25 pounds is offered as the bounty for a priest, the same as for a wolf. The priest is conducting a Catholic mass but clergy were banned from Ireland under the 1652 Act Of Settlement, the Penal Laws (Na Péındlíthe).
South Link, Andersonstown, west Belfast
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