Barret Edmund Lane Who flourished in the yeere 1518. So farre Master Stanihurst Hector Boetius putteth us in remembrance of the honour given her by Scots Pictes Irish and English nations and how that many Churches beare her name The superstitious Irish in processe of time found out a Bell called Clogg Brietta Brigids Bell whereunto to deceive the simple people they attribute great vertue and holinesse the which together with other toyes they carried about not onely in Ireland but also in England and were by Act of Parliament in England banished the land in Henry the fifts time Cambrensis reporteth that the harmonie of the foure Evangelists the worke of Saint Ierome was caused by Brigid most of it to be written in letters of gold and was as curious a worke saith he as ever I saw and called Brigids Booke the which was kept as a monument saith Stanihurst at Kildare She deceased about the yeere 510. another saith anno 548. and about the yeere 524. she was translated from the Hebrides into Dune and resteth by Saint Patrickes side as formerly hath beene declared in his life Ireland hath given her this Epitaph Flos patriae pietatis amans virtutis alumna Sidus Hibernorum Brigida virgo fuit In her Legend I finde mention of Ercus a Bishop the disciple of Saint Patricke borne in Mounster also of Saint Ruanus a Bishop Saint Numidus Saint Praecipuus Saint Daria a Virgin Saint Darlugdach called a Virgin and yet had a daughter that was baptized in the presence of Brigide This Darlugdach was the second Nunne and succeeded Brigide in Kildare whose remembrance is celebrated the same day with her Illand King of Leinster gave Brigide great honour of him I read in her Legend that hee was a most worthy Prince and fortunate in all his affaires Illand Rex Lageniae qui triginta bella in Hibernia vicit octo certamina in Britannia occidit Engusium regem Momoniae cum Ethna uxore quos Patricius baptizavit Illand King of Leinster who wonne thirty battailes in Ireland and eight combats in Britaine slue Engusus King of Mounster and Ethna his wife whom Patricke had baptized About this time lived Caelius Sedulius whom Damianus à Goes a Knight of Portingall challenged for a Spaniard Bale writeth hee was a Scot and Stanihurst that he was borne in Ireland I will first lay downe what Bale hath next what Stanihurst reporteth Caelius Sedulius saith Bale by nation a Scot. by calling a Priest a man trayned up in learning from his youth cleaved as a diligent scholler unto Hildebert the most learned Archbishop of Scots as Tritemius delivereth After the decease of his master being desirous of farther knowledge he tooke a painefull voyage in hand travailed throughout Spain France Italie Greece and Asia last of all after he had read in Achaia most learned lectures to the great profit of many hee came backe to Rome where with great labour he distributed most abundantly in like sort the treasure of singular learning Hee was a man exercised in holy Scripture of a singular wit excellently well seene in all manner of secular literature passing both for verse and prose so that Gelasius Bishop of Rome in the decrees dist 15. calleth him reverend Sedulius and gave his workes no meane commendation Patâ—rius the disciple of Gregorius Magnus and Remigius Antisiodorensis in his commentary upon him of old have published his fame and renowne Sedulius both in verse and prose hath published many workes whereof in Boston of Burie and Tritemius I onely found these that follow Vnto Macedonius the Priest a singular worke which he intituled Carmen paschale lib. 4 Pascales quicunque dapes conviva requiris Elegia vel exhortatorium ad fideles lib. 1 Cantemus socij Dom. cantemus honorem De signis virtutibus lib. 1 Domino meo charissimo Gesta et miracula Christi lib. 4 Expulerat quondam c Superutroque testamento lib. 2  In Psalmos Dividicos lib. 1  Collectanea in Paulum lib. 14 Antequam Apostolica verba In Paulum ad Romanos lib. 1 Sciendum est quod hoc Ad Corinthios lib. 2 Quod nomen suum proponit Ad Galatas lib. 1 Hoc est non ab humana Ad Ephesios lib. 1 Refere scriptura testante Ad Philippenses lib. 1 Metropoli Macedoniae cum Ad Colossenses lib. 1 Hac vice Apostolatus autor Ad Thessalonicenses lib. 2 Quod non dicit Apostolus Ad Timotheum lib. 2 Non secundum praesumptionem Ad Titum Discipulum lib. 1 Hanc epistolam scribit de Ad Philemonem lib. 1 In carcere vel in catenis Ad Hebraeos lib. 1 Quoniam apud Haebraeorum De factis Christi prosaice lib. 2  Ad Caesarem TheodosiuÌ„ lib. 1 Romulidum ductor Clariss Epist. ad diversos lib. 1 Sedulius Scotigena dilect In editionem Donati lib. 1  In Prisciani volumen lib. 1  Carmina diversi generis lib. 1  He published also certaine Hymnes which the Church useth 1 A solis ortus cardine Ad usque terrae limitem Christum canamus principem c. Hostis Herodes impie Christum venisse quid times c. 2 A solis ortus cardine Ad usque terrae limitem Christum canamus principem c. Hostis Herodes impie Christum venisse quid times c. He flourished in the yeere after the Incarnation 450. under Theodosius Iunior the Emperour what time Fergusius the second raigned in Scotland after his miserable exile by the Romanes Of this Author Sigebertus and Bostonus write more So farre Bale Stanihurst pleadeth for Ireland and writeth Sedulius was not only of Irish birth but also the light of all Ireland neither will we suffer any longer so excellent a man out of his native soile contrary to all right to exile or wander but he is rather to be restored to his former inheritance as it were with a new solemnity of birth In another place hee seemeth