[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. CHAPTER LIII JAMES II. AND SCHOMBERG, 1689-1690 [Sidenote: Schomberg's preparations.]