Impressed with this view of the Irish character, he held that forbearance in dealing with Irish rebellions was misplaced, that Irishmen respected only an authority with which they durst not trifle, and that universal confiscation should have followed the defeat of Shan O'Neill.
-- * Vol.

i, pp.

21, 22, -- These, however, were preliminary matters.

When he came to the eighteenth century Froude had to consider details, and here his prejudice against Catholicism led him astray.

In the reign of George II.