to qualifie the matter having already chalenged Damianus a Goes of iniurie and to reconcile the dissonance of varying writers that the Scottish is taken for the Irish and the Irish for the Scottish and to satisfie the reader noteth the confusion how that all the commentaries of Sedulius upon the Epistles of Paul beginne Sedulij Scoti Hibernensis c. the Commentarie of Sedulius the Scot of Ireland And to shut up this challenge of all sides I finde that there was a second Sedulius a man of no lesse fame and learning and hee is said to bee a Scottish man therefore let Ireland being more antient then Scotland take the first and Scotland the last In the like sort excepting the challenge standeth Fridelinus Viator so called by reason of his great travaile his stile is Scotorum Hibernicorum regis olim filius the sonne sometime of the King of the Scots in Ireland whom I couch among them of Irish birth because of the ancient stile and distinction often used
his continuing of the Chronicle of Lanquet maketh the same to be Anno Dom. 423. and withall delivereth his conceit that the Scots about this time came first out of Ireland into that country which of them was called Scotland If he had referred it to a further yeere namely when the sixe sonnes of Muredus King of Vlster came to Scotland haply it would have carried some probabilitie but to say that it was the first comming of the Scots into Scotland I doe no more like of it then George Buchanan doth neither doth it concurre with the antiquities precedent or subsequent Cambrensis and Stanihurst doe direct me in this course Here I am to note saith Cambrensis that in the time of Neall Monarch of Ireland the sixe sonnes of Muredus King of Vlster with no small navie possessed the North parts of Britaine whence the nation issuing out of them and by speciall name called Scottish to this day inhabite that northerne angle but upon what occasion they came hither how and by what great treasons rather then voyages they banished the Pictes from those parts a stout nation farre passing them for armes and courage I referre to our Topographie of Britaine Stanihurst addeth this inrode into Albania was a little before the comming of Patricke So that these Noble men of Ireland came into Scotland in the time of Neale and Patricke came into Ireland in the time of Leigerius the sonne of Neale as hereafter more at large shall appeare In the meane time we reade how that Anno 430. according to Functius Celestinus Bishop of Rome sent Palladius into Scotland who was the first that gave them Bishops for unto that time the Churches without Bishops were governed by Monkes with lesse pride and outward pompe but with greater sanctitie and meekenesse of spirit c. I make mention of him for that as our Irish Anonymus and Iocelin doe write he landed in the North parts of Ireland where he hardly escaped with life as it is reported thence he went to the Ilands where he did much good lastly he came to Scotland preached the Gospell rooted out the Pelagian heresie and consecrated them Bishops c. At this time as it is written in the life of Declanus Christian religion first beganne and tooke roote in Ireland not as some have dreamed by Saint Iames the Apostle neither by Saint Patricke whom they terme the Apostle of Ireland The truth of the historie is as followeth There was one Colmannus in Mounster a reverend Priest and the first Christian which I finde upon record in Ireland that baptized one Declanus and delivered him to be brought up unto one Dymna a Christian schoolemaster under whom he profited so much that his fame was spread farre and nigh so that upon good advice and counsaile he travailed to Rome where Celestinus the Pope consecrated him Bishop where also he met with Albaeus a Bishop of Irish birth In his returne from Rome he mette with Patricke in Italie conversed a while with him and being inioyned by Celestinus hastened to Ireland and left Patricke that was bound for Rome Declanus after his arrivall in Ireland came among his owne sept whom mine Author calleth Nandesi and I take to be the ancient house of the Decies not farre from Lismore and there preached the Gospell and converted many to the Christian faith Thither came unto him saith the Legend seven holy men Mocellog Beanus Colmanus Lachuyn Moby Fyndlug and Caminanus they builded them celles conversed together and planted the Christian faith over all Mounster He went to Engus the sonne Nafrygh King of Mounster whose Pallace was in Cassill who gave him leave to preach yet received not the faith the reason of this favour as I finde it was for that Engus had married his mother and had issue by her Colman and Eochard Colman was by Saint Albaeus the Bishop baptized and then received the Ecclesiasticall habite Eochard raigned after his father King of Mounster Saint Declanus took a second iourney to Rome and was reverently entertained by David Bishop of Menevia after the effecting of his businesse he returned into Ireland and arrived in a place called Ard-naciored in Latine Altitudo ovium now called Ardmore the which soile the Lord of Nandesi gave him where goodly buildings have beene and as the record runneth Civitas sancti Declani quae in eo loco posita est vocatur Ardmore id est Altitudo magna Farther in the same Legend I finde Quatuor sanctissimi Episcopi cum suis discipulis fuerunt in Hibernia ante Patricium praedicantes in ea Christū scilicet Albaeus Declanus Ybarus Kyaranus alias Keran hi plures ad Christum rete evangelico traxerunt sed tamen sanctus Patricius Majores Hiberniae potentiores ad fidem convertit In