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Notes $undefined$ I have, already quoted the striking testimony of Archbishop Plunket on this subject.

$undefined$ "Sir John Temple, Master of the Rolls here, author of that book, was last year sent to by several stationers of London to have his consent to the printing thereof; but he assures me that he utterly denied it, and whoever printed it did it without his knowledge." Essex to Coventry, January, 1674. Evidence of the scandalous mendacity of this writer may be found in Carte, Warner, Brooke's Trial of the Roman Catholics, Castlehaven's Memoirs, Curry, and Lecky. Hallam judges Temple more favourably than any other writer of equal weight, but supposes him to have multiplied the number of persons murdered by the rebels by ten "by mistake."

$undefined$ Essex's Letters, passim.

$undefined$ Ibid., p. 334.

$undefined$ Ibid. Several of the stories, the extravagance of which is sufficiently evident, will be found in the Secret Consults,

$undefined$ Secret Consults.

$undefined$ Carte, II., 466.

$undefined$ The substance of these proclamations is given by Cox, Hibernia Anglicana. See also An Account of the Public Affairs in Ireland since the Discovery of the late Plot.

$undefined$ Carte, II., 495. For the earlier attempt see Mountmorres, History of the Irish Parliament from 1634 to 1666, I., 158; Irish Commons Journals.

$undefined$ See the repeated complaints in Plunket's Letters. Moran's Life of Plunket.]

$undefined$ Carte gives several letters of Ormond throwing ridicule on the plot, and containing some very just strictures on the character of the informers. See especially his letter to Lord Arran, November 17, 1681. 123