Note 222 — Chapter LII · LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN, 1689

Avaux’s despatches, April 26/May 6 to July 30/August 9, 1689. Rosen wrote to James on July 5 that the troops lately sent him had to take such arms as were given them, ‘mostly damaged and broken, and accordingly useless, as you have not in all your army a single gunsmith to mend them.’ Hamilton’s soldiers were still worse off, no battalion stronger than 200 men; and more than two-thirds without swords. No troop of cavalry had more than fourteen serviceable men.—Macpherson’s Original Papers, i. 205. The account of the siege in Witherow’s Derry and Enniskillen, 3rd edition, 1885, would leave little to be desired but for the writer’s violent antipathy to Walker.