their time Patricke sent from Celestine Bishop of Rome came to Ireland whom these foure Bishops with their followers saluted and seeing Patricke after the humour of humorous people more graced then themselves jarred with him they would not forsooth have any of forraigne nation to patronize the land In the originall it is recorded Ybarus nulla ratione consentire Sancto Patricio nunquam ei subditus esse voluit nolebat enim Patronum Hiberniae de alia gente habere conflictus magnos inter se ipsos Ybarus Patricius fecerunt But afterward by much adoe they were reconciled See gentle reader the infirmitie of men and emulation following the same At Cassill they were reconciled by Engus King of Mounster whom Patricke baptized who after his baptisme founded there the Cathedrall Church in the honour of Saint Patricke made it the Metropolitane See of Mounster and assigned Albaeus the first Bishop there This King held there a Parliament of spirituall and temporall persons of his kingdome ratifying the premisses pacifying all quarrels and yeelding contentment to all sides The Legend reporteth in quo decretum est ut Albaeus secundus Patricius Patronus Mumeniae esset Declanus secundus Patricius Patronus esset Nandeisi Nandeisi sua Diocesis usque ad finem seculi esset Postea sancti Episcopi salutantes benedicentes regem Engusum ad sua in osculo pacis cum spirituali gaudio ad opus Domini seminandum regressi sunt Wherein it was decreed that Albaeus should be a second Patricke and Patron of Mounster and that Declanus should be a second Patricke and Patrone of Nandeisi and that Nandeisi should be his Diocesse to the end of the world After all these holy Bishops saluted and blessed King Engus and in the kisse of peace with spirituall ioy returned every one to his charge to sow the worke of the Lord. Immediately there insued a grievous plague over all Mounster and especially at Cassill which was the death of thousands the manner of it was this first they had the yellow jaundies then they fell
downe for dead King Engus lamented greatly the death of seven Nobles of Mounster that were pledges with him at Cassill and miscarried in this mortalitie Not long after Declanus ended the way of all flesh and lyeth buried at Ardmore Albaeus as his owne Legend delivereth the second Patrone of Mounster after Patricke the generall Patrone of Ireland was borne in Elyach now called Ely O Caroll His fathers name was Olâ—nais his mothers Sandith a maid servant in the house of King Cronanus the Lord of Eliach was then called a King Cronanus in his rage bid his servants hang the whoore and kill the childe the servants loath to dispatch an innocent tooke him out of his Pallace and laid him under the side of a rocke One Lochanus the sonne of Lugyr passing by pittied the childe tooke him to his horse and set him to nurse among certaine Britaines in the East part of Elyach Palladius saith the story passing from Rome toward Scotland and travelling through Ireland baptized him The Britaines sent him into France where hee was trayned up in Christian schooles and brought up under Bishop Hilarius who sent him to Rome where he was consecrated Bishop and remained one whole yeere and fiftie dayes preaching and expounding holy Scripture with great admiration And saith the Legend there came unto him out of Ireland fiftie grave and reverend men of which number there were 12 Colmans 12 Coenigeni and 12 Fintans the Bishop of Rome sent them backe into Ireland they came to Dolomoir where Sampson Bishop of that See gave them entertainement There he baptized saith the storie King Fintan After he had baptized and converted many unto the faith and builded many Churches and founded many Hospitals for lazers he came to Ymleach now called Emley a Bishopricke and in the Legend termed his owne Citie fell sicke and there left his bones He conversed with Biga whom learned Camden calleth Bega Bretach Nunnes and with Nessanus a great Antiquarie saith mine Author whose antiquities I never saw Kyaranus or Keran alias Piran another of the foure Bishops that lived in Ireland before Saint Patricke commeth next to be spoken of Of him Capgrave and the Martyrologe thus write that hee was a Bishop and Confessour and termed Sanctorum Hiberniae primogenitus And yet I finde in Molanus that one Saint Mansuetus Bishop of Tullum now called Tullense oppiduÌ„ a towne in Flanders was of Irish birth fellow Disciple with Saint Clement under Saint Peter the blessed Apostle not trayned up in Ireland in the Christian faith but in forraigne countries where he was both baptized instructed and made Bishop and where he now resteth But to returne to Keran he was borne in Ossorie having to his father Domnell saith another Lugnaeus whereby I gather there were two of that name to his mother Wingella famous for life learning and sanctitie in the dayes of Saint Patricke He lived in the I le of Cleere some 30 yeeres from thence he went to Rome where hee met Saint Patricke who came to Ireland 30. yeeres after Pyranus was of note in Rome hee continued 15. yeeres expounding holy Scripture with great admiration as another saith 20. yeeres there the Bishop of Rome consecrated him Bishop He came to Ireland and was the first Bishop of Ossorie having his See at Keran in Elie O Carroll Hee refreshed saith mine Author Saint Patricke and tenne Irish Kings for the space of three dayes he confirmed Rhodanus in the faith visited the Virgin Cota with her Priest Geranus whose cell was a rocke of the â—eas not farre from the Citie of Cluan in Mounster He was a man of an austere life never ware woollen garment