53: Ten years, says the French ambassador; twenty years, says
a Protestant fugitive.]

[Footnote 154: Animadversions on the proposal for sending back the
nobility and gentry of Ireland; 1689/90.]

[Footnote 155: King, iii. 10; The Sad Estate and Condition of Ireland,
as represented in a Letter from a Worthy Person who was in Dublin on
Friday last March. 1689; Short View by a Clergyman, 1689; Lamentation of
Ireland 1689; Compleat History of the Life and Actions of Richard,
Earl of Tyrconnel, 1689; The Royal Voyage, acted in 1689 and 1690. This
drama, which, I believe, was performed at Bartholomew Fair, is one of
the most curious of a curious class of compositions, utterly destitute
of literary merit, but valuable as showing what were then the most
successful claptraps for an audience composed of the common people. "The
end of this play," says the author in his preface, "is chiefly to expose
the perfidious base, cowardly, and bloody nature of the Irish." The
account which the fugitive Protestants give of the wanton destruction
of cattle is confirmed by Avaux in a letter to Lewis, dated April 13/23
1689, and by Desgrigny in a letter to Louvois, dated May 17/27. 1690.
Most of the despatches written by Avaux during his mission to Ireland
are contained in a volume of which a very few copies were printed some
years ago at the English Foreign Office. Of many I have also copies made
at the French Foreign Office. The letters of Desgrigny, who was employed
in the Commissariat, I found in the Library of the French War Office. I
cannot too strongly express my sense of the liberality and courtesy
with which the immense and admirably arranged storehouses of curious
information at Paris were thrown open to me.]

[Footnote 156: "A remarkable thing never to be forgotten was that they
that were in government then"--at the end of 1688--"seemed to favour us
and endeavour to preserve Friends." history of the Rise and Progress of
the People called Quakers in Ireland, by Wight and Rutty, Dublin, 1751.
King indeed (iii. 17) reproaches the Quakers as allies and tools of the
Papists.]

[Footnote 157: Wight and Rutty.]

[Footnote 158: Life of James, ii. 327. Orig. Mem. Macarthy and his
feigned name are repeatedly mentioned by Dangeau.]

[Footnote 159: Exact Relation of the Persecutions, Robberies and Losses
sustained by the Protestants of Killmare in Ireland, 1689.]

[Footnote 160: A true Representation to the King and People of England
ho