[2] The best account of this episode is Broghill’s letter printed in vol. ii. of Smith’s Hist. of Cork; Bellings.
[3] Bellings, i. 76; St. Leger’s letters of February 26, March 26, and April 18, 1641-2, in Lismore Papers, 2nd Series. Divers Remarkable Occurrences by Thomas Baron, Esq., who lived fifteen years six miles from Bandon and arrived in London July 2. This last contains a curious dirge on Captain Sougane, beginning, ‘O’Finnen McDonnell McFinnen a Cree’ which has these lines:—
Thy general Barry of three pounds a day,
With armed Lord Muskerry did both run away.
We Cork men bewail dee, but yet for dy glory
Tank heaven to have pulled de from purgatory,
For all our priests swear dou art not in hell,
Dear Finnen McDonnell McFinnen farewell.
[4] Lords Justices and Council to Leicester, Confederation and War, ii. 28; Letters from Mr. and Mrs. Briver, ib. 7-22.
[5] A good account in Hardiman’s Hist. of Galway. Clanricarde’s letters, November 14 to January 23, 1641-2, in Carte’s Ormonde, vol. iii., and the lords of the Pale to the Galway gentry, December 29, ib. Clanricarde’s correspondence with the Roscommon gentry is in Contemporary Hist. i. 380.
[6] Deposition of Goldsmith in 1643 in Hickson, i. 375. Other witnesses in 1653, ib. i. 387-399 and ii. 1-7. Henry Bringhurst’s evidence, as being rather favourable to Lord Mayo, has been chiefly followed for the massacre. See also Hardiman’s Hist. of Galway, p. 110, and the letters in Clanricarde’s Memoirs, 1757, pp. 77, 80. The Galway men tried to throw the blame on their Mayo neighbours, for fear of Clanricarde.
[7] Clanricarde to Essex, May 22, 1642; Ormonde to Clanricarde, June 13, in Carte’s Ormonde. Hardiman’s Hist. of Galway, p. 111.
[8] Order in Council, May 28, 1642, in Confederation and War, ii. 45. Earnley’s account, ib. 134; Bellings, i. 85. Carte’s Ormonde, i. 345.
[9] Sir Michael Earnley’s Relation (soon after July 20, 1642) in Confederation and War, ii. 134. Clanricarde’s letters of July 14 and 20, and October 26, in his Memoirs, pp. 190, 197, 281.
[10] Narrative of Maurice Cuffe, printed by T. Crofton Croker, Camden Society, 1841. Joseph Cuffe to H. Jones, November 12, 1658, MS. in Trinity College, 844, No. 37. Burnet says (i. 29) guns partly made of leather were used with effect by the Scots at Newburn.