Mr.Taylor was offered the Crown Prosecutorship of the King's County, and some of us strongly advised him to accept it.

There were no political prosecutions impending at the time, and it seemed to me that a Nationalist who would do his work honestly in prosecuting offenders against the ordinary law might strike a blow against tyranny by refusing to accept a brief, if offered, against men accused of political offences or prosecuted under a Coercion Act.

I know that a similar view was entertained by the late Very Rev.Dr.Kavanagh of Kildare, and many others.

However, we failed to influence Mr.Taylor further than to make him say that he would do nothing in the matter until Mr.Davitt was consulted.

I, for one, called on Mr.Davitt, and pressed my views upon him; but he was decided that no Nationalist could identify himself in the smallest way with Castle rule in Ireland.