The Ulster Civil War of 1641: And Its Consequences; with the History of the Irish Brigade Under Montrose in 1644-46 |
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... regiment of Sir John Clotworthy , afterwards Lord Massarene , has been lately published , which occasionally throws light on the transactions of these times . " I remember , " says he , " about Christmas that winter of the warrs [ 1641 ] ...
... regiment of Sir John Clotworthy , afterwards Lord Massarene , has been lately published , which occasionally throws light on the transactions of these times . " I remember , " says he , " about Christmas that winter of the warrs [ 1641 ] ...
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... regiment refutes the statement regarding the Island - Magee atrocity . The following narrative is requisite to account for Alaster's night attack on the soldiers at Portna . Lord Antrim was a Roman Catholic , and a staunch Royalist all ...
... regiment refutes the statement regarding the Island - Magee atrocity . The following narrative is requisite to account for Alaster's night attack on the soldiers at Portna . Lord Antrim was a Roman Catholic , and a staunch Royalist all ...
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... regiment , which , it need not be said , he intended for the support of Charles . The regiment , however , which Stewart raised , consisted of 600 Scottish Presbyterians , of course staunch Parliamentarians , 100 Highland Roman ...
... regiment , which , it need not be said , he intended for the support of Charles . The regiment , however , which Stewart raised , consisted of 600 Scottish Presbyterians , of course staunch Parliamentarians , 100 Highland Roman ...
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... a company in the Antrim regiment . He is often spoken of as a near relation , sometimes as a brother of Lord Antrim . * Reid , vol . i . , p . 314 . Lord Antrim's grandfather and Alaster's great grandfather were brothers . 60.
... a company in the Antrim regiment . He is often spoken of as a near relation , sometimes as a brother of Lord Antrim . * Reid , vol . i . , p . 314 . Lord Antrim's grandfather and Alaster's great grandfather were brothers . 60.
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... regiment , after the slaughter at Port- naw , to Coleraine , and had recruited his force , probably by fugitives in that town able to bear arms , to about ( Master ) eight hundred men , and McDonnell occupied Bally- money , where he had ...
... regiment , after the slaughter at Port- naw , to Coleraine , and had recruited his force , probably by fugitives in that town able to bear arms , to about ( Master ) eight hundred men , and McDonnell occupied Bally- money , where he had ...
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Page 169 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled...
Page 5 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish, and doubt, and fear, and sorrow, and pain, From mortal or immortal minds.
Page 163 - And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood ; which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk : 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Page 132 - Parliaments, imprisonments and prosecution of members, ship-money, an arbitrary administration; these were loudly complained of: but the grievances which tended chiefly to inflame the Parliament and nation, especially the latter, were the surplice, the rails placed about the altar, the bows exacted on approaching it, the liturgy, the breach of the sabbath, embroidered copes, lawn sleeves, the use of the ring in marriage, and of the cross in baptism. On account of these...
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Page 95 - Cameron's gathering" rose ! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard too have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill ! But with the breath which...
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Page 3 - ... the superior part has a natural right to govern, the inferior part has a natural right to be governed: and a rude but adequate tests of superiority and inferiority is provided in the relative strength of the different orders of human beings.