound  from  and  to,   81, 

89,   166,  254. 
walls  of,  55. 

letters   dated  from,    6,    16,    18, 
20,    24,    31,    119,    122,    182, 
185. 
Bar,  55. 

Castle,  letter  dated  from,  22. 
Chester,  the,  a  ship,  279. 
Chevall,  Mr.,  28. 

Cheyne,  Lord,  152.     See  also  under 
Newhaven. 


411 


Chichester,  letter  dated  from,  32. 

House,  41,  278. 
Chirk    Castle,    letter    dated    from, 

140. 
Chiswick,  letter  dat-ed  from,  163. 
Cholmondeley,  130. 

Greorge  (d.  1724),  Viscount  (sue. 
1681),  1st  Earl  of  (cr.  1706), 
Major-General,  259,  310. 

letters    from,    120,    124, 


130,  139. 


-,  alluded  to,  310. 


Mr.,  310 

Christian,  Prince,  of  Hanover,  46. 
Chritchly,  Ralph,   letter  signed  by, 

39. 
Clancarty : 

Donogh  Maccarty  (d.  1734),  4th 
Earl  of  (sue.  1676),  350,  369, 
380. 

,  court  martial  of,  373. 

,  regiment  of,  365. 

,  letter  from,  332. 

Clancarty  House,  Dublin,  231. 

letters  dated  from,   189,   190. 
Clanricarde : 

Richard  Bourke  (d.   1702),  8th 
Earl  of  (sue.  1687),  regiment 
of,  354. 
William  Bourke  (d.   1687),  7th 
Earl  of  (sue.  1666),  351. 
Clare,  Daniel  O'Brien  (d.  1691),  3rd 
Viscount    (sue.     1670),    regi- 
ment of,  354,  368. 
Clarendon,  Henry  Hyde,  2nd  Earl 
of    (sue.    1674),    Lord    Lieu- 
tenant   of    Ireland    (1685-6), 
Lord  President  of  Privy  Coun- 
cil, 320,   345,   346,  347,   348, 
349,  350,  398. 
Clarke : 

George,     Secretary     for     War 
(1692-1704),  letters  from.  See 
Report      VII,       763,       765, 
782. 
James,  2,  161. 
Mr.,  278. 

Thomas,  letter  from,  146. 
Clayton : 

Mr.,  105,  126. 
— ,  D.D.,  180. 
Cleere,  John,  22. 

letter  from,  14. 
aerk,  Mr.  Le,  27. 
Cleves  : 

Duchy  of,  51. 
town  of.  Governor  of,  51. 
Cliff,  Edmund,  barber-surgeon,    17. 
Clifton,    John,    Commoner    of    St. 

Mary  HaU,  Oxford,    17. 
Clinch,  William,  demi  of  Magdalen 
CoUege,  Oxford,  246. 


Clogher : 

Bishop  of.    See,  under  Ashe,  St. 
George  ;   Tennison,  Richard  ; 
TerriU. 
bishopric  or  see  of,  171,  179. 
Clonfert,  Bishop  of,  286. 
Clonmel,  2,  344. 

Free  School  at,  268. 
troops  at,  100. 
Clontarf,  Dublin,  242,  251. 
Clothing,  export  of,  66,  67,  90. 

provision  of.    See  Irekmd,  army 
in. 
Cloudesly,  Sir.     See  Shovel. 
Cloyne,  Bishop  of.    See  under  Jones, 

Edward. 
Cochrane,  Edward,  letter  from,  55. 
Coffee  Houses,  269,  282. 
Coin,  exchange  and  rate  of,  68,  157, 
182. 
See    also    under    England    and 
Ireland,  coinage  in. 
Coldstream  Guards,  220,  270. 

Colonel   of.     See  under   Cutts, 
Lord. 
Cole: 

John,     M.P.     for     Enniskillen, 

175. 
L.,  letters  from,  4,   6,   11,  26, 

31    32. 
Sir  Michael,  221,  222. 
Coleraine,  21,  210,  362,  363. 
Collins,   Jonathan,   Fellow  of  Pem- 
broke College,    letter   signed 
by,  30. 
Cologne  Guards,  296. 
Colsby,   Rev.  — ,   Chaplain   to   2nd 

Duke  of  Ormonde,  91. 
Colt,    Sir    Harry,    M.P.    for    West- 
minster, 155. 
Columbine,   Francis,   Captain,   later 
Major    and    promoted    Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, 69,  264,  266. 
letters  from,  185,  254,  330. 
Comarque,   Mons.    de,   letter   from, 

abstract  of,  245. 
Comets,  Halley's  paper  on  the  pre- 
diction of,  161-2. 
Compton,  Henry,  Bishop  of  London 
(1676-1713),  letter  from,  176. 
Concordatum,  133. 
warrant  for,  69. 

See  also  under  Ireland,  revenue 
in,  charges  on. 
Conformity  Bill,  60,   120,   122. 
Congreve,  Christopher,  letter  from,  16. 
Coningsby : 

Captain,  325. 

Thomas  (d.  1729),  1st  Baron 
(cr.  1692),  1st  Earl  of  (cr. 
1719),  Paymaster-General  of 
the  Forces  (Ire.)  (1690-1704), 


m 


Coningsby,    Thomas,     1st    Baron — 
cont. 

Lord  Justice  of  Ireland  (1690- 
92,  1698,  1702),  Vice-Trea- 
surer (Ire.)  (1692-5),  Ranger 
of  Phoenix  Park,  149. 

,  letters  from,  90,  129,  136. 

See  also  Report  VII,  769; 
XIV,  App.  vii,  62. 

-,  abstracts  of,  59,  60, 


121,  122,  123,  125,  130,  131, 
133,  136,  137,  138,  139,  140, 
148,  151,  154,  157,  158,  159, 
168,  181,  234,  242,  330. 
-,    letters    to.      See   Report 


VII,    768,    769,    776;     XIV, 
App.  vii,  780. 
Connaught,       See     under     Ireland, 

Provinces  of. 
Connell,  Major,  346. 
Connery,  Mr.,  Muster-Master  Army 

(Ire.),  298. 
Connor  : 

Bishop  of.      See  under  Smith, 

Edward, 
diocese  of,  153. 
Conolly,  Mr.,  193,  282,  314. 
Constantino,  Henry,  letter  from,  4. 
Conway,  255. 

Francis  Seymour  (d.  1732),  1st 
Baron     C.     of     Ragley     (cr. 
1703),  letter  from,  149. 
Sir  John,  letter  from,  140. 

,  ,  alluded  to,  333. 

Conyers,  Thos.,  letter  signed  by,  39. 
Conyngham  : 
Adam,  265. 

Henry,    Brigadier-General,    62, 
107. 

,  regiment  of,  96,  99. 

,  letters  from,  115,  116. 

Mr.,  M.P.  for  co.  Tyrone,  229, 
291. 
Cook,    Mr.,    grandson    of    Duke    of 

Leeds,  244. 
Cooper : 

Benjamin,   Register  of   Oxford 

University,  letter  from,  2. 
John,  letter  signed  by,  39. 
Coote  : 

Rev.  — ,  chaplain  to  2nd  Duke 

of  Ormonde,  116. 
Richard,  Colonel,  33,  291. 
Thomas,     Justice     of     King's 
Bench  (Ire.),   168,   199. 

,    letters    from,    96,     201, 

280. 
Cope,  Francis,  Captain,  letter  from, 

324. 
Coppin,  Samuel,  142. 
Cork,    37,    41,    70,    101,    183,    186, 
259,  261,  281,  298,  339,  342, 


Cork — cont. 

362,  367,  368,  372,  377,  378, 
380,  384. 
alderman  of,  84. 
arms  in,  105,  367,  368. 
'Assizes  at,  338,  339. 
collector  of  revenue  at,  66. 
county  of,  194. 

,  High  Sheriff  of,  243. 

,    Lieutenant    and    Custos 

Rotulorum  of,  201. 
Governor  of,  105. 
harbour  of,  115,  119,  191,  281, 

328. 
Knight  of  the  Shire  for,  201. 
Lord  Mayor  of,  372. 
Protestants  turned  out  of,  372. 
regiments  or  troops  for  and  in, 
41,  70,  78,  94,  124,  155,  172, 
186,  191,  199,  247,  250,  251, 
252,  255,  261,  262,  263,  265, 
295,  378,  384. 
ships  bound  from  and  to,   66, 
78,  83,  91,  94,  109,  111,  114, 
146,  166,  254,  257,  261,  281, 
314,  328,  331,  372,  378,  379, 
380. 
letters    dated   from,    109,    115, 
116,  119,  255,  299,  338. 
Corker,  Mr.,  40. 
Combury,  300. 

Edward  Hyde   (d.    1723),   Vis- 
count Combury,  Governor  of 
New  York  and  New  Jersey 
(1701-8),  320. 
Cornish,  Mr.,  Undertaker  of  Revenue 

(Ire.),  269. 
Cornwall,  M.P.  for,  168. 
Cornwall : 

Colonel,  60. 

Edward,  Captain,  64. 

Francis,  letter  from,  abstract  of, 

105. 
Mr.,  60. 
Cornwallis,    Charles    (d.    1722),    1st 
Baron  C.  of  Eye  (cr.   1698), 
244. 
Corry : 

Colonel,  221,  222,  226. 

,   John  son    of,    M.P.    for 

Enniskillen,    176,     221,    222, 
226. 
James,  letter  from,  174. 
Cory,  Mr.,  141. 
Cosby  : 

Alexander,  89. 
Thomas,  letter  from,    188. 
Cotter,    Colonel,   regiment    of,    367, 

368. 
Cottingham,  Henry,  107. 
Court,  Madame  de  la,  157. 
Courtienne,  Mons.,  186. 


413 


Couteur,  Rev.  Francis,  Vice-gerent 
of   Pembroke   College,   letter 
from,  30. 
Cove,  letter  dated  from,  119. 
Coventry,  6. 

letters  dated  from,  7,  292. 
Countess  of,  letter  from,  197. 
Coward,   W.,  Deputy-Lieutenant  of 
Somersetshire,    letter    signed 
by,  233. 
Cowes,  31. 

Castle,  letter  dated  from,  43. 
Cox,  Sir  Richard,  Lord  Chancellor 
of  Ireland  (1703-7),  ex -officio 
Speaker  of  House  of  Lords 
(Ire. ),  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland 
(1703-4,  5-7),  Lord  Keeper 
(1703-7),  Lord  Chief  Justice, 
King's  Bench  (Ire.)  (1711-14), 
40,  47,  48,  52,  55,  104,  123, 
169,  170,  193,  202,  204,  224, 
243,  247,  262,  267,  274,  282, 
294,  296,  297,  302,  303,  306, 
307,  309,  338,  340,  341. 
allowances    of,    132,    133,    134, 

136,  148. 
son  of,  101,  109,  220. 
letters  from,  69,  72,  74,  79,  82, 
83,  106,  225,  300,  309. 

,   abstracts  of,  35,   36,  37, 

38,  42,  53,  80,  81,  90,  92,  96, 
97,  99,  100,  101,  102,  105,  108, 
109,  111,  113,  114,  115,  122, 
150,  161,  162,  163,  165,  166, 
167,  177,  180,  192,  199,  200, 
213,  218,  220,  223,  239,  252, 
253,  255,  257,  260,  268,  269, 
272,  274. 
letters  to,  65,  66. 
Cracken,  Mr.,  a  non- juror,  179. 
Crawford  : 

Lieutenant,  240. 

Mr.,  M.P.  for  Ross,  291. 

Thomas,  253. 

,  letter  from,  abstract  of, 

166. 
Creagh,   Sir  Michael,   knighting  of, 
345. 
regiment  of,  364,  365,  369,  377. 
Creeds,   Captain,   180. 
Creighton,   David,   Major,    Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel,  M.P.,    109,   302. 
regiment  of,  325,  326. 
letter  from,  199. 
Crema,  117. 
Crescentino  (Cressentin),  letter  dated 

from,    128. 
Crespigny,    Gabriel,    Captain,    peti- 
tion of,  331,  332. 
Creswick,  Francis,   76,   77. 
Crofton,  James,  Captain,  letter  from, 
abstract  of,   199, 


Crofts,  James,  Captain,  letter  from, 
326. 

Cromartie,  George  Mackenzie  (d. 
1714),  Ist  Earl  of  (sue.  1703), 
letter  from,  88. 

Crom  Castle,  367,  368,  378. 

Cromelin,  Mr.,  92. 

Crommelin,  Louis,  letters  from,  299, 
300. 

Cromwell,  Major,  325. 

Croof,  Captain  of  Dutch  privateer, 
318. 

Croper,  Jonathan,  35. 

Crosby,  William,  22. 

Cross,  Mr.,  155,  178. 

Crosse,  Silvester,  Gentleman  Usher 
to  2nd  Duke  of  Ormonde, 
letter  from,  326. 

Crowe  : 

Mr.,  collector  of  Customs,  219. 
Mr.,  M.P.,  302. 
Valentine,  letter  from,  4. 
William,  Commissioner  of  Ap- 
peals, 268,  272. 

,  patent  for,  277. 

,  letters  from,  abstracts  of, 

76,  238,  277,  282. 

Crowther,  Dr.,  26,  27. 

Croy6,  Mr.,  128. 

Crump,  Richard,  letter  from,  17. 

Cugley,   David,  Ensign,   61,   265. 

Culliford,  Colonel,   133,   163. 

Culmore,  near  Deny,  21. 
Governor  of,  50. 

Cumberland,  the,  a  ship,  223,  337. 

Cumming  : 

Alexander,   Lieutenant,   58. 
D.,  letter  from,  86. 

Cunza,  Don  Luis  da,  Portuguese 
Ambassador  to  England,  let- 
ters from,  119,  130. 

Ciirragh,  The,    115,    163,   218,   228, 
229,  235,  240,  257,  350,  351, 
353    387. 
letters  dated  from,  229,  240,  241. 

Curson,  John,  Mayor  of  Exeter, 
letter  from,  35. 

Cutts,  John  (d.  1707),  1st  Baron  C. 
of  Gowran  (cr.  1690),  Lord 
Justice  of  Ireland  (1705-7), 
Commander-in-Chief  (Ire.), 
Colonel  of  Coldstream  Guards, 
and  of  Dragoons,  31,  161,  162, 
164,  193,  196,  205,  210,  220, 
225,  228,  231,  236,  241,  247, 
248,  257.  259,  261,  262,  263, 
287. 
death'  of,   280,   281,   282,   289, 

297,  302,  303. 
reports     on     intrigues     against 
2nd  Duke  of  Ormonde,  214^ 
215,  216. 


414 


Cutts,  John — cont. 

letters  from,  148,  152,  155,  156, 

159,  162,  163,  164,  166,  167, 

168,  169,  170,  174,  175,  177, 

188,  189,  190,  192,  193,  194, 

196,  201,  205,  207,  211,  212, 

214,  216,  218,  219,  220,  221, 

223,  224,  226,  227,  228,  229, 

230,  231,  235,  236,  238,  239, 

240,  241.  242,  243,  246,  247, 

248,  250,  252,  254,  259,  261, 

262,  264,  265,  269,  273,  276, 
280. 

letters  to,  alluded  to,  191. 


Dadyck,  Dodyck,  Mons.,   185,  310, 

320. 
Dagan,  Mr.,  56. 
D' Albany,      Mons.,      letter      from, 

296. 
Dalkey  Island,  383. 
Daly,   Dennis,   Justice  of   Common 

Pleas  (Ire.),  345. 
Dalyell,     Lieutenant-Colonel,     regi- 
ment of,  325. 
letter  from,  243. 
Dane,  Rev.  — ,  176. 
Danes,    reported    landing    of,    374, 

378. 
Daniou,  Due.      See  Anjou. 
Danish  Guards,  126. 
Dantoigny    (Dantigny),    Mons.    du 

Marett,  pension  of,  118,  177. 
letters  from,  117,  118,  121,  177, 

181,  185,  192,  239,  298,  310, 

320. 
letter  from,  alluded  to,  123. 
Darmstadt,  Prince  of,  117. 
D'Arplot,  Camp,  letter  dated  from, 

186. 
Dartmouth,  355. 
Dashwood,  George,  278. 

letter  from,  abstract  of,  56. 
D'Asminas,  — ,  317. 
D'Assigny,  Rev.  Marius,  letter  from, 

144. 
Dasso,  coast  of  Guinea,  338. 
D'Aumont,  Duke,  334. 
D'Auverquerque  (Dauverkerk) : 

Cornelius,  117, 148, 158, 160, 179, 

240,  298. 
Henry  de  Nassau,    Lord,    318. 


D'Auverquerque — cont. 

Madam,  letters  from,  148,  160. 
See  also  under  Grantham,  Earl  of. 
d'Avaux,  Count,  18. 
Davenport,    Lieutenant,    338,    340, 

341. 
Davis,  Davies,  Davys  : 

Henry,  letter  from,  184. 

Sir    John,    Secretary    of    State 

in  Dublin  (1678-90),  367. 
Luck,  Lieutenant,  99. 
Mr.,  139. 

,  yeoman-bedel,  24. 

Paul,  title  for,  192,  193,  194. 

,    letters    from,    192,    193, 

194. 

.    See  further  under  Mount- 

cashel. 
Sir  William,  Lord  Chief  Justice, 
King's  Bench  (Ire.),  347. 
Dawpool,  65. 
Dawson : 

James,  letter  from,  abstract  of, 

207. 
John,  Captain,  172. 
Joshua,    64,    67,    94,   208,   252, 
260,  339. 

,    letters    from,    119,    304, 

306. 
-,  letters  to,  alluded  to,  64, 


66. 

D'Bay,  Debai,  Marquis,  317,  318. 

Debt,  imprisonment  for,  180. 

Deering,  Mr.,  46,  172,  252. 

Deer  Park.     See  under  Dublin. 

Deffray,  John,  a  French  Protestant, 
21. 

Delafaye,  L.,  son  of,  89. 

letter  from,  abstract  of,  89. 

Delamer  or  Delamere,  Henry  Booth 
(1694),  2nd  Baron  D.'of  Dun- 
ham (sue.  1684),  16. 
letters  from,  9,  10. 

Delanne,  Rev.  William,  D.D.,  Vice- 
Chancellor,  Oxford  Univer- 
sity (1702-6),  letters  from. 
See  Report  VII,  759,  781. 

Delavall,  Captain,  H.M.S.  Randagh, 
143. 

Delayal,  Sir  Ralph,  110. 

D'Elboeuf,  Due,  letters  from,  34, 
176. 

Delmet,  Mons.,  121. 

Deloraine,   Henry   Scott   (d.    1730), 
1st  Earl  of   (cr.    1706),   236, 
237. 
regiment  of,  236,  238,  248,  264, 

321. 
letter  from,   238. 

Denbigh,  BasH  Feilding  (d.  1717), 
4th  Earl  of  (sue.  1686),  letter 
from,  abstract  of,  114. 


415 


Denmark : 

George,  Prince  of.  Lord  High 
Admiral  (Eng.),  45,  80,  110, 
138,  252,  254,  257,  261,  269, 
353,  372,  379. 

,  Council  of,  110. 

,    letter    to,    addressed    as 

Prince  of  Wales.    See  Report 
VII,  774. 
Princess  of,  353. 

,  daughter  of,  348. 

Dennis,  Mr.,  Sovereign-elect  of  Kin- 
sale,  338,  340. 
Denty,  Mrs.,  96. 
De    Peralta,    Mons.,    letter    from, 

abstract  of,  292. 
Deptford,  the,  a  ship,  146. 
Derby : 

Elizabeth  (d.  1717),  Countess  of, 
wife  of  9th  Earl  of  (m.  1673), 
daughter  of  1st  Earl  of 
Ossory,  23,  36. 

,  letter  from.     See  Report 

VII,  778. 
William  George  Richard  Stan- 
ley   (d.    1702),    9th    Earl    of 
(sue.   1672),  address  or  peti- 
tion sent  to,  42. 

,  letter  to,  42, 

Dermot : 

a  thief,  349. 

Terence,  Lord  Mayor  of  Dublin 
(1689),  372. 
D'Erps,  Countess,  295. 
Deny,   18,   73,   103,   343,  357,   358, 
363,  364,  365,  366. 
aldermen  of,  104. 
Bishop  of,  20,  36. 
Corporation  of,  104. 

,  composition  of,   104. 

county  of,  86, 
Dean  of,  190. 
Governor  of,  50. 
Presbytery  in,  73,  82. 
Recorder  of.     See  under  Roch- 

ford,  Robert, 
siege  of,  210,  363,  364,  365,  366, 

367,  368,  369. 
troops  at,  269,  366. 
letter  dated  from,  326. 
Desibourg,     F.,     Adjutant-General, 
letters  from,  abstract  of,  97. 
Devenish,    Brigadier,    regiment    of, 

331. 
Devine,  Gerard,  Captain,  letter  from, 

295. 
Devonshire,  Mary  (d.  1710),  Duchess 
of,  1,  102. 
letter  from,  140. 
Deyes,  Mr.,  208. 

d'Harcourt,    OUver,    Major,    letter 
from,  68t 


Diamond,  Mr.,  merchant,  65. 
Diamond  galleyy  a  ship,  65. 
Dickson,  Francis,  printer,  184. 
Dieren,  letter  dated  from,  24. 
Diest,  118. 

Digby,     Simon,    D.D.,    Bishop    of 
Limerick  (1678-92),  of  Elphin 
(1692-1724),  322,  388. 
letter  from,  5. 
Dilkes: 

Lady  Mary,  96,  99,  191. 
Sir  Thomas,  144,  160. 
Dillon,  Gerald,  appointed  Recorder 

of  Dublin  (1687),  349,  363. 
Dive,      Captain,     H.M.S.      Nassau, 

143. 
D'Inmiecourt,    Sieur,    Marechal    de 

Camp,  128. 
Dingle,  147. 

troops  at,  237,  243. 
Dixon  : 

Mr.,  son  of,  79. 
— ,  286. 

Robert,  letters  from,  134,  160. 
Dodington,    George,    Commissioner 
of  the  Admiralty,  (170i^lO), 
304,  305,  307,  309. 
Dodyck,  Monsieur.    See  Dadyck. 
d'Oflfranville : 

Captain,  165. 

Mademoiselle      Judith      Marie 
Channin,  165,  173. 
Dolben,    Sir   Gilbert,    Lord   Justice 
of  Common  Pleas  (Ire.)  (1701- 
2),  239,  296. 
Domville,    Sir    William,    Attorney- 
General       (Ire.)       (1660-86), 
dismissal  of,  349. 
Donegal : 

Catherine,  Countess  of,  wife  of 
3rd  Earl  of  (m.  1685),  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Robert  Newcomen, 
280,    312,    313. 

,  petition  of,  280,  313. 

,    letters    from,    243,    267, 

280. 

(a)  Arthur  Chichester  (d.  1706), 
3rd  Earl  of  (sue.  1695), 
Governor  of  Gerona,  85,  107, 
280. 

,  death  of,  233,  243. 

,  regiment  of,   80,  92,   98, 

99,  119. 
,  letter  from,  119. 

(b)  (d.  1757),  4th  Earl  of 

(sue.   1706),   312,   313. 

Donelan,  Nehemiah  (d.  1706),  Lord 
Chief  Baron  of  the  Exchequer 
(Ire.),  (1703-6),  199,  200, 
202. 
death  of,  201,  202,  203,  204, 
206. 


416 


Doneraile,  Arthur  St.  Leger  (d.  1727), 
1st  Viscount  (cr.  1703),  letter 
from,  101. 
Donnybrook,  384. 

fair  at,  384. 
Donore,  Seneschal  of  the  Liberties 

of,  356. 
Dopping,  Anthony,  Bishop  of  Meath 
(1681-97),  363,  373. 
speech  by,  392-401. 
Dorchester,     Catheriae     Sedley     (d. 
1717),  Countess  of  (cr.  1686), 
36. 
Dormer : 

Major,  petition  of,  332. 
Brigadier,  regiment  of,  325,  338. 
Dorrington,   William,   Colonel,   345, 
361,   363,   368,   380. 
letters  from,  6,  7. 
Dorset : 

Anne,  Countess  of,  wife  of  6th 

Earl  of  (m.  1704),  21. 
Charles  Sackville  (d.  1706),  6th 

Earl  of  (sue.  1677),  219. 
Frances  (d.  1687),  Coimtess  of, 
wife  of  5th  Earl  of,  daughter 
of  1st  Earl  of  Middlesex,  346. 
Dorsetshire,  the,  a  ship,  143,  223. 

letters  dated  aboard,  233,  234. 
Douai,  surrender  of,  331. 

letter  dated  from,  331. 
Douglas  : 

Colonel,  regiment  of,  16. 

Mr.,  2. 

Samuel,  26,  27,  28. 

,  letters  to,  25,  26. 

Dover,  354. 

packet  to  ply  from,  334. 
Henry    Jermyn    (d.    1708),    1st 
Baron    (cr.     1685),    Conmiis- 
sioner  of  the  Treasiu-y  (apptd. 
1687),  24,  347,  373 
,    dismissal   from   appoint- 
ments of,  384. 
Down,  county  of,  86,  363. 

Protestants  of,  364. 
Downs,  The,  letters  dated  from,  4,  41. 
Doyne,  Robert,  Lord  Chief  Justice 
of  Common  Pleas  (Ire.)  (1703- 
14),  Chief  Baron  of  the  Ex- 
chequer    (Ire.)     (1695-1703), 
79,  168,  199,  202. 
Draper,  Mathew,  35. 
Drslincourt,  Rev.  Peter,  letter  from, 

171. 
Drogheda  (Tredagh,  Tredath),  347, 
370,  374,  377-383,  386-388. 
James  II  at,  24,  386. 
Countess    of   (d.  1726),  wife  of 
3rd    Earl    of,     daughter    of 
Sir  John  Cole,  sons  of,   170, 
209, 


Drogheda,  Countess  of — cont. 

,  letter  from,  170. 

Henry  Hamilton-Moore  (d. 
1714),  3rd  Earl  of  (sue. 
1679),  314. 

,  sons  of,  170,  209. 

Dromana,  letters  dated  from,   113, 

325,  329. 
Dromineer  Castle,  1. 
Dromore,  Bishop  of,  104,  106. 

see  of,  337. 
Drumcondra  Bridge,  369. 
Du  Bart,  — ,  35. 

Dublin,   18,  19,  20,  24,  37,  53,  61, 
77,  84,  89,  92,  100,  103,  121, 
155,  156,  159,  173,  180,  181, 
186,  188,  193,  214,  230,  236, 
239,  280,  281,  339,  344,  355, 
360,  361,  362,  365,  367,  368, 
369,  370,  373,  374,  377,  379, 
380,  382,  383,  384,  385,  386, 
387,  391,  401. 
almshouses  in,  360. 
Archbishops     of.       See     under 
King,  WilUam  ;  Marsh,  Fran- 
cis 
arms  for,  364,  368,  371. 
Assizes  in,  79,  102. 
Blue  Boys'  Hospital  in,  371. 
Bridewell  (Bridwell),  the,  prison, 

377,  386. 
bridges  in  : 

Bow,  350. 
Essex,  351. 
churches  in  : 

Christchurch,  76,  91,  110, 
112,  179,  347,  360,  372, 
373,  374. 

,  Chancellorship  of,  192. 

,  Chapter  of,  71,  206. 

