Some excerpts from the book. Page 180...Walker says that when Lundy saw the Irish had crossed the Finn he swore a great oath,remarked ''Gentlemen I see you will not fight'' and promptly took to his heels, ''though at the same time they were in all appearance very zealous and willing to engage''. Bennett adds that as Lundy fled he was heard shouting ''You are all lost,shift for yourselves''
Page 187....At this critical moment the citizens found the leader they needed in the person of Adam Murray,a young Ulster-Scot who in times of peace had worked on his father's farm at Ling,in the valley of the river Faughan a few miles south-east of Derry. Now he somehow got wind of the Councils intentions and at once set out for Derry with his yeomanry. It was explained to him that the first of the enemy's troops were already beginning to arrive at the Upper Strand and Lundy was afraid that the sight of Murrays troopers might upset the negotions for surrender. Murray hastened onwards,only to find the Shipquay Gate closed in his face. Walker,whose attitude at this point seems to have been ambivalent,had been sent by the Council to reason with him and,leaning over the parapet,suggested that he should be hauled up over the walls on a rope. Murray indignantly refusing to enter the city in such an undignified fashion,made it plain that he would come in with his men and his horses or not at all. James Morrison who on his own iniative ordered the gate to be opened and Murray and his men entered Derry. Finding that the great majority of the citizens and soldiers were resolutely opposed to the idea of surrender, Murray encouraged them to stand firm; he assured them that more help would be on the way from England,he promised to stand by them,and he insisted that as a first step they must ''expel the traitor and his false cabal''. He called on all who agreed with him to wear white brassards on their left arms and soon thousands were displaying the armbands and loudly proclaiming their determination to hold the city,at the same time heaping imprecations upon Lundy and his instrument of surrender.
