The Irish Reformation, Or, the Alleged Conversion of the Irish Bishops at the Accession of Queen Elizabeth, and the Assumed Descent of the Present Established Hierarchy in Ireland from the Ancient Irish Church, Disproved (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...of incredulity respecting the veracity of Roman Catholic authors. The Rev. C. R. Elrington, D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity in Trinity College, Dublin, a man of deep learning, and during his life deservedly loved and admired by Anglican Churchmen in Ireland, regarded the account of Hurley's tortures as a myth. In his valuable Life of Usher page 35, footnote, Dr. Elrington thus alludes to the sufferings of Hurley and another Papal prelate, Creagh: --"The deaths of these two martyrs, put forward by Stanihurst, and embellished by the author of the Analecta, has formed a fruitful source of declamation for Roman Catholic writers from that period to the time of Dr. Milner. That Bishop Hurley was guilty of treason, and was hanged for that crime, and not Cashel.--The Tortures of Of Hurley. 115 for his religion, can admit of no doubt. That he was tortured previous to his execution, in direct violation of the law, must require stronger evidence than the testimony of two witnesses, who contradict each other, as to the mode in which the torture was inflicted, in such a manner as would invalidate their testimony in any court of justice." But the testimonies to the substantial truth of the Roman Catholic tradition are not two, but many. Dr. Lynch's MS. in the Bodleian, at folio 397, confirms that tradition: --"Atrocissimum tormenti genus excogitarunt says Lynch adipe, pice, resina liquatis ebullientibus crura pedesque nudos induunt, luculento foco admovent, torrent, ossant, ustulant; carnibus ad ipsa ossa diffluentibus, in ipsis ossibus medulla coquitur." Another witness, whose evidence is irresistible, puts the truth of the Roman Catholic account beyond further questioning. Adam Loftus, the first Elizabethan Primate of Ireland, and then archbishop o...