Fifteen royal chaplains scattered blessings around him; Gaelic songs and dances amused him; he was flattered in Latin orations, and conducted to his capital under triumphal arches.

In Dublin the trades turned out with new banners; two harpers played at the gate by which he entered; the clergy in their robes chanted as they went: and forty young girls, dressed in white, danced the ancient _rinka_, scattering flowers on the newly sanded streets.

Tyrconnell, now a duke, the judges, the mayor and the corporation, completed the procession, which moved beneath arches of evergreens, and windows hung with 'tapestry and cloth of arras.' The recorder delivered to his majesty the keys of the city, and the Catholic primate, Dominick Maguire, waited in his robes to conduct him to the royal chapel, where the _Te Deum_ was sung.

On that day the green flag floated from the main tower of the castle, bearing the motto, 'Now or never--now and for ever.' The followers of James, according to Grattan, 'though papists, were not slaves.

They wrung a constitution from King James before they accompanied him to the field.' A constitution wrung from such a man was not worth much.