Note 112 — Chapter XLVI · GOVERNMENT OF ESSEX, 1672-1677
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Ranelagh’s patent was dated August 4, 1671. Essex to Danby, March 11, 1676; to the King, September 8; and to Ormonde and Orrery, September 12, Stowe MSS., vol. ccxvi.; to Orrery, January 30, ib. vol. ccxvii. Howard’s Hist. of the Exchequer, i. 89. Macaulay’s History, chaps. iii. and xi. Petty’s Treatise on Taxes, chap. xv. 11.