[166] Letter from Clonmacnoise signed by the four archbishops and seven bishops, including the secretary of the congregation, to the Pope, December 12, 1649, in _Spicilegium Ossoriense_, i. 327. Ormonde to the King, December 15 and 24, and the answer from Jersey, February 2, 1649-50, in Carte's _Original Letters_, ii. 417-425.
[167] Declaration of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for the undeceiving of deluded people, January 1649-50, in _Carlyle_, ii. 1, and see the strictures on this 'remarkablest State paper' in the notes to the 1904 edition and in Gardiner's _Commonwealth_, i. 163-166; the Declaration was first printed at Cork and reprinted in London, March 21.
[168] Lady Fanshawe's _Memoirs_, p. 53, ed. 1907. Sir Richard Bolton died about a year before the revolt of Cork, after which the Great Seal of Ireland may have been placed irregularly in the hands of Roscommon, who had married Strafford's sister.
[169] Cromwell to Lenthall, February 15, 1649-50, and to Bradshaw, March 5, in _Carlyle_; also letters in the Supplement, pp. 54-56. In the articles for the surrender of Fethard (No. 55) it is stipulated that the garrison might retire to 'any place within his Majesty's quarters.' When Cromwell signed this, he either did not notice the draftsman's expression, or thought it did not matter. For Enniscorthy see Whitelock's _Memorials_, p. 437.
[170] _Bellings_, vii. 129. _Several Letters from Ireland_, March 18, 1649-50. This tract is reprinted in the _Kilkenny Archæological Journal_, new series, i. 110, with a contemporary plan of Ballisonan, but the latter must have been drawn to illustrate the capture of the place by Jones in September 1648.
[171] Castlehaven's _Memoirs_, pp. 83-86; Cromwell to Lenthall, April 2, 1650, in _Carlyle_. And see Murphy's _Cromwell in Ireland_, chaps. 24 and 25, and Lord Dillon's apologetic letter in _Contemp. Hist._ ii. 373; Clarendon's History, _Ireland_, p. 96.
[172] Articles for surrender, March 27, in Murphy's _Cromwell in Ireland_, p. 301. All the letters extant are printed by Carlyle, vol. ii., see especially that of Cromwell to the mayor on March 26. The _Aphorismical Discovery_, ii. 69, states that the townsmen capitulated behind the governor's back, and that the garrison were not mentioned in the capitulation, which shows the untrustworthiness of the writer. And see Carte's _Life of Ormonde_, ii. 113.