[155] The air of 'Lillibullero,' originally composed by Purcell for another song, is still whistled in Ulster under the name of 'Protestant Boys.' The words have been often reprinted, see Wilkin's _Political Ballads_, i. 275, and (with variants) the third part of _Revolution Politicks_, 1733. Purcell's music is given in the 1873 edition of Sterne's _Works_, i. 93, at the end of _Tristram Shandy_, 2nd part, chap. iii. See also Croker's _Historical Songs of Ireland_, pp. 1-11. [156] See in particular Clarendon's letters to the King of October 23, 1686, and of February 6, 1686-7 (in the appendix). Evelyn's _Diary_, March 3 and 10. [157] Clarendon's parting speech, February 12, 1686-7, is in the appendix to King's _State of the Protestants_. No mention is made of the Ulster Scots. Evelyn's _Diary_. Luttrell's _Diary_, March. CHAPTER XLIX GOVERNMENT OF TYRCONNEL, 1687-1688 [Sidenote: Tyrconnel Lord Deputy, February 1687.] James forced Sheridan upon Tyrconnel as secretary, and made him chief commissioner of revenue to make the Irish service worth his while. Clarendon thought him a 'wicked, cheating man,' and the new Lord Deputy objected to him, not on that ground, though he accused him of dishonesty, but because he knew he was sent to be a drag on him. He could not avoid taking him, but did so with a very ill grace, advising him to give up drinking, and not imitate Sir Ellis Leighton or Mr. Ellis, 'the first having ruined Lord Berkeley, and the other, the blackest and most corrupt of villains, my Lord Arran.' Sheridan answered that he was the most abstemious of men, that he abhorred corruption, and that for all he cared Tyrconnel might give the secretary's place to his nephew, Sir William Talbot. He at first refused to go unless he had a seat at the Irish Council, but Tyrconnel said he had asked the King for this and been refused. Nevertheless, when Lord Bridgeman spoke about it to James, he at once consented, saying that Tyrconnel had never mentioned the matter to him. In January the new Viceroy and Sheridan were at Chester, where Cartwright was now installed as bishop, along with Richard and Anthony Hamilton and two Irish lords. Fitton joined them at Holyhead, and they all talked of Irish affairs while waiting for a wind. Tyrconnel suggested that Christ Church should be taken from the Protestants, that a Catholic militia should be raised and trained, and that Catholics should fill all places. Sheridan and Fitton disagreed, 'both of them knowing these things were contrary to His Majesty's intentions and interest.' It is clear that they were against his interest, but not that they were against his intentions. On reaching Dublin, Sheridan was sent to Clarendon with the King's letter of recall, repeating one from Sunderland in which he was directed to give up the sword to Tyrconnel within a week of his arrival. Before he received the sword, and while still a private person, the latter demanded the surrender for