History of Clare and the Dalcassian Clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway ...: With an Ancient and a Modern Map

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M. H. Gill & son, 1893 - Clare (Ireland) - 398 pages

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Page 298 - Roman catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland, or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles II.; and their majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman catholics such further security in that particular, as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.
Page 302 - I must do it justice: it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 298 - James, or those authorized by him, to grant the same in the several counties of Limerick, Clare, Kerry, Cork, and Mayo, or any of them; and all the commissioned officers in their majesties' quarters, that belong to the Irish regiments now in being, that are treated with, and who are not prisoners of war, or have taken protection, and who shall return and submit to their majesties...
Page 319 - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Page 298 - II or at any time since by the laws and statutes that were in force in the said reign of King Charles...
Page 12 - Irish nation, though they are robbed of many of their legends by this authentic publication, are yet by it enabled to boast that they possess genuine history several centuries more ancient than any other European nation possesses in its present spoken language : they have exchanged their legendary antiquity for historical fame.
Page 382 - ... no person or persons be from henceforth admitted or received to be dean, chantor, chancellor, treasurer, or archdeacon of any cathedral church within Munster and Connaught, the cathedral churches of Waterford, Limerick, Cork, and Cashel only excepted, but only by the presentation and nomination of the Lord Deputy, or other governor of this realm for the time being, during the time and space of ten years next ensuing.
Page 258 - And now give me leave to say how it comes to pass that this work is wrought. It was set upon some of our hearts, That a great thing should be done, not by power or might, but by the Spirit of God.
Page 299 - ... provided also that no person whatsoever shall have or enjoy the benefit of this article that shall neglect or refuse to take the oath of allegiance made by Act of Parliament in England in the first year of the reign of their present Majesties, when thereunto required.
Page 392 - May, in the sixteenth year of our Reign, of England, France and Ireland; and of Scotland the one and fiftieth.

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