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The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 2 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 269
Document type: Original
A grant of an allowance of one hundred pounds a year to Luke Gernon, esquire, for his life, formerly charged upon the profits of the Provincial Court of Munster, is to be entered upon the Establishment of the Civil List of Ireland, and to be paid out of the Revenue of that Kingdom.
Ormond to Colonel Pigott
Written from: Dublin
Date: 2 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 241
Document type: Copy
Particulars concerning certain arrangements for transmitting a sum of money into England.
Ormond to the King
Written from: Dublin
Date: 2 November 1663 [No. 1]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 206
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Conceives it to be his duty [in relation to the 'Explanatory Bill'] to remind his Majesty of the loyalty of the officers of 1649, being such "as for their constancy to the service of the Crown were persecuted, when others were rewarded for contrary actings".
Ormond to the King
Written from: Dublin
Date: 2 November 1663 [No. II]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 207
Document type: Copy; as before
... Beseeches his Majesty to remember that the late design upon your Government here was real; and that most designs that fail do bear the reproaches of rashness in the undertaking, or of weakness & unskilfulness in the execution; and that the depth, or the danger, of an unsuccessful plot is not easily found out.
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant in due form to Robert Griffith, esquire, one of his Majesty's serjeants at law, of the office of seneschal of the manors of Newcastle, Esker, and Crumlin [in MS.: "Cromlin"], in the county of Dublin, during good behaviour
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 2 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 146v
Document type: Copy
Sir Robert Byron to Ormond
Written from: London
Date: 3 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 212
Document type: Holograph
Although the writer has not had the honour to receive an answer to his former letter, yet he finds, by the good success he has had, what obligations he is under to his Grace, ... & returns his humble thanks. ...
Sir Thomas Clarges to Ormond
Written from: London
Date: 3 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 214-215
Document type: Holograph
The Lord Chancellor [Clarendon] was pleased to notice the great obligation the writer is under to the Duke of Omond, for "the character" given of him to his Lordship. ...
With Mr Secretary Bennet, the writer has already had "opportunity to discourse at large of all matters" [concerning Ireland] ... and hopes to "have given him satisfaction in many things". ...
Bennet to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 3 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 108
Document type: Original; subscribed & signed
Further details concerning amendments of the pending Irish Bills; and concerning the examinations of the political conspirators in the North. ...
The writer believes that, in the end, the late plot will be found to be a remnant of that which his Grace disturbed in Ireland, last Spring. ...
The late news from Germany reports that the Turk prospers still. ...
Certificate, by Richard Barry, Deputy Muster-Master-General of his Majesty's Army in Ireland, concerning the arrears of pay due to Ensign Anthony Ballard
Date: 3 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 99
Document type: Copy
An Order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the Certificate above-recited
Date: 7 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 99
Document type: Copy
Carlingford to Ormond
Written from: London
Date: 3 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 214, fol(s). 576-577
Document type: Hoplograph; partly in cypher
Gives an account of various incidents at Court; and also of a conversation which the writer had recently with the King upon public affairs. ...
The Examination of John Flynn [in relation to an alleged plot]; taken by John Hallam, esquire, one of the Justices of the Peace for the King's County
Date: 3 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 214, fol(s). 415
Captain Humphrey Sydenham to Ormond
Written from: Lifford
Date: 4 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 429
Document type: Holograph
Reports various details of military service. ... In the country hereabout, the writer finds all the people to be Presbyterians, except a very inconsiderable number. ...
Charles Henshaw and George Legat to Lord Sandwich
Written from: Genova
Date: 6-13 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 126
Document type: Original
Report what they have done in execution of his Lordship's commissions sent to Mr Stephen Wright, who is now at Milan.
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for an extension, for an additional term of six months, of the License of Absence, granted to the Earl of Anglesey
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 6 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 148v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Dame Jane Sterling, widow, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 6 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 100
Document type: Copy
Prays for his Grace's Order for the respite of certain quit-rents for the Priory of St. John of Ardee, in the county of Louth, being petitioners jointure, by her first husband.
Prays also that the respite may continue "until petitioner be in possession of her late husband, Sir Robert Sterling's, arrears due before [16]49".
An Order for the respite of the rents due to the Crown, as above recited, until 1st May, 1664
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 9 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 100
Document type: Copy
Petition of Colonel Cary Dillon [afterwards Earl of Roscommon], to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 6 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 101r-v
Document type: Copy
Recites an Order [appended to the original petition but not entered in the copy], of the late Lords Justices, assigning to petitioner certain lands, in part for satisfaction of a sum of £350, due to him [from the Crown]; in part, as a reprize for lands taken from petitioner, by the Earls of Clanricarde and Inchiquin. ... Petitioner finds his possession thereof "interrupted ... by virtue of some custodiams granted by his Grace, ... to the Duke of Albemarle, Sir Thomas Clarges, and others, as petitioner humbly hopeth, for want of information of his just title to the same". ...
Prays for an Order of Restitution and pending the passing of the same in the Court of Claims for a Custodiam. ...
Schedule of Lands in the county of Galway, assigned to Colonel Cary Dillon
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 101v
Document type: Copy
An Order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the above-recited Petition
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 9 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 101v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Theodore, Lord Viscount Bourke of Mayo, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 6 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 101v
Document type: Copy
Pursuant to the King's gracious 'Declaration' [of 30 November 1660], petitioner took possession of some parcels of his former estate, undisposed of, in the baronies of Murisky and Borishoule [in the county of Mayo] and received his Grace's order for a Custodiam thereof. He now finds that one [George] Russell hath obtained a reference to the Court of Exchequer to like effect; and prays its recall.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to the Barons of the Court of Exchequer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 9 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 102
Document type: Copy
Petition of William Mathewes to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 6 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 111v
Document type: Copy
Served as a horseman in the Earl of Meath's Troop, until the late reduction thereof. ... Has received no arrears of pay. Prays the Duke's Order for his readmission.
An Order directing the Commanding Officer of the Troop aforesaid, to state the reason why the petitioner was disbanded
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 9 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 111v
Document type: Copy
Petition and Answer of Sir Oliver St George, knight & baronet, on behalf of William Flanagan, and others, defendants; to the Petition of Anne, Lady Marchioness of Clanricarde [plaintiff]
Date: [circa 6 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 112v
Document type: Copy
Recites the Lord Lieutenant's order for putting the plaintiff into possession of certain lands occupied by the defendants (who are troopers in petitioner's Troop of Horse), the said lands having been "on the transplantation, set out to divers Irish, and by them sold to the petitioner, Sir Oliver, in whose possesson they have been for six or seven years past, until of late, upon a decree made by the ... Court of Claims, pursuant to a proviso that the Lady Marchioness had in the Act of Settlement, and [as] an innocent, ... possession of the same was delivered to her use". ... But the petitioner denies that plaintiff has any right to any profits of the lands before the decree; having been restored, not as an innocent, but pursuant to the proviso. ... He alleges, secondly, that the defendant [in the heading "defendant"; in the body of the petition "respondent"] Flanagan never made any use of the land; and that defendant Rellish is not a member of the Army ...; and, thirdly, that although defendants Dorkins and Morris are troopers, and made use of the land ... yet the petitioner hath constantly received the rent thereof from them and is the only person concerned in receipt of rents, until the Marchioness' restoration.
Prays that the said plaintiff may be left to take her course at law against the petitioner and that the other defendants may be "discharged and not troubled about the same".
An Order, directing the communication of this Answer, to the Plaintiff's agent
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 9 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 113
Document type: Copy
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 7 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 271
Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]
James [Margetson], Lord Archbishop of Armagh, to be Almoner of Ireland, for life, with a yearly fee of one hundred pounds.
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 7 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 273
Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]
Murrough, Earl of Inchiquin, to receive the sum of three hundred and seventy five pounds, being the remainder of a sum of five thousand pounds, formerly directed to be paid to him out of the half years' rents of the lands of Adventurers, and others, due to the Crown in virtue of certain provisions of the 'Act of Settlement' for Ireland. ...
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 7 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 275-276
Document type: Original
Renews direction formerly issued for the holding by the Lord Primate of a Regal Visitation throughtout Ireland. ...
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 7 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 277-278
Document type: Original
A surrender to be taken from Gilbert Mabbot of the Letters-Patent under which he holds the Office of Licenser of the Sale of Wines and Strong-Waters, by retail, in Ireland, and thereupon warrants to be issued for the payment to him of a sum of £4,800 out of arrears of the profits of the licenses aforesaid, in lieu of certain payments directed to be made to him, as Licenser in the Letters-Patents so to be surrendered.
Bennet to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 7 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 110
Document type: Original, subscribed & signed
Nobody having moved the King for the indemnity or confiscation of Boyd, the Merchant, his Majesty leaves it to the Lord Lieutenant to do therein what he shall think to be fitted for the King's service. ...
As concerns the great Bill ... the King will hear patiently all parties, and, he promises, with more attention than he hath hitherto given to that matter, being troubled to see it so often return to his hands. He infinitely desires to see Sir William Domvile here. ...
Clarendon to Ormond
Written from: Worcester House
Date: 7 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 71-72
Document type: Holograph
Notices the Queen's late illness, & her progress towards recovery; the presence of three of the Settlement Commissioners of Ireland in London (who, he adds, "will be always consulted with, in the business" of that Kingdom now pending); the interests of Lords Tyrconnel & Antrim under the Settlement Act; and a conference with Lord Anglesey on certain matters of high finance. ...
[Not printed by Lister].
Colonel Richard Talbot to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 7 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 214, fol(s). 566-569
Document type: Holograph
Expresses his sorrow at hearing that he had fallen under the Duke's displeasure.
Narrates his part in the matters to which as the writer has been informed the Duke referred when communicating with Sir G. Hamilton and others.
A News-Letter, addressed to Sir George Lane
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 7 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 40-41
Mentions accounts which have reached England of the progress of the Plague; and arrangements which are made in consequence to prevent infection.
News have come from York of the death, by suicide, of one Michael Blackborough, "a great leader and contriver among the rebels".
The King has given an extension [over a certain breadth of the suburbs] to the privileges & jurisdiction of the 'Corporation of Innholders of London', which, it is hoped, will prove to be a means of safety to travellers, by removing places that have heretofore been but "little harbours for robbers".
Petition of George Russell to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 7 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 102
Document type: Copy
Having obtained his Grace's order for a Custodiam of certain lands in the county of Mayo, finds that another & subsequent order for granting, in like form, those and other lands to the Lord of Mayo has been issued. ...
Prays that petitioner may have the benefit of the precedent Custodiam, "until Thady Maley his title be tried, whose estate of inheritance the same is.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to the Barons of the Exchequer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 10 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 102
Document type: Copy
With instructions for the hearing on the matter of the petitioner, and of the Lord of Mayo.
Petition of Mary Bermingham to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 7 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 103
Document type: Copy
Renews her plaint "for justice against one John Hughes, who made two several answers to her" [former] Petition "in themselves as well different as false in their contents.
Prays for a perusal of all the papers in the case, or for a Reference of them, as his Grace shall think fit.
An Order upon this Petition, directing that it should be taken into consideration at the Council Board
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 10 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 103
Document type: Copy
Petition of George Cawdron to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 8 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 106
Document type: Copy
Plaint of debt against Thomas Huchin, and others. With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 11 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 106
Document type: Copy
Petition of Roger Bold to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 8 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 110
Document type: Copy
Arrears of pay, for service as a private soldier in the Duke of Albemarle's troop of horse in Ireland.
An Order of Reference of this Petition, to the Muster-Master-General of the Army
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 11 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 110
Document type: Copy
Petition of Josiah Elsmere to the Duke of Ormond
Date: 8 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 110v
Document type: Copy
Plaint of the debt against John Cooke of the Lord Callan's Troop of Horse. With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 11 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 110v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Robert Jones, a late trooper [in the Lord Callan's Troop], to the Duke of Ormand
Date: [circa 8 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 110v
Document type: Copy
Arrears of pay.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to the Muster-Master-General
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 11 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 110v
Document type: Copy
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 9 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 279
Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]
A surrender to be taken from Sir William Domville of a grant formerly made to him of the forfeited estates of Patrick Bath, and Christopher Cruise; and a grant to be made to him of the several forfeited estates of James Jans, Robert Preston, and Marcus Fitzsymons, and also a regrant of the estate of Patrick Bath aforesaid, in lieu of the Grant so to be surrendered. ...
Affidavit, by Theophilus Taylor, of the due service upon Thomas Hutton, defendant, of an Order made by the Lord Lieutenant upon a Petition of George Kennedy
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 9 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 99
Document type: Copy
An Order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the Affidavit calendared above
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 10 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 99
Document type: Copy
Certificate by Abraham Yarner, Muster-Master-General of the Army of Ireland, of arrears of pay due to Peter Kinsey, and others
Date: 9 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 103v
Document type: Copy
An Order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the Certificate above-recited
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 11 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 103v
Document type: Copy
A News-Letter, addressed to Sir George Lane
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: [9? November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 42-43
Document type:
Naval incidents on the Norfolk Coast. Great injuries have been inflicted on the still uncarried grain-crops, in many parts of the [North] country, by violent tempests. A "brisk memorial" was lately presented to the States General of the Netherlands by Sir George Downing. With other political advices, foreign and domestic.
Petition of Thomas Springham to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 9 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 103
Document type: Copy
Recites the circumstances under which a daughter of the petitioner has been convicted, at the Assizes held at Drogheda, of theft; sentenced to death; but respited by the Judge. Prays that the sentence may not be executed, but that the offender may be transported to the Barbadoes.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to the Judges of Assize
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 12 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 103
Document type: Copy
Petition of Edward Dudleston to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 9 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 103v
Document type: Copy
"Petitioner hath farmed the benefit of the wine and strongwater licenses of the barony of Ikethy in the county of Kildare". ... He complains of John Pierson, and others, who retail the commodities aforesaid, without license. With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 12 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 104
Document type: Copy
Petition of George Younghusband, & others, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 9 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 104
Document type: Copy
Upon a suit of John Ormsby, against petitioners as retailers of wine, &c., without license in the town of Galway, petitioners are now in custody. They are ready to answer the complaint, and pray for their release.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 12 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 104
Document type: Copy
Petition of Peter Holmes to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 9 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 104v
Document type: Copy
Plaint of debt against Lieutenant George Hopkins, and Thomas Wood, upon their joint & several bond. With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 12 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 104v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Captain Thomas Crofton to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 9 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 113
Document type: Copy
Being appointed collector of the first four subsidies in the county of Sligo, amounting to the sum of £1,182: 1s., petitioner (who resides upwards of 100 miles from Dublin) paid it wholly into the Receipt of his Majesty's Exchequer. He made three several journeys; was at the charge of convoys; & expended upwards of £50, for repayment of which he prays the Lord Lieutenant's Order upon the Vice-Treasurer.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to Sir Daniel Bellingham, Deputy Vice-Treasurer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 12 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 113
Document type: Copy
Report of Sir Daniel Bellingham to the Duke of Ormond, upon the Petition to him referred, as above
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 16 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 113
Document type: Copy
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the payment to petitioner, by his Majesty's Vice-Treasurer, of the sum of twenty pounds, in consideration of the service above recited
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 18 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 113v
Document type: Copy
John Thompson to Ormond
Written from: Culbenagher
Date: 10 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 216
Document type: Holograph
Further advices of some current discontents, upon matters of Church-government and religion; & the like. ...
Bennet to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 10 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 112
Document type: Original; subscribed & signed
Reports proceedings at a Council, upon the affairs of Ireland, held on the preceding day.
Ormond to the Countess of Clanricarde
Written from: Dublin
Date: 10 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 240
Document type: Copy
Notwithstanding what the Duke writ to the Secretary [of State] in favour and excuse of her Ladyship's son, Garrett Moore, he has received direction from the King for his committal. ... he must therefore come hither, to receive his restraint; or else immediately go out of Munster, & surrender himself at London. ...
Earl of Carlingford to Lane
Date: 10 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 214, fol(s). 570
Document type: Holograph
The King promises to "make a speedy despatch of our Irish business". The writer adds an expression of his hope that the settlement may be such as to "please all honest men".
Mentions also a petition from several under-officers in the Lord Steward's Department, who, being displaced, claim compensation for moneys paid to them for their respective appointments, part of which they allege to have been applied to the uses of Sir George Lane.
Earl of Carlingford to Ormond
Date: 10 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 214, fol(s). 574-575
Document type: Holograph
Notices the statements that have been made to the disadvantage of Colonel Richard Talbot. Gives an account of recent incidents at Court and of the purport of some foreign advices, received in London.
Bishop of Worcester [Earle] to Lane
Written from: Westminster
Date: 10? November 1663 [the date may be either "10" or "16", being scarcely legible]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 218
Document type: Holograph
Personal, family, and episcopal affairs. ...
Is about to go to Worcester, where he is "fourscore mile nearer to Chester than London is", so that he hopes there to see Sir George Lane, when on his way from Ireland. ...
Petition of Henry Jones [a prisoner] to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 10 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 104v
Document type: Copy
Recites an Order made by his Grace, upon a former suit of petitioner, giving him liberty to depart the Kingdom. Prays for a further and special Order for cancelling petitioner's recognizance, entered into before the Lord Chief Justice.
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the cancelling, upon conditions stated, of the Recognizance above-recited
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 13 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 105
Document type: Copy
Replication of Peter Holmes, and Bridget, his wife, to the Answer of Josias Beale, and Barbara, his wife [concerning a plaint of debts, against the defendants last-named, as administrators of the Estate of Richard Goulding, deceased]
Date: [circa 10 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 105
Document type: Copy
Final Order of the Duke of Ormond, upon the several proceedings in the suit above-named
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 13 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 105v
Document type: Copy
Petition of George Atherdy, and others, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 10 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 105v
Document type: Copy
In relation to a suit against the petitioners of one John Johnson, of Dublin, recite his Grace's Proclamation concerning satisfaction of debts due by soldiers whose pay is in arrear, by tickets upon his Majesty's Exchequer; and pray for the benefit thereof.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 13 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 105v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Henry Hippon, clerk of the stores of Duncannon and Waterford, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 10 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 106
Document type: Copy
Prays, under circumstances stated, for his Grace's license to execute, by his deputy, the office of Clerk of the Stores, in the Fort of Duncannon.
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the execution of the place of Clerk of the Stores, in the Fort of Duncannon, by the Deputy of the above-named petitioner
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 13 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 106
Document type: Copy
Petition of Morgan Kavanagh to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 10 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 109
Document type: Copy
Prays, upon grounds stated, for a custodiam during pleasure, of the third part of Rahedin, in the parish of Agha, and barony of Idrone, in the county of Carlow.
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant in the Court of Exchequer of the Custodiam prayed for, if the lands above-named are found to be at his Majesty's disposal
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 13 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 109
Document type: Copy
Petition of Teige Ferny to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 10 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 109v
Document type: Copy
Prays that an attachment issued against petitioner as an unlicensed retailer of wine, &c, at Ballinrobe, in the county of Mayo, at the suit of Richard Nolane, may be superseded; and that petitioner may be admitted to put in his answer to the said charge.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 13 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 109v
Document type: Copy
Petition, of Jane Barnewall [in MS.: "Barnewell"], otherwise Bellew, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 10 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 109v-110
Document type: Copy
Recites particulars of the jointure settled upon petitioner, out of the lands of Lispople and Knockbreen, in the county of Dublin, upon occasion of her marriage with Peter Barnewall, of Lispople; and also that petitioner has been adjudged innocent by the Commissioners for executing his Majesty's Declaration for the Settlement of Ireland; with other recitals concerning the lands aforesaid.
