The object of the mission was well known; and the two Judges could not venture to show themselves in the streets.

If ever they were recognised, the rabble shouted, "Room for the Irish Ambassadors;" and their coach was escorted with mock solemnity by a train of ushers and harbingers bearing sticks with potatoes stuck on the points.

[446] So strong and general, indeed, was at that time the aversion of the English to the Irish that the most distinguished Roman Catholics partook of it.

Powis and Bellasyse expressed, in coarse and acrimonious language, even at the Council board, their antipathy to the aliens.
[447] Among English Protestants that antipathy was still stronger and perhaps it was strongest in the army.

Neither officers nor soldiers were disposed to bear patiently the preference shown by their master to a foreign and a subject race.