al
Society_, July, 1862, p. 165, of a comic playbill, issued for a Kilkenny
theatre, in May, 1793. The value of the tickets was to be taken, if
required, in candles, bacon, soap, butter, and cheese, and no one was to
be admitted into the boxes without shoes and stockings; which leads one
to conclude that the form of admission and style of attire were not
uncommon, or there would have been no joke in the announcement.

[536] _Wright.--Domestic Manners_, pp. 465, 466: "Oh! what an excellent
thing is an English pudding! Make a pudding for an Englishman, and you
will regale him, be he where he will."

[537] _Chamber_.--This most interesting and amusing journal is published
in the _Ulster Arch. Jour_. vol. iii. p. 73, with a translation and
notes. The original is in Latin.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

Accession of James II.--Position of Public Affairs--Birth of an
Heir--Landing of William of Orange--Arrival of King James in
Ireland--The Siege of Derry--Cruelties of the Enniskilleners--Disease in
Schomberg's Camp--The Battle of the Boyne--James' Defeat and Disgraceful
Plight--The Siege of Athlone--The Siege of Limerick--Marlborough appears
before Cork--William raises the Siege of Limerick and returns to
England--The Siege of Athlone, Heroic Valour of its Defenders--The
Battle of Aughrim--Surrender of Limerick.

[A.D. 1688-1691.]

King James' accession again raised the hopes of the Catholics, and again
they were doomed to disappointment; while the Protestants, who had their
fears also, soon learned that policy would bend itself to popularity.
Colonel Richard Talbot was now raised to the peerage as Earl of
Tyrconnel, and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the forces, with an
authority independent of the Lord Lieutenant. His character, as well as
that of his royal master, has been judged rather by his political
opinions than by facts, and both have suffered considerably at the hands
of a modern historian, who has offered more than one holocaust to the
manes of his hero, William of Orange.

The moderate and cautious Clarendon was appointed Viceroy, and did his
best to appease the fears of the Protestants; but he was soon succeeded
by Tyrconnel, whose zeal for Irish interests was not always tempered by
sufficient moderation to conciliate English politicians. He had fought
against O'Neill; he had opposed Rinuccini; he had served in the Duke of
Ormonde's army; he had helped to defend Drogheda against the
Republicans, and had lain