Note 278 — Chapter LV · SOCIAL IRELAND FROM RESTORATION TO REVOLUTION
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Clarendon’s letters to Rochester, May 4, 1686, and from September 9 to October following, and a letter to Ormonde of September 28, in Ormonde Papers, vol. vii. John Dunton saw the Curragh races in September 1698. He found the plain partly covered with heath, sheltering grouse and hares. Life and Errors, ii. 606. In 1673 Temple gave Essex elaborate advice as to the encouragement of horse-racing, Works, iii. 23.