 | 1844 - 596 pages
...and an act of parliament was passed to prohibit the resort to it, in which it was provided, that ' Whereas, the superstitions of popery are greatly increased...place called St. Patrick's Purgatory, in the county of Donegaul, and of wells, to which pilgrimages are made by vast numbers at certain seasons, by which,... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1844 - 216 pages
...and an act of parliament was passed to prohibit the resort to it, in which it was provided, that " Whereas, the superstitions of popery are greatly increased...place called St. Patrick's Purgatory, in the county of Donegaul, and of wells, to which pilgrimages are made by vast numbers at certain seasons, by which,... | |
 | John Lynch - 1848 - 544 pages
...Cromwell's time, but his prophecy was not fulfilled. In the second year of Queen Anne, "it was enacted, that whereas the superstitions of popery are greatly increased...pilgrimages are made by vast numbers at certain seasons, by which not only the peace of the public is greatly disturbed, &c. &c., be it enacted that all such... | |
 | James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray - 1919 - 932 pages
...Council ordered its suppression in 1632, and in the second year of Queen Anne it was again prohibited. 'And whereas the superstitions of Popery are greatly increased and upheld, by the pretended sunctitv of places, especially of a Place called St. Patrick's Purgatory In the County of Donegaul... | |
 | William P. Burke - 1914 - 514 pages
...important section of the code forbade all such meetings under severe penalties. 2 ANNE, C. 6, S. 27. Whereas the superstitions of popery are greatly increased...pilgrimages are made by vast numbers at certain seasons. All such meetings and assemblies shall be adjudged riots and unlawful assemblies and punishable as... | |
 | Donald Alexander Mackenzie - 1928 - 232 pages
...cave and prohibit a convent on the island. An Act of Parliament in Queen Anne's reign set forth: " Whereas, the superstitions of popery are greatly increased...place called St. Patrick's Purgatory, in the County of Donegaul, and of wells, to which pilgrimages are made by vast numbers at certain seasons, by which,... | |
 | Michael P. Carroll - 1999 - 258 pages
...holy wells to celebrate patterns but also to the large numbers who flock to St. Patrick's Purgatory: "Whereas the superstitions of popery are greatly increased...pilgrimages are made by vast numbers at certain seasons. All such meetings and assemblies shall be adjudged riots and unlawful" (cited in Burke 1969, 445).... | |
 | Rosemary Mahoney - 2004 - 422 pages
...Hell, and Paradise, Current During the Middle Ages" (i 844), the act set out the following reason: Whereas, the superstitions of popery are greatly increased...place called St. Patrick's Purgatory, in the county of Donegaul, and of wells, to which pilgrimages are made by vast numbers at certain seasons, by which,... | |
 | 1878 - 716 pages
...blown over, the pilgrimage was again resumed, for in the 2nd of Queen Anne, it was enacted that — " whereas the superstitions of Popery are greatly increased and upheld by the pretended sanctity of places, and especially of the place called St. Patrick's Purgatory, in the county Donegal, be it enacted that... | |
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Patrick's purgatory in the county of Donegal and of wells, to which pilgrimages are made by vast numbers at certain seasons, by which not only the peace of the public is greatly disturbed, but the safety of the government also hazarded, by the riotous... 