but the fell of Wolves and wilde beasts As he came to his lodging in time of Lent and having inquired what provision they had answere being made that they had but a pestle of Porke he commanded it to be laid on the table one scornefully refused the dyet he misliking with him threatned him an ill end which accordingly came to passe When by the course of nature he saw his end approach he called his friends unto him and said My welbeloved children and friends God hath disposed that I should trauaile out of Ireland into Cornewall and there expect the end of my dayes I cannot withstand the will of God I doe admonish you brethren to uphold the place with good workes and examples of life for there shall come children of perdition and death among you ye shall have mortalitie and warres the Churches shall become waste and desolate and the truth shall be turned into iniquitie faith shall not shine with good workes the Pastors will looke to themselves more then to their flocke feeding themselves more then their sheepe last of all I beseech you brethren pray for me that my iourney may be prosperous and that after my decease I finde not my King and my God angry but gentle and appeased when I shall appeare before him He tooke leave came to Cornewall and resteth some fifteene miles from Petrok-stow 25. miles from Mousehole where he is remembred for their Patron Cambrâ—nsis writeth that in Caerdise in Wales there is a Chappell called Saint Perans Chappell where King Henry the second in his returne from Ireland repaired to heare divine service as he hath remembred it in his Booke intituled Itinerarium Cambriae And thus much of Saint Keran or Saint Peran Of Ybarus the fourth Bishop before Saint Patricke I finde some discourse in the Legend of Abbanus the Abbot how hee baptized him and brought him up in learning and how they went together to Rome and after their returne conversed in Ireland with Saint Patricke as formerly in part hath beene delivered in the life of Declanus This Abbanus is renowned in Ireland for building of Celles and religious houses besides three Monasteries in Connaght he built in Mounster Ceall Achard Conchun alias Kill Achard where Saint Finan whom he baptized after his death was Abbot In the borders of Muskerry he builded the Nunnery of Husneach and left it to Saint Gobnaid and her Virgins another Monasterie also by Kilcullen In Nandesi as I take it now called the Decies by the towne of Briogoban he founded Kill-na-Marban and at the foot of the mountaine Crotte in Muskerie the famous Monasterie called Cluain-Airdmobecoc where Saint Becanus was Abbot the which afterward because of Becanus his lamentation in devout sort as it is written for his sinnes was called Ceall Nander Cella lachrymarum the cell of teares He founded also Cluain Findglaise Cluain Conbrum and went into Ely where he baptized and converted unto the faith thousands as the Legend reporteth in a place afterward called Rath-Becain in Latine Atrium Becani where Abbanus is recounted Patron He builded a Monasterie upon the river Berba called Ross-Mac-Treoin where the Abbot Saint Emenus resteth also in Meath Ceall-Ailbe and committed the charge thereof to the holy
bee true one to another throughout that whole rancke of rebels as farre as life lands and goods would reach to effect this enterprise Secondly they swoare never to yeeld obedience to the English nation againe Oconor King of Conaght becomes the mouth of the Irish perswades to his liking disswades where fancy pleaseth not and gathered together in short time an Army as mine Author saith of 20000. fighting men his policy was first to cleare Conoght and afterwards all Vlster and so by degrees the whole land the which he doubted not of as he delivered to his followers Sir Iohn de Courcy understanding this and doubting what hee should finde at Sir Hugh Delacies hands sent letters in post to his brother Sir Amorick Saint Laurence who shortly to his ayd marched towards the North with 30. Knights and 200. foot Oconor hearing this lyeth in ambush in most secret wise and sendeth scouts of horse and foot before him to apprehend and cut off all espials which might bewray his ambush and give intelligence to Sir Amorick to prevent the danger Sir Amorick boldly marcheth on misdoubting nothing for that he understandeth by his espials nothing to the contrary till he came to the Divels mouth where upon a sudden beholding Oconor and his huge Army peeping out of their ambush was amazed made a stand and consulting with his company wist not what to doe there was no flying there was no fighting one to a hundred was no equal match a horseman whose name was Mountgomery in a few words said this Let us fly and save our lives as for the foot company wee can doe them no good by figting by flying and saving our owne lives we may succour their wives children and kindred By that time Sir Amorick his brother leader of the foot company came to the consultation and said I see by all circumstances that you meane to flie and you Sir Amorick my noble brother what meane you to give eare to these cowardly horsemen will you leave us here as sheepe in the mouths of this mercilesse people and ravening wolfes ready to rent us in peeces Have you forgotten the bloody battels we followed you in and do you not see that we have left our Country our wives our children and dearest friends and now stand at deaths doore to be forsaken of you whom wee never left so disolate and distressed if you weigh not our lamentable estate regard your owne honour and the house you are descended of Will you lose in an