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IRELAND PRESERVED; 

THE SIEGE" OF LONDONDERRY 
BATTLE OF AUGHRIM. 

LYRICAL POETRY AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 
BEV. JOBS GRAHAM, M.A. 



«ia, men on heipi together Ue— 

I Ui> Sghc, ind mace confUKd the cr;. 

II with ttrfflTniji^ blood V9 Mngi^ne dr*ed, 
Ih nilb honoui Hwiht on ncrjr Ait." 



DUBLIN: 

HARDY gt WALKEH, LOWER SACKVILLE-STREET. 

LOMDON : R. SROOMBBIDaB, PATBRNOSTBR-ROtT. 

1841. 



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DEDICATfON. 



TaE DESCEtlDAtrrS 

KOBLESIEN AND GENTLEMEN 
WHO sitxiNauiaBZD TBsmxLTEa 

THE WAR OF THE IRISH REVOLUTION, 
TBKSB BBCOBDS OF 

THEIR ANCESTORS 

ASB BESPSCTFULLT DEDICATED, 



JOHN QBAHAM. 



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PKEFICE. 



wplmn lero MmbiDHW ifiTO."— UiLTOx.. 



Km hadbg diconstaBees of th& Siegfr of Dwij 
aid •! Ike BUiSe (^ Aa^irim, have been, for 
OHM AasA-oestnr^, haoded dows trooi fothvto 
0M^ jaiuripiB; anoBg the yeomanry <jf Ulstar-, Qi 
a epecMrof (baraotie dialogue, by means of wlnc& 
a*-innh«f &e appewuioe of real IS'e^ and sach 
attraotive- d^ineataoo of its moat remarkable and 
ipntflA-iMuie em be attached to narrative. 

Su' n Mt) hw been cow remodelled, and ro- , 
milstrai frRs oripnald of the strangrat mixtnre of 
■«bl« HUtrnvnt and barbarotie language. It has 
bam ulwiiiri by an eminent master of oriticam, 
that the imcouth latin veraion usually aocompaay- 
iqftl» fireek t«st, haa, in some inatancea, pro- 
iaeet aMsriiem of the Homeric fiie and majesty, 
1tai-tfc»;iHat babaaaed elegance of poHAed re>r^ 
mm ; and U h v^ probable, that their w^ mt- 



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dress has contributed to the popularity long enjoyed 
hy theae dialogues, in the north of Ireland espe- 

'eecue them From the utter oblivion into 
hey were about to sink, not only through 
' defeGtiveness in matter and in style, but 
on of the accumulated errors of many edi- 
,nd to entitle them to a place among the 
putable accounts of the transaciions of the 
I period to which they refer, they have been 
id to a process of excision and renewal, so 
agly, that although it was the editor's first 
^ appear before the public on the present 
1, 60 far as a portion of the work is con- 
more as a reviser than with pretenmons to 
ity, he has been imperceptibly led almoat 
ge the authorship of these works- 
Siege of Derry is written in prose, and 
es a great variety of topics connected with 
Aive strength and prospects of the oontend- 
ties, and abounds in strong colourings of 
er. There is no information respecting its 

Battle of Aughrim is a poem of about two 
id lines, composed by William Aahton, of 
Jl that we know is, that he was but eigh- 
ears old when it was written; and, that 



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vben it first appeared, a complimentary letter, in 
Terse, from Charles Usher, Esq., of Trinity Col- 
lege, Dublin, was prefixed to it. 

In this extended series of poetical dialogue, in 
vrbicli a rich fund of information will he found, 
greater number of those lines which are not n 
have been retouched in correction of false c 
cords and metaphors, or inharmonioua rhymes, t 
considerable additions have been made to it. 

To these is annexed a metrical catalogue of 
besiegers and defenders of Deny in 1689, tal 
chiefly from a poem found about fifty years ag< 
a gentleman's library at Armagh ; a docum 
which, besides wanting eight pages, which 1 
been torn out of the middle and most interest 
part of it, had little other merit than that of ] 
serving the memory of many names, and some 
portant transactions, of which no record bad b 
left by writers of a higher order. 

These interesting records the editor has b 
long anxious to add to the scantylstock of stand 
works, written on the History of the Irish Be 
lutiou ; and he has endeavonred to illustrate th 
by a series of biographical notes, including ec 
valuable family docnments, which might otherv 
have been lost to the public. It has been obser 
by Sir Robert Atkins, in his History of Glow 



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tonhiiv, iluiageaaalojpcalhifltAiy of faatitiai itM 
it« paouKar user ii> admaiata* aai axntea tlw 
biave to imitate the gonareua aetions a£ tkcir «» 
OHt^oi^ aoditBluuoei tbe: debaiidied sat r^o- 
b«tc^ both, in the ey&i of. othen and th^ em 
lireutSr ^Kheu tiaey coBsideF haw Umv haw ikiB^ 
nerated. Lodge-, who quot^ Hiia passa^^ iatha 
preface to hia Peerage of Trelandr fturther obsfflnreK 
on thi» subject, that the pe<%Eees of amueat 
hoiues^ lustorioaUy deduced, reeal the meuoiy of 
paat agtBr and afford a way, t« all more imme- 
diately concerned, of oonversiBg -vnik their deceased 
.^ \ ancestors, and becoming ac(}uainted with the vir- 
tues and honorable tsaniBactioafi of their own &rab- 
liea, which are thus preserved &om oblivion, and 
trangmitted to than and their posterity for imitap 
tioB. 

These notea, although the greater number of 
them have been nesessanly briefr or condensed: 
into small i^ace, will be found substiuitially and 
even minutely accurate, the materiaJs of theac 
having been gathered &om historioal documents o£ 
unquestionable authority, or from dettuU eup^^ect 
by the representatives of those who axe noticed. 
It was necessary in a work such as- this, tbnt 
mention should be made of conspicBous persoasr 
as well of King James''s party aa of bhoaa wbo 



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devoted themselves to the cause of King William, 
and rallied round the throne and the altar, accord- 
ing to the ancient constitution of England's wisely 
limited monarchy. 

In the coee of information obtained from pri- 
vate families, there may be some room for con- 
jecturing, that, however unintentionally, there 
might possibly exist that kind of partiality by 
which those who fumiehed it would -be naturally 
induced to overrate the services, or to exaggerate 
the character of their ancestors, but so far aa 
the author's judgment and severe scrutiny have 
enabled him to discern, this does not appear ia 
any of the matter which he has admitted. 

Of another kind of partiality, however, there 
vraa danger : the knovm political opinions of a 
writer are in most cases supposed, but not always 
on sufiScient grounds, to exercise over him an 
influence so strong as, in a great degree, to 
deprive him of the power or the will to mete out 
a just measore of approbation to those who^ 
upon that side of politics opposed to his own, 
have been highly distinguished for great and esti- 
mable qualities. There are mimy, therefore, who, 
acting under this impression, may very natorally 
be disposed to think, that the tribute of meri^ 
if not wholly withheld from them in these notes. 



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is j«tv pei^pSy bui sparingly bestowsd, evaa. 
l4ux9 it is Mawei^; due to i^ adksrsots o£ 
Jsmas f^ Seeond. 

It is true, that we axe Beldom ooirect judges 9E 
anr owa ^wer r^ mil, to «ot or wnte with that 
ttam dieiiitetestodneas wkidi justice demaodsr foe 
na are not ahxa^ fi^y fl(»uieioBB o£ tbe «st«ii> tat 
vIugIi oik minds may, whether fi-om politioal or 
lass ostensible oauses, be aSeoted bj predileotioaa 
40! antipathinn • tbeoefore tU» si^ject is, in tite 
^eaeot iasiancer eonfidently diemiased, vrath aat 
Mj^Mii to publie ejunitm to- daaide whether tlia 
watec haa ^chibi^ed. ia hie book, in any ut^Rie 
spirit of partutnifllup, an example of tluvb ^eoiea 
of historioal injuaticeT of which he doos not Iraei- 
tate ta say, that he thinks of it with de£fi avaa- 

To ike Cotaliague ate asnased. aome speoimeiis of 
I^grrical Poetry, by the editor, on the shutting of the 
j|;ateB and the relief of Loodondwiy, whiob are so 
vcU kiunnt amd huve boen so favousably reeeived 
iu Utater, sa to be included at ahaoat every loyal 
fin^de amongst the household words, a oiroum^ 
ftsotse yiiatik induces him to believe that theic 
jjuecbton in hia book will be, to those who an 
abnady aio^uauited with thcon,. rather a> aaeoiBf 
ttCfuiUlioix.'^ it ibaa otiieFwiss^ while it wiU in- 



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tvoduM titcm to the Dotiee flf a widsr oka of 
mtdflrs, and if th^ are linmiii iiit;, of ii, if p<M^ ' 
a TBore vahuble used 'Of api^ovii. 

It is moat gratifying, indeed, to be able to «t 
that the whok of the oiraunstanoai sods- id 
the jamHit book ia pubhdied, ham hoen &r k 
^looorai^i^ than «>idd hove besa sitio^ 
when it iras fint prcje^ed. The msiber of { 
fieatkpns wH<di now appear n w gnat, tha 
snraaNful tradertabiiig ia tiiHi wxy cm foJl to 
lot of few. The ahaoat naezaii^sd actcoit 
vhich it has been ordered, while yet in the pi 
is, be trusts, no uncertain indication that 
preTious works in defence of our religion 
liberties, in which the author haa been enge 
the last twenty-five years, have obtained the 
teem of those for whose benefit they have 1 
composed. It ia, therefore, an act of consi 
able self-denial to withhold from the public s 
of the patrons of this work, but the very circ 
stance which would secure to the author a ! 
gratification in giving it a place is, at the e 
time, an urgent reason why it should be exclu 
because appropriating to it the spa«e whio 
should occupy, would call for the rejection 
large proportion of historical biography, for 
purpose of ivtroducing which it has been f< 



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r to add upwards of «xty pages to tlie 
of tliose promieed in the original proa- 
Materials for the notes of this book have 
eived (by the publisher of it on such a 
ce it was first advertised, that the adnus- 
le whole of them was out of the question ; 
ver, coDfflders them to be of considerable 
illustrating the genealogy of a great pro- 
of the families whose posterity form the 
)opulatioD of Ireland, and as sueb he may 
asioB to use them hereafter. 



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THE SIEGE OF DERRT. 



^tnawl KtprtitnUtt. 



CoNBADE De Rosen, General of the Irish Army; 

Hamilton, his Lieutenant' General. 

Sheldon, a Brigadier- GeneraL 

DosBiNGTON, Colonel of the Foot Guards, and a 

Brigadier, 
Duncan, a Brigadier-General. 
Wadcop, a Brigadier-General. 
The Earl of Buchan, the same. 
The £abl of Clancartv, a ColoneL 
GoaooN O'Neill, a Colonel. 
Sir Bbyan O'Neill, a Judge, 
Teague, an Executioner. 

Rapparees, Servantg, and Private Soldiers. 

DEFENDERS. 

LuMDY, a Colonel in King WilUam's Army, and 

Governor of Londonderry, 
Baksr, the First Governor after Lundy's expulsion. 
MicHELBUBNE, Secoud Governor after that event, a 
Colonel in William's Army. 



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XB, Third GoTernor, and acting as Commiuary 

if Stores and Colonel of a Regiment 

LAY, a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse, nused 

t his own expraise, at Cumber Clady. 

sBs, Lieutenant- Colonel of Murray's Dragoons. 

UAH, the Town Major. 

Aldsbheh op the City, Captains of Foot. 

Z ) 

\ Female Warriors. 

BAR, / 

L Jack, an Executioner. 



CARTEL AQHBED OPOK : 
XCHAKOE OF PBIBONEHS — NO 4UABTEB OH BTTHSR 
SIDE. 



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ACT. I. 

Scene I. — The mhurbt on fire. 

Scene — Casfle-street, at Governor Lundi/s door. 

HICHELBnilNE. 

Oh, how we are betrayed, mined, and undone. What 
will become of those thousands that must now perish, 
by the wicked designs and treachery of aotne men? 
It distracts me to think of the misery and destruction 
that awaits this dismal place. Let patience guide ine, 
nor let my thoughts and spirits sink under this intoler- 
able burthen. Oh, England, think of this distressed 
city, and send us timely succour. Ob, thou divine 
powEEi, let our arms be strong to fight ; judge if we 
contend for any more than our own, or our country's' 
liberty, and to defend ourselves from those who would 
destroy us. (^He raps at the door.) 

Enter a Servant. 
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THE SIEQB OF I>EBBY, 
SERVANT. 

My master was up late last night, with some friends, 
,t will be stirring in a short time. 

HICHELBURNE. 

Pray tell him who I am, and that I have brought up 
e rear of our flying army, {Exit servatU.) 

\\, with what ease and quiet some men sleep when 
fe and secure, and in no danger of an enemy's 
proach; those 'who are coming against us are friends 
them, not to us. We, under this governor's pro- 
2tion and command, are accounted enemies to him 
d them, and shall be so dealt with ; but there is an 
er-ruting power that knows the secrets of this man's 
signs. 

Enter Governor Lundy, in a morninff gmcn — he 
salutes Michelburtie. 

MICHELBUBNE. 

im come to this place, sir, from my retreat : the town 
Coleraine being lost, and the river Bann having 
en crossed by the enemy, this is our last place of 
'uge. We must now apply ourselves to yon, for in 
ur conduct and guidance are all our hopes. It is on 
u we must have all our dependance. Your assistant, 
i commaJiding officer at Coleriune, has fled, and left 
in the condition of "sheep without a shepherd." 

LUNDY. 

You may be assured that I will take all possible 
re of you and all others concerned, as far as the 
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you Bee that worthy officer, who you say left yon, 
and quitted his post ? 

MICHELBUBNE. 

Some say he came unto Deny, to consult with you ; 
some Bay he has goae to Castledoej and several other 
persons with him, to take shipping for Scotland ; but, 
for my part, I never saw him since he commanded me 
to guard the river Bann, which indeed required a 
greater force : but that which was hardest was his 
taking two of the best companies of foot from me, 
when he put me on the service, and I fear they are 
now in Deny; I hope you will order them to be 
restored me. 

LtlNDY. 

Do you not think that Derry requires as good a 
garrison as Coleraine F The men who were under his 
command, understand best what is in agitation, and I 
will part with none of them. TVee thousand choice 
men are all I will admit into this city, the rest must 
' be quartered in the country. I have ordered yon to 
march to-night to Castlefin ; you are to take along with 
you some ammunition, a barrel of gunpowder, and 
some balls. I will send more troops after you to guard 
Ldfford, which place I leave under your care to defend 
it, so that the enemy may gain no advantage. 

MICHELBUBNE. 

A barrel of gunpowder is soon spent when enemies 
attack us, and that will be in four days at farthest. 
But what must we do for provisions ? 

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LUNDY. 

did you do for them when you were posted 
urn ? The same you ehall have from me. 

H1CHELBDRNE. 

'as the loss and ruin of our cause. Tlie river 
id for want of provisions, and a suitable rein- 
t ; and I find I am to be just so served now : 
n-ill be ten times worse, for at Castlefin they 
over the ford with horse and foot, and over 

they could no otherwise get than with boats, 
then had time to make my retreat ; and what 

do against a body of horse, when we have 
lies to march to Derry, and no horse to sus- 

lot be helped. I cannot supply you at this 
tell you plainly, I have not provisions for a 
for this garrison, although but for three thou- 

MICHELBUENE. 

iglect is yours, you might have had enough, 
luld let the country bring it in, and that was 
you should do ; but there is still a help of five 
head of cattle round the city ; their owners 
them, and why should they not be provisions 
stead of being left to the enemy ? 

LUNDY. 

1 carrion meat, and not worth eating; the 
(vill not eat it. Besides, do you think I will 
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HICHELBDRNE. 

'Tis true, at preaent those cattle may be lean meat, 
but when a close siege comes, we shall be glad 
the worst bit — and it is well if we do not find 
and as for property, if any of the owners chooe 
so, let them take their share. I am sure the 
ifill not regard property, and I think ne have a 
a right to those cattle as they havc> But, sir, 
you have no inclination to stay and mn the ri; 
siege. 

LUNDY. 

I must stay and give an account to King V 
to whom I am sworn to be true, and whose com 
I have accepted. Let them take care how they 
the authority which he has given to me. 

MICHELBDBNE. 

But pray, sir, consider my circumstances, am 
of some thousands more who are proclaimed k 
the government, and must undergo the p 
thereof, if we come under the power of the enei 
it not better to fight it out manfully, than to be 
like dogs ? We are here ten or twelve thousai 
and a body of horse. Call ashore the two 
regiments. Do you think we are not able to d( 
six or seven thousand Irish ? Let us come t 
and join in a body— you will then see what w 
will make with them ; but now we can do r 
when you keep our regiments five, ten, nay, 
miles firom one another, and will not let us con 
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;ht them ; you wrought night and day to 
wder, ball, and arms, and other materiala 
y ; and do you think we can live on pow- 
i lighted match, and not suffer provisions to 
to us. This cannot be for King William's 
ly life is at stake, and, therefore, I must be 
you. 

LUNDY. 

not to tell me my business. If I do any 
a, I am to answer for it, and none else. So 
gQ where I have commanded you, and let 
.ese passes well defended i^ainst the enemy. 

HICHELBDBNK. 

. SO young a soldier, but I know what it is to 
and what it is to obey ; and I wish so greet 
13 we have in hand, were better managed, 
r Captain Freeman, the Town Major, 

LIINDY. 

egiment ready to march? Have you goC 



{Exit iMntfy.) 
an officer, who speaks to MicheUntrtu. 

OFFICEB. 

e of your officers went on board at the break 
morning, with bag and baggage, and took 
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THE nsas OF DEDKY. 7 

HICHELBURNE. 

Well, it cannot be helped — there is preferment for 
Others ; but to take my regimental colouia with them, 
wbich cost ten pounds each, was B6niewliat unkind. 
We are in a miserable condition, betrayed on all hands. 
The governor, to weaken and ruin our cause, ^yea 
passes to all who come and go, when we are in the 
face of our enemy. Well, if we survive the miBeries 
that are coming on ua, King William ought to reward 
na well for the hazard, dangers, and cost, we are at in 
his cause. 

FBEEMAX. 

This going away b encouraged by the governor, 
yrho allows all officers and others passes— so that it 
discourages the service, and makes way for the enemy 
to come and destroy ui. Happy is the man that csQ 
get on ship-board first : I have observed, that, let a 
man be ever so zealous for the cause to-day, the next 
flay he is off for Scotland. Officers of all sorts desert ; 
husbands leave their wives, parents leave thdr chil- 
dren, clergymen desert their parishes. Then, hey for 
non-resistance. 

Enter teveral officer*, 

HICHZLBDXNB. 

Gientlemen, you see that I have stood by you on all 
occasions, and in every danger, so, I pray you, stand 
by me. I was first, by King William's commission, 
your m^or, and am now your colonel. I came out of 
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but a stranger, yet you Bhall see I shail do all 
or your preservatiou and advantage. 

ALL 

ire our colonel, major, and captain. We will 
r you an long as we live. 

JEnler an officer. 

OFFICER. 

'. came to acquaint you of a sad accident that 
pened just now. Taking a walk on the strand, 
in a turn of the tidci I hetu'd some shots go off. 
led to understand the meaning of them: coming 
boat that lay on the shore, I saw Captain Bell) 
egiment, lie gasping and speechless, rolling in 
d, and several soldiers plundering the boat. I 
Dw that gentleman came to be killed ; they 
they had shot him, and that they liad orders tQ 
They also said, that Captiun Bell and another 
lad hired the boat, and were deserting the gar- 
is other officers had done on the tide before, 
intent to get on ship-board, and go to Scot- 
aving their men to be destroyed by the Irish. 

MICHELBURNE. 

t a surprising thing this is ; was it not only the 
ly that we took a solemn oath to stand by one 
■ — that we would sacrifice our lives in the cause 
undertaken — and that before the whole regi- 
vith our swords in our bauds? Did not we 
U the soldiers in the regiment to do the sam^— 
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fidiousness ! It is a judgment — and I will say no more. 
Let our chapkiu, Mr. Knox, stay and see that be gets 
Christian burial. 



Scene IL — TSe Irish cang>. 

Enter General Hamiltoti, with hia Staff, Brigadier 

GeneraU Samsai/ and Sheldon, Colonel O'Neill, Sir 

Bryan, an Irish Judge, and at some distance, Teague, 

the executioner, 

HAUILTOK. 

How fortunate are our anns — how victorious since 
we marched from Dublin. What terror posaessea these 
flying rebels^how like wild beasts in terror ; they fly 
before us from town to town, from mountain to moun- 
tun — round through the counties of Down, Antrim, 
Deny and Tyrone ; from Dromore to Coleraine — from 
Coleraine to Caatlefin — how have they fled before us — 
like dust before the winds. 

SHELDON. 

If any thing saved their credit, it was the stand 
they made at Coleraine, which gave us a week's di- 
version. 

HAMILTON. 

But in what condition are they now ? Where are 
those ra^ed rebels that skulk from us into every hole 
and comer they can find ? We will soon, however, 
otcfa them, and make them a speotacle to the world 



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Its ike vilest traitors ; as rood as I have taken a view 
of the army, we will prepare to march. E3i^<mi^ ad- 
vance your squadron of horse and dragcxHis towards 
Deny. Observe if the rebels are in motion there, and 
send me word. {Exeunt HamiUon and Sheldon.') 

RAH SAY. 

The navigable river that lies between us and Derry, 
is of great advantage to the rebels, for I am informed 
that it is twenty-two miles round, to take a circnit 
from the water-side opposite Derry, through Strabane, 
with this river to cross, either at Lifford or Cas- 
tlefin, before troops can arrive at the city. These 
rebels must labour under some infatuation, to refuse 
to surrender, when their chief men are lea,ving them t« 
thdr fate, and endeavouring to secure themselves by 
flight to Scotland or to England. Come, Teaga% 
Cslapping the executioner on the shoulder) — these fel- 
lows seem to have an itching desire to be hanged, to 
handsel the three-legged tree at Derry ; your friend, 
Judge Bryan, will hand them over to you in. four or 
five days, when you will have plenty of work on your 
hands. An Irish jury will make ready work for the 
judge, and a good strong gallows will despatch them 
rapidly. But will there be ropes enough ? 

JUDGE, BBYAN. 

We must hang them after the Irish fashion, with 
gads, which in England are called witttes, or willow 
twigs ; two pence for a rope for each rebel, would 
amount to a large sum ; it would be too expensive— 
but we can get a hundred gads for four pence. I 



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elutll never fo^t Judge Jeffnea, and hope to follow 
hia exao^le in Derry. The Friace of Orange's dupes, 
will fare as badly thece as those of the Duke of Mon- 
mouth did in the west of England. Piercy Kiii^e is 
coming with a relief, it is said, to these rebels ; but, if 
I am not much mistaken, he is as true at heart to 
King James, as Colonel Lundy is, and after podc- 
eting his money, he will keep off as long as he can ; 
and when we Btorm the city, he will act as promptly 
for me as he did far Jeffries ; and then, Mr. Sassanagh, 
what will become of the estates you took from the 
rightful owners of them ? — your act of settlement will 
be repealed — we shall dl possess our own lands ag^n, 
and be guaranteed in our properties by the power of 
France. Those who have run down to Derrj', from 
the other provinces, will very soon have their terrors 
realized, and be made a signal example, to warn all 
men againat rebellion ; they shall make their esit from 
the scaffold, by the hands of the executioner. This 
must be the result of all their boasting — these are to 
be the returns to England for the lavish eiipenditure of 
blood and money, for two centuries, in the vain hope 
of succeeding in the conquest of this island — English 
dogs— Scotch rebels. 

JSiUer Lord Buchan and Colonel Wauct^. 

RAMSAY. 

Sir Bryan, yon are very eloquent this morning ; you 
have given a fine specimen of a speech to evidence, 
or a consolatory one to condemned rebels, who all de- 
serve to be hanged without judge or jury, for theit 



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THB aiEGE OF DEBRT. 

in the field against their lawful king, is 
Bcient to convict them of- high treason, 
ce our number, it astonisheB me to find 
'ormlf fly from us, and that we never see 
ble body of them act together ; but for 
« we have to thank our iViends, whose 
could not be corrupted by the Prince of 
ese fellows never showed their faces to 
t for a few days over the rampart of Cole- 
1 what condition are they now ? Where 
ars they expected from England ? Let 
the Derry rebels will again dare to tie 
neVs proclamation to a dog's tail, and 
)ugh their streets. 

W AUG OP. 

1 account yesterday of the enemy's burn- 
>uses on the Tyrone side of the Foyle, 
)e governoi^B commands tkey have burned 
i in the suburbs. 

BUCHAK. 

ntelligence gives us an account that the 
are in great consternation. Their chief 
ouraged by the mismanagement of the 
7e fled to Scotland or England — that they 
en days' provisions in the town, and that 
ry mouths have been turned ont, which 
I our enterprise, and make our approach 



ire how soon this may happen, though it 



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THE aisat OF DXRBT. 13 

may give me some trouble — but few of the rebels can 
plead not guilty, and delay their sentence by a triaL 
Our juries will give us no trouble) and will have as 
little mercy on them as their juries had on our relations 
when in their power — they hanged many of our 
aDcestors in the late wars, that they might the more 
readily rob us of our estates. 

COLONEL o'neili- 
Teagae, Teague — hear me, Teague. 
(^Calling to the Executioner, who stands at a dtstance.) 

TEAGUE. 

Fat will you be after spealcing to me F 

o'nbill. 
What quantity of gads can you and your brother 
make in a day P 

TEAGUE. 

Sir, we can after be making, wid de help of de five 
— (holding wp hit Jmgers) — arrah, dear joy! fet do 
you call it in English ? 

O'NEILL. 

Five score. 

TEAOUE. 

More — more. 

o'neill. 
Five hundred. 

TEAGUE. 

Ayei dat be de five hundred. 

O'NEILL. 

Shall they be good ? 



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14 THB SIEGE OF DESST. 

TSAGUE. 

Aye, sorely— hang twenty, one after de odder— 
and dat plases myself well to hang up de Saasanagh. 

Teague, get ^ your gada, hatchets, and knives ready 
in a week's time, you will want them. Jndge Bryan, 
we attend you. 

The EBglisb customs shall no more prevail. 

And gads iostead of ropes eaa oever foil ; 
Firo or (he feet of bullocks serve for flail. 
And horses plough again yoked by the tail — 
Hey for the days of royal Sbane O'Neill I 

The scene changes to Londonderry — iJie suburbs on 

fire. 

Enter Baker, Walker, and Caimes. 

BAKER. 

And did you observe how the walls were filled by 
multitudes, when the Irish army, on the other side of 
the riVer, at the water's side, were marching on 
towards Strabane — in regular troops of horse and 
foot, trumpets and kettle-drums, menacing our de- 
struction — their officers waving their swords, furiously 
threatening us. 

CAIRN ES. 

I did, and never witnessed such a scene of terror — 
while Colonel Lundy saw it all with unconcern, look- 
ing very conplacently on the Irish army, from front 
to rear. There should have been an army of ours to 
meet them on their entrance to Tyrone. I am sure 
the men of Strabane and LifTordj not to mention those 



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TSE aaai op dehbt. 



of DuuganooD, Omagh, and Fintona, could have over- 
p«wered them — the/re ten. times their number. 



I am certain of that — my re^ment would, I think, 
desire to be foremoat. I saw the vhole of the Irish 
army pass — but trhere is ours ? where is Lord KlngB- 
tou'B P Oh I that we had them and the English regi- 
ments in the harbour at Lifford or Castlefin to-day— 
at either place should the defence be made. It is 
now high time to make a desperate effort to oppose 
tiie merciless enemy, for ^e are on the brink of ruin. 

CAIRNES. 

The reason there ia no preparation, no drawing of 
our scattered forces together, is a great mystery, as 
our governor is looked upon as a man of great expe- 
rience, conduct, and resolution — not inferior to General 
Hamilton or any other officer in the Irish army. 

WALKER. 

So much the worse for ua if Colonel Lundy should 
not prove true to our cause ; and I assure you there 
is much notice taken of bia dilatory proceedings. In 
my first coming here to consult with him, I saw some- 
what in his manner and looks which excited my 
suspicion of treachery ; and nothing I have since 
observed in the man answers the high character which 
most people give him. But what forces have we at 
LiffOTd, Qady, and Castlefin to oppose the enemy ? 
If not repulsed before they cross the Fin, or the 
Foyle— at some of these places— they will get be- 
tween us and Lord Kingston's army, and be upon us 



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16 THE BIBQE OP DEBKT. 

in a very short time. But as orders have been aent 
to that army to join the Protestants of the Lagao, 
between Raphoe and the Fin-water, this day, we may 
hope it has arrived there. 

BAKER. 

If aid be not sent to theie places before the arrival 
of the Irish army at them, the enemy wUI be at our 
walls before Monday. 

CAIRKES. 

We have no forces at LifFoid, Clady, or Castlefin, 
but those under our f^thful Michelbume. Lundy 
talks of strong parties to be sent far his assistance} 
but I do not bear of any that have gone to him, 
except two taeffective regiments which marched last 
night, most of them pike-men, and quite unfit to 
engage an army. I fear he has drawn those under 
Lord Kingston from the posts in which they might be 
efficient, and contrived to keep them from proceeding 
to the place where it would be desirable to have 
them. 

BAKER. 

Michelhume is a man staunch to our cause, and one 
who best understands the management of it, and if he 
has a BufEcient reinforcement we have nothing to fear, 
for in this rainy season these passes can be easily 
defended, and our great object is to obtain time for 
the arrival of the army &om England, which I have 
reason to know has been embarked by this time at 
Chester, and may be expected in Belfast Lough in a 
few days. 



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TBI! SIEQE OF DEBBT. 1? 

CAIRNBS. 

But why is not the govenior there himself, to rectify 
matters, and have all ready to resist the enemy's 
crossing the rirer ? Why does he not promptly send 
men to support our forces there P The whole strength 
of Derry ought to be between Lifford and Castlefin 
before to-morrow morning. Why must our different 
regiments be scattered through the country, and not 
drawn together ? As the enemy marches on the other 
side of the river, we ought to flank them on this side 
of it — throw up works, bum the forage, break down 
the bridges, and guard the fords. In one week's time 
their horses would die of hunger. Twelve thousand 
men on our side, and but half the number on theirs, 
are odds in our favour — not to mention the two 
English regiments in the Lough, and ready to laud if 
they were permitted to do so. Oh 1 that we had a 
governor true to our cause — brisk and forward as 
snch an emergency requires ! If so, few of those 
coming against us would escape destruction. 

WALKER. 

Lundy and those about him do nothing but drink 
night and day, in as great security as if the enemy 
were a hundred miles off. He was talking of calling 
a council, and that is all the service we are likely to 
have from him. I, who am a clergyman, and an old 
one, would act more like a military man. I would not 
suffer the enemy to come upon us unprepared for 
them, to destroy us. I wish Mlchelbume may not 
suffer by this man, and we his councillors. He is the 



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18 TH£ SIEGE OF D£BBT. 

ooly man of experience we have to trust to when 

(Enter a Messenger.) 
governor has called a council : it is to meet 
moon. 

BAK£B. 

ill attend it. {Exit Messenger^ 

CAIRNES. 

d wish to see Colonel Lundy and his drunkea 
instead of meeting for deliberation, mount 
TEes, and c^pear at the head of our troops to 
^them. 



ffi in.— TSe Toum-Eall of Londonderry, 
'■nter Governor Iiumfy, loiih an Ojffker. 

LUNDY. 

readiest way in the world to appease tbe 
ig of the people is to call a council. It is 
lek pest since I held onct and I now must hold 
One connul more is all I need, before the 
as they call them, but my friends, appear 
5erry. Nothing is so conyenient for me as 
nncils. This method we took for the counties 
1 and Antrim. The commander of the Pro- 
was at council on the very morning that 
Hamilton advanced agfunst them, and within 
f their council chamber in Dromore ; and had 



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THE SIEGE OF DBBBT. 19 

it not been for a cry of fire raised on bis ^proacli, ke 
vould have caught them there, and put them in irons 
—the fighting part was not thought of by tltem-~- 
they were surprised, and all the rebels they had col- 
lected were routed. The Prince of Orange is very 
kind — hb sending me a present of five hundred 
pounds, and placing two thousand at my disposal, 
was very generous, aiid will do me good. Oh I how 
I am courted by both sides when I do not commit 
myself too deeply with either: this is an example to 
public mcD for future ages. 

*' I>et them not seem to side with either party, 
Now indtoe tbia way, and theo make it up 
Sy leaning gently to the other Bide ; 
Talk moderation, patience — with one foot 
Step out, and with the other back again ; 
With one eje glance upon the rabble crowd. 
And with the other crobch to the nobilitj. 
At every public grievance raiee their voice, 
And like a harmless tempest cairn away; 
Idle, and only noted for their nolae, 
Snch men are the wiseit in the world." 

King James, however, is my safest master; he gave 
me my first bread j he made me a colonel by the help 
of my wife's relations, who were domestics of the 
DncfaesB of Portsmouth ; his affairs are flourishing in 
Scotland and the north of England. Dundee has a 
powerfiil army with him on his march to Edinburgh, 
and the Jacobites on the borders, will facilitate his 
triumphant entry into England, with King James at 
their head, after we shall have garrisoned this unruly 



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20 THB eiEGE OF DERBY. 

city. The king is now on bis way to us from Dublin, 
and his passage to Scotland will be open to bim and 
the powerful army be will bring witb him ; for Ireland 
is bis own — be wants no army in it, wbile be bas the 
priests and the people devoted to his interest How 
will be be.deligbted at my delivering the keys of Lon- 
donderry, into bis royal band, and laugh while I tell 
how I have filled my purse witb English money! 
That confounded fellow, Micbelbume, has puzzled me 
about preparations and movements : if I had been in- 
fluenced by bim, we should have been ruined ; but I 
packed him ofl". To-morrow, or next day, I shall hear 
that he is knocked in the head ; be will be killed in 
battle, for he is more of a man than to give himself up 
to be hanged like a dog. Well, when King James 
comes to hear how this business was carried on for 
him, he will be astonished to hear that fifteen thousand 
men were baffled by five or six thousand Irishmeot 
indifferently armed, and without military stores. If we 
had let them to blows, these north-country fellows, 
hardy, and warlike, and used to fire-arms, as they are, 
would have beaten thrice their numbers. It was my 
contrivance to scatter them up and down the country, 
and not suffer them to come together. Sending avay 
the commanding officer of Coleraine, and giving way 
for Hamilton's army to cross the Bann, was a good 
manoeuvre, and one which we will put in operation 
again at Lifford and Castlefin, so that neither the Finn 
nor the Foyle, shall impede the progress of our king's 
army, I shall, I hope, be forgiven for continuing ia 



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TBK SIKSK OF DBBRT. SI 

the command of this city, from the manner in which I 

have managed it. If Lord Mountjoy had been left 

here, he could not, would not have served hia majeaty 

so well as I have done; had he not been removed, he 

must have had the entire command, and no man but 

myself could have succeeded as I have done. I hope 

King James will not forget me — a. coronet, and one of 

the estates that will be forfeited, would be a small re- 

- muoeration for my services. But here comes the 

council. 

Enter the eouneil, with a clerk j they sit down — 

Governor Luiufy tahes the chair as president, 

LUNDY. 

I have no inclination to detsun you long — here is a 
paper. Clerk, read it. 

" We, the officers hereunto subscribed, in a council 
of war held this day at Londonderry, are resolved to 
stand by each other with our force against the enemy, 
and will not desert the service until affairs shall be 
settled in some secure posture } and whosoever shall 
desert without leave from the coundl, is deemed a 
coward and a disaffected person to the Protestant 
interest. April 10th, 1689." 

COUNCIL. 

We all sign. {T^ey tign.) 

LUNDY. 

I hope tkis pleases ye all? 

ALL. 

Very well, noble governor 1 The best order ever 
was signed by a general. (Exeuni.) 



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i2 THE SIEGE OF DERRT. 

Enter Baker, Walker, and Cairnet. 

WALKEB. 

Ha! What? — the governor and council gone? It 
: fifteen minutes since I heard the bell toll. This 
(lere formality, and nothing else. 

BAKEB. 

is frequent summoning a council is all a trick, to 
off a sense of danger, and lull us to sleep, whilst 
■olves are coming to devour us. 

WALKER. 

ire is no mounting of horses, or heading of regi- 
3. Those colonels and cavalry ofRcers ought to 
ith their men, and not drinking and carousing 
the governor. They should be marching against 
nemy. This is not the true method of soldiery. 

BhKEB. 

ell, it is astonishing that men vested with such 
st as they are, should be so merry — so joyous 
mght ; no more apprehensive of danger, than one 
; along the street is afraid of being drowned. 
lis, however, call out the citizens ; tell them that 
re betrayed, and on the brink of ruin, while our 
mor and his council are acting like sots. Sots, 
say ? No ; knaves, not fools. 

The secret part, this as-ttj Iiundj rules, 
Duoeivu the vulgar, and confounda our CMue, 
BetrajB our city, and obtttlna applause. (Eammf.} 

; changes to the Diamond — a great noise and 

t^oar. 
\e multitude exclaim — We are betrayed, sold, un- 
; let us pull down Lundy's castle. 



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THE SIEGE OF DERItT. Z3 

Scene changes to Lund^s door — en/er Lundy and his 
clerk, tn haste. 

LUNDY. 

Clerk) go gammon a council immediately ; the mob 
will pull me out and kill me. [Exit eleri.) 

LUNDY — (solw.) 

This Hamilton is a provoking fellow — what a delay 
he has made; to take four days in marchiug twen^ 
milesl Either his artillery haa not come up, or some- 
thing is the matter ; he knows that nothing is wanted 
OQ my side, for I have taken effectual care that the 
regiments that would oppose him, shall not get toge- 
ther to do so ; he cannot have met with any resist- 
ance, and it is unpardouable in him to loiter on the 
way. (Exit Lunefy.) 

Scene changes to the town-hcUL Enter two men with 
large staves, crying, Make way for the governor and 
council. The council take their seats. 

LUNDT. 

Gentlemen, I have, with a great deal of delibera- 
tion, considered the matter, and was unwilling to put 
you to any more trouble, than the necessity of our 
aflairs require ; tbis being Saturday, I am informed 
the enemy will attack us to-morrow, or on Monday. 
I think it right that this order riiould be read, which, 
if you approve of, I desire that every one of you will 
sign it, ior my vindication ; and I thii^ no man living 
can find fault with me in this matter. This is Satnr* 
^y, on Monday at farthest we we to fight. Read it, 
clerk. 



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24 THB SIEOS OF DERRT. 

CLERK READS. 

" At a counral of war, held in Londonderry, on the 
12th April, 1689— 

" Resolved unanimously — That on Monday next, by 
ten o'clock, all officers, soldiers, dragoons and foot, 
listed or not listed, that can or will fight in defence of 
their conntry, shall appear at Ctadyford, Lifford, and 
the Long Causeway, there to draw up in battalion, and 
to bring a week's provision with them, and as much 
forage as their horses will carry." 

The members of the council sign it, viz. — 

Lord Blaney, Sir Arthur Rawdon, Faulet Philips, 
Hugh M'Gill, Richard Crofton, John Hill, George 
Hamilton, Arthur Upton, James Hamilton, Nicholas 
Atchison, H. Montgomery, Thomas Whitney, Wil- 
liam Ponsonby, Richard Johnston, Robert Lundy, 
Richard Whaley, Daniel M'NeiU, William Shaw, John 
Forward, Gervais Squire, J. Blaney, and John Tub- 
man. 

Shouts of acclamtOion within the town-liall and 



The best order that ever was given out; we all 
agree to fight. Huzza, huzza! (Sxetuti.) 

Hvxzas outside. 
Enter Baker, Walker, and Cairnes. 

BAKRR. 

This last coun<nl of war was well enough to those 
who understood nothing of the duty of soldiers on such 
an emergency; but Lnnd/s designs are betrayed in 



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TBK StBOB OF VSBRT. 35 

it. When the enemy are to make their attack upon 
Michelbnrn^ and the few men with him, at six o'clock 
in the morning, our forces aie ordered to be with him 
four hours aAerwards, foimed into battalions, when 
many of them, to my knowledge, have above twenty 
miles to march. And who are to go to them with 
theae orders ? Not as mych as one officer has been 
ordered on that duty. And they are ordered to as- 
nenible at three difierent places — Lifibrd, Clodyford, 
and the Long Causeway; places four or five miles 
from each other — as if it were to give the enemy an 
advantage, that they miglit have but few to engage at 
each of these places : and again, I say, ten is the 
Appointed hour for them to meet, when at six or seven 
o'clock in the morning the enemy will be at the fords, 
if not over the river : where, then, are they to meet ? 
The ftct is, that Lundy expects Genera! Hamilton to 
dine with him on Monday. While our foot are ordered 
to take a week's provision with them, and the cavalry 
as much forage as their horses can carry, we do not hear 
one word of the two English regiments on ahip-boaid, 
that are k^t back from assisting us. In all of which 
this man stands upon the justification of himself, as if 
no body would find fault with his conduct. A rare 
general this, for a sham fight ; such another could not 
be found in the British dominions. I fear Mlchel- 
bnme and his men will be sacriftced; and wish ta 
heaven that they may come ofi* safe. 

WILKBB. 

I have the laroe wishes, with aU my heart. 



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I do not qneetion it in tiie l«»t, be has « &iH»Hnd 
or twelve hundred bnve men witii kin. lie will figkt 
hia way in spite of HuaStoB, and ceme off witk iyiag 
odIouts, without owing any abligstion to Gatctdot 
Lnndy. It is not long nnee, with three hsodnd mtai, 
he defeated the best r^pmcnt ot Ingh labntrT', anp- 
ported by a strong body ofdragocMU, and to^ a strong 
pass from them. These Irish are nothing before m 
when we come to gn^ple with them. Ab mon as an 
account of tiiat exploit cune to Lundy, he andeB- 
TOured to rain Michelburne, by writing to his corres- 
pondents, Baying — that he was not ftmanto be trusted, 
and ought to be closely watched. Let us go uid see 
if the drinking trade is going on with this great gover- 
ner and bis boon companioBS, including the peer and 
his two diuuken colonels ; they'll not do the enemy 
much hurt, nt warrant them. 

HAKBH. 

Let us encourage the soldios, and increase onr in- 
terest with them — they will stand us in the ^eatest 
stead at last. I have lMx>ught ovw several sergeaotii 
corporals and dnunmers, with above one hundred of 
Lundys regiment — they are all averse to a sunendw. 
^Tia pleasant, when we get t(^ether, and tite hedth 
of King William, and Queen Mary, the PriacasS' Anae, 
and Prince Geoi^ raises our hearts. Hira, hooal 
Ko surrender : half the garrison is preaeotly ab«at 0% 
find answer us in the street, with— no subbemdzb I no 

8UBBENDBB ! ! (£seSH<.) 



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on the aide of lie river Fimu 

Elder Miehe^urtie mid Freeman, 

michelbObne. 

What do you think, toirn-inajor ; n this fmr dealing 

OK not ? On Tuesday lost I parted the goTemor, who 

pTomiwd that I should be reinforced with atroog de- 

tadunenti of men snd jdenty of provisioDs and aauno* 

nition. Does he thinlc I can defend these passes with 

only one r^Kent P It is now Sunday evenings, with- 

ott any ^ipearsnoe of troops, hone or foot, notwith- 

fltanding the Irish army marched hy the water-side of 

Deny yesterday, and are but a few miles ftom us 

now. I expect they will attack us to-night. 

FRBRHAN. 

It is astonishing that he does not take better care <^ 
fliose under his command — ^indeed that he is not atthe 
head of us ; for a good commander would not send his 
men fortber than he would go himself. See how regu- 
larly and formidable General Hamilton, who has not 
half our number, advances, iriiile Goveraor Lundy lies 
drinking and carousing in Deny, w^ting there till the 
enemy aRives, to pnll him out by the ean. He sends 
OS twelve miles from Deny, as the commanding officer 
at Coleraine sent us twelve miles from that town, to 
be surrounded and cut off by the enemy's dragoons— 
twice we escaped i>eiug cut off, by retreating in good 
order. I with we may be able to do so a third time. 

HICHBLBDBm. 

Freeman, Lundy is safe, though we are iiL. danger. 
c2 



Zo THE asQi at vaan. 

General Hamilton and he are in correepondenoe, com- 
bining agiunet ns j we have enemies before and behind 
ii> — we are betrayed, oold— our lives allotted and de- 
signed by treacbeiy, to be sacrificed to the iury of 
the enemy. But Providence will protect [us from 
them. It is a most deplorable case that Lord Kingston 
is within twenty miles of us, with three thousand foot 
and a thousand horse to join us, yet, by private de- 
signs and villany, this treacherous governor keeps him 
(^, and holds back the aid he could send us from 
Derry, that the enemy should have little or no oppo- 
silioii in their approach to the city. 

FBSBHAN. 

Just so was it at the breach of Dromore, and thna 
will it be at Oadyford ; meanwhile the governor and 
council deliberate in close conclave for half an hour-^ 
drink all day afterwards, fearing the efKiay no more 
than if they were five hundred miles off, and swallow 
claret as long as they can see, drinking confudon to 
Tyrconnel and bis army. 

HICRBLBUBDE. 

You are in the right of it ; they talk against Tyr- 
connel, but they are plotting agunst us. Who will be 
BO great with General Hamilton, as they will he, while 
we shall be starved or put to death. 
Enter an officer. 

OFFICSR. 

AiMut three miles from hence, I saw the enemy's 
horse and foot, and I posted away to give you notice 
of their a{^n-oaeh. 



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UICHELBORNB. 

I will Bend an express to the governor. If their 
ComiDg on ns so closely does not alarm Ititu, this 
treachery will be manifeit -, but too late, for the mis- 
chief will be done. In the mean time, our men must 
be posted to the best advantage ; we will maintain onr 
ground to the last man, and die honorably. (Examt.) 

Scene changes to Deny. 
Enter Governor Lwntfy and two officers, 

LDNDY. 

I have an account that the enemy is advancing ; tbey 
are now at Strabane or near it. 

FIBST OPriCER. 

It is imposuble it should be otherwise, for you saw 
them pass yesterday at the other side of the river : we 
all saw them, and I wonder it did not occur to us to 
give them a peppering across the water ; our musket 
balls would have readied tiiem, and perhaps taken 
down some of their officers, if not Hamilton himself. 
The long guns of the Longh side, might have served 
us well. 

LDNDT. 

That might have been dangerous, the fiie might 
be returned ; but I have no fear. If the enemy had 
but staid back two days longer, our men would have 
been together at Clady or Lifford. 

SECOND OFFICES. 

But the two English regiments on board, sir P 



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LUHDY. 

ey would ligoify nothing. The Prinee of Orange, 
ut King 'WUiam, viU hare mora oocaaiati for 
in aoether place. It woi^ be of no MBviee to 
> hftv« then cut off h^e. They would &>d it 
to get back into the shipi. 
aler an efxpreu, direeted to Governor LtmJ^ 
Tom Cmtlefin. 

IR — The enemy's army ia advaw^g upon ub ; I 
efore this reaches your hand, we shall be engaged, 
sir, hasten what forces you can — we are but a 
il to the enemy ; if you have regard to their 
des' interests, and your own preservation, speed 
strength you can away. What preserree ns 
ht, is the flush in the river, occasioned by the 
runs. John VbcmMuamMK, 

:at night.-* 

FiKST omesK. 
I a hand case that these brave iii«i should be mt 
want of timely tuccoor. 

LCNDY. 

tend to march out to-^aorrow moFning, with two 
md men, and five pieces of cannon ; but I iaar 
il not be lime enough, for we cannot get there 
evening, having ten or twelve miles to march. 

SBCOND OFFICES. 

tt ought to have been done yestMday, and An 
f our scattered forces should have been tlun 
lays ago. It is a shame that such a number of 
men as you could command, should cot bave 



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XHfl BTBOE OF DE^T. 31 

beea broo^t togeAer to try their nusbaod. We 
would bav« l«ui to fear if iUey were with us. 

UINDY. 

it is too hit DOW, to talk <^ that. I muit take care 
to preaerve tbe city. I will go now and answer this 
express. (ExeuitL) 

3%e Scene changes to the Jruh eang/, om the tide ^tht 

rioer M<ntnte, near Strab<me, 

Enter Generab HanulUm, Ramtcof, ShekUm, WtoKBp, 

and Lard Buckan, and vnA lA^m a mmuter. 

HAMILTON. 

Ifow, gentleiaen, we are witiiiji devw or twelve 
miles of Derry. ( Tumittg to the dergyman) — You are 
an audent dweller in tbeee parts; what account can 
y«n give of the rebels ? 

MIKlsnB. 

There are great niuibers of them, several theasand^ 
I believe ; but I have seeit no considerable body of 
tfaeSf taxiBpt a re^meat commanded by Cokmel 
Ox>ftoD, who joined Hammil's regiment there last 
night, and have since broicen down an arch of the 
bridge, and made some praparatians to defend tiie ford. 



.Aadpray, sir, is net the river pasaable at liffocd&r 



l^iOTe «ae great BwniMrs <^ them ia tfacee twits 
those of Strabane have gone to Derry, in gMit imn> 



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THB BIEOE OF DIBBT. 

Le§Iie, the rector of this puish, r^sed a company 
>t, uid a troop of dragoons for them, and haa 
ii them himself, u Walker, the rector of Do- 
timore, headed the regiment he railed about Don- 
Dn, six months ago ; and Sinclair, the rector of 
Patrick, who has been in the habit of carrying 
Is into the pulpit, signed the Deny Declaratioa 
ist King James at council last week. I have not 

any considerable hodyjif them these three or 
days, only part of a regiment came to Lifford last 
. The Finn and the Moume rivers meet there, 
brm the Foyle. 

HAMILTON. 

id pray, sir, is not the river passable for horse 
IragoonsP 

UIMSTEB. 

>t at present, by reason of the wetness of the 
lier, but both will be passable to-morrow, if there 
y weather, and the tide out. 

BAMSAY. 

hat advantage may be had if we should pass back 
a the Mourne at Strabane, and advance to the 
a at Lifford ? 

HINISTEB. 

hen you pass the Moume, and advance to the 
e, you may find three fords and a bridge, but one 
le arches of the bridge was broken down last 
iday, and none of the fbrds are passable, except 
1 the tide is out. The best and easiest ford ia at 
lefin. 



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THK UEGB OF DKtltT. 33 

HAHILTOK. 

The only plsce, yon think, is Castlefln P But whet 
guard of the enemy may be there f 



I presume it may be pretty well guarded, for a regi- 
ment amved there on Wednesday last. 

HAMILTON. 

It matters not much ; they vill not stand two 

of shot. I will attack these rebels to-morrow m 

{Exeunt omne 

Scene changei — CattUfin. 
\ Enter MieheUmme, Mitrrat/, and Fteetna. 

HICHELBUBNE. 

Murrayi we must stand close to our buui 
morrow morning : your troop will beat two tn 
the enemy, if tbey should gun the pass upon u: 

HOB RAY. 

ni warrant you for my men ; as good as evf 
a Bword. 

HICHBLBORNE. 

It is now twelve o'clock, and all in quietni 
alarm from any of our patrols. You must be 
give orders, as soon as one comes in to send 
out 

H ORB AT. 

I will take care of that. 

EtUer an Exprea. 

XICHELDUBNX. 

From whence comest thou? 

c8 



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E nKOB or lOBBT. 



->om the goTflmor of Deny. 

HIcaSLBUKSB. 

rhia is a favour. 'Ta more than I KqMctod. 

BtadM. 
' Notwithstanding the ennny has come to Strabaiw, 
ype there will be do danger. I have given oiden 

night for all troops and regiments to join you 
uorrow morning. Pray eeciire you: post aa wdl as 
; can— R. Lnin>r. 

Londonderry, ^even o'clock." 

HICHBUUBKK. 

ro-morroir we are to havfe a trial of skill, whetlier 
letter had come or not, therefore it affords but 
e comfort. I wonder for what he rooats so doady 
Derry; he ought to have been h«e three or fosr 
B ago, and thrown up some works at each pan, 
ned the forage on the other side of the river, and in 
eek's time the enemy's horses would have starved, 
should have drawn his army together, with the 
English regiments ; the very sight of fifteen thon- 
1 red ooats would have made tbe Irish army ran. 
that would be contrary to the methods which 
'emor Lundy is practising. It is certain that 
leral Hamilton could do us no harm, hod he not 
lence over this man, as well as the commander of 
army at Coleraine, who by this time has got safe 
Scotland. It was a most treaoberons and viUanona 
gn to leave us in such a pinch. When a general 
roaches with his army against a town, and the 



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TBI WX^ W OKIITi SS 

gamuor of tlwt toira utd ke jn^e together, it imtf 
incAriev^y be loaL 

I would hare stayed Bomewfaat longa at Liffiv^ 
but just as I was parting a young man cuae tken^ 
who bad been in Deiry ^ont two hours before. I 
mkei bim what prtpantiwi bad be«i made tbeie for 
t o m at wa w'a action. Ife replied, none at all ; all he 
aaw iras poor coiwtry people drawing their catde 
away, and carrying off their goods. He asked wfatdter 
they were going? Hen, wotaen, and children cried 
out, ttiat they knew not whither— that Goremor 
Lnndy and maoy other* ■wtxe at high drinking, t»F- 
rooBBg with All! gbueea. 

HICHBLBunXX. 

Trea<i«ry t]£ the deeped dye I A governor, a. 
general, fliat has now under his command fifi«en thou- 
aand asm, two Eagliah r^;imeiUe in the harbour, and 
three thousand mmi near enough to join him in two 
days, nndfr the command of Lord Kingston, to betray 
all to five V nx tbous»td foes, when on sudi a great 
eoaeem depends the safety of the nation &om ruiit— 
our lives, Ubertiei, and estates — sad the saving of ao 
many thoussiidB of diatreMed people, who know not 
where to go, to secare themselves from a merciless 
enemy ! Oh, intolerable and irreparable shame and 
disgrace! Had Lundy but done what the commantUng 
officer in Coleraine did, which was bad enough — had 
he given over and fled on pretence of safety— we 



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86 THE nSOE OF ]«KBT, 

would then h&ve bid the nuuu^emeat of onr concerns 
in our own hands ; but this governor of Deny, by a ' 
pUuaible pretence in being under the command <^ 
King Willianii and having his commiBsion as governor, 
and being in the English service, treads down and 
ruins the English interest under his feet. 

FBKEMAN. 

Frayi l>e not so much dissatisfied ; there are yet 
lune hours, and great advant^e may be made of 
them ; the governor, a^r all, may be here, and aU 
turn out to our Batisfaction. 

MICHKLBUBNS. 

It is past retrieving — there is no avoiding what most 
come. I would not willingly have a scandal thrown 
upon me, ifaat I should quit my post beibre the face of 
an enemy, which I never did yet ; but to be without 
relief or reinforcement, served as I am, wonid make 
another man seek a place of more safety, than to re- 
main here four or ■&ve days, so exposed, with my 
gallant men, to hunger and cold, dishonour and ruin, 
while he, with other of our chief commanders, are 
carousing with full glasses, getting drunk in Deny. 
The two thousand pounds which King William sent to 
Lundy are well employed, as the result will prove. 

To ruin, thtii, this Luady leads the way, 

Bctrei's us all, while we like faola obey; 

But bia deaigna already we lusiveot, 

Aud trill his treacberj' In time detect. 

{Exeunt tmaes.) 



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THX BIBOX OF DXRItT, S7 

2%e Seene changet to the Irish Camp, on Ae Tyrone 

tide of the FinwaUr. 

EfOer Generait Satmltoa, Sheldon, and Ranueof. 

SHELDON. 

I believe the enemy setx light upon this place, 
although, in my opinion, it is a very conBiderable poit. 
If the governor of Deny bad managed it, as he might 
have done) a small defence would hinder us from pass- 
ing the river. Had he drawn away some of the forage 
on this side of it, and bnraed what could not t>e car- 
ried off, and maintiuned this pass for one week, our 
horses must have been lost for want of provender, and 
put us to such straits as to ruin our cause ; but instead 
of that, here is provision for our army, hay and oats 
for our horses, were we to continue here for those tea 
days. 

HAMILTON. 

I always had a good opinion of Colonel Lundy, 
convinced that he would do all things for the king's 
interest. He not only accepted of the Prince of 
Orange^s commission, but swore to be true to him, or 
else the City of Derry would never have been trusted 
to him, neither could he otherwise have brought to 
pass so great things as he has done. He has not only 
for the king "a train of artillery consisting of twenty- 
four pieces of cannon, with five hundred barrels of 
gunpowder, and all other diinga proportionable, but he 
has hindered provisions from being brougbt into the 
<nty, and at this time there are not ten day's food 
for the garrison and the inhabitants, crowded as the 



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ii 4Him tke naltitedM vhn ham floelud to it 
other placM tot Mfisty. He earned od mattera 
tfUly, dwt W hM g(A Stb hundred ponnds from 
rince of Orange, aad bu tte command of two 
kad pomdt nuae : md irtien obt two •[nes* 
M Twino and BUcko-, were Mnt to Deny from 
enont, he eatatuaed tkma kiudy. I urare yo« 
mg would h^re been at a very great loH, were it 
ir Goi^mor Luady. A faosdred thii^B more i 
tell yov of lua wiee muMgameitt. 

lUMBAT. 

I extraordinary serrioe doDe< I hear Londy is 
ig no strew on this ii^rartont post, nor making 
Irantage of it, but is fortifying Derry, imposing 
! ignorant pei^e there by grantiBg ^em passes 

I to Scotland in boata. 

SHELDON. 

Is will hardly serve their torn, for we may be in 
md very soon after them. Lord Dundee, with a 
; army which he has raised, has just got a rein- 
aent from Csrrickfergut, and is waiting only 
IT promised aniral to him from Derry, to gire 
to the Prince of Orange's army under General 
ly ; and when we get to him it will be all over 
the rebels on the other side of the Cliannel, for 
lole of the nor^ of England are ready to retom 
:ir aUegianee. V^tii such an array as will then 
rs we isay eaidy man^ to London. 

HAMILTON. 

; ready. This pleasant moraing, after all ih^ 



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vet and gloomy weatker we lure had, gives' life to 
-tliu d^'i Betian. IV nbek M«m to be iiinnji 
ihne b so iqipeannce of hone er fiiot to awet d^ 
aaA the whaie road from lifbrd, ob ^m other ride of 
tbe river, U in our view. Sure theae great heroea' will 
not do as they did at Dromore— wut till ve on^tt 
tbem at council, and then Bead oat dogs to bark at ua. 
"Vfe will Boon give tfaena and 

EiUer an officer. 



May it pleaae your £zcdlen^, the AataAmeat of 
horse and dragoon* are all over the river that leads to 
Castlefin, and have carried over the foot. They wait 
your farther orden. 

HAMILTON. 

Do yon observe any movement of the rebels oo the 
otber aide c^ the river ? 

OFFICSR. 

There are very few of them there— uooe worthy of 
being noticed. Some three or ibur lioopi^ and aboirt 
a battalion of foot. 

lUUlLTON. 

Command those in advance to march on in good 
order: I will follow them. This river gained, the 
long-expected Derry will be ours. 

7Ae Seate dvntget to Derry. 
Smler Governor LiaiA/ vitkfimr offieen. 

LOVDY. 

This is a fine nK»niing for our men to fight. What 
time of day may it be P 



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40 THE Boaa op dbbbt. 

PIEST OFFIGSK. 

Between sereo and eight o'cloclc. It is to be feared 
you will be much wanted this morning to give out 
some necesBuy orders, that our men may be in con- 
dition to engage tfae enemy, as you hare not ordered 
any to act in your absence. 

sBcomt oprtcBK. 

It is eleven miles from this to Lifford, and three 
from that to Clady — so if you intend to fight the 
enemy this morning, it is time you were going. It 
will take you two hours hard riding. They expect 
yon there) or one in your absence. 

THIKD OFFICER. 

I am afhud the enemy will not fail on their side- 
General Hamilton is a brisk, busy man, and it is 
expected that you will be as brisk and as busy there 
to-day as he or any other general with him. You 
are accounted to be as good an officer and as much 
experienced as he is, and what will the world say 
when they hear you nerer went into the field, or 
headed your brave army on the day of action ? I 
assure you, it will be a heavy reflection upon your 
conduct. 

LUNDY. 

I am assured that our men will not fight, for if they 
had stood their ground we would not have been put 
to this trouble. Tliey will run away, as they did at 
Dromore, Antrim, and Colenune. 

FOCRTH OFFICBB. 

They did not run away at Coler^e. Th^^ thJe 



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THB 8IE0G OF DKBST. 41 

genenili vbo acted as governor, ran from them, and 
they made a good retreat here from a superior force. 
At I>romore they had ignorant and inesperienced 
officers, and most of the men had families to take care 
oC — all that was over when our men made their way 
here from the Bann. Now it is on you that the whole 
trust and confidence depend, and if anything miscar- 
ries on your side we will lUl be ruined, and sad will be 
our case to come under the mercy of the enemy. 

riBST OFVICBB. 

But, sir, we muat go, else they will leave all the 
fault of our absence on us, and be incensed at our not 
beading our re^ments and troops. 

LCMDr. 

Has my re^ment marched ? 



) OFFICBB. 

It has, above an hour since, but too late to be there. 
The action will be over before they get half way, for 
if the enemy eng^ea our people, as they surely will, 
they are at hot work at this moment. 

LttNDT. 

I am resolved, however, not to set off with an 
empty stomach. I must take my breakfast and a 
bottle of wine, and then we will be going. It is only 
tiding a little fast. 

THIRD OFFICES. 

I fear our poor men at Castlefin and Clady will 
will have a poor breakfast — there may be more blood 
than wine flowing there. (Exeunt.) 



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7Ae Scene chauget to tke Iruk Ctmp- 
Emiitr Gmerah Bamiban, Dinrington, mtd Sheklat, 
wkh Lord Gainio^, Lord BucAom, mtd Calomel 

HAHILTOtl. 

Tou, Lord Galmoy, mtk your horee — yM, Bn^- 
^■et^Geaend Donington, wi& yoor regbsent of foot 
Suardt — Mid jam. Colonel Dyncsn, with yovr dm- 
goona— be in readineM. We will atta<^ CaAl^D 
Brigadier-GeDeral Sheldon, with your hone, and three 
itgmieata itffoot, attack Oady. Brigadier- General 
Bamaay and I^ird Bac)tB% piuh on and force yo>r 
way to lifibrd. 

DDBCAM. 

The river is impassible, by reason of the rain ; if 
you do not give credit to me, ask the guides. 

HAMILTON. 

Then let them emm. The rebels have all ran 
away — none of them will be seen there ; they have 
but their obiibI guards. It is wonderful — I know thcnr 
leading ^en to be of good experience. When the 
signal is given, which will be the firing of three guns, 
then push on as hard as yon can, (Exemtt.) 

Tile Seme eAamget to CaUUfU. 

Enter MicheOntme, Murray, and Freewum, teUk mma 

efiten. 



I cdl yoB tage&.tt, Aesiriag yoa will be carrfvL 
Yon we ihe enemy advances, bnt this is oar adniK 



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ttgo, they ctuiDot j^ass the rivw without svimmiDg. 
tiet na firiiig be uatS their horse ii in the midiBe of 
the riT«r, aad tale roar firing boai me. Well Mod 
them bade farter than they eame, and sbioe oar 
g«nenl is not come, let the Tord be, " King WiUuue 
and ^Msa Mary." 

Murray, if the enemy ihould swim over in spite of 
ow shot, give but one fire, and then fiiU oa aword m 
haad ; I will floon jcA* you. 

OFFICB&. 

Sir, the ^^y** hone and dragoon* ad««iiM, and 
tn aom within {Hstol-afaat of the rivec (GWitjbv.) 



Harit I the gwis fire — this is tiie oumy's Hgoil Set 
battle. Every one to his post. The Gbeat God BB 

ODB DEFBtlDBS. (ExeuM^ 

Setiral voU^ ef tatall Aot g» o^ amd are amvered 
l)jf olherg, with vtry brisk ^firing. Cries at inlenab 
of " They run— they run P 
SiOer MieheBivme, Mtrrt^, Freeman, and otheri. 

HICHELBUBUK. 

You SM lurave boys— our men behaved gallaotly. 
The «nemy will haiidly make another attempt at tiiia 
place — they thought we would have run at thenr enter- 
ing the river. What nmuber of them may have bees 



Aboat thijrty. 

HUBBAY. 

Htty ef thwi went down the Ara, hanm and tU. 



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44 THE SIKOE OF tfOXT. 

MICHBLBUBMB. 

Hiey must have liad a great many Tounded. X 
could vish thfiy met no' better luccess at Cladyford 
and Lifford. Freeman, take hone immediately, find 
out the general, and give him an account of what has 
occurred. Bring me word if the two English regi- 
ments be come up yet, and what horse and foot have 
been brought into the field. (Exit Freematu) 

Enter an Officer. 

OFFICBB. 

The enemy has gained Cladyford ; for as soon as 
they entered the river with their horses and began to 
to swim, our horse and foot quitted their post and 
retreated. Yon may see them all inarching towards 
Baphoe. 

HICHBLBDBNB. 

Well, it cannot be helped. We are betrayed on all 
hands. 

Enter Freeman. 

FBEEHAM. 

Governor Lnudy came within three miles of this 
place, saw our men retreating, gave orders for every 
man to shift for liimself, and made his way back to 
Derry through Baphoe. 

HICHELBnBHB. 

Did he bring no troops with him P Where is his 
own regiment, and those qnarteied in and about 
Derry ? Where are the two English regiments P 

FBEBM&N. 

I heard nothing of them, but his regiment was on 



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TBX amOB OP SKBBT. 45 

their man^, and when they he&rd our men were beaten 
they returned to Deny. Lundy does not aoEwer vhat 
we expected from him, and he ia strongly suspected of 
tjeiog in league with the enemy. Nothing eould be 
more plain than his not sniTering our army to come 
together, nor the two English regiments to land sud 
join us. In short, all troops and companies, or as 
many of them as have been in the field, have fled — and 
if you do not march there promptly, the enemy will 
will get between you and the city. 

mCHBLBURNS. 

It is but reasonable since all those have fled, that 
we should think of an honourable retreat, and a 
prompt one. This is the third time I had the honour 
of bringing up the rear of our flying army, the general 
and others having quitted the field. However, this 
credit we have, to be first in the field and last out of it. 
Well make a good retreat, that all maj lay. 
We came to fight, but not to ran anaj. 

(^Exeunt omnet.) 



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Scene— 7%e Iriah Can^. 
Enter Sheldon, Dorrington, and Ranuay. 

RUfSAT. 

{M General Sheldon, 1 am gkd to see y oa od tiie 
' side of the river. 



taerve the enemy's horse retreatiag } both they 
;heir fuot gave way when our men advanced, 
Jig deal boards with them to repair the bridge. 
k advantage and swam over the river, the horse 
'ed, and made the rebels tnrn tail and run. 

DOKRINGTON. 

e river and the bridge were gained with very 
loss, but Major Nangle, who first took the rfver, 
een drowned. Our foot are now passing over 
idge with great steadiness. 

Enttriime Semis. 

FIBST SCOUT — fo SkeldoH. 

ase your honour, we advanced as near the rebels 
could, and about a mile from hence we saw a 
ent of foot, with flying colours and drums beat- 
we judge it to be their rear guard. 



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Be tbey what they n^r 'e^' gaud or Yxn gaud* 
I iriU cluu^ th«in before tkey get a. n^e taetitef. Lot 
tte tnu^ts wand to bone— TU mardL h^eduttdy. 
DORanrGTON. 

I know wbose gnanl it b; fasd they not orai^ 
colours ? 

ICOCT. 

They had, and no l«u than twelve stand of them. 



Th^ comuader is he that kiUed M many of your 
Ben in the County of Antrim ^-^ou will find a iharp 
<q)poaition irom him. 

SHELDON. 

Lrt him Iw the arch-fiend hinuelf I will chai^ him, 
and see what metal he is made oL {Exit SAeUom.) 
Enter GMeral HamHtoii, wkk at t rnt do H ti A^ stduU 
Mm. 

Yoiv excellency mast needs ba well pleased widi 
this day's acUoa. 

HAHILTOK. 

Nothing in the world eosld please me better, tlnn 
to see the whole north of Ireland make nO' mora oppo- 
mtion. Sure all th^r coasideriMe o&mn- taaut have 
fied to Scodand, »d left none but a eonfuaod rabUe 
bdund them. 



It would hare been lime enwi^ to hare fied. b 
Scotland when tfao ocmteat waa ovw. 



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48 THI BISaK 09 DKBBT. 

RAMSAY. 

It 18 probaUe they would not then have met with 
Buch coDveyances as they hare had, for now they wilt 
be thronging one upon another, and happy will he be 
who can first get into a ship of a boat I have heard 
that two or three families in Deiry crossed over to 
Scotland in timall boats. 

DORRINGTON. 

I think all is cure to the walls of Deny. 

HAMILTON. 

And in the walls of Deny. Now, Governor Lundy, 
play your part with as great skill as you have hitherto 
done, snd you will gain eternal honour; — one of the 
largest estates that the rebels have forfeited will b« 
your reward. He acted hia part so well with the 
deluded Prince of Orange, as to get a present of five 
hundred pounds, With two. thousand more to be laid 
out for Gonveniencies. Some of this money went to 
unlade the ships of ammunition and stores for our 
army— no leas than four hundred barrels of powder, 
with ball, &C. — otherwise we would have been forced 
to bring all from Kinsalei two hundred and twenty 
miles by land carriage, which would greatly have 
impeded our expedition to Scotland, where Lord 
Dundee is making great exertions to support us. The 
rebels must soon be weary of this sport, having such 
ill success, and they shall be severely handled for their 
insolence. To-morrow morning I will try how their 
pulses beat, and send to see if they will surrender this 
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THK aiEOB OF DERBY. KP 

DORRINGTOM. 

Siog James was startled when he heard that (he 
Governor of Derry had t&kea poaseiaion from the- 
Prince of Orange, with a Bolemu oath to be true to 
him and his p^ncess, as king and queen of Enj^and ; 
and he got a large present of English money. Well^ 
he must be closetted with a confessor aa soon as he 
pats Derry into our bands, and be absolved of that 
oath, by an absolution Irom the mother church, which 
he win find no difBculty in obtaining. What an army 
shall we have in two months time— fifty thousand oat 
of Ireland, from the ports of Derry and BeHast;. 
twenty thousand in Scotland, led on by Lord Dundee, 
ready and t^le to stand for the son, as the Marquis of 
Montrose did for the father ; and an equal number of 
forces in the north of England will join the li.ing'» 
army on the borders, while a strong diversion will be 
made by the king of France on the south of England^ 
The parliament of England are now busy in settling- 
the successor to the crown, and little think of the 
overwhelming force that is approaching them, to settle 
it where it ought to be, on our lawful king and hift 
family, to whom they and we have sworn allegiance. 
Did they think that King James's taking a journey 
from France to England, in a wintry spring, was for 
nothing P No ; it is for what will make thor hearts 
ache> thdir estates fly to worthier possessors of themj, 
when we enter England and march to London with^ 
fire and awwd. 

° \ ■■ 



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THE SHCE OF I»SKY. 
KAM81T. 

; IS very proluUe, and nrnst Aoriiy cobk to 
[ see nothing ^ binder it. I must, how«ver, a, 
I discourse, stand up for my couutrynuBi cJd 
urg, the commanding officer of Coleratae. I 
law a finer body of men in my life, than th«w 
with him there ; when I aaw them drawn up in 
it the other tmie of the river, about ten thoDsand 
L said to you, General Hamitttn, that we were 
mt of our expectaticm in seeing such a b»dy of 
He had five thousand in the town ; I was 
they would have sallied out of it — our men's amu 
wet vrith the snow, — but, as good luck would 
:, tbe commanding oiHcer took care to b«rrk»ide 
1 it, fay doting the gates with stones And mbbisli, 
bey might Itare come out upon and rooted tm. 
t for keeping peace on both sides, so we bad so 
iBDce from them till we manoeuvied them a£ 
iTow, when the king rides to Derry, be wjlt b« 
iquisitive to know how Colonel Lundy nmnaged 
■mltitude of disorderly rebels, at be has luid t» 
Ith in'Derry. 



11 say this much for the Duke of Tyreonticlt 
i8 Bpw tbe ftar and garter most dflSHredlf , Ahmt ' 
;b he was much 'orerseen, when the Tebels Aat 
tea of Derry, id forcing none of the standing 
otb it, he has made ample amends by f>laoitig,a8r 
man as Colonel Lundy as governor. «f H> nho 
lured « ship-load of ammunition, which above 



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THE BIQfiE. OF DKR^T., f|^ 

aH-tUags we wanted, und at the same time ^^t pro^ 
visions out of it, which would have encouraged ^e 
rebels to stand out. He has dispersed all their. armjr, 
in re^mentB and troops, through the country, and 
kept the two Engli^ regiments in the harboiu- on 
board; and these raiments alone, would have been 
able t^ rout all our foot. When the rebellious officers 
in the city began to grumble, he would assuage them 
by calling a council, which made all quiet again, while 
be was proceeding in his fjoject ^or us, till at length 
he has made way for us this day to march to the walls 
of , Derry. General Monks bringing Charles the 
Second back to England, at the Restoration, was no^ 
a greater service to tite crown of the realm than that 
9f the Gov.emor of Derry, who iias thus destroyed 
' the hopes of the Prince of Orange and his rebela. 
This will bring us and the king to Scotland in a short 
time, and thence, triumphantly, through England to 
Whitehall. 

DOBBIN GTON. 

Where does your excellency intend to quarter this 
night? ■ 

HAMILTON. 

. At E^tioe, four miles from hence, where there i^ a 
fbrong caatle-<-the bishop's palace. 

Enter Mn Ei^rets — the metienger deliver* a teller to 
(/atertU Hamiitffn, who reads it and putt it tgt. 

UAHILTOH. 

Gflntlemen, the king will be at Newtowa-ftewart 
d2 



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52 TBE easas of debbt. 

this night) and at Strebane to-morrow ; from whic& he 
will cross tlie river at Lifibrd. His majesty is irelt 
pleased to hear of our forwardness in defence of his 
rights, and suppression of the rebels. And well he 
may be so : they with twelve or fifteen thousand meii> 
ani two English regiments, and we to put them to 
flight with only six thousand men, giving them a total 
overthrow. Nothing is left but the inconsiderable 
town of Deny. 

Enter Sheldon. 

HjIMILTOK. 

What news do you bring ? Are all the rebels fled 
to Derry? 

SHELDON. 

They are ; oar advance guards, by this time, are at 
Baphoe. We met with no stoppage ; only about fifty 
horse faced us, but, as soon as we advanced, they 
turned tail and ran. In our eager pursuit of them, we 
were near faUlng in with a thousand of their foot, who 
were drawn up so advantageously as to put a stop to 
our advance, till they marched off in a very orderiy 
manner. 

HAHILTOK. 

Could you not have brushed np to their rear, which 
would have been the ready way to have broken them ? 



I charged Ihelr rear three times, and at each time 
their commander drew them off, fired on us, and put 
our men in disorder. Whoever he it, he baa not to 
learn the art of war. 



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THK SUGE OF DERRT. 03 

DORRIHgTOlf. 

I told yon that you would not do much good against 
him. This is the third time he brought up the rear of 
their flying army. He has his men in as good disd- 
pllne as ours, marches with flying colourS) and cares 
nothing for the government. He does not regard 
Lord Tyrconnel's proclamation a farthing. 

BAUILTON. 

The gallows take him and his rebeb. I commend 
fainii however, for the firmness with which he adheres 
to his principles and sticks to his engagement, wluch 
must cost him dearly ; only I am afraid of his escap- 
ing in the end. Let orders be g^ven to the whole 
Army to march at once to Raphoe and encamp there to 
jiight, and to-morrow at St. Jolustowiii six miles 
from hence. I will send a summons to the rebels in 
the morning when this is done, then for our friends in 
Scotland. 

The Scene ehangei to Deny. 
Enter the Governor, with three officers. 

LDKDY. 

You see, gentlemen, our men will not fight — beudea 
the scantiness of provisions, which will not sustain us 
for more than nine or ten days, even if all unuecessary 
consumers of them were turned out of the town — so 
I think it most convenient for their majesties* service, 
that the principal officers who are left should with- 
draw and leave the kingdom, so that the inhabitants 
And them who have come here for safety, may make 



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Si THE BtSat 0? DSRRf. 

llie best conditions for themselves. For this purpose 
I will have passes prepared and signed for them ; and 
as to the two English regiments on board in the haiv 
"bdur, t h&v'e satisfied them, and they are preparing 
to return tb England, without landing here. 
* ■ ■ Enlei" a ServajU. 

■ " ■ SERVANT. 

Sir, here is one at the door who comes from the 
'enemj-'s atmyl 

' ■ ' LUNDY. 

■■ Let him in. 

