ly to hide the shame of his defeat. Story, who was on the spot
say, "It was cloudy all about, and rained very fast, so that every body
began to dread the consequences of it;" and again "The rain which had
already falled had soften the ways... This was one reason for raising
the siege; for, if we had not, granting the weather to continue bad, we
must either have taken the town, or of necessity have lost our cannon."
Dumont, another eyewitness, says that before the siege was raised the
rains had been most violent; that the Shannon was swollen; that the
earth was soaked; that the horses could not keep their feet.]

[Footnote 755: London Gazette, September 11 1690; Narcissus Luttrell's
Diary. I have seen a contemporary engraving of Covent Garden as it
appeared on this night.]

[Footnote 756: Van Citters to the States General, March 19/29. 1689.]

[Footnote 757: As to Marlborough's expedition, see Story's Impartial
History; the Life of James, ii. 419, 420.; London Gazette, Oct. 6.
13. 16. 27. 30. 1690; Monthly Mercury for Nov. 1690; History of King,
William, 1702; Burnet, ii. 60.; the Life of Joseph Pike, a Quaker of
Cork]

[Footnote 758: Balcarras; Annandale's Confession in the Leven and
Melville Papers; Burnet, ii. 35. As to Payne, see the Second Modest
Inquiry into the Cause of the present Disasters, 1690.]

[Footnote 759: Balcarras; Mackay's Memoirs; History of the late
Revolution in Scotland, 1690; Livingstone's Report, dated May 1; London
Gazette, May 12. 1690.]

[Footnote 760: History of the late Revolution in Scotland, 1690.]

[Footnote 761: Mackay's Memoirs and Letters to Hamilton of June 20. and
24. 1690 Colonel Hill to Melville, July 10 26.; London Gazette, July
17. 21. As to Inverlochy, see among the Culloden papers, a plan for
preserving the peace of the Highlands, drawn up, at this time, by the
father of President Forbes.]

[Footnote 762: Balcarras.]

[Footnote 763: See the instructions to the Lord High Commissioner in the
Leven and Melville Papers.]

[Footnote 764: Balcarras.]

[Footnote 765: Act. Parl. June 7. 1690.]

[Footnote 766: Balcarras.]

[Footnote 767: Faithful Contendings Displayed; Case of the present
Afflicted Episcopal Clergy in Scotland, 1690.]

[Footnote 768: Act. Parl. April 25. 1690.]

[Footnote 769: See the Humble Address of the Presbyterian Ministers and
Professors of the Church of Scotland to His Grace His Majesty's High
Commissioner and to the Right Honourable the Estate