Note 180 — Chapter XXXIII · ORMONDE’S LAST STRUGGLES, 1650

Ormonde’s Commission in Borlase’s Hist. of the Rebellion, ed. 1743, p. 311, and in the Parliamentary Hist. xix. 297; Sir C. Coote to Lenthall, July 2, ib. appx. 28; British Officer’s Warr of Ireland, 115-119; O’Neill’s Journal in Contemp. Hist. iii. 212; Declaration of the Ulster Party, May 20, ib. ii. 418; Bishop Macmahon to Beresford, May 30, ib. ii. 422. In the English official account, ib. iii. 166, the Bishop’s army is described as ‘all Irish or Papists, not a Protestant among them, having taken up an opinion that they should never prosper till they had cleared their army of all Protestants.’ A letter from Nantes, May 26, 1650, in Spicilegium Ossoriense, i. 340, says: ‘Decreverunt Catholici nostri nullam dare auctoritatem ulli Anglo, et specialiter Protestanti, quia experti sunt eos semper fuisse perfidos in omni occasione, et ita deduxisse nos in ultimam fere ruinam.’