Ireland under the Stuarts and during the Interregnum, Vol. I (of 3), 1603-1642

Bellings, i. xxxii. 35; George Leyburn’s Memoirs, Preface; Borlase’s Irish Rebellion, p. 104, ed. 1743. Coote was killed May 7, 1642; when the name occurs later the reference is to his son, also Sir Charles.

287

Hume’s Hist. of England, note N to chap. xxxix., ed. 1854; Hickson’s Ireland in the Seventeenth Century, i. 163, 336; Exhortatio appended to O’Mahony’s Disputatio Apologetica, 1645, p. 125, para. 20; Clarendon’s Hist. iv. 24; Petty’s Economic Writings, i. 149-154, ii. 610; Warner’s Rebellion and Civil War, 2nd ed. p. 297; Froude’s English in Ireland, i. 111. Lecky’s Eighteenth Century, ii. 154; Reid’s Presbyterian Church, chap. vii. Bishop Henry Jones, who knew as much as any one, says that within twenty years of the Restoration there were people who ‘openly proclaimed, contrary to all evidence, that there was then no such rebellion of the Irish, neither such massacres of the British and Protestants in Ireland,’ letter of May 27, 1679, printed in the preface to Borlase’s History, 1680. In Special News from Ireland, from a gentleman in Dublin, London, March 1, 1642-3, it is stated that 144,000 Ulster Protestants were killed, wounded, or missing. There would be a tendency to say that all who escaped from Ireland had been murdered.

288

In the list of murders committed on the Irish, affixed to Clarendon’s volume on Ireland, it is said that ‘this was the first massacre committed in Ireland of either side,’ and that the number of innocent men, women, and children killed was over 3000. Miss Hickson has conclusively shown that the number of victims was about sixty, and that the date was January 8 —Ireland in the Seventeenth Century, i. 151, 255.

289

Hickson, Deposition, p. 22; Creichton’s Memoirs in Swift’s Works, xiii. 13.

290

Lodge’s Peerage, by Archdall, iii. 140, for Charlemont. Leslie’s and Montgomery’s letters in Contemp. Hist. i. 362; Chichester to the King, October 24, in Benn’s Hist. of Belfast, p. 97; Rushworth, part iii. chap. i. Reports received at Rome describe the progress of the rising ‘con sacheggiar le case dei Calvinisti, havendo anche fatto prigione il giovine principe milort Cafild in contracambio del duca di Macquera (Maguire) sequestrato in Dublin.’ —Roman Transcripts, R.O., December 18, 1641.

291

Hickson, Depositions, pp. 1-9 and 26.

292

Crichton’s deposition in Contemp. Hist. i. 525.

293

Jones’s Relation, 1642, reprinted in Contemp. Hist. i. 476. This is confirmed by the depositions of Philpot and Ryves, Hickson, i. 308.

294

Jones’s Relation; Crichton’s deposition in Contemp. Hist., i. 531, 545; Remonstrance from Cavan, November 6, and answer, November 10, ib. i. 364.

295

Hickson, i. 298.

296

Depositions of Mrs. Rose Price and four others, Hickson, i. 176-188. Writing after the Restoration with a view of minimising the massacre, Ormonde says the greatest number murdered in any one place was at Portadown, ‘and they not above 200’ —Carte MSS. vol. lxiii. f. 126. As to curious instances of modern ghost-seers see Sir A. Lyall’s Asiatic Studies, 2nd series, chap. 5. Lady Fanshawe saw and heard an apparition in Clare in 1650, Memoirs, p. 58, ed. 1907.

297

The best authority for Bedell is the Life by his son William, edited by T. Wharton Jones for the Camden Society, 1872. The narrative of his younger son Ambrose is printed by Miss Hickson, i. 218. Burnet had the materials of his biography from the Rev. Alexander Clogie, Bedell’s son-in-law, who was also with him when he died. Burnet admitted that he had written everything down as Clogie imparted it, and without exercising any critical discretion. Clogie’s own account was printed from the Harl. MSS. in 1862, ed. W. W. Wilkins, but its authority is inferior to that of Bedell’s two sons. The narratives of William Bedell and Clogie are reprinted with much additional matter in Two Biographies, ed. Shuckburgh, Cambridge, 1902. Bishop Parker’s account, written for Ormonde in 1682, is in Hickson, i. 308.

298

Bellings; Aphorismical Discovery; Tichborne’s letter; Ormonde’s letters of November 30 in Carte’s Ormonde, vol. iii., and another of December 1 in Confederation and War, i. 232; Bernard’s Whole Proceedings.

299

Lawson’s narrative in Benn’s Hist. of Belfast, p. 99. Brief Relation of the miraculous victory, &c. in Ulster Journal of Archæology, i. 242. Letter of Throgmorton Totesbury, December 4, 1641, Rawdon Papers, p. 86.

300

Bellings’ account corresponds closely with the deposition of Nicholas Dowdall, sheriff of Meath, printed in Confederation and War in Ireland, i. 278. Dowdall was present at the hill of Crofty, and Bellings probably was.

301

Summonses were sent on December 3 to the Earls of Kildare (printed in Nalson, ii. 906), Antrim, and Fingall, Viscounts Gormanston, Netterville, and Fitzwilliam, Lords Trimleston, Dunsany, Slane, Howth, Louth, and Lambert. Fingall, Gormanston, Slane, Dunsany, Netterville, Louth, and Trimleston signed the answer.

302

From October 23 to November 4 we are dependent on Dr. Nicholas Bernard’s Whole Proceedings of the Siege of Drogheda. After the latter date we have also Tichborne’s own account.

303

Sir Henry Tichborne’s Letter; Bellings. The date of Sir Phelim’s accession to the chief command is fixed by Henry Aylmer’s examination in Contemp. Hist. i. 403. Bernard’s Whole Proceedings.

304

Bernard’s Whole Proceedings; Carte’s Ormonde, i. 239.

305

Tichborne’s Letter; Bernard’s Whole Proceedings; Bellings; Sir Simon Harcourt to his wife, February 12, in Harcourt Papers, vol. i.

306

Letters from March 3 to 12 printed in Carte’s Ormonde, vol. iii. Bellings.

307

Tichborne and Bernard, ut sup.