Accordingly when the time came, all the remaining crops were seized and sold; there was a general arrest of all 'transplantable persons.

All over the three provinces, men and women were hauled out of their beds in the dead hour of night to prison, till the jails were choked.' In order to further expedite the removal of the nobility and gentry, a court-martial sat in St.
Patrick's Cathedral, and ordered the lingering delinquents, who shrunk from going to Connaught, to be hanged, with a placard on the breast and back of each victim--'_For not transplanting.'_ Scully's conduct at Ballycohy, was universally execrated.

But what did he attempt to do?
Just what the Cromwellian officers did at the end of a horrid civil war 200 years ago, with this difference in favour of Cromwell, that Scully did not purpose to 'transplant,' He would simply uproot, leaving the uprooted to perish on the highway.

His conduct was as barbarous as that of the Cromwellian officers.

But what of Scully?
He is nothing.