Note 266 — Chapter LIV · WILLIAM III. IN IRELAND, 1690. THE BOYNE

Story’s Impartial Hist., pp. 70-8, and Continuation, pp. 19-22. Bellingham’s Diary, June 26-30. Parker’s Memoirs, p. 21. General Douglas’s letter of July 7 to his brother, Queensberry, printed in Napier’s Dundee, appx. vi., has the following as to William’s wound: ‘He said nothing, only three words in Dutch, T’hoobt niet naeder—that is, it needs not to come nearer.’ See Portland to Melville, July 4/14, in Leven and Melville Papers. Dean Davies’s Diary, June 30. Stevens’s Journal, June 27-July 1. William said to Burnet (ii. 46): ‘that the going against King James in person was hard upon him, since it would be a vast trouble both to himself and to the Queen if he should be either killed or taken prisoner.’ In a note to this Dartmouth says William gave orders to the fleet to take James at sea and convey him to Holland, but the real order to Herbert was to do so if he ‘took any vessel in which the late King should happen to be.’ The original letter in Nottingham’s hand is printed in Ellis’s Original Letters, 2nd series, iv., 186. A captive king in Holland would be much less dangerous than in England.