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Notes to have been absolute, for the same writer elsewhere tells us that Richard Talbot obtained a commission by the special favour of the Duke of York, and that "none, or very few, Roman Catholics besides himself were trusted in any military service." (II., 234.)

$undefined$ Walsh had published a Letter desiring a just and merciful regard for the Roman Catholics of Ireland. Lord Orrery replied in Irish Colours Displayed, to which Walsh rejoined in Irish Colours Folded.

$undefined$ Walsh, History of the Remonstrance, p. 9. It was signed by "sixty-nine of the clergy, secular and regular, five earls, six viscounts, two barons, twenty-four colonels and baronets, and sixty esquires."

$undefined$ Ibid. An interesting account of the ecclesiastical assembly in which this decision was arrived at may be found in Spicilegium Ossoriense, vol. I., pp. 440-446,

$undefined$ The revised Remonstrance is printed by Walsh, together with Ormond's objections to it. These appear to me captious and disingenious.

$undefined$ Friar Disciplined, p. 92.

$undefined$ Letter to Lord Arran. [Carte, Appendix III.]

$undefined$ "That schism which you have been sowing among the Popish clergy." Orrery's Letters. [Undated, but apparently written in 1666.]

$undefined$ "There was little or no manufacture amongst them, but some small beginnings towards a clothing trade, which I had and so should still discourage all I could. &hellip; It might be feared they would beat us out of the trade itself by underselling us, which they were well able to do." Wentworth to Wandesford, July 25th, 1636.

$undefined$ 12 Ch. II., c. 7; 15 Ch. II., c. 7; 22 & 23 Ch. II., c. 26. The debates in the English House of Commons in 1778, in which year the most important legislative restrictions upon Irish trade were removed, throw much light upon the origin and operation of these laws. See especially the speeches of Lord North. 119