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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55719	The Present state of Ireland together with some remarques upon the antient state thereof : likewise a description of the chief towns : with a map of the kingdome.		1673 (1673)	Wing P3267; ESTC R26213	101,146	318

Goods in safety if a mightier man then himself had an appetite to take the same from him Wherein they were little better then Cannibals who do hunt one another and he that hath most strength and swiftness doth eat and devour all his followers Again In England and all well ordered Common-wealths men have certain Estates in their Lands and possessions and their inheritances descend from Father to Son which doth give them an encouragement to Build and Plant and to improve their Lands and to make them better for their Posterities But by the Irish Custome of Tanistry the Chieftains of every Country and the Chief of every Sept had no longer Estate then for life in their Chieferies the inheritance whereof did rest in no man And these Chieferies though they had some portions of Land allotted to them did consist chiefly in Cuttings and Cosheries and other Irish Exactions whereby they did spoil and impoverish the People at their pleasure And when their Chieftains were dead their Sons or next Heirs did not succeed them but their Tanists who were Elective and purchased their Elections by strong hand And by the Irish Custom of Gavelkind the inferiour Tennanties were partible amongst all the Males of the Sept both Bastards and Legitimate and after partition made if any one of the Sept had died his portion was not divided among his Sons but the Chief of the Sept made a new partition of all the Lands belonging to that Sept and gave every one his part according to his antiquity That the Irish Custome of Tanistry made all their possessions uncertain These two Irish Customs made all their Possessions uncertain being shuffled changed and removed so often from one to another by new Elections and partitions which uncertainty of Estates hath been the true cause of such Desolations and Barbarismes in this Land as the like was never seen in any Country that professes the name of Christ For though the Irish be a Nation of great Antiquity and wanted neither Wit nor Valour and though they had received the Christian Faith above twelve hundred years since and were Lovers of Musick and Poetry and all kind of Learning and possessed a Land abounding with all things necessary for the Civil life of man yet which is strange to be related they did never build any houses of Brick or Stone some few poor Religious Houses excepted before the Reign of King Henry the Second though they were Lords of this Island for many hundred years before and since the Conquest attempted by the English Albeit when they saw as Build Castles upon their Borders they did onely in imitation of us erect some few piles for the Captains of the Country yet may it be confidently affirm'd that never any particular person either before or since did build any Stone or Brick House for his private Habitation but such as have lately obtained Estates according to the course of the Law of England Neither did any of them in all this time plant any Gardens or Orchards Inclose or improve their Lands live together in settled Villages or Towns nor made any provision for Posterity which being against all common sense and reason must needs be imputed to those unreasonable Customs which made their Estates so uncertain and transitory in their possessions For who would plant improve And therefore unwilling to improve or build upon that Land which a stranger whom he knew not should possesse after his death For that as Solomon noteth is one of the strangest vanities under the sun And this was the true reason why Vlster and all the Irish Countries were found so wast and desolate about the beginning of King James's Reign and so would have continued to the worlds end if these Customs were not abolished by the Law of England The ill conconsequences of Gavelkind Custom in Ireland Again That Irish Custome of Gavelkind did breed another mischief for thereby every man being born to Land as well Bastard as Legitimate they all held themselves to be Gentlemen And though their Portions were never so small and themselves never so poor for Gavelkind must needs in the end make a poor Gentility yet did they scorn to descend to Husbandry or Merchandize or to learn any Mechanical Art or Science And this is the true cause why there were never any Corporate Towns erected in the Irish Countries The Maritine Towns in Ireland first built by the Ostmen or Easterlings As for the Maritine Cities and Towns most certain it is that they were Built and Peopled by the Ostmen or Easterlings for the Natives of Ireland never performed so good a work as to build a City Besides these poor Gentlemen were so affected unto their small portions of Land as they rather chose to live at home by Theft Extortion and Coshering then to seek any better fortunes abroad which encreased their Septs or Sir-names into such numbers as there are not to be found in any Kingdome of Europe so many Gentlemen of one Blood Family and Sir-name as there were of late of the O Neals in Vlster of the Bourkes in Cannaght of the Geraldines and Butlers in Munster and Leinster And the like may be said of inferiour Bloods and Families whereby it came to pass in times of trouble and dissention that they made great parties and factions adhering to one another with much constancy because they were tyed together Vinculo Sanguinis whereas Rebels and Malefactors which are tyed to their Leaders by no bond either of Duty or Blood do more easily break and fall off one from another And besides their Co-habitation in one Territory or Country gave them opportunity suddenly to assemble and conspire and rise in Multitudes against the Crown And even till of late in the time of Peace there was found this inconvenience that there could hardly be an indifferent trial had between the King and the Subject or between party and party by reason of this general Kindred and Consanguinity The Irish by their frequent Rebellions became fully Conquered by Queen Elizabeth And now are we arrived at that remarkable time being about the latter end of Queen Elizabeths Reign wherein was laid the foundation of that eternal peace of Ireland so solidly discoursed of and stoutly fought for in her time and soon after very far proceeded in by King James of blessed memory But fully perfected according to all humane appearance by our Gracious Sovereign King Charles the Second for though Queen Elizabeth through the whole course of her Reign studyed by all the ways and means possible she could to retain the Irish Nation in their dutiful obedience to her Howbeit by their frequent Rebellions being often excited thereunto by the Pope and the King of Spain and especially by that last and general one so diligently managed by that notorious and ungrateful Rebel Tyrone and his Adherents they so far provoked her as that by imploying as it were her whole care and strength for the suppression

