"They (the Irish) live on beasts only, and live like beasts. They have not progressed at all from the habits of pastoral living. ..This is a filthy people, wallowing in vice. Of all peoples it is the least instructed in the rudiments of the faith. They do not yet pay tithes or first fruits or contract marriages. They do not avoid incest."
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Gerald of Wales, In: Proclamation 1625: America’s Enslavement of the Irish, Jr, Herbert L. Byrd
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