ught together with so much
judgment, and at the expense of years of research. We might have
selected some cases from his work, but, on the whole, we think it will
be more satisfactory to the reader to peruse it in its entirety. It may
be obtained from our publishers, Messrs. Longmans and Co.,
Paternoster-row, London.

[497] _Rebellious_.--If the subject were not so serious, the way in
which the officials wrote about the feelings of the Irish would almost
provoke a smile. They say: "It is the nature of this people to be
rebellious; and they have been so much the more disposed to it, having
been highly exasperated by the transplanting work." Surely they could
not be expected to be anything else but rebellious and exasperated!

CHAPTER XXXI.

The Irish transported as Slaves to Barbadoes--The Three Beasts who were
to be hunted: the Wolf, the Priest, and the Tory--Origin and Causes of
Agrarian Outrages--Cases of Individual Wrongs--Lord Roche--Mr. Luttrel
Accession of Charles II.--His Base Conduct towards the Irish
Loyalists--Gross Injustice towards the Irish Catholic Landowners--The
Remonstrance opposed by the Clergy--A Quarrel in the House of Lords The
Popish Plot--Ormonde's Difficulties--Seizure and Imprisonment of the
Archbishop of Dublin--Imprisonment and Execution of the Most Rev. Dr.
Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh.

[A.D.-1655-1681.]

Many of the Irish soldiers who had entered into the service of foreign
princes, were obliged to leave their wives and families behind. When we
recall the number of those who were thus expatriated, it will not seem
surprising that thousands of young children were left utterly destitute.
These boys and girls, however, were easily disposed of by the
Government; and Sir William Petty states, that 6,000 were sent out as
slaves to the West Indies. The Bristol sugar merchants traded in these
human lives, as if they had been so much merchandize; and merchandize,
in truth, they were, for they could be had for a trifle, and they
fetched a high price in the slave-market. Even girls of noble birth were
subjected to this cruel fate. Morison mentions an instance of this kind
which came to his own knowledge. He was present when Daniel Connery, a
gentleman of Clare, was sentenced to banishment, by Colonel Ingoldsby,
for harbouring a priest. Mrs. Connery died of destitution, and three of
his daughters, young and beautiful girls, were transported as slaves to
Barbadoes.[498]

A court was es