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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- BOOK XVI THE LATER YEARS OF CHARLES II, 1675—1685 WHIGS AND TORIES
- BOOK XVII REIGN OF JAMES II, FEBRUARY 1685 TO SEPTEMBER 1688
- BOOK XVIII THE FALL OF JAMES II IN ITS CONNEXION WITH THE EUROPEAN CONFLICTS WHICH MARKED THE CLOSE OF 1688
- BOOK XIX COMPLETION OF THE REVOLUTION IN THE THREE KINGDOMS, 1688—1691
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP. I William of Orange in London. Summoning of a Convention
- CHAP. II First sittings of the Convention. Debates on the vacancy of the Throne
- CHAP. III Elevation of the Prince of Orange to the English Throne. Constitutional limitations of the power of the Crown
- CHAP. IV James II in Ireland supported by help from France
- CHAP. V Dundee in the Scottish Highlands
- CHAP. VI Military events in Ireland in the year 1689
- CHAP. VII Dissensions in the Convention Parliament
- CHAP. VIII Dissolution of the Convention Parliament. First sittings of the Parliament of 1690
- CHAP. IX The Court at Dublin. Rivalry of the French and English Navies
CHAP. IX - The Court at Dublin. Rivalry of the French and English Navies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- BOOK XVI THE LATER YEARS OF CHARLES II, 1675—1685 WHIGS AND TORIES
- BOOK XVII REIGN OF JAMES II, FEBRUARY 1685 TO SEPTEMBER 1688
- BOOK XVIII THE FALL OF JAMES II IN ITS CONNEXION WITH THE EUROPEAN CONFLICTS WHICH MARKED THE CLOSE OF 1688
- BOOK XIX COMPLETION OF THE REVOLUTION IN THE THREE KINGDOMS, 1688—1691
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP. I William of Orange in London. Summoning of a Convention
- CHAP. II First sittings of the Convention. Debates on the vacancy of the Throne
- CHAP. III Elevation of the Prince of Orange to the English Throne. Constitutional limitations of the power of the Crown
- CHAP. IV James II in Ireland supported by help from France
- CHAP. V Dundee in the Scottish Highlands
- CHAP. VI Military events in Ireland in the year 1689
- CHAP. VII Dissensions in the Convention Parliament
- CHAP. VIII Dissolution of the Convention Parliament. First sittings of the Parliament of 1690
- CHAP. IX The Court at Dublin. Rivalry of the French and English Navies
Summary
We are reminded once more of the relation of the old Irish chiefs to the supreme king at Tara, when we hear how the descendants of those chiefs, who prided themselves on their lineage, attached themselves to a king who had been driven from England, and who, like them, could boast of descent from old Irish princes. They had organised themselves for war after the fashion of the seventeenth century. The heads of the septs appeared as colonels; their relations, according to the claims of their descent, as higher or lower officers: the common people attached themselves to them from a feeling of clanship. Strict military subordination could not be enforced under such circumstances any more than it had been possible to enforce it among the Russians as long as the Me'stnitckestvo still prevailed among them. The relationship of the officers to each other, and even to their soldiers, forbade the establishment of any strict discipline. The captain could not seriously reprove the sergeant who was his cousin, nor the latter the soldier whom he considered to be about his equal, and who did not submit to any harsh usage. The natives were all equally unacquainted with military service, yet they would only be commanded by each other, for no foreigner was supposed to love the country. The officers who had come over from France were at* first in a difficult position in dealing with this rude and distrustful people. The Irish treated their king with confidential familiarity.
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- A History of EnglandPrincipally in the Seventeenth Century, pp. 589 - 599Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1875