vol.iv.p.

124., Warwick, p.

115.
The springs of authority he had enforced without overstraining them.
Discretionary acts of jurisdiction, indeed, he had often exerted, by holding courts martial, billetting soldiers, deciding causes upon paper petitions before the council, issuing proclamations, and punishing their infraction.

But discretionary authority during that age was usually exercised even in England.

In Ireland, it was still more requisite, among a rude people, not yet thoroughly subdued, averse to the religion and manners of their conquerors, ready on all occasions to relapse into rebellion and disorder.