Muskerry and his party accepted the substance of the Leinster articles, but there was a fortnight's debate on certain points. The Irish officers feared lest they should be all held liable for the murder of the English, 'which,' says Ludlow, 'was an exception we never failed to make.' An explanatory article was therefore granted, limiting the guilt to those 'who during the first year of the war have contrived, aided, assisted, acted, or abetted any murder or massacre upon any person or persons of the English not in arms but following their own occupation in their farms or freeholds,' and to those who since that time had taken life knowing that quarter had been given or protection granted. As to religion, Ludlow and his colleagues would go no further than declare 'that it is not our intention nor, as we conceive, the intention of those whom we serve, to force any to their worship and service contrary to their consciences.' Questions as to real estate were, at the request of Muskerry and his friends, 'left to the pleasure of the Parliament,' means being given them for pleading their own cause in London. They themselves asked for this in preference to the clause as to qualifications in the Leinster articles. In consideration of the above, 960 able men marched out of Ross Castle, and at least 3000 more followed their example. Murtagh O'Brien, with about 200 men, kept at large in the Kerry mountains until Waller made them untenable, and then escaped across the Shannon, to give further trouble in Connaught.[237] [Sidenote: Richard Grace still resists.] [Sidenote: Submission of Grace, Aug. 14.] [Sidenote: Grace leads 1200 men to Spain.]