[217] From a comparison of all the accounts it is certain that the Bishop of Emly, Purcell, Baron, Stretch, Walsh, Fanning, and Higgins, were executed soon after the surrender. Layles, who was not present, had heard that two priests, Francis and George Wolfe, also suffered as well as Fanning's two sons and brother. The _Aphorismical Discovery_ says Fanning was betrayed by a servant, when taking refuge from the cold among the soldiers quartered in the cathedral. Clarendon, _Ireland_, 198, says he had been refused food and shelter by his own wife. See also note to Gardiner's _Commonwealth_, ii. 57. As to the execution of James Wolfe, a Dominican, there can be little doubt, see Clarendon, _ut sup._, 199, and _Hibernia Dominicana_, 568. [218] _Ludlow_, i. 288; Thurloe, i. 212; _Contemp. Hist._ iii. _passim_. Cromwell is said to have specially recommended O'Neill to Philip IV., as a good soldier. On February 4, 1652-3, O'Neill petitioned the Council of State, and on April 1 he was discharged from the Tower, _Cal. of S.P. Dom._ [219] _Ludlow_, i. 288; _Aphorismical Discovery_, iii. 20. [220] _Ludlow_, i. 290-293, 278 (with Mr. Firth's note); Diary in _Contemp. Hist._, iii. 241, 249, 260; Scobell's _Acts and Ordinances_, ii. 154. 'A lady that went for a maid, but few believed it,' Lady Fanshawe's _Memoirs_, 57. [221] See Preface to _Clarke Papers_, i. lxviii.; Irish Commissioners to Cromwell December 2, 1651, printed in appx. to Firth's _Ludlow_, i. 496, and _ib._ 297; W. Rowe to Cromwell in _Milton State Papers_, p. 17. CHAPTER XXXV LAST PHASE OF THE WAR, 1652 [Sidenote: Galway still holds out, Dec. 1651.] [Sidenote: Ireton's last summons to Galway.] [Sidenote: Ludlow commander-in-chief, Dec. 1651.]