Note 154 — Chapter XXXI · CROMWELL IN IRELAND, 1649

Cromwell’s despatch of October 11, 1649, in Carlyle. There are elaborate narratives of this siege in Murphy’s Cromwell in Ireland, chaps. xiii. and xiv., and in Gardiner’s Commonwealth, chap. v. There is a candid note by Father Meehan in the appendix to his Franciscan Monasteries, 4th ed., 1872, p. 296. See also Carte’s Ormonde and Castlehaven’s Memoirs, p. 80. Peters wrote on October 22, ‘It is a fine spot for some godly congregation, where house and land wait for inhabitants and occupiers; I wish they would come,’ in Collections of Letters, &c., London, November 13, 1649. The Taking of Wexford, a letter from an eminent officer (R. L.), London, October 26, 1649.