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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… on a hill to the left of the road towards Weymouth. Poynings (Holy Trinity) POYNINGS ( Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Steyning, hundred of Poynings, rape of Lewes, E. division of Sussex, 6 miles (N. …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… After the passing, in the reign of Henry VII., of Poynings' law, which placed the calling of Parliament in the …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… in those days must not be likened to what it became after Poynings' Act, which may be said not so much to have … So far had been the Lord Deputies in the times before Poynings' Act from omitting to hold Parliaments, that … through the suppression of Parliaments that followed upon Poynings' Act (10 Henry VII.), but that it was probably not …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… limits described in this paper. It is true that Sir Edward Poynings had passed an Act declaring that every English … Gormanston. But these and several similar enactments of Poynings remained a dead letter, except within the immediate …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… grave view of what appeared to be a premeditated attack on Poynings' Law, though Galway tried to explain to Shrewsbury … he declared had merely sought to show how embarrassing Poynings' Law was in its operation; and if anything had been … and it was further complicated by the operation of Poynings' Law, of which a contemporary explanation is to be …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… to within two miles of Montreuil; but Surrey, Cheyney and Poynings being sent to view the place of the proposed … and men who had been in Scotland. Next day Sir Thomas Poynings went to the King from Montreuil and returned. On his …