Celebrating the "Relief" of Londonderry, in Taunton in Somerset

In Joshua Toulmin's 1791 The History of Taunton in the County of Somerset, this account of Colonel Percy Kirke includes his breathtaking bloodlust inflicted upon the people of Taunton during the Bloody Assizes of Autumn 1685, yet also of them toasting him following his role in the Relief of Londonderry:

... the people of Taunton, in commemoration of his relieving Londonderry, when besieged by James II in 1689, devoted an evening to the drinking of his health in public, the expenses of which may be now seen in an old church-book... (page 543)

The events of 1688-90 are not restricted to Ireland and connect communities across our islands.