[50] Bellings to Ormonde, June 1, 1661, in _Spicilegium Ossoriense_ ii. 189. It was inevitable that Ormonde's friends and the Irish generally should blame him for not doing enough, see Foxcroft's _Supplement to Burnet_, pp. 60-62. The Plunket author of _A Light to the Blind_ talks like Bellings of the 'Cromwellian scum of England,' and calls Clotworthy, Broghill, Coote, and the rest 'little fanatic scabs.' According to him Ireland really belonged to the Anglo-Norman Conquerors, being royalist and Catholic; the native Irish, having intermarried with them and remained Catholic, were of course loyal like them. [51] Walsh's _Hist. of the Remonstrance_, pp. 4-6. O'Reilly wrote at this time that he was lurking 'nelle spelonche,' and McGeohegan 'in cavernis'--Brady's _Episcopal Succession_, i. 226, 239. [52] Walsh's _Hist. of the Remonstrance_, i.-xii. 47. Ormonde to Walsh, January 26, 1662-3, _ib._ 94. [53] Letter of Armagh clergy, December 13, 1660, _Spicilegium Ossoriense_, ii. 201. Letters of Card. Barberini and De Vecchiis, July 8 and 21, 1662, Walsh's _Remonstrance_, pp. 16-19. James Rospigliosi, internuncio in 1666, calls himself 'ministrum apostolicum cui res Hiberniæ incumbunt,' _ib._ p. 634. Louvain judgment, December 29, 1662, _ib._ p. 102. [54] Peter Walsh to Essex, August 4, 1674, in his _Four Letters_, 1686, p. 3; _Hist. of the Remonstrance_, pp. 511-513, 530-533. [55] _Hist. of the Remonstrance_, pp. 570-574, 602. [56] O'Reilly's letters of August 31, 1665, and April 13, 1666, in _Hist. of the Remonstrance_, pp. 611-613. Writing to the Propaganda in the late autumn of 1666 he expressly says that he attended the congregation in order to defeat its object--'ad istam congregationem ... festinavi ut impedirem quominus noster clerus amplecteretur præfate Walchæi remonstrantiam, ut vocat, suæ fidelitatis erga Regem'--_Spicilegium Ossoriense_, i. 446. [57] _Hist. of the Remonstrance_, pp. 618-625. Bishop French to the Pope, May 22, 1666, in _Spicilegium Ossoriense_, i. 449. French's Latin is better than his English for he uses such expressions as 'from them parts.' His great attack on Ormonde, the 'unkind deserter,' was not till 1676. [58] The transactions of the Congregation are in _Hist. of the Remonstrance_, pp. 641-743, the French and Latin texts of the Sorbonne decrees at p. 660. The account given by the Rev. W. Burgatt, a hostile member of the Congregation, does not materially differ from Walsh's, _Spicilegium Ossoriense_, i. 440. Ormonde to Clarendon, June 9, 1666, and to Arlington, June 13, State Papers, _Ireland_. On July 7 Clarendon wrote: 'If I were you I would expel all the priests out of Ireland who refuse to subscribe the declaration, and to my understanding if you consent to the least alteration, how insignificant soever, you overthrow the whole and absolve all who stand now obliged by the subscription.'--_Carte Transcripts_, vol. xlvii.