houre the honour you wanne in many yeeres Call to remembrance most worthy Knight how that in Vriell in manner in the like distresse you dismounted your selfe slew your horse led the foot animated the company recovered your selfe and ended with honour Wee are your flesh and your blood wee come hither to fight to live and to dye together I know the worst I am resolved if we fight we dye if we fly we are slaine is it not better for us to dye in fight like men and so winne honour then to bee slaine in flight like beasts and gaine shame for ever With this Sir Amorick turned him to the foot company and hardly gathering breath with the sorrow of his heart resolved himselfe thus I have no power to fly and leave my frinds my flesh and blood in this extreme distresse I will live with them who for my sake came hither if it so please God and I will dye with them if it bee his pleasure that ending here wee shall meet againe bodies and soules at the last day God and the World beare witnesse that wee doe as Christian Knights ought to doe I yeeld my soule into Gods hands my body to returne whence it came my service to my naturall Prince my heart to my wife and brother Sir Iohn de Courcy my might my force and bloody sweat to the ayd of you all that are in the field He lighted kneeled upon his knees kissed the crosse of his sword ranne his horse through saying thou shalt never serve against mee that so worthily hast served with mee The like did all the rest then looking about with a chearefull countenance as if he had not beene the man that was formerly dismaid charged two young Gentlemen of the company to get them to the top of an Hill hard by adjoyning and beholding the battell upon their returne homwards make true report to his brother Courcy and others of that daies service Immediatly they prepared to battaile the enemies marvailed seeing them approch that they durst being so few abide the field they made likewise a stand and cast doubts whether the Englishmen in this attempt had not some great supply rescues are maine battaile following after they would not give the on-set before they had certain knowledge thereof by scoutes and espials to be short they joyne the battaile where to deliver the whole in few words Sir Amorick was slaine and all his company It was a bloody day when all the one side and a 1000. of the other side fell to ground Oconor and his company seing the end of this field durst never againe give battell unto the English but sued to Sir Hugh Delacy then Lord Iustice for peace which he obtained vowing as he had many a time before faith truth and perfect subjection This Oconor after his reconciliation made report unto Sir Hugh Delacy of that daies work that he thought verily there was never the like seen upon the earth how that the Englishmen not being able to stand in fight turned backe to backe with sparthes and two handed swords untill the last man was slaine The lamentation that Sir Iohn de Courcy made when this was bruted abroad I will not stand to rehearse I am now to end with King Henry the second a most worthy Prince whose troubles every way troubled not him so much as the unnaturall rebellion of his sonnes and the Iealousie of his Queene he raigned 34. yeeres 9. months and two dayes his Epitaph in Mathew Paris and in others I find thus Rex Henricus eram mihi plurima regna subegi Multiplicique modo Duxque Comesque fui c Of late King Henry was my name Which Conquered many a Land And divers Dukdomes did possesse And Earldomes held in hand And yet while all the earth could scarce My greedy mind suffice Eight foot within the ground now serves Wherein my Carcas lyes Now thou that readest this note well My force with force of Death And let that serve to shew the state Of all that yeeldeth breath Do good then here fore slow no time Cast off all worldly cares For brittel world full soone doth faile And death doth strike unwares Richard the first the third sonne of Henry 2. began his raigne over England the 6. of Iuly Anno 1189. For his valence he was called Coeur de Lyon the Lyons heart he was affianced but never married to Adela or Alice daughter to the French King and in his iourney to the holy
by the said heire of Vlster had issue Walter and hee had issue five daughters 1. Ellen that married Robert le Bruse King of Scotland 2. Elizabeth that married the Earle of Gloster 3. Iohan that married Thomas Earle of Kildare 4. Katherine that married the Earle of Louth 5. Margaret that married the Earle of Desmond the 6. Ellinor that married with the Lord Multon notwithstanding these honourable matches and amity concluded in the outward sight of the world there rose deadly warres between the Giraldins and Burks which wrought blood sheds troubles by partaking throughout the Realme of Ireland at the same time the fury of the Giraldins was so outragious in so much that Morice Fitz Maurice the second Earle of Desmond opposed himselfe against the sword and tooke at Trisledermote now called Castle Dermocke Richard de Capella the Lord Iustice Theoball le Butler and Iohn or Millis de Cogan and committed them to the prisons in Leix and Donamus but the yeere following Henry the third not pleased with these commotions and hurly burlies by mature advice taken of his Councell pacified the variance betweene them discharged Denny of his Iusticeship and appointed David Barry Lord Iustice in his place Anno 1267. David Barry tooke by the appointment of the King the sword of Iusticeship and the command of Ireland and quelled or tamed saith the English Anonymos the insolent dealing of Morice Fitz Maurice