Note 253 — Chapter LIII · JAMES II. AND SCHOMBERG, 1689-1690

Proclamations of February 4 and 28, March 28, April 21, June 9 and 15, 1690; and July 10 (William III.). Avaux to Louis XIV., July 5/15, 1689; to Louvois, June 30/July 10; to Louis XIV., August 20/30 and September 10/20; to Louvois, November 1/11, November 26/December 6, 1689, and January 22/February 1, 1689-90. Light to the Blind. King’s State of the Protestants, chap. iii. section 11. Transactions of the Late King James in Ireland, licensed July 7, 1690, p. 57. Character of the Protestants of Ireland, licensed November 13, 1689. This last well-written tract has been attributed to Halifax, but neither Miss Foxcroft nor Sir W. Raleigh mention it. Story’s Impartial History, l. 93. Lauzun to Louvois, June 16/26, in Ranke’s appendix. King makes the total base coinage 965,375l. Story learned from treasury officials that ‘not much above’ 1,100,000l. had been coined. The True and Perfect Journal, 1690, states the amount at about two millions. Tyrconnel’s letter is in Haile’s Mary of Modena, p. 258.