Note 77 — Chapter XXVI · FIGHTING NORTH AND SOUTH—RINUCCINI, 1645

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.