Prays that the rents due to petitioner may be ascertained by the Auditor-General, and that order be taken for the payment of the same.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 13 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 110
Document type: Copy
Petition of Captain Thomas Crofton to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 10 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 114v
Document type: Copy
Recites the collection by petitioner of the several Poll-moneys applotted on the county of Sligo, amounting to the sum of £2,894; the bringing of the greatest part thereof in ready money to Dublin; and the spending therein of upwards of £60, over & above his allowance granted by the Ordinances. With prayer for a warrant for payment of £60, in that behalf.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to Sir Daniel Bellingham, Deputy Vice-Treasurer of Ireland
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 13 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 115
Document type: Copy
Report of Sir Daniel Bellingham, upon the Petition to him referred, as above
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 18 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 115
Document type: Copy
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the payment, by the Deputy Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, to the above-named petitioner, of the sum of thirty pounds for the service recited
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 18 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 115
Document type: Copy
Petition of Richard Archdekin to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 10 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 122
Document type: Copy
Alleges that John Bryan, of Whitswale, esquire, obtained unjust possession of certain lands, ... with their appurtenances, ... in the county of Kilkenny, and barony of Galmoy, being the right title and interest of petitioner, as by an Entail duly perfected ... more at large may appear, ... all which lands are, amongst others, claimed by petitioner in his claim still pending. ... Prays an order for the entering of a sufficient caveat against the said John Bryan, or James Bryan his son, ... obtaining any further patent or assurance of the said estate, until petitioner's title ... be determined by due course of law.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 13 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 122
Document type: Copy
Petition of John Warren, and others, wardens of the Castle of Dublin, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 10 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 122v
Document type: Copy
Arrears of pay.
An Order upon this Petition, as prayed for
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 13 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 122v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Mary Roberts, widow, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 10 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 123v
Document type: Copy
Recites a former petition for satisfaction of a debt due by Richard Thomson, and his subsequent conviction and execution for treason. Prays that the same may now be satisfied out of his estate forfeited to the Crown.
An Order of Reference of this petition to the Attorney-General of Ireland
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 13 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 123v
Document type: Copy
Certificate, or Report, of Sir William Domvile to the Duke of Ormond upon the Petition to him referred, as above
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 20 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 124
Document type: Copy
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the preparation, by the Barons of the Exchequer, of an account of the chattels of Richard Thomson, seized into the hands of the sheriffs
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 2 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 124
Document type: Copy
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 11 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 281-282
Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]
Recites proceedings in the pretended Court of Claims [at Dublin], during the late Usurpation, concerning estates in the county of Kilkenny, belonging to John Bryan, late of Bawnemore in that county, esquire. ...
Directs that Letters Patent containing an effectual grant of the estates aforesaid to James Bryan be made in due form and "subject to the several trusts, intents, and limitations", contained in a settlement herein recited [made by John Bryan, deceased, in the year 1634]. ...
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 11 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 309
Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]
Upon the lands granted, in reward of their faithful services, to Theobald, Earl of Carlingford, and to Thomas, Lord Viscount Dillon, respectively, ... no higher quit-rents are to be paid into the King's Exchequer, than were "due or answered out of them, or either of them, resepctively, in the year 1641".
Ormond to Clarendon
Written from: Dublin
Date: 11 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 208
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Continues his observations on the pending Explanatory Bill; and on the advisability of its return by January, on account of the re-assembling of the Irish Parliament, which now stands further prorogued until that month.
Ormond to Bennet
Written from: Dublin
Date: 11 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 209-213
Document type: Copy; as before
Although, in comparison of the Bill of Settlement, some other bills now awaiting return from England, may seem insignificant, yet many of them will be of much convenience to this Kingdom. ... Adds, at great length, particulars concerning (1) Sir Thomas Wharton's case; (2) the passing into England of the Commissioners of the Court of Claims; (3) the case of Moore and Granger; (4) the business of the Lord Steward's Department of the Royal Household; (5) Sir Henry O'Neill's case; (6) Lady Sutton's [widow of Sir Thomas Lucas & sister of Lord Byron] case.
Report or Certificate of Sir Jerome Alexander and of Robert Booth, esquire, two of his Majesty's Justices of Assize in Ireland
Date: 11 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 123r-v
Document type: Copy
Report or Certificate of Sir Jerome Alexander and of Robert Booth, esquire, two of his Majesty's Justices of Assize in Ireland, to the Duke of Ormond, upon the case of Richard Divellin and Patrick Divellin, who were tried before them at the late Assizes for the county of Meath, for the murder "of two several persons, whose names are unknown, ... upon the mountains between Herbertstown and the Naall, in the said county, just after the massacre at Drogheda"; and thereof convicted.
An Order, by the Duke of Ormond, for the consideration of this Certificate, and of the Petition at the Council Board
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 23 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 123v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Samuel Bathurst to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Date: [11 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 189
Document type: Original. Read at the Board on the day named in margin
[In further prosecution of his suit, at the Privy-Council Board of Ireland, concerning his late office of Postmaster under contract with Colonel (Henry) Bishop, formerly Postmaster-General. Read at the Board on the day named in the margin.]
Petition of Arthur [Hill-Trevor], Lord Viscount Dungannon, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 11 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 108
Document type: Copy
Prays for the grant of a custodiam, during pleasure, of certain lands [in the several counties of Waterford, Cork, Westmeath, and Limerick] now "in his Majesty's disposal [in MS.: "dispose"], and not set forth to Adventurers or Soldiers".
Certificates of Thomas Elliot, Deputy Surveyor General of Ireland, concerning the proprietors; the acreage, profitable & unprofitable; and other particulars of certain lands in the several counties of Waterford, Cork, Westmeath, and Limerick
Date: [November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 108r-v
Document type: Copies (two certificates)
An Order of the Duke of Ormond upon the Petition, and Certificates, calendared respectively above
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 14 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 108
Document type: Copy
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, reciting his appointment of James Wyer, esquire, to be High Sheriff of the county of Westmeath, for the year ensuing; and directing the issue of Letters Patent accordingly, with a special proviso, concerning the Statute I Rich. II
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 12 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 147v
Document type: Copy
A like Warrant, for Letters Patent to Edward Hamilton, esquire, of the office of High Sheriff of the county of Galway for the present year; without the special proviso
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 12 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 148
Document type: Copy
A List of High Sheriffs appointed by the Duke of Ormond, for various counties of Ireland, and of the several warrants issued thereupon
Date: 12 November 1663 to 6 February 1664
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 148
Document type: Breviates (fifteen entries)
Petition of Theobald Taaffe, [first] Earl of Carlingford, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 13 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 111
Document type: Copy
Recites that petitioner is lately restored to his estate, but charged with a high quit-rent payable in his Majesty's Exchequer, contrary, as the petitioner humbly conceives, to his Majesty's intention.
Prays that Order be given that no process shall be issued for the rents aforesaid, until petitioner shall have had time to make his humble address to the King in that behalf.
An Order, upon this Petition, directing forbearance to levy the quit-rents complained of, until the end of Hilary term
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 16 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 111
Document type: Copy
Petitions of Walter Burd, and others, to the Duke of Ormond, similar in purport to that above calendared, "circa November 10"
Date: [circa 13 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 111-112
Document type: Copies (six documents)
With like prayer that attachments issued against the several petitioners as unlicensed retailers of wine, &c., may be superseded. And with like Orders thereupon, of November 16th, and 17th, respectively.
Petition of Thomas [Dillon], Lord Viscount Dillon of Costello and Gallen, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 13 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 111v
Document type: Copies
To like effect with the petition of the Earl of Carlingford, calendared immediately above. And with a similar Order thereupon.
Petition of George Tyndall, of Drogheda, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 13 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 114
Document type: Copy
Plaint of debt, for rent of rooms in a house at Drogheda, against Lieutenant Edward Pryce, of Captain Garrett Moore's Company; and also for wrongful retaining of possession thereof. With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 16 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 114
Document type: Copy
Petition of Thomas Ellis, and Joan, his wife, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 13 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 118
Document type: Copy
Petitioners, having cause of suit against Cornet Robert Meredith, in the Court of Chancery of Ireland, pray for license to implead him there.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 16 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 118
Document type: Copy
Proposals ... from the Freeholders of the baronies of Upper and Lower Ormond, concerning their tenures
Date: 14 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 156-158
Document type: Original [misbound]
Fitzharding to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 14 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 214, fol(s). 580-581
Document type: Holograph
Thanks the Duke for expressions in the writer's favour, contained in His Grace's Letter to Mr. Secretary Bennet.
Commends the good services of Mr. James Hamilton.
Adds some remarks on the Act of Settlement for Ireland.
Bishop of Killaloe to Lane
Written from: London
Date: 14 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 214, fol(s). 582
Document type: Holograph
Reports a conference with Sir William Boreman upon some administrative affairs of Ireland.
Refers to the complaints of certain officers of the King's Greencloth as to purchase of their respective places.
[An Order] by the Lord Lieutenant and Council [of Ireland, for the due quartering of his Majesty's Regiment of Guards, in the City of Dublin]
Written from: Council Chamber, Dublin
Date: 16 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 37, fol(s). 244
Document type: Certified Copy [thirteen signatures]
[An Order] by the Lord Lieutenant and Council [of Ireland, for the due quartering of his Majesty's Regiment of Guards, in the City of Dublin].
Petition of James Aylmer, esquire, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 16 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 113v
Document type: Copy
Plaint of debt against John Locke. With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 19 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 113v
Document type: Copy
Ormond to Colonel Richard Talbot
Written from: Dublin
Date: 16 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 242-243
Document type: Copy
Notices the past relations between them, ... and a late conversation with Lord Carlingford thereon. ...
Is thankful for Colonel Talbot's favourable representation of things here; and can in no degree blame his zeal for his countrymen and friends. ... Is not learned enough, nor is he under obligation, to justify all parts of the pending Bill; but is sure that the Bill is better than to be without a settlement; and can remember when it would have been thought a good one, by many that now dislike it. ...
Ormond to Clarendon
Written from: Dublin
Date: 16 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 214-216
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Thanks the Chancellor for advice given to Lord Cavendish. ... The return of the Bill transmitted [i.e. 'Explanatory Bill', on the Land Settlement] is the way to hasten the writer's coming to England if desired. ... As to the warrant for transport of the Commissioners, he always believed that the King had been surprised into signing it. ...
In their endeavours for their [Irish] countrymen, Colonel Talbot & his brother have not omitted to consider themselves, even to the prejudice of the generality of their party. ...
... Sir Edward Smith is a very honest, well-natured man. His capacity in business is well known to the Chancellor. ... "The Commissioners ... have gone further than they would [willingly] have done, & perhaps further than is absolutely warrantable, by [reason of] their having made one another angry, & by those jealousies ... which angry men easily entertain". ...
Ormond to Bennet
Written from: Dublin
Date: 16 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 217-219
Document type: Copy; as before
Particulars concerning (1) Bills transmitted; (2) Disposal of Boyd and other prisoners; (3) Reason for the writer's stay, at present, in Ireland; (4) Granger's informations & other papers.
Sir Allan Broderick to Ormond
Written from: [London]
Date: 17 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 219
Document type: Holograph
The writer, and his fellow Commissioners of the Court of Claims, yesterday attended the King in Council [to submit particulars concerning the pending 'Act of Explanation', supplementary to the 'Act of Settlement' for Ireland].
His Majesty seemed, adds the writer, "very well to understand the most material parts", especially the deference [this special sense of the word (= "reference", rather than submission) is unnoticed in Latham's Johnson] "of all future innocents to his Grace, and six of the Council". ...
Adds notice of some Court incidents.
Sir Thomas Clarges to Ormond
Written from: London
Date: 17 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 221-222
Document type: Holograph
Continues his report of the writer's negotiations at Court upon Irish affairs. ...
Notices also various items of political and Court news, as well foreign as domestic.
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 17 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 283
Document type: Original
Upon consideration of the naked & unsettled condition of the Church in Ireland, the King has determined to give to it all such impropriations, as at present Settlement shall be found to belong to the Crown, and therefore directs that no grant be passed to any person of any such impropriation, upon any pretence whatsoever.
Bennet to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 17 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 114
Document type: Original; subscribed & signed
The "Great Bill of Ireland" was read yesterday. Sir Nicholas Plunkett was admitted to offer what he had to say on behalf of those that sent him, which was not much, the Solicitor [General] having, as Plunkett confessed, "anticipated the most part of it, in his ingenuous [in MS.: as always "ingenious"] and fair exposition of the Bill". ...
Arlington to Ormond
Date: 17 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 18
Document type: Breviate (from "Miscellanea Aulica")
... "Yesterday, the great Bill of Ireland was read; and Sir Nicholas Plunkett was heard in [relation to it]".
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant in due form to Sir Robert Byron [in MS.: "Biron"], during life, of the office of General and Master of his Majesty's Ordnance in Ireland, now void by the death of Hugh (Montgomery), Earl of Mount-Alexander
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 17 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 149
Document type: Copy
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the drawing up of a fiant
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 17 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 7v-8
Document type: Copy [in Entry Book]
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the drawing up of a fiant, containing as well his Majesty's donation to Michael (Boyle), Lord Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, of the Archbishopric of Dublin, and Bishopric of Glandalogh, as grants for his translation, investiture, & restitution to the temporalities of the said archbishopric & bishopric; together with a grant of the rectory of Gallowne, alias Dartree, in the county of Managhan, and diocese of Clogher, and the prebendary of Desartmore, in St Finbar's [MS.: "Finbarries"] Church, Cork, and the Treasurership of St Patrick's, Dublin, to be holden by him, in commendam, ... "until the said archbishopric shall be improved to such a value as shall be sufficient to support that dignity".
Petition of Owen Vaughan and George Bushell to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 17 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 114 & v
Document type: Copies
Plaint as before, against various persons therein named, for unlicensed retailing of wine, and strongwaters, within the counties of Galway and Mayo. With the like prayer; and with the usual order thereupon.
Petition of Richard Rich to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 17 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 114v
Document type: Copy
Plaint of debt against Lieutenant Richard Smyth, late of the county of Cork. With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 20 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 114v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Francis Bate to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 17 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 115v
Document type: Copy
Plaint of debt against Thomas Cullen, esquire, "a Lieutenant to Lieutenant Colonel Manby, in the County of Clare, since he was Sheriff of the County". With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 20 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 115v
Document type: Copy
Petition of William Halley [of the Lord Coloony's Troop, in the Army of Ireland] to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 17 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 123
Document type: Copy
Recites the circumstances under which petitioner is imprisoned for debt; and also that arrears of pay are due to him. With the usual prayer.
An Order for the taking of this Petition into consideration at the Council Board
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 20 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 123
Document type: Copy
Ormond to Mr. Phillips
Written from: [Dublin Castle]
Date: 18 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 129
Document type: Copy
Lord Anglesey has prevailed on Sir T. Vyner and Mr R. Vyner, to lend to the writer the sum of £5,000, for six months, in order that he may make the second payment for Moor Park, according to the agreement. The necessary conveyances are to be made [by way of mortgage], on that place, for the security of the lenders.
[An Order] by the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland [for putting into execution a former order of the Board, bearing date September 9, 1663]
Written from: Council Chamber, Dublin
Date: 18 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 223
Document type: Copy
[An Order] by the Lord Lieutenant & Council ... [for regulating the procedure, in certain cases, of the Commissioners appointed under the 'Act of Settlement' for Ireland]
Date: 9 September 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 223
Document type: Copy
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 18 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 285
Document type: Original
A Grant to pass to Theobald, Earl of Carlingford, of certain manors, lands, tenements, & hereditaments, in the county of Louth, ... in lieu of the estate of Coloony [in MS.: "Coolloney"], in the county of Sligo. ...
Ormond to Colonel William Legge
Written from: Dublin
Date: 18 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 244
Document type: Copy
Has Colonel Legge's letter of the 3rd inst. and along with it the King's order to make Sir Robert Byron Master of the Ordnance. For all that Colonel Legge's inspection into the affairs of that office may be of good service ...
Notices a question concerning Pensions, & other matters of finance.
Ormond to Sir Thomas Clarges
Written from: Dublin
Date: 18 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 246
Document type: Copy
Imparts various details concerning the pending Bill, explanatory of the Act of Settlement for Ireland. ...
If it be found that provision is made therein for other persons, who are in the same case with Sir George Lane, is content that use be made of the writer's name for extending the like favour to Lane; but will give no countenance to private provisos. ...
Ormond to Brodrick
Written from: Dublin
Date: 18 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 248
Document type: Copy
Further particulars concerning the pending 'Bill of Explanation' for Ireland. ...
Does not understand with what propriety the loss sustained by the King in the matter of custodiams became part of the discourse [with his Majesty, by whom Sir Allan had been received, on his coming into England], or of Sir R[ichard] R[ainsford]'s observation; and less, how my Lord Ranelagh was [in the sense of "came to be"] cited for an authentic author. ...
Ormond to Bennet
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 18 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 10
Document type: Copy
An Enclosed 'Draught [not now appended hereto] of a [Royal] Letter' will shew the Secretary how far the late King, of ever blessed memory, did proceed in the granting of a certain estate to the father of Mr John Houston, on whose behalf it is transmitted. It is humbly recommended for submission to his Majesty for his signature.
Ormond to Bennet
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 18 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 10
Document type: Copy
The Draught [not now appended hereto] herewith enclosed concerns Colonel Daniel Treswell, who hath well deserved his Majesty's favour for constant faithful service in this Kingdom. ...
Ormond to Clare
Written from: Dublin
Date: 18 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 219, fol(s). 37
Document type: Copy
Has prevailed with the opponents of Lord Tyrconnel's restitution "to consent that a proviso for it should be inserted in the new Bill now under the King and Council's consideration".
The Duke thought it better to delay all reply to Lord Clare's letter on the subject, until it was in his power to give this assurance. My Lord Tyrconnel will pardon him for affirming that his, the Duke's, principal inducement to an endeavour, in his Lordship's behalf, was Lord Tyrconnel's alliance with the family of Lord Clare.
Ormond to Clarendon
Written from: Dublin
Date: 18 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 220-222
Document type: Copy; as before
Gives, at great length, an account of the difficulties attendant on the putting in execution of the Decrees of the Commissioners of the Court of Claims; and also a retrospect of the history of Ireland, as to possession & transfer of land, since the outbreak of the Rebellion, in Ireland, of 1641.
Ormond to the King
Written from: Dublin
Date: 18 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 223
Document type: Copy; as before
Submits, to his Majesty's personal examination, certain accounts relative to the disposal of places, in the Lord Steward's department of the King's Household. ...
Will punctually obey his Majesty's commands concerning my Lord of Callan as soon as the opportunity offers.
Earl of Carlingford to Lane
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: [circa 18 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 233
Document type: Holograph [without date, signed only "Car."]
