[148] Clarendon to Rochester, April 17, 20, and 24, 1686; to Sunderland, April 24 and 27; to Rochester, May 11 and 15. Sunderland to Clarendon, March 11, May 22. In his diary on January 31, 1686-7, Clarendon says Nagle pretended that he had no wish to be Attorney-General, but 'I do not believe him in the least, for I am sure he is both a covetous and an ambitious man.' [149] Clarendon to Rochester, May 1, 1686; Lady Clarendon to Rochester, March 15. Luttrell's _Diary_, January 19 and February 24. Evelyn to Clarendon, September 1686, appended to the _Diary_, iii. 425. [150] _Sheridan MS._ Clarendon to Sunderland, May 30, June 1, and July 20, 1686. King's _State of the Protestants_, chap. iii. sec. 2. Luttrell's _Diary_, June 8. After the Revolution Sunderland thought it wise to disclaim any share in the Irish business: 'My Lord Tyrconnel has been so absolute there that I never had the credit to make an ensign or to keep one in, nor to preserve some of my friends, for whom I was much concerned, from the least oppression and injustice, though I endeavoured it to the utmost of my power,' letter in H. Sidney's _Diary_, ii. 378. Tyrconnel cashiered about 4000 Protestant soldiers and 300 officers, Fortescue's _History of the British Army_, iv. chap. 1. [151] Clarendon to Rochester, June 8 and July 4. St. John's Well was at Kilmainham, near where O'Connell Road now crosses the railway, and the name is perpetuated in the intersecting road. A 'pattern' fair, which became very disorderly, was held here till about 1835, when the well was swallowed up by builders. See Frazer's _Balder the Beautiful_, i. 205 (Golden Bough). [152] Letters in _Clarendon and Rochester Correspondence_, vol. i., particularly August 4 and 19, 1686. _Ormonde Papers_, vols. vi. and vii., particularly Sir W. Stewart to Arran, February 13, 1682-3; Tory Hamilton to W. Ellis, January 2, 1683-4, and Longford's letters in August 1686. King mentions the murder, chap. i. section 7. In the correspondence of the time Hamilton is generally called a very honest fellow. _Ellis Correspondence_, i. 166. [153] Letters in vol. i. of _Clarendon and Rochester Correspondence_. Aston's dying declaration is appended to that of June 3. King's remark is (chap. iii. sec. 2), 'they might kill whom they pleased without fear of law, as appeared from Captain Nangles' murdering his disbanded officer in the streets of Dublin; but if any killed or hurt them they were sure to suffer; as Captain Aston found to his cost, who was hanged for killing a Papist upon his abusing the captain's wife in the street.' [154] _Sheridan MS._ _Ellis Correspondence_, November 30, 1686. Luttrell's _Diary_, December 1. Evelyn's _Diary_, January 17, 1686-7. Sunderland was considered bribable, see his own statement in _Diary of H. Sidney_, ii. 379.