Ontario High School History of England . went there with aFrench army. For about a year most of the country was inhis hands. He called a Parliament at Dublin, in May. Init, naturally, the Roman Catholics were now supreme; andthey proceeded at once to redress their many passed laws restoring to Irish owners the landsseized since 1641. The English who had bought, in goodfaith, any of the lands so seized, were to be compensated,and, to provide money to pay them, the lands of some twothousand of Williams supporters in Ireland were declaredforfeited. Tlie siege of Londonderry, 1689 The
Ontario High School History of England . went there with aFrench army. For about a year most of the country was inhis hands. He called a Parliament at Dublin, in May. Init, naturally, the Roman Catholics were now supreme; andthey proceeded at once to redress their many passed laws restoring to Irish owners the landsseized since 1641. The English who had bought, in goodfaith, any of the lands so seized, were to be compensated,and, to provide money to pay them, the lands of some twothousand of Williams supporters in Ireland were declaredforfeited. Tlie siege of Londonderry, 1689 The Irish tasted for a brief time the sweets of success against their old reverses soon came. Londonderry, in the north, heldout against James. His forces surrounded the town on thelandward side, and prevented relief from the sea by placing astrong boom across the river Foyle. But the city wouldnot surrender. When the heart of the soldiers quailed,civilians manned the feeble walls. Out beyond the boom, 348 HISTORY OF ENGLAND. THE REVOLUTION 3i9 English ships hovered for weeks, but could not pass thatobstacle. At last, one of them sailed upon it at full speed,broke it by the terrific shock, and thus opened a way forbringing in supplies. The siege having failed, James with-drew his army southward. Battle of the Boyne, 1690-1691 and Pacification of Lim-ericlc, 1691.—In the summer of 1690 William himself, havingdelayed, as many thought, too long, went to Ireland, andin July met his father-in-law at the battle of the result was the crushing defeat of James. Fe soondeparted from Ireland, leaving his general, Sarsfield, incommand. The lost cause made an heroic defence ofLimerick, but nothing could save it. By the Pacificationof Limerick, October, 1691, William gave the Irish soldiersthe choice of enlisting under him or of going into all chose exile, and left behind thousands of destitutewives and children. Triumphant Protestantism thenworked its wil
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