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... the lord lieutenant and the majority of this house are the worst subjects the king has ; ' and when a storm arose , the more violent from consciousness that his words were but too true , for all retractation he would only say : ' I am ...
... the lord lieutenant and the majority of this house are the worst subjects the king has ; ' and when a storm arose , the more violent from consciousness that his words were but too true , for all retractation he would only say : ' I am ...
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ancient Anglo-Norman Annals appear appointed archbishop Armagh army arrived battle bishop Brehon laws Brian Brodir Burgo Cashel castle Catholics Celt Celtic century church clergy command Connaught Cormac Courcy Danes Danish death defeated Dermot Dermot Mac Murrough Desmond died Dublin Dublin castle earl ecclesiastical enemy England English erected favour Felim FitzAldelm fled Four Masters granted Henry Henry II hostages Hugh de Lacy Hugh O'Connor hundred Ireland Irish chieftains John Kildare Kilkenny killed king king of Leinster king's kingdom land laws Leinster Limerick lord deputy lord justice Malachy Meath ment monarch monastery Munster Murrough native nobles Norman O'Brien O'Connor O'Donnell O'Neill obliged obtained Ormonde Parliament Patrick period plundered prince probably Protestant received reign Roderic royal saint SECTION sent settlers Shane O'Neill slain soldiers soon Strongbow succeeded synod Tara Thomond thousand tion took Tuatha Dé Dananns Turlough Ulster viceroy Waterford Wexford William
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Page 389 - I do see the time is at hand, the spirit is gone forth, the declaration is planted; and though great men should apostatize, yet the cause will live; and though the public speaker should die, yet the immortal fire shall outlast the organ which conveyed it, and the breath of liberty, like the word of the holy man, will not die with the prophet, but survive him.
Page 371 - Christ, at or after the consecration thereof, by any person whatsoever ; and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any other saint, and the sacrifice of the Mass, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous.
Page 306 - For there is no nation of people under the sun that doth love equal and indifferent justice better than the Irish, or will rest better satisfied with the execution thereof, although it be against themselves ; so as they may have the protection and benefit of the law when upon just cause they do desire it.
Page 309 - From Scotland came many, and from England not a few ; yet all of them generally the scum of both nations, who, from debt, or making and fleeing from justice, or seeking shelter, came hither, hoping to be without fear of man's justice, in a land where there was nothing or but little as yet of the fear of God...
Page 322 - As' for that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience. But if by liberty of conscience, you mean a liberty to exercise the Mass, I judge it best to use plain dealing, and to let you know, Where the Parliament of England have power, that will not be allowed of.
Page 413 - Ireland have severally agreed and resolved, that, in order to promote and secure the essential interests of Great Britain and Ireland, and to consolidate the strength, power, and resources of the British Empire, it will be advisable to concur in such measures as may best tend to unite the two kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland...
Page 283 - Besides this, such horrible and lamentable spectacles there are to behold, as the burning of villages, the ruin of churches, the wasting of such as have been good towns and castles : yea, the view of the bones and skulls of the dead subjects, who, partly by murder^ partly by famine, have died in the fields, as, in truth, hardly any Christian with dry eyes could behold.
Page 388 - I never will be satisfied so long as the meanest cottager in Ireland has a link of the British chain clanking to his rags : he may be naked, he shall not be in iron.
Page 399 - A lawless banditti have constituted themselves judges of this species of delinquency, and the sentence they pronounce is equally concise and terrible ; it is nothing less than a confiscation of all property, and immediate banishment.
Page 306 - But those chiefs being basely informed, that witnesses were to be hired against them, foolishly fled from Dublin, and so taking guilt upon them, they were declared rebels, and six entire counties in Ulster were at once forfeited to the crown, which was what their enemies wanted.