[174] Burnet’s Own Times, i. 95, and the Supplement, ed. Foxcroft, p. 60. The two characters should be compared, that in the published History, written in 1702, being kinder to Ormonde than the original draft written in 1683. Burnet tells us that he had associated more with Ormonde’s enemies than with his friends, and looking back at the Caroline court from a convenient distance, he was able to see the old cavalier’s superiority. I have read Nicholas French’s Unkind Deserter, 1676, which is not convincing, though the Bishop proves that Ormonde got larger grants of land than Scævola and Horatius Cocles. A defence of his hero in money matters is in Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 308 sqq., 430. Burnet notes that Ormonde ‘writes the best of any man that has no learning that I ever knew.’
[175] Proceedings against John Price, &c., Wicklow Assizes, March 6, 1688-9, 1 William and Mary, Howell’s State Trials, xii. no. 363. The reporter says he was present in court. The author of Secret Consults is unfair to Keating, but points out (p. 75) that he had ‘always been a servant of the Duke of York’; he had done his law business in Ireland, Hist. MSS. Com. (House of Lords), 11th Report, ii. 219.
[176] Howell’s State Trials, xii. no. 364.
[177] The fullest account of this matter is in Lodge’s Peerage of Ireland, ed. Archdale, vi. 20. Hardiman, in his History of Galway, p. 155, note, says Lodge’s account is unfairly coloured, but does not dispute the facts. King’s appendix no. 16. Account of the Transactions of the late King James, &c., licensed July 7, 1690, p. 3. Luttrell, i. 517. Two Ponsonbys, a Percival, and a Purdon were among Southwell’s companions.
[178] Sheridan MS. Letters of Barillon, September 13/23, 1686, and September 6/16, 1687, and of Bonrepaus, August 25/September 4 1687, in notes to Macaulay, chap. viii. Luttrell, i. 495, 500. King, iii. 8, and Keating’s letter of December 29 in appx. xiv. Evidence of Sir Robert Colville and John Philipps to the House of Lords, Hist. MSS. Com., appx. to 12th Report, part vi. 1689.
[179] Walker’s True Account. The Comber letter is in King, appx. xii., and in many other places. Secret Consults of the Romish Party. Proclamations of October 15 and December 7. The ‘Irish night’ in London is sufficiently described by Macaulay, chap. x. Ellis Correspondence, ii. 356. Writing to her cousin Abigail Harley on December 13, 1688, Mrs. Pye says, ‘The watch called all up that the Irish were near, and at Knightsbridge had killed man, woman, and child, and were resolved for to fire and massacre. I bless God I was not much frighted as might be expected,’ Portland Papers, iii. 420.
[180] Faithful History of the Northern Affairs, &c., licensed December 10, 1689.
[181] Andrew Hamilton’s True Relation, 1690. He says there were public masses through the North ‘for the furthering of that which they called Inteneragh—that is, a secret intention.’
[182] Faithful History of Northern Affairs, 1689.