Amidst such violent animosities, power alone could insure safety; and the power of one side was necessarily attended with danger to the other.

Few or no instances occur in history of an equal, peaceful, and durable accommodation that has been concluded between two factions which had been inflamed into civil war.
With regard to Ireland, there were no greater hopes of agreement between the parties.

The parliament demanded, that the truce with the rebels should be declared null; that the management of the war should be given over entirely to the parliament; and that, after the conquest of Ireland, the nomination of the lord lieutenant and of the judges, or in other words the sovereignty of that kingdom, should likewise remain in their hands.[v] * Dugdale, p.

798.
** Dugdale, p.

791.
*** Dugdale, p.