Burke had more success with the rebellion of 1641, and the Cromwellian massacres of Such 1649.

Such topics cannot be exhaustively treated in part of a single lecture, and Burke could not be expected to put the slaughter of true believers on a level with irregular justice roughly wreaked upon heretics.

The combat was not so much unequal as impossible.

There was no common groud.

Froude could be fair to an eminent especially if he were a Protestant.