[69] Lord Lieutenant and Council to the King, August 15, 1666, February 9, 1666-7, State Papers, _Ireland_; Ormonde to Arlington, March 30, 1667, _ib._ Collinson's _Hist. of Cheshire_, ii. 29. Information kindly supplied by the Rev. F. McD. Etherington, Vicar of Minehead. The author of a _Letter from a Gentleman in Ireland to his Brother in England_, 1677, says Irish corn was only fit for home use, 'being by reason of the climate not so large, firm and dry a grain that it should be fit for transportation.' [70] See the very clear account in Temple's essay on Irish trade, _Works_, iii. 7-16. Rawdon's letters at this time in State Papers, _Ireland_, show the effects of the prohibition on certain estates. Robert Leigh to Williamson, _ib._ March 19, 1666-7. [71] Petty's _Treatise on Taxes_, 1662, xi. 17, and his Report of Council of Trade, 1676, affixed to _Political Anatomy_. _Letter from a Gentleman in Ireland_, 1667. The author of _Reasons for a Limited Exportation of Wool_, 1677, says the Dutch could have Irish beef at one penny per lb. Instructions to Lord Robartes, July 23, 1669, State Papers, _Ireland_. _The Grand Concern of England explained_, p. 5, 1673. Compare Miss Murray's _Hist. of Commercial Relations_, pp. 42-48. [72] Lord Lieutenant and Council to the King, February 9, 1666-7; State Papers, _Ireland_, Memorial of the three lords, _ib._; the King's answer, March 23, ib.; Proclamation of June 7 reciting that of April 1, _ib._; Ormonde to Arlington, July 31, _ib._ Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 344. [73] _Orrery State Letters_, March 2, 1665-6, to July 3. Ormonde's letters for the same period in State Papers, _Ireland_. For Beaufort's movements, see Corbett's _England in the Mediterranean_, chap. xxi. [74] Ormonde left Kilkenny August 30, 1666, and returned there September 15, State Papers, _Ireland_. Ormonde's letter to Arlington, _ib._ September 4. Orrery to Ormonde, August 20, _Orrery State Papers_. Dr. Denton wrote in 1670, 'if Ormonde do chance to come to you a byled leg of mutton is his beloved dish for dinner,' _Verney Memoirs_, iv. 229. Gigery, now Jijelli, half-way between Algiers and Bona, was garrisoned by Beaufort in 1664, but disaster followed. Caulfield's _Kinsale Council Book_, p. 97, where September 14 is wrongly given for 7. [75] _Orrery's State Letters_, ii. 51, and all his letters from July 3, 1667, to September, _ib._ pp. 203-285, and in State Papers, _Ireland_, July 12, 29, and 31. The treaty of Breda, ending the first Dutch War, was signed on July 21. [76] Bishop French's _Narrative of the Earl of Clarendon's Settlement and Sale of Ireland_, Louvain, 1668. I have used the Dublin reprint of 1846. This tract is in the form of a letter 'to a leading member in the House of Peers in England and much relied upon in the House of Commons,' possibly to Buckingham. A MS. copy is calendared among State Papers, _Ireland_, under 1667, p. 543. French renewed his attack on Clarendon in the 'Bleeding Iphigenia,' 1674.