Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690Bagwell, Richard
History
Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690
Bagwell, Richard
Ireland -- History -- 17th century
[241] Story's _Impartial History_, pp. 7-10. Schomberg to King William,
August 27, State Papers, _Domestic_. _Light to the Blind._ The articles
of capitulation are in Story's _Continuation_ and in McSkimmin's
_History of Carrickfergus_, part i. Letter printed in Benn's _History
of Belfast_, p. 171. Nihill's Journal in Macpherson's _Original
Papers_, i. 222. Letter of September 2 in _Le Fleming Papers_.
[242] Story's _Impartial History_, pp. 10-16, 38--'A regiment of
Dutch were so well hutted that not above eleven of them died the
whole campaign.' Schomberg letters of September 20 and 21 and January
9, 1689-90, in State Papers, _Domestic_, and Dalrymple. He says the
English were 'si delicatement élevés,' that in all countries he had
seen them die off at the beginning of a campaign. Early in the journal,
in Kazner appx. no. 85, it is said that the English nation 'veut assez
être conduite à son sens et n'aime que peu la subordination quoiqu'au
reste très belliqueuse,' and under September 9 the writer says the
English soldiers liked no law but 'leurs fantaisies.' Writing on
October 8, 1689, Schomberg says his levies were as raw as those of King
James, but the latter twice as numerous, _Leven and Melville Papers_.
General Douglas's opinion of the English soldiers is in Evelyn's
_Diary_, February 19, 1689-90: they were very brave and very badly
treated. Dumont de Bostaquet, whose _Mémoires inédits_ were published
in 1864, was with Schomberg in September 1689, and describes the
Enniskilleners as very good troops, but 'trop picoreurs.'
[243] Story's _Impartial Hist._, pp. 17-28. _Light to the Blind._ Avaux
to Louis XIV., August 20/30, August 28/September 7, September 10/20,
September 17/27. In the last it is mentioned that Rosen visited the
outposts at midnight and found all sentries and vedettes asleep, 'sans
en excepter pas un.' Same to same, October 21/31. Nihill's journal
in Macpherson, i. 222. _Memoires_ du Marquis de Sourches, September
19/29. Schomberg to William III., September 15, 20, 27, October 3, 6,
State Papers, _Domestic_; and Dalrymple. Lord Lisburn to Shrewsbury,
September 25, _ib._ A Jacobite account is in _A relation of what
most remarkably happened_, 1689. On October 28 Dangeau notes that
Avaux had told the French King that James's army was in a good state,
twenty-eight battalions of 600 men, sixteen squadrons of cavalry and
ten of dragoons. He offered battle in two lines, leaving a reserve
under Sutherland. Hamilton was at the centre of the first line with the
King, Tyrconnel on the right, Rosen and Galway on the left. Berwick was
at the centre of the second line with Sarsfield on the right. A diagram
sent by Avaux is in Dangeau's _Diary_, iii. 23.
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