appeared in February, and that of the States-General
in March.

On the 24th of March James entered Dublin, which,
in common with all the other cities of the three southern
provinces of Ireland, had declared for his cause; but
after only three weeks' stay in the capital it was decided,
against the advice of his chief French counsellor, d'Avaux,
who with the Lord Deputy Tyrconnel, and the Irish
Catholic party in general, were for keeping him among
the Celtic population of the island, that he should go
northward and take command of the royal army in
Ulster. He accordingly set out on the 14th of April,
and after some further hesitations caused by conflicting
reports as to the results of a skirmish between the
Protestants and a body of his own men at Strabane,
arrived a few days later among his troops, who were
quartered a few miles south of Londonderry, a city which,
with Inniskillen, had formed the rallying point for
the Protestant minority when the outbreak of the
Revolution, awakening the hopes of the Catholic popu-
lation, appeared to threaten the "English garrison"
with a repetition of the horrors of 1641. Here it had
been fully expected by James's more sanguine counsellors
that he would be, if not loyally, at any rate submissively
received. The appearance of their lawful sovereign
before their walls would at any rate, it was thought,
confirm the wavering allegiance of the military under the
command of the Governor, Colonel Lundy. As a matter
of fact, it only served to arouse a spirit of determined
resistance in the townsmen, to unite the soldiery in the
same cause, and to precipitate the flight of the Jacobite
governor. James and his retinue, on approaching the

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