Note 246 — Chapter XXXVI · END OF THE WAR, AND ITS PRICE

Clarendon’s Hist. of the Rebellion, xii. 148, 149; a letter from Sparke (imprisoned at Madrid for Ascham’s murder), March 4, 1652-3, in Cal. of Clarendon MSS., mentions ‘drovers and sellers of the King’s poor subjects, merchants that now find the miserable Irishman to be the best commodity in trade ... one went lately hence with a vast sum of money (pretium sanguinis) laden on mules.’ Hyde to Bellings, August 8, 1653, ib., and to Sir Benjamin Wright, September 13, ib.; letters in Thurloe from June to September, i. 320, 337, 479, 504; Petty’s Political Anatomy of Ireland, chap. 4. Gookin in his anti-transplantation pamphlet says ‘40,000 of the most active spirited men’ enlisted for foreign service.