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Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 1 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 459
Document type: Copy
... Has thought it the most proper time to represent the condition of things here, when the storm seemed to be farther off than it is now apprehended to be. Having done so, will make no melancholy repetitions, which in the throngs of other difficulties might rather distract those at the helm, than relieve those here. ...
Hopes that his son Arran will be at the meeting of Parliament, and with him Sir Cyril Wyche. Lord Longford has a wife, & with her a considerable process (suit-at-law) to attend to. Will hope that the wise & temperate may outnumber the furious and the ambitious. ...
A writer unnamed to William Wharton
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: 2 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 154-155
Communication by the King to the Prince of Orange of a Project for Peace received from France. Incidents in Court and Town.
A News-Letter [probably from Sir Joseph Williamson]; addressed to Colonel Fitzpatrick
Date: 4 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 617-618
Document type: Original
The prorogation of the Parliament caused the greatest damp and consternation that can be imagined. The City were so alarmed that they chained their streets; put extraordinary guards; and strengthened the gates. Upon which the Mayor & Aldermen were summoned before the Council. ...
Particulars are added, at great length, of various propositions & debates concerning the political affairs of Ireland.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 5 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 48-50
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Has questioned the Farmers [of the Revenue] upon the points directed in the Secretary's letter of December 22, and has given them the Heads of Inquiry. ...
Adds particulars concerning (1) the examination of John [read William, so corrected in a subsequent letter] Douglas ...; (2) the landing here of the officers of Colonel Dungan's regiment (lately serving in France). ...
A Copy of the Examination of John [William] Douglas, "touching the disorders, and designs of greater", in Scotland
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 48-50
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 5 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 50-51
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Further explanations concerning the charges of the Northern Expedition. ...
Particulars of the Charge the King has been, is, and will be, at, whilst the party of men designed for the service of Scotland shall be kept in readiness to be sent thither
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 51
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 5 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 51-52
Document type: Copy
Particulars concerning William Douglas, lately examined upon the plots in Scotland. ...
For ought the writer sees, the Provost [of Trinity College] is put to the choice of being no Provost or no married. The writer heartily acquiesces in the King's decision & reasons. ...
Adds in a PS.: "I am fully satisfied with my son Ossory's voyage & design, - which I cannot say of all he has laid and taken".
A News-Letter. Sent to the Duke of Ormond.
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 5 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 217
The Earl of Dunbar, having "committed many extravagances of a very high nature", is now committed to the Tower of London.
The Duke of Norfolk is dead at Padua.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 6 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 460
Document type: Copy
Applications have been made by Lord Ranelagh's partners for a new Commission. ... Mr Stepney, ... and Mr John Hayes, ... do not agree who shall be Commissioners, nor in other material circumstances. ... The addresses are sent to Mr Secretary Coventry, with proper remarks upon them by the Lord Lieutenant & Council. ... It is the opinion of the King's learned counsel here ... that his Majesty is not under ... obligation, by his covenants with the undertakers, to give them any new Commission. ...
Adds, at considerable length, particulars concerning the insurrection in Scotland and the proceedings of the Irish government in relation thereto.
A News-Letter. Sent to the Duke of Ormond.
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: 8 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 219
Gives the purport of the Advices received at Court, from Holland and from Flanders. In Holland, there is much talk of peace with France, and a belief that the delay by the King of France to set his army in motion is due to the request of the King of England.
A Proposal to supply Dublin with coal, all the Winter, at eighteen shillings a ton. [Submitted to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant.]
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 9 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 40, fol(s). 618
Document type: Original
Further Proposals and Elucidations, on the same subject
Date: 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 40, fol(s). 620
Document type: Original [undated]
A writer unnamed to William Wharton
Date: 9 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 156-157
Committal to the Tower of the Earl of Pembroke. Treatment of English officers, who are in the service of the French King. Notices of various trials.
The Examination of Thomas Redshaw, late of Leeds in Yorkshire, merchant
Written from: Dublin
Date: 10 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 414
Document type: Original
The Examination of Thomas Redshaw, late of Leeds in Yorkshire, merchant [so in MS.] [concerning a conspiracy in Dublin to commit certain robberies]; taken before Enoch Reader, esquire, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the county of the city of Dublin.
Informations concerning persons suspected of complicity in alleged seditious conspiracies in the county of Antrim in Ireland
Date: 10 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 711
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.
Ormond to Ranelagh
Written from: Dublin
Date: 12 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 68, fol(s). 236-237
Document type: Copy
... The result of the writer's inquiry into the allegations concerning then Farmers of the Revenue will be found in a copy of certain "Queries", proposed to them, and in their Answers thereto. ...
Adds an account of a conference with Mr Gurney on the same subject, and of other matters concerning it.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 12 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 461
Document type: Copy
Sir Robert's letter of the 5th inst brought two as extraordinary advertisements as the writer has met with in their kind, - that from Holland, and that from Captain Shales. The Duke will, as the good Burgher does, leave the affairs of that state to Providence, and yet is of opinion they should also employ their honest industry, as he doubts not but they will. ...
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 12 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 52-54
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Communicates, at great length, various particulars concerning the Revenue affairs of Ireland. ... Will send for "Mas Douglas", and treat him according to his Majesty's directions.
Answers of the Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue, in Ireland, to certain Queries proposed to them by his Majesty's command
Date: [January] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 54
Hugo Grotius (the Younger) to Archbishop Sancroft
Written from: Hagae-Comitis
Date: 14 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 109, fol(s). 228-229
Document type: Original
Asks a place in his Grace's Library for a theological work (not herein named); and adds expressions of veneration for the Archbishop's person & character.
Votes and Proceedings of the House of Lords, January 15, 1677 [1678, N.S.]
Date: 15 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 68v
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 15 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 55-56
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Has spoken with the Farmers for the advance of £20,000 to which they are bound. They answer that they are not bale to furnish it, & ascribe their inability to the diminution of their credit caused by rumours of the badness of their bargain, and of their design to run away from it. ...
... Gives particulars concerning the needful reparations of the harbour of Kinsale, and the ways proposed for meeting the charges attendant thereon.
A writer unnamed to William Wharton
Date: 16 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 158-159
Ratification of the treaty between England and the United Netherlands. Particulars of the recruitment of the Army and Militia. Incidents of Parliament and of the Court.
Danby to Montagu
Written from: London
Date: 17 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 69, fol(s). 535-536
Document type: Copy
The intelligence concerning M. Rovigny has not been the least of Mr Montagu's favours. ... In a conference with Barillon the writer has received assurance "how certain[ly] our King may depend upon all sorts of assistance, from his, Barillon's, Master, in case his friendship should be preferred. ... He went so far as to seem desirous to have me understand, - although he would not directly say it, - that his Master might be brought to part with Valenciennes and Condé, but never with Tournay". ...
The Earl of Danby to Robert Montagu, British Ambassador at Paris
Date: 17 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 367-368
Document type: Copy. Printed in "Letters to & from the Earl of Danby" (1710).
On the state of the negotiations with France, and in particular on the result, of recent conferences in London with Barillon. Lord Danby enlarges on the indisposition of the Duke of York towards Peace, and on the influence thence acting upon the mind of the King.
[An Order] by the Lord Lieutenant and Council [of Ireland], concerning the Revenue, and the officers and ministers thereof
Written from: Council Chamber, Dublin
Date: 18 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 458
Document type: Copy [thirteen signatures]
A Draught of the Order in Council, calendared above
Written from: Council Chamber, Dublin
Date: 18 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 459
Document type: Endorsed by Ormond
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 19 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 56-57
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Details concerning the allowances to the Staff Officers of the Northern Expedition.
Extracts from a series of Letters, addressed by the Duke of Ormond to King Charles II upon various points of the public service in Ireland, and, more particularly, upon Parliamentary affairs
Date: 22 January to 2 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 103, fol(s). 577-578v
Document type: In the hand of an amanuensis; with corrections in Carte's hand.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 22 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 57-63
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Advertisement of French naval preparations.
Particulars (at great length) of the Army and Militia affairs of Ireland.
Expression of the writer's opinion, as commanded by the King, that it is not only "seasonable, but necessary to call a Parliament [in Ireland] as soon as the constitution of this Kingdom will permit".
Need of a parliamentary "confirmation of the decrees of the Court of Claims, and perhaps [of] something that may put an end to the molestation of Commissioners of Inquiry after concealed forfeited lands". ...
... Adds particulars concerning other pending affairs, chiefly financial.
The Prince of Orange's Commission for the Earl of Ossory to be Captain of McDowel's Company [in the service of the United Netherlands]
Written from: The Hague
Date: 23 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 226
Document type: Original
A writer unnamed to William Wharton
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: 23 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 160-161
Conferences on the terms of Peace with France. Colonial, Mercantile and Naval Advices.
Sir Leslie Jenkins to [Ossory?]
Written from: Nimeguen
Date: 24 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 315
Document type: Holograph
A letter of compliment, and of assurances of faithful service.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 26 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 63-67
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Reports, with minute details, what passed at an examination of William Douglas, and at a subsequent conference with Lieutenant-Colonel Mansel concerning previous statements, made by Douglas, about the transactions of the Scottish Presbyterians, and upon certain discrepancies between the present & previous narratives thereof.
Narrative, or Information, by William Douglas of various transactions of the Scottish Nonconformists. Addressed to the Duke of Ormond.
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 63-67
Narrative of the manner in which William Douglas was taken prisoner by my Lord of Argyll, and of his deliverance
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 63-67
A letter written by William Douglas, before his coming to Dublin. Addressed to the Duke of Ormond.
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 63-67
Another letter of the same to the Duke of Ormond. Written from Dublin, complaining of "the management of him & of his intelligence"
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 63-67
Philip, [fourth] Lord Wharton, to his son, Thomas Wharton [afterwards 5th Baron & 1st Marquess of Wharton]
Written from: [Westminster?]
Date: 27 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 168-169
Document type: Original. In the hand of an amanuensis. Signed with Lord Wharton's initials.
Desires to know for what place Mr Wharton intends to offer himself at the General Election. Acquaints him with the invitation made by himself, through Lord Bridgewater, for the candidature of Lord Brackley for Bucks., a candidature also proposed (at same moment) by Mr Hampden, without the writer's knowledge. His own wish is that his son should offer himself for Westmoreland. Adds particulars of a subsequent conference with Lords Shaftesbury & Brackley, and Mr Hampden.
The humble Petition of the Duke of Buckingham [to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled]
Date: 28 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 106
Document type: Contemporary Copy (Wharton Papers)
Submits to their Lordships order by declaring that his, the Duke's, endeavour to maintain [in debate] that the Parliament was dissolved (virtually) was an ill-advised action, for which he begs pardon of the King & of their Lordship's House.
Ranelagh to Ormond
Written from: [London]
Date: 29 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 68, fol(s). 338-339
Document type: Holograph
Reports what passed at another meeting held at the Treasury Chambers, concerning the Farm of the Revenue in Ireland. ...
His Grace will be instructed to call upon the Farmers to renounce, under their hands, any pretence to the £80,000, ... and also to pay the £20,000 of their advance-money, long since payable by their covenants; - allowing them more or less time for such payment, according as he shall find them more or less ready to make the renunciation aforesaid. ...
Resolutions of the House of Commons
Date: 29 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 340
Resolutions of the House of Commons: (1) for an Address of thanks to the King for his great "care of the Protestant Religion, and for marrying his niece to a Protestant Prince"; (2) for a special sitting of the House "to consider of a more decent & solemn interment to be given to the body of his late martyred Majesty".
A News-letter from a writer unnamed to William Wharton
Date: 29 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 162-163
Particulars of Military preparations in Holland and in France. Notices of proceedings in Parliament.
Vote of the House of Commons upon the King's Speech [thanking his Majesty for marrying his niece to a Protestant Prince]
Date: 29 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 80, fol(s). 812
Document type: Contemporary note
Proceedings of the Houses of Lords and Commons, in Parliament, 30 January to 4 February
Date: 30 January to 4 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 342-343
Report on the Constitution and working of the "Office of First-Fruits", of Ireland. By Nicholas Jones, Deputy Clerk of First-Fruits. Addressed to a Committee of the Board of Privy Council.
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 31 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 462
Document type: Copy
Report on the Office of Chief Remembrancer in Ireland. By Oliver Grace, Deputy Remembrancer. Addressed to a Committee of the Privy Council.
Date: 31 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 464
Document type: Copy
Report on the Office of Second Remembrancer & Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer in Ireland. By George Houghton. Addressed to a Committee of the Privy Council.
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 31 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 465
Document type: Copy
Philip, Lord Wharton, to his son, Thomas Wharton
Date: 31 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 171
Document type: Original. In the hand of an amanuensis.
Communicates further electioneering proceedings. It is the writer's intention to do his utmost "with all the Lawyers & Attorneys in town" to engage agents.
Philip, Lord Wharton, to his son, Thomas Wharton
Date: 31 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 174-176
Document type: Original. Corrected in Lord Wharton's own hand. Addressed to Winchendon.
Communicates further particulars of the progress of the Parliamentary elections especially in Buckinghamshire. States the representation he had made to the Hampdens, as to Thomas Wharton's relinquishment of his intention to offer himself both for Westmoreland & Cockermouth, in order to stand in Bucks., & what ensued thereon.
An Estimate of the Charge upon addition to the present numbers of men, in each Troop and Foot-Company of the Army [in Ireland]
Date: 31 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 150
Document type: Original. In Lane's hand.
Cypher [used in the correspondence of the Duke of Ormond] with the Earl of Arran
Date: January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 50, fol(s). 439-440
Minute of a proposed letter, upon various particulars of the condition of Ireland, at the close of the year 1677, to Mr Secretary Coventry. Apparently, drawn up for the consideration of the Lord Lieutenant, in Council.
Date: [January 1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 412
Document type: Original
Estimates of Army pay and allowances, for certain additional troops in the Army of Ireland. Drawn up by Francis, Lord Aungier.
Date: [January? 1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 152
Document type: Holograph
Report on the Office of Auditor-General for Ireland. By Richard Chapell, Deputy Auditor-General. Addressed to a Committee of the Privy Council.
Date: 1 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 467
Document type: Copy
[An Abstract of] the produce of Inland-Excise, &c. [in Ireland], from the 25th December 1677, to 2 February 1678. (Delivered, by Sir James Shaen, to a Committee of the Privy Council of Ireland, in March 1678.)
Date: 2 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 647
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Lane.
[An Abstract of] the produce of the Customs [Duties, in Ireland], from 25th December 1677 to 2 February [1678]. (Delivered by Sir James Shaen, to a Committee of the Privy Council of Ireland, 4 March 1678.)
Date: 2 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 641
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Lane.
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 3 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 416
Document type: Original
Directs the course to be taken with the Farmers of the Revenue in Ireland, for obtaining a relinquishment, in writing, of a pretended claim to a certain sum of £80,000; and also in respect (1) of certain advances to be made by the Farmers aforesaid and (2) of a new Commission to be drawn, upon terms and with restrictions stated; the commission now in force being duly revoked by the Lord Lieutenant, as herein commanded.
Report on the Office of Clerk of the Pipes in his Majesty's Exchequer of Ireland. By Robert Graydon. Addressed to a Committee of the Privy Council.
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 4 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 469
Document type: Copy
Report on the Office of Summonister Clerk of the Escheats in his Majesty's Exchequer of Ireland. By Andrew Ram, Deputy Summonister. Addressed as above.
Written from: Dublin
Date: 4 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 471
Document type: Copy
Answer of his Majesty to an Address of the House of Commons of the 1st [February] instant. Read in the House, 4 February, 1678.
Written from: Westminster
Date: 4 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 615-616
Document type: Contemporary Copy; sent by Sir R. Southwell to the Duke of Ormond.
George Villiers, (2nd, V) Duke of Buckingham, to Thomas Wharton
Date: 4 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 179
Document type: Holograph
Will, with all his heart, take the occasion to shew his kindness both for his correspondent & for "young Mr Hampden" [in the election for Bucks]. Has business which will keep him in town till 2 or 3 o'clock, but will proceed to Aylesbury in the evening.
Report on the Office of Comptroller-General in his Majesty's Exchequer of Ireland. By John Hayes. Addressed to a Committee of the Privy Council.
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 5 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 473
Document type: Copy
Proceedings of the House of Commons
Date: 4 and 5 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 344
Proceedings of the House of Commons in relation to the state of Foreign Alliances and other affairs; upon Naval and Military armaments & preparations; and upon the public estimates of the session
Date: 5 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 346-347
Document type: This is not a mere summary of the 'Votes and proceedings', as recorded on the "Journals", but a notice of the Debates by an eye witness.
John Walshe to Ormond
Date: [circa 5 February] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 118
Document type: Holograph
Particulars of affairs of estate, and of certain suits-at-law connected therewith.
A Memorial for ... the [Duke of Ormond] Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in relation to the rent payable to the Crown, by the Farmers of the Revenue in that Kingdom. Delivered to the Lord Lieutenant by Sir James Cuffe.
Written from: Dublin
Date: 6 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 42
Document type: Original
A List of such persons as have made contracts with the Trustees for Discoveries [of Forfeited Lands in Ireland, concealed from the Crown]
Written from: Dublin
Date: 6 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 44-45
Document type: Original
A Note of Money to be paid into his Majesty's Treasury [of Ireland] forthwith, or at the several and respective times hereunder named. [With some additions, in another hand.]
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: [6 February? 1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 108
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.
[An Order] by the [Duke of Ormond] Lord Lieutenant ... of Ireland [concerning arrears of rent due to his Majesty by John Forth, and others, Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue in that Kingdom]
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 6 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 110
Document type: Copy
Another Order, as aforesaid, directing that weekly accounts of the receipts and arrears of Revenue be furnished to the Lord Lieutenant, by the Farmers aforesaid
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 6 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 112
Document type: Copy
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 6 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 461
Document type: Copy
Intends to fortify the harbour of Kinsale, in hope by means of some "unbegged scraps of the Revenue", to set to work next month.
The orders to prepare a party for serving the King in Scotland came from the King himself, and to him the writer can better justify the expense incurred, than he could justify the omission to send any forces thither, if called for. ...
A State of the present Case [concerning the Revenue of Ireland]
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 7 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 86-89
Document type: Original
A State of the present Case [concerning the Revenue of Ireland], depending before ... the [Duke of Ormond] Lord Lieutenant, in reference to his Majesty's directions contained in his letter of 3 February, 1677 [1678]. [Addressed to the Lord Lieutenant, by William Rider.]
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 8 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 691
Document type: Original
In case of default of payment of the rent due to the Crown from the Farmers of the Revenue in Ireland, for a period of thirty days after the same shall become due, process is to issue immediately out of the Exchequer, for arresting the bodies of Sir James Shaen, Mr Muschamp, Mr Mill, and such other of the Farmers as the Lord Lieutenant shall think fit, as well for non-payment of the covenanted sum of £20,000 [premium], as also for non-payment of the rent in arrear. ...
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 9 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 39, fol(s). 11
Document type: Original
Recommends Sir George Booth for the first command of a company of foot, or lieutenancy of horse, that may fall vacant in his Majesty's Army of Ireland.
Philip, Lord Wharton, to his son, Thomas Wharton
Date: 9 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 177
Document type: Original
Communicates particulars of the evidence given by Dr Needham, "an aged physician in Derbyshire", and others, on the alleged Popish plot. Adds that the Duke of Norfolk (then on a journey) "is sent for back, upon some suspicion of having a finger in the pie".
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Date: 9 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 68-71
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
The Farmers [of the Irish Revenue] have, at length, promised to furnish a thousand pounds, to begin the necessary works in the harbour of Kinsale, and three hundred pounds, a week, for the continuance thereof; "and withal to make their payments [of rent to the Crown, under their contract] of £20,000 a month". ...
Reports the settlement of a port betwixt Dublin and Edinburgh, at a charge of £100, a year. ... Notices the general apprehension of commotion amongst the Irish; and reviews, in detail, various suggestions of precautionary and defensive measures.
Ranelagh to Ormond
Written from: London
Date: 9 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 135
... The Minutes formerly reported to his Grace concerning the proceedings and resolutions [of the King, in Committee with the Lords of the Treasury, upon Irish affairs] are now altered. ... The writer is "fully persuaded that the execution of these Minutes [in the form herewith enclosed] will absolutely break the Farm, and consequently expose the King's affairs to many and great inconveniences, [especially] ... in this juncture of affairs, when all our expectation is a sudden war, and that with the greatest power of Europe, - ... who likely will begin with us there [i.e. in Ireland]." ...
"Present His Majesty, etc. Upon debate of the business relating to the Irish Farmers, his Majesty directs" [as follows, in six resolutions].
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: 26 January 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 137
Document type: Copy
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 10 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 461
Document type: Copy
Gives further particulars concerning the fortifications at Kinsale. ...
Adds: "If the alarum of war shall cool, I may, as in the affair of Scotland, be charged with putting the King to unnecessary expense, but I had rather undergo that than the imputation of negligence; - when a mischief like that at Chatham is done. How to avoid the danger of both, I know not."
The Computation for building ninety ships; given in by [Samuel] Pepys, February 15, 1677 [O.S.]
