Carte Calendar Volume 43, January - June 1666

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Carte Calendar Volume 43, January - June 1666

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Shelfmark: MS. Carte Calendar 43

Extent: 663 pages



Petition of Francis Wafer, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland [concerning losses inflicted on petitioner by the later usurped powers in Ireland]

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [1? January] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 545

Document type: Original


Subjoined

A Certificate by Thomas Mocket, in support of the recitals of the Petition of Francis Wafer

Date: 1 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 546

Document type: Original


Bull to Wharton

Written from: Dublin

Date: 3 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 20

Document type: Original

Notifies the completion in the Parliament of Ireland, by signification of the Royal assent to the Explanatory & Additional Act of Settlement of that Kingdom on 23rd December [1665].

The first public sitting of the Commissioners of Claims is appointed for January 4th.


A Memorial, concerning the military service of Humphrey Barrows. Addressed to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Written from: Bally

Date: 4 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 547

Document type: Original


Ormond to the Archbishop of Canterbury

Written from: [Dublin?]

Date: 4 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 181

Document type: Holograph

Will willingly consent to the advancement of Dr Lee, to the bishopric of Ferns, if countenanced by the Archbishop, although there are four or five persons, natives of this Kingdom, who are well-deserving. Of Dr Lee's name, the writer first heard in the Archbishop's letter. ...

"We have lately lost the good Bishop of Derry, who might as ill have been spared as any of his order. ... By his goodness & great charity he had gained upon a very cross generation." ...

Notices the claims of various candidates for the vacant sees.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 4 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 119

Document type: Holograph-Minute

...The loss of the good Bishop of Derry [Dr George Wilde] ... will be fit to be quickly supplied by the placing of a good Bishop in that see, where a Bishop is more necessary than he will be welcome. ...

The fittest person for that promotion & for that people is in the writer's opinion Dr Mossom, now Dean of Christ Church, being a man of good life; a good & frequent preacher; stout, prudent, & hospitable. ...


Encloses

Draught of a Letter of License from the King to the Dean & Chapter of Derry, to proceed to the election of Dr Robert Mossom to be Bishop of that see, now void by the death of Dr George Wilde, late Bishop thereof

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 119


Petition of the officers and others of the Duke of Ormond's life guard of horse to his Grace

Written from: Dublin

Date: 5 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 47v

Document type: Copies

Recite an assignment of pay upon a Collector of Subsidies in the county of Carlow, & the Collector's default therein. And pray for redress. [With the Order thereupon.]


Petition of Thomas Wakefield to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 5 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 48

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against John Clifton, otherwise White, a soldier. [With the Order made thereupon.]


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the drawing up of a fiant containing his Majesty's presentation of James Campbell, M.A., to the vicarage of Dungarvan, in the diocese of Ossory, now void by the death of Nicholas Myver, late incumbent

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 5 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 19v-20

Document type: Copy [in Entry Book]


Broderick to Ormond

Written from: Wandsworth

Date: 6 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 543-544

Document type: Holograph

My Lord Chancellor [Clarendon] is desirous to prolong the writer's stay as much as decently he may - with his Grace the Lord Lieutenant's permission - that the writer may, if possible, see the house [Clarendon House] covered in, and the Chancellor's accounts [for the building] settled. ... Yet he writes in great anxiety, lest he (the writer) should incur his Grace's displeasure for a neglect of duty [in Ireland as a Commissioner of the Court of Claims]. ... The hazard of a time of infection; ... the daily clamour of accounting & discounting, since, with 500 workmen, their widows, & administrators - now upon the close - add to this anxiety. ...

Adds some remarks as to the future management of the business of the Court of Claims at Dublin; and also some particulars of intelligence, received from abroad.


Ormond to [the Vice-President of Connaught] Sir Maurice Berkeley

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 6 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 58v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Edward, Lord Bishop of Clonfert and Killmacough, is to be sworn in and admitted as a councillor of the province of Connaught.


Ormond to [the Vice-President of Connaught] Sir Maurice Berkeley

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 6 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 58v

Document type: Breviate [in Letter Book]

Edward Ormsby, esquire, is to be sworn and admitted as a councillor of Connaught.


The King to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 8 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 549

Document type: Certified Copy

Directs that Sir Thomas Esmonde shall have the benefit of certain provisions of the Explanatory Act, for the Land-Settlement of Ireland.


A Proclamation, by King Charles II, for the arrest and imprisonment of seamen who have deserted from the Royal Navy

Written from: Oxford

Date: 8 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 271


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the payment of Sir James Dillon of a sum of two hundred pounds, sterling, on account of his pension. With recital of a former Warrant.

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 8 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 242v

Document type: Copy


Captain James Archer to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: circa 8 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 531

Document type: Original

Has given to Lord Arlington an account of the writer's negotiation as well in France as [with the French Ambassador M. de Commines] in Oxford.

Entrusts duplicates of both reports to his Grace; adding assurances of devotion, and offers of service upon all occasions thereof.


Subjoined 1

Recit général de mon voyage en France, et de ce que j'ai negotié, tant par là qu'en ce pays-ci, d'après mon arrivé; le tout en forme d'un Discours familier

Date: January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 531-532

Document type: Original

French.


Subjoined 2

A Narrative of conferences holden at Oxford with the Ambassador of the French King

Date: January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 533-534

Document type: Original


Petition of Jaques Devrey, of Dublin, merchant, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [8 January] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 48-49

Document type: Copy

Petitioner freighted the ship Prudence, of Dublin, with goods, the growth of this Kingdom, for the Canary Islands, there to freight again with Canary wines for this port, but when ready to sail, said ship was stopped by means of one Huish, a pretended agent of a company, called the "Governor & Company", or pretended "Governor & Company of Merchants trading to the Canary Island", claiming a sole right of traffic thither & thence. ...

Prays his Grace's licence for the sailing of the ship aforesaid.


Annexed

An Order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the Petition of Jaques Devrey

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 8 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 49

Document type: Copy


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 9 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 235

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

The Lord Chancellor [Clarendon] is of opinion that of the two expedients suggested concerning the "vesting clause" [of the pending Bill of Explanation for Ireland], viz. (1) the referring it to the consideration of the Judges and of the Solicitor-General; (2) the passing of a short Bill to explain it; the first is preferable. But it will be necessary to postpone such reference, either until the removal of the Court to London; or until the holding of the term in Oxford. ...

A summary of the late advices from Holland is added.


Sir William Coventry to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 9 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 432

Document type: Holograph

Advices of some incidents at Court. Summary of some late intelligence from the Fleet, and from Holland.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 9 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 221, fol(s). 100-101

Document type: Holograph

Sir Richard Fanshaw has concluded his treaty with Spain, and is going, or has already gone, to Portugal; carrying thither the offer [from the Crown of Spain] of a truce of thirty years.

Some underhand overtures have been made by France but as Ministers do not believe "any ingenuity [to be] in it", will make no great account of them.

The proposed alliance between Portugal and France will, there is ground to hope, "at least be delayed, if not totally disappointed". ...


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Maddenstown

Date: 10 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 320

Document type: Copy

... Is not a little troubled at hearing of the Chancellor's resolve for London, before the King. ... His being there may, indeed, be of advantage to the obtaining the opinions of the Judges upon the vesting & supplementary clauses in the Explanatory Act. ... Now that that Act is passed, Brodrick's presence here is necessary. He is Surveyor, though he were not a Commissioner. ...

Adds various particulars concerning certain interests and affairs of Lords Ranelagh, Orrery, & St Alban, respectively. ...

The honest Friars (not the most numerous) ... have so ill an opinion of Browne [Commissary of the General of the Franciscan Order] ... that the writer has caused search to be made for him. ...

Notices the conflict of opinions, in Ireland, concerning the new Act. ...


An Examination of Pierce Butler, concerning the tenancy by William Butler of the farm of Manseltown in the parish of Kilabey, & county of Tipperary

Date: 10 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 198

Document type: Original


Lord Montagu to Sandwich

Written from: Boughton

Date: 10 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 223, fol(s). 266

Document type: Holograph

Mr Bedell leaves Boughton for Oxford this day. Due care will be taken to remit his annual allowance whilst in Spain, but if ever he should chance to have need to apply to the Earl, any advance made will be punctually returned. ...


The King to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 11 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 466

Document type: Original

William, Lord O'Brien, son & heir apparent to Murrough, Earl of Inchiquin, to be called to the House of Lords of Ireland.


The King to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 11 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 468-469

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

Folliott Wingfield, of Powerscourt in the county of Wicklow, esquire, cousin and heir of Richard Wingfield, late Lord Viscount of Powerscourt, to be Viscount Powerscourt with the privileges & pre-eminences enjoyed by the late Peer, under the Letters Patent of 18 Jac. [19 February 1621].


The King to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 11 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 685

Document type: Copy

William, Lord O'Brien [in MS.: "O'Bryan"], Baron of Burren, son & heir apparent of Morrough, Earl of Inchiquin, is to be called up to the House of Peers of Ireland.


Petition of Robert Hatch, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 11 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 48

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against John Lee, a soldier. [With the Order made thereupon.]


Ormond to Morrice

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 12 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 321

Document type: Copy

... Could not doubt of the King's power to dispose of all or any bishoprics in Ireland without consulting his Chief Governor - since with three lines he may, when he will, make him no Governor, and at any time take from him any particular power he has given. ... But did put the Secretary in mind that his Majesty, in full Council, upon consideration of his own service, had declared that he would receive the advice of his Lieutenant in the disposal of bishoprics. ... And truly if the person recommended was Dr Lee, that recanted his rebellion and Presbyterian principles, the writer is sorry that it was put into his power to refuse a bishopric. ...


Colonel Grace to Lane

Written from: Breaghmor

Date: 12 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 242

Document type: Holograph

Has had repeated intelligence, from various quarters, of warlike preparations, which warrant apprehension of a foreign invasion upon the coast. Asks Lane to obtain, & to communicate to the writer, the orders of the Lord Lieutenant.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 12 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 221, fol(s). 102-103

Document type: Holograph

Has received from the bearer [not herein named or indicated] of the present letter ("according to the promise he gave to the Duke in the garden at Hampton Court") an account of his transactions and thereupon introduced him to the King; who upon hearing the same narrative, resolved only to refer the matter to the Duke's consideration and counsel.

Entreats the Duke to permit Lord and Lady Ossory to come into England, with all convenient speed "because the secret [meaning apparently that of the writer's contemplated marriage with a sister of Lady Ossory] is come over hither from beyond sea". ...


A correspondent in Holland to Sir Philip Froude

Written from: The Hague

Date: 12 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 66

Document type: Original

The Duke of Ormond has asked, through the Duchess of York, for the hand of Mlle Beverweert, "sister to the Lady Marquesse of Ossory", on behalf of Lord Arlington, and she and her sisters are about to be conducted into England. This news will, the writer thinks, surprise his correspondent. Those who are attached to the House of Orange express a belief that the Court inclines to thoughts of peace. And the Dutch preachers, on their side, also exhort to it.


Archbishop of Canterbury to Ormond

Written from: All Souls, Oxford

Date: 13 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 183

Document type: Holograph

Before receiving the honour of his Grace's letter, he met at Court with that to Lord Arlington. The letters [from the King] for Dr Mossom & for the Provost of Trinity College are dispatched. The Church is obliged to the Lord Lieutenant for filling up vacancies with persons so worthy. ...

Has no kindness for Dr Lee, nor could he be persuaded to speak to the King for him by the importunities of the Bishop of Winchester & the Killigrews. ... Whilst such worthy men are found in Ireland, it will be the writer's endeavour to keep the Lord Lieutenant free of recommendation from hence. ...


Ormond to the Portreeve of Knocktopher

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 13 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 56v

Document type: Breviate [in Letter Book]

Renews a former recommendation of Sir Maurice Eustace, for election as Burgess in Parliament, in the room of Oliver Jones, esquire, deceased.


Ormond to Sir Maurice Berkeley

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 13 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 59

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Has seen the Vice President's letter to Sir George Lane. ... Supposes that the person concerned, but not named therein, is Edmund Nangle, the former instructions concerning whom may, for the present, remain without execution.


Earl of Burlington to Ormond

Written from: Lanesborough

Date: 15 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 557

Document type: Holograph

Notices of the progress of proceedings in Parliament.


Clarendon to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 15 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 102

Document type: Holograph

... "I do profess to you, in my conscience, my Lord Ranelagh's Petition though it be drawn with as much skill as the business will bear doth not alter the case at all from what it was ever understood to be. For the privilege of Parliament, whilst his wisdom & good manners thinks fit to stain it, it cannot be denied him; and let him, in God's name, enjoy it, whilst it lasts. For the 'Act of Indemnity', it is not applicable to his purpose." ...

[Not printed by Lister].


Sir William Temple to Ormond

Written from: Brussels

Date: 15 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 270-271

Document type: Holograph

Describes, at very great length, the present aspects of the political situation, as well in France and in Spain, as in the Netherlands. ... Has often thought of, and discoursed upon, the Duke's desire to bring some families from Artois into Ireland for the linen-trade. Could easily engage his Grace in an expense & trouble with undertakers upon that proposition; yet can, at present, look no way upon it so as to see light through it, or to promise himself such an effect from any present offers at it, as may make the game worth the candle; especially whilst the war makes all passage at sea as dangerous, as that by land is chargeable. ...


Petition of Luke Lowther of Dublin, distiller, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 15 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 48v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Ensign Thomas Hackett. [With the Order made thereupon.]


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 15 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 242v-243

Document type: Copy

Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant in due form to Sir Jerome Alexander, Second Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland, of a Commission of Oyer et Terminer, and of Gaol Delivery, within the several counties of Kildare, Cavan, Monaghan, Meath, Westmeath, and Longford.


A correspondent in Holland to Sir Philip Froude

Written from: [The Hague]

Date: 15 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 81

Document type: Original

Returns to the marriage contemplated by Lord Arlington, which the writer (who, he says, knows the lady well) thinks likely to prove a happy one. Mlle Beverweert is a fine and discreet lady; personable and well-shaped; without coquetry. In his belief, she will make an excellent wife.

The Bishop of Munster will not be able to do much against the Dutch, unless he be strengthened by an alliance with some of the Electors or other German princes. ...

Note: Loose pencilled note, in a later hand, inserted in the calendar: "Correspondent is Rocquet. Several letters from him to Froude are in the P.R.O., SP Holland, & Newsletters, Holland."


Petition of John Magill, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [circa 15 January 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 553

Document type: Original

Certain lands and hereditaments [in Ireland [in the county of Down]], of which petitioner was seized on 20 October 1641, are by a late Act of Parliament declared to have been forfeited to the King; but power is given to the Lord Lieutenant to settle such portion thereof upon petitioner as his Grace shall think fit. ... Petitioner prays for the utmost benefit of the clause aforesaid, being a Protestant & a faithful subject.


Subjoined 1

A Certificate, by the Earl of Drogheda and others, of Captain John Magill's sufferings during the Rebellion; and of his service in the regiment commanded by Lord Ardes

Date: 25 October 1665

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 555

Document type: Copy (certified)


Subjoined 2

An Order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the Petition of John Magill

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 31 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 553v

Document type: Original


Petition of John Connell, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [15 January] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 49v

Document type: Copy

Certain lands called Ashtowne belonging to petitioner, having been taken into the King's new port near Dublin, petitioner was awarded a sum of £2,000 sterling, in consideration thereof. Has not received such sum, or any part thereof. Prays redress.


Annexed

An Order of Reference, to the Attorney-General of Ireland, to consider of, and report upon, the Petition aforesaid

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 15 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 49v

Document type: Copy


Bull to Wharton

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [15? January] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 58-59

Document type: Original

Lord Wharton's letters of 8th and 15th came together.

One half year's rents of his Lordship's lands in West Meath and in Carlow, due to the King, has been paid by Mr Lucas, amounting to £62: 5: 0.

In respect of doubtful surveys, "the Commissioners have positively denied any relief, by re-admeasurement". They began their sittings on January 7th. ...


Sir Henry Bridgeman to Lane

Written from: Chester

Date: 16 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 559

Document type: Holograph

The going into Ireland of the writer's cousin, William Howard, gives an opportunity of expressing earnest thanks for favours conferred; and of desiring that his humble offices of service to the Lord Lieutenant may be presented, expressing his "capacity & ambition to serve his Grace in the deanery of Christ-Church Dublin, in which he was designed long since, by the Lord Lieutenant Strafford, to have succeded Dean Margetson". ... It may prove a kindness also to his Grace's chaplain Dr Parry, ... the writer having, here in Chester, a deanery very near to Parry's own parsonage in Wales, ... on which there is "the palace of a Bishop, rather than the house of a Dean". ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 16 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 239

Document type: Original

Both the appointment of Dr Mossom to the bishopric of Derry, & that of Dr Seale to the bishopric of Waterford, as recommended in his Grace's letter of the 4th instant, were signed by the King after communication with the Archbishop of Canterbury. ...

Encloses a letter received from the Hague [probably, relating to the marriage of the writer with a sister of Lady Ossory], and expresses a hope that the Duke "will give leave to My Lord of Ossory to come over".


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin

Date: 16 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 37

Document type: Copy

... Is in hope that the knot of Tories in Leinster and upon the borders of Ulster is now broken. ...

Lord Arlington writes that neither the friendship, nor the neutrality, of the French is to be depended upon. They still keep forces in Normandy & Brittany. Their designs are to be suspected, and all care & vigilance used here. ... This gives a most necessary occasion for the King's servants here to represent to his Majesty the state of the Kingdom ...

Adds some particulars concerning naval and admiralty affairs, in ... Munster & elsewhere. ...


Ormond to Sir William Coventry

Written from: Dublin

Date: 16 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 323

Document type: Copy

Has to acknowledge two of Sir William's letters. ... Since receipt of the first of them until Christmas, it has been matter of contrivance how to get the House of Commons here to be so good to themselves as to pass the most favourable Act, for the English interest, that could with honesty or modesty be contrived. It is true that there is some colour (and no more) to doubt the sufficiency of the vesting clause. ... Adds particulars concerning various matters of Admiralty, and also concerning the Irish Cattle Bill. ...


A Letter of News from Oxford, sent to Secretary Sir George Lane, at Dublin Castle

Written from: Oxford

Date: 16 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 64

Document type: Endorsed, as received on 9th February

A Letter of News from Oxford, sent to Secretary Sir George Lane, at Dublin Castle, containing various passages of state affairs, from the Netherlands, from several parts of Germany, from Sweden, from Rome, from Spain, and from France; with notes of Council proceedings, and of naval affairs.


An Ordinance of Lewis XIV, King of France, containing a Declaration of War against England. Translated from the French.

Written from: St Germain

Date: 16/26 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 269-270

Document type: Apparently, the rough draft of an official or notarial translation, with corrections interlined, for the press


Fair Copy of the same Ordinance and Declaration; with a Certificate, dated January 27 [N.S.], of its proclamation by sound of trumpet in usual form

Date: 16/26 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 272r-v


Ormond to Sir Thomas Harman

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 16 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 59v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Instructions for a diligent search after, and effectual proceedings against, certain "Tories and robbers in the counties of Carlow & Kilkenny, and [so in MS.] in some parts of Munster". ...


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the apprehension, by Lieutenant Thomas Caulfield, of certain "loose persons, some under the notion [so in MS.] of Tories, and others, who rob and spoil the inhabitants and travellers", ... in several counties of the province of Connaught

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 16 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 243v

Document type: Copy


Williamson to Lane

Written from: Oxford

Date: 16 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 86

Document type: Holograph

Letters from France announce the death, by cancer, of the Queen Mother of France, to the great sorrow of that Court.

One of the convoys of the Hamburgh fleet has been forced by storm into Southwold Bay.

Lord Sandwich intends to set out upon his embassy to Spain within fifteen days. ...


Subjoins

Advices, domestic and foreign

Written from: Oxford

Date: 16 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 85-86

The late Ambassador Van Goch gave to the States at his audience a just report of the condition of things here; assuming then the English were neither distracted, indigent, nor unwilling [to the war], as had been falsely reported in Holland. There was no mutiny, and no reason for any.

Sir Robert Southwell departed from Portsmouth on the 6th on his embassy into Portugal.

A summary of intelligence from various parts of Europe is added. ...


James Hamilton to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 16 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 244

Document type: Holograph [with seal of arms]

Knowing the Duke's small satisfaction in the receipt of needless letters, the writer has restricted himself to communicating with "my Lady Duchess, in whose hands the cypher is lodged". Now, he accredits a bearer (unnamed) who has propositions for the King's service to submit - "from which he [also] expects a considerable benefit" to himself, should the Duke accord his approval. ...


Dudley Bagenall to Ormond

Written from: Paris

Date: 16 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 315

Document type: Holograph [with seal of arms]

Commends his interests to the Duke's protection as being one of "a family which has always had the advantage and happiness to be most particularly regarded by His Grace". ...


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Dublin

Date: 17 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 374

Document type: Copy

... The case as to the vesting clause was, lawyers here tell the writer, fully & clearly stated in the Petition of the House of Commons. ... In his mind, a slight excuse ought not to be accepted from the Judges [for avoiding to give their opinion upon the doubts raised, concerning the clause aforesaid]. Inconvenience to them, by the declaration of their opinion, is remote. ... The satisfaction it will give to men and business here is great, and this at a time when all arts should be used to take away distrusts and fears. ...

... The letter, adds the Duke, "that was sent me from the King, undersigned by Mr Secretary Morrice, was to forbid me to represent any body to his Majesty for the Bishopric of Ferns; which I thought so odd a proceeding - after what the King had declared - that I could not let it pass without taking notice of it, as a surprising of the King. What he [Morrice] tells me, in excuse, is yet worse. For he collects from what I writ that I conceive the King ought not, when he thought fit, name anybody for a Bishopric here, without first consulting me." ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 17 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 121-124

Document type: Holograph-Minute

... Is returned ... after brief divertisement at Maddenstown ... to work in his station with the Commissioners & to hasten the settlement designed by the Acts. ... Though this work of dividing to every man his portion of land, as the Acts design & as the stock will reach, will bring upon the writer a great deal of drudgery, and require much application & patience, yet - rules being set, and the way he is to go in reasonably well marked out for him - he will proceed with passable satisfaction, in contemplation of the good end, and in confidence of his clear intention to come to that end, without any unjustifiable action or purpose in the way to it. ...

Adds, at very great length, particulars & details concerning various matters of revenue and finance; of Parliamentary proceeding; & of army administration.


A Query concerning a supplementary clause in the Explanatory Bill of Settlement [for Ireland]. Sent to the Lord Chancellor of England and to [Secretary] Lord Arlington.

Date: 17 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 125

Document type: Copy


Ormond to Sir William Coventry

Written from: Dublin

Date: 17 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 451

Document type: Copy

The writer's humble thanks are returned to H.R.H. the Duke of York for the passports for provision [i.e. wine] laden for the writer at Rouen & Bordeaux. ...

... Is more troubled with apprehension for Sir Jeremy Smith's squadron, than exalted at the Bishop of Munster's small victory. ... Has long desired that the King's flag should be seen in those seas, where M. Beaufort [in MS.: "Beufort"] and the Dutch have domineered too, too, long.


Encloses

A State [by Sir George Lane] of ships now in the West of Ireland and an account of the Orders given to them [by the Lord Lieutenant]

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 451


An Abstract of the number of the officers and soldiers of his Majesty's Army in Ireland; together with the head-quarters of each troop & company

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 17 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 54, fol(s). 559-560

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Lane [the date is from the endorsement].


A. Clifford to [Wharton]

Written from: Paris

Date: 17/27 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 129

Document type: Original

Has received Lord Wharton's letter of December 26th.

Gives an account of various incidents of Lord Hollis' embassy to the French Court, and of the Ambassador's approaching return to England. ...


Depositions and Examinations touching the [ship] Peter of Chelibette before ... Noblett Dunscomb, esquire, Mayor of the City of Cork, by virtue of a commission from Dr Joshua Boyle, Judge of the Admiralty for the province of Munster

Written from: Cork

Date: 18 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 245*

Document type: Certified Copy


Replication of Edmund Leech, plaintiff, in a claim of debt to the 'Answer' of William Potter [defendant]

Date: 19 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 49v

Document type: Copy


Appended

An Order of Reference to the Lord Viscount Dungannon and Sir Henry Tichborne, upon the 'Replication' of Edmund Leech. By the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant.

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 19 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 50

Document type: Copy


Lord Lieutenant & Council of Ireland to Secretary Lord Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 20 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 571-574

Document type: Copy

A report on the Revenue of Ireland; on the charges thereupon; on the military establishment of the Kingdom, and on certain reforms thereof; and upon other matters of public finance.


Subjoined 1

A Brief of the several reducements of the Army [of Ireland], which have been made since the arrival of his Grace the Lord Lieutenant ...

Date: January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 575

Document type: Certified Copy


Subjoined 2

Farmers of H.M. Customs [in Ireland] to Anglesey

Date: 16 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 577

Document type: Certified Copy

Certify certain losses sustained upon the Revenue of his Majesty's Customs, during the last year.


Subjoined 3

[A Schedule of] arms, ammunition, and other provisions of war, now in the stores in Ireland

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 579

Document type: Certified Copy


An Account of moneys received [by the Government of Ireland], out of England

Date: [20 January 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 36

Document type: Breviate

"Sum total of this account: £164,000."


An Account of disbursements, by the Government of Ireland

Date: [20 January 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 36-37

Document type: Copy

"Sum total of this account: £173,928 13s. 7d."


Accounts of monies received out of England [for his Majesty's service in Ireland; and of] payments [thereout; under various heads of public service]

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 20 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 36, fol(s). 649-650

Document type: Original


Lord Lieutenant & Council of Ireland to Arlington

Written from: Council Chamber, Dublin

Date: 20 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 36, fol(s). 663, 663* and 664

Document type: Official Copy [twenty signatures]

Referring to former letters on the revenues and establishments of Ireland, of the 26 November 1662 and of subsequent dates, they review subsequent incidents of public finance in that Kingdom and renew their statement of the necessity of aid from England. ...

It is their duty, they add, not only for the King's service but for their own indemnity to set before his Majesty "the deplorable & dangerous condition of his affairs in this kingdom", ... and the evil consequences that are to be apprehended if there be not a speedy supply. ...


An Account of necessary recruit[ments] of arms, ammunition, &c., for his Majesty's stores in Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 20 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 36, fol(s). 698

Document type: Copy. The original was sent to Lord Arlington, on the day of date.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 20 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 241

Document type: Original, subscribed & signed

Two days ago, by the King's command, the writer gave notice to the Lord Chancellor of his Majesty's intention to dine at Cornbury, but as the letter contained many other things, that intimation was misunderstood. The King arrived cold & hungry, with many courtiers in his train; and found only the Chancellor's ordinary dinner. ... A Council was afterwards held, & it was resolved that the King should go to Hampton Court. ...


Arlington to Ormond [Private]

Written from: Oxford

Date: 20 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 243-244

Document type: Holograph

Describes the visit paid to the Queen Mother, at the command of the King of France, by M. de Lyonne, to express the King's regret that "his honour would not suffer him to abstain from declaring war against the King, her son; but that it should not hinder him from loving & esteeming him as he ever had done, and wishing himself free from those engagements that imposed that unhappy necessity upon him". ...

The writer states, at length, his own view of the political situation, as it concerns foreign affairs. ...


Ormond to the Trustees of the Commissioned Officers serving his Majesty in Ireland before June, 1649

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 20 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 60

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Valuation is to be made of a certain "piece of waste ground in Church Street, near Roscommon House in Oxmantown, ... (part of the security of the Commissioned Officers, ...) ... which lieth convenient for a way ... unto Oxmantown Green, where", adds the Lord Lieutenant, "I intend to erect a mansion house". ...

Upon such valuation so to be made, Mr Dodson will attend the Commissioners, or Trustees, in order to agree upon the purchase.


Ormond to Edward Butler

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 20 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 275

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Payment is to be made to Matthew Harrison, the Duke's Comptroller, of a sum of two hundred and twenty pounds, sterling, to be by him disbursed for the purchase of Archer's Grove, from one Burrell.


Brodrick to Ormond

Written from: Wandsworth

Date: 20 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 248

Document type: Holograph

Mentions "my Lord General" [Duke of Albemarle] as being "so gay and so good-humoured, as if he were already returned from Victory; having made so excellent preparation, that he only wants two or three days' discourse with the King to establish his whole design". Adds that the current week's account of the decrease of the Plague is reported as more favourable than any heretofore issued. ...


Nicholas Bayly to Lane

Written from: Galway

Date: 20 January 1666[?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 128

Document type: Original. With date of year endorsed "1665".

Communicates particulars as to a French vessel driven by stress of weather into the harbour of Arran, where, adds the writer, he will keep her until he learns the Duke of Ormond's pleasure in the matter. ...


Carlingford to Ormond

Written from: Vienna

Date: 21 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 552

Document type: Holograph

Communicates particulars of the audience given to the writer by the Emperor, who answered the writer's address, "in Latin, very eloquently and obligingly. He is certainly a learned wise Prince; much beloved; and had he but less of the formality of the House of Austria, [would be] without exception." ...

Adds particulars of his, the writer's, gracious reception by the Imperial Court, & of the progress of political affairs there.


Petition of Sir Thomas Fortescue, knight, captain of a foot-company, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 21 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 62

Document type: Copies

Particulars of arrears of pay due to petitioner, in satisfaction of which he is willing to take one moiety, by present payment. [With the Order thereupon.]


Annex 1

Certificate, by the Muster-Master-General of the Army of Ireland, of pay due to Captain Sir Thomas Fortescue

Date: 29 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 62

Document type: Copy


Annex 2

An Order, by the Duke of Ormond, for the payment to Sir Thomas Fortescue, of one moiety of ten months' arrears, as aforesaid, in full satisfaction thereof

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 1 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 62


Archbishop of Canterbury to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 22 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 185

Document type: Holograph

The Bills sent by the Lord Lieutenant are passed, except that of Naturalization, which is to stand another debate, but doubtless will be passed. ...

Of the Act forbidding the holding of preferment both in England & Ireland, the writer says: "You have been something more severe than I expected, by making the Act look backwards as well as forwards, but your Grace knows best who are at present concerned in it". ...

Asks the Duke to have an eye upon Lord Clanbrasil, and to rescue him out of the hands of his mother. He is a sober, studious, civil person, who is likely, if God give him life & health, to make a worthy man. ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 22 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 245

Document type: Holograph

Has detained Mr Archer here, "hoping the Spaniard would give us some encouragement for drawing the Irish now in the French service into Flanders". But as yet they have made no answer and the writer is unwilling longer to detain Mr Archer from his family. He now recommends him to the Lord Lieutenant's favour. ...


Petition of John Doughty, innkeeper, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 22 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 61

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Cornet Trevor Lloyd. [With the Order made thereupon.]