Is now re-established in his former friendships & familiarities at Court, so that, notwithstanding late retrenchments [in the royal household], he finds himself feasted everyday ... & passes his time with more satisfaction than do most of those who have dependence there. Yet he wishes Ireland settled, so that he might shew his friends that his own fireside is more pleasing to him than any divertisements that this place affords.
[A List of Presbyterian] Ministers, of the county of Antrim [with an account of the course taken with each of them, respectively, by the government of Ireland]
Date: 19 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 465
Document type: Endorsed by Ormond
Petition of John Lovett, saddler, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 19 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 117v
Document type: Copy
Recites the circumstances under which, in the year 1658, petitioner became security, in the Tholsell Court of Dublin, for Randall Moore, esquire, in certain suits there depending; ... under which two judgments and executions thereupon have been given against petitioner. ... Recites also a plaint of debt; and that defendant is now Cornet to Colonel Vere Cromwell. With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 22 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 117v
Document type: Copy
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the passing under the Great Seal of Ireland of a License for the repair of Richard (Boyle), Earl of Cork, Lord High Treasurer, into England, and for his continuance there during a term of twelve months
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 20 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 149v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Captain Garrett Aylmer to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 20 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 115v
Document type: Copy
Recites particulars of certain lands, in the barony of Keathy and Oughterenny, in the county of Kildare, which, "in October, 1641, were the inheritance of William Fitzgerald & Garrett Sutton; ... and were sequestered by the late usurped power"; ... and further that said parcels of land, with other forfeited lands in the barony aforesaid, are given to the Duke of Ormond by the Act of Settlement; ... of which lands [in that barony] so given, his Grace "is in actual seizin, ... those parcels only excepted, being concealed". ... Prays that petitioner, on making out his Grace's title, may be preferred to the tenancy of the premises, for a convenient time & at a moderate rent.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to the Duke of Ormond's Estate Commissioners
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 23 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 115v
Document type: Copy
Petition of George Bancroft, and others, of the Earl of Meath's Troop
Date: [circa 20 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 116
Document type: Copy
State the circumstances under which petitioners were passed over in the late muster of Lord Meath's Troop, and pray the Lord Lieutenant's instructions that they may not be put under cheque, if their allegations shall be found to be true.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to the Muster-Master-General
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 23 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 116
Document type: Copy
Petition of Colonel Milo Power to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 20 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 116v
Document type: Copy
Is informed that part, if not the whole, of certain lands [in the county of Mayo] "is desired, in custodiam, by the Lord of Mayo, and others".
Prays that order be given for the stopping of any such custodiam.
A List of Colonel Milo Power's Patent-Lands in the county of Mayo, and barony of Murruske
Date: [circa 20 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 116v
Document type: Copy
An Order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 23 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 116v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Charles [Cooke], Earl of Mountrath, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 20 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 116v
Document type: Copy
Recites an Order made upon a former petition for the grant to petitioner of a Custodiam of certain lands [of which a schedule was attached to the original petition, but is not annexed to the copy]; and also the circumstances under which the Order, after signature, was stopped in the hands of the Clerk of the Council; and other grants of the lands aforesaid made to several persons. ...
With prayer for the vacating of the said subsequent grants.
An Order for the taking into consideration of this Petition, at the Council Board
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 23 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 117
Document type: Copy
Petition of John Browne to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 20 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 117
Document type: Copy
Plaint of debt against John Robinson [one of the Duke's falconers]. With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 23 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 117
Document type: Copy
Petition, to the Duke of Ormond, of the Innkeepers, Victuallers, and others, of the City of Dublin, concerning the debts of soldiers
Date: [circa 20 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 140v
Document type: Copy
Have, in obediance to the Lord Lieutenant's proclamation, delivered to the Earl of Anglesey their respective bills. ...
Pray that John Peirson may be appointed "Register [Registrar] for the said business, and proceed therein, according to the ... Report" [of the Earl of Anglesey, upon the Petition of William Cooper, & others, of Waterford].
An Order that this Petition, and Papers relating thereto, shall be taken into consideration at the Council Board
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 23 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 140v
Document type: Copy
Petition, to the Duke of Ormond, of the several disbanded Officers of Foot, late of his Majesty's Army in this Kingdom [of Ireland], on the behalf of themselves and many other officers and soldiers
Date: [circa 20 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 147v-148
Document type: Copy
Recite (1) that petitioners' arrears of pay were stated unto 11 February 1660 [1661 N.S.], and they not disbanded until about 11 June following, being duriing that period on continual duty; (2) that they received assignments for two thirds only of the stated arrears; (3) that many of the said assignments proved to be insolvent, so that some of the petitioners have received nothing to this day; (4) that the Lords Justices promised them assignments for the remaining third, within fourteen days of the disbanding, which as yet they have not received; (and 5) that many of the officers aforesaid stand engaged for the debt of their soldiers. With the usual prayer.
An Order for the taking of this Petition into consideration at the Council Board
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 23 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 148
Document type: Copy
Petition of Robert Carpenter, a drummer, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 20 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 162
Document type: Copy
Arrears of pay. With the usual prayer.
An Order of Reference, to the Muster-Master General, of this Petition
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 23 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 162
Document type: Copy
Certificate, by Sir Abraham Yarner, of the circumstances under which petitioner was disbanded
Date: 23 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 162
Document type: Copies
With the Final Order of the Duke of Ormond thereupon.
Petition of Dr. Robert Cliffe to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 20 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 170v
Document type: Copy
Plaint of assault against John Mansfield and another, soldiers in Captain Henry Howard's Company. With the usual prayer.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to the Earl of Orrery, Lord President of Munster
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 23 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 170v
Document type: Copy
[A Warrant], by the [Duke of Ormond], Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, [for the due quartering in the City of Dublin, of two hundred & forty men, newly landed for service in her Majesty's Army]. Addressed to the Sheriffs of Dublin & others
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 21 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 37, fol(s). 246
Document type: Certified Copy
Clarendon to Ormond
Written from: Worcester House
Date: 21 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 73-74
Document type: Holograph
Gives a further account of the proceedings in Council, and elsewhere, concerning the pending Explanatory Act for Ireland. ... For his own part, having heard the Bill once read, finds it very hard to understand. Very much time must be spent over it. Thinks that "we must not naturally expect that anybody will part with [in MS.: "from"] any benefits or advantage that is granted to him by the 'Act of Settlement', which is a law established. All expedients are to [be] embraced which will contribute to the perfect explanation of that Act, by making clear and natural expositions ... of dark & doubtful clauses. ...
[Not printed by Lister].
Ormond to James Hamilton
Date: 21 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 250
Document type: Copy
... Knows it to be folly and knavery, for the most part, to endeavour to please everybody, because everybody cannot honestly be pleased. But, as those that pass swiftly by a shore may think the land moves, and they are fixed, so if a man stands steady upon the foundations of Justice and Reason, he that whirls about him with just and unjust, reasonable and unreaonable, pretensions, if he be not followed in all [of them], ascribes change to him that is steady; and stability to himself. ... "If others can", adds the Duke, "I cannot foregt our many years' wanderings abroad, and what we promised, to get home. If not to break those promises be to want resolution and vigour, I am glad to be without them". ...
Ormond to Clarendon
Written from: Dublin
Date: 21 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 224-225
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Further particulars concerning the Land-Settlement, & the Public Finance, of Ireland
Ormond to Bennet
Written from: Dublin
Date: 21 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 226
Document type: Copy; as above
Has the Secretary's letter of 10th inst. ... Would have been very glad to have been informed what 'clauses' - and what 'Bill' they are - which [so in Copy. Ormond probably writes "what clauses they are & in what Bill, which, &c (the copyist transposing, in his hurry, the pronoun & verb] his Majesty observes to be derogatory to the dignity of the Crown [it will be seen, on comparison of the Secretary's letter, that Sir H. Bennet's phrase "dignity of the Crown" meant really "schemes of the courtiers"], that the writer's inadvertency, or his ignorance, may not in time to come involve him in the like mistakes.
Revocation, by the Duke of Ormond, of a former Order, of April 1st preceding, concerning certain bonds for the sending of wool into England, given by Arthur Harvey [in MS.: "Harvy"], of Dublin, merchant
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 21 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 149v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Thomas Wilkinson, clerk [Vicar of Swords, in the county of Dublin], to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 22 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 120v
Document type: Copy
Renews a former plaint of overcharge made upon petitioner, in the levy of subsidies lately granted by the Clergy. With prayer that his petition may be referred to some of the Judges [of Assize].
An Order of Reference of this Petition to the Barons of the Exchequer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 25 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 120v
Document type: Copy
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the seizure of certain quantities of wool, shipped in or near the port of Carlingford, without payment of Customs' duties
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 23 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 149v-150
Document type: Copy
A like Warrant, for the grant in due form to Sir William Domvile, of the lands of Rathfeigh, and other lands & hereditaments (in the county of Meath), mentioned in his Majesty's letter of the 9th of November, instant
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 23 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 151
Document type: Copy
Petition of Captain James Stopford to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 23 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 118
Document type: Copy
Recites petitioner's surrender to the Duke of about 1,300 acres of land (in the counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary), "which were unjustly given out to the petitioner by the late usurpers". Recites also that in the county of Carlow - "set apart for reprisals to those who had any part of your Grace's estate set out ot them" - petitioner has found out certain conceded parcels of land, of which he prays for a grant in custodiam.
A List of Concealed Lands, in the county of Carlow [in MS.: "Catherlogh"] [together with the names of the ancient proprietors]
Date: [circa 23 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 118r-v
Document type: Copy
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for a Grant in custodiam to petitioner, by the Barons of the Exchequer, of the lands so scheduled as above
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 26 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 118r-v
Document type: Copy
Petition of the Horsemen commanded to attend [at Dublin Castle] for Orders, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 23 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 119
Document type: Copy
Pray for his Grace's Order to Sir Daniel Bellingham [Deputy Vice-Treasurer] for due satisfaction of the petitioners' pay.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 26 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 119
Document type: Copy
Petition of John Geydon, late of Irishtown [in the county of Dublin], to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 23 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 119
Document type: Copy
Recites faithful service to the Crown "in the late distracted times"; and losses incurred therein. ...
Prays for the grant of "a custodiam of a small parcel of his former estate, namely Welshtown, ... in the County of Dublin, now in his Majesty's hands".
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 26 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 119v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Griffith [Williams], Lord Bishop of Ossory, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 23 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 121
Document type: Copy
Recites His Majesty's gracious recommendation, by Sir Henry Bennet's letter of 16 July last, of petitioner's former plaint against Sir George Ayscue, for the wrongful detention, from the See of Ossory, of "the house and lands of Upper-Court, otherwise Bishop's Court, and the township of Freshford, otherwise Aghore, in the county of Kilkenny". ...
Prays to be put into possession of the premises.
An Order for the taking into consideration of this Petition, at the Council-Board
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 26 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 121
Document type: Copy
Petition of Thomas Pooley to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 23 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 121v
Document type: Copy
Recites an agreement for petitioner's interest in Ashtown, made with Colonel Thomas Pigott, late Master of the Court of Wards, under an Order of the Lord Lieutenant; and subsequent proceedings in relation thereto. ...
Prays that he may be permitted to retain his said interest, until he shall receive payment of the sum of £500, the purchase-money agreed upon.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 26 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 121v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Lawrence Porter, merchant, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 23 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 145
Document type: Copy
Recites the wreck, in the Harbour of Dublin, of a ship containing sixty six pipes of Canary wine, to the loss both of ship and goods, except a "few damnified pieces", ... not worth the charge of salvage.
Prays for remission of duty on the small remnant; two pipes of the best having been already paid for prisage.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 26 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 145
Document type: Copy
Certificate of the Commissioners of Customs & Excise, concerning this Petition referred to them, as above
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 8 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 145v
Document type: Copy
Final Order of the Duke of Ormond, upon the Petition, and Certificate, calendared respectively above
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 16 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 145v
Document type: Copy
John Thompson to Ormond
Written from: Culbenagher
Date: 24 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 225
Document type: Holograph
... A great cause of discontent (additional to those mentioned in preceding letters of the writer) is the now widely-spread fear or apprehension that certain Cromwellian soldiers, "who were entertained in cities, castles, and garrisons, in England, are coming over to this Kingdom, ... purposely drawn out of the said garrisons, to be sent, under the command of the Lord Inchiquin, against the Turks". ... They now believe "that all who served under the said Cromwell will certainly be sent [on] the same voyage; the fear whereof makes them very discontent". ...
Brodrick to Ormond
Written from: [London]
Date: 24 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 227
Document type: Holograph. Without signature, or address. Endorsed by Lane.
The objections brought before the King [to the 'Act of Settlement Explanation-Bill'], by Plunkett & by Keating, were answered, in writing, by Sir T. Clarges. But his Majesty (satisfied, the writer supposes, with Sir Thomas' "harangue) spared the repetition by the Clerk of the Council". ...
Doubts not ... to give his Grace the divertisement of a second part to Hudibras; "the author having presented a printed copy to his Majesty; and this evening, to my Lord [Clarendon? [this is conjectured only]]; because [now] a few hours will set the bookseller at liberty [meaning at liberty to sell], after that ceremony". ... And, whilst the writer talks of Poetry, his Grace could not forgive him if he should not mention "my Lord of Bristol, whose late legend is more ridiculous in the repetition than all those of the Church [so in MS.]. ... No two, amongst 10,000, letters of the story, agreeing in the circumstances of time, place, or accidents contributory to the publication of his conversion".
Ormond to Bennet
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 24 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 10v
Document type: Copy
The Earl of Cork has offered a Draught letter herewith transmitted on behalf of several inhabitants of Lismore, who, being adjudged innocent, have undertaken to make over their interests to his Lordship, who is resolved to plant Protestants in their places. ... But, under the Act [of Settlement], his Majesty has first to admit the said inhabitants to the enjoyment of their respective interests aforesaid.
Certificate, or Report, of Sir James Ware, John Povey, esquire, and others, upon the Petition of Nicholas French to the Duke of Ormond, to them referred
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 24 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 138-139
Document type: Copy
An Order for the taking into consideration of the Certificate above-recited, "with what doth relate thereunto", at the Council Board
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 5 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 139
Document type: Copy
A News-Letter, addressed to Sir George Lane
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: [24? November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 44-45
Document type: [With seal of arms]
Incidents of the recent attempt at an insurrection in the Northern counties; ... In a Report from Newcastle, it is mentioned that on the night when the Conspirators "were reduced, every man had his lanthorn at his door, until morning".
Peremptory demand for the surrender of Bombay, sent to the Portuguese Viceroy at Goa, D. Antonio de Mello de Castro.
Notices of the proceedings in some of the Courts of Law.
Ormond to the King
Written from: Dubliln
Date: 25 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 227
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Presumes, in the case of his Majesty's directions to put [Samuel] Bathurst out of the Deputy Postmastership, to make humble return of the writer's opinion, instead of instantly obeying the command. ... Whether Bathurst's interest [in a certain Patent] shall prove good or no, his pretension is such as cannot be regularly determined, save in an ordinary way of proceeding. ... It is (he knows) suggested that the writer is too scrupulous in these things. ... But, ever since he came into business, he has given proof to the contrary. ... This [very] summer, without law, if not against law, he made no difficulty, by his own order, ... to disarm, upon the matter [= "in effect"], the whole Kingdom, and to commit many suspected persons to several prisons. This he did because his Majesty's service required it, and the preservation of the peace of the Kingdom would justify it. In lesser matters, especially in matters of controversy between party and party, he avoids to interpose the King's authority; reserving extraordinary applications of that authority for extraordinary occassions. ...
Petition of John Coates to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 25 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 146v
Document type: Copy
Plaint of debt against Edward Blayny and Thomas Alden, both of the Lord Kingston's troop. With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 28 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 146v
Document type: Copy
Queen Consort to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 26 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 287
Document type: Original; subscribed & signed [with seal of arms]
Fitzsymons, of Ballinadrough, in the county of Dublin, (whose son hath been sometime in the service of the Lord Ambassador of Portugal, & is not unknown to the Queen) to the favour of the Lord Lieutenant. ...
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for a further payment of three hundred pounds, on account of the wall of the Phoenix Park, near Dublin
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 26 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 152
Document type: Copy
A News-Letter, addressed to Sir George Lane
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: [ 26 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 36-37
Document type: [Partly in Williamson's hand]
Notices and summarizes various proceedings and incidents in the Courts of Law; and mentions the receipt, at Whitehall, of Depositions which are said to "give a perfect discovery of the Rebellion intended [in the North of England] on the 12th of October, last"; and also to shew the renewal of the design, at a later date.
The purport of advice from several parts of the Continent is added.
John Thompson to Ormond
Written from: Culbenagher
Date: 27 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 209
Document type: Holograph
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 27 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 151r-v
Document type: Copy
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, in pursuance of the instructions contained in his Majesty's letter of 5th September preceding, for the appointment of a Commission of inquiry into the "yearly value, together with the improvement, of the castle, town, and lands, of Lucan, in the County of Dublin, and other ... lands ... & hereditaments, now possessed by Sir Theophilus Jones, ... or his tenants, and whereof William Sarsfield, late of Lucan, deceased, was possessed on 22 October, 1641"; and also into the yearly value of other lands forfeited to his Majesty, and now at his disposal, in order to a reprize of the said Sir Theophilus Jones, for the lands (of Lucan &c.) aforesaid. ...
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, in pursuance of his Majesty's grant by his Letters Patent of 27 October 1662, for the payment of a sum of six thousand, eight hundred pounds, to Edward Earl of Clarendon
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 27 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 153v
Document type: Copy
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, in pursuance of his Majesty's grant by his Letters Patent of 27 October 1662, for the payment of a sum of six thousand, eight hundred pounds, to Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, being in part of "one half-year's full value of the profits arising out of the lands set out for the respective adventures and arrears of Adventurers and Soldiers, in the counties of Meath, Westmeath, Wexford, and Kilkenny, by the Act of Settlement". ... With recitals of the payment by Adventurers, &c, of £12,800, "towards the profits ... for the said half-year"; and of the receipt thereout, by the Earl of Clarendon, of £6,000, "the rest as we are informed, being paid to others". ...
Brodrick to Ormond
Written from: [London]
Date: 28 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 229
Document type: Holograph
After a further report of the proceedings, at Court, of the Commissioners of Irish Claims, in relation to their Bill Explanatory of the Settlement Act, the writer adds:
"Your country grows every day in my opinion, the meat, the drink, the weather, much superior to what I have found since my return [to England] nor doth the sun shine on any palace wherein so much good nature is contained, as in the Castle of Dublin". ...
"The King is strangely delighted with this 2nd part of Hudibras, and Sir Paul Neill, whom he [so in MS., but the writer means to say "the author"] hath ridiculously charactered in 'Sydrophel', as strangely ashamed. The author threatens a third part, which I will, if he proceed, bring either in print or in MS.". ...
Ormond to Fitzharding
Written from: Dublin
Date: 28 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 231
Document type: Copy
Lord Fitzharding's letter was not delivered until after the immediate post was gone [from hence]. The Duke thought it not amiss to take the opportunity to clear some doubts, and, if he could, to rectify some mistakes, ... taken up ... concerning himself & the Government he is entrusted with. ...
