There is no question here of quarter given, or of faith broken; no cold-blooded murders, no gruesome picture of gory corpses unburied, nor of fiendish glee on the part of rebels dancing round their watch-fires in presence of their stark and naked victims strewn around!!! Pity such absurdity should be believed or repeated in our time, when it should have been relegated to the same lumber-heap as the story of the ghosts of the Bann! We have yet another account from a paper or Report published in London by two parties who only give their initials, T. A. and P. G. It was "printed by Edward Blackmore, at the Angel, in Paul's Churchyard, in 1642," and is now to be found in the _Contemporary History of Affairs in Ireland_, so ably edited by Sir John Gilbert, at Vol. I., Part II., p. 420. There is a discrepancy in the dates, but that is immaterial, as only one attack is said to have been made. It tells us, "That on the same day (April 30), three or four hundred rebels came before Mellifont, three or four miles from Drogheda, where Lord Moore had left on Tuesday before a garrison of four-score foot and about thirty horse; the rebels plaid hotly upon them until the horse were ready within; but as soon as the horse were ready, they, with the foot, sallied out, and killed about thirty of the rebels." This cannot be far from the truth, as it seems to be free from the exaggerations in which Tichburne dealt, when recounting the numerical strength of his and the enemy's forces, ascribing to the latter poltroonery and cowardice in action, and crediting them with excessively heavy losses.