Note 217 — Chapter XXXIV · CLANRICARDE AND IRETON, 1651

From a comparison of all the accounts it is certain that the Bishop of Emly, Purcell, Baron, Stretch, Walsh, Fanning, and Higgins, were executed soon after the surrender. Layles, who was not present, had heard that two priests, Francis and George Wolfe, also suffered as well as Fanning’s two sons and brother. The Aphorismical Discovery says Fanning was betrayed by a servant, when taking refuge from the cold among the soldiers quartered in the cathedral. Clarendon, Ireland, 198, says he had been refused food and shelter by his own wife. See also note to Gardiner’s Commonwealth, ii. 57. As to the execution of James Wolfe, a Dominican, there can be little doubt, see Clarendon, ut sup., 199, and Hibernia Dominicana, 568.