 | 1836 - 808 pages
...much. Here I will read of the bachelor [i. «. (fie king] ; Of King Dermod I will tell you." rials he had collected for his history. The testimony of...this reign contain the confirmations of most of the crrants of land made to the first their authority is "null and void." On the contrary, all the Irish... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Anglo-Saxon literature - 1846 - 322 pages
...is delivered with too much simplicity to allow us to suspect him of intentional misrepresentations. It happens, unfortunately, that the rolls of the reign...land made to the first conquerors. In spite of all that has been advanced to the contrary, we still continue to look upon the ancient Irish as a wild... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Ballads, English - 1846 - 322 pages
...is delivered with too much simplicity to allow us to suspect him of intentional misrepresentations. It happens, unfortunately, that the rolls of the reign...numerous, and they then throw great light upon Irish historv. The charter-rolls of this reign contain the confirmations of most of the grants of land made... | |
 | Charles O'Kelly, John Cornelius O'Callaghan, Irish Archaeological Society - Genealogy - 1850 - 614 pages
...Michel's edition of the old French poem on the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland under Henry II. : " It happens, unfortunately, that the rolls of the reign...they then throw great light upon Irish history"'. NOTE 66, Page 26. The lesser Irish Potentates alleged to have submitted to Henry II. from a superstitions... | |
 | Irish archaeological and Celtic society - Ireland - 1850 - 612 pages
...Michel's edition of the old French poem on the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland under Henry II. : " It happens, unfortunately, that the rolls of the reign...they then throw great light upon Irish history"'. NOTE 66, Page 26. The lesser Irish Potentates alleged to have submitted to Henry II. from a superstitious... | |
 | Irish archaeological and Celtic society - Ireland - 1850 - 610 pages
...M. Michel's edition of the old French poem on the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland under Henry II.: "It happens, unfortunately, that the rolls of the...they then throw great light upon Irish history"". NOTE 66, Page 26. The lesser Irish Potentates alleged to have submitted to Henry II. from a superstitious... | |
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It happens, unfortunately, that the rolls of the reign of the second Henry are nearly all lost. In the reign of John they first begin to be numerous, and they then throw great light upon Irish history. 