[154] Cromwell's despatch of October 11, 1649, in _Carlyle_. There are elaborate narratives of this siege in Murphy's _Cromwell in Ireland_, chaps. xiii. and xiv., and in Gardiner's _Commonwealth_, chap. v. There is a candid note by Father Meehan in the appendix to his _Franciscan Monasteries_, 4th ed., 1872, p. 296. See also Carte's _Ormonde_ and Castlehaven's _Memoirs_, p. 80. Peters wrote on October 22, 'It is a fine spot for some godly congregation, where house and land wait for inhabitants and occupiers; I wish they would come,' in _Collections of Letters_, &c., London, November 13, 1649. _The Taking of Wexford_, a letter from an eminent officer (R. L.), London, October 26, 1649. [155] The correspondence between Cromwell and Taaffe is in _Carlyle_. The articles of surrender, dated October 19, are printed in Murphy's _Cromwell in Ireland_, p. 188, where there is a full account of the whole affair. [156] Morrice's Memoir prefixed to _Orrery State Letters_, i. 18; Inchiquin to Ormonde, December 9, 1649, in _Clar. S.P._; Ludlow's _Memoirs_, February 8, 1651. The authorities as to the revolt of Cork and Youghal are collected from various sources in the new edition of Carlyle's _Cromwell_, some in the Supplement. Lady Fanshawe's _Memoirs_, p. 53. Blake to Popham, November 5, _Leyborne-Popham Papers_, p. 49. Cork and Youghal declared for Cromwell about November 1, Kinsale a few days later. [157] Cromwell to Lenthall, November 14, 1649, Ludlow's _Memoirs_, i. 239; Carte's _Ormonde_. [158] Cromwell to Lenthall, November 14 and 25, in _Carlyle_; Ormonde to Charles II., November 30, in _Contemp. Hist._ ii. 329. [159] Castlehaven's _Memoirs_, p. 81. The siege of Duncannon was raised November 5. [160] Cromwell to Lenthall, letter 116, in _Carlyle_; Carte's _Ormonde_. The attempt on Carrick was on November 24. [161] Ormonde to Charles II., November 30, _Contemp. Hist._ ii. 330; Cromwell to Lenthall, December 19, 1649, in _Carlyle_; Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 103. Concerning Jones see a note in Gardiner's _Commonwealth_, i. 160. For Wogan see _Clarke Papers_, i. 421. [162] Cromwell to Lenthall, December 19, 1649, in _Carlyle_. Brief Chronicle published by authority in 1650, and reprinted in _Contemp. Hist._ iii. 157; Gardiner's _Commonwealth_, i. 163. note; Murphy's _Cromwell in Ireland_, chap. xx. [163] _Relation of the Particulars of the Reduction of the Greatest Part of the Province of Munster_, &c., London, 1649 (containing Broghill's letters of November 22 and 26, and the Remonstrance and Resolution of the Protestant Army at Cork, October 23); Caulfield's _Council Book of Kinsale_, pp. 55, 357-363; Bennett's _Hist. of Bandon_, chap. xii.