Note 174 — Chapter XXXII · CROMWELL IN IRELAND, 1650

Seven contemporary accounts of this siege, including one from Bates’s Elenchus, are printed in Contemp. Hist. ii. 408-415. See Murphy’s Cromwell in Ireland, chap. xxviii.; Ireton to Cromwell, July 10, 1651, Milton State Papers, p. 72. Cromwell’s own account is wanting, but the notes to letter 132 in Carlyle may be consulted. In the churchyard of St. Mary’s, very near the breach, is a large stone inscribed NL ET SOCII, and the tradition is that fifty of Cromwell’s soldiers lie beneath.