Many were received into the houses of friends and kinsmen.
Many were indebted for the means of subsistence to the liberality of strangers.

Among those who bore a part in this work of mercy, none contributed more largely or less ostentatiously than the Queen.

The House of Commons placed at the King's disposal fifteen thousand pounds for the relief of those refugees whose wants were most pressing, and requested him to give commissions in the army to those who were qualified for military employment, [239] An Act was also passed enabling beneficed clergymen who had fled from Ireland to hold preferment in England, [240] Yet the interest which the nation felt in these unfortunate guests was languid when compared with the interest excited by that portion of the Saxon colony which still maintained in Ulster a desperate conflict against overwhelming odds.

On this subject scarcely one dissentient voice was to be heard in our island.

Whigs, Tories, nay even those Jacobites in whom Jacobitism had not extinguished every patriotic sentiment, gloried in the glory of Enniskillen and Londonderry.