Most of the followingchapters were written some time since, at the request of the publisher, whose intention it was to present the readers of I rish history with a portable volume, which, while removing the necessity of wading through many tomes, would give an authentic account of the two leading events of a very important period, the battles of the Boyne and A ughrim. Having undertaken the task, and performed it to the extent of his information, it appeared to the writer that, without some allusion to antecedent causes and intermediate events, the book, though it should be acceptable to some, would be quite unsatisfactory to others ;and it was concluded to make such interpolation as, without overburdening, would render the offering: more clear and comprehensiye.
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