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A10713	A nevv description of Ireland vvherein is described the disposition of the Irish whereunto they are inclined. No lesse admirable to be perused then credible to be beleeued: neither vnprofitable nor vnpleasant to bee read and vnderstood, by those worthy cittizens of London that be now vndertakers in Ireland: by Barnabe Rich, Gent	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1610 (1610)	STC 20992; ESTC S115922	72,130	134

the reason she answered That at my mariage day this mouth of mine made inuiolable promise to my husbande of continencie and therefore what my mouth hath Religiously vowed shall Ceremoniously be kept content thy selfe therefore with the other parts of my bodie for my lippes are onely vowed vnto my Husband and for him I will reserue them I think of my conscience this Woman was as firme in the promise she made to her husband as a number of Papists in their Oaths they do make to the king This Doctrine is not onely warrantable against Protestants but it may sometimes serue to salue a vow that is rashly made to God himselfe as the holie Pilgrim that made solemne protestation to offer the one halfe of his good fortunes at the high Altar whatsoeuer should betide him in his iourney And by the way as he passed fortuning to find a bag of Nuts hee eate vp the Kernels and offered vp the shels What call you this Equiuocation or Mentall Reseruation But call it what you list this Doctrine doth fit our holy Fathers tooth for he hath taught vs long agoe There is no Faith to bee holden with Heretiques CAP. 9. That a conquest should draw after it Lawe Language and Habit. MAister Stanihurst is of opinion that a Conquest should draw three things after it and that the vanquished should surrender themselues to imitate the Lawes the Language the manner of Apparrell vsed and accustomed by the Victors I could wish that the Irish would submit themselues to the obedience of our English Lawes for I say the Countrey is accursed that is not gouerned by Law but it is ignorance that breedeth contempt of Law contempt of Law draweth on Rebellion and Rebellion is the vtter decay ruine and desolation of countries and kingdomes It is ignorance ioyned with obstinacie that hath not onely contemned the positiue lawes of Princes in Ireland but they haue likewise dispised and impugned the deuine lawes of the liuing God And where God is not knowne the Prince cannot bee obeyed for it is the light and knowledge of Gods word that conteineth subiects in obedience vnto their Princes and where the Gospell is generallie receiued there is peace and tranquillity vniuersallie embraced It is not so in Ireland and they are in nothing more repugnant then against the law of God And as for the imitation of Language as M. Stanihurst hath said it hath been thought very expedient for diuers respects that the conquered should surrender themselues to the language of the Conqueror and for this very cause when William Duke of Normandy had conquered England hoping to translate our English language into French he caused al our English Lawes to be written and set downe in the French tongue and so they haue continued and are still remaining at this very houre But heer beehold the godly disposition of our gracious King that now raigneth who comiserating the calamity of the hunger-starued Realm of Ireland that hath neuer yet tasted of any thing published in their owne language but lies fables and popish fantasies that hath but led them into ignorance and error To giue them some tast therfore of that heauenly foode whereof they haue neuer yet felt smack or sauour he hath caused the New Testament togither with the Booke of Common Praier in that forme and manner as it is now vsed in our English churches to be both translated into Irish and to be printed in the Irish Charracter that aswell the lettered sort that can reade their owne language as also the vnlearned that can but vnderstand what they heare others read may reap the benefit of his Maiesties clemency and loue towards them that doth seeke by curtesie to winne them that might otherwise enforce them by compulsion of Lawes Now for the Irish to invre themselues to speake English I thinke it were happy for England Ireland both If neuer a Papist throughout that whol coūtry could either speak or so much as vnderstād a word of English and it is holden for a Maxime in Ireland that ten English wil sooner become Irish then one Irish will be found to turne English Now for the imitation of habit and attire that M. Stamhurst saith should likewise follow a conquest I protest I would not wish the Irish so much harme to inioyne them