There was, moreover, a high court of justice, which perambulated the kingdom, and exercised an absolute authority over life and property greater than even Strafford's Court of Star Chamber had pretended to.

Over this court presided Lord Lowther, assisted by Mr.Justice Donnellan, by Cooke, solicitor to the parliament on the trial of King Charles, and the regicide Reynolds.
By this court, Sir Phelim O'Neill, Viscount Mayo, and Colonels O'Toole and Bagnall were condemned and executed; children of both sexes were captured by thousands, and sold as slaves to the tobacco-planters of Virginia and the West Indies.

Sir William Petty states that 6,000 boys and girls were sent to those islands.

The number, of all ages, thus transported, was estimated at 100,000 souls.

As to the 'swordsmen' who had been trained to fighting, Petty, in his _Political Anatomy_, records that 'the chiefest and most eminentest of the nobility and many of the gentry had taken conditions from the King of Spain, and had transported 40,000 of the most active, spirited men, most acquainted with the dangers and discipline of war.' The chief commissioners in Dublin had despatched assistant commissioners to the provinces.