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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... rebels and Protestant insurgents ; they approved of the execution of Catholics and the burning of Protestants ; at all risks they maintained the regular succession of a series of strong - willed and despotic severities , and in so doing ...
... rebels and Protestant insurgents ; they approved of the execution of Catholics and the burning of Protestants ; at all risks they maintained the regular succession of a series of strong - willed and despotic severities , and in so doing ...
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... rebels . The character of the great Duke of Ormond is a fair speci- men of his family . In the Butler , the Munster Geraldine , and the O'Neil or O'Donel , are three distinct types of character . The thorough English and the pure Celt ...
... rebels . The character of the great Duke of Ormond is a fair speci- men of his family . In the Butler , the Munster Geraldine , and the O'Neil or O'Donel , are three distinct types of character . The thorough English and the pure Celt ...
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... rebel , held forth as a reward to the bitterest enemies of England , until men learnt that the surest path to promotion was open hostility to the Crown . " When the Earl of Kildare's brethren , O'Neill , O'Connor , with their friends ...
... rebel , held forth as a reward to the bitterest enemies of England , until men learnt that the surest path to promotion was open hostility to the Crown . " When the Earl of Kildare's brethren , O'Neill , O'Connor , with their friends ...
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... rebels . " * In 1533 his name appears among the signatures to an elaborate statement of the condition of the country . In 1534 it was ordained in the articles for the government of Ireland , probably in consequence of the statement sent ...
... rebels . " * In 1533 his name appears among the signatures to an elaborate statement of the condition of the country . In 1534 it was ordained in the articles for the government of Ireland , probably in consequence of the statement sent ...
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... Supplt . , p . xix . + Tracts relating to Ireland , Archæological Society , Statute of Kilkenny , p . 49 . Ibid . p . 50 , " Marleburrough's Chronicle . " among the King's rank rebels , and the rather for LECTURES ON IRISH HISTORY . 69.
... Supplt . , p . xix . + Tracts relating to Ireland , Archæological Society , Statute of Kilkenny , p . 49 . Ibid . p . 50 , " Marleburrough's Chronicle . " among the King's rank rebels , and the rather for LECTURES ON IRISH HISTORY . 69.
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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.