[173] Cromwell’s letter of April 2, in Carlyle, ii. 48, with the notes; Grave’s and Prim’s Hist. of St. Canice’s Cathedral, pp. 74, 138, 296; Letters of Fleming and Lynch in Spicilegium Ossoriense, i. 341, 348; Murphy’s Cromwell in Ireland, chaps. xxv. and xxvi.
[174] Seven contemporary accounts of this siege, including one from Bates’s Elenchus, are printed in Contemp. Hist. ii. 408-415. See Murphy’s Cromwell in Ireland, chap. xxviii.; Ireton to Cromwell, July 10, 1651, Milton State Papers, p. 72. Cromwell’s own account is wanting, but the notes to letter 132 in Carlyle may be consulted. In the churchyard of St. Mary’s, very near the breach, is a large stone inscribed NL ET SOCII, and the tradition is that fifty of Cromwell’s soldiers lie beneath.
[175] Authorities as for last paragraph; Aphorismical Discovery, p. 616; Dillingham to Sancroft in Cary’s Memorials of the Civil War, ii. 217. The articles of surrender are printed in Murphy’s Cromwell in Ireland, p. 341, with the date May 18, but the letter in Whitelock (456) says May 10. Certainty is unattainable, but Cromwell’s battery was probably near the railway station on the slope of Gallows Hill. Since the above was written I have read the account of this siege in Rev. W. S. Burke’s Hist. of Clonmel, 1907, but have not thought it necessary to alter the text.
[176] Broghill’s letter, dated April 16, is printed in Murphy’s Cromwell in Ireland, p. 324; Borlase’s Irish Rebellion, p. 240; the Brief Chronicle printed in Contemp. Hist. iii. 165, says Roche was ‘condemned to be shot to death by a council of war’; Cox’s Hibernia Anglicana, ii. 16, where the date is erroneously given as May 16.
[177] Cromwell to Hewson, May 22, 1650, in Carlyle, Supplement 61; to John Sadler, December 31, 1649, ib. appendix 17. The latter letter offers Sadler, a master in Chancery in England, 1000l. a year as Chief Justice of Munster. Sadler did not go, but the place was given to a vigorous law reformer, John Cook the regicide.
[178] Broghill’s letter of April 16; Letter among the Clarendon MSS., July 6, o. s., endorsed by Hyde as from ‘J. Barn.’ (perhaps Barnewall).; Carte’s Life of Ormonde, ii.; Gardiner’s Commonwealth, i. 153, 168. It is remarkable that in Hill’s Macdonnells of Antrim nothing is said about the alleged forgery, though the writer can hardly have been ignorant of Carte’s statement. Cromwell’s articles granted to the Protestants, dated April 26, are printed in Contemp. Hist. ii. 393, where the other letters may be found, pp. 401-408, 410, and 411, and see Supplement 58 to Carlyle.
[CHAPTER XXXIII]
ORMONDE’S LAST STRUGGLES, 1650
Hopeless dissensions among Irish Royalists.
Ormonde meets the bishops at Limerick, March.