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for a grant in due form to René Mezandière

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 22 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 244v-246

Document type: Copy

Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for a grant in due form to René Mezandière, for the term of fifty one years, of the sole privilege of providing, or of licensing, within the City of Dublin, and other cities and towns of Ireland, hackney-coaches, stage-coaches, and chairs. Together with regulations concerning their number, rates of charge, and other particulars.


Colonel Cusack to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 22 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 246-247

Document type: Holograph

Accredits Captain Archer to represent to the Duke some particulars as to a proposed levy of troops, for assistance of the Prince-Bishop of Munster, upon which levy the writer is employed, at the instance of the Earl of Carlingford.


St Albans to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 22 January 1666 [No. 1]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 238

Document type: Holograph

Asks that certain sums due to the writer from the Duke, and from Lord Arran, be consolidated into one bond, for a term to be fixed by the Duke at his discretion, and to carry interest at six per cent. ...


St Albans to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 22 January 1666 [No. 2]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 239-240

Document type: Holograph [with seal of arms]

Has received the Duke's letter of January 10th, which has awakened the writer to a state of things, little foreseen when he was in France. He certainly "did not imagine that we should have come to any rupture at all with that Crown; much less that we should have made so hasty steps" towards it. Adds particulars of some recent correspondence, on French affairs, with the Queen Dowager, who is assured by the King of France of his continued esteem for the King her son, though "necessitated by the obligations of his treaty with the Hollanders" to break with England. ...


Sir Philip Frowde to Sir George Lane

Written from: Post Office, London

Date: 23 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 585

Document type: Holograph

With humble duty, acknowledges the honour done to the writer by my Lord Lieutenant, in owning the writer's services, in forwarding his Grace's letters.

Adds particulars of a squadron lying four days since at Ostend "consisting of thirty-eight stout men of war, from Holland, besides three or four frigates".


The King to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 23 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 473

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

Recommends the suit of John Brett, concerning a pending claim of lands in Ireland, to the Lord Lieutenant's care.


Encloses

Petition of John Brett to the King

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 472

Document type: Original

Recites particulars of the 'Adventure', subscribed by petitioner for reducing the Rebels in Ireland; its subsequent allotment in the county of Westmeath; & an alleged fraudulent practice of Thomas Vincent, which has deprived petitioner of his benefit thereunder.

Prays redress.


The King to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 23 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 470

Document type: Original

Recites an intended provision of a sum of £5,000 for James, Earl of Castlehaven, to be secured to him by the late 'Act of Explanation', ... which intention was "in that particular rendered ineffectual". ...

Desires the Lord Lieutenant to consider upon what fund, at the King's disposal, such a provision may best be charged & assigned for the Earl's present benefit.


Sir William Coventry to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 23 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 434

Document type: Holograph

Further particulars concerning prize-cases in Ireland in which the Duke of York is interested.

Intelligence as to the movements of the Dutch fleet.


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin

Date: 23 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 39

Document type: Copy. Endorsed by Ormond.

Imparts various details concerning naval and military affairs, and matters of finance. ...


Ormond to Albemarle

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 23 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 280-281

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

At the desire of the Trustees for the Security of the Officers who served his Majesty in Ireland, before 5 June, 1649, an instrument for raising certain sums of money ... is herewith transmitted for his Grace's confirmation.


Encloses

Draught of a Warrant, by the Dukes of Ormond and Albemarle, for the raising of certain sums of money, ... "out of the issues and profits of the said Security, ... for the carrying on of the concerns of the said officers"

Date: 23 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 275-280

Document type: Copy


Petition of Henry, Earl of Drogheda, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 23 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 50

Document type: Copies

Recites the alleged illegal detention, by Randal Moore, esquire, brother of petitioner of certain lands & tenements claimed by petitioner. Prays for license to proceed against the Earl's said brother, notwithstanding his military capacity. [With the Lord Lieutenant's Order thereupon.]


A News-Letter, addressed to Sir George Lane

Written from: Oxford

Date: 23 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 87-88

The long lying of the Dutch fleet off Ostend, at this season, is thought to be by way of a bravado, - shewing the world that their ports are not always frozen-in.

It is stated in letters from Boston in New England that the Commissioners of Inquiry sent to those colonies find no noticeable desire to resist the King's sovereign authority. In Boston itself, they found a few disaffected persons, but such as "they doubted not to bring to reason, in a short time".

Upon De Ruyter's application to Lord Sandwich, on behalf of a brother in law, captured in one of the East-India prizes, his Lordship obtained the prisoner's free discharge; adding merely in his letter of reply, that a like liberality, on their side, towards Captain Howard [distinguished by great bravery, when in command of The Merlin, at Tangier; he was soon liberated, and was received with many demonstrations of respect, at Court], then a prisoner in Holland, would be well taken by the King. ...


A Memorial on the Revenue Affairs and the Public Establishments, of Ireland; by Sir James Shaen. Addressed to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant.

Written from: Oxford

Date: 24 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 565

Document type: Original


Subjoined 1

An Account of the Arrears due to the Army [of Ireland], from the 20 October 1661, to the 22 July 1662

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 567

Document type: Original


Subjoined 2

A Schedule of the supplies, necessary to be sent out of England [into Ireland]

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 569

Document type: Original


The King to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 24 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 475

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

A Warrant for the discharge of Adam Loftus, of Rafarnan in the county of Dublin, esquire, from the penalty of burning in the hand, under a conviction for the manslaughter of John Bromley; and for annulling certain recognizances entered into in the Court of Exchequer.


The King to Ormond

Written from: Oxford

Date: 24 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 477-478

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

Recites former instructions concerning the Office of Registrar to the Commissioners for executing the Act of Settlement in Ireland. ... Directs the passing of Letters Patent granting one third share of the profits of the office aforesaid to Sir Peter Harvey and others. ...


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant to William Howard, esquire, "of the liberty of pleading within the bar in any of his Majesty's Courts in this Kingdom"; according to the tenour of his Majesty's letter, of July 25th, last

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 25 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 246v

Document type: Copy


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for ... payment to Richard Jones

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 25 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 246v

Document type: Copy

Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the payment to Richard Jones [afterwards Earl of Ranelagh], esquire, or his assigns, of the sum of one thousand pounds, sterling, in satisfaction of a debt due to him from his Majesty, and in pursuance of the directions contained in his Majesty's letter, of 1st May (1665).


Advices, chiefly relating to affairs of Vice-Admiralty. Addressed, by Joshua Boyle [Judge of Admiralty-Causes for the province of Munster], to Thomas Page, one of the secretaries of the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Written from: Waterford

Date: 26 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 587

Document type: Original


Subjoined

Questions and Examinations touching the Susan of Marnock, [taken] before me, Noblett Dunscomb, esquire, Mayor of the City of Cork, by virtue of a commission from ... Joshua Boyle, &c.

Written from: Cork

Date: 9 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 589

Document type: Certified Copy


A Manifesto of Lewis XIV, King of France

Written from: St Germain-en-Laye

Date: 26 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 60

Document type: Copy

Recites that His Majesty, after having unsuccessfully used his good offices in an endeavour to bring about a pacific settlement of certain pending differences between the Crown of England, and the States General of the United Provinces, and after having been called upon to execute his treaty-obligations, under the subsisting defensive league between the Crown of France and those Provinces, has now forbidden, on pain of death, all intercourse between his subjects and those of the Crown of England.

The recital is followed by a formal Declaration of War. ...

[Note. There is another copy of this manifesto & declaration at fol. 817 (postea) dated 25 instead of 26 January.]

French.


Licenses of Absence, by the Duke of Ormond, to various persons holding employment, civil or military, under the Crown in Ireland

Date: 26 January to 18 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 241, 243, 249, 251r-v, 258v, 259

Document type: Copies; and Breviates [seven entries]


Petition of Eleanor Hurley [a person convicted of felony] to the Duke of Ormond [praying for the grant of his Majesty's gracious pardon, as recommended by the late Lord Deputy of Ireland]. [With the Order made thereupon.]

Written from: Dublin

Date: 26 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 50v

Document type: Copy


Notification, by James, Duke of Ormond, of the appointment of Mr Benjamin Phipps, Senior Proctor and Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, to be one of his Grace's domestic chaplains

Date: 26 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 20

Document type: Breviate [in Entry Book]


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 27 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 126-127

Document type: Holograph-Minute

Further details of matters concerning the Revenue and Expenditure in Ireland.


Certificate of the public crying, in Paris, of the declaration above-mentioned (MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 60)

Written from: Paris

Date: 27 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 61

Document type: Copy


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 60

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Understanding that the grandchild of Lord Leigh "is now at the house of one Mr Jackson, in Youghal", the Lord President is desired to cause the child to be forthwith brought to him, and to be kept under his care, until Mr Eger, "the person employed hither about that business", shall come to receive the child, in order to carry it into England.


Encloses:

Lords of the Council in England to Ormond

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]

Document type: Copy

Directions concerning Thomas Leigh [afterwards 2nd Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh] grandson of the Lord Leigh, who has been carried into Ireland.


Sir Thomas Wharton to Ormond

Written from: Edlington in Yorkshire [W.R.]

Date: 29 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 591

Document type: Holograph

An express from his Majesty has brought command to the Lord Lieutenant & Deputy Lieutenants of the West-Riding of Yorkshire for the raising of the Train-Bands. ... This business may possibly detain the writer, for a time, from waiting upon the Duke in Ireland. ...


Warrants, by the Duke of Ormond

Date: 29 January-4 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 246; 247r-v; 249; 255; 260

Document type: Copies (eight entries)

Warrants, by the Duke of Ormond, relating to the apprehension, custody, and treatment of accused persons; & to the discharge or temporary enlargement of persons imprisoned.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Hampton Court

Date: 30 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 247-248

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Upon a remonstrance from Lord Holles, the King of France hath published a second declaration, wherein "he gives to understand that all Englishmen are free, for three months' space, to dispose of their persons & goods" ...

All this last week, adds the writer, "we have been alarmed with a considerable squadron of Holland ships, lying before Ostende, in order to some great design" ... It made the more impression, because Turenne was drawing together, near the coast, a great body of horse & foot. ... His Majesty has directed all the Lord Lieutenants along the coast to keep the militia in readiness ...


Clarendon to Ormond

Written from: Twickenham

Date: 30 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 104

Document type: Holograph

Personal affairs. - Renewed entreaties for the excuse of Sir Allan Brodrick's continued neglect of his duties in Ireland. - Further notices of the disputes between Lord and Lady Ranelagh. - Recommendation of Dr Vaughan ("brother of Jack Vaughan"), ... for a bishopric in Ireland; but only if he have merit for it ... For, adds the Chancellor, "I conceive that Church can never flourish, but by the signal virtue & reputation of the Bishops. I have promised to mention this gentleman to you". ... - Political aspects of the affairs of the Canary Company.

[Not printed by Lister].


A News Letter, written to Sir George Lane

Written from: Hampton Court

Date: 30 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 83-84

Storms of unusual violence have prevailed; in Oxfordshire, and in some other places, there has been earthquake, by which great ravages have been done upon land; but, as yet, there are no tidings of much loss at sea.

The King is about to visit Woolwich, in order to hasten naval preparation; and is in hope that continued abatement of the sickness may soon enable the Court to return to Whitehall. The Admiralty Judge has already removed from Oxford. ...


Williamson to Lane

Written from: [Hampton Court]

Date: 30 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 84

Document type: Holograph

Sir George Lane's letter of 17th instant has been received.

Sends a copy of the first Declaration of the King of France, to which a second and supplementary one has been added, by way of explanation, at the request of Lord Holles; and with provisions which are in accordance with an article of the Treaty of 1610. ...


Petition of Piers Butler, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Date: 31 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 593

Document type: Original

Recites the particulars of the estate of Beallavone, in the Queen's County, lately belonging to Oliver Fitzgerald a minor and an innocent, and of a conveyance thereof to Petitioner who hereby resigns, absolutely, all his interest thereunder to the Lord Lieutenant. ...

Prays his Grace to restore said estate to the minor, - "claiming from his Protestant grandfather by his Protestant mother".


Petition of Richard, Lord Baron of Coloony, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [31 January] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 50v

Document type: Copy

Recites the joint-tenancy of the Petitioner, Lord Kingston, Sir Oliver St. George, & Sir James Cuff, to the Trustees of the 1649 arrears, for the town & liberties of Galway; and the assignment thereupon of pay due to Petitioner's troop of horse to which assignment the said town & liberties are not duly liable. ... Prays for redress. ...


Appended:

An Order of Reference, to the Earl of Anglesey, Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, upon the Petition of Richard, Lord Baron of Coloony

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 31 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 50v


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 31 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 282

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

The enclosed draught of a letter, to be humbly offered for his Majesty's signature, on behalf of Philip Fitzgerald, is recommended to Lord Arlington's favour, for the reasonableness of the suit and for that Fitzgerald's brother was killed in his Majesty's service.


Draught of a Letter from his Majesty, releasing a certain power of revocation reserved to the King in Letters Patent formerly granted on behalf of Philip Fitzgerald

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). [not given]


A State of the Case, between Major Bayly and Major Allen, as to the tenancy of [the Isles of] Arran. Addressed to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Date: January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 20-21

Document type: Original


A Narrative of the Negociations of Captain James Archer

Date: [January] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 535-536

Document type: Original

A Narrative of the Negociations of Captain James Archer, at the Court of France & elsewhere concerning the proposed expulsion from the service of the Crown of France of Colonel James Darcy [Here called "Le Chevr. Darsy"], and other Irishmen now employed therein. By Captain James Archer.

French.


Minute of a Proclamation by the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for dissolving the Parliament of that Kingdom. Drawn up by Sir Paul Davys.

Date: [January? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 562

Document type: Holograph [with some interlineations subsequently added in another hand]


Another Minute of a Proclamation by the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for dissolving the Parliament of that Kingdom. Partly, in the hand of the Lord Lieutenant; as sent into England to the Secretary Lord Arlington

Date: [January? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 564


An Account of the Charge of the Military List for Ireland, for seven months beginning the 1st of July 1665, and ending the last of January following

Date: [January] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 581

Document type: Certified Copy


A Schedule of the Receipts in H.M. Treasury, of Ireland, for the year ending the 26 of March, 1664. By the Earl of Anglesey, Lord Treasurer

Date: January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 583

Document type: Certified Copy


[A List of] the Names of some notorious malefactors [in the Province of Ulster, in Ireland]

Date: Undated [January? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 605

Document type: Note. Without date, signature, address, or endorsement.


Questions concerning differences between the House of Lords and House of Commons, of Ireland, upon certain matters of privilege

Date: [January? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 728-729


A Second Petition of Ellen Butler to James, Duke of Ormond

Date: [January?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 193

Document type: Original

Recites the confirmation of the farm of Manseltown, by the Explanatory Act, to the displacer of petitioner...

Prays for a lease upon terms stated.


Subjoined thereunto:

An Order of Reference upon the Petition of Ellen Butler

Date: Undated 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 194

Document type: Original


The King to Ormond

Written from: Hampton Court

Date: 1 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 479-480

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

Letters-Patent to issue containing a grant of the office of President of Connaught to John, Lord Berkeley of Stratton, and to John, Lord Kingston, for their natural lives, & the life of the survivor of them.


Further advices concerning Vice-Admiralty affairs and causes in the Province of Munster. Addressed by Joshua Boyle to Thomas Page.

Written from: Kinsale

Date: 2 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 595

Document type: Original [with seal of arms]


An Order, by the King in Council, concerning the treatment of prisoners of war in England

Written from: Worcester House

Date: 2 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 690

Document type: Copy [seven signatures]


An Order, by the King in Council, concerning the treatment of sick and wounded seamen, and of prisoners of war, now detained within several ports of the Kingdom of Ireland

Written from: Worcester House

Date: 6 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 689

Document type: Copy [signed only by the Clerk of Council]


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the drawing up of a fiant containing his Majesty's presentation of Edmund Bourke, clerk, Master of Arts, to the rectory of Lynn, the rectory of Milisker and the rectory of Carrick, all in the diocese of Meath

Date: 3 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 20v

Document type: Copy; in Entry Book


Brodrick to Ormond

Written from: Worcester House

Date: 3 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 250

Document type: Holograph

Reports a conference between a committee of the Privy Council, and certain Spanish merchants, on questions of traffic.


Ormond to the Commissioners for execution of the Acts of Settlement & Explanation concerning Ireland

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 5 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 60v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Sir John Stephens, whose cause against Erasmus Smith, now depending before the Commissioners, stands for a hearing, is employed into England, with dipatches... The Commissioners will consider whether it may not be ... equitable that the hearing be, for a time, deferred.


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 5 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 61

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Further instructions concerning Thomas Leigh, an infant.


Petition of Edmund Meara M.D., to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 5 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 52

Document type: Copies

Plaint against Nicholas Ansham, one of his Grace's Life Guard. [With the Duke's Order thereupon.]


Philip Shirley [Customer of Limerick] to Ormond

Written from: Limerick

Date: 6 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 597

Document type: Original

According to an order, bearing date 4 December 1664, from the then Lord Deputy & Council of Ireland, "for the stopping of all Dutch bottoms" that might enter into the port or river of Limerick; has caused stay to be made of a certain vessel, bound to Guinea, pretending to be from Luepstadt in Norway.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 6 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 249-250

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Such are the King's necessities here that he is not able, upon the present, to determine what sum of money he can send for the relief of Ireland. But he bids the writer say that the Lord Lieutenant may rely upon such an annual supply "as shall, - in a few years, - amount to the sum of ready money" desired. ...

..."This City was become very desolate by the rage of the contagion. For aught we can see yet, the King may not only securely stay here, but quickly call the Queen & Court from Oxford, - where her Majesty hath miscarried in his absence. Though the disappointment be great in such a loss, yet it leaves us with more secure hopes of better luck in future." ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 6 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 281

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Sir Hans Hamilton served his Majesty in the late wars, very faithfully, under the writer's command. Lord Arlington's favour in offering for the King's signature the accompanying letter on Sir Hans' behalf is solicited.


Encloses:

Draught of a Letter from his Majesty directing the grant, in due form, to Sir Hans Hamilton, of certain parcels of land in Ireland

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). [not given.]


Petition of Thomas Slater, formerly a soldier under the command of Lord Coloony, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 6 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 56

Document type: Copies

Praying leave to proceed according to law, against Quarter-master John Crofton, for arrears of pay. [With the order made thereupon.]


Williamson to Lane

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 6 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 90

Document type: Holograph

Has received Sir George's letter of January 28; and has caused the letters enclosed therewith to be delivered with great care.

Minns has sailed with his squadron, from the downs.

Adds notice of an incident personal to the Queen, whilst at Oxford. ...


Subjoins:

Advices, domestic and foreign

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 6 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 89-90

Orders have been given for putting the militia of the maritime counties upon a good footing; and for effectual watching of the coasts.

The King, noticing the readiness of some well-affected persons & corporations in the country, to lend him money, at six per cent.; recommends the citizens of London to imitate the example. ...


Ormond to Lord Callan

Written from: Dublin

Date: 8 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 61

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Instructions for the apprehension of one Thomas Langton.


Affidavit of John Fitzgerald, in the matter of a plaint for debt of James Supple, of London, Vintner, against Giles Taylor. With the order made by Lord Lieutenant the Duke of Ormond, thereupon

Written from: Dublin

Date: 8 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 58

Document type: Copies


Petition of Captain John Parker, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 8 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 66

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Lieutenant Richard Smith, of Clonmel. [With the Order made thereupon.]


Answer of Randal Moore esquire, Cornet of Horse, ... shewing the reasons why he hath not answered the Earl of Drogheda's Bill against him in the High Court of Chancery

Written from: [Dublin?]

Date: 8? February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 56

Document type: Copy


Appended:

An Order, by the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, upon the 'Answer' of Randal Moore

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 8 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 56

Document type: Copy


Petition of Colonel James Fitzgerald and Elizabeth, his wife to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [8 February] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 56v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of injurious proceedings against Petitioners by Lieutenant Edmund Gallard, and Cornet Francis Robinson; with prayer for license to proceed, in due form of law, against the persons complained of, notwithstanding their military capacities. [With the order made thereupon.]


Ormond to the Earl of Rothes, Lord High Commissioner of Scotland

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 9 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 69

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recommends the prayer of a Petition - so far as may consist with justice, - presented to the writer, & herewith transmitted to his Grace the Lord High Commissioner; the matter relating to lands in Scotland.


Encloses

Petition of Elizabeth Evans, widow, to the Duke of Ormond

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 69r-v

Is entitled to a small estate in Scotland in respect of which she prays for his Grace's letter recommendatory.


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, reciting a former Warrant, for a Commission of Gaol-Delivery in certain counties to Sir Jerome Alexander

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 9 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 248

Document type: Copy

Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, reciting a former Warrant, for a Commission of Gaol-Delivery in certain counties to Sir Jerome Alexander; - and directing the issue of a writ of supersedeas of so much of that Commission as concerns the County of Kildare.


Clarges to Lane

Written from: Hampton Court

Date: 10 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 599

Document type: Holograph

Has received Sir George's favour, together with the 'Book of Articles' enclosed therein, - the best, in its kind, that the present writer has seen; although he has by him the King [Charles the First]'s 'Articles' for his army and also the Parliament's.

P.S. Forwards an enclosure for Sir James Cuffe.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 10 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 251

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Communicates particulars of certain arms and ammunition to be sent into Ireland. ...

States what has been & will be done, in pursuance of a letter from the Lord Lieutenant, on behalf of Sir John Stephens.


Sir W. Coventry to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 10 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 436

Document type: Holograph

It has been commanded in Council that the Commissioners for sick and wounded soldiers & sailors, in England, should have the care of those in Ireland, & also the custody of prisoners. ...

The money due upon the freight of the ship 'Ormond' is to be paid by the Treasurers of the Navy here to the Vice-Treasurer of Ireland...

His Majesty's Declaration of War against France was this day proclaimed in the City, with more satisfaction to the people, than (the writer believes) the French will find "in attempting us".


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Dublin

Date: 10 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 376

Document type: Copy

... The gout would now be especially unseasonable for the Chancellor's friends here, who stand in need of all the assistance he can give them to obtain the things they propose, and to prevent the things they fear...

In a letter of some time ago, the Chancellor took a notice how unfit it was that the Judges of this Kingdom should not be in the coif. ... Since then, the Duke has recovered a letter sent to Lord Strafford, in virtue of which the Judges then wore coifs...


Enclosure 1:

The King to Strafford

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). [not given]

Instructions in a matter concerning the Judges of his Majesty's Courts in Ireland.


Enclosure 2:

[A Minute of] what the Lord Ranelagh hath consented to, upon the Duke of Ormond's interposition, for the maintenance of the Lady Ranelagh, & his daughters

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 378

Document type: Copy


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 10 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 128

Document type: Copy

According to the intimation in Lord Arlington's letter of January 30th, orders will immediately be given for the stay of all French ships now in the harbours of Ireland, although, in the Lord Lieutenant's opinion, it is not in agreement with that three months' liberty, for the withdrawal of the persons & goods of the King's subjects, given in France...

... Adds some reflections upon the prospects of the war; upon subsidies to be raised in Ireland; and upon other matters of revenue & policy. ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 10 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 130-133

Document type: Holograph-Minute

... Has received the King's letters in favour of Lord O'Brien [In MS.: "Lord Brien"] and Mr Wingfield [Son-in-law of the Earl of Orrery], but those for the promotion of Dr Mossom and Dr Steele are not yet come nor is the writer sorry for it. Lord Arlington will find by a letter [of previous date] that Dr Steele declines the advancement, with more earnestness than anybody else pretends to it. ... Dr Gore was recommended for the preferment so refused. But if Dr Steele can be persuaded to accept a Bishopric - for which he may not be the less fit, on account of his unwillingness - the King's letter for him, & not that for Dr Gore shall be made use of. ...

... The Council taken at Cornbury was, the writer is convinced, fully as good as the dinner. ... The continuance of the sickness in so many parishes [of London] may, in the spring, make London an unsafe place. ... Adds particulars concerning the Registrar's place; concerning John Chamberlain, an outlaw; and concerning many other pending affairs. ...


Ormond to the Officers of his Majesty's Customs in the Port of Dublin

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 10 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 61v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Stay is to be made, in the Port of Dublin, "of all ships and vessels whatsoever, belonging to any of the subjects of the French King".


Ormond to the Officers of his Majesty's Customs in the Port of Wexford

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 10 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 61v

Document type: Breviate

Stay is to be made, in the Port of Wexford, of all ships and vessels whatsoever, belonging to any of the subjects of the French King.


Ormond to the Officers of his Majesty's Customs in the Port of Ross

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 10 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 61v

Document type: Breviate

Stay is to be made, in the Port of Ross, of all ships and vessels whatsoever, belonging to any of the subjects of the French King.


Ormond to the Officers of his Majesty's Customs in the Port of Drogheda

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 10 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 61v

Document type: Breviate

Stay is to be made, in the Port of Drogheda, of all ships and vessels whatsoever, belonging to any of the subjects of the French King.


Ormond to the Officers of Customs, in the Port of Dundalk

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 10 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 61v

Document type: Breviate

Stay is to be made, in the Port of Dundalk, of all ships and vessels whatsoever, belonging to any of the subjects of the French King.


Ormond to the Officers of Customs, in the Port of Carlingford

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 10 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 61v

Document type: Breviate

Stay is to be made, in the Port of Carlingford, of all ships and vessels whatsoever, belonging to any of the subjects of the French King.


Ormond to the Officers of Customs, in the Port of Galway

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 10 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 61v

Document type: Breviate

Stay is to be made, in the Port of Galway, of all ships and vessels whatsoever, belonging to any of the subjects of the French King.


Ormond to the Officers of Customs, in the Port of Sligo

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 10 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 61v

Document type: Breviate

Stay is to be made, in the Port of Sligo, of all ships and vessels whatsoever, belonging to any of the subjects of the French King.


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 10 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 247v

Document type: Copy

Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant to Folliot Wingfield [In MS.: "Wingfeild"], of Powerscourt, in the county of Wicklow, esquire, of the dignity of Viscount Powerscourt.


Henry Moore to Sandwich

Written from: [London]

Date: 11 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 299

Document type: Holograph

Encloses a letter from Mr Shipley on which Lord Sandwich's commands are desired. Has received tallies importing the sum of £5115, struck upon the Customs, a revenue already so anticipated & extraordinarily charged, that the tallies will not pass even at a rebate of 30 per cent, nor can a loan be obtained thereon save by assurance of a collateral security. There is no reasonable expectation that the first of them will be paid within three years...


Replication of Lady Jane Sterling

Written from: Dublin

Date: 11 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 114

Document type: Breviate & Copies

Replication of Lady Jane Sterling [Claiment of (1) an annuity out of certain lands, in the county of Louth, held by Moore; (and, 2) a marriage-portion of £2,000, to the petitioner's daughters, out of the lands aforesaid.] to the answer of Cornet Randal Moore... [With the order made thereupon.]


Sir William Temple to Ormond

Written from: Brussels

Date: 12 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 601-602

Document type: Holograph

His Grace's letter of November 29 was long upon its way ... The present writer congratulates him on the happy passing of the 'Settlement Act'. ...

The great effort of the French and Dutch will be to destroy the Prince of Munster, "with the first of the season", but it is the writer's hope that, if that Prince be well fed this winter, he will have strength & vigour to resist...

Notices of the Dutch treaty with Denmark, and of some other political transactions abroad, are added...


Countess of Kildare to Ormond

Date: 12 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 603

Document type: Original

Communicates to the Lord Lieutenant the particulars of the writer's answer (on behalf of the estate of the late Earl, her husband), to certain allegations in a Petition, from the officers of her husbands troop of horse, lately presented to his Grace.


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 12 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 334-335

Document type: Original. With record of enrolment.

William Hamilton to have a grant of lands, in the county of Armagh, formerly belonging to Sir Phelim O'Neill, & forfeited by his attainder; with certain special provisos & privileges herein detailed.


Draught of a Paper, proposed to be sent to the Commissioners [for executing the Acts of Settlement and Explanation]. Read at the Board [of Privy Council], 12 February 1665 [O.S.]

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 12 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 615

The title cited is from the Duke of Ormond's endorsement of this paper.


Ormond to the Trustees of the Commissioned Officers, serving his Majesty in Ireland before June, 1649

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 12 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 61v-62

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recommends, in very earnest terms, the claim for arrears of Major Dudley Philips, who, it seems, has been put, by the Trustees, "in the list of postponed officers", although the Lord Lieutenant is himself well assured that Major Philips "was not in actual service, or had command of any troop or company" [in the army in Ireland,] "since 5 June, 1649".


Ormond to the Commissioners for Subsidies, in the county of Kildare

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 12 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 62

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recommends, Captain Henry Bren, for employment as a Receiver of Subsidies.


Petition of John Nicholls, a convicted cattle-stealer, praying for the grant of his Majesty's pardon, - petitioner having entered into "an engagement to consummate a matrimonial contract", ... and being resolved to amend his life

Written from: Dublin

Date: 12 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 58-59

Document type: Copies

With the order made by the Duke of Ormond thereupon.


Petition of Richard Huyth of Dublin, merchant to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 12 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 59

Document type: Copies

[Praying for the grant of passports for a return-voyage of certain ships to Reuen. With the Order made thereupon.]


Brief of the Duke of Ormond, for a collection in the churches throughout the kingdom of Ireland, and also by the churchwardens from house to house, in the respective parishes on behalf of John Hinde, a sufferer by fire in the town of Roscommon

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 12 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 248r-v

Document type: Copy


Petition of Turlogh McEntee, a convicted prisoner in the Gaol of Trim, to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 12 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 57v

Document type: Copies

Recites the circumstances under which Petitioner claimed 'benefit of clergy', - reading the Lord's Prayer, although unable to read a Psalm. ...

Prays a reference to the Judge of Assize, & a respite. ... [With an Order, according to the prayer.]


Certificate of Abraham Yarner, Muster-Master-General, concerning arrears of pay due to John Dodd, and another, of the Earl of Anglesey's troop of horse

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 13 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 60

Document type: Copy


Annexed:

An Order, by the Duke of Ormond, for the payment of the arrears certified by Abraham Yarner

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 22 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 60

Document type: Copy


Petition of George Chrickton, clerk to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [13 February] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 58v

Document type: Copies

Recites particulars of arrears of rent upon certain lands in the county of Fermanagh, due to petitioner by Lieutenant Francis Butler, of his Grace's Guard, and the detention of the land aforesaid. And prays for redress. [With the Order made thereupon.]


Ormond to Trustees for the Commissioned Officers serving his Majesty in Ireland

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 15 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 62r-v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recites certain previous proceedings concerning the lands of Sir Robert Talbot in the county of Wicklow. Directs the admission of Sir Robert to the tenancy of those lands, "at the rent for which they are now set".


