Carte Calendar Volume 44, July-December 1666

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Carte Calendar Volume 44, July-December 1666

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Shelfmark: MS. Carte Calendar 44

Extent: 650 pages



Petition of Captain Thomas Dyer to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: [circa 1 July 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 491

Document type: Original

[Praying to be restored to his former commission as Ensign in the company of Colonel Howard St. Leger now garrisoned at Killmallock]


Subjoins 1:

An order of reference by the Duke of Ormond of the petition of Captain Thomas Dyer to the Muster-Master General of the army

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 4 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 491v

Document type: Original


Subjoins 2:

A report to the Duke of Ormond, by Richard Barry, Muster-Master General; in pursuance of the order of reference calendared above

Date: 6 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 491v

Document type: Original


Subjoins 3:

Certificate by the Dean of Cloyne [Henry Rugge], and others, of the illness of Margaret Dyer wife of Captain Thomas Dyer

Date: 29 June 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 493


Sir John Birkenhead to Lane

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 2 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 1

Document type: Holograph

Recommends Lieutenant William Ridgill, a valiant officer who has led many forlorn hopes...

My Lord of Ossory, now here, is, (the writer adds) the "most beloved and honoured of Lords, great or small ... Whenever he pleases to try the strength of the people's affection to him, ... you will know what ground he has got upon the whole body of the gentry & subjects here" ...


A copy of Sir William Temple's letter to the Lord Arlington

Written from: Brussels

Date: 2 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 3-6

Document type: The title cited [the words within brackets excepted] is from Ormond's endorsement of this copy.

[Concerning his political negotiations at the Court of Brussels, and the intelligence received by him upon political affairs on the Continent, generally].


Advices of the proceedings of the Irish nonconformists, and of the state of public opinion in Queen's County & in other parts of the province of Leinster

Written from: Queens County

Date: 2 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 7

Document type: Holograph

Addressed by J[ohn] T[hompson] to the Duke of Ormond.


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 2 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 521

Document type: Original [with note of endorsement]

Allowances, as follows, to be granted to the Commissioners for Executing the 'Act of Settlement' in Ireland: For table, by the week, £20.
For lodgings, severally, by the week, 25s;
and the same to be paid out of the receipt of the Exchequer, monthly.


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 2 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 523-524

Document type: Original [with record of endorsement]

Richard, Earl of Arran, and others to be incorporated as a "Fraternity or Guild to admit persons skilled in the faculty of coopering [in MS.: "coopering"], ... in the city of Dublin ... "by the name of the Master & Wardens of the ... Guild of S. Patricks". ...


Sir William Temple to Ormond

Written from: Brussels

Date: 2 July 1666 S.N.

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 284

Document type: Holograph

An illness of the eyes has long disabled the writer from writing with his own hand. The first use he makes of the little vigour his eyes have yet recovered is to beg pardon for his late silence; and to communicate the copy of a letter to Lord Arlington [not now appended].


Dillon to Ormond

Written from: Portumna

Date: 2 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 282-285

Document type: Holograph

Has met at Portumna Colonel Sweny who has been suspected of disaffection to the Government. States the reasons which have convinced the writer of the groundlessness of the suspicion. Believes that Captain Dudley Costello will shortly made his submission.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 3 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 329

Document type: Original, subscribed & signed

The Dutch are said to be lying at the Gunfleet and are hourly expecting the arrival of the French fleet, to [join] them. Lord St. Alban's letter to the King speaks, uncertainly, of M. de Beaufort's being at Rochelle; Mr Montagu affirms it positively, in a letter to the writer; asserting that he is to accompany the new Queen to Portugal, before he comes hither. ... It is said that the design of the Dutch is upon Scotland; that of the French upon Ireland; - hoping for a conjunction, in all three Kingdoms, of the discontented party, upon the foot of the Covenant ...


Sir W. Coventry to Ormond

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: 3 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 452

Document type: Holograph

Thanks for favour shewn to the writer in 'a private concernment'. - News of the Dutch fleet.


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin

Date: 3 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 56

Document type: Copy

The draught of a commission and instructions is in the Lord Chancellor's hands ... The execution of those commissions is, the writer conceives, the foundation of all that is to be done in the militia ...

The commissions to the several captains will be ready before those under the Great Seal, but probably they will be sent away together. ...


An order, by the Duke of Ormond, for the march of Sir Edward Massey's company from Athy to Athlone

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 3 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 2v

Document type: Breviate


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 4 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 526

Document type: Original

Recommends to the Lord Lieutenant's care "all the affairs and concerns in that Kingdom" of Sir James Shaen; and, in particular, the carrying out of the King's gracious intentions on his behalf, as expressed in a clause of the late 'Explanatory Act' of Settlement.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 4 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 190-191

Document type: Copy

Has received the Secretary's letter of 26th June, together with the copy of a letter from Flushing ... Has put the 'Remonstrances', presented by the Romish clergy, into the hands of such as are best able to discover wherein, & how far, they come short of that heretofore presented to his Majesty in England. But they have not yet brought in their observations ... The whole matter shall be represented to the King, from his Council here, with some advice how those of that religion in this kingdom ought to be proceeded with. ...


Encloses:

[A schedule of] Prize ships and goods sold [in Ireland], by direction of his Majesty's principal Commissioners for Prizes

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 192

Document type: Copy


Ormond to Colonel John Spencer, Governor of Galway

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 4 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 72v

Document type: Breviate

Abraham Hey, one of the Dutch prisoners, and now at Galway, is to have a free discharge.


Petition of Mary Warren to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 4 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 84-85

Document type: Copies

Recites particulars of a pension grated to petitioner upon the Irish Establishment by his Majesty.

Prays an effectual order for payment, according to the terms recited ...

[With the order made thereupon.]


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

Written from: Dublin

Date: 4 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 85

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against William Hemsworth. [With an order of reference to Lord Folliott, thereupon.]


Petition of Arhtur Maynwaring to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 4 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 88

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against John Dalton, Clerk to the Earl of Anglesey. [With the order made thereupon.]


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the drawing up of a fiant, containing his Majesty's presentation of Thomas Bulkeley, Clerk, to the vicarages of Dunkitt, Killcohvin alias Kilcolbin, Kilbride, and Kiltoan, in the Diocese of Ossory

Date: 4 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 33v

Document type: Copy; in Entry Book


A writer, not herein named to Sir Theophilus Jones

Written from: Apparently written from Holland

Date: 4 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 277

Document type: Forwarded by Jones to the Lord Lieutenant

Gives further notices of the movements and correspondence of disaffected Irish refugees. ...


Samuel Bull to Wharton

Written from: Dublin

Date: 4 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 14-15

Document type: Original

Communicates certain proceedings and incidents, in relation to Lord Wharton's land-claims and other interests in Ireland. ...


Petition of Theobald, Earl of Carlingford, & Thomas, Lord Viscount Dillon to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 5 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 85 & v

Document type: Copies

Petition of Theobald, Earl of Carlingford, & Thomas, Lord Viscount Dillon, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, [praying, as in a former petition, ... for an order to the Court of Exchequer to respite the demand of certain quit-rents, upon petitioners' lands. With the order].


Petition of Ensign Arthur Meredith to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland [concerning certain arrears of military pay]

Written from: Dublin

Date: 5 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 85v

Document type: Breviate


Petition of George Castle to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 5 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 86 & v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against William Castle. With an order of reference to Sir Francis Foulke thereupon.


A certificate, by Lord Ikerryn, of the circumstances of the tenure of the farm of Manseltown, in the county of Tipperary by William Butler, deceased

Written from: Dublin

Date: 6 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 197

Document type: Copy


An order by the Duke of Ormond, for a statement of arrears of pay due to Colonel Thomas Howard as captain of a troop of horse

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 6 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 2v

Document type: Copy


Annexed:

Certificate by the Deputy Muster-Master General that the arrears of pay aforesaid are £117:12s. due to Colonel Howard; and £25:4s. due to two servants, soldiers in the same troop

Date: 7 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 3

Document type: Copies (two entries)

Together with the Lord Lieutenant's final order thereupon.


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the drawing up of a fiant, containing his Majesty's presentation of William Sheridan, Bachelor of Divinity, to the rectory of Athenry [In MS.: "Athanry"], in the Diocese of Tuan

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 6 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 24

Document type: Copy; in Entry Book


Shaen to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 7 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 9

Document type: Holograph

Reports further conferences with the Lord Chancellor [Clarendon] and others on various financial affairs, chiefly relating to the public service of Ireland.


Captain James Archer to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 7 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 11

Document type: Holograph

Information is given to the writer that ... a French engineer, out of Dieppe, has lately been "in Ireland, and, having viewed all the garrisons & sea-ports ... has given an exact account [of them] to the French King; and, particularly of ... Duncannon" ...


Clarendon to Ormond

Written from: Worcester House

Date: 7 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 118

Document type: Holograph

Personal affairs of the Duke of Ormond, & matters of finance. - Naval prize causes in Ireland; and affairs of the Romish clergy there.

[Not printed by Lister].


Sir W. Coventry to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 7 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 454

Document type: Holograph

In the matter referred to, in the writer's late letter of thanks to his Grace, Colonel Talbot's zeal hath done better for him than he could have done for himself. ...

...The Dutch are about the Longsand. Our own fleet is, by this time, ninety sail of ships. ...


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin

Date: 7 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 58-59

Document type: Copy

Directions concerning the arming of the militia in Munster; concerning priority of command and musters, and other military details. Intelligence of the movements of the French and Dutch fleets.


Ormond to Lord Dillon

Written from: Dublin

Date: 7 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 348

Document type: Copy

Congratulates the marriage of his Lordship's son with a kinswoman of the writer. ...

Gave so little credit to the report to the prejudice of Miles Swiney, that he directed William Bourke to write to him desiring him to come hither for his own vindication ...

Dudley Costello and his army are proclaimed rebels, if they do not surrender themselves within a time limited. ... They have put the people into much danger, and the state to some charge. ...


Lane to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 7 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 194

Document type: Copy

Sends the draught of a letter for granting the reversion of the Hanaper Office in this kingdom to Mr William Domvile, son of his Majesty's Attorney General of this kingdom ... Lord Arlington will stand engaged for something else (when duly proposed to him) on behalf of Matthew Harrison, who has released his pretension to the office above-named.


Encloses:

Draught of a letter, to be offered for His Majesty's signature containing directions for the grant of the office of Clerk of the Hanaper, in Ireland, in reversion, to William Domvile

Date: 1666

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


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 7 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 196

Document type: Holograph-Minute

... If we can weather such storms, and disappoint such preparations, as seem to threaten us with so formidable a conjunction of enemies ... and no ... appearance of friends, ... it will be a great argument of our strength, and of God's blessing upon us, - through not, perhaps, of our foresight or dexterity in negotiation. ...

The House of Commons here have passed all the bills for the revenue, & will, it is thought, this day pass that against privileges. Then, there remains none, of great importance, ... but the Act of Oblivion & Pardon ...


Ormond to Captain Robert Hooper

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 7 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 77

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Instructions for the sailing of H.M. Frigate 'Harp'.


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

Written from: Dublin

Date: 7 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 85-86

Document type: Copies

Plaint against Quartermaster Bedborough for restitution of a gelding unlawfully taken. [With the order made thereupon.]


Lord Kingston to Ormond

Written from: Boyle

Date: 7 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 280

Document type: Holograph

Gives some account of his examination of and inquiries concerning certain persons suspected of plotting against the Government of Ireland. Mentions his fear that in some of the informations lodged against alleged political conspirators, private animosities have had their share. ...


Petition of Godfrey Daly to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: [8?] July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 86v

Document type: Copy

Plaint of debt against Mr Mortaige [So in MS.], one of the Duke of Ormond's gentlemen. ...


Annexed 1:

An order of reference to Sir Thomas Harman, Captain of the Duke of Ormond's life-guard, upon the petition of Godfrey Daly

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 10 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 86v

Document type: Copy


Annexed 2:

Report of Sir Thomas Harman, upon the petition of Godfrey Daly

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 27 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 86v

Document type: Copy


Annexed 3:

Further order of the Duke of Ormond, upon the petition of Godfrey Daly

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 30 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 86v

Document type: Copy


Annexed 4:

Final order of the Duke of Ormond upon the petition of Godfrey Daly

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 13 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 86v

Document type: Copy


Intelligence [concerning the proceedings of the Roman-Catholic Irish], given to me [the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland], by the Bishop of Meath

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 9 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 12

Document type: Original


Memorial of the Commissioners of the Court of Claims, at Dublin, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Kings Inns, Dublin

Date: 9 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 69, fol(s). 173

Document type: [Five signatures] Copy

Pray for the issue of commissions, under the Great Seal of Ireland, empowering Thomas Taylor, Thomas Symons, John Barrington and John Petty, to act as Sub-Commissioners for the Execution of the Act of Settlement (1662), and Explanatory Act (1665), for Ireland.


Petition of John Dawson, of Carrickfergus to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 9 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 90

Document type: Copy

Plaint of debt against Henry Harraway, an Ensign in Sir James Midleton's foot. [With the order made thereupon.]


Ormond to the Archbishop of Canterbury

Written from: Dublin

Date: 9 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 119, fol(s). 60

Document type: Copy

Notifies the regret felt in Ireland for the loss of Dr Potter, who is constrained to made "his election in England", by stress of the recent statute against the holding of livings both in England & in Ireland. Dr Potter's merits induce the writer to recommend him to His Grace the Archbishop for some reparation. ...


Warrants, by the Duke of Ormond, for the delivery of certain quantities of arms and ammunition to Sir Daniel Treswell, and to Francis Blackwell, respectively

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 9-10 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 3

Document type: Copy, and Breviate (two entries)


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 10 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 528

Document type: Original

William Domvile, Esquire, son of Sir William Domvile, Knight, to have a grant in reversion of the office of Clerk of the Hanaper, and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, in Ireland.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 10 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 331-332

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Communicates further reports and rumours of the hostile movements and preparations of the Dutch, and of the French. Describes the rendezvous appointed, and the preparations made, for the defence of the English Coasts. ...

Great quantities of men are daily sent down to the fleet, "but not such as please our generals, either as to their quantity or quality". ...

Recommends to the Lord Lieutenant a suit of Sir Thomas Clifford, "who serveth his Majesty very eminently in his sphere", concerning wine-licenses in Ireland.


Ormond to the Justices of Peace for Queen's County in Ireland

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 10 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 76v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Provision is to be made of due quarters for Francis Blackwell, & fifteen men under his command, employed, by the writer's order, "to prosecute, and bring in" certain "Tories and robbers", in that county.


Petition of John Walsh to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 11 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 87v

Document type: Copies

Petition of John Walsh to the Duke of Ormond on behalf of certain orphans, the children of William Fennell, deceased.

[With the order of reference, to the Commissioners of the Grace's estates, made thereupon.]


Report of Sir William Domvile, Attorney-General of Ireland; Sir John Temple, Solicitor General; and others

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 11 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 88

Document type: Copy

Report of Sir William Domvile, Attorney-General of Ireland; Sir John Temple, Solicitor General; and others, under an order of reference by the Duke of Ormond, concerning a petition presented to his Grace by Walter Kennedy, an Alderman of Dublin, in relation to an alleged title to certain lands, called Ballymoge, and ot other lands, in the county of Carlow.


Annexed:

An order made, on behalf of Walter Kennedy, upon the report of Sir William Domvile, Sir John Temple, and others, and according to the prayer of his petition

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 14 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 88v

Document type: Copy


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 12 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 196-197

Document type: Copy

Observations on the extract of a letter from France sent by his Lordship. - Particulars concerning the militia; concerning certain prayers prepared for public use in Ireland, by the Lord Primate; and also of proceedings in the Irish Parliament.


Encloses:

Draught of a warrant, to be offered for His Majesty's signature, authorizing the addition to the 'Book of Common Prayer', as used in Ireland, of certain prayers prepared by the Archbishop of Armagh

Date: 1666

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


Ormond to Colonel Sanderson

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 12 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Has had from Sir Arthur Forbes an account of Colonel Sanderson's offer to raise a troop of horse for his Majesty's service. The offer is acknowledged, with thanks ... If it be found needful to make use of the offer, the due commission will be sent.


Ormond to Lieutenant Colonel Irwine [In MS.: "Erwine"]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 12 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81

Document type: Breviate

Has had from Sir Arthur Forbes an account of Lieutenant Colonel Irwine's offer to raise a troop of horse for his Majesty's service. The offer is acknowledged, with thanks ... If it be found needful to make use of the offer, the due commission will be sent.


Ormond to Sir John Hume [In MS.: "Humes"]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 12 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81

Document type: Breviate

Has had from Sir Arthur Forbes an account of Sir John Hume's offer to raise a troop of horse for his Majesty's service. The offer is acknowledged, with thanks ... If it be found needful to make use of the offer, the due commission will be sent.


Ormond to Sir Robert Maxwell

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 12 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81

Document type: Breviate

Has had from Sir Arthur Forbes an account of Sir Robert Maxwell's offer to raise a troop of horse for his Majesty's service. The offer is acknowledged, with thanks ... If it be found needful to make use of the offer, the due commission will be sent.


Ormond to Captain Richard Dunbar

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 12 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81

Document type: Breviate

Has had from Sir Arthur Forbes an account of Captain Dunbar's offer to raise a troop of horse for his Majesty's service. The offer is acknowledged, with thanks ... If it be found needful to make use of the offer, the due commission will be sent.


Ormond to Captain Murray [In MS.: "Murrey"]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 12 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81

Document type: Breviate

A letter of thanks for Captain Murray's offer - notified through Sir Arthur Forbes - to raise a troop of horse for his Majesty's service, in Ireland.


Ormond to Captain Thomas Stewart [In MS.: "Steuart"]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 12 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81

Document type: Breviate

A letter of thanks for Captain Stewart's offer - notified through Sir Arthur Forbes - to raise a troop of horse for his Majesty's service, in Ireland.


Ormond to Captain William Mare

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 12 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81

Document type: Breviate

A letter of thanks for Captain Mare's offer - notified through Sir Arthur Forbes - to raise a troop of horse for his Majesty's service, in Ireland.


Ormond to Sir William Stewart [In MS.: "Stuart"]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 12 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81

Document type: Breviate

A letter of thanks for Sir William's offer - notified through Sir Arthur Forbes - to raise a troop of horse for his Majesty's service, in Ireland.


Ormond to James Wyse

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 12 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81

Document type: Breviate

A letter of thanks for James Wyse's offer - notified through Sir Arthur Forbes - to raise a troop of horse for his Majesty's service, in Ireland.


Sir George Lane to Sir Arthur Forbes [Afterwards: - Earl of Granard]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 21 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81

Document type: Breviate

Transmits the Lord Lieutenant's letters in acknowledgement of various offers to raise troops of horse for his Majesty's service in Ireland, which offers were notified by Sir Arthur Forbes, by whom these acknowledgments are, respectively, to be presented.


Petition of the Sheriffs of the city of Dublin to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 12 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 87

Document type: Copy

Reprieves of one John Brough & of Sarah Wells, respectively left for execution are expired by lapse of time.

The Sheriffs pray a reference of the case to his Majesty's Judges, to the end that petitioners may discharge their service therein as to their duty belongeth.


Annexed:

An order of reference, by the Duke of Ormond, to the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of chief place & to others his Majesty's Judges upon the Petition of the Sheriffs of the city of Dublin

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 12 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 87

Document type: Copy


Petition of Robert Reading, and Alexander Bence, Esquires to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [12 July] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 88v

Document type: Copy

Recite his Majesty's grant to petitioners of one third part of the clear profits of the office of Registrar [In MS.: "Register"] of the Court of Claims.

Pray for the Lord Lieutenant's order to the acting officers therein to bring in, upon oath, their accounts of sums received by them. ...


Annexed:

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, according to the prayer of the petition of Robert Reading and Alexander Bence

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 12 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 88v

Document type: Copy


Sir William Temple to Ormond

Written from: Brussels

Date: 13 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 157, fol(s). 286-287

Document type: Holograph

Gives an account of the setting out of the Holland fleet, with sealed orders; and provided with all sorts of instruments for land-service; expecially for mining and fortifying ... According to the guesses of some, a descent is intended upon Scotland; but according to most, upon Ireland. ... Yet all sober men in Holland know that their business is not victory but peace; their condition being at this time like that of a great pond, fed by a few little pipes, but drained by many peat channels; which in spite of land floods or rain must, in little time, leave them dry ...


Lords of the Council in England to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 13 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 129

Document type: Original [twelve signatures; including those of Clarendon, Lauderdale and Archbishop Sheldon]

Notify his Majesty's high approval of the care and diligence in his service, shewn by the Lord Lieutenant, in the matter of the apprehension of Christopher O'Ferrall [In MS.: "Ferrall"], a Dominican Friar, and others, accused of traitorous practices; and also his Majesty's pleasure that all due proceedings, according to law, be taken against such persons & their accomplices.


Ormond to the Commissioners of the Court of Claims, at Dublin

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 13 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 78

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recommends Sir Thomas Harman, for due and speedy reprisals, "for certain lands of our's, which he enjoyed, in right of a soldier, and [which] were given up unto us, upon the Act of Parliament, passed for restoring our estate unto us". ...


Ormond to Kingston

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 13 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Instructions concerning the due supply of fire and candle to his Majesty's guards, now quartered in the islands of Arran and Boffin.


License for the repair into England of Captain Richard Bertie

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 13 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 3

Document type: Breviate


An order, by the Duke of Ormond, concerning the pay of certain horsemen who attend in Dublin for the Lord Lieutenant's orders

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 13 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 3

Document type: Copy


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the drawing up of a fiant, containing his Majesty's donation to Daniel Neylan, Doctor of Divinity, of the Deanery of Kilkenny

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 13 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 24 & v

Document type: Copy; in Entry Book

Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the drawing up of a fiant, containing his Majesty's donation to Daniel Neylan, Doctor of Divinity, of the Deanery of Kilkenny; and for inserting in the said fiant a clause of union of the Prebendship of St. Michan in the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, unto the said Deanery, pro hac vice tantum


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 14 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 333

Document type: Original; subscribed and signed

Authority is sent herewith for raising men in England, for the service of Ireland. ...

At Sir James Shaen's entreaty the writer has prevailed with the King to sign certain letters. If they be ill penned, Shaen is to be blamed, since he gave assurance of the Lord Lieutenant's approval ...


Ormond to Kingston [as Lord President of Connaught]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 14 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 76v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Further instructions concerning the Dutch prisoners of war, confined in various towns.


Ormond to the Mayor of Kilkenny

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 14 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 78v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Directions for the reception, at Kilkenny, of certain Dutch prisoners, removed from Galway.


Ormond to Sir William Neale (at Cashel)

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 14 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 78v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Directions for the safe convoy of the Dutch prisoners, removed from Galway.


Ormond to William Crispin

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 14 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 78v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Directions for the due supply of provisions to the Dutch prisoners; and for payment of debts.


An account of the debts owing by the Dutch prisoners at Athlone; received from the Governor of that place

Date: [July] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 78v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]


Petition of John Allen, Esquire to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 14 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 87v

Document type: Copies

There is a cause defending before his Grace, in which petitioner is complainant, and Nicholas Bayly, Esquire, is defendant. Petitioner has been at great charges in a long attendance thereupon, and prays his Grace to fix a short day for the hearing and determining of the matter.

[With the order prayed for as aforesaid.]


Bull to Wharton

Written from: Dublin

Date: 14 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 17

Document type: Copy

Reports the progress of his Lordship's land-claims, under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation for Ireland. ...


Bull to Wharton

Written from: Dublin

Date: 14[?] July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 18

Document type: Original

Notifies the need of sending into Ireland a certain title-deed, in order that it may be produced at a hearing of Lord Wharton's suit before the Commissioners of Claims, under the 'Act of Settlement', in their Court at Dublin, on 13th of August prosimo ...


Petition of Peter Matson, and others, soldiers, late in the foot-company of Sir James Midleton

Written from: Dublin

Date: 16 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 90

Document type: Copy

[Concerning arrears of pay. With the order of the Duke of Ormond thereupon].


Orders, by the Duke of Ormond, for the pursuit by Lord Aungier, Sir Charles Hamilton, and Colonel Thomas Cooke, respectively, of one Dudley Costello, and other rebels, in the county of Cavan and parts adjacent

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 16 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 3v-4

Document type: Copy


Lord Dillon to Ormond

Written from: Kilfaghnie

Date: 17 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 17

Document type: Holograph

Has conferred with Colonel Swyney, who will now attend upon the Lord Lieutenant to receive his Grace's further commands. ...

Expects soon to receive a report from Captain Theobald [In MS.: "Tybolt"] Dillon concerning the arrest of [Dudley] Costello.

In PS.: states the need of a supply of ammunition & arms for this house, now "very naked".


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 17 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 530

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

Thomas Tilson, Gentleman, to have a grant of the office of Craner, Wharfinger, and Packer, in the Port of Dublin, and in the bays, creeks, & other places belonging thereto.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 17 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 335

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Has received his Grace's letters of 7th and 11th instant ... Cannot say anything as to the warrant desired for the additional Common Prayers having not had time to ask the Archbishop of Canterbury's approbation of them. ...

Adds recent advices of the positions, respectively, of the English and Dutch fleets.


Ormond to Colonel John Gorges

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 17 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 79

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Has received Colonel Gorges' letter of 3rd instant, and has, thereupon, given due instructions for supply of ordnance, and has signed the necessary warrant, in that behalf.


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 17 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 79v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Instructions concerning militia commissions, for the province of Munster.


Enclosure 1:

"The Earl of Roscommon's receipt for [militia] commissions delivered unto him"

Date: 1666

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

Document type: Copy


Enclosure 2:

"A letter received, by the last post, out of England"

Date: 1666

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


Ormond to Sir Francis Gore

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 17 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 79v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

The Lord Lieutenant's thanks are given for Sir Francis Gore's care in the apprehension of Phillips and Malmony ... Further directions therein will be received upon application to the Lord President of Connaught [Lord Kingston].


Ormond to Captain Lawrence Hyde

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 17 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 80

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Has seen Captain Hyde's letter to Secretary Sir George Lane. ... Edmund Malone (therein named), if he be apprehended, it to be sent hither, in safe custody.


Ormond to the Commissioners for Executing the Act of Settlement for Ireland

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 17 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 80

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Directs that speedy order be given for reprisals according to the Act of Parliament, on behalf of Mary Tallant, widow of Patrick Talland.


An order, by the Duke of Ormond, for the due convoy to Dublin of a "considerable sum of money belonging to H.R.H. the Duke of York, at Carrickdrumrusk in the county of Leitrim

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 17 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 4

Document type: Copy


Political and naval advices, from Vienna, Stettin, the Elsinore, and Hamburgh. ... Sent to George Lane

Date: 17-21 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 105-106

Document type: [Endorsed, as received at Dublin Castle, on 9th August]


Certificate of Sir Thomas Harman, Knight, upon the petition of Geore Castle, [under order of reference from the Duke of Ormond. With the Duke's final order thereupon]

Date: 17 and 25 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 90v

Document type: Copies


An order, by the House of Commons of Ireland, appointing a committee to consider a Bill entitled: 'An Act of free & general Pardon, Indemnity, & Obivion'; and to report

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 18 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 767

Document type: Certified Copy


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Dublin

Date: 18 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 400-401

Document type: Copy

Although the writer has not been able, as it seems, to prevail on the Commissioners [under the Explanatory Act] to transmit the state of the case concerning the Duke [of York] and himself, as it appears to them: yet, he is told, it is sent to the Chancellor from Dr Gorges. He will be as well able to judge of it from that, as if it had been sent by the Commissioners. ... The writer does not desire to have one foot of land more than the Act clearly gives to him. ... But he does not waive any part of that. ...

He makes no scruple of proceeding, with all severity, to the expulsion of those Irish clergy who have not [subscribed], or shall not subscribe, to the 'Declaration', in the same syllables [in which] it was first conceived; but if that shall be done, without any mitigation or favour to the subscribers, they will shortly reunite.

Those who have been persuaded to subscribe ... will take absolutions; ... and those who shall disdain that retractation [MS.: "retraction"] will be exposed to scorn and persecution ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 18 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 198-199

Document type: Holograph-Minute

Finds, but without knowing upon what ground, that the £15,000 last ordered hither when it was got to Chester, & ready to be put on board a vessel, ... was stopped, by order from Sir Robert Vyner ... Whatever the reason, we are still without that money, & so have lost much time in preparation for ... the marching of the troops ...Vyner's correspondent here intimates it to be his intention to deduct £3,000, for the "use & exchange" of this & the former £15,000 ...

Adds other details, chiefly concerning military affairs.


Ormond to the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of Dublin

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 18 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 80v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Sir Daniel Bellingham, being Deputy Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, his continuance in the office of Mayor of Dublin would, it appears, be a hindrance to his Majesty's service ... The former recommendation for his re-election thereto is therefore withdrawn.


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the supply of gun-carriages for the guns in the garrison of Londonderry

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 18 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 5

Document type: Copy


Ormond to Kingston

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 19 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

The Lord Viscount Mayo is to be admitted and sworn in, as a Councillor of the province of Connaught.


Ormond to Kingston

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 19 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

William, Lord Viscount Charlemont is to be admitted and sworn in, as a Councillor of the province of Connaught.


Ormond to Kingston

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 19 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81v

Document type: Breviate

Sir Richard Kyrle [In MS.: "Kerle"] is to be admitted and sworn in, as a Councillor of the province of Connaught.


