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of sixteen, and be continually practised in the toils 

 thereof." 



10. In 1575, the Blessed Edmund Campion, an 

 Englishman, writing in Ireland, says: -''The Irish 

 are not without wolves, and dogs to hunt them 

 bigger of bone and limb than a colt ; their kine, as 

 also their cattle, and commonly whatever else the 

 country engendereth, except man, is much less in 

 quantity than ours of England. Clear men they are 

 of skin and hue. The women are well favoured, 

 clear-coloured, fair-handed, big, and large, suffered 

 from their infancy to grow at will, nothing curious 

 of their feature and proportion of body." It is well 

 to remember that Father Campion wrote these words 

 in Ireland, and that he reflects the Anglo-Irish ideas 

 of the Pale. 



11. About 1577, Richard Stanihurst, a Palesman, 

 makes the same statement in about the same words 

 as Campion. 



12. About 1580, Paolo Giustiniano, who had been 

 in Ireland, wrote a letter to a friend giving an 

 account of his adventures, and at the end of it he 

 gives a picture of an Irishman and his dress. I 

 found the letter in the secret archives of the Vatican, 

 and asked an English Jesuit, Father J. H. Pollen, to 

 copy the sketch ; I still preserve it, and I can testify 



