[205] Unfinished letter from Ormonde to Clanricarde in September 1651; Carte’s Original Letters, i. 460; French to Taaffe, August 10, 1651, and the answer, September 22, in Clarendon S.P. French’s Unkinde Deserter, published in 1676. ‘Quelle destinée pour l’ennemi obstiné de la cour de France, pour l’infatigable allié de la maison d’Autriche, de voir au bout de vingt années, ses troupes au service des Français et sa personne au pouvoir des Espagnols.’—D’Haussonville, chap. 24, p. 296.
[206] Ludlow, Corbet, Jones, and Weaver to Lenthall, March (before the 25th), 1650-51, in Cary’s Memorials, ii. 253; Hewson to Lenthall, with the articles for surrender of Finnea, March 14, published by order of Parliament, London, March 25; Aphorismical Discovery, ii. 134-138.
[207] Journal of Parliamentary officer in Contemp. Hist. iii. 227; Castlehaven’s Memoirs, 95.
[208] Ludlow’s Memoirs, i. 269-274, May 31 to June 17.
[209] Ludlow’s Memoirs, i. 274; Ireton’s letter of July 15, in Sad News from Ireland, published by order of Parliament, but Scobell’s imprimatur is dated July 4, probably for 24.
[210] Ludlow’s Memoirs, i. 263-274, and Ireton’s letter, ut sup. See also Gardiner’s Commonwealth, ii. 48, 52.
[211] Ireton’s letter of July 15 in Sad News from Ireland, ut sup.; Ludlow’s Memoirs, i. 274-6; Diary in Contemp. Hist., iii. 241, where the abortive propositions for surrender are given. As Ireton suspected, greatly exaggerated reports of the repulse at Limerick were circulated in England, see for example Lord Derby’s letter in Cary’s Memorials, ii. 287.
[212] Ludlow, i. 276-279.
[213] This account is taken from the narrative enclosed in Broghill’s letter to Lenthall, dated Mallow, July 28, and printed by order of Parliament along with another dated Blarney, August 1. A copy is abstracted in the Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, addenda p. 303. Notes in Broghill’s own hand, preserved at Lismore, are printed in Smith’s Hist. of Cork, but wrongly placed under 1652. Journal in Contemp. Hist., iii. 246; Ludlow, i. 276. ‘My boldest horse being twice wounded,’ Broghill writes, ‘became so fearful that he was turned to the coach.’ Some accounts call this the battle of Knocknaclashy.
[214] Hewson to Bradshaw, August 6, 1651, in Parl. Hist., xx. 32; Corbet, Jones, and Weaver to Lenthall, September 18, in appx. to Ludlow, i. 490. A disastrous skirmish near Cullenagh in Queen’s Co. is reported at September 15 by the Diarist, Contemp. Hist., i. 252.