Ginkell offered sixpence for every musket.

In a short time so many waggon loads were collected that he reduced the price to twopence; and still great numbers of muskets came in.

[109] The conquerors marched first against Galway.

D'Usson was there, and had under him seven regiments, thinned by the slaughter of Aghrim and utterly disorganized and disheartened.

The last hope of the garrison and of the Roman Catholic inhabitants was that Baldearg O'Donnel, the promised deliverer of their race, would come to the rescue.