battering train, and capitulated on May 5, but Preston was glad to give fair terms, and Castlehaven escorted all the English safely to the neighbourhood of Dublin.[29] [Sidenote: Clanricarde on the situation.] [Sidenote: First proposal to send a nuncio.] [Sidenote: The Pope would be welcome.] There were cool-headed Irish Catholics at home and abroad who saw the essential weakness of the Confederates' position. Clanricarde was Walsingham's grandson. Alone among men of his creed he held the King's commission, and knew the real interests of the Crown, as well as the impossibility of separating Ireland from England. Among the insurgents were many who had been 'instruments of foul and horrid acts; there being yet some who do boast and glory in those inhumanities. And if God's judgment and wrath be not first appeased, it is much to be feared there will be a long expectation of a more settled time.' The Jesuit O'Hartegan, in daily communication with his countrymen and with the nuncio at Paris, had none of Clanricarde's scruples, but he had misgivings of his own. The hatred of the heretics would stop at nothing, and the faithful had gone too far to retreat. Men and money were available, but there was no head, no order or discipline; 'one of our birth-attributes is never to submit ourselves willingly to any of our own nation, to live as companions or equals, and think ourselves as worthy of any command and of superiority as each other of our compatriots.' Foreigners were always thought much of, even when there were better men at home; and it was necessary to send a stranger to take charge. He should be 'of long experience, of good learning, and charitably affected for compassionating our infirmities, and it is unquestionable these conditions do concur in an Italian best of all nations.' Ireland could support 100,000 men, but a head was necessary. To support this army O'Hartegan proposed to seize all Crown revenues and rights; all goods of English, Scotch and Dutch heretics; all goods of Irish heretics such as Ormonde, Kildare, Thomond, Barrymore and Inchiquin; and of Catholic neutrals like Clanricarde and Antrim; all Church lands and all lands confiscated from natives, including the Desmonds. In such a cause, too, the people would readily pay heavy taxes and submit to monopolies. In the absence of a supreme head every commander and nobleman would cut and carve for himself, 'and every mere Irish pretend his ancestors were illegally dispossessed.' A nuncio of the highest rank, even the Pope himself, could be made comfortable at Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny, Clonmel, or Limerick.'[30] FOOTNOTES: [12] Sir James Turner's _Memoirs_, pp. 26, 28; Spalding's _Memorials_; _Burton's History of Scotland_, chap. 73; May's _Long Parliament_, p. 431; _Rushworth_, iv. 407, 501; Gardiner's _History of England_, x. 70.