Note 273 — Chapter LIV · WILLIAM III. IN IRELAND, 1690. THE BOYNE

True and Perfect Journal. Clarke’s Life of James II., ii. 403, 406. According to De Sourches (May 20, 1690), a letter from Dublin seldom reached Paris under thirteen days; nine days was a ‘diligence surprenante.’ Both he and Dangeau complain that the truth about Ireland was hard to come by. A pair of gold sleeve-links are preserved at Castleboro’ by Lord Carew, whose ancestor is said to have met and assisted James at Aughnacoppal bridge, and to have received this keepsake from him. See Mahan’s Sea-power, chap. iv. Randall’s Narrative.