Note 172 — Chapter XXXII · CROMWELL IN IRELAND, 1650
Reading edition
Articles for surrender, March 27, in Murphy’s Cromwell in Ireland, p. 301. All the letters extant are printed by Carlyle, vol. ii., see especially that of Cromwell to the mayor on March 26. The Aphorismical Discovery, ii. 69, states that the townsmen capitulated behind the governor’s back, and that the garrison were not mentioned in the capitulation, which shows the untrustworthiness of the writer. And see Carte’s Life of Ormonde, ii. 113.