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Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690

Note 74 — Chapter XLIV · GOVERNMENT OF ORMONDE, 1665-1668

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Ormonde left Kilkenny August 30, 1666, and returned there September 15, State Papers, Ireland. Ormonde’s letter to Arlington, ib. September 4. Orrery to Ormonde, August 20, Orrery State Papers. Dr. Denton wrote in 1670, ‘if Ormonde do chance to come to you a byled leg of mutton is his beloved dish for dinner,’ Verney Memoirs, iv. 229. Gigery, now Jijelli, half-way between Algiers and Bona, was garrisoned by Beaufort in 1664, but disaster followed. Caulfield’s Kinsale Council Book, p. 97, where September 14 is wrongly given for 7.

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