here,' he writes, 'I may give your Eminence another proof of the Divine providence towards me in having discovered and touched land on October 21 and 22, which seem to be consecrated to an archbishop of Fermo, as on the 21st my Church celebrates the feast of Saint Mabel, one of the 11,000 virgins, whose head we have at Fermo, and whom we believe on no slight grounds to have been of Irish birth; while on the 22nd we also celebrate the martyrdom of St. Philip, Bishop of Fermo.... My first lodging was in a shepherd's hut, in which animals also took shelter.' The arms were temporarily stored in Ardtully Castle, and to avoid Inchiquin, Rinuccini proceeded by Macroom and Millstreet through the mountains to Limerick. The ruggedness of the roads and the steepness of the passes were, he says, indescribable, but the faithful flocked to meet him, and Ormonde's brother Richard, specially sent by the Supreme Council, was among those who escorted him. At Limerick he found Scarampi, who had succeeded in making the hitherto neutral city declare itself, and heard of Archbishop Queely's death. He reached Kilkenny on November 12, and was received with much pomp, which he evidently enjoyed. The Supreme Council held a special sitting in the Castle, and the nuncio had a chair covered with 'red damask enriched with gold and handsomer than the president's,' but Mountgarret did not leave his place either at the beginning or end of the ceremony. The arrangements were made by Bellings, who would be sure to preserve the dignity of the civil power.'[81] FOOTNOTES: [74] Castlehaven's summons to Cappoquin is dated April 14, 1645, _Youghal Council Book_, 552. Mitchelstown fell May 7 or 8, _ib._ lii. Castlehaven's _Memoirs_, 54-56. For Castlehaven's effort to make his soldiers respect capitulations, see _ib._ 61. _Bellings_, iv. 8. Writing to the Parliament, Broghill says Colonel 'Ridgway, though drunk, killed nine men that day with his own hand. His drunkenness was owing to two tumblers of ryley ale, which he had from the Irish sutler'--Smith's _Cork_, ed. Day, ii. 88. [75] Smith's _Cork_, ed. Day, i. 289, ii. 87, where the Egmont MS. is cited; _Bellings_, iv. 8-11; Castlehaven's _Memoirs_, pp. 58-60; Castlehaven to the Supreme Council, June 17, 1645, in _Confederation and War_, ii. 281-4. Lady Broghill was Lady Margaret Howard, daughter of the second Earl of Suffolk, and is supposed to have been the heroine of Suckling's delightful lines, 'I tell thee, Dick, where I have been,' &c. [76] Rinuccini, _Embassy_, p. 45; Broghill's _Letter-book_, Additional MS. 25, 287; _Bellings_, iv. 11-16; Castlehaven to the Supreme Council, June 17, 1675, in _Confederation and War_, iv. 281. As to the bad relations between Preston and Castlehaven, Bellings agrees with the _Aphorismical Discovery_, i. 196: 'Two generals with unsubordinate power in one and the same army, neither obeying the other, or either said by a council of war.' _Youghal Council Book_, lii.