Irish History from Contemporary Sources (1509-l610) |
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... houses in purely Irish districts refused to admit Englishmen within their walls , 4 whereas Irishmen could not legally be received into monasteries 1 S.P. Hen . VIII , III . 560-1 , cf. ibid . , pp . 358-9 . S.P. Hen . VIII , III . 543 ...
... houses in purely Irish districts refused to admit Englishmen within their walls , 4 whereas Irishmen could not legally be received into monasteries 1 S.P. Hen . VIII , III . 560-1 , cf. ibid . , pp . 358-9 . S.P. Hen . VIII , III . 543 ...
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... houses were dissolved by name . Before this , eight abbeys had been suppressed by royal commission . In 1539 another commission provided for the dissolution of all monasteries and for the confiscation of their property.5 On the 20th May ...
... houses were dissolved by name . Before this , eight abbeys had been suppressed by royal commission . In 1539 another commission provided for the dissolution of all monasteries and for the confiscation of their property.5 On the 20th May ...
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... house is their church . . . their text Spanish sack their singing of psalms [ the ] whiffing of tobacco . " 6 ... " Divers of the English [ priests ] , " wrote another observer in 1598 , " have not one word of Latin , divers of the ...
... house is their church . . . their text Spanish sack their singing of psalms [ the ] whiffing of tobacco . " 6 ... " Divers of the English [ priests ] , " wrote another observer in 1598 , " have not one word of Latin , divers of the ...
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... houses of gentlemen of the Pale , and reconverted many Protestants amongst them to the Catholic faith . He was arrested in 1599 , and imprisoned in Dublin Castle . While in prison , after the fashion of the time , he held disputations ...
... houses of gentlemen of the Pale , and reconverted many Protestants amongst them to the Catholic faith . He was arrested in 1599 , and imprisoned in Dublin Castle . While in prison , after the fashion of the time , he held disputations ...
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... and was received with enthusiasm as the head of his house , by the common people of Munster , until they discovered that he was a Protestant . The two greatest risings of the period were those of 38 INTRODUCTION PREFACE INTRODUCTION.
... and was received with enthusiasm as the head of his house , by the common people of Munster , until they discovered that he was a Protestant . The two greatest risings of the period were those of 38 INTRODUCTION PREFACE INTRODUCTION.
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Page 120 - ... spiritual authority or jurisdiction ought or may lawfully be reformed, repressed, ordered, redressed, corrected, restrained or amended, most to the pleasure of Almighty God, the increase of virtue in Christ's religion, and for the conservation of the peace, unity and tranquillity of this realm: any usage, custom, foreign laws, foreign authority, prescription or any other thing or things to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.
Page 120 - England, and to repress and extirp all errors, heresies, and other enormities and abuses heretofore used in the same: be it enacted by authority of this present parliament, that the king our sovereign lord, his heirs and successors, kings of this realm, shall be taken, accepted, and reputed the only supreme head in earth of the church of England, called Anglicana Ecclesia...
Page 74 - For, as long as they were out of the protection of the law; so as every Englishman might oppress, spoil and kill them without control, how was it possible they should be other than outlaws and enemies to the crown of England?
Page 169 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves...
Page 197 - 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 350 - And the reason is because in the opinion of this people fostering hath always been a stronger alliance than blood, and the foster-children do love and are beloved of their foster-fathers and their sept more than of their own natural parents and kindred, and do participate of their means more frankly, and do adhere unto them in all fortunes with more affection and constancy.
Page 335 - ... with the love of himself and his own lewd deeds. And as for words to set forth such lewdness, it is not hard for them to give a goodly and painted...
Page 169 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and, if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal ; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet sure in all that war, there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine, which they themselves had wrought.
Page 201 - Garret Moore's house, where he wept abundantly when he took his leave, giving a solemn farewell to every child and every servant in the house, which made them all marvel, because it was not his manner to use such compliments.
Page 349 - These two Irish customs made all their possessions uncertain, being shuffled and changed, and removed so often from one to another, by new elections and partitions, which uncertainty of estates hath been the true cause of such desolation and barbarism in this land as the like was never seen in any country that professed the name of Christ...