Note 248 — Chapter XXXVI · END OF THE WAR, AND ITS PRICE

The details as to O’Neill’s capture are from the British Officer’s Warr of Ireland, p. 144. The writer says ‘twenty gentlemen of Ulster suffered for matters at the beginning of the war, of which some suffered innocently, as then it was said, where some of those who were judges were their enemy in war time.’ Col. Jones to Scott, March 1, 1652-3, in Contemp. Hist., iii. 372. Sir Phelim’s third wife was Lady Strabane, a daughter of the 1st Marquis of Huntly.