Taken from A History of Ireland by Eleanor Hull
[1] Macariae Excidium, pp. 42-45; and see J. T. Gilbert, A Jacobite Narrative of the War in Ireland, 1688-1691 (1892), p. 63; C. Leslie, Answer to a book entitled, The State of the Protestants in Ireland, (1692), pp. 7, 8.
[2] Negotiations de M. le Comte d'Avaux en Irlande, 1689-90 (1860). This correspondence gives an almost daily report of events in Ireland from the French point of view. It was privately printed by the English Foreign Office; and cf. Macarice Excidium, p. 45.
[3] Rev. George Walker, The Siege of Londonderry, ed. P. Dwyer (1893).
[4] G. Story, Impartial History of the Wars in Ireland (1693), pp. 27-31, 35-39.
[5] Macariae Excidium, p. 40-41.
[6] Ibid. p. 47.
[7] J. S. Clarke, Life of James II, edited from the King's own Memoirs, ii, 373.
[8] Story op. cit., p. 88; Harris, History of William of Orange (1749), p. 271; C. Leslie, op. cit., Appendix No. 21, p. 71.
[9] J. T. Gilbert, A Jacobite Narrative of the War in Ireland, 1688-1691 p. 105.
[10] J. T. Gilbert, op. cit., p. 109.
[11] Memoirs of the Duke of Berwick (1779), i, 95.
[12] Ibid., i, pp. 95-96.
[13] After the capitulation of Limerick, Luttrell received 2,000 crowns from the Prince of Orange, with his elder brother's estate; but he met his reward in 1717, when he was assassinated by some unknown hand in the streets of Dublin.
[14] Macariae Excidium, p. 69; Contemporary Diary of the Siege of Limerick, by Colonel Richard, 1691, in Gilbert, op. cit., Appendix No. XV, pp. 282-298.
[15] J. Dalrymple, Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, iii, p. 42.
[16] French official account from a Government Journal of October 17th, 1690, edited by J. C. O'Callaghan. For a similar expression of opinion by the French generals, see J. Bramhill, The Rawdon Papers (1819), p. 347.
[17] George Story, Impartial History of the Wars in Ireland (1693), p. 103; for the general history of these wars see, besides the references given, J. S. Clarke's James II, vol. ii; J. Bramhill, Rawdon Papers (1819); Sir John Dalrymple, Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland (1790), vols. ii, iii; Harris, History of William of Orange (1749).
[18] C. O'Kelly, Macariae Excidium, p. 111.
[19] J. S. Clarke, Life of James II (1816), edited from the King's own memoirs, ii, p. 454.
[20] G. Story, Continuation of the Impartial History of the Wars in Ireland (1690), p. 132.
[21] G. Story, op. cit., p. 133.
[22] Tyrconnel believed that he died of poison. G. Story, op. cit., p. 187.
[23] Poems of David O'Bruadair, in a poem popularly known as "The Shipwreck" (Irish Texts Society, vol. xviii), iii, 165-181. For Baldearg and his Rapparees, see Charles O'Kelly, Macariae Excidium (1850), pp. 125 seq.; 141-143; Story, Impartial History of the Wars in Ireland (1693), pp. 152-153. Baldearg was ambitious to revive the title of Earl of Tyrconnel in his own person, which may explain the Viceroy's jealousy of him, as the actual holder of the title.
[24] C. O'Kelly, op. cit., pp. 96-97.
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