A Compendium of Irish Biography: Comprising Sketches of Distinguished Irishmen, and of Eminent Persons Connected with Ireland by Office Or by Their Writings |
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... army of the Confede- | house in Dublin , 14th March 1738. He rates . He was defeated by Lord Broghill was the second son of Marcus , Earl of before the castle of Lismore ; was a lead- Tyrone , whose ancestors first settled in ing member ...
... army of the Confede- | house in Dublin , 14th March 1738. He rates . He was defeated by Lord Broghill was the second son of Marcus , Earl of before the castle of Lismore ; was a lead- Tyrone , whose ancestors first settled in ing member ...
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... army seems to have met no opposition on their way to Dublin , where they immediately made themselves masters of the fortress . Here spoils of great value were found great quantities of gold , silver , bronze , and precious stones ...
... army seems to have met no opposition on their way to Dublin , where they immediately made themselves masters of the fortress . Here spoils of great value were found great quantities of gold , silver , bronze , and precious stones ...
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... army , chiefly in Connaught , and marched against Bruce , forming a junction with the army of the Lord - Justice near Dundalk , which town Bruce had occupied on 29th June . A desperate battle was fought on 10th September . The Anglo ...
... army , chiefly in Connaught , and marched against Bruce , forming a junction with the army of the Lord - Justice near Dundalk , which town Bruce had occupied on 29th June . A desperate battle was fought on 10th September . The Anglo ...
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... army , collected ostensibly for the pacifica- tion of Scotland . The difficulties in the way of clothing , arming , and victualling troops in Ireland were then almost insuper- able : we are told there was not cloth in the whole kingdom ...
... army , collected ostensibly for the pacifica- tion of Scotland . The difficulties in the way of clothing , arming , and victualling troops in Ireland were then almost insuper- able : we are told there was not cloth in the whole kingdom ...
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... army of some 8,000 , under command of Lord Mount- anxious , and indeed signed warrants , for a large number of these troops entering the service of the King of Spain - a proceeding the Parliament put a stop to , notwithstand ing the ...
... army of some 8,000 , under command of Lord Mount- anxious , and indeed signed warrants , for a large number of these troops entering the service of the King of Spain - a proceeding the Parliament put a stop to , notwithstand ing the ...
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Page 463 - ... 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 the Second : 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.
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