The Geraldines - Earls of Desmond, and the Persecution of the Irish Catholics #225075

Catholic Prince. And again, You have sig nified to us, beloved son in Christ, your desire of invading the land of Ireland, to reduce the people of that island to laws, and to weed the vineyard of the Lord in that region you have, also, an nounced your intention of levying a tribute of one penny on each house within the limits of the country, to be paid annually to St. Peter's chair, and have declared your determination to maintain whole and inviolate the rights of the Irish Church We, therefore, but I refer you to the annals of Baronius for the whole of this bull of Pope Adrian. Therefore, Henry got power to invade Ire land, to extend the boundaries of the Church, and to declafl to an ignorant and rude people, the truth of the Christian faith — to root out weeds from the Lord's vineyard — to subj ugate the peo ple to laws — and to pay one penny annually, out of each house, to the See of St. Peter.