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The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland (Classic Reprint) John Patrick Prendergast No preview available - 2018 |
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Act of Settlement adged Adventurers Affairs of Ireland ancient army arrears assigned Athlone banished barony Captain Carte Papers Charles claimants Clonmel Colonel Commonwealth of England Connaught Constant good affection county of Tipperary Court Cromwell Cromwellian debentures declared disbanded dispensed Dublin Castle Earl English interest estates families forfeited Galway garrans garrison gentry hair Hardress Waller hath Henry Ibid inhabitants Irish nation James June Justices Kildare Kilkenny King King's Kinsale lands late Leinster Letter Limerick London Lord Deputy Lord Protector Loughrea March member of ye ment middle stature miles MILES CORBET Munster murder native officers and soldiers Ormond Papist Parliament of England persons petition petitioner Petty's Down Survey plant plantation planters possession precinct priests proprietors Protestants provinces quarter rebellion rebels Record Tower regiment Restoration Richard servant Sir John tenants Thomas tion Tories town transplantation troops Ulster unto Waterford Wexford William ye House Youghal
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Page 46 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 158 - I wish that all honest hearts may give the glory of this to God alone, to whom indeed the praise of this mercy belongs.
Page 445 - Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.
Page 60 - These men-catchers employed persons (so runs the order) " to delude poor people by false pretences into byplaces, and thence they forced them on board their ships. The persons employed had so much a piece for all- they so deluded, and for the money sake they were found to have enticed and forced women from their children and husbands,— children from their parents, who maintained them at school ; and they had not only dealt so with the Irish, but also with the English...
Page xxxii - Order Books of the Commissioners of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England for the Affairs of Ireland, together with Domestic Correspondence and Books of Establishments from 1650 to 1659.
Page 106 - Irish peasantry but wore skilful in husbandry, and more exact than any English in the husbandry proper to the country ; few of the women but were skilful in dressing hemp and flax, and making woollen cloth. In every hundred men there were five or six masons and carpenters at least, and those more handy and ready in building ordinary houses, and much more skilful in supplying the defects of instruments and materials than English artificers.2 They have always been known as uncommon masters of the art...
Page 57 - There lives not a people more hardy, active, and painful, neither is there any will endure the miseries of warre, as famine, watching, heat, cold, wet, travel, and the like, so naturally, and with such facility and courage that they do. The Prince of Orange's Excellency uses often publiquely to deliver that the Irish are souldiers the first day of their birth. The ' famous Henry IV., late King of France, said there would prove no nation so resolute martial men as they, would they be ruly, and not...
Page xxxvi - Institutes, and a few other parings of these two faculties. I have seen them where they kept school, ten in some one chamber, grovelling upon couches of straw, their books at their noses, themselves lying prostrate, and so to chant out their lessons by piecemeal, being the most part lusty fellows of twenty-five years and upward.
Page 275 - ... where they saw a smoke; it was so rare to see either smoke by day or fire or candle by night.
Page xxiii - English in 1652; for the Vandals came as strangers and conquerors in an age of force and "barbarism, nor did they banish the people, though they seized and divided their lands by lot;' but the English, in 1652, were of the same nation as half of the chief families in Ireland, and had at that time had the island under their sway for five hundred years.