He had sold them, they cried, to their deadliest enemy: he had refused admission to the force which good King William had sent to defend them.

While the altercation was at the height, the sentinels who paced the ramparts announced that the vanguard of the hostile army was in sight.

Lundy had given orders that there should be no firing; but his authority was at an end.

Two gallant soldiers, Major Henry Baker and Captain Adam Murray, called the people to arms.

They were assisted by the eloquence of an aged clergyman, George Walker, rector of the parish of Donaghmore, who had, with many of his neighbours, taken refuge in Londonderry.