[123] _Bellings_, vii. 37; _Rushworth_, vii. 1060; Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 24-31.

[124] _Bellings_, vii. 37-58, where the documents are all given. The episcopal declaration is dated April 27. Rinuccini's _Embassy_, pp. 380-391. The printed declaration and protestation of Lord Inchiquin and his officers, dated May 6, 1648, attributes their action to the fact that the Independents had denied them supplies.

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[125] Rinuccini's _Embassy_, p. 393. The articles with Inchiquin in _Confederation and War_, vi. 235; the Excommunication in _Aphorismical Discovery_, i. 194; _Bellings_, vii. 69.

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[126] O'Neill's _Journal_; _Bellings_, vii. 98, 104; _Aphorismical Discovery_, i. 240.

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[127] Walsh's _Remonstrance_, xlvi.; the Queries, _ib._, appendix 1; _Bellings_, vii. 103-12; Inchiquin to Ormonde, May 29, 1648, in Carte's _Ormonde_, iii.

[128] _Bellings_, vii. 104-108; O'Neill's _Journal_, September, 1648.

[129] Documents in _Contemporary Hist._, i. 745-754, September and October, 1648.

[130] Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 39-41; the King to Ormonde, October 28, in Carte's _Original Letters_; Ormonde to Sir R. Blake, Walker's _Discourses_, p. 71.

[131] Rinuccini's _Embassy_, August and September; Hardiman's _Hist. of Galway_; Letter to the Pope, September 17, in _Confederation and War_, vi. 280; _ib._, 300.

[132] Hill's _Macdonnells of Antrim_, pp. 278-303; _Bellings_, vii. 114; Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 42.

[133] Benn's _Hist. of Belfast_, p. 122; _Rushworth_, vii. 1277, 1282, 1386; Lodge's _Peerage_, vi. 244.

[134] Ormonde to the Prince of Wales from Cork, November 27, 1648, in _Confederation and War_, vii. 149; Carte's _Ormonde_, iii. 44-47. On December 12, Digby reported, but without believing the story, that a 'she correspondent' of Jermyn had told him that Inchiquin had agreed with the Derby House Committee and promised to give up Ormonde, _Carte MSS._ vol. 63, _f._ 565.

[135] Articles of peace, proclamation of same, and circular of prelates, January 17, 1648-9, in _Confederation and War_, vii. 184-213. The Commissioners of Trust were Viscounts Dillon and Muskerry, Lord Athenry, Alexander MacDonnell (Antrim's brother), Sirs Lucas Dillon, Nicholas Plunket, and Richard Barnewall, Geoffrey Brown, Donogh O'Callaghan, Turlagh O'Neill, Miles O'Reilly, and Gerald Fennell Esquires.