[298] Ludlow, ii. 104-111.
[299] The Commission was appointed on October 12, and Lambert suppressed the Parliament next day. Ludlow, ii. 119-137, 143; Old Parliamentary Hist., xxi. 453-479; Lord Mordaunt to the King, October 27, in Carte’s Original Letters, ii. 244.
[300] Monck’s letter of October 20, 1659, in Ludlow, ii. 449; Henry Monck’s letter of November 3 in Clarke Papers, iv. 95, with the notes; Commonwealth Papers in Irish R.O. A/17.
[301] A Letter sent from Ireland to Lenthall, dated December 15, and read in Parliament January 5, 1659. A Perfect Narrative of the grounds and reasons moving some officers of the army in Ireland to the securing of the Castle of Dublin for the Parliament on December 13, last, London, 1660. Ludlow, ii. 184. Sir Theophilus Jones and the rest to the army at Portsmouth, December 24, 1659, Portland Papers, i. 688. Robert Wood was commissioned to offer 3000 or 4000 men from Ireland to the Parliament, ib. 690. Hoyle and others to Lenthall, December 31, ib. 691; Waller to Monck, December 16, 1659, Clarke Papers, iv. 202; Price’s Life of Monck, p. 748 in Select Tracts, ii.
[302] Monck to Waller, December 28, and January 1, Clarke Papers, ii. 226, 237; Coote, Broghill, &c. to Lenthall, January 11, ib. 241; Whitelock, p. 691, December 22; Price’s Life of Monck in Select Tracts, ii. 751.
[303] Ludlow, ii. 190-196, 471, 475. Ludlow came to Duncannon on January 5.
[304] Letter from Waller, Broghill, Coote, and twenty-six others to Ludlow, January 10, 1659-60, with his answer, Ludlow, 453; Monck to Lenthall, January 16, ib. 453; Captain Skinner’s Remonstrance, January, in Cal. State Papers, Ireland, p. 717. A Perfect Narrative, p. 13; Old Parliamentary Hist., xxii. 55. There are several letters to and from Ludlow during January in Cal. State Papers, Ireland, pp. 704-716.
[305] Sir Theophilus Jones to Monck, February 1 and 19, 1659-60, in Leyborne-Popham Papers, 141, 155; Sir Charles Coote and the Council of Officers to Monck, February 16, ib. 152; Declaration of Broghill and the Munster officers, February 18, in Thurloe, vii. 817; Broghill to Thurloe, ib. 859, 908, 912; the King to Coote, Breda, March 6/16, in Carte’s Original Letters, ii. 314; Orrery’s State Letters, i. 59, for the Rev. Mr. Morrice’s account of Broghill’s proceedings, Liber Munerum Publicorum, vol. i. part ii. p. 8. The declaration of Coote and the other officers, dated February 16, and sent with the letter to Monck of that day, gave the tone to all subsequent proceedings. It was printed in Dublin and reprinted in London with fifty-five signatures, including those of Coote himself, Caulfield, Theophilus Jones, Henry Ingoldsby, John King, Thomas Scot, and W. Purefoy.
[306] Orrery’s State Letters, i. 59; Liber Munerum Publicorum, vol. i. part i. p. 8; Carte’s Life of Ormonde, ii. 203; Lord Aungier to Ormonde, May 11/21, 1660, in Carte’s Orig. Letters, ii. 345.