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IRELAND IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

OR

THE IRISH MASSACRES OF 1641-2.

LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

IRELAND

IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

OR

THE IRISH MASSACRES OF 1641-2,

THEIR CAUSES AND RESULTS.

Illustrated by Extracts from the unpublished State Papers,
the unpublished MSS in the Bodleian Library, Lambeth
Library, and the Library of the Royal Dublin Society
relating to the Plantations of 1610–39; a Selection from
the unpublished Depositions relating to the Massacres,
with fac-similes; and the Reports of the Trials in the
High Court of Justice in 1652-4, from the unpublished
MSS in Trinity College, Dublin.

BY

MARY HICKSON.

WITH A PREFACE BY J. A. FROUDE, M.A.

VOLUME I.

'Our ancestors were guilty of abominable and atrocious crimes, to which
the present generation, thank God, looks back with all the horror and
indignation they deserve.' (Historical Address to the Irish Catholics by Rev.
C. O'CONNOR, D.D.)

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