A Short History of the Kingdom of Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Union with Great Britain: With Five Maps and Appendices |
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... never held on the condition of the rendering of anything in the nature of feudal service . A very curious custom sometimes prevailed in the distribution of the appropriated lands , under which , where circumstances . would permit of it ...
... never held on the condition of the rendering of anything in the nature of feudal service . A very curious custom sometimes prevailed in the distribution of the appropriated lands , under which , where circumstances . would permit of it ...
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... never again became dangerous . They never indeed seem at any time to have mastered the country so completely as they did in the days of Turges ; and then success was probably due to the disunion of the native princes , whom they were ...
... never again became dangerous . They never indeed seem at any time to have mastered the country so completely as they did in the days of Turges ; and then success was probably due to the disunion of the native princes , whom they were ...
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... never were completely driven out of the island , but were at length absorbed amongst the Anglo - Irish of the pale . Brian's usurpation of the throne of Tara opened the door to anarchy . The supremacy of the old royal race had been ...
... never were completely driven out of the island , but were at length absorbed amongst the Anglo - Irish of the pale . Brian's usurpation of the throne of Tara opened the door to anarchy . The supremacy of the old royal race had been ...
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... never possessed , and to which he could have no claim . The Normans had as yet made but slight lodgments on the coasts ; but the time was coming when this fiction of feudal tenure was to be forced gradually upon the whole island , and ...
... never possessed , and to which he could have no claim . The Normans had as yet made but slight lodgments on the coasts ; but the time was coming when this fiction of feudal tenure was to be forced gradually upon the whole island , and ...
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... never returned to Ireland to complete his conquest , but he proceeded to make further grants of Irish territory to his friends : giving all Connaught to Fitzaldelm ; the kingdom of Cork to De Cogan and Fitzstephen , who partitioned it ...
... never returned to Ireland to complete his conquest , but he proceeded to make further grants of Irish territory to his friends : giving all Connaught to Fitzaldelm ; the kingdom of Cork to De Cogan and Fitzstephen , who partitioned it ...
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