Thomas D'Arcy McGee

CHAPTER IV. ADHESION OF O'NEIL, O'DONNELL AND O'BRIEN - A NEW ANGLO-IRISH PEERAGE - NEW RELATIONS OF LORD AND TENANT - BISHOPS APPOINTED BY THE CROWN - RETROSPECT.

 

The Act of Election could hardly be considered as the Act of the Irish nation, so long as several of the most distinguished chiefs withheld their concurrence. With these, therefore, Saint Leger entered into separate treaties, by separate instruments, agreed upon, at various dates, during the years 1542 and 1543.

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