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| Titre : | Sir Richard Bolton and the authorship of 'A declaration setting forth how, and by what means, the laws and statutes of England, from time to time came to be of force in Ireland', 1644 (2006) |
| Auteurs : | Patrick KELLY, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol. 35 n 137 2006) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 1-16 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | The seventeenth-century tradition that the Irish lord chancellor, Sir Richard Bolton, was the author of the 1644 Declaration asserting the legislative independence of the Irish parliament has long been considered unreliable. Following the arguments of the Declaration's eighteenth-century editor, Walter Harris, it has been usual to attribute the work to the Catholic lawyer Patrick Darcy, author of An argument delivered ... by the express order of the House of Commons ... 9. Iunii 1641 (Waterford, 1643). This reattribution was accepted by Richard Bagshaw, among others, in The dictionary of national biography (1891); F. E. Ball in The judges in Ireland, 1221-1921 (1926) and Liam O'Malley in an article on Darcy of 1984; and has elaborated by C.E.J. Caldicott in his 1992 edition of Darcy's Argument |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Patrick Kelly |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