Date: 15 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 54, fol(s). 495
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Lane. The title cited is from the endorsement.
Warrant of the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to Sir John Champante for his procedure in the clearing of payments on the Establishment [of Ireland], notwithstanding the grant to Mr Bridges
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 15 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 610
Document type: Official Copy
Arlington to Ossory
Date: 15 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 221, fol(s). 128-129
Document type: Holograph
Communicates the purport of recent advices, received at Court from the seat of war in the Netherlands.
Encloses a letter from Mme de Mazarin, which was given to Lady Arlington for Lord Ossory.
Notices recent proceedings in the English Parliament.
[A Correspondent, not herein named, to Father Patrick Everard]
Written from: Ostend
Date: 15 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 348
Document type: Original
Gives information concerning the health, position, and plans of Peter Talbot, titular Archbishop of Dublin, and concerning various affairs of Romanish Clergy, as affected by the political incidents of the day.
Latin.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 16 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 462
Document type: Copy
... "Several letters take notice of the Duke of Buckingham's becoming a courtier again, and divers prognostics made upon it . For my part, I shall attend the consequences, until they shew themselves, with as little disturbance as any man on either side of the water, though I have had the fortune, good or bad, not to be in his Grace's favour". ...
Ossory to Ormond
Date: 18 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 578
Document type: Holograph. Endorsed by Ormond.
Certain papers [on Revenue subjects], now communicated, "are written by my Lord Lieutenant Essex's own hand, who so well understands the condition of Ireland that he fears much inconveniency may arise if the Farm should be broke. His friendship for you, as well as consideration of the Public, has induced him to take the pains. He was pleased also to inform me of a shilling in the pound, stayed from the Army [pay], by my Lord Ranelagh." ...
A Computation of the Duty [of Customs], payable for [imported] wines, in England and Ireland. Sent to Mr Secretary Coventry, 19 February, 1677 [O.S.].
Date: 19 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 57
Document type: Copy
[Proposals for] the Increase of the King's Revenue here [i.e. in Ireland], by obtaining a grant from the Parliament of some additional Duties ... for Customs and Excise; etc.
Written from: [Dublin?]
Date: 19 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 715-716
Document type: Official Copy; the original (apparently) sent to Mr Secretary Coventry February 1678
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 19 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 72-74
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Has received the Secretary's letter of 12th inst. ... States certain particulars concerning (1) a Bill for money, and (2) a Bill for confirmation of estates which must be determined in England, before further progress can be made in preparing for a Parliament in Ireland. ... And adds some details about Militia commissions, and other pending matters.
[Observations] about the increase of the [Duties of] Customs, Excise, [and] Hearth-Money [in Ireland]
Written from: [Dublin?]
Date: [19 February 1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 41
Document type: Holograph
[Observations] about the increase of the [Duties of] Customs, Excise, [and] Hearth-Money [in Ireland; and about] Lord Ranelagh's concern in relieving discoveries [i.e. of forfeited lands concealed from the Crown]. [By Sir John Temple.]
[An Order] by the [Duke of Ormond] Lord Lieutenant ... of Ireland [regulating the payments to be made by Sir James Shaen, and his partners, as Commissioners of his Majesty's Revenue in that Kingdom]
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 21 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 102
Document type: Official Copy
Advices from the seat of the War; and of the state of the military preparations of the United Provinces
Written from: Brussels; Hague
Date: 22 February/4 March 1678; 8 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 348-349
A Proposal in order to the rendering his Majesty's Revenue [in Ireland] by Quit-Rents, certain; and for discouraging persons to plant the Waste Lands of Ireland. [Addressed to the Duke of Ormond.]
Date: 23 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 54, fol(s). 330-333
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Lane.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 24 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 462
Document type: Copy
... "It would be a great damp to me to have the government of such a place [as Kinsale] "bestowed so long before on one ... I have heard to be a better Parliament-man than soldier, whilst we have so many old officers who have come to the stations they are in by degrees, and at the expense of time and blood. But I hope he will fix his pretensions upon a reward as beneficial, and more proper for him." ...
Adds some particulars about the "cry ... raised of the exportation of wool out of this Kingdom into foreign parts; its origin, & its consequences. ...
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 24 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 74-76
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Desires to be informed expressly whether his Majesty would have the commanded men in the North sent to their respective companies or no; ... Has "a much harder task in the several instructions received from his Majesty, of the 3rd and 8th inst, touching the Farmers of the Revenue. ... Must beg pardon to wish that more or less might be left to the determination and management of the Government here. As it is, will take the best advice", ... and submit his proceedings to the King's gracious interpretation. ...
"Heads for a Poll-Bill". With notes of proceedings in the House of Commons.
Date: 25-26 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 350
A News-Letter. Sent to the Duke of Ormond.
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 25 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 221
Intelligence has been received at this Court that, according to all appearance, the French will besiege Namur and Charlemont.
In Germany, the Imperial Army begins to draw together.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 27 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 463
Document type: Copy
... "When the King named me last for this Government, I had my Lord of Ranelagh's speech and paper fresh in my memory, and they made me take a resolution that whilst I should have the honour to serve his Majesty as his Lieutenant, I would never advise him to diminish his revenue or augment his charge, upon any private account, till his revenue should be able to pay his establishment, and provide for all necessary things ... conducing to the safety of this Kingdom. And, if I shall keep to this resolution in Sir Robert Southwell's case, no other will have the confidence to expect that I should break it in his. Yet I hope I shall make such a return in your case, as will satisfy you."
Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons chiefly in relation to matters of finance
Date: 27 February to 2 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 353
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 27 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 76
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Has received a petition praying that a sufficient Guard of Ships may be placed upon the coasts of Ireland, to countenance the trade, and convoy the trading ships, of the Kingdom.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 27 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 76-77
Document type: Copy [as above]
States the importance of organising some systematic intelligence "amongst the Roman-Catholic Clergy, without whose knowledge - I think I may say instigation - no insurrection or rebellion will be raised in this Kingdom, by the Irish". ...
An Account of the manner of the discharge of the nine thousand pounds' assignments
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 28 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 132
Document type: Original
An Account of the manner of the discharge of the nine thousand pounds' assignments, drawn by the Commissioners of his Majesty's Revenue [in Ireland] on several Collectors in the country, towards the clearing accepted Bills of Exchange for his Majesty's money to 25 December 1677, and two monthly payments to Robert & William Bridges, ending the last of February, following.
A Copy of the "Account" calendared immediately above
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 28 February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 136
The humble Petition of John, Lord Frescheville of Staveley, to the King's ... Majesty
Date: February 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 452r-v
Document type: Copy. With the King's order of reference thereupon; and a record of subsequent proceedings. [The claim was disallowed.]
[In relation to the petitioner's claim to sit in Parliament under the Writ of Summons to his lineal ancestor, Ralph de Frescheville, issued in 25 Edw. I; A.D. 1297]
Notes, by Theophilus, Earl of Huntingdon, of proceedings in the House of Lords upon the Petition of John, Lord Frescheville, above-recited
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 458
Notes of a Speech, or intended Speech, by Earl Theophilus, on the same subject, and occasion
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 460-461
Document type: Holograph
Votes and Proceedings of the Houses of Lords and Commons from the 27 February to 15 March 1677 [O.S.]. With an Address from both Houses to the King praying him to declare and enter into actual and immediate war against France.
Date: February-March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 355-359
A Computation of the Duties now payable [respectively] for Wines in England and Ireland. By Sir John Temple.
Written from: [Dublin?]
Date: [February? 1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 40
Document type: Holograph
Tabula View of the Pay of Regiments of Horse, Foot, and Dragoons; according to the Military Establishment of Ireland
Date: [February?] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 54, fol(s). 495
Document type: Original
[A Schedule of] Farm-Rents due by the Farmers [of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland] to ... 1st March 1677 [O.S.]
Date: [1 March 1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 529
Document type: Original
[An Abstract of his Majesty's Revenue of] Hearth-Money [in Ireland] for the year payable 10 January, 16[78]. (Delivered by Sir James Shaen to a Committee of the Privy Council, of Ireland, 4 March 16[78].)
Date: 2 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 643
Document type: Original; endorsed by Lane.
An Abstract of the Proceed of Customs, and imported Excise, for one year, commencing 25 December, 1676, and determining 25 December, 1677. (Delivered, as above-mentioned.)
Date: 2 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 645
Document type: Original; endorsed by Lane.
Traitté d'Alliance entre l'Angleterre at la Hollande, conclue le 3ème Mars 1678
Written from: Westminster
Date: 3 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 104, fol(s). 26-28v
Document type: Copy
Report, by the Archbishop of Dublin, and others, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Written from: Dublin
Date: 4 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 420
Document type: Original [four signatures]
Report, by the Archbishop of Dublin, and others, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, upon certain points connected with the Revenue Accounts of Richard, Lord Ranelagh, and his partners, late Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury in that Kingdom.
Memorandum [by Sir James Shaen?] concerning further arrears of Quit-Rents, and other dues, owing to his Majesty in his Kingdom of Ireland, up to 25 December 1677
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 4 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 638
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Lane.
[A Commission] by the [Duke of Ormond] Lord Lieutenant [of Ireland] and Council [to the Lord Viscount Massareene & others, for inquiry into certain matters arising out of the late Farming of his Majesty's revenue in Ireland]
Written from: Council Chamber, Dublin
Date: 7 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 423
Document type: Certified Copy [eleven signatures]
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 7 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 463-464
Document type: Copy
All Sir Robert's letters bring something more important than is found in any other. ... They contain remarks on the circumstances, & the occasional expressions, which many times shew as much of the "complexion of the house" [so in MS.] [hour?], and are better prognostics of a final success, than the base results. ... the fort on Sir Robert's land [at Kinsale] will, it is hoped, go on apace. The writer longs to see it. ...
The Information of John Charter of Ennis [concerning alleged preparations for an insurrection of the Irish Romanists]
Date: 9 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 424
Document type: Original
Notes of Proceedings and Debates in Parliament, March 9, 1678
Date: 9 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 76, fol(s). 45
Ormond to Arran
Date: 11 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 317-318
Document type: Copy
Although the part allowed to the Earl in the government does not expressly require the keeping copies of his letters, yet "the practice and the pains belonging to it, may happen to be recompensed, when one least thinks of it"; - provided, adds the Duke, "you have a writer you dare trust".
Had written to the Earl a long letter on the pending financial business, but is glad that it chanced to be detained by the adverse words; for there is now an account, by express change, of a "collusive combination betwixt Sir James Shaen and his gang, and Sir John Champant". ...
An Order of the Lords in Parliament, in relation to methods of procedure upon the enquiry into the alleged Popish Plot
Date: 12 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 180
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 12 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 77-79
Document type: Copy
Particulars concerning the Revenue Farm, and Revenue accounts of Ireland. ...
States the necessity of the attendance here of some of the late Revenue Undertakers who are resident in England. ...
Is in expectation of receiving his Majesty's pleasure, touching the calling of a Parliament here. ... Mentions the desirability of receiving the proxies of such of the Irish Nobility resident in England, as will not attend the Parliament.
Copy of an Order of the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, concerning the monthly payments of the Farmers of the Revenue
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 79
A Representation from the Commissioners of the Accounts of the Earl of Ranelagh and his partners, to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 77-79
Ormond to Secretary Coventry
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 12 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 234
Document type: Copy
... Was prepared to represent something in pursuance of his Majesty's directions in his letters of 3rd and 8th instant [so in MS.] [so in MS.], [?] when an unexpected accusation was brought by Mr Ryder against Sir James Shaen, and his partners, of a combination ... with Sir John Champante, "to delude and frustrate all the inquiries ... into the performance of the Farmers in the point of their monthly payments". ...
... "It was ... offered to be sworn that Sir John Champante was to have 500 guineas, a year, to induce him to be favourable, in his office [of Deputy Receiver General] to the Farmers". ...
Copy of an Order, by the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 234
An Account of several sums drawn out of the Revenue of Ireland, since the commencement of the present Farm, for private uses. (Delivered to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant, by William Rider, 14 March 1677, O.S.)
Date: 14 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 55
Document type: Original
An exact Demonstration what is due and payable from the Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland
Date: 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 75
Document type: Original. Partially endorsed by Lane.
An exact Demonstration what is due and payable from the Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland, on account of their Farm-Rent, to the 1st of March, 1678; ... together with a computation of their monthly receipts & payments, for a whole year, commencing 1 March, 1677 [O.S.] and determining 1 March 1678. (Delivered to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant, by William Rider, 14 March 1677.)
An Abstract of Sums returned [upon account of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland] as double-charged in the Farmers' Accounts [of that Revenue]. [Delivered to the Lord Lieutenant, by William Rider.]
Date: 14 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 92
Document type: Original. Partly endorsed by Sir George Lane.
A Copy of the 'Abstract' aforesaid with additions, and with notes (in another hand)
Date: 14 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 94-95
Queries concerning the Farmers' [of Revenue in Ireland] Demands, relating to more duties on imported or exported goods
Date: [14 March?] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 96
Document type: Original
Queries concerning his Majesty's Letter [of February 3rd; for revocation of the Commission granted by Arthur, Earl of Essex]
Date: 14 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 98-99
Document type: Original. In Lane's hand.
The humble Address of John Stone, Thomas Breedon, and Daniel Burgess, Commissioners for receiving the arrears of the late Farm [of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland]
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 15 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 100
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Lane. [The Duke of Ormond has written, under the endorsement, these words: "Francis Cooke, in the Earl of Arran's Company".]
The humble Address of John Stone, Thomas Breedon, and Daniel Burgess, Commissioners for receiving the arrears of the late Farm [of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland] ... to his Grace, James, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on occasion of two orders delivered to them, ... bearing date 6 February 1677 [O.S.].
Recognizance of John Charter of Ennis [for his appearance to substantiate an Information, concerning an intended insurrection]
Date: 16 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 424v
Document type: Original
An Abstract of ... Moneys, received and paid by his Majesty's Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, from his Majesty's Restoration, until the 20th day of March 1670 [1671]; reduced under distinct heads, &c.
Date: 16 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 695-698
Document type: Original
[An Abstract of] Payments on the Civil List [of Ireland]; 1660 to 1670, inclusive
Date: 16 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 698-701
Document type: Original
[An Abstract of] Payments on the Military List [of Ireland]; 1660 to 1670, inclusive [and also of Payments miscellaneous & casual]
Date: 16 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 702-706
Document type: Original
Recapitulatory Accounts of receipts into, and payments from, the King's Treasury in Ireland, 1660 to 1670
Date: 16 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 707
Document type: Original
Aggregate of receipts, £2,336,783 (exclusive of fractions).
Aggregate of payments to Civil List, £616,113.
Aggregate of
payments to Military List, £1,689,445.
Balance in hands of
Vice-Treasurer, £31,214.
Notes of Debates in Parliament, March 1678
Date: 16 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 359-362
Copy of a cancelled letter of the Duke of Ormond to Mr Secretary Henry Coventry, on the public affairs of Ireland
Written from: Dublin
Date: 17 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 80-83
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
[For this cancelled dispatch, of March 21, was substituted.]
Ormond to [a correspondent not herein named]
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 19 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 179
Document type: Copy; signed.
Has referred the Claim of Mr Fanshaw, concerning the lands of Lucan, to the Attorney General; who can however give no opinion, until furnished with particulars of an agreement respecting them, alleged to have been made between his Majesty & Sir Theophilus Jones.
Ranelagh to Stepney
Date: 19 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 435
Document type: Copy
Further particulars as to the pending Revenue Accounts of Ireland.
A Memorial of the Sums upon the Establishment [Civil and Military, of Ireland]
Date: 20 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 77-78
Document type: Original
A Memorial of the Sums upon the Establishment [Civil and Military, of Ireland] which are unpaid to Michaelmas, 1677, and of what will be due to the Civil & Military Lists, and to such of the List of Pensioners as reside in England, ... to the 25 March, 1678. Etc.
A Memorandum of what Orders of Assignments are sent down to the Commissioners [of Revenue in Ireland], to be signed; and [are] not returned, this 20 March 1678
Date: 20 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 79
Document type: Original
A View of the Rent payable by the Farmers [of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland]
Date: 20 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 79v-80
Document type: Original
Notes and Proceedings of the House of Commons, 20-23 March 1677 [O.S.]
Date: 20-23 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 363-364
A Dialogue [relating chiefly to the Money, the Exchange, and Coinage of Ireland] betwixt one of his Majesty's Privy Council [in that Kingdom] and a merchant. [By Edward Roberts.]
Written from: [Dublin?]
Date: 21 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 14-17
Document type: Original. Endorsed, by Ormond: "Mr Robert's Dialogue".
A Discourse betwixt a Privy Councillor and a merchant, about the exorbitant expenses of people in Ireland, and how it [so in MS.] may be prevented. [By Edward Roberts.]
Date: [March?] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 20-29
Document type: Original. Endorsed, also, by Ormond; twice (apparently at different times).
Debentures for the twelve months's arrears [of military pay in Ireland] ending the last of March 1671, of his Grace the Duke of Ormond's Troop; remaining unsatisfied this 21st day of March, 1678
Date: 21 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 54, fol(s). 601
Document type: Original
The total is £645: 11s. 6d.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 21 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 84-87
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Particulars (1) of "the leading Bills", now in course of preparation for the Irish Parliament; ... (2) of further proceedings concerning the Revenue; (3) of the necessity of raising the Army here to its complement of 10,000 men. ...
Conceives it not to be the King's intention that the writer should make any public use of the caution given as to the arming of the Scots, the Nonconformists, or the old Militia. Any distrust of the Militia would be unseasonably expressed at this time. As respects the two former, no man distrusts them more than does the writer. ...
[An Order] by the Lord Lieutenant and Council [concerning the payment of the Farm Rent of his Majesty's Revenue of Ireland]
Written from: Council Chamber, Dublin
Date: 22 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 422
Document type: Copy [twelve signatures]
An Abstract of the Letters of Collectors [of the Revenue, as farmed, in Ireland], dated 23 March [1678]; abstracted 26th of the same month
Date: 23 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 39, fol(s). 312
Document type: Original
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 23 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 425-427
Document type: Original
Directions as to certain pensions and annuities to be paid out of a fund of £20,000 a year reserved to the King's Majesty upon the Establishments of Ireland.
Notes and Proceedings of the House of Commons, from 23 to 27 March
Date: 23-27 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 365-366
Henry Coventry to Ormond
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: [24 March 1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 715
Document type: Original; subscribed & signed
The Order in Council, sent herewith, is made upon the complaint of several poor soldiers against the Earl of Ranelagh, ... who has been written to upon the subject. ... Upon his failure to do what is just therein, he & his partners are to be duly prosecuted, on his Majesty's behalf, in the Courts of Ireland. ...
An Order, by the King in Council, upon the complaint, against the Earl of Ranelagh, & others, of James Porter, Charles Graves, William Hall, & Hopkins Thomas
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 24 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 713
Document type: Copy
A Note of Sums to be sent unto his Majesty [by the Farmers of the Revenue of Ireland] the 25th of March 1678
Date: 25 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 538
Document type: Original
Essex to Ormond
Written from: Cashiobury
Date: 25 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 591
Document type: Holograph
The persons who supplied army-clothing, in the year 1675, & are still "behind of their money", in the sum of £2040, were obliged, by the writer, to supply their goods before payment; lest disorder might happen, for want of the clothing. Ranelagh & his partners stopped this money from the army-pay, but paid not the clothiers; ... although repeated promises to do so were made. ...
Danby to Montagu
Date: 25 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 69, fol(s). 537-538
Document type: Copy
... "For fear of its being ill resented by the Parliament here, the King will not make any proposals at all of peace, unless he shall be pressed to it by the Confederates; and although by Mr Godolphin he is sufficiently informed that they desire the peace upon the terms sent you by the secretaries, yet not having received that desire formally, the Council will not advise his Majesty to let his Ambassador propose that which he is not formally empowered to make good. ...
... "In case the conditions of the peace shall be accepted, the King expects to have six millions of livres, yearly, for three years, ... because it will be two or three years before he can hope to find this Parliament in humour to give him supplies, after ... any peace with France. ...
A person unnamed, but signing with the initials "P.V." [apparently, fictitious], to Philip, Lord Wharton
Date: 25 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 343
Document type: Apparently, Holograph
Solicits his Lordship's patronage & encouragement for the contemplated publication of a 'Body of English Practical Divinity', the compilation of which it is proposed to entrust, in chief, to Mr Matthew Poole (the Editor of Critici Sacri).
A Proposal, concerning the pointing of the substance of our English Practical Divines, in one work, and the great usefulness of it
Date: 25 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 341r-v
A Request of Ministers, ... directed to Mr Pool
Date: 25 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 342
Document type: Copy
Desire him to undertake the editorship of the proposed 'Body of Practical Divinity'. Add that it is believed they can suggest a method for the "speedy carrying on" of such a work, without hindrance to another, on which Mr Poole is understood to be busy.
The Earl of Danby to Robert Montagu
Written from: London
Date: 25 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 369-370
Document type: Copy
Apprises the Ambassador that for fear of the resentment of Parliament, the King will offer no proposal of Peace, unless pressed thereto by his Allies. The King, indeed, is sufficiently informed through Godolphin of the terms on which they really desire peace, but the communication is informed. Encloses these informed propositions for the Ambassador's guidance, that the opportunity be not lost by waiting for formal powers. The answer of France is to be sent to Mr Secretary Coventry as preliminary and tentative; to the King, as decisive and full.
