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 countries penal laws were passed against minorities. They were the scalpel as it were, for the excision of something alien from the body politic. In Ireland they may be likened to poison injected into and diffused through every current of the national life. Their purpose was not to benefit the country as a whole, but to pauperise, degrade, and enfeeble it. The code itself has often been analysed from the days of Burke down, while its effects have been admirably summarised by Lecky (a). Its actual working has never been described. Volumes, it is true, have been written on the subject but instead of investigating the facts, the writers have copied one another´s assertions or devoted themselves to eloquent declamation. On the one hand we read of the Church of Ireland passing through "an ordeal of persecution unparalleled in the history of mankind" (b). of "unexampled sufferings during three centuries of persecution and penal laws" (c). Authorities on the other side would fain represent that the penal laws rarely found their way outside the statute book, that they were mere reserves of power, political expedients used by government in times of special danger, as when threatened by foreign invasion or Jacobite plots. Even Lecky shared in part this view. He was of opinion that the persecution could never have been really stringent since it was met by the passive resistance of the great body of the nation (d). 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.
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