[134] Letters in vol. vii. of the Ormonde Papers, particularly W. Hamilton to William Ellis, January 2, 1683-4; Primate Boyle to Ormonde, October 3, 17, and 27, 1685; Longford to Ormonde, October 27.
[135] Arran’s letters of May 27 and 30, and June 5, 1684, in Ormonde Papers, vol. vii.; Anglesey to North and Halifax, ib. March 13; Sir C. Wyche to Ormonde, ib. February 24, 1684-5. Cox’s Hibernia Anglicana, ii., Charles II., p. 16. Secret Consults of the Romish Party, London, 1690, p. 40.
[136] Statement of Revenue for 1664, signed by Anglesey as Vice-Treasurer, March 20, 1664-5, State Papers, Ireland: the total is 153,205l. 19s. 8d. Abstract of Revenue for 1683 in appx. v. to Clarendon and Rochester Correspondence, vol. i.: the total is 300,953l. 17s. 6d. Liber Munerum Publicorum, part ii. 133. Among a host of letters in Ormonde Papers, see particularly Longford to Ormonde, March 21, 1681-2, vi. 349, and Arran’s letter with Report on arrears following September 22, 1683, ib. vii. 135. See also the article on Ranelagh in Dict. of National Biography.
[137] Charles II. to Ormonde, November 19, 1684, Carte’s Ormonde ii. appx. 128. Ormonde to Southwell, ib. 135 and 139. Rochester to Ormonde, August 26, Ormonde Papers, vii. 266.
[138] Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 542 sqq. Ormonde to Sunderland, March 6, 1684-5, in Ormonde Papers, vii. 266.
[CHAPTER XLVIII]
CLARENDON AND TYRCONNEL, 1685-1686
Accession of James II., February 1685.
Public uneasiness.
As soon as the bad news reached him, Ormonde called the Council together. All leave was stopped, officers were ordered to their quarters, and on the following day King James was proclaimed with great pomp, but with many gloomy forebodings among the Protestants of Dublin. The Lord Lieutenant’s commission expired with Charles II., Lord Granard and Archbishop Boyle remaining Lords Justices. But Ormonde gave a dinner to all the officers then in Dublin, at the Royal Hospital, just built most appropriately upon the site once occupied by the Priory of St. John and dedicated to the use of worn-out soldiers. Raising his glass, he said, ‘Look here, gentlemen! They say at Court that I am now become an old doating fool; you see my hand doth not shake, nor does my heart fail, nor doubt but I will make some of them see their mistake,’ and so drank the new King’s health. He then left Ireland for the last time. On the road he chanced to see in the Gazette that his regiment of horse had been given to Richard Talbot without any notice to him. Many of those Protestants who were in a position to do so, followed their protector to England, many sought the colonies, and the shadow of coming change was over those that remained. Even before Ormonde’s arrival in London, rumours were rife there that the repeal of the Act of Settlement was intended.[139]