[202] The Duke of Lorraine's supplies reached Ireland in March 1651, _Spicilegium Ossoriense_, i. 368; Bellings to Ormonde, April 10, 1651, in _Confederation and War_, vii. 370; Clanricarde _Memoirs_, April-October; intercepted intelligence from Madrid, May 20, and from Rome, May 22, in _Milton State Papers_, p. 67. According to the _Aphorismical Discovery_, ii. 153, French's letter was written early in July (more probably the end of June, since the agreement inspired by it was of July 2). In Carte's _Original Letters_ are several from Nicholas commenting on the Duke of Lorraine's proceedings. Dean King's report to Charles II., April 1, 1652, in _Contemp. Hist._, iii. 301; Nicholas to Hyde, April 4, 1651, in _Nicholas Papers_. [203] Ormonde to Nicholas, August 3, 1651, in _Nicholas Papers_. The agreement is dated July 2, 1651, and the Duke's covering letter to Clanricarde, September 10, but they did not reach him till October 12. The Galway letter to the Duke is of October 15--all in Clanricarde _Memoirs_. Taaffe to Ormonde, September 30 and November 23, in _Fourth Rep. of Hist. MSS. Comm._, appx. 569; intercepted intelligence from Paris, June 14 and 17, in _Milton State Papers_, p. 68; Ormonde to Hyde, in _Clarendon S.P._, June 30, 1651; Patrick Archer to Ormonde, January 19, 1651-2, in _Contemp. Hist._, iii. 281. As to the supply to Innisbofin in 1652, _ib._ 356. Writing to Clanricarde on March 23, 1651-2, Charles H. says other supplies had been stopped 'by some rude people in Zeland,' Clanricarde's _Memoirs_, part ii. 52. [204] _Aphorismical Discovery_, 996. Clanricarde's letters in October to the Duke of Lorraine, to Henrietta Maria, to Ormonde, Muskerry, Darcy, &c., are in his _Memoirs_, with the answers; Duke of Lorraine's letter breaking off negotiations, February 14, 1652, in Clarendon _Cal._ For his hostility to Clanricarde see Hist. MSS. Comm. Calendar of _Ormonde Papers_, 1902, i. 256; for the difficulties in corresponding with Ireland at this time see Ormonde's letter to Muskerry of March 19/21, _ib._ 264; Clarendon's _Hist._, xiii. 176-182. Other accounts of the whole affair are in Carte's _Life of Ormonde_ and in _Hibernia Dominicana_. [205] Unfinished letter from Ormonde to Clanricarde in September 1651; Carte's _Original Letters_, i. 460; French to Taaffe, August 10, 1651, and the answer, September 22, in _Clarendon S.P._ French's _Unkinde Deserter_, published in 1676. 'Quelle destinée pour l'ennemi obstiné de la cour de France, pour l'infatigable allié de la maison d'Autriche, de voir au bout de vingt années, ses troupes au service des Français et sa personne au pouvoir des Espagnols.'--D'Haussonville, chap. 24, p. 296. [206] Ludlow, Corbet, Jones, and Weaver to Lenthall, March (before the 25th), 1650-51, in Cary's _Memorials_, ii. 253; Hewson to Lenthall, with the articles for surrender of Finnea, March 14, published by order of Parliament, London, March 25; _Aphorismical Discovery_, ii. 134-138.