Note 10 — Chapter II · PARLIAMENTARY LIFE UNDER THE STUARTS; PAID MEMBERS.

“The Petitioners, looking upon their adversaries as entirely devoted to the Court and the popish faction, gave them the name of Tories, a title given to the Irish robbers, villains, and cut-throats, since called Rapparees. (It will be remembered that James II. convened a Parliament in Dublin which attainted three thousand Protestants).

“The Abhorrers on their side, considering the Petitioners as men entirely in the principles of the reprobated parliament of 1640, and as Presbyterians, gave them the name of Whig, or ‘Sour-milk,’ formerly appropriated to the Scotch Presbyterians and rigid Covenanters.”