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James II. to officers of Irish forces on arrival at Brest, 1691

Author: King James II

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Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber, Janet Crawford

2. Second draft.

Extent of text: 760 words

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Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E703001-013

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Sources

Manuscript source
1. Royal Irish Academy, MS G 24. G. 7, no. 67.

The edition used in the digital edition
1. John T. Gilbert, James II. to officers of Irish forces on arrival at Brest, 1691 in A Jacobite narrative of the war in Ireland. , Shannon, Shannon University Press (1971) ((First published 1892)) page 311–312

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Created: by King James II (1691)

Use of language

Language: [EN] The text is in English.

Revision History

• (2010-05-03)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• Conversion script run, header updated; new wordcount made; file parsed; new SGML and HTML versions created.
• (2008-09-24)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• Keywords added; file validated.
• (2008-07-20)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• Value of div0 "type" attribute modified, changes to file structure made; 'langUsage' revised.
• (2005-08-25)

  Julianne Nyhan (ed.)

• Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion
• (2005-08-04T14:21:37+0100)

  Peter Flynn (conversion)

• Converted to XML
• (2005-07-19)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• Header created, file parsed, HTML file created.
• (2005-07-19)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• File proofed (2), more content markup applied.
• (2005-05)

  Janet Crawford, Co. Tipperary (ed.)

• First proofing of the text; structural and some content markup applied.
• (2005-05)

  Benjamin Hazard (text capture)

• Text scanned in.

Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E703001-013

James II. to officers of Irish forces on arrival at Brest, 1691: Author: King James II

p.311

James, Rex,—Having been informed of the capitulation and surrender of Limerick and of the other places which remained to us in our kingdom of Ireland, and of the necessity that forced the lords justices and general officers of our forces thereunto, we shall not defer to let you know, and the rest of the officers that came along with you, that we are extremely satisfied with your and their conduct, and of the valour of the soldiers during the siege; and most

p.312