[207] Journal of Parliamentary officer in _Contemp. Hist._ iii. 227; Castlehaven's _Memoirs_, 95. [208] Ludlow's _Memoirs_, i. 269-274, May 31 to June 17. [209] Ludlow's _Memoirs_, i. 274; Ireton's letter of July 15, in _Sad News from Ireland_, published by order of Parliament, but Scobell's imprimatur is dated July 4, probably for 24. [210] Ludlow's _Memoirs_, i. 263-274, and Ireton's letter, _ut sup._ See also Gardiner's _Commonwealth_, ii. 48, 52. [211] Ireton's letter of July 15 in _Sad News from Ireland_, _ut sup._; Ludlow's _Memoirs_, i. 274-6; Diary in _Contemp. Hist._, iii. 241, where the abortive propositions for surrender are given. As Ireton suspected, greatly exaggerated reports of the repulse at Limerick were circulated in England, see for example Lord Derby's letter in Cary's _Memorials_, ii. 287. [212] _Ludlow_, i. 276-279. [213] This account is taken from the narrative enclosed in Broghill's letter to Lenthall, dated Mallow, July 28, and printed by order of Parliament along with another dated Blarney, August 1. A copy is abstracted in the Calendar of State Papers, _Ireland_, addenda p. 303. Notes in Broghill's own hand, preserved at Lismore, are printed in Smith's _Hist. of Cork_, but wrongly placed under 1652. Journal in _Contemp. Hist._, iii. 246; Ludlow, i. 276. 'My boldest horse being twice wounded,' Broghill writes, 'became so fearful that he was turned to the coach.' Some accounts call this the battle of Knocknaclashy. [214] Hewson to Bradshaw, August 6, 1651, in _Parl. Hist._, xx. 32; Corbet, Jones, and Weaver to Lenthall, September 18, in appx. to _Ludlow_, i. 490. A disastrous skirmish near Cullenagh in Queen's Co. is reported at September 15 by the Diarist, _Contemp. Hist._, i. 252. [215] Ireton to Lenthall, November 3, 1651, printed by order of Parliament, November 28; Ludlow, i. 286; Diary in _Contemp. Hist._ ii. 253, 262, 264. In the list of mayors in Lenihan's _Hist. of Limerick_ Stretch's name does not occur; perhaps there was a by-election. [216] Relation by Dr. William Layles (probably the same as Lawless, an old Limerick name), endorsed by Clanricarde, calendared among _Clarendon MSS._ at October 27. The writer was present in the town. The above is printed in _Contemp. Hist._, iii. 263, and the articles of surrender are at p. 254. The Aphorismical Discovery, _ib._ 19, gives even greater importance to Fennell. Castlehaven's _Memoirs_, 95. Clarendon, _Ireland_, p. 199, says Fennell was executed some months after the siege, so that it was not Ireton's doing. The crime for which he suffered appears to have been the murder of Edward Croker near Youghal on Shrove Tuesday, 1642, _Hickson_, ii. 139. See also the letter in _Spicilegium Ossoriense_, i. 403, July 1653: 'Those of the Irish army who forced us to render Limerick upon so base conditions were hanged at Cork, viz. Col. Ed. Fennell and Lt.-Col. William Bourke, of Brittas.'