[141]. The Epistle Congratulatory of Lysimachus Nicanor of the Society of Jesus to the Covenanters of Scotland.
[142]. Clogy’s Life of Bedell, pp. 129-131. Compare Lords’ Journals, I., 112.
[143]. Commons’ Journals, I., 141.
[144]. Lords’ Journals, I., 106.
[145]. Rushworth’s Trial of the Earl of Strafford, 517. This statement is confirmed by a Catholic pamphleteer who called himself Antonius Prodinus. “Thomas, comes Straffordiæ, Hiberniæ prorex, decem milia Catholicorum Hibernorum militum a multis ante mensibus in armis habuit in Ultonia.” Descriptio regni Hiberniæ, p. 41. Carte, however, asserts that the officers and 1,000 of the private soldiers were Protestants. Life of Ormond, I., 132.
[146]. For a full account of the Macdonnels of Antrim see Clan Donald by A. and A. Macdonald, vol. II., chap. 15.
[147]. Antrim to Wentworth, July 17, December 31, 1638, April 11 and 12, May 16, 1639: Wentworth to Windebank, March 20, 1639, enclosing Antrim’s propositions: to Vane, May 16, July 7, 1639: Windebank to Wentworth, April 13, 1639: to Antrim, April 13, 1639. (Strafford Letters, II., 184, 266, 300-305, 321-323, 339-340, 419-424, et alibi.)
[148]. Commons’ Journals, I., 141.
[149]. Ibid., 156-161.
[150]. Wentworth to Radcliffe, October 8, 1640. This letter, which is not included in the Strafford Letters, is printed in Whittaker’s Life and Original Correspondence of Sir George Radcliffe, pp. 209, 210. It is endorsed by Radcliffe, “Proposition, Scots, rejected by me and crossed.”