[2] The best account of this episode is Broghill's letter printed in vol. ii. of Smith's _Hist. of Cork; Bellings_.
[3] _Bellings_, i. 76; St. Leger's letters of February 26, March 26, and April 18, 1641-2, in _Lismore Papers_, 2nd Series. _Divers Remarkable Occurrences_ by Thomas Baron, Esq., who lived fifteen years six miles from Bandon and arrived in London July 2. This last contains a curious dirge on Captain Sougane, beginning, 'O'Finnen McDonnell McFinnen a Cree' which has these lines:--
Thy general Barry of three pounds a day, With armed Lord Muskerry did both run away. We Cork men bewail dee, but yet for dy glory Tank heaven to have pulled de from purgatory, For all our priests swear dou art not in hell, Dear Finnen McDonnell McFinnen farewell.
[4] Lords Justices and Council to Leicester, _Confederation and War_, ii. 28; Letters from Mr. and Mrs. Briver, _ib._ 7-22.
[5] A good account in Hardiman's _Hist. of Galway_. Clanricarde's letters, November 14 to January 23, 1641-2, in Carte's _Ormonde_, vol. iii., and the lords of the Pale to the Galway gentry, December 29, _ib._ Clanricarde's correspondence with the Roscommon gentry is in _Contemporary Hist._ i. 380.
[6] Deposition of Goldsmith in 1643 in _Hickson_, i. 375. Other witnesses in 1653, _ib._ i. 387-399 and ii. 1-7. Henry Bringhurst's evidence, as being rather favourable to Lord Mayo, has been chiefly followed for the massacre. See also Hardiman's _Hist. of Galway_, p. 110, and the letters in Clanricarde's _Memoirs_, 1757, pp. 77, 80. The Galway men tried to throw the blame on their Mayo neighbours, for fear of Clanricarde.
[7] Clanricarde to Essex, May 22, 1642; Ormonde to Clanricarde, June 13, in Carte's _Ormonde_. Hardiman's _Hist. of Galway_, p. 111.
[8] Order in Council, May 28, 1642, in _Confederation and War_, ii. 45. Earnley's account, _ib._ 134; _Bellings_, i. 85. Carte's _Ormonde_, i. 345.
[9] Sir Michael Earnley's Relation (soon after July 20, 1642) in _Confederation and War_, ii. 134. Clanricarde's letters of July 14 and 20, and October 26, in his _Memoirs_, pp. 190, 197, 281.
[10] Narrative of Maurice Cuffe, printed by T. Crofton Croker, _Camden Society_, 1841. Joseph Cuffe to H. Jones, November 12, 1658, MS. in Trinity College, 844, No. 37. Burnet says (i. 29) guns partly made of leather were used with effect by the Scots at Newburn.