The Marquis of Ormond returns to Ireland.
HIS excellency having arrived at Cork, on the 29th
of September, 1648, was there received with general acclamations of joy; and on the next day, the general affembly fitting at Kilkenny, gave a very fignal proof of their real defire to be again received under his government,' by fixing a public brand on the two principal oppofers of the late peace, the Nuncio Renuccini, and General Owen O'Nial. For they proclaimed the VOL. II. B latter
• Cart. Orm. vol. ii. fol. 42.
a Dr. Leland, from Mr. Carte, gives us the following character of this general: "Owen O'Nial had ferved in the Imperial and Spanish armies with reputation. He was governor of Arras, when the French befieged this town in 1640; and,