m entering into
_those detestable marriages_, the penalty of _Excommunication_
is hereby attached to that sin both for the Catholic _contracting_
party as also for the Catholic _witnesses_ to such marriage.

"5. The notice which the Protestant Rector or the Registrar is
legally bound in such cases to send to the Parish Priest of the
Catholic party, will be read from the Altar for three consecutive
Sundays, and thus the _crime_ of the offending party brought out
into open light before his or her fellow-parishioners.

"6. For the rest, we hope the sense of decency and religion of the
Catholic people and their Pastors shall be no more hurt by any
Catholic entering into those marriages, so full of, misery and evil
of every kind for themselves, their children, and society at
large.--Yours faithfully in Christ,

[Image: Cross] ABRAHAM, Bishop of Ossory.

NOTE H.

TULLY AND THE WOODFORD EVICTIONS.

(Vol. ii. p. 149.)

Since the first edition of this book was published certain "evictions"
mentioned in it as impending on the Clanricarde estates have been
carried out. I have no reason to suppose that there was more or less
reason for carrying out these evictions than there usually is, not in
Ireland only, but all over the civilised world, for a resort by the
legal owners of property to legal means of recovering the possession of
it from persons who fail to comply with the terms on which it was put
into their keeping. Whether this failure results from dishonesty or from
misfortune is a consideration not often allowed, I think, to affect the
right of the legal owner of the property concerned to his legal remedy
in any other country but Ireland, nor even in Ireland in the case of any
property other than property in land. But as what I learned on the spot
touching the general condition of the Clanricarde tenants, and touching
the conduct and character of Lord Clanricarde's agent, Mr. Tener, led me
to take a special interest in these evictions, I asked him to send me
some account of them. In reply he gave me a number of interesting
details.

The only serious attempt at resisting the execution of the law was made
by "Dr." Tully, one of the leading local "agitators," to the tendency of
whose harangues judicial reference was made during the investigation
into the case of Mr. Wilfrid Blunt. Tully had a holding of seventeen
acres at a rent of L2, 10s., the Government v