[232] Hamilton and McCarmick.
[233] McCarmick.
[234] The roads through the boggy flats of upper Lough Erne were paved. Mr. Thomas Plunkett, of Enniskillen, who knows more than anyone of the subject, has found some bits of these causeways, but the exact line taken by Wolseley and Berry cannot now be traced. The drainage works at Belleek have done much to dry the country.
[235] Hamilton and McCarmick. Wolseley’s own account to Kirke is dated August 2 in London Gazette, 2481. Kirke’s letters of August 5, ib. Avaux writes to Louis XIV., August 4/14: ‘Ceux d’Enniskillen estant venus à la debandade mais fort hardiment attaquer My lord Moncassel, la cavalerie et les dragons ont lâché pied sans tirer un coup depistolet,’ and on the same day to Louvois: ‘Ces mesmes dragons qui avaient fuy le matin lâcherent le pied, &c.’ MacCarthy’s force was much the larger of the two, but it is impossible to give exact numbers. For the reception of the news by James, see Avaux to Louis XIV., November 14/24. Harris’s account is taken from Hamilton. A Light to the Blind minimises the defeat, but Kirke says it was the greatest blow to the Irish since Scariffhollis. Macariæ Excidium, chap. xxxvi. Under August 16, Luttrell’s Diary says Wolseley had 2000 men and MacCarthy 7000, which is doubtless much exaggerated. MacCarmick says the Irish were estimated at 6000, and that only some 2000 escaped.
[236] MacCarmick. Letter to Abigail Harley, May 9, 1690, Portland Papers, iii. 448. Colonel Filgate has traced the history of many Irish regiments.
[237] Walker’s True Account and papers printed with it and the Vindication. Note 113 to Dwyer’s edition of the same. Luttrell’s Diary, August and September 1689. Wood’s Fasti Oxonienses, p. 234, February 26, 1689-90, and his Life and Times, ed. Clark, ii. 326. Tillotson to Lady Russell, September 19, 1689, in her Letters. Dawson’s memoir of Walker in Ulster Journal of Archæology, ii. 129.
[238] Naming Walker, Mackenzie, and other preachers, the author of the Londeriad says:—
From sun rising to sun setting they taught,
While we against the en’my bravely fought.
Thus Heaven assists those actions which proceed
From Unity in greatest time of need.
In my copy of Mackenzie’s Narrative of the Siege (March 31, 1690) is written in a contemporary hand: ‘A partial account against Kirk, Walker, &c., on behalf of the fanatick party.’ The controversy is handled by Macaulay, chap. xv., with the titles of the pamphlets in a note. It is fully but not impartially treated in chap. viii. of Witherow’s Derry and Enniskillen, 3rd edition, Belfast, 1885. Burnet, ii. 19, and the Supplement, ed. Foxcroft, 321.