The Geraldine's Bride: A Metrical Tale, with an Introduction and Historical Notes |
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Adare Manor aforesaid amongst the English antient Barons battle beautiful beneath benefice beside birth Bishop bower Boyle Brandon Brehon law caitiff knight CANTO castle Catherine Celtic chief chieftains Clanrickard Cork coursers Crown deemed Desmond branch Desmond Castle Desmond ruled Duke of Clarence Earl of Desmond Earls of Kildare Edward III English language Englishman epic fairy fame foes Four Masters Friary gainst GERALDINE'S BRIDE Geraldines golden grace of form guile hate heart heaven hills hour Iliad Ireland Irish agents James of Desmond Kerry KILLARNEY Lismore lonely lord the king love's M'Caura Mor mountain Mumha native numbered o'er ordained and established Ordinance OTTAVA RIMA pedigree present race royal ruled the land rulers Sir James sire Smith's History soul spirit star Statute of Kilkenny stream strife sword taken and imprisoned tale thee thereof be attainted Thomas treason Voyage of St Warbled Waterford welkin wild
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Page 24 - It is a rule of right unwritten, but delivered by tradition from one to another, in which oftentimes there appeareth great show of equity, in determining the right between party and party, but in many things repugning quite both to God's law and man's ; as, for example, in the case of murder, the Brehon — that is, their judge — will compound between the murderer and the friends of the party murdered, which prosecute the action, that the malefactor shall give unto them, or to the child or wife...
Page 12 - These Geraldines ! these Geraldines ! — rain wears away the rock And time may wear away the tribe that stood the battle's shock ; But ever, sure, while one is left of all that honoured race, In front of Ireland's chivalry is that Fitzgerald's place: And, though the last were dead and gone, how many a field and town, From...
Page 103 - Ireland in 1626, the ve.ir of Lord Bacon's death ; died in London in 1691. Boyle was an able and sedulous Investigator of Nature by Experiment ; and he contributed much to many branches of Physics, Optics, Pneumatics, Natural History, Chemistry, and Medicine ; — Pneumatics probably gaining most from his researches. He was one of the foremost of those illustrious men who founded the Royal Society in 1645, for the purpose of improving experimental knowledge, on the plan laid down bv Bacon.
Page 21 - English shall receive or make gift to such ; and that he that shall do so, and be attainted, shall be taken and imprisoned, as well the Irish agents as the English who receive or give them anything, and after that they shall make fine at the king's will; and the instruments of their agency shall forfeit to our lord the king.
Page 16 - Irish language amongst themselves, contrary to this ordinance, and thereof be attainted, his lands and tenements, if he have any, shall be seized into the hands of his immediate lord, until he shall come to one of the places of our Lord the King, and find sufficient surety to adopt and use the English language, and then he shall have restitution of his said lands, by writ issued out of said places. In case that such person shall not have lands...
Page 19 - ... ball upon the ground, from which great evils and maims have arisen, to the weakening of the defence of the said land...
Page 29 - What did not clash with the Word of God in the written law and in the New Testament, and with the consciences of the believers, was confirmed in the laws of the Brehons by Patrick and by the ecclesiastics and the chieftains of Erin; for the law of nature had been quite right, except the faith, and its obligations, and the harmony of the Church and people. And this is the Senchus.
Page 21 - ... attainted, shall be taken and imprisoned, that is, both the Irish agents and the English who receive or give them anything, and after that they shall make fine at the King's will ; and the instruments of their agency shall forfeit to our lord the King. ANCIENT CORPORATION SEAL OF THE IRISH TOWN, KILKENNY. XXXV. Also, our lord the Duke of Clarence, lieutenant of our lord the King, in Ireland, and the council of our said lord the King there, the earls, barons and commons of the land aforesaid,...
Page 15 - Also, it is ordained and established, that no alliance by marriage, gossipred, fostering of children, concubinage or by amour, nor in any other manner, be henceforth made between the English and Irish of one part, or of the other part ;* and that no Englishman, nor other person, being at peace do give or sell to any Irishman, in time of peace or war, horses or armour, nor any manner of victuals in time of war; and if any shall do to the contrary, and thereof be attainted, he shall have judgment of...
Page 17 - ... fine according to the king's pleasure for the contempt aforesaid : and also that beneficed persons of holy church living amongst the English shall use the English language ; and if they do not, that their Ordinaries shall have the issues of their benefices until they use the English language...