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Dublin: Mercier Press, 1997. Softcover. NF/Unread. Color-illus. wraps with black lettering on orange spine. 319 pp. with 11 bw images. In 1689, emissaries of William of Orange called on John Grace, Baron of Courtstown, with an invitation to join the army of the usurper. On a playing-card lying on the table beside him, he scrawled a contemptuous refusal: "Tell your master I despise his offer" and proceeded to raise a regiment for James II. A hundred years later, in Kilkenny, the six of hearts was still known as "Grace's Card". This is a political history of Irish Catholic landlords from 1690 to 1800. Many had lost part of their estates under Queen Elizabeth, and most lost all under Cromwell. Those who supported James II against William of Orange - and most did so - lost what they had recovered under the Restoration, except for about 800 who were allowed by the Articles of the Treaty of Limerick (1690) to keep their land. The British and Irish governments, and the legal profession, respected Catholic…
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Grace's Card: Irish Catholic Landlords 1690-1800 Paperback - 1998
by Charles Chenevix Trench; Charles Chenevix Trench
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- Title Grace's Card: Irish Catholic Landlords 1690-1800
- Author Charles Chenevix Trench; Charles Chenevix Trench
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Paperback Editio
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Irish American Book Company, Dublin
- Date October 1998
- ISBN 9781856351638 / 1856351637
- Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 8.48 x 5.49 x 1 in (21.54 x 13.94 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97183683
- Dewey Decimal Code 941.507
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