sentences:  On the outbreak of the Rebellion in October 1641, he endeavoured, like the nobility and gentry of the Pale generally, to maintain an attitude of neutrality between the government and the northern party, and on 16 November was appointed a commissioner to confer with all persons in arms, "with a view to suspend for some time the sad effects of licentiousness and rapine, until the kingdom was put in a better posture of defence".His behaviour caused him to be mistrusted by the Government, and on 17 November he was proclaimed an outlaw.He thereupon took a prominent part in bringing about an alliance between the Ulster party and the nobility and gentry of the Pale.