£nter Archdeacon Hamilton. 

HAMILTON. 

Sir, his excellency, General Hamilton, has sent me 
'trith a message, to know if you will deUvet up fab 
'toajesty's City' of Derry on honourable conditioDS, 
*aiid to tnfbrm you that die king will be at St. Johns- 
town, within five miles of Derry, to-morrow. 
LUNDY . 
Sir, that cannot b^ done without holding a council, 
for which' I will give orders for your quick despatch> 
that we may come to a speedy resolution. 

' Snter Michelbvme, Baker, and Walker~-they sahtg. 

BAKER. 

I am glad you axe safely retuiVed from Cksdefitt; 
we had heard that yon and your reg^nnM hftd l>e«ta 
cut off hy the enemy. - ' 

iVALKEt. 

Two men bmngM va -Word that tliey to* yva KHd 



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TBS eiBSE 07 DESKT. 55 

the eoemy engaged, and tiiey were afraid you would 
be orerpowcred. 

MICHU-BOBNO. 

There was no fear of that — they are as great 
cowards as ever breathed ; if we had been duly Hup- 
poKed, we would have cut them to pieces ;-~but it is 
hard to have oar governor, this general of ours, on 
tiieir side, palpably betraying us into their bands. It 
-would detain us too long to tell you all that occurred ; 
but I made a very good retreat, after some skirmishing 
with two or three squadrons of their horse. When 
they found us so resolute, and Aat we made some of 
them and their horses tumble, they would not charge 
us a second time, though they had some considerable 
«fficer at their head, which T knew by his two grooms 
in livery attending lim on horseback. He beat them, 
and their officers beat them ; I saw him fire his pistol; 
bat nothing would make them charge us a second 
time. We then gave them two or three huzzas, and 
marched away, with drums beating and colours flying. 
I sever met with such daMardly rascals in my life ; I 
mold engage with one hundred of our men to beat 
frue faondred of tliem. Three or four irf th^ horses 
^vev Aeir riders, and our men have brought them 
into Ihe city. ■ 

Nov ttat ir« arc met again, ve will held together, 
and partake of each otfan** condition, whether good 
•r bil, as ProvUMHe rtafl &-eet ns. 



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igC THK BlSa% OF DKBBT. 

MICHKLBDBNE. 

We are not vithoat hope, and are ci^wble of de- 
fending thii city, till hunger may force ub to fur- 
vender. 

WALKER. 

The alarm about provisions is without foundatitm ; 
X am well assured, by those who have surveyed the 
■eieal, beef, salmon, and pork, &c. that we have three 
stonths* provision for ten thousand men. 

HICHBLBUBNE. 

Jb it SO) old boy? (Strikes Aim on the thouider.) 
We will be merry, boys, yet. 

Enter a Messenger. 

MESSENGER. 

Gentlemen, you are desired, by the governor's order, 
to meet in council immediately. 

Snter Governor JLundy and a Cottncii, wiA Ar^- 
deacon Hamilton, 

LtNDY. 

We are obliged to send an answer to Lieutenant 
■General Hamilton, by such persons as we may t^- 
fioint, that they may enter upon a treaty of surrender- 
iag this place; the ArcMeacoD> Captain Kennedy, 
and Captain Neville are chosen, if ye agree to it. 

COUNCIL. 

We agree to it. Very good men ; no bettw. 

LUNDY. 

You are to go with this gentleman, who wiU cod- 
•duct you to General Hamilton, where you will make 



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THE aaas of debbt. 57 

this i^logy— -that you would have wfuted on him 
«ooner, only for delay occasioned by the town being in 
a ttisorderiy state ; but that you now wait on his excel- 
lency to know what terms will be given for surrender. 
Two tUngs are desired before closing upon th< 
cles — first, whether the king has arrived at the 
or not ; the other is, that we may be asaiu^d 
until all is settled, the army shall not advance i 
the town than it is at present. 

(Exeunt Governor and Counc 

Manent Mickelbwme, Baker, and Walker. 

HICHELBURNK. 

The dty is not yet surrendered. 

BAKER. 

Nor shall it be, with my consent. 

WALKER. 

WhoevN preaches non-resistance, I will be th< 

to lay hold ou him, and turn him out of the city. 

^Exeunt.] 

The Scene changes to the Diamond. 
Enter MicheUmme, Baker, Caimes, Murray. W< 
and some officers. 

UICHBLBUBNB. 

The dty has been surveyed, and we find provi 
for ten thousand men for three months, if well i 
ged. Every house is a store, the inhabitants 
barricaded the walla of their rooms with sacks of 
for fear of the enemy's cannon ; all but the govei 
d3 

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where Aere ii -tery fitde. ^ An m li^e 
U along bettay«d by hhn wbo, under tiie spedo^ 
ce of being governar, and having KiRg imam's 
Bsion, has held cOrresponience with the enemy ; 
ideavOuring to min us aHi has sent airay the 
Qglish regiments, and would never let tiS coide 
^r and iinite in a body. - ' 

BAKER. 

have here provisions enongfa, aMnnuiition -sUd 
lough — let us not dfeStrtjy Ourselves, and all un- 
r command, by a treacherous surrender. This 
S"^ grfirft eoiisequence, and th« Prote^ant in- 
in this kingdom will be lost, if it be not de- 

as not for §o small a SusinesB that ffiflg James 
into Ireland, leaving Jhe French court in the 
of Winter ; it was on the design against England^ 
eProtestatit iuterest there", aS'frett'aS herft; fffid 
j-corais here from Dublin, to embark with his 
for Scotland, and be on the English border 
by I)undee and his army, beftire Khig William 
ready to meet him.' ' - . . , ^ . ^ 

■ MICHELBURNX.' 

ve sixty ofiioera abd twelve hundred men, vho 
tnd l^ me ai ene man. - . ' ' 

■«*«N«». . - -. 1 

D ansirer fi»r aa many. - - ■ '. 

BIOTtRAT. • 

yen I bare Rbotit ImK the a 



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inCHBLBmiNE. 

NoavTCuderl — Noran«Bderl 

No •urrender 1 God Mess King William and Qaeen 
Httry, and the Protestant religion. (^Exettnt.) 

Tht Sbme datiffei to ^ tgwn ofRapkoe, and a mag- 
nificenl Cattle, the Bukop'a Palate. 

Enter Generals Hamilton, Dorrington, Sheldon, Ram- 
tay, and Waticop, Lord Buchan, Archdeacon Ha- 
milton, and Captain Macaiueland. 

ARCHDEACON. 

Please your excellency, the gentlemen commissiou- 
ers from Derry are without. 



Conduct them in. 

Snter three CommiisionerS' 

HAMILTON. 

Gentlemen, from whence came you ? 

ARCHDEACON. 

- From tbe gov^nor of Deny and his council. 

- HAHILTOM. 

■ Who it j6m govamop? 

ABCHDEAGON. 

I presume your eKcellemfy knows him, Colonel 
'hui^. '-(finlMtf Bamiiton and tht; rett mOe, ''tind 
iMkmpon «M MwlAcf.) - ' 

iPMr, nlM'Jte'yflar-^uidli?' 



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<C0 THS SIEQB OS DEBST. 

AKCHDRACON. 

Good conditions for aiurenderiDg the <uty. They 
desire to be excused for not baring answered you be- 
ibre, by reason of the disorders of the town ; and they 
wish to know if the king has arrived ? They desire 
likewise, that none of your troops may advance nearer 
to them than where they are, till all be concluded. 

HAMILTON. 

Truly, for conditions, I think they deserve none ; 
"however, to save his majesty any &rther trouble, 
Bometliing or other will be done, but I am a&aid not 
to their satisfaction ; and as for marching the army 
before the town, if that can he any service to them, I 
promise they shall not. So come to-morrow, and take 
such conditions as we will give you. Delay not the 
time for coming, and despatch, for to-morrow night 
tbe king is to lodge in Derry. Let the bishop's palace 
be got ready for his majesty, and an hundred lodg- 
ments for his attendants. Then their curiosity will be 
«attsfieil. 

(Exentd ike Areltdeacon and Commissioners.J 

Now for the conditions we are to give the rebels. 

DOBBINOTOM. 

I think there ought to be no cohditioDS, but sor- 
Tendering at discretion. 

SHELDON. 

I am much of the same opinion ; why should the 
Icing give any conditions to such rebels — they have all 
along borne arms against him in open rebellion, and 
in contempt of his majesty's government. It is a 



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THE BtBOE OF DERRT. 61 

great nnderralning of the king's majesty) that we 
should condescend to any thing but his royd plea- 
sure. 



They ought to be made an example to all notorious 
rebels, and to be served as the west of England tr^- 
tors have been. What was the judge and the execu- 
tioners sent down for, but to judge and hang them. 

WAUCOP. 

This condition I would grant, that they should de- 
Uver up tdl their officers, and every fifth man, to be 
sent to all the market-towns in Ireland, and there 
hanged and quartered. 

RAMSAY. 

But if they should not agree to those con^Uons, 
and defend the town P 

HAMILTON. 

That must be for a very short time ; they have no 
provisions; besides such a confused number will never 
be brought to any method. An undisciplined rabble 
of people such as they are, can do nothing, and all the 
officers that had any considerable command, have been 
sent away by the governor. Therefore, for the honour 
of the king and the army, and for a quick despatch, we 
will march to-morrow morning with flying colours, 
drums beating, and the king at the head of us, and yon 
will see that they will open the gates. The governor 
will, with the keys, deliver up the town when the army 
marches up to it ; the maga^ne will be secured, and 
- the king may do what he pleases. 



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AU« txCSTT 0IN. KUHAT «IQ» CXTT. MACAOlKLANlIk 

W« agree to this mtiiod. tni MA it u the mlMt 
honorable and expeditious way. 

f 71t<y keep tiient, a«{ geem very unetuy.J 

RAMILTCnf. 

It is now but tbe tenth «f AjHil, we BhsU be euiy 
ra Scotland for the BniDiaer's campaign, time enmigfa 
to relieve Edinbnrgh Castle, and then with Lord Dun- 
dee's army and our own move through the English bor- 
ders. Then, gentlemen, prepare to march to-morrow. 
{Exii.} 
lite Scene changes to Derrj/. 
Snter MicheUmme, with two i^tiei. 



Here are two crowo-piwees for you ;" g* *Bt' to- 
night, take two long sticks in your hands, and be sin«8 
in the enemy's camp ; take sVme tobacco with you ; 
you frill soon know what newB is' stirring tmong the 
enemy. Can either of fe ^eak 'Irtrii ? 
fibbt BPr. 



That win do very well. ■ About tbe time tkey giw 
out orders, yon ^I be there. "One of yos mMst be 
' sure to name in a tiCtte tims ; the ether na^ ita^ tHl 
■ lUlxt aefilii^ ■" ' 

' UtOT BPY. 

W^ ilfll Map in aB tbe Mwa. 

■ ARMA ftT. . ; . ' 
Come, John, let ■tMnt^^Mt'Clfeml it^taMb 



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VBx msBE Of omT. 68 

msT SPY. 
Farewell, sir. Sace«n to yon. 

SBCOND 8PT. 

We »ffl becoMe tlie Colonel's soldiers when we 
come back. (Exeunt.) 

Enter Governor Ltmdy andfovr officen, 

LUNDY. 

The city is in sueh distraction and disorder, that 
there is nothing to be done. The rabble threaten to 

' hang me, and all others that shall propose a surrender, 
ttongh on the most honorable conditions. Those of 
my own regiment, that have been along with me in 

" garriAit^ mardhed witfi me from Dublin, and whom I 
instructed in the methods I intend for their safety, 
are as mutinous as any-— they are poisoned agtunst 

'Bfe. 

FIBST OFFICBB. 

Besides, sir, there are many mutinous officers thu 

are worse than the scdttiers, and give great encourage* 
' neilt to tb« zabbloh 1 went last night, according to 

your orders, to lock the gates, and up came one of 
''iHN4,offieen, iMid forced tiie keys irom me, M^nng 

they did so by order of Colonel Baker, Colonel Michel- 

burne, and a cle^yinan eiJIed Walker. 

LUNDY. 

' TMb w boU indeed. Thcsn I am mdwdy. ^ 
'.t(m tfiypw^-sioMi-iA pommand and all anthori 
taken' fK>m me, I will conceA OfteK Aft lather 
let them take care bow dMjf violate the power '. 



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64 THE SIEGE OF OEBBT. 

Snttr Commimoaers. 

TIBST COUUiaSIONBB. 

We were at Ra^hoei and with Lieutenant-General 
Hamilton. Me seems very haughty, and telia ns, the 
conditions we may expect will not foe to oar satisfac- 
tion. He told UB some of them, and agrees not to 
march his army to Derry, until all shall be concluded. 
He wishes us to be with him early to-moiTow> and has 
ordered the bishop's palace to be got ready, as the 
king intends to lie there to-morrow night ; and he ex- 
pects lodgings to be prepared for an hundred of hia 
majesty's attendants. This ia what the general de- 
clared to us-~so, governor, use your methods accord- 
ingly. 

LDNDT. 

For my part, I would willingly do the best, but since 

they deny me to be their governor, I will concern 

myself no longer in their afiurs. (Exeunt.) 

Several huzzas mikin. 

NO SURBENDER !^-00D BLESS KINO WILLIAM AND THE 
FBOTESTANr LINE I 

Enter Mtchelhume, Baker, Walker, Murray, and 
Cairnea. 

VICHBLBURNE. 

We have brought the business to our desired wishes. 
We have twenty to one on our side ; and they that are 
for the governor dare not open their lips, to talk of 
conditions to surrender. 



Conditions, says Hamilton, tliat will not be to ovr 



THE STBOE OF DERKT. 65 

satisfkction. Their conditions sre to hong ns all. 
Sveet oooditioDS we may expect from them. 

BAKSB. 

We hare secured the gates — there can be no treach- 
ery with respect to them. 

WALKBB. 

Let us see who will dare to go to-morrow for coniiU- 
tions to suirender. 

HURRAY. 

The gates will be my care to-night. 

CAIRKES. 

And the great guns shall be my charge. 

HICBELBDBNE. 

And at fte head of twelve hundred stout men— that 
shall be my charge. 

BAKBB. 

To keep company with the governor, and make my 
observations, shall be my charge, and to find out what 
more roguery is hatching. (Exeunt^ 

Enter MieheUnarTte and a gpy. 

SPI. 

Sir, I staid in the Irish camp no longer than while 
I was drinking two quarts of ale, at one of the tents of 
the suttlers. I enquired of a sergeant for a brother of 
mine that is in one of the regiments, but I could not 
tell in what company. Pish ! said he, that is looking 
for a needle in a bundle of straw. I asked him if he 
could smoke a pipe ? He leaped at that, and I club- 
bed him for two quarts of ale. In discourse he told 
me that the army was to much to Derry at six o'clock 



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66 THE BIEGE OP DBRRT. 

In the merniDg, the drams to beat at five. About 
eight we will have General Hamilton before the town. 

MICHELBURNE. 

General Hamilton pTomised not to advance until 
the conditions were perfected. 

They intend to give no condttionB more than to lie at 
the king's mercy. That, the sergeant told me, was only 
to amuae you, that you might be taken at the greater 
^sadvantage. They have great dependance on the 
governor, assured that he will do them great service. 
{Exetml.) 
Enter MicheHmme and Baker. 

MICHBLBUKNE. 

The business I have to acquaint yon of is this— I 
sent out a spy in the evening ; he was not three hours 
away, when he came back, and gave me this account ; 
that General Hamilton and the Irish army intend to 
visit ns this morning, and to be here at eight o'clock. 

BAKER. 

I thought he had more honour in him, than to break 
his word. This was the time our commissioners were 
to go to hiiB, for conditions, which would be to hang 
half and spare half of us. What do you think tk«y 
irould do with you and me ? 

MICHELBDRNB. 

We, to be sore, are excepted persona, and eo«Id e>- 
peet no mercy. I shall lutve anotiwr spy fa«re pn^ 



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TBS nEGE OP B^ST. 67 

WT, 

The enemy are preparing to march to Derry, and 
-will be with you in a short time. They march at the 
liiS side, OD the edge of the river, and expect to be 
Twy near before you diBcover them. 



Keep sSent. Yoq have done your duty bo well that 
you and your comrade shall have twenty shillings 
every time I send yon abroad. 

SPY. 

I thank your honour. {Exit spy.) 

This is pretty well contrived. We vill send for 
Watson, captain of the gunners. {Knocks with his 
foot.) 

Enter a bojf. 

Go call the captain of the gumters. {Exit hoy.) 

Enter Captain Wat»on. 

BAKER. 

Let all the guna be charged immediately, and the 

gunners at their posts. {Exit €<qttain^ 

Enter an officer. 

The enemy^ whole army are directly oa their march 
to the town. 

MICHm.BCBta. 

Let all the compaaies of foot mueh and line tbe 

walli ; we will s«e who dare deny. {Exit officer.) 

Enter a 



Sr, the governor has sent orders by one VPiMM-, 

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to the gunners on the walls, not to fire upon pain of 
death. 

MICHBLBnitNS. 

G0| Ud them mind their business ; neither Lundy 
nor Wilder has any thing to do in this garrison— 4ione 
can command here now but ourselTes — they will find 
it so very shortly. This treacherous man wants to 
post every re^ment in some comer of the city, whils 
the enemy marches in to destroy us. He wishes to dis- 
pose of the regiments here as he did those in the conn- 
try. What a fool I was to lie at Castlefin, when Z 
knew my being sent there was only a tn^ for me ? 
I might now take my reveoge, but I scorn to do so. 
I have honour in me which the faise governor had not. 
He has now bis choice to go to General Hamilton or 
to England, though be ought to be hanged in the Dia- 
mond of Deny. He may not be welcome in either 
place, but he has now no business here, and the sooner 
he is off, the better for himself. (Exit officer^ 

Enter an oMcer. 



The keys of the 'magaune are not to be found, so 
that we cannot come at either powder or ball. 

BAKER. 

Cause the doora to be broken open with sledges.^ 
This piece of treachery will not do. 
EnUr another officer, 

OFJICBB. 

The enemy advances ^ace—they are almost upon 
the run. 



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THE BIKGE OF DEHRT. 69 

MICHELBUBNE. 

Come, let na go to our station, to see with what 
eonfidence the enemy marches up to our walls, in 
downright breach of promise from their general. They 
think to have all things done by the treachery of 
Lundy, but they will find it will not do now. 

(ExeuTU omnet.) 
Great and small shot go off— several huzzas without, 
with cries, " They run— 4hey run !" 

Enter Baker, Walher, and MicheSmme. 

MtCBBLBUBNE. 

What pleasant sport it was when our guns fired. 
How the rogues ran. For half a mile they never 
looked back. 

BAKKR. 

How our cannon-balls fell in the midst of them. It 
was hard to tdl whether the officers or soldiers ran 
faster. 

WALKXB. 

It was a pleasant sight for the abdicated king to see 
them mn away, after one of their officers was killed 
near him by a shot froja the cathedral-steeple — a sig- 
nal warning to the enemy c^ oar chiurch. They are 
shamed for ever, and his ruin is consummated. He 
would have touched the Lord's anointed, and done his 
prophets harm, but the wind hath passed over him, and 
be is gone. 

BAKSB. 

I do not think they will trouble us for ten days 
come. They mast find another port for their emba 



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70 TEK HBGE OF OEpatY, 

ation for Scotland, and that too in the teeth of the 
English army coming over to ua. We may drink the 
luahop's March beer ourselves. 

A tnin^>et toundt. 

Enter anqfficer. 

Here is a state-trumpet from King JameSi with crat- 

ditions for surrender ; and to acquaint you that he is 

in the field himself. 

MICHSLBDKNE. 

Let him remain there as long as he finds it not too 
hot from him. We know no king but William — no 
queen but Mary. They seem to be in great haste ; 
three months hence will be time enough for them to 
propose conditions — to secure their retreat. 
Another tna^tet sound*. 
Enter on officer. 

NUCBXLBDSKE. 

Give entrance to the trumpeter 

TBVMJPBTaB. 

The Lord Strabane is at the gate, and comes with 
Qonditions from the king. 

WICHBL9DSNB. 

We desire no. conditlana. Let this be his aosiver v-^ 
They are in great haste, but thece ^re two WQr^s to » 
bai^ain. We want no safe conduct to King ^iUifto^ 
but what orders his miyeaty shall please to -send, we 
will observe. Our nine days' provisions, as they were 
called, exceed ninety; and before these els^Ct we 
shall b^ar from Epgknd. Mj' service to Lord Stfa- 
bane. We have wiser mfiml^ers of his nobl« Dvf^ 



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4 



THB BDCBS OF DEBST. 7l 

h«Te than hb lordihip or the geaexal ; and a strong 

bedy of the tenantB of tbe Abercorn estate, which soon 

may changA its owner. (Exit irtaipeler.) 

7%e trun^t sounds a third time. 

BAKUL 

Briog ID t^e trumpeter. 

Bn^r trumpeter. 
What news, trumpetet. 

TRUHPETEB. 

lieutenant General Hamilton wi]l, within this half 
hour, advance to the back of the Ravelia, where he 
deaires to diecourae the governor, or any other ra- 
tional man, that shall be employed by the garriBon, 
and he entreats you, for your own good, and the sake 
(SFao many thousands in the town, to take such pro- 
jwaals as are too great for a king to offer his subjecta 
in rebellion. You have a bltuik sheet of paper, to set 
flown what conditions you please. 

Go tell him^ for answer, that he may save himself 
that labour, for we have taken commissicus from King 
VnttaJu and Queen Hary, and we resolve to maintain 
their right ; and will stand here for the liberties and 
bunourc^ our oountry, against any rebels that are eoe- 
viei to either. (EvvtU omttet.) 

7%e Scene chauget to the Irith Can^. 
JSnter SamtltoH, Sheldon, and Dm-ringtoH. 

HAMU.TDN. 

No pnqxMals will do with these niiels. Nothiqg 



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72 THE SIBGB OF DERRT. 

can be done against this obatinBte town but a fornutl 
nege. Did yon observe how they fired their cannoa. 
The balls fell in the midst of us, and one of them 
killed Captain Troy, who stood near the king. 

JKJBRINGTOH. 

Abominable villains and traitors — how obstinate 
they are in their rebellion. It is intolerably provok- 
ing, that the king should receive this repulse alter 
coming here from Francei receiving an assurance on 
his majesty's way tbroagh Dublin, that this place 
would surrender, and facilitate our passing with him 
and his army into Scotland. To be thus bafHed in the 
height of our expectation, it is dismal to think of it. 

SBELDON. 

The king intends to set out on his return to Dublin 
to-morrow, and it is thought he will call a Parliament. 

HAMILTON. 

His majesty is so baulked, that he has become care- 
less of prosecuting his design in the quarter any far- 
then How miserably will our friends in Scotland and 
England be disappointed. Dundee's fine army, and 
our numerous firiends in the north of England, will be 
distracted ; and we must now stay in Ireland until the 
Prince of Orange's army arrives to drive us out of it, 
all on account of this cursed place that has spoiled all 
our measures. All that can be done now, is to draw 
off to some convenient place near tliis city, until our 
cannon-bombs and ammunition andve to us, and mitil 
we are reinforced by more troops, wMch will take a 
considerable time. I will now go and ascertun what 



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THB SIEGE OP DEBBY. 73 

further order the king may please to give, before his 
departure. Hia majesty U at Mongevliii Castle. 

DOeniKGTON. 

'Where does your excellency thiuk will be the best 
place to eucamp ? 

HAMILTON. 

They teil me at Pennyburo Mill, a short mile from 
Deny. 

The Scene changes to Derry. 
Snier Baker, WaVter, and Lundy. 

LBMDY. 

I am very much afrud the rabble will do me some 
miGchief. 

BAKER. 

My life for yours — not a hair of your head shall be 
touched while you are with us ; but we must censure 
your conduct, which has been very unfair in sevenil 
tbiugs ; in it, however, you have done yourself the 
greatest prejudice. You had the oj^ortunity of mak- 
ing yourself a great man, but what obligations you 
were under, to serve the Lite king, is not my buuness 
to enquire. You see now, after all, how we have res- 
cued ourselves from ruin, and I hope we shall continue 
80 nntil relief comes to us from En^and. So now, 
propose to us how we can be serviceable to you, and 
we shall do it promptly, for truly I do not think your 
life is safe in this city. 

My request is that I may be immediately conveyed 
on ship-board, I shall disguise myself as well as I can. 



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That we will take ore shall be done, and a boat will 
be provided on purpose. Walker, conduct the gover- 
nor home to his hausc. (Exil Walker with Lunify.) 

Enter Mickelburme, Murray, and Catmes. 



Now that we bare some spare time, and the eBem^s 
designs are frustrated, the old governor turned out 
— the enemy will blockade tis if tkey cm» — our &ist 
business is to settle the.garrison ; and it is the desire 
betb of o£c!ers and soldiers, that a aew.goTWirar ahall 
be chosen. 

Enter Walker. 

WALKIR. 

Gwie, g«itl«aeo, a new govenifH-, tbe «ld one bu 
{gone off in disguise, with a bundle of stinks, on his 
■back. He would have ataid if he dared to<do BO«fttr 
Ua treache^ry ; vaA has been fortunate in his .eao*^ 
ffmn'^eU-merited fmniriimrait. He witneasod the i^s- 
ttppmntment of the late king after all that ;<hadAeen 
|)F0iB)8ed to hisi. Such a disiqtpointment \s withaot 
ja^ parallel in history ; and how baj^y nifty we 'be, in 
the thought of its results to Ki^ WiJIia&a, Queen 
Mary, and the Protestant interest at this time, when 
«oittuch depended on the transit of James and his 
army to Scotland. 

Baker takes Mieheiimme aside. 

BAKKB. 

A great. part of the officers bare desired tiiat I 



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■ITHErOmi OF DKBT. "7S 

HtMtti-tMke charge of the garriMD, and be gorenor, 
hacMite I have lived all my days among them, airi 
never have been out of Jrelaad. 

HICBBLBDBNE. 

Thve is all tke reason in (he worid, that they afaould 
have a governor of their own choosing ; and I aMure 
you, Ccrfonel Baker, I an very glad of their choice, and 
irhatiies in my power, sluU, or experience, ^all not 
be'Wanted ; for we must atand for the public good, and 
(Jfaeipreaerrstion of this place, which is of «o much 
JW — s q u— ae; to the three kingdcmis. 

BAKXB. 

I assure you, that you shall have all the respect and 
All the freedom of opiaion and action tiiat' can be given 
by me, and I may safely say, that what is devisal or 
done by you in private or public, shall never be op- 
posed by me. I know that my experienoe and ability 
in war are not to be compared with jyours, so as to 
.tke millMry dvpartawnt you may manage it as you 
please. 

MICBILBtmNB. 

il^tfaftAk you, sir, you wUl find me always ready'lo 
4a your service. 



Come colonels; all this while at your private dis- 
.Bwuwft? -Letva proceed-tO'tbe election of a^govemor, 
oalessyou wish to. reinstate Colonel Lundy. 

«EiU 'Mid, -Walker, .7M1 wUl'Mm be jAiag^ight 



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76 THE BIEOB OF OKBBT. 

orduutry regard for the old governor ; perhaps you 
would go on ahlp-board, and bring him bacic, to fini^ 
tiie negodation for suirender. 

WALKKB. 

You found a wonderfully fit messenger for such an 
errand. 

MICHBLBDBHB. 

Lundy has gone to complain to King William, that 
we turned hint out; It was, I acknowledge, rather 
harsh to do so, but much better than to leave him. to 
finish his work of treachery, and have us all hanged. 
Self-love is not so great a crime as self-n^lecting. 

WALKKB. 

Now for a free and iair election — the moat j ust and 
proper way. 

ALL. 

We agree to it. 

WALKER. 

These are the two men for our purpose ; they bear 
away the bell, and can have no competitors. It is 
difficult to say which of them merits most, our beloved 
Baker or our faithful Michelburne. {Exeunt) 

75e Scene changet to the Irish Camp at Pennybum 

Mat. 

Enter Hamilton, Dorrityton, Sheldon, Bamsay, and 
LordBuchan. 



I understand, General Hamilton, that the king has 
left the whole conoem of the campaign under your 



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■niK SIEOE OF DEBHT. 7* 

«are and conduct, and a« you have oeen extremdy 
fortunate hitherto, his majesty may be well assured 
that nothing will be wanted, to the reduction of these 
undisciplined rebels to obedience. 

HAHItTOM. 

AtasI Sheldon, our cause is lost, notwithstanding 
all our successes between Dromore and Derry. The 
king misfht as well have staid in France, since we can 
effect nothing for him here, which was a point, from 
which we hod reasonable espectation we could act on 
Scotland and the north of England. One day here is 
a month's loss. England will be alarmed — Scotland 
discouraged — Dundee may he defeated for want of 
our assistance — and the thousands who would join us 
on the English borders, where our interest is strong, 
vill be dismayed, and many of them be tempted to 
throw their weight into the opposite 6caJe> The 
Prince of Orange will soon understand our designs, 
and all our undertakings will be frustrated, which if 
this unlucky accident had not occurred, would have 
been successful. Were it not for the defence of this 
city, we would be soon in Scotland, and from that hare 
proceeded triumphantly into England, while the king 
of France, all dominant as hb fleets are at sea, would 
have made a powerful diversion in our favour on the 
southern coast. Alas 1 this obstinate town disappoints, 
daunts, and disgraces us. All the forces we have can- 
not reduce this inconsiderable place. It is a poor re- 
venge to starve these people, and many would say, it is 
useless cruelty to do so, when we gain no advantage 



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7B^ TUB OROB or BMBSm. 

byit ;. tor while tm are kept here, oiirfinends io'Soab- 
Isnd nuty be crashed, and an Engjiith army anivm ini 
Belfast Lough'to orerwhelm lu. In lem than, throe- 
months the English will land there) and beat us ontroC 
Ireland. Nothing grieve» me more than the failure of 
this enterprise, promising as it was front the snceess 
we have had, and the interest we bad seenred inthe 
citj' ; for there were more Lundys than one in it; and' 
our discomfiture has been in the presence of die kiD|fs 
most excellent majesty. 

SHBLDOM. 

I must regret that the cause of our dUappointment. 
has arisen from ourselves ; we were so fiu^edwith' 
BucoeaS) that we were sure of accomplishing our ob*- 
ject ; and this may be an example to future age*,, nUb 
to de8|MM an enemy, however despicable he may ^» 
pear to be. 

LORD BUCHAK. 

This night the king sleeps at Strabane or TjSaA. 
We hear his majesty has been invited to dine witt 
Keys of Cavanacor; the next night he will be at Hie 
fbrt of Chariemout, and next day proceed on bis wi^ 
to Dublin. When it is thought he will call a pBril»- 
meut — make good all acts of settlematt and, e^an^- 
tien, so that the forfeited estates may return to.-tfide 
lawful owners— estabiirii catfaoltc corporation*— .a^K 
make such other laws aa will secure theasceodanay q£ 
his- own rdI|pon. 

HMItI.TOIh. 

Calling a pariiomeut is- folly now— Inter, m— i iiftf i 



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iHE SIEGE OF DEBUT. 79 

hffett H&muat' conquer his enemie.i, I^ore be can 
make laws to bind them. We have weighter luattera 
inh&nd. The calling of a parliament was neitber the 
king's business or intention, and whoever has reduced 
Mm to that measure, has not been judicious. The 
plan devised for his majesty with the cabinet coun<nl 
of'the king of France, was to takefifl}" thousand catho- 
lic soldiers from Ireland and Scotland, and from that 
country where he has thousands of ardent loyal subjects, 
to proceed into England, where he has thrice the num^' 
ber; Bdt this obstinate town ruins all — (striking hit 
breast) — it stops our current- — it is the destruction of 
our great designs — it makes little of us in the eyes of 
our friends, and lowers us in the estimation of our 
etiemies — it will be our ruin. Thousands were favour- 
aMe to our interest, until this appearance of the H"- 
crease of our power, and thereby we may judge i 
our knowledge of hntnan nature, and the desire of j 
preservation in every human being, will throw t 
weight in the opposite scale, and render the J*rinc 
Orange completely successful. 

If 'these people had been pardoned, and sent to t 
reepeetive habitations, we might probably have 
possession of this place at once, but you see how 
contriving of mischief fbr oth«^ lUls, in its resi 
vipma oar own heads, spoils the king's affidre, 
liMi»an opportunity of getting into Sectlandj wl 
we raayncTer meet with againi AU our ammtimt 
inrtM^'of coming' safely and promptly by sea, n 



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80 THB BIEOE OF DKBBT. 

now come by slow and bozardouR land-carriage from 
Cork or Kinsale. In the mean time our caase is lost, 
otherwise we would have had here five hundred barrels 
of gunpowder and twenty pieces of canaon, without 
which we can effect nothing agunst the walls of 
Deny, and so many thousand desperate men within 
them. All our previous successes vain — here are we 
now in a wiiitry, raJny spring, without a sufficieat. 
supply of arms for those who may join ua, and utterly 
without gun-smiths to preserve those we have iu 
order. Delays of this kind cannot be retrieved in 
warfare — the king never, never will enjoy his crown 
again — he is ruined and so are we. 

The Scetu chaTtget to the City. 

.Enter two Aldermen of Derry, both Captains of 

Companies of Foot. 

FIRST ALDEBMAN. 

Talk of your honour! Nonsense I Notlung would 
serve you but come from behind your counter to be a 
captain ; and 1, who have also done the same, have 
been as great a fool as you have been — so now we are 
both likely to be hanged together, when we might, if 
content with our own station in life, have been living 
£afely and making money by both parties. 

SECOND ALDERMAN. 

It is but too true. Little did I think when I was 
making high orange speeches at the Corporation Hhll, 
where I said, " / admired the spirit which induced the 
citizens to assanble there," unterrified by the Jacobites, 



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THE BIBGE 0^ DKRKT. 8l 

that I should become green as a leek before the ter- 
mioatioD of the approaching coDtesti and tell you 
now that I will lie no more a c^taiu in the London- 
derry militia ; I will this day throw up my cammisslon 
to the new governor. 

FIRST ALDERMAK. 

But what does this signify 7 It is true we can say, 
when General Hamilton enters the city, that we 
refused to fight agdnst King James, but he may have 
heard that I have been as pot-valiant as you have been, 
and rivalled you often times in " tearing a passion to 
rags" in the Corporation Hall ; some body may tell 
him or the priests about him, that I bound myself by 
an oath there, "to siyiport the principles of Ifie Appren' 
tice Boys of Deny" How, then, can you suppose 
I could escape the halter and the hatchet F 

SECOND ALDERMAN. 

Why, we can both say that we were only humbug- 
ing the Derry men, to entrust us with commissions, 
which might enable us, like Lundy and Buchanan, to 
be the more serviceable to our lawful king and his 
religion, — that our commissions were irregularly 
granted from then, under a delusion practised upon 
them, that we have had them from the Prince oi 
Orange, — and that, like many others, we — }'0U and I, 
brother alderman — went upon our knees to prevent 
the . apprentice boys from shutting Terry-quay gate 
against Lord Antrim's regiment last December, and 
that for our own wise purposes. 

s 3 



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HudibniH 



Maj 11t« to figlit another igj," 

Bat Lund; tbinki 'tit verj riKht,. 

To run away belbre yon fight. 
This lo^c is very agreeable to me, brother captun. 
I can tell bow that neither you nor I joined the Deny 
men on this occasion, but ftom downright fear of our 
throats being cut by the twelve hundred rapparees 
that came here with Lord' Antrim, and that we 
observed Lord Tyreonnel's proclamation to a little* 
writing his excellency a respectful letter of apology 
for the rash refusal of our mob to admit the king's 
army into the city. I am still trembling for fear 
these explanations will not be regarded, and that I 
shidl be hanged, quartered, and beheaded^ * 

7IBST ALDEBHAH. 

And if you ore trembling now, how will yon feel 
before a popish jury, with a judge whose verdict will 
be dictated to him by a Jesuit? I am apprehensive 
that you will be affected in your bowels, as those are 
whose perspiration is suddenly repelled by the frosty 
feelings of terror. 

SECOND ALDERMAN. 

There is one thing yet to be done : what think yoa 
of General Hamilton's protection ? 

FIBST ALDEBHAH. 

WeQ thought on : we must get it or we are mined. 
I hear there is one Geoi^ Hamilton who holds OQi>- 



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rMpondeiHW with his namesake^ and sells proteetieiw 
privately fwbtilf-a*guiiiea each. 



) ALDERMAN, 

Dtws' GMKidi Huuilton condegcend to run snacks 
with him ? Twonld give a whol« guinea to have hi* 
excellency's seal to my protection ; it would be then 
much more authentic. But let us first get rid of our 
swords and belts. {They pull them off and throw 
them away.) Go thy ways. Why was infernal gun- 
powder ever dug up from the peaceful bowels of the 
earth, to make men food for vultures ? These swords 
ruin many a man — 

"Ah me ! what perils do environ. 
The man who meddka with cold iron." 

FIRST ALDERMAN. 

But if the enemy should rush into the city by 
surprise, and get upon us by an escalade over the walls, 
what must we do then ? They may cut me down or 
knock me on the head before I can get the protection 
out of my pocket. What must I say then ? 

SECOND ALDERMAN. 

I have oontrived to bolt the door with our kitchen- 
maid's pot-stick, if I cannot get a bar of iron. I am 
oeeupied.an hour eveity night in barricading the lower 
windows with stones, so that they cannot get in, tilt I 
get out over the roof through a hole I have made io 
it; or if,I should stay in my house, I will look out of 
ons of. the windows ia the garret, and cry, break in it 
ypu dare,4'oT I have General Hamilton's protection m 



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84 THE BISaE OF DERBT. 

my pocket. Besides, I will get a green muk for the 
door from the Irish, and that may secure me. 

FIRST ALDEBHAN. 

That's well thought on. And we will now go to our 
wives and acqiiaiot them of our intentions. 

SECOND ALDERMAN. 

But hold, brother captain — pardon me, alderman, I 
mean — I am grievously troubled with the gout ; do 
you see these rolls of flannel round my legs P 

FIRST ALDERMAN. 

It has attacked you very suddenly ; you were never 
troubled with it before. 

SECOND ALDERMAN. 

You do not understand me ; this may save my neck. 
I had some notion of swelling my head with a saliva- 
tion for the purpose ; but this mode is more convenient. 
I will let my beard grow long, and they will then say 
this poor old man is jitter for an hospital, than to be 
dangerous to us ; so ive may spare him. (Exeunt.) 

Enter the first Alderman, with his wife. 

Shame ! shame ! I little thought that after all your 
fine speeches, your resolution to die upon the wall 
rather than submit to a surrender, to see you disho- 
nour yourself by giving up our glorious cause, and 
turning your back upon King William and Queen 
Mary. I took great delight in hearing your eloquence 
over night, and seeing you at the head of your company 
next morning. Put on your sword and belt again ; go 



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THE StEOE OF DERBY. 85 

out to your raen who are on the wall — (_q^rs to put 
them on him.) I would rather be widow of a brave 
man, than the wife of a coward. 

FIRST ALDERMAN. 

Widow ! — you terrify me — I much fear you will soon 
be oue ; so I will wear no sword till we see peaceable 
times again, if I ever see them. I wa^sh my hands 
now out of all this raah business ; I shall hu hanged — 
I shall be hanged, wife — if I proceed farther in it, and 
it will bo well if I eaeape for what I have done already. 

Never fear, man — there is no danger — ^put on your 
sword ; you will be safer with it than without it ; you 
have fifty stout fellows to follow you. 

FIRST ALDERMAN. 

I will not, wife — so take that for an answer ; per- 
haps you are thinking of another husband, but I will 
disappoint you. 

WIFE. 

I could not get one more unworthy of a woman's 
love than you are — none but the bravo deserve the 
fair ! but you have not the heart of a chicken. Your 
brother, Stepstately, has persuaded you to this act of 
cowardice : he has rolled his legs in flannel, and pre- 
tends to have a fit of the gout. You are both arrant 
cowards ; — on with your sword, man. 

FIRST ALDERMAN. 

Trouble me no farther wife ; women are no judges 
of men's affairs. 



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WIFB. 

Men's Bffiun't-—«plkeQ nan become womeB, wodhb. 
mast become men, to take thnr place, and I will tako 
that of the wife of Augbtermuty. I will put on a pur 
of your ioexpresgibles, v'lth your regimentali' and 
your sword. So take diai^e of the hen-coop tuid tbfl- 
kitdten while I go to the head of your company on 
the walls. 

FIRST ALDSRMAN. 

Away with you ; the sooner you go the better for 
me, as I will then be in the way of living to meet with 
a more peaceable wife. Any thing but fighting, within 
doors or out of them for me. (She ties Aer apron 
about the Alderman, and puis <m his belt and tword.) 
wipe- 
Now you look like wbat you are. and' I what I wish 
to be, an Amasonian wairior, and I could easily raise 
a regiment of my own sex in Derry. Come now give 
me your hand, farewell. If I die in battle you may 
marry a more dutiful wife. {She takes his right hand 
in her left, and draioing the SKord, strikes him a sound 
blow, with the flat of it, on his head, sayitiff) — I dub 
you, Sir Knight of the White Feather — away to the 
hen-coop — so surrender ! (^ExewU.) 

A noise and shouting without the scenes. Huzxas ! 
Drums and Trvmpets sounding. 
Enter some solders, shouting — We have a new go- 
vernor, one of our own choosing. Long live Migor- 
Baker, our worthy governor. 



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JQieir. MduametMumvi Cairmt, and Waiter. 

CAISNES. 

Noble Baker is chosen to be our goveraor, and the 
true-hearted Walker his assistant. One for the oen- 
duct of the army, and the other for the care of the 
provisions, and the regulation of the ciril a&irs of die 
futy. They are to have a ooun<^ of five good men 
and true. We have now to regiment all the troops 
and companies within the walls ; and will find some 
difficulty in doing so, from the number of officers who 
have gone from us. Aa soon as our companies are 
made up, we are to prepue muster rolls, and by the 
gfivemor's orders you. Colonel IdBcbelburae, are to- 
muster the men. 

EtUer Govemor Baker^ — th^ alt lalule him cordialfy. 

BASER. 

Oentlemen, although I have had the honour to be 
entrusted with the care of all things within and with- 
out the city, in my absence or other occupation, you 
are all to observe and do whatever Colonel Michel- 
bume commands you. He is in authority over the 
military department, next in command to myself, with 
great affection and kindness be it spoken. We will, I 
trust, under heaven, act together and manage all 
things well, for the preservation of this citadel of civil 
and religious liberty. But come, our time is precious, 
tlierefbre let us to business. Do you agree to what 
ire have long wished for — not to wait within the walls 
for an attack, but to sally out and fight the enemy ; we 



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So laz meoK of debrt. 

will do so with the great advantage of their not ex- 
pecting UB. 

ALL. 

We all agree to fight 

BAKBB. 

At tax o'clock to-morrow morning P 

ALL. 

We do. 

UICHBLBUBKE. 

Quarter or no quarter ? 

No quarter ; they would ^ve no quarter, although 
they should promise it, and we have no room here for 
prisoners — no food to spare for enemies. 

MICHELBUBKE. 

I question not but that, by the blessing of heaven 
on a righteous cause, we shall make a glorious com- 
mencement of our operations. (Exeunt.) 



ENn or ACT n. 



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THE BIEOE OF DEBRT. 



Scene — TSe IrisA Canq>, near Pennybvm MiU. 

Enter HamUlon, SheldoTt, Ramsay, Waucop, Dm"- 
rington, and Lord Bvchan. 



I have had alt those letters from the city, giving an 
account of the ringleaders of the rebels, and of their 
new governor ; the old one, it seems, they have turned 
out, with a, bundle of matches on his back, placed 
there to protect him in disguise from the mob, who 
would have torn him to pieces or hanged him if 
they caught him, in punishment for his fidelity to the 
king ; and the return he made them, was a successfid 
endeavour to persuade the officer commanding it to 
surrender the fort of Culmore — an important object for 
us, as if it remained in the handti of the rebels, we^ 
should be here between two fires. I hear he bribed an 
attorney, and two other persons, to sell the fort to 
him, and he had money enough to pay them hand- 
■omely. — The city is weak in its fortification, the wall 
being less than nine feet thick along the face uf the 
ramparts, with a ditch and eight bastions, and some 



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9Q TBE SIEQB OF DEBUT. 

Dew ont-works hastily raised. Of all the guns upon 
the walls, placed there fifty years ago, scarcely twenty 
are fit for use. They have nearly twenty thousand 
women and children, and boya and men incapable of 
bearing anus, of which they have a scanty supply for 
their regiments, and Colonel Lundy has taken tamely 
care that there should be a shortness of provisions in 
their stores. 

RAMSAY. 

But, sir, the private houses are well fumisbed wtfh 
all they want in this way ; and there is raore meal and 
other provisions in some particular houses, than in the 
public stores. It is said that Walker's large house is 
full from top to bottom, though he does sot wish it 
should be known that he has more than is necessary 
for his own family. 

WAUCOP. 

I had a letter last night from a very loyal man, who 
was deputy mayor to O'Neill, who was placed there 
when a quo warranto went against the charter of the 
corporation, and introduced loyal Catholics into the plase 
Df disaffected Protestants, as aldermen and burgesses- 
John Buchanan they called him ; he always co-opentted 
with Colond Lundy, and I am surprised that he has not 
twen sent of along with him. He, however, wi^es ta 
make his escape, with farther intelligence for us, and 
nakes it his request, that your escellenoy will send him 
L protection for himself and his family, and manyotb«rw 
HAUiivroN. 

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"nwre is one of myntuud in tlie town, wfao hiiIhibf 
gtOBt profit by seUing them at hidf a galoea eadk 

LORD BUCHAN. 

Your excellency may see that their cobweb gorern- 
ment is already tottering. 

HAMILTON. 

If it be not tottering, I will soon make it totter, aad 
tnraUe too; and then the rebels, like their host of 
£!n^i^ predecessors in high treason, shall totter and 
tomble from scaffolds in scores. We will make aa 
example in Deny, like that which Cromwell made in 
Drogheda, after which every garrison town in Ireland 
jnelded to him without opposition. (ExemtJ)- 

The Scene change* to Deny. 

Suter Goe^nor Bakery with Colonels Mieh^btmte ami 

Gaimea, and Freeman the Town Major. 

BAKBB. 

TTie enemy lies very secure this morning — partly, I 
think, from their opinion of our weakness, if not of 
oar cowdice ; they suppose we fed oarselres un- 
eqaal to meet an army in the field, and dare not look, 
at tlwm except from over our walls. 

M1CHBI.BURNB. 

1 will try that, and we may happen to brush up their 
jackets for them.. 

CAIRNKS. 

They endeavoured to terrify us at sunrise this mom- 
isg^^l^i firing^^ into tlie csty&om one of tfaeir cnlverina 
abtkKirtlier aide of: the river ; and I r^retted to - sas. 



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92 TBE BIEGB OF DEBRT, 

the effect it bad upon some of tbe crowd in the Dia- 
mond ; but it did little damage, except to the market- 

MICHELBDBNB. 

They may happen to grow less nervous when they 
hear the first shot &om Roaring Meg, followed by a 
heavy cannonading of the Irish camp from the rest of 
the large guns on the walls. Nothing like u»e in such 
matters ; and the Irish may prove blundering marks- 
men, and BO make more noise than mischief here. 
Colonel Murray, with his regiment of horse, and you 
as his lieutenEmt-colonet, will march on the right of ub 
along the strand. Go to him, Caiiines, and tell him to 
be in readiness immediately ; and desire him to take 
the two filairs, Archibald Sanderson, and William 
Beatty, with their companies of foot, along with him. 
In alt sudden attacks, an intermixture of infanty with 
cavalry has a powerful effect ; Ceesar tried it at Phar- 
salia, and won the battle. 

TOWN-MAJOR. 

I saw Murray in his armour a few minutes ago, 
mounted at the bead of bis regiment ; a nnble fellow 
he is — six feet five in his stocking feet, and propor- 
tionably strong in his stature. 

" A uton north; of his ancient line, 
Bespccting laws both human and divine, 
Form'd, mind and body, for some great deiign." 
MICHELBtJKNE. 

He has proved this already. He was powofiiUy 
efficient in covering our retreat from Cladyford and 



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THE 61E0E OF DEBRT. 93 

Castiefin, and may retunt the compliment of the mur- 
derous cnlverin before noon. It vas meuiiiees in 
Hamilton to attempt to make his venerable &ther 
influence him to abandon us. 

The old man then performed a Spartan deed. 

Which well became a Murrey of the Tweed ; 

From Phillphaugh these gallant heroes came, 

A line lODg known in Scottish rolls of fame. 

It will be necessary that the garrison should be under 

arms until our return, and that a thousand men shall 

be ready to sally out, and support us, if there should 

be a necessity for their doing so — of which they shall 

be jn^mptly informed. 

BAKER. 

All this shall be punctually obaerred. 

HICHELBURNE. 

Governor, adieu for a while. (^xeun/.) 

Enter Baker and WaUur. 

BAKER. 

Our men march boldly on. The enemy seem to be 
iu a violent hurry in their camp, as if they were ex- 
pecting a sally. Our rere has been brought up by 
Cc^tEun Cochran, with his company of Armagh tme 
blues, preceded by Major Ball and his Meath men, his 
gallant father accompanying them. This sabbath day 
will not be one of rest ; but I hope the Lord's work 
may be lawfully done on his own holy day, in the cose 
of sad necessity which imposes it as a duty on us. 

WALKBB. 

We are now on equal terms with the enemy, who 



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'94l ^TBE aiKOE OF MBHT. 

•nererregwdedthembbaUi inUieir Attacks upoatlKMS 
'vho ngaxd iL I osnnot resist the impulse I feel <to 
be with our friends who have sallied out eo gaHaaflj, 
and am determined to go out with the tfamuaad lAe 
are to support them, vbicb I t^prebend will be neces- 
sary. I should like to be near Murray on an emer- 
gency. 

BAKEB. 

I think you are right in your resolutioD, and I wiU 
■ take care of all in the mean time. 



The enemy has lined the ditches, uid dare not en- 
gage us in the open field. - ^xA,) 

BAKEB. 

ITi^ may now send proposals to surrender tttem- 
selves. 

BjUer another Officer. 

OFFICKK. 

The fight has begun. {ExtL'i 

Enter a Aird Q^fr. 

OVPICBB. 

-Tbe tatmy gives way ; our nea-iiave b«aten Aam 
'ombOt tite ditch. I sawitfram the walls, And fasud 
'Uwshovt oarimen gave. ^Eaeit) 

IJ&Uera jimtth C^er. 
' oyriovB. 
The enemy fly, and «re 'beaten over Peunybam 
•Hwr.iUrtiHir party baTe.»ettwo t m M B o> Ottiare. 



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Order Colonel Walker and a thouuud men to 
march oat as a Teiuforcement. 

Enter a fifth Officer. • 

OFPICBR. 

Colonel Murray haa done wondera, but is forced to 
give iray, and he is pursued by the enemy's horse to 
the gates, the French Generals, MaumODt uid Fuiig- 
niati, beading the pursuers. 

Muter a lixtA Officer from the fight. 

OrFICBB, 

Colonel Murray, in his ^arge through the enemy, 
after his first repulse and the arrival of the reinforce- 
ment, bod so less than three personal rencounters with 
the Fr«adi G^ieral Maumont, in the last of which he 
killed iam on.the spot. A short time before this the 
Colmel was surrounded by a crowd of asstulants, and 
likely to be overpowered by them, notwithstuidiiig 
tlie prodigies of stmts'^ "i^ v^oHr whitdt he exht* 
bited; but Colonel Walker, who had cone out on foot 
with the -reinforcement, mounted a horse whose rider 
had been kiUed, nJlied the retreatii^ Derry men, and, 
at tbe JHimMient peril of his liCe, reacued his heroic 
brother soldier from inqten^g death. General Pusig- 
nion-^as received a severe wound. General Porter 
another, and the Duke of Berwick has got so violent 
a -csntusion on the baek-booe that at first it VKaa 
'thought he was killed; M^or Taafe, brother of tke 
Earl of Carlingford, has been killed, with wx or seven 



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dragoons near him ; and it is thougbt that there is no 
one among the French engaged to-day, who has not 
been wounded or had his horse shot under him — they 
were nftch more forwrad in the fight than the Irish 
werei not one of whoae officers, even Hamilton, dis- 
tinguished himself. 

I will go and welcome Michelburne and our gallant 
men of Derry back. Who talks of a surrender now ? 
{Exeuttt,') 

Seme — GeTteral Hamilton's Quarters, near PetmybKm 
Mill. 

HAMILTON. 

A messenger came to me a few minutes ago, and 
told me that a swarm or two of the rebels came out 
of their hive to take the air ; they are so hot where 
they are that the old ones turn out the young ones to 
get rid of them. I will soon serve them as other bees 
' are served — put brimstone under their htve and smo- 
ther them all. I was, indeed, going to mount my 
horse and meet them ; but, on reflection, thought it 
not worth my while to do so. We shall have a hun- 
dred or two of them to hang presently, for I have 
given orders that they shall have no quarter. It is 
only three or four days' sport to tantalize them ; we 
may let them on till they play themselves, and get 
within our grasp, and then serve them as the cat does 
the mice — first amuse ourselves with them, and then 
devour them. 



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THE 81EGE OP DXHRT, 97 

WAUCOP. 

I like that very well, if it vere no more than to 
make these trutora an example to others. Wliile we 
have the king, and the whole weight of th^popula- 
tioD, on our side, we may make short work of it, with 
this fraction of the colonists, too weak to resist such 
a pressure. 

Enter Sheldon. 

HAMILTON. 

What news, Sheldon? What piisoaers have we 
for execution P The hangman in ready to do his duty ; 
the judge need not interfere ; every man taken is a 
convicted tnutor, and shall receive the benefit of mar- 
tial law. 

saSLDON. 

Prisoners !^your men are all beaten; they might 
have had prisoners enough of ours, if they would take 
the trouble of securing them. If Lord GtUmoy had 
not come down with his horsC) and Brigadier General 
Bamsay with his foot from Ballougry, we would have 
been utterly rented, and our whole army might fly 
for their lives. They, however, forced the rebels to 
retire ; Ramsay himself had no mind to engage them. 
General Maumont has been killed, and Pusignian is- 
mortaUy wounded. 

' HAHILTOH. 

Is it possihie ? 

SHRLDON. 

It is very certain— too certtUD. 



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98 TBS BIBGE OP DEKRT. 

HAMILTON. 

Oh, moat miserable I These rebels begia to ^t 
beart, and tliis will double their uucnberi whU« it ia- 
creases^eir audacity. Let me have a fiart built in- 
mediately, to cover PennyburD Mill, md another at 
Ballongry, to {ffeierve our infantry; asd let the ragt- 
ments of Sir Michael Creagh, Lord Skne, Sir Mawriee 
Eustace, Lord GormaRBtOwn, Colonel Nugent, Colonel 
O'Neill, Colonel Cavaiiagh, Coloael Butler, Lord Clan- 
carty. Sir John Fitzgerald, and Sir Johit Ba^ial. oc- 
cupy the line from Dallougry mouatiuQ to Cttbnore 
fort, and so hermetically seal these reb^ to the Foyle 
eide, into which we will drive them, or bury tkau 
in the ruins of their devoted city. The king sayi, 
that if he had an army altogether English, they would 
bring him this miseraUe town, stone by stone, in three 
days ; we will prove to his majesty that our Irish army 
is as willing and as able to do so. We can, when our 
heavy guns arrive, silence its batteries — for it is on all' 
sides surrounded by high grounds ; the walls are weak, 
and the old guns upon them hoaeysudUed. 

(Eainmi.) 
7Kf Scene change* to Derrjf' 
Enler Governor Baker, Colonels Walker, MickeOmne, 
Murray, and Caimes, with the Town M<yor- 

UICUBI.BVRNB. 

A blessed Sunday's work I This is now nmething 
to cheer us — some sport on our side, to raise our sjurits 
and give us hope of ultimate success iroai lo \t$^j a 
beginning. Their carcases strewed the field; scarcely 



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TBS 8IECB OF OKBBY. 99 

a man of them got off without a wound, or tiaving his 
iione shot under bim. Noble Aluiray, you are covered 
with blooming Ia«r«Is — how you Iiud about you ; and 
Walker, light hearts are always young, you forgot you 
were a septuagenarian, when you nuhed tuto the 
imttle, to the relief of your gallant friend, when he 
was surrounded by the enemy. But here come some of 
of our men with th«r plunder ; let ui see what they 
bave got — the more the better j they might have been 
content with their victory. I am always afraid of the 
consequences of stopping for plunder — many hi^ve been 
tbe sad results of it. 

Writer six soldiers — lhei/pas» over the stages-one teith 
ajpair o/Jack-bpots, a troepcr's coat, and a cote of 
pi^oit 1 the tecond with a fine laced saddle, crying, 
" Here's plunder ■" the third with a fidl-baitomed 
FrentA v>ig, a tUver-hiited sword, and gold-fringed 
g kte c t J the fifih with a green net purae, full of 
i^>amth pittoia, crying, " Pluntfer, boys, plunder — < 
here's goldi" t/w sixth mying, "Here's a fine horse." 

UICHEJ^UBNX. 

Why did you not bring ium in ? 

eouiiKK. 
He is top large to get in through the door ; we took 
him from one of the field officere. {Efetuff.') 

litis sifccess vUl greatly enliven our men ; we now 

$gt^ bow the memy'' P»^ '''iti^ i ^^y p^v^^o iw 

surreoAef of mr NbliiutaUv t»ty. 

F 2 



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100 TBX 8IRGB OF DKBBT. 

BAKSB. 

Aye, and thdr hearts, too. We have not yet done 
irith them ; they will rue the day that they came 
before ttfe valU of Deiry. (ExewM,') 

The Scene ehanget to the Iriik Can^. 
Enter SamUton, Skddoh, Ranut^, and Dorrmgton. 

HAMILTOH. 

ThiB night there shall be an attack upon the Wind- 
miU ; if we secure it, the city will be our own. Briga- 
dier General Ramsay, you shall have the honour of 
this command; yoor long experience in the French 
service, tells me that no man can be fitter for it than 
yon are. Remember, that the word is — no qdabtxr. 

EAUSAT. 

I thank your excellency for confer^g so great air 
honour on me; all your orders shall be punctually- 
observed. I will go and 'get all things in readiness. 
(Exeunt Banuaj/.) 

OORHINGTOK. 

I fancy there will be but little opposition ; their 
guards at the Windmill do not exceed one htuidred 
men, nor are there any works of defence about it. 

SBBLDOK. 

They will not venture to make a sally when we are 
so near them ; onr patroles pass by the walls every 
flight without disturbance. 

HAMItTOir. 

Let us pursue it with vigour, undiminished by the 
check we have got ; brave actions if not promptly fc^- 
lowed up, were better to have been nev» b^[un. 



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XBK anas op dxhbt* 101 

DontmoTOK. 
What number will your excellency order for the 
attack? 

HAMILTOIT. 

About three thousand ; one battalion of the king's 
suards, Bams^s whole regiment, Sir Maurice Eus- 
tace's fusileers, Colonel Butler's and Colonel Gordon 
O'Neill's regiments, and Lord Galmo/s horse to sus- 
tain them. I will now go and view them before they 
make ready to inarch. {Exeunt.) 

J%e Scene changet to Derry. 
Enter MicheSnirtte with a Spy. 

UlCHBLBURMB. 

yffj\, py inendt what news from the enemy's camp ? 

%pV. 

There is no less than four regiments of their foot, 

and one of horse, ordered to be ready. They are to 

march at ten o'clock to-night, but I could not leam 

their design. (Bxit «py.) 

MICHKLBCBME. 

Let them come — we shall soon find them. They 
must have more mettle than they iisd at Pennybum 
MIL They may come like thieves in the night, mid , 
find the reception of thieves from those who expect 
them. I, however, suspect what they are at, and will 
be on my post at the Windmill to meet the Qutxottes. 
Our sentries will of course be set oat, and at the a^^ 
proach of the enemy we will draw off to the Ravelin. 



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102 nm BTEaa of dehkt. ' 

Snter Saier and the Toton Major. ' 

¥Veemu], give orders immedi&tely for the garrismi to | 
get under arms, and repair to their several alarm postSf 
the enemy are on their raardi. 

An alarm afar off, jhUotoed by atwther ; a voUof itf 

small skot, succeeded by a second; on akirm tMcaner. 

Re-enter the Town Mofcr. 

TOWN MAJOR. 

Our men are beaten off the 'V^ndmill ; KGcbelbanW 
and his men have retreated to the Ravelin. { 



Go immediately and let him in, that we nay consult 
what is most necessary to be done. 

(Exit Town 3l<^.) 
We are beholden to General Hanulton for returning 
oi)r visit to Penuybum iSSii. 

The Scene changes to the Irish Can^ 
StUer ffamilton, Sheldon, and Waucop. 

HAUILTOK. 

You talkad of trenches ; wh&t ugnified treocbes 
when ^ti& enemy flunked us F Indeed had we traiudMa 
, aa. the Souks, that would have been somethli^, Car 
when the rebels cuEe upon us, widi two bodies t£ 
men, and charged us right and left, we were diea 
obliged to quit our trenches, and draw into a boc^i 
a^d t^n lay opw to tfaeir guns from die w^k, vhicli 
made lanes through our men. 



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THE aEOE OF DERBY. }03 

Eater an officer. 

llie fig^ Beems doubtful ; great oppoaitiflD and gal- 
lant figbting on both aides. 

Enter another officer. 

OFFICER. 

Our men are falling very fast, for what the rebeli 
want in skill they have in courage. 

Enter a third officer. 

OFFICES. 

Our men give ground, and unless your excellency 
appears among tSiem the victory will fall on the rebels' 
side. 



That shall not be wanting. {Exeunt.) 

7^ Scene changes to Herry. 

Enter Governor Baker, Colonel Catrnes, and the 
Toicn Major. 

BAKEK. 

The day is onrs, the enemy has fled. 

CAIBNES. 

Murray is in hot pursuit of them with his horse; 
but where is Michelbume ? 

TOWN NAiOR. 

He will be here presently; he only staid to give 
Murray die necessary orders, bow far he should pursue 



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lOi THE eaas of scbbt. 

EjOer MitAeSnime. 

HICHBLBintME. 

I think between onr right and left we peppered them 
off in high style. 

BAKER. 

They will hardly come to the Windmill agun for a 
day or two. 

That reginieDt of ^ Maurice Eustace's, with their 
captun, Btoftd stjffly to tfa^r business ; the DoMin tnen 
fought well, and the mayor proved he was equal to a 
higher military office than that of a paymaster ; but 
when they saw us draw near them, with our last re* 
serve, their courage forsook them, and they took to 
their heels. How like stags they boonded over the 
ditches, while the Derrymen, like true bred beagles,- 
BCOured after them in full cry. 

A great thout toithin — " Make room for my Lord 
Netterville." Two toldiert lead hit lordth^ w— < 
three of his fingers cut off, and a cut on hU fatx-^ 
a liuty, fat old num. They tet him doom tn a chair, 

BAKBB. 

Who are you, sir ? 

LOBD NBTTEBVILLE. 

The unfortunate Netterville. 

BAKBB. 

What ! Lord Netterville ? 

LOBD NETTEBV1U.B. 

So they call me, for I am a peer of the realm ; three 



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score yean and ten ; and yet I was fascinated to turn 
soldier in my old age. My spirit is fiunt — pray let 
me lie down, 

WALKSB. 

Get a surgeon immediately — his lordsliip is funting ; 
get him a glass of sack quickly. {Wine brought.) 

BAKEB. 

My service to your lordship ; your good health. 

NKTTERVILLK. 

I thank you, sir. {ffe taket the glass.) Pray do me 
the favour of letting me lie down somewhere. 

BAKER. 

Yonr lordship shall have a comfortable room) agood 
bed, and every requisite Eitteudance. 

{Exit Lord Nettereille toith attendants.) 
Ajiother great shout within. 
Enter two Serjeants, bringing in Colonel Talbot, bleed- 
ing, and carried on a hand-barrow. After him Sir 
Garret Ayltner is brought in, and laid by the soldiers 
mt the stage. 

BAKEB. 

iPray who is this ? 

WALKEB. 

It is Colonel TJbot, otherwise wicked Will Talbot, 
brother to Lord Tyrconnell. 

BAKER. 

He has been blessed Will, bad as he may have been, 
that the soldiers did oot knock him on the head. I wish 
his relative, our oppressor, were in his place ; but 'he 
is a hostage worth taking care of. 



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106 TBM amtV QF IJSVW. 

TOWK ViJOB. 
As I with Bonu others were Tieviqg the dev4 bo^iaii 
whose ehould we eee but that of Brigadiw Gftnerflt 
Bamsay, the officer that commanded the attack. We 
found General Hamilton'a order in his pQoket-4»M^^- 
the word was, no quaktsk. | 

CAlHNBfi. j 

I suppose Ramsay, in hia desperation at (aUipflCto | 
accomplish his object, neither called, for nor desired , 
quarter ; he was esteemed the mpst eSicient officer in , 
the Irish army, with the exception of Geaqntt lia* i 
milt on. 



We consider that about two hundred of thf &a^toy 
have been killed in the action) and that no less than 
five hundred have beep wounded, most of them very 
severely. 

BAKES. 

Send a drum to General Hamilton, desiring h« wopld 
send out a detachment to bnry his dea4i It in t^ be 
hoped that this will be done in a decenter and less 
slovenly manner than at Pennybum Hill, wlv^r^ ^y 
scarcely covered the dead bo4ies with earth, leaving 
them to be food for dogs and birds of prey* 

y%e Scene chattgea to the Irish Can^. 

HAIflLTiOir. 

It is yet uncertain how niwy IM^i^cipf^ 



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bam laal in dkii nnfifftunate enterprise neither is it 
known witetiier the rebels gave stay quarter or not. 

DODRINGTON. 

I think they did give quarter, otbenrise they would 
not have taken any prisoners. Numbers, you seC) 
have been severely wounded, and it is believed by all 
-who hcve esei^d, that our loss is very conKiderable. 
0(Aaae\ Nugent ^bas been as badly wounded as I have 
hBtai ; he distinguished himself so much for his intre- 
^di^ and activity, that he could hardly escape on 
such a trying occasion. I hear that seven field officers, 
and about thirty captains, lientenants, and ensigna, 
bare foese kiUed or taken. Our soldiers behaved very 
bi Jl y; at the moat critical time, when their valuur 
might have turned the scale in our favour, tbey ran 
UKay, sbamefi^y leaving their ofiicers in the larch. 

mSLBOM. . 

ThfidcMrtiOTis have been increasing in an alarming 
»amer stace oar disaster at Pennybum Mill, and I do 
not tUnk tbere are now more two thousand of the 
kiss's vmy in their camp, notwithstanding all t}"'t had 
ooBif down with u ; many of them run away as soon 
as they lay hold on aoy plunder, and two thousand of 
them either having died by disease or killed in battle, 
MM V* ovne into mster, the remainder shake and 
tanaUe when drawn out for battle, aad are so undis- 
Q^iBKd, and partieulariy so ignorant of the use of 
matchlocks, that they are the most inefficient body of 
men I ever beheld in my life ; but, bad as they are, it 
|^ev«d me to see the best of them, tiiose who re- 



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mained with their officm, canied off in many otfU 
toirarda St. Johnstown. 

Enter an officer. 

OFFICE B. 

Sad news, sad uew^— Brigadier Gen«ral Ramiay has 
been killed, with Captains Kelly, Fox, and Bamewall, 
and Eniigns Barnewall and Caddell. Lord Netter- 
ville, Sir Garret Aylmer, Lieutenant Colonel Talbot, 
Lieutenant Newcomen, and Colonel Gordon O'N^llf 
have been badly wounded. 

HAHILTOK. 

These losses grieve my heart ; particularly the death 
of Manmont and Ramsay. We will not, however, 
reiterate the error of sending a funeral to prodium our 
disasters from Deny to Dublin, as we did in the 
case of the gsUant Pusignian; — let the rematas of 
brave Ramxay be honourably buried in hb uniform, on 
the spot where he fell, as soon as our detachment pro- 
ceed there to bury our dead. His loss is irreparable ; 
I never knew an abler officer ; indeed scarcdy one 
that could be compared with him, as to valour, pru- 
dence, or presence of mind. 

LOBD BUCHAN. 

I cannot account for these successes of an undisci- 
plined enemy, not one out of an hundred of whom 
know the manual exercise, or saw a shot fired in- 
anger. 

OFFICES. 

But, my lord, most of them have been habttnated to 



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TBI BIEOE OF DKBBT. 109 

the nie of flre-anns and hones from their infancy ; so 
that they ore as good marksmen as they are intrepid 
riders. And the long guns used by them in shooting 
the Derry widgeon, and the Lougiuwilly barnacle, 
are, in the hands of these atromons rebels, as the very 
best rifle-barrelled muslcets in those of experienced 
riflemen ; and by the unerring aim they iiave taken at 
us within these last few days' fighting, their feaia, if 
they have any, seem to magnify our men in their eyes 
to the size of wild geese. One thousand of such fel- 
lows would make havoc among six millions of such 
men as our newly levied troops, who have a terror of 
the sight or smell of gunpowder — who are subject to 
panicfl, to sudden frights without cause, and who are 
provided with arma scarcely fit for use, and without 
any gun-smiths, except Protestant prisoners. 

HAMILTON. 

Who would be as unwise in putting a strong instead 
of a weak spring in one of our muskets, as a heretical 
bishop or priest would be in building a battery against 
hiinsel^ in a house of worship for the mother and mis- 
tress of all churches. As to our arms, the condition 
of them is most alarming ; we have not even a Pro- 
testant prisoner here who could repair them, if he 
would do so effectually, though there are many thus 
employed in Dublin, who have long since taken the 
precaution not to take apprentices of any but their 
own religion, and to whose wilful neglect we may at- 
tribute the present state of our muskets. I have not, 
in all my army, a single gun-smith, and in onr stroag- 



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no mi BOQC or nmr. 

Mt battiliM, nu»rfl tima two-1U<da «f it ve wUmwI 
■»ordf,baHi, or Ixuidalum; t^ 8b>oi^sst traop of our 
ctraby and dngooaa hu not, from this CMue, nere 
tjMW twelve w fbaiteea taoopen able for cffiineat so^ 
viee. This mxiU be praaiptly pepFesenied to tke iaag. 
We mofit, ia tiie taeaa time, fiad out Btmc o^er way 
to reduce this aty, bow grows mwe obatmAe £tam 
ibe great number of oar meo's snoB wldeli tiave fUlen 
into tb^ hattda, besides serend of onr oolourB, dace 
oS them carried off by tb«r women, to the great £»• 
grace of our men. They have got three pieces of o«r 
cannon, with nuiny cart>load8 of pickaxes, spades aad 
BhoTvls, with tea barreli of our gunpowder, asTend 
drums and haJberts. Let a parley be beaten at aun- 
liH to-morrow moming, that we may know vhMi pri- 
soners they Iiave taken, and what time we inay send 
ont detachments to bury our dead ; and when that is 
dime, let it l>e performed more deoendy titan it was 
after our disaster at Pennybura Mill. 

Eitter an Sjfnvu, who ddivers a leUtr to G«MenU 
Hamiiton, tohick be reads — 
" Sir — The king is muck dissatisfied at your slow 
pvoceediugs, and the great defeat you have lately met 
at PeBoybum HUl. when you nificred yoursctf to be 
uuprised, by a ontenptible enemy, with the kos <tf 
audi men as Uaumont and Puagaian. To gntrd 
againat a reeuirence of su<^ a diaaater, "-fHt 
BoaeM, an offioer of experience, em{doy8d in mpfma^ 
]«( tha HMgneaoti of Luiguedoc, and a Linte«ukfe 



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TIB nam <» aamr. Ill 

0«oeMl oS the "PttmA eavalry, m ezwUent oOcer of 
giwat hwtveiy and appUcatioo, hu been tent to mn- 
wqh . En B wfc i JI wi. wtfa tea tfaoBaand men ; after tfae re- 
^sfiesi of whidi ineopfud^nUe town, he vill tken 
adTPDce to t&ke ^ ewnmvid of bis ou^esty's army 
Itefore I>eny) which the king it impaltent to have 
is hi« {loSMeiioB, as the occopation of it by the rebeli 
is an impediment to all his measures, and threatens to 
be the utter ruin of hit cauie. 

** The eight hoodred men sent to Lord Dandee hare 
fufyiy arrived in tiie highlands of Scotland, where the 
^horrence of PresbyterianiiDi, to which the Prince c^ 
Qnuige is devoted, has raidered th^n moit accept- 
able. Edeoburg CaaUe is stoutly defended by his 
Qraee the Dake of Gordon, 

" Farewell — Mblpobt." 

Famine, plague, and death li^t upon the town <^ 
Deny t the traitors in it persist in their wickedness, 
Bfld glory in their rebellion. I would take them to my 
heaii, and ^ve them all the kingdom could afford, if 
they vould but stop short in their career to destruc- 
tion, and retunt to their allegiance. So far from this, 
kowevM*, they are building two privateers, which will 
be launohed in a few days. This will not only enable 
them to pass our troops on the river-side, but be the 
MMua of getting thence a supply (d provisions, which 
they are in much want of at present, from the shores 
of the Upper Lough, towards St. Johnstown, PorthaU, 
aitd liiBwd. As for the Lower Lakei we have it sealed 



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112 

from tlieir expected relief by the boom, wUi^ it is 
impoMible they could break through in Bpite of the 
strong batteries at each end of it, oa the banks of the 
river. It is now completed ; the firtt we made would 
not float, and was broken by the spring tides, but that 
which we have now fixed there ia of lighter materials, 
and will answer the purpose better. It is fiutened at 
one end through the arch of a bridge, and at the other 
by a huge piece of timber, the larger end of which 
has been fixed in the ground and ^teaed by heavy 
stone work. I have no further reply to make to this 
letter, than to say that there ie a rumour that the Eng- 
lish troops, designed for the reduction of Ireland, are 
about to embark at Highlake, near Chester, under the 
command of Duke Schomberg — ninety vessels, carry- 
ing nearly ten thousand horse and foot; and that I 
hear, but do not believe, that fifty or sixty ships have 
been discovered making for the harbour of Lough 
Foyle or that of Lough Swilly, equally contiguous to 
us, and designed for the relief of the Londonderry 
rebels. (^Exeunt.) 

The Scene changes to Serry, 

Enter Saker, Mickelbwrne, and Caimes, and with 

them a CovMryman. 

BAKSB. 

Repeat agcun what you told me respecting what you 
saw about the English shipping. 
coUNTavHAN. 
It is now five days since I saw the English fleet off 



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THK BIME OF DKBBT. 113 

the eouts of Dowa «Dd Antrim, not &r Srota Carridc- 
flei^ns, steering their course tovarda Derry ; and, at 
the same time, we sav some boats making for the 
Copeland Islands, where we were ^ven to understand 
that the fleet was for the relief of Londonderry, and 
that there were five thousand men on board, under the 
jQommand of General Kirke, together with ammuuitioa 
and provisioiis for the gurison. 

CAIBNBS. 

V/ith your approbation, governor, let us have a 
day's rejoimg. The bells of the cathedral should be 
rung, and the cannon from the walls ought to be dJa-, 
eharged, to strike terror into the hearts of the Irish 
army and their French GeneraL 

HICHKLBUBKX. 

Let this be delayed for a day or two, till our spies 
return with mwe encouraging intelligence. 

{Exeunt omtut.) 

The Scene changes to the Irish Camp, 
Enter Rosen, with a Generals Staff, foUowed 6jf 
Hamilton, Sheldon, Dotrington, the Earl of Clan- 
eartg, Lord Buehan, and others. 

ROSBN. 

My lords and gentlemen, the accounts of the two 
defeats which you have sufi'ered from the rebels, one 
at Pennybum Mill and the other at the Windmill, have 
thrown King James into a state of melancholy, bor- 
dering upon despair ; and I understand that the loss is 
mudi greater than has been i 



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114 nn BEOB or nEMiT. 

jetiy—ao ieae than that of Geoanda HauiaoDt, Vaaig- 
juaji, aod Bomeay, witii fifty carte of wonnded men 
■ent to St. JohBfitetrn, several of then field oSeem. 

HAMILTON. 

HI fmiooe aoraetimsB attends (be baveat seldiwv. 
Wc vwtted net mea of gi«at expeiiencs aod eBoellent 
omdact ; and as for <ne of Iheia, nnfiirtiuiately loot to 
us by the vicissitude of war, Brigadior Gaoetal Ram- 
Bay, he had skill, coura^ and osperience, vbich capa- 
«itated him tor a Marshal of jB^aace. 

