there one moneth from thence he went to Esca preached Christ and converted many there some hard-hearted people slue him when he was beheaded hee rose up tooke with him his owne head beleeve it who list and carried it to Houtthein where the Angels had made a sepulchre for him He is said saith Bale to have written a booke of Homilies and in the yeere 1007. to have beene translated to Saint Bavons Church in Gandavum There was another Livinus a French man a Fryer minorite and slaine as they say about the yeere 1345. and of fame at this day in Flanders Arbogastus borne in Ireland a godly Preacher and a great Writer was the second Bishop of Argentine Anno 646. who also for his great wisedome was taken by Dagobert King of France to be of his Councell He left behinde him for the good of the Church a booke of Homilies So much Bale out of Munster Molanus writeth that about the yeere 647. some of the familie of Pipinus the first Duke of Brabant father of Saint Gertrude sent for many Preachers out of Ireland and Scotland into Brabant and the bordering regions to plant the Christian religion among them Fortanus and Vltanus are there named Lippeloo saith that about the yeere 696. Egbertus Wicbertus and Willibrodus were famous learned men in Ireland continued there a long time afterwards dispersed themselves into farre countries and with happinesse ended their dayes Molanus hereof writeth farther thus In the imperiall towne called Werda the birth of Saint Switberd whom Beda calleth Suidbertus the Bishop and Confessor is solemnized who in the time of Pipinus the first Duke of Brabant together with Saint Willibrod preached soules health unto the nations thereabouts This man among other diseases was wont to cure the disease in the throate called of the Physitians the squinancie He is termed the second of those Apostolike men which came out of England and Ireland to preach the Gospell unto the Frisians Hollanders and the nations about them Among whom being as yet but a Priest he converted many chiefly the inhabitants of the great Village Duerstadt the which now is the towne of Wâ—ic He converted also the Citie Hagenstein which now is a village adioyning unto Viana And when as by the industrie of him and Willibrodus the number of the faithfull daily increased at the intreatie of the brethren in Trajectum and Friseland both of them consented he should be consecrated Bishop Whereupon Saint Switbert whom Beda saith to have beene modest of life and meeke in heart went into England and was consecrated by Saint Willfride Bishop of Mercia Kent saith Beda had then no Bishop in the yeere 695. But Saint Willibrode went unto Duke Pipinus and having gotten leave of him departed to Rome where the yeere following Pope Sergius consecrated him And although Switbert by reason of some small time had the start of Willibrode yet Willibrode went before him in dignitie for he was the first Archbishop of Trajectum and especially by Pope Sergius consecrated Archbishop of Frisia and directed to that people And saith Beda Sergius changed his name and called him Clement because saith Molanus hee consecrated him on Saint Clements Even And he also writeth that he was Archbishop of the nations now called Frisii Transiselani Trajectenses Hollandi and Zelandi whereas Switbert is not called Bishop of Trajectum but fellow Bishop with Saint Willibrode Yet he is by speciall name called the Apostle of Teisterbandia Westfalia and of the Boructuarians for Marcellinus writeth that hee converted the county of Teisterbandia and together with it in a manner all Batua and the greater part of the lower Friseland unto the faith He also exceedingly increased the number of the beleevers in the Church at Trajectum he founded many Churches and dedicated the temples of Idols unto the honour of God In the historie of Marcellinus certaine places by especiall words are named as in Zandwic in the I le of Tila which at this day cannot be found in Arkell and Hoernaer villages of the Lordship of Gorcomia in Schoenreford now called Schoenrewoert by Leerda in Authensden nigh Huesden in Wondrighen now called Worckum in Aelborch Giesen and Riiswijâ—ke between Worckum and Huesden in Almkerk which is the territorie of Altenae in Maelsem Erkum and Avesaede in the Lordship of Buria with many other places In these countries hee hallowed Churches continually praying with great devotion for the people which hee had converted and with wholesome admonitions drawing them to the heavenly dwellings He converted the Westfalians and Boructuarians which at this day are thought to bee the people Markenses Further the renowned Duke Pipinus gave him Werda upon the river of Rhene for his good and for the establishing of his principality which place is elsewhere called the Iland of Saint Switbert though now it be part of the continent or maine land Pipinus gave him also great store of treasure wherewith he builded there a Monasterie and replenished the same with a great company of the servants of Christ. In the end this Saint Switbert died in the yeere 717. and lyeth buried in the Monasterie of Werda-Caesaris which he had founded Beda writeth that Willibrode lived in his time and went on the thirtieth and sixt yeere of his consecration Archbishop of Friseland Molanus delivereth his end that namely he ended his dayes at Westervoert and was buried at Elste in Gelderland but of Egbert and Wigbert the Martyr before mentioned he reporteth out of Beda and Marcellinus that Wigbert was one of the companions of Egbert and for the space of many yeeres had led an Anchors life in Ireland that he sailed into Friseland and for the space of two whole yeeres preached unto that nation and to their King Radbodus and seeing that he could doe no good among them returned againe to Ireland And when as Egbertus the servant of God had sent the second time unto the Friselanders and Saxons famous men for life and learning Acca Willibaldus Winiboldus Lebuinus Werenfridus Marcellinus Adalbertus Ewaldus senior and junior together with Willibrode he sent the said Wigbert who no sooner landed but King Radâ—od caused him cruelly to be tormented to death in Fosetes-landâ— an Iland in the confines of Friseland and Denmarke for that the Christians of that place by his preaching of the Gospell had destroyed there the Idoll groves of Iupiter and Fosta There was a later Wigbertus Patron of Hersweldia remembred in the Martyrologe whom I would have the reader take notice of to avoid the confusion of times And last of all of Willibrode and Wilfram there is a storie how that Raboldus after long perswasion seemed willing to be baptized and having one foot in the water demanded where be the nobilitie of Frizeland my Father Grand-father and kindred Answer being made that they were in hell hee with-drew himselfe from baptisme saying I will goe after the greatest company take your heaven to your selfe Molanus when
last a plotte defalked from these parts called Meth comprising as they are now called as well East-Meth as West-Meth in Latine Midia or Media in Irish Mhidhe And here must not bee forgotten that there hath beene in these kingdomes great change and alteration by usurping and compounding among themselves and by dividing of Countries as we finde Mounster was into two parts and since have beene there great Earles deriving their names of Mounster Ormond in Irish Oirther Mughane Desmond in Irish Deasmughain and Thomond in Irish Tuathmughain the which an Italian comming into Ireland meruailed at when he inquired what great men dwelled in the land for he understood Ormond to bee orbis mundi the round world Desmond decem mundi ten worlds Thomond duo mundi two worlds profecto said he Valdè gloriósi tituli assuredly these are very glorious titles So were there also in processe of time diuers other lesser kingdomes as by the processe of the historie will very well appeare And here for this time leaving to discourse farther of the Irish kingdomes I conclude with this one remembrance that from time to time there was one chosen to be chiefe soveraigne Monarch ouer them all and the number of Monarchs from Hermon to Laogirius the sonne of Nealus Magnus that is great Neale in whose time S. Patricke converted them to Christianitie amounteth to an hundred thirty and one And now backe againe to the historie where we left It is said that of Hiber or Hiberus who was slaine as hath aboue beene recorded Ireland was called Hibernia certaine it is with the concordance of most and the best antiquaries that the land was not called Hibernia neither right Spaniard arived here before the daies of Gurguntius Divers writers haue diversly delivered the originall name of the land some corruptly some poetically some etymologically Ierna Iuvernia Ibernia Overnia Vernia Iris of the Britaines Ywerdhon of the Irish themselues Erin and tooke that name of Fin Erin of whom at large in the booke of Houth of the Saxons and English it is called Ireland that is the land of Erin All these names originally grew of Hiberus the Spaniard or in remembrance of Iberus the second King of Spaine who was the sonne of Tuball the fift sonne of Iaphet Annius Viterbiensis writeth that of this King the river is called Iberus amnis Spaine Iberia and the inhabitants about the river Iberi This land of Ireland hath also beene called Scotia Major Scotland the greater after the birth of Christ but that came of corrupting the word Scytha as I said before Lastly it hath beene called Banno of the Poets or Bardes of the land Stanihurst thinketh it was so called of the Banne a river in the County of Weixford the place is now called Bagganbun where the Britaines vpon the conquest arived and thereof is the rime At the creeke of Bagganbun Ireland was ylost and wonne But for this ancient name Banno and other the like which the Poets of Ireland haue in use I referre the courteous reader to learned Camden in his treatise of Ireland about the beginning Lanquet in his collections of antiquities noteth that the Scottish historiographers about the yeere of the world 3652. beginne their histories at Fergus the sonne of Ferquhard King of Ireland that he should come with great power out of Ireland to their aide against the Pictes and that they fauoured him so much that they chose him King and that hee raigned ouer them in Scotland 25. yeeres and how that in his raigne he slue Coile King of Britaine at what time by generall consent there was no Scottish man then commanding in Albania no Pict at that time seene in Britaine or Ireland nor Coile King of Britaine in many yeares after I am of Lanquets opinion thus he writeth These histories of the Scots as they set them forth bee full of errors and agree with none other historians Notwithstanding this Item may not stoppe the course of the historie and therefore whether he came out of Ireland as we here take it or out of Denmarke as some haue thought well he might be King of Albania for so was it then called and not Scotland and so from him I will terme them Kings of Albania untill I finde the name Scoti knowne amongst forraigne writers This Fergus saith Buchanan hauing orderly disposed of his affaires in Albania went into Ireland to pacifie and quiet troubles there risen and hoising saile for his returne into Albania he and all his company were cast away in a tempest vpon the rockes at a place of him now called in the British and Irish tongues Karregfergus or Craigfregus corruptly in English Knockfergus It is written that he advanced in his banner a red Lyon Rampant with his taile folden toward his backe as it were moved with anger the which his successors since have used After this his infortunate decease there rose great strife about the succession his two sonnes Ferlegus and Mainus were young and many exceptions were made against them in the end the two sonnes were put beside and the eldest of the sept after the Irish Tanistrie tooke place which fell upon Feritharis an Irish man brother to Fergus And this Tanistrie continued saith Buchanan unto Kenathus 3. during the raigne of fourescore Kings But I must leave them and follow onely what concerneth Irish businesse About the yeere of the world saith Lanquet 3750. and odde not allowing as he protested before but following the Scottish histories one Reuthar commander of the invaders in Albania now called Scotland was vexed with civill warres and by the Britaines banished into Ireland where he lived twelve yeeres See more of him in Hector Boetius and Buchanan The 9. King Albaniensium Scotorum so Stanihurst calleth them was Iosina Thereus and is the next that seemeth to haue any right or interest in the Irish historie This man was bred and brought up in Ireland and favoured the nation saith Bale above all others he sought peace of all men honoured Chirurgions Physitians and Druydes of Ireland raigned 24. yeeres and so ended his dayes The next that concerneth our purpose is Gillus the usurper who through much treason and many murthers aspiring to the Crowne of Albania and deservedly falling into the hatred and mislike of all his subjects was at length forced by his Nobles who rose in Armes against him to take a fisher-boate and flee into Ireland where hee was promised aide but to prevent further mischiefe one Cadall is appointed generall of an Armie to pursue the tyrant into Ireland and meeting him in the field drove Gillus to flee When the Irish men had forsaken him he hid himselfe in a denne invironed with woods and bogs where shortly after an Irish Kerne for reward found him out cut off his head and brought it to Cadall after he had tyrannized three yeeres He was the thirteenth King of Albania In the