Ormond to Kingston

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 19 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81v

Document type: Breviate

Captain Robert Morgan is to be admitted and sworn in, as a Councillor of the province of Connaught.


Petition of Margery Wolley, a prisoner under sentence of death in the Gaol of Kilmainham

Written from: Dublin

Date: 20 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 89v

Document type: Copies

Petition of Margery Wolley, a prisoner under sentence of death in the Gaol of Kilmainham, [praying for a respite of execution under circumstances stated. With an order by the Duke of Ormond thereupon].


Annexed 1:

Report of Mr Sergeant Griffith to the Duke of Ormond, upon the petition of Margery Wolley

Date: [July] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 89v

Document type: Copy


Annexed 2:

Further order, by the Duke of Ormond, for the respite of Margery Wolley

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 20 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 90

Document type: Copy


An account for the Farmers of the Customs [of Ireland] for the four first [i.e. first four] years, for what they have received and paid out of the same. ... Given me [James, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant] by Captain Dyer, 21 July, 1666

Date: 21 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 57-58

Document type: Original. Endorsed, by Ormond


Ormond to Captain Hooper

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 21 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 80v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Sailing-orders for H.M. Frigate the 'Harp'.


Subjoins thereto 1:

Sir George Lane to Major Love

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 21 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 80v

Document type: Breviate

Directs the sending of the Lord Lieutenant's letter to Captain Hooper, to Kinsale.


Subjoins thereto 2:

Sir George Lane to Lodowick Jackson

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 21 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 80v

Document type: Breviate

Directs the sending of a duplicate of the letter from Ormond to Captain Hooper, to Youghal.


Petition of Sir James Meredyth to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, [concerning arrears of military pay]

Written from: Dublin

Date: 21 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 83v

Document type: Breviate


Leave of absence, by the Marquess of Ormond to Sir James Cuffe

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 21 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 5

Document type: Breviate


An order, by the Marquess of Ormond for the march from Dublin to Kilkenny of the Earl of Arran's company of foot

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 21 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 5v

Document type: Copy


Order, by the Duke of Ormond, for the march from Kilkenny to Athlone of the company of foot commanded by Captain Robert Decy

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 21 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 5v

Document type: Copy


Carteret to Sandwich

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 21 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 223, fol(s). 301

Document type: Holograph [with seal of arms]

Has received the Earl's letters of May 4 and June 13. The former had been opened and then re-selaed, "very coarsely". Mentions the resumption of a broken-off negotiation with Lord Hawley [apparently referring to a contemplated overture of marriage for Lord Hinchinbroke with Mrs Mallet]. Hawley, it is added, also now seems inclined to accept terms offered on the Earl's behalf, and formerly declined.

The fleet is ready to go again to sea; and is, it is thought, "in better condition than ever it was". ...


Sister Maria de la Cruz to Sandwich

Written from: [Lisbon]

Date: 22 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 460

Document type: Holograph

Thanks his Lordship for a communication received through the hand of Sir Robert Southwell. Adds expressions of condolence on the death of Edward Montagu.

Spanish.


Shaen to Ormond

Written from: Sheen

Date: 23 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 19

Document type: Holograph

Reports the writer's proceedings in relation to the London "Adventurers" [for lands in Ireland].

Encloses a letter in relation thereto.


Sir William Temple to Ormond

Written from: Brussels

Date: 23 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 288

Document type: Holograph

The likeliest concert of our enemies seems to be that the Dutch shall fight us alone, with the utmost of their forces; and in case a battle ends but as the last did, with both retiring for a time to recruit in their Havens; then, the French fleet, left without control at sea, shall back some descent. ... The interests of all Europe, adds the writer, seem to be now at sea with the fleets. ...


Encloses:

A news-letter, chiefly narrating political and military incidents in France. Sent to Sir W. Temple at Brussels

Written from: [Paris?]

Date: [July] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 290

Document type: Copy


Ormond to Kingston

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 23 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 83

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Communicates the purport of orders, given to Major Nicholas Bayly, for the defence of the island of Boffin. Adds particulars concerning the contributions to be raised from his Majesty's subjects residing in or near to those parts "towards easing his Majesty's charge", for the works of fortification now in progress.


An order, by the Duke of Ormond, concerning the recruit of the company of foot, under command of Captain John Butler

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 23 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 5

Document type: Copy


License for the repair into England of Charles Osborne, of the Lord John Butler's troop

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 23 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 5

Document type: Breviate


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 24 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 339

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Has received his Grace's letter of the 18th instant ... Hopes that before this time the Lord Lieutenant will have received "the second £15,000, with assurance that no deductions or charge of exchange shall be laid upon it". ...

... "Our minds here are wholly taken up with the expected news from the Fleet. Yesterday, they were within four leagues of the enemy's [fleet], which did not appear to consist of above ninety sail, great and small; whereas we have that number of fighting ships, and, in all appearance, every way the advantage of them" ...


Ormond to Aungier

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 24 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Has received his Lordship's letters of 19th and 22nd instant... Direction is given to Captain Pigott to march to Longford, there to receive his Lordship's orders. ... Sir Richard Browne, and Nangle's gunsmith, may, as proposed, be liberated upon good bond.


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 24 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Instructions concerning the raising, and arming, of militia troops and volunteers in the province of Munster.


Ormond to Kingston

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 24 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Instructions concerning the raising, and arming, of militia troops and volunteers in the province of Connaught. With special orders concerning the defence of garrisons therein, and the prosecution of "those Tories who have endeavoured the disturbance of the public peace". ...


Ormond to Captain Hooper

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 24 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 83

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Revokes certain instructions formerly sent; the yacht 'Mary' being now arrived. ... As soon as Captain Hooper shall have convoyed the vessels mentioned in his letter of 20th instant, he is to repair to Dublin Harbour, & there to receive further orders.


Order by the Duke of Ormond, for the march to Kilkenny of Captain John Butler's company of foot

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 24 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 5v

Document type: Copy


A news-letter, addressed to Sir George Lane

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: 24 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 107-108

Parest, a French merchant trading in London, and accustomed to act as a Solicitor in the business of French prisoners [of war], having been found under that pretence to have sent political information, surreptitiously, to M. Colbert, has been committed to the Tower of London.

"The Prince" [Rupert?] has sent for the Dean of Westminster, "to prepare for the last hazards of the world; resolving, it seems, to return a glorious victor [at sea] or to die like a good Christian".

An additional squadron of fifteen ships is to follow the main fleet, and is to be commanded by Penn.

Advices came, on the morning of the 23rd, that the British & Dutch fleets were (when the despatch left) within five miles of each other. ...


James Kearney to Ormond

Written from: Clonmel

Date: 25 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 21

Document type: Original

Reports the late proceedings at the Assizes of Clonmel.

Desires to have his Grace's directions concerning Lawrence Butler & Nicholas Croke, who, not withstanding their promises to attend, & do service are now "upon their keeping".


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Dublin

Date: 25 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 402

Document type: Copy

Recommends Captain Owen, who goes to England fully instructed concerning the affairs of the young Earl of Clancarty, - according to the opinions of the best learned counsel that could be got here ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 25 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 103

Eleven thousand seven hundred pounds are come - part, it is supposed of the fifteen thousand pounds. It should seem that Vyner means to deduct the remaining sum £3,300 for interest & exchange. ...

His Majesty is humbly besought to apply the same remedy as before ...

Adds, at great length, particulars concerning the land-claims "of one Dyke and one Cunningham" ["Lewis Dyke" or Dike; "Sir Thomas Cunningham". Afterwards, this claim is known as "Barker's Case". On the day of the date of this letter, an order was made at the Council Board at Whitehall, for the procuring of certain evidence in Ireland, concerning the claim (S.P., Dom. vol. CLXIV No. 121). The contention for the Crown was that the "Adventure Money" had never been paid.], as representatives or assignees of adventurers. ...


Enclosure 1:

Draught of a letter to be offered for His Majesty's signature, on behalf of the Earl of Orrery

Date: 1666

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


Enclosure 2:

Draught of a letter to be offered for His Majesty's signature, on behalf of Sir Nicholas Armourer

Date: 1666

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


Enclosure 3:

Draught of a letter to be offered for His Majesty's signature, concerning Corporations

Date: 1666

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


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 25 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 202-204

Document type: Holograph-Minute

The Bill for suspending privileges not being passed, the writer's directions for dissolving the Parliament are positive. But, when those directions were given, it was not doubted that the Act of Oblivion ... would have passed, without much difficulty or examination. ... It seems to be apprehended that "a Clause of Restitution", - fifly inserted in it in favour of those who are, or shall be, restored to estates, - may extend farter than was intended by the King, or than can consist with the Acts of Settlement & Explanation. Yet it is certain that this Act was penned by the ablest lawyers here ...

The writer proceeds to state, at great length, the arguments which may be urged on either side for (1) the immediate dissolution of Parliament according to His Majesty's previous directions; (2) for the endeavour, before dissolving, to obtain the passing of the Act of Oblivion aforesaid, by making therein such amendments of form as may dispel the apprehensions above-mentioned ...

He also adds a statement of his views concerning the claim of Dyke and Cunningham to certain lands, mentioned in the former letter.


An additional note to the Duke of Ormonds letter of 25 July, addressed to Lord Arlington

Date: 25 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 206

Document type: Holograph


Ormond to James Clarke

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 25 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 287

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Payment is to be made to the writer's nephew Hamilton, of a sum of one hundred pounds.


An order, by the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland upon the petition of John Winckworth (see under "April 10")

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 25 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 91v

Document type: Copy


Petition of William Emersonto the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 25 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 91v

Document type: Copy

[Praying for license to export into England forty packs of Irish linen. With an order as prayed for].


Petition of John Waddinge of Dublin, Merchantto the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 25 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 92

Document type: Copy

[Praying for license to export into England 200 packs of [linen] yarn. With an order as prayed for].


Petition of Samuel Cooth, Mechantto the Duke of Ormond . [With a like Order.]

Written from: Dublin

Date: 25 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 92v

Document type: Copy


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

Written from: Dublin

Date: 25 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 96

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Richard Tringles & others. [With the order made thereupon.]


Intelligence [concerning the proceedings of the Roman-Catholic Irish,] given to me [the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland] by the Bishop of Meath

Written from: [Dublin?]

Date: 26 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 23

Document type: Original


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 26 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 337

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

The English fleet weighed anchor on Thursday, at nine in the morning. The last news from the Coast gives assurance that the Dutch continue in their station.


Ormond to Sir James Shaen

Written from: Dublin

Date: 26 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 352

Document type: Copy

The yacht arrived on Monday with £11,700, of the £15,000 expected. Notice is given to Lord Arlington, with desire that the full sum may be made up. Has desired Lord Anglesey not to give an acquittance for more than the sum received. The writer has nothing to do with bargains made upon funds in England; nor does he understand that for £30,000, only £26,300 should be accepted ...

Adds some further particulars, concerning matters of finance.

Returns Sir James Shaen's "Propositions" ...


Ormond to Mr Buck

Written from: Dublin

Date: 27 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 408

Document type: Copy

Instructs him to attend the Duke's learned Counsel, Mr Phillips, upon occasion of the proposed lease to the Canary Company of the Duke's Prize-Wines of Ireland ...


Enclosure 1:

Ormond to Phillips

Date: 27 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 406

Document type: Holograph-Copy

States the application of the Agent of the Canary Company for a lease of the Prize-Wines of Ireland, in respect to which Mr Phillips' counsel & assistance are desired. ...


Enclosure 1:

Ormond to Clarendon

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 404

Document type: Copy


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 28 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 341

Document type: Original; subscribed and signed

The appearances - upon what is yet heard from the fleet - are all favourable. ... His Grace will receive, with the letter, an account [Not now appended to the letter] of the grounds upon which these good hopes are founded. ...


H. Coventry to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 28 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 456

Document type: Holograph

Sir Allan Brodrick has told the writer how favourable the Lord Lieutenant has been in the matter which concerns Colonel Legg & himself [Coventry]. ... The matter is much more satisfactory to the writer, than a complete enjoyment of the grant would have been, had his Grace appeared as little kind to him, as some others have been. ...


Ormond to Clancarty

Written from: Dublin

Date: 28 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 404

Document type: Copy

In case his Majesty shall think fit that the Charter of the Canary Company shall extend to Ireland, the writer will be involved in the success of the experiment, in the most considerable because the most certain part of his estate, - namely, the Prize Wines of the kingdom, which by the bounty of the Crown have, for some ages, been in his family. The Company's agent proposes to take a lease of them ... Before the war, they were let for £2,600 for one year. ... During the current year despite of war, & pestilence in England - the return has already brought £1,400, in the port of Dublin alne, - never accounted to be more than half the value of the rest of the kingdom. ...


Ormond to Sir James Hamilton

Written from: Dublin

Date: 28 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 350

Document type: Copy

... Mr Butler [a nephew of the writer,] has a commendable inclination to put himself into action, rather than lie still at home ... A note to James Clarke to pay him £100 is sent herewith, that with Sir James Hamilton's advice it may be employed in fitting the youth for a sea voyage & to carry something with him. ... At Christmas, he shall have £50 more ... Sir James is desired to recommend him to some sea officer, with whom he may learn the trade ...


Ormond to Aungier

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 83v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Further instructions concerning measures to be taken for the suppression, and "bringing in, of Tories" ...


Ormond to the Commisioners for Executing the Act of Settlement etc. for Ireland

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 28 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 83v

Document type: Copy

Desires that Thomas Eustace, - grandchild of Nicholas Eustace of Confy, may have the full benefit of certain, his Majesty's, letters in his behalf according to the rules of the acts whereby the Commissioners proceed.


Encloses:

The King to Ormond

Date: 23 April 1664

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

Document type: Copy

Directions on behalf of Thomas Eustace, grandchild of Nicholas Eustace of Confy, in relation to certain claims, under the Act of Settlement for Ireland.


Petition of Colonel Thomas Pigott to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 28 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 92v

Document type: Copies

Petitioner had due license of absence, for his visit, with two servants to England, from his Grace; yet finds a cheque imposed on his pay, the removal of which is prayed for. [With an order accordingly.]


Petition of Alice Molloy, formerly Hughes to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 28 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 93

Document type: Copy

Plaint of debt against Captain John Harrington. [With the order made thereupon.]


A news-letter, addressed to Sir George Lane

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: 28 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 111-112

By the arrival [for repairs] of the ship Elizabeth, (Captain Talbot), at Harwich, an account has been received of the late battle between the British and Dutch fleets fought within about twelve leagues of Orfordness, the particulars of which are cited ...


A further account of the battle off Orfordness, sent by [Sir] Joseph Williamson to Sir George Lane

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: 29 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 113

Document type: Original


Bull to Wharton

Written from: Dublin

Date: 28 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 56

Document type: Original

Samuel Byfield [of London] has "a deficient adventure", which he is willing to sell. Lord Wharton will need at least £500 worth of deficient adventures, "of which," adds the writer, "only two third parts will be satisfied for in lands" ...


Letter of a person unnamed, containing some particulars of the decisive battle, near the Nore, of July 26; and noticing some subsequent naval incidents. ...

Written from: Dover

Date: 29 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 81

Document type: Endorsed: "Received 5 August"


Narrative, by Sir Edward Massey; of the same battle

Date: [July] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 82-83

Document type: Original. Endorsed: "Received 3 August, from Sir Edward Massey"


Petition of Patrick Callan, a convicted prisoner under sentence of death

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 29 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 95v

Document type: Copies

Praying for a repieve. With the order of the Duke of Ormond as prayed for.


John Creed to Sandwich

Written from: London

Date: 30 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 463

Document type: Holograph

Adds further particulars to his former account of the battle with the Dutch fleet. On that occasion, the victory was but doubtful. But, in a more recent engagement, of which the accounts reached the Court on July 29, a clear and undoubted victory was won. Any public demonstrations Lord Sandwich may be pleased to make at Madrid will now be beyond question. ...


Ormond to Colonel [Richard] Grace

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 30 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 84

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Has seen the letter written to Sir George Lane ... Thinks it not fit to grant any such pass for quitting the Kingdom, as James Dwiggin [So in MS.] [Duigan?] desires; but if he will "bring in the head of the Tory Costigan [In MS.: "Costigin"], or some other of that crew, may be induced to grant him his Majesty's pardon".


A news-letter, addressed to Sir George Lane

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: 30 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 109-110

Upon a rumour that the Captain of a Dutch man-of-war, lately taken on the northern coast, off Newcastle, was a Scotchman, the King declared he should be tried for his life.

The late Earl of Lindsey is to be succeeded in his troop of horse by Lord Mandeville; in the Colonelcy of his regiment, by the Duke of Monmouth; in the lieutenancy of Lincolnshire, by the Earl, his son; and in the Rangership ["Lieutenant[cy] of Woodstocke", in MS.] of Woodstock Park by the Lord-Chancellor.

The Ambassador of Sweden has notified an intimation of the Dutch willingness to accept the offer of that Crown, to mediate between Holland and England. ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 31 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 343

Document type: Original; signed & subscribed

The good news is now confirmed by Sir Thomas Clifford; and is published here with bells & bonfires, to give his Grace an example for celebrating it in like manner in Ireland. ... What is wished for here "is that the fruit of this victory may be most visible in the disposition of Holland to treat with us, - which they will have leisure to do, before their fleet can be ready to put to sea again". ...


Henry Howard to Sandwich

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 31 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 471

Document type: Holograph

After attending to the great victory obtained over the Dutch and to the general regrets at his Lordship's absence from England, the writer adds: "My Lord Haly, after an odd way, sends to Sir George Cartwright [Carteret] about Mr Mallett, and seems to desire an alliance with your Lordship, but Sir George minds him little; knowing him well". ...


Ormond to Captain Rooth

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 31 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 84

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Has seen the letter of 7th instant, written to Sir George Lane from Kinsale. The frigate is to return to Dublin where Captain Rooth will receive further orders.


Petition of Captain Fraghna [So in MS.] Ferrall to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 31 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 93

Document type: Copy

Recites loyal obedience of petitioner to the Crown, and his faithful service as Captain of a foot company; notwithstanding which he has been falsely aspersed as an adherent of Edmund Nangle, a rebel, who was killed at Langford.

Prays for his Grace's protection and for license to return to his usual place of abode.


Annexed:

License by the Duke of Ormond, for the return of Fragna Ferrall to his place of abode, as prayed for

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 31 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 93

Document type: Copy


A note of places burnt in Portugal by the Constable of Castile

Date: July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 465-466

Spanish.


A continuation of the former note of places destroyed by the Constable of Castile; with an enumeration-abstract of their respective inhabitants

Date: July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 469-470

Spanish.


Petition of George Deyes, Mayor of Waterford to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Waterford]

Date: [July] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 14

Complains of an infringement of certain provisions of the Act of Settlement by one Boulton & others.

Prays that said offenders be summoned before the Lord Lieutenant to answer the complaint of the Corporation of Waterford therein.


Subjoined 1:

Recorder of Waterford to the Mayor

Written from: Waterford

Date: 10 July 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 15

Document type: Breviate

Has pressed upon the Deputy-Mayor & others of the Town-Council, obedience to the Lord Lieutenants letter, grounded on the Act Boulton swayed then "to resolve to adhere to the privilege of their Charter".


Subjoined 2:

Town-Clerk to the Mayor

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 15

Document type: Breviate

Captain William Boulton has made a party in the Council for electing Mayor Richards as Mayor of Waterford.


Subjoined 3:

Sheriff Prince to the Mayor

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 15

Document type: Breviate

Particularises certain acts of disobedience to Lord Lieutenant's letter.


Considerations on a treaty to be had with the Lady of Muskery, for settling her and her children's [Earl of Clancarty & Lady Florence McCarthy] estates and interests, in England and Ireland

Date: [July] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 410

Document type: Copy


Instructions [by the Commissioners of the Court of Claims, appointed for the Execution of the Act of Settlement for Ireland (1662), and Act Explanatory thereof (1665)]

Date: [July] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 69, fol(s). 173-175

Document type: Copy [five signatures]

Instructions [by the Commissioners of the Court of Claims, appointed for the Execution of the Act of Settlement for Ireland (1662), and Act Explanatory thereof (1665),] to Thomas Taylor [and others], ... appointed [as Sub-Commissioners,] ... in order to the settling and satisfying of adventurers and soldiers, and other matters hereafter mentioned, pursuant to the Acts ... [aforesaid].


Lord Sandwich to Maria de la Cruz

Date: Undated [July] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 462

Document type: Copy

Acknowledges her letter of the 22nd of July, and expresses his hope of paying her a visit on the termination of the public business of his embassy.

Spanish.


James Wilson to Sandwich

Written from: Tangier

Date: 1 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 467

Document type: Holograph

Has received his Lordship's letter of July 3. Communicates some particulars of the state of traffic between Tangier & the neighbouring ports, and of the need of precautionary measures for its protection ...


Clarendon to Sandwich

Written from: Worcester House

Date: 1 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 473

Document type: Holograph

Acknowledges the receipt of a series of letters from Lord Sandwich. "I shall not", says the writer, "be hereafter in such an arrear to you, but the truth is I have not known any such way of returning letters to you as I can reasonably trust". Adds an expression of his inability to think that the Councillors of Spain will omit to use the present" opportunity of making a "league which, humanly speaking, is the only way to preserve that Monarchy" ...


Ormond to Sir William Coventry

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 1 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 287-288

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Captain Lucas Walsh, bearer of this letter, and a person not unknown to H.R.H. [the Lord High Admiral], attends Sir W. Coventry, expressly to make proposals for two Commissions for the setting-out of Privateers.


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the delivery of venison by the Keeper of his Grace's park, at Kilkenny, to Sir Daniel Bellingham, Lord Mayor of Dublin

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 1 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 288

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]


A like Warrant, on behalf of Sir William Domvile, attorney General of Ireland

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 1 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 288

Document type: Breviate


Petition of Luke Hore, Merchant to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 1 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 93v

Document type: Copies

Certain merchandise, on which petitioner has paid customs dues, according to the 'Book of Rates', are detained from him.

His Excellency's order for their delivery is prayed for. [With the order, according to the prayer.]


An address, from the House of Commons of Ireland to Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant

Date: 2 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 773-777

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond

An address, from the House of Commons of Ireland, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant, upon occasion of certain questions of disputed jurisdiction & of privilege, at issue between that House and the House of Lords. Together with minutes of proceedings & debates relating thereto.


Lady Pickering to Sandwich

Written from: [Written from Northamptonshire]

Date: 2 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 74, fol(s). 341

Document type: Holograph

Congratulations on his Lordship's safety. He has been well remembered in all places, without exception. My Lord Peterborough has raised a troop of volunteers hereabouts [in Northamptonshire] who are gone to be added to the Duke's Life-Guard. Adds, in a P.S., that "the Plague has been very sore at Oundle, & in many little towns round about it". ...


Ormond to Captain Lawrence Hyde

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 2 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 84v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Further instructions concerning Edmund Malone of Clonbuniagh, who may now return to his habitation. ... Kelly [the informer] appears to be a person "fit to be questioned for false accusation" ...


Petition of Lieutenant Colonel James Mathew to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, [concerning arrears of military pay]

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 2 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 83v

Document type: Breviate


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 3 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 532-533

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

Recies the forfeiture, by reason of the late Rebellion in Ireland of the charters of divers cities & towns in that kingdom, formerly corporate. ...

Directs that, for encouragement of trade therein, new charters shall upon the humble suit of the cities & towns aforesaid, be granted, in such manner as the Lord Lieutenant shall think fit. ...


Objections [offered by the House of Commons of Ireland], against the Bill of Indemnity

Date: 3 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 64, fol(s). 410v-415

Document type: Copy


Ormond to [the Provost, Fellows, etc. of Trinity College, Dublin]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 3 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 84v

Document type: Copy [in Letterbook] [Apparently cancelled]

Robert Mossom, LL B & MA is recommended for the degree of LL.D.


Petition of John Allen, of the Isle of Arran to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 3 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 93

Document type: Copy

In the several years 1663, 1664 & 1665, petitioner furnished to Major Nicholas Bayly [Governor of the Isle aforesaid,] various provisions for the supply of the garrison. The supplies so furnished have not been paid for. The Lord Lieutenant's order for due payment is prayed.


Annexed:

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the petition of John Allen

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 3 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 93

Document type: Copy


John Cressett to Wharton

Written from: Chinkford Hall [So in MS.: properly, "Chingford"], Essex

Date: 3 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 13

Document type: Original

Reports the result of the writer's conference upon certain Irish land-claims of Lord Wharton, and upon the effect, in relation thereto, of the recent Acts of Settlement for Ireland, with Sir Anthony Morgan, and other lawyers. ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 4 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 345-346

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Upon shewing to the Lord Chancellor what his Grace hath written concerning the pretensions of Dike and Coningham, his Lordship answered that it seemed equitable to allow them further time, and also leave to examine their witnesses here by commission. ...

Sir Thomas Clifford returns to-morrow to the fleet, which it is supposed lies now before the Texel. ...


Clarendon to Ormond

Written from: Worcester House

Date: 4 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 120

Document type: Holograph

A continuation of the observations [after mention of those "alarums of age", which give daily warning to the writer that it is time [for him] to "retire from the noise & things of business, & leave it to men of more vigour & dexterity, and who consider less what others think, when anything is amiss",] upon the affiars of Ireland, treated of in No. ...

[Not printed by Lister].


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 4 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 60

Document type: Copy

Details concerning military commissions and military stores ...


Ormond to Sir Francis Foulke

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 4 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 85

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Further instructions concerning the transfer to the charge and care of Mr William Crispin of the Dutch prisoners now at Clonmel.


An order, by the Duke of Ormond, for the removal of certain Dutch prisoners from Athlone to Clonmel

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 4 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 6

Document type: Copy


A remembrance [i.e. memorial] of Captain John Bartlett, for the settling of a road near the harbour of Holyhead, not only for the post-barques, but for his Majesty's frigates that ply between Dublin and Holyhead; etc.

Written from: Dublin

Date: 6 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 66, fol(s). 320

Document type: Original


Petition of John Andrews, a prisoner convicted of manslaughter to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 6 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 93v

Document type: Copies

Praying for his Grace's mercy. With the order made thereupon.


An order, by the Duke of Ormond, for the removal of Captain John Butler's foot company from Kilkenny to Callan

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 6 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 6

Document type: Copy


An order, by the Duke of Ormond, for the removal of Sir James Middleton's foot company from Kilkenny to Carrick

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 6 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 6

Document type: Copy


Carteret to Sandwich

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 6 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 223, fol(s). 303

Document type: Holograph

Lord Arlington has sent the Earl an account of the late battle with the Dutch fleet. That of England is still upon the enemy's coast. The Dutch, it is reported, are in very great disorder amongst themselves...


A memorial on certain Admiralty - affairs of the port of Galway

Written from: Galway [In MS.: Galloway]

Date: 7 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 24-25

Document type: Original [with four signatures]

A memorial on certain Admiralty - affairs of the port of Galway. Addressed to Secretary Sir George Lane.


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 7 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 534-535

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

The Attorney-General of Ireland to be instructed to forbear all further proceeding for the eviction of Robert Harpole, from the estate of his deceased father William Harpole. ...

The said Robert Harpole to be confirmed in the quiet possession of the estate aforesaid; and the persons interested in the late decree concerning the same to be forthwith reprised, "... according to the true intent & meaning of the 'Act of Settlement', & 'Act of Explanation' of the same".


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 7 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 347

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Gives an account of some correspondence with the Earl of S. Alban, upon business which occasions the Earl's return to England; and also of Letters-Patent, obtained by the Lady Marquess of Antrim, for lands "allowed her by the Act" [of Explanation; 1665] ... with ... "power to erect a town, and to give it privileges of sending Burgesses to Parliament". ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 7 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 208-209

Document type: Holograph-Minute

After various proposals for the effectual winter-guard of the coasts of Ireland, the writer proceeds thus: -

"The good success of his Majesty's fleet was on Sunday celebrated here. ... God send [that] this victory may produce those reasonable reflections in the Hollanders, which [Lord Arlington] mentions, and that both sides may consider what sport they make the French, whilst we are smoothing the way to the enlargement of their dominion, where they most desire to stretch it, and where it is most pernicious to us, and to Holland, to permit it" ...

Mentions the dissolution of the Irish Parliament; ... and the easy defeat of certain "loose fellows, who vainly aspired to the title of rebels" ...


Ormond [to John Keatinge?]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 7 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 85

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]. Without address

Notification of a recommendatory order, for payment of certain arrears claimed in a petition lately presented to the Lord Lieutenant by John Keatinge.


Encloses:

An order, by the Lord Lieutenant the Duke of Ormond upon a petition of John Keatinge, claiming certain arrears of salary "for service in England"

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 7 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 85

Document type: Copy


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 7 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 85v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Mr Wall, of Coolenemucky, having voluntarily taken the oath of supremacy ... may be instructed with a command in the militia of the county of Waterford.


Enclosure 1:

Letter from the Lord Power [Poer?] to Secretary Sir George Lane[on behalf of Mr Wall, abovenamed]

Date: [July] 1666

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


Enclosure 2:

A certificate by Thomas Exton, deputy Mayor of Waterford, and William Halsey, Chief Justice of Munster, of the taking of the Oath of Supremacy by Mr Wall of Coolenemucky

Date: [July] 1666

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


Ormond to Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dublin, and others

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 7 August 1666

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

Recommends the admission to the degree of LL.D. of Robert Mossom, LL.B., by a Special Grace.


