[63] _Statutes at Large_, 15 Car. II. cap. 7. Petty's _Political Anatomy of Ireland_, chap. x. On January 1, 1668, Pepys heard much about the almost miraculous cheapness of corn, 'so as the farmers can pay no rent, but do fling up their lands,' and he had noted the same thing at April 9, 1667. Shaftesbury to the King in Christie's _Life_, vol. ii. appx. 1. His estimate of losses from plague is more than confirmed by Clarendon, _Life_, Cont., p. 821. Anglesey's protest against the 1663 Act is in Rogers' _Protests of the Lords_, i. 27. [64] Clarendon's _Life_, Cont., pp. 610-630. Lister's _Life of Clarendon_, ii. 424, iii. 530. Evelyn's _Diary_, October 27, 1664. Pepys has frequent notices, particularly at October 8, 1666, and June 27, 1667. State Papers, _Ireland_, July 1665 to July 1668, particularly Ormonde to Arlington, July 25 and 27 and August 26, 1666. [65] Ormonde to Arlington, September 12, 1666, State Papers, _Ireland_. Pepys' _Diary_, October 8. Clarendon's _Life_, Cont., pp. 691, 955-964. Arlington to Ormonde, October 12, 1665, _Miscellanea Aulica_, p. 362, and to Temple, October 15, _Letters_, ed. Bebington. Writing in 1673, Temple said a higher standard of living and love for foreign commodities, and depopulation caused by war, had really caused the agricultural depression in England, and 'not this transportation of Irish cattle, which would have been complained of in former times, if it had been found a prejudice to England. Besides, the rents have been far from increasing since.'--_Works_, iii. 20. See Andrew Marvell's letters to his constituents, October 22 and November 2, 1665. On May 18, 1665, Sir Ralph Verney writes that the market was at a stand, owing to a report that the Lords would not pass the Bill 'against bringing in foreign cattle.' Cows were daily sold at from ten to fifteen shillings apiece which had formerly been well worth five times as much.--_Verney Memoirs_, iv. 117. [66] Clarendon's _Life_, Cont., pp. 967, 969. Christie's _Life of Shaftesbury_, chap. x. In his monograph, 1888, the late H. D. Traill thought Butler's lighter lash more suitable to Shaftesbury's tergiversations than 'the resounding scourge of Dryden,' but his conduct about the Cattle Bill and the Irish branch of the Popish Plot justify the heavier implement. Arlington to Ormonde, October 20 and November 20, 1666, _Miscellanea Aulica_, p. 427 _sqq._ [67] Details as to the quarrel between Ossory and Buckingham are given by Clarendon, _Life_, Cont., p. 969 _sqq._, and in Arlington's letter to Ormonde, October 20, 1666, _Miscellanea Aulica_, p. 424. [68] Pepys' _Diary_, January 7, 9, 14, and 18, 1666-7. Clarendon's _Life_, Cont., p. 988. Rogers' _Protests of the Lords_, i. 31. The protesting peers were the Earls of Cardigan, Bridgewater, Burlington, Anglesey, and Castlehaven, Lords De La Warr, Conway, and Berkeley of Stratton. See Marvell's letters to his constituents on December 22, 1666, January 5, 15, and 19, 1666-7.