Note 22 — Chapter XLI · DECLARATION AND ACT OF SETTLEMENT, 1660-1662

Order in Council, March 14, 1661-2, in Cox, supplementary letter, p. 5. Instructions to the Confederate envoys in Confederation and War, vi. 223-227. In the letter already quoted Bellings gives credit to Ormonde for having saved as many of the old proprietors as he could. He confines his sympathies to the ‘ancient families’ and warns Ormonde that it cannot be for a Butler’s interest to see the land possessed by ‘a generation of mechanic bagmen who are strangers to all principles of religion and loyalty.’