to follow our English fashion in apparrell when there is almost neuer a passage from Chester to Dublyne but one Foole or other commeth ouer with a new fashion either for men or Women or for both And although the Irish are proud enough of minde yet they are not lightly proude in their apparrell and yet the example of our English pride hath doone a great deale of harme amongst that people I remember many yeares ago when I was a little Bookish I haue read of a pretty Prouiso deuised for the preuention of Pride an Act established debarring all sorts of people aswell men as women from the wearing of any gayish or light-coloured apparrell Players and Curtizans onely excepted to whome free liberty was giuen to weare vvhat they themselues listed This did not onely incite those that were honest to liue within the compasse of modest and comly attire but it was alike inducement to those that were well knowne Strumpets to shelter themselues vnder the habit of modesty thereby to escape from being reputed infamous But as the Prouerbe is It is not the Frocke that maketh the Friar so without doubt those women are not all dishonest of their bodies that by the outward showes in their Attyre a man woulde thinke they had sent their Consciences vnto the Stewes It were pitty that beutie should be Mercenary or that by strange inuentions it should set it self to sale And why are those beauties vailed that Women themselues desires to shew and euery man desires to see But they say it is for modesty and I commend it but let them bee modest likewise in their Manners Pithagoras Neece was wont to say that a Woman going to bedde with a man ought together with her Peticote to put off all bashfulnesse but in the morning to put it on againe Not like her that when she first went to bed with a Sea-faring man stript her selfe quite of her modesty could neuer finde a time to put it on againe after But modesty aswell in attire as in conuersation and manners hath euer beene the reputed Ornament of women but to speake truth of our Gentlewomen of Ireland that be of Irish birth they haue little practise either in pride or in good huswiferie for they are for the most part alwaies busied in taking their ease And it is holden for a seruile kinde of basenesse amongst the Irish for a gentleman or a gentlewoman to be seen in any manner of faculty Idlenesse onely excepted And this conceipt of theirs is another occasion of ignorance which as it engendreth many vaine lasciuious thoghts so it draweth after it wicked and dishonest deeds To conclude this Chapter I say

A New Description OF IRELAND Wherein is described the disposition of the Irish whereunto they are inclined No lesse admirable to be perused then credible to be beleeued neither vnprofitable nor vnpleasant to bee read and vnderstood by those worthy Cittizens of London that be now vndertakers in Ireland By Barnabe Rich Gent Malui me diuitem esse quam vocari Printed at London for Thomas Adams 1610. The Contents of the Chapters contained in this Booke OF the little credite that is to bee giuen to their testimonies that haue hitherto written of Ireland Cap. 1. Of the temperature of the ayre and the fertility of the soile vniuersally through Ireland Cap. 2. Of the nature disposition of the Irish how they are inclined Cap. 3. From whence it proceedeth that the Irish are so repugnant to the English Cap. 4. That the Irish by nature are inclined to cruelty Cap. 5. Of the ingratitude of the Irish Cap. 6. Of the inciuilty both of manners and conditions vsed by the Irish Cap. 7. Of the Vulgar sotte of the Irish what account they make of an Oath Cap. 8 That a Conquest should draw after it Law Language and Habite Cap. 9. Of certain septs and degrees amongst the Irish Ca. 10. Of the manner of the Irish Coshering Cap. 11. How Ireland was purged from all venimous wormes by the praiers of Saint Patrick Cap. 12. Of the holy Saintes that hath beene borne bred and brought vp in Ireland Cap. 13. Of the superstitious conceit that is holden by the Irish about certaine Wels. Cap. 14. A true discription both of the Citty and Cittizens of Dubline Cap. 15. Of some defects in the gouernment of Dublin Ca. 16. Of the trade traffique that is vsed in Dublin Ca. 17. Of the ambition of the Irish Cap. 18. Of the Doctrine of the Pope how imbraced by the Irish Cap. 19. How the Papists of Ireland are neither ashamed nor afraid to manifest themselues Cap. 20. The inconuenience of Popery how it hurteth in Ireland Cap. 21. Whither there by any possibility that the Irish should be able to maintaine warre against the Kinges Maiestie Cap. 22. Of those lets and impedimentes that defeated our late gracious Qu. in