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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... took place in Ireland during the years embraced by these Lectures cannot fail to be monotonous and tedious . The plan adopted in this , as in the previous volume , is to break the history into periods , which are dis- tinguished by ...
... took place in Ireland during the years embraced by these Lectures cannot fail to be monotonous and tedious . The plan adopted in this , as in the previous volume , is to break the history into periods , which are dis- tinguished by ...
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... took from every tenant , who had his horse or cattle stolen , five marks for his want of vigilance ; she also took a fine for dis- obeying her sergeant , whether he were right or wrong , and a beef called " kyntroisk " for refusing coin ...
... took from every tenant , who had his horse or cattle stolen , five marks for his want of vigilance ; she also took a fine for dis- obeying her sergeant , whether he were right or wrong , and a beef called " kyntroisk " for refusing coin ...
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... took from both plaintiff and defendant , as her fee , 28. in the pound . The fines for theft and murder were increased at pleasure , where the offender was a man of substance . Many instances were presented of robberies , murders ...
... took from both plaintiff and defendant , as her fee , 28. in the pound . The fines for theft and murder were increased at pleasure , where the offender was a man of substance . Many instances were presented of robberies , murders ...
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... took a peck of oats of every plough in the seed time , called the great horse or chief horse's peck , & c . " Item . Where some gentlemen use , whensoever the King's Deputy or any other lord or gentleman come to LECTURES ON IRISH ...
... took a peck of oats of every plough in the seed time , called the great horse or chief horse's peck , & c . " Item . Where some gentlemen use , whensoever the King's Deputy or any other lord or gentleman come to LECTURES ON IRISH ...
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... took coin for two nights and two days , which was never before seen . Item , the Earl of Ossory , after being Deputy , in the first rebellion of the traitor O'Connor , and the Geraldines , after took coin within the said quarter for ...
... took coin for two nights and two days , which was never before seen . Item , the Earl of Ossory , after being Deputy , in the first rebellion of the traitor O'Connor , and the Geraldines , after took coin within the said quarter for ...
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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.