Petition of Major Robert Edgeworth to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 7 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 94

Document type: Copies

Nine months' of entertainment as Governor of the fort of Sligo [In MS.: "Sleigo"] are due to petitioners, for the payment of which his Grace's warrant is desired. [With the order made thereupon.]


Petition of Roger Hasketon to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 7 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 94

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Corporal William Mathlin [In MS.: "Matlin"]. [With the order made thereupon.]


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the delivery of 600 collars of bandeliers, out of his Majesty's stores, to the Lord Mayor of Dublin, for the use of the militia

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 7 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 6v

Document type: Copy


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the delivery of fifty cases of pistols and holsters, to the Lord Mayor of Dublin, for the use of the militia

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 7 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 6v

Document type: Breviate


Letter, from a writer unnamed, sent to Mr [afterwards Sir Joseph] Williamson and by him to Lord Ormond

Written from: Bruges

Date: 8 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 84

Document type: Endorsed: "Aug. 10. from Mr Williamson"


Petition of Margaret Fennell, relict of Colonel Edmund Fennell, and Garrett Fennell, their son, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 8 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 94v

Document type: Copy

The late Dr [Gerald] Fennell left to the petitioners certain reversions of leases & other legacies. But Geoffrey Browne, & others, overseers of the said will, have failed to give to petitioner the benefit thereof. The testator made it his humble request that the Duke of Ormond would see his will [Made at Dublin in 1663] carried into due effect. His Grace's interposition is solicited.


Annexed:

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the petition of Margaret Fennell and Garrett Fennell

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 8 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 94v

Document type: Copy


A further petition to the Duke of Ormond, by Marcus Browne, concerning the Customs of the Port of Galway

Written from: Dublin

Date: 8 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 94v

Document type: Copy


A further order, by the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant, upon the petitions aforesaid

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 8 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 94V

Document type: Copy


Petition of Jane Aplen of Londonderry, widow to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 8 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 96

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Thomas Taylor, a soldier, now in garrison at Carrickfergus. [With the order made thereupon.]


Ormond to Sir John Warre

Written from: Dublin

Date: 9 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 354

Document type: Copy

Family affairs. Particulars of a marriage-treaty, between Lord John Butler and a daughter of Sir John Warre. ...


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

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 9 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 88v

Document type: Breviates

[Concerning arrears of military pay. With the certificate & orders thereupon.]


Petition of George Cooke of Rathrush in the barony of Forte & county of Carlow to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 9 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 95

Document type: Copy

Petitioner holds, under his Grace's Commissioners, one third part of the lands of Rathrush, aforesaid, but is hindered in his profitable occupation of the same by one Michael Barry and another, who have the other two parts, "on their right".

Prays for his Grace's order for a division of the lands aforesaid.


Annexed

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, referring the petition of George Cooke, to the Commissioners of his estates

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 9 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 95

Document type: Copy


Petition of Patrick Plunkett to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 9 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 95v

Document type: Copies

[Praying for license to leave Dublin for two months, with the order as prayed for].


Petition of Sir John Banks, Knight to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 9 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 95v

Document type: Copy

Petitioner was formerly possessed of the lands of Carrowmonyn & other lands in the county of Galway, which lands were assigned to Colonel Thomas Sadler as a Connaught purchaser but by him retrenched before the Court of Claims.

Petitioner's restoration thereto is prayed for.


An order by the Duke of Ormond for a grant, in custodiam, to Sir John Banks, of the lands in the county of Galway above-recited

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 9 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 95v

Document type: Copy


Petition of Dr Robert Gorges to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 9 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 96-97

Document type: Copies

Recites a former grant to Christopher Roper, now deceased, of a pension of six shillings, a day, upon the Irish Establishment; and also a later grant, to petitioner, of the reversion of the same ...

Prays his Grace's order for the insertion of petitioner's name upon the said Establishment, and for the issue of debentures to him, in due course. [With an order of reference thereupon.]


Annexed 1:

Report of Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, upon the petition of Dr Robert Gorges

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 13 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 97

Document type: Copy


Annexed 2:

Final order of the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant, upon the petition of Dr Robert Gorges

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 97

Document type: Copy


A Constat of lands decreed to his Grace (James Butler) ... Duke of Ormond [under the Acts of Settlement for Ireland]

Date: 10 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 71, fol(s). 347-351

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Lane: "Received by Colonel Cooke, the 31 January, 1668"


Petition of Sir Daniel Treswell, Baronet to the Duke of Ormond

Date: 10 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 95

Document type: Breviates

[Concerning arrears of military pay. With the certificate & order thereupon.]


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 11 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 349

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Upon assurance for Lord Ossory that the Lord Lieutenant approves of the terms of the Letters-Patent drawn upon behalf of the Marchioness of Antrim, the writer has obtained the King's signature thereto. ...

He adds some further particulars concerning a secret mission to Holland ...


Clarendon to Ormond

Written from: Worcester House

Date: 11 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 122

Document type: Holograph

Long delay (by the bearer's fault), in the delivery of the letter recommending to the Chancellor the brother of Ormond's chaplain (Dr Owen) precluded, through a prior promise, compliance with its recommendation for appointment to a certain benefice. But the person recommended shall not be a loser. He shall have the first living that falls within the writer's gift, near to Oxford, - he being qualified to hold such a living with his fellowship ...

Notices personal affairs of Lady Muskerry, & what has been done therein ...

... Intelligence from all parts makes our victory [appear] every day more considerable, & the Duke [of York]'s loss of men more prodigious ...


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin

Date: 11 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 62

Document type: Copy

Particulars of the writer's intended journey to Kilkenny, where he hopes to receive Lord Orrery; and to pass thence through the provinces of Munster and Connaught. ...

The proceedings of the Parliament have been so slow, that the Duke has lost a month of the time he intended to devote to his journey ...


Clarendon to Ormond

Written from: [London]

Date: 11 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 412

Document type: Extract. In Page's hand

As soon as Lord Bridgman is recovered from a passing indisposition, will confer with him on the affairs of my Lord of Clancarty; and will then send for Lady Muskery to come up to town - which she is enough inclined to do - in order to an arrangement of them. ...

The settling of the estate upon the heir is that which it is fit for the Duke to demand, upon making certain concessions to the lady on his part. The writer knows not of any of Lady Muskery's friends who will not concur in that advice. ...


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Dublin

Date: 11 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 414-415

Document type: Copy

... Is ignorant what the Commissioners [under the Explanatory Act for Ireland] will determine in the matter between the Duke of York and the writer, but whatever it shall be, it will abundantly content him ... Could wish that Lady Muskery would not marry again so inconveniently; doubting that if a full agreement be not come to before a remarriage, there never will be any, to the advantage of herself & her son [Lord Clancarty]. Sir Richard Temple is the man spoken of here, - who can have no temptation to the pursuit, but to advantage his fortune! [The rumoured alliance here spoken of, did not take place]. ...

Adds, at great length, further partculars of pending affairs concerning the Romanist clergy of Ireland, and concerning the revenue, and the financial necessities of that kingdom. ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 11 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 211

Document type: Copy

... Has forbidden the giving of any such acquittance for £15,000, as Vyner demands, upon sending only £11,700, ... but unless some agreeement be made with him [in London], ... they will still be without the money, as he will be without his discharge ...

Adds some particulars relating (1) to the case of Cunningham and Dyke; - (2) to the Canary Company.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 12 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 351

Document type: Holograph

Recommends to the Lord Lieutenant's favour Sir Henry O'Neill, bearer of this letter. ...


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Dublin

Date: 13 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 416

Document type: Copy

The bearer of this letter is that friar [Mark Browne], on behalf of whom the Spanish Ambassador spoke to the Chancellor. He is sent by the General of his Order to regulate those who are of it in this Kingdom.

The writer has been very watchful of the friar's proceedings, and is well satisfied that he has carried himself very honestly in the execution of his charge ...


Petition of Major John Perceval to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 13 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 96

Document type: Breviates

[Concerning arrears of military pay. With the oder made thereupon.]


Warrants, for the delivery of arms and ammunition to various officers of the army, and others

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 13 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 6-7

Document type: Copy; and Breviates (Five Entries)


Warrants, for the march of Sir Thomas Fortescue's foot company to Carrickfergus, and of Colonel John Mayart's into the county of Donegal

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 13 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 7&v

Document type: Breviates (Two Entries)


An order concerning recruits to be admitted into Lord Coloony's troop of horse in the army of Ireland

Date: 13 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 10v

Document type: Copy


Birkenhead to Lane

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 14 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 28

Document type: Holograph

One Isaac Wilson, who practises physic, is gone to Chester intending to cross over into Ireland, under pretence - in order to move more freely from house to house - of pursuing his profession there ... Five weeks since, he was in Amsterdam; ... and ought to be carefully watched. ...

In a PS.: mentions naval intelligence, just sent to the King. ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 14 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 353-354

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Has received his Grace's letter of the 7th instant. Will cause the rules for the packet-boats to be observed, according to his Grace's desire ...

Too many arguments for the continuance of the transport of Irish cattle hither, cannot be provided. Besides what was seen of the temper of the House of Commons last session [upon that question], recent observations in the country shew that it is not more moderate now than it was then. ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 14 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 213

Document type: Copy

Lord Arlington's servant, Robert Ley [Elsewhere called "Lye"], has discharged himself in his Lordship's concernments with all prudence & modesty ... He is a discreet & extraordinary young man. ...


Petition of Colonel John Hubblethorne, and another to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 14 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 95

Document type: Breviates

[Concerning arrears of military pay. With the certificate & order thereupon.]


Petition of Lieutenant Edward Crispe to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 14 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 97v

Document type: Breviates

Arrears of Pay. [With the order.]


Leave of absence from his garrisson, to Sir Matthew Appleyard

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 14 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 7

Document type: Breviate


Warrants for the issue of arms to various bodies of militia, in the provinces of Leinster, Munster, and Ulster, respectively

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 14 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 7v-8

Document type: Copy; and Breviates (twelve entries)


Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland to the King

Written from: Dublin

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 32-34

Document type: Copy

State, - at great length and with minute detail, - their views "concerning the importation of Irish Cattle into Engladn"; and the pending measures, in the Parliament of the last-named kingdom, in respect thereto.


Subjoin:

Reasons to be humbly offered to his Majesty, against passing the "Act to prohibit all importation of Irish cattle into England"

Written from: Dublin

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 38-40

Document type: Copy


Memorandum of the delivery, to Sir George Lane, of the Creation-Letters of the Earl of Arran, the Earl of Drogheda, and the Earl of Mount-Alexander, respectively

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 701

Document type: Original


Ormond to Salizanes

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 322

Document type: Holograph-Minute

Has received the Minister-General's letter of 30 April, on behalf of Father Browne, who, the Lord Lieutenant doubts not, will confess that in confidence of the sincerity of his profession, he hath received all protection & reasonable countenance. ... Father Browne appears to have behaved with discretion & honesty. His exertions, it is believed, would have been more successful but for the remains of much of that spirit of faction & disobedience, in many of his order, which so powerfully contributed to the mischief of the late rebellion ...


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 418

Document type: Copy

Is doubtful whether, in his place, he ought to answer the very civil letters which the General of the Franciscans wrote to him by Browne, the commissary sent hither on the affairs of that order ...

Desires the Chancellor's advice, & sends, open, such a letter as might be returned, if any. ...


Encloses:

Minute of a letter to the General of the Franciscans, in reply to two letters addressed by him to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: August 1666

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


Ormond to Chesterfield

Written from: Dublin

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 356

Document type: Copy

Particulars concerning the assignment, upon certain funds, of money accruing to the Earl, under the King's grant by Letters-Patent.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 214

Document type: Copy

Recommends the bearer of this letter, Lieutenant Colonel Fitzsymons, who adhered to the King, against the excommunication of the Papal Nuncio [Rinuccini], and his party here. ...


Ormond to Lieutenant John Hamilton

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 81

Document type: Breviate

Account is given by Sir George Hamilton of Lieutenant John Hamilton's willingness to raise a troop of horse for his Majesty's service in Ireland. The offer is acknowledged with the Lord Lieutenant's thanks. If it be found needful to accept the offer, the due commission will be sent.


Ormond to the Commissioners of the Court of Claims, at Dublin

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 88v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recommends, in consideration of Colonel Randal Clayton's readiness to advance his money for the service of the Trustees for the ... Officers who served his Majesty before June, 1649, the claim of said Clayton now pending before the Commissioners, so "that he may not suffer for his readiness", as aforesaid. ...


Encloses:

Petition of Colonel Randal Clayton to the Duke of Ormond

Date: [July?] 1666

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


Ormond to the Commissioners of the Court of Claims, at Dublin

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 88v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Recommends the case of Lord Coloony, ... so that "his reprisals may be speedily set out, and that therein he may find all the favour, consistent with your rules".


Petition of Catherine Jones, widow of Ensign Samuel Jones

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 96

Document type: Breviates

[Concerning arrears of military pay due to the deceased Ensign. With the order made thereupon, by the Duke of Ormond.]


Petition of Sir George St. George, Knight, Lieutenant of the Earl of Ossory's Troop of Horse

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 97

Document type: Copy

Recites the running away from his colours of Richard Nevill, late a trooper in the troop, aforesaid, leaving unsatisfied various debts, for which the officers of the troop aforesaid are answerable. ...

Pray for license to sell the horse & accoutrements of the said late trooper.


Annexed:

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the petition of Sir George St. George

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 97v

Document type: Copy


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

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 97v

Document type: Breviates

Delivery of arms, stayed at Customs-House. [With the order.]


Petition of Sir Oliver St. George, Baronet to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 97v

Document type: Breviates

Arrears of pay. [With the order.]


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

Written from: Dublin

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 97v

Document type: Copies

Prays for a grant, in custodiam, of a small parcel of ground in Sawyerstown, retrenched from Sir Walter Plunkett's grant, and formerly part of the estate of petitioner's ancestors.

[With the order.]


Petition of Lieutenant Francis Knight (of a militia troop in Galway) to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 97v

Document type: Breviates

For delivery of certain arms stayed at the Customs House. [With the order.]


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

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 98

Document type: Copy

His Grace's commission for command, by petitioner, of the foot-company late Sir Francis Kyrle's, having been entered in the Muster-Master's office subsequently to the late Muster, petitioner's pay has been subjected to a cheque; an order ofr removal of which is prayed for.


Annexed 1:

An order of reference, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the petition of Captain John Jephson

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 98

Document type: Copy


Annexed 2:

Report of the Muster-Master-General, upon the petition of Captain John Jephson

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 98

Document type: Copy


Annexed 3:

Final order of the Duke of Ormond, upon the petition of Captain John Jephson

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 143, fol(s). 98

Document type: Copy


Warrants for the arming and march of various troops of horse and companies of foot, of the army of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 7v

Document type: Breviates (four entries)


Instructions, by the Duke of Ormond, to the Master of the Ordnance in Ireland, concerning the arming of the militia of the various provinces, from the stores of each province, respectively, "and not otherwise"

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 8

Document type: Copy


Commission, by the Duke of Ormond to Richard, Earl of Arran, to be Governor of the county and city of Dublin

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 15 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 9

Document type: Copy


Hinchinbroke to Sandwich

Written from: London

Date: 16 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 223, fol(s). 131-132

Has received the Earl's letter of July 11/21. Came to London upon the affair of Mrs Mallet, and thence went to Tunbridge, to call upon her. She gave such an indication that her affections were engaged, that Lord Crew and Sir George Carteret advised him to think no more of the matter.

The Privy-Seal which Townsend had for £1,200 upon the "chimney-money" has been applied by Sir George Carteret to the King's service. Townsend has now an order for "20,000, to be paid out the Royal Aid. ...

French.


Narrative of the last fight at sea, from Sir William Temple

Date: 17 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 86-87

Document type: Original


Dudley Costello to Lord Viscount Dillon of Costello

Written from: Gortlaghan

Date: 18 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 42

Document type: Copy

Complains of his being declared a traitor, without summons to vindicate himself. Adds an account of his conduct; and asserts his knowledge that "the greatest number of his misrepresenters & informers [Meaning, informers against himself] are in your [Lord Dillon's] neighbourhood". ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 18 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 355

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Sir Robert Holmes' exploit is thought to have inflicted on the Dutch the greatest loss they have received since the war began. ... Since that affair, "we have had a small mortification by the loss of the Breda, which going to seek our fleet upon the coast of Holland, when they were come away fell aground within a league of the Texel, where the inhabitants manned boats and possessed themselves of her; carrying the men away prisoners". ...


Clarendon to Ormond

Written from: Worcester House

Date: 18 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 124-125

Document type: Holograph

The Duke takes notice that the writer favours the Canary Company ... "In truth," says the latter, "I do, in this charter, and I am persuaded it hath found much underhand opposition here for that reason. You will easily believe [me], when I assure you, in my own particular I am no more concerned in the progress of it - whether it stand or fall - than any man who walks the streets. ... It was designed from the experience & evidence of the greatest cheat put upon the nation by the Spaniard that can be imagined. I was never at any private conference upon the subject. It hath been always transacted at the Council Board, in the King's presence". ...

Adds, at great length, his observations upon the Irish business heated of in the Duke of Ormond's letter of the 11th instant.

[Not printed by Lister].


Sir W. Coventry to Ormond

Date: 18 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 458

Document type: Holograph

Is commanded by H.R.H. the Duke of York to acquint the Lord Lieutenant with a great obstruction which his Majesty's servants meet with, at Kinsale, by the Customers claiming customs duties upon stores shipped thence for his Majesty's vessels of war ... Nothing of the like is demanded by customers in England.


Sir W. Coventry to Ormond

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: 18 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 460-461

Document type: Holograph

It hath pleased to allay our late triumph [at sea] a little, by the loss of his Majesty's ship 'Breda'. ... Some other ships in her company "were so faulty as to leave her without saving the men, so that the Dutch came & took them all" ... But they "have only the men [the ship having been burned] ... to comfort them for the greatest ... blow, in its kind that ever was given them, or perhaps to any other people". ...

... Details are added, at very great length, of other naval and admiralty incidents & affairs. ...


Dudley Costelloe to Theobald Dillon

Written from: Gorttloghane

Date: 18 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 131, fol(s). 227

Document type: Copy

Intimates his return and his willingness to wait upon Dillon if desired.


Dudley Costello to Theodore Dillon

Written from: Gortloghane

Date: 18 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 286

Document type: Copy

Having heard of inquiries for the writer made, during his absence, by Captain Dillon, notifies his return to Gortloghane. ...


Licences, by the Duke of Ormond to Lord Berkeley, President of Connaught, of absence from his military commands in Ireland

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 22 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 13

Document type: Breviates (two entries)


[A news-letter signed: "Johnson", containing] intelligence concerning some persons at Brussels engaged to join with the French. ... Received from the Lord Arlington. ...

Written from: [Brussels]

Date: 22 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 295

Document type: Note. The title cited is from Lane's endorsement


Broderick to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 25 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 48

Document type: Holograph

Submits a letter from the King concerning the Commissioners of the Court of Claims at Dublin.

Solicits an order upon the Earl of Anglesey for the diet & lodging of the Commissioners ...

Adds some items of news ... e.g. "My Lord Chancellor [Clarendon] continues very positive in his resolution of going into Clarendon-House before the term, though his servants think it scarce possible" ["The finest pile I ever did see in my life; and will be a glorious house." - (Pepys, Feb 1666) "Waited on my Lord Chancellor at his new palace." - (Evelyn, May, 1666) "Went to see Clarendon House, now almost finished ..." (Id. November 1666) "My Lord Chancellor shewed me all his newly finished & furnished palace and library" (Id. April 26 1667) "I found him [Clarendon] in his garden ... seeing the gates setting up towards the north ... He looked ... disconsolately ... next morning, I heard he was gone." (Id. December [for November] 1667)].


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 26 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 357-358

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Communicates information as to the resort into Ireland of Blood and other notorious conspirators, - "hoping to work effectually towards their wicked ends, - upon the new militia especially". ...

... Great discontents at the Hague, continues the writer, oblige De Witt, at any price of money & hazard, to set the fleet to sea again. M. Briat hath unhappily brought himself upon the stage, by delivering into De Witt's hand a wrong paper, which was designed only for his own reading; upon which he was made a close prisoner, and hath since been shewn the rack. This, and the opinion he had [that] his correspondence was a criminal one, hath made him name above sixty persons (called in the paper 'le bon partie',) who are principal men in the towns of Holland, ... as partakes with him in the design to bring to pass a peace with his Majesty, to the exclusion of France". ...


H. Coventry to Ormond

Date: 26 August 1666 N.S.

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 462-463

Document type: Holograph

Returns humble thanks for the honour of his Grace's letter of 11th instant ... The Holland is come out from the Wheelings & sailed towards the Texel ... They press the King of Denmark hard for the assistance of twenty ships. ...

The apprehensions as to the Irish Cattle Bill, is that which troubleth every body (the writer thinks) who understands that kingdom and hath not pasture-ground in this ... Some are sanguine enough to believe that we may parry the blow. The writer is sure that it is what we ought to endeavour to do. ...


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 26 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 420-421

Document type: Copy

The Chancellor's letter of the 11th found the Duke upon his way hither; whence he thinks of making a journey into Munster. Perhaps, - when he has seen the preparations there, - he may concur with those who so much despise any invasion.

The writer, & all who are interested for Lord Clancarty, will be found ready to depart from any unreasonable proposition. Such, doubtless, is that which would bring Summer-Hill into a possibility of falling into the hands of that family [Lord Clanricarde's?] if the child should die, - unless some proportionable advantage be offered to the lady, for so unusual a provision.

... Adds further particulars upon various affairs of administration in Ireland, already noticed in former letters.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 26 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 215-216

Document type: Holograph-Minute

Further particulars concerning the Canary Company; concerning a suit of Lady Antrim; and concerning the late "Bill of Oblivion", and the causes which obstructed its passing in Parliament. ...


Petition of Captain Charles Wenman to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: [Dublin?]/Kilkenny

Date: [August?]/27 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 108

Document type: Copies

[Petition (Dublin? August?) concerning arrears of military pay due to petitioner, with the order of reference (Kilkenny, 27 August).]


Annexed 1:

Report, by the Muster-Master General, upon the petition of Captain Charles Wenman in obedience to the Duke of Ormond's order of reference, from Kilkenny

Written from: Dublin

Date: 6 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 108

Document type: Copy


Annexed 2:

An order by the Duke of Ormond for the payment of petitioner's arrears, - since the Restoration, - in full

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 21 January 1667

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 108

Document type: Copy

[£216:18s. in all; - besides £224 due before the King's Restoration].


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 28 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 537

Document type: Original

Hugh, Lord Baron of Glenoughty, to be a Privy-Councillor of Ireland.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 28 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 359-360

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Communicates the purport of various letters, received from the fleet, and of some foreign advices. ...

Describes the circumstances under which a letter is sent from the King, renewing former directions for giving preference in reprisals in certain counties of Ireland to H.R.H. the Duke of York ...


Sir William Temple to Ormond

Written from: Antwerp

Date: 28 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 291-292

Document type: Holograph

It is hardly to be imagined how the last three weeks have changed the face of affairs in Holland. ... The English ships have been raging upon the coast ... All the letters from Amsterdam agree that we burned forty five ships, of which one East-India, two Guinea, and about thirty Muscovy ships ... These disasters made such an alteration at Amsterdam that, for two days, not a man was seen upon the Exchange; all flocked to the Admiralty, - to rage at their masters, that their fleet was not out to defend them.


Theobald Dillon, & Philip Ormsby to Lord Viscount Dillon

Written from: Loghlen

Date: 28 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 254

Document type: Copy

Communicate particulars of ravages committed by a gang of robbers [In MS., Hibernice: "lusty kernes"], under Dudley Costello.


Dudley Costelloe to Lord Viscount Dillon

Written from: Gorttloghane

Date: 28 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 131, fol(s). 229

Document type: Copy (from the Duke of Ormond's papers)

His enemies having caused the writer to be proclaimed a traitor, and having played out their part in the tragedy; it is time for him to enter and to play his part. He intends to do so "in another-guised manner than they acted theirs". He will not seek to ruin them unawares but declares, by these presents, beforehand, his purpose to destroy, by killing and burning, to the best of his power. They may now pevent it if able.


Philip Ormsby to Viscount Dillon

Written from: Loghlin

Date: 28 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 290

Document type: Copy

Reports the plundering of some poor Scottish tenants of Lord Dillon by Dudley Costello, at the head of some "seventeen or eighteen lsuty knaves". Suggests the raising and arming of a company, to resist & put down such acts of violence. Adds other particulars of the state of the country near to Fort Dillon. ...


Ormond to the Lords of the Council

Written from: Kilkenny Castle

Date: 29 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 191

Document type: Copy

Edmund Reilly [In MS.: "Rely"], the titular pretended Primate, now in Dublin, is to be kept in security, till he can be put on board ship & transported into foreign parts. ...


Ormond to Sir William Coventry

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 29 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 464

Document type: Copy

Particulars concerning the victualling of the King's ships, & the pretensions of the Farmers of the Irish Revenue to take Customs duties thereupon ... When the due authority for Letters of Marque shall come, the writer hopes that persons will be found to make use of them.


Lane to Sir Birkenhead

Written from: [Written at some place in the province of Munster, not herein named]

Date: 29 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 219, fol(s). 61

Document type: Holograph-Minute

Sir John's letter, of 14th instant, reached the present writer before his departure from Dublin. Has taken measures for the arrest of Isaac Wilson, therein named. The paper enclosed in Sir John Birkenhead's letter is more valued here, in Ireland, than the author's modesty permitted him to anticipate. ...


Petition of Pierce Butler (a prisoner convicted or robber from a barn) to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 30 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 122

Document type: Copies

[Praying for commutation of punishment. With the order made thereupon.]


Annexed 1:

Report of Mr Justice Povey, one of the Judges of the Assize, concerning the case of Pierce Butler aforesaid

Date: 31 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 122v

Document type: Copy


Annexed 2:

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, for the enlargement of Pierce Butler, upon the bonds of such persons as will answer for his transportation to the Barbadoes, and continuance there

Written from: Kilkenny Castle

Date: 20 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 122v

Document type: Copy


Annexed 3:

A further order, by the Duke of Ormond, prolonging the respite of Pierce Butler, aforesaid

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 6 April 1667

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 122v

Document type: Copy


An estimate of several branches of his Majesty's revenue [in Ireland], to discharge six months' pay to the civil and martial lists, in Michaelmas Town, 1666

Written from: Thurles

Date: 31 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 95

Document type: Original; wholly in Anglesey's hand

[By the Earl of Anglesey, Vice-Treasurer of Ireland "upon his going for England"].


John Nye to Philip, Lord Wharton

Written from: London

Date: 31 August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 80, fol(s). 668

Document type: Holograph. With seal of arms. Addressed to Winchendon

Reports what has been done by the Irish Parliament in respect to lands granted to adventurers in Ireland with respect to "redundancies & deficiencies". Adds that of late the rates imposed have been twleve shillings & six pence in the pound. ...


[A schedule of] moneys received, at several times, since May, 1662, from My Lord Duke of Ormond, by Father Peter Walsh, to this present August, 1666

Date: August 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 221, fol(s). 274

Document type: Holograph


A memorial, by Sir Connell Farrell to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, concerning a project, or conspiracy, to surprise the garrison of Calais; formed in the year 1665

Date: [August? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 26

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond

"... A merchant, and three officers of the garrison ... resolved to better their fortunes, by endeavouring to make sale of the said place" [Calais] ... They thought, adds the memorialist, that he had laid their plan before the King of England, and "had his Majesty's Royal promise for the punctual payment" of a certain sum of money. ...


Proposals humbly offered to his Grace the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, concerning the Corporation of Waterford

Date: [August 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 44

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.


Lord Dillon to Ormond

Written from: Kilfaghine [So in MS. The name does not occur in the modern Gazetteer]

Date: 1 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 56-57

Document type: Holograph

The originals of the correspondence [concerning Dudley Costello, a proclaimed traitor] are sent to the Lord President of the Connaught, & their purport communicated herewith ...

The writer's "sister Carlingford, and my Lady Throckmorton were here three nights", in Lady Dillon's absence "and mine; coming from the county of Louth," ... yet the writer would not stir out of Connaught, till he had heard from my Lord President, or received the Lord Lieutenant's command.


A list of the 'Straights' fleet, arrived at Kinsale, Saturday 1st September 1666

Date: 1 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 88

[With notes subjoined of naval stores, and of recent advices from foreign ports.] ...


Copy of the foregoing ...

Date: 1 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 90


Archbishop of Armagh to Lane

Written from: Drogheda

Date: 2 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 221, fol(s). 217

Document type: Holograph

Expresses his satisfaction at the receipt of the King's warrant for the printing and publication of certain forms of Common Prayer and Divine Service. Their use, he adds, is "to depend upon the King's prerogative and not upon the Act of Parliament".


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 4 o'clock, PM, 4 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 361

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Describes the origin and progress of the great fire in London. ... "We begin to despair of an attempt we were beginning at noon of a traverse beyond Somerset House. Just now, we are beginning to work at Scotland Yard, to see whether by pulling down houses there, we can save this house. I am afraid this attempt will be as unsuccessful as all the rest; for the fire is far advanced in Fleet Street already". ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Charleville

Date: 4 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 217-218

Document type: Holograph-Minute

In view of the recent reports as to the fleet, under De Beaufort, states shortly, and to the best of the writer's understanding, the situation of Ireland, military and naval: - and adds; - "How improbable soever it may be that Monsieur De Beaufort's design is, or will be, upon Ireland, at least unless the Dutch and French shall have better success than I trust God will give them, I yet hold it necessary, by your Lordship, humbly to present" [this state of affairs here] "to the King". ...


