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Map of Ireland, 1695; based on Petty's Down Survey maps. The Down Survey was a cadastral survey of Ireland, carried out by English scientist William Petty in 1655 and 1656. It was created to provide for precise re-allocation of land confiscated from the Irish.
The Parliament of Ireland passes the Education Act, one of the penal laws, prohibiting Roman Catholics from sending their children to be educated in Catholic countries abroad. [ 3 ] Sir Richard Reynell is dismissed as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland for incapacity [ 4 ] and is succeeded by Sir Richard Pyne .
Map of Ireland, 1695; based on Petty's Down Survey maps. The first nine pages, printed in italic, consist of a letter of the unknown friend, M.H., in which he looks back to the time of their common period as students, to the time that Petty became a professor in Oxford, and to the time he became the chief physician to the governors of Ireland.
An Act for vesting certain manors, lands and tenements belonging to James, duke of Ormonde, in Ireland, in trustees to be sold, and enabling the said duke to make leases for raising of money to discharge the debts and encumbrances of his grandfather, the late duke of Ormonde, charged on his estate in Ireland, and likewise for raising portions ...
This map is a simplified one, as the amount of land actually colonised did not cover the entire shaded area. The Plantation of Ulster (Irish: Plandáil Uladh; Ulster Scots: Plantin o Ulstèr [1]) was the organised colonisation of Ulster – a province of Ireland – by people from Great Britain during the reign of King James VI and I.
The history of Ireland from 1691–1800 was marked by the dominance of the Protestant Ascendancy.These were Anglo-Irish families of the Anglican Church of Ireland, whose English ancestors had settled Ireland in the wake of its conquest by England and colonisation in the Plantations of Ireland, and had taken control of most of the land.
The Education Act 1695 (7 Will. 3. c. 4 (I)), was an act of the Parliament of Ireland, one of a series of Penal Laws, prohibiting Catholics from sending their children to be educated abroad, and prohibiting catholics from teaching children within Ireland. [1] Its long title is "An Act to restrain Foreign Education". It ruled: [2]
John Adams was born in Shropshire and in 1653 followed his four older brothers in attending Shrewsbury School. [4] His eldest brother, William, was admitted to Gray’s Inn in 1655 but never progressed to the bar, and settled back in Shropshire where he would later assist John as a surveyor; another brother, Robert, was rector of Shrawardine from 1666 until 1710.