hmen, what
becomes of the plea, that this barbarity was a just vengeance upon the
Irish for the "massacre."

[487] _Allowed of_.--_Letters and Speeches_, vol. i. p. 477.

[488] _Protection_.--Dr. French, the Catholic Bishop of Ferns, has given
an account of the storming of Wexford, in a letter to the Papal Nuncio,
in which he states that the soldiers were not content with simply
murdering their victims, but used "divers sorts of torture." As he was
then in the immediate neighbourhood, he had every opportunity of being
correctly informed. Cromwell must have sanctioned this, if he did not
encourage it.

[489] _Bribe_.--40,000 golden crowns, and free leave to emigrate where
he chose.--_Hib. Dom._ p. 448.

[490] _Lamb._.--_Cromwellian Settlement_, p. 16. See also Petty's
_Political Anatomy of Ireland._

[491] _Abroad_.--The Prince of Orange declared they were born soldiers.
Sir John Norris said that he "never beheld so few of any country as of
Irish that were idiots or cowards," Henry IV. of France said that Hugh
O'Neill was the third soldier of the age; and declared that no nation
had such resolute martial men.--_Cromwellian Settlement_, p. 22.

[492] _Sanction_.--See _Cromwellian Settlement_, p. 61, for a specimen
of the "Bible stuff with which they crammed their heads and hardened
their hearts."

[493] _Day_.--_Cromwellian Settlement_, p. 163.

[494] _Murder_.--"Whenever any unwary person chanced to pass these
limits he was knocked on the head by the first officer or soldier who
met him. Colonel Astell killed _six women_ in this way."--_Ibid_. p.
164.

[495] _Hiberniae_.--_The Wail of the Irish Catholics; or, Groans of the
Whole Clergy and People, &c._ By Father Maurice Morison, of the Minors
of Strict Observance, an eyewitness of these cruelties. Insbruck, A.D.
1659. This religious had remained in Ireland, like many of his brethren,
in such complete disguise, that their existence was not even suspected.
In order to minister the more safely to their afflicted people, they
often hired as menials in Protestant families and thus, in a double
sense, became the servants of all men. Father Maurice was in the
household of Colonel Ingolsby, the Parliamentary Governor of Limerick.

[496] _Prendergast.--Cromwellian Settlement_, p. 34. We can only
recommend this volume to the consideration of our readers. It would be
impossible, in anything less than a volume, to give the different
details which Mr. Prendergast has bro