Ormond to Sir Philip Warwick

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 15 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 283

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recites the purport of a letter to Lord Arlington, desiring the King's order for repayment to the Treasury in Ireland of a sum of £350, expended in sending men from thence to his Majesty's fleet. ... Requests that on receipt of such order, Sir Philip will pay that sum to Alexander Halsall, bearer of this letter; and the same will be duly repaid into the Treasury here.


Petition of Thomas Lych, merchant, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 15 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 59

Document type: Copies

[Praying for license to traffic and reside in the town of Galway. With the order made thereupon].


Petition of William Purefoy, esquire, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 15 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 59v

Document type: Copies

Recites particulars of an agreement made with Colonel Daniel O'Brien, concerning petitioner's interest in certain lands which are the subject of a proviso in the Explanatory Act for the Settlement of Ireland; and the breach of such agreement, by the said O'Brien. And prays for redress. [With the order made thereupon.]


Petition of Thomas Plunkett, a convicted prisoner in the Gaol of Trim, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [15 February] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 56-57

Document type: Copies

[Praying for pardon, or for a respite of thirty days. With an Order of reference to the Judge of Assize ...].


Henry Howard to Sandwich

Written from: Oxford

Date: 16 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 301

Document type: Holograph

Suggests as a suitable match for Lord Hinchinbrooke [Lord Hinchinbrooke, afterwards 2nd Earl of Sandwich, married Lady Anne Boyle, daughter of Richard Earl of Burlington], the daughter of Lord Banbury & grandchild of Lord Newport. The lady has a present fortune of £6,000, with £4,000 on her father's death, and will inherit Newport House, at the decease of Lady Newport. ...


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 16 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 62v-63

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Directs the entry of certain soldiers, lately returned from service at sea, upon the muster rolls of their respective former companies.


Ormond to the Governor of Carrickfergus

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 16 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 63

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

A certificate is to be sent of the casues of the putting under restraint of one Ralph Sharpley.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 17 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 253

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Notwithstanding the great conflux of people to town, the last Bills [of Mortality] were augmented but seven only. The Queen & Duchess [of York] are arrived here, which hath filled this end of the town. ...

Adds particulars concerning the "vesting clause" of the Explanatory Bill, and concerning some minor matters of current business. ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 17 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 255-256

Document type: Holograph

Personal affairs. Summary of intelligence received from Holland.


Ormond to Carteret

Written from: Dublin

Date: 17 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 325

Document type: Copy

Desires the payment [in London] of a sum of £960, according to an Order in Council, for reimbursement of a like sum "laid out of this Treasury, upon the 'Ormond' [frigate], taken on here, at a time when by inconsiderable privateers of the enemy, the King's subjects received great damage upon this coast, & his Majesty's dishonour"...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 17 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 134-135

Document type: Copy

Particulars and details of informations received concerning alleged conspiracies in Ireland; - of the measures pending for the supply of money needed for the King's service in that kingdom; - of defensive preparations there; - and of a reference to the Judges upon the interpretation of the "vesting clause", in the Explanatory Act of Settlement. ...


Enclosure 1:

Copy of a letter from the Earl of Orrery, concerning an alleged conspiracy in Ireland

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). [not given]


Enclosure 2:

Copy of a letter "from the wife of an inteligent officer of the army" (in Ireland, not herein named), upon an alleged conspiracy in Ireland

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). [not given]


Ormond to Sir William Coventry

Written from: Dublin

Date: 17 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 453

Document type: Copy

Further particulars concerning the defence of the Irish coasts, and other naval affairs.


Ormond to the Commissioners of Prizes in England

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 17 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 22v-23

Document type: Copy

Reports the substance of a petition received from Thomas Hachett, Owen Lloyd, and others complaining of the wrongful capture of a ship, called The Success, of Liverpool, in which petitioners are interested, & claims redress on their behalf.


Ormond to Lords Commissioners of Prizes in England

Date: 17 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 20

Document type: Copy

A vessel called the St. Andrew, of Waterford, bound from Bordeaux to Dublin, with wines for the Duke's use, was forced into the Port of Minehead by stress of weather and is there detained under suspicion of being French. Her release is desired.


Petition of Alderman John Farthing, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 17 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 59v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Ensign John Hutton. [With the Order made thereupon.]


Ormond to the Commissioners of the Court of Claims at Dublin

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 17 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 63

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recommends, in accordance with the terms of a letter lately received from Lord Arlington, the claim of Sir Courtney Poole [Pole?], one of the adventurers for lands in Ireland.


Orders, by the Duke of Ormond, for regulation of certain proceedings in a cause depending before him, between John Allen, esquire, plaintiff, and Major Nicholas Bayly, defendant; and also for the issue of a commission to examine witnesses thereupon

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 17, 21, 29 February and 1 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 248v, 250v, 253v, 254

Document type: Copies [four entries]


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 19 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 484

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

A pardon to be granted to Thomas Boyd, merchant, now a prisoner in the City of Dublin, of all treasons and other crimes and offences, with clauses for restitution of lands & goods forfeited.


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 19 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 482

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

Letters-Patent to issue containing a release of the power of re%eation, reserved in preceding Letters-Patent for a grant of certain lands, in the county of Kildare, to Captain Garret Aylmer.


Sir Arthur Chichester to Thomas Page

Written from: Dungannon

Date: 20 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 606

Document type: Holograph

Some notorious rogues are lately fled from this county to Dublin, ... "with two bastard sons of General Owen Roe O'Neill". ... A list is communicated for the information of the Lord Lieutenant. ...


Albemarle to Lane

Written from: Cockpit, [Whitehall]

Date: 20 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 608

Document type: Original

A considerable sum is due in Ireland "for the arrears of Sir Richard Grenville", on behalf of whose daughter, Mrs Leonard, - a kinswoman of the writer, - Sir George Lane's good offices, in relation to the recovery thereof, are solicited.


Grant, by Letters Patent, to James, Duke of Ormond, of the guardianship & tuition of Charles James McCarthy, grandson and heir to Donough, Earl of Clancarty

Date: 20 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 742

Document type: Breviate


Grant, by Letters Patent, to Thomas, Earl of Ossory, of the guardianship & tuition of Fitzgerald Aylmer son & heir to Garrett Aylmer

Date: 20 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 742

Document type: Breviate


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 20 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 486

Document type: Original

The Declaration of War against France to be published in Ireland, in form accustomed.


Captain Butler to Lane

Written from: Carrickfergus

Date: 20 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 187

Document type: Holograph [with seal of arms]

This evening came a letter from the Lord Lieutenant to the commanding officer of this garrison, desiring an account of one Ralph Sharply, who was a prisoner at large, but is now confined. ...

For four years, Sharply has been imprisoned off and on, as leader of the Quakers ... The Bishop of Down [Jeremy Taylor], who is now in Dublin, can best satisfy the Lord Lieutenant concerning him. ... He refused to enter into bond for his good behaviour, and therefore is still a prisoner. ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 20 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 257

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

The Bill of Naturalization, if there be precedent for it, shall pass.

A Declaration of War against France is to be issued in Ireland, according to the tenour of that issued here, - with the needful variations of form. ...

The Plague Bill is increased ten this week ... But to cure us of all other diseases, Mr Greatrakes is come to town, called hither by his Majesty's curiosity; who intends to offer him Sir John Denham, to work his first wonders upon. ... Father Patrick told the King that if he [Greatrakes] had staid a little longer in Ireland, the Lord Lieutenant would have "comprehended him".


Petition of Thomas Orr of Dublin, merchant, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 20 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 61-62

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Cornet Francis Hawley, and another.


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the stating in the Court of Exchequer of Ireland, of the arrears due to Sir Paul Davys, his Majesty's principal Secretary of State in that kingdom

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 20 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 250

Document type: Copy


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant in due form to Arthur (Annesley), Earl of Anglesey, of a pension of six hundred pounds a year, during life

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 20 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 250

Document type: Copy

Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant in due form to Arthur (Annesley), Earl of Anglesey, of a pension of six hundred pounds a year, during life; "to commence from the time that any ... increase of pension or allowance hath been granted by his Majesty, since his restoration, unto any other of his Crown Officers in this kingdom".


Sir Philip Froude to Lane

Date: 20 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 252-253

Document type: Holograph

Communicates some remarks and recommendations on the improvement of the packet service between England and Ireland, and between England and Spain. ...


Ormond to the Commissioners of the Court of Claims at Dublin

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 21 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 63

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recommends certain claims advanced by Dr Robert Gorges, on behalf of H.R.H. the Duke of York.


Encloses:

Petition of Dr Robert Gorges on behalf of H.R.H. the Duke of York, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Date: [February] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]

Document type: Copy

[Concerning certain claims ... under provisions of the Act of Settlement for Ireland, & of the Act Explanatory thereof.]


Petition of William Boyle, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 21 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 59v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Garrett Rawleigh [In copy of Petition: "Rawleigh"; in that of the order, "Rowleigh"]. [With the order made thereupon.]


Ormond to Sir Edward Smith & others, Commissioners for Executing the 'Act of Settlement' & the 'Explanatory Act' thereupon

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 22 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 530

Document type: Certified Copy

Favour and furtherance, in respect of all rightful pretensions, are desired for Mr John Hearne, who was a dependant on the late Earl of Clanricarde, and was serviceable to his Majesty's interest.


Commission by Edward, Earl of Manchester, Lord Chamberlain, K.G. and Edward Earl of Sandwich, K.G., Lords Lieutenants of the County of Huntingdon, to Edward, Lord Hinchinbroke, to be Colonel of a regiment of militia

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 22 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 74, fol(s). 195

Document type: Original. With seals of arms. On vellum.


Instructions [by King Charles II] for ... Edward, Earl of Sandwich, going to Spain, in quality of our Extraordinary Ambassador

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 22 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 103, fol(s). 331-346

Document type: Official Copy


Ormond to the Commissioners for Executing the Act of Settlement for Ireland, etc.

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 22 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 64

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Desires the favour and furtherance of the Commissioner on behalf of John Hearne, in his rightful pretensions, under the Act of Settlement and Explanatory Act.


Encloses:

Petition of John Hearne to the Duke of Ormond

Date: [February] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 63v-64

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recites particulars of petitioner's service to his Majesty, under the late Lord Marquess of Clanricarde, and also of his sufferings under the Usurpers ...

Recites further particulars of certain lands of which petitioner is now in possession as a person transplanted ...

Prays for confirmation therein, and for the setting out of reprisals for certain other lands.


Petition of Robert Stratford, esquire, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 22 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 61v

Document type: Copy

Plaint of debt against George Hopkins, a member of the army.

[With the order made thereupon.]


Instructions for ... Edward, Earl of Sandwich, going to Spain, in quality of our Extraordinary Ambassador

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 22 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 274, fol(s). 5-20

Document type: Original. On vellum.


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 23 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 488

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

Sir Henry O'Neill, Knight, to be a Baronet of Ireland.


Petition of Anne Bagenal, relict of Thomas Bagenal, late of Kells, in the county of Meath, gentleman deceased

Written from: Dublin

Date: 23 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 60

Document type: Copies

Recites the fiathful service to the King, as Quartermaster of Horse, of Petitioner's late husband and particulars of arrears of pay due to him, & still unsatisfied.

With an Order of Reference, thereupon to the Trustees of the 1649 security.


Petition of John Whitworth, merchant, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 23 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 60v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Joseph Bayly, alleged to have fraudulently enlisted himself as a trooper, to avoid payment thereof. [With the order made thereupon.]


Petition of Colonel Francis Willoughby, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 23 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 60v

Document type: Copies

[Concerning a difference, arising under the Acts of Settlement between Petitioner & Colonel Daniel O'Brien. With the order made thereupon].


Petition of Marcus Browne to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [23 February] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 61

Document type: Copy

Recites particulars of a farm of his Majesty's Customs in the town of Galway, taken by petitioner by contract with his Grace, in the year 1650; and also of certain losses sustained by Petitioner under circumstances stated, for reparation of which provision in certain statutes, cited, is made. And prays for relief.


Appended:

An Order of Reference, to his Majesty's Attorney General, of the Petition aforesaid

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 23 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 61

Document type: Copy


Bishop of Cashel to Ormond

Written from: Cashel

Date: 24 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 610

Document type: Original

Mr Lademan, of Clonmel, who this day took Holy Orders, is a person of known ability and good conversation ... The influence which he hath gained in these parts will render him much more serviceable to the Church, than he would be elsewhere. ...


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 24 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 490

Document type: Original

The King's special thanks to be returned to the two Houses of Parliament of Ireland, for the ample testimonies they have given of their affection & loyalty; more especially for their dutiful confidence in the King, in the person of the Lieutenant, upon occasion of the passing of the 'Act of Explaining the Act of Settlement'.


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 24 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 492

Document type: Original

The Parliament of Ireland to be dissolved, on the 30th day of March next, in such manner as hath been accustomed.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 24 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 259

Document type: Holograph

Our messenger is returned out of Holland, with an answer, as he thought, entirely to our satisfaction. But, upon examining it, none of us make that judgment of it. ... De Witt is so powerful, and so engaged with France that we shall get nothing of them, but what we get by fighting. "I mean the Public", adds the writer. "In my own particular, I have all the satisfactory assurances from thence that I can wish, at this distance. And the lady expects only my Lord of Ossory's summons, to come away." ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 24 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 260-261

Document type: Original, subscribed & signed

Gives particulars of the state of Irish business, pending before the Council ... "Both the Lord Chancellor and the Solicitor-General make a great difficulty in doing anything for Sir John Stephens [In MS.: "Steevens"]; not only for the precedent's sake, but for the irregularity of his demand. But," adds the writer, "remembering how earnestly your Grace hath recommended his concerns, I shall do what I can to serve him." ...


My Lord Duke [of Ormond]'s Cypher ... with the Earl of Orrery

Date: 24 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 50, fol(s). 418-419

Document type: In print. Endorsed, & dated, by Lane.


Mr [Richard] Shee's opinion upon Mr Butler's case [concerning certain lands in Ireland decreed by the Commissioners of Claims as affected by a Proviso in the Act Explanatory of the 'Act of Settlement' for that kingdom]

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 24 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 156

Document type: Holograph. Endorsed by Ormond.


Petition of Nicholas Warren, and Philip Joyce, to the King's ... Majesty

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: [24 February?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 620

Document type: Original

Recite the circumstances under which restraint has been put, in Ireland, upon certain merchants-vessels, having his Majesty's license to pass from Rouen to Dublin & to return;

Pray an order for the release of the vessels aforesaid.


Petition of Richard, Lord Baron of Coloony, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 24 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 61v

Document type: Copy

Recites an assignment upon Lord Viscount [Dillon of] Costello (for twelve subsidies due by him) in satisfaction of military pay due to Petitioner's troop of horse, of which payment cannot be obtained. And prays for relief.


Annexed:

An Order by the Duke of Ormond to the Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, for the issue of a solvent assignment, for the pay of the troop aforesaid

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 24 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 61v

Document type: Copy


An Order, by the King, in Council, referring the Petition of Nicholas Warren, and Philip Joyce [see, under February 24] to the consideration, & report, of the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 26 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 620

Document type: Original


[An Order] by his Majesty's Commissioners for Executing the 'Act of Settlement', and the 'Act of Explanation'

Date: 26 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 617

Document type: Certified Copy

[An Order] by his Majesty's Commissioners for Executing the 'Act of Settlement', and the 'Act of Explanation', of the same. [Concerning the restoration & confirmation, under the Acts aforesaid, of persons previously put into possession of lands, in pursuance of letters from the King.


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 27 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 494

Document type: Original

Further directions concerning the grant of the escheated estates of aliens and others in Ireland, to James, Earl of Suffolk.


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 27 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 496-497

Document type: Original

Further directions and instructions for the Commissioners for putting into Execution the 'Acts of Settlement and of Explanation' in Ireland.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 27 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 262

Document type: Original, subscribed & signed

"Upon the important point of ... money from hence, my Lord Chancellor declared [that] your Grace might, with all security, depend upon the having of £30,000 or £40,000, sent you within the course of this year. Sir William Coventry was charged to tell your Grace what guards shall be allowed to your coasts. ...

Various details of minor affairs are added. ...


Sir W. Coventry to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 27 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 438-439

Document type: Holograph

The Duke's letter of the 17th came to hand yesterday. The present writer has not been wanting in the endeavour to make provision, to his Grace's satisfaction, for the guard of the Irish coast. The composition of the body of the fleet was only determined two or three days since so that it was not possible - until then - to provide for Ireland...

Details are added, at very great length, ocncerning naval preparations & naval incidents.


Ormond to the Sheriff of the County of Wicklow

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 27 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 55v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recommends Sir Edward Sutton, to be chosen Knight of the Shire for Wicklow.


Ormond to the Commissioners of the Court of Claims

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 64v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recommends the claims and suit of Captain William Hamilton ... now defending before the Commissioners.


Enclosure 1:

Copy of a letter of his Majesty, recommendatory of the services and merits of Captain William Hamilton

Date: 18 February 1662

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]


Enclosure 2:

Copy of a letter of his Majesty, recommendatory of the services and merits of Captain William Hamilton

Date: 12 October 1664

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]


Ormond to Major Nicholas Bayly

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 64v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Certain vessels (French & Dutch), now in the custody of Major Bayly, are to be delivered to Colonel John Spencer, or to his order.


Ormond to Colonel John Spencer, Governor of Galway

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 65

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Directs that Colonel Spencer, and the force under his command, shall give all needful aid to officers of the Admiralty and of the Customs for the safe custody of certain ships, and of their respective cargos, which have been seized as prizes, or may hereafter be so seized.


Ormond to Major Robert Edgeworth, Governor of Sligo

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 65

Document type: Breviate

Directs that Major Edgeworth, and the force under his command, shall give all needful aid to officers of the Admiralty and of the Customs for the safe custody of certain ships, and of their respective cargos, which have been seized as prizes, or may hereafter be so seized.


Ormond to Colonel John Mayart, Governor of Carrickfergus

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 65

Document type: Breviate

Directs that Colonel Mayart, and the force under his command, shall give all needful aid to officers of the Admiralty and of the Customs for the safe custody of certain ships, and of their respective cargos, which have been seized as prizes, or may hereafter be so seized.


Ormond to Lieutenant Colonel Moses Hill, at Belfast

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 65

Document type: Breviate

Directs that Lieutenant Colonel Hill, and the force under his command, shall give all needful aid to officers of the Admiralty and of the Customs for the safe custody of certain ships, and of their respective cargos, which have been seized as prizes, or may hereafter be so seized.


Ormond to Colonel John Gorges, Governor of Londonderry

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 17 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 65

Document type: Breviate

Directs that Colonel Gorges, and the force under his command, shall give all needful aid to officers of the Admiralty and of the Customs for the safe custody of certain ships, and of their respective cargos, which have been seized as prizes, or may hereafter be so seized.


Ormond to Sir George Rawdon at Coleraine

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 17 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 65

Document type: Breviate

Directs that Sir George Rawdon, and the force under his command, shall give all needful aid to officers of the Admiralty and of the Customs for the safe custody of certain ships, and of their respective cargos, which have been seized as prizes, or may hereafter be so seized.


Ormond to Major Nicholas Bayly

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 17 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 65r-v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Directs that Major Bayly, and the force under his command, shall give all needful aid to officers of the Admiralty and of the Customs for the safe custody of certain ships, and of their respective cargos, which have been seized as prizes, or may hereafter be so seized.


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 66

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Further instructions concerning the custody, and due disposal, of prize-ships brought into any of the ports of the Province of Munser. ...


Petition of Sir James Dillon, Knight, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 27 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 62

Document type: Copy

Four years' pension are due to Petitioner at the rate of £500 a year, under his Majesty's grant, according to which petitioner's said pension was to date from 18 August, 1662.


Annexed:

Warrant by the Duke of Ormond, to the Auditor-General of Ireland, for the issue of Debentures to Sir James Dillon, for the arrears of pension due to him

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 62v

Document type: Copy


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the drawing up of a fiant, containing his Majesty's presentation of James Drisdall [Drysdale?], Clerk, to the vicarage of Irke, in the Diocese of Ossory

Date: 27 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 20v-21

Document type: Copy; in Entry Book


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 43

Document type: Copy

... The communication to Lord Arlington of Lord Orrery's letter has been rewarded ... with the supply of £15,000, which Sir George Carteret certifies to be by this time in Sir Robert Viner's hands. Was fain to fall upon that sum, as possible to be gotten, though not sufficient to answer the necessity. ...

Has had assurance that the assignments for the pay of the army shall be ready and sent, ... before use can be made of them ... The Militia is going on as fast as we can model it, but how to find arms ... is the difficulty ...


Ormond to the Lords of the Council in England

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 41

Document type: Copy

Understanding that Lord Leigh's grandson, mentioned in their Lordship's letter of 24th January, was with his mother at Youghal in the Province of Munster, directions are sent to the Lord President Orrery to cause the youth to be brought to his Lordship's house, there to await the further commands of the Council.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 136-137

Document type: Holograph-Minute

... Is awaiting the return of various papers, and of bills transmitted hence [into England] ... The last sent are amongst the first [already] returned; although some of these yet remaining are as useful, to the purposes designed.

Lord Arlington will find many precedents of Acts of Naturalization, passed in this kingdom ... The writer, himself, remembers several, passed in my Lord of Strafford's time; particularly for Sir William St. Leger's children, born in Holland; for "divers other Dutchmen" ... Some have been naturalized, by Acts passed in this Parliament. ...

Adds various particulars concerning war; naval prizes; and revenue affairs.


Ormond to Richard Jones, Constable of the Castle of Roscommon

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 65v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Notifies that from 31st of March next, all Constables & Warders, in the several forts and castles of Ireland, are to be put out of his Majesty's pay.


Ormond to Dudley Mannwaring, Constable of Dublin Castle

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 65v

Document type: Breviate

Notifies that from 31st of March next, all Constables & Warders, in the several forts and castles of Ireland, are to be put out of his Majesty's pay.


Ormond to Orrery [As Constable of Limerick Castle]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 65v

Document type: Breviate

Notifies that from 31st of March next, all Constables & Warders, in the several forts and castles of Ireland, are to be put out of his Majesty's pay.


Ormond to Berkeley [As Constable of Athlone Castle]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 65v

Document type: Breviate

Notifies that from 31st of March next, all Constables & Warders, in the several forts and castles of Ireland, are to be put out of his Majesty's pay.


Ormond to Thomas Fortescue [As Constable of Carrickfergus Castle

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 65v

Document type: Breviate

Notifies that from 31st of March next, all Constables & Warders, in the several forts and castles of Ireland, are to be put out of his Majesty's pay.


Ormond to William Hill, Constable of Hillsborough Fort

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 65v

Document type: Breviate

Notifies that from 31st of March next, all Constables & Warders, in the several forts and castles of Ireland, are to be put out of his Majesty's pay.


Ormond to Sir George Wentworth, Provost-Marshal of Leinster

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 66

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Notifies the reducing and putting out of pay from his Majesty of the Provost-Marshals of the several provinces of Ireland.


Ormond to Sir Francis Peisley, Provost-Marshal of Munster

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 66

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Notifies the reducing and putting out of pay from his Majesty of the Provost-Marshals of the several provinces of Ireland.


Ormond to Mountrath [As Provost-Marshal of Connaught]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 66

Document type: Breviate

Notifies the reducing and putting out of pay from his Majesty of the Provost-Marshals of the several provinces of Ireland.


Ormond to Major Robert Ward, Provost Marshal of Ulster

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 66

Document type: Breviate

Notifies the reducing and putting out of pay from his Majesty of the Provost-Marshals of the several provinces of Ireland.


Ormond to the Sheriff of the County of Galway

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 66v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Books]

Understanding that certain differences have lately existed between the Sheriff of the County of Galway, and the Sheriff of the County of the town of Galway, concerning the meares and bounds of their respective jurisdictions, an much disliking thereof, has directed the Sheriff of the town to forbear all disturbance in that behalf ... If there be any just cause for questioning the bounds, due examination shall be made in that matter under direction of the Lord Lieutenant.


Ormond to the Sheriff of the County of the town of Galway

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 66v

Document type: Breviate

Understanding that certain differences have lately existed between the Sheriff of the County of Galway, and the Sheriff of the County of the town of Galway, concerning the meares and bounds of their respective jurisdictions, an much disliking thereof, has directed the Sheriff of the town to forbear all disturbance in that behalf ... If there be any just cause for questioning the bounds, due examination shall be made in that matter under direction of the Lord Lieutenant.


Ormond to the Commissioners for Executing the Act of Settlement, etc., of Ireland

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 70

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Commends to the consideration of the Commissioners certain claims [relating to adventures for lands in Ireland], of John Brett, and of Mr Alderman Backwell.


Encloses:

The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 23 January 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]

Document type: Copy

Gives directions concerning the case, in respect of land-claims in Ireland, of Brett and Rackwell, adventurers.


Subjoined thereto:

Petition of John Brett [on behalf of himself and of Alderman Backwell], to the King.

Written from: [London]

Date: [January] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]

Document type: Copy


Petition of Lawrence Daly [In MS.: "Dayly"] and others, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Written from: Dublin

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 62v

Document type: Copies

Recite their submission, under proclamation, to Sir Theophilus Jones, and pray for the grant of his Majesty's pardon for the robberies by Petionioners' committed. [With the order thereupon.]


A Certificate, by the Lord Viscount Dungannon, on the matters at issue between Edmund Leech, plaintiff, & William Potter, defendant. Addressed to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Copy

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 63v

Document type: Copy


Annexed:

An Order, by the Duke of Ormond upon the Petition of Edmund Leech.

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 5 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 63v


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the payment to Sir John Temple, Master of the Rolls in Ireland, of a sum of one hundred and eighty pounds, for his interest in certain lands included within the Phoenix Park. With various recitals.

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 February 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 251

Document type: Copy


Annexed:

Certificate of Marcus Trevor, Viscount Dungannon, and of Sir William Flower, concerning the lands included within the Phoenix Park

Date: 27 June 1665

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 251v

Document type: Copy


Nicholas Bayly to Ormond

Date: [February] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 688

Document type: Apparently Holograph

Reports to the Lord Lieutenant the condition and needs of the Fort of Boffin; the state of the military stores; and that of the garrison generally.


Subjoins:

An estimate of the necessary sums to be now provided, for the maintenance of a garrison at Fort Boffin, under circumstances stated

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 687

Document type: Original


St. Alban to Ormond

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: [c.1 March?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 622

Document type: Holograph

Recommends to the favour of the Lord Lieutenant the suit for removal of the restraint lately put, in Ireland, upon certain "French ships, belonging to Mr Wilkins, of Rouen, an English merchant".


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Dublin

Date: 1 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 380

Document type: Copy

Particulars concerning the case of Lord Leigh's grandson; and also concerning certain "presumptions of a new fanatic plot here. The discovery is in my Lord Orrery's hands, many of the suspected persons residing in Munster, and the first information coming to me from thence". ...


Ormond to Sir Maurice Berkeley

Written from: Dublin

Date: 1 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 327

Document type: Copy

Further particulars concerning Lord Berkeley's negotiations about the Presidency of Connaught.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 1 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 138

Document type: Holograph-Minute

... All the money that is in prospect [from England, for the King's service in Ireland], will not pay the army six months' [arrears], out of the nine months that will become due on the 25th instant, by, at least, £20,000.

... The war of France, added to that of Holland, will put an end to all our trade, but that with England, and how that is threatened by the Bill stopped in the Lords' House at Oxford, Lord Arlington well knows; but, without that last killing blow, our case will be miserable enough...


Petition of William Milburne, cordwainer, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 2 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 63

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Dudley Loftus, a soldier in Sir Arthur Chichester's troop of horse. [With the order made thereupon.]


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the proclamation in Dublin of his Majesty's Declaration of War against the French King

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 2 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 252

Document type: Copy


Lady Ranelagh to the Duchess of Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 2 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 454-456

Document type: Holograph

Has received from the Lord Chancellor [Clarendon] certain propositions, made upon the mediation of the Duke of Ormond, to which Lord Ranelagh had expressed a willingness to consent, "in order to the ending of his domestic differences".

Lady Ranelagh proceeds to state the operation upon her personal position and interests of certain provisos in the articles of agreement now proposed. Entreats her Grace's influence to induce the Duke not to receive any more offers, from Lord Ranelagh, that are "built on the foundation of having my (the writer's) children given up by me, until they may be so [given up] to husbands" duly chosen ...


A Resolution of the House of Commons, of Ireland, for an address to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant, praying for a grant of two hundred pounds to the Chaplain of the House, Mr John Vesey, for his services

Date: 3 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 749

Document type: Certified Copy


Petition of James Vaughan, Warden of Galway, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Date: 3 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 3

Document type: Original

Recites the former constitution of the Collegiate Church of Galway as comprising a Warden and eight Vicars-Choral; the provision, - not of laid years paid, - out of the rents of houses, assigned in and of their maintenance; and the substitution of a Warden and Lecturer, for a Warden and Vicars-Choral. ...

Prays that he may have the benefit of the late Act of Parliament "for establishing salaries upon ministers in corporate towns" ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 3 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 264

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Went yesterday as far as to Aylesbury, to wait upon Lord & Lady Ossory; going thence with them to Moor Park, and bringing Lord Ossory hither to-day. ...


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 3 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 20v

Document type: Copy

Mr Benjamin Parry, bearer of this letter & chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester, has some assurance of procuring from his brother Dr John Parry, Chaplain to the writer, the resignation of a living in Surrey. ...

He is recommended to the Chancellor, not only as the orphan of a late Reverend Prelate of Ireland, but also as a man of parts and of merit.


Ormond to the Commissioners for Executing the Act of Settlement etc.

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 3 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 66v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Directs the allotment to Major Edward Richardson of due reprisals for certain lands of which he has been dispossessed, in conformity with the provisions of the Act of Settlement for Ireland ... The said reprisals are to be "for two full thirds of the premises" [surrendered].


Sir George Lane to the Governor of Kinsale

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 3 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 67

Document type: Breviate [in Letter Book]

If Captain Rooth be at Kinsale the accompanying letter is to be delivered to him by the Governor; if absent, the letter is to be sent back.


Encloses:

Ormond to Captain Rooth

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 3 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 67

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Directs the immediate sailing of H.M.'s frigate under Captain Rooth's command, for the isle of Boffin, there to lie, until receipt of further orders, which will be sent overland.


An Order, by the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, concerning the safe custody and due relief of certain Dutch prisoners, who are to be confined in the city of Kilkenny, and elsewhere

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 3 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 67r-v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]


Ormond to Captain Bramston

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 3 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 67v

Document type: Breviate

Assistance is to be given to the Sovereign of the town of Athlone, in respect to the disposal of certain Dutch prisoners, conformably with the instructions by the Duke of Ormond.


Ormond to Sir Francis Foulke

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 3 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 67v

Document type: Breviate

Assistance is to be given to the Sovereign of the town of Clonmel, in respect to the disposal of certain Dutch prisoners, conformably with the instructions by the Duke of Ormond.


