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Page iii
... history of the country , should be transferred elsewhere , purchased the Latin MS . , in order that , after publication by the Irish Archæological Society , the original might be deposited in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy ...
... history of the country , should be transferred elsewhere , purchased the Latin MS . , in order that , after publication by the Irish Archæological Society , the original might be deposited in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy ...
Page iv
... history , prefixed , in the Latin , to the immediate subject of the Macaria Excidium , or is a version of some circumstances in the subsequent portion of the Latin , which seemed fit to be introduced into the English text . To preserve ...
... history , prefixed , in the Latin , to the immediate subject of the Macaria Excidium , or is a version of some circumstances in the subsequent portion of the Latin , which seemed fit to be introduced into the English text . To preserve ...
Page vi
... history . This is , most probably , an allusion to the attempt in 1745-6 of the grandson of King James II . , Prince Charles Edward Stuart , to recover his grandfather's crowns ; that enterprize , like the Jacobite war in Ireland ...
... history . This is , most probably , an allusion to the attempt in 1745-6 of the grandson of King James II . , Prince Charles Edward Stuart , to recover his grandfather's crowns ; that enterprize , like the Jacobite war in Ireland ...
Page ix
... history of Ireland , from the earliest times to the end of the War of the Revolution , the Editor hopes that circumstance , together with the frequent necessity for double evidence , or extracts from the writers . of both sides relative ...
... history of Ireland , from the earliest times to the end of the War of the Revolution , the Editor hopes that circumstance , together with the frequent necessity for double evidence , or extracts from the writers . of both sides relative ...
Page xvi
... history of that period , for which we have reason to be grateful to Colonel O'Kelly . The Colonel's second historical work , long preserved in the French branch of the race of O'Kelly , or that of O'Kelly Farrell , was known among the ...
... history of that period , for which we have reason to be grateful to Colonel O'Kelly . The Colonel's second historical work , long preserved in the French branch of the race of O'Kelly , or that of O'Kelly Farrell , was known among the ...
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Page 488 - 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...
Page 224 - They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at these castles, and when the castles were finished they filled them with devils and evil men.
Page 228 - Two or three will drive a troop of captive Christians through the country from sea to sea. Very often they seize the wives and daughters of our thanes, and cruelly violate them before the great chieftain's face.
Page 224 - At length they spared neither church nor churchyard, but they took all that was valuable therein, and then burned the church, and all together. Neither did they spare the...
Page 488 - I, AB, do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance, to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary : So help me God.
Page 175 - ... and, if there was any stress to be laid on physiognomy, he was sure the person whom the picture represented was destined to a violent end. The bust was at last finished, and sent to England. As soon as the ship that brought it arrived in the river, the king, who was very impatient to see the bust, ordered it to be carried immediately to Chelsea. It was...
Page 246 - I., who exhorts Charlemagne to imitate the liberality and revive the name of the great Constantine. According to the legend, the first of the Christian emperors was healed of the leprosy and purified in the waters of baptism by St.