[86] Sir Kenelm Digby's articles were printed by Birch, and are also in _Embassy_, pp. 573, 577. The nuncio's advice to Glamorgan, _ib._ p. 120, and his speech, p. 122; Ormonde to Glamorgan, February 3, 1645-6, _Carte MSS._, vol. lxiii. f. 354; Glamorgan to Ormonde, February 8, in _Confederation and War_, v. 258, and Ormonde's answer, February 11, in appendix to Carte's _Ormonde_. Chester surrendered on February 3. [87] The articles were printed in London in September 1646, and are reprinted in _Confederation and War_, v. 286. Glamorgan's oath of allegiance to Rinuccini, February 16, 1645-6, is given (Latin) in Gardiner's _Civil War_, ii. 420. The King to Ormonde, February 27, 1644-5; May 22, 1645, in Carte's _Ormonde_, iii. and July 31 in Halliwell's _Letters of the Kings of England_. On August 24, 1646, Charles wrote to his wife: 'I have returned two messengers into Ireland with my approving the peace there, to which I shall firmly stick,' _Charles I. in 1646_. [88] N. Plunket to Ormonde, May 7, 1646, in _Confederation and War_ v. 335; Digby's Declaration, July 28, and Proclamation of Peace, July 30 and August 3, _ib._ vi. 55-60; Daniel O'Neill to Ormonde, April 18, in _Contemp. Hist._, i. 671; Rinuccini's letter, March 22, in _Embassy_, p. 153; the Newcastle letter, June 11, in Birch's _Inquiry_, p. 208. [89] There are accounts of this siege in _Bellings_, v. 20-24; in Penn's _Memorials_, i. 165-210; and in Rinuccini's _Embassy_, pp. 182-191; and see Frost's _Hist. of Clare_, pp. 371-376. [90] All the contemporary accounts mention O'Neill's short speech, which evidently made a great impression. None say whether it was in English or Irish. The 'British Officer' has been followed in the text, 'MacArt spoke in the front of his own men these words, as I was told, or to that effect.' The much longer speech in the _Aphorismical Discovery_ is obviously a mere grammarian's figment containing allusion to Gratian, Hannibal, Scipio, Plutarch, Polybius, the Maccabees, etc. The number of Monro's army are given from his account, but the 'British Officer' thinks the foot were near 5000. The numbers of the Irish are from O'Neill's journal, and O'Mellan says nearly the same.