A Compendium of the History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the Reign of George I. |
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... laws . The tranquillity expected to follow from the promulgation of this celebrated code of laws did not take place ; and the distraction of the country became so ex- treme , that an Irish chieftain encouraged Agricola to make a descent ...
... laws . The tranquillity expected to follow from the promulgation of this celebrated code of laws did not take place ; and the distraction of the country became so ex- treme , that an Irish chieftain encouraged Agricola to make a descent ...
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... law and the grand dispenser of public justice . Thus do we see that the ancient Irish were not insensible to the value of settled laws , and that while the annalists of other countries have to describe the savage conflicts of the ...
... law and the grand dispenser of public justice . Thus do we see that the ancient Irish were not insensible to the value of settled laws , and that while the annalists of other countries have to describe the savage conflicts of the ...
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... laws was framed and published by St. Patrick in the fifth century , in conjunction with the most celebra- ted bards and ecclesiastics of that period . This code was denominated Seanchas Moer , or the great antiquity . Some writers ( as ...
... laws was framed and published by St. Patrick in the fifth century , in conjunction with the most celebra- ted bards and ecclesiastics of that period . This code was denominated Seanchas Moer , or the great antiquity . Some writers ( as ...
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... laws of the old Irish provided against mur- der , rape , adultery , theft , robbery ; but the punishment inflicted for the perpetration of the most odious crime , with the exception of murder , which was punished with death , was no ...
... laws of the old Irish provided against mur- der , rape , adultery , theft , robbery ; but the punishment inflicted for the perpetration of the most odious crime , with the exception of murder , which was punished with death , was no ...
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... law , however , contradict this statement . In those laws it is laid down , that wages shall be given to fosterers , in proportion to the time that children continue under their care , and the instruction they have received . The youth ...
... law , however , contradict this statement . In those laws it is laid down , that wages shall be given to fosterers , in proportion to the time that children continue under their care , and the instruction they have received . The youth ...
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Page 89 - Edward, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine, to all those that these present letters shall hear or see, greeting.
Page 481 - All the penal laws of that unparalleled code of oppression which were made after the last event, were manifestly the effects of national hatred and scorn towards a conquered people ; whom the victors delighted to trample upon, and were not at all afraid to provoke. They were not the effect of their fears but of their security.
Page 464 - ... provided also, that no person whatsoever shall have or enjoy the benefit of this article, that shall neglect or refuse to take the oath of allegiance,* made by act of parliament in England, in the first year of the reign of their present majesties, when thereunto required.
Page 481 - Whilst that temper prevailed, and it prevailed in all its force to a time within our memory, every measure was pleasing and popular, just in proportion as it tended to harass and ruin a set of people, who were looked upon as enemies to God and man ; and indeed as a race of bigoted savages who were a disgrace to human nature itself.
Page 462 - THE Roman Catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland : or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles the Second...
Page 463 - James, or those authorized by him, to grant the same in the several counties of Limerick, Clare, Kerry, Cork, and Mayo, or any of them; and all the commissioned officers in their majesties...
Page 248 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 290 - The religion of the papists," say the Irish protestant archbishops and bishops of the seventeenth century, " is superstitious and idolatrous ; their faith and doctrine erroneous and heretical; their church, in respect of both, apostatical. To give them therefore a toleration, or to consent that they may freely exercise their religion and profess their faith • and doctrine, is a grievous sin...
Page 101 - The English promised also to introduce a better code of laws and enforce better morals among the Irish people ; but instead of this they have so corrupted our morals, that the holy and dove-like simplicity of our nation is, on account of the flagitious example of those reprobates, changed into the malicious cunning of the serpent. We had a written code of laws, according to which our nation was governed hitherto ; they have deprived us of those laws, and of every law except one, which it is impossible...
Page 380 - It cannot be imagined in how easy a method, and with what peaceable formality, this whole great kingdom was taken from the just lords and proprietors, and divided and given...