Articles of Impeachment of High Treason, and other ... offences, against Thomas, Earl of Danby, Lord High Treasurer of England
Date: [Undated]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 371-372
Document type: Copy
Note. The 'Articles' were reported from the Committee on the 21 December 1678.
"The substance, if not the words, of the Impeachment against the Lord Treasurer brought up to the Lords, by Sir H. Capel, Dec. 23, '78"
Date: December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 373
"The substance, if not the words, of the Impeachment against the Lord Treasurer brought up to the Lords, by Sir H. Capel, Dec. 23, '78".
An Abstract of the Collectors' Letters [i.e. of Draughts upon the Revenue of Ireland, whilst in course of collection]; dated, March 23, 1677 [O.S.]; abstracted on the 26th of the same month
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 26 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 81
Document type: Original
[Secretary Sir Joseph Williamson?] to the Duke of Ormond
Date: 26 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 374
Document type: Original; unsigned.
Communicates proceedings in the Privy Council, and in Parliament. Adds that some of the Scottish Nobility are discontented with the proceedings in Scotland.
Notes of proceedings in the House of Commons
Date: 26 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 376
Minutes of proceedings of the House of Lords: containing the Answer of the House, to 'Reasons', presented by the House of Commons, for an Address to his Majesty, asking for an immediate Declaration of War against France
Date: 27 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 223
Document type: Copy
Reported by the Earl of Aylesbury.
"The names of People [sic], Priests, and Jesuits; the Persons' names that keep them; and the names of Places where Publick Chapells are, [and] where Mass is constantly said, ... in the County of Monmouth"
Date: 27? March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 378-379
Document type: Copy
[As sent from that county to the House of Commons, and read therein; March, 1678.]
Notes and Proceedings of the House of Commons, ... 27 March 1678
Date: 27 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 380
Sir Thomas Chickley to Ossory
Date: 29 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 354
Document type: Holograph
Has delivered Lord Ossory's letter to the Lord Treasurer [Danby], who told him that he had also received many obliging letters from his Lordship's father, the honour of which he did much attribute to Lord Ossory.
Lord Ranelagh, Sir James Hayes and John Bence to John Stepney and John Hayes
Written from: London
Date: 30 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 435
Document type: Copy
Authorize their correspondents to deliver forthwith such accounts of the performance of the late Undertaking for the Revenue of Ireland, "as may fully agree with the directions which have been given by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, and the Commissioners of ... Accounts". ...
[Secretary Sir Joseph Williamson?] to the Duke of Ormond
Date: 30 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 382-383
Document type: Original; unsigned.
Communicates a summary of debates and proceedings in Parliament.
Mentions matters "of which there was some hearing at the Cabinet Council". Adds, by way of postscript, a summary of recent foreign Advices.
A Statement of the number of aged & unserviceable men in his Majesty's Army in Ireland taken at the March Muster, 1678
Date: [31 March] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 54, fol(s). 603
Document type: Original
The aggregate total of men is 432.
A Statement of Sums disbursed "out of the £800, ordered for secret services", 16 February 1677 [78]
Date: [March? 1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 512
Document type: Apparently, Original
Petition of William Rider, one of the Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue in this Kingdom, to ... James, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant ... of Ireland
Written from: Dublin
Date: [March? 1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 114
Document type: Original
Recites various complaints and charges made against Sir James Shaen, & others, concerning the Farm of Revenue aforesaid, and the intention of the said Shaen to embark for England carrying with him various documents.
Prays that stay may be made of Shaen, aforesaid, & of his papers, until the matter be further inquired into.
Mr Seymour's Speech in answer to articles of impeachment presented against him, and in defence, generally, of his conduct as Speaker of the House of Commons [delivered after the royal assent to his re-election had been refused
Date: [March?] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 352
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 2 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 88-90
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
(1) Matters of finance.
(2) Proceedings of the Irish Council, concerning the 'Bill of Confirmation' [of the Decrees of the Courts in relation to the Land Settlement].
Adds (3) ... "Mr Rider has got the start of Sir James Shaen, and will have presented you with the dispatch about their controversy. ... If either of them ... shall make some specious proposal about the Revenue of this Kingdom ... I humbly offer it to his Majesty's consideration whether he may not think it fit to impart any such proposal to his servant here, before it shall be agreed to there". ...
Ormond to Secretary Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 2 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 233
Document type: Extract
... Humbly offers it to his Majesty's consideration whether he may not think it fit to impart, to his servants here, any proposals concerning the Revenue of Ireland, before they are agreed to in England.
Has such a course been held, in the case of former bargains, it might have saved his Majesty full as much as he can reasonably expect from a Parliament here, by way of subsidy.
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 3 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 428
Document type: Original
Has appointed Colonel Thomas Dungan to raise, for his Majesty's service in Ireland, eight companies of foot. ...
A Letter, unsigned and without address, containing an account of the Trial in the House of Lords of Philip, Earl of Pembroke
Written from: London
Date: 4 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 311-312
Document type: Copy
A Letter, unsigned and without address, containing an account of the Trial in the House of Lords of Philip, Earl of Pembroke, for killing Mr Conie, in an affray. With remarks upon the law as to the attendance of the Lords Bishops in cases of blood.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 4 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 91
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Has received Sir Henry's letter of 26th, with the Order of Council. "The ordering part comes short ... in the most necessary thing, ... namely, that the Earl of Ranelagh & his partners should come themselves to pass their accounts, or send over such as may have full authority to do it". ...
Political Advices, from Brussels and from Ostend. Sent to the Duke of Ormond.
Date: 6 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 222, fol(s). 225
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 8 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 430
Document type: Original
Directions for the effectual carrying out of his Majesty's late grant to James, Duke of York, of the lands of Portlester and other lands & tenements [in Ireland] formerly belonging to George Fitzgerald of Tecroghan, esquire, deceased.
William Gandy to Sir Robert Southwell
Written from: Oxford
Date: 8 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 464
Document type: Copy
An account of some affront offered to Lord [so styled uniformly in this correspondence] James Butler, son of Lord Ossory, by Mr Berkeley, second son of Lord Berkeley, of the interference of their respective tutors, Mr Drelincourt & Mr Aldrich (the Dean being absent), and of an alleged misrepresentation of the affair to Lady Berkeley by Mr Aldrich. ...
An Abstract of a Report made by [George, Lord Lanesborough, and others; being] a Committee of the Board [of Privy-Council in Ireland], concerning Mr John Hayes, Comptroller-General of his Majesty's Revenue [in that Kingdom]
Date: 10 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 318
[A Schedule of] Payments out of his Majesty's Treasury, to defray the extraordinary charges of the Northern Expedition; and for preparing arms & providing other necessaries. [Drawn up Sir James Cuffe.]
Date: 12 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 593
Document type: Original
Christopher Vane to Thomas Wharton
Written from: [London]
Date: 12 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 118
Document type: Holograph
Entreats Mr Wharton to attend the Call of the House of Commons on the following Tuesday. Assures him he will not want for good sport, in seeing Sir Robert Sawyer fill the place of Wharton's friend, the late Speaker. Mentions a duel between Mr Thynne and Mr Trevor, "about Mr Trevor, ... who is relieved from Court".
Ormond to Ranelagh
Written from: Dublin
Date: 13 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 717-718
Document type: Copy
The joint dispatch from the writer & the Council will shew how hard it has been to separate the true state of the case between the various parties to the Revenue-Farm of Ireland, now at variance amongst themselves, from the colour given to the case by their mutual animosities. It is hoped, however, that all that is possible has been done to prevent damage to his Majesty by the contention, until his pleasure concerning the whole matter shall be fully declared, upon consideration of the representations submitted to him. ...
Lord Ranelagh's part, it would seem, is to cause a sufficient authority for accounting to be transmitted hither, together with a list of debts outstanding.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 13 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 92-93
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Further observations on the Order in Council concerning the account of the Earl of Ranelagh & others, and on the proceedings and disputes amongst themselves of several of those contractors.
A Report to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by a Committee of the Privy Council, on the officers of the Excise department of that Kingdom
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 15 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 460-461
Document type: Copy [six signatures]
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 16 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 93-94
Revenue accounts of Ireland.
Copy of a Letter from the Duke of Ormond to the Earl of Ranelagh
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 94
An Order in Council for the payment, by the Farmers of the Revenue, of a debt of £2040 still unsatisfied, for clothing supplied to the Army of Ireland in 1675
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 17 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 586
Document type: Certified Copy
Charles Wheeler, Marquess of Winchester [afterwards Duke of Bolton], and other Lords of Council, to Lucy, Countess Dowager of Huntingdon
Written from: Painted Chamber, Westminster
Date: 17 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 77, fol(s). 642
Document type: Original; with the autographs of Lords Winchester, Anglesey, Bedford, Essex, and Halifax. [Misplaced in this volume.]
Recite the provisions of the recent Statute for levying new War-taxes; and request from her Ladyship information as to her personal estate, & other revenues, in order to an assessment, by Peers, in pursuance of the Statute.
Ranelagh to Ormond
Date: 20 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 68, fol(s). 240
Document type: Holograph
Notices, at great length, certain changes brought by Mr Rider against Sir John Champante [in MS.: "Champantry"]. ... Should the Lord Lieutenant find him guilty, it will be the writer's wish that his punishment be as severe as law will allow. But if, as the writer has great reason to think, he can "clear his accusation", his accusers should be punished. ...
Ranelagh to Stepney
Written from: [London]
Date: 23 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 435-436
Document type: Copy
Gives, at great length, further details concerning the writer's views of the accounts to be rendered by the writer & his partners in the late management of the Revenue in Ireland. ...
Is of opinion that more time may be claimed by them for fully perfecting the accounts in question, since, whilst they are pursued and urged, "the last Farmers are suffered to rise quietly, with a balance of near £20,000 in their hands; and my Lord Anglesey and Sir George Carteret, though debtors, by confession of their own accounts, have been forborn these ten years". Mr Stepney, therefore, should not be too modest, but should say all that he can to justify the partnership. ...
A Writer unnamed to Sir Thomas Lee of Hartwell in Buckinghamshire
Written from: [London]
Date: 25 April [1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 103, fol(s). 269
Document type: Original
Communicates various political incidents. Describes the circumstances of the attendance of the new Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Robert Sawyer, upon the Lord High Treasurer to claim certain allowances for "equipage and table".
Ranelagh to Ormond
Date: 27 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 68, fol(s). 242
Document type: Holograph
... The difference occurring between Mr Stepney and Mr Hayes has, amongst other mischiefs, delayed the delivery of the accounts of the writer and his partners. ... Many of the sums which the latter claim are very desperate; others, altogether impossible to be recovered. The best, it is to be feared, will not yield nearly what was expected from them. ...
Sir William Temple to Ormond
Written from: The Hague
Date: 27 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 299-300
Document type: Holograph
The Prince [of Orange] shewed to the writer the Duke's letter which was very kindly received. There is no person in England [so in MS.] upon whose friendship the Prince more "assures himself", than on that of his Grace. ... And the Prince has "the least of compliment", that the writer has known, and is "but too apt to express kindness, or dislike, wherever he means it". ...
Adds, at great length, an account of what has passed at this Court, concerning "My Lord Clare's adventure" [respecting transport of soldiers].
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 27 April 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 94-96
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
The Order of Council [in England] has, at length, produced the bringing in of some kind of account, by Mr Stepney and Mr Hayes. ... It is said, as from them [the Undertakers generally] "that a vast sum of above £400,000, is still in arrear upon the country, and that they ought to have ... assistance from his Majesty ... to raise it. This is claim so extravagant & the base rumour of it so terrifying, at a time when his Majesty expects, & his service here in need of considerable supplies, that I think it will be very convenient to bring that matter to some certainty ... before the Parliament meets". ...
A Proclamation by the Lord Lieutenant & Council, concerning the Accounts of the Farmers of the Revenue
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 96
Reasons to be offered at a Conference [on the part of the House of Commons], ... concerning the danger the Nation is in by the Growth of Popery
Date: 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 463-464
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin
Date: 30 April 1678?
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 141, fol(s). 61
Document type: Copy
Lord Ossory will communicate the effect of Sir Robert Southwell's letters, The writer [Duke of Ormond] does not ridiculously affect to swim against a strong tide; neither does he give himself to be carried away with it. If fixed principles fail him now; better that, than departure from them.
The State of the Case of Samuel Vincent, John Parsons, Richard Brett, and Richard Kent, as to their proposals for managing his Majesty's Revenue of Excise [in Ireland]
Date: [April? 1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 452-453
Document type: Copy
Opinions of the Attorney General, and of other Counsel learned, on certain points of the Case above-recited
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 453
Document type: Copies
State of the Account of Monies designed, by the Establishment of [16]66, for Foot-Guards [in Ireland]
Date: [April 1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 147
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.
Ranelagh to Stepney
Written from: [London]
Date: 4 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 436v
Document type: Copy
Sends Minutes concerning the Revenue Accounts of Ireland, taken at the Treasury Chambers [at Whitehall], when the Earl of Essex was present; together with other documents on the same subject.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 8 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 97-98
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Revenue accounts of Ireland.
Copy of the Reply of the Earl of Ranelagh to the Letter of the Duke of Ormond
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 98
Address of the House of Commons to the King; in which it is stated that the critical condition of his Majesty's affairs has been and is such that "we thought it necessary to apply to Your Maj., by ourselves"
Date: 10 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 386-387
The House refers to the advice tendered on 26 May 1677, and reiterated on 31 January 1678; and entreats the King to remove those Councillors who advised the Answers which were returned to those Addresses respectively.
A brief account of John Sergeant ... his Letter, threatening to accuse Peter Talbot [titular Archbishop of Dublin] of Treason ... [being a copy of the Letter: with Remarks]
Written from: Paris
Date: 12 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 734
Report, to the King in Council, by a Committee thereof, upon the accounts of the Earl of Ranelagh & others as Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: 13 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 506-507
Document type: Certified Copy
Drawn up in pursuance of his Majesty's Order of Reference of 10th May instant.
Captain Thomas Hamilton to Ossory
Written from: On board H.M. Galley Charles
Date: 13/23 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 621-622
Document type: Original
Describes in detail the chase & capture of an Algerine ship, the Marigold [so in MS.].
Ranelagh to Stepney
Written from: London
Date: 14 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 438
Document type: Copy
Sir James Hayes, Major Huntingdon, Mr Dashwood, and the writer attended yesterday before the Privy Council, and received various instructions concerning the Revenue Accounts of Ireland, which are now communicated for the guidance of their partners at Dublin. ...
A writer not herein named [probably, Lady Wharton; mother of the person addressed] to Mr Wharton
Written from: London
Date: 14 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 95
Document type: Original
Has received Mr Wharton's letter of May 12.
Upon a division on the question of adjourning the pending debate, the Counties had 176 votes for adjournment, to next ordinary day of sitting; the Country party, 177, for adjourning it, without naming a day.
Notices incidents in Parliament of subsequent occurrences & some incidents in the Wharton family.
Account of the Farmers [of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland], 30 April, 1678. Received [by the Lord Lieutenant] from Sir John Champante 14 May 1678.
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 14 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 203-204
Document type: Original
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 17 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 719
Document type: Original
The contents of certain papers concerning the accounts of the Earl of Ranelagh & his partners sent herewith are to be put into effectual execution [in Ireland] without delay.
Rules to be observed by the Officers of the Exchequer [in Ireland] in ascertaining the Lord Ranelagh's Accounts
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 721
Document type: Original
Petition of Richard, Earl of Ranelagh, to the King [concerning Revenue Accounts of Ireland]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 723
Document type: Copy
A Report of a Committee of the Privy Council of England to the King, upon the Accounts of the Earl of Ranelagh
Written from: Council Chamber
Date: 13 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 725
Document type: Copy
An Order, by the King in Council, upon the Report calendared above
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 15 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 725v
Document type: Copy
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 18 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 687
Document type: Original
According to information given to his Majesty, he finds reason to suspect that Sir James Shaen & his partners in the farm of the Irish Revenue have a further design "to shake hands" with the King, as to the Revenue of that Farm, by the end of this month of May. All possible care must be taken to prevent them in that design. The Commissioners of inspection are to suffer no money to be paid save on account of the rent due to the King, and the necessary salaries of officers, until the whole arrear be discharged.
Secretary Sir Joseph Williamson to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 18 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 685
Document type: Holograph
The Letter from the King now transmitted was the result of a meeting at the Treasury Chambers last night. It happens to be the writer's lot to draw & countersign it. He has kept as near as possible to the very words of the 'Minutes' [of that meeting] sent to him by Mr Bertie.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 18 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 465
Document type: Copy
The expedition to the North could not have been made but for the money lent by Major Huntingdon & others, Lord Lauderdale owns that it was of great use, for the suppression of the beginnings of disorder in Scotland. ... The writer accepted £1000 from the present Farmers on the last New Year's day. ... The time and manner is left to them.
"The French King's Letter to the States General of the United Provinces"
Written from: At our Camp, at Deinse
Date: 18 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 633
Document type: Copy of the Original text; as sent to the Duke of Ormond.
The King infers from statements made to his Plenipotentiary that the desire of the States for Peace was, in some degree, modified by scruples about an article of the Treaty of Commerce discussed at Nimeguen, and by a dread of French conquests which, under certain contingencies, might be made in the Spanish Netherlands; and expresses his readiness, should the States again put themselves into their ancient alliance, and at their intercession, to grant to Spain terms as favourable as those accorded to the United Provinces themselves.
French.
A Translation of the Letter MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 633
Date: 18 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 631
Ranelagh to Ormond
Date: 18 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 139
Document type: Holograph
Communicates further proceedings, at the Treasury, concerning the financial affairs of Ireland. ...
Has received his Grace's letter of 27th April. Is much troubled to hear that Sir John Champante should be guilty of any fault in the execution of his trust. ... Champante assures the writer that, when he gave in the account, "he informed Sir James Cuffe that the £9,000 ... was not actually paid, but only assigned". ...
Ormond to Sir James Cuffe
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 20 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 432
Document type: Minute
Examination is to be made into the terms & provisions of the subsisting Acts for Customs & Excise duties, in this Kingdom, and report is to be made of such amendments therein as may be found needful or expedient, in order to the more effectual collecting of the duties aforesaid.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin
Date: 20 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 465
Document type: Copy
... By comparing the correspondence & desires of those of the undertakers [partners of Lord Ranelagh] who are in England, and the correspondence & desires of their representatives here, the writer is forced to conclude either that they do not understand one another, or else that they understand one another too well. There, they press hard to be allowed a longer time to bring in their accounts. Here, they say are now as ready as they can be at Midsummer. ...
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 21 March 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 98-99
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
... "The necessity of having supplies is so great for the defence of the Kingdom, and the covenants obtained by the Undertakers afford them so many advantages and colourable pretexts to defalcations [of the Crown Rent], delays, and perpetual claims of debts on the people, that I could wish the Undertakers were fully discharged, upon condition the King & his subjects were so too, either by their paying what remains unsatisfied of their undertaking or by leaving his Majesty so many just and solvent debts as well do it. So shall his Majesty be at liberty to forgive his subjects what he thinks fit, and know what that grace will cost him." ...
[Minute of a] Court-Martial, held at Carrickfergus, ... 22 May, 1678
Written from: Carrickfergus
Date: 22 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 54, fol(s). 605
Document type: Copy
Ormond to Williamson
Written from: Dublin
Date: 25 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 689
Document type: Copy
If a joint letter from the Lord Lieutenant & Council of March 29, & other letters from the writer, relating to the matter [of the Farm of Revenue] now in question, had been read at the meeting referred to in Sir Joseph Williamson's letter, his Majesty might possibly have found the existing differences impartially stated. Certainly, it would have appeared that all the care now commanded to be taken in the matter had been taken already. ...
Votes of the House of Commons, concerning the War, 25 May, 1678
Date: 25 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 444r-v
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 25 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 100
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
The Order in Council now received, ... is "so full and so far prevents all ... delay, that for fear the overture of my letter might give any occasion for it, I think it will be best not to have it produced".
Ranelagh to Captain Edward Richbell, & others, Commissioners of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland
Written from: London
Date: 28 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 159
Document type: Copy
Has, by the advice & direction of Sir James Shaen, drawn upon Richbell & his Bills of Exchange for various sums of money. Trusts that there will be no failure in their acceptance, & punctual payment.
Ranelagh to the Commissioners of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland
Written from: London
Date: 28 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 723
Document type: Copy
By advice & direction of Sir James Shaen, has this day drawn upon the Commissioners several Bills of Exchange, in favour of Mr William Bridges, ... which they are requested to accept & punctually to pay.
A Journal, containing an account of proceedings in Parliament; anno 1678
Date: 28 May to 21 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 242, fol(s). 1-44
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 29 May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 100-101
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Further particulars concerning the accounts of the Revenue.
