Note 186 — Chapter XXXIII · ORMONDE’S LAST STRUGGLES, 1650

Ireton’s account is in Parliamentary Hist., xix. 336. Diary of a parliamentary officer employed in the parleys in Contemp. Hist., iii. 219. Most of the letters are in the diary of Mr. Cliffe, who was Ireton’s secretary, printed in Borlase’s Hist. of the Rebellion, ed. 1743, appx. 32-45. Sir James Preston always signs as governor, and perhaps his father, whose patent as Viscount Tarah is dated Ennis (where Ormonde was), July 2, 1650, considered himself as still general-in-chief. He stayed for some time in Waterford after the siege. A round shot, which from its position may have come from the other side of the Suir, still sticks in the tower built by Reginald the Dane, which formed the south-east angle of the walls.