So that the whole of your island has been confiscated, with the exception of the estates of five or six old families of English blood, some of whom had been attainted in the reign of Henry VIII. ; but recovered their possessions before Tyrone's Rebellion,... THE IRISH RACE - Page 282by REV. AUG. J. THEBAUD, S.J. - 1879Full view - About this book
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...exception of the estates of five or six old families of English blood ; and no inconsiderable portion has been confiscated twice, or perhaps thrice, in the course of a century.' Thus, he continued, three sets of English adventurers, who poured into Ireland at the termination of... | |
| 1903 - 606 pages
...of English blood, some of whom had been attainted in the reign of Henry VIII., but recovered their possessions before Tyrone's rebellion, and had the...unparalleled in the history of the inhabited world. If the wars of England, carried on here from the reign of Elizabeth, had been waged against a foreign... | |
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...families of English blood, some of whom had been attainted in the reign of Henry VIII. but recovered their possessions before Tyrone's rebellion, and had the good fortune to escape the pillage of the Ejpglish republic inflicted by Cromwell ; and no inconsiderable portion of the island has been confiscated... | |
| Stephen Barlow - Ireland - 1814 - 504 pages
...families of English blood, some of whom had been attainted in the reign of Henry VIII. but recovered their possessions before Tyrone's rebellion, and had the...escape the pillage of the English republic inflicted by Crookwell; and no inconsiderable portion of the island lias been confiscated twice, or perhaps thrice,... | |
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