Merchantmen heavily laden were constantly passing and repassing Saint George's Channel.
The receipts of the custom houses on the eastern coast, from Cork to Londonderry, amounted in six months to sixty-seven thousand five hundred pounds, a sum such as would have been thought extraordinary even in the most prosperous times.

[71] The Irish who remained within the English pale were, one and all, hostile to the English domination.

They were therefore subjected to a rigorous system of police, the natural though lamentable effect of extreme danger and extreme provocation.

A Papist was not permitted to have a sword or a gun.

He was not permitted to go more than three miles out of his parish except to the market town on the market day.