text:  He was a Protestant a zealous admirer of the constitution of 1688 as all Irish Protestants were in his day whether old or young; and yet he feels an unequivocal as it was a just compassion for the brave men who under an impulse of misapplied loyalty and in obedience to a mistaken sense of duty went headlong to their ruin for a prince who was a Papist and thus would have been like his father a most hazardous sovereign to the liberties and religion of England