All Lisburn fled to Antrim; and, as the foes drew nearer, all Lisburn and Antrim together came pouring into Londonderry.

Thirty thousand Protestants, of both sexes and of every age, were crowded behind the bulwarks of the City of Refuge.

There, at length, on the verge of the ocean, hunted to the last asylum, and baited into a mood in which men may be destroyed, but will not easily be subjugated, the imperial race turned desperately to bay, [163] Meanwhile Mountjoy and Rice had arrived in France.

Mountjoy was instantly put under arrest and thrown into the Bastile.

James determined to comply with the invitation which Rice had brought, and applied to Lewis for the help of a French army.