Chap. f. 'Ibe HIS T 0 R Y of tbe PuRITANS. 381- '•· ties fail:er than chains of adamant ! I have often obferved a:wonderful con- Comm0n· " fent of the officers and foldiers upon the grounds of doing fervice to God, ~~alth. " and how miraculoufiy they have fucceeded. The mind of man being ~ '' fatisfied, and fixed on God, and that his undertaking is for God's glory, . " it gives the greateil: courage to thofe men, and profperity to their " actions." To pu.t the affairs of-Ire/and together : the roman catholies charged the Summary ac• ilt fuccefs of their affairs upon the duke ?f Ormond, and fe.nt him word,;:,n:.j1~~~ " that they were determined not to fubmtt any longer to hts commands, land, « it not' being fit that a catholic army fhould be under the direction of a " protefi:ant general; but that if he would depart the kingdom, they " would undertake of themfelves to drive Ireton out of Du6fin." After this they offered the kingdom to the duke of Lorrain, a bigotted papiil:, who was wife enough to decline the offer, and then quarreling among themfelves they were foon driven out of all the il:rong holds of the kingdom, and forced to fubmit to -the mercy of the conqueror, All who had borne arms in the late infurreetion, were Chipped away into France, Spain, or Flanders) never to return on pain of death. Thofe who had a hand in Canington's murdering the proteil:ants at the time of the malfacre, were brought from /ifeofC;om- – feveral parts of the country, and after conviction upon a fair trial were exe- Clll. P· 1 55~ cuted. The. refi: of the natives,. who were called 'Tories, were fhut up in ar. p, 15 :k the moft inland counties, and . their lands given partly in payment to the foldiers who fettled there, and the reft to the firfi: adventurers. Lord Clarendon relates it thus, " near one hundred thouf.·wd of them were " tranfported into foreign parts, . for the.fer.vice- of the. kings of H·am;e and " Spain ;. double that number were confumed by the plague, famine, and "other feverities exercifed upon them in their own country; the remainu der were by Cronnvell tranfplanted into the mofi: inland, barren, defo- " late, and mountainous part of the province of Connaught, and it was ' ' lawful for any man to.kill any of the irijh, that were found out of the · " bounds appointed them within that circuit. Such a proportion of land " was allotted to every man, as theproteCior thought competent for them ; ; " upon which they were to give formal releafes of all their titles to their " lands in any other provinces; if they refufed to give fuch releafes, they · '' were fiill deprived, and left to il:arve within the limits prefcribed them; , "out of which they durfi: not withdraw; fo that very few refufed to fign " tbofe releafes,or other acts which were demanded.. It was a confidera- . " ble time before thefe irijh could raife any thing out of their lands to . " fupport their fives; but necefiity was the fpring of indufl:ry.'' Thus they lived.under.all.the infamy of.a conquered nation till the reil:oration of. king ;
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