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A52629	A geographicall description of the kingdom of Ireland according to the 5 provinces and 32 counties : together with the stations, creeks and harbours belonging thereto : fit for gentlemen, souldiers, and sea-men to acquaint themselves withall : as also declaring the right and titles of the kings of England unto that kingdom : likewise setting down a brief relation of the former rebellions and of their suppression : especially that in Q. Elizabeths time by Tyrone : whence many matters worth observing may be collected usefull for this present service / by a well-willer to the peace of both kingdoms.	G. N., well-willer to the peace of both kingdoms.	1642 (1642)	Wing N18; ESTC R4037	65,078	123

estate given unto him again upon some articles of agreement The county of Colran is beyond the Glinns westward and lyeth between the river Ban and Lough Foyle and confineth South on the county of Tir-Oen This Ban is a passing fair river riseth out of the Mountains of Mourn in the county Down carrying himself and his name into Lough Eaugh or Lough Sidney a great lake and for the space of 30 miles name and river are both drowned in the Lake but after at Tome Castle he resumeth it again then by Glaucolkein a great receptacle of robbers and rebels carrying a proud stream he tumbleth into the Sea More abounding in Salmons this than any river in Europe it being exceeding water in which such fish much delight The principall Family is O Cahan a subject of O Neal who in that vain ceremony of O Neals election flings an old shoe over O Neals head It is much molested by the Iland Scots being poor so that in Summer they seek for booty here Towards the west of this lies Derry a waste uncivil place but through the great care charge and industry of the City of London so well planted civilized and built that it is scarce inferior to any place of Ireland and have rightly named it London Derry the Ridgways being Earles thereof as Hu●h Hare was Lord Colrane of Colrane There is likewise a Bishop of Derry The County of Tir-Oen lyeth Southwest from the former country it is upland from the sea divided westward from Tir Conell by the river Liffer from Antrim Eastward by Lough Eaugh bounded with the Blackwater at South from the county Armagh a rough rugged uneven country 60 miles in length and at some places 30 in bredth severed by the Mountains called Sliew Gallen into the upper Tir-Oen Northward and the nether Southward there is first a poor Bishops See called Cloghar then Dungannon the chief habitation of the Earls also Uhlogahel where O Neal the Tyrant of Ulstor was usually installed with his vain ceremonies there was a Fort at Blackwater which hath been much assaulted by the Rebels which resort thither to a refuge but having found another passage over below that is of such use therfore the Lord Montjoy built Sconces on both sides of that passage and at the Lake Eaugh raised another Garrison Fort and called it by his own name Mountjoy This Lake incloseth the west-side of Tir-Oea and is much supplyed by the River Ban a large lake 30 miles in length and very plentifull in fish And Nature hath shewed her skill in bestowing variety upon the banks of it as the shady grove● the medows alwayes green the fertile corn-fields if tilled the bending and hanging hills the warbling Brook gliding along it nothing wanting for delight or profit and by that condemns the lazy lithernesse of the inhabitants who suffer much of it to lye waste In the upper Tir-Oen lyes Strahan a Castle well known as being the seat of the O Neals there are many more fortresses and towers with narrow loop-hooles unto which are adjoyned houses of turf and thetch with hedges and ditches round about to keep their Cows from robbers The County of Donegall or Tir-Conell it lyeth in the norwest corner of Ireland a champion country full of Havens bounded with the sea North and West and parted on the East from Tir-Oen with the river Liffer and from Conagh with the Lake Erne Liffer at his very rising maketh a large stream and spreadeth into a Lake wherin is an Iland in which neer to a Monastery is a narrow vault made by Ulisses as some fabulously report when he descended to hel the inhabitants call it Ellan a frugadory that is the I le of Purgatory and Saint Patricks Purgatory So in that place there is Saint Brendans Purgatory of which much superstition is invented this river Liffer neerer the sea it maketh another Lake called Logh-foile or Logh Der and Derry of which I spake before bounds on it From this river the fitz-Williams take their Barony Here is the fair foreland a promontory Robogh with a small town having a B●● See From hence Westward runs a cragged shore unto the mouth of Swilly lake so to the utmost promontory which they cal the Rams-head to another promontory cald S. Helens-head More Southward on the shore is that good and commodious Haven Calebig whence you may see the ruines of Sligah castle A little lower not far from the mouth of Logh Erne is Donegall that is the town of the Gallirians in Spain the Earldoms have been to the O Donels who held it untill their rebellious hearts cast off all true obedience Thus hast thou seene courteous Reader the limbs and parts of the Kingdom of Ireland laid open unto thee rich and plentious as appears by those large revenews it hath yeelded unto the English Crown when as in King Edward the third his dayes some say forty thousand pounds yearly the Custome-house at this time duly payd into the Exchequer is thirty thousand pound per annum And great was that improvidence if I may say it both in civill government and Church discipline that have suffered those firebrands of the Christian world the Jesuites to raise there so sudden and great flame of Rebellion which wee hope by Gods providence working with the wisdom and prudence of this present State now assembled to see extinct to the utter ruine and overthrow of that bloudy religion of Popery and by this means so to root out and disperse those unconstant and various dispositions that all hope of ayde and assistance from others and opposition in themselves shall be quite taken away And further by this description mayest thou observe how to entertaine the present profer made by the honourable Houses of Parliament to thy best contentment and advantage how to get sure footing in an Iland so great so neere a neighbour to England so fruitfull in soil so rich in pasture more than credible beset with shady pleasant profitable woods inriched with many minerals if sought after watered with so many Rivers invironed with so many commodious Havens lying so fit and open for sailing into the most wealthy Countreys so that he will seeme short witted whose wealth will bear it that embraces not the present opportunity to inrich himselfe in a plantation of his posterity in the middest of such worldly felicity The end of the first part The second Part treating of the naturall Disposition Apparell and Dyet of the Irish and of their severall Rebellions THe Irish for the most part are proud haughty cruell and barbarous variable and inconstant in disposition apt and forward to Tumults rebellious to Government false and hollow-hearted more ready in promise then performance the meaner lazie idle and sluggish especially the wild Irish and the English Irish much degenerated Saint Bernard in the life of Malla Ehy Bishop of Coner who reports that when he undertook his charge there perceived that he was not come unto men but unto

