Note 181 — Chapter XXXIII · ORMONDE’S LAST STRUGGLES, 1650

English official narrative in Confed. and War, iii. 166. Coote’s account seems pretty faithful in his letter to Ireton of July 2, ut sup. The British Officer’s Warr of Ireland gives some details. Aphorismical Discovery, ii. 86, can hardly be trusted, but it condemns the idea of an episcopal general as much as the last. An extract from a Latin narrative by John Lynch, printed from the Carte Papers in Confed. and War, iii. 154, says Coote had double his opponent’s number of infantry and treble of cavalry, and that the Bishop gave battle ‘concilio bellico refragante.’ There is a good account in Ludlow’s Memoirs, ed. Firth, i. 255, but it is certain that the Bishop was executed long after the battle.