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47 Secret Consults. This writer tells an absurd story, which is repeated by Oldmixon and Leland, of Sir Ellis Leighton, then Chief Secretary, having on this occasion lent some silver vessels to the Archbishop, at the same time expressing a hope that Mass would shortly be celebrated in the cathedral. This legend appears to me wholly incredible. If it were true and the fact was generally known it would certainly have been frequently mentioned in the numerous Protestant pamphlets published after the Revolution. But if, as seems to be implied, the whole transaction was secret, it is difficult to understand whence this writer, who can scarcely have been in the confidence of the Government, derived his information.
48 Plunket to the Internunzio, September 26th, 1673. [Moran, p. 88.] On this occasion, however, Talbot seems to have gone further than the Government approved. His conduct, according to Plunket, "gave great umbrage to the Earl of Essex."
49 Moran, pp. 53; 54.
50 Ibid., p. 88,
51 Ibid., p.55,
52 The articles are printed in a contemporary Diary of the Siege of Limerick. They have been re-printed by Leland, Curry, Gilbert, and numerous other writers.
53 Political Anatomy, chap. 5.
54 See supra, note 18.
55 "In most of the corporations of Ireland the freemen were generally Papists in the year 1641." Memorandum drawn up in 1675 by Lord Essex. [Letters, p. 149.]
56 14 & 15 Charles II., c. 2.
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