http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2012/11/16/pettyfoggers-and-vipers/ Blog Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:48:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2012/11/16/pettyfoggers-and-vipers/#comment-13612 Bean an Phoist Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:30:59 +0000 http://www.nli.ie/blog/?p=5077#comment-13612 And Mrs Bennis probably wouldn't have approved of the gluttonous demolishing of capons and other delicacies either! And Mrs Bennis probably wouldn’t have approved of the gluttonous demolishing of capons and other delicacies either!

]]> http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2012/11/16/pettyfoggers-and-vipers/#comment-13611 Rosemary Raughter Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:10:02 +0000 http://www.nli.ie/blog/?p=5077#comment-13611 Mrs Elizabeth Bennis of Limerick, considering her son's future career in 1774, rejected the law, to which she had 'an entire dislike ... from the dishonesty of its professors.' Surely not! But, as a good Methodist, she certainly wouldn't have approved of those bawdy houses and the vast quantities of sherry, claret and port consumed. Mrs Elizabeth Bennis of Limerick, considering her son’s future career in 1774, rejected the law, to which she had ‘an entire dislike … from the dishonesty of its professors.’ Surely not! But, as a good Methodist, she certainly wouldn’t have approved of those bawdy houses and the vast quantities of sherry, claret and port consumed.

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