[81] As to the character of Robartes, see Clarendon’s Life, Cont., p. 198; ‘vicious under the appearances of virtue,’ Burnet’s Own Times, i. 98; ‘vieux sacripante, &c.,’ Mem. de Grammont, chap. viii. Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 378 sqq., Ormonde to Ossory, February 16, 1668-9, ib. appx. On the other hand, Lord Herbert of Cherbury thought his conversation most pleasing. The instructions to Robartes are in State Papers, Ireland, calendared at July 29, 1669, and drafts of them in the same vol. pp. 740-746. Duchess of Ormonde to George Mathew, February 1668-9, Ormonde Papers, new series, iii. 442. The Presbyterian Patrick Adair, while praising Robartes, does not deny that he was ‘somewhat morose in his temper and carriage,’ True Narrative, chap. xviii.
[82] As to the Tories from 1664 to 1667, see 32nd Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records, pp. 92-97; as to Nangle, State Papers, Ireland, July 17, 18, 1666; as to Costello, ib. March 11, 16, 1666-7. There is much about Tories and highwaymen in Orrery’s State Letters, particularly those to Ormonde in March 1666-7. Proclamation, June 3, 1668, State Papers, Ireland. Sir Peter Pett to Williamson, May 23, ib.
[83] Ormonde to Ossory, February 16, 1668-9, in appx. to Carte’s Ormonde, vol. ii. Cal. of State Papers, Ireland, pp. 1-6. There is a good deal about Lady Robartes in Mem. de Grammont, chap. viii., but the scandalous chronicler cannot say much against her. Duchess of Ormonde to George Mathew, March 6, 1668-9, Ormonde Papers, iii. 442.
[84] Lord O’Brien’s letters to Williamson in October 1669, State Papers, Ireland; Armourer to same, October 31, ib.; Lord Herbert of Cherbury to same, October 4, ib.; the King to Robartes, December, n.d.; Robartes to the King, December 7, ib. Marvell’s letter of March 21, 1670. Airy’s edition of Burnet with the notes, i. 482. ‘I am,’ said Locke, ‘more a friend to the clergy and their calling than those amongst them who show their forwardness to leave the word of God to serve other employments. The office of a minister of the Gospel requires the whole man,’ Third Letter for Toleration.
[85] Arlington to Robartes, February 19, 1669-70, State Papers, Ireland; Frowde to Williamson, April 23, May 14, ib.; Leigh to Williamson, June 11, ib.
[86] State Papers, Ireland, February 20 and March 23, 1661, for Fitzharris. Orrery to Arlington, ib. November 8, 1665. Warrant for Colonel Edward Vernon and others, ib. July 1669. Vernon had received Alden’s confidences in 1663, Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 262.
[87] Grey’s Debates, November 25, 1669; Marvell’s Letters, nos. 128 and 129, but the latter is dated November 4 in Grosart’s edition, which cannot be right, probably a mistake for December.
[88] Grey’s Debates, November 25, December 1 and 10, 1669. Articles of impeachment and answers in Orrery’s State Letters, i. 109. Macpherson’s Original Letters, i. 56, wrongly placed under 1670. Marvell’s letter, no. 129, ut sup.
[89] Macray’s Notes of conversations between Clarendon and Charles II. in July 1660, Roxburghe Club. Character in Clarendon’s State Papers, iii., supplement, lxxiv. Burnet’s character is to the same effect, adding ‘corrupt, without shame or decency,’ Own Times, i. 266. ‘The greatest vapourer in the world,’ Pepys’ Diary, December 3, 1665, and very dishonest, ‘guilty of one of the basest things that ever was heard of a man,’ ib. September 27, 1668. Marvell says he gave 10,000l. for his place to the Duchess of Cleveland, letter of August 9, 1671.
[90] Marvell’s letter of March 21, 1670. Berkeley’s instructions are in Cox’s Hibernia Anglicana, Charles II., ii. 9. As to Leighton, see Burnet’s Own Times, i. 137, and Foxcroft’s Supplement, p. 13. In a note to his edition of Burnet, Mr. Airy says he is ‘not aware of a single word extant in his favour.’ North’s Examen, iii. chap. vi. 89—‘being secretary in Ireland he extorted most outrageously and being expostulated with for it, answered, "What a pox, d’ye think I come here to learn your language?"’