had been offered the command of the Williamites of Ulster in
1688, and on his refusal, Lord Mount Alexander was appointed.

Among the earls, one naturally looks for the two famous names of Taaffe
and Lucan. But Taaffe was then on an embassy to the emperor, and
Patrick Sarsfield was not made Earl of Lucan till after. Indeed his
patent is not entered in the rolls, from which 'tis probable he was not
titled till after the battle of the Boyne.

Viscount Iveagh held Drogheda at the battle of the Boyne, and was
induced to surrender it by William's ruffianly and unmilitary threat of
"no quarter."

Lord Clare was father to the famous Lord Clare, whose regiment was the
glory of the Irish Brigade, and who was killed at Ramillies in 1706. He
was descended from Connor O'Brian, third earl of Thomond.

Lord Mountcashel, by his rapidity and skill, completely broke the
Munster insurgents, and made that province, till then considered the
stronghold of the English, James's best help. To him was intrusted the
Bill repealing the Settlement in the Commons, where he sat as member
for the county of Cork till that Bill passed the Commons, when he was
called to the Upper House as Lord Mountcashel.

Lord Kinsale represented the famous John De Courcy, Earl of Ulster, and
had the blood of Charlemagne in his veins. He served as
Lieutenant-Colonel to Lord Lucan. His attainder under William was
reversed, and he appeared at court, where he enforced the privilege
peculiar to his family of remaining covered in the king's presence.

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[17] See as to this, Melfort's letter to Pottinger, the sovereign
of Belfast; "History of Belfast," pp. 72-3; Lesley _proves_, on
Williamite authority, that the Protestants were worse treated by
William's army than by James's. See Dr. Gorges in Lesley's
Appendix.

[18] He was appointed in 1686 (see Appendix B). T. W. R.

[19] In July, 1691, William had offered these terms: 1st. The free
public exercise of the Roman Catholic Religion. 2nd. Half the
churches in the kingdom. 3rd. Half the employments, civil and
military, if they pleased. 4th. Half their properties, as held
prior to Cromwell's conquest. The terms were at once refused. The
suppressed proclamation doubtless offered at least as much.
(Harris's "William," and Plowden, b. 2.)

[20] Rawdon Papers, p. 253.

[21] Anthony Hamilton, in