date in the titlepage is 1711.]

[Footnote 138: As to Mountjoy's character and position, see Clarendon's
letters from Ireland, particularly that to Lord Dartmouth of Feb. 8.,
and that to Evelyn of Feb. 14 1685/6. "Bon officier, et homme d'esprit,"
says Avaux.]

[Footnote 139: Walker's Account; Light to the Blind.]

[Footnote 140: Mac Cormick's Further Impartial Account.]

[Footnote 141: Burnet, i. 807; and the notes by Swift and Dartmouth.
Tutchin, in the Observator, repeats this idle calumny.]

[Footnote 142: The Orange Gazette, Jan. 10 1688/9.]

[Footnote 143: Memoires de Madame de la Fayette.]

[Footnote 144: Burnet, i. 808; Life of James, ii. 320.; Commons'
Journals, July 29. 1689.]

[Footnote 145: Avaux to Lewis, Mar 25/April 4 1659.]

[Footnote 146: Clarke's Life of James, ii. 321.; Mountjoy's Circular
Letter, dated Jan. 10 1688/9;; King, iv. 8. In "Light to the Blind"
Tyrconnel's "wise dissimulation" is commended.]

[Footnote 147: Avaux to Lewis April, 11. 1689.]

[Footnote 148: Printed Letter from Dublin, Feb. 25. 1689; Mephibosheth
and Ziba, 1689.]

[Footnote 149: The connection of the priests with the old Irish families
is mentioned in Petty's Political Anatomy of Ireland. See the Short
View by a Clergyman lately escaped, 1689; Ireland's Lamentation, by an
English Protestant that lately narrowly escaped with life from thence,
1689; A True Account of the State of Ireland, by a person who with great
difficulty left Dublin, 1689; King, ii. 7. Avaux confirms all that these
writers say about the Irish officers.]

[Footnote 150: At the French War Office is a report on the State of
Ireland in February 1689. In that report it is said that the Irish who
had enlisted as soldiers were forty-five thousand, and that the number
would have been a hundred thousand if all who volunteered had been
admitted. See the Sad and Lamentable Condition of the Protestants in
Ireland, 1689; Hamilton's True Relation, 1690; The State of Papist
and Protestant Properties in the Kingdom of Ireland, 1689; A true
Representation to the King and People of England how Matters were
carried on all along in Ireland, licensed Aug. 16. 1689; Letter from
Dublin, 1689; Ireland's Lamentation, 1689; Compleat History of the Life
and Military Actions of Richard, Earl of Tyrconnel, Generalissimo of all
the Irish forces now in arms, 1689.]

[Footnote 151: See the proceedings in the State Trials.]

[Footnote 152: King, iii. 10.]

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