her seruices against the Irish Ca. 23. Of Pardons and protections how hurtfull in Ireland Cap. 24. Of the dallying out the time of seruice and the delayes of Ireland Cap. 25. How Tyrone was still supplyed with Souldiors and all other prouisions for warre at the Queenes charges Cap. 26. That the Irish are more dangerous then necessary for his Maiestie seruice in Ireland Cap. 27. The conclusion To the Right Honourable Robert Earle of Salisbury Vicount Cranburn Baron Cecill of Essenden Lord High Treasurer of England principall Secretarie to his Maiestie one of the Lordes of his Honourable Priuie Councell and Knight of the Noble order of the Garter c. MOst Honorable and most worthie Earle the seuerall Bookes that are spread bearing the names and Titles of Histories of summaries of Chronicles of diuers other collections drawn from vnworthy Authors some of them printed some otherwise published here in Ireland by Papists by lieng Chroniclers by idle Poets by Bardes and Irish Rythmers all of them conteining matter of vntruth As the memories of superstitious foundations lies and Fables foolishly medled and compacted togither written rather in the maintenance and fauour of lewd misdemeanor of Superstition of Idolatry and do rather giue encouragement to wicked Subiects to enter the field of Rebellion to take Armes against the Prince to disobey to contemn to despise not onelie the Princes lawes and his Maiesties gracious proceedings but also setting open the wide gate that leadeth to many misdemeanors against the Prince himselfe I haue therefore thought it a matter much importing his Maiesties seruice to do my best endeuor to stop this gap thus broken downe that thus openeth the way to the wastfull spoile of Rebellion of Treason of Superstition of Idolatrie of Disobedience of Contempt and to giue a Booke to the well-disposed of that Realme of Ireland wherein they may behold that truth which they themselues haue heard with their eares haue seene with their eies and are able to testifie vpon dailie experience These lines thus squared out I durst not presume to present to your Honor in respect of anie abilitie that I acknowledge to be in my selfe I knowe there can come nothing from me that may be anie waies answerable to your exquisit iudgment or worthinesse but it is your owne vertue your owne affabilitie and Noble disposition that was yet neuer knowne to despice or discountenance any mans endeuours that were honestlie intended or vndertaken to a good end and purpose It is this your Honorable inclination that hath encouraged me this is it hath made me to presume of a fauorable acceptance To you therefore and to your honor alone I haue in most humble and submissiue manner bequeathed those experiments which forty yeares obseruation hath taught me to know To your Honor whose exquissite iudgment is best able to discerne and whose wisdome and knowledge is most fitting to redresse by whose Honorable care for the good of the common-weale England and Ireland are both made happie By whose prouidence and wisdome next vnder his Maiestie we haue hitherto reaped the fruits of a most happie and blessed gouernment To your Honor therefore I submit my labors my Loue my lines my seruice my selfe my endeuors all that I haue to be at your Honors dispose and thus will rest to praie for your Honour that GOD would still continue his blessinges vpon you as hitherto he hath done Your Honors in all humble and dutifull affection Barnabe Rych ❧ To the Curteous and friendly Reader either English or Irish either Protestant or Papist either learned or vnlearned or to any other whosoeuer I care not ONe of the diseases of this age is the multitude of Books that doth so ouercharge the worlde that it is not able to disgest the abundance of idle matter that is euery day hatched and brought into the world that are as diuers in their formes as their Authors be in their faces It is but a thriftlesse and a thankelesse occupation this writing of Bookes a man were better to sit singing in a Coblers shop for his pay is certaine a penny a patch but a Booke-writer if hee get sometimes a few commendations of the Iudicious he shall be sure to reape a thousande reproaches of the Malicious Bookes are like Cheese that is neuer well seasoned to euery mans tast for one will say it is too salt another wil say it is too fresh a thirde will say it is to tart another thinkes it to be too milde one will haue it too hard another too soft another too tough another too brittle it neuer pleaseth euery mans tast no more do Bookes I am censured for writing of a Book to be a malicious enemy to Ireland to poore Ireland that God knoweth is rather to be pittied