Ormond to the Mayor of Kilkenny

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 3 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 67v-68

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Directs him to receive certain Dutch prisoners who are to be removed, according to previous instructions from the town of Galway.

Adds certain directions as to their maintenance and discipline.


Ormond to the Mayor of Clonmel

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 3 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 67v-68

Document type: Breviate [in Letter Book]

Directs him to receive certain Dutch prisoners who are to be removed, according to previous instructions from the town of Galway.

Adds certain directions as to their maintenance and discipline.


Ormond to the Sovereign of Athlone

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 3 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 67v-68

Document type: Breviate

Directs him to receive certain Dutch prisoners who are to be removed, according to previous instructions from the town of Galway.

Adds certain directions as to their maintenance and discipline.


Report of Sir Theophilus Jones, and Sir Jerome Alexander, Knights, to the Duke of Ormond, upon the case of Lawrence Daly, & others, under his Grace's Order of Reference thereupon

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 3 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 64

Document type: Copy


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, for the grant of his Majesty's gracious pardon to Lawrence Daly, & others

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 10 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 64r-v

Document type: Copy


Report of the Earl of Anglesey, Vice-Treasurer of Ireland to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant upon the Petition of Richard, Lord Coloony

Date: 3 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 64v

Document type: Copy


An Order, by the Duke of Ormond upon the Petition and Report of the Earl of Anglesey

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 7 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 64v

Document type: Copy


Warrants, by the Duke of Ormond, concerning the disposal of various Dutch prisoners

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 3 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 252r-v

Document type: Copies [two entries]


Brief of the Duke of Ormond, for a collection in the churches of certain counties of the province of Leinster, on behalf of Samuel Harman, a sufferer by a fire at Coultege, in the county of Wexford

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 3 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 252

Document type: Copy


John Godfrey to Sir Thomas Longueville

Written from: Knockgraffan

Date: 3 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 256

Document type: Original

Gives an account of the disturbed condition of part of Ireland, "from the violence of ... incorrigible rogues", and expresses his willingness to be "anyways serviceable in the prevention of those villanies".


Advices, concerning political movements amongst the native Irish

Date: 4 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 624

Document type: Original

Advices, concerning political movements amongst the native Irish; and, more particularly, concerning a current belief amongst them that the accomplishment of certain ancient prophecies, made by [Saint] Columbkill, of a conquest "of this nation" [meaning of the English in Ireland], by the combined efforts of the Irish and the Scottish is near at hand.

Addressed, under the initials "R.D.", to Sir Richard Kennedy [In MS.: "Kennedie"].


Petition of William Davis, gentleman, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 5 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 63

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Major John Fletcher. [With the order made thereupon.]


Petition of Captain Gregory Martin, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 5 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 63v

Document type: Copies

Recites petitioner's services to the King in England and in Flanders. Prays for license to live & trade in the town & port of Galway.

[With the order made thereupon.]


Petition of John Russell, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 5 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 64v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against George Alexander, and others. [With the order made thereupon.]


Further Warrants, by the Duke of Ormond, relating to lands taken for the Phoenix Park, and to the payment of the moneys due for the same

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 5 & 9 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 254v-255

Document type: Copies (two entries)


Mayor of Carrickfergus, and another to the Earl of Donegal

Written from: Carrickfergus

Date: 6 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 614

Document type: Original

"A poor stranger [Giovanni Sermo, a native of Italy] sent hither from Glenarm, by Colonel Gordon", as a person suspected [of complicity in some political conspiracy] ... has been detained & examined. The result is now reported; with papers relating to him ...


Subjoined 1:

Colonel Gordon to the Mayor of Carrickfergus

Written from: Glenarme

Date: 2 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 612

Document type: Holograph [misbound]

Particulars in relation to the "suspected person" now sent to Carrickfergus.


Subjoined 2:

The Examination of John Sermo, a native of Italy, bred in Hungary [concerning the purpose of his being in Ireland]

Written from: Carrickfergus

Date: 5 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 616

Document type: Original


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 6 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 266

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Mentions the arrangements for the King's journey to Newmarket, and his Majesty's contemplated purchase of Audley-End.


Ormond to the Farmers of the Customs of Ireland

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 6 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 20

Document type: Copy

Recommends Captain John Stockton [Elsewhere written: "Stockdon"], for some employment in the Custom's Service, at Dublin, or elsewhere.


An Account of the Revenue of the Crown, in the reign of King Charles II; from 1 July 1660 to Easter, 1663. ... [By Thomas Wriothesley, Vth Earl of Southampton, KG.]

Date: 6 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 127, fol(s). 222-257

Document type: Copy


Minutes of Council, relating to certain rights and revenues of the Admiralty

Written from: Worcester House

Date: 6 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 127, fol(s). 273

Document type: Copy


Ormond to the Escheator of the County of Tipperary

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 6 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 69

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Directs the execution and due return of a commission of enquiry concerning the death of James Purcell, of Loghmore, in the County of Tipperary.


Encloses:

A Commission to the Escheator of the County Palatine of Tipperary, to enquire into the death of James Purcell

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 69


Ormond to the Commissioners for Executing the Act of Settlement, etc.

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 6 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 67

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Desires that all due help and furtherance be given in the concernments, now depending before the Commissioners, of Sir William Aston, one of his Majesty's Justices in his Court of Chief place; so that he, Sir William, may be none the worse on account of his own necessary attendance upon the King's service.


Enclosure 1:

Petition of Sir William Aston, to the Duke of Ormond

Date: [February] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]

[In respect to his claims now pending before the Commissioners for Executing the Act of Settlement & Explanatory Act for Ireland].


Enclosure 2:

Petition of Sir William Aston to the Commissioners for Executing the Settlement Acts for Ireland

Date: [February] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]


Warrants, by the Duke of Ormond, empowering Captain David Hennisy to apprehend robbers, and to deliver them into the custody of the Keepers of the Gaols of the several counties wherein they shall be taken

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 6 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 253 & 255

Document type: Copy [two entries]


Lords of the Council in England to the Earl of Orrery [President of Munster, in whose custody the child refused to them was]

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 7 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 462

Document type: Copy [seven signatures]

Thomas Leigh, grandson of Thomas, Lord Leigh, is to be immediately sent into England, according to the tenor of a former letter addressed to the Lord Lieutenant.


Ormond to Mr Coddington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 7 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 20v

Document type: Copy

Quiet possession of Ardlaw is to be yielded to Sir George Lane, or to his nominee.


Instructions [given by the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutentant of Ireland], unto Captain James Archer

Date: 8 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 529

Document type: Holograph-Minute


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 8 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 140

Document type: Holograph-Minute

Further details of the pressing necessities of Ireland; and of pending measures concerning its revenue and finance.


The State of Doubt made this day by the Hon. the Commissioners for putting in Execution the Act of Settlement

Date: 9 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 268

Document type: Original. Endorsed, by Ormond: "Given me by Mr Ketinge [Keatinge], March 9, 1665".

The State of Doubt [Meaning, as shown by the context: "A Statement of Doubts"] made this day by the Hon. the Commissioners for putting in Execution the Act of Settlement, and the Act for Explanation of the same, upon the Lord Arlington's Claim [to the estate of Lewis, Lord Viscount Clanmalier [In MS.: "Clanmalyra"].


Ormond to Major Nicholas Bayly

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 9 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 68

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Such of the seamen of the ship called the Katherine, lately driven into the isle of Boffin, as may be sent for by Colonel John Spencer, Deputy Vice-Admiral of the province of Connaught, are to be delivered to him accordingly.


Werner-Wilhelm Laspeil and Johann Copes, Envoys Extraordinary of the Elector of Brandenburgh to the States General of the United Provinces

Written from: La Haye

Date: 10 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 708-709

Congratulate the States on the conclusion of a treaty between His Electoral Highness and the United Provinces of the Netherlands; recommend, on the Elector's part, the person and interests of the young Prince of Orange, nephew and ward of the Elector, to the favourable regard & attention of the States.

French.


Ormond to the Lords Justices of Assize for the Province of Connaught

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 10 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 69

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Desires to be certified how the cases of William Costellogh, and others, appeared to the Judges before whom those convicted prisoners were tried, and whether they are, or are not, in the Judges' opinion fit objects of his Majesty's mercy.


Encloses:

Petition of William Costellogh, Charles Costellogh & Pierce Costellogh, to the Duke of Ormond

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 68v

Document type: Copy

Recite certain circumstances of the trial & conviction of the petitioners at the late assizes for the county of Mayo; and also particulars of the position and conduct of petitioners, since the year 1646. Pray for the Lord Lieutenant's extension to them of his Majesty's gracious pardon.


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant of his Majesty's pardon to Thomas Plunkett, lately convicted of robbery, in the county of Meath; upon bond for his departure from the kingdom; not to return without special license

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 10 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 255v-256

Document type: Copy


Sir William Temple to Ormond

Written from: Brussels

Date: 12 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 272-273

Document type: Holograph

Lord Arlington has acquainted the writer with his Grace's recommendation of him for an honour [that of Knighthood], which the King had but just before conferred upon him. Is as sensible of the favour as if the effect had been wholly due to his Grace's intention...

Nothing yet stirs in these parts; but some alarm is taken at the making of a French place d'armes, between La Fère and Peronne, intended for the rendezvous of fifteen thousand men. ...

The Prince of Orange's faction grows certainly of late weeks more considerable in Holland, and is expected to be yet upon increase, by the conjunction of that state with his uncle of Brandenburgh.


Petition of Cornet Randal Moore to the Duke of Ormond

Date: 12 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 68r-v

Document type: Copies

Submits, by affidavit a statement of the reasons of petitioner's absence from his military duty with his troop. ...

Prays to be restored to the Muster Roll. [With an Order of Reference thereupon.]


Annexed 1:

Certificate of the Muster-Master General upon the petition of Cornet Randal Moore

Date: 2 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 68v

Document type: Copy


Annexed 2:

A further order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the petition of Cornet Randal Moore & certificate of the Muster-Master General

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 4 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 68v

Document type: Copy


Proceedings of the Judges of Assize, upon Civil Bills, in their Circuits in Ireland

Date: 13 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 363

Document type: Original

"Received" [by Sir George Lane] "from Sir William Davys, 13 March, 1665".


Arthur Bassett to Ormond

Date: 13 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 624

Document type: Holograph

Intelligence, herewith enclosed, comes "from a person of good repute living in Bideford". The present order deems it his duty to impart it to the Lord Lieutenant.


Encloses:

Richard Williams to [Arthur Bassett]

Written from: Bideford

Date: 13 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 632

Document type: Original

Information of certain preparations now making, in the north parts of Ireland, "to assist the French King's forces, in an attempt to effect a descent on that coast".


Advices, upon the information of preparations to assist the French King's forces. [In a different hand.] Communicated to the Duke of Ormond.

Date: [13 March] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 636

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Lane.


A Letter of Intelligence

Date: 13 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 626

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Lane. Unsigned and dated only by the endorsement.

A Letter of Intelligence [concerning "the great discontents and fears daily growing amongst the English, in general, because no course is taken to suppress the Tories, who daily run out in parties of horse and foot, robbing the English, in many parts of this Kingdom"]. ...


A Letter of Intelligence concerning various political movements, in the Province of Ulster

Date: 13 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 628

Document type: Holograph

A Letter of Intelligence concerning various political movements, in the Province of Ulster; and concerning the state of opinion therein, more especially on church affairs. Addressed, by J[ohn] T[homson] to the Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 13 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 269

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Communicates a summary of recent political advices from Holland, and from other parts of the Continent. ...

The King is pleased with his journey; likes Audley-End; and is desirous to treat with Lord Suffolk for it. The details, the writer "leaves to other letters". ...


Ormond to Cornet Edmund Nangle

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 13 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 69v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

A letter of summons, for Nangle's attendance before the Lord Lieutenant.


Petitions of Sir Richard Kyrle, Knight; of Cornet Waller Cox; and of Grissell Crafford [In MS.: "Craffourd"], deceased: to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 13 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 65

Document type: Copies (three petitions)

[Praying for payment; by dividend, of arrears of military pay; in like manner with the petition of Sir Thomas Fortescue. With the Order made thereupon].


Petition of Thomas Parsons to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Date: 13 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 65v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Robert Polehampton [In MS.: "Pollhamton"; elsewhere & correctly 'Polehampton']. [With the Order.]


A Letter of Intelligence, concerning political and ecclesiastical movements and affairs in various parts of Ireland. Communicated to the Duke of Ormond

Date: [13 March? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 632

Document type: Note. Without date, signature, address or endorsement.


Williamson to Lane

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: [13 March] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 92

Document type: Original

Sends a list of the French fleet [not now appended]. ...


Subjoins:

Advices, Domestic and Foreign

Date: 13 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 91-92

The agents of Denmark are reported to be busy in raking up all the compaints they can, in Norway and elsewhere, against England, out of which they intend to make 'a kind of Manifesto', It is thought the Danes can this year bring out not more than 23 ships of war; and cannot fully equip that number.

Sir Robert Southwell reports from Portugal that there is hope of a speedy adjustment of the difficulties - now but trivial - which have hitherto hindered the conclusion of a truce, and eventually of a peace, between that Crown & Spains.


Petition of Captain Robert Oliver, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 14 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 65v

Document type: Copies

Prays for the grant, by dividend, of certains arrears of military pay. [With the Order made thereupon.]


Warrants, by the Duke of Ormond, in pursuance of his Majesty's letter of February 19th last, concerning allowances to Michael (Boyle), Lord Archbishop of Dublin, as Lord Chancellor of Ireland

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 14 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 255v

Document type: Copies [two entries]


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant to Sir Henry O'Neill [In MS.: "O'Neile"], Knight, & his heirs male, of the dignity of a Baronet (of Ireland), according to the tenour of his Majesty's letter, of 23rd February, last

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 14 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 256

Document type: Copy


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the drawing up of a fiant containing his Majesty's donation to John Parry, Doctor of Divinity, of the Deanery of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, now void by the promotion of Dr Robert Mossom, late Dean, unto the Bishopric of Derry

Date: 14 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 21

Document type: Copy; in Entry Book


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the presentation of John Parry, Doctor of Divinity, to the Chantorship of the Cathedral Church of St. Patrick, Dublin, now void by the promotion of Dr Robert Mossom

Date: 14 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 21v

Document type: Copy; in Entry Book


Ormond to the Trustees of the Commissioned Officers serving the King in Ireland before June, 1649

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 15 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 69v-70

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Elizabeth Cressy, relict of Captain George Cressy, is a claimant of her husband's arrears of pay for service in Ireland. His faithfulness to the King is known to the Lord Lieutenant, personally, on which account he earnestly recommends the prayer of her petition to favourable consideration by the Trustees in that behalf.


Encloses:

Petition of Elizabeth Cressy to the Duke of Ormond

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]

Recites the services of her late husband; & also particulars of the arrears due to him. ...

Prays his Grace's direction for payment of the same.


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant of his Majesty's free and general pardon to Thomas Boyd, merchant, now a prisoner in the City of Dublin. With clauses of restitution

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 15 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 256v

Document type: Copy


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, on behalf of Sir Hans Hamilton, Baronet, for the making out of particulars of lands, etc., mentioned in his Majesty's letter of the 19th of February, last

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 15 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 256v

Document type: Copy


Queen Dowager to Ormond

Written from: Chaillot

Date: 15 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 304

Document type: Holograph [with seal of arms]

Accredits the bearer of her letter, - not herein named, - who will personally report to the Duke of Ormond the object of his journey from France into Ireland.

French.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 16 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 284

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recommends to his Lordship's favour a suit of Sir Theophilus Jones, concerning reprisals in pursuance of his Majesty's Letters-patent granted to him in the year 1663.


Encloses:

Draught of a letter from his Majesty, directing the grant, in due form, to Sir Theophilus Jones of "reprisals, in equal value, for such lands as were formerly decreed away from him [So in MS.]; in [being?] such ... as were passed to him for reprisals... in ... 1663"

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). [not given]


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the drawing up of a fiant, containing such a grant to John, Lord Berkeley (of Stratton), and to John, Lord Kingston, as by his Majesty's letter of the 1st of February, last, is directed

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 16 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 256

Document type: Copy


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the drawing up of a fiant for the passing of such Letters-Patent to Fitzgerald Aylmer, and his heirs, as by his Majesty's letter of 19th February last is required

Written from: Dublin

Date: 16 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 257

Document type: Copy


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 17 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 271-272

Document type: Original; subscribed and signed

His Majesty allows that the Lord Lieutenant may sell the effects of the Guinea Ship, preferably to the former proprietors, and give them his passport for France. As to the French prisoners, his Majesty reserves his final determination until he hears, with more certainty than he can do yet, how that Crown will proceed with those of his subjects taken before & since the Declaration of War ...

Various details are added of other pending matters; chiefly arising out of the war ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 17 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 142

Document type: Copy

Has received the King's letter of 24 February, directing the dissolution of the Parliament of Ireland. ... Observes that the time at which that Parliament had its commencement, is stated therein as being May 8, "1663", instead of May 8, "1664". Thinks it fit for rectifying that mistake, to transmit the draught of another letter, and also to insert "20 April", next, instead of "30 March", for the time of dissolution aforesaid.


Encloses:

Draught of a letter to be offered for his Majesty's signature, concerning the dissolution of his Parliament of Ireland

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 142


Ormond to Sir W. Coventry

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 17 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 21

Document type: Copy

The Lord High Admiral's passports are requested for the ships S. Andrew and S. Joseph, now being laden at Bordeaux, with wines for the Duke's use...


Ormond to the Mayor of Wexford

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 17 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 70

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Instructions concerning a reparation of the walls of the town of Wexford.


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond

Date: 17 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 256v-257

Document type: Copy

Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, empowering Colonel William Warden to employ various means and devices for the discovery, pursuit, and apprehension of "several persons abroad in the Queen's County, the counties of Kilkenny, Tipperary, and Waterford, who commit several robberies and stealths".

A like warrant to James Fitzharris, for the counties of Wexford, Kilkenny, & Carlow, appears at fol. 258.


Clarendon to Ormond

Written from: Worcester House

Date: 18-19 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 105-107

Document type: Holograph

Discusses, at very great length, various matters relating to the Land Settlement of Ireland; ... partly in relation to the case of Sir John Shepherd, of which he says: ..."if the case were never so unreasonable; & had [he] never so much justice on his side I would never consent that he should receive reparation by this expedient. Do not deceive yourself by imagining that if you do begin to repeal any one clause, by retail, in the 'Act of Settlement', - in a case of never so singular & extraordinary a nature, - that you can preserve the whole fabric from shaking, & consequently from ruin. And there will be a hundred other cases, from the same reason, or from consideration of persons" ...

[Not printed by Lister].


Ormond to Sir Richard Kennedy, His Majesty's Justice of Assize in Ireland, for the North East Circuit

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 19 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 70v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

No fine is to be imposed upon the Sheriff of the county of Meath in respect of his omission to bring the body of Thomas Mackaboy, now a prisoner in the Gaol of Trim, to the Assizes at Dundalk, it being for his Majesty's service that the said prisoner should, for the present remain in custody at Trim.


Ormond to the Commissioners of the Court of Claims, at Dublin

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 19 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 71v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Further directions concerning due reprisals for Sir Courtney Poole, one of the adventurers for lands in Ireland.


Abstracts of the accounts of the Earl of Anglesey, Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, - under certain heads of expenditure - for the year ending 20 March 1666

Date: 20 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 36, fol(s). 557

Document type: Original. Apparently, in the hand of Sir Paul Davys.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 20 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 273-274

Document type: Original; subscribed and signed

After communicating particulars of various matters of Admiralty business, connected with Ireland, then pending; the writer proceeds to say of the Registration-Bill that "it seems to the Council to be defective and insufficient in many points; and to be drawn partially, with respect to the places of fixing the registries". ... If there be yet time for it, in this Parliament [of Ireland], the Bill should be revised, and sent hither again. ...


Sir W. Coventry to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 20 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 440

Document type: Holograph

Continues his account of naval preparations. - Notices some pending questions as to the rights of the Lord High Admiral.


Petition of Marcus Browne, Arthur Lynch, and others, Farmers, in 1650, of the Customs of the Port of Galway, to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 20 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 66

Document type: Copy

Recite the terms of their contract; the payment of their rent; and particulars of certain losses, sustained by petitioners, through acts of piracy, and by shipwreck. Pray for compensation of said losses by a permission to ship goods, to a certain value, customs free.


An Order of Reference, to the Attorney General of Ireland, of the petition of Marcus Browne, Arthur Lynch, and others

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 20 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 66v

Document type: Copy


Petition of Richard, Lord Baron of Coloony, to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 20 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 66v

Document type: Copy

Praying for certain arrears of military pay due to petitioner, and of which he is willing to accept one moiety, in full satisfaction thereof. ...

[With the order thereupon.]


Annexed 1:

Report by the Muster-Master-General, to the Duke of Ormond, upon the petition of Richard, Lord Baron of Coloony

Date: 30 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 66v

Document type: Copy


Annexed 2:

A further order, by the Duke of Ormond; directing payment of the arrears, as certified

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 30 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 67


Petition of Sir George St. George, Knight, and others, to the Duke of Ormond

Date: 20 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 67

Document type: Copy

Praying for certain arrears of military pay due to petitioners.

[With the order thereupon.]


Petition of William Lynch to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 20 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 69

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Francis Vangarnon.

[With the order made thereupon.]


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 21 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 144-145

Document type: Copy

... Nothing is yet heard of that sum of £707, which is to be paid by the Commissioners appointed, in England, to provide for sick and wounded men, nor yet of the nomination of a duly-authorized Deputy, to act here. It is desired that the Commissioners may be called on for both, & that the money aforesaid may be paid, in London, to Sir Robert Vyner ...

In reply to his Lordship's desire to know of his answers to the writer may not serve also as answers to what is written by the Lord Lieutenant & Council jointly, it is proper to say that separate answers should be made. The letters from his Majesty's Principal Secretary to the Chief Governor & Council do make up a great part of the records in the council-books here. ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 21 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 284-285

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Desires the delivery to Mr Samuel Dancer, bearer of this letter, of a new purse for the Great Seal of Ireland, according to an order formerly made in that behalf.


Petition of Matthew Hammond to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Date: 21 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 68

Document type: Copies

Plaint of injuries inflicted on petitioner by William Castle, one of His Majesty's trumpeters. [With the order made thereupon.]


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 22 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 501

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

Letters-Patent to be passed, in due form, containing a grant to Sir John Stephens of the lands, in the county of Tipperary, which formerly belonged to James Mandevil of Ballydine in the county, and were forfeited upon account of the late rebellion in Ireland begun the 23rd day of October 1641.


Report of a Grand Committee of the House of Commons of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 22 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 751-752

Document type: Certified Copy

Report of a Grand Committee of the House of Commons of Ireland, concerning amendments in two pending Bills:- (1) An Act for collecting the Revenue of Hearth-Money; (2) An Act of letting to farm the said Revenue. With the resolution of the House thereupon.


An Order [of the King in Council], concerning the Canara Company

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 23 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 664-665

Document type: Copy

Endorsed: "Received in a letter from the Lord Arlington 13 April 1666".


Subjoined thereto:

Reasons why the Patent of the Canara Company should not extend to Ireland

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 666

Document type: Copy


Petitions of Sir Peter Courthope, Knight; Sir St. John Brodrick, Knight; and of sixteen other officers in the army of Ireland

Date: 23 March-28 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 67r-v

Document type: Breviates [eighteen petitions]

Praying on behalf of themselves and others, for the payment of arrears of military pay. With particulars of each claim.


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the entry, on the establishment of the Civil List of Ireland, of the Earl of Anglesey's pension, of £600, a year, in pursuance of his Majesty's letter of August 20 (1665)

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 23 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 258v

Document type: Copy


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 24 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 503

Document type: Original

The Parliament of Ireland to be dissolved on the 20th day of April next ensuing.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 24 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 275-276

Document type: Original, subscribed & signed

... Those who are concerned in the "Adventurers' Books" here [now about to be sent to Ireland], desire that they may not be put into "the hands of a stranger, but submitted to your Grace's view and inspection, or [that of] whom you shall please to appoint".

... Adds some particulars as to the "ill-penning" of the writer's proviso [for obtaining a grant of Lord Clanmaliers estate]; and also an account of some late advices which have reached him from Madrid, and of the state of the King's negotiations at certain other courts. ...


St. Albans to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 24 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 257

Document type: Holograph

Takes his leave of the Duke, on the writer's departure for France. ...


Supplication of William Cole BD (Domestic Chaplain to ... the Duke of Albemarle), to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Cockpit [Whitehall]

Date: 25 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 642

Document type: Holograph

Is "a most submissive orator" to his Grace, for admission to the degree of DD in Trinity College, Dublin, - "wherein he received his first academical education", and proceeded to the degree of BD, - although not now able to give his personal attendance for that purpose.


Ormond to Major Nicholas Bayly

Date: 26 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 71

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Further instructions in respect of proceedings in the Admiralty Court of Galway, in the matter of the Dutch ship, lately taken at the Island of Boffin.


Williamson to Lane

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 26 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 94v

Document type: Holograph

Has received Sir Georges letter of the 15th instant. Is glad of the improvement in the health of the Lord Lieutenant.

The short account of "letters [of credit] signd for Ireland", that hath hitherto passed [between the two countries] seems to be insufficient. It does not shew what is paid; what unpaid. For the future, they must stand to the rule, "no money, no troops". ["Point d'argent; point de Suisses"] ...


Subjoins:

Advices, Domestic & Foreign

Date: 27 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 93-94

Sir Thomas Higgins is to succeed Mr Coventry as Envoy Extraordinary to Sweden. But he is not to repair thither, until Mr Coventry shall have returned.

The continued stay at Paris of Lord Holles (on casual & private accounts) has led to mistaken rumours of a peace.

The fleet will at present comprise 110 men of war, besides the reserve. ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 27 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 277

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Has reminded the King, in the Lord Treasurer's presence, of the money promised for the service of Ireland; but the matter may still need a remembrance from the Lord Lieutenant, or from Lord Anglesey. If that could be accompanied with some expedient, that might facilitate the matter, it would be the more effective ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 27 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 279-280

Document type: Holograph

Reports a conversation with the King concerning a possible resignation by the Duke, of his place as a Gentleman of his Majesty's Bedchamber, and the appointing thereto of Lord Ossory, in the Duke's stead. ...


Ormond to the Sheriff of the County of Tipperary

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 70v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

There being a report spread, in Tipperary, of the Lord Lieutenant's intention to pardon "three robbers or Tories, namely Lawrence Butler", & others, his Grace notifies that he will not "shew any manner of favour ... unto them". ...


Ormond to James Kearney, esquire

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 70v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

As advised by Mr Kearney, notification is made, to the Sheriff of Tipperary, that favour will not be shewn to Lawrence Butler, & others. ... Nevertheless, if they do that service to his Majesty, & the country, that Mr Kearney certifies them to be ready to perform, what Lieutenant Cleere or William Armstrong hath promised will be performed, to them, pardon of murder only excepted.


Ormond to Colonel William Warden

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 71

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

No manner of treaty is to be made with Lawrence Butler, William Croake, or Nicholas Croake; not withstanding a former order of 17th instant.


Ormond to Lieutenant Thomas Cleere

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 71

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

In due time, notice will be taken, to Lieutenant Cleere's advantage, of any service he may render to the King, "by being instrumental in bringing in such Tories, & robbers as are abroad, in & about the country where he, Cleere, is resident".


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the drawing up of a fiant containing his Majesty's donation to Thomas Seele, Doctor of Divinity, and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, of the Deanery of the Cathedral Church of St. Patrick

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 22

Document type: Copy; in Entry Book


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 28 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 644

Document type: Copy

Particulars of a prize cause in the matter of the Purgatore of Venice, "condemned in the Court of Admiralty of England". ...


Ormond to William Coventry

Written from: Dublin

Date: 29 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 455

Document type: Copy

... Finds, by Sir William's letter of 20th, that what might now have been written concerning that subject [the defence of the Irish coasts] is rendered needless by the great care of H.R.H. [Duke of York] in sending the 'Sapphire' [In MS.: Saphir] and 'Forester' to Cape Clear, and designing two more ships to ply ... at the same station ...


Petition of Alderman Backwell to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 29 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 67

Document type: Copy. "Preferred to the Council".

Petition of Alderman Backwell, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

William Hall, formerly an agent of petitioner, having custody of books, papers, & money, became felo-de-se. An order for the delivery of the said books etc. is prayed for.


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the payment to Sir Audley Mervyn, Speaker of the House of Commons of Ireland, of the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 30 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 257r-v

Document type: Copy


Petition of Colonel George Walters, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Date: [c.30 March? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 230

Document type: Copy

Petition of Colonel George Walters, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Complains of the wrongful possession of certain lands, belonging to petitioner, by Captain Robert Manley, Governor of the Fort of Bantry, in the county of Cork; and prays for redress.


An Order by the Duke of Ormond, upon the petition of Colonel George Walters

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 230

Document type: Copy


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 31 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 282

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

At the entreaty of the Company of the Canaries, encloses an Order of Council in their favour, which puts a period to many disputes befallen them since the granting of their charter. They beseech a like favour in Ireland. ...

Lady Anglesey strives to obtain her husbands recall to England, where, she says, the fortune of a daughter needs his presence. ...


Ormond to the Mayor of Clonmel [Charles Alcock]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 31 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 71v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Instructions as to the relief of certain Dutch prisoners, now at Clonmel.


Ormond to Captain Thomas Bedborough [Quartermaster to the Earl of Ossory's troop - (illegible) Lismalin] - -

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 31 March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 71v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Directs the apprehension, at Lismalyn, of one Captain Furlonge, and of an other person, herein described, whose name is unknown.


A Statement of the Deaths, in London, by the Plague, from March 13, to March 20, 1665 [1666, N.S.]

Date: March 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 62

Document type: Endorsed, in Lord Ormond's hand: "Received 29 March, 1666"


Notes of depositions, relating to alleged political conspiracies in Ireland

Date: Undated [March? 1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 527

Document type: Imperfect


Sir Philip Frowde to Sir George Lane

Written from: [London]

Date: [March? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 618

Document type: Holograph

States, for the information of the Lord Lieutenant, the reasons which induce the writer [Postmaster-General] to desire that the packet-boats [on Irish serivice] may be ordinarily kept [when in waiting] on this side. ...