As to his Lordship's particular affair here, it proceeds only slowly, yet the writer gives it all the dispatch that belongs to his part therein. ...
Clarendon to Ormond
Written from: Worcester House
Date: 28 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 75-76
Document type: Holograph
After hearing many parties upon the 'Bill of Explanation', the writer proposed, & the King in Council approved, that the Commissioners [under the former Act] should be instructed to frame "animadversions" upon the difficult & doubtful Clauses, ... to be afterwards considered in Council. ... "If we do", adds the writer, "impartially build upon the old foundation, ... I do not think the work so hard, as it is imagined to be". ...
Adds further, and at considerable length, particulars of his views concerning the scheme, on the writer's own behalf, noticed in former letters, as "Lord Orrery's project".
[Not printed by Lister].
Bennet to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 28 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 118-119
Document type: Original; subscribed & signed
Gives an account of further proceedings upon the Post-Office question, at issue between Mr O'Neill and Mr Bathurst; and also upon the pending Proposals for the farming of the Customs Duties of Ireland. ...
H. Coventry to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 28 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 411-412
Document type: Holograph
Has been beyond seas ... Is now made an Irishman again; and, since the arrival of Sir Richard Rainsford and the rest, is appointed by the King to attend the Council with them as 'Reformado-Commissioner' ... "having, most ingeniously, leapt out of the acreage and the fees, .. into the envy and the trouble, of that employment", ... the pleasantest part of which is the presenting of himself to his Grace. ...
Ormond to the King
Written from: Dublin
Date: 28 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 228
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Upon some hints from Lord Fitzhardinge, thinks that many things that are past are forgotten; some things present, misrepresented. Presumes, therfore, to say someting to those particulars. ... Has no other end, no other delight, in the place the King has raised him to here, than to do the King service, & to see his service prosper in the writer's hands.
A Statement, by Lord Lieutenant the Duke of Ormond, concerning the disposal of preferments in Ireland, during his Grace's lieutenancy; and concerning other matters of the King's service there. Addressed to His Majesty.
Written from: Dublin
Date: 28 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 228
Ormond to Clarendon
Written from: Dublin
Date: 28 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 229
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
To like effect, in the main, with the letter of like date to his Majesty. ... Adds particulars of Daniel O'Neill's suit against Samuel Bathurst. ... Asks the Chancellor's attention to a letter wherein he "may observe a Groom of the Bedchamber's style to a Council, so far as he" (said Groom) "vouchsafes to take notice of them".
Copy of the Duke of Ormond's Statement concerning disposal of offices and preferments in Ireland
Date: 28 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 229
Addressed to the King.
Copy of a Joint Letter of the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, concerning the Postmastership of Dublin, to Daniel O'Neill, Postmaster-General
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 229
Copy of a Letter of Daniel O'Neill to the Duke of Ormond on the same subject
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 229
Copies of other Letters & Papers relating to the said Postmastership
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 229
Ormond to Bennet
Written from: Dublin
Date: 28 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 230
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Many informations come of discourses there [in England], very much to the writer's prejudice & to the decrying of the manner of his Governement. ...
Has presumed, therefore, to collect those things, & to represent them with some observations thereupon to his Majesty. ... Possibly, he [the King] may meet in them with some informations not altogether useless, at this time.
Petition of Arthur Nangle, and Katherine, his wife, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 28 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 125v
Document type: Copy
Plaint against Cornet Edmund Nangle, nephew of the petitioners, for an alleged wrongful prosecution of a suit in the Court of Claims for recovery of an estate belonging to the petitioner Arthur Nangle; and also for the detention of the Will of Roger Farrell, deceased, father of the petitioner, Katherine Nangle.
With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, that according to the desire of the above-named defendant, the petitioners may forthwith take their remedy against him, by due course of law
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 1 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 125v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Torlogh Kelly to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 28 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 129
Document type: Copy
Plaint against Quarter-Master Robert Standly [Stanley?], and Lieutenant Long, for wrongful rescue of distresses, lawfully made by petitioner for recovery of rent due to him by the defendant first-named. With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 1 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 129
Document type: Copy
Sir William Clarke [apparently, Secretary to the Duke of Albemarle] to Lane
Written from: Cockpit [Whitehall]
Date: 29 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 235
Document type: Holograph [with seal of arms]
Personal affairs. Recommendation to Lane's good offices of a pending suit of "the widow Graham", late wife to "an honest servant" of the writer.
Bennet to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 29 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 116
Document type: Original; subscribed & signed
All sides, duly qualified, have now been heard in Council upon the pending Bill for Ireland. ... The King has directed the Commissioners to state not only the difficulties which have ... hindered the prosecution of the Act of Settlement, but what they think in their judgments is fit to be done upon that foot, & for the final quiet of the Kingdom. ...
Observations, by John Temple, Solicitor-General of Ireland, concerning certain clauses of the Act of Settlement of the Kingdom and concerning proceedings thereunder
Date: 29 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 527-528
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Lane: "Mr Solicitor's observations. Received from Mr Temple, 29 November 1663"
Petition of Colonel William Bourke to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 29 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 124
Document type: Copy
Recites that certain lands [in the Queen's County; including the Castle and town of Shruel], in an annexed schedule set forth, are in his Majesty's disposal, "and intruded upon, and the ... profits thereof received [in MS.: "perceived"] by Major Robert Ormsby, [and] Ulick Bourke, or one of them, and ... concealed from his Majesty; [and] that your suppliant will make his Majesty's title thereunto evidently appear".
Prays for the grant of a Custodiam of the said lands.
Warrant by the Duke of Ormond for the grant to petitioner of a Custodiam of the lands so scheduled, if found to be at his Majesty's disposal as alleged
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 2 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 124v
Document type: Copy
Carteret to Ormond
Date: 30 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 237
Document type: Holograph
To draw into Ireland a few people out of Flanders would be a leading of the way for others [to follow]. ... Besides those priveleges & franchises which are expressed in the Act for that purpose, there must, the writer thinks, be a stock, to help those that want means but have industry; who "being the most numerous, must do the work of the intended Plantations of Ireland". ...
Adds, by PS., some particulars of a lease desired for the advantage of the writer's brother, now about to go into Ireland, & hereby recommended to his Grace's favour.
Observations upon the Heads of a Bill [concerning the Land-Settlement of Ireland] presented to his Majesty, by Sir Robert Rainsford and others
Date: 30 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 558-561
Document type: Original Draught. With corrections
Heads of a Bill of Explanation, presented to his Majesty, by the Commissioners [for executing the 'Act of Settlement' for Ireland]
Date:
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 562-564
Document type: Original
Carteret to Lane
Written from: [London]
Date: 30 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 214, fol(s). 584
Document type: Holograph
Asks a continuance of the Secretary's favour for a brother of the writer now about to return to Ireland.
Petition of Thomas Coffy, clerk, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 30 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 124v
Document type: Copy
Has been in possession, for six years past, of a piece of waste land called Ferton, situate in the King's County, & parish of Lynally, "to which neither soldier nor adventurer hath made any just claim, since the Usurper's death". ...
Prays the grant of the same in custodiam.
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant to petitioner of a Custodiam of the land above-named, if found to be at his Majesty's disposal
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 2 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s).124v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Thomas Reynolds [in MS.: "Renolds"], of Dublin, merchant, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 30 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 126
Document type: Copy
Plaint of debt against Robert Pue, now one of his Grace's Life-guard. With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 2 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 126
Document type: Copy
Petition of Valentine French, of Galway, merchant, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 30 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 126
Document type: Copy
Recites that petitioner "drives the trade of merchandize in the town of Galway, selling by wholesale; having intercourse of traffic to the West-Indies, and other foreign parts". Complains of disturbance in his trade, by threats to turn him out of the said town ... Prays for license to remain as a Merchant-Stranger.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to Sir Maurice Berkeley, baronet, Vice-President of Connaught
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 3 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 126v
Document type: Copy
Certificate, by Sir John Temple, Master of the Rolls in Ireland, of the delivery by Sir George St George of his release and quit-claim to the King of a salary of two shillings
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: [30 November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 137v
Document type: Copy
Certificate, by Sir John Temple, Master of the Rolls in Ireland, of the delivery by Sir George St George of his release and quit-claim to the King of a salary of two shillings, Irish, per diem, formerly granted to him as Constable of the Fort of Maryborough in the Queen's County, in consideration of a sum of £82: 2s. 6d., sterling, paid to him by his said Majesty.
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the payment, by the Vice-Treausrer of Ireland, to the above-named Sir George St George, of the sum of £82: 2s. 6d.
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 8 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 137v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Henry Bridgman, Dean of the Cathedral of Christ-Church Chester, in behalf of himself & of the Chapter, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 127v
Document type: Copy
Recites the robbing of the Cathedral Cloister of lead to the value of well-nigh £500, by Thomas Richardson of Dublin [one of the "Six Clerks in the Chancery of Ireland], and his subsequent promise to pay the sum of £130, in satisfaction of damages, which promise he has neglected to perform, during three years, that he might sell the estate which otherwise would have been liable to the suit of the Chapter. He is now, they are informed, about to sell his place in the Irish Chancery.
Pray that such sale may be forbidden, until payment shall have been made; and in the meantime the profits of the office made over to petitioners.
An Order that this Petition shall be taken into consideration at the Council Board
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 3 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 127v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Ulick Bourke, of Essex House in London, esquire, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [November?] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 142
Recites the conveyance, in 1647, to petitioner's father, Thomas Bourke, late of the Middle Temple, London, esquire, now deceased, and Laeta Bourke (alias Sherley), and their heirs, ... by the Lord Marquess of Clanricarde [also deceased], of certain lands in the counties of Mayo and Galway, in consideration of the sum of £2,000, to him beforehand paid, upon condition of redemption on repayment; and the subsequent adjudication of the said lands to petitioner [under the Act of Settlement], "as an innocent English-born subject". ... Recites also a petition, ... "containing but misinformation in all the parts thereof", ... lately presented to the Lord Lieutenant in the name of Colonel William Bourke ... but, as petitioner believes, "without the privity of the [said] Colonel", ... setting "forth that the said lands were in his Majesty's hands" ... which petition was referred to the Barons of the Exchequer. ...
Prays for an order that no proceedings be taken thereupon, and no custodiam of the lands passed, until petitioner be heard by his Counsel.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to the Barons of the Exchequer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 10 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 142
An Account of the chief suspected persons in the King's County [in Ireland], for destroying His Majesty's interest, and for raising a party
Date: [November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 214, fol(s). 572
Document type: Original. Sent ot the Lord Lieutenant.
Ormond to the King
Written from: [Dublin Castle]
Date: [November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 214, fol(s). 578
Document type: Copy
In pursuance of the King's references of the 20th June and 5th August respectively, the Lord Lieutenant has considered the claims of the Earl of Tyrconnel to compensation for his sufferings and losses, sustained with the King's service. He finds, however, that there are "neither lands nor revenues in this Kingdom", other than such as are already disposed of, "wherewithal to recompense my Lord Tyrconnel" and prays, therefore, that the King will be graceously pleased to assign compensation, in England, in such manner as His Majesty may deem most fitting.
A brief and true Relation of what I [Garrett Moore] have done in order to Mr. Granger's enlargement
Date: [November? 1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 120
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.
A List of all such persons as adhered to General Owen O'Neill, in Connaught
Date: 1 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 458-462
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond: "Colonel Richard Burkes's List of those adhering to the Nuncio and Clergy".
A List of all such persons as adhered to General Owen O'Neill, in Connaught.
[Apparently, drawn up by Colonel Richard Burke (in view of the preparation of the Act Explanatory of the 'Act of Settlement' for Ireland) in 1663.]
Bennet to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 1 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 122-124
Document type: Original: subscribed & signed
Has read to the King the Lord Lieutenant's dispatches, ... and now communicates his Majesty's instructions thereupon. ... The King is very unwilling to consent to the pardon of Staples, upon those motives suggested to him; especially, ... "in a time & country, where there is more need of examples of his justice than mercy; deining your Grace would not suffer your good nature to be wrought upon in such cases; and, for that reason, refuses absolutely his pardon to Shapcott [in MS.: "Sharpecut"], who hath always been represented to him as a man of a very dangerous & seditious spirit" ...
"His Majesty promises Granger shall not be molested by my Lord Gerard, if he will discover himself but, on the contrary, be freed from all trouble, & enjoy the benefit of the promises made to him; he making good his undertaking. In the meantime, there is no inconvenience in opening his papers, & trying whether any use can be made of his Key upon them." ...
Colonel Richard Talbot to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 1 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 214, fol(s). 590-592
Document type: Holograph
Resumes his allegations of innocence of all intention to give offence to the Duke of Ormond, in the matters referred to in the writer's former letters.
Petition of Edmund Reynells, and others, tenants of the lands of Clowmaghan and Umbritown, in the county of Meath, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 1 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 126-127
Document type: Copy
Recite (1) their tenancy of the lands aforesaid from Colonel Edward Warren, in May 1660, he being then possessed of the same "by colour of some title claimed under the late usurped powers"; (2) the putting in possession by the Sheriff, on 24 June following, of Garrett Wesley of Dangan [in MS.: "the Dingan"], esquire, of those lands; and the attornment of petitioners to their new Lord, before any rent became due to Warren; (3) the proceedings taken by Warren to disturb petitioners in their just possession as tenants of Wesley; and to exact penal bonds for the payment of rent already paid to Wesley; and also the manner in which he obtained a decree in the Court of Exchequer, after he had been served with process by the Court of Chancery, in which Court the petitioners had filed Bills; (4) the conviction & execution of Warren for High Treason; (5) proceedings taken against petitioners by the widow of Warren in virtue of a grant obtained by her of the "goods, chattels, judgments & executions" of her late husband.
Pray for an Order to supersede the decree & execution in the Exchequer, alleged to have been obtained unjustly & illegally by Warren; and for determining the matters controverted, in way of equity.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to the Barons of the Exchequer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 3 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 127v
Document type: Copy
Petition of William Sommer to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 1 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 125
Document type: Copy
Certain lands [in the county of Roscommon, and barony of Ballintober], described in an annexed schedule, are, the petitioner alleges, "concealed from his Majesty", for whom "he doubteth not to set forth a just title".
Prays for the grant of a Custodiam of the same.
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant to petitioner of the lands so scheduled, if found to be at his Majesty's disposal
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 3 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 125
Document type: Copy
Petition of Thomas Sleigh to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 1 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 128v
Document type: Copy
Petitioner took from Mr Richard Barry a lease for twenty one years of Fiants-Castle, commonly called "Proudfoot's Castle", on the Wood-Quay [in MS.: "Key"] [of Dublin]; paid in hand, £22: 10s., fine, for the same; and spent his substance in repairing the castle; after which he set most part of it to tenants. ...
Adds a further recital of the attempt of Sir John Stephens to seize the castle, for the custody of prisoners; and of a subsequent like attempt, under an Order from his Grace, by Captain Carpenter, with whom he agreed to deliver up the castle on receipt of a sum of £70, towards his costs; and a rent of £30, yearly, for remainder of petitioners term, ... which sums Carpenter now refuses to pay on the plea that petitioner cannot grant a lease.
Prays that order be given for payment, and for the signing of a lease by Mr Barry, in consideration of petitioner's great outlay on the premises.
An Order that this Petition be taken into consideration at the Council Board
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 3 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 128v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Charles [Coote], Earl of Mountrath, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 1 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 128v
Document type: Copy
Recites particulars of a bargain made by Colonel John Fitzpatrick, for the sale of certain lands in the Queen's County to Charles, late Earl of Mountrath, father of the petitioner; and further that, as petitioner is now informed, the lands so sold are inserted in certain letters-patent, about to pass on behalf of the said Colonel Fitzpatrick, as part of his estate. Prays that no fiant be granted, without a saving clause for petitioner's right as above-recited.
An Order, requiring Colonel Fitzpatrick to shew cause in writing, if any he can, why the petitioner's request should not be granted
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 3 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 128v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Thomas Doleing to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 1 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 129
Document type: Copy
Plaint, as Farmer of Ware-licenses in the county of Dublin, against various unlicensed retailers of wine & strongwaters, with the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 3 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 129v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Sir Robert Newcomen, baronet, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 1 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 130v
Document type: Copy
Recites particulars of petitioner's losses, during the late rebellion & usurpation in Ireland; and also of an Order made by his Grace, in consideration of petitioner's fifty years of military service, for the payment to him of £200, by quarterly instalments, on account of arrears due to him for service in Ireland before the 5th of June, 1649.
Adds a further recital that under this Order, he has received but £35, and cannot get the residue. Prays for an Order thereupon; and also that some employment may be conferred upon him.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to the Trustees of the Commissioned Officers who served his Majesty before 5 June 1649
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 4 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 131
Document type: Copy
Petition of Robert Barnewall and Mary, his wife, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 1 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 131
Document type: Copy
Recite particulars of a suit brought by petitioners in the Court of Exchequer of Ireland, against Colonel Francis Willoughby, for the unjust detention of certain lands; and of the procedings had therein; in hindrance of which, Willoughby now pleads his privilege as a military person. Pray for the Lord Lieutenant's license to prosecute.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 4 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 131
Document type: Copy
Petition of Tempest Illingworth to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 1 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 131v
Document type: Copy
Recites an Order of Reference made by his Grace upon a former petition concerning arrears of pay due to petitioner as Captain to the Earl of Mountrath, when his Lordship was one of the Lords Justices; and also the circumstances under which no proceedings have been taken thereupon. Prays for an Order directing the satisfaction of his said arrears.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to Sir Daniel Bellingham, Deputy Vice-Treasurer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 4 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 131v
Document type: Copy
The Replication of Richard Ward [plaintiff] to the Answer of Thomas Brewer, defendant [concerning plaint of debt]
Date: [circa 1 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 131v
Document type: Copy
An Order, by the Duke of Ormond, that the Plaintiff may take his remedy against the above-named defendant by due course of law
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 4 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 131v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Colonel Chidley Coote to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 1 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 132
Document type: Copy
Plaint against Captain James Pearse, formerly Lieutenant to petitioner, when in command of the Foot-company now under Colonel John Spencer, for detention of "several months' of petitioner's personal pay, as Captain to the said Company". With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 4 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 132
Document type: Copy
Petition of Martha Hatt, widow, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 1 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 135
Document type: Copy
Petitioner's late husband, Simon Hatt, esquire, was enlisted in his Majesty's Standing Army, ... both before the Earl of Strafford's government, & during ... his Government; ... and also served ... under the command of Robert, ... late Earl of Roscommon from 23 October 1641, until 27 August 1643, ... and maintained himself & four men well mounted and armed, ... [without] any the least recompense, ... Prays for satisfaction of the services aforesaid.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to the Trustees of the Commissioned Officers who served before the 5th of June, 1649
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 4 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 135
Document type: Copy
Petition of Nicholas Farnell to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 1 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 163v
Document type: Copy
Plaint of debt for necessaries supplied to various soldiers of Colonel Thomas Scott's Company, now under command of Sir Robert Byron. With the usual prayer.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to Sir Daniel Bellingham, Deputy Vice-Treasurer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 3 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 164
Document type: Copy
Certificate of Sir Daniel Bellingham upon the Petition to him referred, as above
Written from: Dublin
Date: 7 January 1664
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 164
Document type: Copy
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the defalcation from the Soldier's pay of the several sums so certified
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 12 January 1664
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 164
Document type: Copy
Sir John Scott of Scotstarvet
Written from: Edinburgh
Date: 2 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 127
Document type: Original
The malice of the writer's unfriends has estopped him from requital of his Lordship's kindness in procuring the discharge of the fine laid on him by the late Usurper. Has been displaced from all offices of Council Session, & Exchequer (enjoyed by himself & ancestors for 200 years) through the malice of Lady Weemes [Wemyss], & the power of the Hamiltons; the one for his fidelity to the House of Buccleugh; the other for his love & respect to the late Earl of Dirleton.
