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- the figures were grossly exaggerated: Richard Baxter claimed 200,000 Protestants had been killed, when less than that lived in Ulster
- "the aftermath of the Irish Rebellion witnessed the first evidence of the print explosion with which the road to civil war became synonymous" - "the total for Ulster cannot have exceeded 12,000, and was probably much lower" - "stories of cruelty and privation electrified the London population...inflammatory impact of pamphlets" |
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Anti-Popery
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- Anglo-Scottish rapprochement was decidedly against Catholicism and associated popery
- just fifty years after the Spanish Armada and forty after the Gunpowder Plot, the English had pre-existing concerns about popery, which is why they reacted in the way she did - "news of the rebellion...was exploited by the English in order to stoke the fears regarding the catholic threat" - the Grand Remonstrance cited root and branch petition of the church |
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Europe
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- with the Thirty Years' War, a "pan-European conflict in which Ireland was a back door, through which the forces of Catholicism could gain entry to England", any rebellion in Ireland was exaggerated significance and attention
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Political
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- the Grand Remonstrance played off the rebellion
- before the rebellion, it had been very difficult to prove Charles' complicity in the Second Army Plot - the rebels, led by Sir Phellim O'Neil, claimed that Charles had authorised the rebellion (he most cetainly didn't) - "until the outbreak of rebellion, the campaign for reform had been running out of steam, and the King had reached a settlement with the Scots, both of which lessened the chances of war" - Westminster used the rebellion to merge anti-Catholicism with the interests of centre and localities - "if the rebellion fostered polarisation and helped create 'parties', then it was partly because certain figures at Westminster recognised its potential to do so" |
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Military
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- posed the question of the King's military authority with "acute urgency"
- men began to believe in the "necessity of defensive arms" - the Irish Rebellion placed king and Parliament on a "collision course over control of of the army" - many people could have believed the claim that Charles authorised the rebellion |
