Note 109 — Chapter XLVI · GOVERNMENT OF ESSEX, 1672-1677
Reading edition
Essex to Ormonde, February 3, March 10, July 8, September 3, 1673-4, Stowe MSS., vol. ccxiv.; September 12, ib. vol. ccxvi.; March 6, 1676-7, ib. vol. ccxvii. Ormonde to Essex, April 20, 1677, ib. vol. ccxi. Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 443, 446. Writing to Ranelagh on June 1, 1675, Essex notes ‘what an interest remains of a great man who commanded here many years, by reason of the absolute power he had of gratifying multitudes of people.’—Essex Letters, p. 299.