became a Bishop and ended his dayes in sanctitie When Saint Patricke had baptized a second Conallus a petite King and his brother Fergus he prophecied of Fedlemus the sonne of Fergus and of Columba the sonne of Fedlemus what a holy man hee should prove as after hee did and was the founder of an hundred Monasteries Saint Patricke for all this travaile sailed into Britaine for coadiutors and fellow-labourers in this worke where he opposed himselfe both in publike and private against the Pelagians and other heretickes which disturbed the peace of the Church and brought with him thirty learned men whom afterward he consecrated Bishops So that to this day in Britaine as in Anglesey Bristoll Exeter and other places there are Churches built in remembrance of him He also converted the Isle of Man to the faith and there is a Church which also beareth his name and left them one Germanus to bee their Bishop after whose death hee ordained for that place Conidrius Ronillus and Machaldus Vpon his returne into Ireland hee met with sixe of his Disciples of Irish birth that had beene Students beyond Seas whom in the end he made Bishops Lugacius Columbanus Meldanus Lugadius Cassanus and Cheranus Then he made saith Iocelin a second iourney unto Athcled now called Dublin upon his comming which was about twentie yeeres after their conversion and found them all given to idolatrie and withall one Alpinus a King with his Queene and his retinue lamenting the death of Eocchiad their sonne heire and the drowning of their sole daughter Dublinia Patricke preached the people beleeved the King hearing of him hoped to reape some comfort to bee short saith mine Author the dead are raised to life and Athcled ever after in remembrance of the Kings daughter Dublinia was called Dublin Saint Patrickes manner was first to Catechize secondly to Baptize lastly to minister the Sacrament of the Lords Supper When with the aide of the country he builded Churches hee would not name them after any Saints name but Domnach the Church of the Lord. And when he had procured a Church to be builded in a place called Achad Fobuit and consecrated his Disciple Sennachus alias Seachuallus Bishop there the humble sute of Senachus unto him was that the Church should not be called after him as the manner was saith mine Author in many places among the Irish people The onely doctrine Patricke read and expounded unto the people was the foure Evangelists conferred with the old Testament Hee is reported to have given many blessings and to have denounced many curses He had many Disciples Kertennus Winnocus Winwallocus likewise saith Molanus Elberus Ibarus Connedus Secundinus Asicus Fiechus Sennachus Olcanus with many others which he made Bishops I finde mention also of Riochus that kept his Bookes and Papers and of Rodanus that kept his Cattell that hee made them Bishops and the world made them Saints Ireland is greatly beholding unto him for it is recorded that hee went up to the top of the Mount Hely I take it to be a hill in Ely O Carrols country where he made three petitions unto Almighty God for the people of Ireland that had received the faith First that every one might have grace to repent though it were at the last houre Secondly that they might not be utterly destroyed by Infidels Lastly that no Irish man should live till the day of Iudgement Quia delebitur per orationem sancti Patricij septem annis ante judicium for it shall be destroyed by meanes of Saint Patrickes prayers seaven yeeres before the comming of Christ to iudgement Probus maketh mention of other Petitions which for that I hold them fabulous I will not rehearse He procured as it is written of him seaven hundred Churches to bee builded in Ireland ordained five thousand Ministers consecrated three hundred and fifty Bishops successively understand in his time Darius the Booke of Houth calleth him Dares in Probus Dair a Noble man affecting Patricke and seeing him beare low saile and shrowding himselfe with all humilitie in Vlster drew him to dwell at Drumsailech now called Armagh and having used meanes there for the building of a Church Patricke went to Rome procured all confirmations necessary to his purpose arrived againe in Ireland and being of the age of 122. yeeres ended his life in the time that Aurelius Ambrosius raigned in Britaine and Forthkerrus was Monarch of Ireland Brigida and Ethembria who then were accounted two holy women shrowded him to his grave when Thassach a Bishop had ministred the Sacrament Probus writeth that the Britaine 's came with great forces attempting at severall times to fetch away his corps and that the men of Vlster did withstand them As for the purgatorie that is fathered upon him I must referre the reader to the yeere of grace 850. where he shall finde a second Patricke founder thereof In our Patricks time flourished many good Christians renowned at this day and as an Antiquarie and collector of antiquities I desire the christian reader to accept of them as I finde them And I will beginne with Brigida that gave Saint Patricke his winding sheete shee was borne as Iohn Clyn writeth anno 439. in Fochart not farre from Dondalke as Bernard deliuereth she was the base daughter of one Duptacus haply Laigerius his rymer before spoken of a Noble man saith Bale of the North parts a Captaine of Leinster saith the Book of Houth Capgrave writeth that her mother in wantonnesse having conceived and her belly being espied to be up Duptacus his wife caused her to be turned out of doores Duptacus to avoid the iâ—alousie and disquietnesse of his wife delivered her to a Poet or Bard a Magician saith Bale who kept both Mother and Daughter and trayned her up in such learning as he had skill in Shee proved so singularly learned and was in such account among all men that a Synode of Bishops assembled by Dublin used her advice in weightie causes as I reade in the Booke of Houth She became a Nunne and wrought but one miracle saith Bale that is shee used meanes to purge a Bishop one Bronus or Bruno from fornication when the fact was manifestly proved against him In the authenticke manuscript Legend of Ireland I finde that she kept most in Leinster and builded a Cell for her abode under a goodly faire Oke which afterwards grew to be a Monasterie of Virgins called Cyll-dara in Latine Cella Quercus the Cell of the Oke now Kildare and saith mine Author ibique maxima civitas postea in honore beatissimae Brigidaecrevit quae est hodie metropolis Laginensium The first Bishop by her meanes was Conlianus alias Conlaidus Stanihurst reckoneth the succession of the See in this sort Lony Ivor Conlie Donatus David Magnus Richard Iohn Symon Nicolas Walter Richard Thomas Robart Boniface Madogg William Galfride Richard Iames. 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brethren and the nephewes of the Apostles so he calleth them Towards his latter dayes hee sorrowed that Ireland had not the pall and as oft as he thought upon Innocentius 2. his promise he sighed who as formerly I have delivered had promised not performed when he heard that Eugenius his successor was come unto France he thought it a fit time to obtaine his purpose he tooke shipping for Scotland where King David received him as in times past and thence unto England where the jarre betweene the King of England and the Pope hindred his passage yet he got into France and straight to Clarevallis where hearing that Pope Eugenius was returned to Rome he rested himselfe fell sicke of an ague and there dyed being of the age of 54. yeeres Anno 1148. 4 Nonas Novembris so farre Bernard in substance yet Antonine saith hee dyed Anno 1140. In his time lived Conganus Abbot of Benchor who enformed Bernard of the whole life of Malachias and wrote at large thereof himselfe inserting many fabulous things and saith Nicholas Magwire he wrote not onely the life of Malachias but also the life of Bernard I finde him to be the Patron of Killaskin otherwise called Killeshin in Monte Margeo and the Barony of Marghagha in Leynster spoken of before In this time lived Tundalus Magus so surnamed because suspected for a Sorcerer borne and brought up in Mounster in Cashell saith Lepelo in the West of Ireland of Noble birth and by calling a Knight Antonius out of Vincentius reporteth that hee was fierce and cruell and in the end became a Carthusian Monke for that order beganne as we may reade in the life of Bruno the first founder thereof upon some great extremity whereof the Proverbe rose desperatio facit Monachum desperation maketh a Monke it seemeth that he had in his life time committed some hainous offences and was mightily tormented in conscience and fell into trances and extasies upon his recovery he delivered unto the world strange damnable untruths saith Bale of Heaven Hell Purgatory and I wot not what for a man distracted knoweth not what he saith Bale writeth talia ad terrorem fingebant scelestissimi Nebolones somewhat excusing him and extenuating his imbecillities and biddeth him farewell Clarint Stephano Rege in Anglia dominante satana apud Hybernos suas vires exercente hee flourished when Stephen raigned over England and the divell domineered over Ireland Hee wrote a booke of Revelations the which Melchior Canus Albertus Crantzius and Gobelenus have utterly condemned He wrote also the life of Vrsula and the 11000. Virgins printed at Cullen the which Zazarias Lepelo counteth for lyes and fables Anno 1142. the Abbey of Molyfont was founded by Donatus alias Donogh King of Louth alias Vriell some call him Donogh Ocarvell the first Abbot was Christianus who afterwards was Bishop of Lysmore and Legate of all Ireland Anno 1144. William Bishop of Winchester by authority of Pope Celestine 2. in a Councell held at London brought in the use of cursing with Bell Booke and Candle which liked the Irish Priests well to terrifie the Laytie for their Tithes Foxe Anno 1148. there fell great variance betweene Owen surnamed Gwyneth Prince of Northâ—Wales and Cadwallader his brother they were both the sonnes of Griffith ap Conan Prince of North Wales This Cadwallader fled into Ireland and hired to his aide Octer Mac Octer Curbell Mac Therulfe with a great number of Irish men and red shankes for 2000. markes and landed at Abermeany in Carnarvonshire against whom Prince Owen came with great power but before the Armies met there was a peace concluded betweene the brethren which when the Irish men understood they kept with them Cadwallader as prisoner for their pay formerly promised so that hee was faine to deliver 2000. heads of Cattell besides many prisoners and spoyles that were taken in the country but Prince Owen as soone as he knew his brother to be set at liberty set upon the Irish men his stomacke was full of revengement slue a great number of them and recovered all the Cattell with the prisoners and other spoyle so that in the end as many as escaped with life returned to Ireland with sorrow shame and losse and made no bost of their voyage so writeth Carodoc The same yeere Anno 1148. Iohn Papire a Priest Cardinall together with Christianus Bishop of Lismore the Popes Legate over the whole Land being sent by Eugenius came into Ireland And in Anno 1151. saith Mathew Paris but by the consent of most Writers Anno 1152. summoned a Councell where in the presence of the Bishops Abbots Kings Dukes the Antients of Ireland by the Apostolike authoritie Colledge of Cardinals consent of the Bishops Abbots others there present they ordained foure Archbishopricks in Ireland and gave them foure pales to wit Ardmach Dublin Cashell and Tuam In Ardmach then sate Gelasius in Dublin Gregory in Cashell Donatus in