The Geraldines

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Excerpt from The Geraldines: Earls of Desmond, and the Persecution of the Irish CatholicsCatholic Prince. And again, You have sig nified to us, beloved son in Christ, your desire of invading the land of Ireland, to reduce the people of that island to laws, and to weed the vineyard of the Lord in that region you have, also, an nounced your intention of levying a tribute of one penny on each house within the limits of the country, to be paid annually to St. Peter's chair, and have declared your determination to maintain whole and inviolate the rights of the Irish Church We, therefore, but I refer you to the annals of Baronius for the whole of this bull of Pope Adrian.Therefore, Henry got power to invade Ire land, to extend the boundaries of the Church, and to decla¿ to an ignorant and rude people, the truth of the Christian faith - to root out weeds from the Lord's vineyard - to subj ugate the peo ple to laws - and to pay one penny annually, out of each house, to the See of St. Peter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.