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A11227	The gouernment of Ireland vnder the honorable, iust, and wise gouernour Sir Iohn Perrot Knight, one of the Priuy Councell to Queene Elizabeth, beginning 1584. and ending 1588 Being the first booke of the continuation of the historie of that kingdome, formerly set forth to the yeare 1584, and now continued to this present 1626. Whereof the rest succeeding this already collected, but not fully perfected, shall shortly follow.	E. C. S, fl. 1626.	1626 (1626)	STC 21490; ESTC S116308	77,201	172

exceeding her Maiesties yearely charge one yeare with another since the beginning of her Maiesties Reigne and short of her Highnes charges in three yeares not long since by almost 50000 pounds as may appeare by Auditors Bookes and as humbly I pray you that you doe conceiue that this my motion doth not proceede from any direction but onely from the cause itselfe which I haue at Eye and wherein for zeale and duties sake I auowe and protest not onely to imploy my body and minde but also all that substance that I am well able to spare which I know will fall out vpon mee the greatest Subsidie of any Subiect in the Land through the charge that hath and will arise of my continuall trauailing to effect these Seruices from place to place for otherwise it will not be done where I might saue by feeling my selfe in places certaine Hauing thus protested to spend mine owne with good contentation I trust I may easily auoyde all opinion of intent to get by issuing of the money for I vtterly denounce the handling or directing of one penny otherwise then by the aduice of such as shall be specially assigned to that trust with me If our Auncestors when the world was more needy bare did not make stay at great summes to lesser purpose I trust the present plentifull State of England will shewe a franke and cheetefull readinesse to aduance a matter that according to the occasion now offered requireth present helpe and remedy I humbly beseech you thinke what a continuall sinke both of men and money hath this State beene vnto that Thinke also what Forraine Princes haue attempted and doe still gape for it wayting onely opportunity and if they doe catch it what a dangerous and noysome neighbour vnto England they will make it Choake vp the sinke at once make one charge of all conceiuing you doe but lend so much vpon large Interest and that you cast now your seede into a fruitfull ground that will yeeld a profitable Haruest and by your Honourable Magnanimity and care put downe the courages of those ambitious Princes and stop the course of their ambitious intentions against this Realme and consequently that And I for my part doe auowe besides that small portion of wealth that God hath lent me to afford my life well bestowed in that action with no lesse care and diligence then I haue already vsed in the short time of gouernment I haue passed which I trust seemeth not altogether fruitlesse And so crauing humble pardon if zeale and affection haue any way miscaried me I humbly end from her Maiesties Castle of Dublin this 17 of Ianuary 1584. Shortly after to confirme these conclusions and to reduce the people to conformity of gouernment a Parliament before resolued Parliament in Ireland on is now summoned to be held at Dublin where the Nobility Clergie and Commons being assembled Order was taken that none Order for Irish apparell not to be worne in Parliament were permitted to goe in Irish attire as in former time they vsed but to sort themselues in such habite after the English manner as was answerable to their seuerall rankes and qualities and because the charge might breede no difficulty with the chiefe men in Parliament to yeeld to this Order Hee bestowed vpon Tirlogh Leynogh the principle Lord of Vlster and on some others chiefe of the Irish Gowns and other Roabes fit for that place and their degrees which they embraced like fetters of which being weary one of them came to the Deputy and besought him that one of his Chaplaines which hee called Priests might goe with him along through the Streetes clad in his Irish Trouses for then quoth he the Boyes will laugh as fast at him as they now doe at me whereat though the Deputy could haue smiled yet casting a frowne vpon his countenance told him there was no cause he should thinke any laughed at him for wearing those which were fit ornaments for the place he now held and did present in Parliament but if any did so it was at his ill wearing of the same which want of ciuill custome caused Therefore since vse would make that seemely which now was ridiculous he aduised him to view the difference of being fit for all Assemblies and onely fit for the Woods and barbarous Places but quoth the Deputy if any idle or ill affected