Tuam Edanus these were the first Archbishops of Ireland The records from that time to this day of the foure Provinces the foure Archbishoprickes with their Bishops and Suffragans in Latine and vulgar speech with their titles of Saints and Patrons together with the unions of them in processe of time following I finde thus Anno 1151. these Abbies were founded de Beatitudine de duillio de Magio de valle salutis and happily the Monasterie which Mathew Paris and Polychronicon spake of upon this occasion There was a Knight say they called Owin of Irish birth which had long served King Stephen in his warres got licence to repaire unto his native soile and to visit his friends when hee came to Ireland hearing the fame of the Purgatory of the second Patricke the Abbot and not the Bishop so I reade in Polychronicon it came in his minde to visit the same he being in the Cave and concavities under ground saw strange sights and making report thereof unto King Stephen obtained licence of him thenceforth to leade a religious and solitary life he obtained also of King Stephen so Mathew Paris writeth a parcell of ground in Ireland to build a Monasterie called Luden an Abbey of white Monkes where Gervasius became the first Abbot and where Gilbert a Monke trayned up Owen in the order thereof This Gilbert saith mine Author wrote as Owen told him all the reports that are now extant of that Purgatory so that it seemes to be no antient matter but a late device first found by this Owen in the late dayes of King Stephen Anno 1152. was the battaile of Monad more fought in Ireland betweene Leinster and Mounster men where saith Holinshed the flower and chiefest personages of Leinster and Mounster were slaine and saith Iohn Plunket Mounster lost the field Anno 1154. Terdielach King of Connaght dyed there succeeded him Rorie Oconochor Rowag commonly called Roderic who slue his owne brother that aspired to the kingdome of Connaght and in this successe attempted further and
Monastery of Grenard was founded by Richard Tute who shortly after miscarried at Athlone by the fall of a Turret and was buried in the same Monastery About the same time in the yeere 1209. the Monastery of Forte was founded by Walter Lacy Lord of Meth. Anno 1210. and the twelfth yeere of his raigne King Iohn came into Ireland and landed at Waterford with an huge army marvellous well appointed to pacifie that rebellious people that were universally revolted burning spoyling preying and massacring the English Fabian and Graffton alleage the cause that moved the Irishmen to this rebellion to have been for that the King endevord to lay grievous taxes upon them towards his aide in the warres against the French King which they could not brooke and therefore rose in armes against their Soveraigne When hee came to Dublin the whole Countrey fearing his puissance craved peace and flocked unto him along the sea cost the Champian Countries and remote places receiving an oath to bee true and faithfull unto him There were 20. Reguli of the chiefest rulers within Ireland which came to the King to Dublin and there did him homage and fealty as appertained Harding nameth them Lord O Neale and many more Walsingham remembreth Catelus King of Conaght it forceth it not though they misse the right names of place and person it is a fault in manner common to all foraigne writers After this hee marched forwards into the land and tooke into his hands divers Fortresses and strong Holds of his enemies that fled before him for feare to be apprehended as William le Bruse Mathilda his wife William their sonne with their traine of whom I spake before also Walter de Lacy Lord of Meath and Hugh de Lacy Earle of Vlster and Lord Iustice of Ireland fearing his presence fled into France their exaction oppression and tyranny was intolerable Likewise they doubted how to answer the death of Sir Iohn de Courcy Lord of Ratheny and Kilbarrock within 5. miles of Dublin whom they had murthered of especiall malice and deadly hatred First for that he was of the house of Sir Iohn de Courcy Earle of Vlster whom the Lacies alwaies maligned Secondly for that he had made grievous complaints of them in England to King Iohn the tryall whereof they could not abide Vpon the sight of the Lacies King Iohn made Iohn Gray Bishop of Norwich his deputy Of these Lacies it is further remembred in the Booke of Houth and other antiquities how that in France they obscured themselves in the Abbey of S. Taurin and gave themselves to manuall labour as digging delving gardening planting and greffing for daily wages the space of 2. or 3. yeares the Abbot was well pleased with their service and upon a day whether it were by reason of some inkling or secret intelligence given him or otherwise demaunded of them of what birth and parentage they were and what Country they came from when they had acquainted him with the whole hee bemoned their case and undertooke to become a suiter unto the King for them in a word hee obtained the Kings favour for them thus farre that they were put to their fyne and restored to their fromer possessions so that Walter de Lacy paid for the Lordship of Meath 2500. Markes and Hugh his brother for Vlster and Conaght a greater summe Hugh de Lacy in remembrance of this kindnesse which the Abbot shewed them tooke his nephew his brothers sonne with them into Ireland one Alured whom he Knighted and made Lord of the Dengle The Monkes also which out of that Monastery hee had brought with him into Ireland hee honoured greatly and gave them entertainment in Four the which Walter De Lacy had formerly builded King Iohn having pacified the land ordained that the English Lawes should bee used in Ireland appointed 12. English shires with Sheriffes and other Officers to rule the same according unto the English Ordinances hee reformed the Coine and made it uniforme some say it was Gray his Deputy of like weight and finenes and made it currant as well in England as in Ireland When hee had disposed of his affaires and ordred all things at his pleasure he tooke the sea againe with much triumph and landed in England the 30. day of August Anno 1213. When the French King by instigation of Innocentius 3. Bishop of Rome prepared to invade England King Iohn eftsoone understanding thereof made provision accordingly to answer his enterprise and among others the cause why the story is here inserted Holinshed writeth how that to his aid the Bishop of Norwich the Kings Deputy of Ireland levied an Army of 300. foot well appointed beside horsemen which arrived in England to the encouragement of the whole Campe. And as the French was frustrate of his purpose so they shortly returned with great joy to their native Country In the same yeere Viz. 1213. Iohn Comin Archbishop of Dublin departed this life and was buried in the Quire of Christ-Church whom Henry Loudres succeeded in the dayes of this King Iohn This Henry builded the Castle of Dublin and was made Lord Iustice of Ireland His tenants nic-named him Schorchbill or Schorcvillen upon this occasion Hee being peaceably stalled in his Bishopprike summoned all his tennants and farmers at a certain day appointed to make their personall appearance before him and to bring with them such evidences and writings as they enjoyed their holds by the tenants of the day appointed appeared shewed their evidences to their Landlord mistrusting nothing hee had no sooner received them but afore their faces upon a suddain cast them all into a fire secretly provided for the purpose this fact amazed some that they became silent moved others to a stirring choller and furious rage that they regarded neither place nor person but brake into irreverent speeches Thou an Archbishop nay thou art a Schorcvillen an other drew his weapon and said as good for me kill as be killed for when my evidences are burned and my living taken away from me I am killed The Bishop being thus tumult and the imminent danger whipt out at a backe doore His Chaplains Registers and Summoners were well knockt and some of them left for dead They threatned to fire the house over the Bishops head some meane was made for the present time to pacifie their outrage with faire promises that all hereafter should be to their owne content upon this they departed the intent of the promises I cannot learne othersome inveigh against it but in fine complaint thereof being made to Henry 3. the King thought so hardly of the course that he removed him from his Iusticeship and placed in his roome Maurice Fitz Girald of whom hereafter This Loudreds was buried in Christ Church In the same yeere also King Iohn being mightily distressed through the practises of hir Archbishops Bishops Abbots Monkes Priests of his dominions and the Barons of his Kingdome revolting and the inward hatred of the
Brachanus sonne of Haulaph King of Ireland Beda eccles hist. lib. 3. cap. 26. Grafton Priests of former ages Saint Dympna the Virgin Saint Bertwin Hub Tho Comment de Tungris Eburonibus Livinus Molanus nat Sanctori Belgij Chron lib. 13. Arbogastus Anno 646. Fortanus Vltanus Egbertus Wicbertus Willibrodus Saint Switberd Werda given to Saint Switbert Beda lib. 5. cap. 10. Willibrode Switbert Fursaeus Foilanus Vltanus Many other learned men of Irish birth contemporane with Fursaeus Foilanus Fredegand Mombolus Eloquius Saint Autbert Saint Chilian Saint Fiacre Saint Cataldus Saint Finan Saint Sacodine King Indrake Dominica Muriardachus Monarch of Ireland Saint Cuthbert Meldan and Eatan Bishops sonnes to the Monarch of Ireland Anno 684. Saxons in Ireland Beda eccles hist. lib. 4. cap 26. Anno 701. Adamannus his life Gualafer Bishop Saint Rumold Zachar. Lip de vitis Sanct. tom 3. Io. Molanus nat Scotorum Belgiâ— ex Martyrologo Mechlin Virgilius solivagus· Invasions of Norwegianâ— and Danes Anno 799. Turgesius came to Ireland Anno 832. Turgesius slaine Iacob Grace Thad Douling Amelanus Sitaracus and Ivorus Patricke the Abbot Saint Patricks Purgatory Albertus Krantz Dan. lib. 2. Ant. chron p 2. tit 11. cap. 1â— Evill Ficus Modwen Anno 877. Brian and Cornelius Scots at the Band overthrow the Irish. Dublin receive the Scots Cormack Bishop of Dublin Anno 899. Strange wormes Anno Dom. 900. Danes in Ireland Anglesey spoyled by them of Dublin Hawlaffe King of Ireland Bromford saith Grafton Saint Maries Abbey founded by Dublin Forananus his life Scots in Ireland Battaile of Clantarfe Briâ—n Boroave The cause of the field of Clantarfe out of the booke of Houth Saint Pappan Or Midleton Or Llechryd Saint Michan lived Anno 1095. Samuel Bishop of Dublin Malchus first Bishop of Waterford Celsus Bishop of Armagh Malachias Bishop of Armagh The battaile of Monad more Henry 2 was crowned King of England 1154. Anno 1170. Anno 1172. A Charter of agreement betweene Henry 2. Kâ—ng of England and Roderic King of Connoght Castles builded by Sir H de Lacy. Sir H de Lacy. the yonger L. Iustice of lie Oconnor K. of Conaght with 20000. men The conceit is that Chalus was casus lucis A rebellion in Thurles Blacke Monday King Iohn in Ireland Iohn Graye B. of Norwich L. Deputy Castle of Dublin buildeth Schorchbill Maurice Fitz Girald Lord Iustice. Petrus de Supino Petrus Rubeus Pope Gregories agents in Ireland and Scotland were rifled of all they had by the Emperour Andelmus Primate of Armagh The Castle of Sligoe builded Girald Fitz Maurice Ricardus de Burgo in Gascoigne Iohn Fitz Ieffery Lord Iustice Anno 1245. A great Earthquake The Irish comming to aid Ed. Earle of Chester were slaine and their ships suncke The life of Ioannes de Sacro Bosco The Epitaph of Iohannes de Sacro Bosco Stepham Espee Lord Iustice of Ireland The battell of Downe S. Willi. Denne Lord Iustice Anno 1260. Richardus de Chappella Lord Iustice of Ireland Anno 1261. David Barry Lord Iustice Anno 1207. The Fryers Preachers and Minors came to Ireland Maurice Fitz Girald Earle of Desmond drowned Robert Vfford Lord Iustice Anno 1268. The Castle of Roscommon Ric. de Exester Lord Iustice Anno 1269. Othobone the Popes Legat. Iames L. Audley Lord Iustice Anno 1270. The Irish rebels Maurice Fitz Maurice Lord Iustice Anno 1272. called Rochfallath Walter Lord Genevill Lord Iustice Anno 1273. Robert Vfford Lord Iustice Anno 1277. Robert Vfford going into England substituted Fulborne Bishop of Waterford The groats pence halfe pence and farthings were made Waterford burned Robert Fulborne Lord Iustice of Ireland Anno 1281. Dublin burned Galfridus de sancto Leodegario a a Annal. râ—r Anglic. Hibern pag. 729 edit 1625. b b Ex Bibliothecâ Remi in Christo patris D. Iacobi Vsserij Archiep Armachani c c Vid. lib. Status Hiborn edit Dubl an 1621. pag. 427. d d Floruit