An Introduction to and an History of Ireland, Volum 3

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H. Fitzpatrick, 1803
 

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Pàgina 360 - ... this island and execute therein whatever shall pertain to the honour of God and welfare of the land ; and that the people of this land receive you honourably, and reverence you as their lord ; the rights of their churches still remaining sacred and inviolate, and saving to St. Peter the annual pension of one penny from every house.
Pàgina 359 - You then, most dear son in Christ, have signified to us your desire to enter into the island of Ireland, in order to reduce the people to obedience unto laws, and to extirpate the plants of vice ; and that you are willing to pay from each house a yearly pension of one penny to St.
Pàgina 263 - So saying, he seized his sword and battle-axe, his constant companions in war, and resolutely waited the event. In the general confusion, Brodar and a few of his followers entered the royal tent. He was armed from head to foot, and yet the gallant old chief pierced his body through his coat of mail! two more of his attendants met the same fate, and Brien received his death by a fourth. The intrepid Sitric, Prince of Ulster, the...
Pàgina 261 - ... number of enemies. But Morrogh, with great presence of mind, called out to his brave Dalgais, " that this was the time to distinguish themselves, as they alone would have the unrivalled glory of cutting off that formidable body of the enemy.
Pàgina 259 - April 1014, in three divisions, and was joined by Malachie, King of Meath. He encamped, as he had done the year before, near Kilmainham.
Pàgina 359 - Church, as your excellency also doth acknowledge; and therefore, we are the more solicitous to propagate the righteous plantation of faith in this land, and the branch acceptable to God, as we have the secret conviction of conscience that this is more especially our bounden duty.
Pàgina 375 - I have been informed by many of them that have had judicial places there, and partly of mine own knowledge, that there is no nation of the Christian world that are greater lovers "of justice than they are, which virtue must of necessity be accompanied with many others.
Pàgina 206 - Mac Cuillenan and other chiefs. Heralds were sent to require the Danes to surrender Limerick and give hostages for their future good behaviour; the reply of those marauders, however, was that ' so far from waiting to be attacked they would march out of the city to give open battle.
Pàgina 69 - ... ambassadors of a nation: the " advocates for France insisted, that the English " having been conquered by the Romans, and again " subdued by the Saxons, who were tributaries to " the German empire, and never governed by native " sovereigns, they should take place as a branch " only of the German empire, and not as a free " nation;
Pàgina 377 - Henry himfelf and by his barons ; as Dublin with its liberties, Meath, with all its domains, in as full a manner as it was...

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