,  Dean  of,  37,  105,  181, 

206,  352. 

, and  Chapter  of, 

91,  207. 

,  Mass  said  in,  373. 

,  prebends  of,  207. 

,  privileges  of,  76,  179. 

-,  sexton  and  ringers  of. 


369. 
Round  Church,  76. 

,  used  as  prison,  386. 

St.  Andrew's,  76. 

St.  Catherine's,  24,  32. 

St.  Francis's    Chapel,    350. 

St.  Michan's,  349. 

St.  Patrick's  Cathedral,  58, 

314. 

,  deanery  of,  139,  192. 

St.    Peter's,    345. 

St.   Werburgh's,    192,    344, 

349,  360,  361. 
,  parish  of,  382, 


417 


Dublin — cont. 

City  of,   346,  371,  372,  401. 

,  Aldermen  of,  346,  351,  387. 

,  charter  of,  349,  350. 

,  ,  new,  351. 

,  Corporation  of,  351. 

,  Freedom  of,   346,   351. 

,  sword  of,  388. 

Common  Council  of,  361. 

Coombe,  the,  381. 

Custom  House  at,  346,  348,  361, 

362. 

,  letter  dated  from,  183. 

Day  of  Thanksgiving  in,  352. 

Deer  Park,  nr.,  345,  378,  384. 

Dolphin,  the,  in,  367. 

Essex  Gate  in,  375. 

Governor  of,  380. 

Grand  Jury  of,    77,    197,    198, 

201,  211,  288,  307,  363. 
,     presentments    by,    197, 

198,  201,  211. 
Harbour  of,  380. 
Hospital  Green,  in,  376. 
Inns,  Mass  said  in  the,  372. 
jury  in,  35,  351. 
libraries  in : 

Marsh's,  76,  314. 

Stillingfleet's,  314. 
lighthouses  at,  89. 
Lord  Mayor  of : 

(1686)  345,  347,  348. 

(1687)  348,  350,  361. 

(1688)  354. 

(1689)  360,  368,  372. 

(1690)  375,  379,    380,    382, 
387. 

(1706)  253,  258,  282,  308. 
Military   or   New   Hospital   in. 

See  under  Kilmainham. 
Palace  Gardens,  in,  364. 
prisons  in  : 

Blue  Boys'   Hospital  used 

as,  371. 
BrideweU,  377,  386. 
Newgate,    367,    369,    376, 

386. 
Round    Church    used    as, 

386. 
St.  Thomas'  Court  used  as, 

371. 
Trinity    College    used    as, 
371,  385,  386. 
Protestants  in,    344,    351,    369, 
367,  371,  374,  382,  383,  386, 
388. 

,  disarming  of,  36,  377. 

,  insurrection  intended  by, 

376. 
Quays  in  : 

Blind,  376. 
Merchant,  386. 

Wt.  43482. 


Dublin — cont. 

Recorder  of  : 

(1706)  292,  306. 
(1687)  349,  350,  351. 
(1689)  363. 
Roman  Catholics  in,  344,  351, 
356,  371,  375,  376,  386,  388. 
shambles  in,  378. 
ships  bound  from  and  to,  24,  86, 
92,  94,  130, 166,  239,  360,  363, 
375,  380,  381,  383,  385,  386. 
St.  Stephen's  Green  in,  366,  368, 
370,  371,  381,  382,  383,  386, 
386,  388. 
St.  Thomas'  Court  in,  137,  371. 
streets  in : 

Castle,  377,  378. 
Cook,  356. 
Cork  Hill,  373. 
Dirty  Lane,  297. 
George's  Lane,  347,  360. 
High,  343. 
Lazy  Hill,  380. 
Lime  Street,  354. 
New  Row,  359,  371. 
St.  Francis's,  343,  356. 
St.  Mary's  Lane,  288. 
Sheep,  352. 

Skinner's  Row,  344,  367. 
Smock  Alley,  184. 
Thomas,  371. 
Temple  Bar  in,  376. 
Those],  the,  in,  328, 361, 385, 388. 
Town  Qerk  of,  351. 
troops  for  and  in,  164,  166,  186, 
235,  237,  239,  252,  257,  261, 
262,  263,  265,  343,  370,  386. 

,  French  and  WaUoon,  364, 

380,  381,  382,  383,  384. 
University  of,  24,  37,  96,  193. 

,  Chancellor  of.    See  under 

Ormonde,  2nd  Duke  of. 
-,  Vice -Chancellor   of,    196, 


217,  326. 
-,  commencements  at,  196, 


217,  326. 

,  Proctors  of,  196. 

letters  dated  from,  passim. 
Dublin  Bay,  55,  119,  358,  386. 
Dxibhn   Cafitle,    83,    112,   251,    294, 

301,  348,  367,  358,  361-362, 

364,  367,  369,  371,  373,  376, 

377. 
additions  to,  246,  296,  364,  374. 
artillery  yard  at,  374. 
bowling  green  at,  374. 
chapel  of,   112. 
Constable  of,  115,  116. 

,  lodgings  of,  184. 

furniture  in,  99. 

letters  dated  from,  24,  63,  64, 

66,  66,  67,  69,  72,  77,  78,  81, 
0  27 


418 


Dublin  Castle,  letters  dated  from — 
cont. 

84,  88,  90,  92,  93,  95,  96,  116, 
119,  123,  238,  247,  293,  304, 
306. 
Dubois,  — ,  47. 

Dumas,  Captain,   189,  221,  223. 
Dimieny,  Major,  151. 
Dim,  Sir  Patrick,  182. 
Duncannon  : 

fort  of,  357. 
Governor  of,  219. 
Dundalk,  371,  382,  383,  386,  387. 
English  forces  at,  371,  372,  373, 

374. 
Protestants  expelled  from,  380. 
Dimgan,    Walter    (d.    1690),    styled 
Lord  Dungan,  359. 
regiment  of,  383. 
Dungannon : 

letter  dated  from,  237. 
Arabella,   Viscountess,   wife   of 
3rd  Viscount,  daughter  of  1st 
Baron  Hamilton,  164. 

,  letter  from,  197. 

Marcus   Trevor    (d.    1706),    3rd 
Viscount  (sue.    1693),   199. 

,  regiment  of,  61,  84,  109, 

163,  166,  170,  191,  199,  204, 
208,  213,  214,  265. 
,  ,  accounts  of,  226. 


,  letters  from,   199,  207. 

Dunkin,  Mr.,  92. 

Dunkirk,  35. 

Dunleary,  near  Dublin,  55,  348,  353, 

383. 
Dunmanway  cheese,  221. 
Dunmore,  108. 

letter  dated  from,  15. 

Park,  40. 
Dunscombe,  Colonel,  214. 
Dunstable,  188,  192. 
Diu'and,  Lieutenant-Colonel,  249. 
Durette,  Rev.  Francis,  letter  from, 

58. 
Duroure,  Captain,  49. 
Dursey,  the,  65,  66. 
Dusseldorf,  48,  133,  326. 
Dutch,  359. 

Envoy,  141. 

fleet  or  vessels,  31,  51,  70,  121, 
154,  155,  160. 

generals,  251. 

landing  in  Ireland  of,  7,  8. 

mails,  158. 

regiments,  147. 
Dyle,  river,  174. 


E 


EaglCy  the,  a  ship,  144,  240,  318. 
East  India,  390. 

Company,  petition  of,   53. 

merchantmen,     145,     191,    261, 
269,  279,  281,  314. 
Eaton,  letter  dated  from,  16. 
Echlin: 

Charles,  Comet,  85,  99,  240. 

Sir  Henry,  Baron  of  the  Ex- 
chequer (Ire.)  (1690-2,  1693- 
5),  205,  212,  216. 

,  letters  from,  abstracts  of, 

203,  211. 

Mr.,  Bm'gess  for  Newry,  21,  291. 

Robert,  Brigadier  and  later 
Major-General,  173,  190,  217, 
239,    246,    264,    281,    302. 

,  regiment  of,  99,  101,  165, 

189,  206,  217,  221,  226,  239, 
241,  246,  247,  263,  273,  286, 
309. 

,  letters  from,   80,   97,   99, 


173,  189,  203,  223,  225,  247, 
286,  299. 

alluded  to,  85. 


Robin,  202,  269. 
Eden,  letter  dated  from,  159. 
Edenderry,  87. 

letter  dated  from,  80. 
Edgar,  H.M.S.,  110. 
Edgeworth  : 

Captain,  321,  325. 
Francis,  Colonel,  Deputy  Gover- 
nor of  Kinsale  Fort,  214,  219, 
229. 

,  letters  from,  28,  99,  198, 

200,  214,  223,  229,  261,  265. 
-,  alluded  to,  85. 


Edinburgh,  62. 
Cross  of,  62. 

Liberty  of  Conscience  read  at, 
349. 
Edwards  : 

Captain,    of    H.M.S.    Triumph^ 

144. 
Jonathan,  D.D.,  Principal,  Jesus 
College,     Vice-Chancellor     of 
Oxford  (1690),  23,  32. 

,  letter  from,  24. 

,  letter  to,  24. 

Rev.     William,      letter     from, 
62. 
Egmont,  Countess  of,  335. 
Elephant,  the,  a  French  ship,  146, 
146. 


419 


Ellis: 

J.,  letter  from,  155. 

Welbore,  D.D.,  Bishop  of  Kil- 
dare  (1705-32),  Dean  of 
Christchurch,  Dublin  (1705- 
31),  168,  180,  181. 

,  letters  from,  193,  206,  314. 

,  .     See  Report  XIV, 

App.  vii,  64. 

,  letter   signed   by,  297. 

William,  154. 

Sir  William,  359,  363. 
England,  2,  7,  11,  12,  19,  21,  24, 
25,  26,  28,  29,  35,  36,  37,  39, 
45,  46,  48,  53,  55,  61,  62,  67, 
70,  77,  78,  82,  89,  92,  96,  109, 
117,  121,  125,  163,  165,  167, 
169,  184,  188,  189,  191,  192, 
213,  215,  241,  250,  251,  252, 
255,  257,  259,  262,  265,  266, 
268,  274,  275,  281,  287,  289, 
296,  311,  334,  335,  343,  346, 
348,  353,  354,  355,  357,  358, 
363,  369,  374,  375. 

Admiralty  in.  See  under  Ad- 
miralty. 

Army  of  and  in,  45,  49,  111,  367, 
401. 

,   commissions  in,   sale  of, 

138. 

,  recruiting  for,  50,  138,  200, 

332,  336. 

,  regiments  of,  50,  227,  251, 

262. 

Grenadiers,  95. 
Guards,    111,    138,    325. 

,  Coldstream,  220,  270. 

,  Horse,  21. 

Attorney -General   of,    110. 

Church  of,  43,.  85,  87,  285,  302, 
354. 

,    Bishops   of,    353,    354. 

coin  and  coinage  in,   372. 

Council  of  Trade  in,  131. 

counties  of,  141. 

,    Deputy    Lieutenants    of, 

354. 

Court  of,  61,  212,  272. 

Crown  of,  13,  69,  86,  87,  94,  98, 
112,  203,  212,  277,  294,  336, 
389,  398. 

,  prerogative  of,   186,  389. 

Customs  in,  officers  of,  182. 

Day  of  Thanksgiving  appointed 
in,  352,  353. 

Ecclesiastical  Commission  in, 
346. 

Commissioners    in,     347, 

353,  354. 

Established  Reformed  religion 
in.  See  under  Protestant  re- 
ligion in. 


England — cont. 

Establishment     in,       military, 

158,  196,  208,  247. 
exchange,  rate  of,  68,  167. 
Exchequer  of,  182. 
Excise  Act  in,  278. 
fleet  or  navy  of,  46,  51,  70,  72, 

92,   115,   119,   120,   160,   166, 

233,  234,  362,  363,  364,  371, 

373,  379,  381,  383. 

,  Commissioner  of,  110. 

impressing   or  recruiting 


for,  45,  138,  244. 
Great  or  Broad  Seal  of,  20,  395, 
398. 

,  Commissioner  for,  33. 

,  Lord  Keeper  of,  113. 

King-in-Council,  353. 

,  petition  to,  3. 

linen  trade,  of,   131. 

Lord  Treasurer  of.     See  under 

Godolphin  ;  Rochester, 
naturalised  alien  in,  70. 
non-jurors  in,  87. 
Parliament  of,   13,   34,  49,   50, 
62,   120,   122,   126,   129,   184, 
379. 

,   "free,"  353. 

,  adjournment  or  proroga- 
tion of,  53,  347. 

,  elections  for,  155,  156. 

,  grant  by,  374. 

,  Houses  of  : 

Commons,  52,  73,  120,  131, 
133,  135,  139,  353. 

,  bills  in,  139. 

, ,  Irish,  148,  151, 

395.      See    also    Parlia- 
ment, Irish  Bills  in. 

, ,  money,  36. 

,  land  tax  in,  36,  120, 

122. 
,     Marlborough's    ser- 
vices recognised  by,  132, 
133,  136. 
,  Scotch  affairs  in,  120, 


122,  123. 
-,  Speaker  of,  122. 


Lords,  35,  36,  50,  52,  59, 
120,   122,   125,  130,   136. 

,  appeal  in,  218. 

,  biUs  in,  139,  140. 

,  doorkeeper  of,  270. 

,  Scotch  affairs  in,  122, 

126. 

,     Sovereign     present 

during   debates  in,    122, 
125. 

,  Speaker  of,  132. 

— ,  Irish  Bills  for  or  in,  34, 
66,  123,  133,  150,  151,  154, 
396. 


420 


England,  Parliament  of — cont. 

,  vote  of,  131. 

Privy  Council  in,   12,  56,   116, 
208,  279,  285,  395. 

,  Bills  submitted  to,   154, 

156,  395. 

,  Board  of,  45,  153. 

,  Chamber  of,    doorkeeper 


of,  270. 
— ,  minutes  of,  153. 
Orders  of,  232. 


Protestant  religion  in,  9,  12. 
Protestants  in,  12. 
Queen-in-Couneil,  45. 
Revenue  in,  charges  on,  81,  89. 
See  also  under  Establishment 
in. 
Roman    Catholics    in,    10,    13, 
232,  352. 

,    disabilities    of,     12,    56, 

353.     See  also  under  Roman 
Catholics. 

,    priests,    registration    of, 

66. 
Secretary  of  State  for  Ireland, 
London      Office       of,       266, 
267. 
Solicitor-General    of,    66,     110, 

152. 
Sovereigns  of  : 

Anne,  42,  50,  52,  53,  54, 
57,  62,  63,  64,  65,  66,  69, 
71,  73,  75,  80,  84,  85,  87, 
90,  91,  93,  100,  109,  110, 
111,  115,  116,  120,  122, 
127,  130,  134,  148,  165, 
169,  170,  173,  175,  182, 
185,  187,  188,  200,  202, 
203,  221,  222,  231,  241, 
243,  246,  252,  255,  256, 
269,  279,  285,  291,  298, 
314,  328,  335,  337,  339, 
341,  342,  367. 
,  addresses  and  peti- 
tions to,  105,  110,  133, 
243,  250,  255,  280,  298, 
303,  304,  305,  309,  318, 
319,  331,  334. 

,  attorney  to,  110. 

-,  Household  of,  officials 


of,  270. 
— ,  pensions  granted  by, 

151,  187,  188,  315. 
— ,  toast  to,  184,  339. 
-,  letter  to,  alluded  to. 


64,  57. 
Charles  I,  8,  20,  168,  285, 

394. 
Charles  II,  20,  48,  122,  154, 

358,  393,  394,  395. 
James  II,  1,  3,  6,  7,  8,  9, 

12,    13,    14,    16,    18,    19, 


England,   Sovereigns  of,    James   II 
— cont. 

20,  24,  338,  341,  345,  347, 
348,  351,  352,  353,  354, 
355,  357,  358,  359,  360, 
362,  363,  364,  367,  368, 
369,  370,  371,  372,  373, 
374,  375,  376,  377,  378, 
379,  380,  381,  383,  384,- 
385,  386,  387,  388,  389. 

,      campaign      against 

WiUiam  III,  361,  363, 
364,  365,  366,  367,  368, 
369-388. 

,  Court  of,  367,  382. 

,   King's  evil  touched 

by,  363. 

,    petitions    addressed 

to,  353,  389,  390,  391, 
392-401. 

,  Proclamations  issued 


by,   345,   347,   348,  350, 

362,  353,  355,  356,  362, 

363,  364,  365,  366,  367, 
368,  369,  370,  372,  373, 
374,  375,  377,  379,  381, 
384. 

— ,  speeches  of,  364,  391, 
401. 

-,    toast   to,   338,  339, 


340. 

(a)  Mary,  wife  of  William 
III,   13,  71,  361,  363. 

(6)  Mary,  daughter  of  Hen- 
ry VIII,  398. 

(c)  Mary,  wife  of  James  11. 
See  under  Mary. 

William  III,  30,  32,  34, 
36,  51,  76,  93,  95,  97, 
117,  186,  202,  214,  289, 
315,  321,  326,  354,  356, 
356,  357,  358,  361,  363, 
367,  377,  379,  383,  385, 
386,  388. 

,    attempt   on   life   of, 

353,  355,  356. 
-,  campaign  in  Ireland 


of,  384,  385,  386.  See 
also  under  Ireland,  Army 
in. 

— ,  effigy  of,  366. 
— ,  grant  by  Parliament 
to,  374. 

invasion  of  England 


by,  354,  355,  356. 
— ,  landing  in  Ireland  of, 
384. 

— ,  petition  to,  34. 
— ,  prerogative  of,  37. 
— ,  toast  to,  339. 
— .       See      also     under 


Orange,  Prince  of, 


4^1 


England — cont. 

trade  with  and  in,  67,  131.    See 
also  under  Linen  and  Wool. 
Treasury  of.     See  under  Trea- 
sury. 
Union  with  Scotland.    See  under. 
Scotland. 
English  Channel,  the,  391. 
Ennis,  co.  Clare,  353. 
Enniskillen,  368,  374. 
burning  of,  343. 
siege  of,  364,  365,  367. 
condition  of   (1705),    165,    173, 

174,  175,  187. 
Corporation  of,  165. 
M.P.'s  for,  175,  221,  222. 
rebuilding  of,  221,  222. 
letter    from    Provost    and    in- 
habitants of,  187. 
Enniskilleners,  defeat  of,  367,  376. 
Entr6  Minho  e  Dom-o,  317. 
Enverlochie.     See  Inverlochy. 
Erard,  Madame,  126. 

son-in-law  of,  126. 
Erie  : 

Captain,  151. 
Mr.,  52. 

Thomas,  Lieutenant -General, 
62,  84,  92,  95,  115,  133,  134, 
294,  329. 

,  Major-General,  40,  48. 

,  regiment  of,  80,  188. 

,  letter  from.     See  Report 

VII,  771. 

,  letters  to,  99,  107,  115. 

,   .      See   also    Report 

VII,  770,  771,  772,  773,  774. 
Emley,    — ,    Commissioner    of    the 

Treasury  (1687),  347. 
Eruniney,  the,  a  ship,  35. 
Estremoz,    Portugal,     letter    dated 

from,  97. 
Eugene,   Prince,    50,    51,    102,    117, 
118,  127,  149,  179,  191,  250, 
310. 
Eustace  : 

Lady  Plumper,  217. 
Sir  Maurice,  regiment  of,   385. 
Mr.,  218,  227. 
Evans  : 

Edward,  letter  from,   193- 
George,  200. 
Lady,  68. 
Everard  or  Evererd  : 
Mr.,  184,  278,  279. 
Thomas,  letter  signed  by,   183. 
Exeter  : 

letters   dated   from,    35,    101. 
deanery  of,  168. 
Mayor  of.     See  under  Curson. 
Exeter,  the,  a  ship,  145,  231. 
chaplain  of,  146. 


Exmouth,  355. 

Expedition,    the,    packet    boat,    44, 

261,  318. 
Explanation,  Act  of,  393,  395,  398, 

401. 
Eyre,  Colonel  John,  199. 
nephew  of,  64. 
petition  of,  310,  311. 
son  of,  64,  186. 
letters  from,  64,  73,  116,   120, 
149,  186,  310. 
Eyre  Court,  letters  dated  from,  64, 
73,  120. 


Fairbome,  Sir  Stafford,  50,  85. 

letters  from,  abstracts  of,  41,  44, 
57,    70,    110,    138,    143,    147, 
160,  240,  241.     See  also  Re- 
port VII,  764. 
Fairfax : 

Captain,  H.M.S.  Torhay,  143. 
Thomas,  Brigadier-Greneral,  Go- 
vernor of  Limerick,  92,  152, 
182. 

,  letters  from,  abstracts  of, 

72,  253,  268. 
Falkland  : 

Lucius  Henry  Gary  (d.  1730), 
6th  Viscount  (sue.  1694), 
189. 

,  mother  of,  120. 

,  letters  from,  abstracts  of, 

120,    150.     See  also   Report 
XIV,  App.  vii,  64. 
Mary    (d.     1722),    Viscoimtesa, 
wife   of   above,   daughter   of 
Charles  Tancred,   189. 
Falmouth,  Cornwall,  145. 
Falmouth,  the,  a  ship,  338. 
Fanatics,  289. 
Fargote,  Madame  de,  70. 
Farley,    Captain    John,    385,    387, 

388. 
Faubert,  Monsieur,   14,   159. 
Fayal,  65,  66. 
Feilding,  Sir  Charles,  346.     See  also 

Fielding. 
Fenillade,  Due  de,  191. 
Fenn,  — ,  123. 
Fenwick,  Lieutenant,  52. 
Fergus,  King  of  Ireland,  389. 
Fermanagh,  Knight  of  the  Shire  for, 
221,  222. 


422 


li'errers,  J.,  letter  from,  abstract  of, 

17. 
Fetherston,  Lieutenant-Colonel,  114. 
Feversham,  the,  a  ship,  84. 
Feversham,  Louis  de  Diu-as  (d.  1709), 
Earl    of    (sue.     1677),    letter 
from,  abstract  of,  93. 
Fielding : 

Sir  Charles,  345,  388. 

,  letters  from,  abstracts  of, 

69,  114. 
Israel,  10. 

Lieutenant,  182,  228. 
Fielding's  Regiment,  325,  331. 
Finburg,   M.,   letter  from,   abstract 

of,  58. 
Finch,     Hon.     Leopold,     Pro-Vice- 
Chancellor,  University  of  Ox- 
ford, 42. 
letters    from,  abstracts  of,   26. 

42. 
letter  to,  1. 
Finglas,  369,  388. 
Finogh,  378. 
Finney,     Samuel,     Balliol     College, 

Oxford,  5. 
Finsbury,  283. 

Fitton,  Sir  Alexander,  Lord  Chan- 
cellor of  Ireland  (1687),  Lord 
Justice  of  Ireland  (1687-90), 
347,  351,  362,  365,  372,  381. 
knighting  of,  347. 
wife  of,  death  of,  351. 
FitzGerald  : 
Mr.,  168. 
Captain  Thomas,  388. 

,  letter  to,  331. 

William,     Bishop     of     Clonfert 
(1691-1722),  286. 
Fitzhardinge  : 

John  Berkeley  (d.  1712),  4th 
Viscount  (sue.  1690),  Gustos 
Rotulorimi  of  Somersetshire, 
232. 
Barbara  (d.  1708),  wife  of  above, 
daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Vil- 
liers,  79. 
FitzJames,   regiment   of,    369,    378, 

383. 
FitzMaurice,     W.,     Captain,     letter 

from,  abstract  of,  205. 
FitzPatrick,  — ,  134. 
Fitzreary,  Mr.,  239. 
Flaherty,  Robert,  Comet,  77,  97. 
Flanders,  21,  34,  35,  50,  55,  66,  272, 
275,  289,  292. 
campaign   in,    21,    50,    55,    66, 
165,  229,  230,  242,  296,  326, 
327,  331,  336. 
English  hospital  in,  289. 
Flax  Bill,  151. 
Fleming,  Lady  Helen,  295. 


Flood,  Mr.,  64, 
Florence,  4. 

Flower,  Captain,  Major,  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  6,  89,  250,  265. 
Floyd,  Mr.,  8. 

Foissac,     Mons.      de,     Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  151. 
Fontaine,   James,   letter   from,   ab- 
stract of,  156. 
Forbes,  Lord  Arthur,  son  of  Viscount 

Granard,  regiment  of,  354. 
Ford,  Captain,  17. 
Fort  Mountjoy,  233. 
Forster  : 

— ,   Master  of   University   Col- 
lege, 17. 
John,  Recorder  of  Dublin  (1701- 
14),   76,  204,   209,   292,   306, 
367. 
Forth,  Captain,  332. 
Foster,   Captain,    189. 
Foulkes,  Mr.,  197. 
FouUon,  Jacques,   197. 

letter  from,  abstract  of,  106. 
Fownes,  Mr.,  208. 
Fox,  the,  a  ship,  254. 

letter  dated  aboard,  184. 
Fox: 

Captain,  Major,   194,  213,  218 
Colonel,  124. 
Henry,  M.P.,  302. 
Mr.,  95,  126. 

Sir  Stephen,  Paymaster  of  the 
Forces  (Eng.)  (1660-79),  Com- 
missioner  of  the  Treasury 
(1687),  16,  347. 

,  petition  from,  318,  319. 

,  letter  from,  abstract  of, 

153. 

,  letter  to,  132. 

Foy,   Nathaniel,   Bishop  of  Water 

ford,  349. 
France,  17,  21,  67,  81,  95,  117,  121, 
127,  157,  170,  252,  310,  330, 
345,  347,  348,  357,  362,  364, 
371,  374,  375,  376,  380,  383, 
384,  401. 
Court  of,  118. 
Dauphin  of,  death  of,  382. 
emigration  from,  347. 
Irish  troops  in  service  of,  127. 
King  of,  18,  112,  127,  260,  334, 

354,  362,  401. 
merchants  of,  65. 
Protestants  in,  33. 
trade  with,  65,  108,  123,  131. 
Francis  : 

Captain,  236. 
ali<is  Davidson,  246. 
Frankfort,  letter  dated  from,  326. 
Franks,      Richard,      Colonel,      334, 
335. 


423 


Freastone : 

(a)  Mr.,  50. 
(6)  Mr.,  50. 
Freeman,  Richard,  Lord  Chancellor 
of    Ireland    (1707-10),    Chief 
Baron  of  the  Exchequer  (Ire.), 
(1706),    243,    274,    276,    315, 
321,  322,  328,  330. 
French,  the,   47,   63,   96,    124,    191, 
233    375. 
Ambassador,  18,  366,  367,  377, 

384. 
arms,  365,  369. 

fleet  or  vessels,  63,  65,  66,  111, 
185,  234,  314,  318,  338,  363, 
364,  367,  369,  371,  373,  376, 
377,  378,  379,  380,  381,  384. 
.    See  also  under  Privateer- 
ing. 
Huguenots,  385. 
invasion  of  Ireland  by,  feared, 

14,  18,  63,  360,  363. 
officers,   89,   92,   124,   364,   379, 

380,  384. 
troops  in  Ireland,  360,  362,  363, 
364,  365,  366,  373,  380,  382, 
383,  384,  387. 
French,  — ,  Dean  of  Christ  Church, 

Oxford,  348. 
Frend,  Friend  : 

Colonel,  M.P.,  302. 
Mr.,  281. 
Fretwell,  Lady,  102. 
Freyberg  Letter,  351,  353. 
Fridberg,  letter  dated  from,   168. 
Friperg,  the  Camp  at,  letter  dated 

from,  102. 
Frize  (?  Friesland),  Prince  of,  party 

of,  51. 
Frodsham,  31. 
Frontiera,  Marquis  of,  317. 


