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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vn. OCT. 9, 1020.

The document is in an excellent state of preservation. It is engrossed on thick parchment, measuring 18f in. by 14 in., and bears the remains of the royal seal in the (to the reader) left-hand top-corner. Charles IT.'s signature, in a sprawling and spidery hand, and that of Secretary Nicholas, firm and bold, are both very legible. Of the contents of the document it may be noted that Ormonde's testimony to the petitioner's bona-fides reflects the candour and generosity of a famous noble character, while it appears that as early as the Cromwellian wars the rationing of troops in the field with tobacco was considered as essential as it was during the Great War of our own times.

Copy of the original Warrant from Charles II. for the payment of 5,883 19s. Qd. to Patrick Archer, Merchant, of Water-ford, for advances made by him in various ways to Charles I. and Charles II.

Dated July 23, 1656. CHARLES B. (Sign Mamial).

Charles by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To our right trusty and entirely beloved cosen and Councellor James Marquis of Ormonde,* our Lieutenant of Ireland, and to the Chief Officer or Officers in, that our Kingdome for the time being. Greeting. Whereas upon the petition of Patrick Archer of Waterford in our Kingdome of Ireland Merchant that payment mignt be assigned, and made to him out of the customs of our townes of Waterford and Ross in the said Kingdome for all such moneys as upon account appear due to him for disbursements and services performed for our father of blessed memory and us. We referred the consideration of the said petition to our said cosen and councillor the Marquis of Ormonde, Lieutenant of that our Kingdome, who hath thereupon the llth of this instant July certified us in these words : " May it please your Majesty. According to your Majesty's pleasure signified upon the 5th day of this month by Mr. Secretary Nicholas f I have perused the petition of Patrick Archer, and conferred with the petitioner, whom I cannot but in justice certify to your Majesty to be a very honest man, and one whom I have always found very ready to engage his estate for, your Majesty's service, and particularly when by the command of your royal father of blessed memory I was to enable the Marquis of Antrim

(1642) and 1st Duke of Ormonde (1661) (1610- 1688) Lord Lieut, of Ireland, 1644, and again 1661-69, and again 1677-84. The duke, an eminent statesman, is known in history as " the great duke of Ormonde."
 * Butler, James, 12th Earl and 1st Marquess

t Nicholas, Sir Edward (1593-1669) Secretary of State to Charles I. and Charles II. Pensioned on account of age and sickness, 1662. ('Diet. Nat. Biog.')

I MacDonnell, Randall, 2nd Earl and 1st Marquis of Antrim (1609-168;^). Sent by the King to raise forces in Scotland, 1639.

to send over that supply of men to the Marquis of Montrose* under the command of Sir Alexander McDonald t this petitioner undertook the charge of transporting them, without which I knew not how to jiave performed that service, and besides what he paid for the freight of other ships he sent a vessel of his own with fourteen pieces of Ordi- nance, which ship of his was lost in the said ex.- pedition.

"I fird that by an order of my own, upon a certificate made to me by the Commissioners' authorized in pursuance of the articles of peace, there was due to him in March, 1650, for moneys; disbursed by him for arms and munition delivered by him for your service the sum of three thousand thirty-five pounds nineteen shillings- sixpence sterling, and that there was at the same- time an order signed by me, by the advice of the-- said Commissioners, for the payment of two- hundred and five pounds, and to him for interest- of the said principal debt at seven pounds ten shillings per annum until the same should be- paid, which interest to this time amounts to one- thousand twenty-five pounds sterling. And I. likewise find a warrant signed by myself for the- payment of five hundred sixty three pounds- sterling for Tobacco delivered by him for the use of the army, which sum remains still due.

"He doth demand to be allowed for the damages^ and losses which he sustained in that expedition for Scotland in which he lost his ship as aforesaid,, to justify which demand he produces a bond entered into by my brother Richard ButlerJ and Mr. Edward Comerford upon my desire, whereby they are obliged to save him harmless for any damages he should sustain in that service, and he does reckon his damages in the loss of the said? ship, and the forbearance of two thousand six hundred pounds by him disbursed for the freight and victualling of the ship which transported the said men (which was not paid unto him till five years after the same should have been paid) to be- no less than a thousand pounds. He doth likewise demand the sum of two hundred and sixty pounds- for so much powder delivered by him to Sir Thomas Esmond, Sir Walter Dungan,|| and v several others after I left the Kingdome of Ireland,.

(1612 - 1650). Joined Covenanters, 1637.- Royalist General in Scotland, 1644. Betrayed by Mcleod of Assynt, and hanged in the Grassmarket,- Edinburgh.
 * Graham, James, 1st Marquis of Montrose

t Macdonnell, Alexander, 3rd Earl of Antrim (d. 1696), brother of Randall Macdonnell, 2nd" Earl and 1st Marquis of Antrim.

J Butler, Richard, Honourable, of Kilcashv Joined with the Irish, 1641. Governor of the co.. Waterford ; a reputed Lieut.-General among the rebels, died 1701. (Burke's and Lodge's- Peerages).

Esmonde, Sir Thomas, of Ballytramon, co- Wexford (son of Sir Lawrence, Lord Esmonde, baron of Lymbrick) General of horse to Charles I.. creat. a baronet of Ireland, 1628. (Living in 1660.)*

i| Dungan, Sir Walter, 3rd Baronet, of Castle- town, co. Kildare. One of the Confederate Catholics of Kilkenny. Died s.p. His brother- William cr^atfd Viscour t DUJ gan, 1661, and Earl of Limerick, 1685. (Burke's 'Extinct Peerage.')