[164] Clarendon’s letters of June 22 and August 14, 1686, and of January 22 following—his last from Ireland. Ormonde to Southwell, February 5, 1686-7, in Ormonde Papers, 1899. Proclamations of February 21, 1686-7, and April 4, 1688. Life of James Bonnell, p. 273, and his letter to Strype, January 21, 1688-9, in English Hist. Review, no. 74.
[165] Clarendon’s letters of June 26, July 27 and 31, August 26, 1686, and his Diary, January 4, 10, and 11, 1686-7. The Duke of Berwick agreed with Mr. Nihill that Tyrconnel was ‘fort rusé.’
[166] Sheridan MS. King’s State of the Protestants, chap. iii. section 3. O’Flanagan’s Irish Chancellors, i. 470, 487.
[167] Clarendon’s letters of June 19 and July 31, 1686. King ut sup. In Secret Consults of the Romish Party Worth is represented as their chief tool, but Tyrconnel said he was ‘by God, a damned rogue ... by God, I will have it brought to the Council Board, the King has an ill opinion of him, and I will do his business.’
[168] Clarendon’s list of sheriffs for 1686 is printed with his letter of March 2, 1685-6. Tyrconnel’s list for 1687 is in King, appx. vii. Clarendon’s letters of June 12 and 15. The King to Clarendon, October 8, and the answer, October 16.
[169] The two judges left Dublin on March 17, 1688, St. Patrick’s Day, Secret Consults of the Romish Party, pp. 115, 120. They had left London on their return before April 25, Luttrell’s Diary, i. 438.
[170] Tyrconnel’s proclamations of April 11, 1687, and April 4, 1688. As to Irish Nonconformist addresses, see Reid’s Presbyterian Church, ii. 351, and Luttrell’s Diary, June to August 1687.
[171] List of Commissions in Dalton’s Army List, i. 10, from February 12 to June 21, 1687. Proclamations of February 24 and July 18. Sheridan MS.
[172] Avaux fully sustains King. He says most regiments were raised ‘par des gentilhommes qui n’ont jamais été à l’armée, que ce sont des tailleurs, des bouchers, des cordonniers qui ont formé les compagnies qui les entretiennent à leur despens et en sont les capitaines,’ to Louvois, April 16, 1689. Tyrconnel’s proclamations of July 20, August 24, December 29, 1688. Luttrell’s Diary, July 6, August 27, September 8, December 15, 19, and 30, 1688, January 1, and April 24, 1689. Evelyn’s Diary, July 23, October 7, 1688. Hoffmann to the Emperor Oct., Doc. 626 in Campana Cavelli. Tyrconnel to James II., Oct. 3/13, ib. Doc. 633. King’s State of the Protestants, chap. iii. sec. viii. 5. It was absurdly reported in France that William had interned the Irish in a little island that they might all perish there, Memoirs of De Sourches, January 12/22, 1689.
[173] Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 547, and see Macaulay’s remarks on the Charterhouse case in chap. viii. Ormonde to Southwell, November 18, 1686, in Ormonde Papers, O.S., ii. 306; and to Temple, June 15, 1687, ib. N.S., vii. 494. A. Wood’s Fasti Oxonienses and his Life and Times, ed. Clark.