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" ... who paid eight pence each for admission to the island. Sir William further informs the Privy Council, that in order to hinder the seduced people from going any longer to this stronghold of Purgatory, and wholly to take away the abuse hereafter, he... "
Sketches in Ireland: descriptive of districts in the North and South [signed ... - Page 173
by Caesar Otway - 1827 - 80 pages
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Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting Portions of the Counties of ...

Caesar Otway - 1839 - 414 pages
...Privy Council, that in order to hinder the seduced people from going any longer to this stronghold of Papistry, and wholly to take away the abuse hereafter,...therefore the walls, works, foundations, vaults, &c. lively encounter all the frauds and fantastical temptations of the devil, devoutly so finishing the...
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Tours in Ulster: A Hand-book to the Antiquities and Scenery of the North of ...

J. B. Doyle - 1854 - 474 pages
...to seize this island of purgatory in the King's name, and to " destroy the walls, works, vaults, and the place called St. Patrick's bed and the stone on which he knelt, &c.," charging the owner, James M'Grath, not to permit such practices again. At this time Sir William...
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The Donegal highlands [by J. MacDevitt].

James MacDevitt (bp. of Raphoe.) - 1866 - 276 pages
...Letter iv. order to hinder the seduced people from going any longer to this stronghold of Purgatory, and wholly to take away the abuse hereafter, he had...James M'Grath, the owner of the island, to enter into recognisances that he should not in future permit the entrance of Jesuits, friars, nuns, or any other...
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The new hand-book of Ireland, by J. Godkin and J.A. Walker

James Godkin - 1871 - 550 pages
...Council, that in order to hinder the seduced people from going any longer to this stronghold of Purgatory, and wholly to take away the abuse hereafter, he had...he ordered to be rooted up, also the place called "Saint Patrick's Bed," and the stone on which he knelt. These, and all other superstitious relics,...
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Monasticon Hibernicum: Or, A History of the Abbeys, Priories, and ..., Volume 1

Mervyn Archdall - 1873 - 378 pages
...Council, that in order to hinder the seduced people from going any longer to this stronghold of Purgatory, and wholly to take away the abuse hereafter, he had...ordered to be thrown into the lough, and he made James McGrath, the owner of the island, to enter into recognizance that he should not in future permit the...
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The Religious History of Ireland: Primitive, Papal and Protestant Including ...

James Godkin - 1873 - 362 pages
...that, in order to hinder the seduced people from going any longer to this stronghold of purgatory, and wholly to take away the abuse hereafter, he had...superstitious relics he ordered to be thrown into the lough.' The destruction was complete, and so far as that island is concerned St. Patrick's Purgatory is clean...
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Walker's Hand-book of Ireland

James Godkin - 1873 - 558 pages
...Council, that in order to hinder the seduced people from going any longer to this stronghold of Purgatory, and wholly to take away the abuse hereafter, he had...he ordered to be rooted up, also the place called "Saint Patrick's Bed," and the stone on which he knelt. These, and all other superstitious relics,...
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Lough Derg and Its Pilgrimages: With Map and Illustrations

Daniel O'Connor - 1879 - 250 pages
...that, in order to prevent the seduced people from going any longer to this stronghold of Purgatory, and wholly to take away the abuse hereafter, he had...superstitious relics he ordered to be thrown into the lake, and he made James Magrath, the owner of the island, to enter into recognizances that he should...
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The Francisan Tertiary, Volume 2

1892 - 412 pages
...that, in order to hinder the seduced people from going any longer to this stronghold of Purgatory, and wholly to take away the abuse hereafter, he had...works, foundations, vaults, &c., he ordered to be * Dtsiderata Curiosa fiibernica, Vol. II, pp. 78, 80, 81. t Ibid. rooted up, also the place called...
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