Page images
PDF
EPUB

coote

CSA

[ocr errors]

HISTORY

OF THE

UNION

OF

THE KINGDOMS

OF

GREAT-BRITAIN AND IRELAND;

WITH

AN INTRODUCTORY SURVEY

OF

HIBERNIAN AFFAIRS,

TRACED FROM THE TIMES OF CELTIC COLONISATION.

BY

CHARLES COOTE, LL.D.

Uno se pectore
Condidit, et major conjunctis viribus exit. CLAUD.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,

By S. Hamilton, Falcon-Court, Fleet-Street;

AND SOLD BY G. KEARSLEY, NO. 46, IN THAT STREET.

1802.

[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors]

TO THE MOST NOBLE

THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.

MY LORD,

YOUR

great ancestor, sir William Petty, was one of the early advisers of a consolidation of the English and Irish parliaments: sensible of its expediency, he recommended it by strong arguments. As, with his fortune and talents, you inherit his predilection for such a measure, a work which traces the progress and relates the completion of the late scheme of union may with obvious propriety be inscribed to your lordship.

Your judgement, on a perusal of this history, may induce you to disallow the pretensions of the author to the praise of literary merit; but your politeness will excuse the freedom of the dedicator. If the performance should be entitled to approbation, your lord

ship

« PreviousContinue »