Note 58 — Chapter XLIII · ORMONDE AND THE IRISH HIERARCHY

The transactions of the Congregation are in Hist. of the Remonstrance, pp. 641-743, the French and Latin texts of the Sorbonne decrees at p. 660. The account given by the Rev. W. Burgatt, a hostile member of the Congregation, does not materially differ from Walsh’s, Spicilegium Ossoriense, i. 440. Ormonde to Clarendon, June 9, 1666, and to Arlington, June 13, State Papers, Ireland. On July 7 Clarendon wrote: ‘If I were you I would expel all the priests out of Ireland who refuse to subscribe the declaration, and to my understanding if you consent to the least alteration, how insignificant soever, you overthrow the whole and absolve all who stand now obliged by the subscription.’—Carte Transcripts, vol. xlvii.