Certificate of the Clerk of the Pells in Ireland of payments made by the Farmers of the Revenue there, since the beginning of their Farm
Shelfmark: MS. Carte, fol(s). 101
Document type: Duplicate-original
Proceedings of the House of Commons, May 8-10
Date: May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 384
Further Notes of Votes and Proceedings in both Houses of Parliament, from the 13th of May to 2nd November, 1678
Date: May to November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 388-397
The King's Speech to both Houses upon the opening of the session
Date: May 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 446
Document type: In Lord Wharton's hand.
Sir John Stepney and others to Lord Ranelagh and others
Date: [May?] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 437v
Document type: Copy
Report their proceedings in preparing and delivering certain accounts and vouchers concerning the late undertaking for the management of the Irish Revenue; the reception and treatment of those accounts, and the objections made to certain particulars thereof. ...
Adds an account of the extreme difficulties which the partners at Dublin are under, in being ... "destitute & disarmed of all ... needful helps", in their office. ...
Minute of a Speech delivered in the House of Lords, by Theophilus, Earl of Huntingdon
Date: [May? 1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 235-236
Document type: Holograph
Notes and Collections upon the genealogy of the family of Villiers
Date: [May? 1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 489-490v
Notes and Collections upon the genealogy of the family of Villiers, upon the descent of the viscountcy of Purbeck, and upon proceedings in the House of Lords, upon the Claim to that viscountcy of Robert Villiers-Danvers (otherwise "Wright"). By Theophilus, Earl of Huntingdon.
Additional Notes, by the same Earl, of the Debates in the House of Lords upon the claim of Mr Villiers-Danvers to the viscountcy of Purbeck
Date: [June 1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 492?v-494v
A News-Letter, narrating various incidents of the Rebellion in Scotland. With a notice of some proceedings of the Privy-Council at Edinburgh, thereupon.
Written from: Edinburgh
Date: 4 June [1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 484
Document type: Original
The State of the Account of the Farmers [of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland, on] the last of May, 1678. Received [by the Lord Lieutenant] from Sir John Champante, June 4, 1678
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 4 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 199-201
Document type: Original. Partially endorsed by Ormond.
[A List of] Assignments, left in the Treasury [of Ireland] by the Farmers [of the Revenue aforesaid]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 202
Document type: Original
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 4 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 466
Document type: Copy
Purposes, about three weeks hence, to make a journey to Londonderry, a place and county the writer has never yet seen, but of which he hears so much, that it may be for the King's service he should appear there. He is sure that it will be little to his own pleasure, as those parts & people are described. But the writer will give no directions in the matter, until he is assured that his absence from hence will not interrupt the proceedings in order to a Parliament, or those upon the Earl of Ranelagh's accounts. ...
After the visit to Derry, the writer purposes to take as long a journey southward to see how the work goes on at Kinsale, & thence to Limerick and Galway. ... But three lines out of England may possibly frustrate the whole project.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 4 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 102-104
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Certain mislaid letters and papers ... [concerning the Revenue] ... shew that if there be any delay, or other ill practice [to withhold accounts], it is to be imputed to Lord Ranelagh's partners & not to him, - if his proceedings shall be answerable to his professions. ...
Notices the great immigration into Ireland of whole Scottish families. ... recommends the now Archbishop of Tuam, Dr Parker [for the archbishopric of Armagh, upon a vacancy, - under certain conditions, - adding:] "If the Lord Chancellor [Archbishop of Dublin] would change that [office], and his archbishopric, to be Primate, no man could be fitter for it, nor would he, I think, be a loser by it, but I doubt his Majesty would, because it will be hard to find a churchman fit to be Chancellor". ...
[An Account of] Powder remaining in the [Military] Stores [of Ireland] [with a statement of recruits to be issued]
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 5 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 54, fol(s). 608
Document type: Original
The King's Message to Parliament, about the disbanding of the Army
Date: 7 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 452
Document type: Copy
Ranelagh to Stepney
Written from: [London]
Date: 8 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 438
Document type: Copy
States the reasons for entirely disapproving of certain claims and pretensions advanced by some of the partners in the late management of the Revenue of Ireland, and his views of other matters concerning the accounts of that management, now pending and under examination in that Kingdom. ...
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 9 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 104
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Recommends Sir Richard Beynell, for the dignity of a baronet of Ireland.
Grant, by Letters-Patent, to Alice, Countess-Dowager of Drogheda, of the guardianship of Christopher, Lord Baron of Shane, son and heir to Randal, Lord Baron of Shane
Date: 14 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 742v
Document type: Breviate
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 15 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 467
Document type: Copy
Further particulars of the proceedings upon the Revenue-accounts of the Earl of Ranelagh and his partners. ...
The writer hopes that there will be no thought of stopping the work at Kinsale, because of a general Peace, - if that should happen.
The King's Speech to both Houses of Parliament, June 16, 1678
Date: 16 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 450-451
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 16 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 105-106
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
The Commissioners of Inspection report that hitherto no assignments, made by the Farmers of the Revenue, have been returned unpaid or protested. ... But the two or three next months are those which are deadest for trade. ... And they cannot find that the farmers have any reserve in cash, out of the overplus of the better months. ...
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 17 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 567
Document type: Certified Copy
Pending the preparation of a new contract for the farm his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland, Directions are to be given to the present Farmers to pay their Rent monthly, according to their Contract, and in order thereunto the Deputy Vice-treasurer is to take their assignments for money in the country, that the same may be paid within the days of Grace.
Vote of the House of Peers for not barring the Honour of any Peers, by levying a fine
Date: 18 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 459
Document type: In the hand of Lord Wharton
A Report, by Edward Roberts, esquire, to James, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, concerning the Revenue Accounts of that Kingdom
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 21 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 730 seqq.
Document type: Original
An Abstract of the Collectors' Accounts; made up according to the directions of the Lord Lieutenant & Council ...
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 730 seqq
Document type: Original
[An Order] by the King's ... Majesty and the Lords of his Majesty's ... Privy Council, made upon occasion of a Petition presented to his Majesty by Richard, Earl of Ranelagh
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 21 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 727
Document type: Official Copy
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 22 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 467
Document type: Copy
... Is confident that neither Lord Ranelagh (who says that he is not the writer's enemy), nor those who are, desire that there should be any Parliament here. His Lordship & his partners have just cause to fear a Committee of Grievances & the representation that may from them, by steps, ascend to the King. The writer doubts that Ranelagh is yet so far reconciled to him, as to wish that he should do the King & Kingdom any considerable service. ...
Hen does not doubt of being able to effect much, ... in spite of opposition, provided that he meets with no discouragement from the counsels in England, and that the Parliament is not put out of humour, by taking more money out of the Kingdom. ...
Notes of the Proceedings of both Houses of Parliament, in June, 1678
Date: 22 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 166r-v
Document type: Addressed to Mr [Thomas] Wharton [afterwards 1st Marquess of Wharton, Malmesbury, and Catherlogh] at Salisbury. Seal of arms.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 22 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 106-107
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Calls the Secretary's attention to that part of a Report, sent herewith, which concerns the Comptroller of the Revenue. That office is now useless, and of some charge to the King. If the office was made for the now Comptroller, his measure was very ill taken, for, adds the writer: - "I do not know any man employed about the Revenue of less ability or ingenuity". Recommends that his commission be revoked.
Copy of an Order of Reference, by the Duke of Ormond, directing an inquiry into the conduct of the several officers of the Revenue, in the discharge of their respective trusts
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 107
Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into Revenue Offices; made under the order above-recited
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 107
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 22 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 118
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Has received the Secretary's letter of 15th inst, and the Order in Council of the 14th, concerning the Earl of Ranelagh's accounts. ... The account rendered cannot properly be said to be as it is styled "complete". ...
The opinion of some able men [here], as to further levies by Ranelagh & his partners, is "that they are absolutely in the King's power, as to the raising of anything upon the Subject, from December last".
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 22 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 119
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
States, in detail, the writer's objections to the alleged insufficiency of the abstract of the Revenue accounts, given in "by those authorized by my Lord of Ranelagh and his partners".
An Abstract of the Revenue Accounts of the Earl of Ranelagh & his Partners
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 119
[An Account of] the Gross-produce of the Revenue Duke of Ormond of Ireland; ... for two years & a half; ending June 24, 1678
Date: 24 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 516
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.
Facultas pro R.D. Joanne Lockett, Sacerdote Anglo, in regnis Angliae, Scotiae, aliisque dominiis regis Magnae Britanniae, excepta Hybernia
Date: 25 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 414
Memorandum, by Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, on the form of the "Faculties", granted to Missionary Priests, sent from Rome into England, or Scotland
Date: This Memorandum was probably written about the year 1690.
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 414
[An Order] by the [Duke of Ormond] Lord Lieutenant of Ireland [concerning the due payment, by the Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland, of their monthly rent, according to the terms of their contract]
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 26 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 340
Document type: Copy
[An Order] by the [Duke of Ormond] Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 26 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 419
Document type: Copy
[An Order] by the [Duke of Ormond] Lord Lieutenant of Ireland [for enforcing the due payment, by the Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland, of their monthly rent, according to the terms of their contract, and in obedience to his Majesty's commands of the 17th June instant]
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 17 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 423
Document type: Copy
Will come to no definite resolution concerning certain pending matters of revenue in Ireland, until the Lord Lieutenant's farther opinion thereupon is received. Meanwhile, strict care is to be taken that the farmers pay their Rent monthly, according to the terms of their contract with his Majesty. ...
[Notes of a] Conference ... concerning the Amendments sent [by the Commons] to the Lords on the "Bill for disbanding the Army"
Date: 26 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 448r-v
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 27 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 315
Document type: Extract
Will make it his endeavour to serve his Majesty, in the matter of supplies, in the way he desires. ... The Bill of Confirmation of Irish Estates has been exposed to the perusal of the Irish lawyers, ... who have made many observations against it, ... some reasonable, ... many others directly contrary to the general scope of the Bill. They were required to reduce all their discourse to writing. ...
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 27 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 110-111
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Further particulars concerning the Revenue, and the financial accounts, of Ireland. ...
The writer will make it his endeavour to serve his Majesty, in the matter of his supplies, in the way desired. ... The calculations are made by those who are most skilful, but are only calculations, and may come short by accidents, in other countries, which may affect trade here. Whereas nothing but intestine troubles can lessen subsidies.
Adds a report of what has passed concerning the Bill for Confirmation of Estates in Ireland.
A correspondent unnamed to Thomas Wharton
Written from: [London]
Date: 27 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 138
Document type: Original
Sends notes of proceedings in both Houses of Parliament.
Mentions advices received from Holland as to the hindrances in the way of a Peace. Lord Sunderland goes immediately as Ambassador to France.
Political Advices. Addressed to Thomas Wharton.
Written from: [London]
Date: 29 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 139
Document type: Original
Communicate the purport of recent despatches from the English Ambassador at the Court of France; and also the proceedings at a Conference between the Houses of Lords and Commons.
The State of the Account of the Farmers [of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland] on the last day of June, 1678. By Sir John Champante.
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 30 June 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 205-208
Document type: Original
The Declaration of the Rebels in Scotland. ... As it was designed to have been put up by them at Glasgow, and was actually put up at Ruglan.
Date: [June 1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 45, fol(s). 484v-485
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: [June] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 315
Document type: Extract
Particulars concerning the preparation of Parliamentary Bills for transmission into England, and explanation of certain delays attending the same.
Ordinationes in visitatione Conventus S. Salvatoris Dublin. Ord. Praedicatorum, per R.F. Gul. de Burgo
Written from: Dublin
Date: 1 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 138
Document type: Breviate; by Thomas Carte. From Bishop Stearne's MSS.
Makes orders concerning certain matters of Divine worship & discipline. ...
Certifies that F. James Taaffe is guilty of no offence deserving censure.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 2 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 468
Document type: Copy
Further details of the pending financial and parliamentary affairs of Ireland. ...
Notice of Sir James Shaen's bargain.
A News-letter, unsigned, to Thomas Wharton
Date: 3 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 103, fol(s). 229
Events in the Netherlands and in Germany.
Political and Court incidents in England and in Scotland.
Observations upon the 'Bill of Confirmation'
Date: 4 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 46-49
Document type: Original; endorsed by Ormond.
Heads of the 'Bill of Confirmation'
Date: 4 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 50
Document type: Original; similarly endorsed.
Names of the Lords who protested against the decision of the House, in the case between Sir Paul Whichcot, and Mr Marmaduke Darrell
Date: 5 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 457
Observations and Proposals, on matters arising before his Majesty's Privy Council in England
Date: 6 July [1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 52, fol(s). 729
Document type: Original
Observations and Proposals, on matters arising before his Majesty's Privy Council in England, concerning debts due to the Crown, in Ireland, by the Earl of Ranelagh & his partners, as Farmers & Commissioners of his Majesty's Revenue in that Kingdom.
Notes of proceedings in both Houses of Parliament. Addressed to Thomas Wharton, at Salisbury.
Date: 6 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 143
Ranelagh to Stepney
Written from: [London]
Date: 9 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 439
Document type: Copy
... Having lately looked over the last accounts of the former Farmers of the Revenue, is satisfied that a certain sum of £30,000, ... settled by Privy Seal, ... is to be charged against them; for, in effect, they are paid that sum twice. ... The £10,000, which Sir W. Bucknall lent to the King, ... is part thereof. ...
Other details of Revenue matters are added, at great length. ...
A Commission by the Earl of Danby, Lord High Treasurer of England
Written from: Treasury Chambers, Whitehall
Date: 10 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 40, fol(s). 561
Document type: Notarial Copy
A Commission by the Earl of Danby, Lord High Treasurer of England, to Nicholas Bayley, Walter Gold, and others, empowering them to prosecute on his Majesty's behalf in cases of infringement upon the 'Act of Navigation', 12 Car II. 1661.
[William Taylor to Wharton]
Written from: [London]
Date: 12 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 172
Document type: Original. With a PS; apparently in the hand of Thomas Wharton.
Narrates the incidents of a Review of troops on Hounslow Heath, by the Duke of Monmouth; the impressions at Court of an impending war; and some recent proceedings in Parliament.
An Abstract of the Accounts of the several Collectors [of Inland Revenue, in Ireland] who have passed their accounts, unto the thirteenth of July, 1678
Date: 13 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 514
Notes of proceedings in both Houses of the Parliament of England. Addressed to Thomas Wharton.
Date: 13 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 149
Lord Chancellor [Finch, afterwards Earl of Nottingham]'s Speech to both Houses at the Prorogation, 15 July, 1678
Date: 15 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 15
Another Copy of the same Speech of 15 July
Date: 15 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 16
Document type: Apparently in the hand of Lord Wharton.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 15 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 112-113
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Details concerning Bills in preparation for the Parliament.
... By the death of Sir James Cuffe, the King has lost a man of great industry and ability, as well as of loyalty & good affection. His place as Commissioner of inspection is filled by the appointment of Dr Topham, during the King's pleasure. In recommending Lord Lanesborough and Lord Longford for a grant of Creation-money, the writer has by oversight transgressed a rule he had laid down for himself, of not making proposals that would increase the King's charge.
A Report, by Thomas Taylor, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant, on the assessment and collection of the threepence per acre
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 16 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 59-60
Document type: Original
A Report, by Thomas Taylor, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant, on the assessment and collection of the threepence per acre, levied as "Irish-Agent Money", upon certain lands in Ireland under provisions of the Act Explanatory of the 'Act of Settlement' for that Kingdom.
A Schedule of sums assessed, for "Agent-Money", upon the several counties of Ireland
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 60
Document type: Original
A News-letter to Thomas Wharton
Date: 17 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 103, fol(s). 230
Progress of diplomatic negotiations in France and in the Netherlands. Particulars of an affray at Bruges.
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 24 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 643-644
Document type: Original
Letters patents, in due form, under his Majesty's Great Seal of Ireland are to pass for the creation into one manor, to be designated the manor of Ballynolache, of certain abbey & other lands, in the county of Wexford, heretofore granted by the King to Francis, Earl of Longford. ....
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 23 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 113-115
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
... It were no ill husbandry to lay out so much money as would buy up all existing Pensions [charged upon the Establishment of Ireland]. ... Whenever the Revenue falls short the failure falls upon them. ... "Methinks", adds the writer, "they should be bought and sold at easy rates". ...
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 25 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 469
Document type: Copy
Has received Sir Robert's letter of 15th inst. ...
Describes the questions put to the Judges, concerning the Revenue-undertaking of Lord Ranelagh & his partners; and gives particulars concerning the routine of receipt and payment at the outports, & at the Treasury. ... Adds that the contracts made with Bridges, & with the Farmers, were "ill-worded for the king; as, in plain truth, all the Contracts made for him in England, concerning the Revenue in Ireland, have been and, I think, ever will be". ...
[Observations] concerning the Customs and Excise [Duties in Ireland. With some additions in the hand of Sir John Temple, Solicitor-General.]
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 26 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 736-738
Document type: Original
Cyriac Skinner [a Justice of the Peace for the county of Meath] to Sir Theophilus Jones
Written from: Maynooth
Date: 28 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 705
Document type: Holograph
Transmits examination respecting a certain prisoner lately committed in this county.
Examinations of John Kitherell, and others, concerning words spoken by Christopher Cuffe [this name is of doubtful reading]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 707
Document type: Original
Notes of the names of several persons [and of various incidents]. ... Taken out of the MS. on the Rebellion in Ireland, in Mr Dunbavan's keeping, 29 July 1678. [By Philip, Lord Wharton.]
Date: 29 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 80, fol(s). 677
Document type: Holograph
[Observations] concerning the increase of his Majesty's Revenue [in Ireland]. Sent [by Lord Lieutenant the Duke of Ormond] to Mr Secretary Coventry.
Date: 31 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 36-37
Document type: Copy
Ormond to Sir William Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 31 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 146-148
Document type: Copy
Particulars concerning Bills prepared for transmission into England, in order to their introduction into Parliament.
Details of revenue matters and of other financial business concerning Ireland.
Note: 'William Coventry' has been corrected to ' Henry Coventry', apparently by a hand other than Edward Edwards', in many calendar entries in this volume, but here there is no correction.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 31 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 315-316
Document type: Copy
"The Bill which, I suppose, will lead in the Parliament will be that designed for the general & final security of estates. ... It will not only pass itself, but will make the way smoother for the rest. ... But ... some may endeavour to prepossess the people with an ill opinion of the provision made for them, - as I am told some already begin to do." ... The writer proceeds to state his views as to means of precaution and remedy; ... and adds: - "You will find no particular proviso in this Bill as it is sent over, though some have been endeavoured to be got in. If those who have failed here ... shall try what they can do there [in England], I hope they will lose their labour; or else it is very probable we shall lose ours." ...
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 31 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 115-121
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Observations, at great length, on the leading Bills to be offered in Parliament, and, more especially, on the Bill for final settlement & security of estates, and on Bills for matters of Revenue and Finance.
Draughts of various Bills, submitted for the consideration of the King in Council, and for re-transmission into Ireland
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 115-121
A Computation of proposed additions to his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 115-121
A Cypher [used in the correspondence of the Duke of Ormond]
Date: 1 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 50, fol(s). 472-473
Document type: Original. Endorsed, & dated, by Ormond.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 3 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 470
Document type: Copy
Sends the copy of a letter addressed to Mr Secretary Conway and also that of an accompanying paper. Adds various details concerning the pending matters of finance. ...
An Extract of my Lord Lieutenant [Duke of Ormond]'s letter to the Lord Treasurer [Danby, concerning the return of certain Bills for the calling of a Parliament in Ireland]
Date: 5 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 50, fol(s). 252
A News-letter, unsigned, to Thomas Wharton
Date: 5 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 103, fol(s). 228
Political and military events in the Netherlands. Appointments at the English Court.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 5 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 121
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Colonel Fitzpatrick, bearer of this letter, is well informed concerning the Bill for the settlement of estates, as far as his countrymen are concerned in it, and is no stranger to the accounts [of the Irish Revenue].
Ranelagh to Ormond
Written from: London
Date: 6 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 68, fol(s). 232
Document type: Holograph
Has the honour of his Grace's letter, and has already bespoke two Cloths of State, ...which, as the writer hopes, will be landed in Ireland for about five hundred pounds.
Extraict du Traitté de Paix fait, ... et arresté a Nimèque le 10ème du mois d'Aoust, 1678, etc. [between France & the United provinces of the Netherlands]
Date: 10 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 635
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Kilkenny
Date: 11 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 122
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Recommends the Earl of Carlingford, bearer of this letter.
A News-letter to Thomas Wharton
Date: 12 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 103, fol(s). 232
Particulars of pending negotiations, as they were reported to the King.
Enlistment of volunteers for service at Tangier, and in Virginia.
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 13 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 645-646
Document type: Certified Copy
Due instructions are to be given for the grant, by his Majesty, to Sir James Cuffe of a pension of £300, a year, charged upon the Irish establishment.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Kilkenny Castle
Date: 14 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 470
Document type: Copy
Having sent a gentleman to visit his grandson at Orange, the account the writer receives is satisfactory on no point save that of health. The tutor has (there is cause to suspect) kept him in that solitary place, to save charges for his own benefit, and not for the writer's, nor the boy's. ... yet, within three quarters of a year, the bills come to £1000, English; ... - the retinue being but a valet-de-chambre, a page, & a footman, without coach or horse; - and this at Orange, where wine is sold at a penny a quart, & all other things ratably cheap. ...
