The Irish Historical Library: Pointing at Most of the Authors and Records in Print Or Manuscript, which May be Serviceable to the Compilers of a General History of Ireland |
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Abbat Account afterwards againſt alfo amongst Annals antient Antiq Antiquaries Arch-Bishop Ardmagh Author becauſe Bibl Bishop Book Brit call'd Cambrenfis Chandois Chandois's Chronicle of Ireland Church Coin'd confiderable Copy Cotton Library County Culdees Dublin dy'd Earl England English Epift faid fame fays fecond feems felf fent feveral fhall fhort fhould fignifies fince firft firſt Flaherty flain fome fometimes ftill fuch Henry the Second Hiberniæ Hift Hiftorians Hiftory himſelf Ibid Ifland Ireland Irish John King King's Kingdom Kingdom of Ireland Kingdoms of England laft land Language Latin learned Letters Library likewife Limerick Lond Lord Manufcript Mochuda moft Monafteries moſt Name Number obferve occafion Ogygia Patrick Perfon prefent publish'd Publiſher reafon Reign Saints Scotland Script Sir James Ware thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe Title Tranflation Treatife Trin Uber Uffer Ulfter uſed Waterford Welf Welsh wherein whereof whofe words Writer written wrote
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Page 16 - discourse, printed anno 1612. "Discovering the true causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued, or brought under obedience to the crown of England, until the beginning of his Majesty's happy reign.
Page 227 - ... they were possessed of England and Wales. And yet) whoever takes notice of a great many of the names of the rivers and mountains throughout the kingdom, will find no reason to doubt, but the Irish must have been' the inhabitants when those names were imposed upon them.
Page 223 - ... Wales. And fourthly, that the said Gwydhelians of England and Wales were inhabitants of Gaul before they came into this island. Having been so bold, I say, as to write such novelties, and yet at the same time to acknowledge that I have no written authority for them, I am obliged to produce what reasons I have ; and that, as the extent of this letter requires, in as few words as may be. " I have already proved at large, in the first and second sections of this book, that our language agrees with...
Page 223 - Gwydhelians lived in the most antient times, not only in North Britain, (where they still continue intermixed with Scots, Saxons, and Danes,) but also in England and Wales. And fourthly, that the said Gwydhelians of England and Wales were inhabitants of Gaul before they came into this island. Having been so bold...
Page 148 - Forasmuch," such was the decision, "as neither King John, nor any other king, could bring his realm and kingdom into such thraldom and subjection but by common...
Page 12 - I say it, the work is excellent in its kind, as not only full of truth and certainty, but written with much judgment, order, and exactness...
Page 227 - Guidhelians were Britons, and that Nennius and others wrote many ages since an unquestionable truth, when they asserted the Scottish nations coming out of Spain. The next thing I have to make out is, that that part of them called Guidhelians have once dwelt in England and Wales.
Page 227 - I have formerly suspected, that in regard that there are so many rivers of that name throughout England, the word might have been antiently in our language. But having looked for it in vain in the old Loegrian British, still retained in Cornwall, and...
Page 227 - English, in the several names of Ask, Esk, Usk, and Ex, Axe, Ox, &c. Now, although there be a considerable river of that name in Wales, and another in Devon, yet the signification of the word is not understood, either in our language or the Cornish.
Page 227 - ... a use, and of so necessary a signification, I could find no place to doubt but that the Gwydhelians have formerly lived all over the kingdom, and that our ancestors had forced the greatest part of them to retire to the north, and to Ireland, in the very same manner as the Romans afterwards subdued us, and as the barbarians of Germany and Denmark, upon the downfal of the Roman power, have driven us one age after another, to our present limits.