in those provinces respectively.
The nature of the war, and the spirit in which it was conducted, may be inferred from the sort of weapons issued from the military stores.

These included scythes with handles and rings, reaping-hooks, whetstones, and rubstones.

They were intended for cutting down the growing corn, that the people might be starved into submission, or forced to quit the country.

The commissary of stores was ordered to issue Bibles to the troops, one Bible for every file, that they might learn from the Old Testament the sin and danger of sparing idolaters.
The rebellion in Ulster had almost collapsed before the end of the year.

The tens of thousands who had rushed to the standard of Sir P.O'Neill were now reduced to a number of weak and disorganised collections of armed men taking shelter in the woods.