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... stewart , and Augher Castle ; in Donegall , Ballyshannon , Lifford , and Letterkenny ; in Derry , the City of Lon- donderry and Coleraine ; in the County Antrim , Larne , Antrim , Carrickfergus , Belfast , and Lisburn ; and in Downshire ...
... stewart , and Augher Castle ; in Donegall , Ballyshannon , Lifford , and Letterkenny ; in Derry , the City of Lon- donderry and Coleraine ; in the County Antrim , Larne , Antrim , Carrickfergus , Belfast , and Lisburn ; and in Downshire ...
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... Stewart , head of a family that had mi- grated from Bute to Ballintoy , in the County Antrim , in the reign of Elizabeth , was appointed Lord Antrim's agent or , as Strafford calls him , " his man " -in 1630 . Shortly before the ...
... Stewart , head of a family that had mi- grated from Bute to Ballintoy , in the County Antrim , in the reign of Elizabeth , was appointed Lord Antrim's agent or , as Strafford calls him , " his man " -in 1630 . Shortly before the ...
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... Stewart was em- ployed by Lord Antrim to raise a regiment , which , it need not be said , he intended for the support of Charles . The regiment , however , which Stewart raised , consisted of 600 Scottish Presbyterians , of course ...
... Stewart was em- ployed by Lord Antrim to raise a regiment , which , it need not be said , he intended for the support of Charles . The regiment , however , which Stewart raised , consisted of 600 Scottish Presbyterians , of course ...
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... Stewart plainly shows that he did not share Reid's mistake , by the appointment which he considered suitable to Alas- ter's merits and claims - the command of a company in the Antrim regiment . He is often spoken of as a near relation ...
... Stewart plainly shows that he did not share Reid's mistake , by the appointment which he considered suitable to Alas- ter's merits and claims - the command of a company in the Antrim regiment . He is often spoken of as a near relation ...
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... Stewart had " Placed garrisons , principally composed of Scots , in the house and church of Ballintoy [ near the Giant's Causeway ] under Mr. Fullarton and Mr. Archibald Boyd ; in the Castle of Old- stone , near Clough [ four or five ...
... Stewart had " Placed garrisons , principally composed of Scots , in the house and church of Ballintoy [ near the Giant's Causeway ] under Mr. Fullarton and Mr. Archibald Boyd ; in the Castle of Old- stone , near Clough [ four or five ...
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Alaster MacColl Alaster McDonnell Argyle arms army attack Badenoch Baillie Ballintoy Ballymoney battle Bishop brave Byrnes Campbells Cantyre Carrickfergus Castle Cavaliers charge Charles chief clan clan Gordon Clan Macdonald Clogy Coleraine confiscation County Antrim Covenanters death defeated Drogheda Dublin Earl Elizabeth enemy England and Scotland English estates famine fled force Froude fugitives Glen Highlanders History of Ireland horse infantry insurgents Inverlochy Irish Island-Magee James McDonnell justice Keppock Kilkenny King land Loch Lochaber Long Parliament Lord Antrim Lord Gordon Lowlands Macdonalds Marquis massacre miles Monroe Montrose Montrose's mountains Mountjoy murder Napier Newry night O'Cahan O'Neill Ormond Owen Roe O'Neill perpetrated persons pibroch plunder Presbyterians Protestants Puritan rebellion rebels regiment reign religion retreat Roman Catholic Royalists says Scotland Scots Scottish sent Sir James Sir John Sir Phelim slain slaughter soldiers Stewart Strafford Strath Spey surrender sword Temple tion troops truth Tyrone Ulster Urrie victory
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Page 159 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled...
Page 153 - 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 151 - The noble sister of Poplicola, The moon of Rome ; chaste as the icicle That's curdled by the frost from purest snow, And hangs on Dian's temple This is no more than illustrating a quality of the mind, by comparing it with a sensible object.
Page 122 - 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...
Page 86 - Come every hill-plaid, and True heart that wears one, Come every steel blade, and Strong hand that bears one.
Page 4 - Trevor, and many honest gentlemen lying in the Newry, can witness that some old women of those parts 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...
Page 110 - Leslie; whereupon they delivered up their arms and came forth to a plain field as they were directed. But then did the churchmen quarrel [complain] that quarter should be given to such wretches as they, and declared it to be an act of most sinful impiety to spare them, wherein divers of the noblemen complied with the clergy; and...