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especially’. Some of his informers had offered to go to Ireland; Whitehall, 28 August 1666.
    ff.363–4 – Arlington to Ormond. The government was unable ‘to traceout or suspect that [the Great Fire of London] was either contrived or fomented by any of the discontented party’; Whitehall, 7 September 1666.
    f.383 – Arlington to Ormond. The bearer of this letter, is sent into Ireland, with the intention of taking Blood; Whitehall, 12 October 1666.
    49 f.193 – Ormond to Colonel Gorges, urging ‘uttermost vigilance’ – it was certain that the plotters had intelligence from Derry by means of one Staples, some of whose former company remain in the city’s garrison; Dublin Castle, 25 May 1663.
    f.216 – Ormond to Clarendon, announcing Colonel Vernon’s departure to London; Dublin Castle, 14 July 1663.
    59 f.86 – Instructions by the lord lieutenant for the seizure of firearms in Ireland; 16 June 1663.
    68 f.562 – Report of the trial of prisoners upon commission of oyer and terminer; 23 February 1664.
    f.564 – Ormond and Council of Ireland to Bennet; reporting that some two months ago, intelligence had been supplied to the lord lieutenant of a conspiracy to seize Dublin Castle and his own person. Due precautions were taken and some conspirators seized; Dublin, 23 May 1663.
    f.574 – Alexander Jephson’s last speech on the gallows; Dublin, [July] 1663.
    ff.576–8 – Edward Warren’s speech at his execution; Dublin, 15 July 1663.
    f.580 – Instructions by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to the governors of Carrickfergus, Derry and Galway to search diligently for conspirators and to secure the security of their garrisons; Dublin Castle; 19 May 1663.
    69 f.164 r – Blood’s apology to Ormond.
    71 ff.388–9 – Proclamation ‘upon the occasion of the late conspiracy’ signed by the lord lieutenant and members of the Council of Ireland.
    114 f.505 – Edward Tanner to Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Staples, recommending that Staples throws himself on Ormond’s mercy and ‘make an ingenuous confession of his whole knowledge of the plot. The evidence is clear and the law will condemn us all’; 15 June 1663.
    118 f.63 – Narrative of the discourse between Alexander Jephson of Trim, Co. Meath and Sir Theophilus Jones; Lucan, 19 May 1663.
    143 ff.96–97 – Ormond to Edward Hyde, lord chancellor, on how theplot against Dublin Castle was discovered; Dublin Castle, 7 March 1663.
    ff.128–31 – Ormond to the king: memorandum on the constitution of his majesty’s army in Ireland and proposals to ‘bring it to the condition’ his majesty would have it in, with details of what had been discovered about the late plot; Dublin Castle, 8 May 1663.
    f.133 v – Ormond to the king, reporting that the conspiracy was more widespread than he first believed and warning that a coup d’état could still be mounted, with an intercepted letter about the plot; Dublin Castle, 30 May 1663.
    f.133 r – Ormond to Bennet, urging that some conspirators should be pardoned to entice them to turn king’s evidence and praising Colonel Edward Vernon’s role in uncovering the plot; Dublin Castle, 30 May 1663.
    ff.142 r – v – Ormond to Bennet, warning of the problems of bringing prosecutions under martial law; Dublin Castle, 13 June 1663.
    144 f.26 v – Order signed by Ormond for the immediate return of all officers of His Majesty’s Army in Ireland to their respective garrisons and quarters; Dublin Castle, May 1663.
    f.123 – Petition of Mary Roberts, widow, to Ormond, praying for the satisfaction of a debt owed to her by Lieutenant Richard Thompson, executed for treason, from his estate forfeited to the crown; c. 10 November 1663.
    159 f.66 – Elizabeth Warren, widow to Ormond: Edward Warren, her late husband, ‘in time of great sickness was wrought upon by the