skill with which their opponents managed their business.[1]
These opponents too had all the advantages that money confers. From twenty to thirty thousand pounds was judiciously laid out in bribes in England: the impoverished Catholics could not employ this weapon.
The great Catholic lords such as Muskerry, Clanrickard and Antrim, who were in close touch with the King and secure of restitution gave no help.[2] The Duke of York and Clarendon were openly hostile. Ormond—the unkind deserter of his loyal friends—secured every possible benefit for himself; but in spite of the eulogies of Carte it is plain that he left the greater part of those whom he had deluded into fighting under his banners to starve. The "new interest" in Ireland was implacable in its hostility.[3]
As to English feeling it was entirely against the Irish. Wild tales of the atrocities at the outbreak of the rising were circulated and believed. According to Carte the new interest succeeded by the pretended discovery of sham plots in exciting a widespread feeling in England of the danger of any concessions. Clarendon declared that all parties in that country were "united and agreed in one unhappy extreme, that is their implacable malice to the Irish, in so much as they concurred in their
- ↑ Carte, pp. 241—2.
- ↑ Muskerry, created Earl of Clancarthy not only recovered his own estates, but also obtained most of those of his kinsmen and dependants who had reluctantly followed him when he joined in the rising of 1641. The plea was that these estates were held from him. Amongst others he got the estates of some thirty of the clan of O'Leary.
- ↑ See Cal. St. Paps., 1660—62, p. 173, for the Remonstrances and Addresses of the King's Protestant subjects.
