Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The state of Ireland at this time, though not marked by the dreadful convulsions which had wasted and distracted it not long before, was still far from being peaceful or settled. Property was very unsafe; for although the turbulent outrages that had spread about desolation upon a more fearful scale, had somewhat still there were too many of those violent and lawless spirits abroad to allow the peacable and quiet, especially if they possessed wealth or property, to sleep in their beds with anything like a sense of security.