He entered the city in procession and addressed the people from 'a convenient place,' accompanied by his son Henry, Blake, Jones, Ireton, Ludlow, Hardress, Waller, and others.

The history of Cromwell's military exploits in Ireland is well known.

I pass on, therefore, to notice the effects of the war on the condition of the people.
As usual, in such cases, the destruction of the crops and other provisions by the soldiers, brought evil to the conquerors as well as to their victims.

There had been a fifteen years' war in Ulster, when James I.ascended the throne, and it left the country waste and desolate.

Sir John Davis, his attorney-general, asserted the unquestionable fact that perpetual war had been continued between the two nations for 'four hundred and odd years,' and had always for its object to 'root out the Irish.' James was to put an end to this war, and, as we have seen, the lord deputy promised the people 'estates' in their holdings.