[105] Essex to Arlington, September 17, 1672, State Papers, Domestic. Berkeley to Arlington, July 10, 1673, ib. The King to Essex, January 13, 1674-5, ib. Orrery to Essex, August 16, 1672, Essex Papers; Essex to Arlington, August 27, ib. And for Orrery’s case, see Liber Munerum Publicorum, Part ii. 185. He tried to keep an annual allowance of 66l. for house-hire after the Munster Presidency was abolished, but Essex had it stopped, State Papers, Domestic, 1675, pp. 502, 558.
[106] Grey’s Debates, ii. 118-129, 132, March 17 and 18, 1672-3. For the Clonmel riot see Ford to Arlington, November 25, 1672, and Essex to same, February 18, 1672-3, State Papers, Domestic.
[107] The text of the address is in Grey’s Debates, ii. 159, March 29, 1673.
[108] Letters to Williamson, ed. Christie, July 4, 1673. Letter from the Privy Council ordering compliance with the Commons’ address, September 26, 1673, State Papers, Domestic. Essex to Capel, October 13, Essex Papers; to Arlington, October 28, ib.; to Ormonde, November 14, ib.; to W. Harbord, January 25, 1673-4, ib. Ormonde to Essex, December 9, ib. The proclamations of October 27 and November 8, 1673, and April 27, 1674, are in State Papers, Domestic, with the King’s letter of March 31. Brady’s Episcopal Succession, ii. 120.
[109] Essex to Ormonde, February 3, March 10, July 8, September 3, 1673-4, Stowe MSS., vol. ccxiv.; September 12, ib. vol. ccxvi.; March 6, 1676-7, ib. vol. ccxvii. Ormonde to Essex, April 20, 1677, ib. vol. ccxi. Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 443, 446. Writing to Ranelagh on June 1, 1675, Essex notes ‘what an interest remains of a great man who commanded here many years, by reason of the absolute power he had of gratifying multitudes of people.’—Essex Letters, p. 299.
[110] Sir George Rawdon’s letters from 1673 to 1675 in State Papers, Domestic. Sir Henry Ingoldsby to Lord O’Brien, ib., January 26, 1673-4 Proclamation of March 2 and December 14, 1674, June 10 and July 7, 1675, ib. Letters during the same period in Essex Papers, pp. 117, 148, 177, 264; proposals from Kerry priests, ib., p. 306.
[111] Essex to the King, to Danby, and to Coventry, May 22, 1675, Essex Letters.
[112] Ranelagh’s patent was dated August 4, 1671. Essex to Danby, March 11, 1676; to the King, September 8; and to Ormonde and Orrery, September 12, Stowe MSS., vol. ccxvi.; to Orrery, January 30, ib. vol. ccxvii. Howard’s Hist. of the Exchequer, i. 89. Macaulay’s History, chaps. iii. and xi. Petty’s Treatise on Taxes, chap. xv. 11.
[113] W. Harbord to Essex, April 4, 1674, Essex Papers. Conway to Essex, ib. p. 221. Essex to H. Coventry, May 22, 1675, Essex Letters, much more outspoken than those of the same date to Charles and Danby. Lord Lieutenant and Council to Williamson, March 2, 1676-7, Stowe MSS., vol. ccxvii. The contest between Ormonde and Ranelagh is given in Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 451-463, including the scene at the Privy Council in November 1675, and Ormonde’s written defence after Ranelagh had given particulars on March 1, 1675-6, also his memoir for the King in 1675, ib. appx. no. 92. After reading Ormonde’s statement Essex wrote to him on May 23, 1676, that he was right, Stowe MSS., vol. ccxvi. Ormonde to Essex, July 2, ib., vol. ccx. Burnet’s Own Times, i. 398, and Airy’s note. See the article on Ranelagh in Dictionary of National Biography. Henry Sidney’s Diary.
[114] Longford to Essex, August 26, 1676, Stowe MSS., vol. ccx. H. Coventry to Essex, July 5, 1676, ib., January 9 and April 20, 1677, ib. vol. ccxi. Sir H. Capel to Essex, April 16, 1677, ib. Clarke’s Life of James II., i. 507. Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 463-466. Writing to Essex at the moment of his recall Ormonde says, there have been and will be great pains taken to stir up bad blood between them, but that he will always be truly his friend, April 20, 1677, Stowe MSS., vol. ccxi.