A History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period, to the Present Time. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to William Hamilton,esq, Band 1J. Bellew, 1783 In these letters to William Hamilton, Earl of Charlmont, the author traces the history of Ireland from its origins to the reign of King George II. |
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Seite 201 - ... should be punished as high treason; that the use of their name, language, apparel or customs, should be punished with the forfeiture of lands and tenements...
Seite 153 - ... fidelity, that you and your heirs enjoy for ever, out of our favour and as a gift to your kingdom, the liberties granted you by our father and ourfelves.
Seite 108 - ... a council, or parliament at Lifmore where the laws of England Were, by all, gratefully accepted and eftablifhed by the fanction of an oath. A ftatute of this parliament, is mentioned and the purport of it quoted in an act of the fecond year of the reign of Richard the Third. By it, it was provided that in cafe of the death or removal of any chief governor, the chancellor, treafurer, chief juftces and chief baron, keeper of the rolls and king's ferjeant at law fhould be empowered, with the confent...
Seite 160 - Henry now fent over to this kingdom, maybe confidered as his fourth grant to us of the liberties of England. " Becaufe for the common benefit of the land of Ireland and the unity of the King's territories, the King, by the advice of his...
Seite 189 - THE privileges of a county palatine, were ra^ft extenfive. The fuperior lord might pardon felonies, murder and even treafon ; he might appoint judges and juftices of the peace ; all writs and indictments ran in his name. The king's officers could not enter into the limits of it or hold any of his courts. Such independent...
Seite 223 - Ormond, in the year fourteen hundred and thirty one, happened the remarkable cafe of the Prior of Lanthony. A judgment, in the common pleas, being removed to the Irifh parliament, was affirmed there ; upon which a writ of error was fent from England ; but the King's bench in England, would not take cognifance to reverfe a judgment confirmed by. the parliament of Ireland. In confequence of this, the Prior petitioned the King that the record might be tranfmitted to the Englifh Houfe of Lords, there...
Seite 169 - T the accufation of De Vefey, who fpoke firft, Fitzgerald defended himfelf at confiderable length. He concluded his fpeech with this defiance : " To juftify that I am a true fubject, and that thou, Vefey, art an arch traitor, to God and my king, here, in the prefence of his Highnefs, and in the hearing of this honourable aflembly, I challenge the combat.
Seite 6 - Europe, had an early intercourse with the Iberian Spaniards, a colony of whom, by the name of Scots, fettled in Ireland, in the fourth age of the world.
Seite 336 - The demefne or quantity of land in the immediate pofleffion of each chieftain was all that was granted to him ; upon the part occupied by his tenants a certain rent was fixed which he received, in the place of former exactions. THE counties of Tyrone and Tirconnel were...
Seite 318 - How far the infurrection by this time extended, may be judged from a declaration of the council, who gave it under their hands, " That it was an univerfal Irifh rebellion to fhake off all Englifh government.