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[241] Aphorismical Discovery, iii. 143; John Jones to Major Scott, March 1, 1652-3, ib. 370; Articles for Arran, January 15, Contemp. Hist., iii. 364; Articles for Innisbofin, February 14, ib. See also O’Flaherty’s Western Connaught, pp. 78, 116.
[242] Letter from John Jones to Major Scott, March 1, 1652-3, and another to Morgan Lloyd (without date, but later than May of the same year), both in Contemp. Hist. iii. 370-373; Articles with Ulster party, April 27, 1653, ib. 374.
[243] Two letters of John Jones, ut sup.; Richard Lawrence’s Interest of Ireland, 1682, ii. 86. Many horrors are set forth in Prendergast’s Cromwellian Settlement, 2nd ed. 307.
[244] Articles for Limerick, October 27, 1651; for Galway, April 5, 1652; for Roscommon, April 3; for the Clare brigade, April 21; for the Ulster Irish, September 21; for Innisbofin, February 14, 1652-3; for Cloughoughter, April 27 to May 18, 1653. The above and many others are in vol. iii. of Contemp. Hist., except the articles for Galway, which are in Hardiman’s Hist. of Galway, appx. p. xxix. Father O’Conor’s letter of May 17, 1653, from Brussels, is in Spicilegium Ossoriense, i. 398 (Latin). In another letter from Brussels of May 3, signed by the Bishops of Raphoe and Clonfert, who were also in Innisbofin, there is a curious mixture of Virgil and Vulgate: ‘hæc est hora hæreticorum et potestas tenebrarum. Dabit Deus his quoque finem. Via prima salutis, quo minime remur, Anglo pandetur ab orbe [sic],’ ib. 398.
[245] O’Daly’s Geraldines (Meehan’s version, 1847), chap. xi.; Collier’s Ecclesiastical History, vii. 42. The order is dated January 2, 1652-3.
[246] Clarendon’s Hist. of the Rebellion, xii. 148, 149; a letter from Sparke (imprisoned at Madrid for Ascham’s murder), March 4, 1652-3, in Cal. of Clarendon MSS., mentions ‘drovers and sellers of the King’s poor subjects, merchants that now find the miserable Irishman to be the best commodity in trade ... one went lately hence with a vast sum of money (pretium sanguinis) laden on mules.’ Hyde to Bellings, August 8, 1653, ib., and to Sir Benjamin Wright, September 13, ib.; letters in Thurloe from June to September, i. 320, 337, 479, 504; Petty’s Political Anatomy of Ireland, chap. 4. Gookin in his anti-transplantation pamphlet says ‘40,000 of the most active spirited men’ enlisted for foreign service.
[247] Cromwell’s warrant to Fleetwood in Thurloe, i. 212; instructions to the Commissioners, in Parliamentary Hist. xx. 92. Nineteen superior officers to Lenthall, May 5, 1652, in appx. to Ludlow; the Commissioners’ letters of October 14 and January 15, ib.; Carlyle’s Cromwell, ed. Lomas, ii. 246. See Gardiner’s Commonwealth, ii. 164, and Cox, ii. 70.
[248] The details as to O’Neill’s capture are from the British Officer’s Warr of Ireland, p. 144. The writer says ‘twenty gentlemen of Ulster suffered for matters at the beginning of the war, of which some suffered innocently, as then it was said, where some of those who were judges were their enemy in war time.’ Col. Jones to Scott, March 1, 1652-3, in Contemp. Hist., iii. 372. Sir Phelim’s third wife was Lady Strabane, a daughter of the 1st Marquis of Huntly.
[249] Deposition of Michael Harrison, taken February 11, 1652-3, in Hickson, i. 223-233; Notes of the trial with the President’s charge and O’Neill’s own deposition or confession, ib. ii. 183-190; Note to Archdall’s ed. of Lodge’s Irish Peerage, iii. 140.