He was received everywhere with acclamation.
'The wretched people,' says Mr.Froude, how truly!--'sanguine then, as ever, in the midst of sorrow, looked on his coming as the inauguration of a new and happier era.' So, in later times, they looked on the coming of Chesterfield, and Fitzwilliam, and Anglesey.

But the good angel was quickly chased away by the evil demon--invoked under the name of the 'Protestant Interest.' The Munster and the Connaught chiefs all thronged to Sidney's levees, weary of disaffection, and willing to be loyal, if their religion were not interfered with, 'detesting their barbarous lives,'-- promising rent and service for their lands.

'The past was wiped out.

Confiscation on the one hand, and rebellion on the other, were to be heard of no more.

A clean page was turned.' Even the Catholic bishops were tractable, and the viceroy got 'good and honest juries in Cork, and with their help twenty-four malefactors were honourably condemned and hanged.' Enjoying an ovation as he passed on to Limerick and Galway, he found many grievances to be redressed--'plenty of burnings, rapes, murders, besides such spoil in goods and cattle as in number might be counted infinite, and in quantity innumerable.' Sir William Drury was appointed president of Munster; and he was determined that in his case the magistrate should not bear the sword in vain.