Vindiciæ Hibernicæ: Or, Ireland Vindicated:: An Attempt to Develop and Expose a Few of the Multifarious Errors and Falsehoods Respecting Ireland, in the Histories of May, Temple, Whitelock, Borlase, Rushworth, Clarendon, Cox, Carte, Leland, Warner, Macauley, Hume, and Others: Particularly in the Legendary Tales of the Conspiracy and Pretended Massacre of 1641 |
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... murders perpetrated on the Irish , I have not made use of a single one of their advocates . In this respect , I believe the work rests on the most impregnable foundation ; and am persuaded no similar instance ever occurred . My heart ...
... murders perpetrated on the Irish , I have not made use of a single one of their advocates . In this respect , I believe the work rests on the most impregnable foundation ; and am persuaded no similar instance ever occurred . My heart ...
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... and fifty - four thousand murdered in three months ; or as others , who carried the number to three hundred thousand ; or as Milton , who extends it E to above six hundred thousand ! And yet , won- * 3 * HISTORICAL WRITING , * 19.
... and fifty - four thousand murdered in three months ; or as others , who carried the number to three hundred thousand ; or as Milton , who extends it E to above six hundred thousand ! And yet , won- * 3 * HISTORICAL WRITING , * 19.
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... murdered , the numberless cruelties he so elaborately portrays could not possibly have taken place . " There is no ... murders were committed , the evidence , from the depositions in the manuscript above mentioned , stands thus : -The ...
... murdered , the numberless cruelties he so elaborately portrays could not possibly have taken place . " There is no ... murders were committed , the evidence , from the depositions in the manuscript above mentioned , stands thus : -The ...
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... murders and massacres , and lest the Parliament might shortly be in pursuance of a speedy settlement of this nation , and thereby some tender concessions might be concluded , " the Commissioners tell them that it appears " besides eight ...
... murders and massacres , and lest the Parliament might shortly be in pursuance of a speedy settlement of this nation , and thereby some tender concessions might be concluded , " the Commissioners tell them that it appears " besides eight ...
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... murders were committed : and those per- sons who were present , also affirmed , that the bodies of those thirty persons drowned did not appear upon the water till about six weeks after , past ; as the said O'Rely came to the town , all ...
... murders were committed : and those per- sons who were present , also affirmed , that the bodies of those thirty persons drowned did not appear upon the water till about six weeks after , past ; as the said O'Rely came to the town , all ...
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acres appear barbarous blood Borlase Carte castle CHAPTER Charles Clarendon command committed conspiracy council court crown cruelty deponent deposeth depositions depredation Dublin earl enemy England English estates evidence execution falsehood fraud hath Henry honour hundred Idem insurrection Ireland Irish James Jurat jury killed king kingdom kingdom of Ireland lands Leland letter letters patents Long Parliament lord Clarendon lord deputy lord Strafford lords justices Mac-Mahon majestie's majesty's massacre ment mercy Mountnorris Munster murdered nation natives O'Conally oath of supremacy offences oppression Papist pardon Parliament peace penalties perjury perpetrated persons plantation plot plunder Popish present pretended priests prisoners Privy Council Protestants province rapine reader rebellion rebels religion rest Roman Catholics Rushworth saith seized Sir John Sir William Sir William Parsons slaughter soldiers spirit statutes Strafford sword Temple thereof thousand tion town truth Tyrone Ulster Warner whole wholly wretched writers
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Page 499 - Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat ; I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink ; I was a stranger and ye took me not in ; naked and ye clothed me not ; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 386 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 477 - His country's curse, his children's shame. Outcast of virtue, peace, and fame. May he, at last, with lips of flame On the parch'd desert thirsting die, — While lakes that shone in mockery nigh...
Page 476 - Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
Page 473 - mend his native country, lamentably tattered both in the upper-leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take ; and as willing never to be paid for his work by old English wonted pay. It is his trade to patch all the year long gratis. Therefore I pray gentlemen keep your purses. By Theodore de la Guard.
Page 66 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 504 - Rebellion ! foul, dishonouring word, Whose wrongful blight so oft has stain'd The holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal ever lost or gain'd. How many a spirit, born to bless, Hath sunk beneath that withering name, Whom but a day's, an hour's success Had wafted to eternal fame...
Page 379 - That it is fit that his lordship do endeavour with his majesty's forces to wound, kill, slay, and destroy, by all the ways and means he may, all the said rebels, and their adherents and relievers ; and burn, spoil, waste, consume, destroy, and demolish, all the places, towns, and houses, where the said rebels are, or have been, relieved and harboured, and all the hay and corn there ; and kill and destroy all the men there inhabiting able to bear arms.'!!.
Page vii - I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 66 - Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds ! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away : so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.