Gallant,  Captain,  246. 
Gabnoye,  Piers  Butler  (d.  1740),  3rd 
Viscount    (sue.    1667),    Privy 
Councillor    (Ire.)    (1686),    16, 
29,  344,  345,  346,  363. 
letter  from,  15. 
letter  to,  3. 
Galway  : 

Bay,  319. 


Galway — cont. 

county  and  town  of,  81,  108, 
318,  379. 

guns  at,  105. 

M.P.  for,  186. 

prisoners  from,  386. 

Sheriff  of,  120,  186. 

troops  for  and  in,  81,  235,  243, 
262,  264,  269. 

letters  dated  from,  115,  149. 

Henry  Massue  de  Ruvigny  (d. 
1720),  1st  Earl  of  (cr.  1692), 
160,  272. 

,  letter  from,  75. 

, ,  abstract  of,  99,  203, 

See  also  Report  VII,  762. 
Garcia,    Dr.    Francisco,    Consul    at 

Gibraltar,  57. 
Gardiner  : 

Bernard,  of  Magdalen  College, 
Oxford,  5. 

Rev.  — ,  D.D.,  Warden  of  All 
Souls  College,  Oxford,  257. 

,  letter  from,  abstract  of, 

107. 
Garter,  Knights  of  the,  364. 
Garth,  Dr.,  138,  173. 
Gascoigne  : 

Edward,  letters  from,  21,  22. 

Henry,  secretary  to  1st  and 
2nd  Dukes  of  Ormonde, 
Chamberlain  in  the  Ex- 
chequer (Ire.),  Treasurer  of 
Kilmainham  Hospital,  2,  3. 

,  absence  of,  license  for,  3. 

,  letters  from,  abstracts  of, 

8,  29,  31,  32. 

letters  to,  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  8, 


15,  16,  17,  18,  20,  21,  22,  23, 
24,  25,  26,  28,  29,  30,  31,  32, 
38. 

Mrs.,  5. 
Gay,  the  Quaker,  347,  350. 
Gayer,  Sir  Robert,  46. 
Gazette,  the  London,  109. 
Gazettes,  the,  121,  161,  380. 

suppression  of,  355,  360. 
Geneva  : 

letter  dated  from,  143. 

,  alluded  to,  285. 

Geoghegan,  Mr.,  377. 

Germans,  the,  164. 

Germany,  47,  50,  94,  108,  133. 

campaign     in,     50,     51,      102, 
133. 

Courtof,  46,  47. 

horses  in,  47. 

Princes  of,  47. 
Gerona,  Spain,  234. 

Governor  of,  280. 
Gerrard,  Sir  GHbert,  237. 
Grery,  Captain,  161. 


4^4 


Crhent,  letters  dated  from,  231,  296, 

297    299    323. 
Gibraltar, '  57,    122,    123,    124,    125, 
126,  189,  332. 
Rock  of,  318. 
siege  of,  146,  149,  280. 
Gibbs,  Captain,  245. 
Gifford,  William,  Captain,  322. 
GiKord,    Richard,   waterman,    31. 
Glamis,  letter  dated  from,  275. 
Glasnevin,  the  English  at,  388. 
Glegston,  Captain,  321. 
Glibb,  the,  366. 
Gloutonne,  a  French  ship,  145. 
Glynn,    Sir    William,    letter    from, 

alluded  to,  333. 
Goddard,  Godart,  Captain,  92,  219, 
230. 
brother  of,  219. 
Godolphin,    Sydney    (d.    1712),    1st 
Baron     G.     of     Rial  ton     (cr. 
1684),  1st  Earl  of  (cr.  1706), 
Lord  Treasurer  (Eng.)  (1684- 
6,  1690-6,   1700-1,   1702-10), 
Commissioner  of  the  Treasury 
(1687),    Lord    Justice    (Eng.) 
(1695-6,    1701),   63,   62,    107, 
110,  111,  123,  130,  133,  135, 
139,  153,  177,   182,  212,  228, 
231,  247,  262,  266,  299,  307, 
347. 
letters    from,     318.      See    also 
Report  VII,    767,    770,    776, 
778,  779,  780. 

,  alluded  to,  85,  157. 

letter  signed  by,  45 
letters  to,   134,    155.     See  also 
Report  VII,    769,    770,    777, 
778,  779. 

,     alluded     to,     53,      156, 

157. 
Good  Hope,  Cape  of,  145. 
Goodiere,  Comet,  248. 
Goodinge,     Thomas,     letter     from, 

abstract  of,  153. 
Goodrich,  Sir  Harry,  185. 
Goold,  James,  Ensign,  61. 
Gordon  : 

George  (d.   1716),   1st  Duke  of 

(cr.   1684),   121. 
Lewis,  84,  89,  92. 

wife  and  family  of,  89. 


Gore 


family  of,  289. 

Humphrey,  Lieutenant-Colonel, 

later  Brigadier-General,    196, 

324,  325. 
,  letters  from,  abstracts  of, 

103,  108,  244. 
Sir  Robert,  388. 
WilUam,   Captain,   letter  from, 

abstract  of,  300. 


Gorges : 

Dick,  157. 

Lieutenant-General,  regiment 
of,  331. 

Samuel,     Justice    of    Common 
Pleas  (Ire.)   (1687),   350. 
Gormanstown,  371. 

Jenico    Preston,    7th    Viscount 
(sue.   1643),  Privy  Councillor 
(Ire.)  (1686),  346,  346,  362. 
Gorsuch,  John,  266. 
Gosling : 

— ,  32,  33. 

Charles,  letters  to,  32,  33,    34. 
Grace : 

John,  Colonel,  regiment  of, 
368. 

Richard,    Colonel,   letter   from, 
abstract  of,  2. 
Grafton,  the,  a  ship,  143. 
Graham  : 

Comet,  85. 

Thomas,    Ensign,    letter    from, 
abstract  of,  21. 
Granard  : 

Mary  (d.  1724),  Countess  of, 
wife  of  2nd  Earl  of  (m.  1678), 
daughter  of  Sir  George  Raw- 
don,  grandson  of.  111. 

,  letter  from.   111. 

Arthur  Forbes,  1st  Viscount 
(cr.  1675),  Lord  Justice  of 
Ireland  (1685),  307,  343,  362, 
371. 

,  journeys  of,  343,  346. 

Grandison : 

John  FitzGerald,  alias  Villiers 
(d.  1766),  5th  Viscoimt  (sue. 
1699),  63. 

,  marriage  of,  219. 

,  petition  of,  114. 

,  letter  from,   113. 

Catherine,  cr.  Viscountess  (1700), 
wife  of  Edward  FitzGerald, 
alias  Villiers,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  FitzGerald,  99,  219, 
269,  279,  281. 

Frances  (d.  1766),  Viscountess, 
wife  of  5th  Viscount  as  above 
(m.    1706),   daughter  of  Ed- 
ward Gary,  219. 
Grandtestle,  Lord,  148. 
Grantham  : 

Henry  D'Auverquerque,  Earl  of 
(d.  1754),  son  of  Henry  de 
Nassau,  Lord  of  Auverquer- 
que,  48,  298. 

,  pension  of,  318. 

,  letter  from,  140. 

, ,  abstract  of,  124. 


,  letter  to,  318. 

Grantham,  Rev.  — ,  105. 


4^5 


Granville,  John  (d.  1707),  1st  Baron 
(cr.   1703),  92. 
letter  signed  by,  45. 
Grattan,  Rev.  Robert,  292. 
Gravesend  Beach,  letter  dated  from, 

13. 
Graydon,  John,  Captain,  letter  to, 

31. 
Gray's  Inn,  2. 

Greenfield,  Sir  Christopher,  address 
from,  42. 
letter  to,  42. 
Greenhill,  letter  dated  from,  26. 
Greenhill,   Mr.,   Sub -Brigadier,    165, 

156. 
Oreenwichy  the,  a  ship,  26,  119. 
Gregory : 

Rev.    — ,    D.D.,  Savilian    Pro- 
fessor, Oxford,   162. 
Sir  Edward,  147. 
Mr.,  (d.  1670),  283,  284. 
Greydon,  Mr.,  57.    /See  o^«o  Graydon. 
Greville,  Captain,  191. 
Griffith,  Lieutenant,  130. 
Grimaudet,  Captain,  321. 
Grimes  : 

Captain-Lieutenant,  240. 
WiUiam,  250. 
Grosvenor,  Mr.,  132. 
Guelder,  296. 
Gueraud,  M.,  93. 
Guidenghien    Camp,     letter     dated 

from,  260. 
Guildford,  letters  dated  from,   161, 

180. 
Guiscard,  Mons.,    brother    of,    127, 
128. 
letters  from,    127,    151,    156. 
letter  to,  152. 


H 


Hackett : 

Sir  James,  101. 

Sir    Thomas,    Lord    Mayor    of 
Dublin  (1687),  351. 
Hague,  The,  120,  185,  299,  390. 
Envoy  of  State  at,  374. 
letters    dated   from,    114,    117, 
118,  121,  127,  151,  156,  177, 
181,  185,  189,  192,  239,  250, 
298,  310,  316,  320. 
VieUe  Cour  k  1^,  128. 
Haguenau,  181. 


Hale,    John,    Colonel,   refriment   of, 

59. 
Hales,   Sir  Edward,   Lieutenant   of 
the  Tower  (apptd.  1687),  345, 
350,  352. 
regiment  of,  59. 
Halifax : 

Charles  Montagu  (d.  1715),  Ist 
Baron  (cr.  1700),  1st  Earl  of 
(cr.  1714),  Lord  Commissioner 
of  the  Treasury  (Eng.)  (1694- 
9),  Chancellor  of  the  Ex- 
chequer (1694-9),  157,  216, 
250,  299. 

,  letter  for,  alluded  to,  157. 

,  letter  from,  152. 

George    Savile    (d.    1695),    Ist 
Marquis  of  (cr.  1682),  19. 
Hall: 

(a)  John,  D.D.,  Master  of  Pem- 
broke College,  Oxford,  32. 

,  letter  from,  30. 

(6)  John,  Vice-Provost,  Trinity 
College,  Dublin,  37. 
Halley,  Hally  or  Haly  : 

Edmund,  Captain,  Professor  of 

Geometry,  Oxford,  161. 
Mr.,  l34. 
Halton,  Timothy,  Provost  of  Queen's 

College,  Oxford,  23. 
Hamburg,   letters   dated   from,    34, 
I  332. 

I     Hamel,  Hugh,  letter  from,  abstract 
I  of,  293. 

j     Hamilton : 

i  Anthony,  Colonel,  Privy  Coim- 

i  cillor  (Ire.)  (1689),  362. 

Archibald,    Lord,    letter    from, 

213. 
Sir  Francis,  296. 

,  regiment  of,  100. 

Frederick,  Brigadier-General, 
regiment  of,  66,  80,  170  (?). 

,  letters  from,  49,  50. 

Gustavus,  Brigadier-General, 
Governor  of  Athlone,  regi- 
ment of,  124,  170  (?),  235, 
237. 

,  son  of,  291. 

,  letters  from,  71,  95,  116. 

Sir  Hans,  88. 

,  letter  from,  199. 

,  ,  alluded  to,  88. 

Hans,    Attorney,    Burgess    for 

Newry,  291. 
(a)  James,  wife  of,  34. 

,  letter  from,  34. 

(6)  James  (d.  1712),  4th  Duke 
of  (sue.   1698),  62,   121,  334. 

,  party  of,  184. 

,  regiment  of,  243. 

John,  266. 


4^6 


Hamilton — cont. 

Richard,  Colonel,  Privy  Coun- 
ciUor  (Ire.)  (1686),  345,  358, 
362,  379. 
— ,  374. 

— f  a  privateer,  367. 
Hampton  Court,  letters  dated  from, 

234,  331. 
Handasyde,  Thomas,  Colonel,  letter 

from,  89. 
Handcock  : 

Rev.  Matthew,  chaplain  to  2nd 

Duke  of  Ormond,  104,  105. 
Mr.,  M.P.  for  Meath,  291. 
Haniden,  Mr.,  25. 
Hanmer,  Sir  Thomas,  letters  from, 
320,  333. 
his  house  in  Pall  Mall,  334. 
Hannington,  John,  70. 
Hanover,  258. 

Court  of,  46,  194,  195. 
George  Lewis,  Elector  of  (1678), 
afterwards  King  of  England, 
102,   194,   195,  326,  327. 
Sophia  of  Zell  (d.   1726),  Elec- 
tress  of,  46,  194,  195,  327. 

,  son  of,  46,  195. 

House  of,  87,  203. 

,  succession  of,  242. 

,  toast  to,  339. 

letter  dated  from,  194. 
Hans-en-kelder,  352. 
Harcourt : 

Comet,  196,  200,  205. 
Sir      Simon,      Solicitor-General 
(Eng.)     (1702-7),     Attorney- 
General  (Eng.)  (1707-10),  55, 
110,  152. 

,  letters  from.     See  Report 

VIT,  768,  777. 
-,  letters  to,  39,  40,  41. 


Hardishe,  Mr.,  155. 
Hardy : 

Arthur,  letter  signed  by,  39. 
Sir  Thomas,   144,  279,  281. 
Hardye,    Thos.,    letter    signed    by, 

39. 
Hargrave,  Captain,  89. 
Harley,  Robert,  Secretary  of  State 
(1704-6),  Speaker  of  House  of 
Commons      (Eng.)      (1700-1, 
1702-5),  122,  162,  327. 
letters  from,  172,  256. 

,  alluded  to,  84. 

Harman,  Wentworth,  Colonel,  Com- 
mander of  Guard  of  Battle- 
axes,  5. 
letters  from,  73,  93,  308. 
letter  signed  by,  39. 
letter  to,  5. 
Harper,  Captain,  136. 
Harrabin,  Mrs.,  14. 


Harris : 

Captain,  275. 

Henry,  letter  from,  abstract  of, 

116. 
Mr.,  143. 

Nathaniel,    of   Hart   Hall,    Ox- 
ford, 23. 
Robert,  letter  signed  by,  39. 
Harrison  : 

James,  11. 

Lieutenant,  89,  218,  248. 
Matthew,  nephew  of,  5. 
Mr.,  143. 
Sedgwick,  257. 

Thomas,   Captain,   letter  from, 
abstract  of,    141. 
Harrison's  regiment,  325. 
Harte,  Captain,  218. 

death  of,  226. 
Hartlib,  Rev.  — ,  Chaplain  to  2nd 
Duke  of  Ormonde,  105,  107. 
Hartnell,     Captain     H.M.S.     Royal 

Sovereign,  144. 
Hartstonge  : 

John,  Bishop  of  Ossory  (1693- 
1714),  Bishop  of  Derry  (1714- 
17),  98,  106,  108,  180,  221, 
289. 

,    letters    from,    168,    195, 

289,  299. 

letter  to,  106. 


Mr.,  32,  159. 
Sir   Standish,   Bart.,    Baron   of 
the  Exchequer,  105,  345. 
Harvey ; 

Captain  John,  300. 
Colonel,    afterwards    Brigadier- 
General,  40,  53,  340. 

,  regiment  of,  48,  53,  325. 

Harwich,  letter  dated  from,   173. 

Hassett,  Mr.,  22. 

Hastings,  Colonel,  regiment  of,  20. 

Hastwell,  Kerus,  126. 

Hatfield,  letter  dated  from,  88. 

Hatton  : 

Sir  John,  Bart.,  114. 
Robert,  114. 
Haughton,  Mr.,  88. 
Haversham,     Sir    John    Thompson 
(d.  1701),  1st  Baron  (cr.  1696), 
120. 
Hawley,  Captain,  Deputy  and  later 
Lieutenant-Governor  of  Kin- 
sale,  214,  339. 
letter  from,  alluded  to,  339. 
Haydock,  Josias,  Deputy  Recorder 
of   Kilkenny,   letters   to,    33, 
355. 
Hearth  Money.     See  under  Ireland. 
Hebbume,  Arthur,  Major,  later  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, 64,  73,  217. 
letters  from,    190,   300,   323. 


427 


Hedges,  Sir  Charles,  46.  I 

letters  from,   abstract  of,    156. 

See  also  Report  VII,  764,  774, 

775,  779. 
letter  to,  203.     See  also  Report 

VII,  770,  776,  777,  778,  779. 
Helchin,   letter  dated  from,   251. 
Hemlock,   Denham,  tailor,   22. 
Hemp  Bill,   151. 
Hemi,   Henry,   Chief  Baron  of   the 

Exchequer  (Ire.),  superseded 

(1687),  350. 
Hennessy,  — ,  350,  351. 
Hennington,  Ensign,  164. 
Herbert : 

Rev.  Charles,  letter  from,   167. 
Edward,     Lord     Chief     Justice 

Common  Pleas  (Eng.)  (1687), 

364. 
Henry    (d.     1710),     1st    Baron 

Herbert  of  Cherbury  (cr.  1 696), 

307. 
Herenhanse,  letter  dated  from,  165. 
Herenthals  (Herentals),  117. 
Heme,     Captain,     H.M.S.     Graftoriy 

143. 
Hertford,     Algernon     Seymour     (d. 

1750),    styled   Earl   of,    Duke 

of  Somerset  (sue.  1748),  250. 
Hervey,     John     (d.     1751),     Baron 

Hervey  of  Ickworth  (cr.  1703), 

1st  Earl  of  Bristol  (cr.  1714), 

letter  from,  143. 
Hesse  : 

George,  Elector,  Landgrave  of, 

51. 
Prince  of,  51,  280. 
,  letters  from.    See  Report 

VII,  764,  765,  767. 
Hickes,    John,    Deputy    Mayor    of 

Bristol,  letter  from,   15. 
Hickman,  Rev.  C,  letter  from,  46. 
Hiems,  Colonel,  141. 
Higgins,    Rev.    — ,    Prebend   of    St. 

Michael's   in    Christ   Church, 

207,  302,  333,  334. 
Hill,  Mrs.,  127. 
Hinton,  Rev.  John,  D.D.,  domestic     i 

chaplain    to     2nd    Duke    of 

Ormonde,  114,  193,  195. 
Hoare,  Alderman,  of  Cork,  84,  88. 
Hochstadt  Camp,  letter  dated  from, 

191. 
Hodnet,  100,  193. 

letters  dated  from,  188,  192. 
Holdrich,  Francis,  Major,   181. 
Holing,  Mr.,  172. 
Holland,  25,  30,  46,  48,  49,  50,  51, 

55,  58,  61,  70,  141,  170,  219, 

258,  260,  352,  390. 
arms  exported  from  and  made 

in,  164,  220,  250,  288. 


Holland — cont. 

Army  of,  266,  295,  299. 

Deputies  of,  251. 

English  Army  in,  26,  49,  118, 

331. 
Envoy  of,   141. 

letters  received  from,  158,  160. 
officers  return  from,   192,   352, 

353. 
Pensioner  of,  218. 
States-General  of,  156. 
Statholder  of,  51. 
HoUoway,  Sir  Richard,  Justice  Kings 
Bench  (Eng.)  (1683-88),  353. 
Hollow-swords-blades  Bill,    151. 
Holroyd,  Major,  172. 
Holt,  Sir  John,  Lord  Chief  Justice 
of  King's  Bench  (Eng.)  (168^- 
1710),  206,  278. 
Holyhead,   119,  124,  150,  166,  188, 
229,  239,  348. 
letter  dated  from,  32. 
Bay,  119,  254. 
Holywell,  21. 
Hombourg,  117. 
Honunborgh,  Marshal,  325. 
Hook,  Nathaniel,  Major,  384. 
Hooker,  the,  a  gaUey,  318. 
Hopkins,  Ezekiel,  Bishop  of  Derry 

(1681-90),  20,  36. 
Hops  Bm,  151,  278. 
Hopson,   Sir  Thomas,   Governor  of 

Greenwich  Hospital,  110. 
Home,  Thomas,  Fellow  of  Pembroke 
College,  Oxford,  letter  signed 
by,  30. 
letter  to,  32. 
Horse  Grenadiers,  270. 
Hough,    John,    D.D.,    President    of 
Magdalen     College,     Oxford, 
Bishop      of     Coventry     and 
Lichfield  (1699-1717),  Bishop 
of  Worcester  (1717-43),  23. 
letters  from,  25,  29.     See  also 
Report  XIV,  pt.  vii,  60. 
Hoimslow      Heath,      robbery      on, 

143. 
House,    Richard,    letter    from,    ab- 
stract of,  177. 
Hove,   Camp    on  the,    letter  dated 

from,  97.  , 

How,  Mrs.,  195. 
Howard  : 

Captain,  231,  239,  241. 
Charles,  son  of  Earl  of  Suffolk, 

105,  231. 
Lord     Thomas,     of     Worksop, 
362. 
Howe,  Emanuel,  Brigadier-General, 
letters  from,  abstracts  of,  149, 
162. 
HoweU,  Ensign,  260. 


4^8 


Sowth,    Hill    of,    near  Dublin,  371, 
373. 
lighthouse  on,  89. 

Hoy,  Thomas,  Fellow  of  St.  John's 
College,  Oxford,  21. 

Hoylake,  near  Liverpool,  31,  111, 
114,  257. 

Huggard,   Captain,   358. 

Hume  : 

Sir    Gustavus,    165,    173,    176, 

221,  222. 
Lady,  34. 

Hungarians,  134. 

Hungary,  50,  102. 

Hunt: 

Edward,  letter  signed  by,  39. 
(a)  John,  Chaplain  of  St.  Cross, 

23,  24. 
(6)  John,  Deputy  Lieutenant 
of  Somersetshire,  letter  signed 
by,  233. 
William,  Fellow  of  Pembroke 
College  Oxford,  letter  signed 
by,  30. 

Hunter,  Mrs.,  140. 

Huntingdon,  Theophilus  Hastings, 
7th  Earl  of  (sue.  1656), 
Ecclesiastical  Commissioner 
(apptd.  1687),  347. 

Himtington,  Robert,  D.D.  (d.  1701), 
Provost  Trinity  College,  Dub- 
lin (1683-92),  Bishop  of  Rap- 
hoe  (1701),  36. 

Hussy,  Colonel,  92. 

Huy,  158. 


I 


Ickleton  [co.    Camb.],    near   SaflPron 

Walden,  Essex,  4. 
Ikerrin : 

(a)  Pierce  Butler  (d.  1688),  2nd 

Viscoiint    (sue.    1674),    Privy 

Councillor  (Ire.)  (1686),   344, 

345. 
(6)  Pierce  Butler  (d.  1710),  3rd 

Viscount  (sue.  1688),  72,  99, 

134,  205,  211. 

,  death  of,  325. 

,  regiment  of,  109,  116,  165, 

170,  191,  196,  205,  214,  246, 

254,  262,  273,  309,  324,  329. 
-,  letters  from,  abstracts  of. 


109,  183,  209,  245.  See  also 

Report  XIV,  App.  vii,     62. 

Impropriations    forfeited.  Bill    for, 
297. 


Inchiquin,  William  O'Brien  (d.  1719), 
3rd  Earl  of  (sue.  1692),  62, 
116,  183. 

Governor  of  Kinsale  Fort,  214. 

Mayor  or  Deputy  Mayor  of  Kil- 
kenny,   116,    117. 

regiment  of,  78,  84,  92,  99,  109, 
164,  165,  170,  191,  228,  235, 
243,  248,  253,  255,  262,  264, 
269,  275,  279,  281. 

letters  from,  and  abstracts  of, 
61,  64,  70,  78,  92,  99,  117, 
164,  191,  219,  228,  248,  253, 
255,  269,  279,  281,  289,  294. 
See  also  Report  XIV,  App. 
vii,  63. 
Ingoldsby : 

(a)  Richard,  Lieutenant-Gener- 
al,  177,  178,  181,  192,  220, 
230,  284,  295. 

,  patent  for,  189,  196,  200, 

220. 

,  letters  from  and  abstracts 

of,  148,  174,  185,  189,  227, 
251,  255,  256,  257,  288,  291, 
297,  299,  321,  322,  325,  331, 
332. 

alluded  to,  187,  196. 


(6)  Richard,  Lieutenant  Gover- 
nor of  American  Provinces, 
320. 

,  letter  from,  319. 

Ingram,  Rev.  — ,  114. 
Inverlochy  (Enverlochie),  62. 
Ipswichy  the,  a  ship,  144. 
Ireland,  passim. 

absentees     from,     estates     of, 

seized,  364,  367,  381. 
arms  in,  77,  85,  92,  98,  101,  105, 
141,  153,  220,  309,  350,  356, 
357,  358,  359,  361,  362,  364, 
367,  370,  374. 

,  import  of,  220,  250,  288, 

295,  299,  369,  377. 

,  Hcense  for,  72,  74. 

,  return  of,  46. 

-,  storage  of,  15,  16,  29,  101, 


105,  153,  174,  294. 
Army  in,  troops  of,  for  service 
abroad,  arms,  clothing,  and 
equipment  for,  6,  7,  8,  23, 
25,  26,  27,  28,  31,  38,  41,  49, 
54,  64,  66,  68,  71,  73,  77,  80, 
81,  82,  84,  88,  90,  93,  95, 
100,  103,  105,  107,  108,  113, 
119,  122,  124,  126,  131,  136, 
148,  149,  162,  163,  164,  166, 
169,  170,  171,  172,  174,  175, 
177,  178,  182,  185,  186,  188, 
189,  191,  192,  193,  194,  196, 
197,  199,  204,  206,  209,  211, 
216,  217,  220,  232,  235,  237, 


429 


Ireland  :  Army  in,  troops  of,  for  ser- 
vice abroad,  arms,  clothing,  and 
equipment  for — cont. 

240,  241,  245,  250,  251,  252, 
256,  261,  262,  263,  264,  267, 
269,  273,  286,  293,  295,  316, 
316,  318,  319,  323,  331,  332, 
346,  350. 

,  commissions  in,  letters  of. 

See  under  Letters  Patent. 

,  purchase  and  sale 


of,  50,  52,  70,  71,  96,  97,  123, 
124,  141,  143,  149,  151,  155, 
190,  196,  200,  205,  218,  219, 
221,  223,  225,  226,  228,  229, 
230,  231,  236,  238,  239,  240, 
241,  246,  261,  268,  281,  288, 
294,  300,  322,  332,  335,  336. 
— ,  Engineering  and  Survey- 
ing General  of,  333. 
— ,  General  Officers  of.  Board 
of  and  Minutes  of,  163,  165, 
166,  331,  333,  334,  335. 
— ,  increase  of,  recruiting  for, 
recruiting  officers  of,  14,  15, 
23,  50,  52,  55,  56,  58,  59,  60, 
69,  72,  74,  80,  81,  90,  99,  103, 
108,  109,  111,  116,  117,  119, 
120,  122,  123,  125,  134,  139, 
141,  146,  155,  173,  177,  180, 
182,  184,  186,  188,  189,  190, 
198,  199,  200,  205,  206,  207, 
209,  213,  227,  241,  245,  253, 
261,  265,  266,  267,  269,  273, 
280,  281,  297,  323,  325,  326, 
330,  332,  346,  354,  358. 
— ,  recruiting  for,  in  England, 
71,  81,  103,  180,  184,  186,  188, 
190,  261,  267,  269. 

