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Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690

Note 186 — Chapter L · JAMES II. IN IRELAND, 1689

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Tyrconnel to James II. January 29,/February 8, 1689, in Campana-Cavelli, doc. 771. Abbé Melani to Grand Duke of Tuscany January 17/27 and February 18/28—‘buonissimo, ma non di quella elevatura che da principio aveva publicata la fama’—‘tranquilla et cosî insensibile’ that he would have stayed in France hunting and praying but for the ‘stimoli’ applied by Tyrone and the French Court, ib. docs. 728, 769. Dangeau’s Journal and Madame de Sévigné’s letters for January and February. On February 2/12 the latter writes: ‘La Reine d’Angleterre a toute la mine, si Dieu le voulait, d’aimer mieux régner dans le beau royaume d’Angleterre, où la cour est grande et belle, que d’être à St Germain, quoique accablé des bontés héroïques du Roi. Pour le roi d’Angleterre il y paroit content, et c’est pour cela qu’il est là.’ Vauban’s letter of February 15/25 is in Rousset’s Louvois, iv. 187.

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