[250] Dean Ker’s statement, dated February 28, 1681-2, was first published by Nalson (ii. 528) in the following year. Nalson says he had the paper from Ormonde, and probably Lord Lanesborough, who had been the Duke’s secretary, procured it for that very purpose. It is reprinted in Contemp. Hist., iii. 368 and Hickson, ii. 370. The spurious commission in Rushworth, iv. 400, dated October 1, 1641, was under the Great Seal of Scotland, which could have no value in Ireland. By it Charles is made to authorise the seizure of all strong places in Ireland ‘except the places, persons and estates of our loving subjects the Scots; and also to arrest and seize the goods, estates, and persons of all the English Protestants’ to his use. Imagination refuses to conceive that he could have used such words. For discussions on this subject see Gardiner’s Hist. of England, x. 7, 92; Burton’s Hist. of Scotland, vi. 347, ed. 1876; Hickson, i. 117. The paper called Antrim’s ‘Information,’ appx. 49 to Cox, really proves nothing, and he was a notoriously loose talker.
[251] Trial in Hickson, ii. 192-204, 235; Ludlow, i. 341; Fleetwood to Thurloe, February 16, 1653-4, in Thurloe, ii. 94. Notices in Cal. of Clarendon MSS., vol. ii. during 1653 and 1654; Carte’s Life of Ormonde, ii. 161. Muskerry married Lady Eleanor Butler, Ormonde’s eldest sister.
[252] Notes of trial in Hickson, ii., where the murder is said to have been on December 29, 1642, which was before the cessation, but there may have been a local truce; Bellings, vii. 104; Walsh’s Remonstrance, p. 609.
[253] For the Shrule affair see above. Cox gives the names of the commissioners and how they voted, with a fair summary of the case.
[254] A paper printed by Mr. Firth in English Hist. Review, xiv. 104, makes the expense of war and settlement from July 6, 1649, to November 1, 1656, amount to about three and a half millions, of which one and a half was transmitted out of England, the remainder collected in Ireland.
[255] Act for the speedy and effectual reducing of the rebels in His Majesty’s Kingdom of Ireland &c., Scobell, i. 26 (Royal Assent, March 19, 1641-2). Resolution of the Commons to borrow 100,000l., July 30, 1641, in Rushworth, iv. 778, and the King’s message from York, August 13, ib. 775.
[256] Acts and ordinance in Scobell, i. 31-34, 45; Rushworth, v. 530; Tucker’s Journal in Confed. and War, ii. 170.
[CHAPTER XXXVII]
PEACE, SETTLEMENT, AND TRANSPLANTATION, 1652-1654
Settlement. Magnitude of the problem.