[124] Lords Journals, xiii. 643. Hist. MSS. Commission, xi. 2.
[125] Grey’s Debates, December 9, 10, and 15, January 6 and 7, 1680-1. Burnet’s Own Times, i. 485. An independent version of the January debates in H.M.C., 12th Report, appx. ix. 106.
[126] Plunket’s account of the proceedings at Dundalk and afterwards in Cardinal Moran’s Life of him, p. 289. Arran to Ormonde, November 6, 1680, Ormonde Papers, v. 477, and April 16, 1681, ib. vi. 36. The present state and condition of Ireland, but more especially of the province of Ulster humbly represented to the kingdom of England by Edmund Murphy secular priest and titular chanter of Armagh, and one of the first discoverers of the Irish Plot, London, 1681.
[127] Francis Gwyn to Ormonde, February 12, 1680-1, Ormonde Papers, v. 580. Ormonde to Arran, February 19, ib. 586. Burnet’s Own Times, i. 502. Moran’s Life of Plunket, chaps. xxv. and xxvi. Writing to Sir John Malet, May 13, 1679, Orrery says Murphy had deposed very circumstantially at Dublin, but was said to be a man of crazed brain and therefore not much to be believed, Additional MSS. 32095, f. 186.
[128] State Trials, iii. 293.
[129] State Trials, ut sup. For the opinion of Essex and the King’s comments on it, see the notes to Airy’s edition of Burnet, ii. 292, and Burnet’s own opinion. Luttrell does not seem to have had much misgiving, for he considered the charge fully proved and ‘the defence very weak, alleging only that he wanted his witnesses and papers which were in Ireland,’ June 9 and July 1, 1681. Hibernia Dominicana, p. 130.
[130] The Irish evidence convicted by their own oaths by W. Hetherington, London, 1682. Power of attorney from Ormonde, September 1, 1681, Ormonde Papers, vi. 306; to Arran, June 26, 1683, ib. vii. 52. Luttrell, March 26 and May 3, 1683. Newsletter to Lady Weymouth, May 3, Additional MSS., 32095, f. 212. Ormonde to Arran, November 17, 1681, in appx. to Carte’s Ormonde, no. 126, contains the curious word ‘caronated.’ It appears in the original MS., but the late Sir James Murray was unable to pronounce on the etymology. Writing to Ormonde on May 20, 1682, Arran says, nine of the King’s witnesses petitioned for not less than 20l. apiece. He gave 40l. among them, ‘part to defray their charge at the inn where they lay, the rest to carry them home, where I doubt not but they will follow their other trade and come to the gallows that way.’—Ormonde Papers, vi. 365.
[131] Burnet, who was not prejudiced in Ormonde’s favour, says (i. 97) Anglesey ‘stuck at nothing and was ashamed of nothing,’ that he was loved and trusted by no man of any party, had no regard for truth or justice, sold everything and ‘himself so often that at last the price fell so low that he grew useless.’ Essex thought he intrigued against him, and Lord Mountjoy said he had no friends. Correspondence in the Ormonde Papers, beginning with Lord Burlington’s letter of October 12, 1680, and Ormonde’s of February 19 following. Mountjoy’s narrative in 2nd Report of Hist. MSS. Commission, p. 213. Athenæ Oxonienses (Bliss), iv. 181. I have used the Dublin 1815 reprint of Castlehaven’s Memoirs from the revised edition of 1684: Anglesey’s letter is appended. In the Supplement to his History, ed. Foxcroft, p. 62, Burnet says Anglesey ‘often begun a speech in Parliament all one way and (upon some secret look that wrought upon him) has changed his note quite and concluded totally different from his beginning ... I never knew any one man that either loved him or trusted him.’
[132] A true account of the whole proceedings between his Grace James Duke of Ormonde and the Rt. Hon. Arthur Earl of Anglesey, late Privy Seal before the King and Council, London, 1682 (attributed to Bishop Morley). Lord Longford to Ormonde, February 25, 1681-2, and March 28, Ormonde Papers, vi. 324, 325. Foxcroft’s Life of Halifax, i. 360. Luttrell, August 10, 1682. Anglesey’s account of the Irish Civil War is unfortunately lost. His son told John Dunton that the MS. was in hands which would not let it all appear, Dunton’s Conversation in Ireland, 1699.
[133] Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 512; Ormonde Papers, vols. v. and vi., particularly Captain Charles Poyntz to Sir William Flower, May 3, 1681. Edmund Murphy’s pamphlet quoted above. Other details in Prendergast’s Cromwellian Settlement, 2nd edition, p. 352, and in the same writer’s Ireland from the Restoration to the Revolution. Notes to Hill’s Montgomery MSS., p. 119. Article on Redmond O’Hanlon in Dict. of National Biography.