[217] King knew that great reforms were desirable in the Established Church, and he did what he could. But he saw clearly that the great exodus to England would cause fatal jealousies between those who stuck to their duty and those who ran away, Bonnell to Strype, August 5, 1690. [218] Act 29 for the advancement of trade. Act 21 for excluding English coal. Proclamations of November 24, 1689, against wrecking empty houses, and of November 29 for encouraging the conveyance of coal from Kilkenny. On November 14/24 Avaux writes to Louis XIV., 'Ce qu'on avait de bois et de charbon pour un écu en coûte quatre, et il faut envoyer bien loin à la campagne pour en pouvoir trouver.' [219] _Journal and a Letter_ from Dublin, licensed July 6, 1689. _True Account of the State of Ireland_, 1689. Act 24. _List of the Names_, &c., licensed March 26, 1689, p. 41. Copies of the orders, &c., in King's appendix no. 24. Avaux to Louis XIV., February 1/11, 1690. In a report to James dated June 4/14, 1689, Avaux had written: 'Votre Majesté sait que les sheriffs et les particuliers qu'on employe à la recherche de ces biens sont les premiers à souffrir qu'on les detourne moyennant quelques presens qu'on les fait.' [220] Acts 19 and 27. Avaux to Louvois, April 6/16, 1689, and the answer, June 13. Writing to Louis on June 30/July 10, Avaux says James 'a un coeur trop anglais pour se determiner à rien qui puisse chagriner les Anglais, c'est-ce qui arreste l'affaire des laines.' [221] _Light to the Blind_, p. 70. 'By the sitting of this Parliament,' says John Stevens, p. 70, 'the army was much damaged and weakened, the King lost the assistance of many of his friends, and gained a vast number of irreconcilable enemies.' King James, says Colonel O'Kelly, 'convoked the states of the kingdom, and as if in time of peace and leisure spent in unnecessary consultations the whole summer season, which might be better employed to go on more rigorously with the siege of Londonderry,' _Macariæ Excidium_, p. 33. King says it was 'manifestly against his interest to call a Parliament,' chap. iii. sec. 12, 5. Besides anything given to Tyrconnel by his private Act, there appear to have been other grants. According to the _Sheridan MS._, James regretted at St. Germains that he had been tricked into giving him 50,000_l._ a year while only intending 12,000_l._ The extreme Irish party, of which Bishop O'Molony was the soul, condemned this Parliament for not repealing Poynings' Act, Macpherson, i. 339. CHAPTER LII LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN, 1689 [Sidenote: The siege of Londonderry.] [Sidenote: Difficulties of the besiegers.]