A mortgage for a thousand pounds was cleared off by a bag of counters made out of old kettles.

The creditors who complained to the Court of Chancery were told by Fitton to take their money and be gone.

But of all classes the tradesmen of Dublin, who were generally Protestants, were the greatest losers.

At first, of course, they raised their demands: but the magistrates of the city took on themselves to meet this heretical machination by putting forth a tariff regulating prices.

Any man who belonged to the caste now dominant might walk into a shop, lay on the counter a bit of brass worth threepence, and carry off goods to the value of half a guinea.