Ever since the recall of Clarendon there had been a large emigration of timid and quiet people from the Irish ports to England.

That emigration now went on faster than ever.

It was not easy to obtain a passage on board of a well built or commodious vessel.

But many persons, made bold by the excess of fear, and choosing rather to trust the winds and waves than the exasperated Irishry, ventured to encounter all the dangers of Saint George's Channel and of the Welsh coast in open boats and in the depth of winter.

The English who remained began, in almost every county, to draw close together.