An Irish bishop in penal times : the chequered career of Sylvester Lloyd OFM, 1680-1747 /

This book is a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at the life of an Irish Franciscan friar and bishop of the early eighteenth century. Against a background of periodic repression of catholics by the authorities, Sylvester Lloyd emerges as a kind of Pimpernel figure, gravely in cahoots with the Jaco...

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