I ought to acknowledge the courtesy with which Mr.Glover assisted me in my search for this valuable manuscript.

James appears, from the instructions which he drew up for his son in 1692, to have retained to the last the notion that Ireland could not without danger be entrusted to an Irish Lord Lieutenant.] [Footnote 165: Sheridan MS.] [Footnote 166: Clarendon to Rochester, Jan.19.

1685/6; Secret Consults of the Romish Party in Ireland, 1690.] [Footnote 167: Clarendon to Rochester, Feb.27.

1685/6.] [Footnote 168: Clarendon to Rochester and Sunderland, March 2.

1685/6; and to Rochester, March 14.] [Footnote 169: Clarendon to Sunderland, Feb.26.