— ,   ,    for  expedition  to 

Portugal.    See  under  Portugal. 

— ,    ,    levy    money    for, 

60,  64,  69,  82,  84,  85,  89,  94, 
98,  99,  100,  107,  124,  126,  148, 
149,  208,  265. 

Lieutenant-General  of,  63, 


69,  74,  95,  100,  280,  343,  345, 
365. 

— ,  Major-General  of,  68,  173. 
— ,  movements  of,  14,  18,  21, 
41,  79,  100,  158,  164,  166, 
167,  170,  175,  176,  188,  194, 
196,  214,  235,  236,  2.37,  239, 
240,  242,  243,  247,  248,  250, 
257,  261,  262,  263,  286,  295, 
343,  361,  362,  363,  364,  365, 
366,  369,  370,  382. 

Muster  Master  of,  18,  89, 


298,  333. 


rolls,  89,  235. 


— ,  officers  of,  leave  of  absence 
fpr.    See  under  Absence. 


Ireland  :  Army  in — cont. 

,   Paymaster  or  Treasurer 

for,  227,  288. 

,  Provost-Marshal  of,  246. 

,      Quarter-Master-General 

of,  64,   188,  247. 
,   regiments   of,    122,    149, 

172,  191,  247,  248,  253,  254, 

329. 

,  ,  chaplains  to,  65. 

-,  Battleaxes,  Guard  of 


the,  72,  73,  74,  93,  113,  308, 
343. 

— ,  ,  Dragoons,   49,   89, 

155,  217,  229,  235,  236,  241, 
242,  246,  247,  263,  299,  329, 
330,  336. 

-,  Guards,  Horse,  217, 


344. 

— , ■-, , Irish,  109,  111, 

116,  129,  134,  137,  138,  139, 

141,  143,  149,  162,  196,  213, 

214,  325,  343. 

— , , ,  Life,  343,  344. 

— , ,  Horse,  229,  235,  236, 


241,  242,  247,  262,  263,  273. 
-,   Royal,    345,    349, 


354. 

— ,  Roman  Catholics  in,  81, 
344,  351. 
-,  soldiers  from,  transferred 


to  English  Army.    See  under 
Irish. 
-,    Siu-geon-General   of,    18, 


20. 


-,    partizan  of  James  11 : — 
account  of  movements  of, 

356-388. 
billeting  of,   373. 
desertions  from,   358,  359, 

369,  374,  380. 
Lieutenant-General  of,  366. 
officers  of,  and  regulations 

for,    368,   372,   373,   377, 

378,  379. 
pay  of,  374. 
regiments  of,  363,  367,  370, 

376. 

,  Cavahy,  367. 

,  Dragoons,  367,    371, 

386,  388. 
-,  Guards,   Horse,    366, 


377. 


-,  Irish,  382,  383. 

, ,  Life,  365,  376. 

,  Royal,  369,  370,  382, 

383,  385,  387. 
-,  partizan  of  William  m : — 
account  of  movements  of, 

361,  368-379,  381-388. 
desertions  from,  370,  373. 
General  of,  383. 


430 


Ireland :  Army  in,  partizan  of  Wil- 
liam III — cont. 

regiment  of  Dutch  Guards, 
388. 

Enniskillen     Horse, 

387. 
Array,    Commissioners    of,    in, 

368. 

Assizes  in,  Judges  of,  349,  350. 

Attorney -General  of,  307.     See 

also   under   Domville,    Wm.  ; 

Levinge,     Richard ;      Nagle, 

Richard  ;    Rochford,   Robert. 

ballads,  license  for  priuting  of, 

in,  345. 
cattle,  seizure  of,  in,  384. 
Church  in,  63,  66,  87,  115,  297, 
328,   337,   345. 

,  Convocation  of,  135,  180, 

288,  357. 

-,  Queen's  license  for, 

— , ,  writ  for  prorogation 

of,  288. 

— ,  divisions  in,  198. 

— ,  Lords  Spiritual  of,  301. 

— ,  Lower  House  of,   301. 

Presbyterian      form     of 


135. 


government    for,    friends    of, 
274. 
churches    in,    seizure    of,    372, 

373,  374,  375. 
Civil  List  in.    See  under  Revenue 

iQ,  charges  on. 
Clerk  of  the  Crown  in,   307. 
coin,  coining,  coinage  in,  34,  35, 
182,  348,  352,  362,  371,  372, 
375,  376,  377,  379,  380,  381, 
385. 

,  brass,  lead,  pewter,  365, 

366,  370,  371,  372,  374,  376, 
377,  379,  380,  381,  382,  384, 
388. 

,    exchange,    rate    of,    68, 

347,  359,  362,  366,  370,  375, 
377,  385,  397. 

,   import   and    scarcity   of, 

69,  182,  260,  347,    365,    374, 
375. 
Commission    in,    on    Defective 
Titles,   styled  Commission  of 
Grace,  395,  398. 
Comptroller  in,  80,  83. 
Corporations    in  : 

Charters  of,  349,  350. 
King's  letter  to,  346. 
Courts-of -Law  in : 

Chancery,  96,  148,  268. 

,  Masters  in,  96,   351, 

352. 
Claims,  372,  379. 
Common  Pleas,  105. 


Ireland  :  Courts -of -Law  in — cont. 

,  Justices  of,  350. 

Exchequer,  105,  329. 
,  Barons  of,  279.     See 

also     under     BamewaU  ; 

Echlin  ;   Lynch  ;   Worth. 
,    ,    Chief.        See 


under  Donelan ;  Free- 
man ;  Henn. 
,  ,  ,  appoint- 
ment of,  200,  201,  204, 
205,  206,  209,  210,  216, 
225,  235,  236,  239,  243. 
KiQg's  or  Queen's  Bench, 
2,  38,  77,  197,  288,  329, 
339. 

,    Lord    Chief    Justice 

of.       See      under     Cox ; 
Davis  ;  Nugent ;  Pyne. 
Customs  in,  officers  of,  14. 
emigration     of    families    from, 
346,  347,  356,  357,  359,  386, 
397. 
English  regiments  for,  126. 
English  in,  25,  74,  132,  356,  377, 

379,  380,  396. 
English  forces  in,  367,  368,  369, 
370,  371,  372,  374,  376,  377, 

379,  382,  385. 

,  General  of,  369,  383. 

Establishment    in,    55,    59,    65, 

68,  75,  89,  157,  208,  247,  332, 
333. 

,    charges    on.      See   under 

Revenue  in,  charges  on. 
events  in,  diary  of,  343-388. 
fortifications  in,  and  repair  of, 

69,  70,  80. 

Government  in,  the,  3,  72,  87, 
112,  131,  164,  179,  180,  198, 
204,  264,  265,  275,  293,  305, 
354,  356,  357,  377,  382,  386, 
388. 

,  liviQg  in  gift  of,  337. 

Great  Seal  of,  220,  268,  348. 

hay  and  oat  crop  in,  370,  372, 
374,  375,  380,  384. 

,  rates  on,   377,   378,   379, 

380,  381. 

hearth  money  in,  112,  350,  358. 
invasions  of,  feared,  74,  75. 


,  French,  14,  18,  360,  363. 

Jacobites  in,  338. 

judges  in,  72,  365. 

juries  in,  composition  of,   344. 

,  Grand,  77,  288. 

lighthouses  in,  89,  183. 

linen  trade   of,    131,    134,    168, 

177. 
,  Act  regulating.    See  under 

Linen, 


431 


Ireland — cont. 

Lord  Chancellor  of,  52.  See  also 
under  Boyle  ;  Cox  ;  Fitton  ; 
Freeman  ;  Methuen  ;  Phipps  ; 
Porter. 

Lord  Justices  of,  37,  52,  61, 
63,  65,  70,  76,  82,  84,  87,  90, 
94,  97,  107,  125,  156,  161, 
170,  173,  184,  188,  196,  201, 
203,  204,  208,  209,  252,  255, 
267,  269,  281,  284,  285,  292, 
308,  322,  323,  325,  328,  339, 
343,  386. 

,  appointment  of,  281,  282, 

284,  285. 

,  report  of,  67. 

,  letters  from,  63,  64,  65, 

66,  69,  72,  77,  78,  81,  84,  88, 
90,  92,  93,  95,  96,  116,  238, 
249. 

, ,  alluded  to,  67,  206, 


208,  292. 

letters  to,  aUuded  to,  207, 


322. 

Lord  Keeper  of,  113,  274. 

Lord  Lieutenant  of,  395,  398. 
See  also  under  Capel  ;  Claren- 
don ;  Ormonde  ;  Pembroke  ; 
Rochester ;  Tyrconnell ;  Whar- 
ton. 

,    Proclamations    of.      See 

under  Proclamations  in. 

,  Deputy,  256. 

Lord  Treasurer  of.  See  under 
Boyle;    Cork;    Talbot. 

Mass  and  Mass-houses  in,  288, 
349,  350,  351,  354,  355,  356, 
359,  372,  373,  385. 

merchants  in,  65,  66. 

Militia  in,  41,  72,  89,  256,  262, 
298,  368,  369,  370,  374,  387. 

,  Protestant,  388. 

Military  List  in,  68,  85.  See 
also  under  Revenue  in,  charges 
on. 

Mint,  the,  in,  377,  381,  385. 

non-jurors  in,  87. 

North  of,  19,  20,  21,  25,  67,  68, 
69,  73,  74,  85,  93,  112,  113, 
131,  149,  164,  167,  169,  179, 
190,  203,  210,  213,  281,  299, 
343,  358,  359,  361,  362,  363, 
365,  367,  368,  369,  370,  373, 
381,  382,  384,  387. 

,  ammunition  sent  to,  363, 

364,  365,  367,  370. 
-,  Dissenters  in,  61,  68,  85, 


87,    89,   203,   204.     See  also 
under  Presbyterians  in. 

— ,  Jacobites  in,  86. 

— ,  James  II  in,  363. 

— ,  linen  manufacture  in,  177. 


Ireland :  North  of — cont. 

,  Presbyterians  in,  73,   77, 

88,  93,  102. 
, ministers  in,  and  pen- 
sions of,  73,  82,  86,  87,  89, 
93,  95,  102,  179,  210,  275. 

, Synod  in,  93,  275. 

Protestants    in,    74,    87, 


197,  343. 

— ,  recruiting  in,  135. 

-,  troops  for,  102,  190,  235, 


262,  263,  264,  343,  359,  361, 
363,  365,  366,  367.  See  also 
under  Army  in,  movements 
of. 

Ordnance  in,  68,  102,  197,  227, 
230,  332,  350,  357,  383. 

,  Lieutenant  of,  62,  251. 

,  Master  of,  185,  228,  345, 


374. 


Office  of,   109,   163,   177, 
250. 

Parhament  in,  42,  48,  49,  59, 
60,  67,  68,  122,  129,  137,  138, 
149,  160,  163,  166,  175,  180, 
198,  204,  206,  212,  227,  246, 
255,  277,  302,  322,  325, 
364. 

,  Acts  of.  Bills  for,  from  or 

in,  52,  53,  124,  134,  148,  159, 
265,  278,  302,  309,  312,  366, 
372,  376,  378,  394,  396.    See 
also  under  Houses  of. 
-,  assembling,  calling,  meet- 


ing and  prorogation  of,  48, 
53,  67,  69,  72,  77,  78,  85,  90, 
94,  99,  101,  104,  106,  108,  111, 
113,  114,  115,  123,  130,  133, 
134,  135,  150,  186,  221,  296, 
299,  309,  322,  328,  350,  355, 
362,  364,  367,  372,  375. 
— ,  James  II's  speech  at 
opening  of,  391. 
— ,  Houses  of  : 

Commons,  42,  83,  93,  106, 
124,  135,  160,  277,  278, 
301,  302,  303,  304,  306, 
308,  309,  312,  328,  346, 
365. 

Address  from,  304,  305. 
Bills     from,     sent     to 
English  Parliament, 
34,  66,  123,  133,  148, 
161. 
Conamittee     on     Elec- 
tions to,  312,  313. 
reports   to,    301,    302, 

305. 
Serjeant-at-Arms      of, 

311. 
Speaker  of.    See  under 
Brodrick ;    Nagle. 


432 


Ireland:   Parliament   in.   House    of 
Commons — cont. 

votes  of,  134,  143,  198, 
211,  301,  306,  313. 

supply    in,    301, 

303,  305. 
Lords,   106,   123,  302,  307, 
311,    365,    394. 

Journals    of.    Minutes 

of,  314. 

messages  from  and    to 

Commons,  313,  314. 

votes  of.  Bills  in,  302, 

314. 

lighthouses  established  by. 


89,  183. 
— ,    members    of 


289,  296. 


absentee, 
deceased,     289, 


290. 
— ,  opening  of,  296. 

privilege    of,    106, 


160. 


169, 


— ,  Session  of,  75,  104,  109, 
111,  112,  123,  125,  148,  160, 
212,  279,  289,  290,  303, 
305.  See  also  under  Calling 
of. 

cost  of,  and  warrants 


for,  64,  65,  82,  131,  132,  133, 
134,  136. 
parties  in : 

Church,  215. 
Country,  100. 
Roman  Catholic,  346. 
Presbyterians  in,  95.     See  also 

under  North  of. 
Plantations  in,  131. 
plot  in,  Presbyterian,  344. 
Privy  Council  in,  33,  56,  72,  97, 
115,  116,  161,  279,  309,  311, 
345,  346,  350,  362,  380,  395, 
401. 

,  appeal  to,  344. 

Board  of,  124,   186,  199, 


228,  279,  335. 
— ,      Conunittee 


of,      309, 


311. 

— ,  Lord  President  of,  362. 
— ,  meeting  days  of,  72. 
-,  Office  of,  307. 


Protestants  in,  21,  74,  246,  344, 
346,  347,  348,  349,  354,  356, 
357,  358,  359,  360,  371,  372, 
374,  376,  378,  380,  382. 

,  arms  for,  356. 

,  arrest  of,  368,  371. 

,      disabilities       of,      361, 


377. 


flight  of,  from,  356,  357, 


359. 

— ,  French,  366. 


Ireland — cont. 

Proclamations  in,  of  Lords  Lieu- 
tenant and  Sovereign,  72,  74, 
178,  343,  344,  345,  346,  347, 
348,  349,  350,  351,  352,  353, 
354,  355,  356,  357,  358,  359, 
360,  361,  362,  365,  366,  367, 
368,  369,  370,  371,  372,  373, 
374,  375,  376,  377,  378,  379, 
380,  381,  384,  385,  386,  388. 
Provinces  of  : 

Connaught,     25,     72,    241, 
259,  262,  276,  286,  288, 
369,  372,  394,  399. 
Assizes  in,  99. 

,  Judge  of,  99. 

Munster,     200,     286,     346, 
353,  363,  365,  369,  372. 
Ulster,  14,  358,  361. 
rebelUon  in,  20,  327.     See  also 

under  Army  in,  partizan. 
Receiver -General  of,  323. 
religious   tests   in,    67,    68,    91, 
104.     See  also  under  Oath  of 
Supremacy  and  under  Roman 
Catholics. 
Revenue  in,  69. 

,  charges  on  : 

Establishment,  68, 184,  301. 

,  Civil  List,  68,  85,  94, 

277. 

,    Concordatum,     133, 

147,  161. 

military,  military  list, 


65,  68,  69,  80,  82,  84,  88, 
89,  92,  94,  98,  124,  153, 
157,  158,  161,  196,  208, 
247,  248,  280,  288,  293, 
332,  333,  350. 

— ,    ,     contingencies 

fund,   77,  80,   81,  84,  98, 
124,  149,  227. 
-,  pensions,  French  and 


other,  65,  70,  73,  82,  92, 
93,  97,  106,  118,  126, 
143,  150,  151,  157,  161, 
165,  173,  185,  197,  204, 
214,  219,  245,  249,  252, 
272,  289,  301,  325. 
— ,  secret  service  money, 
98,  136. 
-,  State  Office  and  offi- 


cers' expenses,  307. 
— ,  Commissioners  of,  53,  55, 
65,  72,  82,  95,  12,3,  166,  204, 
277,  278,  294,  306,  349,  377. 
-,  appointment  of,  53, 


277. 


95. 


-,    balances    of,    82, 


-,  Counsel  to,  304. 
-,  licence  from,  67. 


433 


Ireland  :  Revenue  in.  Commissioners 
of — cont. 

, ,  letter  from,  abstra,ct 

of,  183. 
,     Sub -Commissioners     of. 


278. 

— ,    Commissionership,    pur- 
chase of,  278. 

— ,    Committee   of   Accounts 
of,  301,  305,  306,  307,  309. 
— ,  farm  of,  3. 
— ,  return  of,  82,  85,  98. 
— ,  Undertaker  of.  269. 


Rolls,  Master  of  the,  in.     See 

under  Talbot. 
Roman  Catholics  in,  343,  344, 

352,  354,  355,  356,  357,  359, 

360,  371,  375,  376,  378. 
,  arming  and  disarming  of, 

74,  361. 
.  disabilities  of.  2.  125.  135. 


See  also  under  Roman  Catho- 
lics. 
,    offices    allotted    to,    and 

privileges  conferred  on,  345, 

349. 
,    registration    of,    75,    94, 

103,   125,  135,  149,  151. 
Secretary  of  State  and  War  in, 

247,  266,  267,  269,  286,  362, 

362,  374. 

, ,  Office  of,  307. 

Sheriffs  of,  349. 

,  pricking  of,  323,  349. 

ships  built  in,  131. 

Swiss  colony  in,  proposed,  34. 

Sword-of-State    of,     345,     349, 

358,  362. 
Solicitor-General    of,     72,    307, 

340.    See  also  under  Bernard  ; 

Brodrick  ;   Levinge. 
taxes  in,  land  and  salt,  36,  306. 
trade  in  and  of,  65,  67,  69,  182, 

246,  260,  347,  392. 
treason    or    treasonable    words, 

charges  of,  339,  340,  341,  344. 
West  of,  343,  372. 
Whigs  in,  toast  to,  338. 
wine  imported  into,  and  duty  on, 

186,  368,  372,  379. 
letter  dated  from,  132. 
Irish,  the,  11,  17,  21,  22,  72,  74,  85, 

132,  251,  343,  344,  346,  351, 

355,  359,  363,  368,  372,  373, 

374,  378,  379,  380. 
Army  or  Forces,  27,  346,  378, 

379. 

,  billeting  of,  347,  373. 

Channel,  63,  391. 

Coast,  246. 

families,     emigration    of,     343, 

346,  347,  356,  357,  309. 

Wt  43482, 


Irish — cont. 

gentry,  366. 

soldiers  for  English  regiments, 
353,  354. 

for  France,  378,  379. 

for  French  regiments,  383, 

384,  385. 

for  Spain,  233. 

See  also  under  Ireland, 


Army  in,  partizan. 

Ironside,  Gilbert,  D.D.,  Warden  of 
Wadham  College,  Bishop  of 
.  Bristol  (1689-91),  Bishop  of 
Hereford  (1691-1701),  Vice- 
Chancellor  of  Oxford  (1687- 
89),  2,  32. 
letters  from,  abstracts  or  sum- 
maries of,  3,  5,  11,  17,  21, 
23. 

Islandbridge,  Dublin,  253. 

Italy,  126,  149,  310. 

Iveagh,   Brian  Magennis   (d.    1693), 
5th  Viscount  (sue.  1684),  365. 


J.    N.,    letter    from,    abstract    of, 

132. 
Jackson : 

Rev.  John,  292. 
Lodowick,  letters  from,  abstracts 
of,  2,  13. 
Jacob,  Captain,  338. 
Jaire,  Mons.,  191. 
Jamaica,  letter  dated  from,  89. 
James  II   of  England.     See  under 

England,  Sovereigns  of. 
James,  the,  a  ship,  275. 
Jamestown,  25. 
Jane,  William,  D.D.,  23,  26. 
Jeffreys  : 

George,  Baron  J.  of  Wem,  Lord 
Chancellor  of  England  (1685- 
9),  3,  354. 
Sir  James,   Governor  of  Cork, 

105,  332. 
John,   Colonel,  Master  of  Kil- 
mainham      Hospital,      letter 
from,  abstract  of,  3. 
Jemett,  Mr.,  Collector  of  Cork,  66. 
Jenes,  Count  de,  146. 
Jennings  : 

Sir  John,  191. 
William,  80,  81. 

0  28 


434 


Jephson : 

Counsellor,  M.P.  for  Blessing- 
ton,  Commissioner  of  Revenue 
Appeals,  268,  277. 

Mrs.,  99. 

William,  Dean  of  Lismore  (1692- 
1719),  61. 
Jersey,  320. 

John  JameSy  the,  a  ship,  145. 
Johnson : 

Captain,  149,  373. 

John,  a  waterman,  32. 

Mathew,  letter  from,  151. 

Mr.,  101. 

Robert,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer 
(Ire.)  (1703-14),  Judge  of  the 
Assizes,  Connaught  (1704), 
68,  124,  133,  134,  172. 

,  son  of,  272. 

,  letters  from,  67,  77,  111, 

216,  221,  226,  258,  271,  275, 
289,  290,  292,  296,  301,  302, 
305,  306,  311,  312,  329, 
335. 

abstracts  of,  99,  242, 


248,  264,  322. 
Robin,  249,  274. 
Joly: 

Brigadier,  176. 

Mons.,   letters  from,    186,    187, 

227. 
Jones  : 

Barzillai,     Dean     of     Lismore 

(1683-92),    letter    from,    ab- 
stract of,  33. 
Captain,  385. 
Colonel,  264,  333. 
,  petition  from,  alluded  to, 

238. 

,  regiment  of,   321. 

Dean,  300. 

Edward,     Bishop     of     Cloyne 

(1682-92),      Bishop      of      St. 

Asaph   (1692-1703),  Dean  of 

Lismore   (1678-82),  59. 

,  letter  from,  30. 

Henry,  letters  from,  abstracts  of, 

5,  33. 
Sir  Thomas,  Lord  Chief  Justice 

of  Common  Pleas,  345. 
Thomas,  M.P.,  296. 
William,  of  St.  John's  College, 

Oxford,  25. 
Jossiter,    Northamptonshire,    letter 

dated  from,    159. 
Joy: 

Mr.,  Master  of    the    Ordnance 

(1686),  345. 
— ,  Dissenting  Minister,  365. 
Joyce,  Thomas,  95. 
Jumper,  Sir  William,  Captain  H.M.S. 

Lenox,  143,  160, 


Keating,  John,  Lord  Chief  Justice, 
Common  Pleas  (Ire.)  (1679- 
91),  Privy  Councillor  (Ire.), 
2,  72,  347. 
Keightley,  Thomas,  Commissioner 
of  the  Revenue  (Ire.),  Lord 
Justice  of  Ireland  (1702),  48, 
84,  123,  210,  254,  301,  305. 
letters  from,  53,  197,  227,  320, 

321. 
letter  signed  by,  183. 
Kells,  letter  dated  from,  38. 
Kelly: 

John,  letter  from,  300. 
Joseph,  letters  from,  204,  241, 

300,  303. 
Mr.,  240. 
Kenagh  Castle,  375. 
Kendall : 

Captain,  108,  172,  173. 
Colonel,  157,  158. 
Mr.,  141. 
Kennedy,  David,  letter  to,  224. 
Kensington,  26,  243. 

letter  dated  from,  315. 
Kent,  the,  a  ship,  144. 
Kent,  Mr.,  140. 
Kereight  men,  371,  376. 
Kerry,  troops  for  or  in,  81,  235,  286. 
Kilbeggan,  347. 

Kilbrew,  letter  dated  from,   330. 
Kaldare  : 

Bishop    of.      See    under    Ellis ; 

Moreton. 
Camp  at.     See  under  Curragh. 
Chapter  of,  71. 
diocese  of,  91. 
Kilgobbin,  347,  348. 
Kilkenny,  1,  15,  33,  37,  68,  72,  80, 
89,  96,  133,  138,  158,  191,  195, 
218,  219,  237,  241,  243,  281, 
289,  299,  346,  361,  362,  374, 
389. 
address  from,  389-391. 

. ,  aUuded  to,  241. 

burgesses  of,  election  of,  33. 
called  Little  Rome,  391. 
city  of,  40,  391. 
Commissioners  of  Revenue  at, 
63,  166. 


435 


Kilkenny — cont. 

linen  factory  at,  168,  177. 
Uving  near,  218. 
Mayor  of,  115,  117. 

,  Deputy,  115,  116. 

petition  from,  52. 
Recorder  of,  159,  351,  362. 

,  Deputy,  355. 

school  at,  218. 
schoolmaster  at,  96,  218. 
Sheriff  of,  253. 

troops  at,  237,  239,  252,  262,  384. 

letters  dated  from,  29,  32,  40, 

42,  97,  98,  99,  115,  134,  165, 

168,  193,  204,  241,  245,  260, 

282,  289,  299. 

The  Grove  near,  camp  at,  letter 

dated  from,  95. 
Castle,  15,  16,  29,  34. 
Killala,  Bishop  of.    See  under  Lloyd, 

William. 
Killaloe,     Bishop     of.       See    under 

Lindsay,  Thomas. 
Killary,  living  or  rectory  of,  104,  105, 

107. 
Killigrew  : 

Colonel,  223. 

Harry,  pension  of,  110. 

,  letter  from,  alluded  to,  52. 

Killingdon,  letter  dated  from,   173. 
Killybegs,  co.  Donegal,  Collector  of 

Revenue  at,  166. 
Kilmainham,  388. 

Hospital  at,  2,  3,  18,  157,  158, 
282,  295,   350,   359. 

,  chapel  of,  347,  350. 

,  charter  of,  350. 

Sessions  at,  348. 
Kihnallock,  David  Sarsfield  (d.  1691), 
3rd  Viscount  S.   of  K.   (sue. 
1660),  regiment  of,  384,  386, 
386. 
Kilmore,  port  of,  363. 

letter  dated  from,  15. 
Kilsallaghan,  living  of,  292. 
King  : 

Daniel,  Queen's  evidence,  341. 
Mr.,  155,  159. 

Sir  Robert,  M.P,  for  Abbey 
Boyle,  death  of,  288. 

,   letter  from,   alluded   to, 

32. 
Dr.,  349. 

William,  Archbishop  of  Dublin 
(1703-29),  76,  112,  135,  151, 
167,  302,  314,  388. 

,  citation  and  visitation  of, 

71. 

,  disputes  of,  71,  91,   105, 

110,  113,  115,  122,  125,  135, 
167,  179,  180,  181,  190,  206, 
207,  289,  314, 


King,  William — corU. 

,  sermon  preached  by,  112, 

113. 


173. 


letter  from,  abstract  of, 

letter  signed  by,  297. 
Kingsale   or   Kinsale,  Almericus  de 

Courcy,     23  rd     Baron     (sue. 

