Vindiciae Hibernicae: Or, Ireland Vindicated: An Attempt to Develop and Expose a Few of the Multifarious Errors and Falsehoods Respecting Ireland, in the Histories of May, Temple, Whitelock, Borlase, Rushworth, Clarendon, Cox, Carte, Leland, Warner,
Vindiciae Hibernicae: Or, Ireland Vindicated: An Attempt to Develop and Expose a Few of the Multifarious Errors and Falsehoods Respecting Ireland, in the Histories of May, Temple, Whitelock, Borlase, Rushworth, Clarendon, Cox, Carte, Leland, Warner, ...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 Excerpt: ... would have ventured to sequester, had a verdict been found. The English ministry were afraid of a rebellion, and reluctant to countenance such barefaced depredation. He remonstrated with them, and went so far as to assign that danger as a reason to warrant the career he ran. "If they were so unsound and rotten at the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 Excerpt: ... would have ventured to sequester, had a verdict been found. The English ministry were afraid of a rebellion, and reluctant to countenance such barefaced depredation. He remonstrated with them, and went so far as to assign that danger as a reason to warrant the career he ran. "If they were so unsound and rotten at the heart" as to run into rebellion on account of being robbed of half their estates, "wisdom required so to weaken them" as to put it out of their power to rebel! Wonderful logic!, "All the answer I can give is, that if taking of an half move that country to enter into open rebellion, the taking of a third or a fourth melhinks should hardly secure the crown of their allegiance. Tnen be it granted that they are thus unsound and rotten at the heart, wisdom adviseth so to weaken them, and line them thoroughly with English and protestants as that they shall not, (by the help of God, ) be able to disquiet any thing, if they would."508 It will excite the horror of the reader to learn that Wentworth actually levied above 40,000/. sterling on the sherifFs and jurors--equal to nearly a million of dollars-at the present valuation of money! Lord Clanrickard, having powerful friends at court, who successfully urged the flagrant injustice of the proceedings against him, he procured his pardon. This rendered Wentworth almost frantic, to find the prey snatched from his jaws, at the moment when he had regarded himself as secure of it beyond all possibility of escape. He uttered his complaints to the secretary of state in strong language expressive of the chagrin he experienced.t "There is now a fair opportunity put into his majesty's hands to lay a sure foundation for reducing and securing this county of Galway (of all the four ...
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