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TIL that the Irish Parliament once passed a bill of attainder requiring thousands to go to Dublin for sentencing for their supposed disloyalty. Viscount Mountjoy was in prison in the Bastille at the time; he was ordered to break out and get to Dublin, or else face being drawn and quartered.

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