Note 63 — Chapter XLIV · GOVERNMENT OF ORMONDE, 1665-1668

Statutes at Large, 15 Car. II. cap. 7. Petty’s Political Anatomy of Ireland, chap. x. On January 1, 1668, Pepys heard much about the almost miraculous cheapness of corn, ‘so as the farmers can pay no rent, but do fling up their lands,’ and he had noted the same thing at April 9, 1667. Shaftesbury to the King in Christie’s Life, vol. ii. appx. 1. His estimate of losses from plague is more than confirmed by Clarendon, Life, Cont., p. 821. Anglesey’s protest against the 1663 Act is in Rogers’ Protests of the Lords, i. 27.