Note 14 — Chapter XXII · THE WAR TO THE BATTLE OF ROSS, 1642-1643
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An exact Relation of the good service of Sir Frederick Hamilton, 1643, Information of Sir Frederick Hamilton ... to the committee of both kingdoms, 1645. Audley Mervyn’s Relation, 1642. The first of these contains a letter from O’Connor Sligo, who urged Hamilton to capitulate, all Sligo, Mayo, and Leitrim being against him. Hamilton answered: ‘Your loyalty to your King, your faith to your friends, once broke, never more to be trusted by me, but revenged as God shall enable the hands of him who was loving to your loyal predecessors, whose course will contribute to your destruction, for extinguishing the memory of their loyalties. Thus I rest with contempt and scorn to all your base brags. Your scourge, if I can.—F. H.’