Notes
15 Carte, II., 236, 241, 242.
16 Secret Consults.
17 Clarendon, Continuation, sect. 229. "He [Eustace] was now old, and made so little show of any parts extraordinary that, but for the testimony that was given of him, it might have been doubted whether he ever had any."'
18 "There sat this day in the House of Lords but one Papist peer. … The Papists and Anabaptists stood in several places to be chosen, yet but one of each sort was actually chosen." Orrery to Ormond, May 8th, 1661.
19 "There are four lords whose names are Butler that are rebels. I pray God the fifth, who, I fear, is too courteous and favourable to his countrymen, may never affect their religion, or covertly countenance, or other ways violate the trust reposed in him." Letter of an English offcial in 1641, quoted in Gilbert's History of the Confederation and War in Ireland, I., p. xxxi.
20 Carte, II., 246. Essex's Letters, pp. 216, 217. The feeling with which the old Irish party regarded Ormond's conduct during the war and after the Restoration may be gathered from an able, but very violent tract, called The Unkind Deserter of Loyal Men and True Friends, by Nicholas French, titular Bishop of Ferns. I give the following extracts: "Ormond hath always been a great bramble scratching and tormenting the Catholics" (p. 15). "He is still a high fig-tree, bearing great leaves of vanity, but no fruit; sucking up the fat and sap of the earth, and thereby starving all the plants round about him" (p. 17). "We digged about him too long, and spent our dung in vain: Ormond will yield no fruit" (p. 18).
21 Secret Consults.
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