[6] Rawdon to Conway calendared at March 17 and 28, 1660; Instructions for Broghill, Coote and others, n.d., but very soon after May 14 Irish nobility and gentry in London to Ormonde, May 6—the two last from Carte Transcripts, R.O., vol. xxx.; King’s speech to the Convention Parliament, July 27, Old Parliamentary Hist., xxii. 400.
[7] Proclamation of June 1, 1660 (broadside), reprinted in Old Parliamentary Hist., xxii. 311. Coote and Bury to Colonel Finch, September 3, and Lord Montgomery to Ormonde, October 31, 1660, enclosing letter from Jeremy Taylor—Carte Transcripts, vol. xxxi. George Rawdon to Lord Conway, January 23, 1660-1, in State Papers, Ireland. Ordinance of Irish Convention, March 1, 1660-1, in Marsh’s Library, Dublin.
[8] Taylor’s sermons of January 27 and May 8, 1661, in his Works, ed. 1839, vi. 301, 348. The words of Fuller’s anthem are in Mason’s Hist. of St. Patrick’s, 194, and in the 32nd Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records, 107. The opening lines are:
‘Now that the Lord hath readvanced the Crown,
Which thirst of spoil and frantic zeal threw down.’
And the concluding chorus:
‘Angels look down, and joy to see
Like that above a Monarchy.
Angels look down, and joy to see
Like that above an Hierarchy.’
[9] Proclamations of January 19, 21, and 22, 1660-1, in State Papers, Ireland, and the Lord Justice’s speech, ib. calendared at May 11.
[CHAPTER XLI]
DECLARATION AND ACT OF SETTLEMENT, 1660-1662
Position of Irish Recusants.