[115] For the sack of Cashel I have chiefly followed Father Andrew Sall, S.J., who was a native of the place, and who appears from internal evidence to have been at least in the neighbourhood. A translation from his Italian narrative is printed in Murphy’s Cromwell in Ireland, pp. 388-392. The Aphorismical Discovery (i. 182) says thirty priests and friars were killed; Carte says ‘near twenty.’ Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 7; Ludlow’s Memoirs, ed. Firth, i. 85; Lenihan’s Limerick, p. 161.
[116] I have used the very scarce Dublin reprint of the Disputatio Apologetica: the original is, of course, still scarcer. Nearly all that is known of Mahony is in Walsh’s Remonstrance, part ii. sec. 22. The Portuguese decrees are in Contemporary Hist. i. 739; Rinuccini’s Embassy, p. 321.
[117] Rinuccini’s report on O’Neill’s proceedings, 1647, in Embassy, p. 281. For the great and increasing hatred excited by the Ulster troops, ib., 290, 309, 324, 347, 353-4, 357, 359; O’Neill’s Journal, 1647, in Contemporary Hist., iii. 206; Sir H. Tichborne’s Letter to his wife; Sir Maurice Eustace to Ormonde in Confederation and War, vi. 207.
[118] Letters in Rushworth, vii. 916, 947; Inchiquin’s letter to Taaffe is in Meehan’s Confederation of Kilkenny; Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 9; Smith’s Cork; Rinuccini’s official account of battle in Embassy, p. 335, and further particulars at p. 519; Bellings, vii. 34, 350; Inchiquin to Lenthall, November 18, 1647, ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, November 30. A Perfect Narrative of the battle of Knocknanuss, by an officer present, 1647; A Mighty Victory in Ireland, November 29, 1647, being a letter from William More written in the field on November 13.
[119] Rinuccini’s Embassy, p. 343; Confederation and War, vi. 208, 232.
[120] The Queen to the King, December 1/11; 1647, in Bruce’s Charles I. in 1646; Rinuccini’s Embassy, pp. 330, 332, 340, 343; Bellings, vii. 36. Instructions for the agents to Rome, France, and Spain in Confederation and War, vi. 223-227. Speech of the agent in Holland, ib. 232.
[121] Letter in Rushworth, vii. 947; ib. 1006, 1029, 1041; Rinuccini’s Embassy, pp. 367, 370; Thurloe, i. 93; Bellings, vii. 36-39.
[122] Carte’s Ormonde, ii. 15. Ormonde’s report on Ireland to the King is ib. iii. appendix No. 565; Rushworth, vii. 795. The Paris negotiations in Confederation and War, vi. 228-232. Bellings, vii. 37.