He only asked that the poor Catholic should be allowed to live in peace.

In the debate referred to, Lord Moira declared that ninety-one householders had been banished from one of his own estates; and many of them wounded in their persons.

The discontent, he said, was not confined to one sect.

He ascribed the state of things to the recall of Lord Fitzwilliam, which crushed the hopes of the Catholics, and gave unbounded licence to the yeomanry, who were empowered to act with a vigour beyond the law; to turn out, banish, or kill the king's subjects, on mere suspicion, often prompted by private malice, and having no better warrant than anonymous information.

But for all this the Irish parliament and the new reactionary viceroy freely granted acts of indemnity.