FN 64 Commons' Journals, Mar. 21. 24. 1679; Grey's Debates;Observator.
FN 65 London Gazette, July 21. 1690.
FN 66 Life of James, ii. 449.
FN 67 Shadwell's Volunteers.
FN 68 Story's Continuation; Proclamation of February 21. 1690/1;the London Gazette of March 12.
FN 69 Story's Continuation.
FN 70 Story's Impartial History; London Gazette, Nov. 17. 1690.
FN 71 Story's Impartial History. The year 1684 had been considered as a time of remarkable prosperity, and the revenue from the Customs had been unusually large. But the receipt from all the ports of Ireland, during the whole year, was only a hundred and twenty-seven thousand pounds. See Clarendon's Memoirs.
FN 72 Story's History and Continuation; London Gazettes of September 29. 1690, and Jan. 8. and Mar. 12. 1690/1.
FN 73 See the Lords' Journals of March 2. and 4. 1692/3 and the Commons' Journals of Dec. 16. 1693, and Jan. 29. 1695/4. The story, bad enough at best, was told by the personal and political enemies of the Lords justices with additions which the House of Commons evidently considered as calumnious, and which I really believe to have been so. See the Gallienus Redivivus. The narrative which Colonel Robert Fitzgerald, a Privy Councillor and an eyewitness delivered in writing to the House of Lords, under the sanction of an oath, seems to me perfectly trustworthy. It is strange that Story, though he mentions the murder of the soldiers, says nothing about Gafney.
FN 74 Burnet, ii. 66.; Leslie's Answer to King.
FN 75 Macariae Excidium; Fumeron to Louvois Jan 31/Feb 10 1691.
It is to be observed that Kelly, the author of the Macariae Excidium and Fumeron, the French intendant, are most unexceptionable witnesses. They were both, at this time, within the walls of Limerick. There is no reason to doubt the impartiality of the Frenchman; and the Irishman was partial to his own countrymen.
FN 76 Story's Impartial History and Continuation and the London Gazettes of December, January, February, and March 1690/1.
FN 77 It is remarkable that Avaux, though a very shrewd judge of men, greatly underrated Berwick. In a letter to Louvois, dated Oct. 15/25. 1689, Avaux says: "Je ne puis m'empescher de vous dire qu'il est brave de sa personne, a ce que l'on dit mais que c'est un aussy mechant officie, qu'il en ayt, et qu'il n'a pas le sens commun."FN 78 Leslie's Answer to King, Macariae Excidium.
FN 79 Macariae Excidium.
FN 80 Macariae Excidium; Life of James, ii. 422.; Memoirs of Berwick.
FN 81 Macariae Excidium.
FN 82 Life of James, ii. 422, 423.; Memoires de Berwick.
FN 83 Life of James, ii. 433- 457.; Story's Continuation.
FN 84 Life of James, ii. 438.; Light to the Blind; Fumeron to Louvois, April 22/May 2 1691.
FN 85 Macariae Excidium; Memoires de Berwick; Life of James, ii.
451, 452.
FN 86 Macariae Excidium; Burnet, ii. 78.; Dangeau; The Mercurius Reformatus, June 5. 1691.
FN 87 An exact journal of the victorious progress of their Majesties' forces under the command of General Ginckle this summer in Ireland, 1691; Story's Continuation; Mackay's Memoirs.
FN 88 London Gazette, June 18. 22. 1691; Story's Continuation;Life of James, ii. 452. The author of the Life accuses the Governor of treachery or cowardice.
FN 89 London Gazette, June 22. 25. July 2. 1691; Story's Continuation; Exact Journal.
FN 90 Life of James, ii. 373. 376. 377.
FN 91 Macariae Excidium. I may observe that this is one of the many passages which lead me to believe the Latin text to be the original. The Latin is: "Oppidum ad Salaminium amnis latus recentibus ac sumptuosioribus aedificiis attollebatur; antiquius et ipsa vetustate in cultius quod in Paphiis finibus exstructum erat." The English version is: "The town on Salaminia side was better built than that in Paphia." Surely there is in the Latin the particularity which we might expect from a person who had known Athlone before the war. The English version is contemptibly bad, I need hardly say that the Paphian side is Connaught, and the Salaminian side Leinster.
FN 92 I have consulted several contemporary maps of Athlone. One will be found in Story's Continuation.
FN 93 Diary of the Siege of Athlone, by an Engineer of the Army, a Witness of the Action, licensed July 11. 1691; Story's Continuation; London Gazette, July 2. 1691; Fumeron to Louvois, June 28/July 8. 1691. The account of this attack in the Life of James, ii. 453., is an absurd romance. It does not appear to have been taken from the King's original Memoirs.
FN 94 Macariae Excidium. Here again I think that I see clear proof that the English version of this curious work is only a bad translation from the Latin. The English merely says: "Lysander,"--Sarsfield,--"accused him, a few days before, in the general's presence," without intimating what the accusation was. The Latin original runs thus: "Acriter Lysander, paucos ante dies, coram praefecto copiarum illi exprobraverat nescio quid, quod in aula Syriaca in Cypriorum opprobrium effutivisse dicebatur." The English translator has, by omitting the most important words, and by using the aorist instead of the preterpluperfect tense, made the whole passage unmeaning.
FN 95 Story's Continuation; Macariae Excidium; Daniel Macneal to Sir Arthur Rawdon, June 28. 1691, in the Rawdon Papers.
FN 96 London Gazette, July 6. 1691; Story's Continuation;Macariae Excidium; Light to the Blind.
FN 97 Macariae Excidium; Light to the Blind.
FN 98 Life of James, ii. 460.; Life of William, 1702.
FN 99 Story's Continuation; Mackay's Memoirs; Exact Journal;Diary of the Siege of Athlone.
FN 100 Story's Continuation.; Macariae Excid.; Burnet, ii. 78, 79.; London Gaz. 6. 13. 1689; Fumeron to Louvois June 30/July 101690; Diary of the Siege of Athlone; Exact Account.
FN 101 Story's Continuation; Life of James, ii. 455. Fumeron to Louvois June 30/July 10 1691; London Gazette, July 13.
