"--Gale's Corporation System in Ireland, App. p. cxxvi.
6. My object in these remarks has been to enable the reader to form a
correct notion of the manner in which Cromwell conducted the war in
Ireland. They will give little satisfaction to the worshippers of the
hero. But his character is not a mere matter of taste or sympathy. It is a
question of historic inquiry. Much indeed has been written to vindicate
him from the imputation of cruelty at Drogheda and Wexford; but of the
arguments hitherto adduced in his defence, it will be no presumption
to affirm that there is not one among them which can bear the test of
dispassionate investigation.
NOTE E, p. 338.
The following pensions were afterwards granted to different persons
instrumental in facilitating the king's escape. Unless it be mentioned
otherwise, the pension is for life:--
L.
To Jane Lane (Lady Fisher) . . . . . . . . . 1000
Thomas Lane, the father . . . . . . . . . 500
Charles Gifford, Esq. . . . . . . . . . . 300
Francis Mansell, Esq. . . . . . . . . . . 200
Thomas Whitgrave, Esq. . . . . . . . . . 200
Catharine Gunter, for 21 years . . . . . 200
Joan Harford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Eleanor Sampson . . . . . . . . . .
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