A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1Longmans, Green and Company, 1892 - Ireland |
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... give it any completeness or unity , it is necessary to describe the rebellion of 1798 , the legislative Union of 1800 , and the defeat or abandonment of the great measures of Catholic conciliation which Pitt had in- tended to be the ...
... give it any completeness or unity , it is necessary to describe the rebellion of 1798 , the legislative Union of 1800 , and the defeat or abandonment of the great measures of Catholic conciliation which Pitt had in- tended to be the ...
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... give the struggle the character of a war of religion ; but these attempts had no result . A small expedition of Spaniards , with some English and Irish refugees , landed at Smerwicke in Kerry in 1579 to sup- port the rebellion of ...
... give the struggle the character of a war of religion ; but these attempts had no result . A small expedition of Spaniards , with some English and Irish refugees , landed at Smerwicke in Kerry in 1579 to sup- port the rebellion of ...
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... gives a horrible description of these kerns . He says- No pies to plucke the thatch from house , Are breed in Irishe ground ; But worse than pies the same to burne A thousand maie be found . Somers ' Tracts , i . 582 . It is curious ...
... gives a horrible description of these kerns . He says- No pies to plucke the thatch from house , Are breed in Irishe ground ; But worse than pies the same to burne A thousand maie be found . Somers ' Tracts , i . 582 . It is curious ...
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... give them the fourth sheafe of all their corne , and 16d . yearly for a beastes grass , beside divers other Irish accustomed dues . So that they care not , although they never place any Englishmen there.'2 6 1 Henry VIII . had ordered ...
... give them the fourth sheafe of all their corne , and 16d . yearly for a beastes grass , beside divers other Irish accustomed dues . So that they care not , although they never place any Englishmen there.'2 6 1 Henry VIII . had ordered ...
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... give no verdicts against one another , jurymen were speedily intimidated into submission by fines or imprisonment . In a few years the progress was so great that Sir John Davis , the able Attorney- General of King James , pronounced the ...
... give no verdicts against one another , jurymen were speedily intimidated into submission by fines or imprisonment . In a few years the progress was so great that Sir John Davis , the able Attorney- General of King James , pronounced the ...
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