May 18. 1689.]

[Footnote 128: A True Relation of the Actions of the Inniskilling men,
by Andrew Hamilton, Rector of Kilskerrie, and one of the Prebends of the
Diocese of Clogher, an Eyewitness thereof and Actor therein, licensed
Jan. 15. 1689/90; A Further Impartial Account of the Actions of the
Inniskilling men, by Captain William Mac Cormick, one of the first that
took up Arms, 1691.]

[Footnote 129: Hamilton's True Relation; Mac Cormick's Further Impartial
Account.]

[Footnote 130: Concise View of the Irish Society, 1822; Mr. Heath's
interesting Account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers, Appendix 17.]

[Footnote 131: The Interest of England in the preservation of Ireland,
licensed July 17. 1689.]

[Footnote 132: These things I observed or learned on the spot.]

[Footnote 133: The best account that I have seen of what passed at
Londonderry during the war which began in 1641 is in Dr. Reid's History
of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.]

[Footnote 134: The Interest of England in the Preservation of Ireland;
1689.]

[Footnote 135: My authority for this unfavourable account of the
corporation is an epic poem entitled the Londeriad. This extraordinary
work must have been written very soon after the events to which it
relates; for it is dedicated to Robert Rochfort, Speaker of the House
of Commons; and Rochfort was Speaker from 1695 to 1699. The poet had
no invention; he had evidently a minute knowledge of the city which
he celebrated; and his doggerel is consequently not without historical
value. He says

"For burgesses and freemen they had chose
Broguemakers, butchers, raps, and such as those
In all the corporation not a man
Of British parents, except Buchanan."

This Buchanan is afterwards described as

"A knave all o'er
For he had learned to tell his beads before."]

[Footnote 136: See a sermon preached by him at Dublin on Jan. 31. 1669.
The text is "Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's
sake."]

[Footnote 137: Walker's Account of the Siege of Derry, 1689; Mackenzie's
Narrative of the Siege of Londonderry, 1689; An Apology for the failures
charged on the Reverend Mr. Walker's Account of the late Siege of
Derry, 1689; A Light to the Blind. This last work, a manuscript in the
possession of Lord Fingal, is the work of a zealous Roman Catholic and a
mortal enemy of England. Large extracts from it are among the Mackintosh
MSS. The