A list of the French fleet at Thollowne [Toulon]. Followed by another list of the French ships in West France.

Date: [September?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 92

Document type: Original

Note. "This list was given to a gentleman at Kinsale, by one Captain Hunt" etc.


Another list of the French fleet etc.

Date: 4 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 94

Document type: Original


Brodrick to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 4 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 374-375

Document type: Holograph

In obedience to the Duke's command, "we" [the Commissioners of the Court of Claims] "have put a stop to all my Lord Carlingford's concerns before us, and have written at large to my Lord Arlington the state of his affairs". Mentions that Thomas Thynne is to succeed his uncle, Harry Coventry, as Resident Envoy at Stockholm; and some other items of intelligence from Court. ...


Foreign advices, political, military, and naval; from Vienna, Paris, Hamburgh, and the Netherlands

Date: 5-24 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 116-118

Document type: Copies

Sent to the Court at Whitehall, and thence to Dublin Castle, for the information of Lord Lieutenant the Duke of Ormond. ...


[A list of disaffected] persons, lately gone into Ireland. [Sent to Sir George Lane]

Date: 6 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 54a

Document type: Original


Notes upon the correspondence in Ireland, of Alexander [So in MS.] Blood. Sent by Secretary Lord Arlington, to Sir George Lane.

Date: [6? September] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 54b

Document type: Original


An information concerning some [persons] engaged in the plot [in Ireland. Probably addressed to Sir George Lane].

Written from: Dublin

Date: 6 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 50

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Davys.


Notes upon persons suspected of complicity in seditious plots, in Ireland. "Given in by R.A" [apparently, to Sir George Lane].

Date: 6 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 52

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Lane.


Albert Conyngham [Lieutenant of the Ordnance, in Ireland] to Sir Robert Byron [Master of the Ordnance]

Written from: Sligo

Date: 6 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 57-58

Document type: Holograph

Reports a survey of forts, fortifications, and military stores at Athlone, and elsewhere; with other details of military service. ...


Ormond to the Commissioners of the Court of Claims

Written from: Cork

Date: 6 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 72

Document type: Copy

Instructions concerning an enclosed petition of Thomas, Earl of Ossory, and others, trustees for Sir James Shaen.


Ormond to the Trustees for the Officers [of the army in Ireland] of 1649

Written from: Cork

Date: 6 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 74

Document type: Copy

On the same subject, as the letter to the Commissioners of Claims, calendared immediately above.


Ormond to the "Trustees of the '1649' Officers" of his Majesty's late army of Ireland

Written from: [Cork?]

Date: 6 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 203

Document type: Minute

Although the Lord Lieutenant has not thought fit to declare his pleasure, upon certain questions pending the Trustees of Sir James Shaen, Baronet, and the Trustees of the '1649' Officers now addressed, yet he has given direction to his Majesty's Commissioners for Executing the 'Acts of Settlement' to keep out of the first distribution [thereunder] the lands of the Baronies of Newcastle and Wicklow respectively.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 7 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 363-364

Document type: Holograph

... Though many parts of the government, as well as [an] infinite number of "particulars will suffer" [by the late fire], "yet we are reasonably secure the quiet of the kingdom will not be discomposed by it; not being able, by any of the circumstances, to trace out, or to suspect, that it was either contrived or fomented by any of the discontented party".

Adds that the fear of such a possibility induced the King to send for the Lord General [Duke of Albemarle], ... and this (eventually) delivered his Majesty "from another pain he was in, [in] observing his sea-service in some disorder, by having it commanded by two heads, that were in danger of disagreeing" ...


Sir Anthony Morgan to Lane

Written from: Borstal, Buckinghamshire

Date: 7 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 288

Document type: Holograph

Notifies the inquiries made by the writer after certain persons mentioned to him by Sir George Lane. ...


John Cressett to Philip, Lord Wharton

Written from: [Stoke-]Newington, near Tottenham

Date: 8 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 103, fol(s). 257

Document type: Holograph; with seal of arms

Mentions the prevention of an intended journey to Aylesbury, by the outbreak of the great fire in London; adding "it would grieve your soul to see the place, and to converse with the undone multitudes; ... many thousands lie in the fields - men, women, and little children, and have neither bread, meat, drink, nor firing". ...


James Buck to Sir George Lane

Date: Sunday 9 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 59

Document type: Holograph

This day, whilst the writer & his wife were at church - and in the middle of the service, a message was brought in "from some gentlemen at Moor Park", who desired, urgently, to speak with him. On going thither, he found a party of horse, with a warrant from the Duke of Albemarle for the apprehension of one Phillips, whose papers had been already seized. Amongst these papers were found many "very kind letters" to him, from Sir George Lane. Concerning them, the writer told the officer in command that he was very confident Sir George would give good satisfaction concerning such correspondence, when called upon.


Sir George Carteret to Sandwich

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 10 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 475

Document type: Holograph. With seal of arms.

Expresses his surprise that Lord Sandwich should have received but one letter from him since his Lordship's arrival in Spain, the present letter being the sixth which the writer has sent to him. Adds, with reference to the great fire: - "God hath preserved my house in Broad Street. I wish I could give your Lordship the same account of the Wardrobe, but I am told your goods there are preserved. The Navy Office did escape the fire, so that all our books and papers are safe". ...


A memorial from the Commissioners of the Court of Claims at Dublin to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, concerning various details of the pending claims of Sir James Shaen and others

Written from: Dublin

Date: 11 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 67-68

Document type: Original [with five signatures]


Dungannon to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 11 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 61

Document type: Holograph

A report concerning the militia, & other military affairs, in the counties of Derry and Donegal. ...


Bishop of Killaloe to Ormond

Written from: Killaloe

Date: 11 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 192

Document type: Holograph

If his Grace would bestow the now vacant Deanery of Clonfert on Dr Hacket, it might, the writer thinks, induce Hacket to return to Ireland, although that Deanery is inferior, both in honour & profit, to the Deanery of Cork, which he formerly parted with, "on the command of his Grace of Canterbury to serve the Church at London, on the cession of the Presbyterians" ...


Bishop of Killaloe to Lane

Written from: Killaloe

Date: 11 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 194

Document type: Holograph

To like effect with the letter addressed to the Lord Lieutenant, and calendared above.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 11 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 365

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

By all the observation we can make, from discourses in the country, the Members of Parliament are likely to come up fully bent to press his Majesty to a total prohibition of importing Irish Cattle ...

According to letters from Dover of this day, the Dutch Fleet is sailed to its own coast. ... The campania is not like to last long. ...


Henry Moore to Sandwich

Written from: London

Date: 11 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 477

Document type: Holograph

After mention of some domestic and financial incidents at Hinchinbroke, the writer proceeds to state some particulars of the great fire in London: - "The 'Wardrobe' is reduced to ashes, but we had the good luck to snatch away almost what[ever] was of value belonging to your Lordship there, except your plate which was left locked up in an iron chest, and, by reason of its weightiness, we wanted hands and strength to remove it". Adds some mention of the incidents of a project of marriage for Lord Hinchinbroke now broken off.


Colonel Henry Norwood to Sandwich

Written from: Tangier

Date: 11/21 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 479-480

Document type: Holograph

States some grievances inflicted on the settlement of Tangier by officers of His Catholic Majesty stationed on the coast of Africa. Between Moors and Spaniards, a Governor of Tangier is, says the writer, "like a horse between two bottles of hay, ready to starve for not being able to choose the best". ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 12 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 219-220

Document type: Copy

Explanation of a proposition formerly made on behalf of the father of Sir George Lane. - Statement of the Lord Lieutenant's reasons for his most earnest opposition to the passing of the proposed Act against the export of Irish Cattle, and for his opinion that it is now time that his Majesty should vouchsafe to exert his authority against the passing of any such Act. ...


Ormond to Anglesey

Written from: Clonmel

Date: 12 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 2

Document type: Copy

Having now seen the most important [fortified] places of Munster, and all the militia troops of horse upon his way, he could not be more satisfied than he is with the last, or less so with the first. The troops are excellently good, and the places most miserably decayed. ...

Lord Anglesey is furnished with all that can be said on the subject of the Act we fear may pass against the transport of Irish Cattle. Besides those arguements, drawn from justice & from danger, it may be needful for him to employ his interest with particular friends in both Houses. ...


Ormond to the Commissioners of the Court of Claims

Written from: Carrick

Date: 13 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 69-70

Document type: Holograph-Minute

A reply to their memorial on the case of Sir James Shaen, now depending before them.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: Towards Midnight 13 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 367

Document type: Holograph

Advertisement is come that M. de Beaufort left La Rochelle, with forty sail at least, ... besides foreships, and that he expects the conjunction of five Dutch men of war. ... It seems little likely that at this time of the year they should make a descent upon Ireland, yet as a threat of that kind has long been mentioned in the intelligence received, the King commands this notice to be given, that the Lord Lieutenant may look about him, and defend himself to best he can, if assaulted. ...


Broderick to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 15 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 76

Document type: Holograph

"Lays himself at his Grace's feet" to obtain that license for a visit to England, which "my Lord Chancellor [Clarendon], justly sensible of the distracted condition the writer's affairs are in a present, hath importuned the Lord Lieutenant for". ... Is so amazed at the dismal narrative in the English letters [concerning the great fire of London] that he knows not what to say ...

Adds some particulars as to pending business in the Court of Claims. ...


Ormond to the Commissioners of the Court of Claims

Written from: Carrick?

Date: 15 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 71

Document type: Copy

Recommends the petition and suit of Robert Fitzgerald, for whom all just & lawful favour is deired.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 15 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 369

Document type: Original

Communicates further advices of naval incidents and preparations. ...

Mentions a conversation with the King concerning Lord Ossory & his journey into Ireland. ...

His Majesty desires that Sir Allan Brodrick should have leave to come to England, if asked for.


License, by the Duke of Ormond, for the transport, by Lord Conway, of twelve horses into England

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 15 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 9v

Document type: Copy


Anglesey to Ormond

Written from: [Dublin?]

Date: 15 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 332

Document type: Holograph [with seal of arms]

Has received the Duke's letter of the 12th September. It came just as the post brought the sad news of the almost total devastation of the City of London; there not being, adds the writer, above eleven parishes, of the ninety seven within the walls, standing. Encloses an account of the fire by Sir Heneage Finch [not now appended] which is the best narrative that has come to hand. The calamity has put a stop to trade.


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 16 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 64

Document type: Copy

Herewith is sent the best relation the Duke has seen of the most podigious calamity that ever befel London. It was not without reason, although it seems to be without ground, that the calamity was suspected to have proceeded from some treachery ... He prays that we may, and that our enemies may not, make a good use of this judgment. ...


Advices; probably relating to seditious proceedings in the province of Munster; but veiled in commercial terms and form. Addressed to Captain Colin Masewell at Dublin [The signature appears but is illegible]

Date: 17 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 93

Document type: Original


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 17 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 422

Document type: Copy

... The dangerous condition of the young Earl of Clancarty ... justifies a strong desire for his removal ... from the air he is in ... If Clarendon knew the youth also is to succeed in honour & fortune, if the child should die, he would easily believe - what is a certain truth - that the writer's sister & himself are almost as sorry to see the child where he is, as they were for the death of his father [The late Viscount Muskery] & brother [The late Earl of Clancarty]. ...


Ormond to Brodrick

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 17 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 358

Document type: Copy

Expresses regret at Sir Allan's share in the great disaster ... [of the fire of London,] and grants a prolongation of leave of absence ... to settle his affairs; - ... but his assistance is very necessary, at a time when a destruction as fatal to this kingdom [by the effects of the prohibition of export of Irish cattle,] as the fire was to London, is threatened. ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 17 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 221

Document type: Copy

... Whatever the fellows come hither [i.e. into Ireland] may write to equipoise [So in MS.] their party, or to pay them for the charge they may have been at to send them here, the Duke is confident they will not find any considerable conjunction [So in MS.], if the English, now they have gotten land secured to them, shall not be deprived (by your Bill [i.e. the Irish-Cattle Bill] in England) of the means of making use of it, and of satisfying the debts most of them are run into, in the prosecution of their claims. If that should happen, they will be reduced to the same condition, & be liable to the same seduction, that they were, when made to belive that their possessions would be taken from them, and given to the Irish ...


Colonel Edward Cooke to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 18 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 78

Document type: Holograph

Personal affairs. - Case in the Court of Claims, of Sir James Shaen.


John Walshe to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 18 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 80-81

Document type: Holograph

Particulars concerning the demesne-lands and other estates of the Duke. ... Suggestions, made upon occasion of the late advices in respect to the great fire of London, as to the encouragement of some of the London tradesmen to be set up, in business, in Ireland.


Ranelagh to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 18 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 63

Document type: Holograph

Has received his Grace's commands to which he will give obedience ... The writer's persecutors "will, in the end, certainly find that they have taken a wrong course to compass their designs". ...


Aungier to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 18 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 65

Document type: Holograph

Would desire to attend his Grace in his Progress; but the writer's wife's illness has almost reduced her to Death's door ... The Lord Lieutenant's command of the 15th will be obeyed by the production of the writer's [Letters] Patent for the government of the counties of Westmeath & Longford.


Minutes of Information concerning proceedings & negotiations of the Roman-Catholic Irish. Probably, sent to the Duke of Ormond by Sir Theophilus Jones?

Date: 18 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 92

Document type: Original


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 18 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 371

Document type: Original; subscribed and signed

Notices the opening of Parliament; the calling up of Lord Ossory to the House of Lords; further advices received concerning the French fleet, under De Beaufort; and a message from the Lord Chancellor concerning the making good of a sum of £3,300 which was deficient in a late remittance, made through Sir Robert Vyner, into Ireland.


A letter of news, British and foreign, relating, chiefly, to military & naval affairs. [September 13-18] ...

Date: 18 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 95

Document type: Original


Maria de la Cruz to Sandwich

Written from: Dal Convento [in Lisbon]

Date: 18 September 1666 [N.S.]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 481

Document type: Holograph. Spanish

A letter of thanks for a second communication received from his Lordship through the channel of Sir Robert Southwell.


Bull to Wharton

Written from: Dublin

Date: 18 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 51-52

Document type: Original

Reports further proceedings in the Court of Claims. Certain "deficient adventures", bought by Wharton of a Mr Byfield, have yet to be allowed; that once done; the writer "holds it more advisable to place them on your Lordship's redundancy than to retrench your lands in the county of Carlow [In MS.: "Catherlough"]".

Notices a material difference between two several surveys of Ireland, as affecting part of Lord Wharton's lands. By the one [Newcomein?] his lands, in Westmeath, appear to be 1,250 acres; by Petty's ("commanly", he adds, "called the Down Survey"), they are made to be 1,550 acres. ...


Broderick to Lane

Written from: Dublin

Date: 19 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 82

Document type: Holograph

The writer's brethen [of the Court of Claims] have resolved to send him to attend the Lord Lieutenant at Kilkenny with certain representations concerning the pending business of Sir James Shaen.


[A Decree] by his Majesty's Commissioners for Executing the Acts of Settlement & Explanation [in the case of] Sir James Shaen [In MS.: "Shane"], Plaintiff; the "1649 Officers", Defendants.

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 19 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 102-104

Document type: Official Duplicate; signed by the Deputy Registrar


Bishop of Killaloe to Lane

Written from: Limerick

Date: 19 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 291

Document type: Holograph

Has received the letter of Sir George Lane, enclosing the warrant of the Lord Lieutenant nominating Dr Hacket to be Dean of Clonfert. Desires to give His Grace "Ever passionate thanks for this great service to the Church". ...


Broderick to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 19 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 293

Document type: Holograph

Has received His Grace's letter of 17th instant. Reports what has been done by himself and his brethren in relation to the case of Sir James Shaen...


Petition of Magdalen Nibb, Relict of Joseph Nibb, late a soldier of the Garrison of Carrickfergus

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [20? September] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 99

Document type: Copy

Arrears of pay.


Annexed 1:

Certificate, by the Muster-Master General, of arrears of pay due to Joseph Nibb, a soldier executed for mutiny at Carrickfergus

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 25 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 99

Document type: Copy


Annexed 2:

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, for the payment of the arrears aforesaid

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 2 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 99

Document type: Copy


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 21 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 539

Document type: Original

Revokes a former letter directing an extension of time to be allowed to Theobald, Earl of Carlingford, for putting in his claim to certain lands in his possession; leaving the Commissioners under the Act of Settlement free to proceed in the matter aforesaid, "as if no letter had been formerly written".


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Sarum

Date: 21 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 373

Document type: Holograph

Mr Cale of Bristol has submitted a proposition concerning the refusing of sugar in Ireland, which the King desires should be favourably recommended to the examination of the Lord Lieutenant.


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Madrestown

Date: 21 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 66

Document type: Copy

Communicates intelligence concerning the movements of the French fleet under De Beaufort.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 22 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 375

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Captain Bellew has earnestly desired the writer to obtain from the King a second letter on behalf of Lord Carlingford. But the writer persuades him to wait patiently ... His Majesty is well inclined to shew Lord Carlingford all possible favour in his affairs. The writer will promote anything that may come with the Lord Lieutenant's recommendation ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Goring House

Date: 22 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 377-378

Document type: Holograph

Communicates further advices concerning the fleet under De Beaufort ...

The King, in all his discourses, endeavours to discourage the promotion of the Bill against Irish Cattle; notwithstanding which it hath been offered already in the House of Commons; - where they seem reasonably wellinclined to vote supplies for the war; - but are desirious to see the accounts of its expenses. ...


Clarendon to Ormond

Written from: Berkshire House

Date: 22 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 126-127

Document type: Holograph

"If I had two or three of yours upon my hands unacknowledged I need make no apology, ... for it is not in your power, notwithstanding all descriptions ... to imagine the general distraction all men have been [in], these last three weeks. ... The horrible apprehensions my wife was in caused all my goods to be thrown into lighters for Twickenham [In MS.: "Twitnam"], and into carts for my new house & other places. To Worcester-House I can remove no more; ... my term is expired at Michaelmas ... my wife and I are sheltered in ... Berkshire [Printed by Lister; "Rochester House"] house, by my Lady Burlington." ...

Adds particulars of the affairs of Lord Clancarty; of Sir Allan Brodrick; & others ...

Notices the measure depending in Parliament against importation of Irish Cattle ...

[A small portion only of this letter is printed by Lister (and with many errors); III, 440; 441].


Sir Edward Massey to Secretary Sir George Lane

Written from: Westminster

Date: 22 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 97-98

Document type: Original & apparently Holograph

The British and Dutch fleets have been parted by storms. Success since achieved by White Squadron, under Sir Thomas Allen, against part of the French fleet unde De Beaufort. He notices recent proceedings in Parliament, and hopes that the King's affairs will go on more prosperously, "when the West-Country men are come up". ...


Mr Joseph Williamson to Secretary Sir George Lane

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 22 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 99

Document type: Holograph

Advices from the fleet. ...


Philip Ormsby to Lord Viscount Dillon

Written from: Castlemore

Date: 24 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 84

Document type: Holograph

... Unless "some speedy course be taken with the county [people] which is - upon the matter [Meaning, it would seem: "in a manner""] - planted with his" [Dudley Costello's] "relations & friends, it will be no easy matter to bring him in; for they are the people that relieve, shelter, & support him".


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 25 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 379

Document type: Original; subscribed and signed

A summary of advices from the Continent; chiefly on naval affairs. Together with a report of current proceedings in the Houses of Parliament.


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 25 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 89

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Has seen the Lord President's letter to Sir George Lane, and the examination, sent therewith. ... John Halpin, - if restrained for no other cause than that therein mentioned, - may now be set at liberty.


Ormond to Captain Hooper

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 25 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 89

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Sailing orders for the frigate Harp.


Mr Joseph Williamson to Secretary Sir George Lane

Date: 25 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 100-101

Document type: Holograph, but unsigned

Advices, foreign and domestic. ...


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for an inquiry by Sir Henry Tichborne, Knight Marshal, and others upon a complaint of Sir Daniel Treswell, against certain soldiers of the Life-Guard of Horse, for an assault

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 25 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 10

Document type: Copy


Appended 1:

Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry, concerning the complaint of Sir Daniel Treswell to them referred, as above

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 26 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 10v

Document type: Copy


Appended 2:

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the report of the Commissioners of Inquiry

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 11

Document type: Copy


Anglesey to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 25 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 334

Document type: Holograph

As to the "Cattle-Bill", the writer is not without hope of being able to prevent mischief; and the more so as both Houses have addressed the King with promises of a supply, proportioned to the charge our many enemies entail. The great work of this writer will be to "design the foundations of London, - a sad spectacle, at present". ...


A News-Letter, addressed to Sir George Lane

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: 25 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 119-120

A memorial for peace has been delivered to the King, by the Envoy of Sweden.

The Dutch fleet has been seen, near the Goodwins; and that under Prince Rupert has sailed towards the Downs. There is now expectation of immediate news of an engagement.

Various proceedings in both Houses of Parliament; and in the Privy Council, are noticed.


Warrants and licences, by the Duke of Ormond, on various minor details of military affairs and discipline

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 25-27 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 11v-12

Document type: Copy; and Breviates (four entries)


Minutes of proceedings in both Houses of Parliament; as communicated to the Duke of Ormond, in Ireland

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 26-27 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 121-122


Ormond to the Archbishop of Canterbury

Written from: Dublin

Date: 26 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 196

Document type: Copy

The Archbishop of Dublin is brought very low by a long fit of sickness. If he should die, the Church will lose a very worthy Prelate ... If either the Bishop of Elphin, or the Bishop of Limerick, should be fixed upon to succeed him, Dr Hudson, a very discreet and pious man, might fitly be appointed tot he vacated Bishopric ...


Copie d'une lettre du Roy de France aux 'Etats d' Hollande

Written from: Vincennes

Date: 26 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 295-296


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Dublin

Date: 26 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 424

Document type: Copy

Called hither by affairs both public & private, the writer found the Chancellor-Archbishop [Boyle] weakened by a long fit of sickness, ... his recovery from which is very doubtful ... We are in danger of losing a very worthy person, and (as the writer thinks) a very good Chancellor. It will therefore be well to think about his successor. ... The Duke adds characters of the Lord Chief Justice Santry, of the Attorney General, and of others, who may be thought of, should the Chancellorship thus fall vacant.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 26 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 223

Document type: Copy

Family affairs: - allowance made to Lord Ossory, and how it will or may be affected, by "the Acts passed, and endeavoured to be passed in England, to ruin Ireland". ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 26 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 225-226

Document type: Holograph-Minute

Effect in Ireland of the news of the great calamity that is fallen upon London. - Endeavours for aiding in the relief of those that are brought to misery by it. - Affair of Captain Phillips. - Fears of the approaching death of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, - in whom, "if he should die, his Majesty will lose a very faithful & useful servant, and the Church a very reverend & prudent Prelate". The latter, the Duke hopes, our stock of Bishops & Deans may supply. But it will be hard enought to find one so fit to succeed to the Seal. ...


Nathaniel Wright, Thomas Mathewes, and others, Merchants at Port St. Mary [near Cadiz] to Sandwich

Written from: Port St. Maria

Date: 26 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 483

Document type: Original

State that by order of the Duke of Medina-Celi the English merchants at this port fitted out a ship (to be hired by the month) which, without their knowledge, was employed upon a design offensive to Portugal; and the ship has now been seized to the use of that Crown. Entreat his Lordship to take such measures as may be needful for the Ship's release. ...


Ormond to Kingston

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 26 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). [Ibid.]

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Thomas Radcliffe is to be admitted, and sworn in as a Councillor of the Province of Connaught.


Ormond to his Servant, James Clarke

Date: 26 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 145, fol(s). 285

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Sends lists of debts in England, the interest of which amounts to £509: 13s. 11d. ... Directs the manner of payment of said interest, upon receipt of monies from Sir Stephen Fox ...


Encloses

Ormond to Sir Stephen Fox

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

Desires the payment of a sum of £509: 13s. 11d. to James Clarke.


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the drawing up of a fiant containing his Majesty's presentation of Thomas Ives, clerk

Date: 26 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 24v

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 Thomas Ives, clerk, Master of Arts, to the vicarages of Kill and Oughterhard in the Diocese of Kildare, with a clause of union of the said vicarages with the rectory of Lyons, in the Diocese aforesaid.


Temple to Ormond

Written from: Brussels

Date: 27 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 299*

Document type: Holograph

Is this day assured that Bremen is at length actually besieged by the Swede. ... The Prince of Orange has been of late at Maestricht with the Rheingrave; ... and since at Liege, - which gives occasion of talk. ...

Notices of other late incidents political & military are added.


Enclosure 1:

News-Letter; addressed to Sir W. Temple at Brussels

Written from: La Haye

Date: 16 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 298

Document type: Copy

Proceedings of the Dutch fleet on the coast of England. Political incidents in Holland.

French.


Enclosure 2:

A like News-Letter

Written from: La Haye

Date: 17 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 297*

Document type: Copy

Engagements between the Dutch and English fleets.

French.


Enclosure 3:

A like News-Letter

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 297


William Blunden to Sandwich

Written from: Alicant

Date: 27 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 485

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Has communicated his Lordship's letter of September 17 to the English merchants at Alicant, who desire to return to his Lordship their grateful thanks for the improved facilities of traffic he has obtained for them. ...


Ormond to Lord Conway, and others, Commissioners for raising certain acreage-money, assessed by the "Explanatory Act", upon lands granted to soldiers and to 'Protestant purchasers', in the province of Connaught, & county of Clare

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 88v

Document type: Copy [in Letter-Book]

Recites provisions, in the Act above named, for granting Sir Heneage Finch, a sum of £2,000; to Mr Agard, a sum of £200; to Mr Harris, a sum of £100, respectively ...

Directs the taking of due means for carrying said provisions into execution.


Lady Clanricarde to Ormond

Written from: Portumna

Date: 28 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 297

Document type: Original; signed

Asks the Duke to read certain propositions made to the present Earl of Clanricarde (nephew to the writer) as to her maintenance out of the Clanricarde rental. Hopes for his Grace's aid to one, now in affliction, who waited upon him in his childhood. ...


Lord Dillon to Ormond

Written from: Kilfahrne [This name is of doubtful reading]

Date: 29 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 88

Document type: Holograph

A further report concerning the matter of Dudley Costello, and of other disaffected persons in Connaught.


Heneage Finch to Ormond

Date: Sunday 29 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 86

Document type: Holograph

Has no passion so great as that of being preserved in his Grace's esteem; ... whose ... influence is not bound[ed] ... by the Kingdom of Ireland, but extends hither. ... This post ... will bring [to the Lord Lieutenant] ... an account of a Bill to prohibit Irish Cattle, brought in with great resolution, ... and ... "ready to be reported next Monday, without any alteration" ... The writer adds ... that he "meant well in that affair, how ill soever it succeeded". ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 29 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 381

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

The Bill inhibiting Irish Cattle is uncontrollable in the House of Commons; so that all the hope of contradicting it must be in the House of Lords, where conferences may, perhaps, beget some temperament. ...


Ossory to Lady Clancarty

Date: 29 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 69, fol(s). 147

Document type: Copy

A letter of thanks for care bestowed on the writer's children; and of condolence on the death of Lord Clancarty [Charles, 2nd Earl (son of Charles, Viscount Muskerry), who died in childhood].


News-Letter, noticing and abridging the advices of the 26th, 27th, and 28th instant

Date: 29 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 102

News-Letter, noticing and abridging the advices of the 26th, 27th, and 28th instant. Under the last-named date the writer notes that "the business of rebuilding London is committed by the Parliament to the King ... Timber is landed already for re-edifying the Custom-House".


Thomas, Earl of Ossory to Lady Clancarty

Date: 29 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 128, fol(s). 387

Document type: Copy

Assures her of his affliction at their new bereavement, in the death of her grandson, Lord Clancarty, the child of "a kinsman, whom the writer so entirely loved". ...


Anglesey to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 29 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 336-337

Document type: Holograph

Gives an account of proceedings in and out of Parliament, in relation to the Bill against export of Irish cattle. Believes the Act to be designed, "more out of wantonness and a resolution taken to domineer over that poor country, than [from] any real belief that it will raise [decayed] rents". Consults often with Lord Ossory as to the course of opposition to the Bill. Adds other particulars of public affairs in England.


Peter Walsh to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 29 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 221, fol(s). 292

Document type: Holograph

Has failed to get permission for the passing, at the Custom House of Dublin, of the luggage of the [titular] Primate, O'Reilly; the searchers requiring an express order from the Duke of Ormond for its delivery. ...


An Abstract of the number of the officers & soldiers of his Majesty's army in Ireland according to the [Muster] of the last of September 1666. Together with the Head-quarters of each troop and company

Date: 30 September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 54, fol(s). 561-562

Document type: Original


Political Advices, from Vienna, Riga, and Warsaw. Addressed to Sir Edward Massey

Date: [30 September-13 October] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 128

Document type: Copies


Petition of Thomas, Earl of Ossory, Richard, Earl of Burlington, ... [and others] to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant ... for, and in the behalf of, Sir James Shaen, Knight and Baronet

Date: September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 199

Document type: Minute, only


Minute or rough draft of an order, by the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, upon the petition of Thomas, Earl of Ossory, Richard, Earl of Burlington, and others

Date: [September] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 201


A list of the persons to whom warrants passed, on certificates from the Court of Claims [ under the 'Act of Settlement' for Ireland], through Sir George Lane's Office

Date: [September 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 609

Document type: Original


Sir W. Coventry to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 464

Document type: Holograph

There is no doubt that the Irish Cattle Bill will have a speedy passage in the House of Commons, and, as the writer believes, no hard one in the Lord's House also. If resisted by the King, it would be the greatest dissatisfaction to the Parliament that can be imagined. Is sorry to tell his Grace such ill news; but undoubtedly this is the truth ...


