[65] Ormonde to Arlington, September 12, 1666, State Papers, Ireland. Pepys’ Diary, October 8. Clarendon’s Life, Cont., pp. 691, 955-964. Arlington to Ormonde, October 12, 1665, Miscellanea Aulica, p. 362, and to Temple, October 15, Letters, ed. Bebington. Writing in 1673, Temple said a higher standard of living and love for foreign commodities, and depopulation caused by war, had really caused the agricultural depression in England, and ‘not this transportation of Irish cattle, which would have been complained of in former times, if it had been found a prejudice to England. Besides, the rents have been far from increasing since.’—Works, iii. 20. See Andrew Marvell’s letters to his constituents, October 22 and November 2, 1665. On May 18, 1665, Sir Ralph Verney writes that the market was at a stand, owing to a report that the Lords would not pass the Bill ‘against bringing in foreign cattle.’ Cows were daily sold at from ten to fifteen shillings apiece which had formerly been well worth five times as much.—Verney Memoirs, iv. 117.
[66] Clarendon’s Life, Cont., pp. 967, 969. Christie’s Life of Shaftesbury, chap. x. In his monograph, 1888, the late H. D. Traill thought Butler’s lighter lash more suitable to Shaftesbury’s tergiversations than ‘the resounding scourge of Dryden,’ but his conduct about the Cattle Bill and the Irish branch of the Popish Plot justify the heavier implement. Arlington to Ormonde, October 20 and November 20, 1666, Miscellanea Aulica, p. 427 sqq.
[67] Details as to the quarrel between Ossory and Buckingham are given by Clarendon, Life, Cont., p. 969 sqq., and in Arlington’s letter to Ormonde, October 20, 1666, Miscellanea Aulica, p. 424.
[68] Pepys’ Diary, January 7, 9, 14, and 18, 1666-7. Clarendon’s Life, Cont., p. 988. Rogers’ Protests of the Lords, i. 31. The protesting peers were the Earls of Cardigan, Bridgewater, Burlington, Anglesey, and Castlehaven, Lords De La Warr, Conway, and Berkeley of Stratton. See Marvell’s letters to his constituents on December 22, 1666, January 5, 15, and 19, 1666-7.
[69] Lord Lieutenant and Council to the King, August 15, 1666, February 9, 1666-7, State Papers, Ireland; Ormonde to Arlington, March 30, 1667, ib. Collinson’s Hist. of Cheshire, ii. 29. Information kindly supplied by the Rev. F. McD. Etherington, Vicar of Minehead. The author of a Letter from a Gentleman in Ireland to his Brother in England, 1677, says Irish corn was only fit for home use, ‘being by reason of the climate not so large, firm and dry a grain that it should be fit for transportation.’
[70] See the very clear account in Temple’s essay on Irish trade, Works, iii. 7-16. Rawdon’s letters at this time in State Papers, Ireland, show the effects of the prohibition on certain estates. Robert Leigh to Williamson, ib. March 19, 1666-7.
[71] Petty’s Treatise on Taxes, 1662, xi. 17, and his Report of Council of Trade, 1676, affixed to Political Anatomy. Letter from a Gentleman in Ireland, 1667. The author of Reasons for a Limited Exportation of Wool, 1677, says the Dutch could have Irish beef at one penny per lb. Instructions to Lord Robartes, July 23, 1669, State Papers, Ireland. The Grand Concern of England explained, p. 5, 1673. Compare Miss Murray’s Hist. of Commercial Relations, pp. 42-48.
[72] Lord Lieutenant and Council to the King, February 9, 1666-7; State Papers, Ireland, Memorial of the three lords, ib.; the King’s answer, March 23, ib.; Proclamation of June 7 reciting that of April 1, ib.; Ormonde to Arlington, July 31, ib. Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 344.
[73] Orrery State Letters, March 2, 1665-6, to July 3. Ormonde’s letters for the same period in State Papers, Ireland. For Beaufort’s movements, see Corbett’s England in the Mediterranean, chap. xxi.
[74] Ormonde left Kilkenny August 30, 1666, and returned there September 15, State Papers, Ireland. Ormonde’s letter to Arlington, ib. September 4. Orrery to Ormonde, August 20, Orrery State Papers. Dr. Denton wrote in 1670, ‘if Ormonde do chance to come to you a byled leg of mutton is his beloved dish for dinner,’ Verney Memoirs, iv. 229. Gigery, now Jijelli, half-way between Algiers and Bona, was garrisoned by Beaufort in 1664, but disaster followed. Caulfield’s Kinsale Council Book, p. 97, where September 14 is wrongly given for 7.