person shall put the contrary into your head beleeue it to be done out of an ill meaning to the State and worse vnto your person for contempt of order and decencie will in the end be your downfall This aduice was taken eyther as found good or out of necessity to be followed but hereby wee may discerne that custome is commonly preferred before decency and opinion before reason especially amongst people where ciuility is vnplanted Withall it is to be obserued in the The reason the Irish are vnwilling to sort themselues to the English habit proud condition of the Irish that they disdaine to sort themselues in fashion vnto vs which in their opinion would more plainely manifest our Conquest ouer them and this I take to be the cause of their vntowardnesse in this particular which made the Deputy to set the reformation more to heart well knowing that the Lords and chiefe of the Irish framing themselues in habite and plainenesse to their Vnderlings made themselues the more popular Willing or vnwilling they were constrayned to come to the Parliament in that ciuill habit which did best fit the place and present seruice In this Parliament which began at Dublin the 26 of Aprill 1585 in the 27 yeare of the Queenes Reigne Sundry Bills were passed in the first Session which being Enacted and new Printed therefore neede here no further mention but their disputes and differences arose about a Bill preferred in the Commons A Bill for the suspension of Poynings Acts. House for the suspention of Poynings Act which past in the tenth yeare of King Henry the seauenth before Sir Edward Poynings then Deputy That no Bill should passe in any Parliament in Ireland for a Law vntill the same had first a Royall assent in England This the Deputy would haue suspended by Act of Parliament to the end that opportunity might be taken for passing such Bills as the present occasion might offer for the good of the Seruice without attending the further resolution of England whereby the aduantage of aduancing present Seruices might be lost making that by delay more vnpassable which at the present might easily be perfected But this howsoeuer grounded vpon good iudgement by the Deputy was impugned especially by some chiefe stirrers in the English Pale and ouerthrowne by them at the third reading who feared perchance that something might be propounded and speedily Enacted which might crosse some purposes of their owne and therefore by suspition were caried to their own preiudice yet afterwards vpon better information that doubt being cleared they then seemed more enclinable to

equall Iustice vnto all which hee knew to be her Maiesties minde And quoth he this sword laying his hand vpon the sword of State shall punish ill doers without partiality and protect the good subiect from violence and iniury but because words and deedes doe now a dayes vse to dwell farre assunder I leaue you that heare me now hereafter to iudge mee and my words by my deedes This short speech being pronounced in such a manner as his naturall Maiestie of personage spirit and countenance did vsually afford receiued no lesse applause from the standers by then it gaue them hope it would proue a debt wherein the payment would iustly follow the promise The ceremony being ended with the accustomed rites thereunto belonging The next day hee communicated in Councell his commission and instructions which for the better satisfaction of such as mistake the graunt of that gouernment both in limit of authority and terme of Residencie I haue thought meete to declare that his Pattent was as all other Deputies not with limitation The amplitude of the Deputies Cōmission of yeares or time of gouernment but during pleasure containing power to make warre and peace To leauy Armes and Forces for that purpose To punish and pardon offenders To conferre all Offices and collate all Spirituall promotions and dignities a fewe of them excepted concluded with the greatest Latitude of authority which can bee giuen a Subiect which is to doe all things in cases of Iustice and gouernment as the Prince might doe being present The reseruation of making Priuie Counsailers great Officers Bishops and such like alwayes giuen heere by the Prince himselfe with diuers other things too long to be here recited In his priuate instructions besides matters of profit as sparing her Maiesties purse and easing her charge setling of differences amongst the subiects and planting indifferencie betweene the superiour and inferiour taking away thereby dependencie The erecting of the Vniuersity in Dublin giuē in charge to the Deputy the bane of that Kingdome There was precisely giuen him in charge the erection of an Vniuersity in Dublin for the aduancement of learning neuer till that time set on foote and that