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History of England, from the Accession of James the Second, the — Volume 4 by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
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Lenity shown to the Conspirators--Dartmouth--Turner; Penn--Death
of George Fox; his Character--Interview between Penn and Sidney--
Preston pardoned--Joy of the Jacobites at the Fall of Mons--The
vacant Sees filled--Tillotson Archbishop of Canterbury--Conduct
of Sancroft--Difference between Sancroft and Ken--Hatred of
Sancroft to the Established Church; he provides for the episcopal
Succession among the Nonjurors--The new Bishops--Sherlock Dean of
Saint Paul's--Treachery of some of William's Servants--Russell--
Godolphin--Marlborough--William returns to the Continent--The
Campaign of 1691 in Flanders--The War in Ireland; State of the
English Part of Ireland--State of the Part of Ireland which was
subject to James--Dissensions among the Irish at Limerick--Return
of Tyrconnel to Ireland--Arrival of a French Fleet at Limerick;
Saint Ruth--The English take the Field--Fall of Ballymore; Siege
and Fall of Athlone--Retreat of the Irish Army--Saint Ruth
determines to fight--Battle of Aghrim--Fall of Galway--Death of
Tyrconnel--Second Siege of Limerick--The Irish desirous to
capitulate--Negotiations between the Irish Chiefs and the
Besiegers--The Capitulation of Limerick--The Irish Troops
required to make their Election between their Country and France-
-Most of the Irish Troops volunteer for France--Many of the Irish
who had volunteered for France desert--The last Division of the
Irish Army sails from Cork for France--State of Ireland after the
War

ON the eighteenth of January 1691, the King, having been detained
some days by adverse winds, went on board at Gravesend. Four
yachts had been fitted up for him and for his retinue. Among his
attendants were Norfolk, Ormond, Devonshire, Dorset, Portland,
Monmouth, Zulestein, and the Bishop of London. Two distinguished
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