He was a stanch Protestant, had distinguished himself among the Yorkshiremen who rose up for the Prince of Orange and a free Parliament, and had, if he is not belied, proved his zeal for liberty and pure religion, by causing the Mayor of Scarborough, who had made a speech in favour of King James, to be brought into the market place and well tossed there in a blanket, [258] This vehement hatred of Popery was, in the estimation of the men of Enniskillen, the first of all qualifications for command: and Wolseley had other and more important qualifications.

Though himself regularly bred to war, he seems to have had a peculiar aptitude for the management of irregular troops.

He had scarcely taken on himself the chief command when he received notice that Mountcashel had laid siege to the Castle of Crum.

Crum was the frontier garrison of the Protestants of Fermanagh.

The ruins of the old fortifications are now among the attractions of a beautiful pleasureground, situated on a woody promontory which overlooks Lough Erne.