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Page 199
... barony they should keep another able schoolmaster , which should instruct them in grammar and in the principles of sciences , to whom they should be compelled to send their youth to be disciplined ; whereby they will in short space grow ...
... barony they should keep another able schoolmaster , which should instruct them in grammar and in the principles of sciences , to whom they should be compelled to send their youth to be disciplined ; whereby they will in short space grow ...
Page 358
... barony , whereas before he did not enjoy any part thereof ; secondly , because he holdeth a whole barony in farm from my Lord of Essex , wherein he hath so good a pennyworth as he is grown since the wars to be of greater wealth than all ...
... barony , whereas before he did not enjoy any part thereof ; secondly , because he holdeth a whole barony in farm from my Lord of Essex , wherein he hath so good a pennyworth as he is grown since the wars to be of greater wealth than all ...
Page 363
... barony , and , by conference with them , to digest the business against his return , which was done in this order ... barony , is no parcel of the seven ballibetaghs and a half whereof the barony is said to consist . For these reasons ...
... barony , and , by conference with them , to digest the business against his return , which was done in this order ... barony , is no parcel of the seven ballibetaghs and a half whereof the barony is said to consist . For these reasons ...
Page 368
... baronies , did not in quantity exceed four ballibetaghs , the greatest thereof being in the possession of one M'Manus and his sept , yet touching the certainty of the duties or provisions yielded unto M'Guire out of these mensal lands ...
... baronies , did not in quantity exceed four ballibetaghs , the greatest thereof being in the possession of one M'Manus and his sept , yet touching the certainty of the duties or provisions yielded unto M'Guire out of these mensal lands ...
Page 371
... baronies , doth well - nigh make two ballibetaghs , and no more ; which land , in respect of the persons , that merit no respect but rather discountenance from the State for they are enemies to the English government - may perhaps be ...
... baronies , doth well - nigh make two ballibetaghs , and no more ; which land , in respect of the persons , that merit no respect but rather discountenance from the State for they are enemies to the English government - may perhaps be ...
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afterwards amongst ancient appeareth army ballibetaghs barony Brehon law brought called captains castles cause chief civil coigny and livery Connaught Crown of England customs divers doth Dublin Earl of Desmond Earl of Ulster Edward Poynings Edward the Third enemies English colonies English Pale escheated Eudox evil freeholders Fynes Moryson garrisons gavelkind grant hath Henry the Eighth Henry the Second Hibernia honour houses Howbeit inhabitants Iren Ireneus Irish countries Irish lords Irishry John Perrot Kildare Kilkenny King Edward King Henry King's kingdom land lastly law of England Leinster likewise Lord Deputy Lordship M'Guire Majesty manner Meath methinks Monaghan Munster nations never O'Neill O'Reilly Parliament peace possessions Prince Queen quod realm rebellion rebels reformation reign Scots Scythians sent sept shires Sir John Sir John Davies soldiers Spenser Statute Statutes of Kilkenny subjects tanist tanistry tenants thereof thereunto towns Tyrone Ulster unto whereby wherein
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Page 90 - ... in waste places far from danger of law, maketh his mantle his house, and under it covereth himself from the wrath of heaven, from the offence of the earth, and from the sight of men. When it raineth, it is his penthouse ; when it bloweth, it is his tent ; when it freezeth, it is his tabernacle.
Page 143 - ... they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs would not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 90 - For the wood is his house against all weathers, and his mantle is his couch to sleep in. Therein he...
Page 114 - Were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which, with good usage, would serve to adorn and beautify virtue.
Page 27 - If aught can teach us aught, affliction's looks (Making us pry into ourselves so near) Teach us to know ourselves beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were.
Page 144 - ... anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat of the dead carrions — happy where they could find them — yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time; yet not able long to continue therewithal, that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly...
Page 114 - ... that the day was his night, and the night his day; that he loved not to be long wooing of wenches to yield to him; but, where he came, he took by force the...
Page 12 - ... they could find them; yea, and one another soon 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 90 - ... it is his best and surest friend ; for lying, as they often do, two or three nights together abroad to watch for their booty, with that they can prettily shroud themselves under a bush or bankside till they may conveniently do their errand...
Page 218 - Cambrensis, who lived and wrote in that time, albeit there have been since that time so many English colonies planted in Ireland as that, if the people were numbered at this day by the poll, such as are descended of .English race would be found more in number than the ancient natives.