Even in the towns the artisans were very few.

Manufactured articles were hardly to be found, and if found could be procured only at immense prices, [174] The truth was that most of the English inhabitants had fled, and that art, industry, and capital had fled with them.
James received on his progress numerous marks of the goodwill of the peasantry; but marks such as, to men bred in the courts of France and England, had an uncouth and ominous appearance.

Though very few labourers were seen at work in the fields, the road was lined by Rapparees armed with skeans, stakes, and half pikes, who crowded to look upon the deliverer of their race.

The highway along which he travelled presented the aspect of a street in which a fair is held.

Pipers came forth to play before him in a style which was not exactly that of the French opera; and the villagers danced wildly to the music.