Advices concerning preparation for a French descent upon the northern coast of Ireland. Communicated to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Date: [March] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 638

Document type: Original


Reasons humbly offered, why it may be conjectured that the French King may invade Ireland. Communicated to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Date: [March] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 640

Document type: Original


The Answer of Sir Maurice Eustace, Knight, to the petition of John Eustace esquire

Date: [March? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 500

Document type: Original


Petition [concerning the inheritance of Lord Chancellor Sir Maurice Eustace, deceased] of John Eustace, esquire, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Date: [March? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 504

Document type: Original


The Examination of John Banan, of Summertown in the barony of Clunliske & in the King's County [concerning his knowledge of political meetings in certain parts of Ireland] ... Taken before Trevor Lloyd, esquire

Written from: Philipstown

Date: 2 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 646

Document type: Original


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 2 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 21v

Document type: Copy

The enclosed 'Draught of a [Royal] Letter' is on behalf of Captain Toby Barnes, who hath faithfully & constantly served his Majesty & his royal father. It is recommended to the Secretary's favour.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 2 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 21v

Document type: Copy

Although Theophilus Sandford was concerned in the late horrid plot for surprising this castle, he was early in the discovery & is recommended for his Majesty's free & general pardon.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 2 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 21v

Document type: Copy

The husband of Frideswide Leigh, on whose behalf the enclosed 'Draught' is transmitted, served his Majesty faithfully under the writer's command. Her suit is earnestly recommended to Lord Arlington's favour.


Replication, or Answer, of John Eustace, esquire, to the answer, or demurrer, of Sir Maurice Eustace, Knight, [concerning claims to the estate of Sir Maurice Eustace, deceased, late Lord Chancellor of Ireland]

Date: 2 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 498

Document type: Original [the date cited is from the endorsement]


Articles of Peace, made and confirmed between John, Lord Bellasis of Worlaby, Governor of Tangier for King Charles II, and Cidi Hamet el Hader Ben Ali Gaylan, 'Prince of Barbary', etc.

Written from: Tangier

Date: 2 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 428-429

Document type: Copy

Spanish.


Petition of Colonel George Walters, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Written from: Dublin

Date: 2 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 68

Document type: Copy

Plaint of wrongful entry upon petitioner's lands in the county of Cork, by Captain Robert Manley, Governor of Bantry, who has received two years' rents thereout ... [With the order made thereupon.]


Petition of John Bath, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 2 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 68v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debts against Captain Richard Bingley, Lieutenant Edward Bolton, and others.

[With the order made thereupon.]


The state of the account of the Phoenix Deer-Part, as it is delivered in [by William Dodson, esquire, accountant in his Majesty's Exchequer], to the Auditor's Office; from the beginning thereof, to the 17th February 1666

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 2 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 71-72

Document type: Copy


Annexed:

An Order of Reference, to the Earl of Anglesey, Sir Paul Davys, and Sir James Ware, of the account of the Phoenix Deer-Park, by the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant; with other directions by his Grace thereupon

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 71-72

Document type: Copy


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the payment to Colonel Thomas Pigott of a sum of sixty pounds, sterling, on account of disbursements for the transport of deer out of England, for the Phoenix Park

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 2 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 257v

Document type: Copy


Petition of Captain Thomas Symonds, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [2 April] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 74

Document type: Copy

Recites his Grace's testimonial in the year 1650, to petitioner's good service. Recites also particulars of unsatisfied arrears of pay due to him therefore.

Prays to be admitted as tenant of certain lands at Ballymeary & Ballymole, in the county of Wicklow, at a moderate rend.


Annexed:

An Order of Reference to the Trustees of the Commissioned Officers of the Army of 1649, upon the petition of Captain Thomas Symonds

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 2 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 74

Document type: Copy


Petition of John Blennerhassett, one of his Grace's tenants in the county of Kerry, to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [2 April] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 74

Document type: Copy

Prays to be continued in his tenancy of the lands of Glambeagh, in the county aforesaid, under circumstances stated.


Annexed:

An Order of Reference, by the Duke of Ormond to his Commissioners in Kerry, upon the petition of John Blennerhassett

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 2 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 74

Document type: Copy


Bishop of Glasgow to Ormond

Written from: Glasgow

Date: 3 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 189

Document type: Holograph

Describes the proceedings of "disorderly ministers, who were legally ejected", in various parts of the writer's & of neighbouring dioceses, and more especially in Galloway & the borders of Nithsdale, - "where they have constantly kept their meetings, ... at which there are oftentimes present a thousand, fifteen hundred, or two thousand [persons], most of them armed with swords & pistols. ... Now at last, Sir James Turner is sent with a a commanded party of horse & foot into Galloway; and all that I expect from the expedition is that those factious fellows will ... withdraw upon his approach and ... return ... as soon as he is recalled". ...


Captain ... Henry's account of robberies [and of other crimes, committed in various parts of Ireland]

Date: 3 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 648

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond. Unsigned; dated only by the endorsement.


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the drawing up of a fiant for the passing to Sir Peter Harvey, and others, of such Letters Patent as by his Majesty's letter, of the 24th January last, are required to be passed to them

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 3 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 263

Document type: Copy


A letter of foreign news, from Hamburg, Vienna, and Warsaw

Date: 3, 8, 14 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 66-67

Document type: Endorsed: "Received 3 May"


Lord Lieutenant & Council of Ireland to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 4 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 36v

Document type: Breviate

Desire the signification of his Majesty's pleasure concerning the allowances to be made to the new Commissioners [viz. Sir Edward Smith, Sir Edward Dering, Sir Allan Brodrick, Sir Winston Churchill, and Edward Cooke, esquire], for executing the 'Act of Settlement', and 'Explanatory Act'. Add their recommendation that a weekly allowance of £28:15s be so made.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 4 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 146-147

Document type: Holograph-Minute

Particulars concerning subsidies, and other matters of revenue & finance; concerning the army and militia; and also concerning directions received from his Majesty, on behalf of the Earl of Castlehaven, which command the finding of a fund whereon to place a sum of £5,000, "for his Lordships present supply" ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 4 April 1666 [Additional]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 148

Document type: Holograph-Minute

Since the writing of the letter, calendared above, one is brought to the Lord Lieutenant, from the King, - which is directed to the Council & to the Commissioners [under the Settlement Acts], and to the Lord Chancellor, as well as to himself, - on behalf of Sir Henry O'Neill ... It seems to direct something beyond, if not something contrary to, the Acts ... If, after an Act passed, ... [such a letter] ... "shall direct the interpretation, ... in one case, it ... may be argued [that] it may in more; and so, in all. And thence deductions may be made that shall shake the foundations of the Act by [So in MS.] pieces". ...


Lyonell Fanshawe to Sir Charles Harbord

Written from: Madrid

Date: 4/14 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 426

Document type: Holograph

Has received Harbord's letter of March 20/30. Has heard by several ways (but not from the Ambassador himself), that my Lord of Sandwich brings letters of revocation for my Lord Ambassador [Sir Richard Fanshawe]. Although the writer's own concerns require his presence in England, it will trouble him to leave Spain, just at the upshot of a business which hath cost him much drudging pains & care, these four years last past. ...


Ormond to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dublin, and to the Provost & Senior Fellows of Trinity College

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 4 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 72

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recommends Mr William Cole BD, - Chaplain to the Duke of Albemarle, & therfore necessarily resident in England, - to be admitted to the degree of DD in next Congregation.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 4 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 285

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recommends a suit of Mr Sankey, and desires that the accompanying letter, in which the reasons for it are stated, may be offered for the King's signature.


Encloses:

Draught of a letter from his Majesty, on behalf of Mr Sankey

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). [not given]


The Examination of Stephen Rice [concerning an alleged conspiracy. Taken before Richard Whitford, Sovereign of Ross.]

Written from: Ross

Date: 5 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 650

Document type: Original


Report of Sir William Domvile, Attorney-General of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 5 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 89

Document type: Copy

Report of Sir William Domvile, Attorney-General of Ireland, under an Order of Reference by the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant, of a petition presented to his Grace, by Marcus Browne, Arthur Lynch, and Nicholas Bodkin, concerning a Farm, in 1650, of the Customs of the Port of Galway.


Annexed:

An Order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the petition of Marchus Browne, & others, and upon the report of Sir William Domvile

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 13 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 89v

Document type: Copy


The Examination of James Roche [concerning alleged conspiracy. Taken before Richard Whitford, Sovereign of Ross]

Written from: Ross

Date: 6 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 652

Document type: Original


Ormond to the Corporation of the Borough of Taghmon [So written commonly in records; in MS. 'Taghmun"

Date: 6 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 72

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recommends Captain Daniel Gahan, Postmaster General of Ireland, to be chosen Burgess in Parliament for their Borough, in room of Sir N. Armorer, chosen for Wexford county.


Petition of Colonel Daniel O'Brien to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 6 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 69v

Document type: Copies

[Praying for the removal of Captain George Ingoldsby's company of foot from petitioner's house and lands where, he alleges, they are not needed for due defence. With an Order of Reference ot the Earl of Orrery, Lord President of Munster, thereupon].


Patrick McGinn to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 7 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 228

Document type: Original

My Lord [Magennis of] Iveagh [The Peer of Ireland signs, habitually, "Iveaghe". In the ordinary peerages the title is entered as "Magennis of Iveagh"] is hindered of "getting" [under provisos of the 'Acts of Settlement'] "his 2000 acres, by the power & credit of his adversaries" ... The Commissioners [of the Court of Claims] told the writer that it was a general rule "that any nominee could choose out of their [former] estates any two-thousand acres". ...

One word, adds the writer, from the Lord Lieutenant to the Commissioners would do Lord Iveagh's business.


Sir W. Coventry to Ormond

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: 7 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 442

Document type: Holograph

Naval incidents. - Protection of the coast of Ireland, and of the Plantation ships.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 7 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 22

Document type: Copy

Dr Boyle, Bishop [designate] of Leighlin & Ferns, is recommended for a grant of the rectory of Killeban, in the diocese of Leighlin, in commendam.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 7 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 22

Document type: Copy

The suit of Mr Sankey is recommended to Lord Arlington's favour. The 'draught' of a [Royal] letter, in his behalf, is enclosed.


An inventory of the tackle, apparel, and furniture, of the [ship] John, of Dieppe

Date: 8 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 668-669

Document type: Copy


An inventory of the lading of the ship John of Dieppe

Date: Undated [8 April?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 670

Document type: Certified Copy


The effect of what Dr Nicholas French, [titular] Bishop of Ferns in Ireland, told his excellency the Earl of Sandwich [concerning the alleged correspondence of certain of the Roman-Catholics of Ireland, with the King of France], upon the 8th of April, 1666

Date: 8 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 316


Williamson to Lane

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 8 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 95-96v

The Spanish Ambassador has returned to Lincolns-Inn-Fields, from Chelsea, on account of the death of some servants there [under alarm of plague]; and a like death at Lambeth has confined the Archbishop to his house for some time.

Notices various incidents at Court; and gives the purport of advices received from Germany, Bohemia, and the West-India Islands. ...


Subjoins

A list of His Majesty's ships, with their [several] commanders, men, and guns

Date: [April] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 95-96


Sir Edward Hamilton to [Lane?]

Written from: Castle Hamilton

Date: 9 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 654

Document type: Holograph

Political state of, and late incidents in, the counties of Mayo & Roscommon. - Personal affairs.


Sir Robert Reynolds to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 9 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 656

Document type: Holograph

Particulars concerning the suiter's claim [under the Acts of Settlement] to 'a reprisal' at Carrick.


Albemarle to Ormond

Written from: Cockpit [Whitehall]

Date: 9 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 658

Document type: Original

Accredits to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Commissary Rosse, the bearer of this letter, who is appoined by the King, to proceed into Scotland, and into Ireland, upon a business which tends to his Majesty's service ...


Petition of Bartholomew Hussey [In this Copy: "Husey"], to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [9 April] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 71v

Document type: Copy

Plaint of debt against John Clarke, & another, non-commissioned officers of the army serving under command of Sir Francis Foulke.

[With an Order of Reference to Sir Francis Foulke, aforesaid, thereupon.]


Sheriff of Longford [Henry Sankey] to Ormond

Written from: Original

Date: 10 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 660

Document type: Original

The proclamation of 26 March 1666, for "enlarging the period of time for innocent Papists to take out their decrees", is this day duly published according to command.


Sir Richard Kennedy to Lane

Written from: Carrickfergus

Date: 10 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 467

Document type: Holograph

The writer endeavoured to make Sharply's imprisonment exemplary, because he was a ringleader [of the Quakers], and of a very turbulent spirit. But the matter shall now be so ordered as that he may not give further trouble to Sir George, or to the noble lady that intercedes for him.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 10 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 284

Document type: Original; subscribed and signed

The Lord Chancellor [Clarendon] approves of all the proposals contained in the Lord Lieutenant's letter.

The King has directed the preparation of a warrant, appointing Lord Ossory to be a Gentleman of his Bedchamber, upon his Grace's resignation ...


The result of the Councell of War [at St. Christopher's]; being President in Chief, M. le Chevr. de S. Lawrence; assisted with all the principall officers. [Subjoined is the form of an oath of allegiance to the King of France to be tendered to the inhabitants.]

Written from: St. Christopher's

Date: 10 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 65


Petition of John Winckworth, an inhabitant of New Ross in the county of Wexford, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 10 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 69

Document type: Copies

Plaint of forcible entry by Lieutenant Colonel John Bowmer upon petitioner's lands in the county aforesaid. ... [With the order made thereupon.]


Petition of Captain Thomas Armstrong to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 10 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 69v

Document type: Copies

Recites particulars of arrears of pay due to petitioner, & to his deceased father Sir Thomas Armstrong, for military service ...

Recites also particulars of composition made, in like cases, with other officers of the army. And prays his Grace's order for a similar payment.

[With an Order of Reference thereupon.]


Annexed 1:

Certificate of the Muster-Master General, upon the arrears of pay, claimed by Captain Thomas Armstrong

Date: 11 April

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 70

Document type: Copy


Annexed 2:

A further order by the Duke of Ormond, for payment of the arrears of pay due to Captain Thomas Armstrong, as in like cases heretofore

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 70

Document type: Copy


Petition of John Woolmer of London, merchant, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 10 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 76v

Document type: Copies

Petitioner recites that, in the way of his traffic, he shipped at Amsterdam with other goods, certain firearms, consigned to Dublin, which firearms were seized in that port & delivered into his Majesty's stores. And prays for redress. [With an Order of Reference thereupon.]


Annexed 1:

A certificate by Sir Robert Byron, Master of his Majesty's Ordnance, concerning the seizure of the arms aforesaid, "about the time of the late horrid plot"; and the value of the same

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [April] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 77

Document type: Copy


Annexed 2:

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, for the restitution to petitioner of the arms aforesaid

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 18 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 77

Document type: Copy


St. Albans to Ormond

Written from: Paris

Date: [10]/20 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 259-261

Document type: Holograph. Endorsed by the Duke, as received April 27 [O.S.] and answered on the 28th.

States, at length, the grounds of the writer's belief in a desire on the part of the French Government for reconciliation with England. Overtures in this direction should, he thinks, be welcomed. War against Holland alone is, at worse, "a thing to have played with"; against France, conjointly with the Dutch, the event, at best, would be ungrateful.


An inventory of the ship called the John, of Dieppe, [with the appraisement, as ordered by the Court of Admiralty]

Date: 11 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 662-663

Document type: Copies [two papers]


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 11 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 505

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

Captain Toby Barnes to have a lease of the towns and lands of Sarny, Beatown, and Foylstown, in the barony of Dunboyne & county of Meath, together with certain unprofitable mountain-lands in the county of Wicklow, formerly belonging to Thomas Blood late of Sarny aforesaid, now attained of High-Treason.


Minutes of proceedings in the House of Commons of Ireland, concerning a Bill entitled: "An Act for establishing an additional revenue upon his Majesty", etc.

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 11 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 753

Document type: Certified Copy


Minutes of a conference of the Lords and Commons of Ireland, in Parliament assembled, concerning certain questions relating to privilege of Parliament

Date: 12 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 755

Document type: Certified Copy


An Order, by the House of Lords of Ireland, appointing a Committee to attend the Lord Lieutenant, upon a question of privilege of Parliament

Date: 12 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 756

Document type: Certified Copy


Clarendon to Ormond

Written from: Worcester House

Date: 13 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 108

Document type: Holograph

For what concerns the public, the Duke is referred to Lord Arlington. His Grace will likewise receive the King's pleasure concerning the Canary Company; which, with what prejudice soever the Duke may now regard it, ... he will hereafter confess to a very provident act of state ...

Adds his views, and his observation of current influences, concerning various matters arising under the 'Settlement Act & Bill of Explanation' ...

[Not printed by Lister].


[An Order], by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal [of Ireland], in Parliament assembled

Date: 14 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 763

Document type: Certified Copy

[An Order], by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal [of Ireland], in Parliament assembled, [for the sequestration of the rents of the lands of Castlereagh, in the county of Down, & of certain other lands, in question in a cause then depending before the House, until further order thereupon].


Ormond to Sir William Coventry

Written from: Dublin

Date: 14 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 457-458

Document type: Copy

After various details concerning measures for the defence of the Irish coasts, the writer adds: -

The King having bestowed upon his service here the French Guinea [in MS.: "Guiny"] ship, her lading (which was perishing in the ship) is put ashore ... and a valuation made ...

Has written to the Lord Cancellor [Clarendon] concerning pretensions made in the Court of Claims [at Dublin], by the Duke [of York]'s officers to some of the same lands which are claimed by the writer, ... and has told his Lordship of his desire to be informed, by his Royal Highness' Council, of the state of the case, so that if the writer shall find the matter not very clearly upon his side, he may waive his pretensions ...


Enclosure 1:

A brief state of the condition of the cargo of the French ship, from Guinea, St. John, of Dieppe, declared to be lawful prize

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). [not given]


Enclosure 2:

An appraisement, upon oath, of the cargo of St. John, of Dieppe.

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). [not given]


Ormond to the Sovereign ["Suffraigne" in MS.], & to the military governor, of the town of Athlone

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 14 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 72v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Directs that certain Dutch prisoners herein named, now under restraint at Athlone, be set at liberty, without paying fees, or charges; the Admiralty of Zealand having, in like manner, released certain English prisoners. ...


Ormond to the Mayor of Kilkenny, and to the military governor of that city

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 14 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 72v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Directs that certain Dutch prisoners herein named, now under restraint at Kilkenny, be set at liberty, without paying fees, or charges; the Admiralty of Zealand having, in like manner, released certain English prisoners. ...


Ormond to the Mayor, and to the Governor of Clonmel

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 14 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 72v

Document type: Copy

Directs that certain Dutch prisoners herein named, now under restraint at Clonmel, be set at liberty, without paying fees, or charges; the Admiralty of Zealand having, in like manner, released certain English prisoners. ...


Ormond to Major John Love

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 14 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 72v

Document type: Copy

Directs that certain Dutch prisoners herein named, now under restraint, be set at liberty, without paying fees, or charges; the Admiralty of Zealand having, in like manner, released certain English prisoners. ...


Ormond to Colonel John Spencer, Governor of Galway

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 14 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 73

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

The frigates Sapphire [In MS,.: "Saphire"] and Forester [In MS.: "Forrester"], being appointed to ply on the western coast [of Ireland] for security of trade, notice is to be given whensoever they put into Galway or any other harbour; and how long they remain is also to be reported.


Ormond to Master and Senior Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: [14 April?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 73

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Desires license of absence from Trinity College, on behalf of Mr Thomas Hill, a Fellow thereof, and one of the writer's domestic chaplains.


James Archer to Ormond

Date: 14 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 254-255

Document type: Original

Reports conferences on political affairs with Lord Arlington, and with Lord Ossory [apparently held in London].

French.


James Buck to Sir George Lane

Written from: Moor Park

Date: 15 April 1666 [dated in error, "1665"]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 672

Document type: Holograph

Personal affairs. - Recommendations concerning matters and such pending in Ireland. - Incidents at Moor Park.


Sir Audley Mervyn to Richard Price, Sheriff of the County of Down

Written from: House of Commons [Dublin]

Date: 16 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 765

Document type: Copy

Recites particulars of a pending suit, relating to certain lands in the county of Down, between the Lord Viscount Conway, and another, of the one part; and Lieutenant Colonel Moses Hill, a Member of the House of Commons, of the other part; and also an order made by the House of Lords thereupon.

Inhibits, by command of the House of Commons, the Sheriffs obedience to the order aforesaid, as being a breach of their privileges; and promises indemnity.


An Establishment, containing the civil and military lists of Ireland, ... "to begin for and from the first day of April, 1666". With the King's instructions thereupon [undated]

Date: 16 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 66, fol(s). 374-382

Document type: Copy


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the payment to Richard, Earl of Arran, of the sum of sixty pounds, sterling; in repayment of so much expended for support of Dutch prisoners at Kilkenny and Clonmel

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 16 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 259

Document type: Copy


Buck to Lane

Written from: [Moore Park]

Date: 17 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 673

Document type: Holograph

This morning, my Lord of Arlington & his lady [Sister of Lady Ossory] were married in the room where my Lady Duchess [of Ormond] used to lie, - now my Lady of Ossory's - without any witnesses but my Lord & Lady Ossory, although his [Ossory's] sisters, & one of Lord Arlington's, were in the house. ...

Sent as a postscript to the letter of the preceding day.


Report of proceedings in relation to certain naval prizes, and to questions thence arising. Addressed to Lord Lieutenant the Duke of Ormond, by Captain John Spencer

Written from: Galway

Date: 17 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 444

Document type: Original


[An Order] by his Majesty's Principal Commissioners for Prizes [directing the sale of the ship John of Dieppe and of her appurtenances]

Written from: Council Chamber, Dublin

Date: 18 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 671

Document type: Copy [four signatures]


William Cole to Lane

Written from: Cockpit [Whitehall]

Date: 18 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 680

Document type: Holograph

Having received, from Sir Thomas Clarges, Sir George's letter, & the recommendation [to Trinity College] written by his Grace the Lord Lieutenant, the writer returns his grateful thanks.

Adds some further particulars as to his desires in respect to the degree mentioned in his "supplication" [above-mentioned] to the Lord Lieutenant.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 18 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 150-154

Document type: Holograph Minute [Note, this Minute is misbound]

... Amongst the Bills enumerated ... in a note that accompanied his Lordship's letters of 31 March and 10th April ... is one providing for the punishment of certain crimes, in the Court of Castle-Chambers. But that Bill had been formerly returned, ... and was not permitted to pass in the House of Commons [of Ireland]. "I conceive", adds the Duke, "it is the same Bill, ... and that it will not be fit to offer it to a second rejection, which it certainly would meet with." ...

With that letter, came also an Order of Council concerning the Canary Company, ... which does not appear to have any relation to this Kingdom ... The writer recites his former opposition to the incorporation of the Company [on apprehension of injury to the trade of Ireland], & how it came about that he was "in part overruled [Meaning, - as the context shews, - "overruled by Clarendon"], in part, persuaded" to withdraw that opposition ... Since, letters have been received direction a proclamation here that the Charter aforesaid extends to Ireland. The writer & the Council have, however, hitherto forborne to make any such proclamation, in conformity with the express power given, to the former, by his instructions, which direct that in case letters be obtained from his Majesty, directing what he, the Lord Lieutenant, deems to be prejudicial to his Majesty's service here, he may so forbear, until he shall have represented his sense thereupon, & received his Majesty's further pleasure ...

Adds, at gret length, various particulars concerning affairs of the Revenue, and of the Army and Navy. ...


Encloses:

Copy of a letter from the Earl of Orrery, to the Duke of Ormond, concerning certain French ships

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). [not given]


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant to Sir John Stephens of the office of Craner of Ireland, according to the directions contained in his Majesty's letter, of 22nd March, last

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 18 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 259v

Document type: Copy


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Dublin

Date: 19 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 382-385

Document type: Copy

... The affairs of this Kingdom, as they come into debate, will still need the Chancellor's help, and unless, - according to the impotent wishes of some - it could be burnt or sunk, it will deserve the consideration of all that desire the safety & prosperity of England. But what the writer has to say on this subject he means to put into a letter to the King. ...

The Canary Company ... are, as the writer hears, in suit with some merchants of this place in the Court of Admiralty, about a ship laden with Canary wines, not long since arrived here ... That Company has not taken off, as yet, one pennyworth of [Irish] commodities, nor is it like they will, unless they can have them at their own rates. ...

Adds, at great length, particulars relating (1) to certain pending Bills on Irish affairs; (2) to Lord Ranelagh's case; (3) to the case of Lord Leigh's grandson; (4) to matters concerning naval prizes, and their value; (5) to the pay of the Irish army; (6) to the affairs in Ireland of the Duke of York & the Earl of Anglesey; (7) to the case of Lady Muskery; (and 8) to the vacant Bishopric of Derry. ...


A commission by James Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of the county of Somerset, to John, Lord Poulett, and others, to be Deputy Lieutenants of the county aforesaid

Date: 19 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 129

Document type: Breviate [in Letter Book]


Annexed thereto:

A list of the Deputy Lieutenants [Twenty-three in number], nominated and commissioned by the Duke of Ormond

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 129


Intelligence [concerning political incidents in Ireland] given me [the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland] by Sir Theophilus Jones

Written from: Dublin

Date: 20 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 682

Document type: Original


The Lord Lieutenant & Council of Ireland to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 20 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 36v

Document type: Breviate

Recommend an allowance to the present Commissioners for Executing the 'Act of Settlement', of £25, weekly, for their common-table; and a further allowance to each Commissioner of twenty-five shillings, for their several lodgings and transmit a letter, for his Majesty's signature, to that purport.


Ormond to the Lords of the Council in England

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 20 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 286

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

According to their Lordships' directions, has sent into England, by a servant of his own, Lord Leigh's grandchild, with order to deliver the child to the Clerks of the Council.


Ormond to the Clerk of the Council

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 20 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 286

Document type: Copy

According to their Lordships' directions, has sent into England, by a servant of his own, Lord Leigh's grandchild, with order to deliver the child to the Clerks of the Council.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 21 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 676

Document type: Holograph

Communicates particulars concerning (1) additional subsidies to be voted in Parliament; (2) a proposal for suspending privilege of Parliament; (3) the weekly allowance for the Commissioners of the Court of Claims under the Acts of Settlement; (4) claims to the ownership of a "currants-ship" (Salvatore del Mondo).


Encloses

An order, in Council, concerning the prize-ship, Salvatore del Mondo

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 678

Document type: Copy


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 21 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 37

Document type: Breviate

The King approves of the recommendation made in the letter of the Lord Lieutenant & Council of 4th April.

A warrant for signature may be transmitted accordingly.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 21 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 286-288

Document type: Holograph

Is under very great obligation to the Duke, for the part his Grace has had in making the writer happy in a wife, "which answers all the good he had heard of her, - and that was not a little". ... He has been also obliged to Lord & Lady Ossory for their usage of him, which exceeds all that ever he had, in that kind, in his life. ... Shall think no part either of life or fortune too dear, to lay down in return of such obligations. ...

This day, we have had assurance from Sir W. Temple that the Bishop of Munster hath made peace with Holland; after having sent his Majesty a thousand assurances and protestations more than he needed to have done, that he would never do it. ...


A Certificate, by the Earl of Orrery, Lord President of Munster

Written from: Charleville

Date: 21 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 72

Document type: Copy

A Certificate, by the Earl of Orrery, Lord President of Munster, that the Castle of Carrickfergus may, without prejudice to his Majesty's service, be delivered to the care & custody of Colonel Daniel O'Brien; the small garrison now stationed therein being withdrawn.


Annexed:

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, for the delivery of the Castle of Carrickfergus to Colonel Daniel O'Brien, upon his first entering into a due engagement for the custody thereof, with the Lord President of Munster

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 30 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 72

Document type: Copy


Reasons why there should be no restraint upon the exportation of cattle from Ireland to England. [By Thomas Amory.] Addressed to the Duke of Ormond.

Date: 22 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 40, fol(s). 559-560

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.


Ormond to Sir James Shaen

Written from: Dublin

Date: 23 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 329

Document type: Copy

Did not until February 17th receive Sir James Shaen's letter of January 20..., and then could not for some time obtain the opinion - now sent - of skilful men, concerning the construction fo a clause ... [in the Explanatory Act]. It is sent for the satisfaction of those that advanced money, and of Sir James, who prevailed with them to do it. ...

For the matter of the Registry [Office of Registrar of the Court of Claims], the Duke desired that some gentlemen, who had suffered for the King & were not in so good a condition as Sir James Shaen, should have a part of it. To him, he remembered to preserve the interest that was thought sufficient ... when Sir John Percival was alive.


Encloses:

Observations upon Sir James Shaen's letter

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 331


Ormond to Sir Thomas Vyner

Written from: Dublin

Date: 23 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 28

Document type: Copy

Accredits the Earl of Anglesey for such a sum of money as he may apply for to Sir Thomas Vyner, upon the Duke's account; drawing the necessary Bills of Exchange for reimbursement.


Sir Allan Brodrick to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 23 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 29-30

Document type: Original

Describes the proceedings in Parliament, upon an address praying the King to take measures for restraining the Dutch from further invasions of British rights in foreign settlements; and upon some other subjects. Notices the great rejoicings in the City of London [Greater, adds Brodrick, than have been known in London, save on the King's restoration], upon the attitude taken by both Houses towards the United Netherlands. ...


Manifesto of Cardinal Francesco Barberini

Written from: Rouse

Date: 24 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 318

Document type: Translation

Manifesto of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, to the clergy and Catholics of the Kingdom of Ireland [in relation to the duty of civil allegiance to the King], and against the "remonstrance" of February 1662.


Ormond to the Trustees of the commissioned officers serving his Majesty in Ireland before June, 1649

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 24 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 73

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Major Richard Perkins was enlisted under the Lord Lieutenant himself & received pay in the army under his Grace's immediate command; he is therefore to be enrolled & accounted as an officer of the province of Leinster, not of Ulster, altho there garrisoned.


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant to John Longfield, during good behaviour, of the office of Usher of the Court of Exchequer of Ireland, now void by the voluntary surrender of Richard Delves

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 24 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 259v

Document type: Copy


[Sir Charles Harbord?] to Lord Hinchinbroke

Written from: [Corunna]

Date: Undated [26? April] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 432-433

Document type: Holograph. Signed "C.H."

A journal-letter, in which the writer describes the incidents of Lord Sandwich's voyage and journey towards Madrid, from the setting sail at Spithead, on March 3rd, to the day of a state visit to the governor, at Corunna, on the 22nd of April. ...


Robert Ferrers to Lord Hinchinbroke

Written from: Groyne, in Gallicia

Date: 26 April 1666, Engl. style

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 434

Document type: Holograph

Apprises his Lordship of the circumstances attending the detention of Lord Sandwich, and his retinue, at Corunna in quarantine. Adds that it is Lord Sandwich's purpose to begin his journey towards Madrid on the morrow, April 27.


Petiton of Anthony Wynn, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [26 April] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 70v

Document type: Copy

Plaint of debt, trover, and assault, against Captain Nicholas Aynsham, of his Grace's Horse-Guards.


Annexed:

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the Petition of Anthony Wynn

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 26 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 71

Document type: Copy


Petition of Nicholas Connor, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin?]

