[244] Schomberg to William III., September 20-27 and November 14, State Papers, _Domestic_. Caillemote to Shrewsbury, September 23, _ib._ Story's _Impartial History_, p. 25. Letter in _Le Fleming Papers_, October 24. Dumont, who had fled from Normandy to Holland to escape the dragonnades, throws light on the sincerity of official conversions in France: he had received absolution from a conscientious priest at Rouen, who told him to take his time and not to go to church till he had reflected, 'ce que j'ai executé fort religieusement, n'ayant jamais entendu de messe ni participé à leurs mystères.' Luttrell, i. 613. [245] Story's _Impartial History_. Schomberg's letters from September to December 1689, in State Papers, _Domestic_. W. Harbord to William III., October 23, _ib._ Newsletter of November 28, _ib._ Luttrell's _Diary_, October and November, particularly November 15, where it is noted that letters from Ireland report a mortality of at least 10,000 in the Jacobite army. Evelyn's _Diary_, February 19, 1689-90. Mr. Waller's evidence in Grey's _Debates_, November 26. During the terrible days of December 1812, after Napoleon deserted his army, Segur testifies to the extreme demoralisation of the survivors: 'Tels que les sauvages, les plus forts dépouillaient les plus faibles: ils accouraient autour des mourants, souvent ils n'attendaient pas leurs derniers soupirs.' Dumont lay in the Dundalk hospital for four weeks with enteric fever and actually recovered. [246] Schomberg's letters, _ut sup._ Story's _Impartial History_, vol. i. _Commons Journal_, November 26, December 2 and 16. Grey's _Debates_, November 26. A defence of Shales is attempted in Walton's _Hist. of the British Army_, p. 74. Foxcroft's _Halifax_, ii. 82. On February 19, 1689-90, Evelyn met General Douglas at dinner, who mentioned 'the exceeding neglect of the English soldiers, suffering severely for want of clothes and necessaries this winter, exceedingly magnifying their courage and bravery during all their hardships.' [247] Story's _Impartial History_, pp. 25, 34. Avaux's narrative sent to Seignelay on November 24/December 6, 1689. Luttrell's _Diary_, October 3, November 15. State Papers, _Domestic_, November 28. Clarke's _Life of James II._, ii. 383. [248] Stevens, p. 72. _Light to the Blind_, p. 90. _Macariæ Excidium_, p. 38. Avaux to Louis XIV., November 14/24 1689, and February 1/11, 1689-90. [249] Louis XIV. to Avaux, May 24 and November 16, 1689. Avaux to Louis XIV., November 24. Dangeau, January 6, 1689-90. De Sourches, November 19, February 20. Bussy Rabutin to Madame de Sévigné, March 23, 1689. [250] Avaux to Louvois, October 11/21, 1689, and April 2/12, 1690. Louvois to Buridal, May 11, 1690, in Rousset, iv. 383. Schomberg considered that MacCarthy had broken his parole, but he was acquitted by a Court Martial in France. A sergeant whom he had bribed was executed. The regiments that sailed were those of MacCarthy himself, Butler, O'Brien, Fielding, and Dillon.