[275] Hist. of Down Survey, 53, 198; Clarendon’s Life, Con. 116; Fitzmaurice’s Life of Petty, chap. 2. A list printed by Prendergast, p. 403, gives the names of 1,360 adventurers.
[276] Prendergast, p. 305; Hardiman’s Hist. of Galway, p. 137; Lady Fanshawe’s Memoirs. On January 30, 1655-6, Henry Cromwell told Thurloe that there were not six families in Galway, and that the houses decayed daily; he thought it would pay to encourage London merchants to make a settlement, even if they had the houses rent-free, Thurloe, iv. 198, 483; Rev. R. Easthorp to H. Cromwell, July 17, 1657, Lansdowne MSS., 822.
[277] Scobell, p. 47. Thirty priests were ordered to be shipped to the Continent from Galway on June 15, 1665, Irish R.O., A/60. One secular priest, one Jesuit, and several friars remained in Dublin during the whole Cromwellian period, Spicilegium Ossoriense, ii. 208. Many details as to Irish towns are given by Prendergast, chap. vi. 272-307. Letter to Cromwell from New England, October 31, 1650, Milton State Papers, p. 44.
[278] Patrick Adair’s True Narrative, ed. Killen, 197, 201. The proclamation for the transplantation dated May 23, 1653, is printed in Reid’s Presbyterian Church, chap 16, and the 260 names in the appendix. See Gardiner’s Commonwealth, iii. 305.
[CHAPTER XXXVIII]
HENRY CROMWELL, 1655-1659
Appearance of Henry Cromwell.
Though the Protector had not adopted his son’s advice by at once recalling Fleetwood, it soon became evident that he wished for a stronger man. Before the end of 1654 the Lord Deputy gently complained that he was kept in the dark about matters of policy, and doubted whether this was for his Highness’s service. A few days later Henry Cromwell was appointed to the Council in Ireland, having already for some months held a commission as Major-General of the forces there; but he did not come over until July 1655. Fleetwood returned to England some weeks later, but retained the office of Deputy, and continued to give advice, while Henry became virtual head of the Irish Government. Fleetwood had come very much under the influence of the Anabaptist officers, and his supersession marks the decline of their reputation with the now all-powerful Protector.[279]
Fleetwood leaves Ireland, Sept. 1655.
Action of Ludlow.