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54 "Je sais bien certainement que l'intention du roi d'A. est de faire perdre ce royaume à son successeur, et de le fortifier en sorte que tous ses sujets catholiques y puissent avoir un azile assuré, Son projet est de mettre les choses en cet état dans le cours de cinq a nées. Mais Myl, Tyrconnel le presse incessament pour que cela se fasse en moins, de temps." Bonrepaus to Seignelay, September 4, 1687.
This despatch, with Seignelay's reply, is printed in a note to Lingard's History of England. It deserves careful attention, but is too long to quote in full here. A passage in the Secret Consults shows that this intrigue was suspected at the time; but it cannot be said to have become generally known until the publication of Mazure's Histoire de la Revolution de 1688 in 1825. Seignelay seems rather to have thrown cold water on the scheme.
55 Secret Consults.
56 Clarendon Correspondence, passim; Secret Consults, Apology for the Protestants of Ireland, and other tracts.
57 Apology for the Protestants of Ireland.
58 Cox, Hibernia Anglicana.
59 The pretended proclamation is printed in Hugh Speke's Secret History of the Revolution. The panic produced is well described by Harris, Life of William III., pp, 154, 155.
60 Article on Speke in the Dictionary of National Biography. [Seventh Report of the Hist. MSS. Commission.]
61 Harris, Life of William III., p. 155.
62 This letter is in Mackenzie's Narrative of the Siege of Londonderry, and in King, Appendix 12.
63 Faithful History of the Northern Affairs of Ireland.
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