[134] Letters in vol. vii. of the _Ormonde Papers_, particularly W. Hamilton to William Ellis, January 2, 1683-4; Primate Boyle to Ormonde, October 3, 17, and 27, 1685; Longford to Ormonde, October 27. [135] Arran's letters of May 27 and 30, and June 5, 1684, in _Ormonde Papers_, vol. vii.; Anglesey to North and Halifax, _ib._ March 13; Sir C. Wyche to Ormonde, _ib._ February 24, 1684-5. Cox's _Hibernia Anglicana_, ii., Charles II., p. 16. _Secret Consults of the Romish Party_, London, 1690, p. 40. [136] Statement of Revenue for 1664, signed by Anglesey as Vice-Treasurer, March 20, 1664-5, State Papers, _Ireland_: the total is 153,205_l._ 19_s._ 8_d._ Abstract of Revenue for 1683 in appx. v. to _Clarendon and Rochester Correspondence_, vol. i.: the total is 300,953_l._ 17_s._ 6_d._ _Liber Munerum Publicorum_, part ii. 133. Among a host of letters in _Ormonde Papers_, see particularly Longford to Ormonde, March 21, 1681-2, vi. 349, and Arran's letter with Report on arrears following September 22, 1683, _ib._ vii. 135. See also the article on Ranelagh in _Dict. of National Biography_. [137] Charles II. to Ormonde, November 19, 1684, Carte's _Ormonde_ ii. appx. 128. Ormonde to Southwell, _ib._ 135 and 139. Rochester to Ormonde, August 26, _Ormonde Papers_, vii. 266. [138] Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 542 _sqq._ Ormonde to Sunderland, March 6, 1684-5, in _Ormonde Papers_, vii. 266. CHAPTER XLVIII CLARENDON AND TYRCONNEL, 1685-1686 [Sidenote: Accession of James II., February 1685.] [Sidenote: Public uneasiness.] As soon as the bad news reached him, Ormonde called the Council together. All leave was stopped, officers were ordered to their quarters, and on the following day King James was proclaimed with great pomp, but with many gloomy forebodings among the Protestants of Dublin. The Lord Lieutenant's commission expired with Charles II., Lord Granard and Archbishop Boyle remaining Lords Justices. But Ormonde gave a dinner to all the officers then in Dublin, at the Royal Hospital, just built most appropriately upon the site once occupied by the Priory of St. John and dedicated to the use of worn-out soldiers. Raising his glass, he said, 'Look here, gentlemen! They say at Court that I am now become an old doating fool; you see my hand doth not shake, nor does my heart fail, nor doubt but I will make some of them see their mistake,' and so drank the new King's health. He then left Ireland for the last time. On the road he chanced to see in the _Gazette_ that his regiment of horse had been given to Richard Talbot without any notice to him. Many of those Protestants who were in a position to do so, followed their protector to England, many sought the colonies, and the shadow of coming change was over those that remained. Even before Ormonde's arrival in London, rumours were rife there that the repeal of the Act of Settlement was intended.[139] [Sidenote: Purging the army.]