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A67920	A discouerie of the true causes why Ireland was neuer entirely subdued, nor brought vnder obedience of the crowne of England, vntill the beginning of his Maiesties happie raigne; Discoverie of the true causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued	Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.	1612 (1612)	STC 6348; ESTC S109372	93,412	291

Mac Mahon others who with the like Humility and Ceremony did homage and fealtie to the Kings owne person the words of O Neales homage as they are recorded are not vnfit to be remembered Ego Nelanus Oneal Senior tam pro meipso quā pro filijs mels tota Natione mea Parentelis meis pro omnibus subdit is me is deuenio ' Ligeus homo vester c. And in the Indenture betweene him and the King he is not onely bound to remaine faithfull to the Crowne of England but to restore the Bonaght of Vlster to the Earle of Vlster as of right belonging to that Earledomc vsurped among other things by the Oneales These Indentures and submissions with many other of the same kinde for there was not a Chieftaine or head of an Irish sept but submitted himselfe in one forme or other the King himselfe caused to bee enrolled and testified by a Notary publique deliuered the enroulments with his owne hands to the Byshop of Salisbury then Lord Treasurer of England so as they haue beene preserued and are now to be found in the Office of the Kings Remembrancer there With these humilities they satisfied the young King and by their bowing and bending auoyded the present storme and so brake that Army which was prepared to breake them For the King hauing accepted their submissions receiued them in Osculo pacis feasted them and giuen the honor of Knight-hood to diuers of thē did breake vp and dissolue his armie and returned into England with much honor smal profit saith Froissard For though he had spent a huge masse of Treasure in transporting his army by the countenance whereof he drew on their submissions yet did hee not encrease his reuennew thereby one sterling pound nor enlarged the English borders the bredth of one Acre of Land neither did he extend the Iurisdiction of his Courtes of Justice one foote further then the English Colonies wherein it was vsed and exercised before Besides he was no sooner returned into England but those Irish Lords laide aside their maskes of humility and scorning the weake forces which the King had left behinde him beganne to infest the borders in defence whereof the Lord Roger Mortimer being then the Kings Lieutenant and heire apparent of the Crowne of England was slaine as I saide before Whereupon the king being moued with a iust appetite of reuenge came ouer againe in person in the 22. yeare of his raigne with as potent an armie as he had done before with a ful purpose to make a full Conquest of Ireland he landed at waterford and passing from thence to Dublin through the wast Countries of the Murroghes Kinshelaghes Cauanaghes Birnes and Tooles his great armie was much distressed for want of victuals and carriages so as he performed no memorable thing in that iourney onely in the Cauanaghes Countrey hee cut and cleared the paces and bestowed the honor of Knighthood vpon the Lord Henry the Duke of Lancasters son who was afterwards King Henrie the fifte and so came to Dublin where entring into Counsell how to proceede in the warre he receiued newes out of England of the arriuall of the bannished Duke of Lancaster at Rauenspurgh vsurping the Regall authority and arresting and putting to death his principall Officers This aduertisement suddainely brake off the kings purpose touching the prosecution of the warre in Ireland and transported him into England where shortly after hee ended both his raigne and his life Since whose time vntill the 39. yeare of Q Elizabeth there was neuer any armie sent ouer of a Competent strength or power to subdue the Irish but the warre was made by the English Colonies onely to defend their borders or if any forces were transmitted ouer they were sent only to suppresse the rebellions of such as were descended of English race and not to enlarge our Dominion ouer the Irish. DVring the raigne of king Henrie the fourth the Lorde Thomas of Lancaster the Kings second sonne was Lieutenant of Ireland who for the first eight yeares of that Kings raign made the Lord Scroope and others his Deputies who only defended the Marches with forces leuied within the Land In the eight yeare that Prince came ouer in person with a small retinue So as wanting a sufficient power to attempt or performe