Berwick indignantly expressed his wonder that military men should presume to meet and deliberate without the permission of their general.

They answered that there was no general, and that, if His Grace did not choose to undertake the administration on the terms proposed, another leader would easily be found.

Berwick very reluctantly yielded, and continued to be a puppet in a new set of hands.

[79] Those who had effected this revolution thought it prudent to send a deputation to France for the purpose of vindicating their proceedings.
Of the deputation the Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork and the two Luttrells were members.

In the ship which conveyed them from Limerick to Brest they found a fellow passenger whose presence was by no means agreeable to them, their enemy, Maxwell.