A briefe state of the accompts of the Master of the Great Wardrobe [Edward, Earl of Sandwich], from the 24th June 1660 to Michalmas, 1666

Date: September 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 74, fol(s). 249-252

Document type: Original

Note. The total expenditure of the 6¼ years is £238.615; exclusive of £21,099, for the Coronation; & of £11,921, for certain state funerals.


An Abstract of the farms [of various branches [Viz. (1) Hearth-money; (2) Wine licenses; (3) Cusoms; (4) Excise] of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland

Date: [September 1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 139

Document type: Official Copy


Subjoined thereto 1:

Particulars of the farm of licenses for sale of wine and strong-waters in Ireland

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 141

Document type: Copy


Subjoined thereto 2:

Particulars of the farm of customs and imported excise, in Ireland

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 142

Document type: Copy


Ormond to Anglesey

Written from: Dublin

Date: 1 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 4

Document type: Copy

Herewith will be received a letter from the Lieutenant & Council to the Mayor and Aldermen of London, expressing a deep sense of the calamity befallen that city, ... and what has here been thought of, by way of contribution for relief of those most impoverished by it. We give, adds the Duke, what we are fain to take for our rents. If they had been paid in money, as formerly, it would have been as easy for us, & more beneficial to them, to have shared with them in that. ...


A collection of those reasons wherewith Sir Richard Fanshawe [Ambassador to the Court of Madrid] supported himself in the conclusion of his treaty, which (more amplified) were sent by me [Lord Sandwich] to my Lord Chancellor

Written from: [Madrid]

Date: 1 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 486-487

Document type: Minute, wholly in the hand of Lord Sandwich. The title cited is from the endorsement. The heading of the paper reads this "My Lord Fanshawe's excuses upon the omissions in his Treaty".


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 2 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 426

Document type: Copy

Has received the Chancellor's letter of 22nd ult. ... Could wish that he would put up with real inconveniences, ... rather than venture too hastily into his new house ... Intended to have written the promised letter concerning the body of the Roman-Catholics, on returning from Munster, but now, on account of the fire at London, holds it needful to hasten his return to Dublin, not only to see what it may have produced there, but to forward such a contribution for the relief of those impoverished by it, as this Kingdom may afford. ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 2 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 227

Document type: Holograph-Minute

Presumes that all apprehension of De Beaufort's invasion may now be laid aside. ... Adds his opinion of the intelligence brought to the King [from France] by Sir Lewis Dyve [see Lord Arlington's letter] ... Concurs in my Lord Chancellor [Clarendon]'s opinion concerning Sir George Lane, & the proviso for him; and submits to the freedom of the Chancellor's reprehensions. But could support the former with better reasons than the latter.


Ormond to Anglesey

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 2 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 6

Document type: Copy

Has received the Earl's letter, from London, of 25 September. ... When lately at Dublin, the Duke signed warrants for the pay of the army, and asked the Lord Mayor [Sir Daniel Bellingham, Anglesey's Deputy] ... when assignments would be issued upon them. He said that Lord Anglesey's "computation would not hold", to which the writer replied that he did not believe his Lordship would deliver to him an imperfect ... one. ...


Ormond to Sir William Coventry

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 2 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 465

Document type: Copy

Communicates an account of the views of the writer, and Council, concerning the Irish Cattle Bill, & the expedients proposed, in partial remedy of it dissastrous consequences to Ireland.


News-Letter, relating chiefly to foreign affairs

Date: 2 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). [not given]


The King to the States General of the United Provinces

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 4 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 645-648

Document type: Copy

Has received their letter of the 16th September sent by a Dutch trumpeter, who also delivered the body of the late Chevalier Barclay to be rendered for burial to his relations, an act of humanity which the King appreciates & which will be returned, as occasion may offer. Twins to that part of the States' letter which relates to offers of peace, but contains imputations on the conduct of England little suited to be the prelimmaries of a treaty. Enters into matters of grievance sustained by Englsih subjects in the East and West Indies. Calls attention to the fact that the States put De Ruyter into commission to attack English ships, and at precisely the same time made colourable representations to England of an intention to keep their fleet at hime, with the view of inducing a stay of our English fleet, then under orders for Guinea.

French.


Colonel Norwood to Sandwich

Written from: Tangier

Date: 5/15 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 491-492

Document type: Holograph

Conveys the great hopes entertained by the English merchants at Tangier that his Lordship's endeavour for the redress of their grievances will be successful. Apprises him of the proceedings of two English privateers, in whose prizes the writer has thought it best to interest all the chief officers and merchants of the garrison. Expresses his hope that when Lord Sandwich shall have finished his negotiations at Madrid he will favour Tangier with a visit.


Kingston to Ormond

Written from: Boyle

Date: 6 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 95

Document type: Holograph

Movements of Dudley Costello [a proclaimed rebel] and other political incidents in Connaught ...

That footman of Lord Carlingford who killed Clun the player in England, having the other day committed a robbery near Ballymore fled to Costello, but was refused admission to his party, which, adds the writer "hath gained Costello great respect in the country".


News-Letter, noticing proceedings in Parliament relating to the Charter of the Canary-Islands and to the examination of the War-Accounts. ...

Date: 6 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 103


Anglesey to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 6 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 338

Document type: Holograph

Notices the posture of political affairs. At present, Dutch and English are striving which shall not move first for a peace, whilst both desire it. The Cattle Bill will undoubtedly pass the Commons. The writer feels no great confidence that in their own House it will be rejected; but what is possible, in opposition, will be done. ...


The Count of Molina to Sandwich

Written from: Londres

Date: 8 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 490

Document type: Original. The postscript is in the Count's hand.

Has received Lord Sandwich's letters of the 10th August and 8th September. Has heard also from Don Fernando de Mendoza of the pleasure which he had derived from his intercourse with Lord Sandwich. Adds, in a postscript, that it must be ascribed to a special providence that in the recent calamity at London so much of the city should be left unburned, and expresses his satisfaction that already so many citizens should be eager to rebuild their houses.

Spanish.


Bishop of Winchester [George Morley] to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 8 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 221, fol(s). 219

Document type: Holograph

Thanks the Duke for a letter of September 26th, and for what His Grace has done for the writer's friend and kinsman, the Bishop of Limerick, who is at present staying at Farnham Castle, in expectation of a viaticum to carry him into Ireland.

The writer grieves to hear of the dangerous illness of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, whose death will be a loss to the public, as well as to his friends. ...


News-Letter, relating chiefly to domestic-affairs

Date: 9 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 105

The writer notices that the King has refused to wear a guady belt laid out for him, because it seems to be of French make; and that at night he made "a solemn declaration" as to the fashion of apparel he resolved to wear for the future.

All the letters from Holland, it is said, express wonder that after the late "ruin of London", all men among us should continue as merry and hearty, as if no such mischief had happened; and the writer adds that this feeling is confirmed by the King having already permitted a comedy to be performed at the Duke's Theatre. ...


Anglesey to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 9 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 340

Document type: Holograph

Has received the Duke's despatch to the City. Lord Ossory has desired the Lord Mayor to appoint a time for its delivery.

Adds the purport of recent Continental advices. ...


A News-Letter, addressed to Sir George Lane

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: 9 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 125-126

Upon occurrence of renewed difficulties in matters formal affecting the negotiations for a peace between Spain and Portugal Sir Robert Southwell has proceeded to Madrid to make a last effort for their removal.

Recent proceedings in Parliament are noticed.

The King has refused to wear some apparel that seemed to be of "French work"; and has made, says the writer, - "a solemn and peremptory declaration" of his intended fashions in dress [The purpose was the encouragement of English manufactures and products; and, particularly, the substitution of broadcloth for more costly fabrics], - viz, strait Spanish breeches, to the mid leg; and a loose coat, of the "Muscovite or Polish" style; and with buskins, instead of shoes & stockings: - the sword being girt upon the vest.

A duel has been fought [in London] between Lord Fauconberg and Sir Thomas Osborne, upon a quarrel arising in Yorkshire. ...


St. Alban to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 10 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 97

Document type: Holograph

Desires the Lord Lieutenant's permission to draw Bills of Exchange upon persons to be appointed by his Grace for a certain sum of money due to the writer.


Petition of Lewis, Lord Viscount Clanmalier to the King

Written from: Whitehall

Date: c. 10 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 351

Document type: Original

Prays for a grant of a portion of certain lands in the county of Tipperary formerly allotted to Thomas Cunningham and Lewis Dick, as adventurers, but now by the late 'Act Explanatory of the Act of Settlement' vested in his Majesty.


Subjoined 1:

An order, by the King, referring the Petition of Lewis, Lord Viscount Clanmalier, to the consideration & report of Arthur, Earl of Anglesey

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 16 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 351

Document type: Original


Subjoined 2:

Report of Arthur, Earl of Anglesey to the King, made in obedience to the Order by the King

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 18 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 351v

Document type: Holograph

Finds that 15,555 acres of lands in Tipperary and Limerick formerly set out to Cunningham & Dick are now vested in his Majesty by a clause of the late Act; but it appears that some further time hath been given "for proof to be made of the proviso of the said clause".


A proclamation for procuring obedience to ecclesiastical authority

Written from: Edenbrough

Date: 11 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 77, fol(s). 575

Document type: Copy


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 12 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 229-230

Document type: Holograph-Minute

Renews his representation against the Irish-Cattle Bill. ... Adds some notice of military affairs.


Arlington to Ormond

Date: 12 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 383

Document type: Holograph

The bearer of this letter is sent into Ireland, to endeavour to take Blood & his accomplices. His true name is Warde, but he goes by the name of Williams.


Ormond to Anglesey

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 12 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 8

Document type: Copy

Further particulars and details concerning the Revenue affairs of Ireland.


Minutes of proceedings in the House of Commons. Communicated to the Duke of Ormond.

Date: 12-13 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 129


Note of proceedings in Parliament: October 12th, 13th 1666

Date: 12-13 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 107


Note of proceedings in Parliament: October 17th and 18th 1666

Date: 17-18 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 108

Under last-named date, it is noted that "one Roberts" is imprisoned for having exacted money of Members of the House of Commons for post-letters. ...


Broderick to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 13 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 101

Document type: Holograph

The Bill prohibiting [importation of] cattle ... was carried [in the House of Commons by 57 votes]. ... His Majesty resolves, if [the measure be] not stopped in the House of Peers, to deny his assent. ... The ... "Commons are very zealous in their resolutions of supporting the war, or obtaining an honourable Peace". ...


[William Ross?] to Ormond

Written from: Westminster

Date: 13 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 99

Document type: Original

Further particulars concerning means to be used, in the House of Lords of England to prevent the passing, - at least in its present form, - of the Bill against exportation of Irish cattle.


Archbishop of Canterbury to Ormond

Written from: Lambeth

Date: 13 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 200

Document type: Holograph

Shoud we be so unhappy as to lose the Chancellor, the Lord Lieutenant will find no obstruction here in filling up those ecclesiastical preferments which will fall void, but asserted submission to what his Grace shall direct. ...

The loss by the late lamentable fire is borne with greater patience & submission than could be imagined. "I suppose," adds the Archbishop, "from a general persuasion they had so well deserved it. But I fear the greatest trouble is yet behind. For all sides being resolved to have the City rebuilt after a better manner, with larger streets & a fair quay by the riverside, ... I doubt the lawyers will get near as much as the City hath lost. Your Grace hath sent a noble charity ... which will not want its reward." ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 13 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 385

Document type: Original. Subscribed and signed.

The division in the House of Commons, upon the Bill forbidding the importation of Irish cattle was Ayes, 165; Noes, 104. It was a greater opposition than the writer thought to be, in that House, possible; and many encourage the Lords. ... There are little hopes of separating the Hollanders from France ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 13 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 386

Document type: Original

Has conferred with the Archbishop of Canterbury on the Duke's letter to him concerning the danger of the Lord Primate of Ireland. The Archbishop seems to agree in the opinion that, if the Primate die, it may be better to have an Irish Bishop in his place. The King, the writer believes, will keep the Chancellorship vacant until he hears the Lord Lieutenants opinion as to a successor. The writer cannot but wish Sir William Domvile were thought worthy of it.


Ormond to Sir Heneage Finch

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 13 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 361

Document type: Copy

Reasons against the proposed prohibition of the export of Irish cattle. - State of the Revenue of Ireland.


Mr Follyvet [Apparently English Consul] to Lane

Written from: Hamburgh

Date: 13 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 127

Narrates some recent political incidents in Germany; and adds naval advices from Elsinore. [A letter of news; and of complimentary messages from English ladies resident at Hamburgh.]


A News-Letter sent from Holland to Sir William Temple at Brussels

Date: 14 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 293-294

Document type: Copy

Naval and political incidents in the Dutch Netherlands. - Foreign relations of the States-General.

French.


A Promissory note, by the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, for the repayment to Colonel John Murphy, of a sum of £1,000, English, to be paid in Brussels, to Sir William Temple, his Majesty's Resident in that city

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 14 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 302

Document type: Copy


Ormond to Sir W. Temple

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 14 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 304

Document type: Copy

Sir William Temple's informations were very pertinent as things then went & outran the intelligence from England. Tomorrow, the Lord Lieutenant will be in Sir William's livery & will perhaps try whether Brussels - Camelot will withstand Irish rain, as he has known it to withstand that of Flanders ...

The writer's sister Clancarty has good esteem for Colonel Murphy, who desires to remove part of his fortune hither, ... on which account a note has been given to him. ...


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 14 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 68

Document type: Copy

All that Ireland is likely to gain by the recommitment [in the House of Commons of England], at the instance of the Solicitor-General of England is "to be undone in more conguous terms and in a more sober method".

The £15,000 observed by Lord Orrery at the foot of Lord Anglesey's computation is the money sent out of England, which the Treasury would fain finger, and the writer would as fain defend. ...

Adds an allusion to a project of marriage for a niece of Lord Orrery ...


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 15 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 541

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

Letters Patent to be issued in due form containing the King's free & general pardon to James, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and to divers other persons, herein named, of all treasons, & other offences, whatsoever ...


Ormond to Anglesey

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 15 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 10-11

Document type: Copy

... The instruction given to his Lordship from the Council here, wherein the condition of his Majesty's affairs in this Kingdom, as it is at present, and as it is like to be hereafter, in case the Bill against our trading with England shall pass, is a matter certainly of that moment, ... as deserves very serious & speedy consideration. ...

Cannot forget the mutiny at Carrickfergus, nor can undertake that there will not be more and more dangerous, if the army shall want pay. It is enough for the writer to undergo the pain and hazard of preventing, or punishing, such disorders, if they happen; without incurring the imputation of negligence or folly in not representing the probability that they will happen, if order be not taken for the reasonable subsistence of the soldier ...


Sir Edward Walker (Garter) to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 16 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 103

Document type: Holograph

At the Herald's office ("now a heap of ruins") the writer formerly shewed to his Grace some records concerning the Butler family. They are saved from the late devouring flames. ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 16 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 387-388

Document type: October

Lord Ossory ingenuously acknowledges to have received £4,000 from his father within eight months. But, as the writer knows by his own experience, his expenses in setting up house have been extraordinary. Lord Ossory knows that the Duke must have pinched himself, to find that sum for him; and will not press for more than can be conveniently spared him in future. ...

Lord Ossory agrees totally with the Duke, in respect of the Bill concerning Irish cattle. ...

The King sends his thanks for permitting Lord Ossory's stay here. ...


Anglesey to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 16 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 342

Document type: Holograph

The City of London received, at Gresham College, the letter of the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, "concerning the [proffered] beeves for the distressed of London; which munificent bounty, as they called it, ... so ample, and so early, they confessed they wanted for expressions to acknowledge". ... The writer asks the Duke to be his proxy, as to his (the Earl's) share in the subscription.

As to the Cattle Bill, ... "the King hath declared plainly he will never do so unjust a thing as to pass it..."


Observations out of the 'Acts of Settlement & Explanation', concerning the payments of money therein directed. Submitted by Sir James Shaen to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; by the hands of Colonel Cooke.

Written from: [Kilkenny]

Date: 19 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 556

Document type: Original


Annexed:

An Abstract of the payments of money [to be made under provisions of the Acts aforesaid], ... yet in force

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 557

Document type: Original


A News-Letter; addressed to Sir William Temple at Brussels

Written from: [La Haye?]

Date: 19 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 297

Document type: Copy

Intelligence received from the Dutch fleet.

Military and political incidents in France.

French.


Ormond to Sir Daniel Bellingham

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 9 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 25

Document type: Copy

Desires that Sir Daniel Bellingham will shew to Sir Paul Davys, the Lord Chief Baron [Bysse], and others, who will at the writer's request call upon him, the Revenue Estimate [drawn up by the Earl of Anglesey] and all other necessary Revenue accounts, and give all assistance in his power to their inquiries.


Davys to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 20 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 107-108

Document type: Holograph

Particulars - at great length - of the case of the Aylmers - father and son - of Ballisonan, in the county of Kildare, concerning a mortgage upon the lands late of one Wogan, which lands are now before the Commissioners of the Court of Claims, under the Settlement-Acts, - apparently upon a petition of Sir Nicholas Plunkett. ...

Also, particulars of some personal matters. ...


Broderick to Ormond

Written from: Westminster

Date: 20 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 105

Document type: Holograph

Communicates particulars of the debates, in the House of Commons, concerning a supply for his Majesty of £1,800,000; and concerning other matters of Revenue and Commerce.

Adds an epitome of news from Spain; and a notice of Harry Killigrew's suspension from the Court, for "some rude words of a great Lady" [probably Castlemaine].


[A schedule of] lands [in Ireland], decreed to the Duke of Ormond, by the Explanation Acts and by certificate of 20 October 1666

Date: 20 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 614-615

Document type: In Carte's hand


Sir Nicholas Plunket to Sir Paul Davys

Date: 20 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 300

Document type: [Holograph; with seal of arms]

Mentions a conference with Mr Walsh upon claims arising out of a mortgage upon an estate of Wogan of Rathcoffie, now adjudged to be forfeited to the Duke of Ormond. ...


Anglesey to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 20 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 344

Document type: Holograph

Has received the Duke's letters of October 2nd and 12th, with the enclosure, in the first of them, of Sir Robert Vyner's letter to Sir Daniel Bellingham "about the remainder of the £30,000".

From Bellingham he has also received a letter, in relation to his the writer's calculations of the Irish Revenue; - calculations which the writer has no doubt of justifying; "except in such particulars as fail by accident". Adds other advices as to political and financial matters ...


Bishop of Winchester to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 20 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 221, fol(s). 221

Document type: Holograph

The writer communicated to the Bishop of Limerick the intention of the Duke of Ormond to name him as one of two prelates deemed by his Grace fit to succeed to the See of Dublin, upon the expected vacancy. The Bishop of Limerick is deeply grateful for the Duke's great mark of esteem and kindess, in making such a recommendation; and though he be not ambitious of the greatness of the title, or without his fears of the weight of the burden, yet, if called upon, he, with all faculties and power, will endeavour to do his duty.


Petition of Elizabeth Nicholas, relict of Quartermaster Edward Nicholas, late of the Earl of Orrery's troop to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 21 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 101

Document type: Breviates

Arrears of pay. [With the certificate & order thereupon].


Sir W. Temple to Ormond

Written from: Brussels

Date: 22 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 300

Document type: Holograph

The season of action seems to be wholly past, by the returning of the fleets into their ports, and so has made way for that of negotiation ...

The French are grown tame, - everywhere but in their Gazettes; and have very calmly given the Marquess here the liberty of raising a new fort upon the frontiers, which [So in MS.] is already in defence, almost in sight of Philipville, which [So in MS.] covers this town, and that whole Frontier, and is [So in MS.] by all allowed to be owing to our war with France, - which has plainly broke all their ambitious measures. ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 23 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 391

Document type: Holograph

Recommends the Bishop of Limerick [William Fuller] to succeed to the Archbishopric of Dublin, in the event of a vacancy of that See.


Anglesey to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 23 October 1666 - "day fatal to Ireland"

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 316

Document type: Holograph

The Lords Committee (of the preamble of the whole House) have passed the preamble of the Bill prohibiting of Irish Cattle. This, the writer regards as decisive of the question, but the Lord Chancellor differs from that opinion.

It will now be for the Duke to think of preparing, in Ireland, "an Act of State against trade with England, which I, and my colleague [Lord Ossory], will move for His Majesty's direction in".

Note: The "fatal" day is the anniversary of the Irish rising of 1641.

A News-Letter, addressed to Sir George Lane

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: 23 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 131-132

"A very serious and rational letter, from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland", has been read at the Council Board, in which letter the writer represents the fatal consequences to Ireland, which must arise from the passing, in England, of the pending Bill for prohibiting the importation of Irish Cattle; unless, in the event of that policy being persisted in some countervailing measures for the benefit of Ireland shall be devised, and carried into effect.

Copious naval advices are added; with an account of proceedings, in the Privy Council, upon charges brought against Admiral Sir Jeremy Smith. ...


Commission, by the Duke of Ormond to Colonel Roger Osborne, to be Captain of the company of foot, late under command of Colonel John Butler

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 24 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 14

Document type: Breviate


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 25 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 389-390

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Has received the Duke's letters of 2nd and 12th current.

The present condition of his Majesty's affairs renders it a very improper season to move him to take any new resolution for supplying the Government of that Kingdom. ...

Communicates some regulations concerning military precedency. ...

Stanley, who brought over by the Lord Lieutenant's order the pretended Primate of Ireland, has the writer's passport for putting him on shipboard. ...

Adds, in a PS., some particulars in relation to Lord Clanmalier & his family.


Dungannon to Ormond

Written from: Rostrevor

Date: 27 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 113

Document type: Holograph

Reports his proceedings in "settling the militia", in the county of Donegal, and in other parts of the province of Ulster. ...

Asks his Grace's commission for the government of the fort of Charlemont. ...


Broderick to Ormond

Written from: Westminster

Date: 27 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 109

Document type: Holograph

... The Lord Mayor, Aldermen & Council of the City of London "do not agree to any of the models designed by Dr Wren, Mr Hugh May, and Mr Pratt. [They are], however, content that a wharf [meaning a quary or embankment], be made from the Tower to the Temple, carrying eighty feet in breadth". ... Other particulars of the proposals for the rebuilding of London are added. ...


Broderick to Lane

Written from: Westminster

Date: 27 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 111

Document type: Holograph

Personal affairs. - Particulars of some proceedings in the English Parliament.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 27 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 392

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

An account of some proceedings in Parliament; and in the Privy Council - the latter relating to "Barker's Case".


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin

Date: 27 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 73

Document type: Copy

A reference to the papers and records of Lord Strafford's time will be necessary to the giving of a definite answer to Lord Orrery's letter of the 23rd instant. ... The Duke, being a Councillor, during the latter part of Lord Strafford's government, remembers that many people were brought as delinquents to the Board, for selling tobacco which was not sealed. ... And those who farm the patent cannot get their profit unless transgressors are punished ... Those most likely to oppose the patent are such as trade to the Plantations; and the Plantators [So in MS.]. ...


A letter of intelligence in Irish. ... Addressed to Colonel Plunkett. Transmitted by Sir James Dillon to the Duke of Ormond.

Date: 27 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 258

Document type: Apparently, Original. [A translation of this letter was sent to Secretary Lord Arlington, 26 November]

Endeavours of Irish refugees in France to procure a French invasion of Ireland.

Irish.


Annexed:

A translation of the letter of intelligence; as communicated to Secretary Lord Arlington

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 256


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the drawing up of a fiant, containing his Majesty's presentation of Nicholas Prowde, Doctor of Divinity

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 173, fol(s). 25

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 Nicholas Prowde, Doctor of Divinity, to the Deanery of Confert; and for inserting clauses of union, pro hâc vice tantum, of the Archdeaconry of Cashel, with its annexions, ... and also of the Rectory of Agher-Pallas, etc., in the Diocese of Meath, now held by the said Nicholas Prowde, with the Deanery aforesaid.


Anglesey to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 27 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 348-349

Document type: Holograph

Narrates proceedings in the House of Lords upon the Irish Cattle Bill. The heat of debate led to a quarrel between the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Ossory, which was discovered, before they could meet in the field; and both are now under order to attend the House on Monday. The Duke is first to complain of a breach of privilege; his words having been said in debate. This first quarrel nearly led to a second betwixt Buckingham and Arlington, "who, a little too warmly, ... took up the bucklers for my Lord of Ossory". ...


News-Letter on foreign affairs, containing advices, from 28 October to 6 November; together with notes of like date on proceedings in Parliament

Date: 28 October 1666 seqq.

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 110

Document type: Apparently in the hand of Sir Joseph Williamson


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 29 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 70

Document type: Copy

An endeavour to compose some differences betwixt the Marchioness of Clanricarde, & the new Earl, has delayed the writer's answer to Lord Orrery's letters of 19th instant. ... He now communicates his opinion on various matters of administration - relating chiefly to the restraints imposed on Jesuits and Romish priests - therein referred to.


Brief occurrences touching Ireland; begun 25 March, 1661 [continued to 29 October, 1666]

Date: 29 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 64, fol(s). 470-476


Ormond to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 29 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 90

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

A writ, under the Great Seal is to issue forthwith, directing Sir William Domville, Attorney General of Ireland, to forbear the prosecution of Robert Hartpole [In MS.: "Harpole"] according to instruction for such forbearance, received from his Majesty.


Enclosure 1:

The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 7 August 1666

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

Document type: Copy

Instructions in the case of Robert Hartpole.


Enclosure 2:

Petition of Robert Hartpole to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [October] 1666

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

Recites His Majesty's letter, on petitioners behalf. Prays for the Lord Lieutenant's orders thereupon.


Petition of Quartermaster Stephen Hillyard to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 29 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 98

Document type: Breviates

Arrears of pay. [With the order.]


Orders, by the Duke of Ormond, concerning the quarters of the Regiment of Guards, and Guard of Battleaxes, in the City of Dublin. Addressed to the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs.

Date: 29 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 12 & v

Document type: Copies (two entries)


Robert Leigh to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 30 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 115

Document type: Holograph

Lord Ossory "is now at the Tower, but it is so much to his honour; so accompanied by persons of the best quality, his friends & servants; ... so well in the King's opinion, ... that ... there could not be a better end of that business" [the quarrel with the Duke of Buckingham].


Captain Gaghan [Sometimes written "Gahan"] to Lane

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 30 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 117

Document type: Holograph. [Without signature or address].

Personal affairs at Court [in Lord Arlington's department]; and thanks for good offices rendered.


Ormond to the Archbishop of Canterbury

Written from: Dublin

Date: 30 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 198

Document type: Copy

There is now better hope of the Chancellor [Archbishop of Dublin]'s recovery ... The Bishop of Limerick, it appears, would be content to succeed him in the Archbishopric; in which case, Dr Hudson ... will very worthily supply the Bishop's place. It will not be so easy to find a fitting Chancellor. ...


Ormond to St. Alban

Written from: Dublin

Date: 30 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 363

Document type: Copy

... Here, the poverty is greater than in the hottest time of the civil war ... The writer must therefore thank God that he has as good funds, and as well secured to raise money upon, as any this Kingdom can produce; - and also one in England, which heretofore would have been, and he hopes may, in time, again be, - for so much [Meaning for the amount due by the Duke to Lord St. Alban], - better. He proceeds to enumerate these funds & securities, that the Earl may take any of them, at his choice. ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 30 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 233-234

Document type: Holograph-Minute

... Has endeavoured, jointly with the Council, & also in his particular letters to Lord Arlington, to represent the true state of this Kingdom to his Majesty, and could be glad to hear that those representatives have been the subject of one afternoon's discourse, that so his Majesty having seriously considered of it, might call for further information upon any particulars not fully stated, and, at length, ... send such assistance and give such directions as he shall find expedient ... The Declaration of War against Denmark received with Lord Arlington's letter of 16th instant is ordered to be reprinted here ...

The ammunition, so long needed for his Majesty's stores here, is not yet come. Though the Bill of Lading is but for 200 barrels, the freight will come to above £300 in money ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 30 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 231

Document type: Copy

Thanks his Lordship for obtaining the King's leave to return to the writer one of the letters of 26 September. It was his duty to represent the plain truth of the case, but he may have expressed himself in a phrase liable to misconstruction ...

Has ventured, in his other letter of this date, to express his hope that the King will sit down, at least some hours of some day, "seriously to consider the state of is affairs here, and not, like a desperate unthrift, be afraid to look into his accounts". The case may, perhaps, be mended with care, but never by negligence. ...


Ormond to Anglesey

Written from: Dublin

Date: 30 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 14

Document type: Copy

Further particulars and details concerning the charitable contribution for persons impoverished by the late fire of London; concerning Revenue affairs in Ireland; and also concerning certain assignments of money, on the Duke's account, for Lord St. Alban ...

Adds, in a P.S.: "I wish your Lordship would give me an impartial account of young Butler's proficiency in his study. I have maintained him ... [during] his 'prenticeship; and shall do so no longer than until Easter" ...


Propositions [by Sir James Shaen] for the more effectual raising and payment of the £300,000, and of other moneys payable in pursuance of the Acts of Settlement and [of] Explanation [for Ireland]

Date: 30 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 37-40

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.


