History, Antiquities, and Present State of the Parishes of Ballysadare and Kilvarnet, in the County of Sligo: With Notices of the O'Haras, the Coopers, the Percivals, and Other Local Families

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J. Duffy and sons, 1878 - 544 стор.

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Сторінка 333 - Come, trample down their robber rule, and smite its venal spawn. Their foreign laws, their foreign Church, their ermine and their lawn, With all the specious fry of fraud that robbed us of our own ; And plant our ancient laws again beneath our lineal throne. Our standard flies o'er fifty towers, o'er twice ten thousand men ; Down have we plucked the pirate Red, never to rise again; The Green alone shall stream above our native field and flood — The spotless Green, save where its folds are gemmed...
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Сторінка 324 - There wants but little of what I would propose ; " — which is, That such Townsmen as have a desire to depart "may have liberty within a convenient time to carry away "themselves and goods; and liberty of conscience to such as "shall stay: and that I may carry away such artillery and " ammunition as I have in my command. If you be inclined to "this, I will send, upon your honour as a safe-conduct, an " Officer [to conclude with yon. To which your immediate "answer is expected by, — Sir, your servant,...
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Сторінка 324 - I meddle not with any man's conscience. But if by liberty of conscience you mean a liberty to exercise the Mass, I judge it best to use plain dealing, and to let you know where the Parliament of England have power that will not be allowed of.
Сторінка 200 - Majesty's revenue, than to our particular ruin) there are a set of men, who, instead of exercising any honest occupation in the commonwealth, make it their employment to pry into our miserable property, to drag us into the courts, and to compel us to confess on our oaths, and under the penalties of perjury, whether we have in any instance acquired a property, in the smallest degree exceeding what the rigor of the law has admitted ; and in...
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