Cousin german to Girald The same yeere saith Iohn Clinne the Fryers Preachers first of all settled themselves at Rosse in Wexford and the Minors at Kilkennie and two yeeres after at Clonemell Anno 1268. Conochur Obrian was slaine by Dermot Mac Monard and the same yeere saith Felcon and Clinne Maurice Fitz Gerald Earle of Desmond was drowned crossing the seas between England and Ireland leaving behind him a sonne and heire of the age of 3. yeeres and a halfe The same yeere Robert Vfford became Lord Iustice of Ireland and began to build the Castle of Roscommon Anno 1269. Richard de Excester was made Lord Iustice who dyed the same yeere together with his wife Margery de Say the same yeere saith Florilegus Othobone the Popes Legat held a Councell at Paules in London where he called before him the Clergy of England Wales Ireland and Scotland and left among them certaine constitutions which were afterward commended by Linwood and are at this day in request the which constitutions of Otho and Othobon were afterwards confirmed by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Ed. 1. raigne Holinshead Anno 1270. The Lord Iames Audley was made Lord Iustice of Ireland and dyed with the fall of a horse in his time Florilegus and Holinshead note there was great commotion in Ireland the Irish tooke Armes against the English burned spoiled destroied and slue as well the Magistrates as others Clinne goeth more particularly to worke and delivereth how that the King of Conaght by force of Armes in the plaine field overthrew Walter Burke Earle of Vlster who hardly escaped with life yet dyed the yeere following and slue a great number of Nobles and Knights that held with the Burk and among others by especiall name the Lord Richard Verdon and the Lord Iohn Verdon and that there ensued over all Ireland great famine and pestilence as the sequell of warres About this time say our Antiquaries the Bishop of Rome sent to Ireland requiring the tithes of all spirituall promotions for 3. yeeres to come to maintaine his warres against the King of Aragon the which was greatly murmured at and gainesaid yet the Nuntio went not empty away Anno 1272. the most renowned King Henry the third having lived 65. yeeres and raigned 56. and 28 dayes ended his dayes and was buried at Westminster Edward the first of that name sonne of King Henry the third surnamed Long-shankes of the age of 35. yeers began his raigne Anno 1272. Anno 1272. and the first of Edward the first his raigne Maurice Fitz Maurice was made Lord Iustice in whose time the Irish brake out into cruell rebellion rased and destroyed the Castles of Aldleeke Roscommon Scheligath and Randon this Maurice saith Clyn not long after was betrayed by his owne followers in Ophali taken and imprisoned Anno 1273. the Lord Walter Genvill who lately returned home from the Holy Land was sent into Ireland and appointed Lord Iustice in his time so write Dowlinge and Grace the Scots and Red-shankes out of the high land crossed the seas burned townes and villages most cruelly killed man woman and childe tooke a great prey and returned home afore the country could make preparation to pursue them but in a while after to bee revenged of them Vlster and Connaught mustred a great Armie under the leading of Richardus de Burgo and Sir Eustacele Poer knight made after them entred the Islands and high land of Scotland slue as many as they could finde burned their Cabbans and Cottages and such as dwelt in caves and rockes under ground as the manner is to denne out Foxes they fired and smothered to death covering their entrances into the ground with great and huge stones and so returned into Ireland Anno 1276. what time Thomas Clare came into Ireland and married the daughter of Maurice Fitz Maurice The Castle of Roscommon was taken by the Irish and a great overthrow given vnto the English men at Glynburry Glandelory saith Clyn where William Fitz Roger Prior of the Kings hospitallers and many others were taken prisoners and a great number of others were slaine at what time also Ralph Pepard and Otholand gave O Neale a sore battaile Anno 1277. Walter Lord Genuill was sent for into England and Robert Vfford the second time tooke the office of Iusticeship at this time Muridath or Murtagh a notable rebell was taken at the Noraght by Gualter de Fant and executed Thomas Clare likewise in this rebellion slue Obryan Roe King of Thomond and yet after this the Irish drew such a draught that they closed him up in Slew Banny together with Maurice Fitz Maurice his father in law and all their forces untill they gave hostages to escape with their lives upon condition to make satisfaction for the death of O brian and his followers and in the meane while to yeeld them up the Castle of Roscommon although the conditions seemed hard prejudiciall to the Kings Maiesty yet were they driven for safeguard of their lives to condiscend thereunto In this rebellious season to cleere himselfe that in his owne person he came not to daunt the enemy Robert Vfford the Lord Iustice was sent for into England who substituted in his roome one Fryer Robert Fulborne Bishop of Waterford who when he had cleered himselfe came and resigned his place of Iusticeship Anno 1278. there rose civill warres no better then rebellion betweene Mac Dermot de Moylargo and Cathgur O Conoghor King of Connaught where there was great slaughter and bloud-shed on both