Geiwnl HamikoB, aad you, geodonea, yeu moat 
MW reteieve your lost rhoaour, and Ferrive your kiBg*a 
drooping spirits. I have a reiidiaroeintBC cf fiftaea 
hundred men with me, who are aUe to bring that little 
torn to me, coounwaded as it is l^ enuneBoes aa all 
aides of it, stoee by stone. I mtertain an nttar «oi^ 
tempt af it, a»d its undisciplined defenders ; and I 
now swear, in your presence, that I will demolish and 
bury every man, woman, and child, between its crazy 
walla, ia the nBoa of them and the houaea they mm- 
Knmd. What nuUta^ isan could doubt the praetiea- 
■ bility of this, who saw &e place as I did this moni- 
iag? I have positive ofdera to reduce this nest of 
leMs, and will do so, cost what it may. Let aU thii^ 
be ve*d/ lo-nwROw raflcnittg for a geoOTal attack. 



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Tta n«GB or debkT. 



ACT IV. 

ScKNS— 7%« IHth Cm^ 

Enter Rosen, Hamilton, and Sheldon. 

BOSEN. 

I want to know if all things be ready for a general 
attack? 

Enter anc^cer. 

OFPICEB. 

Fkaw your excellency, all is ready — ire only vwt 
your si^al for a battle. 

SOSSN. 

Go immediately and cause the guna to fire ; take, 
fan that all is right. (Exeimt.) 

ROSEN — JO/tU. 

'Tit not for James but Louis Hint we fight. 
For Jamei to him bM noir traniferred Ui right ; 
When Borne and Fnnce in Erin's Ida pienll, 
England'! nhole force to uve her cant avail ; 
A GaJtIc province lOon this land must b^ 
And tb«t brewell to fingliah hereef. 



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116 THI UEOS OF DIRBT. 

Dnmi beat, tnmpeU somnd, conimmu _firt ; a great 
Aout U heard at a diHanee, Jblhwed bj/ OMotier 
itmd one nearer. 

Enter Soeen and Hamiiton. 

fiOSEN. 

Never did men stand their ground like these rebels, 
for notwithstanding our men were k11 under their 
works, not one of them flinched — not an individual 
retreated ; and then the slaughter they made from 
their breast-works and their flankers I 

HAMILTON. 

lliey are men of undaunted and indomitaUe reso- 
lution ; much more courageous than our men, and oer- 
tainly far better marksmen. They level their guns 
exactly, and do fearful execution vith them. 

Enter an officer, 

OrFICER. 

Our horse have leaped over the stone ditches on the 
strand, and have broken in upon the rebels. Dorring- 
ion pushes hard on the north side of the Windmill. 
Ettier a second officer. 



The rebels give way. {^Ro*m and ffatnilton huxa.) 
Enter a third officer. 



The rebels advanced up with a reserve of five hun- 
dred men, and entirely routed the king's regiment of 
guards. Brigadier General Dorrington is severely 
wounded, we fear mortally. 



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HIE BTEGB OF DEBHT, 117 

StUer a fourth t^ieer. 

OTFICER. 

Bad news t bad oem ! Our grenadiera have been 
driven ba<^i six troops of horse entirely cut off; 
Lord Mountgarret'a son, with many others, either 
killed or taken prisoners ; and rixty gentlemen volun- 
teera, Preach or Irish, lost 

Enter a fifth officer. 

OFriCBB. 

Colonel (yParre) and Captdn Graham have been 
Ulled, Capttun Watson of the king's guards taken pri- 
soner, and an hundred more whose names we have 
not been able to ascert^n. 

KOSXN. 

Go, cause a retreat to be sounded ; I shall lose my 
army. 

OFFICER. 

They have retreated fast enough already, for our 
men have all fled, and eight or nine hundred of the 
rebels, with a body of horse, are in hot pursuit of 
them, cntting the rear guards down. 

Confiision-— ^nost confounded ! Oh, that I ever 
came among such chicken-hearted savages! I will, 
however, meditate upon what is to be done to-morrow, 
and sleep but little to-night. Slumber but ill fits a 
general officer situated as I am now. But a device 
occurs to me — that one which I used with success more 
than once against the heretical rebels in Langnedoc, 
vben I suppressed them by fire and sword — I will 



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116 TUB KEOK OF OEBSY. 

Btarre all tbe Piotestaut population in this part of 
Ulster, man, woman, and chiU^ from Cavan to Car- 
rickfergus, and fcom Newry to Derry. I wiH lend 
fonli my edict to-day, to drive without delay all th* 
old and young heretics, of whatever degree and qua- 
lity soever, within the dght counljes of Ulster, pro- 
tected or unprotected, without respect of persons, to 
die of himger around the walls of Derry, or be buried 
in the ruins of it with the rebels there. 

The Scene changes to Horry, 

Enter Governor Baker, Colonels MicieUnmu, WaHerf 

Caimes, and the Town Major, CtgXain Frteman. 

WALKER. 

Providence makes us successful ; there is light for 
the righteous in darkness, and joy for those who oip 
true of heart. He, in whose holy cause, we figM 
against thrice our number, has made us invindUe — 
for, " The race is not to the swift, nor the battle tP 
the strong. He has taught our hands to make wii» 
and our fingers to fight." 

CAIBMBS. 

Two remarkable proois that the ail-Eeaqg eye ^ a 
merciful God, in whose cause we stand here, uffde^ Ifw 
holy protection, to conquer or die, may be found >P 
resent occurrences within our walls, ^^larently oca- 
deptsl : — you are a)l awaie as well aa I sfu, that w)ieif, 
by reason of deserters going daily from the city, W0 
were under remarkable and great B^reheanoa tl>»t 
the enemy would get iqiteUigeafiie ^ut « great piirt qf 



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THE SUXUE OF DE^T. 119 

our gunpowder was lodg«d ia Mr. Campsie's cellar, to 
^rhose house bonbe might b« thrown so as to blow it 
uf and Toia us — you, governor Baker, took the |^>^ 
cButioB to remove it to aaother and leas exposed plaect 
lutd the very next day, a bomb broke into Caaipsie'e 
cellar, which would have blown up the gunpowdet- 
Another instance was, that one of these bombs broke 
iato a cellar near the Butdier's-gate, aitd when some 
of us had the curiosity to go down to eitamine what 
mischief it had done, we saw seven of the eaemy, who 
had been working at a mine to pass under the gate, 
lying there dead. 

MICHELBDRNE. 

Walker, let this and our recent success, be the sub- 
ject of onr sermon in the cathedral next Sunday ; 
your words have the weight and influence which they 
deserve upon our soldiers. 

WAI.EEB. 

It shall be so, God willing ; 1 need no preparation to 
apeak to suidi a congregation as assemble there ; I 
think the fwvour of their deration rises by the intenstty 
of their sufferings for our saered osMe^ so that real 
good is rising out of troubles and trials, and that it is 
good for us, and, perhaps, for miUions yet unborn, 
that we have been afQicted ! '^ Non palma sine pul- 
vere," — the blood of mvtyFS is the seed of the church. 
And hero that seed is in progress of bsJog sown so 
■bundantly, that, in due tine, ft gIofUH» haf rtat n«y 
be expected. 



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120 THE BIUE OF DEBUT. 

BAKKB. 

Let a parley, as already ordered, be now beaten, 
that the enemy may come to bury their dead. But 
Walkw, I agun say, remember to preach next sabbath- 
day to MS who live here in hope of a deliverance from 
oar cruel persecutors. 

WALKBB. 

I am under no temfftatioa to refrain from doing so* 

Enter two young ladies, DAorah and Letitia, leading 
a captain of King James'* gvardtpriaoner. 

DEBOKAH. ^ 

TluB c^itftin is my prisoner ; I came first up to him, 
and, with a cocked pistol, commanded him to beg his 
life, which he instantly did, giving me this purse of 
Spanish pistoles ; and here, young soliUer, ie your purse 
.agfun, you may want it more than I do, so it is at yonr 
service. Governor, judge now if he be not my pri- 
soner. 

BAKBE. 

He cert^nly is, dear Amazon, subdued by a less 
powerful weapon than your lovely eyes, although they 
may have seemed to him " severe in youthful beauty.* 

One of the sotdiert atten^ti to put his hand in the 
prisoner's poekeL 

DEBORAH. 

If you dare to touch my prisoner— (mtfif^ ho' pis- 
tol)— I will blow your brains out j we women, when 
we take men prisoners, will not niSbr thnr podtets 



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THK BieaZ OF DEBBY. 121 

to be picked, although we may in due time acquire a 
legal right to do lo ourselves, most considerately for 
those who should assist us in appearing lovely to them. 

BAKXB. 

. I protest, ladies, you ought to be chronicled — happy 
mothers of generations of heroic apprentice boys for 
ages to come ; you made your attack at the very time 
and place when and where most honour was to be 
guned. 

LBTITIi. 

Noble govemoT, give ui leave to see our captive 
capt)un safely and comfortably lodged. Come, cap- 
tain, we are both merciful and charitable) and will 
every day come and dress your wounds. 

CAPTAIN, 

One or other of you> dear ladies, may perhaps in- 
flict, uncons4uaus]y, much deeper wounds, with the 
sole power of curing them. I attend you gratefully. 
(Exeunt ladiet with their prisoner.) 

Enter Felicia and Gertrude. 

GSBTBDDE. 

Unfurl the colours, Felioa. Noble governor, we 
■were two of the party of eight hundred, that were 
upon the reserve which was ordered to pursue the 
enemy ; we overtook an ensign, who had slipped the 
colours off the staff, and was tying them about his 
•miat, that he might secure them there and fly with less 
observance and more speed ; half a dozen shots, how- 
ever) were fired at him, and down he fell ; the soldiers 



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122 THE SIEQB OF DEBBT. 

Tere not long in getting off faia clothes— one got hb 
money and another got hia vatdi, but these beauHAd 
white eilk colours, oniamented witb the flenr de Kb rf 
Louis le Grand, had moie attraction for us, so we 
^sired no mwe than them, for onr ahare of tite plom- 
der. We were almost breathleaa ; these petticoat* of 
oufs sp hindered us, that we could not run wi'Hiout dtf- 
ficutty ; had we more ctnvenient habiliments for war, 
we should have been, perhaps, foremost, in the par- 
suit. The Deny ladies are ever zealous in a good 
cause ; no Lundya among ttten— ao cowards. 

FELICIA. 

The gentleman had a fair skin, though he was ted 
haired. Why he carried these instead oi bish coloon, 
we know not, except they had been lost by an officer 
of one of the French regimariiB lately arrived here 
widi Rosen, fbr by a letter found in his potest, as mt 
heard afterwards, it aj^ared tiiat he was tbe Mm «f 
Sir John F^emii^. 

BAKER. 

'Twas bravely done, sweet ladies. 

(Tifte Governor and Colond Mickelbvrne hist them.) 



But, Felicia, what has become of an A 
brave obtain P and hw sisters, Letitia uid Dsbanb, 
and their captive eapt^n P 

BAKEB. 

They are all safe ; you wUl find Hum at botne, «r 
with their young priscmer, who is in no di 
neglected by them. I suppose Hiey arc now 4 



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THE aiEGE OF DERBY. 123^ 

There is now oo danger, ncept their 
M}mg out about the privilege of being the chief ope- 
ERtor. He mast be more or less than man, if he hea 
not Duide the choice already. Msjiv Freeman, receive 
these etrftmra from the ladies, whom I desire you shaU 
see to their lodgings. I wilt dispose of them in the 
eaitliedntl, with the reat of our trophies of war, where, 
Walker, you will be animated by the sight of them 
oa tSunday when preaching to ua. 

(Exit the Town Major, teitk the ladiet.} 

BAKER. 

I would fain know what number of the eaemy's 
horsemen have been killed P 

WALKKR. 

Between sixty and seventy, as I have beard. 
Enter the Toten Major. 

BAKER. 

Freeman, go you and get what butchers and otiters 
you can, to have the horses skinned, and such of them 
M ai>e -Mily disabled by wounds to be carefully bled i 
iM of tltem to be cut up in quarters, salted, and se- 
cured in barrels — they may serve us instead of more 
Bcoeptidtle food for a month to come. Horse flesh has 
been often used on the Continent, and some say nearer 
home, particularly when young and in good condition; 
but not a word of this to oar Donegal 'friends, for iesr 
of xfironting them. The Mayo men bleed all their 
encAe, and make black puddings of the blood. I xp' 
iweheiid we may soon be in severe want of food. It is 
•oae tine since we had any fresh meat ; let me have a 



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Hi THE SIEOE OF DERBY, 

dish of steaks sent to my cook, to dress them for din- 
ner. The enemy have not yet come out to bury their 
dead ; their neglect of this duty is as dishonouraUe to 
diem, 08 their careless mode of performing the sad 
office is offensive to us. (Exit the Toum Sft^or.) 

NICHELBURNE. 

The next thing will be to know if any news hare 
arrived from the Engliah fleet, which have been in the 
harbour these hIx or seven days ; the delay of th«r 
arrival here is most alarming. 

WALKER. 

I was in hopes that this relief might have been here 
before this time. 

BAEBB. 

I rather think they are but two or three vessels, Hie 
foremonera of a greater fleet ; in which case it would 
be hazardous for them to come out of the Lough into 
the river, and most dangerouB for them to attempt to 
break the tioom. They understand th^ buuness bet- 
ter than we can. I wish they were here, but have no 
hope of their being able to break the boom, or pass 
that narrow part of the river ; even if it were not 
there, the batteries on each side would soon sink them. 

MICHELBURNE. 

If we had soilie provisions, of which we may very 
suddenly be in severe want, they might take their 
time. The employment of Colonel Kirke, a hard, 
bigotted^ and cruel man, to command the fleet coming 
to our relief, has been ceusured very generally by our 
friends in England ; and King William, by reposing a 



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THX StHW W DSBBT. 125 

similu trust to Hamilton and Lufidy, vith each U- 
mectable consequences in botti cases, seems to have 
some secret but powerful foes in his privy conncil. 
Snemies to the crown in the cabinet, are snakes in the 
grass — the most formidable of traitors. Consdous <^ 
his unpardonable conduct in the West of England, and 
convinced that the Protestants will never be recon- 
(»led to him, C(4onel Korke may deem it wisdom to do 
somewhat here fo regain the confidence of hia old 
master, whom he betrayed, and of our enemies, who 
are encouraged in their attempts to destroy ua by hia 
withholding the relief aent for us by King William. 
We ate here now without animal food, except that of 
^e salted flesh of the enemy's half atarved boraea, and 
but little flour or meal in our stores, having been so 
improvident as to be making bariey into malt last 
March, when we had reason to fear we would be starv- 
ing before midsummer, 

BAKSB. 

Iict orders be given that the garrison shall be put 
upon half allowance from tbia day. 

WALKER. 

' That has been already done ; I wish we could bare 
bnt quarter allowance. You all know bow the mob has 
already used me; with what ingratitude they have 
treated me. It is but a day or two, my dear Baker, 
when I bad just gone out of your sick room, to which 
I had gone as a sanctuary from their fury, that they 
■went to my houae and searched it for me — not finding 
me there, they robbed it of all the beer, wine, and 



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12( THE nSSB OF DBKHT. 

battor in H, but, on second thoagfata, th«y Mged than 
in the public stores ; some ttireatening to pnt me is 
gaol, others to shoot me. They then took all the pri- 
■OBon and carried them to gaoL If the feelings wUcIi 
prompted the multitude to these acta <^ outrage are 
exasperated by hunger, or from a d^y of the relief 
sent to US, Kirke irill conqilete what Lnndy lad began, 
and he may land here in time to execute the orders of 
aaotber Jefiries. 

BAKER. 

I find myself much indisposed ; and my being called 
out of my warm room, on that occasion, has, I £bu^ 
iM^m^t on a relapse of my sickness, vhich was wrtte 
enough in its first attack. I have some ^iprahenHOB 
that it may be iatol. 

MICHBLBURinE. 

Qod forbid ; you have only caught oold On tlus late 
action, having been out from sunaet to sunrise, but X 
hope it will pass over, by care not to expoee yourself 
to the sharp winds of this wintry spring, not leaving 
your house for some short time ; you can oociqt7 
yourself there as usefully to us as any where els^— < 
your commands will be promptly obeyed. (Sxeunt.) 

Scene — The Jrith Camp. 
Enter Boeen, Hamilton, Sheldon, axd Lord AuAo*. 

ROSZN. 

Tboogh you tell me that driving men, wontea, and 
children under these walls will be an inhuman action, 
I tell yon it may be menuful in iu consequences, by 



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THB aaas of derrt. 1S7 

gMiMiog an «ad to « protracted iiege, in which tbare 
lias beui a [M'odigiouB Iqu of ^Uves on both aidei ; and 
it ia not without precedent in a more civilized part of 
Europe than tiiis is. I tell you, Hamilton, th^ the 
moat Chriatian king, my master, haa found very lately 
» uetbod exactly eimilar, for punishing and aubduing 
bis heretical auliyeetB in Languedoci and other ports gf 
Jus kingdom. So we want not a precedent for what I 
Jiave ordered to be done. I do not think it amiss that 
King James should imitate his, examjple ; and as for 
King Louis, do you thiuk he would be Idpder to Irish 
rebels than to his own subjects ? and I can t«Il you, 
wbother you like it or not, Uiat his most Christian 
nuyoity's ambassador. Count D'Avaux, exercises his 
simulated right to act as James's prime nunister in 
Dublin Ca«tle. 

HAMILTON. 

I haTe neither time nor iuclination now to enter on 
any dispute about the wisdom of the acta of this 
ambassador, 'or the good or bad results from them — 
espedally tiie detaiuiug of our lung &om us in holding 
a parliament in the metropolis, when his presence 
voidd be BO advantageous to us here— besides^ 4he 
violation of bis royal promise, given under his hand 
and seal, to protect the innocent, such men as pray 
br him, and have kept off from the rebels, who bid us 
ieSmaae ia Deny. Would you have eight or nine 
MBBtioB depopulated, a&er so s(^emn a promise of 
fiotectien, and starve thousands of all ages and sexes 
tar the rriwUion of one proud city P It would be 



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128 TBB aiBOE OP SBBBT. 

more mercifiil to make one general nuMBCre than to 
starve these poor people under the walls of Derry. 

ROSEN. 

Heretics, innocent men, praying for a Catht^e 
king! Heretics ^loyal subjects to King Louis or 
King James ! The Hamiltons, in Derry and out of 
it, including the Archdeacon of Rapboe, who' enter- 
tained his king in the Castle of Mongevlin, may be 
praying for him, and be good subjects — ^bnt of this I 
have my doubts; To massacre these men would be 
too merciful, too quick a mode to send them out of 
our tray. It Tould not answer our ends now, but 
when we get this city we will be able to dear the 
kingdom of all who will not conform to the Church 
of Rome, and return to their allegiance to King 
James, and my royal master Louis le Grand. We 
shall have no more Huguenot rebellions here as in 
France. My will and command will be a law, and «s 
such must be obeyed. 

The Scene chamgei to Derry. 

Enter Michdhttme and Walker, and with them an 

Officer. 

OFTICBB. 

Governor Baker, after five days' sickness — our 
noble Governor Baker — is dead. His end was acce- 
lerated by the shock he got at the insult ofiered at his 
door to his beloved friend, Colonel Walker ; and At 
this moment the same mob are busy pulling down file 



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IRB SHOE OF DERBY, 129 

reinauid«r of the nuu-ket-honsc^ and carrymg off the 
floors and nx^ for fuel. 

HICHELBUKMK. 

Alas I we are undone. My feltow-Ubourer in all 
our difficulties and digtresees I — (jPvlU out a handker- 
chief and wipes tears from his eyes.) What shall we 
do now P MiBeries increase upon us and are aggra- 
vated by the folly and ingratitude of the mobv-~ 
Walker, they would have broken your heart also had 
it not been made of steel ; but the Lord who tempers 
the wind to the shorn lambt fits the back for the 
burthen it is to bear. As to me, and to every one of 
ua who would save this distressed city, 

Let each but think what dnogFrs he haa past, 
And few will tsar what perils are to come. 

O my dear fiiend Baker I were it not for the love of 
those like him, who are yet spared to us, I would 
rejoice in going witii him, and welcome death to-day. 

WALKER. 

Heaven forbid ! Then indeed should we have cause 
to despmr, and be in a miserable condition, notwith- 
standing all our sucesses. It is not the part of wise 
men to shed unavailing tears for the friends who have 
been tidcen from them, but to proceed more steadily 
and perseveringly in the course which those they 
loved would be happy in the knowledge of their going 
on. Rouse up your spirits, Kfichelburne, and consider 
what a heavy trial is approaching us. Moderate your 
grief, and turn it to rage against a perfidious enemy. 
Muster up your tried skill, experiencot and presence 



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130 THE nESE OF XHRKT^ 

of mind, to divert the niin of ao many thouwnds of 
men, women, and children whom we sm now nrniinJ 
us, or driven under our walls, to die there of hunger, 
or accelerate our own deaths Irom the same fi^htful 
oaUM by beiag taken into tiie city. 



It is aU over; go and assemUe the cJfiieas asA 
chief offiecrs, to choose a governor tQ saintly tlw 
place of our d^arted friend. 

WALKJU. 

Vfho can govern, who can maaage so w«giity ft 
concon so efiectually as yourself? No other naa ia 
the garrison could pretend to it. 

MICHBLBURVE. 

Let this be as it may, it is due to the tntizens and 
the ganison to c^ for a prompt deliberatioa «n<the 
subject in a public assembly. I would not put a 
digbt upon my honoured fellow- citisens, by asiniBiiig 
any authority without being duly elected to do so. 

CAIBNES. 

Hichelbume is right ; this ougbt to be done witb> 
out del^. I am <^Hite sure that t^ safety of our citjr 
di^Kuds, undM heaven, i^cm the gov^Tior we choose 
tO'.day. None of us have had the military edacatiM 
and experience whidt he has had; few, pediafM, havs 
«ver ]M«ved how valuable such traimng k to the ooM* 
mander of an army. Convinced of tki% wir late aafl 
juBtly4iwieiited goventor, n<rtwithst«Ddiog the aul 
misunderstanding that &sjetei between tbem a sbatt 
tnne before, recommeKded eur woiti^y fi-iend m4 



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THK raws OF DQIBT. 131 

f^ov-aMier here to be hia BuoeMsor in the govern- 
■Hot «f LoudoDderry, and Qte oomaaaia-in-ebigS of 
th* mmj. (Exeuiu.) 

Mment MuAdbwne attd He Ttmm Major. 



Tmman, ctiU here iMiie carpenten. 

(Exit Freeman.) 

So wicked, eo detestable & design, and lo diabolical 
a contrivance was oever known before in a Giriatian 
Dation. Does this iuhuman Frenchman think that 
this barbarity wUl compel us to surrender this eity, 
which is the key and fortress of the kingdom, and the 
only ooe left us to preveflt their passing over into 
Scotlandf and practice the same inhumanity upon 
Cilaj^ow afid Edisbu^h, and then proceed with fire 
jud swocd into the north of Engknd P No : this 
fOUofA ejuufterales me the more, and my blood boils 
to study a l«£itimate revenge for such incomparable 
viUanj— one suitable to the tyrant's cruelty. Far 
be it &Hi us to descend to an imitation of it, but, 
situated as we are, what can we do to frustrate 
it? Necessity justifies the sad alternative, which 
to hang, quarter, and behead all the prisoners ht 
and fUA ikeir ataHgled bodies over the wall, ai 
spactode to those who caused their death. Tl 
muf InJgr say it is crud to do so, aller quarter J 
knn pren, h«t they have been the tea^o^ 4^ t 
«nujty, aad 1^ cawae of its being uiavMdabie ; a 
moreover, it is no more than their own practice. 



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132 THK BIEaS OP DERBT. 

give quarter and then murder th«r pruoners. The 
same measure tbey give to us muet be meted to tfaem. 
It must be 60 ; if the FrotestantB of nine cnnnties 
must starve by the foreigner who domineers over- 
General Hamilton and the Irish army, all the prisoners 
of that army within the walb of Derry, must die 
upon the scaffold. If, however, General Rosen will 
remove the poor people from our walla, none of our 
prisoners shall be put to death. 

Enter Town Major Freemcm. 

FREEHAlf. 

Sir, there are five carpenters at the door. 

MICHELBURNE. 

Let them come in — {Enter Carpenters^ Do you, 
my good fellows, know how to erect a gallows — a 
work not often required in Derry? We want the 
means in that way to esecute thirty prisoners — a peer 
of the realm and twenty-nine gentlemen. Neither 
lord, knight, or squire is to be spared, on the first 
approach of the Protestants, who are driven towards 
us. I am as absolute here for King William as 
General Rosen can be in his camp for the King of 
France. 

FIRST CARPKNTKB. 

Yes, sir ; we know how to build a gallows ; any 
man who has erected a weigh-mastcr's crane can do 
so. In the country the branch of a tree would serve 
for one ; it is very easy to find means to hang men 
when we wbh to do so. We csD hang them also for 
you. 



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TBE BIEOB OF DEBBT. 133 

M1CHRLB0RHE. 

Well Btid, — but I will find others for the drudgery 
of tying the ropra about the necks of Lord Tyrcon- 
mel's brother and bis fellow-prisoners. I vill pardon 
Lord Netterville, Sir Garret Aylmer, and some others 
of them for banging the rest. 

SKGOND CABPBNTEB. 

No pardoning, we beseech your escelleacy, This is 
the most agreeable employment we have ever been 
called to. 

HICHELBIIRME. 

Since you are so desirous of office I am unwilling 
to dis^point you. To-morrow morning, all materials 
being found for you, let me have the gallows erected 
on the double bastion, in view of General Rosen's 
tent, that he may%ee them swing as he lies in his bed 
in the morning, from which, if I know anything of 
human nature, or the general indignation of the Irish 
army at his cruelty, I should not wonder if he would 
be sent in here for execution himself, to finish the 
tragedy. Let the sides and the pins of the ladder be 
of the strongest materials, if not so the whole must 
be pulled down and re-edified. 

FISST CARPENTER. 

You will like it well enough. If I do not please 
you, Let me never carry a budget of tools on my back. 
I would rather be at such work, than be eating a din- 
ner, though I have not had one for the last three days 
^.onr breakfast consumes all onr allowance. 

(Exeunt eofpenten.) 



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1|4 Xm UEOE OF DERHT. 

MICHBLBOBNE. 

Now let B§ pay the last duties to our departed fiiend 
and goTHBor. Ht« remaiss an to b« depooited on Ihe 
fOtth aide of the commiuHoii table in the cathedral, 
yatt oader oae of the Frauc^ flags, lately [daoed over 
it by the brave ladies who brought tbem in. The rec- 
tor of Ballyscullea ia to pr«aeh the funeral sermon. 
{Exetmt.) 

Enter Michelbume as Governor, with a pnoiptt^te 
gla*», and C<^Utm Freeman the Town Major. 

OOVEBMOX. 

When I beheld from the steeple, tbrouf^ tUc glue, 
diis lar^ body of people, I was appreheastTe Ibsd it 
might be a reinforcement of the besieging army, until 
I perceived crowds of wouen aAd ohiMrea amoiig 
tbeoi. Mid heard their cries and shrieks. It ^reed ny 
keart to think that any of the natives of this Lovely 
vAmoA ahould thus foe treated by a forci^ tyrant. fJ^ 
bomor Uack and dismal 1 Wbat would I not suScr tar 
sake of those innocent people ; many c^ theni hapj^ 
in their own homes but a diort year ago, and litde 
thinking that they should ever fall into l^ir present 
condition — severe of them of the higher and middle 
orden. But to surrender, even for so hunane *. pur- 
poM, is Bot to be Bpok«a of, SkBd the man widdnthe 
walls who says so, miut die upoo the ^ot ; nor do I 
think Ui«% ie ose among as who, to save his Bf^ 
would say the word. We have but one tiMcat/kn, 
Town HajoT Freeman ; take a guard with you and put 



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2BB aiEOB OP IWBKT. 1)6 

«U tbe prismierB in the ooBdemDed cells of tiie dan* 
Se«B, md wder them to prepare for death at eleres 
o'idock to-B(Hrow monuag. They shall be thai exe- 
CVtedj and every Irish or French {maoner taken moat 
be served in Ae suae way. 

Enter tome carpaUert ai»d a mob. 

FIB8T GABPENTBR. 

l^oble governor, we have completed tbe gallowB, 
thir^ £eet high, and strong enough to hang the French 
(eaeral and the whole of his aimy. Whioh of' tbe 
piuosers shall be ezecutod fitst? The ropea are 
n«dy ; bat here is an old baagnan bawling afW us, 
•ad saying that we are gwng to take his trade out of 
Us baadib 

BANOMAN. 

Noble govenMT, tiioee fresh wat» carpeiUers pre- 
tend to my occupation of hangman, which is most un- 
reasonable. They think that any man can do it; which 
is as absurd as to siqipose that poachers eon weave 
JiaeB oioth, and weavers deliver sermons — tiiat tailors 
an make boots, and shoMnako's breeches. But, go- 
wantor, die weaver should stidt to his loom, the parson 
to h» pulpit, the tailor to his Inboard, the shoemal 
to his awi( tlte caipeut« to his hammer, and the bu 
KHi to the g^lows. These carpenters are mui^ ni 
U&en — th€^ have not served an appreaUceship to i 
(lesft, nor hve they bad any exp«ience in it ; how 
they kjMW how to ^ the knot ? — there is tbe weavt 
knot, and other knots, but none so necessary to 



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136 THX SIBOI OF DXBBT. 

properly tied aa the hftn^man's knot, and the plating 
it properly under the ear, I can calculate how many 
Idcks must be given before the gullet dosea ; and what 
mercy is in the hangman not undertaking hia office in 
ignorance of the best mode of performing it. In cut- 
ting off heada and quartering corpses none could com- 
pare to Jack Ketch, whose journeyman at the Old 
Bailey I had been for six years, before I set up for 
myself. The French way of hanging, beheading, and 
quartering, is cruel butchery ; but they are a nation of 
cowardly butchers, and they have sent one to the Irisb 
army, who may come under my hands yet; and I 
could not behave more cruelly to him than he is be- 
having to the poor people outside the walls, and the 
prisoners in the city. I would tie the knot about this 
Frenchman's neck most willingly ; ao, noble governor, 
do not let those ignorant carpenters encroach upon my 
trade. 

GOVERKOR. 

You speak reasonably enough on your own con- 
cerns, but we mnst have some feelings of CSiristian 
forbearance and mercy, and cannot resort to thig 
dreadful alternative suddenly, so I have promised 
these unfortunate prisoners that they shall not die 
until to-morrow ; and, respecting liberty of consci- 
ence, I have permitted one of their priests to come in 
to prepare them for death. You may be in haateg Mr. 
Ketch, and so may be your competitors, on this occa- 
sion, but I am not, nor ore those upon whom you are 
so anxious to operate. 



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TUB SIEGE OF DEBBT. 137 

HANOMAN. 

Please your excellency, it is but reasonable that 
these cundeumed men should have some time allowed 
them, to prepare for death. When I was jouTne3rman 
executjoner in Londou, those to be hanged had always 
a respite until the next market-day after they were 
seatenced. Those carpenters, intruders as they are, 
may be wanted in the way they propose ; tor if the 
poor pec^le under the walls are kept there for any 
time, there will be more work here, in hanging the 
prisoners that will be takes, than one of my profession 
could undertake ; so they may be employed to assist 
me. I will pay them, according to their services, out 
of my allowance, as I expect to be appointed hangman 
general. 

MICUBI3DIINK. 

Well, shall we choose Black Jack Ketch to be hang- 
man general? 

ALL. 

We do— we do. Black Jack— Black Jack. 

(Exewtt.) 

7Ae Scene ehanget to the Irith Camp, 
Eti^ Hami^m and Sheldon. 

SHELDON. 

I have received a letter directed to your excellency 
—the messenger informs me it is from the prisoners in 
Derry. {Gives the General a letter— he reads it.) 

"Sir — The protected and unprotected Protestants 

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being forced under the walla of this city to starve 
there, or Moelente the progress of a famine bare, by 
bung admitted into it, has so justly exaspwated Go- 
vernor Hichelbume, and the whole of the garrisoii, 
that we are all to die to-morrow. We made our ze- 
presentation to Marshal Rosen, but have bad the mor- 
tification to receive no answer. We are willing to 
lose our lives with our swords in our hands, but to die 
as maiefactors is intolerable and cruel to us, when onr 
Jives may be saved by an act of humanity towards 
thousands innocent as we are. Pray r^reBeat our 
sad condition to General Bosen, and beseech him to 
take compasdon im your dutifid and dying firi^ds, 
and fellow soldiers, 

" NSTTBBVILLS, 
£. BUTLKR, 

G. Aylhes, 
J. Mac Domisit, 
J. Fleming, 
In the name of all tiie reat. 
" Frmn the condemned cells in the dungeons of 
Derry, July 3, 1689. 

" P.S. We hear that one -thousand have this morn- 
ing been added to the number of the Protestants 
driven under the walls of this city ; this has raised the 
indignation of the garrison, and our doom is setded if 
they are compeUed to remain there twelve hours. In 
the mean time, five hundred persons, not capaMe of 
taking arms, have been sent out among them, and as 
Butny TOUBg and able-bodied men taken in to supply 



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XHE (DBta «F DBBBT. 189 

their pl4oe ; so nothiig hu yet been guned by thii 
inhuman ttfder, and mnch may be lost by it For 
heaven's sake consider tfais." 

HAMILTOM. 

Let the blame of all this insane proceeding lie at 
Rosen's own door. These barbarities may have done 
in France, but will not do in Ireland. We maat call 
a council of war ourselves, independent of tliia choleric 
ptniffyer, ignorant as he is obstinate, and consult Khat 
is proper to be done on so trying an occasion. This 
man's rashness will cause a mutiny, which most be 
rainoas to us if it once breaks ont 

Enter Marshal Rosen and ok officer. 

OFFICER. 

May it please your excellency, the army is ready to 
break out into a mutiny, occasioned by some letters 
which have been dispersed all over the camp, laying 
the &nlt of the prisoners b^g hanged on your excel- 
lency. The ofBcers and soldiers have met togeth^ 
.One says he will not have Us cousin, Lord Netter- 
vUle hanged— another will not suffw Colonel Talbot, 
the Lord Lieutenant's brother, to be executed like a 
highwayman — a third will not suffer Sir Garret Aylmer 
to die like a felon — and a fonrth will die before he 
consents to Lot4 Mountgarrefs son, Captain Butler, 
being put to death in such a manner. Tbia runs, like 
■w3A tke, through the whole camp. Tbe soldiers 
dmotan to seiie you, Mushal Rosen, and deliver yon 
np >to tiM incensed governor of Derry. They say 



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140 THB BIEOE OF DEBBT. 

that a thousand FreDckmen shall be banged before one 
of these noble and gallant prisoners shall die. 

ROSEK. 

Ah! Monsieur Hamilton, what must we do to 
appeaaa this grand mutiny ? Me thinks I have a pain 
in my neok — a swelling in the jugular vein already. 



What should you do but what yon ought to have 
done before this? Suffer these innocent victims of 
your caprice to return to their own homes. 
Enter an officer. 

OFFICER. 

The mutiny in our oamp increases, and the rebels, 
which is bad policy in them, are taking the advantage 
of it, and marching out upon us. We will do their 
work if the multitudes around the walls are not sent 
off immediately. 

XOSEK. 

Oh, miserable 1 Diable de mutiny — de rebels, de 
rebels be marching out into the field, taking the 
advantage of dis mutiny. I shall be hung on yonder 
gallows, which de rebels have set up. Go presently 
and order de horse and de foot to draw out into a 
battalion. 



None of them will handle their arms. 

BOSBN. 

Run away and call off the people from under the 
walls ; tell them they shall have good quarters, money, 
and victuals, and shall all go to their own homes. - 
(ExewU.) 



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Enter Hamilton, LordBuehan, and Generaf Shddon. 

UAHII,TON. 

Well, it was a. rare contiivance — I give Michelbunie 
great credit for it. Thia will be a joyful hour for the 
poor prisoners who were to have been banged in 
Derry. It would have been a just judgment if Rosen 
had been delivered up; the governor would have 
hanged a mareschal of FranEe. I will make him a 
present of a dozen of claret for this moniiDg's work. 

SHELDON. 

I will say for him, that, according to what fell under 
my observation on this occasion and others, that he is 
no novice, but worthy of a better cause than that 
in which he is now engaged. In this case he has not 
only saved the prisoners in Derry, but released the 
poor people who are under the walls. 

HAUILTOH. 

Was it not strange that he should succeed in raising 
a mutiny in our camp ? He calculates exactly on the 
hnmanity of a gallant army of Irishmen. But we 
must visit Mareschal De Rosen, and see how he does 
after his great fright. 

Enter an officer. 

OFFICER. 

AU the people have been released by the general's 
orders. 

UAMILTON. 

Need must when Satan drives. Give these Louis 
IKOrs amongst them — ^"tis all I have about me. Let 
provirions be given to them. Alas I poor souls ! they 



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143 THB nSOE OF I«IIBT. 

bAve but cbewleM homei to rec^ve diem, aaA 
half starved as they ape, BUWy of them viU die 
upon the road. The rapporeea that fdlov our army 
derour ^1. 

7%« Seme lAmtgea to Dairy. 

Enter Gavermor MtcMe&ume, wiA Wdtier <md 

Caime». 

WALKER. 

Our provisions are all gone; the stores are ex- 
hausted, and our men are seanking the eity fer fbod. 

NICHE LBCTNK. 

Let some more faonee be killed, and tbe fleA dis- 
tributed uDong then. Providenee, I hope, will aooa 
relieve U8. 



But we have no fuel to boil or roast this unpalatable 
meat, for tbe timber of tbe maiket4tou»e, aod oAer 
houses thrown down by the enemy's bomb-ihdlSi hat 
been aB consumed. So it would be advisable tiiat we 
Aould write a third letter to General Kirke, praj/i^ 
tlrnt he may send us a supply of provisimu ; Iwt eqte- 
dally biscuits, cheese, and butter, which require no 
fuel to prepare them for use. 

MICUBLBDBNZ. 

Th^s shall be done ; and as our letter to this totd* 
hearted man has not yet been sealed, we will inclose the 
present «ommuniGatioK to han, infiHroing him oi the 
desertimiB, tbe uckness, tad mort^ity which affliot u% 
with our want of food for the Iwt week, evrnt of tb« 



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THB aEGE OF DEBUT. 143 

hone flesh, on which we have for a considerable time 
fli^iated. Ib out own names, and those of twenty 
thousand disticssed Protestants, shut up in this city 
for their adherence to the cause of King William, we 
will implore him, as he values the consequences of 
his dday, to hasten the tardy relief of our distressed 
<nty. !bi the mean time, as I have already directed, 
let some of the few horses we have left be killed, and 
tlieir flesh distributed among the starving soldiers and' 
citizens ; perhaps they may find as much fuel as will 
dress it. It is hard enough to be obliged to eat it 
dressed, but to eat it raw would be a consummation (^ 
human misery. 

Enter an officer. 

OFFICEB. 

St, here is a present sent to you by General 
Hamilton, of a dozen bottles of wine. To-morrow 
he will send you a fet sheep. 

GOVEBHOB. 

Give a taste of the wine to Ae messenger, for fear 
<^ pcuBOD, B&d then call him in. 

Enter the Messenger. 

GOTBRNOn. 

Pray give my service to General HamiHun, oaA tell 
htm fliat I have nothing to retwni but one of the pri* 
aoners, whom he may name, and that I thank him for 
Ms pesenttt. {Exit Ae Meimn^r.) 



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144 THR aiEGB OF DERBY. 

SiUer Letitia, Gertrude, Felicia, and Seborah, fot- 
lowed by a servant, who sets a table and chairs, and 
puts two or three dishes of meat iqton the tabk. 

GOVBRNOB. 

Ladies and gentlemen, — this present coming so 
opportunely, I invite you to a bottle of wine that hai 
been sent to me, and to such other entertiunment for 
eating as our present circumstances will admit of, take 
it as it is, and you are very welcome, but I regret the 
fat sheep I expect to-morrow did not arrive with the 
wine to-day. The first dish you see in slices is the 
liver of one of the enemy's horses that was killed the 
other day ; it is very good meat, eaten cold, with 
pepper, salt, mustard, and vinegar. I have seen some 
of these livers boiled, after they had been pickled> 
they were then very palatable. The other dish is 
composed of horses' blood fried with French butter, 
commonly called tallow, it is thickened with oaten- 
meal. The third dish is what the French call ragoitt 
de chien, it is made of the haunch of my dog. It 
does not eat so well boiled as roasted ; it is somewhat 
strong, but eats tolerably well, particularly when 
baked. I have a horse's head in the oven ; it has 
been very well seasoned, but will not be eatable tUl 
night. My cook tells me the horse was an old one, 
which makes the fiesh require more baking than that 
of a young one. Give me a glass of wine, and I will ' 
drink to the ladies. 

(Deborah puiis out half of a biscuit Jrom her pod^') 



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THE SIEOiB OP DKBBT. Ii3 

DEBORAH. 

Pray, sir, accept of this. It was giveo to me this 
morning by our captive captain. 

GOVERNOR. 

By no means, madam, I will not deprive you of ao 
great a dtunty. 

Enter a Servant, with a letter front Lord Melfort — 
the Gorxrnor reads — 

" Sir — Mareschal De Rosea and Lieutenant Ge- 
neral Hamilton highly approve of your conduct, and 
have made choice of me, I being acquainted with you, 
to send this, and let you know that they are very sen- 
sible of the (^stressed circumstances in which you are, 
from having been so unfortunate as to engage in a 
service which will prove your utter ruin. 

" You have now a fair opportunity to retrieve your 
former mistakes, and prove loyal to our king's most 
excellent majesty, and Mareschal De Rosen, Lieu- 
tenant General Hamilton, and myself, will engage 
that you shall have a suitable reward, and good pre- 
ferment, if you put Derry into our hands, it having 
retarded the success of his majesty's arms both in 
England and Scotland. Let this be speedily complied 
with; your proposals shall be readily granted, and 
sent back signed and sealed by both generals, and ten 
thousand poonds shall be paid to you either in Eng- 
land or Ireland for this great service. 

" Melfort." 



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246 rSB SIBGB OF DEBBT. 

GOVERNOS. 

I will send an answer to this immediately. (fl«4«tt 
doom and writet, after which he toys) — 

Gentlemen, as I would write nothing to tbe enemy 
ia secret) I will read my answer to you— 

" Londonderry, July 15, 168ft 

" Sir — I have perused your letter, and am very 
much obliged to Mareschal De Rosen and General 
Hamilton for their good opinion of my conduct — if 
theira had been as good, they might, perhaps, have 
been masters of this town long since ; it is our ^r«&t 
happiness to meet with such an euemy. I very w^ 
know of what importance this place is to the Pfo- 
testant Interest, and to my master. King William, who 
is capable of rewarding me, and those under my cawr , 
mand, without paying us in brass money. As to tbe | 
ten thousand pounds which you ofier, I value thetn sat 
one pin ; and if your master would give me tiie cathe- 
dral church full of gold, I would not betray tlie cuue 
of my country and my king. I have engaged, jny 
honour for the performance) ^ what I bare under- . 
taken, and my word of honour I will keep. ' 

« Farewell — John Micablbusnk. ] 

" For tbe Right HoDOUrable Lord Melfort." 
Gentlemen, how do you like this r^y ? 

ALL. I 

Very well. {ExU the tervatU viUh tit Ittter.) 

Enter a »etvamt* ' 

SBKVANT. ' 

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it is directed to Colonel Walk«r, ajtd was vrritten On 
Sunday laat. A Scotch gentleman naihed Oomis^ 
accompanied by a yonng officer odled Roche, brongfat 
it from tbe fleet, sWimming from a place where th^ 
had left their clothes on the river-side, three miles 
from the city. He came in a few minutes ago, with it 
concealed in his hair ; and having ran these three miles 
in a state of nakedness, through the woods, to avoid 
the horsemen in pursuit of him, he delivered the letter 
it the door of the couneil-room ; his body is covered 
with blood, having been severely lacerated by the 
briars and thorns in running through the woods. His 
clothes bad been stolen from the place in which he 
coBCeided tbem on swimiliing to the ships. 
The Governor reads—' 
" All things go on well in England ; Dundee has 
been kilted at a most fortunate time, after having 
gained a victory over Genenil Mackay at Killecrankie; 
he lived ifl hope of recovery for soflne hours after hav- 
ing received his mortal wound, and occnpied nearly 
the last minutes of his life in writing to Lord Melfort 
for speedy assistance from Ireland; saying that he. 
bettrd his wound was not mortal. A letter frOm L 
MeUloH was foiUid in Ms pocket after his d^th, 
forming him that a declaration issued by James, 
the toleration of the reformed religion in Scotls 
and indemnfty for Protestant opponents, had b 
in,*n up in such ambiguous terms, that it might 
brdken through whenever he should deem expedi 
do so. - , 

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1^ THB aiBOK 07 DEBRT. 

" It is Baid that the loss on our side has been two 
thousand killed, and five hundred priBoners, but the 
death of Dundee has rendered it unnecessary to send 
any reinforcement to Mackay ; and the Highlanders 
and their Irish auxiliaries, triumphant as they were 
on that day, are now but contemptihle enemies — they 
will be soon dispersed. But husband your proyisions, 
and you will he relieved in a short time." 

CAIRNES. 

A short time ! — this is but mockery j he shonld 
have been here long since. Few, indeed, of our gar- 
rison have we lost in battle, compared with those who 
have already died of famine, and disease produced by 
it. The church-yards have been so filled with dead 
bodies, that for six weeks the back-yards and gardens 
of the city have been made receptacles for them. Of 
seven thousand and five hundred men at the com- 
mencement of the siege, little more than four thou- 
sand remain, and of these one-fourth have been ren- 
dered unserviceable from weakness. This man talks 
of relieving us in a short and indefinite time, when we 
^n hardly reckon upon three days life, having no ani- 
mal food hut the flesh of nine starved horses, and the 
daily allowance to each ^f our men bang one pint of 
oatenmeal. 

GOVEBNOB. 

Cfurnes, go and write as melancholy a letter as you 
can to Kirke, and let him Itnow that we are starving ; 
nothing, as you say," has been left to us hut these few 
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must die of bung^. Tell him, as he reveres hia owa 
honour and reputation, not to suffer us to be lost for 
want of a little bread. {Exit Caime'^ 

Enter two Midiers, running acrost the stage, hold 
^aniel dog by the hind legs. 

COVER NDB. 

What was that the soldiers had P 

TOWN MAJOR. 

A dog which they are going to eat. 

GOVEBNOB. 

I took it for a kid ; it made my teeth water. A 
chubby infant of Alderman Crookshank's, in the nt 
arms Uus morning, attracted the notice of some o 
Boldiers, who are nearly mad with hunger ; the; 
lowed her in such a way as terrified the woman, 
escap^ from them by running into the next 
house she met, and shutting the door in their face 

Enter another toldier, with a cat — he runs acrosi 
stage, making her erg. 



The soldiers hunt up and down the city for dogs 
cats, as cats do for mice. Captain Ash has just 
Rie of a poor man whom hunger had compelled tc 
his dog, and roast the flesh to satisfy the painful c 
ings of his stomach ; just as he was about to feas 
the rare dish, an importunate creditor, equally hun 
came in to demand a debt, which he was unable to 
in any other way than by resigning the carcase o£ 



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dvg to tha uubid^^n gu«Bt, which he did with a I^a- 
^atung aivd sorrovful eye. 

MAJOR FBEEMAK. 

Pool that he waa — he that ^ves all gives none at 
tU ; I would Iiave ofiered him half the dog for half of 
the debt, and a pcoa^Mory note sAst dinner for the 
rest of it. 

Enter another soldier, MicheBmrn^s mastiff dog on 
his bach, with the two legs over his tuck. 



Hold, brother soldier — you should give me share of 
my own dog. (ffe whistles, the soldier drops the dog 
and rtou awtof.) 

Surely the dogs must be very poor, when thel^wojrie 
can get nothing t *eat. What can feed the wretched 
animals P 

MAJOR FBEEMAH. 

The dogs go out at night and tear up the graves, 
which ia easy to do in either of the church-yards, as a 
sufficiency of earth cannot be found to cover them, 
and the dead bodies are in such heaps, that digging a ! 
grave deep or shallow is out of the question. Feeding j 
on the fleah of those who have beeu rbceutly killed ! 
&ttens the dogs very soon, and then we eat th«i), so ' 
that we might almost as well feed on the flesh of the 
enemies we kill, and so be deemed cannibals. We 
have, however, an excellent way of dressing this flesh 
— ^ler seasoning it with pepper &nd salt, we pour wine 
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WALKBK. 

It is noir the tirenty-aerenth of July, and ^thin the 
last four months our garrison has been reduced to four 
tltoustuid foar hundred and fiftt -six men ; of these not 
more than eighty have died in battle, or by the shells 
tfarovn into the town — the rest we have lost by famine 
and disease. Here is a list of prices in the meat mar- 
ket, if such it may be called ; it was put into my hand 
this morning, by John Hnuter of Colonel Stewart's 
Maghera regiment.' He was slavering to the walls, 
with his long musket, to get a shot at the enemy o» 
the other side of the water ; he looked nearly black 
with hunger, and yet he told me he had not yet felt 
weak while watching for a sure shot from the walls, 
but usually grows faint in his return from them. 

Horse flesh, twenty pence a pound. 

A quarter of a fat dog, five and six pence. 

A rat from the church-yard, one shilling. 

A mouse, sis pence. 

A pound of greaves, one shilling. 

A pound of tallow, four shillings. 

A pound of salted hides, one shilling. 

A qaart of horse's blood, one shilling. 

A horse's pudding, sin pence. 

A handful of sea-wreck, two pence. 

The same quantity of chicken-weed, one penny; 

A qiiBTt of meal when found, one shilling. 

A small fluke taken out of the river, only to be had 
by exchange for meal. 



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I$2 TIIE 8IECIB OF SEBRT. 

Alas, that gold cannot procure us bread — if so we 
vould be safe euough, for the quautity of it and of 
Mlver within these walls is very great, from what has 
been brought here by the families who hsve Sed to us 
for refuge. It would be a rich city for triumphant 
plunderers. The soldiers and starring ciUzens have 
eaten up all the dogs and cats in the town, so if not 
immediately relieved, we must give up the prisoners, 
who had better be at once devourjed than to lie lan- 
guishing and starving in a dungeon. It is singular— 
a mark of providential care even in this dreadful time 
of trial — that there has not been a single instance of 
suicide in Derry this summer. We have gold enough, 
but what does that signify ? The whole of the five 
thousand pounds brought to us from King William, by 
the gallant Sir James Hamilton, could not now pur- 
chase one morsel of bread for us. (Zfe laAei a guinea 
out of his purse and puts it in his mouth.) He then 
says — There is no relish or comfort in it, no more 
than in a stone ; a piece of leather has more suste- 
nance in it. Yet this is what the world idolizes, and 
by which it is governed. {Throws his purse against 
the wall.) 

The Scene changes to the Irish Can^. 

Enter Rosen, Hamilton, Sheldon, Waucop, and Lord 

Suchan. 

HAMILTON. 

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our camp, and casting my eyes towards the harbour 
mouth, I saw four ships under sail ; waiting about an 
hour, I beheld their English colours ; they, at laat, 
came to anchor at Qulgley's Point. They are, no 
question," ships of provision for the rdief of the rebels. 

SHXLDOK. 

They cannot well pasf the fort at Culmore ; aud the 
worst of all for them will be the boom that lies acrms 
the river, and the batteries at both ends of it. 



It 13 impossible that they can escape us ; nothing 
that is made of wood can pass that boom and these 
batteries ; down to the bottom they must go. 

BOSEN. 

Give orders that if the ships olfer to . weigh anchor 
or hoist siul, the army shall be immediately alarmed, 
and drawn into their breast-works along the river. 

WAUCOP. 

We shall sink them, if there were an hundred of 
them, from oui batteries, that lie along the river on 
both sides of it; down they must go. 

LOHD BUCHAN. 

They cannot escape. The arrival of the provisions 
will be most favouiable to us ; those for whom they 
were intended will have but little occasion for them. 
It is impossible that they should resist a storm after 
such a disappointment, and in the condition they are. 
The ravages of death among them, from famine and 
disease, are frightful ; in a few days there will be none 
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Enter am offbi»t 

onicxB. 

Three or four of the abips have weighed onchoi^ 

and are making all the soil they can'; the wind and 

tide fitvonr them. 

BOSXH. 

Play the bombs ; diachwge ^ the cumon ; let oar 
utmost energy be used. Now, rebebi prepare for tha 
halter and the hatchet; no mercy far a soul in the 
ships or in the city ; we will make a memorable ex- 
an^le of thom — their very dogs, if they have any left, 
■hall be hanged.- 

Enter an o^fieer. 

OFFicxa. 

Three ships are under siul, the wind and tide favour 

them, but they are within reach of the caunon in the 

batteries on each side of them, as they pass up, and 

the boom will certainly stop them. 

Enter an officer. 

OFFICER. 

The mau-of-war has cast anchor, and the two pro- 
vision ships continue their voyage, and are making up 
the river ; but a sudden calm has come on, and there 
is not a blast of wind in their sails. 

lU MILTON. 

This makes for us. They may, perhaps, for a little 
time, escape our small shot, but when they come to 
the boom and the batteries what wiU become of them? 
Indeed if the man<of'War had sailed on before them, 
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THB «KGE OP DBBRT. 155- 

mlg^C faare been done ; she might have plied ua wiUt 
broadsides, imd rattled her-Hmall shot among out men^ 
and migkt have beaten the gunners from their posts, 
CH"perh^s disabled ovx cannon, but these two small 
provision ships can do nothing, and it is a shame for 
the man-of-war not to have tried to make way for 
tliem ; you will see what a condition they will be ia 
presently. 

Enter an officer. 



The largest- of the provision ehips hangs on the 
tM>om, and is wafKng ashore ; our cannon on both the 
batteries are pelting at her, and her captain has been 
killed. 

Enter another officer. 

OFFICER. 

The ships have cleared themselves, and are under 
swl out of cannon-shot, and the night is coming on, 
which will facilitate the passage to the ship-quay ; 
they are now coming about the Crook of Enver. 

HAMILTON. 

Farewell stubborn and indomitable city; farewell 
Deny, too successful refuge of traitors, and of rebels. 
Oh, how this proud city has humbled us ; what a thorn 
it has been in our side ever since we came before it. 
How has it confounded, distracted, and mined the deep 
designs of our great undertaking ; here to abide in des- 
pair until overpowered and destroyed by the English 
army, which it has given time to be raised up, and em- 
barked for Ireland, and which may soon chase us from 



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156 THE SIBGE OF DBRBT. 

one enl of Irelaid to the other — ^from Carrickfergns 
to Cork. Had it rot been for this towD, and the pro- 
tracted defence of it, we would have probably been in 
ths heart of EnglanJ by this time, and on our maich 
to London with powerful reinforcementf. In vain have 
we stopped here to be run down and overcome by 
Orange rebels— we are ruined, undone) we perish ; 
but eternal honour be to you, Michelbume, the heroic 
governor of Derry — ^yoor glorious conduct, and that 
of those under your command, ought to be recorded 
in letters of gold on the page of history. 

(^Exeunt onmes.) 



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THE BATTLE OF AUGHRIM. 

MEN. 

Baron de Ginkell, General of tlie English Army. 

MaSOUIS DB EtVIGNI,\ 

General Talmash, V Generals under De Ginkell. 
General Mack^y, ) 
Colonel Herbert. 
Colonel Earlbs. 
MoNsiECR St. Rotb. 
Sarsfieli>, Lord Luc an. 
General Dorrington. 
Colonel Talbot. 
Colonel Gordon O'Neill. 
Colonel Purcell, l Officers of Colonel Grace's 
Captain Shortali^ J regiment. 
A Minstrel of the Court«town family. 
Sir Charles Godfret, a young Engliahman, son of 
Sir Edmund Godfrey. 

WOMEN. 

Jemima, Colonel Talbot's daughter. 
LuciNDA, Wife to Colonel Herbert. 
Wilh Officers, Soldiers, Guards, Measengert, and 
Attendant. 

SCENE niE IRISH CAMP, NEAR ATHLONE. 

ThU memorable battle nss fougbt on Sundar, the I2th of July, 



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BATTLE OF AUGHRIM. 



ACT I. 

Scene I. 

The Scene opens vntA a sound of hellle-drvms and 
tran^ls. Si. Suth, SartfieM, and Colonel Gordon 
O'Neill silting in council. 

ST. BUTH. 

Secure, brave Sarsfield, in our camp we lie, 

And from our lines the British force defy ; 

Tho' in their cause both Danes and Dutchmen join. 

They shall not triumph here as at the fioyne. 

From this high hill, Lord Lucan, I survey 

Some great rejoicing in their camp to-day, 

And in the ^r I could behold afar 

Their standards vaving in the pomp of war, 

Their cannons firing, and a smoke arise. 

And with their acclamations reach the skies. 

Believe my words, the wanton winds now bring 

The whigs some tidings from their Orange king ; 



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: BATTLE OP AUaBBIH. 



Some fort of ours their allied troops iavest, 
Or else their fleet have cannonaded Brest ; 
But though their arms in Plandera may succeed. 
By us shall Erin be from England freed ; 
Our fleur de lis and shamrock we'll display, 
And drive these foreign heretics away — ,< 
The non-eonformists who pollute our soil, 
And have grown rich and rampant on onr spoil; 
For this great Louis, friendly to your land. 
Has sent me here your army to command. 



We stand indebted to your Christian king, 
And next to you, who these great succours bring ; 
Long may you live in martial pomp to wield. 
In high conunand, the truncheon and the shield. 
King James and all our holy priests are sent 
To France or Spain in hopeless banbhment ; 
The pope's authority is here denied, 

. His altars tumbling upon erery side ; 

* Our foe the proud metropolis commands, 
The civil power ia wrested from our hands ; 
No garrisons we now can call our own, 
But Sligo, Galway, Limerick, and Athl(»e, 
Which latter town is now beleaguered round, 
As I perceive from yonder rising ground ; 
From, it some friends oitr officers inform 
It stands in danger of a sudden storm. 
While Grace, who Cromwell's highest pow^d^ed, 
Who baffled Douglas, mortified his pride. 
Is unsupported, here we dance and sing 



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Vtun WDgs o( triumph for a fallal king. 

oVeill. 
Fear not, my lord, we're not ia deetitnlioni 
But strong enough to crusli tbis revolution ; 
The king of France deigns on our cause to smil^ 
And we will drive these aliens from our isle ; 
But should we fail, we all disdain to fly, 
Here will we stsind to conquer or to die. 
Perish or gain our long lost liberty. 

ST. BUTH. 

There spc^e the genius of the common weal, 
A thought so noble suits the great O'Neill, 
Whose royal ancestor, on Leinster's plain. 
Subdued Turgesius, the haughty Dane, 
When that proud tyrant lay encamped between 
The hill of Tara and the plains of Screen ; 
He cross'd the Boyne, and, in the dead of night. 
Slew all their guards, and put the Danes to flight- 
Laid some like tigers weltering in their gore, 
And drove the remnant trembling to the shore ; 
Great Shane O'Neill Elizabeth defied. 
And brave Sir Ph'elim for his country died, 
But not before he galLintly cast forth 
The Scotch and English settlers from the North— 
Rush'd on the settlers like a mountain flood. 
And drench'd the land with their devoted blood. 
Thus may we now, by one decisive stroke, 
Preserve fair Ireland from a foreign yoke ; 
Souls such as ours cannot be kept in awe 
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Who fled from Erin ; had he dared to wait 
He would have shared the Duke of Monmouth's fate. 
.Sarsfield, you taaght the invader to despair. 
When you blew up his cannon ia the ^r ;) 
Like leaves in autumn dropping from the trees. 
The Dutchman's laurels wither by degrees. 
James must return, and speedily restore 
Rome's anaent church in this fair isle once more. 
And drown these beretics in their own gore. 

SABSPIELD. 

When that day comes, which I much wish to see, 
Well strip the brandies from the Orange tree. 
Lop down its boagbs, while many a gallant haii^ 
Shall scourge these foreign vipers from our land ; 
Then shall our clergy in full pomp return. 
And fragrant incense on our altars burn ; 
Tlie church-lands and the tithes will be restored. 
The host in proud procession be adored ; 
Our abbeys must be splendidly rebuilt. 
And serve as sanctuaries for our guilt ; 
And monks and nuns in sable garments grace 
Our churches, chapels, and eacli public place ; 
Then shall the lands from loyal owners gone, 
To Cromwell's rebels since dark Forty-one, 
All be restored j our Irish parliament 
Has lately nullified their settlement. 
On men whose fathers in rebellion rose. 
And to the good King Charles were mortal foes. 
(^A horn sounds Kithin.) 



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ST, 8CTB. 

A post arrives, Bonne message he must bear. 
Some news from Gnce ve may expect to hear. 

POST. 

Pardon me, sir, the fatal news I bring 
Must grieve each friend to our anointed king ; 
Athlone is lost without yonr timely aid. 
At six tbis morning an assault was made. 
When under shelter of the Britisb cannon. 
Their grenadiers in armoar took the Sbannon, 
Led by brave Captain &uidy8 they on us came, 
Flung'd to tbe middle in the rapid stream ; 
He led them on with undaunted ire. 
Sprung from the bank in spite of all our fire, 
Follow'd by all his dauntless grenadiers. 
Though bullets flew like hail about their ears ; 
They're raging now in fury uncontroU'd. 

ST. BUTH. 

Dare alt the force of England be so bold 
As to assail that citadel, when I, 
With twenty thousand soldiers, am so high j 
Iteturn, and if they dare tbis course pursue. 
Tell them St. Ruth is near, and that will do. 

POST. 

Your aid would be much better than your name. 

ST. BUTH. 

Bear back this message, sir, from whence you can 
{ExU Port-) 

SAHSFIELD. 

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i66 TBI BATTU OF AUOHBIM. 

And SO ita fall by timely Bid prevent ; 

You know Bot yet whkt Britom dare to do. 

What yoa have heard we aooa shall fiod too trae ; 

I know that English fortitude is such, 

Aa boasts of little though it hazards luach ; 

No force oa earth their vigour can repel> 

Nor would they fly &om all the fiends in hell. 

ST. BOTH. 

Name them no more, my lord, I pray forbear, 
rU send no aid from eith«' front or rear ; 
'Tis but a ialse alarm, a scoff to try 
Would I descend from my position high ; 
Besides our officers are, one and all, 
Fatigued by dancing at our last night's baU ; 
Dare Ginkell try to make that fortress yidd, 
When I as (veneral command this field? 

BARSriELD. 

Boast not, St. Ruth, but rather take a view 
How Britons bold did once proud France Subdue ; 
See what they did on Cressy's crimson plun. 
What laurels they at Paiotio-s did obtain ; 
Your message they will treat with deep disdun ; 
Though Fm their foe I will roaJntsriD so far. 
Their well-known prowess in the fields of war. 
As to allege that tb^y would ratkcrr die^ 
Than with dishonour &om their foemen fly. 
Shut Coiond Talbot. 

ST. RUTH. 

Brave Colonel Talbot, your victorious hand, 
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I£berniaii Scipki, jour word akins 

Shall turn tbe uale — shall we oasist AtMone f 

T&CBOT. 

FardoQ me, sir, I fear 'tis past your ud, 
For froa a riaitig ground I now survey'd 
England's proud standard on the walls displayed ; 
While Girace survived, impregnable was found 
The fort, with him it tumbled to the grouod; 
Ours is the toss— the fall of that strong town 
Will consummate the veteran's renown. 
Fearless, and last of all, did that map stand 
AguBst the roundheads for his nativie 'land, 
And now by yonr oegleet, who lid dented, 
Oerwheka'd by rebeK has (he ijero diod. 

BT. BUTH. 

Athlone is taken, then, without a doubt-^ 
Haste, call my guards, and drive tbe traitors out 

SABSVIBUI. ^ 

Easily said ; would they as ao&n obey, 
Wc^d mate the viotom for thwr entnuioe pay, 
But now that we have lost the lucky hour, 
They will not fly &om yaa or all your p6rw<er. 

BOBAINeTOH. 

The works that face oar camp are all entire. 
And Jiow thMr guiu against our trMsebeB fire ; 
Unless we now MtUa at y^ ooawiand, 
No tent in all our lilies oae faowtfa&ataBd. 

St. iJFin. 
Then loiter not, but.sMwd to arms at sight, 
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Thence in the morning off to Anghrim fly, 

For there'I choose to conquer or to die : 

Haste, strike the tents, with speed see all things done. 

Draw the men off before the setting sun. 

{Exeunt Dorrington, Talbot, and O'Neill.} 

SABSFIELD. 

Be calm, my soul, thy sweltiog rage reslrfdn, 
And curb the boiling fury of my brain ; 
Now let the earth be into chaos hurl'd, 
Whilst earthquakes rise and overthrow the world ; 
Let gloomy vapours veil the dusky air. 
And all muikind like me feel deep despair ; . 
Athlone thou'rt lost, the care of thee comes late, 
Thou pride of Enn and her throne of state ; 
Thy sons are elaughtei'd, to the foe betray'd. 
Because this Frenchman would not send thee aid; 
But ni rerenge.the wrong, and he shall fall, 
The crime is great, his punishment is small. 

{Draws his sword.) 
Come, draw your sword, 'tis now your sole relief. 

ST. RUTH. 

Consider, Sarsfield, I am here your chief; 
Your country's ruin would attend our strife. 

SAB9 FIELD. 

No thought but that hath saved your worthless life. 

(/*«(» vp his sward.) 
That stops my hand, for otherwise I swear, 
I'd send your soul to wallow in despur. 

BT. EDTH. 

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THE BATHE OF AUOHRIIT. 16! 

*TiB not quite safe for you to be so bold, 

Lest from this camp yon should be quickly hurl'd, 

A ooatineer to wander thro' the world. 



You dare not drive me— I would not obey, 
Yet luiow vain Gaul that here I will not stay ; 
111 quit this camp, and you will shortly find 
How few brave Irishmen will stay behind. 
'Tis not for us who made proud William yield. 
Destroyed his cannon, sent him from the field ; 
A foreign coxeomb as our chief to own. 
Whose folly caused the capture of Athlone. 
With our own dauntless troops joined liand in hand. 
Well drive these English from our native land ; 
Danes, Dutch, or French invaders shall do more 
Land without slaughter on our native shore ; 
Without your aid, we can our foes defeat, 
Our strength is mighty, tho' our danger's great ; 
So before Ginkell you may bow retreat ; 
Meanwhile, may vengeance, and contempt, and 

shame, 
Confound your country and your «dious name. 
(£■«.•<:) 

ST. RDTH. . 

Insulted and abandoned ! Oh, my fate 1 
Was ever man in such a wretched state P" 
Sent by my king, to «ave a savage crew, 
Wlio to perdition would my life pursue ! 
But hold my heart, away witE grief and fear. 
For lo 1 CNeitl and Dorrington appear. 



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170 (BE BAITU or AUftHHH. 

£W«n- Darrmfftm, O'JVtiit, mmd TaOvt. 
o'mxiu. 
Your orders ue obeyed, St. Bnth, ud oov tke right 

Detachment of youi baaae ia aat of sight. 
Your 1^ the centre, aad the reyel trwB* 
Are on th«r nwreh, ftnd.we alaae iMnuB. 

HT. BUTH, 

. Success KtteDd thent, bet aNoU I feer 
The Iwisf rons surges of our fkle an near ; 
Fedtngs of horror, all ny vk^ dMBp, 
I fear Lord Lucan will forsake our can^ 

o'nbilu 
Great Heaven forbid that Sarsfield should itftmt, 
Tlia very thought of it would Iveak my heart. 
Aa I rode thro' the Unea to nove this way 
He nwrahalled forth his mea id bright amy, 
And v\tb the sBoUe that speaks his inward w«rA, 
He ordered then to ^rcad th^ baonera fortlv 
His words I hieard, asd thea his sword he drwr. 
HovBted his horae and b«le them ail pacstt& 
He moved his arm to me and bade me iitay, 
Aad with his gaUant borseaaen rods away 
To j«B his party. Time will tell the rest. 

. ST. RUTH. 

This news wltti honwr overwhelna my baeait. 
But haste, O'Neill, aad (|uiokly overtake 
This hasty ^iieftatis foryotu country's sake. 
Stop his carear, o^ dwadfiil daager skaw, 
&itreat htao, nay b^MM^ bun, aot to g«. 
Bring him t» Au^rin, and if yon prenit 



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an SA.TIU or ADdHMK. 171 

Then wM nraeew we wiB Ae Dm smuI. 

{Exemmt St. SmA, Dwringtut, ami aNtOL) 

COLONKt TALBOT — (mA(A) 

Should Suvfield go, behwd I wiH Dst Btajr, 
But after Um my stdditn lead kw«y< 
CoMfiund Ail FroBchniftii, me my bmb ntire. 
Well set his vhole ovp eqwpage on fire. 
I wUh Lord Looui had the sole ootaaMBd, 
For then King Janes iroold triuaph in the Und, 
But rain from St. Roth I now fiwesee. 

EtOtr Sir Ckarla G^frey. 

SIR CHARLES. 

By the account she gave this must be he. {Atidt.) 
Behold a stranger kneels, who humbly prays 
That you would add some moments to his days. 



Say first, young soldier, from what place j^u came ; 
Your errand tell me, and disclose your name. 

OODFHKV. 

My heart ensnared by love, my quiet gone. 
If Talbot is your name I will speak on. 

TALROT. 

Strange youth, it is, arise and now disclose, 
Without reserve, the author of your woes. 



Then, wi, to t^ yoa my distressing case 
I am an Ei^Misiitn of atteteat raee, 
!^r Charles Godfrey is my tewful ntrae, 
A iifge Mtate idid ligfa deMMt I ckiA ; 



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172 -rSB BATTIB OF ADOHttlM. 

My bonoar'd father, in the late king's reign, 

Was by a band of TillainB basely slain ; ' 

When he was gone, of other friends bereft, 

One lovely sister only had T left ; 

She married Colonel Herbert, and to-day, j 

When towards Athlone by chance I took my way* 1 

With her your charming daughter I espied, i 

As they were walking by the Shannon side ; 

Standing amazed I view'd her o'er and o'tx^ 

And as I look'd I lov'd her more and more — | 

She seem'd so lovely to my ravish'd eyes. 

So like an angel coming from the skies. 

TALBOT. 

Well said ! — quite eloquent. What's your desire ? 

GODFREY. 

Your daugliter's beauty sets my soul on fire. ' 

When on my knees I did for pity sue. 

Her answer was, I must fqipeal to you ; | 

Now, noble sir, I mercy hope to find, 

Where courage la within the warrior's mind ; 

Let me, great Talbot, prove by deeds of arms. 

That I am worthy of your daughter's charms ; 

'Tis all 1 ask, when war's alarms are o'er, 

ril claim the hand of her whom I adore. 

TALBOT. 

Your suit shall be accepted, gallant youth, 
But I must state your offer to St. Ruth ; 
If he receives you, then I pawn my oath. 
That you shall have her, and HI Mew you both. 



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THB aXTTLB OF AUQKIUM. 173 

GODFBKV. 

How shall my gratitude reward your care ? 

TALBOT. 

Follow to Aughrim, for we staiid it there ; 
By force of arms your new made claim sustun. 
And blooming laurels for our monarch gain. 

{Exit Talbot.) 

GODFREY— w/uf. 

Now like a mariner I leave the shore, 

And put to sea in search of gtrfden ore, 

Thro' stormy Vaves to plough the troubled main, 

In hope thro' threatening danger to atttun, 

A bay of love, to recompense my pain. (Exit.') 



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t BATtu <» AvaaaaaL. 



ACT II. 

7^ Scene opens on tk« kifi ^ KUcommoden, tcAuA 
ritet geatfy to a etnuiderahie height «» the imiUfn 
aide of the piain of Amgkrim, part ^ whidi it « 
vered with a morau ; on t'le iefl of the Iriti camp, 
and tituated on the plain, a p pee ra a itnmf an 
and OH the right the mint of an tAbeg ; fMSr^ofMff 
top of the hill, in the rear of St. Ruth's amuf, 
two high Danish forts, both of them filled toiih King 
Jamet^i soldiers, and provided with artillery. 

Enter Colonel Purcell and Ceqilain ShortaU, both of 
them officers in Graces regiment, and both in mUi- 
tary motiming for the Governor of Athlone, 

PUBCELI^ I 

The morning'B foggyi threaf ning nun ere nigbt. 
The English army is not yet In sight; 
Some say they will not move till afternoon. 
We're ready now, they cannot come too soon; 
Tm Bure if Sarsfield had supreme command. 
Upon the river Suck he'd make a stand; 
There, over-shadow'd by rocks, trees, and gran. 
The narrow road runs just thro' such a pass 



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m BATTLI OP AUOBBDf. 1?5 

At KltierankM on the TammeVs side, 

Vfy&n Gbnen hnmbled Onnge Nsmm^ prides 

Booted Ma«kKy, and gkniouely died. 

SHOBTALL. 

Iladu7 migbt tremble ebould be mmk Mb my. 
But ire we on vm^ safer ground to-daf ; 
Europe could scarcely show a tract of land 
On which an army could more safely stand;' 
A'nghnm's strong castle on our left you see. 
Two fields of risi^ ^;round at Uradiree 
Protect onr right', in front that broad morasa. 
That hog, twill be imposaible to pass, 
For near it are two thousand men entpenoh'd— 
There will the English in timr blood be drench'd ; 
Two OasiHfa forts o'erhang our camp belrind, 
And we are fkrouT'd by the sun and wind. 

PURCBLL. 

I don't know why it is, but in my miadt 

Its usual confidence I do not find j 

Hy thoughts are gloomy, and my sinrits low. 

Since Grace was left to perish by the foe, 

Abandon'd by St. Ruth and left alone, 

To ^1 beneath the castle of Athlone ; 

His fate seaTd ours, for here we find to^y, 

SaHfield incens'd from conncil keeps away^ 

I fear the bonse<inence ; — bat who comes here? 

His eye beams fury thro' a falHng tear; 

I think I saw him once — he seems insane. 

anosTiix. 
I know him welt — griqf agitates his brain^ 



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176 THK BATILB OF AROHBIH. 

Hoyall/B bard, oft foremost in the train 

At Courtatown castle, now with harp in band. 

Mourning his master'B death, behold lum Mand< 

Enter .an aged harper, who playt on Aw irutnmunt, 
at he tingt the foUomiHg ttama to the tatuic of the 
"Meeting of the Waters:" 

Ohi Courtetown, thy walla rise in beauty and pride. 
From thy watch-tower's summit the foe is descried ; 
The hearts of thy sons still with courage o'erttow. 
As forth to the battle undaunted they go ; 
Alas, now the pride of the Grace's u gone, 
The hero forsaken and lost in Athlone ; 
But here we^l avenge him, to battle we go, 
With our thunder-like war cry of Grauagh abof. 

Fair Courtstown, the home of the great and re- 

nown'd, 
To-day your bold vassals their chieftain surround— 
The Shees, Booths, and Sbortalls, whose bosoms 

still glow 
With the fire that impels them to rush ob the foe ; 
In v^n have the Sasseuagfas sought foreign aid. 
At the sight of our standard they'll soon be dismay'd ; 
The rampant White Lion frowns slaughter and wo. 
When we nusCour old slogan of Gratagh oboe. 

Proud Courtstown, what trophies of battle you boast 
In the sp<dls of the Celd wljicb ycur foemen have lost; 



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TBI BATTL8 OF ADOHBOf. 177 

O'More and Fitzpatrick foaod sad cause to know 
How the Graces of old coidd their foemen o'erthrow ; 
How martial, how grand, waa the chivalrous train. 
As they join'd the brave Butlers ou OrmoDde's red 

plain, 
And Deunond's rude soldiers, in terror and wo. 
Sunk heartless and pale from our Grastagh oboe. 

No strangers the battles of Grace's need fight, 
Their friends are unnumber'd and matchless in 

Their Walshes, their Purcells, and Powers long ago. 
Shared their triumphs and feasts while their foemen 

lay low. 
And now in revenge for our governor slain. 
With the blood of the British this field we will stain, 
Our slogan to-day as we fall on the foe 
8hali be Governor Grace, and our Grassagh ahoe. 

When Cromwell, the scorpion, ruled over our land, 
Brave Grace was the last who against bim could 

stand. 
And gladly the tyrant allow'd hia proud foe 
To Spain with twelve hundred bold soldiers to go ; 
Ob, had we been sent to the fort of Athlone, 
Cer the Shannon our foemen could never have gone. 
Our king should return, and the Williaraites know 
The strength of our swords and our Grassagh ahoe. 
(Exit harper.) 



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178 m 1 



Thew wnKb ttMlHB fresh «»epg7 imiMrt 

To my sad soul ; &ey ratae my drac^ing beart. 

I often heard them is a hapiner day. 

When CourtBtown's chieftains sat in gmsd stray ; 

lliey cheeyd the beaqnet u Ike wine ireat Momd, 

And in tke hearti (J kerow echo fboBd. 

SHOKTALL. 

Well may such minstrelsy your apirits cheer. 
Our Tipperary warriors are near, 
Kilkenny's thousands stand with us to-day, 
And from this field we'll sweep our foes away. 

