[13] Monro's despatch to Leslie, May 18, printed in _Contemporary History of Affairs in Ireland_, i. 419; Sir James Turner's _Memoirs_, 22; Roger Pike's narrative in _Ulster Archæological Journal_, viii. 77; O'Mellan's narrative in Young's _Old Belfast_, p. 211. [14] _An exact Relation of the good service of Sir Frederick Hamilton_, 1643, _Information of Sir Frederick Hamilton_ ... to the committee of both kingdoms, 1645. Audley Mervyn's _Relation_, 1642. The first of these contains a letter from O'Connor Sligo, who urged Hamilton to capitulate, all Sligo, Mayo, and Leitrim being against him. Hamilton answered: 'Your loyalty to your King, your faith to your friends, once broke, never more to be trusted by me, but revenged as God shall enable the hands of him who was loving to your loyal predecessors, whose course will contribute to your destruction, for extinguishing the memory of their loyalties. Thus I rest with contempt and scorn to all your base brags. Your scourge, if I can.--F. H.' [15] _Bellings_, i. 80, with a plan of the battle; _Aphorismical Discovery_, i. 31; Carte's _Ormonde_; Captain Yarner's _Relation_, May 4, 1642. Yarner, who was personally consulted, testifies that Ormonde made all the dispositions himself. He guesses at 500 as the probable number killed; but Bellings says 'scarce one hundred and no prisoners.' [16] Bellings' narrative and documents in _Confederation and War_, ii. 34, 47, 210. The acts of the ecclesiastical congregation are in English, but the Latin version (probably the original form) is in _Spicilegium Ossoriense_, i. 262. [17] State Papers, _Ireland_, July 22, 1607 (No. 297); Aphorismical Discovery in _Contemp. Hist._ ed. Gilbert, with the evidence of Henry MacCartan, _ib._ i. 396, and O'Neill's letter to Wadding, _ib._ 476; Colonel O'Neill's Journal in _Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica_, vol. ii.; Clarendon's _Hist._ xii. 108; _Clarendon S.P._ ii. 144. [18] Bellings in _Confederation and War_, and the documents there, i. xxxix.; ii. 67; Carte's _Ormonde_; Martin's _Hist. de France_, chap. 70. [19] _Bellings_, i. 92; Carte's _Ormonde_, i. 343; Smith's _Hist. of Cork; A most exact Relation of a Victory_, &c., London, October 3, 1642; _Digitus Dei_, or a miraculous victory, London, September 20. The latter writer notes that Stephenson had 'an exceeding rich saddle.' _A Journal of the most memorable passage in Ireland_, London, October 19, 1642, by an eye-witness, notes that 'almost all the Lords of Munster were present'--Roche, Muskerry, Ikerrin, Dunboyne, Brittas, Castleconnell, and one of Ormonde's brothers. As to Ardmore, besides the Journal, see _A True Relation of God's Providence in Munster_, which says between seventy and eighty were hanged. The letter quoted in _Several Passages_, &c., London, September 16, says 116, adding, 'this is most true.'