The accounts put in by Lord Ranelagh will not be found final, nor, in other respects, ... satisfactory. Yet certain persons, - as the writer believes, - will not be so keen upon their defects as has been reported. ...
A News-letter to Thomas Wharton
Date: 17 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 103, fol(s). 238
Further details of the negotiations in the Netherlands.
Military events and preparations.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Kilkenny Castle
Date: 19 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 471
Document type: Copy
... In a letter of Longford's, mention is made of one Dr Oglanby, as sent from Sir William Temple. He was once spoken of to the writer, as a man fitted by travel & other qualifications to be governor to a youth. Sir Robert would oblige, by making more particular inquires about him. ... The letters from Orange give a worse & worse character of De L'Ange. ...
An Account of the behaviour of William, Lord Cavendish, - afterwards fourth Earl and first Duke of Devonshire
Written from: London
Date: 20 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 628
Document type: Original
An Account of the behaviour of William, Lord Cavendish, - afterwards fourth Earl and first Duke of Devonshire, - and of debts contracted by him. Addressed by his father, William, third Earl, to Sir James Butler; to be communicated to the Duke of Ormond [father of Lady Cavendish].
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Carrick
Date: 20 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 316r-v
Document type: Copy
States, at great length, the writer's view as to the state of the Revenue of Ireland, and as to the prospect of any further increase. ... The things already charged can be no more than is laid upon them, without danger of lessening ... consumption. ...
Adds some considerations on the time of the meeting of Parliament.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Carrick
Date: 20 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 123-125
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Has received Sir William's letter of 13th inst. States his opinion concerning (1) the due course of procedure, as to Bills for increasing the King's revenue; and (2) the best way the writer can think of "to get more, if it be to be had". ... Adds: "It will suit well with the King's service, here, that the meeting [of the Parliament] might be about the beginning of November". ...
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: [Carrick]
Date: [21 August] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 125-126
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
States the writer's reasons for recommending that the Lord Chief Baron [Bysse] be not removed from his office. He was never a man of extraordinary quickness, but one of much intelligence, and of great integrity. ... He discharges his office with good ability.
An Order of Reference to the Attorney-General of Ireland and to the Solicitor-General, or either of them, by the Duke of Ormond
Written from: Carrick
Date: 23 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 321
Document type: Copy
An Order of Reference to the Attorney-General of Ireland and to the Solicitor-General, or either of them, by the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant, of a letter from his Majesty concerning to the Lady Frances Keightly, and Thomas Keightly, esquire, of a certain pension formerly enjoyed by John Hayes, as the salary of his office of Comptroller of the King's Revenue in Ireland.
Report of Sir William Domville, Attorney General of Ireland, to Lord Lieutenant the Duke of Ormond, under the Order of Reference above-recited
Written from: Dublin
Date: 31 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 321r-v
Document type: Copy
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 24 July 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 323-324
Document type: Copy
Directions concerning the grant described in the Order of Reference, calendared above.
John Fenwick to Mr Bedingfield [in the transcript "Bennifield"; but on the endorsement "Bedingfield"]
Date: 26 August [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 750
Document type: Copy
... "Our affairs in ... Ireland stand well, and his Grace of Dublin [Peter Talbot] is not only kind to us, but very industrious for promotion of our good designs there. ... Ormond would fain be friends with the Catholic party; but we must neither trust him, nor let him ... [live?] much longer. 'Forty-eight' is prepared for". ...
A News-letter, unsigned, to Thomas Wharton
Date: 26 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 103, fol(s). 227
Particulars of the negotiations at Nimeguen. Report of Turkish piracies in the English Channel. Court incidents.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Kinsale
Date: 30 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 69, fol(s). 98
Document type: Copy (from a MS of the Earl of Egmont)
Has examined the new Fort, and is confident it will fully answer the intention of building it. ... "We have here as long a table as you have seen at the consecration of a Bishop, the inauguration of a Lord Mayor, or a Leader's [so in MS.] feast; and yet there wants room, though not meat, - after the rate of Irish hospitality and Irish liberty; and, perhaps my Lord Buckingham will say, Irish understanding". ...
Lanesborough to Southwell
Written from: Kinsale, in your own house
Date: 30 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 69, fol(s). 98
Document type: Copy; as above
Will only add to what the Duke says of his reception and magnificent entertainment ... an acknowledgement of the writer's own obligations to Sir Robert Southwell, to his good mother, and careful trustee Mr Hyde, ... for civilities far beyond the writer's desert or quality. ...
Another Copy of the letter of the Duke of Ormond to Sir Robert Southwell, previously calendared
Written from: Kinsale
Date: 30 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 472
The State of the Farmers' Rent [due to the King on account of his Revenue in Ireland] the last [day] of August, 1678
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 31 August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 209-212
Document type: Original
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Kilkenny
Date: August 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 122-123
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Recommendations concerning the appropriation of a certain unassigned remnant of a sum of "£1,000, in quit-rents, left for his Majesty to dispose of, without any defalcation to be allowed to the Farmers".
Draught of a letter from his Majesty, directing the appropriation of the above-named "remnant", on behalf of a person, and in reward of service, not therein named
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 123
Minute, by the Earl of Essex, late Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, upon the state of the receipts of the Farmers of the Revenue; as reported to his Excellency by Sir John Champante, Deputy Vice-Treasurer
Date: [August? 1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 553
Document type: Holograph
A News-letter, unsigned, to Thomas Wharton
Date: 2 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 103, fol(s). 225
Foreign incidents. Deaths of Lord Berkeley of Stratton, and of Andrew Marvell. Political events in Scotland.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Cashel
Date: 7 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 127-128
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
... Upon the death of Captain Henry Fane, has given that company [of foot in the Army of Ireland] to Captain Gustavus Hamilton, who had ... a direction in his favor to Lord Essex, ... & is a person in all respects fit for such a command. ...
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Cashel
Date: 7 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 128-129
Document type: Copy
Both the Earl of Cork, and the Earl of Ranelagh, as officers of the Crown in Ireland expostulate their omission from the list of Commissioners for defective [land] titles, under the Act of Confirmation. ... The writer begs that their names may be submitted to his Majesty, for addition to that Commission.
A News-letter, unsigned, to Thomas Wharton
Date: 9 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 103, fol(s). 226
Details as to a visit of the Duke of Buckingham to Paris. Political events in the Netherlands.
King of Spain to Ossory
Written from: Madrid
Date: 11 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 40, fol(s). 543
Document type: Original
Has learned, from the Duke of Villahermosa, the happy issue of the engagement fought near Mons on the 14th of August, and also the ability and value on Lord Ossory's part which contributed thereto & for which the King's thanks are returned.
French.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Kilkenny Castle
Date: 11 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 472
Document type: Copy
In his late little progress, the writer took a better survey of Limerick than ever before. In his judgment, it is the most considerable & fittest place to be next taken care of, in the whole Kingdom, & he will so represent it, in a proper season, if that shall be lighted upon. ... Adds particulars as to pending Bills.
Acta capituli provincialis provinciae Hiberniae S. Ord. Praedicatorum, celebrati in conventu nostro Roscommensi
Written from: Roscommon
Date: 11 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 138
Document type: Breviate; by Thomas Carte. From Bishop Stearne's MSS.
Declare the canonical sufficiency of certain elections; make orders concerning various matters of Divine worship & discipline.
Taaffe to Ossory
Written from: Camp near Philipsbourg
Date: 14 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 423
Document type: Breviate; by Carte
Has heard from the Marquess of Grana that Lord Ossory did wonders at the action of Mons. Grana served under the Duke of Lorraine, whose conduct he extols.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Kilkenny Castle
Date: 14 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 129
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Before the arrival of his Majesty's directions - consequent on the death of John, Lord Berkeley - for the grant of pensions on the Establishment to Captain Brabazon & Mr Benyon, order had been given by the writer, pursuant to the King's letters of earlier date, on behalf of Lord Lanesborough and of Colonel Cary Dillon. ...
Due directions are already given on behalf of Brabazon, and will be given on behalf of Benyon, but unless what is now fallen shall extend to satisfy all, some must attend another opportunity. ...
Dr William Fogarthy to Dr Edmund Meara
Date: 14 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 321-322
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond with names and date, but without comment.
After an account of family incidents, the writer communicates some political information; apparently using feigned names and veiled allusions to pending events.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Kilkenny
Date: 21 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 317v
Document type: Extract
... The Bill that will, probably, be most excepted against is that of Confirmation [of estates in Ireland]. ... It must frustrate many expectations, else it cannot produce the settlement designed. ... And it has the misfortune to disappoint some great men amongst us. ... "These may possibly persuade the English that their general interest is at least weakened by this Bill than which nothing can be further from my intention, nor many things further from my belief". ...
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Kilkenny Castle
Date: 21 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 130-131
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Further particulars concerning the Bill for confirmation and security of estates in Ireland.
A News-letter to Thomas Wharton
Date: 23 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 103, fol(s). 237
Progress of negotiations in the Netherlands. Court incidents in England. Particulars of military events in Germany.
Ormond to the King
Written from: Kilkenny
Date: 26 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 325
Document type: Copy; in Sir Robert Southwell's hand.
A Report concerning the works in progress for securing the harbour of Kinsale, in the county of Cork.
An Extract of my Lord Lieutenant [Duke of Ormond]'s letter to the Lord Treasurer [Danby, concerning the Bills lately transmitted for the calling of a Parliament in Ireland]
Date: 27 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 50, fol(s). 252r-v
Minutes of ... [Proceedings] at the Council Table. By Sir Robert Southwell.
Date: 28-30 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 362-363
Note. These minutes relate, almost exclusively, to matters arising out of the alleged Popish Plot.
The Account of the Farmers of the Revenue in Ireland's Cash, and arrears, to the 29 September 1678
Date: 29 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 481-482
Document type: Original [with seven signatures]
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 30 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 649
Document type: Original [with record of enrolment]
Sir Robert Hamilton is to be made K.C., in the Kingdom of Ireland.
An Order, by the King in Council
Date: 30 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 718
Document type: Official Copy; signed by Sir Robert Southwell.
An Order, by the King in Council, directing the communication to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, of various examinations & other documents relating to treasonable plots contrived by Peter Talbot, titular Archbishop of Dublin.
Abstract of the Account of the Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland, as it stood on the last day of September, 1678
Date: 30 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 214-215
Document type: Original
A News-letter to Thomas Wharton
Date: 30 September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 103, fol(s). 236
Increase of the Navy of the United Provinces. Account of electioneering proceedings at Northampton. Ecclesiastical incidents in Scotland. Meeting of the Privy Council to inquire into an alleged conspiracy against the King's life.
A Short Account of some particulars of the conspiracy discovered by Mr Oates
Date: September 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 411-412
John Fenwick to Mr Bedingfield
Date: [September? 1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 751
Document type: Copy
"His Grace of Dublin [Peter Talbot] tells me that Ormond is as much out with the Protestants, as ever he was with the Catholics. To gratify them, he hath given them Commissions, but that will not do. ... I pray be kind to those four countrymen of mine, who are good men, I assure you; and will do the business." ...
Bartholomew Russell to Dr Edmund Meara
Date: 1 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 323
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.
mentions the attendance before the King and Council of Dr Tonge and Mr Oates, "who pretend to discover a very great plot and conspiracy against the King's person". Adds that immediately afterwards, Dr Fogarty, Mr Ireland, Mr Fenwick, and some others, were taken and put into Newgate. Subsequently, Whitebread and Coleman were also arrested. In all, twelve persons have been already apprehended. Several Papist Lords, and also one of the Queen's physicians are also accused.
Note of a grant to the Duke of Ormond, of an annual rent of £1,666: 13s. 4d., for three years
Date: 3 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 62v
Document type: From Bishop Stearne's MSS.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Kilkenny Castle
Date: 5 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 473
Document type: Copy
Has received Sir Robert's letters of 24 and 26 September.
In an enclosed packet for my Lord Chancellor, Sir Robert Southwell will find all that the man of skill here can say upon his Lordship's "observations", but the Duke would no more be answerable for the sufficiency [of what is so said], than he would be for the texture of the 'Bills'. But, in his conscience, he thinks them honestly intended. If they are not luckily drawn, they are where they may be mended. ...
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Kilkenny
Date: 5 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 132
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Mentions the death of the Bishop of Ossory [Dr Parry]. ... Humbly beseeches that his Majesty "would reserve the bestowing of this bishopric for a recommendation of mine, which shall be presented to him, as soon as I can fix upon a person I shall presume to offer".
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Kilkenny
Date: 5 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 132-134
Document type: Copy
Particulars concerning Bills transmitted; and more especially concerning the Bill for confirmation and better settlement of estates, in Ireland.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: [Kilkenny]
Date: 5 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 134-135
Document type: Copy
States the writer's opinion concerning a suit to the King of the Earl of Castlehaven, in respect of a pension on the Irish Establishment, and of a claim to a remission of quit-rents.
Dr John Topham to Ormond
Written from: Dublin
Date: 8 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 491
Document type: Holograph
Reports what has been done by the writer, in obedience to the Lord Lieutenant's orders, concerning the accounts of, and the payments expected from, the Farmers of the Revenue.
They have had, he continues, "a most plentiful harvest of the Customs. I cannot give Your Grace a perfect acct., by reason all their abstracts are not returned; but I have seen £35,000 accounts for the quarter ending 29 Sept last. The Port-Duties, for the last fourteen days, at Cork, came to £2,400." ...
Sir Charles Meredith to Ormond
Written from: Dublin
Date: 8 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 493
Document type: Holograph
Did enquire of the Farmers [of Revenue], in obedience to his Grace's commands, concerning the balance of the Farm-rent, which seems to be very great. "But they allege it to be much sunk by several payments since that 'State' has been [so in MS.] given in to Your Grace. Particularly, this day I have seen assignments dispatched by them for £6,571." ...
[A Schedule of] Assignments; signed by the Commissioners [of the Revenue of Ireland] the 8th of October, 1678
Date: 8 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 534
Document type: Original
A State of the Farmers' Rent [due to the King, on account of his Revenue in Ireland] to the 8th of October, 1678, inclusive
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 8 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 213
Document type: Original
Warrant by the [Duke of Ormond] Lord Lieutenant General ... of Ireland for the securing of Peter Talbot, titular Archbishop of Dublin
Written from: Kilkenny
Date: 8 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 150
Document type: Copy
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Kilkenny
Date: 8 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 136-137
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
In obedience to the Order in Council, has sent a squadron of horse for the apprehension of Peter Talbot, titular Archbishop of Dublin.
A Relation of the manner of attaching Peter Talbot, titular Archbishop of Dublin. [By Henry Brent.]
Date: 9 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 724
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.
Henry Brent to Ormond
Written from: Dublin
Date: 10 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 740
Document type: Holograph
Has attached the person of "the titular Archbishop of Dublin [Peter Talbot]" but has left him in his chamber, on account of extreme sickness, "in the charge of Colonel Talbot [so in MS.]". ...
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Grangematon
Date: 10 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 473
Document type: Copy
Thanks his correspondent for the great care taken to inform him so perfectly of all the circumstances of "the plot". Will make no reflections or invectives thereon, but will endeavour, in his station, to do his duty.
... Relates the circumstances of Peter Talbot['s apprehension in obedience to the order in Council; and adds ... "I do not think my life of consideration enough to be mentioned, or taken care of, when the King is threatened, yet I may say Peter Talbot has undertaken, or has been assigned, much the least wicked part of the Tragedy, and that this is not the first time that he has been said to encourage the acting of it.
William Rian to Richard Young [otherwise, Burke]
Written from: Dunskny
Date: 10 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 345
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond, as brought to the Duke, by Captain Robert Fitzgerald, on the 26th October.
Has received his correspondent's letter of September 6th. Answers some inquiries as to the state of certain Jesuit Seminaries, in various places of Connaught, and elsewhere. Says that "as to Mr Brown's books, there is not one of them come to the Kingdom, since I saw you".
An Account of such Alterations and Additions as are made to the present Establishment [of Ireland] since the 4th of August 1677
Date: 12 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 504-505
Document type: Original
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 13 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 474
Document type: Copy
Found, upon arrival, Peter Talbot a close prisoner in this Castle. Did not expect the finding of any papers of moment, not doubting that he would have intelligence of the information against him, & so time to dispose of them.
Of one paper, which he took care should be found with him, a copy is sent herewith. Its contents may be left to the judgment of the Lords of the Council [in England].
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 14 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 137-138
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Reports particulars concerning the apprehension of Peter Talbot, titular Archbishop of Dublin. ... Talbot "seems to suspect that the accusation brought against him is by the means of one Sarjeant [Serjeant], betwixt whom & him there has been a controversy, brought into print, about some points of Divinity". ...
Adds some notice of measures to be taken for the expulsion of all titular Bishops, and other dignitaries of the Church of Rome.
A Paper found in the possession of Peter Talbot, titular Archbishop of Dublin
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 138
Statement, by Captain Robert Fitzgerald, of the appointment, by Peter Talbot, titular Archbishop of Dublin, of one Patrick Everard to be his Vicar-General
Date: 14 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 339
Document type: Original. Endorsed by the Duke of Ormond: "By my Cousin, Robert Fitzgerald, about P. Talbot".
Statement, by Captain Robert Fitzgerald, of the appointment, by Peter Talbot, titular Archbishop of Dublin, of one Patrick Everard to be his Vicar-General, and of the nomination by the said Everard of certain persons "not well principled to the Government" to be parish priests in Ulster.
The Examination of Andrew Bermingham, servant to Peter Talbot, titular Archbishop of Dublin, concerning treasonable conspiracies in Ireland
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 15 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 722
Document type: Certified Copy
The Examination of Peter Talbot, titular Archbishop of Dublin, concerning treasonable conspiracies in Ireland; taken before Henry, Bishop of Meath, and others
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 15 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 726-727
Document type: Certified Copy
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 15 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 474
Document type: Copy
... What may be said in refutation of the suggestion that the writer favours Papists is a little touched upon, in a letter to Lord Longford, who will reserve no secret, of the writer's, from Sir Robert Southwell.
Peter Walsh is able to say something of Peter Talbot's threats against the Duke's life; but it is not wished that he should be called upon to day a word, without his own free consent. ...
A further Examination of Peter Talbot, titular Archbishop of Dublin. Taken before Henry, Bishop of Meath, and others. "Read in Council, 16 Oct. 1678."
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 16 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 728
Document type: Certified Copy
Third Examination of Peter Talbot [titular Archbishop of Dublin]
Date: 16 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 736-737
Document type: Certified Copy
Interrogations to be put to Nicholas Netterville. Drawn up by order of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: [16? October 1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 732
Document type: In Lord Lanesborough's hand.
The Examination of Walter Harris, of the City of Dublin, concerning the suspected design of certain disaffected persons, to raise a Rebellion in Ireland
Written from: Dublin
Date: 17 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 703
Document type: Original
An Examination of Nicholas Netterville of the City of Dublin, gentleman, concerning his correspondence with Peter Talbot, & others
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 17 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 730
Sir Maurice Eustace to Ormond
Date: 18 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 495-496
Document type: Holograph
The enclosed account the writer received from a friend. It may, perhaps, be of use to his Grace, but should he have occasion to shew it, the writer would be glad that it were transcribed by another hand. ... Otherwise, offence may be taken at his concerning himself with matters in which he has no end, other than that of service to the Lord Lieutenant.
A Statement of the accounts of the Farmers of the Revenue, & of the sums in which they now stand indebted to the King
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 497
Document type: In Eustace's hand
An Account, from the Pells, of the sums in which the Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue, in Ireland, were indebted to his Majesty on 18th October 1678 "the utmost day Your Grace [the Lord Lieutenant] allowed"
Date: 18 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 518
Document type: Original
Note. The aggregate debt is £45,788: 9s. 2d., "for which his Majesty has no security nor any prospect how to be satisfied".
Abstracts of the Accounts of the Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland as they stood on the 15th and on the 19th of October, 1678, respectively. By Sir John Champante.
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 19 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 216-219
Document type: Copies (two documents)
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Date: 19 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 318
Document type: Extract
"I send you several papers relating to the principal Bills transmitted. ... Probably, when this comes to your hands, there may be some thing of more immediate concernment in agitation ... yet these may lie by, ... till there be use of them".
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 19 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 139-140
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Pending, and proposed, ecclesiastical appointments in Ireland.
Draught of a Letter from his Majesty for the promotion of Dr Michael Ward, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, to the bishopric of Ossory
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 139-140
Draught of a like letter, for the appointment of Dr Dopping [or Dr Marsh, Principal of S. Alban Hall, Oxford, if Dr Dopping should be objected to, as being a married man] to be Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, in succession to Dr Ward
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 139-140
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 19 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 140-141
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
When the letter of October 14 was written there was no post-barque at hand; nor was the examination of Peter Talbot then taken. ...
To the writer's remembrance he never received any letter from the King, from the Duke [of York], or form any other, on Talbot's behalf. ...