Ormond to the King
Written from: Dublin
Date: 2 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 231-233
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
If his Majesty would be pleased, when he would have anything done, which either the writer's charge, or his private condition, may fit him for, directly & freely to command him in it, or, if he was not to come to a resolution, to require the writer's opinion of the thing, or of the best manner of doing it, he should, in both - and perhaps with some facilitation to the King's purpose - discharge himself with the faith and duty he owes to his Majesty, whose justice, & whose service, it concerns to discountenance piquant passages ... of reproach, ... which ... are not direct ... charges, but general imputations, which no man is obliged to make good, nor any man capable of refuting. ...
Ormond to Clarendon
Written from: Dublin
Date: 2 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 234-237
Document type: Copy; as above
Further details (at very great length) concerning the pending Bill, Explanatory of the Act of Settlement for Ireland. ...
Adds some particulars concerning the writer's private affairs.
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant in due form to Charles (Berkeley), Viscount Fitzhardinge, of an "annuity or annual rent-charge of two thousand pounds
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 2 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 152r-v
Document type: Copy
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant in due form to Charles (Berkeley), Viscount Fitzhardinge, of an "annuity or annual rent-charge of two thousand pounds, ... to be issuing and payable out of the rents, ... of such lands, tenements, and hereditaments, as have been set out unto the persons particularly mentioned in the within schedule, under his Majesty's Deputy Surveyor-General's hand, in satisfaction of arrears for service ... in ... England".
Sir John Boys to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 2 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 214, fol(s). 588
Document type: Holograph
Reports his attendance at the Council Table on occasion of certain proceedings in respect to the claims of the English Adventurers for lands in Ireland and gives particulars of what passed thereupon.
Adds an account of some matters concerning Lord Berkeley, and Mr. [Daniel] O'Neile.
Petition of Major John Disbrow [so in MS.; probably for "Desborough"] to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 2 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 130
Document type: Copy
Recites particulars of former bonds given, by order of the late Lords Justices, by the petitioner for his good behaviour; and also of new bonds of like tenour given under an order of the Lord Lieutenant.
Prays for the cancelling of the former bonds; and also for a license to repair into England, upon conditions stated.
An Order that this Petition be taken into consideration at the Council Board
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 5 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 131v
Document type: Copy
Petition of William Mercer, esquire, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 2 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 131 & v
Document type: Copy
Plaint concerning ... "a great concealment against his Majesty's interest in this kingdom of Ireland, although [so in MS.] in one barony eight thousand acres, Irish measure these nine years past". ... With a recital that petitioner was "by an Irish party, about ten years ago, totally destroyed; - his wife and child stript and put to death; - and never yet could attain any satisfaction". ...
With prayer for a reference to ... "the Surveyor-General and Sub-Commissioners or any three of them". ...
An Order of Reference of this Petition to his Majesty's Counsel learned, or any two of them
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 5 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 131v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Thomas Bickerton to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 2 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 133
Document type: Copy
Has, for two years past, possessed the office of Clerk of the Informations of his Majesty's Customs & Excise, in the Port of Dublin. ... Prays an Order to the Commissioners of Customs & Excise to settle and confirm his due fees of office.
An Order for the taking into consideration of this Petition, at the Council Board
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 5 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 133
Document type: Copy
The Replication of the Lady Marchioness of Clanricarde to the "Petition and Answer" of Sir Oliver St George ... baronet ... to the Petition of this Replyant
Date: [circa 2 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 134
Document type: Copy
An Order of the Duke of Ormond that the "Lady Marchioness of Clanricarde be left to take her remedy, by due course of law, against ... William Flanagan ... [and others] notwithstanding their military capacities"
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 5 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 134
Document type: Copy
Petition of John Barnewall to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 2 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 134v
Document type: Copy
Recites an Order, made by his Grace concerning petitioner's arrears of pay, for service [as Army-Surgeon] before 1649; and also the refusal of the Commissioners concerned ... "to state petitioner's arrears, ... he not being a Protestant officer". ... Prays for a further Order thereupon.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 5 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 134v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Mrs. Elizabeth Coltheart (wife of John Coltheart, a prisoner at Alhlone) to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 2 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 137
Document type: Copy
Recites the circumstances of her husband's imprisonment, and prays for an order of release.
An Order that John Coltheart above-named may, upon giving bond in a sum of £1,000 to Sir Maurice Berkely, Vice-President of Connaught, for his appearance before the Lord Lieutenant & Council when called upon, reside in Dublin, not to depart thence without license
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 5 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 137
Document type: Copy
Petition of Owen Burdon, late a Soldier in the Lord Conway's Troop, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 2 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 146v
Document type: Copy
Prays to be enlisted in the Earl of Meath's Troop, in the room of one Henry Godsell, "who is a married man, and willing to sit down, and plant". ...
An Order of Reference of this Petition to the Lord Brabazon, now in command of the troop abovementioned
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 5 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 146v
Document type: Copy
Brodrick to Ormond
Written from: London
Date: 3 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 239
Document type: Holograph
Reports further particulars of the proceedings at Court, and elsewhere in England, relating to the pending Bill Explanatory of the Irish 'Act of Settlement'. ...
Ormond to Clarendon
Written from: Dublin
Date: 3 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 238-239
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
... Possibly, the Judges may think it unjust that a tenant for life should forfeit, for an innocent son, or grandchild. The writer thinks it more unjust that the son of a notorious & unrelenting rebel should be preserved, and the son of a person drawn in [to the rebellion of 1641] by the unfortunate situation of his dwelling, or driven amongst the rebels by unavoidable necessity - and, perhaps, frighted thither on puropse, because he had a good estate - should perish; and this by virtue of a piece of parchment, left by one, and not [left] by the other. ...
... The writer will be mismeasured if his care for the Public shall be judged of, by his providence in his own particular. ... Yet his affairs stand in as much need, as ever, of diligence; "the severity of your English laws, in reference to Ireland, and the unsettledness of the Kingdom, making an Irish estate, and no estate, much the same thing". ...
Ormond to the Commissioners for Validation of Lands set out to Adventurers & Soldiers, in Ireland
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 3 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 42
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Gilbert Rawson is to be a sub-Commissioner, in the room of Sir John Boyse, now absent in England.
Sir George Lane to Lady Sterling
Written from: [Dublin Castle]
Date: [3 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 42
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Transmits, with her Ladyship's petition, an Order for the Lord Lieutenant concerning the same.
Petition of Lady Stirling to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Date: 4 November 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 42
An Order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the Petition above-recited
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 42
Warrant [by the Duke of Ormond] for a fiant for several lands to [be passed to] Colonel John Fitzpatrick, according to his Majesty's letter
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 3 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 153
Document type: Copy
Affidavit of Benjamin Roberts concerning the due service of an Order, made by the Lord Lieutenant, upon a Petition of Richard Phillips, plaintiff, against Captain Garrett Moore, defendant
Date: 3 and 5 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 133
Document type: Copies
With a further Order that the plaintiff may take his remedy by due course of law.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 4 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 445
Document type: Copy
... Having had the misfortune to lose some other friends, the writer knows not when, nor why, nor where, he has in no degree altered his desire that his friends would be free with him, so that it be to himself, and as friends. Other freedoms, howsoever handsomely dressed, he neither practises nor allows to be friendly.
Does not justify the new Bill, nor has he any reverence for the old. Yet a thing not good, in itself, may be so comparitively. ...
John Shortall to Thomas Page
Written from: Strabane
Date: 4 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 10
Document type: Original
Concerning seditious words, alleged to have been spoken by one James Mooney.
Warrant [by the Duke of Ormond] for a fiant for three thousand, seven hundred and fifty pounds, to be paid to [Murrough O'Brien] Lord Inchiquin ["being the remainder of the sum of five thousand pounds formerly granted to him and yet unsatisfied"] according to his Majesty's letter
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 4 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 153v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Edward Ellwood to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 4 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 134
Document type: Copy
Plaint of alleged excessive charges laid upon petitioner by the Assessors of Subsidies, and by other official persons, in the county of Mayo. With prayer for an inquiry into the allegations of the petition.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to the Commissioners of the Subsidies for the county of Mayo
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 7 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 134v
Document type: Copy
Queen Henrietta Maria to Ormond
Written from: Denmark House
Date: 5 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 291
Document type: Original
Recommends to the Lord Lieutenant's favourable consideration the just pretensions of Captain Andrew Hickey, bearer of this letter, to the restoration of his forfeited estate in Ireland. He served the King faithfully, "in his armies abroad".
Ormond to Lauderdale
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 5 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 10
Document type: Copy
His Majesty was pleased, in or about April, 1662, to direct to the Earl of Middleton, then Commissioner for Scotland, his letters on behalf of Captain William Hamilton, of Priestfield, for the procuring from the Parliament there of some compensation for Captain Hamilton's losses & service for his Majesty. The writer desires to recommend to the Earl of Lauderdale the case aforesaid that the person concerned may, at length, derive some benefit according to his Majesty's intention.
Sir Henry Bennet, afterwards Earl of Arlington to Philip, Lord Wharton
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 5 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 189
Document type: Holograph
Expresses, by the King's command, a desire to know what has become of a Steward, or Secretary , to his Lordship, who, as the writer supposes, is the person whom he committed (as Secretary of State), and afterwards caused to be released at Lord Wharton's request.
Ormond to Bennet
Written from: Dublin
Date: 5 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 241
Document type: Copy; as before
... If that business [namely the business of the postal communication betwixt England & Ireland] had, at first, been put into the way it is now in, the writer conceives that much inconvenience might have been prevented. ...
Draught of a Letter for the King's Signature, directing the promotion of Dr. Thomas Bayly to the Bishopric of Killala
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 241
Draught of a like Letter, on behalf of the Earls of Roscommon and Orrery
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 241
Draught of a like Letter, on behalf of the Earl of Mount-Alexander
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 241
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, to the Attorney General of Ireland
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 5 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 154
Document type: Copy
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, to the Attorney General of Ireland, for the drawing up of a conveyance to his Majesty, by Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, "of his Lordship's interest in a lease of Kildare Chapel, now the Hospital in Rochell Lane, commonly called Back Lane, in the city of Dublin, for which two hundred pounds is to be paid by his Majesty to the said Earl".
Notes of a Conversation between Philip, Lord Wharton, and Sir Henry Bennet, Secretary of State
Date: 5 and 8 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 195
Document type: Holograph Minute. With postscript on a subsequent conversation between the same parties on December 8th
Notes of a Conversation between Philip, Lord Wharton, and Sir Henry Bennet, Secretary of State, held on the day of the date of MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 189, the enquiry conveyed in which Wharton then answered personally to the extent, he says, of what he knew about the person in question. He also took occasion to refer to current rumours of his having some knowledge of certain plots, of which he assured the Secretary of State, of both his ignorance & his abhorrence.
Petition of Owen Vaughan, and George Bushell, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 5 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 135v
Document type: Copies
Plaint against various persons for the unlicensed retailing of wine & strongwaters, within the several counties of Galway and Mayo, and in the county of the town of Galway. [With a schedule of forty offenders.]
An Order upon the Petition and Schedule above-recited
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 8 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 135v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Robert Waugh to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 5 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 136v
Document type: Copy
Plaint of debt against James Price, upon the joint and several bond of said defendant, and of Matthew Boyd, of Monaghan, merchant. With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 8 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 136v
Document type: Copy
Earl of Chesterfield to Ormond
Date: 6 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 241
Document type: Holograph
The Queen (who is daily regaining health) was much satisfied with the late letter from the Duke of Ormond, and intends soon to return an answer. ...
The writer lately visited Moor Park, & made free with the Duke's venison. The park is very pleasant. The gardens are noble, but (like the house) much out of repair. ...
Petition of Richard Andrew to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 6 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 136
Document type: Copy
Is charged in his Majesty's Exchequer with a sum ... "most part of which lies in the hands of several persons who are in arrears of rent [to the Crown] for the same". ... Prays an inquiry thereupon for petitioner's relief, before the next term.
An Order that this Petition shall be taken into consideration at the Council Board
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 9 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 136
Document type: Copy
Note of the Nomination of Michael Boyle, Bishop of Cork &c., to be Archbishop of Dublin
Date: 7 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 63
Document type: From Bishop Stearne's MSS.
Petition of Theobald [Bourke], Lord Viscount Bourke of Mayo, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 7 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 141
Document type: Copy
Renews his former suit for a custodiam of certain lands in the county of Mayo, named in a schedule annexed to his first petition, as referred by his Grace to the Barons of the Exchequer.
Certificate of the Barons of the Exchequer upon a Petition of the Lord Viscount Bourke, of Mayo, referred to them by the Lord Lieutenant's Order of 21 October last
Date: [November] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 141r-v
Document type: Copy [three signatures]
An Order of the Duke of Ormond, for the grant to petitioner of a custodiam of the lands, in the baronies of Morisk and Burrishoole, in the county of Mayo, mentioned in his petition
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 10 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 141
Document type: Copy
Petition of the Lord Baron of Trimlestown [Matthias Barnewall, 8th Baron Trimleston] to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 7 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 142v
Document type: Copy
Recites the restoration to petitioner, by the late Lords Justices, and in pursuance of his Majesty's gracious Declaration [of 30 November 1660], of certain lands, part of petitioner's former estate, and then undisposed of. ... Recites also the obtaining by Lord Viscount Ranelagh, "under what pretences petitioner knows not", of a custodiam of the said lands, in virtue of which he received the last Michaelmas rents thereof. ...
Prays for an Order requiring Lord Viscount Ranelagh to "decline the said Custodiam, & to pay back the rent received" ... to petitioner; and the rather [inasmuch as] a considerable part of the small pittance granted by the Usurpers due to the petitioner in Connaught, ... is taken from him by the Earl of Clanricarde.
Letter Missive [of the Duke of Ormond] to the Lord Ranelagh, on behalf of the Lord of Trimleston
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 10 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 142v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Anthony Delahide to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 7 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 143v
Document type: Copy
Recites the circumstances under which petitioner failed to obtain a day of hearing in the Court of Claims for a claim to restoration to an estate, left to him by his late father, "yet was found 'an innocent person', in another man's case, as appears upon record". ...
Prays for the grant of a custodiam of certain lands, parcel of the estate aforesaid. ...
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant by the Barons fof the Exchequer of a Custodiam of the lands named in this Petition, if found to be at his Majesty's disposal
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 10 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 143v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, and Dr. John Westley, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 7 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 144
Document type: Copy
Recite that John Locke, one of his Grace's Troop of Guards, under pretence of a decree of the Court of Claims, possessed himself of several lands belonging to H.R.H. the Duke of York, held on lease by the petitioners, and not within the said decree.
They pray for license to sue the said Locke at Common Law, or in Chancery, as they may be advised.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 10 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 144
Document type: Copy
Petition of Christopher Taaffe, and the Lady Susan, his wife, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 7 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 144r-v
Document type: Copy
Plaint against Richard Roberie [so in MS.], William Young, and others, for a violent assault committed upon the petitioner, Lady Susan Taaffe, at her house of Tullikeely, in the county of Louth, during the absence thereupon of the petitioner, Christopher Taaffe, on the morning of Sunday, October 29th. With recitals that the defendant William Young is "one of those impeached for the late plot or conspiracy", ... and that all the persons accused are suspected to have been privy to it. ...
With prayer that their persons may be secured in order to their condign punishment. ...
An Order that this Petition be taken into consideration at the Council Board
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 10 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 144v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Bartholomew Lineger, of the City of Dublin, maltster, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 7 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 144v
Document type: Copy
Plaint of debt against Thomas Hackett, Sub-Sheriff of the county of Wicklow, and one of Sir Henry Tichbourne's Troop. With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 10 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 144v
Document type: Copy
The Answer of Patrick Wallace to the Petition [concerning an alleged unlicensed retailing of wines and strongwaters] of Owen Vaughan and George Bushell
Date: [circa 7-10 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 148
Document type: Copies
With an Order, by the Duke of Ormond, thereupon.
Bennet to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 8 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 126
Document type: Original; subscribed & signed
On the morrow, the Commissioners [under the Act of Settlement for Ireland] are to give in their answers to certain questions proposed to them. It will then be seen, probably, what method must be followed for amending the [Explanatory] Bill. ...
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the drawing up of a fiant, containing his Majesty's presentation of Dr. John Creighton to the rectory of Killsheere, in the diocese of Meath
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 8 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 8v
Document type: Copy [in Entry Book]
A News-Letter, from Whitehall, addressed to Sir George Lane
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: 8 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 8-9
Advices have come from Warsaw of the visit to that Court, and of the distinguished reception, of two noblemen from France, who are to proceed thence into the Ukraine and who carry with them "great sums of money to promote the election of the Duke of Enghien [in MS.: "Anguien] to the ... Crown of Poland".
On the 29th of November, Dr Leigh, of Hatfield, read a Recantation Sermon at St. Pauls [London], "wherein he bewailed, with tears, his delusions of the iniquity of the late times, & declared his hearty concurrence in the present government of the Church".
From Appleby, accounts have come of a plot to seize the Garrison of Carlisle, in which plot, "several Quakers", it is asserted, "had a hand".
Accounts are also added of the preparations for an expedition, under Admiral Sir John Lawson, against the Algerine and Tunisian Pirates.
Ormond to Clarendon
Written from: Dublin
Date: 9 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 240
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
... The advantage that will arise from the 'Clause' now offered appears partly in the body of it. But the writer is told that it will, besides the ease of knowing what everyone is to pay, add something to the proportion, and that not with so much hurt to any concerned, as to give any interruption to the passing of the Act. ...
A Clause, proposed for addition to the pending Bill, Explanatory of the Act of Settlement for Ireland
Date: December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 240
Document type: Copy; as above
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant in due form to Robert Ashwood and Thomas Digby
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 9 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 154
Document type: Copy
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant in due form to Robert Ashwood and Thomas Digby, and the longer liver of them, during good behaviour, of the office of Gentleman Porter of Dublin Castle, now void by the voluntary surrender of the said Ashwood, former patentee thereof.
Petition of Robert Haile, and Matthew Alexander, merchants, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 9 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 143
Document type: Copy
Plaint of debt against Edmund Bradshaw of St Patrick's Close, Dublin, Merchant. With recital that the defendant has enlisted himself into the Lord Lieutenant's Lifeguards of Horse; and with the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 12 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 143
Document type: Copy
Petition of Edmund Reilly [in MS. "Rely"] to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 9 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 150
Document type: Copy
States that petitioner was struck out of the Lord Baron of Kingston's Troop of Horse, "under what colour, or for what offence petitioner knoweth not".
