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Page 78 - Nights, which did fill a Room of 600 Persons, so that I needed not sell one single Ticket at the door, and without Vanity the Performance was received with a general Approbation.
Page 39 - God shall send them strong delusions, that they should believe a lie :' exposing the cheats, who openly stood there, with Father Leigh, upon a table before the pulpit, with their hands and legs tied, and the crime written on their breasts. This punishment they suffered three Sundays, were imprisoned for some time, and then banished the realm. This converted above one hundred persons present, who swore they would never hear mass more. " And further, upon the 10th of...
Page 80 - Street to a most Grand, Polite, and Crowded Audience; and was performed so well, that it gave universal Satisfaction to all present; and was allowed by the greatest Judges to be the finest Composition of Musick that ever was heard, and the sacred Words as properly adapted for the occasion.
Page 79 - Relief of the Prisoners in the Several Gaols, and for the support of Mercer's Hospital, in Stephen's Street, and of the Charitable Infirmary on the Inn's Quay, on Monday the 12th of April, will be performed at the Musick Hall in Fishamble Street, Mr.
Page 37 - was sung in English in Christ Church, Dublin. This gave great offence to some of the Popish zealots, reckoning aright, that the use of the mass was in danger of being laid aside in that cathedral. Something, therefore, was to be done, now or never, to keep the reputation of the old superstition : and a miracle was to be shown in the said church the next Sunday, when the lordlieutenant, the archbishop, and the rest of the privy council, were there at service.
Page 57 - They are preceded by the pursuivants of the council-chamber, two maces, and, on state-days, by the king and pursuivant-at-arms, their chaplains, and gentlemen of the household, with pages, and footmen bareheaded. When they alight from their coach, in which commonly the lord chancellor and one of the prime nobility sit with them, the sword of state is delivered to some lord to carry before them. And in the like manner they return back to the castle, where the several courses at dinner are ushered...
Page 51 - Sunday, the vaults from one end of the minster to the other, are made into tippling rooms for beer, wine, and tobacco, demised all to popish recusants, and by them and others so much frequented in time of divine service...
Page 78 - I assure you that the Words of the Moderato are vastly admired. The Audience being composed (besides the Flower of Ladyes of Distinction and other People of the greatest quality) of so many Bishops, Deans, Heads of the Colledge, the most eminent People in the Law as the Chancellor, Auditor General, &ct.
Page 33 - Patrick down to that time, and had been in the hands of Christ while he was among men.
Page 39 - Thess. ii. v. 11—God shall send them strong delusions, that they should believe a lie: exposing the cheats who openly stood there with Father Leigh, upon a table before the pulpit, with their hands and legs tied, and the crime written on their breasts. " This punishment they suffered three Sundays, were imprisoned for some time, and then banished the realm. This converted above one hundred persons present, who swore they would never hear mass more.