#James II. to officers of Irish forces on arrival at Brest, 1691 #### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition ### Background details and bibliographic information James II. to officers of Irish forces on arrival at Brest, 1691 =============================================================== Author: King James II --------------------- ### File Description John T. GilbertElectronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber, Janet Crawford 2. Second draft.Extent of text: 760 words#### Publication CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of the History Department, University College Cork College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt (2005) (2010) Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland. Text ID Number: E703001-013Availability [RESTRICTED] Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only. #### Sources **Manuscript source**2. Royal Irish Academy, MS G 24. G. 7, no. 67. **The edition used in the digital edition**2. **John T. Gilbert**, James II. to officers of Irish forces on arrival at Brest, 1691 in A Jacobite narrative of the war in Ireland. , Shannon, Shannon University Press (1971) ((First published 1892)) page 311–312 ### Encoding #### Project Description CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts #### Editorial Declaration ##### Correction Text has been proof-read twice and parsed. ##### Normalization The electronic text represents the edited text. A few obsolete spellings and usages have been regularized using the reg element. The original is given in the value of the 'orig' attribute. Encoding is subject to revision. ##### Quotation There is no direct speech. ##### Hyphenation Soft hyphens are silently removed. When a hyphenated word (and subsequent punctuation mark) crosses a page-break, this break is marked after the completion of the word (and punctuation mark). ##### Segmentation div0=the letter. Page-breaks are marked pb n="". ##### Standard Values Dates are standardized in the ISO form yyyy-mm-dd. ##### Interpretation Dates are tagged. ### Profile Description Created: by King James II (1691) #### Use of language ##### Language: [EN] The text is in English. ### Revision History * (2010-05-03) Beatrix Färber (ed.) * Conversion script run, header updated; new wordcount made; file parsed; new SGML and HTML versions created. * (2008-09-24) Beatrix Färber (ed.) * Keywords added; file validated. * (2008-07-20) Beatrix Färber (ed.) * Value of div0 "type" attribute modified, changes to file structure made; 'langUsage' revised. * (2005-08-25) Julianne Nyhan (ed.) * Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion * (2005-08-04T14:21:37+0100) Peter Flynn (conversion) * Converted to XML * (2005-07-19) Beatrix Färber (ed.) * Header created, file parsed, HTML file created. * (2005-07-19) Beatrix Färber (ed.) * File proofed (2), more content markup applied. * (2005-05) Janet Crawford, Co. Tipperary (ed.) * First proofing of the text; structural and some content markup applied. * (2005-05) Benjamin Hazard (text capture) * Text scanned in. --- #### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E703001-013 ### James II. to officers of Irish forces on arrival at Brest, 1691: Author: King James II --- p.311 James, Rex,—Having been informed of the capitulation and surrender of **Limerick** and of the other places which remained to us in our kingdom of Ireland, and of the necessity that forced the lords justices and general officers of our forces thereunto, we shall not defer to let you know, and the rest of the officers that came along with you, that we are extremely satisfied with your and their conduct, and of the valour of the soldiers during the siege; and most --- p.312 particularly of your and their declaration and resolution to come and serve where we are. And we assure you, and order you to assure both officers and soldiers that are come along with you, that we shall never forget this act of loyalty, nor fail when in a capacity to give them above others a particular mark of our favour. In the meantime you are to inform them that they are to serve under our command and by our commissions. And if we find that a considerable number is come with the fleet, it will induce us to go personally to see them and regiment them. Our brother, the king of **France**, *had* already given orders to clothe them and furnish them with all necessaries, and to give them quarters for their refreshment. So we bid you heartily farewell. Given at our court at St. Germain's, 27th November, 1691.