Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690Bagwell, Richard
History
Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690
Bagwell, Richard
Ireland -- History -- 17th century
[103] Essex and Boyle to Arlington, September 21, 1672, State Papers,
_Domestic_. Essex to Arlington and to the King, July 22, 1673, _Essex
Papers_ to W. Harbord, _ib._ March 21, 1673-4; to Danby, February 10,
1674-5, _ib._ Totty carried his grievances to London, and on June 15,
1675, Essex described him to Coventry as the 'principal incendiary in
Dublin, a trooper many years in Cromwell's army, wretchedly poor and
has patched himself up by presents and otherwise out of collections
from several corporations of the city, to encourage and promote these
broils.'--_Essex Letters_, p. 345.
[104] Andrew Marvell's letter of August 9, 1667, _Works_, ii. 392. In
his _Last Instructions to a Painter_, 1667, he says Castlemaine was
growing old, but she was then only twenty-six. Essex's three letters to
Shaftesbury, March 8, April 12, and May 3, 1673, are printed in full
in Christie's _Life_, appx. iv. Warrant for the grant, February 26,
1672-3, State Papers, _Domestic_. Godolphin to Essex, July 16, 1674,
_Essex Papers_, vol. i. H. Coventry cautiously resisted a grant to Nell
Gwyn, _Essex Papers_, ed. Pike, 145.
[105] Essex to Arlington, September 17, 1672, State Papers, _Domestic_.
Berkeley to Arlington, July 10, 1673, _ib._ The King to Essex, January
13, 1674-5, _ib._ Orrery to Essex, August 16, 1672, _Essex Papers_;
Essex to Arlington, August 27, _ib._ And for Orrery's case, see _Liber
Munerum Publicorum_, Part ii. 185. He tried to keep an annual allowance
of 66_l._ for house-hire after the Munster Presidency was abolished,
but Essex had it stopped, State Papers, _Domestic_, 1675, pp. 502, 558.
[106] Grey's _Debates_, ii. 118-129, 132, March 17 and 18, 1672-3. For
the Clonmel riot see Ford to Arlington, November 25, 1672, and Essex to
same, February 18, 1672-3, State Papers, _Domestic_.
[107] The text of the address is in Grey's _Debates_, ii. 159, March
29, 1673.
[108] _Letters to Williamson_, ed. Christie, July 4, 1673. Letter
from the Privy Council ordering compliance with the Commons' address,
September 26, 1673, State Papers, _Domestic_. Essex to Capel, October
13, _Essex Papers_; to Arlington, October 28, _ib._; to Ormonde,
November 14, _ib._; to W. Harbord, January 25, 1673-4, _ib._ Ormonde to
Essex, December 9, _ib._ The proclamations of October 27 and November
8, 1673, and April 27, 1674, are in State Papers, _Domestic_, with the
King's letter of March 31. Brady's _Episcopal Succession_, ii. 120.
[109] Essex to Ormonde, February 3, March 10, July 8, September 3,
1673-4, _Stowe MSS._, vol. ccxiv.; September 12, _ib._ vol. ccxvi.;
March 6, 1676-7, _ib._ vol. ccxvii. Ormonde to Essex, April 20, 1677,
_ib._ vol. ccxi. Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 443, 446. Writing to Ranelagh
on June 1, 1675, Essex notes 'what an interest remains of a great man
who commanded here many years, by reason of the absolute power he had
of gratifying multitudes of people.'--_Essex Letters_, p. 299.
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