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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... Sorley Buy- ( Light - haired Somerled ) , the leader of the Antrim McDonnells , and had learned that he had sent the women and children , the sick and aged of his clan , to Renbre the Island of Rathlin , six or seven miles from 7.
... Sorley Buy- ( Light - haired Somerled ) , the leader of the Antrim McDonnells , and had learned that he had sent the women and children , the sick and aged of his clan , to Renbre the Island of Rathlin , six or seven miles from 7.
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... women and children under their protection , and quickly knocked the outworks of the castle to pieces . ( The castle took its name from the circumstance that Robert Bruce had spent a winter in it , in hiding , when his fortunes were at ...
... women and children under their protection , and quickly knocked the outworks of the castle to pieces . ( The castle took its name from the circumstance that Robert Bruce had spent a winter in it , in hiding , when his fortunes were at ...
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... women and the little ones perished all in the flames of their burning houses . The official records of this deadly war return the killed and hanged in tens of thousands , and famine took up the work where neither sword nor rope could ...
... women and the little ones perished all in the flames of their burning houses . The official records of this deadly war return the killed and hanged in tens of thousands , and famine took up the work where neither sword nor rope could ...
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... women in those parts were used to make a fire in the fields , and divers little children driving out the cattle in the cold mornings , and coming thither to warm them , were by them surprised , killed , and eaten , which at last was ...
... women in those parts were used to make a fire in the fields , and divers little children driving out the cattle in the cold mornings , and coming thither to warm them , were by them surprised , killed , and eaten , which at last was ...
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... ] was presented to the English Parliament , signed by the Irish Council , stating that there were then 40,000 rebels in the field . Their tyranny , ' says this document , ' is so great , that they put both man , woman , and child that 46.
... ] was presented to the English Parliament , signed by the Irish Council , stating that there were then 40,000 rebels in the field . Their tyranny , ' says this document , ' is so great , that they put both man , woman , and child that 46.
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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...
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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 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.