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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... XVII.--Rejoicings at Kilkenny on the Accession of Queen Mary. "The Vocaeyon of Johan Bale1 to the Bishoprick of Ossorie in Irelande, his Persecutions in the same, and final! Delyveraunce" (Rome, 1553). Harleian Miscellany, VI., 450-2. On the twentieth day of August, was the Lady Mary with us at Kilkenny proclaimed Queen of England, France and Ireland, with the greatest solemnity that there could be devised of processions, musters and disguisings; all the noble captains and gentlemen thereabout being present. What-a-do I had that day with the prebendaries and priests about wearing the cope, crosier and mitre in procession, it were too much to write... on the Thursday, which was the last day of August, I being absent, the clergy of Kilkenny, by procurement of that wicked justice Hothe, blasphemously resumed again the whole Papism, or heap of superstitions of the Bishop of Rome; to the utter contempt of Christ and His holy Word, of the King and Council of England, and of all ecclesiastical and politic order, without either statute or yet proclamation. They rung all the bells in that cathedral, minster, and parish churches: they flung up their caps to the battlement of the great temple, with smilings and laughings most dissolutely... they brought forth their copes, candle sticks, holy-water stock, cross and censers: they 1 Bale, who was of English origin, was nominated to the See of Ossory hy Edward VI. in 1552. He was extremely unpopular in his diocese, on account both of his innovations and of his overhearing manner, and at one time his life was actually in danger. In his ' Vocaeyon" he compares his sorrows and perils in Ireland to the sufferings of St. Faul. mustered forth in general procession most gorgeously, all the town over, with Sancta...
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