Essay on the origine of the royal family of Stewarts

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ac totius Hiberniae bareditario jure verus Haeres ;
nee non £ff ejufdem terrae Reguli Iff Magnates, ac
populus Hiberniacus. In the Body of the Epiftle,
Donald O-Neyl allures his Holinels, he was de-
fc ended in a direct Line from Leogarlus King
of Ireland, in whole Days St. Patrick was fent
by Pope Celeflin, to inftraft the Iri/b in the
Way of Salvation by our blefled Saviour. A quo
(Leogario) ego Dovenaldus praediclus, in linea rec-
ta carnalcm traxi originem. After which he com-
plains, That Pope Hadrian (he iliould have
faid, Pope Alexander III.) had transferred the
Crown of Ireland, in the Year 1 1 70, to Henry
II. without obferving the Formalities ufually
practifed in fuch Cafes : Since which Time,
he regretes^ that the Iri/b have been mod
grievouily opprelfed by the Engli/b, which
has occafioned their Riling in Arms from
Time to Time, expecting always, by the Force
of them, to be delivered from the dreadful
Servitude they were under. In the Wars they
had with the Engli/h, he adds, that above 5000
Men were killed, belides thofe who died by
Famine or Fatigue. Afterwards he enters on
a particular Detail of the incredible Cruelties
of