Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 2 (of 3), 1642-1660Bagwell, Richard
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Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 2 (of 3), 1642-1660
Bagwell, Richard
Ireland -- History -- 17th century
[167] Declaration of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for the undeceiving
of deluded people, January 1649-50, in _Carlyle_, ii. 1, and see the
strictures on this 'remarkablest State paper' in the notes to the 1904
edition and in Gardiner's _Commonwealth_, i. 163-166; the Declaration
was first printed at Cork and reprinted in London, March 21.
[168] Lady Fanshawe's _Memoirs_, p. 53, ed. 1907. Sir Richard Bolton
died about a year before the revolt of Cork, after which the Great Seal
of Ireland may have been placed irregularly in the hands of Roscommon,
who had married Strafford's sister.
[169] Cromwell to Lenthall, February 15, 1649-50, and to Bradshaw,
March 5, in _Carlyle_; also letters in the Supplement, pp. 54-56. In
the articles for the surrender of Fethard (No. 55) it is stipulated
that the garrison might retire to 'any place within his Majesty's
quarters.' When Cromwell signed this, he either did not notice the
draftsman's expression, or thought it did not matter. For Enniscorthy
see Whitelock's _Memorials_, p. 437.
[170] _Bellings_, vii. 129. _Several Letters from Ireland_, March
18, 1649-50. This tract is reprinted in the _Kilkenny Archæological
Journal_, new series, i. 110, with a contemporary plan of Ballisonan,
but the latter must have been drawn to illustrate the capture of the
place by Jones in September 1648.
[171] Castlehaven's _Memoirs_, pp. 83-86; Cromwell to Lenthall, April
2, 1650, in _Carlyle_. And see Murphy's _Cromwell in Ireland_, chaps.
24 and 25, and Lord Dillon's apologetic letter in _Contemp. Hist._ ii.
373; Clarendon's History, _Ireland_, p. 96.
[172] Articles for surrender, March 27, in Murphy's _Cromwell in
Ireland_, p. 301. All the letters extant are printed by Carlyle, vol.
ii., see especially that of Cromwell to the mayor on March 26. The
_Aphorismical Discovery_, ii. 69, states that the townsmen capitulated
behind the governor's back, and that the garrison were not mentioned in
the capitulation, which shows the untrustworthiness of the writer. And
see Carte's _Life of Ormonde_, ii. 113.
[173] Cromwell's letter of April 2, in _Carlyle_, ii. 48, with the
notes; Grave's and Prim's _Hist. of St. Canice's Cathedral_, pp. 74,
138, 296; Letters of Fleming and Lynch in _Spicilegium Ossoriense_, i.
341, 348; Murphy's _Cromwell in Ireland_, chaps. xxv. and xxvi.
[174] Seven contemporary accounts of this siege, including one from
Bates's _Elenchus_, are printed in _Contemp. Hist._ ii. 408-415. See
Murphy's _Cromwell in Ireland_, chap. xxviii.; Ireton to Cromwell,
July 10, 1651, _Milton State Papers_, p. 72. Cromwell's own account is
wanting, but the notes to letter 132 in Carlyle may be consulted. In
the churchyard of St. Mary's, very near the breach, is a large stone
inscribed NL ET SOCII, and the tradition is that fifty of Cromwell's
soldiers lie beneath.
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