Note 216 — Chapter XXXIV · CLANRICARDE AND IRETON, 1651

Relation by Dr. William Layles (probably the same as Lawless, an old Limerick name), endorsed by Clanricarde, calendared among Clarendon MSS. at October 27. The writer was present in the town. The above is printed in Contemp. Hist., iii. 263, and the articles of surrender are at p. 254. The Aphorismical Discovery, ib. 19, gives even greater importance to Fennell. Castlehaven’s Memoirs, 95. Clarendon, Ireland, p. 199, says Fennell was executed some months after the siege, so that it was not Ireton’s doing. The crime for which he suffered appears to have been the murder of Edward Croker near Youghal on Shrove Tuesday, 1642, Hickson, ii. 139. See also the letter in Spicilegium Ossoriense, i. 403, July 1653: ‘Those of the Irish army who forced us to render Limerick upon so base conditions were hanged at Cork, viz. Col. Ed. Fennell and Lt.-Col. William Bourke, of Brittas.’