The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-23


superior temporal matters have likewise ruled to the
1170 in uninterrupted succession And was these (kings)
and the English people OF another nation who amply
sons and privileges of which lands and privileges it
has, by the English in modern times been damnaby de-
spoiled After kings for SO long time had strenuousy
defended by their vao against the tyrants and kings
of many foreign countries the inheritance granted them by
God and always preserving their native liberty at length
Pope Adrian, your predecessor Engshman only by
BIRTH but in heart and disposition in the year of Lord
NO. from the false and most niquous suggestion of Henry
king of England under, and perhaps by whom, the holy
Thomas OF Canterbury IN the year. put to death
for his upghness and defense of the Church, did you
know transfer the sovereignty of kingdom under
certain form of words to the said king whom rather for the
aforementioned crime he should have deprived of his
kingdom. The judgment of the Pontif being thus alas
blinded by his English prejudice regardless of every right
he did thus in fact unworhy confer him kingdom
thereby deprving of regal honor and delivered
up having committed no crime and without any rational
cause, be with the teeth Of the cruel wild
beasts and such of escape from the ngs of those
deceitu foxes and wolves laceraed and half
devoured only fall with greater misfortune into abyss of
ntoerable slavery From the first time the English came,
by virtue of the donation before mentioned they, under
certain exterior appearance of pey and religious zeal,
nearousy entered the boundaries OF our Kingdom and with
all their might and every possible perfdy endeavored
entirely and radically extirpate nation BY foul and
fraudulent cunning they prevailed much against u.s. that
without the authority superior they violently expelled
from spacious habtaons and paernal Inheritance
and forced to fly for refuge to the mountains, woods
marshes and barren wastes and into the of the
rocks, and to inhabt them for long time like wild beasts
for the safety of lives. Even in these they
necessarily attack
us from hem and arroganty usrp every place that affords
asylum mendaciously asserting through the most
blind and insoent folly that entitled to any free
place Of habatlon in Ireland but that this country entirely
and by full right belongs to themselves From these and
many other the like causes between and them have arisen
mplacabe enmties and perpetual wars from which have
followed mutual massacre ncessan depredaons continued
rapine frauds and perdy too frequent and detesabe but
alas from the defect of authority, fail in all power of
correction and due reform From this state of things the
Irish clergy and people have been grevousy endangered for
many years. not only in ranstory and temporal matters but
frequently from these misfortunes is endangered the
safety of their souls We hold undoubed truth that
in consequence of the aforesaid false suggestion and donation
of Ireand) which followed it, there fell from that time
the present. of both nations more than fifty thousand men by
the sword besides those destroyed by Affections captivity
and famine. These few statements respecting the general
origin of our progenors and the miserable state in which
the Roman Ponti has placed suffice for the present time.
Know, most Holy Father that Henry king of England
whom granted to enter Ireland in the which
has been already stated also the four kings his successors
have clearly transgessed the limits of the concession made
him by the Papal Bull under certain conditions, from
the Bull itself is evidently apparent For the said Henry
promised, specified IN that Bull that he would extend
the boundaries of the Irish Church. preserve its rights whole
and undeed bring the people under subsection the laws
and instruct them in good morals implan virtues and
eradicate the roots of vice. and pay yearly tribute of
penny from each house caed Peters pence to Saint Peter the
Apostle As to this promise he as we'll as his aforesaid
successors and their inquous minister's the deceu Eng
sh paying regard to the interests of Ireland and totally
violating the terms of the grant, sudously and Intentionally
for the rights of the Church have been much restricted
contracted and curtailed by them that cathedral
churches have been by force robbed of half their
lands and possessions and deprived by them of almost every
ecclesiastical privilege The bishops and prelates ind
crmnatey cited arrested seized and ncarcerated by the
officials of the king of England in Ireland and having su
fered such frequent and gevons injuries of this kind they
are oppressed with such serve ear that they have not
dared to commute those grievances your Holiness and
since they themselves shameuy silent have resolved
say this subject. Besides, they he Engsh)
have instructed the Irish people, whom they undertook to
reform in morals and subject the laws that their honest
and doveike simplicity of manners from intercourse with
them, and from their evil example, is wonderfully changed
us of Wrien la under which had for the most part
been hitherto governed and of every other law except such
as could not be wreed from u.s. insutng to exterminate
our nation the worst infamous and unjust laws of their
own lew OF which, for example sake here inserted
ls In the court Of the king of England in Ireland the
following laws are strictly observed 1t is permitted every
man. who is not rsh any action whatever go law