The Geraldines, Earls of Desmond, and the Persecution of the Irish Catholics

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J. Duffy, 1847 - Ireland - 238 pages

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Page 155 - Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal; and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within his Majesty's said realms, dominions and countries.
Page 168 - And I do declare, That no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Page 170 - I shall know or hear of to be against him or any of them ; and I do further swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest and abjure, as impious and heretical, this damnable doctrine and position; that princes which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murdered by their subjects or any other whatsoever...
Page 169 - I, AB, do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify and declare in my conscience before God and the world that our sovereign Lord King...
Page 235 - Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions...
Page 170 - Majesty's kingdoms or dominions, or to authorize any foreign prince to invade or annoy him or his countries, or to discharge any of his subjects of their allegiance and obedience to his Majesty...
Page 3 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? Or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers...
Page i - These Geraldines! these Geraldines! — not long our air they breathed; Not long they fed on venison, in Irish water seethed; Not often had their children been by Irish mothers nursed, When from their full and genial hearts an Irish feeling burst ! The English monarchs strove in vain by law, and force, and bribe, To win from Irish thoughts and ways this "more than Irish...
Page 170 - And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these express words by me spoken, and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation, mental evasion, or secret reservation whatsoever. And I do make this recognition, acknowledgment, abjuration, renunciation, and promise heartily, willingly, and truly, upon the true faith of a Christian. So help me God.
Page 193 - Let him seriously consider and reflect within himself, from this visitation, " what a dreadful thing it is to fall into the hands of the living God...

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