Examinations (I to III) of Peter Talbot, titular Archbishop of Dublin
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 140-141
Copy of a letter from the Duke of York to the Duke of Ormond, concerning Mahony, titular Bishop of Killaloe
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 140-141
Several papers explanatory of Bills transmitted from Ireland, for the consideration of his Majesty in Council
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 140-141
Sir Charles Meredith & John Topham to Ormond
Date: 22 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 508
Document type: Original
Certifies the results of their examination of the accounts of the late Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland.
The Information [concerning the bringing over of letters, from Germany and France, "to very many gentlemen in the Province of Connaught"] of Marcus Gase, of Clondalee, in the county of Meath
Date: 23 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 715
Document type: Original
An Address from both Houses of Parliament to the King [praying] for the removing of Papists from London
Date: 23 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 359
Document type: Copy
The King to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 26 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 651
Document type: Original; with record of enrolment.
Narcissus Marsh [afterwards successory Archbishop of Dublin & of Armagh; founder of "Marsh's Library" in Dublin], D.D., Principal of S. Alban Hall, Oxford, is to be made, in due form, under his Majesty's Great Seal of Ireland, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin.
The Examination of Richard Higgins, servant to Giles Mee, of the City of Dublin, alderman, taken before Sir Joshua Allen, knight [in relation to an apprehended riot in Dublin]
Written from: Dublin
Date: 27 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 319
Document type: Original
Short Heads of the Report of the Lords who went to examine the prisoners at Newgate
Date: [28?] October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 365
Document type: In Lord Wharton's hand
[Notes of a Speech, made in the House of Lords, by a Peer unnamed,] "upon the report made by the Lords who examined the prisoners in Newgate" [committed upon charges arising out of the alleged Popish plot]
Date: 29 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 361
Document type: In Lord Wharton's hand
[This debate is unnoticed in the "Parliamentary History".]
A List of Lords present at the debate in the House of Lords, on 19 October 1678
Date: 29 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 475
Arguments for enhancing the rates, and debasing the intrinsic value of the Money of Ireland. [By Colonel Lawrence. Submitted to the Duke of Ormond.]
Written from: [Dublin?]
Date: 30 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 40, fol(s). 553-554
Document type: Original. Endorsed, by Ormond.
A State of the Accounts of the Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland, 31 October, 1678. By Sir John Champante
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 31 October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 220-221
Document type: Original
Proxies in the Lords House ... during the session begun ... October 1678
Date: October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 364
Document type: In Lord Wharton's hand
Notes (classified under various headings of the matters severally referred to) of the evidence given by various witnesses and on various occasions, in relation to the "Popish Plot"
Date: October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 366-376
Document type: With some marginal notes by Lord Wharton, and with extracts from various papers relating to the same subject.
Notes, by the Duke of Ormond, on certain items of "extraordinary expenditure" for the Government of Ireland
Date: [October? 1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 276
Document type: Holograph
A Note of a Bundle of Papers concerning Your Grace [the Duke of Ormond]'s Accounts with Mr Mathews, and others
Date: October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 278
Document type: October. Endorsed and dated by Ormond.
A Note of some of Sir James Cuffe's papers
Date: October 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 280-281
Document type: October. Endorsed & dated by Ormond.
Articles of Impeachment ... against William, Earl of Powis; William, Viscount Stafford; William, Lord Peters [Petre]; Henry, Lord Arundel of Wardour; and John, Lord Bellasis
Date: [October 1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 66, fol(s). 601-602
Document type: Copy
Edward Coleman to François de la Chaize
Date: [October] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 454-455
Document type: Copy
Communicates the method of secret writing which he wishes to adopt in their correspondence. The mighty work they have in hand is nothing less than the conversion of three Kingdoms. There were never such hopes, since the death of Queen Mary, "as is now in our days, when God has given us a Prince who is become zealous of being the ... instrument of so glorious a work". Enters into the consideration which should move the French King to co-operate heartily in such an enterprise. Without the advantages which "a little money well-managed" would certainly have afforded, the writer fears the cause will not be much more advanced at end of the approaching session of Parliament, than it is at the date of writing.
[Printed in Parliamentary History of England (Vol. IV, col. xci, seqq.) under the title of 'The Second Letter of Mr Coleman", &c.]
François de la Chaize to Edward Coleman
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 455v
Document type: Translation, and Copy. Endorsed: "A copy of Mr. Coleman's Letter to the French King's Confessor; together with his to Mr. Coleman"
Expresses his satisfaction at the receipt of his correspondent's letter, & his willingness that the same course of intelligence should continue between them, as that which father Coleman carried on with the writer's predecessor in office.
[Printed, as above].
Extract of the fifteen letters, from the Internuncio to Coleman
Date: 1 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 378-379
Resolution of the House Lords, for a return of the names of such servants of the Queen as are Papists
Date: 4 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 401
Document type: An original record; with the signature of the Clerk of the Parliament.
Southwell to Ormond
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: 5 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 653
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.
"The probable conjecture is that on Friday, the Vote [of the House of Commons] will pass to the Duke [of York]'s disadvantage. It being taken for granted that ... [the King] and ...[the Lord Treasurer] although ... [the Duke] urges to ... [the King], all that is possible, the danger that will approach himself from such facility." ...
Was lately with ... [Prince Rupert] and saw a letter addressed to him by ... [Lord Orrery], about the fort of Roscommon, ... to magnify his skill & faculty that way. ... The present writer thinks it might be well if his Grace wrote the Prince a letter, desiring his advice, "upon occasion of the present face of disturbance", in Ireland.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 5 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 142-145
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Thanks the King for accepting the writer's recommendation of Dr Ward for the bishopric of Ossory. Adds some particulars of the urgent need of filling the vacant Primacy, for in that see "are certainly the greatest number of the worst Protestants & Papists in the whole Kingdom". ... Describes the great alarms which prevail as to a rising of Papists, ... and the need of a reparation of forts, and of a better supply of army stores.
[Secretary Sir Joseph Williamson?] to the Duke of Ormond
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: 5 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 403-406
Document type: Original; unsigned.
Communicates his personal observations and narrative of the proceedings in Parliament in relation to the Duke of York.
Examinations of Patrick Plunkett, Michael de la Hyde, and others, officers in the Army of Ireland, taken at Chester
Written from: Chester
Date: 5 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 412
Document type: Copy. Endorsed: "Rec.d 17 Nov."
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 6 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 474-475
Document type: Copy
... No reasonable guess can yet be made as to what the various 'informations' ... amount to. ... But, certainly, the real - or the pretended - fears of some considerable men have put the common sort of English & Protestants almost out of their wits, especially in Munster, - from whence the terror is diffused throughout the whole Kingdom, to the great disheartening of the English, and encouragement of disaffected Irish. ... The writer does all that he can to convince the former that they are not in any danger. ... But it may be true that there are now more Irish in the towns, than is safe. ... The greatest part of them are gotten into such towns, since the writer last left the government; and that "by the fault of those who now, perhaps, cry loudest against it". ...
Has given Ossory the reason why the writer has not secured Lord Mountgarrett & Colonel [Richard] Talbot; the same evidence being said to be against them that sent 'the five Lords' to the Tower.
Coventry to Ossory
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 7 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 332
Document type: Holograph
Has the King's commands that the Earl should immediately direct "the second waiter in the Queen's Chapel'" to attend his Lordship, and instantly on his appearance to place him under arrest.
Captain Robert Fitzgerald to Ormond
Written from: Grangemellon
Date: 7 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 328
Document type: Holograph
The gentry of Queen's County are, they assure the writer, under great trouble because the Captain of their County Militia (although he goes to Church) is a reputed Papist; having mass said in his house, and his children christened by [Romanist] priests.
The effect of what Mr Bedloe said, before the House of Lords, concerning the death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, etc.
Date: 8 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 409r-v
Another Copy of the Depositions, or substance of the Depositions, above recited; with slight variations
Date: 8 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 413r-v
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 9 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 144-145
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Particulars concerning a grant of Quit-rents in Ireland to the Earl of Longford.
William Bedlowe's Relation [about the alleged Popish Plot] to the Committee of [the House of] Lords
Date: 9 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 424-427
Document type: Original [mentioned as that "wch he gave to me" in Lord Wharton's endorsement] and Copy
Five Expedients propounded, concerning the Papist Lords [in relation to their presence in Parliament, and to the limitation of their parliamentary privileges]
Date: 9 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 401
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 10 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 145-146
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Desires to receive the King's instructions as to the quartering of Colonel Dungan's Irish Regiment. ... Since the noise of the Plot, the writer has heard of some disorders committed by them, but is confident that if there be any, they are such as, at any other time, would not have been taken notice of.
Petition to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, of Arthur Turner, on behalf of Colonel John Jeffreys, Constable of Dublin Castle
Date: 10 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 326
Document type: Original
Prays that certain stabling originally built by a former constable of Dublin Castle, but long used by Lord Fitzhardinge, may, upon his Lordship's quitting his command, be restored to the Governor's use.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin
Date: 11 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 659
Document type: Copy
Cannot yet devise what more can be done than is done to put the Protestants of this Kingdom in security. ... The Army, it is true, is little; the forts, ruined; the magazines, almost empty. The Irish may, if they dare, rob & murder such Protestants as live amongst them, in lone & weak houses. ... But if they do, they will - soon after - pay very dearly for it; ... and this is well known to them. ...
Another Copy of the letter of the Duke of Ormond to Sir Robert Southwell calendared above
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 11 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 474v
Derby to Ormond
Written from: Knowsley
Date: 11 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 334
Document type: Holograph
The Mayor of Chester has given the Earl information of the arrest of some Papist gentlemen, who produced Commissions, under the King's hand, for the raising of soldiers in Ireland. These officers will remain in prison until orders for their release be sent from the Council Board.
Jeremiah Jones to Ormond
Written from: Sligo
Date: 12 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 709
Document type: Original
An information concerning a person suspected to be one "of the twelve Jesuits sent over into this country, by the Pope & French King, to seduce the people to their service".
A List of Persons, said to be sent into Ireland for seditious purposes. Delivered by John Fitzgerald, to H[enry?] Booth.
Written from: Sligo
Date: 11 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 712
Document type: Original
Orrery to Ormond
Written from: Castle Martyr
Date: 12 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 151
Document type: Copy
Desires to receive the Lord Lieutenant's orders ... upon certain intelligence of the landing at Cork of certain commissioned officers of the Army, who are Roman Catholics, - the rather, adds the writer, "because I am assured, from London, that none but merchants were to go out of England, without passes".
Captain Harnon, and the Deputy-Sovereign of the town of Kinsale, to the Earl of Orrery
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 151
Particulars of certain officers, said to be of Colonel Dungan's Regiment, lately landed at Cork.
Copy of the Answer of the Earl of Orrery to the Letter of Captain Harnon, &c.
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 151
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 12 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 146
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Notices the execution of the King's commands for the arrest of Colonel Richard Talbot. ... of Colonel Pipard nothing is known. ... Lord Mountgarrett ... "can be little less than 85 years of age, and has been for these six months past bedrid. Yet I take him, in that state, to be fit as for a Lieutenant General as his son, who is as weak a young man, of body and mind, as I have known. However, I have sent for him & shall keep him until his Majesty shall think fit to release him, which I dare say he may do, without the least danger to himself or any of his subjects." ...
Mentions some disloyal words spoken, under circumstances stated, by Sir Ellis Leighton.
Mayor of Chester [William Harvey] to Ormond
Written from: Chester
Date: 14 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 701
Document type: Original; subscribed & signed. [With seal of arms.]
Upon preparation to pass into Ireland of various Roman-Catholics, unprovided with passes, the writer deemed it to be his duty to examine them severally. Their examinations are herewith submitted.
Examinations of Patrick Plunkett and others as to the purpose of their intended passing over into Ireland
Written from: Chester
Date: 5 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 699
Document type: Original. (Ten Examinations.)
Examinations of Edmund Bourke and others; to like effect
Written from: Chester
Date: 9 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 700
Document type: Original. (Six Examinations.)
Sir Joseph Williamson to the Mayor of Chester
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 717
Document type: Original. [Misbound.]
His majesty well approves the care & circumspection of the Mayor in the matters reported. But the persons named have his Majesty's license to go into Ireland, their own country.
Names of the Lords present at the question, whether the Test about Transubstantiation should be added to the Oath or otherwise. [With the Division thereupon.]
Date: 15 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 380
Ormond to Orrery
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 16 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 511
Document type: Copy
Military details relating to works of fortification at Rincoran, referred to in Lord Orrery's letter of November 12; and also relating to the coming over of certain Irish officers from England.
Orrery to Ormond
Written from: Castle Martyr
Date: 16 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 152-153
Document type: Copy
Gives an account of the writer's conference with Captain Fitzgerald and Lieutenant Roche, two of the officers who lately landed at Kinsale, with particulars of their respective commissions and military service.
Message from the Commons to the Lords, to desire the expediting of the disabling Bill above-recited
Date: 18 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 384
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin
Date: 19 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 657-658
Document type: Copy
Sir Robert's letters are of as much use and satisfaction as can be imagined. All has been done here that was commanded & as speedily as possible. ... But the real fears of some, and the pretended apprehensions of others, are too strong to be satisfied, or allayed. ... We have endeavoured to remove incendiaries; to disarm those justly suspected; & to warn and arm the English & Protestants. ...
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 19 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 475
Document type: Copy
... This day, the time limited for the departure of the Popish titular and regular Clergy, and for all papists to bring in their arms, expires. The militia are directed to put themselves into a posture of defence, and instructed how to do it. In short, it has been endeavoured to remove incendiaries, to disarm those justly suspected, & to warn and arm the English & Protestants. ... It had been hinted that it may be fit to purge garrison towns of many of the ... most dangerous Papists and to secure some eminent gentlemen that have lost their estates. ... These hints came from my Lord Orrery, & are calculated for ... Kerry. ... After debate in the Council, they were laid aside. ... But no Papists are to come into the Castle of Dublin, or into any other fort or citadel, without the Lord Lieutenant's express permission. ...
The Examinations of Thomas Morgan [in relation to the alleged "Popish Plot"
Date: 19 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 418
Document type: Rough Copy; with some corrections in the hand of Lord Wharton.
Fair Copy of the Examination above-recited
Date: 19 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 420
Orrery to Ormond
Written from: Castle Martyr
Date: 19 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 154-155
Document type: Copy
Particulars concerning works in progress for strengthening the Fort of Rincorran [within the county of Cork]. ... Observations on the writer's conference with certain officers of Dungan's Regiment [reported on November 16].
Details concerning the military position of the province of Munster, and the prevailing alarms as to the hostile designs of the Irish Romanists.
Ormond to Sir Cyril Wyche
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 20 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 513
Document type: Copy
The disproportion betwixt Papists & Protestants in England is, as Sir Cyril Wyche knows, in the point of their relative numbers, vastly different from what it is in Ireland. Perhaps, in England, not the hundredth man is a Papist; whilst here perhaps not the eighth or tenth man is a Protestant [compare the computation of Sir William Petty, as stated in a conversation with the Duke of Ormond, at Dublin Castle in 1679, and communicated by the Duke to Sir Robert Southwell]. Yet, we are not, on that account, at the mercy of the Papists. To drive them all out of this town and out of all garrisons was found, when debated, to be for many reasons unfit. ... Such a proceeding might put many upon desperate courses, ending probably in their own ruin but meanwhile of great prejudice ... to ... revenue & good government. An inconsiderable insurrection might be magnified in France, and invite an invasion; in which case only, the Irish are to be feared. ...
[An Order, concerning Popish Recusants] by the [Duke of Ormond] Lord Lieutenant & Council of Ireland
Written from: Council Chamber, Dublin
Date: 20 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 71, fol(s). 405-406
Document type: In print (Dublin, Benjamin Tooke, 1678)
Katherine Talbot to Ormond
Date: 20 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 330
Document type: Holograph
Requests the Duke's permission to see her husband occasionally, during his confinement [as a State prisoner], to discourse with him on domestic affairs only.
Certificate of the Lord Mayor of Dublin that John Reynolds [a Dominican Friar] has duly appeared before him
Written from: Dublin
Date: 20 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 346
Document type: Copy
Certificate of the Lord Mayor of Dublin that John Reynolds [a Dominican Friar] has duly appeared before him, in obedience to the terms of the Proclamation of October 16th last, and will take shipping for his passage; unless he shall obtain license for longer stay.
Orrery to Ormond
Written from: Castle Martyr
Date: 22 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 156-157
Document type: Copy
In such dangerous times, the writer submits to the Lord Lieutenant a proposition for the quartering at Ross, or at Tralee, of Major Beversham's Company of Foot, now lying in Kerry. ... mentions other military matters; describes the alarming state of the country and the advice given to many persons - amongst others to the writer's brother, Lord Shannon - to remove their goods into garrisons. ... the writer's home of Charleville ... "is in much more hazard than Shannon Park, yet", he adds, "I durst not remove my furniture, but venture it, rather than alarm the country". ...
A State of the Farmers' Payments [out of the Revenue of Ireland] to 23 November, 1678
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 23 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 57
Document type: Original
An Abstract of the Certificates of Sir John Champante
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 23 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 222
Document type: Original
An Abstract of the Certificates of Sir John Champante, concerning the sums of money due to the King, by the Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland. With a list of payments & assignments subsequently made in satisfaction thereof.
A Certificate, by Sir Charles Meredith, and John Topham, esquire, concerning the payments into his Majesty's Treasury, above-recited
Written from: Dublin
Date: 29 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 222
Document type: Original
Ormond to Orrery
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 23 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 515-516
Document type: Copy
Has received the Earl's letters of the 16th and 19th inst. Answers, in detail, various matters contained therein relating to the Army & the Militia; to the disarming of Papists; and to the investigation & punishment of certain alleged outrages in various parts of Munster. ...
Anglesey to Ormond
Written from: London
Date: 23 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 519
Document type: Extract
Communicates some information received by the writer from Ireland, relating to apprehended evasions by Papists of the Proclamation for the bringing in of arms; and to other alleged preparations for acts of rebellion. ...
Deposition of Titus Oates made before Secretary Sir Henry Coventry [accusing the Queen-Consort of complicity in the "Popish Plot"]
Date: 24 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 432
Document type: Copy. In Lord Wharton's hand.
Further Depositions, on the same subject, made before the King in Council
Date: 25 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 432-433
Document type: Copies. In Lord Wharton's hand.
His Majesty's Speech, to both Houses of Parliament, 25 November 1678
Date: 25 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 385
John Reynolds to Ormond
Written from: Dublin
Date: 25 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 341
Document type: Holograph
Represents to his Grace that the writer is now at Dublin under conditions which, as he conceives, subject him "to be shipped thence, at the Lord Mayor's pleasure", unless it be otherwise ordered by the Duke's gracious favour.
License for the stay in Dublin of John Reynolds, otherwise Landy, a Dominican Friar; granted by the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, under conditions therein recited
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 3 May 1673
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 338
Document type: Attested Copy. [Misbound.]
Certificate, by Sir Henry Ingoldsby, baronet, of the appearance before him of John Reynolds, a Dominican Friar
Written from: Dublin
Date: 4 June 1674
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 243, fol(s). 336
Document type: Copy
Certificate, by Sir Henry Ingoldsby, baronet, of the appearance before him of John Reynolds, a Dominican Friar; & of his having licensed the stay of the said Reynolds in Dublin, for one month, under security to transport himself beyond seas " upon its expiration".
Ormond to Orrery
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 26 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 517-518
Document type: Copy
Answers Lord Orrery's propositions, in a letter of the 22nd inst, concerning fortifications, ammunition, and other military stores and services in Munster; and also concerning the encouragement of informations against Papist conspirators; and the means of lessening the alarms of frightened Protestants. ...
Ormond to the Auditor General of Ireland, or to his Deputy
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 27 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 660
Document type: Copy
Returns are to be made forthwith of the names of all such persons as, by tenure or by covenant with his Majesty, are bound to supply horse or foot for his service; and of the numbers so to be supplied, in each case respectively.
A News-Letter; addressed by Sir Robert Southwell to the Duke of Ormond
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: 28 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 664-667
Document type: Original
State of the City of London.
Proceedings in Parliament; more particularly, concerning the Exclusion Bill.
Other political and Court incidents.
List of the Lords who voted for the Address to the King, [praying] for removal of the Queen ... from Whitehall
Date: 29 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 387
The effect of what Mr Bedlow said before the Lords
Date: 29 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 476
Earl of Orrery to Duke of Ormond
Written from: Castle Martyr
Date: 29 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 103, fol(s). 403-407
Document type: Copy
Has received his Grace's letters of November 23 and 26, the [military] commands in which will be diligently obeyed. Communicated his opinion on various political and military affairs, and more especially on the management of the Militia, and on the fortification of certain Irish towns.
The effect of what Mr Oates swore before the [House of] Lords [upon the alleged Plot], November 29, 1678
Date: 29 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 462r-v
Document type: In Lord Wharton's hand
Orrery to Ormond
Written from: Castle Martyr
Date: 29 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 158-159
Document type: Copy
Has had, at once, the honour of both of the Lord Lieutenant's letters of 23rd and 26th inst. ... Gives, at great length, particulars of the military condition of Munster, and of current rumours concerning Popish plots, ... e.g. "that the Irish, by help of the French, would be masters of Ireland by March next", etc.
