[232] "The piousest man I ever knew." Burnet.
[233] The French had introduced this improvement some time before.
[234] Cal S. P., Dom., Schomberg to the King, 27th August 1689.
[235] But this was nothing uncommon in all the armies of Europe. French ordnance would break down in the same way, and many of the guns at Carrickfergus were Dutch. See Belhomme, L'Armée Française en 1690, p. 131; and Commons Journals, 19th March 1706-7.
[236] Cal. S. P., Dom., 12th September 1689.
[237] Authorities in Macaulay.
[238] Cal. S. P., Dom., Schomberg to the King, 3rd October 1689.
[239] See Rymer's Fœdera, anno 1346.
[240] Harbord's letter, Cal. S. P., Dom., 18th September 1689.
[241] Schomberg's letter, ibid. 20th September 1689.