FN 103 Macariae Excidium; Life of James, ii 456.; Light to the
Blind.

FN 104 Macariae Excidium.

FN 105 Story’s Continuation.

FN 106 Burnet, ii. 79.; Story’s Continuation.

FN 107 “They maintained their ground much longer than they had been accustomed to do,” says Burnet.  “They behaved themselves like men of another nation,” says Story.  “The Irish were never known to fight with more resolution,” says the London Gazette.

FN 108 Story’s Continuation; London Gazette, July 20. 23. 1691; Memoires de Berwick; Life of James, ii. 456.; Burnet, ii. 79.; Macariae Excidium; Light to the Blind; Letter from the English camp to Sir Arthur Rawdon, in the Rawdon Papers; History of William the Third, 1702.

The narratives to which I have referred differ very widely from each other.  Nor can the difference be ascribed solely or chiefly to partiality.  For no two narratives differ more widely than that which will be found in the Life of James, and that which will be found in the memoirs of his son.

In consequence, I suppose, of the fall of Saint Ruth, and of the absence of D’Usson, there is at the French War Office no despatch containing a detailed account of the battle.

FN 109 Story’s Continuation.

FN 110 Story’s Continuation; Macariae Excidium; Life of James, ii. 464.; London Gazette, July 30., Aug. 17. 1691; Light to the Blind.

FN 111 Story’s Continuation; Macariae Excidium; Life of James, ii. 459; London Gazette, July 30., Aug. 3. 1691.

FN 112 He held this language in a letter to Louis XIV., dated the 5/15th of August.  This letter, written in a hand which it is not easy to decipher, is in the French War Office.  Macariae Excidium; Light to the Blind.

FN 113 Macariae Excidium; Life of James, ii. 461, 462.

FN 114 Macariae Excidium; Life of James, ii. 459. 462.; London Gazette, Aug. 31 1691; Light to the Blind; D’Usson and Tesse to Barbesieux, Aug. 13/23.

FN 115 Story’s Continuation; D’Usson and Tesse to Barbesieux Aug. 169r.  An unpublished letter from Nagle to Lord Merion of Auk. 15.  This letter is quoted by Mr. O’Callaghan in a note on Macariae Excidium.

FN 116 Macariae Excidium; Story’s Continuation.

FN 117 Story’s Continuation; London Gazette, Sept. 28. 1691; Life of James, ii. 463.; Diary of the Siege of Lymerick, 1692; Light to the Blind.  In the account of the siege which is among the archives of the French War Office, it is said that the Irish cavalry behaved worse than the infantry.

FN 118 Story’s Continuation; Macariae Excidium; R. Douglas to Sir A. Rawdon, Sept. 25. 1691, in the Rawdon Papers; London Gazette, October 8.; Diary of the Siege of Lymerick; Light to the Blind; Account of the Siege of Limerick in the archives of the French War Office.