John Walsh to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 30 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 298

Document type: Original

Gives an account of certain claims that have been advanced to payments out of the "lands of Wogan of Rathcoffie", adjudged to have been forfeited to the Duke of Ormond, and of what has been done in relation thereto ...


[An order] by [James, Duke of Ormond] ... Lord Lieutenant of Ireland [regulating the procedure, in certain cases under the late 'Act of Explanation', concerning the Settlement-Act of Ireland]

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 31 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 36, fol(s). 628

Document type: Official Copy, signed by Lane


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 31 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 543

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

Arthur Podmore, one of the Pursuivants in Ireland, to have Letters-Patent containing a regrant of that office to himself, & to Arthur Podmore, his son; to them, & to the longer liver of them ...


Commission, by the Duke of Ormond to John Browne, to be Lieutenant of the troop of horse commanded by Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 31 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 12v

Document type: Breviate


Commission, by the Duke of Ormond to John Earlsman, to be Quartermaster of the troop of horse commanded by Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 31 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 12v-13

Document type: Breviates (two entries)

[With a warrant relating tot he vacancy of a place of Corporal therein.]


Warrant concerning the distribution of certain arms seized in King's County

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 31 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 13

Document type: Copy


Petition of Edward Young, a convict for horse-stealing, to the Duke of Ormond, [praying for his Grace's pardon, under circumstances stated]

Date: October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 102 & v

Document type: Copy


Annexed 1:

Report of William Aston, & Robert Booth, two of his Majesty's Justices of Assize, on the case of Edward Young

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 30 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 102 & v

Document type: Copy


Annexed 2:

Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the grant of his Majesty's pardon, in due form, to Edward Young

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 3 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 102 & v

Document type: Copy


Advices from Rome, relating to proceedings of the College de propaganda fide, and to other ecclesiastical affairs. Enclosed in a letter from Secretary Lord Arlington to the Duke of Ormond

Date: October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 302

Document type: Original


Speech of the Earl of Ossory in the House of Lords [in vindication of his father, the Duke of Ormond, from the calumnious aspersions of the Earl of Shaftesbury]

Date: Undated [October 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 247

Document type: A contemporary report; with slight verbal corrections in Ormond's hand


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [October] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 72

Document type: Copy

French ships consigned to this Kingdom, and carrying thence its commodities, ought to have free traffic and free return. Vessels not so consigned should be detained. ...


Clauses of the 'Explanatory Act', relating to the lands & hereditaments of James, Duke of Ormond

Date: [October 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 60-61


Lord Sandwich to the Count of Molina

Written from: [Madrid]

Date: Undated [October 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 489

Document type: Holograph-Minute

Thanks the Count for his letter of October 8; and especially for having made him acquainted with D. Fernando de Mendoza, to whom he esteems himself to be under much obligation. Is also very sensible of the kindness shewn by Molina, in respect to the preservation of certain goods belonging to the writer, during the late fire.


The King to the States-General of the United Netherlands

Date: October? 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 651-652

Document type: Copy

Recites that the propositions by way of mediation for peace recently offered by the Ambassadors Extraordinary of France were accompanied by a disavowal of authority from the Hague to intervene, yet upon reprisal of those propositions they stated on departure that the King, their master, would deem himself obliged by such refusal to assert the United Provinces in the prosecution of the war. Asserts that England has no cause of quarrel with France, other than that arising out of the course taken by His M.C. Majesty in relation to the disputes between England and the Netherlands; and that, as to Denmark, that power could have taken no part whatever in those disputes without incurring the guilt of a double violation of public faith, first towards the Netherlands, & then towards England. The King adds that he now feels himself constrained to make public declaration that the expedition to 'Berguen' would never have been thought of, but for the express invitiation of the King of Denmark, and for his proposition to share with England the spoil of the Dutch ships [The attack on the Dutch merchantmen which had sought refuge in the Harbour of Bergen was made in August 1665]. This however, nothwithstanding, in order to the future strengthening of the Protestant interest the King will not refuse the mediation of the United Provinces for the conclusion of a peace with Denmark upon just conditions.

French.


Arlington to Sandwich

Written from: [London]

Date: [October?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 493

Document type: Original; chiefly in cypher; subscribed and signed

After many paragraphs in cypher, expresses the earnest expectation by the Government of a reply, through his Lordship to the King's offer of mediation "between the two Crowns". ...


Petition of Francis Vangamon to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin?]

Date: [October?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 100

Document type: Copy

Plaint of debt against John Hall, now serving in his Majesty's Regiment of Guards.


Annexed:

An order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the Petition of Francis Vangamon

Written from: Kilkenny Castle

Date: 21 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 100

Document type: Copy


Petition, order of reference, final order, concerning arrears of pay due to Captain George Dillon, a Lieutenant in the army of Ireland

Date: [October] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 12

Document type: Breviate


Foreign advices received, from Vienna, and from Warsaw, at the Court of Whitehall; as communicated to the Duke of Ormond, in Ireland

Date: [October] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 123-124


Minutes of proceedings in the House of Commons; communicated to the Duke of Ormond

Date: Undated [October? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 130


Ormond to Kingston

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 2 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 90 & v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

A certificate is desired from the Lord President, concerning allegations in a petition herewith transmitted.


Encloses:

Petition of Robert Clarke, on behalf of himself & others, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [October] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 90 & v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Plaint concerning an alleged unjust detention of certain house in the town of Galway, in which soldiers are unduly quartered.


Ormond to the Commissioners of the Court of Claims of Dublin

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 2 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 90v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

The Commissioners are to inquire into certain allegations of a petition, herewith transmitted, and to certify whether or no there be ground to continue the stay of the Letters Patent, therein mentioned.


Encloses:

Petition of Sir John Ponsonby to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [October]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 90v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Complains of the alleged fraudulent proceedings, in the Court of Claims, of one Edward Hore [So in MS.] [Hoare?]. Prays an order to stay the warrant for a fiant of Letters Patent, on Hore's behalf.


Ormond to Donegal

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 2 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 95

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Katherine Jones, a widow, brings plaint of debt against one Dudley Loftus, alleged to be of the troop of horse under Lord Donegal's command. His Lordship is to inquire into the allegations of her petition & to certify what he finds thereupon.


The petition of Katherine Jones, Widow to the Duke of Ormond

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 95

Document type: Copy

Plaint of debt against Dudley Loftus; with the usual prayer.


Petition of Francis Gardner to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 2 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 99v

Document type: Copies

Arrears of military pay. [With an order of reference thereupon.]


Annexed 1:

Certificate by the Muster-Master General, upon the petition of Francis Gardner

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 2 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 99v

Document type: Copy


Annexed 2:

Final order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the petition of Francis Gardner

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 3 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 99v

Document type: Copy


Revocation, by the Duke of Ormond, of a Commission granted to William Manley as Quartermaster of Lord Annesley's troop of horse in the army of Ireland

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 2 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 13v

Document type: Copy


Commissions, Warrants, Orders, and Licenses, by the Duke of Ormond, on various minor affairs of the army in Ireland, and on matters of military discipline

Date: 2 November-26 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 14v-15

Document type: Copies; and Breviates (thirteen entries)


Petition of Angel Johnson, Relict of Andrew Johnson, a trooper in the Earl of Meath's troop, who lost his life in his Majesty's service, in the fleet

Written from: Dublin

Date: 2 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 99v

Document type: Breviates

Arrears of military pay. [With an order of reference thereupon.]


Annexed 1:

Certificate, by the Muster-Master General, upon the arrears of pay mentioned in the petition of Angel Johnson

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 3 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 99v

Document type: Copy


Annexed 2:

Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the payment prayed for

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 5 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 99v

Document type: Breviate


Petition of Richard Hannay, of Dublin to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 2 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 100v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt, against Seth How, a soldier. [With the order thereupon.]


Broderick to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 3 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 118

Document type: Holograph

"To deal plainly with his Grace", the [Members of the House of Commons here] "are not directed as formerly [they were] and, being left to the accident of wind & tide, - in a popular Assembly, - drive at random" ... But, "at worst, we may make a disadvantageious peace &, with Sancho's Council, save today for to-morrow". ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 3 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 394

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Communicates proceedings in the House of Lords, in the matter of the quarrel between Lord Ossory and the Duke of Buckingham. ...

Notices also certain matters of finance pending in the House.


Petition of Major Roger West, and another, to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 3 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 100v

Document type: Breviates

Arrears of military pay. [With certificate & order thereupon.]


Petition of Katharine Price to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 3 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 120v

Document type: Copies

Arrears of pay due to petitioner's husband, a soldier under Sir Hans Hamilton, sent to sea. [With an order of reference thereupon.]


Annexed 1:

Report, by the Muster Master General, concerning arrears of pay due to David Price

Date: 24 October 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 120v

Document type: Copy


Annexed 2:

Report, by Captain Sir Hans Hamilton, concerning David Price, a soldier draughted into his Majesty's fleet

Date: 20 March 1667

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 121

Document type: Copy


Annexed 3:

Final order, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the petition of Katharine Price

Date: 28 March 1667

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 121

Document type: Copy


Anglesey to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 3 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 350

Document type: Holograph [with seal of arms]

Sir Robert Vyner, being now Sheriff, is very hard to meet with, "but I shall be sure", ads the writer, "to dispatch your Grace's comments, the first business I do with him".

Lord Ossory was freed from the Tower on Wednesday [Having been committed on the Monday, at the instance of the Duke of Buckingham, for breach of privilege of Parliament]. He has lost "no honour in the difference with Buckingham"; although, adds the writer, the course taken [to prevent a duel] was inevitable, the compaint being once made to the House.

Let the extremities [in Ireland] be what they may, no money will be gotten hence, until the fleet is fitted for sea. ...


Ormond to Conway

Written from: Dublin

Date: 5 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 365

Document type: Copy

Would have been glad had the Bill against Irish Cattle been stopt, in either House, but knows not whether he ought to wish that the King should refuse his assent to it. It is certain that while the war lasts, the ill payment of rents will last, and if the King should not make the Bill a law, it [namely, the fall of rents,] will be imputed to his refusal. Perhaps, it were better they should find that this restriction will not help them, than to leave them liberty to say that it would have done, had the King consented. ... The experiment will certainly undo many of us here. ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 5 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 235

Document type: Holograph-Minute

Observations on the proceedings of the English Parliament, especially upon matters of finance; - on Barker's case; and on the King's loss of an honest servant in the late Mr Serjeant Griffith. His place was supernumerary, & is not recommended for continuance.


Licences of absense to Lord Berkeley, and to various other officers and soldiers of the army in Ireland

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 5-15 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 13v-14

Document type: Breviates (eleven entries)


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 6 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 24v

Document type: Copy

The draught of a letter on behalf of Mr John Scudamore is, in substance, similar & to like effect with that formerly recommended on behalf of Sir E. Dering & Colonel Cooke.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 6 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 24v

Document type: Copy

Recommends the suit of Thomas Maule, a faithful subject, on whose behalf the accompanying 'Draught' is transmitted.


Petition of Sir Arthur Gore, Baronet, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 6 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 101

Document type: Breviates

Arrears of military pay. [With the certificate & order thereupon.]


Petition of John Aungier, Clerk, to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 6 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 110

Document type: Copies

Hath just cause of suit against Nicholas Barton, a soldier. Prays for license to sue him. [With the order as prayed.]


Bull to Wharton

Written from: Dublin

Date: 6 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 64-65

Document type: Original

The writer is himself troubled at the long delays in the settlement of his Lordship's estate in this Kingdom. Dr Wood, whose evidence has been so long waited for, now that he is come, is deemed by the Court "not a competent witness".

If the Bill prohibiting export to England of Irish cattle shall pass into a law, it will be impossible for Irish tenants to pay rents in money.


An estimate of the Revenue [of Ireland], as I [Sir Daniel Bellingham] humbly conceive [it to be]

Date: 7 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 67

Document type: Original


Ormond to the Commissioners of the Court of Claims, at Dublin

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 7 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 90*b [Misnumbered in MS.]

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Instructions concerning the restoration of the estate of the Earl of Carlingford, in pursuance of commands from his Majesty; and of provisions in the Acts of Settlement & of Explanation.


Encloses:

The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 23 October 1665

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

Document type: Copy

Reprisals are, without delay to be "set out or assigned, to those soldiers their heirs, executors, or assigns, who are in possession of certain lands", parcel of the estate of Theobald [Taaffe], Earl of Carlingford.


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

Written from: Dublin

Date: 7 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 100v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Roger Chamberlaine. [With the order made thereupon.]


Petition of Robert Hooper, Captain of H.M.S. Harp to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 8 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 101

Document type: Copies

Plaint against James Sharland, Captain of the yacht Mary, for detention of certain ships cables. [With the order made thereupon.]


Petition of Ensign Thomas Hutton to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 9 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 101

Document type: Breviates

Arrears of pay. [With the certificate & order thereupon.]


Petition of Cornet Robert Meredith to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: [9 November] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 101

Document type: Breviates

Arrears of pay. [With the certificate, & order.]


Petition of Thomas Hooke, of Dublin, Merchant, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant

Written from: Dublin

Date: 9 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 101v

Document type: Breviates

Plaint of debt against Sir Hans Hamilton. [With the order thereupon.]


Petition of Jane Rathborne, wife of John Rathborne, of Dublin, Glover, to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 9 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 101v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of defamation, duly prosecuted in the Consistory Court of Dublin, against one Thomas Houghton, who (to escape penalties) has procured himself to be mustered in one of the foot-companies of his Majesty's army. [With the order thereupon.]


Conway to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 10 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 120

Document type: Holograph

A further report of proceedings in the Parliament of England.


Broderick to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 10 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 122

Document type: Holograph

Reports proceedings in the House of Commons; gives an account of the fire at the Horse-Guards, Whitehall; mentions a rumour that, nearly at the same time, a powder-mill at Hounslow was blown up.


Earl of Burlington to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 10 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 124

Document type: Holograph

Another report of proceedings in Parliament, - chiefly concerning Irish affairs.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 10 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 396

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Reports various proceedings in both Houses of Parliament; and also the purport of certain political advices, received from Germany.


Clarendon, "in some alarm of the gowte" to Ormond

Written from: Berkshire House

Date: 10 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 128

Document type: Holograph

Is heartily glad that my Lord Chancellor [of Ireland] is in so fair way of recovery, - that the Lord Lieutenant may have the more time to think of an able successor. There is general good testimony that he fills the place very well. The writer perceives that it is hard to find in Ireland a good man to succeed him. From hence, it will be as difficult to persuade a good man to submit to that promotion. ... A blessed peace, and three or four years of settlement may, it is to be hoped, bring Ireland into more reputation. ...

[Not printed by Lister].


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 10 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 237

Document type: Holograph-Minute

According to the opinion of his Majesty's judges here, it will be necessary to issue one or two commissions, in order to give due effect to the provisions in the Acts of Settlement & Explanation concerning "the year's rent", payable under, and disposed of by, the Acts aforesaid ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 10 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 239

Document type: Copy

Notifies the opinion of his Majesty's Council here, upon the subject mentioned in the letter calendared immediately above.


Encloses:

Draught of a letter to the Lord Lieutenant & Council, to be offered for his Majesty's signature, directing the nomination of certain Commissioners for Valuation of Lands, under provisions of the Acts of Settlement & Explanation for Ireland

Date: 1666

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


Anglesey to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 10 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 352-353

Document type: Holograph

Reports the passing of the main portions of the Cattle Bill through the Committee in the House of Lords.

Describes, at great length, the precautionary and retaliatory measures which for the preservation of Ireland from ruin, it will be necessary to devise, enact by Statute, or (in certain matters) otherwise agree upon by a league; as they seem to the writer's mind to commend themselves. The trade of butter must be made to take place of the trade in cattle. Fisheries, of all kinds, must be promoted. English commodities & products must be disused.

Enumerates, in a PS. those of the King's Councillors & Ministers who were among "our chief opponents", yet, - adds the writer, "we carried many things upon division, against them". Could the opponents of the Bill have gained five out of the ten statesmen named, the Bill would have been cast out. ...


Petition of Lieutenant Edward Harwood to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 11 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 101

Document type: Breviates

Arrears of military pay. [With the certificate & order thereupon.]


An order, by the Duke of Ormond, concerning the quarters of his life-guard in the City of Dublin

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 12 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 14

Document type: Copy


Conway to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 13 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 126

Document type: Holograph

Continues his account of proceedings in Parliament, - chiefly upon Irish affairs. ... Adds that the King will never give his assent to the Cattle Bill; ... that the writer is "a little scandalized" at Lord Arlington's course; ... and that Lord Ashley is trying, in a Committee of Privileges, "to have all the Irish nobility degraded from having any place in England, & is likewise designing to alter our 'Book of Rates' & to compel us to receive all foreign commodities out of England" ... If such proceedings go further, they will force Ireland "into the hands of the French or of the Dutch". ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 13 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 398-399

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Has received his Grace's letters of October 30 and November 5. Acknowledges the favour of what is promised on behalf of Lord Clanmalier's family. As to Mr Barker, is persuaded that what he pretends "will, in conclusion, fall into the King's gift". ...

In the Lords' Debate upon the Cattle-Bill, the strife was renewed upon the word "Nuisance", & there is hope of excluding it ...

The grant to Sir John Stephens, for the making of "pantiles, paving tiles & all earthen-ware", extends very far, & may in these jealous times pass for a monopoly of wares, not "newly invented". ... His Grace' directions thereupon are desired.


Enclosure 1:

A letter, relating incidents of a rising in Galloway. Addressed by William Fielding to Sir Philip Musgrave

Written from: Carlisle

Date: 15 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 400

Document type: Copy


Enclosure 2:

A list of Lieutenant Colonel William Moore's estate, in the county of Tipperary, & Barony of Lower Ormond

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 401

Document type: Original


Anglesey to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 13 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 136

Document type: Holograph

Has received his Grace's letter of October 30. Relates, at great length, what passed between the Earl of S. Alban and the writer, concerning a debt of between £4,000 and £5,000 due to the former by the Duke of Ormond, and concerning propositions for satisfying the same, out of payments due to the Duke in the Irish Exchequer, which, says the writer, "being to pass through my hands, his Lordship [S. Alban] conceived I might help him in the return of. I told his Lordship that whatsoever your Grace ordered upon me, I would duly pay as it came in, and assist the best I could for the exchange". ...

Notices proceedings upon the Irish Cattle Bill, & other pending matters ...


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 14 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 545-546

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

Lieutenant Colonel William Purefory to have Letters-Patent, containing an effectual grant of lands & tenements in the barony of Coolestown in the King's County, lately decreed & adjudged to him, by the Commissioners for Executing the Act of Settlement for Ireland. ...


An abstract of all the lands [in various counties of Ireland], passed in several Patents to James, Duke of Ormond, pursuant to the Acts of Settlement and Explanation

Date: 14 November 1666-14 April 1669

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 69, fol(s). 503-506


Petition of Samuel Gibbs, a merchant, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: Dublin

Date: 14 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 102

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against James Smallwood, one of the Deputies of the Muster-Master General of the Army. [With the Order thereupon.]


William Loving to Ormond

Date: 15 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 128

Document type: Holograph

Information concerning [Thomas] Blood and other conspirators, who are fled from Ireland.


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Dublin

Date: 15 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 428

Document type: Copy

... The Chancellor's care for the affairs of this Kingdom ... is the more welcome, for the regardlessness of others ... whose "prevailing," adds the writer, "shall produce in me the uttermost of my care & industry, not only to prevent the mischief which may begin here, but to ease the King from unseasonable importunities, or more melancholy representations than my duty requires me to make".

The Chancellor of Ireland is still very weak, yet has healthfulness in his countenance & spirits, & it is hoped there need now be little fear for him ...


[An Order] by [James, Duke of Ormond], ... Lord Lieutenant-General ... of Ireland [concerning the satisfaction of outstanding arrears of pay, due to his Majesty's army of Ireland]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 15 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 63

Document type: Certified Copy


Petition of Ensign Richard Crofton to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 15 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 101

Document type: Breviates

Arrears of pay. [With the certificate & order thereupon.]


Petition of Charles Maly, and another, convicts to whom pardon is granted

Written from: Dublin

Date: 15 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 102

Document type: Copies

Praying for license to sue the same in forma pauperis. [With the order prayed for.]


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 16 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 547

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

A grant to be passed to John Scudamore, of [Langarsan] in Monmouthshire, "of the profits of all such lands" [in Ireland] "as, having been set forth to Adventurers, for money bona fide paid, or to soldiers, for service in Ireland, have been by them retrenched for their third parts; the said profits thereof to continue to the said John Scudamore, or his Assigns, until the lands so retrenched shall be set forth as reprisals; and also, of the profits of such lands as, having been decreed to innocent persons, did not belong to the said innocents, or to those under whom they claim, upon the 22nd October 1641, ... until the said lands be otherwise disposed of ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 16 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 240

Document type: Copy

Mr Gahan hath conducted himself much to the writer's satisfaction, and hath been diligent in the management of the postage of this Kingdom.


Ormond to Sir Edward Walker (Garter)

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 16 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 25

Document type: Copy

Sir Edward's good offices in rescuing from the late dreadful fire some deeds relating to the writer's family, ... and in subsequently presenting them to Lord Ossory are thankfully acknowledged.


Ormond to Sir Edward Walker ('Garter')

Written from: [Kilkenny?]

Date: 16 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 219, fol(s). 62

Document type: Copy

The Duke is much gratified to learn by Sir Edward's letter of October 16 that the deeds of the Butler family, formerly shewn to him upon occasion of his visit to the Herald's Office, have been preserved from the late devouring fire, and are now presented to his son, Lord Ossory. Both the saving them and the gift of them deserve his hearty thanks.


Broderick to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 17 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 130

Document type: Holograph

Continues his report of proceedings in the English Parliament. ...

Mr Thynne, nephew to Henry Coventry, is embarked as Ambassador to [Sweden] ...

All officers - whether by sea or land - are to be exempted from Poll-tax.


A fragment of a letter, containing directions to the Roman Catholics of Ireland to buy arms & arm themselves; ... and to let their zeal for Holy Church so appear that they may "have renown enough, and a crown in Heaven" ...

Written from: Paris

Date: 17 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 326

Document type: "This was found, with a Popish book, in a letter-case; about [near to] the Exchange [in London]. ... Some would have it a feigned thing." - Endorsement.


William Browne (Rector of Ballyscullin) to the Bishop of Derry

Written from: Balliaghee

Date: 19 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 140

Document type: Holograph

Reports various proceedings of Nonconformists, & of disaffected persons, in the Diocese of Derry.


Subjoins:

The Particulars in charge, proved against Major Montgomery

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 136

Document type: Original [Misbound]


Sir W. Temple to Ormond

Written from: Brussels

Date: 19 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 306-307

Document type: Holograph

Finds Colonel Murphy resolved to go shortly for Ireland with young Lord Clancarty ...

The payment of the money referred to in his Grace's letter will be best effected through Mr John Shaw of Brussels.

Adds some intelligence of passing incidents political & military. ...


Sir W. Temple to Ormond

Written from: [London]

Date: 19 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 308-309

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Particulars of proceedings concerning the preparation of the Bill Explanatory of the 'Irish Act of Settlement'; and of proceedings in the suit of the London Adventurers.


St. Alban to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 20 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 132-133

Document type: Original [The signature, also, is in the hand of the amanuensis]

Proposes certain arrangements in relation to an advance of money, to be repaid ... "out of moneys, allotted" to the Duke" by Parliament", and [So in MS.] out of his Grace's "Easter rents" ...

Adds some notice of foreign affairs. ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 20 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 402

Document type: Original. Subscribed & signed.

The House will not hear of bringing so many live cattle [as a gift to those who suffered by the Great Fire]. ... With much ado, they consented they should be killed & barrelled up; but would enjoin such a distribution afterwards, that we cannot suppose the City will much profit by the gift.

Adds some particulars relating to the late rising in Yorkshire ...


St. Alban to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 20 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 60-61

Document type: Duplicate original

Is endeavouring to raise the money here by advances from some "that will be contented to receive their reimbursement out of two of the funds that his Grace is pleased to name", i.e., out of moneys allotted to his Grace by the Parliament and out of his Easter Rents ...

The writer went into France without any mission in order to the Public, and is returned hither without any. As he went persuaded that we were fallen into an unfortunate war, so he could no doubt that peace was to be sought, by all ways that could allow hopes of advancing it. ... He unfeignedly believes that if the Duke of Ormond had been here, we had had peace by this time. We have undoubtedly great need of it. ...


Anglesey to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 20 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 354-355

Document type: Holograph

Communicates an account of further proceedings in the House of Lords, in relation to Irish Cattle, and, in particular, of an aspersion cast upon the givers of the beeves to the distressed late inhabitants of the destroyed part of London, as being guilty of "a design and contrivance to mischief England".

Describes the intended "proviso", empowering the export from four ports of Ireland, in equal numbers, of an aggregate of 20,000 beeves, to be so distributed; & what ensued therein; expecially in respect to Lord Ossory's stern resentment of many expressed used by Lord Ashley, reflecting upon the Duke his father and the other promoters of the gift...

Adds particulars relating to the Revenue.


John Walsh to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 20 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 306

Document type: Original

Reports what has passed between the writer and Mr Rewthorne, respecting certain lands at Bansigh, parcel of the Duke's demesne, as adjudged by the Court of Claims [under the Act of Settlement]. Adds other particulars as to claims advanced by one Joseph Yelverton. ...


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 21 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 549

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

James, Duke of York, to be acquitted and discharged of and from the payment of the rents reserved to the King, upon certain lands in Ireland, granted to him in custodiam by the Court of Exchequer of that Kingdom, by way of reprisals ...


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 21 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 551-552

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

A commission to be issued, in due form, to James, Lord Baron of Santry, & others, for the valuation of lands in Ireland, under certain provisions of the Acts of Settlement, & Explanation. ...


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 21 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 553-554

Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]

Recites the grant by King James I, on the 19th of August in the 16th year of his reign [1618], of various lands, tenements, impropriate rectories, & hereditaments, in several counties of Ireland, for a term of years, to Sir Robert Jacob. ...

Recites also the descent of the same to Thomas Maule, esquire, Surveyor-General of the ports in Ireland, as executor of Francis Crowe, son of William Crowe, assignee of Sir Robert Jacob aforesaid; and the willingness of the now possessor to surrender his interest in the lands and rectories aforesaid, & to take a regrant of the lands only, for a term of sixty-one years ...

Directs Letters-Patent containing a grant as aforesaid for such a term of years as the Lord Lieutenant shall think fit, to be issued, upon the surrender of the impropriate rectories.


Ormond to Anglesey

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 22 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 12

Document type: Copy

... Could not, during his stay at Dublin, do anything for the bringing in of what has with great reason been designed for Sir Heneage Finch, out of the money charged upon the soldiers' acres [under the Settlement Acts]...

Finds it concluded, from all hands, that the Bill against Irish Cattle will be a low, and that here we must shift the best we can, to avoid the ruin it threatens ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 22 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 242

Document type: Holograph-Minute

Advice is this day received from Dublin of the arrival of the proportion of powder formerly mentioned. It makes the whole stock of ammunition now in his Majesty's stores to amount to about one thousand barrels. ...

Is sorry that a necessity lies upon the King to give to the Bill against Irish Cattle the force of a law; since the same reason may make it inconvenient for him to give those just and proper securities which his servants here have presumed, in a joint dispatch, to propose to him, in case of such a necessity ...


Sir Connell Ferrall to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 23 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 135

Document type: Originals

States various particulars concerning his, the writer's, estates, in the county of Longford, and their incumbrances; and concerning his transactions with the Bishop of Elphin [John Parker].


Subjoins:

The Case of Sir Connell Ferrall stated

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 144

Document type: Original


Broderick to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 24 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 144

Document type: Holograph

Describes the measures taken by the King and Council for the defence of the Scottish Border ...

Could tell his Grace "a pleasant tale of my Lady Denham's retreat, to my Lord of Bristol's house in S. Martin's Lane; but my Lord is come from his new house in no very good humour, being strangely impatient of removing thither, which is impossible these three months".


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 24 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 404

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Gives an account of the defensive arrangements ordered by the King, on occasion of the insurrectionary movements, in the western parts of Scotland.


Clarendon to Ormond

Written from: Berkshire House

Date: 24 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 130

Document type: Holograph

Lord Conway and the Solicitor-General [Sir Heneage Finch] have earnestly [In MS.: "solemly"] desired the writer to use his little credit with the Lord Lieutenant, for conferring the place of Chancellor of Exchequer in Ireland upon Sir Edward Dering, "when the old officer is dead". The writer believes he would fill the place well, - if the place were as worthy of him ...

Ends: ... "May God send us peace, or you and I shall see ill days again".

[Not printed by Lister].


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 24 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 246

In a former letter of the 10th instant, the writer recommended the speedy return of a letter directing the appointment of certain Commissioners of Valuations of Lands under the Settlement Acts in order to the payment of the sum of £300,000 disposed of thereby, - in which sum the writer has such a share that, on the securing of it, the preservation of his whole fortune depends. Should that fail him, he must, in a short time, sink under the weight of his debts ...

He is advised to beseech the King to sign an adjoined draught of a letter, in which "nothing is suggested but what, is punctually true; nothing desired but what, he is assured, is very agreeable to the Acts aforesaid".


