The Irish Parliament was beginning to have doubts about James II.

"Too English," it was said, "to render full justice to Ireland." There was disorder everywhere, in the government as well as in the military operations; Schomberg held the Irish and French in check; at last William III.

appeared.
He landed on the 14th of June, and at once took the road to Belfast; the Protestant opposition was cantoned in the province of Ulster, peopled to a great extent by Cromwell's Scotch colonists; three parts of Ireland were still in the hands of the Catholics and King James.

"I haven't come hither to let the grass grow under my feet," said William to those who counselled prudence.

He had brought with him his old Dutch and German regiments, and numbered under his orders thirty-five thousand men; representatives from all the Protestant churches of Europe were there in arms against the enemies of their liberties.
The forces of King James were scarcely inferior to those of his son-in-law; Louis XIV.