Letters written by Sir W. Temple, Bart., and other ministers of state, both at home and abroad containing an account of the most important transactions that pass'd in Christendom from 1665-1672 : in two volumes / review'd by Sir W. Temple sometime before his death ; and published by Jonathan Swift ...

From the Duke of Ormond.

Kilkenny, Octob. 14. 1666.

SIR,

I Have more of yours to acknowledge than I have by me to take particular Notice of. They were very pertinent In∣formations as things then went: And some of them got hither with so much speed, that they out-run any Intelligence I could get out of England. To morrow I shall be in your Livery, and perhaps try whether your Brussels Camlet will resist I∣rish Rain, as I have known it do that of Flanders. I must thank you for the Pre∣sent, as coming very seasonably, both in respect of the time of the Year, and that for ought I can yet find, my Michaelmas Rent would hardly have purchased two Cloaks: And that your Stuff will make me, if slhall be honestly dealt with.

I know both from hence and out of England, you are informed of all that passes here. The Commissioners and their Dependents, I mean Lawyers, and the Train belonging to that Court, have all the Business, and will have all the Money;

and consequently if they please, much of the Land contended for, and to be distri∣buted. In England they are revenging upon us here the falling of their Rents; but I doubt, not repairing themselves: They have us, and perhaps the King, at an Advantage: The King must be sup∣plied, and England only can do it. I wish we could hear of some Overtures towards Peace; then would the King be freed from a Necessity of consenting to unreasonable Things; or we should be the better able to bear the Interdicture of our Trade with England: For to that upon the Matter, the forbidding us to send our Cattle to their Markets, will a∣mount. I am very really,

SIR,

Your most affectionate Servant, Ormonde.