Lectures on the History of Ireland: From A. D. 1534 to the date of the plantation of UlsterE. Ponsonby, 1870 - Ireland |
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... Crown ; the Anglo - Norman lords had become either avowedly or practically independent ; the English Pale itself was in the power of an insurgent deputy , and , save in some few seaboard municipalities , the King of England neither ...
... Crown ; the Anglo - Norman lords had become either avowedly or practically independent ; the English Pale itself was in the power of an insurgent deputy , and , save in some few seaboard municipalities , the King of England neither ...
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... Crown . The trading classes were rapidly rising in wealth and im- portance . The new aristocracy and the bourgeoisie were alike influenced by the recollections of a period of licence and disorder ; to them civil war and a disputed ...
... Crown . The trading classes were rapidly rising in wealth and im- portance . The new aristocracy and the bourgeoisie were alike influenced by the recollections of a period of licence and disorder ; to them civil war and a disputed ...
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... Crown ; he had a not unjust confidence in his own abilities ; at the same time , he had a deep sense of his duties and responsibilities , a sympathy for the poor and weak , who were exposed to the oppression of the powerful or insolent ...
... Crown ; he had a not unjust confidence in his own abilities ; at the same time , he had a deep sense of his duties and responsibilities , a sympathy for the poor and weak , who were exposed to the oppression of the powerful or insolent ...
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... Crown , and conducted themselves towards the government as if they had been mere court favourites and minions . They were inspired with a love of all that was grand and beautiful , and yet were capable of inexpres- sible baseness ...
... Crown , and conducted themselves towards the government as if they had been mere court favourites and minions . They were inspired with a love of all that was grand and beautiful , and yet were capable of inexpres- sible baseness ...
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... Crown . Confident in his own power , he declared how far , and no farther , the Reformation should proceed ; he relied upon the mass of the nation to support him against the fanatics of either party , and he succeeded in his policy . He ...
... Crown . Confident in his own power , he declared how far , and no farther , the Reformation should proceed ; he relied upon the mass of the nation to support him against the fanatics of either party , and he succeeded in his policy . He ...
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Page 142 - ... 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 382 - ... 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...
Page 142 - Be it enacted by the 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 382 - ... they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs would not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 390 - I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Page 234 - An act passed, declaring that the king's usual style should be " King of England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, and on earth the supreme head of the church of England and Ireland.
Page 168 - Highness's commission, which your Lordship sent us over. This island hath been for a long time held in ignorance by the Romish orders, and as for their secular orders, they be in a manner as ignorant as the people, being not able to say mass, or pronounce the words, they not knowing what they themselves say in the Roman tongue.
Page 340 - Gospel; for they spare not to come out of Spain, from Rome, and from Rheims, by long toil and dangerous travelling hither, where they know peril of death awaiteth them, and no reward or riches is to be found, only to draw the people unto the Church of Rome...
Page 212 - To acknowledge and believe that there was but one God ; and him alone, without any other, sincerely to worship : To confess one Christ for an only Saviour and Redeemer, and to trust in none other man's prayers, merits, nor yet deservings, but in his alone, for salvation. I treated at large both of the heavenly and political state of the Christian church ; and helpers I found none among my prebendaries and clergy, but adversaries a great number.