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[Footnote 164: Sheridan MS. among the Stuart Papers. I ought to acknowledge the courtesy with which Mr. Glover a.s.sisted me in my search for this valuable ma.n.u.script. James appears, from the instructions which he drew up for his son in 1692, to have retained to the last the notion that Ireland could not without danger be entrusted to an Irish Lord Lieutenant.]
[Footnote 165: Sheridan MS.]
[Footnote 166: Clarendon to Rochester, Jan. 19. 1685/6; Secret Consults of the Romish Party in Ireland, 1690.]
[Footnote 167: Clarendon to Rochester, Feb. 27. 1685/6.]
[Footnote 168: Clarendon to Rochester and Sunderland, March 2. 1685/6; and to Rochester, March 14.]
[Footnote 169: Clarendon to Sunderland, Feb. 26. 1685/6.]
[Footnote 170: Sunderland to Clarendon, March 11. 1685/6.]
[Footnote 171: Clarendon to Rochester, March 14. 1685/6.]
[Footnote 172: Clarendon to James, March 4. 1685/6.]
[Footnote 173: James to Clarendon, April 6. 1686.]
[Footnote 174: Sunderland to Clarendon, May 22. 1686; Clarendon to Ormond, May 30.; Clarendon to Sunderland, July 6. 11.]
[Footnote 175: Clarendon to Rochester and Sunderland, June 1. 1686; to Rochester, June 12. King's State of the Protestants of Ireland, chap.
ii. sec. 6, 7. Apology for the Protestants of Ireland, 1689.]
[Footnote 176: Clarendon to Rochester, May 15 1686.]
[Footnote 177: Ibid. May 11. 1686.]
[Footnote 178: Ibid. June 8. 1686.]
[Footnote 179: Secret Consults of the Romish Party in Ireland.]
[Footnote 180: Clarendon to Rochester, June 26. and July 4. 1686; Apology for the Protestants of Ireland, 1689.]
[Footnote 181: Clarendon to Rochester, July 4. 22. 1686; to Sunderland, July 6; to the King, Aug. 14.]
[Footnote 182: Clarendon to Rochester, June 19. 1686.]
[Footnote 183: Ibid. June 22. 1686.]
[Footnote 184: Sheridan MS. King's State of the Protestants of Ireland, chap. iii. sec. 3. sec. 8. There is a most striking instance of Tyrconnel's impudent mendacity in Clarendon's letter to Rochester, July 22. 1686.]
[Footnote 185: Clarendon to Rochester, June 8. 1686.]
[Footnote 186: Clarendon to Rochester, Sept. 23. and Oct. 2. 1686 Secret Consults of the Romish Party in Ireland, 1690.]
[Footnote 187: Clarendon to Rochester, Oct. 6. 1686.]
[Footnote 188: Clarendon to the King and to Rochester, Oct. 23. 1686.]