[36] Clanricarde’s Memoirs, April to August; Bellings, i.
[37] Sir James Turner’s Memoirs, p. 25; Aphorismical Discovery, i. 45; O’Neill’s Journal; Bellings, i. 116. Leven was back at Edinburgh, November 30, 1642, Spalding’s Hist. of the Troubles, ii. 100.
[38] O’Neill’s Journal; Bellings, i. 152; Aphorismical Discovery, i. 72; Letter of Monck and other officers, September 12, in Confederation and War, ii. 363. Some wit produced the following:—
‘Contra Romanos mores, res mira, dynasta
Morus ab Eugenio canonizatus erat.’
[39] Ormonde to Nicholas, August 13, 1642, in appendix to Carte’s Ormonde; Confederation and War, ii. 50, 129, 139, 243.
[40] Remonstrance of grievances, March 17; the King’s letters and Commission, April 23, Confederation and War, ii. 248, 265.
[41] Inchiquin to Cork, May 25, in Smith’s History of Cork; Castlehaven, p. 41.
[42] Commission dated Oxford, April 23, in Confederation and War, i. 267; Propositions of the Confederates, June 24, with Ormonde’s answer, June 29; Bellings’ reasons in favour of a cessation and Scarampi’s answer, July and August. The above are in Confederation and War, ii.; Bellings, i. 160; Carte’s Ormonde. See the observations in Gardiner’s Great Civil War, chap. xi.
[43] Confederation and War, ii. 364-384; Bellings, i. 156, 163; Declaration of Clanricarde, Inchiquin, and fifteen others that the cessation was necessary, printed by Cox, ii. 133.
[44] Lords Justices and Council to the King, May 11, 1643, and to the two Houses, October 28; the Speakers of both Houses to the Lords Justices and Council, July 4—all in Clarendon’s Hist. of the Rebellion, book vii. 334, 366. Ormonde was appointed Lord Lieutenant November 13, and sworn in January 21 following. As to Leicester, see the preface to Blencowe’s Sydney Papers and his letter of complaint to the Queen in Collins’s Sydney Papers, ii. 673.