Ireland

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Last Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh before the Union with Westminster.

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Francis Flood, grandfather of Henry Flood, is expelled from the House of Commons for abuses against Agmondisham Cuffe MP, Cuffes tenants and others in Co. Kilkenny

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On this date, May Eustace Sherlock, gentleman, petitions the Commons for relief from the great oppressions he lies under, by the undue practices and power of Maurice Annesley, a Justice of the Peace. Annesley is an MP. The ensuing complicated legal case

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An English act permits direct export of Irish linen to American colonies

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The town of Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh is virtually destroyed by an accidental fire. One hundred and fourteen families and their servants suffer severe losses, and the barracks of her Majesty (Queen Anne) sustains great damage, the total loss being comput

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The Registration Act comes into force requiring all Catholic priests in Ireland to register in court, to furnish two £50 bonds for good behaviour, and not to leave the county in which they are registered

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Penal law to prevent the further growth of property restricts landholding rights for Catholics

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John Asgill, newly elected MP for Enniscorthy, is expelled from the Irish parliament on this date on account of a pamphlet he published in Dublin in 1698, arguing that man may pass into eternal life without dying. The pamphlet is burned by the common hang

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