remember me better than to doubt it could be other. For your particular I hope you will not be troubled to find many I value, and know much less than I do you, named in the Declaration and yourself left out; you may be sure I had reasons for it you would not disapprove. I shall only

mention one and that is that I am confident I shall provide as well for your security another way. John Walsh* will tell all things more at large, I shall only assure you that I am still as much as ever your constant and faithful friend.

Endorsed:-A copy of my Lord's letter to Doctor Gerald

Fennell.

SIR WILLIAM PETTY to ORMOND.

1660 [-1], March 1.-The enclosed is an obscure draft of what I mentioned to your Lordship under the name of a Registry. Whether it be the same that others have since offered I know not, but shall wonder if it be. I beg your Lordship either to cause it to be considered or burnt. I do not appear a projector to shark for my necessities nor because the newness of my thoughts hath intoxicated me, but because I have so often slept upon them within these five years as that I can hope to say some things soberly enough concerning my proposition. I should have presented this thing to your Lordship in gratitude and because you have obliged me, but I do it now because I know few hands besides your own from which Ireland will endure to receive any new thing. What I intimated at my last waiting upon your Lordship shall be present, clear and certain. Your Lordship shall not disoblige any by countenancing what I offer, because it shall not interfere with other proposals. And as for debating the feasibility and usefulness of the thing, let it be done most publicly if your Lordship think fit, for having 'scaped pretty well in several new proposals already, I have the courage to venture being laughed at once more. I beg your Lordship's pardon of this insolence. Endorsed :-Dr. Petty's, dated the 1st of March, 1660; with certain proposals for the improvement of Ireland, etc.

ELIZABETH, LADY THURLES to ORMOND.

1660 [-1], March 7. Thurles. Son: This bearer, Thomas Comerford, son of Edward Comerford, your old servant, has occasion to make his address to you, and desires me to write to you in his behalf, and to let you know that what formerly has been idle in him is now reformed, as his friends assure me. I do not question but his father's merits will prevail with you to use your endeavours for his inheritance and his other rights, all which I leave to your consideration, and pray Almighty God to keep you and yours, your ever loving mother, Eliza Thurles.

Endorsed:-My mother's.

* Ormond's family lawyer.

ROYAL LETTER FOR LEASE OF CUSTOMS OF WINES TO THE EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND.

Charles R.

1661, April 6.-Right trusty and well-beloved Councillors, We greet you well. Whereas our right trusty and right wellbeloved cousin and councillor, Algernon, Earl of Northumberland, hath by his petition informed us that the late Earl of Carlisle was by letters patent under the Great Seal of England, bearing date the 9th day of June, 1635, possessed of the profits arising by the customs, subsidies, and imposts of wine imported into our kingdom of Ireland for the term of 50 years, commencing from Michaelmas, 1612, under the yearly rent of £1,400 payable into the Exchequer in Ireland; and that the said Earl of Carlisle did convey all his interest in the same unto Lucy, Countess of Carlisle, his then wife, who held and enjoyed the same accordingly unto the year 1637; at which time our late royal father of blessed memory thought fit to resume the interest of the said Countess in that grant into his own hands, and upon a treaty in that behalf it was concluded that the said Countess should surrender the said grant, and in lieu thereof our said late father should pay unto her the sum of sixteen thousand pounds; in pursuance of which agreement there was eight thousand pounds, part thereof, shortly after paid to the said Countess, but the surrender upon the sole suit of the said Countess (alleging it might be some prejudice to her to quit all her pretensions in those customs) was not accordingly executed; whereupon it pleased our said late father to accept in satisfaction for the eight thousand pounds so paid as aforesaid the yearly rent of one thousand pounds for the term unexpired in that grant to be paid over and above the £1400 per annum first reserved and to waive the surrender; and for the other eight thousand pounds remaining of the sixteen thousand pounds our said late father did declare, and accordingly by his letters bearing date the 7th day of December in the 15th year of his reign was pleased to give directions to his then Deputy of Ireland to pay the same, and upon payment thereof it was also agreed that there should be the like yearly rent of one thousand pounds more answered out of the profits of the said customs for such time as the said Countess had in the said grant; but it is alleged that the said latter eight thousand pounds was not accordingly paid, neither could the said Countess receive the profits of those customs for many years whereby to make good those rents by reason of the Rebellion which broke forth in that kingdom. Now forasmuch as there is a small term in being in the said grant which appears to be unsurrendered, the interest whereof is now devolved upon the said Earl of Northumberland as administrator to her, we are well pleased upon his request in that behalf to grant him the benefit thereof, and do therefore hereby require you to give such order and to pass such act or acts whereby he and his agents may take possession and be enabled to receive the profits

of the said customs during the continuance of the said term unexpired upon the due payment of the rents reserved and payable to us by virtue of the said grant and agreement. And whereas he hath likewise petitioned us for renewing the lease of the said customs, whose request we are pleased to grant for the term of one and twenty years at the yearly rent of fourteen hundred pounds as the same was formerly granted to the Earl of Carlisle, yet inasmuch as we are informed that other customs and impositions are upon wines than were granted to the said Earl of Carlisle, we holding it necessary to be certified what the customs and impositions upon wines are at present and what part thereof are comprised in the Earl of Carlisle's grant, do direct and hereby further require you to make and transmit unto us a certificate thereof accordingly. And for so doing these our letters shall be your warrant. Given at our Court at Whitehall the sixth day of April, 1661. By His Majesty's command. Edw. Nicholas.

BISHOP OF LIMERICK to SIR WILLIAM FLOWER.

