The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-11

name whose utular royalty necessarily OH
the advent of the foreign king received him in that age
vasas accustomed to receive their suzeran Their
troops joined his army which marched towards the west and
reached without resistance the city of Cashe The people
of all the neghboring districts desparng of making head
against such powerful forces, grated in mass and took
refuge in the mountainous country beyond the great stream
of the Shannon The kings of the southern provinces aban
doned by this panic terror to the mercy of the stranger king
constrained to attend his summons, to fidelity
and acknowledge themselves his tributaries The Normans
divided between themselves the land of the Irish ugve
and when these last returned driven by Distress the con-
querors received them in the capacity of ser the soil of
their fields Norman garrsons placed in the cities
Norman officers replaced the ancient national Chiefs and
entire kingdom that of Cork was given by King Henry to
Robert Stephen who had helped open the way for
him in ireland.
After having thus distributed and organized the provinces
of the South the king took his route for the North for the
great city of Dublin. Immediately his arrival, in the
of his right of ordship founded he sad dona
ton by the church, he cited all the Irish kings appear at
court for the purpose of taking the oath of fidelity and hon.
age The kings of the South attended but the sovereign of
the great province of Connaugh to whom belonged
the supremacy all the Others and the national title of
king country replied would not attend the
court of anyone since he himself the sole monarch of
Ireland The altitude of the mountains and the extent of
the marches of this province justified him in setting this
ample of patriotic pride 1t also to purpose that the
of the King of England arrived in the North of
the island chief of the province of Thuae Ulster
do homage at the Norman court of Dublin and the
nominal sovereignty of Henry H. remained bounded by
line drawn northeast and southwest from the mouth of the
Boyne to that of the Shannon.
palace of wood was constructed in Dublin polished and
painted in the Irish fashion, and there that the chiefs
who had consented place their bands vassa the hands
of the stranger king passed the holidays of Christmas There
displayed for several days all the pomp of Norman
royalty and the Irish people, people mild and sociable
pleased with novelty and susceptible of vivid Impressions
amused themselves according the old authors in observing
with curious regards the spendor which surrounded the in
vaders their horses their harness. their and gliding
of their dress The members of the clergy and especially
the archbshops installed few years before by the ponca
legaes played great part Gun andro in this submission
to the law of force 1t is that the preates of the West
and North did not Dublin than did the
political chiefs of these provinces but those of the South
and East fidelity to King Henry towards and against
all They addressed to the bearer of the bull of Adrian
w. this versce often applied by the clergy conquero
Blessed is he that comeh in the of the Lord" But
Henry did content himself with these precarous titles of
obedience and resignation; he exaced something
durable and demanded that each of the Irish preate should
remit him letters signed and sealed in the form of anthem
tic charter by which all declared have constituted of their
proper WILL King and lord of Ireland the glorious
Henry, son of the empress, and his heirs forever"
King Henry proposed to send these letters to the regnng
Pope Alexander Ill., to obtain from him authentic
rmation of the bull of Pope Adrian In order prove
striking that his purpose the clauses
stipulated in this bull for the advantage of the Roman
Church. he convened in the city of Cashel synod of Irish
bishops of Norman priests chaplans, abbes simple
clerks in order to work the denitive establishment of
the Papa domination in Ireland This synod strictly pre-
scrbed the observation of the prohbive of marriage
as far as the sixth degree of relationships law entirely
novel to Ireland where in the utmost innocence
tracted number of marriages reprbaed by the Church in
other Christian countries There adopted other resol
lions also in this assembly, intended to establish
ical discipline and decreed that the service of the
Irish churches should thenceward be modelled that of
the churches in England "Ireand said the acts of this