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Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 3 of 3

Note 586 — Chapter XVIII · ON THE CONSTITUTION OF IRELAND (continued 2)

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See Boulter's Letters, passim. His plan for governing Ireland was to send over as many English-born bishops as possible. "The bishops," he says, "are the persons on whom the government must depend for doing the public business here." I. 238. This of course disgusted the Irish church.

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