till about two months before the first breaking out of the last Rebellion it being very ill taken that then they were adjourned And this they have since aggravated as a high Crime against the Lords Justices and as one of the chief moving causes to the taking up of Arms generally throughout the Kingdome But to let these things pass how finely soever these proceedings were carried on and being covered over with pretences of Zeal and publick affection passed then currant without any manner of suspition yet now the eyes of all men are open and they are fully resolved that all these passages The fair but pernicious pretences of the Irish fully discovered by their Rebellion An. 1641. together with the other high contestations in Parliament not to have the newly raised Irish Army disbanded the importunate solicitation of their Agents in England to have the old Army in Ireland cashiered and the Kingdom left to be defended by the Trained Bands of their own Nation As likewise the Commissions procured by several of the most eminent Commanders afterwards in Rebellion for the raising men to carry into Spain were all parts of the Plot Prologues to the ensuing Tragedy Preparatives such as had been long laid to bring on the sodain execution of that most bloudy design all at one and the same time throughout the Kingdom Now for the Jesuits Priests The means used by the Priests and Jesuits to stir up the people to Rebel Fryars all the rest of their Viperous Fraternity belonging to their Holy Orders who as I said had a main part to Act and did not fail with great assiduity and diligence to discharge the same They lost no time but most dexterously applyed themselves in all parts of the Countrey to lay other such dangerous impressions in the minds as well of the meaner sort as of the chief Gentlemen as might make them ready to take fire upon the first occasion And when this Plot was so surely as they thought laid as it could not well faile and the day once perfixed for Execution they did in their publick Devotions long before recommend by their Prayers the good success of a great Design much tending to the prosperity of the Kingdome and the advancement of the Catholick Cause And for the facilitating of the work and stirring up of the people with greater animosity and cruelty to put it on at the time perfixed they loudly in all places declaimed against the Protestants telling the people that they were Hereticks and not to be suffered any longer to live among them that it was no more sin to kill an English-man than to kill a dog and that it was a most mortal and unpardonable sin to relieve or protect any of them Then also they represented with much acrimony the several courses taken by the Parliament in England for suppressing of the Romish Religion in all parts of of the Kingdom and utter extirpation of all Professors of it They told the people that in England they had caused the Queens Priest to be hanged before her own face and that they held her Majesty in her own person under a most severe discipline That the same cruel Laws against Popery were ordered to be put suddenly in execution in Ireland and a design secretly laid for bringing and seizing upon all the principal Noble-men and Gentlemen in Ireland upon November 23. next ensuing and so to make a general Massacre of all that would not desert their Religion and presently become Protestants And now also did they take occasion to revive their inveterate hatred and antient animosities against the English Nation The Irish revive their antient animosities against the English whom they represented to themselves as hard Masters under whose Government how pleasant comfortable and advantageous so ever it was they would have the world believe they had endured a most miserable Captivity and Envassalage They looked with much envy upon their prosperity considering all the Land they possessed though a great part bought at high rates of the Natives as their own proper Inheritance They grudged at the great multitudes of their fair English Cattel at their goodly Houses though built by their own industry at their own charges at the large improvements they made of their Estates by their own travels and careful endeavours They spake with much scorne and contempt of such as brought little with them into Ireland and having there planted themselves in a little time contracted great Fortunes They were much troubled especially in the Irish Countries to see the English live handsomly and to have every thing with much decency about them while they lay nastily buried as it were in mire and filthiness the ordinary sort of people commonly bringing their Cattle into their own stinking Creates or Cabins and there naturally delighting to lie amongst them These malignant considerations made them with an envious eye impatiently to look upon all the British lately gone over in that Kingdome Nothing less than a general extirpation would now serve their turn they must have restitution of all the Lands to the proper Natives whom they took to be the ancient Proprietors and only true owners most unjustly despoiled by the English whom they held to have made undue acquisitions of all the Land they possessed by gift from the Crown upon attainder of any of their Ancestors And so impetuous were the desires of the Natives to draw the whole Government of the Kingdom into their own hands The Ends proposed by the first plotters of the Rebellion to enjoy the publick profession of their Religion as well as disburthen the Countrey of all the British Inhabitants seated therein as they made the whole body of the State to be universally disliked represented the several Members as persons altogether corrupt and ill affected pretended the ill humours and distempers in the Kingdome to be grown into that height as required Cauteries deep incisions and indeed nothing able to work so great a cure but an universal Rebellion This was certainly the Disease as appears by all the Symptoms and the joynt concurrence in opinion of all the great Physicians that held themselves wise enough to propose remedies and prescribe fit applications to so desparate a Malady And thus we see those persons who by the advantage of their Education and duty of Profession should have been the great lights to direct the footsteps of the unwary and giddy-headed multitude to walk steddily in the right path of Obedience and Loyalty to their Prince and of Love and Charity towards their Neighbours by a notorious abuse of the same did wilfully mislead them to ruine and destruction The Establishment of the Army in Ireland An. 1669. Come we now to take a view of the standing Army in Ireland according to the Establishment made in the year 1669. which did then consist of thirty Troops of Horse including the Life-Guard and sixty Foot Companies besides the Regiments of Guards in which were twelve Companies