Within forty-eight hours hundreds of horse and foot came by various roads to the city.

Antrim, not thinking himself strong enough to risk an attack, or not disposed to take on himself the responsibility of commencing a civil war without further orders, retired with his troops to Coleraine.
It might have been expected that the resistance of Enniskillen and Londonderry would have irritated Tyrconnel into taking some desperate step.

And in truth his savage and imperious temper was at first inflamed by the news almost to madness.

But, after wreaking his rage, as usual, on his wig, he became somewhat calmer.

Tidings of a very sobering nature had just reached him.