An Extract from a letter written by Lord Viscount Shannon to the Earl of Orrery
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 159
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 30 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 655-656
Document type: Copy
Taking, as Sir Robert does, so much pains to write to the Duke, it is hardly reasonable to trouble him with such a quantity of reading as upon the matter of it the Duke is constrained to send. But Sir Robert has undertaken, not only to inform, but to defend. And the correspondence now sent is the needful material of defence. .. Lord Orrery is so skilful a contriver ... that it is not easy "to see what answer to give to his dispatches, for [meaning 'as regards'] the subject of them". ... They "can take the figure of faithful advice, from a sworn counsellor, ... with as little pains, as goes to the turning of a plot in the play: - shifting sides, & disguises". ... "I", continues the Duke, "know well, & so does he, that I am born with some disadvantages in relation to the present conjuncture, - besides my natural weaknesses. ... My father & mother lived & died Papists, and bred all their children so. Only I, by God's merciful Providence, was educated in the true Protestant Religion from which I never swerved, to either extreme; - not when it was most dangerous to profess it, & most advantageous to quit it. I reflect not upon any who have held another course." ...
Ormond to Anglesey
Date: 30 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 656
An Extract only.
Orrery to Ormond
Date: 12, 16, 19 and 22 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 656
Document type: Copies
An Extract only.
Southwell to Ormond
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: 30 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 662-663
Document type: Original [unsigned]. Endorsed by Ormond.
Lord Longford and the writer have shewn, in the House of Commons, his Grace's late proclamation for purging out revolters from the Army of Ireland, and for removing of fairs & markets from towns believed to be in dangerous condition. They give great satisfaction. ...
Suggests, at great length, the drawing up of an account of what has been done in Ireland under his Grace's administration; contrasting the state of the Kingdom, especially in matters ecclesiastical, now with what it was during the administrations of Lords Robartes & Berkeley. ...
An Abstract of the Accounts of the Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland, to November 30, 1678
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 30 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 224-225
Document type: Original
Votes of the House of Lords of England, recommending to his Majesty's favour and grace the Lord Audley (Earl of Castlehaven in Ireland)
Written from: [Westminster]
Date: 30 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 409
Document type: Contemporary report
Votes of the House of Lords of England, recommending to his Majesty's favour and grace the Lord Audley (Earl of Castlehaven in Ireland) ... considering his ancient descent, and the great actions done by his Ancestors in France, in former times, and the small estate and fortune left to his family by reason of ... that service. With his Majesty's Answer.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 30 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 476-477
... Communicates, and at great length remarks upon, a series of correspondence with Lords Orrery & Anglesey. ... The subject of Lord Orrery's dispatches & their expression may well be varied by so skilful a contriver and takes, when he pleases, the figure of faithful advice from a sworn counsellor, & then - with as little pains as goes to the turning of a plot in a play - may rise up in the shape of a formal accusation. ... In short, something may be found there of the counsellor, of the friend, & of the accuser, and a great deal of the libeller. Both the present writer and Lord Orrery know well that the former was born with disadvantages - besides his natural weaknesses & infirmities - in relation to the present conjuncture [of public affairs], & that he can no more free himself from the one, , than from the other. His father & mother lived & died Papists, & bred their children so. Only the writer, of them all, was, by God's merciful providence, educated in the true Protestant Religion, from which he has never swerved, towards either extreme; - not when it was most dangerous to profess it; most advantageous to quit it. ... His brothers & sisters, by their fruitfulness, have spread into a large alliance; by their obstinacy (they would call it constancy) have made that alliance altogether Popish. ... He has been so unfortunate as to have kinsmen in rebellion; so fortunate, as to see some of them fall when he commanded in chief. Those that remain have, he hopes, changed their principles as to Rebellion; if not, it is certain they will find he has not changed his.
Ormond to Anglesey
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 30 November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 521-522
Document type: Copy
Lord Anglesey's letter of the 23rd inst is a great proof of the continuance of his favour & friendship. ... The Duke is not, on the sudden, able to give such an account of things done 15 or 16 years ago, as he shortly shall do. ... But he remembers that Blood & others, who conspired to seize this Castle, assumed the names of 'Protestants', because they were not Papists. As to overthrow of governments and murdering of Kings, their doctrine, and practice, have been the same.
Adds, at great length, a review of the state of the Capital and Kingdom, in relation, more especially, to military defence. ... The writer "can give no account of any man's fears, how far they are real, or pretended; reasonable, or unreasonable". But he hopes that from Lord Orrery's industry & intelligence much may be discovered. He encloses a copy of a late letter from Orrery, & of the answer made to it. ...
The Report from the Committee of [the House of] Lords, for enquiring into the murther of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey. [With copies of Depositions relating thereunto.]
Date: November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 428-430
Document type: Copy
Address of both Houses of Parliament to the King, in relation to the alleged "bloody and traitorous designs of Popish Recusants"
Date: November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 399
Document type: Endorsed: "Received, 3 Novr."
Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons, from the 6th to the 16th of November, inclusive, relating chiefly to the alleged Popish Plot, and to the charges addressed against the Duke of York ...
Date: November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 407-410
Document type: Three entries
Breviate of further examinations and depositions of William Bedloe, in relation to the Popish Plot
Date: November 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 478-479
An Act of the more effectual preserving the King's person and government, by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament
Date: [November?] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 382
Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons, from 18th November to 7 December, inclusive, chiefly relating to the alleged Popish Plot, and to the disbanding of the Army in Flanders ...
Date: November & December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 414-421
Marquess of Winchester, Earl of Shaftesbury, and Lord Grey of Warke to Earl of Ossory
Date: [1 December 1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 670
Document type: Original
Are appointed to examine, amongst other things, into the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey; desire the Earl's leave, as Chamberlain to her Majesty, to apprehend ... [a servant of her Majesty's Chapel described as "Cushion-layer at Somerset House"] ... accused of complicity therein.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 2 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 672
Document type: Copy
Further particulars as to the correspondence with the writer, & others in Ireland, of the Earl of Orrery. ...
Adds that if that Lord meant fairly he would send his remarks to the King & Council, or even to the Parliament, who have the means to put Ireland into better condition; and not scatter them about to the terror of the English and Protestants, and the defamation of the Government.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 2 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 477
Document type: Copy
Further remarks upon the correspondence of Lord Orrery, and particularly upon his letters to the Lord Chancellor [of Ireland], to whom, when informed that the whole Council disapproved of his proposition for securing the persons of some principal Papist gentlemen, he replied that he would obey the Government, but could only be convinced by reason, - "a reply", adds the writer, "arrogant enough, to come from an absent councillor to the body of a Council, unanimous in their sense; and yet more arrogant, if he expected, or called on them for, reasons for their determinations, to satisfy him". ...
Entry, in the Journals of the House of Lords, of the Lord Wharton, the Earl of Leicester, and the Marquess of Dorchester taking the Oaths again
Date: 2 and 3 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 388
An Extract from the Letter of the Earl of Orrery, of the 3rd December, 1678 [to Sir Robert Southwell, concerning an application made by the writer, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]
Date: 3 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 674
List of the Lords present, at the sitting of the House on 5 December 1678
Date: 5 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 389
The effect of what passed in the Lords' House upon the Lords Wharton's taking the Oath, etc. [By Lord Wharton.]
Date: 5 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 390
Resolution, or Order, of the House of Lords, for an Address to the King for praying him to command the attendance, before the House, of Martin French, and Austin Friar, then at Galway
Date: 5 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 422
Document type: Original
Orrery to the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland
Written from: Castle Martyr
Date: 6 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 160-161
Document type: Copy
Acknowledges, with thanks, their Lordships' letter of 2nd inst. ... Gives particulars of the state of the Militia forces in Munster. ... States certain doubts which the writer entertains as to his official powers for the effectual defence of the province, under circumstances and upon contingencies mentioned in their Lordships' letter. ... Desires to be furnished with authority "full, legal, and clear; ... and to have sufficient means to answer what is expected" ... from him. "Without such authority and means, I humbly crave your leave to say, I believe it will be impossible for me or any other, to serve you acceptably or effectually". ...
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 7 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 478
Document type: Copy
Those who speak of Peter Talbot's public appearance here as due to the indulgence of the writer are ill informed, ... or else maliciously conceal the well-known distance at which that busy hot-headed man has been kept. ... The very Jesuits themselves think the man too busy for their society. Nor do the informers remember how publicly, in the time of former governors, he did the honours of his brother's house at feasts, ... and even, upon occasion of some controversy, appeared at the Council Board. ...
Ormond to Orrery
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 7 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 523-524
Document type: Copy
Further details concerning the calling out of the Militia, and generally of measures of defence and precaution taken by the government against Popish conspirators.
The Lord Lieutenant is of opinion that the tracing, to their source, of the informations given by a certain priest to Lord Shannon; and other informations, and the alleged reasons for them, given by other Papist informers, is the likeliest way to discover the plot in all its circumstances. ...
"That there was, & still is, a Popish plot to murder the King, & subvert the government & religion established by law, we are not to doubt, and that some of the Papists of Ireland are involved in it, ... is not only a great part of the information, but is most agreeable to reason". ...
... The informers, abovementioned, are to be sent hither, and also some of those Protestants who received warnings. ...
Another Copy of the Letter of the Duke of Ormond to the Earl of Orrery, calendared above
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 7 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 533-534
Address of the House of Lords of England to his Majesty on behalf of the Lord Audley (Earl of Castlehaven in Ireland)
Written from: [Westminster]
Date: 9 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 409v
Document type: Contemporary report
Enumeration of the state of the Peerage, and number of Lords of Parliament
Date: 9 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 438
Southwell to Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 10 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 678-679
Document type: Original
Has received his Grace's letter of November 30, & the documents which accompanied it. ... In the present course of proceedings in Parliament, Lords Halifax & Winchester second the Earl of Shaftesbury ... but none is so constant & so much relied upon by him as is my Lord Essex, who appears, they say, really possessed of fear & concern, above the rest of what the plot may produce. ... Some of Coleman's letters are set out in print, - such as are most calculated to reflect upon the Duke and which will certainly work him vast prejudice, as they spread into the hands of credulous people.
Reports, at great length, conferences with Sir Cyril Wyche & Lord Longford on the affairs of Ireland, and their present results. ...
Philip, Lord Wharton, to Sir Peter Lely [here called "Mr Lilly"]
Written from: [London]
Date: 10 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 80, fol(s). 663
Document type: Copy
Has received the portrait, by Lely, of the Duke of Ormond, - "an excellent piece, and of so excellent a person".
Philip, Lord Wharton, to Mr Clerke Comptroller to his Grace the Duke of Ormond
Written from: London
Date: 10 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 80, fol(s). 663
Document type: Copy
Thanks the Comptroller for his intervention to obtaining the Duke of Ormond's assent to sit to Lely, in his Garter-Robes. Asks him also to tender to his Grace the writer's humble acknowledgments of the honour so conferred upon him.
Orrery to Ormond
Written from: Castle Martyr
Date: 10 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 162-165v
Document type: Copy
Describes, at great length, the writer's opinion concerning defensive measures for the protection of the English interests in Munster against the Papists; and, more especially, concerning the improvement of the Militia of the province. ... Adds an account of his "earnest endeavours to apprehend a Romish priest who, he says "I have good ground to believe, is entrusted with most of their secrets".
[A Proclamation] by the [Duke of Ormond] Lord Lieutenant and Council [of Ireland, forbidding Papists to carry arms]
Written from: Council Chamber, Dublin
Date: 12 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 71, fol(s). 407-409
Document type: In print (Dublin, Benjamin Tooke, 1678)
Ormond & the Council to Orrery
Written from: Dublin
Date: 13 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 166
Document type: Copy. [Fifteen signatures.]
... Have sent down new Commissions of Array, and Instructions, into the several counties of the province of Munster, ... which, they think, will sufficiently answer all the material points in the Earl's letter of 6th inst. and put the Militia into a good posture of defence.
A Writer unnamed to the Duke of Ormond
Written from: Whitehall
Date: 14 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 429
Document type: Original; unsigned
Communicates progress of the measures for the paying and disbanding of the Army. Mentions the King's opinion as to the existence of another plot, "contriving by the Commonwealth party and Fifth-Monarchy men". Adds that the Committee for impeachment of the [Romanist] Lords are keen upon their Commission.
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 15 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 148
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
... Will apply himself to his part in the affairs of this Kingdom, with all the care he can, ... without being discouraged that his proceedings are not approved of by my Lord of Orrery, who, in his chair, sits at home, and yet would from thence dictate to the Council here. ...
Copy of a Letter from the Earl of Orrery to the Duke of Ormond
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 148
Copy of a Letter from the Duke of Ormond to the Earl of Orrery
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 148
Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons, from 16 to 28 December, 1678, relating chiefly to the Impeachment of the Lord Treasurer Danby, and to the further progress of the Disbanding Bill
Date: 16-28 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 431-439
Document type: [Misbound - 435 should precede 431]
Ormond to Orrery
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 17 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 525-526
Document type: Copy
... Had Lord Orrery sooner informed the Lord Lieutenant "of the great trouble he and others were in upon so plainly mistaken a computation of the time, betwixt the discovery of the hellish plot in England, and any man's knowledge of it here, as a full month (and so it must be confessed to be, till the 28th of September can properly be called the beginning of that month)", the Lord Lieutenant "could have rectified that mistake & prevented the prejudice the spreading of it, & the deductions made from it, may have done ... here and in England." ... The very first notice the Duke had of the plot was in a letter of six lines from Sir Robert Southwell written on September 28 ... and received on October 3rd. If the Lord Chancellor [Boyle] & lord Orrery had earlier information, their correspondents were more diligent than the Duke's.
Adds particulars of various measures taken, and in preparation, for the safety of the Kingdom. ...
Shannon to Ormond
Written from: Cork
Date: 17 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 527
Document type: Copy
Begs the Duke's "pardon for this confidence, which is occasioned by several letters received from [the writer's] brother Orrery", - ... who much misunderstood the writer's communication [as to an alleged warning given him by a certain priest to remove plate from his house] and misinformed his Grace about it.
The warning came from no priest, nor was there "the least mentioning of a plot, or anything that tended to it".
[A Narrative of Proceedings] at the trial of the Jesuits at the Old Bailey [in London] 17 December 1678
Date: 17 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 620
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 18 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 676
Document type: Copy
Cannot, with all the Lord Lieutenant's interest & expenditure, discover that there is yet any formed design of rebellion in this Kingdom. If there be any such, it is in the knowledge & under the management of a very few persons. ... There is not indeed lack of inclination, but there is assurance of alarm and preparedness. ... The disaffected Irish reserve themselves either for an invasion; or for division at home. ...
A Proclamation for the bringing in of arms
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 677
Document type: Breviate
A Proclamation, offering a reward of £200 for the apprehension of one Jephson
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 677
Document type: Breviate
Lords of the Council, in Ireland, to the Sheriffs of that Kingdom
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 677
Document type: With other Documents
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 18 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 479
Document type: Copy
Cannot discover that there is any formed design of rebellion in this Kingdom, by the Papists. If there is, it is as yet in the knowledge & management of very few persons. ... The writer believes that they reserve themselves for an invasion from abroad, or for division at home. ...
As respects the writer himself, he knows that his life is in danger. ... It is the perquisite of a place, which he will not be frightened into resigning. ...
List of the Lords of Parliament who were absent, during the proceedings of the House, on 18 December 1678
Date: 18 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 580
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 18 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 148
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
... When the King shall find time and reason to take the state of this Kingdom into his consideration, Mr Secretary Coventry will be able, out of several of the writer's dispatches, to lay it before him, - with this alteration only, that our stores are since diminished, and must daily do so, and that our want of them is become more dangerous.
My Lord of Orrery persists in his representations hither, which seem ... to be preparations, or rather materials, for an accusation, than the ingenuous advices of a councillor.
A Narrative of Combe House in Herefordshire and what was there discovered. Given upon the search thereof, 19 December 1678.
Date: 19 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 442-443
Document type: Apparently, a Copy. Without signature.
A fair transcript of the Narrative MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 442-443
Date: 19 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 642-643
Narrative of the discovery of an alleged but concealed Jesuit College and Library, at a house, called "The Combe", in Herefordshire. By J. Scudamore.
Date: 19 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 440-441
Document type: Copy; in Lord Wharton's hand. [Different from the preceding Account.]
Orrery to Ormond
Written from: Castle Martyr
Date: 20 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 168-170
Document type: Copy
Will, before the time of the next quarter's pay [of the Army], present to the Duke the names of fit officers to be sent into Kerry, in exchange of Beversham's Company.
... "I most humbly and heartily thank your Grace", proceeds the writer, "for the plain declaration you have been pleased to make to me. I had much rather, when I am unintentionally so unhappy as to have any actings of mine disgustful to your Grace, to be told it in that frank and generous manner, than to guess at it by the alteration of your manner of writing. ... Nothing is further from my intentions ... than to charge the government with neglect." ...
... Adds, at great length, further particulars concerning the designs of the Irish Papists. ...
Copies of two Depositions against one Con Mahon, or Mighon, a Priest
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 170
Copy of a Deposition against one Hayes, who is fled
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 170
Petition of his Majesty's Commissioners for settling the remaining part of the 1649 Security in behalf of themselves & of their Registrar [in MS.: "Register"], to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: [20? December] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 639
Document type: Original
Recite the services rendered, in pursuance of his Majesty's Commission, as aforesaid.
Pray his Grace's order to the Receiver-General for the payment of the respective salaries due to petitioners thereunder.
A News-Letter, addressed by Sir Robert Southwell to the Duke of Ormond
Written from: [Whitehall]
Date: Midnight, 21 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 682-683
Document type: Original
Proceedings in Parliament, relating, more particularly, to the impeachment of the Earl of Danby.
Other political & court incidents.
Articles of High-Treason, and other high crimes, misdemeanours, and offences, against Thomas, Earl of Danby, Lord High Treasurer of England
Date: 21 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 69, fol(s). 533-534
Ormond to Burlington
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 21 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 529-530
On his part, the writer has carefully carried out his engagement to make the first advance towards a renewal with Lord Orrery of former friendship. ... Nor can he complain of the reception given by his Lordship to the overtures so made, - until an opportunity offered, under pretext of zeal for the English interest here, to insinuate a want of such zeal on the writer's part. ... He, Lord Orrery, has repeatedly charged on the Bill for confirmation of estates, a partiality for the Irish, ... which does not belong to it. Nor has he endeavoured directly and openly to amend that Bill. But has sent his objections against it to counties and Parliament-men in England. ... A like use has been made of the discovery of the horrid plot in England, ... to increase the apprehensions of the English here; to charge this government with remissness, and to create distrust of the writer in particular. ...
Ormond to Shannon
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 21 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 531
Document type: Copy
A letter from Lord Orrery of the 12th of November led to the belief that Lord Shannon had received another kind of advertisement than that mentioned in his own letter [of December 17]. Mr Power seems to be not at all in fault. ... It is at all times, and in most places, good advice not to leave things of value unsecured.
The Examination of Edward Everard [in relation to the same subject as that above-mentioned]
Date: 21 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 474
Note: Not clear what "above-mentioned" refers to. Possibly relates to MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 434-436.
Articles of Impeachment of High-Treason, ... against Thomas, Earl of Danby, Lord High Treasurer of England
Date: 23 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 407-408
Document type: Copy
The Examination of Stephen Dugdale
Date: 24 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 496-498
Document type: Copy
Ormond to Henry Coventry
Written from: Dublin
Date: 24 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 146, fol(s). 150
Document type: Copy [in Letter Book]
Communicates various particulars concerning the departure of Popish priests from Ireland, in pursuance of the late Proclamation; and also concerning the disbanding of certain newly-raised men. ... Adds: "That which would best secure this Kingdom ... would be the sending hither of 2,000 of 3,000 of those good men that must now be disbanded in England. But, as the case stands, I fear it is but vain to think of it; perhaps, unsafe to propose it. It is sad it should be so."
An Account of money expended at Kingcorran Fort, and Castlepark, from the 4th of March 1678 to 25 December following
Date: 25 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 500
Document type: Original
A Memorandum of what remains, undisposed, of the pay of the Foot-Guards [in Ireland] to Christmas 1678
Date: 25 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 115
Document type: Original
Memorandum of what is due to the company of Foot-Guards [of the Army of Ireland], to the 25th December 1678
Date: 25 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 142
Document type: Original
Note, by the Duke of Ormond, concerning the Memorandum, or Estimate, calendared above
Date: 13 January 1679
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 142
Document type: Original
Division-Lists, upon questions moved in the House of Lords, - but not herein set forth, - during the sitting of 26 December 1678
Date: 26 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 358
Document type: In the hand of Lord Wharton
List of the Lords of Parliament, present on December 26, 1678
Date: 26 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 405
Document type: Partly in Lord Wharton's hand
The Examination of Owen Dowde, of Killahurfar in the lordship of Arklow & county of Wicklow
Date: 27 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 720
Document type: Original
The Examination of Owen Dowde, of Killahurfar in the lordship of Arklow & county of Wicklow [concerning alleged seditious conspiracies], taken upon oath, before Roger West and Robert Hands, two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county aforesaid
List of Peers present in Parliament on December 27, 1678. [Drawn up with reference to Lord Wharton's case then depending.]
