MuiiRAY — The Diary of Bonnivert, 1690. 341 



endeavour with part of our army to take Athlone, but he had no better 

 success there than our men at Limerick, where, through the ill-management 

 of Captain Poultney, who, having had the conduct of eight big pieces of 

 artillery and several other provisions, unadvisedly ordered his detachment to 

 unbridle and turn the horses to grass, for Sarsfield having notice of this fell 

 upon 'em with a very considerable party and cut most of the men to pieces,' 

 took the cannon, nailed them, burned the carriages and all the ammunitions, 

 and so caused by so long a delay, and the weather growing had, to raise the 

 siege. The king, having left that place, with the loss of many men, took 

 shipping for England. Not long after my Lord Marlborough came from 

 England with 8,000 men, and besieged Cork ; he was not long before it, for it 

 was soon taken, but we had a great loss by the Duke of Grafton,'^ who died a 

 few days after of a wound in his side, before Kinsale. After the raising of the 

 siege of Limerick, I came along with our troop, thinking (as the order was 

 then) to have gone for England, but after my staying the matter of three 

 months, I went to Lurgan, in the north of Ireland, and was quartered between 

 Litsenagarry' and Lurgan in the parish of Ballinderry. 



1 Clarke Conespondence, August 12, 1690, vol.i, f. 90 ; Tlieo. Harrisou totlie Rev. John Strype, 

 August 23 (Ellis Correspondence) ; Eawdon Papers, No. 143. The causes of Sir John Lanier's delay 

 in going to the assistance of Captain Poultney have never been adequately explained. Cf. Murray's 

 " Revolutioniiry Ireland and its Settlement," p. 173. 



^ He was nephew of James II. 



^ This is possibly Lisnagarvey, near Lisburn. 



