[290] Writing to Arlington, October 12, 1673, Essex Papers, i. 174, Essex says the Dissenters in Ulster had increased from under 14,000 of all sorts in Strafford’s time to about 100,000 men fit to bear arms. On October 19, 1674, he praises the moderation of the Bishop of Down towards Dissenters, ib. p. 262. For a less tolerant episcopal view, see Bishop Otway of Killala to Essex, Essex Papers, ed. Pike, pp. 94, 113. Ormonde to H. Coventry, September 4, 1677, Additional MSS. 32095. Reid’s Presbyterian Hist., ii. 336. In 1679 the Presbytery of Down acknowledged Ormonde’s ‘favour and noble candour’ to them, ib. p. 572. Avaux repeatedly mentions the favour shown by James to Quakers. Writing to Strype on August 5, 1690, Bonnell says they ‘at first took civil offices under King James, and were looked upon by us and by the Roman Catholics as the same with them; but latterwards, when they saw how things were like to go, they sided more with us.’ It was not forgotten that Robert Barclay had been educated by Jesuits, and it was easy to say that the Quaker leaders did ‘inwardly own Ignatius Loyola as their founder,’ Secret Consults of the Romish Party, p. 90.
[291] Moran’s Life of Plunket, chaps. v. to viii. passim. ‘I made use of some friars, who always have their little wrangles with their secular clergy, to set up factions against some of their Bishops, &c.’—Essex to Ormonde, November 14, 1673, in Essex Papers.
[292] Bishop Forstall’s letter of June 5, 1680, in Spicilegium Ossoriense, ii. 257. Rev. John O’Molony to Propaganda from Paris, July 19, 1669: ‘In aula apud regni administros non sum ignotus, in rebus agendis et tractandis non penitus ignarus,’ ib. i. 488. Essex to Ormonde, November 14, 1673, Essex Papers. Brady’s Episcopal Succession, ii. 47, 120.
[293] Bishop of Killaloe to the Propaganda from Havre, June 13, 1681, Spicilegium Ossoriense, ii. 258. O’Molony calls his rival Wetenhall ‘heterodoxus Laonensis vir ex omni isto clero pessimus et mendacissimus.’ Letter of the same, also from France, to Bishop Tyrrell, March 8, 1689, in King’s State of the Protestants, appx. 17. At Paris in 1689 O’Molony was a thorn in Melfort’s side, Macpherson, i. 339.
[294] O’Molony to Tyrrell, ut sup. Swift’s Letter on the Sacramental Test, 1708, Drapier’s sixth letter, 1724, Presbyterians’ Plea of Merit, 1731. Berkeley’s Querist, no. 255, Letter to the Roman Catholics of Cloyne, 1745, Word to the Wise, 1749, Works, ed. Fraser, vol. iii.
[295] Locke’s letter concerning toleration (the first).
[APPENDIX]
ORMONDE TO BENNET
Bodleian Library, MS. Carte 143. [Pages 164-169.]
To Mr Secretary Bennett