Last stand at Innisbofin 298 Last stand in Ulster 299 Exhaustion of the country 300 Treatment of priests 301 Swordsmen sent abroad 303 Fleetwood commander-in-chief 304 Sir Phelim O'Neill tried and executed 305 Alleged commission from Charles I. 307 Lord Muskerry acquitted 308 Primate O'Reilly pardoned 310 Lord Mayo tried and shot 311 The Crown bound by the Adventurers' Act 312
PEACE, SETTLEMENT, AND TRANSPLANTATION, 1652-1654
Magnitude of the problem 315 Effect of the 1641 evidence 317 The Act of Settlement 317 Lambert's abortive appointment as Deputy 319 Expulsion of the Long Parliament 320 Barebone's Parliament--Irish members 321 Casting lots for Ireland 322 Claims of the army 322 The Act of Satisfaction 324 Transplantation proceeds slowly 325 The Protectorate established 326 Fleetwood Deputy 327 Cromwell's first Parliament--Irish members 328 Transplantation--Gookin and Lawrence 329 Tories, name and thing 330 The Waldensian massacre 332 Difficulties of transplantation, Loughrea and Athlone 333 Worsley and Petty--the Down survey 334 Clarendon on the settlement 338 Desolation of the towns 339 Proposed transplantation of Presbyterians 341
Henry Cromwell supersedes Fleetwood 343 Deportation to the West Indies 344 Henry and the sectaries 346 Reduction of the army 347 Oliver and his son 348 Cromwell's second Parliament--Irish members 349 The oath of abjuration 350 Henry Lord Deputy 352 Henry made Lord Lieutenant by his brother 354 Ireland in the Parliament of 1659 355 Petty and his detractors 356 Henry recalled by the restored Rump 359 Attempted estimate of Henry Cromwell 360
Provisional government, John Jones and Ludlow 362 Monck interferes 363 End of the revolutionary government 364 The Irish army proves Royalist 365 Monck gains Coote and Broghill 366 Ludlow's last efforts 366 Impeachment of Ludlow and others 368 New commissioners of Government appointed 369 General convention and declarations of officers 370 Charles II. proclaimed in Dublin 371
Ireland, to illustrate the Cromwellian settlement _to face p. 1_
[Sidenote: The rebellion spreads to Munster, December, 1641.]
There was no outbreak in Munster during November, but Lord President St. Leger knew that he had no real means of resisting one. The Lords Justices had drawn off most of the soldiers, the rest were occupied as garrisons, and practically he had only his own troop of horse to depend on. Before the end of the month the Leinster rebels had come nearly to the Suir, and he repaired with what men he could collect to Clonmel lest Lady Ormonde, who was at Carrick, should fall into the invaders' hands. The gentlemen of Tipperary came to meet him, but could or would do nothing. 'Every man stands at gaze, and suffers the rascals to rob and pillage all the English about them.' Ormonde's own cattle were driven off. St. Leger's brother-in-law having been pillaged, he took indiscriminate vengeance, and some innocent men were probably killed. He as good as told the Tipperary magnates that they were all rebels. In the meantime the Leinster insurgents had crossed the estuary of the Suir in boats, and ravaged the eastern part of Waterford. St. Leger rode rapidly through the intervening mountains, though there was snow on the ground, and fell upon a party of plunderers at Mothel, near Carrick. The main body were pursued to the river, and for the most part killed. About seventy prisoners were taken to Waterford and there hanged. He returned to Clonmel and thence back to Doneraile, for he could do no more. 'My horses,' he told Ormonde, 'are quite spent; their saddles have been scarce off these fourteen days; nor myself nor my friends have not had leisure to shift our shirts ... the like war was never heard of--no man makes head, one parish robs another, go home and share the goods, and there is an end of it, and this by a company of naked rogues.'[1]