soldiers intermarried with the young Irish girls. The natives were taken as servants by English masters. The old process was begun over again which had been at work in the days of the Plantagenets; the settlers succumbed to the old influences. Forty years after the settlement had been accomplished, numbers of the children of Cromwell's soldiers were unable to speak a word of English. Dr. Petty's great estates, which he obtained by the purchase of debentures and by way of compensation for his labours in the Down survey, passed by the marriage of his daughter with the Earl of Kerry, to one of the oldest Anglo-Irish families of the Norman colony. |