Every smith, every carpenter, every cutler, was at constant work on guns and blades.

It was scarcely possible to get a horse shod.

If any Protestant artisan refused to assist in the manufacture of implements which were to be used against his nation and his religion, he was flung into prison.

It seems probable that, at the end of February, at least a hundred thousand Irishmen were in arms.

Near fifty thousand of them were soldiers.