Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Land Troubles in Ireland: A Historical, Political and Economical Study
The Irish State Church, a branch of the Protestant Anglican Church, was made an instrument of the greatest injustice. The Church in Ireland became a receptacle for persons whom English ministers wished to promote, but did not dare to promote at home. Swift's story of the highwayman who killed the bishops elect, stole their letters patent, and were consecrated in their places, is no very extreme caricature. Even within the present century a prime minister wished to give an Irish bishopric to the younger son of a noble family. The Irish primate objected, declaring that the young man's character was notoriously infamous, and that he would rather resign than consecrate him. Yet the Eng lish cabinet persisted. The primate's scruples were in some way overcome, and the young man of notoriously infamous character was forced upon the bench of bishops.
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