[35] State Papers, Ireland, May-July 1663, particularly James Tanner’s deposition, May 31, Sir George Lane to Bennet, June 25, and Robert Lye to Williamson, July 16. The last is a graphic description of the execution by an eye-witness. Lord Conway to Rawdon, November 18, 1663, in Rawdon Papers.
[36] Colonel Vernon to Williamson, July 1, 1663, in State Papers, Ireland; Lane to Bennet (with inclosure), ib. November 18; Pardons of Staples and Shapcote, ib. August 18, 1664. Patrick Adair’s True Narrative, chap. xvii.; Reid’s Presbyterian Church, chap. xviii.; Lang’s Hist. of Scotland. Orrery to the Munster officers, May 25, 1663, in his State Letters, vol. i.; Sir Thomas Clarges to Ormonde, May 15, in Carte Transcripts, vol. xxxii.; Firth’s Ludlow, appx. vi.
[37] State Papers, Ireland, from June 22, 1661, to May 8, 1662. Clarendon’s Life, pp. 259-267.
[38] Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 277-284. Clarendon’s Life, Cont., 262-269. Clarendon to Ormonde, July 18, 1663, Carte Transcripts, vol. xxxii., and August 1, ib. vol. xxxiii. The King’s letter of July 13 to the Lord Lieutenant and Council is in Somers Tracts, v. 626. Documents calendared, State Papers, Ireland, under August 22.
[39] Dering’s notes of the evidence are printed in Hill’s Macdonnells of Antrim, pp. 309-317, and the decree of innocence, ib. appx. 11. The decree is signed by the majority, Rainsford, Beverley, Brodrick, and Churchill. Dering, Smith, and Cooke, forming the minority, do not sign. Ormonde saw the danger of inferring that Antrim acted under the order of Charles I. Writing to Arlington on August 22, 1663, he says it was argued but too plausibly ‘that the King may as well declare any of them who have most contributed to his restoration to be nocent ... without proof as my Lord of Antrim to be innocent against proof ... no security in an Act of Parliament,’ Carte MSS., cxliii. 164.
[40] Act of Explanation, clause 172, s. 99. Arlington to Ormonde, October 17 and 27, 1663, and January 30, 1663-4, in Tom Brown’s Miscellanea Aulica, and Ormonde’s answer to the first, October 27, in Carte MSS., vol. cxliii. Murder will out, published in London between August 22 and October 17, and reprinted in Somers Tracts, v. 624. Evelyn’s Diary, August 18, 1683. Grant of quit-rents to St. Albans, State Papers, Ireland, December 15, 1665. For some of St. Albans’ jobs see Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 295.
[41] Bennet to Ormonde, October 27, 1663, in Miscellanea Aulica, and November 17 ib.; Clarendon, February 7, 1663-4, Carte Transcripts, vol. xlvii. Lady Thurles to Ormonde, December 17, 1664, Carte MSS., vol. ccxv.; J. Hughes to Williamson, 1664-5, State Papers, Ireland.
[42] Clarendon to Ormonde, April 16, 1664, January 30 and March 18, 1665-6, Carte Transcripts, vol. xlvii. Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 302, and Finch’s report, ib. appx. no. 91. Temple’s Essay, written in 1668. Clarendon’s Life, Cont., 276, where one-third should be read for one-fourth.
[43] Irish Statutes, 17 & 18 Car. II. cap. 2, especially clauses 4, 5, 6, 148, 159. Finch’s report in Carte’s Ormonde, ii. appx. 91.
[44] Arlington to Ormonde, August 19, 1665, in Miscellanea Aulica. Sir Nicholas Armourer to Arlington, September 11, State Papers, Ireland. Robert Leigh to Williamson, October 18, ib. Carte’s Ormonde, book vi. Armourer calls Lady Ossory ‘the best woman in this world.’