[23] Warrant for Ormonde's appointment, November 4, 1661, State Papers, _Ireland_; Orrery and Eustace to Nicholas, December 19, _ib._, Clarendon's _Life_, Cont., 234-238. On this occasion Clarendon gives one of his rare dates, and it is wrong, 1664 instead of 1662. _Irish Lords_ and _Commons Journals_, December 6 and 7, 1661. [24] _Irish Commons Journal_, March 6, 1661-2. Act of Settlement, 14 & 15 Car. II. cap. 2, from clause 86 to the end. For the harshness with which the Duke of York's claims were enforced and the character of the men employed in the work see the letters printed in the 32nd _Report_ of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, appx. i. pp. 170-181, particularly Colonel Cooke to Ormonde, June 6, 1668. [25] _Irish Commons Journals_, May-July 1662. Orrery to Ormonde, May 17 and June 20, in his _State Letters_, i. 111, 123. The Bill of Settlement passed the Lords on May 30, 1662, without a dissentient voice. Forty-one peers were considered present, but of these twenty-three were proxies. Those who actually attended were three Archbishops; three Earls, Kildare, Roscommon, and Donegal; three Viscounts, Conway, Baltinglas, and Massereene; seven Bishops; two Barons, Caulfield and Colooney--_Irish Lords Journal._ [26] Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 257. Clarendon's letter of July 17 in his _Life_ by Lister, iii. 208. [27] Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 272. Burnet, ii. 99. Clarendon _State Papers_, iii. 81 (supplement). The letter in which Ormonde explained the State of the Land Question to Bennet when the Court of Claims had just ceased to give decrees is printed as an appendix. [28] Lord Roscommon, the poet, made an eloquent speech for Clanmalier in the Irish House of Lords. The intrigues about this property may be followed in the Calendar of State Papers, _Ireland_, 1662-5, but the letters are too numerous to cite separately. That from Lord Aungier, calendared at April 2, 1662, must, I think, belong to 1663. Aungier, who possessed some of the land as an Adventurer, says all the Commissioners favoured Bennet: he was himself protected by law. Act of Explanation, sections 78 and 79. Dunlop's _Ireland under the Commonwealth_, i. 154. CHAPTER XLII COURT OF CLAIMS AND ACT OF EXPLANATION, 1662-1665 [Sidenote: The Court of Claims.]