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A History of Ireland, From ... 1689, to ... 1691
A History of Ireland From 1689 to 1691 Author:John Graham Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: into a full and final settlement of England. The sea- fight of Bantry Bay and the movements of the adherents of King James in Scotland, had retarded the succours... more » to Ireland, and if Dundee had survived his victory at Killicrankie, and Londonderry had been taken, the English army might, perhaps, have had so much to do at home that it could hardly have been expected that any of them would have been spared for service in Ireland.—See Impartial History of the occurrence in Ireland, Vol. IV. p. 6. Captain Graham, of Claverhouse, a descendant of the house of Stratherne and Monteith, and an ardent admirer of the heroism of his namesake, Montrose, was one of those who waited on King James at Rochester, and addressed vehement and high-spirited exhortations to the pusillanimous prince, to remain in England and abide the contest with his son-in-law and nephew. He had served in early life with reputation abroad, but had been deeply mortified by the refusal of the Prince of Orange to give him the command of one of the Scottish regiments in the Dutch service, and he abruptly quitted the service. He then, unfortunately for himself, espoused the cause of James in Scotland, and to his dishonour took a very active share in the persecutions there, for which the bigoted king conferred upon him the title of Viscount Dundee. William made overtures of reconciliation to him, which he proudly rejected, and he re-established a correspondence with the court of France, urging James to effect an armed landing in Scotland. He urged the Duke of Gordon, a Romish nobleman, while both were in attendance on the convention at Edinburgh, to direct the artillery of the castle, of which he had the command, on the city which had the audacity to deliberate on the title of the king whom they served. Failing to accompli...« less