Date: [26 April] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 71

Recites his conviction of felony; & his desire to serve the King at sea or on land; and prays for a respite, with a further inquiry into his case.


Annexed:

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the Petition of Nicholas Conner

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 71

Document type: Copy


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for a commission for administration of the necessary oaths to Sir George Gilbert, and others, appointed to be Justices of Peace for the county of the City of Dublin. With various recitals.

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 26 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 259v-260

Document type: Copies


A narrative of Sir William Temple's mission to the Prince-Bishop of Munster

Written from: Brussels

Date: 27 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 274-277, 280-281

Document type: Copy [misbound]

A narrative of Sir William Temple's mission to the Prince-Bishop of Munster, in April 1666; and of the negotiations and conditions of peace between that Prince and the States-General of the Netherlands. Addressed by the Envoy to Secretary Lord Arlington.


Ormond to the Mayor and Corporation of Dublin

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 73v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

It will be very acceptable to the Lord Lieutenant if Sir Daniel Bellingham, the now Lord Mayor of Dublin, can be persuaded to be re-elected to that office, for another year; such election tending it is conceived to the promotion of his Majesty's service.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 28 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 290

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Is sorry to see the price of the prize-ship fallen so low; yet glad to notice that the Lord Lieutenant restrains himself within such moderate brands of demanding but £15,000, for the present; which, adds the writer, "I am persuaded we shall obtain for you, now that we are eased of the Bishop of Munster's payments" ...

...Lord Holles hath at last heard the propositions of agreement, promised to be made him at the Queen Mother's. "They are no better than we suppose they would give us, after our loss of a battle." The particulars are not worth the Lord Lieutenant's knowledge. His Majesty's directions, "upon the sight of them were that my Lord Holles ... should come away". ...


Sir W. Coventry to Ormond

Date: 28 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 446

Document type: Holograph

Has received his Grace's letter of 14th instant. On reading it to the Duke of York the Duke resolved to speak with the Lord Chancellor upon the matter therein mentioned but found him not yet instructed by any letter from the Lord Lieutenant. ...

His Grace may please to employ the ships, 'Dartmouth', 'Harp', and 'Little Gift', as he may judge fittest for protection of the trade between England & Ireland.


My Lord Ranelagh's offer to his lady and unmarried daughters

Date: 28 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 387

Document type: Copy; certified by Sir George Lane


Ormond to St. Alban

Written from: Dublin

Date: 28 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 334

Document type: Copy

... Sir Robert Vyner's letter to Lord Anglesey, concerning the £15,000, for the service of this Kingdom accords not with what Lord St. Alban wrote of it. He, Vyner, seems not fully satisfied with the security; ... and also to expect, out of the main sum, the interest & exchange [by way of deduction] ... Has not met with a fairer or franker dealer than Sir R. Vyner, which makes the writer confident that he does not now propose both defalcation from Ireland, and satisfaction from the King, for the advance of one and the same sum ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 28 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 156

Document type: Copy

Lord Arlington's of the 21st, and his lady's to the Duchess of Ormond, have a harmony that, it is hoped, will end only with their lives; & then, adds the writer, "we have had the success we proposed to ourselves, - your happiness, and the pleasure of having contributed to it".

Returns the King's letter, and will not fail to advise with Lord Anglesey concerning the best way of making his Majesty's bounty useful to Lod Arlington. ...

... Doubts but that the Bishop of Munster's peace may influence all the King's negotiations abroad, and if it does not disappoint all the alliances aimed at, yet it may enhance the price of them ...


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the delivery to Mr Richard Jones of such of the Dutch prisoners now at Athlone, as shall be willing to be employed by him, not exceeding twelve in number; upon engagement that they shall be forthcoming, when demanded

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 260

Document type: Copy


A like Warrant, and to like effect, on the behalf of Sir George Lane

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 260

Document type: Breviate


Lord Ranelagh's offers for the maintenace of his lady [Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, daughter of Richard, Earl of Cork], and of his unmarried daughters

Date: 28 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 466

Document type: Copy


Political advices from Warsaw, Dantzic, Vienna, Elsinore, and Elbestrome. With notes of naval incidents.

Date: 28 April-8 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 97-98

Document type: Copies


Ildefonso Salizanes, Minister General of the Franciscans to Ormond

Written from: Madrid

Date: 30 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 320

Document type: Copy?

Accredits Father Mark Browne, to solicit the Lord Lieutenant's "favour and protection" for the Order of S. Francis in Ireland, and his countenance to the bearer, aforesaid, that he may "proceed with all integrity and justice, as we have commanded him to do", in the discharge of his mission in that kingdom.


Sir William Temple to Arlington

Written from: Brussels

Date: 30 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 278

Document type: Copy

The necessities forcing the Bishop of Munster to peace were not to be surmounted. ... But, on the other side, the writer thinks it inexcusable that the Bishop should yield to any conclusion, without representing all the circumstances to the King, and asking his consent. ... But the writer promised to represent to his Majesty the Bishop's desire to receive the subsidiary payments promised, for those months in which he was actually in the field. ...


Ormond to the Commissioners of the Court of Claims at Dublin

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 30 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 73v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

To like effect, on behalf of Major Richard Perkins, as in the letter addressed to the Trustees of the '1649' officers of his Majesty's army in Ireland.


The Speech of Mr Solicitor-General [Finch], summing up the evidence [on the trial of Thomas Parker Lord Morley and Monteagle

Written from: 30 April

Date: 30 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 80, fol(s). 762-763v

Document type: Contemporary Report


Petition of Sir George St. George, Lieutenant of the Earl of Ossory's Troop of Horse, to the Duke of Ormond

Date: 30 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 73

Document type: [Dublin]

Prays for his Grace's order that one William Powell, a corporal in the troop aforesaid, now attending upon the Earl of Ossory in England, be continued on the muster roll.


An order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the petition of Sir George St. George

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 30 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 73

Document type: Copy


Petition of Sir George St. George, Knight, to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 30 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 74

Document type: Copy

Recites particulars of an [insolvent] assignment for pay of the Earl of Ossory's horse-troop upon lands of the Duke of Buckinghamd in the Queen's County.

Prays an order for a new and valid assignment.


Annexed 1:

Certificate, by the Earl of Anglesey, Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, concerning the assignment for pay of the Earl of Ossory's horse-troop

Date: 21 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 74

Document type: Copy


Annexed 2:

Order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the petition of Sir George St. George

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 30 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 74

Document type: Copy


Petition of Jervice [Gervase?] Hynd, in behalf of himself, of William Hynd & others to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [30 April] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 76

Document type: Copy

Recites former order of the then Lords Justices, for the payment of certain arrears due to petitioners for military service, & pray its renewal.


An order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the petition of Jervice Hynd; & upon a warrant of the Lords Justices, bearing date, June 16, 1661

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 30 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 76v

Document type: Copy


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the appointment in due form of law of John (King), Lord Kingston, to administer the affairs of the province of Connaught, during the absence of the President, John Lord Berkeley (of Shatton)

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 30 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 260v

Document type: Copy


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, reciting the setting out of fifteen thousand and five hundred and fifty five acres of land, in the counties of Limerick and Tipperary, to Thomas Coningham

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 30 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 261

Document type: Copy

Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, reciting the setting out of fifteen thousand and five hundred and fifty five acres of land, in the counties of Limerick and Tipperary, to Thomas Coningham [So in MS.] and Lewis Dike [So in MS.], on their assigns, "in satisfaction of seven thousand pounds, pretended to have been [by them] adventured, ... for lands in this Kingdom"; reciting, also, that, by a clause in the Explanatory Act, all the said lands are vested in his Majesty...

Directs that the tenants of the said lands shall keep in their hands all rents, and arrears of rent, due thereout, until further order.


Political advices from Warsaw, Dantzic, and Vienna. With naval advices from Elsinore and Elbestrom

Date: 30 April-3 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 97-98


[A schedule of] pensions and annuities [payable out of the revenue of Ireland]

Date: April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 61

Document type: Apparently, Original. Dated only upon the endorsement.


The state of the Claim under the Land-Settlement Acts of Ireland, of the Lord of Iveagh [Art Magennnis, III Lord Viscount Magennis of Iveagh]

Date: Undated [April? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 226

Document type: Original


An address, by the House of Commons of Ireland, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant, upon certain questions of privilege, then at issue between that House and the House of Lords

Date: [April] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 757-758

Document type: Certified Copy


An account of receipts and disbursements, [out of certain branches of the revenue of Ireland]

Date: [April 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 59-60

Document type: Original [apparently]


An estimate of several branches of his Majesty's revenue [in Ireland], due at Easter, 1666. [Drawn up by Arthur, Earl of Anglesey.]

Date: [April?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 51

Document type: Copy


An estimate of several branches of his Majesty's revenue in Ireland, due at Easter, 1666. With an account of outgoings from the same. Also drawn up by Arthur, Earl of Anglesey.

Date: [April?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 53

Document type: Copy


The Deposition of ... James Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant ... of Ireland to the tenth article of the "Answer of George Jukes"

Date: [April? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 496

Document type: Copy

The Deposition of ... James Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant ... of Ireland to the tenth article of the "Answer of George Jukes", exhibited on behalf of Sir Richard Kennedy and Sir Maurice Eustace, Knights [concerning the intentions of Sir Maurice Eustace late Lord Chancellor of Ireland in respect of the disposal of his estate, as expressed to the deponent in May, 1664.


Proposals for an accomodation from [Charles Rich] ... Earl of Warwick [as Trustee of Katherine, Viscountess Ranelagh, under covenants of settlement upon her marriage] to the Lord Ranelagh

Date: Undated [April? 1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 458-459

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.


Lady Ranelagh [Katherine Boyle, daughter of Richard, Earl of Cork; wife of Arthur, second Viscount Ranelagh] to the Duchess of Ormond

Date: Undated [April? 1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 452-453

Document type: Holograph, unsigned

Communcates the views of the writer; and notices those expressed by Lord Ranelagh; upon certain family questions, then in litigation between the Earl of Warwick, and Lord Ranelagh; and also in respect to provision to be made for the unmarried daughters of Lord and Lady Ranelagh, and for other like matters of domestic concern.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 1 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 292

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Communicates a letter from Lord Orrery, expressing a suspicion of a French design to excite some trouble in Ireland; and recommending a settlement of the militia there, "after the manner of England, amongst the Protestants; as likewise the securing some of the leading and notoriously disaffected Roman-Catholics and fanatics. To which his Majesty agrees, but recommends to your Grace to execute it, with that distinction & moderation, as may not enrage the whole parties or drive them to a conjunction with one another" ...


Sir W. Coventry to Ormond

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: 1 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 448

Document type: Holograph

Particulars of certain matters of traffic betwixt England & Ireland, and of charges connected therewith.


Petition of Cornet Randal Moore, executor of Captain Garrett Moore, deceased, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [1 May] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 72v

Document type: Copy & Breviate [two petitions]

Prays his Grace's order for the payment, by composition, of certain arrears of military pay, according to a former warrant.


Annexed:

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the petition of Cornet Randal Moore; as prayed for

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 1 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 72v

Document type: Copy & Breviate


Petition of Adam Leathes, and John Fountaine, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 1 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 73r-v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Cornet William Mathlin. [With the order made thereupon.]


Affidavit of William Lynch, in a plaint against Francis Van Garnon, defendant

Date: 1 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 101v

Document type: Breviate


Annexed 1:

Certificate in the plaint Lynch versus Van Garnon

Date: 10 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 101v

Document type: Certified Copy


Annexed 2:

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, in the matter of Lynch versus Van Garnon

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 12 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 101v

Document type: Copy


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant of the dignity of a Baronet to Luke Bath of Athcarne, in the county of Meath, and his heirs-male; according to the tenour of his Majestys letter of the 15th of March, 1662

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 1 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 260v

Document type: Copy


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 2 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 507

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

Dr Richard Boyle, Dean of Limerick, to be advanced to the united Bishopric of Leighlin and Ferns, now void by the death of Robert Price, late Bishop thereof, and also to have a grant of the rectory of Killeban, in the said Diocese, to be held in commendam.


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 3 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 509

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

Frideswide Leigh, widow of Captain Henry Leigh, who was slain in the battle of Rathmines to have a grant of certain lands in the county of Westmeath, which are forfeited to the Crown by the attainder of Alexander Jephson.


Petition of Colonel John Gorges, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 3 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 87v

Document type: Breviates

[Concerning arrears of military pay. With the certificate & orders thereupon].


Carlingford to Ormond

Date: 5 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 683-684

Document type: Holograph

Communicates particulars of the writer's late audiences of the Emperor; of the state of political affairs in the Empire; and of the relations between France & Holland.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 5 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 294

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

The letters which the writer receives from Holland say that their fleet will not be ready, for a month yet, to put to sea. The King and the Duke of York went on Thursday to see our fleet. Fifty four ships are now ready at the Buoy in the Nore, which will in a few days be completed to the number of seventy two.

The writer adds a summary of other intelligence received from the Continent. ...


Clarendon to Ormond

Written from: Worcester House

Date: 5 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 110-111

Document type: Holograph

A further and long discussion of matters arising, in Ireland, under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, and out of the proceedings of the Commissioners of the Court of Claims ...

... Has "somewhat to complain of my friends the Commissioners for under valuing a decree of mine in Chancery, on behalf of Patr. Fector, which shall stand good, & be executed, when their jurisdiction is determined. In the mean time, my good friend Colonel Cooke must excuse me, if I make his brother, who had a very naughty part in the business, an example, if ever he come into England; and [or] if I bring him hither, before he be willing to come. I confess I cannot imagine upon what grounds the Commissioners proceed, and what jurisdiction they conceive themselves to be possessed of". ...

[Not printed by Lister].


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 5 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 158-159

Document type: Holograph-Minute

... Since the writer's letter of April 18, the condition of things in Ireland is found to be worse than it was, or than could be foreseen [as likely], at that time. ... Gives particulars of some disappointments concerning naval pizes; - of arrangements reported from London concerning the raising of certain supplies, - and of Sir Robert Vyner's expectation, thereupon, "of Irish interest, i.e. £10 in the hundred, besides £100, for exchange, which, considering that his repayment is to be in England, & in English money, is most unreasonable"; ... and adds, at great length, other details chiefly concerning matters of revenue & finance ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 5 May 1666 [Additional]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 160

Document type: Holograph-Minute

It is the general opinion of all that are skilful in sea-affairs that the vessels hired for transport of packets are very improper for their work. It is desired that his Lordship would instruct some knowing person to impact them, & to get such as may be fitter for a duty of so great importance.


Encloses

Second draught of a letter, to be offered for his Majesty's signature containing instructions for the dissolving, or proroguing, of the Parliament of Ireland

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). [not given]


Ormong to Sir William Coventry

Written from: Dublin

Date: 5 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 459

Document type: Copy

Any assistance Sir William can give for the better sale of the St. John of Dieppe & her cargo, will come in time enough if by the next post. She was offered to cauling on Thursday ... but the candle went out, & nobody bid up to the appraisement. ... The Dartmouth, and the Little Gift, are now in this bay, but shall shortly sail to the Northward. The Captain of the Little Gift shall be brought to answer to the misdemeanours laid to his charge. ...


Ormond to the Archbishop of Cashel

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 5 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 74

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Desires that his Grace will set to Mr Robert Blake, at a moderate rents so much of certain impropriate tithes, formerly possessed by his father, Sir Richard Blake, as lie within the Diocese of Cashel.


Ormond to the Bishop of Killala

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 5 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 74

Document type: Breviate

Desires that his Grace will set to Mr Robert Blake, at a moderate rents so much of certain impropriate tithes, formerly possessed by his father, Sir Richard Blake, as lie within the Diocese of Killala.


Ormond to Sir John Knight

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 5 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 287

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Understands, by Sir John's letter to Sir George Lane, that one Nehemiah Farrant is in the Marshal's hands at Bristol, on suspicion of being concerned in the late plot for surprising Dublin Castle. Notifies that the suspected person was discharged, after examination here.


Confirmation and renewal, by the Duke of Ormond, of the order of the Lord Deputy Earl of Ossory

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 5 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 261v-262

Document type: Copy

Confirmation and renewal, by the Duke of Ormond, of the order of the Lord Deputy Earl of Ossory bearing date 12 May 1665, and directing the restoration to Roger Bamber, and Theresa his wife, of all the lands, houses, rents, etc. in the town of Navan, and county of Meath formerly possessed by Mary Finglass, widow, deceased. ... With various recitals, concerning petitions and other proceedings, in relation thereto, by the Trustees of the Commissioned Officers who served his Majesty before the fifth of June, 1649.


Jacopo Rospigliosi to F. Patrick Dempsey, Prefect of the Irish College at Lille

Written from: Brussels

Date: 5 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 221, fol(s). 278

Document type: Translation [from Latin]

Sends copy of a letter written by Card. Barberini at the command of the Pope to dissuade the Romish Clergy of Ireland from attending a proposed congregation "at the instigation of two Apostates" [meaning Redmond Caron and Peter Walsh [The last-named is the translator of this, and many other letters, bearing on the same subject; translated for the use of the Duke of Ormond]] to be held at Dublin and desires F. Dempsey's aid in its circulation ...


Salizanes to Ormond

Written from: Madrid

Date: 6 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 221, fol(s). 280

Document type: Apparently Holograph [the address, in the hand of Peter Walsh]

Returns his thanks, and those of his whole order, to the Duke, upon a report to them that his Grace "hath been at length graciously pleased to grant permission", for the holding of a Chapter of the Order in Ireland. ...


Ormond to the Commissioners of the Court of Claims, at Dublin

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 7 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 74

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Earnestly recommends to the consideration of the Commissioners certain claims, - under the Settlement Acts, of the Provost, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College near Dublin.


Encloses

Petition of the Provost, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College near Dublin, to the Duke of Ormond

Date: [April] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]

Document type: Copy


Ormond to the Commissioners of the Court of Claims, at Dublin

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 7 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 74v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Earnestly recommends to the consideration of the Commissioners certain claims, - under the Settlement Acts, of the Earl of Mountalexander.


Encloses

Petition of the Earl of Mountalexander to the Duke of Ormond

Date: [April] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]

Document type: Copy


Petiton of Thomas Houghton to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 7 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 74v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against certain officers & soldiers of the standing army ...

[With the order made thereupon.]


Petiton of Samuel Norman to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 7 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 74v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Francis Norman. [With the order made thereupon.]


Further Warrants, by the Duke of Ormond, concerning the government and administration, by John, Lord Kingston, of the affairs of the Province of Connaught, during the absence of John, Lord Berkeley, President thereof

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 7 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 262-263

Document type: Copies [five entries]


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the making out of particulars, on behalf of Captain Toby Barnes, of such lands etc. as by his Majesty's letter, of the 11th of April last, are directed to be passed by Letters Patent to the said Toby Barnes

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 7 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 263

Document type: Copy


An order, by the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 7 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 264

Document type: Copy

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, for the preparation, by the Attorney-General and Solicitor General of Ireland, of "the form of such Warrants as they shall think fit for us to sign, for fiants for Letters-Patent to be passed of such lands as by the Act of Parliament ... [known as the 'Explanatory Act' (17 and 18 Charles II, c.2)], are to be passed unto the several kinds of persons to whom, by that Act. We are impowered to cause Patents to be passed".


Note of Covenant, by Arthur, Lord Ranelagh

Date: 7 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 457

Document type: Copy

Note of Covenant, by Arthur, Lord Ranelagh to pay into the hands of the Duke of Ormond, or of any assignee by him nominated, on the first of January (1667), next ensuing, the sum of £250 sterling, for the use of Lord Ranelagh's daughters, "upon conditions formerly mentioned".


Petitions of Sir John Cole, Baronet; of Quarter-Master Boyle Burt; and others; to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Date: 7-18 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 70

Document type: Breviates [seven petitions]

[Praying, respectively, for payment, - by way of composition & in full satisfaction of the whole, - of one moiety of their several claims for arrears of military pay. With a note of the several orders of reference, certificates, and final orders, made thereupon.


Carteret to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 8 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 685

Document type: Holograph

On Sunday last, the King was pleased to lay his commands upon the writer to supply the Lord Lieutenant with the sum of £15,000 for the service of Ireland... The whole sum will be placed into Robert Vyner's hands, within a few days.


An order and instructions by the Commissioners for sick and wounded men and prisoners of war. ... [Addressed] to Mr William Crispin.

Date: 8 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 691

Document type: Copy


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 8 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 296

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Mr Vice-Chamberlain [Sir George Carteret] assures the writer that the £15,000 is ready to be sent to the Lord Lieutenant. ...

Intelligence from Holland reports that somebody will be speedily sent hither to treat; now that they perceive the overtures to Lord Holles have made no progress. ...


Sir W. Coventry to Ormond

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: 8 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 450

Document type: Holograph

Details of Admiralty affairs.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 8 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 166

Document type: Holograph-Minute

... The forming of a militia is now under consideration here, & shall be put in practice, as soon as possible, and, as nearly as may be, according to the model of that of England.

... As to the securing of the persons of disaffected papists & fanatics the writer is no-otherwise in favour of it, than as particular persons of them shall give new evidence of disaffection...


Encloses:

A letter of intelligence, concerning the proceedings of certain disaffected persons in Ireland. Addressed to the Duke of Ormond. Received May 8, 1666.

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). [not given]


Ormond to Sir William Coventry

Written from: Dublin

Date: 8 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 460

Document type: Copy

Fears that the irresistible necessities of the government here for ready money will compel the taking from the St. John, & her lading, what the combination & good nature of merchants who know the necessities, & how to make use of them will afford.

Adds particulars concerning a sum of £900, and odd, laid out by this treasury, but justly payable in England ...


Petition of John Macnamarre to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 8 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 75

Document type: Copies

Plaint of the detention, by Sir Ralph Willson, of lands in the county of Clare, duly awarded to petitioner by the Court of Claims.

[With the order made thereupon.]


Sandwich to Hinchinbroke

Written from: Madrid

Date: 8/18 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 223, fol(s). 133

Document type: Holograph

Has received his son's letter of April 14. Desires that he would look into Townsend's accounts [i.e. accounts connected with the Earl's office of Master of the Wardrobe]; and see them passed in the Exchequer; - "following the business hard; and having no patience, until it be done". He must also look carefully to the acquittances of the tradesmen.

The affair is of importance for safety, as well as for profits of office; great pains must be taken; and the taking them may, at some time or other, serve to make Hinchinbroke known to the King.


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 11 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 511-512

Document type: Original

The rent of ten pounds, per annum, payable to the Crown, upon certain houses, lands, and tenements in the city & county of Galway granted to George, Duke of Albemarle, by Letters Patent bearing date 7 August, 14 Car II [1662], is to be apportioned upon the several parcels contained in the grant aforesaid.


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 11 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 275-276

Document type: Certified Copy

Recites a former grant to George, Duke of Albemarle, of certain houses and hereditaments in the town of Galway, and "the eviction of some of the premises" aforesaid, from the said grantee, by decrees of the Commissioners for Executing the Act of Settlement...

Directs the "apportionment" of the rent payable by the Duke of Albemarle, "upon the several parcels contained in the said grant", ... so that every parcel may bear a proportionate part of the same. ...


A letter of foreign news from Vienna, Munster, and Elsinore; compiled in Hamburgh [May 5-12]

Written from: Hamburgh

Date: 12 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 68


To his Grace James, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; the answer of Colonel Robert Manley to the petition of Colonel George Walters

Date: [12 May?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 228

Document type: Holograph


Subjoined thereunto:

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the answer of Colonel Robert Manley

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 14 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 228

Document type: Original


Manifesto of Giacomo Rospigliosi, Papal Internuncio at the Court of Brussels, to the bishops and clergy of the Roman-Catholic Church in Ireland

Written from: Brussels

Date: 13 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 324

Document type: Translation

Manifesto of Giacomo Rospigliosi, Papal Internuncio at the Court of Brussels, to the bishops and clergy of the Roman-Catholic Church in Ireland, - "against the remonstrance, and to warn them from meeting at the intended congregation at Dublin, lest they should sign that profession of loyalty".

The words within inverted commas are taken from Walsh's endorsement of this paper. The translation is probably from his hand.


Giacomo Rospigliosi [afterwards Cardinal] to the titular Bishop of Ardagh

Date: 13 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 136v

Document type: Breviate

Condemns the Formulary of Allegiance proposed by Walsh and Caron in the convention at Dublin. Transmits a letter from Cardinal Barberini notifying the Pope's disapproval of it. Directs the communication of that letter to the Vicars Apostolic and Capitulary throughout Ireland. Desires to be informed of all proceedings, as charged with the ecclesiastical affairs of that realm.


Encloses:

A Letter Admonitory of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, to all the clergy and Roman-Catholics of Ireland, notifying the Pope's condemnation of the Formulary of Allegiance prepared by Fathers Walsh and Caron

Written from: Rome

Date: 25 April 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 136

Document type: Copy. From Stearne's MSS.

Latin.


Rospigliosi to the Prelates and other clergy of the Roman-Catholic Chruch in Ireland

Written from: Brussels

Date: 13 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 136v

Document type: Breviate, from Stearne's MSS.

Condemns the Formulary of Allegiance proposed by Walsh and Caron in the convention at Dublin. Transmits a letter from Cardinal Barberini notifying the Pope's disapproval of it. Directs the communication of that letter to the Vicars Apostolic and Capitulary throughout Ireland. Desires to be informed of all proceedings, as charged with the ecclesiastical affairs of that realm.


Rospigliosi to the titular Bishop of Ardagh [Patrick Plunket]

Written from: Brussels

Date: 13 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 221, fol(s). 282

Document type: Translation

The annexed letter [no copy of Barberini's letter is now annexed to this translation] of the Cardinal Barberini will shew the Bishop how grievous and hurtful to the Catholic religion would be the subscription by the clergy of Ireland of the Protestation proposed by Caron and by Walsh. His Lordship is therefor exhorted to discharge the duty of inculcating this view of the matter in question upon all the faithful in his diocese.


Sir William Temple to Ormond

Written from: Brussels

Date: 14 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 282-283

Document type: Holograph

Has desired Lord Arlington to give to the Lord Lieutenant the writer's account of his whole transactions at Munster. He now adds some account of the political situation, as it stands after the conclusion of the Munster Peace. ...


Petition of Thomas Lynch, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 14 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 75v

Document type: Copies

Renews his former prayer to be permitted to reside & trade in the town of Galway.

[With an Order of Reference to John, Lord Kingston, President of Connaught, thereupon.]


Petition of John Ley, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 14 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 76

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Roger Chamberlaine. [With the order made thereupon.]


Petition of William Lord Viscount Dongan, of Clane, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 14 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 76

Document type: Copies

Recites a decree of the Court of Claims restoring petitioner to certain lands, in the county of Kildare, which have been illegally entered upon by one Major Billingsley; and prays redress.

[With the order made thereupon.]


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, authorising William Armstrong to search for and apprehend "all such robbers, tories, and thieves, and such as receive stolen goods", ... as he shall have intelligence of, within the counties of Limerick, Waterford, Kilkenny, and Cork, or any of them

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 14 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 165, fol(s). 264

Document type: Copy


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 15 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 298-299

Document type: Original; subscribed and signed

Has imparted his Grace's letter to the Lord Treasurer who says that "he is under some kind of necessity" of making the remittance of the £15,000 "by Sir Robert Vyner's hand, because he only can help him to the money; although, he added, he would be glad to know who the person is that would transmit it at a better rate; acknowledging Sir R. Vyner's conditions to be exorbitant ones". ...

Adds some particulars concerning the militia of Ireland; and also concerning the resort to that kingdom of some suspected persons ...


Arlington to Ormond [Private]

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 15 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 300-301

Document type: Holograph

If his Majesty's good will to the writer - in respect of a gift of £10,000, assigned upon funds in Ireland, - be helped by his Grace's favour therein, he does not doubt to obtain a preference in the payment, and consequently a sufficiency to make it good. ...

Adds a summary of political advices received from the Continent. ... It is certain, the writer thinks, that the Hollanders would rather treat than fight, ... and, "with all our metal, it was a better election for us". ...


Ormond to the Mayor of Kilkenny [Peter Goodwyn]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 15 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 74v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

A further sum of thirty pounds will be paid into the Mayor's hands, for distribution among the Dutch prisoners at Kilkenny.


Ormond to the Mayor of Clonmel

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 15 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 74v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

A further sum of thirty pounds will be paid into the Mayor's hands, for distribution among the Dutch prisoners at Clonmel.


Petition of Robert Hasells to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 5 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 76 & v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against John Lee. [With the order made thereupon.]


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 16 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 513

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

A pardon to be granted to Theophilus Sandford, convicted of complicity in the late horrid plot for the seizure of the Castle of Dublin with clauses for restitution of forfeitures.


Letters-Patent of King Charles II granting to Sir John Stephens the offices of General Craner, Wharfinger, and Packer, in the several ports within the Kingdom, the port of Dublin only excepted, for a term of thirty one years from the date hereof

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: 16 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 515

Document type: Breviate


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 16 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 519

Document type: Original

In case certain Acts be passed into laws in Ireland - viz (1) An Act for for four additional subsidies; (2) An Act for taking away the privileges of the Members of both Houses, for a time; (3) An Act for taking away the wages of the Members of the House of Commons; - the Parliament may be prorogued, instead of being dissolved...


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Dublin

Date: 16 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 391-393

Document type: Copy

States the reasons which seem to the writer conclusive that the Canary Company's Charter ought not to extend to Ireland. ... Both ... trade, and the King, are unseasonable losers by the interruption already given to the exportation of the commodities of this place, under countenance of that Charter ...

Adds partiuclars concerning: (1) Lord Ranelagh's case; (2) matters affecting the interests in Ireland of the Duke of York, and others, which arise in the execution of the Acts of Settlement & Explanation; (3) the money needed, and often promised, for the army of Ireland, and other needs of the King's service in that Kingdom ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 16 May 1666 [No. I]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 170-171

Document type: Copy

... Doubtless, Lord Arlington has long since heard of that Protestation of loyalty, signed by many of the Irish Roman-Catholic nobility, gentry, and clergy, which was prescribed to his Majesty [in 1661]. It contains many assertions contrary to the doctrine heretofore reduced to practice [in Ireland], which doctrine did to the late King, and to our present Master, much mischief. ... Both its subscribers & its opponents have endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments & books ... Censures have been passed upon it, at home & abroad. ... Some of the non-subscibers thereto have hitherto excused themselves, upon the ground of want of liberty, to meet & consult about the matter. This liberty the writer has now presumed to pormise shall be granted to them, for reason herein stated...


Encloses:

The loyal formulary; or Irish remonstrance; ... presented to his Majesty, anno 1661

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). [not given]

Document type: Copy


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 16 May 1666 [No. II]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 168

Document type: Holograph-Minute

After concluding a former letter of this day's date, the writer received Lord Arlington's of the 8th instant, and also one from Sir George Carteret, giving assurance that, in a few days, the £15,000 assigned for the relief of the necessities of Ireland, would be in Sir Robert Vyner's hands ... But upon communication with Lord Anglesey, ... his Lordship shewed the writer a letter from Vyner, "acknowledging no such thing; ... but seeming to expect great defalcations, out of the sum, for interest & exchange; and seeming in as much uncertainty in what proportions, and at what times, we should receive the remainder" ...


