[140] Proclamations of Lords Justices against Monmouth and his adherents, June 13 and 22; as to the militia arms, June 20 and October 16, 1685. For Argyle's expedition, Earl of Antrim to Lords Justices, May 18, and Captain Thomas Hamilton of the _Kingfisher_ to Granard, June 17, in State Papers, _Ireland_, vol. cccli. As to the removal of officers, Tyrconnel and Granard, August 12, _ib._, and Justin MacCarthy to Granard, _ib._ Ormonde to Primate Boyle, October 17, 1685, _Ormonde Papers_, vii. 374. Tyrconnel reached Ireland before May 29, _ib._ 341. [141] Correspondence between Ormonde and Roscommon, particularly August 15 and September 17, 1685, _Ormonde Papers_, vol. vii. [142] Clarendon to Rochester, December 28, 1685, _Clarendon Correspondence_. Writing on December 20, 1685, Bishop Fell wishes Clarendon 'good luck with his honour, which to me seems sufficiently hazardous,' _Hatton Correspondence_. According to the _Sheridan MS._, Sunderland had suggested Clarendon to the King, 'for mending his fortune, of which he stood in need, pacifying Tyrconnel by saying that the two brothers would be ruined by being kept apart. [143] Evelyn's _Diary_, December 16, 1685. Clarendon's letters, December 21 to January 10 and January 23, 1685-6. _Ellis Correspondence_, i. 9, 11. Luttrell's _Diary_, December 16 and 18, 1685. Clarendon's speech on taking office is in the _Clarendon and Rochester Correspondence_, ii. 475. [144] Evelyn's _Diary_, November 3, 1685. A newsletter to Colonel Grace from Dublin, November 11, in _Clarendon's Correspondence_, notices the silence of the _Gazette_ there about the French persecutions and the persistence of unauthorised sheets: 'if it be a fiction, as certainly it is for the most part, why does not the Government take notice of it?... great concern that those of Geneva--Dublin have for their Calvinist brethren in France.' The latest lights are in Lavisse's 7th and 8th vols. and Rousset's _Hist. de Louvois_, iii. chap. vii. For the dragonnades in Bearn, Henry IV.'s own country, see Sainte-Beuve's article on the intendant Foucault, _Nouveaux Lundis_, vol. iii. In 1686 Avaux found there were 75,000 French refugees in Holland, Lavisse and Rambaut's _Hist. générale_, vol. vi. [145] Clarendon's letters, February and March 1686, particularly that of February 14. Sunderland to Clarendon, March 11. An acute observer notes that the Irish Protestant refugees in England were too proud to complain and less noticed than the French, though they were 'our bone and our flesh.' Every Frenchman was distinguished by garb and speech, but those from Ireland by neither, and so in the crowd not discerned. _Character of the Protestants of Ireland_, May 1689, p. 8. [146] Clarendon to Rochester, March 14 and April 17. James II. to Clarendon, April 6. In Burnet's _Hist._ i. 654, the remarks on Porter are much softened compared to his original MS., _Supplement_, ed. Foxcroft, p. 170. [147] Clarendon's letters of April 17, 20, and 24.