[179] Clarendon's _Hist. Ireland_, 97-106; Cox's _Hibernia Anglicana_, appx. 45.
[180] Ormonde's Commission in Borlase's _Hist. of the Rebellion_, ed. 1743, p. 311, and in the _Parliamentary Hist._ xix. 297; Sir C. Coote to Lenthall, July 2, _ib._ appx. 28; British Officer's _Warr of Ireland_, 115-119; O'Neill's Journal in _Contemp. Hist._ iii. 212; Declaration of the Ulster Party, May 20, _ib._ ii. 418; Bishop Macmahon to Beresford, May 30, _ib._ ii. 422. In the English official account, _ib._ iii. 166, the Bishop's army is described as 'all Irish or Papists, not a Protestant among them, having taken up an opinion that they should never prosper till they had cleared their army of all Protestants.' A letter from Nantes, May 26, 1650, in _Spicilegium Ossoriense_, i. 340, says: 'Decreverunt Catholici nostri nullam dare auctoritatem ulli Anglo, et specialiter Protestanti, quia experti sunt eos semper fuisse perfidos in omni occasione, et ita deduxisse nos in ultimam fere ruinam.'
[181] English official narrative in _Confed. and War_, iii. 166. Coote's account seems pretty faithful in his letter to Ireton of July 2, _ut sup._ The British Officer's _Warr of Ireland_ gives some details. _Aphorismical Discovery_, ii. 86, can hardly be trusted, but it condemns the idea of an episcopal general as much as the last. An extract from a Latin narrative by John Lynch, printed from the Carte Papers in _Confed. and War_, iii. 154, says Coote had double his opponent's number of infantry and treble of cavalry, and that the Bishop gave battle 'concilio bellico refragante.' There is a good account in Ludlow's _Memoirs_, ed. Firth, i. 255, but it is certain that the Bishop was executed long after the battle.
[182] Lynch's MS. _De Presulibus_ as above; O'Neill's Journal in _Contemp. Hist._, iii. 212. Both Lynch and the Aphorismical Discovery mention the Irishman (nefarius aliquis), who carried the news to Enniskillen, 'per viarum compendia,' and the latter says his name was Maguire. See Cox's _Hibernia Anglicana_, p. 23, and Borlase's _Hist. of the Rebellion_, ed. 1743, p. 313.
[183] Charles II. to Ormonde from Jersey, February 2, 1649-50, in Carte's _Life of Ormonde_, ii. 107. The general assembly to Ormonde from Loughrea, April 30, 1650, and his answer (same place), May 1, in app. 46 to Cox's _Hibernia Anglicana_. Ormonde's correspondence with Limerick, June 12, in Clarendon's Hist. of the Rebellion, _Ireland_, 117-121, and his instruction to Hugh O'Neill and John Walsh, June 29, in _Confed. and War_, ii. 430. Ormonde's letter of June 14 to the mayor of Limerick is printed by Cox, ii. 22. Captain W. Penn to Cromwell, April 5, 1650, _Milton State Papers_, p. 5.