[122] Shaftesbury's speech, March 25, 1679, is in his _Life_ by Christie, ii. appx. vi., and Ormonde's letter to him, May 25, _ib._ ii. 337. Ossory's speech and William of Orange's comments (French) in Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. appx. 93 and 94. Ormonde to Southwell, May 24 and November 8, _Ormonde Papers_, 1st series, ii. 288, 293. Southwell to Ormonde, _ib._, N.S., April 22, iv. 505. [123] 'Monsieur Barillon said it 'was making _des Etats_ and not _des conseils_,' Temple's _Memoirs_, 3rd part. Many details in Courtenay's _Life of Temple_, chap. xxiv. See the remarks in the second chapter of Macaulay's _History_. Henry Savile to Halifax, May 17, 1679, in _Savile Correspondence_. Halifax favoured the reappointment of Essex in 1679, Burnet, i. 470. Later on Shaftesbury accused him of bargaining with the Court to make him Lord Lieutenant, _ib._ 537. [124] _Lords Journals_, xiii. 643. _Hist. MSS. Commission_, xi. 2. [125] Grey's _Debates_, December 9, 10, and 15, January 6 and 7, 1680-1. Burnet's _Own Times_, i. 485. An independent version of the January debates in _H.M.C._, 12th Report, appx. ix. 106. [126] Plunket's account of the proceedings at Dundalk and afterwards in Cardinal Moran's _Life_ of him, p. 289. Arran to Ormonde, November 6, 1680, _Ormonde Papers_, v. 477, and April 16, 1681, _ib._ vi. 36. _The present state and condition of Ireland_, but more especially of the province of Ulster humbly represented to the kingdom of England by Edmund Murphy secular priest and titular chanter of Armagh, and one of the first discoverers of the Irish Plot, London, 1681. [127] Francis Gwyn to Ormonde, February 12, 1680-1, _Ormonde Papers_, v. 580. Ormonde to Arran, February 19, _ib._ 586. Burnet's _Own Times_, i. 502. Moran's _Life of Plunket_, chaps. xxv. and xxvi. Writing to Sir John Malet, May 13, 1679, Orrery says Murphy had deposed very circumstantially at Dublin, but was said to be a man of crazed brain and therefore not much to be believed, _Additional MSS._ 32095, f. 186. [128] State Trials, iii. 293. [129] State Trials, _ut sup._ For the opinion of Essex and the King's comments on it, see the notes to Airy's edition of Burnet, ii. 292, and Burnet's own opinion. Luttrell does not seem to have had much misgiving, for he considered the charge fully proved and 'the defence very weak, alleging only that he wanted his witnesses and papers which were in Ireland,' June 9 and July 1, 1681. _Hibernia Dominicana_, p. 130.