. The history of Ireland : from the earliest period to the present time; derived from native annals, and from the researches of Dr. O'Donovan, Eugene Curry, C. P. Meehan, R. R. Madden, and other eminent scholars, and from all the resources of Irish history now available. rap-parees gave the Williamites a gooddeal of annoyance during the winter,and some treasonable projects for the goods seized, and themselves stripped and turnedout of town soon after. (Leslies Answer to King,p. 163). King Jamess memoirs confirm those statements,while Williamite authorities would attribute the suflFer-ings of t
. The history of Ireland : from the earliest period to the present time; derived from native annals, and from the researches of Dr. O'Donovan, Eugene Curry, C. P. Meehan, R. R. Madden, and other eminent scholars, and from all the resources of Irish history now available. rap-parees gave the Williamites a gooddeal of annoyance during the winter,and some treasonable projects for the goods seized, and themselves stripped and turnedout of town soon after. (Leslies Answer to King,p. 163). King Jamess memoirs confirm those statements,while Williamite authorities would attribute the suflFer-ings of the Irish prisoners to the destitution and diseasewhich even the Williamite garrison endured ; but themonstrous barbarities practised towards both tlie pris-oners and the inhabitants remain unexplained. It is aremarkable fact, exemplified in all the wars in thiscountry since the Anglo-Nonnan invasion, that theEnglish were notorious for not keeping faith with theIrish in treaties and capitulations, so that it became asettled principle with the Irish to place no relianceeven on the most solemn promises of their English this circumstance may be attributed many a pro-tracted struggle, where resistance was kept up longafter aU hope must have been 16 QO, ^^^^?^ m^i).Ua/ifc«oM\^ffilI(D]S ). •M P ,.) V( 1 P V ?TTl r;rf\ ,? l; P I TAT TIRCONNELL RETURNS TO IRELAND. 601 delivery of Galvvay to the enemy, andfor tlie passage of the Shannon, weretimely discovered by Sarsfield. A meeting of those opposed to Tir-connell having been held in Limerick,an attempt was made to induce theduke of Berwick to alter the form ofgovernment left by Tirconnell, as beingunconstitutional, and to accept a coun-? cil composed of two representativesfrom each of the piovinces; but Ber-wick resolutely refused to yield to thisrequest; consenting, hoi^^ever, that fouragents should be sent to France to ex-press the opinions of the leaders andexplain the state of the army. Two of
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