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Annals of Ireland, Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military; From the 19th of March, 1535, to the 12th of July, 1691
Annals of Ireland Ecclesiastical Civil and Military From the 19th of March 1535 to the 12th of July 1691 Author:John Graham General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1819 Original Publisher: Printed by G. Sidney Subjects: Ireland History / Europe / Ireland Travel / Europe / Ireland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Book... more »s edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ANNALS OF IRELAND, CIVIL, MILITARY, AND ECCLESIA8TICAL. No; i. " The cessation was a mereplot of the Confederates to rum ihote by treaty whom they could not destroy by war." (Sir Richard Cox'a Hib. Ang. v. ii. page 134.) 1643. Sept. 16. -- Lord Muskerry and eight of the Rebel Commissioners signed an instrument regulating the manner in which they engaged to pay the 30,800J. they had agreed, in the Articles of cessation, to contribute to his Majesty. (Bor. App. xvi.) Sept. 18. On this day both houses of the English Parliament made an ordinance for a collection to relieve the distressed Clergy of Ireland. (Husband's Collections, page 238.) On the same day the Irish broke the Cessation by plundering the suburbs of Dublin of three hundred and sixty nine head of cattle. They soon after published the Pope's rebellious bull of the 25th of May, in this year, seized on the black Castle at Wicklow, and murdered the Protestants there. (Ilib. Ang, vol. ii. page 135.) They also continued the siege of Castlecoote after the Cessation was published. The Earl of Castlehaven, after he had been fully informed of it, battered the Castle of Disert in the Queen's County, and when he had taken and plundered it, he shewed the garrison the Articles of Cessation, pretending that they were just come to hand, and that he was sorry they did not come sooner. (/6.) Sept. 19. The Rebels, notwithstanding the Cessation, seized the Castles of Pilltown and Cloghleigh, with others, in Condon'i Country, us they had just ...« less