Encloses:

Draught of a letter to be offered for his Majesty's signature concerning James, Duke of Ormond

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 244

Document type: Misbound


Anglesey to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 24 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 356

Document type: Holograph

Certain amendments and additional clauses - amongst them one for the charity of the beeves for London - have been carried, upon division, in the House of Lords. The final division, upon the amended Bill, was content, 63; not content, 47 [Lord Anglesey mentions in a PS. the death of Serjeant Glynne; saying that friends of the deceased, who knew what his estate was nineteen years ago, affirm that within that space of time he gained £100,000. (He was a noted adherent of the Long Parliament)].


Walsh to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 24 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 221, fol(s). 288-289

Document type: Holograph. Endorsed, by Ormond, as received on November 28.

Accredits Father Nicholas Archbold, to wait upon the Duke at Kilkenny. Has known Archbold for twenty years as unalterable in his religious & loyal principles and affections.

Gives an account of the state of the clergy and of the ecclesiastical affairs of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland; and assures the Duke of his, the writer's, personal, continual & daily trouble, with a clergy whom he characterizes as "peevish, refractory, and most obstinate". ...


Walsh to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 24 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 221, fol(s). 290

Document type: Holograph

Accredits Father Thomas Harold, Superior of the Franciscan Convent at Kilkenny and "who hath a superintendancy over ten or a dozen other convents of his order, under F. Coppinger".

Assures his Grace that it is owing to the exertions of Father Harold, and of a few other men like him, that there is not a general "aversion" [to the English rule] "amongst Catholics". ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 26 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 252

Document type: Copy

Intelligence concerning certain proceedings of the Romanist Clergy of Ireland; and other passing incidents in that Kingdom.


Encloses

Colonel Jonathan Atkins to Sir Robert Byron

Written from: Castle Cornet, Guernsey

Date: 13/23 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 254

Document type: Original [a copy enclosed to Arlington]

... Hears that there is some "making of dividends amongst you" [i.e. the officers of the army] in Ireland, and desires to know if the writer's little concernment there is to share in the benefit ...

... Adds an information concerning one "Lintz, ... called Bishop of Galway" [read "Lynch, titular Bishop of Kilfenora"] lately come out of Ireland into France.


Conway to Ormond

Written from: Queen Street, London

Date: 27 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 146-147

Document type: Holograph

Resumes his report of the proceedings of the Parliament of England, and more particularly of the house of Lords ... Says of the latter, that the Duke may "guess at their temper, by their unkind & absolutely unjust proceedings between my Lord of Ossory, my Lord Ashley, & the Duke of Buckingham, for my Lord of Ossory did not transgress the written rules & standing-orders of our House, but they would overrule those orders to make him criminal" ...

Adds a notice of the insurrectionary movements in Scotland and of other political & public incidents.


John Walshe to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 27 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 150-151

Document type: Holograph

Particulars of pending affairs in the Court of Claims, affecting some of the Duke's Irish estates; and of other matters concerning property & revenue.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 27 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 406

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Lord Lauderdale has sent an express from Edinburgh, conforming a previous account of a rising, "for King and Covenant", in the western parts of Scotland; and with assurances that there are sufficient forces to master the rebels speedily. ...

His Majesty bids the writer to remind the Lord Lieutenant to look well to the north of Ireland. ...

The King has lost a worthy servant in Sir Hugh Pollard, but has made good choice of a successor to him in the person of Sir Thomas Clifford. ...


Sir W. Coventry to Ormond

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: 27 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 466

Document type: Holograph

The King desires much that there may be ships placed upon the Irish coast, betwixt Ireland & Scotland, - to prevent any correspondence between ill-affected persons; in which it is impossible to obey the King's commands, unless by the Lord Lieutenant's help ...


Anglesey to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 27 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 358

Document type: Holograph

News has come of the appeasing of the Scottish tumult. Upon the amended Cattle-Bill, the commons disagree with the Lords, by insisting on the restoration of the word "nuisance", as applied to the Irish trade ...


A News-Letter, addressed to Sir George Lane

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: 27 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 136-137

The Dutch, building their hopes upon the presumed exhaustion of English finance, refuse to enter on negotiations for peace.

Lady Fanshaw has returned from Spain, with the body of her late husband, our Ambassador at the Court of Madrid, in order to its internment in the country.

Mention is added of various domestic incidents, poitical, military, and juridical. ...


Narrative of an assault committed in Westminster Hall, during Term, upon Sir Andrew Henley, Baronet, by Charles Paulet, Lord St. John of Basing

Date: 28 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 206, fol(s). 64


Bill of indictment against Lord St. John of Basing, for an assault on Sir Andrew Henley, as found by the Grand-Jury of Middlesex

Date: Undated [1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 206, fol(s). 62-63

Latin.


Ormond to Kingston

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 29 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 152

Document type: Copy

Particulars of the burning of Castlemore by Dudley Costello, the rebel; an incident which will, the Lord Lieutenant thinks, require Lord Kingston's return to his province, & his utmost diligence to take the criminal or to drive him away.


Major-General William Drummond to Lord Rothes

Written from: Pentland

Date: 29 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 111-112

Document type: Holograph

Reports military service against the rebels in Scotland who on the 27th of November had come within two miles of Edinburgh. On finding the strength of the preparations made against them, they retreated across the Pentlands, & were hotly pursued. Gives details of the engagement at or near "Glencors-Kirk", a sword-fight, he says, so obstinate that our men and theirs were "mixed like chess-men in a bag". The rebels were routed, but "our loss is greater than many of their skins were worth". Their leaders were mostly "cashiered preachers".


Kingston to Ormond

Written from: Michelstown

Date: 30 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 154

Document type: Holograph

Thanks the Lord Lieutenant for kindness shewn on behalf of Captain Keeffe, but fears that the business will not be effectually performed, until his Grace shall be himself in Dublin. ...

Adds some particulars of pending political and personal affairs. ...


The King to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 30 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 556

Document type: Original

The reference to a former letter concerning the estate of Robert Harpole transmits a petition presented to his Majesty, in the interest of certain adventurers and others, concerned in the estate aforesaid ...

Directs the Lord Lieutenant to take such order upon the whole matter at issue, as he shall find upon inquiry to be befitting. ...


Encloses:

Petition of Edward Tooke esquire on behalf of himself & others to the King

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 43, fol(s). 558

Document type: Original

Recites proceedings in the Court of Claims, concerning the estate of Robert Harpole ...

Prays that his Majesty will be pleased to revoke his letter of August 7th; ... and to direct that the suit may be determined by the Barons of the Exchequer, in course of law.


Walsh to Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 30 November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 221, fol(s). 294-295

Document type: Holograph

Has received the Duke's letter of November 30. Notices some incidents in the journey of Mr John Digby, from Connaught. Reports an application from Sir Henry Slingsby for a copy of the printed "Remonstrance"; and mentions some exceptions taken by Mr Digby against its lawfulness [for the Romanists, as well laity as clergy], as containing (1) a recognition of the Royal supremacy; failing, notes the writer, to observe that the obedience promised is restricted to affairs temporal; and (2) an obligation upon priests to reveal, in certain cases, disclosures made to them in the confessional; an exception, he continues, which disregards the received doctrine of divines, that treason, so disclosed, ought to be revealed; though not the traitor.


A News-Letter, addressed to Mr Warburton

Written from: Whitehall

Date: November 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 134-135

Gives an account of arrangements by the Archbishops & Bishops to collect money in all the Dioceses of England, towards relief of the distress occasioned by the great Fire of London.

Complaints are made by the Canary Company of calamities and losses, inflicted by Spaniards, on their factors and agents in the Canary Islands; - whereupon a prohibition has been made of all import of Spanish wines into the King's realms for one entire year.

Various proceedings in Parliament are reported


Kingston to Ormond

Written from: Clonmel

Date: 1 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 158

Document type: Holograph

Has received his Grace's commands, in respect to Costello; and also other letters (from Connaught) which represent the latter as much less terrible than the earlier reports made him to be. ... Is hastening to receive his Grace's commands at Kilkenny. ...


Broderick to Ormond

Written from: [London]

Date: 1 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 160-161

Document type: Holograph

Sanguine persons would persuade a belief that the alleged letter of the States General, - in answer to that of his Majesty, - is a counterfeit and that poor Lord Willoughby, with his Majesty's two frigates & the merchantmen that set sail from Barbadoes, ... were not lost in the hurricane, and are but driven to the Leeward Islands. ... Meanwhile, it is reported that the Emperor presses hard on the Council at Madrid, for permission to enter into the league, ... and that the King of France hath almost ... renewed his father's [league] with ... Sweden. ...


Conway to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 1 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 162

Document type: Holograph

Gives an epitome of the advices received from Scotland concerning the Presbyterian insurrection, and the defeat given to a great body of rebels "in a pitched field not far from Edinburgh" [upon a slope of the Pentlands] ... "which doth much rejoice my Lord Lauderdale" ...

Mentions other recent incidents - partly Continental - and also, in a postscript, an order given by Lord Arlington for the arrest of some Frenchmen about to go into Ireland "with letters, upon a bad design".


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 1 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 408

Document type: Original; subscribed & enlarged

Letters received from Scotland describe the march of some thousand or twelve hundred rebels towards Edinburgh; but they are without the countenance of any place or person of quality to encourage them. It is not doubted that a speedy and good account will be given of them.

There are ill news from the Barbadoes ... Some notice is added of the proceedings in Barker's case; and also of proceedings in Parliament. ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 1 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 259

Document type: Copy

It was so long before the Act of Parliament for the encouragement of a manufacture of linen-cloth in Ireland passed the Houses, and since its passing there have been so "many interruptions given to husbandry of all sorts", that certain penalties have been incurred by Irish subjects, without fault of theirs. It is therefore desired that power be given to the Government here to remit them. ...


Encloses:

Draught of a letter, to Lord Lieutenant & Council of Ireland, to be offered for his Majesty's signature

Date: 1666

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


Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland to H. Appelboom, Swedish Resident at the Hague

Date: 3 December 1666

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

Document type: Holograph? Transmitted to the Duke of Ormond by Secretary Lord Arlington.

As the King of Great Britain resents the refusal of the States General to send their envoy to London upon a treaty of peace, as they did in Cromwell's time, the Swedish mediators in London should be desired to assure the King that such refusal has arisen soley from the affection of the States for their allies, and that the choice of a neutral town for the treaty will gratify the Kings of France and Denmark.

French.


Jemima Montagu to Sandwich

Written from: Wardrop

Date: 3 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 223, fol(s). 149

Document type: Holograph

Mentions the welfare of the family, and their "great expectation" of his desired return. ...


A list of persons declared rebels [in Scotland], by proclamation at Edinburgh, 4 December 1666

Written from: Edinburgh

Date: 4 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 146

Document type: Original; as communicated to the Duke of Ormond


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 4 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 410

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

The rebels have been effectually routed near Edinburgh ... The King recommends the taking of special care to seize all persons that may have fled thence into Ireland, or also may have held correspondence with them ...


H. Appelboom, Swedish Resident at the Hague to the Swedish Envoys at the Court of London

Date: 4 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 692-693

Document type: Original? Endorsed: "Received 14 December. In a letter from the Lord Arlington".

Apprises his colleagues that the States General whose former & tentative reply to propositions for peace was sent informally by a trumpeter have now placed that reply in his hands, with a request that he would forward it to the Swedish Envoys at London to be by them presented to the King of Great Britain, together with the expression of their desire for the selection of some neutral town as the seat of negotiations.

French.


Affidavit of John Bath, Merchant, in a plaint of debt against Ensign Francis Hutton, and others

Written from: Dublin/Dublin Castle

Date: 4 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 62-63

Document type: Copies

With an order of the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, thereupon.


The relation of James Symonton, taken this 6th December 1666, before Colonel Humphrey Sydenham at Carrickfergus [concerning the proceedings of the rebels in Scotland]

Written from: Carrickfergus

Date: 6 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 115

Document type: Copy

See MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 111-112. This examination adds some characteristic details to the narrative of General Drummond].


Catalogus Publicorum Ministrorum hodie residentium in Madrite

Date: 6 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 494-495

Document type: Original; in the hand of Lord Sandwich's Secretary of Legation? Endorsed by his Lordship: "Dr Tayler's Account of Public Ministers in Madrid"


Minute of a letter, by the Duke of Ormond, on the military operations in Connaught. Addressed to Colonel Moore

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 8 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 193

Document type: Apparently in Page's hand


Minute or Breviate of a like letter. Addressed to Major Browne

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 8 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 194

Document type: Apparently in Page's hand


Minute of another letter, on the military operations in Connaught. Addressed to Sir Arhtur Gore

Written from: [Kilkenny]

Date: 8 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 195

Document type: Apparently in Page's hand


Ormond to Donegal

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 8 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 36, fol(s). 19

Document type: Minute

Instructs the Earl of Donegal and others to examine persons lately come out of Scotland accused of seditious conspiracies.


Minutes of other instructions by the Lord Lieutenant; on the same subject

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: 8 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 36, fol(s). 17-18

Document type: Without address (two papers)


Ormond to Davys

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 8 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 164

Document type: Copy

Directions are given for the plying, between Ireland & Scotland, of some of H.M. ships; as will be seen by a warrant herewith sent for delivery, by Davys.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 8 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 412-413

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

"We are troubled," says the writer, "at a proviso, brought into the House of Commons yesterday, at the reading of the Poll Bill, and carried for a commitment by thirty six voices, importing an account to be made, by Commissioners of that House, of all moneys received since the beginning of the war, upon the two royal aids; money arising by prizes; and three months' assessment upon the Militia Bill; etc.; - which expresseth a manifest distrust of the management thereof ... It falls unhappily out that, at this time especially, our enemies abroad as well as those at home, should have cause to conclude there is such a diffidence & dissension among us."

... There is no confirmation of the report of the Spaniards having seized Cazale; ... or of riots in Holland, or attempts upon De Witt's person. It is certain they are heartily weary of the war ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 8 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 414

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Major Stanley has acquitted himself well of his task in bringing hither, and in conducting to the seaside, the pretended Bishop of Armagh, - which occasioned much talk in town and at the Committee of the House of Commons for Popery; and of all of which he will give an exact account.


News-Letter containing advices, foreign and domestic, from 28 November to 8 December

Date: 8 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 113-114

News-Letter containing advices, foreign and domestic, from 28 November to 8 December. It adds some particulars to the account of events in Scotland in MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 111-112.


Dukes of York to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 8 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 468

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Is informed that Major Nicholas Bayliffe, Governor of the Isle of Boffin, has seized some goods from the ship Katherine belonging to the Lord High Admiral in right of his office. Desires the Lord Lieutenant's countenance for those who may apply to him, in maintaining that right. ...


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 8 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 430-431

Document type: Copy

Personal affairs. - Interposition on behalf of Sir Paul Davys. - Rumours of an intention to take away from the Irish nobility in England all their places, - "although their enjoyment of them for some ages cannot be any part of the reasons for the falling of rents there". ... - Illness of Sir Robert Meredith, Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland; and possible fitness of Sir Edward Deering, - "a man doubtless of eminent parts, industry, and honesty," - to succeed him. ...


Ormond to Conway

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 8 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 367

Document type: Original

Lord Conway's letters of 10th, 13th, & 27th, of November are received. They are full alike of care for the public concernments of this poor country, and of noble friendship to the Duke, - who wishes his assistance, in the one, could be as successful, as he is sensible of the other. ...

...The design [of the Cattle Bill] is English advantage, thought it be obtained by the ruin of this Kingdom. If it end there, the design is none the less faulty. If it extend farther, let time discover, what the writer desires not to foretell. ...


Ormond to Anglesey

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 8 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 16-17

Document type: Copy

Recites certain correspondence with the Earl of St. Alban ... and the expectation entertained by the writer of what was to be done by Lord Anglesey, in order to the settlement of the matter therein in question. ... Adds various details relating to the Revenue affairs of Ireland. ...

Does not find, by his other letters, that the tumult in Scotland is appeased or suppressed, as Lord Anglesey's of 27 November, intimates. Has had command to have a care of the north of Ireland, where the rebels may have well-wishers, & perhaps a retreat, if put to it ...


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 8 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 261-262

Document type: Holograph-Minutes

Particulars concerning: (1) A proposed grant to Sir John Stephens & others of the sole making of pan-tiles in Ireland; (2) Measures of precaution taken, and to be taken, against disaffected persons in the north of Ireland. ...


Ormond to Sir William Coventry

Written from: Kilkenny

Date: 8 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 467

Document type: Copy

On the writer's removal to Dublin, he will have full information as to the fittest station for the ships which, it is desired, should ply between Ireland and Scotland; and will make due arrangements in that behalf.


Bull to Wharton

Written from: Dublin

Date: 8 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 60-63

Document type: Original

Has received his Lordship's letter of November 24. Is sorry he is unsatisfied with the management of his business here. Adds particulars of moneys received. Mentions, incidentally, his own loss, by a robberty at his chambers, "at sermon time on Whit Sunday last, of £300 and upwards".

His proposition as to Byfield was made, with as great design to serve Lord Wharton as to serve him.

Forbears remitting his Lordship's balance, as not knowing amounts of certain fees yet to be paid. ...


John Walshe to Ormond

Written from: [Dublin?]

Date: 9 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 156-157

Document type: Holograph

A report of further progress in matters concerning the Duke's Irish estates; and concerning the pending business - under the Settlement Acts for Ireland - of the "Officers of 1649"; and also of "persons transplanted".


Petition of Richard Butler, son and heir of Richard, of Derryluskan in the county of Tipperary to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: circa 10 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 334

Document type: Original

"Is one of the fifty four [query, thirty four?] "persons named in the 'Explanation Act', as fit to be restored to 2,000 acres of his estate" ...

Prays for a custodium of certain parcels of land, specified in a schedule herewith submitted.


Subjoined 1:

A schedule of lands in the county of Tipperary, and barony of Middlethird; claimed by Richard Butler as aforesaid

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 336

Document type: Original


Subjoined 2:

An order of reference, of the petition of Richard Butler, to the Barons of the Court of Exchequer

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 17 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 334

Document type: Original


Anglesey to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 11 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 360

Document type: Holograph

Has received the Duke's letter of November 22nd, written from Kilkenny. Adds some particulars illustrative of the Revenue accounts of Ireland, and a recommendation as to the sharing out of certain moneys "charged upon the soldiers' acres" [under provision of the Act of Settlement].

Laments Sir James Ware's death, as that of a skilful and faithful servant of the state.


Kingston to Ormond

Written from: Michelstown

Date: 13 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 167

Document type: Holograph

A further report of incidents in Connaught ...

The writer adds that he cannot desire the Lord Lieutenant's "order for dry quarter, as the Vice-President [for the province] desires it"; thinking that he will be able "to find an easier and safer way to compass" the rebels [In MS.: "to compass them"]. ...


Thomas Caulfield to Lord Kingston

Written from: Dunamon

Date: 8 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 165

Document type: Holograph

Gives, in great detail, an account of the military operations against the insurgents in Connaught ...

Adds particulars as to the writer's plan for a system of regular communication, amongst all the garrisons of the province.


King of France to the Count of Estrades

Written from: S. Germain

Date: [14]/24 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 287

Document type: Copy [sent to the Duke of Ormond]

His Majesty has received the Count's dispatch of 16th instant, with its enclosure of a note from the States [General of the United Netherlands]. ...

Had the King been capable of making a separate arrangement [MS.: "accomodement"] with the King of England, to the exclusion of his Majesty's allies, he would not have written to the States, in the manner in which he has written, in his last letter. ...

French.


Broderick to Ormond

Written from: [London]

Date: 15 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 171

Document type: Holograph

A report of further proceedings in the House of Commons, chiefly concerning matters of finance. ...

Adds that the Hamburgh fleet is happily arrived in Burlington Bay. ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 15 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 422-423

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Has prevailed on the King to sign the warrant for enabling the Lord Lieutenant "to make some present benefit of the £50,000" given to him by the Act [of Explanation]; answering confidently that it was of no prejudice to the like sum granted to his Majesty ... But his Majesty commanded the writer to consult Lord Anglesey on it, & on resort to the Act, it is found that the £50,000 to the King is to be raised first; then, 2ndly, the sum assigned to the "1649 men"; thirdly, his Grace's 50,000£ ...


Enclosure 1:

L'Examination de Jean [Baptiste] Coureur

Date: 11 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 416

Document type: Copy.

Concerning the purpose of examinant's coming into Ireland, and his connections there.

French.


Enclosure 2:

La seconde Examination de Jean Baptiste Coureur

Date: 15 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 418

Document type: Copy

Concerning the persons with whom examinant held intercourse at Dunkirk.

French.


Enclosure 3:

L'Examination de Thomas Verberg, Marchand etc. on the same subject

Date: 12 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 420

Document type: Copy

French.


Ormond to Clarendon

Written from: Dublin

Date: 17 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 432

Document type: Copy

When the Duke parted from the Chancellor at Salisbury, no Parliament was sitting, which made them both forget that Lord Portland, who held the Duke's proxy was dead. He desires the Chancellor's advice as to putting it into the hands of Lord Burlington or of Lord Conway, - or of some other Peer likely to attend. ..

Notices the advice given to the writer as to the present unseasonableness of his repeating his representations, to the King, of the sad condition of Ireland, and the view he takes of that advice, & of his own duty thereupon.


Ormond to Arlington

Written from: Dublin

Date: 17 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 263-264

Document type: Copy

... Upon the first notice received of the insurrection in Scotland, the writer ordered the stay, on the coast, of all passengers coming thence, until their due examination... Ships have been stationed between the coasts. ...

Upon the death of Sir James Ware, an ancient & faithful servant of the Crown, his office is fallen to his son ... very incapable of discharging it in his own person, but that defect is supplied by a very able & honest officer, bred up by the father; so that there seems to be no necessity of any other successor; ... but Mr Richard Jones, Lord Ranelagh's son, ... is recommended for the reversion of the office.


Kingston to Ormond

Written from: Michelstown

Date: 18 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 175

Document type: Holograph

Reports information received concerning the military state of the Provinces of Connaught and of Ulster.


Albemarle to Ormond

Written from: Cockpit [Whitehall]

Date: 18 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 173

Document type: Original

Communicates certain provisions of the last will of the late Earl of Lindsey [Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl, who died in 1666], and also of the Earl's Deed of Settlement, upon occasion of his marriage; - the proceedings & position of the Trustees thereunder, and the connection of Colonel Edward Cooke [One of the Commissioners of the Court of Claims at Dublin, under the Acts of Settlement] with affairs now pending. ...

Asks the Duke of Ormond's good offices with Cooke that, upon better thought of the matter, he may be brought "not to oppose the good intentions of the deceased Lord". ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 18 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 424-426

Document type: Holograph

Gives an account of the Earl of Sandwich's mission to the Court of Spain. ...

From Portugal, the freshest letters says that "with the style of King any King shall content them; but without it, nothing". ...

Adds, at great length, other particulars of the political situation, abroad and at home, together with an account of late proceedings in Parliament. ...


Ormond to Anglesey

Written from: Dublin

Date: 18 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 18-19

Document type: Copy

At the next sitting in Council, will call for the orders interrupting the levy of money upon the soldiers' lots & will do all that shall appear to be just ... "for the taking off [In MS.: "of"] our hands". ...

Has sent his proxy to the Lord Chancellor [Clarendon] in blank. ... It will be well if, by any means, the [Cattle] Bill may stop in the Lords' House. But whatever shall become of it, it is very plain that the next year's revenue [of Ireland] will not answer the certain charge. ...

Adds particulars concerning the pay of the army of Ireland, and other matters of finance. ...


Petition of Captain William Hamilton to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 18 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 101

Document type: Breviates

Arrears of pay. [With the order thereupon.]


Petition of John Beadon to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 19 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 103

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Roger Chamberlaine. [With the order thereupon.]


Petition of Lieutenant Richard Browne to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 19 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 103 & v

Document type: Copies

Recites particulars of military service in Ireland & in England; and also the causes of petitioner's present imprisonment, for refusing to serve in the Dublin militia.

Prays the Lord Lieutenant's order for his liberation. ... [With an order of reference thereupon.]


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

Written from: Dublin

Date: 19 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 104

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against Colonel Cary Dillon, & others. [With the order thereupon.]


A News-Letter, addressed to Sir George Lane

Date: [19 December?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 76-77

Document type:

Gives the purport of advices received from Brittany, Normandy, and other parts of France; and from Hamburgh.

Notices the marriage, in the presence of the King, of Lord Yester, with a daughter of the Earl of Lauderdale.

Mentions the preparations made in Holland to waylay the British fleet from Gottenburg...


Warrants and Licenses, by the Duke of Ormond, on army affairs in Ireland relating chiefly to deliveries of arms and ammunition, and to furloughs

Date: 19-31 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 15v-16

Document type: Copies; and Breviates (ten entries)


Theobald Dillon to Lord Viscount Dillon

Written from: Dreymill

Date: 20 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 185

Document type: Holograph

A further report of the ravages committed by the rebel, Dudley Costello & of the military operations against him ... In describing the former, the reporter writes: ... "He burned three towns of my farm in Gallen, ... and four villages in Costello". ...


Nicholas to Ormond

Written from: West Horsley

Date: 20 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 179

Document type: Holograph

Asks his Grace's good offices in respect to the payment of a sum of £2,000, assigned to the writer, out of certain moneys payable by adventurers and soldiers, under provisions of the Settlement Acts for Ireland. ...


Petition of Margaret Moore, otherwise Taileure to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 20 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 103v

Document type: Copy

Plaint of undue quartering of soldiers upon petitioner in her temporary residence in the town of Drogheda.


Annexed:

An order of reference, to the Earl of Drogheda, of the petition of Margaret Moore

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 20 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 103v

Document type: Copy


Petition of Henry Warren, esquire to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 20 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 104v

Document type: Copies

Plaint of debt against the Lord Viscount Dungannon. [With the order thereupon.]


Petition of Corporal John Pegg to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 20 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 105

Document type: Copy

Plaint of debt against Quartermaster William Lorraine of Colonel Moses Hill's regiment. [With the order thereupon.]


Theobald Dillon to Lord Dillon

Written from: Loghlin

Date: 21 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 183

Document type: Holograph

A report of military operations against the rebel, Costello; and of other incidents in the province of Connaught.


Opinion of Counsel learned [Sir William Domvile, Attorney General of Ireland; Sir John Temple, Solicitor-General; and Sir Nicholas Plunkett], upon the case of James, Duke of Ormond, in relation to his Grace's interest under certain clauses of the 'Explanatory Act of Settlement', for Ireland

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 21 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 248

Document type: Certified Copy


A like Opinion upon the clauses of the 'Act of Explanation', aforesaid in their relation to the "Draught of a letter" of direction, to be offered, on the Duke of Ormond's behalf, for His Majesty's signature

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 51, fol(s). 250-251

Document type: Copy; without signature


Lord Dillon to William Summers ["To my worthy friend, Mr William Summers, at Dublin Castle]

Written from: Kilfaghnie

Date: 22 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 187

Document type: Holograph

Communicates [Apparently for the inforamtion of the Lord Lieutenant then - it would seem - absent from Dublin for Christmas] an account of the military operations in Connaught, against Dudley Costello & other rebels; and of the state of the province, generally. ...

Desires to be furnished with some additional military stores; and also with warrants giving increased powers for the apprehension of criminals. ...


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 22 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 428

Document type: Original; subscribed & signed

Communicates late proceedings in both Houses of Parliament, and also at a conference between them; at which latter, "the Duke of Buckingham, and the Marquess of Dorchester, had an unbecoming contest for place. ... Both peers were sent prisoners to the Tower, and are this day released, "upon condition to be made friends". ...


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin

Date: 22 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 75-76

Document type: Copy

Desires to take longer time to consider of the Earl's very pertinent reflections on the insurrection in Scotland; & to defer the execution of some measures prudently advised by his Lordship, until they can meet. ...

Gives some particulars concerning the reprisal-claims of the Duke of York, now pending, under provisions of the Settlement Acts; also various details of military and naval matters.


Ormond to Captain Thomas Caulfield [Vice President of Connaught]

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 22 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 91v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Has received the Vice President's letter of 19th instant ... Gives further directions concerning the cessing [In MS.: "sessing"] of soliders, - "according to ancient custom in such cases", - upon the harbourers of Costello or his adherents.


Ormond to Orrery

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 22 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 91v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Inquiries are to be made concerning the ship 'George', of London, lately cast away in Kerry, and an inventory is to be taken of the goods.


Encloses:

Mr Amory to Sir George Lane

Date: [December] 1666

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

Document type: Breviate?

Particulars concerning the loss on the coast of Kerry, of the ship 'George', of London.


Ormond to Sir Francis Peisley

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 22 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 92

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Has seen Sir Francis' letter to Sir George Lane, together with the examination of Lawrence Butler, in which there is mention of John Carroll of Ballintemple, - who is to be apprehended & secured until further order be given concerning him.


Captain Thomas Caulfield to Ormond

Written from: Dunavon[?]

Date: 23 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 177

Document type: Holograph

Notwithstanding the indefatigable efforts of his Majesty's army in this province to put down Costello, he is so fostered and sheltered by his partisans, that those endeavours are hitherto defeated.

Since the burning of Castlemore & Ballylehan, Costello has not headed any party, but "skulks privately in the country" ...


Cypher [used in the correspondence of the Duke of Ormond] with the Lord Conway

Date: 24 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 50, fol(s). 433-434

Document type: Original. Endorsed, & dated, by Lane.


Petition of Sir Daniel Treswell to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 24 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 104

Document type: Copies

Plaint of error against the Clerk of Stores, concerning the muster of petitioner's foot-company. [With the order thereon.]


