[294] Jones’s Relation; Crichton’s deposition in Contemp. Hist., i. 531, 545; Remonstrance from Cavan, November 6, and answer, November 10, ib. i. 364.
[295] Hickson, i. 298.
[296] Depositions of Mrs. Rose Price and four others, Hickson, i. 176-188. Writing after the Restoration with a view of minimising the massacre, Ormonde says the greatest number murdered in any one place was at Portadown, ‘and they not above 200’—Carte MSS. vol. lxiii. f. 126. As to curious instances of modern ghost-seers see Sir A. Lyall’s Asiatic Studies, 2nd series, chap. 5. Lady Fanshawe saw and heard an apparition in Clare in 1650, Memoirs, p. 58, ed. 1907.
[297] The best authority for Bedell is the Life by his son William, edited by T. Wharton Jones for the Camden Society, 1872. The narrative of his younger son Ambrose is printed by Miss Hickson, i. 218. Burnet had the materials of his biography from the Rev. Alexander Clogie, Bedell’s son-in-law, who was also with him when he died. Burnet admitted that he had written everything down as Clogie imparted it, and without exercising any critical discretion. Clogie’s own account was printed from the Harl. MSS. in 1862, ed. W. W. Wilkins, but its authority is inferior to that of Bedell’s two sons. The narratives of William Bedell and Clogie are reprinted with much additional matter in Two Biographies, ed. Shuckburgh, Cambridge, 1902. Bishop Parker’s account, written for Ormonde in 1682, is in Hickson, i. 308.
[298] Bellings; Aphorismical Discovery; Tichborne’s letter; Ormonde’s letters of November 30 in Carte’s Ormonde, vol. iii., and another of December 1 in Confederation and War, i. 232; Bernard’s Whole Proceedings.
[299] Lawson’s narrative in Benn’s Hist. of Belfast, p. 99. Brief Relation of the miraculous victory, &c. in Ulster Journal of Archæology, i. 242. Letter of Throgmorton Totesbury, December 4, 1641, Rawdon Papers, p. 86.
[300] Bellings’ account corresponds closely with the deposition of Nicholas Dowdall, sheriff of Meath, printed in Confederation and War in Ireland, i. 278. Dowdall was present at the hill of Crofty, and Bellings probably was.
[301] Summonses were sent on December 3 to the Earls of Kildare (printed in Nalson, ii. 906), Antrim, and Fingall, Viscounts Gormanston, Netterville, and Fitzwilliam, Lords Trimleston, Dunsany, Slane, Howth, Louth, and Lambert. Fingall, Gormanston, Slane, Dunsany, Netterville, Louth, and Trimleston signed the answer.
[302] From October 23 to November 4 we are dependent on Dr. Nicholas Bernard’s Whole Proceedings of the Siege of Drogheda. After the latter date we have also Tichborne’s own account.
[303] Sir Henry Tichborne’s Letter; Bellings. The date of Sir Phelim’s accession to the chief command is fixed by Henry Aylmer’s examination in Contemp. Hist. i. 403. Bernard’s Whole Proceedings.