Note 113 — Chapter XLVI · GOVERNMENT OF ESSEX, 1672-1677

W. Harbord to Essex, April 4, 1674, Essex Papers. Conway to Essex, ib. p. 221. Essex to H. Coventry, May 22, 1675, Essex Letters, much more outspoken than those of the same date to Charles and Danby. Lord Lieutenant and Council to Williamson, March 2, 1676-7, Stowe MSS., vol. ccxvii. The contest between Ormonde and Ranelagh is given in Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 451-463, including the scene at the Privy Council in November 1675, and Ormonde’s written defence after Ranelagh had given particulars on March 1, 1675-6, also his memoir for the King in 1675, ib. appx. no. 92. After reading Ormonde’s statement Essex wrote to him on May 23, 1676, that he was right, Stowe MSS., vol. ccxvi. Ormonde to Essex, July 2, ib., vol. ccx. Burnet’s Own Times, i. 398, and Airy’s note. See the article on Ranelagh in Dictionary of National Biography. Henry Sidney’s Diary.