any great seruice he returned within seuen moneths after into England Yet during his personall abode there he was hurt in his owne person within one mile of Dublin vpon an incounter with the Irish enemy He tooke the submissions of O Birne of the Mountaines Mac Mahon and O Rely by seuerall Indentures wherin O Birne doth Couenant that the King shall quietly enioy the Mannor of New-Castle Mac Mahon accepteth a State in the Ferny for life rendering ten pound a yeare and O Reley doth promise to performe such duties to the Earle of March and Vlster as were contained in an Indenture dated the 18. of Richard the second IN the time of K. Henry the fift there cam no forces out of England Howbeit the Lord Furniual being the kings Lieutenant made a martial circuit or iourney round about the Marches Borders of the Pale and brought all the Irish to the Kinges peace beginning with the Birnes Tooles and Cauanaghes on the South and so passing to the Moores O Connors and Offerals in the West and ending with the O Relies Mac Mahons O Neales and O Haulons in the North. Hee had power to make them seeke the Kings peace but not power to reduce them to the Obedience of Subiectes yet this was then held so great and worthy a seruice as that the Lords chiefe Gentlemen of the Pale made certificate thereof in French vnto the King being then in France which I haue seen Recorded in the white Booke of the Exchequer at Dublin Howbeit his Armie was so ill paid and gouerned as the English suffered more dammage by the Sesse of his Souldiers for now that Monster Coigne and Liuerie which the Statute of Kilkenny had for a time abolished was risen againe from hell then they gained profit or security by abating the pride of their enemies for a time DVring the minority of King Henry the sixt and for the space of seuen or eight yeares after the Lientenants and Deputies made only a bordering warre vpon the Irish with small and scattered forces howbeit because there came no treasure out of England to pay the Soldier the poore English fubiect did beare the burthen of the men of warre in euery place were thereby so weakned and impouerished as the State of thinges in Ireland stood very desperate Whereupon the Cardinall of winchester who after the death of Humfrey Duke of Glocester did wholly sway the State of England beeing desirous to place the Duke of Somerset in the Regencie of Fraunce tooke occasion to remooue Richard Duke of Yorke from that gouernment and to send him into Ireland

liues deliuered to Shepheards to be nourished and bred vp when they haue bin restored to their great fortunes haue still retained their loue and affection to their Fosterers whom for manie yeares they tooke to be their Parents yet this was a rare case and few examples are to be found thereof But such a generall Custome in a Kingdome in giuing and taking children to Foster making such a firme Alliance as it doth in Ireland was neuer seene or heard of in any other Countrey of the world besides THE like may be said of Gossipred or or Compaternitie which though by the Canon Law it be a spirituall affinity and a Iuror that was Gossip to either of the parties might in former times haue bin challenged as not indifferent by our Law yet there was no nation vnder the Sun that euer made so Religious accompt thereof as the Irish. Now these two Customs which of themselues are indifferent in other Kingdomes became exceeding euill and full of mischiefe in this Realm by reason of the inconueniences which followed thereupon For they made as I saide before strong parties and factions wherby the great men were enabled to oppresse their Inferiours and to oppose their Equals and their followers were borne out and countenanced in all their lewde and wicked actions For Fosterers Gossips by the common Custome of Ireland were to maintaine one another in all causes lawful and vnlawfull which as it is a Combination and Confederacy punishable in all well-gouerned Common-weales so was it not one of the least causes of the common misery of this Kingdome I omit their common repudiation of their Wiues their promiscuous generation of Children their neglect of lawfull Matrimony their vncleannesse in Apparrell Diet Lodging and their contempt and scorne of all thinges necessary for the Ciuill life of man These were the Irish Customes which the English Colonies did embrace and vse after they had reiected the Ciuill and Honorable Lawes and Customes of England whereby they became degenerate and metamorphosed like Nabuchadnezzar who although he had the face of a man had the heart of a Beast or like those who had