Adds, at great length, a recital of his military service to the King in Scotland, and in England; of his having been taken prisoner at Dunbar, and again at Worcester; with other particulars. ...
Prays to be admitted to serve in his Grace's Horse-guard, or in the Halberdiers.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to Lord Kingston
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 12 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 150v
Document type: Copy
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for a Certificate, by the Auditor General of Ireland, of the sum due to the late Marquess of Clanricarde, at the time of his death, for his civil employments in that Kingdom
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 10 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 154v
Document type: Copy
A like Warrant, for a Certificate, by the Muster-Master General, of the sum due to the said Marquess of Clanricarde, for military employments
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 10 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 154v
Document type: Copy
John Shortall to Thomas Page
Written from: Strabane
Date: [circa 10 December 1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 11
Document type: Endorsed by Ormond
Further particulars concerning James Mooney, a prisoner in Lifford Gaol.
Advices of certain proceedings in relation to Land-Claims in Ireland
Written from: Coule
Date: 11 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 243
Document type: Holograph
Addressed by Hayward Hegen [?] to Captain Richard Gethin, at Dublin.
Certificate of Sir Daniel Bellingham upon a Petition of Tempest Illingworth (concerning arrears of pay) to him referred
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 11 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 143
Document type: Copy
An Order, by the Duke of Ormond, for the payment to the petitioner, Tempest Illingworth, of the sum claimed in his Petition, and certified as above
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 12 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 143
Document type: Copy
Petition of John Phillipps to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 11 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 145
Document type: Copy
Has for near a twelvemonth discharged to his best endeavour the office of Steward to the Court of Claims, but as yet has not received any salary. ...
Prays for an Order thereupon.
An Order that this Petition be taken into consideration at the Council Board
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 14 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 145
Document type: Copy
Sir George Hamilton to Ormond
Written from: London
Date: 12 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 249-250
Document type: Holograph
Colonel Richard Talbot has derived no knowledge of the Duke's late letters, or of the subject to which they relate, from the present writer. ... Talbot, the writer hears, upon his first coming hither from Ireland, ... expressed himself as having been "crossed in his pretensions" by the Lord Lieutenant, from whom he had found, he added, no friendship upon that or any other occasion. ...
Adds further particulars respecting the proposals of the "Adventurers" and also respecting various personal affairs.
Bennet to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 12 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 128
Document type: Original; subscribed & signed. The last paragraph in cypher, with decypher by Ormond
Continues his account of proceedings upon the Bill for amending and explaining the Act of Settlement. ...
Adds, as a message from the King, that his Majesty is assured there is a new plot in Ireland, set on foot by the same persons that contrived the former. ...
Cornbury to Ormond
Written from: Worcester House
Date: 12 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 77
Document type: Holograph
Reports Lord Clarendon's illness, under a renewed & severe attack of gout, which will delay his answer to the Duke's letter of 22nd November & its enclosures.
Note of the appointment of the Duke of Ormond to be Governor of the fort and town of Passage, in the county of Waterford
Date: 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 62v
Document type: From Bishop Sterne's MSS.
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant to Barbara Thompson, of all such goods and chattels, late the property of Lieutenant Richard Thompson
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 12 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 155
Document type: Copy
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant to Barbara Thompson, of all such goods and chattels, late the property of Lieutenant Richard Thompson, attainted of high treason, as are now in the hands of the respective Sheriffs of the counties of Wicklow, Longford, Meath, and Kildare, or of some of them.
William [afterwards Sir William] Temple to Ormond
Date: 13 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 255-256
Document type: Holograph
Acknowledges the obliging testimonies he has received of his Grace's good opinion. ... Confesses that he is glad that the last of them came in so private a way, as not to impose upon him "the necessity of any public appearance", ... having hitherto preserved himself "untouched from any sort of faction". ... Adds at great length his opinion upon various matters arising out of the pending Bill Explanatory of the Act of Settlement for Ireland.
Earl of St. Alban [the writer signs "S. Alban"] to Ormond
Written from: London
Date: 13 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 259
Document type: Holograph
Being now of the Comnmittee for the affairs of Ireland, it behoves the writer more especially to hold correspondence with the Lord Lieutenant. ...
James Hamilton has told the writer of his Grace's intentions concerning Lord Antrim. Nothing will be more acceptable to the Queen [Henrietta Maria]; and, if the writer may speak of himself - who has with so many instances and so much concern solicited his Grace's favour for that Lord - nothing also can oblige him more sensibly than to meet with hopes of finding that favour accorded. ...
Ormond to the Earl of Cleveland
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 13 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 10
Document type: Copy
Leave of absence for Major Seafowl Gibson from his duties as one of his Majesty's Guard of Pensioners - he being now necessarily employed in this Kingdom - will be an obligation upon the writer.
Petition, to the Duke of Ormond, of George Hopkins, Lieutenant to the Lord President of Connaught's Troop of Horse
Date: [circa 13 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 145v
Document type: Copy
In compensation of services and sufferings of petitioner, in the late rebellion in England, the King was pleased to give him £2,000 out of the half-year's rent of certain Adventurers of Ireland, and [an order] for present payment of the quarter-part thereof, according to the Distribution-Roll. ... Petitioner has received but £200, and is denied payment of the rest, without his Grace's special warrant, for which he prays.
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for payment of petitioner's claim, "according to what was appointed for him, by the dividend appearing by the annexed writing [not appended to the Copy], under the hand of the Earl of Anglesey, dated 6 April last
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 16 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 146
Document type: Copy
Petition of Major Robert Edgeworth to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 13 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 146
Document type: Copy
Recites service under the Duke's command, as Adjutant-General of the Horse, from 30 April 1645 to 24 October 1646, and as Quartermaster-General of the Horse, from that date to the time of his Grace's leaving the Kingdom in 1647. But the Commissioners for stating arrears of the officers who served the King before 1649 refuse to state petitioner's arrears, on account of certain omissions in the Establishment lists, herein recited. ... With prayer for his Grace's Order that petitioner shall receive such allowances as Sir Thomas Armstrong, who preceded petitioner in his said employment, received.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 16 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 146v
Document type: Copy
The Examination of Hugh Reilly, in relation to the Conspiracy of 1663, in Ireland
Date: 14 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 32, fol(s). 206
Document type: Original
An Information [anonymous] concerning [Thomas] Blood
Date: [14? December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 32, fol(s). 208
Document type: Apparently, original
An Information by Thomas Whalley, Deputy Provost-Marshal, concerning concealed fire-arms, in the province of Leinster. Addressed to Sir George Wentworth
Date: 14 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 251
Document type: Original
Petition of Katherine Wogan [in MS.: "Woggan"], relict of Nicholas Wogan, late of Rathcoffy, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 14 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 147
Document type: Copy
Recites (1) a grant, by the late Lords Justices, to Maurice Keatinge, esquire, in trust for petitioner, of certain parcels of her late husband's estate [in the Queen's County] at a rent of £40 yearly; (2) the subsequent recovery by decree of the Court of Claims, as the petitioners jointure lands, of some & the chief of the lands so granted, in trust, as aforesaid. ...
Prays for a grant, in custodiam, at a rent of forty shillings yearly & upon a like trust, of the remainder of the lands comprised in the grant first-named.
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, to the Barons of the Exchequer, for the grant of the Custodiam prayed for, "at such rent as they shall think fit"
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 17 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 147
Document type: Copy
Petition of the inhabitants of the town of Carrickfergus to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 14 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 149
Document type: Copy
Recite the quartering upon them for two years or thereabout of the Earl of Donegal's Troop of Horse, and that the troopers have satisfied very little of their respective engagements, which amount in all to about £700, so "that many of the said inhabitants are utterly undone". ...
Prays for an order directing the satisfaction of these debts "out of the growing pay", or in such other way as his Grace shall think fit.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to Sir Daniel Bellingham, Deputy Vice-Treasurer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 17 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 149
Document type: Copy
A Second Petition of the inhabitants of the town of Carrickfergus to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 14 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 149r-v
Document type: Copy
Recite that the several Companies of Foot, commanded respectively by the Lord Viscount Massareene, Colonel John Gorges [in MS.: "Gorge"], Colonel John Mayott, and Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Fortescue, quartered in the town aforesaid, have incurred debts for necesaries supplied to them by the petitioners, in the sum of £320, or thereabout.
Recite also instructions by the late Lords Justices concerning the disbanding of certain troops, bearing date June 1, 1661, in which there is a proviso for reserving one third of the pay due to the said troops for the satisfaction of their respective debts, ... "which amounteth", add the petitioners, "unto the sum of £318: 11s. 3½d., as may more at large appear by the accounts taken and returned by the Commissioners". Pray, as before, for an Order that both the sums above-recited may be paid to the petitioners. ...
An Order of Reference of this Petition to Sir Daniel Bellingham
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 17 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 149r-v
Document type: Copy
Petition of Colonel John Daniell to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 14 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 157r-v
Document type: Copy
Petitioner is seized in his demesne as of fee, of the manor, town, and lands of Grangorman, near Dublin, part of which is taken within the pale of the new Deer-park now erecting by his Grace, and much of the rest despoiled by the drawing of stones. ...
Prays for the Lord Lieutenant's directions for a valuation; & for such relief thereupon as shall be thought fit.
An Order of Reference of this Petition, to William Dodson, esquire
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 17 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 157v
Document type: Copy
Valuation and Certificate, by William Dodson, concerning the Lands [described in the certificate, as "the Grange Lands"] above-recited
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 5 January [1664]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 157v
Document type: Copy
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the payment by the Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, of the sum of £126, and 1s. to Colonel John Daniel
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 9 January [1664]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 160
Document type: Copy
Petition of William Chaffin, late of the Lord Grandison's Troop of Horse, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 14 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 172v
Document type: Copy
Plaint against Lieutenant Colonel Bowmer, Lieutenant of Lord Grandison's Troop, for wrongful detention of pay due to petitioner, under circumstances stated.
With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 17 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 172v
Document type: Copy
Philip, Lord Wharton to a person unnamed
Date: 15 December 1663 Tuesday [No. 1]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 194
Document type: Copy. Both letters (MSS. Carte 81, fol(s). 193-4) are endorsed: "To a friend", in Lord Wharton's hand.
Has received a letter intended to be forwarded to Richard Waller. Mentions the tenour of conversations he had held, both with the King and with Secretary Sir H. Bennet, respecting the alleged but denied complicity of certain persons unnamed (of whom, by the context, Waller appears to have been one) in political conspiracy and intrigue against the Governemnt. Advises that Mr. James Darcy and Sir Christopher Wyvill be apprised "how the case stands", and be asked to confer with the Justices of the Northern Circuit during the approaching York Assizes.
Philip, Lord Wharton to a person unnamed
Date: 15 December 1663 [No. 2]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 193
Document type: Holograph Minute. Both letters (MSS. Carte 81, fol(s). 193-4) are endorsed: "To a friend", in Lord Wharton's hand.
Adds some information which has come, and some reflections which have occurred, to him, since writing, and despatching, his first letter of this day's date.
Warrant [by the Duke of Ormond; for the making out of particulars of certain lands, mentioned in his Majesty's letter, of 3rd November, preceding, on behalf of John Jefferies, esquire]
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 15 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 159
Document type: Copy
Petition of Richard Styles to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 15 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 151
Document type: Copy
Plaint of debt against William Gay, one of his Grace's Battleaxe Guard. With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 18 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 151
Document type: Copy
Ormond to Clarendon
Written from: Dublin
Date: 16 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 68, fol(s). 604
Document type: Extract
... Lord Mayo is proceeding into England to look after his concernments. ... There are many arguments why he should be favoured, of which it is not the least that his father stuck very honestly to the King's government, against the Nuncio & [Romish] Clergy, and was cruelly put to death in the time of the usurpers. ...
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the issue of a writ of Ad quod damnum, on behalf of Sir George Lane [afterwards Viscount Lanesborough], concerning the grant to him of one market weekly, and of four fairs yearly, at Ballyleague, in the county of Longford
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 16 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 155v-156
Document type: Copy
A like Warrant, on behalf of Sir Richard Lane [father of George Lane], baronet, concerning the grant to him of one market weekly, and two fairs yearly, at Tulske, in the county of Roscommon
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 16 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 155v
Document type: Copy
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 17 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 293
Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]
A Grant to pass to Robert Lye of the forfeited estate of Hugh O'Connor, late of Ballintobber in the county of Roscommon, now in the King's hands. ...
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 17 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 297
Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]
Dr. Thomas Bayly to be Bishop of the united see of Killala and Achonry, now void by the death of Henry Hall, late Bishop thereof, & to enjoy the mesne profits from the date of such avoidance.
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 17 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 306
Document type: Original
A custodium to be granted to Sir Henry O'Neill of such of the forfeited lands in the county of Dublin, or of lands reputed to be forfeited, as shall amount in value to £1,000 a year, to be peaceably enjoyed by the said Sir Henry O'Neill, his heirs, or assigns, until he or they be restored to, & peaceably possessed of, his ancient estate.
A further Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, concerning the annuity of two thousand pounds, per annum, to be granted to Charles (Berkeley), Visacount Fitzhardinge, in pursuance of instructions contained in his Majesty's letter of 10 October, preceding
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 17 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 158r-v
Document type: Copy
Williamson to Lane
Written from: Whitehall
Date: [17?] December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 7v
Document type: Original
A pending matter, detailed as "the old affair", is not yet put into a condition to be reported to Sir George Lane.
The appended "Advices" are all the writer can now send, to shew his respect.
Advices, sent from the Court at Whitehall, Domestic and Foreign
Date: November and December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 6-7
Document type: Original
The 'New Exchange', upon occasion of repeated offence to the Queen's servants, has been closed, by order of the Lord Chamberlain.
Lord Willoughby, having settled the affairs of the English colonty at Barbadoes, was about to proceed to the other West Iindia Islands, on a like mission.
Intelligence from Dover reports that the town has been in great danger to be swallowed up by the sea.
From Constantinople, it is stated that the difficulties met within gaining Neuhausel, "wrought upon the Grand Seignior to little less than a frenzy"; and that there have been serious dissensions in the Ottoman Court.
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 18 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 299-302
Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]
Recites the restoration of James Allen to the estate of St. Wolstan's, otherwise Allenscourt, in the county of Kildare, by the Commissioners of the Court of Claims, and the consequent failure of the benefit intended to Hugh, late Earl of Mount-Alexander, by a Grant thereof previously passed to him. ...
Directs the passing of a Grant to Henry, Earl of Drogheda, and Richard, Earl of Arran, in trust for the heirs male of Hugh, Earl of Mount-Alexander, deceased, of other forfeited lands to a like yearly value. ...
Ormond to the Lord President of Munster
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 18 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 10v
Document type: Copy
Permission for a three months' longer stay of Colonel Phayer [in MS.: "Phair"], in his Lordship's province, the writer being so unfavourable to the removal of stock, is requested, unless the Lord President's own observation should lead him to object thereto.
Ormond to Bennet
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 18 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 10v
Document type: Copy
At the request of Colonel Richard Grace, whose own services & those of his father deserve well of his Majesty, a Petition of one Mr Ayres is herewith transmitted, & recommended. ... Ayres willingly & readily surrendered to Colonel Grace the estate of which he had possession, upon the first intimation of his Majesty's pleasure in that behalf.
The Answer of Arthur, Lord Viscount Ranelagh, to the Petition of the Lord Baron of Trimleston [Matthias Barnewall, 8th Baron Trimleston; in MS. "Trymlestowne"]
Written from: [London]
Date: 18 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 408
Document type: Original [the date taken from the endorsement]
The Answer of Arthur, Lord Viscount Ranelagh, to the Petition of the Lord Baron of Trimleston [Matthias Barnewall, 8th Baron Trimleston; in MS. "Trymlestowne"].
Warrants, by the Duke of Ormond, for the sending of James Tully, a Popish priest, now prisoner in Dublin, to Londonderry, under convoys of horse from garrison to garrison
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 18 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 156
Document type: Copies (two entries)
A like Warrant, for the suspension of all procedings upon petitions and private business, from 19th December to 2nd January, in order to the due observance of Christmas
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 18 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 156v
Document type: Copy
Fitzharding to Ormond
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: 18 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 214, fol(s). 593
Document type: Holograph
Reports an audience of the King, in the course of which His Majesty shewed to the writer a paper from his Grace [relating to the Land Settlement of Ireland], and adds his thanks for kindness displayed in the arrangement on his behalf.
Petition of John Warren to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 18 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 150v
Document type: Copy
Plaint of injury sustained by petitioner, in respect of the inclosure of a parcel of land, belonging to the Castle farm of Castle-Knock [in the county of Dublin], ... in the Deer-park [Pheonix Park] for his Majesty's use.
With prayer that he may have a valuable consideration for his interest in the said land, or otherwsie may not be debarred to enjoy the benefit thereof as formerly.
An Order of Reference of the Petition, to Matthew Harrison, esquire, comptroller of the Lord Lieutenant's Household, and to William Dodson, esquire
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 21 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 150v
Document type: Copy
The Replication of Charles [Cooke], Earl of Mountrath, to the Answer of Colonel John Fitzpatrick [concerning lands alleged by the Replicant to have been sold, by Colonel Fitzpatrick, to Charles, late Earl of Mountrath, father of the Replicant
Date: [circa 18 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 152
Document type: Copy
An Order of Reference of the Replication, and "of all the Pleadings in this matter that have been before" the Lord Lieutenant, to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 21 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 152v
Document type: Copy
John Davies [so in signature. Lane endorses "Davys"] to Lane
Date: 19 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 261
Document type: Original
The eldest son of the writer intends to go to Dublin "to complain of several abuses committed by Colonel Mayard & the officers ... in Carrickfergus", where that son is Mayor this year.
In Lord Strafford's time there were 2,200 soldiers in that Garrison. ... When the war broke out, and when the writer was himself Mayor there, 2,500 soldiers came thither, out of Scotland, under General Lesley; ... but the governemnt of the place was never taken out of the writer's hands. ... Now, though but 300 soldiers are sent, Mayard claims himself to quarter them, without any reference either to Mayor or to Sheriffs. ... This trouble is given in order to ask Sir George Lane's good offices in promoting the petition now to be delivered to my Lord Lieutenant for redress.
Henry O'Neill to Lane
Written from: London
Date: 19 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 263
Document type: Original
Personal affairs.
Recital of the writer's loyalty to the King and of his sufferings.
Request for Sir George Lane's good offices in his behalf.
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, to Thomas Whalley [in margin "Whally"], for seizure of concealed arms within the province of Leinster
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 19 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 43v
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Petition of John Connell to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 19 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 151
Document type: Copy
Plaint of loss and damage sustained by petitioner in respect of the use of his quarry at Palletstown, in the barony of Castle-Knock [and county of Dublin], for walling-in the new Park there; ... and also by trespass of "carmen ... employed in drawing the stones of that quarry being usually fifty horses in number". ...
