The Penal Times, (1660-1760)
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Excerpt from The Penal Times, (1660-1760): From the State Papers in H. M. Record Offices
Irish penal code has long occupied an evil pre-eminence among the similar codes of Europe. Though its worst enactments may be parallelled if not exceeded in the decrees of Louis XIV. against the Huguenots or the Sweedish legislation against the Jesuits yet in its symmetric completeness, its multiplicity of cruel detail, it stands apart and alone. In other...