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IirSTOllY OS' ENGLAND.

CHAP.

XVII.

HiLH.The capi'(illationof Lime-rick,

On the first of October, Coningsby and Porter arrived at-the English headquarters. On the second the articles of eapi-. tulation were discussed at great length and definitively settled.. On the third they were signed. They were divided into twoparts, a military treaty and a civil treaty. The former was sub-scribed only by the generals on both sides. The Lords Justicesset their names to the latter. *

By the military treaty it was agreed that such Irish officersand soldiers as should declare that they wished to go to Pranceshould be conveyed thither, and should, in the meantime,remain under the command of their own generals. Ginkellundertook to furnish a considerable number of transports.French vessels were also to be permitted to pass and repassfreely between Britanny and Munster. Part of Limerick was tobeimmediately delivered up to the English. But the island onwhich the Cathedral and the Castle stand was to remain, for thepresent, in the keeping of the Irish.

The terms of the civil treaty w r ere very different from thosewhich Ginkell had sternly refused to grant. It was not stipu-lated that the Homan Catholics of Ireland should be competentto hold any political or military office, or that they should beadmitted into any corporation. But they obtained a promisethat they should enjoy such privileges in the exercise of theirreligion as were consistent with the law, or as they had enjoyedin the reign of Charles the Second.

To all inhabitants of Limerick, and to all officers andsoldiers in the Jacobite army, who should submit to the govern-ment and notify their submission by taking the oath of alle-giance, an entire amnesty was promised. They were to retaintheir property: they were to be allowed to exercise any profes-sion which they had exercised before the troubles: they were not

* Story’s Continuation; Diary of the Siege of Lymerick; LondonGazette, Oct. 15. 1691,