subinitium reg Edw. 4 e e Floruit sub Hen. 8. * * The originall of the very name of Scythians seemeth to come from shooting vide Selden annot in Poly. olb ex Gorop Becan â—eccesel et Aluvedi lâ—g pag. 122. * * Not he but Herodotus in the life of Homer ** ** These families of Mac-mahones and Mac-swines are by others held to be of the ancient Irish. * * vide annoâ— pag. praeced * * Others hould that he was beheaded at Tredagh 15. Febr. 146â— by the command of Iohn Tipâ—ofâ— Earle of Worcester then Lo Deputy of Ireland for exacting of Coyne and Livery vid. Caâ—den Britan. pag. 738 edit 〈◊〉 an 1607 * * The like reason may be given for the making of such Rathes in Ireland by the Danes or Norwegians vid. Gir. Cambr. topâ—g Hâ—b distinct 3. cap. 37. * * Trinity Colledge by Dublin which was founded by Queene Eliz 3 Martij 159â— The 13. of the same moneth its first stone was laide by Thomas Smyth then Mayor of Dublin and the 9. of Ian 1593. it first admitted Students * * Consulat sâ— placeâ— Camden annal rerum Anglic Hiber ad an 1520. * * The causes of these feares have been amputated since the happy union of England and Scotland established by his late Majesty * * vide â—ed Eccles Hist. lib. 1. cap. 1. * * In Richard Creagh's booke de lingua Hibernica there is a very plentifull collection of Irish words derived from the Brittish or Welch tongue which doth much strengthen the Authors opinion in houlding that the Bâ—rnes Tooles and Cavenaghs with other the ancient inhabitants of the easterne parts were originally Brittish Colonyes vid pag. 32 33. * * Dermot Mac Murrogh King of Leinster who was surnamed also ni-Gall as being a friend to the English and a cheife instrument in inciting them to the conquest of Ireland oâ— O-Birnâ— * * vide Camdeni annales sub senem anni 1594. * * This carrieth no fit proportion for the transplantation intended by the Author considering the large extent of Vlster and the narrow bounds heere limited * * This is now part of the Countie of London-derry * * The County of Clare was anciently accounted part of the Province of Mounster whence it hath the name of Tuadmuan or Thomond which signifieth north Mounster and hath at this day its peculiar Governour as being exempted from the Presidencies of Mounster and Connaght * * This is part of the county of Wexford * * De bis qui plura scire avet consulat D. Hen Spelmanni eq aur Archaeologum in Borsholder Hundred * * Livie speaking of Romulus hath it thus PopuluÌ„ in curias 30. divisit c. Eodem tempore centuriae tres equitum conscriptae sunt And so we have it in Sextus Aurel. Victor's booke de viris illustribus urbis Romae Tres equitum centurias instituit saith he Plebem in triginta curias distribuit * * Richard â—he 2. * * This
TWO HISTORIES OF IRELAND The one written by Edmund Campion the other by Meredith Hanmer D r of Divinity DUBLIN Printed by the Society of Stationers M.DC.XXXIII els-where these Histories doe affoord to the knowledge of former times and the good use which may be made of them by any who have leisure desire and ability to erect and polish a lasting structure of our Irish affaires I am embouldned to present them to your Lordships patronage whose government I beseech the Almighty so to blesse that it may bee a long happines to this land Your Lordships ever humbly at commandement IAMES WARE THE PREFACE TO THE SVBSEQVENT HISTORIES WHat varietie of choyse matter the affaires of this Kingdome doe affoord to an Historian especially since the middle of the raigne of King Henry the VIII any one that is but meanely versed in our Histories can testifie But if we consider how little hath hetherto bin published wee cannot but blame the slownes of our learned men who have for by-respects forborne to take paines in so worthy a subject England hath had the happines that some parts of her Historie have bin lately excellently performed by the right honorable Francis late Viscount St. Alban the right Reverend Francis Lo Bishop of Hereford the most learned William Camden and others Some will hereafter I hope doe the like for Ireland In the meane while we are to accept of these tastes the one left unto us by Edmund Campion and the other by Doctor Hanmer who died of the plague at Dublin in the yeare M.DC.IIII before he had finished his intended worke out of whose collections what now beareth his name hath bin preserved by our most Reverend and excellently learned Primate Other helpes to passe by those which are already divulged may be plentifully had by him who will undertake this taske out of the auncient and moderne recordes both in this Kingdome and in England as also out of diverse manuscript Annales and Chartularies which are yet extant among us besides those authors of English birth as Iohn VVallingford a Monke of St Alban Thomas Wike a Canon of Osney and others which I have seene in that excellent library and treasury of MSS. antiquities gathered by Sir Robert Cotton knight and Baronett deceased who doe onely obiter touch upon our affaires An intention there was not long since by Sir Iames Ley knight then Lord chiefe Iustice of the Kings Bench in Ireland afterwards Lord high Treasurer of England and Earle of Marleburgh to have published some of our country writers in this kinde for which end hee caused to be transcribed and made fit for the Presse the Annales of Iohn Clynne a Friar minor of Kilkenny who lived in the time of King Edw. the 3. the Annales of the Priory of S. Iohn the Evangelist of Kilkenny and the Annales of Multifernan Rosse and Clonmell c. But his weighty occasions did afterwards divert his purpose The copies are yet preserved and I hope ere long with other Annales and fragments of the same nature will be divulged Wee come now to the Authors in hand TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE ROBERT DUDLEY Baron of Denbigh Earle of Leicester Knight of the noble Order of the garter and S. Michaels Master of the Queenes Majesties horse and one of her Privy Councell high Chauncellour of the Vniversity of Oxford my singular good Lord. THat my travaile into Ireland might seeme neither causlesse nor fruitlesse I have thought it expedient being one member of your Lordships honorable charge to yeeld you this poore book as an accompt of my poore voyage happily not the last nor the most beautifull present that is intended to your Honour by me but surely more full of unsavoury toyle for the time then any plot of worke that ever I attempted which I write not of vanity to commend my diligence but of necessitie to excuse mine imperfection For whereas it is well knowne to the learned in this land how late it was ere I could meet with Gerald of Wales the onely Author that ministreth some indifferent furniture to this Chronicle and with what search I have beene driven to piece out the rest by helpe of forreine Writers incidently touching this Realme by a number of briefe extracts of rolles records and scattered papers These things I say considered I trust this little volume shall seeme great enough in such barren shift my defect in penning the same shal be imputed partly to my haste who must needes have ended all before I should leave the land and am now even upon point of my departure So as to handle and lay these things together I had not in all the space of ten weekes Such as it is I addresse and bequeath it to your good Lordship for two causes First that by the patronage of this Booke you may be induced to weigh the estate and become a patron to this noble Realme which claimeth kindred of your eldest auncestors and loveth entirely your noble vertues The fame whereof is now carried by those strangers that have felt them into many forraine countryes that never saw your person Secondly because there is none that knoweth mee familiarly but he knoweth vvithall how many vvayes I have beene beholding to your Lordship The regard of your deserts and of my duty hath easily wonne at my hands this testimony of a thankefull minde I might be thought ambitious if I should recount in particular the times places of your severall curtesies to mee How often at Oxford how often at the Court how at Rycot how at Windsore how by letters hovv by reportes you have not ceased to further with advice and to countenance with authority the hope and expectation of mee a single Student Therefore in summe it shall suffice mee to acknowledge the generall heape of your bounties and for them all to serve your honour frankely at least wise with a true heart Let every man esteeme in your state and fortune the thing that best contenteth and feedeth his admiration But surely to a judgement setled and rectified these outward felicities which the world gazeth on are there and therefore to be denied praiseable when they lodge those inward qualities of the minde which saving for suspition of flattery I was about to say are planted in your breast Thirteene yeares to have lived in the eye and speciall credit of a Prince yet never during all that space to have abused this ability to any mans harme to be enriched with no mans overthrow to be kindled neither with grudge nor emulation to benefit an infinite resort of dayly sutors to let downe your calling to the neede of meane subjects to retaine so lowly a stomacke such a facility so milde a nature in so high a vocation to undertake the tuition of learning and learned men These are indeede the kirnels for the which the shell of your nobilitie seemeth faire and sightly This is the sap for whose preservation the barke of your noble tree is tendered This is
the substance which maketh you worthy of these Ornaments wherevvith you are attyred and in respect of these good gifts as I for my part have ever bin desirous to discover an officious and dutifull minde towards your Lordship so will I never cease to betake the uttermost of my power and skill to your service nor to begge of Almighty God your plentifull increase in godlines wisedome and prosperity Fare you well From Dublin 27. May 1571. Your Lordships humbly to commaund EDMUND CAMPION To the loving Reader AT my times of leisure from ordinary studies I have since my first arrivall hither enquired out antiquityes of the land wherein being holpen by diverse friendly Gentlemen I have given th' adventure to frame a Story which I bring from the very first originall untill th' end of this last yeare 1570. I follow these Authors Giraldus Cambrensis who devideth his worke into two parts from the first which is stuffed with much impertinent matter I borrow so much as serveth the turne directly the second which containeth two bookes and discourseth the conquest of Henry Fitz Empresse I abridge into one Chapter where Cambrensis endeth there beginneth a nameles Author who in certaine short notes containeth a Chronologie untill the year◠of Christ 1370. From thence to Henry the Eight because nothing is extant orderly written and the same is time beyond any mans memory I scamble forward with such records as could be sought up and am enforced to be the briefer From Henry th' eight hitherto I tooke instructions by mouth whatsoever I bring besides these helpes either mine owne observation hath found it or some friend hath enformed me or common opinion hath received it or I reade it in a pamphlet or if the Author be worthy the naming I quote him in the margent Scottish Histories I used these twaine famous in their times Iohn Major and Hector Boethius For English wherein the state of Ireland is oft implyed because I am not in place to examine the auncient I have credited these late writers Fabian Polidore Cooper Hall Grafton and Stowe diligent and thankes-worthy collectors Touching the rest of all sorts from whose bookes I picke matter to my purpose they are mentioned as they fall in ure which here I list not to reckon being loath to fill the page with a ranke of empty names Irish Chronicles although they be reported to be full fraught of lewde examples idle tales and genealogies Et quicquid Graecia mendax audet in historiâ yet concerning the state of that wilde people specified before the conquest I am perswaded that with choice and judgment I might have sucked thence some better store of matter and gladly would have sought them had I found an interpreter or understood their tongue th' one so rare that scarcely five in five hundred can skill thereof th' other so hard that it asketh continuance in the Land of more yeares then I had moneths to spare about this busines my speciall meaning was to gather so much as I thought the civill subjects could bee content to reade and withall to give a light to the learned Antiquaries of this Countrey birth who may hereafter at good leisure supply the