Yet the Commons did not remonstrate.

There was no power, however unconstitutional, which they were not willing to concede to him, as long as he used it to crush and plunder the English population.

On the other hand, they respected no prerogative, however ancient, however legitimate, however salutary, if they apprehended that he might use it to protect the race which they abhorred.

They were not satisfied till they had extorted his reluctant consent to a portentous law, a law without a parallel in the history of civilised countries, the great Act of Attainder.
A list was framed containing between two and three thousand names.

At the top was half the peerage of Ireland.