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A widow's son had been shot in a tithe-levy; and on the other side, a clergyman named Ryder had fallen a victim to the outrage of the people as, we believe, had other reverend gentlemen also, together with a tithe-proctor, who was shot in his own field in open day, his son, a boy of fifteen or sixteen, having also a narrow escape. Purcel's position was now one of extreme danger and difficulty.
Welcome, Proctor! Tithe-Proctor! God's Perdition! what a name! what a character? Tithe-Proctor! that is rogue, oppressor, scourge, murderer! and all for what? For a dead, lazy, gross, overgrown heresy! Ay, lazy parsons that I brought myself to this for, to perdition for!
Five of the police were shot dead on one occasion; on another, twelve who were escorting a tithe-proctor were massacred in cold blood. A large number of rioters were killed in encounters with the police, which sometimes assumed the form of pitched battles and closely resembled civil war.
As for the matter of tithes, sure they should be paid to the minister who they never saw nor cared to see, and if Mr. Boland had profit on them, so much the better, because the less tithe that went into the absent minister's pocket the more would they all be pleased. To be sure the tithe-proctor always exacted to the last farthing, and more than the minister and it is believed that Mr.
"He whispered to me," she replied, in a low voice, but loud enough for M'Carthy to hear, "that he shot a tithe-proctor."
And yet, I did intend to repent and to be merciful to the poor; and now here comes damnation! and why? have I not murdered you all? where am I? who am I? I am not Matthew Purcel, the Tithe-Proctor, I hope make that clear, and I'll give you or could it be a dream? no, no, it is real, a real fact; and the gulf of damnation yawns for me!
He was shot dead on the spot, and his death proved the signal for raising the gloomy curtain that veils the last of the drama in which the tithe-proctor makes his appearance. Soon after the death of this youth, John Parcel had occasion to go to Dublin, to transact some business with the Rev. Dr.
These, however, are sad topics what are we to do with the Prince? His Royal Highness loves sporting: we have scarcely a pheasant we have not one capercailzie in the island; but then we have our national pastimes. If we cannot turn out a stag to amuse him, why we can enlarge a tithe-proctor; and, instead of coming home proud that he has bagged a roe, he shall exult in having brought down a rector.
Nay, so anxious did the shrewd tithe-proctor feel upon this subject, that he actually got himself proposed and elected a governor of the Savings' Bank, which had been for some time past established in C m. By this means, he was enabled to know that many of those who came to him with poverty on their lips, were actually lodging money in these economical institutions.
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