[251] Avaux to Louis XIV., November 14/24 and January 15/25 1689-90. Louis XIV. to Avaux, December 25/January 4. De Sourches, April 18, 1689. Madame de Sévigné, May 31, 1690. Lauzun to Louvois, May 10/20, in Ranke's appendix. Letter of Rizzini in Haile's _Mary of Modena_, p. 261. Louis privately cautioned James against trusting Albeville, who was known to be corrupt. [252] Clarendon to Rochester, February 8, 1685-6. Proclamations of June 18 and 27, 1689. On September 19 Dr. King notes in his diary that 'the great gun which lay in Castle yard was taken away in order to be melted and coined.' Avaux to Louis XIV., December 12/22. On December 26/January 5 Louvois wrote to Avaux: 'Comme le roi a veu par vos lettres que le Roy d'Angleterre craignait de manquer de cuivre pour faire de la monnoye; Sa Majesté a donné ordre que l'on mist sur le bastiment qui portera cette lettre une piece de canon du calibre de deux qui est eventée, de laquelle ceux qui travaillent à la monnoye du Roy d'Angleterre pourront se servir pour continuer à faire de la monnoye, en attendant que les soixante et quinze milliers de cuivre que le Roy envoye soient arrivez.' [253] Proclamations of February 4 and 28, March 28, April 21, June 9 and 15, 1690; and July 10 (William III.). Avaux to Louis XIV., July 5/15, 1689; to Louvois, June 30/July 10; to Louis XIV., August 20/30 and September 10/20; to Louvois, November 1/11, November 26/December 6, 1689, and January 22/February 1, 1689-90. _Light to the Blind._ King's _State of the Protestants_, chap. iii. section 11. _Transactions of the Late King James in Ireland_, licensed July 7, 1690, p. 57. _Character of the Protestants of Ireland_, licensed November 13, 1689. This last well-written tract has been attributed to Halifax, but neither Miss Foxcroft nor Sir W. Raleigh mention it. Story's _Impartial History_, l. 93. Lauzun to Louvois, June 16/26, in Ranke's appendix. King makes the total base coinage 965,375_l._ Story learned from treasury officials that 'not much above' 1,100,000_l._ had been coined. The _True and Perfect Journal_, 1690, states the amount at about two millions. Tyrconnel's letter is in Haile's _Mary of Modena_, p. 258. [254] Captain Kennedy to the Scotch Council, December 12, in _Leven and Melville Papers_. Story's _Impartial History_, November to February, 1689-90. The author of _Light to the Blind_ says the attack on Newry was a mere reconnaissance and that there was no repulse. Schomberg says Boisseleau was there, State Papers, _Domestic_, December 6. As to the action at Cavan, besides the above and Berwick's memoirs, there are accounts in State Papers, _Domestic_, particularly Schomberg's letter, February 19, and that of Gustavus Hamilton, ambiguously calendared under March 21, 1689 (Addenda, p. 571).