[CONTENTS]
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME

CHAPTER XXI
MUNSTER AND CONNAUGHT, 1641-1642
PAGE
The rebellion spreads to Munster[1]
The King’s proclamation[3]
St. Leger, Cork, and Inchiquin[3]
State of Connaught[5]
Massacre at Shrule[6]
Clanricarde at Galway[7]
Weakness of the English party[8]
State of Clare—Ballyallia[10]
Cork and St. Leger[12]
CHAPTER XXII
THE WAR TO THE BATTLE OF ROSS, 1642-1643
Scots army in Ulster—Monro[14]
Strongholds preserved in Ulster[16]
Ormonde in the Pale[17]
Battle of Kilrush[18]
The Catholic Confederation[19]
Owen Roe O’Neill[20]
Thomas Preston[21]
Loss of Limerick, St. Leger dies[22]
Battle of Liscarrol[23]
Fighting in Ulster[23]
General Assembly at Kilkenny[25]
The Supreme Council—foreign support[27]
Fighting in Leinster—Timahoe[29]
Parliamentary agents in Dublin[29]
Siege of New Ross[31]
Battle of Ross[32]
A papal nuncio talked of[34]
CHAPTER XXIII
THE WAR TO THE FIRST CESSATION, 1642-1643
The Adventurers for land—Lord Forbes[36]
Forbes at Galway and elsewhere[38]
A pragmatic chaplain, Hugh Peters[40]
Forbes repulsed from Galway[41]
A useless expedition[42]
Siege and capture of Galway fort[43]
O’Neill, Leven, and Monro[44]
The King will negotiate[46]
Dismissal of Parsons[47]
Vavasour and Castlehaven[48]
The King presses for a truce[48]
Scarampi and Bellings[49]
A cessation of arms, but no peace[50]
Ormonde made Lord Lieutenant[51]
CHAPTER XXIV
AFTER THE CESSATION, 1643-1644
The cessation condemned by Parliament[53]
The rout at Nantwich[54]
Monck advises the King[55]
The Solemn League and Covenant[55]
The Covenant taken in Ulster[57]
Monro seizes Belfast[59]
Dissensions between Leinster and Ulster[60]
Failure of Castlehaven’s expedition[60]
Antrim and Montrose[61]
The Irish under Montrose—Alaster MacDonnell[62]
Rival diplomatists at Oxford[64]
Violence of both parties[66]
Failure of the Oxford negotiations[68]
Inchiquin supports the Parliament[69]
CHAPTER XXV
INCHIQUIN, ORMONDE, AND GLAMORGAN, 1644-1645
The no quarter ordinance[72]
Roman Catholics expelled from Cork, Youghal, and Kinsale[73]
The Covenant in Munster[74]
Negotiations for peace[75]
Bellings at Paris and Rome[76]
Recruits for France and Spain[77]
Irish appeals for foreign help[78]
Siege of Duncannon Fort[80]
Mission of Glamorgan with extraordinary powers[84]
Glamorgan in Ireland[87]
The Glamorgan treaty[88]
CHAPTER XXVI
FIGHTING NORTH AND SOUTH—RINUCCINI, 1645
Castlehaven in Munster[90]
Fall of Lismore, Youghal besieged[93]
Relief of Youghal[94]
Coote in Connaught[95]
Rinuccini appointed nuncio[96]
Scope of his mission[97]
King and Queen distrusted at Rome[98]
Rinuccini at Paris[99]
His voyage to Ireland[100]
Arrival in Kerry and welcome at Kilkenny[102]
CHAPTER XXVII
THE ORMONDE PEACE, 1646
Glamorgan and Rinuccini[103]
Arrest of Glamorgan[104]
Charles repudiates him[106]
Mission of Sir Kenelm Digby[107]
Ireland must be sacrificed[108]
Sir Kenelm Digby’s treaty[109]
Glamorgan swears fealty to the nuncio[111]
Ormonde’s peace with the Confederacy[112]
Lord Digby’s adventures[114]
The peace proclaimed at Dublin[115]
Siege of Bunratty[115]
Battle of Benburb[117]
Scots power in Ulster broken[120]
Rejoicings in Ireland and at Rome[121]
Rinuccini opposes the peace[122]
Which the clergy reject[123]
Riot at Limerick[125]
Ormonde at Kilkenny[126]
Triumph of Rinuccini[129]
Quarrels of O’Neill and Preston[130]
Lord Digby’s intrigues[134]
