[34] A narrative by Sir Theophilus Jones, &c., _Trinity College MSS._, _f._ 3, 18 (no. 47). This paper is unsigned but appears to be the original draft in Jones's hand. Account of the Irish Plot in _Ormonde Papers_, 1st series, ii. 251; Firth's _Ludlow_, appx. 450, 475. _Life and death of the famed Mr. Blood_, London, 1680. _The Horrid Conspiracy of impenitent traitors_, &c., London, 1663. [35] State Papers, _Ireland_, May-July 1663, particularly James Tanner's deposition, May 31, Sir George Lane to Bennet, June 25, and Robert Lye to Williamson, July 16. The last is a graphic description of the execution by an eye-witness. Lord Conway to Rawdon, November 18, 1663, in _Rawdon Papers_. [36] Colonel Vernon to Williamson, July 1, 1663, in State Papers, _Ireland_; Lane to Bennet (with inclosure), _ib._ November 18; Pardons of Staples and Shapcote, _ib._ August 18, 1664. Patrick Adair's _True Narrative_, chap. xvii.; Reid's _Presbyterian Church_, chap. xviii.; Lang's _Hist. of Scotland_. Orrery to the Munster officers, May 25, 1663, in his _State Letters_, vol. i.; Sir Thomas Clarges to Ormonde, May 15, in _Carte Transcripts_, vol. xxxii.; Firth's _Ludlow_, appx. vi. [37] State Papers, _Ireland_, from June 22, 1661, to May 8, 1662. Clarendon's _Life_, pp. 259-267. [38] Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 277-284. Clarendon's _Life_, Cont., 262-269. Clarendon to Ormonde, July 18, 1663, _Carte Transcripts_, vol. xxxii., and August 1, _ib._ vol. xxxiii. The King's letter of July 13 to the Lord Lieutenant and Council is in _Somers Tracts_, v. 626. Documents calendared, State Papers, _Ireland_, under August 22. [39] Dering's notes of the evidence are printed in Hill's _Macdonnells of Antrim_, pp. 309-317, and the decree of innocence, _ib._ appx. 11. The decree is signed by the majority, Rainsford, Beverley, Brodrick, and Churchill. Dering, Smith, and Cooke, forming the minority, do not sign. Ormonde saw the danger of inferring that Antrim acted under the order of Charles I. Writing to Arlington on August 22, 1663, he says it was argued but too plausibly 'that the King may as well declare any of them who have most contributed to his restoration to be nocent ... without proof as my Lord of Antrim to be innocent against proof ... no security in an Act of Parliament,' _Carte MSS._, cxliii. 164. [40] Act of Explanation, clause 172, s. 99. Arlington to Ormonde, October 17 and 27, 1663, and January 30, 1663-4, in Tom Brown's _Miscellanea Aulica_, and Ormonde's answer to the first, October 27, in _Carte MSS._, vol. cxliii. _Murder will out_, published in London between August 22 and October 17, and reprinted in _Somers Tracts_, v. 624. Evelyn's _Diary_, August 18, 1683. Grant of quit-rents to St. Albans, State Papers, _Ireland_, December 15, 1665. For some of St. Albans' jobs see Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 295.