A monumental, if ineffably partisan, work, it elicited a sharply divided response on its publication because of Musgrave’s portrayal of the Rebellion as an attempt by the Catholic population, instigated and guided by their clergy, to effect the extirpation of Protestants in their midst. This interpretation of the Rebellion has been shown to be profoundly misleading, yet Musgrave’s egregious chronicle has proved more influential than its rivals as a source of information on the origins and course of the Rebellion, and more ideologically influential because it was one of the key texts of early-nineteenth-century ultra-protestantism.