Note 150 — Chapter XLVIII · CLARENDON AND TYRCONNEL, 1685-1686

Sheridan MS. Clarendon to Sunderland, May 30, June 1, and July 20, 1686. King’s State of the Protestants, chap. iii. sec. 2. Luttrell’s Diary, June 8. After the Revolution Sunderland thought it wise to disclaim any share in the Irish business: ‘My Lord Tyrconnel has been so absolute there that I never had the credit to make an ensign or to keep one in, nor to preserve some of my friends, for whom I was much concerned, from the least oppression and injustice, though I endeavoured it to the utmost of my power,’ letter in H. Sidney’s Diary, ii. 378. Tyrconnel cashiered about 4000 Protestant soldiers and 300 officers, Fortescue’s History of the British Army, iv. chap. 1.