 ... bought his place from his predecessor, and so thought he had a right to all the profits that he could raise out of it, and the whole business of the court seemed to be nothing but extortion and oppression; for it is an old observation, that men who...  The Irish harp, ed. by M.J. M'Cann - Page 55edited by Full view - About this book
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1736 - 504 pages
...For it is an old obfervation, that Men, who buy Juftice, will alfo fell it. Bribes went about almoft barefaced, and the exchange they made of Penance for Money was the wprft fort of Simony; being in effecl: the very fame abufe that gave the World fuch a Icandal when... | |
 | Charles Lucas - Ireland - 1756 - 1078 pages
...manifejled by bi/hop Burnet, ([Life of bifhop Bedel] " In thefe courts," fays Burnet, " bribes went about barefaced, and the exchange they made of penance for money was the worft foil of fimony. — " And in the above-mentioned RemonJlrance of the Houfe of Commons it Hands... | |
 | William Sampson - Catholics - 1813 - 278 pages
...had a right to oppress the natives, and that all was well got that was wrung from them." Bulls went bare-faced, and the exchange they made of penance for money, was the worst of simony. • It is related :by Carte, and also in the Analectica Sacra, that Sir Oliver St. John,... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1832 - 340 pages
...withal could be sufficiently testified unto him."* Bishop Burnet, in his life of Bedel, says, " that the bribes went about almost barefaced, and the exchange they made of penance for money, was the worst of simony." In the Commons Journals, 1640, the Protestant bishops are stated " to have exacted money... | |
 | William Sampson - Europe - 1832 - 338 pages
...withal could be sufficiently testified unto him."* Bishop Burnet, in his life of Bedel, says, " that the bribes went about almost barefaced, and the exchange they made of penance for money, was the worst of simony." In the Commons Journals, 1640, the Protestant bishops are stated " to have exacted money... | |
 | 1832 - 342 pages
...withal could be sufficiently testified unto him."* Bishop Burnet, in his life of Bedel, says, " that the bribes went about almost barefaced, and the exchange they made of penance for money, was the worst of simony." In the Commons Journals, 1640, the Protestant bishops are stated " to have exacted money... | |
 | James Seaton Reid - Ireland - 1834 - 488 pages
...(i3) The ecclesiastical courts were proverbially oppressive and profligate in their proceedings. " Bribes went about almost barefaced, and the exchange...of penance for money, was the worst sort of simony ; being in effect the very same abuse, that gave the world such a scandal, when it was so indecently... | |
 | Henry Joseph Monck Mason - Ireland - 1843 - 420 pages
...oppression ; " for," says Burnet, " it is an old observation, that men who buy justice will also sell it. Bribes went about almost barefaced, and the exchange...of penance for money was the worst sort of simony, being in effect the very same abuse that gave the world such scandal, when it was so indecently practised... | |
 | Peter Cooper - 1844 - 280 pages
...For it is an old observation, that men who buy justice will also sell it. Bribes went about almost as barefaced; and the exchange they made of penance for money was the worst sort of simony, being, in effect, the very same abuse that gave the world such a scandal, when it was so indecently... | |
 | Peter Cooper - Church and state - 1844 - 278 pages
...For it is an old observation, that men who buy justice will also sell it. Bribes went about almost as barefaced; and the exchange they made of penance for money was the worst sort of simony, being, in effect, the very same abuse that gave the world such a scandal, when it was so indecently... | |
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