[190] Exact Relation, ut sup.
[191] Exact Relation, ut sup. Orpen says eight families were detained by the Irish officers ‘as slaves to work for them at their iron-works, which none of the natives were skilful in.’ Fifteen hundred pounds worth of bar and pig iron was left behind. There is a picture of the ‘white house’ of Killowen in its present ruined state in Fitzmaurice’s Life of Petty.
[192] The rank of the French officers is mentioned by Rousset, but according to Dangeau, Boisseleau was only a captain in the Guards, while Pusignan was already a marechal de camp. Abbé Bronchi to Duke of Modena, March 11/21, in Campana-Cavelli; Rosen to Louvois, March 16/26, ib.; De Sourches, iii., February 5/15 and 15/26. A full and true account of the landing, &c., April 1, 1689. The Marquis de la Fare notes in his memoirs that Barillon realised how he had been duped by Sunderland, ‘et je crois qu’il est mort de regret.’
[193] King, iii., xiii. 2. A Short View of the Methods made use of in Ireland, &c., by a clergyman lately escaped from thence, licensed October 17, 1689, dedicated to Burnet. Smith’s Cork. Leslie in his answer to King says Brown resisted the sheriff and that a man was killed in the scuffle, this accounting for James’s unusual harshness in that case. Sir Lawrence Parsons, who was included in the great Act of Attainder, had defended his own house at Birr. He surrendered it on conditions, and Baron Lynch sentenced him to be hanged, drawn, and quartered for articling with the King, but he did not actually suffer. Howell’s State Trials, xii. no. 364.
[194] Full and true account of the landing, 1689. A Light to the Blind. A Short View of the Methods, ut sup. Avaux to Louvois, April 14; to Louis XIV., April 23.
[195] Louis XIV.’s instruction to Avaux, February 1/11, 1688-9, and March 2/12, and Avaux’s answer, March 17/27. Avaux to Louvois, April 4/14. Louvois to Avaux, June 3/13.
[196] Avaux to Louis, May 27. Writing to Croissy on October 21 he calls Melfort ‘grand fourbe et qui ment plus effrontément qu’aucun homme que j’ai jamais vu.’ For Melfort’s opinion of Avaux, see Pointis on September 5 in Rousset’s Louvois, ii. 214. Afterwards, when Melfort was at Rome, Mary of Modena insisted on his forgiving Tyrconnel. He obeyed: ‘but without a fault to let loose a pack of about fifty nephews against me, besides the females, and all the time protest all manner of friendship and respect for me, swearing he could not tell what could be done when I was gone, to send his Duchess to cry an hour at my lodgings and make me cry too for company, and all this while harbour malice in his heart is horrible,’ Ellis’s Original Letters, 2nd series, iv. 187. ‘The King went to Ireland only in order to go to England,’ Melfort’s memorial of October 20, 1689, in Macpherson, i. 334.
[197] Proclamations of March 25 and April 1, 1689.
[198] Mackenzie’s Narrative. Macpherson’s Original Papers. Avaux to Louvois, March 4/14. Belfast was effectually protected by King James’s Government until Schomberg’s arrival made it no longer necessary, document in Benn’s Belfast, p. 165.
[199] Instructions to Lundy, February 21, and to James Hamilton, February 22, in Mackenzie. Declaration of Union in Walker’s True Account.