[178] To turn Englishmen out and to put Irishmen in was, in his view, the beginning and the end of the administration of war.

He had the insolence to cashier the Captain of the Lord Lieutenant's own Body Guard: nor was Clarendon aware of what had happened till he saw a Roman Catholic, whose face was quite unknown to him, escorting the state coach.

[179] The change was not confined to the officers alone.

The ranks were completely broken up and recomposed.

Four or five hundred soldiers were turned out of a single regiment chiefly on the ground that they were below the proper stature.