[160] Clarendon's letters of March 14, April 17, 1686, May 8, 11, 15, 25, and 30, and June 1 (to Ormonde). Sunderland to Clarendon, June 14. Anonymous letters of warning to Clarendon and the Protestants are in _Clarendon and Rochester Correspondence_, i. 369, 498, 563. [161] Sunderland afterwards claimed to have prevented James from allowing Tyrconnel to hold a parliament, though he was offered 40,000_l._ to agree to the repeal of the Act of Settlement in that way. This may be believed, as he appealed for confirmation to Godolphin, as well as to Nugent and Rice, _Diary of H. Sidney_, ii. 379. [162] Rules for Corporations in _Irish Statutes_, pp. 197-239. Clarendon's letters, particularly that to the King of August 14, 1686. Cartwright's _Diary_, August 1687. _Sheridan MS._ [163] James's letter of September 20, 1687, is in Harris's _Life of William III._, appx. viii. The _quo warranto_ to Belfast and the new charter are printed in Young's _Town Book of Belfast_. King's _State of the Protestants_, chap. iii. section 5. _Apology for the Protestants of Ireland_, 1689. The proceedings in the Londonderry case are given by King, appx. vii. [164] Clarendon's letters of June 22 and August 14, 1686, and of January 22 following--his last from Ireland. Ormonde to Southwell, February 5, 1686-7, in _Ormonde Papers_, 1899. Proclamations of February 21, 1686-7, and April 4, 1688. _Life_ of James Bonnell, p. 273, and his letter to Strype, January 21, 1688-9, in _English Hist. Review_, no. 74. [165] Clarendon's letters of June 26, July 27 and 31, August 26, 1686, and his _Diary_, January 4, 10, and 11, 1686-7. The Duke of Berwick agreed with Mr. Nihill that Tyrconnel was 'fort rusé.' [166] _Sheridan MS._ King's _State of the Protestants_, chap. iii. section 3. O'Flanagan's _Irish Chancellors_, i. 470, 487. [167] Clarendon's letters of June 19 and July 31, 1686. King _ut sup._ In _Secret Consults of the Romish Party_ Worth is represented as their chief tool, but Tyrconnel said he was 'by God, a damned rogue ... by God, I will have it brought to the Council Board, the King has an ill opinion of him, and I will do his business.' [168] Clarendon's list of sheriffs for 1686 is printed with his letter of March 2, 1685-6. Tyrconnel's list for 1687 is in King, appx. vii. Clarendon's letters of June 12 and 15. The King to Clarendon, October 8, and the answer, October 16. [169] The two judges left Dublin on March 17, 1688, St. Patrick's Day, _Secret Consults of the Romish Party_, pp. 115, 120. They had left London on their return before April 25, Luttrell's _Diary_, i. 438. [170] Tyrconnel's proclamations of April 11, 1687, and April 4, 1688. As to Irish Nonconformist addresses, see Reid's _Presbyterian Church_, ii. 351, and Luttrell's _Diary_, June to August 1687. [171] List of Commissions in Dalton's _Army List_, i. 10, from February 12 to June 21, 1687. Proclamations of February 24 and July 18. _Sheridan MS._