[74] Castlehaven's summons to Cappoquin is dated April 14, 1645, _Youghal Council Book_, 552. Mitchelstown fell May 7 or 8, _ib._ lii. Castlehaven's _Memoirs_, 54-56. For Castlehaven's effort to make his soldiers respect capitulations, see _ib._ 61. _Bellings_, iv. 8. Writing to the Parliament, Broghill says Colonel 'Ridgway, though drunk, killed nine men that day with his own hand. His drunkenness was owing to two tumblers of ryley ale, which he had from the Irish sutler'--Smith's _Cork_, ed. Day, ii. 88.
[75] Smith's _Cork_, ed. Day, i. 289, ii. 87, where the Egmont MS. is cited; _Bellings_, iv. 8-11; Castlehaven's _Memoirs_, pp. 58-60; Castlehaven to the Supreme Council, June 17, 1645, in _Confederation and War_, ii. 281-4. Lady Broghill was Lady Margaret Howard, daughter of the second Earl of Suffolk, and is supposed to have been the heroine of Suckling's delightful lines, 'I tell thee, Dick, where I have been,' &c.
[76] Rinuccini, _Embassy_, p. 45; Broghill's _Letter-book_, Additional MS. 25, 287; _Bellings_, iv. 11-16; Castlehaven to the Supreme Council, June 17, 1675, in _Confederation and War_, iv. 281. As to the bad relations between Preston and Castlehaven, Bellings agrees with the _Aphorismical Discovery_, i. 196: 'Two generals with unsubordinate power in one and the same army, neither obeying the other, or either said by a council of war.' _Youghal Council Book_, lii.
[77] Carte's _Ormonde_, i. 54; _Confederation and War_, iv. 353; _Bellings_, iv. 16; _Aphorismical Discovery_, i. 93. The authorities are collected in the two modern histories of Sligo by Archdeacon O'Rorke and Colonel Wood-Martin. Scarampi wrote: 'Posteaquam se pactis dediderant, occiderunt barbare præsidium nostrum circa ducentorum militum necnon omnes pueros et mulieres'--_Spicilegium Ossoriense_, i. 293. The Irish Cabinet containing the captured papers is in Husband's _Collection_, p. 782, reprinted in _Harl. Misc._ v. 485, and in _Somers Tracts_, v. 542. _Good News from Ireland_, communicated to Parliament, January 12, 1645-6, and printed by authority, January 15. As to Coote's first movements, Clanricarde to Ormonde, May 6, _Carte MSS._ vol. lxiii. f. 443.
[78] Papal brief of March 15, 1645 (Latin), in _Embassy in Ireland_, xiii. Instructions to Rinuccini, _ib._ xxvii.