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Notes $undefined$ Secret Consults. Leland. III., 490.

$undefined$ There is a valuable collection of these proclamations in the British Museum. Besides those mentioned in the text for disarming the militia (Jane 20, 1685) and prohibiting the public discussion of politics (July 10), and the meeting of unlawful assemblies (July 24), there are several others occasioned by Monmouth's rebellion. For the influence of this event upon the course of affairs in Ireland, see Clarke's Life of James the Second, II., 61. For the proclamations issued by Ormond in 1678, see supra Charles II.

The rumour of an intended massacre of the Catholics is mentioned in a newsletter addressed to Colonel Grace (November 11, 1685) in the Clarendon Correspondence. King and the author of the Secret Consults both ridicule this report, while Leslie (Answer to King strongly maintains its truth.

$undefined$ Clarendon to Rochester, January 19, 1686, Judge Nugent justified the disarming by the Act 10 Hen. 7, cap, 12, which forbids keeping arms without license from the Lord Lieutenant. King Btls 3, * 12.

It should be observed that Newcomen is in this matter a most unexceptionable witness. In a letter to Lady Rawdon, written in January, 1689, he says, "All the world know me to be a very zealous and firm Protestant." (Rawdon Papers, p. 299). In a pamphlet called A Short View of the Methods made use of in Ireland for subverting the Protestant Religion, he is even said to have been deprived of his command on account of his religion. 185