PURCBLL. 

The rich, the princely lord of CovrtstovR hal^ 

"lis not his fault H* royal Jbmee AonM €iU, , 

The baron's loyalty has known no htmoQa, 

He sent St. Ruth full fourteen thounnd pounds 

To pay the troops last week in sterling gold, 

Thb to his honour ever mast be t^d ; 

But hark, the trumpet sounds, ve must depart, 

Each to his post — I with a heavy heart) 

So for a time my gallant fHend fhrewell, 

A trt^c tale the setting bud will teH, 

« Va viotM," without doubt, will be the tty, 

So now we go to triumph or to die. 

(ExeuMt.') 



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XSB BATTI^ OF ADOHBIM. 179 

7%e Seme tAangei to a beautiful valley leitkin ihe 
EngUA liner. 
Enter Jemima. 



Htul fur Hibomia, ever blooming blci 
Bicker tb&u ^ypt with her flowing Niie, 
"Where on the globe's broad surface can be seea 
Momrtunfl more beautiful, or vales ho green ; 
What rivers, woods, or inlets of the sea. 
Exhibit loveliness in such degree ? 
"Where can such scenes of joy on earth be found. 
As ouTB when in autumnal glory crown'd? 
Alas ! that the recurrence of wild war 
£9iould ever and anon our isluid mar, 
Frustrate all efforts for the public good. 
And drench our paradise with human blood ! 
Has wisdom disappear'd among mankind, 
When for snch ills no remedy they find, 
When hosts of heroes, generous as brave, 
Contend to hurl each other to the gravel 

EiOer Sir CHarht Godfr^. 



See how that angel rivalling the mom, 

With beauty's Itutre can the vale adorn. 

(^ my Jemima, listen white I say. 

The news I bring will cheer your heart to-day, 

The flun now rising from his eastern seat. 

Win crown the hopes my tongue can scarce repeat. 



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L80 THE BATTLB OF ADaBRIH. 

JEMIMA. 

What hope U this, Sir Kaigfat, yon would imput ? 

GODFBRY. 

Such as has raised a sunahine o'er my heart ; 
Your gallant sire has granted all your charms, 
Fiurest of m^dens, to your lover's arms. 

JEUIHA. 

Oh name not hopes like these, for heaven's sake. 
What ? Are not love and life both now at stake ; 
You see our country's fate reduced so low, 
It tries a gamester's chance for one last blow. 

GODFREV. 

Let not such fears as these your thoughts perplex. 
Such cares belong not to the fiurer sex. 
Leave them to those from fear of foemen free, 
Who stand to-day for Erin's cause with me. 
Who would have fought against her but for thee. 
I trust that heaven who formed thee so fair. 
Will make your, safety its peculiar care. 

JEMIMA. 

Forbear, forbear, with terror I'm distressed. 
No thoughts of love should occupy your breast 
At this sad time, when its delusive charms 
Must be declined for warfare's dire alarms. 
And in my trembling bosom something too 
Whispers that lovers are not always true, 
Youth ever fickle, prone at large to rove — 
To-morrow slighting what to-day they love. 

GODFEEY. 

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THB BATTLR OF AHOHBIlf. 181 

Knows fair Jemima that I scorn a lie. 
When on the Sfaannon side your form I view'd, 
LovC) mighty lovej my liberty subdu'd. 
From your bright eyes he stole a deadly dart, 
And ebeath'd it reeking in my wounded heart- 
Nothing can ever&ee me ttom tiiia pain, 
Until for love you grant me love again ; 
Say but the word, and confident I'll go 
To turn the scale against your country's foe. 

JEMIMA. 

Your words my heart, brave Godfrey, strongly move, 
And now in spite of prudence I must love ; 
Here, take my hand, 'tis true the gift is small, 
But when I can 111 give you heart andaU. 

GODFREV. 

Thanks to kind heaven, my love no longer stay. 
In public view — the general comes this way. 

{ExU.) 

JEMIMA. 

Hold now my heart, in troubled dreams last night> 
I saw this valley blaze with lightning bright ; 
1 thought the earth would have been torn asnnder 
By constant peals of cannon loud as thunder, 
And beheld multitudes in terror flying. 
Hearing the groans of wounded soldiers dying ; 
I heard my father say — Jemima, fly. 
Fly while permitted, here I'm doom'd to die. 
*Twas said two years ago, that in a walk 
By night along the low lands near Dundalk, 
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m TBB UTTUe «F AIMMUOM. 

From couatleM Toieea roiuid aboot tbem riw, 
'Where, in months afienrards, but nine or tea, 
Duke Schomberg buried more tfaui htdf his men. 
OmesB depress my BpiritB, but I know 
That dreams by contrmries are fannd to go. 

She si»g* — Air, " Faithlett Emma" 
When hope subsides and dovbt bears sway, 

Led on by core and gloomy sorrow^ 
I stem the tide of wo to-day, 

And calmly look for joy to-4norrow< 
The sun that now seems dark and dull, 

Thro' threat'ning clouds and v^ours gleaming 
May shine, ere noon, in lustre foil 

On our triumphant army beaming. 

And yet perhaps that sun may see 

My Godfrey with stem foes contending. 
And bent beneath a victor's knee,' 

From light, and love, and life descending ; 
Oh gracious heaven, whose mighty sway 

£ules all, wlien deadly cannons rattle. 
Preserve my lover's life to-day. 

Oh save him in the hour of battle. {ExU^ 

Music within, itfn^>honies, Sjc 

Enter St. Rutk, General Dorringtim, and CalottH 
ffNem. 

ST. BDTB. 

Has Sanfi^ then wtmii<d ? Ob Uesg the day. 
Draw forth tbe treopt, and Ene the faen/i ynj. 



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Amidst our shouts of triomph be rilull oome, 
A terror to the eiieiiri«a of Romo ; 
Away vith doutit «sd agoMndog ftara. 

DontraoTON. 
Behold, St Rodh Sarsfield tlie brave uppMn. 

ST. KDTH, 

NoWf fool diBsemion, here thy triumph enda, 
Welcome, Lord Lucan, welcome beat of friendB* 
Thou art the rock on which our canae depesdi. 
Our meeting thus diall before suDset make 
The CMiae of Naaaan in fair Erin quake, 
And like atempetit from the troubled aeo, 
Shatter the bnuichea of hia orange tree ; 
Now muat the Dutchman to destruction tiHf 
And James return in triumph to WhitebaU, 
Then to support the pope we will maintiuit 
An inquisition here like that in Spain. 

gASSFfSLO, 

Moat boldly said, air, but your skill I oim 
Woidd be unquestion'd, had you aared AtUone» 
Had you to Grace but timely sDCCOur sent. 
He coold the capture of that town prevent. 
Like Douglas, Ginkell ahoidd have march'd arway. 
And in Athlone we would be atrong to-day ; 
There and in Limerick we might remain, 
Till we ft-om France should [vomiaed aid obtablj 
But while audi auppwt is far away, 
Our fate depends apon this thveat^ng diy, 
To me yo«r plan of battle is mknom, 
If tither ^Ob ow Hrnr 



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184 TBI BATTLE OF AnOHBIM. 

■T. BUTR. 

Probe not these woundi anew, lest they create ' 
Some fresh disaster to decide our fate ; 
No, rather let as an example show, 
And issue forth against our common foe. 
They now move tow'rds us, as upon the shore 
The stormy waves msh in with hideous ro<tr; 
Upon the banks of Suck last night they lay. 
And will be here just now, 'tis dawn of day. 

DORRINGTON. 

We fear them not, while here entrench'd secure 
As ever Guiscard lay in strong Namur ; 
You see, St. Ruth, our camp on every side 
Is both by art and nature fortified ; 
For situation, not one spot of ground 
Uke this in all the island could be found. 

ST. BCTH. 

Now, like the arlny in Constan tine's day, 
Let every soldier for a laurel pray 
On bended knees ; and quickly at the head 
Of every regiment let mass be said ; 
Let our priesta tell the people, that we fight 
For Jamen's crown and Rome's imperial right. 
Ye are no hirelings — your all's at stake, 
For lands and liberty this course you take. 
Sworn subjects of your own anointed king. 
Your tribute of allegiance here you bring— 
Your cause is .good, and if for it you die. 
Angels will waft your souls to heaven h!^, 
Announcing there your glorious victory. 



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Our spies all say the foe will here be soon, 
The moruing's foggy, they ma.y wwt till noon f 
Meanwhile, brave Dorrington, take cat« to see 
That men enough shall go to Urachree, 
For there the first attack will surely be. 
That's the chief pass, and Ginkell's troops of horse 
Mnst be oppos'd there by an equal force ; 
Fill all these ditches too with muBqaeteera, 
To sweep the foe down just as he appears; 
Let horse be intermingled also with our foot, 
Besides the troops kept ready for punuit [ 
From one ditch to another in each station 
Let opens be for prompt communication. 

Enter Colonel Talbot, heutify. 
To arms, St. Ruth, the English are in sight, 
And in contempt of death resolve to fight, 
Desjnsing caution, firmly they advance 
To dare the force of Erin and of France ; 
Their shouts of war the hills and valleys fill. 
And all our works are levelt'd on that hill ; 
Onr scouts no longer on their post can stay, 
But shrink like mists before the sun away. 

ST. KDTH. 

Be it your care to march with present aid. 

TALBOT. 

Your order, air, diall promptly be obeyed. 

(^Drawmg kit neord.) 

ST. XDTB. 

Come, let ns move, for mass has cow been said 



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186 T^ MATox o» xmatanu 

At «T«ry uglMBwt aad aqHttdran^a htmi ; 

The «t— ditJ'a b J c wid. Oora in a no«d «■»% 

His nnifd liar h«Mttii jink {modb lOoourGh ^awi ; 

His throDe madalUr a*w are boA msuI'4 

By those who 'gainst his im^d sire p ra w i T Ai 

^ iwrdaa'd rebels sens ; tat here to-^ap, 

For their rcbdlMtn they will dearly pay. 

Infstu^ed ■»&— de«-eid of Gsar, 

How can they hope, cntreaefaed as we are here^ 

To forae o«r linca, an tfais.«raag pottwa stand. 

To cut tfaem down with a resistless hand 

As they approadi. 

DOKKINGTON. 

I think it right that we 
On OcontModen poet oar ««wdry ; 
Among diese ditches let a body stand 
Of chosen wen, who will the bog conuaaad. 
We then may frustrate all tbsir grand deaigiia ; 
Not Scandeaberg himsdf eonld force our luiea. 
{A second alarm tetthta.) 

Enter Sir Chariet 6o^r«y, mtk Jm tnord irmem, 
aitd itamed with Umd. 

OODFRBV. 

Ann, quieUy am, why staad ye kritcring here 
In cold debate, the enemy is near ; 
Sir Albeit OsMTBi^asB is due at luuid, 
Wlh tbe s teaa g regiment in his command ; 
\^ith him, like Uon flgWaga* their head, 
Th4y\« slTCii^d tbe field aliudy with tiie de^ 



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B«fore that vftliant knight no foroe oouU >ti>di 
But aM MtbintUtd to bis mthlcsa lund. 
, More I would sajr, but horror Af>p* my tpeeoh. 

ST. EDTB. 

Cotne, tell ike wwat, young soldier, I b 



Alas ! my boartt I tremble to explun, 
But since I must — brave Talbot baa beat dain. 
Lord Portland's horM ap|H-oacti'd the mortal fight 
With Bword in hand, and pot our men to ffig^^ 
This Talbot saw, and UIlb a siridier boU, 
Disdtuning life, be sconi'd to be contr<dl'd> 
But rapidly among ^e foes he nirti'd. 
With ardent ]i<^ of overcoming flush'd, 
Till Iwng closely jttee^d on every atde. 
By numbers overpower'd, he fell and died. 
I fought in vaioi and by bia lide I stoo^ 
Till, aa you see, I drench'd my sword in Mood. 

SAB9FIELD. 

In Talbot fell a chief witk honour fir'd, 
As high aa ever on the field exirir'd ; 
Then fly to arms, let it be each man's pride 
To seek and stnke tbe foe on every stde. 

ST. KUTH. 

Delay not now, but sound to arms witii speed, 
For Talbot's s^a ten tkousand men must bleod; 
Vengeance the British legiwis shall devour— 
Atblone was sweet, but Au^irim shall be war. 
In vtuB, CN^U, I fiad at laat diat we 
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188 TBE BATTLE 07 AUQUStM. 

Then haate utd see that Aughriin'a castle's lined 
With musqueteers, as we before designed ; 
Draw up the troops there, that we may sustain 
The foeman's fury, and that pass maintain. 
You've heard, brave men, how often I embnied 
My hand in Huguenot's devoted blood. 
Latouche and Letablere sent trembling here, 
Well hunt them back again this very year ; 
Ruvigni first of all — some years ago, 
Great Louis finding him a daring foe. 
Told him he would cut off his own right hand. 
Bather than suffer schism in his land. 
Let James's banners boldly be outspread. 
His foes will soon be nnmber'd with the dead. 
The Giurcb has bless'd ns — saints and angeb pray 
That we may gain the victory to^y, 
While at your head triumphant I will wield 
This sword, and drive these rebels from the field. 
{Exeunt.) 

Drums and trumprlt wiikin — Enter Jemima. 

JEMIMA. 

Oh, is be dead 7 — my ever^hononr'd aire. 
With him, I wish to heaven I could expire; 
For his king's rights the sacrifice was made, 
And he has fallen by a traitor's blade : 
There lies a Talbot, whose soul never knew 
One thought that was not to high honour true ; 
Stand back, stand back, and leave me on the groond. 
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TUB DATTLK OP AUOHBUI. 18! 

Witli brioy tears, which aow in torrents ma 

From Ihen sad eyes — rm ruin'd, Tm undone. 

(She ^lU down on iier /ather't bo<fy.) 

Enter Sir Ckarlet Godfrey, teko raUet Aer, 

GODPBKV. 

"Why do these lovely eyes with tears o'erSow, 
To drown the paradise that lies below ; 
Dry up these tears, I trust his soul ere this 
Has reach'd the realms of everlasting bliss. 
Soldiers, bear off the body out of sight. 

(T%ey bear off the body.) 

JEMIMA. 

Ob, no, ni follow — do not kill me quite. 

{Godfrey holds her.) 
See how he glares— behold, again he flies — 
The clouds receive him — see, he mounts th« skies i 
Behold his blooil, how fed, refulgent bright— 
I see him yet, but oh, I lose my sight 

GODFREr. 

Patience, Jemima, Aiy these useless tears, 
And see your Godfrey at your side appears. 

JEMIMA. "^ 
'TtB true the sight of thee at this sad time 
la welcome as the rain in sultry clime. 
But my heart's broken, I need not disclose, 
You're seen the cause of my unequall'd woes. 

GODFREY. 

I saw him like a hero fight and fall — 
Grieve not for him, he died at honour's call ; 



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[90 Vn BATTLE OF AtTGHkDt. 

Tho' Gke tbe md eclipsed, u in a shrosd, 

Your JBind be ovt/nut >d Borrow'i cload. 

Yet Then that cloud has pafs'd the darknera o'er, 

Youll shine then brighter than you did before ; 

Tian tkw, O turn, to Herbert's tent make war. 

Here comes our army in its grand array, 

'With it to hononr'a post I now must fly ; 

And when we n»h upon the enemy. 

The thought of thee will titrengtlien my right hand. 

For thee I fight, and for thy lovely hand. 



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TBS BUUTU «r MJVBUM. 



T%e Scene changes to the Englith amuf—^ntnu teithin 
beat [the "Grenadier* March" — Colonel Earles, 
r die mu 



Muroli on, tmre boys, make good yeui- gro«id, 
Let all your nutrti&I tnimpetfl semod 
To am«, an4 we will boob Gonfbiiwl 

The foes of tite Rer^ation. 
Tho' they fight ua two to one, 
Stm th^ ahrink m we pvsh mi, 
Soon o'er yon hill will they b^one. 

In flight firom execvtion. 

Loud our guuB shall diortly roar. 

Till the land resoasd fiom shore to riiore. 

No ibtTeo (^ Rome can stand before 

The gtortoiu R«TCluti«n> 
Proud OBT crinuon bannera iiy. 
Waving in the azure sky, 
H&te our foemen soon shall ^e, 

Their cause in deBtitutiwi. 



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92 THE BJLTTLI OF ADaHBlH, 

IjBt them now their power try. 
Here we cnish them, here they die, 
And while we fight let ea^ ntan cry, ' 

Huiza for the Revolution 
Long may conquering 'WiUiam reign. 
To cnrb the pride of France and Spain, 
Rome's proud prelate still disdain. 

And guard the Rerolutton. 

Thns far victoriously we proceed, 

And this fiur isle Qrom warfare shall be freed ; 

No longer blighted by a pagan creed, 

The faithless priests against us may exclaim — 

To them belongs of this day's blood the blame ; 

Such scenes they caused long since in forty-one. 

But now their lut^less cause to ruin's gone ; 

The baffled fiends, confounded by our fire, 

Hay now for dupes to Italy retire. 

Masses this morning have they sung in vain, 

Confusion seems throughout their camp to reign. 

IJlce Baal's priests from sunrise have they cried, 

But answer to their prayer has been denied. 

HBBBI^T. 

We will defeat them, quickly will they fly. 
Onward brave Earlea to conquer or to die. 
I feel my blood with martial ardor boil. 
We'll drench to-day, with blood this marshy soil. 
{Exeunt.) 



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THB BATTLE OF AUGURni. 193 

Table and chairs are set t^wn the stage — Plvurith of 

trwHpet* within. 

Enter at several doors Generals Gittkell, Rm^m^ 

Talmask, and Maeka^, vith Cotojul Herbert. 

HERBERT. 

Defend brave Ginkell) gracious heaven ! Oh ! may 
HiB conquering sword defend our cause to>day. 

GINKELL. 

Hful, gallant soldiers ! I appeal to you, 
Whether or no should we the foe pursue ; 
The sun is setting, I would stop to-night. 
And with his rising, follow on the fight — 
There is no certainty in deeds of night. 
But let US sit down here and first debate 
The proper means to poise the^ale of fate. 

(They aU sit down.) 
Mow I present, commanders, to your view 
A plan of Aughrim which my gunner drew, 

{He shows them a map.) 
On this may now distinctly be descried 
The Irish camp as it is fortified. 
Here, my brave fellow soldiers, yon may see 
Their right's extended on to Uracbree, 
Their left and centre, too, high hills contain, 
Extended o'er the welt protected plain. 
Europe can't show one spot so fortified, 
With rivers, bogs or hills on every side, 
So speak at once, say do ye think it right, 
That we should bait here or renew the fight. 



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194 XHB BAITU OF XOaOIUM, 

HERBEnr. 

Hf Lord, my voice was evtr'to pnrsne. 

And o'er and o'er agun tfae figltt renew ; 

Hazard is itill the glvry of the grwt ; 

Let lu fight on and w« wilt mod da&at 

These foes to ireedom, vengeance on them shower. 

Who etond to-day for arbitfary power: 

When they last year in battle dared to join 

With great King William on the banks of Boynei 

Had he his glorioae victory made good. 

And aa they yielded rapidly punsued) 

And drenclied the road to Dublin with their Uood, 

Chased them at once tliro' I^einster to Athlone, 

The war was over, Erin was his own. 

But he was merciful. Oh, soldiers, say. 

Has mercy shed the blood that flowed to-day? 

And oh! in.lapse of time, if e'er again 

Our sons should meet their sons on such a glaiot 

And win the day, oh may it be the cry. 

That none to rally be allowed to fly. 

A civil war protracted is the worst 

Of ills with which this island has been curs'd. 

Let thoughts like these your ardent minds inflame. 

For thus alone can we retrieve our &m&. 

V this fair opportunity be lost, 

Mllions may feel it to their heavy cost* 

On then— against them — let the traitors bleed. 

And Ewope will apjdaud the ^orious deed.- 

BOVICNI. 

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THE BAaauc or Acaaaiu. 195 

But recollect what force we have to fight, 
So prompt to Buoeour them. their frieoda b&ve been, 
Th*yre five and twenty thoiuand to eighteen^ 
A powerful odda, the moie so as the ground 
"With forts and breaU-wGrks is beleaguered rouiid ; 
A bog secures thrir van, a brook behind, 
Besides th' advantage of the sun and wind. 
Weigh well these things, and surely you will sea 
That if wie fight them 'twill be one to three. 

HEBBEHT. 

No— two to three, the third on their weak side. 
Clowns from black bogs and mountains wild supplied, 
Arm.'d with half pikes,, and skeins like butcher's 

knires — 5 

Our guns will set tiiem fljnng for their Uvesi 
Not thus did Joshua> long time ago, 
Begard the numbers of a faithless foe. 
He fought for heaven, aod this day fight we 
For heaven's cause, our church, and liberty. 
Not thus in Derry did they calculat«^ 
When against James they closed their sacred gate. 
When twenty thousand marshalled against sevei^ 
Were baffled by tite mighty baitd of heaven ; 
Were they six millions. now, and we but two, 
Witb &i^and's aid we could.tjteir force subdue. 

QlSBJtU.. 
Send fqr our tetit^ and we will lie to night, 
Encamped alofijg the valley, is their sights 
That when the shales, of, darltP^s pass qwAy, 
And tbe ami'a^chariot uK}t«:s^in the dsyi 
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196 THX BA.TTLK OP AUOHBIW. 

When the pole moon her clouded course has ran. 
We will attack them vith the rising sun, 
And heaven we trust, to righteous canse still kind, 
^^11 drive our foes, like chaff, before the wind. 

Enter Colonel Earlet. 

EARLES. 

This moment looking round me as I stood 
Upon my post, near the adjoining wood, 
An Irish General as herald came) 
With some proposals, Dorrington's his name- 

GINKKLL. 

Conduct him here. What can his message be ? 

Will they »aw off, and leave the country free P 

It may be so, not hastily should we 

Forego the present opportunity — 

Their power to crush, their deep designs to mar. 

And put this day an end to civil war. 

Re'tnter Colonel Earkt with General Dorrington. 

DORSINOTOH. 

St. Ruth, whose days be many, greeting sends 
To Genera] Ginkell and his gallant friends. 



His name we honour ; but your message speak. 

DORftlNGTOK. ., 

He ordered me these just demands to make. 
That first you would your heresy forsakci 
Then Orange's usurping claims disown, 
Keplace your lawful monarch on the tlirone ; 



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TQE BATTLE OF 

Diaband this army, and at once become 
Submisaiye liegeman to the see of Rome ; 
When this is done the present contest enda, 
And then St. Ruth and Ginkell vill be friends ; 
If this is done, sir, all will soon be well. 



I scorn the message, sir, and yon may tell 
St. Ruth from me, his army soon shall feel 
The sharpest edge of England's conquering steel. 
This day the cause between us must be tried. 
And heaven in justice will the day decide ; 
Tell him from me, his threat'nings I defy. 
My troops are brave, upon them I rely ; 
Haste then and let St. Ruth your master know. 
That he to-day will meet an overthrow. 
His time has come, that setting sun shall see 
This island freed from foreign tyranny. 

DORKINOTON. 

Ginkell, consider and be timely wise, 
St. Ruth's remonstrances do not despise. 
Lest soon competled to bend before your fate, 
Youll mourn your obstinancy when too late. 

GINKELL. 

Begone, and tell your master that I dare 

His utmost power to decide this war, 

Tell him from me once more that on this plain 

King William's lawful rights we will maintain ; 

This, day shall our army with renown, 

Apl laurels fresh adorn our monarch's crown ; 

This day shall cast your Jamek for ever down. 



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19S THB BATTLB OF AUOHBIM. 

DOKKINGTON, 

I take my leave, eir, bat before thia night 
You wiD repent that you resolved to flgftt ; 
No overture like mine ynu1lm«et again, 
And Kek for terms like mine but seek in vain. 
(Exit Dotringlon.) 

mRBEHT. 

There spoke a Tamerlane — but rise my lords, 

Renev the battle with your well-tried swords j 

Loiter not here, but push them on the right. 

Lest they esc^>e unpunished in the night ; 

"What patience had ire to withhold our hands 

From the vain slave who made such harsh denuwds. 

OtHKSLL. 

Then, gallant Herbert, let our cannon play 
Until the smoke shall overcast the day. 
While balls in showers sweep the foe away ; 
Here let our useless staffs of honour lie, 

{They throw down their trwtckeoiu.} 
Now sword in hand our foenten we defy. 

(7%«y draw their twords.) 
Each to his post and see the battle fought. 
For dearly must their victory be bought ; 
On every side St. George's cross disjJay, 
And die each soldier or redeem the day; 
Man is at best but animated dost, 
Tho' strong in power when his cause is just. 
Heaven knows how these uncnltivated hordes, 
When we ^oke peace, began to sharpen swOTdi, 
How into faction, ^ih they alws^ ton, 



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THE BATTLE OF tiVSORUt. 199 

And proffered kindneea insolently spurn ; 
This day AaU bappy be^or Erin's iele. 
Confounding those who would her faith defile, 
And of their liberty her sons be^le ; 
Go, bid the aoldimv shoot, the caimon roar, 
Their thunder echoing from shore to shore. 

, (^Exeunt severally.J 

(^Peals of artillery from within, followed by tntmpe(s 
lomtdittff a charge.') 

Enter Lvcinda — re^eTtter Herbert. 

LTJCINDA. 

Oh stay, my Herbert, I conjure yow stay. 

HERBERT. 

What would my ever dear Lucinda say ? 

LUC IN DA. 

Oh, don't engage to-day, I thee desire, 
Last night in dreams I saw thee all on fire. 
Clad in bright fiames, while angels all around 
Were heaving thee tow'rds heaven from the ground, 
Then I beheld thee like an angel rise. 
And soar aloft, ascending to the skies. 

HERBERT. 

What means all this, Lucinda, dear, you seem 
To misioteipret this delightful dream. 
It means do more than that victorious found. 
With bloiuning laarels I will soon be crown'd. 

{Firing of cannon, heard at a distance.) 
Hark, now, my love, the battle has begun, 
If I stay from H, Idionid be undone. 



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200 THE BATTLE OF ADoaSlM. 

BlaBtiDg the lanrels I have long since von ; 
The trumpet noir recalls me to the fight. 
Adieu, adieu, my lifei my heart's delight. 
As he ffoet Lueinda aeizei hit arm, throwiHg herself an 
her knees in a tuppticalinff manner. 

LUGINDA. 

Be not so rash, my Herbert, hut allay 

My growing tears ; oh, do not fight to-day. 

Had CceGfu- listened to Calphumias dream. 

Would you the warrior mistaken deem? 

BrutuB and Cassius would have missed their um. 

HEBBERT. 

If, my Lucinda, Cassar's timid wife 

Had been obeyed, what value was her life ? 

He who from foes had never shrunk or fled 

ATight be assassinated in Ms bed. 

And DOW farewell, beyond that verdant hill. 

From whose hit side proceeds this crystal rill, 

Within our guarded lines, secure from fright. 

Kneel down and pray while I go on to fi^t. 

Enter GeTterals Ginkell and Maeka;/, with Colonel 
Herbert. 

GINKELL. 

"Tis now past five o'clock, we have begun 

To join the battle— there's the ^gnal gun ; 

No backwardness appears on either side. 

My eyes such troops as these have seldom spied; 

Herbert, you see here is no rabble rout. 

You rashly said one shot would drive them out ; 



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THK BATTLE OP AVQHRIM. 201 

Our men, hoirevei-) gallantly advance 
Agunst the troops of Erin and of France, 
Our left baa passed the bog, and now aspire 
To gain the hill in spite of all tbeir fire. 

UACKAY. 

But here, behold, our left outflanks thetrright, 
Aod as the first ranlcs tumble in the fight, 
Their generals the loss in haste Rupply, 
And fill the ranks where slaughtered hundreds lie, 
With matchless bravery each charge they stand. 
And from their right both horse and foot command ; 
Now should we hold of their advantage lay. 
And march our foot across the narrow way, 
Then with our utmost vigour to oppose 
The miun battalion of these valiant foes. 

GINKELL. 

Be that committed to brave Herbert's care, 
Whilst you for vigorous pursuit prepare. 
With Creighton's, Earle's, Brewer's and your own 
Battalions, let your mettle now be shown. 
Attempt the bog, and there your ground maintain 
Till with fresh forces I that post sustain 1 

HERBERT. 

My lord, no greater honour could I ask 
Than to be chosen for so great a task, 
The proud command with ardour I embrace. 
Though instant death should stare me in the face. 
(Exit.) 



Here we shake hands, my friends, and part a while, 
K 3 



EOS IRS BAnU! OP ADOHBIII. 

To hope that heaven on onr conne v9I mSc : 
One thin^ is certain as audi tHnga can be, 
A gloriooB death or joytal Tietorjr ; 
Our cause is good, our solders are all bnre, 
So onward now, the laurel or the grave. 

{Exeunt, with a sound of trwi^eCt wAftra.) 



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Scene thepiai» of Attghim, betteem boA armiet, at 
rix afelotk in the eettung. 

Enter St. Ruth and S<a->Jield, their szcords drawn. 

ST. BOTH. 

The day seems doubtful, and will not decide 

Tbe victory — but Ritoufb eitlter side ; 

Now tbey, now we, ahcmate bear tlie sway, 

Uncertain which of us will win the day. 

Grace, yonr brave aid-de-camp has nobly fought, 

But wounded mortally has back been brought 

Of his brave regiment but few survive. 

Scarce fifty men of them aie left alive ; 

His lovely lady doubly is undone. 

Oh I what a sire she lost in fair Atblone } 

The Wise, hnmanei and gallant Richard Grace, 

From youth to age the same in every place. 

An honour to his honourable race ; 

f>om Strongbow's day, whtMe blood runs in his 

reins, 
Tbe boose has flourished on IKbemian plains, 



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ZOl THE BATTLE OF AUOHRIH. 

But still for France the honour I must cltum, 
As the old cradle of these sons of fame i 
A Norman race here flourishes to-day, 
They seem from time to suffer no decay. 
Except in property, for from their hands 
Relentless Cromwell seized on half their lands ; 
To pay for their rebellion his vile crew. 
Whom none to king or God found ever true, 
Who always think reli^on was intended 
For nothing else on earth but to be mended. 
Reformed, aud re-reformed, until worn out, 
It should expire in antinomian doubt ; 
But still enough is left to noble Grace, 
To prove the loyalty of his high race. 
For my lord Courtstown lately gave away 
Thousands of pounds king James's troops to pay; 
He> like you, Sarsfield, sprung from English bloodt 
The native Irish never were bo good ; 
Their O's and Mac's, compared with yon in fight, 
Have not of mind or body equal might, 
British or Norman blood from sire to son. 
Have for this island half her laurels won. 
If Balderick CVDonnel now comes on, 
The game is up and Nassau is undone ; 
He in far Connaught cbooaes now to stay— 
If he were with us he could turn the day. 



I think he's false, degenerate in blood, 
And if be could, I doubt much if be would ; 
The miscalled liberator I disclaim, 



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To sell our cause the traitor came from Spain; 
But be shall hear from ua another day, 
And for his treachery may dearly pay. 

ST. RDTH. 

If we had but a few men like lord Clare, 
The Dutchman's hopes would vanish into air ; 
Cotter, with his dragoons, is here to-day, 
As if they had not bied at Lisnaskea ; 
But Where's Mac Mahon ? 

SABSFIKLD. 

Mention not his name) 
He, like (yDonnel, plays a crafty game ; 
From Brien Bom's elder brother sprung — ■ 
He holds the hero's harp. When he was young, 
Strong hope we had of him. He dreads our fate, 
Aiming to come in time to be too late. 
And so to save Gonina's ftur estate ; 
But he shall lose it — we want no man here f 
So on to battle — victory is near. 
Yet see, St. Ruth, undaunted by our fire, 
The foe advances, and our men retire ; 
Theyll pass the bog in spite of us, and then 
They'll clear this hill of us and all our men : 
Our numbers, courage, strength, and skill in war, 
. May fiul their passage thro' us to debar ; 
And though our men one half of them may kill, 
The other half may win the battle still. 

ST. BUTH. 

Sarsfield, they're brave, 'tis pity they should be 
So much exposed to our artillery ; 



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iVD ^HE BATTUt OF AVtmBOt. 

HerOM tbey vn, Lord Luoan, as I live, 
Were they not beratics, I coold forgire 
Their fighting thiu, ttKhough agwnrt their kisg^; 
But to the yoke, their neeks w« soon vill bring. 
Our holy mother church givet strict oommfud 
To root these heretics from this fair Isnd. 
Come, Sanileld, comet our a(^di«s aninuiter 
Much have we nov to do, and it growi Ute< 
{Shouts and heavg firing teUhin.) 

Enter Gewral Dorrington, kit sword drawn. 

DOSRIMGTON. 

Aughrim 19 ours ; hnve General Holstein'a dead, 
Who to the fteld Lord Portlaod's horsemen led ; 
Just now triumphant he rode o'er the plain. 
On steed that seem'd the Inidle to disdain ; 
He carried all before him, till a ball, 
Shot with good aim from Aughrim'a castle wall, 
Fractured his skull, and with a mortal wound, 
I saw him tumUe breathless to the ground. 

ST. ROTH. ' 

Thanks to the sahitel our force dieirfoes o'erpower^ 
Great heaven's just, Uie victory is ours. 
Let shouts of joy re-echo thro' the air, 
Fly, fly, purme them, charge them in the rear ; 
Ruin upon them and tlieir centre waits. 
We now can drive them up to Dublin gates. 
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TSA BATHS OP ArflHUM. 207 

7^ jSmim ^jpeiUi amd lemral sMiert enter at naming 
mfOff — Cotonet Earki Jbllowinff (kent. 

BARLES. 

Oh ! stand and perish, soldiers, e'er you fly, 
For at the worst, brave boys, we can but die, 
H«tum vrith me and scorn one foot to flinch, 
We'll fight our way disputing every Inch. 

Enter General Talmask, his tword dravm. 

TALK ASH. 

Stand, Britons, stand, and yet redeem the day, 
No hope is left ua if you run away ; 
Stand to your ground, for shame, maintain the field. 
Will English soldiers thus like women yield ? 
If so alone the battle I will try, 
Resolved this day to conquer or to die. 
(Several goldiera return and proceed wiA Atnt-) 

CABLES. 

Bravely relieved, recovered is our line. 
Just when our cause was ready to decline ; 
Herbert is taken prisoner and conveyed 
Ofi* by the foe in spite of all our aid, 
Twice we retook the hero, but at length ~ 
Tbey bote him ftom ns by snperior strength, 
We being sever'd, Herbert, in the throng. 
High nuaed his arm, as he was borne along. 
Fight on, fight on, my galhnt ftiends, he cried, 
One how's exertion wiH the day dedde. 



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IVti THE BATTLE OP AUSHBUI. 

TAUU8U. 

Is be then lost ; oh now, my honoured fHends, 
Bfttly once more, and then their boasting ends ; 
Renew the fight, and we will shortly see 
The foe in flight — well conquer, on with me, 
I'll lead you forward to redeem the day, 
llio' Satan's legions stand to stop out way. 
(^Shouting andgreat lamuit wiihi>t.J 

Enter Ginhell, Mackay, and Ruv^ni. 

GINKELL. 

Routed 1 confusion ! see our centre runs, 
Driven with tbe fue juat even with our gona, 
Now rendered useless. How could I suppose 
That Irish troops were half so good as those P 
Never before did warriors mainttun 
A fight more manfully on hill or plain. 
But let us press them closely and we'll find 
They'll break at last, like dust before the wind. 

MAC KAY. 

I think on Blair of Athole and Dundee, 
Here I another Killicrankie see. 

RUVIGNI. 

Ginkell, I deem it needful that on sight 

Sir John Lanier's brigade should, from our right. 

Move with pre<upitation to our left. 

And aid the infantry, of aid bereft ; 

Why should we turn, or in disorder ran, 

From the strong post we have so lately won; 



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THE BATHS OF ADSHRUI. Z09 

Forbid it heaven, it never shall be said 
That on the eve of victory we fled ! 

HACKAY. 

Yonder amidst the boldest fight appears 

A gallant youth, but tender yet in years. 

His acts of valour strike my woad'ring sight, 

No Bword 80 often gleams aloft in light ; 

Behold him noW' — I marked him in bis pride, 

When by that sword so many brave men died ; 

Confound the stripling, he shall shortly fidt, 

111 seek him out and make bim pay for aH ; 

I think 'tis Godfrey — be will find too late 

That Romish lave has seal'd his early fate ; 

Herbert was lost by it, few Britons thrive 

When they, like Sampson, foemeu's daughters wive, 

Dalilah like, time tells the tale too well 

Their husbaod's secrets to their priests they tell. 

Enter Colonel Earle; 

SABLES. 

Hail, Ginkell, hul to this auspicions day. 
The laurel's ours, the bafBed foe gives way. 
Our foot have rallied and the shock sustun'd, 
And their lost ground have gallantly reguned ; 
Fire answers fire, and blood like rain is apill'd, 
lliree hundred Irish soldiers have been kill'd. 

GINKELL. 

Then halt not here, but onward at the head 
Of those who rally, though they lately fled, 
Renew the charge, the Irish ranks surround, 



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ZVi IHB BATTLE OP AlTSHBIll. 

They seldom nUy when Ikey onc« give ground. 
On, ply them oloeely — see, they're giving w«y. 
Now, now, we gain the glory of the day. 

{Kettle-drums ami trumpets sound mthin.) 

The Scene changes to the Irish Camp. 

Enter Dorrington and (yNeill, •with several soldiers, 

hatding in Colonel Herbert, who mahes great resist- 

DOBRINGTOK. 

Yield, Herbert, yield, nor from our friendship fly, 
We hold brave T^bof s son-in-law too high 
To see him wrong'd, or by his radmess die ; 
Sobmit, submit, no soldier should upbriud 
The men by whom he prisoner is made ; 
He must be mad who, stubbora and gelf'wUl'd) 
Provokes the men by whom he may be kiUed. 

HERBERT. 

Forbear your taunts, I hear them with disdfun. 
If I had met you single on this pliuo. 
Before this time you'd welter with the slain ; 
Oft has your person glanc'd ujton my sight, 
I wish*d to meet you sword to sword in fight ; 
But shocf a your time of triumph, for I hear 
My conq'ring fEimids now pressing on your rear. 

Enttr St. Smti. 

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Waate not amometit on thUtrnptire slave, 

Our camp the enemy almost ■urround, 

Tho' twice rspulBed they atill are gaining ground-; 

But persevere, repel them once again, 

They'll yield the battle and desert the plain. 

HEBBBBT. 

'Tis false, vain Gaul, your efforts they despise. 
No Briton in the hour of danger flies. 
They'll clear those lines in spite of all your skill, 
And hunt your men like hares from Aughrim hilL 

ST. RUTH. 

Bear hence at once this traitor from my sight, 
Lodge him securely and pursue the fight. 

{Exevm ZhrriiigtoH artd O'Neill, with Herbert.) 

ST. RUTB— K)A». 

'Tis fix'd — ^'twill be so — Herbert shall not live 

To see our flight— ^uo respite will I give ; 

His inends rush on, and give me cause to fear 

He may be rescued from us and get clear. 

If so more furious thiui he was before, 

His sword would soon be atain'd with Irish gore ; 

ril hinder that, this railing caf^ve dies, 

His arm against us he shall never rise. 

{Exit, wUh lotinda of kettle-dmms and trwt^ieti-} 

The Seew opens discovering Colonel Herbert h/mg 
mortally wounded — he nwoes forward towards the 
middle of the stage, 

HBBBBRT. 

Wounded to death I but sUll my heart won't break. 



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212 THB BATTLE OF AUOHBUI. 

Though I ret^D §carc« power eoon^ to speak. 
My murd'rers have gone back to the fight, 
And bad not mercy lefc to kilt me quile. 
May gracious heaven the great King Williani bless. 
And crown this day his army with buccMs! 
May blooming laurels ever grace his crown, 
To-day we cast his adversaries down. 
May all who in his place sliall ever stand, 
Protect from popery this lovely land — 
Save it from idol-worship, base and blind, 
Whose object is to brutalize mankind i 
It blasted Italy, impoverished Spain, 
And may rise up to curse our isle again, 
Pollute fair England, and as years advance. 
May revolutionize and ruin France* 
Grant this, great heaven I Oh, may thy arm divine 
Protect the Protestant Sophia's line- 
May none of her descendants, king or queen, 
Encouragers of popery be seen. 
May each of them be number'd with the dead. 
Before a papist shares the royal bei-^ 
By such a.cousort Charles lost his head. . 
Hear this, Q Lord of mercy ! I beseech — 
I am a sinner-— dealh arrests my speech! 
Forgive my murderers, as now 1 do— 
Oh save my sonl for Christ's sakr I World, adieu I 
{Be diet.) 



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TBS BATTLB OF AUOHRIM. 213 

Enter Sir Charles Godfrer/, vnth hit sword draum, 
tepeaking to some one within. 

CODPSEV. 

Rally once more) nor timorously stand, 

Struck thus with panic — charge them hand to hand j 

But hold — here's treachery, here's murder base, 

I think I once before beheld this face j 

His person stately, dignified and fair, 

A ring upon his finger rich and rare. 

(He viewt *ft* rinff more closely. y 
Oh, horror, worse than all this war's alarms. 
This ring, I know, pourtrays Lord Pembroke's 

arms; 
This is my brother Herbert now I know. 
Death be his doom who gare the fatal blow ; 
Pale is that cheek, and closed this hero's eyes, 
Oh, my brave Herbert, murder'd here he lies j 
My blood with horror now begins to freeze, 
Curs'd be the cause maintained by deeds like these j 
Wretch that I am, betray'd by beauty bright. 
In such a cause agunst my king to Aght. 
^As he offers to go he is met by a Ghost, which op- 
proeuJies him three times, at each time receding from 
kim^ he at last thus speaks.) 

HBIIBBBT. 

Who art thou ? speak I a devil, or a ghost 
Of some departed man of either host P 
Perhaps an angel, sent from heaven's throne, 
To punish him by whom this deed was done P 



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Stand not aloof— see there brave Herbert lies. 
Murdered mort baaely. Oh, 111 surifloe 
A thousand victims to hii iniured ahade — 
Quarter was promised, and be was betra/d. 

GHOBT. 

Be not so ra«h, wild youth, May eatmly here 
Until my name and mewage shall ^pear ; 
Me you mist^e, for when I braath'd tlus tur, 
I was your father — ^you remember whM) 
I was assassinated by suoh men 
Ab those who murdered Herbert here to-day ; 
Cut off in prime of life, bid under ground. 
My mangled body has n<^ yet been found. 

GODFniir. 
Oh, honored sire, pwmit me thus to show 
The love that intermiaglea with my wo I 
{ffe oAxmcet to embrace the Ghott who thrimha fnn» 
him.) 

GHOST. 

£tandoff, come near me not, as I must fljr 
Out of your sight, and vuridi in the sky, 
But mark tny words, the whisU'ing winds now stng 
How led by love, you fight against your king, 
F(» the vile minions of the see of B«aie, 
Partaking of their guilts and of titwr doom ; 
GiieVd at yourtreaaon, tho' I grieve too late, 
I hov^d down to \nm you of your fate. 



Could each an enbao^ as tfaia entioa 
A happy attol to omh fi»ni pantdiM.? 



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But answer mei if it be no offonoe. 
When thim'ct at cest where id thy residanse,. 
For learned men have oft been heard to-s^ 
Were souls in. heaven. there they'd gladlf,ttaf. 
Or if in hell they could not gat awa^. 

OHOST. 

Speak not with levity. No soul of man. 
Arrive at wthsr of titeie regions can. 
Till re-nnited with his frame of clay 
Both use to judgment on the lost great, dayi 
Where, in the meantime, souls. are doomed to dwell, 
'Tis not for you to hear, or me to tell. 
Proceed I will not, for I should unfold, 
A tale which must not be to mortals told. 
And if it were, might make their blood run cold. 
(.Z%« GAott reeedet.) 

CODFBKr. 

But go not, ghost, away, a moment stand, 
Tell me the puiport of your strange command. 
Be it a message of the deepest wo, 
The worst at once I ever wish'toiknaw. 

GHOST. 

I have come here, anh£4)py son, to say, 
Yoi^ doam'd to die upon this fiejd to^y. 
And well 'tis for you, as. if yon survive. 
You would not longbe aul^d here to live, 
Dishouoi^d yfHi wMdd^meet a traitor's doom, 
And-ignominioaslf sent to. th£' tomb i. 
Now wiarji'd bg. nae, fnmke die!luoklfiiB.«HiK 
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316 THE BATTLE OF AUGtOUU. 

No British gentleman e'er yet took part 
V^th Rome in war escaped a brokea heart. 
And even in peace, to rain still he goes, 
Who gives bia strength to antichristian foes. 
Then join the Briti^ army, let not shame 
In future ages stua a Godfrey's name -, 
Give Ginkell nov your late but active aid, 
In Ida brave ranks now wield you trusty blade. 
Avenge yon murder'd friend, these slaves defy. 
And fall with honour since your*re doomed to die I 
m hover o'er the field till joined by you — 
'Till then— mark what I say— my son, farewell, 
adieu. 

( Vanishes.) 

GODFREY. 

Gone, like a morning dream ! what shall I do, 
Love bids me stay, but anger says pursue. 
Which will I follow ? here I will not stay. 
My father's ghost commands, I must obey. 
Never again will T uplift my hand 
Agtunst King WiUiam and my native land. 
But join my countrymen—— 

(Enter Sartfield and JDorrington, with their neords 
drawn.) 

SABSFIELO. 

Stay, Godfrey, stand. 
Come forward with us and our charge sustain. 
Full fifteen hundred of our men are slain. 
The Britisli fire-baUs many tents have burn'd. 



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One of our batteries against ourselves is tnmed i 
Now, now or never, try your utmost force. 



No, Sarsfield, no, if it was ten times worse, 
Long may they prosper, nor retire from hence 
Til) you atone for murdered innocence. 

SASSFIELD. * 

As heaven is witneEs, and that setting sun, . 
I knew not of it, till the deed was done ; 
I never could with such a crime comply 
As wilful murder — 

1WRIIINGT0N. 

No, Godfrey, nor could I. 
(Exit Godfrey.) 

Enter Sl Ruth. 

ST. BUTH. 

Courage, my gallant generals, for now 
The laurel is about to grace our brow ; 
Once more the English infantry retreat. 
Pursue, well drive them back to Dublin gate 
Fall on their flanks, a fuiioua havoc make, 
Hew down their horsemen, haughty Giukell tak^. 
Then as a warning to each future age. 
Like Btyazet, we'll bind him in a cage. 

(Exeunt.) 



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ACT V. 

SCSNE L 



Scene — J%e kill of KUcommoden. 
Enter Sarsfield and O'Neill, their awordt drawn. 



Aughrim is iMt, the brave St. Ruth is dead, 
And all hU guards are from the battle fled, 
As he rode down the hill be met his fall, 
And died the victim of a cannon ball ; 
His loss is great — ^"tis ruinous to stay, 
For now wliole regiments will foil away. 

o'neill. 
Hope now ia vtuu, no succonr can be found, 
And death displays his sable flag around ; 
But yet forbear too soon to yield to fate. 
Well sell our lives at no ignoble rate ; 
Here let us stand, and firmly meet our ftU, 
As OBce Rome's senate waited for the Gaul. 

SAB9FIELD. 

He's gone and left us without compass her^ 
Which way in this extraonty to steer ; 
His fatal jealousy of me now drives 



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TbouBBuds to seek by flight to save their lires ; 
But brave O'Neill, thou partoer of my breaat, 
Here in the bed of honour will we rest, 
Death is more Weloome, ai I have a friend 
On whom in weal or woe I can depend. 
Now as the pelioan has often stood, 
To pierce her reins, and feed her young with Uood, 
So for lost Erin, dear and lorely Mill, 
Here on thia field my blood Fll freely spill. 
This useless sword shall open every vein, 
And steep with Sarsfield's blood fair Anghrim's 
plain. 

o'neill- 
Oh I aay not so, Irf>rd Lucan, let us fight. 
Or push for Qalway in the dead of night, 
Or else to Limerick ; for we may stand it there. 
And all our losses on this field repair. 
Who knows but articles we may obtain. 
Which may enable ns to fight ^tun ; 
The King of France has forty ships to send. 
Our king's most sacred canse here to defend ; 
Five hundred officers, three thousand mra, 
Ten thousand stand of arms. Ob, Sarsfield, than, 
Once more well enter on the battle field, 
And by the force of arms make Nassau yield j 
They who one battle lose, all men allow, 
May bind fresh laurels on triumphant brow. 
The tide of warfoe always ebbs and flows. 
They who retreat c&n rush bock on their torn, 
Like fearless Tartars, and tiieir hopes may mar ; 
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iW THE BATTLE OF AUGHRIM. 

Turning the scale of fluctnating war. 

On, then, towards Limerick this i^mal night 1 



I £nter Dorrtngton. 

\ DORRINflTON. 

^^ Hastei gallant friende, and save yourselves by flight. 

Our caralry have galloped from the ground, 
And death triumphant rages all around ; 
Nothing but devastation now is seen, 
For sever'd heads and trunks o'erspiead the green ; 
Load in mch quarter sounds wild war's alarmt 
Here lies a leg and there a Bever'd arm. 
Men's heads appear cut through by heavy blows, 
And o'er the field a crimson torrent flows. 
Come from this horrid scene, fly, Sarsfield, fly. 
For if we stay we must ignobly die ; 
On, on to Limerick, we there may stand 
Again for James and fair Hibemia's land ; 
There we conditions may, perhaps, obttun. 
Here only swell the numbers of the slain. 

SABSFIELD. 

Oh, Dorrington, my friend, let me not hear 

A sound so harsh, so grating to my ear ; ; 

Shall I shrink back from death, and live in shame, 

T9 change a soldier's for a coward's name, 

Blast all my glory by one foul disgrace. 

Nor dare to look a brave man in the face ? 

No here I stand, and Ginkell's force defy. 

Then for my king and country will I die, 

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DOBBINOTON. 

Sarsfield forbear, let not a thought so vain 
Within a breast like youra one moment reign. 
Your life for what we lost will not atone, 
Galway as well as Limerick is our own ; 
Fresh aid is coming rapidly from France, 
'With which recruited we may soon advance 
AgEun } then haste, to either let us fly, 
From whence again the battle we may try, 
Here hope is gone ; and lost to plighted truth. 
Sir Charles Godfrey, that false-hearted youth, 
Has taken part with the prevailing side, 
And Aughrim's hill with Irish blood has dyed. 

o'neilu 
Confound the traitor, may I ne'er depart 
Until my sword has reached his hollow heart. 

Enter some toldiera beariTig St. Jiuth bleeding— 4kfy 
lay the bocfy on the stage, and throw a cloak over it. 

SAB9FIELD. 

There let him lie, like Fompey in his gore, 
Whose blood heroic stdn'd the Egyptian shore ; 
There lies a man whose deeds shell ever shine, 
In Flanders, France, and all along the Rhine, 
Though he thro' arrogance eclipsed them all; 
Deaf to the gallant Grace's earnest call. 
Lost fair Athlone and caused our country's fall ; 
Yet had he confidence in me to-day, 
It might have ended in another w ay ; 
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Of forei^ bondage Ui my native ground ; 

Why w^ I nurtured to a noble race. 

And lnugbt to stare d«struction in the ftce P 

Would I bad been brought up to rural toil, 

To fence and cultivate the fertile Boil, 

To watch my flocks, to range the mountaios thro'. 

With flowing loolu wet from the morning dew» 

Bather than live to see this day of shame, 

That dims the lustre of a Sarafield's name. 

DOKBIKOTON. 

ForbcBTi great sir, and leave thb fatal field, 

The best of soldiers have been forced to yield ; 

Darius great was put to hasty flight, 

And Ceeaar Pompey overcame in fight, 

Scipio by foes was more than once defeated, 

And Rosen from the Deny walla retreated-^ 

As great Goliath by a. boy was slain 

By 'prentice boys were multitudes there slun. 

These men were mighty heroes in their day. 

Yet fought in fields on which tbey could not stay ; 

Then cease to grieve, to Ijmerick come with speed, 

Nor waste a life of which we stand in need ; 

Come for the SbaanoD ; then we need not fear, 

And ^tand intrepid for another year) 

Or sooueo' stop these Englishmen's career. 

SABSFIXLD. 

My gaUant friends, I feel no slavish fears, 
Tho' here the limit of our fate appears ; 
m go, but flrst look hack with mourning eyc^ 
On the fatr field fi:am which we're doom'd to Sy,. 



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Just when e^teoting dear-bougfat viotoiy. 
Thus Adam, when from pantdiae ezpelt'd, 
Tum'd round in tean and his loat home Iwlield, 
. And then o'n'whdmed with anguish and decpair. 
Went forth, like me, he knew not, cared not, wbere. 
(Flouriih of drums and trumpets toilAm.) 

Enter, with tbtir Mo&rdt drawn, Generalt TalauaA and 
Mackt^, 

TALHASH. 

Take quartws, genUemen, and yield on sight, 

Or otherwise come on and stand the'fight. 

But hnve some pity on yourselves and yield. 

For blood enough has stained this hard-fought field. 

'Us Briton's glory, all the world can tell. 

To use their vanquished adversaries well. 

SABSFIRLI). 

Urge you that thought, proud Talmash, if you dare. 
You know not whom, perhaps, you meet in war, 
I am Lord Lucan, Sarsfleld is my name, 
And where my sword can reach III guard my &ine. 
Life I despise now, reok'ning death my fHend, 
Tb« msn's not living irtio could make me bend 
My neok to hond^e— ^Avmu hit ntwrrf)— then 

pro«d foe decline 
The IsBgth of this-— this haUoVd spot is mine. 

TUJUSR. 

If you are Sanfi«U, as you bravely show, 
You are a hero whom I Iwged to know. 
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For yonr great fettt in blowing up our train ; i 

"Sow mark, Lord Lucau, that we here contend I 

For England')* church, her altars we defend, l| 

Which you and yours would into ruin send— i 

King William's crown, Queen Mary's right, these | 
three— 

8ABSFIELD, ' 

Why then come on, Rome and King James for me. I 

A ruth from both sides on the stage — ajighf ensues, t» I 
v>hiek the Irish are worsted andjl^, pursued by the | 
English. , 

The scene changes to another part of thejield. 
Enter Jemima, veiled. 

JEMIMA. 

When will my sorrows give me time to rest, 
Oh, happy, might it be on Godfrey's breast I 
My soul relieved, should then despise alarms, 
And I would die contented in his arms ; 
Sut, here he comes, oh, what is this I view. 
Whence are those ghastly looks, this livid hue. 
^nter Sir Charles Godfrey, leaning on his sword, and I 
wounded in several parts of his body. i 

Ob, welcome to my arms, my soul's delight ; I 

But oh, my heart bleeds at the dreadful sight, 
I see the youth I love drenched in his gore- 
Alas, oui cruel foes can do no more. i 

GODPRBV. 

Oh, my Jemima, false to thee and love. 



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From both a faithless recreaut I prove ; 
I have betrayed you ; come, oh, lady fair, 
I meet you now in ^ilt and deep despur; 
Smile not again upon a wretch like me, 
The scorn of men and women doomed to he- 

JEHIHA. 

Spare the sad (ale, I cannot bear the rest, 
You are not false, I must suppose the best' 

GODFREY. 

Amidst the battle, with a recreant heart, 
Against your countrymen I took a part," 
Breaking the solemn vow I made to you, 
Much Irish blood in burning rage I drewj 
But following the fugitives too far, 
I found disaster in the chance of war-^ 
Gordon O'Neill, Sir Phelim's ruthless son. 
Beheld indignant all that I had done. 
In furious vengeance he gave me a blow 
Which laid me powerless before my foe ; 
He left me there, but others soon came on. 
Who stabb'd me mortally — my life is gone. 

{He drops his sw&rd and falls tqitm thestagei) 
My soul grows sick, my eyes are losing sight. 
Ready to close in deadly shades of night ; 
Fain would I live to make amends for all. 
But cannot — farewell, see, your Godfrey fall. 
{He dies.) 

JEMIMA. 

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an9 TW BATTLR 0» AV««W1I. 

My heart is brokes, and I die with th»e> 

Enter General Ginhell, the Marquu de Ruvigni, witA 
an Eimg» and several soldiert — Colours j^i»g. 
Drums beating. 

(MNKSLL. 

Thus heaven a righteotu cause will ever Mess, 
Now William's arms am crown'd with fiill Buccess. 
The vanquiah'd IriKh fly o'er hill and dale, 
Our flag triumphant floats upon tlie gale ; 
Sargfield and Purcell have together gonot 
To work more mischief, but their day is done ; 
It is from France they are expecting ud— 
What's this we see, my fri«)ds> a lovely miud, 
Fainting or dying, o'er her lover laid ; 
'Tis Talbot's daughter, soldier, raise her headt 
And bear her gently to some friendly bed. 
See, brave Ruvigni, see who here lies dead, 
The luckless Godfrey, penitent in vud. 
He by the men he fought for has been slain ; 
Dreadful example for the days to come, 
For those who fight from love or fear of Rome, 
Sharing her guilt, partaking of her doom. 
(7^ soldiers gently raise Jemima, teho seems to be 
dying, and bear her off the stage in a cloak.) 
Now you, sir, {to the officer in waiting,) haste and 

bid the slaughter cease. 
We won the battle, let them win the race ; 
'Tis growing dark, and down teems heavy rain. 



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To wash the blood from this deep tioctured plaint 
Or I would not ttom ckwe purauit refrain- 
Gallant Ruvigni, I oonfes* with pride 
The joy I feel to see you at my Bide, 
Thb day with me all d&ngers have you braved, 
This day the freedom of these kingdom! lavedr 

BUVIOKI. 

Oh, ^re the speech, my lord, and do not laiifr 
Your Toioe too lavishly in one man's praise, 
For when your men seemed ready to despair, 
The Ennisktllen forces joined your rear, 
Creighton, with Armstrong's and Elliott's hrave^ 
Forsters and Grahama, came in time to save 
Our Syiog soldiers fVom a crimson grave. 
Bravely thus this evening they sustain'd 
Our hard pressed troths, and their lost ground 

regain'd. 
How the brave Huguenots braved to-day, 
'Tis not for me, as one of them, to say, 
Though on the field of war I have grown grey. 
Well 'twas for William that mistaken France 
Rashly revoked the edict given at Nantz, 
Better for her Latouche and Letablere, 
With Cailimote were at Bolounge Sur-mere, 
Or Biois, than at the Boyne, and here to-day. 
To make their persecutors proud give way. 

ailtKtiLL. 

^eak valknt soldiers, is the countiy dear. 
Have we ni> foes in ambuscade, to fearj 
Bald'riok O'Donnel is not far away ; 



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ZzS THE BATTLK OF AOaKBIH. 

But| like a coward, lie has kept away ; 
Oft would the Irish of his proweas tell, 
Tbo' he came here from Sptun their cause to a^ 

T ALU ASH. 

No fear of ambuscade we entertain, 

The French and Iiish fly £rom hill and plun ; 

Back to the bogs the footmen run away, 

The horsemen fly in terror tow'rds Loughrea ; 

Had we another hour of clear day light, 

Few would have reached a hiding place to-night. 

These men we found, my lord, upon the plain. 

Wounded and weltering with the heaps of slain. 

Enter General Dorrington and Colonel O'Neill, 
wounded and bleeding. 



Hail, mighty Dorrington, thus low we bow, 

Shall we disown the Prince of Orange now? 

Must we disband our legions and restore 

Your abdicated king to rule once more P 

Shall we the king of France's vassal own, 

And will King William step down from the throne? 

DORRINGTON. 

Forbear, my lord, nor thus insult me so, 

Is this right usage for a fallen foe P 

Had but St. Ruth survived this evening's fight. 

To Dublin gates you would have taken fli^t 

Meanwhile &om Fnince come twenty ships of war. 

Who after all your fondest hopes may mar ; 

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Recruit our forces and we'll Bght again ; 
The Dutch usurper you may soon disown, 
And James regain his sainted father's throne ; 
TLis day is yours, don't treat me as a slave, 
Our soldiers were as good as yours— as bold, aa 
brave. 

GINEELL. 

Not braver than the men whose happy fate 
It was to make superior force retreat, 
Eighteen to twenty-five we fought this day. 
The twenty-five to eighteen soon gave way t 
But, soldiers, let these gentlemen be sent. 
With guards of honour, to my own best tent. 
But kept asunder ; and now search around. 
Some Etra^ling parties may be near us found. 

TALMAS H. 

No bands remain entire, for fa'ling night 
Debarred each soldier from his fellow's sight, 
And that they might be light, and fiy more fast. 
Their arms, and belts, and shoes away they cast; 
Four hundred men as prisoners we got, 
Seven thousand perished on this fatal spot ; 
Their tents and baggage, to reward their toil, 
Our soldiers take as military spoil ; 
This have we gained, and glorious to view. 
See all their cannon and their standards too. 

MAC KAY. 

To let these trophies be more fidly seen, 
Send, Ginkell, send these standards to the Q 
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To grace inj a^deodid ponp W«itiiiioat«r balL 

GINESLI- 

It abaU be done, but till tha iBOTiiiag'a ligb^ 
Let our brave s<ddien guard die field to-oigbtj 
And with the dawn of day let peab of Qana»n 
Proclaim our victory along the Shannon > 
Let them resonnd to the AtUuatic deep. 
And Rome disoomfited in silenoe weep, 
Doomed, sliould she rise in future days again, 
To fall once more aa object of disdain i 
Triumph ttom truth no human force can sever. 
The standard of Jehovah stands for ever. 
(JDitcharge of artillery.) 

TA1.MA8H. 

The muster master's list ia hwtv and it will tell 
How many of our men on this field fell, 
A small account conudering our gain, 
Seven hundred wounded, and as many shun. 



O thou who all events must still decnde. 
Who gave this laurel to the weaker aide, 
'Twas thy tremendous arm this battle fought. 
In which a mighty host was brought to nought; 
Thus was it found in Heiekiah's day. 
And will be found till time shall pass away, 
Millions may rise against thee, and may boas^ 
But like these thousands must be always lost. 
This night for rest, brave men, and here we ats^, 
Sound may our sleep be after such a day ; 
From hence in line of battle we will haste. 



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THS BATTLE OP AUflHIOlI. 281 

And on our raarch lay forta and castles waste ; 
Soon shall our foemen in proad Limerick quake) 
VfhasB walls our battering guns shall shortly shake, 
Well turn that garrison to our own use. 
And all this isle to England's power reduce; 
And nercT, never may our sons betray. 
To future foes the rights we won to-day. 

{Exeunt, with drums beatittg, colours fying, and a 
general discharge of artillery-') 



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DEIIVEKANCE OF LONBONDEBRT 



BESIEGING ARMY OF JAMES THE SECOND, 



CoDjuglliui pueiiiquf prlDui. 



Bir. amn. la. ir. Otell. 



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ON THE SHUTTING OF THE GATES. 
AiB — "Auld Lang J^/ne." 

Full many a long wild winter's night, 

And sultry summet'a day, 
Have passed and gone since Jamei took flight 

From Deiry walls away; 
Cold are the bands that closed our gate 

Agiunst the wily foe. 
But here to times remotest date 

Their spirit still shall glow. 

CHOBUS. 

Then here's a health to all good men, 

Now fearless fiiends are few, 
But when we dose our gates again, 

WeH then be all true Une. 

Lord Antrim's men came down yon glen» 
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6 eoNGs. V 

The 'prcDliee boys just heard the naise, 

And then prepared for play ; 
While Bome opposed, the g^es they closed. 

And joiniDg hand in hand. 
Before the wall resolved to fall. 

Or for their freedom stand. 

CROBUS. . 

When honour calls to Derry walla, 
The noble and the brave ; 

Oh, he who in the battle falls, 
Must find a hero's grave- 
Then came the hot and doubtful fray, 

With many a mortal wound, 
While thonsaads in wild vat's array 

Stood marshall'd all around : 
Each hill and pliun was strewed with slain. 

The Foyle ran red with blood, 
But all was vain the town to gain, 

Here William's standard stood. 

CHOSUS. 

Then here's to those who face their foes 

As men and heroes should, 
And let the slave steal to his grave, 

Who fears to shed his blood. 

The matchless deeds of thme who here 

Defied the tyrant's frown, 
On history's bright rolls appear 

Emblazon'd in renown ; 



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Here deathless Walker's ftuthful word 

Sent hosts against the foe, 
And gallant Murray's Scottiiih sword 

The Gallic chief kid low. 

CHORUS. 

Then here's to those heroic dead, 

Their glorious memory, 
May we who stand here in their stead, 

As wise and valiant be. 

Oh, sure a heart of stone would melt, 

The scenes once here to see, 
And witness all our fathers felt 

To leave their country free ; 
They saw the lovely matron's cheek 

With want and terror pale. 
They heard their child's expiring shriek 

Float on the passing gale. 

CHORUS. 

Yet here they stood in fire and blood, 

As battle raged around, 
Besolv'dto die, till victory 

Their crimson standard crown'd. 

The sacred rights these heroes gain'd 

la many a hard fought day. 
Shall they by us be still maintain'd, 

Or basely cast away ; 
Shall rebels ^le, rule o'er our isle. 

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Oh, surely no, the faithleBS foe 
Must bend before the throne. 

CROBDS. 

Then here's a health to all good men. 
To all good nten and true, 

And when we doae our gates agidn, 
We'll then be all true bine. 



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ON THE SAME SUBJECT. 
Air — " On board of the Arethusa." 

Ye meo of D^ry, stout and Ixdil, 
Whose hearts are cast in h<Miour'8 mould, 
Oh, thiuk to-da; on dajfa of old, 

And Engluid's oooatitutioD ; 
On thb proud day, in William's year, 
The 'prentice boys assembled here, 
And haad in hand gave one grand cheer. 

For the glorions Bevolntion. 

Europe heard the joyful sound, 
Vainly Rome's proud vassals frown'd, 
V^^Uiam and Mary soon were croirti'd, 

And Etopp'd the persecution ; 
Antrim's troops e<Hnpell'd to wait. 
Trembling stood before our gate, 
nil they fled to shun their fate. 

In n^id evolution. 

When again with opening spring. 
Back they came and brought their king, 
We made oar bells for William ring, 
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Though they fought lu three to one, 
Still they shruok as we press'd on, 
Soon their coward king was gone, 
Afriud of execution. 

As like days again come round, 
Hra'e we stand on classic ground, 
Ever true to England foundt 

And our glorious constitution : 
Proud onr crimson flag shall fly. 
Waving in the azure sky, 
Here we conquer or we die, 

In the cause of the Revolution. 



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THE CATALOGUE, 

AFTIB THE MANHHl OF THE SECOND ILIAD OF HOMEB, 

" 7Xe Boyne Water." 

" Dignum laude Tirum 
aduta vetat iDori."~KaB. 



In sixteen hundred and eighty-eight. 

On the BeTenth day of December, 

The men of Derry dosed their gate, 

And the day we will ever remember ; 
While all around, on rising ground, 

The foe was fast collecting. 
Their pomp and pride our sires defied, 
I^nd heaven their cause defending. 
[[. 
Lord Antrim's men came down yon glen. 

In bright array of battle, 
But BOOQ in fright fied back agdn, 
"When they heard our maslLets rattle; 



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2 THE CATALOaUE. 

Though some irithia procl^med it sin, 

And treason to repel them, 
Our young men brave, the town to save, 

To fly did soon compel them. 

Wild winter gone, the spring came on, 

And James in Munster Imded, 
The southern coast received his host, 

By foreigners commanded; 
He soon sent forth to quell the north, 

His force from Cork and Kerry, 
Triumphant they made good their way, 

Till they came to the gates of Deny, 

IV. 

Lord Galmoy's horse with Ramsay's pranced, 

Around Ballougry mountain, 
Nugent and Eustace bold advanced, 

To Columbkill's fur fountain ; 
In meadows green their magazioei 

Lord Gormanstown protected ; 
Lord Clare's Milesian flag was seen. 

On a Danish fort erected. 

From Lucan issued Sartfield's kon^ 
Xheir trumpet's loudly sounding ; 

Down Tan, hill eame Plunket's foroe. 
Their hearts for Came hi^h howaiiufi 

From Drogheda hard Dusgaa'a IiMiilt 
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TBS CATAIAOUE. 

TjTConnel's from Fitzgerald's land, 
And Grace's from Kiag** eouatjr, 

VI. 

Talbot marct'd here from Kildare, 

Purcell from Tipperary, 
Waucop and Budian present were. 

From the wilds of Inverary ; 
Dublin's Mayor did here repair, 

The Butlers from the Barrow, 
Roscommon sent Lord Dillon's heir. 

The Derry walls to harrow, 
vn. 
On steeds by all the army praised. 

Came Parker's troops from Navan, 
O'Reilly with the force he raided 

Round the hills and vales of Cavftn; 
Clifford's troops came here from Clare, 

To join King James's party, 
Cotter's dragoons too had their share 
Of fame with Lord Clonoarty. 

VIII, 

From Cork's wild shore Mac Carthy Hoic^ 

The tyrant's &i<ce Bugme[rt«d, 
Mac Mf^n'a mes their standaids bore. 

In Clones regimeoted ; 
Hagan's were aeon from GHenavood gmeot 

To great O'Neill related, 
Jkni GalUgber Ull, frma fUr Doncgd, 

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Bellew came from Duleek hall, 

' To see his monarch righted ; 

Fagon of Filtrim with Fingal 

His cavalry nnited ; 
'Twaa James's plan that Lord Stiubane 

Should give prond Deiry warning. 
But he went off with a shot and acoff, 

His words the townsmen scorning. 

X. 

UiB naniesake here felt no such fear, 

Stood for his country bleeding, 
His valiant hand saved life and land, 

To Abercorn's rank succeeding ; 
The men of Strabane were here to a man, I 

For church and crown contending, ' 

The' their Lordplay'd the fool for knave's misrule, 

They were here our fair walls defending. 

XI. 

At the crystal rill near Pennybum milt) 

Were Bagnall's forces posted, 
Fitzgerald's on the chq>el hill. 

Of faith and fealty boasted ; , 

The batteries at Culmore fort, 

With sod-works were surrounded, 
And loud their culverin's report 

O'er hill and vales resounded. 

XII. 

On the Sheriff's ground, a new rais'd mound, 
Lord Louth took a strong position, 



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THK CATALOODE. 

And with Lord SUoe did there remaia, 

Their troops ia high condition ; 
Bred on the flowery banks of Boynei 

Then unrenown'd in Ntor}', 
They here the Irish troops did join. 

In vain pursuit of glory. 

XIII. • 

Brave troop« from Cotk around BrooUiall 

A dangerous post demanded ; 
O'Neill's dragoons, all stout and tall, 

The other shore commanded ; 
Kilkenny's Graces chose the spot 

From which the boom extended ' 
Across the Foyle, where ballets hot 

That narrow pass defended. 

XIV. 

Cavenagh was seen on Claggin burn, 

His Wicklow warriors leading, 
Whence few were fated to return, 

Though then in pride parading ; 
Ten thousand men from fair Prehen, 

In trenches deep protected. 
On every hill display'd their skill. 

And batteries erected. 

XV. 

From Trough's green fields M'Kenaa's came, 

In numbers all surmounting. 
And from Mayota's golden stream 

Came Bradleys past the counting ; 



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i THB CATAUKHIB. 

From Loi^ftivd for to tke ft«ld of war 

O'Farrel's forces mad^vdr 
And did tbeir b«st in Walker's nest 

To plant King Janwes'a staadartt. 

XVI. 

When Bryne O'Neill of Baloascreen 

An alderman it as chosen, 
And vhen Brougfishane our mayor iraa seen. 

Our hearts with fear were frozen ; 
iyRouike was down for a civic gown, 

O'Sheilla and Mac Conways elated, 
Mac Analliea from Tyrone and Con Bacca^'e fton 

On our ms^strate's bench were seated. 

XVII. 

From Ailagh's throne in Ennishone, 

<yi>ogherty came shouting, 
From Kenaught's plain eame Haaus Cane, 

A victory not doubting ; 
Long^ Erne's shore, with many more, 

Sent here Hagnir* boasting. 
Of days le«g gone, (dd forty-eoe, 

£i flowing bun:q>ers toasting. 

Meanwhile within ourthreaten'd wall, 

Were traitors vile asnmbling, 
Vimty the blah in t« eall, 

While timid fiimds were trembEag | 
Hundreds goas, as- faas eam» ast 

A tone' <tf Boon aaramiDg, 



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Crowds every day that pass'd aw»y, 
Our Bcaaty atom coBmiraiog. 

SIX. 

No fbod could come from tnnishone, 

All passes yarded round us. 
Our haughty foemeu held Tyrone, 

'With famine to confound us ; 
The aid that here from England came. 

Our governor commanded, 
To siul away the very day 

They would have timely landed. 

What could the maiden city do. 

By all these troops invested? 
She rused her standard of true blue. 

By freedom's foes detested ; 
The goodly dgn, like bow divine, 

O'er Ulster brightly beaming. 
Brought quickly forth the sons of the north, 

The post of hcwour claiming. 

Fint to tlw town SqKir« Forward cuue, 

NBsbanda&osn Bart prooeodiag 4 
And Stewart sad Grove, to the field of fame. 

Heroic soldisn leading ; 
In a meadow great, near Bi^iti^eat, 

Brave Rawdon joined Lord Blaney, 
While VXT8 wild sound re-echo'd ronsd. 

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9 THK CATALOOQC 

XXII. 

' Macnaghten next came here a bo^, 

From fair Benvarden btooming. 
And Hoore with troopt from Aughuacloy, 

A higli conunaDd aMuming ; 
To aid onr town from warlike Down, 

Hill came and crose'd our ferry ; 
The Hilkborougb men were welcome thea 

To the troubled men of Deny. 

Here, toOf was brare Lord Massoreen, 

In William's army serving ; 
Staffi>rd thro' the war had been 

The highest praise deserving ; 
Caimes, in our darkest day, 

The tyrant's power slighted ; 
For gallant deeds in many a fray. 

Was young Geoige Maxwell knighted. 

Glasslough men, all in armour bright, 

Caledon's horsemen aided, 
Johnston led them to the fight, 

From the field where they first paraded ; 
Graham's hand did James withstand. 

With valour prompt and steady, 
His sires of yore were evermore 

To fight for freedom ready. 
XXV. 
Newcomen and Fane renown did g^n, 

With Lindsay Smith and Wallace; 



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Bice and Dunbar, Davis and Kerr, 
Defended the gate near the palace ; 

Kinnaston and Wright put the foe to flight ; 
Sherrard, Gamett and Hanna, 

To the field did advance, with valiant I<ance, 
An4 Cbttrch from tb« banl^ 9f Bannai 

XXVI. 

Obre and Stiles rode many miles. 

Laurels to reap unfading ; 
Ciist and Cross, and Pooler of Typoss, 

Cochran these heroes leading, 
From Lisnaskea in strong array. 

Came Noble here to battle ; 
We saw Monro right forward go, 

Where cannon balls did rattle. 
XXVII. 
Michelbume here, in this dark year, 

With Baker shared great glory ; 
Lord Leitrim's heir, with valiant Blair, 

Shine bright in Derry's story ; 
Fortescue brave here found a grave, 

Sinclair the foe resisting ; 
Sanderson still, with strength and skill, 

Kennedy and Ash assisting. 

Crofton and Campsie nobly fought, 

With Irwine, Hall and Barry ; 
Crookshank and Upton ever sought 

The foes proud force to parry ; 
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) THE CATAUWUB. 

Squire led tlie wi^ in evwy bay. 
Major BuE was for valour noted ; 

Adama of Strabaue, at oar cannon was a a 
To Derry's cause devoted. 

SXIX. 

From Cttariottcwt eane Cauttd^a e<H^8, 

Chichester from Dungannon, 
With many more who at Dromore. 

Escaped King James's cannon. 
Porter strong, Leslie and Long, 

Macartaey and hrave Downing, 
^ike and Spaight held shipwaygate, 

At the boom we lost brave Browning- 

XXX. 

Hindman fired on Antrim's men. 

When they with wild Maguire, 
Took flight and off thro' Dermott's glen. 

Thought proper to retire ; 
Dalton, Baker's right hand man, 

With Evans, Mills and Ewing, 
And Bacon of MagilligsD, 

The foe were oft pursuing. 
sxsi. 
Hamilton here, a Laganeer, 

Brought with him troops unbending, 
Montgomery most gallantly 

Our sacred walls defending ; 
Shroud and Shaw, in flgbt we saw, 

With Macklin, Young and Harvey, 



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THB CATALOaCE. 

■Who bravely stood, and shed their blood, 
With Cooke of iJanagarvey. 

Lenox and Lecky quickly went 

For aid to the Scottish borders, 
And ere they went to their stores they sent 

For our food and raiment orders ; 
Babington and Brooke great trouble took. 

