[20] A Relation from Viscount Conway, from June 17 to July 30, London, 1642. This was sent to a worthy M.P., who published it; it is well written, but badly printed.
[21] A True Relation of the Taking of Mountjoy, &c., June 25 to July 8, London, August 4, 1642; A Relation from Belfast, London, August 17, carries this a little further. A good many cows were caught, and the country, without taking Charlemont, was swept for some twelve miles from Mountjoy.
[22] Bellings in Confederation and War, i. 111; Acts of General Assembly, ib. ii. 73; Richard Martin’s letter of December 2, 1642, in Clanricarde’s Memoirs, 296.
[23] Acts of General Assembly, ut sup. ii. 88.
[24] Letters from the Supreme Council to foreign powers, November and December 1642, Confederation and War, ii. 99-129. The oath of association of the Confederates, ib. 210; also in Cox, appx. xiv. and (omitting the last paragraph) in Walsh’s Remonstrance, appx. i. p. 31. The latter, dated July 26, 1644, is evidently not the earliest form. In Vindiciæ Catholicorum Hiberniæ, Paris, 1650, p. 6, is a much shorter Latin oath, which places the Church first, the King second, and the national liberties third, but is called ‘associationis juramentum,’ like the others.
[25] Bellings, i. 90; Castlehaven, 35.
[26] Tucker’s Journal in Confederation and War, ii. 189, January 30, 1642-3. The Commission, dated January 11, is in Carte’s Ormonde, iii. No. 117. Castlehaven.
[27] Tucker’s Journal in Confederation and War, ii.; Creichton’s faithful account, ib. ii. 248.
[28] Creichton’s Faithful Account and that of Bellings, p. 130, give the official views on the two sides. The Aphorismical Discovery is much to the same effect, adding the usual bad language, and describing Preston as ‘either drunk, a fool, or a traitor.’ Creichton exaggerates the number of Preston’s army; while Bellings unduly diminishes the number of slain. ‘Scarce one hundred slain upon the place’ takes no account of the pursuit. See also Truth from Ireland expressed in Two Letters, London, April 22, 1643.
[29] Bellings, i. 149-151; Aphorismical Discovery, i. 65; Castlehaven, p. 36.