dale, p. *53 *54.

**** Rush. vol. vi p. 537, 544, 547

v Rush, vol. vi. p. 557.

After the cessation, there was little necessity, as well as no means
of subsisting the army in Ireland. The king ordered Ormond, who was
entirely devoted to him, to send over considerable bodies of it to
England. Most of them continued in his service; but a small part, having
imbibed in Ireland a strong animosity against the Catholics, and hearing
the king's party universally reproached with Popery, soon after deserted
to the Parliament.

Some Irish Catholics came over with these troops, and joined the royal
army, where they continued the same cruelties and disorders to which
they had been accustomed.[*] The parliament voted, that no quarter in
any action should ever be given them; but Prince Rupert, by making some
reprisals, soon repressed this inhumanity.[**]

* Whitlocke, p 78, 103.

** Rush. vol. vi. p. 680, 788.

CHAPTER LVII

CHARLES I.

{1644.} The king had hitherto, during the course of the war, obtained
many advantages over the parliament, and had raised himself from that
low condition into which he had at first fallen, to be nearly upon an
equal footing with his adversaries. Yorkshire, and all the northern
counties, were reduced by the marquis of Newcastle; and, excepting Hull,
the parliament was master of no garrison in these quarters. In the west,
Plymouth alone, having been in vain besieged by Prince Maurice, resisted
the king's authority; and had it not been for the disappointment in
the enterprise of Gloucester, the royal garrisons had reached, without
interruption, from one end of the kingdom to the other, and had occupied
a greater extent of ground than those of the parliament. Many of the
royalists flattered themselves, that the same vigorous spirit which had
elevated them to the present height of power would still favor their
progress, and obtain them a final victory over their enemies: but those
who judged more soundly, observed, that, besides the accession of the
whole Scottish nation to the side of the parliament, the very principle
on which the royal successes had been founded, was every day acquired
more and more by the opposite party. The king's troops, full of gentry
and nobility, had exerted a valor superior to their enemies, and had
hitherto been successful in almost every rencounter; but in proportion
as the whole nation became warlike by the continuance of civil