Note 117 — Chapter XLVII · GOVERNMENT OF ORMONDE, 1677-1685
Reading edition
Fitzmaurice’s Life of Petty, p. 174. H. Coventry to Ormonde, June 18, 1678, Ormonde Papers, N.S. Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 469-473. ‘The Earl of Essex told me that he knew the King did often take money into his privy purse to defraud his exchequer,’ Burnet, i. 398.