The state of the account of the Customs and Excise of Ireland, for the year ended the 25 December 1666

Date: 25 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 30

Document type: Certified Copy


Bull to Wharton

Written from: Dublin

Date: 25 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 53-54

Document type: Original

Has received Lord Wharton's letter of December 11. States certain proceedings in the Court of Claims. Requests to be furnished with a letter from Sir Heneage Finch to Sir Edward Dering on the placing of deficiencies [of land claimed], and another, to like effect, either for the Lord Treasurer, or Lord Chancellor, of Ireland, to the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas of that Kingdom.


Lord Dillon to William Summors

Written from: Kilfarghnie

Date: 26 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 189

Document type: Holograph

Continues his account of the operations against the rebels of Connaught. Desires that his correspondent will "tell his Grace [the Lord Lieutenant] that if it were not for fear of 'Magna Charta', and his Grace's displeasure, I would subdue all the rebels in Connaught in ten days; - which is more than his Majesty's forces do, [In MS.: "does"], or the militia".


Thomas Caulfield to Ormond

Written from: Dunamon

Date: 26 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 36, fol(s). 52

Document type: Holograph

In obedience to his Grace's commands, returns the names of certain persons apprehended on the charge of sedition, and also of such "as by the best observation" the writer could get, "are most to be suspected" ... Adds some other details of military service. ...


Ormond to Mountrath

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 26 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 92v

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Has seen the Earl's letter to Sir William Flower. ... Expects the continuance of his Lordship's endeavours for his Majesty's service, therein mentioned.


Enclosure 1:

Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the supply, to the Earl of Mountrath, of the aid of certain military forces, for his Majesty's servce in Connaught? [No place mentioned]

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: [26 December] 1666

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


Enclosure 2:

Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, for the supply, to the Earl of Mountrath, of of certain arms and ammunition, from his Majesty's Ordnance Stores

Written from: [Dublin Castle]

Date: [26 December] 1666

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


Bishop of Down & Connor to Ormond

Written from: Lisburn St. Stephen

Date: [26 December] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 201

Document type: Holograph

The late rebellion in Scotland hath too much verified our fears in these parts that the indulgence lately given to the Presbyterians, who were sent away, & since permitted to re-enter ... At first they clancularly did ecclesiastical offices, took & kept the people from their parish-churches, & received pensions ... Of late, they keep their conventicles more publicly, ... and have given too much cause to believe that the Scotch rebellion was either born in Ireland, or put to nurse here ... "I speak not this by chance or passion, but can prove where Crookeshank was entertained, for many days together, before the rebellion" ...


Ormond to Anglesey

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 27 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 144, fol(s). 92

Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]

Measures are to be taken in order to the bringing in, - "to answer his Majesty's occasions here", - of certain subsidies, due by "the Lords wo have their honours here, & their estates in England". ...


Therewith transmitted:

Certificates of subsidies due to his Majesty [by certain Peers of Ireland, who reside in England]

Date: 1666

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

Document type: "Delivered to Colonel Lytton, 28 December"


St. Albans to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 27 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 308

Document type: Original

Accredits Mr Martin Ffolkes, who will receive His Grace's orders in the writer's "little affairs". ...


Ormond to Ossory

Written from: Dublin

Date: 28 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 201

Document type: Copy

... All that the writer will now say on the prospect of public affars ... is ... that he knows not any "conditions like to be proposed to, or - as it may be called - imposed on, the King which are not more eligible than the continuance of the war. I have made up this opinion," he adds, "upon the greatest application of all my faculties to the consideration of the state of things, at home & abroad". ...

Some directions concerning the personal affairs of Lord John Butler are added, ... and also a desire to be informed who appeared for, & who against, Lord Ossory, in the late proceedings in the House of Lords; and particularly of the course taken by Lord Anglesey therein.


Broderick to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 29 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). [not given]

Document type: Holograph

... There is a poem, of the last summer's sea-fights [Annus Mirablilis [Originally dedicated to the Corporation of London. The prefatory letter (to Howard) bears date from "Charlton, November 10"; so that the printing must have occupied little less than two months]: ... 1666], by Mr Dryden, in the press ... [my] next letter shall certainly bring it [to the Duke]. ... H.R.H. [Duke of York] "is indeed very ill, and disdaining the course of physic prescribed by his physicians for an inveterate calamity (incident to ancient lovers), is like to run much hazard". ...

Notices pending proceedings as to the Patent of the Canary Company; and adds: - "to mingle trifles with things serious", - that he would have sent "Tom Coriate" [Crudities, in five months' Travels [Published in 1611]] back to his Grace, by Mr Gaghan, had he called before leaving for Ireland; but will certainly send it through Lord C.J. Smythe, who will present it with the present writer's duty.


Conway to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 29 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 197-198

Document type: Holograph

The 'Irish Bill' sticks at the word "nuisance". ... My Lord Ashley moved that the word might be changed into "felony" or "praemunire". My Lord Chancellor [Clarendon] drolled very well, & said he thought it might as well be called "adultery". ...

After a very copious account of other parliamentary & political incidents, at home; the writer proceeds to notice the advices from Scotland, brought by Lord Carlisle, who (he says) told the King: - "That those who engaged in the late rising were zealous hot-headed people, like our fifth-monarchy men, [but] incited by the gentry to try the issue & success; intending to follow when these had broke the ice" ... "If the French send 3,000 or 4,000 men into Scotland, the next summer, ... the whole kingdom will join with them". ...


Ormond to the Bishop of Down & Connor

Written from: Dublin

Date: 29 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 202

Document type: Copy

Thinks it necessary that the Bishop should give a list of those Scottish ministers who are returned into this kingdom, and the names of those landlords & others who authorise the raising of pensions from the people, ... and also who they were that entertained Crookeshank. ... Kennedy, late of Temple Patrick, who preached a seditious sermon, should be apprehended. ...


Anglesey to Ormond

Written from: London

Date: 29 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 217, fol(s). 362-363

Document type: Holograph

Has received the Duke's letters, [written from Dublin] of the 8th and 18th December. A conference between the two Houses of Parliament upon the Cattle-Bill has been appointed.

"The Duke of Buckingham, upon a quarrel with the Marquess of Dorchester, hath been again in prison, which makes my Lord of Ossory pass for the more peaceable man."

Adds some particulars of army affairs; of matters affecting the Revenue of Ireland and of incidents at Court.

Mentions the impeachment of Lord Mordaunt.


Arlington to Ormond

Written from: Whitehall

Date: 30 December 1666, 9 o'clock PM

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 430

Document type: Holograph

An examination, herewith enclosed [But not now appended to this letter], is sent by his Majesty's command, that Ireland may be put into the best posture of defence that may be ...


William Leving [?] to Lane

Written from: Original

Date: [circa 30 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 181

Document type: Original

Communicates information as to the writer's late meeting with "a very considerable person, who escaped from York three years since, and was much concerned in that great plot". ...


Opinion of the King's Counsel [in Ireland], concerning my Lord Lieutenant [Duke of Ormond]'s, £50,000 granted by the 'Act of Explanation'

Written from: [Dublin]

Date: 31 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 40, fol(s). 704

Document type: Copy


Archbishop of Canterbury to Ormond

Written from: Lambeth House

Date: 31 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 204

Document type: Holograph [with seal of arms]

Mr Matthew Locke, Secretary to the Duke of Albemarle, humbly desires the Lord Lieutenant's recommendation to his Majesty of a suit for the reversionary grant of the office of Auditor-General in Ireland, now held by James Ware, esquire. ...


Encloses

The humble petition of Matthew Lock to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 206

Document type: Holograph

Recites particulars of petitioner's previous service in Ireland ...

Prays for his Grace's recommendation to the King in the suit for the reversionary grant of the office of Auditor-General in Ireland.


Sir W. Temple to Ormond

Written from: Brussels

Date: 31 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 47, fol(s). 314-315

Document type: Holograph

The last packet from Spain gives more hope & discourse of peace with Portugal, than came of late ...

Upon the difficulty made by his Majesty in condescending upon a neutral place [for treaty] the Dutch have a mind to save their honour, by engaging France once more to undertake it. ... They have promised, the writer is assured, to make good what terms soever the French King shall be able to induce his Majesty to agree to. ...

Adds, at great length, an account of passing incidents, chiefly political, in various parts of Europe.


Petition of Colonel Chidley Coote to the Duke of Ormond

Written from: Dublin

Date: 31 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 104v

Document type: Copies

Sir Henry Tynte, Knight, now deceased, stood indebted to petitioner, under bond, and left, as his executrix, Lady Tynte his wife, now remarried to Colonel Roger Osborne ...

Prays his Grace's license to proceed, in due course of law, against Colonel Osborne aforesaid, not withstanding his military capacity.

[With the order as prayed for.]


Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, concerning subsidies to be raised in the baronies of Costello-Gallen and Clanmorris, in the county of Mayo

Written from: Dublin Castle

Date: 31 December 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 163, fol(s). 17v-18

Document type: Copy

Warrant, by the Duke of Ormond, concerning subsidies to be raised in the baronies of Costello-Gallen and Clanmorris, in the county of Mayo, for the victualling of certain forces employed, under viscount Dillon of Costello, for the apprehension & bringing to justice of thieves and robbers "in some parts of the province" of Connaught.


Memorandum, [by the Bishop of Meath], to move his Grace the [Duke of Ormond] Lord Lieutenant, in the following particulars [in relation, chiefly to seditious practises in Ulster]

Date: Undated [December? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 138

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.


An order, by the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, for the due registering of the names of all persons transporting themselves out of that Kingdom, at any of the ports thereof

Date: Undated [December? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 208

Document type: Minute; without signature


Petition of Conley Geoghehan, esquire, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Date: [December?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 205

Document type: Original

Recites the circumstances under which certain certificates, drawn up under provisions of the 'Act of Settlement' for Ireland have been drawn up. ...

Prays that his Grace will be pleased not to issue any warrants grounded upon "certificates", so signed as aforesaid.


Subjoined thereto 1:

A list of the names of the persons" that pass their certificates" [as above recited]

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 96


Subjoined thereto 2:

Sir Nicholas Plunket to Sir George Lane

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 207

Document type: Original

At the writer's audience of the Lord Lieutenant, he understood his Grace's directions upon Mr Geoghean's petition to be to the effect prefixed, viz.


Subjoined thereto 3:

Minute of an order by the Lord Lieutenant upon the "petition" of Conly Geoghegan, esquire

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 207


The state of Cory Dillon's humble suit, for compensation of the wardship of Robert Talbot

Date: [December? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 212

Document type: Original


The names of those [Commissioners] who are [under the 'Act of Settlement'], to distribute the money arising from the [levy of] "two-pence an acre"

Date: [December] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 217

Document type: Original. The title - words in [brackets] excepted - is that given to the list by the Lord Lieutenant's autograph endorsement


The state of Cormack Ryan's case [under certain provisos of the Land-Settlement Acts, of Ireland; and before the Commissioners fo the Court of Claims]

Date: [December? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 219

Document type: Original


Informations concerning James Patrick, a Presbyterian minister from Scotland [now resident in Ireland. Sent to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant]

Date: [December? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 36, fol(s). 14

Document type: Original


Instructions, by the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, for the examination of certain Presbyterian ministers, alleged to be accomplices in seditious plots against the Government

Date: [December? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 36, fol(s). 16

Document type: Minute [without date or address]


Petition of Charles Macarthy Reagh to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Date: [December? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 221

Document type: Original

Recites the circumstances under which a certain sub-plantation upon the lands of petitioner, and those related to him, threaten the "irradication and utter destruction of an ancient & loyal family & house" ...

Prays that his Grace will interpose his mercy & favour to prevent the evils threatened as aforesaid.


[A schedule of the name of] the present possessors of the Lord Mountgarrett's estates [in the counties of Kilkenny and of Wexford]

Date: [December? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 221

Document type: Original

The total acreage scheduled is 11,698 acres.


Directions by the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; under provisions of the Act of 1666, Explanatory of the Land-Settlement Act of 1661; on behalf of Edward, Lord Viscount Galway

Date: Undated [December 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 224

Document type: Copy of Minute


The Lord Ikerrin's case [before the Commissioners of Claims, under the Lands-Settlement Acts of Ireland]

Date: [December?] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 230-231

Document type: Original [misbound]


Arlington to Ormond

Date: December? 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 237v

Document type: Breviate

Communicates an examination sent to Lord Arlington from Cornwall; with reference to the plots in Ireland.


A minute of certain plans for the defence of the sea-coasts of Ireland, in the event of a French invasion

Date: [December? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 35, fol(s). 253

Document type: Original. Without date, signature, address, or endorsement. [See the letter of Thomas Amory, of January 17 1666].


[Considerations concerning] "the due use & improvement of the several surveys, inquisitions, and other accounts, which within these seven years last past have been taken of the lands, inhabitants, and other things, in Ireland ... by setting up certain industries relating to them"

Date: [December? 1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 40, fol(s). 628-629

Document type: Original [without signature, date, or address]


Arlington to Lane

Written from: [Whitehall]

Date: [December] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 78

Document type: Holograph

Advices have been received from Harwich, of the passing of the Gottenburgh fleet of merchantmen, to a considerable number; the writers adding that, there, it was not doubted that "the whole was made up, by what must be come into other neighbouring ports".

At Aldborough, thirty five ships have been counted, in the day-time; besides many that passed at night.

The character and history of the Dutch Admiral Bundt, "who commanded the squadron met with by Captain Robinson on the 26th", is also noticed. ...


A News-Letter; addressed to Sir George Lane

Date: [December] 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 138-139

Letters Patent have issued, under the Great Seal of England, creating a Commission for examining and stating the Public Accounts relating to the war, and to the prizes taken from the enemy.

A body of seamen on being paid off at Dover, marched to London; attacked and entered the gaol of Newgate, and, having freed three fellow-seamen there imprisoned (for having pulled down a house of ill-repute); on effecting their object, quietly withdrew themselves.

An impeachment of misdemeanours has been drawn against the Lord Viscount Mordaunt ...


My Lord Ranelagh's addition to his former offer [concerning the maintenance of Lady Ranelagh, and of their unmarried daughters]

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 389

Document type: Copy; certified by Sir George Lane


Account of the distribution, by Captain Roger Cuttance, of Gratuities given by the King and the Duke of York to the officers and crew of the ship under his command.

Date: Undated [ 1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 617-618

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Lord Sandwich: - "Captain Cuttance's distribution of the Gratuities to our ship"

Note. There is nothing on the face of this paper, or in its endorsement, to connect it with Lord Sandwich's voyage into Spain, but it is probable that the gratuties were given on that occasion.


A list of the ships belonging to His Majesty's Navy Royal; with the number of men and guns, and the dividing of htem into three squadrons ...

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 254

Document type: A printed broadside. London 1666


A report of the Earl of Anglesey, Lord Holles and Sir John Trevor, about the disposal of Irish forfeited estates

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 63

Document type: Note, only. From Bishop Stearne's MSS.


Second petition, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, of Aaron Stiff, in a plaint of debt against John Browne, defendant

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 154, fol(s). 79

Document type: Copies

[With the order made thereupon.]


[An order] by His Majesty's Commissioners for Executing the Acts of Settlement and Explanation [for Ireland, in relation to the claim of Philip Lord Wharton, against Richard Uriell, for lands in the possession of the latter ]

Date: 1666

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 16

Document type: Copy


Notes, by Thomas Carte, relating to various grants of lands in Ireland, from 18 Car. II (1666), to 29 Car. II (1677)

Date: [ 1666-1677]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 64, fol(s). 481


Observations [by Sir William Petty], upon the design of transporting live cattle [from Ireland] to Rotterdam in Holland. [Submitted to the Earl of Ossory]

Date: [c.1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 40, fol(s). 555

Document type: Original [Apparently in Petty's hand]


An abstract of several inconveniences that will necessarily attend the Kingdom of England, in case exportation of cattle from Ireland to England shall be prohibited. By Thomas Amory.

Date: [c.1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 40, fol(s). 557-558

Document type: Original


An expedient for encouraging the shipping and navigation of Ireland; conceived to be by raising cordage and cable within the kingdom. [Submitted to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant].

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 40, fol(s). 632


Queries, by Sir George Downing, concerning the growth of hemp in Ireland.

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 40, fol(s). 633

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Lane.

With answers thereto, by the writer of the paper which is calendared immediately above.


Petition of divers adventurers [for lands in Ireland] to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant ... of Ireland

Date: [1665/1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 221

Document type: Original; on vellum [ten signatures]

Recite the absence from the 'Explanatory Act' (December 1665), of certain provisions, contained in the original 'Act of Settlement' on behalf of petitioners & of others concerned with them as "adventurers" ...

Pray that such effectual means may be taken, - in such manner as the Lord Lieutenant shall think fit, - "as may secure & continue to them the benefit of the 'Act of Settlement'" aforesaid.


Petition of the Committee of Adventurers [for lands in Ireland], sitting at Grocers' Hall, London, to James, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Date: [1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 222

Document type: Copy

Recite the interest of the petitioners in certain lands, upon some of which a chief-rent was anciently payable to the Duke ...

Recite also the purpose of a clause in the late 'Act of Explanation', "relating to lands claimed by sea service", whereupon some question hath arisen whether petitioners may not be deprived of their said lands".

Pray for his Grace's confirmation of their interest therein.


Observations humbly represented [by Lord Athunry, Sir Nicholas Plunkett, and Sir Robert Talbot] to your Grace [the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]

Date: [1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 265-266

Document type: Original

Observations humbly represented [by Lord Athunry, Sir Nicholas Plunkett, and Sir Robert Talbot] to your Grace [the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland], upon the opinions delivered in by his Majesty's Commissioners for Executing the 'Act of Settlement' [of Ireland], and the 'Act of Explanation' of the same, in relation to the due execution of the said Acts, pursuant to former poropsals, and other observations.


[A list of the names of] Commissioners of valuation [for lands, in the several counties of Cavan, Longford, Leitrim, Roscommon, Sligo, Meath, and Westmeath]

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 618


Exceptions against a Bill, now in debate at the Council-Board [at Dublin], and intended to be passed as an Act [for the enrolment of all assurances and leases of lands], in this present Parliament ...

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 769-770


Speech of Sir George Lane, in the House of Commons of Ireland, concerning a purposed address to the Lord Lieutenant, for the punishment of John Chambers and others for publishing a certain 'Declaration', which had already received the censure of the House

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 771

Document type: Minute, and Copy


An address of thanks from the House of Commons of Ireland, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant, for the communication to the House of certain letters from the King

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 44, fol(s). 772

Document type: Copy. In Lane's hand.


Particulars of the value of certain church livings, in the county of Tipperary; and of the rights of presentation thereto. Addressed to the Duke of Ormond.

Date: [c.1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 19

Document type: Original


A list of several impropriate rectories, and tithes, in the Diocese of Dublin

Date: [c.1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 21-23

Document type: Original


A note of the names of all the Dominican Priors of Ireland

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 327


The names of such monasteries, of the Dominican Order [in the several provinces of Ireland], wherein Priors are not named at present

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 327

Document type: In a different hand, from that of the preceding list of Priors


A note of Roman-Catholic convents, chapels, and schools, set up in Kilkenny; and removed thence, after the proclamation. With the names of some priests

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 335

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.


A memorial of the ministerial service and labours, in the Episcopal Church of Scotland, of John Glendie. Addressed by him to the Duke of Ormond.

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 454-455

Document type: Original


[A list of the] names of the old proprietors of such lands as were granted to your Grace [the Duke of Ormond], by the Commissioners of the Court of Claims, under the 'Act of Settlement'

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 54-55

Document type: Original


Notes upon the pay and allowances of the Viceroyalty of Ireland, in the times respectively of Thomas, Earl of Strafford; of Robert, Earl of Leicester; and of James, Duke of Ormond

Date: [c.1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 91

Document type: Original? In Sir G. Lane's hand


Endorsed thereupon are:

Notes concerning certain branches of the Customs' Revenue of Ireland and concerning the Phoenix Park

Date: Undated [c.1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 92


[An abstract of] several entertainments payable to his Grace [James, Duke of Ormond]... Lord Lieutenant [of Ireland] upon the establishment

Date: Undated [c.1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). [not given]

[The total sum is £10,999: 4s. 1d.]


A note of the Lord Lieutenant's entertainment, by the establishment commencing 1 April, 1666

Date: Undated [c.1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 101

[The total sum is £9,786: 0s. 10d.]


Mr Buck's narrative of the robbery [committed by mounted burglars in the house of Sir Walter Walker, a civilian, living in Hertfordshire near to Moor-Park]

Written from: [Moor Park]

Date: Undated [c.1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 103

Document type: Copy. Endorsed by Lane. [Probably, an extract from a letter].


An account of such lands within the kingdom of Ireland, as now are in the possession of ... the Duke of Ormond, which were not in his possession, or in the possession of any of his lessees or mortgagees, on the 22 of October, 1641; and which are like always to continue in his Grace & his heirs

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 105

Document type: Original


Draught of a proposed Act of Parliament, concerning the improvement of the bay and harbour of Dublin

Date: [1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 87


Petition of Claudius, Earl of Abercorn to the King

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 274

Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.

Recites the advancement by petitioner's father, James, Earl of Abercorn, to the then Lord Treasurer of Scotland, the Earl of Traguhair, of several considerable sums of money for the service of his late Majesty ...

Prays his Majesty's license to proceed in the execution of "an agreement made by him with her Grace the Duchess of Portsmouth, and the Lord Kingston's Commissioners, for such lands as, by ... your petitioner's father's neglect, are left vested in your Majesty"; and also for the grant of a lease of the remainder of the estate of Christopher Fagan of Feltrim ["Feltrim Castle was the seat of the ancient family of Fagan, long proprietors of the surrounding district; it was made nominally the prison, but really the ... home of Gerald 16th Earl of Desmond, - the proprietor, Christopher Fagan, refusing to exchange the character of host for that of 'keeper' " (Daily Gazetteer of Ireland, sub voce). Hither, James II came, after the battle of the Boyne], upon his dying; petitioner being heir-at-law to said Fagan, if he die without heirs-male.


Petition of Sir Patrick Barnewall to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and to the Council

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 290

Document type: Original

Prays their Lordships' consideration of the 'case' annexed to his petition; and for some effectual provision, on account of petitioner's losses, therein recited.


Subjoined 1:

The case of Sir Patrick Barnewall, Bart., [concerning his losses, and those of his father, during the late usurpation in Ireland

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 292

Document type: Original


Subjoined 2:

Draught of an order, by the Lord Lieutenant & Council of Ireland, upon the petition of Sir Patrick Barnewall

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 294

Document type: Endorsed by Ormond


Petition of Sir Richard Barnewall, Baronet, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 296

Document type: Original; [bearing the endorsement: "Received of Sir G[eorge] L[ane], 5 July 1667"]

Prays an order for the grant of a reprise under circumstances stated.


Petition of Sir Valentine Browne, Baronet, and of Captain Thomas Browne, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 316

Document type: Original

Recite that by decree of the late Court of Claims both petitioners were declared to be "innocents" according to the provisions of the 'Act of Settlement'; and also that "by the strict letter" of the late 'Act of Explanation', they are made liable to the payment of certain quit-rents, under circumstances stated. ...

Pray that the levying of such quit-rents may be respected until there be further inquiry into the matter at issue.


Subjoined:

Particulars of lands in the counties of Kerry and of Cork, decreed to Sir Valentine Browne, Baronet, & to Thomas Browne, esquire. ... By Thomas Eliot, Deputy Surveyor-General of Ireland

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 318

Document type: Original


Petition of the ancient citizens & inhabitants of the City of Cork to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Date: [1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 360

Document type: Original

Recite their sufferings and losses, and also various proceedings taken for their relief, in the way of recommendatory letters and reports [ranging, in date from 21 July, 1660, to 20 July, 1665, inclusive; and herein enumerated in detail]; and the obstacles which are interposed in the way of any practical or beneficial result from the same ...

Pray that his Grace will be pleased to limit a time certain for the hearing and determining of the petitioners' pretensions, and for giving due effect to his Grace's reports, & to his Majesty's royal letters, issued in their behalf.


Petition of the Earl of Westmeath, and the rest of the fifty-four nominees mentioned in ... the 'Explanatory Act'; and of the Lord of Gormanstown & others, of the ancient proprietors, mentioned in the said Act

Date: Undated [1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 432

Document type: Original

Pray, that according to provisions of the Act aforesaid, petitioners may respectively be put in possession of the 'retrenched part' of their former estates, and "that a custodiam may be granted to them of so much land as may be sufficient to reprize the unretrenched part" thereof ...


Petition of Sir Thomas Esmonde, Knight and Baronet, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 494

Document type: Original

Prays to be admitted to the possession of the lands of Ballinghore and of other lands passed to petitioner's now wife, by her deceased husband Tobit Purcell, of Longhmore, & now in the possession of Colonel Fitzpatrick.


Petition of Conly Geoghegan, esquire, to the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 519

Document type: Original

Is one of the 'nominees' named in the late 'Act of Explanation' & had the contiguity of his 2,000 acres to his mansion-house duly ascertained in the Court of Claims; that done, petitioner left Dublin. During his absence several persons, named in an annexed 'Constat', obtained in the Court of Claims certificates for lands, parcel of the said 2,000 acres. ... He prays the Lord Lieutenant's order for stay of such certificates & for recall, or refusal, of warrants thereupon.


Annexed:

A list of the name of persons, who obtained certificates, in the Court of Claims, as aforesaid

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 521


The state of the case of Teaque Mahony [in respect to his claim, in right of his wife, the duaghter of Charles Carthy of Kilmeedy, deceased, to a lease of the castle, towns and lands of Kilmeedy, in the county of Cork, aforesaid ]

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 557

Document type: Original


A brief state of the Earl of Kildare's case, concerning the £500 per annum, granted to him, & to his heirs, by the 'Explanatory Act' for the Settlement of ... Ireland

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 651

Document type: Original


A list of the [lands comprised in the] Lord Viscount Mountgarrett's estate [with the names of the present possessors]

Date: [c. 1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 719-722

Document type: Original


[A schedule of the] lands belonging to Nicholas Whyte, esquire, in Upper Ormond, Lower Ormond, and Orra. Addressed to the Duke of Ormond.

Date: [c.1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 723

Document type: Original


Clauses proposed to be introduced in the pending 'Bill of Explanation' ... of the Act of Settlement for Ireland; relating to the estates in that kingdom of the Duke and Duchess of Ormond

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 68, fol(s). 337-338

Document type: Draught

Clauses proposed to be introduced in the pending 'Bill of Explanation' ... of the Act of Settlement for Ireland; relating to the estates in that kingdom of the Duke and Duchess of Ormond. With corrections and additions in the hand of Sir George Lane, and iwth remarks in another hand.


Lord Orrery's Cypher, [in his correspondence] with the Lord Primate Boyle

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 69, fol(s). 143

Document type: Copy; in Carte's hand


Memorandum concerning the marriage, in 1666, of Sir Henry Bennet, afterwards Earl of Arlington; and concerning the beginning of the treaty for the marriage of the Princess Mary of York, with the Prince of Orange. Sent to Sir Robert Southwell in 1688.

Date: [1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 69, fol(s). 482

Document type: Original


Liste des Navires du Roy de France

Date: [1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 655-656

[With the names of the repsective commanders, the number of men and of guns. It includes the names of three ships "taken from the English", and of six others taken from the Algerines.]

French.


La Liste des Navires du Roy de Dennemarke

Date: [1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 657

French.


La Liste des Commandeurs des Navires de Guerre, Soubs l'Equadre d'Amsterdam

Date: [1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 659-660

[To which are added similar lists of the squadrons of Harlingen, Zealand, Rotterdam & Hoorn] ...

French.


List of the English fleets, as they are disposed into squadrons

Date: [1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 661

[(1) Red; (2) White; (3) Blue; (4) Ships that came from the streights with Sir Jeremy Smith; (5) Merchant ships taken up to serve as men of war.] ...


Considerations in reference to the Dutch war. [By James, Duke of Ormond].

Date: [1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 710-711

Document type: Holograph


Lists of Deputy-Lieutenants for the county of Huntingdon

Date: [Undated, 1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 74, fol(s). 196

Document type: Minute


An Act against importing Cattle from Ireland

Date: [1666] 18 Car. II c. 2

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 80, fol(s). 681

Document type: Copy

[With note of its expiration]


Memorandums and hints how a Justice of Peace that is willing to be favourable, in avoiding the conviction of ministers upon the "Five Mile Act", [passed October 1665] may avoid danger; ... and how a minister ... may carry things to his own advantage ...

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 161


Another copy of the same memoranda. With variations.

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 163-164


Memorandums concerning the execution of the "Act concerning Conventicles". [By Lord Wharton?]

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 165-166

Document type: Endorsed, by Lord Wharton, "Observations upon the 'Act of Conventicles'. First Copy."


Extract [or Breviate] of the Act of Conventicles

Date: [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 182

Document type: Chiefly in Lord Wharton's hand

[See, also, under 1664]


Several instances wherein clauses enacted and confirmed by his Majesty's declaration [of November 25, 1660], and the first Act of Settlement [for Ireland], are repealed and made void by the second [Act, or Act of Explanation; 1665]

Date: [1666]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 63

Document type: Breviate. From Bishop Stearne's MSS.


"Lord Roberts' [ John Robartes, second Lord Robartes, afterwards Earl of Radnor] objections to the payment of the Duke of Ormond's £5,000 per annum"

Date: Undated [1666?]

Shelfmark: MS. Carte 131, fol(s). 224

Note. These objections relate to the mode of payment, and to certain alleged priorities of claim on the source prescribed by the King's warrant.


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