Some were for closing the gates and resisting; some for submitting; some for temporising.

The corporation had, like the other corporations of Ireland, been remodelled.

The magistrates were men of low station and character.

Among them was only one person of Anglosaxon extraction; and he had turned Papist.

In such rulers the inhabitants could place no confidence, [135] The Bishop, Ezekiel Hopkins, resolutely adhered to the doctrine of nonresistance, which he had preached during many years, and exhorted his flock to go patiently to the slaughter rather than incur the guilt of disobeying the Lord's Anointed, [136] Antrim was meanwhile drawing nearer and nearer.