 About the years 1652 and 1653," says Colonel Lawrence, in his Interests of Ireland, " the plague and famine had so swept away whole counties, that a man might travel twenty or thirty miles and not see a living creature, either man, or beast, or bird,...  The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland - Page 177by John Patrick Prendergast - 1868 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Gordon - Ireland - 1803 - 512 pages
...ocular witness of the state of things, " the " plague and famine had so swept away whole " counties, that a man might travel twenty or " thirty miles, and not see a living creature. " Our soldiers would tell stories of the places "where they saw a smoke; it was rare to see " either... | |
 | James Bentley Gordon - 1803 - 512 pages
...ocular witness of the state of things, " the " plague and famine had so swept away whole " counties, that a man might travel twenty or " thirty miles, and not see a. living creature. " Our soldiers would tell stories of the places "where they saw a smoke; it was rare to see " either... | |
 | James Gordon - Ireland - 1803 - 510 pages
...ocular witness of the state of things, " the *' plague and famine had so swept away whole " counties, that a man might travel twenty or " thirty miles, and not see a living creature. *' Our soldiers would tell stories of the places "where they saw a smoke; it was rare to see " either... | |
 | John Curry - Catholic emancipation - 1810 - 732 pages
...3 Ib.p. 202. * " About the year 1652 and 1653, («ayj an eye-witness) the plague and famine had so swept away whole countries, that a man might travel...twenty or thirty miles, and not see a living creature, either man, beast or bird, they being all dead, or had quitted these desolate places. Our soldier*... | |
 | John Curry - 1810 - 736 pages
...iX>l. 3 Jt.p. 202. * " About the year 1652 and 1G53, (says an eye-witness) the plague and famine had so swept away whole countries, that a man might travel...twenty or thirty miles, and not see a living creature, either man, beast or btrd( they being all dead, or had quitted these desolate places. Our soldier*... | |
 | 1812 - 560 pages
...an ocular witness of the state of things, " the plague and famine had so swept away whole counties, that a man might travel twenty or thirty miles, and not see a living creature." Such was the unhappy state of Ulster for many ages, that the writer of these travels may be permitted... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1812 - 562 pages
...an ocular witness of the state of things, " the plague and famine had so swept away whole- counties, that a man might travel twenty or thirty miles, and not see a liring creature." » Such was the unhappy state of Ulster for many ages, that the •writer of these... | |
 | 1825 - 588 pages
...Colonel Lawrence in his Interests of Ireland, ' the plague and famine had so swept away whole counties, that a man might travel twenty or thirty miles and not see a living creature, either man nor beast, nor bird, — they being all dead, or had quitted those desolate places. Our... | |
 | John Gamble - Dublin (Ireland) - 1826 - 374 pages
...1653," says an author who was an ocular witness of the state of things, " the plague and famine had so swept away whole countries, that a man might travel...twenty or thirty miles, and not see a living creature. Our soldiers would tell stories of the places where they saw a smoke ; it was rare to see either smoke... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 568 pages
...p. 86 :— " About the years 1652 and 1653, the plague and famine had so swept away whole counties, that a man might travel twenty or thirty miles and not see a living creature. Our soldiers would tell stories of the places where they saw a smoke. It was rare to see either smoke... | |
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