The Statute was passed in 1367: and two centuries later Henry VIII.

was forced to appoint as his Deputy the famous Garrett Fitzgerald whose life was a militant denial of every clause and letter of it.

With the Tudors, after some diplomatic preliminaries, a very clear and business-like policy was developed.

Seeing that the only sort of quiet Irishman known to contemporary science was a dead Irishman, English Deputies and Governors were instructed to pacify Ireland by slaughtering or starving the entire population.

The record of their conscientious effort to obey these instructions may be studied in any writer of the period, or in any historian, say Mr Froude.