Note 15 — PREFACE.
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“The Queen was assured,” says Leland, speaking of the inhuman rigour of Lord Deputy Gray, “that he tyrannized with such barbarity, that little was left in Ireland for her Majesty to reign over but ashes and dead carcases.”—Hist. of Ireland, v. ii. p. 227.—Here are reasons for absenteeship quite as cogent as any which can be advanced in the present day.