Major Philips was our kind protector; 
Godfrey of Colerain did our cause sustain, 

With Jemmet our brave collector, 

Parker joined us from Coleraine, 

From Garvagh young George Canning, 
A noble soul without a stain. 

No wily mischief planning; 
Motgan and White here joined the fight. 

Led on by Adam Murray, 
Logan, Lane, Fisher and Fane, 

Conyngham and Curry. 

Tompkins forirard proudly went, 

When many were desiring. 
His tenants fonoed his regiment, 

With Guthi«dge, Hunt and Bering ; 
The Cumber men ckbk &rom their glen, 

James Murray thwr commander. 
Where Radcliffe&agfat and glory sought. 

With Lord !ll«unt Alexander. 



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t THE CATALOaUZ. 

XXXT. 

From LiBsan Bestty came acrosi, 

Kdox from green Kilcaden, 
Hunter, Cawao, Clarke and Roas, 

Mulliolland came from Edeo ; 
Comyn's gim, made many run, 

Amazed was each bye-stander, 
When HoustoD weak sure turn did take, 

And kill'd a French commander. 

XXXVI. 

Hillliouse and Boyd were both employ'd. 

Our sacred walls defending, 
Dobbin came far to the scene of war. 

With fortitude unbending : 
Tracy, Fullerton and Hume. 

With Maneon, Smith and Hilson, 
Stood here against the slaves of Rome, 

With Wilkins, Keys and Wilson. 

XXXVII. 

Early in the opening spring 

Came Griggon, Black and Bailly, 
M'Causland, Fleming, Hare and King, 

Were all in action daily ; 
Galtworth, Cathcart and Adair, 

Oft weak from want of dinner, 
Depress'd with care did oft repur. 

To the walls with Robert Skinner, 
xxsviii. 
Sir Tristram Beresford's array, 

Coleraine some days defended^ 



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THE CATALOaCC 

And here at last they made their way, 

In martial line extended ; 
Sir John Mi^U was ready still. 

Both night and day for action. 
And Cary sought, and nobly fought, 

To crush' King James's faction. 

Cromie swimming in with Roche, 

Both in the water wounded. 
Announced that Kirk would soon approach, 

Which Rosen's hope confounded ; 
Bennett, Christie, Pearse and Bell, 

Were to our cause devoted, 
Connt Schomberg stood for Derry well. 

And highly was promoted. 

Denniston in this dark year, 

And Harrington and Jenny, 
With Adam Alcock soon came here, 

With forces from Kilkenny ; 
Ponsonby brave was here to save. 

The threaten'd walls of Derry, 
His trusty sword made him a lord, 

And saved his lands in Kerry. 

XLI. 

And last not least from Donoughmore, 
George Walker came to guide us, 

His name well honour evermore, 
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l4 mr CLkTAEOGBE. 

When prea^d with woe, in ^irits low. 
We heard his word* endettriag, 

When he said go, w« songht the foe, 
Hi« voice oar carnage dteeriag. 

One hundred ahota at him one diqr. 

Were fired, when we were fighting. 
And o'er his head pass'd all away. 

While we their cause were blighting i 
He sav'd his brother hero's life. 

When Murray was surrounded, 
Thro' all these scenes of mortal strife, 

He never was confounded. 

At last by all our aufferings moved. 

Kind heaven its aid extended. 
The tyrant's arts abortive proved, 

And Derry's woe was ended; 
In one dark night the foe took flight. 

The country round them burning, 
And ere 'twas day all far away. 

They thought not of returning. 



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I CUkTAMQeK. 



ON THE RELIEF OF THE CITY. 
Air — " Erin go bragh." 

O'er pnwid LoBdondeiry the red flag is waving, 

The old badge of freedom gay Boats on the breeze. 
And far down the Foyle with the joy-note is raving, 
While the loud shouts returned iroin the hills and 
the seas I 
Grown dear, doubly dear, when proud foemen revile us, 
And with foul imputation attempt to defile us, 
And those we subdued rise again to beguile us. 

Of the freedom and rights which our fore&thers won. 

Wd'h^ this blight day to our comfort returning, 
Which relieved our bmve sires iu the depth of their 
woe, 
When the trenches abandon'd, their tents brightly bum- 
•ng, 
From our fields fled abash'd, and confounded the foe; 
Melodious the bells in our high steeple ringing, 
Their tribute of joy to the festival bringing. 
Swell the deep sounding chorus of thousands all sing- 
ing 
Our thanksgiving hymn for deliverance gr 

The deeds once display'd here and often rela 
In fency's fiur vision recur to our sight— 



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S5€ 1BE CATAUMtTK. 

Here Walker harangued, David Caimes debated. 

And Murray, brave Murray, rush'd forth to the fight ; 
On that field near the straad, where, all calm and na> 

heeding, - 
The herds tend their flocks, on the green herbage 

feeding, 
Pusignian the valiant lay wounded and bleeding, 
And the gallant Maumont felt the cold hand of 
death. 

Shades of our sirea in the ides of December, 

Your contest for liberty sacred began, 
And your triumph in August our sons will remember, 

While valour and truth tihall be valued by man t 
The bigot may stare, the infidel vonder. 
The rebel with malice and rage burst asunder, 
But to-dny shall our fortress resound with the thunder, 

Tliat sav'dfrom destruction our altar and throne. 



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ON THE SAME SUBJECT. 
Air — " My ain kind dearie." 

The gloomy hour of trials o'er, 

No longer cannona rattle, oh ! 
The tyrant's flag is seen no more, 

And James has lost the battle, oh ! 
As here ore ve, from danger free, 

By m^dea walls surrounded, oh! 
While all the knares who'd make as slaves. 

Are baifled and confounded, oh I 

The Dartmouth spreads her snow white sail. 

Her purple pendant flying, oh 1 
While we the gallant Browning hail. 

Who saved us all from dying, oh ! 
Like Noah's dove sent from above. 

While foes would starve and grieve us, ok! 
Thro' floods and fame an angel came, 

To comfort and relieve us, oh 1 

When this fair vessel struck the boom, 

And pitched, and reeled, and stranded, oh I 

With shouts the foe dentfunc'd our doom, 
And open gates demanded, oh 1 



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9 THb CATjUOOUB. 

And shrill and high arose th« cry 
Of anguish grief and pity, oh ! 

While black with care and deep despair, 
We mourned our falling city, oh I 

But heaven our guide, with one broadside. 

The laden bark rebounded, oh 1 
A favouring gale soon iili'd the sail. 

While hills and vales anrrouoded, lib I 
The joy-bells ring, long live our king. 

Adieu to grief and sadness, oh ! 
To heaven veraise onr voiee of pnuss,. 

In heartfelt joy and gladaeaa, oh I 



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NOTES. 



EXTRACT FROM A SERMON ON THE RELIEF OF 
LONDONDERRY, 1689. 

BT THB BBV. iXMSB GBAHAM, X. \. 

OrUwCatbednl of Denr, 

0» tlu ia& ef Augm, 1636. 

The text was taken Grom the 32d Pulm and 7th verse. 
" Thou'ibah conipu* me about with songi of deliverance i" and 
althoagh we cannot ia ever; eaie preserve the prectic forms of 
eipresrion, yet, we couceUe that we are enabled to ofibr our 
Tcaden a ver; cIms reiemblance of tbe original, in the follow. 
ing sketch of that part of the Eermon In whidi the subject of 
the Relief of Deny was treated of. The early part of tlie 
sermon had reference to the deliveronee from sin held forth In 
the Ootpel of Cluiit; and that topic wu very copiously en- 
larged upon. 

In passing ft'om one ttranch of his discourse to the other, Mr. 
Graham obMrved that God, In all hii dealings with man while 
in his state of trial here, is a deliverer. Besides the grand 
deliverance from sin, how often has he warded ofi* from as 
dangers we were anconcious of? How often spread his wings 
over us In the perils of life ? From the very beginning the 
history of his Church is a history of deliverances. David, in 
carrying back his memory to some of these events, may have 
alluded in tbe 33d Psalm, to those songs of deliverance which 
have been i«e«rde4 as sung ia Israel— as, for instance, tbe 
Song ot Hoses — " Tby right hand, O LiHrd, ts became glorious 
in power : thy right band, O Lord, batb dashed in pieces the 
enemy;" orlfae Song of DriMmb." They that are delivered 



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front the noiie of archers in the placM of dnwing water, there 
shallthe^iebearM the righteoiu acts of the Lord, the righteoas 
acts tomrdi the iahabitanti of his vniBgei in Israel, Ihen thall 
the pMpb of At Lord go dovn te Ike gata." Whep he pandered 
then ou thsM thoughts, the^ cvn&Qted and slrengthea«d his 
^th, BO that in the fulness of eveiy impulse of bis heart he 
could say, " Thoii shalt comppsa me about witii songs of 
deliMtmnee." 

And was it Dot such a hops as he thus cherished that was 
reallied here, when God put it into the hearts of a few brave 
fouthf la tiite Ci(r to dote th« Gates In 1068 7 Did be not 
compass them about widi songs of dellveraace ? But for that 
act the Revolntisn had been lost, fm- so far as we can see, it waa 
the successful defence of Deny that compelled James to take 
refuge in France— had he maintained his ground in Ireland, 
leligian, and Ubectf, and law had been trampled aader foot. I 
could sciu'oelj hope, said Mr.Orabam,ta b* tolerated, were I to 
attempt to offer ta the OMifregMlon b«&re ne a deseriplMB of 
«n event nhiob, from your inCncy, has b«en atrosf ly iMjireBaed 
upon four mewoi';, and has, I tnt^ cvnad vaanj ao advise 
lesson to yew hearts ; hut I oaanet r^eia irom givii^ eipres. 
•Ion to sone rapid tiiougbts, suggested by the feara, the hopes, 
the priTalioiu, aad the glaiiouB ddSreraBoe «rf' the berees of 
that day in tWs City. These are tiqitos tbai press the ea»i 
with feelings and thoughts of the most intense and absscUnK 
interest — tbeygiTcipirtttoour thanksgivings— they wall our 
■Tstiiude, and eall farth taaia of joy— they are the prtyer 
■ntyecta j> our " aongg «f 4ellveT«Doe." 

They had all to feK—the whole cMatryJnt^lwMb «ftlw 
enen^, irithNaroriytheesceptlMiaf & tMrol-^ kiag «t tbe 
bead of a n^obw SMay, beiare th«r gales, with M Ae adMB- 
Uges of diseipUB«Mi wd mpatemid «aou« Md aH the 
mnMtM of wtt—mUUn, a atatmii Mukit«ide'-tiH «ld, the 
fonag, tbe Infim, all tiuwsed togdjMr, mott «f tiMm drtMs, 
itj the ntfUoM tend «fywMCNtiaB,fe«M the )HMefal fMiMtta 
gf toppytoBW« - iiwwdM><h> iw» Ba«f iii«aia*pa<f mn 
•-Mcafvd by i»a^a>nct{tteAiOTenMr wWhiiaimitoiiiHi — 
■rilhwrtwtoiniteptwilitoM»<Mlrl1i^ji**«<ilB.«h<ar«MpM 



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VOTES. 26S 

»f relief from EogUod. What nutalncd tbenin tbe midtt of 
ao nMDf painAil M»it ? It wbb relUaee on Hhn who enabled 
tbeu to ttj, " Tkoa ituli ogmpaiB on ^Kmt wUfa longg of 
delivenmo*.'' TUi wu Ute foaDdation of tb^ conflihnoe. 
Ob, wbat k powerful principle ii bope l—wbUe hope renudni, tt 
SiwUiiu tke iplrit of mui — it movei falm oanird — it lifts Dp 
biB beut — It rftbe* hifh bli drooping bead, and itrengtiieiu bU 
CeeUe kneag— it givei him elaiticit; — Ugivci him energy— 4t 
givei falm penevertnce ajod RucecH. I tee in hope an evidence 
of the immortality of the loul— I ue In it a jHvof that I ihall 
be with God — and why map it not be an erldence when nij 
catue is the ewue of Ood, that Ood will be with me upon tbe 
eailh ? This wu titeir bope — and was it not like Abrabam'a 
hopi^ evsn againit hope. Think of their priratieni, and 
think of all tbcir lafieringt— the acme of mental and bodily 
distreag. While they bad food avd itrenfth, we can conceive 
them to have bean animated and hopeful. Even when they 
were compelled to feed upon carrion— irtiea tbe fiiod ef the di^ 
wa« thein-^ay, when tbe very dog wai anutag their tbk 
and preoiout monela we may euppote U>en brave and reaokite ; 
but, when they saw tbe wives of their boaom, and tbe cbtldren 
they Loved, pining away from want — when tfaey looked upon 
the pallid i^teek and sanken eye — when Ibey heard their dniop- 
in( voice, even thoughthey «poke in the sweeteat accent* of 
tenderness, tblsieeni too much for man, and yet it was not all. 
To move their beweli of menses — (o call forth the generou* 
iyv|iBtUe* of ;tl»Ir oiNila, their f^w-Pro(«atants from tbe 
ganannding country were driven nader tfae walls, groaning 
WeackUi aecMtidated miteries; diaeaao a>dh«oger, eold and 
■diedaMt, varied diem— ttere Aey rtood Reading with thoae 
within, and pleadiag for wlMt ? pJeaUag thai they might be 
MiMar ^aied. |nr etmsUered— Reading that they might be 
girte«0vera|m^Mi Ibi e ne^ lathg than he Aonld triumph 
bMk»««eai«»<yi:tte4«to* for their adaiJttloB. Here 
■CMie «< woe-vMaJa,: aad n leene t* Tond the heart wtlhM 
WiBw«M*t*f att-lher.wMw ri tailo jny, "<hna itadt co 



ttM 



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264' Hom. 

eomineinonU to-day. lougine their joy ! but oh whet « conflict 
of iptrit, when from the tower of thli Catbodral, aod from Uie 
(urroundinf ramparta, the)' mw the ihipi approtcb, who«« 
arcivol crowned tbem with the glory of iuccgm 7 — Thej eanr 
tbem pasi the enemy at Culmore Fort — but the next moment 
Ihey beheld them withlu his grup 1 Again, like the IlgbtniDg'* 
fldih, tlieir apirit* rebounded to their Tormer height. The fir« 
of the gallant »ail that led the way shook her from the bank oa 
wbicli the had momentarily rested, and gave her an Impetna 
that enabled her to burit tbrongb every impediment — aha 
rode gloriouily iTito thehnibour. Hope and fear, joy and de- 
apair, alternated la tbetr Impulsea upon the beileged ■* they 
looked on — the men were ipeecbleit — the women and the chil- 
dren uttered ahriekt, now of triumph, and nowof deipondency; 
but that gloomy honr wag the last — in that hour God compaased 
tbem about with longt of deliverance. 

And who can tell, ai they ought to be told, tbe grand reiult 
tliat followed from the triumjA. There li ecarcely a bleiaing 
which tbe Britleh dominions enjoy to-day — tiiere Is scarcely a 
blessing that England hai diffused through the other countries 
of the world wnee, and none has ever diffhsed more, that was 
not secured by the Revolution of 1666, and ttiat Revolution 
was secured by the defence of Deny! YoU; can neve^ be 
BufBciently grateful to heaven for tlie event ydu are now cele-' 
brating. — The gratitude of posterity Is the measure by which 
we should ascertain its importance. How can language de- 
scribe what yours should be ? J» not what they so dearly pur- 
chased as dearly to be prized by us. D not the sacred causey 
the defence of which wasted their energies, wore down their 
bodies to living skeletons, nnd crushed, though it could not 
quell, their invincible spirit, to be loved and guarded for our 
sakcE, if not for theirs ? Standing Jh' ibis pulpit, and looking 
round upon these venerable walls— when I think of the ifoithCnl 
ministers of diflerent Protestant denominations who preached 
from it during tlie siege — when I think that aa they spoke they 
looked down from this very spot upon the multitude who then 
assembled in &ith and hope, as you have gathered to-day In joy 
and gladnest— the robject asiumes a giaodeur whldi 1 feel 



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inytelf utterly unable to embody in language ; but I know that 
any words that can be spoI:ea will be adequate to kindle up the 
gratitude that dirella in your bteasls. " Freiae the Lord, oh 
ny son], and all that is within me praise his holy name." Ib 
not this the sentiment of your Inmost hearts? Need I ask any 
of you are you anxious that your children, and your children's 
^ildren shall Inherit the blessings which the achievcmenti of 
your nncestors hare thus by the interposition of heaven pre- 
served and handed down to you and to your native land ? The 
question la needless. But oh, let nil your hopes, and wishes, ' 
and eflbrta begin in love, advance in faith, and end in holiness. 
TonTs Is a triumph lu which every inhabitant of the land may 
thankfully join ; for whatever lays the foundstion of civil and 
religions liberty enables every man to worship God as bis light, 
and knowledge, and conscience instruct him — an Independent , 
beings-free to think, free to speak, free to act upon the sponta' 
neous dictates of bis judgment — the slave of no system— tho 
creature of no tyrant. It was on this ground that our brethren 
of the Church of Rome for more than a century hailed the 
anniversary of this day with gratilude and exultation. 

I believe, however, that I now address myself to a congrega- 
tion exclusively Protestant ; therefore I would briefly touch upon 
SOroe points of deep interest to you, and that without designing 
personal offence to any member of the Church of Rome who ma; 
be present. The spirit of Protestantism towards the Roman. 
Catholic is not a spirit of unkindness, it is a spirit of love ; it is 
onr hearts' desire and prayer to God for them that they may be 

saved We believe that their salvation will depend upon their 

reception of Christ's holy Gospel; but we are compelled to 
believe with sorrow that their Church has cast out that Gospel. 
The more, therefore, that is accomplished by us to secure the 
Btablllty of (he Gospel, the more are we their benefactors. 

Reviewing in the mind, even In the moat cursory way, the 
leading events in the Church's history from the bcgiuoing of 
the 17th century until now, we have abundant cause of gra- 
titude ; and If wa have causes of regret, we are to attribute 
them to oanelves. Protettanllim has received no wound in 
theie latter dayi tbat haa not been inflicted upon her by ber 



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S66 NOHBb 

own BODi : If any of ber inmioiiitlci, or privUegec, or pewsr, or 
inflDence mrs gone, tbey ti«ra bem lOTranilered b; nnMthfid 
handi — they have not been wnmg.fron her by pcnecatioB. 
Let it not thou b« forgotten tbat tha Bdsmn TrsRriDs: to th» 
ansel of the Chutdt of SardU abouM be taken aa oora-^' I 
know thy works, that tboa baat a naaie, that thou liveat and 
art dead ; be watchlul, and itrengtbeit the tUnga which rcnuia, 
that are ready to die, for I have Dot found thy norka' perEtct 
before God; remember therefore how thou haat received aod 
heard, and hold faU and repent." 

Let Dt Ueta Ood for the tbingi that remain, and aeek for 
wisdom to atrengthBntbem, that th^also be not loit: think of 
them, for they am many — eonUmat the condition of ttw whole 
world DOW and in the J7th centory, and you will aee 
the extent of them. That ccntnry opened with the gma- 
powder plot — in that centai7 the Prsteatantf in Austris 
and Bohemia, and the valleyi of Piedmont, were crneUy 
pereecuted — the Huguenoti were exited from Fciuice — aU the 
couDtriei of Europe, Asia, and America were crowded; 
with Romiih miuioaariea— >the college and congregation do 
Propaganda fide were funned, and both munificently endowed ; 
and every agency ^that wealtb, influence, power, subtlet]^ 
lUperttlUon and cmelty could dcviw, were carried inio eSect 
to pxtlDguish the Re(brin»Uon. In England, Charles II. had 
Kcretly become a Roman Catholic, and Jamas had openly 
avowed himself a Totary of that failh—llcentlautneii prevailed 
at court and every where — inBdality never raised its head eb 
high— the names of Robbes, Shtflabtiry, Hoclteatcr, and Her- 
bert, who, only for a Boyle in Ireland and a Newton In 
Eiigland, must have been deemed the master iplritsof that sgei 
these names aufflciently attest that the rank, tbe weaKh. and 
genius of Ebglfind were tnlnted with unbelief, — these were the 
tides that ran again«t ChHstlanity in the ITlh century But 
nowtbeaspect of Protestantiimi* higher than ever it wa« since 

the Reformation There is not a conntry where the light of 

truth baa not been carried by England. Ouc oiiaGlonaries 
occupy India, America, and AMca. Protestantism in Europe eaa 
now boast what she then dared not to anticipate i «be i* at rest 



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in the valleys of the Taadois — she is at real throughout the 
len^ and breadth of France — the Gospel U preached ander 
the walls of the Louvre and the Vatican — there is light in 
Oermaaf and in all the states of Europe where then it nas 
obscured. 

England, then,' is non as she ought to be — essentially Pro- 
testant and Christian. When tbe 19th century opened upon 
her she established the Bible Society; two years afterwords it 
•was introduced into Ireland. There never was more zeal, more 
knowledge, more holiness, more faith, more self- dedication in 
Ireland, than at the present day. Oh, if the heroes of 1688, 
whose ashes have reposed within and around these walls since 
the time of their glory, could now stand forth and speak to 
US, although they must emphaticully tell us that our errors 
were many and grievous, >nd call us to humiliation and repent* 
once, yet when this contrast so Faintly sketched should meet 
their mind's eye, their spirit would glow withio them — they 
would tell you to take good courage — they would point to that 
onmipotent God who crowned them with the glory of victory, 
when there were no prospects like these — their advice would 
be, let every one among you, put your trust in Him who bath 
gold — " Be thou fhithfiil unto death and I will ^ve unto tfaee 
the crown of life," 'ftir he b Uis same who will enable you to 
■ay to him— ■■ Thou abaft con^BU Ae about 'witfa lenga ofiteli- 



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NOTES ON THE CATALOOUE. 



SOtKta ii., lint 1, Lord Antrim. 

Alexander HI'DonDell, third Earl of Antrim. He had taken 
[)art wltli the rebels of 1641, for which he was attainted of trea- 
son, but was restored to his titles aod estates in 1662. He was 
in the screntj'-fourth year of his age when he appeared with his 
regiment at the waterside of Derry on the 7th of December, 
1688. He was again attainted for boviog accepted the commani] i 
of this regiment, but was afterwards adjudged (o be comprised 
within the articles of Limerick. He died in England in 1689. 
Sl*»»a iv. Hue 1. Lord Golmt^ 

Fierce Butler, third VlMODnt Oalmor, oommanded a troop of 
Koardsin King James's army, and was one ofthecammiasioners 
W agreeing on the surrender of Limericii. He was outlawed 
in 1691. ilis ion and successor, Edward, was colonel of a regi- 
ment of foot In the Irish army at the siege of Derry, after which 
he retired to France, and died there without is'ue ; bis con- 
dnct in the counties of Fermanagh and Tyrone in the early port 
of the year 1689, was marked by execrable cruelty: so that 
Oldmixoa observed of him, "that he 'was a monster whom no 
titles could ennoble." 

Lint 3, NvgmO, 

The Honourable William Nugent, sixth and youngest son of 
Richard, second Earl of Westmeatb. He woi lieutenant colonel 
of General Hamilton's regiment of bat at the siege of Derry ; 
and be had, on the I'Oth of April, 16S9, behaved witti 



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gre*t counge and conduct id forcing tbe pMt otm the Bann, at 
PortgUiione. He im killed «t Cavko, and it U nid, that 
EiDg JaniM, nba bad been penonallf acquainted with him, 
ahed tears when he heard of hii deatb. Among tbe Amil; pic> 
ttires at Oracefield, in tbe Queen'* Countf, there ia a Tciy finely 
executed portrait of Brigadier General Nugent, hy Sir Peter 
Lely. This picture, wltb leveral other* b; Sir Qodfrey Enel. 
ler, came into tbe Grace family b; the marriage of Michael 
Grace, Esq., Oracefield, wiih Mary, daughter and co-heire*« 
of Nicholas Fluiikett, Eiq., of Dunsogiily Caatle, in tbe county 
of Dublin. 

Sir Maurice Euitice, colonel of tbe nineteenlh regiment of 
of King Jamea foot, and son of Sir Maurice Euitacc, Lord 
Chancellor of Ireland. 

Lint J.-^Lord Gormamlmen. 
Jenico Preston, premier Viscount of Ireland, and colonel of 
the ninth regiment of loot. 

Lord Clare. 
Daniel, third Viscount Clare. He had attended Cbaile* If. 
in exile, and returning with bim at the restoration, obtained the 
title of Viscount for bi* grandfather, to which be himself afier- 
vrardi sucreeded. In 1666 be raised two regiments of infantry 
and one of dragoons for the service of Jauws ; be ia mentioned 
in (be Armagh poem on Siege of Derry. as baring been among 
tbe beseiging army ; it does not appear that either be, or Sir Jamea 
Cotter, both of whom were in Lord Mountcasbd'a army when it 
was touted bylbe Enniskillinert at Lisnaskea, wereatany lime 
nearer lo the maiden city than that part of the county of Fenua. 
nagb. Lord Clare rougbt. however, at tbe Battle of tiie Boyne, 
and was outlafved on the ] j lb of May, 1691, when all bis estate*, 
willi bis castle at Carrigabolt, were forfeited lo the crown. 
Slanra 5, line l—Sarifield. 

Patrick Sarsfield, created Lord Lucan after King Jame*'* 



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370 irons. I 

■M wiliwi. He WW • ikdnpuAii officer in King JautraTa 
atny ; bu oae wbflM Ulant, uxniiiag to Ihe Duke of Bn^rick'i 
aMnalni, wwm nudi oi'maltd by hi* countfjm«n, aa he waa t^ 
in atBtne. ud of iMdaubted.petMDal eoonfe. Hi* intercept- 
ing .Md Uowuig up King WJUkBi's taaiion on ju way to tb« 
Sicse of Limerisk in 1690, raised bii character very high in the 
Dtiiniitn of Iiiends »ai ■aemin. He ww killed at the battle of 
haaiia in Flandan, and l>i» widow manied the Duke of JSer- 

Line 3, Plunkeil. 

Tbli family bad long flouriihed in Ireland, but suffered mucb | 
in it Ibr their atlechment to the Romisb religion, and the incli. , 
■ktioD matiifeited by tome of thein before the refomntion, to 
■pt^et the Iiiab to the Engliehintereat) altbough origiuallj £ng- ' 
lish themselTes. 

In 1464 Edward Plunkett wm attainted of high treason, with i 
lie Earls of Desmond and Eildare. In IMl Plunkett, Earl of J 
Fii^asd liotd Killeen, and PlunkalC, Lord Loath, fOTfeited | 
their titles and estates for having beenconccsnedintberebellioii. I 
Oliver Plunkett, titular Archbishop of Armagh, was one of the I 
Immches of thla family ; he was also grand-nephew of the first ; 
EmI of lUMMenHHi, and freat-grwidMn of John, Lord Cnl- | 
ptf^er, of Tbanway in Eaglaltd. He was h»ged at Tybnm ] 
•n ibe lat of July, 1661 ; hewaa taken down bebre he was dead, 
Ut'bowels eat out atidbuined, his bead eat off and bii body ' 
ijBM lasail Lodge, is the flnt volwne of,hia 'pcenge, raaU]r 
MnMs, that tbisunfoitunBte pndate had been deeply engBgwdiii I 
atrMaoBBUe plat ta imten, by force of aran, tbs Roniidi 
idijpanialMland'in UeeandUeO; but Bishop Burnett, uld 
eiher ft of >Mi t his to si a ns, agree in ackimwledgln^ his jtmo- 
as—»;-aad-.the'ilT. Doetpr Lriaad, »mhor of the Histoiy «f 
kJWil. aays, fbat he wai condemned aid eicented for a plot 
MlJillli iii|f1iiihlj denied at hb dsaftfa, with the Tooat aCJeiBa 
disavowal -of^eqaieocMion, andwWeb, if hebadoonfesBedit, I 
no man acqminted with tbe circunutancea o£ Ireland could have 
credited Us dying confeuion. He defended himself with great | 
4riBtf « Ur-trid, and h(i speech on the acaStrfd, preferred is ' 



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tlie (iRte triab, (ytA. liL, page 9tS>, it one of the inaat affecting 

specimens of eloquence in tlie EngUsb language. 

Several of the witneiwa agsintt him were Franciscan Friars; 
Adverting to them, he thus ipolce towatda the conclusion of hii 
djfing 9p£ech, "I Itsve endeavauted, bj preoduBg anil teach- 
iagi.and b;atatut««rac£ordi)ig torn; caJling, to biing the clergy 
of.which.1 bad the caie,ta a.due comparlinentMcardJDg tothiiir 
cail'utg, yet come who would not amend, bad a prejudice a^nst 
me,. and especialij lay accuters, to nboiu I endeavotired lo do 
gooi,-'! mean the clergymen who stvore agidnst.me ; but you 
Aee how an i requited, and hew, by &l>e oaths, they bave 
brought me. to thla cntimely death ; whieh widud act, being k 
delect of. penoDs, ought not. to uieat upon ^e order of St. 
Fnncia, 4r .upon .the ilomaa CatkoUc eieigy, it iheing wall 
luoKn, that ihare.na* a Judas among the tiralTs ofkaatles, and 
A iricked man, calUd Micbi)U*,.aiwHig the leven -daacensi and 
even as one of the said dcweoni, to wit,.ho]y Stephen, did praj 
ibr those who atoned faiiB todesthj^so do I;far'thoae urho, with 
yeijuBaa, spill my inAsmat blood, *«]n'ng,.Bs be died, O Lord, 
iujf mtt Qkt ria to Atm" 

.TJiis BM«k aiAtcf wai ItgUy .ooBOtcUd in Bogland and 
Island; be had bin iliiwiiiir and cbrislsaa taune fram Sir 
OlirerPlunketl, the first Lord Louth; but all itUa did not amil 
him at this awful bour,nheD he fella victim to the angry temper 
of the times, and the profligacy of two or three nefarious priests 
Afhif ewnrslifitin, «hoM^i*i«kodlitw.he badwoaaifd. 

X>M &..—lj>rd Dtmem. 

UeatenaM.cdlomtortbe'fint'reglinefitoftfae ImbBr^tMna. 

Xina 7' — TVrManef. 

HiaPulte 'Oi. TifitmitA, Xoid LievttuAt of l^tkni, and 
C(iloaeLDf.,tii««lwMiaMUioaitd.dw|MMi. JUe veal, not lo Um 
fiwganf Bnrji but hiakialbrr-Ci^MlWiUianiTallKit, nai 
matUOff wMindad itii wmffiwniit bobte the vtiiU«Mid ukaa 
prisoner. Five hundred ponndi lanaom wete^ffaaed'atidjiifuaaa 
forbim; aiid.JieiIiad'anillCJ&ul..alJu4i^ nfaan. Ua vidow mw 



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•nfll^red to go out of it to the enemT'a camp, attended b; wine 

Slatixa vi., lint l,~—FureeU. 

Nicholu Furcell, Eiq., lucceuivelf major, colonel, andbriga- 
dier-genenl in the Iriih atni]-. He fought at Deny, at the 
Bojtieini Rt Aiighriin,uidirB* the third officer who signed the 
article! of liimerick, in which tli extcniive estate* in Tippenuy 
and Kilkenny were iccluded. He, however, loat them bj 
going off with Jamei to France, — not reinainli^; at honie to 
maintain hi) rights. He was killed several year* afterwarda at 
■ battle in Flanders, leaving an only child, a daughter, Anaitasia, 
of whom the nofortiinate Jamea and hij queen took good caie, 
■be being domealicated with them at their retidence in St. Ger- 
naini, from which they sent her, with atrong recommmdationa 
to Queen Anne, who receired her kindly, and contrived to get 
back for her a small portion of her father's immense e«tatea. 

Thia lady married Colonel O'Hehir of Clare, a descendant of 
Ixinghlin Koe O'Hehir, who had forfeited a large estate in that 
country. One of her dsughleta married into the Mahon family, 
and was the giandmolher of -Niehola* Purcelt U'Oorman, late 
cunitor baion of the Exchequer, and now aariatant barrister for 
the county of Kilkenny. 

Line 3 — Waueep aitd Buchan. 

Scottish officers in James's army i Francis Waurap, llenlenant- 
colonet ID Lord Iveagh's regiment of foot ; and James, Earl of 
Bucban, ft brigadier general, who had been in high favour with 
Chailea II. Bishop Burnett says, these officers regretted much 
tbeir ginng with James into Ireland. 

Lint S. — Dutlia lUaj/or. 

Sir Hichael Cresgh, Lord Msyor of DuUin and psjroaster of 
the-Iriah army. He was colonel of the thirty-lbiid regiment of 
foo(,af which John Power waslieutenant-colonel,and T 
Burke major. He is thus mentioned in the Armagh pi 
the Siege of Dcrry — 

" Sir Ulehad Cnsf h dU at the t»om conunu^ 
To nop ulliuccoun from (he ne]|hb(Hulnf land.' 



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X^eviUe, in his map of tbe SJefc, maiks tbe position of thii 
officer uid bis legiment, at th« opposite eilremiCj of (he bewig- 
iiig arm)' on the north west tide of the FojU, nuuelj, at B«l- 
lougry. 

Lint G.—The Bullert of (he Banam. 

3a,JDei Butler, third Vlacount Ikerrin, a captoin of grena- 
diers in the armj of James II.; dying in Iiondonon the 26th of 
October, 1683, left a son, Richard Butler, who was at the 
Seige of Deiif, at the cammeiicement of it, but soon aftel. 
WBids fled to France, 

James Butler, siith Lord Dunboyne, was acaptab in Colonel 
Nicholas Purcell'n regiment of horse ; be escaped attainder by 
being included wiib bis colonel in the articles of Liinericlc ; and, 
instead uf leaving his property unprotected, as the former did, 
remained in Ireland and preserved it. 

Edward Butler, colonel of the twenty- seventh regiment of 
foot, was stationed on the western side of the Foyle, at the 
boom, near Cbailcs fort. 

Capinin Richurd Butler, fifth Viscount Mountgarret, vraa 
U'onnded and taken prisoner when commanding the furlorn hope 
of the Irish army before Derry, on the 4th of July, 16S9. 
Liite 7. — Lord DiUon's heir. 

Henry Billon, or James, as he is called by Arcbdall in bis 
edition ol Lodge's peerage, was colonel of the tenth regiment of 
King Jiimes's foot, and lost his life in the course of this war. He 
was a ilescetidant of John Dillon, an eminent lawyer in the reign 
of Queen Elizabeth, son oF Edmund Dillon, Lord of Druroranjr, 
by Anne, daughter of William Pellyt, Baron of Mullingar. The 
said John Dillon purchased divers manors and hereditaments in 
Ulster, and among them the eatnte of Castle Dillon in the county 
or Armagh, which be lost in 16^2, although he had beenaminor 
ill tbe year 1641, and not implicated in iherebellion of that year. 
Slaata vii, lint 2.— Parker. 

John Tarker, colonel of tbe serenlh regiment of the Iriah 
horse, which he had raised in the neighbourhood of Eclli aad 

H 3 



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"mrnnnd O'Heilly, colODeloflliefott;p-MCondTeginieiitof King 
Jsmct** f*ot. Mid Pbllip Reillf, colonel of the twentjr-eighUi regi- 
ment tin&r tbe comnund of CoIodcI Aillmi M'Malioii, Hnglt 
UBgemiii beiqg Ujgor. 

Lint tL~Ci^rd. 
Bebert' Clifford, cglontlof the Gfth regiment of the Irieb 



Lint 7— Cotter. 
ak Jt-rott Cotter, although hewu not at the Siege of Denj, 
nor newer to it thRU Xisnwkea,' where he ihared in the dineter 
otLoid Mountcaihel, was a very conspicaous pertoii in the civil 
-war jn Ifeland at ibii time. Be wu ■ member of tbe Church 
of Bome, descended from > Dwiidi family, which came into Ire- 
luid «alh Turgeiiiu, of whom he ia aaid lo have been a lelative- 
TheiMuneiopclledM'Cotlerin the ancient Irish manusnipta, 
and always pionounced so vhen spoken in the Irish language. 
He wutbtaon of Edmund Colter of Ballinasperrig, in thecounty 
of £otk, E«q., a gentleman of considerable property and great 
lecpecCshllitf, who died A. D. 1660. He received many marks 
gf favour from King Charles II, and James II, and was retnark* 
able for hia warm ailachment to the Stuait fsmilf. He began hia 
BuUlary eareei as an officer in the king's Hfe guards, and roce lo 
Ibe rank of a colonel in the army. It would be foreign lo tbe 
otijcot of these notes, whirh must necessarily be brier, to enter 
inttflhefaniculars of his military career, his name being well 
kvown (o those who s re scquiiinted with the history of the time 
JB'whieh he lived, and it ia still remembered and respected in the 
SMMh of Ireland. He was successively collector of the poil of 
GMkrand governor of that city and the great island near it, in 
ivfaieh hlMi capacity he behaved with great humanity towards 
Aa oppressed Protestants, for which he aftcrwaids received 
gratefiil acknowledgiaeMB fiom Dr. Edward Wetten hall, Bishop 
of Cork and Ross, the Very Rev. Francis Pomeroy, Dean of 
Cork, the Bev. Walter Neale, Vicar of St. Mary's Shondon, 
and Vicai Ganeial of Cork and Rosf, from the Rev. Edward 



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amwa. Sis 

Bift Bc«U» ud VieU'Of'Cliite'i Ctituxli,.Coik, n^ tbe Rev. 
<aM(lwM)nbMlc. nair^eHifiM^vSM tUed lo the ftdkrw^ 
iB|fi«milie jHajM, ikeiifi, Md.citiseM of Cork:— We, the 
^anamiMMdiDUriUtaoEilweitjiaf GMfc,dadaaluc,^lduriiiK 
8ir JamcsCoUaB'tibuoeKOTanior-ofUeuiAcitr udteonty, the 
Tjotwtenti thsiwofr »»BM)chMia bim itj, tUAwaewe «lLimniiw 
jafaMmtiHuiee sad faTaniEroni biiD;-aBdiBrtcwl of being irapri- 
■oned DpMtall itoraH,. Mitwrvcfe b; bii pndeceaicm mi 
■ucceum.in that govcnuMnt, he. deuied all cadi ^ tu as had 
been br tbem turned out of the cil^Midoui' houci toretuni 
unto them again ; aad tbat during uia government tbeie ebould 
be no luch hardsLip put upon us, wbicb be Justly performed, for 
which reason, and no other that we could eiiher hear oi know, he 
was to OUT great prejudice removed from the government by ibe 
French faction, who reprcBented him as a men not fit to be 
trusted where any Proteataiita were. 

All this we hold cureelvei obHged to cutify under our banda 
■t Cork this Oih day of December, 1691. 

■• Uavixl Cbone, Mayor. 

P. Benew and Sauuei, Love, Sherifi. 

Sir James Cotter was for some time commander.in-chief of the 
counties of Cork and limerick. After his death the Iiiah Houie 
of Commons ordered tbat his children ebould be brought up In 
tbe Protestant religion ; and giiardians were aecoidingly ap- 
pointed. Thia order ivaa, however, evaded, end bia eldest son, 
who was about sixteen years of age at bis father's death, married 
in threeyearsafterwardsatady who wasa member of the Church 
of Rome, and an enthusiastic Jdeo1)ite. The consequence was, 
that be made bimfelf obnoxious to tbe government. His son, 
however, became a Protestant on his father's death ; and all hia 
descendants are now Proteslants, one of ihem a clergyman of lbs 
Established Church, and of that deDominaliou in it tvbicb, tor 
knowledge and zeal, may be ranked among its ablest supporters. 
He is the evangdleal minister of a religion which is built upon 
the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jeans Christ him. 
self being the chief corner-stone,— a religion nhich has God for 
it« author and truth for its foundation, — a religion ubich emanci- 



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276 Kom. 

pUM tb« Mul and giret life and eaetgf to the mind and bodf,— • 
and a religion, panicularlj hi estaUiibed in thii united empire, 
which plainlj and unieservedlf holds up and preienta to ber 
highly privileged memben, our blened Lard and Saviour m Ihe 
irajr, the truth, and the life; whox nioit precious blood, and tb>t 
■lone, cleamei from all lin ; whose one offering has perfected 
Cot ever them that are sanctified ; and wbois Meli/ Spirit renewa, 
enlightens, unctiGei, and comforts the soul, and nukes it fit and 
meet for an eternal inberitance with the saints in the realms of 
everlasting life and glorf. 

Slanxa vii, lint 8.— Lord Ciancarlg. 

Donough, Earl of Clancarty, colonel of the fourtb regiment of 
foot, who on King James's airivsl at Kinsale, received anil 
entertained him in his bouse, and n-as made a lurd of tbe bed. 
chamber. In 1567bis sncealor, MacCsrtyMoiTibeingencouragGd 
bj the O'Neills, despised his tiile of Earl of Cbincarty, and as- 
Eumed ibe title of King of Munster. He hioVe into rebellion 
with O'SuUivBU More, MacSweenf, and othcis. 

This unfortunate nablemsn, wbo accompanied King James to 
DeTry, flushed by wine, and encouraged b/ one of Ibe old 
Irish prophecies, made a furious and nearlj' successful attack 
upon tbe Butchers' Gate on tbe night of b's arrival; and he for- 
feited bis titles of Earl of Clancarty and Viscount Valentia vich 
bis whole property in 1691. Tbe proprietors of the county of 
Cork in 1599 were, according to tbe map ofOrtelioa,— MacCarly 
O'Mahoivn, O'Sullivsn More, O'Sulllvan Bear, O'Donovan, 
Barry, O'Maliony, O'Driseol, MacCarty Reagh O'ilea, O'Kear- 
ney, De Coutcy, Galwey, Boyle O'Daly, O'ileardan, O'Crowley, 
OXeary, Waters, Sarefield, Arcbdeacon, Slackpole, Skiddy, 
Fitzgerald, Gould, Carew, O'Lyon. Nagle, O'Callaghan, O'Hely, 
O'Hennesy, Barret, Coppinger. and O'Falvey. 

Tbe Armagh Poem on Che Seige of Deny thu* notices the 
Earl of Clancarly. 



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Slanxa m., Unt 3. — Mae Mahont 
This family is deicended from Mahon, elder brother of 
BrfM Boru, and hit predecessor on the Irish tbtone. Those 
of Carrigsholt, Clonina and Kilmurry, Mac Mafaon, in the 
connt; of Clare, were the eldei branches of this ancient family ; 
■ younger branch of which settled at a remote dite in (he count)' 
of Monaghan, and behaved with great cruelly there in 1641 ; a 
descendant from thetn n-as this Arthur MacMahon, colonel of 
the . Iwentf-third regiment of King James's foot. Owen 
Mac Mahon was lieutenant.colonel, and Cbristopber Plunkett 
major, of this regiment. 

Slanxa viii., line 9. — O'Hagan. 

Hugh 0'Ha)[an, one of Tyrconnel's burgesses for the City of 
Ijoiidonderr;, thus noticed in the Armiigh poem — 



O'Neill, Colonel Gordon, son of Sic Phelim O'Neill, by 
l,Bdy Jane, daughter of George, first Marquis of Hunlley, and 
widow of CUiid Hamillon, Lord Strabane, who died on the 14(b 
of June, 1638, and was buried in the church of Leckpatrick. 
On the death of her lord she eipended above a thousand pounds 
in building a castle at Strabane, which was burnt to the ground 
by Sir Pbelim O'Neill in October, 1641. He carried the unfor- 
tunate lady to his castle at Kinnaird, where he kept her two or 
three days, and then sent her to Sir George Hamilton, telling 
bet to inform her friends, that he would never leave off the work 
vrhtch he had begun until mass should be celebrated in every 
church in Ireland, snd that a Protearant should not be suffered 
to live in it, be be of what nation be would. 

She afterwards became his wife, and after hli execution, fell 
into such a state of indigence, that in 1656 she was glad to ac- 
cept of five pounds from the government lowarda her relief from 
Btamtion. Colonel Gordon O'Neill, her son, distinguished 
himself with his nepbew, Captain Manus O'Kane, at the Siege 
of Derry, and was taken prisoner at tbe Battle of Aughrim. 



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Fnarit O'Oallxghtt, a prirate loldiei in tke Duke of Ber- 
itidc'i rt^iniMt at Ae Sieg« of Den7, whtn tta: diitiBguulMd 
afictt, in hii lojal fathei's snny, wu Eerercl; wonnded j and 
nith him «1m at the BUtb oF the Boyne, when he wm todm 
orat bf .« tioop of dnpioni. Ua ■flenmd* joinad the Eagliak 
uin]F,BDdMnrcd in the eigfatcaatb Tenant of footia nanden, 
under the Dnke of Marlboroegh. He fought. at Blenhcioi and 
MalpkqiKt, and wu Jit the raiting of tht Siege of Turia in 
1715. Ha iceeired a wound in thelegkt the battle. of Doau 
blain in Scotland, and waa shortly afteiwardi diachat^d from 
the teivlce. 

PinU far Ibe place wbRefintber breath thedrev,'' 
herotucned to his nRlive place at Wal8hestown,in the county of 
DonegB), where he died on the 1st of Februar}', 1778, aged one 
hundred and (even years. He bad a Bainenke among the do* 
fenders of Londonderry, sereral of whose protes (ant descendants 
aie settled reepeclsbly i[i the neighbourhood of the maiden city. 
The proprietors of the soil in Tytconnel, now Donegal, in the 
reign of Queen Elizabeth, were O'Donncl, O'Dogherly, Mac 
Sweeney Tanad, Mac Sweeney Nathua, Mae Ward, Mac Con- 
way, O'Boyle.U' Gallagher and O'Clery. They were aucceeded 
in that reign, on the forfeiture of the Earl of Tyrconnel, by the 
Qores, Wnyt, Sampsons, Murraya of Broughton, Chicheaters 
and Hansarda. 

Stansa it., line 1. — Lord BeUew. 

Walter, second Lord Bellew, colonel of the twelfth regimeDt 
of foot, thus recorded in the Armagh poem — 

■■ About Dundilk Lard BeUn ralKd Ui D«D." 

Hie ran, RichBid, aftenv-atde third Lord Bellew, vai, at this 
ttme, a captain in the JSarl of Limeriok'a diagooiu, and was out. 
lawed and attainted iu f6Dl ; hut being contpreheaded in the 
articlw of Ltmerick, and conforming to the Fratestant rahgion, 
big outlawry, and that of his fathers, were re*er«ed, and be took 
bia seat Id the House of Peers in 1707. Thi« familj> ia of Nor. 



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l.imfb,naee Aetata of King Edvtrd IIJ. 

At tbe lattaBM of Lotd fidhv. Sir Psttick Belteir wu 
HMled a kmnet on ibe Sfiib of ^pdl, 1667. 
SlaiiiM ix., Sne 3.— Pa^on. 

Ridwrd Figui, of Fillriin, in the countjr of Dublin, brolher 
Of Eliiftbetb, the l«dy of George Hwnilton, fonnh Lord 
Stratume. 

SfMMtra is., Une 5 — Lord Slraiant. 

Clauae Hamilton, fifth I^rfl Strabaoe, and fourth Earl of 
Abeicorn, attended James 11. ftom France into Ireland, where 
lie nas mftde a privy councillor and ■ppointed to eonmnud the 
fifth regiment of foot. Hs attended the unfortunate king into 
the north in order to reduce Londonderry, in the liciniiy of 
which his influence was reasonably lapposed to have been great, 
bnt was effedually dcBtroyed on the occasion by the wisdom of 
Btvetnl of hii noble relatives, and the indomitable spirit of his 
Protestant tenantry, who had not forgotten what they hsd suf- 
fered in I64I. When neaf the city he was seot wilh a party 
from the army to persuade the citizens to surrender the place 
which they not only refused to do, hiit, mating a sally, killed the 
horse he rode, and he bad a narrow cicape, flying on foot and 
leaving bis doak behind hiia. 

After the defeat of the Boync, the Earl of .Abercorn embarked 
for -France, but was killed on his passage. He was outlawed 
in ISSH, and his tide of Lord atrabane forfeited with bis estate • 
but the Earldom of Abercorn deiolving on his brother Charley 
the outlaw ry and attainder were both reversed. 

Richard Hnmilton, brigadier general in King James's army, 
was second in command >t the Siege of Derry, and one of the 
most distinguished of the Irish oflieers at the Battle of the Boyne. 
He fled with James to France, where he died, and his brother 
John, a colonel in the Irish army, was tilled at the Battle of 

SUntsa xi., Sne 2.—Bagnal. 

SndBfjr Bagul, oolonel of the (hiilieth Mgimeiit of fotit, 



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280 KOTBS. 

oiled, perhtpt comcllr, Sir J. Bagnal In CapUin Fnncii Ne. 
f ille's nrnp of Ibe Siege of Deny. Lsdj Blanch Bagna], widow 
of a knight of tbis family, lived and died in Deny, and tbe fol- 
lowing is an extract from her will, now In tbe regittry office of 
tbe dioceia, dated on Ibe 9(h of February, IGIQ i "I, Dame 
Blanch Bsgnall, of the eity of Londonderry, being sick of bodj, 
but (bank) be to Ood of a whole mind, do make my last will aod 
teatamenlin manner and fonn following, that u to eay, — firtC, I 
bequeath my soul to J\lmight; God, my Maker and Redeemer, by 
whose merita, passion and death, I hope to be esTed j and niy 
body 10 ehiiitian burial within the cathedral church of St. Co- 
lupiba in uiid city. Item — I give and bequeath unto the piKir, 
robbed and distressed people of the parish of Tamlaght Aid, tbe 
aiim of six pounds ateiling, to be diatributed among them, by the 
religious care of my beloved aon-in-law, William Townham, 
Ecquire, and John Alsjor, clerk, citbin half a year next after my 
decease." 

In 1632 the Rev. George Slajor waa Instituted to the rectory 
of TamlutjhC Ard, commonly called Magilligan, in which he waa 
succeeded by the Rev. John Mnjor in 1030. They were siicea- 
tors of Ibe Mujors of the counlleE of Derry and Donegal, and of 
Aldeinmn Joshua Oillespie, late mayor of Londonderry. 
Staima xn., tine 2- — FiUigsnM. 

Kicbolas Fitzgerald, lieutenant-colonel of Lord Bellew's le- 
gineiit of foot, 

Stanxa\n., line 2. — Lord Louth, 

3Iatthew Plunkett, eeventh Lord Louth, colonel of the 
twenly-Grsl regiment of foot, of which Maurice O'ConDel was 
lieu ten ant- colonel. 

Herria, in bis LiTe of William III, aaya, that when the Duke 
of Tyrconnel had fallen under suspicion of treachery in St. Kutb"* 
camp, near Atfabne, Lieutenant -colon el Connel, as he calla 
bim, went to the ruined viceroy's tent and ordered him to begone 
from tbe camp, or be would cut big tent cords. Tyrcannel, sen- 
lible that this behaviour muat bave proceeded from a consider- 
able faction among tbe officers io the Irish army, who had re- 
solved to give Ibemselves and their country up to a French faction. 



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removed next morniag to Limerick.— ^M Graham' t HiHoiy tjf 
Jrdand/rom the nliefof Lmdonderry to tht lurrender of Limt. 
rUk,pagt 266. Curry & Co., Dublin, 1839. 

Sbnaazy., lint 4 CaoBtagh. 

Charlei C»\taagb, colonel of the Eixteenth legiment of horw, 
of which Janea Lscy waa lieutenant-colonel, and Gioa Forde- 
veraode major. Captain Neville stations ibis regimeat, in bia 
map of the Siege, at the riiulet called Craggin. They were 
taiaed in that part of Che county of Wicklow called the country 
of the Byrnea, Toolea and Ca»enaghs. The otler proprietora 
of this county in 1599 were Walsh, Eustace, Gavan, Brown and 

Slmaaxv., lint 1. — lH'Kenna. 
One of the family of that name long aettled in the Braeface, 
near Maghera, in the county of Londonderry ; and a branch of 
the M'Kennaa of the barony of Truagh, in the county ol Mo- 
naghan. Among the inquiaitiona presecred in the lolU office 
ue the following 1 

Sir Patrick M'Kenna, June 10, 1625. 

Sir Att M'Kenna, October 27, 1627. 

Sir Philamenei M'Kenna, April 17, 1629. 

Sir Neal Mac Tiuol M'Kenna Buoy, October 2, 1629. 

Stanaa XT., line i,~Sradles. 
Thia wM an aboriginal aept in the barony of LoughenthoUen 
and county of Jjondonderry. Magbcra na Brallagbnn ivaa, oa 
thia account, the name of the principal town in it, when the teat 
of the aee waa transferred to it from Ardatiaw. The cathedral 
of Maghera «a« dedicated to St. Lauiocliui, whose featival waa 
kept on the I4th of February, and (he principal well in the town 
iiatill called Tubberloury, 

Sttmta XV., Kne G—O'Faml. 

Roger and Robert O'Farrel, Eiqnirea, were membeiaof King 

Jamea's parliament for the count; of Longford ; when after ea. 

caping, for their adhesion to Queen Elizabeth, all manner of 

foifeilute, they loat alt theii posseaaiona in the fine tract of land, 



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282 XBTBB. 

ndtatfy calMAniMlri Jor.fauing been awKnwd in theTebel- 
Iten in WU. Tbcj nvre £vM*d.iDta Ivo frcH slaat, distiit. 
gnuhed b]r their coatpbgdiBi, Jiriiicli, m mil u Ifaeir featutca, 
are ilill hereditary among tbeit aumeroiu u)d respectable de- 
icenduita. The O'Fnrrel Bui, of whom the Prince of Callagh 
wat the chieffia of BTerj fair conplexMni. The O'Fanel Bay, 
.of irhoiB the diief wMthe Frioc* of Momin, iras rtry dark 
yellow, Terging toirarda the hne of a Mukaito. The peraon 
mentioned in Ibe-teit wu LientenaDt'eolaBel O'F&ml, who on 
Thnnda;, tha 5tb of April, 1889, iraa irith tiro sf the Nugenta 
of Coslamber, in the canntf of Longford, nith the IrUharroy 
before Derry. 

Siiinxa xvi , Una I — O'.VdH. 

Bryao O'MeiHof Ballinascreen, new the Ccoac, in tbecounlj 
of Iiondandeny ; aa bumble branch of the noble fiimily of that 
name, which joined in the Earl of Tyrone's rebellion against 
.QneEB Elizabeth, and committed great outragei in the progress 
of it. 

The members of the corpontiDn of Londooderr;, accoiding to i 
Lord TfTConnel'i appointment, were Cwmaek O'Neill, major, 
Horace Kennedy and Sdwaid Brookei, therifia ; Cavanagh 
MHSuire, Qordon O'Keill, Conetantlee O'Neill, Msmu O'Doik 
Del, Peter Manby, (vAo kadbem dtan oftht cathedral axd apotla- 
titeito BerntiJ Peter Dobbin, Anthony Dobbin, John Campde^ 
Daniel O'Doogbarty, Wilbun Hamiltan, siagtr O'Cahin, 
Daaial O^Donnal, Nieboka Bornside, Daniel O'SbeiU, Ri^ar 
O'Dngberty, BrTaa O'Neill and leim BoehaMn, AUetmra. 
n«DeU O'Cahan, Babert Butler, GomeHin O'Calkgban, Ungb 
D'H^an, ' JiAq U'Kimwy, John Cbmjuie, fienry Campeii^ 
JamealbeMis, JofanO'llagan, W^Ubam Stanley, Janei Codum^ 
Hugh Eade*, John Uonoogb, Alexander Gordon, Jaba Orooib 
thankt, Philip H'Shaghlin, John O'LyiiBghaii, Art O'Hagan, 
Charle* O'Sheill, Corneliiu O'MuUan, John Sheridan, Ji. Sheri- 
nAn, Cod O'Sootke, Dominkk Bay Rdiough&n, J. Nagenr, W. 
'O'Boy, Jithn CBey, IPtlliBm O'SoUInn, Dionytiaa IfLaa^ 
lin, Slanm 0*CalMn, nepbew Of 13ordon O'Naill, Ha^ 
UPLanghlin, "Hagh Mar O'Dongherty, Click Ollagerty, 



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n«i>T]r hiby TtiMMi Brooaie, Pel*r M'Peke. Henrf DoaBhaHy, 
Sobert Sliemn,ODiiuliai Jtt'6rahr«id AitO'HagMi,biu^[MW, 
Sir Neill O'Neill •onmended a tegiintnt of . dragoon* at the 
Sipge of Derry, and was ttationed with it on the c^p** 
aile bftak of the riTar, between one end of the boom md the 
FiibrbouBe, iteaTivbere -the iiTei flawa at Liongh Foyle. He 
Mesped unliurt from Dcrrj, but was aererely wovnded at the 
Boyne in hia Mtempt to stop the paas^e of General Doyglas, 
>t the bridge of Slane, vrith his Tegiment of dragoon. After 
the battle he fled ivith King James to Waterford, where he died 
from the unihilfulnesi of the Bnrgeong who attended him. 

Slatuji svi., line S. — O'Rourke. 

Alderman Con O'Roucke, of a family long flourishing at Bref- 
' ney, in the territory eince known bb the county of Iieiiiim. 

In the year 960 a battle was fought on the river Inny, neu 
Ballymahon, in Annaty, since called Longford county, between 
Mahon, King of Thomond, elder brother of Bryan Bom, and 
Teargal O'Roark, Prince of Urefney, In which the latter wm 
defeated. In hi* flight he plunged into tbe river, where ho 
threw Rway hii shield, ublch fell into tbe bands of Mahon, and 
was, with Bryan Boru'a hsrp, for ages aflennrda preserved aa a 
trophy by hia descendaaCs in Carrigahult, Kilmurry, Mac Mahon, 
orClooin*, in Tbomond, since called Clare eonnty. 
Stanta xvi,, fixe 6—0'Sheiil. 

Charles O'Sheill, one of TyrconneraburgeiiesforDerry: he 
was of a family still i«spe«table in (he eoHnlici of Derry, Tynme 
and Donegal, seteral of whom have been, fron time to time, 
ecelesiaitics of the Church of Rome, and usually of a peaceable, 
benevUent Md ' hmpitiUe ^dUpeaitJen ; one oftheae Uviivat 
the time of the Siege of Derry wai Jeffrey O'Sbeill, parish 
prieit of Clonmany, in the county of Done^, who was gene- 
nUji Undu bu -BmtMtant aajghboars in d'wtMH, aa aba were 
lbafollaMBfr.pariiti piie*Uof.lhat «aiiinitn)tey]— JHnia O^a- 
gaityof Tanap lw w H H, in-iriBrti yaiiafa the city of Tuiii JiwTuW) 
i* A^taA,.»acmMrM^F«tlj viCMxS, Domia H<Calffa«f 
OMBtaKgh,' Soger O'SBsaa ef MoriHe, Benai* .kH]k»U»of 



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284 Hom. 

Baniglcr, Inge O'Lyncbuui of Ufford and Slnbane, Con- 
nougher D'Hangan of Urntj luid Tennon (yMaDgan, Corne< 
liut O'CMridf of MaeotquiD, uid Fitriek O'ScoUni of Bdlj. 

nds note i« given on the BUthorit; of a copf of a pariiamen* 
tarf report fiom the biibop of Deny, found b; the author of 
tbeM note* among the recoids of the dioce*e in 1^4, when em- 
ployed by the late bishop to arrange th«n chronolegically and 
frrite an index of them, he being permitted to tranicribe hiitori- 
cal documeota from them. 

The above quoted leportii undated, but appean to have been 
from Bishop Hicbmui, who lucceeded to thii see on the transla- 
tion of Dr. King to the Atchbishopiic of Dublin. It contains 
the foliovring character of (he Romiih eccleiJBstici of the dio< 
ce«einie8&orl693. 

Cttldaff. 

Otren M'Colgan, a fiinr; a man of ill character and diiaolute 
life, very ofTengive lo the neighbourhood for hii marrying people 
clandestinely, aa well pcoteitsuls aspapiita. 



Shane O'Cahan, reputed a mo»t malicious, ill-inclined, dan- 
gerou* man. 

Jamei O' Kelly, reckoned a very weak man. 

Shane MacAnally, a close subtle man, educated in Flanderi. 
BuUimaicreen. 

Bryan O'Cawidy, aged fifty yean; cunning and contentious. 
Neill M'Conwayaged thirty-nine. iJe went beyond aea before 
die year 1688, and came back again about two yean ago. He is 
reputed guardian to the Franciican Friary iheydeaign to hare in 
Ballinatcteen. He iia dose aubtle fellow, and • tegulwptiest 



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Pliilip M'Hugb, ■ confident dj«cembler. Thote fiiui te«ide 
moid; ia Alunterlopy. 

Magftera. 
Murlkgh O'BKonan, ■ peaceable mao, minding only hii meat 

Stanma xvi, Kat 6 — M'Coaaay, MaeAnaUy,'^ 

Roger MacConway, commonlj called Roger MacBryan Mac 

Con Alodberaa MacConway, Janiea AlacAnally, burgessei of 

Strabane, of whicb Jobn O'Neill, lunatly called Shane MacCon 

Baccagh, in» ptovoit, 

SlariMa idi, Une 3. — O'DoiightTly. 
There ia no record of this ancient and princely ftmlly baring 
been among the beiicgerB of Che city of Londonderry. They are 
mentioned in the Armagh poem b9 intruders on the liolated cor- 
poration of the city, namely Hugh More O'Dougherty and 
Henry O'DougheHy. Tbeir ancestor. Sir Cahir, son of Sir 
John O'Dougberly, both favourites with Qneen Elizabeth, and 
confirmed in their posaesiion of their hereditary estate- The whole 
of the barony of Innitbowen, except the church lands, unfortu- 
nately for himselfand his family, broke out into rebellion in 1608 j 
the immediate cause of hia indiscretioo, haa been recorded by a 
Protestant historian, Captain Ash, a distinguished defender of 
Londonderry in 1689, and ancestor of William H. Ash, Esq., 
of Ashbtook, who inherits a considerable part of the large 
estalea once in poueasion of that diBtinguished family. It is to 
he found in a journal of the Siege, published by Misi Ash of 
Ilsgherafelt, granddaughter of the gallant author, in 1792, of 
which a copy is now very difficult to be found. Sir Henry 
Uowkray having built, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, a fort 
on the Poyle, now called Culmore, began to erect a garrison 
inDerry. He and the governor of Deny walking together in 
one of the streets, some angry words ensued , on which Sit Henry 
gtve Sir Cahir a bos on the ear. The latter being enraged at 
this insult, went back to Ennishowenj where he assembled hii 
vaiMl), Mid in a rage acquainted tbem with the unge be had net 



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Migohig with ajMMMbU di^odtionita Seirj; Tbeyaimgerand 
more giddy proposed to mmrch at once into Dtetfto-Aettroj tbe 
governor and burn the town ; but tbe elder ftnd more cautioiw 
diM adrised Sit Cahir to tend a hrge fiab, which tbey bad just 
enght, to the gioveniiir uapreient. Ttie^ aoeordingly tent tbe 
£«b, with directiong to tbe oiGuenger not to deliver it eieepCin' 
the pieieDce of Sir Henry Dowiiiay, and iha man gol particular 
directions to obaerve how the goreinor would behave on re- 
ceiHng it. He, boirever, aeeing tba preaent, probably a atur- 
geon, a« lent by Sir Cablr, Mid, in ■ haughty manner, that he 
perceived " thk ibibh wgbz lick rpaniils, who tbb 

HOSE TIIET WEBS BEATEH, TBB MOXE THET FAWKED OX 



Tbewettenger related on his return bow tbe gOTcmor behaved, 
on which Sir CabJr and those he bad auembled went directly to 
Derry, killed the governor and the few Prote^tanls wbo were 
with him, and bum ed the town 1 Upon this event, notice was 
fast to Dublin ; and Sir Arthur Ciiichettcr, tbe Lord Deputy, 
marched to Darry, and with a Binall party of soldlcrg pursued Sir 
Cahir bd cloaely, that he took him in one of his hiding places in 
Enniabowen, enclosed biin within four wbUs, and starved him 
tfrdeath. His fate is represented on the shield of the Derry 
arma by a skeleton sitting on a stone, reclining on Its arm, quilted 
on the back of a cloak to be worn by the common scavenger. 
Soon after this, Sir Arthur Chichester represented his service at 
of BO muoh consequence to King James I, ihst he was gratijied 
with Sir Cahir O'Doughetty'* whole estate in EiinishOwen. 

So far Captain Ash, who seems to have taken O'Snllivan's 
Catlulic History of Ireland for his authority ; but nuifi alieran 
pattern fram Co]i's Exttacl* irom the Lambeth ntanuicripts «nd 
Acehdall'a edition of Lodge's Peerage. 

Queen Eliubeth dytnguid King Jamei Vl. of Scotland sue- 
cMdingiolbe throne of England, Ireland, and Scotland, tbe 
new king, on the 28th of A^ ril, 1308, renewed to Sir Richard 
tbe post of Marescha] of tbe amy in Ireland, calling 
nto the privy council of that kingdom. 
I) Sir Cabir O'Dougherty raising new commotions in 
nd •DMNig othet outrages, burning tbe new city of 



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voraib 287* 

Viatj, Sb lUchaTd Wingfidd and: Sir OUvar X«tBba«««e MM 
flnn Dublin on the fintnf Mk^in that ^Mivwttfaivwnrillia^ 
of man to Buppmi biar, >u>d no-'woan did thiyaotaEtht Untl- 
tmy of Tfraoansl, tbu'the tiaUan wlttidEnr wUhlnthdr fiM* 
n««a, wlioriitlttjr dDlgentlypMisucd and faknoMA) aadoii tW 
iianrteentfa of Jiina taking Sir Neill O'Donnell piiMoef ■ in th« 
ooDp Rt Ba^oi, conreTed him on boud a king;'i ihlp Ijinf in. 
Ae harbour of Looi^ Fofle^and ceningtasbUd^rSte Biebati 
Blew 0'Dod^ert7, look Cwtiedoe, KBd di^oiod hi* nbdlioot. 
ftdlowRn. Thli sigial Bcrrlce m> rewndtd on A« tWMiqb 
oindi of Julfi ISOO, witbn gnnt to Sir'Bid«d Wtogfield of Ibe 
Iknds of FowenMurtintbe county of Widclowi and the fbl- 
lowing cxlnwt froDDtbe prmnble to the grant of the Powen- 
Mmrt title, tEomps onqnetioiMMB authority on ' tl» laltef au w uiu 
of the death of Sir CahirO'Donghert; i— " Poetea dsuiqiw dtel» 
rabeUionedeTj'raneflKtitict&et aniTsnt puein hoeiegnaala* 
bilili, cum audariuiniai PraditorO'Dogherti*, nnram civitMon 
de Deny incendio deElruxtuet, mtgnogqua tinnnliui in ultonia 
<tDnoiI>snt, prcfittur Mareidallui nocler paiva mann militum 
dietuDi O'Dogbertie in aperto proito ooctdit cidioneactui ilU' 
adherentea subito ditsipavit." 

Siavta XTJi., Iitu3. — O'iTane. 
Captain Manui O'Kane , of Dungieen, nephew to Sir neiim 
a-Neill. 

Thi« famitf i« of gtcatanliquity, andln andent limeiof bi^ 
amk in the coun t; ol Cotsrnne, jince called Londonderry. 

The/ were proprietor! of the barony caDcd- Eaaaght afiK 
them, Bipart of which, cilJad JUagilligan, they granted to St. 
Colomba for tha mainteiMBCe of Iheabbey of Duncrun. Oneof 
ibair ehiefuunn, with aitrongbody ol troop*,' n-aa engaged at 
tktBaltleof'Baanackbiuo, doubtful it iiKaidat the commence' 
naatof il-vhetbet bs would join -the- JiUiglUh or -the Scotdih 

In tliereign of Banry VIJI. tbeheadof ihiihouae, reildent 
in a princely oatle liuiated ub the liiit Boe, .near UmaTadj^ 
NM-madake^er ofihe cattle of Coleiainet bat, in the rsign of 
J«iM 1.,- bi« detcendaat ai>d>nj;n*wilMive, althou^ ha db«^ 



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288 NOTES. 

vered to Bishop Monlgomci; the lebellion meditated hy O'Neill 
O'Donneland O'Doglierty, lost hie propeny in the general ttcheat 
ofthenioecountiei of Uliter, about t!>e ;eer 1608. When only 
eighteen ;eai» of Mge, John, BfCerwiidi third Eoil of Kingston, 
m«rriedMiiTgaret,lhedaugbte[ of Florence O'Cahan, adeBcendant 
of thja familj ; and the consequence wai, tbatleaTing Lbe Protec- 
tant chulcb for that of Rome, he was made a g;cntleman of the 
bedchamber to King Jamai II. and following hiimaiter'a fortunes 
into France was outlawed ; but he afterwuds returned into 
Ireland, and lubmitting to the goTem^ent, the outlamy wa» 
reverted, and lucceeding to the eitatea and title of the family oik 
the death of hii brother Robert, the lecond Lord Kingston, a 
distinguished officer in King William's aimy, be (oak his ieat 
In the House of Peers on the ^ 1th of May, 1697, and on the 
2d of December following, in the same year, signed a declaration 
and association entered into h; that house in defence of Ihe 
king's petion and government, and the lucceuion in the Protes- 
tant line, settled by act of parliament. 

The direct descendant of Captain Manua O'Kane is now.in 
the service of Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, at Downhill, in tka 
county of Londonderry. 

The Ducbeu of Buckingham, who married the Earl of An- 
trim, who had tailed a thousand men in that county to send to 
Che Msrquii of Montrose in aid of King Charles I, j the Lord 
Deputy, WentiTorth, ordered tbey should be marched to be em- 
barked at Derrj by the route of Newtown Limavady. In passing 
through the town, curiosity induced (he duchess, who with her 
lord accompanied (he troops, to visit the wife of O'Cahan, whose 
beautiful residence had been dilapidated, he himself being in 
banishment. It was utuated on a level bank oftheriTerR, 
now called Deerpark, on the projection oFa perpendicular rock 
hanging over the river, and nearly an hundred feet high ; on tbe 
land side the defence consisted of ■ moat ; the terrace, orchard 
and pleaiure-groundi beyond it, are still to be traced, though 
the castle hat been levelled to the foundation, and its mateiiala 
carried away. In the midst of the half ruined edi&ce, was kin- 
dled a fire of branches, and the window cases were stuffed with 
straw to keep off the rigour of the Eeafon. Thus lodged, the 



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tgei witt of 0'C«ban, who b»d merited better trcBtment from 
the Engli«h government, iraa found bj her noble viaiCant on 
her bent (rms in the smoke and wrapped in b blanket. Sic 
trantit gloria mundi — every thing in tbii world changes and 
puses a.my. Dunluce caatle, then the aplendid reMdence of 
the Earl of Antrim and Ducheas of Buckingbam, bas been in 
rains for a centnrf and a half. 

We find hj an inquisition in one of the public offices in Dub- 
lin, ihAt ManuB O'Eane was pouessed of some properC; in the 
countj 'of London derrj*, in the reign of James II., which he 
forfeited in 1689. A very retpectable branch of this house, at 
did one of the O'Donnels, settled in the west of the county of 
Clare, with one of the Mac DonneU of Antrim, neatly two 
hundred years ago, and are all Protestants ; Bosib Kilkee and 
Ballyvoe were their residences. 

f<an«axvii.. Hat 6.— Jfftjnrfiv. 

Cohannaugh Magaire, colonel of the forty-thiid regiment of 
King James's army, — the lien tenant- colonel being Aleiandec 
Vaguire, and the lIl[Oo^ Cornelius Sfnguire. The colonel via 
governor and high sheriff of the bounty of Fermansgh. On tbs 
I8th of November, 1644, Sir Patiick Mac Aile Roe Mac Ms- 
lion, the rebel cbiefiain of Monaghan, was tried at the bar of 
Vestminiter and sbortly afterwards executed at Tyburn. The 
fUIowing copy of the examination of Sir Henry, second Lord 
Slaney, is an awful record of the extent of this man's guilt, an j 
• condrDsed epitome of the sufferings of the Protestants of 
Ulster in 1641. The examination was taken on the 1 1th of 
July, 1642, and this copy of it is preserved in Archdall's edition 
of Lodge's Peerage, long since out of print, vol. vt , page SlOi. 

"That on the 23d of October, 1641, Arle Roe Mac, Sit 
Patrick Mac Arte and Moyle Mac Mabon, of Trough, Btq., with 
diveis other rebels, by force and arms entered into his castle of 
Monaghan, rannacked and despoiled him of the goods and chat- 
tel* therein, robbed and plundered the town of Monaghan, killed 
divers English Protestanu there, and deprived him of bis lands 
and tenements, worth eleven hundred pounds a year. That on 
or abont the same time, the rebel, Hugh Mac Patrick Duff Mao 



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S90 KPxn. 

Coll Mac iiabon, Eiquiie^ witb MTenI otbws, foiee itat 
pJundend the cutis aodtoKnof Cutlo Blaoe;, upelledliim 
ft«n tbe Hme, and took hU Udf,. mybb of hii cbildcen, two 
BUten, and muiy of hii hindrad and aeiTantt piiionerB. 

" That he wh thai deipoiled of. hia goods and chattela, taken, 
despoilsd and burned, iucluding a libruj of booki worth fivtt 
hundred ponndi, tiro hundred and tiiXj, pound) in readp manVft 
and fire bundled poundi VMth of plate, to the amountof ^613,873 
Ujeut." 

Ha wai killed at tha battle of Benbuib, fighting acaltut Sic 
Ph«lim O'Neill, and hii vldow, the daughter of Lord Drogbad^ 
was reduced to the utmoit diitreia bj means of the rebellion. 

Lord Maguire, nhoie tiial ii to be fouBd in the first to1u]B« 
of the state trills, made luch a defence for himself after tha 
condemnation of Mac Mahon, that bis trial was not coucluded 
until the middle of February, 1645. Another chief actor in the 
rebellion escaped UtabaBda of jnitic^ namely, Rory^ Maguire, 
governor of the county of Fennaaagh, who hanged seTenteen 
Froteitaots in the church of Clones, in the coiuty of Mom^ 
gban, on tha 2Sd of October, 1641. 

I.ord Maguire, with his fellow conipirator, Mac Mahon, bad 
been sent over to the parliament of England, and impriionediii 
Ibe toner of L(H)don ; but on the IStb of August, 1G4^ tbe^, 
with a tbin steel inatrument, aawed asunder a two inch oak doer 
In the night time, and with a rope let tbemselvei down from tl)e 
white tovrer, vraded the dtlch aid got away. They took lodg- 
ings in Drury.lane, and on the night of the 16th of tha next 
month, bearing a woman crying oysters in the ureet, one of 
them put hii head oat of the window to call her, sad waa at 
that inttant rect^iied by a lervant of Sir John Clotworthys, 
who had known him, and wiu> immedlatelr gave notice to the 
lieutenant of the tower, who had them apprehended and lenC 
back to their old priion. Maguire waa afterwardi bailed, and 
Iiii'title andeitatejoifeitcd. 



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DEFENDERS OF LONDONDEREY. 



:u, Line l.—Forvard. 



