These measures were acts of Parliament: 1. Establishing 'the king's spiritual supremacy; 2. Suppressing, at once, all the monasteries existing in the country, and giving their property to the nobles who were willing to apostatize.
"Irish Race in the Past and the Present"
Aug. J. Thebaud
After many vain attempts, doubtless, the Cromwellian soldiers soon found the impossibility of bringing the "refractory" daughters of Erin to their way of thinking, and could find only one mode of bridging over the difficulty-to marry them first, without requiring then to apostatize; and secure their prize after by swearing that their wives were the most excellent of Protestants.
"Irish Race in the Past and the Present"
Aug. J. Thebaud
In veneration for the Deity, too, he does not yield to the Spaniard; the arms of the Northmen could not make him apostatize from Christianity when he had once professed it.
"The Revolt of The Netherlands, Complete"
Frederich Schiller