[77] Carte's _Ormonde_, i. 54; _Confederation and War_, iv. 353; _Bellings_, iv. 16; _Aphorismical Discovery_, i. 93. The authorities are collected in the two modern histories of Sligo by Archdeacon O'Rorke and Colonel Wood-Martin. Scarampi wrote: 'Posteaquam se pactis dediderant, occiderunt barbare præsidium nostrum circa ducentorum militum necnon omnes pueros et mulieres'--_Spicilegium Ossoriense_, i. 293. The Irish Cabinet containing the captured papers is in Husband's _Collection_, p. 782, reprinted in _Harl. Misc._ v. 485, and in _Somers Tracts_, v. 542. _Good News from Ireland_, communicated to Parliament, January 12, 1645-6, and printed by authority, January 15. As to Coote's first movements, Clanricarde to Ormonde, May 6, _Carte MSS._ vol. lxiii. f. 443. [78] Papal brief of March 15, 1645 (Latin), in _Embassy in Ireland_, xiii. Instructions to Rinuccini, _ib._ xxvii. [79] Secret Instructions to Rinuccini in _Embassy_, li.; Memoranda for him, _ib._ lvii. [80] _Embassy in Ireland_, pp. 8-52, particularly Rinuccini's letters of August 4 and 11; Scarampi's letter of May 8, _ib._ 553; and of July 14, in _Spicilegium Ossoriense_, i. 292; _Aphorismical Discovery_, i. 91. [81] Rinuccini's _Embassy_, p. 90; _Bellings_, iv. 5-7. See also the translation of a paper preserved at Rome, reprinted in appendix to Meehan's _Confederation_, from the _Dublin Review_ for 1845. CHAPTER XXVII THE ORMONDE PEACE, 1646 [Sidenote: Glamorgan and the nuncio.] [Sidenote: Digby in Dublin.] [Sidenote: Rinuccini and the Confederates not in accord.] [Sidenote: Attitude of Henrietta Maria.]