[The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of England from the Accession of James II. CHAPTER XVII 244/271
Ginkell undertook to furnish a considerable number of transports.
French vessels were also to be permitted to pass and repass freely between Britanny and Munster.
Part of Limerick was to be immediately delivered up to the English.
But the island on which the Cathedral and the Castle stand was to remain, for the present, in the keeping of the Irish. The terms of the civil treaty were very different from those which Ginkell had sternly refused to grant.
It was not stipulated that the Roman Catholics of Ireland should be competent to hold any political or military office, or that they should be admitted into any corporation. But they obtained a promise that they should enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion as were consistent with the law, or as they had enjoyed in the reign of Charles the Second. To all inhabitants of Limerick, and to all officers and soldiers in the Jacobite army, who should submit to the government and notify their submission by taking the oath of allegiance, an entire amnesty was promised.
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