Note 172 — Chapter XLIX · GOVERNMENT OF TYRCONNEL, 1687-1688

Avaux fully sustains King. He says most regiments were raised ‘par des gentilhommes qui n’ont jamais été à l’armée, que ce sont des tailleurs, des bouchers, des cordonniers qui ont formé les compagnies qui les entretiennent à leur despens et en sont les capitaines,’ to Louvois, April 16, 1689. Tyrconnel’s proclamations of July 20, August 24, December 29, 1688. Luttrell’s Diary, July 6, August 27, September 8, December 15, 19, and 30, 1688, January 1, and April 24, 1689. Evelyn’s Diary, July 23, October 7, 1688. Hoffmann to the Emperor Oct., Doc. 626 in Campana Cavelli. Tyrconnel to James II., Oct. 3/13, ib. Doc. 633. King’s State of the Protestants, chap. iii. sec. viii. 5. It was absurdly reported in France that William had interned the Irish in a little island that they might all perish there, Memoirs of De Sourches, January 12/22, 1689.