[244] Articles for Limerick, October 27, 1651; for Galway, April 5, 1652; for Roscommon, April 3; for the Clare brigade, April 21; for the Ulster Irish, September 21; for Innisbofin, February 14, 1652-3; for Cloughoughter, April 27 to May 18, 1653. The above and many others are in vol. iii. of _Contemp. Hist._, except the articles for Galway, which are in Hardiman's _Hist. of Galway_, appx. p. xxix. Father O'Conor's letter of May 17, 1653, from Brussels, is in _Spicilegium Ossoriense_, i. 398 (Latin). In another letter from Brussels of May 3, signed by the Bishops of Raphoe and Clonfert, who were also in Innisbofin, there is a curious mixture of Virgil and Vulgate: 'hæc est hora hæreticorum et potestas tenebrarum. Dabit Deus his quoque finem. Via prima salutis, quo minime remur, Anglo pandetur ab orbe [_sic_],' _ib._ 398. [245] O'Daly's _Geraldines_ (Meehan's version, 1847), chap. xi.; Collier's _Ecclesiastical History_, vii. 42. The order is dated January 2, 1652-3. [246] Clarendon's _Hist. of the Rebellion_, xii. 148, 149; a letter from Sparke (imprisoned at Madrid for Ascham's murder), March 4, 1652-3, in Cal. of _Clarendon MSS._, mentions 'drovers and sellers of the King's poor subjects, merchants that now find the miserable Irishman to be the best commodity in trade ... one went lately hence with a vast sum of money (pretium sanguinis) laden on mules.' Hyde to Bellings, August 8, 1653, _ib._, and to Sir Benjamin Wright, September 13, _ib._; letters in _Thurloe_ from June to September, i. 320, 337, 479, 504; Petty's _Political Anatomy of Ireland_, chap. 4. Gookin in his anti-transplantation pamphlet says '40,000 of the most active spirited men' enlisted for foreign service. [247] Cromwell's warrant to Fleetwood in _Thurloe_, i. 212; instructions to the Commissioners, in _Parliamentary Hist._ xx. 92. Nineteen superior officers to Lenthall, May 5, 1652, in appx. to _Ludlow_; the Commissioners' letters of October 14 and January 15, _ib._; Carlyle's _Cromwell_, ed. Lomas, ii. 246. See Gardiner's _Commonwealth_, ii. 164, and _Cox_, ii. 70. [248] The details as to O'Neill's capture are from the British Officer's _Warr of Ireland_, p. 144. The writer says 'twenty gentlemen of Ulster suffered for matters at the beginning of the war, of which some suffered innocently, as then it was said, where some of those who were judges were their enemy in war time.' Col. Jones to Scott, March 1, 1652-3, in _Contemp. Hist._, iii. 372. Sir Phelim's third wife was Lady Strabane, a daughter of the 1st Marquis of Huntly. [249] Deposition of Michael Harrison, taken February 11, 1652-3, in _Hickson_, i. 223-233; Notes of the trial with the President's charge and O'Neill's own deposition or confession, _ib._ ii. 183-190; Note to Archdall's ed. of Lodge's _Irish Peerage_, iii. 140.