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The Tithe-Proctor

CHAPTER VII
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Instead, your worship, of promising to pay his tithes, he said we might go to hell for them, and make the devil our paymaster, what he'll be yet.

And further, he said he'd never pay a farthing of them, and set law, lawyers, police, military, and magistrates all at open defiance.
Now I beg to know, your worship, what loyal and peaceably-disposed man, that wishes to see the laws of his country, and those respectable magistrates that administer them, respected--what man, I say, fond of peace and quietness, could bear such language as that?
It is not what he said of either myself or my family that I contain of, but of the abuse he heaped upon the law at large, and the independent magistrates of the country.

I certainly, in the heat of the moment, so far resented the affront offered to the most respectable magistracy of this fine country as to give him a few slight touches of the whip, more like one in jest, I assure your worship, than like an angry man." "Hourigan," said O'Driscol, swelling up to a state of the most pompous indignation, "this is infamous conduct which he relates of you, sir.

How dare you, sir, or any impudent fellow like you, take the undaicent and unjustifiable liberty of abusing the independent and loyal magistracy of Ireland?
It is by fellows like you, sir, that traison and sedition are hatched.

Your conduct was gross and monstrous, and if Mr.Purcel had come to me and made affidavit of the language stated, I would have consithered it my duty to commit you.


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