so that the Confederate cruisers often intercepted such scanty supplies as were sent; and even captains employed by Parliament prevented the passage of necessaries from Liverpool to Ireland. A cessation was the only means of self-preservation, 'and seeing that the charge of this war was referred to and undertaken by the Houses of Parliament of England, and that by those despatches they fully understood the condition of affairs here, we offer it to any man's consideration whether or no we had not just cause to conceive and accordingly to express, that our difficulties were occasioned through the Houses of Parliament in England.'[44] FOOTNOTES: [31] Act for the speedy and effectual reducing of the rebels, &c., _Scobell_, i. 26. The royal consent was given March 19, 1641-2. [32] Arthur Freke's Narrative, printed from the _Sloane MSS._ in the Journal of the Cork Historical Society, 2nd series, i. 1; _True Relation of God's Providence in Ireland_, by Hugh Peters, November 18, 1642; Day's edition of Smith's _Cork_, ii. 153, 1894; _Exceeding Good and True News from Ireland_, London, August 20, and _Exceeding Joyful News_, August 27. [33] Hugh Peters and Smith's _Cork_, _ut sup._; Clanricarde's _Memoirs_, August 1642, pp. 203-215. [34] Clanricarde's _Memoirs_, August and September, 1642; _Bellings_, i. 139-148; Hugh Peters, _ut sup._ [35] Hugh Peters, _ut sup._ The narrative was ordered to be printed by a committee of the House of Commons immediately after Forbes's return. Two letters from Forbes to the two Houses, dated Glin, September 27 and 28, were brought over by Peters and published October 11. He says the Irish were 'so impudently bold as to father their rebellion upon his sacred Majesty,' though they had never seen any warrant. Their 'priests and prime commanders' tried to make them fight desperately by saying there was no hope of pardon. [36] Clanricarde's _Memoirs_, April to August; _Bellings_, i. [37] Sir James Turner's _Memoirs_, p. 25; _Aphorismical Discovery_, i. 45; O'Neill's _Journal_; _Bellings_, i. 116. Leven was back at Edinburgh, November 30, 1642, Spalding's _Hist. of the Troubles_, ii. 100. [38] O'Neill's _Journal_; _Bellings_, i. 152; _Aphorismical Discovery_, i. 72; Letter of Monck and other officers, September 12, in _Confederation and War_, ii. 363. Some wit produced the following:-- 'Contra Romanos mores, res mira, dynasta Morus ab Eugenio canonizatus erat.' [39] Ormonde to Nicholas, August 13, 1642, in appendix to Carte's _Ormonde_; _Confederation and War_, ii. 50, 129, 139, 243. [40] Remonstrance of grievances, March 17; the King's letters and Commission, April 23, _Confederation and War_, ii. 248, 265. [41] Inchiquin to Cork, May 25, in Smith's _History of Cork_; _Castlehaven_, p. 41.