Religious Trouble At the time of the Restoration the population of Ireland was about- 1,100,000: of whom 800,000 were Roman Catholics-including the old English who were nearly all Catholics ; 200,000 Nonconformist Protestants, or Puritans, and 100,000 episcopal Protestants, belonging to the Established Church. The new Cromwellian settlers were almost all Puritans. Both sections of Protestants were alike hostile to the Roman Catholics. During the parliamentary sway the Nonconformists had the upper hand, ... Read More