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Morison, a citizen more advanced in years, addressed them- chap.traders from the top of the wall and advised them to be gone. —They stood in consultation before the gate till they heard himcry, “Bring a great gun this way.” They then thought it timeto get beyond the range of shot. They retreated, reembarked,and rejoined their comrades on the other side of the river. Theflame had already spread. The whole city was up. The othergates were secured. Sentinels paced the ramparts everywhere.
The magazines were opened. Muskets and gunpowder weredistributed. Messengers were sent, under cover of the follow-ing night, to the Protestant gentlemen of the neighbouringcounties. The bishop expostulated in vain. It is indeedprobable that the vehement and daring young Scotchmen whohad taken the lead on this occasion had little respect for hisoffice. One of them broke in on a discourse with which he in-terrupted the military preparations by exclaiming, “A goodsermon, my lord; a very good sermon; but we have not time tohear it just now.”*
The Protestants of the neighbourhood promptly obeyed thesummons of Londonderry. Within forty eight hours hundredsof horse and foot came by various roads to the city. Antrim,not thinking himself strong enough to risk an attack, or notdisposed to take on himself the responsibility of commencinga civil war without further orders, retired with his troops toColeraine.
It might have been expected that the resistance of En- Mounijoyniskillen and Londonderry would have irritated Tyrconnei into pacify
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* Walker’s Account of the Siege of Derry, 1689; Mackenzie’s Nar-rative of the Siege of Londonderry, 1689; An Apology for the failurescharged on the Reverend Mr. Walker’s Account of the late Siege of Derry,1689; A Light to the Blind. This last work, a manuscript in the possessionof Lord Fingal, is the work of a zealous Roman Catholic and a mortalenemy of England. Lurge extracts from it are among the Mackintosh MSS.The date in the titlepage is 1711.
Macaulay, History. IV.
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