each, and upon three 50 l.each.The king was delighted with this evangelical method of extending reformed religion in Ireland.

Congratulating his deputy, he expressed a hope that many, by such means, would be brought to conformity in religion, who would hereafter 'give thanks to God for being drawn by so gentle a constraint to their own good.' The 'gentle constraint' was imposed in all directions.

The Privy Council decreed that none but a member of the Church of England could hold any office under the Crown.

The old Catholic families of the Pale humbly remonstrated, and their chief men were flung into prison.

Sir Patrick Barnwell, their agent, was sent to London by order of the king, and was forthwith committed to the Tower for contempt.