ootnote 677: Lauzun to Louvois, June 16/26. The messenger who brought
the news to Lauzun had heard the guns and seen the bonfires. History
of the Wars in Ireland by an Officer of the Royal Army, 1690; Lire
of James, ii. 392., Orig. Mem.; Burnet, ii. 47. Burnet is strangely
mistaken when he says that William had been six days in Ireland before
his arrival was known to James.]

[Footnote 678: A True and Perfect Journal of the Affairs of Ireland by a
Person of Quality, 1690; King, iii. 18. Luttrell's proclamation will be
found in King's Appendix.]

[Footnote 679: Villare Hibernicum, 1690.]

[Footnote 680: The order addressed to the Collector of Customs will be
found in Dr. Reid's History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.]

[Footnote 681: "La gayete peinte sur son visage," says Dumont, who saw
him at Belfast, "nous fit tout esperer pour les heureux succes de la
campagne."]

[Footnote 682: Story's Impartial Account; MS. Journal of Colonel
Bellingham; The Royal Diary.]

[Footnote 683: Story's Impartial Account.]

[Footnote 684: Lauzun to Louvois, June 23/July 3 1690; Life of James,
ii. 393, Orig. Mem.]

[Footnote 685: Story's Impartial Account; Dumont MS.]

[Footnote 686: Much interesting information respecting the field of
battle and the surrounding country will be found in Mr. Wilde's pleasing
volume entitled "The Beauties of the Boyne and Blackwater."]

[Footnote 687: Memorandum in the handwriting of Alexander, Earl of
Marchmont. He derived his information from Lord Selkirk, who was in
William's army.]

[Footnote 688: James says (Life, ii 393. Orig. Mem.) that the country
afforded no better position. King, in a thanksgiving sermon which he
preached at Dublin after the close of the campaign, told his hearers
that "the advantage of the post of the Irish was, by all intelligent
men, reckoned above three to one." See King's Thanksgiving Sermon,
preached on Nov 16. 1690, before Lords Justices. This is, no doubt, an
absurd exaggeration. But M. de la Hoguette, one of the principal French
officers who was present at the battle of the Boyne, informed Louvois
that the Irish army occupied a good defensive position, Letter of La
Hoguette from Limerick, July 31/Aug 1690.]

[Footnote 689: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, March, 1690.]

[Footnote 690: See the Historical records of the Regiments of the
British army, and Story's list of the army of William as it passed in
review at Finglass, a week after the battle.]

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