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Excerpt from History of the Church of Ireland, From the Reformation to the Revolution: With a Preliminary Survey, From the Papal Usurpation, in the Twelfth Century, to Its Legal Abolition in the Sixteenth Acts of Parliament for improving the Temporal Estates of the Church. Convocation. Petition to the King in behalf of the inferior Clergy. Proposed adoption of the thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England. Difficulty of carrying it, surmounted by the Lord De puty. Conduct of Primate Ussher. Proceedings in Convocation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.