The English garrisons scoured the neighbouring counties with little opposition, and where they met any they gave no quarter.

Sir William Cole, ancestor of the Earl of Enniskillen, proudly boasted of his achievement in having 7,000 of the rebels famished to death within a circuit of a few miles of his garrison.

Lord Enniskillen is an excellent landlord, but the descendants of the remnant of the natives on his estate do not forget how the family obtained its wealth and honours.

The Government, however, seemed to have good reason to congratulate itself that the war was over with the Irish.

To these Sir Phelim O'Neill had shown that there is something in a name: but if the name does not represent real worth and fitness for the work undertaken, it is but a shadow.