1689),  letter  from,  7. 
King's  County,  302. 
King's  evil,  touching  for,  363. 
Kingsland  : 

Nicholas   Bamewall    (d.    1725), 

3rd  Viscount  B.  of  Kingsland 

(sue.  1686),  199. 
Mary    (d.     1735),    Viscoimtess, 

wife   of   above,   daughter   of 

Sir    George    Hamilton,    217, 

241,  260,  268,  272. 
King's    letter.      See   under    Letters 

patent. 
Kingston  : 

Margaret,  Lady  (d.  1723),  wife 

of     John,    Baron    Kingston, 

daughter  of  Florence  O'Cahan, 

272 
Robert    King    (d.     1693),    2nd 

Baron  (sue.   1676),  361,  363. 
Kingston  Hall,  letter  dated  from,  1. 
Kingsweston,  letters  dated  from,  85, 

88,  89,  90,  92,  94,  246,  307, 
308. 

Kinsale,  70,  88,  98,  147,  174,   186, 
191,  205,  314,  338,  341,  361. 
fort  of,  70,  191. 
Governor  of.  Deputy,  214. 

,  Lieutenant,  339. 

lighthouse  at,  89. 

regiments  or  troops  for  and  in, 

89,  155,  170,  175,  183,  186, 
191,  194,  235,  255,  325, 
338. 

ships  bound  from  and  to,   78, 
83,  85,  91,  191,  226,  238,  257, 
269,  297. 
Sovereign  of,  314,  339. 

Elect  of,  340. 

letters    dated   from,    144,    155, 

207,  209. 
See  also  Kingsale. 
Kirk,  Colonel,  367,  369. 
Kirkton,   Captain,  H.M.S.  Ipswich, 

144. 
Kneller,  Sir  Godfrey,  painter,  78. 
Kjiight,  Henry,  letter  from,  abstract 

of,  23. 
Knights  of  the    Shire,  election   of, 

33. 
Knowsley,  36. 

Knox  :  ^  ^  , 

Sir  John,  Lord  Mayor  of  Dub« 
lin  (1686),  345. 


436 


Knox — cont. 
Mr.,  95. 

Thomas,   letter  from,   abstract 
of,  108. 


Lachrima  Christi,  a  wine,  301. 
La  Condiere,  Mons.,  191. 
Lacy,    Mr.,    Sovereign    of    Kinsale, 
339. 
letter  to,  alluded  to,  339. 
Lallibolero,  the  song,  381. 
Lalo,  Colonel,  66. 
Lambert : 

Captain  and  later  Major,  54,  55, 

66,  248. 
Mr.,  183,  184. 
La  Motte,  Mons.,  242. 
Lanallin,  Captain,  369. 
Lancaster,  Rev.  William,  D.D.,  letter 
from.     See  Report  VII,  781. 
Landau,  114,  121,  127. 
Landry,  Mons.  de  la  Tour,  Knight 

of  Malta,  145,  146. 
Land  tax,  120,  122,  158. 
Lane,  Captain-Lieutenant,  281. 
Lanesborough,  James  Lane  (d.  1724), 
2nd  Viscount  (sue.  1683),  315. 
Langes,  Mons.  de.  Governor  to  2nd 
Duke  of  Ormond,  letter  from, 
150. 
Langston,     Francis,     Major-General 
(1704),  69,  71,  109,  124,  162, 
164,  165,  208,  235,  239,  240, 
241,  247,  264,  282,  284. 
regiment  of,   64,   73,   180,   182, 
186,  192,  217,  236,  247,  250, 
252,  259,  261,  262,  263,  268, 
273,  281. 
letters   from,    38,    64,    73,    109, 
119,  180,  182,  186,  191,  192, 
197,  206,  208,  217,  228,  232, 
255,  259,  275,  280,  281,  285, 
286,  287,  293,  295,  309. 
Langton,  Michael,  15. 
Languedoc,  127. 

dragoons  sent  to,  348. 
Lansdowne,    George    Granville    (d. 
1735),  1st  Baron  L.  of  Bide- 
ford  (cr.  1712),  335. 
letters  from,  333,  336. 


Lapell  or  Lepell,  Nicholas,  Colonel, 
189. 
regiment  of,  166,  167,  180,  186, 
214,  235,  248,  266,  266,  269. 
letters  from,  180,  186,  188. 
La  Porte,  Lieutenant,   89. 
Larron.     See  Aragon. 
Lassay,    Marquis   de,    letters   from, 
abstracts    of,  139,    173,  187, 
190,  316. 
Latham : 

Ensign,  61. 

Mr.,  of  CO.  Tipperary,  son  of,  29. 
Sir  Oliver,  11. 
Latton,  J.,  letter  from,  abstract  of, 

154. 
Laussac,  Dr.  de,  letter  from,  abstract 

of,  138. 
Laux,  Captain,  64. 
Lauzun,  French  General,   379,   380, 

384. 
Lawrence,  Dr.,  168. 
Leake,  Sir  John,  144,  160,  233,  337, 

338. 
Lee,  Colonel,  147. 

Leeds,  Sir  Thomas  Osborne  (d.  1712), 
1st  Duke  of  (cr.  1694),  grand- 
son of,  244. 
letter  from,  63. 
letter  signed  by,  45. 
See  also  under  Carmarthen,  Mar- 
quis of. 
Leeward  Islands,  52. 
Legge,  Colonel,  102. 
Leicestershire,  245. 
Leigh  : 

Colonel,  regiment  of,  54,  58. 
Mr.,  291. 
Leighton : 
Natt,  4. 

Thomas,  Captain,  letters  from, 
4,  8. 
Leith,  121. 
Lennard,    Samuel,    Captain,    letter 

from,  59. 
Lenox,  the,  a  ship,  143. 
Leopold,  Emperor  of  Austria  (1658- 

1705),  12,  51,  74. 
Leslie  : 

Rev.  — ,  D.D.,  rector  of  Ahog- 

hill,  153. 
Sir  James,  letter  from,  18. 
Rev.  John,  letter  from,  216. 
Lestrilles,  Mr.,  213. 
Letters  : 

Mandatory,  349. 
Patent,  King's  Letters,  Queen's 
Letters,  Sign  Manual,  etc.,  20, 
81, 116, 138, 156, 189, 192,228, 
239,  243,  268,  277,  282,  301, 
307,  318,  320,  324,  331,  333, 
346,  360^  395,  396,  398,  399. 


itl 


Levinge : 

Comet,  231,  239,  241. 

Sir  Richard,  Speaker  of  House 
of  Commons  (Ire.)  (elected 
1692),  Solicitor-General  (Ire.), 
(1690-5,  1704-9),  Attorney- 
General  (Ire.)  (1711-14),  Lord 
Chief  Justice  Common  Pleas 
(Ire.)  (1720-24),  72,  123,  125, 
167,  192,  201,  202,  204,  205, 
206,  211,  212,  226,  232,  239, 
252,  276,  294,  307,  311. 

,  letters  from,  64,  94,  102, 

174,  176,  200,  202,  210,  237, 
238,  293,  310,  315. 
-,   letters   to.     See   Report 


VII,  773,  774. 
Thomas,  294. 
Lewis : 

— ,  execution  of,  362. 

Mr.,  Secretary  of  State's  Office, 

286. 
Lewis,  Prince,  of  Baden,   51. 
Liberty      of      Conscience,      King's 
Declaration  of,  350,  352,  353, 
391. 
Lichfield,  i32. 

Bishop  of.     See  under  Hough, 
letters   dated   from,    140,    173, 
186,  187,  227. 
Li^ge,  163. 
Lille,  251. 

Lillingston,       Colonel,      188,      189, 
264. 
regiment  of,  165,  166,  183,  186, 
191,  193,  214,  219,  230,  235, 
237,  248,  252,   266. 
letter  from,  abstract  of,  183. 
Limerick,  84,  93,  115,  147,  210,  238, 
324. 
Bishop   of.     See  under  Digby, 

Simon, 
county  of.  Knight  of  the  Shire 
for,  126. 

,  Lieutenant  of,  125. 

,  M.P.  for,  291. 

Dean  and  deanery  of,  114,  115, 

117. 
William  Dangan  (d.   1698),  1st 
Earl     of     (cr.     1686),     Privy 
Councillor  (Ire.)  (1686),  345, 
354,  362. 
guns  at,  105. 
troops  for  or  in,  81,  214,  235, 

264. 
letters  dated  from,  5,  182,  324. 
Lincoln,  — ,  Sheriff  of  Dublin  (1687), 

350. 
Lincoln's  Inn,  London,  letter  dated 

from,  152. 
Lindsay,  Thomas,  Bishop  of  Killaloe 
(1696-1713),  252. 


Linen  Act,  134,  135,  136.  137.  13d, 
139.   140,   151.   159. 
Lancashire  opposition  to,   137, 

138. 
trade,   131,   134,   168,   177. 
Lionne,  M.  le  Comte  de,  157. 
Lisbon,  54,  57,  122,  144,  146,  166, 
317. 
letters    dated    from,    44,    203. 
316. 

,  alluded  to,  233. 

Lisbum,  150,  299. 

letters  dated  from,  77,  85,  117, 
136,  173,  182,  274.  299. 
300. 
Adam  Loftus  (d.  1690),  1st 
Viscount  Lisbum  (cr.  1685), 
388. 
Lismore,  Dean  of.    See  under  Jeph- 

son;  Jones. 
Little  Rome.     See  under  Blilkenny. 
Liverpool,  19,  31,  257,  262. 

ships  bound  from  and  to,   81, 

262,  373. 
Water,  31. 
Livesay,  Major-General,  regiment  of, 

335. 
Lizard,  the,  Cornwall,  145. 
Lloyd  : 

Captain,  138,  146. 
Nathaniel,  8. 

Owen,   D.D.,   Professor  of  Di- 
vinity, 37. 
Sir  Richard,  Dean  of  the  Arches. 

Judge  of  the  Admiralty,  8. 
William,  Bishop  of  Killala(1690- 
1717),  297. 
Locke,  Mr.,  211. 
Loftus,  Dr.,  388. 
Lombard,  Major,  226. 
Lombourg,  118. 

London,  1,  2,  3,  5,  8,  11,  17,  20,  21, 
22,  27,  33,  35,  39,  65,  72,  121. 
134,  146.  164,  177,  190,  214. 
238,  255,  278,  289,  296,  300. 
333,  339,  354,  390. 
alderman  of,  132. 
Bishop  of.    See  under  Compton, 

Henry, 
charter  of,  354. 
churches  in  : 

St.  Margaret's,  ringers  at, 

270. 
St.     Martin's,     ringers    at, 

270. 
Westminster  Abbey,  ringers 
at,  270. 
clergy  of,  353. 

Day  of  Thanksgiving  in,  353. 
Gray's  Inn,  2. 

Honorable       Artillery        Com- 
p€wiy  in,  283. 


438 


London — cont. 

Inner  Temple,  letter  dated  at, 
26. 

Jesuits'  School  in,  353. 

Lincoln's  Inn,  letter  dated  at, 
152. 

Lord  Mayor  of,  132. 

(1688),  354. 

Middle  Temple,  letter  dated  at, 
15. 

Playhouse  in,  149. 

Royal  Exchange  in,  283. 

streets  in  : 

Bishopsgate,  283. 
Chancery  Lane,  154. 
Strand,  22. 

Tower  of,  353. 

,  Lieutenant  of,  350,   352. 

,  warders  of,  352. 

letters  dated  from,  2,  11,  29, 
34,  48,  49,  60,  55,  56,  57,  58, 
69,  60,  61,  63,  105,  107,  118, 
119,  120,  124,  125,  126,  128, 
129,  130,  131,  132,  133,  134, 
135,  136,  137,  138,  139,  140, 
141,  143,  146,  148,  149,  150, 
151,  154,  156,  157,  159,  160, 
213,  219,  230,  298,  302,  337, 
355. 
Londonderry.  See  under  Derry. 
Long : 

George,  231. 

Mr.,  284. 

Oliver,  Lieutenant-Colonel,  let- 
ter from,  abstract  of,  230. 
Longford,  315,  371. 

Anne,  Countess  of,  wife  of  1st 
Earl  of,  widow  of  1st  Earl  of 
Gowran,  daughter  of  1st  Earl 
of  Donegal,  jointure  of,  1. 

,  letter  from,  1. 

Francis  Aungier  (d.  1700),  1st 
Earl  of  (cr.  1677),  Commis- 
sioner of  Revenue,  349,  386, 
388. 

,  letters  from,  10,  33. 

-,  letter  to,  33. 


Longleat,   letter    dated    from,    1. 
Lords,  the  Seven,  60. 
Loughbrickland,  362. 
Lous  de  Begonne,  camp  at,   letter 

dated  from,   163. 
Louth : 

Matthew    Plunkett    (d.     1691), 
7th  Baron   (sue.    1679),   364. 
M.P.  for  town  of,  291. 
Lovelace  : 

John  (d.  1709),  4th  Baron  (sue. 
1693),  261. 

,  death  of,  320. 

,   regiment  commanded  by, 

261,  263,  286. 


Lovelace — cont. 

Charlotte,  Lady  (d.  1742),  wife 
of  above,  320. 
Low,  Robert,  2. 
Low  Wine  Act,  41. 
Lublin,  Diet  of,  47. 
Lubrieres,  Mons.,  letter  from,   143. 
Lucas,  Robert  (d.  1705),  3rd  Baron 
(sue.   1688),  regiment  of,  98. 
Ludlow,  Stephen,  52,  68,  125,  133, 
178,  303,  314. 
Chairman  of  Committee,  House 

of  Commons  (Ire.),  301. 
daughter  of,  325. 
letters  from,  325,  327. 
letter  to.    See  Report  VII,  773. 
Limiley  : 

Henry,  Lieutenant-General,  51, 
133,  148,  174. 

,  letters  from,  47,  49,  168. 

See  also  Report  VII,  780. 

abstracts  of,  58,  61, 


141,  163,  181,  231,  250,  260, 
310,  331. 
Richard  (d.  1721),  1st  Viscount 
(cr.   1689),   1st  Earl  of  Scar- 
borough (cr.  1690),  23. 
Lundy,  Colonel,  362. 
Lurgan,  299. 

Race,  370,  385. 
LuttreU,  Simon,   11,  380,  382,  385. 

attends  mass,  372. 
Lyall,  Captain,  H.M.S.  Berwick,  143. 
Lynch,  Sir  Henry,  Puisne  Baron  of 
the  Exchequer  (Ire.)   (1687), 
350. 
knighthood  for,  350. 
Lyndon,  Mr.,  Justice,  23. 

son  of,  23. 
Lyon,  Captain,  255. 


McCarty,     Justin,     Colonel,     Privy 
Coimcillor  (Ire.)  (1686),  344, 
345,  354,  357,  365. 
McDonnell,  Colonel,  380. 
McFlynn,  Rory,  letter  from,  365. 
McGillycuddy,     — ,     and    regiment 

of,  385. 

McKenzie,  Mackenzie  : 

Colonel,  136. 

George,  136. 

John,  266. 


439 


McNamara,  a  thief,  350. 

Macartney,  Mr.,  313. 

Macclesfield,  42. 

Macworth,  Sir  Humphrey,  letter 
from,  26. 

Madrid,  118,  234. 

letter  dated  from,   alluded  to, 
324. 

Magna  Carta,  199. 

Maine,  Covin.     See  Mayne,  Covill. 

Maitland,  Richard  (d.  1695),  Vis- 
count, afterwards  Earl  of 
(1691),  Secretary  of  State 
(Scotland)  (1687),  348. 

Malide,  Mons.,  148. 

Malta,  Knight  of,  145. 

Mamough,  General,  death  of,  363. 

Man,  Isle  of,  36,  124. 
grant  to,  124. 

Manchester,  103. 

Manier,  — ,  28. 

Manly,  — ,  conversion  of,  350. 

Manning,  Francis,  140. 

Mansell,  Sir  William,  80,  83,  91,  92, 
96,  97,  101,  109,  167,  178, 
201,  213,  220,  221,  223,  253, 
260. 

Manuell,  Don  John,  general  of 
Artillery,  317. 

Marcin,  Marechal  de,   117. 

Margetson,  Ensign,  349. 

Marienne,  Mons.  de,  146. 

Marlborough,  John  Churchill  (d. 
1722),  1st  Duke  of  (cr.  1702), 
48,  49,  51,  55,  96,  117,  118, 
120,  121,  124,  125,  126,  127, 
132,  133,  138,  148,  149,  152, 
168,  169,  170,  179,  185,  189, 
244,  251,  255,  260,  297,  298, 
299,  320. 
successes    of,    alluded    to,    96, 

117. 
,  acknowledged  by  Parlia- 
ment (Eng.),   132,   133,   136. 
letters  from.     See  Report  VII, 
762,     763,     768,      770,     774, 
779. 
letter  to,  132.    See  also  Report 
VII,  762,  766,  768,  770,  772. 

Marly,   158,   160,  334. 
letter  dated  from,  4. 

Marsh : 

Francis,    D.D.,    Archbishop    of 
Dublin    (1682-94),    347,    348, 
357. 
,  dismissal  from  Privy  Coun- 
cil (Ire.)  (1687),  350. 
-,  Letters  Mandatory  of,  349. 


Narcissus,  D.D.,  Archbishop  of 
Armagh,  Primate  of  All  Ire- 
land (1703-14),  289. 

,  library  foxmded  by,  75. 


Marsh,  Narcissus — con/. 

,  letters  from,  63,  76,  167, 

181,  285,  288,  297. 

-,  abstracts  of,  98,  107, 


135. 

Marshall,  — ,  letter  from,  116. 
Martiall,    Rev.    John,    minister    of 

Ickleton,  4. 
Marteile,  Mr.,  143,  156. 
Martin  : 

— ,  Undertaker  of  the  Revenue 

(Ire.),  269. 
Peter,  Justice  of  Common  Pleas 
(Ire.)  (1687),  350. 
Martinico,  318. 
Mary,  the,  a  galley,  338. 
Mary  of  Modena,  2nd  wife  of  James 

II,  287,  351,  352,  353,  392. 
Mary,  Princess,  daughter  of  Queen 

Anne,  death  of,  349. 
Mary,  wife  of  William  III.    See  under 

England,  Sovereigns  of. 
Masclary,  H.,  letter  from,  abstract 

of,  119. 
Massareene,    Sir    John    Skeffington 
(d.   1695),  2nd  Viscount  (cr. 
1665),  361,  363. 
Massy,  Rev.  John,  Roman  Catholic 
Dean  of  Christ  Church,  Ox- 
ford (1686-88),  348. 
Mathew  : 

George,    Captain,    tfien    Major, 
Sheriff  of  Tipperary,  11. 

,  letter  from,  35. 

James,  Captain,  2,  5. 

,  of  the  Guards,  52. 

Mr.,  29. 
Maude,  — ,  134. 
Maudsley,  Mr.,   155,   159. 
Maura,  318. 
Maxwell,  Arthur,  265. 
May,  Captain,  132,  143,  151. 
Mayant,  Roger,  34. 
Maynard,  Betty,  93. 
Mayne,  Covill  (Covin  Maine),  Lieu- 
tenant, 89. 
letter  from,  abstract  of,  137. 
Mayo  : 

assizes  in,  290. 

Knight  of  the  Shire  for,   227, 
290. 
Mayo,  Lieutenant-Colonel,  376. 
Meade,     Sir     John,     M.P.     for    co. 
Tipperary,  291. 
letter  from,  10. 
Meares,  Ensign,  61. 
Meath : 

Bishop  of.    See  under  Doppmg  ; 

Moreton ;  Tennison. 
bishopric  or  see  of,    167,    169, 

171,  173,  180. 
county  of,  337,  354. 


440 


Meath — cont. 

diocese  of,  104. 

Cecilia  (d.  1704),  Coiintess  of, 
wife  of  4th  Earl  of,  daughter 
of  Sir  William  Brereton, 
66. 

,  allowance  to  or  jointure 

of,  53. 
Edward    Brabazon    (d.     1707), 
Earl  of  (sue.  1683),  40,  356. 

,  letters  from,  abstract  of, 

40,  203. 
Mediterranean,     English     fleet     in, 

233. 
Medlicott  or  Medlycott : 

James,  letter  from,  152. 
Mr.,  37,  159. 
Thomas,  155. 

,    letters    from,    154,    156, 

158. 
Med  way,  the  river,   143. 
Medway,  the,  a  sWp,   145. 
Melbome,  letter  dated  from,   10. 
Melden    Camp,    letter    dated    from, 

174. 
Melfort,  John  Drummond  (d.  1715), 
Earl  of  (cr.   1686),  Secretary 
of    State    (Ire.)    (1689),    362, 
363,  370. 
Mellifont,   letter    dated    from,    170. 

Park,  camp  at,  383. 
Menin,  249. 

siege  of,  250,  261. 
Mequinez,  64. 
Meredith : 

Sir  Charles,  Baron  of  the  Ex- 
chequer    (Ire.)     (1674-1687), 
dismissal  of,  351. 
the  "  Princess,"  297. 
Merly.      See  Marly. 
Merrion,  358. 
Mervyn,  Mr.,  Knight  of  the  Shire 

for  CO.  Tyrone,  296. 
Methuen,     John,     Lord    Chancellor 
(Ire.)  (1697-1703),  39,  40,  54. 
letters  from,  44.     See  also  Re- 
port VII,  765. 
Meul,  Mr.,  letter  from,  alluded   to, 

123. 
Mews,  Peter,  D.D  ,  Bishop  of  Win- 
chester (1684-1707),  24. 
Middle  Temple,  London,  letter  dated 

from,  15. 
Midleton,  Charles,  2nd  Earl  of  (sue. 
1673),  Secretary  of  State  in 
Scotland   (1687),   348. 
Milbome  Port,   154. 

Burgess  and  M.P.  for,  156. 
Mildenhall,  near  Newmarket,  letter 

dated  from,   320. 
Mildmay,  Lady,  5,  16. 
Milford,  113,  257. 


Military   Contingencies   Fund.      See 
under    Ireland,    Revenue    in, 
charges  on. 
Miller  : 

Mr.,  52,  98. 

,  letters  from,  60,  62,  100, 

121. 
Robert,  Jr.,  290. 
Millin  Camp,  letter  dated  from,  174. 
Mills,  Lieutenant,   92. 
Milton,      Sir     Christopher,      Puisne 
Baron  of  Exchequer   (1686), 
Justice  Common  Pleas  (Ire.), 
(1687),  353. 
Minehead,  29. 
Mines  Bill,  151. 
Miquelets,  the,  233,  234,  235. 
Mirandola,  158. 
Mitchell : 

Captain,  H.M.S.  Albemarle,  144. 
Sir  David,  110. 
Mohun,  Charles  (d.  1712),  Baron  M. 
of   Okehampton    (sue.    1677), 
69,  163,  170. 
regiment  of,  80,  122,  151,  170, 
196,  214,  218,  226,  265. 

,      Captain-Lieutenant    of, 

125    132    137. 
letters  from,  122,  125,  132,  137, 
143,  151. 
Molenead,  Madame,  93. 
Moll  Straat,  the  Hague,  128. 
MoUoy,  Captain,  108,  124. 
Molyneux : 
Dr.,  321. 

Francis,    letter   from,    abstract 

of,  189. 

Monaghan,  letter  dated  from,   179. 

Monasteries,  Act  for  dissolving,  398. 

Monasterol,   Count  de,  letter  from, 

abstract  of,  157. 
Moneylea  (Monelea),  64,  102. 

letter  dated  from,  202. 
Monginot,  Dr.,  death  of,  289. 
Monmouth : 

James  Scott   (ex.    1685),   Duke 
of    (cr.   1663),  21,  343. 

,  declaration  of,  343. 

,  defeat  of,  343,  344. 

letter  dated  from,  167. 
Monmouth,  the,  a  ship,  35. 
Montagu : 

Sir  James,  152,  155. 
Ralph   (d.    1709),    1st  Duke  of 
(cr.    1705),   letters  from,   ab- 
stracts of,  151,  172. 
Montandre,  Marquis,  318. 
Monteleon,  Mons.,  334. 
Montgomery  : 

Captain,  296. 
Colonel,  217,  230. 
Sir  Thomas,  311. 


441 


Montjuich   (Mountjoy),   Fort  of,  in 

Barcelona,  233,  332. 
Moody,  Captain  H.M.S.  Breda,  144. 
Moon,     Quarter -Master,     188,     196, 

205,  206,  207,  218,  228. 
Moore  : 

Horatio,   letter   from,   abstract 

of,  43. 
John,  Sheriff  of  Dublin  (1689), 

372. 
MacCarty,  Colonel,  regiment  of, 

367. 
— ,  merchant  of  Liverpool,  19. 
— ,  second  son  of  Earl  of  Drog- 

heda,  209. 
W.,  letter  from,  abstract  of,  63. 
Mordack,  Jeremy,  Ensign,  165,  167. 
Mordaunt : 

Captain,  191. 

Lieutenant-General,       regiment 
of,  336. 
Morell,  Dr.  Daniel,  168. 

letter  from,  abstract  of,  289. 
Moreton,  William,  D.D.,  Bishop  of 
Kildare   (1681-1705),   Bishop 
of  Meath  (1705-16),  Dean  of 
Christchurch,    Dublin    (1677- 
1705),  95,  167,  180,  181. 
action  of,  against  dissenters,  87. 
dispute     with     Archbishop     of 
Dublin,    91,    105,    110,    113, 
115,  122,  167,  180,  181,  190. 
Proctor  of,  113. 
letters  from,  70,  91,   110,   113, 
179,  190,  206. 

,  abstracts  of,  36,  37,  105, 

169,  209. 
Morgan : 

Captain,  163. 
Harry,  son  of,  72. 

,  letter  from,  72. 

Hugh,  Captain,  163,  166. 

,  letter  from,  281. 

Major,  246. 
Moritandre,  Mons.,  70. 
Morris  : 

Captain,  245. 
Colonel,  331. 
Mr.,  71. 
Morrison,  Mr.,  252. 
Moseley,  Thomas,  25. 
Mottley,  Alderman,  388. 
Mount   Alexander : 

letters  dated  from,  82,  85,  253, 

342. 
Hugh    Montgomery    (d.    1714), 
2nd  Earl  of  (sue.   1680),  52, 
68,  69,  74,  75,  102,  149,  288, 
356,    361,   363. 

,  pension  of,  177,  178,  181, 

187,  188,  192,  196,  200,  228. 
,  letters  from,  82,  93,  342. 


Mount  Alexander,  Hugh  Montgomery, 
2nd  Earl  of,  letters  from— con/. 

,  ,  abstracts  of,  61,  63, 

67,  68,  70,  73,  76.  85,  97,  98, 
101,  105,  109,  114,  177,  181, 
187,  188,  192,  196,  200,  228, 
253. 

,  letter  to,  355.     See  also 

Report  VII,  771. 
Mountcashel : 

Justin  Maccarty,  Lord  M.,  (d. 
1694),  son  of  Ist  Earl  of 
Clancarty  (cr.  1689),  365,  368, 
369,  374,  375,  378. 

,  regiment  of,  367. 

Paul  Davys  (d.  1716),  Ist  Vis- 
count (cr.  1706),  194,  315. 

,    letters    from,    192,    193, 

216,  218,  227,  230,  240,  268, 
286,  287,  320,  333. 

Catherine  (d.  1738),  Viscountess, 
wife   of   above,   daughter   of 
3rd  Earl  of  Clancarty,  230. 
Mount  Ephraim,  letter  dated  from, 

174. 
Mountgarret : 

Edmund  Butler  (d.  1735),  6th 
Viscount  (sue.  1706),  letter 
from,  abstract  of,  287. 

