Volume 1 — CHAPTER LVI. CHARLES I. (continued 2)
Reading edition
* Rush. vol. vi. p. 538. ** Rush, vol. vi. p. 540. *** See further, Carte’s Ormond, (vol. iii. No. 113, 127, 128, 129 134, 136, 141, 144, 149, 158, 159.) All these papers put it past doubt, that the necessities of the English army in Ireland were extreme. See further, Rush. vol. vi. p. 537. and Dugdale, p. *53 *54. **** Rush. vol. vi p. 537, 544, 547 v Rush, vol. vi. p. 557.
After the cessation, there was little necessity, as well as no means of subsisting the army in Ireland. The king ordered Ormond, who was entirely devoted to him, to send over considerable bodies of it to England. Most of them continued in his service; but a small part, having imbibed in Ireland a strong animosity against the Catholics, and hearing the king’s party universally reproached with Popery, soon after deserted to the Parliament.
Some Irish Catholics came over with these troops, and joined the royal army, where they continued the same cruelties and disorders to which they had been accustomed.[*] The parliament voted, that no quarter in any action should ever be given them; but Prince Rupert, by making some reprisals, soon repressed this inhumanity.[**]
* Whitlocke, p 78, 103. ** Rush. vol. vi. p. 680, 788.