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Description:Excerpt from The History of the Volunteers of 1782 For all purposes but one, any details of the early Irish Parliaments would be unnecessary in this work. But it is thought advisable to place some facts, relative to these bodies, before the reader, for the purpose of his better understanding the struggle in which the Volunteers were engaged, and the institution they succeeded in restoring. We must not expect to find in the first parliaments held in Ireland, much of the form or spirit of modern legislative assemblies. The growth of these institutions has been slow; and the perfection of modern times, or any admixture of the democratic element, would be sought for in vain in the rude Baronial assemblies of ancient Ireland. The parliaments of our early history in connexion with Britain, were assemblies in which the Irish natives had no participation of any kind. Those by whose writ or authority they were summoned, did not even assume that they had in view the interests of the people whose ancient inheritance they came to usurp; and the statutes and ordinances which, from time to time, were passed in these parliaments, are sufficiently indicative of the spirit of hostility with which the Irish people were regarded. If we consider the question merely in an antiquarian point of view, we can have no difficulty in determining that the origin of parliaments in Ireland, if not contemporaneous with the English invasion, is still of very remote antiquity: - but that the institution in its benefits, or in its protection, was not extended to the mass of the people until the power of England was recognised over the whole island, is a matter of equal certainty. Looking at the question politically, the Irish Parliament becomes a matter of very inconsiderable import in the history of the people of Ireland. It was an assembly summoned usually to vote supplies to the king, for the marriage of his daughters or the advancement of his sons, to carry on his wars - often against the Irish enemy - or to hear and decide certain "pleas of parliament" which came within its ill-defined jurisdiction. The entries on the rolls preserved in the Record Offices, are almost all to this effect. Some writers on this subject have insisted that Henry the Second summoned a parliament in this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The History of the Volunteers of 1782 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The History of the Volunteers of 1782 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The History of the Volunteers of 1782 For all purposes but one, any details of the early Irish Parliaments would be unnecessary in this work. But it is thought advisable to place some facts, relative to these bodies, before the reader, for the purpose of his better understanding the struggle in which the Volunteers were engaged, and the institution they succeeded in restoring. We must not expect to find in the first parliaments held in Ireland, much of the form or spirit of modern legislative assemblies. The growth of these institutions has been slow; and the perfection of modern times, or any admixture of the democratic element, would be sought for in vain in the rude Baronial assemblies of ancient Ireland. The parliaments of our early history in connexion with Britain, were assemblies in which the Irish natives had no participation of any kind. Those by whose writ or authority they were summoned, did not even assume that they had in view the interests of the people whose ancient inheritance they came to usurp; and the statutes and ordinances which, from time to time, were passed in these parliaments, are sufficiently indicative of the spirit of hostility with which the Irish people were regarded. If we consider the question merely in an antiquarian point of view, we can have no difficulty in determining that the origin of parliaments in Ireland, if not contemporaneous with the English invasion, is still of very remote antiquity: - but that the institution in its benefits, or in its protection, was not extended to the mass of the people until the power of England was recognised over the whole island, is a matter of equal certainty. Looking at the question politically, the Irish Parliament becomes a matter of very inconsiderable import in the history of the people of Ireland. It was an assembly summoned usually to vote supplies to the king, for the marriage of his daughters or the advancement of his sons, to carry on his wars - often against the Irish enemy - or to hear and decide certain "pleas of parliament" which came within its ill-defined jurisdiction. The entries on the rolls preserved in the Record Offices, are almost all to this effect. Some writers on this subject have insisted that Henry the Second summoned a parliament in this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The History of the Volunteers of 1782 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The History of the Volunteers of 1782 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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