Jolin Forward, Egq., uicBitoroF the Bad of Wicklow, Mid a 
colonel in one of tbe regiments defendli^ Deny is leeCh Hb 
mis Oic son at' the Rev. Robert Toimtxii, \*ho came inta Iraluid 
with the Lord Deputy, Wentnorth, in the year IWO,- wli«a hm 
was appoiiited Gret, Chancellor of 9t Falriek't Oatbednl in 
Dublin, find nfterwuidB, Dean of Dromore-. This gentleBHUi 
tnutied the eistei irf Primate BnunhaU, bf whom he had ifsM 
i this dUtingiiished military otBcer. Hi* prmnpt md emlDcflt 
I lerviccB attracted the paiticular, bat oimBitiajir nottee of "Eisis 
William, asappearBfivm the fbllowtngexlMCtaltem (fc^reeo** 
1 of tbc English privy ctnlnijl.- — 

I "Present, the King's Moat Bvcellent M^eatrte oomiril, at 
Court of Kensington, on the lath of' April, 1609. 
■ Tlie Lords of the committee for the aAin of ItriaBd* faaw 
recommended to Hs Mbjeatj the partleular and eatlji ■eiTiee» of 
Iiieuteiuntco1oner>roh)i Forward, In tile deftonce' and praHrMk 
tlon of tbe city of Loudondciry, and the Prottctart- lattnaC IR 



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Irdand, ■* also bit gttat sufleiingi in hit Mtate and fmnil; by 
the rebeli there, hii MtjeiE; in council it therefore pleased to 
declare, that in regard Dothing offer* at preient which might b« 
a tuitable reward for hii taid aerTices and aufferinpi. Ma layal 
jntentigni iift 1^^ ^P?" ^^^ rc^uclion of IreluA. th* said 
Lieutcnuit-coloDet Forward diall be provided for,'' But no 
opportunity afteiwatdi occurred to fulfil the Ung'i inlentionF, 

SlanMc, xxiflmt S.— WiUiam Stwof. 
WiUiam Stewart of Ballylawn, In tbe counfy of Don^sl, 
Scquiie, fpiat grandbtber of the present Marquii of London- 
dcrrf, and great grandion of John Stewart, Eiquire, who ab> 
tuned a grant from King Cbarlea I, of (he manor of Stewart'a> 
court in that eounly, where he built the ca«tle of Ballylawn. He 
railed a troop of bone at hit own expense for the defence of 
Londonderr; in 1688, and did euentlal aervice in that part of the 
country. He waa lieuteiuni-coloDel of the regiment com- 
manded by i«rd Mounijoy, in wbicb hit eldest ton, Thomaa i 
IStewarl, Ei^uire, teiied aa a captain. Another and atiU more ' 
diatingoiahed officer of that name, was Brigadier Stuart, colonel 
of tbe fifth DOW the ninth regiment of foot. He wai deicended i 
'■"^ tbeSturUof Blackhallia Scotland, one of whom, a mem< 
of the Church of Rome, letiled in Balljrluik, in tbe count; 
Intiim : he and hit family being implicated in the troubles of 
I, forfeited tlieir Irieb estates and fled back to Scotland, 
ling the SpaoUh lerrice, he waa killed in ]688 at Dunkirk, 
he aide of his royal master and lelaiiv^ Jamer, Duke 
k, afterwards Jamet II. Helena familr in Spain; the laat 
it name there, being an abbess of a nunnery, sbe offered in- 
.sawenllb to thegrandfatherof the present family if be would 
1 hit cideat daughter tohet.'hebavingconformedto the Pro- 
mt reli^on, andbecomingaclergyman, did not accept of the 
ptingoffer. T be youngerbi other a( the Stuart who bad forfeited 
[rltb properly, as bad been frequently the ease with Scoitiib 
ilier, happily for himself took an oppoaite ude to that wbicb 
elder brother bad attached himself to, and be attained to tbe 
'e mentioned tank in King William'a army, in which fail 
cr wa« * bdUiant vat, few equalling and none surpauing the 



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courage tnd conduct which he msnifcUcd on Krenl tiTing 



While Jame*'! armf wm beiiegiog Deny, in which they were 
attempting to (tuve tbouuiidi orPioIeitant men, women, uid 
children, >hut up within its wall), partiei iitued from the Iriih 
camp plundering in lurrounding dialricta and driving countleM 
iamiliei from their bomei. Brigadier Stuart pioridud in the 
isUnd of Inch, in Laugh Swillj, a safe refuge for twelve thou- 
sand of them, where he completed the fortification* which had 
been commenced there, and made that strong post a medium of 
important communication between Londonderry and EnnialuU 
let). From the men he had trained and disciplined therC] be 
•ent, ahout the time of the relief of the maiden cit^, a atrong 
bodf of men to reinfurce Captain Henry Hunter at RathmuUan, 
on the appotite shore of Lough Swilly, which enabled that gal- 
lant and indefatigable oHicer to repulse the Duke of Berwick and 
astrong divisionof the Irish army, from that town. For this 
important service he obtained a grant ol the island of ludi in 
perpetuit]', which he was inconsiderate enough to part for a 
jviite (harget t? lybitb te hod wket n f»ncj. Tevvsr4! !!i? *n4 
Cit JoBe, 1600, he headed an aaiault on a battery hastily erected 
by St. Rnih on the Leinater tide of the Shannon, near the Dub- 
lin gate of Athlone, and rapidly succeeded in driving the Irish 
toldiers, who manned it, over the narrow bridge, where many of 
tbem were crushed to deatli by their tricdent preasure against 
each other, and a considerable number of them were forced over 
the battlements into Ibe river, where they were drowned. A 
French lieutenant of grenadien, who headed what tnigbc well 
be called the forlorn hope on this occasion, was killed in the 
onset just as he had mounted the wall of the lattery and had 
called on his men to follow htm. Sixty of the Irish nere killed 
and a greater nnrober of them wounded in this brilliant action. 
The Bngliah lost al>out twenty men, and forty of them were 
wounded. Among the latter was their gallant commander, 
Brigadier Stiwn, and one captain. It waa reported that tba 
brigadier was killed that day ; but he recovered from hia woimd*> 
Tbis achievement, imporiant as it seemed at the time to be, 
did not prevent General Douglpa and tbe bniepnf wn^ bmn 



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S94 xom. 

being obliged, bj tbe vigoor of tlielientic goTeitror, Grace, aatf 
hit ganiioq, to raise tbe li^e of Atblone, and retire in diaoider 
toward! Dublin. 

Ou Ibe Sth of August ia tbls year, lie wu cent bp'Ki^ 
Trilliam irith Ibe Enrl of Poilland, and nine bandred hone and 
twelre hundred foot, from Cahireonllah toirardi Limedek, for 
(hepurpoie of newingtbe arenue* to that city, and wrertahring 
tiMiUaation of the enemy. Ab tbey approacbed theoutpott*, 
& party of Irisb advanced towards tbem, but were obliged-to 
Teturn by tbe advanced guard. At four o'clock in the monung 
of the day after tbe blowing up of King William's artillery, oK 
lis way to Limerick, by SarsReld, Brigadier Stuart, with a de- 
tachment of bis own and Lord Mesth's regiment, marched ot)t of 
tbe Eugliab csmp with four field pieces of cannon to take Ca>. 
tieeonnel, a strong fortress seated on the Shsnnon, between 
Xilmerick and Klllaloe, vbich he compelled to surrender at dia- 
cretioD. This was a seaeonable service; for it was perfonneS 
on the morning of the day afier Sarsfield bad blown up King 
Villiam'a train of artillery on its way to Limerick, and it 
greatly facilitated the euQcess of the second siege of that city; 
for tiie CastleeoDnell garrison bad been very formidable to the 
foraging partiea of the besieging amy. 

Vo more is known of Bsigadier Sluart during the war. He 
bad married, according to a family tradition, ■ daughter of flie 
Earl of Drogheda, by whom be bad one son, who was a aaptaoi 
in his own rsgimeot. But -father aod son wne both treated by 
King WitUam'a nlniaters iwidi the same neglact eapedeneed b^ 
UDrrafandCaimet, Korwaid, HaauU, and many other men «40 
hni hen the dtief inalmmanta tn preaerring the British ktetert 
m Irriand, aid tbch eondact in thi* respect cut find it paralld 
In'lbatof Ch«rles II, wbo saoiifioed the eatMoa of his n^ 
AAeA«dkcmitB'in Ivehndto tbesoeatalraeiouttrfbiaaieadak 
Brigadiar 6lt»rl, however, found meana to purduae an sststi la 
the <a*My of LdMm, on which he aetlled ^lar die war t *fi 
aojDs Inda in Die connties af Cavan and of Cork, wUshrf 
natncd ia the &mily mtil aold by Barnavd Btnart, fsq., taiM 
tuts, alut which ha trent abraod. Tbe Her. Iiwln 6tmrt, 
gra nd M wroflfae preatnt family, hdng « jau^ac •«, wMt 



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■WOTTB. '295 

-ISto ortws, and BbtaSnea tie cutacy tif ftlllywaian in Hie county 
tff SUttrim, by the intere»t of a brother-in.Uw.Mr. H'Dmiell of 
3eUe Isle, who was the proprietor of large eitatesin the oiuntv 
■of.Antrim. The Gracehm familj are not connected with any 
Otfaer StosTtB in Ireland. 

Stmmiixi., HHeSt—GfitM, 
WilHam Orore, Esq,, of CaiHe Grow, in the count)- of Do- 
neg*!. His residence, at the time of the Siege of Derrj, was 
etHed Oattle Shanosghan. He wis mui^red iu the mountains 
new Hmrrj after (he wm haa ended, imd k thus mentioned in 
'Ae Amigh poem— 



And lufliiKLgTuil; fcr tin ctnmni waL'' 
.His deicendaBtaiid repreieutBtivE ia ThoMM Brooke, Esq., 
.ofCaatle Ck*re, wbo ia also de*a«ded from Bir.Bwil Bnmke, 
jwionet. a ^tinguiabed undertakarin'tbe pbatkg of UUur, 
who died on the 2£tfa of July, 1638. TIubhw, bod of Sir 
Hmi; Eiooke, prDtcned the Mnu af DMUgdin Ihenbsllien 
«f 1641. Hedied in Augait, lfi7.1. Hii aon, by bit wife 
Anne, daagbter of Thonae IieicMter, ot Taf^ in Cheihire, 
.£lq.,<diediai)ulriMi«nlhe llth«f Ft^nwy, ifiSf, karing a 
.■nKerow inae ,by bl< wif^ Anne, 4tnghtBr of Su.IUcb«d St. 
■Beorgv, of Curiekdruantke,.i8'flie eowty of Lutriin,lu^t. 
Tbe preaeot haitwetia £ir AiCbuT.&ioatB, of OoltbiocA, ia 
Ibe CMiDtf Mf.CenDaBBgh. 

Sla»»ixji., Hm 6.— Hau^on. 
Sir Arthur Bawdon, of Moira, bkronet, ancestor of the late 
llarqaiB of Hnitingi : be nas bom in the year lfiiS2. He was 
captain of a troop of horaein hii father's lile time, and after bis 
deeeaae was appointed, in 16SS;by tbeasMKUtedProlectants of 
fie county of Down, to be . the conuaaudet af a lament of 
dragoona. He waa.prodaimed by Lord Tjuconnel,onlhe 7thof 
]Uatch,I%69,M one of iheprincipalactoiB of what the Ticeioy called 



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296 KOTu. 

ft rebellion, one or thttt, u tlie prorUmfttioD tUted, «r1io bad 
■drlied ind fomfnted the umc Hii health dclicats, from 
the fatigue! be endured in defending of the cauie of eiril 
■□d icligioui libertf in Ulaler, Gnally gme way, and a dang»r- 
oui illnsii obliged him to leave the kingdom, and baitened hia 
death, which occurred on the I7th of October, 1699. Uia 
lady wai Helens Grabau, daughter and b«reu ofSir Jame* 
Graham, third and joungeit aon of William Orabanii 
Earl of Mentietfa. The lady wa* endowed with the virtuei^ 
whtcbfbroianyagei bad characteriied the ttoble hooie from irhielt 
abe sprung. Her good ieiue and literary taile were exqniaite, 
ber charitie* nuraberlau, (be lieing uoiformly foani to be the 
munlficenl friend to worth in dtstreis. She wasagreat helreu.bec 
mother being elde*t diugbler and co-heiieas with ber brother. 
Sir Thomai, wn of Ur. John Bwunhill, tueeeniTely Bishop of 
Derryand Primate of Ireland. 

ffdmzBxii., BiuS.~L»rd Bbeug. 
Henry 'Vincent,fiftli Lord Blaney, Be wai a captain offbot 
la 1678. On the preparations made by Lord Tyrcoonel to send 
anarmyiato UUter, tbe Proletlantiofthe countlei of Honft- 
gban and Armagh, chose tbis noUeman for tbe commander 
In chief of their forces ; and immediately after hli appointment 
be suddenly took possession of the city ot Armagh viih a itroi^ 
body of bis men, in order to secure that frontier garrison, wbleb 
he did by disarming the Irish dragoons ; posting himself there be 
found him^lf at tbe head of eighteen bondred men, and he 
caused King William and Queen Slary to be proclaimed, not 
only in Armagh, but in Hillsborough and Other places: and be 
sent a summons to the fort of Chulemont, requiring the Iriah 
garrison to surrender by tbe 10th of April Three thousand of 
James's army were gairisoned in that strong place at (his time, 
and, attempting to plunder the Protestants of the snirounding 
distiictt, had frequent skirmishes with them, in which he WM 
constantly successful, until the 13th of March, when, beingin- 
formed that his eastle of Monagban had been taken by the Irish, 
■nd that all tbe Protestants of the country bad retreated to 
Olaslongh, where they were besieged by tb« et>emy ; tbat Sic 



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MOTES, 297 

4ttbuT Rairdon hid quitted Lough bri Aland, and that tht IriiL, 
under Geneml Hamillon, had poneasion or that place, he(». 
solved to march on the next daj to relieve those who were be- 
■irged at Glaalough, and then proceed through Dungatinon to 
.AnLrim, and join hU friends (here. But Ladf Blaney and the 
iKiieged Proteitanti in Qlatlough being in the mesntinie re- 
lieved bj Matthew Ankeleil, Esquire, at the eipenie of hii 
life, Liord Blanef conlinued at Armagh, until Colonel Lnndjr 
omiitittg to eend him promised reinTorcementB, and the enemy 
f urroundirg the town, he was obliged to quit it and force hia 
way to Coleraine, with seven troops or horse aud eight compuiiet 
of foot, with which he natrowly escaped from the garrisoni of 
-Cbnrlemont and Mountjof, who had notice of hii maich and 
endeavoured to intercept him at Arbrea Bridge, where he killed 
an hundred and fifty men on the spot, and forced several other! 
into the river, in which they were drowned. On King Jame* 
coming 10 Ireland, he invited Lord Blaney to' join him, wi^ ■ 
promise of pardon for what had passed and of royal fiivonr for 
-ihe time to come ; to which his lordship replied, that be waa 
ihanbful to God for having then a king, upon whose word ha 
could lely, but that be never would rely upon his (James's) 
woid without a sword in his hand. It does not, however, up. 
pear ihut he was in any of the actions in defence of Derry, being 
only recorded as being present at some of the councils held there 
on the approach of the |)esii-ging army. He died without male 
issue on ihe same month in uliich Londonderry was relieved, 
and was succeeded by his brother, Henry Vincent, who then 
became the seventh Lord Blaney ; uho also had been a sufierer 
in the piecedltig troubled time, as bis estate nas sequestered, 
hia house plundered, and a considerubte quantity of cattle taken 
from him. After tlie revolution be was made governor of 
SliBo. 

Slanxa nil., Kne I.— .Mae Naphttn. 

The family of Msc Naghten is acknowledged (o he of the 

greatest antiquity in the vrestern Highlands of Scotland, on 

nbicb ihey had immense posEessions, poiticulatly in Argyle< 

o 3 



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U A* niffi «f IMo^ £««)>>>•> Kiwar Soatbvi, «MMO 
4f dH^f4t«i.i(i llwt Jcla«4wa> hn^ mtvrI ««•*> viw>, bis hmw 
Jtlf^f Jliihiw Kcn Imma kr Ae -omw of Kk NaEbteav 
jHlf JB tba Celjtk Iwiffmj lipiiffuit ftriKH). 

In tlM Mih4 TfK of the T<i«ii of EinR Alannder HI, sad 
M t)u Iil|tb9fjiil7. 1357, BiUtfWt UuNtsktMiMi qv<w^^ 
jirW^vW*4,Wit>UefcwiWi.ofilw.<wth«f Tm^kn. Xte 
fnw WW*, that llie gcMtee Aonld pnavw llu mMIm «b# 
«nt8it*ii) Uia Jdaf «tiM> ba cnw W Traddw. Tbe bead* ef 
i^iU AnilrwweMMiMilr called XliaiMtgfL«wfc3V. 31mv 
ANk fm dm iworteif lw> (Mkuck* vroiwii iMriof beeo hara- 
ilitMy lanatm of SenbiwB to Ou Uop of Scotlaad. Tk» 
Umij M|M «rf plaid inttf b* teen to the Santiah Gael, nL il. 

Cildwiatsaf ilKgrandbtber of Duncaii Banw Mm: Nagbtaa% 
a^wjoindwitli bi* kinunes the UacDfiugakof Lome, igainat 
^^ Rob«R Bace, bwt «u w chBiswl bjr the talow of tbat 
jbvraic kH>S Dt >^a Iwtle of Salree, tiwt be became, and mali- 
PBed an.attaebed ndyact to bim far:the lettof hulifa. 

Tba vtwrtm at thU old lord ii ^lu oelebratad m the anti- 
t*aled venM ot Arcbdeicon Bwbw, in a poem called the life 
wd act* of Robett Biuci, pid)liihad in black letter tj^ hf 
AadnwHart, at£dinbu^h, in 1630. 



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inbwtanilir. 


And le Ibe Lord oT LmoM He, 


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Tlul In Toui llii 


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r«r yon knight, 


tbn>t>^hl.douglitTd««. 


Andlfainuglitili 





I n«a bum in KBg or rhjme. 
Tdl of ■ nun, thit n nnullji 
Adiitvtil M gtnt cUnlrj."— F«si U> 



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■worm. 299 

His e13tfEt itm, Datieui IRkc nagliten, In'tlie rdgn of King 
Daifd Bmce, accomptnleB Loid Jama DoogtHinthe attempt 
to depodfKing Robett Brace'e hnut tt Jeronlem. Tbii wb* 
lordeied by The Biihop of Rome, to be done in atonement fbr 
"die king's haTing Elain John Cuming in the dfanreh of Dumfrie*. 

Tbia cbieflsin hud BEvenJ toni and daughters, connected by 
mKniage with the famllieB in (he west-of SciAknd. One of his 
torn, Donald byname, was elected BiAop of Dnnk^d, A.D. 
34SS. 

"Sir Alexander Ufac Vaghten, a BeBcenteit of Duncan, fell 
with King Jenea IT. aodmany of tie Sconiih nobility, on tha 
field of nodden, tn the year 1513. 

Hb aon and heir, John, narried Anne, daughter OfllTardocli 
n'Lafai, Lurd of Loughbay in Mull, by his irife, tbe daogbter 
' of SoMey Buy, the father of Randal Itlac Sorley Slac Donne], 
tbe^rst EiTl of Antrim. 

Sy this lady John Mac T^ighien had three aona, the eldest of 
-whom, Alexander, died without issue ; ike leeond son, Mal- 
cdIdi, called Glenehira, whose descendants finally forfeited their 
propetCf in Scotland by tbeic adheaion to the unfortnnate faonse 
tff Stoart. One of them, with a conaiderable force, joined Gra- 
bam, Viiconnt Dundee, and Waa aaid to "have been Fery instra. 
mental in gaining the TiCMry over General Mackay'a army at 
^illierankie, on the ]6ib iff July, 1088. Tbe third son, John 
Mac Naghten, came wUh hi* mcle, Randel Mac Sorley, to Ire- 
land M hie chief secretary, in the reign of Qaeen Elizabeth. 
91a aecond son, Daniel Mac Naghten, manied Cathecine, 
neitK of tbe Eonoat Prtmate DowdaTL 

Diniet's MO and succeisor was John Mac Nagbten, of Ben- 
-varden, Gaq., who married Helen, a daughter of Francis SlaF- 
•fot€,ot Portglenone, Esq., who represented one of the horoughs 
of Ae county of Antrim in parliament. Francis Stafford was 
-fhe ton of Sir Edmund Stafford, of Poitglenraie, knight, • 
descendant of Thomas,- of Woodetodc, Doke Of Oloucester, 
'filh'dsonof Edward III., Kng of England. 

A ponrritof Sir Edmand Staffbrd was in the posseaslon of ' 
%elate EdtUnnd Alexander Mac Naghten, Esq., at BeaidafiSe, 
fa- the coun^ of AotciDi, Bt big death some yean ago. 



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800 Rom. 

The nbove roentiontd John Mac Nighlen hid Mreral cbiMrea 
by fail wife, Helen Stafford ; from on< of ibeai, Baitbt^emfiw, 
irho had Utile hy hisnife Charlotte, daughter of RobeitOiveeo, 
of Coleraine, £«]., bad iiaue— fqur Mn« and three daugtbcn, 
viz. : Edmund Barthotemew Mac Nagblen, late of ClonCaif, 
Eaq., deceaied, Hemy, n-ho murried FraociB, daughter of Ro- 
bm M'Caualand, Etq., of Coleiaine, by wbom he had isme, 
Sanholomew Mac IJ*gbten,Eiq.,of Ballfbo^e, in tbecountyof 
Anltim, and the late Roliert Gary Mac Naghten, of Mouu- 
jof-iquare, Dublin, who left lasue by hia wife, the daughter of 
Tbomaa Orr, Eaq., three aon) and two daugbCeii. 

The youngest aon of the above mentioned John Mac Nagii- 
ten, Etq., of Benvarden, by bis wife Helen Stafford, waa £d- 
. mund Mac Kaghlen, of Beardavitle, in the county of Antrim, 
vrbo wei bom on the lOlh of August, 1679. Jn December, 
1688, nhen be waa in hii tenth year, he wai conveyed by his 
molber, then a widow, to the i^ity or Decry. There they were 
protected by the ludy'a brother, the Right Honourable Edmund 
XranciB Stafford, one of the gnllant defenders of that place dur- 
ing ile memorable siege. 

This genileman died in the j'ear 178), aged one hundred 
and two years. He had married, when far advanced in life, Leo- 
jnora Vesey, of the De Vesci family, who died cbildleu. He 
afterwards, in the year 1761, married Hannah, daughter of 
John Johnston, of Belfut, Esq,, by whom he had iaaue — fiitt, 
the late Edmniid Alexander Mac Nagbten, of Beardarill, bom 
on the 2d of August, 1762, who for many years represented the 
county of Antrim in parliament, and was lord of the treasury. 
He died on the Idth of March, 1832. Second, Sir Fruicis 
Workman Mac Naghten, Baronet of Clogher House, in the 
county of Antrim, born on the 2d of August, 1763, who upcm 
the death of his brother, in addition to an estate in the county 
of Antrim by bis father's will, succeeded to the patrimonial es. 
tailed eslalea. He was appointed judge of the supreme court at 
Madras, and received the honour of knighthood in the year 1809i 
In 1615 he was appointed a judge of the supreme courts at Bm- 
gal. In 1806 Caroline, daughter of Merldith Workman, and 
Alary Mac Naghlen, first cousin of Sir Fraodt, bad wttUd 



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upon bim tbe Workman estates in tli« rount^ of Armagh. He 
obtained bU majesEjr'a license to take the name of Workman in 
addition to that of Mac Nagbten, and in tbe year IBiI% upon 
tbe death of Caroline Workman, he uaumed it accordingly. 
On tbe 1 6ih of July, 183d, he was created a baronet. 

Slaiuia xxji, line 3. — Moore. 
Jamet and Patrick Moore were among (he defendeia of Lou* 
dondeiry who eigned the address to Eiug Willium and Queen 
Alary, on the relief of that city in IG89. Tbe (amily were then 
and iiill ia highly respectable in tbe county orTj-rutie, and none 
more so than the late Edwsrd Moore, E*q., of Au(;linac]oy,oiie 
of the most active and efficient justices of (he peace ever known 
in this or any other county. He died lately, honoured and re- 
gretted by all who knenr bim. 

Stanxa nil, li'iu! 6.—HUI. 

Michael Hill, ancestor of the Marquis of Downshire, gnnd- 
son of Doctor Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Armagh and Lord 
CbBneellor of Ireland. He was afterwards a member of King 
William's privy council, and successively representative in par- 
liament for SaltBSh in Cornwall, and for Hillsborough in tbe 
county of Down, He died in 1699. His descendant, the Mar* 
quii of Donnsbire, is one of the most beneTolent landlords in 
Ireland ; and although once a supporter of the popish claims for 
power in the legislature, now a determined friend to the Pro- 
testant interest, as all other Protestant propiietors will even- 
tually be, if they regaid tbeir own interest and that of their 
tenants in time and eternity. 

Slanza xiiil Lord Maaierten. 

■ Sir John SketBi^ton, bart., succeeded bis father-in-law. Sit 
John Clelwottbyas Viscount Matsereen, and was privy council- 
lor in 1663, ciMtoi rotularum for tbe county of Londonderry, 
Mid had several grants oflonds under tbe act of settlement. On 
4heaccession of James II, he was appointed governor of the 
county of Londonderry and sworn a privy councillor. He be- 
came howerer, a ttreBnoiu aueitei of the Frotettant interest. 



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<30S «mn* 

In ooflwqMncr of vAieb, te «u peH»p< tte iKBtett ntSbrer to 
Ike pravfaice of Cider. He wat exempted ftem mercy by Ob 
Dake of TjimutetTi preelansrioB on tfae 7lh of Uaicfa, HM^ 
wlwB the Iriib armj, under General HuniHtni, todk Hflb- 
boTongh. h the nme montb thej plundered LMmm, Betlita^ 
and Antrim, and parttenlBrlr Lord MuKieen'a cutle «t tlw 
Utter place, from which tbey look lo tbe imomit of three thoa> 
■end pounds in money and plate, which hiring licen conceded 
nevfhecutle wu dueorered bjhis 1ord<hip% serranta fbifli» 
Tcwud often guineu. Tbef dso took ^ the famitm^, to m 
great ameant in value ; and during Ae Siege of Deny the IriA 
armjr aeized llitj tons of salmon in a houie near tbe city, except 
forty barrels that tfae Detty men aecnred. We and his son, sf- 
terwardi Viaconnt MaMereen, were attEdnted by Jamea'a par- 
liament, and their eatatcB, to thb amount o'f £4340 a Tear, 
(equMtered: butall-ma tM torigfati b; the victory of Aughrim. 
The preaent Lord Manercen was a leading member of the 
Orange Inatitntien luitil (be 14th of April, 1886, when he voted 
forthe dinetution of the metropolitaii lodge. 

StaNM xxiii, liu 3. — Ck^k Stqfbrd, 
Captda Staflbrd dready nentiond. Be ma the asn «f 
Sir Edanod and gimdaon of Bir Ftand* Slaffitrd of Pongto. 
Done, from wUefa ton be Imni^t « eompaaj cf foot far dw 
dtftMC ef Deny hi 1669. 



DandCairaa^rfKaackiMiiyiiithaeomtyaf l^TOM, Ba^ 
]ieu(enant.colonel of Murray's reginmttof hraae. 

Thii family hai been tettled in the Province of Ulater for 
more than two centuiiea, and poaieaaed of coniiderdrf» 
Mtaleiinit. In a geotogieal acoMiBt ef the Engfitk and Irith 
fearoneta, mi -Aut fiorilieB, pshlialied by Thanna Watteii,LMik 
don, in im, p. Itt, we find, under Oe bead of CMmea of 
Ilonagbui, the (eVawii^ record of tUa miihary hoBia, aod kli 
for dte greater fait corroborated by Debntt^, Lodg<*>, nad vtbtr 

Tbi« tmOflB ihieeiided from TbofBM XJtSmn, ef Ae kont 



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I, in ^■ oll M a , 'wh»«— e^*t«had with Mmtwf, 
Eail «f AaoNKWa. Ha^anM Jmw, dangbtor of John «aeK 
Jtt (Mahit, in aMa*oi,Ba^,»tlha home «f Bmin^,^ 
Wmf Aa>e Miin«r>***cBt«1'H BmI of Annaadale, Bjhs 
bowm &• bikr-tf Jokn Cumn, «f DooeagiaMie, ooMtjof 
UaaagpJ, in Ifelid^-iAp— tri«< JaMc.idBugktergf Junta Ifil. 
kf, of BiaHiufli, E(t|., «0il ^ab«A Ctewwt, darter <rf 
->— Hirir, of JUwdon, ^mwmIotoF tfee Haniiiia«f HMtingt,^ 
and aistn of Lord Danlef , falbw «o Sdag Jamaa J, foundat of 
-tiM«nkT of BmomH. 

JaaiM lfltlw<^ naOtr ma Intatla flanikm of Orbiaton, 
grwd-daujtaw af the Di^ «f H^Mllten, Md (revcrdag to Ibk 
linaafe) Janea. the aaeoiid IjoU, marriad, HJi, tba FiJmcM 
MaiT.^ldaataUUr of Kii^Janua III, and relict of Tb»ma« 
•Bofi, Emii •( Amn, wd b; her fcad Jaaea, tb* third Lord, tut 
» dng<>ter, Elisabeth, married toHattbew Btairart,Swl of Len- 
OMK, and bj bin waa grand^lm of Senr^, Lord Damler, 
Sither of King Jamea VI, of ScotUod, and Fiiat of England. 

John Cdmea afsreaaid, had iian hj Jane Bfllter afoiewd, 
Ck Alexander Cairnet, baronet, wlio wai adranaedto that dig- 
mitj in fbe lerenth year nf the rri^ of Queen Anne ; and ha 
nxuiiad ElUabetl, aiatarto Sft Nathaniel Goold, of Newlng- 
Itam, in Middlesex, bnighF. In eueof f^weof maleieine, the 
tide iraa entailed bj Ae patent on Henry, and irat nicceeded bf 
Us yowiger brother and bli heir. Sir Wttliamf BneeeHor to Ae 
liBToaet^, nponirttose-deaA, mthoDt lnu«, it became extinct. 
The vrat of the b«>onetey~«rg«nt, three mirkletrs, gide, 
vithin a border; or, the ereit out of a tower, proper, martiett* 
M in tba ana*. HoUo~/' Bglonteii" 8eat— Cabnes' Cattle, 
Bear Menaghaa, In Ireland. 

Sir Alemider Caimes wan hoin in (he year 1663. It does 
net appear that he took any active part in the troables of the 
B«*^tion ; in the early part of the erentfn! year KBS, he aeema 
le have taken a retired and religioua tarn, as appears from a de. 
elanrtion, of wUdia copy will befbondin the Appendix, No. I. 
Be, bowerer, gtnof into the army In a ehort time afterwardi, 
MM to high rank in It, and diitinguUhed blmielf at the battle 
efBleahetai. FW bia terrleei there, he nw created a Baronet 
hj Queen Anne, on hit return to England witb the Duke of 



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304 HOTXS. 

HarlbOTougb, to wbom hehmd beco lO much endeared, that Ok 
£uDilii'i were bound bf mutiul eiteem and attaduDent (and bj 
(be ties of rrlendtihip,itreDgthenedbr the unifonn and continued 
pioui diipoaition of Sir Alejoinder Caiioes), to eack otber for 
■ucceeding generation*. At lbs lequat of Sarah, DucbeM of 
Marlboraagfa, Mill Caimea, only daughter of Sir Alexander,. 
irM left to her care on hU death, and educated by faerai her own 
child, with her 1ad;ship> only dai-gbier, under the auperia' 
tendence of Madame de Vie, wbo was a telation of Lady 
CairneB, and the daughter of a French refugee. Sir Alexander 
Cairnes bad two siaten : the elder, whote name waa Mai^wM, 
married Jubn Henderson, Etq., of Castletown, near Strsbane, 
whese eldest son by ber, Caimei Henderapn, married his causin- 
german, Mary, daughter of Mary, the second sister of Sir Alex- 
inder, vho had married Colonel Boyd. Cairnei Henderson 
had by this lady three sons and three daegbtera. Tbe eldest of 
those, Joseph Uenderson, waa father of Elizabeth, wbu married 
a genlleiDsn named Singer, by whom ibe wai tbe mother of 
Faulus ^Diilius Singer, Eaq., burrister, Temple-atreet. DuMin, 
of the late Major James Singer of tbe 7(h Fosileers, (who was 
killed beading a division of bia regiment at BadHJos,) <uid of the 
Reverend Joseph Henderson Singer, Senior Fellow of Trinity 
College, Dublin, and three daughters. 

Sir Alexander dying without male issue in October, 1732, waa 
lucceeded in tbe baronetcy by his brother Henry, wbo lived in 
tbe county Donegsl, nnd died tbere. Hit tombstone yet re- i 
maina, with a legible inacription on it, in the churchyard of 
X)onougbmore. 

Though not recorded in the baronetcy, William Caimei, hi* 
brother, succeeded Henry in tbe title, a full length portrait of 
whom hai been preserved in Roaiioore Castle. On bis 
death tbe title became extinct ; and bis entensive estates de- 
volved upon Sir Alexander Cairnes's daughter, Mary, already 
mentioned. Shemartied Csdwallader, the seventh Li^Bltiiey, I 
who died without issue by her, on the ]9ih March, 1732 t<u>d she 
married lecondly her cousin-german, the Right Hoc. Colonel I 
Murray, a Privy Councillor of Ireland, and the succeswir of his 
bther, Bi repteientative of (be coiui^ of Honaghan in pailiB- 



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NOTBt. 305 

He alio left ber a n-idow. He died on th« SOib Februvr, 
17S2, on his vftf to Dublin, leaving iuue by ber four daugbcert, 
viz., Frencea, «-ho died 29(b of Februarj, 1752, bad married 
Wai. Henr]'Forte«cue,Hrterwardm'eated Earl of Clermont, nbo 
bad DO iuue b; ber. Elizabeth, wbo died on tbe 2gib of May, 
1754,mnrriedtbi)Rt. Hon. Lieutenant-general Cunningbaiii,Com- 
mander.in-cbief of tbe force* in Ireland, member of parliament 
for UoD^ban, and bad no isEue. Uarf, wbo died unmarried in 
1774, and was a ladf of freat literary abilitiea, apecimens of 
wbidi ahe left afier her, ibouifh never published, and yet extant 
among the BleDheim orcbivca. Anne, married in 1761, to iba 
Right Hon. TheophiiuB Jonea, (by wbam iba had isaue, but all 
died underage); and Harriet, wbi^ on tbeS9cbof November, 
1761, married Henry Weitenra, father of tbe present Lord 
Boumore, who, in rigbi of ber, enjoya tbe large ettatea of tbii 
lirancboftbe family of CairDca. 

Tbe Weateniaa came to Ireland in conaequenee of the perae- 
cutlonoftbe Protettanta in the Netherlanda, by tbe Duke of 
Alva, in the reign of Charles V. of Spain. AfEerwarda, in 
procea* of time, they became posaessed of conaiderable eitatei in 
the King'a and Queen's County, ae alao in Meath, Dublin and 
Louth. Several of tbem naie attainted by King Jamea'i par- 
liamenta, as appaara by Arcbbiabop King'* state of the FroCes- 
taota of Ireland ; and tbere ia a credible tradition, tbat five;of the 
distinguished name fought for King William at tbe battlea of 
tbe Boyne and Augbrim, and Lord Botamore, tbe present re- 
presentative, waa equally zealous in aupport of ihe crown and 
constitution during tbe diaastrous period of 1798. Hia lord- 
■bip's Survey of Ibe River Sbanaon, between Athlone and For- 
tumna Bridge, wa* considered a most useful and important 
docomentof tbat day, having been the first that had been made. 
He was engaged in the defeating tbe Vinegar Hill army of 
lebela, and driving it buck from its position there. With tbe 
king's army be cleared Fema, and the blahop'* palace tbere, of 
tbe rebels, wbo bad taken possession of both— overawed Wei. 
ford — relieved Qeneral Loflus, wbo bad been neatly snrnniDded 
near Fern a—interposed tbe diviaion under bis lordship's com- 
mand between tbe Gorey army of rebels and the city of Dublin ; 



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SOS 'Norn. 

Aut intercepting Qie combined moTcment* of tiro great Wex- 
ford armiei on tbe metropolu, wbieli thef hid intended to mska 
for the purpoie of burning it, or becoming mutera of it. He 
tliQi diaiiied tbem both to tfaeir poiitiont antll Genertle Lmke 
■nd Needbam came up with tbe kln^i army, nhicb flniahed Hie 
rebdiion. 

Lord RoHinore afterwards drore'HoU frnm Ronndwood, on 
tbe eastern aide T)f the Wieklair moiuitaioi, until the ovtlBir 
found it prudent to lurrender. By tfaete moTementi and cnc- 
cniea be inspired tbe Btitish troops witb conGdence, nho bad 
ieen diipirited and were falling bai^ and giving op thefr 
poBt* after tbe defeat and deatb of Colonel Walpole -and 
3fajor Lombard, of tbe Tforth Cork mll[tia. (See CrorAni** 
SHorg ^ Me Keieltian of 1798.) B7 training tba yeomaiuy 
brigade oT "Monagban, iff XOOB men, Ho ebnn, orfler, aid 
guerrialla service. Lord Rostmore contributed much to the sefefy 
of tbe eonntrjr at this awful crisis ; so tbat if his aneeston ren. 
dered eerrice* wortbj of remembrance In 1PS8 and IC99,'Ui« 
same may be said of their noble descendant in 1796 and ]7M. 

The fsmlly of Weelenras, deseended from thxt of Van Wai. 
ienear, of WRS5eiibui;gh, were of great antiquity in Holland, ariB 
bore tbe augmentation o( the sea-horse, in reference to tbe valour 
of an ancestor, who, during tbe Duke oT Alva's campaign, waa 
actively employed agninst tbe enemy, and undertook to swimsn 
arm of the sea, with important intelligence to bis besieged conn. 

Tbe act is worth recording, as binory has banded down toils 
tbe aoiiety with which CEsar recruited tbe armies from 
that country, when in alliance ivitfa Rome. On some occaiioD* 
be went BO far at to deprive the Bonan eavalryof tfaeir borset, 

■ Aus^-QuaMrtr: ■"« m& JDvttiTat taH« ■ 
and In fasK s.iia faon^ legL 
Second and tbhd quuterln I 



Colaid arte* Kid to ihli Wnntr WntiDia, of (be eU; Df Dublin, owidiut, 
(he lowD nod ludi oT aoBle*(b, Bdwnfaainigh ind tjagb. In tlis Klof* 



r,lC,00<^& 



icoraB. "SW 

on vhich be ^l<nnl^ed lIiDie new tllim, wlio managed tbent 
better IhoD Ibeir Italian riders. He had no reaion to repent 
tliose measuiea. Almost alt bis subsequent victories, and par. 
ticularly that of Ffaaraalia, having been decided bj the valour of 
ihe auxiliaiies lie obtained from the Low Countries, (iti't^ dt» 
Socha EM. de la Bdgigue:) There is no doubi Ihej fonneS 
Ihe beat cavalry of the Roman armies, and signalized themselrea 
on many occasions by the skill with which they swam across seTe- 
tdI great lirers, without brenliing their siiuadion 'a ranks. 

When civil and reli^ous liberty were asfailed by the Spa- 
niards in the Netheilaods, the family of the Westenras aufiereS 
tererely fiom the support tbey gave to truth and freedom, tiy 
lieing compelled to migrate from a countiy in which their family 
Jiadlongflourishedin the poseeesion of wealth, and ttaasferred 
themselves and their poEEessions to our island, at a time when 
the accession of inlelligence and capital was of incalculable od- 
Tantage to it, as it proved in the case of the Huguenots and 
other Protestant settlers in Ireland, from the days of Elizabeth 
to the present lime. 

The advantage of such families settling in out island is not 
more evident in any circumstances connected with them, than 
the hereditary disposition manifested by them, with Few except 
tions, to maintain tbe true religion established amongst us ; and 
itis due to ibem and to Ihe Church, to record them as thef 
occur, to the encouragement of others to imitate their genero< 
aily. For " one good deed dying tongueless, slaughters a thousand 
waiting upon that." 

Tbe declaration of Sir Alexander Caimes in the early yean of 
a life devoted, with the immortal Marlborough, to Ihe cause of 
las Queen and bis. country ; the evangelical preamble and the 
conclusion to the will of the renowned David, mark that of thoM 
.hrought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, who 
Inm humbly and fidthfutly to the Back of Ages in subsetiuent 
life. 

Such doeumeni*, when blessed by divine mercy, have a direct 
and strongly salalary tSttt upon succeeaive rising generation^ 
and this was evinced by both tbe branches of the noble familf 
of Calmer, and others with whom the; intermarried. 



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S08 KOTO. 

The Kunt oftbe pnient Lord Roumow, (Elinbctb Hum;, 
daughter of liidy BUyney, tbe grand-daughter and aole heirest of 
Sir Alexander Ciitne*), bequeathed jEl.SOO for the building 
of ihe Church in Uonagbui, which has been followed up 
fcj the Hon. Xenry Wettenia, vith a iplen did organ which 
cost jEBOO, with a talar; to the organiit of £40 a ;eai. 

The Jatc lamenled lady, wboie luddeti death under peculiarly 
painful circumitancer, depiiired her lord of a lource of comfort 
and happinesi vliifh maf be more eMil; conceived than ex- 
prested, h'm Augusta, fourth daughter of Francis Lord Elcho, 
and ii'ler of the Earl of Wejmi (Weymmi.) Her ladyship 
had made amngcmenla, nbich will, no doubt, be followed up b; 
an endowment for the building and support of ten alml-houses, 
for poor widows and orphani. 

It ia no adulation of Ibe ricb and the noble to record such 
deeds, and in days of trouble, rebuke, and blaapbemy, when 
good Samaritani like these are seldom found, it cannot be irre- 
levant to the preaent work to brighten its pngea by such details. 

Though last, not least, we may record another departed mem- 
her of this bonoiireble fnniily, in justice to the late Major, the 
Hon. Richard Westenra, second ton of Lord Rosemore. In hii 
respective duties as a son, husband, brother, parent, and friend, 
his noith was only known to those who knew him, and could ap- 
preciate his falue. 'Tbey were, indeed, pre-eminent, and the 
loss of such a parent to a young family, must bare been aa afflict- 
ing as irreparibie. His departure, however to them untimely, 
may ha\ e been to liimself a mercy. Tbe ways of heaven are in- 
acrutahle, and '■ Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord," aa 
we trust this noble and gallant gendeman did, after the example 
of more than one of his ancestors, whose eminent piety, as well 
ss induniiiable courage, are on record in tbe pages of history. 
Posiossed of a Urge portion of that uncommon alttibule called 
common seme, he bad, moreover, a very considerable portion of 
literary attainments, which, under controul of native talent and 
cultivated taste, made him a delijjlitlut companion, particularly 
attbe festive hoard, where tbe enjoymenl, soaring above that of 
mere animal life, was "the feast of reason and the flow of soul.** 
It it scarcely necessary to add, that this gentleman's deiith left ■ 



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blanli in Eocietj not eaiilj to be filled, and be departed thii life 
luiiTerially regretted. 

But the most diitinguiBhcd of all tbememben of tbie fainilr, 
■ma David Caime*, of KnoclcnwD;, in the county of Tyrone, 
Esquiie, counsellor at law. He wai bom on the 15th of No* 
▼ember, 1645, and wa* the firat gentleman in UUter, who went 
into Derry, on tbe amral of Lord Antrim'* regiment at the 
wateraide of that citj, on the 7th December, 1688. 

To enter into a detail of hit lervieet on ibi« memorable occa- 
KOn.or iboie of an/of hit companiona inaimi. Walker, Mich. 
elbnnie, or Hurra;, would be foreign to the purpose of theae 
notei, and iwell the volume to an inconvenient size. So for 
Aeon, reference muit be made to the autbor'a biitory of th« 
Siege of Londonderrf and defence of EnnUkillen, in I6S9, tba 
MCOnd edition of which waa pubUahed bj Meaira. Cuiry and 
Co. Dublin, 1829. 

After the relief of tbi city be became lepretentative of it in 
patUament, faithfully dlicharging that aocred truit for thirty 

On the !9lh of May he wrote the fallowing record on the 
back of what he termed ■' a general plat of the lands belonging 
to the City of London, aa they are divided and let out to the 
Twelve Companiea, and aa they doe butt and bound upon each 
other I "— 



" The within diau(ht waa taken for the Book of the Surrej 
of the Plantation of the Counlyof Londonderry, by Sir Thomaa 
Fbilipa, Knight, and Richard Hadford, Esquire, by virtue of 
bia Majesty 'a commission to them, in that behalf directed, be> 
ginning the 20ih day of August, 166% and ending the lOlh day 
of October next following ; which book ia in tbs beginning ln> 
•cribed to the mott high and mighty monarch, Cbarlea, by tba 
grace of Ood, Ring of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Oe> 
fender of the Faith, &c., and ia now in custody of the Cooipany 
of Draper*, Liondon, conlaioing a particular account and survey 
of all the Twelra Fropwtiooa of the aevenl companies. Tbti 



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310. ifdEEa. 

dnnghtwai copied ftt mj deuie and ^i fi>r bjme.Augaa. 
29th, 1693. 

(Signed,) "D. Caikneb." 

TMiit B coloured map on piircbiiient,.bf Dnvid Caiines, and 
it in poEieauoa of Colonel CoimEs, at PoitsCewart, to wbom it 
deicended, with other lecords of the T^ffone hnncb o£ this dia- 
dngfiiuhed family. 

It ia recorded. in the jouraaUof the IrisUHouieof CommoDS, 
(or leas, that David Cuirnet, Eiq., with Colonel Crelgbton, 
VM member of a Committee of the House of Commons, on s 
petition from the Major and Commonaltfof Londonderrj-iprar- 
inglluit their conditionmigbt be taleninto consideration upon 
■CGDunt of their great services and aulTeriDgs, and [haCEuch a re- 
presentation of them might be given to the Lord Deputy, to be 
laid iMfore the King, as to the Mouse Ebould seem meet. 

On the 5th of December in tbe same year, Mr. Saunden re- 
ported, from a Committee of tbe House of Commons appointed 
to take the abo^-menlioned petition iaio consideration, that 
tbey, upon due investigation, had found tbat the extraordinary 
losses, disbursements anddebu, contracted by, the inhabitants of 
Londonderry, from and after November, I6S8, in securing and 
fbitifying the place, and buying and laying in of arms, and'am. 
munition } in subsisting with proviiiona of all sorts, clothes and 
other necessaries, those who were in that garrison for its defence 
during the siege ; in houses ruined thereby ; and for the maintaiu- 
■Dgoftbeplace, amounted to a great sum. They stated, that it ap- 
peared to them, that David Cairnes, Esquire, member of parlia. 
ment for the city of Londonderry, had been remarkably instru- 
Biental in first securing of the said city against tbe Irish, and 
Ont he afterwards underwent sererol hazardous Journeys for the 
preserratioci of it, and that he bad been a great sufferer by the 
•lege ; they added, that it was their opinion, that in regard lo 
these services and auSeringe,, which had been of so great import^ 
«nce to these kingdoms, and the whole Ptotestantinterectiitwas 
their recommendation to the- Lord Deputy, to lay the petiiionera' 
c«se before the King, and recommend tbe same in tbe most ef- 
ftctual manner to his princely consideration ; and that the 
Ticeroy dionld aiso take notice tKerein of David Caimes,. Esq., 



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InregMd oflu«,eMli,swviQBatc.Landoiid«'i7, huLbwudtuithe 
«DWw a f the flMsp, -audi bu-.oM of ib 

TlwUw«*ofCos>inati9, on CfaUceport'. being read, to them, 
•idend.th«bMci.VAiib()nri{bttiidH)oh rnenbcH of thchoDMoa 
Kigtit pbuKta>acciMipM7.1iiBi,.«tumld.atteBd tba Lord Deputj 
Vttb BB address- upon this wbjecv ud pieamtit to his Excel- 
Ipooy at'tlU of thais home. Similai proceediagB. vvete adi^ted 
at. die MB* time iB.«lWtitian.&om,theEnniildlleiieiB. 

On tba IStlvof th« sane month, in IGSfi, the-HauM of Codh- 
OtontBsMthe aAdtettto Loid Capal, fiaiou. of. Tewkesburf^ 
Xiord Depuly of Ireluid, but it doel not appear, that this strong 
KDcetsntetion of his daisis on, the gpyemment and legialsture 
fcad'Mif ftrouiabla nEBult; and bf an.aSecting pwsage in liis_ 
lAttnill and testament, nbicb wiil be quoted in iia place, there 
ikjto doubt of hisi having been, lihe Micbelburne and other dia- 
twgnUhed [bcd of this daT, treated ndth gross ingratitude, while 
«itat«s were leetored to iDanjr wlio bad justly forfeited them b; 
tfaeir-coiiduEt during, the Irisb.iraxof the Rerolution. 

Ip tbe year 1707, Caimee succeeded to be ^e Becorder of 
IdPodonderry, on tbe promotion of Robeit Roobfort to be At- 
torne; General, uid. he resided in the citf, where be bad some 
luuses and-otber pioperty lo.iigbt of bis firK wife, whose first 
naoiewas Margaiet Ednerds., He had before this time usually 
■esided at Kiiockmany and Cloneblaugh, in tbe county of 
^^roDe,.ta tbe njinialet. of which, tbe Bev. Nebemisb Donald- 
flon, whom be uiually , beard whilst there, be left a gold ring by 
Ilia last will and testament, leaving, similar marks of regard to 
others, and among them to tbei Rev. Samuel Boss, whose bouse 
of. worship ha uaually aUended when in Londonderry. 

The. will of this distinguished^estlemanJa a voluminous one. 
JdieEtraUifrom the j^refbce and conclusion of which will be ap' 

ytOpriUe.: 

'^IjDarid CaimeB,af tba city of Loodonderry, Esq., being 
at _ prase W. wider much weeluiesB and indisposition of body, but 
of Mund nund and.iaeo)oi7,/or.wbLcb. I bless tbe Lord, beseech- 
ing Uim graciously to gjiide-and. direct me in what I am now 
ab0iU^.wdii),aUtW.eanCBtDa me,, that I ma^ bave always H!a 
■BBwhation tbtfftiHi, wi tbs testitun>f of a gdod conscience 



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tointrdt God and tnin, u the belt groand of my own (olidpcaecj 
eomforl ud luppoit, in ill I mm dcHng here upon eartli. Bat 
being Terjienmble of mj own frailty, and the great uncertaintj 
of life, and of all temporal enjoyment*, and that inj timet axo 
in Ood'i handi, who hsa fixed the date and period tberetrf' ia 
Hia own leeret parpow, hat require! lu to watch and be ready 
for Hii call, which comei after He bai fi»ew«nied at, at an 
hour we expect not Having in November laat, 1736, about 
the middle thereof, finiihed, a« I compnte, and teeomplished 
full aereni; and HTe yean npon eaitb, and entered into the se- 
venty and aixlh year of my age; baring, ai I may truly m^ 
bad for the moat part a very lojoDraing and diBcurrent time of it 
all along, aeldom long fixed in any place, but Invening oft to 
and fro, in and through theie kingdom! of England, Scotland, 
and Ireland, yet still, by the Divine power and goodneti of Ood, 
mercifully preaerved, and that many time! in very great and li;. 
nal dangera. I need not here enlarge on having been to well 
knowD to many, which I hope 1 faave nei'er forgotten, but vltb 
all ihtnkfuIncH remember and a^nowtedge, and not knowing 
how near my frail life may be to an end, but dedring, ai mj 
duty, and aa in proafwct of roy change, to aet my afiairt and coik 
cemt in what order I can at thii lime, do make and ordain thia 
my labt Will and Testament, Ihlt nineteenth day of October, 
1721, at folloireth, whentoever it tball plcate my graciotu 
Qod and heavenly father lo remove me hence by death, fet 
which I humbly beieech him to prepare me, and that all hii eaDi 
and warning! to me, in that respect, may ever have their doa 
Influence and effect upon me. I desire, J say then, to give np 
and commit mj departing toul into fait moit gracioua bands, who 
hat dealt with me, I most humbly and thankfully acknowledge, 
in great tendemett, mercy, and favour all my life long, thangh 
I have been matt unworthy thereof and given him maniftdd 
great provocatioat to the contrary, to m; great grief and sorrow; 
and my body, that earthly and mortal part, which Ood waa alto 
very jtraciout to me in giving me for solonga teaaon, so healths 
ful, BO vigotoua, and active a body as he did— bletaed be hk 
name for it. 1 deiire, I say, to leave tbe tame t« be dealt wiA 
at tbe discretion of my cxecalcm hcrebafUx named, not with too 



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great eipenie, but in a decent cbKitian manner, luitable to mr 
Btation, repute, and concerni, beliering and hoping for a jojful 
naurreetlon at that great and atvful dajr of the Lord, when ifae 
Iwt trumpet shall Bound, the dead be ratted from the dnit to 
bear and receive their final end everluting doom, and a retribu- 
tion be made to the just and unjust, aa the]' and their iraja and 
l#Drki have been, and that l<hall then obtain eternal life, through 
mr bleMedand dearett Redeemer, the Lord Jeaus Chris), whose 
1 am, and whom 1 serre and adore — who came down from 
Iieaven to seek and to sbfb what was lost, end loved ut and 
washed ni from our sins in hia own moat preciout blood, in 
whom, u the eternal and only begotton Son of Qod, and my 
•tone Saviour, I firmly believe, and on his merits and media- 
tion do entirely rely, (or remiBiion of all ray manifold lint and 
iniquitiet, for my perfect and everlaiting righieousneti and eter- 
nallife; and now ai to what temporal estate it hath pleated 
Ood of bit goodness to vouchsafe on me," &c. &c. 

[Here follow many folio pages of bequests to his relations and 
friendti who teem to have been numerous, and he thus apolo- 
giieifor the amallnets of each of the legacies at the close of hi« 
will, which portion of it forms an interesting though melancholy 
historical docuntent.] 

"I did. Indeed, once think and expect, and had much reasoii 
fot It, to luiVD been, eie this, in a much greater and ampler con- 
dition ai to my outward state and concerns in the world, and in 
a opacity to have left my children and offiiprin^, and other 
fitnida, alto, much mote than I have here done, and might alto 
•oon have obtained it, would I but have bartered my consciencs 
fot allurementi of that kind, which, I blest Ood, I never did, 
nor everinclined todo; and had malten but any way antwered 
my reasonable expectationt frem -the stale and government, fot 
tkt faithfal and important services I did them, and the whole 
Ftotettant interest in theag kingdoms, both in the fint securing 
of Londonderry in December, 1668, that proved ofso very great 
cMiaeqiienca afterwards to these kingdoms, and the many sore 
Mid most datigeroui journeys and travels I bad both by sea and 
lamd, with many signal baiards of my Ufa in the spring and sam- 
met then fallowing, for the nring and preserving of that dly. 



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baingient Mid employed by the Honounble Iieid« of tlie Piuy 
Council in England mt that time, who bave amply atteated k 
under their banda and public arala, yet extant. All thew mabi 
tera, for wbich I had many good vorda and promiwa of great 
things I bad to be done far me, that never yet had aay efCeot or 
performatice, bat put me to much trouble and expente in mak- 
ing several applications on that behalf, without any efiecC. Z 
miy, indeed, truly my, I found but few grateful ot euitable »• 
turn):, either from the state or diveri other personi and peoplev 
I hadlaboured and done much for, and to their manifeit adnm. 
tagc, which I need here say no more of; but that how t myaelf 
and that city of Londonderry, for all its aervicea and eufbr- 
iugs that were of such high consequence to theae kiagdomei 
«ld ao amply confesaed by their parliament i, both ofSnglaod 
and Ireland, come to be fo strangely oveiloohed and neglected 
■as they have been, teflacU not a little shame on the honoar of 
these nations, ao that all theae Btsuiancea w^ich I bad ahould be 
buried in utter oblivion. And laatly, I do h«eby cameatly 
charge and eihurt all my oSspiing, aa if by their pareDC's laat 
dyingwotds, that lliey live and walk in the&arMid love of 
God, and in the Keadfau ohaervanea of bis comoundB, iforsbip, 
and ordinances, while they breathe upon his earth heraj tW 
they may be terioua and constant in humble prayer to him, and 
in reading the Holy Scriptures daily t that God may owa and 
bleiB them in all that Ihay do or set about — Uiat diey ainfaSj 
tni watchfully abMain from and avoid, eo far as they n 
can, (he sodety and inlinate convene with all ni 
-end disialute petaona and company, being of mticb o 
■ad pemicioua eonseiiuanea: that they aeaaaiace thaBadve^ 
and converse, as far aa the; can, with aobw, aeriou* and pnb- 
dent persons; and cnve from aucb, and eipecttbeoi, Aat if 
they, or any ofihem, comeito dieposeofthoiaaelveftiB mirii^jn. 
they do it with much aenousoess and eanaat pnyet (d Ood, tm 
bis direction and bleaain^g therein, uid wicli tbe ndiiiaa nf Itnii 
best and most faiibtulJiticada, leaC theyn^wBt it«U.(lMir Itiw 
after, wbea it is to* late ; that they liam wd Madj-fMi^M 
and submiaejon t« the gaai will a£ Ood, i 
tovarda them, and dealiggt with tbaiv, and ^m M 



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■Mitt one aaotbtr, and tk«f otljcr islatiotu u theit eondi- 
tJOM mBf afibtd, and is by aature they ought ; and be Bbo dM- 
nCable to the poor, icoordiiiK b> dieir mbilities may alloir them, 
and grow aot proud doc haughty, nor set their beaita iminode- 
ratdy on anything it may please Qod Co bestow on them, leit he 
blast both them and it. And I beaeech the Lord Qod my pre- 
cioua Heavenly Father, to hare them in bis merci&il can and 
keying, and to hleas them with his beat blening* from above, 
both for tirae and for eternity, and keep them from all evil of 
«Tery kind, and that (hey may be for ever his own in a peculiar 
aoannar, and that I may at length see and rejoice with them aad 
all the redeemed of the Lord, in those happy and blessed man. 
aioDs Hbove, when we have finished our course and time of trial 
here below. I do also heartily forgive all that have any waf 
iDJured dt oKnded me, as, indeed, I know but few, if any at al), 
that have done so, and I desire most eBmesdy that all may for- 
give me, if I have injured or given offence to any, which I should 
be very sorry to do, and hope they are but few, if any at all. 
And 1 do beieby revoke and dissnpul all former Witia by me at 
any time heretofore mode, and I declwe this to be my last Will 
and Teitament: in witness wheraof, I do hereby set my band 
•nd seal, the day and yesr before and above written, vie, the 
19th of October, 1721, and have alao set my band on one patt 
of the margin of each of these two sheets wheteon this WiU is 
wtitlcn. " DAvro CAiaHiH. 

" Witaeaaes, James Andeccon, Wiiliam Scott, Patrick Mac- 
key, ConiiigbamM' Alpine." 

Be died (as it appears by the registration of this Will in 
tbe Prerogstive Court of DublinJ some short lime before the 
llthof May, in the ensuing year, 172^ and his remains were 
interred in tbe catltednU church-yard of Londonderry, where his 
kokea tomb-atone remains, separated from his vioUled grave, 
•nd part of it is preserved tM the entrance to the church. In 
ISitS) it was lemoved fram iha grave on tbe building of the new 
WMiena hamt, mi Arowa behisd tb« gate of the baek. entranoe 
into BUhop-ttreM. A few line* of the inscription, of whidk 
Ike ftUewiag ira ^ifj, wna ndieB by the utiKK of these m*. 
iMini-. 

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" Hereunder wai interred the bodf of David Cefmw, Esq , 
coniuellor^at-Iaw, generall^r knonn nnd reipecled for the nunj 
and great eerricea done by him for the dtf of Londonderrj', and 
1(8 preietva^on and afety, when in ifae ntmoit danger, which 
proved to eondudve to that grand revolution wbich we had in 
these kingdoms in 1668 and 1689, with manj lore wound* and 
Ikuard of hie life. He wai alio for thirt; reaia" 

Here the inicripCion terminates, the reat of the atone having 
been broken off and lost; but tradition luppliea the reuiaioder 
<rf what it mmj have recorded. He was thirty yean repreienta* 
live of the cilf of London deiTf, in the IriahHouaeof Commons, 
at>d during that period fiJIed the office of recorder of the corpo> 
lation. He received the tbanhii of both booiea of parliument 
for hi* diiUnguiahed lervicee in 1638 and 1660. 

Tbia renowned defender of the maiden city married Margaret 
Edn>ardp, of Straw, in the county of Londonderry, by whom h« 
had issne one ion and two daughter*. Hit *on, Captain John 
Calme*, died unmarried before bit lather, at Newcaatle-upon- 
Tyne, on the 3Sth of March, 1719. Hit eUeat daughter, Jane, 
married Tbomaa Edward*, of L'aallegore, Eiq., in the county 
of Tyrone, her eouBin-gernian,tbe brother of Edwaj-d Edwards, 
of Straw, Eaq. Her iseue was Hugh Edwards, who had four 
daughter*, all of whom died before him, except Olivia and Uar- 

Olivia married Richard Oore, second Earl of Rota, by whon 
•he had no issue. She married, secondly, a Mr. Batenan, by 
vbom ahe left no i«>ue. 

Her younger aiater, Rlargnret, mBrtied Robert Stewart, Etq., 
of the Irry, in the county of Tyrone. 

He was descended from Stewart, Baron of Ochiltree, and 
Duke of Albany, in Scotland, and wai aneettor of the present 
Earl of Caatleatewart and of Sir James John Hamilton, of 
Woodbrook, in the county of Tyrone, baronet. 

Edivard Edward*, of Straw, in the county of Londonderry, 
£sq., brother of the above tneationed Hugh Edwards, a i-rand- 
■on of David Caimea, waathe grandfather of the late Major 
Edwards, of Rsveagh, ia the county of Tyrone, who married 
* daughter of the late Jamea Hamilton, aenior, Etq.. of Stm- 



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bans, in tbe eountj of Tjrrona, • telatire ot the MarquU of 
Abercorn, b; whom he bad two aona ; Edward, wbo died « 
tn^Di in tbe armj ; aod Major Hugh Gore Edwardi, wfao poi« 
aeaies the toirnlands of Calor, Corkliill, EEkengh, Larnagur, 
and RavsBgb, in the county of Tyrone. 

We now leTGTt to the collateral decendanta of David Cumef, 
among whom, numeraua and highly respectable aa they are, none 
contributed more ID tbe preservation of the hietory of h'n anci. 
ent family, tban the descendant of hit aiater Alargaret, who mar- 
tied Captain William Elliott,ofLiinaEkea, in the count; of Per- 
matiagb — namely. Lieutenant- Colonel John Elliott CaimeB, of 
PoitGtewart. 

TbefarDily of Elliott bod been long leltted in the county of Fer- 
Dlanagb, amidst the border families of Foster, Armstrong, Noble, 
andotheraplanted therein 1609. The Elliot ta had originailj 
been letiled at Stohbs, in Roxboraughshire, in ScoiUnd. Tbe 
above-mentioned Captun William Elliott was cousin-german of 
tbe lady he married, and also of the Right Hon. Colonel John. 
Hurra)'. M. P. for Monagban, who married tbe sole daughter 
and heireM of Sir Alexander Caimes, Bart, 

A descendant of Ibeae EiliotCa, of Stoobs, was Ocneral Sic 
Gilbert Elliott, created Oaron of Heathfield for his gallant de* 
fence of Gibraltar. 

The aforesaid Captain William Elliott disiinguiihed himself 
duTing ibe Siege of Derry, in 16&6, at the head of the garrison 
of Ballyabannon, in the county of Donegal, againit the Connaught 
tnajof Jamesdie second. By hia wife, Margaret Caimes, he 
tiad an onrly son, John Blliott, of Killyfiiildy, who married a 
daoghter of Sane Montgomery, Esq., of Springvale and Grey, 
abbey, hi the county of ^ovn, by wliom lie b»d li<ue one 
•daughter, Anne, and four sons. Anne married Alan Belling. 
3im, Esq., of Castlebellingbam, in the county of Louth, bj 
trbom she bad issue tbe late baronet, Sir Alan Bellingbam, and 
two otbei sons, Henry and William. The second daughter of 
the above-mentioned Hans Montgomery married Alan Belling- 
bian, Esq., of Castlebelbngham ; the third daugbter married 
Colonel Ford, of Seaford, in tbe county of Down, M.P., and 
the fburtb married fid ward Bard man, Esq., of Drogheda, M-P. 

William C*jrne>, a major in tbe 3UCb regimeot of foot, and 



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MVA-gcnnia of Sit Gi1b«rt EIRott, marrlcB Aiitie BelAr^ 
ham, of Casllebellingliim. liaCer to the Uce Sit Winiam Bd- 
ttnglnS), BBrL, and hadimueoneaon, John 'WHIiani Cairnes; 
married, ttatadlj, Jane, daughter of the Rev, Robert Heyland, 
of Caleraine, and had issue two iodk, Robert Mae niETMD, 
James Webber, and three daughter! ; the three sons, aforesaid, 
Sti unmarried ; Jane, tfae eldest danghter, married the Rev. 
Pbilip Le Gette, of Marsden VicariiBe, Maidstone, Kent; 
the second, tfae Rev. Mr. Grafaam Canierbuiy, and Margaret, 
the youngest, to the Rev. Mr. Bruce Craterbury. 

John Elliott CairriES, the next broibet of Major CainiM 
of Enockmanj, married, in 1783, Catherine, eldest daughter, 
of Wiiliam Moore, of Moore-hall, Esq., Eillinefaf, count; 
Down, whose younger sister married tbe late Desn of 
Sown, father of the late bighop of that name and diocess, 
and ancestor of Sir Jeremiah IHion, K.C.B., and the Rev. Mr. 
Dixon, Prebendary of RBthsharbin, in tbe county of Antrim, 
and had issue one daughter, Anne, and five Btmi, John Elliott, 
William Monlgotnery, Alan Bellingham, and Uenry Mooie 
Caimea. The tbird brother of Major Cairoes married a sister <d 
the late Jonathan Seaver, of Heath-hall, Nenry, E«q., andhad 
no i««ue; and Jamw, the fourth and yoongn bother, die4 
unmarried. 

Slrmia uiii., lint 8—JIIamvll. ' 

Sir George Maxnell, of Killyleagb, knight, it mentioBed in tke 
Armagh poem, but there is no recordof bim to be found ela*> i 
wbere. This futnily had been a distinguished one in ScMland { 
from the reign of Malcolm Canmore, in tbe year 1058 ; at vhub ■ 
time a chieftain, called Macua, possessed tbe tract of cooutl^ 
railed from bis family Macuswell, which, in the Upae of tioie, 
Terged into the name of Maxwell, theii mwtiMcient potaeiaioiw 
being in tbe county of RoKborotigh. 

Sir John Maxwell, tbe tenth in descent Frooi Macni, was the 
great grandson of Sir John Maxwell, by Isabella, daughter of 
Sii James Undsay, the ancestor of the Earli of Crawford and j 
Lindsay. This lady wbb grandaughter of Robert Bruce, Eii^af 
Scotland, and bet son. Sir John Maxwell, junior, coming ia|o 
posaession of the estates of the Lindsay family in tbe ibiiea ^ 



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NOTES, 31^ 

Lanatk and Renfrew, iraa a great promoter of the reformstion 
in Scotland. 

B; hia wife, Elizabeth Hamillon, be bud two »oAs, James 
Haxwell his heir, ancestor of the MaxwelTa of Caldurj and 
Bobert Maxwell.— (S«a Dovglat'a Pierage in Seotland, pagt 
52.) 

The latter came into Ireland on the came errand with Sie 
James Hamilton and a gentleman named Full erton, who were sent 
here in tlie latter part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, to secure an 
interest for the King of Scotland, on that prince's expectation. 
of Eoccceding to the throne of England. 

This Dr. Robert Maxwell having taken holjr orders was ap- 
pointed to the Dcanerj* o( Armagh, which he held with other 
considerable prefermenla in (he Church of Ireland, but he loat 
the high preferment which he had reason to expect, on account 
<lf his opposing a grant of the see lands of Armagh to the Duke 
of Buckingham, who had solicited tbem from Primate Henry 
Usher for one of his favourites. He married Isabella, daughlec 
of Robert, Lord Seaton, tlie representative of one of theoldeat 
Knd moic chivalrous tUmities in Scotland. Bf this lady Desft- 
(Uaxwell had issue, a daughter, Phiebe, and three sons, — viz., 
Henry, ancestor of the (emiljof Pinnebrogue, in the county of 
Down ; Robert, ancestor of the EatI of Parnham, and James of 
Sfullatiny, since called Elm Parb, in the county of Armagh, 
he mBTrif d Jane, daughter of Doctor Echlin, bishop of Dovm 
and Connor; Robert, the eldestof these gentlemen, entered into- 
boly orders, and obtained the degree of doctor of divinity in the 
TTniversity of Dublin. In the year 1628, be built bis house at 
Ctdlege-hall, in the cOnnty of Armagh, and be was rector of 
Tynan in the year 1641, from irhreh he was annwards Buceet> 
nrely promoted to the Archdeaconry of Down, and the Bishop- 
net of Silmore and Ardsgh. Being absent on a visit when the - 
smasacre of the Protesluits commenced, he escaped suSering 
pentonaHy by it ; but his younger brother James, who had mar- 
ried Jane.daughler of Mr. Norris, was with herinhumanly mur-_ 
dcred at Coltege.ball, which was demolished by Sir Fhelim 
'0*Neitl and bis followers. His books and papers were all 
iNiincd and be waa obliged totake refuge in Dublin, from wbenee 



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8S2 mm. 

U BMCced him on the thnina of hii rtnqwfl Uagdats. 

Of the wcoiul Mu of Gnu^ the uehk«^ bu J^tteC^ 
lowing record in hi* eoricMa book, which nM^ b« fMMd in goad 
condition amoog th« book* of Biifaep Hcykiosr nawinthe Dio- 
eeun Libimr; of Denr, the pieMOt tubop bwing gotit boond. 
Htdingiu aatem Outborau Fnttt, et filiiu Gfaini bom* 
mtgni et pmtuli* animi, cue cogilatet ■« fortiHicao pattN 
geoitum, elegit poliui honeatun eailii csoditiosaa, qnan a 
in pattil lerTituIem turpltudine conjunclam, nudnere. Mac- 
tamen, nobiliora Alisient ejus facfaiora, si in patrio solo 
VictitBuet, quam moio M>M inter eca betoaa qoonua teUmagu 
miranda qoam imitanda propouuntur ; liquideiB, poat Kditoa 
loDgc, latcque Diilitaraa iiinmphoa eiercitum aaraleiB in raeti- '■ 
enm mire a devicti* BuatiiicdMxiljitqae StBDaonttni. Id OoU 
landii, oppreMit. 

Fcigae II., King of Scotland, manning b danghterof the 
' booM of Doimaik, fatr btber, Onamc, went with her, and be- ' 
came general of hia son-in-law's army, wilh which be fbui;ht the | 
Romans with more success than Eugeniui, King of Scotland, 
who had been defeated and killed b; Maiioiua, the Boman 
legate of the Estal battle of Don. It was fai the jtar of one 
Loid 404, that Fergus II. regained the kingdom, and shortly 
■ftenraris Grame, wilh the arm; under his command, re- 
pulsed the Romaa forces and broke ibe vail erected hj the Em- 
peroi Severus, between the Fritbs of Forth and Clyde, at a 
^aoe near Dumbarton, sinee called Grehim't DyHt. 

After the death of King Fergus, be became Regent of Scot- 
land dnripg the rninoritj of hia grandson, who, an eoiDJng of 
age, made war upon the Britona for the restitution of his grand. I 
fltber, Graham's lands. He was ibe common ancestor of the ' 
Scottiib, Engliib, and Irish brancbea of this family, the name 
of which, in the anoient Danisb language, denotes the com- j 
nander of an «my.— AwAima tm (As Andenl Scottith Stanamtt, 
Giagtm, 1SS0. 

Tbe firat of this family in record afterwards was Graham, who 
witb Ihinbar, end the foiees uf Lothian, appeared in tbe lere of 
tba Dane*, when in Iwttle with Sing Indnlpb^ ■nDy, which 



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oecailoned that defleat ; tbiR, witfi ath«r nilneqiient occnirences 
of K Mcollar description, ^ve riee to one of [he fmnilf inattoB, 
■" AuUiante Vineo-" The neit vma Consumine Gniliam, who, 
. in the jear M30, married Avila, daughter to Kenneth, one of 
the mecston of the Btewarts. In the rei^ of King Dsvid I., 
William De Grahsm was one of the witnesses to the foundation 
ofUol^rood Hoose. His son. Sir David Orahnm, died in the 
yentofonr Lord 1270, leaTingiwae by his lady, the sister of 
Robert, Earl of Stiatbsme, three aons. Sir Patiick, Sir John, 
and Sir Dand Orahtn. 
, Sir Patrick, the eldest of these, me employed in several era- 
bMsies hy King Alexander III., and was killed lighting for the 
Ubctiesof Scotland at the battle of Dunbar in 1596. 

The second son, Sir John Orahsm, was the constant contpa- 
nton end bosom fViend of Sir William Wallace, and was killed at 
the baltle of Falkirk, in 1298. The inscriptiiHi on his tomb- 
Btone neartbespot on which befell, was. 



—See Old HaTTy-3 Life of fFnUact. 

Sir David Graham, his grandson, was one of tbe Scottish chiefs 
who was carried into England prisoners, and be whs excepted 
eut of the general pactfication made hy King Edwntd I., with 
the Scots.,— De*r<tt'« Peerage, Vol. t.,poje678. 

On the Bib of Febmary, in the eighth year of the reign 
of King Alexander HI., Allan Graham, with Malise, Eart 
of SCratherne, and others, witnessed a royal charter grant- 
inf to Gilchrist Macnaugbtan and his heiis, the keeping of the 
caitle and islands ofFrecIilan. 

In 1320, Patrick Graham, of Elieston, married the only 
daughter of DaWd, Earl of Scratherne, by wbom he obtained 
diat earldom. 

mis son, Malise Graham, Che second earl of that name, was 
deprived of that earldom by King James the First, but in es- 
dunge for it the king gave him tbe Eartdom of Mentieth, in 



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the jear of onr Lord 488, wbicli titla bu been daniuuit dnea 
1698, from tbe dimeolt; of asceruiniog the miila beit to it: 

In the reign of Kins Hanrf VI. of EnEland, Jobn Grabun, 
•irouncd John witb tbe Bright Sword, in loiiie diaguit retire* 
with men J of bia kindred uii elan (o the English bordera, nliM* 
tbcf becine a Dumeroas and powerful eept. 

The acconnt of tbe noble boasea of Montrose, Dundee, and 
lifodoch, ot thia family, btiag minutelf detailed In the Peerage, 
need not be inserted here ; but the following note from the joitf- 
iml of King Edward VI. records the imporlanee of the Border 
Grahams, from whom those of Ireland are descended. " On 
the I6th of August, 1530, the Earl of Maiwell came down to 
tbe North Border nilh a good force to overthrow the GiKmea, 
who were a certain family ihsc were yielded to me, but the Lord 
Dacro stood before hit fKce,withB good band of men, and go put 
him from bis purpose, and the gentlemen called Grffimes, skir. 
mished with the said Earl, slaying several of his men." 

On the 14th of Miiy, 1814, the lata Sir Walter Scott wrote a 
letter to the author of these noiea on this subject, wbich was 
published at length in the University Magaiine for March, 1833, 
detailing tbe strength of the clan and the names of twenty of 
their leaders in 1600, each of whom Lord Scroape, warden of 
the marches, held responsible for the conduct of their followera. 

The following is an eAtract from that letter—" Jamea I., on 
hii accession to the crown of England, lunished the Griemes to 
the north of Ireland. This measure tvna ■ political, ralber than 
an arbitrary one, hut 1 suspect that much of James's animositf 
against the Griemes arose from their constant adherence to the 
English interest." 

There vnsalaximposedon Cumberland for tranaporting them, 
the total of which amuunted to X408 10b. 9i!. sterling. Nicbol. 
son has publislied tbe names of those who were removed at the 
Eecond and third transportatians. Most of ibe pacticulara I 
have mentioned are eilrRcted from the introduction to the Border. 
History, and are taken from a folio manusciipt written by Rich- 
ard Bell, warden of the marches in the reign of Queen Eliz^ 
beth. If tbis could be consulted^ it might throw light on tbe 
subject of our enquiries ; but I could never leain.whereit u now 



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depomled, or if it In in eiiatcncc. 1 omitted to wj tlwt the 
King of "the gaUant Gnhun'i, which you mnition, kcom to 
bare been original]; written upon their deponatioD in IGOS, but 
•fterwaidi from a limilult; of tue name, andpopularicyperhapB 
ofthelune,it wu re.niicteo, and applied to the baniabment of 
MontToie." 

The leaden of the Qrahama on tlie English and Seottiih boT. 
den in 160U were, accotdioH to Sir Wnlter Scatt, in the above- 
mentioned letter — 

Walter Grame, the good man of Netherby. 

John Orame, of Aughboiue-well. 

Pergni Orame, of Sowpoit. 

Sarid G.rame, of the Millena. 

Jobn Orame, of the Pear-tree. 

The Good Man of the Moate. 

Toung Hutcbia'a Clan, 

William Orame, son to Hulehins. 

David and hrothei Andrew Gnune. 

fintcbin'i Arthur. 

William Orame of the Fold. 

William Orame of the Koae-treei — tbeee two had a great 
Hamber of foUowerB. 

Davie of Bankbead. 

Jock of the Lake. 

Dicks Davie, and 

William Orame GoodniaD of Meclop 

They were landed at Groom's Port in the coiinlj of Dawn, 
and proceeded in different direction! Ihiov^ Uleler, making 
their chief (ettlementa in the coanties of Doneggl and Ferma- 
nagb — two of them, who were afterwarda knigbted, got grants of 
land in ttte county of Cavan, others settled in the counties of 
Westmeatb, Loutb, and Wicklow. 

SHCTTISG OP THE GATES OP DERRY. 

The ISadantiivergaryof the shutting oflhe gates of London- 
derry was celebrated on Friday, the 18th of December, 1840, 
in a manner worthj of the glorious errnt commemorated. At 



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SSfi Twtm. 

tm ^^j bsoTia ^17 of tb* traitor Lnndf wm saipended froitt 
Oe roof of tkc Corponlion-hall bj tht Apprentke Bojs: Bsg|> 
were boiited atthe Royal and Sostb-vest baitioiM, on the Tta- 
tlmonial, and abore the Chancel window of the Cathedra), alto 
on Corporation-ball, while th»}of-hella were beard pealing fbrtli 
tbeir merry notei, which continued at interrali tbrongboat the 
day. Owing to ibe deplorable eiremn stance which occurred UaC 
AngnBt, by the exploBlon of a cannon on tbewmlh, tbe 'Prentice 
Boya, in a ipirit of praiseworthy moderation, eonaenCed to dia_ 
continue a part of ;the celebration obeerred bitiierto, tii., tbe 
firing of cannon. 