by this Deputies vrging though long time before proiected and in King Edward the sixt time intended So soone as the mists of Ignorance the mother of Popish deuotion was by the shining reformation of Religion dispierced and most especially requisite in that Kingdome as a chiefe spring and fountaine of ciuility His authority thus shewed He fell with them in Councell touching the affaires of that Kingdome both as it was giuen him in charge and as they were presented to the viewe of his owne experient iudgement wherein he spent eighteene dayes after which consultation hee fell to shewe the fruites of Councell in setting downe acts and decrees Amnestia or the act of Obliuion for the good of her Maiesties seruice and Kingdome amongst which was Amnestia or the act of Obliuion according to the institution of the ancient and excellent Law-giuers the Lacedemonians being in the nature of a generall pardon for offences past which was both a mercifull and a politique prouision to keepe Transgressours from despaire the ready mean to enduce them to the encrease of mischiefe but being reduced to obedience by this act of clemencie and so setled in security It was most probable and likely that they who had lately felt the smart of raging and wantfull warre would now kisse peace and embrace it with a firmer constancy At the same time he sent into England the sonne of the late Earle of Desmond being but young and yet held dangerous hee should be bred in that Kingdome where practise might worke his escape and little meanes was to yeeld him a meete breeding with request for his carefull education here that Religion and ciuility might after leade him to the performance of those duties wherein through barbarisme his Predecessours had erred and trangressed Then like a good Gouernour that would abandon ease the mother of errour and corruption The Lord Deputies Progresse into Connaught Mounster he left Dublin the seate of State to settle the remote parts and Prouinces of Mounster and Connaught vnder their Gouernours newly sent ouer General Norrys Lord President of Mounster and Captaine Richard Bingham chiefe Commissioner of Connaught in whose choise this Lord Deputy as I haue heard had a great hand iudging them meete men both for the managing of warre and conseruation of peace So much did their valour iudgement and experience promise for them who had at that time gained the reputation of the two most able Captaines of our Nation wherein his wisedome or fortune did appeare the greater when by such meanes his directions should not onely be skilfully performed but himselfe cased of that care and feare a Chiefe is subiect to when his substitutes be weake especially such principall Gouernours as haue power to answere suddaine occasions vpon their owne discretions but how sufficient so euer they were as his authority was to gouerne them so he thought it his part to guide them by the example of his owne worke purposing in those Prouinces to heare complaints to redresse abuses to decide controuersies and to appease dissentions and quarrels betweene Lords of Countries and men of Ability and speciall quality whose discords and controuersies had vsually drawne them into vnwarrantable actions and many times enforced the Prince both to the hazard and losse of the good Subiects and to the expence of Treasure to bring an Army to appease their quarrels as in the contention betweene Desmond and Ormonde had lately falne out and that which is most dangerous in that Kingdome It hath alwayes beene found that Rebellion hath beene the Successour of priuate quarrels Mischiefe like ambition clyming to the highest places For these ends and purposes the Deputy tooke his iourney from Dublin the thirteenth day of Iuly attended on by diuers persons of account in that State and came to Molingarre the 16. of the same moneth where to preuent discouery of such intelligence as should passe betweene him and the Councell at Dublin by the interception of his or their Letters Hee deuised and sent thence to the Lord Chancellour and Sir Henry Wallop the Treasurer the late Iustices and now by him authorised for the dispatch of the affaires of the State in his absence The Deputies Alphabeticall deuice of secrecie certaine ciphers and figures framed after an Alphabet importing the names of some of the chiefe persons and places in England and Ireland which deuise for secrecie was most necessarie in that Kingdome where the people are very inquisitiue and in the succeeding Warre were apt to giue discouery to the Rebell as well for Religions sake as to gaine fauour vpon his Incursions The want of this course had like to haue opened to the Rebell the last and greatest intention of the Lord Burgh against them by the interception of his last Letter to the