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Page 495 - Such an improvement of the doctrine of the enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent...
Page 574 - And be it further enacted and declared, by the authority aforesaid, that the house of lords of Ireland have not nor of right ought to have any jurisdiction to judge of, affirm, or reverse any...
Page 561 - Parliament in England, in the first year of the reign of their late Majesties King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act declaring the rights and liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown...
Page 477 - ... or one of them, did promise that the said clause should be made good, it being within the intention of the capitulation, and inserted in the foul draft thereof.
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Page 493 - 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, and had the good fortune to escape the pillage of the English Republic inflicted by Cromwell ; and no inconsiderable portion of the island has been confiscated twice or, perhaps thrice, in the course of a century.
Page 506 - Enacted, by the King's most Excellent Majesty, with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons...
Page 471 - The Roman catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland, or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles II.; and their majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman catholics such further security in that particular, as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.
Page 514 - England, that then the duties of custom and excise, payable for tobacco imported in this kingdom before the making of this act, shall remain, and be payable for ever thereafter to his majesty, his heirs and successors, and no more or other, and this present duty to cease and determine. Provided likewise, that it shall and may be lawful to and for all and every person and persons...
Page 476 - Ginckle, shall intercede with the king and parliament, to have the estates secured to Roman catholics, by articles and capitulation in this kingdom, charged with, and equally liable to the payment of so much of the...
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| Title | An Impartial History of Ireland from the Period of the English Invasion to the Present Time, Volume 3 An Impartial History of Ireland from the Period of the English Invasion to the Present Time, Dennis Taaffe |
| Author | Dennis Taaffe |
| Publisher | J. Christie, 1810 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Jun 2007 |
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