| Benedict Fitzpatrick - 1921 - 400 páginas
...day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs...thumbs, or by the head, and they hung burning things on their feet. They put a knotted string about their heads and twisted it till it went into the brain.... | |
| Benedict Fitzpatrick - 1921 - 394 páginas
...day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs...thumbs, or by the head, and they hung burning things on their feet. They put a knotted string about their heads and twisted it till it went into the brain.... | |
| Seán Ua Ceallaigh - 1921 - 458 páginas
...for their gold or silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable. . . They hung some by their feet3 and smoked them with foul smoke ; some by their thumbs or by the head, and they hung 1 History of England, 87. 2 Short History of the English People, 103. "Tighearnan Ua Ruairc was so... | |
| George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1926 - 768 páginas
...lacked an institution like Parliament to settle such disputes. 140 [•HE END OF THE ANARCHY "541189. them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs tormented as these were.' Then follows the passage so often quoted in our history books, the inventory of the tortures used,... | |
| Irish ecclesiastical record - 1885 - 840 páginas
...put in prison for their gold aiid silver, and tortured them with paius unspeakable, for never ^ ere any martyrs tormented as these were. They hung some...thumbs or by the head, and they hung burning things on their feet. They put a knotted string about their heads and twisted it till it went into the brain."... | |
| 1863 - 516 páginas
...day seizing both men and women ; and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable ; for never were any martyrs...thumbs, or by the head, and they hung burning things on their feet. They put a knotted string about their heads, and twisted it till it went into the brain.... | |
| THE REV. THOMAS MILNER - 1853 - 886 páginas
...day. seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs...their feet, and smoked them with foul smoke; some by the thumbs, or by the head, and they hung burning things on their feet. They put a knotted string about... | |
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