Richard  Butler  (d.    1706),   5th 
Viscount  (sue.   1679),  287. 
Mountjoy : 

Fort.    See  Montjuich. 

{a)  William  Stewart  (d.  1692), 
1st  Viscount  (cr.  1683),  19, 
29,  356,  357,  358,  362. 

,  regiment  of,  10,  90,  357, 

358. 

,  sons  of,  20. 

-,  letters  from,  14. 


(6)  WiUiam  Stewart  (d.  1728), 
2nd  Viscount  (sue.  1692),  20. 
Mary  (d.  1728),  Viscoimtess, 
wife  of  1st  Viscount,  daughter 
of  1st  Baron  of  Colooney, 
letter  from,    19,   20. 

Moyer,  a  clothier,  46. 

Moymet,  near  Trim,  co.  Meath, 
337. 

Mozelle,  river,   164. 

Mugg,  Captain,  162. 

Mukins,  Mr.,  346. 

Muley  Ismael,  54,  57. 

Mulgrave,  John  Sheffield,  3rd  Earl 
of  (sue.  1658),  Ecclesiastical 
Commissioner   (1687),     347. 

Mullart,  Rev.  William,  163,  166, 
218. 

Mullingar,'378. 

letter  dated   from,   99. 

Munden,  Colonel,  285. 
regiment  of,  326. 


442 


Murphy,  — ,  D.D.,  Roman  Catholic 

Bishop  of  Ossory,  362. 
Murray : 

Adam,  letter  from,  211. 
Anthony,  letter  from,    194. 
Sir    Charles,    imprisonment    of, 

362. 
George,    Captain,    letter    from, 

293. 
Lieutenant,  238. 
Muschamp,  Major,   246. 
Mutton  Island  Fort,  147. 
Myddleton : 

Captain,  140. 

Sir    Richard,    letter    from,    ab- 
stract of,  140. 
Myvod,  Captain,  155,  156. 


Naas,  CO.  Kildare,  239,  383. 
Nagle,  Sir  Richard,  Attorney-General 
(Ire.)     (1686),    Town    Clerk, 
Dublin,  Speaker  of  House  of 
Commons  (Ire.)  (elected  1689), 
15,  349,  364,  370. 
letter  of,  alluded  to,  352. 
Najac,  Lieutenant,  246. 
Namur,  127,  152. 

siege  of,  49,  327,  332. 
Nantwich,  16. 
Naper,  Mr.,  M.P.,  296. 
Nassau : 

Count  F.,  letter  from,  186. 
Henry  de.  Lord  Auverquerque. 
See  under  D'Auverquerque. 
Nassau,  the,  a  ship,  143. 
Navan,  the  river,  386. 
Nemond,  Mons.  de,  146. 
Nenagh,  letter  dated  from,  1. 
Nesbit,  Albert,  Lieutenant,   85. 
Netterville,  (Netterfield) : 

John    (d.    1727),    4th   Viscount 
(sue.  1689),  193,  217,  362,  364. 
Frances,    Viscountess,    wife    of 
above,  daughter  of   1st  Vis- 
count Rosse,  193,  217. 
Nevill,  Neville  : 

Clement,    Major,    letters    from, 

abstracts  of,  285,  287. 
Mr.  Justice,  174. 
Newark,   the,   a   ship,   letter   dated 
aboard,  223. 


Newburgh : 

Charlotte  Maria,  Lady  (d.  1755), 
wife  of  (a)  Hon.  Thomas 
Clifford,  (6)  2nd  Earl  of 
Derwentwater,  daughter  of 
2nd  Earl  of  Newburgh,  192, 
193,  241. 
Charles  Levingston  (1694),  2nd 
Earl  of  (sue.  1670),  193. 

Newcombe,  Col.  Thomas,  83. 

Newcomen,  Sir  Thomas,  Privy  Coun- 
cillor (1689),   362,   388. 

Newfoundland,  244. 

Newgate,  Dublin,  prison,  76. 

Newhall,  letter  dated  from,  203. 

Newhaven,  William  Cheyne  (d.l728), 
2nd  Viscoimt  (sue.  1698),  152. 

Newman,  Sir  R.,  156. 

Newmarket,  148. 

Newpark,  260. 

letter  dated  from,  48. 

Newport,  Isle  of  Wight,  letter  dated 
from,  50. 

Newport,  John,  letter  from,  219. 

New  Row,  in  the  Poddle,  Dublin,  359. 

Newry,  269,  370,  373. 
Burgess  for,  291. 

Newton,   John,   Lieutenant-Colonel, 
Governor    of    Culmore    and 
Derry,  50,  247,  250,  298. 
regiment  of,  247,  248,  255,  262, 

263,  264,  265,  298,  323. 
letters  from,  abstracts  of,    124, 
239,  264,  298. 

Newtown-Butler,  228. 

New  York,  letter  dated  from,  319. 

Nicholas,  E.,  letter  from,  139. 

Nichols,  NichoUs : 

Edward,   letter   from,   abstract 

of,  163. 
Francis,    letter    from,    abstract 
of,  146. 

Nicholson,    Colonel,    General,     108, 
338,  339,  340,  341,  342. 
letter  from,  200. 

Nicolino,  an  actor,  327. 

Nija,  O.,  letter  from.  See  Report 
VII,  766. 

Nixon,  Richard,  letter  from,  abstract 
of,  260. 

Noailles  (Noales),  Due  de,  234. 

Non -jurors,  179. 

Nore,  the.  Act  for  Navigation  of,  52. 
ships  at,  337. 

Norfolk,  the,  a  ship,  144. 

Normanby,  John  Sheffield  (d.  1721), 
3rd  Earl  of  Mulgrave  (sue. 
1658),  1st  Marquis  of  Nor- 
manby (cr.  1694),  Duke  of 
Buckingham  and  Normanby 
(cr.  1703),  letter  from  and 
signed  by,  45. 


44d 


Norris,  Norres,  Noris  : 

Captain  H.M.S.  Britannia,  143. 
Major,  223. 
William,  Comet,  223. 
Northampton,  192. 

letters    dated    from,    103,    108, 
245. 
Northey,     Sir    Edward,     Attorney- 
General  (Eng.)  (1701-7),  278. 
North  Shields,  237. 
Norton,  Joseph,  letter  from,  10. 
Norwich,  assizes  at,  244. 
Nottingham  : 

Declaration   of   inhabitants   of, 

12. 
letters  dated  from,  187,  190. 
Daniel    Finch    (d.     1730),    2nd 
Earl  of  (sue.  1682),  52. 

,  letters  from,  43.    See  also 

Report  VII,  763,  766. 
-,  letters  to,  alluded  to,  53, 


65.      See    also    Report    VII, 
767,  769,  770. 
Noyelle,     Count,    Brigadier    Dutch 

Army,  188,  223. 
Nugent : 

Colonel,  19. 

Thomas,  Justice,  afterwards 
Lord  Chief  Justice  of  King's 
Bench  (Ire.),  appointment  and 
promotion  of,  345,  351,  352, 
363,  386. 
William,    Brigadier,    death    of, 

376. 
— ,  a  prior,  376. 
— ,  358. 
Numantia,  391. 

Nutley,   Richard,   letters  from,   55, 
159. 


O'Brien : 

Colonel,  regiment  of,   384. 
Sir  Donogh,  52,  53. 
Mr.,  149,  158. 

William  (d.   1777),  styled  Lord 
O'Brien,    4th  Earl  of   Inchi- 
quin  (sue.   1719),  219. 
O'Donnell,  — ,  regiment  of,  385. 
O'Farrell,  Major-General,   115,   116. 

letters  from,  119,  154. 
O'Neill : 

Sir  Bryan,  Justice,  King's  Bench 
(Ire.)  (1688),  352. 


O'NeiU— conf. 

Charles,  78,  85. 

Cormack,  regiment  of,  383. 

David,     Master     of     Chancery 

(1687),  351. 
Colonel  Felix,  regiment  of,  386. 
O'Regan,      Teague,      Governor     of 

Charlemont,  383. 
Observatory  a  gazette,  380. 
Occasional  Bill,  120,  125. 
Ogle: 

Samuel,  Commissioner  of  Reve- 
nue (Ire.),  312,  313. 

,  letter  signed  by,  183. 

Thomas,  Governor  Chelsea  Hos- 
pital, 59. 
Oiest,  captiire  of,  191. 
Olivenza,  318. 

Oliver,  Mr.,  Knight  of  the  Shire  for 
Cork  and  Limerick,  126,  201, 
291. 
Omagh,  letter  dated  from,  296. 
Oporto,  letter  dated  from,  300. 
Orange,  33,  143. 

Mary,  Princess  of,  wife  of  Wil- 
liam, Prince  of,  daughter  of 
James  II,  13. 

,  attempt  to  poison,  349. 

,  Attorney  to,  26. 

,  Solicitor  to,  26. 

.     See  also  under  England, 

Sovereigns  of. 
WilUam   Henry,    Prince   of,    9, 
10,    11,    12,    13,    16,    17,    89, 
354. 

,  Attorney  to,  26. 

,  Solicitor  to,  26. 

,  letter  from,  16. 

.     See  also  under  England, 

Sovereigns  of. 
Orchard  Street,  Westminster,  letter 

dated  from,   154. 
Ordnance,  the: 

contingent  money  of,  227. 
Lieutenant  of,   251. 
Master  of,  185,  228. 
Office  of,  153,  177,  230, 250,  261. 
officers  of,  251. 
Orjordy  the,  a  ship,  72,  144. 
Orlando  Furioso,  282. 
Ormond  : 

Elizabeth,  Duchess  of,  wife  of 
1st  Duke  of,  daughter  of 
Earl  of  Desmond,  308. 
Mary,  Duchess  of,  2nd  wife  of 
2nd  Duke  of,  daughter  of  1st 
Duke  of  Beaufort,  5,  10,  16, 
32,  34,  36,  37,  96,  99,  102, 
146,  160,  243,  335. 

,  letters  from,  79.    See  also 

Report  Vn,  769. 
,  letters  to,  136,  219. 


444 


Ormond — cont. 

James  Butler  (d.  1688),  1st 
Duke  of,  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  10,  11, 
13,  20,  23,  36,  169,  179,  216, 
224,  241,  285,  308,  329. 

,  Chancellor  of  Oxford,  2. 

,  death  of,  alluded  to,  1,  2, 

3,  4,  5,  308,  353. 

,   patronage   and  influence 

of,  alluded  to,  2,  3,  4,  5,  29, 
154,  232. 

,  visit  to  England  of,  343. 

James  Butler  (d.  1745),  2nd 
Duke  of  (sue.  1688),  Knight 
of  the  Garter  (1688),  son  of 
Thomas  1st  Earl  of  Ossory, 
Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland 
(1703-7,  1710-13),  Chancellor 
of  University  of  Dublin  (1688- 
1715),  Chancellor  of  Univer- 
sity of  Oxford  (1688-1715), 
Master  of  Charterhouse  (elect- 
ed 1688),  Lord  Lieutenant  of 
Somersetshire  (1691-1714),  2, 
3,  15,  16,  17,  18,  20,  21,  22, 
23,  25,  29,  30,  32,  33,  34,  38, 
39,  40,  61,  120,  202,  219,  272, 
330,   354,   384,   388. 

,  alluded  to,  as  Chancellor, 

University     of     Dublin,     37, 
193,  196,  217. 

-,    as    Chancellor    of 


University  of  Oxford,  2,  3,  4, 
27,  32,  162,  284. 

— ,  ,  as  Lord  Deputy  or 

Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland, 
23,  87,  153,  173,  294,  308,  309, 
332,  333,  335. 

— , ,  as  Lord  High  Stew- 
ard, 35. 

-,  as  Master  of  Charter- 

— , ,  as  Lord  Lieutenant  of 

Somersetshire,  33,  45. 
-,  accident  to,  and  illnesses 


house,  4. 


of,    173,    176,    178,    179,    181, 
185,  291,  292,  293,  297. 
— ,  aide-de-camp  to,  106,  142, 
238. 
-,  chaplains  to,  58,  91,  115, 


180,  193,  216,  326. 
— ,  Christmas  gratuities  given 
by,  list  of,  270,  271. 
-,    coat   of    arms    of,    men- 


tioned, 5. 
— ,  game,  hawks,  horses,  wine, 
etc.,  given  or  supplied  to,  5,  23, 
32,  37,  38,  39,  40,  41,  47,  63,  98, 
115,  117,  119,  123,  173,  177, 
179,  181,  185,  186,  189,  190, 
192,  193,  195,  234,  242,  257, 
260,  273,  287,  300,  301,  318. 


Ormond,  James  Butler,  2nd  Duke  of 
—cont. 

,  godsons  of,  238,  253. 

,  government  of  Ireland  by, 

or  Lord  Lieutenancy  of,  70, 
93,  111,  112,  163,  174,  187, 
211,  230,  231,  232,  258,  259, 
291,  297,  298,  299,  303,  304, 
308,  309,  320,  321,  323,  332. 
removal      from. 


aUuded  to,  291,  294,  298,  299. 

— ,     ,      restoration      to, 

alluded  to,  320,  321. 
-,  household  of,  officials  of. 


270. 

— ,  influence  and  patronage  of, 
solicited,  1,  2,  4,  5,  and 
throughout. 

— ,  intrigues  against  or 
enemies  of,  176,  210,  212,  215, 
220,  223,  224,  229,  230,  231, 
232,  258,  260,  263,  284,  308. 

— ,  journeys  and  visits  of,  26, 
28,  30,  33,  35,  48,  52,  55,  62, 
63,  77,  95,  100,  111,  112,  114, 
120,  121,  124,  133,  141,  150, 
155,  156,  160,  161,  163,  169, 
171,  179,  181,  292,  293,  294, 
333,  334,  335. 

— ,  manors,  parks  of,  40,  42. 
military    expeditions   of. 


34,  44,  45,  48,  54,  95,  134, 
160,   172,  210,  256,  326. 

— ,  patent  of,  282. 

— ,  pay  of,  142,  316. 

— ,  petition  from,  34. 

— ,  petition  to,  65. 

— ,  portrait  of,  78,  80,  99,  312. 
powers  granted  by  Act  of 


Parliament  to,  302,  309,  314. 
— ,  prisage  due  to,  88. 
— ,  regiments  or  troops  of,  8, 
25,  26,  28,  60,  95,  100,  108, 
143,  159,  163,  166,  218,  221, 
237,  239,  241,  242,  246,  251, 
252,  253,  261,  262,  263,  268, 
273,  286,   300,   336. 

— , ,  artillery,  250. 

— ,  ,  Guards,  18,  20,  27. 

— , ,  chaplain  to,  61,  62. 


-,  son  of,  16. 

-,    letters    for,    alluded    to. 


120. 

,  letters  from,   1,  3,  5,  21, 

24,  25,  26,  27,  28,  32,  33,  40, 
107,  109,  126,  134,  152,  155, 
298.  See  also  Report  VII, 
759,  763,  766,  767,  768,  769, 
770,  771,  772,  773,  774,  776, 
777,  778,  779,  and  XIV,  App. 
VII,  780. 


445 


Ormond,  James  Butler,  2nd  Duke  of, 
letters  from — cont. 

,  ,   alluded  to,    1,   44, 

64,  66,  102,  110,  115,  129, 
154,  157,  164,  171,  174,  178, 
181,  182,  183,  185,  191,  207. 
letters  to,  passim. 


Ormschurch,  letter  dated  from,  287. 
Orrery : 

Mary    (d.    1710),    Coimtess    of, 

wife  of  2nd  Earl  of,  daughter 

of    4th   Earl   of   Dorset,    90, 

92,  96. 

Charles    Boyle    (d.    1731),    4th 

Earl  of  (sue.  1703),  169. 
Lionel  Boyle  (d.  1703),  3rd  Earl 
of  (sue.  1682),  regiment  of, 
63,  69,  96,  140,  147,  162,  180, 
207,  226,  235,  236,  248,  263, 
275. 

,  letter  from,  64. 

Ossory : 

Bishop   of.      See  under  Harts- 
tonge,  John. 

,    Roman    Catholic.      See 

under  Murphy. 
Amelia,  Countess  of,  wife  of  1st 

Earl  of,  158. 
Thomas     Butler,    1st   Earl   of, 
4,  11,  18,  89. 

,  regiment  of,  107. 

Ostend  : 

siege  of,  240,  242. 
letter  dated  from,  242. 
Road,  35,  240. 
Owen,  Mark,  Ensign,  265. 
Oxford,  146,  162,  354. 
GuUdhall  of,  285. 
Recorder  of  and  Town  Clerk  of, 

285. 
University  of,  1,  2,  3,  4,  8,  20,  23, 
24,  27,  29,  162,  285. 

,  bailiff  of,  24. 

,    Chancellors    of,    2.      See 

also  under  Ormonde,   Dukes 
of. 

, ,  election  of,  1,  3,  4. 

,  Vice -Chancellor  of,  285. 

,  Pro-Vice-Chancellor  of,  42. 

,  Colleges  of  : 

All   Souls,   Fellows  of  and 
election  of,  4,  8,  17,  267. 

,    letters    dated    from, 

42,  107. 
Balliol,  5. 

Brasenose,  17,  107. 
Christ  Church,  27,  162. 

,  Dean  of,  37,  162,  348. 

,      Peckwater      Quad- 
rangle of,  162. 

,    letters    dated   from, 

?6,  300. 


Oxford,  University  of,    Colleges   of 
— cont. 

Corpus  Christi,  6. 
Hart  Hall,  23. 
Jesus,  17. 

,  Principal  of,  23,  24. 

,    letter    dated    from, 

25. 
Magdalen,  6,  351,  354. 

,  Fellows  of,  13. 

letters    dated   from, 


26,  245. 
Merton,  42. 
Pembroke,  32. 
,     Fellows 


of,    letter 


signed  by,  30. 
— ,  Master  of,  30,  32. 
-,  letter  dated  from,  30. 


St.  John's,    17,  25. 

,  Fellow  of,  21. 

St.  Mary  Hall,  17,  26, 27, 28. 

,  Principal  of,  28. 

,  Warden  of,  26. 

University,  17,  24. 

,    letters    dated   from, 

161,  284. 
Wadham,  20. 
,  Warden  of.   See  under 

Ironside. 
,  letters  dated  from,  3, 

5,  11,  17,  23. 


285. 


congregation  of,  284. 
Convocation    House    of, 

degrees  of,  and  dispensa- 
tions for,  4,  5,  17,  21,  23,  24, 
25,  32. 

— ,  delegates  from,  23. 
— .    Geometry    at,    Savilian 


Professors  of,  161,  162. 

,  History  lectures  at,  29. 

,  Orator  to,  27. 

Press,  161. 

,  Proctors  oir  5,  285. 

,    Savilian    (Satilian)    Pro- 
fessors at,   162. 

letter  dated  from,  2. 

and  Mortimer,  Robert  Harley 
(d.  1724),  1st  Earl  of  (cr. 
1711),  Speaker,  House  of 
Commons  (Eng.)  (1701-5), 
Privy  Councillor  (Eng.),  1704, 
Northern  Secretary  of  State 
(1704-8),  Chancellor  of  Ex- 
chequer (1710-11),  125. 
Orford,  the,  a  ship,  269. 
Oxmantoun  Green,  369,  383,  386. 


446 


Pacy : 

John,  letter  from,  312. 
Mr.,  69. 
Page,  Mr.,  249,  303. 
Paget,  Captain,  Grenadiers  of,  324. 
Pagnam : 

Mr.,  286. 
Mrs.,  286. 
Palin,  Colonel,  227. 
Palliser : 

Colonel,  302. 

William,  Bishop  of  Cloyne  (1692- 
4),  Bishop  of  Cashel   (1694- 
1726),  letter  signed  by,  297. 
Pall  Mall,  334. 

letter  dated  from,  17. 
Palmer : 

Anthony,  54,  57. 
Colonel,  50,  169. 
Palmerston,  167. 
Paris,  19,  34,  118,  362. 

letters  dated  from,  36,  157,  176, 
333. 
^P flirk©r  * 

Coionel,  regiment  of,  368,  370. 
John  (junior),  letter  from,  ab- 
stract of,  1. 
Michael,    letter   from,    abstract 

of,  26. 
Mr.,  1. 

Vernon,  Major,  264,  265. 
Parkgate,  189. 

Parry,  Robert,  letter  from,  25. 
Parsons  : 

Rev.  — ,  Presbyterian  minister, 

87. 
Sir  William,  321,  322. 
Passage,  French  land  at,  363. 
Paul,  Jeff.,  letter  signed  by,  39. 
Paulin,   Count,   226,   227. 
Peal,  — ,  Dissenting  minister,   365. 
Pearce : 

Captain -Lieutenant,  252. 
Edward,    Major-General,    regi- 
ment of,  331. 
Thomas,    Colonel,    later   Briga- 
dier-General, 69,  150,  247. 

,  regiment  of,  84,  170,  175, 

235,  236,  247,  248,  255,  266, 
331. 
-,  letters  from,  244,  296,  298, 


315,  316. 
Pearl  of  Chester,  a  ship,  312. 
Peiton,  Sir  Robert,  regiment  of,  95. 


Pembroke,    Thomas    Herbert,    8th 
Earl  of  (sue.  1683),  Lord  Lieu- 
tenant   of    Ireland    (1707-8), 
alluded  to  as  Lord  Lieutenant, 
299,  300,  301,  302,  304,  309, 
311. 
letter  signed  by,  45. 
Pendennis  (Pendenes),  Cornwall,  6. 
Penn,  Sir  William,  letter  from,  ab- 
stract of,  289. 
Pennefather,  Captain,  310. 
Penzeene,  Cornwall,  6. 
Pepper,  John,  Major-General,  letter 

from,  324. 
Percy,  Captain,  338. 
Peterborough,  Charles  Mordaunt  (d. 
1735),  3rd  Earl  of  (sue.  1697), 
155,  223,  234,  235. 
aide-de-camp  to,  223. 
letter  to,  alluded  to,  234. 
Peters,  — ,  Roman   Catholic    Arch- 
bishop of  Cashel  (1687),  348. 
Petit,  J.,  letter  from,  234. 
Pett: 

Sir  Peter,  letter  from,  8. 
Phineas,  Captain,  letter  from,  8. 
Philippopolis,  Archbishop,  42. 
Philips,  Phillips  : 
Captain,  307. 
Ensign,  208,  213. 
Mr.,  313. 
Phipps  : 

Sir  Constantine,  Lord  Chan- 
cellor of  Ireland  (1710-14), 
331,  332. 

,  letter  from.     See  Report 

XIV,  Part  VII,  64. 
George,  letter  from,  31. 
Phoenix  Park,  Dublin  : 
lodge  in,  61. 
underkeeper  of,  80,  81. 
Piedmont,  93. 

Protestants  in,  349. 
Piggot,  Councillor,  201. 
Place  Vendome,  Paris,  36. 
Plantations,    the    (American),    131, 

368. 
Plowden,  — ,  Privy  Councillor  (Ire.) 

(1689),  362. 
"Plus  Acres"  Act,  125. 
Plymouth,  146. 

ships  sailing  from  and  to,  146, 

269. 
letters  dated  from,  6,  184,  328, 

330. 
Soimd,  223. 
Plymouth,  the,  a  ship,  41. 

letter  dated  aboard,  41. 
Po,  the  river,  128. 
Poddle,  the  river,  359. 
Poland  : 

horses  from,  260, 


U1 


Poland — cont. 

King  and  people  of,  47. 
peace  of,  46. 
Poles,  the.  North  and  South,  390. 
Pollexfen,  case  of,  72. 
Pollock,  Benjamin,  letter  to,  60. 
Ponsonby,  William,  Colonel,  33,  68. 
letters  from,  83,  219,  252,  268, 
288. 
Pontee,  Mons.,  359. 
Poole,  Mr.,  132. 
Poole  (Dorsetshire),  25,  29. 

Custom  House  at,  letter  dated 

from,  6. 
letters  dated  from,  4,  11. 
Pooley : 

John,  D.D.,  Bishop  of  Cloyne 
(1697-1702),  Bishop  of  Rap- 
hoe  (1702-13),  333. 

,  dispute  with  Archbishop 

of  Dublin,  289,  314. 
Mr.,  a  painter,  293. 
Pope,  the,  13. 

nuncio  of,  350,  354, 
Popery    Act.      See    under    Roman 

Catholics,  Acts  relating  to. 
Porter: 

Captain,  149. 

Sir  Charles,  Lord  Chancellor  of 
Ireland  (1686-7),  4,  345. 

,  resignation  of,  348. 

Portland,  William  Bentinck  (d.l709), 

1st  Earl  of  (cr.  1689),  27 
Portlock,  Benjamin,  37,  38,  39,  59, 
166,  177,  190,  244,  300,  308. 
appointed  Taster,  190. 
letter  from.     See  Report  VII, 
768. 

,  alluded  to,  38. 

letters  to,  60,  72,  79,  80,  119, 
151,  162,  167,  169,  218,  260, 
271.  See  also  Report  VII, 
760,  767,  768,  769,  780. 

,  alluded  to,  80,  294,  300. 

Port  Mahon,  335. 

Portmore,    Sir    David    Colyear    (d. 

1730),   1st  Baron  (1699),   1st 

Earl    of    (cr.     1703),    letters 

from,  abstracts  of,  48,  49,  137. 

Portsmouth,  32,  63,  144,  152. 

letters  dated  from,  26,  31,  150, 
151,  245. 
Portugal,  78,  92,  115. 

English  and  Irish  troops  for, 
also  equipment,  supply  and 
transport  for,  49,  78,  80,  81, 
84,  85,  88,  90,  92,  93,  94,  99, 
105,  108,  109,  110,  116,  116, 
119,  122,  123,  126,  131,  136, 
169,  170,  172,  174,  175,  177, 
182,  190,  299,  314,  317,  325, 
331,  336. 


Portugal — cont. 

Envoy  from,  119,  130. 
King  of,  317. 

ships  bound  from  and  to,  89, 
130,  166. 
Post  Office,  347. 

Potsdam,  Protestant  minister  of,  34. 
Potts,  Laiu*.,  letter  signed  by,  39. 
Pouncefold,  Mr.,    149. 
Povey,  John,  Clerk  to  Privy  Coun* 

cil  (Eng.),  163. 
Powel,  Powell  : 

Sir    John,    Judge    of    Common 

Pleas  (Eng.)  (1688),  353. 
Thomas,  of  Jesus  College,  Ox- 
ford, 17. 
Power : 

John  (d.   1726),  of  Monolargie, 
styled   Baron    le   Power   and 
Coroghmore  (sue.  1704),  letter 
from.     See  Report  VII,  762. 
Mr.,  trial  of,  79. 
Powis,  William  Herbert,  2nd  Mar- 
quis (1696),  titular  Duke  of 
(1689),  362. 
Bill  introduced  by,  66. 
Poyntz,  Sir  Robert,  2. 
Pratt : 

Benjamin,  D.D.,  chaplain  to 
Irish  Parliament,  180,  196, 
218. 

,  letters  from,  326,  337. 

John,  Captain,  Acting  Secre- 
tary of  State  and  War,  81, 
168,  175,  177,  269. 

,  letters  from,  80,  82,  86, 

94,  96,  98,  184. 
Prendergast,  Sir  Thomas,  276. 
Prescott,  Edward,  16. 

letter  from,  1. 
Preston  : 

Brigadier,  147. 

