DEVELOPEMENT

OF

THE CRUEL AND DANGEROUS

INQUISITORIAL SYSTEM

OF

The Court of Rome

IN

IRELAND,

And of its particular Operations in the Case of the Author,

THE REV. L. MORRISSY,

Parish Priest of ONING and TEMPLEORUM, in the Diocese of Ossory and
County of Kilkenny, and Roman Catholic Chaplain to
His Majesty's Prisons in Dublin.

"Subditi vitia Prælatorum reprehendere studeant."
"Let subjects be particular in reprehending the vices
the abuses of Prelates."POPE GREG. XIII.

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1821.

110. i. 197.

ERRATA.

Page 43, line 23, for 1813 read 1814.

PRELIMINARY

OBSERVATIONS.

WHEN I attempt to treat of the detestable tribunal of the Inquisition, which, at different times, overwhelmed the Catholic countries of Europe with distress and dismay, and corrupted the principles of morality and the integrity of the human mind, wherever its progress was permitted and its direful effects felt with impunity; my principal object is to discover how far this diabolical system extends its baneful influence over the minds, the morals and the inclinations of the inhabitants of poor distracted Ireland; and also how far a revolutionary spirit of disloyalty and subversion of what is deemed heretical monarchy is engendered and hatched among a certain portion of his majesty's subjects, for the horrid purposes

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