A history of Ireland ... to ... 1801, 第 1 巻 |
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adminiſtration affembly affiftance againſt alfo alſo arms army barons Burgo caftle catholics caufe cauſe CHAP chief governor chieftains Chriftian clergy coloniſts command commiffion confederates confequence Connaught conqueft council defign Defmond deputy Dermod Dublin earl earl of Ormond enemy England English eſtabliſhed faid fame favour fecond fecurity feems feized fent fepts fervice feven feveral fhould fide fince firſt Fitzftephen flain flaughter foldiers fome foon forces fovereign fpirit ftate ftill fubjects fubmiffion fucceffor fuccefs fuch fummoned fupport garrifon Henry himſelf hoftile houſe Hugh de Lacy hundred ifland invafion Ireland Irifh Iriſh juftices Kildare Kilkenny king king's lands lefs Leinster lord meaſures Meath ment moft monarch moſt Munfter O'Nial occafion oppofition Ormond parliament perfons prefent prifon prince privy council promiſed proteftant purpoſe raiſed rebels recufants refpect reign Roderic royal ſtate Strongbow thefe themſelves theſe thofe Thomond thoſe thouſand tion toparchs treaty troops Ulfter Waterford Wexford whofe whoſe
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400 ページ - my wife and children are in your power. , Should they receive any injury from men, I fhall never revenge it on women and children. This would be not only bafe and unchriftian, but infinitely beneath the value at which I rate my wife and children.
35 ページ - Irifh could the right of tenure furvive the poffeflbr : " and as the crimes or misfortunes of men frequently forced them from one tribe to another, property was eternally fluctuating, and new partitions of lands made almoft daily.
389 ページ - Irish ecclesiastics were seen encouraging the carnage. The women forgot the tenderness of their sex; pursued the English with execrations, and embrued their hands in blood: even children, in their feeble malice, lifted the dagger against the helpless prisoners.
323 ページ - But wounded pride was the real fource of complaint ; and, as Leland obferves, " men, whofe religious principles expofe them to grievous difadvantages in fociety, are particularly bound to examine thofe principles with care and accuracy, left they facrifice the interefts of themfelves and their pofterity to an illufion.
108 ページ - ... tribute, and to the maintenance of certain numbers of knights and inferior foldiers for his fervice, they were otherwife, each in his own territory, abfolute and hereditary lords or princes.
107 ページ - Brehon laws, their ancient cuftoms, their modes of lucceffion, and their mutual wars, waged as if by independent potentates, remained as much in force after, as they had been before the Englifh invafion. The...
29 ページ - The accounts tranfmitted to us of the afts of Saint Patrick bear all the marks of legendary fiction, and appear no better founded than thofe of other fabulous champions of the church, whofe tutelage, as patron faints, has been feverally adopted, from the cuftom of the times, by the chriftian nations of Europe in the dark ages. Whoever were the happy inftruments in the planting of Chriftianity in Ireland, their progrefs appears to have been flow in the converfion of the natives. So lately as the end...
332 ページ - They obtained commissions of inquiry into defective titles, and grants of concealed lands, and rents belonging to the crown, the great benefit of which was generally to accrue to the projector, whilst the king was contented with an inconsiderable proportion of the concealment, or a small advance of rent. Discoverers were every where 'busily employed in finding out flaws in men's titles to their estates.
290 ページ - Loftus, archbimop of Dublin, chancellor, and Sir Robert Gardiner, chief juftice : the military to the earl of Ormond with the title of lord lieutenant of the army. While this new general detached Sir Henry Bagnal to fupport the garrifons of Armagh and Blackwater, O'Nial, dreading the experienced fuperiority of the Englifh forces, and...
29 ページ - He is mentioned in no writing of authentic date anterior to the ninth century, a period replete with forged lives of faints...