Note 288 — Chapter XX · PROGRESS OF THE REBELLION

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.