1661, August 2. Limerick. I have sent you (enclosed) a copy of an order from my Lords Justices and Council, which when you are pleased to read you will find that thereby there is authority given to me (as to others of my brethren) to dispose (for this year) all the forfeited impropriations in this Diocese, amongst which the rectory of Glenogra is one. But hearing that you (or some agents under you) lay claim to it in the right [of] my Lord, I have given you the trouble of this letter, and herein to acquaint you that upon enquiry I find by clear evidence that either my Lord, or some other of the Earls of Ormond, sold that impropriation to Mr. Earle of Bath (who is Lord of that manor), and he sold or mortgaged it to Mr. Nicholas Haly, and by his forfeiture it hath been set (for the use of the State) these three or four years last past, and now (as forfeited) by the King's bounty bestowed upon the Church. So if it be my Lord's I shall cease, and wish the value of it were multiplied by hundreds and thousands to him and his. But if not, I know my Lord is so noble and I know you to be so friendly affectionated to the Church that you will not deprive us of it. My humble service to you and my entreaty for a word or two in answer to this shall conclude you the trouble of this address.

SIR JOHN TEMPLE to ORMOND.

1661, September 17. Dublin. I have received your letter of the 9th of this present, and am very glad of this opportunity to express the great affections I bear unto your Grace's service here. As for that particular concerning the mortgage, I did when I had the honour to wait upon you at Whitehall let your Grace know that the whole interest was

* Edward Synge, Bishop of Limerick 1661, translated to Cork, 1663.

P. ROGERS to SIR GEORGE Lane.

1662 [-3], January 20th. Waterford.I did make bold to present my service unto you in a letter not long after your departure from Waterford, but I could never as yet. be honoured so much as to receive one line from you. If you did truly understand the faithfulness of my heart, and fervent desires that I have to serve you to the uttermost of my power (I believe) you would at some times be pleased to let me hear from you. Truly, Sir, I have been sometimes fearful that some malicious person or other did endeavour to take you off from those friendly civilities which you did intend towards me, but again taking into consideration your great wisdom, and imparalleled parts and endowments, I did presume your daily experience did direct you to be sensible that the malice of some persons is so implacable, that their whole studies are to do another displeasure, but I am confident that such sordid spirits can operate nothing upon so honourable and noble a person as yourself. I know I have many enemies in Waterford, but if I could be so happy as to obtain but the least favour from you, I should not much value their wicked practices. His Majesty, Charles the Second, was graciously pleased not long since to give me his letters patent under his great seal of England and Ireland, for the office of the Recordership of Waterford during my natural life, expressing therein my fidelity and great suffering in my estate for his royal father of blessed memory. His Majesty likewise, in the said letters patent, doth declare his royal will and pleasure is that I should be empowered to put his laws in execution in that city, and I should have all powers, privileges, and pre-eminences whatsoever, and in as ample manner as ever any Recorder had in that city; and, also, that I should have a competent salary for my livelihood, as by the said letters patent and several other orders, may more at large appear. Notwithstanding all this, I could never receive one penny salary, never since his Majesty's happy coming into England. And I, having formerly lost so many thousand pounds in England, and being so oppressed here also, your Honour may clearly perceive that I and my poor family must needs groan under such pressures. Wherefore my humble petition unto your Honour is that you would be pleased to assist me to my Lord Lieutenant, that his Grace would be pleased to write unto the city of Waterford, that I might have some competent salary settled upon me according to his Majesty's royal will and pleasure, together with what is already due. There is very few Judges in Ireland of so ancient a standing in Inns of Court as myself, though for want of some powerful friends I am so slenderly provided for. Let me beg so much favour from your Honour, to write a line or two unto me to direct me what course to take herein. And I know also, if my Lord Chancellor did but know that your Honour had any kindness for me, I should be put into some commission or other,

answerable to my quality.

Honoured Sir, I must commit

myself and all my concerns to your tender consideration.

JAMES BUCK to SIR GEORGE LANE.

1662 [-3], January 20. Bretby. Upon Saturday last, from Stone, I gave you the trouble of an impertinent account of my getting thither, and now I must put the like upon you from my Lord Chesterfield's, being got hither yesterday, being Monday, his Lordship being gone to London a week before, but her Ladyship, who enquired very kindly after you and your Lady, to whom I did discharge the true office of a friend, is as well as 'tis possible her condition can make her, and my coming has been of no little advantage to her satisfaction. When I get to London you shall receive more of these troubles, which I hope will be within this two days, but if I receive not yours and your Lady's commands in particular, as if I were your hired and domestic servant, I shall fear your kindness, which hitherto I have much reason to believe. Direct your commands to the Standinge Wardropp in Whitehall, and pardon this rude haste.

ANSWER OF DUDLEY MAYNWARING to the PETITION OF NICHOLAS BUCK.

1662 [-3], January 23. Dublin Castle.-This defendant saith that it is true that there were articles perfected between this defendant and the petitioner, concerning the taking of the cellar, in the petition mentioned, a copy whereof is hereunto annexed, that by a particular clause in the said articles, the petitioner was to furnish the said cellar with good wholesome beer, and if the cellar were not furnished, that then the said agreement was to be void. This defendant saith that from the one and twentieth of March, one thousand six hundred sixty and one, until the thirteenth day of June following, the petitioner kept no beer in the said cellar, and thereupon this defendant, according to the clause in the said articles, entered upon the same, and furnished the same with beer, being thereunto necessitated for the accommodation of himself and such persons as he had in his custody; and which he humbly conceives, and is so advised, it was lawful for him to do, and whereas the petitioner doth allege that he had a warder's place and gave money for the same, this defendant doth confess that he received some three or four pounds from the petitioner for the place, and was contented that he should have remained therein, but sayeth that the petitioner, without the consent or knowledge of this defendant, quitted the said employment in April or May last, and transported himself into England or some other place unknown to the defendant, and doth still absent himself, so as this defendant was