beasts no where had he until then experience of such in the most barbarous parts that ever hee came unto no where had hee found for Manners so froward for Rites so devillish for Faith so impious for Laws so barbarous for Discipline so stiffe-necked for Life so filthy Christians they were in name but Pagans in deed lawfull Marriages they contracted none or such as are shamefull even with children of ten yeeres old So Langfrank complains to a King of Ireland Therdel●c● that the Irishmen forsake and leave their Wives at their pleasure without any just cause and marry any others even such as be neer of kin to themselves or to the said forsaken wives and if an other man with like wickednesse hath cast off his wife her likewise with like rashnesse they joyn withall With which Rites if this Nation of the Irish had not bin corrupted almost to our days both the right of lineall succession among them had been more certain and as well the Gentry as the vulgar had not embrued themselves so wickedly with the effusion of so much bloud of their own kinred about their inheritance and legitimation nor had they become so infamous in these respects among other forreigne Nations And further concerning their natures and disposition you may take the relation from the Earle of Essex his Letter to Q Elisabet gathered by his experience The people in generall have able bodies by nature and have gotten by custome ready use of armes and by their late successe boldnesse to fight with your Majestis forces In their pride they value no man but themselves in their affections they love nothing but idlenesse and licentiousnes in their Rebellion they have no other end but to shake off the yoke of obedience to root out all remembrance of the English Nation in that Kingdome This is the generall quarrell of the Irish and they who doe not professe it are either so few or so false that there is no account to be made of them The Irish Nobility and Lords of Countries do not only in their hearts affect this quarrell and are divided from us in Religion but have an especiall grudge against the English Government because it limiteth and tyeth them who have and still would be supream Lords if not Tyrants The Towns being inhabited by men of the same Religion and birth with the rest are so carried away with the love of gaine and for that cause supply the Rebels with what they want therefore they must be strictly looked unto The Laws of the Irish was that of fish and birds the great devoure the lesse the strong the weak having but one Free-holder in a County and he Lord both of estate and lives of the rest For their succession to inheritances it was by the law or custome called Tanistry mentioned by that excellent Historian Sir Walter Rawleigh which is this that a man is preferred to a boy the Uncle before the Nephew and commonly the most active not the next heire is chosen to hinder the inroad and oppression of the next adjoyning Lord between whom there was alwayes contention which did so wast and consume them or else being idle the Land would not have sustained them Concerning the apparell of the Irish it is after a slovenly manner and the very English there are much infected with this nasty filthinesse especially lowzie beds and foule linnen except where the chiefe English live as in Dublin Wateford and Kinsale which in some measure retaine the English neatnesse but for the meere wilde Irish it may be said of them as of the Germans that they wander slovenly and naked and lodge in the same room with their cattle Among them the better sort used to weare close breeches and stockings of the same of red or some light colour so straight that the unseemly parts of the body were exposed unto view They used likewise a loose Coat and a three covered Mantle of coarse cloth with a cap of Thrums Their linnen is coarse and slovenly they seldome cast off a shirt untill it be rotten and are coloured with Saffron to avoid Lice which are incident to those people and they are very nimble in taking Lice in a Sunny day or a green bank But in the more Northern parts before the strict civilizing of them in King James his time both men and women went naked in the very Winter having only their secret parts covered with a rag and a loose Mantle cast over them Thus naked they walke with their sword tyed unto them with a wyth instead of a belt And at night men and women lye in a Ring together round about the fire in the middle of the roome with their feet towards it folding their head and upper parts in their woollen Mantle first steeped in water to keep them warm for they say woollen wetted and warmed by the heat of their bodies doth preserve heat The Church Discipline hath beene formerly and now is after the same manner with that in England by Archbishops whereof there are foure Bishops 29 many more formerly It has beene anciently a great Nursery of Religion and Pietie even from if not before Saint Patricks time and Saint Bridget his Disciple who did advance Religion and Piety much in that Kingdome as also in sundry other places of Christendome The Bishops were formerly consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury untill the yeere 1142 at what time Pope Eugenius the fourth sent Cardinall Paperio who together with Christian Bishop of Lismore Legat of all Ireland held a Councell at Mell and with the consent of the Bishops Abbots Kings and Dukes of Ireland established foure Archbishops videlicet Armagh Dublin Cassile and Toam But the estate of the Clergy has been very meane there so that by reason of devouring impropriations in the whole County of Connought The Incumbents stipend is not above forty shillings and at some places but fifteene shillings per annum that the people must needs be better fed then taught Their allowance being answerable to the Irish Bishops in former time who had but three milch Kine allowed them and when one was dry the Parish did change her for another Which makes the Gospell to languish where it finds so poore entertainment that the Messengers thereof through want and necessity should live so mean and contemptibly and it gives great advantage to the Priests and Jesuits both to abound and seduces who have mayntenance from elsewhere The right and title of the English Crown to Ireland was by Conquest by Surrender and Submission THe Danes first invaded it with forreigne forces then the Norwegians got possession of it but they were rooted out by the policie of that King of Meth who had a beautifull Virgin to his daughter with whom Turgesius was much inflamed requiring her to satisfie his lust to whose will the poore Prince could not assent yet durst not deny So that he told him he had at home a Bevy of faire Ladies out of which hee should choose