Download or read book Ireland From the Restoration to the Revolution (Classic Reprint) written by John P. Prendergast and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ireland From the Restoration to the Revolution Ormonde likens the Restoration to the resurrection, "when God, beyond our hope (he says), took us all from banishment, dispersion, and out of the lowest and most comfortless degree of despair, and restored us to our country, to our fortune, and to our friends." However true this statement might be for himself and his family it left the great body of his countrymen deprived of their lands, who by the Peace of '48, contracted by himself by the authority of King Charles I., and adopted and confirmed by Charles I., were to be pardoned and restored. A good deal of the secret history of this transaction not mentioned by Carte, though he had all the documents before him, is now disclosed. For Carte wrote a eulogy of Ormonde. But Ormonde confesses that Ireland was sold to the Cromwellians, on the ground, no doubt, that thus only could the King and the royalists be restored. 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.