"There is work to be done in Ireland," said James, "which no Englishman will do." [203] All obstacles were at length removed; and in February 1687, Tyrconnel began to rule his native country with the power and appointments of Lord Lieutenant, but with the humbler title of Lord Deputy.
His arrival spread dismay through the whole English population.
Clarendon was accompanied, or speedily followed, across St.George's Channel, by a large proportion of the most respectable inhabitants of Dublin, gentlemen, tradesmen, and artificers.

It was said that fifteen hundred families emigrated in a few days.

The panic was not unreasonable.

The work of putting the colonists down under the feet of the natives went rapidly on.

In a short time almost every Privy Councillor, Judge, Sheriff, Mayor, Alderman, and Justice of the Peace was a Celt and a Roman Catholic.