erent thing, and had been recently promoted to the rank of
Lieutenant General.]

[Footnote 195: Avaux, April 4/14 1689, Among the MSS. in the British
Museum is a curious report on the defences of Londonderry, drawn up in
1705 for the Duke of Ormond by a French engineer named Thomas.]

[Footnote 196: Commons' Journals, August 12. 1689.]

[Footnote 197: The best history of these transactions will be found
in the journals of the House of Commons, August 12. 1689. See also the
narratives of Walker and Mackenzie.]

[Footnote 198: Mackenzie's Narrative,]

[Footnote 199: Walker and Mackenzie.]

[Footnote 200: See the Character of the Protestants of Ireland 1689, and
the Interest of England in the Preservation of Ireland, 1689. The former
pamphlet is the work of an enemy, the latter of a zealous friend.]

[Footnote 201: There was afterwards some idle dispute about the question
whether Walker was properly Governor or not. To me it seems quite clear
that he was so.]

[Footnote 202: Mackenzie's Narrative; Funeral Sermon on Bishop Hopkins,
1690.]

[Footnote 203: Walker's True Account, 1689. See also The Apology for the
True Account, and the Vindication of the True Account, published in the
same year. I have called this man by the name by which he was known in
Ireland. But his real name was Houstoun. He is frequently mentioned in
the strange volume entitled Faithful Contendings Displayed.]

[Footnote 204: A View of the Danger and Folly of being publicspirited,
by William Hamill, 1721]

[Footnote 205: See Walker's True Account and Mackenzie's Narrative.]

[Footnote 206: Walker; Mackenzie; Avaux, April 26/May 6 1689. There is a
tradition among the Protestants of Ulster that Maumont fell by the sword
of Murray: but on this point the report made by the French ambassador
to his master is decisive. The truth is that there are almost as many
mythical stories about the siege of Londonderry as about the siege of
Troy. The legend about Murray and Maumont dates from 1689. In the Royal
Voyage which was acted in that year, the combat between the heroes is
described in these sonorous lines]

"They met; and Monsieur at the first encounter Fell dead, blaspheming,
on the dusty plain, And dying, bit the ground."]

[Footnote 207: "Si c'est celuy qui est sorti de France le dernier, qui
s'appelloit Richard, il n'a jamais veu de siege, ayant toujours servi en
Rousillon."--Louvois to Avaux, June 8/18. 1689.]

[Footnote 208: Walker; Macke