He had, therefore, to overcome some scruples in the royal mind.

He had to surmount the opposition, not merely of all the Protestant members of the government, not merely of the moderate and respectable heads of the Roman Catholic body, but even of several members of the jesuitical cabal.

[202] Sunderland shrank from the thought of an Irish revolution, religious, political, and social.

To the Queen Tyrconnel was personally an object of aversion.

Powis was therefore suggested as the man best qualified for the viceroyalty.