[54] Spalding’s Hist. of the Troubles, ii. 265-7; Patrick Gordon’s Abridgment, 65, 133, 161, 181. Wishart thinks Alaster ‘Macdonaldorum res privatas impendio curasse: de publico parum solicitum.’ See also Napier’s Memoirs of Montrose, chaps. 22-27, and Gardiner’s Civil War, chaps. 26, 30, 33, and 36; Turner’s Memoirs, p. 240.
[55] Bellings, iii. 6, and in the same volume, Safe conduct for agents, January 4, 1643-4, and letter to Bellings, April 7-10; Michael Jones’s speech, January 22, in appendix to Carte’s Ormonde; Rushworth, v. 897-900. The names of the Committee of Council are given by Carte, but in the first letter to Bellings, mentioned above, Cottington is added and Hyde omitted. It appears from Rushworth that both attended the Committee.
[56] The original propositions are in Confederation and War, iii. 128; the amended ones in Rushworth, v. 909. See also the following letters in appendix to Carte’s Ormonde: Arthur Trevor to Ormonde, March 25, 1644; Radcliffe to Ormonde, April 2; Digby to Ormonde, April 2; Muskerry to Ormonde, March 29; Ormonde to Muskerry, April 29. Statement by the delegates of the Council of Ireland in Egmont Papers, i. 212-229, which seems to have been read or spoken by Lowther or one of his colleagues to Charles’s Privy Council.
[57] Rushworth, v. 901-917. A manifesto published in French at Lille, January 26, 1642-3, and intended for foreign consumption, contains the following demands of the Confederates: ‘(1) That the Catholic religion, the ecclesiastical hierarchy, and the religious orders be restored, and no sect or heresy tolerated, except that of Protestants existing (qui a vogue) in England, Germany, and some other provinces; that there be no bishop other than Catholic; that the priests enjoy all benefices and Church revenues; and that the Protestant ministers enjoy only such bishoprics [sic] or benefices as those of their sect shall procure them for a living. (2) That we be governed by a Catholic President, Council, and officers; that all governors of castles, fortresses, towns, and districts be Catholics,’ &c. Reprinted in Confederation and War, iii. 336.
[58] Sir Philip Percival to Ormonde, May 23, in appendix to Carte’s Ormonde; the King’s commission to Ormonde, his instructions, and his answers to the Confederate agents, in Confederation and War, iii. 175, 198, 208; Daniel O’Neill to Arthur Trevor, July 26, in Carte’s Original Letters.
[59] Inchiquin to Ormonde, January 3 and February 10, 1643-4, in appendix to Carte’s Ormonde, and in the same volume letters from Radcliffe and Digby to Ormonde, February 8-20, and Ormonde to Digby, March 8; Bellings, iii. 14, and one of March 29 from the Supreme Council to Ormonde; Inchiquin to Ormonde, July 23 and August 4, in Calendar of Clarendon S.P.; Letters of Inchiquin, Broghill, and others to the King and Parliament, and Declaration of Munster Protestants, July 17 and 18, in Rushworth, v. 918-924; Ludlow’s Memoirs, ed. Firth, i. 85. Besides those in Rushworth, Inchiquin’s letters to Jephson, governor of Portsmouth, to Colonel St. Leger, and to Sir J. Powlet were published in pamphlet form in 1644. For Henry O’Brien, see Walker’s Discourses, p. 46, and Bellings, iv. 10.
[CHAPTER XXV]
INCHIQUIN, ORMONDE AND GLAMORGAN, 1644-1645
No truce with the Parliament.
Protestants in Ireland complained with reason that they got little help from England during the truce, while communication with the Continent was quite free to the Confederates. There were parliamentary cruisers, but not nearly enough to do the work, and a Spanish captain named Antonio was engaged by Castlehaven to keep them at a distance. His frigate of 400 tons and sixteen guns appears to have been cast away at Dungarvan; but he commanded other ships and was active to the very end of the war. Letters of marque were issued from Kilkenny, and it was long before even the port of Waterford was closed. The numerous inlets on the west coast it was impossible to blockade at all. There were endless complaints on both sides as to breaches of the truce, but the recriminations on this subject are scarcely worth discussing. After he had once taken the Parliamentary side, Inchiquin gave himself a free hand.[60]