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
[130] _The Irish evidence convicted_ by their own oaths by W.
Hetherington, London, 1682. Power of attorney from Ormonde, September
1, 1681, _Ormonde Papers_, vi. 306; to Arran, June 26, 1683, _ib._ vii.
52. Luttrell, March 26 and May 3, 1683. Newsletter to Lady Weymouth,
May 3, _Additional MSS._, 32095, f. 212. Ormonde to Arran, November 17,
1681, in appx. to Carte's _Ormonde_, no. 126, contains the curious word
'caronated.' It appears in the original MS., but the late Sir James
Murray was unable to pronounce on the etymology. Writing to Ormonde on
May 20, 1682, Arran says, nine of the King's witnesses petitioned for
not less than 20_l._ apiece. He gave 40_l._ among them, 'part to defray
their charge at the inn where they lay, the rest to carry them home,
where I doubt not but they will follow their other trade and come to
the gallows that way.'--_Ormonde Papers_, vi. 365.
[131] Burnet, who was not prejudiced in Ormonde's favour, says (i. 97)
Anglesey 'stuck at nothing and was ashamed of nothing,' that he was
loved and trusted by no man of any party, had no regard for truth or
justice, sold everything and 'himself so often that at last the price
fell so low that he grew useless.' Essex thought he intrigued against
him, and Lord Mountjoy said he had no friends. Correspondence in the
_Ormonde Papers_, beginning with Lord Burlington's letter of October
12, 1680, and Ormonde's of February 19 following. Mountjoy's narrative
in 2nd Report of _Hist. MSS. Commission_, p. 213. _Athenæ Oxonienses_
(Bliss), iv. 181. I have used the Dublin 1815 reprint of Castlehaven's
_Memoirs_ from the revised edition of 1684: Anglesey's letter is
appended. In the _Supplement_ to his History, ed. Foxcroft, p. 62,
Burnet says Anglesey 'often begun a speech in Parliament all one way
and (upon some secret look that wrought upon him) has changed his note
quite and concluded totally different from his beginning ... I never
knew any one man that either loved him or trusted him.'
[132] _A true account of the whole proceedings_ between his Grace James
Duke of Ormonde and the Rt. Hon. Arthur Earl of Anglesey, late Privy
Seal before the King and Council, London, 1682 (attributed to Bishop
Morley). Lord Longford to Ormonde, February 25, 1681-2, and March 28,
_Ormonde Papers_, vi. 324, 325. Foxcroft's _Life of Halifax_, i. 360.
Luttrell, August 10, 1682. Anglesey's account of the Irish Civil War is
unfortunately lost. His son told John Dunton that the MS. was in hands
which would not let it all appear, Dunton's _Conversation in Ireland_,
1699.
[133] Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 512; _Ormonde Papers_, vols. v. and vi.,
particularly Captain Charles Poyntz to Sir William Flower, May 3, 1681.
Edmund Murphy's pamphlet quoted above. Other details in Prendergast's
_Cromwellian Settlement_, 2nd edition, p. 352, and in the same writer's
_Ireland from the Restoration to the Revolution_. Notes to Hill's
_Montgomery MSS._, p. 119. Article on Redmond O'Hanlon in _Dict. of
National Biography_.
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