Note 81 — Chapter XLV · ROBARTES AND BERKELEY, 1669-1672

As to the character of Robartes, see Clarendon’s Life, Cont., p. 198; ‘vicious under the appearances of virtue,’ Burnet’s Own Times, i. 98; ‘vieux sacripante, &c.,’ Mem. de Grammont, chap. viii. Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 378 sqq., Ormonde to Ossory, February 16, 1668-9, ib. appx. On the other hand, Lord Herbert of Cherbury thought his conversation most pleasing. The instructions to Robartes are in State Papers, Ireland, calendared at July 29, 1669, and drafts of them in the same vol. pp. 740-746. Duchess of Ormonde to George Mathew, February 1668-9, Ormonde Papers, new series, iii. 442. The Presbyterian Patrick Adair, while praising Robartes, does not deny that he was ‘somewhat morose in his temper and carriage,’ True Narrative, chap. xviii.