[110] Sir George Rawdon's letters from 1673 to 1675 in State Papers, _Domestic_. Sir Henry Ingoldsby to Lord O'Brien, _ib._, January 26, 1673-4 Proclamation of March 2 and December 14, 1674, June 10 and July 7, 1675, _ib._ Letters during the same period in _Essex Papers_, pp. 117, 148, 177, 264; proposals from Kerry priests, _ib._, p. 306. [111] Essex to the King, to Danby, and to Coventry, May 22, 1675, _Essex Letters_. [112] Ranelagh's patent was dated August 4, 1671. Essex to Danby, March 11, 1676; to the King, September 8; and to Ormonde and Orrery, September 12, _Stowe MSS._, vol. ccxvi.; to Orrery, January 30, _ib._ vol. ccxvii. Howard's _Hist. of the Exchequer_, i. 89. Macaulay's _History_, chaps. iii. and xi. Petty's _Treatise on Taxes_, chap. xv. 11. [113] W. Harbord to Essex, April 4, 1674, _Essex Papers_. Conway to Essex, _ib._ p. 221. Essex to H. Coventry, May 22, 1675, _Essex Letters_, much more outspoken than those of the same date to Charles and Danby. Lord Lieutenant and Council to Williamson, March 2, 1676-7, _Stowe MSS._, vol. ccxvii. The contest between Ormonde and Ranelagh is given in Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 451-463, including the scene at the Privy Council in November 1675, and Ormonde's written defence after Ranelagh had given particulars on March 1, 1675-6, also his memoir for the King in 1675, _ib._ appx. no. 92. After reading Ormonde's statement Essex wrote to him on May 23, 1676, that he was right, _Stowe MSS._, vol. ccxvi. Ormonde to Essex, July 2, _ib._, vol. ccx. Burnet's _Own Times_, i. 398, and Airy's note. See the article on Ranelagh in _Dictionary of National Biography_. Henry Sidney's _Diary_. [114] Longford to Essex, August 26, 1676, _Stowe MSS._, vol. ccx. H. Coventry to Essex, July 5, 1676, _ib._, January 9 and April 20, 1677, _ib._ vol. ccxi. Sir H. Capel to Essex, April 16, 1677, _ib._ Clarke's _Life of James II._, i. 507. Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 463-466. Writing to Essex at the moment of his recall Ormonde says, there have been and will be great pains taken to stir up bad blood between them, but that he will always be truly his friend, April 20, 1677, _Stowe MSS._, vol. ccxi. [115] Orrery to Essex, December 15 and 29, 1676, _Stowe MSS._, vol. ccx. Bishop of Killala to Essex, January 22, February 14, March 28, 1677, _ib._ vol. ccxi. Primate Margetson to Essex, August 26, 1676, _ib._ vol. ccx. Massereene to same, October 31, _ib._ [116] A. Wood's _Life and Times_, ed. Clark, ii. 385. Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 465-469. Essex to Ormonde, April 28, 1677, _Stowe MSS._, vol. ccxvii. Ormonde to Fell, June 16, and to Essex, August 4, _Ormonde Papers_, N.S. CHAPTER XLVII GOVERNMENT OF ORMONDE, 1677-1685 [Sidenote: Revenue abuses.]