want of this foundation and pollish the stone rough hewed to their hand Notwithstanding as naked and simple as it is it could never have growne to any proportion in such post-haste except I had entred into such familiar societie and daylie table-talke with the worshipfull Esquire Iames Stanihurst Recorder of Dublin VVho beside all curtesie of Hospitality and a thousand loving turnes not heere to be recited both by word and written monuments and by the benefit of his owne Library nourished most effectually mine endeavour It remaineth that I request my Countrymen to bend their good liking to my goodwill and the English of Ireland to favour the memory of their noble auncestors both twaine to deliver me from all undue and wrong suspitions howsoever the priviledge of an history hath tempered mine inke with sweet or sowre ingredients Verily as touching the affaires and persons heere deciphered how little cause I have with any blind and corrupt affection either wayes to be miscarryed themselves know best that heere be noted yet living and other by enquiring may conjecture Farewell From Droghedah the 9. of Iune 1571. CAMPIONS HISTORIE OF IRELAND The First Booke CAP. I. The Site and speciall parts of Ireland IRELAND lieth a-loofe in the West Ocean and is deemed by the later Survey to be in length well-nigh three hundred miles north south broad from East to West one hundred and twentie In proportion it resembleth an egge blunt and plaine on the sides not reaching forth to Sea in nookes and elbowes of Land as Brittaine doth Long since it was devided into foure regions Leinster East Connaght West Vlster North Mounster South and into a fift plot defalked from every fourth part lying together in the heart of the Realme called thereof Media Meath Each of these five where they are framable to civility and answere the writts of the Crowne be sundred into shires and counties after this manner In Leinster lye the counties of Dublin Kildare Weixford Catherlagh Kilkenny King Queenes coūties these two lately so named by Parliament in the raignes of Philip and Mary having Shire-townes accordant Philipstown and Marryborrow Septes Irish of name planted in these quarters they reckon the Birnes Tooles Cauanaghes which is the nation of Macmurrow Omores Oconnores Odempsyes Odun Citties of best account Dyvelin the beauty and eye of Ireland fast by a goodly river which Cambrensis calleth Avenlifius Ptolomy Libnius they call the Lyffie The seat hereof is in many respects comfortable but lesse frequented of marchant strangers because of the bard haven Kildare hath Kildare and the Naass Weixford hath Weixford and Ross. Kilkenny hath Kilkenny the best dry towne in Ireland on the Southside of the river Suirus also Callan and Thomastowne Meath is devided into East and West Meath and the counties of Longford Here dwelleth ancient Irish families sometime Princes Potentates Omalaghlen Mac-Coghlan Obrien Omulloy Omadden Macgoghigan the Fox This whole part and the veyne of Finegale in Leinster are best imployed with husbandry and taken to be the richest soyles in Ireland Connaght hath as yet but the county Clare the town of Athenry Galway a proper neat city at the sea side Herein Turlogh More Oconner was a peere parted the whole betwixt his two Sonnes Cahal and Bryen Oconnor In it are now cheife Irish Breni Oreli Breni Oruarke Oconnor Sligo Odoude Ohara Macphilippin Mac-dermot Oconnor-donn Oconnor-Roe the O-kellies Macglomore of Langues L. Bermingham Omaly Mac-william Euter Oflaherty Clanricarde Vlster wherin Oneale Odonil are cheife Irish contayneth the coūties Louth Down Antrim one moity of Droghdah for the rest is in Meath cheife town of Louth Dundalk of Down Down Carlingford of Droghdagh Droghdaghe
vvho lightly leapt to horse and commaunding their forvvardnesse in so naturall a quarrell sayde Lordings and friendes this case neither admitteth delay nor asketh policie heart and haste is all in all vvhile the feate is young and strong that of our enemies some sleepe some sorrovv some curse some consult all dismayed let us anticipate their furye dismember their force cut off their flight occupie their places of refuge and succour It is no mastery to plucke their feathers but their neckes nor to chase them in but to rovvse them out to vveede them not to rake them nor to treade them dovvne but to digge them up This lesson the Tyrant himselfe hath taught mee I once demaunded him in a parable by vvhat good husbandry the Land might bee ridde of certaine Crovves that annoyed it hee advised to vvatche vvhere they bred and to fire the nestes about their eares Goe vvee then upon these Cormorants that shrovvde themselves in our possessions and let us destroy them so that neither nest nor roote nor seede nor stalke nor stubbe may remaine of this ungracious generation Scarce had he spoken the vvord but vvith great shovvtes and clamours they extolled the King as patron of their lives and families assured both courage and expedition joyned their confederates and vvith a running campe svvept every corner of the Land razed the castles to the ground chased the strangers before them slevv all that abode the battaile recovered each man his ovvne precinct and former state of government The Irish delivered of slavery fell to their old vomit in persecuting one another having lately defaced their fortified castles tovvns as coverts to the enemy al sides lay novv more open in harmes vvay This considered the Princes that in the late rule of Turgesius espied some towardnesse to wealth and ease began to discourse the madnesse of their fathers who could not see the use of that vvhich their enemies abused they began to loathe their unquietnesse to wish either lesse discord or more strength in every mans dominion to cast out the danger of naked Territoryes as ready to call in the enemy as the contrary was to shrowd them faine vvould they mend and they vvist not hovv The former subjection though it seemed intollerable yet they felt therein a grovving to peace fruits of merchandize rest surety for it fared diversly tvvixt those Easterlings these Irish they knevv hovv to thrive might they get some commodious soyle These had all the commodities of the soile reckoned them not While the Princes Potentates pavvsed in this good mood certain marchants out of Norvvay called Ostomanni Easterlings because they lay East in respect of us though they are indeede properly Normans partly Saxons obtained licence safely to land utter their vvares By exchanging of vvares money finding the Normans civill and tractable delighted also vvith gay conceipts vvhich they never esteemed needfull untill they savv them they entred into a desire of traffique vvith other nations to allure marchants they licensed the strangers aforesaid to build if they vvere disposed Haven-Tovvnes vvhich vvas done Amellanus founded Waterford Sitaricus Limericke Inorus Dublin more at leisure by others Then were repaired by helpe and counsell of these men castles forts steeples and Churches every-where Thus are the Irish blended also in the blood of the Normans who from thenceforth continually flocked hither did the Inhabitants great pleasure lived obediently till wealth made them wanton and rebellious But they could not possibly have held out had not the conquest ensuing determined both their contentions The meane while they waxed Lords of Havens and Bur-Townes housed their souldiours and oftentimes skirmished tooke their fortune crept no higher onely a memory is left of their field in Clantarfe where diverse noble Irish men were slayne that lye buryed before the Crosse of Kilmaynam And it is to be noted that these are the Danes which people then Pagans wasted England and after that France From whence they came againe into England with VVilliam the Conquerour So that Ostomani Normans Easterlings Danes and Norway-men are in effect the same and as it appeareth by conference of times and Chronicles much about one time or season vexed the French men subdued the English and multiplyed in Ireland But in the yeare of CHRIST 1095. perceiving great envy to lurke in the distinction of Easterlings and Irishe utterly west and because they were simply Northerne not Easterne and because they magnified themselves in the late conquest of their Countreymen who from Normandy flourished now in the Realme of England they would in any wise bee called and counted Normans Long before this time as ye have heard Ireland vvas bestowed into tvvo principall Kingdomes and sometime into more whereof one was ever elected Monarch whom they tearme in their Histories maximum regem or without addition regem Hiberniae The rest were written Reguli or Reges by limitation as the King of Leinster of Connaght of Vlster of Mounster of Meth. To the Monarch besides his allowance of ground and titles of Honours and other priviledges in Iurisdiction was graunted a negative in the nomination of Bishops at every vacation The Cleargy and Laity of the Diocesse recommended him to their King the King to their Monarch the Monarch to the Archbishop of Canterbury for that as yet the Metropolitanes of Ireland had not receaved their palles In this sort was nominated to the Bishopricke of Divelin then voide Anno 1074. at the petition of Godericus King of Leinster by sufferance of the cleargy people there with the consent of Terdilvachus the Monarch a learned prelate called Patricius whō the blessed archbishop Lanfrancus consecrated at S. Pauls Church in London swore him to the obedience after the maner of his antecessors Christian Bishop of Lismore Legate to Eugenius 3. summoned a Provinciall Councell in Ireland wherein were authorized foure Metropolitan See◠Ardmagh Dublin Cashell Tuam Bishops thereof being Gelasius Gregorius Donatus Edanus for hitherto though they yeelded a primacy to the Bishop of Ardmagh in reverence of Saint Patricke yet was it partly voluntary and ratified rather by custome then by sufficient decree neither did that Arch-Bishop take upon him to invest other Bishops but sent them to Canterbury as I said before which henceforth they did not Namely the next Bishop S. Laurence sometimes Abbot of S. Kevynes in Glandilagh was ordered and installed at home by Gelasius Primate of Ardmagh THE SECOND BOOKE OF CAMPION'S HISTORY OF IRELAND CAP. I. The conquest of Ireland by Henry the second King of England commonly called Henry Fitz Empresse DErmot Mac Murrough King of Leinster halt and leacherous vowed dishonestly to serve his lust on the beautifull Queene of Meath and in the absence of her husband allured the woman so farre that she condiscended to be stolne away This dishonourable wrong to avenge O-Rorick the King her husband besought
called Baragh-llys in Vlster he was a man in his prosperitie of great command in Ireland so that the Danes and Norweyans had through him great dealing and entercourse with Ireland and Ireland with them But yet as it sometime falleth out among the deerest friends many jarres and broiles and factions fell betweene them and especially betweene the sept of Klan ne Morne and Klan ne Boisken both which sides still relieved themselves out of Denmarke The King of Denmarke at last hearing of the same of Fin Mac Coile sent for him and tooke such a liking to him that he concluded to marry him unto his daughter Fin went thither with three thousand souldiers the King one day as they conversed together asked after the manner of the death of his three sonnes Comen Law-ne-Meyd and Feagh who formerly went into Ireland to maintaine one of the factions Dermot O Doyne one of Fins company answered trouble not thy selfe O King this is the hand that killed thy sonne Comen one Osker said this is the hand that killed thy sonne Law-ne-Meyd Keyn Mac Fin also said this is the hand that killed thy sonne Feagh Herewith the King was wroth and said Fin Mac Coile thou and thy men are my prisoners forthwith they drew their Skeynes the Kings guard for feare fled they tooke him prisoner carried him aboord their shippes hoised up saile and brought him to Ireland so as the marriage was dasht and the King driven to pay a ransome for his libertie before he could get from them This Fin Mac Coile also fought with a Gyant that landed at Houth and came to challenge combats for tribute and by policie not by strength overcame him his policie was this he caused him in the night for the space of three nights to be kept waking and in the day time to be fought withall and thereby weakened his strength and foiled the Gyant Toward his end one Gorre an old man after these former warres and troubles came to his house before spoken of and boasted unto the Gentlewomen then present of his