Ormond to the Commissioners of the Court of Claims

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 16 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 75

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recommends to their favourable consideration the case of Serjeant-Major John Griffith.


Enclosure I:

Petition of Serjeant Major John Griffith to the Duke of Ormond [concerning claims under the Settlement Acts for Ireland

Date: [May] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]


Enclosure 2:

A petition of Serjeant Major John Griffith to the Duke of Ormond and to the Privy Council

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]

Document type: Copy


Enclosure 3:

An Order of Reference by the Lord Lieutenant & Council of Ireland upon the petition of Serjeant Major John Griffith

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]

Document type: Copy


Enclosure 4:

A Certificate, or Report, upon the case of Major John Griffith, under the Settlement acts for Ireland aforesaid

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]

Document type: Copy


Enclosure 5:

Final order of the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, upon the petition of Major John Griffith

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]


Ormond to the Commissioners of Prizes in England

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 18 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 23

Document type: Copy

The ship Mary, of Dublin, belonging to Thomas Boyd of that city, merchant, is now wrongfully detained by H.M. Frigate 'Adventure'. Order is desired for her due release.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 18 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 23

Document type: Copy

To like effect with the letter addressed to H.M. Commissioners of Prizes, on behalf of the ship 'Mary'; calendared immediately above.


Petiton of John Nicholls, a condemned prisoner, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 18 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 76v

Document type: Copies

Recites his willingness to make discovery of certain felonies. Prays for a further reprieve. [With the order made thereupon.]


Petition of Richard, Earl of Arran, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 18 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 77v

Document type: Copy

Recites the title of Art Geoghegan of Castletown Kindalerra in the county of Westmeath to certain lands in that county and his acceptance in lieu thereof, of lands in the county of Galway, "in the time of the late usurpers", and in order to his transplatation into Connaught.

Recites also the restoration of the heir & representative of the said Art Geoghegan to the lands in the county of Westmeath.

Prays for a custodiam of the lands in the county of Galway, so released by the restoration aforesaid.


Annexed 1:

An Order of the Duke of Ormond, concerning the petition of Richard, Earl of Arran, and according to its prayer

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 18 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 77v

Document type: Copy


Annexed 2:

A schedule of lands in the parishes of Ballindoone and Morusk, barony of Ballynahinch, & county of Galway, of which a custodiam is to pass to Richard, Earl of Arran

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 77&78

Document type: Copy


Petition of Alderman Thomas Hooke, to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 18 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 78v

Document type: Copies

[Praying for permission to remove certain fittings put up by petitioner during his late tenancy of part of the house of Corballis, of which he is now to quit possession. With the order thereupon].


Petition of the Lord Viscount Netterville to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 18 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 78-79

Document type: Copies

Prays for a remission, under circumstances stated, of certain dues of Port-corn, - "for maintenance of the sword", - payable out of certain tithes, which lately belonged to the petitioner ... [With an order of reference thereon to the Comptroller of the Lord Lieutenant's household.]


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 19 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 302

Document type: Original; subscirbed & signed

Lord Clanmalier's daughter-in-law, who brought to the writer a recommendatory letter form the Irish Council, proposed some things for the good of her family which seemed to the writer to be improper [for the King to grant]. Sir R. Beling asks [on her behalf] for Lord Antrim's lot in Connaught, or for part of it, ... and the Lord Lieutenant's opinion thereupon is desired ...


Ormond to Sir Francis Hamilton

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 19 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 24

Document type: Copy

Asks Sir Francis Hamilton's careful protection of certain goshawks which timber upon lands in Sir Francis' vicinity, in the county of Leitrim, belonging to the "'49 Men", until they can be sent to Dublin, "for his Majesty's pleasure".


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 19 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 24

Document type: Copy

Recommends a suit of Sir John Stephens, a person who hath constantly & faithfully served his Majesty & his royal father.


Rospigliosi to the titular Primate Reilly

Written from: Brussels

Date: 20 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 136

Document type: Breviate. From Bishop Stearne's MSS.

Recommends the delay of the titular Primate's intended repair into Ireland, until the Convention at Dublin shall have separated, lest his presence there should seem to give it countenance. The Primate should use all possible influence to discourage the taking of the proposed oath of allegiance.


Rospigliosi to Edmund Reilly, titular Archbishop of Armagh

Written from: Brussels

Date: 20 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 221, fol(s). 284

Document type: Translation [from Latin]

Having been informed of the purpose of the titular Primate [Then at Paris] to go to Ireland, cannot but notify to his Lordship the writer's opinion "that it is not expedient he should enter that kingdom", at a time when preparations are being made, "for a national meeting of the clergy there, in order to their subscribing a certain formulary of oath, invented by a few nefarious friars".


Petition of Andrew Woodley, esquire, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 21 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 82&v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt, in relation to lands at Inchy, in the county of Cork, against Lieutenant-Colonel William Fitzgerald.

[With the order made thereupon.]


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 21 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 22v

Document type: Copy; in Entry Book

Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the drawing up of a fiant, as well for the donation of the united Bishopric of Leighlin and Ferns to Dr Richard Boyle, Dean of Limerick, as for his consecration, investiture, and restitution to the temporalities of the said Bishopric; and also a grant to the said Richard Boyle of the rectory of Killeban, in the diocese of Leighlin; according to the tenour of his Majesty's letter of 2nd May instant.


Petition of Matthew Quinn, and Mary Quinn, otherwise Butler, his wife, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [21 May] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 79

Document type: Copy

... The late dissolved Abbey of St. Francis, "without the walls", in the north franchises of Galway, has been, since the reign of King John, the burial-place of petitioners' family, and of others, living in the said town, & county; and contained many monuments. In the time of the usurpers, the said Abbey was pulled down, & its monuments were defaced: - great piles of stones being heaped upon the ground ...

The Lord Lieutenant's order, to the officers concerned, is prayed for, for permission to petitioners to remove the stones, and to restore the place in such way, as may admit of burial there with Christian decency. ...


Annexed:

An order of reference of the petition of Matthew Quinn, and Mary Quinn, to Lord Kingston, President of Connaught

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 21 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 79

Document type: Copy


Petition of Robert French and George French, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [21 May] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 79v

Document type: Copy

Recite particulars of losses sustained by petitioners, through robberies inflicted on them, in the year 1664.

Pray for the Lord Lieutenant's license to live & trade in the town of Galway.


Annexed:

An order of reference to the Judges of Assize for the county of Galway, of the petition of Robert French and George French

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 21 May

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 79v

Document type: Copy


Intelligence [concerning a capture at sea, lately carried into the Isle of Rhe [In MS.: "Rhee"] and concerning the alleged drawing of "15,000 [So in MS.] French soldiers into that island]

Date: 22 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 692

Document type: Copy. The original was sent, by the Lord Lieutenant's order, to Secretary Lord Arlington at Whitehall.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 22 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 172

Document type: Copy

Since the writing of the letter of 16th instant, the Lord Mayor of Dublin [Sir Daniel Bellingham] has had a letter in which Sir Robert Vyner charges himself with the payment of £13,000, and some odd hundred pounds in satisfaction of the £15,000, contracted for. ... The Lord Lieutenant is assured that a like sum, upon like security, will be advanced if the King shall direct it ... The things which are to be done [with the money provided] must be done this summer; they cannot be done in winter ... forts & ordnance will take up so much [of the former sum] ... that, without a further supply, the army must, for so much, be left unpaid. ...


Ormond to the Provost, Fellows, & Scholars, of Trnity College, near Dublin

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 22 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 22v

Document type: Copy; in Entry Book

Recommends Francis Usher, BA, son of Joscelyn Usher, esquire, for a junior fellowship of the College.


Petition of John Escham, esquire, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 23 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 80

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Nicholas Aunsham, one of his Grace's life-guard of horse. [With the order made thereupon.]


Ossory to Arlington

Date: 24 May [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 161

Document type: Holograph

Fearing that the writer's former letter, about the estate of Fitzgerald [In MS.: "Fitzgerrard"], is lost, ... he will presume to write to the King on the business, ... which he does not despair of effecting ...

Begs that Lord Arlington will say how matters stand between the Duke of Ormond and him; being most anxious they should be fixed in a firm friendship.

Must retract what he said about his wife's condition; yet does not despair that she may keep pace with her sister, as she did last summer.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 24 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 174

Document type: Copy

Last night, information came of a second mutiny at Carrickfergus. ... What example may be taken by it in other places the writer cannot tell. In all garrisons, the conditions for want of pay are alike. ... Lord Donegal will use his utmost power to put an end to the disorder ... And the writer is resolved not to let it pass, without severe punishment ...


Encloses:

Copy of a letter from the Earl of Donegal, to the Duke of Ormond, containing an account of mutinous behaviours in the garrison of Carrickfergus

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). [not given]


Warrant by the Duke of Ormond for the drawing up of a fiant, containing his Majesty's presentation of Henry Dodwell, DD, Dean of Killala, to the rectory of Rathfian in the diocese of Killala

Date: 24 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 23

Document type: Copy; in Entry-Book

Warrant by the Duke of Ormond for the drawing up of a fiant, containing his Majesty's presentation of Henry Dodwell, DD, Dean of Killala, to the rectory of Rathfian in the diocese of Killala; and for inserting int he said fiant, a clause of union of the said rectory with the deanery of Killala, pro hac vice tantum.


Rospigliosi to the Bishop of Ypres [Martin Prato]

Written from: Brussels

Date: 24 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 221, fol(s). 286

Document type: Translation [from Latin]

Has heard of the intention of Edmund O'Reilly [titular] Archbishop of Armagh to proceed into Ireland, and of the probability that he will endeavour to embark for that kingdom, either at Ostend or at Nieuport. Asks the Bishop to take measures to induce the delay of his departure until the writer can confer with him, O'Reilly, thereupon.


John Love to Lane

Written from: Kinsale Fort

Date: 25 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 694

Document type: Holograph

In obedience to an order received from his Grace the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the writer reports certain particulars concerning ships now in the harbour of Kinsale.


Minute of a letter from the Duke of Ormond, to the Earl of Donegal

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 25 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 337

Document type: Endorsed by Lane


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 25 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 176

Document type: Copy

... The mutineers at Carrickfergus are, the writer finds, somewhat slackened in their courage. ... But he resolves on the morrow to go himself, to prevent its further progress: - lest the mutineers should have other encouragement in their design than yet appears.


Enclosure 1:

Copy of the letter of the Earl of Donegal to the Duke of Ormond, concerning the mutineers at Carrickfergus

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). [not given]


Enclosure 2:

Copy of the letter of the Duke of Ormond to the Earl of Donegal, in reply to the Earl of Donegal's letter concerning the mutineers at Carrickfergus

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). [not given]


Ormond to Captain Richard Rooth

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 25 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 75

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Information is received of a mutiny amongst the soldiers of the garrison of Carrickfergus. Captain Rooth must therefore avoid the bringing of his frigate under command of the castle, there, or otherwise under peril from the said soldiers so in mutiny. He is to remain in the bay, at a convenient distance until further order.


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 25 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 76

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Assistance is to given to Mr William Crispin, by the Lord President of Munster, for the execution of a certain service committed to his care within that province.


Enclosure 1:

William Crispin to George Lane

Date: May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]

Document type: Copy


Enclosure 2:

An order, by the King in Council, directing the performance by William Crispin, of certain services within the province of Munster

Date: May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]

Document type: Copy


Enclosure 3:

An order by the Commisioners for relief of sick and wounded seamen [on the subject of William Crispin's services within the province of Munster]

Date: May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]

Document type: Copy


Petition of Mary Eustace, otherwise Lonely, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 25 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 78

Document type: Copies

Recites the circumstances under which petitioner's son has been adjudged to be burned in the hand; and prays a remission of that punishment, for reasons submitted. [With the order made thereupon.]


Petition of James Hopton, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 25 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 81v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Walter Pitts, one of his Grace's guard. [With the order made thereupon.]


Annexed 1:

Report of Thomas Harrison, to the Duke of Ormond, upon the matter of the petition of James Hopton

Date: 8 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 81v

Document type: Copy


Annexed 2:

Final order of the Duke of Ormond, upon the petition of James Hopton

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 11 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 81v

Document type: Copy


Petition of Susanna Pollexfen, daughter of Sir Thomas Armstrong, deceased, to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 25 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 116

Document type: Copies

Major Billingsley, a captain in the Royal Regiment, hath got into his hands a sum of £125, part of petitioner's portion; and refuses to pay it over.

[With the order thereupon.]


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 26 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 304

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Particulars concerning a pending question, before the Commissioners of Claims in Ireland, as to the allotment of reprisals to Lord Gormanston. ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 26 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 306-307

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

A summary of advices, political and naval, from Holland, and from Spain; together with an account of conferences, upon the state of affairs in France, held with Lord Holles upon his return from his embassy thither.


Earl of Donegal to Ormond

Written from: Belfast

Date: 27 May 1666, 8am

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 696

Document type: Holograph

Lord Arran (with five hundred men of the guard), is arrived in Carrickfergus Bay. The writer will take care to be present at the landing.


Speech of Lord Sandwich to the Queen of Spain, at his first audience as ambassador from King Charles II, 27 May, 1666

Date: 27 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 437

Document type: Minute. Endorsed by Lord Sandwich.


Bishop of Ypres to the [titular] Archbishop of Armagh

Written from: Ypres

Date: 27 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 221, fol(s). 286v

Encloses to the Archbishop, the letter received by the present writer from the Intermuncio Rospigliosi, bearing the date of May 24 ...


Earl of Arran to Ormond

Written from: Carrickfergus

Date: 25 May 1666, 6pm

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 698

Document type: Original [and, apparently, Holograph]

Has received his Grace's letter of the 27th instant. Reports the state of his command and and that of the castle.


Earl of Arran to Ormond

Written from: Carrickfergus

Date: 28 May 1666, 11am

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 700

Document type: Original, & apparently, Holograph

Reports the arrival of Lord Donegal, and the military situation at Carrickfergus.


John Ashburnham to the Duchess of Ormond

Date: 28 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 702

Document type: Holograph

Particulars of a joint-bond entered into by the writer together with his Grace the Duke of Ormond & the Earl of Aylesbury, for a sum of £5,000, being "the moneys of the Countess of Kent and of two young ladies, now disposing themselves to marriage".


Carteret to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 29 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 704

Document type: Holograph

Sir Robert Vyner makes difficulty to comply with that [direction for the] payment of the £15 000, concerning which the writer addressed his Grace in a former letter.


Lord Kingston to Lane

Written from: Michelstown

Date: 29 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 706v

Document type: Holograph

Observations upon the mutiny of some soldiers [at Carrickfergus] [So I infer from the context. The writer's mode of expression is merely allusive & obscure], and upon the military affairs.

The writer is about to begin his journey to Athlone where he intends to reside, "until, as the Psalmist hath it, these calamities be overpast". ...


A narrative of the business at Carrickfergus. [Sent to Lord Lieutenant the Duke of Ormond.]

Written from: Carrickfergus

Date: 29 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 708

Document type: Original


Instruction by the [Duke of Ormond] Lord Lieutenant-General & General Governor of Ireland [to eighteen of the officers of his Majesty's army in Ireland, to attend a court-martial to be holden at Carrickfergus on the 30th instant

Written from: Carrickfergus

Date: 29 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 710

Document type: Official & Certified Copy


An order, by the Lord Lieutenant, to eighteen of the officers of his Majesty's army in Ireland, concerning the court-martial so to be holden

Written from: Carrickfergus

Date: 29 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 712

Document type: Official & Certified Copy


Arlington to Ormond [Private]

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 29 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 310-311

Document type: Holograph

The negotiations in Holland to get an envoy sent further to treat of peace are entirely at an end. The writer also fears that "another stratagem upon that country is blown up"; of which he adds particulars; together with the purport of late advices from the fleet ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 29 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 308

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

The Lord Lieutenant's two letters of 16th instant with an extract of that written to the Lord Chancellor were read to the King; who thereupon gave directions to the Vice-Chamberlain to see that the £15,000 be transmitted to Ireland, without deductions ...

What his Grace hath written about Roman-Catholic subscription is much approved of by the Chancellor ...


A narrative of Captain [Richard] Coventry's proceedings [at sea]

Date: 29 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 69

Document type: An attested copy of a report, from the fleet under Prince Rupert and Duke of Albemarle


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Carrickfergus

Date: 29 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 75v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Immediate order is to be taken for the further relief of the Dutch prisoners, now under restraint in the town of Athlone.


Instructions, for the disbanding of certain companies garrisoned at Carrickfergus, and concerned in a late mutiny of that garrison, by the Lord Lieutenant ... of Ireland

Written from: Carrickfergus

Date: 30 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 714

Document type: Official & Certified Copy


Minutes of the proceedings of a court-martial, held in Carrickfergus, for the trial of certain mutineers of the late garrison there, by order of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on the 30 May 1666

Written from: Carrickfergus

Date: 30 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 724

Document type: Official & Certified Copy (certified by the Advocate-General, Edward Cooke LLD)


An Account [by Edward Cooke, Judge-Advocate-General] of the manner of the proceedings of the court-martial held at Carrickfergus, for the trail of certain mutineers of the late garrison there

Written from: Carrickfergus

Date: 30 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 726

Document type: Official & Certified Copy


[Judgment] by the Martial-Court, held in Carrickfergus, this 30th of May, 1666

Written from: Carrickfergus

Date: 30 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 724

Document type: Official-Copy. Certified by the Advocate-General.


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Carrickfergus

Date: 30 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 45

Document type: Copy

Lord Orrery's three letters of 25th instant found the Duke here, on account of a dangerous kind of mutiny of the whole of the common soldiers of this garrison. It is suppressed, but with some loss. ... A court-martial is now sitting upon about 110 of the mutineers, whereof some will be made examples; the rest sent to the plantations, or to sea. The four companies will be disbanded, till we can recruit them. ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Carrickfergus

Date: 30 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 178

Document type: Copy

Finds the mutiny totally suppressed, but does not regret the journey hither, since it may ... tend to the prevention of a like disaster in other places ... The four companies of the regiment of guards (as ill paid as were the mustineers), behaved with as much courage as they have supported their needs with patience ...

Adds some particulars concerning the necessity of supplies. ...


Sir George Carteret to Sandwich

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 30 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 435

Document type: Holograph

Has received Lord Sandwich's letter of April 26, and has conferred with the Chancellor and Treasurer about the expenses of the embassy. The writer will endeavour to propound a way of meeting them. Mentions several domestic incidents. As to public affairs, the writer refers Lord Sandwich to a letter which he will receive from Lord Arlington. ...


Report of the losses we have received in the fleet [under Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle]

Date: May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 70

Document type: Copy; in a different hand from MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 69


"A short account of the places we baited and lodged at, between the Corunna and Madrid", etc. [Itinerary of Lord Sandwich and his retinue, from 27 April to 18 May inclusive]

Date: May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 439-440

Document type: Original


Heads of a declaration, intended to be set forth [by the insurgents], after the seizing of the castle [of Carrickfergus]

Date: [May? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 37, fol(s). 99

Document type: Copy. Certified by Sir W. Domvile, Attorney General of Ireland. Endorsed as "Received 11 December 1669".


Petition of Jenico, Lord Viscount Gormanstown to the King

Date: [May 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 313

Document type: Original

Recites particulars of petitioners case in the Court of Claims, under the Settlement Act for Ireland. ...

Prays his Majesty's letter to the Commissioners of the Court aforesaid, directing the setting out of reprisals to petitioner, in lieu of the lands of which he is deprived.


To his Grace the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Replication of Colonel George Walters to the false & feigned answer of Colonel Robert Manley

Date: [May 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 224


Daniel Gahan to Lane

Written from: Dublin

Date: 1 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 716

Document type: Holograph

No small joy is occasioned here by the submission of the mutineers, and the surrender of the castle of Carrickfergus to the Lord Lieutenant.


Donegal to Ormond

Written from: Carrickfergus

Date: 1 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 37, fol(s). ?

Document type: Holograph

Reports what has been done, in pursuance of the Lord Lieutenant's orders for the strengthening of the garrison of Carrickfergus; and the military incidents in that place, since his Grace's departure thence.


Sir William Clarke to [Secretary Sir George Lane?]

Written from: "Royall Charles, off the N. Foreland"

Date: 1 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 71

News from the fleet. With a PS. in another hand written at Whitehall on June 2; [the letter having been apparently enclosed in a despatch to the Admiralty]. The writer was severely wounded in the battle then impending. ...


Shaen to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 2 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 718

Document type: Holograph

A report of various particulars of the financial business in London (and of financial negotiations there in that behalf) of the Irish Government; and also of some personal monetary affairs of the Lord Lieutenant; in relation to which letter, the writer adds, by way of postscript: -

"I shall, God willing, bring over my Lord John [afterward Earl of Gowran] with honour & credit."


Morice to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 2 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 720

Document type: Original

Particulars of a convention for the mutual discharge of prisoners, subjects of the States of Zealand, under restraint in his Majesty's dominions; and of prisoners, subjects of his Majesty, under restraint in the territories of the States aforesaid.


Clarendon to Ormond

Written from: Worcester House

Date: 2 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 112-114

Document type: Holograph

Chiefly on the personal & family affairs of various individuals ...

Notice of the Bills of Exchange for purchase of Moor Park. ...

Particulars of advices received upon naval incidents.

[Not printed by Lister].


Anglesey to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 2 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 330

Document type: Holograph

Communicates some particulars of military and naval administration.

Adds: "There hath been such great hails in England, as whole fields of corn have been spoiled, and mowed down for the cattle; ... the hail of a wonderful bigness."


Ormond to Sir Arthur Forbes

Written from: Drogheda

Date: 3 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 75v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Instructions for the apprehension of Cornet Edmund Nangle and other persons, mentioned in a subjoined order.


Encloses:

Warrant to the Lord Kingston, President of Connaught, for the apprehension of sundry rioters within the province aforesaid

Date: [May] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]

Document type: Copy


Subjoined thereto:

A letter of intelligence [concerning the proceedings of Edmund Nangle, and other seditious persons, now in the province of Connaught]

Date: 25 May 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]

Document type: Copy


A true narrative of the engagement between His Majesties fleet, and that of Holland, begun June 1st, 1666, at two o'clock, PM, and continuing till the 4th at ten o'clock PM. Published by command.

Date: 4 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 103

Document type: In print (Lond. by Thomas Newcombe. 4o)


The losses we have received in the fleet [in the engagement with the fleet of Holland]

Date: 4 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 104

Document type: MS.


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin

Date: 5 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 47

Document type: Copy

Military directions for the defence of the province of Munster ...


Petition of Edward, Earl of Meath, on behalf of himself, and of the troop of horse formerly under his command, and now under command of William, Lord Brabazon, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [5 June] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 80v

Document type: Copy

Recites particulars of arrears of military pay, due to the troop aforesaid; of an assignment for payment thereof, formerly made upon the Impropriate Tithes of the county of Kildare; and of petitioner's failure to obtain satisfaction thereout, on behalf of his said troop.


Annexed:

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, for the payment by the Vice-Treaurer of Ireland, of the sums assigned for the Earl of Meath's troop

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 5 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 80v

Document type: Copy


Colonel Edward Cooke to Lane

Date: 6 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 722

Document type: Holograph

Accredits the bearer of his letter - not therein named - to receive certain papers [relating to the court-martial at Carrickfergus], "if there be not a necessity of having them sent this night". ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 6 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 164

Document type: Holograph-Minute

Communicates his decisions concerning the mutineers at Carrickfergus; together with other particulars concerning military affairs. ...

Will be able, by the next post, to report what can be done for Sir William Penn, on whose behalf he has received a letter in his Majesty's own hand.


Petition of Edward Harrington, Farmer of the Excise of the County of Down, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 6 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 80

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Thomas Perceval [In MS.: "Percyfall"], and others. [With the order made thereupon.]


Grant, by Letters Patent, to William Mende, esquire, of the guardianship and tuition of Mary Coppinger, sole daughter and heir of James Coppinger

Date: 7 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 742

Document type: Breviate


John Creed to Sandwich

Written from: London

Date: 7 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 441

Document type: Holograph

Communicates particulars of a recent battle between the English and Dutch fleets. Adds: "This battle was fought with very great courage on our side, considering the enemy's overpowering numbers. God grant the King many cheaper victories. This doth cost dear, and will instruct us not to slight the Dutch, nor willingly to fight them with half-numbers". ...


Ormond to Captain Jasper Grant, commander of H.M.S. Sapphire

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 7 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 76

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

The ship Sapphire is to convoy to the Caribee Islands certain vessels laden, at Kinsale, by one Chosines, a Frenchman, with beef & other merchandize; under circumstances herein stated.


A narrative of the engagement betwixt the English and Dutch fleets ... June 1666 ...

Written from: "Royal Charles" [at sea]

Date: 8 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 75-76

Document type: Apparently Original? Endorsed: "Received from the Lord Aungier. 21 June", in Lord Ormond's hand.


A narrative of the engagement betwixt the English and Dutch fleets

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 4 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 77

Document type: Endorsed as received on the 10th June

Appears to contain additional particulars.


Petition of John Nicholls, a convicted prisoner, now under sentence of death

Written from: Dublin

Date: 8 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 81

Document type: Copies

[Praying for a further respite of the same. With the order of the Duke of Ormond as prayed for].


Presentation, by the Duke and Duchess of Ormond, of Thomas Hill, Master of Arts, to the rectory of Callan, in the county of Kilkenny, and diocese of Ossory, the same being now void by the death of William Chamberlaine, late incumbent

Date: 8 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 23v

Document type: Breviate; in Entry Book


Extrait d'une lettre [d'Avis], datée le 9 Juin, de Paris

Written from: Paris

Date: 9 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 728

French.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 9 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 315

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Lord and Lady Ossory wre upon their way with the writer and Lady Arlington into Suffolk, when news came of the approach of the Dutch fleet. Lord Ossory immediately went on board our fleet, and he there won "so much honour & advantage to his reputation", that he assures himself of his Grace's approval; although willing to promise that it shall be the last time he will play the part of a volunteer.

... Notwithstanding, adds the writer, what we have lost, the fleet will, within fifteen days, be put into a better condition than it was before. The men are as hearty, & as desirous to revenge themselves, as can be wished ...


Encloses:

A narrative, by Sir Thomas Clifford, of the engagement between the English & Dutch fleets

Written from: On board the Royal Charles

Date: 5 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 317-318

Document type: Original


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Dublin

Date: 9 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 394-396

Document type: Copy

... Communicates further particulars concerning the land-claims in Ireland of the Duke of York; - the case of the Earl of Clancarty, and her sister; - pending measures, or proposals, to raise certain moneys for the service of Ireland, in relation to which the writer has instructed Sir James Shaen to attend the Lord Chancellor, and to govern himself therein by his Lordship's commands; - and also conerning various matters of commerce, and of administration - civil & ecclesiastical - in Ireland. ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 9 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 180

Document type: Copy

... Upon conversing with Lord Anglesy concerning Lord Arlington's grant, it appears that, by the Settlement Acts, the fund whereon it is placed is disposed of, and no latitutde left to the King to change the disposition ... But the case shall be carefully studied. ...

By what the writer hears from London, it seems that Ossory broke loose, ... and attempted to get to the fleet ... The Duke leaves it to his wife to deal with her son; but takes leave to tell Lord Arlington that he does not govern him, as was expected ...

... Desires the hastening of the King's directions concerning the unhanged mutineers [of Carrickfergus] ..


Petition of Richard Price, a convict now under sentence of execution to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 9 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 81

Document type: Copies

[Praying for remission of so much of the judgment passed upon him, as exceeds the infliction of death by hanging. With the order as prayed for].


Dennis Sheridan to William Sheridan

Date: 9 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 267

Document type: Original. Endorsed, as delivered to the Duke of Ormond on the day of its date.

Gives an account of the movements of Colonel Michael Reilly, and Mr Nangle, who, with other discontented persons, are, the writer thinks, endeavouring to raise an insurrection against the Government of Ireland. ...


Notes of depositions relating to seditious proceedings & political conspiracies in Ireland

Date: 10 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 730-731

Document type: Originals


Provost & Corporation of Belturbet to Lieutenant James Butler

Written from: Belturbet

Date: 10 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 732

Document type: Original [with ten signatures]

Particulars in relation to an apprehended "rising of the Irish in these parts".


A true relation of the business of St. Christophers, that happened on Easter-Tuesday last. [By Major Love].

Date: 11 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 79-80

Document type: Endorsed: "A relation of the massacring of the English by the French, at S. Kitts". Received 15 June


[Southwell?] to Lane

Date: 11, 12 & 16 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). ?

Document type: Without address, and without signature; - the dates in margin are those of the respective despatches from Vienna, from Warsaw, and from Elsinore. The heading is conjectural only

Communicates advices from Germany, Poland and Denmark. Certain intelligence only to be communicated "by word of mouth", will, it is hoped, have been delivered by an envoy, before the receipt of these advices in ordinary course.


Frowde to Lane

Written from: [G.P.O. London]

Date: 12 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 734

Document type: Holograph

Information concerning the packet - & postal - service, between England & Ireland.


An information, concerning political conspiracies in the province of Leinster. Given to Sir Arthur Forbes [This is only conjectural] and by him communicated to the Lord Lieutenant.

Date: 12 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 767

Document type: Apparently, in Forbes' hand. There is great resemblance to the scription of fol. 769 which beares his signature.


Queen Henrietta Maria to Ormond

Written from: Paris

Date: 12 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 517

Document type: Original

Recommends to the Lord Lieutenant's protection the just pretensions in Ireland of Matthew Fitzgerald.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 12 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 319

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

The King entirely approves the Lord Lieutenant's course in punishing the mutineers at Carrickfergus. ... His Majesty will, "with all speed, cause to be transmitted, ... by the way the former went, £15,000 more out of the moneys he is giving to borrow for the setting forth of the fleet again" ...


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin

Date: 12 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 49-50

Document type: Copy

... Lord Orrery knows that unless it be by inherent prerogative in the Crown to arm and draw forth the subject, or by some old laws, we have no Act of Parliament for a militia, as there is in England, to authorize us in the matter, or to guide us in the manner. That which will be hardest to regulate is the limits of the service within or beyond their several counties, and when they shall be at the King's finding, & when at their own. All this is established by law in England, but here must, for aught the writer knows, depend on the voluntary good affections of the subject. ...

... Whatever may be believed of a French invasion, of an Irish rebellion, or of both, it were certainly madness not to prepare against all, as if we were sure that they would happen. ... Our fleet hath the victory, yet gained it at the rate of being shattered, disfurnished, and (as the writer doubts), for a time disabled to take the sea ...


