It necessitated war in the shape of a purely local, and indeed personal grapple.

In the second place, plunder.

This was to be secured by raids, incursions, and temporary alliances.

In the third place, escape from the growing power and exactions of the Crown.

This was to be secured geographically by migration to Ireland, and politically by delaying, resolutely if discreetly, the extension in that country of the over-lordship of the King.