Since the publication of the first edition of this work, I have obtained
a copy of a translation of the Nuncio's narrative, which appeared in the
_Catholic Miscellany_ for 1829. This translation was made by a
Protestant clergyman, from a Latin translation of the original, in the
possession of Mr. Coke, of Holham, Norfolk. The Nuncio's account is one
of great importance, but it would demand considerable space if treated
of in detail. There was a very able article on the subject in the
_Dublin Review_ for March, 1845.

[480] _Hut_.--Some extracts from a curious and interesting letter,
describing the voyage from France and the landing in Ireland of
Rinuccini and his party, were published in the _Dublin Review_ for
March, 1845. It is addressed to Count Thomas Rinuccini, but the writer
is supposed to have been the Dean of Fermo. He gives a graphic
description of their arrival at Kenmare--"al porto di Kilmar" and of the
warm reception they met from the poor, and their courtesy--"La cortesia
di quei poveri popoli dove Monsignor capito, fu incomparabile." He also
says: "Gran cosa, nelle montagne e luoghi rozzi, e gente povera per le
devastazioni fatte dei nemici eretici, trovai pero la nobilta della S.
fede Catolica, giache auro vi fu uomo, o donna, o ragazzo, ancor che
piccolo, che non me sapesse recitar il Pater, Ave, Credo, e i
commandamenti della Santa Chiesa." "It is most wonderful that in this
wild and mountainous place, and a people so impoverished by the
heretical enemy, I found, nevertheless, the noble influence of the holy
Catholic faith; for there was not a man or woman, or a child however
young, who could not repeat the Our Father, Hail Mary, Creed, and the
commands of Holy Church." We believe the same might be said at the
present day of this part of Ireland. It is still as poor, and the people
are still as well instructed in and as devoted to their faith now as in
that century.

[481] _Freemen_.--_Confederation of Kilkenny_, p. 117.

[482] _Army,--Nunziatura in Irlanda_, p. 391.

CHAPTER XXX.

Cromwell arrives in Ireland--He marches to Drogheda--Cruel Massacre of
the Inhabitants after promise of Quarter--Account of an
Eyewitness--Brutality of the Cromwellian Soldiers--Ladies are not
spared--Cromwell's Letters--He boasts of his Cruelties--Massacre and
Treachery at Drogheda--Brave Resistance at Clonmel--Charles II. arrives
in Scotland--The Duplicity of his Conduct towards the Irish--Siege of
Limerick--I