Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. ST. PATRICK'S PROVINCE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. State of the Irish Catholics during the reign of Queen Anne--The Hanoverian reversion--First Centenary of the Discalced Carmelites in Ireland--George II. and the Fathers of the Irish Province--The General Visitation of 1743--Opening of a friary in Stephen's Street, Dublin--A grand enterprise of the Archconfraternity--Death of two of the Teresian "Outlaws"-- Eulogy of an Irish Discalced Carmelite in the London Gazette --Irish political movements in the reign of George III.--The French Revolution. L1ke her sister Mary, Queen Anne was a Protestant, and most bitterly prejudiced against her Roman Catholic subjects. During her reign they were treated with appalling severity, not that she herself had power to succour them did she so please; but an expression of sympathy on her part might have checked the eagerness of her Parliaments, both English and Irish, in increasing the number of the Penal Laws. As it is, Anne's name in Ireland, at least, has become associated with that of Queen Elizabeth for a particularly barbarous persecution of those who professed the true faith. Not content with having reduced the people to abject poverty and misery in the preceding reign, the Protestant party still continued to importune Government to take more stringent measures for the suppression of the Catholic Religion in Ireland. These demands were nearly always successful, because urged most persistently by an intolerant Home Parliament. In 1703 a grandson of the Duke of Ortnond--the adviser and favourite of two Stuart kings--was appointed Lord-Lieutenant, and became primarily responsible for the sufferings which the Faithful had now to endure. A Bill for their oppression was introduced; but of so...
