[400] Anon. (Thomas Collins) to Cooke, August 27, 1792.
[401] [Collins] to 'J. G.,' November 20, 1793.
[402] [Collins] to Cooke, November 29, 1792.
[403] Idem, November 30, 1792.
[404] As in the case of Lord Mountgarret subtlety was employed in the hope of moderating the tone of Sir Charles Ffrench. He had much influence with the Irish Catholics; and in 1798 a peerage was conferred on his aged mother, who, in her simplicity, said to a cousin, 'I don't know what I have done that they should make a Lord of me.' In point of lineage few had higher claims.
[405] A Protestant Cathedral in Dublin used by the Catholics until the Reformation.
[406] Himself.
[407] Italics in original.
[408] Endorsed by Cooke, 'U. I., Jan. 29, '93.'
[409] [Collins] to Cooke, February 28, 1793.