Rinuccini loses his popularity[136]
Discords among the Confederates[137]
CHAPTER XXVIII
SURRENDER OF DUBLIN AND AFTER, 1647
Dublin between two fires[140]
Mission of George Leyburn[141]
Ormonde’s reasons for surrendering to Parliament[143]
Digby’s last plots in Ireland[144]
Glamorgan as general[145]
His army adheres to Muskerry[146]
Preston routed at Dungan Hill[148]
Parliamentary neglect[149]
Victories of Inchiquin[150]
Lord Lisle’s abortive viceroyalty [151]
Sack of Cashel[153]
Mahony’s Disputatio Apologetica[154]
Rinuccini and O’Neill[155]
Battle of Knocknanuss[157]
Declining fortunes of the Confederacy[158]
Fresh appeals for foreign aid[159]
Inchiquin distrusted by Parliament[161]
Ormonde goes to England and France[162]
CHAPTER XXIX
INCHIQUIN, RINUCCINI, AND ORMONDE, 1648
Inchiquin deserts the Parliament[164]
His truce with the Confederacy[165]
Rinuccini dependent on O’Neill[166]
Who threatens Kilkenny[168]
O’Neill, Inchiquin, and Michael Jones[170]
O’Neill proclaimed traitor at Kilkenny[170]
Ormonde returns to Ireland[171]
His reception at Kilkenny[172]
Monck master in Ulster[173]
The Prince of Wales expected[174]
The Confederacy dissolved[175]
Rinuccini driven from Ireland[176]
CHAPTER XXX
RINUCCINI TO CROMWELL, 1649
Ormonde’s commanding position[179]
Charles II. proclaimed[180]
Milton and the Ulster Presbyterians[180]
Monck, O’Neill, and Coote in Ulster[182]
Inchiquin takes Drogheda[183]
Ormonde defeated by Jones at Rathmines[184]
Charles II. has thoughts of Ireland[186]
Prince Rupert at Kinsale[187]
Broghill consents to serve Parliament[189]
Cromwell leaves London[189]
CHAPTER XXXI
CROMWELL IN IRELAND, 1649
Cromwell restores discipline in Dublin[191]
Storm of Drogheda[193]
Ormonde’s treaty with O’Neill[196]
Death and character of Owen Roe O’Neill[197]
Cromwell at Wexford[198]
Storm of Wexford[200]
Cromwell takes New Ross[201]
Cork, Kinsale, and Youghal join Cromwell[203]
Operations after New Ross[204]
Siege of Waterford[205]
Siege raised[206]
Death of Michael Jones[206]
Cromwell winters at Youghal[208]
Broghill’s campaign[208]
Carrickfergus taken[209]
The Clonmacnoise decrees[210]
CHAPTER XXXII
CROMWELL IN IRELAND, 1650
Cromwell’s declaration[212]
A lady’s experience at Cork[213]
Cromwell’s southern campaign[214]
Operations in Leinster—Castlehaven[216]
Cromwell takes Kilkenny[218]
Siege of Clonmel, assault repulsed[220]
The town capitulates[222]
Battle of Macroom, Cromwell leaves Ireland[223]
Submission of Protestant Royalists[225]
CHAPTER XXXIII
ORMONDE’S LAST STRUGGLES, 1650
Dissensions among Irish Royalists[226]
O’Neill succeeded by Bishop Macmahon[227]
Englishmen turned out of the army[228]
Battle of Scariffhollis[230]
Assembly summoned to meet at Loughrea[232]
Ormonde excluded from Limerick[232]
Clanricarde excluded from Galway[233]
Surrender of Tecroghan and Carlow[234]
Waterford capitulates[235]
Charlemont taken[236]
Meeting of bishops at Jamestown[237]
Ormonde’s adherents excommunicated[238]
Charles II. repudiates the Irish[239]
A conference at Galway[241]
The excommunication maintained—no Protestant governor[242]
The Loughrea assembly can do little[243]
Ormonde leaves Ireland, Clanricarde Deputy[243]
CHAPTER XXXIV
CLANRICARDE AND IRETON, 1651
Plague and famine[245]
A regicide government[246]
Hugh O’Neill at Limerick[247]
Charles IV., Duke of Lorraine[249]
Taaffe’s mission to Charles II.[251]
A Lorraine envoy in Ireland[253]