Edward  (d.  1710),  2nd  Viscount 
(sue.  1695),  Secretary  of  State 
(1688-9),  354. 
Pretender,   the  Old,  toasts  to,  184, 

338,  339,  340,  341. 
Pretyman,  M.,  letter  from,  123. 
Price  : 

Colonel,  Brigadier-General,  90, 
293,  306,  308,  328. 

,  regiment  of,  306,  308,  328. 

Hugh,  366. 

Jack,  Const-able  of  Dublin  Castle, 

death  of,  115. 
John,  360. 
Mr.,  61,  134,  262. 

,  of  Balinderry,  366. 

Miss,  366. 
Prior,  Matthew,  334. 

letter  from.  See  Report  VII, 
760. 


448 


Prisage,  72,  88. 

Privateering  and  privateers,  81,  145, 
318,  336,  363,  367,  368. 
ofE  Irish  Coasts,  63,  65,  66,  67, 
72,  78,  81,  110,  166,  172,  225, 
227,  239,  296,  300,  328. 
letters  captured  by,   226,   227, 
228. 
Privileges,  Bill  of,  312. 
Protestant  Succession,  the,   85,   86, 
87,    125,   173,    179,  242,  271, 
352. 
Provence,  234. 
Prussia  : 

Prince  Royal  of,  121. 
horses  from,  257,  260,  273. 
King  of,  46,  49,  51,  273. 
Pulteney,   Thomas,   Colonel,   letters 
from,    abstracts  of,    60,  124, 
138,  143,  155,  156,  159. 
Purcell  : 

Captain,  Governor  of  Wexford, 

344. 
Mrs.,  192,  193. 

Nicholas,  Colonel,  Privy  Coun- 
cillor (Ire.)  (1686),  219,  345, 
362. 
Toby,  108. 
Pusignan,    General,  death    of,  363. 
Putland,  Mr.,  253,  311. 
Pyke,  Lieutenant,  338,  339,  341. 
Pym,  Captain,  69. 

uncle  of,  69. 
Pyne: 

Lady,  167. 

Sir  Richard,  Lord  Chief  Justice 
Common  Pleas  (Ire.)  (1691-5), 
of  King's  Bench  (Ire.)  (1695- 
1709),  39,  161,  172,  201,  277, 
278,  288. 


Q 


Queen  Anne,  the,  a  ship,   238. 
Queensberry,     James     Douglas     (d. 

1711),     2nd    Duke    of     (sue. 

1695),    1st    Duke    of    Dover 

(cr.  1708),  121,  184. 
disgrace  of,  62. 
Queen  Dowager,  354. 


Raby,  Thomas  Wentworth  (d.  1739), 
3rd  Baron  (sue.   1695),  after- 
wards Earl  of  Strafford,  regi- 
ment of,  325. 
letters  from,  46,  257,  273,  286. 
Radcliff,  Rev.  — ,  D.D.,   Canon  of 

Christ  Church,  Oxford,  162. 
Rainsford  : 

Colonel,  315. 

Matthew,  Barrack  Master,  249. 
Ramey  Camp,  letter  dated  from,  148. 
Ramsey,  Colonel,  death  of,   364. 
Randalstown,  Corporation  of,  78. 
Ranelagh,  Richard  Jones  (d.  1712), 
1st  Earl  of   (cr.    1674),    136, 
140,  161. 
son-in-law  of,  157. 
letters  from,  abstracts  of,  157, 
160.      See   also   Report   VU, 
774,   775,   776. 

,  alluded  to,   123. 

Ranelagh,  the,  a  ship,  143. 
Rangrave,    Madame    Louise,    letter 

from,  165. 
Rape-seed  Bill,  151. 
Raphoe,  Bishop  of,  333. 
Rapin,  Captain,  122. 
Rathbeal,  letter  dated  from,  98. 
Rathmines,  369. 
Ratoath,  348. 
Raymond,    — ,    D.D.,    minister    of 

Trim,  co.  Meath,  337. 
Reader,  Rev.  Enoch,  D.D.,  Dean  of 

Emly  (1701-9),  237. 
Reading : 

Daniel,  M.P.,  293. 
Sir  Robert,  34. 
Reboulet,    Mons.,    letter   from,    ab- 
stract of,  114. 
Redondela,     French     and     Spanish 

fleets  at,  44. 
Reilly,  — ,  Lord  Mayor  of  Cork,  372. 
Relief  of  poor  prisoners,  Bill  for,  313. 
Renoult,  Mr.,  French  minister,  168, 
272. 
letter  from,  abstract  of,  245. 
Renovard,   Comet,   281. 
Restoration,  The,  37,  162,  393,  394. 
Revolution,  The  (Enghsh),  98,  171, 

221. 
Reynell,  Sir  Richard,  Lord  Justice 
King's    Bench    (Ire.)    (1674), 
Lord     Chief     Justice     (Ire.) 
(1690),  344,  340. 


44d 


Rice,  Stephen,  Baron  of  the  Ex- 
chequer (Ire.)  (1687),  Com- 
missioner of  the  Treasury 
(Ire.)  (1689-90),  14,  345,  350, 
352,  358,  362,  386. 
Richards,  James,  Captain,  338. 

letter  from,  337. 
Richier,  Andrew,  58,   63,   101,    118. 
Richmond,  120,  124,  136,  140,  141, 
158,  250,  300. 
grant  of,   to  Ormonde,   80. 
Queen's  Steward  at,  154. 
letters  dated  from,  1,  151. 

,  alluded  to,  292. 

Park,  302,  306,  310. 
Riddell,  Captain,  commander  of  the 

Falmouth,  338. 
Ringsend,  Dublin,  53,  351,  371,  376, 

385. 
Rivers,    Richard   Savage    (d.    1712), 
4th  Earl  of  (sue.  1694),  Com- 
mander-in-Chief    of     British 
Forces  in  Portugal,  (1706-8), 
39,  241,  294. 
Rivet,  Colonel,  214. 
Roberts,    Richard,    Captain,     letter 

from,  abstract  of,  323. 
Robinson  : 

Charles,  son  of,  253,  268. 
[Dr.  John,  Ambassador  to 
Sweden],  letter  from,  alluded 
to,  46. 
Sir  William,  Ranger  of  Sher- 
wood Park  (1686),  5,  40,  52, 
114,  115,  158,  159,  168,  178, 
252,  255. 

,     letters     to,      149,     150, 

151. 
Roche  : 

Henry,    Captain    H.M.S.    Fox, 
death  of,   254,   255- 

,  letter  from,  abstract  of, 

184. 
'  Ulick  (d.  1733),  Viscount  R.  of 
Fermoy  (1703),  172. 
— ,  a  thief,  350. 
Rochester,  147. 

Bishop  of,  157,  158,  353. 
Laurence  Hyde  (d.  1711),  1st 
Earl  of  (cr.  1682),  1st  Lord  of 
the  Treasury  (1679-84),  Lord 
Lieutenant  of  Ireland  (1700- 
3),  Ecclesiastical  Commis- 
sioner (1687),  13,  41,  83,  152, 
347. 
,  alluded  to  as  Lord  Lieu- 
tenant, 38,  39,  42,  87. 

,  patronage  of,   75. 

,  pension  of,  347. 

-,  letters  from,  48,  119.    See 


also  Report  VII,  779. 
Rochester,  a  ship,  145. 

Wt.  43482. 


Rochford,  Rochfort : 

George,  son  of  Sir  Robert,  M.P. 
for  Westminster,  291. 

Henry  Nassau  de  Zulestein  (d. 
1709),  1st  Earl  of  (cr.  1695), 
Lieutenant-General  of  Army 
in  Flanders,  pension  of,  173, 
189,   191,    193,   315. 

,  letters  from.  111,  119,  315. 

Robert,  Attorney-General  (Ire.) 
(1695-1707),  Chief  Baron  of 
the  Exchequer  (Ire.)  (1707- 
14),  Lord  Keeper  (1690-6), 
Recorder  of  Londonderry,  47, 
52,  56,  72,  76,  77,   133,  159, 

202,  210,  211,  212,  225,  308. 

,  honour  declined  by,  208. 

,  son  of,  291. 

,  wife  of,  76. 

,  letters,  from,  34,  45,   103, 

111,  194,  204,  209,  232,  291. 
William    Nassau    de    Zulestein 
(d.    1710),   2nd  Earl  of  (sue. 
1709),     119,    315.      See    also 
under  Tunbridge,  Viscount. 
Roebuck,  369. 
Roger,  Dr.,  124. 
Rogers,  George,  Captain,  155. 

letters  from,  150,  151. 
Rogerson,  Sir  John,  213. 

son  of,  213,  325. 

Roman     Catholics,     Acts     or     Bills 

relating   to,    50,    56,    61,    67, 

68,  75,  78,  87,  94,  103,  104, 

105,  125,  135,  149,  150,  151, 

203,  288,  301,  303,  304,  305, 
308,  312,  313,  346,  348. 

Romans,  King  of  the,   114. 
Rome,  391. 
Ronsele  : 

Lord,  98,  107. 
Elizabeth  Adomes,  98,  107. 
Rooke : 

George,  Admiral,  51. 

,  death  of,  94. 

,  fleet  commanded  by,  76, 

85. 

,  pension  of,  110. 

^  letter  from,  44.     See  also 

Report  VII,  764. 
Heyman,  Colonel,  regiment  of, 
185,  190,  204,  235,  236,  244, 
247,  248,  250,  251,  252,  264, 
266,  330. 

,  letters  from,  244,  251. 

Rookley,  letter  dated  from,  75. 
Rooth,  Richard,  letter  from,  280. 
Roscarrick,  Colonel,  388. 
Roscommon  : 

Margaret,  Coimtess  of,  wife  of 
6th  Earl  of,  daughter  of  Sir 
Robert  Putt,  263. 

0  29 


450 


Roscommon,  Margaret,  Countess  of — 
cont. 

,  living  in  gift  of,  337. 

Robert  Dillon  (d.  1715),  6th 
Earl  of  (sue.  1689),  pension 
of,  79. 

,  letter  from,   79. 

Roscrow,  William,  Provost  of  Ennis- 
killen,  letter  signed  by,  187. 
Rose : 

— ,  118. 

— ,  French  Greneral  in   Ireland, 
365,  366,  369,  373,  374. 
Rosenkrantz,    Mons.,    letter    from, 

126. 
Ross,  Rosse  : 

port  of,  demand  for  export  of 

wool  from,  52. 
letter  dated  from,  166. 
collector    of    Customs    at,    219, 

291 
M.P.  for,  291. 
Ross  : 

Charles,        Brigadier  -  General, 

letter  from,  abstract  of,  49. 
Elizabeth,  Viscountess,  wife  of 
1st  Viscount,  daughter  of  Sir 
George   Hamilton,    193,    217, 
241. 

,  daughter  of,  183,  193. 

,  letter  from,  237. 

WiUiam      (d.       1738),      Baron 
(sue.     1682),    High    Commis- 
sioner     General      Assembly, 
Scotland   (1703),  60,    62,  100. 
Ross  Castle,  co.  Kerry,  troops  for, 

237. 
Rosse,  Lord  (Ireland),  85,  362,  388. 
Rostellan,  99. 

letters  dated  from,  92,  99,  191, 
219,  228,  243,  253,  255,  269, 
279,  281,  289,  294. 
Rotterdam,  51. 

letters  dated  from,  246,  247. 
Roxborough,    John   Ker    (d.    1741), 
15th  Earl  of  (sue.   1696),  1st 
Duke  of  (cr.  1707),  100,  101, 
121. 
Royal  Anne,  the,  a  ship,  143. 
Royal  Katherine,  the,  a  ship,  144. 
Royal  Oak,  the,  a  ship,  144. 
Royal  Regiment,  270. 
Royal  Society  of  London,  66. 
Royal  Sovereign,  the,  a  ship,  144. 
letters  dated  aboard,  44,  144, 
147,  160. 
Russell,  the,  a  ship,  144. 
Russell : 

Colonel,  362. 

Mons.,  a  French  Minister,  366. 
Ruzee,  the,  a  privateer,  63. 
Ryan,  James,  368. 


Rycaut,  Sir  Paul,  letter  from,  34. 
Rydalle,  Jere.,  letter  signed  by,  39 
Ryves,    Sir    Richard,    Recorder    of 
Dublin,  17. 
dismissal  of  (1687),  349. 


St.  Armand,  Mons.  de,  letter  from, 

abstract  of,  218. 
St.  Catharine's,  216. 

letters    dated    from,    192,    227, 
230,  240,  286,  287. 
St.  Cross,  church  of,  24. 
St.  Davids,  bishopric  of,  167. 
St.  Domingo,  145. 
St.   George,  a  ship,    144. 
St.  George  : 

family  of,  307. 

Sir  George,   186,  301,  311. 

,  house  of,  226 

,  letter  from,  abstract  of, 

116. 
Oliver,  311. 
St.  Germains  : 
Mons.,  282. 

Marianne  de  Garr,  wife  of  above, 
282. 
St.  Heliers,  70. 
St.  Hermine,  Mons.  de,  145. 
St.  Ivan,  Count,  317. 
St.  James's,   134. 

letters  dated  from,   16,  42,  45, 
153,  156,  158,  318,  324,  331. 
Palace,  134. 

,  letter  dated  from,  42. 

Park,  letter  dated  from,   118. 
Square,  letters  dated  from,  21, 
24,  31,  40,  152. 

,  porters  at,  270. 

Street,  letter   dated  from,  162. 
St.  John,  Mr.,  196. 
St.  John's  Well,  345. 
St.  Leger,  Lieutenant,  308. 
St.  Lewis,  Knight  of,  145. 
St.  Loo,  Captain,  165. 
St.  Malo,  145. 
St.  Martin's  Isle,  King's  Lieutenant 

of,  146. 
St.  Mary  Port,  44. 
St.  Trond,  letter  dated  from,  47. 
St.  Valentine's  Day,   145,   146. 
St.  Vincent,  Cape,  44. 

S ,  Sir  Thomas,  307. 

Sadleir,  Thomas,  11. 


451 


Saige,  Mons.  de,  Captain  of  Marines, 

145. 
Salis,    Mons.,    Governor    of    Breda, 

148. 
Salisbury,    James    Cecil    (d.     1728), 
6th     Earl     of     (sue.      1694), 
162. 
Sallow,  Mr.,  96. 
Salloy,  Mons.,  251. 
Salton,  Mr.,  101. 
Samason,  Captain,  151. 
Sancroft,    William,    Archbishop    of 

Canterbury,  16,  347. 
Sanders.     See  under  Saunders. 
Sanderson,  — ,   359. 
Sanduhet,   117,   118. 
Sankey,  Nicholas,  Colonel,  and  later 
Brigadier    General,    69,    205, 
230,  238,  247. 
regiment  of,   69,   80,    196,   235, 

236,  247,  248,  251,  255. 
letters  from,  98,  155,  196,  207, 
248,  251,  290. 

,  alluded  to,  226. 

Santry,  292. 

Henry    Barry    (d.     1734),     3rd 
Baron    (sue.    1694),   292. 
Sarsfield,  Colonel,  25,  362,  369,  376, 
377. 
defeat  of  English  by,  372. 
Saumur,  University  of,  21. 
Saunders  : 

Anderton,  M.P.,  122,  125,  303, 

307,  308,  309. 
Andrew,  172. 
Captain,  63,  72,  89,  92,  93,  119, 

122,   144,   166,   172,  257. 
Colonel,  328. 

Mr.,  Serjeant-at-Law,  338. 
Sausin,    Mons.    de.    Knight    of    St. 

Lewis,  145. 
Savage,  Mr.,   123,   133,   166,   291. 
Savile,  James,  152. 
Savoy  : 

Duke  of,  114,  127. 
Envoy  of,  154. 
Saxony,  the  peace  in,  274. 
Schomberg,    Marshal   the   Duke   of, 
20,  25,  31,  59,  97,  168,  345, 
369,  370,  371,  372,  373,  375, 
380. 
death  of,  388. 
regiment  of,  97. 

,  retreat  of,  374. 

son  of,  373. 

letters  from,  173.     See  also  Re- 
port XIV,  App.  VII,  63. 
ScoUy,  — ,  underkeeper   of   Phoenix 

Park,  81. 
Scotch  : 

plots,  60. 
regiments,  80. 


Scotland,    18,   52,   78,   87,   98,    101, 
121,  179,  184,  202,  203,  210, 
259,  263,  267,  274,  275,  363, 
375. 
aflairs  in,  177,  280,  281. 
Crown  of,  78,  274. 
Day      of      Thanksgiving      in, 

352. 
declaration    and    proclamation 

in,  363,  364. 
emblems,    religious,    burnt    in, 

62. 
forces  landed  in,  367. 
General  Assembly  of,  60,  62. 

,    High    Commissioner    of, 

100,  184. 
Highland  Clans,  Chiefs  of,  62, 

184. 
Jacobites  in,  87,  88. 
linen  trade  of,  131. 
Lord  Chancellor  of,  121. 
non -jurors  in,  178. 
Parliament  in,   60,   62,   78,   86, 

100,    101,    173,    184. 
parties  in,  121. 
plots  in,  60,  62. 
Presbyterians  in,  87. 
Secretary  of  State  in,  348. 
ships  built  in,   131. 
Union  with  England,   86,    125, 
126,  242,  263,  274,  275,  276, 
281,  303. 
letter  dated  from,  121. 
letters  from,  alluded  to,  85. 
Scott,  Lord  Henry,  60,   149. 

regiment  of,    58,   69,    107,    130, 

170,  189,  214,  235. 
letters  from,    abstracts  of,    56, 
130.  140. 
Seafield,    James    Ogilvy    (d.    1730), 

1st  Earl  of  (cr.  1701),  121. 
Seaford,  the,  a  ship,  81,  89,  90,  93, 
94,    119,    166,    174. 
captain  of,  81,   150. 
letter  dated  aboard,    150,    151. 
Seaforih,  the,  a  ship,  92. 
Seaforth,    Kenneth    Mackenzie    (d. 
1701),  4th  Earl  of  (sue.  1678), 
cr.  Marquis  (1690)  by  James 
II,  121. 
Security,  Act  of,  100,   101,   120. 
Seele,  Dr.,  Provost  of  Trinity  Col- 
lege, Dublin  (1660-99),   37. 
Seldwyn,  Colonel,  regiment  of,  325. 
Serjeant,  Captain,  221,  240,  246. 
Settlement,  Act  of,  and   Repeal   of, 
366,  367,  377,  392,  393,  395, 
398,  399,  401. 
Sevenoaks,  letter  dated  from,  8 
Severn,  the,  river,  67,  257. 
Sewell,  Lieutenant,  229. 
Shackford,  Lieutenant,  218. 


452 


Shadwell : 

Brady,  181. 

Dr.,  181. 

Edward,  Captain,  88. 

,  letters  from,  abstracts  of, 

98,  181. 

John,  Fellow  of  All  Souls,   17. 

Mr.,  92. 

Thomas,  letter  from,   8. 
Shannon,  the,  214. 
Sharnock,  William,  35. 
Shea  : 

James,  quartermaster,  15. 

Patrick,  15. 
Shelbourne,  Henry  Petty  (d.   1751), 
1st  Baron  (cr.  1699),  1st  Earl 
of  (cr.   1719),  53,  254. 
Shelden,  Sheldon  : 

Dan,  346. 

Gilbert,  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bury,   Chancellor    of    Oxford 
University   (1667-1669),   2. 
Shepherd,  Comet,  97,  116,  151,  246. 

petition  from,  69. 
Sheridan,  Sir  Thomas,  Secretary  of 
State     (1687),     dismissal     of, 
352. 
Sherkin,  letter  dated  from,  66. 
Sherwood  Park,  5. 

Ranger  of,  5. 
Sherwyn,  — ,  Yeoman-bedel,  24. 
Ships,  named  : 

Albemarle,  144. 

Alliance,  318. 

Amity,  183. 

Arundel,  q.v. 

Assurance,  328. 

Barfleur,  144. 

Berwick,  143. 

Breda,  144. 

Britannia,  143. 

Browne,  367. 

Centurion,  254. 

Charlotte,  174. 

Chester,  279. 

Cumberland,  223,  337. 

Eagle,  144,  240,  318. 

Edgar,  110. 

Elephant,  145,  146. 

Expedition,  44,  261,  318. 

Feversham,  84. 

Gloutonne,  145. 

Grafton,  143. 

Greenwich,  26,  119. 

Hamilton,  367. 

Hooker y  318. 

Ipswich,  144. 

James,  275. 

John  James,  145. 

Kent,  144. 

Lenox,  143, 

Mary,  338. 


Ships  named — cont. 

Medway,  145. 

Monmouth,  35. 

Nassau,  143. 

Newark,  223. 

Norfolk,  144. 

Orford,  72,  144. 

Oxford,  269. 

Plymouth,  41. 

Queen  Anne,  238. 

Ranelagh,  143. 

Royal  Anne,  143. 

Royal  Katharine,  144. 

Royal  Oak,  144. 

Royal  Sovereign,  44,    144,    147, 
160. 

Russell,  144. 

St.  George,  144. 

Seaford,  q.v. 

Seaforth,  92. 

Shoreham,  q.v. 

Shrewsbury,  70. 

Smirna,  31. 

Sovereign,  41. 

Speedwell,  q.v. 

Suffolk,  143. 

Swiftsure,  44. 

Ten2/,  318. 

TAes^s,  145. 

Torbay,  143. 

Triumph,  144 

Warspright,  72. 

Windsor,  144. 
Shirley  : 

Ensign,  219,  225,  230,  236,  237, 
254. 

Washington,  137. 
Shoreham,  the,  a  ship,  52,  238,  249, 

269. 
Shovel,  Sir  Cloudesley  (d.  1707), 
Admiral  of  the  Fleet  (1690- 
1707),  Lord  Commissioner  of 
the  Admiralty  (1704),  70, 
144,  147,  231. 

pension  of,  110. 

regiment  of,  137. 
Shrewsbury  : 

letter  dated  from,  30. 

Charles  Talbot  (d.    1717),   12th 
Earl  of.  (sue.  1688),  19,  22. 
Shrewsbury,  the,  a  ship,  70. 
Sibourg,      Charles,      Major-General, 

regiment  of,  324. 
Sign    Manual.      See    under    Letters 

Patent. 
Silly,   57. 

Silly,  Mons.  de  Boisluch6  de,  146. 
Silver,    Mr.,    Sheriff    of    Kilkenny, 

253. 
Six  Months'  Subsidy,  Act  of,  100. 
Skelligs,  66. 
Skelton,  Colonel,  regiment  of,  21. 


453 


Skerries,  368. 
Slane : 

parish  of,  218. 

Ann,  Lady,  wife  of  17th  Baron, 
daughter  of  Patrick  Trant, 
164,  192,  194,  230,  387. 
Christopher  Fleming  (d.  1726), 
17th  Baron  (sue.  1676),  regi- 
ment of,  321,  376. 

,  letters  from,  321.    See  also 

Report  XIV,  Pt.  VII,  65. 
Sligo,  25,  36,  358. 

defeat  of  the  English  near,  372. 
guns  at,  105. 
siege  of,  373. 
Sloper,  Mr.,  307. 

Smima,  the,  a  merchant -ship,  31. 
Smith,  Smyth  : 

Captain,  15,  28,  241. 
Edward,  Bishop  of  Down  and 
Connor  (1699-1721),  Dean  of 
St.  Patrick's  (Dublin)  (1695- 
8),  37,  180. 

,  letters  from,  77,  85,  117, 

136,  173,   182,  274.     See  also 
Report  XIV,  61. 
Francis,  243. 
Lieutenant.  183. 
Michael,  2,  5,  29. 

,  letter  to,  40. 

Mr.,  159. 

Robert,    Colonel,    Privy    Coun- 
cillor (Ire.),  33. 
Sir  Thomas,  88,' 286. 
Valentine,  solicitor,  2,  15,   16. 

,  letter  from,  32. 

,  letter  to,  15. 

Rev.  William,  117. 
Soignies,  letter  dated  from,   310. 
Somers,  John  (d.    1716),   1st  Baron 
S.    of    Evesham    (cr.     1697), 
274. 
Somerset,  Charles  Seymour  (d.  1748), 
6th  Duke  of  (sue.  1678),  dis- 
grace of,  350. 
letter  from,  256. 
Somersetshire  : 

Gustos  Rotulorum  of,   232. 
Justices  of  the  Peace  in,  232. 
Lord  Lieutenant  of.      See  under 

Ormonde,  2nd  Duke  of. 
Deputy     Lieutenants    of,    232, 
233. 
Somerville,  Mr.,  M.P.  for  co.  Louth, 

291. 
Sophia,  Princess,  86. 

letter  from.      See  Report  VII, 

780,  781. 
letter    to.      See    Report    XIV, 
App.  VII,  780. 
Soulden,    Mr.,    letter   from,    alluded 
to,  66. 


South  : 

Mr.,  daughter  of,  100. 
Thomas,  Captain,  letter  from,  61. 
Southampton,  150. 
South  Shields,  237 
Southwell : 

Colonel,  M.P.,  302. 
Edward,  Principal  Secretary  of 
State  (1702-20),  Lonl  a>m- 
missioner  of  Privy  Seal  (1715- 
18),  63,  64,  89,  121,  139,  141, 
161,  164,  168,  170,  178,  187, 
188,  197,  208,  220,  2.30,  265, 
291,  304,  307,  323. 

,  Elizabeth  (Betty),  La<ly, 

wife  of  above,  90,  122,  124, 
176,   188,  308,  309. 

,  letters  from,  52,  53,  85, 

88,  89,  90,  92,  94,  122,  123, 
124,  133,  134,  149,  169,  170, 
172,  246,  307,  308. 

, ,  alluded  to,  187,  245, 

247,  268,  285,  304,  327,  331. 
-,  letters  to,  132,  187,  197, 


199,     330,     337.       See     aho 
Report  VII,  777. 

,  alluded  to,  115,  130, 


291,  306. 

Sir  Thomas,  88,  201. 

,  letter  from,  125. 

Sovereign,  the,  a  ship,  41. 
Spain,   47,   95,    118,   210,   256,   260, 
296. 

campaign  in,  and  English  forces 
in,  47,  54,  57,  58,  118,  154, 
232,  234,  255,  265,  317,  324, 
326,  332,  336. 

Court  of,  57. 

King  of,  48,  49,  51,  53.  57,  60, 
379. 

Queen  of,  379. 

religious  intolerance  in,    189. 

trade  with,  334. 
Spanish  iron,  imported,  350. 
Speedwell,  the,   a  ship,   52,   55,   72, 
85,   119,  238,  244,  249. 

letter  dated  aboard,  183. 
Spencer 

family  of,  400. 

Major  and  later  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  117,  219,  223,  228, 
229,  253,  279,  281,  289. 

Sextus,  92. 

Tertius,  death  of,  117. 

,  letters  from,   54,  57. 

Spithead,  26,  31,  110. 

ships  bound  from  and  to,  143, 
145. 
Sprat,  Thomas,  Bishop  of  Rochester 
(1684-1713),  Dean  of  West- 
minster (1683-1713),  167,  168, 
353. 


