He signed whatever was set before him.

The commissaries, encouraged by his lenity, robbed and embezzled more shamelessly than ever.

They sallied forth daily, guarded by pikes and firelocks, to seize, nominally for the public service, but really for themselves, wool, linen, leather, tallow, domestic utensils, instruments of husbandry, searched every pantry, every wardrobe, every cellar, and even laid sacrilegious hands on the property of priests and prelates.

[81] Early in the spring the government, if it is to be so called, of which Berwick was the ostensible head, was dissolved by the return of Tyrconnel.

The Luttrells had, in the name of their countrymen, implored James not to subject so loyal a people to so odious and incapable a viceroy.