With prayer to be allowed some competent reparation.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to Matthew Harrison, and William Dodson, esquires
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 22 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 151
Document type: Copy
Petition of George Russell to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 19 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 152
Document type: Copy
Recites an Order made by his Grace, dated 1st of September last, for the grant to petitioner of a custodiam of certain lands in the county of Mayo, found by him to have been "concealed from his Majesty"; and also that Theobald, Lord Viscount Mayo, obtained his Grace's order, of the 7th October last, "for the most part of the said lands, ... alleging that they were ... [here, the MS. reads "concealed" for "parcel"] of his own for open inheritance". ... Recites, further, certain portions of a report made to his Grace, by the Barons of the Exchequer, under an Order of Reference ... and alleges that now "he finds certain lands to be in the said report, that the Lord Viscount Mayo had nothing to do with, as may appear by the Lord Strafford's survey". ...
Prays for confirmation of the first-named Order, with exception of such lands as shall, by Lord Strafford's survey, be found to be within the Lord Mayo's demesne. With other prayers, concerning the details of procedure thereupon.
An Order of Reference of this Petition to the Barons of the Exchequer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 22 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 152
Document type: Copy
A Certificate [by John Bysse, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland] upon the Petition of Jane Barnewall, otherwise Bellew concerning the lands of Lispople, and other lands, in the county of Dublin
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 19 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 174-175
Document type: Copy
An Order, by the Duke of Ormond, for the taking into consideration, at the Council Board, of the Petition above-mentioned and of this Certificate
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 29 January 1664
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 175
Document type: Copy
Petition of Elizabeth Warren, widow, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 20 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 152v
Document type: Copy
Recites that under his Grace's order of the 18th August last, the petitioner received, from the Sheriff of the county of Meath, "some corn in haggard, seized by virtue of an execution, upon a judgment, obtained by petitioner's husband in his lifetime in the Court of Exchequer"; ... and, further, that upon petitioner's employing some servants to ... bring the corn to market, Garrett Wesly [in MS.: "Wiseley"], of the Dangan [in MS.: "Dangyon"], "who takes part with and incenceth [so in MS.] the ... tenants, set on several men, who ... by force of arms took from petitioner's servants, in the highway, the corn so thrashed out and coming to market". ...
Prays for an order for restoration of the corn; and for the grant of Letters-patent "to be passed unto her of her said husband's goods and debts", so by his Grace's former Order granted ... "without [which] she can have no benefit thereof".
An Order of Reference of this Petition to the Barons of the Exchequer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 23 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 153
Document type: Copy
Fitzharding to Ormond
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: [20 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 214, fol(s). 595
Document type: Holograph
Communicates his sentiments upon two letters, relating to the matter above-mentioned, which have been shewn to the writer by Mr. Hamilton.
A News-Letter, addressed from the Court at Whitehall to Sir George Lane, at Dublin Castle
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: [20? December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 10-11
One Atkinson, said to be the grand agent in the late intended Rebellion in the North, had been apprehended in Nottinghamshire, but by local negligence was suffered to escape.
Other incidents, domestic and continental, are noticed.
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 21 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 303-304
Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]
A Grant to pass to Charles, Lord Viscount Fitzhardinge, of such parcels & proportions of forfeited lands in Ireland, ... set out in satisfaction of arrears for service done in England, ... as shall amount to the clear yearly value of £2,000, over & above all charges and reprises. ...
Petition of Peter Harvey to the King
Date: [22 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 308
Document type: Original
Recites petitioners entry upon the hazard of a farm of the Customs and foreign excise of Ireland, at a very high rate, and principally out of a zeal to improve his Majesty's Revenue.
Prays that, in consideration of the hardness of his bargain therein, he may have the preference for a lease of the farm of inland excise in that kingdom, now about to be let.
An Order, by the King in Council, upon the Petition calendared above
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 22 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 308
Document type: Original
Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the custody of James Tully (a Roman-Catholic priest), by Oliver Walsh, Marshal of the City of Dublin
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 22 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 159
Document type: Copy
Bennet to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 22 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 132
Document type: Original; subscribed and signed
By command of the King, refers to the Lord Lieutenant's consideration a petition of Mr. Harvey & his partners, concerning the farm of the Excise Duties of Ireland. ...
Adds notices of various incidents at Court; of the demand of the Court of France that before having a formal audience, Lord Holles shall make his public entry into Paris, with certain ceremonies; and (in a PS.) of a petition presented to the King by the Corporation of Bristol. ...
Sir W. Temple to Ormond
Written from: [London]
Date: 22 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 310-311
Document type: Holograph
Continues his account of proceedings concerning the new 'Explanatory Bill' for Ireland. ...
General Karl Gustaf Wrangell, Count of Sylfnetzburg to Sandwich
Written from: Stockolm
Date: 22 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 128
Document type: Original; subscribed & signed
Recommends to his protection George Seebladh, a son of the officer who, when Lord Sandwich was in Denmark, commanded the Castle of Cronenburgh. Seebladh is intended for the naval service of the Crown of Denmark.
Marquess of Sandez, Portuguese Ambassador at the Court of London to Ormond
Written from: London
Date: 23 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 287
Document type: Original; subscribed & signed
Recommends to the Lord Lieutenant's favour & protection the interests of Mr Marcus Fitzsymons, in respect to his claim for restoration to his estate [in the county of Dublin].
French.
Warrant [by the Duke of Ormond] for a Fiant for William Smyth, Mayor of Dublin, Peter Harvey [in MS.: "Harvy"], and others, to the Commissioners of the Customs [in Ireland]
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 23 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 157
Document type: Copy
A like Warrant, appointing the same persons to be Commissioners of the Imported Excise in Ireland
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 23 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 157v
Document type: Copy
Bennet to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 25 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 130
Document type: Original; subscribed & signed
Encloses a letter from his Majesty.
H. Coventry to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 25 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 413
Document type: Holograph
Reports an audience of the King on some affairs of Ireland, in the course of which the writer strove to impress upon his Majesty "the necessity of sending you the money he hath done, and that, until it came, you neither had [wherewithal] to quiet those you should discard, nor to satisfy those you should take in their places. He seemed better satisfied with his affairs there than he had been". ...
An Abstract of the produce of his Majesty's Revenue of Customs and Excise of Ireland, for one year, beginning 25 December, 1662, and ending 25 December, 1663
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 25 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 414
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.
Sir George Hamilton to Ormond
Written from: [London]
Date: 26 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 267
Document type: Holograph
A report of further conferences & negotiations, in relation to certain Land-Claims in Ireland, accruing under the Act of Settlement
John Thompson to Ormond
Written from: Culbenagher
Date: 26 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 269
Document type: Holograph
Further advices, in relation to popular discontents, & to dangerous persons, in the province of Leinster.
Bennet to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 26 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 134
Document type: Original; subscribed & signed
The King's warrant herewith transmitted empowers the Lord Lieutenant to set to farm the Excise of Beer and Ale in Ireland. ...
Is told that the Commissioners have now finished their Amendments of the [pending] Bill and have given them to the Lord Chancellor. ...
Ormond to the Earl of Clanricarde
Written from: Dublin
Date: 26 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 253-254
Document type: Original and Holograph
Was much joyed to receive his Lordship's letter from Pembroke, having ... had desperate fears of danger from the stormy night. ... But is about as much troubled at something he has heard of the Earls' son, ... whose zeal [for his Irish friends] is said to have "transported him, to use very reviling & opprobrious" language of the English in this Kingdom. ... Any Irishman that proposes to himself a comfortable living in Ireland will more or less attain it, as he is more or less beloved or etsteemed by the English. ...
Mentions a letter written to James Hamilton.
Notes concerning the Settlement of Ireland, and concerning a letter written by Lord Broghill to Sir [-] Coote
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 254v
Document type: Original
A Copy of the Letter of the Duke of Ormond to the Earl of Clanricarde; MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 253-254
Written from: Dublin
Date: 26 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 251
Document type: In Sir George Lane's hand
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 27 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 295-296
Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]
A Grant to pass to John Howston, son of John Howston deceased, of the lands and chattels forfeited to the late King, by the attainder of John Knox, of the county of Longford, and by his said Majesty granted to John Howston, aforesaid, now deceased.
Ormond to the King
Written from: Dublin
Date: 29 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 242-244
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
His Majesty's letter of the 15th brought to the Duke confirmation of what he was before in no doubt of, and yet it was far from being unnecessary. Nothing supports a servant in the difficulties & thwartings he meets with in the honest discharge of his duty, as an assurance that his endeavours are believed to be faithful, & are accordingly accepted, by his Master. And it is natural enough to love to be told we are happy, though we knew it before. ... "The subject-matter of any discontent & disturbance here is most like to proceed from the means that shall be prescribed, ... to settle the properties of your subjects, in reference to the contest for lands betwixt the English & the Irish, though something of Religion, and of zeal to that, may be brought in, to increase & cement parties. ... If a supplemental Act shall be gotten passed here, there will be the less cause to fear, that the execution of it (if fairly proceeded in) will meet with any dangerous opposition". ... If the present difficulty, the Duke proceeds to shew, shall have to be met otherwise than by an Act of Parliament, provision will also have to be made beforehand against the vigorous opposition which is to be expected. ... Adds, at great length, an account of the state of the Army.
Warrant [by the Duke of Ormond] for Particulars of Lands to be passed to Robert Lye, esquire, upon his Majesty's letter
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 30 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 159
Document type: Copy
Petition of Richard Murphy, a poor mariner, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [circa 30 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 153
Document type: Copy
Plaint against Daniel Chuite for an alleged wrongful detention from petitioner, under cirumstances stated, of a house in the town of Kinsale. With the usual prayer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 2 January 1664
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 153v
Document type: Copy
Petition to the Duke of Ormond of John Bartley, and Gilbert Grayer, masters of the Mary and Arran post-barks; of Elizabeth Slater, widow; and Daniel Stephens
Date: [circa 30 December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 155
Document type: Copy
Petitioners have been attached at the suit of Thomas Doleing, for retailing wine and strongwaters, without license. They pray to be discharged from the pursivant, and to be admittted to their answer.
An Order upon this Petition, in conformity with its prayer
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 2 January 1664
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 159, fol(s). 153
Document type: Copy
Ormond to Bennet
Written from: Dublin
Date: 31 December 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 245
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Particulars concerning various suits and affairs of divers individual persons. With notices of current reports of an alleged design amongst the Irish, "to rise and destroy the English", which report was a forerunner of the late plot [of English rebels, and republicans, settled in Ireland].
Adds, in a PS., a notice of the affairs of Sir George Lane who "believes he hath met with ill-luck, at Court, in the loss of the bounty the King intended him, and the repair of which is the uttermost of his desire.
Reasons for passing the Bill for the City of Dublin
Date: [December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 245
Document type: Original. The title cited is from the Duke of Ormond's endorsement of this paper [undated and unsigned].
Ormond to [Bennet]
Written from: [Dublin Castle]
Date: [December] 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 245
Document type: Copy
The Bill transmitted into England, on the 21st October last, not having been returned hither, it is apprehended that objection may have been taken to it as tending possibly to hinder the coming of foreigners into this Kingdom. Any such objection is now answered by the accompanying paper.
Reasons inducing the Lord Lieutenant and Council to transmit to his Majesty a Bill, entitled 'An Act concerning the City of Dublin'
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 247
Document type: Copy
A Note of the Names of "suspected and dangerous persons, and Anabaptists, in the County of Dublin, and half-barony of Rathdowne" ...
Date: Undated [December? 1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 254
Document type: Original; unsigned & without address or endorsement [apparently, in the hand of John Thompson?]
[A Statement of] What Sir Robert Walsh lieth charged with, in the Fleet [i.e. the Fleet Prison in London]
Date: 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 38
Document type: Copy
A Memorial of Sir Robert Walsh, to Lord Chancellor Clarendon; praying that his Lordship will be pleased to order acceptance of the Bonds offered for the writer's due appearance to answer charges preferred against him
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 38v
George Menevell to Ormond
Written from: Troy in Westmeath
Date: 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 32, fol(s). 611
Document type: Original
In pursuance of his Grace's order, upon the Petition of Thomas Dillon, dated 19th of June instant, has examined into petitioner's allegations therein, and now submits the Examinations as taken.
A particular of such of Your Grace's lands, in the county of Tipperary, as are set for twentyone years or three lives if approved of by Your Grace [the Duke of Ormond]
Date: 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 40, fol(s). 674
Document type: Apparently, in the hand of John Walshe. Original. Endorsed by Ormond.
A List of Lands possessed by Major Donellan, in Aghrim, for which the Duke of Ormond is charged with quit rent, though he never enjoyed the same
Date: 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 40, fol(s). 676
Document type: Original
Cypher [used in the correspondence of the Duke of Ormond with] the Earl of Carlingford
Date: 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 50, fol(s). 430
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.
Extract of [so in MS.] the Act of Parliament, made in Ireland [in 1663] for Settling the Excise, or new Impost, upon his Majesty; 15 Car. II, c. 8
Date: 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 684-685
A List for Civil Affairs containing the several entertainments, by the year, of all officers & others serving in the Courts of Justice, in the several provinces of Ireland; pensioners, &c.
Date: 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 54, fol(s). 433-441
Document type: Copy. Endorsed, by Lane, as received from Sir James Ware, 19 December 1663.
The Case of Denny Muschampe, esquire [concerning a purchase of lands, in Ireland, from the Earl of Ardglas]
Date: 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 681-684
Document type: Draught
Draught of a suggested Letter from the King to the Duke of Ormond for the restoration to Piers [Butler], Lord Cahir, of the lands, tenements and hereditaments of his late grandfather, Thomas, Lord Cahir
Date: 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 68, fol(s). 610
[Statement of] The King's Revenue as it stood, and was stated to Parliament, in the Session of 1663
Date: 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 77, fol(s). 530-531
An Act [of the Parliament of Scotland] assering His Majesty's Prerogative in the ordering and disposal of Trade with Foreigners
Date: 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 243
Memoranda for relief of the poor by way of free benevolence
Date: 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 244
An Abstract of several payments, on account of his Majesty's Army in Ireland; during the years 1663 to 1669, both inclusive. As certified by Sir Theophilus Jones, Clerk of the Bells of the Kingdom
Date: 1663 to 1669
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 99-112
Document type: Original
Gazettes à la Main continued from MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 714-761
Date: 1663-1664
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 762-784, 789-816
Document type: [Each 'Gazette' has four closely written pages]
(II.c) 19 May 1663: fols. 762-763
(II.d) 13 June 1663: fols. 764-765
(II.e) 20 June 1663: fols. 766-767
(II.f) 1 July 1663: fols. 768-769
(II.g) 8 July 1663: fols. 770-771
(II.h) 15 July 1663: fols. 772-773
(II.i) 12 August 1663: fols. 774-775
(II.k) 19 August 1663: fols. 776-777
(II.l) 26 August 1663: fols. 778-779
(II.m) 2 September 1663: fols. 780-781
(II.n) 9 September 1663: fols. 781-782
(II.o) 30 September 1663: fols. 783-784
[The Gazettes of October, if any, are wanting]
(II.p) 11 November 1663: fols. 789-790 [misbound]
(II.q) 2 December 1663: fols. 785-786
(II.r) 9 December 1663: fols. 787-788
(II.s) 16 December 1663: fols. 791-792
(II.t) 23 December 1663: fols. 793-794
(II.u) 30 December 1663: fols. 795-796
(II.w) 6 January 1663: fols. 797-798
(II.x) 13 January 1663: fols. 799-800
(II.y) 20 January 1663: fols. 801-802
(II.z) 27 January 1663: fols. 803-804
(II.aa) 3 February 1663: fols. 805-806
(II.bb) 10 February 1663: fols. 807-808
(II.ccc) 24 February 1663: fols. 810-809 [misbound]
(II.ddd) 15 March 1663: fols. 811-812
(II.eee) 19 March 1663: fols. 813-814
(II.fff) 26 March 1663: fols. 815-816
Instructions to British envoys, at various courts, and issued at various periods; relating chiefly to matters of finance
Date: 1663-1677
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 240, fol(s). 39
Document type: Breviates; by T. Carte
The Humble Petition and Address of Mary Butler, Fitz-Pierce, daughter to Pierce Butler, Fitzjames, of Ballynahensey in the county of Tipperary, deceased
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 13, fol(s). 236
Document type: Original [with seal of arms]
[In relation to a criminal information filed against Petitioner's husband, Daniel Hickey; and praying that a former Order therein, by His Grace, addressed to Sir William Davys, may be confirmed].
Sir Robert Walsh? to Ormond
Date: Undated [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 40-41
Document type: Original; without date, signature, address, or endorsement
Being now, by his brother's means, in gaol [in London], the writer represents the great distress which he suffers - being, indeed, "brought to the point of starving". If, in this his hard condition, his trial in the Court of Claims [in Ireland] should still have a just success, he will ascribe it to the Lord Lieutenant's gracious favour.
Case [for Counsel learned, upon a Mortgage of the castle, town, and lands, called Maylerstown
Date: Undated [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 252
Document type: Endorsed by Ormond
Case [for Counsel learned, upon a Mortgage of the castle, town, and lands, called Maylerstown, made to Richard, Earl of Cork, by Bennett White of Cloumel, in the county of Tipperary, now deceased; and upon the course which ought to be taken thereupon by James, Duke of Ormond, under circumstances stated].
An Information, concerning disaffected and suspected persons. Addressed, by Robert Arthurson[?], to Lord Lieutenant the Duke of Ormond
Date: Undated [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 271
Document type: Original; without endorsement
A like Information, relating to persons natives, of the Kingdom of Scotland, but of late resident in Ireland. By Robert Douglas. Communicated to the Duke of Ormond
Date: [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 273
Document type: Original
Petition of Archibald Stewart to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Date: Undated [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 275
Document type: Original
Petition of Lieutenant-Colonel William Fitzgerald, to the same
Date: Undated [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 277
Document type: Original
Propositions, desired by them of note in the Corporation of Galway, to be tendered to ... the Duke of Ormond [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland] by the Warden of Galway
Date: [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 280
Document type: Original
A List of Suspected Persons [i.e. persons suspected of treasonable or seditious practices, in Ireland]. Sent to Lord Lieutenant the Duke of Ormond.
Date: [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 33, fol(s). 282
Document type: Original
The names of the private Committee [of Republican Conspirators] as given in by Mr Alden
Date: [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 32, fol(s). 204-205
Document type:
The names of the private Committee [of Republican Conspirators] as given in by Mr Alde. [Together with the names of] the Officers, and others, that had been of Cromwell's and the Rebels' Army, as given in by Mr Alden. [With other lists & particulars relating to the conspiracy in Ireland.]
Petition of His Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects, whose names are subscribed
Date: Undated [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 5-6
Document type: Copy. Endorsed by Ormond.
Petition of His Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects, whose names are subscribed, on behalf of themselves, and others his Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects of Ireland, who submitted, and constantly adhered unto, the Peace concluded in the year 1648, to James, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
The State of the Army in Ireland [chiefly in relation to certain provisions of the 'Act of Settlement'. With other observations on the Public Affairs of the Kingdom, generally.] By Michael Boyle, Bishop of Cork.
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 199-200
Document type: Holograph
Heads of things the Commissioners [of the Court of Claims in Ireland] may do, after the 22nd of August 1663
Date: [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 263
Document type: The title cited is from the Duke of Ormond's endorsement
Queries concerning the statutory procedure of the Commissioners for executing the 'Act of Settlement' of Ireland
Date: [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 268
Document type: Original. In Sir George Lane's hand.
