The members chosen were, with few exceptions, men animated by the spirit of Enniskillen and Londonderry, a spirit eminently heroic in times of distress and peril, but too often cruel and imperious in the season of prosperity and power.

They detested the civil treaty of Limerick, and were indignant when they learned that the Lord Lieutenant fully expected from them a parliamentary ratification of that odious contract, a contract which gave a licence to the idolatry of the mass, and which prevented good Protestants from ruining their Popish neighbours by bringing civil actions for injuries done during the war.
[402] On the fifth of October 1692 the Parliament met at Dublin in Chichester House.

It was very differently composed from the assembly which had borne the same title in 1689.

Scarcely one peer, not one member of the House of Commons, who had sate at the King's Inns, was to be seen.

To the crowd of O's and Macs, descendants of the old princes of the island, had succeeded men whose names indicated a Saxon origin.