[84] The King’s declaration, January 24, 1645-6, printed (from Reliquiæ Sacræ Carolinæ) in Confederation and War, v. 252. Glamorgan to Ormonde, January 7, 20 and 29, ib. 244, 255; Supreme Council to Ormonde, January 16, ib. 246; Embassy, p. 115; the King to Ormonde, January 30, Carte MSS. vol. lxiii. f. 386.
[85] Rinuccini to Pamphili, March 5, 1645-6, in Embassy; Fr. Barron to Wadding, May 11, 1646, in Spicilegium Ossoriense, ii. 24; Charles I. to Henrietta Maria, January 8 and February 8, 1645-6. Nuncio’s Memoirs (April or May) in Birch’s Inquiry—“Pamphilius et nuncius in hoc negotio caste et sincere partes egerunt suas; alii vero Regem Reginamque impulerunt ad deferendum tractatum pontificium, et spem in baculo arundineo, hæreticorum brachio, collocandam.” Colepepper to Ashburnham, Feb. Cal. of Clarendon S.P. 2135.
[86] Sir Kenelm Digby’s articles were printed by Birch, and are also in Embassy, pp. 573, 577. The nuncio’s advice to Glamorgan, ib. p. 120, and his speech, p. 122; Ormonde to Glamorgan, February 3, 1645-6, Carte MSS., vol. lxiii. f. 354; Glamorgan to Ormonde, February 8, in Confederation and War, v. 258, and Ormonde’s answer, February 11, in appendix to Carte’s Ormonde. Chester surrendered on February 3.
[87] The articles were printed in London in September 1646, and are reprinted in Confederation and War, v. 286. Glamorgan’s oath of allegiance to Rinuccini, February 16, 1645-6, is given (Latin) in Gardiner’s Civil War, ii. 420. The King to Ormonde, February 27, 1644-5; May 22, 1645, in Carte’s Ormonde, iii. and July 31 in Halliwell’s Letters of the Kings of England. On August 24, 1646, Charles wrote to his wife: ‘I have returned two messengers into Ireland with my approving the peace there, to which I shall firmly stick,’ Charles I. in 1646.
[88] N. Plunket to Ormonde, May 7, 1646, in Confederation and War v. 335; Digby’s Declaration, July 28, and Proclamation of Peace, July 30 and August 3, ib. vi. 55-60; Daniel O’Neill to Ormonde, April 18, in Contemp. Hist., i. 671; Rinuccini’s letter, March 22, in Embassy, p. 153; the Newcastle letter, June 11, in Birch’s Inquiry, p. 208.
[89] There are accounts of this siege in Bellings, v. 20-24; in Penn’s Memorials, i. 165-210; and in Rinuccini’s Embassy, pp. 182-191; and see Frost’s Hist. of Clare, pp. 371-376.
[90] All the contemporary accounts mention O’Neill’s short speech, which evidently made a great impression. None say whether it was in English or Irish. The ‘British Officer’ has been followed in the text, ‘MacArt spoke in the front of his own men these words, as I was told, or to that effect.’ The much longer speech in the Aphorismical Discovery is obviously a mere grammarian’s figment containing allusion to Gratian, Hannibal, Scipio, Plutarch, Polybius, the Maccabees, etc. The number of Monro’s army are given from his account, but the ‘British Officer’ thinks the foot were near 5000. The numbers of the Irish are from O’Neill’s journal, and O’Mellan says nearly the same.
[91] The battle is described by Bellings and in the Aphorismical Discovery. In Contemp. Hist. of Affairs in Ireland, i. 676-686, are printed (1) a short notice from Carte Papers, xvii. 25; (2) Monro’s despatch to the Scotch estates; (3) a London tract dated June 15, 1646; (4) Rinuccini’s account (Italian) published as a tract at Rome and Florence; (5) the ‘British Officer’s’ account from Hist. of the Wars in Ireland. An eighth account is in Colonel O’Neill’s journal, ib. iii. 204. A ninth—not the least valuable—is in Young’s Old Belfast, being a translation from the Irish of O’Mellan the Franciscan, who was chaplain to Sir Phelim O’Neill. The Rev. W. T. Latimer, in his Hist. of Irish Presbyterians (Belfast, 1893) identifies the localities from O’Mellan and from his own local knowledge. I have satisfied myself by actual inspection that he is right. A tenth account is in O’Neill’s letter (Latin) to Rinuccini printed in Confederation and War, v.
[92] Officers of Preston’s army to the Supreme Council, July 27, 1646; Ormonde to Preston, August 3, and to Bellings, August 10—all in Confederation and War, vi. Rinuccini’s Embassy, pp. 173, 181, 189; Bellings, v. 16; O’Mellan’s Narrative.
[93] William Roberts, Ulster, to Ormonde, August 11, 1646; Declaration of William Kirkby, pursuivant; Letters by Scarampi—all in Confederation and War, vi. 67, 110, 126. Rinuccini in Embassy, pp. 192, 197; Bellings, vi. 16.