OF IRELAND, ECCLESIASTICAL, CIVIL AND MILITARY. BY THE REV. JOHN GRAHAM, M.A. CURATE OF LIFFORD, IN THE DIOCESE OF DERRY. PRINTED BY @. SIDNEY, NORTHUMBERLAND STREET, STRAND. 1819. PREFACE. AS these Annals have been carefully extracted from many Works, which are either out of print, or, from their size and price, beyond the reach of the majority of readers, it is hoped that they will be found to be an useful compendium of Irish History, as far as they go. The chief Authorities on which their contents are given to the public, are these of Sir George Carew, Sir James Ware, and Sir John Temple, men of known talent and integrity, whose situation in the Government of this Country afforded them ample means of information relative to its History, and particularly with respect to these events which they have recorded-Quæque ipsi miserrima viderunt et quarum pars magna fuerunt. who were The Historical Works of Sir Richard Cox, and Dr. Edmund Borlase, have been particularly useful to the Compiler of these Annals, in enabling him to ascertain the dates of many transactions, recorded with less accuracy by more elegant Historians, unwilling to break the thread of their narrative, or injure the harmony of their sentences, by the insertion of them. It is intended to pursue this important subject to the present day, in two succeeding Volumes-the whole containing undeniable evidence of the truth of Mr. Plowden's assertion, that the Popish Religion carries with it, through all ages, infallible marks of its identity; and that whoever says, or pretends to insinuate, that the modern Roman Catholics differ in one iota from their Ancestors, either deceives himself, or attempts to deceive others. Dublin, May 1st, 1814. |