take the confederate oath of association, and to do nothing without the consent of the corporation of Galway, and of several other persons, the betrayer of Claregalway being one. Negotiations upon this basis necessarily failed, and Willoughby capitulated on the 20th without making Clanricarde a party. The garrison marched out with the honours of war, and were allowed to go on board ship. The post at Oranmore, which belonged to Clanricarde, was surrendered on the same terms without his consent. The day after the capitulation was signed a squadron sailed into the bay, which had it come sooner would have been able to relieve the fort. On August 6 Galway opened its gates to Bourke and granted him 300_l._, which enabled him to proceed to the siege of Castle Coote. The castles of Athlone and Roscommon in the Lord President's hands, Loughrea, Portumna and Kildogan in Clanricarde's, were the only other places in Connaught of which the Irish were not by this time masters.[36] [Sidenote: Owen Roe and Sir Phelim O'Neill.] [Sidenote: Leven leaves Ireland.] Owen Roe O'Neill had been appointed general of Ulster by the confederates, but it was some time before he was fully acknowledged, for Sir Phelim was very unwilling to yield the first place. It was found necessary to send primate O'Reilly as a peacemaker. Leven arrived in Ireland soon after O'Neill, but attempted little, and left the country in November, driven out, as Turner believed, by the insubordinate action of the officers. O'Neill claimed him as an ally if he was for the King, but would consider him an enemy if he was for the Parliament. 'I charitably advise you,' he wrote, 'to abandon the kingdom and defend your own native country.' According to O'Neill's panegyrist this letter drove him away, but perhaps he really went because the Parliament of England invited him. According to Turner he appropriated 2500_l._ sent to him from England for the use of the army; 'and truly this earl who lived till past fourscore, was of so good a memory that he was never known to forget himself, nay, not in extreme old age.' When leaving Ireland he told Monro that O'Neill would be too much for him, if ever he succeeded in getting an army together.[37] [Sidenote: O'Neill and Monro.] [Sidenote: O'Neill defeated at Clones] [Sidenote: O'Neill in Meath. Lord Moore killed, Sept. 12.]