authority of their Rulers and Magistrates Iren. It is most true that such Poets as in their writings doe labour to better the manners of men and thorough the sweete baite of their numbers to steale into the young Spirits a desire of honour and vertue are worthy to bee had in great respect But these Irish Bardes are for the most part of another minde and so farre from instructing yong men in morall discipline that they themselves doe more deserve to bee sharpely disciplined for they seldome use to choose unto themselves the doings of good men for the Arguments of their Poems but whomsoever they finde to be most licentious of life most bolde and lawlesse in his doings most dangerous and desperate in all parts of disobedience and rebellious disposition him they set up and glorifie in their Rithmes him they praise to the people to yong men make an example to follow Eudox. I marvaile what kinde of speeches they can finde or what face they can put on to praise such bad persons as live so lawleslie and licentiouslie upon stealthes and spoyles as most of them doe or how can they thinke that any good mind will applaude or approve the same Iren. There is none so bad Eudoxus but shall finde some to favour his doings but such licentious partes as these tending for the most part to the hurt of the English or maintenance of their owne lewde libertie they themselves being most desirous therof doe most allow Besides this evill things being decked and attired with the gay attire of goodly words may easily deceive carry away the affection of a yong mind that is not well stayed but desirous by some bolde adventures to make proofe of himselfe for being as they all be broght up idlely without awe of Parents without precepts of masters and without feare of offence not being directed nor imployed in any course of life which may carry them to vertue will easily be drawne to follow such as any shall set before them for a yong minde cannot rest if he be not still busied in some goodnesse he will finde himselfe such businesse as shall soone busie all about him In which if he shall find any to praise him to give him encouragement as those Bardes and Rythmers doe for little reward or a share of a stolne Cow then waxeth he most insolent and halfe madde with the love of himselfe his owne lewd deeds And as for words to set forth such lewdnes it is not hard for them to give a goodly and painted shew thereunto borrowed even from the praises which are proper to vertue it selfe As of a most notorious thiefe wicked out-law which had lived all his life-time of spoyles robberies one of their Bardes in his praise will say that he was none of the idle milke-sops that was brought up by the fire side but that most of his dayes he spent in armes valiant enterprises that he did never eat his meat before he had won it with his sword that he lay not all night slugging in a cabbin under his mantle but used commonly to keepe others waking to defend their lives and did light his candle at the flames of their houses to leade him in the darkenesse That the Day was his Night and the Night his Day that he loved not to be long woing of wenches to yeeld to him but where he came he tooke by force the spoyle of other mens love and left but lamentation to their lovers that his musick was not the harpe nor layes of love but the cryes of people and clashing of Armor finally that he died not bewayled of many but made many waile when he died that dearely bought his death Doe you not thinke Eudoxus that many of these praises might be applyed to men of best deserts yet are they all yeelded to a most notable Traytor amongst some of the Irish not smally accounted of For the song when it was first made and sung to a person of high degree there was bought as their manner is for forty crownes Eudox. And well worthy sure But tell me I pray you have they any Art in their compositions or bee they any thing wittie or well favoured as Poemes should be Iren. Yea truely I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me that I might understand them surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of Poetry yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowres of their naturall device which gave good grace comlinesse unto them the which it is great pitty to see so abused to the gracing of wickednes vice which with good usage would serve to adorne beautifie vertue This evill custome therfore needeth reformation And now next after the Irish Kerne me thinks the Irish hors-boyes would come well in order the use of which though necessity as times now be do enforce yet in the thorough reformation of that Realme they should be cut off For the cause why they are now to be permitted is want of convenient Innes for lodging of travailers on horsback of hostlers to tend their horses by the way But when things shal be reduced to a better passe this needeth specially to be reformed For out of the fry of these rake-hell horse-boyes growing up in knavery and villainy are their Kerne continually supplyed maintained For having been once brought up an idle horse-boy he will never after fall to labour but is only made fit for the halter And these also the which is one foule over-sight are for the most part bred up amongst the Englishmen of whom learning to shoote in a piece and being made acquainted with all the trades of the English they are afterwards when they become Kerne made more fit to cut their throats Next to this there is another much like but much more lewde and dishonest and that is of their Carrows which is a kinde of people that wander up and downe to Gentle-mens houses living onely upon Cardes and Dice the which though they have little or nothing of their owne yet will they play for much money which if they winne they waste most lightly and if they lose they pay as slenderly but make recompence with one stealth or another whose onely hurt is not that they themselves are idle Lossells but that thorough gaming they draw others to like lewdnesse and idlenesse And to these may bee added another sort of like loose fellowes which doe passe up and downe amongst Gentlemen by the name of Iesters but are indeed notable rogues partakers not onely of many stealthes by setting forth other mens goods to be stolne but also privy to many traitrous practices and common carryers of newes with desire whereof you would wonder how much the Irish are fed for they use commonly to send up and downe to know newes and if any meet with another his second word is what newes Insomuch that hereof is tolde a
