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extremity of thirst and hunger, they reached Bristol in safety.* chap.When such was the fate of the towns, it was evident that the -country seats which the Protestant landowners had recentlyfortified in the three southern provinces could no longer hedefended. Many families submitted, delivered up their arms,and thought themselves happy in escaping with life. But manyresolute and highspirited gentlemen and yeomen were deter-mined to perish rather than yield. They packed up suchvaluable property as could easily be carried away, burned what-ever they could not remove, and, well armed and mounted,set out for those spots in Ulster which were the strongholdsof their race and of their faith. The flower of the Protestantpopulation of Munster and Connaught found shelter at Ennis-killen. AVhatever was bravest and most truehearted in Leinstertook the road to Londonderry.**

The spirit of Enniskillen and Londonderry rose higher and Enniskii-higher to meet the danger. At both places the tidings of what London-had been done by the Convention at Westminster rvere received hoid y oue.with transports of joy. W r illiam and Mary 'were proclaimed atEnniskillen with unanimous enthusiasm, and with such pompas the little town could furnish.*** Lundy, who commanded atLondonderry, could not venture to oppose himself to thegeneral sentiment of the citizens and of his own soldiers. Hetherefore gave in his adhesion to the new government, andsigned a declaration by which he bound himself to stand bythat government, on pain of being considered a coward anda traitor. A vessel from England soon brought a com-

* Exact Relation of the Persecutions, Robberies and Losses sustainedby the Protestants of Killmare in Ireland, 1689.

** A true Representation to the King and People of England howMatters were carried on all along in Ireland by the late King James,licensed Aug. 16. 1689; A true Account of the Present State of Ireland by aPerson that with Great Difficulty left Dublin, licensed June 8. 1089.

*** Hamilton’s Actions of the Inniskilliug Men, 1669.

Macaulay, History. IV.

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