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Searc's Web Guide to 18th Century Ireland - Cornelius Nary (1660-1738)
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Email: info@searcs-web.com Searc's Web Guide to 18th Century Ireland - Cornelius Nary (1660-1738) |
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Cornelius Nary was born in County Kildare. He was ordained in Paris in 1682. He taught at the Irish College in Paris until he moved to London to tutor the
Earl of Antrim's family in 1696. Nary was later appointed Parish Priest of St. Mican's Church in Dublin where, in 1702, he was arrested and imprisoned under Penal Law. On his release Nary was befriended by Dean Jonathan Swift who encouraged Nary to write. Nary published A Brief History of St.Patrick's Purgatory (1718) and The Case of the Catholics in Ireland (1724) from which the extract below is taken.© Every Roman Catholic of the kingdom are disabled under severe penalties to carry arms offensive or defensive for their own, or the defence of their houses and goods, other than pitch forks or such instruments that the peasants till the earth with; nay many gentlemen, who formerly made a considerable figure in the kingdom are nowadays when they walk with cane or sticks only in their hands, insulted by men armed with swords and pistols, who of late rose from the very dregs of the people; Servi Dominati Sunt nobis! Lamenta Jeremeae. All Roman Catholic lawyers, attorneys and solicitors are disabled to practise their respective callings, except they take the Oath of Abjuration; the Oath of Supremacy and the Test, that is, become Protestants. So that of about one hundred Roman Catholic lawyers and attorneys that attended the Courts in Dublin and in the Country, not one of them is allowed to get a morsel of bread by those studies upon which they spent their youth and their time. All the Roman Catholics of the kingdom in general without an exception or saving are disabled to purchase any lands or tenements, to take mortgages for security of money; or even to take any lease or farm exceeding the term of 31 years and that at no less than two-thirds of the improved rent. So that all encouragement for natural industry is taken away from them and they are left under an impossibility of ever being other than slaves. By the same laws, their children tho' never so profligate or undutiful to their parents, upon their becoming Protestants, are encouraged to compel their parents to give them a maintenance such as the Lord Chancellor, for the time being, shall think fit. And all heirs apparent of such parents upon their becoming Protestant make their fathers tenants for life; so that fathers, cannot, may not provide for their other dutiful children or other extraordinary exigences of life... By another law all the registered Roman Catholic Priests of this kingdom are required to take the Oath of Abjuration by a certain day under the penalty of being reputed regulars and punished as such. And all the laity, without exception to be summoned thereunto, and upon their refusal the third time, to be guilty of a praemunire which is forfeiture and confiscation of all their real and personal estate and perpetual imprisonment... © Searc's Web Guide 1997-2008 |
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