Historical and Political Notes on the Life of Oliver Cromwell

The outcome justifies the deeds, I hope that he who thinks deeds should be judged by the result lacks success. original: "Exitus acta probat, careat successibus opto / Quisquis ab eventu facta notanda putat." This is a famous couplet from Ovid's Heroides.

To §. 5.

I do not quite grasp what the author intends here or of what union he speaks. For a long time now, those three nations, the English, the Scots, and the Hyberni Irish