Orange and Green
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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: CHAPTER III. THE KING IN IRELAND. N the 12th of November a vessel arrived In Dublin with the news that William of Orange had landed at Torbay on the 5th. The news created the wildest excitement. The Protestants,...
MorePurchase 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: CHAPTER III. THE KING IN IRELAND. N the 12th of November a vessel arrived In Dublin with the news that William of Orange had landed at Torbay on the 5th. The news created the wildest excitement. The Protestants, who had been deeply depressed by the apparent intention of James to hand back to their original owners the land which had been wrested from them, now took heart and began openly to arm. Upon the other hand, the Catholics felt that if William and the Whigs succeeded to the chief power in England their faith, their remaining property, and their lives were alike menaced, and they, too, prepared to fight to the last for all they held dear. Walter rode several times with his father into Dublin. The streets presented a strange spectacle. They were crowded with Protestant fugitives from the country districts. These had forsaken all and flocked into Dublin, fearing that the Irish would retaliate for past grievances by a general massacre. The banks of the Liffey were crowded by these fugitives, who with tears and cries besought the captains of the vessels lying there to give them passage to England. All sorts of rumours of bloodshed, massacre, and de- 52 ARMING. struction circulated through the city. The Protestants in the north were said to have fallen upon the Catholic population and to have put them to the sword, while in the south and west it was said the Catholics had taken the same measures against the Protestants. Both reports were equally false, but they were generally believed, and added to the panic and dismay. In fact, however, both parties were waiting. The Protestants dared not commence hostilities until assured that William was firmly seated on the English throne and ready to come to their assistance; the Catholics were equally desirous to maintain the ...
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