Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1839 - Politicians |
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... British statute , and took out patents to their estates in the time of Elizabeth ; these patents were not enrolled . Charles the First took advantage of the omission , and proceeded to seize the lands in the west of Ireland , fining and ...
... British statute , and took out patents to their estates in the time of Elizabeth ; these patents were not enrolled . Charles the First took advantage of the omission , and proceeded to seize the lands in the west of Ireland , fining and ...
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... British supremacy - abolished the appeals to England , -established a limited monarchy , and a British form of government . All this too was obtained by Papists , ( as they were termed , ) and extorted from a Catholic King , by men who ...
... British supremacy - abolished the appeals to England , -established a limited monarchy , and a British form of government . All this too was obtained by Papists , ( as they were termed , ) and extorted from a Catholic King , by men who ...
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... British planters , who still clung to the mother - country which they had left , and did not yet amalgamate with the new soil in which they had not taken root , and to secure their pro- perty they made a sacrifice of their freedom . In ...
... British planters , who still clung to the mother - country which they had left , and did not yet amalgamate with the new soil in which they had not taken root , and to secure their pro- perty they made a sacrifice of their freedom . In ...
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... British Parliament ; but he refused , — declaring that it would be a lasting reflection on an Irishman to apply for a British act to regulate property in Ire- land . Such was the sentiment that , in later and more auspicious times ...
... British Parliament ; but he refused , — declaring that it would be a lasting reflection on an Irishman to apply for a British act to regulate property in Ire- land . Such was the sentiment that , in later and more auspicious times ...
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... British law ; and they were also deprived of the right of elect- ing members to Parliament , by the Act of William the Third , 1697. The constituency was thus con- fined to the Protestants , and reduced to nothing ; so that the people ...
... British law ; and they were also deprived of the right of elect- ing members to Parliament , by the Act of William the Third , 1697. The constituency was thus con- fined to the Protestants , and reduced to nothing ; so that the people ...
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