Note 77 — Chapter XLIV · GOVERNMENT OF ORMONDE, 1665-1668

Clarendon’s Life, Cont., pp. 81, 107, 277, 1197, 1324. His discourse by way of vindication, dated Montpelier, June 24, 1668, is in Miscellaneous Works, 2nd edition, 1751. The Life, written three or four years later, contains the same matter, but some expressions are softened: for instance, the ‘impudence’ of the Irish spokesmen in the former becomes ‘imprudence’ in the latter. The King to the Lords Justices, April 21, 1662, in State Papers, Ireland, is the warrant under which the 6000l. was paid, and Clarendon’s statements are supported by the letters printed in Lister’s Life of Clarendon, vol. iii. nos. 66, 109, 120. The money was levied under section 33 of the Act of Settlement.