But of those rights the trustees were to be judges, and judges without appeal.

A claimant who gave them the trouble of attending to him, and could not make out his case, was to be heavily fined.

Rewards were offered to informers who should discover any property which was liable to confiscation, and which had not yet been confiscated.

Though eight years had elapsed since an arm had been lifted up in the conquered island against the domination of the Englishry, the unhappy children of the soil, who had been suffered to live, submissive and obscure, on their hereditary fields, were threatened with a new and severe inquisition into old offences.
Objectionable as many parts of the bill undoubtedly were, nobody who knew the House of Commons believed it to be possible to carry any amendment.

The King flattered himself that a motion for leaving at his disposal a third part of the forfeitures would be favourably received.
There can be little doubt that a compromise would have been willingly accepted twelve months earlier.