feates in warre and the combats he had fought whereat they laughed he being offended with them sware in his anger that hee would burne them all got old timber and straw put it in the house fired it made fast the doores and compassed about the house with men that none might escape They cryed unto him out of their windowes to save their lives but he was inexorable and could not bee drawne to any compassion and when the house was readie to fall he fled into Mounster and there hid himselfe in a Cave Fin Mac Coile came home from hunting and beheld this wofull desolation how his Wife his Maides his old Souldiers his Horses his Greyhounds his Plate and houshold stuffe his Shields Iackes and Shirts of maile and his instruments of Musicke were consumed to ashes made after Gorre into Mounster where he found him and after some skirmish of both sides tooke him and brought him to the place where he had committed this villany Gorre when hee beheld the bones of them that were burned laughed and being asked why his answer was that hee laughed at them that formerly laughed at him This wilâ—e Gorre being kept that night from execution in the dead of the night stole away and was found in a Cave where by commandment of Fin Mac Coill Hugh Gorre his owne sonne killed his father and after became madde himselfe And the end of Fin Mac Coill was that he dyed a beggar and in great miserie So farre out of the booke of Houth Now to continue the storie It is written of Maximus who beganne his raigne in Britaine Anno Dom. 387 that he tooke great displeasure against the Scots and Irish for partaking with Conan and upholding the faction betweene him and Carodoch thus it is written Maximus drave the Scots out of Britaine and compelled them to get habitation in Ireland the out Iles and the North part of the maine and finally divided their region betweene the Britaines and the Pictes He denounced warre also against the Irish men for receiving them into their land but they craving peace yeelded to subscribe that from thenceforth they would not receive any Scot into their dominions Hector Boetius penneth this matter at large that all the Scots were banished and despersed themselves into the Hebrydes Orchades Norwey Denmarke and some into France and Italie And where Maximus somewhat tendred their utter ruine and overthrow and referred them to the Pictes for favour the Pictes most cruelly gave sentence that the Scots which fled not should eate the Pictes sword c And of Ireland he writeth Vpon the first comming of this newes all Ireland mourned and made great lamentation and when they had deliberately examined the exiles and understood all the accidents that befell them in Albion they appointed certaine dayes for a parley summoned from East to West all the Princes of the land to meete their Monarch at the certaine day and place prefixed to consult how and by what meanes the Roman forces might be resisted and the kingdome of Albion restored to their allies and cousins the Scots When they could devise no remedie for they feared the power of the Romanes they thought good to put up all iniuries and to intreate for peace To this purpose they sent Ambassadors to Maximus the Romane Captaine who at the first sharpely rebuked them for that they had sent aide into Albion against the Romanes their confederates and favourites and in especiall seeing that unto that day Ireland of all the kingdomes of the world felt little smart of the Romane sword In the end he received them into favour and granted them peace upon these conditions That they should thenceforth receive no enemies of the Romanes into the Realme of Ireland neither any that gave aide against the Romanes and that no rebell of the Irish under pretence of marchandize should thenceforth set foot in Albion These conditions of peace being concluded the Irish were quiet and trode not upon Scottish soile So farre Boetius Not long after this according to Ponticus Virunius Guanius King of Hunnes and Melga King of Pictes having long hulled here and there and roved upon the seas were by Gratianus after their invading of Britaine and Scotland in the absence of Maximus overthrowne and driven out of the kingdome and forced to flee for refuge into Ireland soule weather followed these two Kings and Ireland gave them hard entertainement at the first Notwithstanding I finde that this Guanius and Melga after the death of this Gratianus who usurped the kingdome of Britaine for the space of foure yeeres upon the death of Maximus who had slaine Gratianus the Emperour prepared againe for Britaine and brought with them the exiled Scots with Irish and Ilanders for their aide But to proceed Thomas Cooper who afterwards was Bishop of Winchester speaking of the returne of the Scots from exile
led an heremeticall life in a Cell in a place of old called Cluayn Duach where he was borne and brought up Now the place is called Gleand-daloch saith mine Author Vallis duorum stagnorum a valley of two pooles or standing waters where one Dymnach a Lord of the soile founded a Cathedrall Church in the honour of Saint Coeingenus ioyned therunto a faire Church-yard with other edifices and divers buildings the which in mine Author legenda sancti Coeingeni is termed civitas de Glandelogh In the life of Saint Patricke I finde that hee prophecied of two rare men Albanus and Coeingenus and that this should be a Bishop and that one Molingus should succeed him I finde this true in the See of Glandelogh Coeingenus was a great learned man and wrote these bookes De Britannorum origine lib. 1 Bryto sive Brutus De Hibero Hermone lib. 1 Hyber Hermon Molva before mentioned in the life of Mocoeinoge of his mother called Lugidus but of his master Congallus was a great learned man borne in Mounster in Huafi of the sept of Corcach His father hight Carthach alias Coche his mother Sochla that is Large hee was brought up under Congallus in Vlster in his Abbey of Benchor where he received orders and was sent into his native soile of Mounster for the good of his country Hee came to the schoole of Saint Finnian in the confines of Leinster and profited there very much from thence he went to mount Luacha in the South-west part of the river Synna together with his disciples and craved of Foelanus Lord of that soile license there to inhabite who refused him so that he went to his kindred in Osraigi now called Ossorie who received him ioyfully In a while after he went to mount Smoil now called moâ—s Blandina where he cast his staffe and builded a Monasterie in a place called Rosse Bualead by licence of Berachus Lord of that soile in Latine Dux Laigy where he decreed saith the Legend ut nulla mulier ibi semper intraret that no woman should alwaies enter into it which was and may well be observed to this day yea while the world endureth In the same place was afterwards a famous citie builded called Cluayn ferta Molua in Latine latibulum mirabile sancti Molvae the secret habitation of Saint Molva He conversed with Saint Flannanus Molayssi alias Molassus Sethua Bishop of Saigir or Sagri where it lyeth I finde not but by all likelyhood it should not be farre from Cluayn Ferta with Moedog Archbishop of Leinster Einenus Abbot of Rosse Mac Treoin in Kenselach upon the river Berua founded by the olde Saint Abbanus with Daganus Abbot of Ardgabraine in Nandesi called Achad Dagani Saint Cronan in insula Cree Stellanus his disciple Manchenus and Munnu Abbot of Techmunnu in Kenselach in the South part of Leinster Hee ended the way of all flesh and resteth in the Monasterie of Cluayn Ferta where one Lachtanus succeeded him He is said to have wrought many wonders and if the reader laugh not I will penne him one Molva in an evening walking among the cattell of his monasterie heard a company of Wolves howling for their prey hee was moved with pitty called them to him washed their feet made them a feast and gave them lodging The Legend faith further that they thenceforth familiarly conversed with the Heard keepers and chased away other Wolves and theeves He wrote Regulas Monachorum confirmed by Greg. 1. Munnu spoken of in the former Legend came of good parentage of the house of Neill his father was Tulchanus his mother Fedelyr he was brought up under Silell a learned man in the North of Ireland Hee proved a singular learned man and wrote a booke de pascate which was in his time in question he outlived Congallus and Columba and conversed with Baithenus and Lazerianus Abbot of Leighlin he dwelt a while in Ely from thence hee went to Athcayn in Kinselach and in Achad Liaâ—htrom he builded a monasterie called Teach-Munnu alias Thech-Munnu where hee gave up the ghost 12. of the Kalends of November and yet the Martyrologes place him the sixt Kalend of the same moneth In his storie I finde mention of a controversie betweene him and Lazerianus who builded a Monasterie In stagno Hiberniae Dai ynis in Latine bovis insula in the North part of Ireland so it is written in the life of Aedanus afterwards he came to the river Berba now called the Barrow and there became Abbot of fifteene hundred Monkes In their time the old controversie about the observation of Easter was vehemently urged of all sides a great disputation and parlie was appointed in Campo Albo saith mine Author upon the Barrow Munnu held the old the other the new observation To be short Munnu gave this offer brother Lazerianus saith he let us not spend time neither trouble this people with this tedious question choose for the tryall of the truth one of these three things take two bookes one of the old the other of the new Easter cast them into the fire looke which the fire saveth let the truth rest there or take two Monkes one of thy side another of mine and cast them both into an house set on fire he that commeth forth safe let him carry the truth Or let us goe to the grave of some holy Monke and raise the dead and stand to his sentence when we shall keepe Easter this yeere Lazerianus refused his offers and said I will no longer contend with thee brother Munnu for I know thy worthinesse and sanctitie is such that if thou command the mount Margee over against us to remove to this Campus albus and this ground to remove thither I am of opinion it will bee so thus they broke up and did nothing Cannicus or Kennicus was borne in the North of Ireland in Connaught as I gather his father was called Lugaid Lechteag a Poet his mother hight Maula or Mella hee was trayned up in Britaine in the christian schoole of Docus thence he went to Rome and took orders in Italie returned into Ireland preached the Gospell most zealously and saith his Legend wrought many miracles He conversed with great learned men namely Eugenius Bishop of Ardratha Baithenus and others Adamannus in the life of Columba formerly spoken of and the second of the name writeth wherby I gather the time of the learned men of that age how that at one time Cannicus Congallus Brendanus Cormacus and Fynbarry visited Columba and were all present when he celebrated the divine mysterie Colmanus the sonne of Feraid Lord of Osraide or Ossragy now called Ossorie was Kannicus his deare friend who after he had received the faith gave him many villages where he builded Cels and Monasteries but chiefely at Achadbo where he resteth When the time of his departure out of this sinfull world drew nigh he sent
