Neither of the hostile castes can justly be absolved from blame; but the chief blame is due to that shortsighted and headstrong prince who, placed in a situation in which he might have reconciled them, employed all his power to inflame their animosity, and at length forced them to close in a grapple for life and death.
The grievances under which the members of his Church laboured in Ireland differed widely from those which he was attempting to remove in England and Scotland.

The Irish Statute Book, afterwards polluted by intolerance as barbarous as that of the dark ages, then contained scarce a single enactment, and not a single stringent enactment, imposing any penalty on Papists as such.

On our side of Saint George's Channel every priest who received a neophyte into the bosom of the Church of Rome was liable to be hanged, drawn, and quartered.

On the other side he incurred no such danger.

A Jesuit who landed at Dover took his life in his hand; but he walked the streets of Dublin in security.