[68] Preface to Confederation and War, iv. xl-xlvii, and in the same vol., which contains three plans of Duncannon, a diary of the siege, written by Bonaventure Barron, the famous Latinist, in his favourite tongue, 189; Depositions of officers and soldiers, 210-237; Letters of Supreme Council, 203-209; Letters of Smyth, Swanley, &c., and articles of capitulation, 177-183. The author of the Aphorismical Discovery, i. 102, says ‘the defendants behaved themselves exceedingly well.’

[69] Dated Oxford, April 1, 1644: ‘and for your greater honour and in testimony of our reality we have with our own hand affixed our Great Seal of England unto these our commission and letters, making them patents.’ Printed in Birch’s Inquiry, p. 22, and elsewhere; S. R. Gardiner in English Historical Review, ii. 687.

[70] The instructions to Glamorgan are dated January 2, 1644-5, the three commissions referred to in the text being of January 6 and 12 and March 12 respectively. The King to Ormonde, December 27, 1644, in Carte’s Ormonde, appendix to vol. ii., No. 13.

[71] The King to Ormonde, January 18, 1644-5; February 16, February 27, May 21, 1645; June 18 and 26—all in Carte’s Ormonde, appendix to vol. ii.

[72] Carte Papers, vol. xv., from which the letters, &c., are printed in Confederation and War, v. 62-79; and the treaty dated August 25, 1645, printed from Husband’s Collection, p. 821. When examined before the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Glamorgan said he ‘did not consult or advise with any person whatsoever concerning any the matters contained’ in the treaty, ib. 220.

[73] Charles I. to Rinuccini, April 30, 1645 (in French), printed by Birch from the Holkham MS. Archbishop Queely was killed on October 17.

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FIGHTING NORTH AND SOUTH—RINUCCINI, 1645

Castlehaven in Munster.

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