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Charles II bishop." The annals of English justice contain the record of no fouler crime.

And now the tide of popular passion, which had long run furiously against the Court, began to turn; and the King and his brother, with their hands strengthened by the crimes and follies of their enemies, to look to a renewal of the policy which, since the recall of Lord Berkeley, they had been compelled to suspend. In the autumn of 1684 it was determined once more to change the government of Ireland, and Lord Rochester was fixed upon as Ormond's successor; but the death of Charles at the beginning of the following year prevented this arrangement from being carried into effect; a new reign opened, and in a few months the conditions of Irish politics were profoundly changed. 109