Note 149 — Chapter XXXI · CROMWELL IN IRELAND, 1649

The chief authority for the storm is Cromwell’s own letter to Lenthall, dated September 17; Ormonde’s account is dated September 29. The above, with those of Ludlow, Bate, and Wood, are collected in Contemp. Hist. ii. 262-276. For Cromwell’s battering train see Mr. Firth’s Cromwell’s Army, p. 170. Elaborate accounts of the siege, with maps, are in Gardiner’s Commonwealth, chap. v., and in Murphy’s Cromwell in Ireland, chaps. vii. and viii.