[355] By the 22nd article of the Irish peace of January, 1648, the natives were promised the repeal of two statutes, one against “the ploughing with horses by the tail,” and the other prohibiting “the burning of oats in the straw.”
[356] As this paper goes to press, the news arrives (3rd April, 1899) of Mr. Davitt being stoned by his fellow-patriots at Swinford.
[357] Irish Ecclesiastical Record.
[358] See ‘Times,’ 8th Feb., 1886, p. 8.
[359] It has been so long spoken of as a “Bull” that one hardly knows how to describe it. So long, however, as it is realized that it was only a letter commendatory, no mistake can arise.
[360] Rolls Series, Edition v., 318.
[361] Ed. Hearne (1774), i. 42–48.
[362] Dublin Review, 3rd Ser., vol. 10, pp. 83–4.
[363] Ireland and St. Patrick, pp. 66, 68.
[364] Dublin Review, ut supra, pp. 93, 95.