Note 152 — Chapter XXXI · CROMWELL IN IRELAND, 1649

Summons to Dundalk, September 12, 1640, in Carlyle. Venables to Cromwell, September 22, in Contemp. Hist. ii. 267; Brief Chronicle, ib. iii. 157; Ormonde’s report on the state of the armies, ib. ii. 465; O’Neill’s last letter to Ormonde, November 1, ib. 315; Aphorismical Discovery, chap. xiv. In Spicilegium Ossoriense, ii. 33, are four letters from O’Neill, dated May 18, 1649, to Rinuccini, to Dean Massari, and to Cardinals la Cuena and Pamphili. Daniel O’Neill’s letter of October 6 to Ormonde is in Contemp. Hist. ii. 294. There is no reason whatever to suppose that Owen Roe O’Neill was poisoned.