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" Munster; for, notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, that you would' have thought they should have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that... "
An ecclesiastical history of Ireland ... to ... 1829 - Page 425
by Michael John Brenan - 1864
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A View of the State of Ireland as it was in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth ...

Edmund Spenser - Ireland - 1763 - 310 pages
...fufficiently exampled in thefe late Wais of Mounfter ; for notwithftanding that the fame was a moft rich and plentiful Country, full of Corn and Cattle, that you would have thought they fhould have been able to ftand long, yet ore one Year and ah^lf they were brought to fuch wretchednefs,...
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An Impartial History of Ireland from the Period of the English ..., Volume 1

Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...benefits of which to the province of Munster Spencer thus sketched. " Notwithstanding that the same was a most rich, and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle. — Yet, ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would...
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An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland: From the ...

John Curry - Catholic emancipation - 1810 - 732 pages
...the people of Munster by this war, is really shocking. " Notwithstanding," says he, " that the same was a most rich, and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle.— Yet, ere one year and a-half, they were brought to such wretchedness, as that anv stony heart would...
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An historical and critical review of the civil wars in Ireland, from the ...

John Curry - 1810 - 736 pages
...the people of Muntter by this war, is really shocking. " Notwithstanding," says he, " that the same was a most rich, and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle.— Yet, ere one year and a-half, they were brought to such wretchedness, a* that any stony heart would...
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Vindiciæ Hibernicæ: Or, Ireland Vindicated:: An Attempt to Develop and ...

Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...late warres of Munster ; for notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful countrey, full of corn and cattle, that you would have thought...they should have been able to stand long, yet in one yeare and a halfe they were brought to such wretchednesse, as that any stony heart would have rued...
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Travels in Ireland in the Year 1822: Exhibiting Brief Sketches of the Moral ...

Thomas Reid - Ireland - 1823 - 456 pages
...sufficiently exampled in these late FAMINE. 57 wars of M mister ; for notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn...thought they should have been able to stand long ; yet, ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have...
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Vindiciae Hibernicae, Or, Ireland Vindicated: An Attempt to Develop and ...

Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1823 - 534 pages
...these late warres of Munster; fer notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful countrey, full of corn and cattle, that you would have thought...they should have been able to stand long, yet in one yeare and a hälfe tlmj icere brought to such wretchednesse, as that any stony heart would have rued...
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Absenteeism

Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Absentee landlordism - 1825 - 200 pages
...they were by law obliged to live, is thus described by Spenser ; — " Notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, (Munster more particularly is here speken of,) yet in one year and a half (during the war carried on...
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History of Ireland: From the Anglo-Norman Invasion Till the Union ..., Volume 2

William Cooke Taylor - Ireland - 1833 - 398 pages
...proof whereof I saw sufficiently in those late wars of Munster : for notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, that you would have thought they would have been able to stand long ; yet in one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness...
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The Repealer's Manual; Or, Absenteeism: the Union Re-considered, Volume 1

William Joseph Battersby - Absentee landlordism - 1833 - 388 pages
...England, unless as far as the fines went to the king. " Notwithstanding," says Spenser, " that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, yet in one year and a half, (during the war carried on against the earl of Desmond, for the purpose...
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