[149] The chief authority for the storm is Cromwell’s own letter to Lenthall, dated September 17; Ormonde’s account is dated September 29. The above, with those of Ludlow, Bate, and Wood, are collected in Contemp. Hist. ii. 262-276. For Cromwell’s battering train see Mr. Firth’s Cromwell’s Army, p. 170. Elaborate accounts of the siege, with maps, are in Gardiner’s Commonwealth, chap. v., and in Murphy’s Cromwell in Ireland, chaps. vii. and viii.
[150] Letters of Peters and Cromwell, September 15 and 16, in Whitelock, iii. 110, which were read in Parliament; letters of Ormonde and Aston, ut sup. For Talbot’s obligations to Reynolds see Clarke’s Life of James II. i. 326. Hugh Peters says shortly ‘Aston the governor killed, none spared.’
[151] The terms of the treaty between Ormonde and O’Neill from the Carte papers is in Contemp. Hist. ii. 300, the negotiations, ib. 237 sqq. The first mention of O’Neill’s illness is in his letter of September 19, ‘an unexpected fit of sickness in my knee, whereof I am not fully cleared yet.’
[152] Summons to Dundalk, September 12, 1640, in Carlyle. Venables to Cromwell, September 22, in Contemp. Hist. ii. 267; Brief Chronicle, ib. iii. 157; Ormonde’s report on the state of the armies, ib. ii. 465; O’Neill’s last letter to Ormonde, November 1, ib. 315; Aphorismical Discovery, chap. xiv. In Spicilegium Ossoriense, ii. 33, are four letters from O’Neill, dated May 18, 1649, to Rinuccini, to Dean Massari, and to Cardinals la Cuena and Pamphili. Daniel O’Neill’s letter of October 6 to Ormonde is in Contemp. Hist. ii. 294. There is no reason whatever to suppose that Owen Roe O’Neill was poisoned.
[153] Cromwell’s letters are in Carlyle, and the terms demanded by Synnott in Cary’s Memorials, ii. 181. Castlehaven’s Memoirs, p. 80.
[154] Cromwell’s despatch of October 11, 1649, in Carlyle. There are elaborate narratives of this siege in Murphy’s Cromwell in Ireland, chaps. xiii. and xiv., and in Gardiner’s Commonwealth, chap. v. There is a candid note by Father Meehan in the appendix to his Franciscan Monasteries, 4th ed., 1872, p. 296. See also Carte’s Ormonde and Castlehaven’s Memoirs, p. 80. Peters wrote on October 22, ‘It is a fine spot for some godly congregation, where house and land wait for inhabitants and occupiers; I wish they would come,’ in Collections of Letters, &c., London, November 13, 1649. The Taking of Wexford, a letter from an eminent officer (R. L.), London, October 26, 1649.
[155] The correspondence between Cromwell and Taaffe is in Carlyle. The articles of surrender, dated October 19, are printed in Murphy’s Cromwell in Ireland, p. 188, where there is a full account of the whole affair.
[156] Morrice’s Memoir prefixed to Orrery State Letters, i. 18; Inchiquin to Ormonde, December 9, 1649, in Clar. S.P.; Ludlow’s Memoirs, February 8, 1651. The authorities as to the revolt of Cork and Youghal are collected from various sources in the new edition of Carlyle’s Cromwell, some in the Supplement. Lady Fanshawe’s Memoirs, p. 53. Blake to Popham, November 5, Leyborne-Popham Papers, p. 49. Cork and Youghal declared for Cromwell about November 1, Kinsale a few days later.
[157] Cromwell to Lenthall, November 14, 1649, Ludlow’s Memoirs, i. 239; Carte’s Ormonde.
[158] Cromwell to Lenthall, November 14 and 25, in Carlyle; Ormonde to Charles II., November 30, in Contemp. Hist. ii. 329.