Miscellaneous papers: The book of Howth. The conquest of Ireland, by Thomas Bray, etcLongmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1873 - Great Britain |
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Page xv
... Irish under the protection of England , or holding English grants , the pleasure was enhanced by the profits of the spoil . No anxiety and no effort on the part of the English Government to convert the precarious holdings of the native ...
... Irish under the protection of England , or holding English grants , the pleasure was enhanced by the profits of the spoil . No anxiety and no effort on the part of the English Government to convert the precarious holdings of the native ...
Page xvii
... Irish chief , so far from being inclined to this , resisted the attempt with all his might ; and it is this resistance which was at the bottom of all his opposition to the English Government during the reign of Elizabeth ; —a resistance ...
... Irish chief , so far from being inclined to this , resisted the attempt with all his might ; and it is this resistance which was at the bottom of all his opposition to the English Government during the reign of Elizabeth ; —a resistance ...
Page xviii
... Irish . A fixed rent , instead of arbitrary exactions , was probably more distasteful to their irregular habits and roving tastes ; and I can well believe that " cosheries and cuttings , " as they were called , though destructive of ...
... Irish . A fixed rent , instead of arbitrary exactions , was probably more distasteful to their irregular habits and roving tastes ; and I can well believe that " cosheries and cuttings , " as they were called , though destructive of ...
Page xix
... Irish chieftain were indefinite . They depended often on mere force ; often on the power which by his disorderly retainers , his kerns and his gallo- glasses , he could bring to bear upon his defenceless tenants and neighbours . To ...
... Irish chieftain were indefinite . They depended often on mere force ; often on the power which by his disorderly retainers , his kerns and his gallo- glasses , he could bring to bear upon his defenceless tenants and neighbours . To ...
Page xx
... Irish gentlemen , too indolent to work , too poor to live without it . + Secured in their possessions , in the same way as an English tenant , by the payment of fixed rents in lieu of uncertain exactions , not only the land rose rapidly ...
... Irish gentlemen , too indolent to work , too poor to live without it . + Secured in their possessions , in the same way as an English tenant , by the payment of fixed rents in lieu of uncertain exactions , not only the land rose rapidly ...
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