BOOK IV

Chronicling Important Events in Ireland from the Arrival of James II in that Country until the Departure of the Duke of Berwick to France after the First Siege of Limerick, in 1690[259]

CHAPTER I

King James in Ireland—Enthusiastic Reception of Him by the Irish People—Military Operations[261]

CHAPTER II

Jacobites Foiled at Londonderry—Mountcashel Defeated at Newtown Butler—King James’s Irish Parliament[264]

CHAPTER III

King James’s Imprudent Acts—Witty Retort of a Protestant Peer—Architectural Features of Dublin[268]

CHAPTER IV

Composition of the Hostile Armies—King William Arrives in Ireland—Narrowly Escapes Death on Eve of Battle[271]