A short time before 12 o'clock, the Mayor and SberiA, Sir 
Bobert Bateson, Bart., Sir Qeorge Hill, Bart., John Dyaar^ 
Esq., ThomHs P. Kennedy, Eaq., Joibna Gillespie, Esq., 
Jamei Oregg, Esq., Hgrvey Nicholaon, Gsq., and other meoihein 
of the Corporation, in their civic robes, -attended t)y a freMnMin- 
berof the Apprentice Boys, a laif e body of Citiient, and a vast 
concourse of Proteslanls from the neigbbaaring districts, went 
in procession from Corporation- hall to the Cathedral, the R«v. 
James Oraham having kindly consented to preach, 

After Divine Service, the individuals «bo had composed the 
procession returned in similnr order to Corporation -ball, and his^ 
Worship the Mayor having been called to the chair, il was moved 
by Alderman Kennedy, and seconded by Alderman DySEit: 

Resolved — That a loyal and dutiful address be forwarded bf 
this meeting, congratulatri^ her Majesty on the birth of the 
PlinceSB Royal . 

Sir Oeor^ Hill then called on Mr. A. M. Alemnder toread 
an address to the Queen, which bad been drawn up. 

Mr. Alexander said he esteemed it a h^h honour that he had 
been requested hy his brother Apprentice Boys of Derry to read 
an address which had at that moment been put into his bands. 
Jt embodied the seniimenta of the Apprentice Boya of Derrj, 
whose loyalty to the Queen need not be attested by him. He 
did not deem it necessary to s«j anything to recommend ihe ad- 
dreaa, hut would at once read it. ( Mr. Alexander then read tlia 
■ddm^ and afterwards moved its adoplionO 

Sir G. UiU seconded the motion. 



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nooB. 827 

Sir R. Bateapn propowd— Ttxt an xldmi of coiigrBtulmdMi 
b« >I«D forwarded to his Bopi HighnMi Prinev Albert. The 
hononUe baronet «ud he tniitcd they would nerei glie up the 
celebration of tbe Shutting and Optning of the Oatei of Umy, 
and would ever bebqtpy to join with ihem in celebrating theie 
event), at hit father before him had done, who Sttj jean agOt 
praaided on a I'unilar ocoBiion. 

JUr. Jamea Qregg aeoonded the addreaa. 

A vote of thanks waa Chen paaaed to the Re*. J. Onham for 
the excellent aermon he hadpreaehedin tbo Cathedral that day. 

The Mayor having vacated the chair, and Sir George Hill 
being called thereto, the thanks of the meeting were voted 
amidst loud cheen to hia Worship, for hi* proper conduct in tbs 
chair, and for his servleea on all oeeaaiona aa Chief Magistrate of 

At the doae of^theie proeeedinfs, an excellent amateur band, 
composed of younn men of the city, played *■ Ood eava tbe 
Qoeen," which waa Kdlowed by b«arty applause ; and duringthe 
time occupied in burning Lundy, they also performed a numbei 
of approprisle aira with considerable skill, vhich had a molt 
bappy effect in adding to the enjoyment of the vast aaaemblage 
in the Hall. 

A little before S o'clock, p. m., tbe effigy of Lundy was igni- 
ted, amidst the groans and bootingaof assembled Ihoutandi, who 
continued to look on with tbe mast intense interest till the figure 
of the traitor WAS entirely consumed. Hundreds of fair facea 
likewise gued with anxious curiosity on the scene from the 
vrindowa of the houses in tbe Diamond and Shipquay-atiec^ 
seeming to participate in the feelings of the other sex. 

The 'Prentice Boya met aa usual in tbeii dub-rooms, and sup- 
ped together, aad tbe evening was spent in the moitbarmonioue 
and agreeable manner. 

Not B single occurrence took place to cnar the b^pinesa and 
joy which the anniversary brought with it, and the celebration 
was conducted in so decorous and gratifying a manner, at not 
to leave tbe sligbtett feeling ofregret t^hbd for any odiei ctute 
than that it came so quickly to a condusioD, 



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328 nons. 

ShHMW zxr, Knt 1.— A^ommm* aai Fmt. 
Lientcnuituid Adjuuni Newcomni, one of the family of Sir 
Thomai Mewcomen, of Kentgb, in the countf of Longford, 
WM taken priionei bj the Derrymen, along with Liord Metter- 
ville and othen, at the battle of Windmill- hill, in which Bri. 
gadiet-general Ramu; waa killed. But another of the family, 
Thomoi Newcomen, wlio ia mentioned in (his ■tunti, Wat a 
defender of Derry, and, wiih Richard Fane and oi hen men- 
tioned, eilhei eigaed the addnn, or were among ihoee who 
fought in the defence of Derij at this time. 

Lint 2 and 3 Lindiag, ^c. 



Armagh eaan. 
Tliii wai at the battle of Elagb. A Kkilful sDrgeon and apo- 
iheesr; of the same name was killed in ihe courie of the Siege, 
and bis death was a severe loss lo the g&rrison. Edmund Rice, 
Philip Dunbar, and Edward Rice, aie recorded in Wnlker's 
Diary. Kerr, was Eoiuetimes epellcd Carr, as it is pronounced 
still 1 one of (his name was ■ child, at nurse in & cellar in Derry, 
during the Siege, and he lived to be piedent at the centenarjr 
celebration of the 'anniversary of the relief of tbe city in 166iJ> 
— (See Derriana, page Ca.) 

■•LieuliniiiitKen, IheLiirdof OrKton^ion, 



Thij wga at the bnltle of Pennyburn-inill. 

Sanaa iiv., fine 5.— ffinnartoji and Wrighl. 

Charles Kinnaston iras (he Gftb, after Michelburne, who 
signed the Derry address in 1GS9. Wright was one of a familjr 
of that name, settled in the county of Monaehan, and possested 
of property in pcrpetuityin the neighbourhood of Balliiiode, in 
tbat county. Tlie present tepresenlaiive of it u John Wright, 
Esq., of the constabulary. 



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SlaoMa xxr.. Km 6.— 5A«rn>nf, GonuU, and Baana. 
Robert and DidUI Sherrard were imopjc ihe apprentice bop, 
who ckwed the gitei of Derrron tbe Ttfa of December, 1688. 

GameCt : there is no record of this nenn exeept from tradi- 
tion. A gentleman named Gamelt, resident in the count; ot 
Mealb, attended Che dinner at one of the celebruioni of lite 
Siege ■ few jeirs ago. 

Hanna. Captain Hanna, and otber olBcera, are tfaua ce1e< 
br«ted in the Armagb Poem, for their galJantr; at tbc aeconii 
battle of tbe Windmill-bill :— 

Tin liable Ciptiin Aitadld Ihem wlthiund; 
CmpUIn ArniKron(cuiiaboldlTiiptafi|ht, 



Aid Captain UuiH tot itautl} fought." 
SlatUM xzv., iint 1, — Lanet. 

Captain Tbomai Lance, one oftbecbief defenders of the citf. 
He died from his lufierings about liiweeba after ita deliverance. 
Tbe Armagh Poem rtjt he eame from Coleraine. 
SiatiMa ixv., line S Chunh. 

George and William Chorcb, Eaquiiei, gentlemen poaKtsed 
of coniiderable piopertj- in the neigbbourbood of Coleraine, 
Garragb, and otbtr parts of tbe county of Londcmderrf. On 
tbe 27lli of Ma;, (he remain* of Major William Ctaurcfa, who 
bad been killed on a foraging party ; were interred, and about 
Ih* tame bour the eatwj fired three pieoea of cannon at i3it 
city ; a tiall from one of wbich entered a window of the ealhe- 
dr^l, but did DO other damage. John, Jamea, Thomas and 
William Chnrcb, Eaq>g,,are tbedescendancsandrepreBcntalivea 
of tbia family. The hereditary retidence being Oatlands, in 
tbe eonnty of Londonderry. 

Stanxaxxvi., Hue t. — Obrt. 

Fnncia Obre, one of iboae wbo signed the Derry Addieis to 
King William and Queen Mary on the relief of the citf. 



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3S0 Moni. 

Slaiu»xtn., HtK! 1 — SUlu. 

Junca SiilM, wfcoalio aigncd the above mentioned addresi. 

There i« tm eridenM to connect tbii name with that of Sir 

Thomaa Charka Stfle, baraotl, the date of nboee title la 

April, 1637. The famil/waa originallT seated in Snffolh. 

StaitJia nvi., fine 3 — Gut. 

Heawj Ciul, of Colnaine, aUo tigned the addreia to King 

Villiani. Hia familr, which waa a reapectahle one, lived 

manjreara afterwardi in Magilligan. 

lhid.~Cnni. 
John and WilUant Croei, ancMtora of Ueutenant Colonel 
CroM, and of Hazwell Cro», Eaq., of Darton, in the 
conntj of Armagh, signed the Decry Addreta to King Wil- 
liam and Queen Mary, after the atege. One of tbem wu great 
grandtaCher to the writer of lliii note, whoae grandfather. Lieu- 
tenant Jamee Onthun, of the count; of Ferman^h Militia, in 
1742, maiiled Anne, daughter of John Croas, £aq., of Darton. 

SlauMa ixvi., Rne S.^Pooler. 
Kobcrt Fooler, of Tyroas, in almost every aartie made from 
Deny during (he siege, followed Colonel Slumy, and waa 
alway* in the thickest of the battle, and yet escaped an wounded; 
bat when the IHah army had commenced its retreat, on the re- 
lief airiTing to the city, he was looking thrsagh an embmnie 
in the battlementa, in hope of witnessing the long deaired d*. 
p«rtut« of thebeiicgingarniy, a tandom abot from one of time 
who had lingered in the rear, stiaek him on the head attd kttled 
Um vn the spot, — the laat man ilaia at the Siege of Datryv— 
8*» aimrti BMcn/ itf Armagli. 

Slattaa ixri., liat i, — CMhrmu. 
Cqitaio Codtaa, of Bsllytath, iirthe eonnty of Aiaaagk, wW 
preterred the poem so often quoted in tbna wMea : it TUBTJatwl 
of fifty parts, of which eight baia been lost in a moat interest- 
ingpart of i^ The Tenification is below mediocrity, obviously 
from the pen of an illiterate man, bat the matter, corroborated 



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NOTBi. 381 

M it ii trf other antboritiea, ii of such a description, is to be 
well worfbf of preiervition, as has been attempted In tbis cRta- 
logne, a difficult (ssb from the uncouChness of many namea to 
he arranged id verse. 

Captain Cochrtn signalized bimKlfBTeHtlf in the defence of 
Senj, particulailj in the battle of FennjbuTn-milJ, and in a 
desperate sortie from the walls of the city. His natne is to tbe 
congratulatory address to King William and Queen Marj. He 
BBTvived the war and returned to his farm, wbvre be died sud- 
denly in one of his own fields with his sword half drawti. Hia 
body nas found by one of his old companions in arms, who ll 
■aid to have eiclaimed on (he occasion, that " Death must have 
taken Mm tieacberously, for if John Cochran bad got but time 
to draw the remainder of his sword from the scabbatd, he would 
bave killed Death himself." The ingenious historian of Armagh, 
ftom whose work ( History of that City) thia account has been 
taken, qnotes these old lines in reply to the eifclamatlon on 
Cochran's death : — 

<■ WhokilM KlIdBre.—KbodiredKildjretcUU? 
Quib kUltd KlMHre, "ho d-reil fcUl *kam be will." 

The lines in the Armagh Poem, which celebrate Cochran, 



A lUD dial and some plate, vhich had belonged to Captaia 
Cocbtnn, and bote his name, were dug up about fifty years ago 
in BaUytatb. 

Slunma izvi., line 6.~-Nobk. 
Cqitain Nobie, of Lianaikta, in the county of Fermanagh, 
waa one of tbe most activa officera engaged in the defence of 
Derry. He was fornnosl in almoat STfiy aaUy from tbe d^. 
On the 8th of May be went with Captain Cunninghaiu, and • 
large party of the garriian, to Creggan, where they met tlM 
enemy, and were nearly surrounded before they were awan of 
their danger, Cunningham and feveral of his men wer»>iur- 



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332 NOTxa. 

dcrcd ■ftrr quarter bad been giren to them, and many were 
iTounded, wvenl of wbom died in a few day*. Noble etcaped 
unbaii. 

Slanta xvA. — Mmro. 

Colonel Monro commanded one of the re|pmenti raited in 
Derry at tbit lime, II contained twelve comptnjei. — Stt Hitlorg 
fftht Siege, p. 137. 

StattMn xitH., fiae 1 Xfiehi&ume. 

Colonel John Micbelburne, joint governor of tbe City of 
Londonderry, with tbe Rev. George Walker. He wasgrandion 
of Sir Bicbard Michelbume of Broidheart, Stanmore, in Ifaa 
County of SuBsei, and diBtinguinhiid bimaell highly, not only 
In the defence of Derrf but llirougli the whole coune of the 
Var. For sn arcounl of hia great lervices. tee the History of 
the Siege of Derry, and the Hislory of Ireland, from the relief 
of that Cily in 1689, to the Suirendec of Limerick in 1691- 
Curry and Co., Dublin, 1829 and 1639. 

He had thanka, and only thanks, from King Willinm for his 
invaluable leivicei, and bia great lufferings in tbe course of the 
levolution. He wbi falcely Recused of bsFing plundered lome 
toivns after he bad taken Sligo by storm, and two of his own 
officers were his accusem, who employed one Ceorge Rob, a 
tobacco meicbuil in Deiry, Co go to Dublin and complain of 
hint to the Lord Lieattnant, when ibey could get no magisliale 
in the citf or neigbboDihood to receive tbeirinformationaagaintt 
Mm. 

After much trouble the re«ult proved highly favorable to htm, 
and testimonlea greatly to his credit were aigned, and sent to the 
government by tbe maf ora and other influential persons, reaiden^ 
in Londonderry and Coleraine, on February 3, 1690. 

fie made HBveral journies to London, soliciting in vain for 
tbe expected rr-imhursement of his own eipendiEare, and thit 
«f hi« gallant fella w-sufferera in defending Derry, and to con- 
tributing in a high degree to the settlement of William and Mary 
on tbe throne. Upon one occasion he vas induced to stay in 
Idndon long enough to contract a debt, for which be aoflleied 
confinement in (he Fleet Ptiton, 



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He died, hoireTer, in good drcunHtonce* from hit primte 
means, at Us house on the walec side, near Derr^, on the 1st 

, of October, 1721, in Che T6th jear of his age, de&lring his 
temains to be inlerred in the church>yard of Eiiagb, a request 
not complied wilb, for they were buried in Clondermot, where, 
in place of worn out moss grown lombatonea, the Irish Society 
1iaT« lately erected handsome monuments to honour his memoTy 
and that of his feilow.soldier, Colonel Murray. 

He le(i £nme legncies to the poor, and one for the ringing of 
the bells of (he CmhedrBl of Derry on the anniierwries of the 
Siege. It is said that these intenlions have been frustrated, 

;; 'and that the legacy has been lost by neglecc 

Slanta xxni., line 2.— Batter. 

Colonel Henry Baker, governor of iiondonderry, who died 
in that command, on the 3flih of June, 1689, deeply deplored 
In the city. In 1575, Sorley Buy Maedonnell, of Dunhice, 
attacked the Entlish prrison at Carrickfergn*, with a company 
of Scots ; he sleiv Captain Baker and his Lieutenant, forty 
■oldiers, and come inbahilanta of the town. Sir Henry Sidney, 
however, marching to the relief of the town, on the 19th of 
October, in the above-mentioned year, brought Sorley Buy to 
term* of agreement and submission. 

The remains of Colonel Baker were buried in one of the 
vault! nnder the Cathedral, the pall being borne at the funeral 
by governors Walker and Michelburne. Colonels Iinnce and 
Campbell ; the Rev. Seth Whittel, Rector of Botlyseunen, 
preached tbe funeral sermon. History of the Siege, p. 203. 

Slatuca xini,, lineS Lard Latriaii htir. 

Dalivay Clements, anceitorof Lord Leitrim,oneaf those who 
signed the Derrj Addies* to King Wllliaat and Queen Mary. 

Ibid— Blair. 

James Blair, who also signed the above-mentioned addrem. 

Tbe Proteatantt at Fagivie, under the command of this Cap- 
tun Blair, beat hack aome of the Irish who bad cromed the 
livct OiBtt.—Hiitory o/lht Sieg*, pagiTO, 



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iRncm ixvii,, lau 5. — ArfOtfW. 

Cbirlet ForteKue, Esq., eldeit ion of Sir Tboinas ForteicDe, 
of Dromiskn, Esq. He wbi for (oine time colonel of a r^- 
tnent of foot, and accounted one of the best urocdsEnea in Ire- 
kna. 

In the early part of the ceign of James II. he resided at Do- 
lughmore, in the county of Down, from which he was drawn by 
the commotions that ensued ; and aftei be had been plundered 
mi stripped of almost all his substance, he raised a troop of 
dragoons at bis own expense, with whom he marched to Londoo- 
den7, in defence of which city be continued until within eight 
days of its relief, when be died of dysentery, occasioned by the 
misery and diatresseB of tbe siege, 

lAnt e.—SiacUtir. 

The Rer. John Sindair, of Holy Hill, rectoT of Leckpa- 
triclc, in the caanty of Tyrone, and of Agbsnuncion, in the 
county of Donegal. He was son of the Rev. James Sinclair, 
ncUt of the former of these parishes, who was the second stm 
of Sir James Sinclair, of Caithness, and married Anne, daugh. 
ter of James Gslhraith, Esq., member of parliament for the 
borough of St. Johnstown, in the county of Dooegal. 

On the 3l9t of March, 16B9, Mr. Sinclair was one of those 
.who, with the goi'emor and BheriSs of Londonderry, sigoed k 
declaration of union contradicting a report, that he, with Logcd 
Blaney, Sir Arthur lUwdon, Lieutenant- colonel Maxwell and 
Others, had resolved to take protection from the Irish, and de- 
aert the general service for the Protestant interest. 

His church at Leckpatrick, with the ailjoining vilhtge of Bal- 
lymagorry, was burned by James'i recreating army, aad the boose 
of Holy Hill narrowly esciqped the same fate. 



Alexander and Archibald Sanderson signed the Address f^om 
Deiry to King William and Queen Msr; on the relief of Uie 
city. Some of thur descendant* reside in the neighbourhood of 
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Horace Eennedj, one of the sheriffi or the citr, during the 
■iBBe& leadiDgmaa in it ; thut mentioned in tbeArniB|[hPo«m— 

And moHd the cswicl) •ome nUtf M NDiL 

He was ancntot of the late Rev. J. Pitt Kennedy, and of 
Conoll; Slcipton, Eiq. 

Line7.—Aih, 

Captain Thomas Ash, anceatoi of William Ash, of Aihbrook, 
Esq.. He wrote a Brief Journal of this Siege, which vss pub- 
liihed by bis grandsughter in 1792, and is now out of prin^ 
■carcely a copy of it to be had. Upwards oF fire hundred par- 
eons aubicri'ied Co it. Ii appears from it, that the author was at 
Serry in 1G71 ; that the gaal oier Ferry-quaj Gate was built in 
167S ; the city prison before that, having been over Butcher's 
CFaCe; that the magazine, then called O'Dogbeity's Castle, had 
been built two or three hundred years before. 

Stanxaxxv^,, line 1. — Croflon. 

Riehard CroFton was the first man, after Governor Michel. 
bnrne, who signed the address to King William and Queen 
Idary after the relief of Londonderry. 

Line I — CatBpiie. 

Henry Campsie also signed the address. Tiiis family was a 
mercantile one in Derry ; some copper coins, with their names 
impreised on them, have been fi>and in the city, and a (ownlond 
on the river Fanghan is called by their name. 

John Campsie was mayor of Londnnderrj in 168B, until the 
l2thof October, when he was displaced bf Tyreoauet to make 
way for Cormick O'Neill, of Brougbshiuie, in the county of 
Antrim. Henry Campsie was one of the apprenlioe boys who 
Ami the gate* against Lord Antrim's re^menC and he wai 
wounded by one Linegar, a suspected n)an, wbei^ endeavouring 
to aecute the magazine. This was the first blood shed in Deny 



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on this memonbls oecaiiwi, and it kindled great indigtwUoa 
tbtre, 

ZJM 2.— /ruii<. 

AlexindeF Irwine, one of the (biriecn apprentice boyi nlio 

■but the gate* of Derty on the 7ih of December, 1 688. The 

Armagh poet that mentioni blm and otben, whow names I 

take thii opportunity of recording : — 

In a few days tbe governor send) forth 

Full fifteen hundred aoldiers to tbe north 

Of Cregganbum, and this undeuDted band 

I^oble and Cunningham conjoined command ; 

The fort towards Jnch thej seized with matchles* fiirce. 

But were surprised by Galmoy's troop of horee. 

Thirty etout men in this aSkir were lost, 

And in brave Cunningham alone a host; 

A prisoner on articles, the Ibe 

£roke trust and martial law, and laid him low,— i 

In many a bloody fray, ieverelj tried, 

By a base murderer the hero died. 

Such deed* as these, grown frequent, caused disgust. 

And no man would an Jrisb promise trust- 

Meantinte brave Noble malcei a safe retreat. 

At Faitbrook hall tbe erieuiy we beat. 

And burn their fascines, there the strong Monro 

Cut down an Irishman at every blow. 

Irvine, a CBptain, admirably fought. 

Until he was disable by a shot ; 

Hiifiitber, brave Sir Gerrard, dead and gonp. 

Had beenrenowned for worth in forty-one, — 

The bolts and liars of Londondeny gaol, r 

To keep him captive proved of no arail, 

When Coote fpr loyally a aenteiKe gave. 

Which doomed Fermanngh's hero to the gravo. 

The foe oat worsted men began to cbaee. 

And toward tbe city they Tetrrnt apace. 

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A tttDcb began kcron tbe bo^r moor. 
Jt grieved our geneni't great heirt and loul 
To we tbem at this work withoat control ; 
He therefore led three tbouund loldiers out. 
And beat them in a liico from the redoubt. 
And cleared tbe trencbei ; but aoice troopi of bone 
In turn repelled thereby their greater force : 
Three tiroes our general the Cienchet gained, 
Aod on our tide success, would have remained, 
Had not bold Wnucop, witb a fresh (upplj. 
Compelled our forces to ihe town to flj. 
FoTwbicb, because no timelf inccour came. 
Our goTemor for once got wortby blame. 
While in tbe glory valianc Captain Blair 
Witb our commander bore an equal abare. 
Tbit specimen of the Armagh Foem, somewhat rectified in 
the terai6ration of it, is, in the opinion of tbe writer of tbtl 
note, trulf epic; (here is no detail in Ihe Iliad or .£neid more 
finely so. It is therefore to be regretted, that eight pages oi Ibe 
bomely, but Talushle, original have been ]o)t, without mueb 
probability of being recovered. 

tfa* 2 — Hall. 
Albert Hall, a diatingniahed defender of tbe city, nuLtemal 
•nceslOT of John Cbambereand tbe late Hall C|iamber«, of Dab- 
lin, Esqrs. He died on tbe SSth of April, 1701, aged forty-eifht 
jears, and was Interred in the nthedral churcb-yard of Derry, 
wbere a bandaome monument baa been erected over hi* remaiiw. 
Linti. — Barrs. 

John Barry ma one af eighteen wbo set forward a resolution 
in Deny on the lath of April, 1689, to asaeinble and Gght fat 
tbeir liberty at Cladyford and the long causeway, neat Liflbr^ 
Tbe Prolcstanla of thia name attainted in James's parliament 

Eicbard Butj, Lord Santry, 

LaoretMB Barry, Lord Buttevant, 

And Richard Sairy, Esq., of tbe county «f Cork. 



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Williim Crookihank mi ODs oT tba (Inritt af Dbr7 k 
and Jbbn CrMVafaanlc in ■Uaan is lTD4i Thii hmiif i» atOl 
tughlj mpeclaUe in the My, 

LbteS Upton. 

Arthur Uptoo, of CmUb Upton, in the cooBty af Antrim, 
E>n., B lofal pTMbjteriui, married J)oiotfaf, dn^Certtf Mi- 
cbsel Beresford, of ColeniBc, in the oeo*^ •£ Loadnndmy, 
andbjber bod eight MM end ten daught^ Hii<M». Thomu 
WW recorder of Londondeirf, wfainh atf he iqirsHOted Id par- 
liunent until Lie death. 

Olivet Upton, the person mentioned in this Btaun, wu the 
foiuteenth perioa who eigned the address to Eking ^Iliftm and 
Queen Met;, at Deny, on the relief of that city. 

Clotworlby Upion, of Castle Upton, repreeentatire in jmr- 
IJameaC foi the county of Antiim, raising a party of men, jpinel 
the army of King William at [be siege of Limerick in I6S1, 
In an attack through a breach in the walla of that cjty, with tU 
forlorn hope, be entered i^ (irordin hand, and moat of the men with 
him having been lcilled,be mixed, mth the eaeny,- and tenaiaed 
nnder ootm tiji t)a a&it waa over, wbeBhewureoderedhimMdf 
a pnaanM- to the evmmaoding officer, nith whom he had been 
fornmrly acquainted; Hie brother John.waa B,cifitain In Sing 
WiUiam'aarmy. Hie brolhei Arthui dio.waa«ci«it«iD in King 
Willlun'a army, and waa killed atthe battle of Aughrim. 

The family wai ennobled by the title of Baron Templetomi, 
of Templetomi, in the county of Aatrim, ontbe^-flf AagaM, 
1776. FlOBi tbem the ancient fiunlly of H— t*»-n.M»j in 
Sillery, are mat«raally daaoiDded. 

LbieS.—S^rti 

Gerraia Squire, a leading man among the defenden of Denyt 
thui mentioned In the Armagh Poeni~- 



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UeierredMiui^ariiiiedl, and died on the 7tl> of Janniir, 
1694, leaving a considerable propertj. His descendant and 
tepreientative retided near Mauoi CimBingtuun, in the coun'tr 
of Donegal, la 1823. 

Line S.—3faJor SuJl, 

Tluoall wiOi one cOTwoa 

^^eednpon a form oS gvremiDent — 

Baker and Wa&er goTemors tbej chose, 

And fomi eigbl regiaienu to meet theit foea ; 

Tbe horee to Colonel Murray they bestotr. 

Him general in the tield they do allow. 

From PhiliphaDgh, near Tweed, his father case, 

A race well IcQonn to BQcieiit ScotCiab&aiB; 

Thenoble name of Murray is well known 

For gallant service to the royal throne. 

Caimes, of Knocfcmany, is hia colonel. 

Oom Meatb'afair county caicehia Major Ball ; 

Cocbran, Carlton, Unore, Herd and Muira;, 

Hia valiant brother captains to Mm be. 

The borderera did fill his regiment, 

IFhich to tbe field m^ noble coulee went. 

Armagh Poan. 

Line lt—Adams.ofStrahane. 

The foot in following manner they dispose : 
Baker and Walkercolonela they choose ; 
Whitney and Michelhuriie that honour gain ; 
To Parker, tbe breve lagimenti of Coleraine ; 
Ctofton and Hammil [he same station grace. 
These and the volunteers defend the place; 
WatBon'i made master of the artillery ; 
Two hundred gunnais in his ranks had he. 
Jftsiei Murray was conductor of the train, 
Oiu engineeT was Adams of Sttabane. 

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Captnin Thomti Caulfield, Ecrentli aon of Sir William Cul. 
field, Rerand Baron of ChBrlemont. He wu tbe founder of die 
family of Donninon, in the county of Roscommon, hii motber 
being Muy. daufhterof Sir Jolin Kins', hnig^t, anceataroflba 
Earia of Kingnton ; a lady nho, in tirenty-one year's widowhood, 
BuBered neverely from the Iriih inaurrectionn, and rebellion 
which succeeded the mssaacre of (he FrotesCants in 1641. 

i.ine 2 ChieheiUr /tom Dvitgatatoa. 

Captain John Chichenter, an officer in King William's army, 
who died in Diike Schomberg's camp, near Dondslk, in tb« 
sntDmn of 1690. He was brother of Sir Arthur Chichester, 
Earl of Donegal, hthet of the Rev. WUliam Chichester, who 
died in 17S6. 

Arthur Chichester, third Eail of Donegal, ccnnmaiided a 
regiment of foot in King Williim'i army. 

iwe 5.—Porltr. 

Robert Porter, who, accoiding to the Armagh poet, knocked 
the brains out of nine liish soldien with stone*, at one of the 
sallies from the city, 

Litte S, — LeiIU. 

John Leslie, who died unmairied, being killed at the bead of 
bii father's troop of dragoons in the battle of Anghrim. He 
was son of the patriotic rector of Umey, 

Lme 6. — Mtwarineg, 

James Macartney, one of the Deirymen wbo signed Ihe ad- 
dreuio King William and Queen Mary on the relief oflheit 
city, ancestor of the present rector of Umey. 

George Macartney, removin)( from Scotland to Belfast in 
1649, acquired a large estate. He wm a captain of horse. Bur- 
Teyor general of the province of UUter, and in the yew 16J8 
waihigb sheriff oftheconntyof Antrim, la 108, he, at the 



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N0TE8. 341 

btut of bit troop, prodaitocd King Willitm and Quhd Wvj U 
Beirut, for wbicb be wu obliged to Bj into Ei^Und, and be wa* 
Bftenrardi attainted bj King Jamei'i parliBment. He wm 
■Dcntor of the late Lord MsMrltiej and tbe familf of Lim- 
noote in the countf of Antrim, 

Lin* 6> — D«wniitg. 

Captain Adam Downiiig, a diellngulabed defender of tbedtf, 
snceitOT of the late Rer. Clotworthj Downing, rector of Leck- 
jiatrick, in ibe conntj of Tyrone. Tbe family btu been long 
leKpectably settled in the county of Londonderry. 

Line 7. — Spite. 

Jamei Spike wu one of tbe •pprentice boyi who dostd the 
gatei againtt Lotd Antiim'are^ment. 

Lint 7_^Mt>b. 

Jamei Spaight was lieutenant in Capt«in Tampkina'i com. 

pwiy of foot. His funily settled in Clue 

Line 8. — Snaiung. 

Mieab Browning, captain of tbe Phoinii of Coleraine, the 

proviaion ahip wbicb, nnder the convoy of tbe Dartmoatb 

fr^te, bioke tbe boom and relieved the diitreaaed city of Derij. 

He was killed in tbe ineceuful attempt. King William lettled 

-a peniion on Browning's widow, and in presence of the court 

placed • grild chain aboat her neck. A portrait of tbie lady, in 

fiiU dre*«, ornamented by the royal present, was. in ISSdy in the 

poaseaaion of ber descendant, Mr. George Hamilton, late of 

HoUynount, in tbe county of lioodonderry. 

Slanta xix., line 1. — Bindman. 

TbH name rc«ta only on tradition. The writer or tbeie notes 
CM Snd no trace of it in the Diary of Walker, oi narratire of 
JHackgnzie. 

Lint 5.~DaUtit. 
A confidential serrant of Oovemoc Baker. 



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VsS IfOTBI« 

Lte B.— JTHtu, JfWr and 'SMy. 
rhB jntbori ty on whiah tbgic thia«MM**i rwt ia tfaitof tnfi- 
tim wid the ArcMgh Poem. 

Line l.^Baem. 

Robert Bacon, of Uigillifui, Eiq.. JUber of Doctor Banni, 

KCtor or Tuolightard, and other piruliM in the diocMi of Deny. 

SloKia nsi., Jixe I—^HBiUan. 
Captun Jamei Hamilton, afterwardi Earl of Abercom, lAo 
ma ibo bearer of five tbouaand poundi to Ibe DertjmcD, wad a 
•tMdy defender of the city, vben iavected Ijy an arm; com- 
manded bf hi< near relative. WiiUam, ibidrew, and Jobn Ha- 
mihon were among tboie who signed the Deny Address to Kii^ 
William and Qneen Mary, on tbe relief the dty. 

Line 3 'SIiMgBmcry. 

William Montgomery was one of tboae wbo aigned the Lon- 
donderr; Addreu on the 2d of July, 1689. 

Line h,— Stroud, 

On tbe lath of April, 1689, Major StnHtdoA MBeps- 
pOMli to GoTcniOF Lundrffr t^defeaceof ttiacity,.biit,aD 
DOtiee wu tdcen of (bem. — Hittani if ike ISegt, f. 78> 

Uaj«i Strond liad lome flandry at Oadyford, «4ucdL.|rMe ■> 
<.4tMteM«eoiMly poated that be cooidHt btingtliem OD,tbM«h 
be ,flan**tiy eadaavMicd to do ao ; Md in the ntMn time, fat 
^W«M of«iii>IMKe, tboae w)m had de£»ded tbe braaatwwkat 
die broken bridge wen abligad to fly from il, «iid wh^ tbaj 
did iereral troopa of the eaeniy's hone raahed into the river 
Mid awam aeroaa iti 

Idcntenant- colonel Shaw bad charge of the trencbea «iPM^ 
glenone, on the 7tb of April, 1669, where, after a vigorona re* 
•jttance, he waa overpowered '\j omdheri, uid the Itiih eom- 
pdled him to fall hMt. 



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I Line 6. — Tontig. 
iAmim Yodifgwu one of those who sigaed the addieM from 
Jhny.to Kii% WillMin and Queen Matj. Tbe hmilr.hftdbeen 
Jong (eUlBiI''Bt CiUdaff, in the baronf of ^nnuhMran, olvHth 
fnqtertr Abj veie the praprietBcg. Tbey are deacciidcd.ftoin 
K dergjDHi^ wbo was reotor af that and the adjoioing parish of 
£ioacha, -in th« raign of Charlei II. 

lAae 6 Harvey. 

Harrejr, of Malin Hall, a family higlilf respectable, and 
identified with the Hktmr of Ireknd Coring all the wan in the 
rdgns of Elizabeth. Jamas I., Chatles II., Hid James II. 
One of them was Gtoie-keeper in Deny during-the siege, and 
eminently serviceable to the garriBon. The piesenc representa- 
tive of .this ancient military family is John Hatrey, of Halin 
£all, .Esq., in whose possession aie lereial Tety curionw doeu- 
nenls lelatiTe to bis ancestors. 

iMM 8.— Ctoie. 

^liTiaine and Te^dence are recorded In the Armagh Poem, 

"AnanceMorof mine nas driren fh>m the ooanty of Down, 

M'tlM point of the bayonet, and Sed to Deny. Atl his ftmily 

were tnordered, save one little boy. His tHlhei carried him 

with him, and when he arrived at Deny he bad no cover for his 

diHd, bat placed him beside him at the embrasnre of the walls 

bedde the gtmt. It pleased Ood to protect the boy — and here 

am I, the hamble individnal who addresses you, a descendant of 

ikat child."— 2}r. CooMi Spteth at Belfiat in .Jmuorf, I84I. 

SUma MLni., UneL—Ltm* md LMkfu. 

'Andfinof U^h reipeetabiltty bi Deny. 

VoT QKed; uciHui iraU IMo ScoNwdi 
Out o/ihtlritDni aiiinpj dgUxinoilTed, 
Tbiu nil tbc uMaracB thenuclia bdwnd. 



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3M HOTBS. 

Aldcman June* Lenox, Majror of London deir; in 1689, 

And leprewnUtiTa of the citf in pailiunent, died oothcfltbef 

Aagntt, 1823, aged Mvenlj-one jem. Aldenoaii Leckej died 

in 1718> Conollj Lecky, Eiq. la hii representBtive. 

Lhie b.—BoMngton and Brooit. 

WiIliamB«bington,adeiieendiint orBTutiu Babington, Biabop 
of Deny in the reign of King Jamea 1., vru one of tbow who 
dgned the addreaa to King William and Queen Mtry, on the 
relief of Londonderry, in 1GS9. Tbe penona of this name at- 
tainted by King Jamea'a pari lament we te, Matthew Babiogton, 
of tbe county of Tyrone, Gentleman, and William and Uri^ 
B^ington, Esqrs., of Cork. Tbeir repreaentative is Major 
Eabingtou of Pottatewart. 

Line 6 Major FhiUpt. 

OM Ktioi FhlUpi, acbltriD f«t;-oiu, 

E ndured tbe tl«fe, «nd iritii uuihI wUdom tught 

Anmitll Pboh. 
SirTbomaa Pbilipa, of Newtown Ltmavadf, who bad given 
■ timely waniiag; to the Iriah Society, and the LondoD compa- 
□ietfOf the leanlta incTitable from aacouraging an Irisb tenanlijr 
Ml tbeir eatatea in the county of Londonderry ; and wbo, with 
Ilia tiro aoni, bad been highly dialinguiahed through tbe rebel- 
Uonandeinl wan that aueceeded. Uia aerviceaat DerfMe 
recorded in tbe Hialory of the Siege. He and hia aoni were 
Utainted by King Jamea'a poiliament, with Captain John 
Fhilip;, of Weatmeath, Udwaiid Fhilipa, GentleinaD, of Cork, 
and Richard Fhilipa, Gentleman, of Mayo. Hia wife wa« Alice, 
daughter of Sir William Uaher, Knight ; and bia only daughter 
roatried Chidley Coate, £aq., of Kllleater, near Dublin, who 
had been inatrumental in preserving tbe Protestanta of the 
Klag'a Coanty in 1642, for which he had Unda granted to him 
kflet the reiioratian in the county of Kerry. TUa lady waa the 
■notber of Sir Philip Coote. 

Line T .—Gadfreg of CiAenane. 
K«t him bfBia CipMUl OHiftej, of Cnlenlnf^ 
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Captain Vairen OoStnj irai a diatingulthad oflcer darinf tfac 
nege of Deny ; be etcaped Bitainder, but Sankejr and William 
Godfiey, of Tipperarjr, anceiton of tbe fimtil; of Ledger, In 
thateouniy, and William God&ej, of Donegal, E>q., irereat~ 
tainted by Jamea's parliament. 

Lina 8. — Jmmctt. 

Warfaam JemmetC, E«q., collector of Deny, and captain of a 
company of foot, railed for Ibe defbnce of the city in 1689. 

In lome yean after the relief of the dty he remored with bis 
funily to Cork. 

Witb this gentleman '■ name ii connected a atory, which might 
bam the foundation for an interesting laie of romance, or a 
comedy ; it is often told among his descendants as an instance 
of singular good fortune. None of the surviving defenders 
of Derry were overburthened with wealth, and many of them, 
like Colonel Hsmill, had been ruined by their palriotiim ; nor 
is it libel; (hat Mr. JemmetC had greater means of living tbon 
hia collectonbip, Thers was at this time a rich alderman in 
Cork name Browne, who baving an only son, in whom, as (he 
liope of his house, all his pride and bappinese vas centred. He 
bad taken unwearied pains in hie education, which, in order to 
render as complete as possible, be bad sent the young man to 
finish abrosd, and provided him with a tutor competent to direct 
the course of his foreign travels and ncquirements. 

After a few years Alderman Browne recalled bis son, inform- 
ing bjm «t tlie same time, that consideting him now, as every 
thing he could desire, bis wiah was to see him married and set- 
tled near to himself for the rest of his life. The youth prepared 
to obey, and he landed at Cork in no very pleasing mood, being 
greatly annoyed, but not daring to express his displeasure, at 
the entire disposal of himself, without co much as consulting the 
wishes which sU in such cases are supposed to have, particularly 
in early youth. However, alt the premium in these good old 
times was G>r prompt obedience, and no idea ofa contrary course 
entering theBrbilrary head of the Esther, or the confounded one 
ot his son, the affair had been agreed upon, and at! the arrange- 
ments to conclude it carried into cfl'ect~-tlie old people not 
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JiW M Hg It MM m ua j to cMMidt •nn the la^wMt-te^ into- 
«Md in tke aUter. 

Itnwon tfuSiMw^diT.rtdrffhwirrfiiTiBeMiTOe, whwi 
jtaag BtowaelMrfcdoDlliaqa^af ki*nBtlTeat7,aiiditriiHg 
that bis fBtbet lud gone to ctiurch he followed Uin to it, -iriMHB 
lie beheld in ■ Toung lady who mu iienliiin,ill tfasthe bad ever 
inutgiQed in bis youthful aBpintioni to be her to wbom it wotdd 
be bii beppiaau to be niriMd. Tiit, m he nmaiked tx> ln« 
tntor, wbo (tftl ■eoompaiiled bin, ooDtj^cted hja miiciT. Bb 
ynt quite b«d>ated, and tbe traditioii ii, that be nem took' bis 
eyei off Ibe beautiful apparition ; and instead of frilowiMg tic 
fttbcr h«Bi«werd, as hji dnliAil intention had been, be went alter 
tbt 70n>g lady, nntil be bbw ber enter ber (atber's hoHie. fie 
ihtn broke {br& into exclamationa agwnst Ub father wri Ue 
Jate. His tutor, who wai tbe celebrated aritbmeticiun, Votter, 
brought him back in come degree to a mdw of duty and fotbear- 
ance, till aeeompanying hi> fothei on the following day to Mr. 
JeuBtelt** boBM, fonnditto be tbed>odeoftHi affianced bride, 
ooe and the aame with hei wilb wbom be bad fallen in lore on 
the preoeding day. Tbe nanu^e- wm not long delayed, and tbe 
fint inne ot it was the late Dr. Jemmett Browne, wbo waa pta. 
voted to the see of Killaloe in 1743, truelated to that «f hi* 
■Btive dty, Cotk, in 174^ and afterwarda totbe Arehbiabopric 
of Tuarain 1775, io whicfaacehe rat for aarcn ^ean, and djing 
in 17S2 was succeeded by the late Eul of Mayo. 

The mother of tbe Aichbiahop wai the lovdy Judith Jemmett) 
whoee earliest years were pataed In the renowned maiden ei^; 
aAd Jenonett has been a faranrile ehriitiin name amonggt Ae 
Browoea. 

TLUaceonnt baa been oMIgingly-eomiiMnitcated to the writer 
of theae Hotes by the lineal descendaat «f Atchbisbop Browne, 
Uts, Stopford, wife of the venetable Aiekdeaeon of Atm^, 
foTBeily Misa Browne. 

Stanza ziziii., line l.—Parier. 

Colonel of the.Goleiaitw-Ttgimcnt, iriuchMBiiitedaf twrive 
companies of foot. He behaved inlh gaon treachery in the 
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■•Mai7''*'i''^'''i'S^- He-wa9<aBCKMed in thia ifnp0ttu)t««m- 
WM ^tiy Oatoarl "niooias Lnne, elf CMnune, in eAeer of tlie 
■ higWli 'tImkeMrfor eonfact and -coarse, wlo-ffied at Denf 
«bartl|f aAertlie wHit tbe city, ynxn down liy tbC'^ectt of 



Xine 2.— CanniBf. 
a wMi wr of the kte H^bt Monoiable George Canning, and 
of tbe prnxnt Lord Oarragfa. This ^ntleman raJBtdareginieBt 
oT foot on his estate- at Garvngh, in'llie connt; of Londonderrf. 
^Hc belBved tbraugli tbe wl)tle of the defence of tbe city >□ tfae 
moBt distinguistied manner. 

'Hh ftther loit his life in big own town of Oanagh imme- 
diateljafterlbe bnakii^ out of the lebellion of 1641, on the 
■•ame day with Coloiiel Rowley nnd six bondreil Protestinte, who 
:w«e killed by Sir Fkelrm O'NeiU'B insurgents in the rtreets of 
Gaivagh. 

Line 5 Morgan. 

Tbe Rev. Robert Morgan, cnrate of Cappagh, a Scotch g^- 
denan, maternal ancestoi of tbe late Captain Paterson, of Bla< 
gkeiafelt. 

Luie 5.— tFkite. 

Ci^onel White, wbo aucceeded to the eommand of Governor 
Walker's regiment, on tbe veteran's reEignation of it after the 
fiie^ofDetty. 'The&mily b»s beenlongoneofhighTespeet- 
■liility in the county of Cuvan, tbe family seat beisg near tbe 
town of Sed faillE. 

Line 6 dlfuruy. 

The first of 'this anclent'faidily wc find on record is — 

1. Archibald de Moravia, who lived, towards the end of tbe 

>M%n«f ;AlsnmdCT III.* The aaUtor vf the critical retnitrka 

upon Rugman's Roll is of opinion ttial this Arctiibald was de- 

(cended from the UoTayi, lords of Botbw«ll, one of nhom, by 

■ CbvtelsTT of IIewboU1e,«.-US. 



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848 mm. 

« Bwrrkge wUb « duigfater irf Sir DaTid OKbrd, got eo(Mkbr>- 

afale poMeuIou in that GOantrr, when thi* ftotlenuin wai 
wttled. Tbit ArchilMld ds MootIb wai imoDgA the Scots 
DobUltj mnd KOntif, who took the wth of feiltf t« Edward I. 
king of EDgluid, Anno 1306.* He died In the reign of Robert 
Brace, and teft Iwue, ■ ion. 

2. Roger, who succeeded him, and go^ a charter from Jaine*, 
Lord Dongiai, niperior of hii landi, " Pagen dt M>raria,JtIi« 
jirMiiJili dt Morana, Urrarum dt Fala," ke., dated Anna 
132l.t These lands were afterwardi called Filaliill, irhich 
eontinaed long to be the chief title of this tamBj. He died I 
■bout the fear 1380. 

3. Alexander, his son, li mentioned in a ciiarter under the 
great seal, from Robert IL before a. o. 1380, and left a bod, 

4. Patrick, who gncceeded blm in the landi and ban»iy of 
FalahlU. He died in the reign of James II. and was micceeded 
bf hta Eon,^ 

£. John, who got a charter from James III.— ^' JoAonnf dt ■ 
Morama dt Falahill," of part of the lands of PUliphaugh, dated 
SOthJaljr, 14ei.§ I 

6. Patrick Murray, his son, succeeded him, and obtained 
■evera) charier giants of land about Philiptiaugb — A. D. 1477, 
1480, and 1492 ill iaiue, 

7. John, his son and heir, and a daughter Margaret, married 
to James, Earl of Buchan, fram whom the Earls of Traquair { 
are descended. John got a charter from James IV. — " JiAatmi 
MurrBf, Jilio tl haredi <ipjiaFenli Palridi Murray dt Falahill, 
ttrrarum dt Gei-vasloun, Cranitoun, Riddkidak," &C. dated 5th 
Norember, 1407.^ Also a charter, upon his ona resigoation, 
to half of the lands of Phillphaugh, dated 10th October, 1506. 
John iras in great favour wilh Jsmel IV. who confirmed to him 
the heritable ahcrlBbhip of Selkirkshire ; which oGBce continued 

• Prjnne-i CoIImI. toI. 3, p. UB. 

+ C»«. In AreblT. ftm. dePhUlph.Ufh.andPre&cetoSlt J. Dibjufli'i 



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jtom. 349 

- in bii fiudi; tUI ilw fovemiDaiit aoqulred all moh joriidletioiu 
by !« Geo. 11. Anoo 174&* 

He married Lady Margaret Hepbnm, daughter of P^tiok, 
flrat £arl of Bothvell, wbicli U liutrncted bj charter underthe 
freal teal, "JaManni Mamf ie f oAiAU^ tt Uarftrtta Htpbunat 
iipu tp«nl" &c Sie. dated 27th March, 1511. He left laaue, 
two Bona and three dnnghten. 

Ist, Jamei. irha coDtinued the hoiue of Phillphaugh. 

2ad, William, progenitor of the Slairafs of Stanhope. 

I, This WtUiam married Janet, daughter and sole heireH of 
WUllam Romano, of ihat ilk, with whom he got that eaUtc.t 
He had iuue, William, who succeeded him. 

3. William got a charter under 41ie great seal — " fHUMM 
iturrag. filio il haredt Wiliitbni, inter nun et JoMbat Romaimo, 
lU etdtm proereaL~lerTBruiinit RomaHB, Calthorpt," &c. in the 
count; of Peeble^ 8th December, 1531. Be nuvried Mar. 
garet, daughter of Tneedie of Drumelzie, by whom he had 

1. John, hi* heir. 

2. WiUiam, of whoge posteiitf no account can be given. He 
died in the reign of Queen Mary, and waa succeeded bf bia sod, 

3. John, who mairted Agnes Neihit, and got a chart«T under 
the great Mul, tOth Jaouory, I587.t B; Mid Agnes he bad a 

4. William, who got a charter under the great seal, 16th 
Julf, 1612. He married, firat, Susan, daughter of John Ha- 
milton of Broom Hill, by whom he had a ion, David, after- 
wards Sir David Murray; wbo haling acquired the lands aad 
barony of Stanhope in Peebletihirc, he and h!i posterity have 
since been designed by that title. Ho married, secondly, Eli- 
zabeth Howieaon, a daughter of the ancient family of Braehead, 
by whom he had three sons and a danghter.§ 

1st. Adam, of whom are the Murraysof CardoD. 

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'9BD -NMM. 

"AML GMMa, vrlio eane^to InliriS, ano '10*6, and s«flMI 
•1 Ling, tn the coimtf of Deny, iriien, 'fn «<Idl(l«n to «tkK 
.pw ^i e rt y, ha b«Id a BoiMMeMhIe intniMt tn the tante eratrttd to 
1k« tJUnner*! Oontpaiiy, the lease «f wlileb paised fiom the 
fcpJ Ij tfboM 1065. 'By btt nrarrlage wWi Migff Maeky. (a^cotck 
krfy,) be had issne, Aiam, (the mbject of this memirfr;) rilMV 
wards Coloael Murray, who so dlitingntlhed himself during 
the alege «f Deny in 1MB and (888, and two dasgfaten, Hary 
and Isabella. He died a. d. 1690. 

The serricea of Coloael Murray, alliioBgh acknoirledged by 
KId^ 'William, were nerer rewarded ; it, however, ^)peirs 
from the Jouroals of the Irish House of Commons, that he dM 
aot'dafm any reeompeDse. He died anno 1690. and was in> 
tetred In the ^rave-yard of the old churdi of Olendermot, 
wliere, by order of the Hon. the Irish Society, a monument 
Vai lately erected over his remains, conunemoraliTe of his 
heroic bravery aad determined eieitlooa in forwarding the cnase 
of civil and religious liberty at the siege of Derry. By his tnar- 
risge with Isahella Shaw he left issue, a son sod a dacightcr. 
The latter enjoyed a pe&doii from the crown durioi; her life. 

Jamas, his son, married Anne, daughter of Thomas Pattw- 
MO, Esq. then -Prorait of Strabaae, by whom he had issue, 
two lOBs and « da^hter, Anne, who married Hercules Ellis, 
of Donain Castle, couoly of Antrim, Esq. and mother of the 
late H«nry Ellis, of Innlsruih Hanse, Esq. In said coanty. 

Adam, his eldest sod, married Hannah, daughter of Thomas 
RiefaerdBon. Esq. of >Bloan HUI, in the county of Tyrone, by 
whom be had issue, two «■■« >od ive daughters. He dteS 
■nao 1812. 

1. James, his eldMt son, mooeeded kis noele, James RU 
Gl)wrdi«a, in tbe BlMiahill property, and llied nnmarricd, antM 
1622. The writer of this note wm w«il acquainted withtttia 
gentleman. 

Thomas, his second son, at an early age obtained a company 
Id the Londonderry Regiment, which being shortly afterwards 
disembodied, he was appointed to the ISlh Royal Irish, and 
and died a major of that legiment, anno 1807, in hie tbirty- 
Kcond year. He married Bose, danghter.of jAadran Bsad of 



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naam, 'SBSl 

BoDd'i Hill, Bn, tommijU IiaadMidnTj, bjsiNni he bad 
iuae, fanr strnt, two of iriiaB loiviva. 

1. Adam, A Bedioal ^Brcr-in the Bvt loAa OoniMiiy'B 
■eirice; aod, 

2. Jamcg MiuTBj, «f BmhI'b Hil), in Ite ooiBtr Londoo- 
derrj, Esq. 

ARHa or TKS IfUKBATB OF VBIUVHADSH. 

The aras are blazoned thua — Argent, b hunting horn sable, 
stringed and garnislied gules, on a (Jiief azure, three atari of 
the first. Crest — A demi -forester, winding hia horn, proper. 
Sdotto — Hinc tuque lupema venabor. 

The acquired arms of the Stanhope family of Murray are — 
Three coats quarterly. lEt, the arms of Philiphaugh; 2nd, 
azure, three faizes argeut for Frazer; 3rd, argent on a chief 
piles, three crescenlg ; and 4th, again the arms of Philiphaugh. 
Crest— A dove with an olive branch in her heak. Motto — 

For the brilliant actions of Colonel Adam Murray In defence 
of Uerry, reference must be made to tlie History of the Siege 
of that dty, written by the author of these notes, the second 
edition of which, now out of print, was published for him in 
1829, by Messrs. Curry and Co. uf Dublio. 

The following is an extract relative to him, from the Armagh 
poem, BO often quoted in this boot, somewhat improved in the 
(tractare of the verses, &c. : — 

" Now Hamilton had got intelligenoo 

That Hurray's father lived not far from hence. 

Aged above eigfaty yeatx. For him fae sent. 

And brought tlie old man eaplive to hia toot. 

< Pray,' laidtiie laga, ' your biuinew with me tell.' 

' Your MD,' uid he, ' air, TontnMs to rebel 

Agidnit his king. He holda that eity out. 

Him yon i^y comttel better nithont doubt. 

On yaaUU gibbet rising to the iky 

Tour bonei dull hang, if be will not comply 

And yield OmMsto. Oo tell Mm bo or dw; 



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And bm f OD mntt yoar word of hononr p>wii, 
To bring hii aniwer o'er to moirow'i dawn.' 
Old Murray UMWer*. ' He will not dUown 
Bis doe •llegiance to king William's Uikid* : 
But ai 1 muit obey you, I will try 
If with such cruel terms he wiU comply; 
I found my ion, air, from his euty youth 
A paragon of Bteadiaess and troth, 
A scion worthy of his ancient line, 
Keapectiog law both humuo and divine, 
Form'd. mind and body, for some great design." 
In haste the veteran's guarded to the town 
And meets his son, then cover'd with renown. 
As on the street the youthful hero stood, 
His steel stilt reeking with ItaeFrenchmaa's blood! 
' Sou,' said the sire, ' this Bible in my band 
Must give due sanction to my last command ; 
Swear now, I charge you, that in town or field 
To Junea'a power jou will never yield ; 
That for our fciih you'll spend your latest breath. 
And choose with me aweet liberty or death." 

* Father,' Bflid Murray, as be dropped a tear, 

• That vuice I love so dearly wounds my ear. 
Imputing treBclicry or sluvishfear. 

The deeds I do 1 need not stoop totell, 
For all my gollaot friends here know me well. 
WhythentbroughdargerhaveyoumBdesuch speed 
To give me couqsgI which I do not need ?' 
' Adam, said he, I never conld have meant 
Such imputation, but I have been sent 
By Hamilton, to tell you I must die. 
Unless with his commands you now comply. 
Give up the town, or from ifa ramparts fly. 
But now, my long lov'd sod — my darling chUd, 
Who on my knee so oft have sweetly amil'd. 
Cheering your father's and your mother'a hetrtf 
I've made my last request Rnd I depart 
To meet, liie Regulus, an angry foe; 



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He may comintnd my InsUiit execution. 
But Muiray'i blood irill seal the Revolntlon. 
Jn cuch a. cwue 1 noald die ten timet o'er. 
And couDt It galu to die at eigbty-four.' 
*Staj,' uld a Toice, ' it>; Murray whli your son, 
Hil Tsce of glory it but joit begun ; 
Maumonl'g career oirested by bis atcEl, 
His iwords ibarp edge proud Hamillou ihall feel. 
lU Utb the maa whose cunoiDg could engage, 
In Buch a task your venerable age.' 
' No, no,' said he, ■ not thui ia glory won — 
i/ly word is pledged, a soldier's courae 1 run — 
Take honour from me and my life is done.' 
Then peals of thuodering canoon rent the air. 
And warlike trumpets from the city bear 
l>eSance to the foes detested arts, 
As for the camp the veteran departs. 
Repentant Hamilton foi^ives tlie frMid, 
II aach It was, and ventures to applaud. 
Without reaerre, a more than Spartan deed, 
Wfaicb well became a Hdkbat of the Tweed ; 
From PuiLiPHioaH this hero'a fotbers eaiee, 
A Hue long known in rolls of ScotUsh tame. 
Mo longer foic'd through hostile bemda to roam, 
A guard oF houonr guards the old man home. 
Where be was suffered undistarbed to dwell. 
Though by hit son the Irish aroiy feiL" 



THE BATTLE 

fd^U M SmUn Uorni^, iia if Jft^, l<N. 

"On Sunday mom, the shades of nigM Just gone, 
iy break of day the Iriih force came on 
In two divitloni^ well prepared to fight, 
Horse on the left and footmen on the right ; 
Haumont their horsB, Hamilton their fbot command ; 
At PenDybun Mill tbey made thelc stand: 



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The lounfl nf clnitm <nrtl tiuiu pc U l e u i l HJwlT— 

Ths flow'r of >n ktDg'3>ineg''ineii wv^-tben. 

Heroic Mum; faoaf eni to ifae nnnd. 

And ia like manner doea'hU-troopi con m n n d. 

Worraf Hke thundn-fiirinigh tbtirtqotAraa tntfte, 

A gaUant M omigitr fell at erery 'stroke. 

Manmotit did also witfa like terrorTide 

Ttiro' troops retreatftig rooDd on erery ftde. 

Both EquadroDs figtit wHb eqnal Circe vnd rage. 

And inclose combat mntDallyengajTc; 

Till proftrate bodies corered all Hk ihora. 

For both reserves had fled the apot before. 

Ours in the city their pratectioo flnind, 

Thein iras nnable io m&intaia tbeir groand. 

For Loddle brave, an Engliah bnccBTwer, 

A tfaousand fooRnra msrchiogin his rere, 

Uade the pro«id enemy soon disappear. 

In this pnnnit itout Oaptain Ttafe «u iHin, 

Brave Captain Cocbrsn did- that honour gain. 

LieutenHiit Snr, fhe Laird of Oraddon's aoti, 

In t&Is Bfiair great re|ralatlan-wsn. 

ThsstreKEtbBi'deat'd, MnrTRyanfl<UBi)nRnitmeet, 

Who with dire tbrcat'uiagB one another greet. 

For they bad oAm song^t eadi otlier out, 

Bat iffll were parted in ttte Uoodyront. 

They firrt discharged their pist^ m the tpot. 

In which bwne Murray's flery steed was shot. 

Tet the brave beast ne'er felt the deadly nonnd. 

But prane'd ud wbiel'dupao Uiefalaody ground : 

Redoubted blows they gave with sword in hand, 

WbnA the «mg annoarsearoety ««uld witkrtand. 

At last Uieir swords iu several pieces flew, • 

AbH wt&. their rBptert'theytbe ^trenew. 

■Tww then M amwnt bag«l t* bfatfr. 

And all tiie arti of borseBicuiihlp totiy; 

He wbeel'dfais horse. wWch then beganto tprnn, 

3111 ncAIe Slumy viade a qnt^ rMnn, 

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His fleeting «>u1'itMi'tfaefre«%ii»d exidr'd, 
Aod twiT great h«ro to the foot Tctir*il, 
"Where the; the Iriihmen had toundly best. 
And caused them all to make a quidt retreat. 
Brave Hnjor BI>Jr tke hottett Ire Hutain'd, 
And by great teats a reputation gain'd, 
TouDg Francis Crofton to the battle flew. 
And with his sword a multitude he slew. 
14oble like llght'ning fell among their foot, 
, Dualjar'a red coats loo put them to the ront. 
The valiant Cooke from Lisnagsrvey fought. 
And conquer'd manj who his ruin sought, 
lieutenant Rankin hew'd the Irish down. 
And in that bloody battle gain'd renown. 
Tom Barr, a trooper, wiih one mighty blon 
Cut oS' the head of an opposing foe. 
Two thouBond Elain the river side they fill'd. 
And many officers of note were kill'd. 
On our side some; brave Cornet Brown was oiaia, 
3Iac Phctrix died upon the purple pWn. 
Lieutenant lUackay fell upon the spot, 
M'Claland's son wag wounded with a shot. 
The ancient father did the Bon revenge. 
And with the foe full many b btov exchange. 
The parents vlew'd their sons' exploits that day. 
From the strong walls above the broad Ship-quay, 
For near that place upon the shore they foaght 

Then backward to the town 
Oor host retnm'd in trinmi* and renown. 
Great wai the spoil and plunder of that day. 
For all retnm'd'with some substantial prey. 
One bienght a pyebaM horse, which Colnndffl 
Foretold If taken at Pennybum^in!l], 
The Mdi might expect notnore sneeero; 
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Jobn Login vru one of thoie who ilgned the addrcM to 
King M'iUiain and Qaeeo Mary on the relief of Derij. 
itae J. — Lam», 

ThoiDM ind Henrf Lane alto lignud that addreaf. Tltia 
family bw been long and reipectably lettled in the cotmtf of 
London derrjr ; tbey held the Stbmonger's proportion of the 
county fot siity yeare, and one of them, William Lane, Eaq., 
of Coleraine, who died in 1725, «-b» agent of the Iritb Sodet}-- 
The native freehold of Ballycarion, in the hsbeidasber'a propor. 
tion, forfeited b; M'Gilligao in the rebellion of 1641, U now 
tbe property of their repreientativ?, Benjamin I^ne, E*q., of 
Balljcarton. 

Line l.—Fithtr. 

Daniel Fhlier ira* one of tbote who aigned tbe aboK-men- 
lioned addreit . 

On the 6th of Noiember, IG90, tbe &ev. Edmund Harris, 
regiuered in the recorda of tiaptiimi for the polish of Tempic' 
more, in nbicb the city ofDerry ii ailuated, which ii complete 
from 1642 in vellum, bound in oak of this family, record 
tbe Iwpliim of twelve children of Mr. James Fiiber of tbat aij. 
Same of their detcendnnta bave gone to America, others to 
Liverpool, and Mr. Archibald Fiiher, of Garvegfa, is the re- 
maining repretentativa of the family. 

Line S. — Ctmgngham. 

Tbit fstnily baa been highly reipectable in the city and county 
of Iiondonderry . There were thoiB branches of tbem Jn the 
city during the liege, all ardent defenders of it 

Tbelr repreaentalive is William Lenox Conyngbsm, Esq., of 
Sprjng.hil!, in the county of Londonderry ; and the hiaXiy of 
James M'Crea, Esq., of Londonderry, and those of Tyrone 
and Donegal are branches of It. Alexander Conyngham was one 
of tbe apprentice boys of Deny, ivbo closed tbe gales of D^nj 
■gainst Lord Antiim't regiment Hi* direct deteendant is Ur. 



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Aleuader Confngliini, cf Cwtleeoolej, neu Bern, in tbe 
countf of Donegkl. 

Lint 8.~ Curl's. 
JamM Coriy, ■ leadiiiK min ia Detrj during the siege, the 
lizth of IboM wbo signed the declaration of union there on the 
2Ist «f Mirch, 1689. He wu Bnceator of the reipecUl>le 
ftmilf of th»t name in Deirj, and of the Honorable Judge 
Torreni, the Venerable Archdeacon of Dublin, and the lale 
Sir Henry Torrens, E.C.B., whoie military talentv and volout 
tendered him ■ worthy deicendant of a defender of Derry, 

Slmua xixiv., lint 1. — Tonpkint, 
Alderman Tompkini, an opulent and diitinguiabed defender 
of the city, thu recorded in the Armagh Poem — ■ 



He Wat a maternal ancettor of John Barre BereiFord, Eaq., 
of Learmont, to whom pait of hit property bat descended, the 
reit went to tha Koont of Prehen. He died on the S9th of 
April, 1092. Some monnmenta of hit family remain in the 
cithedral. 

Line A,~-~GaAreigt. 

Thomas Guthiedge tigncd the Deiry Addrew to WilUaraand 

Hunt. 

SFtmuel Hunt wet one of the apprentice boya wbo dosed tha 

(EatCB againit Loid Antiim'a reslment on the Ttb of December, 

1689. 

John Bering «gned tbe Deny Addren to the throne, In IGBfc 

Liite .— Jftwray. 
Jamet Hurray, brother of the renowned Adam, wm lulled on 



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Lint l.~RadcKfft. 
Alexmder RadcliSt wu one of the defenden of the citywlio 
•i|^ed the addrett on the relief of it. 



a thejreac 168S. and peaceiWDK tbo dim&BSkid^ 
ctawa >g*ii»t the Proteatutti of Irehud, be returned to tUa 
country, haTingiold RtnopofhefM, irbkb hn hii nWitnM fpww 
the &at\ of Esiei a few yean before, and retired to hii eitatet 
tn the countj of Down, resolred to lire there unconcenied, 
u long ■< be could honounUf be >o, in pnUle aAin. 

But the latentioni of the Iiieh bceoninK obrieiw b]r |]^fe 
providing thcmielve* with Brrai, aad beiog alarmed at a lettet 
dropped in Cumber, which he promptly sent to Derry, in the 
beginning of Deccaber, 1689, he confederated with the Prote*- 
tanu of Ulaler for mutual defence. They of the county of Down 
choie him na colonel of a regiment of horse, niich thqriuaed; 
and he wa« veiy active in hit oppoEition to the army anit intv 
Ulster under the command of General Hanulton. 

After the revolution he was called to the privy ooBnciJ, «^ 
punted governor of the eountf of Down, made maMerof the 
ordnance, and a brlgadiec-general. The title hai been long 

The wife of Francia Mansfield, of Mount Hnll, in [he cotmtj 
of Donegal, waa of thii noble family, <he being ibe grand-daugh- 
ter of Sir James Montgomery, of Ballyleason, a distingoiahed 
vScer diniug Cromwell's tuurpaiioo, commanding a regiment 
of -foot and a tioop of horte, which he bad raised at his own ex- 
pense. Hia memoire, in the first edition of Lodge's Peerage, 
now out of print, and very scarce, nould fumiah admirable ma- 
terials for an historical romane. The iasoe of Francia Mans- 
field, ^p Klizabeth Montgomarjr, was a son named Balph, and 
a daughter named AnneUelena. The Manafields of Castiewr^, 
;n the county of Done^A ari of KUlcfordon, in the county of 
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[Slanxa mr., line 1. — Bealff, 
Cagtaio WUlioni BeatCf, of Liesan,. neai Caakstown, one of 
tbe moitactive defeadeis of Dctiy udcU diaabled by -iflmrmi 
ie WW obliged to.take protection in the end of. June, 1689. He 
w>s anceatoi of the late Archdeacon Beatty, of Moydotr, in tbe 
county of Longford, of Ross Beatty, Esq., of Clones, ^ia the 
county of Monaghan, thefather of Captain Vincent Beatty, of 
the Crow, in the county of Londonderry, 

Slanjia zxzv., line 3. — Knox. 
Tliia ancient family derive! its descent from Adam, the ion 
of Ucbtred, who ticed in the teign of Alexander IL, King of 
Scotland, who obtained a grant of ttie lands called Knoi, in tlie 
barony of Renfienr. The royal Stewarts of Scotland, granted 
also to the common ancestor of this family, the lands of Ran' 
firrly. Upper Ciaegaadti^nd Giiffith Castle, all in fee of which 
their family continued to be possessed until the last centory bnt 
one, when. they \v«ib sold to the £arl oF Dundonald. 

See Archiball's edition of Lodge's Peerage for* farther a^ 
count.oflliigfaBii^ whioh,like that of others, would be too vo- 
luminouafotthaeenotei. The Justly renowaed reformer, John 
Kuoi, the vindicator, a» he may be justly called, of the refotiaeA 
faith of Scotland, is said to be descended from this noble bouae. 

Andienjliecoild.son of Uchter Knax, of Ranfurly, enteicdintfli 
Holx ordraa and' was ministei of Fusley, after the reformation— 
lie wa« promoted to the bishopric of the Isles in 1605. In tha. 
jCBCof leiOhe was translated to tbe See of Baphoe, in Ireland, 
sndvasaoonafcerwatda called to the Privy Couocil. He died 
on the 7tb of Match, 1632. He had one son, Thomas, who sue- 
GtededhimaaBIshopof the Isles, and died before 1628, without 
iMiie;,aiid h* had one daugblci:, Mvy, who mairied James 
HeakiUb, Elsq.,, of Woodrille, in tha county of Donegal. 
Of thi& iamilj: waa tha lata Eight Reverend Doctor Wit- 
liam KiMI, late. BUboB, of Deiry, whose private worth and 
^inaa!;; ehaiitlMJWtly endear his iQBm dry to alldenominations of 
■an inkisexUiuivaaud populous diocess.. His only surviving 
bntbei it. tbe piMent Bishop of Limerick, The defender of 
Dst^meatiiinediD titia ti%uza of the catalogue was Alesandei 
Knox, who w« one of those who signed the address from thli 
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The Reverend John Knoi, of Gleulough, wm amoDg the 
clergy of the Eiubliihed Church who took refuge in Deiry M 
the time, and he re»d the funeisl ierrice over the remaina of 
CiptaiD Bell, who was shot by the incenied populace of Ihe I 
citj, when attempting to deaeit from it at the commencement 
□f the liege. 

Andrew Knoi, Eiq. wai nephew of ProvoBt Andrewa. the 
learned and eloquent repreaenUliTe of Xiondondeiry, in the 
Irish House of Commoni. 

The following tribute to the memory of an eminent literary 
gentleman of this name and facnily, appeared from tbe pen of one 
of Ma nomerons friendg, a few year* ago, in the columni of tbe 
Londonderry Jounul i 

DEATH OP AtEXANDEB KNOX, ESQ. 

We have the painful usk of announcing the death of this 
genlteman, at hi* house in Dawaon-atieet, Dublin, on the 17th 
inet., in the 71«t year of bit age. 

So many years have pasaed over since Mr Knox ceaied to 
reside in Derry, that there are now few amongtt ui who lecol- 
lect what he wai— bat by (bem be never can be forgotten. — 
Talents of the faighest order, cultivated under circumscancee of 
ill health and seclusion, that would have quenched an ordinary 
■pint, [early qualitied him for a disttngniihed place in society; 
and, during an interesting period, comprising tbe last twenty 
' yean of the late century, there wm no event, civil or political, 
involving tbe interests ofhia native city, in which Mr. Knox did 
not take a zealous and efficient part.-i~E]aquent at a speaker — 
(till more eloquent as a writer — hit tongue and hit pep were 
always ready (oauittand maintun oarrightB,u night be proved 
abundantly from (he early volumet of this joarnal, of which he 
wai a constant patron. Nor wat Ur. Knot In* estimaUe ia 
private life ; at son and brother, exemplary— « friend, fast in 
adversity at in prosperity — an adviser, candid, and judidoiu^ 
polite and couiteoni in hit manntft— loanificent in hla benefsfr 
tiont; above all, or rather aa the foundation of all bit good qnali> 
ties, Mr. Knox WH mi boinblt bat inn beliora in tbe Bknei 
Jetui, 



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Such had the ivriter of thi( ilutcb Ihe happineis of knowing 

Mr. Knox while be readed here ; hut Derry was too limited a 
■pace far such a mind u his, Hia character and abilities had 
been discovered, and duly appreciated by the late Marquig of 
Ijondonderry, As bis lordship's private and confidential secre- 
tary, Mr. Knox entered into public life ; and in Dublin be soon 
became, as be had been in his native city, the active promoter oC 
every good work, and the centre of a circle of friends, more bu- 
merouB and cnlif;htened perhaps, though not nore attached than 
those he bad left ; still contribaiing bf bis pen to the advance- 
ment of sound principles — atill delighting, by bii unequalled 
powerB of conversation, those ivho had the bappinesa of bis in- 
titDAcy. 

For many years past Mr. Knox had retired much from public 
life, and passed moRt of his time in the bosom of bis family, nilh 
whom be had formed the Etricceel friendship. Until the death 
of the late Peter La Louche, sen., Esq., of Bellevue. tbaC placQ 
WBE Mr. Knox's chosen home, its owners and inmates bis most 
beloved friends ; and the disposition (by his will) of the greater 
part of his fortune to Mrs. La Touche and her nearest relaCiong, 
prates the deep sense he entertained of tbeii unremitting kind. 

Some permanent memoir of this distinguished man, and some 
collection of his woits, may be hoped for from the gentleman to 
whom he has bequeathed bis papers. In the mean time, this 
prompt tribute to bia memory, taint and feeble as it is, may be 
acceptable to tbe old friends of Mr. Knox. 

Slansai ixxv., line S.^^unler. 

Henry Hunter, Esq., was one of tbe gentlemen who asso- 
ciated themselves at Armagh for Che Prince of Orange, in the 
month of January, 16S8, and he was chosen to be captain of 
Colonel Francis Hamilton's regiment of fooc 

At hia own expense, he laised and armed this company before 
be Taceived bis commission, dated on the £th of February, 1G88. 

Ob the mnrebing of Oeneral Hamilton's army towards the 
North, Captain Hunter was posted with bis company at Maikel- 
Ml, to rescue and bring off the Frotestonuof (hose paits, which 



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lie leeompUthecl, and wt tfaem md tkat findliei «afe tmr 
Knock.t«idga, sa tfac rlmBuiD, into a Mfac cooatr^ tlwB that 
ttota whwti be bad Iwoiight then ; die inbibitaiiti of aaaf ^s- 
tricta around them being memben of tlie Chuith of Bone. Ib 
performing tlila lervioe he mnd hii men were (erenl tiiiiei ■■• 
BBulted bj tbe enemy. He attacked tfae Bomiih iBittrgmti at 
Taodragee— defeated Lord Kingaland'e diagoona aad a eoBB- 
deraUe bodjof cbeenemf'afoot, beating them ant «rd«tsirn, 
and aetting the Protestants, their fiunlliet, and goodi, aaGair 
over tie Bann, at the sbore meniioiwd Koock-bridge. 

In hia inarch thraiigh Lnrgan and Fortamna, into the cooMr 
of Antrim, he repulsed five tioopa of Romiih disgaoia, whidi 
bad attacked hitn and bis companjr. 

Sfarcbing levan inUea farther be met Lord Dongui, nth a 
coniiderable part; of bone and diagooiii, irhom he aonoimded 
and obliged bim to anrrender, and vbo then braugbt Ihera pii> 
Bonen into Antrim, threatening to bang bim, bot after ■areu. 
teen day* impDMnment there be made hia eacqw. 

A reward iraa offered for aqiprebending him deader aliTe; on 
vfaicb be went to Doneghadee, whereheraiaedabody of jootlu 
M Proteitaots who had fled from other plaeea, by whi«h mtma 
he prevented several psrtiea of Popiah sotdiera from pinndenng 
tbia town, and Cumber and Fortaferry, out of wbidi latter town 
he repulwd Lord Iveagb'a regiment, wbicb bad oeoupied & 
He pursued tbem all nigbi, »o tbot they Aad erer Uie Cany in 
great baste, and left all the Proteatant goodi diat tb^ bad plun- 
dered behind them. He then deUvertd the ahipi laden with 
grain, which bad been aeiied by Ijord Iveagh, rtatoiing their 
cargoes to tbe right owiiera. 

A long and authenticated aerie* of anch importsnt aenleea ai 
theae, may be ibund in the printed copy of thii oflleer'a peti- 
tion to the Houie of Commoni, and ii too vidmninoui to Snd a 
place in these notei. It may be anffldentto record, that driving 
Lord Iveagh and bii forces out of the county of Down, he went 
to DownpatriDk and letall the piiaonen with which the garibad 
been crowded free, and amongst tbem the vcnerriile proprietor 
of Finneybrough, tbe Rev. 3Ir. Manrell, an aged der gymi, 
nbo, with many of.biitenantB and fbUowen, bri been pfam- 



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dcred and napriiOMil bf ibe Inik, BahadaaluirpcDfifamtat 
with Loii fiuchan at EiUilngb : he vw w iwiteJ mi lutdm 
Aaivn, and af)ei bAtg taken pritoaar, aia^ kit Mtapc to tb* 
csstleortkattowB, wbew Im hod lefe fifitj of bn mea ai a bodjr 
•if raiene, but finding thc^ bad gone awaj ke went oat of the 
kingdom. 

He then made hit way to th« n«ei Cljde, in ScMhiid, and 
f«om theacc to Omeral Kirke, in the Lough of Uerrjr, ii4)eM he 
•fiend bi( mticM to that officer. He gave luch infonnatton, 
as iaduced him to ■■ndfaor hnadied men to tbeiiland of lach, 
jwithin foot milei of Dtrj, luuleT the conimuul of the Hoaonr- 
itble William Stewart, an aScer who hmm became a brigadier. 
Mid a&cmwdi a Heatvaam-gcneral, aad one of tbe most diitin- 
^^ed coiBmauden in King WiDiim'a army. Kirke Men fol- 
lowed niih the moit of bis men into the «aid ubmd. Here 
Captain Hunter opened a eommunication between the dirttetaed 
dty and the Eommandei of the relief lenl l« il, but most rniell; 
delated,' and eiicfa intellignce came to Kirke, aa to iaduce him 
to {HtMract bit operadoiM no longer. 

