of deposing and of killing kings.' Ormonde on his part made a great mistake in comparing Cromwell to John of Leyden, for never was any man more unlike the Puritan chief than the polygamous scoundrel who had enjoyed a brief royalty at Münster. Cromwell, said Milton, had 'done in few years more eminent and remarkable deeds whereon to found nobility in his house though it were wanting, and perpetual renown to posterity, than Ormonde and all his ancestors put together can show from any record of their Irish exploits, the widest scene of their glory.' Dealing with the articles of the peace in greater detail than Jones had done, Milton shows that the Protestants of Ireland were really left at the mercy of those who were more or less responsible for the massacres. The cessation of 1643 and the abortive articles of 1646 were open to the same objection, but this last treaty went further in proposing to give an Irish Parliament power to repeal Poynings' Act, and by abandoning the militia, 'a trust which the King swore by God at Newmarket he would not commit to his Parliament of England, no, not for an hour.' Nor did Milton omit to notice the article 'more ridiculous than dangerous' which provided for the repeal of laws against ploughing by the tail and burning in the straw, showing how 'indocible and averse from all civility and amendment,' the Irish rebels were.[139] [Sidenote: O'Neill and Monck.] [Sidenote: They combine against Ormonde and Inchiquin.] [Sidenote: O'Neill helps Coote.]