454 


Spring,  Mr.,  of  Naas,  239. 
Stabbs,  Francis,  35. 
Stafford  : 

Alexius,  Roman  Catholic  Dean 
of     Christ     Church,     Dublin, 
appointed  Master  of  Chancery 
(1688),  352. 
Captain,  71,  123,  124,  281. 
Staffordshire,  122. 
Stanhope,   General,   324. 

regiment  of,  325. 
Stanwix,  Stanix,  Captain,  and  later 
Colonel,     56,     58,     236,    293, 
315. 
regiment  commanded  by,   261, 
295. 
Stanley  : 

Lady  Betty,  36. 

Lady  Harriot,  36. 

Henry,  letter  from,  abstract  of, 

55. 
Nicholas,  Fellow  All  Souls,  Ox- 
ford, 4. 
James    (d.    1699),    Lord,    letter 

from,  abstract  of,  36. 
Stephen,  Colonel,   104. 
Sir  Tom,  43. 
Stanix.  See  Stanwix. 
Stapleton,  Mr.,  161,  180. 
"Star,"  the,  in  Holywell,  21. 
State  Affairs  in  Ireland,  a  pamphlet, 

380. 
States     (Netherlands).       See     under 

Holland. 
Stearne,   John,  Bishop  of  Dromore 
(1713-1717),  Rector  of  Moy- 
met,  337. 
letter  from,  337. 
Steele,    Mr.,    Collector    of    Kinsale, 

338,  339,  340,  341. 
Sterne,  Dr.,  death  of,  104,  105. 
Stewart,  Stuart : 

Major,  137,  138,  325, 
Mr.,  253,  255. 

R.,  letters  from,  171,  185,  302. 

William,       Lieutenant-General, 

Knight     of     the    Shire     for 

Waterford,  125,  133,  134,  257, 

269,  279,  281,  333. 

,  family  of,  257. 

,  pension  of,  230. 

,  letters  from,  62,  109,  111,     j 

137,     138,     230,     255,      325,     i 
329.  I 

Stillingfleet,  Bishop,  library  of,  314, 
Stoke,  sale  of,  46. 
Stonehouse,  Lieutenant,  248. 
Stony  Stratford,  8. 
Stopford,  James,  203. 

letter  from,  209. 
Strabane,  154. 

letter  dated  from,  293, 


Strafford  : 

Captain,  64. 

(a)  Thomas  Wentworth  (d.l641). 
Earl  of  (cr.  1640),  282, 
303. 
(6)  Thomas  Wentworth  (d.l739). 
Earl  of  (cr.  1695),  cousin  of 
(a),  letter  from,  336. 
Strand,    the,  by  Ringsend,  Dublin, 

53. 
Stratford,  257. 

Strathan,  George,  letter  from,  275. 
Strathmore,   John   Lyon   (d.    1712), 
2nd  Earl  of  (sue.  1695),  255, 
275. 
Strathnave,  Lord,  275. 
Street,    Sir  Thomas,   Baron   of   the 
Exchequer      (Eng.)      (1681), 
Judge  Common  Pleas  (1684), 
353. 
Strode,  Mr.,  Bailiff  of  Westminster, 

154. 
Strother,  Captain,  217,  228. 
Stroud,  Ensign,  207. 
Stuart.     See  Stewart. 
Stubber,  Captain  Robert,  letter  from, 

327. 
Sturgeon,  Mr.,  18. 
Suasso  Tuif,  Baron  de,   118. 
Suffolk,  245. 

Henry  Howard   (d.    1709),    5th 
Earl    of    (sue.     1691),    letter 
from,    abstract   of,    105. 
men  of,  13. 
Suffolk,  the,  a  ship,  143. 
Smt,  letter  dated  from,  197. 
SuUivame,  William,  95. 
Sunderland  : 

Charles  Spencer  (d.    1722),   3rd 

Earl  of  (sue.   1702),  297. 
Robert  (d.    1702),   2nd  Earl  of 
(sue.    1643),    Lord    President 
of   Council    (1685-8),    change 
of  religion  of,   353,   354. 
Sutherland,    Colonel,    regiment    of, 

383. 
Sutton  : 

Brigadier,  147. 

Thomas,  Corpus  Christi  College, 
Oxford,   5. 
Swanton,    Captain,    H.M.S.    Exeter, 

145,  231. 
Sweden  : 

King  of,  47. 

treaty  between  Prussia  and,  46, 
49. 
Swift  : 

Captain,  321,  322. 
Jonathan    (d.     1745),    Dean    of 
St.  Patrick's  Cathedral,  Dub- 
Hn    (1713-45),    letter    from, 
337, 


465 


Swiftsure,     a     ship,      letter     dated 

aboard,  44. 
Swiss  troops,  256. 
Swords  [CO.  Dublin],  368. 
Synge : 

Captain,  265. 

Dean,   Prolocutor   of   Convoca- 
tion, 53,  180,  192. 


Tajo,  river,  60. 
Talbot : 

Buno,  Chancellor  of  Exchequer 
(Ire.)  (1687),  Lord  Treasurer 
(Ire.)  (1689),  351,  362. 
Sir    William,     Master     of     the 
Rolls,  363,  370,  374. 

,  letter  from,  24. 

Tallant,  Count,  102. 
Tallard,  Count,  132. 
Tara  Hill,  383. 
Taroka,  Count,  317. 
Taster,  office  of,  190. 
Taylor : 

Mr.,  71. 

Sir  Thomas,  baronetcy  of,  82, 
83. 

,  daughter  of,  286. 

,  letter  from,  82. 

Taylour,  John,  letter  from,  132. 
Teape  : 

Thomas,  trooper,  167. 
William,  221,  253. 
Tehean,  117. 

Teknevan,  letter  dated  from,  243. 
Tempest,  Signor,  312. 
Temple,   Sir  Richard,   regiment  of, 

323. 
Tench,  Wm.,  letter  signed  by,  39. 
Tennison  : 

Henry,  Commissioner  (Ire.),  133, 
134,  291,  304. 

,  letter  signed  by,  183. 

Richard  (d.  1705),  Bishop  of 
Meath  (1697-1705),  Bishop 
of  Clogher  (1691-7),  107,  167. 

,  death  of,   168,   169,    170, 

176,  180. 

letter  from,  abstract  of. 


37. 

Thomas,  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bury (1694-1715),  302. 
Teny,  a  galley,  318. 


Teny,  Madame  de,  148,  160. 
Terrill,  — ,  Roman  Catholic  HiBhop 
of  Clogher,  appointed  Secre- 
tary of  State  (1688),  352. 
Tesse,  Coimt  de,  234. 
Test  Act,    67,    103,    104,    105,   300, 

303,  304,  305,  308,  312. 
Tetuan,  117. 

letters  dated  from,  64,   67. 
Thesis,  of  Rochefort,  a  French  ship, 

145. 
Thionville,  74. 
Tholsel,  the,  328. 
Thomond  : 

Henry  O'Brien  (d.   1741),  Earl 
of    (sue.    1691),  letters  from, 
abstracts  of,  61,  146. 
Thompson,  Charles,  Surgeon  General, 

letters  from,   18,   19,  20. 
Thorpe  Galvin,  letter  dated  from,  101 . 
Thorpe,  Mr.,  21. 
Thurles,  35,  143. 

Tidcombe,  Brigadier-General,  69,  90, 

164. 

aide  de  camp  to,  327. 

regiment  of,  69,  170,  175,   177, 

214,  218,  225,  229,  230,  235, 

236,  248,  257,  262,  263,  321. 

letters  from,  50,  107,  171,  306. 

,  abstracts  of,  46,  126,  138, 

148,  150,  172,  173,  176,  179, 
181. 
Tiffins,  Brigadier,  229. 
Timahoe,  vicarage  of,   163,   166. 
Tipperary : 

county,  (referred  to  as  Palatin- 
ate), 1,  29,  38,  159,  194. 
inhabitants  of,  322, 
Justices  of  the  Peace  of,  2. 
Judge  of,  159. 
M.P.  for,  291. 
Sheriff  of,  10. 
Tisdale,  Mr.,  M.P.  for  Louth,  291. 
Toleration,  Act  of,  135. 
Tonais,  Madame  de,  70. 
Topham,  Dr.,  Master  of  Chancery, 

dismissal  of,  352. 
Torbay,  254,  355. 

letter  dated  from,  256. 
Torbay,  the,  a  ship,  143. 

Spanish  prisoners  on,   44. 
Tories,  the,  343,  349. 

toast  to,  338. 
Torrington  : 

Anne  (d.  1719),  wife  of  1st  Earl 
of,  daughter  of  Sir  William 
Airmyn,  158. 
Arthur  Herbert  (d.  1716),  1st 
Baron  Herbert  of  Torbay  and 
1st  Earl  of  Torrington  (cr. 
1689),  Vice-Admiral  of  Eng- 
land (1689-90),  158. 


456 


Toulon,  310. 
Tower,  The,  28. 
Townley,  — ,  Esquire,  376. 
Townsend  : 

Captain,    H.M.S.    Royal    Anne, 

143. 
Lieutenant,  261. 
Trailboy,  Captain,  225. 
Tralos  Montes,  317. 
Transport  Office,  92. 

letter  dated  from,  188. 
Transports  or  convoys,   31,   67,   78, 
81,  84,  85,  88,  89,  90,  92,  93, 
94,  95,  96,  99,  100,  107,  108, 
109,  110,  111,  113,  114,   115, 
123,  126,  130,  146,  166,  167, 
188,  189,  193,  214,  226,  227, 
238,  242,  249,  252,  255,  257, 
269,  275,  281,  297,  314,  328, 
331,  364,  380. 
Commissioners  for,    126. 
Trant : 

Mr.,  22. 
Patrick,  22. 
Sir  — ,  386. 
Trarback,  74. 
Travel,     licenses     for.      See     under 

Absence. 
Travel],  Sir  Thomas,   156,  228. 
Treasury,  the,  52,  70,   90,  122,   130, 
156,  157,  208,  239,  301,  307. 
Clerlis  of,  136. 
Commissioners  of,  appointment 

of,  347. 
fees,  253. 

letters  dated  from,  82,  85. 
Treasury  Chambers,  Whitehall,  let- 
ters dated  from,   132,  318. 
Tredagh,  Tredath.      See  Drogheda. 
Treleg,  living  of,  33. 
Trevelyan,  John,  Deputy  Lieutenant 
of  Somersetshire,  letter  signed 
by,  232,  233. 
Treves,  74,  163. 
Trevor  : 

Captain,        H.M.S.        Windsor, 

144. 
Sir  John,  Commissioner  of  the 
Great  Seal,  33. 
Trim,  337,  387. 

Bishop's  visitation  at,    190. 
Corporation    of,    address    from, 

250. 
Gaol,  359. 
Provost  of,  250. 
troops  at,  and  quarters  of,  263, 

264,  365. 
letter  dated  from,  250. 
Trinity   College,    Dublin,    217,    356, 
360,  370,  371. 
chapel   of,    mass   said   in,    372, 
385. 


Trinity  College,  Dublin — cont. 

commencement  at,  289,  326,  371. 
;  Fellowship  of,  163. 

plate  of,  348. 
Provost  of.     See  Browne. 
Provostship  of,  36,  37. 
troops  billeted  in,  373. 
undergraduates    of,     289,     290, 

329,  378. 
used  as' prison,  371,  385,  386. 
Vice -Provost  of,  37. 
letters  dated  from,  36,  196. 
Triumph,  the,  a  ship,  144. 
Trustees,  the,   sitting   at   Chichester 

House,  Dublin,  41. 
Tserclaes,  Prince  of,  47. 
Tuam  : 

Bishop  of.     See  under  Vesey. 
I  letter  dated  froin,  37. 

,     Tucker,    John,    Under-Secretary    of 
I  State    (1700-4),    81,    84,    88, 

I  89,  90,  92,  93,  126,  159. 

I  accounts  of,  90,  91,  95,  96,  159. 

!     Tucks,  Mr.,  132. 
'     Tulsk,  315. 

Tunbridge,  William  Nassau  de  Zule- 
stein,  styled  2nd  Viscount 
Tunbridge  (1695-1709),  2nd 
Earl  Rochford  (sue.  1709), 
Lieutenant-Colonel,  44,  121, 
299. 
father  of.     See  under  Rochford, 

1st  Earl  of. 
regiment  of,  261,  286. 
letters  from,  58,   74,    102,   115, 
117,  125,  128,  134,  141,  173, 
•      179,  185,  189,  190,  193. 
Tunbridge  Wells,  241. 

letters  dated  from,  173,  176. 
Turin,  117,  118. 

siege  of,  250. 
Turner,     Francis,     Bishop     of     Ely 
(1684-91),  Bishop  of  Roches- 
ter (1683-4),  21. 
Tweeddale,    John    Hay    (d.     1713), 
2nd  Marquess  of  (sue.  1697), 
Lord  High  Commissioner  to 
Parliament,    Lord  Chancellor 
of     Scotland    (1704-5),     100, 
101,  121. 
See  also  Yester,  Lord. 
Twickenham,  347. 

letter  dated  from,  246. 
Twigg,   Mr.,   of   Palmerston,    115. 
Tynemouth      Castle,     letter     dated 

from,  237. 
Tyrconnell : 

Frances  (d.  1720),  Countess  of, 
wife  of  1st  Earl  of,  daughter 
of  Sir  George  Hamilton,  at- 
tends mass,  372. 
,  letter  from,  183. 


467 


Tyrconnell — cont. 

Richard  Talbot  (d.  1691),  1st 
Earl  of  (cr.  1685),  Lieutenant- 
General  of  Army  in  Ireland, 
Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland 
(1687-9),  attainted  (1691),  7, 
129,  343,  346,  348,  362,  363, 
365,  370,  373,  385,  386,  387, 
398. 
,  alluded  to,  as  Lord  Lieu- 
tenant, 3,  14,  15,  347,  348, 
349,  350,  351,  352,  354,  356, 
357,  358,  360,  361,  391. 

-,  as  Lieutenant -Gener- 


al of  Army,  343,  345. 

,  attends  mass,  349,  350. 

,  journeys  of,  343,  348,  351. 

,  patronage  of,  3,  344. 

,  regiment  of,  383. 

-,  sermon  preached  before. 


349. 


letter  to,  14. 


Tyrer,  Mr.,  of  Liverpool,  188. 
Tyrone,  296. 

coimty  of,  M.P.  for,  291,  296. 

,  Tories  in,  296. 

James    Power    (d.     1704),     3rd 

Earl  of  (sue.  1693),  death  of, 

113. 
Richard  Power  (d.    1690),    1st. 

Earl    of  (cr.    1673),  regiment 

of,  21,  354,  381. 
Tyrrell : 

Captain,  336. 

Colonel,  regiment  of,  325,  331, 

336. 
Mr.,  88. 


U 


Ulm,  114. 

Unanimity  and   Limitations   and   a 

Treaty,  a  speech,  184. 
Uniformity,  Act  of,  91. 
Union,  The  (Scotland  and  England), 
and  Act  or  Bill  for,  125,  126, 
242,  263,  274,  275,  276,  281, 
303. 
Unsettlement,  Act  of,  377. 
Upton  : 

Clotworthy,  M.P.,  78,  301. 

,  letter  to,  alluded  to,  86. 

family  of,  73. 
Mr.  Justice,  105,  202. 
Utrecht,  185,  326. 

letter  dated  from,   336. 

Wt.  .43482. 


Valencia,  Spain,   118,   154,  203. 

Valeriano,  an  actor,  327. 

Valladolid,   letter  dated  from,   324. 

Vallaines,  letter  dated  from,  256. 

Vanhomrigh,  Mr.,  death  of,  53. 

Varangle,    Mons.,    letter    from,    ab- 
stract of,  197. 

Vasmeinier,  Feret  de.  King's  Lieu- 
tenant, St.  Martin's  Isle,  146. 

Velasco,  Due  de,  Viceroy  of    Cata- 
lonia, 118. 

Vendome,  Duke  of,    179,    191,  261, 
324. 
army  of,  325. 

Venetians,  117. 

Vernon,  Sir  Richard,  A.  de  C.  to  2nd 
Duke  of  Ormond,   224,   230, 

238,  239. 

regiment  of,  83,  100,  167,  188, 

221,  230,  241. 
letters  from,  68,  83,  95,  100,  106, 

150,  188,  192,  217,  229,  238, 

239,  240,  241. 
Verona,  siege  of,  128,  134. 
Verrue,  149. 

Versailles,  334. 
Vesey  : 

John,  Archbishop  of  Tuam 
(1676-1716),  letters  from,  37, 
290. 

,  son  of,  37. 

Theodore,  Captain,  letters  from, 
268,  294,  302. 
Vienna,  117,  118,  287. 
Vigo,  44,  145. 

Vigors,  Urban,  letter  signed  by,  39. 
Vilerise,  Mons.  de,  letter  from,  219. 
Vileuse,  Laloust  de,  letter  from,  157. 
Villeroy,  Marechal  de,  117. 
Villiers  : 

George,    Colonel,    59,    176    (?), 

242  (?). 
Henry,  letter  fi*om,  abstract  of, 

237. 
Mrs.  Mary,  99. 
Mrs.,  pension  of,  301. 
William,     Lieutenant  -  Colonel, 
176,  300  (?),  307. 

,  regiment  of,  71,  188,  196, 

205,  242  (?). 

O  30 


458 


Villiers,  William — cont. 

,  letters  from,   71,   84,   97, 

108,  163,  185,  188,  196,  205, 
207,  228. 
Vimare,  Mons.,  letter  from,  abstract 

of,  204. 
Vincent : 

Captain,  H.M.S.   Russell,   144. 
Mr.,  186. 
Virginia,  376. 


w 


Wadding,  Michael,  letter  from,  ab- 
stract of,  102. 
Wade's  regiment,  325. 
Wakelin,    Captain,    H.M.S.    Suffolk, 

143. 
Walden,    Lord,    son    of   Marquis    of 

Tweeddale,  89. 
Wales,  97,  146,  234,  279. 
Council  of,  110. 

Prince  of,  James  Francis  Ed- 
ward, christening  of,  86,  354, 
392. 

,  godfather  of,  354. 

Walker,    Mr.,    of   Londonderry,    24, 

32,  388. 
Walkington,  Rev.  .   .  .  ,  153. 
Wall,  Mr.,  Bill  introduced  by,  56. 
Wallis  : 

Captain,  149. 
Colonel,  332. 

,  memorial  of,  336. 

,  letter  from,  336. 

Dr.,     Professor     of     Geometry, 
Oxford,  161. 
Walsh : 

Cornet,  246. 
Jack,  23. 
Mrs.,  261. 

Mrs.  Jane,  letter  from,  abstract 
of,  23. 
Wandermeer,  — ,   127. 
Wandesford,  Christopher,  282,  296. 
Wansborrow,  Captain,   137,   138. 
Wansos,  Captain,  151. 
Warbacq,  Monseigneur  de,  121. 
Ward,  Edward  (d.  1704),  Baron  W. 
of   Birmingham    (sue.    1701), 
53,  56. 
Waring  : 

John,  seneschal  to  2nd  Duke 
of  Ormonde,  5. 


Waring — cont. 

William,    letter   from,    abstract 
of,  243. 
Warre,  Francis,  Deputy  Lieutenant 
of  Somersetshire,  letter  signed 
by,  233. 
Warren,  Mau.,  letter  signed  by,  39. 
Warsprighf,  the,  a  ship,  72. 
Warwick,  6,  7,  103. 

Castle,  letter  dated  from,  114. 
Waterford,    15,    85,    186,    214,    289, 
370,  387. 
address  from  county  of,  255. 
collector  of  Customs  at,  219. 
Governor  of,  113. 
Knight  of  Shire  for,  255. 
lighthouse  at,  89. 
M.P.  for,  255. 

ships  bound  from  or  to,  2,  257, 
367. 

seen  off,  361. 

letters   dated  from,   99,    117. 
Waters,  the,  execution  of,  376. 
Watson  : 

Mr.,  47. 

Mr,,  agent  to  Lord  Inchiquin, 
164,  255. 

,  brother  of,  164. 

Webb: 

Col.  J.,  letter  from,  129. 
Ezekiel     (d.      1704),     Dean     of 

Limerick  (1690-1704),  114. 
Richmond,  129. 
Webenham,    Monsieur,    letter  from, 

mentioned,  27,  28. 
Weedon,     Cavendish,     letter     from, 

152. 
Weissenberg     Camp,     letter    dated 

from,  114. 
Weldon  : 

Captain,  294. 
Major,  322. 
Wells,  letter  dated  from,  232. 
Welsh,  — ,  254. 
Wemys  : 

Francis,    letter  from,   abstracts 

of,  214,  329. 
Sir  Patrick,  329. 
Wentworth,  Harman,  letter  to,  5. 
Werden,     Major-General,     regiment 

of,  16. 

West  Indian  Commission,  228. 

West  Indies,  41,  66,   186,  244,  390. 

regiments  for  and  from,  41,  59, 

69,  89,  90,  97,  109,  177,  268. 

ships    from   and    to,    67,    244, 

249. 
•  trade  with,  65,  66,  67. 
Westmeath  : 

MP.  for,  291. 

Thomas  Nugent,    4th    Earl   of, 
regiment  of,  377. 


469 


Westminster,  16,  278. 
Bailiff  of,  154. 
Constable  in,  17. 
M.P.  for,  155. 
Steward  of,  152,  153,  154. 
letter  dated  from,  55. 
HaU,  3. 
Wexford,  2,  170,  352. 

barrack  construction  at,  245. 
Governor  of  (1685),  344. 
Weybridge,  letter  dated  from,  49. 
Weymouth,  10. 
Wharton  : 

Thomas  (d.  1716),  5th  Baron 
(sue.  1696),  1st  Earl  of  (cr. 
1706),  1st  Marquis  of  (cr. 
1715),  148,  210,  229,  321. 
,  alluded  to  as  Lord  Lieu- 
tenant of  Ireland,  318,  321, 
323,  328. 

regiment    of,    329,    331, 


333. 


333. 


Roman  Catholics  in, 


Lucy    (d.     1716),    nee    Loftus, 
Countess   of,   wife   of   above, 
338. 
Whealey,  Rev.  — ,  Vicar  of  Killary, 

105. 
Whetstone,  Sir  William,  144. 
Whigs,  the,   122,  328,  338. 
Whitaker  : 

Captain,     H.M.S.     Association^ 

143. 
Sir  Ed.,  Captain,   H.M.S.  Bar- 
fleur,  144. 
White: 

Captain,  203. 

Mr.,  207. 

Mr.,  of  Leixlip,  38,  192. 

,  wife  of,  192. 

Mr.,  of  Ringsend,  359. 
Rowland,  384. 
Whitehall,  37,  173,  260. 

Chapel  Keeper  at,  270. 
letters  dated  from,  43,  139,  146, 
155,  156,  172. 
Whitehaven,  ships  bound  from  and 
to,  78,  81,  85,  88,  90,  92,  93, 
94,  96. 
Whitehead,    Colonel    George,    letter 

from,  328. 
Whitshed,  Thomas,  312,  388. 
Whitworth,  Mr.,  231,  236,  238. 
Wibault,  Jacques,  Major  of  Artillery, 
Major  of  the  Train,  216,  220, 
227,  228,  288,  299,  .321. 
letters  from,  197,  246,  247. 

,  alluded  to,  246. 

Wicklow,  260,  352,  363,  373,  379. 
troops  for,  237. 
Castle,  122. 


Wigan,  332. 

M.P.  for,  332. 
Wight,  Isle  of,  354. 
Williams,  W.,   letter  from,   34. 
letter  from,  mentioned,  32. 
letter  to,  32. 
Wills  : 

Captain,   231,   236,   239. 
Casper,  Lieutenant,  99. 
General,  324. 
Wilsbey,  Mr.,  346. 
Wilson  : 

Captain,  130,  174. 
(a)  Mr.,  48,  58,  61. 
(6)  Mr.,  141. 
(c)  Mr.,  169. 
Winchester  : 

Bishop    of.      See    under   Mews, 

Peter, 
letter  dated  from,  24. 
Winchilsea,  Charles  Finch  (d.  1712), 
4th  Earl  of  (sue.  1689),  letter 
from,  55. 
Windham,  Major-General,  38. 
Windsor,     Thomas,      1st     Viscount 
Windsor  (cr.  1699),  regiment 
of,    204,   206,   226,   241,   252, 
257,  262,  263,  267,  268,  273, 
286. 
letter  from,  55. 
Windsor,  the,  a  ship,  144. 
Wingate,  Cornet,  223,  231. 
Withers,  Ensign,  dismissal  of,  349. 
Witterong,    Sir   John,   regiment   of, 

322,  324,  325,  330,  333. 
Wogan,  Mr.,  letter  from,  alluded  to, 

52. 
Wolseley  : 

Captain,  226. 

William,  Brigadier-General,  let- 
ter  from.     See  Report  VU, 
762. 
Wood: 

Cornelius,     Brigadier  -  Greneral, 
letters  from,  abstracts  of,  56, 
56,  60,  114,  133,  174,  191. 
Ebenezer,  letter  from,    115. 
Mr.,  34. 
Mr.,  155,  169. 
Woods,  — ,  360. 
Woodward  : 

Captain,   later  Major,    70,   228, 

279. 
Ensign,  294. 
Wool: 

export  of  and  trade  in,  52,  67, 

95,  108,  131,  177. 
Acts    and    Proclamations    con- 
cerning, 67,  353. 
WooUen  Manufactory  Bill,  35. 
Worcester,  29,  30. 
House,  168 


460 


Workum,  letter  dated  from,  189. 
Worsopp,  Sir  Thomas,  death  of,  16. 

letter  from,  4. 
Worth,  William,  Baron  of  the  Ex- 
chequer (Ire.)  (1679-86),   37, 
38,    72,    74,    168,    178,    216, 
363. 
letters  from,  39,  40,  41,  42. 
letters   to,   alluded   to,    72,    84. 

See  also  Report  VII,  772. 
Dr.,  224. 
Wright : 

Captain,  357. 
Francis,  letter  from,  316. 
Sir  Nathan,  Lord  Keeper  (Eng.) 
(1704-5),      Lord      Chancellor 
(1702-5),  48,  55,  113. 
Wroth  : 

Colonel,  141. 

Major  Robert,  letters  from,  161, 
180. 
Wyatt,  Mr.,  of  Christ  Church,  Ox- 
ford,  Orator  to   the   Univer- 
sity,  recommended  as   Head 
or     Principal     of     St.     Mary 
Hall,  26,  27. 
letter  from,  28. 
Wybrants  : 

Ensign,  dismissal  of,  349. 
Mr.,  213. 
Wyndham,  Thomas,   338,   339. 

accusations  against,  and  trial  of, 
338,  339,  340,  341,  342. 
Wynne,  Colonel  Owen,  regiment  of, 
166,  191,  214,  235,  248,  252. 
letter  from,  187. 


Wythe,  Robert,  letter  from,   151. 


Yalden,  a  newsbroker,  380. 

Yamer,  — ,  Muster  Master-General, 
18. 

Yeomen  of  the  Guard,  270. 

Yester,  Lord  [Charles  Hay,  after- 
wards 3rd  Marquess  of  Tweed - 
dale],  121. 

York  : 

letter  dated  from,  34. 
James,    Duke    of.      See    under 
James  II. 

Yorkshire,  92. 

Youghal,  186,  360. 


Zell,  Duke  of,  195. 

Zulestein,    letters   dated   from.    111, 

115,  117,   119,  179,   185,  189, 

190,  193,  315. 


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