Copy of the Duke of Ormond's letter to Sir Francis Hamilton

Written from: Dublin

Date: 12 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 338


Holograph minute of the Duke of Ormond's letter to Sir Arthur Forbes

Written from: Dublin

Date: 12 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 344


Ormond to Sir Arthur Forbes

Written from: Dublin

Date: 12 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 338

Document type: Copy

... It is certain that Nangle had no such number of men after [i.e. "with"] him, as was reported. Nor is there yet any kind of rebellion anywhere in the kingdom; unless his running from his debts, & from his wits, may be so called. Miles O'Reily [In MS.: "Rely"] is, and was long before, at Brussels ...

Major Brody is to be taken, if practicable.


Ormond to Sir Francis Hamilton

Written from: Dublin

Date: 12 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 340

Document type: Holograph Minute

... Commands vigilance in all the King's servants & soldiers, in their proper stations, and will expect & encourage it, in all under his Government; but the taking up of unfounded apprehensions and proceeding upon them as real, without imparting the grounds & receiving orders, may prove very inconvenient, & bring on that disturbance we would prevent ...

Major Brody is to be taken, if practicable.


Ormond to Matthew Harrison [The Duke's Comptroller of the Household]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 12 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 77

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

A speedy account is to be given of the reasons why a certain order, formerly made by his Grace, on behalf of the Countess of Fingal, remains unexecuted, to her Ladyship's loss.


Encloses:

Petition of Mabel, Countess of Fingal, to the Duke of Ormond

Date: [June] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 77

Document type: Breviate

Recites her Ladyship's title to certain jointure lands in Connaught, of which a certain part was taken away from her. ...

Recites, also, his Grace's former order for a sum of money, to be paid in compensation of said loss, which order has not been obeyed. ...

And prays for redress.


Colonel Robert Sandys to Ormond

Written from: Lanesborough

Date: 13 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 736

Document type: Holograph

Particulars of a projected assault by one Nangle upon Castle-Forbes, and of the defensive measures taken in regard thereto.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 13 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 182

Document type: Copy

After observations upon the war, and upon the supplies needed for Ireland, the writer proceeds; -

"The meeting of the Romish Clergy in this place is now completed by the arrival, yesterday of their Primate. This day, they will receive a message from the writer who would be very glad that they should make a quick end of their work." ...


Encloses:

Copy of a message from the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to the Roman Catholic Clergy, convened in Dublin

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). [not given]


Ormond to the Commissioners of the Court of Claims, at Dublin

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 13 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 78

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recommends to the consideration of the Commissioners the claim of Captain Lumley Thelwall [In MS.: "Thellwall"] for speedy and effectual reprisals of certain lands, parcels of the Duke's estate, relinquished by said Thelwall [in conformity with provisions in his Majesty's gracious declaration of 30 November 1660, & of the subsequent Act of Settlement for Ireland] ...


Petition of Thomas Bulkeley, clerk, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 13 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 81v

Document type: Copy

The small vicarages of Dunkilt [Sometimes called "Dunkeld", in the county of Kilkenny], Kiltochan, Killbride, & Kilcoran, in the Diocese of Ossory, - now vacant & with Lord Lieutenant's gift, - adjoin each other. The preferment is prayed for by petitioner.


Annexed

An order of reference, to the Lord Archbishop of Dublin, of the petition of Thomas Bulkeley

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 13 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 81v

Document type: Copy


Petition of John Leather, of Birmingham [In MS.: "Bromigham"], Cutler, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 13 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 82v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Nicholas Aynsham, one of his Grace Lifeguards. [With the order made thereupon.]


Petition of Thomas Cuming, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 13 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 83

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against William Mathlen, a trooper. With the order made thereupon.


Licenses of Absence, by the Duke of Ormond, to various officers and others of the army

Date: 13 June-5 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 168, p(p). 2r-v

Document type: Breviates (five entries)


Roderick Mansel to Francis Butler

Written from: Belturbet

Date: 14 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 742

In answer to Lieutenant Butler's letter of 12th instant the present writer communicates particulars of certain arrangements made by Sir Francis Hamilton to obtain intelligence [of the movements and conspiracies amongst the Irish]; and of the results.

He adds an account of conferences with various persons upon the same subject.


Encloses:

[An anonymous correspondent; it would seem that this letter was at first signed; but the signature has been torn off] to Roderick Mansel

Date: 5 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 741 B

Document type: Original

Information as to the plots amongst the native Irish [in the county of Cavan].


Letter of a writer, unnamed, containing an eye-witness' account of the earlier events in the protracted and indecisive engagement between the British & Dutch fleets (June 1-4), in the Channel

Written from: Nieuport

Date: 4/14 June 1666, with PS of 5/15 June

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 73-74

Document type: Copy

[This account contains particulars which I do not find in the ordinary printed accounts of the Battle. It is endorsed as received "4 June" English style.

French.


Ormond to the Farmers of his Majesty's Customs in Ireland

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 14 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 76v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

John Avery, Warehousekeeper in H.M. Port of Dublin, is recommended for continuance in that employment.


Encloses:

Petition of John Avery, to the Duke of Ormond

Date: [May] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [not given]

Document type: Copy

Recites his appointment to a warehousekeepership, in the Port of Dublin; & prays the Lord Lieutenenat's order for continuance therein.


Kingston to Ormond

Written from: Boyle

Date: 15 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 750

Document type: Holograph

Information concerning the political plots in the Province of Ulster. Proposals for the appointment of Lord Athunry, Mr Garrett Moore, and others, to be commissioners for the militia.


Petition of Peter Strong, of Dublin, baker, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 15 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 82

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against certain soliders. [With the order of reference, to Sir William Flower, thereupon.]


Petition of Major Nicholas Bayly, Governor of the Isles of Arran and Ennisboffin, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 15 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 82

Document type: Copies

Prays an order for the publication of certain examinations of witnesses taken in a cause depending before his Grace, between the petitioner & Major John Allen. [With the order made thereupon.]


Petition of William Rosse to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 15 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 82v

Document type: Copies

Had, for himself & servants leave of absense, from the late Lord Deputy; nevertheless finds his entertainment chequed...

Prays an order to the Muster-Master to restore the said persons to the muster-roll.

[With the order made thereupon.]


Matthew Appleyard to Ormond

Written from: Charlemont

Date: 16 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 752

Document type: Apparently, Holograph

Reports movements of the Irish insurgents, in the counties of Cavan and Monaghan; military arrangements for defence and suppression; and other details of service.


Clarendon to Ormond

Written from: Worcester House

Date: 16 June 1666, 8pm

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 116

Document type: Holograph

Family affairs of Lord and Lady Clancarty ... - Projected public loan from the City of London. - Church affairs in Ireland. - Naval prizes. - Congratulations on the defeat of the mutineers at Carrickfergus. ... Naval incidents in England.

[Partially printed by Lister (but with an erroneous date of "June 18") - III, 435, 436].


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 16 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 184-185

Document type: Copy

Communicates further particulars of the proceedings of the Roman-Catholic Clergy, in their assembly at Dublin.


Sir James Shaen to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 16 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 265

Document type: Holograph

"We prevailed with His Majesty", reports the writer, "for £15,000, and we are in hopes of £10,000 more, which I will press on Tuesday next." ... The money, he adds: "shall be dispatched hence speedily". ...


The examination of John MacDougall [concerning political conspiracies in the province of Ulster]: taken before Sir Arthur Forbes

Date: 17 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 749

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Lane.


Examination, and further examination, of Bryan Reilly, of Dromoony in the baron of Tullaghgarvie, and county of Cavan [concerning political conspiracies in that county]. Taken before Sir Paul Davys and Sir Francis Hamilton.

Date: 17 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 755-758

Document type: Originals. In Davy's hand. (Two documents).


Lane to Sir Philip Froude

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 17 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 275

Document type: Copy

Notifies the Lord Lieutenant's conditional assent to certain propositions for amendment of the packet service, by an alteration of post days to and from Dublin. ...


Warrant for payment of subsidies by the Duke of Ormond [The amount is £200]

Written from: Council Chamber, Dublin

Date: 18 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 759

Document type: Original


Colonel Henry Norwood to Sandwich

Written from: Tangier

Date: 18/28 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 446-447

Document type: Holograph

Reports that the good effects of the peace recently made with the Moors have already shewn themselves, and that he is about to enter upon another treaty of commerce with them. Adds advices of some recent naval occurrences. ...


Admiral Matthew Maes to the Queen of Spain

Written from: Aboard the 'Admiral of Flanders', off Cape S. Vincent

Date: 18 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 443-444

Document type: Translation. Endorsed by Lord Sandwich.

Reports the proceedings of the fleet, under himself and the Admiral-General, Don Diego de Ybarra, subsequently to the 12th of May ...


Petition of Samuel Norman, & others, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 18 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 84

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Ensign William Hemsworth. [With the order made thereupon.]


Sir Arthur Forbes to Ormond

Written from: Castle Forbes

Date: 19 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 761

Document type: Holograph

A report of military incidents, and of various details of military service, [in the county of Longford & province of Leinster].


Enclosure 1:

An information concerning preparations of insurrection - in the event of any check occurring to his Majesty's naval forces, in the war with the Dutch. Given by John Aghmuty to Sir Arthur Forbes.

Date: 18 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 763

Document type: Original. With a note thereon, by Forbes.


The examination of Tegg [So in MS. - for "Teague"] Hanley; taken before Sir Arthur Forbes

Date: 16 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 764

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Lane.


Notes of informations concerning political conspiracies in the province of Leinster. Sent by Sir Theophilus Jones to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Date: 19 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 768

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 19 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 321

Document type: Original; subscribed and signed

Communicates Lord Chancellor Clarendon's suggestions as to the disposal of the rest of the mutineers at Carrickfergus; and also the purport of some late foreign advices. ...


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin

Date: 19 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 51-52

Document type: Copy

May freely acknowledge to Lord Orrery that to the writer it is a wonder the King's ministers in England have not better intelligence out of France than they send hither; considering how easily it may be had for money ... Lord Arlington's last letter makes no mention of the French at all ... Other letters speak of the Duke of Beauforts being at Brest, and of 20,000 men assembled thereabout. ...

Directions concerning the military defence of the province of Munster are added, at great length. ...


Ormond to Lord Kingston

Written from: Dublin

Date: 19 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 346

Document type: Copy

Has received his Lordship's letter of 15th instant. ... Nangle, if he cannot be brought in by fair means, ought to be pursued incessantly, until he be taken. ...

Adds some other details concerning military service.


Petition of Charles Maly, a convicted prisoner, to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 19 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 83

Document type: Copies

[Praying, under circumstances stated, for a commutation of punishment. With the order made thereupon.]


Shaen to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 19 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 269

Document type: Holograph

Has conferred with the Lord Chancellor on the subject of the monies to be sent into Ireland. "The second £15,000" says the writer, "we shall have; ... in truth, with much ado, upon the same account as formerly. As much of it as can be, shall be sent in specie ... Money was never so hard to come by, here, as now". ...


Ormond to the Corporation of Waterford

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 19 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 40

Document type: Copy

Recommends Captain George Deyes to be their Mayor.


Ormond to Forbes

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 20 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 765

Document type: Copy

The informers mentioned in Sir Arthur's letters of the day preceding are to be sent hither for examination.


The information [concerning political conspiracies in the province of Ulster], of Charles Reynolds. Given [verbally] to Sir Arthur Forbes; [and by him communicated to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant].

Date: 20 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 769

Document type: Original. In Forbes' hand.


James Wilson to Sandwich

Written from: Tangier

Date: 20 June [or 2 June?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 445

Document type: Holograph

Gives advices of recent occurrences at Tangier, at Tetuan, and at other parts of the coast of Africa. ...


A Speech of Condolence made by Lord Sandwich to the Queen of Spain, June 20, 1666 [in reference to the death of King Philip IV] ...

Date: 20 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 448

Document type: Minute; endorsed by Lord Sandwich


A draft of the speech of condolence made by Lord Sandwich to the Queen of Spain

Date: 20 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 454

Document type: In Lord Sandwich's hand with the endorsement ... "Not made use of. June 1666"


Earl of Donegal [Arthur Chichester first Earl; so created in 1647] to Lane

Written from: Belfast

Date: 20 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 278

Document type: Holograph

Has received Sir George's letter of 16th instant notifying the Duke of Ormond's desire to borrow the MS. "Book of the Settlement of Ulster" by the writer's dear Uncle, the Lord Deputy Chichester. That book is at Carrickfergus but shall be sought for, and placed speedily at His Grace's service. ...


Ormond to Lord Dillon

Written from: Dublin

Date: 21 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 770

Document type: Copy

Instructions for the apprehension of Dudley Costello.


Petitions of Sir Arthur Forbes, Baronet; and others, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; concerning arrears of military pay

Written from: Dublin

Date: 21 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 83v

Document type: Breviates


Arthur Graham to Ormond

Written from: Enniskillen

Date: 22 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 772

Document type: Holograph

State of the military stores at Enniskillen. - Position and needs of the garrison. - Other details of military service.


Petition of William Byrd to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 22 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 84

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against James Pollexfen. [With the order made thereupon.]


[Warrant] by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland [for the sending of reinforcements, by Colonel Robert Sandys, to the Castle of Clonderrell. This reading is doubtful]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 23 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 774

Document type: Copy


Dillon to Ormond

Written from: Killaghnie

Date: 23 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 775-776

Document type: Holograph

Reports the arrangements made, in obedience to the Lord Lieutenant's orders for the apprehension of Dudley Costello; and also the details of information received by the writer as to the preparations of the insurgents.


Advices; chiefly political, and relating to measures taken in England, for the security of the King's government in Ireland

Written from: [Whitehall?]

Date: [23 June?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 777

Document type: Apparently, original


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Dublin

Date: 23 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 398

Document type: Copy

After some particulars concerning the affairs of the Clancarty family, & concerning matters of finance for the service of Ireland, the writer proceeds thus: -

"I did imagine the mutineers at Carrickfergus might have been useful in the fleet or in some foreign garrison, but since they are not so thought, I shall turn them together to be taken into companies, if the officers shall think fit to take them in, but I do not think fit to order it. I pray tell me freely if you think the execution done upon their fellows was too severe? I have not been suspected of error on that hand, and would be loth to fall into it now."


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 23 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 24v

Document type: Copy

Draught of a letter for creating a Fraternity of Coopers, in the city of Dublin, is herewith transmitted.


The Count d'Estrades, Ambassador of France to the States General of the United Provinces

Written from: The Hague

Date: 23 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 690-691

Congratulates the States on naval successes against the English and expresses a hope that such events will convince the English, and the rest of the world of the unwisdom which has been shewn in the obstinate rejection of terms of peace, just in themselves, and so repeatedly recommended by the King his master. ...

French.


Petition of John Ghest to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 23 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 87

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Arthur Weldon, esquire, Lieutenant of his Grace's Battle-Axes and others.

[With the order made thereupon.]


Lord Dillon [Thomas, fifth Viscount Dillon, of Costello-Gallen] to Colonel Dudley Costello

Written from: Killfaghny

Date: 23 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 276

Document type: Copy

Warns Costello that persistance in the desperate counsels of disaffection to the Government of which Lord Dillon has repeatedly heard will be destructive, whereas seasonable repentance and submission may yet gain favour. ...


An examination of John Macdowell [elsewhere, described as "John Macdougal"] [concerning political consipiracies in Ulster] ... taken before the Lord Lieutenant [in person; and upon oath]

Written from: Dublin

Date: 25 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 778

Document type: Original


[Commissions] by the Lord Lieutenant ... of Ireland, to Robert Taylor [to be Captain of a company of foot in his Majesty's army of Ireland; to Robert Hugard, to be Lieutenant of the said company; & to Daniel Deane to be Ensign thereof]

Written from: Dublin

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 780

Document type: Copy and Breviates (three commissions)


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 323

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Has received, and has read to the King, both his Grace's letter of 16th instant, & the message sent by him to the Romish Clergy. His Majesty approves entirely of the Lord Lieutenant's proceedings ...


An account of the naval preparations of the Dutch. Sent by an anonymous correspondent, at Flushing, to Lord Arlington.

Written from: Flushing

Date: [22 June] 2 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 325

Document type: Copy

French.


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 53

Document type: Copy

What Lord Orrery reports as done in reference to the command of the Fort of Kinsale is approved; as also the disposition of the forces, and the measures for watching, as well the fanatics as the Irish. ...

All matters concerning the militia, the President will receive in joint dispatches from the writer & from the Council. ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 186

Document type: Copy

Has in pursuance of the King's directions ... prepared the accounts of the civil and military establishments of this Kingdom. But several additions, - made at various times by his Majesty's express warrant, - cause an excess, above the sum limited, amounting to £14,29: 5s., a year ...


Particulars of a grant of lands, in the provinces of Munster, Leinster, and Ulster, to the Earl of Anglesey

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 22

The extent of the grant is 38,273 acres, 2 roods, 31 perches.


Ormond to Sir Francis Gore

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 76v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Directs the apprehension of the body of one Walter Philips, said to be resident near to Belahy.


Ormond to Captain Richard Rooth

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 76v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

The frigate Sapphire in company with the Swift is forthwith to be brought round to the port of Dublin, for the writer's further orders.


Subjoins 1:

Sir George Lane to Major Edgeworth

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 76v

Document type: Breviate

Directs the transmission of the Lord Lieutenant's orders to Captain Rooth.


Subjoins 2:

Sir George Lane to William Maxwell

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 76v

Document type: Breviate

To like effect; in the event of the above-named frigate being near to Strabane.


Bond of James (Butler), Duke of Ormond, for the payment of the sum of fifteen thousand pounds to Robert (Bruce), Earl of Aylesbury

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 289

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Bond of James (Butler), Duke of Ormond, for the payment of the sum of fifteen thousand pounds to Robert (Bruce), Earl of Aylesbury; conditioned upon the saving of the said Earl harmless in respect of certain obligations entered into by him, on behalf of the said Duke.


Subjoined thereto:

Recitals of the particulars of several bonds for divers sums of money entered into, on behalf of the Duke of Ormond, by Robert (Bruce), Earl of Aylesbury; William (Cavendish), Earl of Devon; and John Ashburnham, of Ashburnham, esquire

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 289-290

Document type: Copy


Bond of James (Butler), Duke of Ormond, for the payment of a like sum of fifteen thousand pounds to William (Cavendish), Earl of Devon

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 291

Document type: Breviate

Bond of James (Butler), Duke of Ormond, for the payment of a like sum of fifteen thousand pounds to William (Cavendish), Earl of Devon; conditioned upon the saving of the said Earl harmless in respect of certain obligations entered into by him, on behalf of the said Duke.


Bond of James (Butler), Duke of Ormond, for the payment of a like sum of fifteen thousand pounds to John Ashburnham, of Ashburnham, esquire

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 291

Document type: Breviate


Draught of a bond, joint and several, of James, Duke of Ormond, and of Lord John Butler, for payment of a sum unnamed to William Gomeldon, of London

Date: [26 June?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 291


Commission, by the Duke of Ormond, to Robert Taylor, to be Captain of a company of foot, in the army of Ireland

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 1

Document type: Copy


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, to Sir Robert Byron, Master of the Ordnance, for the delivery to Captain Robert Taylor, of certain arms and ammunition

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 1

Document type: Copy


Commission, by the Duke of Ormond, to Captain Robert Hugard to be Lieutenant; and to Daniel Deane, to be Ensign, in Captain Robert Taylor's company of foot

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 1v

Document type: Breviate (Two Entries)


License for the repair into England of Thomas Alden, a trooper

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 1v

Document type: Breviate


Buck to Lane

Written from: London

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 271-272

Document type: Original

Has received Sir George's letter of 13th instant. Communicates correspondence with Mr Viner and others, on financial matters, on which the writer desires Sir George's opinion. Adds some particulars of current proceedings in Parliament, - a Parliament, he thinks, in which "the King is undoubtedly very happy". ...


John Ashburnham to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 273-274

Document type: Holograph

Acknowledges the Duke's favour of June 9th. Before it reached the present writer, "the Earl of Aylesbury was returned", and was he adds, "very desirous to join with me in contriving any way to serve your Grace, and to preserve ourselves from the violence of that most fiece Lady Kent [Probably Amable, 2nd wife and relict of Henry Grey 10th Earl of Kent, although (in curious contrast with the epithet applied to her in this letter), that lady was known, from her habitual benevolence, as "the good Countess". There was, in 1666, another Countess of Kent (Mary, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell) but she was in coverture].

Adds on account of the steps taken by the writer, in concert with Lords Aylesbury and Devonshire, to dischare certain liabilities on the Duke's account; the money being provided by Mr Clayton, upon their bond.


Petiton of Richard Walsh, late of Carrigmaine in the county of Dublin to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin?]

Date: [26 June?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 54-55

Document type: Copy

Recites the circumstances of petitioner's inheritance from his late father (an adherent of the peace made by his Grace during his former government of the kingdom) of the lands of Carrigmaine, Ballinroe, & other lands in the county of Dublin; and of certain lands in the county of Wicklow. ...

Prays for the respite, for a time, of the giving out as reprisals of the lands aforesaid, under circumstances herein stated...


Appended:

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, in conformity with the prayer of the petition of Richard Walsh

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 26 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 55v


[Instructions] by the Lord Lieutenant ... of Ireland [Duke of Ormond] to Captain Robert Taylor [to march to the town of Kilmainham and there to quarter the force under his command]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 782

Document type: Copy


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Dublin

Date: 27 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 398v-399

Document type: Copy. Written as a Postscript to the former letter of June 23rd.

... The meeting of the Romish clergy here is now dissolved, but without their having subscribed to the 'Remonstrance', or to anything of like force, as the writer conceives. From the Council, Lord Arlington will receive a particular account of all that affair, - and some opinion how it is to be further prosecuted, for the security of the Kingdom. At least, the writer hopes to bring them to a declaration of their advice ... Something may be contrived and compassed more proper for this age, than those [penal] laws that were provided for another, much differing in many respects from this. ...

The titular Primate is a juggler, and seems to deny that he know of any conditions whereupon he was permitted to come over ...

Every day, adds the writer, "I am more & more confirmed that the looser sort of the Irish are prepared for a rebellion. Some, - under one Nangle, a fanatic and a late proselyte to Rome, and one Costellogh, a tall fellow that was in Flanders when we were there, - are actually in arms". ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 27 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 189

Document type: Copy

... Before his Majesty shall vouchsafe to return the 'Establishment' (herewith submitted) with his approbation, of the writer presumes to propose two very necessary additions thereto: (1) An entire company of foot, ... whose work shall be, all this summer, "to hunt out little rebels & Tories"; ... (2) A second Lieutenant to the troop of guards ...

Captains of the disbanded companies [formerly in garrison at Carrickfergus] are now going to England, to raise at least half of their new companies there, as a foundation for the whole ...


Enclosure 1:

List of the Captains of foot companies ... to be raised in England

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 189v


Enclosure 2:

Lists, military & civil, of the Establishment of Ireland, 1666

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 189v


Warrant for the march of Captain Robert Taylor's company to Jamestown

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 2

Document type: Copy


Warrant, for the delivery of ammunition to Sir Toby Poyntz, "for the defence of his house"

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 2

Document type: Copy


An order to the Muster-Master General, to certify the Lord Lieutenant what troops of the army in Ireland are armed with carbines, as well as pistols

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 2

Document type: Copy


Petition of Sir William Davys, Knight to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 29 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 84v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against William Harman. [With an order of reference to Sir Thomas Harman thereupon.]


Petition of Joshua Bracken to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 29 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 84v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Colonel Humphrey Barrow. [With an order of reference to the Earl of Orrery, Lord President of Munster, thereupon.]


Intelligence [concerning the proceedings of various disaffected persons]. Given to me [Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland] by Sir Theophilus Jones.

Date: 29-30 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 784

Document type: Original (Two communications). Endorsed by Ormond.


The examination of Henry Mac-Toole O'Neill; ... Taken before the Lord Viscount Dungannon, and Sir Paul Davys by order of the Lord Lieutenant

Written from: Dublin

Date: 30 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 785

Document type: Original. In Davys' hand.


Ormond to M. de Lamorra

Written from: London

Date: 29 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 2-3

Document type: Copy

A letter of thanks for his friend's good offices, in the writer's personal affairs; with brief notices of proceedings in the English Parliament, and of the dignities conferred by the King on Monck, and others [In MS., the titles of Monck and of Montagu are left in blank; the dignity named, but the designation unfilled].


A speech of compliment made by Lord Sandwich to the Spanish Commissioners for the treaty with England at the first meeting, June 29

Date: 29 June/9 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 450

Document type: Minute. Endorsed by Lord Sandwich.


Edward, Earl of Manchester to Sandwich

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 29 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 452-453

Document type: Holograph

For naval matters refers Lord Sandwich to Sir George Carteret, who is "a better tarpaulin" than is the writer. Communicates some particulars as to the will of Sir Francis Worthy, by which Lord Sandwich, Lord Crofts, & the writer, are made executors of the will and trustees for the testator's natural daughter. ...


Shaen to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 30 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 787

Document type: Original

Reports the writer's conferences with the Lord Chancellor, upon the financial affairs of Ireland; and also the gracious expression used by his Majesty concerning the Lord Lieutenant's favourable recommendation of his interests in a late letter from Ireland.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 30 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 327

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

This day hath multiplied the alarms we have had all this week of the Dutch fleet being upon our coast near the North Foreland, [with] eighty ships, at least, & accompanied with many fireships, and ... merchant ships, full of men, with all tools to work upon a landing. ...


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin

Date: 30 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 54

Document type: Copy

... Considerable as is the fort of Kinsale, it will not be possible to raise £2,500 to fortify it. ... For the present, it may be hoped it will hold out against any attempt that may be made ...

Certainly, our army is too little to be spread all over the kingdom; ... and yet it is greater than the kingdom will be able to pay, if war and the discountenance of trade by English Acts of Parliament shall continue. In such case, the skill is to place it most advantageously for the present conjuncture. ...


Ormond to Sir William Coventry

Written from: Dublin

Date: 30 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 462

Document type: Copy

To the writer's surprise Mr Richard Talbot [Afterwards, titular Duke of Tyrconnel & Lord Lieutenant of Ireland] came to him, the other day, with a pretence of business in asking assistance for Sir William Coventry's "vindication against a calumny laid on him" (as Talbot said) "by Captain Rosse importing that the Captain had revived a bond from my Lord of Antrim", for Sir William's use, in consideration of a bargain his Lordship, "by Sir William's means, was to obtain from the Duke" ...

... "The whole matter of the settlement of Ireland has given opportunity to such dexterous men as the Captain to exercise their gifts" ...


Petition of Captain John Parker to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 30 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 86

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Captain Richard Smith. ... [With an order of reference to Sir Francis Foulkes, thereupon.]


Commission, by the Duke of Ormond, to Captain Henry Breun, to be one of the Lieutenants in the life-guard of horse

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 30 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 2v

Document type: Breviate


Commission, by the Duke of Ormond, to Lieutenant Colonel John Fortescue, to be Quartermaster in the life-guard

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 30 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 2v

Document type: Breviate


Exceptions against the Form or Protestation of Allegiance, subscribed and presented [on] the 16th of June, 1666, to ... the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant ... of Ireland, by such of the Irish clergy of the Roman Communion as convened at Dublin

Written from: Dublin

Date: June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 417-423

Document type: Original


Lieutenant Roderick Mansel to [Lane?]

Date: [June] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 740

Document type: Original

Transmits information concerning an apprehended Irish insurrection.


Subjoins 1:

Patrick Guire [?] to Mansel

Date: "Friday" 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 740

Document type: Holograph

States the cause of the writer's delay in waiting upon Lieutenant Mansel [to give information concerning the movements of the Irish].


Subjoins 2:

Mansel to [Guire?]

Written from: Belturbet

Date: 12 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 741

Document type: Original

Has been with Sir Francis Hamilton, who desires to know the grounds upon which a certain warrant was granted.


Subjoins 3:

Colonel Thomas Cooke to Mansel

Written from: Castle Hamilton

Date: 14 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 738

Document type: Original [misbound]

Certain assurance is now given of the truth of the alarm that there is real intention of arising ... this month.


A list of the names of some conspirators in the province of Ulster

Date: [June] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 746

Document type: Original. In the hand of Sir Paul Davys.


Notes of depositions concerning political conspiracies, in the Province of Ulster

Date: [June] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 747-748

Document type: (Eight documents)

Notes of depositions concerning political conspiracies, in the Province of Ulster; and breviates of correspondence between Sir Arthur Forbes and Mr Secretary Page; Lord Kingston and the Duke of Ormond; and others, upon the same subject. Abridged by Sir Paul Davys.


Patrick Brady to Thorlogh O'Goan

Date: Undated [June] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 34, fol(s). 754

Document type: Original; intercepted: sent to Lord Dungannon; and by him given to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on June 18th.

A letter of injunction to keep certain papers secret.


An estimate of lands in the provinces of Leinster, Munster, & Ulster, respectively, and of the amount of quit-rents chargeable thereupon

Date: [June? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 23

No grantee is named herein. The acreage is 61,996 acres, & 14 perches.


Letters of credence, for Lord Sandwich, from King Charles II, to the Queen Regent of Spain

Date: [June] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 456

Document type: Endorsed by Sandwich: "Copy of my letter of credence, ... touching my negotiation". Dated only in the endorsement: "June, 1666".

Spanish.


Sandwich to the Count of Molena

Date: Undated [June] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 430

Document type: Minute

Acknowledges receipt of the Count's letters of March 22, and April 30; and the civilities shewn him on his arrival at Madrid by Don Fernando de Mendoza, at the Count's request ...


Sandwich to the Marquess of Viana

Date: Undated [June] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 431

Document type: Minute

Has received the Marquess' letter of May 26. Expresses his great hope of the good success of his business at the Court of Spain. ...


Ormond to Mr Thruston

Date: Undated [June?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 292

Document type: Copy [in Letter-book]

Directions concerning a supply of Bordeaux wines.


Petition of Robert Caddell, Surgeon [In MS.: "Chirurgeon"] to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 51

Document type: Copy

Petitioner served, as surgeon, in the Leinster army; and is entitled to certain arrears of pay ... Afterwards, for a short time, he was compelled to serve in Sadlers [Rebel] Regiment. ... Is informed that, in his name, but without his authority or knowledge, and by some person or persons unknown to him, a debenture for arrears was, in the usurpers' time, taken out in land, whereby petitioner's just claim to arrears as aforesaid is endangered. And prays for relief.


Appended:

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, recommending petitioner's case to the Trustees for the Commissioned Officers serving his Majesty before June, 1649

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 51

Document type: Copy


A Petition to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, from certain prisoners brought from Carrickfergus, for mutiny, praying for his Grace's clemency

Date: [June] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 83v

Document type: Copy; imperfect


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