Excerpt from An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland, From the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to the Settlement Under King William: With the State of the Irish Catholics, From That Settlement to the Relaxation of the Popery Laws, in the Year 1778; Extracted From Parliamentary Records, State Acts, and Other Authentic Material The short reaction in the reign of Mary was succeeded by the persecution of her equally br goted, but more crafty, sister. It would be exage. Rating the persecutions of Diocletian, and compli. Manting too highly the refined and subtle tactics of the aposmte Julian, to compare their conduct to that of Elizabeth. The one was a Pagan from his birth, the other an able but deluded enthusiast 5 one confined his proscriptions to presbyters, and his burnings to christian churches only the other vainly confided the extirpation of christianity to the silent and insidious workings of the law. Elizabeth patronized both engines with a fervour scarcely credible. Her sanguinary agent, the first car] of Totness, a deputy, worthy such a sovereign, compiled the memoirs of his govem ment, or rather the register of his persecutions; The book, if there were no other testimonies, would exhibit a disgracefiil monument of Eng land's policy, and of Ireland's ruin. 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.