The flower of the Protestant population of Munster and Connaught found shelter at Enniskillen.

Whatever was bravest and most truehearted in Leinster took the road to Londonderry, [160] The spirit of Enniskillen and Londonderry rose higher and higher to meet the danger.

At both places the tidings of what had been done by the Convention at Westminster were received with transports of joy.

William and Mary were proclaimed at Enniskillen with unanimous enthusiasm, and with such pomp as the little town could furnish, [161] Lundy, who commanded at Londonderry, could not venture to oppose himself to the general sentiment of the citizens and of his own soldiers.

He therefore gave in his adhesion to the new government, and signed a declaration by which he bound himself to stand by that government, on pain of being considered a coward and a traitor.