CHAPTER 9: Pleasant Quarters.
After the termination of the short siege of Athlone, the troop of Captain Davenant were despatched to join the army near Limerick, and, on their arrival there, were ordered to take up their quarters at the house of a Protestant gentleman named Conyers, four miles from the town on the Limerick side of the river.
It was a mansion of considerable size, standing in large grounds, for its proprietor was one of the largest landowners in the county of Limerick, his grandfather having been a colonel in one of Cromwell's regiments.

Mr.
Conyers himself had gone to Dublin, upon the passing of the act sequestrating the property of all the Protestants by James's parliament, to endeavour to obtain a remission of the decree, so far as it concerned his house and adjoining grounds.

As he had influential friends there, he had remained, urging his petition, until the battle of the Boyne and the entry of King William into Dublin entirely changed the position.

But he then, owing to the disturbance of the country, and the fact that the Irish army had retired to Limerick, found it impossible to return home.
He had, however, travelled with William's army, to which he was able to give much useful information regarding the defences, and details of the country round the town.
As Captain Davenant's troop rode up to the house, a lady, with a girl of some sixteen years old, appeared at the door.

Both looked very pale, for they feared that the brutal conduct of which they had heard, of William's army, would be followed by reprisals on the part of the Irish.