Ireland into Britaine Hect. Boet. Scot. hist. lib. 4. Anno Dom. 53. Polychron lib 1. cap. 1. cap. 37. Io. Harding Chronig Mewinus Flor. hist. Mewinus was also called Melkinus Io. Bale cent 1 cap. 57. wrote his life The stone Regall of Scotland Pol. lib. 1. cap. 58 Ponticus Virunius Io. Bale Script Brytan centur 8 Scotland for Albania from hence forward Anno Dom. 73. Galf. Mon. Booke of Houth Anno Dom. 310 The history of Realmond King of Vlster Duke of Cornewall Castreus the Gyant Sax. Gram. hist. Dan. lib. 7. The Danes come to Ireland The genealogie of Fin Erin or Fin Mac Coyll Eric or Erin what it signifieth Erin or Ireland of whom so called Occasions of the battaile of Fentra Strangers intend the utter subversion of the Irish nation A strange battaile if it be true Gillemore of Thomond revolteth Gillemore returneth The battaile of Fentra The severall garrisons of the Danes Beacons appointed in Ireland by Fin Mac Koill Karbre Lifeacher Monarch of Ireland The insolent devices of the Danes Forces of the Irish and Danes Garrestowne The marshalling of the Danes at the battaile of Ardkath Hol-trase Order of the Kings of Ireland at the field of Ardkath Dermot Lamhdhearg King of Leinster The King of Leinsters speech Osker Mac Oshen his speech Fabian part 6. cap. 198. writeth that the Danes did the like in England The battaile of Ardkath The King of Leinster slaieth the King of Denmarke his sonne The Danes overcome Ferreis a Dane fell madde Fin Mac Coile The Danes disagree in Ireland Fin Mac Coile taketh the King of Denmarke prisoner Overcommeth a Gyant Gorre burneth Fin Mac Coiles house He is killed by his own sonne The end of Fin Mac Coill W. 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Saint Pat. prophecie of the Monarch Mocho Bishop of Dune Benignus or Stephanus successour to Saint Patricke A Nunne saith Iocelin was in love with him sent for him to her bed but the signe of the Crosse made all well Erchus or Herkus a Bishop Ioc. cap. 49.51.53.68.69 seq Mac Carly Saint Paâ— sisters Lumianus Bishop of Ahtrum Conallus Lord of Connaght Saint Patricks prophecie of Dublin Dublin beleeveth and is baptized Saint Patricks Well Morguus of Castleknoke Engus and Daris receive Saint Pat. Vrmiunnan or Ormond King Eochu and his daughter baptized Cecubris the first Nunne in Ireland King Conallus and Fergus baptized Saint Pat. in Britaine Pelagians Isle of Man Eocchiad and Dublinia raised from death Dublin whence so called Saint Pat. manner of teaching Iocelin c. 1â—2 Saint Patricks three petitions for Ireland Flor. histor Anton Chron. part 2. tit 11. cap. 18. Saint Patricks workes and labour in Ireland Iocelin cap. 187. Ioc. cap. 164. and 198. Strife for Saint Patricks body The life of Saint Brigide Bernard in vita Malachiae A Synode by Dublin Kildare Bishops of Kildare Scot. hist. lib. 9 Brigides death Saint Darludach Illand King of Leinster The life of Caelius Sedulius Iohannes Bale Script Brit. cent 14. The workes of Caelius Sedulius R. Stan. prefaâ— ad lib. 1. de râ—b Hib. Append. ad cap. 17· The life of Fridelinus Viator Io. Bale script Britanic cent 14. Saint Fekin The life of Saint Modwen Saint Sith the Virgin The reader is not bound to beleeve this Osmanna the Virgin Tathe the Monkeâ— The stones of Salisbury sent for into Ireland Gillomer King of Leinster Stonehenge In praefatione ad hist. Danâ— Io. Harding Gillomer King of Leinster slaine at Saint Davids in Wales Anno Dom. â—25 Homage for Ireland Marogh one of K. Arthurs Knights Rich. 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Saint Kentegernus Ruadanus his life Saint Faghua his life Saint Yta the Abbatesse Saint Mocoeinoge Divers learned men Saint Coeingenus Gleand-daloch Dymnach Saint Molva his life Saint Finnian his schoole Luacha mons Synna flu Mount Smoill Divers Bishops and learned men Berua fl The life of Saint Munnu Lazerianus If they were as faâ— in those daies as most of them proved after there would have beene old frying Mount Margee Saint Kenny his life Learned men Kilkenny Saint Kennies Church Saint Maula and her plague Aedanus his life Anmyre King of Connaght Edus or Edanus King of Connaght Brandub King of Leinster Monarch of Ireland Fernes Ferneâ— the Metropolitan See of Leinster King Brandubs death Ferne the buriall place of the Kings of Leinster Warres against Leinster An Epistle from the Divell Bishop Finan Capgrave Martyrologe Abbot Finan Finan of Cluayn jarhaird Colmannus Beda Edelthun and Egbert Colmannus or Colmanellus Eadus the sonne of King Aimireach Carantocus or Cervagh Ireland subiect to the King of England I le of Man Anno Dom. 586 Gurmundâ—â— Dowlinge and Grace Duke of Leinster and Baron of Margee Baron of Sliew Marrig Anno 587. Ireland helpeth the Britaines Ireland helpeth Cadwallin Agilbertus of Ireland the first Bishop of Winchester