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A true account of the siege of London-Derry by the Reverend Mr. George Walker ...
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Walker, George, 1645?-1690.
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themselves Masters of that Town The Enemy lost between eight or nine thousand Men before our Walls and a hundred of their best Officers according to the best Computation we could make of both by the Information of the Prisoners we took most of these fell by the Sword the rest of Fevers and Flux and the French Pox which was very remarkable on the Bodies of several of their dead Officers and Soldiers We are now under some Impatience to see Major-General Kirk under God and the King our Deliverer Aug. 1. The Governor orders C. White C. Dobbin C. J. Hamilton Capt. Jenny and Mr. Jo. Fox both Clergy-men to wait on the Major-General at Inch to give him an account of the raising the Siege and to carry him our Thanks and desire him to come and receive the Garrison The next day the Major-General sent to us Col. Steward and Col. Richards the Engineer to Congratulate our Deliverance On Sunday the Major-General came into the Town and was received by the Governor and the whole Garrison with the greatest Joy and Acclamations The Governor presents him with the Keys but he wou'd not receive them The next day the Governor with several of his Officers Dined with the Major-General at Inch he complemented the Major-General with his Regiment That after doing the King all the Service in his power he might return to his own Profession But the Major-General desired him to dispose of it as he pleased and accordingly he gave it to Captain White as a mark of his Respect and the Gentleman 's known Merit Upon this we call a Council at Derry the Governor is prevailed on to go to the King and to carry an Address from the Garrison The Garrison is now form'd and of eight Regiments made into six After assurance from the Major-General of his Care and Favor to his Men and particularly to his own Regiment he took leave of them and embarked for England To the Most Excellent Majesty of WILLIAM and MARY King and Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland Defenders of the Faith c. The humble ADDRESS of the Governors Officers Clergy and other Gentlemen in the City and Garrison of LONDONDERRY WE the most Dutiful and Loyal Subscribers of this Address out of a deep sense of our late miserable Estate and Condition do hereby return our due Acknowledgments to Almighty God and to Your Sacred Majesty and under you to the indefatigable Care of Major-General Kirk for our unexpected Relief by Sea in spight of all the opposition of our industrious but bloody and implacable Enemies which Relief was no less wonderfully than seasonably conveyed to us and that at the very nick of time when we who survived many thousands that died here of Famine during the Siege were just ready to be cut off and perish by the hands of barbarous cruel and inhuman Wretches who no sooner saw us delivered and that they could not compass their Wicked Designs against this Your Majesties City and our Lives for which they thirsted immediately set all the Country round us on fire after having plundered robbed and stripped all the Protestants therein as well those Persons they themselves granted Protections to as others We do therefore most sincerely rejoice with all our Souls and bless God for all his Singular and Repeated Mercies and Deliverances and do for ever Adore the Divine Providence for Your Majesties rightful and peaceable accession to the Imperial Crown of these Kingdoms the proclaiming of which was justly celebrated in these Parts with Vniversal Joy and we do with all humble Submission present to Your Sacred Majesty our unfeigned Loyalty the most valuable Tribute we can give or Your Majesty receive from us And since the same Providence has through much difficulty made us so happy as to be Your Subjects we come in the like humility to lay our selves intirely at Your Royal Feet and do most heartily and resolvedly offer and engage our Lives and Fortunes to Your Service And further we do most unanimously join in a firm and unchangeable Vow and Resolution of improving all occasions of becoming Serviceable to Your Majesty in what Station soever it shall please God and your Majesty to place us and will expose our selves to all Hazards and Extremities to serve Your Majesty against the Common Enemy From all which Promises Vows and Services we and every of us promise without any Exception or Reserve not to recede unto our Lives end In testimony of all which we have hereunto subscribed our Names at Londonderry this 29th day of July Anno Dom. 1689. GEORGE WALKER John Michelbourn Richard Crofton Thomas Lane Hugh Hamill Charles Kinaston William Campbell Gervase Squire Henry Monry Henry Campsie Adam Morrow John Dobbin Alexander Steward Thomas Gughtredge Thomas Johnston Thomas Newcomen Edward Davyes John Hamilton Thomas Ash Robert Boyd Ralph Fullerton Michael Cunningham Joseph Johnston Robert Bayley William Grove John M c Clelland James Graham William Thompson James Young Richard Cormach Oliver Apton Alex. Knox Patt Moore John Humes Robert Dennison Marmaduke Stewart James Fleming Andrew Grigson Christopher Jenny Thomas Smyth Bartholomew Black John Campbell Robert Morgan Michael Clenaghan Richard Fane Stephen Godfrey William Hamilton Robert Rogers Jame Galtworth Richard Islen Arthur Hamilton Michael Rullack James Stiles James Cunningham Archibald Mc. Culloch Francis Obre Alexander Sanderson Archibald Sanderson Arthur Noble Philip Dunbarr George White Thomas White Ja. Gledstanes John Maghlin James Tracy John Halshton Joseph Gordon James Hairs Andrew Hamilton Adam Ardock Robert Wallace George Church Richard Flemin Henry Cust John Crofton Benjamin Wilkins Thomas Lane James Blair Dudley Phillips John Buchanan Edward Curling William Church Dalway Clements Albert Hall Matthew Cocken Thomas Brunett William Stewart Franc. Wilson Matt. Mc. Clellany George Crofton William Babington Robert King John Logan Alexander Rankin Edmund Rice Robert Walker James Mc. Carmick John Cochran James Mc. Cartny Warren Godfrey John Cunningham Henry Lane George Walker Hannston Andrew Bailly Daniel Mons. Cuistion John Bailly Robert Lyndsie Francis Boyd James Carr William Montgomery James Moore Nicholas White John Fuller Thomas Key Frederick Kye Thomas Baker John Hering James Hufton Adam Downing Abraham Hilhouse John Mucholland Robert Bennet William Dobbin George Garnet James Barrington Henry Pearse Alexander Ratliffe Thomas Odayre John Hamilton Henry verett Daniel Fisher John Cross William Cross Bernard Mulhollan David Mulhollan Thomas Conlay Robert Skinner Richard Robinson Robert Maghlin Matthew Clarke John Clements VVilliam Manson Theophilus Manson James Manson The DECLARATION of the Gentlemen of Derry upon the News of a General Massacre intended of the Protestants Decemb. 9. TO all Christian People to whom these Presents shall come the Mayor Sheriffs and Citizens of the City of London-derry send Greeting Having received intimation from several creditable Persons that an Insurrection of the Irish-Papists was intended and by them a general Massacre of the Protestants in this Kingdom and the same to be acted and perpetrated on or about the