Date: 27 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 399
An Order, by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (James, Duke of Ormond), upon the Petition of Denny Muschampe, esquire, and others, "Commissioners for settling the remaining part of the 1649 Security"
Written from: Dublin Castle
Date: 28 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 639
Document type: Copy
Southwell to Orrery
Date: 28 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 674
Document type: Copy
Thanks for Lord Orrery's expressed favour towards Sir Philip Percival, concerning a Militia Commission.
Particulars of what had been previously done, through Lord Lanesborough, to that purpose.
Proviso, by the Lords, for the preservation of the King's power over the Militia. Prepared for the Bill "for disbanding the Army".
Date: 28 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 402
Document type: Copy
Certificate by Sir William Stanhope, and another, concerning Roman-Catholics residing within her Majesty's palace of Somerset House. Addressed to the Earl of Ossory, Lord Chamberlain to the Queen.
Date: 28 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 171
Document type: Original
Ormond to Orrery
Written from: [Dublin?]
Date: 28 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 174
Document type: Copy
Must give credit to what his Lordship writes of his intentions, in the reflections made by him upon the proceedings of this Government; ... but the matter of fact, & of prejudice ... are apparent; and the reparation is only in his Lordship, who best knows the proper way and means to set the Lord Lieutenant right in the opinion of those who have carried the sense of the Earl's expressions, beyond his intention.
Ormond to Southwell
Written from: [Dublin Castle]
Date: 29 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 686
Document type: Copy
Has received Sir Robert's letters of 14th & 17th inst. ... The best of the correspondence with Lord Orrery is that the expostulation seems now "near a period; his letters grow shorter". ... The Duke "will give him no occasion to enlarge them". Yet will continue to correspond with him, in what may really concern & advantage the public service. ...
The King's Speech on the Prorogation of Parliament
Date: 30 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 440
Effect of the King's Speech, upon the Prorogation. [Notes, by Lord Wharton.]
Date: 30 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 80, fol(s). 822
Document type: Holograph
Lord Treasurer Danby to Ormond
Written from: London
Date: 30 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 176
Document type: Copy
Knows that the King will be glad to be informed of his Grace's opinion as to the most convenient time for calling the Parliament in Ireland; and believes that he would be willing to have it meet for the putting of that Kingdom into a better posture of security, when this Army is disbanded. ...
A Prospect how the several monthly payments of his Majesty's Rent, for the Farm of his Revenue in Ireland, may be duly answered and complied withal for one year, ... determining the last of December 1678
Date: 31 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 82
Document type: Original. Signed by five of the Farmers of the Revenue. Undated [as respects the compilation, or delivery, of the document].
A Computation of the present Revenue of Ireland; whereby it may appear that the Farmers may make their monthly payments, according to their covenants with his Majesty, from 31 December 1677, exclusive, to 31 December 1678, inclusive
Date: 31 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 84
Document type: Original
["Gross produce, £344,000.
Net produce,
316,000.
Rent (deducting interest) 234,000."]
An Abstract of the Accounts of the Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland; to 31 December 1678
Written from: [Dublin]
Date: 31 December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 226-227
Document type: Original
An Abstract of certain sums expended, upon his Majesty's Military List of Ireland; March 1676 to December 1678; and of sums remaining due
Date: December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 503
Document type: Apparently, original
The Deposition of Richard Gastrell, of the Grange in the county of Gloucester, "of what he had heard said at Rome, by the Pope, Cardinal Barberini", and others. Made before the Bishop of London in December 1678.
Date: December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 453r-v
Document type: Copy
[Names of the] Lords who protested against the alterations in the Bill for disbanding the Army ... December 1678
Date: December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 455
[Names of the] Lords absent, "besides the Papist Lords" [on the same debate & division]
Date: December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 456
Names of the [Lords] Commissioners of the Treasury; of the Counsel for the Lords [under accusation of High Treason; and of the Joint] Committee of both Houses
Date: December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 625
Document type: [With notes thereupon by Wharton]
A Certificate, by William Stanhope and Charles Rogers, of searches made by them for Papists
Date: [December] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 578
Document type: Original
A Certificate, by William Stanhope and Charles Rogers, of searches made by them for Papists, in the Palace of Whitehall and in her Majesty's Palace of Somerset House, in pursuance of an Order from the Board of Greencloth. With the names of papists there resident & other particulars. Addressed to the Earl of Ossory.
Another Certificate, on the same subject, but relating exclusively to Somerset House. Addressed to the Earl of Ossory.
Date: December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 579
Document type: Original
Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons from 7 to 14 December, inclusive, relating chiefly to Recusants, and to the Army
Date: December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 424-428
Depositions of John Whittypoll, and others, in relation to the Popish Plot; and, in particular, to concealment of arms in Suffolk
Date: December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 434-436
My Lord Shaftesbury's Speech to the [House of] Lords
Date: [ December 1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 684-685
Document type: Contemporary report; sent to the Duke of Ormond.
Case, stated, as it seems by the context, for the opinion of the Twelve Judges attending in Parliament, upon the manner and effect of the Lord Wharton's taking of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy
Date: [December?] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 394
Articles of Impeachment of High Treason, against the Earl of Danby, Lord High Treasurer of England
Date: December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 570
Minutes of the Proceedings of the House of Lords, upon the impeachment of the Earl of Danby
Date: December 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 574
Document type: Wholly in Lord Wharton's hand
Names of the Judges [whose opinion was demanded in the House of Lords, upon questions stated as to the manner and effect of the taking of the Oaths of Allegiance & Supremacy, by Peers of Parliament]
Date: [December] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 392
Notes of the opinions delivered by the Judges in the House of Lords, upon the questions stated as to the manner of taking the Oaths, with reference to Wharton's case
Date: [December] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 396
The Petition of Philip, Lord Wharton, to the ... Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled
Date: [December] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 398
Document type: Original. [Lord Wharton has added the note "Not presented".]
States the reason of his departure from the ordinary form of taking the Oaths, upon a scruple of conscience now removed, and his present willingness to observe that form.
[A Narrative, or Breviate of various Depositions, concerning] the general design of the Pope, Society of Jesuits, and their confederates, in this Plot
Date: [December?] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 467-468v
Document type: Unsigned, and undated, as to the month.
Certificate by Sir William Stanhope, and another, concerning Roman Catholics residing within the palaces of Whitehall and Somerset House. Addressed to the Earl of Ossory, Lord Chamberlain to the Queen.
Date: [December] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 118, fol(s). 172
Document type: Original
An Abstract how the present farm-rent [of the Revenue in Ireland] is payable ...
Date: 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 520
Document type: Original
[A Schedule of] Arms, delivered to James Cuff, esquire, Mayor of the city of Kilkenny, by virtue of a Proclamation from the Lord Lieutenant & Council [of Ireland]
Date: 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 48, fol(s). 360
Document type: Original
[An Order] by the Lord Lieutenant & Council of Ireland [appointing a Committee of the Council to inquire into the state of his Majesty's Revenue]
Date: 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 59, fol(s). 536
Document type: Copy [thirteen signatures]
Short Extract of the Case [of the Parliamentary Election for the borough of Wendover. 1678]
Date: 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 170
Document type: An original record
Notes of debates and proceedings in the House of Lords, in relation to the viscountcy of Purbecke, claimed by Robert Villiers-Danvers. By Theophilus, Earl of Huntingdon.
Date: 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 462-463v
Document type: Holograph
Note. The claim was disallowed.
Precedents that baronies have been given from the Heirs-General; with the King's licence. [Holgate - Berkeley - Blankney.] [Drawn up by John Borough, Norroy.]
Date: 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 464r-v
[Notes upon the question] Whether baronies by writ, or by prescription, accruing to an earldom of the heir-general, shall go out again by an heir-general, during the continuance of the earldom in a collateral male line?
Date: 29 April 1628
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 465-468
Document type: Apparently a copy?, made on occasion of the Discussion of 1678?
By John Borough, Norroy [afterwards Garter].
[Schedule of the names of] The Lords that gave their Verdict upon the Lord Viscount Stafford
Date: 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 80, fol(s). 823
Document type: Contemporary Minute
An Act for the more effectual preserving the King's person and government, by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament
Date: 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 80, fol(s). 804-807
Document type: Draught?
The Plea of Thomas, Earl of Danby, ... to the Articles of Impeachment exhibited against him
Date: [Undated] 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 592-597
Document type: The endorsement is in Lord Wharton's hand
The miraculous origin and translation of the Church of our Blessed Lady of Loretto
Date: 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 180, fol(s). 538
Document type: In print. Bononiae, 1678.
Draught of an Order by the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, for payment, by the Farmers of the Revenue, of the charges entered upon the Civil List, in ready money, in Dublin; and not by assignments, on the country
Date: 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 140
An Inscription, by [order of] the French King, [placed] on a triumphal arch in Paris. 1678
Date: 1678
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 228, fol(s). 245
Document type: Hastings Papers
Latin.
Petition of Antony Nugent, a poor capucin, to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Date: [1678-1679]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 594
Document type: Original
By the mediation of his noble friends, my Lord of Granard and Sir Theophilus Jones, petitioner was dispensed from the two late Proclamations [added in a later hand: "of 16 Oct. and 6 Nov. 1678"].
He now prays for the Lord Lieutenant's gracious consideration of petitioner's old age & sickness; reminding his Grace of the carriage, at the risk of his life, of letters from the Lord Moore, giving intelligence of the danger of Tredath [Drogheda]. ...
Note: Dated 1663? by Edward Edwards, date corrected by a later hand.
The Farmers [of his Majesty's Revenue] of Ireland, their Case, in answer to a Petition exhibited to the King & Council against them [concerning, more particularly, the duty on tobacco]
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 436
Document type: Original
An Abstract of a Petition [presented to the King by certain merchants, complaining of the conduct of the Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland, more especially in relation to the collection of the duty on tobacco]
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 438
Particular Observations upon the Petition [above-recited. By the Farmers of the Revenue of Ireland.]
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 438
A brief State of the Case of the lapsed-Money [accruing under certain provisions of the Acts of Settlement & Explanation for Ireland]
Date: 1678?
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 440
Document type: Original
A Breviate of certain Articles of Agreement, for the management by Richard Brett, and others, of his Majesty's Revenue of Excise in Ireland
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 442
An Abstract of the Accounts of Richard Brett, and others, above-named
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 443
An Abstract of moneys imprest, for the march into the North, in 1677
Date: [1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 597
Document type: Original
Form of Assignments by the Commissioners of his Majesty's Revenue of Ireland
Date: [1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 599
Document type: Endorsed by Ormond
Conditions auxquelles le Roi très Chrétien veut bien faire la Paix
Date: [1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 680-681
Document type: Without date or endorsement
A List of the Secular Priests that subscribed the 'Remonstrance' [drawn up by F. Peter Walsh] of 1661, and are as yet supposed to be living
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 38, fol(s). 713
[To which is added: A like List of the names of Regular Priests that subscribed the 'Remonstrance' aforesaid.]
It is noted at foot that the total number of subscribers was 69; of whom "27 are assuredly dead".
Some Observations upon the state of his Majesty's Revenue, in Ireland; by way of Inquiry into the contrivances of the present Farmers how to retrieve the same
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 39, fol(s). 313-314
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.
An Estimate what the present Bill [depending in Parliament], for additional duties [of Excise, in Ireland], will amount unto [viz. £37,000, per annum]
Date: [circa 1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 34
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond.
A Particular of the Sums under each of the Establishments [Civil and Military of Ireland] payable half-yearly and quarterly
Date: Undated [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 63-72
Document type: Original
[A Schedule of] the Names of several Collectors [of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland]; with the names of their [respective] Districts
Date: Undated [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 104
Document type: Original
The State of the Case concerning moneys, detained by the Farmers [of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland] out of their Farm-rent, to the value or amount of the cheques imposed upon the Army
Date: Undated [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 122
Document type: Original
A Brief of some Particulars to raise his Majesty's Revenue [in Ireland, by levying new duties on goods imported]
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 124
Document type: Original
A Computation of Additional Excise, upon some commodities to be exported
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 128-129
Document type: Original. Endorsed by Ormond. [The title cited is from endorsement.]
The State of the [Revenue] Farmers' Case, as to double duties on imported goods
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 130
Document type: Original
An Estimate of the Charge of two several estates [i.e. canopies], chairs, stools, and cushions [for the throne-room in Dublin Castle]
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 134
Document type: Original. With an addition in Ormond's hand.
The total sum is £427: 1: 10.
The Muster-Master's Computation upon the increase in the numbers of the several troops and foot-companies of the Army [of Ireland]
Date: Undated [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 138
Document type: Original
The draught of a letter [from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland] to bring the Farmers of the Revenue to an account for the Interest-Money detained by them
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 140
Document type: Apparently, in Arthur Podmore's hand.
A Computation of the Charge of raising, and transporting into Ireland, fourteen companies of foot
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 53, fol(s). 142
Document type: In the same hand.
A Table of the Pay and Wages of officers, seamen, and artificers, in his Majesty's ships of war
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 54, fol(s). 492
Document type: Original; as drawn up for the use of the Duke of Ormond
A Computation of the Charge of building a Navy for the defence of Ireland, and for protecting the trade thereof
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 54, fol(s). 493-494
Document type: Original
Discours succinct [par M. de Visancour] sur la Fortification [i.e. sur le 'Traité des Fortifications'] [first published in Paris in 1645; and several times reprinted] de Monsr. le Comte de Pagan
Date: Undated [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 54, fol(s). 652-657
Document type: Original. [Apparently, addressed to the Earl of Ossory.]
Petition of the Mayor, sheriffs, commons, & citizens of the city of Dublin to James, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 261
Document type: Original [with four signatures]
Recite the Grant to the city of Dublin of an Annuity of five hundred pounds, sterling, a year, to be paid out of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland, certain or casual; ... the placing of the said Annuity in the year 1666, upon the 'Establishment', as a 'Perpetuity'; and that it so continued until 25 March 1672, when it was omitted; and further that, in 1676, the petitioners were again inserted on the Establishment, but under the title of 'Pensions'. ...
Pray for the restoration of the Annuity to the Establishment as formerly, with the 'Perpetuities', & for its due payment. ...
The King to Mayor &c. of Dublin
Written from: Oxford
Date: 23 January 1644
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 263
Document type: Copy
Thanks them for loyal services. Promises, as the word of a King, that in due time, their services shall be duly rewarded. ...
Extracts from the Records of his Majesty's Exchequer of Ireland, at various periods from the year 1663 to the year 1676, inclusive, concerning the Annuity, granted to the Mayor, sheriffs, & commonalty of the city of Dublin
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 60, fol(s). 265
The Advantages accruing to the Public by owning (1) the Act of the 16th of Charles I, chap. 1, for frequent Parliaments
Date: [circa 1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 66, fol(s). 304-305
[To which are added (2) "Inconveniences ensuing the neglect of this Act"; (3) "The manner of obtaining the advantages and avoiding the inconveniences aforesaid".]
Heads of an Establishment, to be satisfied and paid out of, and with all, any, or every his Majesty's Revenues ... and Incomes, in or form Ireland, ... not exceeding, in the whole, £288,000 ... in any one year
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 66, fol(s). 334
Instructions, by the King, concerning the administration of the Revenue in Ireland. Together with Lists, or Establishments, for the various services.
Date: [circa 1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 66, fol(s). 358-364
Document type: Copy
A Letter from a true, zealous Protestant to his worthy friend and patriot, C. J. B., Member of Parliament
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 66, fol(s). 603-604
[The letter is signed: "P. H."]
Several useful and indispensably necessary Cautions and Instructions, for the Members of Parliament
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 66, fol(s). 605-608
Some Observations upon the Lord Ranelagh's Propositions [concerning the Revenue of Ireland]
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 68, fol(s). 229-230
Document type: Original
Notes, by the Duke of Ormond, upon the Observations above-recited
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 68, fol(s). 229-230
Document type: Holograph
Observations upon the Lord Ranelagh's Paper [concerning the Revenue of Ireland]
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 68, fol(s). 231
Document type: Original
Articles of High Treason, and other high crimes and misdemeanours, against the Lady Portsmouth
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 69, fol(s). 529-530
Articles of High Treason, and other crimes and offences, against William, Earl of Powis; William, Viscount Stafford; Henry, Lord Arundel of Wardour; William, Lord Petre; and John, Lord Bellasise
Date: [1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 69, fol(s). 531-532
Some points to shew how the Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven, hath constantly pursued the interest of England
Date: [circa 1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 70, fol(s). 407
Document type: "Found amongst the Duke of Ormond's papers" - note by Carte.
To the King's ... Majesty, the humble Petition of ... inhabitants within your city of Westminster and liberties thereof, whose names are herewith subscribed
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 71, fol(s). 440
Document type: In print n.d.
Recite that "there hath been, and still is, a most damnable and hellish Popish Plot". ...
Pray that the Parliament - prorogued to 26 January next - may then sit.
Conditions auxquelles le Roy très Chrestien veut bien faire la Paix
Date: [Undated] [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 72, fol(s). 627-630
Document type: Copy
French.
The Case of Mr Morgan [of a Member of the House of Commons], and of the rest of the tenants [of the Marquess of Worcester] that have common in the waste of Wentwood [in Monmouthshire]
Date: Undated [1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 600
[Drawn up, in 1678, for an Appeal to the Lords (N. Rogers: Memoirs of Monmouthshire, p. 113).]
Pedigree of the Families of Grey (Earl of Kent), of Longueville, and of Yelverton
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 205
Proposals for enacting clauses to be inserted in a projected Act of Parliament for the grant and registration of Funeral Certificates, by the Office, or College, of Arms
Date: Undated [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 528v
Document type: In print (temp. Car. II)
Notes on Peerage Cases, by Theophilus, Earl of Huntingdon
Date: [circa 1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 470r-v
Notes by Sir John Borough, Norroy [afterwards Garter], on the date & descent of the barony of Le Strange of Ellesmere
Date: [circa 1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 473
Document type: Undated & without address. Apparently drawn up for Theophilus, Earl of Huntingdon, in view of proceedings in the House of Lords.
The "Precedents" calendared under MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 464r-v are referred to in the closing lines of these notes [which are in the form of Questions & Answers].
Precedents that, in all ages, the possessors of hereditary honours have, with the Sovereign's allowance, disposed of them unto others; - sometimes by assignment; sometimes by resignation ... in Chancery or otherwise, etc.
Date: [1678? or 1679?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 475-476
Account of the foundation of a Hospital for the Poor of Etwall
Date: [circa 1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 294-295
Document type: Partly in the hand of Theophilus, Earl of Huntingdon.
Account of the foundation by Sir John Port, of Etwall in Derbyshire, knight, and of the restoration by Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, Philip, Lord Stanhope of Shelford, and others, co-heirs of the said Sir John of a Hospital for the Poor of Etwall aforesaid; and also of a Grammar School upon part of the site of the dissolved Monastery of Augustinian Canons at Repton ["Repington"; "Repandunum"]. With further notices of the history of Repton School, and of the foundation, in 1677, of a Library in connection therewith.
Notes by Theophilus, Earl of Huntingdon, on the history of the charitable foundations of Sir John Port (of Etwall) at Etwall, and at Repton, in the county of Derby ...
Date: [circa 1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 335v
Document type: Holograph
Notes on the history of certain chantries, founded by William, Lord Hastings, Lord Chamberlain, and others, in the county of York, & elsewhere
Date: [circa 1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 79, fol(s). 341
My Lord Ossory's Speech, in the House of Peers, in answer to my Lord Shaftesbury. About 1678.
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 80, fol(s). 678
Document type: In the hand of Lord Wharton.
Extract [i.e. Breviate] of the Bill against the growth of Popery
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 520r-v
An Act against Popish Recusants
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 522-523
Document type: Apparently, a Minute; with copious deletions, corrections, and additions, in the hand of Lord Wharton
An Additional Clause proposed to be added to the Bill, as depending in the House of Lords, "against Popish Recusants"
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 524
Enlarged Copy of the Bill "against Popish Recusants", incorporating numerous additional clauses & provisos
Date: [1678?]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 81, fol(s). 525-528
An Account of the intended Appropriation of a sum of £50,000, accruing, or outstanding as due, from the Revenue of Ireland, in the year 1677
Date: [1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 121r-v
Document type: Original
[An Account of the intended Appropriation of a sum of £28,000, being the Revenue] Overplus, for the year ending 25 December, 1677
Date: [1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 123
Document type: Original. In the Duke of Ormond's hand. Endorsed by Lane.
Notes for an Estimate of the Cost of a Train of Artillery in Ireland. 1678?
Date: [1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 122
Document type: Original
Sir James Shaen's Demonstration for performance of his Propositions [concerning the Farm of the Revenue of Ireland]
Date: [1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 148
Document type: In Lord Aungier's hand
Notes, by Captain Stone, of information given to him, concerning some details of the late and present Contracts for farming the Revenue of Ireland
Date: [circa 1678]
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 154
Document type: Without signature, address, or date. Endorsed by Ormond.: "Captain Stone about ...".