home for the guard and safety of the City early in the morning when the enemy was unarmed out of order little thinking that so few within durst attempt to give the onset to so many without they fell upon them killed without mercy and the rere was so forward that they came with the Vanguard by wheeling about to the slaughter of the enemie Roderic all this while trusting to his troupes and multitude of people feared nothing he took his ease and pleasure and was bathing himself but when the larum was up that he saw his men on every side fall to the ground never tarried called for man nor Page to array him but tooke his mantle and ranne away all naked and hardly escaped with life The Britaines pursued after and had the killing of them all that day in the evening they returned into the Citie not onely with the honour of the field but rich booties and praies of victuals armour and other pillage as much as man and beast could cary Immediatly also the rumor hereof the other Campes were dispersed namely Laurence the Archbishop whom it had beseemed better to have beene at home with his porthouse then in Campe with rebels Mathelan Machalem Gillemehelmocus Otuetol Ororic Prince of Meath Ocarol alias Ocarvell Prince of Vriell Machfalin Ochadese with many other great Commanders where every man shifted for himselfe of Gotred alias Godfray King of Man that came by Sea I find nothing for upon this disaster he tooke him to the seas the next day without any further deliberation Miles Cogan is left to governe Dublin and the Earle with his Army marched towards Wexford to raise the siege at the Carreke to relieve Robert Fitz Stephens as he passed by Odrone the forces of Leinster by the conduct of Donole Obrene Prince of Limerik and Donald Prince Osery set upon him and fought a cruell fight but he went on with the losse of one man As he came to the borders of Wexford certaine messengers met and informed him of the mischance that happened to Robert Fitz Stephens and the firing of the Towne of Wexford adding moreover that the Wexfordians were fully determined if the Earle came any further towards them they would cut off all the heads of Fitz Stephens and all his company and send them unto him whereupon with heavy cheere and sorrowfull heart he changed his mind turned to Waterford But afore I proceede any further I am to deliver the manner of the treachery and villany shewed unto Robert Fitz Stephens Donold of Limric sonne in Law to Dermot Mac Morogh while his father lived he was one that favoured the Brittains and not without cause but now forgetting humanity returneth to his vomit bends his course towards Wexford and while other states of Ireland by East and by North with might maine practised the rooting out of the Brittains he flies to the South and raiseth Wexford Kensile to lay siege to the Carreke the fort of Robert Fitz Stephens First they begin with force and seeing that failed them they fall to guiles and subtilities under color of peace pretending nothing but pure love tender affection and safeguard of his person and all that were with him they bring with them two Bishops the one of Kildare the other of Fernes in their formall moods with other Religious persons O damned Prelats and they had with them the Masse Booke the host with certaine Reliques upon these they take corporall oathes and sweare with great solemnity and protestations as followeth For the good will and affection wee beare unto you whom we have alwaies found a curteous and bountifull Prince we are to signifie unto you this much how that Dublin is taken the Earle Strangbow Maurice Fitz Girald Reimond le Grosse Miles Cogan with all the English are put to the sword and now Roderic the Monarch with all the power of Conoght and Leinster posteth hither to rase even with the ground all the Forts Holds and Castles which the Englishmen have and especially to apprehend you Robert Fitz Stephens and Willam Not that were the forerunners into this Land of all this mischiefe wherefore take this for truth and be well advised what to doe if they take you there is no mercy if you will put your selfe with your company and goods into our hands in the faith of Christianity we sweare we will safely transport you and yours unto Wales so shall you not lose so much as a haire of your head wherefore the great Army being at hand yeeld come forth and shippe your selfe for Wals. Robert Fitz Stephens who would not in this case give credit yeelded himselfe into their hands immediatly more like Iewes then Christians they strippe them out of all that ever they have they hang one they throw another over a rocke they breake anothers necke one hath his eyes puld out another hath his tongue cut some they scourge with thongs other some they take and with sledges breake their Armes and thighes the greatest kindnesse they shew is iron and imprisonment the which Robert Fitz Stephens endured now leaving these bloody Massacers and themselves I will turne to Waterford after Earle Strangbow When Earle Strangbow came to Waterford he found there Hervie de Monte Marisco newly arrived out of England with letters from the King requiring him forthwith to repaire unto his Majesty Strangbow together with Hervy tooke the first wind and went for England and found the King at Newham not farre from Glocester where he was in readinesse with a great Army to saile out into Ireland whereafter sundry altercations passed betweene them at length as they say by meanes of Hervy the Kings displeasure was appeased and it was agreed that the Earle should sweare alleageance to the King and yeeld and surender unto him the City of Dublin with the Cantreds thereunto adjoining as also such Townes and Forts as were bordering upon the Sea side and as for the residue he should have and reteine to him and his heires holding the same of the King and his heires Strangbow was no sooner knowne to be in England and Reimond at Waterford but Ororic Monoculus the one eyed Prince of Meath mustred a great number of Souldiers and laid siege to the City of Dublin Miles Cogan the Governour withall his company while the enemy was carelesse upon a sudden issued out and fell upon them unawares and made a great slaughter of them among whom both Ororic and his sonne were slaine In the British Chronicles copied by Owen Cretten out of the Abbies of Conwey in North-wales and Stratflur in South-wales I find recorded that when King Henry the 2. made preparation for the conquest of Ireland Richard Strangbow Earle of Strigale Marshall of England being reconciled to the King had all his Lands in England and Normandy restored unto him againe and thereupon the King made him Seneschall Steward saith he of Ireland Then came Rees prince of South-wales and offred the King to further his
Felcon over Ireland And all the West of the world and there followed immediatly a continuall untemperature of the ayre with a filthy skurfe the Winter stormy cold and wet which continued untill the 11. of Iuly and put the Gardeners Fruterers and Husbandmen void of all hope in so much they complained that Winter was turned to Summer and Summer to Winter and that they were like to lose all and bee undone Anno 1252. saith Dowling and Grace and the English Anonimus but Clyn and Florilegus write that it was 1254. King Henry gave to Prince Edward his sonne Gascoigne Ireland Wales Bristow Stanford and Grantham and sent him to Alphonsus King of Spaine to take Ellionor his sister to wife where hee was by the said King Knighted and returned together with his wife into England with great riches Anno 1255. Alanus de la Zouch was made Lord Iustice so I finde in the Booke of Houth after his departure out of Ireland hee being a Lord Baron and chiefe Iustice in England Florilegus Humfrey Loid and Stow doe write the Story how hee came to his end great strife rose in England betweene certaine of the Nobility about territories lands and titles whereto each side made claime the matters in controversie by direction from the King were decided in Westminster Hall the first Controversie was betweene Iohn Earle of Surrey and Warren and Hugh de Lacy Earle of Lincolne which went upon Lacy his side The second was betweene this Earle Warren and Allan de la Zouch this Zouch being Chiefe Iustice asked Earle Warren how he held his land Earle Warran drew foorth his sword and said by this mine Ancestors held the same and by this I presently hold it and with that ranne the Chiefe Iustice through in Westminster Hall and in his flight wounded also his sonne thence hee fled to his Castle at Risgate whome Prince Edward the Kings eldest sonne pursued with an Army to whom the Earle submitted himselfe and afterwards with friends and what with money pacified all Anno 1256. in the warres of Lewelin Prince of Wales so I find in the records of Conway Stratflur Copied by Gettine Owen Edward Earle of Chester fell to outrage one while against the King another while against the Welshmen his Army was 1500. foot and 500. horse Henry the third together with Richard Earle of Cornewall and King of Almane wrote unto him gently wishing him to returne to his Country and keepe the peace and not to provoke the Welshmen to Armes the which he refused to doe but sent to the Irishmen for succour and supplies Prince Edward the Kings eldest sonne understanding thereof rigged a Navy met with the Irish fleet killed their men and sunck their ships few onely remaining to returne and to make report of this hard successe in Ireland In a while after the King raised warres against Lewellin Prince of Wales and the Welshmen saith Paris Causa autem eorum etiam hostibus eorum justa videbatur and was brought to a narrow straight so that he sent to Ireland and to Gascoigne for succour the Irishmen not forgetting their late overthrow were loath to come being of all sides driven to serve in the end came and joyned with their Kings forces where no memorable act was performed for God saith Paris defended the poore people that put their whole confidence in him About this time to wit Anno 1256. Florished Iohannes De Sacro Bosco Bale out of Leland will have him to be a Yorkeshire man and terme him Iohn Holyfaxe Stanihurst writeth he was borne in Ireland at Holy Wood in Fingall some 12. miles from Dublin and therefore called Iohannes De Sacro Bosco which carried great likly-hood with it untill they are reconciled which side prevaileth I waigh not greatly I thought good to insert him for so much as his great learning graced him unto the posterity In his springing yeeres hee suckt the sweet milk of good learning in the famous Vniversity of Oxford afterwards he went to Paris where he professed the learned Sciences with singular commendations and there slumbreth in the dust of the earth whose exequies and funerals were there with great lamentations solemnized first hee followed Aristotle afterwards gave himselfe to the Mathematikes and addicted himselfe so much thereto that none of the posterity as is thought could follow him hee wrote De Spaera Mundi lib. 1. Tractatum de spaera quatuor De Algorismo lib. 1. Omnia quae a primeva rerum orig De Anni Ratione lib. 1. Cmoputus scientiam considerans Breviarium Iuris lib. 1. Verborum superficie penitus Vpon his Tombe together with the Mathematicall Astrolabe was insculped as followeth M. Christi bis C. quarto deno quater anno De Sacro Bosco discrevit tempora ramus Gratia cui nomen dederat divina Iohannes Anno 1258. Stepham Espee alias De longa spatha that is Stepham with the long skeine or two handed sword Earle of Salibury as I suppose was made Lord Iustice of Ireland this Stepham gave battell unto Oneile and the rebels of Vlster and Conaght and slue of them together with Oneile saith Clinne in one day three hundred fifty and two and departed this life saith Florilegus 1260. Anno 1260. William Denne was made Lord Iustice in whose time Greene Castle Arx Viridis was destroyed and the Carties plaied the Divells in Desmond where they burned spoiled preyed and slue many an innocent they became so strong and prevailed so mightily that for the space so it is reported of twelue yeeres the Desmonds durst not put plow in ground in his owne Country at length through the operation of Satan a bane of discord was throwen betweene the Carties and the Odriscoles Odonovaies Mac Donoch Mac Mahonna Mac Swines and the inhabittants of Muscrie in so much that by their cruell dissention they weakened themselves of all sides that the Desmond in the end overcame and overtopped them all but in the beginning of these garboils I find that the Carties slue of the Desmonds Iohn Fitz Thomas founder of the Monastery and Covent of Trally together with Maurice his sonne eight Barons 15. Knights beside infinite others at a place called Callan where they were buried Mine Authors are Iohn Clinne onely and the Booke of Houth In the end of these tumults dyed Sir William Denny Lord Iustice Anno 1261. Richardus de Capella otherwise called Rochell Clinne calleth him La Rochell de Capella became Lord Iustice of Ireland Anno 1262. There rose in Dublin a great stirre betweene the Prior and Covent of the blessed Trinity now called Christ-Church and the Communalty of the City about the tithe fish of the Liffy Anno 1264. Walter Bourke commonly called Walterus de Burgo spoken of before was made Earle of Vlster hee had married the daughter and heire of Sir Hugh Delacy the younger and in her right enjoyed the Earledome The Booke of Houth layeth downe the descent that this
