[195] The instructions to the Commissioners from the Council of State were laid before Parliament, October 4, 1650, and are given in the Parliamentary History, xix. 406. Corbet was substituted for Salwey, who had been named but excused at his own request; Ludlow’s Memoirs, i. 249, 259.
[196] Hugh O’Neill to Ormonde, September 9 and 15, 1650, in Contemp. Hist. iii. 180; Diary of Parliamentary Officers, ib. 220; W. Basil, A.G., to Lenthall, November 3, ib. 265, and to Bradshaw, November 4, in Parl. Hist. xix. 439.
[197] Basil’s letters and Parliamentary officers’ diary, ut sup.
[198] Duke of Lorraine to Ormonde, February 8, 1646, in Confed. and War, v. 259; Dumoulin to Mazarin, May and June, ib. 346; Cousin’s Madame de Chevreuse; Mazarin to Anne of Austria, April 1651, in Ravanel’s Lettres du Cardinal Mazarin. I have followed Martin and the Biographie Universelle, as well as the Duke’s own agreement with the Irish, in writing Charles IV.—Gardiner and others call him Charles III.
[199] Nicholas to Ormonde, February 11/21, 1649-50, in Carte’s Original Letters; Long to Ormonde, ib.; Duke of Lorraine to Ormonde, April 29, 1650, in Contemp. Hist. ii. 399; Ormonde to Synnott, June 25, ib. 428. See also Carte’s Ormonde, book v., and Hibernia Dominicana, p. 695; Clarendon’s Hist. xiii. 176. Rochfort reached Jersey January 12, 1649-50, see Hoskin’s Charles II. in the Channel Islands, ii. 367. Letters from Charles I. to the Queen, in the King’s Cabinet Opened, February-March, 1644-5.
[200] Taaffe to Ormonde, January 3 and 5, 1650-51, in Clanricarde’s Memoirs; Letters of James and Henrietta Maria, ib. 40-42; Clarendon’s Hist. xiv. 66; Clarendon State Papers, iii. 128; De Retz Mémoires, part ii. vol. ii. 197, in the Grands Ecrivains edition. ‘Les biographes de Charles nous racontent qu’à cette époque de sa vie il était revenu à l’idée d’aller tenter au loin quelque grande aventure et à peu près décidé à céder aux instances que les évêques catholiques d’Irlande lui faisaient continuellement adresser par le Pape, afin qu’il leur vînt en aide contre la tyrannie de Cromwell. Ils nous le représentent comme occupé à signer aux Irlandais réfugiés à Bruxelles des patentes de colonels et d’officiers dans son armée de secours, armant des vaisseaux pour passer le détroit et déjà tout prêt à s’embarquer.’—D’Haussonville’s Hist. de la Réunion de Lorraine, ed. 1860, chap. 23, pp. 221-2.
[201] Duke of Lorraine to Innocent X., February 11, 1651, in Spicilegium Ossoriense, ii. 84; ib. 92 for French’s movements; Letters in Clanricarde Memoirs, February 27, 1650-1 till April 4, when the agreement was signed; Clarendon’s Hist., xiii. 182. According to D’Haussonville (chap. 23), the state of French politics was what really prevented Duke Charles from going to Ireland. He could not afford to be out of the way just when Mazarin’s flight seemed to give him a chance. Ireton was well informed about these intrigues, as may be seen from William King’s letter to him, March 24, 1650-51, printed in Z. Grey’s Examination of Neal, iv. appx. 7.
[202] The Duke of Lorraine’s supplies reached Ireland in March 1651, Spicilegium Ossoriense, i. 368; Bellings to Ormonde, April 10, 1651, in Confederation and War, vii. 370; Clanricarde Memoirs, April-October; intercepted intelligence from Madrid, May 20, and from Rome, May 22, in Milton State Papers, p. 67. According to the Aphorismical Discovery, ii. 153, French’s letter was written early in July (more probably the end of June, since the agreement inspired by it was of July 2). In Carte’s Original Letters are several from Nicholas commenting on the Duke of Lorraine’s proceedings. Dean King’s report to Charles II., April 1, 1652, in Contemp. Hist., iii. 301; Nicholas to Hyde, April 4, 1651, in Nicholas Papers.
[203] Ormonde to Nicholas, August 3, 1651, in Nicholas Papers. The agreement is dated July 2, 1651, and the Duke’s covering letter to Clanricarde, September 10, but they did not reach him till October 12. The Galway letter to the Duke is of October 15—all in Clanricarde Memoirs. Taaffe to Ormonde, September 30 and November 23, in Fourth Rep. of Hist. MSS. Comm., appx. 569; intercepted intelligence from Paris, June 14 and 17, in Milton State Papers, p. 68; Ormonde to Hyde, in Clarendon S.P., June 30, 1651; Patrick Archer to Ormonde, January 19, 1651-2, in Contemp. Hist., iii. 281. As to the supply to Innisbofin in 1652, ib. 356. Writing to Clanricarde on March 23, 1651-2, Charles H. says other supplies had been stopped ‘by some rude people in Zeland,’ Clanricarde’s Memoirs, part ii. 52.
[204] Aphorismical Discovery, 996. Clanricarde’s letters in October to the Duke of Lorraine, to Henrietta Maria, to Ormonde, Muskerry, Darcy, &c., are in his Memoirs, with the answers; Duke of Lorraine’s letter breaking off negotiations, February 14, 1652, in Clarendon Cal. For his hostility to Clanricarde see Hist. MSS. Comm. Calendar of Ormonde Papers, 1902, i. 256; for the difficulties in corresponding with Ireland at this time see Ormonde’s letter to Muskerry of March 19/21, ib. 264; Clarendon’s Hist., xiii. 176-182. Other accounts of the whole affair are in Carte’s Life of Ormonde and in Hibernia Dominicana.