From such places, now seats of hunger and pestilence, abandoned to the most wretched of mankind, the citizens poured forth to welcome James.

He was received with military honours by Macarthy, who held the chief command in Munster.
It was impossible for the King to proceed immediately to Dublin; for the southern counties had been so completely laid waste by the banditti whom the priests had called to arms, that the means of locomotion were not easily to be procured.

Horses had become rarities: in a large district there were only two carts; and those Avaux pronounced good for nothing.
Some days elapsed before the money which had been brought from France, though no very formidable mass, could be dragged over the few miles which separated Cork from Kinsale, [173] While the King and his Council were employed in trying to procure carriages and beasts, Tyrconnel arrived from Dublin.

He held encouraging language.

The opposition of Enniskillen he seems to have thought deserving of little consideration.