[77] Clarendon's _Life_, Cont., pp. 81, 107, 277, 1197, 1324. His discourse by way of vindication, dated Montpelier, June 24, 1668, is in _Miscellaneous Works_, 2nd edition, 1751. The _Life_, written three or four years later, contains the same matter, but some expressions are softened: for instance, the 'impudence' of the Irish spokesmen in the former becomes 'imprudence' in the latter. The King to the Lords Justices, April 21, 1662, in State Papers, _Ireland_, is the warrant under which the 6000_l._ was paid, and Clarendon's statements are supported by the letters printed in Lister's _Life of Clarendon_, vol. iii. nos. 66, 109, 120. The money was levied under section 33 of the Act of Settlement. [78] Ormonde to Arlington, September 3, 1667, as given in Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 352. Arlington's answer, September 14, printed in Lister's _Life of Clarendon_, iii. 470, and the King's letter, September 15, printed in Ellis's _Original Letters_, 2nd series, iv. 39. [79] Letters from October 25, 1667, to September 24, 1668, in Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. appx. pp. 41-64. Pepys' Diary, May 3, 1668. Burnet, _Own Times_, i. 266. [80] Ormonde to Ossory, May 19, 1668, to February 9, 1668-9, printed in appx. to Carte's _Ormonde_, vol. ii. Pepys' _Diary_, November 25 and December 5, 1668, and February 12, 1668-9. Ormonde to Archbishop Boyle, March 8, 1668-9, _Carte MSS._ vol. cxlvii. CHAPTER XLV ROBARTES AND BERKELEY, 1669-1672 [Sidenote: Robartes Lord Lieutenant.] Lord Robartes was again chosen for the post which he had scorned to occupy eight years before. Perhaps the King's main object was to get rid of him, for he must have been one of the most disagreeable men in England--morose, overbearing, and impracticable. Upon this point Clarendon, Burnet, and Anthony Hamilton are for once agreed, and, according to the last two, he was also something of a hypocrite. His knowledge of business, the popular opinion of his ability, and the reputation which he enjoyed among the Presbyterians made him a personage whom it was not safe to neglect. Charles announced the appointment at Council, speaking without his usual hesitation, and emphatically declaring his undiminished confidence in Ormonde. Robartes, who was present, accepted with civil expressions to the outgoing Viceroy, who answered in the same strain, acknowledging the other's fitness and wishing him success. Pending the new Lord Lieutenant's arrival in Ireland, Ossory was retained as the King's Deputy by patent. 'My Lord of Orrery,' wrote the Duchess of Ormonde with very pardonable malice, 'is as little satisfied with this change that is made, and the Duke of Buckingham, as if my Lord had continued; and I am of opinion that they will find cause, at the least I wish it may fall out so, and so I am sure do many more.' Buckingham, however, had the satisfaction a little later of driving Coventry from office, and thus clearing the ground for what we still call the Cabal.