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(Correspondence) and Hamilton (Mémoires de Grammont) are very favourable; Berwick (Mémoires) did not think much of Tyrconnell's military capacity, but speaks highly of his prudence, integrity, and moderation.
84 Carte, II., 378, 411.
85 Secret Consults; Oldmixon's Memoirs of Ireland, p. 8; Carte, II., 413.
86 Cox, Hibernia Anglicana. The last article runs: "Several Popish clergy, since the return of the Duke of Ormond hither, have exercised their jurisdictions, to the great grief of the remonstrants; if so, execute the laws against the titular archbishops, bishops, and vicar-generals, that have threatened or excommunicated the re monstrants; and that you protect such remonstrants as have not withdrawn their subscriptions." There are several other articles relating to the administration of justice, the discipline of the army, and the reform of the fiscal system.
87 Secret Consults.
88 Carte, II., 425-429. Sir Heneage Finch's elaborate defence of the Act of Explanation (Ib. App. 91), to which I have already referred, was ' drawn up about this time.
89 "He was a violent enemy to Popery.... In his government of Ireland he exceeded all that had gone before him; and is still considered as a pattern to all that come after him." Burnet, p. 265. The author of the Secret Consults calls him "a person whose great integrity and prudence in the steady piloting of this ship of the State is not easie to describe."
90 Votes and Addresses of the House of Commons concerning Popery and other grievances.
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