[54] Spalding's _Hist. of the Troubles_, ii. 265-7; Patrick Gordon's _Abridgment_, 65, 133, 161, 181. Wishart thinks Alaster 'Macdonaldorum res privatas impendio curasse: de publico parum solicitum.' See also Napier's _Memoirs of Montrose_, chaps. 22-27, and Gardiner's _Civil War_, chaps. 26, 30, 33, and 36; Turner's _Memoirs_, p. 240.
[55] _Bellings_, iii. 6, and in the same volume, Safe conduct for agents, January 4, 1643-4, and letter to Bellings, April 7-10; Michael Jones's speech, January 22, in appendix to Carte's _Ormonde_; _Rushworth_, v. 897-900. The names of the Committee of Council are given by Carte, but in the first letter to Bellings, mentioned above, Cottington is added and Hyde omitted. It appears from Rushworth that both attended the Committee.
[56] The original propositions are in _Confederation and War_, iii. 128; the amended ones in _Rushworth_, v. 909. See also the following letters in appendix to Carte's _Ormonde_: Arthur Trevor to Ormonde, March 25, 1644; Radcliffe to Ormonde, April 2; Digby to Ormonde, April 2; Muskerry to Ormonde, March 29; Ormonde to Muskerry, April 29. Statement by the delegates of the Council of Ireland in _Egmont Papers_, i. 212-229, which seems to have been read or spoken by Lowther or one of his colleagues to Charles's Privy Council.
[57] _Rushworth_, v. 901-917. A manifesto published in French at Lille, January 26, 1642-3, and intended for foreign consumption, contains the following demands of the Confederates: '(1) That the Catholic religion, the ecclesiastical hierarchy, and the religious orders be restored, and no sect or heresy tolerated, except that of Protestants existing (_qui a vogue_) in England, Germany, and some other provinces; that there be no bishop other than Catholic; that the priests enjoy all benefices and Church revenues; and that the Protestant ministers enjoy only such bishoprics [_sic_] or benefices as those of their sect shall procure them for a living. (2) That we be governed by a Catholic President, Council, and officers; that all governors of castles, fortresses, towns, and districts be Catholics,' &c. Reprinted in _Confederation and War_, iii. 336.
[58] Sir Philip Percival to Ormonde, May 23, in appendix to Carte's _Ormonde_; the King's commission to Ormonde, his instructions, and his answers to the Confederate agents, in _Confederation and War_, iii. 175, 198, 208; Daniel O'Neill to Arthur Trevor, July 26, in Carte's _Original Letters_.