THE SCOT IN ULSTER
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ing a regular place of rendezvous for the Ulstermen, both lay and clerical. [1] Wentworth viewed this intimacy with a jealous eye, especially after Scotland had risen against Charles and placed an army in the field. Then the Deputy's hand fell yet heavier on the Scots of Ulster. He imposed on every Presbyterian an oath of passive obedience, long remembered as the Black Oath; he disarmed the Ulster Scots as far as he could, and raised an army of 9000 men, largely Roman Catholics, to overawe Ulster. Wentworth seems to have feared a rising of the Scots; for in a letter to Coke, the English Secretary of State, he states that there are 13,092 British men between sixteen and sixty in Ulster, but congratulates himself on the fact that they are badly armed. [2] ...continue reading »
[1] Reid, vol. i. p. 217.
[2] Strafford's Letters, vol. i. p. 199.
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The Scot in Ulster:
Sketch of the History of the Scottish Population of Ulster
by John Harrison
1888