A History of the Penal Laws Against the Irish Catholics; From the Treaty of Limerick, to the Union. Dublin: H. Fitzpatrick, 1808. First Edition. Pp 226, [xxxii]. Half leather, marbled boards, rebacked with title in gilt to spine. Ex library copy, with stamps. A nice bright copy.

Enhanced by its extensive quotation of source records, this book traces the history of laws against “religious non-conformists” between 1689 and 1801.

Sir Henry Parnell, later Lord Congleton, was an Anglo-Irish parliamentarian and treasury official sympathetic to the plight of Irish Catholics