Ireland in the Seventeenth Century: Or, The Irish Massacres of 1641-2, Their Causes and Results. Illustrated by Extracts from the Unpublished State Papers, the Unpublished Mss. in the Bodleian Library, Lambeth Library, and the Library of the Royal Dublin Society, Relating to the Plantations of 1610-39; a Selection from the Unpublished Depositions Relating to the Massacres ... and the Reports of the Trials in the High Court of Justice in 1652-4, from the Unpublished Mss. in Trinity College, Dublin, Volumen2

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1884
 

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Página 342 - ... of my estate, and the greatness of the estate my ancestors had, and how I should be sure to get it again, or at least a good part thereof.* And moreover, how the welfare and maintaining the Catholic religion, which, he said, undoubtedly the parliament now in England will suppress, doth depend upon it: for, said he, it is to be feared, and so much I hear from every understanding man, the parliament intends the utter subversion of our religion; — by which persuasions he obtained my consent.
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Página 352 - O'Neil, a priest, out of Spain, and that this, I take it, was the time that he was in treaty with Cardinal Richelieu to my Lord of Argyle, to treat with him for help from my Lord, for him to come into Ireland as was said for marriage between the said...
Página 344 - Reily, my brother, and I, meeting the next May at Dublin, and the same messenger there too, it was resolved that he should return to the earl into Spain with their resolution ; which was that they would rise out twelve or fourteen days before or after Allhallontide as they. should see cause, and that he should not fail to be with them by that time. There was a report at that time, and before, that the earl of Tyrone was killed, which was not believed by reason of many such reports formerly which...
Página 378 - ... accessory to it ; but he did believe that the queen did hearken to the propositions made by the Irish, who undertook to take the government of Ireland into their own hands, which they thought they could perform and then they promised to assist the king against the hot spirits in Westminster (Burnet's H-ist. of his own Times, vol. ip 41). I cannot distinguish between the king and queen considering their dark correspondence and joint plots.

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