The distribution which they made of the soil was nearly as complete as that of Canaan among the Israelites; and this was the model which the Puritans had always before their minds.

Where a miserable residue of the population was required to till the land for its new owners, they were tolerated as the Gibeonites had been by Joshua.

Irish gentlemen who had obtained pardons were obliged to wear a distinctive mark on their dress on pain of death.

Persons of inferior rank were distinguished by a black spot on the right cheek.
Wanting this, their punishment was the branding-iron or the gallows.
No vestige of the Catholic religion was allowed to exist.

Catholic lawyers and schoolmasters were silenced.