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His face was pale, and for the moment all the aggressiveness had gone out of him. He lifted a hand weakly to his heart. "A sudden faintness," he groaned, closing his eyes. "If you two men had any feelin's, you'd offer to see me home." "The pair of us?" asked Mr. Jope suavely. "I scale over seventeen stone," murmured Mr. Coyne, still with his eyes closed; "an' a weight like that is no joke." Mr.
His brothers, Abe Kern, Benjamin Colquhoun, Jack Coyne, and Barney Cowan had gravitated to the City; but Solly had carried on the old business, and was making a big name for himself.
It was thus the West Indies which statesmen had chiefly in mind when they set about regulating trade and navigation to the end that "we may in every part be more sellers than buyers, and thereby the Coyne and present stocke of money be preserved and increased."
Jones winked, and watched Mr. Coyne out of sight. "I have seen your ladyship's maid," said Jones, confidentially. "It is all right. Mr. Coyne have got the blinkers on. Only pass me your word not to excite him." "Oh no, sir, I will soothe him." And she trembled all over. "Sally!" cried Jones.
"You must be a pair of very simple men," said landlord Coyne, half-closing his eyes again, "if you reckoned that forty pound would rent a place like this without some drawbacks. Well, the drawbacks is ghosts. Four of 'em, and all females." "Tell us about 'em, sir," requested Mr. Jope, dropping into his seat.
The palatinate of Ormond, it is true, was theoretically in much the same state, but then Ormond was a keener sighted and a wiser man than Desmond, and knew when the times demanded redress. He had of late even made some effort to abolish the abominable system of "coyne and livery," although, as he himself frankly admits, he was forced to impose it again in another form not long afterwards.
The first editor of the Illustrated London News one of the pioneers in the elucidation of news by means of pictures was an Irishman, Frederick Bayley. Among the projectors of Punch, and one of its earliest contributors, was a King's county man, Joseph Sterling Coyne. The founder of the Liverpool Daily Post , the first penny daily paper in Great Britain, was Michael Joseph Whitty, a Wexford man.
On their way they eyed the cottages and gardens to right and left with a lively curiosity; but "Lord, Bill," said the shorter seaman, misquoting Wordsworth unawares, "the werry houses look asleep!" At the "Punch-Bowl" Inn, kept by J. Coyne, they halted by silent consent. Mr. William Adams, who had been trundling the barrow, set it down, and Mr.
But that Coyne, which is not considerable for the Matter, but for the Stamp of the place, being unable to endure change of ayr, hath its effect at home only; where also it is subject to the change of Laws, and thereby to have the value diminished, to the prejudice many times of those that have it. The Conduits And Way Of Mony To The Publique Use
Many of the statutes passed by this Parliament such as the one just mentioned forbidding war cries, others forbidding the levying of private forces, forbidding the "country's curse" Coyne and livery, and other habitual exactions were undoubtedly necessary and called for by the circumstances of the case. The only ones now remembered however are the following.
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