to let you see what it now is and also what it may bee by good care and amendment Not that I take upon me to change the policy of so great a kingdome or prescribe rules to such wise men as have the handling thereof but onely to shew you the evills which in my small experience I have observed to be the cheife hinderance of the reformation and by way of conference to declare my simple opinion for the redresse thereof and establishing a good course for government which I doe not deliver as a perfect plot of mine owne invention to be onely followed but as I have learned and understood the same by the consultations and actions of very wise Governours and Councellours whom I have sometimes heard treate hereof So have I thought good to set downe a remembrance of them for my owne good and your satisfaction that who so lift to overlooke them although perhaps much wiser then they which have thus advised of that State yet at lest by comparison hereof may perhaps better his owne judgment and by the light of others fore-going him may follow after with more ease and haply finde a fairer way thereunto then they which have gone before Eudox. I thanke you Irenaeus for this your gentle paines withall not forgetting now in the shutting up to put you in minde of that which you have formerly halfe promised that hereafter when wee shall meete againe upon the like good occasion you will declare unto us those your observations which you have gathered of the antiquities of Ireland The end Faults escaped PAg 25. lin 45. for and he read he is pag. 27. lin 28. in some copies for Albany read either Albion or England pag. 32. lin 22. for admirall read admirable pag. 33. lin 38. for afâ—er read before pag. 48 lin 14. for Termâ—ssa read Tecmessa pag. 54. lin 34. 46 for Talkmotâ—â— read Folkmoâ—es and in the Margent add vid. D. Hen. Spâ—lmanni Glossarium pag. 74 lin 44 for Sinerwicke read Swerwicke ANNOTATIONS VPon review of that part which was printed before I began to inserte any notes these few animadversions are added Pag. 6. lin 39. the first originall of this word Tanist and Tanistry came See whether it may not be more fitly derived from Thane which word was commonly used among the Danes and also among the Saxons in England for a noble man and a principall officer Pag. 11. lin 14. duke of Clarence who having married the heire of the Earle of Vlster c. It was not George Duke of Clarence here spoken of by the author but Lionell Duke of Clarence third sonne of King Edw. the 3. who married the Earle of Vlsters daughter and by her had the Earledome of Vlster and although Edw. the 4. made his brother the Duke of Clarence Lo. Lieutenant of Ireland yet the place was still executed by his Deputyes which were at severall times Thomas Earle of Desmond Iohn Earle of Worcester Tho. Earle of Kildare and William Shirwood Bishop of Meth the Duke himselfe never comming into Ireland to governe there in person Pag. 26. lin 26. Kin is English and Congish affinity in Irish. I conceive the word to be rather altogether Irish. Kin signifying in Irish the heads or chiefe of any septs Pag. 27. The discourse from the word Scythians in the 11. line unto the end of the parenthesis in the 30. line is wholly to be crossed out as being then agreeable to the best MS. Copie onely after Scythians add which Touching the Scythians or Scotts arrivall in Ireland see Nennius an ancient Brittish author who lived in the yeare of Christ 858. where among other things we have the time of their arrivall Brittones saith he venerunt in 3. aetate mundi in Britanniam Scythae autem in 4. obtinuerunt Hiberniam Pag. 28. lin 35. remembrances of Bards Of the ancient Bards or Poets Lucan makes this mention in the first booke of his Pharsalia Vos quoque qui fortes animas belloque peremptas Lauaibus in longum vates dimitâ—itis aevum Plurima securi fudistis carmina Bardi Concerning the Irish Bardes see pag. 51. The word signified among the Gaules a singer as it is noted by Mr Camden and Mr Selden out of Festus Pompeius and it had the same signification among the Brittish Sr Iohn Price in the description of Wales expounds it to bee one that had knowledge of things to come and so saith he it signifieth at this day taking his ground amisse out of Lucan's verses Doctor Powell in his notes upon Caradoc of Lhancarvan saith that in Wales they preserved Gentlemens armes and pedegrees At this time in Ireland the Bard by common acceptation is counted a rayling Rimer and distinguished from the Poet. Pag. 29. lin 10. an Irish Scot or Pict by nation Bede tells us that the Picts were a colony of Scythians who first comming into Ireland and being denyed residence there by the Scots were perswaded by them to inhabit the North parts of Britaine But Mr Camden out of Dio Herodian Tacitus c. and upon consideration of the customes name and language of the Picts conceives not improbably that they were naturall Britons although distinguished by name Pag. 29. lin 28. Those Bardes indeed Caesar writeth Concerning them I finde no mention in Caesar's commentaryes but much touching the Druides which were the Priests and Philosophers or Magi as Pliny calls them of the Gaules British Illi rebus divinis intersunt saith he sacrificia publica ac privata procurant religiones interpretantur Ad hos magnus adolescentium numerus disciplinae caussâ concurrit magnoque ij sunt apud eos honore c. The word Dr oi had anciently the same signification as I am informed among the Irish. Pag. 30. lin 30. and Cornelius Tacitus doth also strongly affirme the same Cornelius Tacitus in the life of Iulius Agricola saith thus Silurum colorati vultus torti plerumque crines positus contra Hispaniam Iberos veteres trajecisse easque sedes occupâsse fidem faciunt This he speaketh touching the Silures which inhabited that part of South-Wales which now we call Herefordshire Radnorshire Brecknockshire Monmouth shire and Glamorganshire And although the like reason may be given for that part of Ireland which lyeth next unto Spaine yet in Tacitus we find no such inference Buchanan indeed upon the conjecture of Tacitus hath these words Verisimile a. non est Hispanos relictâ à tergo Hiberniâ— terrâ propiore coeli soli mitioris in Albium primùm descendisse sed primùm in Hiberniam appulisse atque inde in BritanniaÌ„ colonos missos Which was observed unto me by the most learned Bishop of Meth Dr Anth. Martin upon conference with his Lordship about this point One passage in Tacitus touching Ireland in the same booke I may not heere omit although it be extra oleas Quinto expeditionum anno saith he nave primâ transgressus ignotas ad tempus gentes crebris
through a pleasant Plaine Till with the Fanchin she her selfe doe wed And both combin'd themselves in one faire river spred Nath'lesse Diana full of indignation Thence-forth abandond her delicious brooke In whose sweet streame before that bad occasion So much delight to bathe her limbes she tooke Ne onely her but also quite forsooke All those faire forrests about Arlo hid And all that Mountaine which doth over-looke The richest champain that may else be rid And the faire Shure in which are thousand Salmons bred Them all and all that she so deare did way Thence-forth she left and parting from the place Thereon an heavy haplesse curse did lay To weet that Wolves where she was wont to space Should harbour'd be and all those Woods deface And Thieves should rob and spoile that Coast around Since which those Woods and all that goodly Chase Doth to this day with Wolves and Thieves abound Which too-too true that lands in-dwellers since have found To the right honourable Thomas Earle of Ormond and Ossory REceive most noble Lord a simple taste Of the wild fruit which savage soyle hath bred Which being through long warres left almost waste With brutish barbarisme is overspred And in so faire a Land as may be red Not one Parnassus nor one Helicon Left for sweet Muses to be harboured But where thy selfe hast thy brave mansion There indeed dwell faire Graces many one And gentle Nymphes delights of learned wits And in thy person without Paragone All goodly bounty and true honour sits Such therefore as that wasted soyle doth yield Receive deare Lord in worth the fruit of barren field E. S. To the most renowned valiant Lord Arthur Lord Grey of VVilton Knight of the noble order of the Garter c. MOst noble Lord the pillor of my life And Patron of my Muses pupillage Through whose large bountie poured on me rife In the first season of my feeble age I now doe live bound yours by vassalage Sith nothing ever may redeeme or reave Out of your endlesse debt so sure a gage Vouchsafe in worth this small gift to receive Which in your noble hands for pledge I leave Of all the rest that I am tyde t' account Rude rimes the which a rustick Muse did weave In savage soyle far from Parnasso mount And roughly wrought in an unlearned Loome The which vouchsafe deare Lord your favourable doome E. S. To the right noble Lord and most valiant Captaine Sir Iohn Norris Knight Lord President of Mounster VVHo ever gave more honourable prize To the sweet Muse then did the Martiall crew That their brave deeds she might immortalize In her shrill tromp and sound their praises dew Who then ought more to favour her then you Most noble Lord the honour of this age And Precedent of all that Armes ensue Whose warlike prowesse and manly courage Tempred with reason and advizement sage Hath filld sad Belgick with victorious spoile In France and Ireland left a famous gage And lately shak't the Lusitanian soile Sith then each where thou hast disspred thy fame Love him that hath eternized your name E. S. A translation made ex tempore by Mr Edm. Spenser upon this distich written on a Booke belonging to the right honorable Richard Earle of Corke c. NVlla dies pereat pereat pars nulla dieâ— Ne tu sic pereas ut periêre dies LEt no day passe passe no part of the day Lest thou doe passe as dayes doe passe away Verses upon the said Earles Lute VVHilst vitall sapp did make me spring And leafe and bough did flourish brave I then was dumbe and could not sing Ne had the voice which now I have But when the axe my life did end The Muses nine this voice did send E. S. This Booke includeth the first part of Cambrensis devided by him into 3 distinctions Which was delivered me by Iames Stanihurst Lagenia Conatia Hultonia Momonia Mediâ— Leinster An. Philip Mar. 3o. 4o. Irish families taken out of S. Henry Sidneys collections Dublinum Lib. fl Suir fl Meath Irish families Connaght Galvia Irish fam Ororicke Vlster Boyn fl Lacus â—oilus Dist. 1. Mounster Shanon fl Irish families Bishops in Ireland Bern. in vita Malach. An. 1148. Province of Ardmagh Dublin an 1212. S. Pat. booke of Recordeâ— Cashell Tuam English pale Flatsbury Stowe Flatsbury Baron of Aâ—ry Baron of Ardigh Baronets Gentlemen most ancient in Ireland of English bloud Aquavitae Camb. part 1. Io. Bohem. lib. 3 c. 26. Munst. lib. 1. Dist. 3. lib. 12.32 Barnacles Anseres arborei Volat. lib. 3. de grege Camb. dist 1. lib. 1. Anglor hist. cap. 1. I le of Man Gathelus Simon Brecke Epiph. cont heros l. â— tom 1. Munst. l. 2. Irish tongue Hibernia Irlamale Fab. part â— cap. 32. Hiberus in Cign cant Pliny writeth it Iuuernia Ibernis Iuerland Iâ—â—land Io. Ma. Sco. l. 1. c. 9. Old customes of the Irish. Epistle of an Irish Monke In praefat l. 1. dec 1. Cesara An. Dom. 1656 Rab. Isaac in Gen. 5. Anno mundi 1957. after the best authors which make 300. yeares and not 100 betweene Noes floud and Babeâ—l Bastolenus Clem. recogn l. 4. Giants first in Ireland Clem recognit l. 4. Gen. 9. Anno mundi 2257. Ruanus who is of some thought to be Fin Macoole Gen. 5. Gen. 10. Anno Mundi â—â—17 Nemodus Ann. mundi 2714. The sonnes of Dela Cantredes Meth. Ann. mundi 2800. Brennus Hector Boâ—th l. 1. Hist. Scot. Ioh. Major de gestis Scot. lib. 1. cap. 9. Gathelus Exod. 14. Hector Boeth lib. 1. Ann. mundi 2642. Hiberus and Hirimon The head Captaine was Bartholmew as many Authors affirme Fab. part 2. Grafton p. 60. Ann. mundi 3â—92 Severall Kingdomes in Ireland An. Dom 120. Bed l. 1. c. 1. Picts Ioh. Maior de gest Scot l. 1. c. 10. The words of Roderick King of Picts The Answer Iohn Stow. Bede lived an Dom. 7â—0 Anno Mundi 57â—7 ante Christum 330. Ioh. Major lib. 2. cap. 1. An. Dom. 160. Ioh Major l. 1. cap. 11. Bed l 1. c. 1. Rheuda Ioh. Maior de gest Scot. l. 5 c. 15. Lucan li. 5. An. Dom. 2â—8 An. Dom. 353. To. Maior li. 2. c. 1. An. Dom. 398. An. Dom. 423· Distinct. 3. Ioh Major l. 1. cap. 10. Pol. l. 1. Angl. hist. An. Dom. 42â— Nicephor l. 14· cap. 40· Plat. in Caelestin 1. Vita S. Patricij Ioh. Major l. â— cap 2. Prosp. Aquit in Chroni The life of S. Patrick Ioselin of Furness Ex Epist. Patricij An. Dom. 386. An Dom· 430. An. Dom. 492. Polichro l. 1. ca. 35. Trevis ibid. Distinct 3.6 Brigid Colum. Ex Vitis sanctorum Hiberniae An. Dom. 439. An Dom. 4â—8 Senanus An. Dom. 493. Brendan An. Dom 456. Edan or Madoc Molingus Fintan Malachias· An. Dom. 1014 Bernard in vita Malach. Banchor 1148. King of Mounster 586. Careticus K. of Brittaine Turgesius â—10 Turgesius murdered The words of O-malaghlien King of Meth. Waterford Limericke Dublin