Note 91 — Chapter XXVII · THE ORMONDE PEACE, 1646

The battle is described by Bellings and in the Aphorismical Discovery. In Contemp. Hist. of Affairs in Ireland, i. 676-686, are printed (1) a short notice from Carte Papers, xvii. 25; (2) Monro’s despatch to the Scotch estates; (3) a London tract dated June 15, 1646; (4) Rinuccini’s account (Italian) published as a tract at Rome and Florence; (5) the ‘British Officer’s’ account from Hist. of the Wars in Ireland. An eighth account is in Colonel O’Neill’s journal, ib. iii. 204. A ninth—not the least valuable—is in Young’s Old Belfast, being a translation from the Irish of O’Mellan the Franciscan, who was chaplain to Sir Phelim O’Neill. The Rev. W. T. Latimer, in his Hist. of Irish Presbyterians (Belfast, 1893) identifies the localities from O’Mellan and from his own local knowledge. I have satisfied myself by actual inspection that he is right. A tenth account is in O’Neill’s letter (Latin) to Rinuccini printed in Confederation and War, v.