The object of the Ambassador's politics was to make the separation between England and Ireland eternal.

The object of the King's politics was to unite England and Ireland under his own sceptre; and he could not but be aware that, if there should be a general massacre of the Protestants of three provinces, and he should be suspected of having authorised it or of having connived at it, there would in a fortnight be not a Jacobite left even at Oxford, [432] Just at this time the prospects of James, which had seemed hopelessly dark, began to brighten.

The danger which had unnerved him had roused the Irish people.

They had, six months before, risen up as one man against the Saxons.

The army which Tyrconnel had formed was, in proportion to the population from which it was taken, the largest that Europe had ever seen.