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... months of the war , by the Rev. Mr. Clogy , ... IX . ... ... ... ... 161 Conclusion - Including some wholesome counsel to both Celt and Saxon , ... ... ERRATA . ... ... ... 178 Page 23 , line 21 , for “ der ” read “ under . ” 22 29 74 ...
... months of the war , by the Rev. Mr. Clogy , ... IX . ... ... ... ... 161 Conclusion - Including some wholesome counsel to both Celt and Saxon , ... ... ERRATA . ... ... ... 178 Page 23 , line 21 , for “ der ” read “ under . ” 22 29 74 ...
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... months would have been called a rebellion , but soon , on its certain success , a civil war for the redress of in- tolerable tyranny and wrong . Let the person to whom I have put the above query recollect that a precisely similar wrong ...
... months would have been called a rebellion , but soon , on its certain success , a civil war for the redress of in- tolerable tyranny and wrong . Let the person to whom I have put the above query recollect that a precisely similar wrong ...
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... months of the rebellion ; Clarendon's , that 40,000 or 50,000 were slain before they had any suspicion of their danger . Mr. Froude gives the following statement in the beginning of his account of the rebellion : - " On December the 1st ...
... months of the rebellion ; Clarendon's , that 40,000 or 50,000 were slain before they had any suspicion of their danger . Mr. Froude gives the following statement in the beginning of his account of the rebellion : - " On December the 1st ...
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... month earlier than this , of the Lords Justices to the English Parliament , makes it a difficult matter for me to express my indignation in decorous terms . It may , perhaps , be said that they were themselves misled by evidence given ...
... month earlier than this , of the Lords Justices to the English Parliament , makes it a difficult matter for me to express my indignation in decorous terms . It may , perhaps , be said that they were themselves misled by evidence given ...
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... months after the date of it . The massacre by the Irish alluded to was perpetrated by a mob about forty miles from Carrick- fergus , on the 4th of January , 1642 , when , more than two months after the 23rd of October , 1641 , there was ...
... months after the date of it . The massacre by the Irish alluded to was perpetrated by a mob about forty miles from Carrick- fergus , on the 4th of January , 1642 , when , more than two months after the 23rd of October , 1641 , there was ...
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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...