Notes
is on this occasion especially liable to suspicion, as he had been imprisoned by Nugent on a charge of corresponding with the Northern rebels. (Harris's Bishops of Ireland, article King.)
10 Daly, "though a Roman Catholic, yet understood the common law well and behaved himself impartially." (King III., 3, *7.) Even the author of the Secret Consults acknowledges that Daly "did good service in hanging of his countrymen."
11 "A man of the best sense amongst them, well enough versed in the law, but most signal for his inveteracy against the Protestant interest and settlement in Ireland" (King III., 3, *6) Macaulay calls Rice "the foremost man of his race."
12 A list of new privy councillors was enclosed in a letter of Sunderland to Clarendon, May 22, 1686.
13 Clarendon to Rochester, June 12, 1686.
14 Clarendon to the King, October 16, 1686. King (III., 4, *4) says "there was not one Protestant sheriff in all Ireland for the year 1687, except Charles Hamilton of Cavan, who was put in by mistake instead of John Hamilton of Killeneur, who is a Roman Catholic." It is impossible to reconcile this with Clarendon's statement. Another Protestant writer says that the sheriffs were Catholics "except in. such places where no papists were to be had." (Apology for the Protestants of Ireland.)
15 22 June, 1686 (Clarendon Correspondence, 1461).
16 Secret Consults.
17 Ibid.
18 Carte II., 480.
19 King III., 2, *2.
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