The consequence was that, while foreign commodities were pouring fast into the harbours of Londonderry, Carrickfergus, Dublin, Waterford and Cork, every mariner avoided Limerick and Galway as nests of pirates.

[75] The distinction between the Irish foot soldier and the Irish Rapparee had never been very strongly marked.

It now disappeared.

Great part of the army was turned loose to live by marauding.

An incessant predatory war raged along the line which separated the domain of William from that of James.