On the contrary, they believed that God, angry at their lingering, sent his judgments as a punishment.

Mr.Prendergast has published a number of letters, written at the time by the English authorities and others, from which some interesting matters may be gleaned.

The town of Cashel had got a dispensation to remain.

'But,' says the writer, 'the Lord, who is a jealous God, and more knowing of, as well as jealous against their iniquity than we, by a fire on the 23rd inst.

hath burned down the whole town in little less than a quarter of an hour, except a few houses that a few English lived in,' &c.