Excerpt from The Closing of the Irish Parliament Poynings' Law was intended only to restrain the nobles and the dwellers within the Pale, which embraced the counties of Dublin, Louth, Meath, and Kildare. The Irish outside the Pale, also, were in a state of insurrection, but for the correction of these King Henry invoked the aid of Pope Alexander VI., who appointed a commission composed of the Arch bishop oi Canterbury, and the Bishops of London, Durham, and Bath and Wells, to consult with the Irish Bishops, and to administer the censures of the Church on any who persisted in rebellion. 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.