Dover, too, was a bad Frenchman.
He seemed to take no pleasure in the defeat of his countrymen, and had been heard to say that the affair in Bantry Bay did not deserve to be called a battle, [212] On the day after the Te Deum had been sung at Dublin for this indecisive skirmish, the Parliament convoked by James assembled.

The number of temporal peers of Ireland, when he arrived in that kingdom, was about a hundred.

Of these only fourteen obeyed his summons.

Of the fourteen, ten were Roman Catholics.

By the reversing of old attainders, and by new creations, seventeen more Lords, all Roman Catholics, were introduced into the Upper House.