It has enlisted the sympathy of the Protestants of England in their behalf, and has done much to popularize the war there.
It would have been vastly wiser, had a commission been ordered to examine into the circumstances of each case.
"In the great proportion of cases, the estates which the Cromwellites took possession of were vastly larger than they were able to till themselves; and, as in the case of Zephaniah Whitefoot, they let out the greater portion to tenants.

All these lands I would have restored to their former owners, leaving to the Cromwellites the land they till themselves, and the houses they have built upon it.
"As to turning the Whitefoots out, I shall certainly take no step that way, at present.

It will be time enough to do so, when King James is firmly established on the throne.

As things go at present, I have but very faint hopes that will ever be.

He has utterly failed to conquer the Protestants of the north of Ireland, and we have all the strength of England to cope with, yet.