Note 69 — Chapter XLIV · GOVERNMENT OF ORMONDE, 1665-1668
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Lord Lieutenant and Council to the King, August 15, 1666, February 9, 1666-7, State Papers, Ireland; Ormonde to Arlington, March 30, 1667, ib. Collinson’s Hist. of Cheshire, ii. 29. Information kindly supplied by the Rev. F. McD. Etherington, Vicar of Minehead. The author of a Letter from a Gentleman in Ireland to his Brother in England, 1677, says Irish corn was only fit for home use, ‘being by reason of the climate not so large, firm and dry a grain that it should be fit for transportation.’