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Page 74
The account is curious . . dit copy “ On the 9th of July , 1573 ; the Queen granted
the Earl of Essex the half of the signories of Clanneboy and Ferney , & c . & c .
The Earl was to go thither with 200 horse , and 400 foot , and maintain them for
two ...
The account is curious . . dit copy “ On the 9th of July , 1573 ; the Queen granted
the Earl of Essex the half of the signories of Clanneboy and Ferney , & c . & c .
The Earl was to go thither with 200 horse , and 400 foot , and maintain them for
two ...
Page 76
But the claims of the Queen , who seems to have had an eager spirit for
rummaging into the ragged title deeds of the Irish , were more formidable . If
priority of possession could make a good title , the Irish had the best in the world ,
as their ...
But the claims of the Queen , who seems to have had an eager spirit for
rummaging into the ragged title deeds of the Irish , were more formidable . If
priority of possession could make a good title , the Irish had the best in the world ,
as their ...
Page 77
been regranted to them , if the Queen or any other person could shew ' a title to
them ; which must always have been the case , as a previous confiscation was
always held to be a title , and there was scarce an acre of land in Ireland but what
...
been regranted to them , if the Queen or any other person could shew ' a title to
them ; which must always have been the case , as a previous confiscation was
always held to be a title , and there was scarce an acre of land in Ireland but what
...
Page 100
The queen , however , was not then sufficiently powerful to take possession ; and
to complete the inconsistency , she ... On his death , Hugh O ' Neil was
inaugurated by a better title than the queen had to bestow , the free election of
the whole ...
The queen , however , was not then sufficiently powerful to take possession ; and
to complete the inconsistency , she ... On his death , Hugh O ' Neil was
inaugurated by a better title than the queen had to bestow , the free election of
the whole ...
Page 110
Mac Egan , the Pope ' s Vicar , never allowed any Irish papist that served the
Queen to be pardoned when taken prisoner . The Irish chieftains , however , were
never infected with this theological spirit ; we hear of no murders or massacres of
...
Mac Egan , the Pope ' s Vicar , never allowed any Irish papist that served the
Queen to be pardoned when taken prisoner . The Irish chieftains , however , were
never infected with this theological spirit ; we hear of no murders or massacres of
...
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Page 116 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.
Page 180 - N 2 storm, to all the jibes and jobs of Protestant ascendancy. Not only a Protestant lord looks down upon a Catholic lord, and a Protestant gentleman on a Catholic gentleman, but a Protestant peasant on a Catholic peasant ; and in proportion as the degrading scale descends, the expression of contempt becomes more marked and gross.
Page 178 - Catholic suffers the three most poignant feelings than can touch the human heart. The government of his country passes a vote of censure on him. • His fellow-citizen expresses his contempt for him, and expresses it with impunity. The child of his affection blushes for him, and mourns for himself, when he learns that he necessarily inherits from his father a blot and a reproach, which no private virtues, or mental endowments, can obliterate or conceal.
Page 45 - ... the Irish Roman Catholics must be bigots and rebels, from the very nature of their religion, and who have advanced this falsehood in the very teeth of fact, and contrary to the most distinct evidence of history. The Irish Roman Catholics bigots ! The o Irish Roman Catholics are the only sect that ever resumed power, without exercising vengeance.
Page 181 - Catholic religion, without ever taking into consideration, the injustice with which the professors of that religion have been treated? ."'•' • The Protestants, in their terror of persecution, have become persecutors ; their alarm at Catholic atrocities has made them atrocious ; to hear them speak, one would imagine that they had been the patient and uncomplaining sufferers, from the reign of William till George...
Page 178 - O hearts of barbarians, of zealots, of Protestants! the flames which made the name of Bonner accursed, the hideous night of St. Bartholomew, are not so great a disgrace to the character of man, as your cold contriving bigotry.
Page 179 - These men merely made a mistake ; they worshipped a demon, and thought him God. But you, with perfect possession ofyour faculties, with a calm pulse, and minds unaffected by the slightest emotion, perpetuate statutes, to gall the best and most honourable feelings of many millions of men, whose sensations of pleasure and pain are exactly of the same nature with those from which your own happiness or misery is derived.
Page 44 - Brown had made, to the injury of the See of Dublin; and certainly this step was full as agreeable to the rules of law and equity, as to popish zeal. " The assertors of the reformation during the preceding reigns were every way unmolested, or as the Protestant historian chooses to term it, were allowed to sink into obscurity and neglect. " Such was the general spirit of toleration that many English families, friands to the reformation, took refuge in Ireland, and there enjoyed their opinions and worship...
Bibliographic information
| Title | An Historical Apology for the Irish Catholics |
| Author | William Parnell |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | J. Harding, 1808 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 27 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 190 pages |
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