Ireland Exhibited to England: In a Political and Moral Survey of Her Population, and in a Statistical and Scenographic Tour of Certain Districts; Comprehending Specimens of Her Colonisation, Natural History and Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Commerce ... With a Letter to the Members of His Majesty's Government on the State of Ireland, Volume 1Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823 - Antrim (Ireland : County) |
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Page 4 - The scribes and pharisees sit in Moses' seat: all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and
Page 192 - and went to the Newrie, which is 16 miles; this is a most difficult way for a stranger to find out; herein wee wandered, and being lost fell among the Irish townes. —The Irish houses are the poorest cabins I have seen; erected in the middle of the fields and grounds, which they farm and
Page 185 - at the dissolution of religious houses in the reign of Henry VIII, it appears to have been possessed of seven townlands, and the spiritualities of sixteen and a half besides;
Page 192 - who led us like a villain directly out of the way, and soe left us; soe as by this deviation it was three houre before wee came to the Newrie.*— Much land there is about this
Page 192 - the Irish townes. —The Irish houses are the poorest cabins I have seen; erected in the middle of the fields and grounds, which they farm and
Page 185 - castle was in repair, it often proved a good guard to the pass, and as often an offensive neighbour to the English planted in Lecale, according to the hands that possessed
Page 192 - hath a castle in this towne, but is for the most part resident att Green Castle; a great part of this towne is his, and itt is reported he hath £1000 or £1500
Page 185 - which, at some period prior to the building of the tower, seemed to have extended considerably beyond it! This curious circumstance was observed by several gentlemen, at the spring assizes of
Page 48 - on the east by St. George's Channel and the Irish Sea, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Its greatest
Page 191 - which he holds by lease, and which has still 40 years to come; the land is my Lord Chichester's, and the lease was made