[14] Sections 11 to 15 and 20 of the Declaration, _ut sup._ [15] Sections 12-15, 29, 31 and 35 of the Declaration, _ut sup._ [16] The names of the first Commissioners are in the Act of Settlement, _Irish Statutes_, ii. 264. Eustace to Ormonde, July 29, August 17 and 21, 1661, _Carte Transcripts_, vol. xxxi.; Lord Aungier to same, May 1, _ib._ The King to the Lords Justices, April 12, 1661, State Papers, _Ireland_. The persons ordered to be restored by the Lords Justices were Lords Clancarty, Clanricarde, Westmeath, Fingall, Dillon, Taaffe, and Galmoy, Colonel Richard Butler (Ormonde's brother), and Colonel Fitzpatrick. The first and the last of these were married to Ormonde's sisters, but it appears from the Act of Explanation that there had been a hitch in the cases of Lords Westmeath and Dillon and of Colonel Butler. [17] Orrery to Ormonde, May 8 and 15, 1661, in _Orrery's State Letters_, i. 35, 36. Jeremy Taylor's sermon on May 8, _Works_, vi. 343; Lord Kingston to Ormonde, May 5 and 8, _Carte Transcripts_, vol. xxxi.; _Irish Lords Journal_, vol. i., May 8-25, _Commons Journal_, vol. i., May 8-17, Mervyn's speech being in full; _Declaration_ of Lords spiritual and temporal, May 17, separately printed for circulation. [18] Irish _Lords and Commons Journals_, May to July 1661. Eustace to Ormonde, July 29, 1661, _Carte Transcripts_, vol. xxxi. Montgomery to Ormonde, June 29, and Kildare to same, _ib._ There is an elaborate but not very clear account of all this in Carte's _Ormonde_, book vi. [19] Instructions incorporated in the Act of Settlement, 1662, no. 11, _Irish Statutes_, i. 269. [20] Mountrath to Ormonde, June 19, 1661, _Carte Transcripts_, vol. xxxi.; Heneage Finch's report, February 1, 1670-1, printed in Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. appx. 91, p. 75. Finch is a first-rate authority for everything that happened in London. [21] The Doubling Ordinance of July 14, 1643, in _Scobell_, i. 45, repudiated by section 126 of the Act of Settlement. Lord Aungier to Ormonde, April 17, 1661, _Carte Transcripts_, vol. xxxi. Ormonde's letter in full in Carte's _Ormonde_, vol. ii. In his letter of June 1 to Ormonde Bellings says not one per cent. would regain their property 'and yet they shall seem not to be excluded from all possibility of enjoying it when that imaginary thing a reprisal is found,' _Spicilegium Ossoriense_, ii. 189. [22] Order in Council, March 14, 1661-2, in _Cox_, supplementary letter, p. 5. Instructions to the Confederate envoys in _Confederation and War_, vi. 223-227. In the letter already quoted Bellings gives credit to Ormonde for having saved as many of the old proprietors as he could. He confines his sympathies to the 'ancient families' and warns Ormonde that it cannot be for a Butler's interest to see the land possessed by 'a generation of mechanic bagmen who are strangers to all principles of religion and loyalty.'