[55] Hist. of the Remonstrance, pp. 570-574, 602.
[56] O’Reilly’s letters of August 31, 1665, and April 13, 1666, in Hist. of the Remonstrance, pp. 611-613. Writing to the Propaganda in the late autumn of 1666 he expressly says that he attended the congregation in order to defeat its object—‘ad istam congregationem ... festinavi ut impedirem quominus noster clerus amplecteretur præfate Walchæi remonstrantiam, ut vocat, suæ fidelitatis erga Regem’—Spicilegium Ossoriense, i. 446.
[57] Hist. of the Remonstrance, pp. 618-625. Bishop French to the Pope, May 22, 1666, in Spicilegium Ossoriense, i. 449. French’s Latin is better than his English for he uses such expressions as ‘from them parts.’ His great attack on Ormonde, the ‘unkind deserter,’ was not till 1676.
[58] The transactions of the Congregation are in Hist. of the Remonstrance, pp. 641-743, the French and Latin texts of the Sorbonne decrees at p. 660. The account given by the Rev. W. Burgatt, a hostile member of the Congregation, does not materially differ from Walsh’s, Spicilegium Ossoriense, i. 440. Ormonde to Clarendon, June 9, 1666, and to Arlington, June 13, State Papers, Ireland. On July 7 Clarendon wrote: ‘If I were you I would expel all the priests out of Ireland who refuse to subscribe the declaration, and to my understanding if you consent to the least alteration, how insignificant soever, you overthrow the whole and absolve all who stand now obliged by the subscription.’—Carte Transcripts, vol. xlvii.
[59] Hist. of the Remonstrance, pp. 744-749. O’Reilly to the Propaganda, Spicilegium Ossoriense, i. 448 (Latin). Sandwich left Portsmouth, March 3, 1665-6, and reached Madrid May 26, and these dates fit in with Walsh’s account. Ormonde to Clarendon, June 9, 1666, State Papers, Ireland.
[60] Ormonde to Arran, December 29, 1680, in Carte’s Ormonde, ii. appx. p. 101, and to Essex, December 9, 1673, in Essex Papers. Burnet’s Own Times, i. 194, 195. Evelyn’s Diary, January 6, 1685-6.
[CHAPTER XLIV]
GOVERNMENT OF ORMONDE, 1665-1668
Ormonde and his Parliament.
Disputes between Lords and Commons.