Louvain he wrote to Walsh that he had been fairly treated, but in a very different strain to Rome. He made the most of his discomforts, which were no doubt considerable, and said that Stanley was perhaps as inhuman as the ten leopards of St. Ignatius, bishop and martyr.[59] [Sidenote: Why the Remonstrance failed.] 'The proceedings at the meeting,' said Ormonde more than fourteen years later, 'are at large set down in a great book by Peter Walsh. My aim was to work a division among the Romish clergy, and I believe I had compassed it, to the great security of the Government and Protestants, and against the opposition of the Pope, and his creatures and nuncios, if I had not been removed from the Government, and if direct contrary counsels and courses had not been taken and held by my successors; of which some were too indulgent to the whole body of Papists, and others not much acquainted with any of them, nor considering the advantages of the division designed. I confess I have never read over Walsh's book, which is full of a sort of learning I have been little conversant in; but the doctrine is such as would cost him his life, if he could be found where the Pope has power.' This was written to his son, but he had said the same thing to Essex seven years before. No doubt his recall made a difference, but the Government had really very little to give, for all the revenues went to the Established Church and there was more to look forward to from Rome than from London. Many of Ormonde's bitterest opponents found preferment abroad. He did indeed provide for Walsh to the end, and for Caron till his death just before the meeting in 1666. The Act of Explanation passed in the previous year made it impossible for him to make better terms even for Roman Catholic laymen. Walsh, who failed to make his party formidable, submitted to Rome just before his death, but to Burnet who liked and admired him he seemed 'in all points of controversy almost wholly Protestant.' He attended the Church of England service without scruple, and Evelyn, who met him at dinner at the Archbishop of York's, says nearly as much as Burnet.[60] FOOTNOTES: [48] Licence from the Irish Council to Peter Walsh, May 26, 1653, in O'Flaherty's _West Connaught_, p. 423. Eighteenth article of peace, January 17, 1648-9, in _Confederation and War_, vii. 198. Walsh's letter to Ormonde written in October 1660, but not published till after March 30, 1661, when the latter was made a Duke, and the answer published in 1662, before Ormonde's arrival in Ireland, are both reprinted in Orrery _State Letters_, ii. 355. [49] Macray's _Privy Council Notes_, Roxburghe Club. Notes in Nicholas's hand, State Papers, _Ireland_, under July 20, 1661. Evelyn's _Diary_, October 17, 1664.