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The Angevins and the Charter (1154-1216): The Beginning of English Law, the Invasion of Ireland and the Crusades — John Shaqi

The Angevins and the Charter (1154-1216): The Beginning of English Law, the Invasion of Ireland and the Crusades

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The Angevins and the Charter (1154-1216): The Beginning of English Law, the Invasion of Ireland and the Crusades

Great Britain -- History -- Angevin period, 1154-1216 -- Sources; Magna Carta

It must be observed also, that the men who enjoy ecclesiastical
immunity, and are called ecclesiastical men, although they be laics and
have wives, and wear long hair hanging down below the shoulders, but
only do not bear arms, wear for their protection, by authority of the
Pope, fillets on the crown of their heads, as a mark of distinction.
Moreover, these people, who have customs so very different from others,
and so opposite to them, on making signs either with the hands or the
head, beckon when they mean that you should go away, and nod backward as
often as they wish to be rid of you. They are also prone to the failing
of jealousy beyond any other nation. The women also, as well as the men,
ride astride, with their legs stuck out on each side of the horse.




TRIBAL DISPUTE (1154-7).

+Source.+--_Song of Dermot._ Orpen. Clarendon Press. 1892.


 l. 22.   Now in Leath-luinn there was a king,
          O'Rourke he was called in Irish,
          In Tisbrun, the barren, he dwelt,
          A waste, a woody land.
          But O'Rourke, the rich King,
          Had a beautiful wife at this time,
          The daughter of King Melaghlin
          To whom Meath was subject.

          *       *       *       *

 l. 40.   Dermot, King of Leinster
          Whom this lady loved so much,
          Made pretence to her of loving,
          While he did not love her at all,
          But only wished to the utmost of his power
          To avenge, if he could, the great shame
          Which the men of Leath-luinn wrought of old
          On the men of Leath-Mogha in his territory.
          King Dermot often sent word
          To the lady whom he so loved--
          By letter and by messenger,
          Often did the King send word
          That she was altogether, in truth,
          The thing in the world that he most loved;

 l.94.    King Dermot immediately
          Came marching to the place
          Where the lady had sent word
          That she would be ready.
          In this way Dermot the King
          Carried off the lady at this time.

          *       *       *       *

l. 110.   O'Rourke much grieving,
          To Connaught went in all haste.
          To the King of Connaught he relates all:

          *       *       *       *

 l. 126.  The King of Connaught sent word
          To the King of Ossory in the first place,
          That he should not fail their King
          But should come to their aid.
          And these men fully promised him
          That they would make him King in that territory
          If they could cast out of it
          King Dermot who was so bold.
          And this man immediately revolted
          Against his lord King Dermot;
          And Melaghlin, the traitor,
          Abandoned his lord;
          And Mac Torkil of Dublin
          Abandoned his lord at this moment.
          There joined in the treason
          Murrough O'Brien, an evil rebel.

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