Extent of Lorraine succours[254]
Terms of agreement with the Duke[256]
Condemned by Ormonde and Clanricarde[257]
No help after Worcester[258]
Ireton passes the Shannon[261]
Coote and Reynolds elude Clanricarde[262]
Desperate defence of Gort—Ludlow[263]
Siege of Limerick[263]
Ludlow in Clare[266]
Broghill’s victory at Knockbrack[268]
Capitulation of Limerick[271]
Treatment of the besieged[273]
Death and character of Ireton[277]
CHAPTER XXXV
LAST PHASE OF THE WAR, 1652
Galway holds out[278]
The Irish in Scilly[279]
Meeting of officers at Kilkenny[280]
Horrors of guerrilla warfare[280]
Capitulation of Galway[283]
“Tame Tories”[284]
Clanricarde’s last struggle[285]
Castlehaven leaves Ireland—his memoirs[286]
Clanricarde goes to England—his character[287]
Submission of Irish leaders[289]
Siege of Ross Castle[290]
The Parliament an avenger of blood[292]
The Leinster articles[293]
Richard Grace[294]
Ludlow’s last service in the field[295]
Arrival of Fleetwood[298]
CHAPTER XXXVI
END OF THE WAR, AND ITS PRICE
Last stand at Innisbofin[298]
Last stand in Ulster[299]
Exhaustion of the country[300]
Treatment of priests[301]
Swordsmen sent abroad[303]
Fleetwood commander-in-chief[304]
Sir Phelim O’Neill tried and executed[305]
Alleged commission from Charles I.[307]
Lord Muskerry acquitted[308]
Primate O’Reilly pardoned[310]
Lord Mayo tried and shot[311]
The Crown bound by the Adventurers’ Act[312]
CHAPTER XXXVII
PEACE, SETTLEMENT, AND TRANSPLANTATION, 1652-1654
Magnitude of the problem[315]
Effect of the 1641 evidence[317]
The Act of Settlement[317]
Lambert’s abortive appointment as Deputy[319]
Expulsion of the Long Parliament[320]
Barebone’s Parliament—Irish members[321]
Casting lots for Ireland[322]
Claims of the army[322]
The Act of Satisfaction[324]
Transplantation proceeds slowly[325]
The Protectorate established[326]
Fleetwood Deputy[327]
Cromwell’s first Parliament—Irish members[328]
Transplantation—Gookin and Lawrence[329]
Tories, name and thing[330]
The Waldensian massacre[332]
Difficulties of transplantation, Loughrea and Athlone[333]
Worsley and Petty—the Down survey[334]
Clarendon on the settlement[338]
Desolation of the towns[339]
Proposed transplantation of Presbyterians[341]
CHAPTER XXXVIII
HENRY CROMWELL, 1655-1659
Henry Cromwell supersedes Fleetwood[343]
Deportation to the West Indies[344]
Henry and the sectaries[346]
Reduction of the army[347]
Oliver and his son[348]
Cromwell’s second Parliament—Irish members[349]
The oath of abjuration[350]
Henry Lord Deputy[352]
Henry made Lord Lieutenant by his brother[354]
Ireland in the Parliament of 1659[355]
Petty and his detractors[356]
Henry recalled by the restored Rump[359]
Attempted estimate of Henry Cromwell[360]
CHAPTER XXXIX
THE RESTORATION
Provisional government, John Jones and Ludlow[362]
Monck interferes[363]
End of the revolutionary government[364]
The Irish army proves Royalist[365]
Monck gains Coote and Broghill[366]
Ludlow’s last efforts[366]
Impeachment of Ludlow and others[368]
New commissioners of Government appointed[369]
General convention and declarations of officers[370]
Charles II. proclaimed in Dublin[371]

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Ireland, to illustrate the Cromwellian settlementto face p. 1

IRELAND UNDER THE STUARTS

[CHAPTER XXI]
MUNSTER AND CONNAUGHT, 1641-1642

The rebellion spreads to Munster, December, 1641.

St. Leger’s raid.