Protection.—Dr. French, the Catholic Bishop of Ferns, has given an account of the storming of Wexford, in a letter to the Papal Nuncio, in which he states that the soldiers were not content with simply murdering their victims, but used "divers sorts of torture." As he was then in the immediate neighbourhood, he had every opportunity of being correctly informed. Cromwell must have sanctioned this, if he did not encourage it.
Bribe.—40,000 golden crowns, and free leave to emigrate where he chose.—Hib. Dom. p. 448.
Lamb..—Cromwellian Settlement, p. 16. See also Petty's Political Anatomy of Ireland.