Queries concerning the statutory procedure of the Commissioners for executing the 'Act of Settlement' of Ireland; and more particularly, concerning the limitation of time prescribed therein to claims for a Declaration of innocency, and the adjudication of them by the Commissioners aforesaid.
The Names of such of the Irish [Proprietors] as the Queen Mother appears for. With the Earl of Anglesey's observations in the margin. [In relation to the Act of Settlement of that Kingdom.]
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 457-457b
Document type: Copy
Arguments against 'Concealments' or 'Overpluses' [in relation to Forfeited Lands in Ireland; & to the Claims of Adventurers, and others, under the 'Act of Settlement']
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 495-496
Document type: Original
Draught of a Warrant by the King to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland authorizing an enlargement of the time limited for the putting in of Claims under the 'Act of Settlement' for Ireland
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 565
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond
Certain heads [concerning interpretation of Clauses] of the 'Act of Settlement' for Ireland. Humbly offered to the consideration of the Commissioners [for executing the Act aforesaid].
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 567-568
Document type: Copy
[Observations upon the question] "How the Commissioners of the Court of Claims [in Ireland] may proceed in the execution of their Commission, with the greatest care to all parties concerned"
Date: Undated [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 569
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.
A Question [upon the interpretation of certain provisions of the 'Act of Settlement' for Ireland]
Date: Undated [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 571
An Opinion upon the Case, stated in the 'Question', calendared immediately above
Date: Undated [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 569
Document type: Unsigned
The Heads of divers Particulars tending to the vindication, asserting, and maintaining of the Established Protestant Religion of the Church of England
Date: Undated [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 7
Document type: Draught, with corrections. Without date, signature, or address.
The Heads of divers Particulars tending to the vindication, asserting, and maintaining of the Established Protestant Religion of the Church of England, against all opposers; and yet provision made for the toleration of Dissenters, so far forth as the same may be consisitent with the peace, safety, & welfare, of the Church and State.
Instructions and Directions for a Regal Visitation of the Province of Armagh
Date: Undated [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 14-16
Document type: Without signature or date
[Memorial of] the Provost, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College near Dublin, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 28
Document type: Original
Memorial of the Provost, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College near Dublin, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland [soliciting his Grace's favourable consideration and patronage, and his good offices with the King for the confirmation of former Grants to the College].
A Proposal for the Maintenance of Ministers [of the Church of Ireland]. Submitted to the Duke of Ormond. With a note, added by the Duke, concerning Grants already made since the Restoration.
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 28-29
Document type: Original
A Cypher, used in the Correspondence of the Duke of Ormond, with Secretary Sir Henry Bennet
Date: Undated [circa 1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 50, fol(s). 414-415
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Lane.
An Estimate of the Charge for repair of Magazines and Storehouses in the several Forts and Garrisons of Ireland; etc. [Addressed to Lord Lieutenant the Duke of Ormond.]
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 54, fol(s). 591-594
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.
A Speech of James, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to the House of Commons of that Kingdom
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 84
Document type: In the hand of Sir George Lane
A Note of Places given away by ... the Duke of Ormond [Lord Steward of the Household] by his Majesty's directions
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 121-122
Document type: Original; signed by the Lord Steward
A List of such Servants belonging to his Majesty, when Prince, and his late Majesty of ever blessed memory, as were admitted into his Majesty's Household, by the Lord Steward, ... without paying anything for their places
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 123-124
Document type: Original; signed by the Lord Steward
A Schedule of Lands, in the county of Cork, which in the year 1641 belonged to Daniel O'Sullivan Beare and others; now to be granted to Lord Fitzhardinge
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 463
Document type: Original
Representation of the present condition of the 1649 Security, with reference to the Debit & Credit
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 528
Document type: Original
Memoranda concerning proposed rules to be laid down for the guidance of the Commissioners for executing the 'Act of Settlement' in Ireland
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 531
Document type: Apparently, original
Memoranda concerning proposed rules to be laid down for the guidance of the Commissioners for executing the 'Act of Settlement' in Ireland, and the previous 'Declaration' [of 30 November 1660], and also concerning the amendment of the Act aforesaid, more especially as relates to "Lands upon the Doubling Ordinance".
Form of Commission granted by James, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to Governors of counties in that Kingdom
Date: [circa 1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 597
A Table of the Knights of the Garter (circa 1663?) shewing the arrangement of their respective stalls in St. George's Chapel at Windsor
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 69
Document type: Original; as sent to the Duke of Ormond
The Lord of Cahir's Case concerning his claim for restoration, as an "innocent Papist", to his lands in Ireland, under provisos of the 'Act of Settlement'
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 129
Document type: Original
The Countess-Dowager of Fingal's Case [in relation to her jointure lands; as affected by provisions of the 'Act of Settlement']
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 128
Document type: Original
The Case of the Orphans of Mr Christopher Love stated [by Standish Hartstonge, one of the Barons of his Majesty's Exchequer in Ireland
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 145
Document type: Original
Particulars of Lands claimed by Alderman William Barker, in the county of Down; and of lands formerly belonging to Luke Netterville, and now in the possession of Sir Philip Harcourt. By Carroll Bolton.
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 147-148
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.
Richard Lawless his Case [under the King's Declaration of 30 November 1660, and the subsequent 'Act of Settlement', of 1661, concerning lands in Ireland]
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 153
Document type: Original
Patrick Moore's Case [as above-recited; concerning his claim to certain lands]
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 155
Document type: Original
A Memorial, by Sir Robert Talbot, concerning certain matters of estate; and family arrangements and settlements in relation thereto; more particulars as repects Colonel Lascelles, now deceased. Apparently addressed to the Duke of Ormond.
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 160
Document type: Original
Thomas Henderson, plaintiff; Sir George Preston, knight, defendant. State of the Defendants Case [upon a Bill exhibited in the Chancery of the Exchequer, in a Plaint of Debt]
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 191
Thomas Henderson, plaintiff; Sir George Preston, knight, defendant. State of the Defendants Case [upon a Bill exhibited in the Chancery of the Exchequer, in a Plaint of Debt.
Petition of John O'Connor, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 358
Document type: Original
Prays for some employment in Munster, either civil or military, "for relief of his present exigence".
Petition of Katherine Dowling, alias Power, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 382
Document type: Original
Recites the possession by petitioner's late husband, Pierce Dowling, of certain houses and gardens in the Irish town of Kilkenny; to the possession of which she prays to be restored for maintenance of her child by her said husband.
Petition of Daniel O'Sullivan-More, esquire, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Date: Undated [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 398
Document type: Original
Recites certificates of petitioner's good service & fealty to the King from the Earls of Clare and of Inchiquin. ...
Prays for a grant, in farm, of certain of the Duke's lands in the county of Kerry.
Petition of Lawrence Tancard, a Franciscan friar, to the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland
Date: Undated [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 400
Document type: Original
Recites particulars of Petitioner's life; of his subscription to the 'Remonstrance'; of his imprisonment at Rome for that subscription; and of other hardships. ...
Prays permission to continue in Ireland for the brief remainder of petitioner's life; being now 72 years of age. ...
Petition of Walter Tuite, esquire, a Nominee, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Date: Undated [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 409
Document type: Original
Prays for perusal of an "annexed schedule, being the present state and condition of ... distressed petitioner; and for [his Grace's] recommendation ... to the Commissioners in order to his speedy restoration" to his estate.
The Case of Walter Tuite, of Cullanmore [in relation to that estate, - ? in the county of Westmeath ? [the county is unnamed in the Memorial] - and the petitioner's claim to restoration thereof
Date: [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 411
Document type: Original
Petition of Francis Wafer to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Date: Undated [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 413
Document type: Original
Petitioner was possessed of a small but ancient estate in the county of Meath until dispossessed thereof by the late usurping power. ... he prays for some present-relief.
Petition of Elizabeth Walker, widow and executrix of Lieutenant-Colonel Walker, deceased, and James Morley, to the Duke of Ormond
Date: Undated [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 417
Document type: Original
Pray to be confirmed in the possession of certain parcels of land, being the "retrenchment of William Barker a soldier", which fell to the lot of Walker, deceased, and of Morley aforesaid; notwithstanding an error in the normal description thereof as passed in certain Letters-patent to the Earl of Anglesey and his tenants. ...
Petition of Francis Wyndham, esquire, and Anne his wife, to the King
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 440
Document type: Copy
Having "emminently served his Majesty", petitioners pray for a grant of the forfeited lands & estates of Alexander Jephson, Richard Tompson, and Edmond Warren, lately attainted of treason in Ireland, & there executed.
The humble Petition, Proposal and Address of Randal Moore, esquire, to James, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 449
Document type: Original
[Concerning certain disputes about Land-Claims in Ireland, at issue between the petitioner and the Lady Jane Sterling].
A Proposal tendered on the behalf of Sir Robert Talbot, baronet, in order to reprize the Officers [who served his Majesty, in Ireland] before 1649, for his lands in the county of Wicklow
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 451
Document type: Original
Reasons for restoring persons particularly named in the 'Declaration' [of November 30, 1660] and in the 'Act of Settlement'
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 453
Document type: Original
Reasons formerly annexed to Sir Robert Talbot's Petition inducing his Majesty's special grace and favour unto him [in relation to his conduct in Ireland, during the Rebellion, and during the subsequent Usurpation]
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 455-456
Document type: Original
Petition of Claudius, Earl of Abercorn, to the King
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 462
Document type: Original
Petition of Henry Howard, esquire, to the King
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 474
Document type: Original
Prays for a grant of certain chief rents accruing out of lands in Ireland forfeited to his Majesty and not diposed of or allotted to soldiers or to Adventurers.
Draught of a Royal Letter directing a Grant of Chiefries, &c., in Ireland, as prayed for in the Petition above-recited
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 476
Petition of Dr Ralph King to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 539
Document type: Original
Was possessed, by purchases from soldiers, of lands, in the counties of Antrim and Tyrone, amounting in value to £470 a year.
Was also Advocate General to his Majesty's Army, & Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, which offices brought him nearly £500, a year.
Had also "a deficient Adventure", of £1,050. ...
Petitioners said estate has been wholly taken from him by Decrees under the 'Act of Settlement', & his offices have been otherwise disposed of by his Majesty. ... He prays that he may be repized for the lands he has so lost & for his Adventure. ...
Petition of Dominick Lynch, of Carrick, & of his two daughters, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 549
Document type: Original
Recites services rendered by petitioners' ancestors to his Grace's family, and to Queen Elizabeth - his grandfather having "given Duncannon gratis", to that Queen, with the "Castle and Lands, thereof", and also built "the quay of Carrick, and many houses there, & made the river navigable, from Waterford to Carrick, at his proper cost".
Prays for some emploment; or for a lease, under his Grace, of the prize wines of certain parts.
Case of Edmund, Lord Viscount Mountgarrett [under certain provisos of the 'Act of Settlement'for Ieland; and in relation to certain Directions given thereupon by the Lord Lieutenant & Council of Ireland]
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 570
Document type: Original
Notes upon the 'Case' calendared above
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 570v, 572
Document type: Original
Petition of Antony Nugent, a poor capucin, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 594
Document type: Original
By the mediation of his noble friends, my Lord of Granard and Sir Theophilus Jones, petitioner was dispensed from the two late Proclamations.
He now prays for the Lord Lieutenant's gracious consideration of petitioner's old age & sickness; reminding his Grace of the carriage, at the risk of his life, of letters from the Lord Moore, giving intelligence of the danger of Tredath [Drogheda]. ...
Petition of Barnaby, Lord Baron of Upper Ossory, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 598
Document type: Original
Recites petitioer's total deprivation of his estate; his inclusion in the number of the thirtysix nominees enumerated, by the King, for restoration; and his failure to receive any benefit by virtue of the King's declaration as aforesaid. ...
Prays that some course may be taken for petitioner's relief.
The State of Sir James Graham's Case [in respect to a claim to certain lands in the county of Louth]
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 639-640
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.
Sir Gilbert Talbot's Case and humble proposals [concerning the profits of his office of 'Master of the Jewel-House' to his Majesty]
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 644
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.
Inchiquin to Clarendon
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 63, fol(s). 604
Document type: Copy
Recites the King's promise to grant the writer "a recompense for the Presidency of Munster in this Kingdom", and a consequent proposal - upon a reference of the matter by his Majesty to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant - "for my having £1,000 per annum passed to me by patent here, out of such lands as should be in his Majesty's dispose, where it should be most expedient"; for which purpose, it is added, the draught of a royal letter was sent to Mr Secretary Bennet. But to this letter the King refuses his signature, ... "because Sir Richard Rainsford tells him it would ... lessen the means of reprizing, according to the Act [of Settlement]". ...
Asks the Lord Chancellor's intervention in the writer's behalf.
Reasons of the Lords [of Parliament in Ireland] protesting against the Order made in the Appeal of the Society of Londonderry, against the Bishop of Derry
Date: [circa 1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 64, fol(s). 277-278
Extracts out of some Collections of Letters &c. remaining in the custody of the Hon. Thomas Wentworth; [formerly] belonging to the late Thomas, Earl of Strafford [with marginal motes in the hand of Thomas Carte]
Date: [circa 1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 64, fol(s). 278v-286
The Case of Capain William Tuite [concerning his services to the Crown in Ireland and his claim to be restored to his estate in that kingdom, under the provisions of the Act of Settlement]
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 66, fol(s). 327
Document type: Copy
A Certificate of the Military Services of Sir Geoffrey Galway, deceased
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 66, fol(s). 331
Document type: Copy; endorsed by Ormond
A Certificate of the Military Services of Sir Geoffrey Galway, deceased, who was put to death by Cromwell for his resolute defence of the City of Limerick; and of the just claim of his son, Sir James Galway, to be restored to his estate in Ireland, under the provisions of the Act of Settlement.
French.
Petition of Sir James Galway to the King
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 66, fol(s). 333
Document type: Endorsed by Ormond
Recites his father's services; and prays to be restored to his estate; as above.
French.
Copy of a Report upon the state of the Church in Ireland, "so far as relateth to his Majesty's Revenue". Drawn up by the Archbishop of Armagh and addressed to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 68, fol(s). 122
Document type: Endorsed by Ormond
A Schedule [in MS.: "Scedull"] of the number of Acres [of Lands in Ireland] charged with Quit-rents in the counties underwritten; which are seized into his Majesty's hands, or returned [as] waste, by respective Sheriffs of the said counties
Date: Undated [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 68, fol(s). 131
Document type: Original; without endorsement
A Word of remembrance, reproof, and counsel, to England and to London [concerning the growth of profaneness and of Popery]. Put forth by one that loves and longs for their prosperity ... [Signed with the initials "M. C."]
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 68, fol(s). 592
Document type: In print [1663?]
Petition of Colonel Richard Talbot to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 68, fol(s). 630
Document type: Copy
Praying for the grant of a Custodiam of certain lands [enumerated in a schedule which does not appear in this copy]. With the draught of an Order thereupon.
John Shortall to [a Correspondent not herein named]
Date: [circa 1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 235
Document type: Original
Personal affairs. Information concerning alleged political conspiracies.
An Act for the making some additions unto, and explanations of, the Act intituled 'An Act for the better execution of his Majesty's gracious Declaration for the settlement of this Kingdom of Ireland...'
Date: [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 71, fol(s). 226-232, 234, 236-240
Document type: Draught; with corrections
An Act for the making some additions unto, and explanations of, the Act intituled 'An Act for the better execution of his Majesty's gracious Declaration for the settlement of this Kingdom of Ireland, and satisfaction of the several interests of Adventurers, Soldiers, and others, his subjects there; and for the speedier & better execution of divers particulars in the said Act contained'.
Additional Clauses and Provisos. Proposed for insertion in the Act aforesaid
Date: [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 71, fol(s). 233
Document type: Not part of the original draught. These additional clauses & amendments are in the same hand, but not in the hand of the draught itself.
An Additional Proviso relating to lands in the province of Connaught
Date: 7 July 1663
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 71, fol(s). 235
A Note of some proposed verbal amendments in the Act aforesaid
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 71, fol(s). 241
Designs for an Ice-house at Hinchinbroke; with an estimate of cost
Date: 1663?
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 74, fol(s). 328-329
The design is apparently Lord Sandwich's own. He has endorsed the paper: "Design for my Snow-House at Hinchinbroke".
An Act to prevent unlawful meetings of Sectaries, Nonconformists, and Dissenters, from the Church of England
Date: [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 77, fol(s). 555-558
Document type: Apparently a Minute, with corrections
Warrant of King Charles II to the Attorney General of England, for the draft of a Bill to grant to Henry, Lord Loughborough, an annuity of £500 in consideration of his surrender of a Lease of the Customs duties on cattle exported from, or imported into, Ireland
Date: [1663]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 78, fol(s). 196r-v
Document type: Minute
Petition of "certain of the Commons" [of the City of Dublin] to the Lord Mayor, Sheriff, & others
Date: Undated [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 37, fol(s). 250
Document type: Copy
Recite certain hardships sustained by Petitioners in the quartering of soldiers upon them; & pray redress.
James, Duke of Ormond to Donogh, Lord Clancarty
Date: Undated [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 128, fol(s). 388v
Document type: Copy
Has been grieved to hear that his nephew Lord Muskerry's zeal to favour the Irish "hath transported him into ... opprobrious language against the English in this Kingdom".
Is confident that Lord Muskerry had due limitations, in his own sense of the words used; but fears they will be believed to have been said of the whole. Muskerry should be made to know that "any Irishman that proposes to himself a comfortable living in Ireland will the more or the less attain it, as he is the more or the less esteemed by the English.
Note: See MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 253-254, Ormond to Clanricarde, 26 Dec. 1663.
Charles, Lord Muskerry to Duke of Ormond
Date: Undated [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 128, fol(s). 388-389
Document type: Copy
Has seen his Grace's letter to the writer's father. Explains the misapprehension, or misrepresentation, made of the words applied to certain Englishmen in Ireland. But on one point, must acknowledge his intimate connexion with those "who think it no service unto the King to confirm the lands they have, to the scum of Cromwell's Army, and to Adventureres that advanced their money against the King".
Minutes of the Commissioners for remedy of defective titles [to Estates in Ireland]
Date: Undated [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 131, fol(s). 247-248
Document type: Extract
Ormond to [the Lord Chancellor Eustace]
Date: Undated [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 199, fol(s). 121
Document type: Copy [without address]
Communicates his opinion upon some family affairs of the Earl of Chesterfield; and upon certain land-claims of Lord Netterville, under the high Act of Settlement.
Notices the contentions of political parties in England and at Court - contentions upon which, he adds, "a man that is burdened with such ... employment as I am, and reduced to such straits, looks with little pleasure".
Memorandum by Sir Richard Kennedy on the case of Ralph Sharply, now a prisoner for sedition at Carrickfergus
Date: [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 221, fol(s). 215
Document type: Copy
Memorandum, on the case of Soldiers and Adventurers holding lands in Ireland, which had been confiscated
Date: Undated [1663?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 232, fol(s). 312
Document type: Original
Memorandum, on the case of Soldiers and Adventurers holding lands in Ireland, which had been confiscated. Drawn up in view of certain provisos of the Act of Settlement, relating to rents; by one who describes himself as "an officer instructed for the King's profit"; and submitted to the Lord Lieutenant.