Captain Hetiry Hunter was mth Captaia, aftenratdi Iient»- 
nmit-geneta] EeUin, at Rameltoa, on the uatoland of Donegd, 
•ppoiite the iiland of Inch, iriten tbe Dnke of Benridi, with hit 
taglment of drageens, attmled the eaid EiAlin, who had only 
naty men with him, whom Hmter had been entraeted to poet 
IB dlBerent parti of the town. Hit ateadinen end vahm Ihxt 
day eonlribnted much to the repube of tbe nnforniiitte Duke, 
ta vbein bh niignided ^her, nstanght by Ae dieaatere ef bn 
army before Derryi had lent order to proceed witbont driay to 
Enniikillen, and beii^e that town ; flushed ai tbe galtant bkh 
vi it had for a few di<ri befiire been by Aeir gloriom nctoiy 
•*er Lord MomtaaAd, akd Uie flower of iht Iririi artDy at Lia- 

Captdn Haater n*ed the town of Letterkenny fhim being 
iomed by the Iriih anay^ en their rtpriw from Rtmelton. 

Hewaaa ft B l w wda aaae t 't ie e able to BAe Schomberg, that, 

Vya letm: nader that peat man'ebaod, be waa appointed Go- 

«MiMi af (Miagfbid, where be eoatumed, untU the remafan of 

the Engliih army decamped from tbe neighbotuboodofDuiidBBc. 

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364 NOXBS. 

He dated in bi" memorial to parliament, that he never had la- 
ceiredanjr compeniation for U* aervlces, or tbe losses hesus' 
tained in tbe aupport of the Proteitant caaie. The death of 
the Dulceof Scbomber^ at the Bofne, hnvbg deprived him of 
a friend, who bad resolved to tee justice done to him , he ihere- 
fote prayed that (he House of Commons would tnke his case into 
coDiideratlon, and recommend him, through the lord lieutenant, 
to the princely favour of her majesty Qneen Anne, &c. Stc. ftc. ' 
Onthe 22th of August, 17tO, Mr. Hans Hamilton, from the 
committee appointed to take into consideration the petition of 
Henry Huatcr. £eq., and the case thereunto anneied, reported 
that they had examined iuto the screnl allegadoiis thereof, and 
were, therefore, come to several resolutions ; that it was the opi- 
nion of the eommitcee, that the petitioner hud fully proved the 
fiicts and allegations in bis petition. That it was their opinion 
that the house should be moved that an humble address might 
be made to the lord lieutenant, that in regard to t)ie many ser* 
vices peiformed by the petitioner for tbe Protestant interest in 
tbe late war in Ibis kingdom, bis excellency might be pleased to 
move her majesty to make such provision for the petitioner, 
aa her mnjesty in her piincely wisdom should think fit. To 
these resotutionv, the question being severally put, the house 
, agreed with an amendment, which ordered that such membera 
of the House of Commons as were of her majesty's ptivy coun- 
cil, should attend the lord lieutenant with a copy of tbe said pe- 
tition case and resolutions, and humbly address his excellency, 
that he might be pleased to move her mnjesty to make sueb pro- 
vision for the petitioner, «a ber majesty in het wisdom should 
think fit. 

The Duke of Ormonde, in a letter from Wbltebsll to tbe 
Ixitd Lieutennut of Ireland, returned the petition of Henry 
Hunter, Esq., with tbe votes and the resolutions of tbe House 
of Commons on it, stating that he concurred in the opinioa of 
this gentleman being worthy of tbe favour of the queen; that 
he bad also received a very good character of the petitioner, and 
had most humbly submitted it to her majesty, to consider hin 
in lucti a manner as she in bet wisdom and goodneu should 
think fit. 



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NOTIEB. 365 

Ciptiin Hunter, bocrevar, ihtni the fate of muijr other de- 
serviitg ofGcert in theie dip t — b" ^'^ without n reward for hii 
Bcrvicei, or a remuDenition for hi* auSTering* and lo»n. 

It kronid appear that hit eldeit son could be conaidered a 
proper object of the queen'aeoniideration ; but that prineesaand 
her miniitera in Ibeie latter years of her reign, had other 
thoughta in their heads tlian doing justice to tboie gallant men, 
ij whoae indomitable valour her guilty father had been burled 
from a throne which he had diihoncniTed ; and ber auppoaed 
brother yraa at ibe lime cherishing hopes, that he might ascend 
the tbrone through the secret machinaciontorher bllingminiitrf. 

Another perion, of the lame name, ancestor of the Rer. Mr. 
Hunter, the respectable seceding minister of Colemine, waa 
John Hunter, of Magbera, in the county of Londondetrf, who, 
ina kind of diary which he kept, details rer; minutely the seve- 
ral deliverances he had from death, beginning in early yonth, 
and continuing to bis discharge fiom the army, after hiving 
aerved gallantly at the Battles of the Boyne and Augbrim, and 
the taking of Limerick in 1691. 

His manuscript, many parts of which are now illegible, is in 
the poBsession of hii great-grandson, the above mentioned Rev. 
Ur. Hnnter, and the following is an extract from it, mpecting 
the sufieriegs of this brave defender of Derry, in the course of 
the siege, 

THE TKNTH DBLtViaANCK. 

During the Siege of Derry a cannon bsU carried off the heads 
of two men who were standing at my right hand, and made theit 
brains fly about the place where I atood. 



I eoQld not get a drink of clean water, and suffered heavily 
Trom thirst, and waa so distressed hy hunger, (hat I could have 
eatcnany vermin, bntcouldnot get it. Vea. tliecewas nothing 
that was any kind of flesh or food, that I would not have eaten 
if I had it. May the good Lord, if it be his pleasure, never 
let poor woman'a son meet ivitli siicU hardships ni 1 met with at 
that great sipge, for I cannot mention ihem as I ought. Oh, 
none will believe, bnt those that have found it by experience, 
■what some poor creatures suffered in that siege. There were 



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SM moM, 

Oeir aisuAi beOm iWy eama ta tliB SMga of Imm^aatMrgn 

wlu), befiwatiMtNoia IM* cadad, weuM hwra smlta whatadoB 
WOuM not wt,— for tber wonU bxe oMrsdead dog, anl b« 
ftcj ^ai taeatlt, nd om dsg will lurdt]> eatvuettiBT. 

I ifimk fraoi woefiil aipeBSBCp, for I, niyidf, would hxre 
MtM the paorait at ar dog 1 ever uv whh 1117 e;n. 

Tba bntne ma m ^tmc that tasay ■ man, woman, aod cbil^ 
dMfn-waktdf &od. I, mjraelr, was u woik from bnngerdnc 
IMlnnder mjramiket mamomiaga* I wu gnng to the wa^ 
yet Oad gave me itreagA ta oontinue ill niglit at la; post dier^ 
and enabled Die toaot tbi partof atoidier, u if 1 bad been as 
•trang H evar I wai, yet m; face wa* blackened wttli buB|«iw 

I waa to batd {tut to it bj rgaKin of tka want ot fbod, that I 
had hardly an; haan to aprak or walk, and jwt, wheo tbe eneaijF 
waieomh^ a* mas; a time they did, to (torm the walla, then 1 
Imtb foand ai if my fbrmor atrength nitiiniad to me. 1 am aam 
it wta the Idird thrt kept that city and none rite, Ids than wets 
mao; of Di that could hardly stand on am feet bafore tba mtaiaj ■ 
1 tb« wallt, who, irtien thejr wei* mmiling Ab ont- 
a nott nimbly aad niA paaC 
tbe]Mer ■(•Redmea thatwoa 
UDanrtbatk^itoD^butthBllI^tjatNlof Jacob, to Una 
be praise for eret and erer — Amen. 

StouB KW., Sm3.— Cowan, CUtrlt, and Htm. 

C^tain John Cawani of SL Jahnatowo, i 
Donegal, brought a comiderable body of m 
Serry. He wai of thir^-«is who Hgned tbe dedaiatiaa of laann 
on the Slit of Man^ 16S1, ani wm Mtainted by JuKi'a (ar- 
liaaMM. 

Uatdiew Claike WM0De<rf tba J>efry wtm wgwed dm* 
teM to WUliu and IfaryafWthejaiaiivef Ilw>*i^eo(nBii2t 

CqMin David Roa* mm one ~ 
Deoy •boot (be middlecf Jolj^ lfi6(t »•> 
all mkdiBicHnaBa Im Ae pmMo. Ha m 
eltr Ml the 3M«r iha tnand^ br Samuel I in if itrnnpg 



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jonm. 367 

CahMl ISamft liiiil ilmaliii for mom nddln bdm^g to 
Sk jLMOm BoarfM, Ae oaHoael bciog at tb« tbM eonfiiwd lo 
kad ^ fail mwidM. He ■rnrtent and U^jr i«Bp«e»U« fwady 
«f Rbm kv be«B Umg wttled In the csantr of IjondoBdBnj, 
dudr »t JlnrtoMJlmnBdy, ''tnww 1be4i«l to tinMn." 

Btmnd and ttald MilhoIUna, of Eden, in Ae pviih of 
Vagben, wov-Bmong thote whs remaiiHd in Deny dnring ttis 
vegB, md ligncd tbc iddrm* to King William on the termina. 
tion of it. Their detcendanti beld tfaii tairaland in perpetuity 
and leaide on it, 

Liiu 7. — Camtm- 
OntbeapptoachaftfaebeiiesmgiitDy to DeiT]> orden were 
giren, en pain vf deadi, tliat no nan dwuld fire a afaot until die 
demand Aej unshed to make ahonM be known, but Qeneral 
Hanilten wiibing to co ui m aiMe hit ^wratioiw, ligoiwiulj ap- 
proached rapidly lo tbe dty, commrrto aprerioiH eng^ement 
DOttodoto. Tldig»ve Ridden ihm to the farriion, and wliile 
oAna rrere deaiiODa to commence firing bnt were eflnud of anf- 
firii^ pnnlihment for diaobedienoe of orden, Cmayn fired the 
fiitt ahot at the enemj, njing be was the oldnc man on the 
mlb, a>d aiindi Iiad the bs«t li^ to do lO. 



teod«f Llffbrd, wM oaeof thaae wba ufned tbe Varj addross 
to King WflKau in Aagmt^ 1480. 

He WM bom at Ganittagb, neat^ Tt l t darg , and janfais tke 
Proteatant am; at Caatlefin, aniited in their retreat to Derrj. 
Be loon ligMliied bimidf tbere mt an expert nvluman, and 
JoBf from the w^ OB the rTtk of April, killedtbebouer of 



oMMiiV htm k, eni Amd- —riweaa «£ bodf wmUb to 
loadttka.iM« fowltay-iMeawUcklw had been ta^tetattt «f 



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viinff witb tbe prceiaion of a rifie^barrclled gun, be got assut- 
ance to durge it, and to niae it to bis iboulder, tnd bold it 
while he pulled the tri^er, and bj the diichaige killed a FreDd 
officer on the oppoute side of the liver, nho hid appeared there 
dally for lome time before, riding at the bead of a troop of 

After the relief of the atj, Houston remained with King 
Villiam'i arm;, and baHng served at tbe Boyne, Angbrim, and 
liimerick, returned to the county of Donegal, and died at TiDk- 
lenCown, ia tbe parish of Baymochy. Dr. HouitOD, of Dub- 
lin, repreaenti ihit Donegal family. 

SUmta xxivi., line 1 Hillhoait andBoyd. 

Abnham Hillbouie of Colersine. 

Boyd. On the 3rd of Jmie the Irinh army ditcharged thir- 
teen bombs into the city, tbe fint of them killed a man and a 
voman, the «econd or third killed Mr. Jamei Boyd in hi> own. 
bouse, and wounded Anne Eealb, who died shortly afterwards. 
Tbe rest did no other harm than tear up tbe streets. 

On Friday, the Ath of June, twenty-six bombs played against 
the dly for a considerable time. Tbey broke down houses, 
raised stones and made great bole* in the streets, killing Major 
Srowna and Surgeon Lindsay, to (be severe loss of tbe sick and 
wounded. Mr. Uenry Thompson also, a wealthy burgess, wm 
killed b; them. One of the shells felt into the house of Cap- 
tain James Boyd, broke down the side of it, and killed himself. 
Several officers who were then at dinner in the house eacaped 
the danger, though the shell fell near the room in which tbey 
were sitting. The Boyda are still respectable families in lion- 
dondetry, Colcraine and Donegal: 

£tne 3.— DoUin. 

Anthony Dobbin, Esq., a Justice of the Peace, was not among 
tbe defenders of Derry, but approached near it- with the Rev. 
Andrew Hamilton, of Kilskerry, tbe residence of the Ennis- 
killeners, on an errand from Fermanagh to General Hamilton, 
on the 25lb of April, when they witnessed the savage murder of 
an old Scoteb woman taken by the Irish sddiers for a witch. 



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Uijor J, Dobbin lat on ■ court-niirtial in Deer; on the 23ril 
of July, with Colonel Wbite and olbers. 

Line 5.~Traey, FuUtrloa, and Bame. 
Jamei Tracy, Riilph Fullerton, and Jabn Hume, ligned 
tbe Den7 AddreM to King WUIiam. 

Stanxa uxtI., Hat d. — Traeg. 

Jame* Tracy wat one of tboie who signed tbe addteas fiom 
Derry to King William and Queen Alaiy in 1G80. 

Sir William Tiacy, SheriETof tbe county of Glonceeter, was, 
in 1513, a person of dittingui^hed abilities and sound learning, 
and ii memorabI« for being one of ibe first tbat embtKed.the 
jefoimed religion in England. 

In ibe year 1j30, tbe twenty-second of tbe reign of Henry 
VIII., be made the fallowing will, which is worthy of a place 
in the ecclesiastical history of this yet Protestant empite : 

«In tbe name of Uod, amen,— I, William Tracy, of Tod. 
dinglon, in the county of Gloucester, Esquire, make ihia, my 
testament and last wilt, as bereafcer. followelh : — First and be- 
fore elt other things, I commit myself to God, niid to hia mercy, 
believing, without any doubt or mistrust, that by bi^ grace and 
the merits of Jesus Christ, and by tbe virtue of his passion and 

and resurrection of body and soul, according as it is written, — 
* J believe that tny Redeemer liieth, and tbat, at tbe last day, 
I shall rise out of tbe earth, and, in my fl^sli, shall see my Sa. 
vUior.' This, my hope, is laid up in iny bosom, and touching 
tbe wealth (welfare) of my soul, the fuitb that I have taken and 
rehearsed is sufficient, and I suppose without any other man's 
works or merits. My ground and belief are, that tb«ie is but 
one God, and one Mediator, between God and man, Mhich is 
Jesus Christ — so that I accept none in heaven or in eaitb to be 
Mediator between me and God but Jesus Christ ; all otlicre to 
be but petitioners in receiving of gmce, but none able to give 
intluence of grace, and, therefore, will I bestow no part of my 
goads for tbat intent, that any man shall say or do to help my 
amd, for tberela I trust only to the promise of Cbri^t — ■ Ue 



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ttebdw*cthMdiibvMM>d.«Ulb««wadi ha Ihw ,li Jiawth 
sot iball be dunned.' 

"Ai touching the bocjing of lOf hoij, it araileth hm not 
wbatioever maj be done tbereto, for St. Auguttine mth, ' JJt 
€m^ ^auU fn ■artaii,' that llie fuoetal poaip* an rmtWc die 
■oUee of tbcm that live tban tbe wealth (welfitre) asd eomBatt nt 
them tbat are dead, and, tberefore, I remit it whoUj to tbe 
diacFetion of mj exMoMia. 

" And, louclung tbe diitributioB of my tempQcal«M>d«..iit7 
pnrpote it, by tbe graee of Go^ to bettow thoH ■• tl» ftniia at: 
fiulfa, M that I do not ni|ipoie that m; meat ihall be by the 
good beatowing of thenu but my merit i> tbe faith «f Jesua 
Chriat on\j, by whom luch woiki are good, acoordiaf to Ae- 
words of our Lord, 'I wu an hungered and thim^yeat me 
meat,' Sic.: and it fbUoneth, 'Inaimuchaa ye bare done it to 
the lenst of my brelhran, ye have done it unto me.' And ctbt 
■hould we consider tbat true uyin^ that ■ a 0(¥>d work maketh 
not a good mm, but a good man maketh a good work, for bhb 
maketh a man good and righEcout, for a righteoaf man Jireth 1^ 
&)th, and wbaMoerer springetb net of faith ia lin.' " 

The will, of which tbi* mi tbe preamble, wa* oondamned b> 
heretic*] in rbe bishop of London'a court, and an Ofder, -on thai, 
account, lasoedlo Parkej-, chancellor of Worcsier. tonma^la 
iody, according to (he Uw of tbe cbnrch which had beam aiea- 
dted at Luttemorth on tbe bonei of WiefcMe. Packei^ bow- . 
ever, too officiously burning the corpse, was, in t«« yean af • 
teroards, sued by the heirs of Sir William Trai^, fieed four 
luuidred pounds, and turned put of his cbasocllerahip. 

Bicbard Tracy, the second sob. of tbe saiuant fijirirtisa 
km^t. was neU educated, as mieht be expected, and had pan 
«f tbe poiieaBiona of the Abbey of Tewksburj, jianted to him 
by tbe erown, on the dissolution of monasteriMj aad liavKile 
wnetii leatned treatite* in defence of hi* father's futh. daati^:. 
ttese wae that remarkable -ooe entitled " Prqpaislicm to the 
Cross," written experimentally, he baviag atifbfedaHi^ inltis 
ettale for bis father's npauA heretkal trill. 

He also wrote, ptopbcticalljE, in UM, twe or ^itt* jmn te- 
ton the MceHion ot Queen Mary, ta tlw <Tew)^ Mri aoMlw. 



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HOIHL 371 

tMMbe "TonMh Matt ]M^~ «Uck wu ammed to the 
tanaa, lAtB iP-pamXeA. It WM(Me«f (he tlvM.&tnndin the 
beUjr of a cod, biciDf bti U 1628, t« ha laid in the maiket of 
Canhtidge, wrapped in EanvMi, vtitcb probably had been da- 
Bo n ra d by that Tontnaai Gtb, oat af tbo pocket of loiiu ifatp- 
wndud Mamaa. On thU •cauioB tbo witi of that Univenilj 
divertad tbaraaehca ; one of Otma, iu sonic reiiea oa tkit lub- 
jce^ wrote tbe faUotring line* : — 

"ir BdwUiu(dafarin|Ualic»k<, (hoiwa 
Ittt bapttoiiniBaa^iIJlKiirj.- 
Ab aeeevM of tfaU tii^ular oeettrrence nay be found in one of 
the lettna appended to the life of Primaie UMber. The little 
boob eoiitaiDed melMicbol]' warningi of the (ufferingi of Eng- 
land dniingtbe uiirpation of Cioaiit'e)]. 

The apptopriate motto of the noUe fimilj ef Tracy ii " ife- 
woria pii tetema"— itwai ennobled on tbe ISlhof Jaiiuarj, 1642. 
The lait peer of tbe name mentionnd in Lodge'i Peersge, vol. 
T., p. 14, wai Thomai Ctiarlet, tbe aiilh Viiconnt Tracy, of 
BatbeooSe, in 1789. The title it now in abeyance. 

Balph FuUenon ligned tbe addteai to King Wiiliam. 

Hume. On tbeapproachof tbe woiof tbtr«nritition,9nJolai 
HBme,tfaelhird baronet of that naiBe, .poa»e*aing,ai Lodge alleges^ 
tbe beatcctaiein tbe county of Fersianagk, niaed ^lout one 
bundled hoiaeeaei .and two bnedied loeimot «f iia otvn ten. 
■■to. He umed ibeta n Iti* own cKpenie, and they behaved 
Mall at every action. He tent fur bat eldeat aao from England, 
ndto had been •evcral year* tn ibe army there, aad tbe yonng 
(■rtleman loat hit lifein ihc Iriih war. 

Sr Jtdmifeitified Canle Hume, near L«ngbenie,«BdfiHnished 
k'wMi prmiaioni at .^leat exfwiae. It contained a laige gai- 
daoD, Bad GORtiibalediBiieh te tbe defence -of £ni>skitlen, from 
wbidi it wan ditfant <mly timw nila. Being obliged Aom the 
iateo itateof bli facshb tote^etoSnglandi, heand bi* eldeit 
aOD were ooClawed by Jantea''* parliament, and binaeond bdq 
Jelw beinfi in En^ad befbre bis anlTal Iberp, he *eM him, 
•■dir tbe oetnnwnd of aencnl Kirke, with tbe relief for 
Deny; but be died of a farer on blayaiage. Tlie Mai^nis of 
Bfy and die Wdtay Of Cl^bct «n daaeaoded f i«ai tbU fiuaUy. 



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S(«ua xxxd.— ar<m*Dru, Smith, Wiliiiu, K^i, and Wilmm. 

Theophiloi mi Ame« Hinaon, Junn Smith, Benjamin Wil- 
kint, ThomM and Frederick Keyi, of CamiHcor, in the county 
of Donegal, and Franeii Wilaon, ligned the addren to King 
William and Queen Mar; from Derry, in the month of Aagiat, 
1689. The family of Wilaon, of Tullywilson, in the coanty of 
Longford, irere aettled there for ■ considerable time — their i«- 
preaentative in 1791, wat the late Francii Wilton, Esq., a re- 
apectable lolicitor. 

The family of Key* reiided on tbeir estate at Cmmacor, in 
]68fi, and there is a credible tradition that King Jamea dined 
there on his way to the tiege of narry, on which acconnt that 
hoiue ma >pBiTd when all the other Froteatant babitationa on 
that aide of the Foyle iraa burned by the retreating aimy. 

Andrew Gregnon, Uartbolemeir Black, and Robert and An. 
drew Bailly, ligned the Derry addresi to King William nod 
Queen Uary, on the relief of the city in 1669. 

Slanaa ixivii., line 3,~M'Caiitlan4. 

When LordMountjoy arrived in Omagh wiih Colonel Landy, 
•nd ail companies oF foot, on their march to Derry, he aenc 
Captain Oliver U'Causland with a message to the threatened 
city, deoiring two or three of the citizens to meet him at R«- 
pboe. On receiting this message Captain Norman and Mr. 
John Mog^ridge, the town clerk, were sent to hear the propo- 
aala. Captain M'Causland, altbougb he carried this menage, 
■oon proved that he did not regret that the answer to it was no 
■uirender ; and although it does not appear, as intimated in 0ie 
text, that he was one of those who defended Derry within 
ita wall*, he attached himself and hi* company to the army of 
King William, and we find, that with Captains Thomas Ash, and 
Patrick Hamilton, he served nilh three companies of foot un- 
der the command of Colonel Mlchelbuine, at the Siege of Sligo. 

This family was of great antiquity and high respet^bililf in 
Scotland The progenitor of the name was Anselan, son to 
O'Kean, King of the south part of Ulster. His son, Mac An- 
selan, or Mac Aiislan, was driven out of irelohd by the Dane! in 
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ooat oftrm; faearqiiired the luidi of Buchuiin, from vrliich 
many of thtit dMcendann took their name, and amoDg then 
one who was an hononr to tfacm and to hii connuy, the re. 
nowned GMtge Buchanan, auihor of the Hiilory of Scotlaod, 
the Qasiical Tianilation of the Psalma, the writer of the Satire 
on f opeiy, called the Fiaucuean, and man; other splendid 
latin poem I. 

He va* bom in the ytmr 1£06, wai appointed to be Preceptor 
of Jane* VI. in IMS, and toon afterwardi became LoidPrir; 
Seal, and one of tbe great offlcera of itate. Hia scrivitf in for- 
.waiding the Refatinatioa gave him lucb a chatBL-ier among the 
refOimeih that he wa« choaen b; them to preaidu in one of 
theii general a8«emblira, ai moderalor, notwichitanding liii 
being a layman. He died in Edinburgh, on the 23rd of Sep. 
tember, ISSS. He poem De Sphtera was greailjr adioired, and 
of it, and hia other latin poetrj, Juliui Scaliger hu left tbe 
following opinion : — 



Sir Alexander AI'AuselBn, a knight of Lenox, diitingulshed 
Inmielf highly at the battle of Baug6, in the yearl4-2t;in the 
heat of that action (he Scottish Knight meeting tbe Duke of 
Clarence, who was very coniplcuous on account of a coronet 
which he wore sludded with diamonds and Gxed to hiii helmet, 
with eoticbed apear M'Auselan rushed towards the prince, who 
met him with equal vigpur, and struck him on the breast-plate 
with hi* ipear, but it glanced off, and then bis powerful adrer- 
aary datted his spear through tbe left eye of the duke, and kilted 
him on the spot. He then pulled off the coronet from the hel- 
met, and putting it on the point of bisspear, cried to his countly- 
inen, that he had killed the English general, which «o dismayed 
the opposite army that they madeno further resistance, and the^ 
were rooted with the loss of twenty-six oScers, besides tbe Duke 
of Clarence and other persons of quality. Three thousand Eng- 
lisli soldiers were killed and two thousand taken prisoners, with 
very little loss to the Scoti. This nciory, as it gave a great 
ebeek to the aSaiti of the £nglish, operated propoitionably in 



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_U_,lli liiiiiiiiill i"- '"-■ " — -'- -'■-^-'-■^"— j*-^ 

MMdi< *• BaattM »mj, Ui bmh* of ibHMi aoal Ua l aawWi 
MM Qm»w1,W^Kw. M|fc wWiM»*f Rmwm^ ■>< rewrtrf^M 
A* athK OtlcfcaiH uOccn of AititMtiM >(TDt£i«lo Aen-mk 
ipartiw iMibi. pMtieululf Sir Alennder M^AoiAn. nhim 
bebonntifaUf lewudedtaudte-thcpTewrratiaiiofttH moMty 
ofUt iiwoicadnwnMMiadied to bic Atnaw o«M tf ubi a 
wrmil tMMve land the ficM, floweied ud oounter ftnnca^ 
inriiB AenrdeUt of dwKOVBd, mi4 ■n-m crest ■ brntdeo^ee^ 



mind it, irtick BddMoB hu been nece retained by the ftmflf . 

U^eola BMW M'Auwbs m one ef the wrtneaea to a 
cterteiinthafaiKn ^ Sing AUxaoder tfae Third, ofSeotlaDA 
~ JIacbedi Bhob H'Anaelaiid waa • peraon of un«nniiio& atstaf* 
•ad atreogth, lAoUrad ia the reij[n of Kins Robert the Third. 
Alexander, the iMt Btron M'Auielan, hanng^oiri^ioBedtn^ 
ter, nho married a gentleman ramed Campbell, Efae, after ber 
huiband'i death, atdd her isleraaC in the eainie which hid de- 
acended to lier Co Sir Humphry Colboun, of Lai*. 

I^ fMt «f the Haaj H»d ebiefif ia l^nn, but the fffatttt 
MmberiBdDf bnt MOoaDt-of that name resided (in ITtS) i* 
the Muntiea of Tyaoae, Dacry, and Domi, in the twrtt el Ire. 
land. The anoeatOM ctf tbc prindpal men of tbeie laat «an 
Andrew and Join M'Auodani aonaof Bamn M'Aiadan,«fae 
mm oat ef the pariiii of Lma into that hingdom is die latts 
part ot the reign ef King Jans the Sinh. 

T^ eldaat of thaw, Andaetr, hod a an cdM AleMadM;^ 
■pen whomii»hei< e i rc d«.goededaeMioa,by which meaaii b^ 
coming ■ prodcBtt Mtire gcntlemaa, he obtained* coaariniaa 
i> die cira «Ha in the iciflB <rf KJi« Cbulei I. At tbe«Dd«r 
t beaa wMe> pwtif fcr dah—tmie ■n^pattlr hj pinchaie, headb 
qmted the e» tal ea td Raah aad ArbtfMr, in eooirt? of I^ieaek 
Ba Imd two iMa, t^ el^atOltaei M'Atiaelaa, of BaA, mm 
OMoftiMnKMMdWent geulemee iadiiw pwta ^ IrelaBd. 

(17*"'^ ' — 'i ^ — ^ ^H" ' EingWnDam^ 

)nDr^wwgtheMT«f dw amlutiait.) Ia IMS, beiraJdlil 
■haiiff «ra«eaiMtr of' TFMme, anduflaeaead «oM of Lk e— 



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Ib on anl ntar Kk vwm 
estate, wliiA fCrit ■cwKrfymtmntwf to four buw^rad poifc 
Btetling of ycarljr rent, k« iacnavdia Moh m maaunut* loaw' 
to hii urn ft deu eUite of fiftetn handrrd pound* per annum. 
He was twice mwried udleft by both wives ■ nurorraus iune. 
HU SBcmwT TtBided, in 17SS, in StnbMie, for-wMcfa pUee btt 
serred a nwaiber «f pwliuimt, ■■ hii falbei <Ud f or Bnay- 
jean, snd hii ion in 1727. 

Oliver'! bratberiraicalLed Andrew, hupingan«it«tedw»UB* 
wUcb of wai Ardet^I, irbo wilbBHU^otbentrfgoBdcutcan- 
stances lesidcd (Id 1714) in tbe coantiet al ready meatioiied. 

TbeHrv. O^ret MOancbud, Rector of Tamlaght Finlagan, 
in tbeiliotVM of Deiry, >r tbe first lineal de*eendant and repi^ 
senlBiiveof ibis ancientatid noble &m]f. A depaUlion front 
tin gIm M(U roident in Soatland, wailed oa hi* gnad-fatlwr 
npwar^ of a ceMnrr ■(«, stdiciliBK bU goiof OT«r Hi that 
counl(7 and teviviog bia cbam to be tbe acbiovledged bead of 
tbe ctau. 

SUnsa xxivii., line 3. — King. 
King WM saceeeded t^ bis brotbcr Jobn, nbo became ih» 
Uiitd l«td KiogatDn. Thia Toaog neblemaTi of eigbleea yean- 
inarried AlBcgaret, daugbter of Florence O'Ciban, wbote aneas- 
tor was cbief captain of the country of Naghc O'Csban, noir 
called ihe Bacony of Kensgbt, in the County of Londonderry, 
snd wbo vras made kecfier of tbe Caatle ol Ccderune in tbe 
reifiB of King Henry tbe Eighth. A copteqaaiee of tbia niar. 
ri^e was the coni-eraion of the young husband to tbe Cbnrdi 
of Rome, which led to his being made gentleman of the bed- 
chamlier to James l^e Second. He followed bis maater'i for- 
tmtet into Frasee, after the battle of tbe Boyae, and waa 
coHequenlly outlatre^ but returned to Ireland tiUt hi* dder 
brolbei's death. He obtaioed a jtardoo fiem Qneen Idary o« 
lb« tbird ;of September, IfiM^ on tbe eleventbof StMg, 1697, 
be, having renounced the idigton of Borne, took bis scat ia tW 
II«use«f Fe«r^ and en tfaa second of Deoeeaber in this year 
signed the deriantion etttcred iata by that bouae, far thedefeac* 
of King William's penon and goy«tMneM««Dd tbcJUBMaakn 



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to Ihe throne in th* Protcfluit line, u lettled by act of pwlis- 
awBI. ]l«dfedin London on the fifteenib of November, 1727, 
ud wM iiwceeded bj bit btcrtbei Junei. 

Statuia ixxriii., lint S. — Gallaorlh, CalJieart and jfdair. 

Junci QaltiTorth wu one of the triumphant defenden of 
Detry who *igned the addreai, wnt from the city by Govenxir 
Walker, to King William and Queen Mntj on the relief of it. 

Thoouu Adair wm another of them. 

Tbe name of Catheart, one of thoK who defended EnniskU- 
len, and ugned an addreu from that town in Auguat, 1G89, vna 
inadrertentty placed iii tbi« itlanEB in the place of that of Colo- 
nel HamiU, of Liffurd, one of the moat distinguiabed of tbe 
defendera of Derry ; one who made great >acri6ce( in providing 
arms, Hinmunition and proriiiona, for the garrison, and wae 
ruined afterwardi, uid died broken .hearted from the ingratitude 
vrilb whlcb be waa treated by Kinfc Williafai'a miniatera. A 
very iniereating memoir of hii aiifferings were given to the 
wriler of theae iiolea, from a London magaiine published «botit 
a century aince j but [he inaertion of It would aivell tbe giie of 
the boob, mbicb baa already exceeded the dimensiona originally 
intended for i(, and which the prospectua promiaed to canaitt of 
about 3^0 pages. 

Stanxa xxxv., line B.—SHnner. 

Robert Skinner wai one of those wboae namea are recorded 
in Walker'a Diary, aa defender* of Derry, and signing the ad- ; 
drtM from lb i 

Slanaa iixvii., Wna I. — Btre^ord. i 

8ii Triatram J)ere«ford, Ihe third baronet of that name, cc 
muided a regimenc of foot, in 16S9, which be raided at C6te> ! 
nine— « which time ben-as a minor. 

Thia noble family flourished for many Cl 
lie* iof Staffoid, Warwick and Leicester. 

John Ue Bereiford trsa aeized of Che manor of tb^ name in 
Staffordi^bire, on the 4[h of October, 10S7, the fini year of [be 
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HorBs. 377 

Triitnni, tliird ton of Michail Beretford, Eiq., of OzEorrf, 
in Kent, wai born bcfois tbe year 17M, and nme into Ireland, 
ai agent for the Iriah Society, at the time they were miking 
tbeir planulioo in ifae county of CoUraine, lince called Lon- 
dondeny. He BeClled at Coleraine, and fiom bim the present 
Idarquii of Waterfotd, and the Iriah bcBnch of this ancient 
house, are de«ceoded. For fiirther information reference mu«t 
be made to tbe biitory of our countriei, in which tbey faave 
since their lettlement been steady and influential fiienda to the 
altar and the crown. Tbe details in Archdatl's edition of 
Lodge's Peerage, publiehed in 1789, are very intereating. 

Line a., — Magill. 
Sir John MegiU, of Gill-ball, in tbe countr of Down, bsronet, 
brother-in-law of Sir Triitam Beresford, baronet, waa at- 
tainted hy King James's parliaDuent, with Hugh Magtll, Esq., 
of Down, Captaia Hugh Magill, of Fennanogb, Hugh Magill, 
geiideman, of Wicklow. and James Magill, Esq., of the county 
of Down, 

£ine7'— Cory. 

Ueutfoant Colonel Carey, of Dnogiven, who, with lh« fol- 
lowing gentlemen of bia name, was attainted by King James's 
psiliament, viz., Frnncia Gary, Eiq., Captain Francis Caiy> 
Lieutenant William Gary; all of Donegal or Londonderry. 

Tbia family is descended from tbe Curys of Clonelly, in De- 
Tonshire. 

George Cary, of Red Caitle, in tbe eoiinty of Donefi[al, mar- 
ried Jane, daughter of Michael Bereafoid, of Coteiaine, Esq., 
by whom be had five suds and four daugbters. 

Francis Cary, of Red Caatle, married Alice, sister of Cap- 
tain Henry Vaughan. 

Edward Cary, ofDungiven, died on tbe 4tb of June, 1668. 

Robert Cary, of White Castle, iu tbe county of Donegal, 
died in 1681, and 

Tiiitram Cary, a lieutenant in the army, were aons of the 
aboTe.mentloned Oeorge Carey, of White Castle, and bis wife, 
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Stodw, the latter lAannrli a ofttm in Eing WiOkinW ««^ 
wna scat tcntardi Deny vhli * letter horn Q w wl Kihe tD 
Ae garriion, ut tlw Itftm end af tbe month <rf Jidf, lAw d» 
■DJbrinit tfane b]> fkmiae vrere beginiiiiic to be intoknibla. 
Being tmeble to eiriiB, be aceempaiaed Boete ne Tardier tbaa 
tDtbe i^Rca wbcratbeMtei bid bkdotbeeimnd taokto tbawtfor 
witb tba letter, ■eotmd am wellaibe eeold; tkea Cromie m- 
Beiaed fer ■ day or ttra «pectiiq[ ■ boat, wbidi nodie hti 
proiniwd to lend to bin in tbe cmku ef tbe night. 
But the Iriih gaui dUooveied bim, and abliged him to tweir 
that be would give • diicoiirHging account to the DcnTincn of 
■Ae relief wbiiA tfaaf eipectsd. 

In tbe mean time Boi^retonied to the fleet, after Teithig' but 
«Be dajr in DttTf. He then iwam back to the ipot irbere be 
b*d left bii cloCbei, a diatanee of Ibree miles, and fbuofl tbey 
hkd been l^tea aw^, Tbe letten far (be goTemor were tied in 
a bladder round hu neck to protect tbem from the mtter. fito 
lan, in a itate of nakednen, foi three milei, pursued Iiy tbe 
enemy, and escaped from tbem onl^ by taking shelter in a wood, 
-wbere boraemen coidd ntt follow idm, but wliere bii mfidfmiga 
were intense fton the laaBralMSt of bit bodf bf boan anl 

Corered from head to foot with bhwd, he paaaed tbnmgb tin 
mmdi to tbe-watariideaf Deny, where be unf ortunatriy met 
witb a paitjr of dtagooni, one of whom broke hii jaw wiA s 
balbeit, after-wbich Iia plunged into tbe river ; and Ibmigb ba 
«■ find at aareral tlaaea, and waa-wonndtd in (be atm, breMC 
and (boulder, be preftited dying in tbe -water tlnnbraaicii^tltt 

When foiea waa foond ineffeetnal to stop Mm, Us puiawgw 
(Jfcred Mm a iboaaa n d poanae if be wndd drJlKTuptoilieiD 
tta leOari be ohM ; but- tUi he i«fna«d to doABnd oM aaOns 
It praetiGatde to proceed to tbe fleet, be awam baek to DaBK 
tmi, bj p w e— ear led rigmfle, gaveneliceta General Ktbe tbiC 
Jm bad deOvand bk hOen, witb an Intimation oTlbelM^rf 
time which tbe dty migbt be effected to hold oat— Sm -Cbptifa 
Jiedtt't PHUkm U da EmglUh Uimtt ^Comamu. 



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Anuv xndx., Cn« 5. — Bennett, Dimit, Fearie and BeJL 

llobert Bennett, Gaward Davii, and Heniy Fearae, weis 
d^nderi of Derry, vho aDrviveJ (lie siege, and signed the 
addreu to the ttirone on the relief of tbe cily in 1689. 
Li»t 7> — Sdbamhers, 

Ctumt Sclioiiib^, tlie iod and iiioe«H>i of tlie itDvwatA 
Duke of that nanie, (raa an actire rtigineer officer in Derrf 
during the siegB, and he fought valiantly afterwatda at &• 
battle of ibe Boyne, whera he commanded a Tegiment. Incentad 
at the desth of bii fatlier bo punned ifae enemy after theil 
defeat trilb gnat fury, driringtheQ) ieraTal railea beyond Dnieeki 
the Toadi and adjoining field« being Hon coveted nilh thrir deai 
bodict, nor did be and the tnwp nilh bim deiiit from the 
lUnghter, till the Earl of Poitland, by king William's eiprsM 
oaumaBd, obl'^ed then to return to the place where tbe 
infantry bad halted, and remained under anna all nigbt. He 
aerved afterwards wilb great credit at tbe Siege of Limetidr, 
StaiuM xl., U»n 1,2^ Z.—Bauntton, Jemty, and Akoek. 

Robert Denniiton, ancestor of tbe family of CocksbGath, W 
Ac County of Donegd, Junei Batringion, Christopher Jennj^ 
and Adam Alcodt, were defenders of Deny in 1669, who ani- 
vived tbe siege, as abo were Tbeopbilui and James Manson, 
iriioie names m^ be found !n Walker^ Diary, page S7. 
lim S.—Finuaiig. ^ 

Colonel WOliun Fmuonby, a diatinguiahed defender ti 
l>eny in 1689, and one of four bdignant officera who on As 
ffiacDvery of laundy's tnachery, seat iiin out of the city wilh * 
bundle of fimots on Ua ba^ 

This uKient famUy dcdves Ita origin from Picvdy, and a0> 
cwDiMmed WUUuh Snke of normnndj in hta expedicim to, 
Etx^ai. Thcf tetdel m the «MM^«f Omberland, wtif». 
(S^pMWMedacped^tatl^ from which tbejr toak their En^ 
UriiJttBe oE E Maart j . 

SrJehii.P-«MintrMMio&^»dlBM«, leennK lua i^. 
IWialiaHlii tn rYn -r- of Us fint wriic^ he bMig at that. 
tmM«witemfi«idin laasi, tJw ^mnteti of tbrt pntW 
I of it. 



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380 NOTBa. 

The Mcond Min of llie sbove-meiitioned Sir John, by hi* ■«• 
eond miriiRge, wt« the defender of Den;, to nrhoae name tbli 
note hut been appended. He m» created Binin of Bcubo- 
rough oil Ibe 2Ist of September, 1721, and hi* ion Sir Braba- 
iDHi Viicount DuncunnoD, H~ai created Earl of Beuborongb on 
Ifae 1-2lh of June, 1749. Of the tir>C lord thii record ii pre. 
served is the preatnbte lo the Bmborough title. " Labentem 
llibemi« regni rem In Londonderri <a obaidione pertinaciter 
anilentavit totamque eju* belli curriculum iustenta." Bot Cane 
liu., Geo. I. 1 A., p. f. 

Stanxa ili., «u 9— TTsUer. 

The Rev. George Walker, D.D., Rector of Donoaghmore 
in the eountj of Tyrone, and diocese nf Armngh. 

This great and good man ivai of a Yorkshire flimrly, and his 
father, from nhoni be took hia Cbristian name, \n% a cletgymaii 
in the dioceu of Derry, irhen Dr. John Bramhall tras promoted 
to that See from the Archdeaconry of Meath, on the SOth of 
Auguit, 1633. 

After bU conteeration in the caitle of Dublin, that active 
prelate proceeded to bit dioceae, and on entering it, near OEiia^u 
be alighted frooi hii bone, and kneeling down on the road, with 
fervent devotion implored the divine Binstance in tbe diichorge 
«r the arduoui duty to which he had been called. 

His first act u*ai tbe making an enquiry of Ibe old and Tene- 
rable Dr. Walker into tbe atate of bii diocese, ivhicb be fonnd 
to have been left Ily bis predeceasor. Bishop Downham, in a 
condition wbich required bis utmost efTorts to rectify it. He 
found, Bs lie bad in a regal visitation, on which he had been • 
abort time before employed m one of tbe commissioners, and iba 
most iiiflucntiil of tbem, the ecclesisi Ileal revenues miserably 
tvasted, Ibe diicipline dispersed, and the ofBcialing clergy In a 
very unhappy stnte, Tbe bishop's Ignds wasted by fee f4rmK 
Diid long leases, and the incumbents obliged either tn farm their 
tithes during incumbencies, or lire in strife tvich tbe landlord!. 

All these evils be laboured with unremitted success to 
rcniOTe, and, such was bis sense of the services of Dr. Wallier, 
that ihe College living of Cappagh, coming by the promotion 
of the inriimbent into the gin of tbe crown, be (4>tained it 
from the Lord Deputy fur bis old and faithful adviser, whom he 



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KOTEB. 381 

nfterward)>, when he wot tmiilated to tbe Fiimacy, promoted 
to the Cbaneeltorabip of the diocese of Artnagb. 

It appears hj an enlrj in Ibe books of tbe first fruits, in tbe 
Record Tower of Dublin Castle, tbat it wfu an the a6th of 
September, 16^6, Ibat b« was instituted to tbe rectorf of Cap- 
pogb, and upiTBrds of twenty-four years intervened between 
that time and hii promotion to tbe rectory of Kilmore, ivblck 
forms tbe Cbancellorsbip of tbe dioceee of Armagb. HU pa- 
tron, Primate BrambaU, vas a Yorksliire man, as be himself is 
stated to bave been. 

Hia only son, and hii ntuneiake, afterwards tbe renowned 
governor of Derry, was born in 1G18, and educated in the 
College of Glasgow. Going into orders be was a short lime 
nftenvsrdi, it appears from entries in bis handwrilicig in tbe 
paiiitb registry, tbe officiating curate of Dungannon, froni wbich 
be was, on tbe SQtb of March, 1662, promoted to Ibe rerloriee 
of Donougbmore, and Errigal Keerogue, in tbe county of 
Tyrone. Here be resided for tbe remainder of bis clerical life, 
and in the year before be was called, by tbe siul necessity of the 
time«, to exchange the gown for the sword, i» maintenance of 
civil and religious liberty, be had his church at Castle Caut- 
field substantially rebuilt, as appears by an inscription yet re- 
maining over tbe door of it. 

His wife was a lady of tbe ancient family of Finnebrogue, 
in the county of Down, Isabella Maxwell, who survived bim, 
and hy whom, as he states in the Vindication of bis Diary, pub- 
lished in London in tbe winter of 1689| be had four sons, all, as 
himself bad been, in tbe service of King William at that time. . 
Governor Walker's only sister, Anne, married Williiim Max- 
well, Esq. of Falkland, in tbe county of Monagban, Esq., the 
fonnh son of Dr; Robert Maxwell, bishop of Kilmore. Her 
husband was High Sheriff of that county in 1691, when he waa 
murdered by some of hia own tenants and follover^, in revenge 
for tbe protection he had given to the Protestants in the course 
of the preceding war. 

About the dose of the year 1636, when tbe noblemen and 
gentlemen of Ulster, and those of Sligo, in tbe province of Con* 
niagbc, alarmed at (he preparation bf »tt in progrest of being 



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mmh bj tbe mcmbm af the CbvA of Bmm, Ihejr wwe ■■•. 
eUtiiiE tbemielTet for mitaid pMtMtm^ <■• af dMn wmii 
Hi. Wilkar, lemviog him tone ki tni e U oa, nd woniMLuJ 
him to Mcote the ton) of DungiBnoii, in the imBadiBte-iiei^ 
boQclioad of hii resdenee. In cooseq^BM of das be nised ■ 
upmaot of 'mltMrj, in wUdi he bad ao difisaltjv fiom the 
getteraltUm whuhdwnpNMaUdthMOghthepronncB. Gmds 
O'Neill, Iben rasideoC m Dairy, >ent a Rooitah piictt, t 
aoquire of tha lectur of Doumgbmore why be bad laiied Ai 
regiment. He replied, that to nanj of the Iriab had dun ■ 
nvad in that patt of tbe eauntrr, that the Protutanla tbat^ht 
fit to pDC tbemieivai la a potture sf defence ag^st tbe ilaini n 
to irbich Cheif law thamtelvee exposed. 

Lnmediatety after thia Walker loda to Deny, and saUed ■ 
cwiespondenefl adth tbe leading mea in tbatcilj; and at die 
«MM time he lent tvo tioepeof draco«D^ end tome of bja inbntiT, 
tc oceupj tbe town of iDungannon. He leraaiaad in bis owa 
bmue until the I7tb af April, wfaan be joined Colonel Bamilin 
•n nnniecasiful attempt to stop tbe Iiish army, fitat at LiObad, 
■od afterward! at tbe liong Caueway bctwcea that town mi 
Deny. He ni obliged that night to latteat towards Deny. 
When be arrii«d at tbe Bisltop's Gate, Ann^ wbid his •■>- 
trance to the city lay, he found ft abut egainst bim, and it ma 
not withoDt great difficulty and soma nol ansa an the Bemiy.tbat 
he sod hie r^ment got admittance next marmni^ 

For hii •ernes* in defence of Dairy icfcFsace maat bemadi^ 
M in the case of B^et, Midtelbanie, MBmraadCaimea,^, 
to the Hiarory of tha Siege. ABer which he ^eoeeeded tkns(^ 
B»oC tite «iqi (a Sing 
On bia anifalM Glaagixr, nbaet, 
«• alroaly neorded, ]n had reemcd hk meaitaiai e^eatJea, 
b« was roBswred with thapaataotJiadDattairMdoatWaSdaf 
Anput was enollad Ma borgaw nd guIM baslker of the est- 

He then proceeded to Edinbtngh, whera a bmlf af TrcAyta. 
lieDB waited en bfan at Dr. Hamiltsii'sboMB^ toaNfaira''tf him 
« IralMrf, of wbam he gave tbem M 



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Ihe dtf, part <rf Ike pBHAneut <Ri ttbitb Ae gnmt ms iBcoidM 
hMng W TH tti l in IetWr*«f gord, 

H» thir WMit o» W w wJi London, mod wUle-on M* jonrocjr 
King WBUhat wrote a letter to Iiim and fan fbllsw Ooraani 
MidelbaEne, ngnifTiag the jait Benw thK rnstpcinea enM«- 
OiMd of the gnU Mrsieetbe; had rendend to Ae cbom of 
ttm raiigion, bf Ihor uapudhlM deftmee of LMdoodenj; 
and aikaowltiguig tkat it Aen li^ on bh jwrt to mike nich i». 
trtlnitian ts tlHin,. ai eomaanden In ehirf, and to othen irbv 
bad ngnalizod tiieiiiichei hj Uttit tojitiAtj, eoaraga and pMicnea 
•t Hu« time of trial ; tiiaC all Itli lutijecta being enconraged by 
file KHople miglit be itined op to the imituion of It in riie^liko 

>a i1iin», but honorable enterprisea. He dedred thwn to rdy 

qpen bis royal ftvoar townds thennelTes, rad alto, that in Ihi 
aame, they wonid onure the ufBcera, airidiers, and infaaMUmtB of 
Iiondondeny, that he weald eake fitting aecatton to recompeBM 
their lerriees Kid infferings, >o that neither they, nor any of hi* 
Io*ing mliiect*, ihoidd Bver haire reaaan to repent then of bo 
iidtbfnl a diiehargB af thair di^. Thia letter waa dated at 
.^bmpton Conn, en the lath of Aagnat, 1699, and Bigned, at 
Kng William'a eonHnand, by the Earl of Shreirabury. 

On Ae appraach of the retetsn to London, be waa met by 
Or Stehat Cotton, who had coma oat t» Bamet to meet him, 
■Cd tank him with him into (be city in hia coach. 

At Ae mmmereoinneneemenC, inthit yearittieUnirenityof 
CJambridge, ffing WHOam bung^ pntnoC, bad hononred him with 
tte degree of Doctor of DiTinity. Qta the 19th of Se^ 
tember, the noUe and talented liady SMtd, widow of tbe 
anrtyicd Wittiani Lord RoHad, wrate a btter to Arcbblahop 
inilotaoD, tailing hita that King Wffiiam, bastdei hi< roy«l 
■omriy of fiv« thousand poonda to Br. Walfcar, irinae modeaty 
wms e^al to fail mertt, bad made him Kahap of Deny, one tt 
AebeitMdropncsni rTeland;i^t lo, heitil|$t receive the ■»• 
ward et Ms' great Mrrieei, in the place «^c» he had peffomwA 
fteiD. ItfaiDcreflifale, eaid tfaia wccomididied lady, who wu 
an onamanttobar Wi, how mneh every-bodyt* plMied wlA 
«b«t tbe king baa doM in tUi matter, nnd it la no tmall joy to 
■ttBtgaaa tS afQffdareetffbiwtodgaawiady. fUs buigmga 



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384 MOTEI. 

It in tbe itjle of Charlotte Eliubeth it the pretent dajr ; one 
■entence of it contains lolid matter for a long paragraph. On 
the 19th of NoTcmber tbe Englith House of Commons gsve b 
vote of thanka to Ihia venerable patriot for hii tervicei at Lon- 
deny, antl promptly complied with tbe king'i letter, to grant 
bioi theie five thouMnd pounds, which, ai irtemard* stated in 
tbe Irish Uoiwe o( Commoni, effected little more for him iban 
enabling him to discharge tbe debt) he bad incurred, in conse- 
quence of bis heroic undeitihing. Hia meed, and that of Mi> 
chelbume, Manaj, Cuirnes end Hamil, ought to be one of the 
forfeited estates for each of them. Who had a better claim to 
the estates of the Earls of Clancarty and Couitstown, Lord- 
Locan, Lord Gormanitown, Lord Clare and ItOtd Oslmoj', than 
they had ; tind historical fidelity is reluctantly compelled to re* 
cord, that King William, of glorious memory, was as deficient 
in that invaluable fuciitty, as Charles 11., wbo fattened his mur- 
dered Gilhei's enemies with the estates of bis best friends. 

On the 26th of February, 1690, tbe University of Oxford, fo). 
lowing the example of CBmbridge, conferred on Walker the 
degree of Doctor of Divinity. About this time the house of com- 
mons instituted an enquiry into the cause of the delays and mis. 
conduct in public affairs in Ireland. They insisted on seeing tbe 
minute books of the privy council, which bad managed [he afialr* 
of this country, and not latislied with them enamined ivitnesse*. 
Among these was Walker, of whom, a* well as of many others, 
they enquired nith peculiar accuracy into the conduct of Colonel 
Lundy, at thattimea prisoner in the tower, out of which he ought 
□otto have escaped without apublictrialfor high treason. The 
[aiihful governor bad written a letter to London during the siege 
of Derry, giving an account of ttiis unfortunate man, as to his 
treachery iu the capacity of governor of the city. It was published 
in thecourse of the preceding year, amoog other documents, under 
the title of" A true account of the present slate of Ireland, "and 
presented to the Earl of Shrewsbury. It wai written by & 
person, as stated in the title page, who had left Dublin with 
very considerable difficulty on the 8th of June, J68S. In. that 
letter Walker alleged, that Lord Mountjay had promised KiDg 
Jamca to make an instnuoent of tbe £titbleii Lnndy, to luin 



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the Protestants, and rendei tfaem incapable of oppoEing anj 
army which might march against them. That Lutidy bod said 
in Detry, that he would heartily fight Bgainat Lord Tycconnel, 
but not against King James. That he quietly sat in Derry on 
the approach of the besieging aim y ; sent seveist of the regiments 
leiaed for tea defence away from it, and deluded Lord King:slon, 
who might have come from Stigo, and was rendy to do so nith 
an army to defend the city. Tbat he had refused to send aminu- 
tion to Ballysfaaniion and EnniskiUen, whrn be bad plenty of it 
in Derry ; and it vas applied for from both places, vhich stood 
in great need of it ; and that he would not allow forage to be 
brought into Derry, though the neighbouring districts abounded 
with hay and oats, and had made a voluntary offer of both for 
the service of ihe garrison. That he terrified many and sent 
them off to Scotland, by exaggerated repreeentationa of theic 
danger, courting and inviting them to accept ofprotection, and to 
abandon the city. That when Colonel Sheldon hadadianced 
with his horse, Lundy drew out seven thousand men 
from Berry, pretending he would defend the pass over the 
Finn, at Clady; but gave the Colonel a sign to pus over the 
river, mying to hii arm; with a great oath, tbat he saw tbey 
would not figbt;and, though they were very willing and zealoui 
to engage, be then fled back to Deny, end shut the gates against 
thousands, pretending a scarcity of provisions, suffering them 
to perish with hunger, or fall a aacridce to the rage of their 
enemies. That he had sent away Colonels Cunningham and 
nichards, with the English regiments under their command, 
on pretence of a want of provisiona for ihem. And tbat hia 
treacberous designs had been discovered by a lady, who was bia 
relation, and unnaiily let out the secret, Lundy having pro. 
mised to make bis escape with her to England. 

Upon receiving testimonials to this effect from Walker, the 
House of Commons addressed the king, that tbe traitor should 
be tried by court martial ; but by aome metuii or other the re> 
quest was not complied with. 

Tbe House of Commons at this time, on Walkei'i snggestion, 
addressed the king and queen to distribute ten thousand pounda 
among ibe widows and orphuis of those who had Men in Derry 



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386 HMW. 

during tkail^s; bu^azcejit a peniioKta ilmwliowatO»t0niat 
Baker, mod uxKbor, with ■ gold cbuo, t« tke widow of Ca^ - 
Mill Btowaiag, whoie Teaiel bad broken th« boon acroaa tli* 
Foyla OB tb« day tbe dty wai rdiSTed, we ban no aMonnt of 
ujr eompluiiM witb tlu* rcMOUable leqiuat. 

The Iriah SoeieC; gai« Doctor Walker ampUBdid eata-Uin. 
ment before be left London, at whicb thii LordMi^of pmidedi 
and after hit ntnni to Irdand, tbe UnireisiEjr of Oxford aout 
hn a diploma of Doctor oi Dirioitr, 1b wbick wen tbe foU 
InriDg wofdi : " Bevetendnt rir Oeorgm* Walker, atrenoiu ipa« 
•c iDTictiu cirilstis Deremii ptopugoato^ atqaeaDdem facto 
totiu* UibeiniE, uti ipBTamiu, conicmtoi ae vindez," &c. 

Ongoing nitbihe DerrfAddieu to Kng WllUam and Qaoca 
U*rf,hewBt udviied to appear in the royal peseace dreaGedasB 
general ofllcei ; but tbis he declined to do, abaerving, that at no 
tine had be iniended to divest himielf of tbe deiical character, 
that bis doing lofar same oioadu in Deciy was forced npoohim 
hj aad necesiitj. He went furwaid diened in hit gown twd. 
GMfock. Sir Qodfrer Eoeller, at tbe king'i command, dreir 
hit picture, and copperplalei of it were diipeited thiougb thtt 
three kingdomi. 

He did not retain to Detrj;*ad when heeame bade to Zrdand, 
hit only journey inti wai under the protection of King WiU. 
liam'i army, with which he went from Ctrrickfergut to tbe 
Boyne, where he w&i killed with Duke Schontberg. King 
William, it it aaid, n'ith hia cbaracieriEtic coldneat of heart, 
obaeived on bearing of tbe bero'i late~-" Fool that he wm, what 
brought him here?" " Wordi," tayi Dalrymple, " which dieho' 
Doured the living, not the dead." In the eiistlDg state of tbe 
country, bis safeat post, even if ibat were an object to him, 
which it never had been, was with the . army ; and same allow- 
ance ought to have been made to the military propentitiea 
which he must have necessarily acquired in his heroic defence of 
Serry ; but his best defence for having taken srms in tbe main- 
tenance of the religion snd liberties of hia country, may be found 
from bis own pen, in the Vindication of his Diary of the Siege 
of Derry, which trat published fbr him at, London in the winter 
of 1669, page 21 ; and with It tblt note, and tbit Tolume, may 



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TTOTBi. 587 

nppropriBtelj conclade. "Mr. ITsIkei thinki it to be *□ act of 
JBrtice, wbirii be owei to binnelf and to bii profeMJon, to ex- 
plain the necewljr he ww imder to t«kc the govmnncDt of Lon- 
dondmyapoii hhn, for he wtil knowi it did engage him In 
•ome aetwm, that without nrch ntceuUf, be could not juitiff, 
Ifeiiie obSged by iris cost to be a man of peace. And some an* 
cient eanoni are ao ieren upon clergymen tating arms, that they 
liave been pnnimnced irregular upon doing eo ; but at the tame 
time clergymen are allovedtobe capable of the privilfgei of man- 
kind, and of dl ereatutes in the world, that tbey a)l nmy defend 
themielies, and there may be luch necessity upon them, that it ia 
their duty to doit. We donot iruit e:iamp1e9 of tbebestiort to 
make this mit, and if they failed, there is to mncti reason to back 
that practice, that be is afiledete that neglects it, 

■< The old cmioniats, indeed, do look npon it as a great absur- 
dity for de^yroen to meddle with arms, or engage tfaeniBelreB 
in -war ; and Ontian is s little more particiilar, and states the 
case of a decuman in a dege. and nndei those ciTcumstances, 
that be cannot well aroid annoying his enemy. 

*■ The jndicial notions tliBE christiann retuned in those days 
nade them look on anch a man as polluted ; and, therefore, ha 
liad some penance enjoined upon him, or lomedmes only re- 
commended to him ; though some proceed to that leverity upon 
this very fgundalion, that such a person must forbear exercising 
Ills function for some time. AU tbia is done to distinguish that 
Baaed ofBce from other piofessions, and to diicourage those who 
are set apart and dedicated to the mote pure service of the altar, 
from concerning themselves in any other employments; and, 
therefore, we End those laws, not only forbidding clergymen to 
turn soldiers, but aleo forbidding them 10 turn merchants ot 
lawyers, &c. ; and all this with Che greatest reason, for Ood has 
B property in such persona, as he has also in places and times set 
apart for his worship, and they ought not to be put to any other 
use. But Grotius brings the raaKec to a short issue, and after 
allowing all this, speaks of this very law, that obliges a clergjr- 
naii to that degree : ■ Qua, tamen lex, ut omnis ejus generis 
mmtDa neceritatls eiceptione inteltigendBBunti' that in eatea 
9I the greatest necessity it is not binding, and that all the 



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laws of that kind, are to be undentood, with eicq>tiont in caui 
of ntcenltj, for in such cuei he Temaiiu the ume man BtQI, 
and u diMhaiged of all manner of guilt orimpuritj', 

" Now Mr. Walker Ihinki hii case hai all the authority that 
the greatest neceuit; in the norld can give to anj «ctioii— the 
lirei of thoutandt, beeidei his own, were at stake ; his religion> 
that is dearer than all, and tiie English ftnd Scotch equally dear 
to hitn, next door to an utter extirpation out of Ireland. Not to 
speak of the danger of others ; how can an; one imagine that 
there ihould be an obligation upon anf man, that can eze 
or excuse his unconcernedness in such a case? 

" Mr. Walker confeeses, chat such reiformances would bare 
better become persons whose profeuion it was to do them, ai 
he would never bave envied them the einplo;nient ; but since 
the trouble came to bis sbare, and God Almigbt; has blessed 
him with BucceiB in bis underlsking, be hopes thoae who «ie 
inclined to blame bim, will be the more willing to excuse him i 
■nd to make it ettsj to them, that it might not be too great a 
favour to him, he thought St to shew the occB«ion of bis first 
taking the government of Londonderry, or rather to afaew the 
necessity that threw it upon faim, which he is sorry he c«i 
justify without reproaching others.'* 

Thrice bonoured ihade of Wilker win, 
Oh axM fou from tbt iturr lUst 



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" luplctie, linqniin In tpeculum. 



Xo. 1.— Gowrtwr Graee of AUilone. 

" Happil; for the Protntartta of tbe districts of Longford, 
Weetmenth onA EoBPommoii, lunounding the central town of 
Adilone, it iras in 1690 governed bf Colonel Ricbard Gmca ; 
tliey were saved from massacre by tba remains ot the army of 
I>OTd Mountouhel, flying in terror and exasperation from Lisnaa- 
kea, where they had been routed, with unparalleled loss, by the 
Enniakilliners. He restrained them with much difficulty from 
iBOlciting the protected and unprotected ProlcstantB ; — an act in 
strong eoDtmt witb tbose of General Douglu, who had, a short 
time before, commanded the English army before that town i 
and not only disi^arded the protections which had been given 
to (he Irish inhabitants, bnt suffered his army to oppress the 
Protcatanls who bad come to it for aafely. 

*• The Honorable Colonel Orsee was the jromiger son of 
Robert Oraee, of Moreliy Caatle, Bwon of Conrtstown, la 
the Ontce's cotintrr, now called Kilkenny county. He was a 
nan, «a cbuieally stated in the imctiption on his monumei 
Bt. Mary's Chunji, Athlooe, who reflected on andent btitli 
aplendonr of heroic charaeter; and who, opening bis way 
Ae eflieieaey of tdents and rirtiieB of the firtt -onler, to 
confidence of princes, approved himself true, under every rev 
tioD of fortune, to the tnut which was reposed in bin, ai>d.i 



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iWBiBMiulf UAfnl to llie eaiwe which trat tuictified bf thedea- 
■ion of hit bewt* He wu > soldier of the cIbm of Montrose ai>d 
Dmite, a friend of the Earl of Stnffbrd and the Dulce of Or. 
inonda. He conciliated the perianal favour of King Charles L, 
and fought hj hii lovereign'a lide until the nureader of Oaf<Md, 
in 1646, wlien further aupport of hi* royal master became uae- 
leM and bopeleai in England. 

" He then transferred hii unconquerable lojvltj' to Irelao^ 
where tbe conteit remained ardent and obstinate. On tbis new 
acene of action he distil iguiihed himielf at the head of very in- 
feiior forces, against Che armies of the commonwealth, and glo. 
ried in being the leader of his party, who submitted to Crom- 
well with reluctance, on being utterly routed by Colonel 
Sankey, in IC52. His descendant, Sheffield Once, Esq., b«s 
caused some copies to be made of a protrait of this dislinguished 
■oldier, which was originally engraved in Dublin, upwards of tt 
centuij ago, — in which this distinguished man, worthy of a bet- 
ter cause then that in support of which he lived and died, is re- 
presented in armour, with a noble and benign countenance, and 
sach as would lead Lavater or Spursheim to mark it as one that 
indicated valour and humanity.* 

" Tbe conditions upon which Colonel Grace snbmitted to the 
usurper's army, were such as bore testimony to his conBequenee 
ai an adversary ; and retiring from Ireland with twelve hundred 
devoted followers, he maintained an air of dignity in his defeat. 

" In Spain, lo which he first removed with his attached band, 
he displayed to the eyes of foreigner! that chivalrous valour 
which had covered him with renown in his native home, and he 
was every where acknowledged to be the same Richard Grace 
who had struggled so long and so fearlessly against the fonnid. 
•hie and fortunate Cromwell, whose sceptre commanded the 
homage of Europe. 

" On the restoration of the monarchy, he accompanied the 
royal &mily to England, as chamberlain to the Duke of York ; 
and when Ireland was again steeped in blood by the contMt be- 
tween James, the king, to whom he had sworn allegiance, and 



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'William, the elected lovereipi of the nation, ander ibe InBu. 
euce of hit chancteriMic loyaltfi he rc-appearedon the battle* 
field, from which he had been nearly foiiy years absent; and 
replacing tbe helmet on hit hoary bead, he manifcaCed all hi» 
juvenilB aidour in irarfare, and all that contempt of fortune and 
of life, aa light in the balance with duty, which he bad ex- 
hibited in the pride ofhia joulh, 

" In this war, as in that against tbe Republic, bis high dei- 
tiny appointed him to be amon^tbe latt who yielded only with 
bi« life. 

" While Governor Orace, firm on his own post m Governor 
Walker had been on Derry, survived, Athlone, which had been 
judiciously committe<< lo hia care, waa impregnable, however 
powerfully asaailed. Whsu he fell, aa he did, in the ruins of 
its citadel, a few days belure the battle of Aughiim, it was im. 
mediately lost, and with it one of tbe last hopes of tbe unfortu* 
nsle James. For valour and fidelity, says the writer of hii 
epitaph, we may look to the example of Colonel Richard Grace 
— for success and fortune to the history of others. He waa 
buried at Athlone on tbe 20th of June, 1691, and honqb fits 



In the Sloggan, or war cry of " Oraaaagh a Roe,"* a maturinl 
error has occurred inadvertently ; the name of Booth was eub- 
atitutedfor thatof Rooth. The following article, talcen from 
the Oentlenuan's Itlagszine for November, 1762, should have 
been appended as a note on the name of Shortall. 

"Mr. Thomas Shortall, who died on the Sath of October, 
1763, atLandreci, in French Flanders, was a native of Kil- 
kenny, in Ireland, aged one hundred and four yesrs, seven 
months and five days, having been bom on the 27lh of Decem< 
ber, 1657- At the siege of Limerick, in 169], he was a cap- 
tain of an hundred men in Orace's regimen% f<u he had been at 
th« BtUlleof AushriBii) and when part ai (be remains of the 
Irish army went in (he sama year to France, and were regi- 
mented, Shortall was put upon half pay. After his desth there 

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.wcrt taani uaaaghlMjtfmtt wAaiEit oFbb oitata, m-whiib 
wen MTcnl fine Mate. Of npaw^ of tUTtr-thownd IfiA. 
whowaUanrtoFnaea, liid.upwwdi •fan )nWira4>ri»aM»l 
wbohadfOMMHUiiee, &e«w thon^ -to be tka tabamnd- 

Sir WllUan Onee, BBBBat,8kaffieMOnca,'Gaq., jwd tliair 
Irother, Captain Percy Grace, of tiie npi rmrj, »n Ae a ef»i 
aantativM af hii aadaat and doUb fimiilf, beisg the mm* of 
Biebatd Gam, Ei(|.t mcaiWr of pariiament for the botooglxf 
Baltimore, one of tbe moat eatiouble genilmen tbia owuMiy 
cm pitidueed, wbo diad at.SonthriUe, in tha Qnaen** Cauntf i 
on tlie 8th of Janaaiy, 1801, at thepramatarBagvof forVraua, 
from a fatal aaddant vbieb bafel him, in Miiiting aame laboaiHS 
lo eat down a'tree.Bn Uideawiie. 

" The whole pxiihiof TulUroan, in tha conat; of Elikeuj, ' 
U iababiled bf ^NMia of liie name of Orace, the most reapeoU 
aUe of .vkom oecaaionalljp hold* bia owa plongfa, 

DuUlB. ISM.} 

No, S. — XTsjoT the Honorable RieAarJ WeMletaa, lecotxd ton 
^ tha Bight HoHoumblt Lard Hottmore. 
•• Ob, •boifi the itj fijr Hnikim keit, 

Tbia gentleman, who was Ihe (econd son of Ibe Right Hon. 
Lord Rossmore, and n worth; deaeendant of Sir Alexander 
Caimea, died on Ihe 7ch of June, 1899, bjr whieb lamented 
ercnl bia &mily were deprived of a beloied ralilioa, aocietj of 
on actire and honcnable member, and Ibe poor of a atead; and 
coniiderate friend. Evtty aet of hi* life accorded with 
the feelings of a bcart 'OTev&owiBg wHh more of disio- 
tsrestcd banendcnoe than tbe wocld appredata*. Mt ««er 
retumcd good for c^l.j and with a ^miad thui foroied £h 
the cultuie of ererj' thing that exalts mankind, a* if un< 
oMiarioua of his own merit*, be over arirfded diftincdon on 
the bright and emulou* atageof poUticttllO'ej no eommiuilt; vru 



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APPEKDIX. 393 

ther« more congenial wilb his feelings of peace end lore, and 
bartnony, thau Che aneiaiifiatemUy of free and accepted masons, 
whose SETcnil social virtues he ever cultivoted, which being 
brought lo ligbl in Ihe arniabU lenor of his life, made him one 
of their brightesl ornaments i and ivith sorrowing bearts be vral 
home to his long home by (be most dintinguished of that order, 
where, u well as in society, be Ufc a blank not to be filled up. 

No. 3.— Sir AUaaader Caimes. 

Sir Alexander Cnirnes wa> born in the year 16So. It does 
not appear that he took any active part in the troubles of the 
llevolution. In the early part of the eventful year 1688, ha 
seems to have taken s rttited and religious turn. On the 26lh 
of February, in (bat year, he drew up the following declaration, 
the original of wbicb is in the autograph of the writer, and in 
possession of Paulus ^miliua Singer, Esq., of Dublin, a 
descendsnt of the renowned Cairnes, of Knockmany, by Cumea 
Henderson, of Castletown, County Tyrone, Esq. It is a 
document well worthy of being preserved in the archives of a 
Amily, which has done and suffered so much as that of Cairnea, 
in maintenance of true religion in Ireland ; and it is an 
unusual coincidence, that thia Christian document has a parallel, 
in the preamble to the will of his renowned leUlive, Colonel 
David Caimes, dated at Londonderry, on the 19th October, 
1721, viz : 

•' O most dreadful God, for Ihe passion of thy Son, I 
beseech thee, accept of thy poor prodigal son, prostrating him- 
self at Thy door. I have fallen from Thee, by mine own 
iniquity, and am by nature, a son of death, and a thousand-fold 
more tlie Childe of Hell, by my wicked practiscB. 

" But, of Thine Infinite goodness. Thou hast promised 
mercy to me in Christ, if I will but turn to Thee with all my 
heart 1 herefore, upon the call of Thy Gospel, J am now 
come in, and throwing down my weapons, submit myself to Tby 

" And became Thou requirest, aa the condition of ray pMca 
with Thee, that J should put away mine idol*, and be at defiance 



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39* APPHITBIX. 

whh all ibine enemies, wbiA I w±TK)w)edge I wickedly d 
witli iguiiMChee — I here, from the bottsin of iDf heart, re 
tliem an, finnir cOTenmtinjt with Thee, nM to tUair ajadC in 
anjldiown «ii, but conscientioniTf to me all the meinKtbat I 
know Thon IiiibI prrscribeil, for the death and utter rfeatnictioii 
of ill my corruptions ; and ivbereas, I had fornerly, and inoTdi- 
nately, and tdolBlrously set out my affeetionB upon the world, I 
doe here recign up my heart to Thee Chat niadeBt it, humbly 
proteiting, before Thy glorioua Majeaty, that it ia the firm 
reMlntion of my heart, and I doe unfeignedly deaire grace from 
Thee, that wherever Thou ahalt call me to, I may practise this 
my resolution, through Thy aseietance, to forsake all that is dear 
to me in tbii world, raiher (han turn from thee in the waysof 
Bin. And that 1 will watch againet all ita temptations, whetbec 
of prosperity or advergliy, least they should withdraw my heart 
bom Thee — beseeching Tbee also to help me against the 
tempationa of Sathan, to whose wicked auggescions, I resolTc, 
by Thy Grace, never to yield myself a servant ; and because my 
own ligbteousnesB is but Sltby laga, I renounce all confidence 
theiein, and acknowledge that I an, of myself, a hopelen, 
helpless, and undone creature, without righteonsness or strength. 
And, forasmuch as thou hast, of thy bottomless mercy, offcied 
moat gradousty to me, wretched linoer, to be again my Ood, 
through Christ, if I would accept of Thee, I call Hearen and 
Earth to record this day, that I do lolemnly aTonch Thee fen 
the XfOrd my God, and with all possible veneration, bowing the 
neek of my soul vuder the feet of Thy most sacred Majesty, I 
doe here take the Lord Jehovah, Father, San, and Holy Qheet, 
for my portion and chief good, and doe give up myself, body 
and sodI, for Thy servant, promising and voiring to serve The^ 
in holiness and righteousness, al! the days of my life. And linte 
Thon bait appointed the Lord Jeans Christ, the only means of 
coming unto Thee, I doe here upon the bended knees oF ay 
•ool, accept of Qim as the only new and living way by which 
-'-ners may have aeeen to 'I'hec, and d»e here aolemnly jotD i 
■elf in a marringe covenant to Him. 

'Lord Jesus, I come to Thee, hungry and bad! j clothed ; | 
If, and wicked, and miterable, and blind, and naked, a mart 



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Appimiiix. 395 

, pollulad wreKh ; ■ guilty, condemned niilefactot, 
nnwottfajfor em to waih the feet of ibe •ecvMittof mj Lord,. 
BUBch mora to be lalemnly married to the King of glory, but. 
■eeing tuch It thine uaptnlleled love, I dcM here, with all my 
power.accept tbee, and doe take Thee for my head atidbusbon^ 
for better for wane, for richer for poorer, for all timea and 
conditioDB, to love, to honour, and to obey Thee before all 
other*, and thU to the death. 

" I embrace Thee in all Thine offices. I TenoniMe my own 
worthiness, and do herein avonch Tbee to be the Lord, mj 
lighteousneis. I renounce mine own will, and take Thy will 
for my law, and sincG Tbou haal told me I muat suffer if I arill 
reign, I do here covenant with Thee to take my lot u it falls 
witb Thee, and by Ttiy grace assitting, to run all haaards with 
Thee, verily aupposing that neither life nor death ahall part 
between Thee and me ; and became Thou bas been pleaaed to 
give me Tby holy law as the rule of my life, and the way which 
I should walk to Tby Kingdom, I do here willingly put my neck 
under Tby yoke, and my shoulder to thy burthen, and subscrib- 
ing to all Thy lews, as holy, juit, and good, I solemnly take 
them aa the rules of my words, and tboughta, and actions, 
promising, that, tbougb my flesh contradict and rebel, yet I will 
endeavour to order and govern my whole life, accordini* to Thy 
directions, and will not allow myself in tbe neglect of any thing 
that I know to be my duty — only, because, through tbe frailty 
of my flesh, I am sutject to many failings, I am bold humbly to 
protest, that no allowed miscarriage, or contrary to this declara- 
tion made, shall cause me to forget, or muke void this covenant 
for soe thou hast said. 

" Now, Almighty God, searcher of hearts, Thou kuowest 
that I make this covenant with thee this day, without any known 
guile or reservation, beseeching Thee, that if Tliou would dis- 
cover it to me, and help me to do aright. And now, glory be 
to Thee, O God, the Fuiber, nliom I shall he bold, fron> '>"'• 
day forward, to look upon as my God and Father, tha 
Thou shouldest have found out such a way for the recov 
undone linners. Glory be to Thee, O God, the Son, wb 
loved me, and wuhed me fmn ray sine, in thine own bloo 



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