Note 65 — Chapter XLIV · GOVERNMENT OF ORMONDE, 1665-1668

Ormonde to Arlington, September 12, 1666, State Papers, Ireland. Pepys’ Diary, October 8. Clarendon’s Life, Cont., pp. 691, 955-964. Arlington to Ormonde, October 12, 1665, Miscellanea Aulica, p. 362, and to Temple, October 15, Letters, ed. Bebington. Writing in 1673, Temple said a higher standard of living and love for foreign commodities, and depopulation caused by war, had really caused the agricultural depression in England, and ‘not this transportation of Irish cattle, which would have been complained of in former times, if it had been found a prejudice to England. Besides, the rents have been far from increasing since.’—Works, iii. 20. See Andrew Marvell’s letters to his constituents, October 22 and November 2, 1665. On May 18, 1665, Sir Ralph Verney writes that the market was at a stand, owing to a report that the Lords would not pass the Bill ‘against bringing in foreign cattle.’ Cows were daily sold at from ten to fifteen shillings apiece which had formerly been well worth five times as much.—Verney Memoirs, iv. 117.