The Battle of Fontenoy: A Historical PoemM.H. Gill and Son, 50 Upper Sackville Street, 1885 - 32 sider |
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50 UPPER SACKVILLE accused agonies Archbishop barbarity BATTLE OF FONTENOY blood brave breast brutal burning Butcher of Culloden Cashel Clare Colosseum conquer cruel crushed death Dublin Castle DUBLIN M. H. GILL England English in Ireland Erin Erin's fame field of Fontenoy fiercely fight fire flash Fleur de Lis foes FONTENOY A Historical fought France fray GAIETY THEATRE gallant Ginckle glorious glory ground guard hand heart Historical Poem honour human hurrah Irish Brigade Irish Catholics J. M. BELLEW JOHN MENZIES Kilkenny land Limerick and Saxon Lords Justices martial massacred numbers o'er O'Hurley O'Reilly's Memorials oppression Penal Penal Laws Persecutions PHELAN pride priest proud race READ BY J. M. Record Office Remember Limerick SACKVILLE STREET LONDON sacred sanguinary Sarsfield Saxon faith shame shed slaughter soldiers steel tale treaty stone Twas University of California UPPER SACKVILLE STREET vengeance vengeful valour victory W. J. CORBET Wexford wild
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Side 11 - I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Side 8 - Not finding," wrote Loftus to him, "that easy method of examination to do any good, we made commission to Mr. Waterhouse and Mr. Secretary Fenton, to put him to the torture, such as your honour advised us, which was to toast his feet against the fire with hot boots.
Side 9 - The witnesses were brutal and profligate men : yet the Earl of Shaftesbury cherished them much : they were examined by the Parliament at Westminster; and what they said was believed..
Side 9 - Lord Chief-Justice. Well, however, the judgment which we give you is that which the law says and speaks. And therefore you must go from hence to the place from whence you came — that is, to Newgate ; and from thence you shall be drawn through the city of London to Tyburn ; there you shall be hanged by the neck, but cut down before you are dead, your bowels shall be taken out and burnt before your face, your head shall be cut off, and your body be divided into four quarters, to be disposed of as...
Side 11 - ... as are consistent with the laws of Ireland; or as they did enjoy in the reign of King Charles II.; and their Majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a Parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman Catholics such further security in that particular as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.
Side 8 - The executioners placed the archbishop's feet and calves in tin boots filled with oil ; they then fastened his feet in wooden shackles or stocks, and placed fire under them. The boiling oil so penetrated the feet and legs that morsels of the skin and even flesh fell off and left the bone bare...
Side 10 - He was covered over with blood, his sides torn, and his whole frame exhausted ; he was delivered up to a guard of soldiers, who were to watch in turn during the night, while he lay there naked, sleepless, frozen with cold and livid with bruises ; his guards amused themselves with twisting and plucking his long beard with a cane, and cruelly beating his sides with a staff; but these excruciating tortures could extort no other answer than " the greater pleasure they appear to give you, the more patiently...
Side 10 - So far from keeping their solemn promise, they immediately stripped the venerable man naked and tied him to a horse's tail; the rider goaded his horse to full speed along a road covered with brambles and thickets, and rough with frost and frozen snow, and dragged the priest to the town of Gorey.
Side 32 - O'Reilly, Myles. Memorials of Those who suffered for the Catholic Faith in Ireland in the i6th, ijth and i8th centuries.
Side 9 - O'Reilly's Memorials of those who suffered for the Catholic Faith in Ireland " (Burns, Dates, & Co., London, 1868), p.