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There are in the province of Canterbury 23740 papifts, half of thefe is under the age of 16 years, viz. 11870; a feventh part of these are aged, and above 3391. Taking out of the faid number of papifts the two last fums, which make in all 15261; there remains then 8479, of which the one half is women: there remains therefore in the province of Canterbury, fitt to bear arms, 4239 papists.

The province of York bears a fixth part of the taxes, and hath in it a fixth part of the people as that of Canterbury hath, (viz.) 3956, whereof half are under the age of 16, (viz.) 1978; and a feventh part above 60, (viz.) 565; and of the aforefaid fixth part one half is

women.

The total therefore of the papifts of the province of York fitt to bear arms is 701; joyning which to the total of the papists in the province of Canterbury fitt to bear arms, makes the total of the papists throughout all England fitt to bear arms to be 4940.

There being every where as many under the age of 16 as above it, the total of the whole papifts in the whole province is 23740.

An Account of the Province of Canterbury.

In the taking of these accounts we find these things obfervable:

1. That many left the church upon the late indulgence. who before did frequent it.

2. The fending for these enquirys hath caused many to frequent the church.

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3. That they are Walloons chiefly that make up the number of diffenters in Canterbury, Sandwich, and Dover.

4. That the prefbyterians are divided, fome of them come fome time to church, therefore fuch are not wholly diffenters upon the 3d enquiry.

5. A confiderable part of diffenters are not of any sect whatsoever.

6. Of those that come to church very many do not receive the facrament.

7. At Ashford and at other places we find a new fort of hereticks, after the name of Muggleton, a London taylor, in number 30.

8. The rest of the diffenters are prefbyterians, anabaptifts, independants, quakers, about equal numbers, only 2 or 3 called felf-willers profeffedly.

9. The heads and preachers of the feveral factions are fuch as had a great share in the late rebellion.

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Siege Book II.

1689.

THE late King's arrival in Ireland.State of that PART II, Kingdom.The different Advices he gets.of Londonderry.Clamours in England on Account of it.-Sea-fight of Bantry-Bay.Continuation of the Siege. Barbarity of Marfbal Rofen. The Siege raised.-Fate of the Garrifon.-Proceedings of the Irish Parliament.-Exercife of Government in Ireland. Exploits.

Caufes.

James's own Conduct.-Lord Dundee's

-Manners of the Highlanders, with their Their Drefs, Armour, and manner of War. -Battle of Killikranky.- -Fate of Lord Dundee's Officers.

THE

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HE firft hoftilities between France and England The late appeared in Ireland: For, while England was rent King's arwith factions, Lord Dundee meditating a civil war in Ireland. Scotland, and one half of Europe animated against the other, to fupport or deprefs the cause of the late King,

that Prince had failed from France, and arrived upon March 12. the 12th of March at Kingfale in Ireland. Before he quitted France, he had written to the Emperor to ask that affiftance, which, he said, one Catholick Prince might expect from another in a caufe common to all Princes. The unhappy find few friends! The Emperor's answer under the common cover of affected pity, was filled with reproaches of past misconduct, and of his

French

1689.

PART II. French friendship; and, to make the affront more puBook II. blic, both letters were printed. But James had met with mortifications which were still more humbling : The preparations for his enterprize, and even the propriety of the enterprize itself, having become the fubjects of intrigue among the French minifters, he, to whom a nation of freemen had been accustomed to bow, hung long, in uncertain hopes, upon the fervants of another, perhaps not unmindful of his own inattention upon former occafions to the fufferings of others. But the French King, feeling from fympathy of rank, for his unhappy guest, what no minifter could, gave orders to haften the preparations for his voyage. James was at- tended by a multitude of British and Irish nobility and officers who had adhered to his fortunes, 2500 foldiers of the fame nations, and about an hundred French officers. Marfhal Rofen commanded the expedition. The Count D'Avaux, who had so often, when ambassador in Holland, given warning in vain, of the Prince of Orange's intentions, now accompanied James as 'ambaffador from France; in his perfon, a fad monitor of paft errors, and, in his office, an omen of future misfortunes! The French King fupplied James with 400,000 crowns in money, and with equipage of every kind befitting his dignity. The fame Prince offered to fend with him a force of French troops. But, with a magnanimity which he was found afterwards uncapable of fupporting, he anfwered, "I will recover my own dominions with "my own fubjects, or perish in the attempt." Lewis XIV. who deemed it to be part of a great monarch's character to study his compliments, and who mingled the grand and the pleafant in all his fayings of ceremony, faid to his friend at taking leave of him: "The best " with

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"wish I can form for your fervice, is, that I may never PART II. Book II. "fee you again."

James found the appearances of things in Ireland 1689. equal to his wifhes; Tyrconnel and Lord Lieute- State of that kingdom. nant devoted to him; his old army fteady, and a new one raised, making together 30,000 foot, and 8000 horse; the proteftants over the greatest part of Ireland difarmed; the province of Ulfter alone in difobedience; the papifts in arms, frantic with joy, enthusiasm, and the profpect of independence upon England; no English troops in the kingdom, no fleet on the coafts; his reception at Kingfale and Cork cordial, and his public entry into Dublin magnificent. Upon intelligence of James's intention to come fpeedily to Ireland, Tyrconnel had fent Colonel Hamilton, the fame man who had forfeited his honour to King William, against the protestants in the North; for, these having at laft, in March, received encouragement from King William, had proclaimed him and his confort. Hamilton's forces drove their opponents from poft to poft, and gave them fo complete a defeat at Drummore, that it was called, in the Irish manner of expreflion, the rout of Drummore. After this, most of those who were ill affected to the government of James retired into Scotland and England, or hid themfelves, or accepted of written protections, from their enemies. The braveft, however, of the proteftant intereft *, to the number of 10,000, gathered together round Londonderry, refolved to make their laft ftand at that place for their religion and liberty. A few alfo rallied themselves at Inniskilling; and, after the first panic was over, became more numerous by the junction of others.

James continued, some time after his arrival, irrefo- Different lute what ufe to make of this profperous ftate of his af

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