drunke of Circes Cuppe and were turned into very Beasts and yet tooke such pleasure in their beastly manner of life as they would not returne to their shape of men againe Insomuch as within lesse time then the Age of a man they had no markes or differences left amongst them of that Noble nation from which they were discended For as they did not only forget the English Language scorne the vse thereof but grew to bee ashamed of their very English Names though they were Noble and of great Antiquity and tooke Irish Surnames and Nicke-names Namely the two most potent families of the Bourks in Conaght after the house of the Red Earle failed of Heyres-males called their Cheefes Mac william Eighter and Mac william Oughter In the same Prouince Bremingham Baron of Athenrie called himselfe Mac Yoris Dexecester or De'exon was cald Mac Iordan Mangle or de Angulo took the name of Mac Costelo Of the Inferior families of the Bourkes one was called Mac Hubbard another Mac Dauid In Munster of the great Families of the Geraldines planted there One was called Mac Morice chiefe of the house of Lixnaw and another Mac Gibbon who was also called the white Knight The chiefe of the Baron of Dunhoynes house who is a branch of the house of Ormond tooke the Surnames of Mac Pheris Condon of the Countie of waterford was called Mac Maioge and the Arch-Deacon of the County of Kilkenny Mac Odo And this they did in contempt and hatred of the English Name and Nation of these degenerate families became more mortal enemies then the meere Irish. And whereas the state and Gouernment beeing growne weake by their defection did to reduce them to Obedience grant them many protections and Pardons The cheapenesse whereof in all ages hath brought great dishonor and damage to this Commonweal they grew so vngratefull and vnnatural as in the end they scorned that grace fauour because the acceptance thereof did argue them to be subiects and they desired rather to bee accounted Enemies then Rebels to the Crowne of England Heereupon was that olde Verse made which I finde Written in the White Booke of the Exchequer in a hand as auncient as the time of King Edward the third By graunting Charters of peas To false English withouten les This Land shall be mich vndoo But Gossipred and alterage And leesing of our Language Haue mickely holp theretoo And therefore in a close Roll in the Tower bearing this Title Articuli in Hibernia obseruandi we finde these two Articles among others 1. Iusticiarius Hiberniae non concedat perdonationes de morte hominis nec de Roberijs seu incendijs quod de caetero certificet dominum regem de nominibus petentium 2. Item Quod nec Iusticiarius nec aliquis Magnas Hiberniae concedat protectiones alicui contra pacem Regis existent c. But now it is fit to looke backe and consider when the old English Colonies became so degenerate and in what Age they fell away into that Irish barbarisme reiecting the English lawes and Customes Assuredly by comparing the ancient Annalles of lrelaud with the Records remaining heere in the Tower of London I do find that this generall defection fell out in the latter end of the raign of king Edward the second and in the beginning of the raigne of King Edward the thirde And all this great innovation grewe within the space of thirty years within the compasse of which time there fell out diuers mischieuous accidents whereby the whole kingdome was in a maner lost For first Edward de Bruce inuaded Ireland with the Scottish Army and preuailed so farre as that he possessed the Maritime parts of vlster marched vp to the walles of Dublin spoiled the English Pale passed thorough Leinster and Munster as farre as Limericke and was Maister of the field in euery part of the kingdom This hapned in the tenth yeare of King Edward the second at what time the Crowne of England was weaker suffred more dishonor in both kingdomes then it did at any time since the Norman Conquest Then did the State of England send ouer Iohn de Hotham to be Treasurer heere with commission to call the great Lords of Ireland to gether and to take of them an Oath of Assoacition that they should loyally ioyne together in life death to preserue the right of the King of England and to expell the commonenemy But this Treasurer brought neither men nor money to performe this seruice At that time though Richard Bourk Earle of Vlster commonly called the Redde-Earle were of greater power then any other subiect in Ireland yet was he so farre stricken in yeares as that hee was vnable to mannage the martiall affaires as he had done during all the raigne of King Edward the