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7This fine elegy was written on the execution of Sir James Cotter in 1720. He was a son of Sir James Fitzedmond Cotter, whohad been commander-In·chlef for King Jam9S 11 in Munster. The subject of the elegy was the Idol of the Catholic Irishin Munster, and a generous patron of Irish poetry. A false charge of rape was brought against him by the Quakers of Cork. Onthe false evidence of a Quaker girl, whom he never met before his trial, he was fou nd guilty and hanged. His real crime washis adherence to the Jacobite cause.~ /.:- ~ '9Id~.t!I_l-Jlr_rrtrO'trlttrmiE j!J1J ~kj4~~kur-~~~~~I)iiU7twDzt~(CA

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